And the Music Plays!

Be honest and tell me if you watched the Royal Wedding? Not in person, on TV, I mean. And if you did watch it in person, I don’t know what to say.

But the question is, did you want to watch the Royal Wedding?

PA had no plans of watching the Royal Wedding but still found herself watching it.

I guess its something about a Royal Wedding… a prince getting married to a commoner. Isn’t that what fairy tales are made of!

It was almost evening here in Sydney when I started watching the morning wedding live from UK.

And as I listen to Dhoom Tana from Om Shanti Om, I share some knick knacks from the wedding:

Hats. Good, bad and ugly hats. Amazing hats. It was like a swarm of hats going for a wedding. Made me want to start a hat business myself.

For more hats, visit And the Music Plays Facebook Page.

So, who’s hat do you like the most? And the least?

With so many hats around, how the hell will these women actually watch the ceremony! What if your hat pokes your partner on your side or the person sitting behind you!

All the opera type singing in the end made me feel damn hungry and sleepy at the same time. Maybe Sidhu should have started a commentary about the wedding. Its good that the Camilla didn’t fall asleep during the wedding. Else it would be case of Sauteli Saas so gayi sauteli bahu ki shaadi mein.
Ah! I so love catholic weddings! Hindu weddings should also have ‘Now you may kiss the bride’ scenario in full public for extra spice! Everyone waited for Will and Kate to kiss immediately after they said ‘I do’. Alas! They didn’t. People were dissapointed. Including me. We’re Brits. We don’t kiss. However after a long wait… they did kiss when they came out in the balcony to do their waving sequence.

Look at the little girl… with hands on her ears. She seems to be really annoyed with all the noise pollution!

Loved the way in which Will and Kate kept giving little glances to each other during the wedding. The mesmerizing look in his eyes as she recited the vows… hmmmm…. Imagine Kate humming in her mind ‘Dil deewana bin sajna ke maane na, yeh pagla hai samjhane se samjhe na’
This whole wedding thing made me want to get married all over again to my favorite man in blue, the Hubster!
Watching the bride seconds before the wedding, made me all teary-eyed. Silly me! And I was even feeling nervous. Wonder why! Weddings do this to me. Mine as well as others!
Kate was quite modestly dressed. No tube dress. No cleavage show. Me-likes!
Prince Charles has more hair on his head than PrinceWilliams.
Somehow, I don’t like Camilla. Looks like she will turn out to be a wicked MIL.
The Queen was dressed as a sunflower. Or maybe a lemon.

Mother of the bride. Loved her sub-dued makeup.
Prince Williams was looking a tad nervous minutes before the wedding as he reached the venue. Tell me why!
And then few seconds before the wedding. You should have seen the look on his face! Th epre-wedding blush on a man! Reminds me of my own Hubster! Just before he became the Hubster.
The speculation about Kate’s dress was making TV presenters go mad. What will she wear? Who will she wear? No one seemed to care about what will HE wear? Who will HE wear?
How the hell did Victoria Beckham manage to stick that hat on her forehead!

Managed to even spot a woman in Sari.
With my Facebook flooded with live updates from me, a friend actually managed to ask if I was at the wedding. Silly.
Kate Ki Kamar. Size 6.

I came across this wonderful piece, hence thought of sharing…

The 50 New Rules of Work by Robin Sharma

1. You are not just paid to work. You are paid to be uncomfortable – and to pursue projects that scare you.

2. Take care of your relationships and the money will take care of itself.

3. Lead you first. You can’t help others reach for their highest potential until you’re in the process of reaching for yours.

4. To double your income, triple your rate of learning.

5. While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change.

6. Small daily improvements over time create stunning results.

7. Surround yourself with people courageous enough to speak truthfully about what’s best for your organization and the customers you serve.

8. Don’t fall in love with your press releases.

9. Every moment in front of a customer is a moment of truth (to either show you live by the values you profess – or you don’t).

10. Copying what your competition is doing just leads to being second best.

11. Become obsessed with the user experience such that every touchpoint of doing business with you leaves people speechless. No, breathless.

12. If you’re in business, you’re in show business. The moment you get to work, you’re on stage. Give us the performance of your life.

13. Be a Master of Your Craft. And practice + practice + practice.

14. Get fit like Madonna.

15. Read magazines you don’t usually read. Talk to people who you don’t usually speak to. Go to places you don’t commonly visit. Disrupt your thinking so it stays fresh + hungry + brilliant.

16. Remember that what makes a great business – in part – are the seemingly insignificant details. Obsess over them.

17. Good enough just isn’t good enough.

18. Brilliant things happen when you go the extra mile for every single customer.

19. An addiction to distraction is the death of creative production. Enough said.

20. If you’re not failing regularly, you’re definitely not making much progress.

21. Lift your teammates up versus tear your teammates down. Anyone can be a critic. What takes guts is to see the best in people.

22. Remember that a critic is a dreamer gone scared.

23. Leadership’s no longer about position. Now, it’s about passion. And having an impact through the genius-level work that you do.

24. The bigger the dream, the more important the team.

25. If you’re not thinking for yourself, you’re following – not leading.

26. Work hard. But build an exceptional family life. What’s the point of reaching the mountaintop but getting there alone.

27. The job of the leader is to develop more leaders.

28. The antidote to deep change is daily learning. Investing in your professional and personal development is the smartest investment you can make. Period.

29. Smile. It makes a difference.

30. Say “please” and “thank you”. It makes a difference.

31. Shift from doing mindless toil to doing valuable work.

32. Remember that a job is only just a job if all you see it as is a job.

33. Don’t do your best work for the applause it generates but for the personal pride it delivers.

34. The only standard worth reaching for is BIW (Best in World).

35. In the new world of business, everyone works in Human Resources.

36. In the new world of business, everyone’s part of the leadership team.

37. Words can inspire. And words can destroy. Choose yours well.

38. You become your excuses.

39. You’ll get your game-changing ideas away from the office versus in the middle of work. Make time for solitude. Creativity needs the space to present itself.

40. The people who gossip about others when they are not around are the people who will gossip about you when you’re not around.

41. It could take you 30 years to build a great reputation and 30 seconds of bad judgment to lose it.

42. The client is always watching.

43. The way you do one thing defines the way you’ll do everything. Every act matters.

44. To be radically optimistic isn’t soft. It’s hard. Crankiness is easy.

45. People want to be inspired to pursue a vision. It’s your job to give it to them.

46. Every visionary was initially called crazy.

47. The purpose of work is to help people. The other rewards are inevitable by-products of this singular focus.

48. Remember that the things that get scheduled are the things that get done.

49. Keep promises and be impeccable with your word. People buy more than just your products and services. They invest in your credibility.

50. Lead Without a Title.

What happens when one is confused?

Do you wait for the confusion to end?

Or do you take some action for the confusion to end?

And if it does end; and when it does end,

Does that again start a chain of more confusions?

Or does that become a happy moment?

Or you wonder, oh hell, why did the confusion end?

And what if you find yourself saying,

The state of confusion before the end of confusion was better,

Or the state of confusion after the end of confusion is better?