Few Updates

After a long time indeed! I do not know why though. I was not very busy but did not feel like writing or may be was so very confused and had nothing to write. A friend yesterday told, he came to know that I am in Allahabad through the blog. Now you know why I am back.

There are things going on with me. Pretty things yes. Like my father wants to marry me off soon but respects my opinion. My boss thinks I am useful to the organization but does nothing to help me come over the useless fellow feeling. I have joined a exercise centre, gym is a better word, still people ask are you doing something. Dear friends have contributed with books and advices but the tummy is stuck at 38!

So you know things are going. Soon there will be a year-end blog and then a new year. I can predict it now. Dull, still struggling to get decent things in life, and being stupid at matters where you need to show intelligence.

If this post looks very blue, I can not help. I can not write good things that happen with me. Like I lost my music player on train, a guy who hardly knew anything about me found me and now it is on its way back to me. Very rarely you get something like this in your life. Good things are so rare that they are not for public.

Oh there is guy who sent a friend request on orkut and this guy had a picture of Tigress that I took in Kanha earlier this year. I was surprised, it was only with fellow travellers and no body else is supposed to have that. Well, I tell him this and also request him to reveal his identity. The next day he upload more pictures and this time also from bandhavgarh. Hell. No body knows who is he and why he is using our pictures (frankly, till date all of them that were uploaded were shot by me) with out credit :( . See c'est la vie.

Dad pointed out that two kind of people are rife in India.. one who give suggestion on any stuff, one who give medical suggestions. It can be anyone anywhere anytime. Imagine at four in the morning, I am on road trying to do something that is called morning walk. This pan shop guy who doesn't know me, is there to open the shop, says.... run, walking doesn't do good. Well this is the great Indian diaspora can't run away from it.
I have decided not to extend any suggestion unless sought.

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
are loosing theirs and blaming it on you
if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
but make allowance for their doubting too
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting
or being hated, don't give way to hating
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise

If you can dream- and not make dreams your master
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim
If you can meet triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposter just the same
If you can bear to hear the truth you have spoken
twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools
or watch the things you gave your life to, broken
and stoop and build them up with worn out tools

If you can make heap of all your winnings
and risk it all on one turn of pitch and toss
and loose and start again at your beginings
and never breadth a word about your loss
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
to serve your turn long after they are gone
and so hold on when there is nothing in you
except the will which says to them "hold on"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
or walk with kings - nor loose the common touch
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you
If all men count with you but none too much
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds worth of distance run
your is earth and everything thats in it
And which is more you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936)

ps - from my diary. I did not know I used to write the poems I liked.

This is funny, I got an email that said- " what is similarity between Shahrukh Khan and Ghandi jee. The answer is - Both returned to India after getting insulted in SOUTH AFRICA.
This IPL stuff is getting too messy for KKR and Shahrukh, but I don't feel sad about them (some of my friends do think that at least they should win a match now while consoling dada). For me it is not about dada, it is a food for thought that what makes a team win matches. A similar (in terms of composition) deccan charger team was pain in ass last year, this year it is everybody's apple's eye!

bty, the Kaziranga trip pics are now uploaded here.