Happy Friendship Day

Friendship day… Again another day to remember all those friends who have been a part of your life… Again not that you need a day to acknowledge their importance in your life. When I was receiving all those SMS and mails over the last few days, I really wondered how to reply back.

These maybe friends I chat with once in a while, scrap when there is news to share or call once in a while. And I was really embarrassed to send them a deep friendship message that talked of walking the path of life through roses and thorns.

Then I began to wonder, is it that they don’t mean much to me? Is it that I don’t have feelings for them? No chance!! It’s just the way friendship is. The depth or meaning of friendship does not decrease with increase in distance (Hey! I still remember my inverse proportion law) But somehow the waves of life just takes us forward. Go to office, Come back, sleep… the routine repeats in a vicious circle. Sometimes when I sit back during the weekend, I remember old times and old friends and all the good times spent together!

Today what I am is a lot because of friends around me. Apart from my parents they have seen me through the walk of life. Habits, behaviour, tempers, outlook to life everything is what friends shaped them into. I value all of them the same.

But I guess the best friendships are those that end up with that once in a blue moon contact and still brings a smile to your face. Love you all!!!

Thank You note!

It takes a lot of difficulty to say grave things. It becomes even more difficult to say serious things to people who are not intimate to you. And the worst is when you have to say something in that tone to someone you have hardly spoken to. Personally I have never done something like that. I make a lot of friends but hardly make any by putting my front foot forward. Of late I did make friendship with one such person. Well I hardly know even if it is friendship, but yes I broke inhibitions and my frame of mind towards that person.

This was a person who told me a simple thing with a simple example. We have a lot of friends around us. We interact with customers who are miles away from us. Our job says to go the extra mile and help those customers. Come to think of it, they are distance away, they don’t know us or we know them personally. So why should we take that extra mile road. Is it just for money? Just for a compliment? No, deep inside there is something called mental satisfaction.

Maybe that’s exactly what prompts us to do good for someone we don’t know. I was really confused with all this. I was like, “Ok! You did something good to help me, but now why are you telling me this?” I got a nice answer for that too. By doing this for you I have helped you, so better not disappoint me by not seizing the opportunity to prove yourself! Hmm… I was really happy after the conversation!

It makes me think…There maybe loads of people who have done good to me in some way or the other. Some I would have known, some I would not even know. I’d really thank all those people…Love you all!!!

Friendship is tough at times

My dear friend…
There were times we were together
And now we may be miles apart
Years have rolled past us now
Think of it I really wonder how!!!

We had our good times those days
But there were differences too one says
But isn’t that how friendship works
With ups and downs,fizzes and sparks??

Maybe we thought all was at rest
But then why the sudden test?
I have moved on in life
And thought you did too!!!

My dear friend,
Friendship is not playing a game
There is nothing here to tame
Relations here are give and take
Where there is nothing to fake!!!

You lived by choice in a shell
With boundaries I couldn’t tell
Wasn’t my fault you were on your own
And your heart was nearly torn!!

Just an advise to you to keep
Friendships are difficult to reap
Have a heart with plenty to give
Life will be a lot easier to live!!!

The dark hands of the Law

I know Manju did cause a stir among all of us through her consumer case…We pulled her leg big time when we all met up last weekend. But jokes apart I seriously wished all this would turn out well for her. Was also a bit concerned as she was off to a place where she doesn’t know the language too. I hoped for the best…

Talking of the issue for 2 weeks we really hoped all will be well..But little did we all realise that these are the ways of the law. Manju and a friend of mine Surendar ( Suri who knows kannada) went to this so called consumer court. Outcome of the trip in one word……Sunny Deol’s famous dialogue in movie Damini……”Thareeq” (or date for those who don’t follow Hindi)

It seems will now notify the company of the issue, the company hires a lawyer and then they continue on another date. When Suri tried to ask one of the lawyers there about the process he confirmed that all they would get is thareeq. He showed with examples right there in the court. There were people who asked for dates because there was a wedding in the family, or they were going out of station, or unwell etc etc….

As Manju observed all the people in the court were senior citizens…I guess these people filed their cases when they were as young as Manju…..LOL.....So incase she wants a ruling on this case…she sure has a long way to go…All the best!!!

Meanwhile here is a snap of hers in one of those happy moments that is before she gets old waiting for her court decision….
Better stop now before she kills me for all this free publicity!!!

We meet again!!!

Know it’s been a long time that I haven’t posted anything. Just that my mind was off on some other things. I’ve just been distracted. I have been reading Harry Potter for the past week. It was really getting difficult as I had to read in office between all the break times I had…which I used to utilize to blog before. Now that I’m done with the book it’s time I’m back.
The weekend that was….

It was a precious weekend for me. A time I got to meet some of my old pals of college times. A long time has passed since we all had some time together. There was a time when we had loads of them….at Ali’s juice shop, or Raghavettan’s photocopy cum telephone booth, movies together, trips together, studying together or just lazing around.



A lot of waters had flown in between. Time drifted most of us in different directions. I thought time had the better of us. But this weekend when we met I knew nothing had changed. Age had caused baldness in some, small tyres in others and white hairs too…but the spirit was all the same.

We still enjoyed pulling each others legs, making noise over nothing at all or in plain words just being together. Sometimes there are some relations we treasure a lot and don’t understand their true value till we drift apart!!

My brave little friend!!!

There are times when we should seriously not underestimate someone small and timid. They are the ones that can surprise and shock you too at acts they do. You would never expect them at the places they land up in. A close friend of mine, Manju, who seems to be one of the few good friends I have in Bangalore is the one I’m speaking about.

Last New Year before we celebrated new year night together…cribbing about why we had nowhere to go…we shopped a pair of sandals for Manju from Metro. She wore that 3 times when the sandals decided it had enough of her. This was for Rs. 650. Now Manju instead closing her fist on the money spend decided to buy sandals for Rs. 995 the next time.

This was more faithful as it lasted a week. Thanks to the learning curve she kept all the receipts this time. She was shocked to hear that these people refused to replace or do anything about it. They said they would mend it if she agrees which she refused at spot.

Now I would have expected her to come back and keep cursing them. But NO!!!!
She went all the way to the consumer forum and has filed a case. It left me - mouth wide open. Firstly she being a girl who doesn’t move around in Bangalore got to this place all alone.

Moreover did all this without any help in terms of language communication. Now she has a case hearing at Consumer court on 2nd May and has claimed for Rs. 4000. Cool isn’t it??? I really underestimated this girl…Way to go, Manju!!!

Swami Surendar speaks!!

My friend Suri sometimes becomes like one of those great philosophers who preach about life. At what instance these strokes come is a publically known secret!! Lately he was in one of those moods and this is a piece of gyaan he gave one of his friends. The next day he comes up to me and retells the incident. How much I agree to him…hmm..

According to Swami Surender girls always fall in love with a guy even though at the first stage he may be drink or smoke. She loves him because he is popular among his friends and has a lot of people around him.

Then once her webs are wrapped around she slowly says, “Why don’t you try to quit smoking?” This is not along with any compulsion but according to her it it because “she loves him soooo much.”

A bit later (another month or so when he is fully trapped in her web) comes the threat, “Stop smoking! Don’t talk to me if you don’t!!” Within a few more months (when the guy is so tightly bound that he is gasping for breath) she says, “Why do you spend so much of time with your friend? Am I not the most important person in your life? See only me on all your weekends!!!”

Now the tag of the story recital is that all his friends agreed to this story too!!! As a matter of fact, even though I have never told him this, I too agree.

So at the end of the day within a year the guy is nothing like what he was before the girl started loving him. He has no more friends and nothing to get rid of his sorrows. All he is left with is a nagging girlfriend!!! ESCAPE!!!!

Factually my friend claims he is one of those guys who never change. As he says I am like this means I’m like this forever. Boldly announces that he would never change for a girl. Now whether this will be true or not only time will tell.

Hey it's christmas time...

Wow it's christmas season and I am really in a jolly good mood.This weekend has been one of the best. It's a long time I had a Christian good friend.So when it has happened you can expect how good it can be. On Sunday we friends got together and made the crib. There was hay all over the place. Playing around with the bamboo sticks and hay till the little crib was made. Not an engineer's piece of art but good for starters.

Then we went out and brought all the statues for the crib and did some bit of Christmas shopping. I now realise what the true meaning of giving gifts on Christmas eve is. You feel as if there is someone who cares and thinks of you. You feel happy to hold that gift you get in your hands and hold the thousand emotions that come along with it in your heart. One thing for sure guys I'm really going to have a blast this Christmas. Till now all it meant to me was 10 days holiday but now it brings me so much more happiness.

Friendship is the boat the sails you through.

Whenever I am not in the best of moods,put on my thinking cap and sit down to ponder on all that's past I wonder sometimes as to how I made it through all the tough times in my life. The answer that I always corner on is "Friends".
Right from my school days when I had Ulrika and Vanitha to hear out my heart. At that time problems revolved around school and studies mainly. These two awesome human beings saw to it that I was pulled through each fall of mine.
When I reached Engineering college it was Poornima and Harish. Poorni even though got busy with her own love life and then later family life, Hari was there throughout. He listened and talked(even though that was more). I felt happy every time he was around. I had the most fun of times at college.
Then came Nagalakshmi or Nagu as I call her. She was a bit of soul better half to me. We have spent hours and hours talking and discussing life. This was at a stage that we were entering adulthood and were facing life as reality. Problems gettign complex, relationships getting fragile but we made it through those two years.
Now when I am here in Bangalore away from a student life, when I am at a stage when I earn my own living Ifirst thought I would soon be emotionally independent as well. But that was not what destiny had in store for me. Surender or Suri came into my life with a breeze of fresh air. Even though much younger to me he had seen through hardships like none other I have known in life. He supported me and stood by me or should I say is still standing beside me like a friend, philosopher and guide. He shows me that if a problem can be smiled through then it should be smiled through...
Friendship will always be the boat that sails me through this life storm and this will remain so till the last breath.