Gone are those days when people used to celebrate New Year at the pubs or discos. The latest trend set consists of having similar disco parties but with a little difference. That is instead at pubs, people have started having these spectacular parties at their home itself.
They have a blast at their residences or farm houses with the companionship of their peers, relatives and partners. These parties generally begin at about 7 in the late evening and go on until 2 or 3 in the morning. “Home parties are nice and cozy .It helps in bringing a feeling of togetherness in the family, provides privacy and the expenditure is also flexible,” says Neelam, a college student. A general survey reveals that most college students or the youth are preferring having parties outside at pubs than staying at home.
“I would love to go outside and party at discos since family parties are a bit dull as only family members and one or two close friends are present and feeling of uneasiness prevails”, told Niket, another college student, when asked about partying. The flexibility that the youth receive is more at the pubs outside than with their family members at their residences.
Having parties at home have various advantages like expenses are under one’s control, no indecent people and time constraints are conciliatory. Mr.Rajendra Saraf, a parent says- “Partying at home than going outside is better option because people at discos behave indecently as they drink a lot and also that they are unfamiliar to us.”
Deciding who to invite to your New Year's party is essential. Since you are on a tight budget, invite only those who matters the most to you and those who appreciate you. Preparing your own party food can save you a huge chunk of additional party expenditure.
When planning your party menu, choose dishes that are easy to prepare. Salads, roasts, sandwiches as well as grilled meats, fruits and vegetables are some good examples of party food that even a beginner cook can prepare. When planning your menu, choose to prepare party food that require relatively cheap ingredients without compromising the food quality and taste. Purchase your ingredients from hypermarkets because they offer huge discounts when you buy raw ingredients in bulk. Stay away from buying branded ingredients and liquor. To replace liquor, choose to serve sparkling juices, plain fruit juices or boxed drinks. If you want to save even more money, make your own cordial drinks or fruit punch. You can even choose to serve water.
When choosing the location of your party, it is important for you to choose a location that can accommodate the number of guests who will be coming to your party. Choose to have your party in a location that will not cost you any money such as your own house, your house garden or a nearby park. If all else fails, ask a close friend/neighbour who you will be inviting to your party to have your party in their house or house garden.
Dimmed lights and scented candles are a great way to transform any location into an elegant party area. If you are having children over to your party, decorate a small children's corner with balloons and ribbons. To add extra effect to your party theme, get your guests to dress in outfits and colours that reflect the theme of your party.
Entertain your guests with music that is connected to your party theme. If your guests like dancing, play suitable ballads or songs that they can dance together with. You can always play the online radio if you do not have the CD with the music of your choice. For guests who do not dance, entertain them with some card or board games. If you do not own any card or board games, surf the internet to find out suitable games that you can create on your own or come up with the games yourself. Organize a drawing and coloring competition for the children. You can also conduct games with existing items that you already have in your house. 'Musical chair', 'limbo rock' and 'Simon says' are some classical examples of games that you can conduct in your party at no additional cost.
Rock your parties at efficient levels yet entertaining at the same time. All in all, times are changing so are the trends of people and their celebration styles. After all -
"ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL"
Monday, December 28, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
God'z AnGeL....also called "MuM"
"Annu!!!!wake up beta!!!!its time for college!!!bus will leave you and go and then you would have to walk all the way to college" :):):)
well well....this is how my mum announces that its time for me to wake up and get out of my sleepyheaded ness.....a melodious tone to start off the screams,then a little more harsh..then comes like a dinosaur!!!:)
The sweetest of all sweethearts ,she tries to sleep beyond 5 but doesnt succeed...at times wakes me up telling she is bored at 3 in the morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!From dawn till dusk she walks and jogs around the kitchen,bedrooms,washrooms and kitchen again!!!The hardest worker of the family,she stands tall and strong but funnily never feels hungry to eat[dunno y!!]..My mum is one sort who gets easily angered by silly deeds...but calms down soon too....just that she needs time to..and mostly i agree me n my lil bro are the main causes for the same...it'll either be bcuz we dint eat or dint study or dint drink milk or answered back or some crap whateva!!!But at the spur of moment we never realise that we are hurting her...rather we think of us only..it just doesnt strike that she is telling it for our good only!!!But still!!!! oh damn it...we cant tell anything.....
My mum enjoys jokes..although half the time what i keep commentating does not even enter her head...its more like i tell,she laughs then its like ok annu what did u mean by what u said?????!!!!!dats my mum...
A great bathroom singer,loves to dance but is shy to do so....keeps worrying about thousand and one world problems!!never bothered a bit about herself[except that she feels she is too fat:)]
A big time motivator..does exactly what told..jus dat a bit completely opposite!!!
She asks sorry even when she isnt at fault,explains everybit when not even asked for,forgets all her anger and forgives us eventually,tries a lot to not talk with us when angry but cant resist ,is the only person to cnsole us even though she mite be the one who hurt.....
The only mum perhaps who wears my dress despite my screamings,and says that if i wear her slippers it would bcum big and when she wears mine it will bcum small !!!nutz seriously
completely fultu absentminded y mum is my lil dinosaur.....
In this world.There is Only One Caste,The Caste of Humanity.
There is only one Religion,The Religion of Love.
There is only one Religion,The Religion of Love.
There is only one Language,The Language of the Heart
That is exactly what you are!!!
solly to have hurt you...love you loads...
mwuuaahhhh
Saturday, February 28, 2009
ITS ALL OVER!!!!
this is supposed to be the speech i had to give on my farewell day...and i started crying while doing the same!!!
"well , it had to happen one day.My time here has come to an end.
A very good afternoon to one and all present here.
Though being a full time chatterbox , words don't come easy to me when it comes to speaking on an occasion like this!All throughout my school life , i have seen batches of students being bade farewell and in all those times, I've feared the day when i will be among those steeping outof the doors of this institution forever.Today the time seems to have come for me too to make a transition from present to history.
I don't know if you realise how difficult it is for a student who has spent years of her life, in fact more than half of her life thus far,in a schol, to step out of it.Perhaps what makes it more difficult is the fact that you are leaving behind the care and guidance of ever respectful teachers, the love from friends- only to soon find everything has shrunk into a handful of memories.
I don't know if you realise how difficult it is for a student who has spent years of her life, in fact more than half of her life thus far,in a schol, to step out of it.Perhaps what makes it more difficult is the fact that you are leaving behind the care and guidance of ever respectful teachers, the love from friends- only to soon find everything has shrunk into a handful of memories.
An episode of my life is over, perhaps the most important one,but the greatest happiness lies in the fact that it could'nt have been more memorable.
Today as i am here to bid you goodbye,i'd like to share a few of my experiences....
i have won many many important awardsfrom and on behalf of this school, the most treasured one being-THE BEST STUDENT AWARD and THE BEST CULTURAL PERFORMER AWARD.I alse remember the days when i used to hang around the teachers like a puppy and listen to everything they say, (though now i have become very naughty).I also remember the exhibitions and annualday functions i had attended.
The most important of all being making a complete mess of myself,taught me varied lessons that not even the whole twelve years of schooling could not teach!
years passed like the quick roll of drums , andsoon we were in class twelfth!I know we couldnt bring about very many changes!perhaps there wasnt a need!But what greatly satisfies me is that we dint have to face any major problems,not even a single one.The students of KV proved to much more disciplined than i had imagined.It indeed gives you lot of happiness to see a fellow youngster greet you-GOOD MORNING didi! as he walks past you.
When i was small i used to hate the prefects for being harsh on us kiddos.Now as one of the prefects,i was not the same.ts attitude proved to be more helpful as i could be more approachable and got to know my house members both young and the elder , better.
KV has been more than just a school for me.In my life till now my teachers have been everything for me.The amount they have done for me is possibly not quantifiable.
This day as i prepare to leave, i'd like to thank The Principal madam,all my loving teachers , my fellow classmates and all youngsters for all your love and care.I also wish to thank the prefect's cabinet for all the helo and advice they've given me.
The only message i have for you is that if our batch has done something good-please learn from us,and if we had our faults,then please be sure t discard them(its not worth accomplishing).Even if students must come and go KV and the young and energetic spirit must always remain the same forever-shining and smiling in the hearts of all its members.
Its hard to put into words all that i feel right now,but some day im going to look back into these days and feel GREAT!!!
Always remember:
THE JOY OF A BOOK IS IN THE PAGES YOU HAVE NOT YET READ!
THE GLORY OF YOUR LIFE LIES IN THE DAYS YOU ARE YET TO LIVE!
GO AHEAD! FIND THE PERSON YOU ARE GOING TO BECOME IN THE FUTURE!
bidding you all farewell....with loads and loads of love hugs and kisses,signing off-HANSA"
Monday, December 15, 2008
My ScHoOl RoCkS!!!!We RoCk--XII B !!!
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii so we meet again!
So where did we say good bye ??? yeah it was when I had reached my school!!!
Well as soon as I reach( I literally reach the last-close to five minutes to prayer bell!!)When I do reach as I told you am engulfed with my gang of friends!!!! Our talk(well gossip) will be basically rounding either in the previous day’s cricket match or say something about the latest movie arrived !! Of course my class girls are totally girlie-girlie types who keep blabbing about some stupid serials - crazy stuff I say(maybe coz I don’t see any of them).So I am with the boy gang, mast - gunda types .My gang consist of three boys and three girls including me.Well we are the closest…..ok leggo!!!!
As soon as our gossip is over ,we rush to the assembly ground, for our morning prayers.Then praying to god that hope this day’s assembly finishes fast without any lectures from our heads,(unfortunately god never fulfils our prayers) we rush back to class.
Naturally our first five periods go active.While the second period starts, our lunch break starts(for us back-benchers).So half the class’s lunch gets eaten up by the third period!!! And then we are energised enough to face the rest three periods,well boring dragging periods,so our class comedians come useful here(me.sharath,nivi,rahul,semal,niket,neeru,….the list goes on)!!!!!We have the most enjoyable time during our economics period, one of the best teacher’s of our school-Lakshmi parvathy mam , takes eco for us .She is sooooo humorous as well as strict,is heavenly to be with her-trust me!!!
Well after the fifth period,there is horrifying terrorist attack takes place in our class-------lunch attack!!! “Ten hands in one tiffin box,one hand in ten tiffin boxes” is our rule!!! Fantastic , best time of school, during lunch break we compose songs, we dance, we make remixes, we climb desks, we hit each other….oh it’s the best time of the day.
Soon after lunch we are fast asleep (back benchers of course)!!!And I am naughty enough here to pinch all those who are asleep, coz of two reasons…1,they can’t scream because mam is in the class and she doesn’t know they are sleeping…2, because they can’t pinch or hit me back again coz mam is there in the class!!!
After this we mostly have our block periods of computer science..meaning go to lab and sit and have a nice time inside an a/c room!!!!!
And the last period of course our most favourite!!!!
yup you guessed it right!!games!!!yeeeeeeeeyyyyy!!!!!!
We play basketball,our ever funny badminton,football,carrom,..and the girls..well they gossip!!!!
And after home bell , we all rush back half-sad,half-happy….sad because we are leaving our wonderful own world of school ,happy because we are going back home to meet our near and dear ones!!!
Soooooooo after bell,we go to our class , pack and take our bags,bid good bye to all,and climb down to go to our respective means of transport( of course another 15 minutes we are a gang beside our vans,gossiping our stuff!!!!)
Finally hard , good byes are said,and we start back home!!!!
Wellllll that’s how a day is like,in my school…since its our last year..welll our motto is
“LIVE FOR THE MOMENT….ENJOY IT ALL ITS WORTH”
I am going to miss all this fun,guys and I am going to miss you all!!!
So where did we say good bye ??? yeah it was when I had reached my school!!!
Well as soon as I reach( I literally reach the last-close to five minutes to prayer bell!!)When I do reach as I told you am engulfed with my gang of friends!!!! Our talk(well gossip) will be basically rounding either in the previous day’s cricket match or say something about the latest movie arrived !! Of course my class girls are totally girlie-girlie types who keep blabbing about some stupid serials - crazy stuff I say(maybe coz I don’t see any of them).So I am with the boy gang, mast - gunda types .My gang consist of three boys and three girls including me.Well we are the closest…..ok leggo!!!!
As soon as our gossip is over ,we rush to the assembly ground, for our morning prayers.Then praying to god that hope this day’s assembly finishes fast without any lectures from our heads,(unfortunately god never fulfils our prayers) we rush back to class.
Naturally our first five periods go active.While the second period starts, our lunch break starts(for us back-benchers).So half the class’s lunch gets eaten up by the third period!!! And then we are energised enough to face the rest three periods,well boring dragging periods,so our class comedians come useful here(me.sharath,nivi,rahul,semal,niket,neeru,….the list goes on)!!!!!We have the most enjoyable time during our economics period, one of the best teacher’s of our school-Lakshmi parvathy mam , takes eco for us .She is sooooo humorous as well as strict,is heavenly to be with her-trust me!!!
Well after the fifth period,there is horrifying terrorist attack takes place in our class-------lunch attack!!! “Ten hands in one tiffin box,one hand in ten tiffin boxes” is our rule!!! Fantastic , best time of school, during lunch break we compose songs, we dance, we make remixes, we climb desks, we hit each other….oh it’s the best time of the day.
Soon after lunch we are fast asleep (back benchers of course)!!!And I am naughty enough here to pinch all those who are asleep, coz of two reasons…1,they can’t scream because mam is in the class and she doesn’t know they are sleeping…2, because they can’t pinch or hit me back again coz mam is there in the class!!!
After this we mostly have our block periods of computer science..meaning go to lab and sit and have a nice time inside an a/c room!!!!!
And the last period of course our most favourite!!!!
yup you guessed it right!!games!!!yeeeeeeeeyyyyy!!!!!!
We play basketball,our ever funny badminton,football,carrom,..and the girls..well they gossip!!!!
And after home bell , we all rush back half-sad,half-happy….sad because we are leaving our wonderful own world of school ,happy because we are going back home to meet our near and dear ones!!!
Soooooooo after bell,we go to our class , pack and take our bags,bid good bye to all,and climb down to go to our respective means of transport( of course another 15 minutes we are a gang beside our vans,gossiping our stuff!!!!)
Finally hard , good byes are said,and we start back home!!!!
Wellllll that’s how a day is like,in my school…since its our last year..welll our motto is
“LIVE FOR THE MOMENT….ENJOY IT ALL ITS WORTH”
I am going to miss all this fun,guys and I am going to miss you all!!!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
HeAvEnLy JoUrNeY!!!!
Hmmmm…..wat delicious food my mom makes….aaahhhh…parathe..channa..dal makhani…yummilicious….such delicacies…oh!!! OH!!! Dear!! What is all that horrible noise disturbing my dinner???
I wake up with a jerk to just to realise that I was dreaming all the way through..and the noise??????????
Well…..it was the stupid alarm ringing !!!!
It is 5 am in the morning.
Half sleepy I go to the washroom(and sleep there until my mom bangs the door and says that its getting late).I brush my teeth ,drink milk and sit for studying(pretence of course!I’ll be asleep).By the time all this happens ,it will be 6 am and mom comes again (as a flying squad) to check whether both me and my brother are studying(of course we will be ,according to her;in reality both of our eyes will be closed !!but who cares ??we are studying with our eyes closed i.e.we are studying anyway,that’s the whole point!!!)
Quarter of an hour later,we get up to go and have our baths,which is like another sleepy quarter of an hour inside the bathrooms(boooyyyyyy we are real sleepy-heads!!!)
Around 6.30 am we come out active and fresh to face the new day. We start getting dressed for our schools,mom prepares breakfast( I keep trying to dodge her but she makes sure I eat and then only go ).
My van comes to pick me up at 7am so I have to rush rather than my brother.I guess his van arrives at 7.40am or so..anyway later than mine.Since I leave home first I don’t know what exactly happens to my brother after I leave,so I guess we can all tell him a good bye!!!
Now , after I board my jet airways(my van has been nick-named by my friends as jet airways),there is a traditional fight as to who gets the window seat and who sits any place else? I end up ultimately in the front or at the last corner seat(both nice!!!)
There is a long long drive from my home to school and nearly 25 students are picked up en-route to school.Say after an hour or so , at 8am , we reach CLRI and the students of KV CLRI depart us .Then we leave for our school which is like 5 minutes from CLRI.
So ultimately we reach school around 8.10 when my bell rings and I rush through the main entrance.And then………………………..
Well after this I m engulfed among my friends circle, so …..sorry guys ..i have to leave you all now!!!!I will meet you in my next article….i hope you enjoyed the journey along with me…
In the next article I will enlighten you with something more interesting than this one..
Cheers..adios….Love you all!!! Have a nice day!!!!
I wake up with a jerk to just to realise that I was dreaming all the way through..and the noise??????????
Well…..it was the stupid alarm ringing !!!!
It is 5 am in the morning.
Half sleepy I go to the washroom(and sleep there until my mom bangs the door and says that its getting late).I brush my teeth ,drink milk and sit for studying(pretence of course!I’ll be asleep).By the time all this happens ,it will be 6 am and mom comes again (as a flying squad) to check whether both me and my brother are studying(of course we will be ,according to her;in reality both of our eyes will be closed !!but who cares ??we are studying with our eyes closed i.e.we are studying anyway,that’s the whole point!!!)
Quarter of an hour later,we get up to go and have our baths,which is like another sleepy quarter of an hour inside the bathrooms(boooyyyyyy we are real sleepy-heads!!!)
Around 6.30 am we come out active and fresh to face the new day. We start getting dressed for our schools,mom prepares breakfast( I keep trying to dodge her but she makes sure I eat and then only go ).
My van comes to pick me up at 7am so I have to rush rather than my brother.I guess his van arrives at 7.40am or so..anyway later than mine.Since I leave home first I don’t know what exactly happens to my brother after I leave,so I guess we can all tell him a good bye!!!
Now , after I board my jet airways(my van has been nick-named by my friends as jet airways),there is a traditional fight as to who gets the window seat and who sits any place else? I end up ultimately in the front or at the last corner seat(both nice!!!)
There is a long long drive from my home to school and nearly 25 students are picked up en-route to school.Say after an hour or so , at 8am , we reach CLRI and the students of KV CLRI depart us .Then we leave for our school which is like 5 minutes from CLRI.
So ultimately we reach school around 8.10 when my bell rings and I rush through the main entrance.And then………………………..
Well after this I m engulfed among my friends circle, so …..sorry guys ..i have to leave you all now!!!!I will meet you in my next article….i hope you enjoyed the journey along with me…
In the next article I will enlighten you with something more interesting than this one..
Cheers..adios….Love you all!!! Have a nice day!!!!
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Is it worth being me??
No more games, I'm a change what you call rage
I was playin in the beginnin, the moods all changed
I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage
But I've kept rhymin and stepwritin the next cypher
Best believe somebody's payin the pied piper
All the pain inside amplified by the fact
That I can't get by with my 9 to 5
it's no movie, there's no Makai Pheiffer, this is my life
And these times are so hard and it's getting even harder
another day of monotony
Has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail
I've got to formulate a plot or I end up in jail or shot
Success is my only m*********n option, failure's not
this trailer's got to go
I cannot grow old in Salem's lot So here I go is my shot.
Feet fail me not this may be the only opportunity that I got saying..
CHORUZ
stay away , keep away,
just break it like and throw away cuz
one for the trouble , two for the face ,
being like me is such a big disgrace!!!
RAP
one morning i shoot up from the bed all dreaming ,
what , late in the night , i did was wondering
going thru' my books , i think was something
compared to the threats that all am facing
is only to believe that im good for nothing
or rather get ready to face the wrists all that are eager for punching
its like am nobody in this world
that can see like a pearl that is hurled straight right at me
was it worth the effort i put into being me as somebody
who could change the stars all in the sky by
simply just trying like saying....
I was playin in the beginnin, the moods all changed
I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage
But I've kept rhymin and stepwritin the next cypher
Best believe somebody's payin the pied piper
All the pain inside amplified by the fact
That I can't get by with my 9 to 5
it's no movie, there's no Makai Pheiffer, this is my life
And these times are so hard and it's getting even harder
another day of monotony
Has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail
I've got to formulate a plot or I end up in jail or shot
Success is my only m*********n option, failure's not
this trailer's got to go
I cannot grow old in Salem's lot So here I go is my shot.
Feet fail me not this may be the only opportunity that I got saying..
CHORUZ
stay away , keep away,
just break it like and throw away cuz
one for the trouble , two for the face ,
being like me is such a big disgrace!!!
RAP
one morning i shoot up from the bed all dreaming ,
what , late in the night , i did was wondering
going thru' my books , i think was something
compared to the threats that all am facing
is only to believe that im good for nothing
or rather get ready to face the wrists all that are eager for punching
its like am nobody in this world
that can see like a pearl that is hurled straight right at me
was it worth the effort i put into being me as somebody
who could change the stars all in the sky by
simply just trying like saying....
सोचा न था
हल्की हल्की उन बारिशों मे
चलने का मन क्यों करता हैं
तेरे बिना एक दिन भी मेरा
क्यों कटता हैं
सोचा न था
ऐसा भी होगा
क्या मैं था और क्या बन गया
तेरे प्यार के चक्कर मे
तेरी एक हसी ने तो
चाँद को रूला डाला
तेरी उन आँखों ने तो
सूरज को छुप्पा डाला
तेरी मस्तानी चालों ने
किया कितनों को घायल
तेरी उन प्यारी बातों ने
किया कितनों को पागल
में भी उस मे
क्यों फसा
ये बात मुझको बता
जाने जाना.
सोचा न था
ऐसे भी होगा
क्या मैं था
और क्या बन गया
तेरे प्यार की चक्कर मे.
Sharath. M
चलने का मन क्यों करता हैं
तेरे बिना एक दिन भी मेरा
क्यों कटता हैं
सोचा न था
ऐसा भी होगा
क्या मैं था और क्या बन गया
तेरे प्यार के चक्कर मे
तेरी एक हसी ने तो
चाँद को रूला डाला
तेरी उन आँखों ने तो
सूरज को छुप्पा डाला
तेरी मस्तानी चालों ने
किया कितनों को घायल
तेरी उन प्यारी बातों ने
किया कितनों को पागल
में भी उस मे
क्यों फसा
ये बात मुझको बता
जाने जाना.
सोचा न था
ऐसे भी होगा
क्या मैं था
और क्या बन गया
तेरे प्यार की चक्कर मे.
Sharath. M
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