Viva La Vie

Showers in Mumbai..... Summer showers? Its just March!!
Woke up this mornin to find dark clouds towering the buildings... in a few moments it started rainin..

It gave the plants a fresh face!!!

My tea smelt wow and tasted fine as i watched the rain by the window happily clattering away!!!

Aint life worth living for moments such as these?!!

Viva la Vie!!!!

Of Eating…

I like lunch time for various reasons and one of them is coz that’s the time I get to see a lot of people all at the same place with the same goal.

Its very intriguing for me to see that even in the 21st century, when we have traveled to the space and where distances have become a matter of fact, we still gobble down chunks of food and go Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!

Why cant it be as simple as popping down a few capsules and following it up with some hydration? That would be NEAT!

The basic necessity behind eating is to gain energy and survive, it makes me wonder what all goes with it…Chatting with friends and cracking jokes (its next to impossible for many I know to eat by themselves, a company is an absolute must!),carefully choosing from the buffet their customized armor of taste bud stimulators ( Did we develop tastebuds first and then the sense of taste or the other way round??)….

A dinner with an maddeningly assorted set of cutlery, and plates and courses and meals and drinks and candles and goblets and people to go with them…Its not just about eating anymore..IS IT? Eating is probably just an excuse!

I still find it extremely funny when I see people eat! Call me crazy!! But I do…

There are different kinds of ‘eaters’. Taking my PL as an example of the Prepared Eater, these are the kind of people who always get things like pickles, chutney, chips, crackers and water and ready before the course is served so that once it is, they can directly attack, a classic example of his GTD personality in play.

Then there are Pickers (eg. one of my teammates ) who pick at the food once in a while, when they come out of their reverie only to go into another pretty soon..

Then there Leavers who always have to have food left over in their plates…
Then there are Stuffers who will go on stuffing even after they are done so that food doesn’t go waste!!!

There are Tele Eaters, who are on the phone when they are eating…(there is one of this kind in our cafeteria…its so much fun watching her talk into her mouth piece with wired dangling down her ears as raises her eyebrows and exclaims to someone quite far away….)

There are Strategic eaters, who apply a strategy to every kind of food they eat. If it’s a cake, they start from a corner, if its roti, they have a knack of rolling it into a tiny cup using which they fetch the dal and drop it in their mouths that its such connoisseur act…

Then there are Focussed Eaters who can hardly be diverted during the soulful rendezvous between theirs hands and mouth.

We have the ChatterBox Eaters who simply cant eat silently. Cracking jokes, making fun at the others, discussing the same old stale jokes over and over again….even if they don’t have anything to say.

Why did God have to model Anthropoids this way? Despite the sophisticated laptops and jets and missiles, its still puzzling how we eat and do a few other things ;-) still the Ole fashioned way…

If you have had the patience to bear with me until now, I would dare to test it by stretching it further.

Just imagine the millions and millions of mothers/ wives/ husbands/ chefs spending a considerable amount of their lifetimes cooking for their families…

A whole industry dedicated to Chomp ! Chomp ! Chomp !

I have taken to believing that cooking is such a waste of time that my meals look like this of late.

Breakfast : Sada dosa and chai at Nortel. Hardly takes five minutes to be served. If I am too lazy to goto Nortel or if I am running late, I have sathu mavu kanji.. it’s a mix of pulses boiled in sweetened hot water.

Lunch : Fruit Platter and Orange juice if I manage to bypass Bhranti’s eyes. If not, I go to the canteen for the ritual and have rice with dal or curd.

Dinner : Diced cucumbers, tomatos, carrots and shredded beetroot with a dash of lemon and salt followed with a few slices of wheat bread and topped with a Twinnings Tea bag dipped in sweetened water. Making tea the old fashioned way is again a waste of time. All my dinner takes only fifteen minutes to be served...

I thought that I am probably going through of lazy bone phase and that I would soon grow out of this…but to my amusement, I haven’t. Its been almost 4 weeks since I cooked something considerable. Thankfully I am single and just responsible for myself. I don’t intend to kill a family of starvation as everybody doesn’t appreciate the stuff I eat!

Nostalgia!!!

I have been flyin the peaks of nostalgia to say the least….

No …I aint talking about school or college or my family .....

But I have been visiting and revisiting those memory lanes that I had deserted long back.

“Now they are back again
Just like a long lost friend”

Haunting, Nudging, Accusing at times…..i had deserted them as i hadnt mustered the courage to walk for long down the dark unexplored alleys!
But now they dont seem so dark nemore ....is it because my eyes have changed or is it becoz the times have changed?

Metallica

I had least expected that this day would come.

There was a heavy cloud inside my head and all my favourite numbers suddenly seemed soulless...

On an impulse i played the one and only Metallica that had been long neglected ever since it came into my possession.....i thought it never made any sense and that it wouldnt ever...

But to my darn surprise, i connected with the music today!!!!

I felt my pulse racing and my heart throbbing!!!!

It didnt give me a headache in the end..

I do not know if my dad would appreciate me taking interest in hard rock....

Still surprised!!!!

Transcendental!!!!

Had been on an overnight camp at a River Trail retreat on the banks of river
Kundalika in Kolad.

It was a beautiful place far from the cry of the city.

I was looking forward to a lot of adventure but was put off by hardly five minutes of rapelling and ten minutes of river crossing. But we had all the fun we could basking like seals in the afternoon sun in a shallow stretch of the river. It was a .........transcendental experience ( jee! why do i hesitate to use the word transcendental !!!)

It was quite an experience to sit by the still river in the morning and to see the ducks wade silently in the early mornin stillness while it was still a bit dark.

The whole air seemed heavy as if the darkness had lots of things to say but had to go as it neared its end!!!!

Getting philoo i see!

Ciao,

PROACTIVE OR REACTIVE!!!!

Of late this is becomig so obvious with me

That if i decide not to make decisions, then i am forced to make them

even for myself

I gotta act...or i might have to!!!!

:((

Yeah ! I did it again!!!!

ATLAST!!!!

I have been meaning to wake up at 6.30 for the past 20-22 days ...(i dont remember!!)

Today seems to be that auspicious day!
God its a lovely feeling to wake up early!

I have had the whole morning to myself!!!
It is 9.00 am right now and i have been up from 5.30 am.
That makes atleast a whole two hours for me and only ME.

After flipping through my word list for about an hour,
I went for a walk....taking time to watch the pigeons and sparrows and the expanding puppy community in my neighbourhood!

Then it was the daily chores!
But it has been a good start all the same! And i hope i dont fall out of this habit again!
Cheers!

I want Chocolate! Right here ! Right now !

I generally stay away from indulging in the sinful pleasure of chocolates...But right now i feel such a irrepressible urge that i cant help myself staring at the door once every five seconds waiting for the canteen boy to get me my Diary Milk!
I am wide awake at the middle of the night.
The jokes my teammates cracked over lunch somehow didnt seem funny at all!!!! The whole table was laughing... it hardly sunk into me! Something is not right!!!! I am not unhappy!

But.....

Hmmm...!!!!!

Checking this out... The Graduate course in Media sciences seems interesting!!! http://communications.uwo.ca/prospective_students/

Plastic bags!!!

Grumpy me!

Grumpy me says:
Who painted my clear blue skies
with gloomy gray clouds?

Who tainted my colorful flowers
to black and white?

Angel says:

Cheer up ma lady
See the streak of light
The silver lining
That i promise will grow bright!

New Guest in our Window

Has it happened to you that you go to a shop to while time while you are waiting for your friends and suddenly something catches your eyes and beckons at you.

It feels as if it says out aloud, LOUD and CLEAR...
" I am yours. Take me home with you !!! I have been waiting for you for so long !!! "

That is EXACTLY how i felt when i saw him at the giftshop.I was gazing at the dolls made of plaster of paris when something rustled above my head and started talkin to me...And now he is there on my Window sill and seems as if he belonged to that place from time immemorial!!!

Happily clinking everytime any one of my roommates goes there to pick up her clothes or to put them to dry!!!
The new wind chime....The new guest in our bedroom window.

I am thinking of naming him. Does anybody have any suggestion????

Monkey...Chennai..Rains and Yeah My Dear Ole Friendz!!!

My Mass against Gravity!! I thinks its Grave!!!

Fifty Five kilos and on the rise....Now thats how my mass weighs against gravity....

Added to the fact that the only exercise that it gets during the day is the tiny movement it digits make over the keyboard....

Plus food at the desk and a lip smacking dinner at home....

I have grown out of my pants.. I had hardly walk in them now...

Should i buy new sets of clothing or should i try and shed the mass????

hhhmmm!!!!!

Ripples!!!!!

1. Congratulations Ramesh on scoring 99.97% in JMET and getting an All India Ranking of 14... Wish you all the best for you Interview and GD !! It gonna be a climb uphill!!! Cheers!!!


2. Congratulations Malar on your release!!! Thank you so much for the party you threw yesterday... We had a whole lot of fun!!! Wish you a very wonderful marriage.... Its a journey uphill for you as well!!!

Cheers!!!!

THIS MUST BE TRUE!!!

I try not to post anything i havent written myself...
But this sounded so nice to let go!!!!

One day I decided to quit...I quit my job, my relationship, my
spirituality... I wanted to quit my life.

I went to the woods to have one last talk
with GOD. "GOD", I said.
"Can you give me one good reason not to
quit?" His answer surprised me...

"Look around", GOD said. "Do you see the
fern and the bamboo?"

"Yes", I replied.

"When I planted the fern and the bamboo
seeds, I took very good care
of them. I gave them light. I gave them
water. The fern quickly grew from
the earth. Its brilliant green covered the
floor. Yet nothing came
from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on
the bamboo. In the second year
the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful.
And again, nothing came from
the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the
bamboo." GOD said.

"In year three there was still nothing from
the bamboo seed. But I
would not quit.

In year four, again, there was nothing from
the bamboo see. I would
not quit." GOD said.

"Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout
emerged from the earth. Compared
to the fern it was seemingly small and
insignificant...But just 6
months later the bamboo rose to over 100
feet tall. It had spent the five
years growing roots. Those roots made it
strong and gave it what it needed
to survive. I would not give any of my
creations a challenge it could not
handle." GOD said to me.

"Did you know, that all this time you have
been struggling,
you have actually been growing roots?"

"I would not quit on the bamboo. I will
never quit on you."

"Don't compare yourself to others." GOD
said. "The bamboo had a
different purpose than the fern. Yet they
both make the forest beautiful."

"Your time will come", GOD said to me. "You
will rise high"

"How high should I rise?" I asked.

"How high will the bamboo rise?" GOD asked
in return.

"As high as it can?" I questioned

"Yes." GOD said, "Give me glory by rising as
high as you can."

I left the forest and bring back this story.
I hope these words can
help you see that GOD will never give up on
you.

GOD will never give up on you

Early bird again!!!

I have started to like coming early in the mornings and get to read and work when nobody is around. It is so peaceful!!!!

I am in Early today!!!

Its 7.19 am and there is nobody except me in the entire floor!!!!

Tired!!!!

I am vvvvvverryy tired!!!
and it is just Monday!!!

Cant bear to spend my days and nights like this!

Have been sitting in this little corner for over 10 hours now......

And i do this day in and day out....Got to live it up!!

Garba

We had been to a garba at my friend's wedding!

It is a lovely occasion with lotsa fun , energy and enthusiasm!!!

We bumped into a lot of ppl claiming to be doing Garba!!!