Compassion…!

Many a times, we are restless, stressed, insecure and even frustrated. One thought/one feeling giving way to another making things worse, much worse than the situations are thoughts mostly! On the other hand, at times when thoughts grow towards the other extreme of satisfaction, peace and accomplishment thoughts become neat and progressively positive. Things that one should be proud of, feel gifted for, happy about give way to a sense of compassion!

Does it sound preachy! Well it does, but mind does need it at times when it looks away from people once were dear to its own self, looks down on things it craved for hell bent and finds no good reason for its existence despite all the reasons it’s got to do so! That sentence could be heavily complicated, but not as much as an ocean of thoughts. Just add a tablespoon of compassion to it and stir well. The ocean starts tasting good like you’ll lick it n sip it for life!

Am I shri shri, nope certainly not! I have one shri in my name though, so I deserve a pardon on this. Yes or no might depend on the level of your compassion for this write up.

A word that got Ms. Rai a Ms. World was nothing but compassion that she used so brilliantly in the final round of elimination (when she didn’t have that accent, thankfully)

So, let’s begin a thought that eventually progresses towards a compassionate thought, feeling, action and world! 


Amen!

Bites10...

Some have more, some have less. But everyone has it...


Some show, and some won't. Some hide, some can't...


Some grow with it, it grows with them. And they stay together...


Some shout, some confine. The true color is never seen...


Sometimes they win, they loose. But it wins, always...


Something that goes when you go - Ego!

I can't tell you...!

I can't tell you, how much I love you!

I just can't tell you that I love you!

All the warmth, every breath you take

Make me love you

The soft touch, the feel of your presence

Tell me how much I love you

But just that, I can't tell you how much I love you!

When you walk out of the room to another

I miss you coz so much I love you

When you aren't holding my hand, sitting across the table

I need you by my side for I love you

Yet, I can't tell you, how much I love you!

I can't live without you, and that much I love you!

PS: Yes, the 1st line isn't mine. But the rest are!

Bites9...

What I do is of most importance than what I say!


There's a woman behind every successful man. And he's successful for not letting her step ahead of him. 


Be yourself... the world will understand you some day!


How much we know of others and the conclusions we draw out of it are just useless, coz they are constantly changing while our conclusions remain!


If the answer is no, you are unable to understand the question, if the answer is yes you've indentified who you are.
The question was, are you insane!

If you're wondering why my bites are always red n bold, I'm not trying to make peace with you anyways!

To Tweet or Not!?

For several days, I had this rather unimportant question haunting me. One might ask, what’s the big deal? What do you lose by tweeting anyways? It’s in fact more fun, to keep the world informed everything about you. There’s so much more like retweeting those tweets that you liked, reply to your followers, uploading photos instantly and even post something interesting you came across with a tiny URL! With all such fun to do and on the go features of Twitter which revolutionized the world in its 5yrs of existence why would someone as weird as myself wonder if one should tweet or not!?

Yes, retweets are fun, photos are fun too. And replies? I was super excited when my favorite celebrity’s son replied to my tweet. World might look so closely knit.

But, each time I got on to tweet, I found myself in a fix with its 140 character limitation. For people like me who prefer calls and lengthy e-mails to SMSs, hanging out with friends to Facebook or whatever, micro blogging Twitter was no tool to reckon with. I couldn’t put my thoughts in less than 140 characters. If you tell me there’s long tweet option, well I didn’t really care to make it so complicated for my followers (including myself)

My poems were dying, my reviews got shortened. And my mind that thinks 1 page (and not beyond) started thinking 140 characters. A loyal blogger had become a regular tweeter. Well that wasn’t for the bad. But micro blogging against blogging? I said no! Juggling between the two I did no justice to my blogger which undeniably has become an addiction and a part of my’self’!

I’ve almost bid my farewell to twitter and my friend has asked me to delete my account so that he would un-follow me! Well, I have my reasons for not being a micro-blogger. Nevertheless, you guys catch me here on blogger all the time!

Later!

Chalo Dilli…!

So, here’s a latest flick I’d got to watch, courtesy EROS bollywood channel from SingTel. I had heard some good reviews about the movie but hadn't really got excited enough to push my butt to the theatres. Yet, I wished to watch it in a much peaceful mini theater which I call is my home. So coming into the movie, right from the first scene there’s some honesty and reality about it.

Lara Dutta gets your attention on her beautiful corporate lady boss character spot on. Within 10 minutes into the movie, you feel some genuineness about the characters and their mannerisms. Then enter our hero, a start in himself in this genre – Vinay Pathak. It could remind you of his own Bheja Fry style but his versatility and an unparallel comic timing help the plot from slipping! Another winner throughout the movie is the dialogue writer, who might have stuck to PJs at times but do get hilarious most often than not. The plot itself revolves on a road trip with 2 extremely opposite people in it. And some laughter to keep you awake.

After all the strengths, there’s something that goes missing half way in the movie when it gets somewhat predictable and some unwanted scenes of at least about 15min. Another spoilsport is the set of songs. Why does bollywood always have songs at regular intervals, be it any movie!? The songs neither impress nor take the story anywhere. Apart from these couple of hitches, the movie for me was a winner.

Be it Lara Dutta’s sophistication or Vinay Pathak’s stupid innocence, you might be caught repeating those lines yourself ‘isme kaunsi badi baat hogayi ji’ and laugh at/with them until a minor twist in the climax to get some of us emotional. My friend didn’t agree to the idea that there had to be some emotional feel at the end. But I didn’t complain and it worked well just when the movie was about to slip off!

It’s a good watch with some hilarious moments and even attempts to move you to an extent. So ‘Chalo Dilli’ for me worked.

If it didn’t work for you, ‘isme kaunsi badi baat hogayi ji’ J

Ah Di MAMA...!

It was few minutes past 9PM on a weekday. Browsing through the channels to get rid of boredom, I landed up on channel 8 teasing my wife to watch Chinese dramas which are good even if we had no understanding of the language to which she resisted initially. But just a few minutes into this one where 2 kids are seen fighting with each other like any small boy and girl would, our attention was drawn instantly. But what followed next was a series of tragedies and I said we are not watching this drama anymore. Next day, it was my wife who was stuck at 9 PM sharp when Ah Di, who’s the protagonist, is met with an accident and how her adopted kids cry for her calling ‘Ah Di Mama’. We almost had tears in our eyes.

So this drama had become part of our lives and many times in a day we would call each other ‘Ah Di Mama’. It meant ‘Devotion’ in English. The devotion Ah Di (played brilliantly and stunningly by Zoe Tay) has to her life. Ah Di is someone who loves her problems like no one else, who can take up any difficulty onto herself even for those who might hate her to the core. It’s kind of a too good to be true character. But I read Zoe Tay’s interview somewhere when she said that she believed such people existed in the real world and that’s how she was able to play the character with ease. And, what a performance she’s put up!

Even the other young ones who play her adopted children show a class act and make the drama believable, though the story itself was quite hard for me to relate to. A couple of love triangles in the house, a deception and few villainous characters make up for the story. But what wins is the direction. It’s paced well, the story is told in 25 episodes with good mixture of suspense and emotions.

Ah Di’s first daughter played her role so well and deserves applause. A girl who plays ‘shanshan’, (originally from Taiwan) is extremely gorgeous and pretty. The casting was just apt and made up for an intriguing watch.

Just as we knew it was the last episode yesterday, there was some curiosity on how it would end. And I must say, they had a perfect ending. Ah Di can literally forgive anything. Forgiveness, that turns evil into good. And the drama concluded leaving a good feeling behind, prompting you to ask few questions to yourself.

Can you be so forgiving? Can you be courageous enough to consider others’ wrong doings as your own responsibility? People might laugh at you calling you a foolish person for being so good, but if you can hold on to your goodness, no matter how bad the enemy is, one day or the other he’ll start worshipping you. And, that’s devotion!

Thanks for a wonderful lesson… We miss you, ‘Ah Di Mama’! And like you say,

Here n there, when Ah Di mama is near, there’s no fear!