Subhekshya's blog

I always believed in happy endings. It was fate that I met a girl like you.  I still remember the first time I saw you. May be it was love at first sight coz you mesmerised me.  I was so desperate to get your name and number coz I was scared that I could never see you again. But as fate would have it, you not only gave your number but your personal details starting from educational background to marital status (by handing me your resume for the job that we advertised). It was our destiny that you were appointed for the vacant post. I won’t deny that I was the one who insisted my boss on recruiting you (for which I could have added one or more qualifications than stated in your resume). I still remember the first date that we went, you and me, to a dinner in this fabulous place (P.S. with hundred of our office colleagues in an office retreat).  How can I forget the way you beautifully moved along with the song that was being played? I don’t know what was more beautiful, you or t

I was passing by the Arrow outlet in Indiranagar when I caught the glimpse of the most beautiful thing I have seen since a long time and I instantly fell in love with it. It was a white and a black dress and I knew I had to have it.  I took it to the changing room and as soon as I put it on, I was possessed. It was a feeling that something has taken a hold on me and compelling me to hand over my credit card to the gentleman, that too with a feeling of having won a lottery.    Like exercise is to body and reading to mind, shopping is to heart (especially to women). In the words of Erma Bombeck, “Shopping is a woman thing. It's a sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.” If people think that ‘women are too materialistic and indulge in shopping’, I request them to rephrase the statement cause shopping is truly an emotional thing. Shopping is about attachment- we are instantly att

Ladies, every one of us might have had the feeling when we adore certain things in life knowing that we will never be able to have it.  Let’s say, like the hot geography teacher in school who is way out of your league or the million dollar diamond ring that you always wanted to be proposed with (for which you need to marry someone like Jay-Z) or The Mouawad’s 1001 nights purse that makes your heart skip a beat whenever you see it.  Yes, there are things that we simply love but are just out of reach. We accept the hard reality of life and move on.  We compromise and settle down. But now, there’s something new to worry about –‘The guys’!!!  If you just go to Thamel or Pokhara or any happening places in the town, you will be heart broken by the fact that the number of good guys you see is almost NIL. By good guys, I am referring to guys who are ridiculously good looking, irresistibly charming, and in the scale of 8 or more.  P.S. I am not at all talking about people with inner be

As a kid, we used to play dead.  We used to lay flat on our backs, legs and hands wide spread, tilt the head a little and stick our tongue out.  Whenever someone would come near us, we would stop our breath and pretend that we just died.  Believe me, children my age actually believed the prank. How I miss those days!! ’One of the luckiest things that can happen to you is, to have a happy childhood’ says Agatha Christie which is in fact very true. I consider children born in the 80’s to be the luckiest (M not just saying it because I was born in the same decade).  The 80’s was the time when we had TV in our houses. NTV, the first channel broadcasted in Nepal started operation in 1984.  How can we forget the VCR and the Tapes??? The 80’s was also the time of the personal computers- IBM PC to Apple Macintosh. The first 3D video game was invented in the 80’s and so was the digital cellular phone.  I remember my brother’s friend bringing an ‘ATARI’ (a video game) in our home.  I

‘So, where do you see yourself after five years?’ the interviewer asked.  Man, I can’t predict where m gonna be this Sunday and you ask me to predict my future after five years?? I am an accountant not a fortune teller.  I hope your next question won’t be something like ‘How many years do you think you gonna live?’ If that is what you intend to ask, I will backfire at you and reply ‘I don’t know about myself, but you are surely gonna die right now!!’  Interviews are pretty tough.  You have to be well dressed and be at your best to meet a complete stranger (you don’t even know whether they are of the opposite sex) who is gonna ask you some rapid fire questions (for which they don’t even give you some lifeline) and the worst part is that you can’t even say that you’re done.  The other day, I went to this renowned company.  The interviewer asked me to tell me about myself and I did.  He wanted to know about my family, I replied.  Then the interview started being much more personal. H

When you are employed, the only thing that comes to mind is ‘Gosh, I am tired of the job. If only m able to quit the job, I will be happily unemployed’. Once you actually quit, you get into a panic attack ‘OMG, I left my job, I don’t know what m I gonna do wid my life now, if only I could get a new job’.   Yes my friend, this is life and it happens to all of us.  The grass is always gonna be greener on the other side.  Must have happened to spiderman too when he was cursing his powers of a superhero (for ruining his only chance to get back to his girlfriend) and actually loses all his powers in the second part of the movie.  We work and curse our life when we are employed. The hefty salary that we get at the end of the month is no substitute to all the pressures we face during the month. So, if given a chance, what do you wanna do if you don’t have to go to your office everyday and have all the time on earth?? Go on a road trip, travel around the world, go skydiving or do any

The other day, I invited some of my girlfriends for a night stay. As all young girls, all we did was talk, that too for hours. We talked about our job (which was all about a new hot girl in office and the threat that followed), life (that it sucked), food (about a new mobile app for calculating calories in foods), music and movies (who wore the worst dress at the oscars) and guys (which was about 90% of what we talked). After a few glasses of beer, we started talking about a vague topic - ‘love’. We struggled to get into a conclusion what love actually is.  After midnight, we finally agreed that ‘ love is something, the feeling of which is unexplainable and the lovers clueless '. As a 16 year old girl, love for me was a romantic flick like ‘You’ve got mail’ or ‘Preety Woman’ where two perfect individual meet, have their differences in the beginning which they sort out and eventually lead a perfect happy life. But now, I feel of having I lapse of judgment then. All these ro

 Life's a riddle. When we complete sorting out the troubles in life, we are struck with other new problems. On the other hand, when we lose hope and are ready to give up, life shows new opportunities and new hopes. It surely acts in a mysterious way. I happen to remember a quote from one of my favourite movies -The forrest Gump,'life's like a box of chocolates,you never know what you're gonna get', which is infact very true. May be this is what makes life worth living,worth fighting and worth surviving.        So, it's a mere waste of time if you are crying over life for not being as planned. Remember, Life has not promised to be any different than what it is now. May be its simply about living each day, each hour and each moment. So, what the hell!!  Make mistakes, laugh at it, life's not fair, accept it, fall down, rise again, face the fearful, fall in love, stand for yourself, be stupid, dance in the rain, make a fool out of yourself, cry your h