Flight

I've closed my eyes
and I'm flying away.
Into the skies, in dark
Away from realities, quite stark
Dreamy I am ... but yet a bit lost
Up and above, where any can get frost
But why do I wander
and what do I care
Oh Yes! I've closed my eyes
And I'm flying away!!

Night Out!!

It was a nice outing for an Italian cuisine dinner at a plush place. Light drizzle, cool winds and warm chitter-chatter was all needed for a nice time pass on a Fri eve. TGIF :)

2012 Beckons!

 

The year 2012 holds significant value in our lives. For me it brings into the phase to face, perhaps, “mid-life crisis”. For the reason that I have left behind the era of Twenties just about now, it was once for the teens! So finally to realize getting unequivocally called “uncle” across the ranks, there are only crossroads to decide upon for the directions at every step. Probably this all sounds quite sadist but that would be the mood if, after all, the world is coming to an end …

It sounds too unrealistic to even think that the world is coming to an end. But there are so many predictions and the extrapolation of tragedies from increasing natural disasters. Add to it the widespread protests and rising anarchy across nations sufficient enough to paint a sorry state of the world. The climate change, global warming, drought conditions and floods are happening everywhere. The way I see this is that nature cleanse itself up. Nature has the ability to recover and re-build itself … and perhaps it has started. The sins of humankind since before the age of industrialization requires some correctives. It may not have to do anything with the famous Mr. Nostradamus but surely there will be natural and man-made destructions all around the globe which would reduce the human colonies. The time is to reckon it … gather your courage and build your strength and character to face and brave the unforeseen.

I guess it has gone all dramatic … so chuck it, let your hairs loose and groove to music in the biggest party … called LIFE!!

My Name Is Khan !!

What a farce it was? With so much of hype all around for this movie (apparently for right reasons given the ugly political face it has to see), it was a sheer disappointment in the end! Yes, it was SRK and Kajol together after eight long years and a lovely chemistry they shared once again; but still the film falls flat on its face. Very well shot movie and merely appreciable performances shall be the last good words I can talk about this movie. Songs just come and go and you realize, perhaps, a little later.

The treatment of this movie was neither raw, which was required for such a plot, nor larger than life for which the Bollywood is known all over and is indeed the quintessential characteristic of the Indian cinema. Story of an Asperger Syndrome affected protagonist who traveled across the continent to tell "My Name Is Khan and I am not a terrorist" to the US President. At the face of it, it does look like addressing a grave issue. Grave indeed, but it was never built as grave in the movie. Traditionally you go to a KJo movie with a ransack full of tissue papers but this time it was not the case. Perhaps, a gallon of Navratan mint oil would have helped to cool down the head. I can't resist recollecting how Tom Hanks portrayed his disillusioned self in "Forrest Gump" many many years ago and such a nice detached narrative that the movie is still called a cult and a classic. Here protagonist's narration just didn't touch at all. I didn't mean to compare chalk and cheese nevertheless as I said "I can't resist". The film does have a noble message and the lengths granted for that makes it look preachy at times. Just like the melodrama of national anthem in K3G, KJo has gone a step ahead to make the lead pair and Katrina hurricane terrorized blacks back in Georgia hymn this in Hindi as well as line to line English transcript. It was simply awkward!

I came out of the theater a little misled and confused. I neither felt happy nor dejected, rather confused. May be actors aced to their abilities but the "brave" director Mr. KJo had perhaps a bad stomach directing it. Not to forget that I have lost all my respect for the critics who I am sure can be bought by big banners.

Shopping bonanza!!

Shopping is a damn tiring exercise ... just walking around in big malls and worse still ... hopping from one to another. Yeah yeah ... the sale season is just starting and the civilization demands some "human" disguise to be maintained in the 21st century ... and well, that requires to go shopping. While I gaze on so many shelves around me with abundance of clothes on it; why the hell on earth does it happen that whichever I pick so lovingly either doesn't fit me or my wallet just goes hiding seeing the price tag. Perhaps, Mr. Murphy cursed me in some forgone age.

And the bonanza it became when I got my hands on few classics from Bollywood, of that old age Guru Dutt's era. Movies, shoes, flip-flop, apparel ... oh my! ... am I on song? May be not, but de-stressed to some extent and now all set to face another week at work :)

2010 !!

The New Year 2010 beckons us ... and I am sitting with dreamy wide eyes looking at it with all earnestness as I could gather. Incidentally the second day of the year brings my birthday and the loss of pepper is making salt stronger with the advent of time. Is that making me wiser ... ahem! ... well the time will tell its own story!

So with this event the most talked about things are about the "New Year Resolutions". Interesting it is ... So what are mine? Doing good at work has remained at the top for few years now, rather for many years irrespective of how it has been. But it will be wiser to just not run the goose chase and think smart and start choosing. I should be more careful with my choices and remain objective. Emotion and passion are quintessential for anything anywhere but not while making choices. Start preparing for the next leap and reach another level this year. Basic idea is to remain bullish about the growth.

Go buy a shining new car, preferably a sedan or an SUV :D Money matter has always baffled me, so I will educate myself about it. Earn more, invest well and regularly, and make it grow. Make more use of my brain and do things outside the purview of what my work demands. I was damn active during my studying days and there is no reason it can't come back. Watch a lot of movies, come out of only Bollywood music and expand the horizons. Start reading and writing literary things more and more. Travel is big on my list. How charming the idea itself is to visit places within and outside the country. Nothing can beat to bring back the envied fitness levels and that requires big discipline and correct state of mind. And I must do it for the sake of myself and none else.

Besides, it will be nice to settle down in a marriage this year. So looking out for a companion this year will be another interesting thing in life. Resolutions are usually made to be broken, but the life gets changed and you get charge if you manage the bull's eye for all the targets. Time isn't short if the determination is iron-clad. Happy New Year!!

Yesterday I accidentally saw the joint press conference of President Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh where the former is acting as the host. Obama was crisp and Manmohan was as lame as one can get. Pakistan survived yet again from any strong worded statement from the two leaders. Just typical diplomatic re-affirmations all around which now have started sounding stale. There is much desired from our leaders in doing something concrete and fast. If the results are horribly delayed, then there is no point of celebrating them. Apart from all this, I am waiting for tonight's call to finish and I rush back home to sleep. That is the best thing that I can do in my otherwise lousy routine these days.

Last few days I have been trying my hands with the new Ubuntu 9.10
And I must say that I am mighty impressed. There were a couple of things like certain web-pages correct rendering on to the browsers, multimedia and text editing applications were a little let-down for a normal user. But the look and feel of the new gen of linux is very very promising and already giving a tough run to the biggies.

And best part is that its all for free! May the creative juices keep flowing in the open-source communities ... Amen !!

While sitting in front of my laptop at office and gazing at the clock ticking away the time. Perhaps a very transient state I am in that I remain still and time is just flying past without amusing me. It is not that I do not have any work and killing time in such manner is more of a virtue than vice, but its just the carefree state of mind that it is not bothering me at all. Probably the work pressure and the not-so-comfortable office environment in the recent past is making me a rebel.

Am I enjoying my work on a day to day basis. Certainly not! But doesn't it has to be tough and sometimes un-yielding for something to achieve. That is correct! May be it is the disoriented self which runs away from the challenge. Its a hard shell which has to be knocked off to get into the groove.

It might be a start yet again, I am feeling relaxed and not really charged up for blind race. Lets better our lives!!

The days are just whizzing past like a whiff of wind! There is so much anxiety, so much lonely agony that it leaves me exasperated at times :(

Shall I call it a quarter-life crisis or a mid-life, that my age span will decide; but surely it is penetrating its sharp teeth into me like a burning knife goes through the butter. There needs to be a purpose and direction in life. However cliched it may sound, but passion is what is required to keep one on track. It can be anything, not necessarily the overused philanthropic sensed punches but whatever moves you. For instance, wants to become the richest or the most admirable or the most industrious or the owner of the best flashing cars or jets or whatever else materialistic things, if that moves you. There is no need to be shy or hesitant in this hypocrite society to flaunt your ambitions. On any instance, our blind intellects of the arena can virtually digest anything if served sugar-coated.

Nevertheless, hard work is the fulcrum on which everything rests. But for now what I am searching in my life is that passion, that objective, that greed and that love which can guide me to my path of absolve! Spirituality can wait ...