10 reasons why I am thinking of marriage...!!!

1. My parents want me to.

2. I can never get a month's leave even if I am paralysed...marriage will give me access to the really needed long vacation.

3. I donot want to spend money on rent and grocery shopping. Let the guy pay all the bills and I would enjoy my hard earned money.

4. I really need somebody to give me expensive gifts.

5. I want to threaten my boss that I will quit if he asks me to work. (Marriage will give me a backup) ;)

6. Peer pressure I : All my friends are getting married.

7. Peer presssure II : My room mates are also getting married slowly. Staying alone becomes very expensive and unmanageable.

8. I love shopping. Like all other members of the female species, I also love shopping. This pious step would give me a reason to shop practically unlimited stuff.

9. I really want to know how the makeup would look on me.

10. Last but not the least, A companion for life is not a bad idea after all..!!!

P.S. : The reasons mentioned here are in chronological order of preference and importance.

"Shift + Delete"

I am not very good at technology stuff...I mean even the computers agree to this, they tend to slow down or for that matter deny to boot when they see me coming. And I am really serious about this (ppl dont to take me very seriously on certain matters :) ). But one thing I have really learnt from my system is SHIFT+DELETE. Its so cool. You can permanently delete the stuff from the system that you don't want. There isn't any scope for having the undesirable stuff at Recycle Bin.
I am learning to apply the same in real life as well. The thoughts, disasterous moments, bad hair days and ppl's comments on that, painful meetings with the boss, arguments with mom, disagreements with friends and above all, things that make me feel guilty...I am just trying to apply SHIFT+DELETE to certain things and it will never come back to me. It would be a WOW moment if I succeed in that and probably would write a book on the same and that book would become a bestseller....Pollyanna you know...cant stop dreaming..:).
Well the status as of now is that I have been able to apply it to some smaller things and not the sacred and serious ones. Actually, I stilll have to figure out the stuff I need to dump. But whenever I am done with this exercise, would surely share the take aways at this platform (for the privileged few, who dare to read my blog).
Till then ENJOY..!!!

On Confounding Contradictions...

Often people tell me that I have got a very contradictory personality. I am super extrovert at one end and amazingly conservative on the other. I am always accessible most of times and completely out of reach at some other times. Well, if you call these confounding contradictions in my personality, then yes...I agree!!! But after a series of introspection sessions, I realized that these contradictions are not so loud and damaging. In fact, this is what I am composed of, this is what I am so proud of myself...this is ME..!!! This is my secret to happiness.
I can be a complete party person, be the life of a party if required and at the same time, I can be a person who needs to be home, take care of thousands of small and big things forgetting the material joys of life.
I can intimidate the opposite sex to an extent that , he feels disparaged but can be so understanding, loving and submissive that he might think that I have got all the powers of compromise of the world.
I can be somebody who epitomizes feminism and surely enter the so called "only for men" arena with perfection that nobody can ever feel I don't belong there.
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Wanted to continue writing with this list but first review of the post says that this is enough..I should not talk about I, ME, MYSELF to such an extent that people start predicting me or stop reading my blog ;). But being myself and being the way I have described here always keeps me at ease. I can survive with minimum expectations and still enjoy the life at its fullest. I strongly feel that people get bored of themselves or things around them if they live in a bullet point version, people who think they know what they want and how they want to do it. After sometime it tends to become so mechanical that it no more sounds like a LIFE. I do agree that clarity in thoughts and ambitions is required, but the more important question is that how do you "tag" a thought or an individual and for how long can you hold it. Being "contradictory" exposes me to all the aspects and I feel sorted. A 3D movie is always more appreciated than the single dimension pictures..!!!

This all sounds dangerously philosophical..but then its my blog and would write anything I feel about..:)

I am not a spendthrift....But I don't know where my salary goes...!!!

No pun intended. The question is really serious. I have made so many efforts to be calculative in my spending and saving money for the worst (well, the worst is NOW coz the banking industry is going through a turmoil), but all in vain. And people I am really NOT a spendthrift...!!! This fact hit me yesterday when someone told me that I need not be dependent on my salary as I would have saved enough after the 2.5 yrs of hard work (wat..i did put lot of hard work..).

My fixed expenses are 1/3rd of my salary, which I keep aside in the beginning of the month...I don't drink, don't smoke, don't have a great liking for jewelery or expensive clothes, a part of my mobile bill is paid by the company...but still the bank account shows dismal numbers. I really wanted to put down the cost sheet here but decided against it for understandable reasons. I am gonna do this exercise again this time. I am going to account every expense I make so that I can atleast be aware of my outflows. Every single penny needs to be accounted..!!!
GOD, please give me strength to manage my finances...AMEN!!!