Yummy!

CARROT AND TOMATO SMOOTHIE

INGREDIENTS Carrots - 4 medium Tomatoes - 6 medium Celery chopped - 1/2 stalked Salt - to taste Ice cubes - as required Lemon juice - 2 tablespoons

METHOD Cut carrots into one-inch cubes and tomatoes into quarters and freeze them for some time. Put the frozen tomato cubes in a blender and blend. Add frozen carrot cubes and blend again. Add celery pieces, salt and pepper powder and blend again. Add ice cubes, freshly extracted lemon juice and blend again. Serve chilled in a stemmed glass. Enjoy!!!

A Reality Check

I have no sleep in my eyes.

I got back from Mumbai after a long film shoot...tiring and every bit entertaining!

A thought has entered into my mind as I am watching this MTV VJ hunt auditions and I can see the whole "youngistaan" junta going nuts on just sharing a screen with Nikhil & Cyrus(both ones).

Splitsvilla -3 has a new tagline this time "the world war 3 of love" . Cmon, gimme a break... the previous 2 seasons were not world wars of anything, leave love alone!

Anyway, there is this whole segment of reality based shows flooding the idiot box. And they come in all formats -nothing official about it, actually!

There is this show that allows people to go back to their previous lives and lets them identify their past, what connection it holds with their present. So far so good....

Finally Rakhi's sawyamwar is over and so is the mama-papa saga :) wow that one was indeed an icing on the cake (pun intended) seeing rakhi in all shades once again after the mega bigg boss season 1!

And yeah, the channel is promoting heavily on country' so called eligible bachelor ...not Rahul Gandhi, another Rahul.....Rahul Mahajan. His swayamwar. Amazing isn't it that in a nation where almost every day so many girls lose their lives coz of dowry or physical abuse, we have pots and pots of money to showcase how a rich man gets married and how a glam doll finds a suitable boy for herself with no certain future...

so, this is not that weird coz, there is another reality show happening in political circle too. The centerstage is Parliament House, where a very senior politician's scandalous story is getting flashed...

and then there is another situation. India wins the series against Sri Lanka and there is a dent in the Kotla pitch :) Ouch.

Smile when you watch 3 idiots, its a fabulous film, no doubt. Smile even more when you seeV V Chopra screeching at a media person in press conference.

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So, am sleepy now. Feels good to write my first blog in 2010 :)

ciao!

2009 : Year of Pleasant Surprises

2009 had been a year full of pleasant surprises. Primarily because unexpected events took place, new people came into my life and I am so happy that all this happened :)

Looking back, I feel satisfied to a great extent on professional level. Personal level, I am on a high!

No resolutions this year as last year's remain unfinished on the chart. However, I must go to to gym regularly...ummmm let'see what happens!

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2010 :) And may my India grow and peace prevail in the world....

"Age old" Drama!

Today, I am feeling out of place. My colleagues are all 30 plus. I never felt this way for all these months. Today something happened and I realised that despite same kind of work we do, same kind of talks we share, yet there is some unspoken, unsaid weird disparity.

The interns I had under me belonged to my age group. Though I had to really push them to work & get the job done, at the same time, it was sometimes fun to work with them.

I miss my company.

Not that my colleagues have different mindset or something...its just that my thoughts and their thoughts do not gel that easily on certain issues.

We all have different perspectives, I agree and no two minds are alike. But at a particular level, it 's hard to communicate and channel gets disturbed.

Arguments are bound to happen but the at least chain should continue and the work should not get affected. Take any field, any sector..communication flow has to be right.

I am thinking of new possibilities & new ways to avoid contradictory things in my department. Hopefully, this works :)

Loving always!

Looks like we made it
Look how far we've come my baby

We mighta took the long way

We knew we'd get there someday


They said, "I bet they'll never make it"

But just look at us holding on

We're still together still going strong



(You're still the one)

You're still the one I run to

The one that I belong to

You're still the one I want for life

(You're still the one)

You're still the one that I love

The only one I dream of

You're still the one I kiss good night



Ain't nothin' better

We beat the odds together

I'm glad we didn't listen

Look at what we would be missin'


They said, "I bet they'll never make it"

But just look at us holding on

We're still together still going strong



(You're still the one)

You're still the one I run to

The one that I belong to

You're still the one I want for life

(You're still the one)

You're still the one that I love

The only one I dream of

You're still the one I kiss good night



(You're still the one)

You're still the one I run to

The one that I belong to

You're still the one I want for life

(You're still the one)

You're still the one that I love

The only one I dream of

You're still the one I kiss good night



You're Still the One  by Shania Twain 

The Green Goblin of Jealousy!

I am jealous. Jealous of someone who does not matter in my life, yet I am.

And I know, tomorrow this will be a closed chapter because am too consumed with myself to fret over such things.

But for the moment, I hate this feeling :(

Bureaucracy - The Great Indian Tamasha

We live in a world where "freedom" this word is so misused and over used.

There was a time when freedom was the most sought after concept, it was a belief, a reason to live for and die for.....our revolutionaries and freedom fighters laid down their lives for the service of their motherland...to set her free from the shackles of British Raj.

After 63 years of independence, "freedom", has been reduced to a mere term. A term which is synonymous to doing anything with a free license!

It is the same old story. We are making an ad...an ad for a PSU...which has following connotations:

a. this ad will be entirely different from what we have proposed

b. this ad will be sent to media 15 minutes after the deadline gets over

c. this ad will undergo many cosmetic changes

d. whatever amount of heart and soul we put for this one page color ad, people are not going to read it beyond the headline.

e. this ad will only be seen next time when similar PSU will come up with a similar activity

Anyway, this is bound to happen. What a sorry state of affair!

It is not that I criticize this eventual outcome..it's just that it hurts to see how the spirit of free writing is curbed to an extent when a copywriter is told to change the entire thing with no justification except this lame phrase - this is not acceptable...Please someone tell these bureaucrats that what is acceptable to them is totally unacceptable to all of us.

We send them the ad and we wait for hours to get an OK. Because this OK comes from several routes, several WOM happens and the message is twisted to an extent that it looks like a banner and not an ad anymore!

I am not condemning anyone, nor do I want to label anyone in particular...but when we need fast and quick actions, these people crawl under their seats. It is our job to see how creative and well written and appropriate text is flowing with correct visuals etc.

Again correct is a relative term as our definition hardly matches with their. IAS officers andother senior level officials all knowledgeable and capable enough to understand the nitty-gritty of the matter....

But even these people are not to be blamed. It is their way of "corporate-aspirational-living"!

Decisions need to be quick, fast and without two minds. Only then results can be obtained. Otherwise time just blows off under our nose and we keep staring blank faces.

Today is just a similar day. We are waiting for an approval from a very top notch person in Government. Sounds so exclusive....but believe me all that shine does not glitter!

Hmmphhhh...

I am posting a blog on my PC and holding a pen and a paper and a phone by my side, ironical isn't it?

Love

What is love - to give or to receive?

Both, it is mutual. To love and to be loved is the most beautiful feeling.