Thought for the day

"People who have the capacity to weather many storms are the ones who are oft-tested by destiny"

Enlightenment!

Enlightenment is best, when it is shared.....even when it is with the invisible or non-existent reader....

Pardon me for these incessant ramblings, but I am reluctant to let go, especially since I have found my voice after a very long time :) Hence I take the liberty to share my "enlightenment"

Time travelling......

I was reading "Eat, Pray, Love" and stumbled upon these lines, which made me travel back in time.

"David's sudden emotional back-stepping probably would've been a catastrophe for me even under the best of circumstances, given that I am the planet's most affectionate life-form (something like a cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle), but this was my very worst of circumstances. I was more despondent and dependent, needing more care than an armful of premature infant of triplets. His withdrawal only made me more needy, and my neediness only advanced his withdrawals..."

Sometimes in life, when you go through bereavement/loss/misery/emotional upheaval, it almost gives you a sense of misplaced superiority; emotionally you isolate yourself from the so-called "lesser morals", blindly believing that they haven't experienced your quantum of pain. After all my emotional loss is more than your job woes, right?

Reading these lines was not only cathartic by finding resonance in someone's pain, but also greatly humbling; It taught me that on many occasions we attach a lot of importance to our own misery, by quickly discounting someone's pain. This not only leads us to revel and wallow more in self-pity, but also isolates us from many others, in whose experiences we might find our own answers.

Men are from Mars and women.....well we're still trying to figure that one out!

Women are silly creatures (a good amount of offense meant!)....they look for a reason/a pattern in everything....even though most of their behavior can never be explained with good reason...I might offend my fellow Venetians with this insight, but it's always better to be self-deprecating and accept it graciously, than be slapped on that face with facts :)

Free falling in love

Falling in love is like free falling....you might be consumed by fear, but unless you allow yourself the privilege of that fear, you can never experience the magic of love

Dwindling numbers and random thoughts.....

The dwindling numbers on my blog's site-o-meter, suggest some readers taking flight to greener pastures (which in this case happen to be regularly updated blogs!). Self-effacing as it may sound - but currently my blog has very few patrons, and I would do nothing to shoo them away; least of all because of my lazy spirit.

However folks, there are things to do, targets to achieve, mountain summits to climb, and deadlines to meet. More importantly, there are cupboards to clean, house bugs to fog, cobwebs to vacuum, and flies to whisk...

So here is an update of my very busy schedule

• TOEFL: My TOEFL exam(Test of English as a Foreign Language) is scheduled for August 11. The marathon test runs into an agonizing 4 hours. After all these years of perfecting my English pronunciation skills, and making sure that "Pomeranian" is not pronounced as "pomerian", I am still tagged as a non-native speaker. Dhobi ka kutta na khar ka na ghat ka. English for most of us, is not a foreign or borrowed language anymore. It's pervaded all aspects of our existence, even creeping into our thought process. I even blog in English... and considering that I haven't received any brickbats for my "rudimentary" language skills, I would like to believe that I should be rewarded an honorary score. So now I need the support of the blogging brethren, in getting a TOEFL waiver!
• Turkey: Went to Turkey for a holiday. Shelled out £60 per day for a hotel stay where the bed croaked at night in protest (no I do not weigh 300 pounds!), the tap leaked, the toilet seat wobbled, the air conditioner droned and the electric socket hissed nastily, at my mobile adapter. Should have known better when I booked into a "Hotel Poem", and stayed a room, which was ironically called "Out of Tune". Save for the mishaps and misfortune on this front, the trip was fanatabulous! Had a lot of fun, took a lot of pictures, and marveled at the historical relics. Last but not the least, developed a new found respect for the Sultan of Turkey, who in his life span of 55 years, built a harem for his 200 companions, spent "quality" time with each one of them, and fathered 112 children as an afterthought!
• Enrolled for a photography course....For I realised that just like you can't drive a Ferrari 575M Maranello, with the driving skills of a Ambassador Mark IV, you can't use a digital SLR camera, with the skills of a pinhole camera....

Spiderman returns!

This is hilarious....

http://makkadman.com/