Today’s ET, dated 28th July, 2008. ЁЯЩВ
Another article by my bro in today’s The Hindu. Poor guy walked around to get this cuz buses were not regular yet.
My bro has been working as an intern at The Hindu for almost a week, this is his first article in the Bangalore Edition of The Hindu Education Times.
Oh what a sight it was to watch these kiddos help out their Dad with all gusto in washing the bike! Somewhat like the days when Dad used to ask us to do it for him! My bro and I, all padded up and all charged up, armed with bucket in one hand, mug and soap in the other… we always forgot that we would need the cloth to wipe the vehicle post the wash!
As usual, both of us would end up fighting with him walking off in a huff! Ha ha!!! What fights they were after all for you may wonder… well… they would be for trivial matters with me usually bossing and pushing my brother around. Like most of the older brothers, I was a bully too!!! And like most younger brothers, my brother was some one who hated to work!!!
Well, let me get back to these two kids!!! They live right across the street where my house is located. This morning just as I walked out in the balcony to put my towel out to dry, I noticed these two shouting at the top of their voice!! Just round the corner was their dad!!! He was getting them water to wash his bike! The boys scrubbed scrubbed and scrubbed until the bike was sparkling clean! Well, if that was not enough, they were almost ready for a bath too!!! Had it not been a city side scene, I bet the kids would have had a bath right there! Ha ha!!! I just can’t imagine the sight that it would have made!!!
Well, until I can find something like that to blog about, its ciao from me!!!
I am reminded of the song Thande Thande Pani Se from Pati Patni aur Woh!
Well, how many times have we had such fleeting thoughts that the moment we got it we lost it!!! Something just like this train… it passes by just so fast… just the same way that you would expect from an unknown person…
But I would not agree with that!!! How many sweet memories do we hold of this train, how many soulful journeys have we gone in the train??? Wind blowing into our face when we stood out at the door, or as kids forced our faces out of the window to look at the curving train!!! It does not just end there… so many strangers who we made friends with by the time we reached our destination. Or as a matter of fact all the wares that would be sold by all kinds of people… some whom as kids we despised at the first look while some how ever they looked, we drooled for the stuff that they sold!!!
Ok lets move a little more 
ahead… train journeys always remind me of the yummy food that mom packed up for us!!! the first thing that as kids we did the minute the station was out of sight was to ask mom if there was something to eat! I really pity mom! Well, the hogging done, the next best thing that at least my brother and I did as kids was to decide what to play!!! The ball always fell in my mom’s court… she was never involved in the first place but then my bro and I could never come to an amicable decision! We always needed a third party to settle that!!! Psst… that happens even now sometimes!!!
I am now getting nostalgic!!! I want to get out and venture into another journey!!! I have a few things planned up… but I am not too sure when that would materialize!!! Well, so long until then!!!
More updates when I actually have them!!! ЁЯШЙ
Well I can think of only one song as of now!!!
Gaadi bula rahi hai… seeti baja rahi hai… chalna hi zindagi hai… chalti hi jaa rahi hai…
I once thought I could try my hand at painting. I ended up painting the worst picture of my life. I next thought I could steal a painting that someone had made and satisfy myselfтАж but I never felt that strong an urge to actually do it. Then I bought a phone with a decent camera. I was not so satisfied. I wanted something more. I upgraded to one of the best camera phones of a flagship brand; but something was amiss. ThatтАЩs when I read about digitally mastering photographs. The process was really simple. But it involved one real complication. The complication was that I needed to master the final photograph using not one but more than one photographs of the same object.
Nobody agreed to be my muse so I had to resort to Mother Nature. She readily accepted my invitation and became my muse. I started this off today and captured 2 really interesting pics, well they interested me, not sure if they would interest you! So I started off and played around with them till I got this!
This is where I start off people. I would now try to capture the best shot, play around with it till it looks at the best and showcase it to you. I donтАЩt promise that I would be regular at it, but it has started.
Long time since you people saw any activity here!!! Well I almost gave up blogging after I was let down big time by her!!! But people, dKing is back!!! Back with a bang!!! many new poems coming your way soon!!! I don’t promise them to be love poems though!!! After all I still haven’t found my muse, my “Inspiration”!!!!
рдХреБрдЫ рдкрд▓ рдЬрд┐рдиреНрджрдЧреА рдХреЗ рдЕрдЬреАрдм рд╣реЛрддреЗ рд╣реИрдВ,
рдЬрд╛рдиреЗ рдХрд┐рддрдиреЗ рджреЛрд╕реНрдд рд╣рдореЗрдВ рдорд┐рд▓рддреЗ рд╣реИрдВ!
рд╕рдЪреНрдЪрд╛ рджреЛрд╕реНрдд рдХреЛрдИ рдирд╛ рдкрд╣рдЪрд╛рди рдкрд╛рдпрд╛,
рдЬрд╛рдиреЗ рдХрд┐рддрдиреЗ рдореЛреЬ рдкреАрдЫреЗ рдЫреЛрдб рдЖрдпрд╛!!
рд╡рдХрд╝реНрдд рдЕрдм рдХрдЯрддрд╛ рдирд╣реАрдВ рдЬрд╛рдиреЗ рдХреНрдпреЛрдВ,
рд╣рд░ рд╡рдХрд╝реНрдд рдмреЗрдЪреИрди рдХреНрдпреЛрдВ рд░рд╣рддрд╛ рд╣реВрдБ!
рдмрдЪреНрдЪреЛрдВ рд╕рд╛ рдорди рдпреЗ рдордЪрд▓рддрд╛ рд╣реИ,
рдирд╛ рдЬрд╛рдиреЗ рдХреНрдпреЛрдВ рдЙрдЦреНрдбрд╛ рд╕рд╛ рдорди рд╣реИ!!
рдирд╛ рдореБрдЭреЗ рдкреНрдпрд╛рд░ рд╣реБрдЖ рд╣реИ,
рдирд╛ рдореБрдЭреЗ рдХреЛрдИ рдмрд┐рдорд╛рд░реА рд╣реБрдИ рд╣реИ!
рдлрд┐рд░ рднреА рд▓реЛрдЧ рдХреНрдпреЛрдВ рдРрд╕реЗ рдмрд░рддрд╛рд╡ рдХрд░рддреЗ рд╣реИрдВ,
рдмреАрдЬреА рд╣реИрдВ рдЕрднреА рдХрд░рдХреЗ рдЯрд╛рд▓ рджреЗрддреЗ рд╣реИрдВ!!
рдХреНрдпрд╛ рдЗрд╕ рдЬрд┐рдиреНрджрдЧреА рдХреЗ рдХреЛрдИ рдорд╛рдпрдиреЗ рдирд╣реАрдВ рд░рд╣реЗ,
рдХреНрдпрд╛ рд╣рдо рдЗрддрдиреЗ рдмреАрдЬреА рд╣реИрдВ рд╣реЛ рдЧрдП?
рдорди рдореЗрд░рд╛ рджреБрдГрдЦреА рд╣реЛрддрд╛ рд╣реИ,
рдЬрд╡рд╛рдм рд╕реЛрдЪрдиреЗ рдкрд░ рднреА рдХреНрдпреЛрдВ рдирд╣реАрдВ рдорд┐рд▓рддрд╛ рд╣реИ??
kuch pal zindagi ke ajeeb hote hain,
jaane kitne dost humein milte hain!
sachcha dost koi na pehchaan paya,
jaane kitne mod peeche chod aaya!!
waqt ab katta nahin jaane kyun,
har waqt bechain kyun rehta hun!
bachchon sa man ye machalta hai,
na jaane kyun ukhda sa man hai!!
na mujhe pyaar hua hai,
na mujhe koi bimari hui hai!
fir bhi log kyun aise bartao karte hain,
busy hain abhi karke taal dete hain!!
kya is zindagi ke koi mayne nahin rahe,
kya hum itne busy hain ho gaye?
man mera dukhi hota hai,
jawaab sochne par bhi kyun nahin milta hai??
… well I don’t deny that I have not been blogging for some time now. There has been no reason either. Just that I did not feel like. I was plain bored and tired. No muse for whom I can write my poems. No, I did not like the idea of nature poetry. I am just not made for it.
I tried acting funny and write funny poems, but I ended up splat on my face!! Man!!! That was a comic scene by itself.
Life has been taking curious turns and that has been keeping me on the toes. I am now absolutely unaware of which way my life would take me. Just going with the flow. But yes, I have been trying to swim upstream tooтАж just that I know it is difficult and is going to take its time.
Sometimes I wonder if all that I would do in my life is just coding. But then I reassure myself. There is something planned. And that divine plan, nobody can change. Not even the astrologers. The so called divine interpreters who claim they know the planets and the stars.