Go(A)ing away…
I am sitting in front of my computer, with my favourite word processor flashing its pale blue light on my face, thinking what to write today. Nothing special is going on around here to write about…
Yeah rail accidents are occurring: so what they have become now a very normal occurrence with one big accident happening every month. Yeah there have some more disgraceful antics of the politicians to garner mileage from the accidents: so what, it’s what they do the best.
Yeah, the Indian cricket team has lost the 1st test match to the Sri Lankans like no other world number one team is expected to lose: so what, with the Indian cricket team you get what you least expect every single time.
But yes, there is one thing that’s going to happen after a long long time! I am going to away from the computer screen for quite a long time now that I am going for my job and am not taking my dear computer with me. So it’s going to be a pretty long break, I guess from the world of blogging, starting the 1st of August (although it was already so a few weeks ago!)…the question is will I be able to survive without it?? Let’s see, because that’s one of the most difficult things: to be away from the computer after being hooked to it, virtually 24X7 for the past 4 years! It’s going to be interesting seeing all the extra time that I will be getting and all the things that I can do with that extra bit of time!
Let’s see!
I have a dream
College life has ended. I am on the verge of entering into a completely new life, a life quite different from what I am used to as of now. A dream from a distant past has been fulfilled : I have become a professional, a working one! But today I realised that there’s no end of dreams;big or small; important or trifling dreams are a constant phenomenon.
Well yes friends, not for the first time in my life, today I say it again : I have a dream. This dream has somehow forced me to think…think about so many things; think about what have I achieved in my life? How have I helped my country? How have I rendered my services to the society? So many questions, but the answer to all of them was a big fat NOTHING. Till now, I have had nothing that I can be proud of truly.
This dream has forced me to think…what next? Is this it? Or is something still remaining? Kya Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost…or has the movie ended and the time has come for the credits to show themselves up? Well I don’t think that its over, I don’t think that the time for giving the credits has come yet…I think its still the formative stage, the dramatic climax is still to come….so keep watching because yes my friends, I have a dream!
If Only…
Things change so dramatically, sometimes in a blink of an eye, sometimes before even you could think a thing. Today its exactly a year hence and some change or another had to be there, but a change of this nature and this proportion was something that I never expected nor a thing that I ever imagined. And today, I feel so strange, so very strange.
Every year on the 18th of July, right from 2006 we went for a franctic search for a suitable gift for Chotu as his birthday would be at the brink…looked for it at so many places, so many shops, and then finally settled every time for a box of Ferrero Rocher and a book or a game CD (pirated of course!!). But it’s not the case today. This time there’s no box of Rocher, no book, no CD, no expectations of a great card, nothing at all. One single incident took away so many things from so many lives…God! Sometimes it feels like blasphemy even to think that it was the work of the almighty, ever kind, the Lord God of ours.
If things weren’t like what they are at present, i.e. if everything were normal i.e only if he had worn a helmet that day or perhaps crossed that place one minute earlier or later, he still wouldn’t have accompanied me to one of those annual frantic gift searches as he would have been basking in the summer of California at Google, but there would have been a satisfaction and conviction that he would call from halfway round the globe just to wish Chotu a Very Happy Birthday…That conviction is what I miss the most and so does Chotu and everyone else who knew you…
Invictus
I saw this ultimate movie, Invictus starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and the poem with which he inspired the Rugby team captain.
So here goes:
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
… My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.- Invictus by William Ernest Henley
About the movie : Its a yet another scintillating performance by one of the biggest names in Hollywood when it comes to “real acting”. And the storyline being real it was even tougher for him to live up to the expectations…but you know what he has dazzled. The best part was how he ingrained all the personality traits of the great Madiba and executed them with a flair characteristic of Freeman…In other words the movie was brilliant and heart-touching. Its a must watch!
And now the poem: Do you really think I have to write anything about it?? The poem speaks for itself!
Yap yap yap!
Yeah it has yet again been a long time since I dropped by…the world has changed a lot in these few months. My world has altered almost irrevocably for the better and I no better than to utter a single word of complaint (for that matter I cant even think of any!!). Jokes apart, lots of things have happened…but some have been quite a handful and they do need mentioning.
So lets take’em on one by one :
1. India becomes No.1 in Test Cricket
Well I started watching cricket and obviously supporting India when I was in Std. III (God that’s more than 11 years back now) and believe me I had never thought that India will achieve these heights ( though I dreamed of this a many times!) Many captains and coaches hence India reached this milestone under the captaincy of the one and only, The Golden Boy, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the coaching of the South African great, Gary Kirsten…its seems like a dream but its true and am really loving it! (Related NEWS : Dhoni got married (yeah so?? Let him be married its his personal life man why the hell do all the NEWS channels have to telecast this story forever and ever??)
2. Life
I found my life…and she found me too…and so did the family as a whole!!
3. I Got a Job
Yes, finally I got a job. 5 interviews, 8 writtens later finally I landed into a job and that too when I was least expecting it! And you know what, I ma looking forward towards the joining with all my heart…if only it came a bit earlier or if only I knew when I have to join!! (Yeah I know!! Keeping my fingers crossed )
4. Back to Fatness
Now this is where the ones with a dark tinge to them appear, I mean the NEWS. I have again started piling up weight..Gone are the days when through ultimate determination and perservation I had succeeded in cutting myself down to the eighties…but somehow, due to one reason or the other I am back in business and i think the dreaded century isn’t that far away!! 
5. Bandhs, Strikes, Naxals and Politics
This particular week has like something I had never ever envisaged. I mean out of the seven days of the week, 4 were bandhs. One , Bharat Bandh against inflation. Two and Three, Bharat Bandh by the Naxals protesting the killing of a top guy of their cock-n-bull outfit. Four, Jharkhand Bandh protesting the vandalism of the Rajrappa Temple.
About the Bharat Bandh, it was an all party thingy (of course it means that it was led by the opposition parties) to protest the decontrol of the petrol prices, which was a inevitable step that the government had to take one day or the other. I mean it was like draining the government off Thousands of Crores of Rupees every year which wasn’t helping India’s economic growth in any possible way. Yes the step will now cause people to dig deeper into their pockets, but I don’t think the calling and staging of Bharat bandhs is ever going to help in any fathomable way. About the Naxals and their various sympathizers like Arundhati Roy, all I can think of is SOD OFF!
The vandalism at the Rajrappa Temple was something very very unacceptable. How dare looters break the idol of the Shakti, the guilty must be caught at the earliest and the punishment should be as stringent as possible, because you can’t hurt people’s religious sentiments and get away man, you can’t ever.
6. Rupee gets a symbol
Well this was today. Its great isn’t it…we have got a symbol for our currency : The Rupee.
Will giving a symbol to the rupee raise its international standard, its international value? yes I know its only the fifth currency in the world to gain a symbol, but still is it going to be of any significance at all as far as the strength of the rupee is concerned? I don’t think so…but anyways lets see…
7. I BECAME AN ENGINEER!!!
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