diwali greetings all ye merrymen...i wish u miles of smiles
there are more strangers on this earth than i'm comfortable with...there are more people who are strangers to each other than i feel comfortable about...miles of smiles is one interconnected chain of happiness...and for this diwali...i wish that you get to know your neighbours better...i wish u miles of smiles...
this is also a semi-farewell kind of a thing...kind of a last post thing and though i would like to make a melodramatic speach like sharukh khan...but i shall desist from his copyrighted style...and just say its been a pleasure being around...learning, unlearning, joking and fighting (ok discussing)
i shall still be around on messenger...and prolly some day back here too...till then
aufwiederzehn
and thanks for the fish
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
simplify
for those who have ever tried solving a nuclear equation would realize that therein physics takes a cruel turn...of variables too many to fathom by visualization. And since even the greatest of scientist are but borne of humans like we are...they also get stumped by such complexities...
So they do what most people with simpler problems dont...they simplify...they work on one variable at a time holding everything else constant.
Our life is full of issues...we are lucky if the issues end up being as trivial as stuck in the wrong career or messed up in love...some people end up going through cancer and aids and i feel those are the kind of challenges which really i wouldnt wish on my enemy also...
But being happy...is quite a challenge...for its a summation of many choices we make...the problem usually arises because we don't consciously make most of those choices...and that we try and tackle too many variables at one go...
life's happiness usually doesn't rely on the big things we do...though when we define happiness we usually talk about the things we are going to do probably once in a month or once a year.
We don't meditate enough on what is happiness for us, hence we keep running around...taking in little stimulations at a time and hoping that is it..that is what happiness means...
i could probably tell you what happiness is...but the issue is...its not about the answer....its the question that will set you free....and secondly since i'm also still on the journey it would be unfair to talk like a saint (though prolly i'm just 13 months away from it sainthood)
So they do what most people with simpler problems dont...they simplify...they work on one variable at a time holding everything else constant.
Our life is full of issues...we are lucky if the issues end up being as trivial as stuck in the wrong career or messed up in love...some people end up going through cancer and aids and i feel those are the kind of challenges which really i wouldnt wish on my enemy also...
But being happy...is quite a challenge...for its a summation of many choices we make...the problem usually arises because we don't consciously make most of those choices...and that we try and tackle too many variables at one go...
life's happiness usually doesn't rely on the big things we do...though when we define happiness we usually talk about the things we are going to do probably once in a month or once a year.
We don't meditate enough on what is happiness for us, hence we keep running around...taking in little stimulations at a time and hoping that is it..that is what happiness means...
i could probably tell you what happiness is...but the issue is...its not about the answer....its the question that will set you free....and secondly since i'm also still on the journey it would be unfair to talk like a saint (though prolly i'm just 13 months away from it sainthood)
Saturday, October 25, 2008
being weak
the world often sees u, for you for your strengths...and that why is u require a person close to u...is for them to be able to see you for your weaknesses and become your pillars of support...
that is why you need that special to be there, cause you can't let yourself be vulnerable infront of many...it takes a great deal of trust to be totally naked...
it takes a great deal of love and sacrifice to become the blanket of warmth for someone...
that is why you need that special to be there, cause you can't let yourself be vulnerable infront of many...it takes a great deal of trust to be totally naked...
it takes a great deal of love and sacrifice to become the blanket of warmth for someone...
Friday, October 24, 2008
Leaving terra firma
I've always wondered how it would be if the characters in my book world came alive, how if life became a mix of what is and what i dream of.
How reality becomes a blurred concept...and how maybe i could probably talk to my characters, thank them for what i've learnt from them and talk to them and explain the future I chose for them.
Authors must live a life close to insanity...it is when you go beyond exists...that you enter the world of magic and magicians...
How reality becomes a blurred concept...and how maybe i could probably talk to my characters, thank them for what i've learnt from them and talk to them and explain the future I chose for them.
Authors must live a life close to insanity...it is when you go beyond exists...that you enter the world of magic and magicians...
Thursday, October 23, 2008
bhajan keertan
yashomati maeeyaan se boling nand laalaa
why radha goree why me kaalaa
telling smiling maeeyaan
kohl eyed dudette in jaddoo aisaa daala
thats why you so kaalaa
:P :P
why radha goree why me kaalaa
telling smiling maeeyaan
kohl eyed dudette in jaddoo aisaa daala
thats why you so kaalaa
:P :P
Monday, October 20, 2008
ek kalam ki sookhi syaahi
bade saalon pehle ek pyaari si ladki meri zindagi mein aaee thi...i was happily playing about...going to school...when she moved in next door...One find day..just like that...
Just passed out of college, all confident, a job with a top firm, a big bungalow rented on her own salary...
Though our first encounter was quite the anti climax...a smart assy comment she made...a bet i took up...changing her wild bush of a lawn into better than my own mom's in less than three months...
And in those three months we became pals...buddies...chuddy buddies...She used to walk into our home at any time, from the morning pooja to the dinner...un announced like it was her only...and I could do stay overs at her place any day...we would stay up late to watch movies together...we saw the whole of Hannibal Lecter series in one night...
Heck we even used to go on dates together...we had so much fun...she knew the bouncers at this pub so I was the only kid of my age who managed to get an entry into a disc...
That was 8th class...she was 21...
One day she asked me what will you do when you grow up...i looked up from my computer and told her i'm gonna be an engineer...build autos...better than dad does...
She smiled...no i think she laughed...she ruffled her hand through my hair...and said...i think you'll make a fine gardner...
that was 10th class...
One day she introduced me to this guy, and by the look in his eyes I knew she had found her man. They were still dating when I left for college to Pune.
She used to write to me every week, i preferred letters to phone, i've never liked phones. She married him, I finally met her family. She was looking regal that day.
I was working in Pune those days
Then one day the good news, she was pregnant. I knew that was what she had wanted the most in her life. I had been her kid for many years and now I was glad she was getting to do, getting to be what she had always wanted to be...a mom.
And then the call, there's always this call that you get once in your life that turn your world upside down. She told me, somehow you know I expected that call, I had been expecting that call since the day I first saw her in my house, standing in that blue salwaar kameez with small white floral print in her cute little white sandals...I knew that day that she would go away, that she didn't belong to this earth...
I took the next flight out back to Delhi. For the next month he and I took care of her. She delivered a fine little baby on 3rd March. Funnily she handed her over to me, that little bundle of joy. On the night of 3rd she went back to where she had come from.
He, me and the little her took off to his farmhouse near Chandigarh. He never remarried, I never married...when you've been touched by perfection, you don't somehow require anything more...ever. Our little bundle of joy is now a fin little lass of 5, as peppy and mischevious as her mom.
I'm still a software engineer but only by hobby...three landscape artist awards later, one wonders, why was god so kind on us to pay a visit in person
Just passed out of college, all confident, a job with a top firm, a big bungalow rented on her own salary...
Though our first encounter was quite the anti climax...a smart assy comment she made...a bet i took up...changing her wild bush of a lawn into better than my own mom's in less than three months...
And in those three months we became pals...buddies...chuddy buddies...She used to walk into our home at any time, from the morning pooja to the dinner...un announced like it was her only...and I could do stay overs at her place any day...we would stay up late to watch movies together...we saw the whole of Hannibal Lecter series in one night...
Heck we even used to go on dates together...we had so much fun...she knew the bouncers at this pub so I was the only kid of my age who managed to get an entry into a disc...
That was 8th class...she was 21...
One day she asked me what will you do when you grow up...i looked up from my computer and told her i'm gonna be an engineer...build autos...better than dad does...
She smiled...no i think she laughed...she ruffled her hand through my hair...and said...i think you'll make a fine gardner...
that was 10th class...
One day she introduced me to this guy, and by the look in his eyes I knew she had found her man. They were still dating when I left for college to Pune.
She used to write to me every week, i preferred letters to phone, i've never liked phones. She married him, I finally met her family. She was looking regal that day.
I was working in Pune those days
Then one day the good news, she was pregnant. I knew that was what she had wanted the most in her life. I had been her kid for many years and now I was glad she was getting to do, getting to be what she had always wanted to be...a mom.
And then the call, there's always this call that you get once in your life that turn your world upside down. She told me, somehow you know I expected that call, I had been expecting that call since the day I first saw her in my house, standing in that blue salwaar kameez with small white floral print in her cute little white sandals...I knew that day that she would go away, that she didn't belong to this earth...
I took the next flight out back to Delhi. For the next month he and I took care of her. She delivered a fine little baby on 3rd March. Funnily she handed her over to me, that little bundle of joy. On the night of 3rd she went back to where she had come from.
He, me and the little her took off to his farmhouse near Chandigarh. He never remarried, I never married...when you've been touched by perfection, you don't somehow require anything more...ever. Our little bundle of joy is now a fin little lass of 5, as peppy and mischevious as her mom.
I'm still a software engineer but only by hobby...three landscape artist awards later, one wonders, why was god so kind on us to pay a visit in person
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Quick musings
Though you may all know the govt is an ass (and by govt i mean politicians) but i feel like exemplifying two cases before u:
1. The nuclear deal
Pokhran 2 was way back so many years way back that i dont remember the year
We dont have enough nuclear fuel for our exisitng plants, never did never will
so..the nuclear deal wid did this year, could've been done 5 years ago and by today we would be energy surplus...imagine no power cuts and at barely 3 bucks (compared to 11 u pay for ure colony's generator and i guess 5 for state electricity)
2. America has the SSN social security number, a nice thing which identifies each person uniquely. We have the pan number, the driving license number, the voter id number and yet if you ever try and identify who a particular piece of land belongs too you'll be shocked how less the government knows about the person...and much less if the person takes to crime
Did i tell u guys by 35 i wanna quit making money and dive into politics....
1. The nuclear deal
Pokhran 2 was way back so many years way back that i dont remember the year
We dont have enough nuclear fuel for our exisitng plants, never did never will
so..the nuclear deal wid did this year, could've been done 5 years ago and by today we would be energy surplus...imagine no power cuts and at barely 3 bucks (compared to 11 u pay for ure colony's generator and i guess 5 for state electricity)
2. America has the SSN social security number, a nice thing which identifies each person uniquely. We have the pan number, the driving license number, the voter id number and yet if you ever try and identify who a particular piece of land belongs too you'll be shocked how less the government knows about the person...and much less if the person takes to crime
Did i tell u guys by 35 i wanna quit making money and dive into politics....
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