Back Here After a Short Break.....

All this while I was simply yearning to blog, but was stuck up with work in office. But today I am kinda free. More than that I am going home for Christmas and New Year today, pretty long, elongated leave after a tedious break. It feels good, really great. In great spirits since yesterday, not even slept properly last night due to the mounting excitement. Was just talking to a friend on the phone sometime back. I described to her something that happened yesterday at a busy Marry Brown eatout near our place. She told me that would be interesting stuff to go into the blog. So I decided to put it up here. Well, I was getting late for home yesterday and there was no way I could even think of cooking at that hour of the day. So I decided to get something parcelled from the nearby Marry Brown eatout and I pulled in there. I made my order and got into my favourite pastime of all times, watching the other people in the restaurant. That actually makes the best pastime, believe me. Human beings are a really amusing lot and monitoring their activities, a rather primitive skill. There were very few people there yesterday, so that made my task of the hour even more effortless. The hotspot which puts my skills to real test is the Eliots beach in Besant Nagar. Man, it is tough to concentrate on any single group there because everyone has something really interesting and innovative to showcase. Coming back to our topic, there were just two groups in our present place of interest. There was a family, a rather huge one, celebrating a baby's birthday and then there was this couple, young, maybe out of college before a few number of years, looked like it. All of a sudden I saw this young gal from among the couple get up and go to the family. The family were busy taking snaps of each other, posing for pics. Now the couple gal seemed wanting to interrupt the fun now, maybe to make way for more fun. She was shivering in her legs, stood at a corner of the family table and started speaking. Looked to me as if she was there to participate in an action song competition and the family were her judges. As I watched intently, I tried to read her lips and made out what they uttered. They said," Sorry for the disturbance, but please excuse me. Could I please talk to him?". And saying this she pointed to a family member. He blushed, obviously looked embarrassed and went up to our couple gal. The gal's right foot worked like a compass and she got into the geometrical mode of constructing arcs. She smiled, hesitated and then told our family member, "You look very handsome". Now the poor family member looked so dumbfoundered. Maybe he was wondering whether that was a signal to go on cloud nine or blush to pink, red, wine red. The curtain was down when the couple boy, the director of the entire play, signalled our geometry professors to advance in his direction. He was being introduced to our family member and the family member at last seemed to heave a sigh fo relief. That was part of a "Do or Dare " task..........silly couple.......Now that was obviously a couple who still carry a college hang over. And the family member went back to his family, all safe, secure, unharmed and all was back to normal once again. Hope that family or that couple has no bad habits of going through blogs, or atleast by no chance come across this poor girl's blog, or I will be done for. Still, I cannot restrict myself from making some comments in my mother tongue here.... " Kaalam poya oru poke.....ennalum ithu vallathoru pokayi poi....". Enteeswara thanks for all the entertainment provided in the hours of solitude. You are simply impossible cool dude.

The Endangered Innocence

Which was the flower that bloomed in the day,
that the night had to spread its expanse of dark wings,
to conceal the beautiful creature ,
from the clutches of that rummaging lad.
Please give it a safe sojourn where,
no thorn will rip through its soft, smoothened petals.
No flower was ever more pretty than her,
Her innocence subdues all evil that stands,
She never did hesitate to spread that radiant smile,
which soothes all truth on Earth, which binds one and all.
Still the abstruse calculations of that lad,
spares not even a petal of the comely thing.
He suffocates the little thing,
even before it starts to fade and wither,
and the pretentious onlookers,
break into vainglorious tears.
But the conscientious night never overlooks her duty,
She comes in time to guard the pretty thing,
To scare away her pursuers far and away.
If not for the night,
no flower would have ever dared to bloom,
and innocence would have been
a word totally unheard of in our world.

The Moon n Star Smiley on Dec 1st

This Monday or rather, on 1st December of 2008, a rare but indeed beautiful phenomenon happened in the nightsky.It was simply awesome. Two planets of our vast Solar System had escorted our comely satellite to shone his everlasting, handsome, naughty smile on the occupants of his centre of interest, our very own Earth. Actually I was on my way back from office and was walking with a friend. I almost missed the rare stuff, but she suggested that the whole formation looked like a smiley. Yeah, not very bad imagination, I commented. Soon after that I received an SMS from a friend describing the beautiful smiley in the sky. Only then did I come to know that it was actually two planets from our Solar System that were giving the moon company that night. Thanks to this friend's Mom for she was the one who told him this. Those two planets were the Venus, the "Evil Twin" of our Earth and the Jupiter, the largest planet in our system. Now that was actually amazing. It sounded kinda even more relevant at that time because our country was actually going through a very bad phase. The terror attack in Mumbai had shaken the whole country head over heels. All peace, people and administration had gone helter-skelter. Conditions were just easing and the smiley in the sky seemed to convey heartfelt condolences on behalf of one and all in the Universe. If life on earth deteriorates at this rate, our poor planets and the Moon will have time only to stay still as smileys in their orbits. There would be no need for them to revolve or rotate for the rest of their life span in this Universe. Life on earth is actually losing its value day by day. If people valued the short life offered to them, terrorism would have never happened, people would have died only natural deaths, the markets would have never fluctuated, our politians would have been good leaders, all families would have been happy families, every man would have been a well-to-do man,every child would have grown up a gentleman or a lady, and every flower would have only wilted and never been plucked. But the reality is before us and that is what we are into and in here to face. Of late the stark reality has been striking quite too often, that every single living thing on Earth is getting used to it. Soon after the terror strikes in Mumbai, all life got back to normal. The people are used to all this now, that there is no more need of any convalescing period.It has almost become a part of the chores.Every single person born on this earth, once he is sensible enough to think, knows that he can die the worst death ever, any time, and for no reason whatsoever. So many innocent people get slaughtered day in and day out and it seems like it is beyond any control now. It should have been nipped in the bud. But when there is enough fuel being poured into the fire, it will only get more and more arduous to douse the flames. Hope some day something might just happen which will stop all this tort and injustice happening around us. Or will the Big Bang test have to actually gain its plenary power and cause our planet to start from its primordium all over again? There is a reason for all or anything that happens. Lets hope for the best and meanwhile keep our fingers crossed.