When you are confused about something.. things around you happen to move faster than you expected.. and there are incessant rains....

Eagerly waiting for the sun to shine..

Temple Trauma

From Tirupati's Balaji to Mumbai's SiddhiVinayak and Haji Ali,to Katra's Vaishno Devi,its an unavoidable,tiring journey of sorts till the sanctum sanctorum.Serpentine queues,arrogant security guards,ill-mannered volunteers,hordes of flower sellers running after you,lakhs and lakhs of people and after you manage through all this,just a glimpse of the reigning deity.Once you enter the inner abode,you have to be extraordinarily active, as you are in for some serious multitasking."Look at the god",which is quite a task, given the number of heads moving in every possible direction(worse if you are vertically challenged)."Say a quick prayer",in my case I have to recall one which is an overhead."Keep away all the other thoughts",despite the fact that you have left your cam and fav slippers with the mithai wala.So,you take a deep breath,try hard to concentrate, shut out the noise around you,you close your eyes,and voilaaaa!! you are out the of the temple.
Makes me wonder at the whole purpose of such visits.A stark contrast from the serene atmosphere at the famous Golden temple in Amritsar.Can't the huge funds be used in a more
effective manner?

Spent last night watching Q.G. Murugan..one of the best sattires ever..With cool oneliners and unbelievably simple plot..it sure has its moments..Go watch it I say!!
And if you are a member at your local gym, don't miss the steam bath for anything in the world..Awesome :-)

Half Book Prince

Just watched this movie, (made out of a book), "The Kite Runner". Can't help grumbling what a shoddy work the movie is, not even an inch close to one of the most emotional stories I have read so far. There is this particular wedding scene, which is one of my favourite in the book, where in, the main character Aamir, is getting betrothed to Suraiya and, according to Afghan tradition, they look at each other's image in a mirror. Suraiya asks her husband, 'what do you see?', to which Aamir replies, 'The rest of my life'. In the movie, this scene was so tasteless.I wish someone, one day, will bring this beautiful sequence alive on the screen. May be, Divyanshu can give it a try. Ditto with Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. They made it a half book prince. Dumbeldore's death is so easy in the movie. But as it is everytime, I loved Emma Watson..

MJ .. where are you?

I and my maid share a peculiar relationship. I don't understand what she says, and she does'nt understand what I say, and yet, we are amicable, dependent. 

One day I asked her, where she came from, and somehow she understood the question. 

Bangladesh, she said. Her daughters live here and they got her to Mumbai, so that she could work as domestic help and earn money to save her ailing husband, who, along with their son, is still in Bangladesh. "Woh dono ricsaw chalata hai"."Aurat log ko wahan kaam nahi karne dete". "Isliye hum yahan ayee". I was already thanking God for all the freedom I enjoy.

Yesterday, she bunked. Today morning, she came, looked dizzy, did some work and requested my room mate to allow her to go. Her husband died yesterday. "Main kal aaon, aapko dikkat tho nahi?". None of us replied.

Throughout the day , I was thinking of her. Tomorrow, I will open the door for her, with a different attitude.

Went to dapoli beach for 2 days and just came back with a wonderful fresh feeling, and a golden brown tan, some good memories and a lingering thought of bunking office on monday.

Thanks to Sharada, Narsimha, Dayanand and company.

Beach was awesome, dolphins, sunset, box cricket and all, along with a funny dumb charades game.I will never forget the scene where Saji asked all girls to leave when Narasimha gave him the film "Itte-faq" to act upon. And then Sharada tried so hard, translated it into coin + dent, hinting at coincindence, Labesh came up with a brilliant "condom".

What was he thinking, a film by that title? And the walk in the middle of night,only by moonlight, when Deven showed his bhoot avatar!  All the Kishore Kumar and Rafi songs we screamed during on our way back...

All you guys rock, absolutely!

In the middle of all this, I listened to a beautiful Bryan Adams unplugged - in concert song.This song has always been my fav, but the violin in the concert version, takes me to a different level.

Listen to this song.."18 till I die..", my prayer!!

The original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl7E2MXSXlY&feature=channel_page

Unplugged:

http://www.4shared.com/dir/5485907/43af52ed/sharing.html