Two colleagues and my little sister..
I hate to say "Bye.. Stay in touch" to my close ones when my they are moving to a different place or if I have stayed at
a place for a days and I am to leave. I should not be saying hate, but I feel really sad.
This week was a "GoodBye" week to two of my colleagues and another colleague's sister with whom I got very friendly in the last few months. Both my colleagues are leaving for the USA. Even though I never spent much time with them I generally am feeling sad.. thats the way I generally feel when I have to part from people. I know thats how life goes on... we meet people, make friends then part and another group of friends and the cycle goes on. Till a few years back this "mourning" period used to go on for a a few days but now it lasts for a day maybe. I remember how depressed I was when I had to return from Manali, where I had spent 4 days with my family when I was a kid. I have grown up now :)
And Jahnavi, my colleagues sister - I met her around six months back. She had come to stay with him here in Hyderabad to prepare for her exams which are due in April. We spent good time together,mainly we shared many cooking sessions . The lovely meal preparations from from a little girl of her age were amazing.. especially the "junbais". Junbai in assamese means "half moon". Junbai is like a biscuit in the shape of half moon. She is generally a quiet girl but as she says "its difficult for people not to laugh or talk when you are around". (I dont know still if thats a compliment or a comment. :)). She is leaving day after tomorrow for her home in Assam. She must be really happy about getting back home after so long but I really feel like holding her back with me. I wish my pretty little sister all the best in life and I hope she overcomes any and everything that comes her way. Be happy always, Jahnavi :)
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Ping-Pong or Up and Down?!
It all started one evening with "Enough! I want to learn some sport!" and what followed was a trip to the Paradise Sachdev sports shop. One friend who learns lawn tennis also wanted to buy tennis shoes so he accompanied me. I purchased two table tennis bats and ping pong balls with the help of his expert advice. I knew he knew TT very well and I managed to convince him that he was to be my coach :D! I had well imagined his plight, but I was all set for learning table tennis, so I did not care.
My first lesson - Tracks on - Head band on :P (this was just to prevent hair falling on forehead and nothing more). Any passers by would have probably thought I was a professional till he saw me in the table tennis room at my apartment basement. Sam was really impressed to see me hold the bat so well for the first time. He did not know I already knew how to hold a bat - some friends in school had shown it to me once. "Why should I tell him that?".
After a few minutes spent in explaining how the bat should be positioned and how my strokes should be we started the game. I learned how to serve pretty well. I missed almost all the shots I was supposed to hit back and even if I hit them God knows where they were going. The pathetic look on Sam's face was like "Please dont do this to me!". I could not help it. I was spent in going up and down to fetch the ping pong ball for all the shots I was missing. He would have killed me if I told him then that I was happy I was atleast working out in the process and thereby not wasting my time!. Poor Sam!His only mistake was he came with me till the sports shop!
His bad luck, not my fault! :D
As if I wanted to make him feel a little less bad, I decided on concentrating more into the game. And I did play reasonably well. Better that what I was five minutes back. He got back his interest in teaching me. He kept on correcting me where I was going wrong especially in the way I was hitting back. But I was learning and we both were enjoying it I could feel.
There is a long long way to go and I want to learn this game well. I dont dream of being a state level champ but yes, I want to learn it seriously. Especially when I have everything at my disposal - the TT table right there in my apartment and more importantly a brilliant coach and friend like Sam. Thanks so much.
The table tennis board is no longer just another object in the basement I look by. I long to come back to in the the evening everday.
P.S - This is what my "Coach" emailed to me ::
"First day was great, good job! Hang in there and you'd be moving very fast, very soon."
My first lesson - Tracks on - Head band on :P (this was just to prevent hair falling on forehead and nothing more). Any passers by would have probably thought I was a professional till he saw me in the table tennis room at my apartment basement. Sam was really impressed to see me hold the bat so well for the first time. He did not know I already knew how to hold a bat - some friends in school had shown it to me once. "Why should I tell him that?".
After a few minutes spent in explaining how the bat should be positioned and how my strokes should be we started the game. I learned how to serve pretty well. I missed almost all the shots I was supposed to hit back and even if I hit them God knows where they were going. The pathetic look on Sam's face was like "Please dont do this to me!". I could not help it. I was spent in going up and down to fetch the ping pong ball for all the shots I was missing. He would have killed me if I told him then that I was happy I was atleast working out in the process and thereby not wasting my time!. Poor Sam!His only mistake was he came with me till the sports shop!
His bad luck, not my fault! :D
As if I wanted to make him feel a little less bad, I decided on concentrating more into the game. And I did play reasonably well. Better that what I was five minutes back. He got back his interest in teaching me. He kept on correcting me where I was going wrong especially in the way I was hitting back. But I was learning and we both were enjoying it I could feel.
There is a long long way to go and I want to learn this game well. I dont dream of being a state level champ but yes, I want to learn it seriously. Especially when I have everything at my disposal - the TT table right there in my apartment and more importantly a brilliant coach and friend like Sam. Thanks so much.
The table tennis board is no longer just another object in the basement I look by. I long to come back to in the the evening everday.
P.S - This is what my "Coach" emailed to me ::
"First day was great, good job! Hang in there and you'd be moving very fast, very soon."
Friday, March 2, 2007
Two for joy...
"One for sorrow..
Two for joy...
Three for a letter..
Four for a toy.."
When i was a child i remember flying off kisses to two singing birds wherever I could see them, getting sad about seeing one and so on... In fact this prevailed till I was in high school. I ensured I never missed it. I remember doing it in the middle of a lesson in school. I was probably bored with the lesson and was staring out of the window into the garden and I must have seen two singing birds and inadvertently i kissed off the birds.I believed my day would not go well if I ever missed a chance or came across a "one for sorrow". As I think back I dont even remember when I gave up on believing these "not-so-important" thoughts.
I suddenly remembered these today morning as I was walking along the Necklace Road (in Hyderabad btw) and came by two singing birds. Not that I had seen them after long but "two for joy" occurred to me after long.I got upset for once thinking I had actually given up on these small things which gave me happiness albeit temporary. The sight of two singing birds would actually give me immense pleasure in that I used to think "Wow! My day will be good today". And the thought that would follow would be "so silly" but at the end of it I was happy with the thought of a wonderful day ahead!
May be these are just perceptions, I start viewing things differently when I want to. I was brisk walking along the tracks thinking of this and that... all random thoughts. But as soon as I saw these pair of birds I saw everything around afresh! A group of teenager boys trying to balance themselves on an iron fence and that they were so happy in being successful or even happier when their friends were falling off in the process. They were lost in what they were doing, enjoying themselves, so oblivious of whats happening around them. They were there for quite sometime but unnoticed by me, I was probably lost in "more important" things. Huh! Two old men on the bench laughing away merrily while talking to each other. I cant describe what it was to see them laugh the way they were. I usually start laughing even when I see two unknowns laugh loud. But this was different. I was really overjoyed! I was smiling I realised! Indeed it is "Two for joy"!
Two for joy...
Three for a letter..
Four for a toy.."
When i was a child i remember flying off kisses to two singing birds wherever I could see them, getting sad about seeing one and so on... In fact this prevailed till I was in high school. I ensured I never missed it. I remember doing it in the middle of a lesson in school. I was probably bored with the lesson and was staring out of the window into the garden and I must have seen two singing birds and inadvertently i kissed off the birds.I believed my day would not go well if I ever missed a chance or came across a "one for sorrow". As I think back I dont even remember when I gave up on believing these "not-so-important" thoughts.
I suddenly remembered these today morning as I was walking along the Necklace Road (in Hyderabad btw) and came by two singing birds. Not that I had seen them after long but "two for joy" occurred to me after long.I got upset for once thinking I had actually given up on these small things which gave me happiness albeit temporary. The sight of two singing birds would actually give me immense pleasure in that I used to think "Wow! My day will be good today". And the thought that would follow would be "so silly" but at the end of it I was happy with the thought of a wonderful day ahead!
May be these are just perceptions, I start viewing things differently when I want to. I was brisk walking along the tracks thinking of this and that... all random thoughts. But as soon as I saw these pair of birds I saw everything around afresh! A group of teenager boys trying to balance themselves on an iron fence and that they were so happy in being successful or even happier when their friends were falling off in the process. They were lost in what they were doing, enjoying themselves, so oblivious of whats happening around them. They were there for quite sometime but unnoticed by me, I was probably lost in "more important" things. Huh! Two old men on the bench laughing away merrily while talking to each other. I cant describe what it was to see them laugh the way they were. I usually start laughing even when I see two unknowns laugh loud. But this was different. I was really overjoyed! I was smiling I realised! Indeed it is "Two for joy"!
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