The Everyday Girl Blog

Starting with some "long time no see" ranting.. 😀 I can't believe that its been such a long time I opened the blog to write a post. The last time I was here, I wrote a long travel post with some nice pictures and I lost the whole thing for the second time when I was editing the format. I got fed up and procrastinated it forever.  Then this post was supposed to go in summer around August. But I realised that managing a blog with a full-time job (which you love the most), travelling, other hobbies and long to-do lists of personal errands is not an easy task after all. And falling sick in-between all this makes it even more worse. The blog totally had to take a back seat. Coming to the weather part, this year has been a disaster. Every one of us felt like we got cheated by Stavanger. Or the Sun God decided not to visit us. Or the Earth didn't tilt well enough for Norway to get some Sun. Whatever! Would you believe if I say that this whole year gave us the su...

The four lettered happiest, hurtful, mysterious (and what not!) word causing happiness, pain and loads of confusion in lives of people. While I started to write something about it on this "so called" special day, nothing popped up in my mind. Like nothing. Nada.  I questioned myself - Can we really say/write about love? Can we really define love? Isn't Love a feeling to experience and an expression to let someone know about your feeling? There are SO many kinds of love that words alone can never do it justice. Probably that is the reason they simplified it to the phrase 'I Love You'. Love towards our parents, siblings, husband/wife, kids, family, friends, pets, acquaintances, and even to a stranger, we show our love and respect. Each one of us has our own feeling, experience, definition and obviously our own ways of expressing it. Love is like a sneeze, I feel.. you know.. the restlessness before and the relaxation after. Its exactly the same. And yo...

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I didn't expect Norway summer to keep me this busy. Have been having too many things on my plate. Travelling, outdoor activities, special events have become part of my everyday life. And in-between struggling with study times and new plans. This is the best summer we are having and I can feel the hottest times people in other countries might be going through. Though I am not regular in writing, I keep a watch on reading blogs. Its really nice to see many bloggers being back to blogging. It inspired me to write one and say a quick hello. While I gather my style pictures thrown everywhere on laptop and come back with my travel updates, I leave you with these sick pictures of mine. These are from almost 2years ago when I was struggling to understand what my life in Norway is. In short, right after I have fallen sick about everything-new-around-me phase :)

So, I just had a month-long mixed-events vacation in India. Events being - birth in the family, death in dad's family, wedding of a friend and split of another.  After attending all these, I am back to  reality of my life in Norway after 24hours of travel and transits. It feels stupid to travel such long time to Europe because I couldn't get a better flight in my budget. On top of that, they advanced my flight. So imagine how much fun I must have had passing transit time of over 10hours. Taking a whole month vacation, coming back and getting settled to work is certainly not new to me. Inspite of doing it for more than 3years now, this time its kind of more home sickness that made me feel different. And then my mom cries every time I call her [moms you know!]. To get off all these emotions of the mind, I slept like a log after reaching home.. expecting to be fresh for the next day to work which turned to be little odd to me after the foll...

[With my favorite aunt for she gifts us a lot] Aunt: Hi Me: Hey aunt, how have you been? Aunt: I'm fine. How are you? Me: I'm fine too aunt. It's going great! *Life was much exciting then* Aunt: What are you up to? *Me trying to skip her next question* [She is the principal of a school and is as strict with us as with her students. However, she is fair and good to be an aunt.] There comes her next  un expected question. Aunt: Where have you been these days? Haven't been home in a long time. Me: Ac.. tually I have been really BUSY. Aunt: *giving me that strict-principal-look already* Me: Actually been busy with work these days. Aunt: *still with the same strict-principal-look* Hhmm.. people who say busy are those who think they are busy. But they are just busy thinking that they are busy. Me: *confused look* *Trying to arrange all the busy words correctly in her dialogue* Oh well!! @#$%^&* Are you also confused like me? Then read it again. It does m...

“ Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.  They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” — Steve Jobs

I wish: 1. To have a heart that forgives people easily. Is there anyone who has this already? Oh yes, I can see you. Please give me some gyaan. 2. I don't regret much for certain things. 3. I don't loose patience over silly things. 4. I don't have too many mood swings that could spoil other's mood. 5. I am happy with and appreciate what I have in life. 6. To have a heart that forgives people easily. Is there anyone who has this already? Oh yes, I can see you. Please give me some gyaan. 7. I don't regret much for certain things. 8. I don't loose patience over silly things. 9. I don't have too many mood swings that could spoil other's mood. 10. I am happy with and appreciate what I have in life. Yes I said it and you read it right. If only these wishes can be fulfilled soon and I make my life better. These are the only things I have in mind right now other than these black boots. I have been looking for simple black boots for a while and final...

Leaving a place you have been in for 2years, isn't a nice feeling. However, it's not too bad when you are moving for good. When things work out as planned. When everything goes your way. Basically when life cooperates. And it's just not one way. When life drags you in its way, don't be tired. But then get up and run ahead. And it will just follow you. That's the way it needs to be handled. USA has brought a huge change. I changed. Changed for good. Believe me, change is never going to be bad. And anything that brings change? Is not bad either! I am gonna miss USA! Everything in life is temporary and has it's importance. So in good or bad times, give time, some time. I am leaving this place in happy times and no signs of sorrow and regression. I am going to be taken care of family again. Can have mom's made food, funny chats with dad, shoppings with sisters, play times with niece and of course, photo shoots with my brother-in-law. Nice no? I am excit...

Life is never smooth. Period. If you thought so. I was always scared of this fact half of my life and never wanted to disturb it. Whatever or wherever it goes, I had let it be. I enjoyed whatever good comes my way and disappointed about the bad things. Deciding about something good or bad was never in the dictionary. Taking or making decisions was never my part. Well, life teaches you all the important lessons at some point. It teaches you to live by yourself, individuality, independency.. all make same sense? Alright.. life also teaches making decisions, taking risks. Then that is the real phase of living life. It makes you happier. It makes you proud. It makes you achieve goals. My life was all smooth till I was provided with choices.. not 1 or 2.. many. I wasn't sure how my decision is going to impact my life. I meant my daily life. I literally spent some days to make a decision. But still couldn't come up with a reason for deciding on one. I WANTED to take risk...

I can never forget this trip to India. All excited. Sudden visits. Sudden decisions. Sudden plans. And all turned to be good. *touch wood* The only thing that went wrong is the damage to my dad's car. But again good is that he didn't bother about it much. The reason? There I was! :P I spent my vacation to the fullest.. without wasting a single minute. Good time with family, cousins, friends, parties, shopping. It was a memorable trip. I had a solid one month vacation. The return flight from India was good and bad. Good because got a chance to fly with The Special One, bad because I was missing home terribly. I almost became sick and was planning to go back. Sitting at the airport, I started to check my calendar and count days for my next trip. But now I am back to the US of A and feels like I am home, once again. This place turned to be my second home - Where I have my happy, sad, excited, disappointed moments. Where I am taught to live by myself and enjoy all t...

Could you figure out I tried to sound like Rajnikanth on this title? Hehah.. Mind it! How you doing? Hope you all had a good holiday season unlike me! Mine was ok (not bad and terrible).    I spent my Christmas shopping and visiting Austin and San Antonio (places in Texas) and New year with shopping again, movies and REST. I had horrible headache after I shopped without food for the whole day.  BTW, Happy New Year! I wish all your dreams come true and have a happy, prosperous, beautiful, wonderful, peaceful, meaningful, grateful, magical, glowing and healthy wealthy life! Okay, back to me.. After going through other blogs, I realized I too have something to talk about New Year plans. Bear me.. Here I go! What happened? #2011 Travelled to India and spent time with family #shortandsweetmemories I have gone through my visa interview and carrying it for 3more years #achievement Fought with friends (literally!) Had bad time being alone #lonelinesssucks Had good, bad, s...

Can I be happy hurting others? NEVER!! P.S: Others are those who sacrificed their lives for me.. Pria...

Donating eyes will not hurt anyone not even you then why not do it?  DONATE EYES  AND  LIVE TWICE.. :) Pria...

... why terrible things happen in life which make me believe that something good is going to come out of it. Pria...

                  .. feel to be all alone sometimes to be happy?? P.S: i am liking green color these days.. planning to get a green bag soon :) Pria...

hi frens.. hw r u al?? hope evrything is gng gud wit u guys.. health wise n wealth wise.. but i m nt well :( yeah i fell sick aftr cmng frm the US.. just recovered frm cold, throat infection n fever.. well i cud get out off the jet lag easily.. but bcame vry weak coz of this sickness.. anyways aprt frm tht.. life is as usual confusing.. trying 2 undrstand whts hpning wit me.. missing my frens alot at the US.. we fantastic 5 had a gr8 tym 2gethr.. missing evrything nw.. :( wanna go bak.. gng 2 office frm last week.. its vry boring.. most of the things r changed in off.. every 1 is new nw.. n forgot 2 tel u guys.. as my wish got my DSLR finally.. its canon 1000D.. need to chk it out mor.. nt getting tym.. wil post its piks soon.. nnn.. summer i think is ending.. so i m able 2 sustain the weathr here.. hope i wil nt suffer any mor diseases.. u guys also take care of urselves.. sry if i cud nt post comments on ur blogs.. but wil try to do whn i m completely well.. take care.. tata.. P.S:...

i was vry much frustrated about my roomie flat-mate yesterday.. i dnt knw y ppl interfere in my personal things n try to take control of me.. i was in a vry gud mood to njoi my snowy moments n thn suddenly it hpnd tht we had some bad undrstanding n i was completely mood off.. but stil i didnt want to miss the snow.. but the fall dint stop til late night.. i think it was late than 11 in the night.. it was vry windy til tht time.. so i cud nt go meet my frens n play.. :( i felt bad whn they started clearing the roads n the drive ways in the night at 12.. i thot today again thr wud be snow fall.. but unfortunately the weathr report here is also like the one in India.. it did not last till today.. whn i woke up today, al i cud see is the roads cleaned n al the muddy snow pushed off to the sides of the roads.. it is vry ugly nw luk wise.. the ppl who cleaned the roads walked on the snow n made it mor dirty.. i dint want to touch it also.. :( al my plans r reversed.. vry much frust...