Planning for Everything

Out for Some Time

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:38:00 +0000

I am going for some time for a make over. I will be back with something good.
Till the time, thanks for visiting and enjoy your life.

Wish Jar - A DIY Gift for Husband

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:33:00 +0000

Before I write how I made it, a little background. Diwali preparation time... I had a desire that I would buy all the "Diya- Diwali lamps" for our home. I thought, it's my first Diwali as a Laxmi of house so I should buy the Diyas. Very much busy at work place and in studying at home, couldn't find time to go and look for good ones. Had an opportunity to see crafted diyas at a function at office. Colleague suggested to try one. After trying painting a diya, I found it was quite easier and very good looking. Clicked in the mind and I bought required stuff including colors, glitter glue, bids, small mirrors etc from a store. I already had painting colors and brushes (ohh... I had painted some fabrics and made a frame too... long time back ). At night, when I started doing one, Mr. Thought jumped in and found it very interesting. Both of us painted, decorated all the diyas and beautiful collection of diyas were with us. When I showed them to my in-laws, they were very happy. My mother-in-law took those diyas to show in her friends group while father-in-law suggested me other designs can be done with ceramic. Our whole home was litted with our hand made diyas only. Good... Mr. Thought was very happy. Point noted here by my mind was, Mr. Thought likes hand made things.

Alright, so now I wanted to gift something to Mr. Thought which will be hand made. I thought of various options like scrap book from our honey-moon photos. But somewhere I also had a feeling of gifting him something daily. After working on this idea for quite long time in mind, I came up with the idea of Wish Jar.

This is a jar which has 365 folded notes in it. Each day morning, Mr. Thought will draw one note from the jar, which will have some wish written in it and it's my job to fulfill that wish that day. Initially I had written few notes (as examples) before showing to Mr. Thought, and Mr. Thought was so excited to see that, he actually wrote so many wishes and put in the jar. The wishes I had written included romantic or physical tasks. It could be anything as simple as saying I Love You in say 50 different ways, wearing his favourite dress/saree, or it can be ironing all of his clothes (I hate doing this task).

For creating actual wish jar, you will need any wide plastic bottle....any pickle or ghee bottle should do the job. It should be easy to put your hand in it to pick the chit. Then you can colour it, decorate it with tattoos, bids, stickers, ribbons, glitter and so many other things. Once you go to crafts store, you will get to know so many options. Either you write all the wishes or ask your partner his wishes. You can also print the wishes on a paper but hand written notes will be more personal.

We are doing this for quite few days now and we can do it well. Yeah, it happened twice, we had to postpone the task written to weekend, since in busy overloaded work week day, it was not possible. But with these exceptions, everything is going smooth.

Really, a good option to gift to your husband/wife... he/she will be excited and more than happy..... my own experience.... :)

My First Puri

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 06:58:00 +0000

I am not very much into cooking and I just do it as required. However, sometimes I feel to cook. Presenting here my first puri. This is first time in my whole life I made a Puri.

Ahh, many things, after marriage, we have to do for first time .... in the kitchen.... :)

Home, Diwali, Gifts and Birthdays.....

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:37:00 +0000

My first Diwali in married life.... I am excited but very nervous too.... There are so many things in Diwali celebrations that I never knew... As a Laxmi of a family, this is very special occasion for me... But I don't know why I am nervous. Right from very little thing to big tasks... may be I have to do many things that I don't know.

Anyways, point is I am realizing many things that I had not taken into account seriously. Yes, I am talking about financial planning. First of all, Diwali gifts for everybody.... (I never considered, this could actually affect budget. Actually, I bought gifts for my parents and family before this but don't know this year how it went for a big amount.) Alright, since it's Diwali, the time to make big purchases that we planed since long time... we were planning to buy our computer but now I am re-thinking about it. The more important thing is in pipeline... Our Birthdays... :)

Yes, My Dear Hubby's and mine birthdays are in the same season of Diwali so obviously, that's going to take highest priority. I have planned something to gift Mr. Thought which will obviously require bit more money so reducing other expenses for now.

But Lessons Learned is for next year, all these events will be similar. So we should prepare in advance. May be we can invest in any SIP or save in RD for next year's Diwali expenses and especially gifts.

I will be executing this plan soon... till then a very Happy Dipawai to all of you!

Jag Jeet

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:13:00 +0000

Monday morning - 10-10-11. It was a bad start of day. I became lonely by the news of sad demise of Jagjit Singh.

I felt like something my very own is broken away. Since childhood till date.... everywhere Jagjit Singh's songs accompanied me..... and now I felt like I am all alone..... :(

I kept smiling. Now I was not able to listen Aankhonme nami hasi labon par.... Jagjit live-in-concert.

For your school best friend to whom you are unable to meet for years, we feel, haath chuthe bhi to rishte nahi chutha karte... and when you meet that friend and shows off for first few moments, both of yours eyes do the talking with muzse bhichad kar khush rahte ho.... When you got hurt by your friends, that pain is again in Jagjit's voice, dost banke mile muze mitane wale, maine dekhe hai kai rang badalne wale...

I don't think there would be anyone who would listen the chitthi na koi sandesh and would keep eyes dry.

I remember when in college, while doing group study, which was our official time for playing on-demand songs on a music channel, everybody would laugh at me when I wanted to listen Jagjit and others would ask for Kata laga and Pardesiya. But later after years, when I had left city, my first task after returning home would call all my friends and inform that I am home. Within few hours, the music channel would play Jagjit songs.... And I can't forget that Tere aane ki jab khabar lehke... Teri Khushboo se sara ghar mahke....
Oh my dear friends... I still listen to all those songs.... Koi fariyad... hazaro khwaishe... but nobody makes me target for that... I miss you all. Alright.

A very very soft feeling when your heart starts beating first few times by looking at your sweet heart .. Badi najuk hai ye manjil...you ask your heart to dhadak aahista se aye dil or in somebody's case it might be Jhuki jhuki si najar bekrar hai ki nahi....

Sometimes or other we all must feel this for other people in the world....hosh walo ko khabar kya....

Haven't your heart sang the song for your darling, Meri Aankhone chuna hai Tuzko, duniya dekh kar and Tumko dekha to ye khayal aaya.

While dreaming about your dream home with your life partner, you must have sang...ye tera ghar ye mera ghar.

Sometimes in your life, you must have had the feelings.... magar muzko lauta do wo bachpan ka savan.

That confidence in each song... whatever may be the mood of the song... what should I write. I have no words.

Jagjit Ji, you had won the world.

Plants in the Garden

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:09:00 +0000

I have developed my own HomePlantsShastra for keeping plants in each area.

My roses have at least 4-5 roses at any moment of time.

Each time I cook curry or poha, I use Curry Leaves from my plant.

There are many uses for the Tulsi but I only use it for cold-cough home remedy.

Lemon tree.

Aloe Vera

Another type of lemon.

This taller plant is used as a spice and it really seems to believe sky is the limit.

Fast growing Palm

Lucky Bamboo

There are few more but got to go now.

Only One

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:31:00 +0000

Today morning, before going to work when I saw them, there was unusual thing. Along with the mother bird, I saw another bird which I assume must be father of the babies. I saw the father bird first time after these babies came out. Pigeon babies were also not as usual, one of them was silent while other was trying to fly at it's place. I sensed something wrong.

When I returned home, there was a single pigeon..... the other one is not there..... and the mother has also vanished. God knows what happened.

Jaane kaise kab kahaan.....

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:33:00 +0000

A snap clicked by me....... dedicated to my hubby....

Cut the Cell phone bill in half with Straight Talk

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:01:00 +0000

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Toddler Pigeons

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 05:06:00 +0000

Those are growing so fast. I can see them doing faster movements.

Ganpati Bappa Moraya

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:37:00 +0000

It is taking me longer time to commute to and from the workplace. Reason is the crowd due to Ganpati Festival.

In India, these days Ganpati Festival is being celebrated. Families step out to see the artistic clay models of the Ganpati idol and the decorations done in the pandal. Some theme is selected and according to that various scenes and poses related to the theme are displayed which will increase some awareness in the public. There are funny scenes displayed too sometimes.

When I was a child, my family used to take me out to see all the lighting and decorations done by the pandals. The very first memory I had is about a moving Ganpati idol who used to offer a Laddoo ( piece of a sweet) to all his visitors. I still remember the feeling I had that time. My tender and tiny heart and eyes were thrilled. I was so happy with the fact that Lord Ganpati gave me something to eat. I wanted to have that Laddoo again, but there was a huge queue for receiving the same and we were supposed to again join the queue.
Then on the last day, there is big procession, my father used to take us out to show the procession on the main road in the city. There used to be several rounds of Lezim dance which I used to like. When there used to be huge crowd and due to my small height, I could not able to see the folk dance properly. My father used to hold me up to his shoulders so that I would be able to see the dance. We have a photograph clicked like that. Papa...... :)

imagecredit:http://ganpatipictures.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/shrimant-dagdusheth-halwai-ganapti/

Pigeon Eggs Hatch

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:32:00 +0000

The Pigeon eggs I talked about few days ago are hatched out and tiny tiny pigeon babies are out of the eggs.

The mother pigeon is caring tremendously about them. It feels interesting to observe, how birds raise their children. :)

Fakt Ladh Mhanaa... Just Motivate me to fight...

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:20:00 +0000

It was a lunch with colleagues. In the casual conversation, the topic of the funny titles of the movies raised. Somebody talked about the movie title "Fakt Ladh mhana...". I was sad to see that the writers and the Marathi people didn't know about these words. At least the person who has a goal to become an author should have read about this... I thought...

Anyways... so Fakt Ladh Mhana.... These are words from the great Marathi poem written by V. V. Shirwadkar aka Kusumagraj. The poem is an event narrated by a teacher.

In the heavy rain, a man comes to his teacher. He talks about the tragedy he had due the heavy rains and flood. He however, don't want any monetary help, just needs moral support.

Here is original poem. (I may have missed/misplaced some words, but this is how I remember it. It's one of the poems, that I had learnt and shared with my best friend in my childhood. )

Kanaa - The Backbone

Olakhat ka Sir mala? Pavasat aale koni - Do you recall me Sir? Somebody came and asked in the rains

Kapde hote kardamlele, kesavarti pani - He had muddy clothes and hair drenched in water

Kshanbhar basla, nantar hasla, bolla varti pahun, - He sat quiet for a moment, then smiled and started talking

Gangamai pahuni aali, geli ghartyat rahun - The river Ganges mother came as a guest in my home

Mahervashin porisarkhi char bhintit nachli - Danced just like a married girl back to parents home

Moklya hati jail kashi, baayko matra vachli - Just like daughters never return empty handed, only my wife survived

Bhint khachli, chul vizli, hote nahvte nele - Walls are broken, gas is gone, and everything washed away

Prasad mhanun papnyanmadhe pani thode thevle - Gave us her blessings in the form of tears in eyes

Karbharnila gheun sange, aata ladhto aahe - With the help of my wife,I am fighting now

Padki bhint bandhto ahe, chikhal gaal kadhto aahe - Reconstructing the walls, cleaning the mess and mud

Khisha kade haat jaatach hasat hasat uthla…. - Looking at my hand going to my money wallet-pocket, he got up laughing

Paise nakot Sir, bus jara ekte pana vatla - I don’t want money Sir, just was feeling lonely

Modun padla sansaar tari modal nahi KANAA - Even if my home is destroyed, my backbone is intact

Pathivarti haat thevun fakt LADH mhana - Please give me your blessings, tapping on my back and just motivate me to fight.

......... No words.... just great poem!

I don't know what the movie is all about... but because of the movie, if few of the people would come across to this great poem, I will be happy.

Disclaimer - The above mentioned is my own understanding of the poem. I may not be 100% correct.

Pigeon Eggs

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:08:00 +0000

Last few months, I am feeding few pigeons by keeping food for them in my window. By co-incidence I was blowing whistle each time I fed them in the early days. Later on I realized, they were so much familiar with my whistle that, even if I am not offering food to them and just blowing whistle in my room, they used to come in the window for having their food. Interesting! :)

There was big smile on my face when I saw these eggs in that so-called Pigeon's area in the window.
Ohho! So I need to take care of these pigeon babies borned to be.

Stay tuned for further updates on these eggs.

Gold or Cash

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:06:00 +0000

While watching television, I saw the commercial of Tanishq Gold Harvest saving scheme. I remembered the recent discussion I had in office lunch break. One of my co-worker is saving using such scheme for past few years. It's good way to save if you want to purchase nice jewelry. I recollect to have considered this option long time back.

But I was thinking shall I save in this scheme now? Gold prices are at all-time high and rates are still supposed to rise in the future. So that's good to invest in gold. But at this moment, is it needed for me?

After wedding, a new beginning, a new life has started and there are many things to be done in this new life. Organising our home is like building everything from scratch. We need to purchase so many things for our home, so many plans for future and we have just started. Hence, I personally feel I should not invest in gold right now. It's not what I need currently or in near future. Better way would be I should save and invest in more liquid options. At this stage, I think I need money so that I can purchase several things and not gold. So for me better approach will be not to go with this scheme.

By the way, I have a plan to surprise gift something to Mr. Thought and which needs lots of money. For that I think I should start saving, may be in a recurring deposit. Looking at market conditions, I won't go for any SIP for that gift because I don't think I would be able to wait.. or may be I should do both a RD and a SIP.

Okay... done.

imagecredit:http://www.cash-for-gold.net/goldjewelry.jpg

Happy Raksha Bandhan

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:16:00 +0000

Today Indian people are celebrating a festival called Raksha Bandhan.

In this festival, a sister ties a thread, named as Rakhi, to her brother's wrist praying for his well-being and brother promises her to protect her through out her life.

Lovely festival to celebrate the great love and relationship between brother and sister!

Flowers Say It All.......

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:31:00 +0000

Flowers, like Henry Beecher said, have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

By the way, Mr. Thought likes to express with flowers.

Note : All copyright for images reserved. :)

Budget Hosting

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:56:00 +0000

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Skoda Auto 10th Birthday Celebrations

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:32:00 +0000

A newly married couple ...... having great time at home........... on a weekend....... obviously wanted not to be disturbed by anybody....... and door bell rang....

After giving a displeasure look to each other, when they met the guests, boy could not stop smiling. They are lucky-winners and Skoda has given them a gift hamper!

Skoda Auto has completed 10 years in India and hence they have launched a Skoda Celebration campaign on this event. It includes various offers and discounts on various cars. Do check it out.

If not planning for buying your car in near future, don't forget to enjoy test-drive.... you will get a gift hamper that too delivered at your doorstep!

Gift hamper we got had birthday candles, balloons, cap, a t-shirt, chocolates and some toy.

After guests left, now there was fight about who gonna wear Skoda t-shirt.

Are You Experienced?

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:17:00 +0000

The very popular topic was started over the lunch. It was "Wedding brings many troubles". Somebody was saying, if somebody doesn't marry and remain single, he/she won't face many of the problems in the life. 80% of the problems of the life are because of 20% reasons in the life which arises due to wedding. Assuming that all the statements were made to tease newly married Pinkey, Pinkey talked, "It's not like that for everyone............." Before she speaks further, she was warned that she was just married and having No Experience of married life. Newly Married people give provide wrong data onto the topic. Then the discussion was on and people with few years of married life kept rolling the ball on the topic to more married-life experienced people.

And Pinkey went into the thought process.

What we mean by the word No Experience? When we can firmly say that we have experience of something. Life is so uncertain that you never know, what it has in its pocket for next moment. Then so-called highly experienced people too can't predict anything. May be a married son with a few months married life experience is not supposed to talk about the marriage concept in general , he may talk rubbish according to his father with silver jubilee wedding anniversary. Father always feels that son is not experienced and hence unable to comment. But is this not the case for father too, when his father in his 80's with 60+ years of married life experience starts commenting about wedding tradition?

A fresher working in the organization may not able to comment anything about the company against the person who is working for years in the same company. Fine! But then when that person is really eligible to comment? Probably never. There is always a better and more experienced person in each field of the life. ... and may be according to that person, you are a kid in the field and are not eligible to comment. Then you are never able to be a participate in group discussion and perhaps never would have your own opinions or your own perspective to look at the things. But your life is your creation and so your thoughts. Carry and have your voice always, even though somebody may feel it as kiddish.

Life after marriage is very different, I am trying to understand. My time is not my time, it's our time. Most of the I and My have become We and Ours. So-called definition of freedom has seemed too changed. We have to make compromises and few adjustments. But this is not only case with married life. This is the fact with normal life too. Human being is social animal and needs to interact with family and friends. It is stated that marriage is one of the most beautiful things in this world, so you should not be afraid to get into trouble. Marriage is identical with happiness, romantic, paradise and beauty.

Anyways, I will write one example which will prove conflicting thing. In rural areas, when a kid learns some basic things in the computer, he boasts that he knows the computer but when one person does masters in the computer science, the person understand that after doing masters too, he just knows few things in the field of computer science. But this does not mean, the kid should never talk about computers. There are chances that kid knows something that master didn't know because he had never done/experienced that... (in fact this is very common scenario.)

Alright, long post and that too just scattered. But that's fine. I can understand after reading the preview of the post that I am not writing daily. Actually, I am having blog post in my mind daily but somehow not able to pen it down. Today morning's newspaper proved me that I should have posted my yesterday's idea on blog post on heavy rain.

Saving Savy Pinkey Coming soon daily...

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Few Posts....

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:39:00 +0000

Alright.... so this year once again I have missed my Blogoversary!
Never mind! No issues at all... But I would like to share my reason for very few posts these days.....

I don't have a computer! :(

I told him that I WANT a computer, but he don't understand how badly I NEED it. Well, may be because, I had never shared with him all little things I do on my machine. I had never told him that I can't drink my morning coffee without checking my e-mails or free-flow surfing is a mandatory activity of my weekend.

Oh God! How can I live without a computer?

Fine... so computer? No... I am going to execute my mobile shopping plan this month. This salary for purchasing a mobile, that I can use for blog, email and surfing.

If you have any suggestions about mobiles meeting these requirements, feel free to comment..

Bade Acche Lagte hai..... Knock on Wood....

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:18:00 +0000

We never know ourselves completely... Some side of ourselves is always unknown to us.... When time comes, situation arrives, we react accordingly. But off course we can write about ourselves.... :)

We didn't know, how we are going to react with our new life, new family members. When we take pain for our family members, that care, maturity, responsibility, romantic face of ourselves, possessiveness, fear and so many things that we do... might be we never expected that from ourselves.

Life was and is always good but these days it seems to be Great! Touch wood.

As usual, people around are trying hard to break off the very cute and special bonding that two lovebirds share... but understanding and trust is the key of the relation.

When one of the partners not only eats what he didn't like but brings in bulk home for other partner too...

When partners try to change their looks and style statements slightly as per their partner's choice...

When one of partners postpone implementing his long awaited plans, just for other partner's wish...

When one of the partners is enjoying pampering of body in a spa, other is standing several hours outside waiting....

When one of the partners have a holiday at workplace, other takes off too by saying all the false excuses...

When one wakes up early in the morning to finish off the cooking and household chores, other too wakes up and joins to help.....

When I come home tired after a bad day, a nice decorated dining table with a dish cooked Mr. Thought welcomes me... Ahh.... God! Thank you...!

Yeh Dharti.... Yeh Nadiyaa.... Yeh Rainaa... aur.... TUM...!!!

Caring for Them

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:15:00 +0000

Recently, we went on a really really long long drive..... for thousands miles...And at a place, I clicked this... This was a place specially made for pigeons...

And then......

Great Minds Think Alike....... :)

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:45:00 +0000

A Girl..... A Boy.....

At their respective work locations.... got bored by routine....

Girl thought something, felt to surprise the Boy. Girl went to his work place with a flowers bouquet. But hard luck... boy is out of office..... Girl keeps flowers at the security person with a heavy heart and left.

Boy thought something, felt to surprise the Girl. Boy went to her work place with a flowers bouquet. But hard luck... girl is not in the office..... Boy keeps flowers at the security person with a heavy heart and left.

Later when they both returned to their places.... they are more surprised to see the flowers for them...

I think, great minds really think alike... :)

Chuda, Lemon and Knife.....!

noreply@blogger.com (Saving Savy Pinkey) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:04:00 +0000

I have few Indian traditions to share, which I came to know recently.

Chuda or Chura are the bangles worn by the bride. On the wedding day, at girl's place special worship is conducted and after that maternal Aunt helps bride to wear chuda. These are the set of red+white/red+cream coloured bangles. Chuda is gifted by maternal uncle and aunt of the bride and they have to fast on wedding day until bride wears the chuda.
Once bride wear this chuda, it is supposed to wear for some specified number of days (may be 21 days or 45 days). Bride is not supposed to remove it at any cost before the specified time. (These days, girls who are not very much comfortable with bangles, find some loopholes in the tradition and remove few bangles.)
After specified duration, there is a big ceremony and a pooja at newly wed's place. The mother-in-law is supposed to remove the chuda of the bride. After that moment, the chuda is kept in a secret place by mother in law and bride is not supposed to look at her chuda for all her life. After due course of time, if married woman dies before her husband, in that case, that chuda is used as her last bangles in her last journey (funeral).

According to another tradition, Bride to be and Groom to be are supposed to carry a lemon and a tiny iron nail like knife always. (Don't worry, that knife not a weapon :) ) It is said that these two things protect them from bad evils. These things are to be carried for a duration of near about two months by both of them. For a day or two, bride and groom may feel uncomfortable carrying these things everywhere, may forget to carry them but later they get used to it.

Before I wind up, about one more tradition which is followed by some community, may sound as weired but newly wed couple is not supposed to go out of their home. In modern age, this tradition is customized as couple go to work place but can't visit any body's home and have lunch/dinner outside.

Mr. Thought and I just smile to each other and follow traditions.