Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Colors...

I wrote about colors some time back and the past month, I have been painting my days Red, Green & Blue.

I've been having the most tiring and yet the most awesome days & the most awesome experiences. It did strike me pretty soon, that when we get to do the things we love, it's like 'nothin' else matters' :) Yep, I have joined college over the weekends which allows me to get intouch with the stuff I love. It is the thing, that allows me to be me, my own-self... more later...

And yes, I got a chance to explore Mumbai... with my lens...





Thursday, November 5, 2009

Our Opinions...

What is it that makes us so opinionated about everything around us? As Indians, no doubt we are tolerant towards every Suresh, Mahesh & Kamlesh; however just one oppurtunity to vent anger out - most of us just "jump in". Be it a fight on a street, scuffle on a railway station or anything that may remote involve voices, fists and high temper. I realised that, I too suffer from this very same thing when I found myself commenting, judging n validating every run taken or ball hitting the bat.

Well obviously, there are so many reasons as to why we are opinionated and even more examples for the same. I just touched a drop in the ocean.. And to show, how opinion centric we guys are; I leave you with a video made almost 3 years back when the country was in the middle of ripples caused by Himmesh's nasal voice. This was done with 2 of my best friends in 12 hours - staying awake the entire night to present of a presentation competition..

Enjoy & batana kaisa laga... :)



Friday, October 9, 2009

and I move on...

It was one of those times, the time when I was busy introspecting the past few months, I realised that I ended up doing quite a lot of things I never thought I'd do and also the fact, that I'm quite happy about it...

Part of it was about moving my home, I moved out of a big, well settled house - reasons being to cut some luxuries, cut some costs and to avoid the loneliness. Few days inside the new home, tho small, it feels so cosy and so home. Surprisingly I didn't and I don miss my previous home, or rather my previous flat at all..

Part of it was to decide not to blindly leap into an MBA, I realised that it was merely a sort of escapism I was looking for from my Job life..

Part of it was to decide to part with things I was attached to. Things I bought from my first salary, things I bought from my first year's salary. It was merely a bagagge that I was dragging along, both emotional and materialistic. It was not running away from responsibilities, it was to shed away additional responsibilities that were piled up..

The transistion made me realise 1 thing - sometimes it's not that bad an idea to take the plunge. The plunge which makes one leave ones comfort zone, that high-headedness and that complacency... coz you never know, it might end up being the thing you were looking for... :-)

Sunday, August 2, 2009

13.4 KG

something from my wiithin self... not recommended as it hardly makes sense, just an attempt to vent out..

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today, i embark on a journey to find something more worth to do.. the past 2 years working have been wonderful, but every good thing saturates :) and I've been searching for something more exciting, challenging & satisfying. There were days when I wanted to be a photographer, days, when I wanted to be an entrepreneur and have a startup, days, which I simply wanted to spend reading literature, listening to music in a coffeeshop meeting new people. Nothing is out of the league, for as of now, if I want, I can choose anything and move ahead.

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Moving back few weeks, the only moments I ponder too much about life are the ones I spend on a beach or on the door of a moving train at 4 in the morning.. A metaphor might describe it the best: I'm driving, and the road ends - but there are 5 - 6 more roads in front of me, some going uphill and some downhill.. Downhill ones are obviously looking easy but I cant see too far, my vision is limited to a different extent on each of these roads... I wish if it would have been like in DDLJ, where there were 2 roads - one easy and one difficult yet satisfying... Here I'm blessed with too many options, too many to be sane enough to understand 'em all.. Uphill, the vision is too too bad - the only thing I know is the fact that treading this road will surely be a daunting task, not only for me but my loved ones, but alteast it will make me go up..

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The past few days, I prioritized these options and now the next few months seem to robotic and mechanical to believe, but I do hope that it will help me realise the things and sort the available options in a better way!! This feel is more painfull if taken at a partular moment - as an impulse, but looking in a broader prespective it's much more soothing to know that I have backups done... :D

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I was discussing with a friend of mine yesterday night - that this age (phase of life) is so bloody uncertain.. Books have been written about the so called "Quarter Life Syndrome" - thank u for letting me know bout 'em... :D But on a certain level, I do feel that its more like virus. Whatever solution u give your virus, they somehow become immune to ur antidote and strikes again the next time with higher vigour (read as deadliness) and renders one - helpless and desperate for something else to cure the shit.. Who said biology cudn be related to philosophy... :P

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One of the most sane way of finding answers to life is to define the short term 'n the long term goals and then the decision becomes somewhat easy.. In most of the situations, for most of us - the short term goals are more happiness giving whereas the long term ones are those you dream about.. or the things in life or the quality which u always craved but never got!! And making a small sacrifice normally makes room for working towards the long term goal and also an oppurtunity to satisfy your short term goal somewhere mid-way.. well only if you keep that "spark" alive within your heart... But, there's an unexplained deadlock or the race condition (u'd know the race condition if you studied flip flops) which arises if you choose the long term derivative goal to your short term happiness AND YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO IN ORDER TO MOVE FOR YOUR LONG TERM DREAM.. And you know, this was what that generated the metaphor above :-)

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Now almost all I know, we talk about life when drunk.. There was one thing that was concluded in such a conversation - that sometimes its the best to leave things as they are.. let the time pass and the jumbled pieces to join together - sooner or later one finds the purpose and the road to move ahead.. Sounds good, aite? Helps a lot, belive me!! BUT ISN'T THIS ABOUT BEING COMPLACENT!!

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If anyone dared to read till here, dude(tte) you have serious issues and lots of time :).. I decided sometimes back that I will try not to post vent outs of my mind as I did the last 2 times and it takes guts on my end to read after few days.. This post makes a point to not become a hate post - but consist of healthy conversations.. I feel good right now - like a 13.4 KG block has been lifted off my shoulders and it does feel good...

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A perfect solution to all my thoughts was to modify the goals I had and suddenly everything feel into its place - like the jigsaw puzzle I wrote about.. :) I'm just flying off my comfort zone and (balakumar) reddy to kick some serious ass!!!



Monday, July 27, 2009

Visitivity

I do think that I'm creative.. And today, O world, I present to you the proof of my visitivity ( = vision + creativity, thanks barney!!!).. So, I had few things with me: a glass - my old mobile phone - an old LED - and pencil cells from my tata-sky remote... & last but not the least my SLR....

the glass...


the LED & cell...


I created a temporary torch thingy out of that...


together they created this...


and...

Monday, July 20, 2009

Mario...




Wednesday, July 15, 2009

a tribute..

am so locked inside
somebody, why don u answer me..
i'm so tired shouting
somebody, why don u listen to me..

i too had a dream, and it still lingers
it still survives inside the soul
that someday i'll reach there
reach that light..

that someday life will be much better
much much much much better
the flame will never die
the flame which will light the world
make people smile
make the world, as they say, a better place
for you and for me and for the entire human race

RIP MJ

... update ...




... update 2...

the verses above, i was just penning down and my playlist sounded heal the world, it was no less a surprise that the theme line gelled well with my verses & to some extent the feel too... am no big a MJ fan, but the king of pop is surely gonna live long.. really really long.. :)