Why To Name It ?!?!?

The Art Of Loving.........Life !

2015-02-02T00:58:00.002+05:30

Excerpts from my conversation with the Solitary Painter... An un-planned walk at the Worli Sea Face...

Me : (standing rapt !) These paintings are really gooood.... (rare to hear me say that)

A normal vendor's reply would have been :

"तीन का १० रूपए".... (or) Since we are talking about paintings here --- "तीन का ५००० रूपए"

But this man - was sitting there startling me -

R.J : :-)..... (yes the reply was just a smile - and he went on to say) "Pick your choice and give me whatever you can"

He continued giving form to the incomprehensible piece of art - completely engrossed. The smile was not visible - but somehow I could see it written all over the face. There was this spark in his eyes knowing that someone (i) really liked the paintings and at the same time he was not really pushing me to buy anything.
Lesson #1 learnt !

Art can really blind the beholder. it took me some 10-15 mins to realize, this man had no legs to move around. He had to sit there, finish all his paintings without worrying about the pain to get back home if he had one (not sure if the paintings are going to be bought by the disinterested mumbai walkers).
Lesson #2 learnt !!

I believe everything in this world has a price tag attached to it, except
art, truth, love & life in itself.
Never have really known to value any of the above.
Never felt happy being 'paid' for my performances (used to feel like a sinner),
Never felt - the ticket price for a random music concert justified the art,
Never have feared silence like this,
Never have feared the noise in my head like now.
Yes - Back to my contradicting self :)

I took 2 portraits without any motive - gave him some cash, which He/I didn't bother to count, and started walking again, as indifferent as any other passerby.
Lesson #3 learnt !!!

At this point, Art has become cliched to me. Music - boring !
People say 'I was so down or so excited that I could listen to that song whole day on loop'. I feel like running away from the 100gb of songs collected and treasured over years.

To love life - we have to live it, and if Living Life is an Art - we have to understand that blemishless art never exists.

Pic Courtesy : https://www.facebook.com/DeepaColorsOfLife?fref=ts

I, Me, My Rhapsodies - 5

2015-02-01T18:46:00.002+05:30

My Piano interprets a classic - Azhage Sugama.
A simple example of what happens when 2 artistic legends get together - Rahman's music & Vairamuthu's words.

'Veliyae azhudhaal vetkam endru, vilakai anaithu azhudhen...' :)
Life is indeed a (beautiful) vicious circle, It is bound to start at the place where it stops.

Missing Life...

2012-06-28T06:50:00.001+05:30

When i knew staying away from myself was living life...

When I breathe non-Indian air...

When I forget to drink water...

When i forget to chew...

When reality shocks me...

When every other eye is insignificant...

When every day/night is a nightmare...

When I see my only friend fade away...

When I realize my dreams kill me...

When I never want to be left alone...

When I understand that you know better...

When I no longer get answers...

When I get irritating...

When I am avoided...

Everything said and done -

When I start talking to MY blog,

When I start taking care of MY deadlines,

When I am allowed to stay awake 24*7 with absolutely no connectivity,

When I did not know all these were Mine all these days ---

; Life goes missing ;

I just though it was kissing me with all its glory a few days back.

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2011-10-31T23:55:00.000+05:30

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I can work like i don't need the money... I can sing like no one is listening... I could've loved like I've never been hurt ! But I would never live life every day as it was my last, I always wait for the tomorrow I crave for !!!

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2011-09-30T23:10:00.000+05:30

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Mental Gestures are more valuable than physical gestures - mostly because the worth is latent and personal.

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2011-08-31T11:30:00.009+05:30

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How do you set RIGHT things at work ? Just finish off whatever is LEFT in it

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2011-07-28T21:45:00.000+05:30

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Whenever I am knocked down, its my choice whether to get up or not and when being down actually reminds you of all the good things, I will never want to get up..!

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2011-07-28T16:24:00.000+05:30

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I know God is Love, But please spread Love, Do Not spread God...!

Who's the Hero?

2011-07-15T03:34:00.004+05:30

The title may sound so cliched, the reason being - this is a very spontaneous post. It is unusual to find myself in situations where I do not want to cry aloud these days. And as always - my 'Look-up-to' person ends up being this blog.

Who's your hero ? ... Touching someones lives - making them connect with history - giving them hope - above all making things happen --- Not often you chance upon such people.

Bringing people all the way down from Sastra, Planning out all the logistics myself, choosing only the songs that we loved, performing before the perfect audience, the Practise on stage, the perfect start without any hindrance, juggling with the Order of performance, finally misplacing something - (this time the Hammer and stone ;) -------All these were impossible dreams till the day before yesterday.

Then happens the Fairy tale twist, a wonderful family ! a colourful evening ! a jampacked hall ! an adept audience... and Who makes it all happen - Ofcourse the Hero of Today...!!! Behind every Successful Hero there's a heroine and here she is beside him :-

Balaji-SreeVidya

May Music Bless you both with a Rhapsodical Life !!! This Post is not to thank you, Only chances given to perform can be thanked - but this has made me reminisce the past, dwell on some irreplaceable thoughts and what not ! ...... and I will never forgive you for having made me think so much - eating into my sleep time ....hehe.

On a lighter - totally out of the place note :- I just found another connect for the Title of this post, the song with the same title featured in the movie that happened to be our first team movie ...! hehe...

I promised myself of your presence...
The Absence was present...
And the Show went On...

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2011-06-30T23:54:00.000+05:30

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Atheists always believe in God's ability ! They just feel that the world would have been a better place if God existed and continue hating his absence.

The Local 'Thanni' Party

2011-05-30T21:52:00.003+05:30

To All Non-Teetotallers ...

There is a limit to all what you people are doing, If you can't stop...put an end to it immediately!!!
First of all - You drink means you alone drink, why talking about it to me ? or the other me's ? I very well know that you don't like the taste at all, simply putting scene in front of boys. Generally you have to put scene only to gals...but nowadays after governments rule you have also Homogenously started putting scene in front of boys about your ability to drink that dirty colour, yuckie tasting liquids.

Understand one thing first, apple or barley or anything tastes good only if you eat immediately, are you fools to keep it for 100 years and call it vintage stuff, by then all that is totally damaged. Oye, I have personally seen you drinking and then running to the bathroom and vomitting everything, so First tell me na ki - you like Drinking or Vomitting ?

Ok worsest part is your dance after you drink, MJ also drinks but he dances without bottle - God only knows why you people dance with bottle on your heads. Are you all Karagaatakaaran Ramarajan fans? If you dint know, even in school - 9th or 10th standard i got 1st place in dance competition only because I didnt drink.
Please next time take a video of that and see - you dont have to drink even, you will vomit on just seeing the video.

For all of you only, Tasmac open till 10-11 PM, but you go late and shout there disturbing others' sleep, On National holidays you do under the shutter dealings - as a result even Director Shankar had to add a boring flashback to the Anniyan movie which almost made it a flop. Escaped because only the Hero doesnt drink.
One advantage is that even without drinking heroes can act very well like they drunk many litres and mokka music directors like Jarris Heyaraj get away with copied tunes , for eg:- Anjala song.

Ah yes, that song reminds me of another thing, some basic problem in life with all you people...When love failure happens - whole world knows that you drink, which even otherwise you were doing only. Take my idea : If you dont drink no, One day she will come back - because she will very much feel that you are saving money without buying quarter daily.

Inwardly all of you are hating drinks I know, esp when going for college culturals or Office Excursions, you will keep talking and talking all night about how you drink , Finally the tumbler will be full in your hand and while others sleep you pour it outside which even I have seen. Most bad thing is that you eat away all our chips in the name of side-dishes, we get only half bottle of cola because you want it for mixing.

Finally, Remember one thing in life - everyone can put scene, but when you put scene - you must have strong story, screenplay and direction - or atleast natural acting ; If not you will always be dummy pieces with empty glasses !

---A small Tribute to "The Local Tea Party" ---

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2011-05-09T13:22:00.000+05:30

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If Monday is here, Sunday can't be that far away..! ;)

1.5 hours old

2011-03-28T08:50:00.004+05:30

Welcome :) ...

Cocooned...

Bless All...

Couldnt provide you with the Grandest Welcome, Liked your initial attitude of not looking at anyone eye2eye ... Quite afraid of carrying you ... Theres no urgency in stating why and how special you are ...

These are not only days where the fittest survive, the wittiest have an equal edge.
How I wish I could just keep filtering out spam thereby leaving behind in you no qualm ! Sometimes its really hard to pray but still Praying hard that every memory of your childhood is bliss ; keeping in mind the thrust of adulthood that will press down soon.

"It's a mad mad world that you're living in

Gotta keep your heads up high, can't be giving in"

The Little Big Man Walks...!

2011-03-21T21:41:00.007+05:30

Oh No...! Not Another post about this little creature on the www... Its getting tooooo monotonous & boring, When -

hitting every single run is a record ;
stepping onto the ground each time generates the most deafening applause on Earth ;
batting an eyelid is considered an offence during his batting ;
cultural systems evolve and convert to Monotheism (no prizes for guessing who the God is) ;

it just seems Interminable.........!!!

In a few months', I would be recording and talking to the world about how the baby walked :) .... but here we have the world talking about a homo-sapien turning 38 next month who WALKED ! :). Superstar ku soldra maadri - "What a man"... Was just waiting to walk out of the house after watching one leg glance from him, but didn't know something like this was in store ! Jotting down all the random thoughts --->

I have never known him as a batsman who walks and as far as my memory takes me - I have even seen him not walking, This was Chennai -- and the WC -- he shouldnt have walked :(
At-least for the fair share of bad calls that he has got from umpires right through his career - he shouldn't have walked !
From the Umpires' view : Maybe Steve Davis - wanted the masters' 100th 100 to happen right in front of him , His grandchildren would have boasted about that for ages ;) .
Requesting every fan to wait for the Walk on the Rampaul soon...:) --- Remember the Olonga episode ! History does repeat itself even when the bowler changes.
Punter's blunder in the previous match must have woken Sachin up...Think UDRS...!
God again proves - "Ponting : Bad Cricket :: Sachin : Good Cricket"
After this incident, Appa kept saying - " Thats showing disrespect to the Umpire - He shouldnt have walked just coz hes the father of cricket - then what are the Umpires there for ?"
If any fielder misses a sitter , should the batsman walk ? - anyway his conscience must be cursing him for hitting it straight and full at the fielder - Never ! - thats the fielders' error and quite similarily this is - the Umpires' error ;)
All said and done - Whatever you do - we worship you ! and you have done a world of good to the career of Rampaul (he must be hoping he never bowls at you again).
Even if you were not a walker , we can quite clearly see the transformation that expectations of more than a billion people (good cricket lovers) and the resulting responsibility has brought about in you.

So... who can give me a sacHINTendulkar on whats the SACH-IN-Tendulkar's sachINTEN(T)ulkar to sachintENDulkar his innings like that ? :) !

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2011-03-21T15:35:00.000+05:30

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Not only the Media - even individuals love gaining attention ... esp at the cost of sensitive issues !!!

Order...Order...Order !

2011-02-16T03:05:00.003+05:30

Post...Coming Soon.....:)

And finally... here it is...... At some point in everyone's blogging life - we tend to write about things that are not exactly in our comfort zone, especially when the 'letting go' happens. From then, writing is more of a mixture of passion and the need for a let out. The reason for this diffusion may be due to the death of Higher concentration levels in us - and quite ironically It has led me to the reality of who I was supposed to be :).

That could have been a dumb prelude ---but I had to make it generalized and not really bound by this particular post.

The 'gift of grace' is something that I have never had - nor have I had the Traditional legitimacy. If people ever listened to me, that would have been due to some third stimulus or an inner ambition. Just when I thought, I had some sort of imposed power to actually guide, something knocked me over to tell - 'you still are not eligible'. That thing - never looks trashy to me! Although interpreted as a chance to practise more - the perplexing aspect is that - I am named Dionysius when I have all the while tried to be Damon.

"Objection overruled - this is a travesty of justice" :)

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2011-01-31T23:54:00.003+05:30

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What to talk to Whom is more important than What to talk - When...! ;)

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2011-01-31T23:35:00.004+05:30

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Software Engineering is all about sending the right (e)mails to the right people at the right time in the right order :) ...!!!

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2010-12-31T13:32:00.003+05:30

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Am cornered... and theres always something good happening around the corner ;) !!!

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2010-12-31T12:44:00.000+05:30

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Anyone who stops an argument is not fit to start one ;)  !!!

The Pandora's Box

2010-11-30T21:04:00.002+05:30

Pandora's Box by Varun.ramakrishnan

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2010-11-16T20:16:00.000+05:30

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Great people make silly mistakes , Silly fellows make great mistakes ;)  !!!

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2010-11-03T16:44:00.002+05:30

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The really bad good guy ventures out in broad daylight !!!

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2010-11-03T12:49:00.000+05:30

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The really good bad guy hides out in the dark !!!

The Never Fading Pocks

2010-10-31T17:06:00.083+05:30

Sometimes I crossfade...myself with the way people want me to be;
Sometimes I understand... that I have never understood anything the wrong way;
Sometimes I wake from a nightmare... in broad daylight;
Sometimes I realise... that my modal voice is not just enough;
Sometimes I confide...in Me;

Sometimes YOU curse it all...still cherishing the moment it started;
Sometimes YOU follow the truth table... as designed by the Liar;
Sometimes YOU adore the best feature... only to find an alter meaning in the near future;
Sometimes YOU think hard...for a solution that disables thinking;

Sometimes its really hard to frame sentences with complex metaphors... that start with 'Sometimes' ;)

I have never enjoyed convalescence, chiefly because I cant remember having contracted any illness for about 18 yrs or so ? ... hmmm ... This day, I realise the greatness of Bernard Shaw. Every second has to be worth while. but how can a/the period of illness be so ? He pitches in right there and says - The convalescence is the part that makes the illness worth while. Extending the same for Life in totality : - When one has decided that the rest of his life is just the progressive restoration (although there has been No Cessation), then every moment of it is sure to be worth while.

There are just few who take the pains to travel 322 odd kms - only to meet the person from a 50 m distance for 1.5 minutes. :) and return the same night.... hmmm, No ! There was just 1 who did that. Everyone remembers the statistics. My posts attract weeds every time :) !

So How did I spend .... oops... So How am I spending the time : MONOPOLY - A funny word atleast to me :- 'Mono' : Greek word for Single/Alone , and 'Poly' :The Scientific prefix for Many. So heres a screenshot from the game :)

Ironically, my hat would have won even without any properties... and all that the Bankrupt Battleship could do was embark on a Voyage with the help of my "downloads" in full "form". haha...

The Pocks never fade.............. Neither do I !!!