Archive for November, 2008
November 28, 2008
· Filed under Relationship · Tagged healthy boundaries, life partner, partner, partner relationship, relatioinship, sensuality, sexuality, team mates
A successful relationship is all about understanding each other. Listed below are eight key essentials in creating healthy and fulfiling relationships. Read each question and reflect on your current satisfaction in each of these areas. Objectivity is the key to this quiz.
Rate each question on a scale from 0 to 10 as per the following instructions:
8-10:
Good – This area of my relationship is strong, fulfiling and healthy.
5-7:
Fair – This area of my relationship needs some attention and enhancement.
Rate the following statements:
My partner and I understand each other’s feelings, thoughts and motives. We are able to “step into each other’s shoes” and show each other we understand where they are coming from, especially during disagreements.
My partner and I focus on and express our appreciation for the many gifts we each bring to the relationship, on a daily basis.
My partner and I have realistic and healthy expectations of relationships and sexuality. We can recognise and change our self-defeating and unhealthy beliefs that may be negatively impacting our relationship.
My partner and I have and express love for each other. We are able to express emotions in healthy and healing ways within our relationship.
My partner and I bring positive energy to our relationship. There is a sense of lightness versus being rigid in our relationship.
My partner and I are committed to our relationship even through difficult times. We are both flexible and willing to work on our relationship when needed (even if that means both of us making individual changes to benefit the relationship).
My partner and I feel safe and comfortable enough to explore, discuss and express our sexuality and sensuality with each other. Now add up your score.
Here’s how to interpret your score:My partner and I really know and like each other. We enjoy being together and consider each other best friends as well as team-mates in our relationship. We also respect each other and have healthy
boundaries in our relationship.
0-4:
Poor – There is little satisfaction in this area of my relationship.
Relationship, Healty Partner
64 – 80:
Congratulations! Your relationship has many of the healthy key components. However, it could still benefit from enhancing some of these areas. You now have the opportunity to focus on these areas and make your relationship even better!
40 – 63:
Your relationship could benefit from continued work on some of the concerned areas. Take time out with your partner to address and enhance these areas of concern.
Below 40:
Please take some time to focus and work on your problem areas with your partner to build a fulfiling and healthy relationship. You could also contact a marriage counsellor if you and your partner feel you need help with the same.
November 17, 2008
· Filed under Traditions · Tagged bride, Chooda, dholki, Functions, groom, Ladies Sangeet, marriage, married life, Mehendi, wedding, wedding day, Wedding Function
The most popular is Ladies Sageet where women sing special songs to the beats of Dholki. This is the last party that the bride gives her folks as a ‘maiden’. The songs range from teasing the bride to making light fun of her in laws, giving her subtle tips on married life and expressing sorrow over her leaving her parent’s house… Closely related to Ladies Sangeet are Mehendi and Chudiyaan ceremony. Chudiyaan takes place a few days before the wedding day wherein friends and sisters put red and green bangles on the bride’s wristes, signifying the start of an auspicious life for her. Mehendi is generally held one or two days before the wedding wherein the bride’s hands and feet are decorated with henna. Her friends and other female relatives also get their hands hennaed. Morning of the wedding day sees the Batna ceremony, where gramflour paste is applied on her body after which she takes a bath and wears her wedding attire. Also, the bride’s maternal uncle gives her a set of 21 red and white ivory bangles to beworn as chooda, which she continues to wear for quite some time even after the wedding.
November 17, 2008
· Filed under Famous Weddings · Tagged Akshaya Tritiya, cricket, Cricketer, curious reporters, hotel, Press, Rahul Dravid, Vijeta Pendharkar, West End hotel
Cricketer Rahul Dravid’s marriage wit Dr. Vijeta Pendharkar, made news for simplicity. ‘The Wall’ kept off curious reporters and fans at the ceremony, held in the high-security Border security force campus on the outskirts of Bangalore on Akshaya Tritiya, To pacify the Press, however, the couple held a reception on the Prince of Wales lawns of the West End hotel
November 17, 2008
· Filed under Famous Weddings · Tagged Delhi jeellery, Flowers, grand-daughter, grandmother, jewellery exporter, Kashimiri Pundit, Priyanka Gandhi, Rajiv, Robert Vadra, security, wedding, wedding to Delhi
Priyanka Gandhi, daughter, grand-daughter and great gand-daughter of three former prime ministers of India, was India’s most eligible ‘bacheloreete’ when she followed a firm family tradtionL marrying for love outside her community: Priyanka, then 26 had been the target of persistendt unwnted suitors, aone of whom went to court climing he was married to her. Flowers and security were plentiful at her wedding to Delhi jewellery exporter Robert Vadra. Two generations ago, the bride’s grandmother, Indira, began trend of border-cross love matches when she, a Kashimiri Pundit, chose Feroze Gandhi, a Parsi from Mumbai as her spouse. Their son, Rajiv, married Italian born Sonia
November 17, 2008
· Filed under Famous Weddings · Tagged Amitabh Bachchan, celebrity guests, designed outfit, diamonds, Karisma Kapoor, lobsters, Manish Malhotra, marriage, paparazzi, Sanjay Kapur, spice, sweetheart, wedding
This wedding had all the ingredients of a bollywood hit: A successful actress and her childhood sweetheart, diamonds and lobsters, a dazzling pink Manish Malhotra-designed outfit, celebrity guests and the paparazzi, and of course, rivalry between Bollywood’s most prominent families. Friends of Amitabh Bachchan, who had announced his son Abhishek’s engagemet to Karisma, kept away from the wedding. The scandal only added spice to the most-talked-about marriage in recent times. And yes, pink became the colour of the season.
November 17, 2008
· Filed under Famous Weddings · Tagged designer, gold embroidery, Hrithik Roshan, Jodhouri suit, Kaho Na Pyar Hai, lehenga, Muslim rites, outskirts, Rocky S, Sanjay Khan, Suzanne, Tarun Tahiliani, wedding
Hrithik Roshan broke a million hearts when he announced his wedding to longtime sweetheart Suzanne, the youngest daughter of Sanjay Khan. Hrithik, then the reigning hert-throb after the stupendous success of Kaho Na Pyar Hai, wed Suzanne in a ceremony compriing both Hindu and Muslim rites at Sanjay Khan’s heavily guarded Golden Palms Resorts and Spa, on the outskirts of Bangalore. Hrithik donned a white with gold embroidery Jodhouri suit created by designer Rocky S for the wedding. Suzanne was in a Tarun Tahiliani lehenga set.
November 17, 2008
· Filed under Famous Weddings · Tagged Ajay Devgan, Bollywood Actor, bollywood actress, courtship, Kajol, make-up, marriage, relatioship, shaadi, wedding
Bollywood favourite Kajol married Ajay Devgan after a five-year courtship in a simple family ceremony held on the terrace of Devgan’s plush residence. Ajay was dressed in a sherwani with a sword hanging by his waist, while Kajol was dressed in a green coloured, golden embroidered Maharashtrian saree, with gajra on her head, nathni in her nose, and make-up by Mickey Contractor.
November 17, 2008
· Filed under Famous Weddings · Tagged bollywood actess, computer engineer, Doctor Sriram, Los Angeles, Madhuri Dixit, marriage, shaadi, US, wedding, wedding ceremony
Madhuri Dixit had the world at her feet when she tied the knot with Los Angeles based cardiac surgeon Dr. Sriram Nene at a ceremony in the US. The Dhak-Dhak heroin (actress) preferred to go in for a traditional Maharashtrian Brahmin alliance, with family members consulting horoscopes before going ahead with the match. The wedding ceremony, conducted according to Vedic rites, was held at the Los Angeles residence of Madhuri’s brother Ajit, a computer engineer. the ‘family-only’ event was followed by a symptuous vegetarian lunch of Shrikhand-puri and masale-bhaat
