of freaky fridays and sexy saturdays !!

hello !!

how is your sunday brunch going on guys ?

but tell me what exactly is it about weekends, people?

weekends are supposed to be the best thing - lazy mornings, , lolling around in bed, sumptuous brunches, back to back episodes of ur fav serial or movies, shopping at ur fav stores(strictly for women), gossip and lunch with your gang of girls (women again), beers, backslappin, swear-tences and pizza (tandoori chicken, if its indian men :P) sessions for men, eating out and great parties........ heaven, right !!

in your dreams girl !!

for most of us and i am excluding the single, happening girls in their twenties - their life is one big party anyway, barring the mandatory sob-a-thons......hey i was in twenties too !

yeah so for most of us weekends are like looking at WW photos !! immeasurable suffering !

therez this huge pile of dirty dishes to greet you in the morning...just because you decided to switch off your auto mode n enjoy your one glass of wine or your share of the TV on one night and postponed loading the dishwasher, so much laundry that you can do all your muscle training in a day, putting your house in order that includes picking up items meant to be kept in shelves & not on the over-burdened floor , your weekly run to the grocery store and numerous other errands that only a woman' mind, body and soul  can comprehend and accomplish !!

and if that is not enough, there is always room for some emotional blackmailing from your family or emotional guilt of yours to cook that favorite family meal - b'fast+lunch+dinner in case you happen to be a good cook ! i happen to be the worst hit in this case...blackmail and guilt always visit me together and i chose to cook my way to my man's heart...so there !! one way road only...no backtracking or wishing upon  my lucky stars !

and the icing on the cake happens to be the sweet little innocuous super man bag lying quietly in a corner. you dread opening it because  in your hearts of heart you know there is not even an ounce of energy or inclination left in your bones that can tackle the mammoth task of getting the homework done... of a toddler...in time ! just like they would glue their mouths shut when you tried feeding them healthy food when they were young, that is exactly how it happens when you are teaching your pre-schooler to write alphabets ! they have the capability to put the phrase -at a snail's pace - to shame ! but you are a mommy...you are better than Superman, believe me.  so get cracking !

finally after all this is done, you are able to relax and put up your feet. it doesn't matter if this bliss lasts for just over an hour because its already sunday eve (sat eve for us here ) and the painful task of putting a well rested and full charged up kid to sleep is hanging over your head like a sword. if you are a mom to more than one, trust me lady, you have earned your place in heaven...the real one !

and then while massaging your foot cream in your ever tired limbs at night, you suddenly remember you couldn't go for your meni-pedi/waxing / facial session at the salon...again...just like last week and the week before that. and you form a steely resolve to do it next week, come hail, rain or storm ! and you put in some more foot cream, to compensate ! or pull out your tweezers n pluck those ungainly hair from your eyebrows...like what i did last night !

hey, did anyone ask me about the latest hot spots in town ? darling the ones i knew are probably in the antique listing of the catalog now !

now if any of you is wondering why did i have to take you through my weekend diary... its because i so wanted to write my intro to this blog over the weekend, but... it has simply not happened, yet again !!

and please, don't chide me for all this frivolity when i claimed to be writing about matters close to my heart.

my poor heart...it still weeps over its lost weekends !

so long :)))

Hail the Goddess !

September 25, 2014

Today is an auspicious day. It is the day of the Goddess. For all the Hindus around the world, this is the beginning of 9 days of worshiping the different manifestations of the female deity - as a provider, nurturer, harbinger of good & prosperity, grace, strength, courage and the destroyer of all thats' evil !  we fast and we feast...and we earnestly hope that this feminine source of power and prosperity continues to shower us with her blessings.

 Today is also nothing short of a personal milestone for me. i am writing my first blog post. i know this would elicit a few wry smiles but as they say the biggest battle in life is the one that you fight with yourself and this is exactly what i ve done. to be able to do what i always wanted to do but lacked the courage, conviction, purpose and initiative. but as it so happens in life that you reach a stage where you find yourself cornered, where the only exit is surrendering to the pressure and bide the doings of other......unless you take the bait and bite the bullet. and i am certainly not ready to regret not taking the shot. better late than never, right ? 

and so i always dreamt of my first piece of writing to be my introduction to this world...who m i, what makes me, what i intend to do and what i wish for ! 

but then today happened to be the first day of the Goddess ! and as my blog name suggests, i write about things that touch my heart. and women and their lives are the closest to my heart....their stories, their voice, their victories, their defeat, their joys, their sorrows and everything in between that can only happen in a woman' life ! having being born in a land that worships the Goddess and then goes out and abuses, molests, assaults and victimizes yet another girl/woman.... you cant blame me for my tenacity to the cause. 

but today is not going to be about lamenting the injustice....today is going to be a celebration of the feminine power. and hence i am sharing a few lines that i had written as an ode to all women.

there might be a little bit of confusion as its in Hindi but written in english typo as i have still not mastered the hindi typo on my laptop :) so pardon me this glitch but all of you who can understand it, it would be my privilege !!

Shakti

tu indradhanush si khilti hai

bayar bani beh jaati hai 

ek ithlati balkhati nadiya se iss jeevan maati ko seench jaati hai... 

 thumak thumak teri payal ki run-jhun jab dil pita ka gudgudati hai 

chahak uthta hai ghar ka aangan, aan-baan-shaan tere hone se hi aati hai 

 bandhi piya ki dor, sahmi-sahmi...jab tu raah nayi banati hai 

khil uthte hain har aor suman, dishayen geet tere hi gaati hai 

satrangi sapne liye....tinka tinka jab tu ghar aangan mehkaati hai 

nirmam,nishpran unn etton main jaan tujhi se aati hai 

 maa ban apna ansh jab....tu iss duniya main laati hai 

pyar, tyag, mamta ki moorat tu sthan devo se bhi upar paati hai 

 tu hi shakti, tu hi gauri....tu hi aanapurna hai 

le aaj vachan yeh...ho jaaye jo bhi aastitva nahi tujhe ab apna khona hai 

 jeevan path par mod kayi, kayi baar tera haq chhena hai 

lakshman rekhayen khinchti rahengi khud apne liye bhi to ab jeena hai 

 tu soch nahi, tu rok nahi yeh dharti teri...yeh aasman bhi tera hai 

faila baahein, khul le saanse, har siyaah raat baad....aata bas savera hai !! 

 tu indradhanush si khilti hai...bayar bani beh jaati hai 

ek ithlaati balkhaati nadiya si iss jeevan maati ko seench jaati hai.................!!! 

so long for today. guess my intro would have to wait a little bit more but then again i do not think i would have much explaining to do now....your first words tell a lot about you, dont they :)))

cheers !