My Awkward moments.. - Part 2

After lot of thoughts I got yet another moment where I felt different..


Mourning!
Death is a very sad event, but Philosophically speaking is it not the exit from one knowing into the unknown world.. just like birth.. and according to Gita, if a man has lead a righteous life (that is karma..) then death makes us closer to the supreme power!


In a funeral, when I look at the dead person, and feel at peace just like looking at a sleeping child.
They (the dead) at that moment know what I don't now.. Some how they are superior to us, no matter how they led their life. Any way, back to where I left.. I don't know how to react.. no no what I am saying is that.. I don't know how to react when some one smiles at me in such a place, I try to smile.. but still look sad and end up with a funny reaction.. like a upward frown or a lopsided smile... :)

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Last time, when in my native I helplessly was made to attend one.... of a very old man. He had lived his life to the fullest and died. That was evident from his sons and daughter who were still mourning, the whole house was sad. I didn't know many people so I sat silently in a corner looking at others. Just then I was stunned to hear my mothers name being called out loud and a lady beside me... She was my mother's friend and had apparently forgotten my name, so called out my mother's name and was chit chatting with me in the middle of the house. She said I was looking much like my dad excepting my eyes, they are like mom's.. (What am I? harry potter!)


She indeed was genuinely pouring affection to her friends kid, I loved her too.. a very nice aunt!. But she forgot one thing the place.. I.. well.. couldn't react.. cause only thing in my mind was the place! I felt awkward...




This some how reminds me of a folk song kind of story my grand pa used to tell me, an event in a mourning house..


2 women walk into a house, where the husband had died.. on the way near the entrance, they see fully ripe bitter-gourd in the vine spread over the gate.. As many might know, "Oppari" is a funeral elegy.. where in sad words are expressed in a slow song kind of manner..


Women 1: "Panthalileee pavaikaa.." (I saw bitter-gourd in the entranceeeee....)
Women 2: "Pogumpo parikalam.." (We will takeeee, on our way homeeee)
Wife of the deceased:  "Vithukkalo vitirukku" (Left it for the seed.. pleaseee don't pluck it..)

My Awkward moments.. - Part 1

The Elevator..


Not Listening!!!!



Ah! the elevator.. the magic passage to bypass the steps and sweat.. See.. as I said its magic.. Is that why people act weird inside them??

Me and my friend were speaking merrily waiting for the elevator, as we stepped in.. she stopped and stared ahead.. as we got down.. she proceeded from where we stopped.. I wondered why? and lost the conversation.. still I didnt get why!

People never look at the person next to them, even if they are acquainted.. I saw my colleague and smiled.. he gave me a meek smile.. I thought he didn’t recognize me.. or was it the elevator syndrome..?

Also another rule is never speak.. even if you do speak.. do it in hushed tone.. As human being we are not worried to bother others with out decibel in house or road or office or worst case even in temple.. But not in elevator.. we shouldn’t do that

There are 3 hot spots.. to look at..

• Staring at the top.. and craning your neck to see the numbers and arrow.. and enjoy the moments of ecstasy that we are near the destination
• Stare at the bottom.. the shoes..! keep staring at every ones shoes..
• Or harmlessly at the button you pressed.. I guess the more we stare the faster it moves..

I get embarrassed every day encountering these moments! Why cant we be normal? And when I did try to act normal, I received a lot of weird glances irrespectively from many.. and some fish hook eye brow glances too.. (which I had seen only in movies..)

So I am learning and I TRY to act like I am working in NASA and ready to launch the rocket.. :)

First attraction

In many cases the first impression is the best let it be work, interview anything.. we judge people by the first impression.. however rational we are... we tend to do that!

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And what about love? Oh ya... I forgot.. "Love at first SIGHT!!" with this thought I enquired a couple of people in my office and my question was "what is that which makes a girl fall in love with a guy with in few meetings.. (not just the first!"


Collating the answers and after thinking a lot.. I provided my own waitage to their points and below is the list.. (consolidated into 3 points!!)

• Looks -> this is mainly for the love at first sight and attraction or infatuation... good looking guys are always commited when u meet them... (one of my friends words..). Just think of your favorite movie hero or your fantasy boy friend.. (Good looks huh?)
• Charector -> the age old formula from movies the good guy beats up the bad guys, helps the poor, treats women and children with respect.. and totally gets the girl!!
• Intellegence -> Women who are strong willed fall for this great guy "who knows everything!!" we have seen in movies again.... :-)

These were just few key points that came up in the discussion and not to hurt any ones feelings..... again these are just for initial attraction what builds this attraction to love is real passion...


Please feel free to provide ur own points that I have missed out...

Breaking into my own house!

We shifted our house just before few days and have not yet done with the complete packing and moving, so some stuffs missing in this house might be there in that house, is the standard sentence we make every-time, when we search something in vain....


I needed some certificates of mine very urgently and that to my good luck was not available in this house, so took on to the tiresome one hour journey to my that house to look for them.. I was a complete idiot to have realized only on the last moment after reaching there that I forgot the KEYS!!! to the house.. How on earth will I get in? I didnt wanted to make another journey back to that house and get the keys and come back to this house and get the certificate. But the documents were required urgently. So I shamelessly call up my brother to ask for help.. I needed to bribe him for Rs. 300, finally he agreed and I sat near the door for a long time, more than one hour waiting for him to arrive....

So when he arrived, I thanked him a million and go the keys, but but but this idiot who is dumber than me, has got the keys of-course...! but not the one I needed...!!! So what we did.... after long hours of pondering he went to the nearest store brought a brand new lock broke the existing lock.!!! Soon after getting the certificates, we locked the house took the keys and was walking back, when our neighbor uncle came... After the ritual of wishing him we told him the victorious story of us breaking into our own house. He looked puzzled and enquired.. "Are you guys talking about the main door's keys?"


"yes uncle.."
"But your dad gave me a spare key in case of such emergencies..!! i still have it..  :-)"


"Oh my GOD!!!!"


and what did we learn???
Every time we go in for a family gathering, they say me and my brother has nothing similar... now no one will say that... we are similar in this... in being dumb...

Are cows jealous?

While on my way home from office.. I spotted a cow in the middle of the road... Its pretty simple here to see a cow on the road... besides the place had many.. cow sheds. My brother who was driving honked... the beast did not move or even look at our direction.. I asked my brother to go around the road like every body else.. but he wouldn't do that. So we kept honking at the cow.. and finally the cow moved away after what looked like an eternity... :o


It then did something unusual.. it kept staring at our car... i can feel the stare and see it from the rear view mirror until the car moved around the corner... and became out of sight for the cow..!!! This little incident made me think out loud.. and ended in an interesting conversation with my brother...

"So when a cow sees a car.. does it think that the car is another animal??"
"May be" echoed my brother.. First time in my life we both agreed on something..
"You think it gets Jealous seeing this another super animal (car) is bigger than the cow itself and also moves faster?" I pondered more..
"Duh! sister.. animals cant be jealous only human being have such feelings.."
Well I don't use much of Duh in my conversation.. but I like the way it sounds.. Duh Duh! nice, Oh i left the topic.. how easily does our mind wander....
I thought for a while and "Hey that is not true.. remember Tommy (our pet dog) he got all jealous when we got the new cat and never ate anything for 2 days..??"
"You got a point there sissy!! said my brother
"Oh ya... I am rite.. ! lol..! :-O


So is the cow jealous of a car??? we never know until we ask a cow.!!!do u know?  :-P

Bunch of Weirdos

I believe that each and every human being are weird... No no I am not saying different... yes of course all of us are different, like my grand father saying "no two fingers are similar" I accept that totally... But are we not weird too? I was talking to one of my colleague yesterday and this is what he said..


"you are weird... you talk to all of us very nicely.. (I hope he didn’t mean flirting.. ;-) ) but you never get close or let us into your circle of trust..."
"Oh I am not like that!!" I tried in vain to defend myself... Its really hard to oppose something that you know is true..


While I was rambling in my head about this.. my colleague walks off calling me "crazy.. lonely girl...!"


I am offended...
I walk behind him and say.. "Oh come on.. have you not seen any body else with distinct nature? like my loneliness?"
"No... I have not.."
"I have seen many.. even here.."
"Oh ya..! Name one KP... can u?"


I can name some...

"Passion over fashion"
This team mate of mine.. a very good guy with a weird pattern of talking slowly.. very slowly that we loose track of him in the middle.. that is common but there is something else about him.. his craze over fashion he buys a new T shirt every week...! Yes he does... every Friday the casual day we see him in a new t shirt.. He buys them every Thursday.. at times if he couldnt then he sends his friend to buy.. once he made the shop owner open the store again and buy one... What about him?


“I Google”
There is another one obsessed with Google... we call him the googler.. he googles each and every thing... whatever you say to him or ask him.. he googles.. He got so obsessed that last time I saw him type "Grandma 's lullaby for 2 yr old", "How to walk in a low profile fashion show hosted by your office?"


"Only yellow lays"
She is a very good friend of mine.. but crazy over Lays in Yellow wrapper or "Classic salted" lays.. I have never seen any one so obsessed with yellow lays like her, she does not eat any other flavor even if offered for free.. :-O
"Start Camera... Oh please"
This guy stands still and starts to pose every time a camera is around him.. it need not be a digi cam just a normal cheap mobile camera brings his sun glasses out and the posing starts.. We lost a team event we were competing because of his craze over photos and camera, he stops in the middle of the game to pose..!!! Every week he posts at least 5 of his pics in facebook.. His costume changes location changes even the glasses change but the pose remains the same... lol..


Phew... by the time I finished this, my colleague sat in silence, and after a long pause corrected me.. "Look kp they are all crazy over some thing but you are not... "
That really felt good...
"You are weird... crazily weird girl"


I am weird..!
Well may be I am...Though it never occurred to me before.. It seems I am…. I am so very picky with my friends, I can count my best friends with just a single hand. Its not that I like being aloof.. It is just that I feel that only those people understand me even without me telling.. and distinguish my fake laughs, lonely times and hidden meaning.. why is that so? well! I really really don’t know why...


I tried to convince him.. but…. he convinced me and walked off with a winning smile…

Escape to Nagala!!!

Escape to Nagala is about an official Team outing which occurred before few months.. I wrote this for my office Newsletter...! ;-)


On 7th Aug Offshore testing team, started off for a slightly different team outing to Nagala… located in the outskirts of Tamilnadu and touching the Andhra border..Nagala to be precise is a wonder that nature had kept away from the busy city dwellers… we felt that we could explore it a bit more so we set out as a team of 20 on the clear Saturday morning.. We reached Nagala by around 9 in the morning; the representatives from Ecologin, (the concern which organized the trip) gave us updates about the path and general instructions…


The first sight that welcomed us was that of a huge dam..With some difficulty we reached the top of the dam, just at the other side of the man made dam the nature welcomed us, with beautiful water, kind breeze and a spectacular view of trees and birds and butterflies… We started to walk amidst the small clearing which was made to be a path, in the mid of thorny bushes…

Till that day most of us knew how it would be to walk along with nature with only resonance of the gentle wind brushing the bushes, and no vroom… vroom of the vehicles, with out polluted air and with no direct attack from the sun.. it was a great experience.. But we couldn’t categorize it as soft trekking as it was challenging for all us to walk along side the deep water, slippery and pointed gravels or knee deep water(which was slippery enough that most of us, fell into the water.. Ofcourse Except ME!)

After some 2 hours long and tiresome journey, we reached our destination, of the small hill top with 2 streams and 2 huge ponds… the rest of the 2 hours were the deserved resultant for the tiresome journey through the forest.. The water replenished the lost energy in us, and drove away the tiredness.. We had lunch and some fun talks and started the down hill journey to reach the dam again by 5 or so… It wouldn’t be fair if I missed out about the 2 dogs, which guided us through out the journey to the top and back to the bus… they were so like our guides walking to and fro.. We thanked them with few chunks of food…

What was that I felt?

What was that I felt.. when the truth rained on me...Was it "Eternal Bliss" though I knew the word the meaning was alien to me.. so I googled and got many explanations about Karma... Yoga and all.. But one line strikes me..


          "***Eternal Bliss would be something an enlightened person would experience***"


So what ever I felt was exactly eternal blisssss!!!!


Here is what happened, I thought a person knew me very well.. just like I knew myself.. and when I speak with this person.. I felt like I am standing in front of a mirror.. similar taste.. similar thoughts... and even similar feelings!!
What I felt because of this hypothesis was happiness, I felt cheerful in the presence of the person.. (as this person knew how to please me, make me happy and flatter me too!!) Then suddenly.. one fine sentence... a casual sentence told me.. that the person never knew me... (did not know me at all..:-)


First I felt sad and depressed.. but a few minutes of thought enlightened me.. and I am not sad any more.. :-D and that is the Eternal bliss according to me!!!!


I hope many of us have felt it this way at least once in life..? Do share it if u have....

What is your conception of a Wife!!!

I have this tendency to ask questions to my friends... just like that... to make them think!!! and also I love the funny answers I get.. ;-)
So yesterday i asked some of my friends (Guys..!) What exactly is their conception of a Wife or of their future wife...!!!
The replies were great,


Friend 1 : Hey i want her to understand me and LOVE me. She can have her own opinion on every thing but on deciding a thing by the end if i am rite she should accept that happily??? (WOW that is so nice my friend..!! but finding a gal like tat would be a real tough act.. All the best for that!)


Friend 2: She should be very intelligent... should know to take care of herself and contribute herself in decision making of the house... (I can virtually see a first bencher getting married to another!! no offence to him.. he did really value the rights of a girl!!! hope he does not change in the future!!!)


Friend 3: She should do what i tell her!! shouldn't pester me...! (Oh.. tat is tough.. coz he would require a time machine to go back to the 70s or 80s to find his gal!)


Friend 4: See Kp... she should be like this..! in the morning if i stand straight then she should come and button my shirts then when I come home and sit stretching my legs she should massage my legs! when i clap my hands coffee should be ready... (I really don't know what to say about this!!!)
 
I had no strength to ask to any more people so i wound up with this!! :-) All i can saw is GUYS humph...!!!

My Dream...!

I was walking and walking in a long tunnel with no light any where... I seem to have completely lost my way.. I could sense the dampness of the soil and hardness of the small gravels under my legs... But I am tired.. My legs are failing me.. A cry from my mother seem to be reverberating all over the place. I want to be with her console her not to cry.. but did not know how... A faint hope made me walk again towards the voice.

With out light I am walking and walking there seem to be many twist and turn in the path, I fell down many times, yet I am still walking. I could have stopped any time and sat there in the tunnel and let the darkness engulf me.. But the hope of light at the other end seem to draw me towards it.. Ah! there I see a light I started to run towards it.. the more it get closer the more it moved away from me.. Finally when I reached, it was just a reflection of light from some where else.. It was a false light just like a mirage in desert which forces us towards it with an anticipation for life...

I sat down and cried and longed for any body to take my hand and guide me to goodness... I wondered If God really existed...! I wished every thing would end now.. that the tunnel would collapse on my head and relieve me off the pain and suffering... But nothing happened.. A drop of my tear fell in my hand, and in the tear I saw my family.. me my mom, dad and brother smiling and laughing happily. I got up and started walking again.......

When I woke up from the dream or per say the nightmare I felt relieved.. But thinking again now.. I feel THIS IS MY LIFE!!! This is what I am doing I keep walking.. Hoping for some light in my LIFE... I keep on WALKING...........!

Another train……!

This time we all had a good laugh!!!

I travel from my place to Beach station and from there need to get a train to Truvanmiyur, normally we would be needed to get the train from next platform or sometime the train in which we came will itself will go to Truvanmiyur, the announcement will reach us slower than the train, so it is always better to run and catch the next train…!

One such day the train stopped in platform 8 and we all both ladies and gents ran to platform 6 and caught the train and a big fight broke out in ladies compartment for seats for them and their friends (who may come and catch the train slowly). I sat near the window and to all our dismay the train from which we ran and got down was the first one to start!!!...... now again every one ran from this train to that and caught the train on time to reach office on time…! Though this might sound funny at first… think… of the troubles it is causing to common people without a proper and timely announcements..!

Train…. -> People people people….. they never change!!!

Yesterday I was on my way to office in train… it was very much crowded that even a drop of sand will not fall down if put from up…! (though it is wired to put sand on peoples head) me and a fellow traveler (gal of my age) were abt to get down in the next station tiruvanmiyur, when that incident occurred… It was Indranagar station and we were standing near the door(in the ladies compartment), as tr was no place to go in….. a mob of people who were seated comfortably until the train stopped came running to get down… one bully lady literally pushed this gal down (luckily she landed safe) and asked her to get back after people got down…. When every one has happily and lethargically got down she did not get a chance to get back in…. and the train started… she stood there…… What I don’t understand is this rush at the final minute and bullying people…! Why on Earth are the ladies this selfish????

Another day --> That was a very weary day after office.. that I longed for a seat in the train I was about to get it… so was every one else… and fortunately I did get a seat after a terrible elbow hitting head accident occurring to me by a fellow passenger..! I sat there rubbing my head the train crossed the next station, when a girl of age 25 or so.. got into the train with a baby of just 2 months in her one hand and a very big shopper in her other hand. She was desperately looking for a place to sit.. no one even headed her.. people couldn’t even adjust and sit and giv her a little place… I felt really bad..(not that I am an angel or so) I got up and asked her to sit.. before she could sit another women, sat in that place….! What on World is this!!!

Irritating the Fiancée

This conversation occurred (over phone) between a Friend of mine and her fiancée just 2 days before their Wedding:


Friend: Hi….! I want to tell you something very important
Fiancée: Hmmm… tell me Dear!
Friend: I am in Love with some one else… and I am really sorry for not telling this earlier!!!
Fiancee: (silence)
Friend: He is my child hood friend and we were always together…..! now we feel like we cant be separated…! Can u help me…
Fiancee: But… but … why did you not tell me earlier? So you did not Lov……
Friend: That is y I apologized….. I could not help it… now I am in a complete dilemma as of whom I love more Him or you!
Fiancee: (harsh tone) So…. What do u want me to do…. Call off the Wedding? Why don’t you do it yourself??
Friend: I cant… if I do so now… my Dad will kill me!!! Please do it for me…. Considering me as a Friend!
Fiancee: As a Friend????? !!!
Friend: Please …. Else I will run away with him…in 2 days!
Fiancee: In 2 days is our Wedding!
Friend: I know…! Don’t you want to know his name…???
Fiancee: Ya whatever….!
Friend: He is Lord Krishna!!!! (and a loud laughter)
Fiance: !@$#%


All I can say is………. Thank God you were on the Phone…. Else…. I would be attending the Funeral and not the Wedding in 2 days! J