A New Year and a New Me

 

Well! Well! look who is out of hibernation. I know all of you must be shaking your head and tch tching at my sudden appearance. Not believing one bit that I will stick around for long. Believe me, this time I intend to do so.

To tell you the truth, I have been caught up in work and have also been a wee bit lazy about Blogging. On the personal front, life was as chaotic as cyclone Thane making me go blue in the face, followed by long stretches of absolutely not doing anything. I spent that time just catching my breath and trying to resemble an actual Polar bear.

As you can see from my blog I am a total movie buff. I spent a sufficient chunk of  time watching movies in movie theatres that too alone, as my better half is happy as a bear taking a snooze cozied up in bed rather than sitting in front of a screen. What he does not know is that after I die, I am sure to come and haunt him and sing horrible movie songs. The operative word is horrible songs and not sing horribly. Which would anyway be impossible as I am known for my singing abilities.

Sadly, I saw extremely bad movies last year like ‘MOD’, ‘The girl in Yellow Boots’ and ‘Don-2’ which were all packaged in a glitzy wrapping, enticing me to spend my well earned money. I am not even wasting space on describing why I did not like them as it will mean spending my precious time on dissecting the crappiness.

My New year started with a short trip to Mahabaleshwar and meeting up with old friends. Though I wanted to spend 31st night partying hard, the whole idea of drunken men and women puking their guts out was not too enticing.

I am expecting this year to be equally good as the last one and wishing for a thinner me, getting back in touch with my old friends, working better and smarter, blogging regularly, praying for better movies, happiness, world peace and that the world does not end this year.

Here’s wishing you a Bright and Joyous New Year!!! ( I am officially not too late to wish you guys)

How did you celebrate your New Year’s eve?

Hello There

Let me reintroduce myself, I am Vinita aka Lazy Pineapple. I thought the introduction was necessary since I have not posted in a long time. How have you all been? what's new in the blogging world?

I have loads to catch up on and loads to share with you too. Life has been quite hectic since I have come back to India last year. It is one year since I been back and life has been moving at a break neck speed. I managed to co-author a book, underwent a surgery and started my own content writing company.

I have already shared the details of the book with you in my previous posts. As for the surgical procedure, it was not life threatening but was routine only that I had to go under general anesthesia which freaked me out. Before the procedure I suddenly remembered all Robin Cook's books and people dying while getting operated. But I am in one piece and well.

I started my own content writing company 'Write Solutions' and have one employee at the moment and that is me :)  I am still in the process of making the website and will share the details with you once I have completed it. Since then, I have written for many websites and clients in India and UK and I finally found something that I enjoy doing a lot. Content writing eats away most of my time so I had no time for blogging but now I have vowed to try harder and make time for my hobby and reconnect with all the friends whom I love reading.
I missed reading all the wonderful posts and the banter with you all.

I am currently in Mumbai and would love to meet up any bloggers who live here. Please do drop a line.

Thanks again for sticking around and reading my posts. I love ya all.

P.S: A special thanks to my dear friend Shraddha for pushing me to write again. 

All about SOMETHING

First of all ‘Tons of Thanks’ to all you blogger friends out there who have still stuck on even after I have been on blogging hiatus for more than 3 months now. I had a valid reason guys, I let the ‘Cat out of the Bag’ in my last post. I was so touched by your wishes, it feels so good to be a part of a blogging community which is loving, kind and appreciative.

My book was released on the 19th October in Nagpur. Published by Denett & Co., a Nagpur based publishing house. It was a an ecstatic moment for me, more so as I had never imagined that I would be writing a book in a span of two months after stepping off the shores of ‘The British Isles’. It was a dream which materialized after a chance meeting with my co-author ‘Ashutosh Shrivastava’ just three days after leaving Lancaster.

In the beginning it all seemed too hard as I was not used to the weather in India. I had to shelve all the plans to meet up friends and family in India whom I had not met in three years. It needed a lot of brainstorming with Ashutosh and tons of hours on my trusty laptop to come out with the book. I was closeted in my bedroom with my laptop missing out on all the fun and relaxation I had been looking forward too.

Since both of us have had experience in the media Industry and especially in newspaper Industry, it was the best topic to write a book on. Our book delves on the current status of the Indian newspaper industry and the radical changes it needs to adopt in today’s volatile market in order to survive. It is an easy read without unnecessarily using big words to baffle the reader. We wanted a book which could be read by any person even someone who is not from the media world.

Hey, I had warned you in my last post about me babbling about the book and most of you had promised to tolerate me.

The book release ceremony was simple and was held at a three star Hotel in Nagpur. We had dignitaries for the book release and also the keynote speech on the book after which we served ‘High Tea’ and mingled around with the paparazzi answering questions.

The book was released by ‘ Mr. Devendra Fadnavis’ MLA, South-West Nagpur who has also been the youngest ex-Mayor of Nagpur. He gave a short and sweet speech about the book and appreciated our writing efforts.

The keynote speaker was ‘ Mr. Sanjay Arora, CEO of Shells Advertising Inc.  He spoke about the changing facets of the Newspaper industry worldwide and supported our beliefs about how the Indian Newspaper industry needs to change in order to survive.

It was an event which will forever stay close to my heart as I had many of my family and friends attending the function to show their support and love. The only hitch being hubs and my two sisters who were not able to make it to the function.

My mothers words are still ringing in my ears ‘You were the only women sitting on the dais amongst all this men. you have made us proud’.These words just made me forget all the hardships and sleepless nights. It was all worth it.

I am getting kinda sentimental. So before I make you tearful. Here are a few photos from the function.

The Venue of the Book Release- Hotel Centre Point,Solitaire, Nagpur

The Paparazzi :P

Me- Introducing our guests

The Book Release

Amit Mujumdar ( Denett & Co.), Sanjay Arora(Keynote Speaker), Devendra Fadnavis(Guest of Honor),

Ashutosh Shrivastava (Co-author) and Vinita Kherdekar (Me)

Family, friends and people from media industry

Mr. Devendra Fadnavis declaring the book as released

P.S: Thank you all for being such lovely people. I would love to meet up bloggers in Mumbai. Are you guys listening? You have my email id…drop me a line.