Seeing her go...

I told her I would leave office early and at any cost make sure I am there at the promised time.

But as always, every time I have something imperative outside office, something or the other goes wrong. At 5PM she gives me a call asking where am I? Yes, that was the time I had promised her that I would be there.

I didn’t have to explain, like always even before I could say she understood and asked me by what time latest could I make it. I told her in another hour’s time I would make sure I am there.

And finally at 6 I managed to leave office. Thanks to Diwali Eve Rush, I was trapped in swarming traffic. Somehow making my way through frenzied traffic I hurried.

Finally I made it. She looked at me; she smiled and then looked at the time. And gave me this look. I, as always gave a dumb look and a remorseful smile.

She is used to this by now. She didn't say anything, and just smiled back.

Being guilty of having made her wait and having messed up her plans for the evening, I asked her if there was something I could do.

She in her every comforting voice told me that she is more than happy and at the same time glad that I didn’t make her wait any further.

It was the day she was supposed to leave. It was again one such day in my life, which I always dread, letting go people whom I love. It was time for her go, and in the process depart from someone to whom she meant all his world.

It was time for my Mommy dear to join sister, jeej and her little grandson whom she misses the most. Mom was completely prepared. She had done all her packing, she had all her travel documents ready and she had her own checklist in her mind which she kept checking it time and again to ensure everything was in place.

After having dropped her at the airport I was standing outside and waiting for mom to get her boarding pass. Silently I watched her go through all the process and once she got her boarding pass, mom came out and told me "I have got my boarding pass. You go back now and take care".

Did I shed a silent tear? I don’t know. But it was nice to see mom totally in charge, totally poised, totally calm. Mom over the years has become more composed thanks to an irresponsible son like me.

Sometimes in life we get to see our parents grow in front our eyes. And in that too they go on to teach us a lesson, as to how important it is to not make your life dependent on someone.

Miss you mom..

Sometimes...

Sometimes we fight with people not because we hate them. We fight because we Love them, We fight because we are scared, we might lose them.

Lucky By Chance

Was working late at office today, and normally when I am late I drive Cruise Control when I am on full throttle. A normally law abiding driver in me, once it is late nite looks right, looks left and if does not see Maama(that's how we address traffic cops in this part of the world) around, Jumps the traffic Signal provided there is no traffic.

Today was one such day again. After having a good day at office and an even greater time in all the meetings today, I was all happy and so was happily driving back home relaxed and happily jumping signals at will.

But then sometimes you don't really know, why is that you act the way you would normally never.

I jus' applied brakes at one of the signals and was least worried to move, whereas people behind me gleefully overtook me and jumped the signal.

I could not stop laughing at myself, when I saw 3 maamaas jumping infront of these vehicles from no where for having jumped the traffic signal.

That's when it struck me.. "Lucky By Chance".

DISCLAIMER : The traffic jump was carried out by an expert who is professional in everything he does. The reader is advised not to try the same stunt, and if he/she really wants to try, they may do so under their own risk. The writer is in no way responsible for the outcome of your stunt. Remember luck is ONLY by Chance. Not at Will.

My Health Report

Of late, on a regular basis I get to see this particular advertisement on Television which gives out starling facts as to, how many People in India have heart related ailments and how this figure is gonna get worse over the years. And the add goes on to encourage people to take an online test which is supposed to be scientifically based. At the end of the test you will get to know how less a time you have in your life and how many pending items you have in your action list, called life. A bigger tension though is that, after the test, your health is sure to deteriorate even further seeing the results. Sometimes being ignorant helps.

Today, however I shed my ignorance and decided to take up the test. Thanks to my office hours, I have the opulence to do things which I otherwise would have never done.. I went to their website, the signup process is very swift, will take you less than a minute. Fortunately they jus' ask you your email id, and not your phone number. So no one should have a dilemma signing up.
And ya, if you guys want to take up the ordeal, click here.

Once you are done, the test takes less than 2 minutes. And the end of the test you have your most awaited test results.
And this is what my heart report reads..

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Quite expected!!!. I knew I was slightly overweight(YES!!! you heard me rite, ONLY SLIGHTLY). I know I have very high stress levels, thanks to work and my way of life where in I take some issues and people very personally. It’s a fact I very rarely do any physical activity, again thanks to my nature of work and my ever lazy bones.
But there was something I didn't understand!!! "Elevated Resting Heart Rate" What is that??? Is my heart resting and not beating??? Or does it imply that, to save my heart of all heartbreaks, I have kept my heart away from everyone at an elevated place? If yes, that is also a known fact.

And one point that I liked in the report which made me smile...

“Your Heart Age May be marginally Older than your Age"

So that puts my age at 26, but how old or older is my heart??? Could it also mean that, I am more mature for my age???? :)
I should tell this mom, she always says I still act like a kid.

Blog to Unblock

I was going through my orkut profile and was navigating through the section "photos of me".
For people who are new to orkut, it's a section where the photos in which you ve been tagged are displayed.

There is one thing common to most of my friends, they re very creative in whatever little things they do.
This friend of mine had tagged different people with their traits. And being the ever curious person that I am, there I was the very next second hovering my mouse over different traits to see what best describes fazal according to this friend of mine.
And this is what I found. Fazal - "flirtoo"!!!

Curiosity sure did kill the cat this time.
At times it's appealing to know what people think about you, especially if they happen to be your friends. And then you know what is wrong with you.

Moving on, jus' a few days back while I was busy doing what I do the best -"Googling and surfing". I found this bit of piece of research article, and it instantly brought a grin on my face.
The article read “More than half of internet users search for ex-lovers online". And no guesses, why that grin on my face. May be I have moved on to a great degree esp. over the past few months, but there was sure this phase in my life when I used to Google/search for my lady love on the net.
I am beginning to love these kinda research works, wish I can be a part of this out of work and claiming benefit team. These guys always come up with attention-grabbing matter. Click here to read their previous research article.

Work after a long time seems to be getting exciting and is helping me dust my grey cells back again. Working from an all new location, with a whole new set of individuals and on a new proposal from scratch, work really is getting demanding. It's a nice feeling when I see my office outlook Calendar on certain days crammed with meetings. It gives you a sense of responsibility and a feeling that you re growing at your work place. But that is certainly not the reason why I have not been blogging.

This blog is to get me outta my writers block. Guess this should get me started now...

My City

While driving back home today, at one of the junctions while I was stuck at the traffic signal, saw this very interesting hoarding, wanted to take a pic of the hoarding too, but then didn have time for that... If someone is from Bangalore, or has seen Bangalore in the very recent past, will be able to relate it much better..
This is what the hoarding said...

" Shouldn't Metro mean Progress, Instead of "Work in Progress""....

Bangalore is very fast turning into a concrete jungle. It's is no longer the calm, quite and green city it once used to be..

Re-connecting....

Four weeks is sure a long time, ain't it? And that's how long I have been away from my blog, from my tweets, and my IM's and the world of net..
It's pouring complaints from all quarters, everyone is complaining saying I have no time for them. From family to friends, everyone is complaining.
So its time I reconnect, redial to the world, and what better way to get started than my blog.