tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81924426004260386522011-08-03T17:59:45.422-07:00Vineetahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139506070196457400noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192442600426038652.post-72703023399258504552010-03-11T02:37:00.000-08:002010-03-11T02:57:43.027-08:00

I always wanted to blog on wordpress but was dodging the efforts and pain to do so! But finally today.. with lot of time and patience, I moved! Please do not miss to add your comments/suggestions and even brickbats to http://vineetasdiary.wordpress.com/about/The new blog address is http://vineetasdiary.wordpress.com/And hey do not forget to change your blogroll with the new address :)

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Yes! Finally!!I am going to Ahmedabad for a week. And those who know the place, will know why I am soo happy :D :DLeaving you all with some famous guju farsan(snacks) items... I bet you just cant eat once :PUnnn.. No you are not allowed to drool here :) May be later once I am back with more masaledar stories!!!

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I am banned from petting dogs. You know why?? Because Darshit believes that if I get a dog inside our house, I will hardly get time for anything else and dog will replace Darshit !!! Wait! Hold onto your thoughts! It simply means that the pup will become my world with hardly any space left for anyone :PNow what can I say here? Darshit is so very correct! Even I refrain from petting a pup. But

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I discussed in my last post about Young@Heart club. It was an absolute fun to organize our first meetup! The meetup really consisted of young, younger and the youngest with Mr. Prakash who is touching 60 years being the youngest :)The discussion lasted for almost 2.5 hours and was really informative. Mr. Jayant who is an outsourced CFO brought out some really interesting point about how to make

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Volunteers Needed!!I came to Bangalore 6 years back to settle in a job. And since then, I never realized how time flew in a whiff! I always had my hands full of work, fun activities, blogging, outings, movies, celebrations of anything and everything!!May be I never realized how time flew but my support system (my parents) did feel it. They also had their hands full of things but not of their own!

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I never knew that these two terms are mutually exclusive. But few people proved it!!Lately, I happened to notice few incidents which made me averse to such professionals! To maintain anonymity of the persons addressed in this post, I will not mention their names."My friend had to take off from work because his mother was hospitalized. The treatment took more time and so did his absence in

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"Have you heard of the upcoming movie Avatar?!""I am eagerly awaiting this movie!""Yipee.. I am going for the premier show."Yeah I know my friends were kind of all gaga about this movie much before it was released."Blue bodied humanoids with a tail and hoping, flying and romancing in a complete unreal world!!!!" Yes! And these were my thoughts. I always wondered how can a not so appealing

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Before Year-End work in office makes me forget writing, I started off writing this feel good blog! Yes, this blog made me think of all my best days/times in 2009 where I jumped off laughing/enjoying the most. :DThough generally "Best" is only one, but I am bad at choosing only one winner in each category :)So here it goes, and the it has to start with Movies (courtesy Darshit - he even made me a

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I know it is difficult but I will try to write as less as possible here :))I went to Israel with no expectations but returned with heart full of excitement, stories and wonderful memories! See Israel in my words and pics..Israel is a developed country in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. But you need to use magnifying glass to see it on map :))As described, it is

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I enjoyed the Israel trip to the hilt. But some incidents left impressions on my mind! And one of it was during our return flight to India.I was dozing!!! I bet.. You leave me anywhere and I will sleep off! So Darshit was bored as I was not able to give him the much needed company. But then flight journeys are meant for sleeping, atleast I feel so. Dreaming of chat-pati pani puri, all types of

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Huh!!! Yeah I am back after a long, long hiatus. Blame it on my trip to Israel, my house shift, Diwali @ new house with entire family, Darshit's Birthday or Airtel Connection :)) Everything added it's bit to my laziness to write in such agile surroundings! Believe it or not, after experiencing all the above events, the words that come out of my mouth are 'Thank God its India'. One day I and

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Oops! I missed my 25th post! But I am happy that I remembered it on my 26th blog post :)I started blogging long back (though was not active previously) but it feels like I started it y'day. Initially I had lot of inhibitions to start this blog! To put it in simple words, I was very lazy (I am sure my friends will be nodding heavily on this)!! But then, I thought a lot.....And then Darshit and few

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'Pati, Patni aur Woh' trailer flashed on our TV in the evening with Rakhi Savant and Elesh also part of it. I grinned when instantly I heard a 'thup' sound. Darshit thumped his head! He was upset. Not because I watch such serials but because of people like me, the serials' TRPs increase! He used to crib on seeing me watch 'Rakhi ka swayamvar' show. But its not that I liked the show or Rakhi (no

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"Oh God, I hope I get through the traffic fast today!!" This thought comes to my mind daily before leaving for office. I am sure that you all would agree that even you do not want to get stuck in traffic.. be it a traffic signal!But that day, I felt otherwise!! It was an usual day when I started for office in the morning. Even after lot of praying for smooth traffic, I was stuck in traffic @ the

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This came as a suggestion from Darshit and quite a few friends that I should create a space for my paintings on the blog. And obviously I really liked the idea :) So here are few of my paintings which are still with me! (I moved to Bangalore after marriage and so do not have all right now).And a special thanks to Sagar who showed me the Diversity@SAP contest where I could submit one of my

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I was tagged by Prashant (http://prashansapuranik.blogspot.com/). Oh God.. I thoroughly enjoyed it! First time I hated my name initial. God.. I was not able to find any word starting with V except my name! Hehehehe!!Before starting.. lets see the tag rules.Tag Rules: It’s harder than it looks!(Mind It). Copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag your friends. Use the first

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We celebrated June 5th as Environment Day. And I was quite satisfied by planting few trees in the suburb of bangalore until I saw today's news! Delhi air pollution reaching "emergency" limits!! My mouth was wide open! How?!! It was just above normal few months or may be few years back! Do I remember this? Obviously not. I have so many other things to do. I was so ignorant!! So are you. And this

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Today I was carless. It was quite unusual as I am now addicted to self-driving to office. But the car needed service badly. So today, Darshit planned to drop me half way in car and then drop the car to service station. As planned we started on our way to our respective offices (my office is further down...). I decided to get down at Marathahalli and then take public transport to office. As soon

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Pictionary.. I am sure those who have played it will smile at the very mention of the name! I never knew that I will start liking the game sooo much! Me and darshit have tried our hands on many board games including Scrabble, Chess, Mastermind, and some we do not even remember now! And I never laughed like mad in any of these games. But Pictionary is different. If there is nothing so funny about

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Parkinson's Law says "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." A little twist from my side, I say "Work shrinks so as to fit the time left for its completion." You agree? Ofcourse! And by this time you must be even nodding if you are a software engineer :POk... I know you are now wondering! Why am I comparing my derivation of Parkinson's law with CommonWealth Games 2010

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The message is loud and clear. This budget is essentially a rural development-oriented budget. To make it very clear, it is NOT ONLY rural development oriented. It is an attempt to marginalize the rural-urban divide in India. Atleast I feel so. Do you wonder why?There is a special focus this time to make sure that Bharat as a whole progresses towards a developed country and not only the

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I am happy to share the story which I have submitted to CNN-IBN as IBN Citizen Journalist. The photos that I submitted are now added in the IBN CJ column. You can find in IBN CJ link.http://cj.ibnlive.in.com/slideshow4202.htmlI am awaiting the response on the story. I hope, I wish, I can find some answers through this channel. "I am one of those lacs of commuters in Bangalore who is witness to

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Whoosh! What a hangover that I am lying on the bed with all my spare parts loose and aching!! hahaha..!As usual we had been planning a day out with family for almost a month and it finally got materialized this weekend! We all were very excited including my 1 year old niece :-D. We planned to go to some far off resort in Bangalore to spend full day away from the pending list of tasks which

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This is in continuation to post Flavors of Life - IFamilyTears in their eyes, before I could crySmile on their face, when I win the racePain in their heart, when I fall apartToiled in their lives, to see me flyingHere came the day, I flew high in the skyjust to realize there is no life at those heights!I was happy to stall, to finally see them all.Here is the day..Tears in my eyes, before they

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Multiple bombs exploded in two Pakistani cities on Thursday, May 28 2009, just hours after Taliban groups warned people to evacuate several large cities, saying they were preparing “major attacks.” Hakimullah Mehsud, a young Taliban commander said "This was a response to Pakistan’s military campaign against the Taliban in Swat, an area northwest of the capital." I am sure that you would have

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Last weekend my youngest niece Ashu (Tvisha) turned 1 year old and we all had blast including her. Though intially I had doubts whether she will be able to enjoy her birthday party but I was wrong. She was the center of attraction and was enjoying every bit of it ;-) We had magic show, kids games, more hangama with cake cutting followed by dinner! It reminded me of my birthday celebrations as a

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The title is very apt in this scenario. I must concede in this article that I was not expecting India to perform so well in elections! May 16th, Sunday, I was very happy, the day when the election results were announced. Reason - I felt a connectedness with all my fellow Indians. I had this strange feeling that India thinks how I think!! Wow! The international media called it the world's most

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This came as a very pleasant surprise!! It all started when my brother once jokingly asked me "Are there any awards for blogs?" And that is when darshit came in full mood to nominate our blog for the award. Had this question been not asked, I dont think so I would have written this article!So we started off by nomiating our blog on Blog of the day site. We later came to know that even nominations

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Just an attempt to keep the anger alive.Mumbai, Nov 26, 2008: Several killed and many more injured in seven terror attacks targetting mostly foreigners' hangout places.New Delhi, Sep 13, 2008: 26 people killed in six blasts across the city.Ahmedabad, July 26, 2008: 57 people killed after 20-odd synchronised bombs went off within less than two hours.Bangalore, July 25, 2008: One person killed in a

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The fourth phase of polling for the Lok Sabha elections ended yesterday. Voter turnout was better for this phase four of Lok Sabha elections, as 57 per cent electorates casted their votes. But if you average out the voter turnout.. it will not cross more than 50% so far! Still the fifth phase of elections are pending on 13th of May but I doubt it will have any effect on our average percentage..

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Just the mention of summer vacation makes any child jump with happiness! I used to go mad in my childhood with the onset of summer vacation. No school, completely free like a bird.. free to do anything without any kind of interruption from the parents!Ah! It used to be such a fun..!!!! Remembering our childhood, me and darshit decided to get the feel of summer vacation again! We both joined a

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It was my birthday and obviously I was so so happy on my day! I got up really early on that day. I am anyways a morning person but Darshit is nocturnal!It was a holiday so I had enough time to dream and plan the rest of the day. As I started my day.. I started getting calls from all of my friends and family except wishes from darshit as he was dreaming and was fast asleep. Slowly my anger started

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It will not be false to call sunsets/sunrises as surreal! You actually feel dream like to see sunsets or sunrises. Me and darshit have always tried to catch the various poses of sun in the sky. Sunsets when sun tries to shy away from us.. leaving red/orange hues in the sky.. or sun rises where sun gets up and shakes hand with us when most of us are fast asleep! I am just trying to place all such

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Are you human? If you are.. you will definitely ponder over after reading this blog! I am that common man who is observing the society changing with times and also changing with it! And this article just shows what I saw and feels what I felt. I came to Bangalore 5 years back. I instantly fell in love with this city.. so green and peaceful. If I can say it was peaceful 5 years back.. I am sure

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Painting is something which connects me to my inner self...! The fulfillment that I get on completing a painting is just beyond words.I am showing here two of my paintings which I like a lot.1) A kind gestureA colorful gesture which blends to form a painting and depicts the beauty in brush strokes!2) A sketchy imaginationIt shows an imagination of a lover who wants to find his love in a haunted

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My first trip to United States came as a surprise (not so pleasant) to me as I had to travel from office just a month after my marriage and that too for 3 months!!!Taking the change in our stride, we (me and darshit) both started to plan on how to get the best out of this time. And to our amazement it turned out to be an unexpected welcome family break! Yes you heard it right.. a family

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Flavors of life is the series of poems written by me.. depicting various flavors that make life as tasty as it is!This flavor was appreciated in the SAP world talent in the category of writings.HopeWhen songs of heart become difficult to hold,I'm there with hands unfold.When misty eyes get dreary with night's darkness thrown,I am still there in those misty drops unflown.When facts are flagrant to

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