We-Day

At 1.00 a.m in the night, I woke up to see my husband preparing this beautiful collage to depict our lives together. I am impressed.Period.



Love you too, Honey. You have truly made me feel special.

Three years ago, when I saw you for the first time, I was instinctively and instantly convinced to spend the rest of my life with you. Love at first sight, you may call it. Now, three years later, convinced more than ever for a wonderful gem that you are.

Interesting?

Isn't it interesting to see that the word 'interesting' is used for the most uninteresting of situations in the corporate world?

Moron Policing

To all those folks supposedly on a march to set the world right on Feb14th just by getting some people married, all I can say is "Go, get a life".

Not that I am all for Valentine's day, I have always felt that love is not something one has to recognise on a certain day. I would not celebrate that day,either. Rather, I celebrate it the way I do every other day.

But, I am not against and have no right to be against people who wish to live life their own way , of course, as long as it is not a mis-deed they are getting into. Celebrating a day, for whatever reason is no misdeed.

What of those senseless folks yelling out there? What is the C of Culture they know? Is it that one has to forget humanity? Is it that one has to develop hatred? Is it that one has to turn violent?

If making noise on issues (??!!) that are not qualified to be even trivial can be a sure shortcut to get them to lime-light, then why would they want to trouble their grey matter ( if they have it, that is ) to think about the bigger and real problems of life.


Mr.Mutalik is a bachelor by choice or inevitable destiny, I don't know. But, in any case, a woman's life is spared from being dis-respected all her life. Maybe, that can be his only sane act !

Plant or Tree?

A couple of days ago, as I was just gazing at the footpath while I travelled to office, I saw a skinny boy with a huge back-pack that almost made his chin touch his knees. I agree, nothing new about it and there are innumerable kids who undergo that. Well, I did too.

I do not know if it is inevitable now, but when I was a kid, I suppose it wasn't ,yet I did. Not that I was too studious,I was plain lazy! I never had the patience to arrange my books as per the day's time-table, so the safest option was to carry the load everyday. Stupid or not, I don't know. Laziness so much ruled me that I was game for physical labour! Gosh!

So, for once I pitied the boy, later I had doubts if he were as lazy as I was or things have changed a lot over the years.

There is a saying in Kannada " Gidavaagi baggaddu maravaagi baggithe" roughly translating to " If it doesn't bend when a plant,it never will when a tree". I never disciplined myself then, no hopes now, is it?

Are there any takers for the idea of not folding the rug every morning for the reason that you anyway have to use it in the night? Or am I the only lazy one on earth celebrating individuality in a peculiar style?

Why!!

Why is it that some days are just not yours????

Better at least only if 'some' aren't!

Sigh!!

House-Arrest??

One of my aunts, decently educated, is looking for proposals to get her son married. A wonderful person he is and for sure, his wife in future would possibly not have regrets. Today, I got to talk to that aunt of mine and I asked if she is for doctor-daughter- in-law, as normally the trend would be. She has a big NO, not just for a doctor daughter-in-law but a working DIL in general. For once, I raised my eye-brows, but looks like she has her intentions clear.

"If my DIL happens to work , I would always be entangled with house-hold work, now cooking for son, later would have to for DIL too. How long can I work",she said. I had no answer for that.

An expectation of getting untangled from house-hold only through DIL and not from son for whom she has done her best for years is right or not, I really don't know...

Well, I really hope a girl who whole-heartedly wants to be a home-maker becomes his soul-mate. As long as the decision is own, "Home-making" is a career in itself. But if enforced,a slow poison.

I am not on a conclusion that the decision is right or not, because she did not expect women not to work, but she has her specifications and maybe has rights to specify too. But, for some reason, it deeply saddens me that women are channelized into the physical-labour stream than the mental-labour one.

What of economic-independence and empowerment??

When me??

I am not shocked. Well, not a typo error there. I am really not shocked. If time and again it happens, one tends to take it as a routine. Today somebody,tomorrow me?? Terror is in such a proximity.

I do not think any strong military or other security forces can curb terrorism. Not in India, not in the U.S, not anywhere. If it has to be curbed, it can be done only by the individuals who indulge in it. Let conscience awake!

Everytime, hundreds or thousands die , some widows,some widowers, infants turning orphans, kins of both of innocent and terrorist folks! A day or two and memories vanish from minds. Does it serve any purpose at all?

Hatred? For what? Which religion advocates killing? Of Innocent people, of all?

I am depressed. Period.