CONFESSIONS

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Location: Trivandrum, Kerala, India

humorous, fun loving, homely kinda guy.. to top it all... I'm married to this awesome lady... lucky me!

Friday, July 28, 2006

Friends are Destined to be...

I've got an awesome friend... humorous and funloving... at the same time an exceptional self-taught programmer... I prefer to call him a genius... as he has taught me much and still does. Now this friend of mine has been working for quite some time with this fast budding IT company whose employees had never seen my friends face-to-face... but they had seen and admired his work.
The Director and Founder of this company (also my friend... a "one-of-a-kind" kinda guy... for his multi faceted abilities and undying calmness and rock-solid presence of mind... no matter what!!) had seen him... talked to him... trained him... and seems very much satisfied with his performance.
So as the proposal of this company to meet my friend kept on being postponed due to unforseen reasons... it materialised atlast as a 14 person trip to his home, some 260kms away.
I believe it was more our destiny to be with him than it was his to be with us...
On the auspicious day... the journey began... all had taken extra effort to be their best... some even spent sleepless nights scheduling and organising the trip. They did their best to make it as perfect and hassle-free as possible... which was evidently fulfilled.
The journey though a happy one, had an air of mystery... suspense, rather, as none of them knew what to expect... they had never seen him... but those thoughts drowned in the lively music, painstakingly selected the previous night. We stopped for breakfast... I ate heartily.... and got to know the rest of the team... I had seen them... but never interacted with them... each one of them unique.
After 5 long hours and also the problem put up by me for having to stop twice or thrice to strech my legs... we reached our destination. All suspense was blown away and replaced with a time of fun and laughter. Then my friend's mum and his grandmum brought in refreshments and all of us digged in... his dad narrated a story... which at the moment sounded incoherent to me as I was deeply engrossed in the huge piece of chicken pastry and the nut filled cream cake which was mouth watering. Most pleasant of all was observing how the others ate... amusing, really!
But then a silence reigned throughout and my friend and i did our best to break the monotony by taking snaps of those present... half eating... half talkin... half sleeping... The silence was turned to laughter when they saw the kind of pictures we took and as we pointed out the various humorous expressions made by each...
After which we all gathered together for an extensive photo session... and then prepared for a brief departure... I wonder if all of them shook his hand... must've fallen off in the process.
They all came in doubt and left content to have found a team-mate... and more importantly a friend.
The visit was short and sweet.
I wish we had gone earlier...

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Life...

Life is beautiful... i'm not talkin figuratively... but literally. Life is so damn good... u tend to take all of it for granted... as if it was all a waste.

The fresh morning break of dawn... the birds singing at 4:30am... the stars slowly loosing their glitter and fading into the ever glowing sunrise... the cock crowing... the gentle mist... the cool air... the budding rose... the untiring ant... and the persevering spider weaving that silky web glistening in the dew filled morn...

All this leads me to a song I and my brother used to sing...

Every tiny star that twinkles in the night sky,
Every drop of morning dew,
Every spark of fire blazing in the furnace,
Every captivating view,
Every rainbow in the sky,
Every pretty butterfly...
Tells the fascinating news to those who dare to hope;
And the message is...
God... still loves the world,
God still loves the...
God still, still loves the world....
So throw urself into his hands...
Day by day discern his plans
God is passionately BUSY loving you and me!!!


Actually there are two more stanzas... but my intention is that we take time to look at the blessings God gives us afresh every day...

As we pray in the Lord's prayer... "Give us this day..." but once we get it we tend to become too busy to appreciate the fact that He gave it...

And God saw what He created and saw that it was all good... He saw... that's why He found it to be good.... if God took the time to behold his creation... how much more should we behold the work of our creator...

Life truly is beautiful... :-)

Friday, July 07, 2006

Hi.... :-)

This is my first ever posting.... and my first ever blog... but ofcourse there's a first for everything...

This feels great....

Thank God I'm able to atleast do this now...

Also wish to thank my best pal Tony and his brother for their constant encouragement to embark on something as outrageous as this...

And my Amma... for paying my cyber bills... :-D

I really do feel on top of the world... my world atleast!!!!