10 is a beautiful number - a number that exists beyond singles ones and is coupled - the first number which is no longer a stag- the first number which loses itself if its components are taken away, the first number which brings one and nothing ... together. Well, that was the number of hours the flight lasted from KL to Auckland. This was the longest time I had ever been away from land. Its a strange feeling when you are away - up there in the sky. It makes one to long to return ... dont know how the astronauts remain for so many days up there. I felt what the last astronaut (an Indian-American female) who we heard in news was trapped in the spaceship and her arrival was getting delayed, must have felt up there. And I felt why the mythical Gods whould want to be humans at lest for a while ... we might be fallen, but this sure is a nice place to fall :) The visibility outside the window before landing at Auckland - the last 7 minutes below the last of clouds, was one reel of scene which if captured would have been an astoundingly beautiful piece.
The outside was so much colder than the cabin and it was turbulant as well - winds and rain droplets just rushing in from all directions. Once on land, I was able to see the clouds passing by with an alarming strength - the dark clouds and the white ones within them. By this time I had a sore throat already and an blocked/imbalanced ear as well. The next flight to Wellington was just of an hour's duration but the waiting went on for six long hours - thank gawd for the internet which saved my sanity. By the time this one took off - it was almost dark ... but before land again vanished, I could see the city being left far behind and a herd of cattle grazing in the meadows that were soon going to be wet. With the bird's eye view of the cattle being gathered for the day, my eyes closed again into nothing ...
Song: Masha Allah ...
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Kenvin Costner and Rugby!
She: What song is that?
He : Its the OST from the movie Waterworld.
She: You know I just wanted to say you thins, it was in mind from the time I saw you - you look like the lead in that movie.
He: What Kevin Costner?
She: Yeah ... him ....
He: Wow, I never got that one before ...
And they had a big laugh. But she was serious and he appeared just as Kevin to her - bright golden hair, blue eyes and a longish face.
He: How long have you been in the city?
She: Oh not long, a few days, thats all. And you.
He: I have been here all my life. Born and brough up.
She: Wow! The you should show me around.
He: Of course! I will love you to take a ride around. Its a beautiful city. Though not very big, you will have a nice time around the coast and beyond the hills.
She: That will be nice ... so what do you do apart from work?
He: I play rugby ... and watch rugby, have a beer may be ... and talk about rugby.
She: Thats a lot of rugby :) do they just grab the ball and run?
She pointed to the television. The Rugby world cup France was on. The All Black against Romania.
She: Can he just not throw the ball beyond the line?
He: (Laughing) No he cannot, he has to take it and sit it on that section. You know nothing about rugby do you?
She: Not yet, just learning. There should be some movie in which Kevin Costner plays rugby, it is an American sport afterall.
He: No its not, its English. You really know nothing about Rugby.
She: No I dont. Never had the need to!
But it was fascinating ... new and unsettling for her ... still fascinating!
Song: छैल चबीला, रंगीला, हतीला, रसीला, सजीला, पाजामा है ढीला ...
He : Its the OST from the movie Waterworld.
She: You know I just wanted to say you thins, it was in mind from the time I saw you - you look like the lead in that movie.
He: What Kevin Costner?
She: Yeah ... him ....
He: Wow, I never got that one before ...
And they had a big laugh. But she was serious and he appeared just as Kevin to her - bright golden hair, blue eyes and a longish face.
He: How long have you been in the city?
She: Oh not long, a few days, thats all. And you.
He: I have been here all my life. Born and brough up.
She: Wow! The you should show me around.
He: Of course! I will love you to take a ride around. Its a beautiful city. Though not very big, you will have a nice time around the coast and beyond the hills.
She: That will be nice ... so what do you do apart from work?
He: I play rugby ... and watch rugby, have a beer may be ... and talk about rugby.
She: Thats a lot of rugby :) do they just grab the ball and run?
She pointed to the television. The Rugby world cup France was on. The All Black against Romania.
She: Can he just not throw the ball beyond the line?
He: (Laughing) No he cannot, he has to take it and sit it on that section. You know nothing about rugby do you?
She: Not yet, just learning. There should be some movie in which Kevin Costner plays rugby, it is an American sport afterall.
He: No its not, its English. You really know nothing about Rugby.
She: No I dont. Never had the need to!
But it was fascinating ... new and unsettling for her ... still fascinating!
Song: छैल चबीला, रंगीला, हतीला, रसीला, सजीला, पाजामा है ढीला ...
Flight Plan!
Monday - "You may have to move, bring your passports tomorrow"
Tuedsday - "Apply for your AMEX card"
Wednesday - "Fill in the forms and get the photograph"
Thursday - "Submit your forms"
work ... work ... work ... shifting ... work ...
Thursday next week - "Take your card and passport and fly this weekend"
Surprised and delayed the date
All days - Shopping and Preparations ot packing
Tuesday - It started
Wednesday - It ended.
More than a week of prepartion and it was just for 2 days. Exactly like the times when we prepared for the plays. I remember how taxing it was the first time I did that one. RT, Swati, Ankit, DA and a whole other bunch of people - night and day - we slogged for days together. Dint have a cell-phone then ... scorching sun of Gandhinagar - and roaming aorund in all the buildings just to find the last person - that was very taxing ... but then the thing about it is that it is remembered. Remembered, unlike the final show - which took me into a state of complete numbness and awe - I donot remember of what happened that evening, but I remember each day before that evening.
This was just like that - all the preparation and all the anticipation - all of it taking the backseat till the day actually arrives - you plan and plan but everything goes according to whatever is planned beforehand :) long before even you knew what planning is. The two may be aligned by any angle - ranging from 0 degrees (closest) to 180 degrees (where one just exclaims)!
But whatever it is ... one has to do the best to take the situation - to handle what comes along. And it has to be done with proper discipline and heartedness, with all stones altered. Resembles quite a lot with what a friend says everytime he logs in - "The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret."
Song: Thode Badmaash Ho Tum ...
Tuedsday - "Apply for your AMEX card"
Wednesday - "Fill in the forms and get the photograph"
Thursday - "Submit your forms"
work ... work ... work ... shifting ... work ...
Thursday next week - "Take your card and passport and fly this weekend"
Surprised and delayed the date
All days - Shopping and Preparations ot packing
Tuesday - It started
Wednesday - It ended.
More than a week of prepartion and it was just for 2 days. Exactly like the times when we prepared for the plays. I remember how taxing it was the first time I did that one. RT, Swati, Ankit, DA and a whole other bunch of people - night and day - we slogged for days together. Dint have a cell-phone then ... scorching sun of Gandhinagar - and roaming aorund in all the buildings just to find the last person - that was very taxing ... but then the thing about it is that it is remembered. Remembered, unlike the final show - which took me into a state of complete numbness and awe - I donot remember of what happened that evening, but I remember each day before that evening.
This was just like that - all the preparation and all the anticipation - all of it taking the backseat till the day actually arrives - you plan and plan but everything goes according to whatever is planned beforehand :) long before even you knew what planning is. The two may be aligned by any angle - ranging from 0 degrees (closest) to 180 degrees (where one just exclaims)!
But whatever it is ... one has to do the best to take the situation - to handle what comes along. And it has to be done with proper discipline and heartedness, with all stones altered. Resembles quite a lot with what a friend says everytime he logs in - "The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret."
Song: Thode Badmaash Ho Tum ...
With Twins!
Twins - I have always been fascinated by them. Aren't they a miracle of the nature? Two individuals just like each other - to a large extent one can replace each other completely. The first time I ever saw them was when I was in Ramagundam - Nani and Chinni (brother and sister) - I used to be with them and wonder. And then came Sandeep and Pradeep (:)) and I wondered more. How and why it was the way it was. But then it was - two people and exactly the same. That was a long time back. I had not though of it in a long time now. Till 20th of september of this year.
Leaving Bangalore never occured as I was exhausted with the last day preparations and packing and un-packing at the airport as my lauggage exceeded by 5 kg ... sigh. I was vdamn tired. The last thing I heard consciously was - "... when this happens, that means the air pressure is low in the cabin ... " and when I opened my eyes, it was bright outside - I had already lost two and half hours of my life and was landing at Kuala Lumpur. I always wanted to be there as Uday said it was a lovely place. As a welcome surprise, my cell-phone was already in roaming. After a lot of moving aorund the airport, foound the correct visa counter and in two hours we were on the streets of the countryside which was an hour's drive ffrom the main city - KL. Breakfast and lunch in the resort hotel booked was wonderful and an hour's sleep did help in refueling :)
Within an hour of drive from there - the drive which was unique in its own way because of all the huge mountains and land pieces covered with planted palm oil trees - mesmerizing in their own way. The king's palace - it seemed the king was really there in the palace that day, the world's largest butterfly/bird garden and the menare-KL - all of them just passed by, as I could see them - those twins. Finally I was there at the foot of the twins - these ones created by humans - beautiful blue-green panes allover - shiny and tall - exactly as I like them.
The first time I saw them I remembered a tarana Madam had taught me a few years back - dhir dhir tanan nana - in its full form and pace - with the beats of pakhawaj. A beautiful piece of work - wonderful how man creates such pieces of work which are so huge in form and/or effect that they live on ... even after man is gone. I am sure the alien space-ships passing by the equator of earth do spot these outstanding brothers and marvel humanity! A five storey shopping mall which belittled The Forum and numerous photographs hence, when I left the place back for the airport, there was just one thing in my mind - my craving (i have at last got this word) for grandness and what actually it may scale to - for grandness, sky is the limit ... On the trip back, I dozed off for a mintue and had a vision - of Mom, bro and RT at the airport - patiently waiting for me outside the airport. I missed them.
Song: Jan-e-Jane Ja ...
Leaving Bangalore never occured as I was exhausted with the last day preparations and packing and un-packing at the airport as my lauggage exceeded by 5 kg ... sigh. I was vdamn tired. The last thing I heard consciously was - "... when this happens, that means the air pressure is low in the cabin ... " and when I opened my eyes, it was bright outside - I had already lost two and half hours of my life and was landing at Kuala Lumpur. I always wanted to be there as Uday said it was a lovely place. As a welcome surprise, my cell-phone was already in roaming. After a lot of moving aorund the airport, foound the correct visa counter and in two hours we were on the streets of the countryside which was an hour's drive ffrom the main city - KL. Breakfast and lunch in the resort hotel booked was wonderful and an hour's sleep did help in refueling :)
Within an hour of drive from there - the drive which was unique in its own way because of all the huge mountains and land pieces covered with planted palm oil trees - mesmerizing in their own way. The king's palace - it seemed the king was really there in the palace that day, the world's largest butterfly/bird garden and the menare-KL - all of them just passed by, as I could see them - those twins. Finally I was there at the foot of the twins - these ones created by humans - beautiful blue-green panes allover - shiny and tall - exactly as I like them.
The first time I saw them I remembered a tarana Madam had taught me a few years back - dhir dhir tanan nana - in its full form and pace - with the beats of pakhawaj. A beautiful piece of work - wonderful how man creates such pieces of work which are so huge in form and/or effect that they live on ... even after man is gone. I am sure the alien space-ships passing by the equator of earth do spot these outstanding brothers and marvel humanity! A five storey shopping mall which belittled The Forum and numerous photographs hence, when I left the place back for the airport, there was just one thing in my mind - my craving (i have at last got this word) for grandness and what actually it may scale to - for grandness, sky is the limit ... On the trip back, I dozed off for a mintue and had a vision - of Mom, bro and RT at the airport - patiently waiting for me outside the airport. I missed them.
Song: Jan-e-Jane Ja ...
Very Shabnami!
Now there was a time when I was in Kahalgaon - a place with swinging temperatures - summers peak to 38 and winters go down to 4 or so। I was an adolescent and it was the beginning of my contacts with the world outside my family - outside the 4 of us. School, outside people and the world of gossip which makes the world flow - it was wonderful - people noticing me (not that they did not do it before) and appreciating me. It was the time when feathers started sprouting out of the wings - itchy but for a better time ahead. And it was around this time when it came - when music shatters the barriers of silence. Why I fell in love with it is like one of those unanswered questions - why do people like each other at all! And i was swept by it and fell for it ... It was in those transition times of summer to winter and it was like temperature falling, rains falling, and me falling - first for the music and then for the visuals and then for the intricate things like shades and locations. I was in me after a while. Year by year after that year - 1995 - i have waited for such a thing to happen. Its like esperiencing the one thing that makes you wait gives you so much pleasure than experiencing whatever is readily available. :)
And then this year when again the temperature is going down, this came again। In many forms I would say there are indications from everywhere. Either my life is going to end soon or it is that sometime in life we just get lucky :) For beginners, my life always had a winter in the winters - but this time spring has taken the place of autumn and the summers are going to take over the winters. The trees which should have appeared to be lifeless, leafless and frosted at this time are appearing to turn green. Then there is this place which is a coast but the coldest coast i have ever been to, which i am beginning to fall for. And then there is this piece of work coming by (which HE knows when I will be able to see) that i am having to hear everyday - it is sinking in me like a creeper that spreads on the exterior of a huge tree in the rains and then spreads it roots inside the tree to hold to it strong. Nights always had the previlege of the moon's light but to hold on to someone when you roam around the harbour on a fullmoon night was just a fantasy, which also has come true. Is this the end of the world or is this the end of the world as i know it? I dont know and I dont think I care. Thinking is one thing but I think i should take it the way it comes. This is afterall ... surrendering, isnt it?
सोंग: जब से तेरे नैना ...
And then this year when again the temperature is going down, this came again। In many forms I would say there are indications from everywhere. Either my life is going to end soon or it is that sometime in life we just get lucky :) For beginners, my life always had a winter in the winters - but this time spring has taken the place of autumn and the summers are going to take over the winters. The trees which should have appeared to be lifeless, leafless and frosted at this time are appearing to turn green. Then there is this place which is a coast but the coldest coast i have ever been to, which i am beginning to fall for. And then there is this piece of work coming by (which HE knows when I will be able to see) that i am having to hear everyday - it is sinking in me like a creeper that spreads on the exterior of a huge tree in the rains and then spreads it roots inside the tree to hold to it strong. Nights always had the previlege of the moon's light but to hold on to someone when you roam around the harbour on a fullmoon night was just a fantasy, which also has come true. Is this the end of the world or is this the end of the world as i know it? I dont know and I dont think I care. Thinking is one thing but I think i should take it the way it comes. This is afterall ... surrendering, isnt it?
सोंग: जब से तेरे नैना ...
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