Last few months

Things happened between last blog and till date:

Death:
My deaf & dumb Chitappa died suddenly this year. We rushed to native to perform his last rites. It was my first experience in a non-electric crematorium. I have read some where that certain Buddhist monasteries make young monks to spend considerable amount of time in crematoriums, just to make them witness dead bodies burning and understand the insignificance of a person's body in a spiritual path.If its true,I certainly see why its being done, Witnessing a body just like yours, being covered with cow dung and dust and put on fire is a spiritually up heaving experience and unnerving at the same time. Though this appears philosophical, the thought that this is going to be your body's plight one day has an astounding impact on you. Its is airy and uncomfortable to watch a body burning into ashes, the feeling is worth experiencing.

Marriages:
Last few months, many of my friends got married. I attended most of the marriages and its real amusement to watch your friend getting married. For once it brings out variety of feelings and emotions all at the same time. Feeling of envy immediately followed by "Thank god! its not happening to me now" feeling !!.Any ways within months, I have lost significant amount of friends to this chronic illness called marriage. Hereafter it would be impossible to plan a trip or movie with just a single phone call. Already I am witnessing sudden decrease in the weekend outings.

Love life:
My love life has been always DOA (Dead On Arrival).First of all, there should be something fundamentally wrong with my sex appeal (if there is any):-) . Mostly I fell for girls who have little or no interest in me. And I fail to learn from each of my past mistakes .Probably my hormones are working overtime .But to be honest the position of my committed and married friends are also not that envious. I really feel sorry for them when they talk things like "I had idly for breakfast, what did you had", over phone to their gals, with their mouth half stuffed with curd rice during lunch breaks. Hum does this reminds you, of jackal saying "che ..che..intha palam pulikum" story :-)


Long drive:
I almost killed four ppl!!. Yes this happened on our drive to neyveli in my car for yogi's marriage. The worst is, all the four were traveling in my car. As usual my plan to reach the destination before the sunset was screwed badly, by a person, who came late to the boarding point. I paid him back with such an eventful ride that he would be definitely remembering it forever and probably describing about it as a great adventure story to his grandchildren. My car suffered a great deal and I clearly understood that driving on Indian high ways with a small car during night time is a sure way to commit suicide. In simpler words, we can say it’s the most dangerous adrelin pumping game on earth.



Friends:
As I said I lost many friends to the chronic marriage illness.The remaining few ppl left India in pursuit of their dollar dreams. But I am unable to understand the rationale of this ppl leaving India at this juncture for few extra bucks .We, in India are witnessing an amazing socio-economic change happening around us and which happens to a country once in several centuries Just to witness and part of this amazing change is a great experience. By not leaving India to make few, I might be poorer than my friends, but I donot regret it .Again probably jackal + sour grapes story:-)

Books :
Its official now, I have stopped reading books!!. Books are no longer enticing me.I don't know what could be reason might be my laziness or could be due to mypre occupation and day dreaming. Whatever it is, I have stopped them. Though I miss books, my lazy mind points out that a person’s faces become very serious as the number of books he read increases. I believe there is some truth in it.I have noted this in my father and slowly witnessing it on my sister. My simple theory is "Number of times you smile & laugh is inversely proptional to number of books you read". Can any one point me to a good research professor (?!!) so that,I can take this as my Phd thesis.

Movies :
I watched quite a bit of movies.Though the number of movies has decreased considerably,I am unable to recollect all of them.Following are the few that sticks out

Katrathu Tamil aka Tamil MA:A thought provoking movie and I salute the director for taking up such subject.goudas to actor Jeeva .And already the lead actress visited my dreams 14 times in last one months.

chak de :This my second hindi movie in theaters after lagan.I think with this statement,you can clearly understand my proficiency in that language.But due to our PM'scompulsion,went for this.And it was a treat to watch.It was refreshing to watch a hindimovie without several khans and bacchans dancing in lavish sets.

Pollathavan:The latest one.Probably inspired from the bi-cycle theif.I really liked the don and his assistant "OUT" in this movie.

A lot more things happened in-between , will update soon