I had given up posting short stories on my blog ( I used to do that on my previous blog) as I came to realize that I myself did not like what I wrote! I felt it was so soapy. Yeah, that’s the word that comes to my mind as an adjective for my stories. Soapy stories. I don’t know if that makes any sense to you though.
My short stories are usually not short. They tend to elongate and sometimes even come to an abrupt halt. Anyways, I will surely put up a couple of them in the future whatever I may feel about them.
Cheerio
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Give it on to me...
They say that surrender all your worries to God and he will take care of it.
You are on a small holiday on this planet and God wants to make sure that you enjoy each and every creation of his and to compliment him on the same in your prayers. If you were to have worries and problems during this small stint on earth then you will spend your time on that. So give your heavy package to god and he will only be happy to hold them for you even for the rest of the time you spend your life on earth.
Certain times we know all this and still it is so difficult to put that in practice. I wonder why is that so.Am no different from this. There are times when I have purposely given certain problems to God to worry upon and I have seen them all working out in miraculous ways. Yet, at certain times, Iam so stubborn that I say I want to carry the package by myself and don’t want to share it with someone else or give it to God to carry on his shoulders.
But there are certain times when I feel am so lost and then feel a warmth take upon me when I think of God.
Life is really simple but men insist on making it complicated - Confucius
You are on a small holiday on this planet and God wants to make sure that you enjoy each and every creation of his and to compliment him on the same in your prayers. If you were to have worries and problems during this small stint on earth then you will spend your time on that. So give your heavy package to god and he will only be happy to hold them for you even for the rest of the time you spend your life on earth.
Certain times we know all this and still it is so difficult to put that in practice. I wonder why is that so.Am no different from this. There are times when I have purposely given certain problems to God to worry upon and I have seen them all working out in miraculous ways. Yet, at certain times, Iam so stubborn that I say I want to carry the package by myself and don’t want to share it with someone else or give it to God to carry on his shoulders.
But there are certain times when I feel am so lost and then feel a warmth take upon me when I think of God.
Life is really simple but men insist on making it complicated - Confucius
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Pop goes the Balloon!
What am I supposed to feel when someone tells me on a particular day that I look cute and like a kid because of the way I had pinned my hair up and all that I need is balloons to complete the look?UGGGH..!
I tried imagining myself with balloons in one hand and ice-cream on the other and it wasn’t a very tasteful picture. Someone comes and pops all my balloons and I start wailing!! Ugggh again!
The same person told me another day that I look like a ghost reason being my hair again! Sigh!! I simply couldn’t make out if the kid with the balloon look or the ghost look (maybe sexy ghost) was a better one. Meanwhile at cartoon land…
* JJ calls someone on phone and says ‘Helloooo dirty Harry!!! Where are you?’ and AA starts laughing. It’s like a switch. JJ says something and AA starts laughing.
* JJ continues his one-liners
‘The girls won’t come with coffee for you because they want toffee’ .AA laughs even louder. No one else was laughing .Did you feel like laughing after reading it?
I didn’t!!
*AA starts singing some song(its supposed to be song) ‘Beautiful woman walking along…’ (Has anyone of you heard such a song?) When a pretty female walked past us while we were having breakfast at the food court. Incidentally, she wasn’t fair and puny this time!
I might again go to Gitex tomorrow! Hope there wont be more embarrassing moments like yesterday!!!
I tried imagining myself with balloons in one hand and ice-cream on the other and it wasn’t a very tasteful picture. Someone comes and pops all my balloons and I start wailing!! Ugggh again!
The same person told me another day that I look like a ghost reason being my hair again! Sigh!! I simply couldn’t make out if the kid with the balloon look or the ghost look (maybe sexy ghost) was a better one. Meanwhile at cartoon land…
* JJ calls someone on phone and says ‘Helloooo dirty Harry!!! Where are you?’ and AA starts laughing. It’s like a switch. JJ says something and AA starts laughing.
* JJ continues his one-liners
‘The girls won’t come with coffee for you because they want toffee’ .AA laughs even louder. No one else was laughing .Did you feel like laughing after reading it?
I didn’t!!
*AA starts singing some song(its supposed to be song) ‘Beautiful woman walking along…’ (Has anyone of you heard such a song?) When a pretty female walked past us while we were having breakfast at the food court. Incidentally, she wasn’t fair and puny this time!
I might again go to Gitex tomorrow! Hope there wont be more embarrassing moments like yesterday!!!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Gitex update
Went to Gitex today and …. Well it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be though I would need a good foot massage after all those walking and standing!!
And it’s not everyday you fall down and a handsome guy comes to your rescue!!
I was giving way to him while coming down the stairs and missed a step (yeah, maybe I was drooling over him, maybe I wasn’t. After all am a human being too!!) and he pulled me up and said ‘don’t worry , only I saw it’ and then added ‘ but am going to tell it to everyone!’ and he laughed.
This is the second time my glamour goes down the drain.
And it’s not everyday you fall down and a handsome guy comes to your rescue!!
I was giving way to him while coming down the stairs and missed a step (yeah, maybe I was drooling over him, maybe I wasn’t. After all am a human being too!!) and he pulled me up and said ‘don’t worry , only I saw it’ and then added ‘ but am going to tell it to everyone!’ and he laughed.
This is the second time my glamour goes down the drain.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Food for Thought
'Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be,since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be' - Thomas a.Kempis
Office Updates
Ok, back to cartoonland and here are a few updates
* Colleague AA records the snoring of his roommate( poor chap)without his knowledge and takes it around to everyone in the office and laughs about it!!( Laughing for him is like breathing. He does it at an interval of one or two minutes for some reason or the other)
* Colleague JJ hears it( snoring of the unknown victim) for sometime and says that he sounds like a pig to which I asked if pigs snore? I felt it like something else!!
*Colleague UU tries to butter some guy on the phone and after disconnecting the line curses him and says 'I have to keep lickign asses!' duh!!
*Cranky receptionist rr sends a mail titled 'office atmosphere' and asks everyone to not use the meeting rooms to store goods as it will lead to cockroaches, bugs and rats!!! What does the atmosphere have to do with it?
*MM replies to her mail saying electronic mice are indeed a problem! Am I missing something here?
This is never ending and am sure there will be more updates like this!
Cheerio
* Colleague AA records the snoring of his roommate( poor chap)without his knowledge and takes it around to everyone in the office and laughs about it!!( Laughing for him is like breathing. He does it at an interval of one or two minutes for some reason or the other)
* Colleague JJ hears it( snoring of the unknown victim) for sometime and says that he sounds like a pig to which I asked if pigs snore? I felt it like something else!!
*Colleague UU tries to butter some guy on the phone and after disconnecting the line curses him and says 'I have to keep lickign asses!' duh!!
*Cranky receptionist rr sends a mail titled 'office atmosphere' and asks everyone to not use the meeting rooms to store goods as it will lead to cockroaches, bugs and rats!!! What does the atmosphere have to do with it?
*MM replies to her mail saying electronic mice are indeed a problem! Am I missing something here?
This is never ending and am sure there will be more updates like this!
Cheerio
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Gitex!!
The Gitex has started and am in no mood to go there. I do not want to go there and waste my time!! What happens there? You have a whole bunch of people coming there all dressed up in the name of business though I feel only a few of them actually do any business!!
We have a whole bunch of wannabes esp. from certain vendor companies with fake accents and garish dressing and mostly with a head which is filled with hay!!
However, not all is bad about it too! The atmosphere it creates is quite nice and for a moment I feel good being in the IT business and not everyone dresses up bad and not everyone is dumb! If you have your schedule written down and if something fruitful does turn out for you from this entire thing, it indeed is a nice thing and not to forget the complementary stuffs you get from each stall!!
We have a whole bunch of wannabes esp. from certain vendor companies with fake accents and garish dressing and mostly with a head which is filled with hay!!
However, not all is bad about it too! The atmosphere it creates is quite nice and for a moment I feel good being in the IT business and not everyone dresses up bad and not everyone is dumb! If you have your schedule written down and if something fruitful does turn out for you from this entire thing, it indeed is a nice thing and not to forget the complementary stuffs you get from each stall!!
Monday, October 13, 2008
Am a star!
Iam very bad at giving directions especially if you catch me walking in the hot sun as if am some movie star and you have actual movie star looks.
Well a lady did walk up to me who had this movie star looks and ask me directions to the hard rock café while I was at this pedestrian crossing.
For a moment, I went blank becoz I knew where the hard rock café was , I even knew they had two gigantic guitars in front of the café leaning on each other however I did not know how to get there!!! All the image I was building up while walking down the road as if am some super intelligent supermodel came crashing down when I started stammering with the directions.
‘Take left and you will reach a parking space…’
‘Parking space?’ , the lady had a question mark on her face , ‘ you mean a parking lot?’.
Shame on you!! I scolded myself.
I then gave up and asked her to go straight turn left and then someone there will guide her. She thanked me and started running on the pedestrian crossing bringing a lot of cars on a sudden break. They saw me standing there not knowing if to pass or not and asked me to pass too..hehehe…
I darted across with an embarrassed smile.
After I reached my office, I asked a friend the way to the hard rock café and well friends, its entirely opposite to the one I gave her!
Damn!! Anyways, its ok this is how you learn!! I told myself
She must have found it out by now that I gave her the wrong directions and probably must be cursing me too. Sorry!!
Well a lady did walk up to me who had this movie star looks and ask me directions to the hard rock café while I was at this pedestrian crossing.
For a moment, I went blank becoz I knew where the hard rock café was , I even knew they had two gigantic guitars in front of the café leaning on each other however I did not know how to get there!!! All the image I was building up while walking down the road as if am some super intelligent supermodel came crashing down when I started stammering with the directions.
‘Take left and you will reach a parking space…’
‘Parking space?’ , the lady had a question mark on her face , ‘ you mean a parking lot?’.
Shame on you!! I scolded myself.
I then gave up and asked her to go straight turn left and then someone there will guide her. She thanked me and started running on the pedestrian crossing bringing a lot of cars on a sudden break. They saw me standing there not knowing if to pass or not and asked me to pass too..hehehe…
I darted across with an embarrassed smile.
After I reached my office, I asked a friend the way to the hard rock café and well friends, its entirely opposite to the one I gave her!
Damn!! Anyways, its ok this is how you learn!! I told myself
She must have found it out by now that I gave her the wrong directions and probably must be cursing me too. Sorry!!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Coffee yikes!
Ok. Back to it again.
* Colleague who likes fair puny gals, lets call him A.A was mouthing to me to check out the hot chick (no prizes for guessing – fair and puny. sigh) that was standing next to me while I was ordering sandwich at Subway. I don’t know what does he think Iam? Makes me feel like I swing the other way round!
* The same colleague A.A was trying coffee the other day for the first time at this new place which had opened up in Internet city (coffee bytes). I thought the coffee was too strong and had difficulty drinking it. A.A bought it coz the Filipino guy at the counter informed me that the coffee is free since they were opening for the first time just the next day. He buys the coffee and the Filipino asks him ‘ where do you work sir?’ , to which he replies ‘ we work in Microsoft’ ( which was a lie) and I suddenly see A.A give a small yelp , close his mouth ,dart away from the counter and come back again. Well what happened? He tried drinking the hot latte using a STRAW. And the full concentrated hot latte hit the tip of his tongue and burnt it. The poor fellow couldn’t taste anything for a day it seems. One cup of coffee was gulped down with one bottle of mineral water. I don’t blame him, the latte was so bitter and he had a burnt tongue to couple with it. This is what happens when you couple a lie with a straw.
* Ahmed Bin bond! Yeah, that’s the name an RJ gave to the James bond from Dubai. Clever, aint it!
Yallah! Iam Bond… Ahmed Bin Bond.
* Colleague who likes fair puny gals, lets call him A.A was mouthing to me to check out the hot chick (no prizes for guessing – fair and puny. sigh) that was standing next to me while I was ordering sandwich at Subway. I don’t know what does he think Iam? Makes me feel like I swing the other way round!
* The same colleague A.A was trying coffee the other day for the first time at this new place which had opened up in Internet city (coffee bytes). I thought the coffee was too strong and had difficulty drinking it. A.A bought it coz the Filipino guy at the counter informed me that the coffee is free since they were opening for the first time just the next day. He buys the coffee and the Filipino asks him ‘ where do you work sir?’ , to which he replies ‘ we work in Microsoft’ ( which was a lie) and I suddenly see A.A give a small yelp , close his mouth ,dart away from the counter and come back again. Well what happened? He tried drinking the hot latte using a STRAW. And the full concentrated hot latte hit the tip of his tongue and burnt it. The poor fellow couldn’t taste anything for a day it seems. One cup of coffee was gulped down with one bottle of mineral water. I don’t blame him, the latte was so bitter and he had a burnt tongue to couple with it. This is what happens when you couple a lie with a straw.
* Ahmed Bin bond! Yeah, that’s the name an RJ gave to the James bond from Dubai. Clever, aint it!
Yallah! Iam Bond… Ahmed Bin Bond.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Coma
I got to read Dr. Robin Cooks ‘coma’ at last and 25 years after its publication!
It sure was interesting and kept me on it until I reached its last page however he too goes too much into details, and his usage of medical terms sometimes got the better of me that at times I could feel my head tighten up coz I was getting frustrated with the different terms in the book. I wasn’t happy with the climax of the story. All throughout the story he would go to describe the minutest of details, like the bend on the nose of one of the characters and the eyes set in , poke marked face due to teenage acne etc , however when it came to the climax , I felt like he was in a hurry to get over with it and to get it published that he left the climax… just like that …don’t know how to describe it
Kudos to the guy though because from what I read, the guy used to sit down to write the novel after his long day at work as a doctor! Now that is not an easy thing if am right. Look at me, I am not a doctor and most of the time I laze around in the office and yet am sooo lazy to write down something even for the blog once I return home! Oh, but then I must mention about the one hour drive from Dubai internet city to my home. Now that is not a small thing and also the drive in the morning. That kind of kills my time and my energy!! I wonder if the Dubai government realizes that it is killing a novelist in me because of the traffic disaster in Dubai. Do they know that they are actually killing fame from the country!! Gosh!! Whats happening here! These, ladies and gentle men are the indirect effects of having traffic in the country!! He he..
Ciao
It sure was interesting and kept me on it until I reached its last page however he too goes too much into details, and his usage of medical terms sometimes got the better of me that at times I could feel my head tighten up coz I was getting frustrated with the different terms in the book. I wasn’t happy with the climax of the story. All throughout the story he would go to describe the minutest of details, like the bend on the nose of one of the characters and the eyes set in , poke marked face due to teenage acne etc , however when it came to the climax , I felt like he was in a hurry to get over with it and to get it published that he left the climax… just like that …don’t know how to describe it
Kudos to the guy though because from what I read, the guy used to sit down to write the novel after his long day at work as a doctor! Now that is not an easy thing if am right. Look at me, I am not a doctor and most of the time I laze around in the office and yet am sooo lazy to write down something even for the blog once I return home! Oh, but then I must mention about the one hour drive from Dubai internet city to my home. Now that is not a small thing and also the drive in the morning. That kind of kills my time and my energy!! I wonder if the Dubai government realizes that it is killing a novelist in me because of the traffic disaster in Dubai. Do they know that they are actually killing fame from the country!! Gosh!! Whats happening here! These, ladies and gentle men are the indirect effects of having traffic in the country!! He he..
Ciao
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Random does it again!
It was a slow week and I can say proudly that I did not do anything useful!! Even at my work place! Sigh! Nope, this blog is NOT about me complaining about my laziness and NOR is it to rant about my ‘ I wil be doing so and so in the future about so and so’ .Then what is it about?
Well, any clues ? I have no clue myself…sigh . Certain things to be noted …
* Friend called from France…forgot tooth brush, used face wash instead…and then laughs saying ‘I felt like Mr. Bean’.
* I felt like strangling that RJ in that Hindi radio station when she interrupted a beautiful song that I was enjoying before it could end (I love the music at the end of that particular song), with some bullshit she had to say in her ever so cheerful and LOUD voice, god she keeps on ranting otherwise and puts a hell lot of advertisement in between, she could have waited till that song got over!!!Arrgh!!
* In another radio station they asked to spot a helicopter carrying a code for a property development company . The one who spots it and calls up first , wins! I saw the helicopter but not the code as it was sooo far off and if I were to concentrate on that more, I would have ended up under some other car.( I was driving)
* My colleague is now flirting with another fair puny girl . That’s his taste..white , puny girls and keeps telling me ‘ its hard to understand a girls mind !’
* Today was Dussera and all Indians were supposed to come girls in salwar and guys in khurtha and one of my other colleage says out loud that he should have worn a khurtha with just a VIP frenchie(underwear) inside , the slits would have shown off his legs it seems!! Sigh! He is about 60 and still desperate.
* Hearing what this guy said, the colleague who likes ‘fair puny females’ is the only one who kept on laughing long after he said that. Infact, he is still laughing like someone sprayed laughing gas onto him!!! Poor guy!
That’s all for today guys and as long as am in this world with more people around me, I will have more postings like this along the way!!
Cheerio
Well, any clues ? I have no clue myself…sigh . Certain things to be noted …
* Friend called from France…forgot tooth brush, used face wash instead…and then laughs saying ‘I felt like Mr. Bean’.
* I felt like strangling that RJ in that Hindi radio station when she interrupted a beautiful song that I was enjoying before it could end (I love the music at the end of that particular song), with some bullshit she had to say in her ever so cheerful and LOUD voice, god she keeps on ranting otherwise and puts a hell lot of advertisement in between, she could have waited till that song got over!!!Arrgh!!
* In another radio station they asked to spot a helicopter carrying a code for a property development company . The one who spots it and calls up first , wins! I saw the helicopter but not the code as it was sooo far off and if I were to concentrate on that more, I would have ended up under some other car.( I was driving)
* My colleague is now flirting with another fair puny girl . That’s his taste..white , puny girls and keeps telling me ‘ its hard to understand a girls mind !’
* Today was Dussera and all Indians were supposed to come girls in salwar and guys in khurtha and one of my other colleage says out loud that he should have worn a khurtha with just a VIP frenchie(underwear) inside , the slits would have shown off his legs it seems!! Sigh! He is about 60 and still desperate.
* Hearing what this guy said, the colleague who likes ‘fair puny females’ is the only one who kept on laughing long after he said that. Infact, he is still laughing like someone sprayed laughing gas onto him!!! Poor guy!
That’s all for today guys and as long as am in this world with more people around me, I will have more postings like this along the way!!
Cheerio
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Random post again!
Am not keeping it up again!! Lazy!! Lazy to the bone Iam!!
Four days of leave including the eid holidays was wasted doing nothing! When will I ever learn? The only thing that happened was ‘shopping’. The shopping was supposed to be for a friend who was going to France however it ended up with me also busting a lot of money! The devil sits on my shoulders and whispers on to my ears ‘ ahh.. you can spend a little more !!It wont hurt! Just imagine how good you would look in that…?!’, and my hand slips on to pick it up (clothes, bags, shoes whatever!) and before I know half of my salary is gone, poof!!into thin air!
My other weakness is books. Not books, ‘fresh smelling, new’ books! Before I know, and after I get my salary, am digging my way into the Borders bookshop, digging into the books there and carrying three to four books in one buy to come home to my mom standing with her eyes wide open ‘ you bought books again!!!’.
Sometimes I have to smuggle the books inside the house.
The sad part is the books don’t last long. Four books, I finish in four days L
I sometimes feel I kinda eat up the books! Talking about eating, that’s something else that happened in full swing on the holidays! Sigh!
I read Stephen Kings ‘Misery’. It was interesting though at times his writing did test my patience as I was sooo impatient to know what happens next that I wanted to jump past the words in front of me like crossing a bridge, crossing all the detailed descriptions to reach the plot of the story,! And sometimes sitting like that to read in one go cramps my neck and in between I slept off to find myself narrating the rest of the story though I don’t remember what was it that I cooked up!
I wonder where does he come up with ideas for his books.
Four days of leave including the eid holidays was wasted doing nothing! When will I ever learn? The only thing that happened was ‘shopping’. The shopping was supposed to be for a friend who was going to France however it ended up with me also busting a lot of money! The devil sits on my shoulders and whispers on to my ears ‘ ahh.. you can spend a little more !!It wont hurt! Just imagine how good you would look in that…?!’, and my hand slips on to pick it up (clothes, bags, shoes whatever!) and before I know half of my salary is gone, poof!!into thin air!
My other weakness is books. Not books, ‘fresh smelling, new’ books! Before I know, and after I get my salary, am digging my way into the Borders bookshop, digging into the books there and carrying three to four books in one buy to come home to my mom standing with her eyes wide open ‘ you bought books again!!!’.
Sometimes I have to smuggle the books inside the house.
The sad part is the books don’t last long. Four books, I finish in four days L
I sometimes feel I kinda eat up the books! Talking about eating, that’s something else that happened in full swing on the holidays! Sigh!
I read Stephen Kings ‘Misery’. It was interesting though at times his writing did test my patience as I was sooo impatient to know what happens next that I wanted to jump past the words in front of me like crossing a bridge, crossing all the detailed descriptions to reach the plot of the story,! And sometimes sitting like that to read in one go cramps my neck and in between I slept off to find myself narrating the rest of the story though I don’t remember what was it that I cooked up!
I wonder where does he come up with ideas for his books.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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