LiFe Is a DRamA

12/11/2010, Friday I have known her since my 9th standard. In fact, when I joined Chettinad Vidyashram, she was the first girl I had befriended. It was really amazing to see her getting married to the guy of her choice. But I guess, she still hasn't changed, at least not towards me and my perception.  The reception was held on the 11th evening at the sai baba temple, at injambakkam. For the ones with lesser sense of direction, that's on the East Coast Road in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The guy (Satish, who also happened to be her college senior) was in a suit, which felt kind of weird seeing all the males from both the girl's and the guy's...

I have been in contact with most of my friends and they all seem to know exactly what they are after. But when I think back about what exactly I would like to do with my life, I am totally clueless, not having a goal in life. Kind of makes me empathise with the character of Hrithik Roshan in the movie 'Lakshya'. The fact is I have no idea what I would like to do with my life. This includes my career as well. I love to stand out, but currently I just seem to be going with the flow and having not much of a say in the whole incident. Take my transfer for example. I have applied to Chennai for transfer.  (Q). Why did I do that? (A). I want to go Chennai. (Q). Will it help me career?...

    Ever had a sales guy walk in and make you buy something totally unnecessary.    It is a very confusing experience, let me tell you that. Today morning a kid came in selling carpets, and I had refused him immediately. But my roommate (actually my housemate), got a sudden urge to check it out the carpets. So what does it do? He invites the kid in.    Now am not telling that the carpets were bad, but there was not necessary for us. And the price the kid quoted for them was around 1400/-. That totally evaporated my roomies interest from buying them. Now to get rid of the kid he quoted a price in return, which was around 300/- to 200/-....

17/04/2010, Sat: Before you guys start making some wild assumptions, it's not a baby, in fact it's not human at all. But she acts every bit as human as possible, starting from understanding to what we tell her to scolding us. She is our pet kitten, kitty. Thank my bro for the name; he came up with something that was very easy to remember about a kitten. He found her when she was trying to be a heroine trying to cross a busy street, and he tells me that she was very calm and quite the whole day. In fact, she was sleeping on his lap the whole journey from the captured spot to home. Mom, like usually downright refused to her in. But after a...

15/April/2010, Thu: Vishu, one of the most important festivals for keralites. Being celebrates in the new for the first time.All the family has a chance to be together after quite a long time.I guess that enough reason for anyone to be home. Same here! Thankfully unlike all her other activities, my manager never rejects the applied leaves of any of her team mates. Reached home on the morning of the 14th, this was the Tamil New Year. Now, another importance of this Vishu is that the entire family was together after 6 months. The last time all of us got together was in during October, 2009 in the previous house. Moreover, it's the first time everyone is together in the new house for the first...

12/04/2010, Mon: It was towards the evening at ECC [Employee Care Centre] (one of the only good spots in the Mysore campus), since both myself and Dot forgot to bring the swimming trunks, ruling out swimming, we decided to go for a steam bath. Eventually, it was just a bath. Coming out near the swimming it was a sight to behold, with the sky having darkened to a hellish degree. In fact, it gave an impression of an extremely angry bull, approaching. That was when I first heard the thunderous roar of the storm to come. As if on auto drive, I gave all my belongings to Dot for safe keeping and ran out into the open. I made it on time, with the rain striking at the exact moment. Guess what was...

10/04/2010, Sat: Actually it was not like we had a choice. Our maid had not shown up for over 2 weeks. Which means the state of the house was pretty messed up, especially with three bachelors living together. Like my mom usually says, such places lack a feminine touch. So true! Any ways, thankfully, that morning the electrician showed up. The ceiling fans in both mine as well as Dot's room had completed their tenure and needed a good tune up. With him being there, we had to move the beds around. And I don't know what happened, but it inspired both of us to finish with the cleaning of least the bedrooms and the bathroom. Being armatures, I can say that we did a pretty good job, especially...

For all those who are working, have u ever had the privilege of having your manager act as your English teacher. Don’t envy the guy who got the chance. It’s definitely not a pretty sight/experience. But like I say you just have to act well. So on Friday (26th March, 2010) noon, this guy (Three Guesses Who?) goes to his manager’s room. The reason being he had just come to office at 1pm (the office timing start at 9:00 in the morning). And surprisingly there were three missed calls from his manager at three different times (9:30am, 11am, and 12:30pm). Now, this guy has an amazing knack of getting into trouble with his manager given any circumstance and that streak continues. ­So when he goes...

That sure was a surprise when we got the mail regarding the project party. There was no prior intimation about the same. In fact, am still not sure why there was a sudden project party in the first place. Anyways, it was the worse date that would have been chosen. On the same day there was another symphony being held in the campus. A choice had to be made and almost all of us selected the party, after all who can refuse free food (not free really, we had to pay for it, but still).It was held at Hotel Grand Maurya (believe me there is absolutely nothing grand about that place) for the entire department. Even then many failed to turn up. But that didn’t really matter. I didn’t have a means of...

Have you even sat down with the full heart to finish something, only to the disturbed at the exact moment? Am sure it would happen to all of us, especially when we think we have been bitten by the concentration bug. That is the same situation going on over here with me. Every time I would sit down decided to write a topic, am sure to be disturbed as trivial as a power cut, which would totally spoil my mood. There are times when I don’t bother about anything around me and continue to work. But such things happen when I am reading a novel with an unbreakable will. But when I have ever tried to do something else, like say Study. BANG!!!!! Gone...

I have always been asked my friends about that title where ever and whenever I use it. It sounds just like any other punch line from a Kollywood Movie. So I decided to explain that to everyone cos, am sure many would be wondering about the title whenever they see it. Any ways, although it might look obvious at first, it is one line which is very difficult to follow especially the second half. Considering everything to be just another part and parcel of life is pretty difficult and would require quite a bit of practice to get used to. One of the main concepts of it is to have a neutral feeling towards everything. If something good happens, that good, at the same time, if something bad happens,...

Hmmmm... !!!! This is where the problem starts. Since I stated blogging, I have become an addicted to updating almost every day. But contrary to my expectation I have been managing to come up completely blank. Although I had decided to create this to share my memorable every day experiences, coming up with topics is proving a challenge in itself. That’s one of the main reasons that I haven’t been able to post regularly. By the time I am done thinking about topics it’s almost the end of the day. It’s come to such a state now that, these days I get to sleep only by around 1:00 to 2:00 in the night. Well I guess it just because I am totally new...

(Note: names changed to retain identity, or whatever that is supposed to help with)23/02/2010 5:14pm - TuesdayEveryone gets a sudden mail regarding a meeting to be conducted the next day. The topic regarding was unclear to everyone. But some were pretty unhappy regarding the timing of this meeting, Maajin BOO (pet name, it is a Pink Monster from Dragonball Z) for one was very keen on having the meeting on Friday, just so that she could bunk it. 24/02/2010 4:30pm – WednesdayI arrived late for the meeting together with “South Africa” [that is our manager, hence forth called Pain I] and “Vivek DOT B”. “Old Man” [that’s our manager’s manager, hence forth called Pain II] was already then already...

ex·hil·a·rate tr.v. ex·hil·a·rat·ed, ex·hil·a·rat·ing, ex·hil·a·rates1. To cause to feel happily refreshed and energetic; elate.2. To invigorate; stimulate. The meaning explained, and then what significance does that have with our daily lives. Does just being joyful for qualify as having an exhilarated experience. We experience plenty of little joyful things in life. Although they bring us plenty of memories, they cant be classified as the blissful joy that one would experience totally forgetting everything else. The only place to ever experience exhilaration is nature. Walk to upto the shores / climb up the tallest...

Ever had you best friend suddenly acting weird and all of a suddenly u hear the news that she / he has been going out with another guy / girl. And then all of a sudden, things are just not the same anymore. This happen more in case of friendship between opposite genders, than with the species of the same kind (after all there are two species among humans rite). It happened with a close friend of mine. In fact, we had been friends for almost 6 yrs before that happened. She was one girl who was totally against love marriage, and used to always scold me if that line of conversation came up. She was quite close to me, the two of us spending over hours talking on the phone almost daily. Then one...

What is friendship? It’s the feeling of complete comfort and emotional safety with one particular person. It’s when you don’t have to speak a single word and still end up having a beautiful conversation and feeling satisfied. So then what is temporary friendship? Well, a friend of mine seems to believe that it’s not possible for a boy and girl to be friends for ever unless they are a family. Now she didn’t mean these two would fall in love, but on the contrary, others would come into their lives and then the friendship would lose the priority and finally just disappear. For example, when the guy gets married, then there is a good change that...

Power Cuts: - one extremely hated word, especially among electronic and net users. And even more among avid TV watchers which mostly comprise of homemaker, basically our mothers and others wife (can't say our wives yet, single and happy to be one). So now in Mysore, they have a very beautiful system. Starting from the morning (at times even from 7 onwards) there is a blackout at almost every alternate hour. For the ones who are working, that doesn't seem much of a problem. But it is a big one for the ones who remain at home. And the sick part is they don’t inform the timings in advance. They seem more inspired by the uncertainty theory. The minute we think that we have finally...

It all started with a harmless search for pictures of recca (Flame of Recca) in the net. I wanted to upload it as my profile picture. That’s when I stumbled across "onemanga.com" (Read Free Online Manga Anytime). Been hooked onto that site ever since. Now instead of have a picture of Recca, I have the entire comic collection of that manga. Not to mention various other ones like Rorouni Kenshin, Full Metal Alchemist (although I didn’t understand half the story properly), XBlade, Basilisk, ½ Prince, AIKI etc. There are so many of them, it almost feels like a gold mine. It just has a small side effect, actually a major one....

Happy Valentine's Day everyone... i know its funny but being a single guy, there are no restrictions in wishing anyone he meets... But the idea of a special day to love, it still something that i find a bit weird. Being an Indian, all these kinds of celebrations seem just another way of spending unnecessary money (NOM). Its not like we need a special day to describe our love. If u wanna make someone feel special, then its always the small things in life, like "a beach side date", "a drive down the free-lane" that make some of these moments special. any girl can be made to feel special and that is exactly what she desires as...

1.      The Female always makes The Rules.2.      The Rules are subject to change at any time without prior notification.3.      No Male can possibly know all The Rules.4.      If the Female suspects the Male knows all The Rules, she must immediately change some or all of The Rules.5.      The Female is never wrong.6.      (If the Female is wrong, it is because of a flagrant misunderstanding which was a direct result of something the Male did or said wrong.)7.      (If Rule 6 applies, the Male must apologize immediately...