The rains came! Finally! Woke up this morning to the sounds and smell of rain. The pitter patter of rain drops washing away all the dirt and taking away all the heat and humidity!!
Reminds me of the movie, Be With You, I am going to hang all the sunshine "ghost" dolls upside down so that the rains will continue! But can't for too long or this place will definately flood! Can't have that now can we?
Anyways, thank god for the rain, as said in V for Vendetta, God is in the rain......maybe he is, rain coupled with sunshine gives life.
Guess life is all about balance...finding the center. The sun had it's fun, now the rain needs to do its thing!.
Monday, March 27, 2006
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Rainless Clouds
For the past week I have been seeing ominous looking rain clouds bearing down on us, hoping for a great splash to bring some relief to the heat but to no avail!!
However, despite such rainless clouds, we still get drenched if you take a walk outside!! Yes! I guess the rain is actually all around us, in the form of 90%+++ humidity!!
That probably explains such rainless rain cloud formations!
However, despite such rainless clouds, we still get drenched if you take a walk outside!! Yes! I guess the rain is actually all around us, in the form of 90%+++ humidity!!
That probably explains such rainless rain cloud formations!
To Love...
To love someone is to love without self,
To love someone is to love without conditions,
To love someone is to love without fear,
To love someone is to love without measure,
To love someone is to love without guarantees,
To love someone is to love without boundaries,
To love someone is to love without needing a reply,
To love someone is to love as it is,
To love someone is to love without possession,
To love someone is to love with an open heart....let your heart be no matter the season nor the weather...
To love someone is to love without conditions,
To love someone is to love without fear,
To love someone is to love without measure,
To love someone is to love without guarantees,
To love someone is to love without boundaries,
To love someone is to love without needing a reply,
To love someone is to love as it is,
To love someone is to love without possession,
To love someone is to love with an open heart....let your heart be no matter the season nor the weather...
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Dear Child
Dear child,
Why are you crying?
Are you lost as you wandered through paths unending?
Are you seeking the way home?
Or are you seeking just some understanding.
Dear child,
Whatever your worries, lay it down,
Lay it down on the ground.
Lighten your load and you shall be light again,
For what strength you waste carrying that load,
You will now retain, to swim in life's ebbs and flow,
For you'll be home soon.
Why are you crying?
Are you lost as you wandered through paths unending?
Are you seeking the way home?
Or are you seeking just some understanding.
Dear child,
Whatever your worries, lay it down,
Lay it down on the ground.
Lighten your load and you shall be light again,
For what strength you waste carrying that load,
You will now retain, to swim in life's ebbs and flow,
For you'll be home soon.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Famous Last Words
After the wash
Before the fire
I will decay
Melt in your arms
As the day hits the night
We will sit by candlelight
We will laugh
We will sing
When the saints go marching in
A for a heart
B for a brain
Insects and grass
Are all that remain
When the light from above
Burns a hole straight through our love
We will laugh
We will sing
When the saints go marching in
And we will carry war no more
All of our love and all our of pain
Will be but a tune
The sun and the moon
The wind and the rain
Hand in hand we’ll do and die
Listening to the band that made us cry
We’ll have nothing to lose
We’ll have nothing to gain
Just to stay in this real life situation
For one last refrain
As the day hits the night
We will sit by candlelight
We will laugh
We will sing
When the saints go marching in
And we will carry war no more
Before the fire
I will decay
Melt in your arms
As the day hits the night
We will sit by candlelight
We will laugh
We will sing
When the saints go marching in
A for a heart
B for a brain
Insects and grass
Are all that remain
When the light from above
Burns a hole straight through our love
We will laugh
We will sing
When the saints go marching in
And we will carry war no more
All of our love and all our of pain
Will be but a tune
The sun and the moon
The wind and the rain
Hand in hand we’ll do and die
Listening to the band that made us cry
We’ll have nothing to lose
We’ll have nothing to gain
Just to stay in this real life situation
For one last refrain
As the day hits the night
We will sit by candlelight
We will laugh
We will sing
When the saints go marching in
And we will carry war no more
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Arranged Marriage
Just got back from India and heard a colleague of mine, N, is finally getting married. Of course I immediately assumed that it would be with his girlfriend which he had told me about. However to my surprise it is not! It seems his family had found someone for him and likewise the family of the girl to have them marry each other!
I asked him, how does this work, and he said that, the whole thing basically was arranged by both their parents and he seems to be happy and accepting to the choice of his parents and seemingly she is too. Right now according to him he and her are being "friends" and getting to know each other till their big day in December. That is when they will be officially married after a 7 day wedding ritual/banquet.
Later in the day, I went around the office and found out almost the whole lot of them had their marriages arranged. One of them said it was for the better, because at that time, he was working so hard, he hardly had the time to go out and find someone to settle in a "Love" marriage (as they put it).
When his parents introduced the girl to him, his first impresion was that she is a very down to earth lady and very well educated. And till now, he said, as each day that passes, he is growing to love his wife more and more. They both have a son who is 5.
Well as for N, he seems happy and he offered me the statistic that, it seems the rate of divorce in a "Love" marriage in India is higher than that of an arranged marriage. And arranged marriage is indeed very common in India.
Well, whatever the case may be, I wish him and his future bride all the best and may they be happy always!
I asked him, how does this work, and he said that, the whole thing basically was arranged by both their parents and he seems to be happy and accepting to the choice of his parents and seemingly she is too. Right now according to him he and her are being "friends" and getting to know each other till their big day in December. That is when they will be officially married after a 7 day wedding ritual/banquet.
Later in the day, I went around the office and found out almost the whole lot of them had their marriages arranged. One of them said it was for the better, because at that time, he was working so hard, he hardly had the time to go out and find someone to settle in a "Love" marriage (as they put it).
When his parents introduced the girl to him, his first impresion was that she is a very down to earth lady and very well educated. And till now, he said, as each day that passes, he is growing to love his wife more and more. They both have a son who is 5.
Well as for N, he seems happy and he offered me the statistic that, it seems the rate of divorce in a "Love" marriage in India is higher than that of an arranged marriage. And arranged marriage is indeed very common in India.
Well, whatever the case may be, I wish him and his future bride all the best and may they be happy always!
Monday, March 13, 2006
3 Gee....sheesh
Got my first 3G phone the other day. Funny thing is, I was pretty excited before the phone came about. Reading about all the cool features that 3G technology can provide and connectivity and all. But somehow, after getting the phone and having it in my hand. It's hard to discern the technology from the existing 2G or 2.5G phone that I had. It was not so exciting after all...... :(
Except for 2 things though.
The so called video phone feature and the so-called "Live" TV viewing feature. The Live TV is line provider exclusive content. Say if your phone company which you subscribe to does not have TV Mobile, then it's just as much content and use as a feature that you have but cannot really capitalise on!!!
It's like buying a house with the most advance broadband infrastructure built in, but in a land with no internet access like in the Sahara desert!!!
And finally the video phone!! It's a damm cool feature as I have tried it with the Gazelle! It's really cool and it's streaming is smooth and in real time!!! This is so futuristic!!! Like something you once see in the movies but now it's being realised!!!
And I am holding this magnificent device in my hand!!! Video calling! WOW!!
But then a brick fell on me head, and I realised.......it's only me and the Gazelle have the video calling phone.
Sheeesh....go on all of you! Get yourself a 3G phone so that we can all do video calling!!! or not!
Except for 2 things though.
The so called video phone feature and the so-called "Live" TV viewing feature. The Live TV is line provider exclusive content. Say if your phone company which you subscribe to does not have TV Mobile, then it's just as much content and use as a feature that you have but cannot really capitalise on!!!
It's like buying a house with the most advance broadband infrastructure built in, but in a land with no internet access like in the Sahara desert!!!
And finally the video phone!! It's a damm cool feature as I have tried it with the Gazelle! It's really cool and it's streaming is smooth and in real time!!! This is so futuristic!!! Like something you once see in the movies but now it's being realised!!!
And I am holding this magnificent device in my hand!!! Video calling! WOW!!
But then a brick fell on me head, and I realised.......it's only me and the Gazelle have the video calling phone.
Sheeesh....go on all of you! Get yourself a 3G phone so that we can all do video calling!!! or not!
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
From Eloisa to Abelard - An excerpt...
May one kind grave unite each hapless name,
And graft my love immortal on thy fame!
Then, ages hence, when all my woes are o'er,
When this rebellious heart shall beat no more;
If ever chance two wand'ring lovers brings
To Paraclete's white walls and silver springs,
O'er the pale marble shall they join their heads,
And drink the falling tears each other sheds;
Then sadly say, with mutual pity mov'd,
"Oh may we never love as these have lov'd!"
And graft my love immortal on thy fame!
Then, ages hence, when all my woes are o'er,
When this rebellious heart shall beat no more;
If ever chance two wand'ring lovers brings
To Paraclete's white walls and silver springs,
O'er the pale marble shall they join their heads,
And drink the falling tears each other sheds;
Then sadly say, with mutual pity mov'd,
"Oh may we never love as these have lov'd!"
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Hate
Hate is a powerful emotion. Hate is a wasteful emotion.
Hate begets hate. So whats the point of hate?
What good will come when we will have more and more hateful people.
As they chant cries of pain and anger!
Picking up swords for vengeance but for what relief?
Will washing your hands with the blood of your enemy bring you peace?
Will it end the hate you have inside once he is gone?
Will you then see the light at the end of the tunnel?
Lay waste to this emotion as it will lay waste to your soul.
Let it be free of hate and your soul be spotless.
Tainting yourself with hate will never ease the pain.
Only time will. So why hate?
Hate begets hate. So whats the point of hate?
What good will come when we will have more and more hateful people.
As they chant cries of pain and anger!
Picking up swords for vengeance but for what relief?
Will washing your hands with the blood of your enemy bring you peace?
Will it end the hate you have inside once he is gone?
Will you then see the light at the end of the tunnel?
Lay waste to this emotion as it will lay waste to your soul.
Let it be free of hate and your soul be spotless.
Tainting yourself with hate will never ease the pain.
Only time will. So why hate?
Looking and Seeing
A lot of us are looking but not seeing. We look at an object but we do not see what and how the object came about.
It is like when you are in a car and you look out the window at the scenery whizzing by you. You only look at the scene but do not see the story behind. The people you see, the structures you see and the building you see, they are just things we look at.
Imagine however, if you could just stop looking and take a minute to see our surroundings, we can probably learn a lot more about the people and things around us.
Imagine all the story each and everything have and what they want to tell us by letting us see. Imagine what we can learn and how much more we can understand....
It is like when you are in a car and you look out the window at the scenery whizzing by you. You only look at the scene but do not see the story behind. The people you see, the structures you see and the building you see, they are just things we look at.
Imagine however, if you could just stop looking and take a minute to see our surroundings, we can probably learn a lot more about the people and things around us.
Imagine all the story each and everything have and what they want to tell us by letting us see. Imagine what we can learn and how much more we can understand....
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