Life's boring?

Hi all :)

This day, April 30, 2011, I came across yet another unforgettable experience in my daily life...

I saw my grandmother writing 'Ram' in her notebook, She has a special note for that. It looks like an excel sheet. According to her, finishing one book equals writing 'Ram' in the box one lakh times. So far she has completed THREE books. She's in her fourth, and she has done more than half of it.

Hearing this, I was flabbergasted! Come on! 3,50,000 times??? I couldn't help but ask her how she could manage such a thing. She said, "I watch mega serials; but I write this anyway:)!" But then, writing in that small box so many times is not a joke by any means. Observing my puzzled look, she continued...

"It's easy Arun. I write in diagonals, I write in assorted lines, some times leaving some boxes in between, I frame some patterns, with a lot of dots... You see! I then manage to fill in the boxes one by one. This is how it goes!"

I realized how these great men and women of our previous generation led their lives. I felt really humbled by her extraordinarily simple explanation. I pledged myself yet again...not to say life is boring! :)

Until next time, have a nice time!

Have enthusiasm!!! :)

ak

Smile Please!

I witnessed this memorable incident in one of the many memorable bus journeys of my splendid life!
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I boarded this bus (a vestibule bus, with a bit of rubber in between; Chennaiites must be knowing!) from Koyambedu and in the same stop, a family with a man, the woman, two children boarded the bus. I was comfortably seated near the back entrance of the bus as usual (it's more comfortable to sit there; it's just next to the way to get down!) and I could easily see this family.
I could easily say they were village people, but to me, they seemed to be the happiest people in the entire bus (the bus was bigger than normal buses with the 'black-rubber' vestibule in between!). The man was playing some thing with his wife, the children were talking to each other happily (probably some jokes, since they were laughing their tiny asses off!)...
Then when the lady turned to a side, I saw some great visible scars of injuries by the side of her hand (obviously this would have been made by her husband)!!! I looked at the man again. He had squint eyes (one looked like some plane crashed on it, I think the left one... yeah, left eye!) and stern looks. He looked like the man who would drink every night in the road-side Tasmac shop and beat his wife up back home! It was frightening. But the great woman from Tamil Nadu (yeah, I am proud!) is still loving her husband to the core (I could see the genuine happiness in her eyes in spite of all these, whenever she spoke with him and stood by his side... Salute the lady!

"Probably all young couples should use public transport too! Avoid divorce!"

This incident is not going to be erased from my memory for a long long time!
Long live Tamil culture!

ak

TIME TO THINK, ENGINEERS!

Out of so many things I heard from my friends recently, this one keeps ringing in my mind again and again. And hence it will remain here! I put it even as my facebook status once!

"I don't deserve Infosys. I deserve something special!"

 - Sri Prasanth, Chess Player, Engineering Graduate

LIVE LIFE!

ak

FIRST THINGS FIRST!

"Kiss the neck, kiss the ear!"
- Ashwin Jayaram 'One thousand lamenting sessions'
Do not hurry with your life. Things are not running anywhere. All you have to do is just plan well!
Enjoy life! Rule the world!

ak

Sportsmanship!

This is one of my most famous remarks on a victory!
"He played well. I played better!"
                       - Arunkarthik
Nice way to stop the conversation! ;)

ak