The thing called 'Valentine's Day'....

14th Feb, Valentine's Day...decidedly its one of the most interesting days of the year and I am saying this despite the fact that I am single. I find it interesting because you get to see a lot of action.
Weeks before VD, the newspapers, radio stations, television, etc start nagging us with all sorts of ads and other pre-valentine and valentine preparations. You get to see ads of all the valentine parties, gifts which you can possibly buy for your valentine, to do lists, not to do lists, how to dress up perfectly for that perfect date, your horoscope in sunday times, love qoutient of all sun signs, whether the week ahead will be romantic for you or not?...
A day before 14th people start asking you, 'so whats ur plan for tommorrow, anything special?..are u coming to college or going out on a date?'...oh! whatever it is, even if I am going somewhere why should I tell you and even if I am not going anywhere you won't believe it, so why bother? huh! whatever...
The beginning of the day itself is quite interesting.... I travel by train everyday and even on normal days the discussions that you get to hear is much beyond being just interesting. The various comments on the colour of the dress that you are wearing, women complaining about how thier husbands forget it every year then say sorry 10 times, the discussion about the gifts they recieve from their hubbys, their evening plans, all the teasing, giggling that goes on....
Then I reach college, and you see all of us either dressed up in red or pink, giving chocolates to each other, hosting silly contests like 'make a proposal contest' and 'best couple contest'. Everywhere you are surrounded with stuff that keeps reminding you that today is valentine's day...
And amongst all this celebration, we have shiv sena's agitation, this part is kind of funny but its irritating for all the shopkeepers who hope to earn a good profit by selling all the lovey-dovey stuff. Everybody wonders what is wrong with these crazy shiv sainiks, why are they so against VD...even I dont know....a set of people who dont want this western culture in India, a bunch of hypocrates or may be because they themselves have failed in love...I dont know...Recently, I saw the film 'Anwar', the film has tried to find some reasons for why all the protests take place, if you see the film you will realise that the reasons, if they are true, are kind of funny..
But whatever it is, this whole valentine thing is not all that bad, definitely not something you need to protest against...I am not the anti-valentine's day type but I dont believe in extreme elaborate celebrations, may be I am saying this because I dont have anyone to celebrate it with...

Well, I am not trying to make any point out of all this....I would just say that all those people who are in love are very beautiful, hope they continue to be in love...God bless you all and the others too [after all, the others have managed to be out of love all this while:)]...

and yes of course...

Wish you a very Happy Valentine's Day!

...and once again I was left speechless

The most beautiful line in this world..

.......but I love you.

The most painful line in this world..

I love you but.......

p.s:-my friend had received this as a forwarded message.

Delete

The option 'delete' is decidedly interesting, wish there would be one such option for deleting some chapters of my life.

Do Not Quit

I read ET for the same reason as all others do but the Cosmic Link-up column always ends up giving words which leave you pondering, 'Do Not Quit" is something i believe in....

Do not quit though the pace may seem slow,
you might succeed with another blow,
you can never tell how close you are,
you may be near when it seems afar.

Look within

The other I went to churchgate along with my frnds to collect forms for the Ratan Tata scholarship. After that as usual we all went to the juice center. Opposite to that shop is a very beautiful church called Bombay church. I went there alone as then no one else seemed to be interested in joining me. After I came back my frnds asked me where i had gone n now they also wanted to go. Just then one of them asked , does anyone here know the exact rules we need to follow inside. I asked her why do you need to follow rules. You dun need to follow any rules to interact with god. I believe god is within us....look within n ull find him with you always. All that u need is a clean heart n honesty....just close your eyes n you dun even need to go to any particular place for worship...
anyways i dont know whether they found someone to explain the rules, I was done n i left for the station.

FOR YOU AGAIN

You press on my sour wounds and smile away,
but look my wounds are smiling back at you,
your abscence must have changed my life
but it just can't change what i feel for you
what's meant to go, can't stay for long
but i love what happened and it wasn't wrong
i can't regret those days
i can't blame you for the pain
for i know if the past would repeat
i would fall for you again!

I found the above poem on a website and the authors name wasn't mentioned, twas anonymous, so this poem has been reproduced without the permission of the person who has written it.

M.Pharm admssns

stupid process n only 200 seats through GATE with hardly 1 or 2 seats in the desired subject..hah wonder whats the future of all those who wanna do it..
n they had a rally n protest n stuff, when nothing worked out in OBC-qouta case then...

Mumbai local trains

They are the lifeline of mumbai, can't imagine Bombay without local trains...by the way, government is deciding to involve the private sector in running the locals, wonder how different the services would be!
As a kid I was really scared of local trains and I always used to wonder whether i'll be able to travel alone ever...but as they say life teaches you everything...now I am a daily commuter and I love it though I get irritated at times because of the rush and i travel 'alone'...all alone, amidst all the rush...people always ask me ,arpita dont you get bored travelling alone..such a long distance without any company and I just say that I have got used to it...after all I have been doing it for years...its just that it was not in a train...and i guess it will always be like this...my journey as a loner.

wish love could be more logical

My friends say I am an emotional person and going by that I should be absolutely convinced with the fact that love is not logical after all its an emotion....but still i wish the head could rule the heart even in this case
but I guess its just isn't like that...and thats why its said 'people FALL in love'!

just like that

i had no intention of creating a blog but i had to due to some reason, im not that good with words but i hope in the future postings i will actually have a subject to write on