Exotic Spain and bikini

Not many days ago, I saw 2 leading ladies of the Bollywood fraternity in nothing but a bikini swimsuit.

If any one of you is also a news channel buff like me, then you know about whom I am talking right now.

Both the women look pretty in clothes, but I realized that not both of them look that way when not fully covered.

If I talk of Ms. Chopra; then she has been generous enough to let her followers as well as any human being with an eye for beauty to witness her body clad in nothing but a bikini or an almost bikini swimsuit (remember the shimmering one in Dostana).                                                                

Also the basic fact is that she was a Miss World before she became an actress, hence she has been quite acquainted with the sweet drudgery of donning that two-some ensemble on and off in her profession.

Therefore, it does not come as a surprise to me seeing her in a whole palette of bikini swimsuits in her latest single “Exotic”.

I must say that the lady has perfected her choice in wardrobe selection by gazing at the well known divas quite nicely.

Like the pretty nude one, which seems like an inspiration from one of Mariah Carey’s single; or the black one in woods reminds me of the J:Lo’s waiting for tonight single; or the usual flowery one at the beach which is again a very thoughtful common attempt at looking beautiful.

Though the pictures and the latest video seem far from original, but still I don’t mind it because she looks really delicious and elegant in them. So, no problems; but the other lady in the same wear looks awful to me.


OK, so I know that you are not on money making second career project like Ms. Chopra, but Ms. Kaif why do you forget that you are a hot Bollywood item now. You are not just one of the top earning successful women in Hindi cinema, but you along with your beau are a confirmed item now.

Then how come you wear such an ill tasting not so coordinated bikini top and bottom in Ibiza in Spain?

                                                   

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Though I know you have never been a beauty queen through the usual route of participating in some or the other beauty pageant. But hello madam, you have been a model for the La Senza. Did that teach you nothing on colour coordination and body silhouettes?

Distasteful, is all I can say. Please learn a thing or two from Ms. Chopra by watching her video. Hopefully by the time Dhoom3 comes, one gets to see an upgraded bikni sense in you

Arggh...

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Me and Whatsapp

It has become like an identity check. Just anybody would walk up to me ask me if I am not on Whatsapp.
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Oh come on, why exactly is that needed?

I mean everyone knows my number, then why want me on Whatsapp.

The answer to which I mostly get is, to chat for free...

Understood! But for that I have a messenger service.

But, Whatsapp allows chat in the mobile.

Oh that sounds great, but you know with my service provider - Airtel I have 500 free messages in a month.

LOL within our group we message 100 messages in a day

To which I really have nothing to comment.

I mean, why does one need to chat each and everything to someone, even if that someone is your conjoint twin. Also, the service is not exactly free; it needs internet to work, and which is not obviously cheap with GSM.

That is something I just do not get. Though, earlier I had a solid excuse to shun all those who asked me about my reason for non-availability on Whatsapp.

You know, for the past 5 years I had been using Nokia Supernova (the same one stylish name handset advertised by Priyanka Chopra years ago) which obviously is not a current generation smart phone.

But now since the past two months I have updated my phone to not-so-cool sounding (Nokia Asha) but a good smart phone, I feel I have no choice left for identity checks.
Constantly people keep asking me why you not on Whatsapp??

And being bugged with those questions almost everyday, I have developed a simple standard answer:

BECAUSE, I DO NOT WANT TO. I DO NOT WANT PEOPLE TO SEND ME SILLY PICTURES OF THEM EATING, SHOPPING OR COOKING. NOR DO I WANT PEOPLE TO ASK ME HOW MY DAY TODAY WAS!!!

P.S.:  I think my problems are going to grow intense since I get to see new players in such free chat and messaging applications like WeChat and Line.

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real funny events from my life - VII

I keep coming up with posts that share the almost same heading as this one. It may seem a little weird to one, but for me that is normal. I cannot help much with that because I keep bumping into situations that provide the feed for such posts. Though I have no idea as to how that actually happens.
Anyway, I am happy that I get to witness many such moments in my life time. Hence, I end up penning them so that they could also bring a smile to whosoever end up getting a glance on them.

So, taking the series up further I recall a moment when I and my husband ended up meeting one of the current generations of Bollywood's promising and good-looking debutante.

If I recall correctly, it was the summers of 2010 and we both were on a short trip to Switzerland.

En route we had a 3-4 hour halt at Dubai. It was there where I noticed a familiar looking young and beautiful woman buying Clinique cosmetics. Instantly then my memory became friends with me and told me that the lady was the same one who models for the Maybelline cosmetics brand back home in India.

Since a little while earlier my husband had shooed me away since he was busy catching a nap, I thought of getting into a some small talk with that familiar looking woman in an otherwise boring airport.

So, I started the conversation by being sarcastic on her for fooling people in general by promoting something else and actually using something else in real.

On the other had, she turned out to be as kind a person as she looked.
She simply laughed off my scorn and continued chatting with me.

She told me that she was surprised because never before anyone had noticed her modeling for the Forever21 brand in the U.S of A. She rather believed that no one in her country or in the U.S.A actually knew her or even the fact that she was in fact an Asian and not a U.S.A resident.

Seeing her exuberance I truly felt that that day my memory was really happy being my friend. LOL

Anyway, taking our conversation further I even spoke to her about my being unhappy regarding the brand Forever21. I told her that my bone of contention with them was on a plain basic fact of being biased.
And that was that many of their products were made in India by cotton produced on the Indian soil, may be or may be not produced by an Indian textile unit, and lastly modeled by an Indian woman like the one with whom I was speaking; but still they were not sold in India.
To this and to all my other arguments she responded warmly with a hearty smile. Consequently, I developed an instant organic liking for her.
And after that we continued doing the regular girly chit-chat and I got so lost in the conversation with her that I did not realize that my husband appeared just next to me.

Obviously, that lady also got surprised seeing a stranger arriving from nowhere and giving a smile to her. The moment I realized that it was him, I introduced him to her and vice-versa.
And as none of us had expected, my act of introducing the two of them ended up being the last conversation between me and her.

This is what I said that time that day:

"This is my husband, Mr. Brar; and dear this is a top model of our country Ms. Penty."

As you must have guessed by now, all of us got stunned for few seconds.

No, I did not bother to care about the feelings of Ms. Penty, I just laughed in embarrassment and then we all laughed together, may be that too in combined embarrassment.

Till today whenever I see her on my TV screen dancing on Tumhi ho bandhu…I end up laughing.

P.S.: To this day I wonder if my dearest husband was actually catching on his sleep or was he watching me from a distance?

Or was it that Mr. Brar was staring secretly on Ms. Penty??



                                                         

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what a difference of gender

Since past few days I have been watching the latest commercial of Coke that is doing the rounds on the television. It is the one where the concept of being "crazy" is exhibited. The commercial starts with a girl cycling by a taxi/auto waiting line and she claps the palms of the people who are hailing the commercial vehicles.Then she looks back and smiles, which eventually causes the emotions of the clapped ones from dazed to finally being happy. And then the commercial progresses with few more of such acts of random people surprising and making random people happy. And all while in the minute long commercial, the background song plays which is - "Han han mai crazy hun...."

Those of you who have seen the commercial would know what I am talking about, but for those who have not, for them I am mentioning the other parts of the commercials. Apart from the clapping/hi-fiving cycling girl, there is one female guitarist playing songs for a random bunch of kids; a guy giving away his bottle of coke to the security guard of the eatery from where he walks out ( probably the coke was free with his meal :) ).

Another act is of a man feeding the stray dogs. Of all the acts in the commercial, this one is my favourite, because of the loving interaction seen between the canines and the man. I think there is one more of a person attaching a make shift swing to a tree for people to have recreation on. I think I am not missing out on any more of the acts, except for one more, where a woman is sitting pillion on a two-wheeler, while facing opposite to the direction of the driver. The reason she does the stunt is her large heart. She is actually distributing kites (not exactly sure, do not remember) to a gang of running kids.

All the acts go in line with the concept of the commercial which is "being  crazy enough to give happiness to a complete stranger". Well, there is nothing wrong with the concept, except for one of the acts that makes me go crazy.

I am talking of the one in which the bi-cycling female hi-fives the strangers and smiles and pedals away thinking that she made a complete stranger completely happy; in fact she did, cause the people whose palms she claps are shown being happy with a wide grin. I being myself just think, with my standard "WHAT....IF" thoughts. And on this one I think what if it was a male/boy instead of a female giving hi-fives to the people waiting at the rickshaw stands.  Just think what if....


HAHAHA When I think about the scenario for just 5 seconds, I end up laughing. Surely, the male would succeed in giving hi-fives to only 2 random strangers, and then surely the third hi-five would be on his face by the strangers themselves. And if by any chance the person being hi-fived turn out to be female, then a whole mob would end up giving that pedaling boy a lot of hi-fives all over his body. 

LOL It is so funny to realize that how things/tasks and circumstances change with the changing involvement of genders...

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real funny events from my life - III

Continuing with the series, this is a real classic one. Whenever I recall this one, I get the vivid photographic flashes of the event, and I cannot hold back my smile. After reading this one, one would realise it has all the elements of an entertainer, thrill, suspense, drama and of course fun and stupidity, the last 2 elements, are like forever adages to the experiences of my life. So here is one more in the series:

This must have been September/October of 2005, when it was the first few months of my marriage and work both. Well it was also the very first time of Kingfisher Red's, which was erstwhile Air Deccan's first year of crazy promotions. It might sound unbelievable now, but back in those days, they were selling Mumbai-Vadodara for a mere 599 INR. So, I made optimum use of the bulk buying and I practically booked every second weekend. So this was one such weekend incident. I think my flight was the early morning 6 am flight. And as a tired fresher, I was scared that I might end up missing my flight, since waking up at 4 am to catch the 6 am flight sounded like a mission impossible attempt. So, I asked my flat mates, I do not even remember who all were there, but I definitely recall Payal and Ritu to plan a night out. The strategy was to stay awake as much as I can along with my friends, and then head straight to the airport, which was like just few km away from my flat. So we girls were all in the party mode, and happily dressed and made up, headed to Cafe Mocha at Powai. We enjoyed our evening heartily with all the girly giggling and sumptuous meal. I think we definitely must have had some cheese fondue, which is my favourite there. From Mocha, we headed back home, it must have been close to midnight by then. So, technically half of my mission was over. I just needed to be awake for 4 more hours, and then had to leave for the airport. Well, I could have gone to the airport at 12 also, in case if anyone thinks that could be a smart idea to stay awake. But then, the people who are close to me and also the Jet airways staff knows that I sleep like a log even at the waiting bay of airports even after the security check.*

So, after reaching my place, I asked Payal to chat with me for some time, as she was the only one who was a late night sleeper. We must have chatted for another hour, after which she started feeling sleepy, (we had some alcohol too at Mocha). So after the chit-chatty session of killing time, I started cleaning my closet, which badly needed an order, considering the chaos and abuse it was subjected to each day. That again consumed 1 hour, so it was around 2:30 am, still 3 and half hours to my flight's departure, and my eye lashes were drooping, which were getting hard to open. While writing this blog I just pondered upon the fact that when ever one is supposed to wait, each minute and second seems like hell. In an attempt to kill more half an hour, I just did some time pass with my hair, tried curling them with the temporary fem curlers. Then at 3 am, I was out of all patience, I picked up my bag, and headed towards the airport, since I made up my mind to wait at the airport only. 

Our flat was on the second floor, which had 6 flats, 4 were occupied were our landlord, and in one of the flats lived a strange looking christian woman, about whom there were many dangerous gossips. I did not know much, except for the one that she practised WITCHCRAFT.

I am always considered a bold and dauntless person who is scared of nothing, even I thought the same about myself, until that moment. hahhaa. So, I was dragging my bag on the staircase, and in the pitch dark I suddenly heard some strange sounds, the ones you can recall from the Zee Horror Show days. They were some horrific cries and shrills. I immediately looked back, and found nothing. I got shrills running all over my body, I instantly thought of going back to my PG and waking up Payal. I was just about to do that, and suddenly it struck me that I could not enter my flat, cause I had given the keys to Payal only; and ringing up the door bell would have been a futile option, considering the heavy and careless sleepers all the flat mates were. The fear inside me reached its threshold, when again I heard those screams and shrieks. I had no dare to look anywhere or even open my eyes, but just out of curiosity I did. In my mind I could only imagine that Wicca. But to my amazement, I saw a pack of kittens jumping and playing with joy, since their mommy cat had caught a big fat bandicoot in her mouth. So, as you must have guessed by now, those sounds were of the struggle between the prey and its killer; and then of the little kittens' joyous cries of party time!!!

I laughed seeing this, and went back with my mission of catching the flight on time. The particular incident was so live and vivid in my memory that I was all fresh and active for the entire day, journey and the almost 3 hours of wait preceding it all.

I still cannot help giggling thinking of that incidnet.

* This funny event some other time in some other blog

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real funny events from my life - II

With the pace with which funny events are happening in my life, I am sure the posts like these will count to infinity. What to do, something or the other keeps happening frequently, rather too frequently some times.

So this one happened just few days back. We were barely back from our quick trip from north, and I had to visit the doctor for my low blood pressure. While back from the doctor's place, my husband was advised by her to take care of his wife and was also told to hold her if she feels giddy anytime. He must have nodded to her, the way he does to whatever I tell him. The moment we both entered the house, I fainted and fell on the floor in our bedroom. Since, he had unlocked the house, he was ahead of me, and so he couldn't get to know that I  tripped. I must have lied on the floor for a good 2 minutes after which my husband noticed that his wife was lying prostrate on the floor.

Under any normal circumstances, any loving husband in this World would have promptly panicked and would have immediately picked up his wife from the floor and then would have placed her gently on the bed.

But mine is a little different one, he simply walked into the room, munching on few kaju katlis (the ones we got from our Punjab trip) and said "oh, why are you sleeping on the floor, why not sleep on the bed instead". After this he simply sat on his favourite position on the bed and started surfing the television channels. Then, must be after a minute it struck upon him that his wife was not napping on the cold floor, but had fallen.

Then he simply lifted me and placed me on the bed, quickly got a glass of orange flavoured glucose and made me comfortable.

HOW SWEET AND FUNNY AND FRUSTRATING !!!!

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God has a competitor

Well God is everywhere, we are always told this. Whenever we look for him, he will found around us. He is everywhere, but there is someone I realised who is everywhere around me right now. It is "wi-fi". Till now I have always been perplexed of the idea of using internet wherever I want to. And back in the past whenever I have used it, I have felt the same as the street kids feel when they get clean water to bathe in.

I have used the free internet, whenever and everywhere service to full use back in my college days. It was so dear a service for me, that I even bunked the college parties to surf and save the data from the internet. I am lucky that it made me transform my passion to internet into a love affair. I was eating, sleeping, drinking and even breathing the internet. It was GOD for me back then. And now, right now, when it is in my house for real, the same feeling are back.

My love for my God is not bound by the cables anymore. I love you wi-fi.

PS: Wi-Fi (pronounced /ˈwaɪfaɪ/) is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. And it is not a technical term.

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