Alone

When I came in this world,
I was alone.
When I will leave,
I will be alone.

When I came in this world,
There were people around me,
Smiling at me, I was crying.
When I will leave,
There will be people around me,
Crying for me, I will be smiling.

When I came in this world,
I was alone,
I did not know fear.
When I will leave this world,
I will be alone,
I will not care about fear.

If I am alone today,
Why am I afraid?

You are beautiful (Song by James Blunt)

My life is brilliant. My love is pure. I saw an angel. Of that I'm sure.
She smiled at me on the subway. She was with another man.
But I won't lose no sleep on that,'Cause I've got a plan.
You're beautiful. You're beautiful. You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw your face in a crowded place, And I don't know what to do,'Cause I'll never be with you.

Yeah, she caught my eye, As we walked on by. She could see from my face that I was,Flying high, And I don't think that I'll see her again, But we shared a moment that will last till the end. You're beautiful. You're beautiful. You're beautiful, it's true.

I saw your face in a crowded place, And I don't know what to do,'Cause I'll never be with you.
You're beautiful. You're beautiful. You're beautiful, it's true.

There must be an angel with a smile on her face, When she thought up that I should be with you. But it's time to face the truth, I will never be with you. :(

Feeling Alive

Yesterday, someone told me - "hey guys, you are working so hard. its really good. but, don't get disheartened if you don't get appreciation for your hardwork"... that made me think... "will i get disheartened?"... the answer was "NO, i will not"... "WHY?"... bcoz, when i asked myself...

AM I WORKING HARD FOR SUCCESS? ... NO, I AM NOT.
AM I WORKING HARD FOR NAME? ... NO, I AM NOT.
AM I WORKING HARD FOR FAME? ... NO, I AM NOT.
AM I WORKING HARD FOR APPRECIATION? ... NO, I AM NOT.
AM I WORKING HARD FOR MONEY? ... NO, I AM NOT.
AM I WORKING HARD FOR POWER? ... NO, I AM NOT.

THAN, WHY AM I WORKING SO HARD?

I AM WORKING HARD FOR MYSELF ...
I AM WORKING HARD SO THAT I CAN FEEL ALIVE!!!

Weekly Dump

Due to very busy (read,, I am lazy to take some time out) schedule of mine... I would like to rename this blog as "Weekly Dump" for sometime :)

Busy Vs. Lazy

I couldnt write my blog for past few days... I want to believe that i was too busy, but the fact is, I was a bit lazy.... bcoz if i wanted to write my blog, i could have definately taken some time out for it...but instead, i chose to relax in that time :) this seems to be the case, always... isnt it! materialistically successful men are those, who chose to be busy over lazy and those of us like me become philosophers.. bcoz even if my body is relaxing, my mind is always thinking :)

Flight from Mumbai to Ahmedabad - II

I wonder, how thoughtful a person can be in 30 minutes of flight from Mumbai to Ahmedabad???? and I find myself to be extreamly thoughtful all the time now a days!!! Is it bcoz I have started writting this blog? Not really, I always have been like this :)

Ok.. coming back to my journey,, One airhostess, seating behind my seat, was talking to her co-passenger about different experineces of her while flying... and the way she was using this term "pessengers",, i was really disappointed to hear that.... it was as if "pessengers dont know anything about flying", "pessengers dont have any sense of atiquate", "pessengers are some strange community" etc.. etc.. :)..... i wonder, how easy it is for a human to become an air-hostess and treat everyone else as aliens :) how easy it is for us to separate ourselfs as managers, middle class, employer, workers, air-hostesses, auditors etc etc... so many classes for us to belong to them that we almost forget that we are humans first :( I thought, its not only our earth but we (humans) are devided in sky also!!!

Earth from Sky

While flying from Mumbai to Ahmedabad, for the first time, I noticed how devided our earth looks from sky :( If I could see it from a plane, I am sure the higher forces in this universe can see it too :) We will have to pay price for all this nonsense one day!!!!!!!!

Flight from Mumbai to Ahmedabad

After going thru my many memories of plane journey, seating on a stone in front of a tyre shop somewhere in Mumbai yesterday,,, now, it was my turn to be on one of that plane again!

It was really a refreashing view of Mumbai, while taking off...

Mumbai looked so SMALL from a plane today when it felt so BIG yesterday when travelling by car.
Mumbai looked so CLEAN from a plane today when it felt so DIRTY yesterday when travelling by car.
Mumbai looked so PEACEFUL from a plane today when it felt so NOICY yesterday when travelling by car.
Mumbai looked so ORGANISED from a plane today when it felt so CHAOTIC yesterday when travelling by a car.

IS THIS THE REASON WHY OUR POLITICIANS AND INDUSTRIALISTS CANT SEE ALL THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH MUMBAI?? BCOZ THEY ARE ALWAYS TRAVELLING BY PLANE?? IS THIS THE HIGH TIME WHEN THEY SHOULD COME DOWN TO GROUND 0 AND ASSESS THE SITUATION AGAIN??

Soulful songs

Starting from Indian independence, 1947, many singers sung very soulful and petriotic songs - manna de, lata, kishor, rafi, sp etc etc... those songs contain so much of emotions, so much goodness... we all love those songs, we all remember their lyrics... and still, the world is the same place, same meaningful songs are needed today as well :) when will we evolve as a better society where those songs are not needed to motivate us? can a society, a community be self motivated towards positive side of life???? i think no :(

Bombay dreams!!!!

Yesterday, while going to Pune at night, we had a flat tyre so we stopped somewhere in Aeiroli at one tyre/puncture shop...it was almost 11 PM... there were few guys sleeping in front of the shop, on ground... they were so fast asleep that nothing could disturb them... with no A/C needed, no bed, no bunglow, no car..nothing needed to sleep that well,, i wonder, what they would be dreaming of then???????

the shop was a 6ft x 6ft "kholi" with tyres everywhere...it seemed that the 20 yr old boy who worked there must be living there only... some clothes of his were hanging in the background.... while he was at his work very professionally,, i sat outside his shop on a stone and was looking around for some frames for night photography...sky was full with clouds and moon was playing hide and seek with me... it was looking more beautiful then ever before.. i was so much concentrated and was almost lost in the beauty of that night when flickering lights of an aeroplane brought me back to where i was... then i saw another plane, and another, and one more... all of them were in queue for landing... carrying many hundred sophisticated, high class men and women who were eager to land on Indian soil after a trip overseas, looking forward to getting back to their normal, busy, hectic mumbai life which made them rich and made it possible for them to fly.... i remembered my first foreign trip and getting back to India after that... what a feeling it was for the first time and then i was habituated... one more trip, and i felt less fortunate,, few more trip and it became routine... all the joy of flying, going to a foreign land vanished and so i gave up my approved H1-B visa for the US..left my high flying job and now here i was seating on a stone, in front of a tyre shop, watching the coming and going of flights that distracted my pleasure of watching moon and enjoying its beauty... i was confused as to what my dream was for myself??? do i have any dreams????? of course yes... i have many dreams... my bombay dreams!!!

PS: i will talk about my dreams sometime later as my coffee is getting cold now :)