Dream Date in a Limousine or Hot Air Balloon

I like to go online often, hunting for gifting ideas. So just two days before my hubby's birthday I came upon this cool website www.excitinglives.com which has some 'never-heard-or-seen-before' gifting ideas. I recommend this website for the sheer range of gifts they have, although I am yet to place an order.

Some of the eye catching ones are:

1. Dream Date on Stretch Limousine - this caught my attention immediately as I was looking for something special to do on my husband's birthday. Unfortunately this 'gift' option is only for residents of Delhi/NCR. This costs something around Rs9500/- and I think its perfect for a memorable date. Counting my days till this service arrives in Bangalore.

2. Chocolate Spa Treat - Ah! you guessed it, its for 'WOMEN ONLY' that includes a chocolate body scrub, oil massage, and a full chocolate body wrap! Fortunately this one is in Bangalore, and costs about Rs2400/- I am enticed to try it someday.. hoping my hubby will gift this to me on my birthday!!

3. Naughty Chocolate - (Cant get enough of Chocolate) This one is perfect for a couple, who want to spice up things with a 'naughty' session involving some liquid chocolate, a red feather, and oodles of passion. This gift is meant to be used in the privacy of your bedroom and involves no professional masseur.... but just the two of you.
The gift lets you be wild with your partner with hi-quality liquid chocolate that's great for massages and body-painting. You can use it with whipped cream or fruits, is completely edible and can be easily washed off - not that you'd need to! Comes at a price of Rs1250/- and I think its worth every penny.

4. Private Air Balloon Experience - This one is for keeps, a one-hour ride in the air in a private hot air balloon. I am sure it will be a "top of the world" feeling to be with your loved one amid the clouds. This too is for residents in Delhi and comes for Rs 13,500/- :(

5. Midnight celebrations - For an affordable element of surprise, this is ideal, as you can have flowers (a dozen red roses) delivered at midnight with a personal message. ideal for those who are far away from their loved ones and want to make an impression with just Rs2150/-

6. Then you have the elite gift options like the F1 Night race in Singapore (Rs1.87 lac), Combat Flight experience that will let you fly a fighter jet in Moscow or Los Angeles (Rs1.5 lac), Zero Gravity experience similar to what astronauts feel in space and loads of other such options.

I was quite impressed by the range of the gift offerings in the website. Now I know where to look for when I want my gift to be special. I hope to try one of these options soon, provided they are within my city and my budget.

For now I am still hunting for a stretch Limousine car rental service in Bangalore, can anyone help?

Don't Hate The iPhone: Pimp it!

There isnt really anything new for me to say other than what has already been siad about iPhone already.
Yet I would like to add my two bits to it.

I love my iPhone and there are two reasons for it.

1. It's a gift from my Hubby. He gave it to me when there was no event to celebrate or an occasion to remember, it was just a plain and simple gift. He wanted me to have an iPhone before he got one and that truly touched my heart. The gifting of an iPhone itself became an event on its own. and now its been three months since I got it.
( Mine is the 16 GB, first version of iPhone. Of course now my Hubby too owns an iPhone, the 3G version.)

2. The iPod facility. I was aching to have a decent iPod with videos. My earlier iPod was the black and white version, and it ran into some battery problem.


I find my iPhone Ubercool... iPhone has changed the way you view a mobile phone.
I cant get enuff of the cool apps available for iPhone. What worked its way to make iPhone popular are the 3rd party applications now available abundantly. And whats more these are free.

Like the SMS-D applicaton, which allows one to delete specific messages only. It also lets you forward the sms, which the standard sms app did not let you.

The other app is the CameraPro, which lets you do more with the camera.. like burst mode, Zoom function, light adjustments, etc which arent there in the regualr camera app. of the iPhone.

Loads of games are also avaliable for free from the iTunes store.. I have the Pool, card games, some puzzles and still lots more to go.

However there are still some things i miss in my iPhone which my previous Nokia N series phone had. Like the 'To-do-List" and calendar entries displayed on the main view of the phone. I cannot view my claendar entries as notes on my iPhone automatically.

The sms that come on my iPhone are not private, they get displayed on the main screen, which I find a bit irritating, coz I dont want my unattended sms to be displayed on the main screen avaliable for others to see. I wish there was no detailed preview of the sms.

Yes Phone is DAMN expensive and puts a hole thru the pocket, but the features and other appealing aspects of iPhone make it worthwhile.

In India, iPhone did get a lukewarm response, with only die-hard iPhone fans and enthusiasts going for it. In fact the Airtel outlets selling iPhones were not even well stocked on the first day of its launch (in Bangalore). That will be the topic of another blog firends.

For now I am enjoying my iPhone (even if its not 3G), and hope my lust for it will last longer than the previous three handsets I have owned before.

The first one

Is there a need to blog? I asked myself that couple of times before, as several friends of mine had started their own blogs and were "pursuading" me to do so. I didnt see the need to blog when I was in the Media (journalist), as I had my fingers flying off the keyboard punching in countless articles, news stories, features etc. I was just so full of writing that i needed no other excuse to get back to writing extra stuff (for which I wont be paid for!)

I felt there was nothing more I could write and frankly even if I did I wasnt sure if my blog would be read. So there I was justifying no need to blog when I had a forum (newspaper - Mint, and Magazine - Voice&Data) that was voicing what I had to share with the world.

Now, its been four months since I left Media as a career and jumped on the corporate bandwagon (business development), when a friend of mine popped the question, "Have you stopped writing totally?" and to that I replied tongue-in-cheek, "I still write the company newsletter!"
He then tells me to start a blog. Just like that he sets off the bug in me and tempts me with his blog address.

Inquisitive that I am, I fall for it and try the website, and next thing I know I register myself on this site as a blogger... what made it more convenient was the easy user interface and just 3 steps to start blogging. I didnt know it was such an easy task.

But still I dont see why I NEED to blog... The first thought that crossed my mind was to register a blog with my own name before someone else hijacks 'Malovika' on the blog space.

Next thought was OK.. lets get it over with....

Another was, whats the big deal with blogging? to find out I have to be a blogger.

A remote thought came to me that if Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan and Ram Gopal Verma have blogs then what tops me from having one.. but i would say that was an engineered thought.

My resistance to blog lasted 2.5 years and today I have finally done the First One.

My opinion on Blogging is that it is.......Mostly Harmless.

I am not here to "Express" myself.. i get plenty opportunity to do so by actually expressing with the ones who need to know what I feel.

I am not blogging to add to my social status symbol.... I have a modest amount of such symbols (counting my Past Credentials and iPhone).

I am not blogging to "Promote" my ideas or myself... (of course eventually that is what it becomes).

I am not blogging to be "It" or a 'wannabe writer'.

I am not blogging to say something clever and manipulate people's thoughts.

For now I have no reason to blog, and as soon as I find one you will find a second post here.


--- Mostly Harmless (borrowed from the fifth book by Douglas Adams of the same title)