Its time for mean observations about the world

My observations over a croissant in the canteen

List of things not to wear to office(assuming you work in an office like mine, which is...corporate)

1)      Strappy sandals with flesh coloured toe socks. Those are just ugly. Period
2)      Ill-fitting shirts with ill-fitting trousers. They look like pajamas.
3)      Combinations which remind us of the housekeeping staff, security guards or factory workers
4)      The same tie. Every. Single. Day.
5)      Sweater- vests in mustard. Pants in mustard colour. Actually anything in mustard.
6)      Sport Shoes under your formals. unless you are planning to go running after work.
7)      Jangly bangles or anklets. Leave your jingles for weddings please.
8)      Stockings. Ok seriously, we live in a tropical country. Do you really want to die of heat-stroke?
9)      Combinations which defy the colour pallete. Maroon shirt and green trousers. Blue shirt and plum pants. No, just no.
10)   Anything with ruffles or frills or bows. Especially in pink, and especially with ribbons. Please don’t.

rainy day

We had  a sudden shower in November. I arrived at the bus-stop that morning to find this RGB trio.

Rain always makes things seem better

It unleashes the romance in me, with the help of long drives and hot tea. And a huge bag of Mad Angles :)

Just to fill up space I am making a list of ten random things about me. Simply because I never did it before, and always wanted to :)

1. My secret dream is to be an artist or a musician.
2. I love making lists, especially lists of chores, with little tabs and folders, all colour co-ordinated :)
3. I hate cellphones, the internet, the computer. But without these, I would be jobless ;)
4. I would love try out street photography, but I am too shy and too nervous. What if someone notices me? :-S
5. I can say the stupidest things in the oddest places. Major foot-in-the-mouth syndrome.
6. I am never bored of my own company. I sometimes prefer it to other peoples ;)
7. I wish I had straight hair, but looks like that is one wish that will never come true.
8. I actually love my job, especially the design part ... not so much the usability gig :)
9. I can't cook...but trying to remedy that.
10. I learnt to drive at the age of 24. I have had driving teachers since I was 18. Three people have tried to teach me and failed. Finally I just got out on my own and drove around. So yeah, in all six years of learning curve :)

and sometimes it rains....

By nature, I am not a happy person. I tend to look at the worse side of things and worry worry worry about them till me and everyone around me is sick of it. I worry about putting on weight, ruining my skin, remaining lonely and friendless, failing expectations, not being a good person...a million things.
I read somewhere about a gratefulness journal. About listing down things you are grateful for. What am I grateful for today?

• a holiday. though I love my job, I also love weekends and am never bored :)
  
• all the shopping.
  
• reading "Designing the obvious" and "The storyteller's daughter".
• my skin, which is recovering from the terrible acne attack of the past 8 months.

Like my friend M. says, "There are optimists, and there are pessimists, but its always good to be a realist". Amen to that!