Snippets from the life of a 20 something girl living the big city corporate life...

Monday, November 28, 2005

Paradoxes unlimited

Whats better?
To be so tiny that you have your own private space in the crowd?
or being huge enough to stand out in the crowd?

What's worse?
Standing out in the crowd as an eyesore?
or Standing out in the crowd as an obvious target, which everyone wants to hit on?

Paradoxes of life are plenty to wonder, i wonder which one to wonder about.

Whats better?
Having few or no choices to make and smoothly sail through on the one path clear ahead?
Or having too many choices with equally high opportunity costs that you need to make!

I can do anything i wanna do, as long as i can take the responsibility for it. I can decide which way i wanna go now, as long as i dont turn back. Is that an opportunity or a punishment?
I wonder as i stare at the cross road ahead...

I have plucked all the strings, and dropped all the so called boundaries. I have demolished all the walls, the fences and the trees. All i got is an empty plot,

Whats worse?
A house furnished and painted ready?
Or an open piece of land to rebuild the house you want?

Whats better?
To know exactly what you want and not get it?
or to get something you coudnlt even dream of?

Whats worse?
To have a useless, unimpressive, irritating personality?
or to have none at all?

Are we all like products in a show window trying to be sold? Is it all about a brand you create of yourselves? Are we all like pretenders - trying to be someone who attracts something? So are we all like mannequines dressed differently everyday 2 attract the people passing by?

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

The Sun Goes Down

Finally my life has turned towards what i wanted it to be like. The whole day vanishes in bundles of work and activities. It feels so good when u have worked it all out the whole day long , and then chat around with your boss, colleagues and friends.

Return home around Nine or so, dinner, house work, parents work, and crash by midnight.

Then the sun goes down on me,
making me wonder at the million colours,
the water of the sea goes yellow
and the sky melts into a mellow

Ah...reminds me of some awesome sunsets i saw......that filled me with such contentment, unparelled so far, unparelled they shall be forever.

A yoga teacher comes to the office in every morning....i am planning to start chewing his brains and get back to meditating.....better than gossip early in the morning....
what say people?

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Air-Tell

Nigahein nigahon se mila kar to dekho,
naye logon se rishta bane ke to dekho,
Hasratein dil me chupane se kya faida,
apne honth hila kar to dekho
Aasmaan simat jayega aagosh mein,
chahat ki baahein faila kar to dekho
dil ki baat kar ke to dekho...

New Ad of airtel...what does airtel wanna tell people? You arent talking enough?
Maybe so true. Beautiful ad, amazing picturisation, very moving music as well.
The message, well how deep shall we look at this?
Koi samjhao re...kya bolke ko koshish kiya re???????

My two pence:
Yea...maybe these days people dont really talk to people. A lot of things go unsaid, unknown, questions unanswered at both ends, answers assumed which make no sense.
Hehehehe...confusion in all. Wonder howcome the mobile bills still remain so high.
Average user revenue in India is still lowest in the world!!!

Maybe, Dil se dil ki baat, aankhon hi aankhon mei baat, man se man ka rishta...works better than the mobile connection. Do you really think so?

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

What's faster? Karizma or a Pulsar.

As usual got late in office, so a team mate offered to gimme a ride. Karizma...!!!!!!!!!
10kms in less than 15 mins!
i could feel everything flying by, the flashes of thoughts raced by. It was like those few moments before you die, everything flashes by, the time u laughed , the times you cried, what u wished and prayed for evrynight, what you hope never happened.
Was AMAZING!!!!!!!

He was a skillfull rider, very dangerous too. I wondered if i would reach home alive, yet somewhere i wasnt scared. Didnt hold onto him, coz didnt wanna touch him, didnt hold onto nething. he was riding on 130 kmph i think through the traffic of delhi. I liked it. I wish i could ride my own bike like that everynight on the way back.

But then all good things come to an end, and poof went the cloud of thoughts, as the bike screached 2 a stop. He smiled at me, and i said thankyou (yea...i am more polite and polished these days) and simply walked off, to sit in a stuuuuuuuuupid AUTORICKSHAW!
It took eme 15 minutes to cover 3 kms!!!!and life became slow, sluggish and dull all over again.

I am a SPEED FREAK! What turns u on?

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Blue Spaces

Winters are tiptoeing into the city. Today was the first winter shower. The first shower of sweet cold rain of November. I used to love winters. Coffee, warm cozy polyfill blankets, chilly air, beauitful songs on the radio at night, with the RJ's too in a peppy chirpy romantic mood. Early morning dew, that fresh fresh energetic feeling, the glow on the skin.

Loads of things that i love about winters, dreamy nights, mushy thoughts, and warm hugs. Ah i used to love winters. I guess i still do, lets see what the winters have got for me this year.
Every year they come (or for the last 2-3 years) with something that changes my life all together. Last winters were amazing, this time it would be something different. Different coz they cant be amazing like last year's no matter what, but still they gotta bring in something to surprise me. Am ready for it, for nething...

Ice creams, candies, peanuts, soups...some of my favourite winter things. Though i shall miss my sweat shirts a LOT this time...we cant wear sweat shirts to office :-( Still i love winters, and i hope atleast the winters still love me...