DreamingAway

Tuesday was a holiday but I decided to come to office. I need to walk from home for about five minutes and then take bus to reach office. It was a very hot. Of course, it was almost noon. I heard a chime like bike horn sound from the behind, for a moment I thought I was about to get lift to the bus stop. He revved up the engine and drove off in few seconds. That was okay. Perhaps he doesn’t know that everyone in the world needs some help from someone at any moment. You can always help if you know how to see it. It was an empty bus and I took the seat at front so that I could watch the road and enjoy the travel. There was a car at the traffic signal and bus driver wanted him to go as there was no one crossing the road. He signaled his intentions by continuous honking. The car was not moved. It was fair enough. He was obeying the traffic rules. When the signal turned green, he paused for few seconds - just a few seconds - to hint the bus driver that he was annoyed. Was it a right thing...

I got a call from the online shopping delivery agent in the morning. I had some work and I told him that I would pick it up in the afternoon as he would be available till 14:00 hrs in the office premises. My mom used to give rice water to the cows. She would keep the rice water vessel near the gate and some cow would drink it. She is still doing it, though now and then she has to buy a new vessel.  It is not unusual for me to forget to pick the order at the main gate while coming in the morning. Either I get reminded of it later or it got delivered at the mail room. That is okay. Isn’t?  I wonder where she learnt the practice of giving tea/coffee as well as some money to the electricity service person/gas delivery boy/… I usually tell her that they get salary for their service and ask her whether it is a kind of bribing. It is amazing to see the volume of packages delivered everyday in the campus. It is because of the increase in the employees count as well as the ease...

எலிமென்டரி ஸ்கூல் படிக்கிற வயசில ஒரு சின்ன சாக்லெட்ட நமக்குத் தெரியாம ஒளிச்சி வச்சி தனியா சாப்பிட்டா, நம்ம ப்ரண்டு மேல ஒரு கோபம் வந்திருக்கும் (சிலருக்கு இப்போதும் கூட!). கண்டிப்பா அதையே பதிலுக்குச் செஞ்சி மனச தேத்திக்குவோம். மன்னிக்கத் தோணாத வயசு அது. கூட்டி கழிச்சி பார்த்தா, பெரும்பாலும் அதுதான் நட்பில் முதல் துரோகம். என்ன, அது அப்ப துரோகமாவும் தெரியாது, இப்ப அதெல்லாம் துரோகம்ன்னு ஒத்துக் கொள்ளவும் முடியாது.  எக்ஸாமுக்கு முந்தைய நைட்டுதான் நாலு பேரும் ஒரு ரெண்டு மணி நேரம் படிச்சிருப்பீங்க. அடுத்த நாள், மூனு பேரு அரை மணி நேரத்திலேயே எக்ஸாம் எழுதி முடிச்சிட்டு உட்கார்ந்து இருந்தா, ஒருத்தர் மட்டும் ரெண்டு மணி நேரம் எழுதினா அது நட்புக்குச் செய்கிற மாபெரும் துரோகம் இல்லையா? இருந்தாலும் மதியம் படத்துக்கு நாலு பேரும்தான் போவீங்க. நாலு பேருக்கும் அரியர்ன்னு ரிசல்ட் வரும் போதுதான், துரோகத்தைப் பெருந்தன்மையோடு முழுமையா மன்னிக்கிறதில கிடைக்கிற மனநிறைவை புரிந்துக் கொள்ள முடியும். அப்படி ஒரு மனப்பக்குவமெல்லாம் ஆண்டவன் கொடுக்கிற வரம். ப்ரண்டோட ப்ரண்டோட… ப்ரண்ட அறிமுகம் மட்டும் படுத்தச் சொ...

I am grown up, grown up from the one who asked “why God created these people?” to the one who is curious to know “when will God show the divineness hidden in these people?” - never in a position to drop God from the context and now that attempt fails faster than ever before. Religious places are where we first meet these people, at least in India, as they occupy the entrance, praying God that we would be merciful to them. I wasn’t. I always wanted them to go away, faraway, to the heaven or hell. Regardless of whether it was physical or mental disability, I never felt that they got any meaning in life. When I first heard the Beethoven story - composing his masterpiece when he was completely deaf or John Milton’s Paradise Lost which he wrote when he was almost blind, I was dismissive of it rather than feeling inspired. I was arguing that we would be okay without them. After all, this world has got millions of great works buried in it which we will never get to know. There were time...

It is very “rare” and hence you are very lucky if you already had a chance to meet someone, including self, who suffers Monday Blues ​​I wonder whether long weekends can help you to get a sweeter Monday or not! So, how is it with other vacations? How about the summer holidays? Summer holidays is the April - May school holidays and you are in a new class after the holidays. I don’t know whether it is universal or not. It is hard to find any other happiest day in the year when you consider the last exam day before the summer holidays. It is still the same feel when you wear the parents’ hat. Isn’t?  For me, even if I don’t have calendars, there are three regular indicators to say that the summer has arrived. The shops in the market are filled with mounds of mangoes - the king of summer fruits - at the price that is too less for the magic they do on your taste buds. The Nungu fruits are the next seasonal fruit that is seen everywhere. I guess you love to scoop out the jelly part...

You may love pets but usually it is people at home who take care of them a lot than you. They too love them, of course, caring can’t stay away from love for a long. My mother, aged over 60 now, never asked for any pet animals or birds but we always get one or more at home and she loves them. Now we got two green parrots. They wake up very early and start chattering. My mom would be preparing morning coffee and she would be having a “hey, don’t make noise, keep quite” kind of conversations. Now and then all three would forget each other and let the morning quietness return. The parrots take bath almost everyday. They always try to run and hide when it is time for bath. I wonder how they know it! We put them in the bucket and turn on the tap. They like it that way. They will be in deep calm for at least 1/2 hour after the bath as if a great saint in a deep meditation. My mom keeps one parrot on her shoulder most of the time during her morning chores. She keeps talking to them and...

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world ― Emerson She has joined the team two years ago as a project trainee and now she is one of the top rated performer in her team. Her formula to success is simple and well proven, though not many do it. She started like every other trainee and started exploring more than what was asked from her. That means, she had to dedicate all her time in learning and be determined to take up the challenges. She did that successfully. She then started contributing to the team and that was on par or even better than many of the senior members in the team. Well, she truly deserves all her success so far and I am sure she will continue to astonish everyone. I was reading an article on creativity last week and suddenly I felt like taking this girl’s success and see what really is behind her success. Is it her creativity? This question itself turns out to be so dangerous as it let me doubt ab...