The Best IPL Moments!!

The IPL fever gripped everyone alike this season. Even Dalai Lama couldn't escape it. As the fiery tournament decided to move to Dharamshala to cool down for two of its league matches, Dalai Lama catered to his cricket loving instincts by coming for the match.

It was the turn of the Mallya scion to take the reigns of the Royal Challengers Bangalore from his father this season. Siddharth Mallya, the Prince of Good Times, gave the paparazzi lots to talk about as he was extensively linked to Bollywood diva, Deepika Padukone.

Preity Zinta hoped against hope but her team finished at the bottom of the IPL table. As the bollywood beauties descended on to the cricket field, the histrionics were quite conspicuous. Shilpa Shetty of Rajasthan Royals consoling Preity after her side defeated Kings XI Punjab or is she?

The spirits really soared high indeed! Seen in ensembles designed specifically for her team, Neeta Ambani was the active one this season. Taking a leaf from Preity Zinta's diary, Neeta Ambani was seen regaling with her team on all occasions. Seen here with ace bowler Harbhajan Singh.

One of the most captivating on-field moments of the IPL 3 was the Super Over between Kings XI Punjab and Chennai Super Kings. An otherwise off-colour Yuvraj Singh, shone with the bat, both during the innings as well as the Super Over to hand his side, victory.

It was family time for King Khan too. Star kids became a regular picture on the cricket ground. Shahrukh Khan seen here with his son Aryan and daughter Suhana.




Sachin reiterated his iconic status yet again by comprehensively leading the Mumbai Indians to the finals of the IPL. He also emerged as the most searched IPL player this season closely followed by Sourav Ganguly. Dada was his KKR's Knight in shining armour too! The two stars share a lighter moment.

Just when we thought the tournament was advancing to its end, there were more fireworks in store. The Shashi Tharoor - Lalit Modi controversy sparked by a supposedly innocuous tweet took a leap so huge that it landed straight into Parliament! Seen here, the two in ostensibly happier times.

The Shoebox

A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything, they had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet, that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.

For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said that she would not recover. Trying to sort out their affairs, the old man got the shoe box down took it to his wife's bedside. She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box. When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money totaling $95,000.

He asked her about the contents.

'When we were to be married,' she said, ' my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that If I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll.' The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were in the box.

She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst out with happiness.

'Honey,' he said, 'that explains the doll, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from?'

'Oh,' she said, 'that's the money I made from selling the dolls.'

Something Called Love

Caution: Long post ahead!! So please don't read it if you don't have the time.

Here comes yet another Monday morning....and everybody around me knows how much i loathe Mondays!! No, no i am not here to write another hate post on Mondays. I am here to write about something that's ever so close to my heart, rather its to do with my heart. Don't worry my heart's totally fine. Its to do with the emotion which relates to heart, its about love!!

Yes, this is the first time that i want to bare my heart out about what i feel about being in love....Right from class IV when i had my first crush, i felt the first flush of love even though it was a mere infatuation then! :) Since then I had my share of crushes and it felt good each time i felt butterflies in my stomach. It made me smile, it made me happy & eventually most of my crushes became good friends of mine!

But the first time i felt love for real was way back in school when i was 14. I remember joining DAV Public School in Bhubaneswar, i remember being nervous not bcoz i was scared but more so coz this was yet another new school for me and i had to make new friends all over again!! (all thanks to dad's transferable job) And somewhere there was this uneasiness in my heart....I don't know if i had sensed it already.

There was this guy who was extremely shy of girls, to the extent that he wouldn't even cross paths with them. :) I liked him not only bcoz he was cute but also bcoz he had the cutest smile i had ever seen! He was brilliant in Biology, a subject i couldn't quite understand. He had an excellent memory and i still remember the day when he had recited "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was a 3 pager and he had recited the whole poem in one go. I mean that was seriously impressive!!

He used to stay in the same colony as mine coz his dad worked in the same organization as my dad. I wished if i could talk to him....but he wouldn't coz he was so so shy! And i wouldn't too coz i was never the kinda girl who would make the first move. But there was this inevitable attraction that we felt towards each other and this lead us to each other. We started talking, and before i knew, he had proposed and i obviously said a "Yes"! :)

This was not to last for too long....soon my dad got transferred and i had to move out with my family. Like any other couple we parted saying that we will keep in touch and that we will make it last. But no sooner had i left, i could see the cracks and like any other teenage romance our's came to an end!! It was painful to say the least, and i can't say how much i must have cried then. But i had to be strong and i vowed never to fall in love again!! I know i was so naive and vain then.

One fine day i got a call from a friend who i never thought would call me, coz we were never really best friends! She called me up at 6 in the morning and as soon as my mom handed over the phone to me, i realised that it was not her, it was him! It was he who had made her call me up. And i could sense that something was not quite right about the way things were going.

And within the next few days he had proposed, i knew that this time if i said a yes there would be no turning back. And i said this to him, i know it sounds silly now, but i had told him that if this time anything goes wrong then i will be done for good. Ever since then i have never got a chance to get over him....coz like they say, the rest is history and there's been no turning back!

He's never given me a chance to complain....Even today, despite being continents apart, he still professes his love for me the way he used to years ago. There's not a single call which ends without he saying the 3 magical words "I Love You". And believe me it still sounds as magical as it used to 8 and a half years ago!!

We will be completing 9 yrs in June....I know i always keep saying this, but today i want to say it here, "I just can't get enough of you and i am so glad that i said a yes every time you came back to me, I Love You Baby and you are and will always be the best thing that ever happened to me!!"

Think Tank

Each day is like a new canvas to paint on.

Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness,

and at the end of the day you don't look at it

and wish you had painted something different.

Have been trying to post since Saturday but something or the other kept coming in my way....and yesterday was so hectic that i cudnt even think of writing coz i was neck deep in work. But guess what? I left early from work citing some reason and went off to shop. Trust me it was fun! :) I got a nice dark tan bag, a LV wallet, a sophisticated multi-hued clutch and 2 sandals. And this is how my Monday ended.

Ok now i have been wanting to do this tag from a while now, this one's taken from Firebolt and i totally loved doing it. Here it is:

If I were a month, I'd be Febraury
If I were a day of the week, I'd be Friday (that's when the weekend kicks off!)
If I were a time of day, I'd be 6.00 p.m (I love evenings)
If I were a season, I'd be spring (love the weather & blooming flowers)
If I were a planet, I'd be Jupiter (The biggest n brightest of all!)
If I were a sea animal, I'd be a dolphin (they are so adorable)
If I were a direction, I'd be East (no particular reason for this one)
If I were a piece of furniture, I'd be a lounger or a couch
If I were a liquid, I'd be Apple juice
If I were a tree, I'd be a coniferous tree
If I were a tool, I'd be a screw driver :P
If I were an element, I'd be Silver (Ag)
If I were a gemstone, I'd be Emerald
If I were a musical instrument, I'd be a guitar
If I were a color, i'd be blue
If I were a emotion, I'd be joy
If I were a fruit, I'd be a strawberry
If I were a sound, I'd be that of a cuckoo bird
If I were a car, I'd be a Ferrari/BMW
If I were food, I'd be a thin crust crispy non-veg pizza
If I were a taste, I'd be sweet
If I were a scent, I'd be the smell of citrus
If I were a pair of shoes, I'd be Converse

So this me signing off for now. Until my next post cya ppl and hope u have a gr8 week ahead!

Wisdom without Grey hair

"Nothing is permanent in this world.....not even your troubles."

"The most wasted day in your life is the day when you have not smiled."

"The happiest people do not necessarily have the best things in life.

They simply know how to appreciate the things that they have."

The Best of Nat Geo

Silhouetted by the sun, the 'Hand of Fatima' rock formations
near Hombori village stretch towards the sky in Mali.
The tallest tower rises 2,000 feet (610 meters) from the

desert floor. Lore has it that the formation's name stems

from the five towers resemblance to a hand from the sky.

Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) ride out
high surf on blue icebergs near Candlemas Island
in the South Sandwich Islands.

For trees that grow on mountain tops near Cape Town,
South Africa, wind can be a magnificent sculptor.
Trees that can handle the wind's effect best will

alter their shape to deal with the load of the wind.

Erosion's force becomes clear in these limestone cliffs in

Port Campbell National Park, Australia. About 5 million

years ago the area was a limestone plateau, but as sea levels

rose the effects of surf and rain began to carve out these

magnificent cliffs, along with stacks and arches.

Travertine chimneys near Lake Abbe, Djibouti, were created by

hot springs depositing calcium carbonate, the same process that creates

stalactites and stalagmites. Some of the formations reach 165 feet

(50 meters) near the lake located on the Ethiopia-Djibouti border.

A thick blanket of snow covers West Thumb Geyser Basin
in Yellowstone National Park. There are more geysers
in this park than anywhere else in the world.


Towers of salt and a riverbed colored by crystallized salt
create an other worldly landscape in Ethiopias Danakil Desert.
Sitting more than 300 feet (90 meters) below sea level,
with temperatures reaching 120 degrees Fahrenheit
(49 degrees Celsius), local inhabitants prize the
Danakil for one thing: its salt deposits.

Towering in close symmetry, these basalt columns near

Fingals Cave form the base of the Scottish island of Staffa.

The columns formed when cooling lava flows met bedrock and the

regions cold weather. The island contains three main caves.

When You're Gone....

I miss your smile, I miss your touch;

I miss the voice that I love so much;

And when I'm sleepless in the night,

I miss the arms that hold me tight.

Without your love there's an

emptiness inside. You mean

everything to me,I need

you by my side

Miss You....

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A Not So Random Post

Ok time for a tag now, its been a while since i took up a tag which asked me to talk about myself! :) I know, i know, most of u know me already but this one's for Harshita who really wants to know what will i write about myself. :D So ready to spill some more beans, here i go:

1. I am not a very brand conscious person. I can pick up anything from any where as far as i don't have to compromise on quality. I mean seriously I don't get the deal of spending a bomb on something like a watch or say a perfume!? Why would i waste a lakh of rupees on just a watch?? Imagine the amount of shopping that i can do with that kinda money!
   

2. I prefer guys as friends more than girls, not bcoz of the obvious attraction factor! More so bcoz i feel that they are less bitchy and messy. No offense meant to all my lovely gfs who i truly cherish. But i really can't bitch all day about clothes, jewellery, make-up & guys! I need something more than that to be friends with someone.
   

3. Now, since i am friendly & approachable a lot many times guys have ended up misunderstanding me! Why is it so difficult for a man & a woman to be just friends!? The moment i feel i have a gr8 friendship with this guy, he spoils it all by saying that he's got feelings for me! And this despite me having told them that I'm happily committed!! Does that mean that i shouldn't make friends with guys coz I'm committed!? Now that's weird!
   

4. I am very sensitive!! A little too much than required....i get deeply affected when i see people around me suffering due to a fatal disease or any calamity. A few years down the line i plan to set up my own NGO or at least work for one, coz that's what i feel is my true calling & that will satisfy my urge to reach out to people.
   

5. I hate to see people being discriminated for their caste, sexual preference or color for that matter! I mean why can't people just let them be, i believe in & follow the saying "Live and Let Live". How i wish more people practiced this in their lives! Trust me guys this is more than just a saying.
   

6. I get bored very easily, like right now i am bored of this job and the life that i am leading. Nothing to excite me, i want to go to a new place and have a brand new life. I like to change my bags, shoes & accessories every single day! And no i don't get tired of doing that. :) In fact, i keep telling people that i like change in every aspect of my life except relationships.

7. I love discovering new places and meeting people from different walks of life, i am a complete extrovert no wonder i love traveling. I have always secretly wanted to become a travel show host (its not a secret anymore). Imagine traveling to different parts of the world at somebody's expense! What fun!! :P

8. I am very possessive about my things, i can't share them with people. Not bcoz i am selfish, but more so bcoz i know that they can't take care of it the way i would. Yes, i am very finicky & i am a thorough perfectionist. If something's to be done in a certain way then it has to be done that way! No other way will do.

9. I have never dreamt of a prince charming, i have never tried my mom's make up as a child nor have i ever thought about how my marriage will be like. As a matter of fact i have never read a Mills & Boons novel. Yes, this despite the fact that i have been in love from times immemorial. Still, i would like to say that i am feminine and romantic in my own way!

10. I feel i am my best advisor in life, and i think nobody can understand your problems better than you yourself! I find it rather strange when i read columns where people seek answers to their dilemmas....I dunno how can a third person understand what you have been through & advise you on what to do further!? People who know me, know that i am very strong mentally & emotionally. I often advise people in times of trouble, but i only do so when i am asked to! I don't give free advice.

So i am done with the 10 random or rather not so random facts about me! :) People who want to reveal a little more about themselves are free to tag themselves.

Turn Back Time....

I Want To Go Back To The Time�

When GETTING HIGH Meant On a SWING, Not PROMOTIONS.

When DRINKING meant RASNA ORANGE, Not BEERS Or WHISKEY.

When DAD Was The Only HERO, Not DEPP Or TOM.

When LOVE Was MOM�S HUG, Not The GIRL / BOY-FRIENDS.

When DAD�S SHOULDER Was The HIGHEST PLACE On The Earth, Not Your DESIGNATION.

When Your WORST ENEMIES Were Your SIBLINGS, Not Your MANAGER.

When The Only Thing That Could HURT were BLEEDING KNEES, Not The TEARS Falling Down Your Cheeks.

When The Only Things BROKEN were TOYS, Not The DYING HEARTS.

And When GOOD-BYES meant TILL TOMORROW, Not For YEARS & YEARS.