It's a New Year!

New Year is an excuse for starting something new. it's a fresh start, a new beginning. A reason to leave behind the past and look forward for a better tomorrow. it gives you a chance to rectify mistakes, call old friends, forgive some one, correct ourselves.

we make resolutions. Go on a diet, lose weight, do Yoga, start music classes. we give ourselves chance on the first of Jan. Probably psychologically it gives us a feeling of us having left behind the year that has gone by and probably re-write the things we had thought or dreamt of but were unable to do so for some reason. Here's another chance of doing all those things that were on my list but made it to reality.

all of us want one more chance. one chance to say sorry. one chance to say "i love you". one chance to appreciate somebody. one chance of altering a decision. one chance to follow our heart. one chance to do good for society. just one more chance. A New Year gives us that. It doesn't exactly alter our past or influence the decisions that we've made. Some how it gives us the strength to look back at the one year that we have lived and retrospect our choices we made. Helps us take a closer look within us and try to figure out what actually has happened and what should be done.

it gives us another chance to retrospect and rectify.

Any day can be the start of a New Year. It's within us. if we want to start or change something within us, any day is the right day.

Today is the right day.

Start a new day today. A Fresh beginning. don't look back and try and rectify what has happened. take a sheet of paper and make 12 things that you would want to do, or change about yourself or the world. Gives yourself 12 months. Listen your heart and follow it! It could be a simple thing like "wash the car twice a month" or "watch a play a month" or "adopt a plant and watch it grow". Just purely what your heart desires and has ever wanted.

let this be the first step to find out what we honestly, purely want.

Let this year bring all of us good health, happiness and the strength to do what's right!

Cheers!

Emotion..

Emotion is more intense when reciprocated.

Love...

Love, in it's purest form, is illogical.

Long distance..

I was in conversation with a collegue of mine and he asked me how I'm holding up to a long distance relationship. This line of thought lead to various other related topics.

The worst thing about an LDR is the distance. Obviously. What does a distance do to a human being? The distance brings distance between people. probably because there is communication gap, there is no time, there is work, there are different people to talk and mingle with etc etc.. basically you have your own world over there to handle.

one thing why humans have survived so many thousands of years and still growing strong is of the fact that we adapt ourselves to our environment. When the world around us changes, we quickly adjust ourselves, and keep moving.

When we are in a long distance relationship (whether it's your partner, mother, father, friend etc), we adapt ourselves to the absence of a person. we learn how to live life without them being around us physically. we learn how to laugh, cry, talk to people around us. I'm not saying that we forget them. but we adapt ourselves and our lives without that person. it's sort of a defence mechanism which we resort to.

there is a thin line between adapting ourselves and getting used to it. we should never "get used" to their absence. that's when a relationship falls apart.

We are the Fishtankers!

Somethings are impossible to forget. And that's what probably they call memories. They may not be something historic or big. It's just with the people who mean a lot to you, every small joy is amplified. Some of my best moments at the Fishtank and people connected with that..

1. Amblee - Manoj's dance and Abhay's "Santoshakke"
2. Dandeli - River rafting; Bhanu's "Roop tera mastana" and Abhay's red chaddis.
3. Chikmaglur - Me smashed; Drive with Daga and Geek; Ram's spontaneity at the river.
4. Take5 - Bhanu, Abhay and i.
5. Retro - Usha, Sudhi, Bhanu and i; one of the best drinks- never laughed like this in a long time.
6. Bhanu's house - Anu Sr., Abhay, Bhanu, Neeti and i - Conversation about us being professional.
7. Bhanu's Blue Gypsy story.
8. "Yif you come today, yit's too yerly"- Geek's best till date.
9. Parthi's orgasmic snake picture.
10. Masinagudi - Leopard jokes, throwball and conversations till 3 in the morning.
11. Jesika Dalal Meeting - "Premier Padmini"

A reason..

To be able to live, you must find a reason to die for.

My first date with the birds

I had been dreaming about this for three days. And the wait seemed longer than normal. And to worsen it, my friday night was looking a little too long at work.

But the next morning was worth the excitement. This "birding" trip with Mr. Menon was special for two reasons. One because I have always wanted to go birding with him, and second and more important reason was my new camera! And to add spice was the fact that we were travelling in Anand's jeep!

The day began at 5 am when they (Anand Menon and Anoop Ancil) picked me up. First we went to a lake near by. My gk in birds is almost zero. I can count the number of birds i know on my fingertips. But when we reached the lake, the number of birds i saw amazed me. And to add to my amazement, Mr Menon could identify the birds by their call! The passion in his eyes was apparent. Just on Saturday, i saw more birds than what I had seen in my entire life and realized that after all, every black bird is not a crow and every bird in water is not a duck!

First we went to this lake near-by saw sopme birds. From there we headed towards Tippe Gowdana Halli. We saw some more birds over there. After that, we went to Savana Durga. I had never been there before and didnt know that the entire place was one single rock. Then we drove to the Manchinabele Dam and back to Blore.

Realized that it requires us to open up our senses a little bit to enjoy the beauty of nature. Like there are so many unique and special things just around you. we are so content with out routine way of life that a lot of small special things miss our sight.

When we were at the lake, i could hear no noise but a lot of sounds. Sounds of birds, and varieties of them. Sounds of insects, different note, different pitch. Sound of the wind, through the trees. I could see water sparkling. See butterflies fluttering by, different colours, different sizes.