Control+Alt+Delete

I have used these three buttons on the keyboard of a computer. I wonder, do we have similar keys in our lives too??? So that I can go to the task manager and kill the processes that I dont't want to run. Guess, there is a button, it is called work your ass off. Hmmm... what am I waiting for then???

Hmmm

My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy
if not, you'll become a philosopher
--Socrates

Is it because I am pursuing Doctor of Philosophy that I am still Single... what on hell was I thinking all these days! no no, months! na na, YEARS! damn it... should get my basics right... j/k -:)

The above italicized text was an email forward. Why do people send such stuff I don't understand :(

Adios

Requiem

Who will sing or play my requiem? The thought of death came to my mind a couple of days back, in sleep, in a dream. After a day of insignificance, wandering mind thinking of the lost ones, on a day that ended in a speechless me and the death of my smile with the unseen sunset hiding behind the dark clouds. In trying simplicity, I have complicated things so much that the thought of death clouded my beautiful, white, snow covered valley though which I often take my long walks. I wasn't prepared for what was to come, yet it took place uncontrolled and unabated. I shut my mouth and killed all the enthusiasm within me. Don't know why? Don't know why? I don't need an answer. All I want is my white snow, clear, radiating on a sunny day until the sun sets throwing the shadows of stripped trees. My sleep, laden with enchanting dreams.

Baatasaari - Sri Sri

The following is a small part called Baatasaari from Sri Sri's Mahaprasthaanam. The initial part is adopted into a song in Aakali Raajyam movie. Unfortunately it is not available anywhere online to listen. They have only the popular ones like saapatu, kannepillavani, etc. I think Balu did a good job to express the emotion involved in Sri Sri's writing.

Kooti kosam, Kooli kosam,
Pattanam lo bratukudamani,
Talli maatalu chevina pettaka,
bayaluderina baatasariki,
moodu rojulu okka teeruga,
nadustunna dikku teliyaka--
Nadi samudrapu naava reethiga
sancharistoo, sanchalisthoo,
digulu padutoo deenudoutoo
tirugutuntae--,
chanda chandam, teevra teevram,
Jvaram kaastae, bhayam vaestae,
pralaapistae---,
mabbu pattee, gaali kottee,
vaana vastae varada vastae,
chimma cheekati krammukostae,
daari tappina baata sariki
yentha kashtam
kallu vaakita nilipi choochae
palletoollo talli yemani
palavaristondo
chinta nippulu laaga kannulu
cherigiposae mantalettaga
gundusoodulu guchchinatley
sirovedana athiseyinchiga
raathri nallani raati polika
gunde meedane kooruchundaga
talli pilchae kalla dhrusyam
kaLLa munduta ganTuleyaga
chevulu sokani pilupulevo
talachu kuntoo, kalata kantoo
tallaDille
kellagille
vallatille baatasaariki
yenta kashtam
atani bratukuna kade aakharu
gruddi cheekati loanu goobalu
mokarinchaayi
vaanavelasi mobbulo oka
merupu merisindi
vegujaamunu teliyajestoo
kodi koosindi
vidina mobbula nadumanundi
veguchukka vekkirinchindi
baatasaari kalebaramto
seetavaayuvu aadukuntondi
palletoollo talli kedo
paadukalalo pegu kadilindi

scary...

sort of hesitant to go outside, even for the most desired coffee... it was cold the past week and it is going to be like that for another week according to weather.com... temperature at 9:30AM is -1F and feels like -18F. The four layers of clothing had no effect in keeping me warm...

End is a new beggining

Everything comes to an end. You push the envelop so hard that it gives up. But every end is a start that brings new hope... lets restart and build it anew throwing away the remnants of the past....

What is a Blog? - For me...

The Wiki definition of "blog" is pretty general to me. I started blogging because it was cool, fun, and I could write a journal which was anonymous, etc. I have shared it with people I knew and had to delete an entire collection of posts from the past. It was done by choice. No regrets whatsoever there. I am for A reason happy about it too. I write things that I haven't spoken to anyone either because didn't have a chance to talk or don't want to. Many are random thoughts you would get in sleep, while walking, cooking, grinding your teeth after a failed experiment, after meeting the boss, unfriendly crowd, rude friend, bad headache, credit card bill, lost files, when you want to say the F or B word at the top of your voice, etc.
After all this time I finally feel the pinch of being not able to write something I want to because there is a possibility that it might be read by the wrong person. Sad, but letting off this anonymity has its own disadvantages :(

Listening to MBK sing Pancharatna Keertanaas - Guess am feeling good now and will stop my rant

adios