Day XV Survival

As he woke up, he found himself caged by bars surrounding him all round limiting his movement. He tried and tried and after days of trying was able to bend a few bars to get out of the cage and run. Run for his freedom and through the clutches of the unknown.

As he stride ahead, his steps were halted by huge walls in the midst of the forest and as he walked along the walls, he could not found an exit but a trail to where it all began.

As days passed by, he made the cage his home and kept making weapons to break the wall. Each time he failed he would go back and make stronger weapons.

Until one fine day, he was able to break the chunk of the wall, which gave him enough confidence to go for the rest. As the wall was brought down, he could see the path that laid ahead that took him to the river with a boat awaiting him and sail to the unknown path with uncertainties lying ahead as he struggled for his survival.

Isn't this true for ourselves too where the cage represents our own thoughts of limitations and the walls meaning the fate of life. Opportunities and life can happen at the same moment but it happening at the right moment makes the difference.

Do let me know your thoughts….

P.S. Have you seen the movie "Pyar ka Panchnama (question for gals), this is probably the first movie showing the guy's point of view. After all gals have their serials to support. Would love to hear a gal's view on the movie.

BTW, don't really get people saying to each other "babu" what the hell does that mean.

Day XIV

I almost forgot to write today’s post and was heading to sleep when realized. Here I am back to complete the post of the day.

As I am writing this post I could hear either a squirrel or probably a mouse squeaking. Will have it checked out in the morning.

Weekend is something that I look forward to these days, as it happen to be the only days when I get some time for myself. Then again, when one is at home, can they be without some homework to do? Over I can still take my shots for not doing it. J

What do you think about dreams? Do they have a story to tell? I still remember how I got my first cycle, told my Dad that I had a dream about it and I had to really push to get one.

Today earthquake hit Bombay and I never came to know about it.

My suspicion is confirmed. It’s a squirrel running around the house. It almost jumped on me. That at least what happened the last time when I found one running around the house. Right now have it locked under the kitchen and will let it out in the morning. Would prefer to keep it a pet but I know that won’t happen. Do read this post to know about animals visit our home.

Got a go its already getting late.

Day XIII

There are two kinds of people in the world. One who goes with the flow and the second kind that tries/changes to make the path better as they walk along. I belong in the second category and no wonder it make me curious how people of the first kind can survive by simple accepting the existing situation and not try to change it for the better.

Apparently people in the higher up are not even aware of such issues. For them the only thing that matters is work gets done. One will support you but only as long as one is able to make it fruitful. I for certain cannot work in a place full of chaos. Apparently it has its own learning and I am doing just that right now.

Today happens to be the 13^th the Friday and this also happens to be my 13^th post for this month. Should that mean anything?

I have this guy chasing me for weeks to give at least 15 mins to listen to his investment idea and I don’t have the time. Life can be cruel at times sometimes making you work all the time or none at all.

Have been listening to this song all day along, been a long time since I heard a song in loop.

The song has three versions, two female and one male and I like this one better.

Day XII

If one has visited this blog or have been around for some time there is something that I wanted to change. It happened to be my work life.

I have been a recovering workaholic and with the amount of work that I am doing these days it goes even beyond that. Work is something that I avoid to mention in my blog. Apparently this is the only thing or should I say am doing all the time right now.

Why is it when one decides to do things different, that fate decides to play truant.

This time however I am looking at things at differently. Understand that one cannot do much beyond a certain point. Take everything as learning. There is no point in thinking that one did not do enough. Always look at the positives.

I know I am been preachy and boring here. What to do? :(

What would it take to change the mindset of people still treating you like a kid. My siblings and relatives do that. I am not sure what I should do to change that.

Heard of the earthquake in Indonesia and the possibility of tsunami coming aftermath. The funny part was looking at the news when cops at patrol wanted people to move away from the beaches of Chennai and they still stick around to catch the first glimpse of it.

It’s been weeks that I have touched my guitar today. Hope this weekend will lessen the distance between us. The weekend is something that I am looking upto as have lot of things to take care of including shopping.

Day XI

There are days when one just don’t want to get up and but still goes. Then miracle happens. The noise dies down and slowly the silence takes over. As one gets attuned to the silence, the miracle started.

Today happened to be that day. Simply enjoyed the silence so much that I actually stayed back at work willingly J

Gals simply want to have their way. I am in touch with a gal professionally and my, she knows all the right buttons to get her work done through talks. Then again I am smart enough to not find myself fooled by it. Apparently we are fighting all the time and it makes me wonder if we are couple without in a relationship.  

Why is it that when good things happen to one, people come to you from everywhere but not to be found before.

Day X

It’s the tenth day of my blogging and I am already wondering how to continue.

Not that I don’t want to but my daily activities hardly gives me the time. A guy has been trying to seek my time and I don’t have time to give. That busy I am.:(

What do you think about hard choices? Choices that do not give one a leeway and following either decision means giving up on something. Have you ever done one?

These days am coming across people who know how to complicate things instead of helping out.

What do you think about not getting something when needed and being given the same when the desire is lost? Have been hearing that a lot from someone I know.

Not going to write much now saving energy for a better tomorrow post J

Day IX

It almost felt that a weight has been lifted off my chest. Can’t tell you what’s it about but it certainly makes me feel good. Finally the closure is happening.

Today I was playing the role of counselor to my friend who apparently did not like his GF talking to a particular person. I can understand the possessiveness and jealousy but to go to an extend to tell them to delete the number and not talk to that guy is something that I could not understand.

Got his logic behind it, but really if someone does not feel the love they used to, no matter what one does, eventually they will drift away. This also become more common in marriages these days as its easier to let go than hold on.

Why is it that one’s responsibilities always go up when they grow up and never comes down?

Did anyone notice that these it’s the guys are stripping on the television shows? Don’t think there are many guys who watch television these days. I at least don’t not for any Indian television show. The sense and sensibility of making a good show has gone on a vacation never to return.

With the morning shows being devote to all the Baba lok, the afternoon and the prime time shows cater to the conservative mindset of our population. There is a huge dearth of creativity and originality. No matter how modern we call ourselves, we simply don’t give up on our old customs as they die hard. No wonder education has been a failure.

I can go on and on but don’t think there is a point in it. As one wise man said to my friend, don’t try to be Anna Hazare and try to change the world. People have enough problem of their own to deal with.

Day VIII

I have not been able to do justice to my blog here. I hardly take out the time to write.

Finally when I do, I am heavily intoxicated with sleep resting on my eyes, waiting to just have  my eyes closed and put me on the trance of sleep. To avoid that I took the time out specially for my blog out here today J

Today the highlight is love marriage. No matter how happy the love birds will be once they are given the consent to bind themselves with wedding vows, for their family it’s a uncertainty followed by anxiety especially when over the years one has to attend each other functions. Trust me; the initial days are not that easy.

Read about the news about a biker getting killed as a BEST double decker bus fell on him. That guy was supposed to getting married in the first week of May. One can never know how fate can strike. The irony of all this is that driver got a suspension. Do they believe that life once gone can be returned?

I know someone who keeps saying that if you tell the truth as it is, no one listens but a little salt and pepper and you have an audience. I agree with it. What do you think about it?

It’s funny the way the siblings have a talk together, one keeps talking about their own story and still it’s supposed to be a talk J Does that happens with you guys.

A small child in the house can bring so much happiness and it stops at that till they start growing up. L

Day VII

Do you wonder about the way the life is?

If you do then I would say stop doing it cause I don’t think there are going to be any answers even though a lot of questions keep coming up inside the head.

I think we always question our existence and try to find a reason behind it but don’t think there is any reason worth finding out. I kind of come to a conclusion that life is about experiencing it and not about what one has or don’t or finding happiness.

I believe we create our own luck sometimes it could be coincidence and then its karma. Talking about karma never get the fact why people with bad deeds, tend to live longer than the good people. I guess it all comes to about survival. 

What's your opinion?

Day VI The World of Movies

It was like time had stood still as there was a pin drop silence and the only thing one could hear was one’s own breath.  This how I felt as I woke up late in the morning

Hope I see more of such days. The day was spent watching movies. One of them happened to be the movie Congo, watching probably the third time. It kind of reminded me how manipulating nature can prove dangerous. Training gorrillas to be like warriors and then the same gorrillas turn into killers. 

That reminds me of the movie Rise of the planet of the apes, simply loved it even though the story has been told many a times. Wonder when will the time come when such movies will be made it India. I guess for that to happen our film industry needs to stop getting inspired from other movies.

There is one movie though that I like for its originality and the way it pictured the times of the kings. Suryavanshi, starring Salman Khan. I am not sure if the movie did good or not but it was certainly good and a very different concept.

That reminds me of the movie Chandni Bar. Apparently whenever I talk about this movie, I get into the nitty gritty of it. Remember just had a conversation on the same with a friend of mine few days back and even today I keep saying to people that instead of Lagaan, this movie should have been send as a nomination for the Oscars and we surely would have Oscar in our hands that year.

Seeing that movie, one can decipher how cruel can life be by sending one back to the place from where they always wanted to go/move/ran away. Such must be the realities of some people and then there are people like us lost in our own world and thinking what kind of mess we are in.

Its good to see Hindi movie industry taking small steps towards originality if not completely original. Even the south Indian film industry is better than them. Saw a few movies and have to say liked the originality in it.

Do you watch movies of other languages? Apparently as a kid I used to movies in Marathi, Gujrati, and other south Indian languages,Bengali and at time even foreign movies (with subtitles) for that matter.

Marathi movies are good too but found some of them exploiting the “Marathi Manoos” in a very wrong way. I don’t think movies should be used to promote that one community is greater than another. Then again in today’s times our educated political leaders are very busy in getting community votes and no wonder such kinds of movies helps their growth. Hope the education one has gone through helps one in making the right choices.

I sometimes do wonder what would be my life if there were no movies to watch and it seems like a nightmare movie J

So, do you a movie to tell......

Day V

How many times a guy is gets asked by a girl to share his photo not once but thrice? Let me tell you that odds of that happening are pretty less. Will not go into details J

One must have read about my yesterday post about how we human beings are living a complex life. Sometime we ourselves complicate them by making the wrong choices and asking the wrong questions.

If you are one of those trying to find the meaning of life, I would say don’t waste your time. Life is all about living and experiencing it. Living in the moment matters.

Everybody is going gaga over the IPL, don’t find much fun in watching cricket these days and the credit for that will go to the Indian cricket who knows how to keep the people always uncertain.

Losing cool has become a norm for me, something that’s unlike me even for a short time. Do you think it’s better to vent out anger or keep it within?

Every day keep reading the horrorscope (horoscope for those who don’t get it) in the papers and trust me it never actually turns out the way it’s written. Still I keep reading and following, don’t ask me why.

Read in the papers about a disciplinary father making her daughter beg so that she can be someone in her life and be independent. Raising children is a serious and big responsibility and messing it up only ends up damaging and scarring the child for life. People do all kinds of things these days. After all one can live the life the way they want to.

Isn’t it funny that the government keeps increasing one’s expenses but never the income? Guess it time they table a bill on income too, that should keep everyone happy.

BTW, got appreciated for my work and an apology from my boss. How many times does that happen? Referring to the apology part J

Day IV A Better Day

Today turned to be a better day than yesterday even though I have hell of work lying with me. These days I am listening to music on my phone something that happens only in a blue moon day.

Have a good collection of songs but will only listen when in the mood. Seeing people listening to it while jogging/traveling in buses, what the use of listening to song this way if one cannot enjoy the songs eternally. I happen to do that on my work.

Have you ever given a thought about the world revolving around you. Somehow this thought keeps coming back to me something that I just thought about when I small. Does it have a meaning to decipher.

Isn’t it challenging to live as a human being. To go through all kinds of emotions, go through day to day routines, do office/ home work and if one get the time then spend or exhaust the time in front of TV, chatting with friends and family and then when its time to sleep, one gets the time for self. We devote time to everyone but forget to do the same with ourselves. Does one really think they know who they are

Getting late going to sleep. Will make sure to devote time to blog.

Day III Exhaustion

The title of the post says it all. That’s what I am feeling right now and don’t think can escape from it unless blessed with a good night sleep which takes away all the tiredness and refresh the body and mind with great energy when waking up in the morning.

I am not able write or think of anything right now. Guess that sums the post very well :)

P.S: This would be my shortest post ever.

Day II Monday The Hangover Days

Mondays have always been my hangover days. No it does not mean that I am drunk on weekends. It simply means that I could not get my hangover of the weekends as I find it hard to get up in the morning and go to office.

Hardly get any sleep these days due to cold problem. Don't even have the time to visit the doctor. I am actually allergic to going to doctors but these days there has been a turnaround.

Isnt' it funny no matter how much we talk of gender equality, but it always play a role when one needs to get things done. And to be honest guys are at the receiving end coz they are ones who create it.

No matter how much I get my work done, my boss prefers to give even more. I think I am being mistaken for a machine. No wonder the machines will revolt one day. Guess I will be one to start with. 

At the end of the day, the only thing that I have is tiredness and sleepiness resting on my eyes for company which chooses to desert me when I need them the most in the night. :(

That bring to the point where I almost forget to mention the retirement of Rahul Dravid. Saw his press conference where he announced his retirement and then his speech and what makes me wonder, is that is he for real? Coz people like that are not made any more. 

To be at such a stature and still be humble and gracious to enough to remember everyone's contribution. Even though he never got his share of the limelight but people in the middle know that he was the backbone of the Indian cricket that they can rely on when no one could stay around in the field.

Hats off to him. Such people are rare and to witness them in action is indeed nothing short of a miracle.

Can anyone please explain why would one have a caller tune that other people can listen into but you cannot when they call you up. Still companies are making a moolah selling it. Don't know who is winning the company or the people.

When a man and women become good friends, is it because they have things in common or is it the beginning to get closer.

If you are wondering the question don't mind them, I keep asking them a lot even got myself compared to Paresh Rawal's character in Judaai.

Guess what, my neice also does the same :)

Day I: Sunday the Holiday

If you are wondering about me not posting, it because I was and am busy more than I want. The thought of posting something always came in the back of the mind but it never felt good enough to write.

Apparently my work has been keeping me busy almost every day almost making me feel that I run the company instead the other way around.

I have decided to break this non communication with my blog and for the next 30 days you will have to bear with me. Yes, I am going to write every day on my blog which also keeps me in the hook as I am not sure what I would write about. Do not take this as an April fool joke :)

Anyways to begin with, like I said people amuse me a lot. The way they act and react in certain situations, I guess at the end of the day it only shows our nature as a human being and being selfish at that.

I find it damn great when I find myself in the company of people who share my passion/hobby of watching movies. I again watched three movies in a day certainly not back to back. There are still more to go and I don’t have the time to watch :( Did watch one today though.

A perfect Sunday means getting up late in the morning. I could not do that as I tend to get my nose blocked in the night due to cold which keeps me awake in the night. Wonder if we could have more of these days. Envy the job of teachers who still get a vacation while people like me working in corporate need to apply for leave to do the same. Where are those days of vacation of all play and no work.

Vacation reminds me of an odd incident in Shirdi where three matured healthy women from a family were jumping lines by crossing over the barriers of the queue to be the early birds to see the god idol in person. It was really pathetic to see that the men accompanying the ladies were not saying anything. All this could happen only in India where truth does not need to be stranger than fiction.

Would really like to experiment living without a television, but guess that will keep me hooked to my PC. Isn't it true that we tend to spend more time watching it then with people around each other?

That will be all for today, will look forward towards Monday, my hangover day of the week………

Self Help Books

I am pretty sure that everyone must have read at least one book on self help whose purpose is to guide you to become what you desire to be and most of the times it is to be successful.

I have gone through my share of self help books which believe me more than helping out has only ended up confusing me more about how can one make themselves to be successful.

They all speak of the ways of life that needs to be followed. The path that other people had taken and the choices people made when they came across difficult situations and how they triumphant over it.

To be honest, to read such books and implementing them in one’s life can only be detrimental if one is not clear about what one is looking for.

After going through many self help books, I can only conclude that they make a good read but not for implementation purpose if one is looking for changes in their life one way or another.

I think that when one decides to bring change or work towards bringing changes to themselves or towards others/situation, they need to be honest about it. Truth be told, we should not forget that we are born as humans and not machines where we are trying to perfect our skills so that it could lead to accomplishment of certain goals.

We are born as humans, to live life, experience life and to lose that in our pursuit of our desires to succeed or to be just to see one live a good life is not worth it because every action/thought has a consequence and we should stay aware of the choices that we make.

My own experiences with these books have not been good. I am one who always looks to trying new things but to keep the focus going is hard to maintain. No matter how many books I read to keep myself going, it won’t happens unless I am determined to do so. So in the end it only tells you what one knew in the first place.

The way to get out of that habit is something that cannot be taught and has to be learned as everyone is different and unique in their own ways and have to find a way where they can adapt, learn and apply the changes one wants to see.

Self help books can guide one that yes it’s possible to overcome the challenges that one face in one’s life. It’s up to one how they take it and bring those changes in their life. Only a determined soul will be able to overcome the barriers.

If you are planning to buy a self help book for such a reason, don’t waste your money. You already know what is bogging you down, you just need to find a way to beat it and you certainly can….