Christmas weekend with school friends

I had been looking forward to the christmas weekend because I was to go to ski resort in Lake Tahoe with 2 of my school friends (one of whom I had last met some 3 or 4 years ago ) . I had fever from thursday on but I didnt want to miss the fun . So we decided to go ahead with the plan .

My friends got me tablets from local pharmacy and me , being such an innocent guy , trusted those #$%@$ and had the tablet.Only then they told me that its some menstrual tablet .AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...Its been long time since we had played a practical joke on someone and it so happened that this time it was on me. But I must admit that, though they took unfair advantage of my situation , it was a very good joke. We laughed a long time talking about it .(During school days , once I had added laxative tablets to a drink and made my friend drink it :-D ). Other than this , the weekend was memorale for all right things .It lead to some of my "firsts" in life .For eg:

• The first time I experienced Zero degree centigrade - Our car displayed the outside temperature and when it showed 0 degrees , I lowered the window glass and felt the cold air . I wont forget that moment for a long time :)
• First experience with snow - Since I come from Chennai where there is hardly enough water for daily needs ( except this year ) and where the sun GOD likes to shower his blessing as much as possible , my experience with snow is something unforgettable . As soon as I saw snow , I picked it up and kept in my hands until my hands felt numb .
• Ice skating and skiing - This is amazing fun . Everyone should try it.

I must admit this trip confused me a bit .I always had this is doubt if I am a leftie or a rightie or ambidextrous.My skiing instructor said that my left foot is my better side .But when I tried playing pool (yeah ...this is my second try at pool . The first one lasted for 5 or 7 seconds ) , I found that I am ambidextrous.I played equally well/bad with both my hands . Anyways, the bottom line is - I had fun .And also to be noted is that I didnt fall even once when ice skating and fell only twice when skiing .And coming to pool , I played okie considering the fact I am new to it.

During the trip , me and my school friends spend some time talking about our school days and friends. Something that came to our mind at that time was that we were once told my our computer science teacher that we will never ever make progress in computer field.Ironically , all the 3 of us are in IT field and we have done well in our careers .I hope our computer teacher comes to know this .And also , I want to tell him that we are NOT sorry for doing all the nonsense we did in class , making fun of him and making him cry (yeah ..he really cried to us ..trust me he tears in his eyes ...can u see our evil laughs ??? ) .

This could easily be the best ever christmas hols I ever had.Next weeken I will be In washington DC to meet another school buddy . The plan , as of now, is to make him talk about his sad story while I laugh at him :))

Thinking out loud

Most of people in India know more than one language .I know english, hindi,tamil and of course , my mother tongue.I am pretty comfortable in all the four languages .The language in which I speak depends on the person to whom I am talking and also depends on place, purpose etc .

Taking a step further, I was under the impression that the language in which I think depends on the language in which I was talking earlier .But is this true ? I have observed that the language in which I think need NOT always depends on the language in which I was talking earlier.

I feel that the language in which we think may depend on the topic about which we think.Not only that the language in which we think affects the way we think about the topic .So its more like a cyclic loop - the topic influences the language in which you think ...and this in turns influences the way you think about the topic .And also there are times that when you think on a certain topic then you always think in the same language ..also there topics where you think in any language.

Okie ..guys ..summing it up - How much that a language in which you think affects your thinking ?

Damn.........

Well...we were cooking . Thats the first surprise . It smelled good .That was the second surprise . Then the fire alarm went off .That was the third surprise/shock .We didnt know how to react. We opened the windows and tried to lessen the smoke effect . But the alarm didnt stop for quite sometime .But nothing else happened .No fire engine or any thing of that sort .That was the fourth surprise . We werent sure if we got to be happy that no fire engine came or be worried that it didnt come ....never know .

Okka question

I have one question -
Why do people , here in the USA , think that people coming from India are eager to go to temples?

I have been here for little more than a month and I have been to 3 temples already .And the last time I went to temple was when I was in USA last year .I dont remember when was the last time I went to temple in India.

BTW ...I can come to temple ..but dont hand me the lyrics of "kantha sasthi kavacham" and ask me to recite/sing it .It looked more like Control systems question paper to me and I dont know how the hell I cleared that exam .May be Control system exam was the last reason why I went to temple ............

Corrected Machi !!!!!!!!!

My previous post about realization, frustration and goals has got my friends concerned .I had chatted with some friends, talked on phone with others .Most of my friends said something like this - "dai enna da achu unnakku ? you were fine till last weekend .You were happy sight-adichifying , flirting with girls , doing dumb things that got you embarrassed .And now you speak I-got-a-dream kinda speech.Are you okie ?" .Some even went to extend of asking me to stay away from them if I continued talking about goals and other CRAPS :-( .So I was a bit down and then......I watched this movie .

This Tamil movie should have been an oscar entry if not for the politics that prevail in Indian film industry . The movie is titled "Manmadhan" and it is about a casanova kinda guy who goes around "picking up" girls .And everytime he "corrects" a girl , there is a stamp on the screen displaying the playboy bunny , nike tick symbol and the words "corrected machi" .enna marketing athu..chance eh illai .

Apporam , the leading actress is Jothika .This movie is a real good example of what wonders make-up can do .Can you believe that Jo looks beautiful in this movie!!! .The good thing is that the hero "rejects" her when she proposes to him.And of course , since the movie has the next tamil super star (ahemm..I know opinions differ ..wait till Vallavan is released ) , it has some punch dialogues .One that caught my attention was "Vazhkai le yaru first-u varangannu mukkiyam illai , last le yaru first vanranganuradhu thaan mukkiyam...varen" .I think he was trying to say that "it doesnt matter who starts first , but what matters is who finishes first.I will come" .Enna philosophy ..I am impressed.Out goes my goals .......

This is a real good movie.I am so much inspired from this movie that I am planning to go to jogging tomorrow .Na..dont worry - no more goals , ralizations crap .Matter enna na , the other day while I was jogging I saw a babe .I am gonna "correct" her .Who knows you may see a playboy bunny with a nike symbol and the words "corrected machi" tomorrow on my blog :-) .

Manmadhan is here ....

ESCAPE !!!!

Realization

This happened sometime last week.....

I woke early that day .It had been raining all night and after having one look outside I decided to go out for jogging .Not that I am a regular jogger but it was such a beautiful day and I just found myself a reason to go out . It was pretty cold outside..I couldnt say I was feeling all that comfortable braving the cold wind.But I don't get chances to experience this is in Chennai :-) .

Initially I was enjoying the beautiful day ; but later on as I got warmed up after jogging for few minutes , I was lost in thoughts.I wasnt thinking about anything in particular .After some more time , I got tired(It has been long time since I have run ) .Under normal circumstances , when I am going to drop doing something , I try to stretch myself by setting a new target. As in the case of jogging , when I am too tired , I tell myself that I had run for few more minutes or try to run till that tree at the end of the road or things like that to stretch my goal.This day was different .I continued running even though I was physically too tired . I don't think I have run this distance ever and I am pretty sure I must have broken previous record of mine.But I wasnt happy.I kept running .It was then I realized something .I stopped and I was very irritated.

I realized that , off late , I have been distracted from my goals.Not that I am complaining about the new things I have been trying recently . I love to explore new things and I welcome changes.But what irritated me was that I have deviated from my goals.The intermediate things now seem more important than my final destination.It was more like what I was doing at that particular moment ...I had been literally running to nowhere !!! This is freakin frustrating ....

And also , I realized that some people have picturised me in a particular way and I am trying to live as they have picturised me.Why ? No idea....

I walked back to my apartment disgusted.It had started to drizzle by then.The cool drizzle helped me to cool down a bit. Though I was irritated , the realization made me happy for I was feeling more like myself .

Normally I prefer to post "not-so-serious" articles.I have made an exception here because I know that I have wasted a lot of time on doing nothing .The intention of this post is that if anyone of you reading this has been deviated from your goals, then dude it is high time you go back and think for few minutes. I hope atleast you guys save some time .