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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
A HAPPY Republic Day: Part-3
NOTE: If u haven't read the Part-1 & Part-2 of this, please don't proceed further. Stop here, read both the parts which are below this & come back!
As i sit in silent contemplation the auto wallah calls to remind me to get down at M'patnam and lo!..we are ther! Time passed off so very quickly! I pay his fare and go to the bus stop for an indefinite wait for a bus home. In the meanwhile I encounter many unwanted sights.Auto wallahs call out names of places where I come from and reminding myself of those wretched and damned places somehow irks me as I put my face away and languidly gaze elsewhere though I know very well that I'll have to make that my home for the coming 4 more years! The previous day's verbal argument with an STD friend of mine keeps resonating in my mind as it keeps me away from replying to her incessant msgs to inquire the reason for the cancellation of my program. I keep waiting for the right bus amidst a huge fleet of buses that I dont need; I also find that I'm not bothering about the apprehension anymore.
An old couple comes to me to ask for money to go their place and show me their son's address as they somehow lost contact with him. They start narrating their story; that they were from a village near Vijayawada and blah blah blah and as I uninterestingly listen to their narration, it rang some bells! LO! They are the same couple who deceived me couple of years ago(roughly 2.5yrs) by the same touching story of mother and son sentiment to which i fell flat and parted a hundred rupees! It instantly starts angering me! Once again my mind and heart start having a clash...not of their superiority to one another, but giving their view point to which i should act an impartial judge and choose the right one! My mind endeavors to tell me to screw them until they pay me back or atleast scold them. While my heart asks me to forgive them and leave the matter.I laugh away at the former suggestion and follow my heart. I avoid them and find solace in a cool lime soda from a roadside vendor. Then my trained eye finally cathches a right bus home.
I pay for the ticket and as I seat myself, I'm somehow reminded of the pain. It lingers in my mind for a while and I take my headphones and plug 'em into my ears and find myself enjoying to the blabber of the redio jockeys of the various radio stations and also the songs. As I keep listening to them sleep slowly takes over me as I, out of intuition slowly recline onto my back expecting a cushio, hit the hard metal surface and the jerk pulls me out of my sleep. I curse it and once again continue my previous business and this time I rest my hand on the window's metal embankment and rest my head on it and slowly doze off. Later I wake up at an abruptly right moment to see that I'm almost nearing my stop and prepare myself as I pluck off the earphones and put them back into my pocket and my lega, having practiced so much of dance in the past 3 days, painfully carry me to the door and I get down and head homewards.
Once I was home I could somehow feel the warmth and cosiness it offers me and once gain remind myself of the guy who pushed cart; the old loner police regulating the traffic and thank God for giving me everything and I hit the bed!
As i sit in silent contemplation the auto wallah calls to remind me to get down at M'patnam and lo!..we are ther! Time passed off so very quickly! I pay his fare and go to the bus stop for an indefinite wait for a bus home. In the meanwhile I encounter many unwanted sights.Auto wallahs call out names of places where I come from and reminding myself of those wretched and damned places somehow irks me as I put my face away and languidly gaze elsewhere though I know very well that I'll have to make that my home for the coming 4 more years! The previous day's verbal argument with an STD friend of mine keeps resonating in my mind as it keeps me away from replying to her incessant msgs to inquire the reason for the cancellation of my program. I keep waiting for the right bus amidst a huge fleet of buses that I dont need; I also find that I'm not bothering about the apprehension anymore.
An old couple comes to me to ask for money to go their place and show me their son's address as they somehow lost contact with him. They start narrating their story; that they were from a village near Vijayawada and blah blah blah and as I uninterestingly listen to their narration, it rang some bells! LO! They are the same couple who deceived me couple of years ago(roughly 2.5yrs) by the same touching story of mother and son sentiment to which i fell flat and parted a hundred rupees! It instantly starts angering me! Once again my mind and heart start having a clash...not of their superiority to one another, but giving their view point to which i should act an impartial judge and choose the right one! My mind endeavors to tell me to screw them until they pay me back or atleast scold them. While my heart asks me to forgive them and leave the matter.I laugh away at the former suggestion and follow my heart. I avoid them and find solace in a cool lime soda from a roadside vendor. Then my trained eye finally cathches a right bus home.
I pay for the ticket and as I seat myself, I'm somehow reminded of the pain. It lingers in my mind for a while and I take my headphones and plug 'em into my ears and find myself enjoying to the blabber of the redio jockeys of the various radio stations and also the songs. As I keep listening to them sleep slowly takes over me as I, out of intuition slowly recline onto my back expecting a cushio, hit the hard metal surface and the jerk pulls me out of my sleep. I curse it and once again continue my previous business and this time I rest my hand on the window's metal embankment and rest my head on it and slowly doze off. Later I wake up at an abruptly right moment to see that I'm almost nearing my stop and prepare myself as I pluck off the earphones and put them back into my pocket and my lega, having practiced so much of dance in the past 3 days, painfully carry me to the door and I get down and head homewards.
Once I was home I could somehow feel the warmth and cosiness it offers me and once gain remind myself of the guy who pushed cart; the old loner police regulating the traffic and thank God for giving me everything and I hit the bed!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
A HAPPY Republic Day: Part-2
NOTE: If u haven't read the Part-1 of this, please don't proceed further. Stop here, read the Part-1 which is below this & come back!
I find that I'm no more wanted by any of them.Though it isn't deliberate, everyone seem to be pissed off with everyone else. I'm enjoying the sunlight that is hitting me on my face directly! But the unknown apprehension is spreading across the body completely and I'm in no mood to stop it, scrutinize it and curb it completely. I let go of it. I completely allow my body, mind and heart to go free. Run wherever they want to. Think of whtever they want to. For the first time in many months, I find something is really making me happy. Something that has the source, waiting to be discovered by me. The apprehension is now at critical stage as it takes over my primary senses. I'm feeling gay.cheerful.Light at heart. I open my eyes and sit straight and see everything around me. It is really surprising to note tht the same environment that was so hostile earlier seemed so full of life now!
Everything, as I find is taking shape and is materializing itself in a completely new way! I go back to the place where the audience are seated and find that prize distribution ceremony was on and brought cheer and anticipation of excietement to the faces who know, they've something in stock and dullness and apathy to those who are from then on jobless as they leave their places and go to find better ways of entertaining themselves! I find a smile on my face and wait for an hour more to see my dear friends receiving prizes and their beaming faces. And after they were done, I still found that I was not wanted by anyone. Though that seemed to take an altogether completely different picture now, it still pained me. I find that the apprehension has taken its control over the body and is in super critical stage I bothered it in the least! Though I dont know many of the guys around me I keep wishing them and congratulating them on their success and receiving prizes! I always like to stay alone and all the times have opted for seclusion. But this somehow seems different from all those previous times as I felt wanted!
In the meanwhile a lady calls me to find out if I can make it to home for lunch! And i irritatingly answer her that I wouldn't be coming and she can go ahead; and as I'm trying to disconnect the call the lady pesters me to tell what happened to my dance. I pause for a while and tell her what happened. Concerningly she asks the reason and how I'm feeling; I answer some crap and in an impulse cut the call telling her I'd be home soon and lying that I already had my lunch there. But why am I in such a haste? Why did I talk so impudently to the lady? After all she's been with me for 18 and a half long years thinking of me every second and living her life building up expectations on me and loving unconditionally! I felt cross with myself and my heart scolded me for being so rough with her. Then I find whispering to myself, "I love u mom!". Perhaps never in the recent times have I felt towards her as I'm feeling now. Unconditional love. Yes! I saluted with deep reverence to her and felt glad of her presence in my life.
It is often found that ppl in colleges are mostly identified by the gangs they maintain. By the groups they usually roam around wid. if u wanna stay alone and be friendly wid everyone, it might be okay in the short run, but in the long run shows its effect. Though i never maintained my gang I find my set of chums missing as they take a day off! Thus left alone, without informing anyone I take a 7seater and head towards mehdipatnam to take a bus home.
Though the world seemed bright for an hour or 2 I found myself back to the 'pissed of mood'! The ppl in the auto are chatting noisily unmindful of other's presence and other's need for silence! En route, though its a short journey, it made me realise so many things to which im thankful to...perhaps God!
Everything around is pacing off as usual, never bothering about the cancellation of some damned team's dance program in some college's Republic day function! Everything around seemed so normal. The completely militarized area of Ibrahimbagh and Narsingi seemed peaceful and usual. Vendors going around and yelling their products for sale. Shops filled with ppl having many requirements. A squirrel escapes its death as a car puts a sudden break. Workers laying the road. Amidst all these I still find some interesting sights! A young boy, perhaps 6-7 years of age, helps his dad do his daily routine of pedaling long distances with a cart filled with construction material. He pushes the loaded cart up a small elevation and as the task was completed the father happily looks at his son and pedals away and the sun looks for a while and goes away. Though it is a very ubiquitous scene, I somehow find it surprisingly different. I'm filled with so much of compassion and a small happy seed seems to be planted. I make effort to see what the young lad is up to and amidst the stagnant traffic I find tht he is having his lunch in an unhygienic place wid unclean hands in a roughly dusted parcel and seemed to relish it and is at peace. Though it is prevalent everywhere,I couldn't stop myself from thinking about it.
Then I find another loner like me; an aged gurkha or a police, I'm not sure, regulates the congested traffic and luckily ppl are heeding to him and a hidden smile is on his face which I can see it, not wid my eyes but with my heart. He helps children cross the road, diverts the traffic from an under-construction flyover and seems to be completely at peace with himself as I find no hint of irritation or disgust on his face. I smile lookin at him and he smiles back and points to the tricolor flag pinned to his shirt wishing me a happy Rday! Looking at everything I find that I'm in a far far far better position. In the sense, i dont have to push a cart to make a living,I dont need to eat in uncouth surroundings and I dont need to stand in the hot sun regulating the heavy traffic with loads of dust and pollution in the air! The happy seed now grew into a sapling! Deep within my heart I thank God for this all!
But there's still a lot to come in stock!
I find that I'm no more wanted by any of them.Though it isn't deliberate, everyone seem to be pissed off with everyone else. I'm enjoying the sunlight that is hitting me on my face directly! But the unknown apprehension is spreading across the body completely and I'm in no mood to stop it, scrutinize it and curb it completely. I let go of it. I completely allow my body, mind and heart to go free. Run wherever they want to. Think of whtever they want to. For the first time in many months, I find something is really making me happy. Something that has the source, waiting to be discovered by me. The apprehension is now at critical stage as it takes over my primary senses. I'm feeling gay.cheerful.Light at heart. I open my eyes and sit straight and see everything around me. It is really surprising to note tht the same environment that was so hostile earlier seemed so full of life now!
Everything, as I find is taking shape and is materializing itself in a completely new way! I go back to the place where the audience are seated and find that prize distribution ceremony was on and brought cheer and anticipation of excietement to the faces who know, they've something in stock and dullness and apathy to those who are from then on jobless as they leave their places and go to find better ways of entertaining themselves! I find a smile on my face and wait for an hour more to see my dear friends receiving prizes and their beaming faces. And after they were done, I still found that I was not wanted by anyone. Though that seemed to take an altogether completely different picture now, it still pained me. I find that the apprehension has taken its control over the body and is in super critical stage I bothered it in the least! Though I dont know many of the guys around me I keep wishing them and congratulating them on their success and receiving prizes! I always like to stay alone and all the times have opted for seclusion. But this somehow seems different from all those previous times as I felt wanted!
In the meanwhile a lady calls me to find out if I can make it to home for lunch! And i irritatingly answer her that I wouldn't be coming and she can go ahead; and as I'm trying to disconnect the call the lady pesters me to tell what happened to my dance. I pause for a while and tell her what happened. Concerningly she asks the reason and how I'm feeling; I answer some crap and in an impulse cut the call telling her I'd be home soon and lying that I already had my lunch there. But why am I in such a haste? Why did I talk so impudently to the lady? After all she's been with me for 18 and a half long years thinking of me every second and living her life building up expectations on me and loving unconditionally! I felt cross with myself and my heart scolded me for being so rough with her. Then I find whispering to myself, "I love u mom!". Perhaps never in the recent times have I felt towards her as I'm feeling now. Unconditional love. Yes! I saluted with deep reverence to her and felt glad of her presence in my life.
It is often found that ppl in colleges are mostly identified by the gangs they maintain. By the groups they usually roam around wid. if u wanna stay alone and be friendly wid everyone, it might be okay in the short run, but in the long run shows its effect. Though i never maintained my gang I find my set of chums missing as they take a day off! Thus left alone, without informing anyone I take a 7seater and head towards mehdipatnam to take a bus home.
Though the world seemed bright for an hour or 2 I found myself back to the 'pissed of mood'! The ppl in the auto are chatting noisily unmindful of other's presence and other's need for silence! En route, though its a short journey, it made me realise so many things to which im thankful to...perhaps God!
Everything around is pacing off as usual, never bothering about the cancellation of some damned team's dance program in some college's Republic day function! Everything around seemed so normal. The completely militarized area of Ibrahimbagh and Narsingi seemed peaceful and usual. Vendors going around and yelling their products for sale. Shops filled with ppl having many requirements. A squirrel escapes its death as a car puts a sudden break. Workers laying the road. Amidst all these I still find some interesting sights! A young boy, perhaps 6-7 years of age, helps his dad do his daily routine of pedaling long distances with a cart filled with construction material. He pushes the loaded cart up a small elevation and as the task was completed the father happily looks at his son and pedals away and the sun looks for a while and goes away. Though it is a very ubiquitous scene, I somehow find it surprisingly different. I'm filled with so much of compassion and a small happy seed seems to be planted. I make effort to see what the young lad is up to and amidst the stagnant traffic I find tht he is having his lunch in an unhygienic place wid unclean hands in a roughly dusted parcel and seemed to relish it and is at peace. Though it is prevalent everywhere,I couldn't stop myself from thinking about it.
Then I find another loner like me; an aged gurkha or a police, I'm not sure, regulates the congested traffic and luckily ppl are heeding to him and a hidden smile is on his face which I can see it, not wid my eyes but with my heart. He helps children cross the road, diverts the traffic from an under-construction flyover and seems to be completely at peace with himself as I find no hint of irritation or disgust on his face. I smile lookin at him and he smiles back and points to the tricolor flag pinned to his shirt wishing me a happy Rday! Looking at everything I find that I'm in a far far far better position. In the sense, i dont have to push a cart to make a living,I dont need to eat in uncouth surroundings and I dont need to stand in the hot sun regulating the heavy traffic with loads of dust and pollution in the air! The happy seed now grew into a sapling! Deep within my heart I thank God for this all!
But there's still a lot to come in stock!
A HAPPY Republic Day: Part-1
This year's Republic day was no ordinary for me! The day though ended sadly, i was very happy!
3 days prior to it 2 friends of mine asked me urgently...like man we need u for singing.pls dont say no dude.and etc leaving me no option to say no.so i readily accepted and practiced for it. Vandemataram!
Then another friend asked me...Mama urgently we need a guy who can dance.and im sure u'll not say no. I was fed up of these last minute requests,nevertheless i accepted it and headed for practice! Bunked post lunch sessions on saturday consisting of mechanics physics and graphics! sweated hard and practiced for 2 outta 3 songs due to TIME constraint and showed it 2 the lady incharge who eyed us authoritatively showin how much she controlled our fate. As we humble presented ourselves she 'accepted' and well even my singing practice bore results as we were 'selected'!
All i did was msging my friends...like...hey u know im selected for singing....dude im dancing for R-day at my college, man...and hey ya! im participating in cultural events at my college and etc!
They all wished me well and seemed happy! And the practice went on hard on saturday and monday! The dance steps were so pretty impressive that i started callin 'em feats! They were so full of energy and packed wid action and seemed rocking as some of our non participating friends gave their critical comments! And wht not! U see, you're performing at a college for republic day and sweat hard and u have every right to dream about it, in the sense how wel it goes how're ppl gonna react and stuff like tht! Our's was a medley consisting of 3 songs...action packed steps...err feats and would steal the show for sure!...was all that was there in our mind...and heart too!
And then came the big day! the overall attendance though turned out not so impressive the presence of many of our friends seemed encouraging to us! And also, many parents were there and the stage was set and slowly one by one the events started taking shape! I couldnt wholly watch all the programmes as I was off for my dance practice! In between some friends kept updating me about the events and on-goings. And the Vandemataram song turned out very well as the audience too participated in it by clapping their hand to the tune. And as it ended I was informed that after the skit that was going on then, there wud be a dance by a group and then was our's! We were all ready and charged up and were eager to enter the stage!
(Though y'all might feel I'm exaggerating it like some maha muqqabla on tv, it was only the infectious enthusiasm that made that day.) And as we received many of the wishes from our friends,....all teh best ra...man rock on!....we're all there 4 ya!...we'll cheer up and u guys shake the audience ;) ...we felt very glad and i went on to the stage to set it for our convinience as others waited for my signal and another busy wid the sound system guy giving the cd, the lady in-charge was clouded with a frown and made awkward gesture at me!I couldn't completely comprehend it and asked my friend wht was goin on. She signalled me to come down. Surprised, I got off from the stage, she broke the unpleasant news, "Guys, your dance is cancelled!".
For a moment we kept thinking, wht's wrong wid ya, lady? And her words resounded in our minds...your dance is cancelled! "But why?", we protested as she answered, "The guy who has done the skit has taken longer time than planned and we've run outta time. So I'm sorry to say tht we need to cancel ur dance!" We protested a lot and requested her again and again and also asked if we can go and ask principal as he proved out to be the main villain cancelling our show, all but in vain! All her responses were in negation. There was nothing more to ask or talk or, rather negotiate! Thus discouraged we were off...roamed around the campus cursing and swearing and talking names...she isnt completely the main villain and we cant completely blame her. And thus in anger broke the CD of our dance song! All of us looked at each other and everyone smiled! We threw the pieces and they scattered in the college lawns as 1 of our friend took few pieces to show to the lady!
An unknown apprehension started to well inside me as I looked at my friends who, having been forlorned kept chatting and laughing away not considering if i was wid them or not...I found an empty space in one of the lawns and uncomfortably nestled myself as sunlight directly hit my face and irritated me. But I didnt move... rather, I couldn't move!
3 days prior to it 2 friends of mine asked me urgently...like man we need u for singing.pls dont say no dude.and etc leaving me no option to say no.so i readily accepted and practiced for it. Vandemataram!
Then another friend asked me...Mama urgently we need a guy who can dance.and im sure u'll not say no. I was fed up of these last minute requests,nevertheless i accepted it and headed for practice! Bunked post lunch sessions on saturday consisting of mechanics physics and graphics! sweated hard and practiced for 2 outta 3 songs due to TIME constraint and showed it 2 the lady incharge who eyed us authoritatively showin how much she controlled our fate. As we humble presented ourselves she 'accepted' and well even my singing practice bore results as we were 'selected'!
All i did was msging my friends...like...hey u know im selected for singing....dude im dancing for R-day at my college, man...and hey ya! im participating in cultural events at my college and etc!
They all wished me well and seemed happy! And the practice went on hard on saturday and monday! The dance steps were so pretty impressive that i started callin 'em feats! They were so full of energy and packed wid action and seemed rocking as some of our non participating friends gave their critical comments! And wht not! U see, you're performing at a college for republic day and sweat hard and u have every right to dream about it, in the sense how wel it goes how're ppl gonna react and stuff like tht! Our's was a medley consisting of 3 songs...action packed steps...err feats and would steal the show for sure!...was all that was there in our mind...and heart too!
And then came the big day! the overall attendance though turned out not so impressive the presence of many of our friends seemed encouraging to us! And also, many parents were there and the stage was set and slowly one by one the events started taking shape! I couldnt wholly watch all the programmes as I was off for my dance practice! In between some friends kept updating me about the events and on-goings. And the Vandemataram song turned out very well as the audience too participated in it by clapping their hand to the tune. And as it ended I was informed that after the skit that was going on then, there wud be a dance by a group and then was our's! We were all ready and charged up and were eager to enter the stage!
(Though y'all might feel I'm exaggerating it like some maha muqqabla on tv, it was only the infectious enthusiasm that made that day.) And as we received many of the wishes from our friends,....all teh best ra...man rock on!....we're all there 4 ya!...we'll cheer up and u guys shake the audience ;) ...we felt very glad and i went on to the stage to set it for our convinience as others waited for my signal and another busy wid the sound system guy giving the cd, the lady in-charge was clouded with a frown and made awkward gesture at me!I couldn't completely comprehend it and asked my friend wht was goin on. She signalled me to come down. Surprised, I got off from the stage, she broke the unpleasant news, "Guys, your dance is cancelled!".
For a moment we kept thinking, wht's wrong wid ya, lady? And her words resounded in our minds...your dance is cancelled! "But why?", we protested as she answered, "The guy who has done the skit has taken longer time than planned and we've run outta time. So I'm sorry to say tht we need to cancel ur dance!" We protested a lot and requested her again and again and also asked if we can go and ask principal as he proved out to be the main villain cancelling our show, all but in vain! All her responses were in negation. There was nothing more to ask or talk or, rather negotiate! Thus discouraged we were off...roamed around the campus cursing and swearing and talking names...she isnt completely the main villain and we cant completely blame her. And thus in anger broke the CD of our dance song! All of us looked at each other and everyone smiled! We threw the pieces and they scattered in the college lawns as 1 of our friend took few pieces to show to the lady!
An unknown apprehension started to well inside me as I looked at my friends who, having been forlorned kept chatting and laughing away not considering if i was wid them or not...I found an empty space in one of the lawns and uncomfortably nestled myself as sunlight directly hit my face and irritated me. But I didnt move... rather, I couldn't move!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY
SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY
Here something for all of you techie tinkerers to try when its released. In a presentation at TEDIndia by Pranav Mistry on “several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop" ”, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.
But what actually is this Sixth Sense technology?
'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.
View this mind-blowing video here:
Pranav Mistry (click on the name to go to the official Pranav Mistry website)
Here something for all of you techie tinkerers to try when its released. In a presentation at TEDIndia by Pranav Mistry on “several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop" ”, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.
But what actually is this Sixth Sense technology?
'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.
View this mind-blowing video here:
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