The Vision

Nov 7 2009: 4.30 AM.. Stepped out of the office and found it raining. Thank god, it's not so heavy. I had decided to take a bus ride to the railway station. I did not want to start my journey doing some nasty negotiation with the auto rickshaw fellows. The trees on the way to the bus stop helped and I did not get wet much. Got my ipod on and waited for the bus to arrive. Almost 30 minutes before I got my ride.. 5:15 AM Wow! that was quick..in about 15 minutes the bus had covered a 10km distance to the station. Went inside the station and walked around the platform with the music still on. Around 5.45, I got into the train, found my seat and quickly settled in. I had done the usual ritual of checking the passenger list stuck outside the compartment. When I was young, it was fun to look at the list before any long distance train journey. As a kid, it felt good to see your name stuck out there :) The funny thing with this list is, everybody has different reason...

Being my first dig at blogging, I thought of taking an easy step here. So let me post a very old article I wrote for my school book about 12 years ago!! Here it goes.... Ruminations If marks are any proof of my intelligence, mine only seem to establish the existence of an empty head. Reference could be made to the wealth of a pauper as far as my brain cells are concerned. Gone are those happy moments when I used to enjoy my life with my friends with not a care in the world. Gone is that innocence that had made me the cynosure of every eye. My search for identity has begun… It was with joyous and excited jubilation that 1997 greeted me and I, the year. It would make me the senior most off all the students. I was to be an idol for the kinder garden puppets of my school! The proud feeling of having gained the respect of those chubby cheeks filled my heart. My journey till this moment had always been through the background score- “Dear, you are going to face the PUBLIC”. But al...