When life makes you a tad bit sad, GOA gets you going

Because chocolate everyday keeps mood swings at bay

..Because the love for #Italian is Eternal

Minced chicken lasagna with salad, garlic bread, and roasted chicken pizza.

Location: Onesta, Bangalore.

El Ferado chicken pasta with Pomey Chicken.

Location: Muffets and Tuffets, Bangalore.

Vagabonds just like to Wander

From the North India trip diaries

The snow clad beauty engages me.

Location: Near Rohtang Pass

Life and its blurred lines.

Location: Simla

For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever. -Tennyson

Location: River Beas

Why Every Woman Needs A Daily Dose of TLC

Nope.
We aren't talking about The Learning Channel (Isn't it preempted anyway that women know it all?) here. We are referring to Tender Loving Care!

Hormonal or not, on their period or not, pregnant or not, WOMEN are proud owners of the words "unpredictable" and "moody."
While more than 80% of the women out there are in a radical shift from damsel in distress to my life my rules, one thing that remains as a matter of fact as constant as the northern star is that every one of them is entitled to TLC.

Strong woman, stronger principles, strongest goals. When three degrees of the term STRONG form a small constellation, there comes the need of TENDER (NOT Tinder, mind you!).


Why?

Let's get started!

1. A strong woman is awesome but when you opine then...

Yes, who wouldn't want a woman who knows what she wants to do, pays half the bill at the restaurant instead of being the dependant one always, has a career of her own! But, but, but (Not talking about Kim Kardashian's behind here!) problem arises when you give your two cents of opinion in any of her matters and then her glare is like

So, I guess some tender love won't hurt here, eh?

2. The same old cliche is not the way to impress her

You know how lie detectors work?

The minds of the fiesty women are natural lie detectors that doesn't even need to look into your heartbeat. One look at you and she can totally detect what's cooking in that little brain of yours!

So if you think the cliches, and same old recycled dialogues are actually going to work, na-uh, darling you really need to work it out! So drop the gimmicks and always opt for a genuine loving side, else all you would get from her is

3. A lot of baggage from past has made her what she is today

No woman is born fiesty and all headstrong. Circumstances made her so. Thus, if today, she is not one of those to wear her heart on her sleeves, it's because her heart was once broken, if she doesn't easily confide in people, it's because her trust was brutally breached. 

So despite such instances, if she still holds you special, then you might really be special for her, and why would you want to jeopardise that?

Reserve some TLC for her, and that look in her eyes is forever yours!

4. Making her jealous will never work

Do you know that women are natural stalkers?

And no, they don't love stalking boys, their default mind mechanisms keep them intrigued to stalk girls!

But you won't ever figure it out by her demeanor (natural BAFTA awards winners too, eh?) or talks.

In fact, the whole concept magnifies when your girl is the strong, independent one. She won't let even a zilch of her jealousy reflect on her countenance! So if you are expecting some really love double dose out of her by making her jealous, then here's a heads up: the jealousy will make her mind scream:

But what she will rather choose to say is:

5. Strong people too have their downfalls

A happy, fiesty girl's Instagram with 1 million likes on each photo doesn't mean she never cries out feeling her chest constricted over something. Regardless of how calm a person may appear and callous at times, if nothing affected us, we won't be called humans! If she earns in millions and owns what others only dream of, it doesn't exclude her from the list of those needing TLC. Because just like you, not every day is her day.

6. You are STILL reading this?

Dude! She's a woman! Do you NEED any other reason? Go and give her some TLC!

Handbags hurt no one!

If you can never be under dressed or over dressed with a little black dress, then you can also not be guilty EVER for decking up your closet with handbags. As the title suggests, they hurt no one!

Pump up any outfit with a black and golden studded medium sized handbag.
Currently, niche brands like MK, RM, Jimmy Octan have come up with a plethora of handbag collection for their daily use line. The one above is from Jimmy Octan.

So what'cha waiting for?
Dress up, carry it, flaunt it!

The Setting Sun

No matter how much life ensnares you in its strange intricacies, be like the Sun- the celestial being that leaves the whole horizon shining a bright crimson, even when it's setting.

The buckets are in LOVE too

Humans in love?

Been there, done that.

Buckets in love?

Okay, you got me.

I have never really been a foodie. Much to my friends' and family's dismay, talks about any cuisine never perked my interest. But when you end up living on your own in a different city, far, far away from family and close friends, you begin realizing how much you miss certain nuances of your former life.

But know what? If you once again start going back to that former life, you will go back to being the indifferent one again; and no, this is no dysfunctional trait in you, but just human tendency.

So while you are at it, make the most of it and live each and every moment to the fullest.

Coming to that, these days, exploring places, food, and various dynamics of life per se, has some what become my hobby (I realized it while writing this, trust me!). So whenever I spot something unique or creative, I make it a point to click a snap of it (mainly for my Instagram, cuz I'm an IG-addict).

So while having a meal at KFC last evening, I came across this cute little house rack of KFC buckets, so in love with each other.

And although I am an all time idiosyncratic mind walking and talking, my poetic brain struck a chord with my vision, pushing me to think, that if I pull out one bucket from the bottom of the beautiful symmetry, the entire chain of buckets were bound to follow and fall down.

Didn't get the correlation?

Here we go!

The base line of the love house of the buckets is TRUST.

And although there's just too many quotes out there on the web (way, way popular than anything that I can relatively pen down with even a hyper active mind), it still never gets old that TRUST is what makes anything and everything.

When it is about you and no one else, it is your intra-communication (I'm a mass comm student, so yeah, just had to use this term!), how well you communicate your trust with yourself; and when it's with someone else, then of course, the same trust needs to be conveyed from you and also reciprocated from the other end in an equal amount if not less.

So folks!

The bottom line is:

Valentine's Day and every other day is most certainly about spreading the love.

But don't forget, love can spread by superficial stuff too at times, but TRUST takes real hardwork to be earned and also reciprocated.

So drop the superficiality in everything, sport a real smile, invest on trust, and have your happiness multiplied.

Best,

Simi.

What a lovely day to start blogging!

Although there isn't a special lair you need to be in to celebrate love, or a special time zone to cherish the sanctity of friendship and relationships, but isn't it undeniable that some dates always make it to the special list on the radar?

The date you first met someone, the date you kissed someone for the first time, the date you got your first salary, the date you got your first tattoo, and well, the list can go on and on.

So for this very February 14, 2016, a day when they say love is wholeheartedly cherished and celebrated worldwide, we decided to embark on our journey to write, not because we simply love to write (okay, that's there) but also because we love to explore minute details in everything, no matter how puny their semblance at face value for onlookers.

So, spread the love, spread peace, and spread that gorgeous smile, everywhere!

Best,

Simi & Simpi.