When you have...!!!

When you have...!!!
When you have a important meeting to attend
you get stuck in traffic jam...

When your Director calls you to his office
its always the time when you get a call from home that the baby is crying...


When you have a sudden holiday next day,
you get up in morning with migrane...

When you have visitors coming over
your fridge suddenly is all empty...

When you have to make that one important call
your mobile credit is suddenly low...

When you have a friend waiting and you are already late
You definetly will have a burst tyre...

When you have a train to catch
your work never finishes till you almost miss the train...

When some guest come over as surprise
that is the when you lazied to clean the house....its the dirtiest to the core...

When you are fooling around on phone with a friend
you miss that one important call...

When you pack and fly off finally
its then you realise the most important
thing you needed is left behind...

When you want India to win, Sachin is on the crease strong
that very momen we loose a wicket and most often a match too...

When Ghana wanted that golden penalty
by the great Asomah Gyan
he hit the goal post, lost the match, lost the hope as well...

When you have a weekend planned
the weather shining the mood swinging
you get up in the morning to see its raining whole day and becomes messy..messing the whole feeling..

When you visit an uncle's place
they praise you delicious ice-creams and cakes
you decide to make some for them in good will and love
your perfect cake burns,
your soft ice-cream milk sticks to the pan, leaving the sroma behind in ice-cream,
 in the family's minds and also in ur name..

When you mess certain thing
the people around you will always say they knew you will mess
but they never warn before...

Coincidences like these do happen too often,
Strange soon they will be termed as superstition ,
Modern day women have modern day problems,

Crisis factor are changing,
Panic attacks are the same..

Handling them is modern women achievements and
Tackling them is her trade mark,

Todays women are good at multi-tasking,
and situation like these makes them excellence at par...!!!

Mom's, Wife's, Bhabhi's, Sister's Daughter's, Bahu's, Friends..
have successfully moved ahead...

Superstition dose'nt hamper their moving spirit,
Challenge each day is mile-stone..
To achieve and move on...To another day...another mile-stone
is the formula of perfect life..
is a formula for that perfect smile...!!!


Neha Srivastava-Kulshrestha
Indian
Ghana
20/09/2010.

Want...!!!

Want

The feelings of rejection,
The thoughts of dejection,
The loneliness, the silent calm,
You being there and yet not listening,
You not trying to understand,
You shutting all doors leading to you,
You making yourself unapproachable,
You making each question of mine suicidal
You have not changed nor will change ever,
but, the way our relation changed makes it all despair,


Me wanting to be with you,
Me wanting to be held by you,
Me wanting to be touched by you,
Me wanting to be talked by you,
Me wanting to listen all that you say,
and all that you don't say,
Me wanting to be part of you
and you wanting to be there yet be unreachable,

The pain, the suffering is inevitable,
the tears are indespensable,
Yet the courage to move on has yet to build-up,
The courage to say you 'good-bye'
a final last time is yet to build-up...


Neha Srivastava-Kulshrestha
Indian
Ghana
3/09/09

चाँद की चांदनी !

चाँद की चांदनी !
चांदनी जा कर चाँद से कहो,
यूँ न इतराए इतना वह,
हमारे चाँद यहाँ नहीं है तो क्या,
इस तरह खिड़की में आकर हमें चिडाये ना वह /

अभी अगर इसी तरह बाहें फैलाये वोह खड़ा है,
तो सिर्फ इसलिए क्यूंकि हमने  मना नहीं किया है,
काले बदल जब गुस्से से फ़ैल जायेंगे आसमान में,
अपने होने का एहसास भी नहीं जता पायेगा वह /

हम तो वैसे ही दुखी हैं के 'ये'  नहीं है,
वैसे ही कमरे के रौशनी बंद किये बैठे हैं,
पर ऐ- चांदनी तुम्हारे चाँद की गुस्ताखी  तो देखो,
तुम्हे हमारे बिस्तर तक पहुंचा रहा है /

इतने निर्दयी तो ना बनो तुम लोग,
जो हमारे अकेलेपन पर मज़े कर रहे हो,
करवाचौथ जो आने वाली है उस दिन,
एक इसी चाँद ही की पूजा कर पाएंगे हमारा चाँद तो है ही नहीं यहाँ...

सूना कमरा, सूना घर, सूना मन है मेरा,
तन्हाई अँधेरी रातों में उनकी यादें बस हैं,
उन्हें तो इस तरह जगमगा कर हमसे दूर ना करो तुम,
यहाँ उनकी यादों में जीने दो तुम जाओ कहीं और हटकेले करो /

नेहा श्रीवास्तव-कुल्श्रेस्थ
भारतीय
घाना

Seconds -That Should'nt Matter

Seconds -That Should'nt Matter

The bad things happen & pass by,
Leaving behind the inumerable loss,
leaving the tears for the left ones
Leaving the memories of good times....

The scar remains, reminding each year,
of the horrid event , of the saddest moment,
Loss of parents, loss of a child,
Loss of the home once built with so much love and pride.

Loved ones gone leaving the cherished moment spent together,
Contemplating the loss, counting the worth,
the unseperable truth, unchangeable destiny,
you are to live now to show the world
of pain the pain you felt, to tell the tale of our once beautiful world...

Tsunami wiped it away, 9/11 smashed it away,
major stebacks takes seconds to happen,
Seconds of horror leaving life time to live in its effect
but all this tells us life has to move on...

There's always light after darkness,
there's always hope to live on..
we arent God to design destiny,
But by smashing in pain we can glorify the destined

Pain has its effects & there's no pain-killer
but to move in adding a chapter to one's life
is tough but to be taken decision,
Sorrows come and pass-by, times fades the pain,
You have memories to treasure
you have to decide what to remember

To remember- the merry time soent together,
making relationships, building home to live,
the togetherness the love, the laughter, the fun..

or

to remember- the black day, the 'second' that ended everything...
Do not sulk over destined 'second'
Instead live with happy treasured love-stories, love story of your relation with each one of your family,
Smiling or crying is one's self decision.....
But life has to move on....

REUNION

REUNION

The drought just ended,
Rains are flowing in,
Green pastures everywhere,
Life becoming to bloom,
Gloominess of the world ends,
With rain washing all sadness,
Darkness of uncertainty,
Cleared by the drops of rain,
Thoughts of world ending,
Erased by new flowers blooming,
The pain of being away
Fading with the joy I see around,
You will be mine in some time,
Soon we shall reunite for fun and smile,
Though this distance is painful,
But with each passing day,
It strengthens our love,
The more we are apart,
The more we become near,
These long days of loneliness,
Will make our life different,
Coz’ now we know the pain being away,
So we will cherish the moment of togetherness,
The joy of being with each other,
Can only be felt when being away,
You are more near me now,
Than you were when you were here,
I am more in your heart now,
Than, I was when we were together.

Neha Srivastava-Kulshrestha
Indian
Ghana

SMILE

                                                               
....... SMILE .....!!!
When my world was collapsing,
You came as a pillar,
When my dreams were fading,
You came as a light,
When my thoughts became blank,
You filled it in with color,
When my smile started dying,
You became the reason for me to rejoice,
When tears in my eyes overflowed,
You bought solace in them,
When I started feeling lonely,
You bought life back in me,
When my mood became emotional,
You made me practical,
When I missed terribly my people
You mimicked each one for me,
When darkness came near me,
You bought brightness with your presence,
When I felt it to be end of road,
You showed me new path, new goal,
When today I think of you,
So many emotions surge in my heart,
Love, Gratitude, Guide, Philosopher,
The best one though is last to come,
Coz’ I make you my dearest friend,
You given me so much I can never repay,
But promise I make, to be always gay,
Promise I make, that I will always smile
As in my Smile lies my dearest friends Smile.

Neha srivastava-Kulshrestha
Indian
Ghana

Janamashtami !!

Janamashtami...

1) Aayush all decked up for Thakur ji pose..

2) Modern Thakurji with Mobile...Music and Masti..

3) Haathi Ghoda Palki, Jai Kaniya Lal ki....

4) Ghana ka kanhaiya...Cute.and smiling...Kwame..

5) Birdie...Visit..

6) Satyanarayan Katha In Ghana....At home..Only humara parivar....

I hope you will enjoy some of the rare insights of our house...

Neha Srivastava-Kulshrestha
Indian
Ghana