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While it is important to have a purpose, it is even more important to remain unafraid of achieving it.

This summer is tiring, totally. I didn’t know Bombay could bake quite well…

Yearn to get in touch with some of my best friends – only to realize each is tightly woven in some web, unable to get time off nor a break from…..

Great to watch the kids play and have fun – and to know you have been there once too…

Anger and frustration becomes almost irrelevant with sufficient time – like you don’t know why those mattered so much

To realize almost everyone is living in some kind of fear, is well….. comforting :P

One of the best articles I have come across in recent times - aptly titled
Is that all there is

More than half the battle is over, if you can get yourself to believe…

Philosophy is almost common - everyone has it, in different forms and at different levels - to make it highbrow, complex and go in circles is the job of a few

Music ... tananaaanuuummmmmmmm

Music makes you do it - do all sorts of things!

One moment you are down in the dumps, all but given up on life
The next, before you know it - unknowingly, it spurs you on, you start feeling "tananannummm", inspiration flows within you ...

and you'd look ahead wondering if it were ever possible for you to give up on anything, if you could ever feel despondent, down ..... NAH!

Music makes you feel it - feel all sorts of things!

crossing borders

Okay, this is going to be short and quick ( and painful ? ).

So, now I know the kind of huge effort, patience, will power, energy,time etc. that goes into "researching" foreign lands and getting to know "their stuff" - happens when you don't book via a travel agency - due to various reasons from cost-cutting measures to "no big deal, let's do it" spectrum.

I am on the verge of learning their squiggly noodlely language/culture/routine/routes/timing/hang outs/hotel rates/locations and sooo on. not exactly proficient, good enough to know my way around ( literally )and possibly become a travel agent myself ( not too bad to have an alternate job in hand during such precarious times, no ? )

Now there's packing left and all the mess/commotion that comes with it.

Here's to great fun !

outta vettiness

How vain everything seems
or How excited
depending on not yourself
but on Time

Solitary walks and
heart wrenching songs
Don't sometimes help
A Battered mind

Need of the hour, could be a soul
Raising its voice
Telling you to slow down
just to keep up with you


Or maybe its all
a process of over the board thinking
That Time will soon
Make a mockery of

And you will be back
Hopping and skipping
thinking all is fine
before the next trough comes

Away from comfort zone,
is perhaps the best cure
for a cosseted child
and its rosy tenure

Welcoming 2009

Alright - so did I say "placeholder" and run away for quite sometime?! Irony that is Life and Blogs.

Determined to improve ( or learn ) my Hindi - I have decided the best way is to own a book that teaches Hindi translation in a jiffy ( and the one that I have now is so awfully appropriate, which teaches Hindi in ... Hindi - well, almost ). So the universe is just conspiring...and doing a good job at it.

Its easy to put the blame on lack of "luxuruious net conn", though it is honestly the issue in my case. I haven't logged in eons and my access is pretty intermittent.

2008 was another roller coaster ride - nothing outstanding or favourably important happened. So, just another calendar year struck off.

I have reasonably improved in containing my anger and compartmentalizing my emotions - quite an achievement that is, though there are pencil leads still broken and objects flying around. ( please take it with a bit of salt , actually take almost whatever I say with salt, sweet and what not - nothing is as bad or as good as it "appears" in written ... )

So what do I do after I get net conn for awhile - Do I have red alert, alarming exclamations marked urgent emails that I should have responded to? Touching, moving, eyes watering messages replete with "takecare" written all over the place? Funny over the board, irritating fowards? ( hell yes)

Well, no comments on my inbox though I did get to look around and catch up on my college and school pals ( and others across ages ) to find out they are busy with wedding plans, engagements and other "sigh"-worthy stuff. God bless you all folks who are planning to tie the knot ... with better sense and err, freedom.

With my own parents setting me deadlines for my enrollment for some random cage - it is highly frustrating ( justifiable ) and oh-no-not-again-type news that I hear all around me.

ah well...

And what do people get out of discussing ( sooo very often ) the attitudes of different types of people - basically from different parts of India - north Indians vs. South Indians, North Indian girls vs. South Indian girls, North Indian attitudes vs. South Indians as if its not enough to have nonsense discussions regarding attiudes of people within South India... I mean, its obvious there could be some cultural differences, differences in exposure levels and you name it - I have only encountered people having pre-determined conclusions on whatever is that they want to talk about and harp on being right about it.

no open minded discussions and somehow, people here seem to want to talk about the differences among people more than back there. ( here and there is meant to be vague, so leave it at that)

I am tired of having conversations about somebody's demeanor, gait, gaunt, looks, attitudes and other merits/demerits. Its fun to poke around for a while but not for a living!! Though some people seem to thrive in it - "sigh"worthy


Anyway, so what do I have in mind for 2009? Just to take a chill pill for now...

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I remember to jot down a lot when I think of something deep/profound , and I want to save it in my blog.
After immense amount of laziness, when I finally decide to type something here ( just about having 10 mins before i should rush off to office ), I realise I have all but forgotten what this post should be about.

Just a place holder to remind me that I'll have to write up something meaningful soooonnnn


office calling

the bad M word

Marriage - many of my classmates from college ( girls atleast ) have got married. my bestest friend from school is getting married in a couple of months ( it would take awhile for me to digest it ) and my mom has started talking to me about my marriage and tells me it should be asap ( yuck )... someone please tell me its all "unreal" and that I'll wake up to find a better world ... err

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