...The journey...

Its fun sometimes to not know where you are going....I like the idea of wandering into the unknown...exploring aimlessly and just seeing whats ahead...

I strongly believe that your journey shouldn't just be a means to an end...because you will reach your destination anyways...it might take longer or shorter the time...but its the road you walked on that you will remember...and not the place you reached...

I do it a lot...sometimes when i have to go some place....i would just start walking....looking around...getting into the small mysterious lanes...
Of course after a point....you can always ask someone where is the place you are looking for...and there you are...You reached the place you wanted to go...and you also had FUN!

Life shouldn't always be a means to an end...I choose to take the road less traveled...I dont say that life has given me everything i wanted...but i will get it someday...and i might be frustrated i have not got it still...but i know atleast that the ride was a lifetimes experience!

Think about it...

Let's go out and have some fun.
It doesn't matter where or when,
Or what we say or what we do,
As long as it's just me and you.

Let's be together for a while
And get to know each other well,
Exchanging jokes and tales and chatter
Before we get to things that matter.

Let's see what happens when we dance
Across an evening sky, and glimpse
Below the stirrings of a sea
That might--or not--wind-haunted be.

-- Gordon

In “Fiddlers”, the last of Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct novels, Detective Andy Parker tells Detective Ollie Weeks a story about a little puppy dog walking across the railroad tracks:

“He is a little white puppy dog, and this train comes along, and the wheels run over his tail, and he loses the end of his tail. And he’s very sad about this. So he puts his head down on the tracks and he begins crying his heart out, and not paying any attention. And just then another train comes along, and runs him over again, cutting off his head this time. You know the moral of that story, Ollie?”

“No, what’s the moral?”

“Never lose your head over a piece of tail.”

...On the Rocks...

Sometimes all you need to cheer you up is 30 ml Chivas Regal...I realised that tough i had it for the first time...

Like Varun says...One "on the rocks" really gets you in the party...You are feeling lighter...enjoying the moment...dancing...talking to people you never knew or wont even bother to after the night is over...
Have one of the best night outs in a long time...

Its not the alcohol...its the moment...you just need an excuse to give yourself..to be freee....
Its very necessary to be in control though...better not make a fool of yourself...to yourself!

"Because you are in control of your life.Dont ever forget that.You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made."

Barbara Halls -A Summons to New Orleans 2000

...Lost...

Lost in a world, that scares me to death,
Lost in a crowd, I'm losing my breath.
Lost as a boy, lost as a man,
I need to grow up, don't think I can.

Lost as a person, can't find my way.
Lost in life, every day.
Lost in worry, who am I?
All my life, I've lived a lie.

Lost to kindness, lost to love,
Lost in a sky, like a new-born dove.
Lost in thought, which I shouldn't do,
It winds me up, I can’t get through.

Lost to comfort, all kind words,
Lost to advice, it isn't heard.
Lost to those who really care,
All these people, always there.

Lost in me, I need a break,
Lost in wonder, which road to take?
Lost in a place I don't know well,
Where are you now? There's no one to tell.

Lost here, all alone,
Lost apart from the mobile phone.
Lost still, there are no calls.
I'm struggling alone, to break these walls.

Lost in mind, lost in soul,
Lost memories, they're just a hole.
Lost family, lost mate,
Gone now, yet I'm full of hate.

Lost in boredom, think I'll leave.
There's a lot in life I need to achieve.

On being a Gemini...

I would like to believe that even tho your sunsign doesnt really describe you completely..but there certainly are certain traits common between 2 people having the same sunsign...

I think i am a perfect example of my sunsign...!!!


Was on a call with a friend yesterday...and I was going on and on about how life has become a routine...and how i need something exciting to happen....about how CHANGE is inevitable...something new...something happening...something fun...lively....romantic...some change!!!

After a pause...he started laughing loudly on the phone...and then he went on telling me about how he has this other friend who is also a GEMINI and how he was saying the same exact things!!!

Its difficult to be with geminians actually....they can be really irritating & moody (and believe me...they can have mood swings in seconds!!!)
I sometimes think...that even though some of my best friends are geminians...i myself get really really frustrated with them at times!
LOLzzz....

One of my friends who is a geminian calls herself "half mad" and i cant agree with her more...We sometimes do some of the most stupidest things (but with grace mind you! ) and ROUTINE BUGS US!!

Kudos to all the people who have borne me till now...and just in case you have forgotten...my b'day is on June 18th !

:-D

Right now....Im not in a very happy happy mood actually....could use a hug...but then its ok....not that depressed either...
Liked this picture i found on the net...

Notting Hill...rains...june...and Andrea...!

I have never seen Notting Hill completely...as in...in one go..always wanted to see it from start to end with a nice mood and timing...and with some perfect company...the moment never really came...
LOL

So today i was browsing through my list of cds and found it..
...and so i lay on me bed...with the amazing and perfect company of my pillow and watched the movie start to finish!



I simply love the scene at the garden...
William: [after hitting his shin on a fence while climbing over it] Now what in the world in this garden could make that ordeal worthwhile?
[Anna kisses him]
William: Nice garden.

Anna Scott: "For June who loved this garden from Joseph who always sat beside her." Some people do spend their whole lives together.
(Anna sits on the bench...William walks away....)
Anna Scott: Come here....sit with me...






So it finally rained today...and i was dancing in public on the railway station hooked to my music...and im simply loving it!!!
June always makes me happy somehow....
I have a lot of memories of the rains....GOOD and WORSE...it has always been fun and a learning phase...thats why i feel that this month will never let me down somehow...

I just feel that...and i know its foolish...this month showers lots of gifts to me...and when it rains...i just feel that somewhere...another gift is on its way...that Life is not that bad after all...and there is someone to take care of you...

Was looking out of my window...enjoyin the rain..and listening to Andrea Corr...what an amazing song...makes soo much sense!

WHAT CAN I DO
By The Corrs

I haven´t slept at all in days
It´s been so long since we have talked
And I have been here many times
I just don´t know what i´m doing wrong

What can I do to make you love me
What can I do to make you care
What can I say to make you feel this
What can I do to get you there

There´s only so much I can take
And I just got to let it go
And who knows I might feel better
If I don´t try and I don´t hope

[Chorus]

No more waiting, no more aching
No more fighting, no more trying...

Maybe there´s nothing more to say
And in a funny way I´m calm
Because the power is not mine
I´m just going to let it fly...
[Chorus]
Love me...

I love THE CORRS....undoubtedly my favourite band...especially Andrea...she is one beautiful babe who can also play and sing!
I will die for a gal who can play an instrument...or if some one sings to me...its like any guys dream come true...!!!!

...Shout out loud...

I have realised that no matter how much i want...they will never quite understand me...and i have lost the patience of trying and explaining them each and everything...
Some how...i have lost it to the level that it doesnt really affect me anymore...
I am not reacting to a lot of things around...because i know that things will just faze out...and no matter what you do...people will never understand...
No one really cares what you want...they just need to please themselves..

I am not sure if anyone really understands what i want anymore...and its this very fact that is bugging me...
At work...I am around people with whom i have to mentally patient and calm...with both seniors and juniors...
Was sitting at this corporate house where we had an activity to do...alone...lunch...alone...traveling and commuting...alone...
and its getting on to me...
And after work...dont really feel like going home...and thats strange in a way...maybe i have started disliking both the places equally...i really dunno what it is...
Somewhere i know....some sort of frustration is building up...and its not really about that...coz i have learnt to deal with it...
arrrghhh....i dunno what it really is!

A friend was telling me the other day of how he wont like to go outa this world with that incomplete feeling...and asking me what is to be done other than being patient to get out that feeling...
I answered her with no clue of what i was saying..but it went on something like...
"If you are patient...then hold on...if you get too frustrated and cant take it anymore...just let go...Everything will be fine...with time..."

The smile on the face is still there...very much there...
I really dont know what it is about...

A distant friend...fighting for life...a distant dream...fading away...aimless thoughts...struggling their way...patience...loosing it ground...

Who answers me i ask...I look around...and no one hears...

To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place. To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things. To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.

~ Robert Fulghum ~

There is nothing like a little time for yourself...
After coming home these days...i spend most of the time watchin old episodes of F.R.I.E.N.D.S or The Wonder Years...after that its music....blogging and browsing around the net...

Now that I have mentioned Friends...I remember when Friends used to actually air during my junior college days...i used to simply love Chandler Bing....somehow found the guy with a funny sense of humour and just one irritating gf a very interesting concept! I like Mathew Perry as Chandler...and love his comic timing...!

Well...thats about that...

I take todays newspaper...and turn straight away to Bombay Times ...

Reading today's news...Amisha Patel got a new boyfriend...(grrrrr!!)
Goddd....why cant people just leave her alone for once!
(SOB SOB!)
:-(

I turn to the next page...
"Reports have it that mostly Katrina and Salman have broken up..."
( YIPPPIIIEEEEE!!! )

One cute gal now available....!!

My dad sees me browsing the papers...
"Whats the most interesting news today....?"

I quickly take the Economic Times...brush through it at lightening speed..
"ummm...Future Group boycotts Cadbury.."

And then i start talking irrelevant stuff about the futuregroup and cadbury...

LOLzzz

A post that doesnt really make sense....

I dont understand sometimes...I have seen relationships of two types...


In the first type...people commit each other considering all possibilities...you know...the usual...security...long lastingness...compatibility to the fullest...no family problems...
The second one...is the one which just happens...there may or may not be security...this one just leads its own way...


I feel...even though i have seen both types NOT working for people...what really is important is just one thing...and i tell this to all my friends who have second thoughts about whether their relationship will work or not...

Its simple...
"Look 5 years from now...do you think you can be the same with this person even if everything...(and i mean EVERYTHING that the world has to offer) around changes...
Be with him the same way...feel the same way..."

Most of the times the answer is..."How can i say that right now...I dont know..."

There you go...
"If you dont know it after being with the person for soo long...either dont think about it...or still if you cant help the second thoughts...you already know your answer"

Thunder only happens when it's raining.
Players only love you when they're playing.
(same is the case the other way)
Say... Women... they will come and they will go.
When the rain washes you clean... you'll know.
~ Stevie Nicks ~

I dont know if i am entitled to conclude such things about a relationship because i have never been in one still...but i just feel that when you are with a person...some things will never change about him/her....and those are the things that decide if you will be with him/her... Circumstances will just decide whether you can be with the person or not...the "things that will never change" will decide whether you will feel the same for the person or no.

Have just started reading this book called "The Under Cover Economist"
It starts with a very good observation...Of how the price you pay for the take away coffee u buy at the vending machine or the cold drinks you get at the retails have a profit markup of about 150% !
If you thought you already knew this (Even i had the same feeling...) what you did not know is that a maximum percentage of the markup goes to "get the competition out"...and this percentage is even more than the cost spent on advertisements!
Now...what i mean by "getting the competition out" is that...the company pays a lot of amount to the retailer or the place owner so that only its brand is kept at the place....especially at places where there is a lot of crowd...
For example....You see that there are a lot of Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) vending machines at CST station...
Ever wondered why Barista never bothered to get in there at a lower priced coffee to give competition...?

Its simple...CCD pays the railways a lumpsum not to allow Barista at the place ...and whats interesting is that...YOU pay the amount for this...
The office going consumers dont really bother when they have to pay a few rupees more for a normal cup of coffee...because its the rush hour n the mornings...and at that moment you dont really have time to think whats cheap...ALL YOU NEED IS YOUR COFFEE!!

Amazing stuff...in a way...what all a company does to stay ahead!

Exclusivity matters...once your are "more like others"....people will fail to notice you...