good ideas
Jim Corbett plan postponed! no issues! good idea infact!
Jim Corbett plan postponed! no issues! good idea infact!
I am getting to realize what keeps me happy!!!!
Its simple…
Doing a lot of things together!!!
Its like a catalog of things that I have to have in my mind, and I need to start and stop my activities… It keeps me going…
If I am doing just one thing… I end up being very restless and dissatisfied with myself!
So used to being caught up in something or the other, a day to relax does not seem to fit into the larger schema of things!
I should go find something to do!
Only after
I take Meera for her first service
I finish my meeting in the afternoon
and I complete the checklist of things that papa has given!
Sahil : I sent you flowers !
Sahil : Oh, because I love you and because you told me you were not feeling too well and because you are alone there…
Purvi : How many times do I need to tell you that I don’t want you to send me flowers? I think they bring bad luck to me
Sahil : I am sorry but you were not well for the last few days and I could not think of something else…
Purvi : Whatever !
Sahil : Anyway, but the hotel that you told me you were staying in, says that there is no one called Purvi checked in there…
Purvi : Oh, yea, I checked out ! forgot to tell you !
Come to think about it, Chai Ki Dukaan is a random blog !!! Not many posts are in order of being connected to each other, however there is a certain order that got built in between all this randomness over the last few years !
and here is a free flow of some randomness about myself…
1. I face Southwest in my office and at days when I reach early (like 7ish) and the day is sunny, there is sunlight on my desk… I love it
2. I like to give and get credit for things both at work and in personal life! If I am using something that someone else has worked on, I do try to ensure that the audience knows about that effort ! I absolutely hated it when a friend once used a picture that I clicked and put it on her page without a mention of me anywhere and without asking me… and all of this when she knew that the picture was very close to my heart… to top it all she comes back and tells me that she did justice to the picture by doing that !!! phew !
3. I don’t work for money.. I love what I do at work, and that’s why I work ! IT Services Consulting… love it! and money most of the time is the least of my worries… Surprisingly whenever it has been a cause of concern, it was taken care of… as if someone was ensuring it does not bother me! and at multiple times!
4. Mostly my life is driven by needs and not wants… if I want something too much then I try to figure out how it qualifies to be a need and then get it!
5. I want to get married next year… how to go about it is another story and will need a post a blog a diary an year to write about ! I am hoping I will find someone really nice who my parents would like too sometime!
6. I forget about drinking water and having food at times when I am too much into work!
7. I take my time (now) before I decide on what kind of a person someone is… earlier it used to be a quick(er) judgment !
8. There has been a phase in my life when I totally hated women and that went on for a year or so… no points for guessing that it was because of a relationship that ended at a very very bad note.. I have never cried that much in my life…
9. My behavior (mostly) is driven by how I would like to be treated in a similar situation… that has helped me a lot over the past few years !!!
10. I don’t have an excuse for not working out regularly ! and thankfully for the past two days I am regular with exercise… 😉 two needs to be 20 and 20 needs to be 200 !
11. I love tea and not all tea… tea is with tea leaves and not really anything and everything that you can dry and crush to a powder and put in a bag! Though I have to admit that I like some of them, but not many!
12. I am an extremely lucky person. There are times when I feel frustrated, but when I look back at things I realize that most of it did fall into place… and Uncle God has been around most of the time either in the form of my parents, or my friends or in forms that I did not realize then but I do now!
13. I can act strangely crazy, closed, stupid at times, and all of this while knowing that I should not be doing it… I guess I cannot lie to myself !
14. I think flowers good great in B/W photographs ! For that matter, I think most of the things look great in B/W… even life ! 🙂
15. I had a 3 gb collection of porn which I deleted last year! ok 3.4 GB!
16. I enjoy walking
18. and I feel the need of a company at times on the beaches
19. But I have sat down and looked at the sea for hours alone as well, and I loved all of those experiences !
20. I broke down the beach/hill/alone/company points above so that I finish 25 random points quicker !!
21. My interest in anything stops when learning from it stops!
22. But I also feel that I am growing up to be a more patient person than I have been all through these years ! So I tend to find ways to get some learning or make things interesting when they are too conveyor belt-ish.
23. I want to go back to London and stay there for at least 6 months during spring and fall.
24. I like open windows and fresh air… Even when the temperature was in negatives outside, I would open the window an inch or so that fresh air can circulate inside my apartment…
25. I like heights… I could jump from a plane 14500 ft above ground (Sky diving, Chicago last year) but I find it difficult to jump from a 22ft cliff into the water (River Rafting, Rishikesh every year, well almost every year).
26… So I finished 25 but I think I can write a few more
27. I like to be in love… Its a very complete feeling… and I am not really talking about the relationship love, it can be the love for someone without being in a relationship as well, and the willingness to do things to make them happy… I do not like an overuse of the word “love”… its a precious word for me!
28. I don’t understand football but I love Tennis (Pete Sampras and Steffi Graf are my favorites, but I don’t know everything about them like most fans do; watching them play was a visual delight like nothing else; I liked watching Ivan Lendl and Boris Becker as well) and Basketball( Lakers happens to be my favorite team and Kobe Bryant the favorite player)… I cannot watch cricket alone…
29. This number and my age have a certain resemblance that is both comforting and challenging at the same time
30. I am going to be 30 soon.. I wanted to take a month long break travel throughout India when that happens, but looks like I would be spending it here in the US.. the month long break has been deferred and the three must go places for me are Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Mumbai
31. I have learned how to play a keyboard and a guitar and have spent most of my college life either on the stage or in greenrooms or writing/directing/doing street plays… I really miss those times ! Really!
32. This is a very very long post ! tell me if you did manage to read it !!! Chandan, you specially 🙂
Mon, a dear friend, few days back wrote about how people change with time, how close friends grow apart and a few other things… Somehow that does not surprise me at all… People change, distances grow or reduce, and so on and so forth… with time I have learnt to accept that as a fact, however the good thing is that with time my faith in those handful of relationships that I guard like crazy and will do ANYTHING to save has also strengthened !!!
What surprises me are those people who can be absolutely different like black and white at the same time ( and that includes me too at times)… The warmest souls to some, and the worst people on earth for someone else ! Saying something and being someone ELSE at the same time! Thankfully I cannot be someone else and claim to be a different person at the same time, but there are people who can. I can get into the tactical details here, but that would just mean talking more about a few people I know, which I am not sure is required !
While I agree that this can happen with every one, every time I think about this, I am reminded of someone I knew who was a classic example of being two faces at the same time !!! Phew !!! Before that I never knew that such extremes are possible!
I secretly hope that I do not bump into one of such amazing people in my life, but then I am not the one deciding the flow here 🙂 I am just rafting !!! let it come !!!
Tushar bhai, I miss Rishikesh and our rafting trips !!!
A bit too unpredictable!! You gotta live every single second of it !!!
While I feel encouraged to live every second right now, I also feel bad about wasting my time over things/people/incidents which were not really worth it… They have done some good for me for sure, first by teaching me a lesson, and then making it all more important for me to make up for the lost time ! Ok forget it… let me just turn the rear view mirror away for a while !
Turning off the comments on this post !!! This was written in a mind frame and thoughts which were triggered by the untimely and sudden death of a very dear friend… I am not really sure that the post reflects what all I have been thinking… and I am not really sure I feel like talking more about this post !!
Apologies if you had a comment to make !
1. I can never get over how beautiful mountains look… Every single time you see them, you can see something different, some more majestic and grand than every before…
2. I can still not figure out what is my favorite element from the PanchTatva… The Fire, The Water, The Sky, The Wind or the Earth… Is my love for my village related to Earth, or The way I can keep looking at the sky for ages, represents my love for the Sky? or the fact that I feel Fire is one of the most exciting things to look at, proves that I love FIRE !!! not sure… But the fact is all of these elements can feel so delicate, so pure and harmless at one point of time, and at the other make you feel like a nothing in front of them !!!
3. My love from photography comes from my love for people… I enjoy getting involved in conversations when I am travelling more than taking pictures, and these conversations make me click !!! the mood at a tea stall, the people in a bus, passengers at a railway station… are the people that I like to first, before taking a picture of them…
4. Joy in my life comes from the small and simpler things ! talking to kids on the streets, walking around with a friend, getting a call from a friend i have been missing, doing something for someone i like, and so on a so forth…
5. I don’t know how to react to surprises… Even if I am very happy, I cannot really express it if I am surprised at the same time.. the Irony is that I might look totally blank and speachless when a surprise is thrown at me !!
Done Dana Done Done !!!
Khush Vinnie the pooh?