Let the child in you Live !!!

I want to write today - Philosophically :). Here I go.

Life has been an enriching journey - Highs and Lows. I can't quantify them neither compare. They both has left their mark in my life.

I find faults in me and try not course correct. Now I wonder, why should I do that. I have been what I am. I cannot negate what it made me feel like then and even now.

I wonder how a human being is. While the whole world can seem like a BAD person and you alone are the best, I feel like saying - Get off the bubble, you do not have to play the victim card.

Life gives all of us the same situations and we all do act and most of the times react. We make our choices. It is only that moment that had life then, we make it live throughout by reliving in that moment. This is our choice too.

It is a bliss to stay a child at heart. That is the only way out for us to stay out of or over come anything unpleasant that we have faced or felt. I child lives every moment and that moment literally passes away after.

I am trying and I am wondering if there are a few others too who practice this. I am sure there are because no thought exists in isolation.

Until other thoughts cross my mind and I wish to pen them down here, enjoy life and stay blessed!

EGO - Is it the birth right of a "MAN"???

A very different behavior that I have always come across. Today it just was about my head off and I would have ended up thrashing the person with my words.

I have always been amazed at well-behaved and well-mannered people whom I have seen mostly in Chennai. That's the place I have spent most of my life. There is so much of assertiveness always felt and appreciated. Doing your work by self is an act to feel proud of or good about. Clearing the mess off and maintaining cleanliness is also practiced at home. This WAS reality. The today looks very different. Everyone at some point thinks " why should I do it" I am above all these. This work is for the underprivileged." UNDERPRIVILEGED???? Who defines this???

Why was it still so difficult to wipe the table where you had your lunch??? You had to be told by another colleague who happened to be a woman. That's me. It all began here. I informed him to either clear the table by self or to call his friends who ate lunch along with him. He said he would come with his friends and never turned up until I finished my lunch and saw the person busily working with his friends. When asked, this person came up with excuse of no tissue papers available. I handed over the tissue paper to the person and mentioned again to clean up and leave the remaining tissue at the pantry itself.

There was a weird discomfort this person had on his face. Not just HIM but the 4 other members who had their lunch were still at their desk. Not a limb moved. The instant question within myself definitely was " how can you guys be so cold?" . Later I only pitied them.

Is it so difficult to clear the mess that you create yourself. I think that's the worst state any human being can be and we are talking about India's progress, Prosperity. We have belittled ourselves in this era of the so call IT WORLD.

Those who ruthlessly ruled us years ago are still ruling us as they have sowed their seeds in our mind, behavior and we continue to be their slaves leaving aside our manners of staying clean and healthy.

Human behavior is subject to environmental risk. Please read the human behavior thoroughly before you bump into someone the next time. Saves you a lot of your time and energy.

Life has many more experiences of human behavior to unfold. I am hoping for more!

Is this a new beginning or a sour bend until we meet next ???

Life couldn’t have been ruthless more than what it had to bring on in one flush. I must say, “ Life, Well played. But you know what, bring it on”. Nothing shakes me off anymore. The pain is boundless and yet the show will go on.

This is me today. Ever since October, it has been a fight all day, every moment. What would it be to be here without you guys around. Definitely a panic state when they made the decision to set their path away. This was coming after 2 months only but the panic set in right then when the news broke.

Days passed and so did our time spent together. I finally made up my mind and decided – let’s live in the moment. What is to happen after 2 months is not in my control. But my NOW is definitely at my disposal. There have been several joyous moments, travel to another colleagues house, Pizza hut eat out, Rottu kadai talks, morning/evening ride calls and what not. I guess life is meant to be lived like how a child does.

These two months have been great and I wish only success to my two besties. The first life plug was BMR which got pulled off within a week’s time of my joining the gang of SP Tea Shop. However would get nebulization whenever in panic. The rest was taken care of through the tea talks, Strang tea galata, Paniyaram, My conversations in TAMIL language that kept the show going.

I am sure this is a different phase, not something that I ever dreamt of. 

Aslan, you have been a great strength and I will continue to feel it the same way. 

Pombla Aslan, our paniyaram will miss us.

Well I guess Dexter and I will continue the tea talks without being spoil sports.

I believe it is only until we meet next at a point where we get to be together and have gala time at work - Sometime in life.

I am waiting……

What a start of the series of weekend outings! – Return journey to Chennai!

As we came down we got to know that the train was getting delayed but not sure how late. We still got in an auto and headed to the station. At the station we rushed to the platform and spotted A2B. Her train had arrived then at the platform. She looked worried for us as the train was delayed by 5 hours. All our jaws dropped 5 feet down. We still managed to laugh at it as if nothing bothered us. We comforted A2B and allowed her board the train. We got to the TTR and got to know the train was delayed by 12 hours. Which means we are stuck for the night and will get the train only at 5.50 am next day.

We started exploring options – Bus, Flight alternative train. All seemed in vain as the costs were high and it was definitely not worth according to us. We took a reservation form and wrote the details on it to book alternative train. The booking was closed. We then were told Suvidha train will have 2 general coaches getting attached additionally. We were not quite comfortable with the idea and went out of the station with long faces. Still contemplating what to do, I informed my manager on whatsapp msg about the mess. Then we decided to stay at the station and headed to enquire about the station dormitory.

The person in-charge at the office spoke like one irresponsible person. I wonder how come railway stations have such lousy people and expect passengers to get help from them. We were irritated with him and stepped out of the office and tried checking if he was cheating too much with the cost. He was asking only little more than the actual cost and so we accepted. We were not allowed to wait outside and office and so we came back to the waiting area.

We found place to be seated. Satz and I wanted to charge our mobiles and so we started looking for charging points. We left behind Christy and Kim at the waiting lounge. We were talking random topics. One passer by enquired about Alleppey express being cancelled. Satz with expression “same peeling” was guiding the passer by. Exactly at the same time we could see a train coming to the platform and halting. Satz then read the board and said it loud” this is Suvidha express. Look for seats here as there is general compartments added”. May be that was his inner voice that spoke aloud to him too. He told me to keep a watch on the mobiles while charging and he wanted to check whether we will be able to get any seats to travel. He headed to the front of the train to check for seats. It was less than a minute and Satz’s phone rang. I avoided the first 2 rings thinking it must be from his wife Nithya. I wanted to avoid it because I would not have an answer as to when we were returning and thought maybe she would get worked up. Then I just glanced at the phone it was from Kim. I answered the cal. She says “ Come to the last coach of the Suvidha express we are boarding this train and leaving right away. I was awestruck. I couldn’t believe my ears “ we are leaving to Chennai right away”. I quickly looked in the direction that Satz headed and could figure a lean skinny person amidst the crowd. I screamed from where the mobiles were on charging, but in vain. I quickly unplugged both our mobiles and the chargers. I started waking swiftly and shouting “ Satti Satti”. Yet he couldn’t hear me. I took to me heals and ran at my pace calling his name “ Satti Satti”. All the people on the platform stared at me as if a girl was running behind a guy to convince him. Damn! Why can’t people mind their own business.

I screamed further at the top most pitch of my voice and there the guy turned and looked at me amazed as if asking why was I running and screaming. I told him that Kim and Christy have found some place in the last coach Suvidha express and we are leaving to Chennai. We took to heels again towards the last coach and spotted Kim trying to move the luggage. We grabbed our started our next round of screaming. This time “ Christy , Christy”. There we spotted him and quickly boarded the train. We made place for ourselves. Satz and Christy then went to take the ticket and dinner. They called from the shop to check for chips that is required.

While returning they also bought playing cards. Very impressive of Christy! Go getter!!

The train started and the journey began. We opened the pack of cards and started playing ASS. Game after game without surprise I would be the last one to finish and would earn myself an “A” card. Kim would ROFL followed by Christy and Satz. Sat and Christy played like masters of the game. However, Kim seemed to get jealous of me ad started getting “A” card in game after game. Finally, she earned herself all the four “A cards and won it! Definitely won it!

We took a break and I went to the restroom. Definitely crowded and I definitely learnt a good deal of lesson. I returned and Satz was very concerned as I seemed completely off. We still resumed playing and we were all laughs as I started the trend again. There was a good observation Christy made. Whenever I would earn 2 cards, the immediate next game, Kim would take on from me. This was amazing. This went on till 11 PM.

We then decided to eat dinner and relax. We got our mobile phones charged and I put on my earphones. Satz’ head kept bouncing in the air. Christy and I managed to keep moving as we were near the window seat. I was on whatsapp and also listening to songs. Every time I tried to sleep I could not and so I decided let’s no sleep. It was 6 in the morning and we could still see the crowd around us. I made my mind this is going to be the same until we off board.

Kim and I took turns and stood for some time. It was painful to sit that long. We reached Arakkonam around 7 and the engine driver dint seem to like the idea of reaching on-time or before time. He would start the engine and after moving for a minute would switch off the engine. This happened for an hour and we finally read the board on the station we entered as Arakkonam.

From here it was about an hour or so. The train started after half hour. Christy decided to get off in Perambur and he did so. We passed on his chips cover through the window for his ease.  We waved him good-bye and continued as the train started. We then entered Chennai station and got our suitcases out. We got ready to off board and suddenly glanced at the hanger near the window. We almost forgot about our chips packets. We quickly grabbed that too and off boarded the train. Kim booked the cab to Vadapalani and was trying to add a stop in between to her house. The network seems to have some problem. Satz also got his drive to his house. Kim and I got in the cab and kept trying nothing worked. She dropped me at home and in the same cab booked for her home drop.

It was laughs, laughs, laughs, laughs, laughs, laughs, laughs and laughs only all through the trip.

 I wished the clock stayed still for some more time!!!

What a start of the series of weekend outings! – Post wedding: Fun Unlimited!

We reached Lu Lu mall in about half hour or lesser than that. We entered the mall which looked just the same as any other mall. Up to the first floor in the escalator, we got into a shop which read Lu Lu shop. We struggled getting a groupie done there. We managed yet. The selfie stick made it happen.

Christ headed to the kids section, Kim picked one kurti. Satz and I were still wondering what to look for. We looked at jewellery for Nithya. He then said let’s look for bangles. At the bangles session the sales person was kind enough as Satz was doing his selection. He chose about 3-4 sets. I picked set of bands as they were big enough to bun my hair as a pony. We got the billing done and saw Kim waving at us. She thought we were playing hide and seek with her. Seriously!!!! :P

She looked for something at the earring session and bought herself a pair of wooden earrings. Christy until then was still stuck with his choices. Then we quickly helped him with his decision and got out of the Lulu Mall. We crossed and got to the other end of the road. The real fun this was. The vehicles were disciplined enough. Why? The vehicles that intended to take the bridge were free to go while those who dint want to take the bridge, they lined themselves one behind the other closer to the left side of the road. We kept waiting for share auto and when we got one they were charging double the cost.

We almost let go of 2 autos hoping to find the 3^rd one. We couldn’t see one coming any closer. We then got to the middle of the road and were waiting for the auto. Awesomely insane it seemed. There came an auto which was followed by bigger cars. Satz was only enquiring the rate and the cars started honking. The driver asked us to jump in first and we can negotiate on the way. What an experience. We all got into the running auto. I couldn’t relate anything else but jab we met. OMG! Can you seriously do something like this. We then got the negotiation done and settled for amount that we felt was fine. It was a breezy drive and we enjoyed giggling all the way. There was an anxiety because we had our train scheduled at 5.50 pm and we had only an hour left. The moment we reached the hotel, we settled the auto driver and took to heels and reached the hotel room to pack and start.