A prayer for friend

I met my friend waiting for the train
he’s got a ticket for a place
where hardly anyone reigned

He said he wants to find himself
go as far as he could
'cause he is tired of everyone else

Didn’t know what to say
just smiled and turned away
but never did the words fade away

I removed the dirt from the book
and tried to remember what the Wiseman said
“Life is war, fight it until you drop,
make your life pure and everything else will be cured
you can never run and can never hide
payback is here and it’s always right.”

With these words in my head
I lie down on bed and start to pray
“Today’s gone tomorrow will come
if not sunshine, don’t even let rain to drown”

Goodbye Bangalore

R.I.P.
16th August 2001 - 16th January 2007

Thank You

I have reached to that point of my life where I have to say Good Bye to some friends and anticipate that the new ones whom I meet; if not better are at least as good as the ones I was blessed with.
Last 7 or 8 months have been full of enjoyment for me, working with some absolutely wonderful people. Each day at work carries its own memory and I have just cherished each moment of it. Infact, I feel I became a bit greedy to an extent that I did not want to miss the fun even for a second.

First, I would like to thank Ravi, my partner for almost 2 years now. It’s been just amazing ride with him. Thank you for helping me in the initial years and being like a big brother to me.
Sap, I don’t think any one has inspired me more than you man. It’s been a great learning experience watching your dedication and spirit all along. Thank you for planting that seed in me.
Kishor, thanks brother for all the fun time we had sharing all along. I honestly wished we could have stayed together a bit longer. Wish you all the best in life and every thing you do.
Lavanya, hmmmm… what should I say; ok here's one thing I wanted to tell you, ‘you do full justice to your name’. What else, so many things, thank you for listening to me and I would really miss the talk we three used to have; me, you and Kishor. Real fun, just loved them.
Bharathi, ah it’s not too difficult to think. Thank you for motivating me in certain way that I had always felt talking to you. I had always looked forward to tell you things that I found or heard. It would be really difficult to find some one who can take my free of cost, imposed gyan sessions with so much interest.

Venky, Selin, Sridevi, Raj, Deb thank you for being there and making it special. Hope to be in touch with you all and wish you all the best for your future.

Life is long and I am sure we will meet again. Till then keep smiling and take care of yourself.

And in the last; don't dare to forget me. Bye

P.S. nice book, though physics is a bit over the head, but gravitation is pulling it down, so slowly things are getting in control.

Tattoed

Finally finally, finally after 4 months of mustering courage and 3 no 4 years of carrying the design in my head, I have been finally tattooed. I got an OM symbol with Libra my sun sign on the matra (the tail) of OM.
And life after, it has not changed but does have an amazing feeling, a sense of unexplainable happiness from inside. Probably it’s because of finally getting it or its effect itself, whatever it is I am in trance of eternal bliss right now.

How it started?
Once sitting in my class I designed an OM symbol and just feel in love with it. I had been carving it on my body almost every week with pen sometime blue sometime black, sometime on my wrist, sometime on my shoulder. I had just loved it all along.
In college I had wanted to get it, but not much money and Vitamin C of courage, somehow never got it done.

How the fire started?
6 months back I guess sometime in Aug/Sept 06, Peeyush and I thought of getting a tattoo done. And we both agreed on what we wanted. So, next few weeks went off pretty nice making sure not to raise the topic in front of each other. (I guess we both still lacked courage and were standing by each other just because the other one was standing.)

Oct/Nov 06, I got 2 temporary designs from Delhi, to show it to peeyush. The designs were of Sun and an OM inside, and another with Sun but an ambigram inside of some symbol.
Few more weeks went off making sure to keep the topic off the coffee table again.

31st Dec 06, we finally got the temporary tattoo on our arm, and it was just amazing and the feeling of wearing a “real" looking tattoo was great. More than the feeling it was the final blow on the cage and the tigers broke free.

The Day
7th Jan 2006, morning 11:30 am we found ourselves sitting in a tattoo studio.
I showed the artist the OM design I wanted to have and peeyush showed him what he liked. But they were not complete in themselves, so started the challenge of adding an extra zing to it. 3 hours and going through hundreds of design, blades and ambigrams, angels and dragons with Pink Floyd playing in the backdrop, the task was real challenging.
2:30 pm finally we settled for the designs and 3:30 pm I went down the needle with Echoes playing on the speaker box.
Contrary to all the hyped beliefs of pain it was pretty easy at the end. Though I oozed out a lot of blood, but strangely pain never got over me. And the end result was worth and more than what I had been asking for.

Peeyush here’s to one more feather in our list of craziness.

Cheers!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2oo7

Here are some of the New Year Wishes I received from friends...

PRE – NEW YEAR EVE

No TEAR,
No FEAR,
khao murga te piyp BEER,
kyonki o my dear 3 din baad hai "NEW YEAR"
burrrrrraaaaahhhh!!!!
Happy New Year in advance

mammu aaj se 1 din baad naya saal aayega!
Bapu ne bola ke 31st ko network jam hoga
toh apun aaj hi vinamrata se wish karela hai!
bole toh Happy 2007

Isse pehle 2006 ast ho,
2006 ka calender nasht ho,
app khushi mey mast ho,
mobile ka network vyast ho,
dua hai 2007 aap ke liye zabardast ho


SOME CREATIVE ONES

This new year may your scrip called life,
pay you dividends of joy,
issue a liberal bonus of good fortune,
give you all the rights to enjoy life.
May your success hits an all time high.
Let there be no correction in your happiness.
Happy new year

May the 2007 gives you
Independence of Java,
Power of UNIX,
Populatiry of Windows,
Luxury of .NET,
Efficiency of C,
Ease of VB,
Robustness of ORACLE,
Vision of Photoshop,
vastness of Internet,
Compactness of JPEG,
Richness of BMP,
Coverage of Yahoo,
Reachness of Gooogle,
Security of Norton,
Happy new year


There have been many, many times in 2006 when I may have
disturbed you
troubled you
pestered you
irritated you
bugged you
But today I just wanna tell you that in 2007 .....
I PLAN TO
CONTINUE!!!!!!!
Happy New Year-2007


MEHARBAANSSS, KADARRDAANSSS AND THE "ZEENAT AMANSSS
NO FEAR, NO TEARS .. EAT THE TIKKAASSS AND DRINK THE BEERS
BECAUSE AAJ HAI HAPPY NEW YEARSSS



SWEET WISHES

A brand new year is here..
Another year filled with
expectations, resolutions, fears and forecasts
Its time for celebrations, Fun & Fizz!!
Its time to countdown for 2007 party..
Wishing you in advance a new year that's....
Sparkiling with fun..
Bursting with joy
& Crackling with laughter..



Recipe for a Happy New Year. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Take twelve fine, full-grown months; see that these are thoroughly free from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate, cleanse them completely from every clinging spite; pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness; in short, see that these months are freed from all the past—have them fresh and clean as when they first came from the great storehouse of Time. Cut these months into thirty or thirty-one equal parts. Do not attempt to make up the whole batch at one time (so many persons spoil the entire lot this way) but prepare one day at a time.
Into each day put equal parts of faith, patience, courage, work (some people omit this ingredient and so spoil the flavor of the rest), hope, fidelity, liberality, kindness, rest (leaving this out is like leaving the oil out of the salad dressing— don’t do it), prayer, meditation, and one well-selected resolution. Put in about one teaspoonful of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of folly, a sprinkling of play, and a heaping cupful of good humor.
Wishing You all a Happy & Prosperous New Year


Out with the old and in with the new,
Thus the old saying goes.
May our troubles all be small and few,
And wash away our woes.
So raise a cup to lots of cheer,
And hug the ones you love.
I wish you, a Happy New Year.
HaPpY nEw YeAr 2007!


May the dawning of the New Year
Open up for you New Horizons,
fill your heart with new hopes
and bring for you
Promises of Brighter Tomorrows
Wishing you Happiness & Prosperity in the New year 2007

Shed here a Drop of Tear to wash the feet of the Vanishing Year ...
May this Year always hold a Nice Memory to you all.May all your Dreams Come
True next Year...
Have a safe, super New Year 2007


Wishing that you live the life you love and love the life you live,
with reasons to celebrate every minute
Have a wonderful 2007
Keep smiling and god bless you.



POST NEW YEAR

HAPPY NEW YEAR
Soch rahe ho aaj kyon?
Ab tum "Don" ko sikhaoge kab wish karna hai
Don jab chahta hai tab jo chahta hai woh wish karta hai.. Happy Holi!



WISHING YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.
LETS MAKE THIS AS THE YEAR TO FULFILL OUR DREAMS.