We had one kind of great confusion [or comedy of errors?] to find our camp ground. Every one of us just half a mile away from the camp ground and was struggling to locate the place. I can not forget that muddy road, near the garbage pit which we thought was our camp ground!! In fact we went ahead and drove to the dead end to find nothing but a barren land! Later drove back to find all others on their way to that very same place! It was no body’s fault, GPS was directing everyone to that garbage pit :) Out of 5 cars, and except for one every one gathered there and collectively started looking for our actual ground! At least after taking couple of U-turns, actually by following some other's car we figured out that tiny way to our camping site :) we all again went in line one after another to our final destination! Meanwhile the car missing was located, looks like they drove around the same place for 3 times! But could not figure out this road which was taking us to the actual camp ground! Finally we all 16 of us reached the ground, unloaded our heavy luggage from everyone’s car! Though we had 3 tents, but had booked 5 grounds, you see we need camp ground for our cars also! They were also camping with us in the open ground and under the sky! [The restriction was that one car/camp ground and we had 5 of them!]
All guys started putting up the tents at 3 camp grounds and we all girls started fixing the dinner! :P We had loads of food, main course had roti, daal-makhni, Khaju katli and sohan papadi was there for desert along with lemon rice, tomato rice, puliyogare and curd rice! Already darkness was invading the mountains and falling on us, air was well gelled with the coldness and we were almost shivering. Thankfully even before setting the tents, first thing we had done was to lit the campfire! The fire in the pit kept us warm and the hot food made our night indeed a fiesta in forest!
After dinner, we all moved to the next camp ground, where we lit again the camp fire and started preparing for BBQ, we had Paneer, onions, capsicum, sweet potato and potato! All of these stuck to a BBQ rod and spicy masala smeared all over was just mouth wateringly tasty! There we 16 of us sat around and preparing the BBQ, we had a guitarist who was entraining every one of us with the melodious songs. Midst of this suddenly we heard some phones ringing and yes one more couple was joining us and within no time the lovely couple was there before us!! We all, in the day time struggled to locate the place, went around couple of times before locating this place, this friend of us, drove in that dark night, new to California and after many hours of continuous travel made it to the camp ground with out getting lost anywhere!! We could not believe this :)Yes!! We were 18 of us in that night! A big crowd, as pointed out by one of our friend a team of stars, individually everyone made sure everything would go fine. Hats of to such a coordinating team!
The sky was clear, stars shining, moon smiling :) and breeze blowing the cold air took everyone to a different world I guess. We were tired enough to get a good night sleep. We all went into our respective tents and again we all 5 gals in one tent!! As soon we entered the tenets we started hearing some kind of noise and we all were scared to death thinking it’s a bear! But we realized that it’s wind blowing away the paper plates which we used for BBQ. After listening to a stories from one of our friend, 2 of other friends did not sleep for whole night! I guess one another friend and I are the only 2 slept without worrying about any bear stories J that too until early morning rays came and woke us up!
It was around 6 in the morning I guess, and sun was on our face! Just peeped out of the tent and see that snow covered mountains in their brightest white ever! The morning sun had spread all over the valley and reflections of frozen ice were all over. We all woke up, enjoyed the morning Sun and started preparing for breakfast! We made bread and omelet and tea!! Apart from this we had juice, fruit, biscuits, you name it and we had for our breakfast!! A real real king sized breakfast!
After our breakfast, we headed to the site seeing around! There we found one ski resort! [forgot the name now :(] We took a gondola ride there, went on top of the ice mountain, played in the snow as much as we want, took lots of pictures and roamed around in that snow. It was a white mountain, just snow and snow everywhere, people, kids, tourists skiing around, it was a spectacular view. We played till the lunch time and every one of us were really hungry. We headed for Mexican restauranta! And then to a Gull lake! A lake covered with beautiful snow covered mountains! Went for boating, it was a lazy afternoon, we in the mid of the lake parked it and were just basking under the Sun, talking about numerous things!
The evening was almost same as last one, except that we had little more fun, there were more songs, dances and games, with ongoing BBQ on the fire! This night every one of us slept peacefully I guess to wake up and pack to return back to our Silicon Valley! Our return too was filled with lots of fun, stopping at various vista points, posed for many pictures and bought lots of fruits (cherry, strawberries, etc) on the way from farmers markets! At around 7:00 PM on Monday evening we reached home, carrying all these sweet memories in our heart and mind forever :)
[PS: Tried to make this post as short as as possible, however still ended up this long... :D, tried to cover as much as possible, but I'm sure many more events might have already paged out of memory and not made it to this post... :)]
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Hum hai raahi pyar ke...Fir milenge chalte chalte...
Well everything is said and done... highlights have been broadcasted, memories are being shared. However our camping we did for 2 nights and 3 days will last in every ones memory for very very long time to go and I can not stop but think about every moment we shared again and again.
We, a group of 16 people, started on a Saturday morning, 2 and half hours late (usual IST hmmm!?) than the scheduled time! Tried very hard to ramp up everything the night before at around 10 or 11 PM but failed miserably. Instead of going to bed early, slept late at 2 AM in the morning, just to wake up after few hours, it was not a nightly sleep but a siesta. Freshened up, packed up, picked up and ran (indeed made the car to run :) to the common meeting point. Everyone gathered to start to our exciting camping destination which was about 5-6 hours away on an overly crowded brightly lit super sunny day. We all by now knew each other pretty well, however there were few who we met for the first time, though it did not feel like our first meet :) Some thing common in everyone of us connected us instantly…
As we were a big group of 16, we 5 girls and rest all guys... After meeting at this location we all gals gel’d so well that, we all wanted to join together and travel in one single car! But dropped the idea and let the guys to take the lead and we girls enjoy the ride! So 5 cars started in line one after another waving and smiling at each other… to meet after an hour at our designated meeting point to take a quick break and for one surprise which was secretly(??!!) planned.
I guess we were the last car to reach that meeting point at one of raider’s museum, or in plain words a cowboy museum! I saw all our guys and gals standing in a line from a distance and thought that they are waiting to enter the museum, only after reaching there we learned that they were waiting for the lone restroom available in that place :D, one after another done using the restroom and entered the museum to return the keys and to take a look at it. We found lots of cow boy hats, medals, pictures of raiders. The curator of the museum was delighted to see such a big crowd, of which half was outside the museum! She welcomed us to explore the museum and shared the details with each of us. We waved her good bye and came out to find bunch of chits to be picked up by every one of us, except for the drivers' of the car. Yes we were shuffling ourselves into different cars! That was one great thing we did to break the ice and which allowed us to know each other better. It was indeed exciting to pick the chit and find our driver! It was lot more fun than anticipated, we picked around 3 times to get the right car J and everyone boarded the car and headed to the next stop which was Yosemite national park’s visitor center!
Yosemite national park, a wilderness filled with tall pine or sequoia trees, wild animals [which kept few of us wide awake in the night :P] deep valleys, high granite mountains and full of melting snow resulting into gushing water falls at every half mile. The end of a spring and blossoming summer made our drive a pleasant one. Half dome, bridal veil and cascade water falls were just a feast to the eyes and to the heart. I wonder how the vastness and beauty of the nature make us feel so humble in front of it; fill the heart with such a warm feeling, which I can not express in words. Though our car was limping at many places due the over crowded traffic [This being the first long weekend of the summer, I guess whole of US was on the road!] the serene beauty of the nature and the melodious songs playing in the car enthralled every one of us and took us to a different world.
At last we reached the Yosemite’s visitor center to find no parking available, parked for long time in a NO parking zone with hazard lights on! Tried reaching others but signal was not available. We finished our lunch by taking turn to baby sit the car in the no parking zone. Some how we were able to sync up with others and decided to meet them all once for all at camp ground and then started towards Tioga pass, which had just opened 2 days back!
Tioga pass, which means “where it forks” I guess it connects the west valley to the east. According to NG magazine, this is one of the most scenic routes in Sierra. But, just after the lunch we started driving and what did I do :) took a nap…in between I was woken up and asked to look at the beauty of nature, I guess I saw but did not realize its beauty until I returned on the same route… the mountains and those milky frozen lakes were just breath taking...
[PS: This is just half of our first day events, tried hard to make it short :) but still ended up this long! will come up with remaining part , hopefully soon...]
We, a group of 16 people, started on a Saturday morning, 2 and half hours late (usual IST hmmm!?) than the scheduled time! Tried very hard to ramp up everything the night before at around 10 or 11 PM but failed miserably. Instead of going to bed early, slept late at 2 AM in the morning, just to wake up after few hours, it was not a nightly sleep but a siesta. Freshened up, packed up, picked up and ran (indeed made the car to run :) to the common meeting point. Everyone gathered to start to our exciting camping destination which was about 5-6 hours away on an overly crowded brightly lit super sunny day. We all by now knew each other pretty well, however there were few who we met for the first time, though it did not feel like our first meet :) Some thing common in everyone of us connected us instantly…
As we were a big group of 16, we 5 girls and rest all guys... After meeting at this location we all gals gel’d so well that, we all wanted to join together and travel in one single car! But dropped the idea and let the guys to take the lead and we girls enjoy the ride! So 5 cars started in line one after another waving and smiling at each other… to meet after an hour at our designated meeting point to take a quick break and for one surprise which was secretly(??!!) planned.
I guess we were the last car to reach that meeting point at one of raider’s museum, or in plain words a cowboy museum! I saw all our guys and gals standing in a line from a distance and thought that they are waiting to enter the museum, only after reaching there we learned that they were waiting for the lone restroom available in that place :D, one after another done using the restroom and entered the museum to return the keys and to take a look at it. We found lots of cow boy hats, medals, pictures of raiders. The curator of the museum was delighted to see such a big crowd, of which half was outside the museum! She welcomed us to explore the museum and shared the details with each of us. We waved her good bye and came out to find bunch of chits to be picked up by every one of us, except for the drivers' of the car. Yes we were shuffling ourselves into different cars! That was one great thing we did to break the ice and which allowed us to know each other better. It was indeed exciting to pick the chit and find our driver! It was lot more fun than anticipated, we picked around 3 times to get the right car J and everyone boarded the car and headed to the next stop which was Yosemite national park’s visitor center!
Yosemite national park, a wilderness filled with tall pine or sequoia trees, wild animals [which kept few of us wide awake in the night :P] deep valleys, high granite mountains and full of melting snow resulting into gushing water falls at every half mile. The end of a spring and blossoming summer made our drive a pleasant one. Half dome, bridal veil and cascade water falls were just a feast to the eyes and to the heart. I wonder how the vastness and beauty of the nature make us feel so humble in front of it; fill the heart with such a warm feeling, which I can not express in words. Though our car was limping at many places due the over crowded traffic [This being the first long weekend of the summer, I guess whole of US was on the road!] the serene beauty of the nature and the melodious songs playing in the car enthralled every one of us and took us to a different world.
At last we reached the Yosemite’s visitor center to find no parking available, parked for long time in a NO parking zone with hazard lights on! Tried reaching others but signal was not available. We finished our lunch by taking turn to baby sit the car in the no parking zone. Some how we were able to sync up with others and decided to meet them all once for all at camp ground and then started towards Tioga pass, which had just opened 2 days back!
Tioga pass, which means “where it forks” I guess it connects the west valley to the east. According to NG magazine, this is one of the most scenic routes in Sierra. But, just after the lunch we started driving and what did I do :) took a nap…in between I was woken up and asked to look at the beauty of nature, I guess I saw but did not realize its beauty until I returned on the same route… the mountains and those milky frozen lakes were just breath taking...
[PS: This is just half of our first day events, tried hard to make it short :) but still ended up this long! will come up with remaining part , hopefully soon...]
Saturday, April 11, 2009
My friend...
For almost more than a week it was burning hot, temperature had raised all of sudden or may be I just moved in to a new apartment and stayed home for couple of days and felt the heat of spring and start of summer. However today when I woke up and came out to see the morning Sun and those baby pink colored flowers in the patio, instead rain drops and petals spread all over the patio pleasantly welcomed me! I wide opened the blinders to feel the cloud, misty tree and rain dripping flowers, of course with a cuppa tea and heater on! This weather forced me to send a WFH for first half of the day and sat at home nicely enjoying the rain and replying to the mails… [Had a long long day at work after that, that is a different story :D, kuch pane ke liye kuch khona bhi padta hai :(]
Later after noon came to work and religiously went and took a cuppa coffee to kick start my work! Ooops! What happened? Looks like got a right amount of coffee, sugar and cream and a perfect coffee and fresh aroma! Outside of the Windows [not 2K3 or 2K8, the real one!] I see airport, flights landing and taking off, scattered cars on the road… some how this weather and aroma of coffee took me to the flash back! This kinda coffee I was not used to, the amount of darkness in the coffee I used drink was too light, now over a period of time it has grown and this weather and coffee reminds me of those days when I just had started drinking, of course coffee! :) I had just joined my first job in US! And had a great friend at work who was my colleague, well-wisher and a guide, with who I started drinking this coffee at office! I remember those walks I used to take with him everyday, I remember those fears I used to share with him, and I remember his jokes which tried hard to make me laugh! And I remember those wishes he showered on me…. And I used to call him Chachu…and used pestered him to stick my picture (:P) along with his kids pics on his office wall!!... and when ever I called him “Chachu” he used to pretend angry … saying “main itna bhudda nahi hoon ki tum muje chachu kahe!” :) but you see I never gave up on it… and he is still my favorite Chachu and I cherish those memories for my life long… I’m indebted to those countless things he did it to me unconditionally, who stood beside me for anything and everything… Chachu I miss you and miss our walks and talks….I hope our paths cross again and we work together.
Later after noon came to work and religiously went and took a cuppa coffee to kick start my work! Ooops! What happened? Looks like got a right amount of coffee, sugar and cream and a perfect coffee and fresh aroma! Outside of the Windows [not 2K3 or 2K8, the real one!] I see airport, flights landing and taking off, scattered cars on the road… some how this weather and aroma of coffee took me to the flash back! This kinda coffee I was not used to, the amount of darkness in the coffee I used drink was too light, now over a period of time it has grown and this weather and coffee reminds me of those days when I just had started drinking, of course coffee! :) I had just joined my first job in US! And had a great friend at work who was my colleague, well-wisher and a guide, with who I started drinking this coffee at office! I remember those walks I used to take with him everyday, I remember those fears I used to share with him, and I remember his jokes which tried hard to make me laugh! And I remember those wishes he showered on me…. And I used to call him Chachu…and used pestered him to stick my picture (:P) along with his kids pics on his office wall!!... and when ever I called him “Chachu” he used to pretend angry … saying “main itna bhudda nahi hoon ki tum muje chachu kahe!” :) but you see I never gave up on it… and he is still my favorite Chachu and I cherish those memories for my life long… I’m indebted to those countless things he did it to me unconditionally, who stood beside me for anything and everything… Chachu I miss you and miss our walks and talks….I hope our paths cross again and we work together.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Merry Holidays... Merry Christmas...
Today, my first day of "Happy Holidays"!! Yes I have 13 days of off from work and pressure !?D! Starting today...ooops! Already a day is gone :( Initially I was not sure if I will be getting this off, but when spoke to my manager y'day he asked me to take off and come charged for new challenges next year!! I guess this was the first time I spoke to him with a wide smile on my face... an involuntary smile of happiness and joy was on my face and excitement in my heart, when I heard him telling this! Though I did not have any major plans for this off, the very thought of not having to work for whole of almost 2 weeks made me give him a big smile! A bonus vacation… just after a month of my India trip, what else one can ask for?
As usual to start of the holidays... did not get up early in the morning, though I was up by 8, but whiled away time sleeping just like that in half sleep and half awake state! By 10, I started hearing noise from my stomach and at last hunger won over laziness and got up to realize that there is nothing readily available to eat! No fruit, no bread, and no cereal everything has gotten over. Luckily found a cup of Yoplait, a strawberry flavored yogurt! Morning does any one would like to eat that? No way... though I ate 2-3 spoons of it to re-fuel myself and stopped to explore the kitchen for some thing which could become my quick breakfast! nothing other than "poha" caught my eyes... saw there was just one potato left, and fresh curry leaves, green chilies, onions, pea nuts.... all the required ingredients to make a perfect aloo-poha... yummy it was ready in less than 15 mins and it was full of tummy!!
Then now any one is wondering how am I back to blogging after a long long gap? The very first reason is that... I had stopped using my desktop, which always sat in my bed-room and started using lap top all the time sitting in living room! I guess sitting in living room never gave the privacy to my thoughts when ever they tried come out...and other reason being I’m not spending time with myself...I’m on the run all the time! Today first thing I did was, get a table and chair back into my bed room, have laptop installed onto this table and got back the feeling of using the desk top!! No not really :) its just sitting in the room is what that gives me all the clarity to thoughts... and hence is this post today! And that’s how my afternoon went off ... setting my table and tiding up the room!
Then came evening, watched Gajani as planned, first day's show not first show though! And a dinner at friends place and bit of chit-chat and then thought of heading back home! It was almost around 11:30 did not realize how time just flew... but some how when I stepped out of the house, my sleep had gone! There were rain drops on my face and eyes and this cold breeze of Dec pushed my drowsiness to back seat and brought myriad thoughts to front seat! As I buckled my seat belt, turned on heater and started the car towards home... road was pretty much deserted... just one or two cars on the road hear and there and well decorated and brightly lit historic El-Camino Real in its majestic form...as I started driving, started enjoying the drive and did not feel like going home... just continued without making a right turn for my home! Crossed Mary then realized that its Marry Christmas tomorrow... and today is Xmas eve... no wonder! Everyone must be at home with their family and friends and is the reason for these empty road and drive. I crossed couple of roads ahead and then reached Castro of mountain view, but this drive was not enough for me and did not feel like taking a U turn... again went ahead for few more miles...it felt very nice, calm, quiet and serene... a feeling not wanting anything and a feeling of contentness... by then realized its already crossed 12 and a baby Jesus is already born...somewhere... "Happy Birthday to you Jesus" I whispered to myself... and at last took a U-turn, heading back home. By the time I parked car it was 12:40 AM. I got down from the car and walked towards home... there were no drops on my face...there was no rain... a cold wind was blowing and trees were dancing to the choreography of the breeze flowing between them...
As usual to start of the holidays... did not get up early in the morning, though I was up by 8, but whiled away time sleeping just like that in half sleep and half awake state! By 10, I started hearing noise from my stomach and at last hunger won over laziness and got up to realize that there is nothing readily available to eat! No fruit, no bread, and no cereal everything has gotten over. Luckily found a cup of Yoplait, a strawberry flavored yogurt! Morning does any one would like to eat that? No way... though I ate 2-3 spoons of it to re-fuel myself and stopped to explore the kitchen for some thing which could become my quick breakfast! nothing other than "poha" caught my eyes... saw there was just one potato left, and fresh curry leaves, green chilies, onions, pea nuts.... all the required ingredients to make a perfect aloo-poha... yummy it was ready in less than 15 mins and it was full of tummy!!
Then now any one is wondering how am I back to blogging after a long long gap? The very first reason is that... I had stopped using my desktop, which always sat in my bed-room and started using lap top all the time sitting in living room! I guess sitting in living room never gave the privacy to my thoughts when ever they tried come out...and other reason being I’m not spending time with myself...I’m on the run all the time! Today first thing I did was, get a table and chair back into my bed room, have laptop installed onto this table and got back the feeling of using the desk top!! No not really :) its just sitting in the room is what that gives me all the clarity to thoughts... and hence is this post today! And that’s how my afternoon went off ... setting my table and tiding up the room!
Then came evening, watched Gajani as planned, first day's show not first show though! And a dinner at friends place and bit of chit-chat and then thought of heading back home! It was almost around 11:30 did not realize how time just flew... but some how when I stepped out of the house, my sleep had gone! There were rain drops on my face and eyes and this cold breeze of Dec pushed my drowsiness to back seat and brought myriad thoughts to front seat! As I buckled my seat belt, turned on heater and started the car towards home... road was pretty much deserted... just one or two cars on the road hear and there and well decorated and brightly lit historic El-Camino Real in its majestic form...as I started driving, started enjoying the drive and did not feel like going home... just continued without making a right turn for my home! Crossed Mary then realized that its Marry Christmas tomorrow... and today is Xmas eve... no wonder! Everyone must be at home with their family and friends and is the reason for these empty road and drive. I crossed couple of roads ahead and then reached Castro of mountain view, but this drive was not enough for me and did not feel like taking a U turn... again went ahead for few more miles...it felt very nice, calm, quiet and serene... a feeling not wanting anything and a feeling of contentness... by then realized its already crossed 12 and a baby Jesus is already born...somewhere... "Happy Birthday to you Jesus" I whispered to myself... and at last took a U-turn, heading back home. By the time I parked car it was 12:40 AM. I got down from the car and walked towards home... there were no drops on my face...there was no rain... a cold wind was blowing and trees were dancing to the choreography of the breeze flowing between them...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Watz there in a name?!?
The sweetest thing to ones own ear is their name!
When ever I heard people's name, invariably I compared to mine! And always felt my name is inferior to others in many ways! First thing it’s as old as India! Associated with India and Indian history and politics! And during those early years of India, this name seems to be pretty popular! there are many great (:D) women whose name I share with, take it first women prime minister of the world or first test tube baby's creator in India, this name is/was found in every field.
This name means goddess of wealth, prosperity and wife of sustainer The Vishnu.
She is supposed to be very beautiful, her face is as pleasant as lotus and she bestows prosperity on all those who believes and worships her! If you take a shortened version of this name, "Indu" that means full moon! Also means today in Kannada!
So now back, so I always felt my name is old fashioned, represent that grandma's era blah blah and all! When some one asked my name a pinch of inferiority was always there in me. I wished to have a sweetest, melodiest, prettiest and coolest name :) and I envied those who have such a beautiful names to tag on to their personality. I felt how lucky they are to have that name.
Today I and one of new friend (my lunch friend!) happen to meet in the rest room. As we were discussing about some “things”, there came one more girl. As usual we smiled at each other and extended the same topic to her as well, and complimented her hair! Then she was telling us how hard it has become for her to manage and how she is loosing her hair due to the stress at work! Etc (i was smiling and imagining her to be at my previous work and imagined what would have happened to her!!). I could see that, she is indeed very stressed and exhausted, remembered my days few months back and felt sorry for her :( and just before leaving she said, "I like your name" hmmm! I thought she is telling it to other friend, she has very beautiful name! On our first lunch itself we had spoken in length about meaning of her name and about that spelling mistake in my name! But as she continued talking I realized that she is indeed telling it to me!! Hmm! that was the first time some one was complementing my full name!! I was pleasantly surprised! I was so surprised that I did not even thank her for the compliments! Felt Wow! Hmmm! I though not bad! There are people who like my name too hmmm! No need to say that, she made my day :) and then after that, I started pondering about my name! Thought about its meaning, though I knew it long back what it means etc but never realized how good or bad it is. I always looked this name in prejudice! And associated with that grandma's era! But now after that incident and that pondering I started to like it and told it myself!! And indeed I felt it to be sweet and good :)
I wonder how many times we take everything we have for granted! We won't realize unless, until some one comes and tells us the meaning of it...
When ever I heard people's name, invariably I compared to mine! And always felt my name is inferior to others in many ways! First thing it’s as old as India! Associated with India and Indian history and politics! And during those early years of India, this name seems to be pretty popular! there are many great (:D) women whose name I share with, take it first women prime minister of the world or first test tube baby's creator in India, this name is/was found in every field.
This name means goddess of wealth, prosperity and wife of sustainer The Vishnu.
She is supposed to be very beautiful, her face is as pleasant as lotus and she bestows prosperity on all those who believes and worships her! If you take a shortened version of this name, "Indu" that means full moon! Also means today in Kannada!
So now back, so I always felt my name is old fashioned, represent that grandma's era blah blah and all! When some one asked my name a pinch of inferiority was always there in me. I wished to have a sweetest, melodiest, prettiest and coolest name :) and I envied those who have such a beautiful names to tag on to their personality. I felt how lucky they are to have that name.
Today I and one of new friend (my lunch friend!) happen to meet in the rest room. As we were discussing about some “things”, there came one more girl. As usual we smiled at each other and extended the same topic to her as well, and complimented her hair! Then she was telling us how hard it has become for her to manage and how she is loosing her hair due to the stress at work! Etc (i was smiling and imagining her to be at my previous work and imagined what would have happened to her!!). I could see that, she is indeed very stressed and exhausted, remembered my days few months back and felt sorry for her :( and just before leaving she said, "I like your name" hmmm! I thought she is telling it to other friend, she has very beautiful name! On our first lunch itself we had spoken in length about meaning of her name and about that spelling mistake in my name! But as she continued talking I realized that she is indeed telling it to me!! Hmm! that was the first time some one was complementing my full name!! I was pleasantly surprised! I was so surprised that I did not even thank her for the compliments! Felt Wow! Hmmm! I though not bad! There are people who like my name too hmmm! No need to say that, she made my day :) and then after that, I started pondering about my name! Thought about its meaning, though I knew it long back what it means etc but never realized how good or bad it is. I always looked this name in prejudice! And associated with that grandma's era! But now after that incident and that pondering I started to like it and told it myself!! And indeed I felt it to be sweet and good :)
I wonder how many times we take everything we have for granted! We won't realize unless, until some one comes and tells us the meaning of it...
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Missing myself...
It has been long since I wrote anything... long since I paused myself and given a break to see where I’m heading to... I’m feeling blank! Don't know what I’m feeling, neither good nor bad its no feeling state... neither do I understand or nor do I don't understand... perhaps I know what it is... perhaps I don't know...
Suddenly for no reason, today I remembering those days, when I used to be in office late in the evenings or during weekends...doing nothing, just reading some news articles here and there, sipping a cup of coffee, watching the cars on the road and those trees and their full life cycle... through that window close to my cubicle and be with myself... just to give all the space and time of the world to myself and get a clarity of thoughts... that used to be very soothing, that used to give me immense feeling of contentness... Today suddenly no not suddenly it’s over a period of time lots of thoughts are wandering around and realized that it has been long since I’m with myself, my myraid mind is missing me and want to get back to her...and yes I’m going to office...!
Suddenly for no reason, today I remembering those days, when I used to be in office late in the evenings or during weekends...doing nothing, just reading some news articles here and there, sipping a cup of coffee, watching the cars on the road and those trees and their full life cycle... through that window close to my cubicle and be with myself... just to give all the space and time of the world to myself and get a clarity of thoughts... that used to be very soothing, that used to give me immense feeling of contentness... Today suddenly no not suddenly it’s over a period of time lots of thoughts are wandering around and realized that it has been long since I’m with myself, my myraid mind is missing me and want to get back to her...and yes I’m going to office...!
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