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Listening to this song contiguously for about 8 hours now! Why? The video is simply awesome. The music refreshing and the lyrics..... ... .... Well No idea!! :P For me this song explains why music has no language! It speaks to me in its own soft melodious way.. The screenplay is the cherry on this cake! So here I play it for nth time today... :) For those who found the song beautiful like I did; they can check out the English translation of the lyrics here: Nenjodu Cherthu English translation Enjoy!! :)

It has been a long time that I have written anything worthwhile! The last few posts have been some really poor attempts to 'keep it going' !! I look back at my older blogs from the years of distress and I find my best writings! Even better are few of my diary entries from the pages of my childhood! What happened? I grew up, I fought and I got a corporate job. The latter kind of sums up the root cause for degrading quality of my thought process. Recently at the weekly toastmasters meeting, one of the speaker shared a wondeful thought. She said and I quote; "When we go on vacation, what is our destination? Our final destination?? Yes, it's home. Then why do we go on vacation at all?? .... For the journey!" Journey is what made my writings interesting before. This is because I had questions, I was always contemplating things. Not that I have reached my final destination already, but I am relatively in a satisfied state from the career point of view. The...

Coorg the anglicised name of Kodagu disctrict; was my first trip on a weekend when I had initially come don south for job. Hence, when this time friends suggested a weekend trip to Coorg I did not think twice for its a beautiful place to be nostalgic about! :) This time in Coorg apart from usual tourist places like Abbey falls, Raja seat and Golden temple we also went to Talakaveri and Bhagmandala.  Talakaveri was the high point of the trip without a doubt; even geographically! Talakaveri is considered to be the source of river Kaveri. Is is marked by a temple inside which there is a tank or kund built where in devotees can take the holy dip.  (Image Source: Wikipedia) Some believers also throw coins in the tank and make a wish. As we all did there too! :) (Image Source: Wikipedia) Like all the other temples in south India the architecture of this one too was very beautiful reminiscing the ancient India! From inside the t...

There is not single thing in life which does not have an element of uncertainty associated with it. Are we sure we gonna breath tomorrow? Will the boss still think tomorrow morning that you are fit for the job? Will that friend still be happy to see you tomorrow? Would you have done all things right coming tomorrow? Would I be on time for the office cab? Will the office cab be on time and not make me wait? Nothing is for sure! Then why do we still let ourselves bother with the thoughts of future? Insecure? Scared? Fear? What is it? How about just letting it go and living it the way it is. We can’t miss on laughing today just because we might be disappointed tomorrow! I can write sense and I know all this to be true, but being human and an obstinate female I would still make the same mistake. Mistake of missing on some laughs today cause future is unknown!

The transition of day into night and then into the next day is alluding to me. As this was the starting of the third consecutive month at work doing the 'America' shift! While there is an advantage to it work wise but on the routine and especially food routine takes a toll. Yesterday was yet another day like that. Until I was asked if i would be willing to do an EMEA shift starting today. And in a quick second I said yes! But yesterday was just not about that it was yet another day of my blabber act. Blabbering of sort when I speak too much out of concern for someone. And that is when you get in trouble! Care is like an ice-cream you enjoy it and you want it for happy times but it is not the bare necessity. Long after my highly enunciated moment I had the guilt lingering. Not because it was reciprocated badly, rather it was taken in a commendable matured fashion but because these are the moments when I realize that I wasted time on a ice cream than on the vitamins! I am n...

I recently read a quote from a lady author: All the men I date, they want to protect me; I don’t understand from what. Yes we need to hide in your arms guys but not to feel protected but to know that you want us. The quote in itself might be a bit on extreme end. I agree. I would rather rephrase and offer you this: We don’t want you to protect us; but we want you to wanna protect us. Females mellow in front of the guy who secretly confesses the possessiveness for her but loathes who bring it out in open! The more a guy is open about the possessive feelings for a female, bigger the fool he is. On the other hand, no expression of the same is a deal breaker! I know we females seem complicated; when in fact all we want is ‘keep it simple, silly!’

After watching the movie; I could not stop my urge to write about it. Why? Simply, because I loved it. Not only on the EQ level but the whole package. Yes I am talking about ‘Ek Deewana Tha’! First of all the story and its presentation was beautiful. If it won’t have been this movie would not have been remade by the director in Hindi after already being successful at it in Tamil and Telugu version. The USP of the movie through out was Prateik Babbar without a doubt. His monologues were the high points of the movie. My favourite monologue was: when after getting no reaction on the name of Mohan Lal from Jessie (the love interest of Prateik’s character played by Amy Jackson); he thinks; “Baap ko Bachhan nahi pata, beti ko Mohan Lal; kya karun yaar mai inka!” Another one is when Jessie is walking up to him and he thinks: “Meri shakal pe 12 baje hue hai aur ye fresh good morning wo bhi 6am jaisi. Kuch zyada hi sundar nahi hai ye?” Then there is another scene wher...

When two years back I came down south for job; since then I had my eyes on Kerala. Always wanted to go there and see what the whole hoopla is about? Twice plans were made with friends and cancelled. I always felt doomed of having lived so near to Kerala (i.e. Mangalore) and had not yet laid my foot on the land of the spices. I waited for my call from God’s Own Country. And finally it did come through when I got a chance to join my office trip to Wayanad. To say that it was fun would be a major understatement. It was darn crazy trip. We started off a little after 4am on 24th March 2012 from our office. And as son as the bus full of 45 of us crossed the office gates there was music blasting off the speakers and the inevitable dance just followed in minutes. The very enthusiastic lot danced through out the travel time in bus. We only stopped for breaks, sight seeings and check-posts. We danced our way to Wayanad and reached there by lunch time. There we had exactly 30 minutes to ch...

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.  -  Alan Watts It is been long that i  have been thinking about this ideology now. The reason that made me think and reminiscence on it is that it has increasingly became a cliche. What does one mean when he/she says that ‘Live in the Present’? Taking it literally it is a Utopian concept. It is humanly impossible to just be in the present. Each and every action of ours in present is influenced by our experiences of past. And even if one is suffering from amnesia their actions in present is for the perceived future. We all work that way. We take decisions with the learning of present and with anticipation for future. Then why the whole mess about living in the present. In the quotes and in the self help book this line is used for emotional well being. But when a person with stable emotional mind-set and happy go lu...

Is this decade really the most challenging one? Cause you have it all in these years except for the answers. You have the job, the money – intermittently, friends, energy. All you dreamed about in college but you also have other thing you never know would be such a challenge just in its basic version : Responsibility! 20′s is stage you need to clear to progress to the advance level of Responsibility. Twenties isn’t all fun as people chart it out to be… It’s a constant struggle for job, money, friends and the mother of all – relationship! Or is it the human tendency to see past as better, present as the problem and future as no good! Whatever it may be, but the only reason I can understand for which people always mark their third decade of life as golden because it is the only phase of life when you are all by yourself!

A classic, dim lights, Chinese food : perfect Sunday night. For long I have been planning to see this wonderful classic. So I began the perfect date in solitude, beautiful dialogues exchanged between perfectly adorned man and the lady garnished with old english music. But mid-way through the movie something terrible happened. As the leading man in the movie decided that he will no more live on his ancestral money and will take up painting so as to be able enough to ask his love to marry him, a startling reality struck me! I had seen this before. And just like that our very own Bollywood ruined my experience of watching a classic. I realized that Bollywood just last decade had gathered guts enough to release a movie which was an exact copy of An Affair To Remember with desi tadka added! As goes for all such ‘inspired’ Bollywood flicks, it was a disaster only as big as the original’s popularity. I can truly appreciate this original but will never be able to enjoy it in it’s or...

Being rational is the only way I have been half way past my college. Having raised a single child I had been always too gullible just to get into the good books of people around me. But during college some wonderful people came across in my life and they taught me through experience that ‘I’ comes first! As a kid, had visited the holy place of Rishikesh with my family. We specifically went to the Divine Life Society Ashram. A religious organization my grandmother was a follower of. As we entered there, in the main hall above the sanctum sanctorum was a huge blue board with the words, ‘BE GOOD, DO GOOD’. The philosophy propagated by the founder Swami Sivananda Saraswati. My father pointed towards it and exclaimed; “Isn’t that a beautiful thought!”. And I nodded. Not sure if i really understood it at the moment but the vision of that hall and the board has stayed with me for life. Years after this when today I picked up my phone to seek help from my friend for a fight betwe...

After 24 hours of deactivating my facebook account. I was sitting with my laptop thinking I am not the only one in my generation who is not on FB. So what do other people who are not on FB think about FB. And I happen to come across some pretty interesting blogs. But the best were the comic strips. And this one I HAD to share... Laughed hard on its subtle sattire... Makes me laugh each and every time without fail.