the chirping of a bird
a voice long unheard
the sound when she breathes
my heart’s beats when she keeps
the growl of my car
a baby’s chuckle not too far
the air on the hills, the sound of the wings
the leaves falling on the walk, the water when the stream sings
whats music to your ears?
Warmed some milk, tasted it… and decided that its better to have some tea bag or coffee in it.. which means tomorrow i need to go to the market and get some tea bags and some coffee…
i should have had some sugar, but i replaced it with honey in milk…
and i spread some nice looking orange marmalade on the thick brown bread… i like that better than the mixed jam… something that comes close is the pineapple jam.. which i will get next…
and dinner is ready 😀
And tonight, i watch Johnny Gaddar…
purrfect !!!
lunch today was a cheeeeeeeeeze pizza… with some extra pineapply toppings 😀 no good.. i just ate half the pizza and pineapple from the rest of it… and left the rest… temptations resisted for the tummy 😀
chalta hoon abhi.. doodh thanda ho raha hai…
One thing in this world that never fails to bring a smile to my face…
Reading Calvin and Hobbes…
And what a lovely day it is outside, the amount of chill that is nice to feel on your face… and keeps your fresh… the bright sun that warms you up just right… the nice yellow, orange, green colours all around…
super duper…
So yesterday, it was actually not that good a day…
it ended with a terrible backache… thankfully a pharmacy was nearby and i could get a couple of painkillers before i slept… much better now…
Lets look at the good things too for yesterday…
~ Got two new line items to take care of, at work…
~ I got bread, and jam and honey for breakfast…
~ I downloaded a movie… hindi 😀 ye ye … and i will watch it soon…
~ I found out that the Horley Library is open till 2000 hrs tonight, and I am going to find out more today…
so… its not that bad… the back is hurting though for some reason still…
God bless…
Its empty… not a single word i have spoken since morning… except the thank you to the bus driver… and a good morning to lady at the reception in the office…
Looked at the amount of work… pretty neat it is… and will keep me occupied for a long time for sure…
Tried calling home… did not get through… tried calling a friend… did not get through either…
I guess I will start talking to myself soon 😀
Or better… come back to the blog… Being alone and liking it and not liking it and rest, have been major contriutors to me writing on the blog for over 3 years now… and looks like its going to stay this way for a while…
Abhishek left for India yesterday… it was kinda strange to drop him at the airport… and he sms’ed he has reached just fine… so cewl… he is not going to like a lot of things there… but i hope he can find a lot of reasons to like India too… After a while, the comfort, the discipline everything makes life a li’il too easy in firangland… and thats when, if you are back in India… a lot of things suddenly look strange, and irritating… i have felt that myself, however I have been lucky to also see a gradual change in how things have been back home… and i am glad they are changing…
A few days back i got into an interesting conversation with a friend, about how friends happen… is it an automatic process? or just a function of time? and how do you loose people? is that an automatic process again? or just a function of time?
there is no specific answer to this question, I guess… when you start knowing someone, there is a certain need of an extra effort to let the person know that (s)he is wanted and there is something that can be looked forward too.. most of us intelligent people would agree that one should know this already and thats maybe why a walk towards friendship started, however I tend to disagree with that a li’il and believe that nothing is going to be mine without an effort… life is not automatic, it has gears…
Now I might be cruising at a steady speed after a while, but still to start with, i need to carefully select the amount of acceleration, the clutch, the gear level, the rpm everything… otherwise, its going to stop… a few patient ones would try again… and again… and after a while a few of us might just give up… The interesting thing is that in a day, we have to deal with many life’s such geared mechanics… the getting ready for the office, the finishing the deadlines at work, calling or writing to a few people other than work, finding out time to do something that cheers you up… everything needs an effort.. but i guess EVERYTHING does need an effort…
Pretty long post eh…
I am feeling better now… let me go grab something to eat for myself…
You got no new messages…
There is no new email…
I wish these were not what I look at when I get up in the morning… it just takes me further away…
I don’t remember the last time I broke something… i usually am careful with things that are breakable… well.. not talking about hearts here 😀
but i broke a beautiful lamp that Abhishek had in his room 🙁 i hate the feeling…
one it was a beautiful lamp…
two it was a very pretty lamp…
three it was a gift to him..
four i was not careful, which i usually am…
I am sorry Abhishek… i am really sorry 🙁
Walk out of the house…
Walk for about 2 minutes to the bus stand…
Take the # 100
Sit in it for about 15 minutes…
Get out of the bus… cross the road… and get into the office…
Total travel time approximately 20 minutes, including the wait…
BT office is a nice huge building next to the Gatwick Airport, in the Gatwick City Place… so far I have seen about 25 planes landing at various times… Easy Jet, Zoom, Flybe, XL, VA, ThomasCook.com etc have been the names I saw today… they are local airlines flying inside Europe and UK… and very nicely painted aircrafts…
I have a lot of documents to read in the first few days and then get down to making a lot of documents in the next 8 weeks of my stay…
Had a nice Indian meal in the office… Angoori Sabzi, Chana Dal, Rice, and Naan (yea… they called in a naan, but it actually was a pancake, not sweet though), some sweet chutney… interesting food… and very very filling… The last time I came to UK, I had loads and loads of juice, … almost a litre of it everyday… I am on my way to do a repeat of the same… At least a litre of juice a day…
Looking forward to the weekend, so that I can get back to a place, I used to call Home thanks to Abhishek… Sad he is going to India while I am here… that wastes my three weekends… but its ok…
More later…
I can anyway post it only when I get back home… I still don’t have internet access in the office… it would take me a while to get a BT laptop… maybe a few weeks… who knows 😛 till then.. Offline scribbles and posting the evenings…
Took a different bus route back home… and got down at a place called Horley Town Center, about 10 minutes away from where I am putting up… what a lovely place it was… nice shops lined up, oh.. and two huge malls Waitrose, and one more… bought myself some more food, some fruits… my dinner salad… and walked back home…
One more door that brought smiles to my face were of a library called the Horley Library… it looked big and pretty inviting… I will have to figure out how to find it open as it closed before my work finishes for more of the days… lets see…
Calling it a day now… May God be with us…
A few days ago, I was wondering that evening, how would it feel to be inside one of those cars…
the biiiiiiig, black beast… or should we say the beauty…
and i laughed the thought off saying that the police walas in the UK drive this.. cheap ones 😀
Li’il did I know that God Uncle had planned a nice surprise for me… for when I got out of the airport today in London, my car was a BMW 550D
and all i could say was wow !!! loved that one hour drive in the baby…
for people who don’t know the car…
This is the same car that is featured in the POWER ad for HP…
and a few pictures…
(Pictures courtesy : BMW UK Site)I met Alan, the landlord, who seems to be a very warm and helpful guy… and then Hue who is a photography freak himself and shoots on transparencies and negatives…
Yet to meet the rest of the people in the house… living with all firangies should be a different experience… hindi mein baat karne ko koi nai hoga lekin 🙁 lets see…
Also went out for a walk.. it was nice and chilly… i can see where this weather is going from here… i am sure i will love it…
I saw a movie called Evan Almighty today in the flight… remembered a few lines from it… would like to write them down so that i can come back to them…
When you ask God for courage, he does not give you courage but an opportunity to show courage…
When you ask God for love, he does not give you love, but an opportunity to be loved…
and so on…
God bless…
and thank you God for being so nice to me and giving me so many opportunities… and I love you…
Talking about jeans.. is the jeans who hold girls better in them now? or do the girls these days actually are in such amazing shape which jeans accentuate? no idea… but something has happened for sure…
oh.. and i bought a pepe finally again… i remember my two favorite pairs were a levis 501 button fly and the pepe comfort fit… both of them retired after they literally gave up… but i loved them…
and i need to be back in shape too… the tummy is crying for help… and me for some motivation… huh… aise to nai chalega !!!