salvo !!!

I guess sitting around at home and not having anything to do, drives me into these sessions of deep thought, and happened to ponder about my blog which must be feeling a little lonely and forgotten. Yes, realization dawned that i haven't really penned/typed anything on my blog for ages now.

So heres a little something to keep the blog happy (when you start thinking your blog is a living thing with thoughts and feelings :) its time for you to join me in the psychiatry ward where i'm currently locked up).

In the meantime i've made it back to India with my "Indian"ness intact, if there is such a word. Its now six months since i'm back and i don't think twice before i dig into the street fare ( be it the oil soaked vadas or the questionable pani puri being served by the road side vendor). But again, i should say, its great to be back and absolutely loving it.

Everything i took for granted earlier, i now appreciate better(details maybe in another post).

It doesnt feel like i was away in the first place. I guess it helps if you have a problem like i do, namely, a brain that cant process too much information. So it decides to focus only on where i am currently and what i am doing now, thus all my faculties are focussed on the "current" but again, it comes at a price. When i'm doing nothing, this tiny little brain tries to put it all together and make connections, lets say tying the past and the present, since i wasnt actually processing all of the past and sometimes :) disregarding the future.

Its these times when the big picture forms and yes i get into a pensive mood. And things fall in place, i guess this is what we call processing our memories. I have heard that a lot of our memories aren't exact representations of what actually happened, instead, they are a combination of what happened and what we wished had happened.. we fill in our own colors and backgrounds.. (not always though, coz if that was the case i wouldnt have had any unpleasant memories :) but again i sure have my extra large lot of them ).

Hmm but again i have a faltering memory maybe even the editing aint working properly in my production house.:)

anyways.. more on my wayward mind in the next blog.. trying to keep it short so that i keep coming back to finish my thoughts...

One year of Idling !!

Time sure flies, i was just wondering how long i could sit on my hands and wait without writing out here. And guess what, i think ive found out, that time is about  almost a year, yes thats how long since i troubled my blog to pen a few words errrr i meant type a few words here. :) And today for some random reason i am back here, well its random so i dont know yet if it can be called a reason. 

A year has gone by and like we mark the miles on a road with a milestone i can only put this entry here to mark one years inactivity on my blog.

I've not got much to report anyways, its been a year of traveling and exploring again as its been for the last couple of years, I have enjoyed it but havnt really penned anything to save for posterity sake. When i do get the time i plan to jot it all down someplace so that when i'm old and i have killed enough brain cells with alcohol that cant remember much, then i can read my lines and remind myslef about the places ive been and the sights ive seen.

For now its time to get back into my shell and bid a quick adieu. :) for  i know soon i will be back to write about something.

A fun weekend chronicled by Shaletia....!!

I had a lot of friends asking me about my Vegas trip... and well instead of having to write it all down.. i found an easy way out..
Sahletia(Sha~Lee~sha) ended up doing something that was going to save me some writing.. she updated her blog and explained it in a much better way than i ever could... so i thought why not post a link to her blog... im sure i couldnt have done justice to the trip with my sloppy writing.. so heres a the prelude from me.. and the rest is all in her blog... well chronicled.. and spiced up with pics..
A big Thanks to Shaletia for having writtien that one out... though im sure she dint intend her work to be hijacked by me like this
thanks :) hehehe lets say... im lazy... so Tye.. when ure reading this :) you can smile.. !!

Last weekend.... Shaletia.. a good friend of mine decided to drop into Salt Lake ...
she always this fun person and i couldnt be happier to have her in town where ive been all by myself for more than a month...
the prelude to this is that ive been here away from Atlanta for a while..
and well more than me tell what you what happened ... i will let you read it in her own words.. so go ahead click on the link below... and read away :)

Go To Shaletia's Blog... Click HERE

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i wound the clock and set the time... yeah the clock kept losing 10 minutes every 24 hours.. i guess other spring wound clocks kept time better than mine.. but then it seemed that my clock dedicated 10 minutes every day to some unknown spirit... but then did that amount to lost time??
Anyways i set the alarm ..i had to wake up early.. tomorrow was another day.. had to start early..
I lay down on my bed.. and looked at the ceiling hoping that sleep would envelope my mind and let me forget what had happened a few hours ago... looking at the ceiling.. it felt like i was in a theater looking up at the screen while sitting in a front bench in a cheap theater... the events of the evening started rolling on that screen for now..
was i dreaming or was it just letting my mind wandering.. conjuring images on the ceiling... in a state of semi consciousness i guess it didn't matter... the mind wants to believe what its seeing and yes i couldn't force my faculties to arrest that urge to let go and drift.. i let myself slide into that state.. more willingly than not... felt that ease of mind and body seeping into me.. and the image on the screen became more vivid...

lovely evening.. walking by the shore of th lake seeing those daffodils shaking their heads in the nice breeze wafting in from the east.. a crimson colour spread out over the water and the grass by the lake from the setting sun... bliss is how i would like to define it... walking by myself.. admiring nature in its splendor.. a peaceful calm descended on me... with every step the feel of the grass on my bare feet reminding me of my connection to the earth... as i walked....

amidst nature i can be lost in my thoughts for hours and not complain... and such was this time... i wanted to just stay and watch the sunset... sometimes looking at the sunset reminds me of all the people who've been like it.. shining a whole lot of light and happiness in my life and at some point their sun set and left me in darkness but that had to happen eventually and whose sun would wake me up the next morning i didn't know. For now i've been in a dark long night for long as the one big sun i had has set on me and as i pondered that and found my way along the winding path away from the lake towards my home. The sun was no longer visible and the little light at dusk that was still there was giving a eerie feeling to the place which a few minutes back was as beautiful as a dream.

Walking down the path i heard a noise behind me, knowing that i was alone and hadn't seen anyone for the long hour that i had been there i was surprised and turned around...... (to b continued..)

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:) My last words!!

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Are we there yet?

"Are we there Yet?".. i remember when i was really young and travelling to any new place .. by walk.. bus.. bike.. whatever... the question never changed... the anticipation of getting to a place always got the better of me.. and i kept asking that question to the point where everybody else would just want me to shut up :D!!

and thinking of another imminent world war sure has me asking the same quetsion...
maybe its a passing feeling.. or am i being overtly paranoid...?? but reading the news sure gives me the notion that "something's gottta give".. but again these are those times when i wish, not to be correct...

On one end we have the War on Terrorism being waged by the US.... has already left its mark on Afghanistan... us leaving a terrible footprint in Iraq.. and Iran next in its cross-hairs... then theres North Korea as always upto its school bully tactis .. arm twisting to say the least... and to top it all the Middle eastern conflict with Israelis and Palestinians having a go at it again... why cant they ever agree on one thing... after all each man to his own ... alas. so goes the story...

the world over theres another prevalent problem, terrorists.Today's terrorists operate globally, they often raise funds in one country, plan in another, and conduct operations in a third -- all the while communicating, recruiting, and traveling across borders. No one nation can defeat this multinational threat alone. So lets say more or less almost every possible nation is involved in a war in one way or the other.

Yes we do forget the lesser known but severe turmoils in the African continet, with Uganda, Ivory coastr,Ethiopia and a long list of other regions all in a state of half war- half uprising. The military opression in Burma,


If we read beyond page three we will know that theres rampant human rights violation and going on in China, former Russia, Cuba, Africa and our own India.

... To be COntinued....(Scenario change aftr lebanon's intervention... updates to follow..)