Saturday, January 24, 2004
The ticker shows my page slowly approaching the 1000 mark.....keep coming guys/gals (politically correct statement). Am too pooped to write anything now.....busy with Saarang....will write after it is over.....once again...keep coming people!
Thursday, January 15, 2004
It was my birthday yesterday...I turned 21! Almost all those who called/mailed asked me how it felt to be 21...a momentous occasion as one of my cousins put it! I don't know. Is it really a momentous occasion? OK, I get all the attention in the world and all that. But, it just felt like another year gone by, another year wasted in this short life that we have....anyway, leaving all this down talk aside, I did have a good time yesterday. I did almost nothing, after a long time....just took the day off....hung out with friends...just that and nothing. On the whole, I should say that yesterday was good.
Well, I must say that life is full of bizarre coincidences. A third year guy from my hostel, in fact his room is right beside mine, also had his birthday yesterday...we were born on the same day, same year...guess life has its own way of throwing surprises your way, doesn't it?
Well, I would like to take this opportunity to invite all of you, formally, to the culfest of our college, Saarang. I hope that all those in Chennai do come and make the fest a grand and thumping success. There are events lined up to meet every taste, at least all that we could think of. Even those in other parts of India, do please try to come....we have sent out invites to lots of colleges all over India, and this time, we are going to be the biggest student-organized culfest in India - not an idle boast! Anyway, I guess I will just sign off now...
Well, I must say that life is full of bizarre coincidences. A third year guy from my hostel, in fact his room is right beside mine, also had his birthday yesterday...we were born on the same day, same year...guess life has its own way of throwing surprises your way, doesn't it?
Well, I would like to take this opportunity to invite all of you, formally, to the culfest of our college, Saarang. I hope that all those in Chennai do come and make the fest a grand and thumping success. There are events lined up to meet every taste, at least all that we could think of. Even those in other parts of India, do please try to come....we have sent out invites to lots of colleges all over India, and this time, we are going to be the biggest student-organized culfest in India - not an idle boast! Anyway, I guess I will just sign off now...
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
I was just clearing my inbox, another of those highly irregular maintainance works I take up when utterly jobless. Weel, I came across this poem sent through one of those long chain mail series. Anyway, it is good...so am putting it up here....
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,"hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,"hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
Sunday, January 11, 2004
Life, The Universe & Everything....
That is the third of that wholly magnificient series of books which have been made really famous by Douglas Adams The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Trilogy in Four Parts, in the words of Mr. Adams, is what is keeping me busy these days. Anyway, it sure is a pleasure to read some really good stuff that can make you laugh heartily as well as making you ponder on all the mindless things that happen in the world around us, and in the Galaxy around it and the Universe around that Galaxy around our world. Well...before I get more stupid, let me desist.
I have been thinking about what has been happening in my life in the past two months or so, and I did not find the picture anywhere near rosy. I have been doing nothing absolutely, and was so absolutely busy doing this nothing that I forgot the birthdays of a couple of my cousins, much to my, and of my cousins', displeasure. They told me exactly what they thought of my growing forgetfulness and self-absorbance. Well, can't really blame them, can I? That aside, the loss of my cell phone was what made me think of what has been happening to me. What finally happened in the end was that my Dad properly pained me about my growing carelessness, something I am used to by now. Finally, after a lot of senti-putting by yours truly, he finally agreed to send me a new cell and that is how it came to be that I am the rather not-so-proud owner of a new cell phone. Guess, all's well that ends well!
So, I think all I can say now is that it is a glorious new day and a not-too-bad new year for that. Reading other people's blogs and my own feelings combined severely discourage me from saying what follows, but as you must have noted in my previous post, I simply can't resist telling it like it is if I know that I can get away with it. So, the new year is like a new start, a wholly new year to do things better than I used to. But, from previous experience, I know that all that is a load of bullshit. And, for those who may be interested, I already broke my new year's resolution. So that goes down the drain as well....guess the year is goingg to turn out well after all!
PS: Suds told me about the Madras Bloggers' Meet on 18th January 2004, Sunday at 5 PM at Planet Yumm, Besant Nagar. Whoever is interested can come..please do make it. And I fervently hope it is not going to be a purely Tam event!
I have been thinking about what has been happening in my life in the past two months or so, and I did not find the picture anywhere near rosy. I have been doing nothing absolutely, and was so absolutely busy doing this nothing that I forgot the birthdays of a couple of my cousins, much to my, and of my cousins', displeasure. They told me exactly what they thought of my growing forgetfulness and self-absorbance. Well, can't really blame them, can I? That aside, the loss of my cell phone was what made me think of what has been happening to me. What finally happened in the end was that my Dad properly pained me about my growing carelessness, something I am used to by now. Finally, after a lot of senti-putting by yours truly, he finally agreed to send me a new cell and that is how it came to be that I am the rather not-so-proud owner of a new cell phone. Guess, all's well that ends well!
So, I think all I can say now is that it is a glorious new day and a not-too-bad new year for that. Reading other people's blogs and my own feelings combined severely discourage me from saying what follows, but as you must have noted in my previous post, I simply can't resist telling it like it is if I know that I can get away with it. So, the new year is like a new start, a wholly new year to do things better than I used to. But, from previous experience, I know that all that is a load of bullshit. And, for those who may be interested, I already broke my new year's resolution. So that goes down the drain as well....guess the year is goingg to turn out well after all!
PS: Suds told me about the Madras Bloggers' Meet on 18th January 2004, Sunday at 5 PM at Planet Yumm, Besant Nagar. Whoever is interested can come..please do make it. And I fervently hope it is not going to be a purely Tam event!
Friday, January 02, 2004
HAPPY (??) NEW YEAR!
"Thank you" to everyone who wished me a happy new year. I am now not too sure that 2004 is going to be any good to me. It sure did not turn out to be prosperous as yet! Someone stole my cell phone yesterday - yes! right on the first day of the brand new year! It is a long story that I am in no mood to go over again. So, please, no questions about how it happened!
This incident makes me feel pathetic! More than that, I am now feeling apprehensive about what could happen in the 364 remaining days! I am not superstitious or anything, but 2003 hasn't exactly been good to me and now I am in a dilemma as to how to interpret this event. The optimist's line goes: "This is like the culmination, a Grand Finale if you will, of all that happened in 2003!" The realist's (read pessimist, since I seem to be one) line goes: "This is just the beginning of a new period, a new phase of suffering you are going to experience in 2004! The pain will be more than that in the last year, and this is just the beginning!"
Now that you can see the dilemma I am facing, I am sure you can appreciate the title of this post! Nonetheless, I am sure all of you will have a better year ahead than you did in 2003! Hope......*sigh*......Well, before I take leave, HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all!
This incident makes me feel pathetic! More than that, I am now feeling apprehensive about what could happen in the 364 remaining days! I am not superstitious or anything, but 2003 hasn't exactly been good to me and now I am in a dilemma as to how to interpret this event. The optimist's line goes: "This is like the culmination, a Grand Finale if you will, of all that happened in 2003!" The realist's (read pessimist, since I seem to be one) line goes: "This is just the beginning of a new period, a new phase of suffering you are going to experience in 2004! The pain will be more than that in the last year, and this is just the beginning!"
Now that you can see the dilemma I am facing, I am sure you can appreciate the title of this post! Nonetheless, I am sure all of you will have a better year ahead than you did in 2003! Hope......*sigh*......Well, before I take leave, HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all!
