I want to come back to my house at night...Tired and completely exhausted....Freshen up... Have something to eat...And crash on the bed....And moments before I fall asleep I should think about the days events and realize 'Yes! I had such an awesome day'
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Misplacing your keys can end up with you having a great day
It has now become a habit for me to play an hour of table tennis or badminton on a daily basis. So as usual, I had gone yesterday, played for an hour and then returned home, only to realize that my keys were missing. Yes I hate that. I hate missing keys. I know its not that it was a big deal because you could always get a duplicate done but I just hate the process of getting it done. So best possible solution: Retrace the path. And it is a 20 min walk. Well, I didnt have any choice. So I started cursing myself and walked back.
Fast forward: I found the keys at the entrance to the club where I play badminton/table tennis :)
By this time, it was pretty late, so I decided to have dinner outside. So I walk to a nice restaurant nearby and order. I had my badminton racket with me and seeing this, some random guy started asking where do I play and stuff. And we just kept talking that I ended up having dinner with an amazing person. Only when I left did I realize that I had spent an hour there. :)
And then the walk back home. And I felt that my day went really good. All thanks to misplacing my keys. In case I had not done that, I would have had another normal day with not many good surprises....But that was not the case.
Sometimes things which you curse initially may actually turn out to be good later. :)
Fast forward: I found the keys at the entrance to the club where I play badminton/table tennis :)
By this time, it was pretty late, so I decided to have dinner outside. So I walk to a nice restaurant nearby and order. I had my badminton racket with me and seeing this, some random guy started asking where do I play and stuff. And we just kept talking that I ended up having dinner with an amazing person. Only when I left did I realize that I had spent an hour there. :)
And then the walk back home. And I felt that my day went really good. All thanks to misplacing my keys. In case I had not done that, I would have had another normal day with not many good surprises....But that was not the case.
Sometimes things which you curse initially may actually turn out to be good later. :)
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Lovely lines
I just finished reading "If you could see me now" by "Cecelia Ahern".....I so loved the book that i am gonna type two paragraphs from that which i felt were lovely :-)
So here it is:
"When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table leg breaks, or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent. You would think as it's so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world, or even have some sort of ceremonious sound like the gong of a cymbal or the ringing of a bell. But it's silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.
If there is a noise, it's internal. It screams and no one can hear it but you. It screams so loud your ears ring and your head aches. It thrashes around in your chest like a great white shark caught in the sea; it roars like a mother bear whose cub has been taken. That's what it looks like and that's what it sounds like, a thrashing, panicking, trapped great big beast, roaring like a prisoner to it's own emotions. But that's the thing about love - no one is untouchable. It's as wild as that, as raw as an open flesh wound exposed to salty sea water, but when it actually breaks, it's silent. You're just screaming on the inside and no one can hear it." - Cecelia Ahern.
Yea,,,thats it....I just soo luvd this para..felt like typing the whole thing....and i just did it..:-)
So here it is:
"When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table leg breaks, or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent. You would think as it's so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world, or even have some sort of ceremonious sound like the gong of a cymbal or the ringing of a bell. But it's silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.
If there is a noise, it's internal. It screams and no one can hear it but you. It screams so loud your ears ring and your head aches. It thrashes around in your chest like a great white shark caught in the sea; it roars like a mother bear whose cub has been taken. That's what it looks like and that's what it sounds like, a thrashing, panicking, trapped great big beast, roaring like a prisoner to it's own emotions. But that's the thing about love - no one is untouchable. It's as wild as that, as raw as an open flesh wound exposed to salty sea water, but when it actually breaks, it's silent. You're just screaming on the inside and no one can hear it." - Cecelia Ahern.
Yea,,,thats it....I just soo luvd this para..felt like typing the whole thing....and i just did it..:-)
Friday, December 17, 2010
My anger strategy
When I was younger, say some 8 years back.... I had two main ways of showing my anger
1) Run inside, bang the door and lock it.....
2) Skip lunch(I stopped using this technique coz no one seemed to be bothered)
It mostly went in favour of method 1.....I would come out after I have chilled down(which ranged from 30min to 2 hrs)..Even in this case, none seemed to be bothered but unlike in the latter case where i had to miss something nice at times, here i could have the nice ones....Ofcourse when the dishes werent capable of drawing my interest, then former method would be given greater importance....:-)
Forward 8 years.... Over 8 years, I have learnt to control my anger and be more friendly towards patience...However I do get angry at times...But then the options have changed... Now I just have a single method. And guess what...it works perfectly and is much more efficient:-)... Its really simple...Now, whenever I get angry, I just walk to the pc...go to www.facebook.com.......type username as prav01von19@gmail.com ... and password as *********(thought i would tell you...no way)... and just do a status update.... :-) obviously i would get comments...and yes...my anger....my anger would vanish in minutes:)All hail facebook:)
1) Run inside, bang the door and lock it.....
2) Skip lunch(I stopped using this technique coz no one seemed to be bothered)
It mostly went in favour of method 1.....I would come out after I have chilled down(which ranged from 30min to 2 hrs)..Even in this case, none seemed to be bothered but unlike in the latter case where i had to miss something nice at times, here i could have the nice ones....Ofcourse when the dishes werent capable of drawing my interest, then former method would be given greater importance....:-)
Forward 8 years.... Over 8 years, I have learnt to control my anger and be more friendly towards patience...However I do get angry at times...But then the options have changed... Now I just have a single method. And guess what...it works perfectly and is much more efficient:-)... Its really simple...Now, whenever I get angry, I just walk to the pc...go to www.facebook.com.......type username as prav01von19@gmail.com ... and password as *********(thought i would tell you...no way)... and just do a status update.... :-) obviously i would get comments...and yes...my anger....my anger would vanish in minutes:)All hail facebook:)
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Journeys and reflections
I am a person who loves travelling and going to new places....!.... Ofcourse the options of travelling from point A to point B are many....There could be absence of a particular mode in a particular place....but in general,,there are the slow modes(cycles,bikes), medium modes(buses and cars and trains and ships) and the fast (planes, rockets)......
Considering my main objective is to reach a particular destination, I really shouldnt be partial over the mode of tranport...But the truth is..i am....i love travelling by trains....Given a choice I prefer that..... I cannot lock an exact reason....But i guess its coz it gives me time to reflect upon various issues...and the scenary outside(the less occupied areas) plus the joblessness intensifies the reflection... One can always argue reflections can be made anytime...why a train journey alone??.... but the slow modes include you riding and if u reflect, u might find urself surrounded by people..ie, if you are lucky:-)...and as for buses,flights,cars,etc....journey is too tiring or the package includes lot of distractions...I guess ships would be a good alternative but then i havent got a chance yet....:-(....So we are back to trains...!!!!!!which i love travelling by.....I have been quite lucky to have quite some journeys till now....and i hope that they continue,......Its said one shouldnt end anything without thanking the people behind the scenes.....so...long live the indian railways and lalu who encouraged us to use the railways....;-)
Considering my main objective is to reach a particular destination, I really shouldnt be partial over the mode of tranport...But the truth is..i am....i love travelling by trains....Given a choice I prefer that..... I cannot lock an exact reason....But i guess its coz it gives me time to reflect upon various issues...and the scenary outside(the less occupied areas) plus the joblessness intensifies the reflection... One can always argue reflections can be made anytime...why a train journey alone??.... but the slow modes include you riding and if u reflect, u might find urself surrounded by people..ie, if you are lucky:-)...and as for buses,flights,cars,etc....journey is too tiring or the package includes lot of distractions...I guess ships would be a good alternative but then i havent got a chance yet....:-(....So we are back to trains...!!!!!!which i love travelling by.....I have been quite lucky to have quite some journeys till now....and i hope that they continue,......Its said one shouldnt end anything without thanking the people behind the scenes.....so...long live the indian railways and lalu who encouraged us to use the railways....;-)
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The unforgettable journey - part 2
In my previous blog, I had mentioned a specific event that took place in the train..
So about that bit we go...
Ever wondered how some people have the knack of creating a problem and once its done...try and escape.... Welll.. Read on(please do not try this)
Ok...So the three of us were sitting in the train...contended to a great extent( we got seats)... And we hear arguments from the other compartment... Obviously we wanted to know the story..So we put our ears to work on it.... And....
Here it goes..
There were like three men sitting on a berth and a lady sitting down...Since it was unreserved, 3 in a berth is kinda less(actually less).. so a fellow(Lets name him X) walks towards them...and all of a sudden, this lady springs up and sits there with them... X on seeing this walked away...And as soon as he walked away, this lady goes back down.....( yes..wtf..).... Seeing this Mr.X asks her ( a lil anger in voice) to either sit down or up... And in the next minute the three people start supporting this old lady and there...... The three n Mr.X start arguing..... The old lady tried to stop it getting worse(without success ofcourse).... And when she saw it getting worse,,guess what she did......??? She just walked away..she tells i am going to the next compartment and walks away...( please note that she was one who created this mess)...And then the sensible people of our country(some of whom where in the train) put some sense into her... They told her on the face that it was she who had started the fire and please not runaway... Well I guess u cant keep walking on when someone put it in soo clearly...So she came back...Fuel out...Fire off...everyone to sleep after an hour....
I guessss alll these were enough excitement for a night... so we dint have any more(Thankgod)
However..I guess this is one incident which is worth repeating to people..Not for the purpose of inculcating in them the knack of 'problem creation and escape' but for a little laugh and some relfection....
So about that bit we go...
Ever wondered how some people have the knack of creating a problem and once its done...try and escape.... Welll.. Read on(please do not try this)
Ok...So the three of us were sitting in the train...contended to a great extent( we got seats)... And we hear arguments from the other compartment... Obviously we wanted to know the story..So we put our ears to work on it.... And....
Here it goes..
There were like three men sitting on a berth and a lady sitting down...Since it was unreserved, 3 in a berth is kinda less(actually less).. so a fellow(Lets name him X) walks towards them...and all of a sudden, this lady springs up and sits there with them... X on seeing this walked away...And as soon as he walked away, this lady goes back down.....( yes..wtf..).... Seeing this Mr.X asks her ( a lil anger in voice) to either sit down or up... And in the next minute the three people start supporting this old lady and there...... The three n Mr.X start arguing..... The old lady tried to stop it getting worse(without success ofcourse).... And when she saw it getting worse,,guess what she did......??? She just walked away..she tells i am going to the next compartment and walks away...( please note that she was one who created this mess)...And then the sensible people of our country(some of whom where in the train) put some sense into her... They told her on the face that it was she who had started the fire and please not runaway... Well I guess u cant keep walking on when someone put it in soo clearly...So she came back...Fuel out...Fire off...everyone to sleep after an hour....
I guessss alll these were enough excitement for a night... so we dint have any more(Thankgod)
However..I guess this is one incident which is worth repeating to people..Not for the purpose of inculcating in them the knack of 'problem creation and escape' but for a little laugh and some relfection....
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tha unforgettable journey - part 1
There are times when you postpone something....And then you regret it(as you have never done before)...
Something similar happened to three of us(Me,Koushik n VR)....But then it was a day like no other....Nothing in the world could prevent us from......OK lemme start from the beginning...
It was the 20th of august..a friday.... Nothing special other than a special lab class(grrrr)...We had made plans of leaving to chennai from coll friday afternoon(with complete enthu coz it was 3 day(onam)...but made 4day(bunk) by us)...But then this lab comes up al of a sudden and we decide..Let us give attendance and then run away to chennai... Seemed like a good idea...But when we went to lab...we stayed till 4..not like we couldnt have walked out...we could have...but there are times when u sit rooted to spot....which happened to be a big mistake later.....
So...we sat till 4....n if we started then we would reach chennai only at 1 or 2..early next morning.....which really dint seem a great idea...So we decided to leave that by bus that night(no train tickets)....which is what we usually do in the absence of train tickets..
So..the three musketeers.....We reached trichy bus stand by 8.30....went to a restaurant..had good food.. and came backk
SHOCK..SHOCK...
All the bloody buses were full...completely filled.....even the private...and the one or two that were there trippled the prices....ufff
WE were left with onle one choice...Take the normal bus...Where u wil have a rock n roll ride and u can sleep on the bed for the next two days...Doesnt sound interesting right???? yea,,,,we dint take it.... As a matter of fact..we always had the option of returning to college..But then sometimes the desire to go to chennai is sooooooo high that we would find someway of reaching there by next morning..... Even if it meant running to the railway station...getting a unreserved ticket to chennai(which happens to be cheaper than the auto cost from chennai egmore to my place -100)...Waiting for "MSegmore"...ditching "rockfort" coz it was full..... Standing in rain...only to hear that "MS egmore" has been delayed by 30min.....
Too much of bad luck....
(Note: we had given our luggage to our friends coz it would be hard to get in unreserved with them)
We had to resort to the last measure.....Pray....pray that msegmore wouldnt be full... and somehow...we were lucky...i wouldnt say it was empty...but we managed to get seats...(that also meant one of us climbing through emergency exit..and that was not me)..There was a small adventure in train too...which would be in my next blog....
Ending with a positive note...we reached chennai next morning and slept the whole day./
Something similar happened to three of us(Me,Koushik n VR)....But then it was a day like no other....Nothing in the world could prevent us from......OK lemme start from the beginning...
It was the 20th of august..a friday.... Nothing special other than a special lab class(grrrr)...We had made plans of leaving to chennai from coll friday afternoon(with complete enthu coz it was 3 day(onam)...but made 4day(bunk) by us)...But then this lab comes up al of a sudden and we decide..Let us give attendance and then run away to chennai... Seemed like a good idea...But when we went to lab...we stayed till 4..not like we couldnt have walked out...we could have...but there are times when u sit rooted to spot....which happened to be a big mistake later.....
So...we sat till 4....n if we started then we would reach chennai only at 1 or 2..early next morning.....which really dint seem a great idea...So we decided to leave that by bus that night(no train tickets)....which is what we usually do in the absence of train tickets..
So..the three musketeers.....We reached trichy bus stand by 8.30....went to a restaurant..had good food.. and came backk
SHOCK..SHOCK...
All the bloody buses were full...completely filled.....even the private...and the one or two that were there trippled the prices....ufff
WE were left with onle one choice...Take the normal bus...Where u wil have a rock n roll ride and u can sleep on the bed for the next two days...Doesnt sound interesting right???? yea,,,,we dint take it.... As a matter of fact..we always had the option of returning to college..But then sometimes the desire to go to chennai is sooooooo high that we would find someway of reaching there by next morning..... Even if it meant running to the railway station...getting a unreserved ticket to chennai(which happens to be cheaper than the auto cost from chennai egmore to my place -100)...Waiting for "MSegmore"...ditching "rockfort" coz it was full..... Standing in rain...only to hear that "MS egmore" has been delayed by 30min.....
Too much of bad luck....
(Note: we had given our luggage to our friends coz it would be hard to get in unreserved with them)
We had to resort to the last measure.....Pray....pray that msegmore wouldnt be full... and somehow...we were lucky...i wouldnt say it was empty...but we managed to get seats...(that also meant one of us climbing through emergency exit..and that was not me)..There was a small adventure in train too...which would be in my next blog....
Ending with a positive note...we reached chennai next morning and slept the whole day./
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