Wednesday, July 05, 2006

any answers???

the sun rises n sets...y doesnt the moon set?
y do sentences start wid a capital letter?
y do flowers wither?
y do lanes go places?
where do the rained-away-dead clouds go?
y is TV so boring?
y is the vegetation mute?
y do they say "married" or "happy" ?
y do v fall in love n rise in anger?
y do v gain fat n not brains?
v talk abt open minds,open spaces & open communication then y have walls inside our houses?
human body evolves as per our needs yet y dont we still have our ears pierced already at birth?
y do curtains ban the rays but allow the breeze?


y can't i sleep?
finally,
y do v have mornings?
i am ...
sleepy yet awake
sad but delightful
depressed yet smiling
ready to shop yet penniless
working yet vacationating
loving yet remourseful
erasing yet writing
listening yet speaking
bored yet happy
missing yet existing
learning yet deleting
composing yet editing
eating yet garnishing
dreaming yet working
driving yet lounging
sitting yet exercising
planning yet tasting success
postponing yet making it happen
spraying insecticide yet caring!
cutting flowers yet praying for longetivity
criticising yet admiring the spirit
laughing yet crying
making yet breaking it
picturing yet writing it
forgetting yet marninating it
going yet waiting
thoughtful yet heartless
worthy yet without it
deserving yet guilty

i am the dawn in the sunset...

Sunday, June 11, 2006

unlearning.com

after years of cruising on my scooty am finally seriously learning to drive a car these days from a distinguished place "Maruti Driving School"...yeah the car manufacturers have an in-house driving school also replete with all the modern day amenities...AC cars and AC classrooms(yeah they have 7 hours of theory...complete with a theory exam too)...Vending Machines(naah! naah not in the cars)...Simulators Vechicles(am i learning how to drive a car or a MIG-II? )
anyways the unexpected luxuries in the school are not the point of concern...what worries me is something entirely akin to it...
i have been driving my scooty for close to a decade now in almost all types of situations right from my Lucknow college days to the lovely Bangalore roads(that in my belief provide u with a simulation of the roads on the moon!) so i'm a confident old pro on the roads...i drive pretty well actually...i can juggle with a smile the bangalore office rush and also negotiate out of mirage-image of a road...u get the picture now?
i drive the practical way...these guys are teaching me the ideal way...which way do i go?or rather which way will the traffic on the road force me to follow...this is my concern...i will give u an example...
one day in the theory class we learnt about the Right of Way and who should accord the respect to whom when the Major and the Service Roads are in question...The Rule Book says that anybody coming from a service road onto a major road should give the Right of Way to the person who is already on the Major road...coincidentally the day i learnt this i was faced with the same situation...i was driving my scooty and entering the Major road from a Service road...there was a car already on the major road so i slowed down and thought 'oh! this guy is on the major n i am JUST comin onto the major...dude u get ur Right of Way' so i braked and stopped and waited for the guy to pass...
whereas that guy did exactly the same with maybe his thoughts as 'oh! what a luvly lass in black...gal u get ur Right of Way' and he settled deep into his driver's seat to savour the 6seconds more that he got when we both were giving each other the way...naah naah we dint stand there for infinity...meanwhile a BPO cabbie arrived...smart chap took advantage of the impasse between us and zoomed off...my ideal driving and reverie of thoughts regarding the right of way was broken and i followed suit...
with each and every theory class i am learning the ideal way to drive and my confidence(driving) of yore takes a sharp beating...numerous incidents happen everyday when i find that going by the ideal way i just hold the traffic and get loads of smart one-liners on lady drivers...
after 3 theory classes and some kilometres on the road i was all ready to unlearn whatever i had learnt to keep my confidence on the road and shaky hands in check...

so is Ideal driving or the confident practical driving of mine the correct way?