REMINISCING THE YEARS GONE BY!

When you are revisiting the yellow pages of your life...it usually means that you are missing the days gone by too much may be becuz of the mundane life of today or becuz you are hurt too much by your present and long for the days gone by...or it can mean that you had a ball of a time in your past and wish it never ended...or may be in some cases it just simply means that you are BORED....cuz you have absolutely nothing to do!!!...

They dont make them this good anymore!!

Reminiscent of the songs i grew up with!! Even now when they make a new album every other day...when a new artist or a new band emerges out of nowhere....nothing compares to the effect each song used to have when they really were songs! Most of the songs that i hear these days are rather abusive loads...about sex and drugs and about things i cannot feel or enjoy!! One of my friends at work once asked me why pretty keeps listening...

The Endhiran Effect!!

I still remember about 3 yrs back when i was in Chennai i was like at the zenith of boredom! Ya thats right i was bored!!! The reason being there was not one multiplex in Chennai playing anything... but...Sivaji!!!! OMG why does that rajnikanth guy have so much of a craze!!!!???? i personally do not see anything great in his acting skills...i mean i have watched bits and pieces of some of his movies and in almost all movies i...

Emotional Atyachar Season 2

Was just wondering if anyone has seen this one :)I happened to watch it last week and was amazed to see how India has advanced and to what extent things have gone in this "Cultured" country! I was never a supporter of things when some people used to say that India is a land of culture and we must protect it. I always felt that India is a land of Hypocrites where everyone does everything that they "claim" is taboo and accuse as...

9/11

Its 9/11 and i cant stop myself from remembering the same day last year when i was able to witness the commemoration of the dreadful day 9 years ago which took the lives of so many innocent and highly skilled people. My office was located at the 14th floor of the 1st tower of the World Financial Center and the view of ground zero was absolutely clear from the window next to my cubicle. It was a busy rainy day in New York and my...

Yesterday...Today...Forever

Do you remember what the fashion scene was when you had first started noticing the world around you? Could you imagine what was the "HEP" or the "IN" thing in the year when you were born? ok leave fashion...the kind of fashion freak that i am may be i cant think of little more practical things.. :) Lets talk about the school curriculum...can you imagine what the curriculum would have been when your parents were in school!!?? Ya...

Right Vs Right!!

Havent we always been taught that there are always only 2 solutions to any and every question in the world? One Right and the other Wrong!!?? Well that is how i have been judging every question in life till now! For me everything is either right or wrong, i have never been able to judge anything as anything in between the right or the wrong. Viewing everything as a simple play of black or white is what i have practiced...i have...

Resigning HCL!!

Traversing in the grand ocean of IT, we often have to take decisions which might not be the ones which make us very comfortable, but we have feeble chances of escaping them. Going thru the exit process @ hcl i never really did realise that it will ever come true that i am out of HCL. Since the time i came back from US and had put my papers with this company, i just felt the whole exit process to be more of a struggle rather than...

The DESI Hollywood movie!!

Has anyone heard of or watched an old movie called "The American Ninja". While flipping channels recently on the tv i got hooked to watching this movie and couldnt help but laugh at myself for having watched this one!! It felt like i was watching an old rajnikant or danny denzongpa movie.. :)May be this one would have been a hit when it was released but watching something so meagre from hollywood was not very convincing for me....

Pretty Woman

Richard Gere and Julia Roberts...i guess one of the on screen couples i have raved the most. They just seem to have such great chemistry that you dont feel its a fictional story you are watching on screen, rather they make it feel like a real one you are witnessing in front of you. I Love Julia Roberts for the way she flaunts her skills easily and naturally on screen...and Richard Gere is one of the few actors in hollywood whom...

Tu hi To Meri Dost Hai...

Do i miss my stay in US of A so much? O yess definitely theres not just a single day that passes without me thinking about how much i miss my routine in US, how much i miss the chill in the air, how much i miss the calm roads, how much i miss the ever greeting people or how much i miss even the feeling of opening my eyes in the morning in a free and happy nation...in USA. Even the feeling is different. My last month in US was...

Half a Decade!!

20th day of June, 2005. One of the most memorable days of my Life!! This was the blessed day when i joined the IT industry through an elite company called Satyam Computer Services. Turning back the pages of the calender takes me back to that happy day when i was taking my first steps to enter a new world, the real practical world. It meant a change in my lifestyle, in my priorities, in my understanding of the issues in life and...

Motherland!!

It looked like a quiet serene night in Chennai on the 2nd of June 2010 when my flight from Brussels was preparing to land at the Kamaraj Airport in Meenambakkam. I was sitting on a window seat and peeped out to see the land i had left about a year ago to go to a country that had attracted so many people from my motherland. I couldnt believe that i was sad, i was almost in tears! i couldnt believe that i was actually missing a...

The Six Flags Adventure!

I am a record holder of riding in the tallest and fastest Roller Coaster on Earth. Yess "Kingda Ka", a Steel roller coaster at the Six Flags adventure park in Jackson, NJ is the Tallest and fastest roller coaster known on earth with a height of 456 Feet and a 90 degree drop of 418 Feet at a speed of 128 mph!! The ride catapults you to a 456 Feet height by reaching a speed of 128 mph from 0 mph in just 3.5 seconds! When i first...

Conversations with Yourself!

Have you ever found yourself sitting helplessly tensed about some issue in Work place, Personal Life or in the life of a loved one? Guess thats something very common, all of us at some point in life do fall trap to some or the other kind of tensions or worries even if we employ fool proof methods to wade off the same. In those times you will always have conversations going on in your mind. Sometimes conscious, while some other...

Each Day

Each new day starts with new desires new dreams and new ambitions. May be it does for everyone or may be it doesnt.Talking to a friend yesterday a very basic topic sparked the conversation. Everyone wants to be Happy! So very true, Everyone just wants to be HAPPY. Is that so difficult? Is that something so very complicated to attain? I feel its not difficult to achieve Happiness, its just difficult to keep oneself satiated with...

Change!!

Change: One inevitable reality of Life and of everything surrounding Life. Still we refuse to accept it with ease. Its just too difficult to comply with the reality even if i write a thesis about how real Change is! I know and i have written how change is one thing that never changes, but why is it sometimes so difficult to accept it? I know nothing is forever, everything good or bad has to change! It is just too difficult to...

Total Surrender

In Brida i read a very interesting quote..."What is outside is harder to change than what is inside". When i read this quote while reading the book, i felt how true it is. How much we struggle if we have to change our appearances or the personalities which we are to the outside world! And today i read in my daily morning devotional something that says: "A Christian life is one which is totally surrendered to HIM". Now this feels...

I Love NY!!

True to say that this city has LIFE in it!!Yess New York is, i guess the BEST place i have seen on earth till now! This city has so much life in itself that it will urge you to be alive with itself and...

Foot Binding!

Am reading a rather unusual book these days. Its called Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. I have just started reading it and as much as i have read, it depicts a custom common in China called Foot Binding. While reading itself i feel it sounds so brutal, that i cant imagine what pain is involved in each stage of the custom. Young girls at the age of six are forced to go thru a mandatory custom called foot binding which is a mandatory...

Cherry Blossom!

Heard of the Cherry Blossom Festival in US of A??For people staying in Washington or even any other state of the eastern part of US, its not a new thing. But for someone like me who is experiencing the first Spring in US, it definitely is a new thing and sounded quite attractive. Since i did not know what a Cherry Blossom festival was so i googled about it and got some information about it. Unfortunately by the time i came to...

Man the Island!

Thinking of my life here in US i sometimes find myself wondering that i have become a completely new person now. I am not the same old Pretty who left India an year ago to add weightage to her resume by gaining work experience outside India. I still remember i used to be alone in India also, i used to go places alone even then but i was not so much of an independent individual as i am now i think. I always needed someone with...

ITs Politics..

Does this happen to all?May be it does and may be they know good ways of escaping out of IT. No matter how much ever dedicated you are to your work...getting trapped in some dirty politics from your client or parent company is inevitable. No matter how many levels you get promoted to...you still are so vulnerable to these dirty cobwebs...there is little you can do. As and when you gain experience in working with a client or technology,...

Good Friday.

Good Friday, The day of Jesus' crucifixion. This is a special day for me for i reliase with all my heart that Jesus shed his pure blood on the cross for my sins on this day. On this Good friday i have only one prayer, that this world becomes a better place. Most of the problems i feel arise in today's world because people have become so selfish, they have such evil and selfish thoughts that they cannot think beyond themselves....

The Passion Play

Maundy Thursday, the day before the crucifixion day! If i were in India i would have gone for a Maundy Thursday church service, but here having a service for Good Friday itself is a big thing. Coudnt have asked for Maundy Thursday! Anyways, i was happy that my pastor had arranged to take us for a Passion Play at a nearby city.The play called "Life of Jesus" is performed every year for 3 days during the Holy Week. For me, having...

Truth!

What actually is Truth?Is that something that someone tells you to believe on and you do?Or is that something that you read and know that it is true?Or is that something that you see and believe?Or is that something that you belive in through your inner self?The dictionary defines Truth in many ways: --> Conformity with fact or reality.--> Actuality or actual existence--> An obvious or accepted fact--> Agreement with...

To Be or Not To Be...that is the Question!

Hamlet...I guess one of the most famous works of Shakespeare.And one of the most renowned Shakespeare quotes..."To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them." I have not been a Shakespeare Literature fanatic ever in my life though i used to get impressed by their grandeur. Their...

Memories of a Guitarist

I have been asked to sing a song in the church for the Good Friday Service on 2nd of April. Now this being Good Friday I want to sing a song related to the occassion and not mererly another worship song.One of my church members, who is organising things for the Good Friday Service, confirmed with me this sunday, whether i will definitely come for the service and will also sing the song as he doesnt have any backups! When he asked...

The Palm Sunday.

The lent has always been something of much more importance to me spiritually, than any other Christian tradition or belief. I have always observed the lent with much respect for my belief in Christ and...

XP Internet Security 2010!!

It was a casual sunday afternoon, i was getting ready for going to the evening service in church. After getting ready i realised that i still had some time to spare before the family i usually go to the...