I Me Myself

Height of weakness – With all the education, power and wealth, you cannot predict with certainty the next moment. Best way to overcome this weakness – Share and laugh this with someone!!! Hahaha … you simply like some moments. All tired up, I entered my room on a Friday night to concentrate on my submissions but my brain just didn’t work. It just failed. So, I took the best medicine I know for such situations – watch a good hindi movie. I searched for a good one and luckily found an unseen interesting movie “ Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (2003) ” (How can I miss this one?). It just took me to different plane of thoughts. With them overloaded in my brain, I walked down to exhale some good air. Now I have a good friend who I normally meet downstairs. Our security guard. My little chit-chat partner during my frequent trips downstairs. The lady laughs a lot and it is sometimes weird. But I really like her jovial nature. She exhales too and many a times accompanies me. Usually we talk...

26.2 !!! This figure does not ring bells in most ears. Yet, for long distance runners this number in miles is pride. Whether it is amateurs aspiring to complete their first one or professionals fighting over the last minute, marathon events are occasions when dreams become reality. And one such event is The ING New York City Marathon. Here today, around 38 thousand people ran to meet their aspiration. In my opinion, it was good day to run - no rain, no wind and good temperature. I was lucky enough to volunteer at the Medal distribution counter. Although I and my friend, as usual late, were at the right time to perform our duties. As we got ready, we received the first of the disabled category marathoners. They were the ones who stole my heart away. I could not just stop my incessant cheering at their achievement despite whatever disability. Around 12 to 12:30 PM, there was a loud uproar in the crowd. Our winners were arriving. Jelena Prokopcuka (2:25:05) repeated her performance at NYC...

chakde chakde chakde chakde chakde phatte ... I am not kidding. And I should thank Tushar for encouraging me to watch " Khosla Ka Ghosla ". Movie was good but the song " Chakde Phatte " just cleared my head on how to approach life (at least for tonight). You might still be thinking that I am joking. Let me present you some lines from the song: "...yeh duniya oot patanga kite hath te kite tangaa te kukdi dindi baanga..." This just portrays the society in which we live. World is just chaos. With all the modeling in economics and politics, you can never explain whats going on. Next, everybody is trying to achieve something or other which may make no sense most of the time. But even in this incomprehensible mess, you see some pattern (kukdi dindi banga ... cock crows) "... taa ate utte bethha bandar samjhe apnoo sikandar..." These are the best lines. They show the kind of people in this world (obviously seen from your perspective). I would say that ...