Happy new year!

My first post in the new year! Happy new year!

Plagiarism

I flicked this from something Aishu told me yesterday. I dont know where she got it from. :D

"Having a long distance relationship is like having fish as a pet. You can do nothing but stare at the bowl in which it is held."

:D

12 in 12

One more year is done and I cant believe how much things have changed in the last one year! A few discoveries I never wanted to know about, a few choices I wish someone else had been asked to make and a few days, someone else could have lived. Now that I am done with the unpleasant stuff, 2009, was absolutely awesome! The 12 remarkable things that stood out (Not necessarily one for each month)

1. I moved out on my own! I got a house and then slowly learnt to live with all the responsibilities that come with one. I am still as happy as I was the day I started living on my own
2. I was introduced to new authors, started appreciating older ones and of course expanded my existing book collection. (Retirement plan is a library)
3. My writing improved. My blog is definitely happier now than before even if it is not record breaking stuff.
   
4. Made up with a few people who mattered. Thanks 183 for being there for crazy me
5. Almost done with learning to drive a car.
6. Thanks to few people, realised it is not worth the trouble to try to stay in touch with those that would never matter. There would only be spite, jealousy and anger.
7. When you try to save someone drowning in a moat of self pity, most probably, you would also be sucked in with them. Nothing is going to help them, for their troubles are created.
   
8. I found myself in a lot of ways. I found the peace i so badly sought. Thanks to the rainbows. All the beauty in the world is now in the palm of my hand.
9. Snehasadan and the children there. It is quite unfortunate that I cannot go there any more. But they added so much meaning to my life.
10. My vacations. :D
11. Finished 3 + .5+ .5 in the 30 before 30 list. :)
12. Got insomnia and then got rid of it too.
    

A few specials

1. Peter English Shirts just Rs.25 a piece
2. Very much America. A 2 wheeler in the right side of the road curses the car in the left side
3. Sboken Inglish tot hear
4. " We modern peoples. No road side thing. Only brand. See Ray Ban"
   
5. "He is a truthful guy. He has a long moustache"
6. "Why is the army fighting in the border? Send Captain Vijayakanth. He will manage the enemy troops by himself."
7. My son in foreign. Bangaloor. Big. Very Big
8. "I no talk Tamil. We improve. Only English talk."
9. "You are very beautiful. I want friendship"
10. "I know why you are getting only a 4 wheeler licence. You will only marry a guy with a car so you can take the children to school"

P.S: Points 5,6,10 translated from tamizh for those who dont know the lovely language.

Untitled ramblings or is it enlightenment?

People age. Agreed. It is a well known fact. It happens as they say due to the passage of time.
Food items come with an expiry date. Everything in the world does I think. Is it only because of this heartless thing called time? Or is it wrong in calling time heartless? Is time something wonderful as time and again it gives us new experiences, helps us open our souls and strive to leave behind our shortcomings? What i sometimes wonder does improvement achieve? I have asked this question so many times in so many forms in this blog.

I sometimes feel, human beings only want more the more they get. So does all this change for the better really help us in the long run? I dont know. As usual, i deviate from the topic. That way, it seems so sensible that this post is untitled as we cant possible title and classify our thought process.

You start with something which leads to another and then to another and then you are just left with a striking revelation that you never even set out to find in the first place. The revelation i just had is that, Life for all its absurdity is in a way too glorious to be captured by words. I have all the time in the world to reflect thanks to the luxurious life i lead (compared to every third indian living below the poverty line) I wonder if i still would when i am hungry. I guess I would just wail foood.

Licences

I am dead scared of traffic. Driving a two wheeler in madurai was the closest i have come to controlling a motor vehicle. For those of you who have driven around in places with unregulated traffic, you know how painful this is. I was so bugged that I never drove a vehicle after that. (My darling cycle in pilani is a different story) However, thanks to the miracle man, I now wanted to get a 4 wheeler licence. Today, I went to get my LLR. After submitting all the required documents, I was eagerly waiting to write my test when the computer screen greets me with a pop up "No more candidates to take the test!" (Madurai has an online exam you have to pass to get an LLR. Talk about advancement! They had brilliant computers there.)

I ask the guy near me and he greets me with a wide smile (The ones usually reserved for damsels in distress) and he tells me, "Ungalodathu thaane madam, avar ezhuthittu irukaaru"(translation: Madam, your exam is being written by him) pointing to an idiot in another computer. I run there to see my face in the terminal and one of the guys in the RTO office writing my exam!

I rushed in and successfully answered questions. However, it was he who clicked it. This, they said, was how it was being done for everybody. And this, i am not at all happy with. Funniest part is, i realise, this is how all our lives are too.

In each one of us exists the innate desire to be accepted. To be given the licence to live without being judged. The licence to live our lives the way we want it without too many complications. As simple as it might seem to most people, in reality, it seldom is the case. Sometimes, the path leading to it is so treacherous that people choose to perish or to give up what they wanted in the first place. They find it a lot easier to let more experienced people live their life. I usually struggle to not swim with the tide. I fight against it when it is not what i have envisioned for myself. However, with time, I am human enough to get tired. But just the firm belief that what lies at the end is worth it, keeps me going.

I dedicate this post to all people out there, who are waiting for this licence. It is of course a different issue that one should be mature enough to utilise the licence without misusing it and becoming a public nuisance. I pray for the wisdom to live my life

Barking at the Moon - Jenny Lewis

Heard the song in bolt. Loved it. Sigh. Awesome. I know I am sentimental sometimes. :D

I have got so much to give, I swear I do.
I may not have nine lives, this one feels brand new.
Yes I've lived a good one.
I have tried to be true.
There are some things I never realized, till I met you.
How the wind feels on my cheeks, when I'm barking at the moon.

There is no home like the one you've got, cuz that home belongs to you.
Woo Woo! Here I come.
Woo Woo! Back to you.
There is no home like the one you've got, cuz that home belongs to you.

Well I was in trouble, bad.
I was so confused.
I may not see in color babe, but I sure can feel blue.
I have been a lot of things, they may not all be true.
My experience was so mysterious, till I met you.
Now the sun may rise in the east, but I'm barking at the moon.

There is no home like the one you've got, cuz that home belongs to you.
Woo Woo! Here I come.
Woo Woo! Back to you.
There is no home like the one you've got, cuz that home belongs to you.

There is no home like the one you've got, cuz that home belongs to you.

There is no home like the one you've got, cuz that home belongs to you...