On A Happy Note

Another year has come to a close, and this year I do not have my customary New Year post because I had made it on my birthday itself, and there isn't really much that I have done in the last four months for me to make a new list.
But what I do want to write about are the things that make (and have made) me happy. Firstly, I think it's time I acknowledge the camera that I own. I have not liked it since I've got it, but I can only imagine what life would have been if I didn't have it. Well, if I didn't have it, I'd have actually had a camera according my preferences, but let's just count the blessings, shall we. So, it's a Sony T100. And if there's one good thing that I can confidently say about it is its macro lens. It does a killer job...each time! Or maybe it's just that macros are my thing [:D]. Whatever said, the camera really helps me there. And thanks to that, I have managed to capture a few shots of one of my most favourite things in the world...flowers.

I have actually clicked over 2,500 pictures in under five months. Well, perhaps some of them have been absolutely random, and some I have lost forever, but I have had So Much Fun!

Adding to the happiness has been Shady. I keep mentioning him, but the mentions are usually never enough. He's been the staff that I've clung to in these difficult months, and the best part is that he's never made me feel that I'm clinging. He's a darling!

And of course, ALL the friends who have entertained me, and have been entertained by me (and this is the entertainment wala entertain, and not jhelne wala entertain).

Well, I think this is pretty much it. And I think I should keep revisiting this page, because my bad mood days should see how beautiful things are around me. :-)

Now I shall make a move. My brother's come to pseudo fight with me after a very long time. :D Tada!!

Got a Question?

I came across a seemingly fun tag after quite some time. Jayant found it somewhere, and since I participated in it on his blog, I am supposed to do it on my blog too.

It's a simple game. You can ask me ANY three questions you like. 'Personal, private, or random.' And I shall answer them. Hopefully honestly. :P

In return, you have to post this message in your own blog and you have to answer the questions that people ask you.

Simple? So let's try and start rolling. :D

Random

Sad news: the flab is coming back. Uh, all that sweat! It is moments like this that make you want to go, "Why god, why...why me?" But can you blame me if I had a bad fall last year? If other than dislocating a bone, I also screwed some other things inside? And tell me, am I to blame if those 'other things' was a lot of space compressed between some vertebrae leading to some pressing of nerves? And that pressing decided to reboot one year later? Now I hope you do get that it is not really I(or is it 'me'?) who did all this. The funny bit is, I bear the pain, and I grow fat again. Has anybody ever heard of sharing somebody's burden? To top it all (yeah, I know it's for my own good), I almost get electrocuted every day. Science brains like T who do not want to sympathise even at my joke, would say, 'it's probably 15 amperes of current - you won't die!' Hmph! You get the darn physiotherapy done with weird vibrations running through your spine (via electrodes of course) and then talk to me! :|
But it is supposed to help. If not, well then we're in dangerous territory I guess.

I wonder how I would have killed time if I did not have all these defects to handle. Hmm...dearie god and his ways, huh? Crazy!

Talking of my forever screwed body, I think I will soon contrive (if one can) high blood(y) pressure too. Or maybe am already on my way. And this one will be rather simple, it's been in the family for generations. Coming back to the 'why' (there always IS one) behind this - yesterday I surprised not just a friend but even myself by yelling at a biker on the road. Of course, no doubt he was acting like a jerk....but two cuss words and "the road isn't made only for you!!" made him stop for a moment. As if he could beat me up or something!
And then today. I generally try to be polite with customer care people of any kind of service provider. But what are you supposed to do with several complaint numbers and being without a debit card pin for over three months? I yelled at the man today. By the way, this still is HSBC that SUCKS! DON'T ever transact with them. Even if you are dying. Take my word. So yeah, they left me yelling to myself even after I hung up. Maybe it's just the oldage that I was dreading, but it was really disgusting.

Anyway. So this is what I have been up to this past week. And of course, hoping that Shady's employers will have mercy too.
Oh yes, also doing some work which should actually be done by NDMC/CPWD. Maybe they should pay me for it, I might be able to pay at least one month's phone bill with it. Cleaning up and then paying somebody else for just carrying the trash out of the block isn't a funny job. And also have mofo neighbours staring!

So now I shall enjoy some Kishore Kumar, and you have a good night. Byeee!! :-)

PS - It doesn't seem to be a year of HAPPY birthdays (claim limited to my small world). It's Mithu's birthday today and she's spending it in a boring fashion on a train. Wish the bitch was here. Anyway, wish she has a great year and a lots of happy days ahead. :-)

Smiles Galore

Felt like making such a collection, and got to the link of this tool from Sayandi's blog. LOVED doing it! Enjoy!! :))

Time Tales

For some reason, it feels like eternity since I wrote a random post here. Not that there is any dearth of such posts on this blog, and not even as if I have a very happening life right now that I'd write about my day and it would make for a good read, but I still feel that the number of that kind of posts has reduced quite drastically here.
There has been no Abhishek Bachchan, no college friends, no cousins, economics of course, no 'I love bullets' post, no silver, not even any 'vague thoughts extended'! God! What do I write about nowadays?!
A few new things -- photography, Shady, back issues...
And some not so new things, the things that remain -- exams, studies, moods, music...

This blog is a year and one week old today. Perhaps it is coincidence, but just like my own birthday was dry and minus the excitement this year, so has been my blog's. In fact, I did not even access my page that day - that too because of coincidence, I was not in Delhi, but even so.
I do remember the summer of 2006 though...Vague Thoughts' birthday was celebrated quite nicely. :) That blog was also quite an experience!

The calendar year is also coming to a close. And like every year, I don't know how this year went by so quickly. But actually it was a rather long year. I think we are just involuntarily accustomed to feeling that time flies. At least I am. And that is possibly because I have a fairly decent memory - I remember things, days, events rather clearly. So, even though the scenes from Jan this year are fresh in my mind, I know I've spent a lot of taxing times through the year too. And a lot of days have been very very long - they never seemed to end.
The tone of this post is moving towards sad, and that is not quite what I intended it to be. Neither am I sad today. I'm fine. (This is one of the ''I'm fine''s from my Orkut profile. For those who had doubts. :D)
So let us put it a little differently: Even though the days never seemed to end, they did. In spite of bad days, I had peaceful nights (barring some :D).
But yes, I started the year on a worried/lost note, rode through a whole gamut of feelings/experiences/thoughts, and am back to worried/lost. Hehe... Quite a cycle! :)
But at least I am more stable. That's reason enough to be thankful. :-)

I'm going for a little dip in the past today. Not sure how it's gonna be...again, time will tell. :-)

So, see you in a while. Tada!

According to Flickr...

my ten most interesting pictures....

1) Green mein Green

2) Age

3) Tools for Multi-tasking?

4) Fight AIDS

5) Mr Peacock

6) Up Close

7) Sticking Together

8) At the Qutub Complex

9) Locomotive Wheels

10) Lost in Colours

Photography's turned out to be one of the most satisfying and interesting things I've ever been involved in. Hope to continue it with the same passion in future too.

Real Trains This Time

A plan that was being postponed for some time, finally got finalised on Saturday, the 8th. I was gonna board a train the next morning!! So, the next morning, I was on the Kalka Shatabdi to Chandigarh. According to my family, mera 'train mein baithne ka sapna poora ho gaya'. I was recently cribbing about how it had been two years since I last travelled by train. Although, it was not exactly the kind of fun I'd have liked - the one of travelling in a coach where you can open the windows. That's the real fun!! Anyway, I wasn't complaining.
We were going to Chandigarh to meet two of my most favourite oldies. We were returning the same evening. But this time by bus since there weren't any train tickets available.

I went to Chandigarh after almost nine years. Clearly, I didn't remember much of the city. But I fell in love with it yesterday. It almost seemed ideal - a lot like Delhi, and minus the chaos and rush of this place. What more can you ask for!

I clicked a lot of random pictures, and was happily stunned to see how clean the railway station and the bus station there were. They mop the floors there! Even though the same places in Delhi are relatively much larger and see much more traffic, they still have no reason to be like the kind of urinals they are!! Ugh.

The return journey was a little towards irritating. What with terrible traffic and a HORRIBLE movie being played in the bus. Why don't people donate money than making such shit movies like Dhol? It was nothing more than 2.5 hours of noise. Bloody! Thank god for AIR FM - it saved me from a lot of that noise. And also gave me a lot of Beatles, Billy Joel and so forth as added bonus. :-)

By the time we reached Delhi, I could not feel my neck. It was unbelievably stiff. But I'm glad we got Volvo tickets, otherwise I would not have been able to feel the rest of my body either.
Oh, I could not believe the number of cars parked at Murthal dhabas either. Crazy stuff!

Got home by 10:00 p.m., went through the usual night routine, and crashed soon after.

It was an incredibly beautiful weekend I had. Saturday was very different from Sunday, but it was just as much fun...although, Shady blamed me for having dropped a pastry (MY pastry)...while it was actually an accident. :( Hmph!

But like it's said, mulla ki daud masjid tak. I'm back to solving maths questions today. :D

My Most Favourite Oldie...

:))

This is my dad's aunt, but we all call her Buji, and she's the grandmom that I never had. She's the sweeeeetest oldie I know. Muuah!! :D

Ugh

It has been quite a frustrating day so far. And even though lately I've spent a lot of not-too-productive days, this one's probably been the most irritating. I did put up one picture on Flickr that made me kinda happy, but that is about it. The air itself seem to be blue, the sunshine was almost ineffective...it's not there anymore, and I am hovering around numbness...but not quite there. Would not have been irritable if I was numb!
For some dumb reason, my room generally stays cooler than the rest of the house too, so I am just sitting around with cold hands, cold feet and a cold nose. I know it's not that cold yet, and I know that I always insist that winters are supercool, but didn't I just tell you that I am irritable today!
The idiotic brain/memory doesn't help either! Has to remind me that 7 Dec, '06 was also a super-shitty day! Well, the two days are not even comparable, and am I glad or what that they're not....but then who said that shit was ever remotely close to 'nice'!
I've not received confirmation about my payment to XLRI...it's been two weeks; I've had enough shit related to their forms this year....I don't wanna worry more about them!! But I already am...

W H A T E V E R!!

P.S. - One thing that never fails to make me super happy is appreciation for any picture that I click. Just received a comment from an ex colleague...and he's made my day, again!! Thanks, Rohit. :-)

Trip to a museum was never so much fun

Khoya Khoya Chand

There is a new song that I have fallen completely in love with. It's catchy, and thankfully is sensible unlike all 'catchy' numbers that they produce nowadays. And I don't know if it's just coincidence that this one also features Shiny Ahuja, but he's also one charming thing, and I'm just glad-er that he's part of it! :D

So the lyrics go something like this...

Kyun khoye khoye chand ki phir aakh mein, talash mein, udaas hai dil...
Kyun apne aap se khafa khafa zara zara sa naraz hai dil...

Ye manzilein bhi khud hi tai kare...
Ye faasle bhi khud hi tai kare...
Kyun, to raaston pe phir seham seham sambhal sambhal ke chalta hai ye dil...

Zindgai sawalo ke jawaab dhoondne chali..
Jawaab mein sawalon ki ek lambi si ladi mili..
Sawaal hi sawaal hai sujhti nahi gali..
Ki aaj haath thaam lo, ek haath ki kami khali...

Jee mein aata hai...
Murda sitare noch loo...
Idhar bhi noch loo..
Udhar bhi noch loo...
Ek do ka zikar kya...
Main saare noch loo...

Kyun tu aaj itna vaishi hai mizaz mein mazazz hai aye gum-e-dil...

Dil ko samajhna to kya aasaan hai...
Dil to fitrat se sun lo na baimaan hai...
Yeh khush nahi hai jo mila...
Bas mangta hi hai chala...

....

Kyun khoye khoye chand ki phir aakh mein, talash mein, udaas hai dil...
Kyun apne aap se khafa khafa zara zara sa naraaz hai dil...

Absolutely love it!!!