Friend, Philosopher, Guide- My Role Model

In this journey of life, no one walks alone. We're all together, either in deed or thought or just for the sake of being. Then, there's family, the closest to us. And if we are lucky enough, strangers become friends and our garden blooms further!

Today, social media is the fastest cheapest form of entertainment, of course after the shower songs and the crazy roller coaster of thoughts we have in between the time we lie down and till we sleep off! In this crowd of many, I found a brother who believes in me, who loves me for all of what I am. And the fights make us stronger. And better. God bless you for the wonderful person that you are, and thank you for being someone I can look up to! My brother, my role model!

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A role model according to me is someone who has lived his life king-size, one who promises that life can be and will be as fulfilling as it sounds to be.

Usually people take celebrities, well-known people, and politicians as role-models and so on or someone they wish to become, perhaps some creative feats that they’ve achieved.

But for me, except for my family of course- they’ve been my pillars of strength, they’ve helped me through my ups and downs and are definitely my greatest supports but a role model for me is someone who is within my reach and someone you can take immense inspiration from, but they’d also be there to tell you ‘how’ he/she has done ‘what’.

I think that apart from my family, I think I would say I have a person I would call my ‘role-model’ , not just because of what he has achieved, or what he does today but because where he comes from in life. It’s because of what he has understood from life and what is he ready to give from that, to me and others around him. It is what makes him ‘him’.

That person for me would be my brother, Rahman Bhaiya. Aalooran Rahman Bora. Yep, as you may have guessed with our differing surnames, he is not my real brother. Actually thank God, because there are so many things that you cannot talk to your family about; you need a friend, an unbiased guide. Who better than a brother! I don’t have a brother but a younger sister, so I always have to be the responsible person out there; someone who is absolutely stable. However, life does not work like that! And hence the need for a brother, becomes almost inevitable!

And it was at that time that I found Rahman Bhaiya, and he is my role-model because… not because he promises me or pampers me with things that I wish for but it is for the kind of conviction that he has for me. The kind of belief-system that he’s become for me that I know for sure that I can become whatever I want to be, he’s going to be okay with it, without inhibitions. He’ll be happy about it because much beyond the realm of career and money-making and all that comes a person who is within you and that is person he connected to, as he always insists!

We met through Facebook, and yes, that is as ironical as it gets because you know, you meet ‘friends’ on Facebook but to find a brother there, and finding an ever-lasting relationship..Now that’s as surreal as it may get! But that’s the most beautiful part about us! So, we met on Facebook and he was a follower of my blog, my statuses and poems. And then he messaged me once on Facebook saying that he was shocked to see my profile as he expected to find someone much older, wise and sage-like! (Imagine his shock now!) 

But there was this craaaazy woman there and well, that is how it pretty much started! He often tells me that I inspired him but Rahman Bhaiya, let me tell you that every time when things don’t work out for me, every time when life seems so tough and eventually I wish to give up, there is this one person I know whom I can turn to and he…That is you, you motivate me to become a better person, make me believe that even with the downs, the bad things that are happening in my life, things are eventually going to be alright and that is how ‘sail through the ocean’!

That is what makes you a role-model for me especially because I am a tough nut to crack! And well, you are someone who is okay with that! In fact, one of the few who’re okay with that, which is what makes you my ultimate Role-model!

I wish to thank Gillette India and Blogadda for this awesome opportunity because here’s how I tell him what he means to me and I couldn’t find a better way to do so! Thanks and cheers!

Well, even as I am making this video, I receive messages from him asking..

How are you?

Where are you?

Had lunch? Dinner?

Gudiya?

He is always concerned about my whereabouts and I am lucky enough to have such a person in my life because you expect such things from your parents, your real family but this is a very special relationship for me so…

Any form of dedication is incomplete without a song and I would like to dedicate this song to my brother because you’re one of the most loving, warm and considerate people I have in my life and I am lucky to have you! And I would try my best to become the person you are, with all your qualities. My Brother, my role-model, here’s the song…

This post(write-up+video) is a part of the My Role Model activity by Gillette India in association with Blogadda

IPL, 2014:Chalo Bulawa Aaya Hai!

What happens when two of your most coveted IPL Teams are to play in one day in two different matches against two teams you are not fond of at all.. And to top it all, you have a visit to your ophthalmologist and a date you cannot miss!  All of this in one single day!

Such unfortunate fate glided on to the horizon of my life on the 14^th of May this year! What stakes shall a girl have to take to strike on to both the boats and yet not fall? 

My doctor’s appointment was an uphill task that I’d managed to gather. He is a very handsome errm..and a busy man! But I had to watch the IPL match between SunRisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab! How could I let Dhawan or Irfan down! Nonetheless, I went ahead with the visit and quickly came back home only to find that there was no electricity! Of course, I had missed quite a bit of the match which I still could easily watch while watching the Live match, all thanks to the Star Sports website! I am the new tech girl in the block you see! 

This is what I love about the revolution that internet has recently undergone. I could watch the match updates and then continue watching the match live thereafter without switching the TV on!

However, no good thing ever lasts! Thus, the match ended as soon as the last bit of my laptop’s battery gave up! Sigh!

What next? I had to hurry and get ready for my date. We met at a mall, for dinner and soon were seated at our table. My date, is a college senior and the football team captain, and I always had had a crush on him. So you understand why I could not say a ‘no’ to him!

But a girl always knows how to get her way! So I made sure we sat at a table from where I could see the Television easily though he kept insisting that we move on to a quieter one. Thus, I had my way and had a very tasty dinner date, with Gambhir, Pathan, Uthappa and my date of course!

I had taken my laptop with me and had got it charged while we were eating. Thus, by the time we were done, the laptop was fully charged but the game was at its climax! And we left..

I had my phone fixed into my palms all the way back to my home, url-ed at m.starsports.com I just love the technology they use at Star Sports which posts the scorecards fastest! 

And there it came! KKR won by 6 wickets! I yelled and my flat watchman almost yelled back in anger! Haha… what a fun night I had! I came back home and switched on my laptop, played the entire game and retired into the comforts of my snugly bed! 

That’s my craziness for IPL. What’s yours? Thanks Abhyudaya, for asking me to pen down my craziness for the world to see! Though, I pray my date does not! Cheers to the spirit of Cricket that binds us all into a frenzy, only cricket-lovers would know!

 This post is a part of  Cricket just got better! Activity by starsports.com in association with BlogAdda.com.

KOTAK JIFI INDIBLOGGER MEET

Giving a break to my sabbatical from the blogger meets, I decided to hop on to this one..Why? Well..no..it wasn’t the free food or drinks! The truth is, I was missing the meets- the craziness, the exploding enthusiasm, the head banging and the hudd hudd hudd… Meeting my dearest friend, Garima who blogs at Penumbra and Naina with her mesmerizing insights on life and likewise..who blogs at  WhileMyCoffeeBrews in particular and incidental meetings with blogger friends, Shwetabh, Gaurav, Ankita, Shivani, Kajal Kapur ( met her for the first time and her lovely daughter, Dhanak and cute but shy hubby who was almost speechless as we shamelessly asked him to click pictures of us together!) . 

The fun thing about such blogger-meets apart from meeting the crazy hosts Nihal, Karthik, Anoop, Vineet and Revin and the Indi team but also meeting other bloggers ranging from 12 yrs old to 65-70yrs old.

It is amazing to see everyone blend into this homogenous cluster of togetherness, yet if you have the eye, the indivual-ness of each would strike you at every nook and corner. It is probably this vacation I had from the Indimeets that when I finally went ahead and attended this one that I realized what fun I’ve had in them!

Every Indimeet has a theme and agenda to it which makes it a business friendly proposition and an excellent arena for social-marketing and customer reach programs. And what better theme than to have the #JiFi experience conducted by Kotak Mahindra Bank, who have launched their newest initiative called JiFi which pledges that BANKING IS NOWSOCIAL.

As the theme suggests, it is about taking the banking process to the most popular medium of expression- social media websites like Facebook, Twitter where there is a possibility of direct communication and ease of transaction between the bank and its customers. It is absolutely secure and is safe even for amateurs who may not know much about technologies associated to it.

Who better to explain the process than to have CHETAN BHAGAT, who is famous as one of the most popular authors of India but who was also in the banking profession before he chose pen and paper over money. What was fascinating about this meet was that there were simultaneous meets going on in Mumbai and Bangalore along with Delhi. Chetan was attending the Mumbai meet. However, through the awesome technological prowess, we saw the live event happen and we could also send in our questions to him via Twitter with the hashtag #JiFiIsHere and also join the Google Hangout with them!

The meet started off with Nihal announcing the Selfie contest! And did we go mad! Flashes went crazy and it was indeed amusing to see people scuttling from one group to another, making poses and screaming along, even for clicking pictures! Interestingly, we were clicking a selfie when the contest was announced and I managed to upload the first selfie- and guess what! I won the contest! Wuhuuu! All thanks to the cool group of people I met who were sitting in the rows in front and behind mine!

What followed in between the live event interaction and lunch was the sight of people gargling with laughter –either because of the drinks or the Nihal-jokes! He is a crazy nut and Loves head banging! But the poor fella hardly got a chance to eat with the loooong queue at the food counter during the lunch break. But then I am an expert at handling the queues and thus, was more than happy to share the pile of food I’d managed to sneak in my plate! Too bad I couldn’t click a picture of it!

There was another interesting activityà the Kotak Premier League (KPL) wherein we were to divide ourselves into groups of 6 and then the groups from the three event venues would have to tweet it out between ourselves. But we, the #KPL4 Team were creative-enthusiasts who decided to take this a step further and asked for the bar tender to make us some shots for a team pic @B-Bar! And lo behold, the guy agreed, but he had a condition. He’d make the shots  Maria, With Love (named after his girlfriend!) and we’d have to tag the name too.. How sweet! Right?

I think I had a stench of craziness when I had seen the board outside the mall named B-Bar and had led my auto there only to realize that it was the Parking! Four floors above with the help of the escalators and a lift ride thereafter (yeah, the Mall does not allow lifts for the other floors; just for the B-Bar), I knew I was headed for some craziness! And what can I say, it was 

Friends, Food and Fun= Innuendo raise to the power ‘n’!

We Are Reborn- Day After Day

Isn't it amazing how new things remind you of the old things, the old days gone by and how life has gone past all these years, and you forgot to realise how time simply flies!

However, there are these relations, people, possessions 

we hold on to so close that 

we don't realise that what is left of them

 is only a shadow- lifeless and color sucked out of it as if in haste. 

My purpose of writing this post? 

It is catharsis as some people would put it- it is 

to spit out the venom out of your system, for good. 

A dear friend, that long lost-now found book or that tea-stall

you'd almost forgotten of, but did not erase from your memory.

How a small talk or indirect references, made it all come back

with a salty realization that you might not be a speck of what they worry of anymore?

It takes a lot of courage to move past that mark,

To head off to a new start. But you know it is worth it!

Opportunity knocks you off the ground, that’s the door you gotta open

It isn’t as picturesque as it seems.

We live a lifetime wondering if someday

We’ll attain the closure we deserve.

And yet, at some point we do end up knowing

It was a milestone that left us, while we were busy searching.

Such closures are about us, our emotions and our way forward

Such paths have no beginning and no end.

There is no after life, only re-births.

If it at all has to be about a farewell,

Then fare them well, and grasp with both hands tight

Not them, but the memories you shared, equally.

It is about having that bad headache, which has no other solution but

A nice hot shower, with your favorite body wash.

The difference can range from a ‘good bye!’ to a ‘good riddance!’

That is how life helps us deal with what may not go

But evaporate afar.

It is all about making the choice, to either hold your own horses

Or be led by others’.

Thank you for the prompt Racold & Indiblogger