24 down...a long way to go

Amidst all the confusion, chaos, panic and disorder I managed to survive for 24 years on the surface of this ever changing planet....
Its come with its share of uncertainties and unexpected turns of luck and Fate.

As I celebrate my Silver Jubilee this month…I have a very warm feeling in my heart and a feeling of wanted ness brings a smile across my face.

The reason for all this…
- one person
- two lettered name
- three little words she told me …

A bundle of joy as I call her, she’s Su…..the girl I adore so much….and thank god over n over again for giving us each other….

I strongly believe that people come into our life for a reason and if you believe in our instincts …..you’ll know why they stepped into your life…

I have found the girl I wanna spend the rest of my life with and settle down with. Its been awesome knowing her and we’re planning to marry soon…..people who just read that last line will surely be invited to our marriage… :)

An interesting thing about an earlier post of mine… “Into the New Year” which I wrote on Jan 9^th had the following lines… "Never go in search of love....let love find you....and that’s why its called Falling in Love...you don’t know how....but you just fall "..........

Unbelievably…Jan 9^th happens to be the birthday of Su and when I wrote that post, we hadn’t met ….call it co-incidence or a divine sign of hope…well….I stick to the latter.

Every Life has a story...What's mine?

Life's been good to me....Am planning to write a series of blogs with stuff that has happened to me over the past 24 years.....sounds scary?...nevertheless....I bet its an interesting one...cause my life's very different from any of the people I have met or known. What I am today is a dream of sorts....Not that I have achieved something humongous ...but its something I want the small circle of readers of my blog to know.....Will update this every weekend....I know its gonna take a lot out of you...but hang on :-)
Will start this this weekend....

The wait continues . . .

My morning mails....

My latest craze is sending my own personal Morning mails for the people I know.....Off late, I realised ...people actually tend to like my photography skills....and this pushed me to do this with more interest.... I attach inspirational quotes or anything catchy and put it over a photo that I have clicked...and send it with a copyright symbol... :-) herez the sample...


A lot of people have told me its goooood...and they really love the idea....well....the point is how long am i gonna do this....considering I get bored doing the same stuff very easily....lets see...

The stage is set....

"Dramanon"(Dramatics Anonymous) happened in August .....The theater group from manipal were here to audition for their next Production in Bangalore. I went for the auditions and got selected for the cast ...can u believe that??..its loads of fun....
We're doign an English play called "The Original last wish baby" - OLWB in short......in the month of Jan.
We practice every weekend and on one weekday....
The practice is full of fun and frolic....Its so satisfying to do something you want to do and its really lucky to get an oppurtunity coming ur way easily....
Well ...looking forward to my first ever Professional theater work....

Is it me or my laziness....

Call it laziness.....call it lack of inspiration.....whatever....but am just not able to get myself to my Laptop to blog a lotta things that I wanna share with my world.....well....I have made up my mind to get this blog going .......
I have loads of stuff to tell ya guyz....but its gonna take a lotta posts...so until I consolidate all of 'em into a few posts....the wait will have to continue....

My Postman uncle....

Tring! ! Tring! ! ....Thats the sound which brings back memories of My postman uncle....i used to wait at the gate for that special Greeting from relatives....or some unexpected parcel....or a letter from my friend.....The traditional blue coloured paper which once got so much of joy and laughter along with it has now become extinct...
This thought crossed my mind as I was looking out through the window of my bus on my way back from office...it was one of those sleepless bus rides back home....I observed a Postman collecting a bunch of letters...just a hand full of 'em...
I really felt sad that technology has brought a lotta changes to our lives and surely to the life of a poor postman......
The once glowing face of my postman uncle has changed forever...and so has the lives of a thousand postmen in India....
They say nothing lasts forever....email is gonan be history one day....but when?...who knows?.....

paradise lake......

We visit a thousand places in a lifetime....but only a few remain as an everlasting image in our beautiful mind......one of those places which would remain with me is the lake near my house.....
Its the perfect place for a casual walk or a romatic talk......
I luckily happened to experience both :o)

Water has a very soothing effect in more ways than one.....therez something mesmerizing about the pleasant breeze blowing against my face n making my hair a beautiful mess.......I feel relaxed the minute I go to that place.....the sudden silence puts all my stressed nerves to rest.....
there were days when I used to go to the lake n sit by the Concrete Banks......thinking of my future...my life n a whole lot of things that keep bothering me when I'm low.......well...all of us find our own way of getting rid of the complexities our brain wanders off into often.....this is how I do it....

I recently had the most amazing experince ....an experince of a different kind....
After a perfect day with the person I adore the most, I happened to get a chance to take her to this little paradise of mine.....as we sat there.....I looked at her hair making waves, as if they were thrilled n enjoyed the breeze blowing against them....n her pretty face lit up in the only source of light which came from a lamp post.......her voice so musical that it could make Mozart speechless....she spoke so softly that it would make the chirping crickets stop their racket n curious to listen to what she wanted to say.....it truely felt like heaven....

It was a wonderful moment.......that i wished I could freeze in time n keep with me forever........

The brighter side.....

There are times when u have this strange feeling of losing things that you value the most...it could be ur dream job, ur dream girl or could even be the smallest of things like the best message you have ever gotten on ur phone or even the best mail that u have ever received by someone very important in ur life......
Well......therez just one thing for sure......Everythign in Life happens for a reason.....Good or Bad....Destiny plays an important role in everyonez lives......Some call it Destiny, some call it luck or some even call it God's grace......its something beyond our understanding.....

I have noticed in more instances than one that every Sad moment in life is followed by a moment which is twice as happier.....it has happened to me many times.....we just need to understand that life always offers us what we deserve.....

So.....leave all ur trouble tickets behind...n Enjoy what life has to offer.....

A year n climbing ....

Phew! ! ......I finally finished one amazing year in Infy....joined this place on 23rd May 2005.....Didnt have a great start...but things fell into place later on...considering, I was forced to Love coding......well.....it isnt too bad now... thankfully...


Have learnt a lot, certainly not technically.....but I did figure out how these IT Hives...manage to do so much Software in such a short time....
Life has certainly changed for the good.........I finally have a steady job, cool bike, a funky Digital camera, loving parents, amazing bunch of friends, unusually easy going relatives n of course........my Brand new Laptop.....n to all the people who actually thought I was talkin about a girl in my previous posts.....well....just hang on for some more time...may be u guyz r right ;o)....but as of now....i was talking only about my Laptop that I bought recently.....
Switching on a Comp is no longer boring.....n thats the best part.....I'm loving it.....learnin Photoshop.....its one neat tool....feel great to get my hands on it....


well.....its been a very eventful year in the IT Industry for me....n I always dreamt of working in a Company like Infosys......but once here, I realise that there are greener grass out there....hmmm.....They say a man's greed is endless......n I top the list on that :o)

Have a great weekend comin up.....so looking forward to it....
To all my fellow Bloggers.....you would surely agree that the completion of the first year in any job.....makes u feel goooooooood.....

Take my hand...

Touch my heart and I'll touch yours.
With a gentle word or two,
For kindness bears the sweetest fruit
That makes our dream come true.
Touch my heart with tenderness
And fill my cup with love.
Share my dreams as I share yours
Beyond the stars above.
Take my hand, as I grow old
and lend me when I'm blind.
Show me that you really care
Good friends are hard to find.
Touch my heart and I'll touch yours
A little more each day.
And then we both find happiness
Somewhere along the way...

A perfect evening......

I had one of the most amazing evenings of my life today.....therez this feeling of completeness in me all of a sudden....... I left office early and spent the entire evening with the new person in my life....it was an awesome time....I get so lost in her that I sometimes become speechless..Shez so much a part of me now....
to all the people who r still wondering who I am talkin about....just hang on....am gonna introduce her to the world shortly....

Mid-Week crisis....

Its another gloomy wednesday afternoon at work, I call it the post-lunch session........Its the most boring part of the week....n all u want to do is sleeeeep....
This is exactly what happens when you havent started the week very great, n u know that the days to come aren't gonna be any more eventful.........
Frankly Getting into a job changes it all........your mannerism, your attitude, your responsiblitly, your habits.......may be not intentionally, but unknowingly, your sub-conscious mind starts behaving in ways you would normally never have dreamt of....

Just a small example of how the standard conversation goes between two very good friends who you once spent 10 hours in a day during college days .....


friend 1 : Hey pal, how are you?

friend 2 : I'm fine man.....what about you?....long time....

friend 1 : yeah....i know.....I'm doing great.....howz work?( The cliche dialogue of all the IT professionals )

friend 2 : (After a short pause.....indication that hez gonna lie)....yeah, work's fine, a bit hectic sometimes ( which is the biggest lie of the mellinium, cause all he does all day is chat with some stranger across the globe whom he hasnt even seen)...

friend 1 : Oh...ic, work's pretty hectic for me too (trying to justify that he's not to be blamed for not keeping in touch)

friend 2 : Oh...ok ....well take care man....i need to rush to a meeting now.....(usually a lie, a quick getaway statement)

friend 1 : ya ...sure carry on....keep in touch...(with a smile)

friend 2 : you too man...(with the same dumb-not again smile)

This is what Work has sadly done to us all......

Its a funny feeling, cause all through our school n college life, we want to grow big and have our own money, our own freedom and do things or way.......but once we r here, we wanna desperately go back to our good ol' college days and live the same carefree life, where all of us surely had less money but had more happiness to give to the people around us.....unlike recent times, where we have so much money but very little happiness to keep ourselves going.......let alone the people around us......

I call this the Mid-week crisis cause such thoughts usually creep up ur head during these odd hours of the Week.......n you just helplessly laugh at yourself n the work that you're doing....

laziness rulezzzzzz

its been 2 weeks now n i still cherish every minute of the Tadiyandamol trek...its was Awesome....Im gonna write abt it soon....but i have so much to say abt it...that i don know where to start....will post abt the trek soon...
One small piece of info for all u people out there......therez gonna be a new entry in my life soon.....the one I have been waiting for quite sometime now.......
Shez beautiful.....just can't wait to get her in my life n then will reveal her to the world......so hang on ;o)

Thadiyandamol, here i come ! !

Yuhoooo......am finally going for the trek... :)
Everything's planned well n we would be leaving at 23:00 today......
7 of us goin this time.....
running short of words to post because of the excitement :op ...will post back when I have loads to tell about the place n the trekking experience...so until then....Aloha !!

A better tomorrow................

If tomorrow you wake up and find yourself smiling,
are you thinking of me?

If tomorrow you look at your garden,
will you see us walking hand in hand?

If tomorrow you sit for your dinner at the table and look at the adjacent chair,
will you wish I was there?

If tomorrow you open the door,
will you be expecting me at the doorstep?

If tomorrow you walk on the road and look at a house,
are you wondering about the one we might own?

If tomorrow your phone rings,
will you want it to be me on the other end?

If tomorrow you impatiently open your mailbox,
are you hoping to see my mails?

If tomorrow you look out of the window and see your neighbours kid play,
will you be thinking about ours?

If tomorrow you sit for a minute to pray,
will you also pray for me?

If tomorrow you have a great news to share,
will I be the first one to hear it?

If tomorrow I get down on my knees with a bunch of red roses and ask you to be mine forever,
will you close your eyes and say an yes?

For all the tomorrows I have dreamt of,
theres this today that's passing by,
inching ever second closer to the tomorrow you will walk into,
and if tomorrow comes,
will you think about an ''US'' like I do?

Cant wait for the Weekend....

The best way to start a hectic week at work is knowing u have a brilliant weekend planned....especially...if its longer than the usual 2 days that we techies get.....this time its gonna be a 3 day long weekend... :o)

Am planning to go to Tadiandamol.....its enroute to Coorg....a neat 6 hour drive from Bangalore...well....thats about all i know as of now.... :o) but cant wait to get to that place....the snaps of that place were sent to me by my pal raghu......n was blown off by the scenic beauty there.....hmmmm


Its been quite sometime that i actually trekked with friends...did a lot of travellin last year...but mostly with my parents...so its good to get out with friends n do what u like doing ........
More updates on this exciting weekend getaway in posts to come

Saturday blues......

shucks ! ! ....cant believe I made it to office today :(...its such a pain gettin urself out of bed on a Saturday n get to work as if it were just any other weekday....plannin to leave early today....
Thankfully have a great weekend planned for the next week cause the 1st of May is a holiday n i get 3 full days :).....
Therez a trekking plan in the pipeline......more about it in the posts to come...
To all the people who are workin today.....its just one of those days people! ! ....let it pass :o)

A lazy friday afternoon

Its just another boring Friday afternoon...not much work n i have been looking at the clock forever....waiting for the official working day to end.....n make my getaway from this mad work place.....

The sad plight of we techies is that we wait all week for the weekend n when it arrives, we have nothing to do except getting bored sittin at home or hang out with the wrong people n trying to start a conversation with losers, who can think only about work...( yup, am surely talkin about some of my office colleagues at the sad team outings we have) n we feel we were better at our own den in office....where each one of us have our own online personality which i call the Online social-life.....

Just the thought of not having access to the net even for a day scares me....I would certainly go crazy n so would half a million IT chaps who literaly live on the cyber web.....i know a fella who checks his mail every 5 minutes n the unbelievable part is ...he actually does get 2 mails in 5 minutes....

hmmm.......It gets really boring in here sometimes....am still waitin for the clock to show me the time i want to see...... :(

Some tunes live on........................

I hear over a hundred songs in a day......but there r few songs i would never get tired of listenin to...its probably because the song reminds you of moments that u would like to cherish all ur life...or maybe its because u relate to the lyrics so much that u feel the song writer had u on his mind when he penned the song down.....

one such song is "Bed of Roses" by Bonjovi.......
here are the lyrics.....

"Bed of roses"

Sitting here wasted and wounded
At this old piano
Trying hard to capture
The moment this morning I don’t know
’cause a bottle of vodka
Is still lodged in my head
And some blond gave me nightmares
I think she’s still in my bed
As I dream about movies
They won’t make of me when I’m dead

With an ironclad fist I wake up and
French kiss the morning
While some marching band keeps
Its own beat in my head
While we’re talking
About all of the things that I long to believe
About love and the truth and
What you mean to me
And the truth is baby you’re all that I need

I want to lay you on a bed of roses
For tonite I sleep on a bed on nails
I want to be just as close as the holy ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

Well I’m so far away
That each step that I take is on my way home
A king’s ransom in dimes I’d given each night
Just to see through this payphone
Still I run out of time
Or it’s hard to get through
Till the bird on the wire flies me back to you
I’ll just close my eyes and whisper,
Baby blind love is true

I want to lay you down on a bed of roses
For tonite I sleep on a bed on nails
I want to be just as close as the holy ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

The hotel bar hangover whiskey’s gone dry
The barkeeper’s wig’s crooked
And she’s giving me the eye
I might have said yeah
But I laughed so hard I think I died

When you close your eyes
Know I’ll be thinking about you
While my mistress she calls me
To stand in her spotlight again
Tonite I won’t be alone
But you know that don’t
Mean I’m not lonely I’ve got nothing to prove
For it’s you that I’d die to defend

I want to lay you down on a bed of roses
For tonite I sleep on a bed on nails
I want to be just as close as the holy ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

Fanatic Fans....

A week has gone by after the Thespian Dr.Rajkumar passed away......A very talented man with over 200 movies under his belt......
All said n done....it really hurts to talk about the bad scene of riots which occured almost instantly. Bangalore witnessed chaos, panic n disorder........sadly though im putting a few snaps of the disturbing scenes which happened in our very own Bengaluru....

Sad but true ! !

An angry mob doesnt have a brain...

Another example of poor planning and an incapable Government....
The whole riots thingy was so pointless....cant believe people call it mourning......

Was surprised there were so many jobless people in town.....
Its not that the things which happened in Bangalore does not, or will not happen else where in India. Whenever such sad incidents happen there are thousands of people who are sad and want to pay last regards to their hero. But jobless people always find ways to disrupt the peace during these times. Its just shear frustration of some young people who have got no direction in life and have each and every thing to blame, for their failure in life, about ( Govt, Police, Employment condition, IT peoples earnings, infrastructure etc ) and who take advantage of such situations and vent their frustration...

A Police Vehicle burns......

Hope things change one day n people react to things like this in a normal way.......
well its still a hope.... ! !

I wish........

I wish I could tell you how much I love you.....
When I close my eyes I see you.....
When I open my eyes.....I long to see you.....
Even when you are not near me.....
I feel you in everything that surrounds me.....
Every minute, every second .. all the time..
My eyes search only for you everytime.....

Call it love...madness or just my heartbeats.....
A lot of people have loved before.....
But my love stands apart because they don’t have you.....
I can’t ever forget you.....
n never want to......
You are mine and will love you forever.....

small talk.....

This happened a couple of days back.......

was chatting with my chum in a pub after work.

my friend: "Guess what, mate, yesterday, I met this gorgeous blonde girl in a bar."

me: "What did you do?"

my friend: "Well, I invited her over to my place, we had a couple of drinks, we got into the mood and then she suddenly asked me to make her feel special"

me: "You're kidding me!"

my friend: "I then I lifted her and put her on my desk next to my new laptop."

me: "Really? You got a new laptop? What configuration?"

my friend: "It's a 1 GB RAM and mobile internet connectivity card and guess what it has an inbuilt card reader............"

me: "Cool.....how much did it cost?"......

Wonder why im still single :o)

Bitten by the lazy bug ....

Phew ! ! ....finally remembered that i even had a blog :op.......Actually a lot has happened over the past few months..........met a lot of new people n a few important ones too :-D someone has a smile on their face now....






Well......the last time i wrote anything logical on this blog of mine was in Jan 2006....i feel ashamed of my laziness...or perhaps its the busy life that i lead that makes me dizzy the moment i come back home from work n then the last thing i can do is write a piece on my blog.....neways.....enough of all my lazy excuses....i finalyl got back on my feet n sat down to write something....
but shucks.....where do i start?......n what all should i write?.......so much has happened.....

In brief...im tryin to list out the good things that has happened.......
1. Got my profile up on Orkut(yeah.........now i know where all my extra time was spent :-))
2. I got to know a whole bunch of new people with the Spandana group....(more about it in the posts to come)
3. Moved into a new building in office......(but the crowd here is equally disappointing :op)
4. Did a lot of decent photography.....(or should i say was just too happy to discover that I could take good pics)
5. Got a hike in my BPL(Below Poverty Line) Salary....to OPL(On Poverty Line)........
6. Got a new pair of headphones....(searched for it like crazy n picked up a piece of junk..yuck ! !)
7. Finally the best thing..........I sat back n promised myself am gonna keep this blog updated(This thing happened 5 minutes back)


n now the list of bad things that i did ...
1. It should certainly be my laziness.......
2. Haven't excercised for quite sometime now.....n feel like a bean bag....
3. Purchased a pair of coolers for 800 bucks n broke it in a week......
4. Couldnt shop due to budget constraints (after all....im a poor Infoscian)

ok...im gonna stop this list here......or am gonna feel blessed with so many bad things ;o)

Into the New Year

Started the year with a lot of travel......cruised to Lakshdweep late december of last
year....then, was in Ooty, to welcome the New Year....n then flying to
Singapore....with folks for another vacation........n wish to see much more this
year......
I just pause for a minute and look back at the journey I have done within myself......I
still recollect the days that I spent cribbing about my last job at one of the leading
Call center in Bangalore.....work wasn't interesting, the working hours was unusually
sad and above all, I wasn't doing what I really wanted to do......think about
myself.....The new job has certainly brought a lot of pride to my parents, which was the best
thing that I could ever do for them.....and it even gave me a lot of time to think
about myself.....what I want to do n where I want to go .......and therez one thing
that has never happened to me .....
yup, its love.....
Have had my share of crushes, heartbreaks n depression, but the one thing that is true
is " Never go in search of love....let love find you....and thats why its called Falling
in Love...you dont know how....but you just fall "..........
Hope all of you have a wonderful year ahead..........