Morning Raaga

Every morning is a hectic one ,after I have entered the officedom part of my life.
School days were fun..mummy used to wake u up , help u to get ready ...and somehow used to reach school by 7:30.
All changed in College.. classes at 9 or 10 were meant to be bunked.Practicals never happened in the right spirit.

All this changed after I joined a company...
They were strict that u reach for trainings by 9 or lose ur leaves..Even leaves had quota that were very strict.
Suddenly all the Final year college folks who used to seldom have any class were forced to attend each and every class.

After the trainings , although the rules are relaxed , the practice hasn't.
Onsite calls in the services company and all the crap that u do has to be planned and done ASAP.There is no scope for lethargy anywhere ,else u r caught easily by the system.
This has led me to leave home by 8 to 8:15 on a daily basis.Some ppl who come from far leave for office at 6...That's crazy stuff..but well ppl do wake at 4..

Even I used to wake at 4:45 for one month..reason ..some tennis camp.Never in my life have I woken up before 6 except for few exams.I confess.. I love sleeping and can be hungry even till 1PM and sleep off..

ये पागल पेट न होता ,
में सारी रात चैन से सोता !!

The mornings , i have a 1KM walk to catch the bus...so many things happen around.

Most noticeable are the school buses and school children catching them.
Noticing so many small children with their parents ,grandparents just reminds me of my one school days.They were far better ...no tension , no worries..just a happiness to spend time with friends ,teachers, the atmosphere was electric at times..
those prayers,march past,PT days,things that made u disciplined..those are the moments..one surely cherishes.

Things haven't changed much,its the perspective and the vision ,the growth of the being that has..
Many more things to learn out still.

Creativity

Just like tatoos and paintings ..writing blogs,displaying Orkut profiles,making movies,taking decision etal are all creative things.

Yes... I am writing of a latest flick on Sports --Chak De.India
Something that caught the entire nation by storm.
Suddenly people started to look out for heroes among common things and events.
Your orkut profiles/friends will have a Chak de moment atleast for once.

Well a Chak De moment happens in everyone's life...Waiting for mine to happen..

Winners Rock

Thanks to Bangalore Times.. I have got a new life and a new blog name for my blog.
Last week has been one of the inspirational weeks in the life of many Indians.
Just like every Bollywood flick ,they have proved that cricket underdogs are also capable of doing miracles.

Talk of miracles and well we did have one today ,when rain gods of Bangalore saved India from what looked to be a tough situation in the match.
It had not rained for the past 2-3 weeks here , but it started to rain in the evening suddenly when one of the cricket gods Sachin got out.

So much for the miracle and gods that we all believe in...
We always forget the same gods if they loose out a couple of series and term them as uncapable.Remember the same people did to Dhoni's house after the world cup debacle.

Books worth reading

Big Read Top 100 list (and some)
The BBC released a list of the UK's 100 best loved novels.
Since then, it seems, the list has been circulating the blogosphere as an ever-evolving 'books-I-have-read' list, with people adding three extra titles onto the list as they go,
which means the list has ended up being over 400 entries long, further meaning I just can't be bothered going through them all and ticking them off.
Here then is the much more concise top 100, in its original form.
Rules...
Bold those you've read.
Italicize started-but-never-finished.
Underline those you own but haven't gotten to yet.
Add three of your own.
Post to your livejournal.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie