Shot At Sight

It is said – Beauty is the correct  Palatable food to the mind of a Man !

Most Rightly or if so till what extent ? Well I am not scribbling here to justify or nullify this aspect !

But Love at First Sight – is something all Men are fabricated to fall in – Quite Frequently – well most of them. And this First Sight happens every time , man catch a PYT ( Pretty Young Thing).

So what’s the difference –  Girls today are probably far more Practical than Guys in the traditional Falling cases – they do have certain parameters as a Threshold pole-vault. But Men , most of them – even today dots on just – Looks !.

If You are Pretty or Beautiful or Cute or at least have a Sweet smile – You are In !

( Personally I did never understand  - what’s the difference between being Pretty , Beautiful or Cute – I just manage to survive only on their Literal sense ).

And Girls ! They are smart enough to know ( or acknowledge ? )  – we do function this way !

At least – enthrones them( Girls) with Better Control ( Am Being deliberately Sarcastic here ! )

( Couple of recent Bollywood flicks - Dil Toh Baccha Hain Ji , Pyaar Ka Paanchnaama etc - are milking money on such themes.)

However there is no point of Right or Wrong – as things are streamlined - most probably would continue so. To quote in a typical Bollywood way -

Man lafanga bada
Apne mann ki kare
Hoo yun toh mera hi hai
Mujhse bhi na dare
Woh bheege bheege khayalon mein dooba rahe
Main sambhal ja kahun fisalta rahe
Ishq mehnga pade
Phir bhi sauda kare……….

Real on the Reel Platter !

Reality Shows – You can not get enough of them of late ! Seriously !

Just yesterday, while running my fingers on the TV remote , the one thing that irrevocably caught my mind – is the volume of Reality shows ! From the boardroom to the courtroom and from the street to the bedroom – it’s just in-front of you –  at the push of a button !

You can enjoy husband-wife fights , Cat-fights , bitching , back biting, locked-love , love trapping , couple exchanges , Date traps and all the exciting (or sometimes forbidden) things in the world -  you can think of right on your daily real-reel menu ! We always wanted the Nuts , crazy and out-of-the-box and somewhat secret  items on the plate !

So here it is - the show has just grown Enormous , Spooky , Flashy and definitely Filthy !

The Camera is being welcomed on the Red carpet to the once-so-called privacy zone and left no stone unturned to turn it Bigger and Better in the competition.

Mute-point – Grab some quick money , Ride on the Limelight drive and Name with the fame !

Celebrity is another common word now – for we all are stars and celebrities now standing with our head erect of out of the TV screen !

The Hungrier you get , the more professionally instrumental you turn out  and so are the sky-rocketing TRPs on a geometric progression.

And No happy faces are complaining !

But How far is too far ?

Or are we so far that now we don’t even bother how far we are to get near !

Words , Scraps and Craps

On a De-cluttering mode !

Of recently , I have been trying unscrupulously to scrutinize and lighten the mental bag to a larger extent possible !

In the daily struggle &  fight of living , myriads of un-important and trivial things do start piling up our mind . And they do occasionally need a rigorous and  merciless clean-up to keep the system on track and running.

The greatest dis-advantage I have noticed is – we do tend to ignore the small and beautiful things in life – the gifts themselves start smelling pungent and that’s the signal !

Enough would certainly be enough - and definitely so !

The earlier and frequent timely spurts of action do save zillions of  ensuing stitches !

Writing , for sure , is one of the most rejuvenating experiences speaking on such terms – it makes you think out the weeds and harvest. More so , planting the rights mental saplings can never get  easier  than though words.

And why not – for sometimes we need the Smiling Word instead of the Ruthless Sword to kill things !

The Pursuit of Happiness

Happiness –  thy name

You are The Mirage

Paving my Stride

Before the walks

All the while !

And I grow hungrier

Day by day

Everyday

Bit by bit !

Trust I lose

Frost my senses

Break the Joints

Unhook the links

Tickle the Fickle

Stability – Now I do faintly remember Thou !

Happiness !

A life spent in thy Pursuit

Takes a Toll on my Soul

The essence of my presence - Tend to forget

Blind-folded by the Shine

Of Something that Never Exists !

Happiness – You are nowhere to be Found !

With Love - Forever and Always !

Very recently had read in Bangalore Mirror – the story of an old Lady who was left in the lurch by her own son in a dilapidated Old Age Home and been never looked back ! She was torn between the tears and her daily struggle to make both ends meet.

Not surprisingly - it was one of the most horrendous stories I had ever read.

I could never understand the mentality of those Stupid genre of people and even worse to make out the cold nerve – with which they leave their parents pinging the single hope on them.

Parents take those painstaking labour and  effort with a smile to bring up their kid and make him/her stand on their own foot . And later what these grown ups do ? Just walk away !

Parents - they are the people – the only people on this earth who you can blindly trust with , speak your heart out , let yourself be with all your shortcomings and still be treated as if You are the Best thing that ever happened in their life ! The Never-ending  Love and Support for you is something , Parents are just made up of.

If you ever thought of somebody who could hold the Title to be the Biggest Loser  by doing the biggest Sin of life – it’s that anarchic Moron  who let those Hands go which once held him up and made him walk.

These sick-heads suck and pollute this beautiful planet !

On a Happy note , then there are innumerable exceptions of Adults who take optimum care of their Parents and make this planet proud !

We want to see that number Grow !

The Social Network

There was a time ( Aeons ago of course !)  when Net savvy used just to be a flabby concept . Not having a Mail id or a virtual socializing account was not a surprisingly big deal .

Though personally I find it hard to believe those flaccid days without Internet. But then , that’s how it was.

Somehow things did change figuratively ! And virtual socializing turned out to be the gigantic crowd-puller.

Orkut – the social networking site and like almost all first-time-things , it took us by storm – we were college goers when I got my first account and would crave days for a scarp to drop by ! A peek-a-boo with Orkut  was as much of a mandate as air or water. Friend Requests , Scrap boxes , Communities – Subsequently used to be  the second life – Oops ! sorry the First Life in Office ( And yes Life-Saver as well !). Then somehow the Orkut craze started creeping away. Thanks to the other available socializing mediums spurting in by then.

Came Facebook - a brutal blow on Orkut – a fact proven by dozens when they shifted accounts and focus from Orkut to Facebook – I was no different either!

With it’s vast presence and succumbing popularity , Facebook  , for sure, presents itself as the front runner stallion in the virtual rat race .( P.S. - I am deliberately keeping Twitter away here )

But speaking of trend changing every minute , the flavour changes with tastes and taste changes with time.

So what’s next is the big bad question ?

At Times !

Like all they say – You Get the best pinch out of a nowhere ! Sometimes even at those reclusive moments as well.

Thoughts undulating the mind, thoughts you never use to think in your daily bread-earning times. And I mean those on the heavier side !

Probably it’s a sure shot indication of a Human mind that gets Matured as days goes by – the way we are fabricated or functioned to behave.

It’s really amazing how perceptions ,revolving around, change with times – the ways we looked at things as a Teenager so vastly differs when you run in the Twenties. More so on the vast differences if we switch on the kid in us of yesteryear's !

Just keeping three phases in mind – Childhood , Teenage and Adulthood and as we juxtapose the thoughts – it sure turns out that for obvious reasons ( or no obvious reasons !) , we do start viewing things ( certain things) in a rather complicated way sometimes.

You can’t escape getting the mind bent in that shape or rather probably get used to it after sometime ! 

So you see - getting matured and Complicated at the same time is what exactly I am talking about.

Is it really worthwhile to think so ???

Meaningless

Like all they say

Meaningless

Quite untrue to me

Not seems all the same

How often it just happens

Blowing it apart

Falling through fables

Bizarre and boisterous

Noisy clumsy drifts

And peeping somehow

Through loopholes

Ever and Always

To render possibilities

Not Sure

Never was

Still garnering silence

Under your very presence

Seems Untrue though

In thy presence

Moot point

It’s still just the same

Meaningless !   

Manzilein

कुछ करने  की  जब  आंच  होती   हैं

तो  नींद  कहाँ  आती  हैं

सांस  कहाँ  थमती  हैं

और  पैंर  कहाँ  रूकती  हैं

 

मंजिल  तो  हर  मोड़  में  होती  हैं

तन्हाई  की  हर  एक  पल  उस  राह  में

हौसला  देती  हैं

ताक़त  देती  हैं

 

अँधेरे  की  हर  एक  बूँद  

किरणों  की  पैगाम  लाती  हैं

उम्मीदें  तो  बस  कायम  ही  हैं

फांसले  बस  कम  होती  रहती  हैं

 

आँखें  तो  आगे  राह में होती  हैं

सांसें  तो मंजिल  में  ही  लेनी  होती  हैं

दिल  में  तो इरादें  पक्की  होती  हैं

और  कदम  तो   अपने  आप  चल  पड़ती  हैं

मंजिल  की  दौर  में   मज़ा  ही  कुछ  और  होती  हैं
मंजिल  की  दौर  में  मज़ा  ही  कुछ  और  होती  हैं
मंजिल  की  दौर  में  मज़ा  ही  कुछ  और  होती  हैं

Boomerang

Freedom at heart,

Freedom of soul

Glorious past

Beckons to revive.

And all the gestures

Getting ignored

Life’s the way you want

When the stride is right

Sometimes and always

Peep through those painstaking moments

Jamming heartbeats and some more

Up , down and then Up again.

And there goes again

Beat it if you can

I bet you can’t

For it’s the instinct I Am born with

Survival from bruise

Rising from crush

Denying the myths

Depicting my very Existence !

Full Volume

Let the Music Play,

Let the Music Play,

Let the Music Play,

Let it be this time,

All in my Way !

And I don’t care if thy flutter,

Wondering as always,

On the lonesome streets

Under the rainy , cloudy sky.

How far is too far,

When the near seems far

Or the far seems near

Music settles the bar.

The music inside,

Burning inside,

Playing inside,

Let the Music Play,

Let the Music Play,

Let the Music Play !

Riders in the Storm

Not sure of other's perception on this !

But for those , using their bikes or cars on every day commutation to office , might see an eye to eye at least in some of what I am talking about.

If you are traveling on a Bangalore road , make sure you keep yourself conscious of the below three –

BMTC Buses – Yes these are the giants who don’t give a damn about fellow riders passing nearby. The entire road belongs to them and they mean it ! Blow horn or sniffle your headlight – it’s gonna turn futile ! So if you want to cross these giants, at the worst possibility , be ready to sneak your way through minimal space !

Autos – Well if you are expecting some Right or Left signal from these species , you gonna be surprised buddy ! Because the lights which we mostly use to signal our Turns are mostly and seemingly very happily ( ??) unutilized here ! Even if you see a standing Auto , with all lights off – don’t come to any conclusion cause they might surprise you with sudden outburst of engines and even unsurprisingly standing on your way in the twinkling of an eye !

Passerby - The most dangerous form of pedestrians ! More often than not , these lot of people are mostly in a hurry to cross the road even if that means jumping or running just before a car or bike moving at 80km/hr ! If you can see an empty road and want to push the throttle of your vehicle , think again. And don’t be shocked to find somebody suddenly jumping ahead of you when you have nothing left to stop your vehicle.

My personal advice – Keep yourself conscious of these 3 categories and you will have a safe ride – always !