my first date

I was standing at the gate opposite to the most famous Ladies College in Chennai – The Ethiraj. It was my first ever date with Esha and God wasn’t I nervous. I had been with my friends at the very same spot many a times but this was totally different. I felt like every person passing me was looking right at me. She promised me that she will meet me at five sharp and it was almost half past five now. Man girls really enjoy making us wait. I said to myself that I’m gonna really smack her for coming late and promised myself not to accept any excuses from her.
For more than half an hour I had been thinking of the first time I met her online and how that had turned into such a sweet relation within a very short span. I still remember the days on which I wound up my work as early as possible such that I can chat freely with her in the evening. My boss said that I was too sincere at work and congratulated me for beating the dead line all the time. At the beginning she was just my chat friend and as days progressed we became good friends and she started trusting me. Then one day she asked my phone number and I didn’t really think that she would call but she rather did after a week. We talked about everything starting from movies, music, TV, novels and what not. She too was an adventure freak and loves watching AXN and our favorite show was Fear Factor. Esha is from Gujarat and she was also my Hindi Tutor. Suddenly one day she said that we could meet and this is the day. We had exchanged pictures and I thought there will not be any problem recognizing her.
I again looked at my watch and I kept telling don’t be too harsh with her for being late. Is there any unwritten rule that guys have to unconditionally wait on the first date? I wonder. Finally she had appeared at the gate and My God isn’t she pretty. I was telling myself don’t fall for her smile and don’t ever compromise for whatever reason she may give. There she was in a blue Salwar, blue ear rings and her hair held into one bunch with a blue band and in the form of a pony tail my favorite. She had a pony tail (my favorite) and her hair was moving gracefully as she walked towards me. Her eyes were blue and would have told sorry a million times by the time she reached me. I kept telling myself don’t look into her eyes and not to speak to her at least for some time.
“Why do you look so blue?” I started first. “Didn’t you tell me when the first time we spoke that your favorite color is blue” was the response. Gosh I felt my feet at least a couple of feet in the air and I was flat. After that she was telling how she was held up in the lab class and all such excuses but nothing reached my ears neither my brain. She shook me up and brought me down to the earth and asked me “Are you alright”. Her voice was as sweet as I had heard it over the phone and kept ringing in my ears a million times.
In about 15 minutes we were at the beach which I had fixed a week back. We sat there at the beach and there was a family near us and their kids were playing in the water. We spoke for a while watching the cute kiddies playing with the waves. She was telling me about her college, her friends and then mentioned about the one who she loved the most. She said that her Dad had presented Bruno to her for her birthday. She also said that Bruno will turn Three tomorrow. All of a sudden she pulled me towards the sea but I retreated saying that my shoes will become wet and said that I will watch her play. She went into the water and was among the kids. The moon had come out by the time and she was totally with the kids. She looked at me and smiled and her cheeks were shinning like white Gold in the Moonlight. Then I called it was time to go and her face had gone small just like the kids which were literally dragged by their parents 10 minutes back. She caught me by my hind arms and held them throughout our walk out of the beach and I wished she could hold on forever.
Then we went into Planet Yum to have dinner and she took the rights for ordering me. She told me about her family and her brother with whom she fights everyday. She had come to Chennai when she was 12 and settled here since then. She misses her native and her cousins at times, but got used to it by now. She also said that her parents were eager to meet me but were out of town with their brother to attend her cousin’s marriage. By the time we finished Dinner it was almost half past nine. I thought it was time to move and we were fighting over the bill. She had won as always. The breeze got cold by this time. I started my bike and told myself not to drive fast. I did not want anything to go wrong on our first date. As she sat, she put her arms around me and in no time my bike was zooming over the empty road. The combination of the cold breeze over my face and her clasp around me really made me feel like flying and my bike was. I wished the ride could never end.
In exactly 6 minutes and 35 seconds we reached home and I thanked God as I entered her home for bringing us safe. Then she switched on the TV and asked me to watch it while she would change her dress. In no time she came back in her pajamas and boy she looked like an angel. We had planned to see “Notting Hill” our favorite movie. I had seen the movie many a times but watching it with Esha by my side was totally different. It was half past eleven and the movie got over, time to sleep she said. I struck a deal to keep speaking with her till she falls asleep. She handed over her brother’s pajamas and told me to change and asked me to come back soon, as she was already feeling sleepy. I quickly slipped into those pajamas and was thinking am I not lucky enough to have such a wonderful date and in about half an hour time I will be singing the birthday song to her. I will be the first one to wish.
After changing, I entered her bed room. There she was cuddled in her bed hugging her teddy. How much I wished I was her Teddy. I didn’t have any option other than to sit by her side and watch my beautiful girl friend sleeping peacefully. 10 minutes to twelve and I never took my eyes from her other than to watch the time. It ticked very slowly. I was feeling very tired and I dozed off sitting by her side.
I felt someone shaking me real hard and as I opened my eyes I felt the place was somewhat familiar. It was my room mate and he kept yelling at me for sleeping long and shouted “you slept the whole of Sunday. Isn’t that enough, do you have to sleep all over Monday too??” .I jumped off from my bed. Oh man why couldn’t this be a Saturday night so that I could have had an extra hour of sleep and at least completed my first date with Esha.

the power of we.....

I was not able to sleep properly last night and was thinking for a long time about what to think and then I came up with this. We have seen lot of our people having problems with money right before our eyes and most of us would have felt bad that we could not help them. Most of us would have noticed the sick and the poor and the needy
wherever we live in. They are all over the place.
Most of us will keep cursing the politicians and the country for this situation and dream for some kinda miracle that could turn things around. But as I thought
along this line suddenly it struck to me why should we expect some kind of Mother Theresa to come and serve them all. Why not bring the part of Theresa lying deep down inside every one and do whatever we can.
Why do we always want some one else to do it for us when we ourselves could make the DIFFERNCE. We always look out for others to take up the initiative. Its quiet natural because in our kinda work environment we don’t even get enough time to spend with our families and where can we get time to do things like this. Last week I went to Pizza Hut with my friends and ordered some thing and that was so very awful that we did not even had our stomachs half full and we had to pay a bill more than Rs.200 per head. But imagine if we could contribute an amount say Rs.100 towards the cause and if 10 people could combine in the effort it will make a big difference to someone. More than
the money we contribute its the collective effort we put on and the heart we have to love and care for others matter the most. I am very much sure that they will owe you with all your heart with whatever little way we help them. It’s the gesture and our attitude towards the cause that is most important.
We may even think that it may not work out well in the long run. At the least even if we start the plan and cannot proceed with it we may come to know the problems
faced in doing such a thing and will get satisfied that we at least tried something. Why not start the process and if we see people getting something out of it I am sure for the pure hearts that go into the job GOD wont let us down and we will go a long way and can achieve something which will give a lot of personal satisfaction.
Every one in this country has a lot of passion within us which goes unexplored. Why not we bring them out and love our people and prove everyone else that we are not just machines glued to our PCS but we have a heart that cares for every one around us. Time is the only constraint that I see but if we have a will we could work out a way to put up some time for this.
This is what I have in mind. Let us start, combine and contribute an equal amount. It is very important that every one contributes an equal amount because every one should feel equal in the project and there should be no room for any hatred. We can start an account and deposit the money in the Bank. Every month with the money we have, we can
discuss and decide to whom or where we want to contribute the money. It may be for some poor kids education or to solve the medical requirements of some one really in need.
We might also know some one in real need to whom our contributions will make a big difference. It might be our friends or even our relatives. But that is not a problem. When politicians can be selfish with our money, it is after all our own money and there is no problem with that.

If any of you guys have read until this part of my message, I can consider that itself as an acheivement. I can see you smiling now. It is this smile and happiness we want to spread around us.
I warmly request suggestions and feedbacks of any sorts may it be negative. But the feedback is very important for us to proceed in the right direction. It may even be like
"Dei loosu. You were normal only na.... suddenly what happened to you!!!". I do not expect every one to agree to my thoughts. But the response is all that matters. Even if we could not proceed with the plan just remember that ur thought matters the most and U can make all the difference which u want to.

a world of our own

Welcome to my World. Ive been in this world for more
than 22 years now and Im fascinated by most of the
discoveries and inventions in Science.The most
impressive thing is science had evolved in the recent
years.The evolution of Computers and Robotics are
unbeleivable.Sometimes I wonder what they show in movies
like I,Robot , Artificial Intelligence mite be a reality
very soon. Inspite of all these things, Human mind
remains to be the most astonishing.Every1 Ive come
across seems to be unique in their own way with their
own strengths and weakness. I always felt that I can
learn atleast something from them. There isnt any1 bad
or good by birth.Its the surroundings and the way they
are brought about brings in the change.
As a matter of fact there isnt many people who can blame others saying
that the other is a bad guy, cos the one who blames have
to be good to blame the other fellow. For example we
blame the government officials stating that bribery is
prevailing all over the government offices.But why does
every1 forgets that u r the one who is bribing the
officials when ur work has to be finished quicker?? U
cannot always put the blame on the society for all the
evils taking place around u.Im sure when u ask the
question am i not responsible for even a small mistake
in one way or the other, how many of us will come
through with a big NO?? So before we ask others to
change we gotto change ourselves.i dont think that
police or a task force can erradicate all these
things.its all upto each n every individual to bring
about something.it will be a very slow process and once
majority of people have changed then its very easy to
change the ones who refuse to change.One thing is
certain this is not gonna happen just like that.Even it
might not be possible in our generation. Atleast, we gotta make a better world for our kids.

a world without hatred
a world without war
a world without color,creed,caste n religion
a world of love
a world of our own