I am happy today.

:-))

I am happy today. Randomly came across an old school mate's wedding pics...this guy was a year senior in school and has tied knots to a gal one year junior to me...both of them looked really happy with each other...I just felt so nice after looking at their smiling faces...I wonder why I look for happiness everywhere on earth when it’s just right beside me; all I need to do is to extend my hand and grab it.

Thanks FB!

Urs,

Sudha Rani

वक़्त नहीं.

Sharing a "kavita" I read recently

हर ख़ुशी है लोगों के दामन में ,
पर एक हंसी के लिए वक़्त नहीं.
दिन रात दौड़ती दुनिया में,
ज़िन्दगी के लिए ही वक़्त नहीं.

माँ की लोरी का एहसास तो है,
पर माँ को माँ कहने का वक़्त नहीं.
सारे रिश्तों को तो हम मार चुके,
अब उन्हें दफ़नाने का भी वक़्त नहीं.

सारे नाम मोबाइल में हैं,
पर दोस्ती के लिए वक़्त नहीं.
गैरों की क्या बात करें,
जब अपनों के लिए ही वक़्त नहीं.

आँखों में है नींद बड़ी,
पर सोने का वक़्त नहीं.
दिल है ग़मों से भरा,
पर रोने का भी वक़्त नहीं.

पैसों की दौड़ में ऐसे दौड़े,
की थकने का भी वक़्त नहीं.
पराये एहसासों की क्या कद्र करें,
जब अपने सपनो के लिए ही वक़्त नहीं.

तूही बता ए ज़िन्दगी,
इस ज़िन्दगी का क्या होगा,
की हर पल मरने वालों को,
जीने के लिए भी वक़्त नहीं..........

Urs,

Sudha Rani

What is Love?

Love is beauty, love is joy...

Love is understanding without asking why...

Love is the pleasure recieved from giving...

Love is the reason life gave us for living...

Urs,

Sudha Rani

Age calculator

Today, while browsing I saw online Age Calculator, and surprised that I am 26 years old. OMG, I have crossed 25 and within 148 days from today, I will be 27 years old...

Urs,

Sudha Rani

Pyari Maa - Lovely poem by my Friend's Sister's Son.

 

Pyari Maa Mujko Teri Dua Chaiye

Tere Anchal Ki Thandi Hawa Chaiye

Lori Gaa Gake Mujko Sulati Hai Tu

Muskurakar Sawere Jagati Hai Tu

Mujko Iske Siwa Aur Kya Chahiye

Pyari Maa Mujko Teri Dua Chahiye

Teri Mamta Ke Saye Me Phulo Phalu

Thambkar Teri Ungli Me Badta Chalu

Aasra Bas Tere Pyar Ka Chahiye

Pyari Maa Mujko Teri Dua Chahiye

Teri Kidmat Se Duniya Me Ajmat Meri

Teri Kadmo Ke Niche Hai Jannat Meri

Umra Bhar Sar Pe Saya Tera Chahiye

Pyari Maa Mujko Teri Dua Chahiye

Urs,

Sudha Rani

Funny Full Forms Of Some International Companies

1. NIIT : Not Interested in IT

2. WIPRO : Weak Input, Poor & Rubbish Output

3. HCL : Hidden Costs & Losses

4. TCS : Totally Confusing Solutions

5. INFOSYS :Inferior Offline Systems

6. HUGHES : Highly Useless Graduates Hired for Eating and Sleeping

7. BAAN : Beggars Association and Nerds

8. IBM : Implicitly Boring Machines

9. SATYAM : Sad And Tired Yelling Away Madly

10. PARAM : Puzzled And Ridiculous Array of Microprocessors

11. C-DOT : Coffee During Office Timings

12. AT&T : All Troubles & Terrible

13. CMC : Coffee, Meals and Comfort

14. DEC : Drifting & Exhausted Computers

15. BFL : Brainwash First and Let them go

17. TISL : Totally Inconsistent Systems Ltd.

18. PSI : Peculiar Symptoms of India

19. ORACLE : On-line Romance And Chatting with Lady Employees.

20. MASTEK: Mad And Stupid Technicians Enrooted to Kabaarkhana

21.PATNI : Pathetic Appraisal Techniques, No Increments 

Urs,

Sudha Rani

Incredible India !!

We live in a Nation, INDIA……

·  Where Pizza reaches home faster than Ambulance & police.

·  Where you get car loan @ 5% and education loan @ 11.5%.

·  Where rice is Rs 40/- per kg but sim card is free.

·  Where a millionaire can buy a cricket team instead of donating the money to any charity.

·  Where the footwear, we wear ,are sold in AC showrooms, but vegetables, that we eat, are sold on the footpath.

·  Where everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to follow the path to be famous.

·  Where we make lemon juices with artificial flavours and dish wash liquids with real lemon.

·  Where people are standing at tea stalls reading an article about child labour from a newspaper and say,”yaar bachhon se kaam karvane wale ko to phansi par chadha dena chahiye” and then they shout “Oye chhotu 2 chaii laao…..”.

Urs,

Sudha Rani

The Artist inside me.... :)

In my younger days I loved art. I loved doing creative things. The focus has shifted as I became busy in studies and job. There where be a time when I can do art again. Now as a housewife my art looks like putting together my husband outfits, a clean kitchen, plannings, etc... Basically as a housewife my priorities have changed. Today, I have lot of leisure time and thought to focus on my passion which I left behind. As, I am not a good drawer, I thought to start with simple sketches. I googled for pencil sketches and saved few which was easy and simple for me to draw and started with basic layout sketches. I put all my best efforts to bring out my artist inside me….

Young women Face - Pencil Sketch

Looking at the pic, I thought it was very easy to draw, but I wasted 4 A4 sheet papers and took 4 hours to draw this young women face. But finally, I drew it with all my efforts put and made it successful.

Boat on the Lake Shore -- Pencil Sketch

I took almost half an hour to draw this scenery. In our childhood we drew so many scenery's and we all were very good in drawing sceneries. As for my knowledge, scenery means, a big tree near a big river which is around the amountains and on the top of that mountains, one round sun..hehehe...I draw this pic from one magazine at my home. A 5th standard student posted this scenery in that magazine.

Buddha - Pencil Sketch

We all are aware of Gautama Buddha, who was a spirtual teacher from the indian subcontinent, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. I put all my efforts and tried my best to draw this face of Buddha. I learned a lot about curving and darking the curves.

Lord Shiva - Pencil Sketch

Today is Mahashivratri.Mahashivaratri falls on the 13th day of the dark half of Phalgun. It means "the night of Shiva". All the prayers and rituals are performed at night. Shiva got married to Parvati on this auspicious day. Lord Shiva appeared in the form of a ling in front of Brahma and Vishnu on this day.Lord Shiva is known as the Lord of Destruction. He has three eyes and is said that when his third eye opens, the whole universe gets destroyed. So, I just quick sketched this portrait of Lord Shiva.

Rose - Pencil Sketch

This is my first attempt at doing a shaded pencil drawing of a rose. I have wanted to draw one for a while, and have been looking for weeks for a rose to draw. I finally found the inspiration for this one in a flower magazine last week. It was fun to do, and I learned a lot drawing it.

Rajasthani Women Potrait - Pencil sketch

This is a Rajasthani Woman, whom I have tried to portray in Graphite Pencil. As you can see, she is holding her pallu in her hand to cover her face. I loved her facial expression and gave an attempt as a graphite sketch! I hope you all will like it! :)

Urs,

Sudha Rani

My trip experience from INDIA to USA

It was first trip outside India and was extremely excited about it. We decided the trip in such a short span of time and almost booked the tickets instantly.

I was very busy in roaming, packing and attending calls from my friends and relatives throughout my 2 days prior to flight. And mom, dad, MIL n FIL dont ask, they cared like anything before leaving. They all helped me a lot in my luggage packing. And my sister was continuously calling me in between, just to make sure I am safe as I am little careless about things. They wanted me to call once when I am in the Airplane. I too didn’t disappoint them.

So, finally cabs came and we arranged our luggage’s in cab and started for Airport. When we went to Airport, I felt like I am lost somewhere. The formalities were not as stringent and tough as I thought; they were quite friendly and easy. When we were done through check-in of our luggage’s, we went near to our parents and started chatting and taking pictures and also waiting for my grandmother, uncle and aunty who were stuck in the traffic. But, finally they reached when we were about to check-in for immigration formalities. After all formalities, I was busy in seeing the shops around there, gift items, and CHOCOLATES!!(as it was first time. I never entered inside).

My Family @Hyderabad Airport

Here, they called us to board the flight. My excitement was reaching high. I went in queue, searched for my seat and sat. Ok, 1, 2, 3.. the pilot announced the takeoff. I put on my seat belt. Was very curiously watching the window, and flight started with high speed. I could see the clouds. Oh man, it was so good to see the thick clouds. I took snaps one after another, (which I realized after coming home that clouds are good only to see- not in pictures).

Then it all started my trip to USA with my husband after marriage. Snacks, coffee, lunch, drinks, juices, I just remembered all my train trips, where all the bajji bondawalas and men with "chai chai,,, coffee coffee,," and all the juice, bhel, dosa, idli, etc etc. But I thought this was quite sophisticated.

@Delhi Airport

@Chicago Airport

We spend our time by watching our marriage pics and videos, chitchat for some time, some romance and then went to sleep without our knowledge. In the morning, Air Hostesses served breakfast and after having it again we started watching movies in our laptop and discussed about our marriage time scenes. After travelling of 14 hours, we landed in Chicago Airport.

There, again we just checked in our luggage’s and completed all the security check-ins. Later, went in the train to our terminal for our next connecting flight to Austin. We went near our board and sat with my husband for around 2 Hours. My husband offered me for snacks and coffee and at the very first time, i was confused what to order. I ordered banana wrap and starbucks coffee. Now today, I became a big fan of starbucks coffee after tasting it.

On the way to Austin from Chicago

However, I heard an announcement from our gate and quickly landed into our next flight. This flight was small and journey was only 1-1/2 hrs. After reaching our final destination, we soon grabbed our luggages from the counter.  It was evening and in meanwhile got a call from a friend of my husband that he is waiting outside. At the entrance, we were welcomed by him and started our final journey towards our home at Austin.

All the way to home I was seeing outside from window and surprised myself that finally I am in USA. When I entered my home, I was extremely excited to it and took bath. My husband friend arranged milk, rice, jaggery and ghee at home. So, as a custom, I at first prepared parvaannanam(it’s a kind of sweet prepared with rice) and offered to God. As I was feeling very hungry and tied of long journey from India to USA, we had dinner at restaurant and went to sleep.

Parvaannanam

@gruhapravesham

 This is my journey experience from India (Hyderabad) to USA (Austin)

Urs,

Sudha Rani

My first Flight experience!! :-)

I guess everyone on earth wish to travel in flight, Same dream I had...yes my first flight was on December 2010. I was travelling from Pune to Hyderabad. My flight timing was 1:30 P.M, outside it was raining heavily, yes it’s a monsoon period.

Departing from my office, i was moving towards check in counter all alone having my passport and ticket copy @ 12 pm itself. As its first time, i was having confusion with check in baggage and hand luggage, finally I put all the bags in the check-in and I was carrying a backpack along with my heavy jacket (as it should not add to my luggage). Offcourse my baggage was beyond the max what, so happened to remove some food items :( then reached the boarding area...waiting for the call....now the time is 12:45pm. I was in half sleep waiting to board..but due to rain, flights got rescheduled oooufff..and my stomach started grumbling @ 3...still no mood to eat anything. Thank god, we were provided with snacks from airline authorities then finally @4 they announce the call.

I was quite excited about the flight journey and at the same time started feeling quite nervous. Yes I happily landed into the flight, was able to meet my expectation like I see in movies. Luckily my seat was near the window..Within 10 to 15 mins after the takeoff..I went to sleep without my knowledge. A wake up call by airhostess with wet tissue provided....and heard announcement from the pilot that our flight is about to land…I put on my seat belt and was very curiously watching outside the window. I could see the clouds. Oh man, it was so good to see the thick clouds. As I finally reached my final destination, I soon grabbed my luggage from the counter and came outside the airport to catch my cab to reach home.

As there was a delay in my first flight....i missed my cab which I booked, so looking for other cab....Mean while I must mention Hyderabad International Airport...Wow it was really lovely and majestic. I got some friends who are travelling to the same place.

As soon as I got a cab, I grabbed a sandwich and quickly landed into my cab. This cab was small and journey was 1 and 1/2 hrs. After reaching my home, i was welcomed by my loveable parents.

Urs,

Sudha Rani