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.... :)
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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 :)
It was early morning hours when I went to the breakout area at office to get some water in my bottle….. I must say- the lake view from the breakout area is too good… Felt like looking at the view for longer, so I silently stood there keeping my cell aside and a cup of chocolate milk (yeah, I like the extra sweet drink)..
The breeze was just complimenting the lake…. The waves moved in the direction of the breeze…. Wow!! Such a beautiful creation of the almighty I thought…. Though I couldn’t hear the sound of the water from the top floor of this sealed tower, I could still imagine that I was happily sitting near the shore, with my legs dipped in the cold lake water…
The weather outside is just like our life: sometimes good, sometimes bad… For some time it gave me a relaxing feeling……..and later the nature has its own ways to pull me back to the nostalgic moments… I recollected the years which I spent at Goa… All happy happy moods, the beach, the hat, the time, people around, the lovely Goan songs etc…….
I quickly realized that I can’t go back to that time….and I wondered what I am doing!! Working – which I really enjoy… Studying- just to get the feather on my hat of master’s degree (for namesake and for accomplishing my ambitions)! Keeping the pace with colleagues (so that I don’t stand behind)!
Felt like I am running with the time and simply straining myself by leading the fast-life to die young!! In my childhood, I always wished that I would lead my life as per my dreams… But now I feel, we are living thinking more about the next future slab! And have apparently forgotten that we the present slab was once our “dream future” which we dreamt in the childhood days.. :(
Keeping pace with time, I realized that I had spent solid 20 mins in the breakout area and I had lots of work to be completed... So, rushed back to work….
While typing this, I am planning for a long vacation to come out of the stressful life… Hope my vacation leaves gets approved :)
The breeze was just complimenting the lake…. The waves moved in the direction of the breeze…. Wow!! Such a beautiful creation of the almighty I thought…. Though I couldn’t hear the sound of the water from the top floor of this sealed tower, I could still imagine that I was happily sitting near the shore, with my legs dipped in the cold lake water…
The weather outside is just like our life: sometimes good, sometimes bad… For some time it gave me a relaxing feeling……..and later the nature has its own ways to pull me back to the nostalgic moments… I recollected the years which I spent at Goa… All happy happy moods, the beach, the hat, the time, people around, the lovely Goan songs etc…….
I quickly realized that I can’t go back to that time….and I wondered what I am doing!! Working – which I really enjoy… Studying- just to get the feather on my hat of master’s degree (for namesake and for accomplishing my ambitions)! Keeping the pace with colleagues (so that I don’t stand behind)!
Felt like I am running with the time and simply straining myself by leading the fast-life to die young!! In my childhood, I always wished that I would lead my life as per my dreams… But now I feel, we are living thinking more about the next future slab! And have apparently forgotten that we the present slab was once our “dream future” which we dreamt in the childhood days.. :(
Keeping pace with time, I realized that I had spent solid 20 mins in the breakout area and I had lots of work to be completed... So, rushed back to work….
While typing this, I am planning for a long vacation to come out of the stressful life… Hope my vacation leaves gets approved :)
Well.. Its raining outside and I must confess that my mood swings when ever it rains :)
There is something abt the rain that changes my mood.. my mind starts wandering… and the smell of the mud just makes me think of all the good things..
And I blankly consider that it’s the love of sky with earth in the form of rain.. though they can never meet, the sky showers the rain and the earth being receptive to it, responds by making the nature look more beautiful……….(This sounds a bit poetic unlike my usual posts…and I blame the rain to infuse poetic mood in me!)
The early hours in the morning when I am comfortably seated in the office bus, warmly sitting in the window seat with the curtain slightly open for me to get the view of the outside world…… My mind was singing “Saavan barrse tarrse dil……….yaar ek yaar ke intezar mein” and I received the text message from my darling informing me that the weekend is planned :) with two little sweet smileys at the end of msg :)… it was pleasant feeling….such a nice sync between the song and the msg …. I was waiting to meet :)
I switched on the player on my mobile to just keep me awake for sometime until I finally dozed off in bus... I opted the 1st song to be played and then opted the random options in the player so that songs don’t repeat…. The 1st song was simply chosen to keep going with my mood which was “Saavan beeto jaaye pe harwa…which is a khamaj song” and then the songs played in random were “Kailash kher’, Sayyan….Tu jo dekhe pyaar se…” then “You’re my #1 by Enrique Iglesias”..
Wow!! Such lovely tracks played back to back…..and all thanks to my player to keep in good mood until the journey lasted….
As I reached office, I saw people with people in raincoats and umbrellas just having good time walking towards their respective towers…
And there I was….walking without any umbrella:(…drenched like a bird and shivering in cold… and wondering why I dint obey to mom while she asked me to carry an umbrella… But things do not matter much…The overall experience was good :)
There is something abt the rain that changes my mood.. my mind starts wandering… and the smell of the mud just makes me think of all the good things..
And I blankly consider that it’s the love of sky with earth in the form of rain.. though they can never meet, the sky showers the rain and the earth being receptive to it, responds by making the nature look more beautiful……….(This sounds a bit poetic unlike my usual posts…and I blame the rain to infuse poetic mood in me!)
The early hours in the morning when I am comfortably seated in the office bus, warmly sitting in the window seat with the curtain slightly open for me to get the view of the outside world…… My mind was singing “Saavan barrse tarrse dil……….yaar ek yaar ke intezar mein” and I received the text message from my darling informing me that the weekend is planned :) with two little sweet smileys at the end of msg :)… it was pleasant feeling….such a nice sync between the song and the msg …. I was waiting to meet :)
I switched on the player on my mobile to just keep me awake for sometime until I finally dozed off in bus... I opted the 1st song to be played and then opted the random options in the player so that songs don’t repeat…. The 1st song was simply chosen to keep going with my mood which was “Saavan beeto jaaye pe harwa…which is a khamaj song” and then the songs played in random were “Kailash kher’, Sayyan….Tu jo dekhe pyaar se…” then “You’re my #1 by Enrique Iglesias”..
Wow!! Such lovely tracks played back to back…..and all thanks to my player to keep in good mood until the journey lasted….
As I reached office, I saw people with people in raincoats and umbrellas just having good time walking towards their respective towers…
And there I was….walking without any umbrella:(…drenched like a bird and shivering in cold… and wondering why I dint obey to mom while she asked me to carry an umbrella… But things do not matter much…The overall experience was good :)
It’s a few days back incident which happened with me… Unlike all other days when I am always late to the bus, that day I was a bit early to the bus.. I happily chose my seat in the bus as not many had come to the bus yet…
Was curiously checking in my bag for the headset which my mind said “U have misplaced!!!”…while my heart silently wished, “check it once again dear, u aren’t careless”…
So, adhering to my heart’s wish, I started to check inside the bag vivaciously, when I suddenly found something crawling!!!!! The next few series of actions were – I pulled out my hand from the bag within seconds!! My heart beat gained velocity!! I pushed my bag suddenly towards the window and waited to see if something would rush outside.. There wasn’t any hint of sound so I was clueless as to whether there was a cockroach or not!! I locked all the zips of the bag, assuring myself that the cockroach would die out of suffocation if at all it exists!!
After ½ hr, I could neither sleep nor sit awake…with my mind wondering abt what could possibly have attracted a cockroach to encroach into my bag while there is nothing worth inside of its use!!
Gathering all my courage, I slowly opened the bag to peep inside if I could find it… I pulled out the book and locked the bag quickly…. Then messaged my friend and sis and explained abt the situation……and received instant replies with Sis exclaiming “OMG!!” and friend being a animal rights activist said “Paaaaapa, badukkolli bidu” .. The very next thought in my mind was “Paaapi can never be paaaaapa” coz in childhood days, sis used to tell me that if ppl do any wrong deed in present life, then in their next birth they would be born as cockroach and insects!! (* For the benefit of all non-kannada readers, paaaapa word is used to show mercy on innocent)…
I still wanted to pull out my headsets from the bag, so after another 15 mins, I boldly put my hand coz I my mind strongly sent the signal, “sweetie, u are more powerful than that creature”… I had weapons like my sandals…books…raincoat and what not!! The crawling creature was a weaponless warrior!!..
As I looked inside, there wasn’t anything.. and I wondered what would that be which I made my mind alert to such an extent! The next series of actions were – Tied up my hair… Pulled out all the stuff from the bag and dusted it upside down to see if there wasn’t anything… It seemed as though I was desperate like a kid in search of candy!!
Finally I put an end to this melodrama! Realized that it was some piece of woolen thread from my sweater which gave me an illusion of cockroach!
Hah!!! I regretted for wasting the time in bus for no good reason… Neither did I sleep nor did I read the book… I dint even listen to music!! And since it’s the exam season, I had to stretch in night to patch up the time for studying :(
Was curiously checking in my bag for the headset which my mind said “U have misplaced!!!”…while my heart silently wished, “check it once again dear, u aren’t careless”…
So, adhering to my heart’s wish, I started to check inside the bag vivaciously, when I suddenly found something crawling!!!!! The next few series of actions were – I pulled out my hand from the bag within seconds!! My heart beat gained velocity!! I pushed my bag suddenly towards the window and waited to see if something would rush outside.. There wasn’t any hint of sound so I was clueless as to whether there was a cockroach or not!! I locked all the zips of the bag, assuring myself that the cockroach would die out of suffocation if at all it exists!!
After ½ hr, I could neither sleep nor sit awake…with my mind wondering abt what could possibly have attracted a cockroach to encroach into my bag while there is nothing worth inside of its use!!
Gathering all my courage, I slowly opened the bag to peep inside if I could find it… I pulled out the book and locked the bag quickly…. Then messaged my friend and sis and explained abt the situation……and received instant replies with Sis exclaiming “OMG!!” and friend being a animal rights activist said “Paaaaapa, badukkolli bidu” .. The very next thought in my mind was “Paaapi can never be paaaaapa” coz in childhood days, sis used to tell me that if ppl do any wrong deed in present life, then in their next birth they would be born as cockroach and insects!! (* For the benefit of all non-kannada readers, paaaapa word is used to show mercy on innocent)…
I still wanted to pull out my headsets from the bag, so after another 15 mins, I boldly put my hand coz I my mind strongly sent the signal, “sweetie, u are more powerful than that creature”… I had weapons like my sandals…books…raincoat and what not!! The crawling creature was a weaponless warrior!!..
As I looked inside, there wasn’t anything.. and I wondered what would that be which I made my mind alert to such an extent! The next series of actions were – Tied up my hair… Pulled out all the stuff from the bag and dusted it upside down to see if there wasn’t anything… It seemed as though I was desperate like a kid in search of candy!!
Finally I put an end to this melodrama! Realized that it was some piece of woolen thread from my sweater which gave me an illusion of cockroach!
Hah!!! I regretted for wasting the time in bus for no good reason… Neither did I sleep nor did I read the book… I dint even listen to music!! And since it’s the exam season, I had to stretch in night to patch up the time for studying :(
Waking to the sound of crazy traffic noises while I am dozing in the bus and navigating through areas that are highly congested. This city is a bit like an ongoing project. The change in government means that some projects gets left and new ones starts to improve the area. Many of the roads have been resurfaced; this work is done as a combination of input from foreign tech business requirement and the local government.
That might seem like a good thing, but as the work is done, the population has grown fast, so the roads, new or old are still very crowded.
The metro rail construction which is supposed to decongest the roads, has begun and the construction work doesn’t seem like its going to complete sooner :( .. I happened to read an article which said that Bangalore metro construction would take another 10 ten yrs to complete…… The very next impulse of my heart asked me – “Would I wish to continue in Bangalore!?”
From the window seat of the bus, sometimes i enjoy the view of the roadside, where people irrespective of whether there is traffic or not, rain, winter or scorch summer, people simply move on :)… The shopping areas of the city are full of banners of the new brands, offers and with discounts and nice smiling models portrayed with the products… The view of the old thatched buildings, the compound or walls decorated with the latest movie wallpaper… And the new feel-good factor is the idea to avoid the movie adds on the walls, the government has employed the painters to showcase the Karnataka culture on walls and compounds! I must appreciate the painters!! What a brilliant job !!! [Sadly it isn’t the place where the painters are supposed to be appreciated :( ]
Hmm… yet there is something about the city which keeps bulging with more and more people… People cribbing about the less space, high rent, high cost of living, and still sticking to the decision of settling here assuming the life will be easier in n e a r F u T u R e ! !
That might seem like a good thing, but as the work is done, the population has grown fast, so the roads, new or old are still very crowded.
The metro rail construction which is supposed to decongest the roads, has begun and the construction work doesn’t seem like its going to complete sooner :( .. I happened to read an article which said that Bangalore metro construction would take another 10 ten yrs to complete…… The very next impulse of my heart asked me – “Would I wish to continue in Bangalore!?”
From the window seat of the bus, sometimes i enjoy the view of the roadside, where people irrespective of whether there is traffic or not, rain, winter or scorch summer, people simply move on :)… The shopping areas of the city are full of banners of the new brands, offers and with discounts and nice smiling models portrayed with the products… The view of the old thatched buildings, the compound or walls decorated with the latest movie wallpaper… And the new feel-good factor is the idea to avoid the movie adds on the walls, the government has employed the painters to showcase the Karnataka culture on walls and compounds! I must appreciate the painters!! What a brilliant job !!! [Sadly it isn’t the place where the painters are supposed to be appreciated :( ]
Hmm… yet there is something about the city which keeps bulging with more and more people… People cribbing about the less space, high rent, high cost of living, and still sticking to the decision of settling here assuming the life will be easier in n e a r F u T u R e ! !
Day before yesterday was the Bus day in Bangalore!! True… I got several mails regarding that from both my colleagues and the admin team stating Thursday 4th Feb is “Bus day” in namma bengaluru with a tag line as save Money, Energy and Time…..
The bus day was particularly focused on two traffic hit areas viz hosur road and old airport road. Hence BMTC had requested all the people traveling to that area by private vehicles to make use of BMTC buses…. The funda behind calling for this day was researchers wanted to check the difference it can make in terms of traffic congestion and air pollution. And yes, additional to it was the promotion and encouragement to all the fellow travelers to make use of BMTC buses..
For a moment when I heard Bus day I assumed that there is no bus fair on that particular day to reach any place in bangalore… and had even assumed that the some new buses are released which are eco-friendly for so………. Somehow dint like the fact that the “bus day” celebration was specific to two corridors and not the whole city… Why not call for a day as “bus day” and check the traffic congestion and air quality in the whole city instead of confining to only two corridors!!
I wish some day government announces “No Traffic day” with the punch line as “To: Fro = 1:1” where all the travelers would reach home early… I don’t know what will be the criteria to call for such a day but I wish they do….. I personally felt this coz my travel time to office is in sync with 1:2 ratio!!! Morning I can cover a particular distance in 1 hr which takes 2hrs to cover the same distance in the evening!! I feel office is nearer to home in the morning and VerY far from home in the evening..
Hope one fine day Bangalore city’s all the ongoing flyover and metro rail construction gets completed once in for all so that most of us can reach home in time :)
The bus day was particularly focused on two traffic hit areas viz hosur road and old airport road. Hence BMTC had requested all the people traveling to that area by private vehicles to make use of BMTC buses…. The funda behind calling for this day was researchers wanted to check the difference it can make in terms of traffic congestion and air pollution. And yes, additional to it was the promotion and encouragement to all the fellow travelers to make use of BMTC buses..
For a moment when I heard Bus day I assumed that there is no bus fair on that particular day to reach any place in bangalore… and had even assumed that the some new buses are released which are eco-friendly for so………. Somehow dint like the fact that the “bus day” celebration was specific to two corridors and not the whole city… Why not call for a day as “bus day” and check the traffic congestion and air quality in the whole city instead of confining to only two corridors!!
I wish some day government announces “No Traffic day” with the punch line as “To: Fro = 1:1” where all the travelers would reach home early… I don’t know what will be the criteria to call for such a day but I wish they do….. I personally felt this coz my travel time to office is in sync with 1:2 ratio!!! Morning I can cover a particular distance in 1 hr which takes 2hrs to cover the same distance in the evening!! I feel office is nearer to home in the morning and VerY far from home in the evening..
Hope one fine day Bangalore city’s all the ongoing flyover and metro rail construction gets completed once in for all so that most of us can reach home in time :)
After all the crazy commercial ad that we see these days… here is something which caught my attention……..the chocolate shampoo!!! The parachute company as released its new “chocolate shampoo”!!!! Gosshhhh!! I wonder who gives them creative ideas like this!!
Was even wondering if it was really a shampoo or some something else!!
I saw the chocolate shampoo ad on a large poster put by forum mall…. I showed it to my neighbor in the bus… He saw it for a while and with a confused look on his face he said, “lets c that ad again tomorrow while passing this road”. His reply made it clear that he too was in a dilemma…
We are all living by using few products which makes no sense if we think otherwise… The product companies are trying their best to publicize their products as “the best/the popular” to make profits... While the advertising agency perhaps waits for another new product to be released so that they can commercialize it…
Considering few commercials which we get to see and hear regularly:
The dog biscuits - the ad say, “The dog biscuits with improved taste in 5 different flavors and extra nutrition”… (Can anyone say who tasted it?? Off course humans.. lol)..
Colgate toothpaste with salt…taste it before using it coz the ad says – kya aapke tooghpaste mein namak hai??
The height of commercialization is gone up to a state where we get lemon/orange juice with artificial flavors and dishwasher liquids with real lemon and orange extracts… Get gold coins in the soap bar is another such ad…(sadly none of them seem to have got it)
The pug breed of dog got more popularized than the hutch network…(a healthy pug costs nearly Rs.30K)
We really live in a funny world... Here we get education loan at the interest rate of 12 -15% with the processing time of 10-15 days while we get car loans at 8-9% interest rates plus the processing time of just 2 days!...
In the race between an ambulance and a pizza delivery, its always the pizza which reaches earlier….
Seems like we have prioritized the value-addition or freebies on products more than the main product…. Like the saying in kannada says- “gubbi ethu anta hosa shirt holsidha”(just coz he had few buttons, had got stitched a new shirt)…
Simple in the case of chocolate shampoo…Shampoo is important here but the ad focuses on chocolate flavor more!! Sad but true…
Was even wondering if it was really a shampoo or some something else!!
I saw the chocolate shampoo ad on a large poster put by forum mall…. I showed it to my neighbor in the bus… He saw it for a while and with a confused look on his face he said, “lets c that ad again tomorrow while passing this road”. His reply made it clear that he too was in a dilemma…
We are all living by using few products which makes no sense if we think otherwise… The product companies are trying their best to publicize their products as “the best/the popular” to make profits... While the advertising agency perhaps waits for another new product to be released so that they can commercialize it…
Considering few commercials which we get to see and hear regularly:
The dog biscuits - the ad say, “The dog biscuits with improved taste in 5 different flavors and extra nutrition”… (Can anyone say who tasted it?? Off course humans.. lol)..
Colgate toothpaste with salt…taste it before using it coz the ad says – kya aapke tooghpaste mein namak hai??
The height of commercialization is gone up to a state where we get lemon/orange juice with artificial flavors and dishwasher liquids with real lemon and orange extracts… Get gold coins in the soap bar is another such ad…(sadly none of them seem to have got it)
The pug breed of dog got more popularized than the hutch network…(a healthy pug costs nearly Rs.30K)
We really live in a funny world... Here we get education loan at the interest rate of 12 -15% with the processing time of 10-15 days while we get car loans at 8-9% interest rates plus the processing time of just 2 days!...
In the race between an ambulance and a pizza delivery, its always the pizza which reaches earlier….
Seems like we have prioritized the value-addition or freebies on products more than the main product…. Like the saying in kannada says- “gubbi ethu anta hosa shirt holsidha”(just coz he had few buttons, had got stitched a new shirt)…
Simple in the case of chocolate shampoo…Shampoo is important here but the ad focuses on chocolate flavor more!! Sad but true…
Its 10.32 am here at office on a Tuesday morning… The busy hours when we get to hear only tic-tic of the mouse and the tapping of key board…. Amidst of this today I heard a religious song playing in the background… I was wondering who it could be… Out of curiosity, I walked to the next cubicle..
I saw a guy playing all religious songs in his mobile with the lowest audible tone… I knew that he loved listening to Kannada and Tamil songs (not religious though…).. Once again out of curiosity I asked him, “wassup with u?? Listening to religious songs today…instead of those tangy dance numbers”…… and the reply he gave me stunned me for a while… He said, “mom went to purohith yesterday….and it seems I have got shani dasha in my horoscope… so to reduce the shani effect, I decided to listen to these songs”… I smiled and came back to my cubicle after hearing the genuine prompt reply….
Haahh!! Can anyone explain me, how on earth the bad luck would shoo off if we listen to music of Lord Shiva…which is sung by the man whose voice resembles to a man who has been strangled to death and is weeping yet singing “brahma muraari suraarchita lingam….”
Then I realized that its not only him who is god fearing or rather horoscope-fearing guy around … There is another devotee in the other side ODC who has decorated his work space with photo frame of a deity… (I still haven’t recognized which deity it is), sai baba’s pic stuck on his name plate… A flower offered to lord ganesha’s idol next to his pen stand… Radha Krishna’s photo as his desktop wallpaper!! & finally a small pic of goddess laxmi affixed on his writing board!!!! Devotion in extremes… :)
Am not supposed to mention his name, but frankly telling his first and middle names are also of deities…. :) When I first entered his cubicle for a project related discussion, I felt as though I need to remove my sandals and enter coz it looked to me more like a temple…. The only reason given by him for keeping so many pics and idols was “Google cannot answer all our questions right?? So…”.. Hmmm.. witty answer :)
Another strange behavior people have got while traveling is touch the forehead and heart simultaneously / softly slap the cheeks on either side thrice / remove their sandals and fold their hands for 2 seconds - all these once they see a temple…strange!! This is seen very commonly in Bangalore…no matter they pray at home or not.. Devotion comes automatically on road :)
I seriously don’t understand whether people are trying to impress god by doing all such activities or giving themselves a little time… Prayer should not be an attempt to change God’s mind….it should be an attempt to let God change our mind…
PS- Devotees…plz don’t mind on the comments abt the pics and idols..
I saw a guy playing all religious songs in his mobile with the lowest audible tone… I knew that he loved listening to Kannada and Tamil songs (not religious though…).. Once again out of curiosity I asked him, “wassup with u?? Listening to religious songs today…instead of those tangy dance numbers”…… and the reply he gave me stunned me for a while… He said, “mom went to purohith yesterday….and it seems I have got shani dasha in my horoscope… so to reduce the shani effect, I decided to listen to these songs”… I smiled and came back to my cubicle after hearing the genuine prompt reply….
Haahh!! Can anyone explain me, how on earth the bad luck would shoo off if we listen to music of Lord Shiva…which is sung by the man whose voice resembles to a man who has been strangled to death and is weeping yet singing “brahma muraari suraarchita lingam….”
Then I realized that its not only him who is god fearing or rather horoscope-fearing guy around … There is another devotee in the other side ODC who has decorated his work space with photo frame of a deity… (I still haven’t recognized which deity it is), sai baba’s pic stuck on his name plate… A flower offered to lord ganesha’s idol next to his pen stand… Radha Krishna’s photo as his desktop wallpaper!! & finally a small pic of goddess laxmi affixed on his writing board!!!! Devotion in extremes… :)
Am not supposed to mention his name, but frankly telling his first and middle names are also of deities…. :) When I first entered his cubicle for a project related discussion, I felt as though I need to remove my sandals and enter coz it looked to me more like a temple…. The only reason given by him for keeping so many pics and idols was “Google cannot answer all our questions right?? So…”.. Hmmm.. witty answer :)
Another strange behavior people have got while traveling is touch the forehead and heart simultaneously / softly slap the cheeks on either side thrice / remove their sandals and fold their hands for 2 seconds - all these once they see a temple…strange!! This is seen very commonly in Bangalore…no matter they pray at home or not.. Devotion comes automatically on road :)
I seriously don’t understand whether people are trying to impress god by doing all such activities or giving themselves a little time… Prayer should not be an attempt to change God’s mind….it should be an attempt to let God change our mind…
PS- Devotees…plz don’t mind on the comments abt the pics and idols..
I am in love….. Yes.. true…….. I fell in love just few hours back…. It was no hushhrushh, no gossips, no following up, nobody got even the slightest doubt…. Its love at first sight!! A simple love :) Just the way I wanted it to be :)….
It all happened so fast you know…….. I fell in love after I entered the office, in my cubicle :) … that too with one, everyone waits to c…. and ppl expect the reason incase of absence!! Oh my god!! I am so excited to tell you all abt this news :)… My love :)
Let me give the prelude of it….
As usual I was drafting my “good morning” email to all my near and dear ones…… and a lovely GM quote was copied from one of the text message which I got it on my cell - “U cant make someone love u.. all u can do is be with someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to realize ur worth…”.. I was looking for one of the perfect flower to attach in my email….. and by the time I finished drafting and the mail was ready to be sent, I was in love……..
Well, to break the suspense and to let u know who the lucky one with whom I fell in love….. It’s nonetheless than the flower what I found in Google search……. It’s the lovely rose!! The moment I saw it, I wished to see it in real (which I couldn’t).. So, I quickly added it in the email and sent it to everyone… Within ½ an hour I got replies telling “lovely rose/ nice quote/ nice background/ mood changed / too good rose….etc”..
Though I couldn’t see the rose in real, I really enjoyed seeing it throughout the day as my pc wallpaper and in the replies to that mail…..
So, this was my love story……. Love at first sight :)… On the way back home, I decided to grow a rose plant which would yield beautiful roses which I can see and enjoy right from the bud till the rose blooms and finally until it withers….
It all happened so fast you know…….. I fell in love after I entered the office, in my cubicle :) … that too with one, everyone waits to c…. and ppl expect the reason incase of absence!! Oh my god!! I am so excited to tell you all abt this news :)… My love :)
Let me give the prelude of it….
As usual I was drafting my “good morning” email to all my near and dear ones…… and a lovely GM quote was copied from one of the text message which I got it on my cell - “U cant make someone love u.. all u can do is be with someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to realize ur worth…”.. I was looking for one of the perfect flower to attach in my email….. and by the time I finished drafting and the mail was ready to be sent, I was in love……..
Well, to break the suspense and to let u know who the lucky one with whom I fell in love….. It’s nonetheless than the flower what I found in Google search……. It’s the lovely rose!! The moment I saw it, I wished to see it in real (which I couldn’t).. So, I quickly added it in the email and sent it to everyone… Within ½ an hour I got replies telling “lovely rose/ nice quote/ nice background/ mood changed / too good rose….etc”..
Though I couldn’t see the rose in real, I really enjoyed seeing it throughout the day as my pc wallpaper and in the replies to that mail…..
So, this was my love story……. Love at first sight :)… On the way back home, I decided to grow a rose plant which would yield beautiful roses which I can see and enjoy right from the bud till the rose blooms and finally until it withers….
Some times, smile turns to tears when we are sure that things are happening for good…. It’s when ppl are too happy, the tears fills the eyes for a moment…Smile turns to tears when the parents see their first baby…...... When farmers see the most awaited monsoon after a long time…...... When the most loved person is seen after many years…...... Bidding bye to friends on the last day of college…...... When ppl get the offer letter from their dream company…...... When grandparents see their kith and kins after many years…...... When we see that ppl are happy and we were the reason behind their happiness…...... When ppl look back to the time when they struggled and worked hard to reach to good heights today…...... When the kid pulls back his/her mothers arms and says plz don’t go to office today…...... When the daughter is bidding bye to her parents after marriage etc…………….
There are few disappointing situation and ppl force themselves to have a smile on their face… That's when they don’t feel comfortable in other’s presence. More than a smile on the face :) , ppl get to see an unpleasant curve :s…
Times when 10marks question is asked for 3 marks!!!…...... When none of the old question ppr questions are repeated in the exam!!(Students sit and pray- bhagwaan kaise bhi karrke pass karrdo even after knowing that there are no hopes to pass)!!!…...... Teachers distributing test papers in front of juniors!!!…...... HoD sitting next to us on a tour (hard to pretend as an obedient student)!!!…...... Extremely good looking girl/guy crossing the way when ppl are with their parents!!!…...... When ppl realize that all their personal sms’s are already read by parents!!!…...... When the most innocent guy/girl who are considered next to sages…are caught with their gf/bf in cinema theatre by their friends!!! :) etc………………
In life there are many times when we don’t know how to react… Kind of confusion arises whether to smile or cry or feel sad or get anger…. When heart says Yes and mind says No… And that’s when mixed reaction comes in picture :) Smiling but not heartily.. Crying by hiding tears…. Sad and yet shadowing the sorrow with the smile… :)...... :s........ :(
Something abt the rainy days that we are having these days makes me turn inward.. May be the heart and soul subconsciously react to rain in that way so I opt to stay indoors… The chill weather, a tea kettle… hot pakodas….the pitter patter of rain drops… to stare out of window at the rainfall… to watch the raindrops on the perennial trees… the occasional lightning and thunder….sitting back in the cozy nest of the comfort….. listening to songs which can change the mood of the entire room to romantic… and incase we don’t have that someone spl in our lives, imagining the invisible man/woman holding our hands tightly…
Is there anything i can think of to make the feeling better… ahem ahemm… let me not exaggerate on it now :)
Well, rainy seasons somehow reminds of many things……. Most of us carry volumes of stories and every story has some feelings attached with it… Common memories include the sweet memories of the childhood… Memories could be of the first bicycle…or the time when we fell from the swing... or the first soft toy whom we named as Bruno…or the first Barbie doll as the birthday present…(childhood role model) …. the first remote control car… or the first pink colored birthday frock!! Hmmm….. our good old nostalgic days!!!!
And then the memories of our first school teacher (Ms Marie)… Our best buddy beside us in class and school van… The scent rubber… The hand made greeting cards…. The first ink pen… The sports day… school day function…..The first high heel sandals and action shoes… First day in college… New friends…… Teachers renamed as lecturers… Stepping towards the professional life… first company…….The first project… first appraisal etc ……
I guess after I grow old, I will have many more things to add on in this space !! Why only me, everyone else will have their own thoughts to combat the their boredoms and to have a reason to get cheerful……which they would recall on yet another rainy day. . .
Is there anything i can think of to make the feeling better… ahem ahemm… let me not exaggerate on it now :)
Well, rainy seasons somehow reminds of many things……. Most of us carry volumes of stories and every story has some feelings attached with it… Common memories include the sweet memories of the childhood… Memories could be of the first bicycle…or the time when we fell from the swing... or the first soft toy whom we named as Bruno…or the first Barbie doll as the birthday present…(childhood role model) …. the first remote control car… or the first pink colored birthday frock!! Hmmm….. our good old nostalgic days!!!!
And then the memories of our first school teacher (Ms Marie)… Our best buddy beside us in class and school van… The scent rubber… The hand made greeting cards…. The first ink pen… The sports day… school day function…..The first high heel sandals and action shoes… First day in college… New friends…… Teachers renamed as lecturers… Stepping towards the professional life… first company…….The first project… first appraisal etc ……
I guess after I grow old, I will have many more things to add on in this space !! Why only me, everyone else will have their own thoughts to combat the their boredoms and to have a reason to get cheerful……which they would recall on yet another rainy day. . .
Its Sunday and we find people inviting us for all the family functions… Be it Birthday celebration or Durga pooja or Engagement party or Naming ceremony of a child..... Most of the functions are planned on Saturday and Sunday… I find this trend more in our Bangalore…
Initially people used to plan the functions as per the holy days and now as per holidays!!!
Rarely any functions were arranged on Saturday as its “Shani-vaar” and now as long as there is no “grahan” (eclipse), weekends have become most auspicious days..
The intention behind arranging all the spiritual rituals on weekends is that- to gather as many people as possible for a nice get together…
And in case someone misses out for the function on weekends, then they will be tagged as “western culture influenced”!! Elders blame saying, “BPO has spoiled our youth”.. No matter if someone is working in IT or Bank or Retail industry etc… All thanks to BPO to take the blame over…
I was recently invited to one of the engagement party… Mom had asked me to dress in ethnic… I had no mood to go, but because it was on Sunday evening, I had no other go :( I asked my mom whose engagement we are attending… she politely replied to me as “It’s your aunt’s brother in law’s daughter’s engagement”... I nodded my head as I dint understand how I am related to her.. Finally I came to a conclusion that the bride is my cousin’s cousin…
I dint break my head more coz I was already late to the function!! I thought may be she will recognize me if I can’t :) I knew I would be late and by the time I reach there and they would be serving food :) Before even I get any guilty conscious for being late, I realized that I am going there to avoid the tag in my name and for delicious Food :)
At the entrance of the hall, a man with fat belly smiled and welcomed me… I had no clue who he was, so I was searching for few known faces…. Guys were enticing me as though I am the next forthcoming bride.. Few parents turned around and snared, as though they were hunting a bride for their potential son!! This type of gazing was common to all the unmarried girls of 20-25 age group… I made my way in between ladies who were gossiping, giggling and discussing… In the whole crowd, it was only my mom whom I was searching… Finally tracked her and found few known faces around her… I was happy that my attendance was registered after the photographer took our group photo..
We started our dinner in next 10 mins of my arrival… On the way back, I was thinking about the Gulab jamoon which I ate, when mom interrupted me, and asked, “Did u see the girl? The pair was nice.. Isn’t it?” I dint know what to answer coz I dint even bother to see the bride and the groom!! Finally I confronted that I was least bothered abt the function and that they had invited lot of strangers.. I was also a stranger to the bride!! I said her if next time I am invited to any such function of very far relative, I will name it as “Free food function”. Mom knew that I was forced to attend these types of functions!! Perhaps mom knew that I was irritated, so neither did she force me to attend the next weeks function nor we landed up with argument!! Mission escape successful :) Yuppie!!!!
Initially people used to plan the functions as per the holy days and now as per holidays!!!
Rarely any functions were arranged on Saturday as its “Shani-vaar” and now as long as there is no “grahan” (eclipse), weekends have become most auspicious days..
The intention behind arranging all the spiritual rituals on weekends is that- to gather as many people as possible for a nice get together…
And in case someone misses out for the function on weekends, then they will be tagged as “western culture influenced”!! Elders blame saying, “BPO has spoiled our youth”.. No matter if someone is working in IT or Bank or Retail industry etc… All thanks to BPO to take the blame over…
I was recently invited to one of the engagement party… Mom had asked me to dress in ethnic… I had no mood to go, but because it was on Sunday evening, I had no other go :( I asked my mom whose engagement we are attending… she politely replied to me as “It’s your aunt’s brother in law’s daughter’s engagement”... I nodded my head as I dint understand how I am related to her.. Finally I came to a conclusion that the bride is my cousin’s cousin…
I dint break my head more coz I was already late to the function!! I thought may be she will recognize me if I can’t :) I knew I would be late and by the time I reach there and they would be serving food :) Before even I get any guilty conscious for being late, I realized that I am going there to avoid the tag in my name and for delicious Food :)
At the entrance of the hall, a man with fat belly smiled and welcomed me… I had no clue who he was, so I was searching for few known faces…. Guys were enticing me as though I am the next forthcoming bride.. Few parents turned around and snared, as though they were hunting a bride for their potential son!! This type of gazing was common to all the unmarried girls of 20-25 age group… I made my way in between ladies who were gossiping, giggling and discussing… In the whole crowd, it was only my mom whom I was searching… Finally tracked her and found few known faces around her… I was happy that my attendance was registered after the photographer took our group photo..
We started our dinner in next 10 mins of my arrival… On the way back, I was thinking about the Gulab jamoon which I ate, when mom interrupted me, and asked, “Did u see the girl? The pair was nice.. Isn’t it?” I dint know what to answer coz I dint even bother to see the bride and the groom!! Finally I confronted that I was least bothered abt the function and that they had invited lot of strangers.. I was also a stranger to the bride!! I said her if next time I am invited to any such function of very far relative, I will name it as “Free food function”. Mom knew that I was forced to attend these types of functions!! Perhaps mom knew that I was irritated, so neither did she force me to attend the next weeks function nor we landed up with argument!! Mission escape successful :) Yuppie!!!!
It was 5.20 pm when I was in the bus after finishing the exam last Tuesday. Since the bus was from city market, it was fully loaded with ppl and goods… I saw a lady sitting in the 2nd seat.. The details I got to know just by looking at her were:
Name : Shobha
Name of the company where she is presently working : TCS
Blood group : O +ve
Marital Status : Married
Amount of gold she was wearing : More than 60 grams!!
Mother tongue : Telugu
Mobile model : Nokia N series
Wrist watch : Fastrack
Huhh!! Too much details.. isn’t it??!! Nope, I am not planning to kidnap her…:) I got to know so much abt her just by looking at her… Now, imagine how much more information I could have gathered incase I had spoken to her… She had wore her company id card and was flaunting it in the ordinary BMTC bus!! That too in a bus which starts from city market in which we can find all the categories of people.. (I am scared to wear even my Titan watch when I travel in that route) May be she wanted to proudly show off her id card and get noticed that she is from the one of the top IT company!! But showing off in front of ppl who are making their day and night one to lead their life, is bad:(.. Isn’t it??
College and school students in the bus were looking at her as though they are seeing a celebrity while others were getting jealous that she had a good job and all expensive items on her and were wondering, what on earth had gone wrong for not being like her!! :(
I had two thoughts in mind; firstly I can blog about her :) Secondly, shall I show her my id card to tell her that I am also from the same industry!! I stuck with my first opinion which was definitely better than the 2nd thought. :)
Wearing the id card tag in our company bus would hardly matter anyone but wearing it in ordinary bus or outside the company campus would prove risky.. Anyone with a keen eye can easily judge that she is from the IT industry!! Upon observation, one can even know her name, address and other details too!! Isn’t all this risky??
I have heard ppl blaming that this city is not safe, but if someone prompts to get looted, who can help!!
All I want to suggest is that – plz don’t wear id card tag outside the campus or flaunt with the mobile that ur wearing in public places like bus stop, chat corners, roads, pavements, shopping malls etc… We never know who is noticing us from distance.. Better be safe and simple in public places. Self safety should be given more priority than expecting the police to rush towards us when in panic..
Fast life, fast food, phatafat generation etc…. Hmmm… Is there anything called slow life, slow food!! I am tired of hearing the word fast and other synonyms of FAST..
Why everyone wants to go so fast?? Doesn’t anyone want to stay back and enjoy every bit of life??!!
I was on my way back home, yawning in the cab at 8 pm ( 12+ hrs at office had drained my energy!!) and I had tuned in the radio so that I don’t sleep off without realizing my stop!! Radio jockey, Pallavi was speaking so fast and the Radio1 punch line being - “94.3 radio one for the phatafat generation”.. This made me think for a while as to why everyone is in hurry!! Why are ppl expecting us to do or get things phatafat!!
Why can’t everything go on in optimum speed?? Ok, now I am not asking everything to go on slowly but at least at optimum speed can be expected right?
In the morning when we come to office, I see the private cars arranged in a row close to exit point.. I guess people who come early had parked it there…. But isn’t it that they have some time to park their vehicles a bit away from the exit, so that the latecomers who have less time can park it close to gate and rush in??
We often get to see hotels named with suffix as “fast food”.. Don’t we have time to even have breakfast/ lunch/ dinner? Earlier ppl used to work hard so that they would get a plate full of food and better shelter… But these days ppl are working so hard that they are not finding time to even peacefully have food.. Then why are we working so hard??
Our cab driver also drives very fast and at times breaks the traffic rules but no one in the cab complaints coz all of us are used to travel in office cabs… I am not blaming the cab drivers of our company coz it’s the case with all other company cab drivers too. They have a pressure to drop us at our stop in the least possible time, so they speed up… While we have spared to spend 12+ hrs at office, another 15 mins hardly matters.. Isn’t it?
The RJ in the radio stations speaks so desperately and land up misspelling words and sometimes jovially fights with the co radio jockey with almost all the slang in kannada, just to make sure their show keeps going, no matter what non sense they speak!!
The adds that they play in between the songs also sounds like tongue twisters at times, especially adds related to mutual funds are the most confusing one. Till date I have deciphered it only as “Mutual funds are subject to market risks..plz read the offer documents carefully before investing” Is this sentence said so that no one understands what is the warning all about??
All I want to say is that, let everything go on in optimum speed.. In the verge of going fast we are missing out something which we are searching for and we miss out to see many beautiful things around…
Why everyone wants to go so fast?? Doesn’t anyone want to stay back and enjoy every bit of life??!!
I was on my way back home, yawning in the cab at 8 pm ( 12+ hrs at office had drained my energy!!) and I had tuned in the radio so that I don’t sleep off without realizing my stop!! Radio jockey, Pallavi was speaking so fast and the Radio1 punch line being - “94.3 radio one for the phatafat generation”.. This made me think for a while as to why everyone is in hurry!! Why are ppl expecting us to do or get things phatafat!!
Why can’t everything go on in optimum speed?? Ok, now I am not asking everything to go on slowly but at least at optimum speed can be expected right?
In the morning when we come to office, I see the private cars arranged in a row close to exit point.. I guess people who come early had parked it there…. But isn’t it that they have some time to park their vehicles a bit away from the exit, so that the latecomers who have less time can park it close to gate and rush in??
We often get to see hotels named with suffix as “fast food”.. Don’t we have time to even have breakfast/ lunch/ dinner? Earlier ppl used to work hard so that they would get a plate full of food and better shelter… But these days ppl are working so hard that they are not finding time to even peacefully have food.. Then why are we working so hard??
Our cab driver also drives very fast and at times breaks the traffic rules but no one in the cab complaints coz all of us are used to travel in office cabs… I am not blaming the cab drivers of our company coz it’s the case with all other company cab drivers too. They have a pressure to drop us at our stop in the least possible time, so they speed up… While we have spared to spend 12+ hrs at office, another 15 mins hardly matters.. Isn’t it?
The RJ in the radio stations speaks so desperately and land up misspelling words and sometimes jovially fights with the co radio jockey with almost all the slang in kannada, just to make sure their show keeps going, no matter what non sense they speak!!
The adds that they play in between the songs also sounds like tongue twisters at times, especially adds related to mutual funds are the most confusing one. Till date I have deciphered it only as “Mutual funds are subject to market risks..plz read the offer documents carefully before investing” Is this sentence said so that no one understands what is the warning all about??
All I want to say is that, let everything go on in optimum speed.. In the verge of going fast we are missing out something which we are searching for and we miss out to see many beautiful things around…
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Greetings…. Now don’t assume that I have planned to make my hand-made greeting card to gift to someone special…. No… It’s not what I meant when I said greetings… Let me narrate on what made me to think about the general gesture to greet people…
Yesterday, Monday – I happily entered the office with almost 8 tasks in my mind to be completed by end of the day…(Yes, I do make a list, so that I don’t miss out few things of high priority).. As I entered my cubicle I wished my colleague who sits in the adjacent cubicle… I said, “Good morning” with a broad smile.. He wished me back… I have a hurrying feet, so dint chat with him.. I logged in to my pc and before even I opened my mail box, my friend pinged me in the communicator as “Early bird!!! GM”.. I greeted her GM… After I finished checking my mail box, the chat window again started blinking in orange… I knew someone else had pinged to say “GM”…. But no.. It wasn’t for that… My colleague pinged me with the usual phrase “Hello… How was the weekend madam?”
I knew he would ping the same…I gave the usual reply as “It was fine”.. He asked, “What did u do?” (This question sometimes makes me feel guilty as sometimes I spend my weekend doing nothing) I replied him, “I saw a movie – The other Boleyn girl”..
And so our conversation continued for next 5 mins…. Frankly telling, I lied to him about the movie as I had seen it a week back….
I simply don’t understand y some people simply greet us and ask few question which hardly matters them…
One of the questions is “Had lunch???” Sometimes, people ask this question with so much energy that it sounds as though they are planning to treat us… But its not true.. They would be waiting to tell us what they had for lunch!! Generally if this question is asked by someone who is close to u, then it sounds like concern, else its sounds strange..
The other question is “What have u bought for lunch?” If this question is asked by close friends, then it seems like they are concerned about our health or may be they want to share the lunch… But if this has been asked by a stranger, then it sounds as though they are eying at our food!!
The most common question, “How are u?”… The common reply is “I am fine”.. No matter if they are fine or not.. the answer remains the same… This is just like – question & answer which we have in our schools… Ppl are acquainted to tell “I am fine” that ppl never bother to say the truth even if they are unwell..
Ppl or colleagues who meet u after a long time tend to ask the question, “How is work going on?” Most times, they wouldn’t be knowing what ur actually working on… and in case they are really concerned, they will give u time to speak abt ur work else most times, there is a spontaneous change in the question…. The most common reply to this question is either “its going on well” or “as usual” with a pale voice :( ..
Other most common question as the weekend approaches is “So…. What’s ur weekend plan?” When a stranger asks this question, perhaps seems like they want to take us out or spend time coz they also don’t have any plans…. And close friends never ask this question coz they know the first thing that ppl would say is “sleep till 11am”..
Once the weekend is over and when ur back to office on Monday, the first question is “So… How was ur weekend?” 65% of ppl reply as “as usual…. Nothing spl”.. 10% of ppl would lie when they reply to this question as they don’t want to feel guilty for not doing anything.. 10% of ppl would tell the truth (only if they have done anything good) and remaining 5% of ppl would start thinking on how exactly did they spent 48 hrs!!
And the question will start cycling every week :) It all depends on how we consider these questions… and who asks these questions…. It can be either considered as question out of care & concern or simply nose poking behavior….
Yesterday, Monday – I happily entered the office with almost 8 tasks in my mind to be completed by end of the day…(Yes, I do make a list, so that I don’t miss out few things of high priority).. As I entered my cubicle I wished my colleague who sits in the adjacent cubicle… I said, “Good morning” with a broad smile.. He wished me back… I have a hurrying feet, so dint chat with him.. I logged in to my pc and before even I opened my mail box, my friend pinged me in the communicator as “Early bird!!! GM”.. I greeted her GM… After I finished checking my mail box, the chat window again started blinking in orange… I knew someone else had pinged to say “GM”…. But no.. It wasn’t for that… My colleague pinged me with the usual phrase “Hello… How was the weekend madam?”
I knew he would ping the same…I gave the usual reply as “It was fine”.. He asked, “What did u do?” (This question sometimes makes me feel guilty as sometimes I spend my weekend doing nothing) I replied him, “I saw a movie – The other Boleyn girl”..
And so our conversation continued for next 5 mins…. Frankly telling, I lied to him about the movie as I had seen it a week back….
I simply don’t understand y some people simply greet us and ask few question which hardly matters them…
One of the questions is “Had lunch???” Sometimes, people ask this question with so much energy that it sounds as though they are planning to treat us… But its not true.. They would be waiting to tell us what they had for lunch!! Generally if this question is asked by someone who is close to u, then it sounds like concern, else its sounds strange..
The other question is “What have u bought for lunch?” If this question is asked by close friends, then it seems like they are concerned about our health or may be they want to share the lunch… But if this has been asked by a stranger, then it sounds as though they are eying at our food!!
The most common question, “How are u?”… The common reply is “I am fine”.. No matter if they are fine or not.. the answer remains the same… This is just like – question & answer which we have in our schools… Ppl are acquainted to tell “I am fine” that ppl never bother to say the truth even if they are unwell..
Ppl or colleagues who meet u after a long time tend to ask the question, “How is work going on?” Most times, they wouldn’t be knowing what ur actually working on… and in case they are really concerned, they will give u time to speak abt ur work else most times, there is a spontaneous change in the question…. The most common reply to this question is either “its going on well” or “as usual” with a pale voice :( ..
Other most common question as the weekend approaches is “So…. What’s ur weekend plan?” When a stranger asks this question, perhaps seems like they want to take us out or spend time coz they also don’t have any plans…. And close friends never ask this question coz they know the first thing that ppl would say is “sleep till 11am”..
Once the weekend is over and when ur back to office on Monday, the first question is “So… How was ur weekend?” 65% of ppl reply as “as usual…. Nothing spl”.. 10% of ppl would lie when they reply to this question as they don’t want to feel guilty for not doing anything.. 10% of ppl would tell the truth (only if they have done anything good) and remaining 5% of ppl would start thinking on how exactly did they spent 48 hrs!!
And the question will start cycling every week :) It all depends on how we consider these questions… and who asks these questions…. It can be either considered as question out of care & concern or simply nose poking behavior….
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