The Change Fundas

Are you ready for the next level in Life? (image from internet)

I travel a lot, for work. I have met a very large number of Interesting people during my journeys. On 2nd September 2007, I took a flight to Delhi. 3rd Septmeber was the day of my joining. My fourth Job. It was uncommon that I would have an attractive girl sit beside me and more uncommon that we do not talk. So, with me on the window seat and the middle seat empty, and after half the journey was over, I spoke. And then She. We talked till we landed and she passed me her Business Card while we collected our luggage. All through the months that passed, we would chat just about everyday. The patterns were changing.... It took us over an year to realise  One fine day, the day posted as Suddenly Something,  I tried to introduce a new blend to the existing pattern in my life. The disturbance got accepted :) I will move to the next level on 22nd August 2009. Its awaited now. PS: The picture is Stolen from the Net. All due respect to its producers

After a hectic travel week to Guj and weekend in Hyd, i was supposed to be shaken back to work; shaken back!. Supposed to be shaken out of the dull monotonous STILL-ness! STILL the feeling of a suspended particle does not go. I am here! Just! like monu so aptly puts it: "life in Third Gear; ur moving and just that is it; not to fast; not to slow! just there" I tried the "Mumbai Local rush hour treatment" to shake myself into life. Instead it pushed me further into "the viewer / observer" mode. Seeing life pass by. Not that i am not involved. I am too busy. But my mind seems to be working faster. Its like how Neo Feels like at in the last part, he is just fighting effortlesly! its STILL missing! STILL

Have ever Flunked/Failed? Where? In School? That "F" Grade in the report card? When that happened, what you needed to do? Repeat the class (or the subject) Right? Now have you ever noticed, somethings ; some people ; some situations ; some "TYPE" of people REPEAT in your life! Like you change your job but still have a typical type of colleague / boss/ subordinate again. Always get into same / similar problems. you change ur mate and end up getting a similar one again! You have been ;and life wants you to learn yourself; on your own. Life is this smart teacher that way. It does not show you and "F"; simply; silently and smartly makes you repeat! Its up to us, the faster we learn; the faster you graduate to the next level in life.

I was telling Junji, talking to him yesterday; that how lifes meaning can change immidiately by change of perception of : our simple looking complex views ( and complex looking simple views as well) ( gosh!! why am i always liek this!!) He told me," राजन सर भी यही के रहे थे जब मई उन्हें मिला दिल्ली में " इट्स कॉल्ड the awakening! We laughed! But it remains!! If I, today, decide to chuck everything..... then...? this customer was telling me the other day , "now that i have put that 10000 sq feet land on rent, i have a constant income i have made my future safe" My colleague said, " वोह तो आप पिछली बरी भी कह रहे थे " I Smiled to self! It never ends.. does it? Why dont i stop worrying about making my fuuture safe, and just use the money i have to travel the world! Vsisit Japan, go Europe backpacking. And live by doing whatever oddjobs are needed to earn a living! Its a means to an end na?

yeah damn it

It was another on the bucketlist, i thought. walked for half an hour in the rain. Just got up and walked out, it was pouring I wacthed all around me people, trying to cover themselves from water. rushing out of shops into cars.... so that they dont get wet and here I was. went to the atm, the gaurd said, आप तोः पूरा भीग गए ! i wore my glasses to see the atm, ha! walked out and walked and walked. solitude and rain. it was intresting

have had a lot of movement all last fortnight . Was also in a movie theatre multiple times. You know the tradition we have in Maharashtra... the National Anthem. Then started the movie about "Stark Industries" ( if you have seen it you know it) Prolly another Hindi movie black and white and not to mention Khuda ke liye . With all this inside the head, and me travelling here and there meeting different people for work is heady mix. Its usually found in the newspaper: racist comments were passed. What race are we talking about? I mean Hello, i thought we were all humans! Its one race ain't it? We keep making different groups, communities, cultures, languages, boundaries , countries, flags, national anthems, etc etc etc. You know why? Because we are all Cowards! yes! I said it. We need to make a group, to stand together to fight the odds. What started as a group to fight adversaries of animals, environment etc has today become something very different. It is strange t...

Its been like static. The need to define. What I want in my life partner. I think now, everyone i know and don't know has already questioned me about the woman of my life. I have some very interesting set of friends with different views. So many girls/women i know have their own versions of who women are and what they should be. Without going towards the works of Desmond Morris , I have my own opinion. Some may find this opinion sexist, but fact remains that a woman is not a man. Having said that, I will not go into much detail of what is manly work or womanly work. Lets not try and get into the nitty-gritty. Right from cleaning houses, cooking etc to riding a bike, or driving a train or a plane or even building huge empires (read companies in today's context). Both men and women can do all that. Though not all MEN and all WOMEN can do all. So many women i know just cannot maintain houses or cook or do all those "things" which are type-casted as their role. THIS is wh...

Its not just about Wayne Dyer's , " You will see it when you believe it "! Its everywhere around me or us. It was a common scene, around 11PM, I had just updated my RKD , and ~ 3 odd chat windows were open. I realised that it was more than 'very long' that i was staring in what was written as "SAMSUNG"! But i was not there, i was teletransported to a past incident. ~ circa 1996 i recall my often visited friend Rahul, he was sitting in front of his desktop, busy with Yahoo chatrooms open and with quite few chat windows open as well, briskly typing quirky remarks here and there. I used to think, how can he just go on chatting so so many unknowns! And here i was !! dunno what i wished, or he wished! And then it kept spilling, from all corners : the Vaio that i deeply desired, the guitar that reached my house( and is still lying there), where I live now, where all i have travlled, all my job changes, my movement to Mumbai, So much that I see around me. J...

"Social reality evolved between two to four million years ago, when a species of 'Southern Ape' ( Australopithecus afarensis) began to walk on two legs. At that time, the early hominids developed complex brains, tool-making skills and language, while the helplessness of their prematurely born infants led to the formation of the supportive families and communities that became the foundation of human SOCIAL LIFE" pg 3, the hidden connections by Fritjof Capra It is worth noticing that humans are among the very rare species whose children spend the longest time ever to become independent! They need a support system. Family! Society! the supposed inflection point / change referred above billions of years ago is causing those billions of people i am in contact with whose names start from A to Z and any other letter known to tell me that I SHOULD GET MARRIED!! Can you beat that? Beat that here is beat the inflection that happened THEN!

Its simpler with computers.. Cold Reboot: as the call it! Gazillions of tinier than tiny Switches who are lying in a extremely random looking but carrying significant amount of information in the forms of "ON" or "OFF' are simultaneously RE_SET into an extremely known looking pattern ( just imagine: the complete sky filled with a zillion more stars twinkling at unknown frequencies; suddenly switch on to form a known pattern) I have been like that for quite a while now ( scattered Random lights) Talked to "junji" after a few days for long enough to start talking in our wonderful puzzles between puzzles and enjoyed! Seemed to have reset some of those lights. Feeling a little saner now; only a little. Somehow; I miss my types. And just cant seemed to find them... need to work on self rebooting techniques...

The Smell.. Of chilly air Of Wood burning The Beat Of the Dhol Of your heart Of your feet The Warmth Of the fire burning Of the smiles Turning Of the cat calls of the Chaddi-Buddies And I am Here.. at 30 Degrees of heat and Unknown Degrees of seperation Lost in the Sea- of people.. amid people running helter skelter to meet the ends ......... ends of the dreams that keep changing with every new sparkle that gets visible! What am I doing here?

चलो जी रीता ताई के टैग का नंबर भी आ गया!! The pic looks prolly like a usual one. This is 5:30 AM in the morning at restricted site on the east coast. The Sea recedes at low tide during morning to more than 10 KM's. My late( yes yes this is late) morning walk here with the breeze rushing thru the years and with JUST ME at the WHOLE sea shore, was an experiance that just cannot be worded! I was here for 3 days..... Nearly Alone.....

I have experianced them aplenty And I am sure you all have too.. The life around you is too fast but your mind is able to capture those tiny details and you are existing in both the domains. Music- fast but... your mind .. enjoying some of the slower paced moments of life. Traffic -Everyone Impatiently trying to get 'There' faster and you are calm in your sphere.. 'Your Sphere'! Do you live in ur Sphere? Your world defined by you! Or you live a life Defined by the World around? What are your parameters of life? Do you know?

(Marasim means relations. My relations with Jagjit Singh go back to the days when he composed music for my serial Mirza Ghalib. ...) Well this post has probably nothing to do with it. It is about those days.. :P the days when my dear ex room mate , Mr."J" was TMD ( Truly Madly Deeply) in love with Ms."H" ( who is now happily Mrs. "J") I recall vividly coming back to our double room ( hostel room) after lectures and the usual Geri( गेडी ), only to find only a yellow bulb in the corner, and Mr. " J" with the latest Track of the Jagjit singh album " Haath Chute hai toh Rishtey nahi chuta kartein hai (हाथ छूटे है तोः रिशते नही छूता करतें है !!) Oh !! he has had a Fight again!!( another week end of having to listen to all that , all over again!!) Well.. It was those days.. While I was just packing for my very brief trip to Chandigarh, this album popped up in the playlist!! and I rolled back!!... in time...those never ending list of crushes!! ( L...

IT happened yesterday, for the first time, I was not that busy! Living in India's financial capital, and being the financial year ending!! Maybe, I was too used to a sales job, that a shift into marketing, and that to a project marketing role in this company was now settling in! It was strange that some-one inside me was dying to be crazy busy (??..) I was home early!! Met one of my aunts, who asked "what happened?"... "I think I should change my job.., I am not very busy" She had a big laugh.. :) and later I did too, on my own self!! Its surprising, we usually end up not knowing exactly what we want from our lives! I read this today... " Shortcuts Too Busy to Notice You’re Too Busy By ALINA TUGEND Published: March 31, 2007 Being busy is part of our modern world, but there are some simple ways to wrestle back control . " Also , worth while seeing is this presentation!! Yes there was a conflict in my mind... Maybe there is still is.. Run ? Or Walk and...

Yes the पाठशाला ! It was a part of the Corporate Social Initiative. We could Volunteer to teach the children of a Municipal( government) School, extra classes. I signed up long time back....But just never tunrned up for any meeting ... Basically Bunk.. ;) Finally last fortnight I got in touch, took out the days when I would teach ( maths , ya thats what I could). I asked for the book (seventh Grade .. no Problem) Aha!!॥ then the Surprise happened.. बीटा तुम्हे हिंदी या मराठी में पढना होगा !!( you need to teach in hindi or marathi) Having done my Schooling from a convent and a non english medium skool from Chandigarh, yeah Marathi was out!! and Hindi!!! Gawk!!! ( ok I know my hindi essays carried more spelling mistakes that the essay marks could afford, But I knew Hindi!!!) I Thought to myself.. lets see.. and then it happened, The Book!! in hindi.. Geometry (आयत , त्रिभुज , त्रिकोने , चाप .... आ आ एयो !!!) Well th is is what my studnets have taught me... ( hee !! Hee!) After a few cla...

Little did I know On the Monday morning that my boss would call me out to be in Dehradunthe next day moring before 10AM for a Meeting, handing me over SOME letter calling for a meeting for blah blah blah!! Yes I had just got prometed on saturday last! And it seemed that my subtle desire to travel a lot got magnified a little more beofre reaching the Ever Potent Powerful Universe!! SO by 3PM I was home packing hurriedly. RK calls up" what about our visit to Bangalore? And next day we have to be at Aero India too!? Are we on?" err. Oh yes!!! "should I book the tickets for you too..?" ... yayaya whatever!! And As usual I reached a little early at the airport and... as usual, the flight was a little late!! never-the less Iwas in deli, (not eagerly) waiting to get over with Dinner and reach H.Nizzamudin Railway station to cath the 2330 Train to Dehradun! Reached at 6 Am!! Yawned out to the station.. But wait (rewind) Its KKKKOLD and cloudy and wait.. its raining!!!! I ...

Week in Review Why Are There So Many Single Americans? By KATE ZERNIKE Published: January 21, 2007 It’s worth repeating: the “marriage gap” isn’t about men and women. It’s about class and education. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/weekinreview/21zernike.html?ex=157680000&en=551e63730380457d&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink