Inquisitive Scorpios...

This is not one of those," Once upon a time…" type of story. In fact it seems like yesterday when I got my Internet connection and the first thing I wanted to check on net was my daily horoscope. A trait you will find in most of the inquisitive Scorpios. I am not VERY SUPERSTITIOUS about things, though I wait for another person to pass by when a cat crosses the road. But that is usual I am sure. I remember when I was a kid and we had gone to see a fair and this local astrologer saw me and said," oh! She is the future Priyanka Gandhi", I though that was the name of some great actress or a beauty pageant winner. Though later on when I got to know who she is I really felt sorry for my I.Q. Even till recent times I feel amazed by the powers of the stars. Around two years back I got very interested in stones and got my self one made according to my birth-chart. It was for self-satisfaction. It did work because I really started feeling satisfied in whatever I did. Even if my college projects were half pending I still felt satisfied. After that there seemed to be stone everywhere. I saw Mr. Amitabh Bacchan's ads and saw two blue Sapphire stone rings in his finger, and after sometime another one was added in his adjacent finger. Now! That made me feel unsatisfied and I knew the effect of the stone I was wearing was diminishing off. I felt even I needed some stone that could enhance my power and make me famous. So I made a little visit to my local astrologer and instead of telling me which stone to wear he told me that one of the line in my hand tell him that I don't have my breakfast everyday. I was amazed. How could he know? He surely is great in his field. He told me to rectify this and only then he would tell me about the stone. So from next day onwards I very religiously started having my breakfast. I did so for about a month and looked at the line he had pointed out the other day, it looked just the same. I gained three things from this experience, one never trust all that a stranger tells you, two the habit of eating my breakfast everyday and three a few more kgs of weight. Long time back some one had told me that my name was not suitable for me, I should have a name which starts with an "A" so my mother started calling me Aana at home. That happens to be my fifth nickname. Recently, a neurologist told me that my name is very powerful only if I drop my surname. Like an obedient child I started using my name Mandvi without Sharma, though I liked calling it in the James Bond style- Sharma… Mandvi Sharma. But that is not all he was also a feng shui expert so he told me that the direction of my computer table is not right. So it was repositioned in such a way that it seemed to me that I had dropped something behind the table and was still waiting to pick it up. He also placed a crystal globe on this table and asked me to spin it three times a day. Some days back I forgot to spin it and I am sure the globe missed me too because I could feel it's anger. Reason- whenever I used to switch my computer on the Internet never used to come. It surely is a powerful globe. Next what kept me busy were my lucky colors. This astrologer told me that I should not wear any red colored clothes. Wow! This was the cream of the cake. Red out of all the colors. This happens to be my favorite color. Almost every third cloth in my wardrobe is red. So what am I suppose to do now dye them all orange or blue which are suppose to be my lucky colors. And so the story of my swimming in the pond of superficial things carried on. Today, I realized that more than all of this what is more important is the faith within. So I thought I will share this story of the fate with you all and write it without anything superficial around me. Believe me I am not writing this today because it happens to be a lucky day for me or because I am wearing my lucky orange pajamas or because an astrologer predicted that I would win a story-writing contest this year.

the first stitch...

Oscar Wilde once said, “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” So does that mean that the fashion that comes out every six months is as ugly as any other?
Well, fashion for me is not just about clothes. It is about the attitude you have, the hairstyle you sport and even the tagline you have on your G-Talk. When I was first introduced to fashion in NIFT, Delhi, I realised that I was just looking at this F-word through a very small keyhole. There I met fashion junkies! Pink streaked hair, really low waist denims, brown shoes with red laces (I did this one too) and bags made out of old torn jeans. They form a different cult altogether when they study fashion. When I was not a part of this cult I used to call them the ‘scissor n stitch’ cult. When I became a part of it, it became ‘yards n yarn’ cult. That’s because I loved the whole textiles of the fabrics and how they were made. But enough of technical crap!
Fashion students, in the beginning are like Columbus. They don’t need direction, neither did he! But when they reach the spotlight they forget Columbus. Anyways my whole aim of opening this blog is to let you be close to my world. Yes I got into this world because I chose to… it is fun, famished, flourishing, foolish and fantabulous!