Water water everywhere

It's probably my need to keep both feet solidly planted on the Terra Firma at all times possible. I mean the reason why I am crazy for mountains and forests but never cared much for the stuff that occupies 3/4th area on this planet - the sea.

However, this week I had an occassion to observe it at different times of the day at close quarters - as close as one can be without getting in water that is. :-) And I fell in love with it. I had absolutely no idea that the sea can be so beautiful.

Early morning came with the water gently lapping at the shore. The waves following each other in succession reminded me of a story. The waves are the darling daughters of the sea king who has a beautiful palace at the bottom of the sea. They liked to visit the shores. Their only grief was that they felt homesick soon. The Sea King had a solution - every 7th wave to visit the shores will go back to the palace to meet her parents. From then on, it is said that anything thrown in the 7th wave to lap at the shore goes to the bottom of the sea :-( and you never get it back! I didn't have anything that I wanted to send away forever so I just watched the sea with all its little boats and flocks of sea birds.

It was late afternoon when I next got a chance to look at the sea again. But what I saw made me gasp and I stood rooted to the spot. The whole sea was shimmering like a bed of precious jewels. The sight was bewitching and for once I knew what "feasting your eyes" means.

I made it a point to look out the window about the time the sun was setting. The whole sky was a riot of colors and somehow the sea looked sad at the prospect of losing the source of light. It was oddly comforting to see the birds coming back to their nests. Someone had once told me that it is inauspicious to look at the setting sun. But I have always loved the sun more when it's setting it seems so gentle and mellow then.

I knew there wouldn't be much to look at when the night fell. But fortunately for me, I woke up in the middle of the night. A half moon was up and one patch of sea was lit up like a pathway in the moonlight. I remembered the scene from the movies "Macanna's Gold" and "The Mummy" where the shaft of sunlight shows the way to be followed. Was this the road to the Sea King's palace? :-)) I almost expected a pair of dolphins to jump up high in the air in the glistening moonlight or a lovely mermaid to rise up from the waves.

I couldn't tear myself away from the sight for a long time and when I finally could I promised the sea that I will continue his love affair!

What are your priorities?

A friend forwarded this mail to me today:

Five things are happening in your house at the same time. In which sequence would you solve them?

1. The telephone is ringing!

2. The baby is crying!

3. Someone's knocking or calling you from the front door!

4. You hung the clothes out to dry and it is beginning to rain!

5. You left the tap on in the kitchen and the water is already overflowing!

In which sequence would you solve these problems? Write the sequence and check below how your decisions were made.

BUT BE HONEST, THE FINDINGS ARE EXCITING.

First write YOUR sequence from 1 to 5 then scroll below and read after

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Answer:

Every individual point represents something in your life.

On the list you can see which meaning every point has:

1. Telephone represents Work

2. Baby represents Family

3. Door represents Friends

4. Clothes represent Money

5. Tap represents Love Life

Your chosen sequence determines the priorities in your life. Be careful while determining them !!



I chose 2,1,3,4 and 5. However, it doesn't exactly match with my priorities in life.

My reasoning for the ordering was this. I agree that in choosing baby first I indicated that my 1st preference is for family. So far so good.

Next was 1 - telephone because someone might be calling me urgently but not necessarily from office. God knows I wouldn't pick up the phone if it were someone from office :-)

I chose 3 next because someone at the front door can wait till I am done with the person on phone.

Since the water is already overflowing no use in rushing to turn the tap off. I might as well save the clothes from being washed again in rain so my next choice was 4 and last one was 5.

I am still figuring out how an overflowing tap is supposed to represent my love life though!

Violets are blue

I read a book that I want to forget I ever read - Violets are blue by James Patterson.

I admit that under ordinary circumstances I wouldn't have picked up the book. But I was in a hurry and I didn't see any other books close by with the words FBI, vampires and possibly bestseller. So I picked it up,hurried through it in 2 days flat and now am trying hard to forget about it.

Somehow the plot seemed wafer-thin - vampires on rampage biting the hell out of people all over the US of A and a detective stalked by a super-criminal trying hard to solve this case. I wondered what took Alex Ross so long to figure out who the Mastermind is.

And all that talk of blood made me so sick that I was sure if I so much as pricked my thumb I would throw up at even a tiny drop of my own blood!

So as far as vampires (and James Patterson) go it's garlic and Holy Water for me!

Shahrukh and BCCI

Listen to this - if you haven't already heard it and laughed your guts out. BCCI is reportedly upset at the presence of Shahrukh "six packs" Khan at the cricket matches. It claims that SRK is using these matches as a platform to promote his latest film Om Shanti Om. While SRK says that he is doing it out of his love for sport and that his kids are fans of Sachin, Saurav and Dhoni.

Now I have a few questions.

1. Weren't Sachin and Saurav part of the Indian team before this?

2. Weren't SRK's kids fans of these players before?

3. What Divine Intervention was instrumental in making SRK aware of his love for the sport?

Any answers, Shahrukh????

Remixes

The other day I listened to a remix and almost died of cardiac arrest! It was remix of the song "Yaara sili sili" from the movie "Lekin".

Let me make it clear here that I am not anti-remix. I have found some remixes like e.g. "Thoda resham lagata hai, thoda sona lagata hai" or "Tu tu hai wahi dilne jise apana kaha" to be better than their originals.

But this remix of "Yaara sili sili" did not do justice to the mood of the song. The original song had a haunting feel about it - it fit perfectly with the lonely lost soul played by Dimple Kapadia. While this remix felt as if someone is singing it while prancing about in the garden. :-(

I tried listening to the remix - just for the sake of the beautiful lyrics but it was painful with all that "wrong" music. So I gave it up finally and listened to the song in my mind. The lines played back.....

Tuti hui chudiyon se jodu yeh kalaai mai
Pichhali gali me jaane kya chhod aayi mai