Not able to decide

What is Mrs. Dhanawat up to these days? Well she is still trying to come out of the shock that she is married and has completed six months of togetherness with Mr. Dhanawat. Phew, did I say six months? Damn it feels so old already.

It’s difficult to pass time here in Nepal, as I stay in a small town called Biratnagar. I had made it pretty clear to my husband that I didn’t want to be a home maker and that I would prefer to spend my time working professionally else what’s the point of me being a graduate. Thankfully my in laws are pretty cool with the idea of me working. Besides, we already have a cook so I’m not needed in the kitchen. I thought I should make a better fit of myself. 

Trying a new business seems like a great idea but the only thing which comes to mind is “will it survive?” ,considering  the purchasing power of people is low and adding to that they have a very weird mentality.  It is funny how for a particular goods or services people are ready to go out and spend but if same thing is made available in the city they are not ready to spend even a dime.

Initially I thought about business in imported fruits. Kathmandu is a good supplier of imported fruits and it gets its goods from China, India, and Thailand etc and has a good market as people are ready to buy expensive fruits. Tourists also do not hesitate to buy such products but when it comes to Biratnagar it is a different story. Who will buy such expensive fruits? I don’t think a market of imported fruits would survive here as the number of tourists visiting this town is very low.

I thought about designing wedding cards.  Wedding card is a need for every family. Residents of Biratnagar specially go to Kolkata to buy their wedding material which includes card purchase as well. Another spot for such shopping is Siliguri. Why not I design the card and people can buy from me if they are getting similar stuff in similar price range?

What do you think about this idea??

Sleepless

It was one of those nights when I couldn't fall asleep.  From the frozen leg to the terrible head aches, reasons were adding up to my sleepless night which made things more difficult.  Only if he could have been home I would sleep in peace. The silence of the night, the water dropping sound from the tap and the ticking sound from the wall clock were adding to mess around with my mood. 

It was late, eleven at night and no sign of sleep but only increasing ache in my head. To idle away the time I decided to call a friend.  I spoke to him for couple of minutes and hung up.  People in Nepal sleep so early that I couldn't think of any other single soul to whom I could talk at such point of time. Tossing and turning in bed, I frisked for my laptop so that I could spend some more time chatting around but then I realised my laptop was gone.

It was one at night and I wanted to call my best friend. Being married I gave a second thought if it was alright to call a guy who is my best friend at such point of time. Marriage does weird thing, makes you matured and makes you act stupid too. Though my husband is very understanding and he understands how close I am with my friends no matter boy or girl, still the second thought emerged my mind and I decided to hang up when I heard a knock at the door.

“Who is it?” I asked. It was him.

In his memories

Old memories of ours,
flickers again and again.
A day so sweet, a day so sour,
in your memories now and then.

Tears play hide and seek
but I try not to think.
Everything come forth like it just happened 

moments is slipping, nothing again.

Eyes related problems

Eye alignment problem, aisa bhi hota hai kya? Weird! I had constant headache for past one week and I finally decided to see an eye specialist when I was in Kolkata. Just two tests and they declared that I have some eye alignment problem and this can be fixed with particular set of eye exercises. The only side effect of this is head ache and nothing else.  This was something new to me. Eye alignment problem?? Bipasa Basu huh?? Lol.

I immediately asked my husband to find out with the doctors in my town (Biratnagar, Nepal) if they have such exercise facilities and to my utmost surprise they do. It’s been two sittings and after each session I have a heavy head and eyes ache  too. I still have to go through minimum of 16 sittings. Duh, what a pain.

Video related to assessment of eye alignment

When I asked the Doctor the reason behind my dry eyes, he answered that I had big eyes and the moisture of eyes evaporates easily. People with big eyes have more problems than small eyes. Though he is a well renowned Doctor in Kolkata, his answers to my questions left me incredulous. Dry eyes have no healing except to use artificial tear drops called “Refresh Tears” every day which make your eyes less dry. For me, it started with a severe conjunctivitis which stayed for a month and then the problem went on.

For more details to know what the hell dry eyes is, click here.

Finally Oranges and Ra.Two thing..

I was about to write about oranges in the sun but then I ended up having sneak peak in Neha’s blog who writes her review on Chetan Bhagat’s new novel “Revolution 2020”.  I am a slow reader. When I sit down to read something I do everything but reading. Checking sms, FB, chatting in messenger is big time distraction.

Coming back to Oranges, o what a feeling it is to eat oranges after waiting for winter so long. Sign of fog but yet the sun rays, sitting beside the window and eating oranges with my favourite person in home, my mother in law. Trying different way of eating oranges so that the tongue can twist and feel the awesomeness of the juice and pulp. yummm.

Ra.two -- I never thought Ra-one would be so boring movie. I read about the review on Ra.one before I went to watch the movie. My mother in law was damn excited to watch this movie. We reached the shopping mall at 10:30 and as per the mall’s timing, shops open only at sharp 11:00 AM. We were highly bored so bought ourselves two tickets of Ra.One in Gold class. Though the movie was boring we enjoyed the Gold class feel. Nicely yawned, slept and dreamt.

Sad thing was I had to watch the movie twice. My husband needed a company as there was a show covered my Round table (something like Rotary Club). I couldn’t say him no but somehow managed to be there for 2hrs 35 mins.

After all anything for love.

Diwali Prep and Dandiya night

I went out with my husband to attend a friend's birthday party. It was fun dining eight friends together followed by water and beer fight :)
Today we have plan to attend Dandiya function in evening. I hate dressing up for such occasion but still I am looking forward to this gathering.
Oh yes I finally resumed gyming with RD with time. It feels great working out.  I will also be learning swimming soon.
After praying for so long finally it is raining today. Rain simply adds smile on my face. I feel like having nice coffee.
Current status : 1, 2, 3 Check-
a) Oiled my hair with coconut hair (missed mom as she always use to oil my hair)
b) Applied Aloe vera (wo bhi Ramdev baba ka, lol...) in my face.
Saturday always feels like self pampering. Bubble bath in tub, followed by home made hair treatment, facial adding some nice movies with my husband.
My mother in law made pan cake. Thought it didn't come out how I know what pan cake looks like, it was still very nice of her to make pan cake for me for the first time. I know it is not fair, instead I should be cooking for her. That time will also come soon ;
My sister is law will be joining us for Diwali so planning for nice Rangoli this time. Though I am very bad in art, I will be helping her to fill the outlines with colours.
Apart from normal Diyas, candles and firecrackers if you guys have some other Diwali decoration ideas please share with me.
Oh yes RD's Bday is nearing. Its on 23rd September. I am still not able to come up with good idea to surprise him. Please help me.

The Unforgetful Party

The Journey to getting married was just awesome. Our bachelor party, every small functions and the Sangeet dance with Rohit in our favorite song Aankhon ki gunkhaiyaan..

Read it out for more details of what all happened.

The Cocktail party (aka Bachelor party) was just awesome. I was dressed up in red tube dress which I luckily found while shopping for something else. Nikita and Gitu my childhood friends along with my cousin sisters Dipti and Minu were with me, all set to hit dance floor. First I was shy of what I was wearing (as Rohit’s Cousin had to join us) but as soon I saw RD my whole surrounding was blurred.  All I knew by his gaze was that I looked beautiful. His fixed eyes on me made me feel that I did not need to bother who would see me and  how.

The dance floor was on the top most floor of a mall in Siliguri and the lift to the all the floors are located in the middle of the mall. It was embarrassing for us to reach the lift in front of the crowd but we managed somehow. There was a special number- “Wo peheli baar, jab hum mile” played for me and RD to dance in center of the dance floor. The dance was sexy and enjoyable because we both we high.  Half of the time we were busy spinning round and round holding hands (like how the camera moves in all direction in Hindi serial). We couldn’t help kissing in front of our friends and we didn’t bother either. It would be one of the best dances I ever had. At the end of party everyone was so badly drunk. The puking scene disgusted the floor and whoever stood to walk on their clumsy legs fell down on puke. It would be my memory stored in pages of my life time experience. We still talk about it and laugh.

Everyone was so badly drunk that none could remember how many times each of them fell down and how and who got hurt.

Next morning when I got up and checked myself out in the mirror I was surprised to see big boil on my head. We all laughed about it though I was little worried because Sangeet was on the same day,  a day before the big day the bride has a big boil on her head :P

Fasting...

Today is my first fasting after marriage. I am not much a true believer of fasting but then I fast for Krishna Janmastmi every year. I started fasting for Krishna Janmastmi when I was in class 11 and I wanted Lord Krishna to make my love story a success. Since then every year for RD I fast and worship Lord Krishna to bless me so that I could be his(RD's) soul-mate.

Today I fasted for Chana Chatt. It is something like Karwa Chaut. In this we are allowed to eat proper meal once at 4 in the morning and eat fruits or drink milk, juice, tea throughout the day.

My mother in law is damn caring. She called me at 4 in the morning to remind to have my breakfast. I don’t know how the day will pass because last fasting of Krishna Janmastmi was terrible. I felt sick for 10 days. I guess it was because of food poisoning.

I hope today won't be that difficult.

Finally in unit digits- 9 days to go

I can't believe I was away from my blog world since three months. Finally here to update again. Last time I posted I was counting back from 105 days. Finally its reduced to unit digit and I am still counting days. I am getting married on 6th July so I have been super busy. I always thought how can any one be so busy before months from the wedding day and now I realized wedding isn't any easy task.

I have been pretty depressed about my close friends not attending my marriage and its all because June -July is pathetic month to get married. Heat & rain, new job -so no missing training, internship, new session and relatives weddings and blah blah. Worst thing I can't do any thing about it.

The big day is near by and I wasn't even excited about it unless Nikita started flooding my FB Inbox and walls with all the excited scribble. Thanks Niks u really got me into wedding mood. I am glad she isn't ditching me on my big day. Today was the day when I and RD rehearsal for our sangeet dance. We chose our very special song - Aankhon ki Gusthakiyaan as this song means a lot to us (he had proposed me in the background of this song). The practice is done and we had great time dancing with all the close-ups and missing steps and redoing and giggling about it. I just hope when the final day comes to dance we do not forget steps and become busy looking at each other (likes those hindi movie types) :P and later realising that the song had already past away.

30th June would be my second wedding function of Haldaat and Geet. Looking forward to have fun in saree and celebration. I am sure that's enough update for now.

P.S. You all are invited on my wedding. Its happening in Siliguri (West Bengal, India). The wedding website link is http://www.mywedding.com/nidhiandrohit/ where u can find all the needed information. Please sign the guestbook and be a part of the memory lane of this wonderful journey of my new life.

105 days to go..

Suddenly I get butterflies. 105 days to go for my wedding. It sounds so near and when I think other ways it feels so far. Today morning when I visited my wedding link it showed 105 days to go for “THE DAY”. I smiled and felt I should hurry up with preparation. Not much time is left.

Last time for my sister’s wedding my dad had to write down names on card all by himself. It was a big and time consuming task so this time I have decided to give him helping hand by typing the addresses and getting it printed.

Finally shopping date is finalised. I will be going to Calcutta for shopping on 17^th of April with my parents and sis adding to it my in-laws, RD and his brother. I guess it will be fun to shop together.

Calcutta will be extremely hot. I just hope the weather remain pleasant during our visit.

This time pre wedding days won’t be fun as my elder sister is already married and my cousin sisters do not have holidays during that time. It’s not fun when kids are not around.

I and RD have been planning our HM. When I look into the website about the top honeymoon destination, all it speaks about is beach, island, and mountains. These are not place I wanna go, I neither wanna go visit a place full of museums and churches. I just want our trip to be less tiring and more relaxing. Meanwhile explore the city, not like those lazy couple who would spend most of the days of their trip in doors (yaar mein buddhi toh nahi hogi to think all this?)

Excitement begins. It is like Sensex going through peek and trough.

P.S. Please visit our wedding link and leave few words in guestbook.