Postcard moments!

 A 9 day holiday packed with delayed/missing flights, lost luggage (yes! I tell you, we had enough for 9 days), wedding, birthday, dancing barefoot, getting drunk, getting lost, knocking on wrong door, dragged into situations where you know you will get fooled and still afford to get cheated, taking the wrong train, tongue twister names, cathedrals, church bells, random yet perfectly aligned trees, Tulips just out of the desktop wallpaper, walking in rain, cycling, boat rides, long coats, Street art, Graffiti, critiquing Indian food in a European country, every other person licking an ice-cream in 10 degrees of temperature! and lots more. I can go on and on, but I will let the pictures do the talking now! Everything, everywhere around was a postcard moment!

Hamburg is like watching an Enid Blyton story live in motion! Berlin, a true example of triumph over an agitated historic past. Lively, full of art and dynamic, difficult to have enough of both in just 9 days. These are just some selected Hamburg pictures :)

It's weekend, lets go on our own boat ride! Wow, what fun....

I wonder, who punished you??

I can picture myself sitting there sipping my morning cup of tea among the tulips....

Can't stop clickting trees, can have an entire album of them! Beautiful.....

I don't know what kind of trees were these but who cares, they are pretty!

By somebody like me, who loved Tea :)

A pretty little harbor city

I just could not get over with clicking trees...

A rainbow in a waterfall, unusual!

World Wide Famous

Well I know I am blogging like after a month and I am really guilty about it, but I am too delighted and excited about sharing something else right now that being guilty can wait for sometime!

Well the story goes like this, I got a mail from Dinah - Editor of 72M magazine few months back saying that she came across my blog and would like my interview to be published in their magazine's 'World Wise Women' section. For a minute I thought somebody is playing a prank, Me and World Wise Women!! Still makes me giggle.
Reading the title itself and thinking I am going to be feature in it suddenly made me wise enough to grab the opportunity, anyways a fool would question it! Thanks once again 72M and its your anniversary issue, makes me feel even more special :)
Click on the image below to read the interview. Turn to Page no 40 if it doesn't open the particular page.
 

The Act of Staring

STARING - Wikipedia defines it as 'A prolonged gaze or fixed look.' But how prolonged is prolonged? Who decides? Obviously the person who is staring, the person who is stared upon has no control on it other than ignoring him/her or going up to that person and creating a scene (which can't be done with every 3rd person). The problem is the people who stare neither know the meaning of Prolonged nor Staring.

I think there can be 5 reasons to it,
1) It's their favorite pastime
2) Staring is the only thing worth looking forward to in a day
3) Every person they see walking past them is an alien coming from a different planet
4) I who is stared upon is the most weird looking person around (which I don't think I am)
5) I am a look alike of Aishwarya Rai (Indian film actress) which again I am not!
Unfortunately there are no rules or fines attached to the Act of Staring. The way free advice is an uninvited guest same is the case with Staring.

Everybody faces this and we take the safe way out of Ignoring, but sometimes it gets so annoying that it makes me wonder if there's any solution to it! I remember an incident where I and my friend were at a railway station to book tickets and as usual some random guy was staring us. My friend got annoyed and started staring back at him, after a minute or two the guy got uncomfortable and left. I can never do that, wish I could but I don't think it would work with everybody, you never know they might take the staring back as a sign of approval considering there are all kinds of people in this world!

I will still follow the rule of Ignoring till one day I really end up going to the person and asking 'Hello, what's wrong? never seen a Women before?'

The Editor picked Me!

Yesterday was a day of Surprises! It was a friends birthday so we planned a surprise to surprise her by getting a cake and hiding ourseleves in her balcony before she comes home! 

I got a gift, which was on the list from a long time but surprisingly Raghu got it for me yesterday :) and last but not the least, I know thats the most lame way of saying something that made me so happy but who said I am a good writer, I never claimed it! :P So coming back to the point...

I got featured on bloggers.com as the Editor's Pick of The Day! and obviously I am overwhelmed!!

Thank you Bloggers, Editor of Bloggers and all of them who have been commenting, voting and reviewing my blog there! :)