Just one SMS

This SMS was shared my by COO. I found it nice so thought to share with my friends who visit my blog on a regular basis. Realize how important it is to shed our ego to keep the love alive.

"Once there was an island where all the feelings lived together.One day there was a storm in the sea & the island was about to drown. Every feeling was scared but LOVE made a boat to escape. Every feeling borrowed the boat, one feeling was left. LOVE got down to see who it was. It was EGO. LOVE tried and tried but EGO didnt move. Everyone asked LOVE to leave EGO & come in the boat but LOVE was meant to love, it remained with EGO. All other feelings left alive but LOVE died because of EGO..."

Spa - an interesting concept

I never have posted anything which I havent written but this morning I have read this article in The Indian Express and found it quite interesting. So you too enjoy.

Imagine dipping your feet in a tank of water while fish nibble off the dead skin. Exotic or just plain weird? Happy Feet, Delhi’s first fish spa, introduces what they refer to as natural pedicures and manicures.

“A species of fish called Garra rufa found in the freshwater basins of Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq feed on unhealthy skin, leaving one’s feet relaxed and rejuvenated. The concept of a fish spa originated in Turkey and has become extremely popular in Malaysia, Singapore and Japan,” says Shikha Chandra, 26, owner of Happy Feet in Select Citywalk Mall. In Japan fish therapy for the entire body is popular, but Happy Feet is confining the treatment to the feet. The pedicure is a 30-minute procedure with 600 Garra rufa in the tank. It is done on the first-floor balcony of Select, so the afternoons tend to get a bit hot but evening pedicures are pleasant enough.

The process is simple and begins with mild cleansing of the feet, followed by a dip in fishy waters maintained at a temperature of 30-35 degree Celsius, when the rufas, also called doctor fish or little dermatologists, do their job — bite off dead skin, leaving your skin glowing fresh. “These fish don’t have teeth so it doesn’t hurt at all. There’s just a ticklish feeling. It’s like the usual pedicure except it’s totally natural,” says Chandra, who’s already doing 30 pedicures on weekdays and over 50 on weekends, since she opened two weeks ago.

The fish feast on your feet for 15 minutes. This is followed by a 10-minute foot massage by a reflexologist. The whole process is priced at Rs 220. But if you want extras, like a neck and shoulder massage, it costs more, Rs 375. The fish massage is generating massive interest among shoppers at Select, with even five-year-olds in the crowd of fin-watchers. Just hope these flesh eaters are hungry when it is your turn

Education Vs. Job

Very old topic which we can debate forever.Well I often think of my education and my job. I know it breaks my heart when ever i compare myself,my job and so many other things with others. If you ask me if I am happy with my job. probably i will keep quiet, I am not happy and I do crib. I admit it. Not a sin. While chit chatting with other friends I get to know 70% of them are not happy with their job. Recently I got to learn that most of the people leave their job or make a move because of their bosses...according to them, the bosses really make their lives hell. I have heard my friends saying that he had shifted because of a bad boss and some really dont want to shift because they are blessed with a good boss. Yes salary and growth matter too.

Anyways I have been thinking of my being educated, through out a good student, kind of 'topper' - did it help me getting a job?The answer is no. Well I belong to a family where education pays a very important role and since my childhood I have been knowing that kids have to only think about studies ( Read a BOOK WORM) and nothing else. Even when a kid becomes young adult that person is only supposed to study - no poetry, no story books.no movies and playing around is NO NO. The trend these days is to enroll own self in an MBA inst. and then an assured job but trust me its such a wrong conception. Yes being in the top B Schools help but not beyond that. One has to be capable enough and I can say being the topper and being a studious Good Girl / Boy doesnt help much. I have people around who are dumb, slow, who failed to clear their exams and they are doing well in their career, they are earning double than the topper is earning and the good, studious,obedient topper is still struggling in some corner. So what the education is doing? Why do we all study? Is it only to gain knowledge?or to earn our lively hood? I believe its more to earn our bread and butter than gathering knowledge. Knowledge we cab gather anyways by reading - for that we actually dont need to sit for exams and enroll our selves anywhere. This world is so full of mediocre people that even the better people feel de motivated. Its the best to be just good to compete with average mass. Its frustrating when you are better and just average good mass fail to appreciate you. Being very practical, I dont think one has to be really good,obediant,studious and meritorious to bag and continue with a good job, you may ask me is money everything. Well money is not everything but without money its nothing. Money cant buy happiness but money can play an important role to make us happy. Only education doesnt make us earn but its the ability of going beyond, doing something extra makes the difference.

When I think and look back I ask myself what did I achieve being a good student? My parents, my family and neighbour are proud of the medals and certificates but I am not happy with my job. I still have to think 100 times before pampering myself or buy something extra for myself or go beyond my basic need. Just to earn the basics does one need to have a tag called MBA or post graduate? or through out first class? Even a 10th pass person can earn the basic.


Its important to live and let live. We can live only when our hunger is satisfied - our needs are fulfilled and trust me in today's world we need a fat wallet for that and not piles of certificated, medals. When we our selves are not happy, satisfied we feel irritated and we satisfy our selves by irritating others around us.


So moral of my thought is I still question about education after an extent. I do question the quality of the education as well. I am not disagreeing with the fact that one has to be educated ( learned) to be a good human being, aware, gentleman kind but is actually education helping us being a responsible citizen? I doubt.

An Ad and the communication

I don't watch TV much but yes these days ( actually from last few months) Balika Vadhu in Colors have been playing an indispensable part in my life at 8pm. I like the programme a lot. But will talk about it in some other post.

Today I just could not stop myself but saying ' disgusting' after seeing that ad. Its a leading mobile service provider who has cut down its SMS rate. It shows two friends / buddies sitting / standing / being just next to each other and yet they are talking over SMS. Hello!!!! Give me a break!! Is it what technology is trying to do in our lives? Does it make two friends sitting just next to each other and chit chatting over a small tech box! Sitting miles away using the small box called mobile, sending 'sweet nothing' SMS makes sense but when together can not we just use our mouth and verbal ability? Or tech makes us so incapable that we forget to talk! Then a day will come when we will use buttons / key pads to even shed a tear while departing with the most important relation of our lives or smiling on the happiest moment of our lives.

I loved so many ads from the same company - which are cute, creative, nice and make us feel good, But where the creativity of ad agencies are dying? Or is this the proper way to communicate? Ads which have huge impact on today's youth and kids, what kind of information are such ads conveying? Are not they just trying to even stretch the distance which is already there. We almost have forgotten to visit our relations on festivals, now all regards,hello,love,wishes are conveyed through SMS. its not so expensive. But what about the gap we are creating among ourselves? We are going away from our selves, our loved ones. How many of us talk over dinner? Most of us keep busy watching the favourite soaps at prime time during dinner - all popped out eyes and excitement and we forget may be there is someone at home, in friend circle who may be is waiting to say something or hear something. We talk so much on communication but how many of us are in touch with our old grand parents who are probably staying far away? or maternal aunts? or may be some sisters or brothers of a distant relation? or even a friend??

I am not completely blaming the tech age but to us as a whole and if agencies encourage youth to talk over SMS even when they are sitting together, I must say, we need to be worried about the next gen.

Cooking - luxury when alone

I opted to stay alone and little isolated post office hours. Its been few years now. My friends often ask me how do I spend my time? Don't I get bored? Well the answer is,most of the time I don't get bored. Yes sometime I do miss the special person in my life. Whom I could have freaked around the parks and the trees and the movie halls and the restaurant or simple by watching TV holding each others' hands...so saying silly things. I do miss them sometime.But most of the time i am thankful that I have my own space,time and I can do whatever and whenever.I feel independent in true sense.

Its been long that I have stopped painting and writing poems...But still there is a creative thing that I do and everyone else can do to kick away the boredom and monotony. There is no such person on the earth who doesnt feel hungry and everyone loved delicious food. In my initial days when I was not so used to with my being solitary, I used to think what to do but gradually I have been learning the art to combat. Well, after office I try going to the fish market. Being a bong I must admit that I am a pure lover of fish. So most of the time I buy some new fish and come home, try cooking them. Trust me, If you love eating, you will also love the art of cooking. Cooking is not just putting the ingredient right together but to cook with whole heart and passion. Its the imagination - like you are mixing the different colours in the canvas to create something which will soothe your soul. Food is not just to satisfy the basic need but believe you me a visually and sensually attractive food will leave a different impression all together.

Whomsoever , who are alone, who can afford a bit - just go and experience the luxurious art of cooking, mix and match - go the creative way you want according to your taste buds. From last few days my cooked food was bad - I could even feel to eat after cooking. Because I was doing 3/4 work together,watching my favourite soap, chatting over net, some other house hold work and cooking so today I decided to switch off the TV, disconnect myself from the tech world and be in kitchen. So I loved each spice, the onions, the fish, the rice and each ingredient. So the output was what It should have been - quite satisfactory.

Its all about loving own self. Pampering own self. I quite do it often. I have grown up with an attitude of don't give the world a damn as I believe myself to be a self made girl, yes alone and struggling. But I am happy the way I am. So now I have decided to find some or other recipe every now and then and work on my creative cells.

Being Happy - the affordability factor

Strange but something which i have been thinking for past one year.Life is strange - yes it has both positive and negative side. Its up to us the way we are looking at it. I must confess I have been being little pessimist - I have gone beyond extreme optimism and reached pessimism.

Nothing is moving in my life. Its so stagnant . I was trying to read Almost Single and its been more than a month I have read only few pages.Wow..i love my speed.

Ok now coming back to the affordability factor of being happy - when a lady is 26 and nothing is stable in her life!!! My relation didn't work, my job is very average - not at all rocking. No guy in life to throw some romantic praising words, no family to wait for me at dinner table, no pet to come and lick me when I come back from office. How to fix them right?

I have been going through so many ads in TV channels, in the pages of news paper - contact him contact her - change the way your name spells or the direction,furniture etc of your house or join some art of living class etc. You look very average or may be fat or dark - no worries join some good gym or even easier join some slimming center and shed the extra kgs within few months. You can be the way you want to be, you want achieve every dream you want to achieve but nothing comes free.

Shape your self,shape your life,your dreams - think whatever you can think of but only if you can afford. Yes these dreams are little expensive. You may end up spending a month or two's salary. Then what does it mean? we can be happy only if we can afford it? What about those who can not afford?Don't they deserve to be happy?healthy?beautiful?belong to a stable relation and satisfactory job?

With commercialization the basic most happiness and dream have gone beyond the reach of what mass can afford.

Any solution that someone can suggest? I cant see a solution rather than ignoring the problems or repenting on the fate we have.