Thank you 2012! And Hi 2013 :-D

WHOA... Did another year just fly by? Was it just a year 'coz it felt like a lifetime!! Looking back at my last post in 2011 it looked like things could not change any more. Clearly 2012 was not gonna be shown up a year that was so last year! ;-) So I went on another roller coaster ride, even more terrifying with the kind of ups and downs which makes you feel like your face is gonna get blown away in the momentum! But I survived. Actually, No. I did better than survive. I got crushed, bruised, had a few of my emotional teeth knocked out. But with a lot of help from my friends and family, I got up, brushed off the dirt and the best part, laughed about it. And boy, was it hard! But boy, was it so worth it!

So this last post is for all kickass people who helped me smile! This post is for a big, Big, BIG

I have no idea whom to start with, so in random order...

Chinch - Sweetie, you are a hundred miles away but I love you for the fact that you are always reachable and always there. For being both the comfort and the sharp reminder to keep strong and move on.


Annie Mathew :  I think the most of what I said about Chinch applies to you too. Then again I'm not surprised both of you being birthday twins!! :) Of course, you are your own brand of 'pat and whack' but I know I could not have done it without you!

Chinnu and Elu : For just being the mad cap sisters you are. For the times you never realise how much energy and joy you bring into a room. For the times you never realise how much it means to me.

Akhila : :(  Who'll understand my half sentences? Who'll make me kanji-paiyer when I'm sick and make me feel pampered? Who'll.. never mind.. you know how long that list is. I'm just incredibly glad we had the time we had together. God, I'll miss you. So freaking much!!!

Maria: I don't think you know how much of a role model you are to me. In a world where there doesn't seem to be a lot of people who you can look up to and want to be like, I'm just so happy I have you!

For the Blore Boys, ie Renju and Mani : We are not the closest of friends and we don't get to hang out as much either, but just knowing you guys, Mani with his forever enthu eloquence and Renju with his calm composed demenur, are around the corner if ever we needed help was an unbelievable reassurance.  Something I'll sorely miss :(

Eapen : It means a hell lot to me that I have talked it out with you and we are friends again. Maybe I'll never get back my best friend again, but you are pretty great as just a friend and I would hate to lose that. So thank you!

Vijay : For making me laugh about all the complicated relationship statuses and situations; for keeping my sanity and the countless hours of advice, both useful and useless. For just being a friend I'm really proud to have!

My out of towner boys ie Peppy, Thiru and Don : My sunshine!! The boys who can't help me but make me smile like mad no matter how down I'm feeling. Pretty please, stay the same with the annoying (yet secretly delightful) ways always!!

Bobby Uncle and Lourdsy Aunty : For being the sweetest, kindest and most understanding people I know. For raising kids who are an absolute joy to know and to love!

Uncle G and Teena Ammayi : For the fact that you reached out even when you were abroad. For the fact that you reached out and helped me feel like I'm not alone. For reaching out and bridging gaps when certain bull-headed people were being, well, bull headed! :)

Amma : Well, for being everything you been, even the time I dint couldn't see it or appreciate it. I just don't have the words to thank you enough.

Alex : hmmm... this is a tough cookie. So I'm gonna steal something which pretty much says what I have to say. It's from "As Good as It Gets",  one of my all time favorite movies! And I love the scene with Jack Nicholson when he takes Helen Hunt out for a real date, because I think This is how I feel pretty much all the time when I try to say something nice. And in case you were wondering, I'm Nicolson! :-)



Melvin Udall: I've got a really great compliment for you, and it's true. 
Carol Connelly: I'm so afraid you're about to say something awful. 
Melvin Udall: Don't be pessimistic, it's not your style. Okay, here I go: Clearly, a mistake. I've got this, what - ailment? My doctor, a shrink that I used to go to all the time, he says that in fifty or sixty percent of the cases, a pill really helps. I *hate* pills, very dangerous thing, pills. Hate. I'm using the word "hate" here, about pills. Hate. My compliment is, that night when you came over and told me that you would never... all right, well, you were there, you know what you said. Well, my compliment to you is, the next morning, I started taking the pills. 
Carol Connelly: I don't quite get how that's a compliment for me. 
Melvin Udall: You make me want to be a better man.



And Last and Most Importantly, I want to thank God! For having given me these people in my life! There's not enough words to express my gratefulness for all that's been 2012, the good ,the bad and the ugly!

And I Pray and Hope 2013 is so much more!

Wish you all a fantastic year ahead! Yet another year choke full of memories and stories.

Be Kind, Rewind... Chapter 1

This is something I had written in 2008. Just revisiting some of old stuff I had written to family and friends. I could not help post something about 2012 I had written :-/

You are likely to see more on these line, hence the chapter 1!
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Anyways, yesterday when I came back home I found Farah( my then room mate!) checking out a history channel program about bible codes. I dint follow it very well, but it seems when you take the original version of the bible( ie in hebrew) and arrange the words in a particular manner , it seems to predict history. Blah blah blah and more stuff I dont really buy,but what did catch my attention though is according to that it seems our end is coming around year 2012! so just four more years to go. Not that I believe it the way they mean it, but I cant help wondering if the life as we know it is going to exist in maybe ,say 10 years time?

Have you come across Future Shock, by Alvin Toffler? He talks about how we are not able to keep up with technological evolution happening around us. And not just the evolution but it's consequences. Every time I see a report about how we are inching our way to our graves( and there are more than plenty around) I cant help wonder why is that we still dont care. It is so hard to get even my friends to remember not to litter or not to waste. Frankly speaking at the rate we are moving I think only 20 more years, at the max.  That's about all the time, I believe, would be worth living on this planet. Already we are paying for water. At what point do we start paying for air? I think sometime soon a convention is going to happened, sponsored I think by the U.N, just to discuss what we are going to do with the billions of cellphones discarded each year. 10 years ago this was not even a reality, leave alone a serious issue. And in another 2 years, we'll be facing newer and worse problems.


Have I told you about drake's equation? I had read about it quite a few months ago. Anyways drake suggested that a large number of extraterrestrial civilizations would form, but that the lack of evidence of such civilizations suggests that technological civilizations tend to destroy themselves rather quickly. Sounds like where we are going or what? Quality of life on the planet has never been shorter for any generation like for the present one( in terms of fresh air, water, food). Sorry for just rambling on like this but I'm just getting more and more paranoid as each day passes. And in a funny way, I'm almost looking forward for the comet on dec 31st 2012( that's how we are gonna die! :-P) so that the rest of the planet might have a fresh start.  Face it, there was never as obnoxious a species like us before in the history of this planet. And think in such a lot of ways we have always left it a bit worse than how we found it. Like Athi always say, cant wait for it to go to the dogs!! :-)


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 In the mean time I had seen 'Home' on Youtube a couple of days back, a documentary on our planet. The visuals are beyond stunning, esp the first 15 mins. Just some food for thought that we could all take a stab at! :-)