Straight but natural!

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 12/18/2012 12:15:00 PM

'I had a craze for long hair, although for much of my growing up years, my hair was never beyond shoulder length. My mother always made me get a hair cut and said NO to long hair before I was old enough to manage it on my own. She also had a valid reason to not let it grow long. My hair wasn't particularly thick and lustrous and the belief is a regular trimming of the hair follicles makes it much healthier.But, I had a normal straight hair which I absolutely loved. Both my mother and(...)'

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Why did Betty lose?

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 8/22/2012 6:33:00 AM

'Why did Betty lose out to Veronica?Betty was nice sweet girl next door, the girl every son would want to take home to his mother.Dependable and caring and most importantly always available!She has eyes ears and nose only for Archie, she had empathy for every one but she loved only one. And this putting all her eggs in one basket was her fatal flaw.She was tooo boring for Archie, he didn't get the kick of a challenge when it came to Betty, she should have scorned him a bit, just show(...)'

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Arrange it by love only!

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 8/6/2012 4:18:00 PM

'Outwardly I am the one modern girl, but when it comes to traditions and customs, I don't dare to challenge them and rebel against them. So when my time came and was going to tie the knot, I very much knew what I had to do. Yes, Arranged marriage was the one for me. I did all the research and all data pointed out that arranged marriages last and not the love marriages which have a high divorce rate.After all at the tender age of 18 when I got fixed up, I don't think the affairs I had(...)'

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Honesty prays

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 4/25/2012 10:59:00 AM

'My seven year old nephew is very God fearing and is ready before noon to offer his friday prayers.Today being a friday, he had a special wish to ask from God!He was seen earnestly praying and offering his salaat.When I asked what was it he was asking Allah.He replied, " Allah and Satan fought and Allah won. So Allah has locked Satan in the bathroom."So he said he was asking Allah to please take out Satan from the bathroom and lock him elsewhere because it has become very difficult f(...)'

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cup or prize?

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 4/25/2012 10:50:00 AM

'My kids are having their final exams. My son came back from school today and I asked him the usual," How was the paper?" he replied that it was fairly easy.Now last quarter my son had been rather good and was awarded with full marks in his General Knowledge test. This got my aspirations and hopes higher for him. Now I want him to get full marks in all his subjects.I always ask him after the end of each test, "full marks?"He tried to explain to me that the GK marks he got was because(...)'

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Ride ride and away..

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 4/6/2012 3:30:00 PM

'In olden days, a middle class well to do joint family owned one car while many bikes or scooters, unlike nowadays where there are per car per member of the family. I was a part of one such family.I grew up seeing my father ride a bullet. He had this big bike he had bought in the year 1967. It had a sputtering sound which I always identified with him. The bike was already a decade old by the time I was born and he rode it till around I was more than 2 decades old, after that he (...)'

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Multitasking man

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 3/23/2012 10:05:00 AM

'Women are more often calledmultitaskersToday I saw a man multitasking. I was pleasantlysurprised. I usually thought that I had nopatience to become a shopkeeper or even a teacher. Especiallyshopkeepers seemed to be doing nothing, except endlessly waiting forthe customer to come and buy. Their work made me want to go to sleep.I would rather become a labour in a factory where I continuouslyworked each cell in my body. Being still is so lethargic!! Now, this man, is the owner of a shop(...)'

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Rewarding is worth it!

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 3/22/2012 1:42:00 PM

'I was having tea and like the Tata tea ad (jaago re) suddenly it seemed as if it was the tea which enlightened me.I usually have a habit of going back in time..I am quite surprised at my own chain of thoughts..This is how it all started..While sipping my evening tea, my eyes fell on the neatly stacked up shoes of my toddler.I was thinking, barely she is 2 and she has such a collection.. So cute it looks small shoes of different colours.And then, I was reminded of the fairy tale I re(...)'

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Heal the world!

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 3/19/2012 3:16:00 PM

'The telephone bell rings..Ring? Ring? Ring? Ring?There is no one to answer the callQuestion 1 : Do you know who the caller is?Answer 1 : The caller is mother Earth.Question 2 : Do you know who the receiver is or should be?Answer 2 : You, me and everybody.Question 3 : Why is no one answering the call then?Answer 3 : No one can hear...or perhaps not bothered.Question 4 : Are you saying people are deaf?Answer 4 : No, they are just thick skinned. They just don't get it if its not loud e(...)'

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funny

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 3/17/2012 7:26:00 PM

'A cousin dropped in today.This guy is very funny. I mean he was actually funny in a very funny way.Let me tell you the first time I thought he was really funny.He was perhaps in class 5 or so. Pretty much a kid.He came back from school one day in march many years ago. Since we all lived together then, I still remember very clearly that funny day. He had come home from school and his mom checked his question paper asked him the usual, "beta, you knew all the answers na, did you write(...)'

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Paradigm shift

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 3/13/2012 2:59:00 PM

'A change for the better or worse?Everything changes, sometimes for or against us. Sometimes we think the change is for good but there is always a good and bad side to every change. It is good to take into stock how much of the good overrides the how much of the bad the change will bring unto us.We keep harping only on the benefits of change, but sometimes we need to take a closer look at the change. Isn't the world a much changed place now? In the last century there is tremendous ch(...)'

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I almost lost her!

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 3/2/2012 12:31:00 PM

'The Kanpur central station announced the arrival of Kalka mail from Howrah on platform no 6.My husband was coming to receive me. I had my kiddos with me. My daughter was barely 7 and son was 5 then."Munni, hold this packet and hold your brother's hand and don't leave it," I instructed to my daughter. There was more than 2 big luggages and we had to hire a coolie. We still had to carry the small bags and packets which seem to keep on increasing in number till we actually get on the j(...)'

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"Hi Miss."

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 2/27/2012 10:27:00 AM

'"Hi miss," said the stranger sitting opposite my berth. I don't know when he boarded the train. Maybe it was during the night. He was was right there when I awoke. He seemed to me to be quite a forbearing kind, with no smile or any nod of acknowledgement to a fellow passenger. I thought, khadoos (means arrogant) who wants to befriend you anyway?I looked up to be sure it was me he was addressing. I replied and he asked me if I minded chatting with him? To be honest, I am game fo(...)'

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A real getaway Dhosa!

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 2/24/2012 7:41:00 PM

'farmhouse sighted!entrance to the farm house over the foot bridgeLast year, while I was already vacationing in Kolkata, I had gone to the Sundarbans with my parents and my own family of husband and kids. My father has some friends who have a kind of a farmhouse just near to Sundarbans. This is a small village called Dhosa. We went there in our own car and it took us approximately 3 hours to reach that place from Kolkata. The distance is not much, but the roads are narrow and th(...)'

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Tumultuous Traveller

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 2/23/2012 4:37:00 PM

'busy airportEnter a railway station or an airport, I am throbbing with a joy quite indescribable. Being born and brought up in Calcutta, a basically plain and not so much happening city, the mountains, the deserts and the beaches were all the kind of geographies I wanted to see.My love for foreign travel was much more because there was more to see, the people especially, the whites, yellows and blacks!! Thanks to some big banner Indian movies, I got to get a glimpse of the beautiful(...)'

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Reliving Realities

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 2/20/2012 5:52:00 PM

'Perhaps I was born at the right time or I was lucky enough to have stayed in 100% real places for most of my childhood holidays. Yes, my maternal grandparents stayed at the smallest of villages in North India, and I would look forward to spending my vacations there.I was from Calcutta, a big city, with not much open spaces and though there are a lot many parks, they don't have trees with mangoes or litchis hanging on them!!My grandparents lived in a sprawling house with a shed for c(...)'

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HA HA HA

Author : shazia m      Blog : I wish      Date : 1/28/2012 6:44:00 AM

'Today I saw a cartoon caricature of our very cute and good looking Rahul Gandhi. I burst out laughing. Then I thought how does he react when he sees such distorted images of himself in the newspapers. What do the filmstars or other politicians or any other famous personalities do when they see these caricatures of themselves!After much ponder, I thought they must laugh it off for obvious reasons, that is they can't silence these caricaturists. But surely, we must take a lesson or tw(...)'

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Potty and God

Author : shazia masood      Blog : I wish      Date : 12/10/2011 11:16:00 AM

'I have a year old toddler. Naturally the wonder bundles come with their pros and cons. One of the cons is, they are always doing potty in their pants, since they cant say when they want to do it. If I miss to make them sit on the pot they do it right in their pants and go on playing as if nothing has happened. Of course by the time I notice it, it is already spread to the thighs and I have the dirty work of washing the baby and the pants.And I have a friend who particularly takes hu(...)'

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The real princess

Author : shazia masood      Blog : I wish      Date : 10/29/2011 11:10:00 AM

'As a girl, I was always dreaming of my prince.There were many of them, in stories of Rapunzel, in the sleeping beauty, in the Snow White, in Cindrella.However, there was one princess I was in love with.She was as mentioned in the book, a real princess.She had come knocking one day to the castle of the prince who was looking for a real princess. She announced as she came in very nonchalantly that she was a real princess. The queen decided to give her a test and made her a bed of almo(...)'

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Affairs of life!

Author : Shazia      Blog : I wish      Date : 10/20/2011 10:54:00 AM

'A LIE is to LIFE what an extra MARITAL affair is to MARRIAGE'

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