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Some time or the other we all live in a world called 'random' and have many thoughts go around inside our little head randomly all over!..For a couple of weeks my state has been that - very hyper - my thoughts/musings or whatever one wants to call them..are neither too big and extended that I could post it on the blog nor are they too small that I could  share on the Facebook as the 'status of my mind right here right now' !!

Some of you might be wondering - why should she first of all have the urge to 'record' it or 'share' it?! ..well, well..I am human and it pinches that people don't know what's on my mind..they have to know!.. We humans don't mind if the other person doesn't care to understand, we mind more when they don't ask us about what is going on in our mind..at least I do...many a times it irritates me when my husband or any 'qualified' member of the family doesn't ask me constantly as to what I think..I am crazy that way, why should I even bother..my thought is mine, I am the only person who can give it the privilage it needs..but again...I am human blah blah..I am insecure in certain ways..we all are insecure about certain things, there are 'levels' of insecurity..that reminds me, Russell Peters in one of his shows was so hilarious..he says everybody is cheap, its just that there are levels..of how cheap one can be..he is 'born hilarious' I must say!! He's so right in every damn thing he says..no wonder he attracts so many critics! And that exactly has been one of my passing random thought this week and that is exactly what is going to be the first point in this post of mine...

1. Its wrong to be frank. That statement is a constant reminder that I should often shut up! I am constantly attracting arguments over the past few days from everybody...and why so, because I am vocalizing what I feel is not right without being diplomatic. Diplomacy has never been my cup of tea and I don't think it will ever be..its not in my blood..my mom is not diplomatic neither are my guardians..everybody who belongs to my 'biological' family tree are not, so how can I inherit such a trait?! Actually its OK to be frank, but the problem we as a family face is - we are all..'abruptly non-diplomatic' , that way we are bad communicators.. nobody knows what one said or is trying to say..they make a very blunt and rude statement and then that's all it is to say.period!! It leads nowhere in nourishing our relationships among ourselves.

2. We all love to shop - my sister and myself perhaps would be the most enthusiastic souls when it comes to shopping. Scorching heat or a heavy downpour, we don't care when its comes to shop something for ourselves and then stuff our respective ever flowing wardrobes! On one such shopping spree, we discovered that - for us the travel part of the shopping experience is what makes it seem like we shopped and had lots of fun.We have all kinds of designer stores, good variety of shops all around our residential colony. But still, we start the engine to drive an hour and go to the city to shop around. We both don't find it worth  getting decked up and going to a shop  which is hardly a couple of kilometers form our house - Does that not feel stupid! It's somehow true!!

I have too many passing thoughts, but too less a patient person I am to type and record like this.But still, will make an effort to post in more of my passing thoughts - who knows one day a 'brilliant thought' may occur from one of these 'passing thoughts' :)

'Glare - Ignorance'

..yes, i think all drivers in Hyderabad are suffering from GIS (glare-ignorance-syndrome) and I say this with an acute headache, worst ever suffered by me, I must say!

Basic question - why are people driving around with high beam lights on?? Its been a month and  a fortnight since I came to Hyderabad after 2 years of long separation from this Deccan land and since then whenever am on road at night I have been wondering about one thing, why is everybody coming from the opposite have their high beam lights on.Its such a strain to the eye and it just makes driving not-so-enjoyable. The traffic police don't insist on such simple measures. So many accidents can be avoided just by ensuring this simple rule.

Forced to turn on my lights onto to high beam is much more worse! My husband tried driving for a while with normal lights on (I must appreciate his zeal to change the traffic opposite)..he was adamant for some time. 'Actions speak louder than words' was his attitude initially..and who said that's not true..yes it is, but in our case it turned out to be an opposite scenario, we had to turn our lights on so that they their own high beam doesn't blind their own vision!

My husband likes to hit the road, he does not mind if its a long drive back home..he loves to drive me around, and I love to sit like a lazy girl and just keep gazing out of the window.But from the time we came here, all I have been doing is cursing the traffic, applying the imaginary breaks on my side or trying to understand the traffic knowledge people here possess. If high beam is bothering me so much you can very well imagine how the traffic must be bothering me.People have become more unruly compared to how they were couple of years back.Patience has diminished to...well its NIL! If I start talking about traffic in detail, then may be its better I start a series or a blog dedicated to 'traffic stories' and probably name it Senseless+Traffic)^Infinity = HELPLESS (Too much of studying - forgive my equation! ) . Believe me or not, I din't yet feel every inch of my sweet Secunderabad/Hyderabad lanes and I totally blame these high beam users for it!!

Anyway, whoever will (ever) read this blog, if you have the habit of using high beam stop it, by God's Hyderabadis grace every road is very well illuminated by shops all around (actually even street lights are functioning well in many areas) and with traffic moving inch by inch all of us can see the road ahead of us.So, we don't have to use heavy lights and literally blind the person coming on the opposite lane.

STOP USING HIGH BEAM - USE IT ONLY WHEN NECESSARY - AVOID ACCIDENTS. I wish I can make these banners and hang them everywhere..wait a sec - who has the time and patience to glance at them?!

I sign off with a hope as always that Deccan traffic will become better.

One month old Wise..

..must be wondering why - well, I am a parent now -  My bub is a month old today - from the minute he is born  I have been forced to understand and conquer the world of wisdom from a totally different perspective. I say 'forced to' because, well I am forced to - in fact all parents are 'forced to' learn and adjust to everything, from  the time their babies are 'babies' to their babies are 'BABIES'!!

Now that he taught me lots of stuff in a month, I wonder how much I am going to learn in the next coming days -> months -> years. It would be unfair if I don't mention how wonderful it is to keep discovering amazing stuff about  this phase of one's life along with this little rascal.

Kids in their own way teach us so many lessons. One big lesson and a way too quick on my way to learn was - "everyone has a mind of their own and one must respect that".I was taught this precious lesson by my baby last night - way too tired into the day, I wanted to catch some extra sleep. So, I very conveniently pushed his feeding time an hour before the schedule - I was promptly answered with a puke all over my dress. He has his time set by him, he has a brain of his own, he has his stomach tuned by him. Now, its all 'his' - hunger, brain, stomach and of course that puke too!

So many more practical lessons to attend to!! No wonder my parents are so wise too.. :) They all surely owe me a lot!! :)

New mommy on board!!

I had always been not so very good with 'measurement-mathematics'  like milligrams,grams,centimeters etc, but thanks to my pregnancy at least now am confident of milligrams and liters. Not that alone, I am now more aware of 'nutrition science' :-) and surprisingly I started enjoying calculating and eating healthy, balanced food.

Apart from all those minor satisfactions, all my trimesters have been really fair to me. I think am quite equipped with stuff that would make me the most 'prepared mommy on board'! :) - though many a times I feel I have been reading rather too much about everything, stuffing my brain with all kinds of information that Google can give me and getting confused too. ;-)

I now wonder if I can be a good parent for my little bub on way - Parenting they say is an art. There's nothing that can go right or that can go wrong in parenting..at least that's what I like to believe in. I just hope its going to be an easy, fun-filled task like it has been for my parents :) I am a pampered child with 'many parents on board' but I think I turned out to be fairly wise and grew up into a lady who can handle life (or chaos??!) :-)

I am however skeptical about how well am going fit into one of the 'mommy clubs' - I think I would just prefer to hang out with myself in that so-called club! I can foresee myself fending for my little one but not anything beyond that like mingling with all other my age mums. I some how think I would be an' odd mom out' ..well what else I am not able to visualize as a mother - as of now nothing on the list but who knows I might be blogging saying 'crazy mom on board' soon :-)

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wee story for naming my blog 'puppetstories'

Destiny Vs Freewill - this has been my constant conflicting theory about life and perhaps will always be.

Off late few events have made me become more drawn towards destiny as larger part of my life's fact than freewill. I have slowly started accepting - actually cheerfully agreeing to the fact that we are all puppets in the hands of God/Power that rules this universe.

Many personal life situations which I encountered until now make me an ardent believer in God and his plays. He makes us play his games - not that he does not throw situations at us where we can use our freewill. He guides us throw our freewill too.

I now prefer to remove 'Vs' and say Destiny and Freewill go hand in hand in all our lives - all our decisions are a perfect coordination of destiny and freewill - of course ultimately scripted by our puppeteer..

I couldn't find a more apt title for my blog as I am humble puppet in the hands my puppeteer - a power that I will always believe and have faith in.

Welcoming myself!

I say a big hello to all my 'would-be' (actually - 'hopefully-would-be') followers :)

Twelve years back I saw myself slowly embracing technology and that was when I created an email ID and now even more slowly I started getting used to the fact that blogging is after all an easy way to maintain a dairy in its simplest form. Somehow I was very slow in understanding that it is convenient to blog as most of us started spending most of our time in front of computers (many a times our compact  'idiot-box' too).

I have been watching my sister blog away into glory at times, into boredom few other times, so I thought why not me - so, here I am blogging away into..well...infinity as of now :)  I shall put a full stop to this post - I want to stick to the aptness of the title of my first post which is' welcoming myself'!!

Hello once again to all my new followers :)

P.S. For all those who are wondering why I named my blog 'puppetstories' follow my next post :)