Wednesday, December 24, 2008

The end is a new Beginning....


The end of a seed is the new beginning of a sapling,
The end of a sapling is the new beginning of a plant,
The end of a plant is the new beginning of a tree,
The end of a night is the new beginning of a day,
The end of a year is the new beginning of another,
The end of a season is the new beginning of another,
The end of a thought is the new beginning of an action,
The end of colors in a palette is the new beginning of a painting,
The end of a barren land is the new beginning of a paddy field,
The end of a question is the new beginning of an answer,
so, isn't the END a NEW BEGINNING?????

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Even in this age????


Earlier there were days where the groom and the girl don't meet... They get to see each other only on the day of the wedding... There wasn't much hype on this matter.. It was just that the families meet and see whether the families would be compatible and the bride and the groom will live happily. There were no choice of going around and no talking to understand each other... The most modern thing that could have happened is make the bride and the groom see each other in a temple that too not being introduced to each other... made to see from far.... If the families were ok then no question of saying NO to marriage even if you don't like the groom or the bride.

Then things did change... The groom and the girl were introduced and allowed to talk for 5 mins or so... then photos exchange...

Then times changed still more... these days they are made to meet and talk. Marriage is finalized only if the guy and girl are ok with the marriage. They do talk for long hours over phone, chatting, going out, exchange gifts, movies, dinner, parties and so on....

Girls are bold enough to say i will accept only i see the boy personally...

But I happen to witness a strange marriage where my friend was asked to book his tickets back to India in Dec because he is getting married.. It was kinda an open invitation to him to attend his own marriage... he did not see the girl. Not even her photo. Did not know her name. He called me two days back and said finally he managed to see her... :) (2 days b4 marriage)... I just could not imagine how did he accept to such a wedding...

Is it possible in this age????? I have no choice other than to believe...

Yes its his wedding today...

May God shower his choicest blessing on the couple.....

Friday, December 19, 2008

I need answers...

Questions.. questions... questions...

I'm being bombarded with so many questions... Everyone i meet.. everyone with whom i talk... my dear ones.. ppl who are total strangers to me.. everyone has questions ready for me...

Its me who doesn't have any answers....

I hate to be in such a state where i have lots of questions around me and no answer for even one... Worst part is i have questions for myself and no answer... In a state where I don't know how to proceed...

I NEED ANSWERS.....

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Ignorance is bliss


'Ignorance is bliss' - how true this statement is.... faith is something that can help you come out of a particular situation... even if its only a possibility with faith sometime it does happen... it goes like this... we work positively with hope which eventually aids in coming out of any trying situation...

Went to the doc when i was not feeling well... the doc did some test and finally prescribed some medicine..then i was in full hope that i will become alright soon... came home did some googling on the medicine... and there comes the problem... lots of side effects mentioned... it may happen it might not but still mind works only on that... if its the medicine that is going to work 50% then its faith, hope what not that will cover up the remaining portion.... How on earth will this work then when my faith goes down the drain with my research on the medicine???

Now i realize how difficult it would be to treat doctors... They very well know how much this medicine can cure them...

Now doesn't the statement 'Ignorance is bliss' sound sensible??????

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Letters......


Read a novel, 'Letters to my Mother'..... A story which talks about a gal who wrote letters to her mother about her day today life and when she read that how she recollected all the related things that happened.... It seemed to being past to the present...

Its an electronic age now and everybody uses the mail to convey messages or send sms if it is really that short... Nobody spends time to sit and write a letter and post it...now everything is communicated over a click of the 'send' button.

I used to write so many letters to friends and cousins... What a nice feeling it is when i get to read those hand written letters that we had written years ago.... it may seem old fashioned but still there is a personal touch... it does bring the person alive in front of us for the moment when we read those hand written letters.... all those are cherished moments... :)

i still remember how i used to send rakhis inside the letters to my brother and receive replies.. it was always a pleasure to receive letter from the post man... i still remember how we used to run to collect the letters... and at time when we return from school mom would have collected the letters and kept... all those letter which carried wishes for all the exams and esp for the board exams... all those are very close to my hearts....

will all those times come again?????

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

A nice read..


'The Best Laid Plan' - A soft romance between a structural engineer and an architect, which started off more in a tiff in the plan made by the architect. It then moves how he cares for her and teaches her to come out from the hard core shell she had built around her and also teaches her how to love.... and how he sticks with her during the time she needed him the most.....

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

How strange it is?????

Isn't it strange how a 20 rupee note seems like such a large amount
when you donate it to temple,
but such a small amount when you go shopping?

Isn't it strange how 2 hours seem so long when you're at Temple,
and how short they seem when you're watching a good movie?

Isn't it strange that you can't find a word to say when you're praying,
but you have no trouble thinking what to talk about with a friend?

Isn't it strange how difficult and boring it is to read one chapter of the Bhagwad Gita,
but how easy it is to read 100 pages of a popular novel ?

Isn't it strange how everyone wants front-row-tickets to concerts or games,
but they do whatever is possible to sit at the last row in Jagran?

Isn't it strange how we need to know about an event in a temple 2-3 weeks before
the day so we can include it in our agenda,
but we can adjust it for other events in the last minute?

Isn't it strange how difficult it is to learn a fact about God to share it with others,
but how easy it is to learn, understand, extend and repeat gossip?

Isn't it strange how we believe everything that magazines and newspapers say,
but we question the words in the Bhagwad Gita?

Isn't it strange how everyone wants a place in heaven,
but they don't want to believe, do, or say anything to get there?

Thursday, October 23, 2008

is TV useful or not?????

All Tamil channel has a 'patti mandram' (debate) on any festival be it deepavali or pongal or any other festival... and u will definitely have a topic on 'tholai katchi payan ullada illaya?' (is TV useful or not) and one side will talk about the disadvantages of TV and the other the advantages... and the judge will give some judgement at the end of the show...

I don't know whether TV is advantageous or not but it has become an integral part of my life.... For a person who was always surrounded by people either at home or at office and now who is in a situtation to be inside the house through out the day anticipating darling husband to come in the evening.... TV is the only friend i have... not really that i watch any program but the tv is switched on through out the day, just to hear some sound and to keep somebody talking to me... :)

TV has become my companion these days.....

Funny....




Tried launching blogspot site.... it took a few seconds and i saw the most weird thing... All i could see was the blosgpot site but i could not see English anywhere but only Arabic... As i'm in UAE i thought maybe thats how it is... Then with some vague memory of the screen i'm used to, i tried to log in... I typed my user name and then my password..but then i got the message the password doesnt match for the username... I had recently changed the password so thought may be i have not entered it properly.... tried again..

Same error message... i got wild then checked the username and i was surprised to find my password there in the username field... was wondering how on earth did this happen..it took a sec for me, to realize what had happened....

As the site launched, i saw in Arabic. There were two text boxes.... being a software engineer and used to this i knew what to do next... Typed the user name in the first box and the password in the second (that is how it generally goes).... Was so used to do this and did not see what was getting typed.... Also the point that Arabic is read from right to left had just skipped my mind... the 1st box had been for password and the second for username.... and no wonder why i found my password in the username text field.... OMG!!!! Check out the drop down box in the top..even that is in the reverse man.....

Man!!! this is funny...

Sunday, October 12, 2008

its one since i left India... :( Last month same time i was in the flight for the first time... It was a great experience... i liked it.... at the same time i hate flying also.. I liked it because i was above the clouds but hate it as it did have its spell on me...

Being a people person traveling alone just killed me... was just waiting when will i land... It was such a relief when i landed... i also hate the flight as it took me away from my family...

Being away from India now made me realize how much i miss it... I used to wonder why people living abroad show the feeling of being an Indian in a little higher percentage than those living in India... Now i can feel the same.... No wonder even i'm gonna be one when i land in India..:)

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

1 night.....

He is desperately trying for a job that would pay him so that he can support his family in a better way... He keeps applying for jobs in the job sites...one day he gets mail, stating him to join a very esteemed organization, with a very fancy salary and many details... there is no limit to the happiness he is filled with...he did not get any sleep that night.. stayed awake late in the night making plans for life, without knowing that, that happiness is not going to last for more than a few hours... it dawned.. and also dawned on him to check the genuineness of the mail..

He did...

Only to find that it was a hoax mail.... it just shattered the dream he built in 1 night....

How many such people are affected.... what not they do believing such hoax mails??? They invest so much of money... They make so many plans.... just to be cheated so badly? What do they get by playing around with somebody's feelings? Doesn't it pinch their conscience?????

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Why?

We have made progress in so many fields and have marked our footprints on the moon too... if we can just see around us then there seems to be nothing that cannot be achieved by we 'humans'... we claim ourselves to be advanced forms who possess the most celebrated common sense.... but do we really have them???? do we really use them???

People are superstitious in many ways... they say you will soon have a child if a small baby eliminates the liquid waste on you... ridiculous... in that case why do all the medical fraternity strive so hard to dicover different ways like artificial insemination.. test tube baby... surrogate mothers...to help a couple who dont have a baby... isnt making a new born baby eliminate the liquid waste on you, enough?????? How can be people be so stupid???? why dont they apply their common sense here..

It was almost 5 pm in the evening.... Happened to hear a woman say that she is going to see her daughter who has met with an accident... The accident had happened in the morning but she was informed only in the evening... just because it was a 'Tuesday' and you are not supposed to go out on tuesdays... fine it is ok when you wanna do something in some good time (though there isnt any demarcation like that) but even for an emergency????????? that too for one's own daughter?????

Holy Shit!!!! isn't this heights of being superstitous????????????

Monday, September 08, 2008

Will we?????

it was 3 days after Ganesh Chaturthi.... we were waiting at the signal... happened to see a small van with Lord Ganesha's idol.... and through out my travel that day that was the only idol i have seen...

Earlier there used to be Lord Ganesha's idol in every street corner and here used to be Ganeshji's bajans being played with amplifiers... you hardly would be able to hear what you speak.... there would be vendors who make small 'pillayar kodai' (umbrella) with bead hanging from the tips... beautifully decorated.. Ganesh statues being made out of mud... and new stall which would sell all pooja items necessary for the pooja...

Now hardly can you see any shop nor a vendor selling pillayar (Lord Ganesh) or umbrellas.... What has happened? Why is there no excitement or enthusiasm around? Not only with Ganesh Chaturthi but then with any festival.... Why are people not finding joy in celebrating a festival????... This country was definitely a very religious country.. here religious sentiments take more value than anything... there were so many festivals.. but now we hardly celebrate any.... in a country where there used to be festivals throughout the year, now there are celebrations only for major festivals like Diwali, Pongal among the hindus... christmas among the christians and ramzaan among the muslims... even during these festivals people dont really enjoy themselves very much...it seems like they just celebrate it coz they are used to it...

what has made us not to enjoy celebrating these festivals? now a days we only find time to sit in front of the TV not knowing which channel to watch... for all channels are screening new movies... interviews of film stars... do we meet our relatives or friends on these festivals... do we invite them home? NO WAY... we only want to make some easy dish and sit right in front of the tv.... we dont even bother to call and wish ppl... Where are we heading to?

In the days to come will we be celebrating any festivals??? Will we remember there were such festivals or do we have to dust the old books to find about them??????

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Bye Bye AIRTEL!!!

I still remmeber how much i wanted a mobile phone 8 yrs back... I did not get one as i was only a day scholar then. Phone was a necessity to those who were in hostel... :) And during the final year, i got a mobile with AIRTEL connection... i still remember how happy i was then to possess a mobile phone ..:) right from then i only had airtel connection despite of the fact that it a bit costly blah blah blah stuffs.... have been an ardent customer to airtel... but now after so many years, as i have to reloacte to a different place i just called up the airtel office to disconnect my connection... just feeling sad like somebody in my family has gone far away from me... such was my relation with airtel despite of network problems blah blah blah....

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

?????

Life has changed drastically that i dont know what to do now... made some big decisions that has changed my life and its effects are still to sink in me... So many questions in my mind...
--> What am i going to do next?
--> How am i going to make things work out?
--> Will i succeed?
--> Will i see myself where i want me to be?
Somehow need to find an answer to all these questions....

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

We meet so many people in a day.. They might be related to us as friends, colleagues, acquiantances or in many more ways... Not that everyday we have pleasant experiences with all of them... When there is some misunderstanding we tend to adjust with people who really are nto very close to us but when it comes to our loved ones we just explode... For instance, we stand in some queue and somebody budges in we try to keep quiet though we are angry, maybe our manager screams at us for no fault of ours , or maybe there is a fight in the bus... we adjust in all these places... but when there is a small issue like you want to leave on time and ur brother is late by 2 mins to drop u, or u wait fo 5 mins more in the bus stop for ur friend... we scream at them or are very angry with them.... arent they are loved ones???? after all its with them that we are gonna live... why do we ahve to scream at them??? in fact we have to adjust with these ppl are very much close to us....
I'm no different from others in this... but the only thing is i'm trying my best to adjust with my loved ones... i will succeed for sure :)

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Somebody gimme food... Please!!!!!

How many of us do really think about those who dont even get one proper meal a day????

How much do we spend for 1 pizza??? How much we spend for a world tour? People think about building a skewed building which will be the first of its kind... but do we ever think about those who starve?


Saturday, May 10, 2008

dil yeh maantha nahi....

Meri hatheliyon ki lakeerein se dhoor ho tum,
meri hathon ki pahunch se dhoor ho tum,
phir bhi dil yeh maantha nahi,
ki kisi gair ki amanath ho tum....

Just loved it.... Wish i was the one to pen those lines.... Not my cup of tea :P

pyar...

Dil chaha tujhe dua du,
tere zindagi khushiyon se bhar jaye,
tujhe hasta dekh chand sharma jaye,
tere kadmo tale phool biche ho,
bhale hi....
kanto par ham chal rahe....

Friday, May 09, 2008

Kal Ho Na Ho...

Dil ki galion mein koi gham na ho,
hamari yeh dosti kabhi kam na ho,
bas yehi hai dua ki tum kush raho,
kya pata hum agar
KAL HO NA HO....

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

My ambition quotient...

Just wanted to test my ambition quotient... so clicked on that link and answered the questions asked there... End result below...

You are ambitious, wise and balanced. Having fun while you work and living a life complete in every sense is important to you along with career growth. You know what you want and you work your way up patiently through your performance and attitude. Sometimes, you may need a little push, but you will get there. All the best! .

Seems to be good and interesting huh????? :-)

Monday, April 28, 2008

How true????

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next...

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The 25th of April 2008

'TODAY' the 25th of April 2008 - What a memorable day? Have had mixed emotions today!!!! People with whom i have spent nearly 2 yrs of my life are responsible for making this day a very memorable one... Its not that i have spent 2yrs time will all but i have only known few of them only may be for a couple of months... Does time really count as a parameter to judge the quality of friendship??? (NEVER, in my view)

Yes today was my last day at my workplace and i had a farewell... We have had so many farewell so far but there were times when some ppl used to be reserved but today in my farewell i found everybody to be their real self including me..

Spent the day with a very good friend of mine. Today i learnt the real meaning of "Unheard music is sweeter" The time i got to spend with my friend is so valuable that words cant just explain the feeling... there will be so much untold... :)

Got to meet all my friends in a day... God knows how i managed it... Met all of them in my DC in a day... Eventful :-)

When i sat in my place for the last time i just could not control my tears... Just broke down and so did my team members... An awesome team all together.. TOUCHWOOD!!!

I had all my friends come out to send me off (which i can proudly say none of them who left the team earlier would have experienced)... Miss u all...

Stopping here as untold words are sweeter!!!!!!!

Bye da!!!! (The current usage in my team....)

The good in me...

Last time when i went to the shop, i saw a man buying some things...he payed the bill and he got the change back... As he counted, he found that he had got 10 rupees extra so he returned it back saying that they had given him a 10 rupees note extra... The shopkeeper said "Two people have counted it.. inspite there was 10 rupees extra? " and took the note back... I was happy to see that the man returned what did not belong to him though the amount was small... I thought how nice it is to see such people...

After two days went to a shop to buy and i was supposed to get 1 re change... instead got 3 rs. As i got the money back.. i was amazed with my spontaneous reaction... I said " You have given me 2 rs extra" and returned it... It was only while returning i remembered what happened the other day... I was more than happy to spot the same good samaritan in me... :-)

For myself..

How nice it is to do something for yourself...
all small things you do for yourself, gives u a great change and spices up life... :-)
1. Finding old friends in networking sites
2. mailing friends
3. calling old friends
4. writing new posts in my blog
5. changing the feel of my blog..
6. listening to music when u r alone...

Mind..

How powerful and important is this positive attitude?????????
If you don think that you can, then you wont...and if you think you can, then you can do it... everybody of us know this... but how many of us really think positive in a real crunchy situation... atleast definitly i dont...
i was wondering that, the other day how positively i was giving a lecture to a friend of mine who was a little disappointed over something... i gave a real big lecture but the very next week when i was in some tight situation at work i know how tensed i was... working at not being so... is it because we expect too much and want things to be perfect. The fear of failure or not upto the mark remark makes us get worried... in a way it is ok, for it gives u an urge to complete things in the way you want.. but too much of the same makes you feel down and doesnt let you work on what you really want...
isnt it always nice to be calm and composed always??? but again being calm in a place where we shouldnt will leave us behind... its upto the individual to take a call depending on the situation...

2 months from now...

Exactly 2 months from now.. mama and papa will leave me in my in laws place and return home..:-(

Will miss u mama, papa and chotu..:'((((((((((99

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

What a great start???

Today's fortune: Your love life will be happy and harmonious

Wish i find one soon... :P

Happy New Year Sweety pie!!!!!