Days passing soon.. Six months far away from home, in USA.. Struggled last two years, worked hard to come here and two months were enough to make me feel void about everything here. Of course, it was just a matter of time, home-sick feeling and missing friends, lovables, dear ones and my favourite Bangalore. Initial days i used to find lot of time for myself with not much life other than office. May be i was little scared to make new friends or was never alone like this before or was destined to be so. But now, no time for anything; everything has to be planned, and i've learnt to keep myself busy. Be it busy with work, books, surfing, facebook, soaps and hell lot of movies and exploring the places around. Started liking the place but definitely not so much to settle here as most indians do.
Made new friends, lost few friends... Watched few horrible movies and some real good ones.. Visited new places, walked out of places too... lol ;) ... Met typical personalities, spoke to great personalities, admired few and ignored most... Learnt lot many lessons, life taught many more... Spoke to many friends in india and ignored few... Spent lotta money and saved few pennies.... Read books and analysed a little... Photographed a lot but captured tiny... So far going good. hoping to have the remaining with peace and content.. looking forward to do better and better...
Feb 11, 2011
May 6, 2010
Like Urself First...
Weather is too romantic today... A long walk on a calm street with almost no traffic would be the best thing to do but..... its hard to find such place in blore at this hour. And i found one similar place near by my house and started walking in the park.
Two thoughts were going in my mind, some one asked me few days back as to how much time i spend myself in a day??... believe me, i was thinking if i really spend any time only for myself... people usually say i spend lot of time for myself, while taking bath, brushing, eating and many more.. but do we really think about our self during that time or something else (be it about office, about family, about friends) would be running in our mind? so strange isn't it... our life and we hardly spend an hour in a day for our self. Now does that mean that we are so humane to think about other things in life and not about ourselves or is it that we are too negligent to think about our self and think about things around us to make our self comfortable, happy, luxurious, etc.... If i am not thinking about myself i feel i don't like myself and i think about others to make myself happy.. without liking oneself how one can be happy??? and then i got this message again from same person, like yourself first and then you will like things around you... in the same line think urself first and think about others too.
Not sure, if this makes sense to anyone.. but yes it does to me... So lesson for the day " Like Urself First".
Two thoughts were going in my mind, some one asked me few days back as to how much time i spend myself in a day??... believe me, i was thinking if i really spend any time only for myself... people usually say i spend lot of time for myself, while taking bath, brushing, eating and many more.. but do we really think about our self during that time or something else (be it about office, about family, about friends) would be running in our mind? so strange isn't it... our life and we hardly spend an hour in a day for our self. Now does that mean that we are so humane to think about other things in life and not about ourselves or is it that we are too negligent to think about our self and think about things around us to make our self comfortable, happy, luxurious, etc.... If i am not thinking about myself i feel i don't like myself and i think about others to make myself happy.. without liking oneself how one can be happy??? and then i got this message again from same person, like yourself first and then you will like things around you... in the same line think urself first and think about others too.
Not sure, if this makes sense to anyone.. but yes it does to me... So lesson for the day " Like Urself First".
Dec 3, 2009
Wierd Trip - Hyderabad
As usual the days were passing with boring office and plain weekends. One day Shyam (well, her full name is Shyamala, my roommate for 4 yrs in Mysore) called up asking me to accompany her to Hyderabad for her visa interview. Frankly speaking, wanted to go to Hyderabad as I never got a chance to visit this happening city, as my Telugu colleagues say it so. I agreed up on and we planned to go 2 days in advance so that we can visit places over there and may be some shopping although Blore is no less than it for shopping stuffs. I was worried only about this 12 hrs lengthy journey in the bus as we could not get train tickets.
We had the bus at 9:00 PM in the evening from mejastic. This time I thought i'll ask my friend to drop me to the bus stand in Bike instead of taking usual BMTC Bus so that I can go with out any hassles or last minute rush. But all in vain, though we started at 8,the traffic made us to reach the bus stand only at 9:10 pm. Luckily Shyam had reached earlier with tickets so that she could stop the bus for me. As soon as I reached, every one in the bus were very happy as the driver was waiting for me to board the bus. talking in lighter side, I felt as if the world is stopping for me to move on.. he he h he... As usual A/C bus and coz i get sleep only after late nights, i forced the conductor to put some movies in the so called DVD Player. Was lucky to see some good stuff (AmruthaDhaare, a quite famous Kannada movie) and then sleep until we reached City of Pearls, Hyderabad.
As soon as we reached there, we had Shyam's cousin to pick us up from Bus Stand to His apartments. I was more happy that the family would be leaving to another city for a wedding leaving two of us behind all alone in the house for next two days. by afternoon, it was only me and shyam in an unknown city in an unknown apartment. We were not even sure of the area where we were staying but we had loads of plans to roam around the city with help of Anand (unfortunately, he was also out of town for some wedding) over the cell phone talks.
Both of us wanted to roam in the city in public transport rather than hiring a city taxi thinking of getting better view about the city. I personally feel that if u are travelling to any city in India, you should go by public transport to see the real India and i love such weird but interesting trips, I get to think a lot and may be learn a lot sometimes. We immediately planned to go to Birla temple and Golkonda Fort but then settled with only Golkonda fort for that day as we got ready to go out only at 4PM. But we also wanted to book travel to Film city for the next day. We somehow managed to get an auto near the apts and asked him to take us to near by travel center for film city tour. We booked the tickets and with the help of the travel center guy, took an auto to Medhipatnam after so much of fighting for the fare. At medhipatnam, we were not even sure of how to reach Golkonda and was trying to call up Anand that i heard some one screaming from a nearby TT that it will go to Golconda. With out second thought we boarded the TT and he took us to golkonda for for just 10 Bucks. By the time we reached, shyam was so tired that she had a Masala soda on road side vehicle which she said was awesome. well, i took a mineral water bottle (not coz, i hate road side stuffs but coz i dont drink soda). It took an hour for us to reach the top of the fort and in fact i liked it because it resembled my place, bellary with so many big stones. But it was not so beautiful as i had seen in many telugu movies. but then shyam was tired of seeing only stones and insisted that we will go to shopping rather than staying there. But then i called up this stupid colleague of mine who is from Hyderabad and asked him about the so called light and sound show which happens at the fort everyday. In his words, it is one of the very interesting thing to watch and not to be missed and its much more beautiful than the Musical fountain at Brindavan gardens in KRS, Mysore. Flattered by his statement we stayed back for the show to begin paying 100 rs per person. Let me tell you, the show was not even worth of 20 Rs. All I could listen to was the story of the fort but with too many unnecessary songs (like a Bollywood movie) and saw the mixture of different shades of light thrown on these age old stones in the fort and above that mosquitoes all over the place forcing us to hate the show even more. Finally, the show was over and we hurried to catch the same old TT to go back to medhipatnam. While we were seated in TT, i remembered that we dont know where exactly to go. All we knew is Ashok nagar, Gandhi nagar and RCTX road. but dont know either the street name, which main or the apt name.
We had the bus at 9:00 PM in the evening from mejastic. This time I thought i'll ask my friend to drop me to the bus stand in Bike instead of taking usual BMTC Bus so that I can go with out any hassles or last minute rush. But all in vain, though we started at 8,the traffic made us to reach the bus stand only at 9:10 pm. Luckily Shyam had reached earlier with tickets so that she could stop the bus for me. As soon as I reached, every one in the bus were very happy as the driver was waiting for me to board the bus. talking in lighter side, I felt as if the world is stopping for me to move on.. he he h he... As usual A/C bus and coz i get sleep only after late nights, i forced the conductor to put some movies in the so called DVD Player. Was lucky to see some good stuff (AmruthaDhaare, a quite famous Kannada movie) and then sleep until we reached City of Pearls, Hyderabad.
As soon as we reached there, we had Shyam's cousin to pick us up from Bus Stand to His apartments. I was more happy that the family would be leaving to another city for a wedding leaving two of us behind all alone in the house for next two days. by afternoon, it was only me and shyam in an unknown city in an unknown apartment. We were not even sure of the area where we were staying but we had loads of plans to roam around the city with help of Anand (unfortunately, he was also out of town for some wedding) over the cell phone talks.
Both of us wanted to roam in the city in public transport rather than hiring a city taxi thinking of getting better view about the city. I personally feel that if u are travelling to any city in India, you should go by public transport to see the real India and i love such weird but interesting trips, I get to think a lot and may be learn a lot sometimes. We immediately planned to go to Birla temple and Golkonda Fort but then settled with only Golkonda fort for that day as we got ready to go out only at 4PM. But we also wanted to book travel to Film city for the next day. We somehow managed to get an auto near the apts and asked him to take us to near by travel center for film city tour. We booked the tickets and with the help of the travel center guy, took an auto to Medhipatnam after so much of fighting for the fare. At medhipatnam, we were not even sure of how to reach Golkonda and was trying to call up Anand that i heard some one screaming from a nearby TT that it will go to Golconda. With out second thought we boarded the TT and he took us to golkonda for for just 10 Bucks. By the time we reached, shyam was so tired that she had a Masala soda on road side vehicle which she said was awesome. well, i took a mineral water bottle (not coz, i hate road side stuffs but coz i dont drink soda). It took an hour for us to reach the top of the fort and in fact i liked it because it resembled my place, bellary with so many big stones. But it was not so beautiful as i had seen in many telugu movies. but then shyam was tired of seeing only stones and insisted that we will go to shopping rather than staying there. But then i called up this stupid colleague of mine who is from Hyderabad and asked him about the so called light and sound show which happens at the fort everyday. In his words, it is one of the very interesting thing to watch and not to be missed and its much more beautiful than the Musical fountain at Brindavan gardens in KRS, Mysore. Flattered by his statement we stayed back for the show to begin paying 100 rs per person. Let me tell you, the show was not even worth of 20 Rs. All I could listen to was the story of the fort but with too many unnecessary songs (like a Bollywood movie) and saw the mixture of different shades of light thrown on these age old stones in the fort and above that mosquitoes all over the place forcing us to hate the show even more. Finally, the show was over and we hurried to catch the same old TT to go back to medhipatnam. While we were seated in TT, i remembered that we dont know where exactly to go. All we knew is Ashok nagar, Gandhi nagar and RCTX road. but dont know either the street name, which main or the apt name.
With strong mind, we took an auto to RCTX Road.. As soon as we reached there, asked driver to take the route to Ashok Nagar road, mean while tried calling up Shyam's cousin but went in vain as the number was not reachable (switched off).. Tried continuously for 15 minutes, and roamed in gallies of Ashok Nagar to find out the apartment.. Asked to the roadside people if they know any apartment with the name.. but everyone was kind of laughing at us...Finally by Gods grace, Shyam's cousin called us at the right moment... :) And we reached house before it was too late...
Next day, woke up early in the morning so that we could catch the bus to Film city at 8AM. I was so excited but.. but the excitement was completely gone when it took almost 3 hrs for us to reach Film City.. But got charged up after having Breakfast and snacks at Film City... The day went good, had lot of fun over there and reached home after a long tiring day..
Next day, Monday Shyam had her interview scheduled... By Sunday evening, There was huge chaos in Hyderabad, in fact whole AP for Telangana fight.. So we had difficulty on Monday to reach out to the US Consulate. We managed to reach by taking help of Shyam's friend. We had big plans of shopping in and around Amerpeth.. Since the people called for a Bundh in hyderabad, went back home after the interview and took some rest and got ready to leave to Bangalore in the evening.
This is how ended my Hyderabad trip.. All in all, it was not so good as i expected but we enjoyed it a lot though...
Aug 19, 2009
Time Pass
Feeling kinda depressed now a days. Feeling as though my life has been waste all these days with out any purpose or goal to achieve.
I am sure, many people feel so quite often in their life time and I too am not an exception for it.
Wanted to share my thoughts about this book which i started reading very recently. i have read few biographies till now and this one impressed me more than any book. The book name is "Time Pass" ; an autobiography of Protima Bedi. (wife of the most handsome bollywood actor of 70s, Kabir Bedi). I am impressed for the real guts she had to put forth every stupid and weird incidents happened in her life. The whole book projects how this lady took life challenging though she faced many problems due to her affairs with famous men like kabir bedi, pandit jasraj, Rajni Patel , Vijaypath singhania etc.. You should read the way she led her life in her own terms and how she goes on giving genuine reasons defending herself.
All of us, would have led our life in our own term similar to her and gave our own reasons in doing so. I was much interested in her story for the fact that she streaked in day time as a model and then became a famous odissi (classical) dancer at international level. what a change from mere disrespectful model life to highly respected, decent classical dancer. It was kind of finding an objective to live her life.
I strongly feel this book is for the people who think that they have come across many tough situations in their life which no one has faced, and for the people who have difficulties in balancing personal and professional life and for people who often think that mistakes can never be corrected.. On the lighter side, this is for the people who think how a girl could flirt with many people with out any hassles.
I am sure, many people feel so quite often in their life time and I too am not an exception for it.
Wanted to share my thoughts about this book which i started reading very recently. i have read few biographies till now and this one impressed me more than any book. The book name is "Time Pass" ; an autobiography of Protima Bedi. (wife of the most handsome bollywood actor of 70s, Kabir Bedi). I am impressed for the real guts she had to put forth every stupid and weird incidents happened in her life. The whole book projects how this lady took life challenging though she faced many problems due to her affairs with famous men like kabir bedi, pandit jasraj, Rajni Patel , Vijaypath singhania etc.. You should read the way she led her life in her own terms and how she goes on giving genuine reasons defending herself.
All of us, would have led our life in our own term similar to her and gave our own reasons in doing so. I was much interested in her story for the fact that she streaked in day time as a model and then became a famous odissi (classical) dancer at international level. what a change from mere disrespectful model life to highly respected, decent classical dancer. It was kind of finding an objective to live her life.
I strongly feel this book is for the people who think that they have come across many tough situations in their life which no one has faced, and for the people who have difficulties in balancing personal and professional life and for people who often think that mistakes can never be corrected.. On the lighter side, this is for the people who think how a girl could flirt with many people with out any hassles.
Jul 22, 2009
My Bday
Hmm..... finished 25 successful years on this earth.... Life has taught me so many things in these 25 years.. some good ones, bad ones, beautiful moments too.
Yesterday was one among them.. spent the whole day with my cutie pie.. fighting for silly reasons, and then smile for his words. Feeding him lunch was fun. i was just not able to take my eyes off him, loved the way his eyes were glowing when he was in my hands... I had been to Bijapur many times, but this time it was something special may be because he was speaking to me or may be because he was responding to my feelings... i felt as though he was feeling the same as me. It was more pleasing that he is with me rather than being my BDay. I'm just waiting to meet him again on his Bday next month.I hope he'll get to know that its me as soon as i touch him. My sis always say kids feel the touch and guess the person correctly. I hope my lil boy, Shubhan remembers me the next time I meet him.
Yesterday was one among them.. spent the whole day with my cutie pie.. fighting for silly reasons, and then smile for his words. Feeding him lunch was fun. i was just not able to take my eyes off him, loved the way his eyes were glowing when he was in my hands... I had been to Bijapur many times, but this time it was something special may be because he was speaking to me or may be because he was responding to my feelings... i felt as though he was feeling the same as me. It was more pleasing that he is with me rather than being my BDay. I'm just waiting to meet him again on his Bday next month.I hope he'll get to know that its me as soon as i touch him. My sis always say kids feel the touch and guess the person correctly. I hope my lil boy, Shubhan remembers me the next time I meet him.
Mar 1, 2009
First ever love letter to me...
So close i was standing by ur side....
My heart skipped a beat
with jus one look in those eyes.
So close you were when u wispered ' i love u'
I didn't care about a million doubts
Those words jus had to be true.
So close we were when you held me that way,
I can't tell how it felt
Maybe theres nothin left to say..
So close you were I could feel the love
So close to me... still not close enough!!
My heart skipped a beat
with jus one look in those eyes.
So close you were when u wispered ' i love u'
I didn't care about a million doubts
Those words jus had to be true.
So close we were when you held me that way,
I can't tell how it felt
Maybe theres nothin left to say..
So close you were I could feel the love
So close to me... still not close enough!!
My First Blog
dont know from where this idea of blog came to mind..
today i had a nice sleep in the evening and then was not feeling sleepy in the night.At 2:30 AM i though that there should be some diary kind of thing where in i can pen down some beautiful moments of my life. thats how it all started. there are many things in life which i started and could not complete it due to some obstacles, i just hope this will not be one among those unaccomplished things. lets see how far this ocean of blogging goes on.
today i had a nice sleep in the evening and then was not feeling sleepy in the night.At 2:30 AM i though that there should be some diary kind of thing where in i can pen down some beautiful moments of my life. thats how it all started. there are many things in life which i started and could not complete it due to some obstacles, i just hope this will not be one among those unaccomplished things. lets see how far this ocean of blogging goes on.
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