That's life

There are certain situations one has to face where you feel nothing but helplessness !! Today one such situation happened to me and right now i am supposed to feel shocked and be paralyzed.But alas, i feel emptiness in me and i think of nothing....that's exactly my state now.There is nothing anybody can do to help me out of this predicament rather than empathizing with me.I know that.
I wish these type of situations never occur to me in future.But since it has anyway occured, i hope i have the courage to face the situation and deal it in a matured way. I hope i am a good son!! I hope i am a good brother!!!

There is lot of "hope" in my post now,this shows the extent of my helplessness.pccch.


Things have taken a nasty turn at home and the situation is worse.Yeah, really.
I thought of returning back to india, but my being or not being doesn't help now.Its all over and i have to face the situation as it is.Though i have accepted the situation ,I sincerely wish i had some super powers to change the past and determine the future.

My initial thought was to not publish this post, but since this is my blog and i intend to record all my thoughts truthfully , i am going ahead and posting this. I know this doesn't make sense to the readers(if any), but the point is "it is not intended to".Excuse me if you think i am AFU ( all fucked up !)

8 hours in Paris !

 

There is a whole new world underneath paris,which is running very very efficiently to help people commute across the city ..Yes, the metro system is amazing!! They have 14 lines running beneath the beautiful streets of paris.I wouldn't have made the most out of my 8hrs in paris(Pariche, as the italians call it), had it not been for the metro system :-) The metro life(paris home)is quite intersting...You can find a varied set of people..the africans,arabs,natives(parisians),tourists(like me amazed by the complexity and the efficiency of the system)... Train zooms past the stations, people enter, people exit..No one talks.Everybody keeps to themselves..Maybe, this is the french ishtyle !

One among the innumerable metro stations is the station "La Chapelle"...Once out of it, i was not wondering whether i was teleported to chennai :-) The shops were named "Gopal Telekom","Tamiluvari Fast Food" and the likes :-) I entered a cozy food place called "Ganesha Restaurant" and had my favourite Chicken Biryani...Although it was way below the hyderabadi standards, considering that i was 7520 km away from the nawabi place, it is okay !!! The peddlers were selling their wares inside the hotel,this was quite annoying..Other than that, the south indian(tamil) mess ambience and the desi food was quite refreshing.

I Roamed around the city covering places like Sacre Couer,Palais De L'Eysees, Grand Palais,Arch De Triomphe,Grand Arche.I was a lucky witness to the grand parade of the napolean army at the Arch De Triomphe.Finally by 5 pm i went to the Eiffel Tower.I saved the best for the end :-) Luckily,by 5 pm it was dark, and i was able to get a magnificient view of the Eiffel Tower.I felt as if the tall structure was laughing at me at my tininess, i always get this feeling whenever i see something big...Strange, but that's me ! There were atleast 300-400 people infront of me to reach the top of the tower and i quickly calculated that i couldn't make it for the return flight if i continue in the Queue.So, dropped the idea of going to the top and spent sometime in the garden infront of the Eiffel. There were lovebirds,happy families all around...Love and Happiness was all around the place..I just loved the place.It was smashing!

I had to catch a bus to go to the beauvais airport(50 miles from paris) 3 hrs before my flight departure.This was painful...But you get what you pay for ! Anyway, Ryanair runs a decent service to and fro from paris-Rome for a low fare,except that the airports are bit far from the cities.That is understood because to provide low fares, they avoid paying heavy taxes at the main airports.

Overall i had a great time in paris and i am happy being back in Rome.

~Nagi

Coincidence or by purpose ?

Well, i rarely believe in superstitions and things like that, but certain things happened lately that forced me into thinking in the other direction. Well it may be purely coincidental, but it is the sequence of these things that amaze me.


My "Today's fortune" in orkut for 5th october read "You will travel far and wide both for business and pleasure" and poof !! 2 days later, i am in roma :-)

I remember the last time i was in rome(22nd february,2006<->21st may 2006), i did a little coin throwing thing in the famous Fontana de Trevi in rome.Well according to the popular belief of italians, people who throw coins with their right hand over their left shoulders shall again return to Italy.And indeed here i am in Italia.

Certain swamiji in hyderabad saw my sister's kundali and clearly elucidated her past and future exactly as it is.Though i definitely belong to the school of thought that how can the spatial position of certain planets decide the happenings in the lives of people residing in a certain X3/A4 type planet earth. The above description of earth is picked up by me from some movie which indicates the vastness of the universe. I guess i am digressing from the theme of this post.The accurateness of the swamiji's forecast amazed me the most who elucidated the happenings of my sister's life with utmost perspicacity.



Okay now that you have come this far without getting bored, i will let you in on a little secret !!! The legend of the coin throwing in Trevi fountain is that if you throw one coin, you are ensured a return to Rome; two coins to get married; and three to get divorced! Well, infact i threw 2 coins into the fountain the last time !! So,it is not possible for me to show you, but you can easily guess the anticipation and the sparkle in my eyes now :-)

Whoa !! Although i still belong to the "non-believer" in planets and stars thingy, i guess for this 2 coins thing,i guess i am flexible *wink*. But for the rest of things, i prefer to treat them as Coincidence !

Keep rolling,
GNR

Dejavu

Yes, that is the word.
That is exactly what i felt today as i see freshers walking in to the conference room today in samsung,b'lore.

On June 17th, 2004, a 21yr old me walked in to the meeting room of Hughes,b'lore to be greeted by 7 others like me.I still remember the anticipation in the eyes of fresher-me and fresher-others around me.The initial enthusiasm is too difficult to be penned down.To be there in a corporate meeting room shaking hands with the director of a 150 People strong project is just an great experience for a fresher-me.Walking in the office spaces, meeting eyes of curious cubicle owners was so much fun those days.When i was recapitulating my initial work days , i have realised how fast time flies by.

2 Years. In the past two years Saddam was taken down,tsunami occured,oil prices zoomed higher and i got promoted to the position of Senior engineer :-)

In other news, today i registered myself at Max-Meuller bhavan for the forthcoming german classes.Yes, yours truly is going to learn german!

Have to get back to work, more musings later ..

BTW, welcome to my life !!

ON ON
~Nagi

My first One!!!

Well, i have been reading blogs for quite some time now. Finally i have decided to give my blogging-kaun-karegaa-yaar thought a break and start scribbling :-)

The sole intention of this blog is to make a note of the things happening around me and my reactions to them. Starting this blog also has the penultimate motive of giving a definite direction to my thought flow, creativity(if at all) and more importantly knowing myself.

Hurray to my frist step on planet WEB !!!

~Nagi