A few observations.

The dew drops on a Lotus leaf. Neither can they declare attachment to one another, nor can they ever seperate ways.

The flower that blossoms in Sunshine. One brightens the other everyday, yet expects or recieves nothing in reciprocation!

The water fall! The rocks so arranged that fall of water is the only fall on earth that can be beautiful!

Sights so beautiful...ah, why wouldn't they be. After all, acts of love without the fangs of possessiveness are supremely beautiful and priceless.

Further to a suggetion of a good friend, I herewith record 7 improbable(if not impossible) things i want to do:

1. An around-the-world trip in a hot air balloon.
2. Act in a Shakespeare play in the Royal Albert Hall, London.
3. Be witness to our Armed Forces battling it out there with the militants(The former deserve any and all acts of tribute)
4. Learn swimming and then, swim across to Vivekananda rock(Ah! some men are so worth to be imitated, yet so difficult..:) )
5. An evening in...oops...with Paris (Hilton) ( i call it improbable because i wonder if that event will ever end, once started !)
6. A vacation in Space ( Ah, those martian instincts)
7. (another thing I want to do is to complete the 7th point)

Any help from the blogger community to help fulfil any of the above points will be highly appreciated.

Thanks Vishnu, for having brought me into the loop...

Seven things I plan to do:
1. Get my drivers' license for a four-wheeler
2. Complete a marathon race without a "pit-stop".
3. Watch 4 movies back-to-back in cinema halls in a single day!!(Its fun to test endurance)
4. Make atleast one visit to Kailas-Manasarovar(The beauty is simply bewitching)
5. Take to yoga for better fitness.
6. Blog more often than I do now.
7. And I better take my Distance Management course seriously....got to take the exams coming up.


Seven things I can't do:

1. Sleep beyond 7 hrs.
2. Take a dog for a jog.
3. Cook
4. stop liking sweets
5. shop for more than 45 min.
6. stop reading and re-reading Shakespeare's works(..and each time its all the more interesting)
7. dance salsa!!!

Seven things I say most often:

1. Okkk
2. gosh!
3. ahaaa...Oru K(g)ruppa thaanya alairanga(comedian Vadivelu's punchline)
4. Naaye ( Vishnu and I are custodians of Points 3 and 4)
5. maga
6. well...
7. Good

I now pass on the baton to Nidhi.

“Unbreakable imported” Chinaware or Jalandar ki lassi tumbler

Friday workday was ethnic day at office. I reached office a little early than usual…me in a kurtha, jeans and chunri. Strike 9 am and the flow started. Men and women marched in their Patanis, Kanjeevarams, Mundu veshti, Sherwanis, Mysore Turbans…so on and so forth. I am not exaggerating when I say that each one looked as gorgeous as the word could mean and sound. One colleague in his Kodugu gown and head gear caused enough excitement among ladies for their hearts to complain of being over-worked in blood pumping. Not to mention that lady clothed in a Gujarati style saree…so very beautiful. I have always endorsed whenever elders at home discussed the importance of being dressed in our ethnic attires when the occasion arises. I strongly feel that the ethnic attires of Indian women are a celebration of feminine beauty! Anyone who wears those looks so gorgeous. Its just not about the looks, that is just a by-product. Its about colour, about the care and thought with which they have been designed, its about adding beauty and grandeur - grandeur so well blended with simplicity, without having to expose our skin to this atmosphere, this atmosphere whose Ozone is considerably depleted!

We have masses swarming shopping malls hunting for techni-colour tops and patched jeans. Hello! Please throw a glance at that beautiful Sherwani hanging on that stand with such simple majesty!

I was at a shopping mall yesterday looking for a Chinaware dinner set for a relative. The kind shopkeeper dug out half a dozen varieties, he even slammed one against other to show me how unbreakable they were. He even showed me his trump card – chinaware imported from US of A ! Whenever did Uncle Sam become such an excellent potter!!
I was very wary of it all, yet decided to go for it. As I gingerly felt my pocket for the wallet, I heard a wise lady quip rather emotionally in Punjabi, “ You call this unbreakable? I tell you, they can never match the endurance and grandeur of the Lassi tumblers of Jalandar!!..Ahh” The shopkeeper tried hard to hide is endorsing nod, lest he be viewed of breaching integrity to his business.

That very statement induced a chain of thoughts in me – I of course did not buy the dinner set. Instead I walked in to a cyber café to pen those flowing thoughts.

Chennai Marathon for a cause

The Marathon at Chennai will be held on the 5th of Feb 2006. Check in to http://www.chennaimarathon.org/rules_regu01.html to know about it all.

See you all there.