The contribution of Recharged Hair to the Love Life

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The coolest reason I find to recharge my hair is to sit pillion with my boyfriend on a two-wheeler bike while keeping my hair open. To be very frank, I have never really ventured out going on a bike ride with my boyfriend. There are 2 reasons for it; one is that my boyfriend does not have a bike (he drives a four wheeler); and secondly I am conscious of my limp and flat hair.

I could be termed lucky that my boy friend drives a sedan, but to be very frank I have missed out on getting cozy with him because of the huge size of the vehicle. I mean I like travelling in the luxurious car, but at times I feel some intimacy missing between the both of us due to the size of the car.

Many a times, I find myself staring at couples on 2 wheelers with a certain kind of crave. I crave of experiencing sitting close to my man on a bike with my hair let loose. I know both the stuff seem little impossible as of now, but I am sure there will be one day when they will not seem the same.

So for fulfilling the same, I have thought of a plan. I intend to use Sunsilk range of shampoos for myself and gift my boyfriend a brand new Vespa to fulfill this innocent dream of mine. I am sure the Sunsilk shampoo will super charge my hair and they will turn from flat and limp to bouncy and fuller. And the brand new Vespa will take care of the intimacy generation part of the plan.

Then we both can go for our bike drive with my hands resting on his shoulders and all the wind blowing in my hair. I just cannot imagine what I would go through at that particular time when this dream of mine will get fulfilled. I seriously get goosebumps....

Hope to see it getting fulfilled soon.

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The myth of a Strong Woman

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I do not know why the term 'Strong Woman' makes me uncomfortable. I am called by that term innumerable times and to admit it honestly, I do not like to be aliased by that particular term at all. All my life I have displayed feats of bravery; and have fought all the battles with strength and grace. But typically that should not imply me to be a strong woman, though a strong person or an individual/ human being would do.

The reason I say so is because  all my life I have gathered a rather twisted image of the people who are termed as strong women. If I get to describe any one from my personal sphere, then any one of you reading this post would not be able to relate to them. So, I will name a popular person who comes close to the description of a strong woman from my perspective; that will put the point that I am trying to make in a vivid perspective.

The lady in connection happens to be Tanuja Mukherjee. I am sure if any one of you is aware of the yesteryear stars from the Bollywood, then you would know for sure as to why I get to name this particular lady as a strong woman.

Firstly, she is someone who comes across as a stuck up bitch to the core. I know that for sure that I do not know her as a person, but as to whatever I observe from the media and secondary information available on the internet, she comes across as a woman who always wanted to have the reins in her hand and never missed a chance to pull it to make the ones tied to it feel the bounds strung to them.

As far as I know, she married someone with whom she wanted to get married to. Then, she got separated from him when she wanted to, and also took both her daughters along with her. She also claims vehemently that she allowed her children to interact and be with their father on a simple condition that after that she would not allow the children to enter her house. Sounds cool...sounds much like a strong  woman. She also inculcated to her daughters that their father was not a wonderful husband, but was an amazing father.

If the figures on the gossip magazines are to be believed, then she stayed separated from her spouse - Mr. Shomu Mujherjee for more than 2 decades. But surprisingly, she cried her heart out and her emotions were free flowing at the time of his death. I remember seeing her overwhelmed pictures of weeping profusely by the side of a pillar and being absolutely unnerved of the confusing difference of personality that she was portraying then. Simply put to words, at that time she did not look anywhere close to the persona of a strong woman that she is believed to be.       

That is completely understandable from a human point of view, but the logic in me fails to believe it. I cannot understand how come a woman who is strong, independent, extensively traveled and well read as her expect her daughter to follow her instructions to the T. How can a strong woman constantly instruct her 35 year old daughter to be told what to do in her love life. How can she force her to leave the country just because she does not approve of her relationship. How how how??

Till the time I do not get the answers to such questions, I get busy shunning off the notion that I am a strong woman. No, I am not and do not want to be a strong woman.     

P.S: A lot of data is pulled from the current season 7 of Bigg Boss.

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Me and e-books orgy

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As far as I recall, I got introduced to the concept of e-books while I was studying in my management school.

The year must have been the ending of 2003. During that time I got this book-worm bitten and therefore developed a strong appetite for reading. Obviously, the easy access to suffice this hunger was the very own medium of the World Wide Web to find books for free. Well that is how I got 500+ books in my Kindle reader. Yes, that is a huge number; but when it gets to the number of books that I have actually  finished reading out of those 500 - the figure comes to a mere 1.5 as of today.

Yes, I did start reading my first e-book which was Henry Ford's biography.

Today as I recall, when it comes to the overall experience, I loved it all. The act of gluing my eye-balls to the notebook (electronic one) screen and not getting lost anytime and then re-re-reading all the lines that I liked without getting lost any time like the way I would normally get with my conventional reading with books was special and thoroughly customized.

But within the past week, that figure of 1.5 is growing by leaps and bounds. I mean I am on a massive reading orgy of at least 5 books. Yes, I am also on a big orgasm. hahhaha

Will blabber out the entire stuff once I am done. Till then I am basking full on !!!!

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Google Doodle of the Day

English: The logo of the search engine Google.de. Deutsch: Das Logo der Suchmaschine Google.de. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The entire day before yesterday i.e. 03rd of December, my mind kept hovering to the main page of the google search. It was not as if I wanted to search something in specific on the search engine, but actually it was the image of a scientist named Carlos Juan, that caught my imagination. December 3rd happens to be the birth date of the gentleman. Therefore, on this day, the popular search engine did a doodle on him the entire day.

A mere placement of the cursor on his image on the home page revealed that the man is a scientist associated with the discovery of linking the yellow fever with the mosquitoes. I know that would make any one curious to know as to what in this made me contemplate so much.

Well, the answer is very personal and emotional. The man being discussed reminds me of my late father. Whenever I look at his image, my heart experiences a shooting pain for few seconds. I could have wrote a lot more, but I just cannot. So, I respond by just clicking on the doodle several times in a day, even today.

Ouch!! It really pains...

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Decoding Bigg Boss 7

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Bigg Boss (season 1) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Without doubt the biggest reality show on Indian television is definitely the Big Boss. Currently it is in its 7 season, therefore, the content, which includes viz. the glamour, excitement, fun, sleaze, excitement, endorsement, entertainment and controversies are also in the same multiples.

An important thing to note is that none of this is possible without the celebrity guests of the show who pass off as stars in their own rights. Though it is known world over that failed actors and controversial beings who have hogged the media considerably constitute the guest list of this franchise. This format started and is still  included in the original show Big Brother.from where the Indian version aka Bigg Boss mushroomed.

Among this year's guests, each one is unique and capable of giving entertainment to its loyal viewers. Obviously, that is what million of viewers look for each day when the show airs at the prime time from 9 - 10 pm each day.


This concept takes entertainment to a very fair level. That is because whosoever fails in giving the content that is due to the viewers gets effortlessly voted out. The show is simply content driven, if the claims of the show are to be believed anytime, then nothing in the show is scripted, all participants represent their own brand called YOU. Each one is strictly for himself/herself. If this was not true, then people like Elizabeth Avram, better known as Salman's Ellie would have been voted out long long back.

Hats off to the producers of the show who have taken the cue from Indian Dirty Dancing to the complete T. No prizes for guessing it that it is only Entertainment, Entertainment and Entertainment that an average viewer of the show expects from it.

A big myth that the show has broken is that only A listed movie stars who do Crores of  business within the release date of their movies are superior in providing entertainment to small budgeted television stars. Obviously, the content that Mr. Khan provides to the show is way dissapointing than the one that the inmates provide every working day. One can check the TRPs of the show on wikipedia links. The show gets minimum TRP on Sundays.

Oh come on! If these biggies were really capable of providing better entertainment then, despite the obvious behest of the host of the show THE Salman Khan to not to take Kushal Tandon back would not have gone to the deaf ears. Also, the same Mr. Khan optimized all his chances to never miss an opportunity to show his displeasure by snubbing the TV star. He obviously must have realized that he is nothing more than employee to the show, much like the people inside the house; though with a much higher pay package. Rather now he must be getting perturbed seeing some one else snatching his BAD BOY image from him and uplifting it to an another level.


Apart from this, the show loved to break the rules that it itself creates in writing. The terms of the show clearly state in Black and White that no adult material would be supplied to the family audience, no acts of violence will be tolerated, and if any contestant leaves the show on his/her own, then it is considered a violence of contract which attracts a penalty of 50 Lakh. Firstly, allowing the obvious hinsa of Tanisha to Kushal; then the show got back on Kushal when he tried half-hinsa on Andy. So, currently, neither Tanisha, nor the more than good friends duo - Gauhar Khan and Kushal Tandon are dispelled from the show. Rather
the duo are now worshiped by the janta as the real HEROES who held their held high above the big and mighty movie walas of the 90s. Oh..that rhymed too.....

Contestants in the show are different every year, but the dose of entertainment they provide keeps on getting better and hatke each year. If Sigmund Freud was present today, he definitely would have loved to see his theories testing positive each time each year.
 
Though now only a month is left for this show to end. It is for people like you to make the most of it and sit back and extract all we could till it lasts.

Long live the Bigg Boss!!

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tata library

It is rare to find public libraries in India. The general perception of the word public library would refer to an image of a dilapidated old monumental building which is approaching its due date of restoration. The insides of that building would contain dusted and musty interiors in which piles of non-interesting books would be piled up. The books would mostly be about uninteresting topics like Hindi sahitya or on the long ago happened freedom fight of our country or any other country of the World. "So uncool" I tell you!!


In India I  have never really heard from anyone referring to a public library as a place to visit for leisure. Whereas such concept is widely common in developed nations that I visited.

I remember spending most of my time in the public library in Orange County when I was on a one month visit to L.A. It was just a spectacular experience. Since, I was not a local, I could not take any books to home and read, but I was allowed to visit and read books there for as long as I wished . So, it was a pretty good deal, in fact much better than a deal in real and financial sense. That was because the folks there did not ask me for any payment. It was the library of the State and was a service provided to the inhabitants there. Revelation of that facility indeed shocked me. Even more shocking was the ambiance and the profile of the library. It was way way more technical and advanced than the paid and expensive public library in my place. In fact not even my place since I live in Vadodara, and in those days (5) years back I was not aware of any public library in my city. So, I had enrolled in the British Library at Mumbai. I used to visit there once in a month and would loan 2 books which I would promptly give back to them when I was done reading them within that time frame.

Though a little cumbersome an experience of traveling to Mumbai, then traveling within Mumbai (from Andheri to Mittal Towers, Nariman Point) was; but the pleasure of experiencing a reading resource a little similar to the public library in U.S.A was a very enriching one. Every month I would look forward to my library trip and then I would connect my eyes to the pages of a book and my imagination to the Brobdingnagian scope of things that only words within an elements of a book could provide.


That beautiful relationship of mine with books continued for 3 years. Then sadly the British library shut down its brick-and-mortar model and instead got into the mode of business which actually got them into closing down.

With the advent of e-commerce, the process of ordering books online went into a big way with Amazon.com.Though Amazon is universal, but local clones of it also garnered a good business in their respective locations. For an instance, our very own Flipkart; which does excelling job in the Indian scenario.

Though it is not backed with research, but I feel this growing e-commerce in the business of books must have led to the shutting down of the physical form of my British library. Though the library services are still on in the metro and semi-metro cities where the British Council is present, but I am affected in a big way. That is because one needs to have a physical address in a city like for me Ahmedabad or Mumbai which are close-by to avail the library services. Now the books ordered get delivered and also picked up when the due date arrives at the member's house itself. But without a physical presence in both these cities, things got pretty sad for me. Although, the library later came up with a complete online version for people like me who do not live in such few cities, but what they offer is only the online versions. Well that is something, I am not personally comfortable with. Well, itne bhi bure din nahi aye abhi....


I then moved on to the online book stores and also the brick-and-mortar stores available in my city like the Crosswords and Landmark. They are good, but the only issue is ME. I got so overboard with my purchases that my house started looking like one mini-library. I have one room dedicated to books apart from a completely full spacious Victorian book shelf already installed in the living room.Though at times I have even hidden some in my kitchen shelf too; so that my husband does not get to know any updates on my booksie fetish.

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The successful web commerce not only managed to wipe out the physical presence of the British Library, but I am sad to update that it also took away the brick-and-mortar form of the Landmark Book store in Vadodara. It recently shut down in my city and some apparel store has come up in its place. LOL


I confess of being an online shopper for books myself, but that Landmark store was not that bad. It was good in terms of the realistic discounts that it often came up with. I mostly baited on their 3 for 2 offers, which technically turned out to be a full 33% discount, assuming that I bought all 3 for the similar price.
Hence, another shut down story for books and book lovers like me. But there is some twist here.

Although I feel remorse, but it does not affect me much. That is because about an year back, I did something really smart. I enrolled up at the university library, Hansa Mehta of the M.S. University of Vadodara.

I took an appointment with the esteemed Dean of the faculty and he helped me out by letting me use the services as a corporate member. Although I look like any of those college students that hover in the library, but being in my early 30s, I obviously cannot be one to use the library for free like them.

I pay 1 grand annually for my fascination, but I tell you it is worth much more than that. Though the exteriors and interiors of the grand library look much like the ones I described above; but the contents are way way more. It includes a lot of books on which I have already spent a fortune on; like the ones of Tehrima Durrani and Ohran Pamuk.Of course, I regretted when I saw those obscure and expensive books in the university library.

Regrets like these pinch less when I get to read the The Satanic Verses from the same library. Yes, the very controversial and almost unavailable one; which for an update is banned for sale in the Indian sub-continent for sure. LOL. I have attached the snapshot from the flipkart search, which proves my point.


So surely, the next time if you hear the word public library, do not think of the word uncool at the same time. You never know it might have a book which could be worth a lot in the web world.

P.S: It also has all the series of commonly available fiction for the rookie readers - Chetan Bhagat ones.

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Dressing Game

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It was just yesterday that I was watching my favourite channel TLC and ended up watching the hugely popular Trinny and Susannah's makeover series.

The last night's show was interesting because the series was exclusively shot in India.

It was interesting to observe that how much we Indians lack the sense to dress. Most of us believe that it is stylish and in-vogue to wear the dresses that the celebrities adorn. We believe that if particular apparel looks good on someone famous, then it will look good on us too.

The classic example of this mindset was aptly evident in the show yesterday. When Trinny asked one of the volunteer on the show to name any well dressed and stylish celebrity whom he would like to emulate; the person instantly replied Amir Khan and Amitabh Bachchan.

To this response Trinny obviously had her reservations. Though she did not utter them in obvious, but she was coy enough to point it out to the person that both the men in question were much much older to him.

By the way that person was of 29 years of age, which is obviously way lower to the ages of 45 and 60 of the good dressed celebrities respectively.

So obviously the person had to drop out from the option of looking like those two men.

Then Trinny asked the same dude to name any stylishly dressed Indian sportsperson. But on this question the person ended up being more dumbstruck than the time he was on being asked a good dressed Bollywood male.

It indeed turned out hilarious. But come to think of the serious issue; our country has so many celebrities who belong to the sports fraternity, but none, I repeat none can be termed as stylish. There are hunks like Yuvraj Singh, and also so called hunks named Virat Kohli, but nobody is known for having a unique dressing statement.

I thought a lot on this deplorable state of our sporting people lacking a sportive spirit in fashion. Not only the sporty people could not manage to bring Olympic Golds, but they also lack lustre in the dressing fields. 

But I got a little happy when I thought of Mr. Navjyot Singh Siddhu.

He is the only one I can name who actually seems to be giving a thought to his dressing before stepping out in the media lights.

Not just he matches his ties and kerchiefs to his turbans, but also immaculately compliments his footwear to his suits.

Thank goodness there is pajji who could make the work of these fashionista ladies a little less burdensome.

Though, only if the ladies could locate him on their radar.

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the tearing of last hope

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I have no energy to write today. I have had a very bad sleepless night. It is all because my adsense account got disbaled.

Now I have given up all hopes of getting a new one, since I have already done my share of research on the subject.

It is almost next to impossible to have a new account registered under your name.

It is sad, very sad. Not that I was earning a great deal from adsense, but the very fact that a long association is terminated pinches me.

I know that if I put up with another blog, in which I give my force the way I was doing till now, I might get a new one. But seriously speaking, my heart is not in for it.

At the most, I might get into monetizing my youtube videos, but nothing beyond that.

I mean it feels like a break-up of a strong live-in relationship.

How can I trust them again, the thought of getting back to blogging for money actually makes me go sick.

Yes, I agree since the time I actively started blogging in order to get some bucks, I did lose out on bringing up good emotionally connected blog posts.

As, I started my first blog purely as a diary entry, I loved the fact of speaking to myself. With the use of syndication services on my personal blog, I do realize that writing quality posts got really difficult.

I have no set criteria to define QUALITY. But what I do know by quality is a post that goes out effortlessly from my keyboard to the screen in front of me. It has no moment lag in between the sentences to ponder about what exactly should I write next to get more people reading my post.

Or for that matter, taking half a day break between paragraphs just to think of something sensational to come up with.

I know it all sounds so item-numberish. LOL

But this is all in theory, in a practical example, I have just written one straight from the heart post.

:)

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