Arm Candies

How do I explain thou?
The bond I share,
With the bags I have
And I so deeply care.

How do I tell?
The pain I'd endure,
If anything would happen,
To my precious Hermès and Dior.

To let them get tampered,
Would be the gravest sin,
To me they're nothing less,
Than my second skin.

The cheery red, the chirpy blue,
The fiery yellow and the deep maroon,
Staring at me from store windows,
Making me swoon.

It is not a trap,
It is their charm,
Such lovely beings,
They mean no harm.

Gucci, LV, Burberry,
I have them all at home,
Still eyeing the new Prada,
On my arm it will soon roam.

Amen ;)

What is sarcasm?

If there is something Sheldon Cooper also struggles with comprehending it is sarcasm. So today I am going to throw some light on what exactly is sarcasm. It is a way of showing your annoyance or disagreement without actually saying it. But beware it is not everyone's cup of tea. Those who get it are snooty and those who don't really shouldn't bother. Well to say the least, sarcasm is a gift. A gift for those who know how to make full use of it and an unwanted gift for those who are at the receiving end.

To be honest, I am often accused of being sarcastic but I blame that mostly on my allergy to stupid. Also it is my way of helping people be better or do better in life by subtly mentioning things which can annoy others (mostly me). I sometimes also use sarcasm to compliment (I call that an art).

So when I say "you are such an ass" isn't always meant in a derogatory tone but as a compliment that you are a hard worker (like an ass) but are not appreciated for your efforts, so I tell you. Another example is if I refer to someone as "Einstein", what I actually mean is that person's intellect never grew after the Einstein era.

Along with being a gift, sarcasm is also a medicine and the giver a doctor who needs to be careful about how much or how strong a dose the receiver can take. You don't want to piss off the world right.

I think I learnt sarcasm from my family, sometimes when I was out late, my mom would call me and ask, "I don't think you're planning to come home today, are you?" instead of "What time will you be home?", so basically I was never really asked a straight question hence by the time I grew up I had a master's degree in sarcasm.  I have it in my genes.

However, one must not confuse a sarcastic with a hater (lines can blur sometimes) but rather as a person on a mission to sharpen the grey cells of the world by quizzing them on what their words really mean, also as Taylor Swift says haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, a sarcastic's
gonna debate, debate, debate.

Which one are you? Go figure!

Guess who's back

So the nomad is back only this time she's gone from a free ranger to an expat wife!

I've been fortunate to have travelled to a few places in the past 3 years that sort of compensated for not having travelled very often in 26 years of my life. Now that I have some time to spare I decided to come back to my first love - writing.

Today's post is about 5 things I've learned after living away from home:

1. You become more responsible: When you have to manage your expenses, do your groceries, cook, clean, drive (in a foreign land) and sometimes unlearn how to drive and a lot of other things that now seem too expensive or when time isn't your friend any more, you become more responsible (read someone you didn't know you could be).

2. You make new friends: Living away from family creates a void that sometimes get filled by friends you meet where you live or on your adventures. They act as an extended family (one that you can choose) and share your joys/sorrows with. You can't however risk fighting with them because you don't have much option (you don't have a backup plan right :P) and also because you're mature friends (can't throw a fit any more when they get a new best friend..ha ha).

3. You make frenemies too: Not everyone you know will like you because sometimes they will find you to be too brash, too bossy, too boisterous and sometimes too different. They will however never say it to your face (neither will you to them) and sometimes you will let nature take its course.

4. You will value relationships more: Maybe unintentionally but you will jump with joy even if you get to know that your mum's cousin's son's wife's nephew's daughter is in the same city as you and you will make an effort to meet them. Some family is better than no family right. Also, if you are fortunate to have close ones living near you, you feel blessed.

5. You will learn to live no strings attached: When you leave home, you become a traveller, you create new nests, meet fellow travellers, eat new food, drink new wines, save some dough (if you're lucky) and set up new tents when new shores beckon.

An expat is an expat is an expat but carrying humour along makes the journey more alive!

Cheers :)