Monday, December 28, 2009

My daughter's concept of time is different!

It's different from our's.
My daughter turned five this Christmas. Today she almost believed me when I told her tomorrow is New Year. She then judiciously cross checked it with the head of operations, her Mom and realized that it’s two days later. To her, it doesn’t matter if it’s tomorrow or two days later. To her, a New Year is shouting Happy New Year in the middle of the night. She doesn’t even know that the New Year is as long as 365 days. I mean, she knows that it has more than 300 days. Emotionally she doesn’t know that 365 days is a long time. Time is not even relative. It's her own understanding of time.Even school time (from 8am to 2pm) is just one block of time for her which has a beginning and an end with a lunch interval in between. So if it’s the sixth period and class is about to get over in 15 minutes, she really doesn’t know. To her, lots of periods are over. So chances are this will also get over. But she doesn’t know it is going to get over soon. She splits day and night with light. So if it’s cloudy in the morning, it takes some time for her to believe that it’s morning. (Or I guess she just goes with the flow as we push her to school). She has her classic ‘five more minutes please’. It’s different from our ‘5 more minutes’ that we usually say when we wake up. If she says I want to watch TV for 5 more minutes, it could be one more hour or two more hours depending on the mood she is in. On the whole she is not so much bothered about time. Her time is divided into ‘fun with friends’ time, study time, TV time and outdoor time. Time is not yet so precious to her. While other things are – like her Mother, Father, cousins, friends, toys and her dress(in that order:-))

Friday, December 25, 2009

People, People the decade isnt over yet!


I was reading an article on 'The Hindu' today morning about the best movies of the decade. There has been similar articles/TV programmes floating all around celebrating the decade. It suddenly struck me that decade isn't over yet. Technically. 1 to 10 is a decade and we didnt have 0 AD. It was 1 AD after 1 BC. I myself posted more than a dozen 'best of the decade' links on twitter and facebook. Now I realise we have one more year. People, we have ONE whole year to complete... one more year to have fun, to read, to watch, to sleep, to do all things we like doing... one more year to prove the world what we are capable of. Who knows, you might be featured in the actual 'best of the decade' by the end of 2010. Believe me. You can.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Indian Politicians - Hollywood Ishtyle

With the top list getting ready for Manmohan's Cabinet, here's my take on who's saying what..

My Inspiration - http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1900025,00.html

Sonia to Karunaanidhi: "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."

Karunaanidhi to Sonia: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."

Alagiri to Karunaanidhi: "Show me the money"

Sonia to ManMohan Singh: "May the force be with you."

People of India: "Houston, we have a problem."

Dayanidhi Maran: "My momma always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.'"

Jayalalitha: "I'll be back"

Thursday, March 12, 2009

I had a 'Marlin' moment yesterday!


Last night I was looking intently at my 4 year old daughter for at least 10 minutes. It was one of those moments...I was thinking about life – How it is super tough every day… how it is surprisingly evil and beautiful at times… how life is complicated and convoluted.. how life is all sorts of things … how life might be even more tougher for her when she grows up… I know she will evolve with the times and learn to manage things on her own… But I wished one thing… just one thing… for her…. I wished that she gets friends... just like the ones I’ve got now… to lean on… to move on… to keep swimming… to just keep swimming.”

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Twenty Five Things about me.

1. Thanks to Francis, I'm writing this and thanks to Waseem I'm writing this about people. Let me start with the boys themselves. Francis and Waseem are two boys who are brilliant in their own ways. They are sure to become famous in the future.

2. I feel I'm the richest person in this planet for I feel I have got everything I want with my family and friends. I do think some of my friends are part of my family, the way family is defined. I dont have any major monetary aspirations as I'm already filthy rich.

3. Even though it's cliched and said in a million award acceptance speeches, I would like to thank my parents who created and crafted me.

4. I'm extremely curious about new things, technology, stories, movies, books and people.

5. When I was young I always felt insecure about my future. I was afraid that I might become a beggar on the street. But I had a back-up plan - of becoming a kindergarten teacher. I thought - C'mon how hard is it going to be to teach ABC... But after having a child, I cant imagine handling two kids a time.

6. Even though information is becoming obsolete with google.com I luvvvvvve information(current and future predictions). And I love to share information with people.

7. To an extent, I know how a man thinks because I'm one. I dont want to spend my time thinking how women think. Instead I would like to spend that time loving them.

8. I feel most of us(including me) are self obsessed most of the time. This is where I like Waseem because he decided to write 25 things about other people.

9. I feel I'm hugely indebted to my parents, teachers, friends, ex-boss and current boss for they have been my steps to move up every single day.

10. I feel life is too short. Too short it might get over any second. After death, it's nothing. It's just blank screen. Pitch darkness. It's more nothing than nothing itself. Death of my near and dear ones(both family and friends) have made me weak and strong at the same time.

11. To continue the previous point - I think most of us dont take life too seriously. By saying 'seriously' I dont mean it literally. I dont think we take care of ourselves enough to take care of others. I dont think we take care of our health so that we can have fun and spend more time with the ones we love.

12. I think drinking and smoking is a self-imposed momentary lapse of common sense. Just because every 9 out of 10 people drink and smoke, it cannot become an ok thing to do.

13. Music, Movies and Books help me to love life more...love people more.

14. To continue point#2&4 I'm curious about people. People whom we bump into by fate and time. As I already said I'm not monetarily inspired. But I would like to earn as many good people as I can. Here too I'm not greedy for more people... just more time with the people whom I like. I'm tempted to mention their names but I have decided not to. People who mean a lot to me know at heart I love them and they love me. To put it in simple words, good people and their goodness is the only currency I can earn.

15 I love fate as much as I hate it.

16 I'm in touch with all my friends for the last 25 years.

17. I love torrents. Thanks to Amritha who introduced me to it.

18. I collect all my letters, cards, doodles and I'm scared that they might get washed away by a Tsunami. Sometimes, I'm paranoid and hassled about stupid things like this.

19. I believe I can get anything if I believe I can. And I will stop trying..i will give up only on the day I die... Because after my death, it doesnt matter whether I got it or not. But I also believe I'll get it before I die. :-)

20. I'm again tempted to mention names - names of people whom I love. I have again decided not to as I dont want to disappoint the people I dont mention.

21. I didnt want to be a single child. I always wanted a sister as a kid. But now Im lucky to get sisterhood love(more than i ever wanted) from people whom I dont want to mention here. (I like personal things to be personal - not on facebook)

22. The previous point reminded me of one more thing. I feel Im lucky. Especially with people whom I've been with through my life.

23. I feel people are more important than work and education. But ironically we need both to take care of the people whom we love.

24. I feel every happy moment is important and has to be stored, rewound, paused and played.

25. I have not said so many things here as I would like to discuss it only offline.

From Francis Thomas' Notes - This is how it works: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person / people who tagged you. If you’re tagged, it's because the person who tagged you wants to know more about you.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Fwd: a must must-read story…for 2009


If you are one of those who don't like to read, please don't stop reading…for this is a must must-read forward… don't stop… there's something really important … If you stop now, you'll miss something for sure… ok, now quickly to the story – Once upon a time there lived a beetle.. no, not the Volkswagen beetle… the cute crawling insect that looks like the Volkswagen beetle without the wheels. And there was not just one. There were families. In groups. A whole colony was there. And they all liked 'The Beatles', the 60s rock and pop band. Because they lived between the walls of 'the Retro' bar of Hilton Paris hotel that sits in the shadow of Eiffel Tower in Paris. These beetles didn't know when a day started or ended… They didn't have any concept of time. But they clearly knew when a New Year started. Jerry, the hero of our story is a ladybird(or should it be the heroine of our story) that looked just like the logo of Ladybird books; bright red with black spots. The walls had two small openings in the size of a pencil rubber. One lead to the retro bar and the other went all the way to the kitchen. These beetles lived on the cabbage leftovers from the kitchen and had a social life in the retro bar. In fact, Jerry once had a scary worm's eye view of Paris Hilton's legs and got very confused between Hilton Paris, the hotel and Paris Hilton, the model. Jerry and his friends used to come to the bar once in a while and shake a leg together to the 'Help' song by Beatles. The bar manager, the DJ, the guests who came there, the whole human race didn't know these little guys existed way down below their elbows. The life of the beetle was pretty much just like ours. The steamroller of daily existence - hunting for left-over cabbages, daily blows of egos on who's got better spots, eating, sleeping and occasionally dancing at the Retro bar. For some strange reason the Retro bar didn't attract the young and the restless generation during the New year's eve. So they decided to play John Digweed, Moby, Bob Sinclair kind of dinjack dinjack songs on the night before the New Year. So for the beetles, the only time they heard dance music and remixes it was psychologically the end of one long day or one long cycle and a beginning of another new one. On that night, every year, Jerry and his friends had a rocking time head banging and dancing amidst freshly waxed, long, sexy legs. They looked like miniature Volkswagen Beetles jumping like those jumping cars we see in rap videos. And it happened this year too. But this year something strange happened just after the party got over. When Jerry returned to the great wall, he found every beetle(around forty of them) reading a book. They all turned their heads towards Jerry in sync with a wide grin. And they all had the same book with a bright yellow cover. The book was titled 'How to cheat and still don't harm people?'.This is exactly where the story ends. (now imagine me with a gleeful smile). I just made this up. I just wrote this mad, stupid story and made the title of the blog look like an interesting forward. I just wanted your time. And I want your time this year and every new year. And just one more thing. Drum rolls please. Happy New Year! from Sajan who likes to own the real Volkswagen Beetle sometime in the future.

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