Rose is a rose is a rose is rose rose….

The title does sound funny…its a starting line of a bollywood film song

It was around 7:00 AM in the morning, I was as usual cuddled in my bed. My mom, jolted me and I slowly opened my voice. In an excited voice she told me that few roses have blossomed in our garden in a rose plant she had planted few days back.

I am not a guy who is interested in gardening and it did not make any sense to me about the roses. So I just slept back again.

W hen I went to the terrace to get something is when my eyes fell on the newly blossomed rose. I was feeling it was something special. Though our garden was not so spacious and there were lot of plants, the rose did catch my eyes with all its beauty. It was as though, the only shining smiling flower around in a whole population of serious people around.

Its true !! In our daily life where people are so concerned and serious about their life n work…there are only few people who take time for others. Who make others smile…Who take time to enjoy life and who take time to be positive and spread positiveness around… They are just like these roses which catch everyone’s eyes

How would you feel if you had a garden full of roses??

Have a look at the pictures of one of the roses,

 

Bol na halke halke…

Just happend to view this song from one of my friend’s favorite vidoes in Orkut. Started loving it…Thought I would write an article on love, but its not to be told…It has to be felt.Have you felt love….post a comment about it…Would be helpful

Movie : Jhoom Barabar Jhoom – 2007
Music Director : Shankar Eshaan & Loy
Singer(s) :Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Mahalaxmi Iyer
Lyricists :Gulzar

 

Is life always in infinite loops??

Is life in infinite loops always?? I mean, do we do the same old things day by day?? Atleast, most of us do… Wake up…do the routines…work…sleep…eat…

It was today morning it striked me, I am not getting life to the fullest. I am wasting a lot of time into the ways I should reach my goal rather than the goal itself. These are energy drainers

Sometimes we are so hooked up with things we tend to see what takes us to the goal right from what we are…Just step back…and look at the whole picture…This is where we understand we are bound so much to what we do rather than why we do…

In other words, only when we break our normal life…burn the self-desire each day in us…atleast spend an hour in a day for figuring out how to reach our goals…and keep track of it we could reach our destiny.

There are lot of concentration diverters and energy drainers around. Watch out for them !!! Stick around to your goals

 

Awarapan in my thoughts…

Last week, I saw Awarapan.

The movie is all about the life of a gangster named Shivam. The first few moments of the movie, he is shown as a loyal gangster working for his boss Malik. Malik, also treats Shivam not only as just one more gunda in his gang but rather treats him with special care and has a personal liking for him. He takes care of Shivam more than his own son.

Shivam in his past life before working for Malik, falls in love with a girl. The girl is very pious to god unlike Shivam who is an atheist. But, Shivam unfortunately loses this girl in an accident. The accident happens such that, the girl’s father sees them talking to each other and denies the girl’s hands to Shivam since he is a gunda. Shivam promises that he will live a proper life if her father promises to give his daughter’s hand to him, and he hands over his personally possesed revolver to him. Her father, gets angry on his behavior and shoots Shivam, while Shivam moves away, the bullet hits his love and she dies. Her father also shoots himself and commits suicide.

Shivam, unable to come out of her thoughts lives his life in loneliness. He also, never forgets his love’s belief that freeing few bound souls is equivalent to service to god.

He in course of work with Malik, comes across a girl whom Malik himself was in love with. Malik wants Shivam to spy that girl. Shivam, feels this girl is kind of similar to her own girl friend. But she is in love with a guy of his own country(Pakisthan) but not with Malik. Since he is loyal to Malik, he tells this to his boss and his boss wants him to kill her.

When he is about to kill her and her boy friend, due to his thoughts of freeing bound souls as said by his girl friend he spares them. This act of Shivam, makes Malik turn against Shivam.

The rest of the story is how Shivam helps the guy and girl to get free from Malik. In the course of time, during this process, due to certain sequence of activities in his life he starts believing in existence of God. Finally, succeeds in freeing the two souls from Malik and dies himself in course of action.

I guess you like my review or just story telling Will make it better next time. It may not be well written due to time constraints

 

Movie reviews…

I thought its a good idea to add movie reviews or just my own thoughts on the movie and how it affected me my blog. Perhaps, even though we watch movies for entertainment, they leave us in our own trail of thoughts. I am not sure, if its true for everyone else but certainly true for me.

Stay tuned !!!

 

Annie – Mahia song

I like this song a lot…Hope you too like it

Annie live performance of Mahia song…

 

Lesson of the day #2 – Give the devil its own due…

This is one of the corporate lessons which I learnt recently. You would have already come across the phrase “Give the devil its own due…”

How I percieved it is, never miss a chance to appreciate people for whatever they are and whatever they do if it really touches you…No matter who that person is. He/She may be even your enemy but then give it a try, it changes life. In other words even he/she is a devil, let them know you appreciate it

But then the same is applicable the other wise also, If you don’t like some one’s act or deed or attitude at corporate work place, don’t express it to any one other person than yourself. But then given a chance, give a candid personal feedback to that person directly, but thats for yourself. Never speak for any one else when you give a feedback or a comment.

Just think about it in real life. You will know what it all means

Stay wise…!!

 

Lesson of the day #1

Well, each minute of our life is a lesson but most of us fail to read it. I thought I would just add my daily lessons in here so it may be useful for you and as memories for me…These are lessons from my day to day life for which I have faced the consequences

The lesson for today is…”When you realize that you did a mistake or some one else has done a mistake and it directly or indirectly effects you, correct it or take neccasary actions then and there…Its too late than never…”

If you fail to correct it immediately, when its just a seed, it grows in front of your eyes as a big tree. Its almost like there is no way you can rectify it later rather than bear the pain and humiliation caused by the mistake.

Some mistakes are small…some of them are fatal, they make marks in your life in such a way you can never forget it forever.

Be wise..!!

 

At the tender coconut shop…

It was a Friday evening…I was almost in a holiday mood…My dad called me up in the evening, he was stuck up on the way back home, his scooter ran out of fuel. I had to help him. I started off from office and I met him. We transferred some fuel from my bike to his scooter…While we were about to leave, he suggested to buy some tender coconuts for my mom. We went to near by tender coconut shop….

I asked the shop keeper to get two tender coconuts; he was already occupied with a customer. So I had to wait for some time…Then I realized a small boy in the shop was gazing my office identity card tag…He was so curious about it…I thought he wanted to have a interested to see it. So I removed my ID card tag, and handed over it to him…He said…

The kid: Onnum illai anna, indha ID card la irukradhu neenga dhana nu pathain….(Nothing brother, I was checking if it was you in the ID card picture….)

I knew already our ID cards photograph is so pathetic; our admin guys make real ghosts out of us Even good looking faces get turned as ghosts !! Then where do I stand

But I liked the kid, I liked the way he spoke…his presence of mind.

I continued,

Me: Endha school padikura…(which school are you studying??)

The kid: RBI school…

 I could not hear his voice…I asked him again…He yelled at me again saying,

The kid: RBI school !!!!!!

 I thought I made his mercury level raise, he was playing with some black dot like thing in his small desk. I was wondering what it was, then on touching it I realized it was coat buttons, I asked him

Me: Ennadhu idhu…!! Oh button aa…!! (whats this…!! Oh buttons is it?)

The kid: hmmm amaam…(hmmm..yes !!)

This time his reply was in normal tone…

By now, his father, the shop owner was cutting two tender coconuts, I asked him what the price was, and he answered 30 bucks.

I took 30 bucks (three ten rupee notes) and handed over it to the kid…He asked me,

The kid: Enna anna elanir vangitangala……(What brother, did you get the tender coconuts??..)

Me: Illapa innum vangala..(No not yet..!!)

The kid: Appana vanguna apparam kaasu kuduthu irukalam la…een ippavey kuduthinga…(Then you should have handed over the money after getting it…why did you give it now itself..)

I could not answer that question, I just smiled at him…I could only find his pure heart there which was filled with honesty and moral…His attitude to follow the business etiquette with proper norms…I liked the boy…I thought, I should buy tender coconut in his shop if I am buying it next time.

When everyone is a kid…like him, everyone were pure and good souls, as time passed by, we get into materialistic dominations and forget some basics of living our life…

 

The God or The traditional lamp…

Yesterday, while chatting with one of my friend regarding poems I realized this simple yet beautiful and powerful fact.

If you go to Indian Hindu temples, most of the them have this vilakku, the traditional lamp in temples. During most of times during the day, due to the sun light the temple is enlightened. But during, night times, the beauty of the temple is because of these traditional lamps and the light they generate. And, when the temple is closed, all the artificial lamps are switched off and only one of this vilakku continues to lighten the God’s idol.

God is so powerful and wonderful…But, for such a powerful being there is a small source which provides light…what happens when that light is not there?? No one knows there is a idol there…Its all darkness that dominates…The idol loses its beauty…and naturally the temple itself.

So, If you are given an option to be God or the traditional lamp, which one would you choose? I would choose to be the lamp…