This is Life!

omg!!!! we complete EIGHT years of wedding bliss (??!!) tomorrow! Now isn't that a commendable achievement!

nothing much happening - we took Ashna to see the "Circus" - it was fun!

saw "page 3" in the typical 11:30 PM slot that we usually do. Initial thots were - this is not my kind of movie cos I have nothing to do with journalism. But at the end of it I really liked it - it was very different from the usual bollywood movies and it seemed pretty real. I loved sandhya mridul's performance the most even tho she wasn't in the lead role.

coming back to real world and matching what was portrayed in page 3 – I conclude that the world is indeed full of “BIG” hypocrites. I stood there like a fool smiling a silly “don’t-know-what-to-do” smile when I was actually shocked at the extent of diplomacy being shown. Someone I looked up on as a very credible person also fell prey to sweet talks or at least pretended to.. I don’t know if we were all there representing a body who is supposed to be neutral and ensure some basic security and harmony in the neighborhood or were we there to just save our skin and get away. And after two days all of us including the same hypocrites and the culprits who are the best sweet-talkers I’ve met, will stand and sing the national anthem as if nothing happened and we live here in harmony.

Never mind the cryptic rambling above… lemme begin work it’s Monday noon and I have only attended meetings till now.

2 things again:

(i) i hate rumors and people who love gossip - love to make a mountain of a mole hill - wrap small events with their own frills and portray a story which is altogether different. give me a chance and I would ensure that i fix it somehow! it's very natural for a person to get angry when his/her reputation is being damaged - but donno why i tend to get irritated when i see it being done to someone else too. so for anyone and everyone who knows me - please don't throw any gossip to me and don't casually play around with peoples images in front of me - it won't be well taken!

(ii) i wonder who's idea it was to put the ac control -for the area i sit in at work in the men's rest room. it gets so cold now and then and it gets even worse cos I have to ask someone to increase the temp. why should any of the ac's control be in any of the rest rooms!

even today i like this song pyaar ke pal as i did earlier. i've been hearing it in full volume like I used to.

God bless MSEB who religously shuts down power in MIDC on thursdays til 6:00 pm and I get some time from hubby. Even if it means I need to get out of office in the middle of an almost middle of the week-day and even if it means that i almost had to have a double lunch - because he decides to have lunch with me after I've already had it :-) Now that's what I call a really long confusing sentence!

have you ever felt stateless, lifeless, emotionless, *less? that too for no rhyme or reason!

my one and only bhai is here for two days -lets see how much time I get to be with him. we will be celebrating lohri in advance today night cos he's going back tomorrow :-)

I had the heavenly thing called "barista blast" at barista today, priced at a whopping eighty one bucks (!!) - but I guess it's worth having some times.

and this is the blog of my colleague and friend.

why does anyone who start a blog after seeing mine add a z like me viniz.blogspot.
there was sonuz.blogspot, sanjayz.blogspot and now subbuz.blogspot :-) Out of these Subbu looks to be relatively more active in the blog world than the first two who started and fizzled out :-)

work we all got to; so much better if done with a smile. well almost always!

allah ke bande hasde - jo bhi hoga kal phir aayega!

Missed me that I completed a year of blogging two days back!
My first post of "My world" :-)

There's this generation of people for whom their children are everything and they did not see in their worst nightmares that their children would leave them alone in the dusk of life.

And there's our generation who know for sure that they are going to be alone in their old age and do not expect too much from the next generation.

Stories of people leaving their parents to die are so common these days, but when you see something happening in front of you - you feel a mix of anger, helplessness and it's a good time to remind yourself to never behave so selfishly.

So there's this nobel old lady "amma" a distant relative in my extended family - who has mostly lived with her two younger sons in her native place. The eldest is in Pune and she was "sent" here by her younger sonse. As it is with most old people - they prefer living in their own environment and don't like changes after an age.. she too wanted to go back to her native place after living here for some time. Her Pune son and family are a gem and wouldn't ever force her to go - but soon they realised she was not wanted back there. They hid it from her as far as possible and convinced her to stay - but ultimately she did come to know the reality. She started torturing herself by sleeping on the floor in this winter - taking a cold water bath and many other things to deliberately fall sick. She's been in the ICU for 10 days now and her younger sons have ignored the whole thing, and are probably worrying that they may need to pay for her hospital expenses if they come here. Her recovery is extremely slow and the main reason could be that she does not want to get well - there isn't a will in her to get well.

How just how can anyone do this to their parents?

It angers me and saddens me terribly to see something like this today.. at the same time I pray to God that "whatever" happens we don't become insensitive like them to ever do anything even remotely resembling this situation.

And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.

-- Ezra Pound

ok, so I got the first scratch on my 25 day old car today :-( It's not too big but clearly visible and it's from a wall surface while parking in office. I know someday it has to have a dent /scratch - I was just anxious that the first one is not too big - so that's taken care of.

Meanwhile my best friend from childhood - Rinku, became the mother of a very sweet and adorable baby boy and just seeing his pic in my mailbox this morning, made my otherwise pathetic mood a shade better. So why don't you guys also have a look at this sweet lil bundle :-)





Arsh - 1 day old 

for myself..

On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits
of action be thy motive,
Nor be thy attachment to inaction.