Some random instances in life which meant heaven back then….
The view of rainbow… I used to rush out of home just to get the view of it….and land up confirming if there are 7 colors in it…… I always missed to recognize indigo….so was landing up with 6 colors!(Surprised was i)
The sound of the aero plane… In Goa, there weren’t so many flights as many as in Bangalore… So it was a joy to watch the aero plane…. We used to wave our hands assuming someone might respond… and scream ta-ta bye-bye assuming someone might open their window and wave back… (Innocent was i)
The new hero pen…. I carried a ink pen just for fun… I liked to spill the ink on the plastic coated book bind and then hold the nib in an angle that it sucks all the ink back… I even enjoyed spilling or rather waste the ink by pouring it into a glass of water just to see how well it spreads and finally dissolve…(Naughty was i)
The new tiffin box……. I used to finish the lunch packed in a fancy tiffin box with the holder for the spoon….and the stickers of our favorite cartoon… As the cartoon stickers faded, the meager was my appetite… And my appetite used to be decrease if the fancy tiffin box was replaced with a plain steel box! (Stubborn was i) … The flair for fancy box ended when once the science teacher mentioned that the food in plastic box is unhealthy :) (Obedient I became)
The new compass box… More than anything in my school bag, I safeguarded my pencil box… whether I used so many pens, pencils, sharpeners & erasers, but I carried a lot with me… The collection of scent rubber was a craze… so was an equal craze to collect the pictures of our favorite cartoon and decorate the pencil box…(Creative I became…)
The new clipboard….. I still remember I had insisted to buy a pink clipboard even when I hardly knew that I would land up using the same board till I completed my Masters degree!! I had stuck Lord Ganesha’s sticker on top of it when I moved to Bangalore coz it was pasted in most of my friends clipboards(assuming that God would show some mercy and help me retain my rank) (Religious was i…)
The new color box…. Out of all the exams held in the school, Drawing exam was my favorite…. From crayons to color pencils to sketch pens to water colors to acrylic paints….I still have a collection of them… Eagerness to use almost all colors forced me to draw a house surrounded by garden full of flowers…(Fascinated was i….)
The diary milk chocolate….. More than the chocolate, I was more interested to get the golden wrapper which covered the chocolate… while most of my friends preserved the wrapper in the middle of their books, I used to cut them into small pieces and fill inside the balloon…. (back then I wasn’t aware we get glitters).. The only time I blasted the balloon was on the birthdays and was happy to watch the golden wrapper pieces scatter…(Celebration mood I got….)
The dry leaves….The flowers…the feathers…… all preserved in the books coz someone said us that they multiply!!! (Full of hopes…..)
Certain things which we did in our childhood can never be forgotten…..and now I feel funny abt those incidents, but still I miss all that….. I am sure most of you would have indulged in atleast one of these activities…. Just thought of recollecting and cherishing those moments… All I learn from those thoughts is life is never complex….unless we make it…..
Love and live life however it is :) Create a lively lovely environment around and enjoy every bit of it.... :)
It was a Tuesday evening when my team mate and I rushed to one of the session which had started sharp at 4.30. we were late by 15 mins, for which we had good justifiable reason…
The trainer however was a practical person, so could understand our situation… but by the time we reached, the air in the room was hot… Our manager was waiting at the entrance and was furious to see us coming late… He was on call and was blabbering “I don’t want this kind of passive response from you and your team members” …. For an instant I assumed that someone else was the pray for his anger… so I just greeted him with a smile..
He turned to me and the other team member and said, “yeah I was talking abt you guys only with your TL!!!, tell me why were you late?!!”... My mind went on a trance and I murmured that we were doing the migration activity of one of the HIGH priority project!!... My manager with the sharp ear could hear my explanation!!... For some time I had a feeling that I was answering my school principal… she was lady who would never take the reasons given by the fellow students easy…
Some resemblance which I found with my manager and my school princi were:-
He calls up the TL coz he doesn’t trust our explanation on delay to session…. And my princi used to call for a parents-teachers meeting if she doesn’t find us in the morning exercise session!
He keeps roaming around to see if all the team members are around….and if we are found missing during the tea break, then sends a sarcastic mail with the subject line, “No one in the bay!”…. My princi had set a speaker in our class, so that if the decibel raises, then she would get a beep in her office and she would blast us from there and dismiss the class and make us stand in the sun as part of the punishment!! (She was cruel!!!!)
When my manager speaks, he assumes he is always correct and never apologizes if he is proven wrong… Princi was “the princi” and she assumed that she can mend our ways by giving more punishments!!!
When my manager speaks, I notice his teeth and assume, it’s a high time for him to visit a dentist….When my princi spoke, I used to notice her head and I assumed that she must go to Dr.Batra for hair implantation…coz there was a rumour/fact that she was bald..
When my princi spoke, all I prayed was, “oh god, no-more-punishments-plz”…. And when my manager spoke on that day to me, all I prayed was, “Oh god!!, let this fellow not dare to show up this as a reason to spoil my appraisal”….
At school, after the hour of punishment, the dialogues which used to automatically come “Yeh aurath seedha narakk mei jaayegi!! Iski gaadi ki tyre phoot jaaye!!.. Let it rain like hell on the day when this lady call for a expensive party to celebrate some event!!!.... Heartless female… Motii kahikii…. Hamaare paiso(school fees) se liya hua isska car…aur hame ek ride bhi na mila…… bhaad mein jaaye !!... Evlu onntiketa tara sanna aadrene evll gandannge match aagodu..else evlu dummmi ne!”
At office, after he finished his lecture session on what made him furious, the immediate outburst I will blog on this fellow and let the whole world know that he is a screwy manager!!
The trainer however was a practical person, so could understand our situation… but by the time we reached, the air in the room was hot… Our manager was waiting at the entrance and was furious to see us coming late… He was on call and was blabbering “I don’t want this kind of passive response from you and your team members” …. For an instant I assumed that someone else was the pray for his anger… so I just greeted him with a smile..
He turned to me and the other team member and said, “yeah I was talking abt you guys only with your TL!!!, tell me why were you late?!!”... My mind went on a trance and I murmured that we were doing the migration activity of one of the HIGH priority project!!... My manager with the sharp ear could hear my explanation!!... For some time I had a feeling that I was answering my school principal… she was lady who would never take the reasons given by the fellow students easy…
Some resemblance which I found with my manager and my school princi were:-
He calls up the TL coz he doesn’t trust our explanation on delay to session…. And my princi used to call for a parents-teachers meeting if she doesn’t find us in the morning exercise session!
He keeps roaming around to see if all the team members are around….and if we are found missing during the tea break, then sends a sarcastic mail with the subject line, “No one in the bay!”…. My princi had set a speaker in our class, so that if the decibel raises, then she would get a beep in her office and she would blast us from there and dismiss the class and make us stand in the sun as part of the punishment!! (She was cruel!!!!)
When my manager speaks, he assumes he is always correct and never apologizes if he is proven wrong… Princi was “the princi” and she assumed that she can mend our ways by giving more punishments!!!
When my manager speaks, I notice his teeth and assume, it’s a high time for him to visit a dentist….When my princi spoke, I used to notice her head and I assumed that she must go to Dr.Batra for hair implantation…coz there was a rumour/fact that she was bald..
When my princi spoke, all I prayed was, “oh god, no-more-punishments-plz”…. And when my manager spoke on that day to me, all I prayed was, “Oh god!!, let this fellow not dare to show up this as a reason to spoil my appraisal”….
At school, after the hour of punishment, the dialogues which used to automatically come “Yeh aurath seedha narakk mei jaayegi!! Iski gaadi ki tyre phoot jaaye!!.. Let it rain like hell on the day when this lady call for a expensive party to celebrate some event!!!.... Heartless female… Motii kahikii…. Hamaare paiso(school fees) se liya hua isska car…aur hame ek ride bhi na mila…… bhaad mein jaaye !!... Evlu onntiketa tara sanna aadrene evll gandannge match aagodu..else evlu dummmi ne!”
At office, after he finished his lecture session on what made him furious, the immediate outburst I will blog on this fellow and let the whole world know that he is a screwy manager!!
Its June 1st week!!! The week when most of the schools re-open :)..
Its one of the days, when most of the school students feel sad to wake up early and dress up in uniform instead of their colorful casual wears... and most parents feel good about it!!
Its the day when students feel excited to meet their chommies while parents sense the serene silence at home for few hours;)
Recalled my school days where most of the language teachers asked us to write an essay or letter, narrating abt the way we spent our vacation...... That used to be confusing situation to me and my friends coz sometimes we were landing up with attending functions of far relatives wedding or some 60th yr birthday celebration or house warming or thread ceremonies!!!....and that was the time when we hardly knew who were our relatives...........! and so we didn't know what to draft in the essay coz it seemed as though we attended some unknown peoples function!!!
Few students used to write abt their summer camp experience...or some students would go on a trip and would write in lengths abt their experience!!! which sounded really interesting...
While this was the situation with our language teachers, our co subjects teachers were still clever!! They used to call for a surprise dictation from the new syllabus coz they assumed we were book worms (i guess) and we might have opened the new book while binding and labelling them and read it partly!!
Dictation on few basic words like "arteries, digestive system, brain, diodes, chemicals etc was manageable...but terms like psychaitrist,etymology were like (uurrrrrggggg...what on earth did they mean!!!) The geography test was a terror coz we were asked to either spell the rare fauna and floras names!! or spell the names of places like Tierra, Massachusetts etc!!! (All we prayed was -> Oh god plz make us get 9/25 coz 9 was the pass marks)
The 2nd day used to be cursive writing and some paragraph writing just to get our handwriting in sync after the vacation.....and co-subjects teachers were making us write the spellings of the complicated words 20 times!!!
Maths was fun for a week coz there was no test as such... only reciting tables till 20 or we were asked to solve few lengthy multiplication problems.. :)
The PT sessions were just doing enough to tan our skin after the vacation... and in my case, i used to forget the next step in the exercise session!!! While all of us were busy struggling to move our hands and legs for exercise........It was the PT sir who was over enthusiatic to train us!!
Somehow things was getting better for all of us after a weeks time :) All thanks to the school days for making so many days memorable.....
Its one of the days, when most of the school students feel sad to wake up early and dress up in uniform instead of their colorful casual wears... and most parents feel good about it!!
Its the day when students feel excited to meet their chommies while parents sense the serene silence at home for few hours;)
Recalled my school days where most of the language teachers asked us to write an essay or letter, narrating abt the way we spent our vacation...... That used to be confusing situation to me and my friends coz sometimes we were landing up with attending functions of far relatives wedding or some 60th yr birthday celebration or house warming or thread ceremonies!!!....and that was the time when we hardly knew who were our relatives...........! and so we didn't know what to draft in the essay coz it seemed as though we attended some unknown peoples function!!!
Few students used to write abt their summer camp experience...or some students would go on a trip and would write in lengths abt their experience!!! which sounded really interesting...
While this was the situation with our language teachers, our co subjects teachers were still clever!! They used to call for a surprise dictation from the new syllabus coz they assumed we were book worms (i guess) and we might have opened the new book while binding and labelling them and read it partly!!
Dictation on few basic words like "arteries, digestive system, brain, diodes, chemicals etc was manageable...but terms like psychaitrist,etymology were like (uurrrrrggggg...what on earth did they mean!!!) The geography test was a terror coz we were asked to either spell the rare fauna and floras names!! or spell the names of places like Tierra, Massachusetts etc!!! (All we prayed was -> Oh god plz make us get 9/25 coz 9 was the pass marks)
The 2nd day used to be cursive writing and some paragraph writing just to get our handwriting in sync after the vacation.....and co-subjects teachers were making us write the spellings of the complicated words 20 times!!!
Maths was fun for a week coz there was no test as such... only reciting tables till 20 or we were asked to solve few lengthy multiplication problems.. :)
The PT sessions were just doing enough to tan our skin after the vacation... and in my case, i used to forget the next step in the exercise session!!! While all of us were busy struggling to move our hands and legs for exercise........It was the PT sir who was over enthusiatic to train us!!
Somehow things was getting better for all of us after a weeks time :) All thanks to the school days for making so many days memorable.....
It was a hot Friday afternoon when i met my friends at the lunch table in the office cafeteria....... Although it was hot outside, it was freezing cool inside due to the AC!!
Unlike other days while we generally discuss abt in and out of office where the topics range from management, transport, facility, work, project, canteen food, managers etc.... on that particular day we weren’t in such mood... so were speaking abt all the random topics..
My dearest Rabbit Rashmi was sitting opposite to me and was wearing a beautiful bangle.... I noticed that it was matching with her dress and I dint miss to compliment her for that...... She gave me details that the bangle was taken in the ooru jaathre :).. The word jaathre caught my attention and i recalled the days when my dad used to take me to jaathre and buy me colorful balloons :) (Yes, I like balloons even today)
The girl in the other corner stared at us as though we were not IT professionals!! The expression on her face was as though ->"Cant you girls go to any decent shop and buy stuff?"
I stared back in frown...
After sometime we were talking abt the Titan Raga watches..... I like the designs of it, and i use one of its collection..... While we were waiting for another friend of ours to join us for lunch, i checked the time on the mobile..... I then wondered on what’s the point in wearing an expensive sleek beautiful watch and not utilizing it for what its meant and instead i used it as a beauty/status statement :(
Finally concluded--> Use the wristwatch as a watch and not as a wristband!!
Also realized that digital watch is much easier to use...
After sometime we were offered sweet corn by one of our friend.... I usually like corns, especially the boiled ones served with butter & pepper... but that day i wasn’t in the mood to eat corns.....
I recalled the days when we enjoyed the hot corn with green chilly chutney sold on the street.....while eating that whole corn on the way home walking, talking and laughing and making hissing sound coz it would be too spicy.. still busy licking the chutney on it..
Wow!!! Its mouth watering...:p
Certain things sound so simple when we tend to accept it the way they are........ Life must be lived in a simple way with simple things around... with simple and right attitude...and life would turn out to be a bliss for sure :) Life can be simpler if we wish to make it simple :)
Unlike other days while we generally discuss abt in and out of office where the topics range from management, transport, facility, work, project, canteen food, managers etc.... on that particular day we weren’t in such mood... so were speaking abt all the random topics..
My dearest Rabbit Rashmi was sitting opposite to me and was wearing a beautiful bangle.... I noticed that it was matching with her dress and I dint miss to compliment her for that...... She gave me details that the bangle was taken in the ooru jaathre :).. The word jaathre caught my attention and i recalled the days when my dad used to take me to jaathre and buy me colorful balloons :) (Yes, I like balloons even today)
The girl in the other corner stared at us as though we were not IT professionals!! The expression on her face was as though ->"Cant you girls go to any decent shop and buy stuff?"
I stared back in frown...
After sometime we were talking abt the Titan Raga watches..... I like the designs of it, and i use one of its collection..... While we were waiting for another friend of ours to join us for lunch, i checked the time on the mobile..... I then wondered on what’s the point in wearing an expensive sleek beautiful watch and not utilizing it for what its meant and instead i used it as a beauty/status statement :(
Finally concluded--> Use the wristwatch as a watch and not as a wristband!!
Also realized that digital watch is much easier to use...
After sometime we were offered sweet corn by one of our friend.... I usually like corns, especially the boiled ones served with butter & pepper... but that day i wasn’t in the mood to eat corns.....
I recalled the days when we enjoyed the hot corn with green chilly chutney sold on the street.....while eating that whole corn on the way home walking, talking and laughing and making hissing sound coz it would be too spicy.. still busy licking the chutney on it..
Wow!!! Its mouth watering...:p
Certain things sound so simple when we tend to accept it the way they are........ Life must be lived in a simple way with simple things around... with simple and right attitude...and life would turn out to be a bliss for sure :) Life can be simpler if we wish to make it simple :)
The regular to and fro bus journey from home to office has really started meaning a lot to me... The
potential solitary time i get to think, is while i travel back to home... But yesterday since I felt dizzy after
taking the syrup which was prescribed for my ill health, I fell asleep soon after I got my seat..
I partly remember the dream which I saw, and since it was very nice experience with the entire feel
good and feel lively factors, I felt like blogging on it....
It was an open space with lots of greenery around and no houses to block the view of nature... Seemed
like the top of a mountain.... I don’t remember how i landed up in that place...but all i remember is it was
an experience of endless happiness.. The sound of the breeze which hissed in our ears......my dress
and hair flattering due to the cold wind....a sort of swing made using the broken twigs ... the leaves and
flowers which fell on us while we were running around one of the huge tree... I giggled continuously for
some reason..... I took deep breaths as though it was an exercise to purify my lungs...
After a while I landed up near a lake where we spent whole of evening dipping our feet in fresh cold
flowing water....the sound of breeze and water was a bliss..
Later it was dark and we laid our back on the grass, and as usual I enjoyed watching the night sky
and gazed at the moon.... we hoped to catch the glimpse of the falling star...and the sound of breeze
became higher... and i suddenly heard the honk!!!!!!!!!!
That was the end of my dream coz I woke up with horror due to the honking of vehicles!! I woke up from
my groggy sleep and all i saw was long road with jam packed vehicles!!...
I began coughing roughly after i realized that the window near my seat had apparently opened wide
(may b coz I dint clutch it properly).. it was raining outside... (which meant another dose of immunity
syrup would be forced to me:( )
Till i reached home, i kept embracing the moments which i could remember out of the abstract dream
which i saw...... I wish it comes true someday.. ..
potential solitary time i get to think, is while i travel back to home... But yesterday since I felt dizzy after
taking the syrup which was prescribed for my ill health, I fell asleep soon after I got my seat..
I partly remember the dream which I saw, and since it was very nice experience with the entire feel
good and feel lively factors, I felt like blogging on it....
It was an open space with lots of greenery around and no houses to block the view of nature... Seemed
like the top of a mountain.... I don’t remember how i landed up in that place...but all i remember is it was
an experience of endless happiness.. The sound of the breeze which hissed in our ears......my dress
and hair flattering due to the cold wind....a sort of swing made using the broken twigs ... the leaves and
flowers which fell on us while we were running around one of the huge tree... I giggled continuously for
some reason..... I took deep breaths as though it was an exercise to purify my lungs...
After a while I landed up near a lake where we spent whole of evening dipping our feet in fresh cold
flowing water....the sound of breeze and water was a bliss..
Later it was dark and we laid our back on the grass, and as usual I enjoyed watching the night sky
and gazed at the moon.... we hoped to catch the glimpse of the falling star...and the sound of breeze
became higher... and i suddenly heard the honk!!!!!!!!!!
That was the end of my dream coz I woke up with horror due to the honking of vehicles!! I woke up from
my groggy sleep and all i saw was long road with jam packed vehicles!!...
I began coughing roughly after i realized that the window near my seat had apparently opened wide
(may b coz I dint clutch it properly).. it was raining outside... (which meant another dose of immunity
syrup would be forced to me:( )
Till i reached home, i kept embracing the moments which i could remember out of the abstract dream
which i saw...... I wish it comes true someday.. ..
Sometimes we don’t get what we desire...and we are either forced to take what was destined to receive or be happy with whatever we have...
Dear readers do not assume that I am out from saint's ashram coz of the above statement!!
It’s just that I am annoyed!!
It so happened...I was looking for a song at 12 in the night (height of desperation to hear that song)...
First time I was serious about downloading the songs which I wanted to hear... While most of the times I get the songs from my friends or colleagues, this time I was in action coz none of them knew which song I was referring to!!
It was one of the song from the movie “Hey Ram” and my state by the time I found that song was “HeYY RaM!!!!” I was getting only the Tamil version of that song while I wanted the Hindi version…
The task of searching for that song was tedious as I wasn’t aware of the lyrics.. I only remembered the piano and humming tune of it!! After browsing for long, I finally found the song in one of the sites ( I have forgotten the site name now) .. Quickly I downloaded and switched off the pc… While I was abt to doze off, I thought of playing that song assuming it would sound like dummy lorrri….and to my horror the song that played was a loud noisy marathi folk song!!!!! I felt like suing the site from which I downloaded!!! And unfortunately I dint remember the site address!!
Within seconds I cleared that song from my memory card!!! And threw my cell aside….
Dint dare to download the song for next three days…..untill my friend finally the hindi
version of the original song and passed it on to me……. :)
Thanks a lot :)
Dear readers do not assume that I am out from saint's ashram coz of the above statement!!
It’s just that I am annoyed!!
It so happened...I was looking for a song at 12 in the night (height of desperation to hear that song)...
First time I was serious about downloading the songs which I wanted to hear... While most of the times I get the songs from my friends or colleagues, this time I was in action coz none of them knew which song I was referring to!!
It was one of the song from the movie “Hey Ram” and my state by the time I found that song was “HeYY RaM!!!!” I was getting only the Tamil version of that song while I wanted the Hindi version…
The task of searching for that song was tedious as I wasn’t aware of the lyrics.. I only remembered the piano and humming tune of it!! After browsing for long, I finally found the song in one of the sites ( I have forgotten the site name now) .. Quickly I downloaded and switched off the pc… While I was abt to doze off, I thought of playing that song assuming it would sound like dummy lorrri….and to my horror the song that played was a loud noisy marathi folk song!!!!! I felt like suing the site from which I downloaded!!! And unfortunately I dint remember the site address!!
Within seconds I cleared that song from my memory card!!! And threw my cell aside….
Dint dare to download the song for next three days…..untill my friend finally the hindi
version of the original song and passed it on to me……. :)
Thanks a lot :)
A strange thought just started eating my mind when i was peacefully sitting in the bus on the way back home...
I was reading a novel when i heard the girl sitting next to me wailing over her phone telling -"You hurt me...so i hurt you back on purpose to let you know that i am hurt" .. She then continued, saying, "You dont know how much it hurts me when i tried to hurt you"
There was sudden rush of thoughts in my mind, like:
-> Can we get a tongue twister out of these words coz the word "hurt" is used to many times in a single sentence!!
-> You are no more going to think of tongue twisters coz that lady seems to be sad or rather hurt!!
-> Its bad manners to hear others conversation lady!! (But i couldnt help coz she was sitting right next to me and her voice was audible)
-> Bad manners just paves way when the situation favors...(i had forgetten the headsets at home!)
-> Common!! headset is not mandatory in bus sweetie!! Shoo away that thought! Headsets tucked into ears for long time has hazardous effect.
-> Concentrate on the novel...thats more interesting :)
-> Listening to others talks and getting curious on what they are going through is also not-so-pleasant-thing to do..
And last of all the thoughts, Isnt it that her sentence had surely got some strong meaning to ponder.. -> By hurting the loved one, it doesnt prove that she wanted to take revenge or play tit for tat..It hurt her too to hurt her dear one.. But then there must be some purpose why she preferred to hurt to whoever!
Hmmm.. what a true thing she said though..
I thought for a while abt it coz i couldnt take my mind out. Had i really hurt someone? (Yes) Hadnt i given a second chance? (Yes, i gave second...third... fourth... many times) Had i not forgiven everytime they apoligized (I had..before the limits crossed)...
There were few more questions popping in my mind by the time i reached home and after reaching home, all those got evaporated as i soon realized i was hungry ;) Brain had got enough to think...so next was the time for the digestive system to work :)
I was reading a novel when i heard the girl sitting next to me wailing over her phone telling -"You hurt me...so i hurt you back on purpose to let you know that i am hurt" .. She then continued, saying, "You dont know how much it hurts me when i tried to hurt you"
There was sudden rush of thoughts in my mind, like:
-> Can we get a tongue twister out of these words coz the word "hurt" is used to many times in a single sentence!!
-> You are no more going to think of tongue twisters coz that lady seems to be sad or rather hurt!!
-> Its bad manners to hear others conversation lady!! (But i couldnt help coz she was sitting right next to me and her voice was audible)
-> Bad manners just paves way when the situation favors...(i had forgetten the headsets at home!)
-> Common!! headset is not mandatory in bus sweetie!! Shoo away that thought! Headsets tucked into ears for long time has hazardous effect.
-> Concentrate on the novel...thats more interesting :)
-> Listening to others talks and getting curious on what they are going through is also not-so-pleasant-thing to do..
And last of all the thoughts, Isnt it that her sentence had surely got some strong meaning to ponder.. -> By hurting the loved one, it doesnt prove that she wanted to take revenge or play tit for tat..It hurt her too to hurt her dear one.. But then there must be some purpose why she preferred to hurt to whoever!
Hmmm.. what a true thing she said though..
I thought for a while abt it coz i couldnt take my mind out. Had i really hurt someone? (Yes) Hadnt i given a second chance? (Yes, i gave second...third... fourth... many times) Had i not forgiven everytime they apoligized (I had..before the limits crossed)...
There were few more questions popping in my mind by the time i reached home and after reaching home, all those got evaporated as i soon realized i was hungry ;) Brain had got enough to think...so next was the time for the digestive system to work :)
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