School Diaries

White, Black, Brown fingers, 
Stained with the same blue ink; 
Light, Dark, Green, Grey eyes, 
Filled with the same curiosity blink. 

Singing morning prayers in one voice, 
Accents give away their nativeness; 
Mother tongue might be different, 
But what about Mom’s caress? 

First benchers, back benchers and those in between, 
Divided by grades or height they sit; 
But the peals of bells declaring the day, 
Generate the same bag-packing fit. 

Sakeena or Rahul, Jaspreet or David, 
Call out to different deities to bless; 
But the jump of joy is equal, 
When jalebi is served in the mess. 

Like colors of the rainbow, 
They shine in their unique ways; 
But with the moral fiber school inculcates, 
We hope the unifying radiance stays. 

Welcome 2009

Well, I haven’t yet forgotten about having created this page last year, and yes, I know its kind of late to welcome an year at the end of its second quarter, but you see I’ve got many reasons....and then as the saying goes….Better late than never!

So, here are the top ten reasons why I did not blog for the past 5 months.

10. Economy. With the entire world tumbling down around you, it is best that you concentrate and spend minimum time on the internet. Lest your manager catch you red handed and score a point against, in such hard times.

9. Work. Loads of it. Deadlines, deliveries, turnovers, product releases, blah, blah. (By the way, 10 and 9 are closely related).

8. Studies. Yes…you heard me right. Studies. Passing CSQA is no joke. Ask any Certified Software Quality Analyst.

7. Attending friends’ weddings. It all begins with shopping, alterations, bookings, and excitement and reunions and inevitably leaves you with a nostalgia which absolutely incapacitates you of any creativity whatsoever.

6. Reading. Obsession to reach that 100th book mark. Page by one lengthy page you inch closer and closer to that milestone. How can you think of doing anything else then?? Let alone writing. That it was some 3 months ago and that currently I am on my 108th one is another story. (No, I am not paranoid about keeping count of books read, Shelfari does it for me)

5. Movies. It’s an addiction. Writing is so boring compared to it. There’s so much you need to think of our own for writing. Watch movies and criticize them. Much better time pass.

4. Sheer lethargy. Come summer and all you want to do is to relax, lie down, have cold drinks and day dream. Or change channels on the television.

3. Editing your company magazine. Whatever energy for writing still remains (after considering the above reasons) gets directed towards it.

2. Dental pain. Heard of braces? Its self inflicted agony. Trust me, getting rid of Bugs Bunny teeth is no child’s play.

1. There actually is no reason.

Coming to think of it, each of these invalid stupid reasons can themselves be elaborated in separate blog entries. But I don’t feel like writing. Sounds like reason number 4. No, its 2. Gotta go do the dentist today – predentodementophobia. But wait, can it be 5 or 3 or 10??? Surely its 1. Or is it? :-)

Poem : पर्वत से बातचीत

This is my only attempt in life for poem writing. (Read it to discover why I did not try any further :) ). I wrote it in my 8th standard as part of an assignment for a poem called नदी से बातचीत (yeah....you got it right, nothing original about the idea)

कल सांझ को जब मैंने अटल अचल पर्वत को देखा,
तब यूँ ही मैंने उससे पुछा,
"मित्र, तुम तो बड़े भाग्यवान हो,
यूँ अटल हो रह में खड़े हो,
इस धरा का गौरव हो,
हम मानवों को भी सफलता की कून्ज्जी बता दो,
हमारे जीवन को फूलों से भर दो"
यह सुनकर अपनी दृढ़ वाणी में,वह सरोष कहने लगा,
"हे बंधू! क्यूँ तुम इस तरह के प्रश्न पूछते हो?
यूँ ही मुझसे होड़ बांधते हो
यदि तुम्हे तुम्हारा उत्तर चाहिए,
तो एक कड़वी सच्चाई को तुम्हे निगलना होगा
फ़िर भी सुनो,ज़रा अपने अंतर्मन से पूछो,
क्या तुमने स्वयं को कृत्रिम दीवारों में कैद कर नही रखा?
तुम प्रकृति के आशीष को लेने से कतराते हो,
आंधी तूफानों को झेलने से घबराते हो
यदि आज मुझे देखकर तुम्हारा मन लालायित हुआ है,
तो कृत्रिम दीवारे तोड़ो,
धरती को अपना घर समझो, अम्बर को छत मानो
दृढ़ निश्चय करके मैदान में डटे रहो
जीना है तो स्वयं के लिए नही,दूसरो के लिए जीयो
मित्र! सफलता की रह तो है कांटो की, इसमे फूल तुम न ढूंढो
कांटो को सहो, पत्थरो को झेलो,
कभी न रुको, कभी न झुको, बस चलते चले जाओ
यदि सचमुच तुम्हे महान बनना है,तो दूसरो को क्षुद्र न समझो
यह सब करने पर ही तुम्हे सफलता मिलेगी,
और इस तरह के प्रश्न पूछने की ज़रूरत न पड़ेगी|"

Getting bored on a wednesday afternoon...

Getting bored is the worst kind of humiliation one can offer oneself - of course its not me who has said this..but some other greater personality (ha!).

Coming to think of it, its really the worst mortification that one doesnt have the ability to entertain oneself..but still everyone keeps getting bored everytime. So some write blogs - and when they have nothing to write, then too they just keep writing. Like i have got loads of work to do, but since i dont feel like doing it, so i m writing.....crap!

Some people say work is fun (i'd really like to meet such people). In this respect, one has to agree with Mark Twain - Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. That makes me wonder whether players, actors, singers, etc also get bored of their work. Guess they must be more frustrated than bored..thats y so many of them r also blogging :-) and actually using their blogs to gain publicity and fight their frustration off with so-called rivals - its really ironic that they want to avoid media and connect directly to their fans via their blogs, but ultimately its the media that is gaining the most...what AB writes in his blog is the latest page 3 headline, that AK named his dog shahrukh is all over gossip magazines and news channels.

So the point is, blogging is surely a near perfect away to pass time, express or explain yourself and in some cases, gain publicity. That ways, i m dying to read Rakhi Sawant / Mallika Sherawat / Sidhhu / Sajid Khan's blogs. May God give them the wisdom to start blogging soon - what better way to pass time than reading them :-)