Its you alone...

You look back lost in time,
and you laugh to hide, to confine.
The memories that should be there no longer,
so unsuspecting souls, oblivious, grow fonder.

Hurt and happiness, both rush back together,
all they can offer, is but a mere gesture.
They'll just grow, with the days gone by,
what can they do? Laugh? Comfort? Or cry?

It's you alone who can look forth,
for the past is the dusk that we loath.
Forget the cliche and decide,
to have a hope, a smile and fight.

So much to live, to learn, to share,
with me and others, and all that care.
To come is a glowing morn,
but its you alone, who can move on.

To crave, to find

A simple joy, I crave to find,
Some quiet please, a mellow breeze,
A break serene, from constant grind,
A mind at peace, a heart at ease.

I crave to find, a time divine,
A sudden laugh, a stray tear,
A twinkle in the eye, that set on mine,
A soothing touch mere, I shall forever revere.

The dawn beckons, to attain I strive,
Their signals warn, its not our kind,
It's they who fear, my endeavor will be deprived,
But...my mind is made...to crave...to find.

Avatar (Ek Adbhud Duniya)

In case you are wondering whats that in the brackets in the title, its the name of the hindi dubbed version of the new 3D release, Avatar. James Cameron is no newbie when it comes to special effects. Titanic and Terminator 2: Judgement Day being his previous claims to CGI fame. With Avatar he seeks to repeat the performance and infact take it to a new dimension (literally! since the movie is 3D). There's a problem though....there aint no story. It is heard that the story germinated some 13 years back and the movie completed only now as the advances in animation technology would not support a movie of this stature that long ago. Well now onto the movie.

I went to the movie with a whole bunch of close friends. The disclaimer here is that i was never big on these kinda movies that i call the 'Jaadu-Tona' genre :P. LOTR and Harry Potter being exceptions. So it was with a pinch of salt that i decided to go along. Knowing that it is rather the company i would enjoy than the movie itself. The movie has the standard story line...Spy, girl, girl's father, love, allegiances, fight, victory of good over bad. Now that took well into 3 hours to depict. Seriously, if i wanted to just watch the awesome graphics and the breathtaking display of lights...i would watch the scenes on youtube. The 3D glasses were more of a nuisance than anything. I mean try balancing heavy plastic sharp objects on your nose for 3 hours and then tell me about it. It gave me a headache frankly. However, credit where its due, when i did wake up from my slumber and watched the ending fight sequence, a few scenes actually made me strafe to avoid oncoming bullets and arrows. Other than that there is nothing to really write home about in the movie. Although the end result was a superb visual treat, it was like watching a firework display for 3 hours. You get bored somewhere down the line and you neck starts to stiffen. So you take off those silly glasses that have been giving you a headache, thank god that you are in the corner seat, and dose off wondering whether you could have put the 3 hours to better use. The best part of the movie was when it got over. Atleast the movie gave us enough conversational topics like poking fun at the alien kissing scene (which was seriously not required) and tall friends being likened to the Pandorans. A couple of my pals even did some research to fathom the meaning of the whole thing. Me? I havent thought of the movie since, i have exams coming up.

kabhi na beete chamkeele din

I wrote the below passage when still working at amdocs, i had just appeared for CAT 2008, and didnt know what was in store :-P...... 

"Dil chahta hain....kabhi na beete chamkeele din

Hum na rahein kabhi yaaron ke bin...."


Its a sunday evening...and here i am, trying to fathom why on earth the customers of my client arent able to get their minutes of usage this month....and i put on my headphones...sometimes music helps you in getting your thoughts in order...and shankar mahadevan started crooning the above words into my ears...An alarm went off in my head...i couldnt help but stop and stare blindly into my screen...I gave up with the problem...it didnt matter anyway...it was an extremely low priority issue and i could solve it with some help later on...I thought of doing something i enjoy....blogging...Its been months since my last post...and i was beginning to wonder wether i have lost the creativity, the imagination to go ahead and write another article. But here i am....on a Sunday evening...trying to give it another shot...


I have been reading quite a bit these days...I got hold of '3 Mistakes of my Life' chetan bhagats 3rd book...he he he...i thought "Mate, you've done 2 mistakes and we know about it...why make a third one!"...naah kidding...Bhagat's an awesome read...not so crazy about One Night at the Call Center but of course "5 Point..." is unbelievable. But you know what!?...ive got a friend who never stayed in a hostel and works in a call centre feels exactly the opposite. Relative scales of measurement at work...we like the books that we can relate to. By the way, I also read 'Joker in the Pack' its a story about a guy and his days in IIM Bangalore...Now, that is something i would like to relate to! ...maybe i will someday! who knows...it aint over until its over eh?!...The moot point is, when will that day come when we say "kabhi na beete chamkeele din"...well those chamkeele din seem to be past us all...but why?!!..why do i brood over the past and reminisce in the lost glory of years gone by!?...why cant the 'shaams jhoom' and the 'raats gaa' once more? :-)..can they?...Ofcourse they can, one has gotta make 'em. I have a dream...i pursue it with all my might...if i fail what the heck!...i gave it a shot!...i will enjoy the pursuit...i will make it the purpose of my life...life is too short to stop at signals...i need to keep moving on...Its a Sunday evening...and here i am...ready to move on...start a new week.


hoping that this will inspire me to give it a go...and you all...

hoping we'll take charge of our lives and give our best shot at acheiving our forgotten goals...

...ah! Thank God I had saved this :-D...Hopefully readers (and especially this years' CAT aspirants) can relate :-D

Who's life do you want to live?

Recently I was lucky enough to see a video of a lecture by Kiran Bedi on leadership, and how we can, from a young age, inculcate in ourselves the qualities and the visionary abilities of a leader. She begins by talking about Destiny, and how it is a factor in deciding the course of our lives. She does actually put forth a very compelling argument, and one that I have believed in even before letting my thoughts be anchored by her views. Our birth into the families we were born into is definitely destiny at work. I am too, glad I was born to my parents, who made several sacrifices and indeed dedicated their whole lives to their children. So yeah, to some extent fortune does favour the brave and our deeds do decide our rewards, but no one can deny that the initial boost that one gets (or does not), is down to pure luck...or destiny. The real heroes are those who despite all the misgivings still triumph in life. Hats off to those who didnt have the kind of parents and family that I have been lucky to have, and hats off to those parents and families such as mine. As for me, I continue to thank my lucky stars.