Posts from — September 2002

I’m OK, You’re OK … ;-)

I have absolutely no idea what came over me when I posted my previous blog!! Now, when I read it… I feel a bit foolish *smiling sheepishly*

Actually, nothing drastic happened to me… no disappointments… no rejections (not now anyways!)… no failures… no nothing! Its just that something just nudged my mood off-balance in the afternoon on Saturday and there I was… feeling a bit down and sullen. And as the afternoon morphed into evening… my mood didn’t get much better. I’m not sure what was the cause. I’m not usually a moody person… (goes with the zodiac sign, I guess!), so it was a surprise that I actually posted what I posted on Saturday!! :-)

Well, anyways, once I reached home somnething happened that changed my mood right back!

A couple of months back, someone from our company had sent out an SOS via email appealing for AB+ blood for her relative (a Mrs. Fernandes) who was then being treated in the ICU of the Leelavati Hospital in Bandra. Now, AB is rare blood group and on top of it, there was a shortage of AB+ blood. Yours truly is AB+. So, I volunteered and donated blood. Saturday evening as I reached home I found that I had received a card from Mrs. Fernandes thanking me for donating the blood. First of all, I was glad that she was alright now and secondly, I thought this was a really sweet gesture i.e. sending a card. This immediately perked up my mood and I was back to normal!! … Strange how these things happen!! … there I was in the afternoon feeling depressed due to some nebulous reasons… and then there I was in the evening, mood restored due to happiness coming in from unexpected quarters! … C’est la vie … Its nothing more than a journey in which you just have to keep an eye out for the small joys that come your way… when you see one… gently clasp it in your hands and marvel at the glow that it casts and the smile that it manages to bring to your face!! … then move along… looking for another!!

Too senti… is it?! *LOL*

Sunday dawned and I was dead to the world! … for a person who wakes up at 5:30 AM every morning, sleeping till 9:00 AM is a luxury… almost a sin! Then, I put my feet up, picked up the newspaper and headed straight for the cartoons page! Reading the comics, especially my favourite, Garfield, is the first thing I do every Sunday morning. Then, I took a late bath followed by an early lunch (not quite brunch… but early all the same!). After that I settled down to see the final match between India and Sri Lanka.

I was disappointed that Saurav Ganguly lost the toss and had to bowl first. I would have loved to see the Indians bat up front. But the Indian bowlers bowled well and restricted the Sri Lankans to 244 in 50 overs. And then, when it was the Indians’ turn to bat, the rain gods who had relented during the past 15 days refused to do so any longer and the skies burst open soaking the ground. The play was called off and it was decided to replay the entire match today. Well, today almost the same things happened… Sri Lankans won the toss and wanted to bat first. Sanath Jayasuriya was bowled off the very first ball of the match and in the end Sri Lanka managed to get 222 off their quota of 50 overs. The Indians have come out to bat and as I write this blog, the score is 6 for the loss of 1 wicket. They’ve just lost the first wicket and I hope that they don’t lose any more!!! :-)

Well, anyways… thats it for today I guess! … Thanks to all those commented on yesterday’s blog, asking if I was okay!! … Thanks!!

cheers!

… but the castle’s crumbled!!

Why does it happen sometimes, that we read signs and signals from certain situations and build up expectations and hopes. Every little thing then adds a bit to that mound of hope and this continues till the mound grows to form a hillock… then a hill and finally a mountain. All this while you are wallowing indulgently in a make-believe world.

And then… suddenly without any warning… something happens that blasts this mountain, that you’ve created, to smithereens!!

Jerked out of the dream that you’ve come to think of as reality, you grope around trying to find familiar people and objects, that never were! Thats when you realize the futility of it all! Why does everything have to end so badly?… you wonder!! But there are no answers… only questions!!

Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger, but there’s no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the King
But the castle’s crumbled and you’re left with just a name
Where’s your crown, King Nothing?

‘nuf said!

have a nice weekend, folks!

cheers!

P.S. : with many thanx to Hetfield, Ulrich & co.! :-)

I have gone crazy!

I’ve been having a nightmarish experience trying to write this blog. I’ve started this blog at least four times in the past one hour and four times it has run out of gas like a deflated balloon, after just about 4-5 lines into the venture. Am I hitting one of those road-blocks conveniently called writers’ blocks? … I hope not!! … I’ve had enough troubles with them in the past and I would not like to repeat the history… (Actually, History never repeats itself, as is erroneously believed… only Historians repeat themselves!).

Uh-oh… now I’ve started to rant and rave about some incomprehensible inanities. I guess I’m just trying to thrash my way out of the hole that I’ve stumbled into. Speaking of holes, do you know that Black Holes are the most dense objects in the universe… so dense that even light that mistakenly stumbles into them, cannot escape out. Shit!! … STOP IT SAMEER!!!

Ok… peace! …*shows a peace sign with the index and the middle fingers raised* … or is it just with the middle finger?? … I forget!!

Well, did you all think, I was on the verge of becoming a nutcase!?? … Well, you were wrong! … ‘coz I already am a screwball!! I have lost a screw or two from my head. So, if you come across me somewhere wandering and raving about wanting a screw… please don’t mis-understand this screw for that screw!! ;-)

You know… these last few days have made it difficult for me to keep my sanity. The events have just been so… ummm… tumultuous!! No, I’m not talking about my personal life… I would be grateful to God if he can make my grant me a life less ordinary, for a few days (the tedium of my life, both social as well as anti-social, has driven me past the outer extremes of boredom!). I’m talking here about the events that have been taking place in India…

The storming of the temple and the despicable massacre of the devotees inside the temple premises is reason enough to make one lose one’s sanity. It simply doesn’t make sense!! … they were just trying to pray!! What followed the event was a greater tragedy!! … Media teams rushed in to capture the grim face of death, destruction and mayhem, to flash it across the screens of millions of viewers who were forced to digest scenes made up of mutilated bodies and blood soaked clothes, alongwith their dinner. The statutory warning, some of the following scenes could be disturbing, doesn’t atone the sin of making a circus out of a tragedy! Added to this was the over-enthusiasm of the on-site correspondents who thrust microphones and cameras into the faces of the relatives of those killed, just so that they could be the first ones to show to the world the grief that follows the death of a family member. Prime-time reality TV at its worst!! Responsible Journalism… is it too much to hope for… from our mediapersons?!… I guess so! :-(

Anyways… sorry for getting a bit carried away!! … and Suku, you are completely and absolutely excluded from the above diatribe against the journos!! :-)

Ummm… what else??!! … yeah! … yesterday was a holiday!! Indian people expressed their silent outrage at the temple massacre, by observing a spontaneous bandh yesterday. In some places, the spontaniety was even arranged to be captured on camera by the various journalists who roamed the empty streets and railway tracks looking for opportunities to snap up pictures of politicians, falling over themselves to stop buses and trains from plying, wearing their most chic khaadi outfits… such patriotism!!

However, the event that almost made me insane with joy was the fantastic Indian victory over the perennial chokers of world cricket, South Africa! I returned home from office to find that the South Africans were cruising along with just one wicket down and just about 70 runs to get with about 13 overs to go. Any sane person would back South Africa from there. Any sane cricket-crazy Indian person would however hope against hope for an Indian victory. Well, I was one of these sane(??) cricket-crazy Indian persons!! My sister thought I was daft when I bravely predicted that India would romp home. And thats just when Yuvraj Singh lept to his right and plucked the ball out of the air just inches above the ground to send Jonty Rhodes back to the pavilion. From that moment on, the Indians never looked back and completed what can only be termed as one of the greatest comebacks by any team in the history of One-Day cricket. It was wonderful!! … People went crazy in the stands… people went crazy in the streets of India… crackers burst and lit up the night sky… Ganguly walked back to the pavilion with the most surprised expression you will ever see on a cricketer’s face…. and Sehwag spoke in his halting English while accepting the Man-of-the-Match award for the second time in succession. A wonderful day for Indian cricket!!

Well… thats about all that I can blog at this moment!… see you all later with more stuff!… take care!

cheers!

P.S. : Suku… I just read your latest article on Rediff. Liked it very much!… Road is probably the only Hindi movie among all the new films in the last few months that I wanna watch. Hope its nice!! :-)

Boread and nothing to blog about!!

Just a few funny verses that I came across in recent times…

Little Miss Tuffet
Little Miss Muffet sat on her gluteal region,
Eating components of soured milk.
On at least one occasion,
along came an arachnid and sat down beside her,
Or at least in her vicinity,
And caused her to feel an overwhelming, but not paralyzing, fear,
Which motivated the patient to leave the area rather quickly.

Reflections on Ice-Breaking
Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
   &nbsp– Ogden Nash

Woe-song of a born geek
Here I sit, broken-hearted,
All logged in, but work unstarted.
First net.this and net.that,
And a hot buttered bun for net.fat.

I need your help, I say ‘tween sobs,
‘Cause I’ll soon be listed in net.jobs.

Hmmm…
My darling wife was always glum.
I drowned her in a cask of rum,
And so made sure that she would stay
In better spirits night and day.

Well, ok people… I didn’t have anything to blog about today, which is why I posted these verses. So, till next time…

cheers!

Since Blog*Spot had been down for scheduled maintenance sometime back, my yesterday’s blog did not get published. So, now I’ve republished it and thankfully it has now been published properly.

Check it out below!