Poem

he worked by the day and toiled by the night,

he gave up play and some delight,

dry books he read new things to learn,

and forged ahead success to earn,

he plodded on with faith and pluck.....

and when he won, men called it luck

Why?

i dont understand :

1. why i have to do inva

2. why ppl dont like OB

3. why HR guys are treated with some much disdain

4. why cant my fren get over his one sided love?

5. why we all display tendencies of masochism

6. why is the grass always the greener on the other side

7. why do ppl substitute pepsi for water

8. why does our media ignore the 50% ppl living below poverty line

9. why the seven sisters and south not given their due ?

10. why do i ignore the glaring signs of civic society breakdown arnd me

11. what is "mainstream" and who decided it

12. what wud i do without google

13. why am i hooked on dev anand / hemant kumar/ kishore 's old songs

14. why is tanay such a brat at times

15. when will i do the things that have aways been there on my "to do" list

16. why isnt god kind?

17. why are some pp tgtbt

18. why do i love hobbes so much

19. why do ppl not stick to their word

20. why didnt i get that

Naseerji

watch the movie "a wednesday" naseer ji is superb as usual

Bodyline

Things of value are won by pain and sacrifice..my dad recently told me that..its not his own though .although he has used it on me several times :)

i still remember where we had both encountered this stmt for the first time..long long back DD use to show a series called the body line..and coz of my dad's passion for all and any sport..we used to watch it together..i remember enjoying the drama of harold larwood and Douglas Jardine and don bradman.. i was more fascinated by Jardine than any other character. i still remember the sarci smile that the actor playing jardine had..and i cried a lot when they showed the episode that depicted how larwood's career abruptly ends

Although it was quite a while ago i still remember 4 key scenes:

1. the scene in which this particular line was uttered.thsg of vaue are won by pain and sacrifice.

2.the scene in which larwood opens his door and finds a new pair of running shoes left there by Jardine..how he struggled through hardships to keep his passion alive.

3. how Jardine remarks to his manager (i think) [who had said - "posterity will not remember you in gud light" ] -- "But it has already forgotten you !!"

4. how larwood refuses to sign the apology to aussies saying- " i did what my captain asked me too" and pays a heavy price for this refusal

it was a gud show and i wish they rerun it some time!

Superhero Prof.

Without setting the context let me just say i asked a prof here (he's german btw) if u cud have any super hero power what wud it be? Pat comes the reply - the power to mindread

so what super hero power wud u like ?

1 man's fish other man's bait

We all enjoy and relish our prejudices. i read somewhere that the news channel and the newspaper that we like are the ones that support and perpetuate our deep seated biases. the same can be said to be true of our friends. we do generally get attracted to people who in some way are a reflection of self. atleast thats been the case with me. i value "comfort" in a relationship a lot..if its easy to hang out with someone, if the silences are comfortabe, if the jokes carry a shared meaning well there i have a friend..but lately i have started seeing my refection in the strangest of places. how interesting it is to observe someone whose reactions are complete opposite to your own. enlightening, surprising and fun :)

LIFE@ISB

Term 3 is over and let me say that this time the alum feedback wasnt accurate..it was not a horror term by any stds. maybe in my case this was because the workload was intelligently shared bet study group members :) term 4 has begun..the first day is over. how was it u asked?

5 am: alarm goes off ..cant wake up rite now..hit snooze button
5.20 am: curse the world..have to get up for the pre reads .note to self - stop sleeping at 2 am..this term has early morn classes
till 7 am-read the well pre reads :) (have OB this term..there IS a GOD !!!)
7 am - tanay wakes up..all work stops
8 am- start walking to the acad centre.
8.15 am - session starts
8.30am - first sms fom a fren - "wake up.. you have payed 5000 bucks for this class"
8.32am- try to think of a befitting reply ..cant think of a gud one ..go back to the half awake half asleep state
10 am - class got over early. thats a rarity here
10.05- stroll down to Goel's (dinning room) with frens and have my first ever breakfast at ISB
finish with a very strong cuppa ..everyone catching up with everyone else ..term beginning so there is general merriment all around
10.45 back to class
11.00 am damn this last row..so hard to pay attention
11.15 a fren rings in midde of the class from opposite corner..y?.."to wake u up"..damn y dont ppl pay attention to the prof ..i know i was
11.20 - observe akki ..so busy taking down notes ..wonder what the hellis he writing
11.45 - break ..hahahaha
general guftagoo
11.55 session continues
the subjects this term arent very technical..gud news for us poets
12.50 class ends
12.55 P_____makes a damn gud presentation abt the Bihar flood relief initiative
the entire section (well allmost entire) wants to contribute ..such spirit !!!! ROCK EEEEEE
1.15 return home
till 2.15 give tanay his medicine ..try force feeding a 2 yr old ..make that cranky stubborn two year old..spill syrup on self, bed, sofa (in that order) + Lunch
2.30 back to LRC elp team first meeting - hurraayyyyy
4 pm elp group meeting ends
4.05 pm - elp meeting with our prof strats
5.45 meeting ends, rush home, check on tanay
6.45 - another elp meeting groan
8.10 head home , while away time and watch BIG BROTHER :)
1.00am write blog
1.20 set alarm for tomo

Dream,dare and run

i was running ..running panting running completely out of breath ..oh if only i cud stop and take a few breaths..but it was soo near..so preciously near and i just cudnt cudnt bear to wait any longer..it had anyway taken so long and now i cud almost touch it .. it was so near that i cud smell it too and i knew it in my bones that it was just a hair breath away.. the very thot that i wud get it finally after so much of praying and hoping and fighting made me nearly stop and smile..the journey itself was so ardously long and now if i get it even the most terrible of days wont seem so bad after all..yeah just there...come on just a lil more ..there..almost there
for once i think i touched it ...felt it almost brush thru my fingers ..even with all the sweat and panting and heat a tingle went down my spine..and then it happened ..i tripped ..didnt see the that stone on the way ..was i not looking at the road or ...the stone wasnt there last time..ateast i dont rber it ...was it recentlly placed ? but by whom...At the moment that i was falling even before i hit the ground i knew it was gone ..it wasnt meant to be..still i wanted it ..i cudnt lose..i mean how cud i ..in the entire scheme of thgs i had not thot abt losing even once..i had just assumed tat if i wanted it enuff it wud come to me..thats how it was supposed to be.how the hell cud i not get it ..after all those God damn years ..as the blood trickled to the ground it was these thot that made me stand..i saw it ..it looked distant but cudnt i still reach it..maybe with a lil more effort ..maybe i will get a break for once..god is just testing..its in times like this u mustnt quit..go on ..go on ..try ..just get up and run ..i dont know from where my soul summoned the will and my body responded but up i was ..up and running ..i think i caught up a lil..the last i remember ..when i fell again my eyes were not on it ..they were closed as if praying for a miracle..i mean how cud i not get it ..wasnt it meant to be..

years pass..each more futile than the other..i saw so many ppl running and it hurt the most when they fell at the same exact spot..no it didnt..it used to ..but after some time..i just laughed at them..foolish ppl dont know any better..cant u see the bloody stone right in front of u ..such morons really..dont u know u r not suposed to run after it..nobody gets it..thats the whole point isnt it..thats what makes it special ..and yea if i didnt get it after so much of my life that i put into it ..u as hell for sure cant

and then the unthinkable happened ..one day i heard..some1 caught it ..they had it ..i refused to believe..it cant be..show me..u dont know who was it exactly! HA! so u think u can make a fool out of me..it cant be had..better men than u have tried and failed so just go away ..just look at it from a distance and dont u dare think about catching it

years later.i am now not what i used to be.. bitter hardened and cynical but i still go down the same road ..some times ..dont ask why..i havent seen it since that evening ..when i see the spot that i first fell i can still close my eyes and smell it..see it was right here..just let me close my eyes and see this is how it felt like..it still feels so near..a tear run downs my cheek i open my eyes and there it is ..i blank out..close my eyes again..hate these mirages ..i have imagined it everywhere for quite some time now..open my eyes again..its still there ..ITS STILL THERE ..my heart beat just starts galloping..i am back in the same moment of 10 yrs ago..what do i do? do i run..i will lose again i know it i can feel it i have never won anythg since that evening ..i know i will lose ..dont do it..it took u ten years to get over that 1 evening ..dont do it..walk away..it is just tempting you ..testing you ..just walk away

i close my eyes and

i run.........