Live!

Thoughts as great as Colossus of Rhodes

Hopes as beautiful as gardens of Bablycon

With Aspirations and Inclinations refueling the motivations

Wonder wishes overriding the scary dreams

Making sleepless nights an euphoria of elegant dream

Live everyday through any gesture of life’s weaving waves!

Kryptonite

As much as I hate to put in something that people already know!...this one deserves to be in the blog only coz of its recent induction into "my" Hall-of-fame all-time favourite; this goes right along side with "Under The Bridge" of RHCP and Dido's "Here with me"!:)

A beautiful song that expresses stubborn feelings being on an eccentric and egocentric side! Yeah, true, it’s a Love song…hence selfish! Anyways, let me stop beefing!....what isssssss perfect??!!! There comes THE superhuman-kryponite!

KRYPTONITE FROM 3 Doors Down-->

I took a walk around the world to
Ease my troubled mind
I left my body laying somewhere
In the sands of time
I watched the world float to the dark
Side of the moon
I feel there is nothing I can do, yeah

I watched the world float to the
Dark side of the moon
After all I knew it had to be something
To do with you
I really don't mind what happens now and then
As long as you'll be my friend at the end

If I go crazy then will you still
Call me Superman
If I'm alive and well, will you be
There holding my hand
I'll keep you by my side with
My superhuman might
Kryptonite

You called me strong, you called me weak
But your secrets I will keep
You took for granted all the times I
Never let you down
You stumbled in and bumped your head, if
Not for me then you would be dead
I picked you up and put you back
On solid ground

If I go crazy then will you still
Call me Superman
If I'm alive and well will you be
There holding my hand
I'll keep you by my side with my
Superhuman might
Kryptonite

A moment or a minute - could I pick it?

One moment things seem as a clear blue sky
Unconscious of the invisible stars behind the day light!

One minute the opportunity insinuates as a beautiful red rose
Unveiling the thorns, confronting me to choose!

One moment content to see the perfect person
Pointing me the improbable and unreachable direction!

Ofcourse, some things stuck with logic
Yet most of them defy the reason behind it!

Thinking of the blue, choosing the rose, daring to take the direction!
Would these be the puissant steps of my life?

Yeah, may be, yet not taking a chance would be more disheartening!

In dedication to my friends

Couple of years passed
Things changed from school fun to work routine
Moved places from wild Arizonian heat to a mild Californian sun
Old boys being the same, made some new friends
Yet the bumps and birthday cakes remained the same!!!

Fun in pain...Happiness while hurt...Traditions of a bachelor's b'day...
In return I could only say..."Thank you Guys"!!!

Tagged by Priya

Tagged by priya...

I'm thinking about: abt my committed cooking all by myself to my whole family today.
I said: yes, OK, 'will do' to my mom!
I wish: I dont have to feel, what I am gonna feel on my return journey.
I hear: Dido singing 'Here with me'.
I wonder: what would it take to buy a Ferrari!
I regret: for not visiting home for the last 3 years!
I am: the one and only specimen of my type ever lived and to live on this earth.
I dance(d): moon-walk for no music anytime of the day!
I sing: the last song I heard which gets stuck in my head until I hear the next one.
I cry: may be when I am coming back from vacation...let me see...right now, it shouldn't happen!!!
I'm not always: funny...I suck more often than I think!
I make with my hands: today's sambar:)
I write: my non-funny expressions and trivial opinions:D
I confuse: almost everyone with my 'why? but why?'
I need: more time in my trip

My Monday and Tuesday in India

Things for the past couple of days have been elating as heaven and embarrassing as hell!

The enchanting mantras from a temple nearby to my home early mornings!
The uncanny political discussions sharing their critical opinions democratically, justifying Mr. Lincoln’s definition, near the town's oldest medical shop!
The Indian trademarked hayward traffic with non-justified honking allied with fascinating horn sounds!
Mom's frequent pester to eat something every hour and my concern that I might have to resize the apartment door when I am back to my normal routine!
Not able to memorize the relation and names of half the relatives; asking my mom in isolation about the person...embarrassing but things that I have to live with for not visiting home for 3 years!
Half the people quoting that I have changed quite a bit and some saying that I have been the same...oxymoronic...huuuuuh!
My kindergarten school and those lunch times that all my buddies and I used to hangout together playing those bizarre games of chain-cut and color-touch!
The guy that used to repair my quite often punctured 6th grade bicycle!
The hotel that I used to have the tasty dosa skipping mom's boring idli breakfasts!!! - Once tasty now damn spicy!
Some new additions to the families to get familiar with - distant sister-in-laws, nieces and nephews!
And yeah...almost forgot, unwanted and non-needed speed breakers!

With all these reviving, enlivening and amusing moments, things were poignant sometimes!
Drunkard lying down on the railway station floor and puking - honestly making me search for reasons for making his life so meaningless against the people living for him; Kids working for their daily food sharing their family burden - inspiring yet disturbing;

Yes, I saw this when I was born and brought up here but now I feel it 'different' for good or bad, yet to find myself!

Renaissance of my Vanished Sense of Heritage

Youngest city, one of the top two living places in the world, host of 2010 winter Olympics, a few of many that were stated about the Vancouver city! My first trip to north eastern parts, somewhat memorable for many reasons! To start of with, would definitely be, two days off from work while watching my other buddies working their butts-off and me having a great vacation!!

The fall colors of Vancouver; with the weather predictably unpredictable as the locals quote; the city's focus on the European architecture preserving its antique etiquette and its endeavor to still encourage the contemporary; Permeated sweet European accent in the shops and Crowds infused with Punjabi; A splendid 10% of the city embodied with parks; And not even a single highway inside the city yet making it a city; - its a place to be.

It's this spot between the latitudes and longitudes that is only 100 years old yet preserving the culture, faceting it in every building it built and every nature it preserved in and around Vancouver and greater Vancouver.

In these captivating sightings I had, there unleashed a regret followed-up with self-consolation. I understood the definition of Heritage for the very first time. For all my hate towards history and social studies throughout my high school, I understood the significance to learn about the past. For so long, I stumbled upon the fact that the only non-depleting wealth I have is my Heritage imbibed in every work of art - Sculptures of Yellora, Ajantha; epics of Mahabharata, Ramayana; Folklores of our childhood heroes - Rama and Krishna, exemplifying with their unraveling characteristic, proverbial charm and incredible responsibility. It doesn't end there or it doesn’t have an end probably.

Ancestors not only gave us this heritage through this art but also their perceptive perspective of wrong-doings so that we will start from NOT doing wrong and find a courageous path towards success with a message – “Ages pass-by but the spirits should always stay high!”

Anyways, Cruising just above the non-whitey clouds, gazing at the heavens as if it's the clearest sky and the darkest night that you could ever get to see; with shining and sizzling white patches on the clouds here and there coz of the piercing light from the stars on the ground, listening to Dido and imprinting my just happened incredible experience on the flight back is a perfect ending to my trip as long as my friend comes and picks me up!

Yes, he did – hence the post:)!!