Cultural Shock after moving to Sweden (For Indian audience)

When you move to a different country from India you always get a chance to experience the new things in the new country after starting to live there.

After living in Sweden for 10 years, I shared my views of cultural shock after coming to Sweden from India. And, this was my first ever standup in front of 200 people during one of the Diwali event we organized.

 

Facebook Deaddiction - Week 1

You might have guessed from the title of this post about what it is and I agree with you, deaddiction is not the right word to be used as I can see the red line below this word as shown by my spell checker, but, I am too lazy a.t.m to check the correct word so let it be. So!!! So!! So! So...., its been 1 week since I have deactivated my Facebook account to get the addiction out and its going good so far.

I do get urge multiple times a day to check my facebook account but I tried to refrain myself even type the url in the url bar, so, what did I do then? Well, whenever I felt to peek into my facebook account I open a browser and read something like local news of the county we are living in, news from India or something technical. Although the later have not started to happen more often but I still feel to do something meaningful for me instead of peeking into what others are doing around.

Note 1: Facebook gives a good option to disable your Facebook account (you might know, you cannot get rid of it once you have created the account) but you can still keep your Facebook messenger running. So, I am still reachable on Facebook messenger if any of my friend want to reach me through FB messenger.

Note 2: I know I am posting here after a  year and it is my second post here in three years.So, I would like to say "I am still alive on Blogger :-)". It is just that I got in to that mood of writing something here.

I am still alive on Blogger!

When I opened my blogger account today I noticed that its been two years and nine days now since I have posted anything here and it seems pretty obvious that this might have clearly lead to many of you think that I might have left this space or I am not writing anymore here but the truth is that today (after a long time..) I finally got in to that mood to write and post something here so thought to start with informing everyone that I am still alive on this space :)

Well, there has been a lot happened during these two years, the biggest thing happened is that I became father in Jan 2015 to a baby boy and now my son has turned into a 14 month old toddler. So, I think now you might have got a tinge of what I was into all this time except lying like a lazy lion in his cave and watching TV series all the time (of course during the time when my son was not born).

Its been many times when I logged into my account and tried to catch up with all the post from you all which I missed but then I realized that I have managed to have a such high backlog of missed posts which I will not be able to cope up or at least require 2 months of time off from work, family and everything :). So, I left the idea to catch up reading on what I have missed.

So, what now ? Well, I hope I get into the writing mood often and keep posting here, complete my saved drafts or may be discard them to shorten the backlog of drafts (such a number of backlogs I have :|) and resume writing.

So, if I was so busy during all this time then how I am posting today ? You can guess that place where you are away from your family and have your laptop with you, so yes, I am posting it from that same place.

Earlier, I tried to write couple of times but it was something which was not letting me write like sometimes my son came to me crawling, jumped on to me and pulled my laptop screen and said "tain tu"; Yes, that is what he keeps blabbering these days whole time "Tain tu... Tain tu..."; sometimes my son got himself in to a situation which needs quick attention from us like pooping in his diaper, sudden fall on the floor while walking, grabbing something (like TV remote) which he is not supposed to or simply just yelling or crying because we are not playing with him and most of the times I get so tired after office and then with my son that I even don't dare to look at my laptop and tablet... I simply land on the bed and sleep until my  LO is sleeping.

Well, many more things to share but I'll not do any promise here because I don't know when I am gonna be back here or get in to the mood to write.

TV programs in our life.

"WTF Shae!! How can you do that to IMP, he loved you, you fool!! He sent you away because he wanted to protect you from his father."

.... those were my words when I was watching fourth season of Games of Thrones. Sometimes I wonder that how come we get so much connected to the programs we watch on Television in such a way that we start discussing or expressing our opinion about a particular character or even start telling them the things as if they can hear us through the TV, lol!

Well, if this happens then it's exactly the aim of every producer of TV program to make a mark or space in its viewer's mind so that they think what next and get intrigued to watch their show again.

Sometimes, these shows gives you some phrase like "Winter is coming" or "Babaji ka thullu" which unknowingly starts coming out of your mouth when anything about that program comes across you.

I think the TV shows like Fiction, drama or comedy are more successful to connect to you because they are insanely planned and thoughted to do that but now reality TV shows has also started to grab viewer's attention or make them wonder what is gonna happen next.

I remember, last year we were watching Big Boss season 7 and we used to discuss about the inmates, although we knew that its just a damn TV show but still we were used to discuss about Armaan Kohli, Sangraam Singh and other inmates. While watching the show we formed our own opinion or perception about the different inmates and started to give our judgement about who should stay or who should get eliminated, what is wrong and what is right. I know that this due to the good work done by creative and editing team to hold of viewers to maintain their TRP.

I feel that the kind of impact one can have from TV program differs among different individuals, some watch programs just for entertainment and some watch it for information while some watch it to get inspired from it.

Whatever the purpose of watching TV is once you own it you can not refrain to turn it on.

Bas 5 minutes me..

Few days ago I received an one liner on Whatsapp saying that "5 minutes taken by wife to get ready is equally proportional to 5 minutes taken by husband to come back home from office."

Well, I don't disagree with this one liner, in fact I find it very true. It always happens like that, whenever we have to go out I start asking my wife to get ready half an hour before but then she did not, she always says that it will take 5 minutes for her to get dressed and my counter reply is that those 5 minutes are mine so don't you dare to steal those 5 minutes, use your own 25 minutes.

After 15 minutes, she asks me to start getting ready as she is almost done and then I say, tell me when you are completely ready. Again after 5 minutes, she issues me the last call and I know that now is the time for me to move my butts out of the couch and bring them in action. As usual, I take around 5-7 minutes to declare that I am ready to move but I still find her checking out if her lipstick is looking right, if her eye liner is on place, oh!! that hair strand is not falling at the right place so it needs a fix and then I start looking at her smiling and telling her that "look, you are still not ready, you are still not done and I am ready to move out from the house" and then her counter answer is "I am already done and I am doing all these things because you are taking more time". Upon all this, to win more time for herself she starts asking me questions

She: "Apna mooh kyun nahin dho rahe ho ?"
Me:  "Haah!! Shero ne bhi kabhi mooh dhoye hein kya".

She: "Shave to kar lo."
Me: "Babes, that's my masculine look. A light beard gives masculine look :P"

So, it goes like this. It is also said by someone that "What goes around comes around" so same 5 minutes things happen with me when I am in office.

She asks on message: "At what time you are coming to the home ?"

I say: "Leaving office in next 5 minutes."

After 15 minutes,(I live just 10 minutes from my office)

She: "What happened, nikalne nahin kya abhi tak?"

Me: "Bas nikal rha hoon."

She: "Hmm!! koi kaam aa gya hoga, hei na?"

Me: "Nahin, bas nikal rha hoon"

She: "Accha!! koi desk pe aa gya hoga last moment pe, hei na ?"

Me: "Nahin yaar, nikal rha tha to jaate jaate ek colleague mil gya tha" (of course an excuse).

She: "Oh haan asusual!! Chalo koi nahin aa jao.."

.....

So, it is like this, you know, what I mean! But, one thing I would like to admit that it doesn't matter how much time she takes to get ready, in the end she always looks perfect and equally beautiful for which I just stop teasing her for taking more time (for that moment only) and just admire her beauty (on that moment).

Long Absenteeism!!

Finally!! after a long time I entered the blogger url to check my account and it looks like that I have missed a lot since my last post in April. Hmm!! quite a lot of things to read.

I have a huge backlog of posts from the people I follow, I hope to catch all of'em very soon. Let's see how soon I am going to start writing here or I should say how soon first I am going to finish the posts marked as draft from a long time in my account.

I hope to maintain my writing mood long enough this time and I hope everyone is doing great.

C ya!

New form of ABCD...

From the past few days whenever I log in to my blogger account  I observed new definitions of alphabets defined by my two blogger friends who are taking part in "A to Z Challenge".

It is interesting to see how people can put in their own definition of alphabets inspired by their personal experiences apart from the traditional ones like A for Apple and B for Ball etc.

You may find interesting to read small poems related to one word from each alphabet at

Pooja's Thoughtless Ramifications

and some experiences and thoughts on one word from each alphabet at

Sakshi's Timeless Imagination