The Bag of Memories

He sits one last time looking at the room,
The silence is so loud it feels like a tomb

There is a flash back of memories galore,
He smiles but he starts his journey not knowing what's in store

The last time he wandered it was a beautiful path,
With so many roses, the thorns seemed just another part

The crossroads of life seperates him from his lot,
The choice he made was not from his own thought

The memories are removed and in a bag are hurled,
Kept in a place safe away from the eyes of the world

For a moment life seems worthless and he's all alone with eyes closed in his lair,
He prays there is no rain around as small drops fall below his hair

But there is a light far far away,
He knows he must go there to look at this path another day

The winds cover him and comfort his lonely walk,
Someone is waiting for him to have a lengthy talk

He opens his eyes the bag is still in his hold,
He hoped he had gone a few paces back before he felt this cold

Smiling he hides the bag deep inside,
He looks up at the road which will soon be covered in his stride

The bag will be opened soon in times when he is astray,
The bag of memories will guide him when he forgets his way

............. ADVENTUROUS CAT ASPIRANT! :)

18/11/07 Sunday:
I woke up from my slumber with dreams of scoring for Manchester United ......... of course I was watching GOAL II last night wat did you expect from me. Anyway I checked my watch and it was 8!!! :O
I woke up Durvesh and he is like haan ho jaayega. So quickly dressing up we left at around 8.30 or 8.45, w/o breakfast and of course zero preparation ........ I don't owe you an explanation now buzz off!!! Well we were travelling at a decent speed to get to the centre ..... there was only one problem we didn't know where it was!!! So we are on NH-4 (or 5 who cares anyway) and we decide to follow a board which said Kothrud with an arrow (that was where my centre was apparently) There was this car standing on the right side but he allowed us to go from his left, but out of the corner of my eye i noticed a Qualis going thru the same road at high speed. I yelled out CAREFUL!!! and then it happened ............... Don't worry no one died and only after fighting with a few people (who apparently were not even involved in the accident ..... this is India m'boy) I noticed a few scratches on my right leg.
Anyway we moved on and after asking a few directions We reached the place Law College ........ phew finally .......... except for one tiny meeny issue ......... My centre was supposedly at New Law College which according to the direction of the watchman was on the other side of the mountain (DAMN!! they don't even give directions properly in this country!)Durvesh seemed down and out ..... and i thought what to say now. "Lets go and have breakfast then lets move for Mumbai" :D Then too he seemed determined to atleast see the place, I said what the heck it was 9.35 already. So we moved about and following a guy who was going to give CAT stumbled upon BVPU Campus which had New Law College and it was 9.50 already!!!! There I was, the guy who didn't even want to give the exam suddenly scrambling my bags and running as if my life depended on it!
Well, you sometimes get the feeling life just wants to make fun of you ....... just for the heck of it, well this was one such day. There I am running from one building (which was the Management building) to another (New Law College .... finally!!) with my backpack and my 3 day luggage for home. I saw the seating arrangement ....... 6th floor. Well the injuries from the accident also didn't help much. I ran and ran and ran and ........ phew!!! finally i was there at 9.58 shoving the hall ticket in the hands of the examiner (I swear i would have yelled if he wouldn't have let me in!) getting all my stuff out, and finally i was there at my seat. A sense of glory filled me as if won a marathon or something. The paper came and went and i was already thinking about home after such a dramatic 5 hours!!
Attended the wedding in the evening again slightly late. Well the guests were leaving when i reached. Of course no one reaches for a wedding at 10 pm in the night!!! Finally i ate something for the first time since the vada pav in the afternoon. After all the fun with my cousins and all ....... I was off to a well deserved sleep :)

Comedy Of Errors .....................

Well let me start by giving a background .......... I needed to go to Pune to give my CAT exam (cmon ........... I did not ask for the center there now!) and then had to attend my cousin's wedding in the evening the same day (18/11/07, Sunday).

16/11/07, Friday:
I am in my cubicle waiting for the watch to hit 6. Basically that meant I could go to the foodcourt with my friends Hetal, Reeti and Upamanyu since Hets and Reetz had gone for some Salsa classes. Now you know sometimes you just feel that you want to something to go wrong ........... just to have some sort of an adventure you know. Well, something like that happened to me. At 6.03 pm, I realised that I had forgotten my hall ticket at home. The bus was due at 7 pm and it takes 20 mins one way to go home from office one way.
So I called up Upam and ran towards the gate. Sweat was running from head to toe, well it was mostly because of all the running I had done with my bags than with the fear of missing the bus. If you ask me if I missed the bus I would have happily gone home, atleast I would have an excuse to miss the test. Anyway Upam rode his bike to the limits twisting and twirling through the corners. It was definitely have given Valentino Rossi a huge complex. Apart from the fact that all this was happenening at 40 km/hr or slower it was all ok. Well finally I reached home ran upstairs to pick up the hall ticket (I was actually trying to remember where it was all through the journey) and at home I see no lock. I wondered who came home so early and then to my horror I remembered that my friend Gaurav was snoozing at home all this while. Well no time to call him up and get my hall ticket now I guess so I simply ran inside and outside, I remember hearing muffled voices of Gaurav and Sneha (my other friend/neighbour whose parents had come) wishing me luck. Well then caught a rick which was easily beating Upam's top speed (which went upto 50 if I remember :) ......... Upam is gonna whack me when he reads this :)) and I reached the stop and the bus on time. Phew!!

17/11/07 Saturday:
You've heard the phrase "Where everything has to go wrong, nothing goes right." (Well if you haven't you have now.) The bus scheduled to reach at 6.30 reached before ............... 9.30! I had already called my friend Durvesh to pick me up. He had come with Swapnil's bike, wearing all gloves an all. The bike looked decent ........... well who knew what it was going to go thru in the next few days. Well did nothing much normal chit chat, called up Hyd and wish all good luck. Another of our friends Nikhil came over in the evening which meant more chit and chat and predominantly football. Finally watched Goal II at night (nice movie ............... must watch for a football fan .......... now does anyone have the CD of Goal I I haven't watched it!) Then I was off to sleep to be prepared for the big next day. Well I donno if it was big but it was definitely another adventure for me ....................


to be continued.........

A blind's view

I wake up every morning just like you
Well its the same to me morn, night or noon

I am eating an apple that was lying near my bed
They say its bright and definitely red

Well I was never good at colours you see
They really are no meaning to me

Things you can touch and you see
I can sense and i can feel

I have a companion that's straight and thick
It's also called a walking stick

It guides me along through the dark alley
Well dark or bright its all the same to me

I read through holes in paper
I stich through them write another letter

Don't give me those pitiful stares
Try closing your eyes and climbing a stair

I am not unfortunate to be this way
God gave me this path cos I could walk it everyday

Mama I'm coming home

She stood at the doorway waving goodbye,
supressing every emotion that could make her cry.

I care less for all this cos my bus is on time,
I need to catch it to make another dime.

This time she wonders how long before I'm back,
to be frank I myself don't keep track.

When I reach the house in the alien place,
I wish when the door will open i could see her face.

When i sleep on the pillow,
I dream of her lap and her hand on my brow

She's the most beautiful person on the planet you see,
to make her smile is the only mission for me.

When i reach home i always get the biggest dream,
to eat the best cake covered with cream.

Her cooking is of no match for any dame,
I'm sure the manna from heaven must taste the same.

I sit around and share my problems with her,
but she always has an answer for my every bother

Her touch is the cure of every sickness,
and calms my heart when it is restless.

And still the day comes when i have to go,
yet she will ready my bags and me from head to toe.

And then she will weep and be sad for days to come,
until a day when the phone whistles a silent humm.

With my voice saying for something she waited for so long,
Her face brightens like she's going to sing a song

She's waited for this day too long you know,
She waited to hear the words "Mama, I'm coming home!"

The shot in the dark

It was just another conversation,
which was started with a greeting and set in motion.

Then he started the jokes and was content,
to see her laugh to full extent.

He then started flirting and she played on,
both of them enjoying the moment and having fun.

Then she had to say goodbye and she gave him a hug,
It felt good cos before he always left with a shrug.

He never had a thought about her before,
and now he felt they could go on for another minute or four.

Now he only thinks about when they will meet again,
And hopes to bridge all the gaps that remain.

For now, he dreams on cos there is where he can see her,
and no one can stop him from going closer.

But till the time they get in touch again,
he hopes his shot in the dark doesn't go in vain

CHEQUE DE INDIA!

Arise! Arise, riders of Dhoni!
Stumps shall be shaken, bats shall be splintered -
a sword-day, a blue day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride for ruin, and the world's ending! Forth Johannesburg!

Even Peter Jackson could not have written the script for the game. What a match!!! All's well that ends well as they say, but seriously it was only a T-T world cup (in the words of Ravi Shastri) I know many will say this is the future and everything but this is only the beginning.
Anyway ever since i open the papers since that win the only thing i read is ..... indian team gets 2 million dollars bonus from BCCI (eyes widened!), 1 crore for yuvraj for hitting 6 sixes ( What the hell! ), 20 lacs for joginder sharma (jogi bhai ...... wat are you saying dude!), apart from these state governments showering money. And i thought the government did not have money to get the extra electricity in the state, water, upliftment of the public ........ etc ... etc ... Hell, in the rural areas farmers are commiting suicide. When people died of the earthquakes, floods, bomb blasts (well they too can be classified as calamities right?) wats the compensation 1 lac, 3 lac at max 5 lacs! Why should our hard earned money do to these cricketers who are already being paid enough ..................... speaking of rich getting richer!!!
On the other side we see our hockey team! Plundered 52 goals in the Asia cup .... went through group stages unbeaten and beat the top seeds in the tournament not once but twice that too 7-2 in the final (biggest margin in the asia cup final!) And all they get is a decent welcome. And when the karnataka government heard that they were protesting 5 lacs to 4 players to shut their mouth. I mean from where is this money coming from? Everyone keeps saying we need to pay taxes to make sure country progresses well I ain't impressed after seeing where my money is going!!!! They deserve their plaudits no question about it ............... but you need to look at the neglected parts and the rural parts as well! When are we going to stop depending on foreign investment etc for our growth .......... isn't it about time "OUR" money was spent on "US" Well I pray that no more world cups be won by the team if the government keeps throwing "OUR" hard earned moolah on them. For know well lets just say "CHEQUE DE INDIA!"

You gotta do what you've gotta do

........ or so they say. I find it really strange (and left out! :|) when people say you go to have a plan for the future and I am going to do so and so things in so and so span of time! I mean doing the work we are responsible for now is tough enough anyway. Of course you need to have a sense of direction in life, a vision that probably will take you down some way. I mean you need to take the opportunities present now ......... you never know when another one will come your way. For short sighted people (like me) who can't look past the next week its more about living life today and taking opportunities rather than looking at what could be! To able to do what you gotta do is more important than yearning for a work which is not now for you to do.
Like for instance you make friends in life and you lose them, but maybe what's more important is not how many "YOU" keep but how many keep "YOU". We don't realise it but life is cruel in so many ways. It introduces you to people you never thought would meet and then take them away .... just like that! But what it teaches you is to treasure each moment today cos tomorrow for whatever reason it maybe you might not have these times. So what do we do? Should we live today thinking about well tomorrow we aren't going to be together so what's the point? or do we live life like we never have so that we can cherish these moments for years to come?! Think about it, today's time gone may never come back. But memories do come back .... not once not twice but forever and ever!!!

How's Life?!

We all are whiners when it comes to thinking what really satisfies us. If ever you were asked the question "How's life?", you don't dare utter the cursed lines "Life's good", and if you do beware of the horror stricken faces staring at you with a sarcastic smile. You are comitting a crime by being happy .... oh! or better still by telling people that life's going just the way it should.
Like I met this female the other day ....... and she goes how's life, and I reply 'cool'. Prompt comes another question "How's work" and of course not knowing the consecuences I say "Couldn't be better!" I'm sure I haven't seen anyone so shocked that you were enjoying your work! I mean face it people, life could be much worse than it is right now ......... or better still you might not even have a life in a split second! Imagine the scene you are walking on a rainy day on the road and the tree giving you shelter quietly decides to share it's weight with you without making a sound ......... Well you would be thinking to yourself ( .... apart from the fact that you're dead!!) well there goes my life! And there I was sitting and mourning about it that very moment! Does it matter that your PM made you work on weekends, or that you teammates are the most nerdiest creatures you have ever met! Heck, it don't even matter how many people attend your funeral! You'll just be left asking could I have done better? And pop comes the answer ....... Of course you morone!!
But, we'll still live our lives by keeping in mind what HE said the other day or what SHE did and I did not like! Instead of going forward and actually talking it out we'll all be staring at God (whichever picture you believe is God) and saying why me! couldn't you make my life a little more beautiful?! Instead of actually being thankful to him and to the people around you! But be prepared for the question what did you do to make your life better ........ or worse what did you do to actually make something meaningful out of your precious life!
Life could much more beautiful than you think it is, only if you want it to be! Just look around the people around you and you'll realise maybe you're better off in more ways than one .......... which reminds me better solve that issue coming up in DEV, else life won't seem too nice tomorrow :)