What?? No Money?

"What are you saying?" asked Rohan in an exasperated voice.

"You're out of your mind Vishaal! The stuff has gotten to you."

"I knew you wouldn't believe me...that's why I didn't tell you." Said Vishal, looking serious.

"Do you realise what you're saying? You're telling me, that money suddenly has no value??"

"Well, I'll tell you from the beginning.
I'd gone to this store to buy some soap. When I gave the shopkeeper a 100 rupee note, he stared at it like I was from outer space!" He stared at it long and hard and said - "What is this?"

I said "Its money, what are you thinking so much for?"

Then his face lit up, and he said in a hushed voice, "We don't take this kind of money any more, Don't you know?" Suddenly he said, "Have you come from the beyond?"

He's insane, I thought, I should've known better than come here.

"Really, have you?"

"Well," I said. "I did come from 'beyond' that door." Making a really really crappy attempt at a joke.


...to be continued... :P :P (What to do, couldn't think of anything more..)

Clean up!

Ever looked out of the train you travel in? What do you notice? Do you notice the empty wafer, juice, chocolate wrappers thrown by seemingly educated people like us..?
What gives us the right to simply throw our rubbish on the tracks that can be kept clean? Some people have the best excuse! This is paper baba..it will degrade...I'm not throwing plastic atleast.. Like hell! Thats like saying I'm not shi**ing on the road, just p**ing...
To some people this might sound like a school lesson of cleanliness..but what we forget is the simplicity with which cleanliness could come to us.
What makes us refrain from keeping the empty wrappers, fruit peels, ciggerette cartons, with our selves until we find some dust bin? Are we so frickin illiterate that we don't understand simplicity of it? Or are we just plain and simple indifferent to our surroundings, like its nobody's business? And then cry about how the city is going down and nothing can be done about it@!
One type of people are who decorate the city with their hands and rubbish (their own, mind u) and the others who are brilliant at this art with their mouths! They paint the town red..literally! Urgh! Its just disgusting how ppl can spit just about anywhere! Wel i being so offended simply do with giving the concerned culprit a nasty look...! A friend of mine doesnt refrain from using her tongue though. I really admire people who have such guts!
Its not about doing something that others are asking you to do, its about cleaning up your act!
Find a bin, throw the garbage, don't find any? demand for one...wouldn't you do that in your own home?

Dreams...

Yesterday was the-internet-is-so-slow-a-turtle-could-win-with-it day.. so yeah it ended up ditching me and me ditching my blog post for the day.. :( :(
Anyway, so here it is back to its normal speed, and here i am, blogging away to glory when my eyes are ready to fall out! :P
...5 mins...and stil can't think of anything to write..I'm not the kind of person who would blog about her inner most feelings- so thats out. I have little knowledge about politics to give some away, nor do i know anything about the current IPL matches.
Well what i have been watching lately is NDTV good times and Travel and Living...i seriously wish for an anchor's job in the latter! Who wouldn't wanna go to exotic locales, wear nice clothes, meet new people, taste good food, taste wine, and prance around in pubs? hmm, I wonder what their lives would be like...
ive always dreamed of going to the Himalayas..but dunno if i'd have the physical strength to do so..so Leh and Laddakh would be a good substitute. Then there's the Hemkund sahib somewhere near Himachal (i guess..). An article i'd read about it intrigued me so much about it..that it has entered my top so many list of travel destinations. Another such source was my junior college friend when she had narrated her Jaipur trip to us. The stories behind each palace and each monument were fascinating! It was only emphasized to a great extent when a photographer colleague of mine recently shared with us, his pictures of the Rajasthan Desert Festival he'd been to. Every color one could imagine was there!
Punjab is another place i want go just to see the sarson ke khet and eat the awesome food i've heard about. And Jammu and Kashmir are any traveler's favorite.. :) The Dal lake my mom tells me, can't be covered even in a day..beautiful boat houses, lotuses of every color, and the silent water...conjure a picturesque image we are so used to seeing in Yash Raj movies.
Next comes - Sikkim - for its scenary again..(wat to do ...m a sucker for beautiful landscapes!).
Goa - is an ultimate party destination..and would go there once for the descriptions ive heard about it from my best buddies!
One thing i'd never forget on these trips is my camera...although now its a normal digicam..it would then be a superdigital SLR camera complete with all accesories! I'd never let one beautiful sight go away! Capture moments, freeze time!
These are my dreams..what are yours? :)

If only understanding between two people would be simple...whole conversations would be without words..telepathic!
There would be no need for strategic converstations, no need for being responsible for interpreting the other, just read minds and be through with it. Its one big hodge-podge in my head right now. I cant think straight. Its only because my energy is directed elsewhere..somewhere inauthentic. I could hold the humid weather responsible for it. But alas not with the knowledge that no body else but I am responsible for what I make of myself and other things. I have the power~! - just like He-man prince of Eternia.. :))
Hmmm...He-man ..what memories! Oracle, Tina, evil Skeletor...all in their fight of good and evil. What is good and evil anyway? Who decides what is good and what is evil? Its all so subjective. It is relative, or an agreement between people. The more the people in agreement of it the stronger the good or evil becomes. So amazing it is that not the good or evil but the people in agreement bring it into existence. But it is the properties of each that bring the people into agreement - Isn't it?
Today, I'm putting up a new post, just for the heck of it... I have no particular subject in mind. Is sticking to commitment more important than putting your heart into it? I have no answers..there are no answers...only creations, of your own. But why am I making it so complicated? Its so simple, say things - and stick to it. Period.

I feel so light headed when i dont have anything to hide! alas! thats not the case very often..and today is one of those days :(
what could i create here? leaving aside my concerns and worries and schemes? I try to measure up in other ways..at such times..
But it shouldn't be that way right? Who decides what should and shouldn't be, anyway? Me it is... I choose..Freely! I choose the consequences too!
But what I choose is of utmost importance..because it will steer the course of my path..
There's nothing 'right' and 'wrong' ..there are only....consequences..
Its a long time since I have felt strongly about anything...
The softboard at Lionbridge took on a new splash of colors for the past week. No, it was not some Holi-playing freak that broke loose on our floor. It was the creation of a DIgital SLR lens, more importantly, of the eyes behind that lens. Those eyes brought the entire Rajasthan alive on our otherwise empty and corporate-slapped-all-over softboard! Turbans of every hue on the heads of enthusiastic foreigners. (Possibly) American girls shying away in pink, sequin-bordered ghunghats, local men and women donning their everyday ethnic attire, kids with mischievous glints in their eyes! My favorite was the silhoutte of a local man with his camel against the crimson sky..aaah..brilliant it was! The eyes just darted from one photo to another! Every time they felt a respite. :) Thanks Krishna, for that wonderful trip :)

too tired to blog?

naaah...! not tired.. just exhausted.. :P
well I've had a good day today. Especially after seeing the feedback on my assignments...i sorta did them in a hurry. but it paid off anyway...sjkjdl
;flsdkjfowi ds jda ..ohk the endephrine is setting in..i gotta go crashland!

First Ever Public Ramble!

wel, wel, well..back to the bloggin world after 3 long years....how does it feel? absolutely at home! its like i'm used to doing this... :)

the first rains came today ...the smell of the earth filled me..the dotted-line-like rain in the background of the yellow streetlight made me nostalgic of the similar sight i'd experienced in Ottawa...with freinds, completely at ease, at the middle of the night returning to our hotel.. and enjoying something immensely!! What that something was i don't know, but it came back to me as i looked at the line-like rain from the window of the roaring beast i was in - my sole means of transport that takes me out of the jungle called Powai. I was haaaaaaaaapppy after that! :) my smile could've reached from my left ear to the right ear of the guy sitting next to me!! (well..so much for an attempt at Hyperbole, lol)

The happiness could have been due to the 'something', the 'rains' coming after four freaking sweltering months of heat, or the word I had with my S.E.L.P coach - she always manages to leave me inspired..! Well whatever the reason...I wanted to sustain it..

I had a long week ahead of me awaiting things to be done...things that I'd promised...and its not a burden that i have to bear...its just like the smell of the earth that emanates after being quenched!