Monday, September 26, 2005

My Rain Song!!!

This is the song I sing to the rain gods to sop showering their blessings ie to stop the rains. Once they do, I sing it with more fervor.

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day

Oh yes I can make it now, the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day

Look all around, there's nothin' but blue skies
Look straight ahead, nothin' but blue skies

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright
Sun-Shiny day
bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day

Monday, September 19, 2005

"That" Place...

Yesterday, after a long time, my mind drifted to "that" place.

Down that pothole strewn highway, down that approach, though that gate, down that winding road, down that lawn and through those lobbies. I could still hear their voices, their excited screams, their taunts. See their faces. Them playing all sorts of games - from one touch football to lobby cricket to lagori to the ones on the PC.

I miss that place. Will always do.

We are the Indians, my friend!

Tamils are always proud to be Tamizhs; Pretty courteous (that is what they think, at least!).They speak yenglish but sorry, no indi(Hindi). The more common Madarasi (chennaisi...,now?)is an ardent fan of kireeket matches.Their counterparts in Bombay think they live in America but speak Hinglish like ...are you sure ki Sujata aa rahi hai ya Ill go akela!"And they take great pride in making stupid mistakes in Hindi Grammar. The BEST hypocrites in the world.Thamizhs, are verrry lecky to have "simble"neighbours in the keralites who are a komblex race of peoblle (they migrated around 2000 B.C. from the middle east, I guess; and now even the Sheikhs feel wary of them) but they have excellent GK , eat a lot of chooclyte and own 99.998765% of tyre shops in the world and form 99% of nursing community.

Not far begind the kerals is the telugu desam, who are totally againesht flaunting their wealthu to the woruldu, though they occasionally come out withu brick red shirtsu and parrot green pantsu with pleetsu (fleet).Worustu,no?! But they (think) are greatu in CICSu,Microsu and COBOLu!Generally sane peoplesu (and so you can always findu them judgingu, probhingu, queschioningu othersu ...)

The Canadians, excuse me, the Kannadigas aor (are) the coolest lat dobun south but if there is political unrest in Hersogovnia oare (or) an ebola virus outbreak in Zaire, they bash up the Tamils in Karnataka. Cauvery very bad! When it comes to Rajkumar (actor), if a fly sits on his nose, theyll burn the entire city of Benglore to kill the fly! To hell with Silicon valley! I-ron, firshtu, girlu, Lasht Bussu, roadu, crickeatu, filamu are some of their favourites.

Maharashtrians are a conservative, confused,complex lot-kar. -Kar, that is because gavasakar, tendulkar,bahulkar,.. confused that is because sitting in southern part of India they would ask the other person "are you from Maharashtra or from south India..?" and genuinely wonder why the other person takes some time to answer the question.They like the principles of pheejix and their favourite character in the alphabet is Zay (god knows where that came from). Although soft, peace loving people but they elect the shivsena to rule them.

And right there next to the Maharashtrians are the Gujjubhais. They like to keep kes in the benk and their favourite past time is eating snakes like paav bhaji, masala papad and pijja at the local snake bar. They gobble down palak sev like their life depends on it and believe in the brotherhood and sisterhood of man and woman(everybody is a bhai or a ben).

If you go further eesht, you land uf Udissa- the land of irron (runsilent) where sombalpuroa and Bhubaneshbara are big towns. The people are bery cordial and if you are Vikram they bill soorly ask you B or Bhe. They do not sout, sam or soot but occasnally bawsh their phace at the wasbashin. James Bond Mohanty in our colleze had a roll nomber jero,jero,sebhen.

Bengalees are bery bery similor, but or bery proud oph Subas ChondroBoash and Shoatyojit Roy (I used to know a director by name Satyajit Ray who was also pretty good) and everybody is Xda. I used to havbe a friend1 by name. Dada. Wonder...never mind. Bot I most conphess, Roshgollas are bery goooood, tho!Bihari kids are supposed to be the smartest kids in India (if not in the universe!). How we wish they grow up the same way,...but... And Biharees are bery phond of Laloo and Ranchi, ka isse bhadiya tumre pass kooch hai, kaa?! spit spit..UPites and MPites are busy going to ischool and istudying metals to make lots of ishteel.

Punjabis are very sweet and aggressive and offerRotti Shotti Khayega! to which I once replied No. He said Tage itu,yaar!By Godu!Surjeetu, what happenedu, oi?!. Then of course,everybodys a paappe or a kaakke. Thats Pnjab for you.And Kashmir (called Cashmir by many, may be becauseof the amount of cash spent to keep it in India)?!? I know Roja (or Roza?)was shot (I mean filmed) somewhere nearby...

But at the end of the day, wherever you are in the world, whether it is in Sunnyvale, CA; Birmingham,UK; UmmAl Quwain, UAE or Serangoon Road,Singapore, ask them who they are and youll get just one answer - INDIANS !!!!!

JAI HIND !!!!!!

Saturday, September 17, 2005

My onsite coordinator just passed away a few days back.

Memories are all that is left of her, be it of any departed soul. But there are some physical entities of this world like their mail ids and their names in their friends' chat lists that still link them to the world. How, you may ask?!?

I still have her on my chat list. I just pray, one day or maybe just for a sec, I can see her come online. Just once. I just don't want to remove her name from the list. I have put an alert on her name the moment she comes online. I know its wishful thinking. But Hope never killed anybody, right.