Sunday, October 31, 2010

Fed up of pretending like a grown-up!



     What (psychologically) makes you feel grown-up? Your age (definitely NOT)? Your achievements? Or when you just admire a bunch of kids playing around, from a distance, without being a part of them? Or when you start taking up responsibilities? What kind of responsibilities makes you feel grown-up then? Then what if, you had taken the REAL responsibilities of life at a very young age(at your teenage), and still manage to protect the moron in you and let it out (as sort of a  balancing act)..and let the moron in you play to such an extent, that people don't even imagine you as being Sensible! BLAH! 

     Your once-upon-a-time talkative, chirpy being takes a forced break; and turns into a silent, an over-thoughtful soul. You choose Not to laugh at a stupid guy's PJs (which confirms he/she is a fool) and silently smirk at the really funny things going on around. You are a part of a bunch of Sophisticated people whose sophistication gets you so-PISS-ticated! The cubicles and the lifeless bums parked inside them look funny from a distance; and the fact that you too are a part of the lot makes it even funnier. You laugh at your own life. And if this kind of boring life is called 'growing up', then puh-lees..GIMME a Break!! I would love to live my life as a kid, until the end!

    There were times, when exactly '3 idiots' took care of every small thing of mine. Each thought of mine was taken care of, every little mistake was rectified, every kiddish-naughty act was laughed away! They took care of my choices. All of my weaker points were balanced out by them. There was this shameless flirt in me - always hyper enthu, hyper active (which is sleeping currently)!. The story Now is totally different altogether. Ishan Awasthi (TZP) was right - 'jo dikhta hai woh hota nahi, jo hota hai woh dikhta nahi'.Being treated like a kid, always felt good, felt like you were protected from all of the insecurities that lay in the outside world. Being treated like a totally independent adult feels sick (when you know tat u still need a company to march forward, and that you are not as independent yet, as you are assumed to be!)

      A sudden transition from being called 'bachchi, putta, mari' to 'akka, madam' is equally confusing (i know! the stmt looks funny. But it aint as funny as it sounds. bhavnaaon ko samjho)!! Are you still a kid? or a grown up already? The sudden state of calmness, sensiblity (which comes from nowhere [however you read it]). On one side, you are pampered the way you like to be pampered; by your near and dear ones. On the other side you are a part of (though not involved in) immature, rubbish politics around you (which proves that you are not the only moron existing on earth!). You are a completely different being 9/5! And the next 24/2 you come back to your true being. And the cycle continues...


     Confusion gets even deeper, when you have really lost interest in whatever would look exciting for an early 20s. INo hang outs. Dont want to get committed to anybody. Free from having crushes .No flirting around anymore (gone saturated, not interested in all of these - atleast for a while now!). Family - takes the topmost priority in my life now. My dreams - the next (there's a list of things i that I wanna achieve, insha allah, i achieve all of them:)). There was this horrible week in the month of October that I went through! Nevertheless, that one particular week ended up making me a little more stronger and calmer person. Things have turned so much head over heels. There is this bunch of people, who would never even imagine me as being 'silent, calm and composed' (cz they ve always seen a hyper-active and a super-excited swa around them); and there s the other bunch of people who wouldnot believe that I would be as naughty as I explain them about myself (m literally a boring, alive corpse in front of them - I chose to be tat way!)! Toggling between extremes, is never too easy! I still feel like dancing, jumping around, singing out loud (all of these I dont even EXPRESS any more!just let these feelings let be inside me). Even when i think of venting out all of my frustrations somewhere; some unknown calmer force takes over my state of mind - slashes all of these mixed feelings and gives me a feeling of assurance - that 'things are goin on fine - the way they have to be'!




    Matter-of-fact, its been almost 6 months,since I made any 'new friends' as such (just adding people on fb doesnt mean that you have earned real friends!). Yes, acquaintances and colleagues have happened - quite a lot! Partly, I am to blame for that as well. I never approached people I would like to, neither did I encourage people who came to me - to take the next step(of making freindship!)!. I didnot feel so, coz my conscience didnot let me do that (else, its never difficult for a Saggi to socialize). Off late, I have just gotten too evaluative of people. I havent had a hearty laugh (except for once), in my new aapice!  There's this one team which I call 'hosanna' gang, with whom I enjoy the silent communication (each one is a nut like me!) (but still wondering if I should go ahead and talk to them! I would burst out laughin the moment i talk to them; which i clearly donot want to - for some reason which i wouldnot want to write here B-) )


     Well..the whole idea of writing this post was basically - NOTHING! Just that I have been handling a huge number of mood swings all around me (ironically from people who are elder than me! a few whom i looked forward to learning new things), since a couple of months. Are grown ups naturally like that??gloomy? Or is it ma fate, that i have come across only such kinda ppl off-late?? Things have been happening totally opposite of what i expected them to be! And that has made me look at things with a neutral point of view. In the process, I think I have become a super-sensible person(yeah..exaggeration cz m totally opposite of what this term could possibly mean!). But then,m just fed up of behaving like a grown-up. Yet, things force me to be so! I dunno if this phase is really making me grow up. I can feel the struggle, yet i cannot do anything about it; but to face it! I dont loaf around, I dont utter nonsense, I dont blabber, I refrain myself from cracking out spontaneous remarks (all of these which were my traits once-upon-a-time) [off late, i do all of these only with my very close friends, not any new people that i met in past few months! On the flipside, I ve stopped these things with a few other friends as well!] . dunno if m just getting lazier day by day, or are these signs of really growing up! There have been a handful of people, who have kept the same-old real swathi still alive in me:) and i thank them. KE5, jenny and a few others. tonnes of  mmua mmua to them:-*




And a mix of following songs perfectly make the current theme of my life -


1) taare zameen par - title track
2) One love - blue
3) I m with  you  - Avril Lavinge
4) So no one's told you , life s gonna be this wayyyyyyyy..............




and to cheer myself up from this chaos -- I enjoy the following songs:


1) Vishnu Sahasranam, Bhagvad geetha, Bhaja govindam, hanuman chalisa
2) Enthiran songs
3) Kabhi kabhi aditi, hai junoon, ashayen, wake up sid
4) a list of Tamil songs (new as well as old Mgr ka songs)
5) the list of 247 songs loaded into my brand new mobile - (my only 'friend' in my 9/5 hourse B-))




  This one's for you, folks - back to statement 1- "what really makes you feel that you are a grown up??"...


AARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH X-(..need an answer:(:(


anyways, Cheers to this mixed emotions!    ...


P.S. - This post would look confusing, but ppl who know every color of mine, would understand what m i trying to say:)

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

A dream-come-true

     Really dunno where to start from; what to say first! It's been quite a while since i wrote anything here! Lots happened, just that i got too lazy to sit and type my mind out! But I had to write about this! My 'almost-first-time' visit to Tirupathi!

    Not many noticed, but just a few days ago, there was a staus msg on my Facebook account saying this : The last time i visited Tirupathi was, 20 years ago!... I was hardly 3 yrs old then! It was for getting my head shaved (a religious custom for us). They say that the sanctum is not just-another temple. The Lord  himself has to invite you to give you his darshan. I believed all of them, and with reasons. I had seen many meticulously made-plans of visiting there, fail in the last  moment; and many unplanned visits successfully accomplished too! Me, being a strong 'timing-matters' believer!

     It was a dream knitted by us - siblings; to visit the place with parents (for the first time). The dream strengthened over the last few years, when things went terribly haywire! Strengthened to such an extent, that we did not mind NOT visiting it for lifetime(even though its a family-deity); if it was Not with parents for the first time! Yeah...did invite criticism and oppositions, when we Refused few offers we got with friends and relatives (one is Not supposed to deny a visit to Tirupathi - another Common belief); but we did not really bother! Even off-late we siblings have been facing, made fun of; for being Brahmins and NOT being able to visit the place for years together (parents did visit quite a couple of times). But as said, we stuck to our dream; and did not want any low-life to mess with it. Dismissed all of them, because poor things were ignorant about the bigger picture of it! We must let few things happen by themselves. (Guess SOMEONE UP there was really listening to us, and counting our thoughts seriously!).

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      So, finally; after 2 decades; the plans were made and we were invited for a visit the place by a friend named Venkateshwara! All said and done! Call it a co-incidence, or a miracle, or whatever! It was a positive sign of  our dream coming true...

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     The trip:

03nd Sept, Friday - 04 Sept (midnight):

  Our group of around 13 people; from Kadapa, reached Tirupathi at around 3:15 in the noon. It's become usual in my life! meeting new people and touring around with them. Ditto, the family friends were kind of New people in our life, and we had really struggled with broken telugu, and made-broken english; to converse with them!(Dad was at his best! he knows telugu!). Other than that, it was fun, fun, and fun.

     When everybody chose to climb the hill, instead of taking a bus; i too gave in!( i dint mind even going by bus, but majority won!) Like, i said; we had never experienced such a visit, just heard of them ; I wondered what was so much hype about the temple, and why people took so much of hardships for a few seconds of darshan! Didnot ponder about it, because i was enjoying the climb! Of course, the huge crowd of 13 made it fun and easy-going. (Ideally it should take you around 2-3 hours to clime the hill; but we took 5 hours. we had all the time on earth, FOR the mother earth;)) It was fun, shouting out loud slogans of GOVINDA, GOVINDA (I would never miss an opportunity of howling and shouting out loud). And then I had this encounter with my best friend (a monkey:P), at the mid-way (Just that I had forgotten that I was carrying a bunch of chocolates happily in my hands, and did not share it with them!); which had become a joke for the evening! Phew. Never ever seen a monkey thaat close to me!

     I loved the fact, that almost throughout the climb, I was holding dad's hand (something which is really special to me!). And so, distance did not really matter.... It was around 8:15p.m, when we reached the last step. And an hour later, reached the destination...

     After freshening up and then dinner, we started towards the main temple, for darshan. It was around 11:00p.m. Heard the guard at the entrance say that we would get darshan in just an hour! Rushed towards the queue. We aren't super-humans, and I admit that we were weared out, after those long hours of walk. Plus this crowd for darshan, made me finally ask mom as to why people struggle so much to get just a glance of the deity. "Nambike (belief)" , was the reply! I was almost there, and I just got more curious. To be frank, more than bhakti, I had a curiousity to see what was soo powerful about the place!

      As we moved nearer to the garbhagudi (shrine), my curiosity just grew more and morre...Until I had the first glance of the deity. Complete transformation! I donot know how to express what was my state of mind then. All i know is that i'd gotten the answers to all my questions, in just a single glance!

     A strange happiness, a spirit - grew out from nowhere. There was smile, some enlightened feeling. And despite my height, I was able to view the deity from a distance! I would not say that suddenly i grew taller, or i was walking on air! Thats what i call Supernatural calculations. Right timing! Strangely, nobody pushed me! And I was allowed to stand there for a while to get a full-fledged darshan; without asking anybody, with nobody bothering me! The crowd behind me was moving at its pace, me at my own! Do I call it my luck? or a reward for a wait for these many years? One thing is sure! This place carries LIFE, from eons of ages! Saturday had just dawned, it was 12:10 a.m, when we came out after the darshan.. enlightened! (just FYI, Saturday is considered an auspicious day for Lord Venkateshwara). The siblings' dream had just come true...!!:)

    Still the body ache was there, parallelly the enlightenment feeling. While everyone made plans for the next day; I had decided that this was not enough for me! I just got greedy, and I wanted to have another darshan.....


04 Sept, Saturday 2010 noon:

     Venki (the one who invited us), myself and 2 of his friends (Raghu and Hari annas); started for the second-time darshan. This time, the darshan was expected to take a good 3 hours of time. (Saturday , VIP visits etc etc). But we were prepared for that. As said earlier, we had all the time on earth to spend. Standing in lengthy queue for such a long time, never felt so comfortable and easy! Also, Hari anna was up with the mythological stories about the place; which helped us pass time. Interesting as they were, they made me believe in them! And then the broken-Telugu, made-broken english and Hindi; just made the conversations lively and interesting:P. And in the mid-way, I remembered my visits to Puri Jagannath and Palani too...

     The second-time entry to the garbhagudi(shrine), was equally enlightening! This time, twice darshan. Don't ask me how; I was just lucky to have a second look. Once again, right-timing! Came out completely satisfied, and happy. Only shedding a drop of tear was left out (which I didnot!)...and there - began my visit to the Tirupathi...


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     So, that was pretty-much about my 'almost-first-visit' to Tirupathi. One visit-thrice darshan WAS a good deal indeed! A dream-come-true. It was a fulfilling experience - of the divine, of the sanctity that the place holds. All of which looked worth the 2 decades of wait; worth the long hours of walk.

     Must say, that Tirumalai Venkateshwara is Not a mere-earthling. It's a piece of 'The Cosmic Energy' , a slice of 'Heaven' - just existing on earth...

     Just hope and pray, that the other visits to any holy shrine henceforth,  be equally good ;):)...


Cheers,
  

  

  
     

Friday, July 30, 2010

mai and meri tanhai..aksar dinner karne aa jate hain!

   To begin with, let me tel u that....

    The following 2 lines best describe the current theme of my life:

     "manzil nayi hai, anjaana hai kaarvaan,
          chalna akele hai yahaan......":) 


   If you have a track of my life (i know that i have been absconding from the public-eye for a while now),then you must have come across  a lot of statements from me like --:'i dont have company yaaar' , 'm taking time to adjust', 'mai aur meri tanhai, canteen me soup peene aa gaye'...and blah  blah blah...!

    Well, this post is one of those 'mai and meri tanhai...series...';)   (don't wonder about the rest, you wont find them at this site!They are safely treasured in a book:P)

     I have been a 'lone - bird' for a while now in my new company (for  how long would i be so, i dunno!), struggling to get a friend for having even a cuppa coffee! Ok, before i start cribbing here, let me get into the point:

    Consider the reference time as 9:30 p.m, and the date is Wednesday 28th july, (thats when i started penning down this post!)

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    Its my 1:00 - 10:00 p.m shift and,
    Just an  hour ago, this happened:

     Me tooo hungry and i dont have anybody to accompany me for dinner! Care a damn about it, coz hotte(stomach) is empty! After asking (for formalities' sake) everybody around me, whether they wud like to join me for dinner(as expected, just another vain attempt!), I run to the bay (an area full of eateries) all alone, to fill my stomach..(company doesNOT matter, at times!)

    I go this counter (fuggot the name, but its a north indian restaurant ka counter), and order a plate of chapathi and subzee (looking at the rates of it, i thought that was sufficient to fill me!)

    Alas! finished the stuff  like - in a jiffy (hardly 3 mins!); and still pet me chuhas doing world war :(. Wondered whether it was really chapathis that i had, or some cotton-mithai! [40 bucks Washte]

   Still not satisfied, I just roamed around to check out what is available at which counter!as if  i was treasure - hunting!(actually, it WAS, really a TREASURE hunt!)

   Didnot take too long, i found a counter with something like'south indian' and  'meals' written on 2 different boards! What a relief! whatever the food is, i was sure of getting atleast a handful of curd-rice! Lo and behold!

'mini meals - 40 rs'    - says one of the menu boards!

...forgetting about the price, asked the counter fella about the the content of the mini-meals. Hungry that i was, nothing went into my head; except the mention of 'curd rice' from him! 'One mini-meals kodi, swalpa bega' (i did utter the last 2 PRECIOUS words!).

     And with my treasure of the moment (my  thaali .., hindi waala thaali!), i head towards a table,which is located right in front of the previous counter (where i got the cotton-mithai-type-chapathis)..the guys literally wonder-struck, luking at the south indian thali on my hands! lots of interesting expressions on their faces.

     Question marks, exclamation marks and lotsa stars! (quite obviously, a 5 feet tall high-school-kid looking girl, fully covered with winter wear(almost like an eskimo), walking all alone with a plate of meals; does attract spectators! To add to it, a company's tag hanging like a...needless say what! No question of this gal with a boyfriend too!  -- ignore the last stmt, just came through...outta emotions -- age problem!).

   Alright, so I was at this table, happily gobbling down the contents of the plate. And the previous counter guys' eyes stuck to my plate (wonder whether they were waiting to see how much from that plate would make way into my mouth(ultimately stomach)!

  Just forgot the rest of the world for a while and filled my stomach happily! (whoever watched the scene of me hogging the food, must have confirmed at least this - that m a Brahmin!).

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  Finally! With 5 chapathis (incl.those 3 cotton-chapathis ), 2 subzees, tomato baath, and CURD-RICE inside ; I felt strong enough to conquer the world! Looked around in relief, the tzp-ishan-style, only to find the two cotton-chapathi guys puzzled! Didnot  bother...

  Disposed the plate, carried my bag, relished a beautiful evening of bangalore, and then headed towards my aapice building!.......

  Landed at my desk, again un-noticed!

  It's 9:30 p.m now, and m just waiting for my log out time:)


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Come back to the moment:

Conclusion:

1) Corporate life has started pinching me:)
2) The best company you ever have in life, your 'SELF'!
3) Congrats to KE4! and BBSR folks, i have (finally) started to mind my own business:)
4) Looks like another chapter of life,  has begun...Let's see....! B-)

Gone are the days, where half-a-laddu was shared by 16+1 nincompoops!...B-)


Cheers,

Saturday, July 17, 2010

The Roller Coaster ride!!

Well..This post would be just 'Plain text'..in the sense, that i won't be EXPRESSING  my emotions here! Will just  jot down things, without mirch-masala! AS IT IS!


To introduce to this post, let me inform you that, I am into a new team(company), and m the only newbie here:P. I was lucky enough to get a chance for a trip with the team, on the same week(In fact, just 3 days after my joining!). A trip to Pondicherry(Pondi from now) . Initially, was apprehensive. Later gave into the plan! A good opportunity to explore, after all! And a chance to break the newbie-seniors ice too! (m the only newbie in the team, plus the age-gap, n lotsa gaps, to be frank!).  So, here's 'My Version' of the trip...Read on








Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Reply to ALLLLLL!!!!!!

This one's completely my crap:D:D:D..Absolute craziness..Read at  your own risk



Neyz a bit of introduction to this:  Just a fun thing, when a friend mailed a bunch of ppl, and we played around with the "reply-to-all" option (i assume you guys r aware of t option:)). Just that we are now separated by distance since months, and this thing felt as if we are sitting together in a group and having fun:):P..and i ve messed it up like myself!!:D:D:D..Well, ther you goooooo.....

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Random thoughts


Randomn thoughts…

To NOT confuse you guys. This is just a small compilation of the random thoughts that I get, while travel, while at work (in no particular order). Apologies, if you are not able to make sense of them:)

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

A Sneak peek into the mystic world..

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   A Sneak  peek into the mystic world..

   It looked like an ancient era, post Budhdha!! Three travelers (all girls) reached what it looked like a sea-shore, in a mystical blue twilight, just before sunrise. At a distance, sat a huge Statue of the Budhdha, in a posture similar to Lord Shiva’s (a meditating posture). The travelers had come with a knowledge that the peak of Statue was reachable! Adjacent to the Statue, there was a hill (almost as big as the Statue itself. Looked as if a part of the hill was leaning against the statue) And at the peak of the hill, there was a closed semi-circular dorm resembling a prison cell. It had two windows on opposite sides , each of which had closely spaced iron bars, spacious enough to let lean people penetrate into it. With great excitement, the travelers climbed up the hill, and reached the dorm. Now all these travelers were lean enough to sneak in the cell, and so they entered one by one, through the window. Now to disappoint you (as well as myself), I would say that there was nothing remarkable about this dorm, except that it offered a spectacular view of the surrounding. From one side, you could see the horizon where the sun was just about to wake up; and from the exactly opposite side there was a forest spread as far and wide, as your eyes could view.There was comlete silence. Each of the three travelers was just enjoying ,in peace, the scenic beauty that that moment was offering. None spoke to the rest.  And all of a sudden came violent roars, from almost near the base of the hill….