It is such a lovely day

Awesome day it is :)
Skipped the gym for my body was so sore and I did not go.
Then I called pranks and kajus and had such a ball talking
And then I listened to some awesome songs on radio
And I dont believe that there are so many nice kannada songs :)
So work is going on :)

and you can see the general upbeat mood with all the smileys

Stuff

It was a brilliant weekend in Ooty. Lovely weather, nice car, decent roads, no urgency and lovely company. The drive was awesome and the rain and mist made it beautiful. The food rocked as did the hill station as well as the chocolates, of which I have so much, so drop in home if you want some of the 9 types of chocolates that I bought.

But all this is ok, and I would have enjoyed it anyways, even if I was alone. What then made it so nice?

The only thing that made it so special is that it brought back so many feelings and committments that were pushed to the back of our minds. I, actually, we realized that the friends from college are still as important, if not more, at this point in time. We need each other, if not for anything else, just say "I love you for what you are and I will be around if you need me." Just a confirmation of the fact that we can be liked, that we are nice people, and that there is someone who is just a call away.

Some of us in the group are in love and will be married sooner or later. But we still need these friends, the good old friends from engineering days who will always be there, like us for whatever we are and will become.

In this trip, we realized this and this one thing, makes the whole trip so so worth it.

Keep in touch people, for nothing else in the world, not all the money, cars houses or holidays will take us through a rough patch in life, or even more simply, make us feel like the most special people in the world.

P.S. I wish this was a post in a physical diary, the ink would have smudged. Che che!

mulldall

Sent at 5:04 PM on Wednesday
Me: loosu
what ya doing?
VEEDEE: why man?

Me: sumne
VEEDEE: nothing da

Me: karma
same here
VEEDEE: super
and am hungry as well

Me: sooper
go eat
Sent at 5:08 PM on Wednesday
VEEDEE: no i will wait till 6
:)

Me: why?
muhurta naa?
Sent at 5:08 PM on Wednesday
VEEDEE: he he.. more hungryness is good
:)

Me: gawd!!
whattay englees
VEEDEE: ass ip year anglich ij vely gowd

Me: myadness
VEEDEE: shule ij

Me: bad ba
d
VEEDEE: yakke?

Me: dont voverdo eet
VEEDEE: en is?

Me: good lord!
Sent at 5:10 PM on Wednesday
VEEDEE: illa pa
gowd lword it is
clock the spelling i say

Me: clock?
VEEDEE: watch da

Me: eet eej spalling
karma kanda
Sent at 5:12 PM on Wednesday
VEEDEE: maidness eet eej

Me: ur a maid?
VEEDEE: kelsadavluness
:)
lei
thu what is the chat da

Me: whats that kelasa thing!
VEEDEE: kelsadavlu- ness
maid-ness
:)
che

Me: gawd
VEEDEE: lets learn new language...

Me: madness
VEEDEE: we are killing all languages

Me: not happening
keeling baby keeling
VEEDEE: see

Me: and eet eej longwage
simpsimply u says arbit stuffs
VEEDEE: type madod kastha
:)

Me: harbit hactually
kastha?
thats weird
kashta is better

VEEDEE: halbit hactually

Me: ha ha ja
ha LOLLOLLOL
VEEDEE: LOTFL
:)

Me: LOTFL only :)
soopal zoke
VEEDEE: huchs we arse
:)

Me: madness
ares is ok
arse is bad bad word
we are then clazy bums!
VEEDEE: who says
clajy btw

Me: clayjee
VEEDEE: bombs!!
hahhahahahahha

Me: is betters
boms
bombs is bad
VEEDEE: bongs?

Me: boms is good
thats a synonym
VEEDEE: he he
lei we need to see doc
else we speak like this and we are sclewed

Me: i nose
VEEDEE: himesh reshammiya
:)

Me: leshmmiya kaNo
VEEDEE: LOL
we dont call animals names child
reshammiya

Me: okie dokie
VEEDEE: thu poda
lets talk in kannada
english is bad

Me: onkey donkey
sari heLu
VEEDEE: in mele inda

Me: sari
VEEDEE: illa andre obsession agute idu

Me: taavu heLodu hechha? naavu keLodu heccha
VEEDEE: nam bhaSe bari 2 akshara agute man

Me: what?
VEEDEE: saar film dialogue hodi bedi :)

Me: hoDedu aaytalla
VEEDEE: nam language

Me: longwage
uddasambaLa
VEEDEE: mangluru kannada sari ide maraya
enchina savi idu

Me: illa maarey eLedu eLedu maataadtaare
VEEDEE: :P
kudlan elada?

Me: what?
VEEDEE: kudlu man
kuldu elada?

Me: hair raising
VEEDEE: most definately
this is

Me: now go
tolags
i need to does wowrks
VEEDEE: you too
madi

Me: sure :)
madi alvo maadi
madi is pure and orthodox
VEEDEE: altha madko belu
*beku

Me: okay saar
now to be goings
VEEDEE: jasti aaitu
bye
tata
:)

The rice fields of my life

It is always a pleasure to talk with the rice fields in my life, and there is always this comforting feeling that I can say anything and it will just be absorbed and not emitted anywhere. So cool na? I met the rice field yesterday and had this gala time, and as usual ended up spending more time than I thought I would! But who ever complained about feeling all nice and happy after such long talks!

That incredible sense of pride

As seniors, we have our favourites. We mentor them, keep track of them, feel happy for them when they do well but the strongest feeling is when they don't do what they should be, when they give up what they have stood so much for which in the first place made them your favourite. You have that deep sense of erosion of something very strong, something that you felt that you could hold onto, for often these things are things that you have sworn by.

There have been some people like that whom I believe I have had an influence on. And more than anything, I want to see them grow into beautiful people, people others would look upto, would appreciate and tell their kids "See, this is how you must become" and more importantly, I want to see them ending up as people who stand for certain things like judgment, freewill, fairness and hardwork.

There has been one such Lad I like to believe I have influenced to stand for the right things. And he has done well for himself. I warned him when he was getting into B-School about what he was getting into. And he went there and cracked it, he got the biggest bestest thing that anyone there would want. Something like this is heady and can shake the very foundation that you stand on and I was getting worried that this was happening. People change and that’s good, what’s worrisome is when the core changes. That’s what scares the hell out of me.

I was getting the hell scared out of me. It was this strong feeling of despair that my lad was losing what gave him is greatest strength, shaken by the lies of the corporate world and opinions of myopic peers.

But I spoke to him today, for a long time, after long. And he has turned out to be such a nice lovely lad, the same boy I knew, but much clearer, much stronger and much more confident. And he can see through the same lies and opinions that have made many a man stumble. And today I feel this incredible sense of pride that he has turned out the way he has, and all I can say is "I am so proud of you, my Lad!"

mulldall

Mes and the un"kills" veedee can be tlied for mulldall aaf the Eeenlees and kanra longwages :)
The atlocities we commit aan them combined with the mode of spich of the tlading community from Andhra is just hilalious mulldall :)

Excelpts floym one aaf the thoujand convelzations:
veedee: allo saar, hen maadtaa hidila?
me: henilla kanLa, teefee voDitaa ideeni, what you doing, chil!
veedee: baas told off me to do off some wolk, i said off poda, i cant do wolk and all :D
me: sooper, i have no wolk whatsoevel at all, so maaring teefee
veedee: unkills then do off my layjoomays
me: wokays unkills, not nows, will does latels (and the haaroplabe makes noise and i say) kingfishel flight is haaring unkills, what a luccus it makes, i say

:D
and the lambling continues fol a laang time :)

Tripping through life

The more I trip in life, the higher the high I hit.
Looking forward to many more such tripping experiences :D

The fine line

It is weird but we all go through this! Atleast I think we all do and I definitely do!

And that is this eternal question of whether " I am doing too much of too few or too little of too many."

And the question has no one right answer!

It is a constant turmoil that haunts me all the time and causes me to sometime discontinue things that I was so passionate about before, things that I stood very strongly for. But today I find myself not so keen and don’t do it at all.

This is a complex dynamic decision based on current and future commitments, current time availability, the constantly changing priorities, ad hoc work that comes up, boredom with existing things that you have been doing and so on.

And this question will like a non-linear optimization align how much time and effort spent on how many number of things in line with the above stated parameters. To make it more complex, all you need to add is the whims and fancies of the person that you are.

See it is so complex that you don’t know what is right and what is wrong! And for someone to judge you at this point and say you are lazy, or you don’t have your priorities right and all that is not correct. Like I was telling P today, never judge a person wearing you shoes, I used to do it, today I don’t, I would have lost out on a lot of very good friends of mine if I had continued to be so judgmental. I am still opinionated but I don’t judge people so harshly anymore and I am so much more open.

Also, I am open to change, much more than ever before and I can understand if people's priorities change. When priorities change, the " I am doing too much of too few or too little of too many" question pops up and you change things you are doing. Don't judge someone as wrong when this change happens for this change was bound to happen and it did, whether you like it or not.