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Of Neglected Secret Diaries - Part Deux

If only little Karishma knew that years later, an older and meaner Karishma would be posting excerpts from her secret diary. *evil laughter* I have talked about my abandoned secret diaries here before. And today, I am sharing with you an excerpt that was scribbled by me on a Saturday.. long, long ago.

Saturday Confessions

Saturday Confessions

5 Awesome Feel-Good Movies

When you've had a bad day, you're taking one down,you sing a sad song just to turn it around, here is my list of feel good movies that will make you feel warm, fuzzy and everything in between. And don't worry, no spoilers ahead.

 

1. Jab We Met

A depressed wealthy businessman finds his life changing after he meets a spunky and care-free young woman. 

It doesn't matter how many times I watch this movie, it is still as funny, it is still as touching and it is still my most favorite romantic comedy about how life comes full circle. Now if only Shahid and Kareena wouldn't have broken up. *sigh*

 

 

2. Priceless

 
Through a set of wacky circumstances, a young gold digger mistakenly woos a mild-mannered bartender thinking he's a wealthy suitor. 

Watch this french film to gape at the perfection that is Audrey Taotou, for it's subtle humor and tender romance and for the picturesque exotic locations that it has been shot in.

Saturday Confessions: 5 Totally Pointless Things About Me - Part Deux

As  "5 Totally Pointless Things About me" was such a hit *swag* I decided to follow up with a part two for the regular readers of my blog (yes, I am talking to both of you.)

1. When I was a kid, I went through a phase where I used to make my mother watch advertisements in a very irrational sort of way. I used to run to her, make her stop doing whatever she was doing, and force her to come with me and watch advertisements. Don't you just love these quirky little things about your childhood.*laughs uncomfortably and looks around* Anyway moving on..

2. At any given time I have more than 5-6, sometimes even 15 windows open on my laptop. I most probably have ADHD.

Saturday Confessions: In your dreams (Short Story)

You dream of her blissful honey brown eyes smiling distantly at you. That is something that had always bugged you subconsciously, her detached, indifferent ways. But in diminutive, almost indistinguishable moments, you had seen her virtuous smile. And in her so many selfless gestures, you had seen a purity that soothed your diffident, meek uncertainties. 

You saw Malhaar for the first time on the subway. Sitting on the window seat, she was engrossed in a book. You sat beside her, partly hoping she would take notice of you. You kept looking at her while pretending to look out of the window. Quick glances at first, but after observing that she hardly noticed you, you stared at her quiet daringly. She devotedly read the novel, going from word to word, line to line and at a point you noticed her honey brown eyes began to gleam. It took you a while to realize that she was holding back tears. Tears betrayed her otherwise composed face. 

Salty colourless honey drops escaped her honey brown eyes.

“Everything fine mam?”

She looked at you a bit surprised, but answered politely “Just a really sad book. That’s all.”

You would remember these moments forever. When you were a stranger to her. You would miss your Malhaar like this for the rest of your life.

The Return Of The "Dear Blank" Jokes

Warning: This post has nothing to do with confessions. Or even with Saturdays for that matter.

A joke format of "Blank Blank hona chaiye, Blank toh Blank bhi hota hai" was circulating recently. Oh god I love such crazy joke formats. You remember the "Gubbarewala...Hmmmm" joke format? What on earth was that and what did it mean? Did those jokes have some hidden meaning that I didn't know of, please enlighten me if you guys know what I am talking about.

Anyway, a long long time ago, I used to share "Dear blank please blank" jokes on a feature called LMAO Thursdays on my blog (please don't ask me what happened to that feature. Just don't.) I was recently killing time surfing the DBPB jokes site again, and thought about sharing some of the good ones with you here.

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Dear everyone, 

Please we get it, we dress awesomely. What do you think we spent all that time in the closet doing anyway?

                                                                                                                                 Sincerely, gay men _________________________

Dear Bruno Mars, 

Okay, it was cute the first few times you sang Just The Way You Are, but this is getting ridiculous. Will you just answer my question? Does this dress make me look fat? 

                                                                                                  Sincerely, your girlfriend who's getting tired of this

Saturday Confessions: 5 Completely Pointless Things About Me

So.. I.. have not been regular with my “Saturday Confessions” posts. Hey, don’t look at me like that, it’s not like you have been dying to read these features okay! Anyway, I wanted to get back on track, and as usual, I don’t have any deep dark confessions to share with you. But then there are always silly things that can be talked about. Today I am going to tell you five completely random, pointless things about me.

1) At random times during the day, an old advertisement jingle, some music track of a Disney cartoon or an old Govinda hip-shaking number from the 90’s, may just pop into my head and then play as the back ground music for all my daily activities, all- frigging- day- long.

Goodbye little fishy -Talia Joy Castellano

13 year old Talia Joy Castellano had been battling with two forms of cancer, but that didn’t stop her from living her life to the fullest. She shared some remarkable upbeat makeup tutorials and her cancer journey on her YouTube channel TaliaJoy18. She passed away on the 16^th of this month.

From Talia's official Facebook page:

"Talia Joy Castellano was born on August 18, 1999 at Winter Park Hospital to Desiree Castellano. She grew up with her Mother and Sister, Mattia Castellano, in the Orlando area and enjoyed her many friends and her doggie Bella. Her battle with cancer began when she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at the age of seven, on February 14, 2007, Valentines Day. In August of 2012, after over five years of chemo, surgeries, treatments and multiple relapses, Talia was diagnosed with a secondary cancer, MDS preleukemia. Talia was then told that there were no longer any options to fight her now two types cancers. During this past year, she continued treatments knowing there was no cure, but hoping to slow down the progression and prolong her life. At 11:22 am, July 16th, Talia lost her battle to childhood cancer after fighting for six and half years.

Saturday Confessions: The Importance of Procrastination

I procrastinate like it’s my job. I will be watching an episode of “Friends” when I should be working on a blog post, and will be Googling trivialities on “Robert Downey Jr” when I should be replying to emails.  I will be Youtubing when I am supposed to be doing the dishes, and will be doing the dishes when I am supposed to be cleaning the apartment, but seldom will I be found doing the thing that I actually should be doing. 

“Why such irrational behavior, why?” I ask myself dramatically. And this is funky, I actually come up with a poem to glorify my lazy deeds. Well now that I have written the poem, I might as well share it with you guys. Haina?

Saturday Confessions: Midyear crisis

June. When my New Year resolutions finally take their last breath. When nights slowly and sneakily start taking over days, a little more every day. The “Where the hell did half the year go!” month. The month when I turn another year older (and hopefully wiser.) Amid this midyear crises, I re-evaluate my amusing goals and silly dreams. And I make ridiculous resolutions all over again.

In other news, I wanted to confess about my short-term relation ship with songs. I like a lot of different types of music. Any song that makes me feel good goes into my playlist. Here are the songs that I am currently listening to. But I get over songs like Ted gets over his ex-girlfriends. I am always on the lookout for new music that stirs me. And by new I don’t mean the latest, I mean a song that I am hearing for the first time.

Oh and btw, it's  my birthday today.

Saturday confessions: Of neglected secret diaries

That is the first page of my abandoned secret diary.

When I was leaving Dehradun, I locked all my secret diaries (I had many) in a cupboard and gave the key to my niece, Pinky. I bestowed on her the responsibility of keeping my diaries safe, and that on the event of my untimely death, to burn them (I think I really said that.)

You would think that with the dramatic guidelines that I gave my niece, some deep, dark, Pretty little liar type secrets would be concealed in the pages of my diaries. Eh.. nothing of that sorts. But of course the diaries are interesting to me. With little titbits of my daily life so long ago, about the days when not completing my homework used to give me sleepless nights and 12:30 am was the time I used to wake up till to feel like a rebel.

In my diaries, I found pieces of me that I had not met in a long time. A highly ambitious 10 year old kid. A very much lost 15 year old teenager. And a ridiculously hopeful 17 year adolescent.

Saturday Confessions and Ramblings

Trying to start a weekly series on a blog is probably not the best idea for a lazy blogger, but I thought it would be a good way to challenge myself to give more time to GingerSnaps. Also, I don't think that I would be able to come up with confessions every week. I mean come on, my life is not that interesting. 

Now when we are talking about confessions, that doesn't mean those hardcore "FB confession pages" type confessions (god knows we have enough of those already.) Just some harmless little facts that people don't know about me would do.

So I want to confess.....