Work, Pray, Eat

Kannan had been working at a far away place for the past 18 months. He hadn't seen his family in those 18 months. An year and a half ago he had to leave his family at his village and go work as a coolie for a railway track laying project somewhere in Maharashtra. The rains failed for the third consecutive year. He couldn't afford to make a living from agriculture. He had to leave his wife and 6yr old son. But he didn't have a choice.

He sincerely sent the 15 rupees he got as salary every month to his family through Money order. He never saved for himself. He never saw the need for that. They built a makeshift shed for all the coolies who worked there. They were provided with 2 meals per day. A doctor visited once in a month for a general medical examination. He couldn't have asked for more.

After 18 months the project came to an end. He got a letter from his wife 3 months back. She mentioned that the rains were good this year. He thought he can go back and be with his family and take up agriculture again.  That month he kept some money for his journey and sent the rest to his family. On the day of travel he packed some food for his 3 day journey. He boarded the train that would take him home. 2 days into the journey, all the food he brought was over. Thanks to his generosity for sharing his food with a poor fellow passenger. The 8 annas he was given by his employer as a departing gift was spent on toys for his little son. With no food and no money Kannan thought he could mange the remaining one day without food.

On the third day at around 4 in the morning the train stopped at some unknown place. The tracks ahead were broken, someone told him. It would take 5-6 hrs to repair the tracks and get the trains running they said. The train was re-routed to a near-by station till then. It was already close to a day since he ate anything. And he had to manage almost another day. The hunger pangs started hurting his stomach. All the passengers waited at the station close to 10hrs, still there was no news about when the train would start. Kannan was trying to pacify his hunger by drinking water. It was of no use.

He didn't have money to buy food and he will not beg. He would rather die he thought. He also thought about working for food. But there were no such jobs available. As he sat on the bench clutching his stomach he saw a family having their meal from their packages. All their heads were tonsured. He got up to ask some food from them but turned away and went to drink some more water. He came back and sat on the bench. Now his eyes started blurring. Uncontrollable, he went to them and asked, "Returning from Thirupathi?"

"Yes brother." The lady replied with a smile.

"Will I get some prasadam?", he asked hesitatingly.

"Sorry brother, we don't open the prasadam package until we reach home and perform pooja", the lady said with the utmost apologetic tone.

"It's ok.", he said and turned to leave. But unbearable, he again turned towards them and asked, "Do you atleast have some food. I'm very hungry."

Feeling very sorry for him she said, "Brother, couldn't you have asked us a little earlier? We just threw away the remaining food."

Then the man of the family took Kannan to a stall and bought him idlis. Kannan hesitated.

"Think of this as the prasadam you asked us a little while earlier.", the man said.

The memories came rushing to Kannan when his 10yr old grandson asked him, "Thatha why do you pray to food before you eat?"

Society and the scary man.

*Random rant start*

When we were very young our parents told us about the Poochandi(Boogeyman) - a scary man, to scare us and make us compliant. 'Eat your food or else he will take you away', 'Take your medicines otherwise we will send you off with him', 'Behave well, if not he will come and catch you' and so on.

And when we grow up and are no more afraid of the Poochandi, our parents use the 'Society' to do the trick, albeit for different reasons. 'What will the society think if you do this?', 'What will the society think if you do that?', 'What will the society say if you behave like this?', 'What will the society think if you act like that?','The society wont accept this' and so on.

If you come to think of it, there are somethings common between these two.
Both are used to scare us and coerce us into doing things which we do not want to do.
Both of them are non-existent.
And even if they do exist, they don't give a rat's ass about you or your life.

I would have said the same about God and religion too. But they are also used for various other reasons. But Poochandi and Society are solely used for the purpose mentioned above. To scare and coerce us into doing/not doing things which we don't want/want to do.

*Random rant end*

Tell me your dreams

Anil returned from office, really tired. It was a Sunday afternoon. He had gone the previous evening and had been working for 18hrs straight.

"I must be having the most boring life, ever", he said to himself. "I mean who works on weekends, for 18 straight hours??", he thought in frustration.

He then thought about his life few years back when he was a school kid. Carefree, irresponsible, not a thing to worry about in the world. And then he remembered, the one thing that changed it all.

Deepak, the guy who moved into their neighbourhood. He was an IT professional. He dressed formally everyday. Clean shaven, neatly combed and well groomed. Went to and came back from office at odd hours. Although Anil thought Deepak had a boring and hectic life, he liked it. Actually he yearned for it. To be occupied, to be super busy and be all grown up and responsible. He said to himself, "I want to be like that".

Anil frowned at those memories. "How wrong and naive I was", he thought. "Now what I wouldn't do to be that kid", he contemplated. As much as he wanted to self-whine about it, he was also tired. Actually more tired than that. He dropped himself on the bed and went to snooze-land in an instance.

While deep in his sleep Anil heard a sound.

"What is that noise?", he wondered, still deep in sleep.

"Its a siren, no, its an ambulance on the road. But its sounds so nearby and it sounds like a bad cooing of a cuckoo. Wait, that's the doorbell ringing", the thoughts went on in his sleepy head.

He tired opening his eyes and felt like they were glued. The sound became more clear and loud.

"Its the doorbell. Who is that now. Let a man sleep in peace", he murmured as he got irritated.

He pulled himself up from the bed with his eyes still half closed. And he walked to the door all wobbly as the house spun around him. He opened the door and asked, "Woos that?" while yawning.

When he opened his eyes a little more and saw the person standing in front of him he felt as if someone threw a bucket of ice cold water on his face.

"Grandpa?", he exclaimed in surprise while taking a step back.

"Your surprise surprises me. I live here", his Grandpa replied.

"Are you going to let me in or stand there and block my way", his Grandpa asked.

Anil took his hand off the door and let him inside. While his Grandpa walked in, he said, "But you died 4yrs ago."

Grandpa stopped walking, turned back and said, "And then I got resurrected today?"
"That's a little late for resurrection don't you think", he mocked his grandson. "And why do you want me dead in your dream?", he asked, with a fake frown.

"Dream? What dream?", Anil asked wondering.

"The dream in which I'm dead, that dream", he said. "That's what happens when you sleep in broad daylight. You get crazy dreams. Like the living are dead and the dead are walking and talking", he said while chuckling.

Anil stood there bemused while his grandpa was walking away. And then someone called him from behind. Anil turned to see who it was.

"Anil, what are you doing standing there and staring at your granddad's picture?", asked his mom.

Anil turned back to look at his grandpa's smiling portrait adorned with garland.

Status Compilation

This is going to be one very long post. So if you have any work at all, need not even be important, you can stop reading this now. That said, this is not a typical post. Actually I do not even know if I can call this one a post. But what the heck, this is my blog. I will call it whatever I want.

Ok. This post is a compilation of my statuses on fb. Lame, I know. But, yesterday I was looking at my timeline (again, very lame, I know) and I just went on scrolling and reading my previous statuses(very very lame, I know, I know) and things that I shared. And I went way back till the start, when I created my fb account. It felt quiet strange. How I have evolved on a social-networking platform. The extensive use of sms lingo at the beginning to the college to corporate transitional confused soul to the Rajni jokes sharing phase to the I-Hate-My-Job phase. It’s a mini memoir in itself. So I decided to document it, for myself. Because what kind of man is he, who cannot laugh at his own stupidity. :-)

This is almost all of my statuses, other than the usual Happy this and that, I’m going home, I’m sick, It’s Friday and the likes. Also I left out few statuses which I shared in the beginning that were forward text messages(lamest of ‘em all, I know) and few others which I copied from other sources. Other than that, most of them were my own. Some of them are real gems you know (modesty...? what’s that...?).

Without further ado, I present to you, the “Status Compilation”.
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Do not bother to understand if maths wasn’t your favourite subject..:P

“On the office forum, someone put a status. Many people gave their support by commenting '+1', few with '+100' and some others with '+100000000000000000'. But one person commented '+1^100'..;-)

I couldn't figure out if the person was over-enthusiastic with a flash of dumbness or is a smart-ass trying to troll others..:D :P”
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"If you think about it, very long ago some guy/gal coined the name 'Brain' for brain, which was actually the function of the brain. In other words, 'Brain' named itself..;-)


Now, how wicked is that..:D"
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During Vishwaroopam release.

"Ban movies that are made on Afghan terrorists, because it may create communal riot in India. What next..?? Ban News about Afghan and Pakistan terrorists because it may create communal tension here.?? :-/



I'm seriously worried where we are heading as a Nation..!!"
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"We will celebrate Republic Day tomorrow, marking the date the Constitution of India came into effect. And we ban movies, constraining the Right to freedom for speech and expression the very Constitution gave us..:-/

#The Irony that is India..!!"
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"I'm almost sure that even in 2050 we Indians will catchify seats on buses by putting kerchief..:D"
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"India seriously needs population control, so that atleast our children and grandchildren can buy tickets for movies on first day of its release without getting stamped and smothered..:|"
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"That moment when someone comments "nice click", and you read it wrongly by joining 'c' and 'l'..;-):P

#PinnacleOfPerversion"
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 The 21/12/2012 Mayan troll. :-)

"There were jokes that if the world doesn't end on 21st Dec 2012, there will be lot of babies born on 21st Sep 2013. I think that's gonna happen anyway. Today being the Winter solstice, the longest night in a year..;-) :D

And not even a lightning bolt today..?? Crap..:-/"
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Post Delhi gang rape.

"If there is no news about rape or women degradation on any given day, now, that is News..!!

#SorryStateOfAffairs..:-/"
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New Year 2012

"Round and round it goes,
Around a star it goes.
A happy new year to you all,
Residing on this big, round, rocky ball..:-) :D"
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A Tamil song adapted to describe my sorry situation while working till 3am in the office. Skip this if you do not understand Tamil.

"Bengaloor Nagaram urangam neram
thanimai adarnthathu
paniyum padarthathu
Mail'il vandhu irangiye
Issue'um ennai parthu sirithathu

Moondru attai suvargalukulle
naanum en PC yum
thanimai thanimayo..
kodumai kodumaiyo... :-( :-/"
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"When someone says you are getting fat(like in my case), just say that you trying to become more ATTRACTIVE...


...because according to physics, "Physical bodies 'attract' each other with a force proportional to their masses”..:D ;-)"
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Ilayathalapathy Vijay's movie, and not even a single 'Punch dialogue'..?? Highly disappointed. ;-) :P :D

#Thuppaki
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I copied this from someone else. But explains everyone's situation perfectly.

"Dear Youtube,
"I can deal with Ads.
I can deal with Buffer.
But when Ads Buffer.
I suffer..!!"

via: Balachandran"
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"The strong urge to fast forward a song while watching a movie in theatre.

So annoying...:-/"
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The Apple suing Samsung drama.

"If a rectangular box with rounded edges is a design patent, then Camel should be suing Apple for stealing their Geometry box design..;) :D :P"
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I still wonder about this.

"I was in the elevator. A guy's phone rang. He has "Washing powder Nirma" as his ringtone. I mean, seriously..?!?! :D"
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You will understand this if you are a Tamilian.

"On the other hand I think Fb is biased. It doesn't allow you to create an account without Middle and Last names..:P"
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The Olympics.

"India selecting Sportsperson for Olympics is like Aamir selecting men for his team in Lagaan. Pull people from Railways, Police, Military and other Govt. organisations and expect them to win medals..;-) :D

#On the bright-side, its good that there is sports quota for Govt jobs..:-)"
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"Every girl is beautiful and every boy is handsome. You just have to be the right person to see it.

P.S: Its saturday and I'm already into Philasaphy mood..;)"
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"The urge to piss increases 'Exponentially' when you get drenched in rain..:-/ :D"
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Skip this if you dont follow TBBT or you dont know who X-men are.

"The X-Men were named after the X in Charles Xavier. Since I'm Sheldon Cooper, you will be my C-Men..!! ;-)

#LMTD. Sheldon rocks..:D

P.S: LMTD = Laughing Myself To Death. In case you were wondering..:P"
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"Nothing's gonna last. Either good or bad, everything's gonna pass..!!

P.S: Its still Thursday, and I'm already in mood for some Philasaphy..;-)"
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"Always take pride in the things you have achieved, yet be humble for things that you haven't..!!"
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"One of the good things about being at home is, you need not worry about where to go to or wat to EAT..!! :D"
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Only one person liked this status. Is my sense of humor twisted..??

“Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary”

The desolate, blindingly white land of Little Rann is nature at its harshest and most convincing. It is also home to India’s last refuge population of Khur – Asiatic wild ass and for it is for the conservation of Khur, that this has been declared as the “Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary”.

P.S: Very misleading heading..:D
P.P.S: Or on a second thought, I might be a pervert...;-)
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"Dear Insomnia,

I ain't college kid anymore. I fucking have to go to office tomorrow. And I hate to walk around like a zombie in the office. So leave me alone and go find someone else. Pretty please.

Ur's truly."
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"People tend to take credit for their success, but blame others/situation for the failure. Success or failure, you are the one responsible for it. Face it..!!"
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How to propose to a Medical girl..??

"Girl, you just gave me a Premature isovolumic ventricular contraction/relaxation"...:D

#Premature isovolumic ventricular contraction/relaxation - Heart skipping a beat...;-)
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"If women who get paid to have sex are called 'Prostitutes', then shouldn't men who ask for dowry to get married(in-turn to have SEX..:P) be called 'Gigolos'..?? :D :D

#Gigolo = Male prostitutes. If you didn't know..;-)"
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"How our company trolls us...

Company: There's a good news and a bad news.
Us: Bad news first.
Comp: In the interests of security of employees we declare closure of offices tomorrow on account of the Bharath Bandh.
Us: :D :D And the good news :D :D
Comp: The office will consequently remain open on next Saturday as a compensation... :D :D :D :D"
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"Our life is a constant struggle to be happy, so savour the moments when you get one...:-)"
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"When you are standing in a queue and a bunch of men are staring at you.
They are either gay men having a good time or there's a real hot chick standing right behind you...:P via Rajesh Kumar

P.S: Applicable only for men.
P.P.S: There's nothing sexist about the P.S...;-)"
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I hate my job phase.

"Why does it happen to me..??
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They either make me sit beside my manager or they make the person who sits beside me, my manager...:-/"
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"No human society ever exists without booze or religion..!!
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That's why, "I DRINK RELIGIOUSLY"...:P

#A dialog in The Darkest Hour...;-)"
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"Love is blind n all is okay, but dont let it make ur life dark I say...;-) :P"
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"That awesome moment when you discover that ur Girlfrnd is a Football fan..,
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And the Awful moment when you discover that she supports the opposite team...:p"
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The tremors during September, or was it August.?

"If you are drunk during an Earthquake, you would be really confused.
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Whether its you who is wobbling or the Earth..?? :D"
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"Daaru peene ke liye kisi ko force math karo.

Baad me Apne liye daaru kam padh jaati hai...;-)"
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"What would an Atheist say when he is shocked/excited..??
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Oh Your God(OYG)....!!!!!! ;p"
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I still do not know why I wrote this.

"A relationship of almost 5yrs n 8 months comes to an end. Now you may not be with me all the time. Yet you shall be always remembered. Some one much better, prettier and smarter than you has replaced you. But that doesn't mean you are any less. The sturdy and stubborn little bitch that you were, I never felt like leaving you for anyone else. Until you started acting weird for no reason at all. It couldn't have been continued this way. It would have spoiled my relationship with others, who would have thought I'm ignoring them because of you. As hard as it may feel, I had to let you go and say good bye. But dont worry, I shall come visit you whenever I feel like. Hold you and recollect all those fond memories I shared with you. But I will always miss you.
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To my Nokia 6030,

With Love, Yours Truly...:-)"
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Now that 2012 is over and we are alive and many people are still in a hurry to get married. I'm still wondering

"Lots of people around me are getting married.
Ufff..!! Seems like people have taken the "2012-End of World" thing seriously...;-)"
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"How to make ur most Favorite song as the most Irritating one..??
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Set it as ur Alarm Tone...;-)"
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"Dont try to be "Good to a Person", just try to be a "Good Person". Accepting or not accepting ur Goodness is their fucking problem..!!"
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"I'm sick of people bringing Chocolates while returning from On-site. Please change the option, we ain't 5yr olds...:-/
 
P.S: Even cash will be ACCEPTED..;-)"
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And we are again on a house hunt.

"Indian parents are ready to Marry-off their daughters to Bachelors, but wont rent their Houses to them...;-)
#EKSI"
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The 'I hate my job' phase

"Life is a Race. U r the Horse and ur Boss is the Jockey..!!
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You run in the race and someone else earns the Reward..:-/
 
P.S: Jockey here is not a brand of Underwear...;p"
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"I was wondering why I PROCRASTINATE so much.
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But then I thought I will think about it later...;p"
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Another 'I hate my job' phase

"The relation between a Software Developer and Tester is like that of an Indian Daughter-in-law and Mother-in-law.

For Tester- Everything the Developer does, is full of Errors and is not correct.
For Developer- Everything the Tester complaints about, is Pointless and they dont Understand...;-)"
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"May your life someday be as awesome as you pretend it is on facebook...:-)"
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"Its really funny when ur head itches while riding a bike, and u strt scratching ur helmet...;-)"
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Very serious 'I hate my job' phase.

"Software Engineers are not much different from Prostitutes.

We go whenever they call
We do whatever they say
We perform to our best, yet they are never satisfied
We do not like what we do, yet we do it for a living
We get Screwed
&
We get paid for it...!!!"
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May be that's a bad childhood memory.

"Best childhood memory..

"You sleep all Dry and Clean and wake up all Wet and Pissed"...;-)"
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Jan LokPal hoopla

"Just a thought ---- How if we bribe the government to pass Jan Lokpal Bill..??"
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"Passenger: How long does the Train stop here.?
Station Master: 2 2 2 2 2 2
Passenger: W T F..??
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Station Master: U dumbass it means from 1:58 to 2:02(Two to Two to Two Two)...;p

Courtesy: Anbe Sivam"
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In my defense, I know the explanation  for this.


"Enakku romba naala oru sandegam(I have a doubt since a long time)..

While Black is a color n White is also a color,
Y the hell is Black&White TV not a color TV..!!"
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"When you join a new project, the team meetings are like Watching a Chinese movie without Sub-titles...!!!"
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"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. But many a times they need an Eye check-up...;-)"
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"I always think I become foolish wen I'm Drunk.
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And the prblm is,
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I think the opposite wen I'm actually Drunk...;-)"
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The only English poem I wrote. If you can call this a poem that is.

"Millions of memories, only few hundreds to cherish.
Yours are the ones that will never perish..
Many a faces in life when I think,
Yet Yours is the one I remember every time I blink"...:-)
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This question is yet to be answered.

"If ADAM n EVE were d first n only humans created by GOD, I wonder whom their children married n how d Human race continued...?!?!?!?"
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So that's it. These are most of my statuses. From 12th August 2009 till 26th Feb 2013. Now don't go and search my name on fb to add me as a friend, okay..?? :D

P.S: Mid-way while composing this post I started wondering if 'Statuses' is the plural of 'Status'. When I searched on Google, I discovered that many people have the same confusion. Anyhow, MS Word and Blogger say its correct. So much for studying in a Convent for 12yrs.:P

E(I)nsure

Vikas walked out of the office building. He was in a hurry to catch a bus home. He had to cross the service lane and the four lane road to reach the bus stop on the other side. Just then his phone rang. A land-line number. And he knew who it would be. He picked up the call and said, "Hello".

"Good Evening, Sir. My name is Neha, I'm calling from New Life Insurance Co. We have a new scheme which I think you would be interested in. It's very.."

"Look, I'm in a hurry. Could you call me back later?", Vikas said and cut the call.

He reached the office gate, and was about cross the service lane, when his phone rang again. He picked the call and said, "Hello, look I said I…", impatiently.

"Sir, please sir, it won’t take much of your time, sir. We found that you do not have any policies in your name. I think this scheme would be very apt for you. I.."

"Please", Vikas interrupted her. " I do not need any Insurance policies. So please stop calling me", Vikas said and pressed the red button hard.

"These people always find the perfect time to annoy people", he said to himself stepping onto the main road without looking at the truck coming towards him.

The driver hit the brake as hard as he could. The truck came to a screeching halt. Vikas was thrown a good 6 to 7 feet away. Everything went dizzy for a while. But he soon regained his consciousness and got up on his feet. He was about to shout at the driver and give a piece of his mind, when he realised that it was actually he who was in the wrong. He then saw people moving towards him. He signalled with his hand that he was ok.

"Maybe I should get Insured after all", he said and started crossing the road, when he saw a car speeding towards him. He signalled the car to slow down. But it kept accelerating. When the car came almost near him, he stood there stunned, motionless and exclaimed, "What the Effff", and the car passed right through him.

At a little distance he saw the traffic police clearing the crowd away from the truck, where his body lay, crushed under the wheels.

The Female Repellant.

        Now don't misunderstand the title. This post is anything but Sexist or Chauvinistic. To be precise, this post is about my misfortune with the fairer sex. About me being the guy who is exact opposite to a 'Chick-Magnet'. Ok, may be not that worse, but bad nonetheless. I have a strong belief that, during my formative weeks in my mother's womb, the God sprayed me with a 'Female repellant' potion after He had a heated argument with His better half(again, don't consider me to be a sexist for considering God to be a He). So that there would be at least one unfortunate soul to look and laugh at during His grumpy times. There it began. after I was born, a long journey of a small babbling baby to a squabbling school kid, then to boyhood and till adulthood. All the way wondering where and what went wrong. You see, I have a major 'Foot in Mouth' syndrome, ONLY around women. Speaking things I shouldn't be speaking, asking things that I shouldn't be asking and telling them things I shouldn't be telling.

Enough with all the build up. Now let me share 3 incidents from my life and let you decide for yourself if I'm being unreasonable in believing in this Female repellant theory.

The Girl with the Old Tiffin box
This incident happened in my primary school days, when the transition period of my-parents-getting-my-lunch-box-in-the-afternoon to me-carrying-my-own-lunch-box-in-the-morning was happening. At that time I used to sit with my cousins, their friends whom I didn't know and another mutual friend(girl) lets call her B, to have my lunch with. The process of having lunch usually goes very smoothly, with some chitter-chatter and sharing of food among all of us(which I used to hate by the way). B was usually the most chatty among all of us. Going on and on about how a boy licked off his phlegm in the class to how a cow stomped away the gobbi in front of their house. She just would never shut up. During one such day when her 2 compartment aluminum tiffin box with slide lock got stuck, I helped her in opening it. While we were having lunch, she would not keep quite and kept on talking about all the things that shouldn't be spoken while having food. So to change the topic, I asked her, "B, why don't you bring a different tiffin box. Something which is easier to open". Then she started, "You know, this is my favorite tiffin box. My granddad bought it for my mom. She used it when she went to school. Later my akka(elder sister) used it when she went to school. Now I'm using it". And she went on about its history. Unbearable, I interrupted her saying, "Oh great, when you get married and have kids, pack their lunch in the same box". There was a moment of silence and then everyone guffawed. And I knew, I made myself an enemy for life. Next day, she was missing in the lunch group. Second day, my cousins stopped coming. Third day, I was sitting alone during lunch. Fourth day, I got a new lunch group. And this time it was all boys. :D

Girls..?? Where are they..??
This happened during college. After lot of experience on how not to talk with women. I concluded that, the problem occurred whenever I talked with girls. So my brilliant mind told me that, "No talking, no problem". Therefore I decided to stop creating problems for myself. It was not like I completely stopped talking to girls, or ran away from them. It was more of a formal conversation. Reply them, when they asked me something. I wasn't afraid of them or hated them. I was just being cautious. And it was going on this way. One fine day in college when we were in the lab performing some experiment, this girl, who was standing beside me while I was trying to figure out what I was doing, asked me, "Srikanth, I never saw you talking with any girls in our class. Why is that..??" Now, I'm the kind of person who when posed with an unwanted or uncomfortable question, replies with a tinge of humor and sarcasm so that I can evade the actual question. So me being me. And that being an unwanted question. I stood up, turned towards her with a serious and surprised look and asked her, "Girls..?? In our class..?? Where are they..??" And I don't remember if she ever spoke to me again.

Block You..!!
Ah. This incident is one of my favorite. This happened few months back. I have a Facebook profile. And I had this girl from my college as one of the friends in my friend's list. I, many a times share some uncanny things like, how an ejaculation is the fastest data transfer with 1587GB transferred in about 3 seconds as each DNA consists 37.5MB of data. No, I'm not a pervert. I even like and comment on those stupid posts and pics so that fb will donate millions to poor children in some African nations. I'm a good guy, mind you. And when I post statuses, they are usually my own. I don't Ctrl+c Ctrl+v them. And when I do that, I duly credit it to the original source. See, I told you I was a good guy. Any way I digress. Coming to the original point. One day I put up a status saying, "Champions are those people, who build the bridge to success with the stones thrown at them". Yeah, nothing great, I know. But this girl liked the status and commented "Superlyk..:)". And again, me being me, liked her comment, and put up a comment below hers saying, "^^For more such knowledge contact me on Friday and Saturday nights..;-)". Obviously what I meant was, I'm at my philosophical best when I had some CH₃CH₂OH in my system. After a while another friend of mine commented on the status. So I opened the notification, expecting to see the third comment. But there were only two. Her comment was missing. Thinking it was a bug, I refreshed the page. Voila, her like was gone. Amused, I searched her name. Nothing came up. Then it struck me. She has blocked me. She fucking blocked me. From liking and commenting on my status to blocking me, in less than 2 mins. I bet no one can beat that record.

And there it is. 3 examples from 3 different stages of my life. From all these experiences I came to a conclusion that, either they were too sensitive or I was very insensitive. And being the gentleman that I am, I told myself that I have a misplaced sense of humor inside that clumsy brain of mine. And these 3 were not the only experiences based on which I came up with the theory. No. Nononononono no. There are numerous other examples and instances. As this post has already gone too long and for the fear of bricks being thrown at me and defamation and harassment cases being filed against me, I'm not not sharing them here. Also sincerely hoping that all those three girls would never read this post. Now go ahead and tell me if I'm wrong in believing in my theory. Hmpf.

Thank You - My first 55 fiction.

"It was time to close the museum, which was already empty.

He stared at the statue one last time before closing down for the day.

"She's gotta be the most beautiful woman to have ever lived", he murmured while turning back to leave.

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Just then he heard a faint "Thank You" with giggle, behind him".


P.S: I realized that I haven't written anything since a long time. So am putting up this. I wrote this sometime back, but never published it. Thought that this isn't so good. But what the heck. Something is better than nothing.

And nother thing. The title isn't very creative. Couldn't think of anything better. So bear with it..:-)