The Moonstruck Mystique...

Jennifer was warming up for the 200m sprint at the finals of the National Athletic Meet. Running had been Jenny's passion ever since she could remember. Initially, she would effortlessly outrun her classmates. Gradually, with guidance from her school coach she would win most track events that she enrolled for. But now, this was one of her biggest challenges and she wanted to win this like never before. She took her mark, closed her eyes, said a silent prayer and focussed her entire concentration on the next few moments that would turn out to be the most consequential seconds of her life. As soon as the signal went off, she felt herself lunge forward and felt herself collapse to the ground. When she opened her eyes, she was at a hospital with her mom and dad at her bedside. She asked to be told what happened. The look in her father's eyes told her to expect the worst. She learned that she had had a stroke that left her paralyzed waist down. They would try to bring her back to as...

The season that one loves and yet hates is here. The monsoons have finally hit Chennai and it is cool and breezy all the time. For the first time in years I slept with the fan switched off. The sun and clouds keep playing hide and seek. The umbrellas and raincoats are out.Funny that the sweaters are out too. This happens only in Chennai. :) Why are the monsoons so romanticized? Is it true or just me? It so wonderful to watch the rain... to listen to it... to get drenched... The trees look so much happier! Not so sure about the dogs though :P A rather arbit post here, I agree. But had to post these pics. I've been in such a good mood of late and it is totally thanks to this wonderful weather!

Oh well... I've been having this itch to post something here since the past few days but things haven't going very well for me on the health and as a result on work front. And if I had to write something, it wouldn't make anyone feel good. So much negativity isn't really required. After all, we all go through bad times. And though we know (read: believe) that this is only a passing phase, there are times when you feel awful. There are times when one would swear by Murphy's law cuz as you drag yourself through your day, you realize that anything that could possibly go wrong actually does. Well, this was actually what was happening to me since the past two weeks. Every morning I'd have a new issue popping up out of the blue; as though everything else wasn't enough. Time and again I'd just grow tired of the ordeal and tell myself that I've reached the threshold and that I just can take no more. And just when I'd think that no more could go...

If only I had known how much you'd loved me... If only you had told me once and I would've been yours If only I had had the slightest clue and we'd have lived together this life through for I had loved you so but couldn't confess.... I wish I had; I'd have at least tried... And now when I began to forget you came into my life again.. and told me what you oughtn't to; what now could I possibly do.... I am bound by another's love its only him for me now... If you couldn't then, why tell me now? If you think it helps then tell me how... for now I feel torn apart.. too much pain I bear in my heart. I'd yearn for you and you never knew hurt it did that I kept it from you.. But now our pain of longing hurts me more. no, my love... we were.. but long long ago now its just too late blame it on me or on fate... I love him so hurt him, I cannot. it just isn't anyone's fault. Now leave me alone, just let me be we were probably never meant to be... Don...

Most of us hate going to a government office of any kind in India. The snails pace at which the employees discharge their duties, the importance they give to chatting amongst each other rather than attending to people, the lack of concern towards our time or energy and so on. And the thorough mismanagement of affairs. No one knows what the rules are, most don't know who is in charge of what and the one you go in search for is on a week's leave! I came across such a thing when I was travelling home two weeks back at the Chennai Central. Having been suffering from severe backache further aggravated by my use of the prosthesis, I had decided to engage the services of the golf-cart like carriage within the station meant for the physically challenged to get to my coach rather than walk as I was advised rest. I went to the enquiry counter and I was asked to wait. I asked them if they had a phone number by which I could request for this service once I alighted at the station to whic...

It is Independence day tomorrow and one of the two days of the year ( cricket matches not withstanding) when the Indian feels patriotic. We will have the tricolour flying all over and people greeting each other ( if at all ); the goosebumps and the blood rush while hearing 'Vande mataram'. But to be very honest I don't think most of us, including myself, are patriotic in the true sense of the word. Pinning a flag on your shirt or singing the national anthem out loud does not prove our love for the nation. First, let us learn to value a human life. Let us learn to respect an individual for the choices he makes. Let him have his right to make them; infact give him a choice to make in the first place. Two days back I read a news item in the newspaper that a tribal girl was paraded naked through the village and it was even videographed and circulated as an MMS clip. And all this for having liked a boy outside the community. The girl and the father are under police protectio...

Mother, I wish I could understand the deal of how you think and how you feel... for when I'm happy, you just smile by an eye yet when I'm down, you pine more than I... When I want to give up, when I can take no more you take me by my hand and pull me ashore... You tell me I'm not alone, that together I am we whatever the problem, we'll find the key... How I forget every worry hiding in your bosom How you've taught me to never succumb... You are my conscience, my inner soul You are my strength and path to every goal... When I'm scared, when I'm unsure I yearn for you cuz you believe in me and know me more than I do... You are my life and this is true when I want the world, all I need is you.  ********************************************************************************* They say that God gives us mothers because he cannot always be with us. I'm luckier cuz I have two... they have always been my best friends.  I find it very interesting that tho...