To 'De Ghuma Ke' or Not !

We are already very much into World Cup 2011 but there hardly seems to be much enthusiasm about it anywhere around me except the initial opening ceremony & all the 1st day fuzz around Bangladesh. Don't tell me WC 11 too is a victim of being too predictable with the same teams reaching the top & winning it too.Of course,I am among those group of believers that will consider WC interesting only if the Ozzie don't reach the top 4 or even better top 6. Or is it because of the crisper T20 version of the cricket which is spoiling the fun. Well, cant be as much the reason as the former one for sure because short or long, a movies can be equally entertaining. But about the same teams reaching & playing at the top, could be an appropriate guess.Flashback into the last year & remember how the FIFA WC 10 had every one glued to its matches as the big shots were already out in the preliminary rounds. Anyway, hope we see some real action & record breaking games this time with some unexpected results as the once appu now turns into stumpy  for its cricket version ready to stump ! & also hopefully this world cup makes more news than just that of no of tickets being available for the finals !

It is Feb already !

Here it goes, a beautiful write up from Paulo Coelho's Blog.


Read the book 3/4 years back, so good to re-read these lines again, wouldn't have made as much sense as they do now.

If one person really wants us, everyone does. But, if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
“Have you ever heard of the book called the I Ching?” I asked her.
“No, I haven’t.”
“It says that a city can be moved but not a well. It’s around the well that lovers find each other, satisfy their thirst, build homes, and raise their children. But if one of them decides to leave, the well cannot go with them. Love remains there, abandoned – even though it is filled with the same pure water as before.”

Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life.
We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointments and sadness.

“You shouldn’t have asked,” I said. “Love doesn’t ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It’s an inexplicable fear; it’s difficult even to describe it. Maybe it’s the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It’s ridiculous, but that’s the way it is. That’s way you don’t ask-you act. As you’ve said many times, you have to take risks.”

Wait. This was the first lesson I learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behaviour in certain ways – and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives.
But by then, you don’t know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embrassed about showing affection.

Love is like a trap. When it appears, we see only light, not its shadows.

Happy New Year ?

Dear 2011,

I knew you were going to be the difficult one.I mean, especially after the beautiful & dreamy (bed of roses & little thorny) 2009 & 2010, you had to be a practical one & you are not leaving any doubt about that but wasn't it getting too much.Of course, am not alone.Saurav Ganguly & the WWW - World Wide Weather (with excess snow, floods & extreme temperatures) in general too hold the same opinion about you & some similar feelings.

Well, after some major attacks on the Personal, Career & Health Front during the first 2 weeks, yours truly totally wanted to skip you completely & directly jump to the doomsday year & had even got it declared on FB with 12 instant supporting comments too ! but then.. she had luckily watched few movies like The Shawshank Redemption & fortunately enough remembered some lines as ~ "Hope is a good thing, may be the best of things , and no good thing ever dies" & soo wanted that the things would turn around & ...... voila ! you did surprise me on one of the most unexpected front - Yearly Office Ratings !! I mean my dear 2011 I liked it, your charms of surprising me, of course I deserve that & happily accept it.. but I wanted to use that at the Personal Front the most right now ! Not the ratings silly but the luck !!

Didin't get me ?

Alright, there is a funda.. you get it while reading a Paulo Coelho book. It says, we all have a fixed amount of luck with us given for a particular life or may be an year or month, I mean whatever the basis be, luck comes in a tight sealed fixed quantity bottles & the faster you use it, the faster it gets over ! Hence the emotions above..

In short, am not expecting much but please don't trouble me that much !

Yours Truly

Galaxian !

Anyway, if you have managed to read all this & reached here.. Wish you a great '18 days into the now-not-so-new' new year, with bottles full of luck :) Bad timings I know, even the new year resolutions must be long forgotten by now but again I can safely blame the delay to 2011 again.

PS : Self Realization : This year, I badly need to add few drops of luck into this Blog too !

Rapid Fire 2010

Fun, lies & Adventure..
His Mom knows it too Moment !

Traveling Places..< including IIM C >
Hating Job & Searching Job..

Listening to your Heart & fighting to stick to it..

Living the dream...
Spending the 1st ever Job Bonus that day itself Completely, Flat, Straight, Insanely on expensive Flight tickets !
Moving into a Beautiful Flat, with a wonderful flatmate..

Leaving Kolkata..!!

Being back to Hyd..!!

New Project..

New Language which I didnt hate as much as the Prev one..

Clarifying things around !

Creating New Memories
Rejecting Calls..
Getting more addicted to Gmail/FB/etc etc..
Travelling in "Actual Chauffeur-Driven Cabs"
Reconnecting with friends..breaking a Bad ''must-break" Friendship !

Living the whole life in a single moment..
Realizing & accepting things.. B E A utiful things
Attending Weekend Classes after a Long Long time..

Remembering Kolkata days on a Bad day & feeling good about how present can't be worse than that :)
Eating a Lott & learning how to eatt MORE..!
Getting Admitted at Hospital for an infection..
Adding Manager on FB (oh did i miss adding papa on FB moment !)
Missing a really Good IIFT call by silly 1.5..
Being with mom on 31st Dec..
Still struggling for XAT on new year's eve !!
Eyes wide open for a very life changing first week & first month of 2011

& blogging as long as I can ! :D
in short living a no-regrets-year !

Wish you too a Happy No-Regrets-Successful-Smiling-2011 :D