A wish for a beautiful Birthday Morning !!!

One special day in your life which is the most treasured moment for your parents specially your Mom ,would be definitely the day you were born :)  they would keep re mincing even when you become a mom of  those special moments ,those days the best days of your Mom's life for sure  .Once you realize the importance of your birthday you start searching for that date on calendar as soon as its released to know which day your birthday has come ...not sure about others but I definitely do that :D

They say self love is the best love ,well if  that is the case then I surely must have  loved myself a lot cause I pampered myself the most when it comes to celebrating my birthday at least for the fact that I had the habit of buying myself a birthday gift for myself every year and was in the habit to carefully designing my birthday cake and decorating the living room with different colored papers and balloons and then invite all little kids in the neighborhood  and used to watch in delight when they had so much of fun at my place playing games and savoring the cake ...I miss those days :) 




Now this blog post is just about how I wish my birthday morning should be .... 26 birthday mornings always started with mom and sis lovingly waking me up with sweet lil kiss on my cheek :D with a birthday song followed by a traditional aarthi and a proper oil bath and then drying of my wet hair with the sambrani dhoop ( traditional way of drying hair with dhoop stuff sprinkled on burning coals which gives rise to a good smelling smoky aroma which leaves a good fragrance in the hair apart from drying the hair ) ....and then blessings from parents and visit to temple ...that has been the traditional birthday mornings for  26 yrs of my life .....


7th of June and I would be turning an year older a year wiser a year happier :) hopefully a year wealthier and healthier ;) . Being a person who prefers seeing life in a different way ,doing things in a different way way too different from the routine  was wondering how different can my birthday morning be that was when my imagination was put to work ...



 7th June 1984 5:55 AM was the time I said "hello world" with a cute lil smile while the skies poured with a gentle drizzle welcoming me to this world .Soooooo this birthday  I wish I could be there standing on the cool sands of a beautiful beach waiting for the watch to tick 5:55 AM with eyes closed trying to fill my soul with the most beautiful mystical  sunrise I could witness so cool so serene with cool waves splashing my feet       ............. the sound of the untiring waves splashing and trying to hit the banks again and again which is pure music for my ears .Every single iota of me basking in the pure pleasure of a beautiful birthday morning while the warmth of the morning rays trying to  provide  the warm comfort I  can  get when  tightly wrapped up in the loving arms of the most wonderful person who brought me in to this world  .With the gentle morning breeze gushing through my face while I am standing there on the wet sands with waves washing my feet and while I am trying to embrace the sunrise with open hands shouting on the top of my voice "Happpppppppy Birthdayyyyyyy to meeeeeee " and then after a short while a short drizzle just to wet me enough to enjoy the feeling of getting drenched by the first monsoon ..while i try to catch a few drops of the rain in my hands and throw them up in the air with sheer joy of playing in rain on a beach  after which the rain recedes and then the skies trying to show me the colors of life yesss a RAINBOW !!!!!! and then I wait for the fishermen who are heading out for their morning catch who might give me a lift while I wear a life jacket all set to  enjoy pure joy of  floating in the  deep waters with hands wide spread out facing the open skies trying to say " heyyyy look at me my arms wide open to embrace life in its best form " as if I am trying to collect the whole sky in my two hands ....... Once back to the banks after a good sleep in the waters my unkept wet but slightly curly hair decorated with a hand made hairband of just flowers in the nearby woods of pretty colors while I dry myself up by taking a long walk on the beach side occasionally collecting the sea shells and having the fun of hearing the sound of waves in those shells and once I am done with my walk settle down to prepare a beautiful necklace of the little sea shells and a bracelet bracing my arm .... finally settle down on the cool sands of the beach sipping on to a hot cup of chocolate  rejoicing all the happy moments of 26 years of my life while  all my foot steps made on the beach representing my most dark moments of life which would be washed away forever in some time by a huge wave  .......




Wellllllll ...well ...wellll here's wishing myself a very happpppppppy birthday !!!!! and looking forward towards the wonderful journey full of  beauty full of joy full of lessons full of wisdom full of health full of wealth full of success full of peace and many many many more beautiful moments of life ...........

My First Horse Ride !!!

Somewhere deep down my heart which always looks out for coming out with the best of reasons to free itself from the shackles of boredom and monotonous life and most importantly from its regular dosage of frustrations came out a voice which said "I need to do something different " . And as if God heard that voice of mine I got an email from hydsports meet up folks who posted a regular meet up where horse riding was being taught for beginners  . Horse riding ..... the first thought or rather a scene which flashed my mind was a  beautiful girl with a nice cow boy attire i.e white shirt ,brown hat, long boots etc etc  with a gun in the holster riding on a white colored stallion !!! I know it sounds straight out of a Hollywood movie :) but yeah that's how WILD my imagination can get .

Well I made up my mind and decided to give it a try despite of the disclaimer coming with the horse riding that only "physically fit " people are allowed and fact being I had never worked out in a gym nor did any thing to  keep myself fit and flexible for such sports events . Now having RSVPed for the event I got my best friend to come along with me for the horse riding and she gladly agreed .Event was scheduled for 26th of Jan republic day for INDIA a national holiday .

The very thought of doing something new something different at least for once gave me a feel good feeling . It must be that excitement of doing something new and different for the first time after many years which dint let me sleep the whole night of 25th ( I was glancing the clock almost every hour as I dint want to be late for the meet up ) . Now one bad thing I did was I dint tell my mom that I was going for horse riding cause I knew she might not be comfortable with the idea of me riding a horse and eventually would keep thinking of the same till i returned safe and sound . So to avoid her from taking any kind of tensions I told her I was going out some where and would tell her once I come back .She sent me with the confidence that I was going to do something adventurous or was out for a small trip (of course I told her my friend was coming along only after which she heaved a sigh of relief ) 

So in the biting cold weather at around 6 40 am our short bike ride started as we headed towards Toli chowki where the horse riding club was holding the training session . We reached in 20 mins and the mere sight of so many horses in the stable  made me excited to the fact that I shall be riding one of them soon . Soon the trainer arrived and asked those interested to try out in the first round to que up and I immediately qued up and in fact went and chose the horse I wanted to ride even before the trainer assigned me one ( I dint want to waste any more time sitting and staring at the horses ) .We were first taught on how to get on to the horse with less effort and since every horse had a trainer along with it to guide the rider each one of us got our own trainer to attend to . My trainer taught me how to hold the reins how to sit on the saddle and how to position my feet and all this happened in 10 mins after I got on to the white and brown beauty named Rani . And there I was sitting straight and stiff with a polo hat and the reins in the hand ....the feeling of holding the reins and sitting on the horse and all set to ride the horse and gallop along with it made me so excited that you can only understand when you ride one :) 




The first part of training was to make the horse go around in a circular fashion along with the rest of the horses and that was when we were taught how to hold the reins and how to make it move towards left and right  . The head trainer was constantly supervising all the riders and was instructing how and what needs to be done till we were all comfortable sitting on the horses and using the reins . The second part of the training was kind of an exercise which was needed while riding on a horse and for this the trainer took each one of the rider to spend some time to learn under his sole supervision . I some how felt I took the longest amount of trainers time though he claimed that I was learning pretty good and pretty quick ..and my training was done for the day and I was asked to join the circle of riders again .After some time I decided to learn something more apart from riding the horses i.e to lunge the rope tied to the horses and make them walk in a circular fashion ,removing the saddles ,feeding them ,brushing them etc . Well that was the first session and after the session was done every body were given time to interact with the rest of the horses to know their names and yeah of course get a photo shoot done with all the horses . 

For those who might be interested in horse riding tips you can visit http://www.wikihow.com/Canter-With-Your-Horse .


And for those who might be interested for future events and to check the photos of the event you can visit http://www.meetup.com/hydsportsclub/photos/1237829/21072692/#21072882 .


Honestly the sense of satisfaction of riding a horse feeding it, brushing it, pampering it  ,was so good that I wanted to go for the next session . Its always been with me that I start some thing new and due to some unforseen reasons I fail to continue learning it . Hope it does not happen the same way . My friend who is my inspiration to not to give up on learning new things ..hope helps me learn this new found love of mine :)