MobileO'Mania

We all seem to have lost our souls
To mobile gadgets and handsets galore

No network results in grave depression
Call coming through
Bring forth a wave of exhilaration

Depleting charge will throw one
In serious despair, which only
A plug point can repair

No calls? No SMSes?
Result in deep despair
A blip? A ring?
Yippeee! Yippeee! Yeaahh!!

Got an SMS the other day
Alleging there's another way
To talk, to communicate.
Rubbish!!! I say.

(received by SMS from...)

Changes galore

Been a long time
Since I wrote
Reasons are many
Too many to emote

Changing places
Changing lives
Changing paths
Changing drives

Writing for one
As opposed to many
It became personal
Not to be shared with anybody

All these and more
Made writing seem such a chore!

Not any more though.
Definitely not any more!

The diet starts tomorrow!

I was surfing rather aimlessly (as usual!)
And suddenly I came across Amul Ice Cream's cyber store.
You can actually order ice cream online, get some extra ice cream in the bargain!!! And have it all delivered within a day to any city from Adilabad to Yeotmal. Its a district in Maharashtra. I just looked it up :)

You have sugar free pro biotic ice creams (do check them out). And of course yummy stuff like chocochips...drool away!
Here's the link: http://www.amul.com/icecream/index.html

Yippeeee. Horaaayyyy!
Diet..do just go away :)

All over again

The blank page looks at you
You want to write
But you don't know how

Days pass and nights fly by
The anguish you feel
Is what you live by

When suddenly...
You fall in love
All over again

When suddenly...
You start laughing
All over again

When suddenly...
You start living
All over again

When suddenly...
Your love's in love with you
All over again

Worth thinking about...

I've heard that peoples' likes and dislikes give you a fair idea about them.

How about their favourite vegetable?
Any guesses about a person whose favourite vegetable is garlic :)

Would you like to let me know?

The euphoria you feel
When you fall in love

The ecstasy you feel
When you know its for keeps!

The sheer happiness you feel
Seeing your loved one

The pleasure you get
Just spending time with him

The smile on your face
When you think of good times

The laughter bubbling forth
Thinking of a lifetime with him!!!

The blight of social responsibility

Back again after a long time...I felt compelled to write

Write about the big images the words 'social responsibility' conjure up in the minds of people. You think of this big company out to do social good in whatever small way they can.

Right! I agree completely.

But what happens when the product of that very company is littered all over a virginal landscape?
Should the company also not educate you and me on how to best dispose the trash that they are helping us in creating?
Sounds muddled? Let me give you an example...

I visited Kashmir recently...and its everything the poets make it out to be...heaven on earth.
Life is definitely returning to normal for the average Kashmiri and Srinagar is beginning to assume the hues of a tourist town. We were lucky to see it a little unspoiled having gone in the off season. The winter harshness gives it a stark unparralleled beauty, all its own.

From Srinagar, we went further up to Gulmarg. Climbing up to its highest accesible point (13500 feet) you can see the Himalayan range in all its splendour.
You look at K2 and the Harmukh and innumerable other unnamed mountains...breathe in the biting cold fresh air...get lost in the majesty of nature...and walk forward to get lost in it all.

AND SUDDENLY...your feet go scrunch on something...you look down and realise that you have walked onto an empty chips packet. IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!!!

Are we fair in littering this virginal landscape? Is the man/woman/child who buys that packet for a measly Rs. 10/- even aware of the word 'littering'?
Is it not then the 'social responsibility' off the company to bring about this awareness. A do not litter sign on that self same packet hardly makes a silent shout for this cause.
When are we as literate, socially conscious citizens going to make the companies aware?

Is anybody listening?

Living again?

My life has been full of conflicts lately…on the one hand I have had my life falling into place…ecstatically into place…and on the other hand I have had one of my closest friends facing a tragedy and grief…which seems insurmountable…

What does one do when the person she thought was her closest counterpart, her lover, her sweetheart, her husband is no more…how does life go on for her??? I can empathise and I can grieve…but I cannot understand…for that I would have to live her life…

Questions, thoughts, puzzles, all unanswered…

How does life go on…when it has stopped for a few…

Of course we all love again. And we all go on with our lives…I have too come up from what I thought and envisaged as complete tragedies…things that would make my life come to an end…or at least ensure that I stopped living for a long time to come…

But then life has a way of falling into place…very rightly for some and limpingly for others…but it does.

I know I am sounding morose and I know this is not how I usually sound…but then I am counting on time…to heal her wounds…to make her look at life again…to smile that smile again…

All I can do is wait…