It's like a showcase. You can see them, but you don't touch them.

I left for US couple of days ago (give and take 12hrs now, for the time zones :)) ). The route was Bangalore-Bangkok-LA. A direct flight from Bangalore to Thailand took me there at about 4 in the morning. Then, after a stopover for nearly 4 hrs there, I left for LA via osaka. Met Karthikeyan, my (ex)HR manager in the bangkok airport. He seemed busy even at that time of the night. He was heading to Honkong for a business meeting there. Had a small chat with him and he was interested to know if i wanna come back to TII after my degree. I wanted to say that it will be a long time before i return to TII, but then thought a smile would do better.
The journey to LA was quite a long one. 16hrs with an hour at osaka for fuel. A sardar sat beside me, and engaged me with petty conversation before I decided to doze off. Was later woken up by a chinki air hostess for an awful meal. Some boiled vegetables with fat extracts in a cup, to eat with the bun. yuk! And they called this asian vegetarian food, specially ordered. These firangs don't seem to have any taste buds left. God knows how they relish such bland food. Anyway, I had to prepare myself for such a welcome, if i have to survive in the US.
Touched US shore at 11am. Sitting in the plane, the view looked like a printed circuit board (an engineer can, after all, relate natural beauty to what is tangible to him!). Nevertheless, it was very picturesque with the beach on one side and rough mountainous terrain following it. And in between, was the civilization.
From LA i left for Sandiego in my friend's car. San diego is an amazing place too. much like bangalore, maybe a touch cooler. but the similarity ends there. The city is exuding with wealth. Audi, ferraris, porshe...hmmm.

Satsangha

'Samsaravisha vrikshasye, dhwe phale hyamruthopame. Subhashita rasaswaadha satsanga sajjanai saha'.
When I joined TI, I had wonderful people working with me. They opened up my mind in many aspects of life. I am grateful to them. One should simply be thankful to god for such an association. I'm happy that I did not have to associate with 'less-nice people' then, for otherwise, I fear it could have molded me very differently. I often think that the shape I take, depends very strongly on the people I associate with. It has been true since my childhood. But life cannot always be assumed to be the way you want it to be. Lately I have been forced to be with the less-nice people. I do not want to crib about the way they are, for that is not going to change them. Instead, I would like to look at the positive side of it. I am fortunate to get a taste of such people for a short time before I face the real bad world. It helps me prepare for worse times ahead. Also, there are also some good qualities that I can sieve from them and use it to improve myself. For instance, this guy gives so much importance to smaller details that he many a times misses the bigger picture. I do not pay heed to the finer details-something I have to improve upon.
So life is not about what you want from the world but simply what you can take from it.

The sight of her changed the image i had of her

Each windowpane reflected back into the room a slightly different angle of the room

Every thought has a decay constant. When a thought occurs in your mind & you think it is worth giving a second thought about, you try 'n collect events around the thought. By the time you think your have fortified your thought & feel it is safe enough to be read by people, the thought you started off with would have evaporated to something senseless or would have settled to something different from what u were looking for from it, to begin with.

Its a happy friday afternoon. Planning to go home early today. TII will be moving to a new place, farther from the city. ...Doesnt bother me much 'cos it doesnt make a difference to me. But I'm looking forward to the long weekend when the shifting happens.

I came to blog for a completely different reason. I want you to enjoy what i'm doing while writing this blog. Before you read on take a moment for urself. Take a deep breathe & relaaaax. make sure that the place around you is calm.
Play song the 'TIME' from the album 'Dark Side of the Moon' by god.

I'll wait until you find the song on your comp/CD.
...

Now read the lyrics as you listen to the song

Time
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say

Breathe (Reprise)
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells

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It's xactly how i feel these days.


I did this 4 times now....feel like listening it just one more time.

(I sure hope you have the song. If you havent got it, go buy one now!)