Games people play

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She had seen him through the fence that was separating the play area from the common area.

She could clearly remember he was wearing a white shirt and blue jeans. He was about 25 years old. He had carried a pink teddy bear in his hands. The moment she had set her eyes on it, she had decided that she wanted it. It was one of the most beautiful one that she had ever seen. She had dragged her father along with her, running behind that guy just to make sure that she could have the teddy bear, take it home and play with it, show it around to her friends and make them feel jealous.

Colours.....

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I wish I had more colours with me

All I have is black and shades of grey

I would have painted the most beautiful picture

Allowing my thoughts to stray

I would have depicted love through a mother’s eyes,

Aloneness through a lover’s byes

Deceit through a fiend’s vice

And pain through a baby’s cries

But you know that I would fill the world with rainbows

Taking the glory away from you

This is why you have given me just No’s

Every time I ask a favor of you

But there would be a time, when you realize what I am

For I know you would walk me through the sands of time

*Pardon my immaturity at this amateur attempt of poetry. Hope to improve with time! :)

It hurts............. but do 'You' realise that it does???

Given the kind of human beings we are, one of the things that would hurt us the most is Differentiation!

Having known that do we stop others from doing it to us? No! Do we stop ourselves from doing it to others? No! Yet, if there's something that hurts us the maximum its differentiation! And its probably the most widely used tool too - the Power to differentiate!

My sorrow is not for sale

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My sorrow is not for sale,
Nor for exhibition.
Yet I end up auctioning my tears
The devil bids the highest.

Courtesy: http://gaurigharpure.blogspot.com/

Guess I'm the one who's most familiar with this. My only hope would be to wish that the devil is actually an angel in the guise of a devil

Give me some sunshine give me some rain, give me another chance to grow up once again……….

Of late there’s this strange sense of loneliness that’s creeping into me. I’m feeling myself drawn into a black hole with no way out. It like walking in a dark room with no support, or like somebody’s blindfolded me and let me loose in a place which I’ve no clue about. Finding myself alone amidst a crowd of strangers is understandable. But I seem to be finding myself alone even among known people. I’m lost in my own thoughts when everybody around me is discussing something important. I don’t seem to connect with them on any level. I’ve tried to reason it out with myself, and am not able to come to any substantial conclusion. What’s more disturbing is every time I contemplate about it, I’m being drawn deeper into the black hole. It’s happening from within and it’s like I’m completely shutting myself from the outer world. I’m not becoming conceited but I do feel that I’m on the verge of becoming oblivious to the world around me. I know it’s not a good sign but I don’t see any ray of light which can pull me away from this feeling of emptiness.

Phir Mile sur???

Of all the songs in the world, the TOI group just had to, had to chose the iconic “Mile Sur Mera Tumhara" to mutilate. No I wouldn’t use their version of ‘Phir Mile sur’ (1) (2) coz I don’t see any sur meeting. Shankar Mahadevan said in the making of the video that all of them are using the same raang, but I see Aamir doing something that looks like a cross between an Aati kya khandala tune and a 3 idiot look, and SRK, Gosh! I don’t even want to talk about his act. I wish he would stop raising his arms for everything. He does it when he’s sad, happy, romantic, patriotic. Wtf! (u must have realized by now that I’m not a SRK Fan!)

I have my own doubts on this new version of the song. Is this a song that supposed to be epitomizing national integrity? I just see it jam packed with bollywood celebritites. If the TOI group feels that Bollywood represents India completely, they must be mistaken. I don’t see the others in the video at all.

No cricketers. Sachin easily represents 2 decades of Indian cricket. And isn’t dada supposed to be the most successful captain of the Indian Cricket team? And where’s Kumble? Wasn’t he the captain of the test team that beat Australia after 22 years?

No Great Personalities? Na da! I don’t see them being even remotely mentioned anywhere. No Man Booker Prize winner Arvind Adiga, No APJ anywhere and mentioning Nobel Prize scientist S Chandrashekar in the video would not have even come in their minds!

When cricketers are not featured, I doubt whether they would have thought of other sportsmen! Vishwanatah anand, Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupati, Rajyavardhan Rathore………..rings a bell, Mr. Surendranath???

And don’t get me started on the wardrobes!!! Deepika’s leg show = Unity? National Integrity? Patriotism? I thought the men would enjoy that bit, but I’ve been receiving mixed reactions about it! Taking into account the nature of the video, the least the people featured in it could have done was to dress appropriately. The old video was really special! The new one is just an attempt, and a really pathetic one I must say.

However the one worth mentioning aspect of the video was the message on women's education, women empowerment and Salman's effort with deaf and dumb. I must say that of the 3 Khans, its Salman’s, that’s worth mentioning.

If the TOI group wanted to capture modern India in their song, they should have featured personalities like NRN, Premji against the back drop of Electronic City. At Least it would have shown progress in the right sense. I don’t see how the new song depicts modern India when it has an overdose of bollywood celebs.

I feel the old one was picturised on such a high note that anything these people would attempt at would fall short of it.

I, honestly wish that they would stop making such pitiable attempts at recreating such wonderful songs.

This is what one user had commented and I absolutely agree with him: A song with its wings fluttering to the higher spirits is chopped down by the "commercial bollywood mafia" and some unaesthetic new generation thoughts". The soldiers gone behind the screens , sportsmen all bowled out, and yes you have " aati kya khandala " with all its vulgarity. A shame to the Director, producer and yes to all of us.

Sad but true…

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Today I had to take one of the most difficult decision of my life………… closing my first ever salary account. I had been postponing this decision over the past 6 months with the hope that I may find a job and the account would become active again but it’s been of no use.

As I walked to the bank I had the feeling that I was going to lose a very dear friend of mine………… my debit card. I probably never felt this depressed even when I quit my job coz I was never attached to it.

I remember the very first day I had touched it, it felt so magical. I was ecstatic the day I was handed my very own debit card. I even remember the first purchase I made using the card.

Finishing the formalities as I handed the debit card and cheque book to the person sitting across the counter, he started fidgeting with my debit card. He bent it so that it cannot be reused again and I felt that he was bending a part of me. That’s when I realized: somebody’s prized possession may be somebody else’s toy.

As I walked back from the bank, my bag did feel lighter with the absence of the debit card and cheque book but my heart sure felt heavier.