Ever noticed how beautiful she looks when she cries. Absolutely gorgeous.

But I wont let her cry again. Not if I can help it.

Another side to life

Who was the scariest person you met your entire life? Nah....Think again.

More than a month ago I was with my colleagues on a trip to the old age home. Technologists for Social Activity, that's what we call ourselves. We often have trips to such places - Shishu bhavan, Sri Lankan refugee residential school among others. This was my first.

His eyes were blood shot, he couldnt speak i suppose, he couldnt feed himself for sure. Dark and much heavier than me. Not someone you would look at, trust me. I'll stop with that.

So my friend and I were taking turns talking to some of them. One was a half british,he had a way of singing beautiful songs that reminded him of his life with his parents, one from England and the other from Mysore. Another was from my hometown and yet another who wouldn't stop talking.

We move on to this guy and he wouldnt acknowledge. There was a cold stare on his face. Maybe no one had ever been that close to him. The next thing we knew, he grabbed my friend by his hand. It took a moment for us to realise what had happened. We found the courage to comfort ourselves next to him. We tried talking - hindi,malayalam,tamil,english probably a word or two in kannada too and he wouldnt even blink. He'd just sit there. One half of my mind already got up from the chair. I was scared.

Another futile attempt and I decide it's time for me to leave. Then, out of no where he pulls my cheeck and feels his hands against his face. Come to think about it, I believe I've done atleast something good in life.

Still stuck up : with the same books

Song : In loving memory - Alter Bridge and I'm lovin it

Movies : The Departed - another hour

still thinking...

So I was riding back home from work and the road was wet. I wasnt driving exactly if you'd ask me. My mind was far far away from where I was.

I thought it was a good idea not wishing your best friend on his/her birthday. Just for the sake of making things different. You know she will be waiting for your call. She'll be thinking maybe it was because I've forgotten. That's how it starts. And then she'd start thinking maybe it was because I had slept off... or because I must have gotten into some kind of trouble. Or what if I really was too busy to remember? We havent talked...... and so it goes......

The best thing about it is how I'd plan to make up. Try to convince her that I had intended it to be that way. It'd be a let down if she isnt particular that I be the first one to wish her or that I wish her at all.

Well it hasnt exactly happened that way with me. For once I'd completely forgotten her birthday and was the last one to call her.This other time I wanted to be the first one to call and I'd do anything to hide my intentions, act as if I dont remember and then she reminds me that it's her birthday in 3 hrs. What a let down! It doesnt make a difference if I be the first or the last one to wish it seems. Implied, as long as I dont forget :)

book : The best of the Speaking Tree - India Times

song : I wanna be ;) (i remember the first time i heard the song)

I watch : Whose line is it anyway

and I have to give my CAT tom!

excuse

Dont just start blaming that guy for not following the rules. Who knows someone might have just robbed his helmet.

random thoughts.....

It feels good to be the fastest one on an open road, but then I start to think about life.

There's this refuelling station near my place, where you get cheated in the worst possible way. Two guys, one at the meter and the other with the nozzle. The second tries to cover you from seeing the meter and the other resets it before you get what you paid for.
I hope money is all those bastards make all their life!!

think different?

Why is it so difficult for people to act different? We are usually comfortable with what the majority follow. The plague has come a long way. Right from the clothes we wear, the things we say, the way we say it and even the way we think. Why is it so difficult to break a convention. Maybe because it is the easier way out??

That reminds me of Robert Frost...... ' Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I knew not which one to take ....... And I took the one less traversed by .....'

When it comes to selecting a laptop, so many people try to dissuade you in so many ways. You r mac will never have all the codecs.... not many softwares... not compatibe .... not that ..not this ...oh yeah! not that either. But i believe my next one's gonna be a mac...I hope it comes along real soon, and I'm not gonna let you touch it!

can I ask you something?

why is it that we do all that we do.? Why, do we lead this life the way we do?

I often make this random comment in the middle of a serious conversation that makes no sense to anyone. Not even to me, and I never wait for the look.... That's the tounge inside my mouth and I thought I might as well, use it. What difference does it make if I speak sense or not. Is there a rule that says you are not allowed to speak so and so after so and so? Why doesnt the same look follow after I speak something that makes sense? Why are there rules????


Movies : 'Pyar Ke Side Effects' and 'Woh Lamhe'
I am happy that there are so many good/decent hindi movies being released so often.

Book : 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Music : Kya Mujhe Pyar Hai, Wake me up when september ends

come to think about it.......

Think about the number of times you take your loved ones for granted. I'm writing this as i see a Samsung, Nokia and Reliance ad in a sequence.Allthree talk about why having a colour phone with polyphonic ring tones is so much more cooler.

A couple of months back my dad bought a sleek phone with all those funky features. He never mentioned whom it was for. Yeah it was for the family alright.

I've been using my mob for about 4 yrs now and I'm telling you it looks cool. Yeah after 4 yrs! But that doesnt imply that I shouldn't have second thoughts. After all, I did have to give mine a good repair. The speaker phone wasnt functioning. I'd have lived without it, until my friend on the other end couldn't hear me anymore!!

My mom has been using this old fashioned phone for more than 2 yrs and I knew she wasnt too comfortable with it. Atleast she never used to flaunt it like most of us did. And as always she never had a prob with me taking the new one. After all it was meant for me, or so she thought.

I asked her to keep it until I left for work,which was only a few months away.

I joined for work 3 months back and I still use the black and white phone. I'm glad I never took the phone from her. Probably it wouldn't have made much of a difference to her. She would have loved me still the same. But to me, it does.


Books : 'It's not about the bike' - Lance Armstrong
'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' - Robert Kiyosaki

Music : Hips dont lie - Shakira

Movie : Pyar Ke Side Effects (^)