Teacher's Day

Yesterday started out like any other normal day. Only when i entered college did i realise that it was Teacher's day. This day did have an importance in my life earlier, what with my mom and 3 of my grandparents being teachers. Also, few of my teachers in school/college did have a great impact in my life.

But yesterday, it was a whole new feeling. I was on the other side. It did feel weird but in a nice way. As I was climbing stairs to go to my room, students called out my name to wish me. It was so sweet of them. Also, they had organized some games for us, it was fun.

I always had a nagging doubt about my change in profession. Did I take the correct decision? Am I not too young to be teaching these 'kids'? Is it worth leaving an IT job and joining this? Well, I am getting answers to all these slowly. And I am very happy that i realized very soon that I wasn't made for IT industry.

Secret wishes.....

I read posts of other people and sometimes it amazes me, how someone can write so effortlessly. The words just keep rolling with such beautiful English. I don't feel the strain of reading. It makes so much sense. I have always been jealous of people with such talent. I secretly wish that i too could spin words so beautifully.

Sometimes i also wish that i could dance. I have 2 left feet. I can never dance, come what may :( when i see these dance shows where girls are dancing so gracefully, I wish I too could. The same with singing too...

I wish so many things that I am not and that I cannot do. Have a big aim in life and follow it and be someone who others can look upto, be able to write a book, sing and dance, make more friends, stop worrying about tomorrow, learn new languages...... so many things. I just wish that I will be able to do at least a few of these things in my lifetime.

Weird Dreams!!

I am labeled as a person who gets weird dreams. They will be so weird and far fetched that sometimes it makes a much better movie script than hindi movies.

Well, last week, i got a dream where in my best friend had had a baby and it was the baby's naming ceremony. But the funny thing is that all the attention was towards me as i was wearing a gorgeous dress. My photography-crazy friend would have got a new long snakey kinda lens which goes into the soil and comes out from the other side.

Few days later, it was in a classroom and all my engg friends are there. But my current college HOD is the lecturer for us. We are having food in the class. The school/college is some dilapidated building which i dont even recognize. Oh god!!

More to come as and when i can remember my dreams :)

Speeeeeling meeestakes!!

I somehow fail to understand this fad of using different spellings for seemingly simple words. Like ma or mah for my, awezum for awesome, tyme for time etc. Why? Why?

When the language is so easy to read and write, why make it complicated by using such ridiculous speeeeellings. I definitely get confused when i look at such words. Is it a fad or is it a way of telling that you belong to this generation or is it just following-the-herd mentality? There was a time, when sending messages from a cell phone, these short cuts were used. There was a reason for that, limited msg length and limited time. But why bring the same on to the paper or while typing on the computer. There is no such constraint. Oh well!! People amaze me.......

Gopalswamy Betta.

It was a beautiful Sunday morning of 14th June. Early morning breeze, beautiful sunrise and a bunch of friends cruising along the highway. What else can I ask for? We were headed towards Gopal Swamy Betta.

It is a quaint little place tucked away on a hill top, some 70 kms after Mysore. The journey till the hill top is the awesome part of the trip. There were 11 of us. 6 in a Bolero and 5 in an Indica.

We had many a stops before we could reach the temple. For breakfast, to refuel the vehicles, to click never-will-I-see-such-beautiful-sights pictures and to catch up with the other car. Well, in our car, the main topic was car mechanics. Grrr. There were 4 guys and they didn't talk another word about another topic. If by chance, they did, it was about stocks and shares. Oh god!! But it was nice, teasing them about it later. :P

On that day, the Creator was in a mood to be artistic. Wherever we saw, we saw beautiful patterns of clouds. Clear blue sky with grey clouds. The weather was awesome. We got some great pics too.
We were given good food at the temple. It was filling. We went around the hill, for a small trek and reached at a place where you could see only greenery. Well, only hills and clouds and nothing else. For people from cities, this is a rare and fulfilling sight.

We headed back by 3pm. On the way back too, we had many many pit stops. For coffee, for snacks, for jackfruit, for tender coconut, for dinner and for some photos. We also got to see rainbow. We went crazy, acting like kids, acting like we have never seen one before.

It was an awesome trip and special one in few ways. 1. one of our friends will be going to an MBA school, so this will be her last trip with us, for some years to come. 2. 2 couples are married recently and this was their first trip with their friends as couples. 3. one more couple will be getting married and this will be their last trip as single guy/girl.

Nevertheless, that day/trip was one of the many good days/trip for our group. We are used to having great time whenever we are together and we did just the same this time too.

Waiting? Oh no, not again!!

I had never waited for anyone so much as I had to wait yesterday for one person. It was not even worth the wait. I was made to starve, for half an hour of his time. Oh well!!

Well, it was like this. In my new college, yesterday was the day when hall tickets were distributed to students for their finals. And this governor of a north Indian state was supposed to address the students' gathering. We were told it would be a 20 minutes funciton. And well, we ended up waiting for 3 full hours. Such a waste of time. Of students' and ours. That too it was during the lunch hour. I would have fainted if it went on for 10 more mins, I promise. Oh well, such is the audacity of people in power. Though the governor, 'his excellency', spoke well, no one was in a mood to listen to him. Everyone's eyes was on the clock.
Guess, this is the norm everywhere.

Oh well!!

Out of 'IT' at last !!

Finally out of 'IT'. Bid goodye. Atleast for the present I am done with 'IT'. Feels nice. Definitely on a break with 'IT'. He he.. Ok ok I shall stop calling 'IT'.

As i was lamenting in my last post about how I was never happy with IT, I had no choice but to get along with it cos i actually dint have any other choice. But the company I was working in gave me one. The company wanted me to shift to another city due to openings in project there. And i did not want to leave my beloved Bangalore and go to another city. I declined (rather rejected) the offer. They gave me no choice but to quit. And i gladly did. How relieved i felt that day.

Next on the cards was which job to look for and which companies to apply to. Well as it happens, the college in which my brother studies had openings for lecturer post. Gave a demo and i was in. Feels so happy to be doing something that is so different from what i was doing for the last 2 years. And this makes sense. Absolute sense.

Its my first day in this new college today and i am already reminiscing about my college days. (I wouldn't go ahead and tell a filmi dialogue 'I will live my college days thro these students' :P)

Hope students here dont trouble me as we, in our college days, used to trouble our lecturers. :)

You like your job?? Really???

Again random thoughts today. About our jobs. Oh well!!

Was thinking about how many of us really knew what we were getting into before we joined our companies? Not me definitely. IT job was (is) so overrated that, that i felt there was no other worthy job elsewhere. Now do i know the truth.

But if someone asks, do we really tell how much our jobs suck. Nooo.. Not everyone. May be among our peers but definitely not to our uncles and aunts. Why? We dont want them to think that we are doing something unworthy. Right? Oh well!!

And if someone asks what exactly is your work? You try to mask your job description with all glossy words like 'i create web pages, applications for so and so company'. What someone is really doing might be write html code. I mean will we really own up that our jobs suck? That we are not happy there and we are sticking in that company cos of big bucks?? No one likes to accept his mistakes, after all....

What's this Marriage about??

I am writing this on the eve of my best friend's wedding :) (Well, nothing related to the movie). She really is my best friend and I am very glad that she is marrying the person she loves.

Her wedding preparations and stuff got me into thinking, what's this marriage all about? Why is this so overrated? What takes to have a good marriage?

Well, this is how i analyzed it. This marriage is a whole new world for the guy and the girl (if they are getting married for the first time, i.e!!). It promises all the fairy tale dreams, affection, love and a life long companionship. Well, then what happens after 1-2 years of marriage? Where do these dreams go? What happens to love and affection?

Its just that the girl and the guy are so psyched up about their life together that they forget to bring one tiny teeny thing into perspective - reality. They forget that it takes 2 people here to be happy and to lead a life whereas earlier it was just you and your wishes. And also the euphoria dies down gradually. The secret lies in keeping this alive. One should come out of the 'is this all what marriage is about?' syndrome and treat every day differently:)

I know i know, you would have heard about these things before and I am just passing it on. Oh well!! But aren't these things true??

Shallow shallow!!

I was just going through one of my friend's blog and the first thing that struck me was, 'her home page is so nice, why isn't mine?'. Isn't it a bit shallow of me. I did not think about her posts or her style of writing, but thought of the looks. Oh well!!

This got me into thinking. Aren't most people like this nowadays. Outer beauty takes precedence over inner beauty. It's a cliched dialogue and everyone keeps talking about it. But how many people really follow it.

Take for example, Bollywood movies. If the heroine is dressed well, from a top designer, the produces assumes the movie will be a hit. Whether the story is a repeated one, whether the camera work is good, whether the lead actors are acting well, doesn't bother him. But the look of the movie should be chic. How shallow!!

And also, why is it that the heroines have to go through a complete makeover to win hero's heart? Just by changing her hair style, clothes, does the person inside her also change? Is the hero that dumb to understand this point?

Now, to more realistic examples. You are walking down a road with friends. As soon as a hep dressed girl passes by, all the guys are looking in her direction. When searching for a bride, the first specification a guy mentions is, 'she has to be beautiful and fair'. Like character and education don't matter at all. Oh well!!

We are the victims of 'Attraction of the outer appearance'!! Oh well!!

Oh well!!!

Has it ever happened to you that you send out a mail to your friends expecting all of them to reply and they dont, while some other friend sends out a mail and suddenly your mail box is flooded with replies from everyone. Oh well!!

Has it ever happened to you that you consider yourself a very good friend of someone but later come to know that that person has made plans of some trip/outing without you even being invited to that. Oh well!!

Has it ever happened to you that you would be expecting some increment/promotion in the office/any place (from anyone) and that some non-deserving person gets it. You wont even get a chance to defend yourself. Oh well!!

Has it ever happened to you that you buy some costly stuff and exactly after a week, there is a 50% discount on that. Oh well!!

Oh well!! thats life.. :P

First!!

Well, here i am. Trying my hand at blogging. Wanting to do this from aeon, but sometimes laziness over powers my wish to do what i want to do.

Hope blogging brings a surreal surprise to my otherwise mundane life. :)