They said.....

Some of the quotes from some greats and not so greats would have inspired us, left us thinking ... here are those ones which have made me miss my breath several times......For some this might seem stupid, for others it might seem worth reading... carry on..

• Unselfishness is something that exists only in the dictionary, with the exception of a mother.


• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment


• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."


• The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."


• The length of the movie shud be directly proportional to the endurance of the bladder...


• God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.


• REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL


• Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."


• "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride"


• "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
  - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)


• “The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge." - Peter Drucker.


• Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away,"


• Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement. "Mark Twain


• If you hate a person,you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isnt part of ourselves doesnt distur us.... Herman Hesse


• Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience." - Montaigne.


• Chance favors the prepared mind-louis pascal.


• God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one.
  So when we finally meet the right people,
  We should know how to be grateful to them.


• The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values." -Dean William R. Inge


• The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." Paul Fix (1901 ~ 1983


• Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever." Thomas Secker (1693 ~ 1768, former Archbishop of Canterbury


• "A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." Kahlil Gibran.


• Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another
  Madonna


• You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward-Jame Thurber


• There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures - James Thurber
  “There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.”


• Defeat is not when you fall down,It's when you refuse to get


• "I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world." - Margaret Mead.


• "As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it." - Albert Einstein.


• Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life - only a precious few have the same one


• Something we were withholding made us weakUntil we found it was ourselves. -Robert Frost


• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs


• It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity. Francis Bacon, Sr.


• The heart is happiest when it beats for others


• He who laughs last didn't get the joke.


• Only those who attempt the absurd can acheive the impossible.


• "A bride at her second wedding does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting." - Helen Rowland


• I live in my own little world.But it's OK... They know meHere!


• Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain."


• Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground


• You are old, when you fall down; you wonder what else you can do while you're down there.


• It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped -Anthony Robbins


• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.- Stephen King


• Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.- Henrik Ibsen


• A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.- Mark Twain


• A Father is a man with pictures in his wallet, where he used to keep his money when he was single.


• It doesn’t matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.


• Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves

Why why why cant we...?

GOA a state in India, so small that if any 6 footer spreads his/her legs, they could easily cover both the ends of the state..... that small a state which is covered with the blue water anywhere and everywhere and also with the white water, brown water , the red water (the colour depends on your brand)... but the purpose of this blog is neither to detail the beauty of the place nor to describe the trip that i had made a couple of weeks back with my friends to this place... but rather to share a different thought that passed my mind in all the days i was there ...

The thought struck me for the first time, when i was all alone in the beach at 2AM with a beer in one hand and a stone in the other hand, basically to throw at the dogs that came sniffing thinking that i am a junk piece of flesh gazing at the endless ocean half asleep and half drunk in the depth of the night. That night, in my semi sleepy n partly sober self, i noticed a group of men, in their mid 30's, same as my mood ..half drunk screaming at the top of their voice about life and how to enjoy them,,,, n how they enjoy it that time and how they plan to enjoy for the rest of the time they were there in that place. They were singing loudly, some were howling, they were the sloshed ones, my active sober self told me that, the others were laughing out loud for the silliest of the jokes that their friends cracked..
The thought crossed my mind "What causes the humans to be so free and so happy when they are in a vacation".. yes yes i know there are a lot of reasons for this question like, they are free to do what they want and how they want it... or perhaps they know that they have come here to enjoy and have fun..etc etc.. but when my partly drunk mind asked the same question to my party sober mind, i got the answer...it is because before start their vacation, they themselves convince their mind that they are going to enjoy, they are going to have a blast of a lifetime and that there is no place for worries and tensions during this period... yes a decision every human would have made either knowingly or unknowingly before they even start deciding about their vacation....

So then if this is the case, my partly drunk mind was curious, why cant every human make this decision at the start of every day...convince your mind that today its the start of a vacation n there is no place for worries n tensions....but by that time i had finished the beer...n my partly sober had undergone a significant change... it did not answer...

A trip to heaven.....

I plan to visit heaven once in a year from now on.. being my first visit this time, i should not screw it up...i have jotted down some of the things i should carry while i travel...

Good clothes is a must... St.Peter should not shove me off at the first sight. First impression is always the best impression..rmbr i am visiting every year...

Tooth brush n other toiletories... I have heared hygiene plays an important role in heaven..

Money.. Just in case, as i know the banks of earth do not have their telemarketing access to the heaven above, firstly they dont have a target customers there and secondly they dont know the ISD code....n hence i wouldnt find an ATM or a swiping machine there....

Wish list... By any chance if i get to see a glance of my God, i cant fumble for words or recollect my wishes...so i would just hand him over the list.. therby avoiding wastage of his time...

Offerings... yeah thats something i should be careful of,.. should not carry any perishables as by the time i reach there.... they would have perished...

My ipod (with fully charged)..I havent talked yet to the people who have gone there,,, there are hardly in my neighbourhood.... so i dont know the distance.... hence carrying one...

but more importantly i wish to carry myself..my true self..without any pretending or masks... i should carry my ego, i should carry my sins,, my sorrows,, my pride n my jealousy...my greed and my deeds,,,, for i know that once i see the heaven... all these which i carry melts away n would never bother me again....

I wonder if humans could actually do this....imagine then..the world would be a better place to live in....n what about the heaven... it would be a garbage with all the sins of the world deposited there... more n more everyday...tonnes and tonnes every second.....

I am sure it was wrong..

Work expands to fill the time available... thats a famous saying.. till now my greatest hobby was to criticise all the great words... but thn of late this one seems to be hitting me hard...
everytime this god'amn thing is becoming true... i have started leaving office by 8.15 instead of 6.30...i even started to have my dinner at office.. but still the pending work was not leaving me...oh shit!! this cant be left alone like this.. i need a solution......so i started a self evaluation.. this i havent done before in my life.. so it was a pretty sad start ,.my inexperience was clearly visible..... i gave weightages... evaluated and analysed... interpreted and summarized.. i came to a confused conclusion.. that either i am a sad workoholic or i am inefficient....i dint want that..so i re evaluated my self.. re assigned weightages... re summarised and reinterpreted.. n still reached the same conclusion... i gave up the evaluation... i still believe it was wrong.... :-)

Let us celeberate...

With more than 3 crore gods comes that much festivals...


India is celeberating any time of the year.... when one city goes to the slumber after a joyous carnival, another awakes in the hope and ecstacy of an upcoming celeberation..This is what differenciates her from the rest of the world... this is what gives her the precious culture....


Some festivals welcome the seasons of the year, the rains, the harvest, the full moon ..the others celeberate religious occasions where the Gods and the temples form the basis. The other forms of festivals are associated with the birthdays and remeberences of national leaders and national days...like Gandhi Jayanthi, November 14, the Independence day etc...The same festivals may also be known in differnent names in the different corners of the country.


When comes to the festivity too, the difference is seen.. Holi is welcomed with colors, lights greet Diwali, flowers bloom for Onam, clay idols for Ganesha Chathurthi...
Wherever they are and how ever they are celeberated, there are some aspects which is common acros the corners of the country, The celeberations centers around the rituals of prayer, seeking blessings of elders, exchanging goodwill, decorating houses, wearing new clothes,music, dance and feasting...No matter what the festival is or where or how it is celeberated these common attributes are never missed...



Today as i woke up , i can see Kerala at its festive best to celeberate Onam. She is decked up to celeberate the most anticipated festival of the state. With flower carpets, new clothes and grant feasts... Kerala is going crazy..The secular character of Onam is peculiar to this land where unity had always coexisted with diversity, especially during festivals, when people come together to celebrate life's unlimited joys.
Also today is the Teej festival in Uttar Pradesh, that marks the story of Krishna and Radha.. Where swings n songs coexist to form a unique form of fesitive sprit..

Tomorrow its another festival in a different place... there will be sleepless nights, songs , prayers and feasts... there will peace,joy and happiness there....

Let us get up from our slumber.... look up and see the celeberations.. no matter if its miles aparts, no matter we cannot see it.... let us buoy the spirt within and light it up inside.....

weekends weekends n weekends....

As my roomie has gone abroad for a short stint..i am all alone in my place...n whn weekends come a feelin of lonliness creeps in usually...
but this time it was different.. suddenly some frnds came home..wow unexpected..whn i reached back late after office on friday...i saw a group in front of my house.. slowly whn i got nearer i started seeing a familiar face, another one followed, then another..n more..i knew at tht moment..tht it is absolute fun tht awaits me ther...

had a great time..by around 1 or 2am, they started leavin, some people had to be dropped back home, some stayed over...friday was fun...
thn came saturday..again as i was crawling thru the day, my phone rung again..there is another devil..."dude wassup..wht plns..." the first question... whn told that my day was filled with sleep n food, he told he is comin to my plce..wow...saturday was a busy day thn....

Sunday, again in the mornin, there rings my phone. ,...this time it was a lunch...met couple of frnds..had lunch with them... one had to say abt her love failure n the other abt her new love..it was irony ...but i enjoyed....
came home by afternoon..n whn i was gettin ready for my usual nap, there rings my phone.... "dude wht plns", the question came in... followed by "i am comin to ur place"..n thts it.. i wait now..knowin tht the rest of my evenin is full of fun n laughter...

now i know i am not alone... now i know hw to spend my weekends.. i wait for the next ...n i wait anxiously.....

The road must be taken..

Went home the other day.. returned yesterday..

It was another journey, same destination, same purpose n the same mindset..

No not this time...the mindset is not same...things arent the same anymore,whole new problems await me there.. Dad hospitalized,roomies travel to abroad, has not found a 3rd room mate yet, , deadlines galore at work, boring n monotonous, friends all left abroad...so prettly lonley days in front.... ..Positive aspects cannot be ruled out though..the whole place just for me...unlimited net n freedom..no dependencies... thats all... when counted the negatives n positives results are slightly inclined to negativity...could be because it was a pessimistic mind's count...or is it really bad day awaitin me... i dont know..but with new hopes and in search of a better life the journey continues..

it could be a treacherous path with twists n turn or a smooth straight and a safe road ahead..the only optionis to take that road..no matter what is in store there or where it leads me.. the road must be taken..hope its peace and prosperity out there...hope i find my happiness there...anyways if not a calm passage, let the landing be smooth atleast....in hopes and in anticipation...i take my first step..