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Monthly Archives: March 2009

100 Truths that almost kill u

31 Tuesday Mar 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in tag

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this one is a direct lift from FB… though its long I had fun doing it, gave me my time off from work that I so needed

RULES : everyone tagged has to fill this :). I’m tagging only “a few” people, also some I haven’t tagged earlier for this kind of a *Supremely Important Pastime*…. BUT YOU GOTTA TAG AT LEAST 25 FRIENDS !! Go, flock!

1. Last beverage: Fresh Lime Soda
2. Last phone call: Some official call
3. Last text message: hubby to remind something 🙂
4. Last song you listened to: Rehna Tu has been the only thing played on my list since a long time
5. Last time you cried: yesterday

HAVE YOU EVER…

1. Dated someone twice: Yup
2. Been cheated on? yup
3. Kissed someone & regretted it? not really 😉
4. lost someone special? Yes…
5. Been depressed? yeah… get into that phase pretty often these days
6. Been drunk and threw up? yup

LIST FOUR FAVORITE COLORS:

1.Black
2.white
3.Purple
4.brown

HAVE YOU:

1. Made new friends: Yes, Lots of them
2. Fallen out of love: Yes
3. Laughed until you cried: oh all the time
4. Met someone who changed you: yes yes yes
5. Found out who your true friends were: yes unfortunately had to go thru a bad patch for this but then thats true friendship test so they say
6. Found out someone was talking about you: he i wish 🙂
7. Kissed anyone on your friend’s list: yes but dont u dare ask any more questions here 😉
8. How many people on your friends list do you know in real life: 70% of them
9. How many kids do you want to have: a very naughty boy
10. Do you have any pets: no dying to get a dog
11. Do you want to change your name: no
12. What did you do for your last birthday: went to kerala for a vacation and was doing something i love that day driving 🙂
13. What time did you wake up today: 7:45 am, was not well and ojas was kind enough to let me sleep too
14. What were you doing at midnight last night: reading, tossing in bed to get sleep
15. Name something you CANNOT wait for: LOOSE WEIGHT
16. Last time you saw your father: its beeen soooooo long, last september
17. What one thing d’you wish you could change about your life: TBD
19. Most visited webpage: gmail

PERSONAL

1. What’s your name:Monika
2. Nicknames: way too many…. mona, monu, moni, monik, mon, niki, chinki, monnaca, moti, chandu…. the list is endless
3. Zodiac sign: Leo
5. Male or female or transgendered: lol… do i need to answer this
6. Elementary: LPS
7. School: LPS
8. Colleges: Dyal Singh,DU, IMS, ghaziabad
10. Hair color: black with red highlits which are now turning copper
11. Long or short: mid length
16. Height: 5’4″ and hubby calls me chotu… can someone tell him thats NOT chottu
17. Do you have a crush on someone? naah….
18. Ever been in love? ya been lucky
19. Piercings? three on each ear, had the nose peireced too but closed and now me scared to do it again
20. Tattoos? not yet, but desperate to get one
21. Righty or lefty: Righty.

FIRSTS :

22. First surgery: May 2005
23. First piercing: back when i was still too young to remember
24. First best friends: class 7th friend
26. First sport you loved: does hide and seek count 😉
27. First pet: i made a kid bird pet for 2 days when its mom took her away was heart broken… thats what i remember but mom tells me i used to bring something or the other home all the time
28. First vacation: the one i remember goa with parents and then first independent with friends goa too 🙂
29. First concert: some shool stuff, dance i think
30. First crush: school president 🙂

RIGHT NOW:

49. Eating: a marie biscuit
50. Drinkin: Tea
52. I’m about to: give this up… too many questions
53. Listening to: I told u rehna tu has been the only thing playing
55. Waiting for: the weekend and ya i know its only tuesday sigh

YOUR FUTURE :

58. Want kids? I have one and i happy with the prince
59. Want to get married? again… one marriage is tough to handle man…
60. Careers in mind? Farming, get me out of this stupid strange language called C

WHICH IS BETTER WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX?

68. Lips or eyes: Eyes.
69. Hugs or kisses: ofcourse both
70. Shorter or taller: Tall …
71. Older or Younger: young in the heart baaki doesnt matter
72. Romantic or spontaneous: Spontaneously romantic (stole it from tiku it was too good to delete)
73. Nice stomach or nice arms: Arms on which i can rest 🙂
74. Sensitive or loud: : Sensitive
75. Hook-up or relationship: relatioship
76. Trouble maker or hesitant: what abt a balance

HAVE YOU EVER :

78. Kissed a stranger: na
80. Lost glasses/contacts: so many times
81. Sex on first date: not really though there was a phase where i was a rebel and wanted to do it but alas didnt happen 😉
82. Broken someone’s heart: i am sure i have but not intentionally
83. Had your own heart broken: ya as if there is life without heart break
84. Been arrested: Nopes
86. Turned someone down: ya actually many many times
87. Cried when someone died: Yes i cry easily
88. Liked a friend that is a girl? what is this ques???

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

89. Yourself: completely
90. Miracles: yes
91. Love at first sight: na its not possible… not love lust may be but not love… love grows
92. Heaven: ya its right her around… look at children playing dont u see heaven
93. Santa Clause: yes…
95. Kiss on the first date? may be
96. Angels: yes

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:

97. Is there one person you want to be with right now? yes
98. Had more than one boyfriend/girlfriend at one time? no
100. Posting this as 100 Truths? ya keep guessing

I am not tagging anyone here, have tagged lots of people on FB, if u find this interesting consider urself tagged… just leave a comment would love to read it

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The next leader

30 Monday Mar 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in Feminism

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Feminism, politics

So our dear sanjuy baba strike again… here is his in which he says that Manyata takes decision in the kitchen….

HT: Did your wife convince you to get into politics?

Dutt: Manyataji takes the decisions in the kitchen.. aaj biryani banegi ya phir kabab or chicken. That’s where she rules. In other matters I decide what’s to be done.

so now we will have an MP trying to run some part of the country when all is allowed is to take the decisions in kitchen

I dont know what to get more angry on… the women’s right here or the country’s future????

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Earth Hour

26 Thursday Mar 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in Uncategorized

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causes

This is just a quick post on Earth Hour which is this Saturday, shut your lights between 8:30pm and 9:30 pm… help earth…

Find more info here

Lets do our bit

PS: as my sticky tag (thanks to chirag says, work is slowly falling into place as u guys would have guessed by comments on ur posts that I am slowly catching up… will be back with a full post soon)

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Devil’s Advocate

20 Friday Mar 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in fun

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fun

Now everyone has been taking this quiz, so I thought of doing it too 🙂 and guess the results

I am an ENFP, the advocate, visionary etc wow!!!

Click to view my Personality Profile page

and frankly it doesnt come as an surprise that I am 83% extrovert… I always knew that I am one

“ENFPs are warm, enthusiastic people, typically very bright and full of potential. They live in the world of possibilities, and can become very passionate and excited about things. Their enthusiasm lends them the ability to inspire and motivate others, more so than we see in other types. They can talk their way in or out of anything. They love life, seeing it as a special gift, and strive to make the most out of it.”

This is where u can read more about ENFP’s

and then coming to Multiple Intelligences, I am 80% of Naturalist

and this is what it means
The Naturalist intelligence has to do with how we relate to our surroundings and where we fit into it. People with Naturalist intelligence have a sensitivity to and appreciation for nature. They are gifted at nurturing and growing things as well as the ability to care for and interact with animals. They can easily distinguish patterns in nature.

Note that this intelligence is the newest added to the theory of Multiple Intelligences and is often criticized as being an interest rather than an intelligence

lol my intelligence is more of a interest 😉

and one thing common about all the above is that i am a leader, I need to head my company…. guys in my organisation, R u listening 😉

PS: things are still very busy catching up on all ur blogs slowly

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Drowned

18 Wednesday Mar 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in personal

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personal

In work… hope to be back very soon

and ya in sweat too… never seen blore so hot…

I want my blore back… wawwww *wails*

and I want my life back too *wails harder and throws a tantrum too*

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Sabudana Khichdi

16 Monday Mar 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in recipe

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recipe



did the above pictures make u drool? If not then sob sob for me and u can miss the rest of the post… else read the rec down

Ingredients
1.5 cup sagu/sabudana
1 large onion chopped
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp jeera
2-3 dry red chillies
3 green chillies chopped
2 tbsp peanuts
handful of curry leaves
coriander for garnishing
salt to taste

Method
1. wash and soak the sagu for 10-15 mins
2. roast the peanuts and grind them coarsely
3. heat oil add mustard seeds.
4. after they splutter add jeera
5. add chilies and onion and fry till golden brown
6. add the curry leaves and fry for 1 min
7. add salt and then add the sagu and peanut
8. cook till done
9. garnish with coriander and enjoy

some people also veggies in this but somehow i like it this way

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What the F^&&?

15 Sunday Mar 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in personal

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what are u supposed to do when u are standing outside a department store with ur son and a lady comes up to u smiles at ur son… ur son the darling that he is gives the biggest possible smile back…

and then this is the conversation that follow:
Lady : hi baby
Ojas : biggest smile again
Lady : does he speak
me : not really
Lady : not even mamma dada
me : no
Lady : how old is he, 1 year?
me : (wants to say why are u bothering with a ques when u have an answer already but alas) 15 months
Lady : (looks at ojas from up to down) of but he is really really small
me : hmmmm
Lady : and he doesnt even speak…..
me : thanks god that N arrived with the car and we moved on

but what the f@## is this??? why cant people mind there own business… has no one ever taught them not to say nasty things to people specially strangers…

I am pissed beyond measure not because she said all these nasty things abt Ojas but because its my life, my son and she has no reason to do this

I know there are tons of these guys around, how do u deal with them?

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The Colors are back

12 Thursday Mar 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in personal

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personal

So thanks to everyone who poured advise and hugs… we are back to normal now.. being love birds as Surubhi says…

And thanks P and V for providing the ice breaker… both of u know what I mean 🙂

So I leave u with some lovely colors as seen in my colony…blore is at best during this time…



PS: the pics are not taken by me, they are taken by fellow colony members… thanks to them

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The Missing colors

11 Wednesday Mar 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in personal

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festivals, personal

PS: personal rants here

This holi the colors seem to be missing from my life.. Me and N fought on Sunday evening… now obviously its not the first time in last 5 yrs that we have fought, we keep doing that all the time… infact I strongly believe that little fights are neccessary for marriage… they keep relationship sane…

But this time its been different… we fought on sunday and its been 3 days we havent spoken to each other… and now this is surely happening for the first time in 5 yrs… usually we make sure if we fight we dont sleep over it… but this time I am wondering whats coming inbetween… whats stopping us, why are our egos becoming bigger than the relation???

The issue is not at all something big but still both of us are hanging on to it…

Though holi is not really celebrated in blore but every year we make sure we do something on it… collect some friends and play but this year owing to the ego both of us planned nothing… the result he has gone to work and i am sulking at home and blogging… may be I should it take it as a cue and think that god wanted me to play holi differently this year as suggested here and here

Anyways hope things will settle down soon… till than u guys have a happy holi…

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My Love Affair

10 Tuesday Mar 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in personal

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music, personal

before u get ideas, I am talking about my love affair with Delhi… I have been born and brought up in Delhi and as everyone else who has been to the city I am a hardcore delhite…. loved it to bits with its faults

and each time I listen to Delhi 6 songs my heart aches for delhi… I miss it so much… specially Rehna tu and yeh delli hai mere yaar…. I think I am going to make a trip home soon… very soon

here are the lyrics

Rehna tu

Rehna tu hai jaisa tu,
Thoda sa dard tu, thoda sukoon,
Rehna tu hai jaisa tu,
Dheema dheema jhonkha,
Ya fir junoon,
Thoda sa resham tu humdum,
Thoda sa khurdura,
Kabhi to add jaaye ya lad jaaye,
Ya khushbu se bhara,
Tujhe badalna naa chahu,
Ratti bhar bhi sanam,
Bina sawajat, milawat,
Naa zyada naa hi kam,
Tujhe chahun jaisa hai tu,
Mujhe teri baarish mein bheegna hai, ghuljaana hai,
Tujhe chahun jaisa hai tu,
Mujhe teri lapat mein jalna, raakh ho jaana hai..

Tu zakhm de agar,
Marham bhi aake tu lagaye,
Zakhm pe bhi mujhko pyaar aaye,
Dariyaa o dariyaa,
Doobne de mujhe dariyaa,
Doobne de mujhe dariyaa,
Rehna tu hai jaisa tu,
Thoda sa dard tu, thoda sukoon,
Rehna tu hai jaisa tu,
Dheema dheema jhonkha,
Ya fir junoon…

Haath thaam chalna ho,
To dono ke daaye haath sang kaise,
Haath thaam chalna ho,
To dono ke daaye haath sang kaise,
Ek daaya hoga, ek baaya hoga,
Thaam le haath yeh thaam le,
Chalna hai sang thaam le..

Rehna tu hai jaisa tu,
Thoda sa dard tu, thoda sukoon,
Rehna tu hai jaisa tu,
Dheema dheema jhonkha,
Ya fir junoon,
Thoda sa resham tu humdum,
Thoda sa khurdura,
Kabhi to add jaaye ya lad jaaye,
Ya khushbu se bhara,
Tujhe badalna naa chahu,
Ratti bhar bhi sanam,
Bina sawajat, milawat,
Naa zyada naa hi kam,
Tujhe chahun jaisa hai tu,
Mujhe teri baarish mein bheegna hai, ghuljaana hai
Tujhe chahun jaisa hai tu,
Mujhe teri lapat mein jalna, raakh ho jaana hai..

Yeh dilli hai mere yaar

eh Dilli Hai Mere Yaar, Bas Ishq Mohabbat Pyaar
(Basti Hai Mastano Ki Dilli Dilli, Gali Hai Deewano Ki Dilli 6) – 2
{Rap}
Bolo Bolo Milo Se Dilli Dilli, Bolo Bolo Milo Se Dilli 6
Basti Hai Mastano Ki Dilli Dilli, Gali Hai Deewano Ki Dilli 6

[ Delhi 6 (Yeh Dilli Hai) Song Lyrics @ http://www.hindilyrix.com ]

Bada Kas Ke Gale Lagata Hai, Dhadkan Ki Dhoom Sunata Hai
Iske Baye Taraf Bhi Dil Hai, Iske Daye Taraf Bhi Dil Hai
Yeh Sehar Nahi Mehfil Hai (Yeh Sehar Nahi Mehfil Hai)
Yeh Dilli Hai Mere Yaar, Bas Ishq Mohabbat Pyaar
Delhi 6 Delhi, Delhi 6 Delhi
(Kabhi Pyaar Mein Gali Dekha Hai
Kabhi Gali Mein Pyaar Bhi Hota Hai Apni) – 2
Ankhon Ki Tara Bhi Yahan Pyaar Mein Bilkul Khota Hai

Bolo Bolo Milo Se Dilli Dilli, Bolo Bolo Milo Se Dilli 6
Basti Hai Mastano Ki Dilli Dilli, Gali Hai Deewano Ki Dilli 6
{Rap}
(Yeh Delhi Hai, Yeh Delhi Hai, Yeh Delhi Hai Mere Yaar) – 4
(Yeh Dilli Hai Mere Yaar, Delhi 6 Delhi
Bas Ishq Mohabbat Pyaar, Delhi 6 Delhi) – 2
(Basti Hai Mastano Ki Dilli Dilli, Gali Hai Deewano Ki Dilli 6) – 2
(Yeh Delhi Hai Mere Yaar, Bas Ishq Mohabbat Pyaar) – 2

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