Hopeless Romantic

I really wanted to spend some quality timewith you in the two days.. But I couldn't do even one tenth of what i thought i would do.

My DEAREST, eventhough I met, I regret the fact that we had only a very small one line talk. I miss you so much and I hate every single fraction of the second when I was near you but I couldn't talk to you.

My feelings for you is so very strong that it tells me to euthenize my conscience and logic and fall for you when my mind says FALLING for you will in fact take me to the PEAK of my life.

I savor every moment that I saw you though regretting I couldn't come any closer. I know you like me, I know you think I'm good and I know you know for sure that I care about you. But all I am puzzled is this - do you feel the same way as me ?

You are my thought day in and day out, you are my ambition, you are my prayer and you are my LIFE. Life which is pathetically dependent on the slightest glance of you every day at least in my dreams.

It is not ego that is blocking me, it is not cowardice and it is not the damn 'society'. All that is blocking me is the fact that just the uttering of those three words should not be the cause of our unity.

I've heard people saying if love is magic, 'I love you' is the wand. If love is card game; then 'I love you' is the trump card. If love is heaven; 'I love you' is the threshold...

My love is no magic, my love is no card game. And it isn't some waguely conceptualized illusional place called heaven or a damn thing which people normally understand...

I don't know when it started and I know that it will never end. I know it is the only thing that would defy the popular saying 'change is the only constant'.

INDIAN FOOD CHAIN !!!

Hotel Kongu Park. Saalai road, Trichy 3

Perhaps I should have taken hint from the name itself Hotel Kongu ‘Park’. Since I didn’t, I went inside to have lunch. Almost nothing, including their ‘special’ delicacies were Chinese!!! And their new year specials which are available before new year are also are Chinese.

Before this turns out to be a bad mouthing, let me tell you this. Despite the fact they are not serving authentic ‘Kongu’ cuisine which is exquisite, they do offer few things like ‘nandu omlette’ besides the usual south Indian meals was a good thing to see.

Now let us take KFC the chicken giant. Its worldwide presence now is because of its authenticity. We can say similar stories for McDonalds, pizza hut and many more. Why aren’t any Indian food chains popular around the world despite its rich culinary expertise???

One answer to that question would be because of the difficulty in standardising the entire recipe in its perfect harmony to taste similar in all the places.. well yeah, but simpler things like paniyarams, adai dosais and the like can be well standardised and the formula for them can be quantified and spread across the world in all its uniqueness.

Changing the menu and ingredients of pizza hut and McDonalds is justified because of the regional factors. But what is the need of modifying the menu of a restaurant which seems to take a competitive advantage over its competitors? Calling itself a multi-cuisine restaurant is one thing ... but making most of its offerings Chinese, calling itself multi-cuisine and naming it Kongu Park is simply not blending in.

Perhaps i’m too obsessed with long term philosophy and sustainability but I don’t see the fame of this ‘Hotel Kongu Park’ extending beyond the people who pass through that road. I am just eager to see more restaurant chains like Shartbabu’s FoodKing and want them to expand globally.

Apparantly there are hotels like Saravana Bavan all around the world. My bad, i didn't know that. Rookie mistake. But then, i sincerely hope that we can do still better. We should have more take away foods as the western world (or so to suit the needs of urban life). I just felt this article would blend in well with the theme of my blog that is to widen the horizon. One thing i want the reader to remember if anything is to have a broad philosophy to grow during the inception itself...

MY FIRST EVER ROMANTIC KAVITHAI

கார் முகிலில் கார் இருளில்

முழு நிலவோ மோகனமோ,

மொத வரும் முதல் பனியோ!

வண்ண மயில் ஆடுகயில்

காதலி நீ இல்லையெனில்

கண்ணிருந்து என்னவடி? கண்ணே

காதலது கொடுமையடி !

கண்ணன் அவன் காதலித்த

ராதை அவள் வந்தால் கூட

கோதை உந்தன் குழல் மணத்தால்

பொறாமை கொண்டு நானிடுவாள்.

ஆசைகொண்டு நானதை நுகருகயில்

நாட்டம் கொண்டு நெகிழ்வயோ ! இல்ல

நாணி தலை குனிவாயோ?

இறவாத புகழுடய பெருங்குடியில் பிறந்திட்டும்

இறைவனிடம் முறையிட்டேன், உன் இசைவை இறந்திட்டேன்

இன்றில்லை இறுதிவரை என்னுடன் நீ இருந்துவிடு

இவன் போலொரு பாக்கியன் இல்லை என்ற

என் சொத்தாய் நீ இருந்துவிடு.

பொன்னும் பொருளும் இல்லையடி

பதுமை உன்னை கவர்ந்து செல்ல

பல்லக்கு போல நின்றிடுவேன்

பாவை நீயும் வந்துவிடு.

புன்னகை மட்டும் பூத்துவிடு

நம் உறவவுக்கொரு வாழ்வு கொடு.

AM I AN EGOIST

It is always painful to break up a relationship. As a guy who has not been in love recently, I don't know how convincing this could be to the poeple who have been in love and gotten out of it. Anyways... I just wonder sometimes if parting with a very close friend and breaking up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend are the same or entirely different!

Well, now friendship. Here I have good experience. Both building up and breaking up. And the funny thing is nothing was under my control... Sometimes i take pride in telling that i'm choosy about the people i talk to and become friends with; but the plain fact is that nothing was absolutely under my control.

There are friends whom i first thought i will never ever share a single joke but who have become very close in the near future. There are people whom i wanted to cut off but eventually after realising what a fool i've been to misjudge their actions and reactions, have become as close friends as any two ppl could ever be. Everything happened like magic. "Friends"... was and still remains a very simple word to me. The value big but i didn't have to work even a bit to get such great friends. Right from "Dinagaran Praliban Rajkanth Demal Jernas" whom i met in John's to the friends i have now.. They all just happened... I thought this will be the case with everyone else but i was really surprised to know that in a period spanning 4-5 years ppl had made harly 2 friends. Where as when i count, (not that i keep counts) my fingers are not enough. [well some of you maybe thinking i'm thinking too much of myself or i underestimate others, and i just like to say one thing. If they are not my friends, there is no thing called friendship in the world]

When has man ever remembered when he has everything good going on for him? I missed my school in college, i'm missing my UG life in PG, and this will go on.. This makes me remember a rather funny mail i received from someone...

a boy who was brought up in Chennai, got job in delhi. there he said oh "god i miss chennai". then with promotion he was sent to singapore... there he said "god i miss my life i used to have in delhi". they say he is not fit to be there and send him to madras. in home he says "god i miss my assistant rita and singapore". His parents decide to put a wedlock to him... one year down the line he says "got i miss the freedom i had when i was single". then he goes back to Singapore in order to make quick money.. For the first time in his life he says how much he missed his assistant rita while he was in home country. Eventually they have an affair and one day in bed rita asks "Honey.. when will you marry me?".

reality struck him. "SHIT... i miss my wife. SHE NEVER ASKS ME TO MARRY HER"

Well this little story is to lighten up the moment a bit. I have recently been into something like an argument with a friend. And this is not a pleasant feeling cause after that argument it looks like he is avoiding me. Such a sweet boy. Only a little lazy like i am but an intelligent one with some common sense. (well i believe that but sometimes he acts like he's got nothing :-( ).

I'm accused of being very open and upright and hurting others but thats one thing they like about me so much... but when i do the same with them, i don't konw where the bloody hell that "like about me so much" mind goes. When you ask me to be myself when i'm already being myself, he calls me an egoist. when i try to communicate that i am being myself and not what he thinks, he first says i don know what he is thinking and second... that i'm wayward.

Now i'm confused. Whats the point of asking me to be myslef when you don want me to be myself but you want me to be something that i'm not. The same idiot when i be polite with some other colleague to whom i don show my true colours; accuses me of being pretentious. Now what would he call me when i am pretending to be someone i'm not but someone he likes or wants me to be??? a friend !!!!

I don't want that title my friend... Atleast i'm not that desperate.

Dream big... but dream good. Have faith and be positive. Next time before calling me a name... Think if its worth bothering.... Meanwhile i'll be feeling compassionate that you've not had friends as good as i have to teach you the realities of life. GOD HELP YOU !!!

A short story thro which I intend to establish the ignorance of a kid and his famili's poverty..

IGNORANCE IS BLISS

Developments in human intelligence is too great to explain. Perhaps a whole book may not be sufficient. But as a matter of fact he is not able to produce the fundamental requirements of any living creature i.e., land, water, air space and fire.

What less, the ones who claimed to have acquired the "sixth sense" began to seperate or divide everything.

He divided land into continents and countries and "ruled" them. Water into oceans and seas. He even build dams accross the rivers and claimed the water belonged to him. Fire... OH what a shame !!!, he couldn't own it as such. But as cunning as he is, owned coal and oil.

Oh my god! i'm fed up.

Wait a minute... I'm not sure which god i'm reffering to here. Poor me! They didn't spare
THE god even:(. How many gods and how many relegions ?

Having said all that; human himself was no exception. How many casts, races, sects we have. But i wonder. Does he heally ? When naxalism and terrorism are on the rise and increasing people who justify it?

All countries accept the fact that love has no language cast religion creed etc etc. But shame it can't fit right in the complex equations of international economics.

How well can one take a hearty meal or a sound sleep thinking all these? Can we really afford all these differences and the disputes arising because of these? When i keep wondering, Its like the good old saying. " IGNORANCE IS BLISS "

Intro

Hi people..

Maybe its too early to say hi people since i'm not sure how many will see this blog and how many in that few who see this will stop to read. Well, with that attitude we can't do anything, can we? So getting rather optimistic and hoping one day this will be of some use to someone. (Worst case atleast me). So here i am expanding my span of reach or atleast an attemt to do so and hoping some day some one will do expand .

I intend to express my thoughts about things i see and hear.. I also intend to do it in a funny and sensible way.

All said, i'm follwing my brother in creating a blog.. maybe you could find his blog more useful n sensible.

Everything said.. ending my first post here. Be happy people. widen your horizon.