Big Small Life

Ever known the stars who twinkle in the night?
They twinkle till one day they'll lose all their light.
Lo, the moon who gives us moments light,
Is also every moment stealing much sight.
Behold the sun,  the true sustainer of our life,
his days too are numbered and may anytime alight.
What of the sweet baby who brings only joy?
What does he take back in his own right?
Each day brings something new, something bright;
but snatches away else which is nice, which spreads delight.
Life is so short, still some big,
 some small, and still not always right.
Why not spread some joy, make someone's life?
Why not enjoy every moment of this big small life?
because life is so short and man no great.
Who knows? tomorrow may come or nay.
So live on, spread joy, love and sweetness
and make this big small life a party to celebrate.

Happy New Year pEOple

This new year I hope I have been more courteous than I was the last time. I have wished ye all before it is past one week since the new year dawned. This new year I was at home. As always I started with the hope of leaving behind all that was bitter or not so good, and making way for all the goodies. As the last bit of bitterness, came the delayed flight schedule and Kochi's sprawling night traffic. Poor me who was supposed to have reached home by 4pm reached home after 11.30 pm. That was too disappointing, still I had successfully reached home at last, for that short recharging term break.

For the next 6 days it was fun and more fun. Mom's rejuvenating treatment seemed to be working instant wonders for me. I almost thought I would have to start dieting while still at home, lest I would end up looking like a pumpkin on my way back. But the delicacies when garnished with family's presence, become simply irresistible. I traveled very little this time around, went to some of the nearby temples, visited all my relatives, met some friends. I met up with two of my childhood friends after a pretty long while. It felt good to be those kids once again, but now talking issues which would make little sense to kids.

I was diligent enough not to make any resolutions this new year. I just waited for the new year to dawn, watched some new year programs with the family and then wished them and silently went to bed. Probably this was the first time in my life when I had a very relaxed, silent new year celebration, with not even the phone bell ringing too long. Every time things get serious around, I feel scared thinking I am actually growing up. Still, this time, I was least bothered. It was only later on that I remembered how peaceful and calm I was when this new year arrived. Again the family-presence magic.

So that was how the new year came for me. Six days at home, and then had to hurry back to my sweet hell. The airlines again played their dirty games and the delay was too bad enough that I had to get my flight rescheduled to the next day. On my journey home, I was swearing at Jetlite and while returning, Kingfisher was at the receiving end. Anyways it marked the realization of the revelation that life is not exactly predictable always. In fact it is unpredictable most of the time, sometimes in a bad way and at the same time good coz the flight delays offered me an extended stay at home.

After coming to college, the first thing I did was to rush through my registration for the third term. I did not expect to finish it all off on the same day, so I did not bother to carry along my bag to bring home those heavy text books. Anyways all hell broke loose with me trying to balance them with my hands and legs and I dropped them twice on my way to the room. At last I left half the bundle with the watchman at the hostel entrance, and then brought them in after they cooled their heels there, or rather I did mine.

So that was how this new year commenced for me, full of unexpected moments. I am once more trying to make some sense of what has been happening in class and with me. The subjects this time seem to be promising some whole lot of slumber in the classroom. So just to keep myself awake I have resorted to a last refuge, daydreaming. Hope that helps, but Oh God, do save me from the clutches of those CP granting-demanding questions. That assured, the rest should be taken care of and I am all set to ring in the new, though not very sure as to what extent I will be able to ring out the ever lingering old. Happy New Year to all ye people once again. Have a great life ahead and I wish the same for myself too.

Insect Insights

We Abide by THE Rules ;)

Rules are sacrosanct here, at our abode, the IIML. If we are late for class, no matter if that be even by just five minutes, the Profs bolt the door. We do have some Profs who relax on this particular one, though. They must have gone through similar situations before being in the shoes that they are in today and probably they value the energy loss that they know we experience when we find the doors all tightly fastened before us. After waking up, merely running the brush over those teeth, pulling on a jean and tee and taking a shower under that nearly to be emptied cologne bottle, believe me, all this in just about five minutes(Managers to be, we manage our time perfectly), we rush to the class only to find the doors bolted before us. That is very well disheartening.

Well here is something interesting, we have one lecture where we abide by this rule so strictly and never let anyone into the class after time, and that is the Marketing lecture. Ask me,"Why?". We have this TA who very obediently follows our Marketing Prof and what does he do? He is supposed to have both his eyes glued onto us. He is supposed to give CP marks when anyone makes a valid point, and the invalid noise generators in the class are at his mercy, coz he is also entitled to clean up our not so elegant CP scoreboard. As for pet names, this is one character who is lucky enough to have a dozen of them. They go like CP meter, Champu meter and so on. We do not address him so though, it all happens not behind his back, very much in front of him, but in so softly hushed voices, that the poor meter does not even know how many pet names we have already given him.

We hold the rules sacred when it comes to letting in a late CP meter. While our Prof would be busy taking attendance, we make sure that the doors are safely bolted in order to check the meter readings from going too low. It is funniest when he arrives after a few minutes and then knocks on the door. After all, we are those sweet innocent kids. We exchange those naive looks as if to ask each other,"Who did that to our CP meter? That was so rude!" and hushed laughters erupt at every node. Well our Prof knows well enough that he never bolts the door behind him, so who else could the culprit be? Still he never bothers to chide us, he walks over and throws the door wide open for our ever ticking CP meter.

What's with me and ABNORMAL costing???

Some of my friends wanted to know why I was very particular about abnormal cost accounting in my previous post. Well that gives me enough stuff for another post. It was just our second cost accounting class and we were supposed to have done our daily lessons before going to class(obviously).  The Prof shot a volley of questions at the class, one after the other. I was too well prepared, so in order to avoid his eyes, I kept scribbling in my book. I was just darkening the date over and over again, but then I wanted it to look as if I were jotting down some real important points that I got cleared just now, at the question answer session. I was feeling triumphant thinking I had successfully avoided his attention. And lo!, the voice, "Madam, How do you account for abnormal costing?" I looked up in dismay realizing that I was the Madam who was supposed to answer this question of his.

I knew from what I remembered of the last class, that there was normal and abnormal costing and that one of them was avoidable and the other unavoidable and also, that one of them was to be charged under factory overheads and the other under costing P&L account. But my mind seemed to be shying away from doing any match the following at the moment, or was it scared by the unexpectedly posed question? Well I hesitated, but murmured out, "Factory overheads". He smiled at me  and said,"Be confident. Why are you not sure of your answer? You are correct." I hesitated, but then coaxed a smile somehow.

The next moment the whole class stroke off what notes they had taken down in the last class and jotted down the new gyan imparted by me. I did not even dare to look into my copy for I was almost scared into a statue. And then he went on,"How many of you think she is right?". Obviously, there was a majority number of hands dangling in the air because he had approved my answer. And then he questioned some of my friends one by one as to whether they approved my answer or not. Some said they were not very sure and the others said that they were confident I was right.

And then the clouds poured down and the thunder sounded, "So you did not understand whatever I taught you in the last class, or you did not do your lessons". It could very well be either or a good share of both. Anyways the curtain had come down on half an hour of gaming and everyone was once again busy striking off the gyan that was imparted to them a few minutes ago and the story does not come to an end there. After the class, there was not a single person in the class who did not scold me for having untidied their neat copies(:P). And what did it do to poor me? Wake me up in the middle of the night and ask me where to account for an abnormal loss, the answer would be hot and ready on my lips,"directly to costing P&L". Thanks to Sir for having played that game, I did get my basics in cost accounting firm and will never ever forget them.

Title-LESS Post...

Freedom of thought, freedom of expression...thank God the world has provisions to allow all this trash that I put up here. Else I would have been thrashed by my friends real long ago. Every time I feel like doing something of my choice this is where I come, not hoping that anybody would read through all this trash, but simply because I enjoy putting it up here. Today I have nothing in particular to talk about, as always, but still I want to write something very badly.

Yeah, maybe I could tell you about what has been happening back there at home in my absence, only the good ones. To start with, I will be missing at least a 1000 weddings in the coming two years( To be noted: I have already missed a 100 in these last 5 months). I get just a 6 day vacation(hate to call it so, but then that is what it is supposed to be...the VACATION or rather, the term break) once in 3 months and no relative or friend, how close or distant is going to wait for my vacations. My best friends, my cousins, every young gal and boy back there seem to be in a hurry to get married within 2 years, and I am going to miss so much during my stay at helL. I have absolutely no scope to make complaints here, but can only wish those people tying knots a wonderful life ahead. And what if I am not physically present at the wedding, my heart and soul will be taking a leave from IIM(helL) and flying all the way down there to be a part of the celebrations. I don't think they would really mind missing a class or two. That should be categorized under globe, if, according to my fellow helLmates, but then I still have to work a lot on churning out productive globe. My globe subjects are complaining big time.

There are other occasions too that I have already missed, for example, when I went home last I saw faces that I had never seen before, new born babies every where. I do get the news when they arrive, but then they grow so fast that the last time I went home, I ended up telling my Mom, "How fast these kids grow!!!" and felt like an awkward granny. And she went like,"Okieee, sounds interesting".

But then it always feels good to share the happiness from so far away. It feels kinda grown up to say,"I am busy dear, loads of work, and exams, and projects, and assignments, and blah blah blah" even while I am only busy watching the latest movie on the torrent. That was just a joke. I never really said that to anyone until and unless I was actually weighed down with work. On that dry joke, I go back to my work and for a change I am not apologizing for having put down so much of trash here. You can account for the lost time as opportunity cost or sunk cost. Your call. At this point of time, do not forget to remember the basics instilled in us by our Dear Friend aka Big Brother. Considering this as an abnormal loss, it should be directly going into the costing P&L account. I just love these time wasting tactics..... :D=I

Hearty Laughter :D

It felt so good laughing heartily yesterday, felt like it had been ages since I had laughed like that. It was the movie "Ajab Prem ki Gajab Kahani" which put me into fits of laughter, and also the company of my friends, who took me to the movie. I do not remember the last time I laughed and actually enjoyed it. Thanks to my classmates for the idea of going to the movie, else I would have simply invested a couple of hours more for an afternoon nap and missed a nice chance to laugh.

Suddenly last afternoon, while falling off my chair laughing, I realized that I had not behaved this way for a real long time now. My stomach was aching so badly, probably because they had forgotten how to flex muscles during the laughter process.Since the last time I went home, I have been trying so hard to keep myself together, I always kept feeling that I was probably losing out on everything. Studies is something that I had never faltered in, but now even that seemed to be going wrong for me and maybe I could attribute this slump to the unexpected happenings that gave a lot of expectations and then just faded off seizing along my happiness too.

Yesterday there we were, laughing away like kids. The movie was all slapstick comedy and had some good humorous sequences too, but probably should not be tried by those serious souls who find the cartoons too silly or boring. It almost felt like watching a Tom and Jerry show and the sight of people falling off their chairs laughing, accentuated my laughter all the more. It felt good to be laughing like a careless kid, away from all the tensions and worries of life. And the moment I realized that it had been a while since I had had that kind of a hearty laugh, I decided that I have to invest more time into flexing my face muscles from now on, give some time to myself probably and my dear and near ones, do stuff that I like doing, and maybe even spread some smiles. Thanks to those friends who helped bring back the smile. :)