My life in a glimpse

Just when I thought that my blog would be lost in the thick layer of dust and my creative side would fall off as it grows rusty, I woke up to save them in time. 'Good morning everyone!'. Ok don't give me that look where its just too painful to lift your head off your work and respond to my morning wishes. Yes I know the look as I have been having it for the past couple of years. We are all so BUSY in our lives that we just forget to respond to life. '…..hey tis been long! wanna catch up', '….ooohh I would love to but am a li'll busy', '….wanna go for a movie..', 'ummm.. I would love to but you know I have this thing to do…'. Sounds familiar, well it would, as it has become the part of our everyday vocabulary. We are so busy responding to the Goddess of Work that instead of being a part of life, we are slaves to our work (I second it as I am slave to this Goddess). The icing on the cake being most of us don't even enjoy that work, we ...

‘’.......huh...’’ (sigh!).......” Annie.....stop!...” said Naina, “......stop, because its not worth it.....”. “I know Naina, but three years....three years I lived in an illusion and now it is difficult for me to decipher which of this is true....what I had in three years or what I have now”. “Annie seriously....I mean seriously you had no clue......”. “.....I think I did but I guess there was an overpowering sense of denial which was ruling my mind, even though my practical mind told me I was doomed....I was addicted to it.......and as you know (rolling eyes)......how it is for addicts (wink!)”. For a moment Naina saw the glimpse of her old Annie, her Annie who was so full of life, energy........ geeky, lost, smiling and sometimes happening........but practical Annie who made the right choices, the smart choices.   “Anyway it was great catching up...you know with the job and stuff how it can get.......”, said Annie.  “Anytime sweetheart.....and you know am always th...

5 months....as usual a long time.....oodles have happened during this period...I submitted my thesis on 16th December, 2011 (groan! no more hilarious Ph.D. comic scripts now). The new year brought a new surprise...my status was updated from research scholar-------->Assistant Professor....yes yes now I teach undergraduate students....(I know its a shock for you...it was an even bigger shock for me....ME.. A....T-E-A-C-H-E-R)... While starting out work there I realized it was very tough for me to establish myself as one cause I looked no more than a student. Today 4 months into the profession .......4 months of desperate attempts to look like a prof.......I was staring into my wardrobe when my eyes stopped over the pink coloured long cloth.....and I recalled what dadi (paternal grandmother) told me '.....saree is the most sensuous dress in which you can show all and hide all....'. With westernization creeping up all aspects....lifestyle, wardrobe...most of the women of young...

Heyyy Its been pretty longgggggggg........ooops...just got a bit carried away.....I haven't been in touch with you, you and you..and then again you. ummm guess too busy with my work..shucks what a lame excuse...you are never too busy to keep in touch with yourself...but it atleast makes you feel important ' I have been too busy #$@%$$$$$$...' Seems to strike a bell doesn't it.....no don't duck now...have already caught you with that smirk on your face....you use the same excuse ;-).....So lets see what are the pseudo things which have kept me busy......(trying too hard to remember!!!!)...oh yes getting up in the morning to go to the uni (university). 'Sigh!!!!! my long saga with Amycolatopsis mediterranei has come to an end'. For all you non science people...please don't Google the word....hey and you too students of biology...lets just say its the only love story I had which started with Amy and ended with Aeshna. No more remnants of this ...sigh!!!......

...the doorstep again...she's been there...and she is here again...but alone. The picture on the other side is foggy...She looks back longingly..unwilling to let go of it......but no one is letting her live it. Again she feels the seering pain shoot through her. She closes her eyes tightly till tears escape. 'It will pass..it will pass ' she chants. She is breathless but slowly she feels the pain subside. 'Should I see a doctor? But what will I tell him?' She checks again, but cannot locate the source of pain. How tired she is...rest seems at bay. She is massaging her head slowly...damn! of course she will never find the source of pain......it is not physical. She sits by the side of window and recalls...never a popular child...known only for her chubbiness she cringed at the thought of a big gathering where she would be the butt of their jokes. The best escape was to bury herself in books..atleast she would find solace in their silence. In no time she was popul...

'......cry cry kaiko cry.....' of lately am humming this song a lot.........life just isn't unfolding itself like I would want it to. Hardwork may just not reap results no not always..........Have been waiting so long for that bell to ring just that piece of cake which would sweeten up my life a bit.....maybe a magic wand which would maybe for just for a few moments lighten up my life...that phonecall for which I have been waiting so long........But life is a mystery and you can keep on wondering why is it happening and yet never come up with an answer to that why. It is a general human tendency to think they carry the burden of the heaviest cross.....they are burdened with all the problems. But just look around you and you will realise you are the blessed one. I keep crying about not getting positive results not being able to manage my life.....and oh! of that phonecall......but Aeshna what about that girl, Sujata who was abandoned by her husband and left to fend for herse...

Hey.....well it seems to become a regular habit of me to be so irregular with my posts...am sorry.......well what should I blame it on...laziness, lack of enthusiasm, or sheer dullness in life. Well I would just vote for all of them :-P. The only thing dominating my life presently is my classes..this semester system (flashback to sometime back when there was a lot of noise of semester system being introduced in the University of Delhi)........yes yes I too am a prey to it...and before you think about the number of b ooks I have to study let me clarify...I am not exactly studying...am teaching post graduate students....as teaching assistant.......'The channel of communication between students and professors' (Hush! believe me we are actually still confused about our identity..as the Hindi saying goes 'dhobi ke kutte na ghar ke na ghat ke'). We put in more time and efforts than students and profs.......Oh! the hot topic of discussion nowdays '@CWG'. It is titled ...

Hi guyz...Yawn.....ouch...writing a new entry like almost after a century and that too I stiffle a yawn right in the begining......I am sorry.....sorry for what......sorry for logging in after a very long time and creating a lazy atmosphere right in the first few sentences.....but am up at 4:04am in the morning.......somebody just asked me '...how'z deli (sorry! that is the chat language so you see all the words are misspelled)'. My reply '.....deli is still the same in terms of electricity management ...no light in the middle of nite or shud I say early morning but Mother Nature has decided to shower her blessing, there is a kool wind blowing'. Yes guys...up in the early lights of dawn not because I am an early riser but because I don't have an ambient temperature to sleep. Anyhting new has happened???????? Yes I think I have plenty to count...the greatest disaster being my boss' term of deanship coming to an end.....now that he has plenty of time he thinks...

'.........Aeshna I was just going through your photographs..........you seem to party a lot...', '........wow Aeshna Ph.D. seems to be suiting you, you seem to be enjoying a lot...' these are the comments that I hear from people around me....and I donot disagree....... have a look at my captured moments, they present the picture of happiness and fun. Life is meant to be lived in moments... the beautiful moments that touch you for just a while and leave their lingering taste in your mouth.....Mmmmmmm........close your eyes and encash those moments. I must say from the time I have started salsaing, I remain happier, it helps me live with the stress. I have the passion to dance, salsa moulds my passion into rhythm; my wild moves into poise. A discipline to channelise my negative energy. Thanks to salsa I have also come across beautiful people who teach me that life can be a pleasure to live. Two years down the lane I still get up in cold sweat wondering what will happen to...

No am not really in the mood to discuss the much talked about yet to release movie *ing Ajay Devgan and Konkana Sen. Just that the first thing I did catch a glimpse of when I got up in the morning was the long tentacles of the brown and black striped body of this 6 or was it 8 legged creep. Now what do you call it in the common man's term............ o yeah cockroach. No! No! sorry to disappoint you guys I didn't shreak or shout my lungs off. You can't really expect that off me. I've grown up literally dissecting these Periplaneta americana. Before you people go mad wondering what is this jargoan I am babbling. Its the scientific name of cockroach. Its another story that I would always end up with pieces of it instead of it instead of its intact organ system. God bless my teachers who had to deal with my dissection. Getting back to my morning ordeal, I found it a fascinating view. The visitor in its shining armor decided to pay me a visit after a very long time.........

Helllllllllooooooooo everybodyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!! MMMMMMMMeerrrryyyyyyy Chhhristmassss hic hic! okay sorry! I haven't yet recovered from last night's party. Badddddd hangover. Moral of the story- who cares drink as much as you want ;-). Well christmas is just over and new year is round the corner. Well I as usual didn't do much for this festive day except managed to keep myself awake and smsed my friends (or so called friends who donot have the courtesy to even return your wishes) MERRY CHRISTMAS Okay I just came to know through my cousin who is in UK that you donot wish merry christmas but HAPPY CHRISTMAS because merry means '...... yeah enjoying, partying, dancing' but it may not be the case for everyone. not everyone is partying or there may be a not so merry situation in someone's family. Shit man and I all this time thought that people who wish 'Happy Christmas ' have got their English wrong. My apologies to all of them. Well speaking about people ther...

Hmmm the mouth watering Italian cuisine. I simply love it. With the topping of cheese, tomato, onion and capsicum. Shit sorry for slurping but just the thought of it increases the salivary production from my sublingual glands (for the non biological students- it is the salivary gland present at the base of the tongue). I had this strong urge to eat pizza since MONDAY....... and there were some who even said they'd take me out for pizza but.............. So I targeted my collegue whose birthday had just passed. 'Please pizza khila de, khila dena..........' Few of my close friends joined me in this pursuit. Whoops!!!!!!! Poor guy had to give in to our demands. I would start the day with the chant 'Please aaj khila de........' and end it with '.......... tune aaj bhi nahi khilaya'. So finally last evening at 7pm our brigade marched down to Nirula's to satisfy our taste buds. However we were restricted to only 2 regular sized pizza :-(............ since ther...

Heylo once again!!!!!!!! Not much happened in this short period except there was the griha pravesh puja in my parents' new home. Okay for those people who don't understand, graha pravesh is a kind of prayer service to bless the house. Not much change in my professional front too. Trying to troubleshoot my problem :-(. Hmmmmmmm!!!!!!!! CODE RED. Now what comes in your mind when you hear this............. alert code or the fast telecommunication service available for mass emergency or the computer worm on internet in 2001............... Well code red was the call of the day yesterday....... It was announced that all of us would have to wear red.... The most innovative person would be awarded. ooooooooohhhhhhhh!!!! AWARD. My ears pricked at this wonderful sound.............. Hmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!! I started checking my wardrobe. I have no dirth of reds but to be innovative........... I put on a red sweatshirt, below it a red T-shirt, red belt, red heart shaped clips aaaaaaammmmmmmmm......

Hey guys!!!!!!!! This is me........ don't give me that puzzled look. Its me........Aeshna.............ok! ok! I get it. Since I have been out of the blogging arena for quite some time....................you don't seem to register my name. Just try taxing your brain once again... a bit harder!! yes yes see you do remember....oh yeah its the same old Aeshna but with a new face........No! no! don't get scared. I haven't undergone plastic surgery or have got any eye, ear, nose, lip job done. Neither have I gone in for any Botox shot (phew! your imagination runs really wild). Its just that three bloody years my white teeth were caged behind the ugly wires of braces. Ha! ha! well atleast during my post graduation years that I spent as a nerd it was hardly a botheration. My time was spent behind my books rather than in front of mirror. Now the doc said your teeth are fine and you no longer need them. When I did see myself in the mirror it felt strange. No there wasn't a tr...

Well haven't written much in these few days for the simple reason nothing much has happened...... just like someone commented in an Indian restruant you get Indian food Phew! what an eye opener.Like I mentioned last time construction still on in my lab so my work is still stalled. Well this is building up my frustration.I will not utter this word'F' (Hey by the way its not fuck but frustration). I will tell you the heights of frustration building up in us. One day I found one of my collegues googling for the 'F' word. Well the only good thing that is happening is I am improving on my salsa. Yesterday in my dance class I slapped my sir some 4-5 times. No PUHLEEZ I didn't slap him with my hands 'cause he misbehaved or so.. its because my hair has grown so long and that every time he made me turn .SLAP............ he'd be slapped with my hair. OUCH! poor he was black blue by the end of his turn with me. 'SORRY SIR!!!!!!!!!!!!'. But my turns are impr...

'.... but pappu can't dance saala' No ..... not that I can't dance Yes! yes! I can but it seems my sir must be singing this tune.... Ooops sorry, long gap once again. Actually not much has been happening in my life off lately. Well work place is such a disaster. Just when my work seemed to have been picking up pace, just when I thought am drowning in my work Prick! the bubbles of my dream are broken. I have to once again stall my work of course because my lab is undergoing construction. Well, well I as usual did crib about it. But my years of cribbing have taught me that it is not fruitful.... if time converted in terms of money then I must have wasted millions of $ down my tears and grumbling. But this time I decided to walk on a different path. NOT WASTE MY TIME. I decided to pursue my passion for dance. Well I have joined the salsa classes at the nearest dance academy. Salsa!!! what do I say about it. The word itself speaks volume. The sensuous, hot dancing style. We...

'Mirror mirror on the wall who is fairest of them all?' Well this is a line straight from the story Snow White and seven dwarfs. But this line holds an importance in the life of every female. The last minute checking yourself in the mirror 'Is my dress looking fine, I hope I am not looking fat'. It is the quest of every girl to make her mirror speak '........ but you are fairest of them all.' Why do all the dresses in the trial room make my figure look picture perfect but as soon as I bring them home make me look fat??????????????????? Hmmm is it the mirror in my room which is become toooo old to not give a very clear image of me............. I would love to believe it. The other day Swati and myself were hunting the kamala nagar (hot spot for shopping on campus) when , while moving out of one of the boutique she shrieked '........ eeks it is misleading'. I looked around wondering what in the whole world has brought about this remark only to be encounter...

Yawn! Another day. Kool it seems it will rain. A welcome change from the scorching heat God has been punishing us all these days with. Get up Aeshna or you won't get any breakfast. Gawd why can't the timings of the breakfast shift to an hour later. Its a damn HOLIDAY!!!!!. I hope someone hears me. Believe me never watch a late night movie especially something like 'HANGOVER'. What a terrible hangover I have. Drag! drag! hopefully I reach the mess and not bang my head against a pillar. ALL THE RESIDENTS ARE REQUESTED TO COME DOWN FOR FLAG HOISTING######## Ouch why do they have to shout on the announcement box. Forget it Who wants to go down for flag hoisting. Its not a compulsion. Anyway I hate getting out of my night dress and godown. While sipping tea I just thought 'Nahi yaar its been long that I have attended flag hoisting '. Ki farak painda. Main kuch bhi pahan ke chali jaaooon. I looked at myself in the mirror and thought 'tie your hair and I think your...

This Sunday was the day we decided to celebrate our friendship. We took a wow to do all that we missed during our grad days within a year. Cheers! to the noble wow. Neha came straight from work (night shift) to my hostel. Barely able to open her eyes, Yawn :-o. But I was too excited to let her sleep. We sat down in the canteen and chatted over a cup of Kishan Bhaiya ki famous chai for about an hour. Suddenly I realised the time and thought that Neha should sleep a bit before Sohini storms in and insists that we leave the hostel. Well Sohini as usual was late. So I got time to get out of my night dress. As soon as she was in the hostel off we went to the hotspot of the campus, KAMLA NAGAR. From spending time at CCD, to bargaining with the vendors to get the the best price bargain, we sweated our morning there. Suddenly Sohini had the brainstorm that we should all watch 'Hangover' together. The movie was being screened at the other end of the city, Select Citywalk. We somehow man...

Hey!!!!!!!!!! once again a long gap! Man I just can't keep up the pace with blogging. Well work being finally decided am a bit mentally relaxed. Oh! no back to the same topic. Work! Am not going to bore myself with work even on my blog. Today we had an interesting discussion. Pooja (my senior) asked us an interesting question. Which moments of your life would you like to re -live but in a different way. Hmmmmmmm!!!!!!!! point to ponder. But Idon't think should waste much of my energy on it. Of course my college life. I lived my grad life like a NERD. Get up in the morning, brush my teeth, have my breakfast and go to the college. Had all my notes intact. With my specs on the brink of my nose was among the toppers. I had terrible dressing sense (now my friends tell me). If give a chance to re live it how would it be.............................................. Get up late in the morning. Shit missed the alarm and the first class. Never mind got plenty of time to dress up for the...