"Thar she blows," I heard on the laptop somebody was playing a movie on, as it turned out the geeks were never in doubt about what they wanted to bring to a train. Entertainment that's all they wanted and in their quest for it, they labored through movies ranging from the docile love stories to the stormy passionate ones, there was action too, and that's what I heard on the laptop, sounded...
Monday, 16 December 2013
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Oranges in Spain -VI
There were times during the train journey that my mind was wandering, the thing that was strangely obvious was that this trip was going to be another belter, I had come out of my reverie with Anjali talking about the configuration that her computer should have, hardware configurations always got my head in the right place. Hardware configurations were a matter of personal preference and that...
Sunday, 8 December 2013
Oranges In Spain - V
The train attendant was serving another round of tea when the driver braked suddenly, was it the signal or something else, it was a foggy evening and the night had descended on us, we had travelled two and a half hours and it was beginning to dawn on us the importance of being in suspended animation with our co passengers. The train stopped at a small station for 5 minutes, during which the...
Saturday, 7 December 2013
Oranges in Spain - IV
The train was speeding at high speed, the scenery around us was a blur, the lights in the train glowed to a bright blue, the humanly conversation was fading into the whir of the wheels and as we approached another non-decrepit station where we wouldn't stop, I put a blanket around Anjali, she seemed to be so deep in thought that she didn't notice that it was getting colder. I was thinking of...
Sunday, 1 December 2013
Oranges In Spain - III
The train took us through mustard fields, that was the predominant yellow that I saw outside, there was talk in the coach and it was abuzz with conversation when I woke up. Anjali was reading her magazine and drinking a cup of tea that she had asked the attendant to get, I saw my cup lying there too and took it up from her table. The thought predominant in my head while I had been sleeping,...
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Oranges In Spain - II
Next week was another journey, there was a trip planned for Moga, another small town in Punjab. I got up early on the appointed day, though I was already packed and ready to go, made a cup of tea for myself in the wee hours of the morning, they would serve breakfast in the train, and drove down in the cab to Anjali's place. The hours were ticking and I knew that she would be ready too,...
Oranges In Spain
Anjali was screaming at me, she had seen me smoking a cigarette too many and she didn't like it, not that she was a teetotaller but what with me smoking so much, I understood that she was concerned for my health. Smoking got my mind going and I had to decide on an alternative to it now, if she didn't like it then I would give it up.
"You have to control this craving you have now, there will...
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
The Pyramid Of Planning
The pyramid of planning is about being able to deconstruct everything that is not required during the day. For instance, there may be activities during the day that are inevitably lost in the daily humdrum of life and these activities may not be required for further perusal. These need to be deconstructed and by that I mean that they need to be built from grounds up again.
Anjali...
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Memoirs of a Red Rose
The occasional hiccup notwithstanding, things were beginning to look up, I had taken the car in the morning for a drive, the streets were empty and stark, it was cold but no fog and I stopped by at a 24x7 for a bite and a cup of coffee. My mind had been running while I had been driving the car, thoughts were clear though and one particular item that joggled my memory was about mental independence....
Sunday, 24 November 2013
Roses On Steroids
There were a million thoughts flying in my head this week and I had to get them organized to make something of this week, and I had to succeed this week. Organization is a very critical aspect of planning, everybody plans, some plan because it fills up their week, others because it gives their mind the satisfaction that it craves and then there are these who plan because they must to survive....
Mechanics of Intimacy
Ever wonder what it means to be a highly skilled technician, it means constant devotion to your job, it means to have an intuitiveness and the logic, and a constant endeavour to thwart Mother Nature's design on corrupting manly creations. To let Nature takes its course is the but obvious scheme that man can have, and when things are going fine there is no will to change it and rightly so, there...
Saturday, 23 November 2013
The Rose And The Myna
There were these roses growing in my balcony, for a long while I had thought of them as just flowers, but this morning on my return from Nabha, I re-looked at them and saw that the small buds had grown to an especially large bloom. I bent down to smell it and there was a sweet smell typical of a rose that emanated from the bloom. It was finally turning cold, the Sun was out and the crowd...
Friday, 22 November 2013
The Rye In The Whisky
Dinner with Shiromani and Param at their residence was fantastic, they were the best of hosts and large hearted folks, never was there a dull moment in the conversation, it was almost as if they liked us and had done that for ages. Shiromani was a school teacher and her conversational tone was one of as if she was speaking to young school going kids. I liked her instantly, she had started...
Thursday, 21 November 2013
The Science Of Love
Param met us outside the hotel and we sat in his car to head to the Gurudwara, the asphalt road was broken in some patches but mostly it was smooth sailing. Anjali was carrying some books and magazines she had purchased at the store and these were mostly the traditionally popular ones, there wasn't a bookshop on Circular Road but she was happy with her purchases. We arrived at the Gurudwara...
A Small Town Fairy Tale
After breakfast, we decided to take a walk down the local market place on the Circular Road, it was a wide road with shops littered around, I spotted a Punjab and Sind Bank and we quickly walked down to the ATM, Punjab and Sind bank is one of the largest banks in Punjab and requires no introduction to the local residents, this branch was also fairly big with an ATM located at the corner. We...
Sunrises On The Empire
I woke up to a new day, it was bright with a hint of mist, coffee would be great I thought to myself and almost started smelling the aroma before I had even ordered it from room service. I drew the curtains across and let the sunshine seep in, the curtains had these binds across their middle so when you tied the binds they looked triangular with curves. I sat there waiting for Anjali...
The Feather In The Crown
Anjali was quiet and peaceful when she returned from the office nowadays, something had clicked in Ludhiana and that in itself was a lot to say, going to a strange place was never easy, but I think she had handled it well. Top that with having made a new friend in Shweta, I wasn't surprised at her wanting to do more trips like this, journeys had always set me thinking and more often than not the...
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