Recently I have developed this passion for reading and writing. With so much of free time in my kitty and nothing worth to do, I started reading stuffs which earlier I thought only two types of people read...people who are just too knowledgeable and people who have to survive in the company of knowledgeable (and most of the times they don’t even understand a word of it). Yeah you people have guessed correctly that I am now a prestigious member of the second group.
As a result of this extensive reading and no one to talk to, I have started playing with words. My friends dread chatting with me now. Yesterday while chatting to one of my best friends, I realized that it was only I who was writing and my monologue was interrupted by just 1-2 word replies from the other end. This type of chat continues for some 15 mins & then I am put on a ‘1 min’ hold (which is never released!!). But even this failed to impede my passion for writing and in this situation what could be better than blogging. And now I am used to the usual reply from all my friends when I announce the completion of another blog post “phir se blog update kiya… tujhe aur koi kaam nahi hai kya???” which earlier used to be something like “ohh cool..why don’t you write more often? It’s a pleasure reading your blog...blah blah…”
“It’s only words and words are all I have to while my time away”. And with this perseverance to never give up writing I complete another post.
PS: Ranting is also a part of my training as a consultant so I can easily justify my blogging from office.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
Seven Wonders of Chennai
I have compiled the seven wonders of Chennai after 40 days of extensive exploration (not listed in the order of preference).
City Center: Yes people, even Chennai has a good mall which is of some relief to trespassers like me. I just hope I don’t get bored by the only mall of Chennai even if I go there every weekend for the next 6 months.
Best Combo: Good looks are rarest to find in Chennai. Here is a rare combination of two good looking things!!
Clean, wide, green roads: Chennai has some ( at least this word covers up the fact that there are just 3 of them) clean, wide roads where you can walk without covering your sense organs!!
Church: An architectural wonder where you can find two rarities of Chennai – peace and beautiful faces!!!
Beach: I somehow feel connected to the waves hitting the Chennai beach. Both of us desperately try leaving this place but are forced again and again to live here.
Deception point: You at least feel Chennai is a metro, even if that feeling is momentary and dies as soon as you cross it.
Method of weighing: The most unique method of weighing which I can bet you will not find anywhere in the world.
This picture also serves as a qualification test for people who can settle happily in Chennai. If you can be ignorant to this extent and accept this method of weighing, you don’t need the above six wonders to live here without cribbing.
P.S: You are most welcome to vote for the best wonder. So feel free to drop in your votes as comments.
Disclaimer: The contents of this post are not meant to hurt the sentiments of any person, group or organization.
City Center: Yes people, even Chennai has a good mall which is of some relief to trespassers like me. I just hope I don’t get bored by the only mall of Chennai even if I go there every weekend for the next 6 months.
Best Combo: Good looks are rarest to find in Chennai. Here is a rare combination of two good looking things!!
Clean, wide, green roads: Chennai has some ( at least this word covers up the fact that there are just 3 of them) clean, wide roads where you can walk without covering your sense organs!!
Church: An architectural wonder where you can find two rarities of Chennai – peace and beautiful faces!!!
Beach: I somehow feel connected to the waves hitting the Chennai beach. Both of us desperately try leaving this place but are forced again and again to live here.
Deception point: You at least feel Chennai is a metro, even if that feeling is momentary and dies as soon as you cross it.
Method of weighing: The most unique method of weighing which I can bet you will not find anywhere in the world.
This picture also serves as a qualification test for people who can settle happily in Chennai. If you can be ignorant to this extent and accept this method of weighing, you don’t need the above six wonders to live here without cribbing.
P.S: You are most welcome to vote for the best wonder. So feel free to drop in your votes as comments.
Disclaimer: The contents of this post are not meant to hurt the sentiments of any person, group or organization.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
No Reasons Still.....
We plan for the walk to the moon together, to leave our footprints forever. Doesn’t matter if they are not symmetrical what matters is together they make a pair.
It’s an amazing feeling. Sometimes I borrow a phrase to convey it, sometimes the words say it but it’s truly said when silence says it all. All day I look for the small things that I can share with him so that our talks could never finish yet you find this chatter box is left with nothing to say. Its only when I am silent again, I say it best what I have to say.
Is someone asking where the “humor in nonsense” part of it is? Well at least I found it quite humorous when it happened to others. I laughed at them, mocked them. They looked silly, helpless at times, for once sympathized with them too but that was never real to me. For me life had to be lived with reasons and there was no reason for love to happen. No logic justifies waiting for one silly sms after another just because I have sent one silly sms after another, nor can you justify waiting all day for a phone call when you don’t really have anything to talk and end up adding two hours to the clock. And how do you justify all my justifications for being inattentive to work, distracted, absent minded.
No justifications offered, no explanations offered. It is explained best when it happens to you.
It’s an amazing feeling. Sometimes I borrow a phrase to convey it, sometimes the words say it but it’s truly said when silence says it all. All day I look for the small things that I can share with him so that our talks could never finish yet you find this chatter box is left with nothing to say. Its only when I am silent again, I say it best what I have to say.
Is someone asking where the “humor in nonsense” part of it is? Well at least I found it quite humorous when it happened to others. I laughed at them, mocked them. They looked silly, helpless at times, for once sympathized with them too but that was never real to me. For me life had to be lived with reasons and there was no reason for love to happen. No logic justifies waiting for one silly sms after another just because I have sent one silly sms after another, nor can you justify waiting all day for a phone call when you don’t really have anything to talk and end up adding two hours to the clock. And how do you justify all my justifications for being inattentive to work, distracted, absent minded.
No justifications offered, no explanations offered. It is explained best when it happens to you.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Beyond all reasons
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. They come into our lives to teach us about love...the love that rests within ourselves.
If you press me to say why I love him, I can say no more than because he is he, and I am I.
If you press me to say why I love him, I can say no more than because he is he, and I am I.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Heaven turns HEAVEN
After Supreme Power’s verdict I was feeling all lost and hopeless...par kehte hain na jo hota hai ache ke liye hota hai..sahi kehte hain..And now after living in this Heaven for a month, I am really thankful to God that he sent me here.
If not Chennai I would have been in Bangalore, one of the fastest growing cities of India, a city where after 12 hrs of work I would have to wait for another 2 hrs for an auto and then walk back 5 kms to my house. I may not have the best food (thank God else I would have put on more than 10 kgs. Here the food is decent enough for me to put on 3 kgs ) , best weather or best friends here but I have TIME….yes time for myself.
I can sleep for 15 hrs a day in the weekend (where as my counterparts in Bangalore either waste their weekends in office or complete their pending works). I can call all my near n dear ones almost every 2-3 days n talk my heart out (where as bangalorians hardly find time even to call their parents once a day). I still have time to admire and appreciate nature (though there is nothing much to appreciate except beaches and I can only say that beach is a BEACH..!!!). I had always heard that college is the last time when you can make really good friends but even here I am blessed with TIME to make some very good friends.
But then there are times when you miss someone so much that you want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real. I really miss all my friends and often remember of the times when we would spend the entire day without even getting off our beds, our long bitching and gossiping sessions, our frequent lavish lunches,…………………..the list is actually endless
And the best part of my stay here is that I have realized the importance of friends, good food , money and above all GOD. Now I pray and thank GOD quite often for whatever He has given me( which used to be an yearly event earlier..either DP time or Diwali time..!!!!).
If not Chennai I would have been in Bangalore, one of the fastest growing cities of India, a city where after 12 hrs of work I would have to wait for another 2 hrs for an auto and then walk back 5 kms to my house. I may not have the best food (thank God else I would have put on more than 10 kgs. Here the food is decent enough for me to put on 3 kgs ) , best weather or best friends here but I have TIME….yes time for myself.
I can sleep for 15 hrs a day in the weekend (where as my counterparts in Bangalore either waste their weekends in office or complete their pending works). I can call all my near n dear ones almost every 2-3 days n talk my heart out (where as bangalorians hardly find time even to call their parents once a day). I still have time to admire and appreciate nature (though there is nothing much to appreciate except beaches and I can only say that beach is a BEACH..!!!). I had always heard that college is the last time when you can make really good friends but even here I am blessed with TIME to make some very good friends.
But then there are times when you miss someone so much that you want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real. I really miss all my friends and often remember of the times when we would spend the entire day without even getting off our beds, our long bitching and gossiping sessions, our frequent lavish lunches,…………………..the list is actually endless
And the best part of my stay here is that I have realized the importance of friends, good food , money and above all GOD. Now I pray and thank GOD quite often for whatever He has given me( which used to be an yearly event earlier..either DP time or Diwali time..!!!!).
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