Tea for two (and a piece of cake) Tuesdays !!!! My entry :)

My entry for the creative prompt hosted by Preeti Shenoy ...

If I have to invite anybody for tea,today it would undoubtedly be my Mom....I just can't connect the tea times with anyone else....I miss the usual chit chat I had over the evening tea with her....the way we discussed the day's proceedings at school and at home,discussions about life and family and career and art and what not....Many a times friends joined us for tea and the lovely time we had. I miss her at tea time in office where I just pick the phone to ask her if she's had her tea....and I look forward to those evenings whenever I am home....I miss you Ma and tea times just remind me of you....

The year that went by ..

Yes,2011 comes to an end.....and I feel older....no longer a kid or a teen....it depressed me for a while amongst many other things....but then there were a whole lot of things the year taught and made me experience. A bullet point post again ( one of the best things university exams taught me ;)). So, people here's 2011 in bullets :

• A holiday start to the year to the "Scotland of India", Coorg, words might not be enough to describe the lovely place it was, a home stay amongst coffee plantations,a private waterfall, a tree house style room and the view outside,colours spread around in absolute harmony,balancing and complementing each other,a pretty house and the fairy tale life it was for 3 days :)
•  The initial excitement of first job faded with the year passing by, work does affect life in more than one way, financial independence makes way for a confidence boost,on the other hand a realization strikes when you get to know that this is not what you dreamt of since childhood, that dreams come true but yes, they have a cost,be it love, family or career and the balancing act can fade the dream itself.... I hate to believe still that luck does wonders for some people and NOT for some....and I still believe hard work might not pay instantly but it comes back in the form of pleasant surprises and I really want to live up to these beliefs
• Some relations did wonders to my life,leaving me amazed....My Parents are my pillar of strength and I wish I could be as supportive of my kids as they are of me when I myself become a mother....My sister is my mirror and my bond with her keeps getting stronger "anti jinxing"....Friends act as elixirs, I run to them when I am happy,I run to them when I am sad and I run to them when I am neither of the two....makes me believe that though a loner, I can't do much in life if I don't have people to share joys and sorrows with
• I worked hard for some things,not getting them is another thing,but I am happy I did not take anything for granted,neither work,nor relationships or studies for that matter
• I am unhappy that my reading list did not get any longer, read a very few books and lot many new blogs, I wonder how will I survive if I don't get to read them. I want to read a lot more in the year to come....a lot more means a lot lot more..
• My love for cooking grew manifold, thanks to the blog-world and Master-Chef India 2 :) Also, the fitness and diet freak in me has rebound in full swing, and I so feel happy shappy about it :)

I am bad at resolutions and its no point making them because for me well planned things do not work,so there is going to be just a wishlist for the life that waits by, and it starts with,

A lesser cribbing me, a lesser lazy me

A more happy me, A more prompt me

A little more singing, a little more dancing, a little more cooking and a lot more reading :) .

Wishing you all a very happy new year, May the year bring health,happiness and prosperity to all our families and friends !!!!

And May we make the world a better, greener and happier place to live in !!!!

Let me be me ........

It seems that I am being caught in the most cluttered state of  mind....and I when I try to take some decisions there are people who take take me back to ground zero(with their so called"thought processes")....Here is for them :

People please stop bugging me on the marriage issue,being 25 does not mean,"U HAVE TO GET MARRIED",there are a whole lot of things unaccomplished, unfulfilled desires and incomplete goals,and I just can't get married before I attain them....I want to settle down peacefully and successfully,Marriage is not a mad rush because age is passing by,I want to take up that phase as gracefully and happily as I can,so please stop forcing,I am working hard towards other priorities in life..do not distract me...And Marriage is not on my priority list for the next two years....I know my Parents are worried but I know they would understand....I am not the kind of person who can sit back without attaining certain set criteria for myself...and it would get difficult if marriage happens now....So please understand....Spare me !!!!

Job for me is also about satisfaction with what I do....its important to me that my work keeps motivating me....there are decisions that need fast action....so please do not confuse me....with that security oriented and money minded thinking of yours...even I know I hold responsibilities but then If I cannot experiment now...I will never be able to...If I cannot take risks now,do you expect me to be a risk taker after becoming the mother of two kids....so please grand-motherly thoughts are not invited...

Yes, I do not want to keep contact with some people,explanations required...Well take them down,I was sick of some kind of people around me, and I waited for them to go away,for the first time in life,I met people who were cheap,brainless and never missed a chance to fake themselves.....I was disgusted with them to the core and was shocked at myself for not giving them in face.....So when it came to the "keeping contact" thing ,Well...there's nothing more for me to say than...Good Riddance !!!!

(I know this post is just pure rant,but I really am so tired of suggestions and advises that I just am not being able to be me....:( So sorry folks,till some sanity arrives at this end,Please bear with me...)