Nostalgia...

My eyelids shut involuntarily as a cool wind blew across the face. In the blink, in that minuscule of a moment, there was a flash of cyan. I felt a gentle breeze brush my cheeks and the sea-smell fill my nostrils and I shut my eyes to realize that I had imagined it all. A number of images then filled my mind; of people, of places; of the blue sea and the green expanses.

Mesmerizing! Never had my mind portrayed the recent past so distinctly. I opened my eyes, still sensing a cool breeze and a smile spread across my face. They were moments of my sojourn south, deeply etched, which returned in a flurry.

The clock ticks away, the sands of time shifts bulbs; with a lump in my throat and a heavy heart, I start my journey back home, with a day and half of nothingness left to reminisce. What preceded was not only a journey; it was a time-warp to a new continuum. Gradual though the time shift was, it was an amazing feeling, intoxicating!

Maybe the mind does need a regular dose of this, moments when you do not remember the actual world you are a part of, to be refreshed. The alcohol here is 'travel' ( a wine) and the people you travel with 'the wineglass' and either of them are as important to have the best effect possible.

Imagine, a birds-eye view of snow clad mountains, a whitewater view from the edge of a cliff, the smell of wet mud which marks the arrival of rains, a valley filled with greenery across the slopes and a river flowing through it, a view from the top of a mountain so high that you see the lightning within the clouds beneath you, yeah; nature at its best. But without people along with, what worth are these visuals. What worth are they without anyone to share the wonders. Landscapes have always been photogenic, however they gradually make the eye weary. A face is what fills the void. A face known or unknown does the trick, just because it hints at existence of life. :D

Travel certainly is a wonderful intoxicant, however, without the wineglass to direct it to the right part, the wonderful wine is just water.

A lesson in indifference

Its been more than a month but what matters is I am back!!!

I have an urge to reason out saying I had no time to blog but the truth is I was far too lazy.(That's honesty for you)

After getting exhausted of all the means available to waste my time, I decided to rise from the ashes. This next post is about a day in the near past which was quite interesting because of contrasting emotions.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller

Yet you might wonder why I insist on being a bit indifferent; well theres a reason...here goes :D

The actual story starts a few days back when my dad sent me a link to register for a seminar at the Le Meridian.(Thank You Dad!!!).

Initially I decided upon giving it a miss...what am I gonna do at a boring seminar with no friends at all!! But when my dad persisted on me attending it, I decided to ask my friends to accompany.

Come the next day, I presented this idea to my friends who surprisingly seemed excited about being there...well everything was falling into place. Now, there was this not explicitly stated plan to bike all the way to the hotel, and later enjoy on the way back...everything seemed so very awesome!!

"That" day dawned and I had a lot of work to finish before I could finally finish my day with that wonderful plan. By the time the clock struck 16:00, I already knew this was not going to be the best day.

1> Tackling professors is not easy you know, especially making them sign on a piece of paper which claims you are a super ideal student

2> Also, one of my friend had already backed out of the plan and decided that a bus would be a better transport, because now he has more friends coming, who do not acquisce with the original plan.

In the next 1 hour before we would be leaving, two more friends backed out, but this time with reasons absurd enough to fill me with anger and frustration as I could see the plan getting reduced to ashes. That left only me and another foolish guy like me, and poofs as we are not, we decided to use a bus as well.

Just as things seemed to be changing towards being better, they change, only to become even worse. The bus is stuck in traffic(read Powai traffic) and we were left thinking how the bike ride would have been much better...arrghh..salt to wounds. Well how bad could the day get!! Now, we got down at the wrong stop as well; already late for the seminar, we tried to find transport as we were more than a kilometer away from the hotel.

Here is where I learnt another lesson in indifference!

I found a rare taxi, but sweet as I am, decided against hiring the taxi cause he was not ready to accommodate an extra member. Later,I found myself walking along with my foolish friend, looking back to see those ungrateful fellows boarding the taxi.(Beat that indifference, anyone??)

Anger now reached a level I have not known before!

After walking for another 15 minutes, we could actually see the airport on the horizon now. With thoughts of is it worth all this trouble, we finally found an auto ready to transport us to the hotel!!

One positive from all this was that we reached the destination for a meager 10 bucks while the ungratefuls had to shell out 100 (Literally "pay for your sins :P")

This is where the things actually started changing for the better.

The hotel lobby and the receptionist made my day right there. The A.Q. of the former and H.Q. of the latter the highest ;)

Two hours later the seminar came to an end; we were hungry, and guess what!!

There was food for us...(Ah! God certainly watches)

The food served immediately struck a cord with my taste buds. The variety and quality available for "free" was amazing, and having just devoured some of the best chocolate mousse, I was in bliss! ( Rage at its best to bliss at its zenith :D)

Well, the return journey was uneventful, but I returned a tad bit smarter.

The moral of the story is not to be indifferent at a level "I do not give a damn."

The moral is to find a balance between being sweet, going out of the way to help and being indifferent.

Cartoons~~

With this i have decided to add a new section to my blog. Along with bits and pieces of whats happening in my life, I will be posting some emails that i think are good.....

Here goes the 1st post of new section... :)

This last one is the best...

Verbal Assault

With GRE tension reaching its zenith and the soporific quality of the endless words to go through creating an aura of lassitude around me.....The one thing that sparkles is the fact that i have decided to add a post to this antediluvian blog.....

No prizes for guessing what this post is to be about because it is the GRE quagmire that im muddled in...Here goes :D..

P.S.: It is going to be really boring for a normal person to read this..:P

NORMAL PERSON : People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

GRE STUDENT : Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting perilous projectiles.

NORMAL PERSON : Twinkle, twinkle, little star

GRE STUDENT : Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.

NORMAL PERSON : All that glitters is not gold.

GRE STUDENT: All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

NORMAL PERSON : Beggars are not choosers

GRE STUDENT : Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

NORMAL PERSON : Dead men tell no tales

GRE STUDENT : Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.

NORMAL PERSON : Beginner's luck

GRE STUDENT : Neophyte's serendipity.

NORMAL PERSON : A rolling stone gathers no moss

GRE STUDENT : A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.

NORMAL PERSON : Birds of a feather flock together

GRE STUDENT: Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.

NORMAL PERSON : Beauty is only skin deep

GRE STUDENT : Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

NORMAL PERSON : Cleanliness is godliness

GRE STUDENT : Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

NORMAL PERSON : There's no use crying over spilt milk

GRE STUDENT : It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lactile fluid.

NORMAL PERSON : You can't try to teach an old dog new tricks

GRE STUDENT : It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.

NORMAL PERSON : Look before you leap

GRE STUDENT : Surveillance should precede saltation.

NORMAL PERSON : He who laughs last, laughs best

GRE STUDENT : The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

NORMAL PERSON : All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

GRE STUDENT : Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.

NORMAL PERSON : Where there's smoke, there's fire!

GRE STUDENT : Where there are visible vapours having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

Since you have reached this part your brain has certainly gone through a lot of trouble and before you wish to kill me..i would like to reveal that the source of all that s*** you have gone through is anonymous :P

If you are reading this before planning on giving GRE then you know what awaits you...

If you have already enrolled yourself...then you are doomed. :D

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