Wherz summer ??

All days chilled, covered in snow
All days white , lacked colors
All days frozen , craving for life
All days wet , so damp
Where are those days where Sun is hard 
I am waiting for sun to peep
Waiting for those colorful warm days


Born in Bangalore , I have enjoyed the best climatic conditions all my life. Nothing has been too harsh .
But last few months there has been a great change. Witnessing -35deg , snow fall , snow storm , floods and continuous rain days together. All of a sudden I start praying for the sun to shine. I have never waited for summer to arrive , I am longing to see those sunny days

Surprise !

There is a reason behind this blog. It’s my roommate; her joy made me put this in writing. Few days back she got a pack of surprises from India. It was from her boy friend and her sister. It had various cute gifts and a letter written by her sister. She was so surprised and cried with happiness. There was one more incident that i can recollect where one my best mate sneha was surprised on her birthday by her husband. It was an awesome day for her. There were couple of surprises lined up and all were unique and sweet.

Surprises are such a pleasant thing it can put a smile on anyone’s face. Nobody can ever deny that they do not like surprise. It’s probably impossible but I expect some exceptions. I have seen every time how my sister’s eyes glows when she gets surprise gifts on her birthday, how my mom can’t stop smiling when she receives surprise gifts from us . One way to make your people feel special is just give them some good surprise once in a while, try and bring a smile on their face. It need not be too grand but something small which makes them feel good. For a day surprise your mom by cooking when she is gone out, get your dad his favorite music, buy your brother or sister a ticket for some movie which they love and want to watch, place a nice note with a fresh flower beside your spouse before he or she wakes up (I guess it is too romantic: p). I need not mention, there are lot more innovative ways.
The best surprise that I have come across till date was a visit to orphanage. I had gathered lots of chocolates and sweets. I also made few packs of goodies. Each of them contained items like pencils, crayons, stuff toys, key chains, color pencils and books. Then I dragged one of my best friends on his birthday to an orphanage. He had no thought where he was taken to and why. After we entered the place we saw few kids of all age groups from various parts of the country, there were around twenty of them. We all gathered and had fun, some started singing, some kids danced and some cracked some jokes. My friend distributed chocolates and sweets, he also gave away the goodies and in the end we had a group photo shoot. This photo was framed and given to him. He was really content that he made all the kids cheer for a while. Those young children were really excited to open their goodies. They sang the birthday song for my friend. This was a day to be cherished by me since my idea of surprise clicked and made my friend very happy.
Surprises are always the best gift. The fun in giving a surprise in incomparable!!

Keep surprising :-)

Signing off,
Resh

Nostalgia !!

School and College days were the best days..


After entering professional life , there has never been looking back .The only breather is weekends , no long holidays provided I apply them myself and some rear long week ends .
It feels incredible when I am back into College days enjoying the holidays. I get nostalgic sometimes.
I get those pictures of myself hiding behind library shelves, mechanical labs after bunking classes and somehow manage to break out from the class and enter cafeteria. I remember those days when we hanged out on the stair case near the class and felt it was the best place to hang out. Checking out everyone who passes by and passing weird comments and giggling for nothing. Trying to impress professors by asking senseless doubts. I was a little crazier to even randomly pick a problem from book and ask the professor to solve it. Fighting and quarrelling for 0.5 marks in a exam paper. Discussing answers after the examination just outside the exam hall and regretting for making stupid mistakes. Crossing fingers just before the results are announced, pray god for that damn 35!!
Getting ragged was fun as well. I enjoyed combating with seniors because they tried to rag my friend and ended up preparing lemon juice for them. I cribbed for one week when some senior of mine just grabbed gobi manchoori from my plate . I loved the way we freaked out during a rock show in our college. Enjoyed some boring classes by passing chits among friends in the class. Playing SMS SMS in class, finishing the lunch right infront of the professor , dropping the lunch box down the floor and looking at one another’s face and behaving as innocent kids . I was so perfect that I would stuff the food into my mouth but I was scared to chew it, funny wasn’t it ?.
Discussing some non sense stuff with friends , hanging out all night long and naming it combined study. I was so bad in night study that once to win a bet against a friend I had to literally hold my eyes open using my hand so that I won’t snooze . I hated these ethnic days as I really don’t know to wear a saree and it was the worst thing to happen . I used to wonder how girls ever survived in those saree. I have literally commented on every girl and their costume!! Trust me it was fun.
Small crushes and heart breaks were a part of these awesome days. Secret angels and its horrible effects, rose days and its gossips were just so pleasurable. College days will remain golden forever.
One step back and school days were little crazier. I had literally wounded every other person in my class. Piercing in to a guy’s face to prove him that my pencil was shaper than his, Tearing a boy’s book into pieces just because he spoke negative about my hand writing. I acted like a bond in the class!!. Home works were a punishment and I don’t remember a day when i have completed any of them. All day I sat in the back bench and ate chocolates and drew circles in my book and got near zeroes in exams. Followed were blasting from parents which was clearly ignored by my senses. I have no idea how I changed but thanks for the change. My school days were rocking too!!

Lost Love

Walking down in your life we meet many people. Some people leave an impression and some don’t. Some walk with you , some stay back and some go ahead. But there is one person who will continue to be with you forever. At least promises to be with you forever.
Life has never been simple and not all are fortunate enough to find the love of their life easily. There is a small story that I came across off late . This is about a person , this person found the Love of his life very easily . Had few conversations and realized that this must be the one . I cannot define exactly but some circumstances arose that did not let this feelings continue. The external forces were strong enough to stop this entirely. The external forces won and the love failed. This person continued to move further on, persuaded himself that it was nothing more than a dreadful choice. The circumstances were never content, they had to play a little further, they can change their behavior as they need and this time they recreated the special feelings again between the couple. The external force again came into light and there was one more victory feather added into the external force crown.
Days or rather years passed and one day this person thought for himself, he recalled his old memories and thought there must be some strong force behind which pulled him to that girl over again and again . May be destiny wanted them to be together but destiny never wanted the external forces to be beaten. Sometimes destiny is more mystified than we human beings.
On the other side the girl, the lost love of this person constantly loved this person irrespective of the effects of external force. The victory of neither external force nor any other force stopped her.
This is a point where destiny has got them together again with the external force . This time the victory will be ……..
This plot has been taken from a great movie , mixed with some known and unknown facts . If possible guess the movie . I have left the victory part blank as I need to evaluate whether LOVE should win or the external force and if they can fuse.

Erratic climate!!!

It’s been two months in US now. Far from my country, trying to enjoy my stay here. Trying to overcome the time zone difference, still in the process of overcoming jet lag.
When I came here the climate was freezing. It was very difficult for me to tolerate temperature of range -25 to -30 degree Centigrade. Then snow started melting, the temperature came close to 0 . Then there was showers sprayed by god , it rained day and night. It poured and pored for almost 3 to 4 days nonstop. As a consequence we faced floods. After the flood now the temperature is good and is close to 8 degree centigrade.
Being from a city like Bangalore where the climate is really fair I have witnessed all kinds of extreme climatic conditions in just a span of two months and it feels good that I was victorious in overcoming these dramatic changes. Human body is miraculous isn’t it?

Saturday evening with Bryan!!!

Just when I was low, thinking I cannot see Bryan Adams I saw a ray of hope. I got 2 tickets for the show on Saturday 20th February. It was Bryan Adams live concert. I was excited all week and finally that moment arrived. We went to the festival concert hall 30 minutes prior. The show was expected to start at 8. It was a very small crowd , there were not more than 500 people with average age being 40. Yes there were not many youngsters. I was little disappointed about this. Our seat was located quite far from the stage and was a balcony seat (mind you it’s the opposite of movies, here balcony costs less). My roommate was generous enough to join me for the show in spite of not being a big Bryan fan. We found our seat and as usual were commenting on people passing by. I turned to my right to find a 6 feet man next to me , he took out some tickets from his pocket and asked “ Are you a big Bryan fan ?” I dint hear a word which came out of his mouth ,as I was very scared and was only gazing at his hands expecting some knife to pop out and pierce into my flesh. It sounds silly but that is what I felt at that moment. He asked us to move down and offered us seats closer to the stage so that we could get closer view of Bryan. We immediately grabbed the opportunity and moved down. I was just 30 feet away from the stage. Few minutes passed by and then I saw this man coming on the stage with a black hat, a jean and black shirt, so simple and so handsome. He looked like a 25 year old handsome man. There was a roar in the hall. Everybody was clapping apart from me. I was busy looking at him and even at that point of time I thought it was all dream. My hand and feet were cold literally. His first track was run to you, an awesome track. After that there were many more. No breaks he stood there for more than 2 hours and delivered more than 20 songs.
He spoke in between the tracks, explained about the story behind the track. He has a very good sense of humor and is down to earth. Basically a Canadian and has visited and performed in almost all countries including India and Pakistan. He sang cuts like a knife, straight from heart, just for love, I need somebody. The best was when he sang “have you ever loved a woman” and “summer of 69”. I feel these are his best songs for ever. He is a multi talented person; he sang a song which he had written when he was 18. He used his guitar and mouth organ in parallel and created magic. There was nothing apart from guitar, mouth organ and his voice. But it was nothing less than DVD version of his songs. It was a delight, a treat to watch him sing.
When he sang “have you ever loved a woman”, he pointed at the audience and ended the song by telling “you got to love your woman”. He sang “never let go” which he had composed as a dedication to people who fight in war and protect their country. He has magic in his voice that I was so involved in his songs. I could never imagine that a person who is 50 years old can perform with so much energy and keep his audience engaged. He was always one of my favorite singers but now he tops the list. Bryan baba ki jai ho!!
I am in love with this bundle of talent! When he sang “ let’s make a night to remember...” I decided that this was indeed a night to be remembered all my life.

Narrow escape

I don't know how to start , because i am still not out of the shock and surprised that i still breathe.

We had great plans for the week end. We were travelling 70 miles away from our city to a neighbour city to visit one of our friend and party. I had never imagined that we will end up celebrating life , the fact that we are still alive!

We were discussing about the air bags and its advantages , i was busy looking out of the window and enjoying the view which had nothing apart from snow. There was a brisk snowfall as well. One of my friends was happily chatting over the phone and the other was busy driving. All of a sudden my friend exclaimed "Oh Shit...!!" , we all looked in front to find one humongous truck and a car. I had no clue what was happening. Our car changed the track and started sliding to the rightmost track from the leftmost track. We had two complete rotations and our car fell into the ditch with the right side of the car dumped inside the snow. All this while i had my eyes closed and prayed god telling i dint want to die. The worst moment , i had lost hopes of surviving and was very confident of hitting a truck or a pole and die on the spot. When all this happened ,our car was on the interstate at 100 kilometers per hour speed. Its beyond my imagination to think about the effects of hitting any object at that speed. For few seconds after the car got stuck in snow we were in silence. My friend got out of the car and was calling emergency , my other friend also got out of the car but i could not because the doors were locked. I was very scared and wanted to get out of the car.

The police dint confirm on the exact time of when they will reach to pull us out of the mess.We got out of the car and tried to remove the ice. All our effort were in vain because the car dint move an inch and the wheels of the car rotated on the same spot. After an hour of wait finally the towing truck arrived with the police and helped us out.
Later we travelled the rest of the distance at 20 miles per hour speed. After we reached our destination we celebrated . We celebrated because we had seen death visiting us and then taking an U turn. It is really scary to even think of being killed in such a horrible way. I am too happy that i am still here. I have decided that i will live my life full on, because you never know this might be the last time you enjoy... Live your life like today is the last day of your life.
Cheers!!!! :-)