Of rockets, riding waves and baggages

Sometimes, you rise when you are out of a relationship (friendship or something even special). Its like the other person has been holding you down from launching off.

Some other times though, your life takes off when you meet someone. Its like you got onto a big wave and suddenly you realize that you know how to surf skillfully.

We meet people of both the kinds. The only reason evolution took such a long time is that humans never made a conscious decision to choose being with the second type. We get entangled and end up carrying the huge emotional luggage for the trek.

In a perfect world, the same constraint holding your rocket from taking off could be the big wave that someone else wants to take a ride on.

Ravanayanam.

Would sita have falled for ravana?

No internet/phone in those days. I still wonder how sita managed her long distance relationship with rama. She was away for almost for 1 year. I mean, Ravana had everything a chick needs.

1) Lots money (duh!, he owns an island called LAnka),
2) the best car you can ever get (push-pak vimana..the fully automatic open top that flies and has all the weaponery to kick a big-bird's ass..beats all those lexuses and BMWs),
3) great scholar (he is called dasa-kanttha...he knows 4 vedas and 6 puranas unside down...doesnt need a Phd...read #1 doesnt need a job!),
4) pious (this tamil brahmin is the most revered devotee of lord Shiva)
5) has character (waited for sita to accept him and dint force anything onto her)
6) he already had the beautiful wife (he was probly a stud in bed too! )

I really feel pity for ravana and his demonic portrayal in Ramayana. May be there is a equivalent of 'Da Vinci Code' in india too. But unfortunately, we will never know.

After all this what sita gets is a guy who doesnt even trust her anymore.

Arbit Proposal

"I Like you. ---> (He has no clue that those words slipped through his mouth)
It doesn't mean you need to like me. --->(Takes care of the 'being-unconditional' bullshit)
It doesn't mean I want to be with you forever. --->(Of course not. He is lying. He just doesn't want you to get psyched out)
It just means I like you."---> (Same as first line. For special effect!)

-Some arbit guy to some arbit girl.

Pizza delivery.

Try forgetting something which you don't even remember.

Try losing something which you never owned.

Try accepting its over with someone, when there was nothing to start with.

Try not believing in mithya - an illusion of possessing something.

You are never its owner; you are just like a pizza delivery boy.
With the duty of carrying it safely to its destination.
With an awareness that you yourself are also like a pizza to be delivered.

Winter Break 'Things to Do'

Watch
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Transporter-3
Yes Man
The Curious case of Benjamin Button
Tropic Thunder
Pulp Fiction (again)
Sin City (again)
Insomnia
Once upon a time in America
Donnie Brasco
Memoirs of A Geisha
The Others (again)
The Big Lebowski
Valkyrie
Frost/Nixon

Eat
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Burrito
Cheese Pizza
Taco
Chelupa
Panang Rice
Gangheree
Yellow Curry
Cranberry Bagel
Veggie Burger
Sambhar & Rice (twice and yummy)
Idli, Vada & Sambhar
Veggie Wrap
Biryaani (twice and yummy)
Mediterranean Sandwich & Tomato Soup (with bread bowl)

Drink
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Margarita
Margarita
Margarita
Margarita

Do
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Sleep
Take Photos
One of the above three activities

Coming back to life

Watching Jodhaa-Akbar in PVR gold class with his girl-friend was a dream come true. A movie was always the part of an ideal date. Watch the second show of a classy movie in PVR gold class, pack some tasty Chinese and go for a long drive on a car. She obliged for the first part. She doesn't like Chinese and he doesn't have a car. They left after watching the last song. The climax fight wasn't worth the time (she thought). She has been working late these days. Some stuff to wrap up.

Driving at 90kmph on the inner ring road is always fun. Especially on a seven-year-old splendor with the ipod playing to its max volume. But the speed limit plummets down when she is there. As he started driving back, he wondered how it all started.

Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein - RHTDM

He met her at the blind date contest during Oasis 2001. They lost the contest as he was not sure what her favorite color/movie/song were. But he knew something for sure. He likes her. Sudden break. Phew. That lady in Honda Civic, surely drunk, took a sharp left turn in-front of him on hosur road. She asks dreamily something like "What happened". He says "Nothing. You relax.". She could not catch up on sleep of late. Damn bangalore traffic. Damn frustrated bangalore traffic.

Koi Kahe Kehta Rahe - DCH

An occasional 'hi' gave way to a periodic chat. The casual conversations gave way to the regular discussions. The more he met her, the more he knew she was the girl. Both were 19 then. She is already dozing off on his shoulder as the bike cruises at a constant 40kmph; no signals for a long stretch. Rather he would not care to obey them now. Her hair fluttering in the wind. Its fragrance stills makes him dizzy. The static roar of the wind plays the lullaby as the smooth ups and downs of the road rocks the cradle for the sleeping beauty.

Gori gori - Main Hoon Na

Each of the places on the way hold their own importance. The inner ring road, the airport road fly-over, the 100ft road, the corner house, the leela palace barista, the CCD, the Windtunnel road, the Amul icecream shop. Each one of them.

Tum se hi - Jab We Met

They are 24 now and they had to be just friends. Something was not right about the whole thing. The parting was imminent. She is going abroad for her masters and he was shifting job to another city. Both are moving out of bangalore. Bangalore days were the best and the worst days of their lives. Both belive whatever happens, happens for the best. Life is smarter than us humans and chooses the best (always).

Coming back to life - The Division Bell

Time travel -II

What determines the mood of a person? I think just the following:
a) Food
b) People
c) Music/Movie

Our brain (hats off god!) groups files in sets of folders. You try to access just one file among them, you inevitable pick the entire folder. Some association among the files. But the same file can be part of multiple folders. Something like the song Coming back to Life of Floyd being part of 'All time favorites' as well as 'Make her listen these' playlists.

So as you lead your life, you slowly build up a huge database of feelings. What are feelings? I feel happy/Down/High/Low what ever. Its exactly this - The precise level of your hormones - (I know I've mentioned it in one of the earlier blogs). Nothing else. For guys there aren't many where as for the ladies there are innumerable. And the infinite combinations of them. Well thats why the guy doesn't 'Understand how she feels' always (Well, after a while he does say 'I understand how you feel' but I bet its just a statistical observation). So coming back to the point. How are food/music/movies/people/touch influencing the mood. Simple, they set the hormone level.

Take this. You listen to Dil Chahta Hai or RHTDM songs and suddenly you 'feel' nostalgic about your hostel wing (and probably the tasty chola batura in RBM mess!). You watch Swades and remember the day you made job (just because you happen to watch it the very next day). While accessing one file, you pick up the entire folder. This sometimes results in hallucinations. Not just visual. Olfactory as well. How many of you guys feel faintly that you smell your gal's fav perfume when you browse through old college pics or read some mails while rummaging through the inbox.

Well. Try it. Recreate just one (hopefully something strong) scenerio and see how you feel the hallucinations. So, its just the hormones. So, its easy to time travel.