Category: General

Wrote an Big Entry for today and deleted it before posting. Gee.. I’m getting smart.

A busy sunday goes by..

Recently I was going through some of the journals and blogs.. and found that the popularity of the god has further diminished after the “Earthquake” episode. Poor God!!, he needs a spin doctor, that too pretty soon.

I found myself smiling, whenever I went through the peoples blog, blaming God, and turning “non-believers”(as if they were beleivers in the first place). I felt empathy for “God”. Had he been a corporate boss, looking after the institution of “The Earth”, most angels would’ve lost job, and some suspended pending inquiry.. what a predicament!!

On one side, we have got Hindu fundamentalists, who want to create “Ram-Rajya”(sorry boss.., I would prefer “Krishna-rajya”), and who have given a ugly look to a wonderful religion(When did Hinduism became a religion?!! in the first place)., and on another side, we have got the “Jehad” group, who wants everything done as per their interpretation of Holy Quran, and on yet another side are the active missionaries, who spread “The Word of God”. They took literally what Jesus said “I am the way and no one goes to god, but by me”, and started prozelyting a poor jews philosophy(Jesus was a jew, by the way, wasnt he?!). Poor Jesus, had he been alive, this would’ve been much more painful than the cross!!

But after all this, the fundamental question remains.. What about god! Good question. People expect god to be a person sitting in some antiseptic corner of the world, and deciding peoples fate and natural accidents. Hmm. what an expectation..

I will rather keep this journal entry open ended!!

Free translation of a hindi song, sung by Shubha Mudgal.
(sorry, cant replicate the magic in english.)

O’ Dear one,
Learn the language of eyes,
Learn what these silences are telling you,
Learn, I am not going to open my mouth,
Learn the language of heart.

O’ Dear one,
Learn to listen,
The rustle of the wind,
What do they say to you,
Learn to read, what my lay hair,
writes on my forehead, swinging.,
Learn the language of silence,
it has got a tale to tell you,
Learn O’ Dear one.

Time,is like still water,
dont disturb this,
lest the depths will get stirred,
Listen what the shadows say,
in the town of shallow breaths,
What do I have to tell you further,
My eyes have told you everything.

O’ Dear one,
Learn the language of eyes,
Learn what these silences are telling you,
Learn, I am not going to open my mouth,
Learn the language of heart.

Beginning to realize that the livejournal is getting crowded. Being a bit of “Crowdophobiac”, I think, I should think twice before “blogging” anything. I will have to work on making the some of the old entries private too.. mm.. a bit confused now.

Today Zoomin (Zubin) & co are back. Came back from office a bit early, started cooking food for them, since they will be coming back tired after a long flight. Made Daal, went to airport to receive them.. pretty tired they were after a long flight. But nice the meet them again. Drove back home..(realizing how car has become an important part of life now!!).

While they were settling down, got back to cooking again, made dry potato sabzi and then made pulao rice.. Yummy.. and they did enjoy the dinner.. Zubin and Girish were telling their goof-ups and bloopers back home. Girish turning to say thanks to the BEST bus driver and Zubin saying thanks to the bank wathcman… just to name a few to begin. Well they were really tired and left them to sleep at around quarter to ten..

Another day gone by(e)..

Went for a swim today.. has got to get back to shape.. Breast stroke seems for me to be the easiest one for me and the backstroke the most difficult(since I cant do with arm strokes, only can paddle, during backstroke).

While I was learning swimming, the difficult one to do was the breast stroke, as I couldnt get the combination right at all.. I didnt want to do the breast stroke, the way most do.. keeping head above water. I wanted it synchronised, the way professionals do it.. Hence I concentrated on it.. I borrowed books from library regarding swimming and put my efforts in correcting my breast stroke, and now, I am not a fast swimmer, but have become an efficient swimmer. I can do breast stroke with less effort and I dont aim to be the fastest.

Later I realised that, breast stroke wasnt doing any good to me, except that I am spending time in water going up and down and moving back and forth.. I started looking for more physical activity to burn my calories.. and jumped to freestyle. It is tough now, but I am still learning to find the perfect technique for the freestyle.

It did take my breath out trying to do the free style the way I wanted. But I’m not going to give up, after picking it up successfully, has to work on my backstroke, which seems really primitive. Somehow, I have picked up floating on water, without moving hands or legs, only by breating on my back and can stay afloat for more than a couple of minutes. But, sure it dosent burn enough calories, which I need.

Now the swimming routine is back again, doing now on alterante days.. now has to go on Friday or Saturday again and put more effort.

ps: Zubin & co are coming in tomorrow.. got to receive them..

Got a bit upset today.. Well, nothing to do with me, but you do get upset, when you feel for others. Zakir told, he got a dressing down, even after doing a really wonderful job. We all know, that Zakir is putting in his best efforts and always does things before deadlline. Still, a dressing down..?!! Poorly managed, I would say. Even if he was to be said something, it could’ve been in a friendly way, just hinting, initially, then if still dosent have effect, becoming more specific, but still informal.

Zakir was upset, and I felt bad. Tried my best to bring his smile back, and got that smile also, but I could feel the sadness behind the mask.

In the afternoon, went for a walk with Ron and Rajesh.. had a nice walk, though it was a bit drizzling.. A walk always makes us fresh and then we can carry on furhter, without any tiredness. My walks have become less frequent, after I have bought the car.

Finally, I finished off my website. Now I have to move on. Yesterday I had tested it and found that I had got some of the photo’s wrong, and some I had forgotten to resize.. Monday, it took nearly 15 minutes to set that right. Sent a mail to all, and waited for the response. Hmm.. response is good. I feel atleast a bit accomplished. I have started doing things.. Now on to Java..

Evening saw me on the pool, Gotta get in shape soon, before I am in India again. Planning to get by end of April and be back by mid-May.

Had another go at creating Masala Dosa. and YES!!! I succeeded. I made a really good Masala Dosa. Well, there was no one to judge, but me, still I am sure it came out really nice.

Had some thoughts about my paati(mom’s mom), who is now no more. I was hearing to some old tamil classical movie songs from the net, when her thoughts sprang up. She used to sing some of them and she used to sing really nicely too. Hmm.. life goes on.. dosent it.

Today worked on my website, I will stop working on it from tomorrow, when I will have my final update, has to concentrate on Java Certification and studies.. got to plan for April visit to India as well. Two more months to go.. has got many plans during this visit.. My life is going to change and that too pretty fast.

accomplished

Called up home and spoke to everyone., after speaking to everyone, spoke to mom., and let her know of my little secret and she was happy!! Wonder does everyone have a wonderful mom like mine.?!!

I feel for my Country. First I thought that the quake was just a small one, but later I found out that Its a big one and the town “Bhuj” has been totally flattened out by the quake. India’s time seems to be bad. It has been at the receiving end for nearly half a century. Early it was from other countries, now its from nature. Maybe the theory of Yin and Yang works. India was the peak of the civilisation, An Ideal model which world had to learn from, and in last 500 years, we have become a confused lot, not knowing what to do as a country. Nature also gives blow frequently now. We are a totally at crossroads, held back by the “Glory of our Civilization” (as it was), and looking west for the future!!

Got a lot of thoughts regarding India, but cant express in words yet. Many people say about problems that India faces, population, illiteracy, poverty…. Well I see Resources, Potential and a untapped energy lying in abundancy without anyone to utilise it. What havent we got as a country.. Snowcapped himalayas, Desert, Rainforests in the east, Tropics in the south., and not to forget our ancient civilisation of atleast 5000 years. Tourism alone could put India among one of the develped nations. But see the state of it!!! We lack visionaries, who can see the blueprint of the future and make it a reality. We tend to hang on to the visionaries of the past and underestimate ourselves to play that role.

Hmm.. Time..I think thats what is needed for India. Having been the cradle of Civilisation, now we face a crisis.. And thanks to mother earth, she is trying to shake us up(literally)from our slumber.. and make us look around and make our Country the best in the World…

sad