Thinking Aloud..?

9:06 AM 9/11/2007
I understand that it is difficult to acknowledge the presence of some one in you progeny's life. It is harder to accept that this new person knows more about the daily routine than you do, i understand or atleat comprehend the gist if not in totality...but still i find it odd and kinda accusing when she asks what time he left the office, if i say that he had called at 5 and he left the office at 5 she asks whether he has still reached home or not.. i feel it accusing...may be she is trying to find something to discuss about, may be she is still getting to terms that I am more updated by him about him, may be she feels bad about it and tries to hint that he should call her/them. But he does call, does not he? he calls almost (and I actually mean almost) daily apart from days when we have really horrible fights or when he actually is busy..
and why should i feel accused? I understand..isnt it, that it is difficult and still she may be handling it better than me..
to top it all...i am this weirdo , if left to myself i would not tell half of things happening to anyone ANYONE until i feel like it..and the time may come after 2 min or 2 months or never come at all..

Sometimes I feel trapped

books

11:10 AM 9/10/2007
i love books... I can sit for hours in books stores which allow reading without you having to buy( or they think that people will be decent enuf to buy something after they have spent so many hours sitting in the AC and devouring books but people like me do not get the hint or manage very well to ignore the hint altogether and shamelessly keep on going there without buying much..)
In US i used to go and sit in Barns and Nobles or Borders and finished quite aa few books and did not buy a single thing..(once had cheese cake and coffee though) and i keep on wondering why i did not find about these stores earlier..
whenever i go to such book stores i go maad, i start behaving like a kid who has been offered so many candies and treats that he can not decide which one to pick...i take a book start reading it and glancing over the shelves every now and then..whenever i come across interesting title, i pick that up, without leaving the book i am already reading and browse thru it also..this happens every 10 min at least…yesdterday when i had gone i keep on wondering why can not i just stick with the one i have started reading till end and then take something new...but i can not..sigh.. i just wish i could smuggle in all the titles. that way i'll at least have the faith that i can browse as and when i want..
(that day i had An Equal Music in my hand and I read few pages of Diary of a Maidservant, glanced at some Amitav Ghosh's works, held Golden Gate and wondered if I would ever buy it in original version)

Conversations...

Has the gravity hit you as yet? Its only 15 days left!!!!
Gravity??what for??
Ummm.................U wont be able to flirt any longer.
Flirt!! why??
Coz u'll be a married person..
anyways..i never used to that even b4
Hmm...but just in case..let's say u see a babe!!
who'll see the babe when there are u.. .

corny? yes, may be super corny..but oh so sweet...and makes it totally worth getting married to TSB... :)

• "Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak."
• "I'm not insensitive, I just don't care."
• "Shin: Device for finding furniture in the dark"
• "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure"
• "If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried"
• "I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory."
• "A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory"
• "Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."
• I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure
• A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
• When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
• "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."
  
• "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
  
• "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
  
• Laughter is an instant vacation.
  
• "I had a dream last night, I was eating a ten pound marshmallow. I woke up this morning and the pillow was gone."
  
• The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
  
• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
  
• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
  
• Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him all weekend
  
• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
  
• The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
  
• And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
  
• Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!
  
• It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
  
• The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
  
• Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
  
• Why isn't 11 pronounced onety one?
  
• Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
  
• Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.
  
• Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
  
• A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
  
• Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.
  
• Meanness don't just happen overnight.
  
• Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.
  
• Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
  
• It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
  
• You cannot unsay a cruel word.
  
• Every path has a few puddles.
  
• When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
  
• The best sermons are lived, not preached.
  
• Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.
  
• Don't judge folks by their relatives.
  
• Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
  
• Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.
  
• Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.
  
• Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
  
• If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is top diggin'.
  
• Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
  
• The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.
  
• Always drink upstream from the herd.
  
• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.
  
• Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.
  
• If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
  
• Live simply.
  Love generously.
  Care deeply.
  Speak kindly.
  Leave the rest to God.
  
• "Treat me like an angel and I'll be your lil' devil."
  
• Men, chocolate, and coffee are all better rich.
  
• Crazy is a relative term in my family!
  
• "Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
• "Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you're up to."
  
• Procrastinate now, don't put it off.
  
• Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make."
  
• Best friends are the people that know all about and still put up with you!
• A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
  
  

When a Woman Loves a Man

When she says margarita she means daiquiri.
When she says quixotic she means mercurial.
And when she says, "I'll never speak to you again,"
she means, "Put your arms around me from behind
as I stand disconsolate at the window."

He's supposed to know that.

When a man loves a woman he is in New York and she is in Virginia
or he is in Boston, writing, and she is in New York, reading,
or she is wearing a sweater and sunglasses in Balboa Park and he
is raking leaves in Ithaca

or he is driving to East Hampton and she is standing disconsolate
at the window overlooking the bay
where a regatta of many-colored sails is going on
while he is stuck in traffic on the Long Island Expressway.

When a woman loves a man it is one ten in the morning
she is asleep he is watching the ball scores and eating pretzels
drinking lemonade
and two hours later he wakes up and staggers into bed
where she remains asleep and very warm.

When she says tomorrow she means in three or four weeks.
When she says, "We're talking about me now,"
he stops talking. Her best friend comes over and says,
"Did somebody die?"

One year they broke up seven times and threatened to do it
another nine times.

When a woman loves a man, she wants him to meet her at the
airport in a foreign country with a jeep.
When a man loves a woman he's there. He doesn't complain that
she's two hours late
and there's nothing in the refrigerator.

When a woman loves a man, she wants to stay awake.
She's like a child crying
at nightfall because she didn't want the day to end.
When a man loves a woman, he watches her sleep, thinking:
as midnight to the moon is sleep to the beloved.

David Lehman

passing time and ramblings!!

Not feeling like working..may be its friday..may be its just one of those phases...
To add on to that, system is also not working.. :
nothing much happening around here.....at pune yes...but here, I am untouched by all those heated arguments bout menu, choices to be made for cards, invitaions to be sent to relatives..I am away from all this chaos..
may be i am missing much of action .
not done with shopping as yet..dont think it will get over till the last day!! at this rate i might start hating shopping...as it is, i do not enjoy shopping very much..

some clarity has been achieved on the job front..atleast for next few months and by few I mean very few months..lots of travelling in pipeline.

some times i wonder, am I marrying too early???hope every thing works out fine.. TBH is sweet..a darling!! but we both are headstrong meaning arguments and counter arguments at drop of hat!!phew!!!!!

Realstic??

You Are A Realistic Romantic

It's easy for you to get swept away by romance... But you've done a pretty good job keeping perspective. You're still taken in by love poems and sunsets You just don't fall for every dreamy pick up line!

Are You Romantic or Realistic?