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Friday, July 28, 2006

Mirror mirror on the wall ..

Ah ! Finally I found something to write about ..

It all started yday evening when I went home after office. My daughter, Dhriti, who is 22 months old,was getting bored and I was wondering what game to play with her. She started behaving cranky and started crying. Knowing not what to do I started immitating her and started to cry just like her. Yes ! It worked. She stopped crying. I stopped too. She realised that I am doing exactly what she is doing. She sat down. I sat too. She found it funny and started laughing. I started laughing too. She would change her action and I would do the same. On the whole she enjoyed it thoroughly. Of-course I did too. I decided to call it the Mirroring game.

She is also fascinated by mirrors. She would stand in front of the mirror and do all kind of faces. Every time I dress her up or tie up a Juttu,she will run to the mirror to see what it looks like.

I wonder whether we are so fascinated abt mirrors at such early age? I can bet that most of us simply cant take our eyes off the mirror. We can't resist the temptation of looking at ourselves, setting our hair right, making sure the bindi is in right place and so on? Atleast I know I cant.

Even if I am getting late to office I have to spend atleast a few(??) seconds in front of the mirror. Then I hop onto the car and adjust the side mirror so that I can see myself :) This drives my hubby crazy the next time he sits in the driver's seat.

If I am going in an auto I keep admiring myself in the small mirror that is sometimes there above the front glass. Sometimes the driver suddenely happens to look up and I turn my face away. Why the hell should he disturb me. My all smiling looks suddenely changes into an angry one :(

I enter office campus and start looking at myself in the glass windows, least bothered about what the person at the other side of the glass would think of me. Next is my fav. the lift! Its all surrounded by mirrors. Oh ! How I love it :) While I wait for the lift I pray that nobody be in the lift, so that I can look at myself from all angles.

By now you must be thinking all gals are like that but guys are no less. Maybe they are not as conscious as women are. Anyways, it does'nt make much difference. Does it?

Thot of ending the note with this pic "Best Tee ever mirrored"

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Kick start blogging ..

Well .. to start off, I thought of talking about the name of my blog. "Enjoy maaDi" :)

"Enjoy maaDi" is a slang in kannada which just means "Enjoy". Its as simple as that.

I picked up this phrase from non-kannidagas. The popularity is because of its simplicity. Wow! how rhyming :) Its simple because all you have to know is the keyword "maaDi", what it means and how to pronunce it. "maaDi" translates to "Do" and is pronunced as "maa-Di" - D as in "Deep".

The funniest thing about this is that when you translate it word to word. "Enjoy maaDi" translates to "Do Enjoy". Of-course its actually "Enjoy Do" but the words are swapped for it to make atleast lil sense :)

OK now for some history, how did the phrase evolve? It all started with a pure kannada phrase "majA maaDi" which means "Enjoy". Back to square one .. he hee he :)

Now if you want to show off your kannada skills all you need to do is pick up an english verb and add "maaDi" in the end. Omitting the Kannada word "maaDi" means you are not using kannada in your conversation. So, not cool man !

Other popular ones I like : Chill maaDi, Phone maaDi, Hang-out maaDi, Code maaDi, Test maadi, Blog maaDi ... and so many more.

Go ahead and have fun using the "MaaDi" word.

Lastly, about this blog ... Comment maaDi :)

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Welcome Myself !

I have never blogged till date and this is going to be my first blog. Dunno how well i can do it or how far this will go. Nevertheless thot of giving it a shot.

Some of the blogs I got inspired from are
Shruthi's http://nychthemeron.blogspot.com/,
Thejesh GN's http://www.techmag.biz/ and
Anita Bora's http://www.anitabora.com/blog/.

Hope i will enjoy blogging. Also hoping it makes an interesting reading to others.

Pls feel free to comment on my blogs and help me in blogging.

So Good Luck to me ! :)