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Splash on Quiet

It is tough to keep quiet.... :) When you need to spell it out, if you keep quiet, it might get late.. :)

Splash on Facts

If you have a headache, say it.. I may not know.. Sometimes nuts are tough to crack. Just accept the fact and keep up the attempt with that smile on :)

Splash on Understanding

Understanding is all it takes... If you acknowledge that I am brilliant, then you must be brilliant too.. :)

Splash on Attention

You have my undivided attention...

Splash on Anger

Hit the roof.... but remember to take care of your head.. :)

Splash on Blessing

Blessings in disguise happen all the time... Be a blessing to everyone around...

Comments do matter...........

This is about how comments can change your life.... :) It was my first job as a writer... Never written anything except those essays in school and a few technical, sleepy, long winding, sometimes, utterly lifeless essays in college, in the EXAM banner... ( I hate exams, though I was able to perform well in most of them, throughout my academic life.. Thanks to my folks at home.. Studies were rarely a topic of conflict for all of us at home ... I guess that's what made me study without hassles... ) Here I was, working on my first assignment, first paragraph - introduction.......struggling for the golden words to just jump out of my head... ( or is it my keyboard, I have no idea.....). It was just impossible for me to write the first few lines of the document. It was on project management... :) I did not know projects at work as yet, Project management was a far-fetched illusion back then.. :) My assignment was to write a user guide for a project management software for a client compa...

Bouquet making

Bouquet of Roses : One of my favorite ways of wishing people. I always thought that Roses brought the best of wishes and expressed all the love in the world... And I know am not the only person who thinks the same. This rose bouquet was part of a farewell wish. I had asked for a bunch of roses with a few ferns interspersed. The vendor smiled and asked me to choose a color.. I picked Red, as it is the usual routine... pick a color, choose wrapping ( bunch or bouquet), choose fillers ( ferns and other unscented flowers) , select a 'Best wishes' card and then write your name and wish in the little blank space that is available in the card. The guy set on to work.... Not that I am noticing for the first time, the way bouquets are made, but this time, it was early morning and I was kind of focused on what he was doing, unlike other times, when I would mostly run late for the function that I was attending... So on this day, when I had lots of time before the work day began , I pu...

My Hand Bag

I didn't know that my handbag was my major support when I am all by myself, till I faced a bomb threat at work and I walked out without carrying my bag.... All the time, all books and magazines have quotes and proverbs that state:You would not know the worth of things till you lose them... True, I never realised what all my hand bag meant to me, till I had to part with it for more than two days.... It had my tickets, the cash, the desk keys, my cupboard keys, my address book among many other things that made my hand bag more of a sack instead of the mere brown, unassuming, leather finished resin hand bag. I didn't have much to do that evening when I was wading my way, wait a minute.. when the auto I boarded to reach the bus station that evening.... was wading its way through the oceanic traffic. Am so used to hugging my hand bag wherever I go, for the last few years. It was the first time when i am travelling alone, I did not have my hand bag... The bag i borrowed served the ...

Jaan Pyaari Hai

That's the Hindi equivalent of "Life's dear".... True... We have all realised at one point or other in lives, but almost always we tend to forget it, till we come across another incident from which we chanced to escape by a stroke of luck. Last week, my friend had to remind me "Jaan Pyaari hai" as we were all being guarded out of our office portals owing to a bomb threat/scare. I was very concerned.....worried.....feeling bad....completely lost.... not because I came to know that it was a bomb scare and that such news can ruin your peace of mind...... but because, I had left my dear hand bag behind at my desk as soon as I heard the announcement..... It was a busy Friday afternoon at work and I was literally lost in a technical document that I was reading...An announcement voice said: Your attention please. You are requested to leave your work stations immediately and move to the safe zone outside the building. I picked up my mobile on a reflex and walked out...

Beware of Garbage Trucks by David J. Pollay

An interesting forward I received: Beware of Garbage Trucks by David J. Pollay ************************************************************************************************************************** How often do you let other people's nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? Unless you're the Terminator, for an instant you're probably set back on your heels. However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly he/she can get back her focus on what's important. Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here's what happened. I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car's back end by just inches! The driver of the other car,...

Just do your best!!!!!!

Well, I heard this from my grandma almost always as a kid.... Next, from my parents and sister always.... From my thoughtful friends who say this when they see me all hypertensive at work.... From my managers who say this when they recruit me.... All quotation books have this.... All fiction books prove this.... All non-fiction books speak this.... A few years ago, I remember stopping by a road side board that said: Even if your job is to sweep roads, do it in the best possible manner that no one else can excel you....- Sir Visweswarayya . Close to the sign-board, there was a young man sweeping the dried leaves off the road. Noticed that he was doing a flawless job of sweeping... He probably does not even know that his kind of work ( literal sense here ) was being appreciated in the nearest sign-post. I just walked off amazed at the sincerity and sincerely and quietly wished him well and that he lands up in a nice job in life.... Didn't have the mind back then to appreciate him o...

On Sharing

It was a very early on a bright Sunday morning when we started out on a long drive. All of us at home enjoy this kind of long drives and we have fun talking about everything under the sun. It was a little different this time as both me and my sister did not want to eat outside. We had packed lunch from home and had planned to have food at one of the fields beside a tube well. It was well past lunch time that we finally managed to find a lush green field.After Appa spoke to the farmer,we all took our huge picnic bag and walked towards the tube well in single file... We have never walked in a field and wanted to make sure we don't disturb the work that was happening there. An old farmer remarked to Appa, " It is sometimes important for us to let our children know that rice does not grow on trees ".. It sounded an interesting comment and slightly degrading all the same, given that all of us had a flair for Botany.. "The comment was a casual passer-by comment and never i...

Homo Sapiens

On a day bustling with activity at my work desk, on a casual intranet messenger talk, I mentioned to my friend: "I didn't find time even to look at myself in a mirror".... Immediately came the response : A human being should not be in such a situation any day... and call it after thought or a reiteration, there was another message saying *NEVER.... I rephrased the sentence as: A human being should NEVER be in such a situation any day... Now that I know this friend and our English conversations for quite sometime, I could see that the word "human being" is almost new in our conversational vocabulary..... I stopped, read the sentence again and in a minute understood the marvel of the sentence construct... Only human beings can appreciate ( applies to only people who really appreciate their reflection or at the least understand that mirrors reflect just the way you look) their reflection on mirror.... If you try getting an animal to stand in front of the mirror, th...

I am what I am

I am what I am... That's a saying I read on a girl's shirt when I walked out of a movie theatre feeling just that way :) This girl zipped off on her bike as the signal turned Green. :) As the signal for the pedestrians turned 'Red', my train of thoughts from the movie was also interrupted by this T-shirt quote. While waiting to cross the road, I pondered over the saying : I am what I am... It says a lot of things. Taking the words to be true to the very letter and the meaning of it.....: The subject, in this case the T-shirt owner, is a very confident person. She does not care what you think about her. She knows she is right, pretty well, and that is all she cares about. She is all about the person you see right in front of you and she has nothing to hide away from or hide from you. I liked this shirt partly because of the saying, and partly because of the winning look, the girl who wore it, had portrayed in her eyes. :) It is said, Attires contribute to your elegance ...

On Deadlines

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. - Samuel Johnson =================================================================== I came across this quotation one fine morning when I logged on to one of the servers at work. The thread of thoughts that followed, as the meaning of the statement began to unfold : When you have an exam tomorrow, you are all focussed and determined to get the content of the entire thousand page book into your head. Amazing, it is possible over night, when you could not do the same over six long months or a semester as they call in college... When you have a project deadline tomorrow, you are all glued to desk and bent upon getting that code work right. Amazing, it is possible over night, when you could not manage it in the last one week you had for the same task... We have known of "w...

Strangers or Saviors?

As dusk sets in, whether the birds fly back to their nests or no, it starts raining heavily in Bangalore... So you kind of need to step out of the office space to the balcony to see the weather outside before you leave work... Yesterday, after I double-checked the weather and kind of was sure that it was just a drizzle outside, I stepped out.. Unusually there was too much of traffic deadlocks on the road..... At least ten autos refused to come to the place I wanted to reach. In all the time that I was waiting there, I saw more and more people walking, waiting for auto, waiting for cab, waiting for bus, but no one really could get anywhere....I wanted to know if there is any major problem lest I get caught in the maze and find it difficult to get home. I was still closer to office and could take a refuge in the office portals instead of struggling on the road.... I approached another girl who seemed to have given up on the crowd and the non availability of a vehicle to get to where ever...

Good read at work.............

Birbal was the intelligent courtier of King Akbar, who later became his management advisor. Birbal Tales is famous among most Indian children for the full-length humour that every story is lined with. 'Solve your Problems - The Birbal Way ' is a book by two Indian Authors. This book has about seventy short stories, with one or two management moral lessons at the end of every tale. It is hundred percent fun to read and a great way to take a break between work. Never before would you have enjoyed management lessons as in this book. The morals in this book are, for a change, without management jargon.. and that's what you'd like about the book. The cover page does not look like its designed for managers or grown-ups in general, the fonts do not look serious ( to me serious means - 9 point font, close spaced and long paragraphs) and you don't have to read it in one shot as you would want to read a novel..... If you are the kind who is constantly aspiring to keep a cool...
This wish was special and a grand surprise to me on my birthday.. Have been thinking of posting it for quite long now.. Here it is... A year older, A year wiser A year younger in your aspiration, A year younger in your innocence A year more of life and jubilation, A year more of sense and nonsense A year less of your tears that you can forget, A year less of your trials and worries A year added for your good memories and dreams, A year added in your score of good friends A year subtracted from your disappointments, A year subtracted in anger and bad memories A year more of opportunities you can get, A year more of good food and amma's curries... A toast to your new lease agreement with life :) May all happiness and dreams find their way to you. Some thoughts and people bless your lives in a very special way on your very special day.... This poetry is one of them.... Thanks friend. :) :) With due respect to the promise I gave my friend about not disclosing the identity and my own...

Stop to think........

Finally, last Saturday I managed tickets to watch the much-hyped Tamil movie, "Shivaji" starring Rajinikanth in one of the seven auditoriums of PVR Cinemas, Bangalore. We reached the place at about 3:00 O clock, just in time for the 3:10 show. I don't particularly recall when I had become impatient about the delay in a movie theatre... but for the kind of money you pay here, I think I began to expect great service.... which for a start meant meant, screening the movie show on time. We waited till 3:20 for the "doors of the fort" of Audi - 4 to open and walked on the red carpet (Required????!!!!!???), found the seat and settled with the costly and famous duo of popcorn and coke we had just bought. Could not help thinking about the last time when the popcorn tripped off my hand, scattered all over the carpet...and about how I was sorry about that throughout the show... :) During the intermission, we stepped out to shell out some more money on a plate of north indi...

A Nice Tamil Poetry

I just happened to remember this tamil poetry. For those who dont understand the poetry, I can tell you, its about a few basic things that you should wish for in life. Aasaipadu Pennae Aasaipadu...Osaipadaamal nee Aasaipadu... Kaalai nera Kaatrukku...Aalai Izhukkum Kuyilukku.. Punnagai Seiiyum Anbukku...Podhum Endra Manasukku.. Poramaiyilla Pugazhukku...Puthagam padikkum Iravukku.. Kalaiyilladha Varavukku...Kadanilladha Vaazhvukku.. Noilladha Ilamaikku...Thanimaiilladha Mudhumaikku... Aasaipadu Pennae Aasaipadu...Osaipadaamal nee Aasaipadu... Naalai Pookum Malarukku...Nalladhu Seiyyum Natpukku.. Sutham Niraindha Veetukku...Sonnadhu Ketkum Pillaikku.. Pasithu Unnum Vayitrukku...Paduthaal Urangum Padukaikku.. Aasaipadu Pennae Aasaipadu...Osaipadaamal nee Aasaipadu...

Loud Silence

Loud Silence............ Most of the literary worshippers would have heard this word. We all feel it once in a while. Was waiting for an auto, on the pavement just outside my office yesterday. It seemed that everyone in the city decided to set out for an outing at the same time. For a really far stretch, all I could see was vehicles and vehicles and vehicles.... At this point, when I looked at one of the motorists and then the next and then a car driver and then a lot of pedestrians who were waiting to cross the road, the word 'Loud silence' popped into my mind... .................not without a reason.. They all seemed lost in thought....could be work, could be home, could be the traffic, could be their folks, could be money, could be just about anything... but definitely the silence in their eyes didn't show happiness. Amidst all the noises, you could see that there was a silence which seemed to be talking too loud..... To put a positive note to it, I also thought " m...

M.K Retail, Indra Nagar, Bangalore

This retail outlet is always full of people... This is just another 'One-stop-shop' in this part of the city with branches all over the city... Over the last six months, I have been a regular customer to this store , though NOT 'most-valuable' customer... Well, that's just a jargon which means, ' a customer who shops for a lot of money with, a 'lot' ranging from minimum one thousand rupees to zero-balance in your Salary account..'. :) Yesterday, I had been to M.K, for getting some of my usual shopping done. I've always noticed that people here, shop for a lot of things without thinking whether or not they need it... May be it's the same everywhere, but here I get to see it very clearly, as I wade my way through the crowded aisles of the shopping zone here. I had picked up whatever I needed and some of what I want ( which I could have done without) and headed to the billing counter. I was beginning to think that my shopping cart was a little t...

Do or Don't

"You either do it, or your don't. 'Try' doesn't make sense.". This is the quote I have on my white board today... No reason to have put this up, but just thought about 'Do or Die' and remembered the corporate lecture I attended one year ago. "Do or Die" is all, most of us have heard. There could be different versions to the reason behind the saying. One thing I can say for sure, however , is that 'to die' cannot be a solution to anything at all in life.. I recall from one of the corporate lectures that I chanced to attend last year, "You either do it, or your don't. 'Try' doesn't make sense.". My version:" Do or Don't. Never say Try". Coming to think of it.... This is kind of true. When you DO, often, you are acknowledged. When you DON'T , always, you are noticed. When you TRY, seldom, your efforts are recognized . Another way to look at it is when you 'Try' something, you are alread...

On Birthday

:) I just turned sixteen :) Well that is what I want to think always... :) Actually getting older and wanting to get better each day!!!! :) According to some people, Birthday is just another day, with just about the same or similar happenings and experiences.... but coming to think of it.... Isn't birthday a day to - say thanks for a dawn of another new year, - respect parents and friends for what they are and have been till date, - say thanks for what you are, - appreciate yourself, - feel good about yourself, - put some real thought into the wishes you receive , - be glad to have people around, - say thanks for all the good wishes, - reflect on your inner self, - redefine rules, - just 'Be yourself'? You know what? When I read it again, I see that we can be this way, every day... :) It's just that it will take time to get this kind of thought into our daily lives, so till then, I think we should count these thoughts in , at least on our birthdays... :)

Interpretation

Its all about interpretation in communication.... Communication can be a word, deed, expression or just a mail, note or letter.... It's all about how we interpret the message conveyed... I happened to attend a very interesting session related to technical writing which was presided over by Prof.Dr. Jagadish who is teaching in the Information systems department. The inaugural speech had this segment on interpretation. Quite an interesting one. A lady had a discomfort in her chest and was referred to a cardiologist who suggested that she take an EEG ( Its called an Echo test). On the doctor's table, the doctor held a scanner on her chest and was scanning the impressions on the monitor in front of him. He said, "No Thrill".... The lady, was obviously waiting for a diagnostics and didn't want to hear such a comment. She jumped off the bed, changed quickly and walked out fuming...." I didn't know that this doctor is such an indecent man". It turned ou...

Native language trick!!!

There is a specific stretch of road on the Bangalore - Pondicherry route which is yet to be called a 'road' in all senses.....You would never believe it is part of one of the Bangalore highways. So many speed bumps, so uneven, so dark are few points I can recall because, I cross this stretch usually just after mid-night and after this point, I lose my sleep usually... With nothing better to do, most of the passengers would just close tired eyes and try to sleep, which is what I was doing during my last Friday night's journey too....this state is when you know what is happening around you but you are not completely awake and you hate to be disturbed.. at least , with me it is like this.... Suddenly my bus comes to a jolty stop and I woke up with a start, so did most others... Looking out of the window we could see a truck parked in a very unlikely angle from the road and was headed in a direction opposite to ours.. More heads peered out of the windows to clearly see that ...

Thought of the moment...........

This is about writing all that comes to my mind just this minute.. The Gulmohar flowers which I saw in the morning on the road-side trees.... The Maroon Salwar Kameez I am wearing.... The work at my desktop... My sister.... The movie I watched with a friend.... The person who sends comments on my blog often.... A friend of mine who usually writes back to my mail... My friend who is expecting a baby... My Mother who is travelling... My Dad at work.... My tickets to home town next week... Just wondering about this mind of ours.... How much can it think in a matter of minutes.... Does this mean it has multi-tasking ability or does it mean it is out of focus? On a second thought, I think multi tasking is correct.... I am sure most of our minds are lost in so many thoughts every minute... When one of the thoughts require immediate attention, that's when we call it 'Focus' and we concentrate on it.... All else, remains in the background and become 'Active' when each of...

Ta ra ram pam

:) That's the name of the hindi movie I watched day before yesterday.. :) Directed by Siddharth Anand, Ta Ra Ram Pam is a lovely movie with a lot of points to learn.. Well, if you are in the movie theatre after a hard day at work or after a mind boggling argument, or a 'not-so-easy' day, then you may curse the movie for its water works... I must admit that it is a little sentimental... Sentiments... no matter how much we say, we dont want it, we all still are sentimental about a few prized things/feelings in life... and i guess it's just okay to watch such movies once in a while.. :) but it is also a lot about a cute family.... :) a family which u will fall in love with for sure.. Ta Ra Ram Pam .... the story goes like this.... a carefree guy, who has dreams about becoming a racer, but has no means to become one, meets a friend who happens to be the manager of a Car Racers' team. Miss Fortune smiles and the guy also meets the right person and the right time and marr...

Elephant at a buffet

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This is a snap from an email i received this morning from a friend of mine... She sends interesting forwards, I must say... Today's forward was about an artist elephant. As I read the last line which says " buffet of fruits and vegetables at the event.", I could not help thinking why not a full vegetarian buffet for the elephant? Unsure if elephants do not like cooked vegetarian full meal ( including sweets and icecream).. but just imagined this elephant eating a complete buffet meal as a treat for winning the event.... The lunch is held for just the winner at the play ground. There are trucks full of cooked rice, Drums of side dishes, Trolleys of rice mixed appropriately with the side-dishes. There are uniformed men standing at every counter to direct the elephant to the next food item. Every counter has atleast 5 people to help with the serving ,replenishing, and clearing the trolleys. The guest of the day finishes one complete round of the main course and moves ahead ...

Horlicks.....

I rarely tune in to T.V channels... This particular day when I was in one of those 'feel-like-doing-nothing' moods, I chose to switch-on the T.V. Four kids were praying in a temple, each asking for different things... One kid interestingly thought out aloud "Dear God, I know you are the Almighty and have great strength... then, may be you do not need this much of milk for yourself " and rushes out of the temple with the can of milk that was kept in front of the deity as an offering... The scene ends with the kids making Horlicks Shake and enjoying themselves.. :) This advertisement has a major thought which is controversial to even discuss here.. There is this practice of ' Abhishekha ' in Indian temples where people offer 'milk' to God. It is a mark of devotion to the good God for all that he has given and been and ' is-to-be' to people. Wonder why no one ever thought of this basic question.. God is the Almighty and so he may not need so much...

half-a-century!!!!

What does half-a-century mean to us? The phrase sounds great as compared to the number fifty which is half of a cent. Cent as in the number hundred and not the cent that denotes the lower denomination of a US Dollar. Wonder if we have ever cheered up about our score cards showing half a century back in school or college or even at work... We were never happy about half a century achievements as much as a century... Wondering aloud why?? :) The phrase is all about optimism. For a person who scores 50% in something, saying "half-a-century" makes it sound positive and optimistic and also inherently gives the pat-on-the-back that all of us sometimes need to come up in life. You might want to compare it with what it feels like to say 50%. Well, it doesn't sound bad either, except when some people add the unnecessary word 'just' to it. Let me spell it for you.. "Just 50%...". I am so glad that I have completed 'half-a-century' posts as dewdrop. :)

Sunshine..........

This is about the verse I remembered this morning.. Dates back to about sixteen years ago in school... Good Morning merry sunshine... How did u wake so soon... You've scared the little stars away and shined away the moon... I saw you go to sleep last night.. Before i ceased my playing.. How did you get way over here and where have you been staying?.. I never go to sleep dear.. I just go around to see... My little children of the east.. Who rise and watch for me... :)

Positive Side...

If we can see the positive side then we are better off ........... This was a thought caught from a conversation with a friend... :) True... I realized that I could see the positive side of things.. Recently had a ligament tear and gained a lot of insight on things that I have not ever thought of.. Every one should listen to biology teacher... :) - I really didnt when i was taught on bones. Never occurred that ankle means a lot.. Every time you see a puddle of water on a polished floor you should take the time to arrange to have it cleaned dry. -I really didnt care too much till I got a ligament tear. It is okay to be patient. -After this ligament tear my patience has improved tremendously.. Wait at the doctors, wait for the auto, wait for the crowd to cross so u don't trip and fall...has taught me lessons on patience... You need not hurry up at all for things in life... -Well, I realised that I could not do things I want to do faster, because, my ankle did'nt permit me to.. an...

Outsourcing...

Came across an interesting phrase at work today... just thought on the same lines and came up with this post. It is about Check lists...The hints on a piece of paper or a scratch pad that come handy when you think your brain is jam-packed with things to do. I can recall a few main checklists that we have all often heard of or used ourselves: Travel Check list Enclosure Check list for a University application Interview Check list Shopping List Banking Check List I am sure there are a lot more, but all of us would have used atleast one of these checklists.. This minute, when u are reading this post, there would definitely be a number of other thoughts running on your mind... Have we ever thought what we are exactly doing when we use a check list? According to my friend's remark, we are just 'Outsourcing Thinking'.. :)

T-shirt thoughts

Some T-shirts make u smile, no matter what mood your mind is in.This afternoon, I came across one such shirt with this saying: Girl Friends are like medicines, they come with expiry date... Not sure how many people saw a quick smile on my face, but I couldnt help thinking: Probably the designer never thought of Ayurveda medicine and never believed that there are Girl friends who do graduate to 'Wives' and can still be 'Girl friends'. :) For folks who are wondering about the reference to Ayurveda, it is a form of medication that is practiced mostly in South India. Most medicines in it, as far as I have known, do not have expiry date.

Wisdom

Just remembered this one liner: Dear God, Give me the strength to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I cannot accept and the wisdom to know the difference... :) How true..

Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsch

'Conversation with God' is a wonderful collection of almost all questions we have all faced as teenagers. Neale Donald Walsch has written about three other books on 'Conversations with God' apart from this one, that is targeted towards teenagers. The first look at the book makes you wonder about the kind of perspective with which the book was written. The book has reference to God... and you are not sure if the author refers to the Good God who has created or is believed to have created everything you can possibly think of.... and you are not sure if you should be reading this yourself well past teenage or should you be gifting it to some teenager you know of.... I got this book as a gift from a good friend of mine.... not because I was a teenager but because some one suggested this book was good.... The book opens with a wonderful way of holding the audience's attention completely. You get glued to the words you read and your picture as a teenager slowly, quietly, ...

Shivaji Nagaram

Second week in bangalore....It was Friday evening. I was walking my way to the bus stop as usual... The bus stop was unusually crowded and I asked for the auto rickshaw driver there to drop me to where I was headed.He said a flat No and would not even stop for a second. Then came the next stream of autos and everytime I stopped one, I had to either hear a "No" or "Nahi" or "Illai" or "Ledhu" or "Hogathilla"..... Finally as it was getting very late, I started walking to the nearest bus station , Shivaji nagar terminus, where I was sure I would find a bus to reach home. Five minutes of musing about where is the crowd beside me heading to, why is every Muslim more prayerful than me, what is the point in being dressed in white to attend a prayer meeting, and i realised that i was also in white salwar kameez that day.... coincidentally... and that I seemed to be walking at the tail end of a procession.... Now, since school, i have hated proc...

Dance class in Bengalooru

Bengalooru city buses.... It was a traffic signal...Not even a bus stop. My friend who was accompanying me to the bus stop suddenly yelled and in a minute I was pushed into a bus that had just come to a halt near us. She waved a 'Bye' and asked me to give her a call or message when I reached the place I was supposed to go. She is the same girl who thought I would get 'Lost' in Bangalore. :) This city traffic had no value for any one's time, so I asked my friend to drop me off at a bus stop and promised to inform her when I reach wherever I had to reach. Okay, the bus inched its way forward and I realized that the signal turned 'Green'. I was at the foot board and if my bus hits just another speed breaker ,I was sure to fall off the bus. Oddly, I was bothered if I would get a clear space to land on the road if I fall off the last step of the bus. So many vehicles on the road all jamming the way.... When I was lost in this train of thoughts, I was shaken back ...

Bengalooru

:) It was a cold Sunday morning when I reached this "Cool" city. I was shivering literally while I waited at the bus stop for a friend who had promised to be at the bus stop to receive me. According to her, I am new to the city and there is every chance of me getting lost. :) Quick snaps from the city over the last three days of my stay here... Cool city - It is a great change for me from the Tropic climate in Chennai to the pleasant climate in Bangalore.... Lazy city - People take their own sweet time to start and gear up for the day ahead.... Friendly people - Everyone I met was willing to help me with anything I needed to locate in the city... I am not that used to this 'over-friendliness' that a caution alarm started ringing in my mind and it has still not stopped. Crowded buses - Not to beat Chennai Local transport, still it is new to me as all along I have stayed away from the crowded city buses in Chennai. Jammed traffic - For a five minute running time, you ne...

Happy New Year 2007

Year 2006 is coming to a close according to the calendar within another 12 minutes.. I am in front of my computer trying to handle all the new wishes on my mail box, my chat windows, and my mobile's inbox... Wishing people Happy New year and acknowledging the wishes.... My mind is tossed up to even think of a new year wish currently..An untoward incident happened in the family and i have been managing my level best to handle it on my mind apart from other things that are giving me a head ache... Still, trudging on.. just wondering aloud.. what is stopping in this world just because something went wrong with some one? Dogs are barking outside.. My net connection is down... My watch shows 11:55 some one is bursting crackers.. may be his watch shows 12:00 now... I am here scribbling away to glory...fortunately it is not handwritten.. My folks are tired and are sleeping... My close people are travelling.... One of my friend is at a resort... Some one i know is studying... Just how this...