Love at First Sight!

She was wandering in the yonder valley
Filled with mist and mystic beauty
Searching..looking all over for she knew not what

A Golden ray sprung from the distant horizon
Transforming a dew drop into a momentous diamond thereupon
As the birds chirped gently out of their slumber
She was transfixed in wonder
As a golden red globe rose up to its majesty
Slowly after its night long repose

Flooding the valley with its presence
Lighting everything it touched
How it made a tender bud burgeon and
a crimson rose to open up to let her fragrance loose
How it defined every tree, every leaf , every vein
And gave them all an identity

For without it, all the world
would be obscure in one immense darkness
She fell in love with light that day!
As she realised what she had missed for so long!

( This poem is about a girl who has been blind since birth and
sees her first sunrise the day she gains her eyesight )

Mission Impossible 3 Rocks!!

1.I was sitting at the edge of my seat mosta the time
2. and when i wasnt doin that i was biting my nails
3. When i wasnt doin 1 or 2 i was swearing under my breath at the villian!

The movie got me involved! It was good! Got my adrenalin pumping! A good watch.. I would rate it 4 on 5.

While we were waiting at Barista before the show started, the boy at the counter was all the more curious...Our conversation was like this...

Me : One hot cafe mocha and one cold
The boy : Both cafe mocha ma'am?
Me : yes Sir!
The boy tries to hide his amusement at me calling him sir.
The boy : Do you work for a call centre ma'am?
Me : No!
The boy gives a questionin look
Me : I work for a software consultancy...tell him the firm's name
The boy : oh I see...

Later when i went to collect my order, he asked me if i had been promoted or somethin!! I denied it with a smile...Somehow i seem to have given him the idea that i was there today to celebrate !!I shudda confessed! I was celebrating LIFE !!! Cheers!

All that Jazz!!!!

Hours of sweat and jazz and being squashed in the train on my way to and back from training has culminated in my two day performance on the song Fanaa from Yuva at St.Andrews college on the 3rd and 4th of this month!!!!

I was dazzled more by the other performers and more importantly kid performers that the merriment i made performing myself!!!!

JOSH!!! Thats the word! Life!!! The auditorium was filled with so much energy so much life and so many wonderful dancers! Some of the kids were truly Awesome!!!

My three little guests turned out to be critics...they found the first few performances intriguing and appreciable...soon they found themselves bogged down by the same old steps and people dancing with fun over some really emotional tracks that have been remixed with a fast beat pattern!!!

I would be failing to paint the picture fully if i dont mention the long hours we spent waiting for our chance to perform for only about 5 minutes, the fun times we had playing "killer"...teasing the cute cupid struck couple just passed outa highschool....
Boys makin fun of girls wearing their makeup....

yeh it was SOME experience!!!!

Its Rainin Men!!!!

First rains of the monsoon!!!!
Mmmmm!!! The skies and the earth are merry making!!!

Lets join the party!

Its the time to Disco!!!

Had been to Club Escape at Lokhandwala this Sunday...

The place was pretty comfy and the music okish!

It opens at around 10.30 and closes by 1.00 am.

It was a fun Sunday night!!!

Some TP!!!

You Are a Dreaming Soul

Your vivid emotions and imagination takes you away from this world So much so that you tend to live in your head most of the time You have great dreams and ambitions that could be the envy of all... But for you, following through with your dreams is a bit difficult You are charming, endearing, and people tend to love you. Forgiving and tolerant, you see the world through rose colored glasses. Underneath it all, you have a ton of passion that you hide from others. Always hopeful, you tend to expect positive outcomes in your life. Souls you are most compatible with: Newborn Soul, Prophet Soul, and Traveler Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

Pain!!!!!!!

Trying to get a passport has been one of the most painful things i had to do so far!!!
and i am still trying...

Have been at it for the past one year....

A word of advice...the first time you file your passport have all your paper..ALL YOUR PAPERS. And dont move so frequently and if you do....


Please please plllllleeeeeasse always have a copy of your agreement if you are stayin on lease or rent.

Update

1. Zeba thinks i am sweet Sixteen!!! :D
2. I learn that the jazz class i enrolled for is half aerobics
3. I have fallen in love with the new Hobner i purchased...eats up most of my time
4. Gotten in touch with friends from school
5. I have spent about two thousand rupees in travel expenses regarding my passport...right now after posting this, i need to rush to the police station again!
6. There is so much to do and so little time!
7. Gomu is gonna go...:(( am gonna miss her! a lot!!!

Mood right now: Blessed, busy, a little sad!!

Music for the moment:

I see trees of green
Red roses too
I see them bloom
For me and you!
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself
What a wonderful world

In Love with Life!!!

Kicking and laughin,
cryin and giggling,
hiccuping,
and sneezing
at times snicupping....
ohh aah ouchinng!!!
gasping, coughing!!!
cursing, whining....
here i am ....here i am.....
all alive!

I fell in love....
I fell in love with life again when i woke up this morning!

I am Alive

Everything is a haze as i dorn the attire of a responsible,dependable expert!!!!

Last night's Maggi has failed to charge my batteries!
9 hours spent in fairy land sans fairies has failed to bring me back to my senses!

As i try hard to remember the name of the children's books that has pixies in it, i realise....how many such times of my life i have spent like this.....forgotten , lost in neverland ....

I constantly see these potential people sans life sitting in virtual space cursing me for letting life slip through my hands!
Them wishing if only they had what i have! Life ! The grand feeling of being alive! Of feeling the pain in my shoulders at the end of a 13 hour workday, the feeling of high when someone says you did a good job, the chirping of the bird and the soothing scent of flowers that welcomed me when i neared home! Ahhh! I am Alive ! Tripping, jumping, falling, twirling....I am Alive!

Work! -Kahlil Gibran

Yet again the prophet stirs somethin in me as it does everytime i touch it!!!!

Then a ploughman said, "Speak to us of Work."
And he answered, saying:
You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.
Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune.
But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,
And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life,
And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
But if you in your pain call birth an affliction and the support of the flesh a curse written upon your brow, then I answer that naught but the sweat of your brow shall wash away that which is written.
You have been told also life is darkness, and in your weariness you echo what was said by the weary.
And I say that life is indeed darkness save when there is urge,
And all urge is blind save when there is knowledge,
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work,
And all work is empty save when there is love;
And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.
And what is it to work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.
It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit,
And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching.
Often have I heard you say, as if speaking in sleep, "he who works in marble, and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone, is a nobler than he who ploughs the soil.
And he who seizes the rainbow to lay it on a cloth in the likeness of man, is more than he who makes the sandals for our feet."
But I say, not in sleep but in the over-wakefulness of noontide, that the wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass;
And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.
And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine.
And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

Ooo Aaah Ouch!!!

An hour and a half of swimming after a long time yesterday has left me oohh ahhhing today!!!!

Monday mornin blues....not quite feeling upto openin the folder on ma desktop containin my tasks for today!

Two Dimensional

Hackneyed it is....but still i cant help but wonder

The more i learn, The more i understand how little i know
The more i talk, The more i understand how much silence holds
The more i think, The more i appreciate a thoughtless moment spent gazing
The more i earn, The more i spend ;-)

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!