Monday, April 20, 2009

The Sun Smiles

Virgo~Capricorn~Aquarius~Pisces
Virgo~Capricorn~Aquarius~Pisces … Wondering why only these signs of the Zodiac?? Hey… I leave it to the interpretation of the readers and I’m sure three of them would have guessed it correct by the mention itself.

Eat like a king and sleep like a baby! This is the maxim of life which is common to all the four, though the exponents in this field may differ. Capricorn loves fish and so do Pisces and Virgo whilst Aquarius curls her nose up and shrugs the smell away!! Name Chicken 65, Tandoori Kebab or Mutton Biryani and everyone is all smiles! Food binds the four against all odds and dare anybody draw them asunder.

One day Aquarius woke up and found that the three of them including Pisces and Virgo have grown out of shape. All of them were overwhelmed with grief and could not bear the sight of them in the mirror. The three, never in envy but in awe of Capricorn’s sculpted figure decided to take the plunge. Hence the schedule changed and the alarm now barges uninvited into the dreams of the three at 5:45 a.m. Dot six, after a bit of pushing and shoving each other, they get on the run with their jogging shoes. This fitness regime is concluded with an occasional, fair, on-the-lane badminton tournament, and none wins! In the meanwhile, Capricorn saddles up for the day with apt formal attire and breakfast which is painfully pushed into the mouth as the sun rises a tad high. The three jog back and behold! They are four. The sun smiles J

It’s time to catch up with a little news outside the house and the legendary ‘Friends Series’. So one grabs the newspaper, the other takes the supplement to the early-in-the-morning-not-so-mentionable-place! Virgo guesses that the newspaper supplement acts as a catalyst in getting rid of the unwanted and so it is so important in Pisces’ life. Impish Virgo! Aquarius backs it with a hoodwinked smile. The daily dosage of the Friends even if it has been watched and laughed-at uncountable times, never fails to add a glow to the ordinary. This often plays a delay game for Virgo and she tends to miss the office bus more often than missing ‘Friends’. All the four are off to office by 10:30 a.m. The sun smiles J

The four are well connected to each other while working in different offices. One goes down and the rest of three get into prolonged wired conversations and comforting! It is kindness and concern flowing to be meted out to the needy. This is the essence of the ‘She’ legacy. There are times when the four, plan to go out on a trip during the so called long weekends and mails keep flowing from one brand (read as company’s email account) to another seamlessly. It’s great to have a whole chain discussing which resort to book and what to wear specially which cuisine to try! Having fun is an inherent part of the nexus. It sometimes also involves discussions about other friends, colleagues, families of colleagues, the crushes and the crushed … The victor and the vanquished are equally praised and criticized respectively. It’s time for the sun to hide. It’s seven and then eight. The four get home. The sun smiles J …The sun smiles as it hands its mission over to the moon.

The four get into cooking and watching the idiot box again. Capricorn is a sweet singer. Aquarius and Pisces combined can form the walking-talking movie encyclopedia with the behind-the-scene gossip at their fingertips. Virgo is a singer cum dancer in waiting. All of this also cooks up while the food gets cooked. It is dinner time and all the four come together. A hard earned sleep waits while droopy eyelids beg to be relieved of the daily soaps and movies playing on the TV. The sun smiles J ...This time the stars twinkle too!

Amidst all of this, there are weekends full of activity, spring cleaning and gargantuan shopping. If there are bouquets there are brickbats too. Mind it, not all the fingers of the feet are alike, yet the four manage to be one!! They have joy, they have fun, and they have seasons in the sun. Many such sweet ones yet to be seen…

Virgo dedicates this to the rest of the Zodiacs – Doing without is undoable!!!

Friday, April 10, 2009

Thursday, April 9, 2009

The ANT Story!!!


Here I come "Bade Dinon Baad!!"......Truely speaking it was a long drab hiatus since my pen last rolled and my mind emerged from inaction. I would like to remind myself that this is a time of "Lent". Forty days of penance and sacrifice, but have I really lived upto it..this is a persitent question disturbing me as I know there's no one but me to blame... So in my next piece I do talk of life , the anticlines and the synclines and of course the trials to cope with imperfections!
Have you ever seen an army of ants marching ? and if you have possibly noticed, each treads the exact path as the one preceding it. This small phenomenon exhibits exemplary discipline in nature! It's very simple for the ants following, to find their way, but have you ever thought how difficult would it be for the leader! These ants might not have emotions like humans have but still they like to abide by patterns drawn by their leader.
Our lives are not as simple as these ants but in some way I admire them and somehow implement it in my own right. I try idealizing people and imitate what I like in them. Sometimes I do fall short of breath chasing my ideals, nonetheless it proves beneficial. People might not be perfect but I like to pull out the last grain from a heap of chaff!!! 

I have been a follower all the while and quite liked it until I started seeing imperfections!

Discipline is the quintessence in leadership, and if one fails to sustain that quality, the person is not fit to be a leader. For sure I know, I can never be the helm of a ship, because I lack discipline and that is what I look for in the person who I should be following. I still have to mature and inculcate discipline in my life!! But those of you who think are leaders...It's time to ruminate!!
I do strive to exercise my franchise this Election 2009 so that the largest Democracy in the world does not turn out to be 'Demo-Crazy' ...I do give up my laziness, I vote and then go to work, I help others to get there.
It is a very noble task to save our nation from clutches of the power hungry and self-centred ignoble rulers!!!

Hope this act of mine helps me attain forgiveness for all my meanness and anger in the last forty days!!