dreamland

“Sound, Tomorrow we need to go for shopping, prepare a list!” - My mother told me as soon as came home from office yesterday. “Oh No” - I shouted inside my mind! I didn’t want to go out anywhere,but then my mother was right. I needed to buy a few things before packing off to coimbatore and weekends only I’ll get time! But still the word shopping somehow makes me uncomfortable. I simply hate shopping! One of the reasons might be the way I have been shopping from my childhood. Whenever we needed to go out and buy something, we would make a plan. List out all the things needed to buy and then mark the shop where we have to buy it. We had our regular shops and stores to visit in Bhilai(after all it didn’t have so many shops to chose from!). Then we would visit these places, choose only the ones we needed and return back home. Never had we gone out of the list and bought something or taken time in choosing.If it was a dress, whatever was shown from that we would choose one and come back. Bu...

After literature and movies..its music and food.. am not a foodie so didn't even attempt that!! Here is my life according to music(have given in hindi and in tamil for some) ! **************************************************************** Describe Yourself: oru deivam thantha poove(kannathil muththam vittal)[a flower given by god ;)] Main albeli ghoomoon akeli koi paheli hoon main(zubeinda) How do you feel: shala la(gilli) zara sa jhoom lun main(DDLJ) Describe where you currently live: Madrasa Suthi Pakka poren(May Madham)[going to roam around madras] Musafir hoon yaron na ghar hai na thikana(Parichay) If you could go anywhere, where would you go: yeh duniya ek dulhan..yeh mera india(pardes)[around india!] Your favorite form of transportation: rayile rayile oru nimisham(five start) kasto mazaa hai yeh lelaima(parineeta) [ picturization on train..love train journeys ] Your best friend is: gaata rahe mera dil(guide)[music] You and your friends are: yahoo..chahe koi mujhe(humein ...

Next in line..movies!! ***************************************** Describe Yourself: Gumnaan How do you feel: Khushi/Happy Feet Describe where you currently live: Victoria No -203/Home Alone If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Kashmir ki kali/Roman Holiday Your favorite form of transportation: Train/Cars Your best friend is: Taal/The Sound Of Music You and your friends are: Kaminey/The Usual Suspects What’s the weather like: Pyaar Ka Mausam/Sweet November Favorite time of day: Morning Raaga What is life to you: Hungama/chaos Your fear: raat/wait until Dark(Fear of Darkness) What is the best advice you have to give: Kabhi Alvida Na Kehana/The Good.The Bad and The Ugly(World is mixture of all the three.We need to find out the correct way out) Thought for the Day: Kal Ho Na Ho/Tomorrow Never comes How you would like to die: Shaheed/While You were Sleeping Your soul’s present condition: Masti/A Beautiful Mind **************************************************** not necessarily my ...

Based on the books that I have read!! Not necessarily favourites! It should suit the questions too!! ***************************************************************** Describe Yourself: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen How do you feel: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth(when am happy,i keep humming songs in my mind - am happy now!) Describe where you currently live: A Painted house by John Grisham(colourful india :)) If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The God of Small things by Arundhati Roy(Kerala!)or Where Eagles Dare by Alistair Mclean Your favorite form of transportation: Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh(I love train journeys) Your best friend is: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison You and your friends are: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry What’s the weather like: Joy in the Morning by P.G.Wodehouse Favorite time of day: Endless night by Agatha Christie(sleep the whole time ;)) What is life to you: Two lives by Vikram Seth(1 we live for ourselves and 2nd for th...

Well i had mentioned in my previous post about my company's internal blog. I have been pretty active there due to which i somehow couldn't come and post here. There were a string of meme's happening there for past 2 months..with the theme my life according to .... I just thought i should post it here too!! So next 3 posts are from the meme's..If any one of you feels like giving a shot at it, please do so and let me know!! :) Enjoy :)

I tried my hand at writing a short story. In my company we hve internal blogging system and there is a short story contest - with the theme "One night story". The story should happen between 8p.m to next day 8 am. This is my first attempt at writing a story. Thought of sharing it here too :) ************************************ 2009 I lay in my couch staring at him. My whole life, I have been faithful to him. Now old and tired, my days are numbered. But he was in his own world, surrounded by books. He didn’t even bother to look at me. As I see him leaving the room, I am reminded of that night - Bewitched Night - when my life got changed! Everything that I had was never the same. ————————————————————————————————– 1997 It is his 7th birthday. John. He is my best friend. We both are inseparable and need no one else to play with. The night has started off just like any other night. It’s around 8.30 p.m. We finished our ball-game and dashed into the house for celebrations and spec...

Music Last Saturday evening, I went to a concert held by Chennai Rotary Club in Music Academy,Chennai. The Show was full of hindi music of 60’s,70’s and 80’s era. It was an awesome event compered by Anurada Shriram and singers were Anil Bajpai,Ganesh,Jaya Rajagopalan and Anuradha herself. Anil Bajpai practically eats,drinks and sleeps with Rafi’s voice as he sings only Rafi’s songs and has a voice almost same as Rafi. Anyone listening to him for first time might mistake that they are listening to Rafi. Ganesh sings mostly Kishore Kumar’s songs and has an equal charm and fun in his voice as Kishore Kumar’s. Jaya sings a lot similar to Asha Bhonsle, but surprised many by changing her voice to Shamshad Begums’ while singing “kajra mohabbat waala” Anuradha,yet again, proved how versatile singer she is!! She sang both Lata and Asha’s songs and made the evening with the way she compered the show!! I had an awesome evening, completely lost in all those charming old songs, i grew up li...

Communications Communications are part and parcel of a man’s life. The mode of communication has only changed over a period of time. Most of us can’t imagine a life without a cell phone or internet connection. For example - A day without getting connected to twitter (on 6th, Thursday) was like losing something very special for millions of people using twitter. My post is actually on the earlier modes of communications – letters. How many of us write letters nowadays? How many of us have visited post office recently? As emails (for faster communication) and couriers (for sending something important) have become so popular, letter writing has become an old fashioned way! Nowadays the letters that we get through the post are – some magazine for which we have subscribed or various bills (whose soft copies are also sent in mail, like phone bills, credit card bills) etc. With all the technology developments happening, postal department has taken a back seat, though they have good investment ...

Kids and Childhood It always gives us pleasure when we see a small kid and more when the kid is laughing or smiling. The innocence and warmth that the kids have in their face can match nothing in this world. They bring joy to everyone surrounding them, be it parents, siblings, neighbors etc. Even to the most stressed out person, seeing a smiling kid changes his/her mood completely. I look forward to going to office in the morning especially because of two kids. The stop where I wait for company bus, there is a school bus also which comes to pick up few kids. These two girls (one is around 5 years and another 7 years) always come and stand with a big smile in their faces. The younger girl comes with her mother and stands quietly near her mother. The moment the little girl sees the elder girl coming in bike sitting behind her father, her face completely changes. She becomes excited. Today when the elder girl wanted to drink water, the younger girl also wanted to copy her and started aski...

Nowadays television has become very much commercialized and in the name of entertainment the level of “entertainment” itself has gone too low. If one channel starts some kind of reality show, the other follow the same way trying to get as many celebrities and “cooked-up dramas” that they can get into the show. Same way if some channel started some serial or show in the name of comedy then others follow soon. Unfortunately the “Indian audience” is happy to see all this and almost every one wants to have their 10 seconds fame by coming into one of these shows. Even parents are trying to get their small children into this business! When I see all these channels, I am reminded of Doordarshan – by far the best channel in television. Today, Doordarshan also has all kinds of sobbing serials and 1-2 reality show but then it’s not in such large scale as in other private channels. Despite these, they still have some good shows like Jalsa – which is telecasted every Sunday, trying to show several...

So Finally I joined Cognizant!! *Cheers* *Claps* *Laughs* Thank You, Thank You!!! :) I know for long time that I’ve been telling people that I’ll be joining Cognizant, but then I myself didn’t have any clue as to when! And now two weeks have passed. So how has been my time there?? Well …Really good… Lots of things have been happening. First and foremost is my laziness vanishing!! One year of vettiness(joblessness) has made me more than ever lazy(more lazy than I was before: :P). So now I have a nice schedule which keeps me busy! Secondly I have been meeting new people. I’ve to say that all the people in my batch are really friendly and nice. All of us are students of 2008 passed out batches but then seem like still college student! So we all are experiencing this transformation of college to corporate environment. Well cognizant campus itself is pretty good. Have been to two places and liked it. The environment and atmosphere and the p...

Finally after a year’s waiting I got information about my joining date yesterday and the best part is that I got it when I was least expecting it. Each day as I get up, I would think today is going to be the day! After days of hopes and expectations that I’ll know about my joining date, I had sort of stopped thinking about it the first thing in the morning! So when my friend messaged yesterday early morning asking me to check my mail and see if I have any mail, without any hopes I got up and opened the mail. I thought it would show 0 new mails but there it was. A mail from the company informing me to join on 29th June!! I had never felt as relieved as I was yesterday. So I know that I’ve one more month before I join. Now when I look back at this 1 year, I have enjoyed life doing nothing! If some one is to ask me what I’ve been doing for past 1 year I can’t give any concrete reasons. Let me see what I’ve been doing past 1 year. First of all 2008 had been a sort of landmark year in my fa...

This is one of the most standard conversations that I’ve had with a new person (NP). Soundarya – Hi, I am Soundarya. NP – Hi. I am so-so. Soundarya – How are you? NP – Am good. You? What do you do? …. …. NP – You’ve Siblings? Soundarya – Yes, 2 Brothers. NP – Elder? Soundarya – 1 elder and another Twin. NP –Whaaaaaaaaaatttttttttt??? :o Soundarya – Yeah. I’ve a twin brother. NP – Do you look alike? Who’s elder? What’s he doing? How come he’s far away? I heard twins have same kind of feelings and that they are very close and inseparable.Do you both like same kind of food? Do you both wear same color clothes?and the list of questions goes on and on..… Well I have sort of condensed this conversation. It always amuses me to see the reaction the new person always gives when he/she comes to know that I am a twin. And the kind of questions they ask is dubious. Each time As I answer them and tell them we are just like any other brother-sister, the d...

W ho am I? Who are you? Who are the people surrounding us? When I say people, I mean parents, relatives, friends, crowd in the bus you travel, or the shopkeeper from whom you buy your dresses, or the maid who comes to your house etc. This is not a philosophical question or anything to do with philosophy. Of late, this question has been in my mind after observing a few things. Oh yes, I’ve been so jobless that I actually have started observing things ;) We all are so engrossed in our work, personal commitments, social life etc that we tend to overlook simple things in life. The purpose of life!! The other day, I was talking to my brother in Skype and my grandfather came. When he saw my brother in computer screen, he became so happy. As he cannot hear properly he’s not able to converse with any one in phone and seeing my brother like this made him so happy. He, like a small kid, told every one who came to ou...