New Shoes New Shoes

"New shoes new shoes
Tell me what would you choose
If they let us buy

Red shoes pink shoes
Pretty pointy bow shoes
Tell me what would you choose
If they let us buy

But, flat shoes fat shoes
Stamp-along-like-that shoes
This is what they would choose
When they let us buy"

I confess...I LOVE SHOES. I love buying shoes - be it comfy practical black sandals or that pair in blue to match that blue top or the sexy strappy pencil heels or the V slippers or chappals from Janpath or sneakers from Nike or just cuz I fell in love with THAT pair and oh look they have it in my size or there is a sale in my favourite shop and if I don't buy, their poor kid is going to go hungry :P

I love my shoes......
Right from my Nike oh-so-comfortable-floaters (my vote for the most comfy pair of stamp-along-like-that shoes definitely goes to them)
To my Bata chappals (I am a staunch Bata loyalist when it comes to bathroom slippers...right now I have the prettiest pair of white slippers with flowers on the V strap)
To my golden-coloured sandals (both of them)
To my silver sandals (with coins on the V strap)
To my black sandals (all 5 pairs of them. You see I am a sucker for black sandals - my logic being I wear black n white six days a week so I need lotsa pairs in black in all shapes n sized n heights)
To my white wedge heels (when I wear them my grandmom wonders how I manage to retain my balance walking on stilts)
To all my tie-up sandals (Oh they look so sexy, so comfy, so 'In', so chic, so cool, well I can go o and on and on like that Duracell battery)
To all my Osho chappals (I loved you all)
To all my jootis and the ghungrus on them(I loved them so much that I buried them in the back gardens of my PG in Pune...May you all rest in peace)
To my Power shoes (Pointy slingbacks - one pair in black n one in brown)
To my chappals picked up n he beaches of Goa (I can never go wrong in these)
To THAT pair of red sandals that I saw n the shop window the other day (Oh yes you are going to be residing in my wardrobe one day soooooon)
To all the future pairs of sandals to be residing in my wardrobe

Yes I love shoes...and yes Arjun will hit the roof when he sees me walk in with a huuge smile on my face and another shoe box in my hand....

Spare the Rod and.... ??

As school kids, we used to have major competition amongst ourselves to see who got the most raps on the knuckle for not doing homework or who stood the most number of classes being an 'outstanding' student (pun intended) or who had the most number of lines to do for playing pranks in class or who had to rum more rounds of the school for being too 'active' (read unruly) in class or whose parents got called more number of times to school or who had more notes in the diary to be signed by the parents or who had more demerits or who was made to sit out a P.T. period for wearing wrong shoes or who had to walk around the most number of times in a month for wearing wrong shoes or who was made to unhem her extremely short skirt (which meant an inch and a half above the knees).

I don't think any of us suffered physically or mentally by being disciplined. Our parents too do it at home. Which parent has never scolded his/her child or punished the child in some way or the other.

In fact, I would say that we all benefitted from this (at least we knew which teacher gave the most severe punishments and the level of pranks to play in each class). I clearly remember the time we were caught reading an MB (yes people a MILLS & BOON) in class by the teacher and our book was confiscated. We had to beg for ages for the book to be returned. I remember the number of times girls would be called out of the assemble line and were handed a safety pin for unhemming their skirts (this would then not make it obscenely short any more, as in it would cover your knees). I remember the time we got pulled up for talking in Hindi in class or the time we got pulled up for talking English during our Hindi class.I remember the time we got called to Sister Gracia's office for singing HINDI MOVIE SONGS in class (I was in Class II at that time).

Of course, we were lucky that we didn't have extremists or sadists who shoved electric rods up our ass or made us stand in the sun for hours on end or molest any of us or beat any of us to death.

However, if the new policy of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights does get implemented, the teacher will have no way to discipline the child. As children we were always told that our school was our second home and that our teacher was like our other parent, and she had all rights to scold us or tick us off. If this new policy comes into being, the teacher won't be able to even verbally tick off a student for playing the fool in the class. Besides by encouraging parents to file FIRs against teachers, the very idea goes against the concept of teaching being a noble profession. By encouraging parents to file FIRs, there will defintely arise several cases where such power would be misused by the students and parents, maybe where the student gets less marks, they file an FIR allegeing bias against the student. What is there to stop soemone from filing such a complaint? In any case, most Indian mothers are firmly of the opinion that their son can do no wrong, even if he is the gunda of the class. One remark from the teacher and parents will go filing complaints against the teachers. And what about those spoilt rich brats who need to be put in place? What is some student files a complaint stating that their fundamental rights are being infringed by being made to wear school uniforms? What if some student who did not do well in an exam and is too scared to tell his parents that, goes and says the tacher scolded him?

Teachers, as we know, mould the young minds - for which they may even require to pull up the young minds. This policy is rather extreme, in my humble opinion. If they have the right and duty to love and praise, conversely then they also have the right to criticise and scold. Taking punitive exemplary action against the sadists as mentioned earlier is defintely called for. However, taking such an extreme policy is definitely uncalled for.

Spare the rod and spoil the child or use the rod and beat the child????

What is your take?

SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIUS

Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay

Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Even though the sound of it

Is something quite atrocious

If you say it loud enough

You'll always sound precocious!!!!!

The longest word in the English languauge. Sadly, the exact origin of the word may never be pinned down, so this will be, for the time being at least, an incomplete report. But it is a fact that the word considerably predates the 1964 Disney movie Mary Poppins in which it was prominently featured.

In the West End and Broadway musical, everyone runs out of conversations, and Mary and the children go to Mrs. Corry's shop, where you can buy them. Jane and Michael pick out some letters and spell a few words. Bert and Mrs. Corry use the letters to make up some words (whose existence Jane doubts). Mary says that you could use some letters more than one time and creates the longest word of all in this song.

In the movie the song describes how using the word is a miraculous way to talk one’s self out of difficult situations and even a way to change one’s mood. It occurs in the film’s animated sequence where Mary Poppins is harangued by reporters after winning a horse race and responds to a reporter’s claim that there are not words to describe her feelings of the moment, and her life long dream of being in theater. Mary disagrees with that claim and begins the song about one word which she can use to describe her feelings. Following the successes of the film and musical play, the word has been used as an adjective signifying rather redundant superlatives, such as “the most absolutely stunningly fantastic” of experiences.

The word was never used in the original P. L. Travers books. The common theory is that the word was created by Richard and Robert Sherman for use in the song of the same name in Mary Poppins. This is far from the case. A lawsuit that was filed after the movie came out by Life Music, Inc., against Wonderland Music, the publisher of the Mary Poppins song. It was a copyright infringement suit brought by Barney Young and Gloria Parker, who had written a song in 1949 entitled "Supercalafajaistickespeealadojus" and shown it to Disney in 1951. They asked for twelve million dollars in damages. The suit was decided in the Shermans' favor because, among other reasons, affidavits were produced from two New Yorkers, Stanley Eichenbaum and Clara Colclaster, who claimed that "variants of the word were known to and used by them many years prior to 1949".

There was also some vague rumour at some point that the word was used to refer to Irish whores. Apparently, some article of Maxim (No I don’t read it, this part I got off the net) had stated that the word was actually invented by turn-of-the-century Scottish coal miners and was used to request “the works” from prostitutes by men too shy to recite specific acts. I think this is a load of bullshit. Who believes Maxim – for satisfying etymological queries anyway?? (Maybe to satisfy other urges…ahem ahem)

Anyway, it is also a fact that a 13 year old in US of A (where else) won $25,000 by correctly texting "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in just 15 seconds...with no spelling errors.

The word is mostly used by children (and by adults like me who attempt to bring out the child within them sometimes) to means something superbly fantastic, excellent, amazing. Roots of the word have been defined, as Richard Lederer writes in his book Crazy English as follows: super- “above,” cali- “beauty,” fragilistic- “delicate,” expiali- “to atone,” and docious- “educable,” with the sum of these parts signifying roughly “Atoning for educatability through delicate beauty."

SUPERCALIFRAIGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIUS!!!!!!!!!!!

ODE TO CHOCOLATE!!!!!!

I am a self-confessed chocolate freak. I neeeeeeeed to have some form of chocolate every single day - yes I know that is precisely why I am putting on wieght but, 'Ki kara paaji, control nahi honda' :p

I shall further stress on the point that it is a proven fact that chocolate has a number of beneficial effects on one's health.

1) Nutritional Value
The nutritional value of a 100 gm bar of chocolate:-

Calories Protein Carbohydrate Fat
Milk chocolate 588 8.7 54.5 37.6
Dark chocolate 544 5.6 52.5 35.2
Cocoa Powder 452 20.4 35.0 2.56

Cocoa contains phosphate and other minerals that work against the tendency to produce oral bacteria. Moreover, chocolates contain potassium, magnesium and several vitamins including B1, B2, D, and E.

2) Dil ka Doctor:
New research indicates that dark chocolate, like red wine, contains a substantial proportion of flavinoids - possibly good for the heart. A 1.5 ounce chocolate bar contains about the same amount of total phenolic compounds as a 5-ounce serving of red wine, which has been associated with a reduced risk for coronary heart disease.

3) My Immunity Strongest:
Further it is a well known fact that chocolate stimulates the secretion of endorphins, producing a pleasurable sensation similar to a 'runner's high', the high a jogger feels after a long stretch of running. These pleasurable experiences stimulate the body to produce a powerful antibody called secretory immuno globulin A, which strengthens the immune system.

4) Mood Upar Lifter:
Eating chocolate results in higher antioxidants, which cuts cholesterol. It is a powerful fighter of fatigue and not only boosts your spirit, but also raises your energy levels as well. It is also an anti-depressant. Chocolate contains a neurotransmitter, serotonin, which acts as an anti-depressant, while its other properties also have a stimulating effect. Chocolate reduces the formation of internal blood clots, further reducing the chances of a coronary blockage. Certain heart patients are prescribed aspirin, in order to prevent the formation of blood clots. Cocoa complements this property of aspirin.

5) Love-life
And chocolate is also an aphrodisiac......the rest shall be left unsaid!!!!!!

I shall not feel guilty no more when I eat chcOlates - after all I have to take care of my health yaa

So bring on all the Cadbury Perks, gooey chocolate cakes, choclate avalance, hot chocolate, chocolate fudge, choclate pudding.....CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE

Hello People :)

Hello People....i'v climbed on to the blog bandwagon too like everyone else around me.

I'v been thinking of maintaining a blog for quite a while now - but till now it was only planning, no implementation.But today, I managed to execute and implement the plan.

I feel different now - lotsa changes have taken place in my life over the past couple of months.I'm learning to adjust and give in at tmes and sometimes just not give in and stick to being an adamant stubborn bitch. Well, yes that's what I am - sometimes.

I am funny, smart, intelligent,beautiful,loving,caring,love to read and and sleep and I am a firm believer and militant advocate of having my own space and giving others their own space as well. I try not intrude on others space, but sometimes when I do end up intruding and trespassing, people your free to tell me off (your allowed to be slightly rude - though not very rude too or I will retreat into my shell). I am very possessive about my books and my momos as well :P (yes your allowed to laugh but it is a fact). I am also possessive about my pillow. I hurt easy, but I have learnt to hide my tears behind the smile on my face - a mask through which very very few persons can look beyond and see the tears on my face. Oh and yes I do love learning new things - be it cooking or the procedure int he various tribunals or be it making soft toys or how to play the guitar

Okay I guess, for my first blog post - not bad at all. Arjun, Runna, MMDD, Johnnie - I'm getting there.i'm not verterans like you guys at maintaining a blog and neither am I very blog savvy - but I SHALL LEARN