ride the wave

"....thoughts live... they travel far." well, here's an 'insight' from inside my head (that is a lot of distance, you dummy) - i measure up people's qualities. Good or bad, I tend to notice 'traits' about people pretty quickly, and act accordingly..... well, while i've managed to keep afloat in the sea called life by listening to my instincts about people and life in general, sometimes i jump into deep end of the pool just coz my mind says don't do it (well, that's gonna be my reason and i'm sticking with it!)... basically, i've ridden several 'crazy' waves without really knowing if i'm gonna crash, and scary part is that these rides have so far been the 'memorable chapters' of my boring book called life.... hmm, giving me ideas, perhaps time to write a new chapter?

barkin up......

heard of the age old sayin - barking up the wrong tree?? Probably old, but let me attach some fresh thoughts to it....
one of swami vivekananda's most inspiring and famous quotes is ' Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced'
i look up to swami vivekananda quotes all the time.........yet, can't get that invisible doubting thomas off my back about this quote......got this image of jack and the beanstalk on my head whenever i convince myself about an idea being 'the idea'!!
hence, a branch off funda on this one quote, my own..... let the mind be a farmland, full of ideas, sow ideas, water it, nurture it and then reap it.. if the crop is suitable for the land, then make it a forest land - grow the idea, rather like what the quote said...
then why the farmland?? well, if u ever get a bad hunch about an idea, would be easier to rip it off the roots if its a farm, rather than a forest... kapish??? if you can relate to this in real life decisions and thoughts, well, you've just experienced a glimpse of what it feels like to be 27, single, and undecided on life - my style!

round's what keeping things going...

one of god's little creations, maybe his most sucessful one yet, is a planet ball called earth.
why circle, i often wonder, why not keep it flat and simple.... will ask him if i ever get a chance to meet him. until then, ponder this, why round? maybe coz.........

1. circle's easier to suspend in the air for a while compared to a flat surface.... if he ever decides to play with it, say hang it up like a curtain or something, with gravity and all that, i don't think i'd want to be at the bottom of the pile!!!! Point! round 1- god!
2. flat's too simple and boring a shape to live in.. imagine if everybody could be to all 'nook and corners' of earth.. yawn, so boring. chances are some bozos mite consider taking a peek and maybe a leak too, at the corners of earth... hmmm, try doing that in a circular room... heheheh! round 2 & match - god!!

(hey god, feel free to correct me if i'm wrong, or add anything that i may have missed out)

Passing out

Why is the term ‘passing out’ used for a person who has completed his education, as well as for a person who is ‘flying high, and planning to stay that way for a while’??
I googled it to find out who coined this term, and got some crazy facts about how to pass out and kinds of damage it could do to your head….not interested or suggesting to try anything like that.
on a lighter note, in this crazy world, maybe there is some humour after all……whoever coined this term has definitely 'been there, felt that!'....


ok, enuff of that.... back to more saner posts...

Heights of drunkenness

My friend and I were drinking up yesterday, and it was one of those rare days when the drunken state seemed 'perfectttttt' to the 't'..... only problem was with the next day being a holiday, we wanted to ensure that our sleep was also in the same blissful state..... so my friend wisely suggested that we should keep an alarm to remind ourselves not to be woken up...

couple of hours later, here I am...... - the damned alarm went off!!!@@@!

what's high about cocaine anyway?

Hey, before you get any ideas, i mean cocaine, the clapton song.
i say this because one of my friends gave me this list of his fav songs, and cocaine was way up there. i haven't got anything against cocaine (the song, again), but personally, i feel there are other 'trippy' songs, like 'lite my fire' from doors, even layla and crossroads which've got great guitar riffs. i do like cocaine - i find cocaine more of a smooth song overall, but songs like 'fade to black', comfortably numb' rank higher in my listening list....
everybody's got their preference i guess, especially the 'trip list', so if u can relate to any of the songs above, gimme a shout on a few more, i'm game!

opinions, me???

i realized this about me as i was reading thru various blogs which are funny, blunt and yes, very opinionated - that i try to be 'politically correct' on matters generally. its true (people who know me, can vouch for this, i dont doubt!) that i rarely get trapped into stating an opinion like a fact, (i.e. sticking with it thru thick and thin). usually, i use the context of conversation to make my opinions 'on the fly'...... however, this doesnt stop me from contributing my two cents to any topic, oh yeah, but again usually manage to sway it to the side that i'm convinced (atleast at that moment).
bottomline - at some point in life, i've figured out this subconciously - that people who have strong opinions are usually 'compartmentalized' by others. people like me, who can rattle off any topic, at both sides of the argument sometimes, are usually involved in a wider range of topics, bouncing off ideas/thoughts against a more diverse group compared to the 'opinionated' group. so, at the risk of losing crediblity, i'd live by 'opinions, who me???' philosophy, as people matter to me more than most topics do... :)

moving targets

i mean this in the most positive way possible, but everything in life's a moving target.... whoever said that 'change's the only constant thing in world' said it rite. gotta keep working at it, keep moving on, to even catch up to whatever it is that we need or want.
gotta remember this often, need constant reminders to understand why things have moved away so soon... it probably means we havent moved fast enuff....
enuff said.
on the funny side, if we ever reach at we aspire for, and figure out it really isn't 'the reward' that we want... lol, that, my friend is a priceless moment! :) been there, felt that - life goes on, tara rum pum....

'bucket list'

heard of this term?? well, i did too. and every now and then this passes thru my mind like a buzz and then i forget abt it. i had a moment like that just now.. what really is this bucket list? is this something that people create when they know that they want to 'achieve' something in life? '10 things to do before i die' kind of things.. personally, i can't even balance a check book, so a 'list' like this would probably be the end all for me! :)
but then, why do this?? me, i've always been a dreamer, will always be a dreamer. corporate life has a way about it, sucking dreams out of you, making it seem more like a fantasy. so my bicket list, if i put something together now would go like this:
travel atleast 20 different countries outside india (5% completed.... 95% loading
live a 'no strings attached' life (read earlier notes about stags, nite life, etc etc.. )
start and do something of my own-goodbye corporate life.
oh well, like i said, not much of a list, but then i can;t really decide on something that i 'must' do. any ideas?