Finding the "right" place!!!

http://www.weddingsutra.com/lakmesalon/index.html

Ever tried the above site, or similar others??!!
I'm amazed that such sites exist, for I thought that even with such a BIG requirement, we "to-be" brides have very limited options...
:) But now I'm happy and ready to explore more.

So, if lakme has such a thing, as in door step services, so would other trusted brands!
Right Girls..
Loreal, VLCC, etc....are to name a few, which we can think and explore.
Lets do this...

Day 16 - Keep stress away (trying to)

I was just telling my friend, how number 13 has become an integral part of my life.
Even since I came to symbi, I had this as a roll number, and then the room number (409) adds upto it and then tomorrow, for a company process again I've been assigned the same number.
Though I'm not even sure if this is what I want, but I'll give my shot, and leave the rest to fate. I'm not escaping anything, but then I also believe that whatever happens, happens for a reason. Only when you reflect back do you realise that all the blocks in the puzzle match perfectly!

Wish me luck...I need it.
And guess what...another pimple!!!
:(

I've applied tomato, and its saving my life, from further adding those "monsters". (I got it from the mess, hee hee)

Day 14 & 15

Only 8days left to go and home!!!!!!!!!
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee............

I'm super duper happy!!!!!!
You know...this would be like...me being centre of attention and getting "whatever" I want...
hee hee hee...its like am a child again...running here and there..and everyone after me!

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These thoughts really lift my mood esp during these hectic days, when I just drop dead on my bed to sleep like anything.
But hey, today was an exception, I went to gym and did Yoga with the help of an instructor. It felt so fresh and pleasant..I'm definitely going everyday.
Wow! what a day...these days have been like a roller coaster though and for some strange reason I'm liking the food A lot! Maybe its the food..maybe my adrenaline...

Neyways...life is good. I'm happy and I'm so very thankful to Bhagwanji for EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!

Day 13th - Thats my roll number!

Yesterday was supposed to be my "Dahi day"..but work popped up, and I had to leave it and carry it for today.
Hey...and I'm really happy with the progress I'm making. I've reduced so much that my roommate says signs of cheek bones are evident!
Even the fat around my waist has reduced so much!!!!
:D
Wow! Now, thats a booster. I've realised that not sitting upright is responsible for girls to have fat, especially, around that area, and it looks so gross!! Also, if you try consciously to sit upright, you are not only keeping that fat away but will be younger longer. Thats right! Its a youthful remedy.
Now, I'm sure you'd like me to add keeping your shoulders back and chin up too!!! Sure...please do that too. It will, in the long run, be very helpful. Because we girls face a lot of problems in that age, so why not reduce it by doing small small things.
It adds to your elegance as well.

I remember once I was wearing a saree and sitting on a table, upright. My teacher complimented me, how elegant I looked! Nice na...

Another thing is, I feel my hair have grow...yipeee!!!!
But my face has two pimples on the same side, one quiet near the other...
:(         you know how that happens...stress, and all...But I'm trying to take care. I need to...because I want to...It feels nice inside to look good, clean and happy!!!

I'm Happy......................................

Day11 &12 - Images of Dreams!!

Day10

When I peep out of the window..I see a beautiful sky.
With so many colors and so many designs...this open sky before me is like a painting coming alive...

:)

Stress gave me a present today - A Pimple!!!!!
Awee...see this is what happens when you think too much. Life is only so much complicated as you make it.

Hopefully this pain (pimple) goes away soon...im waiting for my saturday more eagerly, to get that sooothhhhiiinggg steam bath!
Ahh...cant even describe how wonderful and relaxing it!!
Once a week is never harmful..if you feel your pores will open, apply ice or astringent on face after you steam to close them.

According to www.indiaparenting.com, taking a steam bath regularly helps boost your immune system. An artificial fever is induced as the body temperature rises high. This rise in body temperature destroys most bacteria and viruses in the body, and it stimulates the immune system to mobilise its own forces. If a steam bath is taken at the onset of a cold, it helps ward off potential flu. However, it will not cure a cold, although it provides relief and opens up the nasal passage. At 106 degrees pneumococcus, a bacterium responsible for pneumonia, dies.

And please use your nails gently to remove the white and black heads...its very easy to remove them after steam. But I do want a permanent or a longer duration solution to this problem, if you guys have any ideas, pls share!

Till then...keep smiling!

Catch an Idea!

Maybe I'd want something like this too...

http://100layercake.com/blog/

Catch more ideas here...wow! Amazing real wedding ideas!!!

:)

Day 9 - .......................

My next BIG task is to make a list of things I need to buy when I go home, so that my parents and friends can help me find them.
Here's what all I'm thinking of buying: (I'm all flexible things can be included and excluded)

1. My Engagement Dress (a saree or lehenga) - not predeciding the color yet.
   
2. Matching Accessories like: Jewelery (artificial can also do),  I want in particular a beautiful Tika (maybe with embedded stones) instead of a neck-piece and bangles...
3. The Ring
4. A good beauty Parlour: for makeup, facial and spa, hairdo, etc
   
5. _______

Oh my God...is that it?!!!
Maybe I'm forgetting something...pls help me if I am!!!
This can't be IT!!!!

Anyways, to keep my skin all healthy and glowing...as mentioned in earlier posts...I'm religiously following everything...and seems its working as well..
;)

I may also meet up old friends...if there is a re-union planned, else we'll meet up anyways..yeah!
I'm super excited...

And I'm sleeping a lot too...good for me! I totally deserve it, after the type of stressful work I do everyday.
Sleeping and talking to my To-be...are the best times of the day!!! I'm sure you'll agree...

Day8 - Finally!!!!

Celebration time..this really feels like a time of holiday and good energy is flowing in from all over.
I woke up early and exercised, achieving my First BIG target, 1hour of Yoga and Meditation.

I pursued my work related tasks effeciently and to be honest I was even able to learn some new things, about the way people are.

Fighting is not everything, and it gives great relief to me to be able to overcome that and think clearly.
Its so important to understand who you are, and what you stand up for. If you don't you are manipulated by others and you only end up demoralised. I talked to many people to express their views on this, and I got the same answer: Respect yourself first!

I'm also "sad"...how small things can change your relationships with people forever. The rest of it I'm trying to adjust and accomodate myself with, accepting the fact that you cannot do anything about it. You can only learn and move on.
:(
I'm really sad.


Anyways...one should do, what they need to do and move on!


"Everyone's good"

And...keep drinking lots of water...

Day7..waah ji waah

You know whats the best part of a Sunday?? - You can anything you want to...
hahaha

I watched two movies back to back - "New in Town" & "Love Actually"
Both were really nice
and then...went to Dominos...had Cheese burst pizza!, garlic breads, Choco cake volcano..hahahaha

And on top of that...me saying...no no I dnt want more..you know I have to be in shape...and then suddenly remembering..that once in a blue moon IT IS OKay...
I mean...come on girl...we really do not need to think sooooooooooooooo much while having something so Godly Yummy!!!!!!!!!!
:p

It's so hard to resist your temptations...so make space for one such day when its a holiday for everything
Your work, you diet, you exercise, your normal life....
Try something different from the usual.

I even wanted to visit the famous Dagru Sheth" mandir. I've heard so much...but havnt yet visited it!

I need peace of...peace of mind baby...
I'm really happy today...after that "I-dont-care-eating fatty-things" day!

Hey BUT here's what I read from Kareena Kapoor's article, and actually liked, "when she saw Jennifer Aniston carrying a water bottle with her all the time, she quit Aerated Drinks then and there"

That's my agenda too...only water and lots and lots of it.
What a holiday mood!

Loved it!!!

Day 6

Finally Saturday was here and I was ready to go and in do all that stuff which I've been talking of the whole week.
A Big little surprise also came my way...Renna getting placed..wow!
:D

Haisha...husha...and we all fall down!!
We all went merry at the news...

Ofcourse, Renna wasn't in her senses until evening...hee hee
Afterall the "first" girl of our batch getting placed Title isn't such a bad one afterall.

I always have this feeling that each day is so different from the rest. It always has something which wasn't there before.  Counting on it and appreciating it, is a big thing for me. If we all write down all those good things (big or small) which happens to us everyday or/and which people say to us, how happy we would feel, just imagine.
This was the last thought that came in my mind last night, after celebrating Gauthami's bday!
Boy...did I have to struggle from keeping the boys to snatch the cake and dumping on her. Last time, on Deepa's bday we cudnt even eat it.
I say..."first eat it and then Smash it!"
:) haha
I know, mine's not that far either...

The cake was tasty Deepa...thanks for that! And Gauthu...Many many happy returns of the day...have a more beautiful life ahead, may God fulfill all your pure wishes (plus naughty ones)

Chao!

Day 5

Yesterday was a little difficult to pass..especially when you are looking forward towards 2 days of fun and relaxation!
I wish I were home...ohh how much I miss home now. This feeling of leaving your parents and going to a new home is quiet scary..
:(
How much I miss my parents, my brothers...!!!

Sometimes I dont even feel like growing up and moving to that phase, while in others the excitement is so intense...I'm all moody and life's like...going in waves too...
Up and Down
Up and Down

This is from my Bhaiya's wedding just an year ago

Today seems like Yesterday

And yesterday like the day before

Time's moving so fast

I really do not know

I don't wanna be a big girl anymore

I don't wanna mature

But life is like that what to do

You have to let it go.....

Wow..now I'm starting to write poems online too...I do do that when I'm "emotional", but sharing it like this is the first time.

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Day 4...

Hey girls...thanks for the great inputs...I'm sure others will benefit too!!
I guess the best part of living in hostels is that you learn such great tricks...

Like...every friday or saturday, most of the girls in my batch, would get lots of curd, which we get in our mess in lunch time, fill up their coffee mugs with it and take along lemon too, to the room.
We mix things up, and put on in our hair, body...and so on
Amazing na..I even take steam bath! - how? I put on the shower on hot mode and let the water flow...lots of steam and lots of oohh la la...

Anyways, thats "our"  trick, whats yours??
And, oil your hair, before you put on the curd for added benefits.

I'm all smothie smothie for sure, and makes me feel so very clean! wow...I'm waiting for my Saturday to come

Hey..I even observed that that blackness, due to shaving your underarms also goes away!
:)
Just in case you do...try it out.

But till now, the best scrub and effect came from "the Tomato"
Here's what you can do...
1. Grind sugar
2. Cut on slice of tomato, preferrably the part with the stem
3. Coat evenly the tomato with sugar
4. Slowly scrub in circles around your face.

Best results can be seen in "one" day of this process...cool na!

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I'm a little upset...coz I'm not able to get up early. I just drop dead on my bed and lo! My roomies wake me at 8-9, that too for breakfast sakes!

Gawddd...this won't work for long...esp when you so need to be in shape. But I'm giving myself time to adapt back to my original routine, lets keep our fingers crossed, because from the day I start getting up early, there would be no looking back.............

My Love Horoscope for the Day

Your emotions are up down and all around, Pisces, when it comes to the game of love. Whether you are single or attached, you are in a period where you are feeling like you have stormy skies one minute, and blue skies the next. This is a period where you don't want to get too carried away by the stormy energy, but rather focus on what it is that makes you happy and fulfilled during those blue sky days. If you have been missing someone from the past, then you will want to tighten your focus in this direction. It is possible that you have misjudged a situation and there is a way to work things out, but you will need to make the next move here.

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Hope the horoscope doesn't become a horror-scope...

Day3 - Walk with me!!!

Hey Girls...
Thanks for appreciating my blog
:)
I'll really apprecaite all your honest views...
And you know what would be even better? - if you can add to something I write here.

Okay, now I was reading Nov COSMO yesterday...it has quiet a few good things on the "styles, trends, makeup, tips"...hee hee...
They had lehengas and matching accessories in almost all colors, I just loved it!
You know, I find it very difficult to choose anything the first day of shopping, and then many times I tend to buy something which is just okay to me, out of frustration. So, I was just thinking of getting an insight into the latest trends to be more focused on what I actually want and bought the COSMO from E-Square last weekend.
It even has this article on "what feelings you might be experiencing during this time".....
Still havnt read that one! But will do that today...I'm going all too crazy too...
:)

Since this is the marriage season..almost every mag has such things...I wish there were something totally dedicated to Indian brides...I am not aware of any such thing, until now.
So, please help if someone is aware.

Now, my next task is...to take very good care of my feet. The following are some small things, which can really help to maintain them in the long run...so, here you go...

• Clean your legs after you come back from work. Just soak them in warm water with lemon and RELAX!
• Using the tip of a "filer" just remove the dirt from sides of the nails...thats where they get into most.
• Do some toe exercises - this will even help with stress (like streching etc)
• Do...always...at any cost...moisturise and/or oil them often, like you do with your face.

I've also eralised that some Nail Paints look good on my toes than on my hands. So, please go out and shop something for your toes and your hands, to be ready for the D day in advance!

Take Care
:)

Youthful Apple!!!!

http://in.news.yahoo.com/photos/slideshow/michelle-s-secret-is-out.html

"A Swiss apple a day keeps Wrinkles away???????!!!!!!!!"
Where do they get such news from??? - I ask.....

I've heard that having fruits empty stomach helps the most - help me to know .... serious/joking????

Day2___stress too...

The day started off pretty well today...I had my schedule moving, but Roar! came a lightening...
I survived....sort of!
And dropped dead on my bed, trying to recover...

I didnt even have the energy to talk...what a day!

Now, I'm feeling better, sleep can carry off anything I say, anything.
So, girls...dont miss your beauty sleep...I didnt.
Thats the best thing that can happen to you.

Hey and I have a really good tip for you...

"Applying Vaseline under your eyes can be very helpful to put those blemishes and wrinkles away"....

:)
This is tried and tested, do this before you go to bed. Just loved it!

And girls...please pray for me...I so wanna start getting up early!!!!!!!!

Day1...trying to rise!!!

It was rough and it was tough to get up early...coz I could barely sleep all night.
Nights are tougher these days, I'm guessing it to be the aftermath of a 10day long exam!
I hate exams!!!!

And this 3rd sem exam, did make me struggle.

Anyways, my day went all the more bad with some hiccups here and there. I finally managed to be more relaxed in the evening, still not sleeping, so I could sleep early at night. My gang of girls, went out for a good walk. I really enjoy being with them...Goddd...how much I'll miss all this later!

Tips: Never go out without your girlfriends.Anyways, how much will you enjoy without them being there. I love the way they treat me, pamper me...
These moments are the best days of my life. You always get help in almost anything from them, esp in times like this, when I have NO idea what to do or even think.

Thankyou Girls....for everything!!

Love ya!

A few good links...

Get more ideas from the following links...

http://www.i-do-it-yourself.com/

http://100layercake.com/blog/

http://www.diybride.com/

Grab a few magazines if you wish..nline is not as developed for Indian brides...

All the best!

The countdown has begun...

Hi Girls...and all the Bride-to-be's,
I'm just another girl, who's getting engaged soon...14th Feb 2010
With less than three months to go, I'm both excited and in a state of panic..

2months and 16days to go for the E-day

Wow! What a day has been chosen...cant be more happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D

And my mind just goes on imagining the various things..hee hee

Anyways, lets do this girls, and let do this right! I've made a regime, strictly to be followed for each day. I've been doing some things, which I'll describe in later parts of my post, but here's what I'll do starting from tomm...
Hope it helps you as much as it helps me
:)
Feel free to post in your comments, suggestions...experiences...

1. Get up early morning
2. Smile looking at your beautiful self in the mirror
3. Have "Noni Juice" empty stomach
4. Go for a jog
5. Do Yoga and Pranayam
6. Get ready for work
7. Drink lots of water through out the day
8. Try sitting erect as much as you can (secret: keeps you young longer)
9. Never have water in between meals
10. No Rice, No Sweets (only once a week in accordance with body types)
11. Never keep yourself hungry and think thats the best way
12. Have fruits in evening
13. Have an early dinner
14. Smile
15. Go for a casual walk in eve..to destress
16. Yognindra is a beautiful option after the walk
17. Clean your face and neck twice a day
18. Use sunscreen 7x12
19. Early to bed
20. No fights and arguments: keep them as low as possible (you know how stress is harmful)

Haha..guess this list will never end for me, surprising its this long..but I have followed this before. And believe you me, I could feel all the positive energy flow in...ask my friends...my face glowed!!

So, girls take good care...getting engaged is not the only reason you will...do it for yourself!

I'll be updated on what I do everyday. Till then...byeee
:)