I wish some people would start talking about new topics and stop asking me the same questions! I have got tired of answering it! I couldn’t think of a better place than my blog to say this, for this is one place where I can write what I want to without saying a word about who those people are or what those questions are. 😛
As I am now seeing some photos taken two and a half years or so back, the nostalgic mood seems to be making a come-back once again. 🙂 At the same time, a scene from ‘The Namesake’ also comes to my mind. The scene where Ashoke takes his son Gogol to beach and realizes only after reaching as far away from the shore as possible, that they don’t have their camera with them and tells Gogol something like (I don’t remember the exact words now 🙁 ) ‘You have to remember this then. You have to remember that we came to a place from where there was nowhere to go.’ That was a scene that I really liked! I liked watching it in the movie more than reading it in the book. Not all unforgettable moments in life can be captured on a camera…
It’s amazing how something as simple as making a cup of perfectly yummy vanilla milkshake for two consecutive days can make one feel so happy, even though all it involves is mixing the milkshake powder and sugar with milk. 😛 But for someone who cannot even make one’s own cup of coffee without the sugar/decoction not being in the correct proportion, making a cup of milkshake is not a simple task. Definitely not 😛
It is said is the only thing that is constant in life. And the past couple of weeks have been bringing a few changes which have helped me break free from the mundane routine. And it seems like there are going to be some more changes in the weeks to come too. I hope it’s all for good since that is a change that I have been waiting for, for what seems like a long time now.
There is this dialogue in ‘Jab We Met’ which Kareena tells Shahid when they are on the terrace of her house after she runs away from her house. It is something like ‘aage jaake main is pal ko yaad karoongi aur hasoongi’ (or is it ‘hum yaad karenge aur hasenge’? I don’t remember 😕 ) “Live every moment and make it so enjoyable and a memorable one that you will always look back at it fondly without any regrets whatsoever” is what I have been trying hard to practice for the past few weeks. After all, isn’t each and every phase of life a ‘this too shall pass away’ phase? You never know when that constant factor called change will come into play, robbing you of that phase. Of course, I haven’t been all that successful what with some moments turning out to such bad ones that it’s going to take ages to forget those. But still, as the age old adage goes, shouldn’t one try, try and try again till they succeed? 🙂 Here is to life and the many changes it brings with it each and everyday! 🙂
P.S.: ‘thirakkaadha kaaTTu kuLLe’ which am listening to on a loop, seems like an apt song for my current mood for reasons one never can find out since that’s where the magic of the man’s music lies in!!
P.S.1: A comment by naane sometime back is one of the comments in my blog that keeps popping up in my thoughts regularly.
For the first time in quite a few months, I didn’t have company at all in the bus for one whole week, last week. Either I was busy and had to leave late or my friends were busy. But I was so lost in reading ‘The Namesake’, which I had started reading last Tuesday, that I was enjoying reading a book after a long time with a passion I had lost yet again, that I didn’t have time for any other thoughts. But, day before yesterday, when with a ‘Blandings Castle’ book in my hand, I was just vaeDikkai paatthufying, my thoughts wandered a couple of years back.
The time when one of the first few friends whom I made at work became one of my close friends, thanks to our non-stop chatting in the bus about every topic imaginable. Books, blogs, my initial hesitation about whether to start a blog or not, movies, life, future, friends, weekend plans, Monday morning blues, school, college, work, colleagues, our dreams – fulfilled and unfulfilled (or should I say the-then-yet-to-be-fulfilled?) ones, all those china china aasais that one has 🙂 , sunrise/sunset, Marina beach, music, ARR and of course, Sanjay/TMK (She was forced to hear my raving about them despite not even having heard their names before she came to know me! Poor girl! 😉 ) and just about everything else! I suddenly started missing those days! It has been more than a year and a half since she quit her job to pursue her dream of doing her masters. But till this day, no chat of ours is complete without us reminiscing about those days. But for infrequent chats, we are not in touch regularly. But she tells me she reads my blog. 🙂
P.S.: After a long, long time, I wrote, rather typed in my mobile, a post in the bus today evening. And that post, of course, is the one that you finished reading just now 😛
As I was reading Dandilsa’s post on why she wants to return to India, I realized how much I could relate to what she has written. Of course, I am already here. In fact, except for a few months of staying in another city, I have never been, forget about being away from India, been away from Madras itself. But, every time I am asked why I don’t want to leave Madras and go anywhere else, the reasons I give are quite similar to what she has written. This is the place where I have grown up and at this point of time in my life, there is only one thing that I am very clear about and it is that here is where I want to spend the rest of my life.
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I realized just now that for the first time in more than a couple of months, today I didn’t listen to any music at all till now! There are times when one prefers silence to music. Hmmm! But hey, I guess I will after all, listen to music while watching Super Singer tonight.
Before all those non-Carnatic-music-listeners skip reading this post thinking that this is yet another post on the Season, let me tell you that this has nothing to do with that. This is all about what the month of Margazhi meant to me before I started going for concerts. Say Margazhi and the first thing that comes to my mind is kolams, especially, colour kolams (rangoli). Margazhi meant half-yearly holidays and hence, a visit to grandmother’s place where all cousins gathered. And no half-yearly vacation was complete to us without kolams and each one of us used to put separate kolams most of the times.
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Fab India opens in Mylapore:
And guess for how many days in a week it’s going to be open??
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