Nupla Baal called her Poopa Pachi ..hehe

Hey today was such a beautiful day ...First time ever did Nupur called me by ma name. When kalputai called us today morning, nupla baal spoke to me and said "tu kashi aahe poopa pachi " and then when asked to repeat she said "tu kashi aahes deepu pachi "(in a total Donald Duck voice hehe ) ooooooooooh that was choooooo cweet. Those few words washed away all the pains in my life!!!!!

You know what it felt like God kept His hand on my heart. It felt like heaven. I am sure none of us has seen how the most spoken about subject ...THE GOD looks like! But I can assure you one thing if you want to know how far can a God go to fulfil the demands of his loved ones you should see the love of our parents, and if you want to experience the innocence of God, take care of a child for a month!

And I can say I am one of those lucky ones who have experienced the both. Any way coming back to my baby, she then said all those things that she has started speaking, ofcourse on the promptings from Kalputai. Hey the funniest one is that she says "acetone" to ask for an ice-cream cone..lolzz. Then kalputai asked her "tujya aaicha naav kaay"...her immediate response was "kapilaaaa" and when asked "tujhya Pa cha naav kaay?" ...she said " manesh"... oooohhh that was cho chweeeeet I can give up on any thing for her words, mannnn.

Anyway, eventually me and Kalputai had a long chat and then we hung up.

But have had the best day ever !!!!

Love Speaks ...But Not Always In Words

It was one of the most depressing days I was witnessing in the last few weeks. I was taking life a little more seriously than it actually is, I guess. But then at that time everything was getting darker and darker for me. I was getting anxious about my career and my overall "LIFE". For years I have programmed myself to win and watch things work according to my wish. By God's grace my life has been like someone working 24/7 as per my wishes ...what you call--"Your Wish My Command". So Life has been a cake walk for me till Failures started knocking my door.

Anyway the point is that due to all this I could not handle the failures in my life. When things became a little unbearable I gave up and cried my heart out. Last few weeks were a part of my WEAK PHASES in life. But as they say it EVEN THIS WILL PASS AWAY....even that passed away. The best part of those dark days was the realisation of the Unspoken Love in my life. Just because your Mom does not say it often or your Dad does not tell you in words, it does not mean that they dont love you. In the similar way there are many people in our life who never ever say those three words I Love You, but still stand by you when you need to know that you are not alone.

The same thing happened the other day. When I was feeling real lonely and lost, All my cousins and my sissie dear called me the same day just to assure me "dont worry deepu tai we all are here for you". The most touching as well as strengthing my spirits was the call from Varun who called from Dehradun just to ask me what was wrong!! The most touching thing was that he had the patience to call me 7 times as I spoke on the other line to Viraj who called from Singapore to tell me that he missed me ...No way did he say that but his call spoke for him ...hehe ..Any way coming back to Varun, at that moment it was so easy for him to misunderstand me that I did not pick up his call and just let it be !...But No ..he had enough care and concern to wait till I finished the other call, and kept on trying till I picked up his call. He has been always a man of few words but the words he said today will remain with me forever. The first reaction expected after such a long wait is "Where have you been yaar, I am trying for so long(in an irritated tone) !" But the first thing he said was " Kaay zalaa Deeputai tula ...bari aahes naa?..Itki ka depress zaali aahes!" And at the end of the conversation there was an assurance that said " Aamhi aahot naa deeputai ..kashala kaalji kartes"

Hmm those words acted like a cool soothing breeze during a Hott sunny afternoon, like the warmth of a blanket through the cold dreadful night!! The irony is that we keep on running behind the people who never care for us, and ignore those who love us so much!

The same day morning Kalputai called just because she kept on remembering me the whole day (her day ...my night when I was thinking of none other than her as I cried)....telepathy works i guess. She never ever says that she loves me, even though I keep on saying it to her a 1000 times ...she just reacts with a dry tone " aww ok yaar, same to you"he he !! But the funniest part is that there is no one in this world who has understood me better than her, not even my mom.Not that my mom does not understand me at all but i need to tell her what I mean, which seldom happens with Kalputai. I have seen tears roll down her cheeks as she tried to calm me down saying "aga deepu sagla neat hoil ...dheer dhar" huh ...

Its such a blessed life to have so many people loving you so much, and these stupid failures bother me so much ..huh ...Need to improve I guess!!!

Do We Really Love....

Just yesterday I read one of my friend's article where he mentioned that he would never understand what is love actually is! I had only one thing to say ...you never understand love, you just love...

Loving someone is so simple and such a beautiful feeling. I had once read somewhere the definition of love. It said...
"Love ???? its kindda complicated, but I will tell you this... The second you are willing to make yourself miserable to make someone else happy, that is Love right there.

Majority of the times Love is mistaken as possessiveness. Love never demands possession. It can find happiness in itself even though the two hearts stay miles apart. It is so simple to love someone. It is like building a strong based castle for someone you love when at the backside your whole life's construction is shattering into pieces, and at the end of it you are dancing with joy on the debris of your shattered dreams just because you finally finished the dream of your loved one.

Love is when you cannot find a single reason why you should be alive, but still you lead your life with a smile to make the important person in your life , happy. These things are not quotes that you will find in any book, they are the feelings that every person in love will always experience.

Love is Trust, trust in yourself and also in the person you love. When you love someone there is no place for suspicion. A small doubt in love never becomes a HUGE problem because love knows to forgive and forget.Its not how much you gain from the alliance...it is how far can you go to give happiness to that person.

My birthday

Thought of writing about this small day immediately the next day ....but some how managed to procrastinate. now today as the big day approached ...and its my baby's birthday ....so finally sat down to write about my birthday fun.

For the past few years i had lost faith in my Birthday. Everyone waits for this day in their life every year so that they can enjoy the day to the fullest. But with me last few birthdays were the worst ever. It always used to be the day of atleast one bad news. So finally when 19th August approached my heart started waiting for this year's bad news.

But like they say when you start awaiting sorrows, that’s when happiness knocks at your door. The same thing happened with me. I was just wondering what bad could happen and suddenly every one surprised me. Dad had got my Favorite cake for me and we cut it exactly at 12 midnight. Except for two pieces, which my mom and dad had, I ate the whole cake ...Gosssh it was yummy ...Dutch Truffle from The Taj. I received maximum calls exactly at midnight from the people whom I had spent the least time of my life, the people whom we call friends. Kalputai,Nandu Mama Mrunal Mami and Pillu were the first to call ofcourse, followed by my friends Ameya, Shirish, Denzil, Ali, Neelubhaiyya. Just when I was on the verge of loosing complete faith in friendship was the time when all my friends called sharp at midnight just to wish me luck throughout my life. Ali even had the patience to hold the line while I was talking to someone else; they even had the patience to give number of attempts to just say “Many Happy Returns of the Day". The happiness lied not just in the wish, but it was a beautiful feeling to know that some people had the love and care enough for you to stay awake just to wish you on your birthday.

This was the day when I realized it is not the day that is great, but the people around you who make it important. Some of the people who seemed to be my blood relations missed to call saying that they were quiet busy, oh yeah you bet. Let’s not give them so much of importance. Yeah so where was I ? Yeah right, then chatted with some of my col friends till 3 a.m.. Arre haan yaar bolna hi bhool gayee, the day before this happened I was working on the template of my blog, thoda settings ka raada tha. And i was literally breaking my head on the Template code and simultaneously harassing two of my friends Denzii and Tarun to help me with the settings, but all in vain. And suddenly all my friends started reminding me of my birthday and so the template thing took a back seat. So when we finished talking, or you can say chatting, I started to work on the Template. Tarun and Denzii helped me with the Template and were successful in putting the Links in my blog but still my heart wanted it to be something different. So then I thought of trying my efforts. They promised me to complete the job as and when they find spare time. But, then I thought that why should I harrass people for my demands. And so then i sat down working on the Template, All By Myself...lol...And you know what I surprised myself, because finally at 5.00 a.m. in the morning I had successfully done what I needed in my Blog Template.BINGO!!!

So another good news on my birthday...that I was not all that useless. Anyway, so finally after a successful attempt, I finally slept at 5.30 a.m. And got up back at 7.30 a.m because of the birthday calls I was receiving, but then somehow later I couldnot manage with so less sleep so slept for another couple of hours or so. Then Mom woke me up for lunch. Mom had made my favourite fish.And that too different fish in all preparations. That was heaven. Then i got ready to leave as we friends were gonna meet for a small get together.

We all went to Marine Drive. It was raining heavily and we were getting drenched, but it was so amazing. I had to go for a Dinner party after this get together which was being arranged by my family, and getting wet was not a fair idea for that. But somehow I was not concerned. This day had arrrived after so many years, where I was able to do what my heart wanted and No one or No other thought could spoil its fun.Getting wet in the rains or running through the sprinklers are some of my passions, and I could not belive my luck that day. I was a little worried about the dinner because sitting in the AC with wet clothes ....WOW ...I cannot tolerate Bombay cold and this was gonna be challenging. But still deep inside my heart my Joy knew no bounds. I simply cannot try to put it in words (You may have realised it by now).But I am still not out of that spell.

Anyway, then we friends had a long chat about careers and a little about our other group friends whom we seriously missed. Then we walked back to the Churchgate station, from where I took a train for Thane via Dadar, taking some beautiful memories with me. Then as I reached the Restaurant, where our table was already booked with my two little brothers sitting to welcome me, I felt like a princess the way they welcomed me. Phir baaki sab aane lage They had got my favorite cake (yeah you are right 2nd cake of the day ....)

So then we had really Yummy Sizzlers ever ....better than the Kobe's, I must say. (woh alag baat hai ke I liked my brothers' sizzlers better than mine. Then we finished our cake as a dessert and then left for the day.Then nothing much to say...came home checked my mails for the day ...replied to all of them and the slept early that day as I was reaaalllly tired.

Moral of the story :- ha ha ha ....waiting from you guys yaar

Love Makes you take people for Granted?

Some one once said to me ...."you know what deepika ...I generally start taking people close to me, for granted."

I felt that Quote to non-convincing...there was something missing …..coz if I know love well I know one thing for sure when you love someone you cannot take things for granted ….coz love makes you to give more into the relationship than what you expect in return …. Then what is that makes you take people for granted?.....aah aah I got the answer ….it is when you are loved by a person and you are aware of it ….. it makes you feel you are gr8 n now you no longer need to take pains to keep this person tied to yourself and your life.

So its when you are loved n you don’t love that person enough .. is when you start taking things for granted with that person….but then all of us make this blunder hell lot of times with our closed ones .. while we are busy hunting people down to add them in our friend list ….trying to impress them and make them fall in love with us …… and once you get them on your FAN list ….there you go back in the vast jungle of people ….. ready for a new hunt ….hmmmmmmm

And then suddenly things start changing …. Luck no longer favors you ….you start becoming helpless in your life ….u start losing control of the things that you once boasted upon…..tragedies seem to be the part of your everyday life things suddenly start shattering in front of your eyes you begin to collapse with no one that you trusted seem to be around ….naa naa …you r getting me all wrong … its not the old age I m talking of …. It’s the beginning of a new phase in your life ….THE BAD PHASE …. The phase in which you r most vulnerable to the slightest hurt from your so called closed ones …coz life has been playing enough games to keep your heart in pain….the phase in which your minimum expectation is plain support of your loved ones ….. the phase in which you realize the importance of silent and invisible love in your life ….the phase that teaches you humility ….the phase that makes you realize the presence of THE SUPREME POWER ….the phase that brings out the Human Being hidden behind the Animal in you.

There you really start meeting the true and genuine people in your life … the “closed ones” who were always taken for granted by you are the only ones who believe in you …no matter what …. And all those --- your special friends and the fascinating world seem to blame you for every thing that has been wrong in your own life ….. funny isn’t it …yeah right this is when you start realizing the value of true, eternal love, the love that never expects anything in return …. Love that seeks happiness in your smiles …love that breaks down on a single tear in your eyes …. Love that lives just to make you happy …… and now its your turn ….to give them back everything that they were showering on you without your awareness ….u start learning the fun in loving people ….rather than impressing them and making them fall in love with you …you start realizing that happiness can be created within yourself rather than chasing it …..you get the biggest blessing of God “the ability to love people without any expectation”….the biggest virtue of mankind ….

So I just want to bring awareness in our minds ….that if you feel you have been taking someone in your life for granted ….. you have not being true to yourself …you have not loved that person enough…. .moreover you have not loved that person at all…..its high time now that you take things in your hand and realize the worth of true closed ones in your life ….and all before mother nature starts playing her games …..actually now i get the catch of the first statement i wrote ....he was not taking his loved ones for granted ....he was taking the people who loved him for granted ....hmmm



And just an honest confession from my side ….. I LOVE YOU ALL A LOT …