It makes me happy to make others happy, I take a long time to adapt to a new environment,I love humour, I'm talkative with talkative people, quiet with quiet people,I hate lies and liars
- So Indian.. hmph! And do people really know that it is etiquette to walk on the side closest to the road when walking with women/children?
3. A regular church-goer giving that "I am so surprised" look on seeing an irregular one in church
-Treat them normal. Everyone's equal in the eyes of the Almighty
4. Some-one who keeps on telling that
a)he doesn't have anything to learn from that church leader
b)he knows a regular church-goer who can drink so much as well
c)he hates going to church because it is led by the leaders, and not by Christ
-This is all an excuse and misinterpretation. It is not for us to judge. Ask yourself do you want to burn forever just because that leader did not impress you? Nobody's perfect. Pray, go to church, read the Bible - this is the duty of every Christian. If you can't do these, you don't have to judge the ones doing it.
5. Some-one who dresses up with the costliest and latest of fashion, but the family is struggling to earn a daily living
Today, my friend X called up and said "I saw your cousin brother Kima getting married in my dream last night, and all the online crowd were at the wedding!!" I was like "Of all the people..him? LOL". The conversation went on, and this idea came up. Even if he finds one to marry, and even if all the online friends were to attend the wedding, it would be so hard to know who is who. Especially for those of us who don't put up our profile pictures. So, I was thinkin.. Why not we all wear a tag or something, putting up our online name or whatever. Just imagine. haha
The invitees would be wearing a tag with their online nick on it, such as..
dr_feelgood
Naupang^fel
Varte
Father sphinx
Chicco
Goldmember
mesjay
wonderboy
Splendiferous
blackestred
codeAries
Sekibuhchhuak
cowboy-hat
VaiVa
Nancy
aduhi
chawnghilh
alejendro
Opahmar
Edward LHM
ice-man
David M.Thangliana
Rita Zoye
makima
tetea
Lalrinfela
mnowluck
Jessie Saiawi
and so on.. good idea eh?
Well, for those who choose to stay unknown, we can make "Anonymous" tag. (hehe) But hey, life's too short to hide forever. Who would not be brave enough to reveal themselves? :-)
Here we are, busy dreaming about Kima's marraige, while he's busy dreaming about his visions of 2020 and getting 2 minutes of fame in CNN IBN. Congrats Bro! But I think its high time you settle! :-D
On a serious note, I was just wondering. This is online life. We write out our ideas and thoughts, we read other's posts, we comment on it, we share jokes, we make online friends via social networking sites such as facebook, orkut etc.. But will we ever get the chance to meet? Or our lives will go on like this, till one day, we find out and say "oh.. that blogger friend passed away" or "oh.. that online friend lost his son". Yes, it is a small world. But we become too busy to really go out and socialize. Well, this thought crossed my mind today and I just wanted to write it out. And I want to take this chance to thank all my blog visitors, who took the time to read and comment on it with words of encouragement and compliments. I'm telling you, I have been doing great ever since I started blogging. You have inspired me!
See you all at Kima's wedding :-D (keeping my fingers crossed! He better find one! Lol)
Chapped lips, dry skin, cold feet plus a bonus of several sneezes every day. That's what winter brings. But hey! I Love Winter. It has always been my favorite time of the year. I can wear as many layers of sweaters I want, sip as much as coffee I can consume, sit near the fireplace, or just bask myself in the sun. There are so many ways to keep myself warm. I only wish to see snow one day, and perhaps make a snow man :-)
I always want to spend my winter at home, because Christmas, My birthday and New year all falls under this holiday season. Which means, I can go shopping for all occasions, be with my family and reunite with many of my friends too.
Apart from these, there are special reasons why I'm looking forward to this winter.
First of all, our high school reunion is coming up this 19th. I can't wait to see all my classmates. I wonder how many of them would bring their spouse and kids. Yeah, the early birds (hehe). The other night, me and my close friends from high school had a little reunion dinner. 3 of them could not make it, but the rest 5 of us had a really good time. And gosh! How time has changed things. Change of thoughts, boyfriends, likes and dislikes. We talked about the past. About the cute boys we used to have a crush on, and who are now so not cute anymore (hehe). We reminisced crazy moments. We got together like after how many years? I've lost counts. It was fun!
Secondly, My Birthday. Since it falls during this season, we always happen to celebrate my birthday somehow, even if it was not planned. But this year, it falls on a Sunday. And I want to do something different, for a change. So, I thought it would be great to visit an orphanage home, help them with something and make them happy. I've talked about this to a few of my close friends. But I seriously have no idea what to give. What kind of a gift would be ideal? A bag of rice? Or some snacks to eat? I have to think about this. I'd be glad if anyone could suggest me with something.
And then, I have been invited to 3 weddings, all from very special friends. Moreover, I have been appointed a very special duty in church for this month.
For all these reasons and more, I am excited for this winter!!.....
BUT........
(shucks! I hate 'buts')
I might have to go away. Yes, back to IIT. Duty calls. If things work out, I might have the opportunity to use their lab instruments, which will be very important for sharpening my skills and in making my thesis valuable. So I cannot make any plans as such, for now. The last time I spent Christmas away from home was 4 years back. I remember calling up my mom on Christmas eve. I cried hearing her voice. hey! I was a baby that time :-)
Only God knows how I'd spend this winter. I just want it to be fruitful.
I left on a Saturday. Cousin Priscilla and Brother Sangtea dropped me to the airport. And on the way, Prissy, who was driving, ran over a chick (en). Oh wait! According to Prissy, The chicken ran over her! Bro said the chicken was drunk! Well, I say Prissy and the chick share the same boyfriend, so both were fuming hot, and decided to finalize on who gets the guy (hehe). Anyway, poor chick. It flew right in to our track, dashed itself to the front window, and bounced up to the side of the road. We stopped. People started gathering around, and we told them we were really sorry. They said its ok, and told us to go ahead except for one old man who was a bit drunk kept saying “Look what you’ve done!” He had a big knife (Chempui) attached to his waist, so we told him it won’t happen again, and kept mum, or else FLICK!! (brrrr...)
My flight was a bit delayed. But I happen to meet a very nice lady. Her name’s Mary and she was with her husband and one year old son. They were to board the same flight. So she gave me company. We had a good chat. After reaching Guwahati, we exchanged numbers and went on our separate ways. It was a long drive from the airport. Getting stuck in the traffic made me realize one thing I always miss about home. In Mizoram, the drivers are mostly well disciplined. Whereas in other places that I've been to, all drivers have the intention to insert themselves in every gap available. I find this very dangerous. And the honking sounds almost made me sick.
I reached the campus in the evening. I was amazed! The place is awing and beautiful. There are trees and lakes and flowers and buildings and and and... Everything was so clean and well maintained. The guest house is just as beautiful. It reminded me of my hostel in Mysore. It has a hexagonal shape, with a carpet of grass in the middle, and a fountain at the centre. I was the first to arrive among all participants. It was a bit boring, until my new roommate arrived the next day evening. Things started to get better.
The topic was "Application of Molecular Tools for Crop Improvement". Training programme was mostly hearing out presentations from inspiring Scientists in the morning, and laboratory sessions after lunch. We had a “High Tea” on the first day, which me and my new found friends joked about. It was written like that in the programme sheet, our first time coming across such a word, and we were wondering what a high tea would be like (hehe). Well, it was a nice cup of tea with delicious snacks. I could use some of those high teas anytime :-). I got to make friends with many of the participants. We all had good interaction, and by the third day, we started exchanging email addresses and phone numbers. Everything was well organized. And FOOD WAS GOOD! :-)
The most I like about this place is the people working in this Institute. Everyone’s so dedicated to their work. And hats off to our Instructors. They have inspired and enlightened me. They know all the basics of the experiments we were doing, and I kept saying to myself “When you go home, go open your books and start reading!” which I will be doing, soon! *grin*
Lab sessions were interesting, and tiring. There were times when we worked till 7:30 in the evening. And our instructors said, sometimes they used to work till 10 at night! This showed how much dedicated they are, and at the same time showed me how much of effort I should put in my work. A big sorry to all my friends, for not getting you anything, anything including the "thing” you asked (hehe). Seriously, we were busy right from morning till evening, and I didn’t have time to go out and shop. I promise I’ll make it up to you next time :-)
I came back the next Saturday. My flight was delayed (again). I met a nice lady (again) from Kolkata. She was on her way back from Shillong. But she left early, since her flight was earlier then mine. Even though it was just a one week program, I came home inspired, encouraged, enlightened, boosted and tired.
PS: I stayed 7 days without combing my hair! I completely forgot to take my comb *grin*
It all happened, when I accidentally dropped my phone in a steaming hot agar medium which I had just taken out from the microwave oven for my laboratory work. An agar medium is slimy and sticky, liquid while its hot, but gradually solidifies as it cools.
I gave the phone for repair to one of my brother’s friend’s shop, not very far from my house. He was kind enough to lend me an extra phone of his, a Nokia N83, and asked me to keep my phone overnight. But I missed my phone, a normal Nokia 6300, not even a hi-fi better quality phone could take its place. I got it back the next day, the LCD and something else was changed. But since then, it has’nt been the same. I had to take it back to the shop several times, even the salespersons would give a ‘I know why she’s here again – smile’ whenever I entered the shop :-).
One day it would show a black display, and on other days, the music player would just not work, and sometimes the alarm would go off an hour late. There was also a time when one could not hear my voice through the phone, it was a problem with the speaker system. These were all repaired.... until.. the PQRS keypad failed me!
So, first of all, here’s a good excuse to all my friends, complaining that I never reply their sms. *grin*
Try to think of making up a sentence without using these letters, can you? See, I’m telling you, it’s hard! But the creative me (coughs) have used sms slangs like ‘thnx’ for ‘thanks’, ‘GM’ for ‘Good Morning’, ‘Vodka' for 'Voksa' (lolzzz..JK!)etc plus, I found out that it’s much easier to modify Mizo sentences rather than English.
‘In atangin I chhuak tawh em?’ rather than ‘Have you StaRted fRom home?’
‘I hman tawh em?’ rather than ‘aRe you Ready?’
............
Argghh, I just can’t think of anymore examples right now, as it is, it is already a pain in the a** :-D
And most of the time, I find myself ‘almost’ losing patience trying to click that keypad just once, JUST ONCE so that my sentence would be complete. The other day, I tried to type ‘sports’, only OT came. Haha! “kan OT a” :-D
Now, I’ve given up trying. IF I cannot think of a sentence without pqrs at the first thought, then I’d rather call, than type.
Don’t tell me to buy a new phone, unless you're willing to buy me one ;-), I think I can still manage with my 2 years old Nokia 6300. And in case, if you plan to buy me one (hehe), I would like to have the same model *grin*..... which reminds me, my annoying but loving cousin brother Kima a.k.a illusion in the air still owes me a cute laptop mouse!
Lately, friends have been taking my advice and asking my humble suggestion on how to get over heartbreaks. Some even called me the love doctor. hehe.. Well, it's simple really, for me. I love music, and I make it a part of my life, and I follow the meaningful lyrics that it has. I have shared about the Songs that I've cried with a few months back. Now, I thought that it would be good to share about few of the many songs which have inspired me, basically my life, and how they have helped me get through the hard and trying times. I guess I've become a happy person now, coz its been a while since i cried :-) So, no more "songs that I've cried with", now its "Songs that have inspired me".
Well, here goes. I hope some way, some how, it may help you through life's journey too.
1. Lesson's learned by Carrie Underwood
The lyrics says it all.
2. Ocean's will part by Hillsong
This song makes me happy, makes me secure, makes me feel closer to God. The line I like the most - "In My Life, Your Will be Done" PS: I would love to attend such concert if only I could have the chance
3. How you live by Point of Grace
I try my best to live by this song! (well, except "kiss all your children, dance with your wife" part. hehe). When I wake up in the morning, I would turn on the music player from my phone, and listen to it, at least twice before I get up from bed. I feel that it gives me a brand new strength to face the day. I love every part of it, the tune, the freshness, the words, the meaning.. it's just.. INSPIRING!
4. Trust by Six Pence None the Richer
A song based on Proverbs 3:5. A very good friend of mine gave me this song 4 days ago, and since then, I have been in love with it. It has reached more then 200 repeats within 4 days! This is a slower version, the one I have has a higher tempo. If you want it, I can mail it to you.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart Lean not on your own understanding In all of your ways acknowledge Him And He will make you paths straight Don't worry about tomorrow He's got it under control Just trust in the Lord with all of your heart And He will carry you through Lord, sometimes it gets so tough To keep my eyes on You When things are going rough But when I turn my eyes up to the sky And I hear Your voice it says to me So child do not be weary with the troubles Of this world I have overcome
And so, to all my xyz friends out there having their hearts broken by some undeserving good for nothing guy/girl, don't waste your life on someone who doesn't deserve you. And above all, don't keep anyone or anything above God, or He may take away the things you treasure most. If you ask me "Why mostly gospel songs?". Well, one thing I know for sure, love songs doesn't help, at all! Instead, listen to such songs as these, It will make you feel much better. And so I'm telling you again.. Trust in the Lord with all your heart Lean not on your own understanding In all of your ways acknowledge Him And He will make you paths straight Don't worry about tomorrow He's got it under control Just trust in the Lord with all of your heart And He will carry you through
Whenever I see an old lady I get reminded About my grandma and how she used to sit under the sun peacefully with gazing eyes
When life doesn’t go my way I get reminded Of the song “Lesson’s learned” by Carrie Underwood
When I see a family happily going to church together I get reminded That it has always been my dream to raise a Christian family one day
Whenever I ride my Scooty I get reminded About the game “Need for Speed”, especially while going slow on the curves
Whenever I see the flower Hibiscus and its leaves, sand and GI Joe, Tea sets and an empty ‘Khaini’ box, a mango tree.. I get reminded About my childhood playtime days (Hibiscus flowers were used as ‘oil’, its leaves as ‘paan’, tiny roads were made on the sand for the joes to have their own kingdom, Tea sets, particularly the red ones and steel ones, and empty khaini boxes were used as balance aka patla, and we’d always climb up the mango tree near my uncles place)
When I see school girls happily chatting and laughing I get reminded About my friends in high school. We used to call ourselves “The Mighty Queens” and we didn't have a care in the world
Whenever I wake up at 4 am I get reminded Of the song by Secondhand Serenade “It’s 4 am, and I’m waking up to your perfume..” not that I’m waking up to anyone’s perfume :-)
Whenever my nieces get a hair cut, the one with a fringe I get reminded Of my hairstyle when I was their age
Its cold outside But my heart’s getting colder Its dark outside But my mind’s turning darker There’s mist all over But the mist in my head is taking me over
The clouds have turned gray But my thoughts have made me blue The birds have flown to a safer place But I cannot fly to anywhere safe The thunder echoes loud outside But not as loud as the rumors echoing in my ears
I see lightning across the mountains But it’s the vileness of men that strikes my heart The sky has finally poured its rain But my eyes have finally poured out tears of pain The clouds may have vexed my mind But I’m glad they all have a silver line
It’s that time of the year again, when you just cannot predict the weather. One minute the sun would embrace you with its heat, and assure you that you could go hang your clothes to dry; and just when you’re done hanging them, the rain would pour without any warning, which will last for 15 minutes or so, and then you have to repeat the procedure all over again! I remember few years back, before any of my brothers got married, we always had clothes to dry almost everyday. This is apparent though, considering the fact that we are one BIG family. Someone would shout “It’s drizzling again!” and we’d run up the terrace to save our clothes from getting drenched. You just cannot sit in peace. God knows how many times we had to run up and down. Now, since I spend my daytime at work, I need not bother about how many clothes are being washed today and can finally enjoy the rain. Leave them to the ones staying at home :-D.
I love the sound of the rain. I love to watch the rain; with music softly playing in my ears, I can just go on dreaming. The other day, I caught sight of a splendid view. It was drizzling, and the mountains were fresh and green, with clouds resting on them. A view I always miss when away from home. Looking at it, I sighed and sighed.
August is the time when those so called Leo’s are born (the first part of the month and end of July of course). I have quite a few good friends with Leo sign, and one of my sisters-in-law is a Leo, and we are like best friends. Although when it comes to relationships, Mimi and a Leo guy is a no no, so far :-D. I don’t really believe in Horoscopes and Zodiac signs, but its fun when you pretend to believe it. There was one time when me and my friends had the habit of reading a horoscope from one Mizo magazine. It was actually called “HORRORSCOPE” where they wrote all kinds of funny things. And it so happened one day, that one of our friend went to the Deputy Commissioner’s office, and her HORRORSCOPE read “Vawinah DC office kawtah mi anglo angin I hawi vual vual dawn”. We literally rolled on the floor and laughed to tears. Lolzz..
Back in high school, August was the month where we had to go to A.R. Ground for Independence Day march past practice everyday, come rain or come shine. Oh yes, I was one of the National Cadet Corps members. It would always rain on the day. I remember watching the movie ‘Independence Day’ on Independence Day (15th August) at J.L. Cinema hall, right after our parade in the field. We were in uniform and our shoes were filled with mud. But we enjoyed the show. Sigh! Those were the days. Speaking of august and a movie, I love the movie ‘August Rush’.
August is personally a remarkable month for me. It was the month when I got my first kiss :-). Now I can see you grinning. No, I’m not going to reveal the date and year. If I do, my friends out there can surely track who the guy is. And he does’nt even know that he was the first. *GRIN* End of story for this one. Hehe..
And in Mizo tradition, I heard that it is forbidden to get married in August. Some thing to do with the rain? Can any one fill me the details with this one? What’s the particular reason behind? I can ask mom and dad, but it will be interesting to know from someone out there too. I know a family friend getting married next week! Should I warn them?? hehe
