Life is journey of millennia, which knows no destination, except mystery. There"s awesome silence soaring deep down until one fine day some of us realize that we are getting attracted to some beautiful stranger. And all our saved up wishes starts coming out. Our eyes looks brighter in the presence of that beautiful stranger.

We have decided that we want to spend the rest of our life with them and not knowing whether they would be spending it with us or not.

So every one of us are not lucky every time. But we should appreciate the feelings of the other person even we cant reciprocate to them in the similar manner.

"Gravity is not responsible of people to fall in love.. it just happens" and when it does happen don"t wait for the right time to express..
because right time is when your heart beats faster.. If you love someone don"t wait for tomorrow.. or for the other person to make the move..agreed "tomorrow never dies".. but also remember.. "tomorrow never comes . . . "
(Trust me, don"t be late . . .)

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A man wanting to get rid of snakes in his garden decided to buy a mongoose. He went to a pet shop where he saw two of them, put up for sale. He was quite confused – should he ask for two mongooses (that didn’t sound quite right) or two mongeese (after all, the plural of goose is geese). He opted to take the safe way out. He told the shop keeper – “Give me a mongoose….actually, make that two”!!!
Well, the mallu would have actually been actually asking for his simian ancestors, had he said mongeese! And if he has learnt from the school where MG annan did, then surely he knows that adding an “s” to the end of a word makes it plural. So, if you want to refer to one member of the audience, you would say Audien!!! J I almost fell off the chair laughing!!!
In India, we speak Indglish – a language that has as many accents and dialects as there are Indian languages! Like Wardle’s search for the Average Briton, we’d probably end up hunting for a needle in a haystack to find a “propah” Indian English accent! Not that there aren’t any variations in the way the Brits themselves speak - Boycott being our most famous example!
Audience in its strictest sense should refer to something that is auditory or aural. Like the lovely word which Vani’s father used “Shroddha” – the sense it affects “Shravan” is there in the word itself. However, as the language gets vulgarized – we see instances of people using it to refer to other kinds of gathering of people (e.g. spectators). However, I do not expect The Hindu to debase itself thus – not yet! And yet, we had S. Dinakar reporting for the Hindu on the first Test match between India and Pakistan held recently at The Kotla grounds talking about how Tendulkar regaled the audience with his delightful stroke-making! Bathos is the word that comes to mind!
My friend Mohan Ram would perhaps be crying with shame! He recalls with pride an incident that happened in the early 90s when The Hindu had just started their Delhi edition. He was in some small town deep in Uttar Pradesh when he came across an elderly gentleman sitting with a copy of The Hindustan Times and marking out errors – both spelling and typos. Mohan went up to him, handed him a complimentary copy of The Hindu and told him “I’ll come back tomorrow to collect your subscription – I’m confident about the quality of my newspaper”. Surely enough, the man was extremely pleased with the content and quality of paper and promptly switched over to The Hindu. I’m not sure if my friend would venture out now to challenge someone thus!
I guess the advances in technology have brought along with it an equal number of problems too! Where people used to pore over text to make sure there are no mistakes, now we just run a spell check. And so while we end up correcting flavour to flavor (to suit the American dictionary), we oversee mistakes like flower for flour!!! Worse still, people blindly accept suggestions from the speller resulting in humorous situations – Anoop Shekhar allowed his name to get changed to Snoop Shaker!!!
Well, looking at the bright side of things, it at least gives us reason to laugh…after all, English is a funny language, don’t they say!!!

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Refrigerated butter melting on hot Aloo paratha triggered memories of Saturday afternoons in BITS Pilani! In many ways, my recent trip to Trivandrum brought back a flood of memories from college days! It seems rather strange that after almost twenty years I get to eat Aaloo paratha with butter! This rather exotic combination was something I used to relish and look forward to in college. Saturday afternoons were reserved for this treat. In combination with a pumpkin side-dish (which I’ve never seen being served anywhere else) and a tall glass of Lassi to wash it down with, the meal was a gourmand’s delight! After a meal like that, the only option was to adopt nidraasan! And so, as the very sight of this dish started the salivary glands working overtime, I was also transported to the trip from Delhi’s ISBT to Pilani!

It seems rather strange that one should get to taste traditional North Indian Dhaba cuisine in Mallu land! Yet, there it was! Well, the signboard that said “Authentic Panjabi Vegetarian food” was what caught my interest. I normally associate Punjabi food with Butter chicken and chicken tikka. So, I was quite surprised to find a joint that served only vegetarian food. For those of you who are interested to know the location, this is on NH 47, just past Ginger hotel, before you hit the Kazhakootam junction (when you are travelling up north)! Not a fancy place, it sits on the first floor of a building that is below road-level! The food’s passable, the service quite bad – unless you are a regular, in which case the waiter materializes in front of you, even before you’ve taken your seat! I surmise that this place has sprung up, and continues to survive thanks to strong patronage from some North Indian bachelors who have joined various software companies in Technopark. Anyway, their Aloo paratha is good, though they didn’t have that pumpkin side-dish!

The trip from Delhi to Pilani used to be a lot of fun! Probably, the only time that that route used to be jam-packed was when semester started or ended. Bus-loads of students used to head for Delhi from where we would take trains to distant places (mostly Andhra and Tamil Nadu)!!! The bus used to stop at Bhiwani or thereabouts for a break! Check in to any Dhaba on the Haryana-Rajasthan route for some really great food! The food is fresh and hot, and the lassi thick and delicious! I wonder if it is still that way – I never got around to visiting my alma mater after passing out! L

I guess, it was Chandrasekharan Nair, who got me started on this journey back to college! And a BITSian in Trivandrum is probably just as strange to find as Aaloo paratha!!! And strangely enough, I was meeting him too, after almost twenty years! He had a prosperous look, especially around the waist, and had tried to compensate for that increase in weight by losing an equal amount of hair on his pate! But the non-stop chatter is something that had stood the test of time! His love for talking had found the right vocation – as a teacher in Kerala University. And we were joined by yet another alumnus who happened to be in Trivandrum at that time. Together we walked down memory lane, recapturing some of the glorious moments of our student-days.

Sometimes it seems like a lot of fun just to pause for a while…and look back! I found it all the more nostalgic as I prepare for yet another journey to becoming a student again! Lovely coincidence that it had to happen now…but then perhaps that’s what synchrodestiny is all about! Perhaps I’ll get to write about that some other time!

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Someone out there either has too much spare time or is deadly at Scrabble.
(Wait till you see the last one)!!!

DILIP VENGSARKAR
When you rearrange the letters:
SPARKLING DRIVE

BARA THEDA
When you rearrange the letters:
ARAB DEATH

PRINCESS DIANA
When you rearrange the letters:
END IS A CAR SPIN

MONICA LEWINSKY
When you rearrange the letters:
NICE SILKY WOMAN

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER
DESPERATION: When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE :
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

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