post!

Such a shame...
So many things to tell... but no one to share with and so have to resort to this impersonal friend...

Today it was a very nice day! :) I am very happy with the French hospitality which is just way beyond the imagination! Today got another glimpse of it! Rather I lived that experience!

One of the French ajjis took Amy n me to a nearby Marche de Noel... wow! It was freezing cold! around 4 degrees and extremely cold wind with cloudy sky! But the atmosphere in that small village just took away our "weahther depression"! After strolling for some time in that small market, full of life and artisnal articles, we entered a small town librabry... We were there to visit a postal art exhibition... Apparently there's one French man who's passionate about collecting decorative envelpos and post cards... it includes various envelops made with a vague imagination, some bt some professionals and some by simple amatures, but giving it a very different touch by their simplicity! :) He found his source of inspiration in one of the 'juna bajars' where he found some beatutiful handmade envelops dating way back in 17th n 18th century! There he deiced to collect all such type of envelops and cards! Today he has around 4000 envelops of such sort and he has exhibited his collection in various places including very famous museums of Paris! Indeed he was present there and he was just about to start his workshop for discovering the art! Wow!! such a rare occasion! We hesitated in the first place though... but our decision of attending it was really good!

I will never forget this workshop! The idea behind this wonderful 'art postal' is to make happy your destinataire! These days the habit of writing letters is losing it's place with the internet and email... We receive many boring letters from electricit board, bank, insurance company etc... But just imagine... in all these boring and depressing letters if one day you receive a smartly decorated enevelop!!?? It can even make your day! So that was the main idea behind it... to bring a smile on the face of your near and dear ones just by sending them a card decorated all by you whole heartedly, just for them!
We had to decorate the card/ envelop according to the theme of the stamp... All the raw material was provided... from cardboards, envelops, stamps, color pencils, glitters, decorative scissors, cutters and even some ideas!! We spent around 2 hours in that fun workshop which at the end turned out to be a discovery of our own imagination which we thought was lost somewhere! :)
yay!! vive la poste!

Mediocrity...

How important it is to fullfill all the expectations?
The ones which you have for yourself and the ones which others have for you?
Is it ok to be a substandard?
Why is it important to be always 'the best'?? (When you know it that it's just not possible!)
How important is it to always feel the 'fullest' while doing anything?
Why can't you do something while not wanting to do it?
Ok... I know that now here comes the famous and sage question 'If you don't feel like doing it, why do you do it??' blah blah... Well... I have no answer to that... At times you just HAVE to do it... you are not left with the choices...

Such a mediocre note it is! :D

It's been quite a long that I've written anything here...

hmmm... well no reason as such... just that I had forgotten about it! Some days back a friend of mine reminded me of this and so here I go... :)

so many things have changed... so much has happened and so much is yet to happen...

Being France just seems like a fairy tale... a truly lived fairy tale! I shall write about in detail some other time though..

confusions....

why does it always happen? (avoiding the last part.. "only with me" just as not to sound typical... thought it's true.)
things like controlling you mind and waiting are something i find too hard to do... saying whatever is felt at that moment i.e. spontaneity is good sometimes but then you have to be really very careful... as 100% of the times the other person doesn't have the similar mindset n then you stand a large n unfair chance of being misunderstood... and it's been happening since almost forever... still i don't learn a lesson???
such a shame...
being innocent doesn't help is what my conclusion is... u have be calculative in life... that's the saddest part of the journey called life...