Geek Alert: Keyboard Flip-Flops

Finally! It happened! I shopped at Bombay's Fashion Street.

Elton, (my long-time friend and to-be Best Man for my wedding) was visiting over the weekend. Just a few hours short of him leaving, we decided to take a stroll through the much talked about, fashion zone. Boy, was i in for a treat there. Bargained and bagged, two very pretty kurtis. So much fun! :-D

But the real steal that day were these awesome, computer keyboard styled slippers. Gonna take these on my upcoming beach trip to Goa.

Wouldn't you want to own a pair of these super flip-flops too? :-)

Bagged It!

Finally found my perfect summer sling bag! The pink-petaled flower print on cotton, reminds me of granny's homemade curtains and dresses for some reason. Plus, it's gonna look so cool wherever i take out my Nook to read from it. And would you believe it, i found it while shopping online!

P.S.:
1. The Chelsea FC pin is a gift from my fiancé. ;)
2. Back from my hiatus. :D

Chocolate

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If you're looking for a post about food or cooking here's where you should be --> Oven Maiden

Also, the Chocolate post has been moved. [click on the word Chocolate to get there]

Religious v/s Vegetarians

Can lead to severe aggression

I've come to the point where, when I meet with a pious  person I imagine them as crazy vegetarians (yes, a separate breed indeed). Plenty of vegetarians as peaceful as an olive twig though. More than what can be said for evangelists.
Anyway, I thought about it, compared it and brought to you a list of five of their similarities. Here you go. Enjoy!

Campaigning
Veggie Fanatic: Will tell you the benefits of consuming an overdose of protein.
Religious Freak: Attempt repeatedly to convince you that whatever path you're following in life, other than their own of course, is a big fat lie. Although not so much when its Hindus & Jews (explains my majorly Hindu circle).

Easily Offended
Veggie Fanatic: Might probably puke or nearly do so at the sight of your lamb roast. They might approve of the cranberry sauce though.
Religious Freak: Will find your reasons to add chocolate sauce on your partner and lick it off before marriage completely refutable...especially if your partner is of the same sex as your own.

Generic Outlook
Veggie Fanatic: Usually consider all meat-eaters aka non-vegetarians as uncivilized, murderous carnivores.
Religious Freak: If you're not a follower, you're an aimless fool waiting to be found (by the religious so they may break the very stronghold of your mind).

Right v/s Wrong
Both believe in the concepts of "right" and "wrong". They're "right" and you're "wrong".

Biased to Reason 
Veggie Fanatic: Refuse to follow balanced diets.
Religious Freak: Will ban anything that says they're wrong. No one should know of conspiracies least they believe.



p.s.: It is best to walk out of such arguments peacefully while still sustaining your beliefs.

Relationship Wiser

While growing up, like many others, I believed that love is just another form of friendship, only stronger. We share personal events with the other person like with any other close friend. It is this act of sharing that makes a relationship stronger.

My teenage relationships I compared with friendships and found that those with someone you're dating are much different. In friendships we loved, we cared, we communicated, we shared and even took time out to make each other happy. So why should there be a problem when it came to love? Why didn't it just evolve into friendship as well? It should've, but it didn't!
The following quote sums up what I observed back then.

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never." - Charles Caleb Colton.

What Colton tried to convey was that sometimes when you're in a friendship the bond is so strong and lasting that eventually it can turn to love. But if love was to happen first it is less likely to be as strong a bond as it is with friendship. Colton obviously based this on his own experiences and isn't wrong. But there are those who can and have proven the statement wrong. Grandparents, for one! So what are we, the youth, doing wrong?

Then it dawned on me---Maturity!!! You think it would've been more obvious!
During our teens we don't really understand the depths of being in a relationship leave alone love. We don't know our priorities.Our expectations have huge margins. Most of us aren't faced with responsibility till much after we start working which is when we learn to manage our lives as a whole entity rather than just one aspect...such as constant obsessing over a strained relationship as it is with teens.

Some of us though are mentally and emotionally still in our teens...confused. And we wont grow up till we are in control of our thoughts.



p.s.: Take control. Set your relationship afire.

Confessions

If there was ever a thing I ever dreaded during my childhood it was probably being forced to go for confession. Most people are just afraid of the dentist. But not me, all it takes is a confession box and a priest. Don't get me wrong though. I've nothing against it. I just never found myself with the required amount of sins to confess about to the white robed man in the booth. In fact, I found it very hard to make a confession in the first place.

I was always a little worried I wouldn't have the right kind or amount of "sins" to confess. Not that my sins were terrible, to which I might add, were not. In my defense, most of what I did as a child was purely out of curiosity and innocence and couldn't possibly be a sin. A mistake maybe, but not a sin. And so it led me to believe that at such a tender age of ten even I hadn't done anything bad. A twelve year old cannot have sins either. And the only "sin" I confessed to that year was forgetting to do the washing that week!

Explaining all of the above to a priest is as good as having a conversation with a raging fire...stupid and pointless. Of course, in due time, going for confession became more or less something done annually until the very practice itself stopped in the family. It wont be the last I'll be hearing about it though. I'm certain I'll be sent for one soon enough. And this time I'll remember to say something better than not washing clothes or dishes. Forgetting to make love to my then husband sounds so much more sinful! Right?!


p.s.: People commit mistakes, not sins.

A-Click-Away Relationships

If relationships had a "quit" button there'd be a pop-up warning saying...

"This will erase both your memories of each other till just before you met. Would you still like to continue?"

And it would be as easy as that.


Relationships are not easy, they never were. This is where the Internet lets us down because it gives everyone the option to just close down contact with anyone that we choose at any time without the fear of having to actually face someone and say 'it's over'. You have the liberty to start/pause/stop a relationship with a click of a button like the itty-bitty music player you've overused. Then again that's e-dating, which is a lot like fast food, and nobody really gives a damn about your relationship status three days later if not sooner.

So really, if relationships had a "quit" button it wouldn't really help at all. When you're getting out of a really horrid relationship the idea might sound very desirable, but then again so does murder. There's just one major problem with the concept. People will have never learnt from the lessons of their past relationships. Barring extremes, people are everything that they are because of all the loss they went through during their relationship/s, besides other important life-realted experiences.

Therefore if relationships had a "quit" button, I'd rather it be saying...

"404 ERROR
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson"

And it would be as easy as that.



p.s: The author is all for real-life relationships, because she lives in the "real world".