I-295 is the blessed free way I take to get to office and drive back home. I enjoyed today's drive back home, a lot! For no particular reason....I was just happy that I could see beyond 30 meters ahead of me and also for the fact that the torrential rains were not trying to tear the car's wind shield apart (added to all the rain water is the water that splashes from the wheels of the car in front of you!!)....Gosh! there was too much water I say! Bad beginning to the post (I know!!) But here goes a hackneyed statement....I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING TO WRITE ABOUT!
If anyone out there reads Jane Austen, you would like the sentences that follow. I was watching a televised rendition of Emma...Television, idiot box....Until I came to NJ, I had not watched TV for almost a year and a half. But that changed... I never miss How I met your mother, The Big Bang theory and (with a very heavy heart) Two and a Half Men (I hate this sitcom and I have very often criticized it, but alas....). So, anyways....I ended up watching Emma last night. It's not a match at all to Pride and Prejudice. Even till this day, it is one of the most celebrated classics. One should try and capture the quintessence of the book- Human behavior, Distinction of Classes in a Society, Prejudiced Love and the laughable faux paux's of any community in general.
I realized then that in almost all the books and thereafter movies there is one man and one woman. These are the protagonists. And some where kicks in romance. Sometimes unrelated and redundant like in the Hindi movies. Everything is about love!! Somehow love never goes out of fashion...
Dhiraj (guy-singer-ex-neighbor-guide) always says "Bhavnaon ko Samjho". Something very endearing about this saying. I owe him my driving license. Well a lot of people actually and of course Elaine.....
I came across this post today about this book called freakonomics..need to find it and start reading it. I have heard that it's a very good read.
Office ambiance is weird. Today I felt good being in office. I just did not realize how those 9 hours went by. I have colleagues who are at least 30 and older. I am the youngest in the office and I can tell!! The kind of things one talks about are so different. So tea time conversations (amongst women) are about mothers-in-law (some how fathers-in-law don't take the bait that often), kids, health issues or money saving methods. Wow...is that what it will be like 5 years from now...
Ma always says give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. I think this quote was also on one of the paintings in my house. Pa just says work hard. My parents never really say a lot of things...Philosophical things... Weird how much we learn just by watching... After all....everything can't be confined to a definition....
Switching to profound thoughts..... This poem is a must read...Playthings by Rabindranath Tagore. We are always running after things. That is necessary I agree....But somehow..after having obtained what we want (at least we think we want it!) we don't know how to enjoy it. Small things in life go unnoticed.... the taste of moist wind, color of the clouds, those dried Mohabattein leaves (I don't know the name of that leaf till date!), long walks (even better with a silent companion of course).... and yes random laughter... being laughed at and laughing at silly things....
All you need for good health.....Good company, exercise and good food! How simple :)
Dinu said once "Why worry about the future when I am not even sure if I will exist in that future or not". True one need not worry about future. Assuming we will exist in that future, why not make the most of every moment now! (favorable assumption again :)) And yes...if we indeed assume that we wont exist in that future...why even bother living now....might as well jump off the cliff...
Oh!! sitcom time....
If anyone out there reads Jane Austen, you would like the sentences that follow. I was watching a televised rendition of Emma...Television, idiot box....Until I came to NJ, I had not watched TV for almost a year and a half. But that changed... I never miss How I met your mother, The Big Bang theory and (with a very heavy heart) Two and a Half Men (I hate this sitcom and I have very often criticized it, but alas....). So, anyways....I ended up watching Emma last night. It's not a match at all to Pride and Prejudice. Even till this day, it is one of the most celebrated classics. One should try and capture the quintessence of the book- Human behavior, Distinction of Classes in a Society, Prejudiced Love and the laughable faux paux's of any community in general.
I realized then that in almost all the books and thereafter movies there is one man and one woman. These are the protagonists. And some where kicks in romance. Sometimes unrelated and redundant like in the Hindi movies. Everything is about love!! Somehow love never goes out of fashion...
Dhiraj (guy-singer-ex-neighbor-guide) always says "Bhavnaon ko Samjho". Something very endearing about this saying. I owe him my driving license. Well a lot of people actually and of course Elaine.....
I came across this post today about this book called freakonomics..need to find it and start reading it. I have heard that it's a very good read.
Office ambiance is weird. Today I felt good being in office. I just did not realize how those 9 hours went by. I have colleagues who are at least 30 and older. I am the youngest in the office and I can tell!! The kind of things one talks about are so different. So tea time conversations (amongst women) are about mothers-in-law (some how fathers-in-law don't take the bait that often), kids, health issues or money saving methods. Wow...is that what it will be like 5 years from now...
Ma always says give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. I think this quote was also on one of the paintings in my house. Pa just says work hard. My parents never really say a lot of things...Philosophical things... Weird how much we learn just by watching... After all....everything can't be confined to a definition....
Switching to profound thoughts..... This poem is a must read...Playthings by Rabindranath Tagore. We are always running after things. That is necessary I agree....But somehow..after having obtained what we want (at least we think we want it!) we don't know how to enjoy it. Small things in life go unnoticed.... the taste of moist wind, color of the clouds, those dried Mohabattein leaves (I don't know the name of that leaf till date!), long walks (even better with a silent companion of course).... and yes random laughter... being laughed at and laughing at silly things....
All you need for good health.....Good company, exercise and good food! How simple :)
Dinu said once "Why worry about the future when I am not even sure if I will exist in that future or not". True one need not worry about future. Assuming we will exist in that future, why not make the most of every moment now! (favorable assumption again :)) And yes...if we indeed assume that we wont exist in that future...why even bother living now....might as well jump off the cliff...
Oh!! sitcom time....
very random... very well told.. :)
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