Coming Back to life.!

I’ve been listening to a lot of Floyd these days. And trust me there’s nothing like it.

I like the British origin bands, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Oasis, The Beatles to name a few. I think they have a class of their own. Well, Pink Floyd happens to be one of the greatest band ever formed and produced one of the best music ever. So much so, that there’s nothing like it. Not even close. Pink Floyd is known for its experimental and philosophical music. Everything is music. If heard the right way.

Life’s in a transition phase. And then you love this stuff all the more. Would even end up with a tear in the eyes while listening to ‘Coming Back to Life’ or ‘Wish you were here’… or may be ‘Comfortbaly Numb’…. the list is endless.

Lost in thought and lost in time
While the seeds of live and the seeds of change were planted

They say things change. There was school. Then there was college. And then there is higher education. Then there would be a job. You meet people. You make friends. You bid farewell to people. You stay in touch.   You make promises. You lose people. Then there are reunions.

And then there are people whom you never interacted or talked to when they were around. And you are great friends now. You tell each other ’stuff’. I wonder why is it so complicated.

When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

“Oh! it’s just another comma, not a full stop!!!”. Thats how I manage to keep myself going.

Here’s a video of Floyd’s reunion video. Switch off the lights. Sit Alone. Sing along. And then throw a comment.

This Sunday!

Wow.

Home Made food? Oh you said chicken?

Can’t be better right.  One of my good friends here in Kolkata has invited her close friends (and I’m proud to be in) for lunch this afternoon. This friend of mine, D.A. as i call her, needs a special mention here as she is one person who’s already so very hyperactive and becomes all the more (oh yes, hyper-active) when we say anything bad or crib about Kolkata or its people.

Oh no matter how much i ‘not hate’ Kolkata, I’m loving spending time with friends in evenings and it gets all so better when you can sit at home and have chicken on Sundays. I’m so excited, are other local-ites listening?

By the way i know its navratras, and not everyone eat non vegetarian these days. But its chicken. At a friends place. On a sunday afternoon. Can’t be better. Looking forward to it and hopefully would post some pics.

All This While… and our Great SIPs

Wow!!! What a platform to crib!!!

 

This last month has been the most boring part of my stay in Kolkata. Oh Yes… our great 14 week SIPs (Summer Internship Program)  is on. And most of us really don’t have much work to do until now. (Read no work to do).

“Thanda Matlab Coca Cola”…. Oh yes i am interning at Coca Cola. And its been a decent experience until now. I’ve been sleeping all the way to glory. Right from going to Dankuni, twice that is; where the main factory is located and free coke is ’supposedly served’ to meeting up with a few retailers in the market to sell a ’scheme’…. yeah they call it ‘New Dealer Activation’. I’m still waiting to meet distributors which would be the main part of my project. Apart from that its been some decent sleeping.

Though lately its been really nice catching up with friends and enjoying with my flat mates, infact we don’t sleep the entire night these days. The sleeping i talked about earlier happens to be in the morning. And surely its been a lot of cribbing too.

After cribbing about my SIP…..I would like to dedicate some space for some of my friends!!!

There are friends who do not have a proper project title yet.

There are friends who are selling new accounts who rather want to or supposed to analyse balance sheets.

There are friends whose company guide left the company.

There are friends who think their first business trips were a failure.

There are friends who think they got the worse faculty guides.

There are friends who got to sit for summer terms and prepare for supplementary exams while carrying on with their SIPs

There are friends whose company guides are kicking their asses for work.

There are friends who’ve already had alcohol with their guides.

Oh yes don’t worry there are also friends who are working on 9 to 5 jobs.

This is our great 14 week great SIP. Yes,  there is a difference how people see you when you are from a mediocre Business school and not the best one in the country. 

 

All this while I’ve been doing Nothing. And I’ve been wondering why have I left things which I used to do. Posting here is just one of them. Though, lately its been fun as I said; playing football, playing cards, and ofcourse Call of Duty. Though the best part all this while has been me and my music. Listening to all that I liked. Just being ME!!! 

“Uptown girl….na na na na na”….hehehe!!!

I deleted my facebook account. Felt it was such a waste. Not that i am anti technology but i hate the orkut scraps also. I  feel the scraps are such a shortcut for friends to send each other a ‘I miss you’ kind of a thing. Mailing someone with a personalised message is way too better. Isn’t it? For friends reading this and not amused at all… Im sorry. There would be a day soon when i say bye-bye to Orkut too. I like the professional bit of social networking though(evident from one of my posts) and thats why i kind of like LinkedIn. Im still addicted to Orkut. Checking profiles and photos and throwing comments like crazy. But yeah as they say, Its time to move on.

When?… Soon!!!

I hope the next two months of my SIP (read the great SIP) is worthwhile not only with regards to the project, but being with people whom i genuinely like. I miss some of the seniors. Had a great time with them… they know it!!! Love you guys.

We the people fight for our existence
We don’t claim to be perfect
But we’re free
We dream our dreams alone
With no resistance
Fading like the stars we wish to be

P.S.: I miss Delhi. I love my Family more than ever. I miss college. I miss friends. and I’m worried for few!!!

Good Night. Cheers!!! (Lots of Beer these days )

Love Actually.

A Movie inspired Blog-post…

I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes
Love is all around me
And so the feeling grows

Love is all around us…

Father and Son

We all grow up… and all of us grow up with ever increasing ego. A feeling of self. A feeling of indivisuality. Such emotions are truly justified; but how often do we realize that we lose respect for the man who sees himself in us, for the man who paid our first tution fees, the man who bought us the first bat, the first man to pat our backs when we got a 9 on 10 in class 2nd.

How many of us realize this? How many of us care? How many of us celebrated a Father’s day!!! Tell him that you love him TODAY!!!

 

Mother and daughter

They say a woman is a best friend to another woman. But how many of you actually have your mother as your best friend. How many of you share stuff with the best woman around, a mother. Have we ever realized how this woman feel when we leave the room after a heated argument. Ask a woman without a child. Mother is the woman who first one to know you inside out, even stuff considered not to be talked about here.

 

Father and Daughter & Mother and Son

Why do we take them for granted? Why do we lie?

 

‘Family love’, as i would call it, is the love which is here to stay. It is the only love that is gonna stand all the tests, all the obstacles…

Its written on the wind
Its everywhere I go, oh yes it is
So if you really love me
Come on and let it show

So now we know, whom to look for, not only for love lost but forever!!! And show them how much we care!!! How much we love… Actually!!!

Brotherly love/ Sisterly love

You know I love you, I always will
My minds made up by the
Way that I feel

brothers and Sisters… no matter how much you fight with them… but end of the day they are the support system you miss the most when you are sitting far off. I wonder how brothers and sisters can fight and decide not to talk for life over a piece of property. I wonder!!! The sharing of that chocolate, the hairpulling…. is love, Actually!!!

Friends 

Theres no beginning,
Therell be no end
cause on my love you can depend

In the words of Marlene Dietrich, ” It is the ones you can call up at 4am, that really matter”. We may think we are too friendly a person, and we have over a thousand odd friends. Or may be that everyone is a friend. bullshit.

True friends are those who would stay, even when the world moves out. Ask a person who’ve been hurt so many a times just because he trusts so much!!! and still he does!!! That true friend wouldnt ever mind pulling your leg, but would always believe that you were one of the best things in this world.

“pyaar dosti hai”

I see your face before me
As I lay on my bed
I kinda get to thinking
Of all the things you said, oh yes I did
You gave your promise to me and i
Gave mine to you

How many of us have lost old friends. The friends who knew us in and out. How many of us lost friends, just because we couldn’t make a single phone call or may be reply to an email? How many of us often lie around listening to music and get nostalgic about our friends and smile without a reason. How often do we feel that we dont have those around whom we always expected to be in touch with? Pick up that phone… today!!! Share some happiness, Show them some love… Actually!!!

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo,but what you need is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down”- Oprah Winfrey

Lover’s Love

Boyfriend Love, Girl Friend Love, Companion Love !!!

The most ‘talked about’ love. And that is reason why i wont talk much here. Just that mean it when you say it, ‘ I love you’…. mean it when you promise to stay ‘forever and ever. no matter what’.

You dont need to make it happen then, It happens!!!

Why hide? Why resist? Why compromise? Why not love… Actually!!!

 

Well this blog post isn’t to describe the types of love, or to describe what true love is, but its just a random thought of where somewhere or the other all of us are heading…!!! It may also be seen as a depressing post by a genuine critic.

I need someone beside me
In everything I do, oh yes I do
You know I love you, I always will