Zendagi Migzara

The stars lean down to kiss you and i lie awake and miss you pour me a heavy dose of the atmosphere 'Cuz I will doze off safe and soundly but I'll miss your arms around  me I'd send a postcard to you dear 'Cuz I wish you were here. Vanilla Twilight Owl City I've been meaning to write this post for so long, I don't even remember how long. Adithya. My best friend. The one that I share my life with. We have this thing Adi and me, if there's something noteworthy happening in one of our lives, invariably the other will be experiencing the same thing. I've known him for 10 years now. We met in Sanskriti School in Delhi. Oh the things I owe to that institution. Adithya is definitely one of them. I was in the 11th standard and after a life of studying in Army schools and Kendriya Vidhyalayas, I was finally finishing my schooling with Sanskriti in Delhi. My first day at school was an orientation session. We just had to spend the day getting to ...

(This is a picture from my brother's wedding : the house looking pretty and all at 6 AM! Yea well, I'm a sucker for Diwali lights!) इश्क़ की धूमि रोज़ जलाये उठता धुँआ तोह कैसे छुपाये हो अँखियाँ करे  जी हजूरी मांगे हैं तेरी मंज़ूरी कजरा सियाही दिन रंग जाए तेरी कस्तूरी रेन जगाये मन  मस्त मगन मन  मस्त मगन बस तेरा नाम दोहराये चाहे भी तोह भूल न पाये -- Amitabh Bhattacharya -  Mast Magan , Two States It's weird how I haven't figured out a standard response to this question yet. I usually take a minute to answer and the sentence usually starts with an "umm, well actually..." and that leaves my audience wondering if I'm capable of putting together a string of words to answer the most common of all questions after "What's your name?".  It's a lot easier now in Singapore, because I say India and stop at that. My two most common choices for where my hometown is, are: Bangalore and Delhi. I don't even know why Bangalore...

(What better way to start a post on London : Buckingham Palace!) I've always wanted to go to London. Always. I think that mainly stems from the fact that DDLJ was shot there. Lame, I know. But well. So, when I noticed a short course in the London branch of my favorite culinary institute in the world, it was just too tempting for me not to do it. I applied, got accepted, booked my tickets, got my student visa and was all set. It was a decision, i would have thought hard about, and maybe also a decision I wouldn't have taken , say 6 months back. But life changes and times change. It was expensive, very expensive, but I was doing this for myself. If I've really wanted to do something, money has hardly ever stopped me. That may not be the wisest way to live life, certainly not the wisest thing to do financially, but hey, who knows, Kal Ho Na Ho. OK, that Bollywood plug aside, it literally took my one day and a phone call to my mother, to make that decision. And that...