This season i decided to stick to what looks best on me and not experiment too much trendwise. I especially love the way short lycra & jersey dresses wrap the feminine torso. White has always been a dominant colour in my wardrobe and colourful geometric prints just flatter any body type, ofcourse depending on the size of prints for specific bodytypes. Oh and yes the blazer adds a lot of attitude when worn over a tight short dress!!!

I was hardly 9 when my parents took me to Shillong for my first ever outstation holiday. The best thing about a place like Shillong is the fact that its never boring; the climate, the markets and people most of all. A lot of people from different parts of the world come here for visits and the culture here is something to look forward to. They have a matrilineal society, yeah it’s different and its very interesting too. And, getting back to my original topic ie my puja holidays in Shillong, I can’t express to my fullest satisfaction the thrill i got just knowing that i was going to be there for a whole week! My dad always keep me informed of what exactly we are gonna be doin whenever he takes us out. We visited so many nooks and corners of the town that had the puja pandals. The highlight of this puja was this that my parents got me a saree that had red borders and mustard colour pattern in the body. It was the best gift ever!

Often i wake up thinking about how i don’t wanna die…this feeling is so intense that if i don’t get a call from someone at that particular time and tell me about  something fun to look forward to then i would be on bed jus doing that! I have asked a lot of people; friends, acquaintances, colleagues etc bout the fact and how they deal with that, yet none of their answers make me sit back and think of Death as something that is simply to be taken as an ” I have lived my life and now it’s time for D” …i say NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWAY. I NEED BETTER REASONS TO DIE FOR. I have to do so much and i am not ready yet i guess to even think about it but thoughts find their own way into my mind. Writing down my fear makes me feel better coz the burden seems to be lighter somehow as more people read this on….

The whole week has been some sort of malfunctioning in my calm routine. I skipped  my laundry, my messy cupboard remains messy, and my thoughts revolve around the same old issues. Solutions.When. There was also a time when I thought about working as  an english teacher in Korea, later i heard that the political situation in Korea is not stable and i forgot about my thought. I can’t even begin to explain how important it is for me to have some sort of change in my entire routine, its much anticipated!

The office is more than half empty as of now and the weather outside is still flirting with the everending day. I don’t know for sure if I dread to see my messy apartment( courtesy of the three adorable puppies ) more or the tussle with the rickshaw drivers outside my office to whom i would have to beg to give me a ride home. Times like this I miss my village Kangtsung, in Nagaland. Tried to google a couple of times but it is impossible to track it down, i should probably do something about it. There is so much that I miss about my village, unfortunately those are the things I miss only when it rains over here in Mumbai! So many random thoughts so many funny & unbelievable excuses for doing things to cheer myself up…and the quick smoke outside my office are some of the activity that’s keeping me busy until my shift gets over. This is one of those rainy days I guess when I have nothing specific to do or talk about.

I had a frown on my face when i seated myself inside the ” autorickshaw ” enroute santacruz east to visit my friend, we had plans to go shopping later. Nomatter what the weather is, a little trip to the busy shopping streets is always worth the squeeze! The hot weather was so not appropriate for the fancy “ordeal”. Girls will be girls

This season Yellow tops my list as far as colours go, and I am sooooooo glad i found this top that has a wide  neck which could be worn as an off shoulder piece at times…and the best part is it did not burn a hole in my purse as my MANGO Skirt suit did! This skirt is as good as one of Philip Lim’s Spring 2009 collection; high waisted, perfect cut, finest fabric, attention to details and the perfect size for a petite frame. I think i like it better than Philip’s wool blend ruffle skirt. So i can proudly say that i have close to 5 nos of high waisted skirts, one for each day of the week now!

“Highwaist” is here to stay.

Highwaist denims are next on the list. Keep coming to my blog!

7:00 am; get out of bed

7:15 am; shower time

8:30 am; get dressed for college in white salwar n blue kameez!

8:45 am; eat breakfast

9:00 am; go to college in  marwari patti ( shri digambar jain girl’s college)

9:30 am; attend first period of english literature

10:00 am; bunk the 2nd and the third one and head straight to hongkong market which is 5 mins from my college…

10:15 am; bargain with all the shopkeepers for a discount on the latest fashion goods which are far beyond my pocket money budget :)

11:15 am; head straight to the vegetarian college canteen for hot samosas n sweet imli sauce

11:30 am; sleep off the entire 30 mins of political science in the second last row

12:00 noon – 1:00 pm; listen religiously to the last two literature papers in the front row

1:30 pm; reach hostel n have  warm tea with “kata” biscuit

1:45 – 5:00 pm; play carrom board with the hostel “guys”   ps; my partner was this hot nepali guy named Amit Thapa

5:30 pm; have shower and go for dinner with the girls

6:30 pm; study time ( manicure, pedicure, hair styling n flirting wit the boys r the fringe benefits of this particular time! )

8:30 pm; night prayer service..a short one about 15 mins

9:00 pm; lights off and sweet dreams!

I have always strongly believed in feng shui, astrology, tarrot reading ….you name it and I am in. My office  hosted one such event today and it was  obvious  that I wanted to get my face “read”.

My enthusiam was fulfilled when I dashed to the face reading room irrespective of who’s turn it was because i knew that i lacked the patience to wait for my turn on this one! The first thing i noticed was how light hearted and casual the whole experience was unlike the one that i had imagined. This guy’s first question to me was ” aapko hindi samaj mei aata hai na?”…that was expected but i was so keen on the actual thing that i forgot to laugh. He was shorter to me and told me things that i agreed to a great extend, but my ears froze when I entered the room again a little later only to discover that he was narrating the exact scripts of “my” face reading to my colleague too.

I was happy when my session was over even if his prediction of my past was totally incorrect when he said ” you have been on your own since 18 years of age”, and i say to myself  ”what rubbish? its been only 3 years since i am away from my folks and it would imply that i am only 21 now…hah!

Guys in my office did not get chairs to sit for lunch because the ladies were getting their nail-art done! Clearly they were mad at us…hahaha, but they were not vocal about the same…poor poor guys they are very compromising in my office. They deserve Men’s day…..nah not really , it doesn’t sound good enough.

So here’s a big cheers to all the lovely ladies!

I have been frequently asked by my colleagues ” where do you shop ben?”, and everytime I have the same feeling that I must have gone for shopping with a purpose. This is not to contradict what I had earlier stated in one of my blogs right here. People generally have this common thing in their mind when they step out  for shopping; ” showroom looks”, nothing wrong with that. I buy a lot of stuff from these so called  ”showrooms”…even better is the fact that I buy more stuff off the streets literally.

Fashion magazines of the day  feature designer ensembles and feature cheap buys that would give the same looks…now my point here is not just to buy cheap stuff and copy but try mix matching the clothes in as many different looks that could compliment the wearer. Sometimes a colourful hand painted wooden neckpiece could entirely lighten up a plain outfit where  heavily diamond studded chokers could have no clue. The idea here is to be not in a rush to put everything in that closet on your body like there is no tomorrow…clothes in the closet can wait so concentrate on the look and stick only to that keeping in mind what flatters your body. Dressing to please is okay….but dressing to please the fashion of the moment is a mistake.

“Fashion is so ugly that it needs to change itself every six months”….this is what I read about sometime long back in a fashion magazine. An individual shows to the world what kind of a person he or she is from the way they dress (we know it’s a cliche).

Shopping trends are the same in most places across the globe. Style matters to people all the time and the rest who think that  it doesn”t matter believe me they are the ones who inspire the style conscious people more to look better and different all the more, but style is more about looking and feeling good keeping the latest trends in mind and a bit of confidence in carrying that particular look.

I feel that one should go out for shopping without a “to buy list” in  mind if one wants to experiment  and still be happy at the end of the shopping trip. Knowing the market is a plus point which all shoppers most often have a basic idea about. A true fashionista would never compromise on price tags if she believes that the products are worth it, but hey what if you got something almost the same or even better for a lower bargain? Both the quality and the price should have a good balance.

The bottom line is always the same….style matters no matter what.