IDIOT PROOF YOURSELF!

Hmm not sure if this logic has been shared out there already but I would like to coin this as the mantra for modern life meditation and happy living!

So let me explain, fine Monday morning you wake on time, get dressed, have a quick breakfast and head out to work, your ever so quite co-worker jumps at you and says so how come you are late? Hmm 8:30 am entrance in a quite office is late? NOW DO NOT LET YOUR MIND even go in the direction of making yourself feel guilty about ANYTHING do not reply back with a smirk or anything, smile sweetly and ignore! It definitely takes courage to not ick and not sternly reply back but ohh well you know what it will spoil your mood, it does not reflect badly on your personality but it will definitely make you feel good and strong.

Now there is a fine line between speaking up for yourself and IGNORING!

The Power of " GOOD FOR YOU"
Me: I haven't checked my Gmail yet..
So called Friend: How come you reply within seconds on Facebook and you haven't checked your email since last week!
Me: I think I receive FB notifications on my phone
So Called Friend: Huh! I'd rather pull information than have FB PUSH information to me!
My BRAIN : Pause "shall I punch him" "WTF It's my life, my phone, My FB account, my GMAIL account, MY WISH" WTH... Pause
Me: Ahem .. GOOD FOR YOU!

:)

Dang It I am getting better at this game -- so use the power of smile and well "GOOD FOR YOU" .. it helps keep your weather with you! :) Happy Sunshine!

"PUNNI" My Life's SYMPHONY! :)

"Love You Like A Love Song" 

It's been said and done
Every beautiful thought's been already sung
And I guess right now here's another one
So your melody will play on and on, with the best of 'em
You are beautiful, like a dream come alive, incredible
A sinful, miracle, lyrical
You've saved my life again
And I want you to know baby

I, I love you like a love song, baby
I, I love you like a love song, baby
I, I love you like a love song, baby

And I keep hitting re-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat

I, I love you like a love song, baby
I, I love you like a love song, baby
I, I love you like a love song, baby

And I keep hitting re-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat


Constantly, boy you played through my mind like a symphony
There's no way to describe what you do to me
You just do to me, what you do
And it feels like I've been rescued
I've been set free
I am hypnotized by your destiny
You are magical, lyrical, beautiful
You are... And I want you to know baby


I, I love you like a love song, baby
I, I love you like a love song, baby
I, I love you like a love song, baby

And I keep hitting re-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat

I, I love you like a (love song baby) love song, baby
I, I love you like a (love song baby) love song, baby
I, I love you (I love you, I love you) like a love song, baby

And I keep hitting re-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat (like a love song)


No one compares
You stand alone, to every record I own
Music to my heart that's what you are
A song that goes on and on


I, I love you like a love song, baby
I, I love you like a love song, baby
I, I love you like a love song, baby

And I keep hitting re-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat

I, I love you like a love song, baby
I, I love you like a love song, baby
I, I love you like a love song, baby

I love you...like a love song...

Geeta Saar

Sri Bhagwad Geeta


Chapter 8 Verse 12


One having restrained all the doors of senses while fixing the mind on the heart and keeping his subsistence in his mind, remaining steady in Yoga and while uttering the syllable OM remembers me, attains the Supreme State when he departs from his body.

Pheww who said it's gonna be easy!!! I thought it was gonna be fun but ohh well ... you gotta make it fun right! Maybe that is the challenge!

The Healthy Living Plan 2012

All my GOALS for first half of the year seem to be FAILED :( -


Resetting them for the next 2 quarters 

• July 17th to July 26th Master Cleanse and jump start the diet..! Hope to lose up to 8 pounds.
• July 27th to August 3rd - P.I.N.K Methods initial phase diet - Smoothie + Protein ( maintain and lose up to total of at least 12 pounds) (Goal - 125 pounds)
• August 17th to Continue PHASE 1 PINK Method 3 months ...! Swimming?
• September - Mud Race/Warrior dash/Zion/Grand Canyon (Goal 120 pounds)
• October first week - Join Jazzercise or DANCE Group! :) (Goal 115 pounds)

Do Sweet 16 Monday's too! Om Namah Shivayeh!

Lord help me through this please - I need all this to get my confidence back!

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January 16th to January 26th Master Cleanse and jump start the diet..! Hope to lose up to 8 pounds.
January 27th to February 3rd - P.I.N.K Methods initial phase diet - Smoothie + Protein ( maintain and lose up to total of at least 12 pounds) (Goal - 125 pounds)
February 17th to Continue PHASE 1 PINK Method --> 3 months ...!
April - Mud Race (Goal 120 pounds)
May first week - Join Jazzercise! :) (Goal 115 pounds)

Ambiguous Times...

Not sure if it is mid-life crisis or a disease - but it sure feels like both!!! Since I am now on the wrong side of 25 - the world is different - everything I like and want to do - is what an amateur girl would die for and everything I should like and am expected to do - well' I'm not there yet.

From expressions to feelings to reactions and thoughts... i feel torn between what I had in the past and what the future may behold. Does everyone really already know what they want from their future? 5 years down the lane? 10 years from today??? Hell .. I don't think I know what I want from today. ... I have been going with the flow and wait for life to happen to me - but hmm maybe not .. something amazing, something out of the world, something awe striking... none of that has happened since I don't know when ..!

I know like every girl - I think the world rotates around me and that's how it is always supposed to be - but I took a break, waited for things to happened on their own and not make them rotate just because nothing I wanted them do...!

So here I am again - shifting gears where I want to look at things I can do make me awe struck - but it is again like PLAN, TAKE EFFORT, STEP UP! Is this what life is about?
Was it not supposed to be like the ROLLER COASTER - which runs on it own?
Were there not supposed to be the waves which keep rushing towards the store and bring new things?
Who switched off my roller coaster, what happened to the tides?

I have been ready to ride, ready to fly, ready to run, ready to jump off - where did the spark go?

When will life happen to me - again?

Bandar ka naach!

It's interesting to see how a group of deniably ethical people turn into liars and adjust their thoughts as a person with higher title comes in with a request - Ohh Yes we can do that - who said NO! until last year we were just fooling around since we believed something else but ohh well since you are here now - we can totally readjust to believe in what we negated until now - and are more than happy to get you up and engaged! WOOT WOOT!

Back to LIFE!

We moved back to LA Downtown this weekend! One hectic back breaking effort - I had not realized that we collect so much! I guess we are fond of everything we have and cherish each and every lil thing! Not sure if its good or bad but definitely contributes to making everything HEAVY! :p

So after long 24 hours of packing, shifting, wrapping, bundling, moving, carrying, bending, jumping, shrieking - we got everything stuffed into our almost 3/4 size new LA downtown apartment. Now I could keep rambling about how small it is or appreciate the fact that it is in an amazingly friendly neighborhood - not scary at all - atleast it doesn't seem to be , has dedicated parking - is just 1.5 miles off the 101 lifeline, and is super affordable for the next one year of our student journey :) So Yay - plus it gives me time to rethink and re-analyze where I want to be with my stagnant career and gym routine! Grr! More on that later - but to tell ya the gist of the story - I totally love the fact that every happening thing is close to us now - we won't have to go looking for things to do over the weekends - just jump right of your apartment and there is life all around!

Oooohh and did I tell ya our apartment at the 2nd floor has a VIEW! :D We can see the top of LA Live Ritz Carlton, US Bank and a couple of other high downtown buildings! Hehe isn't that kinda cute! It's almost like - yay we are right there! And that's what I like - we strive for our goal and we keep getting near - and then we target something even better! It's been the zest of SimPunni's story! :)

Today is Monday - and I got up at 5:00 am - was out on the road at 5:30 and parked at my office in mere 45 mins! Now that's NOT BAD AT ALL! I could get used to this!

HAPPY MONDAY everyone! Yay .. to new life ... it's a "present" :)!

Free yourself off the worldly sorrows...

Know yourself without them....

Without surging sorrows in your self..

Surge Joy

Surge Confidence....

This is your DUTY!

~Holy Bhagwad Gita~

The 18 Mile Hike!

Dang we have a knack to kick ourselves bad - the pain and soreness even after 2 days of the grueling act of HIKING through the Big Sycamore Canyon!

Just another economic lesson from Lord Krishna!!

Income => Output !!
Take care of the income and the output will happen!! - Say's Law Classical Model 1770s
Sounds familiar right ??
"Karam kiye Jaa Fal ki iccha na kar Aye Insaan" ~ Holy Geeta, Lord Krishna

:) Just a positive healthy reminder of living the classical high thinking modest living life ! :)

Fight On!!!!

Difficult Times...!!

Low mood
Bad at work
Too much workload, no recognition, undecided management, pending tasks
Pending life together
Just not happy with where we are stuck since last year ..!! 😣😢😣😢

Just hanging in there ... just there !

March is here!!!

The month to catch up on awesomeness outside work life!! But continue efforts to make life better - Punni to continue with his MBA efforts n me to continue networking & ITIL BA work :)
Tini is gonna be here for the first week and I hope to have our lil apt ready for homely comfort - all clean and fuzzy today - before Punni gets back by 7 pm tonight :)
High activity in life - work , studies n fun ! So exercise/workouts take a back seat! Hopefully will be able to get back into the jig soon!!
As soon as i get off the silly huge BooT - yupI still have it ON - after 3 months ! Praying to get it off on Monday!

GOD hates ambitious people ...!!!

He likes to play and sit back and watch the ambitious guy react and work his way through!!!

The Epic Month of February 2012!!

DAMNN Man whatta month of FEBRUARY -- 3rd February to 15th February - NON STOP FUN!!! OMG!! It has been one heck of a drunk and party rollercoaster!! From Punni's surprise BIKE Ride to suppa talli WINE TASTING in SOLVANG and then the BOOM BANG show of CANCUN!!

OMG OMG OMG! How can you not just love the place where you walk to the Bar and the cute Bartender sings " I'm Sexy and I know it ...!" for you ehh!!

Love and cherish each and every moment of Talli-ness and Naugthy-ness and HORNY-ness with Punni!! Hehe It's awesome to see him have fun in his own way! :D

Top it off - We ate like PIGs- Room Service after Room Service and Cocktails after Cocktails - OMG not to forget the TeQuilla! ;) The amazing restaurants of LIVE AQUA! We gonna go back there asap or ohh well- just stay there forever n ever! :)

I think I found my Hairdresser!!

Yay After freakin 4 years of hunting to get someone to do me a good haircut - I found her!!! Nate from Allen Edwards! OMG she did not even need me to give her my color choice ! She just knew! The haircut is perfect layers with perfect length of bangs! Perfect partial highlights - d best I have got till date!!

Today seems to be my lucky day....!!

February is here ...!!! 

The lucky month and the awaited lucky day after a long struggle - here I take time to say THANK YOU to my GOD - I believe in the eternal forces which make things happen! It has been almost 3 months straight, brimming with obstacles, struggle, hard work and exhaustion and today was a relief - I saw fruits of my hard work and it definitely lightens up the HOPE in my heart  -- let's pray and hope the luck and good wishes keep flowing the way they have started today ...!

• Manager gave Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
• Passport News
• 90% SLA Adherence --> Closure SLA
• Prashant Rao Link up :)

Fal ki ichcha mat kar ae insaan -- easy to say - really difficult to follow .. aur jab fal mile tab kya kar? the unanswered fathom!!

When we have friction working with team members with different motives

To maintain my professional sweetness and to be officially mean -- " I don't say anything - I just SMILE in a very Expressive way!!!


Not sure if its Right or Wrong , Politically correct or Not ! But ohh well the experiments are On!!

A picture is worth a million words ..!

And every picture is like a puzzle --- integrated lil pieces carrying meaning, feelings , love n emotion come together to show the ultimate happy smiling faces , sunlit laughter and joyous moments of life! Treasure every lil piece - good or bad - remember the final picture is gonna be BreathTaking 🌹☺🌹

SimPunni Rock!!!

My sweetheart spent an hour at a Gym he hates 'coz he agreed to come along as it was my day out exercising after almost 4 months!!!
❤❤❤I love love love my Punni ❤❤❤

Indian Blessings ...!

Knock on the wood .. coz I love my family .. and my extended Family! I have two super caring Moms, two awesome Dads and wonderful elder Bro-in-law, Sis-in-law, Niece & Nephew, superbly bubbly lil sis .!! And I adore them all! :)

We celebrated our first Karwah at home and with family .. first Diwali  "The Festival of Lights" at home...! Christmas back in LA on the boat and with friends, New Years -- at an amazing mex-american fusion beach front restaurant Tantalum!!

Looking forward to one heck of an amazing 5 Nights Honeymoon at Cancun Aqua Live now... cannot wait to be there!
Yay!

Year after year...

When conditions set the boundaries of your life, when the path forward needs to be navigated through the restrictions of "If's" & "But's", when you thought you could have gotten more and want to get more out of where you are now and quick "But" somehow its not the best move to disrupt all that you have settled in for after years of struggle for stabilization.

2012 will be the year where we cross boundaries, travel, accomplish, move towards stronger foundation of our future life, hop on more adventures, capture amazing moments and live on forever!

For the forever blossoming dreams ... Cheers!

On the Elliptical with a Broken Toe!

It's been staggering 5 weeks now that I have been dragging my left foot around all of California!
My Love for HIKING is still not gonna die - I am still gonna be walking and running and hiking and sprinting .. running obstacle races and hiking the Grand Canyon!

Being active is another reason - but doing something good for yourself is what keeps the light of HOPE alight!
It's January of 2012 and I have registered for my Economics classes at the Moorpark College - FINALLY !! I am getting better and stable with the TOE again - thus today was my first day of 30 minutes on the elliptical! Yay! I did start sweating quite early this time - but considering the gap in my gym routine I think I did pretty good on the DAY 1 of getting back into shape plan!

Last Year 2011 - started with a big bang with perfect shape, perfect mood and lovely married life - slightly going down on just the SHAPE side - I have gained back my troublesome 10 pounds.

Ohh well here we go again - we are ON and this is a WAR .. ! DAY 1 Conquered.... I need to end this DETOX diet with a happy and 100% successful note!

Please stay there and support me Lord! :)