Delhi Winters

As I write this curled up in my supremely warm blanket with the blower in my room switched on full blast I feel well cozy, toasty, wonderful and glad that I am in and not outside as I watch the mist swirling about through my window. Anybody who has been through the Delhi winters knows it can be merciless think ice cold water in the morning, think cold air that hits you in the face with so much force that it just takes your breath away, cold hands and cold feet...real pain in the butt I tell you!

Delhi winter is all that mentioned above but the opposite is also true, it also signifies beautiful misty mornings(in case u don't have to get up very early u will actually find it quite scenic)and evenings, those endless cups of tea and coffee u actually have an excuse to have more and then some more. Cold weather also means think carts selling hot hot popcorn,tasty peanuts,crispy bread pakodas yummmmmm (ok feeling hungry now yikes!)

It absolutely also means think sexy looking boots, amazing trench coats, gorgeous sweaters and jackets, pretty knitted skirts,bright colored tights and you know what that means think hole in your pocket, think bankruptcy...phewww!

Delhi winters one of my favorite seasons and the best part is I can't stand cold at all and by at all I do mean at all!! Think Megha plus winters ..think Megha covered head to toe..think Megha wearing two sweaters, one jacket, woolen cap and socks and I would be probably still be shivering...brrrr but the fact of the matter is "I STILL ADORE DELHI WINTERS"! what to do such is the life deary..you lose some but you win so much more.... <3 <3

Back with a bang...!!

You always think that you are gonna inculcate one good habit in life and stick with it then "wam bam" guess what happens ...life..it catches up with you ..spins you around and then spits you out with a nice and loud burp.urmphhh!! So here I am back again..back to take control of my life ..back to that one good habit I thought I was not going to let go of.. beat life at it's own game minus the burps..

A lot has happened in the meanwhile ..I have gotten older ..wiser perhaps(I hope)..I have been trying to broaden my fashion sense(dunno if I have any to start with )..bought my first sari..worn it and clicked loads of embarrassing pics in it...reinstated my belief that good and thoughtful people are much needed in life and you can never have enough of them.

Anyways my tryst with sari was not half as bad as I expected and I have survived with not a scar but certain level of confidence and awe of this beautiful garment. Hoping some body's getting married soon and I get a chance again to go shopping for a pretty "Sari" at least this time I wont be hyperventilating in front of the salesman like I did earlier..He must have thought im crazy or something. Far from truth my dear friends just very confused surrounded by nine yards ... unfamiliar territory you see!


Ahh before I forget the fashion bit ..been reading a lot of them(fashion magazines)lately and feel they should tone down the "jing bang" a bit ..when I read them feels like they are not really for an Indian audience but an audience they would aspire to be ..European ..french...I don't know what about aspire to being Indian..??
Food for thought...!

Obsessions

I never really thought I was the kind of girl who would obsess over things easily but here I was siting on a Sunday afternoon and thinking about random stuff like what clothes I should wear tomorrow at work or I should have bought that white pair of heels when I had the chance...occupational hazards of working in a Public Relations firm dominated by gals. It's kinda of funny because these are normally not the things that occupy my mind, which does prove what I have been thinking all along that it does not matter where you are from, how are you because eventually you do start getting moulded into whatever environment you spend your maximum time.

I also learned that those killer pair of heels can give you so much confidence that you can take on the world if you have to!! How the word "sale" has the capability of driving even the most sensible women in this world into a frenzy and compel them to resort to tactics just to lay their hands on that one pair of heels that in another situation they wouldn't even dreaming of buying otherwise.

OOOps seems I am obsessed and that too about shopping .."I guess I am changing don't know whether for the good or worse" though I do wish my back balance would not change so much ..at the start of the month it's high and by the end of the month it's so low you begin to cry. Anyways gonna head towards the Almirah and do some clothes searching..hope it is not as difficult as soul searching. Hmmmm have to find time for that as well..both are very important you see!! specially the latter.. ;)

ZARA

Zara the Spanish high street fashion brand finally got launched with much fanfare this Friday at select city walk. Nothing extraordinary about this since we have been witnessing an influx of luxury brands and fashion labels opening shop one after the other here in India.

In fact it has been barely two days since the store has opened and people seems to be going ballistic...when I went on Sunday evening to the store there was barely enough space to keep your foot inside let alone check the collection. It seems as though new India has suddenly woken up and that too with a huge appetite. It's no big high tech secret that Indians love to shop but this kind of passion for big brands is extremely exhilarating and kind of scary.

Don't get me wrong I love the fact that with the economy opening up and what with the new middle class working it's way up there is more money than ever to spend. You go on a weekend to any mall and the sight that greets you is utter chaos with men and women literally battling it out at the stores(not for the faint hearted mind you). I have recently been introduced to this new world of shopaholics and it is new learning everyday...Spanish brands ..Italian brands..Upcoming fashion designers..latest trends...phewwww.

While all this is going on the only thing that sort of disturbs me is where does that leave Indian brands..the way we lap up all these foreign brands..do they also go crazy when an Indian brand opens outside. The answer to this sadly as I believe to the best of my knowledge is that there is still not an Indian brand which can command such a hysteria as other foreign labels here are able to. I know for a fact that even though a lot of people out side recognize a Rohit Ball or a Manish Arora collection there is still not a single Indian brand that is as popular as compared to some of the brands that are here. Solutions I can provide since it is always easier to talk and give advise rather than do it yourself but hey at least I am trying ... So maybe Bollywood should kinda curb its habit of going bonkers with western outfits..maybe our fashion designers need to promote more of the India fashion line or maybe even for that matter we as a nation should stop this absurd obsession with fashion brands..I don't know but these our just random thoughts. I have always believed in going for the middle path and having a balance approach to any kind of situation, so maybe we can continue our love affair with the foreign labels entering India but we should start a new love affair with our own kind as well as the saying goes "Old is definitely Gold".

PS Megha herself likes to wear both western and traditional outfits...western makes her feel she looks hot and while wearing traditional she feels she looks pretty and no Megha is not obsessed about herself she is talking about the looks these outfits generate and not herself as such ...and oh oh most importantly since she could not shop at ZARA she shopped at M & S today and blew almost four grand , she has just promised herself that the next thing that she buys has to be Indian ..be it Indian jewelery..Indian clothes or Indian food..she also believes that at this rate she will become completely bankrupt soon.

Happy Feet for Mother's Day

I have always liked the concept of mother's ..father's..dog's day even though I do believe that the whole thing is nothing but another marketing propaganda to sell a brand.Coz let's face it we all say that one day is not enough we should celebrate all days but who does that.. not me for sure.

Anyways so with mother's day falling on Sunday I decided to celebrate the day with my mom by pampering her. I thought to myself why not surprise her..do something innovative..well the thought led me to take my mom out for a session of Fish pedicure at Happy Feet(Select city walk).

Fish pedicure or better known as doctor fish is quite interesting.. they put our feet in a large vessel containing about 200 fishes mind you special fishes. The fishes set to work immediately, they start nibbling at your feet removing the dead skin. No need to worry they do not have any teeth and the experience though a little daunting in the beginning can be a whole lot ticklish as well according to this Punjabi lady right before it was our turn to get in.

Well here I was trying to coax my mom to put her feet in the vessel with her squirming and I trying to retain my calm and composure as a whole lot of people watched expectantly.Eventually the helpers there came to my rescue by simply pushing her feet in the water not forcefully but a little firmly. A little scream went up in the air and for a minute there I though that the fish had actually bit her though the next minute the sight had not only me in splits but the whole audience there as well. There was my mom giggling like a little schoolgirl since she was feeling very ticklish as well as weird..in her defense as she puts it I'm vegetarian for god's sake off course I'll feel peculiar.

In about 5 minutes though you could see from her face that she was actually enjoying, as I watched bewitched at the sight of my mom's feet being nibbled by so many tiny fishes.The whole experience as she puts it was quite intimidating but relaxing as well.Her feet actually looked quite clean and pretty and felt soft just as how the helper had described.

"They help to open up the pores mam you must try it" said the helper there as I smiled at him with a painful expression.
Well mom enjoyed it..the people gathered there enjoyed the show..I'm thinking the fishes must have also enjoyed it.So maybe just maybe I should try it out as well ..hmmm maybe I will but just hope that the next time that I go, I have less of an audience as compared to my mom!!

OMG sky bue heels

I indulged myself today and if you know me well enough you would know it's something which is really not part of my DNA.I mean nothing wrong with it it's just that you can say that I am a very conservative shopper. I rarely like to use either my creativity or my money or even act too impulsively when it come too shopping.

Lately thought things are changing big time and the reason being- me working at a place which is full of fashionable or highly creatively inclined people, you could say it is starting to come with being in the territory.

So the first casualty being today is that I went ahead and bought my self these really cool sky blue platform heels ...ahhhhhh yes I behaved impulsively, stupidly ..etc etc.
I have no idea whatsoever of what I am going to pair it with, the only thing that I do know is that it cost me a bomb and man do they look hot on me!!

This blog is also being written with the main intention of relieving me of my guilt of indulging the side of me which did exist but I was too used to pretending it did not.

Showed it too my father whose first words out of the mouth along with the facial expression suggested that it would have been much better to leave the heels at the store itself rather than me storing it at my place.Mom's expression- what the hell were you thinking of...anyways the deed as they has been done,no use crying over it. I have better ways of spending my time by contemplating how do I match those god forsaken heels with any of the tops or colors that I have.

I am open (desperate) to ideas..suggestions welcome???

I support India

So let's begin with me saying exactly how I feel about the whole SHIV SENA ban SRK movie campaign business-I have three words "I am appalled".
I mean these guys get worse day by day if it's not enough that there are terrorist organizations,religious fanatics and other lunatics out there to divide and plunder India then you can trust these guys to do the needful.

A party who wants to hold on it's former long lost glory by raising issues and dwelling on a high profile Actor's choice of words which is then taken to be as a insult to the whole of Mumbai is just way beyond my understanding.
The worst part is that this is not happening for the first time. Time and Again this insanity has been played every time with the same result -we bowing down to hooligans and goondas.

I am going to stop right here by not mentioning them in my further conversation least they get any more chances of publicity through this blog or if they decide that I have in any way been disrespectful to the whole of Mumbai for which I should be punished.

As you can make out while writing this blog even I was hesitant so when a person like SRK stands up for what he said and does not make excuses or goes out of his way to apologize for having said what he intended to say. It gives me hope, that maybe the time has come that instead of we accusing people from outside trying to disrupt communal harmony we are also able to catch culprits sitting in our very own land and bring them to justice.

I am not a fan of SRK never have been, actually more fond of Salman and Amir Khan still would like to support him on this that any cricketer belonging to any religion, caste or creed if he is good enough should be allowed to play in IPL.
I support talent rather than religion, I stand for justice as compared to what is socially acceptable . I stand for India..do you??

Week's musing

Hectic..crazy like a roller coaster ride but wow man what a adrenal rush has this week been. Running all over Pragiti Maidan from one end to another might not be your ideal dream sequence but a great cardio workout out for sure. So here is me and colleagues trying to get work done while missing out on sharukh khan, vivek oberoi because well work always comes before pleasure and so the saying goes.

Was speaking to a senior journalist from Business Standard and the one thing that he said made my heart not only skip a beat but also swell with pride.He said"I have been to many international Auto Expo's but this clearly is not only Asia's biggest but the world's biggest Auto Expo.

Met up with some nice journalist ..tried networking..ate a lot..walked a whole lot!! Sure it could have been better organized actually it could have been much better organized but what the hell I always look at that one bright spot. They were many like while having lunch me and colleagues ate pizza from pizza hut and saw these firangi's bang opposite us having chole bature..cute!

ALL's well that ends well, finished with work plan to catch the Auto Expo as a tourist finally before it ends.Want to check out some cool cars and bikes not babes and want to say "you see this ..this is what we are capable of ..India is the future" as I overheard someone saying and boy I couldn't agree with him more.

PS:Liked the viral campaign going around for breast cancer awareness, dont think it spreads much awareness though but what it does spread is beautiful smiles all around.