Shave or Crave- The Blogadda Contest

This post is a part of the 'Shave or Crave' movement in association with BlogAdda.com

I woke up with my cheeks all sore and red, again! "This is it!" I thought to myself. "I can't date Mr. Cactus anymore." One day I'm sure I'd wake up looking like Undertaker after a Hell In A Cell Match!!

The Revenge!!

I took his toothbrush and threw it down the toilet. The guy isn't much concerned about personal hygiene anyway. I was fuming with red hot fury. My cheeks were burning and I didn't like it. The subtle way of gifting him a razor, calling him wolverine etc. had not worked. "The least he could do is listen to me." Now that the indirect ways of #shaveorcrave movement had failed, I wanted to take the direct approach!

Next, I took his favourite T-shirt and hung it on the decorative cactus plant with sharp, spiny thorns. It got torn a bit. I think he'll like it now. He likes to tear my skin so, he must be into torn and jagged stuff! There is no other explanation for that!

Next up was his grooming accessories. He never needed them anyway so, why not use the aftershave as a toilet cleaner? I found out that the aftershave not only removes 87% of bacteria, it makes my toilet seat (which I wanted down) shinier and cleaner!

The shaving cream can really help lubricate the drainage. I poured the whole tube down. I think now there'll be no choking. He used to complain a lot about that. I am sure he'll be happy now. What do you guys think?

Ok, the truth is I haven't done any of those things right now. These are just my suggestions for the #ShaveOrCrave movement. I was in physical pain and I couldn't bear it. I treat my skin well and respect it; it just LITERALLY gets under my skin when he rubs his stubble on my face! I guess I'll make him read this blog first and even then he doesn't improve, then well, you know the plan!! ;-)

Adios for now!!

My 20th Birthday!

Clock struck 12. It was my 20th Birthday! I had finally turned 20! It was Celebration time, cake cutting time, gifts receiving time but, unfortunately none of the expected things happened.

It was 12 am, I was supposed to be all cheered up, excited but, I was studying, studying like a freak, and praying after every half an hour, 'God, please pass me. Even "just pass" is enough. I don't want any other thing from you. Have I ever asked for anything?  (and he did reply to that one-'yes, innumerable things!') Pleease, just one last time!!' Such prayers are quite helpful when you are in the condition where there are only few hours left for the exam and you've not even touched the other half of the syllabus (or the other subject) and specially when It's an EXTERNAL EXAM. Oh man! Things I do when I'm tensed- I do all kinds of stupid gestures while memorising the answers, I, being a typical water sign, go through worse mood swings, i also do arm waves and many other inexplicably embarrassing things which better if not told publicly!

Anyway, you know, you aren't always that unfortunate as you think. There's always this one special person to make your day, it may be a friend or some relative of yours. In my case it was my best friend, he came all the way from boys hostel to girls hostel gate at around 1 am to gift me an amazing, super cute and a very creative, handmade card which will always remain special..very special to me. He's an awee..*waitforit*some, an awesome cartoonist! He painted cute li'l angry birds and compared them to me. Each comparison made was so true! He's the kind of person who knows you very well, loves you from all his heart but never shows it and if he's around, get ready to laugh your heart out! He's a gem of a person.

Ok..coming back to the topic.. So, I somehow studied for the exam, slept like for an hour or two, got up, revised whatever i had studied vaguely and wrote my paper with absolutely no hopes of passing. Ironically, It was THE best paper I had written.  I was so confident and sure about my answers. It made my day. I'm sure God blessed me with lot's of luck and love!

After that, in the evening, my seniors cum verrry good friends took me to CCD to cut my birthday cake. CCD cakes are Finger lickin' good! Yummylicious! Oh! Almost forgot, just after the exam got over, I treated my three closest friends who no matter how irritating, annoying, stupid are but no one understands me as well as they do. They tolerate my anger, my mood swings and still don't backbite about me! You rarely get such good friends, now-a-days. And, how could I forget about the dinner? The dinner with my best friend was the icing on the cake.

My 20th birthday was Perfect. It had all the ingredients to make my Birthday a really special one. Here's hoping for some more birthdays like this in the future. At least for the next 4 years!

"Bol bam ka nara hai, baba tera sahara hai."

As soon as the monsoon arrives, these people carry bamboo sticks with small containers on their shoulders, prepare themselves for a faraway journey from UP, Bihar to Haridwar, Gangotri or Gaumukh to fetch holy waters of Ganges river and later, offer it to Lord Shiva as a gesture of thanksgiving . You must be thinking what's so unusual about this? Well, it is. They walk barefoot in prickly heat, some also have bandages tied around their feet, some even limp because of blisters but still, they don't give up and keep walking. These people are the Kanwars.

Well, I have been staying in Uttar Pradesh for quite sometime now and on every monsoon, I used to see them walk and very few, around negligible, ride on bikes to fetch Holy waters. I, first found it very unintelligible to walk barefoot in such hot weather..we all know how hot it is in Delhi, Up, etc. I mean God doesn't say to cause pain to yourself? Does he? I am not a very religious person, I believe you should have utmost faith in Almighty and that doesn't have to be shown to the world. Loud bhajans at 2-3 in the night, traffic jams, etc really annoyed me and made me castigate them even more.

 But, this time when I came back home from college on vacation, it was different. This time my perception about them changed. I observed them, even though they were limping with blisters on their feet, exhausted, burned-out, they didn't stop. They would've easily found so many excuses to stop travelling and go back home, rest but they didn't. 

Who was I to judge them? I stood nowhere in front of them. Yes, I had faith in my God but I'm sure I couldn't have walked day and night with a heavy bamboo stick on my shoulder and still not showing a sign of tiredness or pain; continuing my journey with great enthusiam. 

You need a lot of patience, faith, devotion for such a long, tiresome yet  the most beautiful, peaceful journey. Hats Off to them!