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									<title>Fashionista or a fashion-victim?</title>
									<link>http://www.fropper.com/ezBlog/neha_sh2000</link>
									<description>Would love to know ur brushes with fashion.....</description>
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									<pubDate>2008-Jun-14, 21:33:55</pubDate>
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						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/16953</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Secrets Revealed (Double trouble contd)  
 
Looks like this Double Trouble... blog and tagging has caught everyone&rsquo;s imagination.....like a snow ball rolling.....it&rsquo;s getting bigger everyday...hurtling down rapidly......and friends ...fropper would never be the same again. What with everyone&rsquo;s preferences and secrets out in the open we are going to look at everyone&nbsp;in a different light. So.... this cool cat Manisha has tagged me,and here I am&hellip;..thoroughly enjoying the whole exp. It has really got me thinking ....as I had never given these Questions much thought till date!!. Thanks Dagny&hellip;  
 
These links will give you an idea as to what I am talking about&hellip;  
 
http://www.fropper.com/posts/16783  
 
http://www.fropper.com/posts/16822  
 
The Naughty Tag (Game 1)  
 
1. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex? Please no corny answers like his/her personality, we all know what we notice first :-)  
 
My answer: I am a sucker for tall guys&hellip;.it is instinctive. Maybe I was around 12 when I saw Parvarish (my first movie of AB) and had such a huge crush on Amitabh ....it lasted for years to come&hellip;&hellip;. So I always spare a glance at a tall guy who comes into my vision.  
 
2. Who- of the opposite sex- would you want to be with if you were deserted on an island?  
 
My answer: Well I would definitely want to be deserted with George Cloony in an Island.  
It is not only his looks that makes him so groovy, that whacky sense of humour, the naughty boy image, the visits to the war prone Africa...the whole package....has really caught my fancy (fantasy) ..... 
 
3. What turns you on about the opposite sex?  
 
My answer: Well &hellip;.about the turn on&hellip;..there has got to be more than looks&hellip;&hellip;  
The list&hellip;&hellip;.. 
TDH certainly adds up.  
Lots of respect for women.  
Sense of humour really helps.  
OOOO.... and if he has a cleft a bonus point&hellip;... 
Above all he should be able to hold an intelligent conversation.  
 
4. What turns you off?  
 
My answer: Hmmm&hellip;&hellip;guys who begins with asl and start hitting on you without wasting any time on trivia&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; are definitely a turn off.  
Men who walk with a swagger and/or vain. (leave the vainity to us guys&hellip;&hellip;)  
Men obsessed with their bodies ( six packs really not an issue with us&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;.)  
 
 
5. Some Froppites have their real picture on the profile and some don't but just going by their blogs/ comments/ scraps who do you think is the hottest female (male bloggers answer this) and male blogger (female blogger answer this)?  
 
My answer: I really do not know much about these dudes on fropper but&hellip;.  
Solarflare has caught my imagination. What with such a grand name and a silhouette to match is an enigma&hellip;..&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;(I know you have been claimed for ...many times over dude, but the fascination for the unknown,&nbsp;cannot be discounted) 
Brainy&nbsp;Bakra with his hot hotter&nbsp;&nbsp;hottest&nbsp;has impressed&nbsp;&nbsp;me&nbsp;&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;he has let slip that he is tall too&hellip;&hellip;.  
http://www.fropper.com/posts/16925  
Rat_race&hellip;..he is a cool dude.  
 
So here it is&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;.have bared all&hellip;..very vulnerable right now&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;.  
 
Bookworm Tag (Game 2)  
 
RULES  
1. Grab the nearest book you have been reading. And yes, when I say BOOK&hellip; I do NOT mean Cosmopolitan&hellip; or Playboy&hellip; or even Playgirl magazines. I am asking for words&hellip; not pics&hellip;  
2. Open page 123.  
3. Find the fifth sentence.  
4. Post the next three sentences.  
5. Acknowledge the person who tagged you.  
6. Add the rules.  
 
My book:The three mistakes of my life by Chetan Bhagat.  
Page 123, 6th sentence:  
We did not supply to schools. &ldquo;yes.&rdquo; I said. &ldquo;Infact we have our inhouse advisor Ishaan. He is an ex-district level player&rdquo;  
 
This was real easy&hellip;and the book is not as boring as it seems ...from these lines&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;.now the tagging part&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;I tag&hellip; 
 
whacky boy  
Yogi_om_ Mumbai  
Hell_Raiser  
 
Have&nbsp;&nbsp;set&nbsp;&nbsp;the ball&nbsp;rolling&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;..  
 
 
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						<pubDate>Jun 14, '08</pubDate>
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						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/16656</link>
						<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Evenings are the best time of the day for me, I enjoy my evening walks. Setting eve Sun, cool breeze from the lake nearby, radio Indigo for company makes it all a very enjoyable experience. Walking round and round the block does get monotonous at times, and the some of the lyrics like,&rdquo; shake what your mamma gave you&rdquo; sometimes makes me&nbsp;drift off and pay more attention to the surroundings.  
&nbsp;&nbsp; The people that I meet on these walks become familiar faces and elicit a smile as we pass each other. I have observed that very pregnant ladies suddenly takes to these walks maybe because their doctors have advised them or because they do feel cooped at home and want to take in fresh evening air to relieve the tension that starts building up as the time approaches to the D day. As the days go on they suddenly disappear giving room for my assumption that they must have become mothers&hellip;.in no time at all they come out pushing a pram and I would then realize that 6 months have passed!!!  
&nbsp;&nbsp; Seasons come and go and the years too, just&nbsp;now I am beginning to accept that I am 40 +... the dreaded 'F&quot; word........ I don&rsquo;t think it is ...just, the way the time passes without us being aware of it. It would be wonderful isn&rsquo;t it if we were able to catch time and able to savor it in our own leisure....:). The way time flies, It&rsquo;s as if we were in a kind of limbo watching the changes taking place around us with fascination as a detached bystander.  
What really got me thinking on these lines was this encounter with a very sprightly old man of about 85+ who noticed me walking everyday and wished to&nbsp;speak with me. So my neighbor called me in with a&nbsp; sheepish grin&nbsp;and&nbsp; I joined this man who was sitting on the porch. Though I was little impatient in the beginning for having to cut short my walk. I forgot all about it once I started talking to this man. He was a very cheerful man and had been very active till very recently had broken his hip and needed some help with walking. His main complaint was none of his kin take him seriously and brush away everything&nbsp;he says with&nbsp;&nbsp;the adage,&nbsp;his age that was acting up and was not very happy for having been branded old!!. This made me realize that&nbsp;it was universal. Our spirit remains untouched with age.&nbsp; 
Maybe it is for this reason that we cannot accept the changing face in the mirror and put in a lot of effort to see that it does not change. I guess it is for the best too, who would like to end up as a bitter and cynical old man/woman after the lessons (beatings) that the life has given them?&nbsp; and &nbsp;who cares how the world sees us? But&nbsp; we will have to prepare for the eventuality &hellip;&hellip;.and be more tolerant to the elderly around us. Having a set of friends who will patiently give an ear to all the aches and pains will help&hellip;.:). Moreover with the life expectancy increasing we will have a lot of company.  
When I was in my twenties&nbsp; I would look on everyone above thirty as over the hill. Well I have realized it now, that the hill is growing and am still climbing uphill&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;. How the perspective changes.....anyways life has never been better, I have reclaimed my life, have become more self-confident, raised wonderful kids, entered a comfy zone with the hubby dear as&nbsp;we know each other inside out.........am on a roll. With the media claiming forties as the new thirties we have everything going for us. Life has not come to a standstill as was expected.&nbsp;So age is just a number and we can be as young as we feel (which in my case is 16&hellip;) . And maybe the wisdom is trickling in&hellip;.just a wee bit&hellip;. So have started looking at time&nbsp;as not a time-bomb but an ally departing wisdom!!  
 
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						<pubDate>Jun 10, '08</pubDate>
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						<title>Happily ever-after?</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/14864</link>
						<description><![CDATA[  &nbsp;&nbsp; The fairy tales played it safe and ended their stories as soon as the prince and princess married with a &quot;they lived happily ever after......&quot; they knew they would b treading on thin ice with married couples.....marriage is never a bed of roses&hellip;. if they wanted a feel-good factor to creep in they should end it when they have just got together and everything seems rosy&hellip;.&nbsp; &nbsp; We have been reading about the increasing rate of divorce and have been contemplating the reasons for this sudden surge in the divorces. I guess atleast half of the marriages&nbsp;are still arranged by our parents while the rest&nbsp;are so called love -marriages.&nbsp;So why is there this surge in divorces?&nbsp; More women are becoming economically independent and are not ready to do all the compromising as they have always been doing....so divorce which was not at all an option till a few years ago, now&nbsp;seems like haven from un-happy marriages. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Moreover nature plays its part too...It has been proven through research that our brains will b releasing all kinda hormones when&nbsp;we are&nbsp;totally smitten and this can last only so long (as if&nbsp;we needed research to tell us that )&nbsp;and then there comes a stage when we say..&nbsp;what do&nbsp;we do for the rest of our lives? The passion has died down......we&nbsp;are seeing the bad and the ugly side of each other.....and OMG...am stuck with this person for life......   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The other day I read that Salman Rushdie thinks marriage is not at all &quot;necessary&quot; ........and women rush into marriage only for the &ldquo;dress&rdquo; and laments ....if only v could have wedding without marriages....this coming from a man who has four failed marriages under his belt......I guess &nbsp;he&nbsp;should be the last person who should b commenting on marriage&nbsp;nor is he an&nbsp;authority on what women want for that matter.......women I guess are suckers for love and will live happily ever-after with a man if she is told she is loved and of course cherished&hellip;..  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Men like Donald Trump and Paul McCartney keep changing their wives every 5 yrs or so for a younger model........so they can afford to do so....though&nbsp;we can take consolation in the fact that the initial euphoria dies down eventually and he will b back hunting for a new bride soon&hellip;...but what for the lesser mortals? What do&nbsp;we do? Marriage I guess was instituted for the welfare of the off springs&nbsp;we decide to spring......or&nbsp;we could merrily go on with the trial and error partnerships&nbsp;through out our lives........  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So now that we are&nbsp;stuck........how do&nbsp;we get through........we can do so by bonding a friendship while the going is good......support each other in all our ups and downs.......give each other a lot of space and respect.... and be there for each other..&nbsp;I know it takes two to clap&hellip;&hellip;.but&nbsp;we got to realize that he/she is the most important person in our life now and prioritize.&nbsp; &nbsp; We got to&nbsp;be NICE to each other&hellip;..so for this to happen&nbsp;we have&nbsp;got to pretend not to notice him oogling at every PYT who comes into his vision and he has got to overlook our overflowing wardrobe and the ever-increasing number of footwear and hand-bags&hellip;..  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At the end of the day&hellip;. What does one want&hellip;&hellip;someone to come home to &hellip;..someone to hold hands with as&nbsp;we walk into the sun-set&hellip;&hellip;and who better than our best buddy?  ]]></description>
						<pubDate>May 05, '08</pubDate>
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						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/14735</link>
						<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I have always been a fashion -enthusiast much to the amusement of my friends and have to keep up with the trends as soon as they come in vogue. I enjoy this roller-coaster ride and do not want to get off though it can make me dizzy.  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fashion keeps changing with every season.......and I cannot ignore even if I wanted to....as it is rubbed into our faces with every rita, gita and sita commenting on whats in and whats out. Keeping up with it is a task by itself.  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Do v want to say that the changing trends do not really affect us and that I wear what really suits me and what is comfortable?...i guess not...... unless u wanna b left behind....thats my take on it.......... 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Whats a pity is that fashion does not come a full circle and v cannot save the fav jeans which have gone out of style thinking they will b back at a certain point of time. My drain-pipe jeans from the last season are still with me and fitting but alas........ though the drain-pipes r back .........this time they have come with the low- waist.  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Coming to the low-waist jeans...the less said about it the better....first to accomodate them i had to&nbsp;tone my already trim&nbsp;tummy to avoid a muffin- top and have always to look for the seating in a restaurant or anywhere else to the wall to avoid a dekho of the&nbsp;cleavage of the rear kind&nbsp;and not to mention the under clothing v get to see with some casual dressers....... information overload guys.....&nbsp; 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I donno if u folks remember the psychedelic green that had come in vogue a few years back. The colour which is usually avoided like plague suddenly became current fav and i treated myself to a few pieces of clothing in that color and my boys were not spared too....poor darlings were young and still believed mommy knows best.......  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So what is it that makes u go that extra step and wear the uncomfortable clothing and sometimes in awful colours just to be &quot;IN&quot;.......so i guess that makes me a self-confessed fashion-victim.  
 
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						<pubDate>May 01, '08</pubDate>
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