there was a little girl
who had a written curl
right in the midddle of her forhead

when she was good
she was very very good
when she was bad
she was hooooooooooorid

Me.
And my baddie playing.

Today was one of the horrid days :(

Of men and motorbikes

What is it with come men and motorbikes? Why do they think that bikes are strictly part of the male domain? I was talking to some friends and saying how i've always wanted to ride a bike, when one of them asks me "Why"? And there is so much of pain in his eyes. As if I am spoiling something beautiful just for the fun of it. Like if a girl rides a bike, it will no longer be manly to do so. Why does it have to be manly? It is just a mode of transport, for God's sake.
Another objection is, it is not feminine to ride a bike. Girls should stick to "Activa", one of them says. That's what suits them.

Anyway, in a few years time, i think they'll all get used to it. I mean, i don't think there is anyone who thinks jeans have become less manly because girls wear them.

Had my appraisal a few days ago, and my blog was actually mentioned in it !!!! My team lead said that he'd read my blogs and that there is a certain flow in my writing. And that i should try and do that in the mails i write to the client.
He right. The mails i used to write just a few months ago - GOD !! Each of them had to be reviewed by him. Wish i had saved both copies of the mails - pre-review and post-review. It would form classic teaching material. My written communication has improved more from his reviews than from classes specially conducted for this purpose.

Of course, i'm not blaming the classes - i know how seriously i attended them ;-)

Ahhhhh ....

Saw Rules yesterday, and MIlind Soman looks unbelievable in it. There is one question that always comes to my mind when i see really beautiful people (so far, only two people fall into this category - Milind Soman and Julia Roberts) - How do they live with themselves ? How do they handle all that beauty ?
People who almost made it to this category - Aishwarya Rai and Brad Pitt.

Science and Art

IMO, there are two classes of 'computer people'. One class which considers computers a science,a and one class which considers it an art. People who consider it an art, see something beyond facts and reasoning. They see something beautiful in the way things work. They are really passionate about things, be it a certain method, a certain language, a certain paradigm ... And they have very little patience with the other class of people, whom they consider, well, to put it politely, fools. These 'fools' are not really fools, but people who lack their knowledge and passion and vision. ( i may be a little biased here, because i am one of those 'fools')

I have had the opportunity to attend a few lectures by the 'arty' types, and each of them have been memorable. Though i don't remember the content (thus proving that i am one of those 'fools'), i remember the feeling well. There is the happiness of having seen something beautiful, mingled with the sadness that i have to be shown that beauty in order to be able to see it.

Argggggh

Variety, they say, is the spice of life. Ever heard of a stomach upset because of too much of spice? Or rather, too much of a particular spice.
There are a variety of people in this world. And there are a variety of music bands to cater to their tastes. And certain variety of people like certain variety of bands. And certain variety of people
can't stand certain variety of bands. And if these two variety of people happen to live in the same house, argggggh

Bhai had built up quite a collection of songs on our new PC. There really was variety. Unfortunately, the hard disk developed bad sectors, and he could save only a few 'precious' songs. The whole weekend, he kept playing them again and again and again. And not one of them of the variety i can stand. Argggggh

My weekend was filled with people screaming
"This is the 21st century"
"It doesn't even matter"
"Somewhere i belong"
"Bhai pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee"

One fine day

You are trying to learn something new, and you keep trying and trying and trying, with no result at all. You don't know if you are capable of doing it. You don't even know if you are headed in the right direction. And then, one fine day, things suddenly click. For no special reason, you start doing things well. The ugly duckling suddenly becomes a swan.

This happened so many times with me. Happened when i was learning TT, when i was learning to ride the scooter, when i was trying to lose weight, and now, when i am trying to play baddie.

You might say its okay, because in the end it doesn't matter. But, i find it scary for two reasons.One is, that there is no motivation to keep trying. How do you know that you are not just an ugly duckling?
Another reason is, what guarantee that the way you got it all one fine day, you wont lose it all?

Logic-less things are really scary.