So, I might be a shoeaholic?!

My dad made me do this yesterday. I feel a little bit bad after having seen my whole collection, especially the fact that I know that at least 6 pairs of shoes are missing from what you can already see! I’ve also thrown quite a lot of shoes away as well over the past few months, but as my dad quite rightly said, no one needs that many shoes. What do you guys think? Do I have a problem?

10 things you didn’t know about lil kunj!

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I’ve taken a bit of inspiration from the wonderful Katie over at Into the Stratosphere (check out her blog btw, it’s awesome stuff!) and thought I’d do a post which I hope allows you all to get to know me a bit better and get a lil insight in to the world of lil kunj! […]

Sunday evening positive inspiration :)

Need I say more! Hope you’ve all had a fun filled and lovely weekend! 🙂

Day 29/30: Rajgir, Bihar Photos

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Just a couple of snaps from Rajgir, which is part of the Buddhist tourist trail in Bihar. I don’t have much to say as I’m a bit snoozly and tired, but check out the serious lack of health and safety on the ariel ropeways! Only in India can you get away with that! I may […]

Day 24/30: Pranking the parents!

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This is totally hilarious. I’ve spent a good 5 minutes chuckling at these. On Wednesday comedian Nathan Fielder asked his fans to text their parents a cryptic message alluding to a drug deal underway. Text “got 2 grams for $40”, Fielder instructed his twitter followers to write to their parents before texting a second message immediately after to […]

Day 21/30: How time flies…

21st of April is an important date in my family. Like with any family, the birth of a new baby is a much celebrated occasion. On the 21st of April 1997 my family were blessed with welcoming, not one, but two little boys into our family. My sister gave birth to very tiny little twins. It was a long awaited day, one that we as a family, never thought would happen. She had quite a battle trying to conceive, which involved rounds of IVF, so we didn’t really believe it was happening until the boys arrived into this world. This year the little boys turned 16. I just don’t know where that time is gone. It’s crazy to think that 16 years ago how tiny they were and that they weighed less than 1.5kg each. I had a massive cringe moment though when I went to see them, I was standing by an incubator looking at a child thinking it was one of the twins, and said to my brother in law “he’s really cute” as soon as he walking into the neonatal itensive care unit, only for him to say “they’re over here”, pointing to the opposite side of the room.

Anyway here is a pic of them on the day the were born, they look a lot bigger and healthier these days! What a blessing they are!

Day 18/30: Planning a surprise party

Today I decided to embark on the challenge of planning a surprise party for my parent’s wedding anniversary! So the anniversary in question isn’t till end of June next year, but it’s the big GOLD one!! Yep, they’ve put up with each other for 50 years. It’s a massive milestone to reach in any marriage, so I thought it’ll be nice to surprise them with a party.

I don’t know a thing about party planning, but I’ve started looking and researching the most important aspect of it, the cake! Screw the venue, the date, the guests, they need a decent cake! Bad cake can spoil a decent party! Anyway here’s a pretty one that I found online!

Oh and if anyone has any ideas on how to plan a party, send them my way!

Day 3/30: lil kunj scrutinises the geek chic glasses trend

So over the past year I’ve been spotting these so-called fashionistas rocking humongous, somewhat hideous, geeky, thick, plastic framed glasses in the name of fashion. Apparently the look is considered sauvé and also adds a touch of intelligence and sophistication.

Ok so there may be a frame or two that look cool, but trust me, if you’ve spent the majority of your childhood and teenage years wearing that style of glasses and being traumatised, not having boys pay attention to you (let me tell you that whole “it’s what’s on the inside that counts”, doesn’t really count in secondary school) and made fun of because the cool kids didn’t perceive them as cool, you will not be agreeing at all with this trend. No one ever looks their absolute best in glasses. Period.

Blind people like me shouldn’t be made fun of because the NHS of the 1990’s did not have any sensible designs for children glasses.

Who do these fashionistas think they are, waltzing around with the geeky glasses and making them all cool?!

Anyway, I’m willing to let go and put my traumatic childhood to one side, and at the very least I can appreciate the benefit of these types of frames trending at the moment is that the younger generation of NHS glasses wearing kids won’t be teased at school. The second advantage is that it also gives my mother comfort in knowing that she is a proper trend spotting fashionista herself who is well ahead of the times as opposed to dismissing the whole of the fashion crowd to be a tad bit odd, as I do like my fashion.

        What the fashionistas will make you believe you’ll look like…….

What you really look like….

ME!!!

Lil kunj apologises for the neglect of lil kunj Big World

I’ve decided to write this apology for my followers/readers. I hope that as well as acting as a genuine apology it will also help me bring various aspects of my life into focus and hopefully in the coming months it will help me with developing the blog further and fingers crossed make it into a more interesting blog.

I hope all of you have had wonderful summers. Mine has been somewhat of a mixed bag. As I have mentioned previously I spent my summer being a bit of an inbetweener, spending half my time in Bristol and the remainder in London. The sole purpose of this was to help me take a step or two in the right direction for a specific goal. I also embarked on this summer adventure hoping it would be one that would be memorable, where I was learning, improving myself and having fun with my friends at the same time.

It certainly was a summer that was memorable, but not for the reasons I had hoped. Over the past few months I’ve had to face and try and overcome various challenges with my life and career goals, I was hoping to rely on people that I had considered my friends for the past many years. People who I had supported in the past because I considered them as my friends, because that’s what friends do right?! Well apparently not. My list of friends seems to have been whittled down to pretty much none (ok I may be over reacting, but after everything that has happened I don’t trust anyone).  I asked one friend if she could spare some time just for a phone conversation just to help me put things in perspective, that was back in July. I’m still waiting for that phone conversation to happen. Another friend who I was supposed to meet up with, sadly I had to cancel as I had a lot of work related stuff to get through and deadlines to meet. I text him to cancel 2 days prior to our catch up date. I then tried to phone a couple of times to apologise properly and rearrange our date once these deadlines had passed.  No answer and no reply. That was back in August.  With these two, I’ve made a lot of effort in the past and I made the effort to contact them on more than one occasion, but they still couldn’t be bothered. The third accused me of doing something I didn’t, then accused me of lying about it, when he found out from other friends that I wasn’t the culprit, he text to say he knew I hadn’t done anything, but couldn’t even be bothered to proffer up an apology.  I’m sitting here and mulling over everything. How could I get it so wrong?  Some of these were people who I lived with once upon a time, some I’ve known since school. These were people even my parents approved of and said they were good ones, and parents are usually annoyingly right. How did they get it wrong?.

However despite all this, there is a glimmer of hope, one uni friend, who I have never even spoken to about anything deep and meaningful has been unsurprisingly supportive about my endeavours. I’m still yet to have a deep, meaningful conversation with him, but everytime a phone conversation would exceed 20 minutes, he would actually say it’s time to put the phone down and get on with your work.  What a gem this one has been!

As someone who has suffered from mental health issues for a number of years, I have spent most of my time avoiding talking about these issues as well as things that upset me and make me feel down. I have found that in general the handful of friends I have told about my difficulties haven’t responded in an understanding manner and family don’t understand at all (they originate from a rural community in India, where mental health issues tend to be overlooked, sadly over the past few years whilst they are aware of issues, sadly they don’t know how to help and have never been inclined to either). So overall I find that I am left with no one to talk to and find that I’m harbouring my feelings and frustrations in an unhealthy manner. I’ve decided that occasionally if things get to much, I may just post on here instead as a way to vent and by writing everything out I gain some clarity into the situation at hand. I guess if one person who is in a similar situation reads it and realises that they are not alone, then I guess that’s comforting in itself and that the blog actually has some purpose.  Whilst there have been a number of posts that I’ve written for this blog in the past few months, I’ve held back on publishing them as there is one follower who also falls into a foul friend category and has spent the past couple of months lying to me about certain things. I’ve felt insecure about posting because of him and I am in the process of trying to cut ties with the person in question. Whilst I hope in time he respects my wishes and removes himself as a follower, I’ve made the decision that I shouldn’t allow someone like him to dictate whether or not I pursue with a hobby that I enjoy.

With everything that has gone on, I’ve decided that there are various topics that I hope to cover on this blog in the future.  I hope to cover more health related issues, especially in relation to mental health and well being. The other topics that I hope to incorporate include health and exercise as well, as that I’ve spent a lot of time focusing on those aspects of my life in recent months.

So here’s to a healthier, happier lil kunj and hopefully to a better, more interesting blog.

Hopefully what I’ll be like in a few weeks

lil kunj’s lil nephew’s first birthday!

Evening my dears! I hope you have all been well. Apologies for the lack of posts over the past week. I’ve pretty much been ill since New Years day, and have been dealing with this horrendous cold/flu thing, that started of with being pukey and having a temperature and now it’s progressed into a horrible persistent dry cough that leaves me very out of breath and has tricked all my abdominal muscles into thinking they’ve done some crazy workout. I know this thing is doing the rounds, but it’s left me feeling seriously sorry for myself. Maybe I need to man up a bit.

As I haven’t been able to go out I don’t even have anything exciting to report on, so I’m going to share some pictures from my nephew’s first birthday, which was this weekend. As I was ill I can’t even brag about how I’m an awesome hostess/party planner or anything 😦

Nice big kiss!

Trying to keep him entertained

The cool cake

He got upset when we started singing happy birthday :S