enChanted EvenIng

        "Come on, lets go. I don't want to miss this experience".I was nagging my undergrad classmate who happened to stuck with me during my Masters in Singapore. It was the second month since I landed on this Island.Moreover it was the week of Chinese New Year. Late as usual, another acquaintance from the past tagged with us and we reveled in the maddening crowd of the chinatown (More about it in another post).

          Soon they talked about going to a magical serene place, far away from chinatown to get over the buzzing sound  of  the crowd. We reached. Entered through the mouth of a giant mall. What place is this?A wonderland it is. Yes "Is". I still go there quite often. The promenade made a perfect view to ogle shameless at the beauty of this not well hidden land. With lights as in spirited away, and the alien, lighted, not-so-frightening pumpkin, carved out of lightning ( read cable cars) took me to an alternate universe. That was the moment I fell in love with her,The beauty. 

          She weaves her magical charm in such a way, that even Adele's "Someone like you"(the blues version) in the backdrop wasn't heart wrenching. It was mystical, as all she could do to me was,take my mind out of my past,the present and the future. My mind stopped thinking. For a moment i felt i was floating. Forgot words. Forgot my presence. That was my first encounter with her and it was indeed love at the first sight.

         Many months later,she was walking in the long stretches of her abundance, sipping something,whose name withheld ;-)  Again words failed me. It was indeed a heaven. Hans Zimmer's Gumption made my soul to twist and turn and cry out of joy.

        Adding few more months, I was all dazed and confused( reason: well, is it even necessary). She did the role of a best friend. She was there listening to my sorrow and tried her best to clear my mind. Her best friend sun was resigning for that day. But remembered to wave me good bye:-)

      Day before yesterday, She hugged me so close with her warm wind,as a sign of appreciating me, for having the courage to let go off  something from my life. As a token of her appreciation the clouds were starless. Her way of asking me to have a clear mind.So pure was she,that this time she made me stay at her place and begged me for a nightover. Well I had that in mind, even if she hadn't insisted.

Fell asleep on her shore with huge ships few feet away from me and the waves an inch closer to lick my feet. With waves singing lullaby, like getting swayed in a swing,mind at peace with only the songs of the waves, I was happy to be in the presence of my two best friends with whom I share a comfortable silence, #Sentosa and Anjela Mathew. 

Please Don’t Tell Your Secret!!!

                I have always been drawn towards someone who is enigmatic, who carries the aura of mystery around them. What fun would it be if we know everything about everyone? We are one strange species on earth who finds it difficult to change or accede to any changes in our lives but also brevity brings a restlessness to our lives.We want variety in everything. 

               That’s why a person claiming to be an open book somehow brings a turn off in me. Have we ever wondered, the ever quiet and composed mom was, once-upon-a time-tomboy? The stoic, head-on-shoulders, sensible dad was, a yesteryear, hopeless romantic? The so called branded atheist sister has some principles and ideals which will put a theist (wonder if a word exists) to shame.The moody and arrogant friend has a soft side which they felt shouldn't be disclosed. When we have a shocking revelations about our dear ones it changes our entire perceptions on them. We would have considered them boring and robotic. A great deal of respect will rise in our hearts. Suddenly we have the urge to know more about the person.

              Everyone who are silent and mysterious in their own way buries a key to their heart which they allow only the right person to explore and open it. The more and more enigmatic they are, closer they draw the dearies to them.  Not to be scared about the charm disappearing when we know something about someone, for the depth of one’s soul is yet to be measured and one may not know what and how much is buried in there. Happy exploring.

                                      

P.S: One may wonder the incoherence related to the tile and the content.

Please don’t tell me your secret. Let me find it :-P

Root Cause to write this: Listening to Metallica's Unforgiven II

Fate of Schrodinger's Pet

"Outcome of an event cannot be determined, as future events are randomly decided"- Stochastic Probability Theory.

Why do we always regret about our actions or mostly others reaction to our actions. Rather than thinking in all possible states, let us enjoy the moment, as "Every moment is a moment of choice,every hour is a destiny."  Anyhow, future is going to decide one of the random reactions, to which we can either respond or ignore.

Till then lets make the cat alive, for it's not only the cat which gets killed out of curiosity but also our moments.

Journey to be Ventured

Dido's "Hunter" - I don't know how many times it got played in the loop, before i woke up from the trance.

" I want to be a HUNTER again

  I want to see the world alone again

  To take a chance on life again

  So let me come

  So let me leave "

Words have power. I'm sure this is one among them to get influenced.

When the desires which are almost lost, coz of the ever smothering surroundings, will always pretend to lie dormant, but actually it'll play tricks on us, not leaving us to enjoy any single second of our life by always reviving the things which could have been ours despite the blessings we have, for in a corner of our heart we know that only by treading in that path even if you are the only one in the journey could bring you the Gratification.

Waiting eagerly for my moment to take that giant leap........
"So let me come"......................

Perks of being in BENCH

10. Blessed are you, to have a very looooooong lunch and coffee breaks....24*7 it's recess :-)

9. Catch up with your long la(o)sted friends..... This is the time, to unleash the monster in you by pinging all the pity souls who consider that "every keystroke of theirs earn revenue to your company in dollars"(deepak's verbatim). To be simple, irritate your friends who have real work to do.

8. Make a wishlist of all the novels which you wanted to read, but hardly had time to buy. This is the time.Grab it.

7. No psycho mentors to monitor you... can have the privilege to shower your presence whenever u feel like going to office.

6. Invent some innovative games or indulge in some awesome activities like  paper basket ball. Ignoring the weird looks given by folks in your cubicle,earns you brownie points. If you have become obsessed with face book, checking it every minute, then it's high time to see a shrink or contact your reporting manager to get into a new project, for which, any how u have to visit a shrink later.

5. You can be up to date in the recent things happening around. No, i'm not talking about the technology you are using or current affairs. Catch the recent episodes of HIMYM, Big Bang Theory or any of your favorite series. Mind you, Please don't get caught by using your office network. Remember,only we are jobless and not the monitoring committee.

4. You would have considered taking a yoga class when you were in project. There is no need for it as you are living a stress free life where there isn't a necessity to curse your manager and TL's.

3. 100%  guaranteed unruffled sleep,devoid of nightmares about code reviews, status calls.

2. You can practice the lesson of "living in the moment" preached by yogis of the ancient past, by checking out whether your tooth paste has got salt in it, has one of your friend got a teeny tiny pimple in her face, is the guy four cubicle away from you is wearing the same shirt all five days..... don't over do it and become voyeuristic...... Take a break in between :-P

And the No.1 goes to........ every common mans dream ........which is ......."WAIT FOR IT".........

1. Getting paid for dolce far niente :-)

So lets change our phase in bench from ennui to hoopla.

RocketLaunch

Up in the air i witnessed a blazing fire being spewed by a stick like object in an upward trajectory...
One moment i thought i was dreaming. I realized I'm far away from my cubicle or to be sure i'm not even in my office. I'm in the middle of chennai's infamous traffic waiting for my bus to crawl,so i'm not snoozing.... This must be real.....

Looking up i started reminisicing my past, my first rocket launch.I was 8 and my sister 10. In the process of celebrating our first independence to handle crackers along with Diwali without our ever protecting parents.
After getting bored with few kind,the young astronauts picked up the rocket found a base in a mound of sand rather than a glass bottle or tin as we were young innovators even at that age implementing our out-of-box thinking. Self Kudos to us :-)

As every great people would have got some misadventure we weren't an exception. Our rocket rather than just following the path reaching the sky, it grazed the shining head of a baldy uncle and what follwed was an explosion by him to my parents. Needless to say we were grounded forever and till today remain under their watchguards.

Luckily there was no misadventure this time. The PSLV-C 20 successfully launched SARAL in the orbit.
The lesson learned at the end of the day was not to launch rockets when there is a bald uncle in the park :)