Back agen..(Hopefully)...

it's been a vearrryyy looooong looong time since i posted last or even read any blogs.... sudden turn of events in life... some unforeseen circumstances,some positive and the others not so for the positive have taken up all o my time these past two months... Hopefully (fingers crossed).. i should be able to write down regularly henceforth...!!!!!

It's always good to be back... It's like making a comeback i guess....!!!

Cheers....!!! Keep smiling...
S.

Interest..rather the Loss of it...work sucks...

I dunno why.. but I've lost interest in work... I don't luv this job anymore.. Maybe it's time i get myself a change.. change of work.. change of atmosphere... Will a break work... i don't think so..


But why..? various reasons maybe... this job is no more challenging..neither physically nor intellectually... doesn't trouble my stupid brain anymore... the atmosphere here is gloomy.. Global recession... but my company is still doing well..though they are worst ever paymasters...maybe that's a reason..


Progress here is way too slow.. they always fall behind.. with me working at my pace.. i kinda work with the speed of thought flow.. these people come in a week.. no a month later... and to top all of it.. the management or the so called people who constitute the management have all gone insane... and way too much chaos around..


I need to go a long long way.... not this way... that's for sure.. I can't work like this anymore.. that passion.. that zest.. zeal to work here is no more there..

Am quitting..... Adios ....!!!!


Cheers..!
S

Happy Deepavali...!!!!

Just a couple of hours and it'll be yet another joyous day in India.... with the whole of the country getting together to celebrate the festival of Lights...
I don't quite understand the term "Diwali" which i guess is just a corrupted form of the word "Deepavali"...
Deepavali actually when split up is - deepasya aavali iti deepavali.. it actually in Sanskrit means a row/ pattern of lights...

Deepavali is one such day when our homes/lives is filled with goody goody stuff.... sweets.. new clothes.. crackers...near ones.. and sweet memories.... from the days i was a little kid till today.. i guess i have evolved with years....learnt with time and experience... and deepavali and the preparations onto deepavali teach you a lot...

I do not wish to take this post onto a sober note on a to- be beautiful day... ultimately what i feel is that deepavali is not just to light up our homes with diyas... it's more to light up or brighten somebody else's life every year.. year after year... how to get to that on a serious , full-fledged note.. i shall post some other time... but we can for sure contribute in small ways during these festivals..

Just to share somethings we can do on the run - up to deepavali...(at least i do)

1.Crackers are a total No- No.. i shall have nothing to do with child labour... crackers get in when there's not one single child involved in it's manufacture.

2.It's not just that we buy clothes only during deepavali.. we buy them all through the year..whenever we need them... But for deepavali, i've made it a point to buy atleast 1 Khadi shirt every year in support of the numerous SHG that manufacture them... that little amount i spend on one shirt goes to one small family and might feed them for just one day.. but still for them it counts so much.. and it's such a comfy wear for me every summer...

3.All the money i get from elders as aashirwaad during deepavali goes to support some noble cause... not necessarily for charity... Last year it went to "The trust".. lets see what happens this year...

4.A share of all savouries and sweets prepared in our home make their way to an old aged home nearby.. just to share our happiness with those elderly people deserted by their well -to-do sons and daughters...

5.The ration shops or the (UN)Fair price shops as they are called in Tamilnadu.. sell a lot of stuff... rice,sugar,wheat,palm oil,all kinds of dal,wheat flour,rava,jeera and what not.. We do not buy all of these..just the rice and sugar suffices our needs.. but since all the items are available at a much cheaper price than with other grocers, we make it a point to buy all of them and donate them away to whoever needs them.. out watchman .. servant maid... or just anybody..

I know these are very small things to me or us rather... but for others it makes such a huge difference in the way it helps them celebrate the festival.. for some others it may just give them a day's lively hood.. i don't even know if it will.. but still i wish , hope and pray it reaches out to someone in a small way... at least.... and that what Deepavali is all about.... making the world a better place to live .... bringing a smile onto people's faces...!!!! Lightening somebody's life...!!

Happy Deepavali..... Deepavali Nal-Vaazhthukkal.....!!!!

Cheers...!!
S

Got an Attitude... carry it off....

It was raining heavily out here in chennai yesterday.. and it still is... yesterday it was quite a heavy downpour.. i was stuck at this friend's place of mine and both of us were forced to take a bus to this place called "adayar" for some work...


so we got into this bus... buses in chennai have seats demarcated for men and women separately.. i guess it's the same everywhere.. so all seats in the men's side were taken.. and as there were no women standees, us and a couple of other males sat down on the women's section.. and in totality the bus was like exactly full... no vacant seats.. and nobody standing..


at an intermediate stop, two middle aged ladies boarded the bus.. we got up to offer them the seat before they could ask for.. for which they said they were comfortable standing... one of them gave us her bag to hold it for her.. so we were seated again...


so at the next stop , a girl.. she must have been in her late teens i guess... a college goer maybe.. even as the bus approached the stop.. she was staring at me and my friend.. so did it seem to both of us... her glare was something like.." you guys are using up the Ladies seat"...


so when she got into the bus.. both of us got up to give her the seat .. even as we were getting up.. this girl said//"ladies seat"....


we gave her her seat which was her birthright i know.. and we got the glare of our lifetimes in return... for having been seated in "her" seat till then.. we gave the other lady's bag back to them... they requested this girl to hold it for them..... and this girl retorted back.." not my bag"... and that was not very polite too i guess..


who cares whatever...me and my buddy were standing and chatting away on something else... the thing about bus conductors in chennai is that you need to go to them to buy yourself a ticket... conductors don't come to you..


So this girl took out a Rs.10 note, handing it over to the conductor, near whom we were standing.. and said "one velachery"...


now the funny part is velacherry was in the direction right opposite to where this bus would go... it's like a T junction where you take a left to adayar and a right to velacherry...so she was obviously in the wrong bus... the conductor said.." velachery pogadu ma".. meaning this bus doesn't go to velacherry...


she said" one checkpost then"... i giggled... everyone around was giggling... [ checkpost was a place enroute velacherry and was nowhere in the route of this bus again..!!]the conductor shouted back..." do you even know where this bus is going... you get into the bus at 7 in the morning and make my life hell,, this is 21 G "..


This was enough to feed words into my mouth... I commented generically.."bus la earum pozhudu... board ah pathu earanum.. ladies seat la yaaru ukkandirukkanu pathu eara koodadhu..." ... which transliterates as.. " board a bus looking at the board.. not looking at who's occupying the ladies seat"...


Everybody in the bus laughed... passengers , conductor and all... though i felt sorry for this poor girl who got onto a wrong bus on one hellova nasty rainy day... i know how tough it is ...


but if you've got this kind of an attitude... better learn to carry it off....!!!


and this girl was gotten out of the bus mid-way by the conductor... maybe she learnt her lesson the hard way..!!/


Cheers..!!
S

on the beach.. a full moon night...and it's drizzling light...

It poured quite heavily this afternoon here in chennai... and was quite sunny in the evening wen i guess the clouds had decided to go home to rest after nearly 3 days of heavy rain..

As i walked home from work.. the full moon in the sky... made me want to go to the beach...
reaching home to just drop my lappy and freshen up...
i strolled my way to the beach... found a nice catamaran over the beachfront... made myself all comfy.. the waves kissing my feet everytime they rose to touch the shore... all alone... solitude s bliss... watching the odd light from a ship passing far away... close to the horizon...the light from the light house behind me doing the regular rounds extending upto sea..

Listening to the sound of the waves.. recollecting sweet memories.. memorable times spent at the beach.. wid buddies.. siblings... family.. other special people in life.. n wid myself...
totally lost track of time..

a sudden light drizzle adds to the flutter of the waves...brings me back to reality... i turn on my mobile to listen...to my favourite melodies.. sweet memories.. on the beach.. and the full moon in sight..... Romantic.... am feeling happy and light...

i walk my way home.. partially drenched... who cares... the last 2 hours were bliss...

Cheers...!!!

S

Differently-abled..... ????

Every morning... on my way to work.. i walk something around 3 Km... which is d distance between home n office.... i start early.. walk at my own pace... enjoyin n observing people n stuff around me.....people racing against time .. to get to work... the metro trains... children on their way to school... restaurants buzzing with activity .... the odd cow drawn cart.. the cobbler spreading out his tools.. expecting business for d day...from sum1 like me who walks by....

it was sometime back.. long back i guess...3-4 months ago.. i saw this Blind person... i'd rather call him a person with a third eye.... lets call him DA... ok... walking slowly.. slower than me... with his stick or whatever.... u call it.. i dunno the name.... on the same way to my office....
dunno wat came about me.. i just offered to help him on his way..... so here was i.. escorting DA to wherever he intented to go.... n left him somewhere he wanted to go... that was that....
we didn't exchange words.. not even 1.. other than the place wer he was going and a heartfelt "thanks" from him....

i had totally forgotten abt this incident... wen this monday.. i happened to see this person..another third eyed.. i didn't even recognize his face... so dumb of me... when i offered to help him.. his happily agreed.... i held his hand... and we had just taken a few steps together when he stopped.... turned as if to look at me n said .. "sir.. have you helped be once before...?"
i was like"err.. i don remember..."
he shot back at me saying.. "i know u've helped me out before.. i can feel ur hand... it's d same..... mayb u don't recollect me..."...

i was dumfound.... neverthless i asked him where he was going when he said"just hold my hand sir.. i'll tell u d directions"..we started walking again...i let myself be guided by this person to a common junction..where we parted ways... and i reached office... that whole morning.. i couldn't concentrate on work.. coming to think of this incident... can sumone who just held my hand for 10 mins.. 4 months ago... recognize me...? just by touch...

what is this guy... Blind.... No way........!! i don't think he considers the fact that he can't see as a disability.. i won't b able to recognize someone lik tattt... will i b able to tell a Rs.100 note from a Rs.500 note.. blindfolded... No way..... But i guess he can ....
I admire the sheer will power of these people to take on life.....!!!! It's just child's play for them....

and what am i cribbing for in life haan..... i need no goddamn reason to crib.. i just need to be grateful to lord almighty for all the good things in life...!!! Dhanyosmi....!!!

Cheers..!!
S

New year.. New post...!!!!!

It's the newyear..the time of the year in which each of us wishes that the new year brings us joy,success,fullfilment,satisfaction,we get to achieve our goals/aspirations/desires..... In short everyone of us wishes that the new year be better than prevoius years.... :)

True...everyone wishes alike..and there are lotsa new year resolutions going around....some worthy..some worthless..some meaningful..some totally meaningless...I personally have never believed in new year resolutions.. if u wanna do it..u will do it inspite of whether it's new year or not...But till today..i've heard of new year resolutions where people say.. am gonna achieve this..am gonna stop drinkin..am gonna study...and all sorts things where people are concerned n engrossed in more of themselves than others...

Have heard very few people say.. am gonna help more people this year...am gonna do service in an orphanage...am gonna a poor child study.... very few..very rare...

All this on one side..let's try to contribute more to society with every passing year.. lets learn from our mistakes of previous years.and start treading another long rather very short year on this learning curve...!!!!
This learning curve of the past is wat we call experience...by which we mature..with every passing year...!!!

What i try to do with every passing day/month/year.. rather at every opportunity,i try my hands at anythin new...with the fast pace of this world today..we need to be multifaceted...
gone are the times wher one is called a "Jack of all trade,and master of none"...

the era of "jack of all trades" has started.... and they are the one who r gonna rule , hav a say n hav their way in the near future 2 come....!!!

Cheers..!!!

A Preamble...

I know this has been pending for a very long time.. Firstly i didn't find the time.. when i found time and a good topic to post..it found itself a faar better place than in here to post itself.. :) so i thought i'd just make a beginning here.. write somethin.. coz once you start.. it goes on with the flow... it's actually raining outside, a chilly tuesday evening n i'm stuck in office..unable to go home..waitin for the rain to stop... just called up an old pal of mine.. i do this often... callin up my pals n keepin in touch.. coz we tend to lose touch wid friends as we move on in life....

school friends..college friends...old sports mates...neighbours.. colleagues.... the list just keeps on adding.. and at each and every step u find a few ppl wid whom u'd like to maintain touch...
it's alwasys nice to hear the voice of old friends..hear them laughin and coughing... catchin up wid old stuff.... N this frind of mine asked if i still used to write as i did in school.... so it reminded me tat my blog was out there wid it's title n nothin in it... :)

so i've atleast put something in here... btw.. i really dunno y i chose "tat-tvam-asi" as the title... i jus lik the title....it's got a gr8 meanin behind it.. which i'll write about later... it's kinda too philosophical n religious 2 write abt in a first post u c... it just means "that-thou-art"...the same phrase is written at the entrance to the shrine in sabari malai..

so i'd leave it at that for you to guess the real meaning behind it...!!!!
c ya soon cheers.....!!!!