Chinese Whisper it is!!!!

Discovery of the Writer!!

Back in my school days I used to be an awkward kid when it came to English Language. I knew I was a good storyteller-my mum used to say the same when she caught me in one of my devious ways of getting more chocolate or ice-cream, but somehow the words never found that flow which was needed to be comprehended; especially when you’re a teenager. Mispronounced words & a mediocre vocabulary did bring me a lot of criticism & embarrassment within my social circle all adding to my dismay. Well somewhere down the line, apart from “puberty”, “identity crisis” and “growing-up pangs” things begun to change. I can’t really thank one person or thing for it….but I do remember vaguely reading secretly from my brother’s TOFEL books and also drowning myself into English TV serials & movies, (Oh ya!…the idiot box ain’t that idiotic my friend). No matter how I did it I got here today where I made one of the most improbable discoveries…. the “Writer” in me. Thanks to my dear friends in Femina who noticed this in me and gave me an opportunity that the 14year old back then would never ever have dreamt of.

Please do pick up the June 17^th Femina issue to read my reviews & would love to know what you think of them.

Connecting the dots while Pondering over!!!!

At times us all; for no reason float away into the zone of yesteryear. "What if I hadn't done that or What if this hadn't happened” so on so forth. We put ourselves into this constant need to second guess one self. Well I am no good, lately I have been struck with the ever questioning bug from hell which wanted me to ponder over matters in my life, which I am” guilty" of doing. One day has I succumbed to its devious ways, I fell upon dots that ran all through my life and I became a kid who loved playing connecting the dots, only the thing different was, I was connecting the dots of my Life. In life there is no coincidence I feel; purely my opinion, we are where we were meant to be today. There is this overall force in the world call it what ever you wish to helps us achieve this. This may sound like a page out of "The Secret" but it’s just not that.

My biggest ever dotted line-

When I passed out of school, I like any other teen wanted to go to that college where all my other friends were going to, that was the priority for me nothing else mattered. But it was tough to convince my dad the same and with all the conniptions that I had learnt has a 16 year old didn’t help either, I was tossed into the college deemed fit to him. But if that hadn't happened I would have most likely not met my best friend ever till date; whom later became my husband and here I am living each moment of it with him.

Steve jobs once mentioned in one of his inspiring speeches "you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards"!!

I feel what he meant is if you don’t know where you have been and how you got here you will never know where you really want to go…..so start connecting those dots who knows what you may find.