Vastu Shanti

Recently I received an invitation for Vastu Shanti.....the invitation was e-mailed ..and it was invariably in English....Subject line read...'Invitation for House Warming'....now Vastu Shanti is a Marathi word which means to cool off the house...whereas housewarming is exactly opposite...two words seemingly the same and having different etymological meaning....
and this isn't all....for vastu shanti we perform 'havan' in our house...thus we warm the house...strange our Gods require warmth to be 'Shant'....pretty confusing...

Art of winning friends.....

I just read a conversation between two friends….…!!!!...make no mistake…I am no authority on this matter…..i have met friends all my life…they have came & walked out of my life at will…I have tried to put it in different shapes, forms each time thinking I have spelled it right…but each new day proves me wrong….guess some things in life are never meant to be….

Coming back to the conversation…one of the friends talks about a quotation which he believes is of Shakespeare…his friend disagrees with him and says…no way…its straight from pages of Bible’…The simple discussion turns into a major heated argument…with neither of them yielding an inch…and finally the friends go away with bitter tastes in their mouth…

The gist of the matter is 99 out of 100 times, an argument ends with each of the party firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right…then why waste the time in arguing over things endlessly….once you have made your point and still your friend disagree…just leave it right there…even if you finally win the argument…you will cause resentment…and it will create a rift in your relation…so if you cant convince him…just keep quiet…on the other hand…if your friend’s argument has created a doubt in your mind…go back to the basics and check for yourself….and spare yourself unnecessary argument…

I also found a two-liner in the same book…

‘A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still’…

How true!!!!

People come in your life for a reason, season or a lifetime!"

Life's like that

These police constables were on duty also making sure they dont fail in their duties as women of the house...i found this very amusing....was lucky enough to be with camera at the right time...

Saina shining.....

I wasn’t a big fan of badminton anytime down the line but somehow I have always liked saina nehwal...am always on lookout for any news of her in newspaper whenever I see news related to badminton…she does have a spark….she is special…no doubt about that….but when I opened the paper today…there she was again on the front page…smiling back triumphantly for what was a well deserved…..well achieved…tremendous victory… and I fell in love with her…right at that moment….here was a girl just turned 18…making india proud at the world stage…in a sport which is not much appreciated in cricket fanatic country of ours…..it was definitely a welcome respite after huge disappointment in T20 world cup…

On that note…I sometimes wonder what makes me fall in love with these people….i definitely do not seek the best in business…’cos I have always loved dada more than sachin…but then I love fedex as well who is undoubtedly the best….i tried to think of the personalities I not only admire but blindly love…dada, fedex, becker, steffi, gilchrist, lara, murali…and now saina nehwal joins that list…some are best in their field, some are entertainers, some are controversial, some have attitude…there’s variety of reasons…its not just limited to sports field either….there’s always madhuri…I like kajol, rani & many others but there’s no comparison with original diva of bollywood…but recently I have started liking kareena kapoor for pure attitude she displays…so you see…it isn’t that I don’t like other people…but these are all special…and its very hard to pinpoint a single common factor between all these personalities…

Anyways…this one was for saina nehwal…I hope she doesn’t go sania way in future...….well played gal…u did us proud today….and u deserved this thoroughly.

living without the soul

Yes…this one is also about harry potter…one of the most intelligent and scariest concepts I have come across in HP is dementors…never heard of them before…and what’s surprising dictionary doesn’t have this exact word…closest word I could find was dementia…which is a mental disorder in which person suffers from memory loss, personality changes and impaired reasoning……the word dementor have been used in a much wider sense….so basically there is a prison in the magical world too…name is Azkaban…these guys guard the prison and the prisoners in it….all the culprits, all the defaulters are kept in this prison with no hopes whatsoever of escaping from it…and for the highest magnitude of crime…there’s a special punishment…’Dementors kiss’…so when you r guilty of a crime that warrants highest form of punishment….these guys will kiss you…and with that they will take out your soul…you will live but without company of your soul…there’s no capital punishment in Azkaban….whats waiting for the criminals is much worse…just imagine being left to live without your soul…

Life is nothing but contradictions....

they say....'no risk...no gain'....and then they say....'look before you leap'... then they say...'opposite poles attract each other' and then finish with 'birds of same feather flock together..'....life is so full of contradictions....but again somebody has said...'contradictions doesnt exist...if you do find one...check your premises...one thing has got to be wrong'....funny isnt it?