If looks could kill ....

It would be wrong to say that I dont admire talent and beauty. Now that I am a pakka/normal/straight girl, I would re-write the statement as "It would be wrong to say that I dont admire talent and handsome-ness( I dont know if thats even a word!!) Getting straight to the point, I always had this idea of creating a list of my top ten handsome men and I have finally compiled one. So here goes:

1) John Abraham : Any one who even remotely knows me would know that this name had to be on the top of my list. There may be people better than him, he may not be a very decent actor, blah blah keep talking people! I am not listening. He is the world's hottest man hands down!

2) Ian Somerhalder: For people who dont know him, he plays Damon Salvatore in Vampire Diaries. He is the "Bad Guy" with a good heart and he is a dude!!! He is charming and witty and loving and caring and useless people like me keep wondering if he is going to get Elena (The female lead of Vampire Diaries) or not.

3)Farhan Akhtar: I really find him cute and funny. He simply has this genuine sense of humor without the desperate attempt of being funny. Probably that is what I like the best about him. And i am duly impressed that he is multitalented. I dont have to really write that. Acts, directs,sings and I am sure there are others as well and if you see carefully, he is quite good looking as well! Did I mention he has a wierdy nice voice?

4) Ali Zafar: Another good looking, talented singer. For his latest album Jhoom, he pulled off a one man show. He wrote the lyrics, sang the songs, composed and mixed the music and also acted in the video. I was a little disappointed with him in "Mere brother ki dulhan". I mean he can act and he has proved that in his videos. I dont know why did he under or probably over performed in MBKD. But I know he is a rockstar!

5) Hrithik Roshan: He is "theee most" good looking guy (But still John scores 'cos of the smile!! ). What I love about him is that he seems to be very down to earth and he comes across as a real good human being. I loved him .. like really loved him in Dhoom:2. However illogical the movie was, I can see it again and again only for him.

6)Paul Weasley: Now he is Stefan Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries. He is the good brother to Damon. Until the last season, he never killed a human being for blood and was all pro-humanity. But now Klaus (the original Vampire) has put him under compulsion and I will stop here before I start off with the VD story. Again he is good looking, loving .. extremely loving, protective and caring.. and HOT!! :) :)

7) Shah Rukh Khan: Yesterday I was watching DDLJ for the (n+1)th time. He is not your essentially good looking guy. But please notice the look on his face when he says "Duniya ka koi bhi ullu ka pattha tumhe ek angoothi pehna ke mujhse duur nahi kar sakta." If you still dont fall in love with SRK the reasons could be as follows :
1) Your BF is romantic-er than SRK (I am sure there is no such word again!)
2) You are super cold hearted
3) You are a boy
4) You like girls

SO SRK with his romantic gestures, his dimples and the fact that he is actually a self made man makes a place in my top 10.

8) Ranbir Kapoor: I like him only because he is good looking and talented. There is nothing extra "special" about Ranbir. He gets everything in the genes. So nothing worth mentioning about him. But all said and done he is a very good actor!

9)Arjun Rampal: He is exceptionally good looking. I remember how Vibha and I were literally gaping at him where we were watching him dance to "apni to jaise taise" in housefull. And he has pretty much learnt to act. I mean they dont really give out national awards to non actors. He may not be an Amir Khan but he is improving and thats what I really like about him.

10) Leoonardo Di Caprio: Good looking, super awesome actor and an amazing body of work. Pick up Titanic or Catch me if you can or Shutter Island or Inception or whatever, he is an amazing actor! You just cannot help but be a fan of Leonardo Di Caprio!

Thats my list. And BTW while I was compiling it, there was a 11th name. Technically, I dont know his name. Mr. Fresh. Yup!! My un-named Hyderabad crush! The absolutely super good looking tall hunk!

Suggest me more add-ons. There can be a part two as well! :)

When love stories die ...

I have seen perfect love stories come to an end for ridiculous reasons. I know its never my business but I get that helpless feeling .. like I wish i could do something for them. Like I could turn back time, could convince the villains (Read: Parents/Relatives)... Something which could bring those two together.
I have heard about people retreat into silence. I have seen friends crying themselves to sleep and waking up the next morning ...with a fake smile and a real resolution to face the day. I have also witnessed the same people gathering themselves up and now leading normal lives ... contemplating to move on.

Someone very truly once said to me, "Kisi ke aane ya jaane se zindagi nahi rukti, lekin kisi ke aane ya chale jaane se zindagi badal zaroor jaati hai".Its like when you hear "Shaam Tanha" by Agnee and identify with the line .. "tere jaane se main adhoora reh gaya". Life does not stop. But you leave a bit of yourself behind ... in the past. Never to be found ... never wanting to be found again.

I dont know why am I writing this. Maybe because when I look at those people, I truly wish the story had lived on ..to be told like a complete happy story and not an unfinished one ...
Because when true love stories die, something else dies with them. Praying that all true love stories have a happy life ..that they never end!!
May there be lots of love in this world ...

... and then there was another trek

I had been to one trek trip without knowing what it really was all about. When I returned from it, all swollen and limping, I was sure that i was done with my share of adventure. I was done with trekking, but somehow trekking was not done with me.
So when Om’s friend (and now mine too) Jinal came down to Bangalore, he being the adventure freak planned a trekking trip with the ever hungry for adventure guys Diptesh and Lohith. I was pooled in as well. In typical Om’s style, I was just informed that we have to go for a trek.”You are coming”. Not “Are you coming?” But my guard was up. If life would have been a movie, on the screen that time, the scene would be the flashbacks of the super tiring last trip. I tried giving him all reasons Anyhow!! He convinced me to come along and go along I did.
So was this trip as scary as I was anticipating it to be? Not really! Turned out that the trek route was beautiful, the company was fun and weather was decent. Since this was an almost chilled out trip, with nothing super-different happening, here are just a few highlights :
Power packed little trekker: Diptesh introduced us to Suman. A quite, pretty tiny girl. Now I know never to underestimate little people. A very very useful lesson! This little girl climbed wet stones, ran down hill, jumped, walked and never complained. We were just amazed! And by the way ..... this girl can blow that shrill whistle! The Bhopal ki bharat talkies back benchers whistle!! Hats Off Suman!!!! You rock!

Smiling lonely farmers: We stopped by a lonely house where an extremely friendly family stayed. They welcomed us with a very sweet smile and gave us these big cucumbers to eat which tasted awesome. We just dug our teeth in them and tasted the most amazing ever cucumber.

Leeches Screeches: To say that Jinal was scared of leeches would be an understatement. Petrified ... maybe! Horrified/terrified ... Use any word! Be my guest! You get the point. Jinal would screech at the top of her lungs when attacked by leeches. Unfortunately, poor girl was attacked the most. But she had so many of the leeches coming on her, that I am sure she might have overcome her fear by now. I know you will be the bravest of all when it comes to fighting with Leech attack in the next trek Jinal!

Awesome Nature: One of the points why I was being super-reluctant to go to the trek was because I felt I was done with mountains. I mean I have crossed off Laddakh from my list! How much more of mountains can a person take? But still, mountains and clouds have some way of mesmerising you every time. The more we climbed up towards the peak, the more beautiful the valley seemed. When we were at the peak of Kodachadri, sitting and enjoying the mountains, the clouds descended suddenly and everything went white. Nature truly never stops to marvel you. The return trek was from the middle of dense forest and again it was wonderful.

Marvanthe Beach: This had to be the highlight of the entire trip. Now we had two hard core “I love Mumbai” mumbaikars with us. To my surprise, they were more excited to go this beach than the rest of us. I mean it is like an MP-iya like me getting excited over poha! Bad comparison I know!! But then , it was fair for them to get so super kicked about it. No beach, Mumbai or Goa was so clean, serene and beautiful! The best part was the road which had beach at one side and back waters at the other. It was by far the most beautiful place I had seen in Karnataka.

The company: If the company is good, the fun of a trip doubles. We talked in our way, played Uno in a dark room, helped each other throughout the trek and kept chattering on our way back. Thank You Diptesh, Lohith, Suman, Jinal and Om for making this a super rocking trip!

PS: Will be adding the pics soon!

Force!!

So i write my 2nd fone blog on my way to coorg with great company & bad songs. Very bad songs. I had 2 find some way to pass my time while my co-passengers r catching on with sm beauty sleep. You hv 2 pardon me with my sms lingo in this 1. This is 'the best' i can do with my nokia music express.
Coming to the point of this blog. FORCE! John's latest. Now i seriously dont know what have the papers been saying about it. Frankly, it is not a my kind of muvi. Had it not been 4 john, i would not have bothered 2 watch it at all. So my motives were clear. I had gone 2 watch john & i got precisely that. 2.5 hrs of pure uninterrupted john abraham bliss. To say he looked good would be an understatement. To say that he acted well will be an overstatement. Yes, i admit he is not the bestest of actors. There were scenes when he could not deliver what was expected. Oh well! He looked good, smiled like a super hunk & did a pretty decent job. So i have no complaints. I will recommend the movie as a loyal john fan. Rest assured, if nothing else, atleast the makers have found logical reasons 2 open up his shirt unlike ready & bodygaurd illogics. If u r a john crazy like me (or like this another girl in the hall who went 'eeeeeee' after watching a shirtless john) then go. Enjoy every moment of the muvi like i did. Otherwise do let me know how was mod or saheb, biwi aur gangster. I would now return my attention to my now awake co-passengers & a long 4gotten song 'nazarein milli dil dhadka meri dhadkan ne kaha luv u raja'. Sigh! I told u there r bad songs. I have had worse though! Note 2 self - keep a gud mp3 along when u travel. Next blog will obviously be the elaborate coorg trip.
C u around!

No open letters .. Humanity rocks!!!

So the latest trend is the the recent blog by Shahana (absolutely wonderful name by the way) bashing delhi guys. The lady went a little over the top in being rude, included moms dads, religious sentiments, partition history and over all managed to bring upon herself a lot of appreciation as well as criticism. People on her site have started a virtual war about the great north Indian and south Indian divide. As if we do not have enough divides to think about -- Men/Women, Hindu/Muslim, Gay/Straight, India/Pakistan -- Do we really need more classifications really? I mean we have to give Shahana a little benefit of doubt. She must have actually been through a lot to have written something so harsh on a public platform. Yes, if you make your blog public, then it no longer remains just an "Online Diary" and you cannot say "My Blog! I will write what I want to!" . You cannot rant about an entire community, just because you met a few jerks. Anyway, I am not writing this on her site because she is already being bashed by some 2k odd people, some even calling her names. Well! Thats easy for people -- oh its a girl! We can always call her dirty names, target her character just because she pissed us off, and get away with it! Sad I have to say (A classic example of the gender divide).
Coming back to the classifications, will we ever stop dividing our own selves? Seriously! When will we just start considering ourselves as individuals? Just people with good heart and sentiments? Why north Indian and South Indians?? Why not just Indians???? I am from Bhopal. What shall I call myself? Central Indian?? I have lived in both the north and south part of the country. I am friends with Delhi-ites,north indians, south indians and all!
In Bangalore and even in my 10 month stint in hyderabad, I have come across some amazing "South Indians"... and seriously,they are my friends only because they are WONDERFUL people and I love them and not because they come from a particular region of the country! North, south, central,north east does not matter. Hindu, Muslim, Christian does not matter. Gay/Straight does not matter. At the end, only being a nice human being matters. I would want to give a reference of "My Name is Khan" here. I loved it when Zarina Wahab makes 2 stick figure and explains a young SRK, there are only 2 kinds of people in this world. Good and Bad. Trust me this is the only thing I an going to teach my children.

Love rules!! May there be lots of love in this world!!

Aur Batao!!

This is what two absolutely bored people ask each other when they have nothing else to do with their lives.Recently , while talking to a friend, he told me how irritating he finds these two words and how he prefers to close the conversation when the other party says "Aur Batao". Now I have always been the “talkative one”. Rest assured, if you are a quite person and its just me and you who are out, chances are that you may not have to worry about how the conversation is going to be. You see, the problem is that when some ones tells me to “aur batao”, somehow I feel a heavy responsibility on my shoulders to steer the conversation. So, there have been times when people have told me to “aur batao” and then they never got a chance to utter another word. There was this one incident when Nikhil passed my desk and casually told me, “Aur Varsha! Kya chal raha hai” There was no conversation after that. Because conversation is when 2 people talk. When just one person talks, its called monologue. And that’s what happened after the question Nikhil posed me. There was an endless monologue by yours truly ofcourse! And the poor guy could just at the end give a finishing line … “Chalo, see you around!” Then there was another poor friend yesterday who had difficulty in fitting his lines “Varsha, I have started to drive. Can we talk tomorrow” between my blabber.

My mom once asked me a very profound, deep question. Something which worries her a lot. “Beta, Don’t you EVER get tired of talking??? “ And I had a bright NO for an answer. You see!! I never get tired of talking. Probably the very reason that I came back home with notes in my diary, “Varsha Tiwari disturbs her fellow students!!” So I ALWAYS have an answer for all the “Aur Bataosss”. But you know what has been my torturous best? When I tell people to "Aur Batao" and without a pause I start "Aur Batao"-ing them. Poor Prabhjot is the BIGGEST victim of that!! Sometimes, I have so much to say, that I start interrupting people. I know! An extremely bad habit. Something which I HAVE to change. But its like the words refuse to stay inside my mouth. So much so that, they come out even when I am sleeping. There you have it people! My biggest secret .. Yes .. I talk in my sleep!!! My poor roommates! All of them have a story of how they discovered I sleep talk. So Neha tells me, I was scared and surprised and Ambika tells me, “I thought you were talking to someone on phone and I was surprised only to realize you were sleep talking!”

But then, with so much to say, I would wish God the same thing which Rajesh Khanna wished in Anand, “Bohot boloon, Par acha boloon. Kabhi kisi ke liye kuch bura na nikle mere mooh se” Very saint-ly I know. But its better than hurting people and getting in trouble.

May there be lots of love in this world!!

Some useless facts about me (Part 1)

Well!! At the end of the day, it is my blog. I am allowed to be a little narcissistic here. I know nobody wants this information but as i always say, there is nothing wrong in talking about oneself sometimes. Needless to say, the most commonly used word here would be "I". So here goes under no specific subject :)

1) I am dead scared of crossing roads.
2) I am extremely scared of dogs. Especially barking, running dogs.
3) I am at my best mood when I am surrounded by books. I can loose myself in books without the slightest track of time. That is why these days Oxford book store at Leela's is my favourite place.
4) I love to hug people :)
5) I would still prefer to read a fairy tale over a proper novel.
6) I think summers are better than winters. I hate it when I feel cold.
7) I feel bad if I say bad about anybody. But if it is someone I hate, I feel a kind of relief when I or someone else says bad about them.
8) I have no ambition to climb up the career ladder just to get into a higher position. I want a super good job so that I can use the money to travel around the world.
9) I wish I could travel back in time. Had it been an option I would want to see Delhi before independence.
10) After reading "Many masters, Many lives" I am extremely curious to know who I was in my previous birth and how many of the good people I know today were related/connected to me in the past lives.
11) Although I believe that no one is completely good or completely bad, there are 3 people in this world I regard as "real bad". All the 3 are girls. (No names :) )
12) I unfortunately believe I have become too selfish and too practical to get into a relationship.
13) I am allergic to ayurveda medicines.
14) I totally love (almost) all my friends :)But sometimes I want them to leave me alone.
15) I hate slapstick comedies. I love situational comedies. I have laughed the hardest watching Andaaz apna apna, Sarabhai vs Sarabhai and most surprisingly aloo chat.
16) I believe in staying happy and positive and surrounding myself with the same kind of people. "The Secret" by Rhonda Bryne has a lot to do with changing my thinking.
17) I love babies eyes.They are bright and shine with hope and excitement.
18) I will keep coming with more such posts!! :)