The days of Mani Ratnam craze... Alaipaayuthey... Kannathil Muthamittaal... I have seen the former movie quite a lot of times.. The latter, only once - and that very solitary time I saw the movie, it moved me. The thought of the pathetic lives of "War prisoners" and the song "Vidai kodu endhan naadae" impacted me more than I could ever explain... That very night, I sat up to write this piece... I have never shown it to anyone all these years.. I was digging my shelf this morning for a book and ended up pulling out the scratch of paper on which I wrote this poem... I have not titled it. I thought I better not do. It is a personal, abstract feeling and I didn't want to exploit it anymore....
"Whale in a pond" - Odd isn't it?
So small a territory
- though same the inmates!
So strange a world
- though same the livings!
So are we - odd better!!
To where do we belong?
"Men of no land" - better said...
War at home - the "hunt" for peace...
The pursuit ended in more havoc!
More chaos - in where we landed...
Panicking, running for lives...
Fearing to be "Prisoners of war"
We are "Prisoners for survival"!!!
The world we live in,
The faces we see...
Caught for mortem -
Our lives and our thoughts!
So pleasing to hear "Rights"...
So meek to have none...!
To where do we belong?!
Where no one lives except with fear? or...
Where everyone lives except with rights??
Let us... Our posterity??
"Generation - Prisoners" are we...??
A better option - "to die"
Than "to live dead"!!
Sunday, February 1, 2009
My @ Home days!!
I've been at home now for more than a month... I was so damn excited about staying home for so long after my college days ended. But yeah! I wasn't given leave for a leisure trip to the Swiss!!
I have always been this meticulous guy who plans every damn thing perfectly before starting study. I did it almost perfectly this time round as well. Well begun is half done, yeah?! It is just half done till date. I never believed when a couple of my seniors told it is pretty hard to get into the study drive especially after slogging for insane hours at office for more than a year and half. Bullshit!! I thought... I have probably been misled by my fantasy... He was more than a 100% right!!!
I shouldn't take the blame more than necessary though.. True I was a lil playful, a lil reckless and a lil too lazy... (Well now, insert that "Anniyan" dialogue for me here... "10 paisa thiridina thappaa" thingy! Suits me well, at least in this juncture!) But I better feel happy, I did not waste all the sweet times... Did quite a lot of useful things... And here I go in telling you what so good and bad I did, felt and thought in my "@ home days"!
Web su do ku!!! I have become one total addict to this site... Especially cos the ranking it gives encourages me. (I'm now on rank 13!!) It has been my habit that I solve the su do ku everyday on The Hindu. One reason my dad still doesn't mind buying the daily reader... I at least get to flip through the pages after the su do ku is done. To keep my brain ticking, I thought I'd play more of su do ku on the net... Nice idea right?! Well it kept ticking too much.... I lived on these su do kus for at least 12 hours a day for the first 15 days! I'd surely not call it a total waste of time EOD!!!
Warcraft III - As a kid, I have never played video games... Better late than never, you see!! Warcraft, Age of Empires, NFS and NFS underground kept me occupied for some 3 hours a day... I loved NFS and NFS underground cos I won the games genuinely!! :) Okay now, don't think how I win Warcraft... Only my junior Ambarish knows about it!!!
The lil left out time in the day goes for my after noon naps, the soothing evening walks and my morning tuitions! Every night, I go to my study schedule and shamelessly look at what all I have been accumulating, undone. But I think it is just natural to be a lil casual in the first "few" days.
"The Quality of English is twice blest!
It blesseth him that takes him that gives!!"
If you are thinking where these lines came in suddenly, it is my appreciation for the ambiguous words in English like few, around, about... And the lines?! A rip off from "Quality of Mercy" by Shakespeare !! :)
There are certain specific things I'd like to say... Deeper ones.. More thoughtful moments... Very insightful incidents... Catch you soon with them! This is just the prelude!!!
Love...
Sri!!
I have always been this meticulous guy who plans every damn thing perfectly before starting study. I did it almost perfectly this time round as well. Well begun is half done, yeah?! It is just half done till date. I never believed when a couple of my seniors told it is pretty hard to get into the study drive especially after slogging for insane hours at office for more than a year and half. Bullshit!! I thought... I have probably been misled by my fantasy... He was more than a 100% right!!!
I shouldn't take the blame more than necessary though.. True I was a lil playful, a lil reckless and a lil too lazy... (Well now, insert that "Anniyan" dialogue for me here... "10 paisa thiridina thappaa" thingy! Suits me well, at least in this juncture!) But I better feel happy, I did not waste all the sweet times... Did quite a lot of useful things... And here I go in telling you what so good and bad I did, felt and thought in my "@ home days"!
Web su do ku!!! I have become one total addict to this site... Especially cos the ranking it gives encourages me. (I'm now on rank 13!!) It has been my habit that I solve the su do ku everyday on The Hindu. One reason my dad still doesn't mind buying the daily reader... I at least get to flip through the pages after the su do ku is done. To keep my brain ticking, I thought I'd play more of su do ku on the net... Nice idea right?! Well it kept ticking too much.... I lived on these su do kus for at least 12 hours a day for the first 15 days! I'd surely not call it a total waste of time EOD!!!
Warcraft III - As a kid, I have never played video games... Better late than never, you see!! Warcraft, Age of Empires, NFS and NFS underground kept me occupied for some 3 hours a day... I loved NFS and NFS underground cos I won the games genuinely!! :) Okay now, don't think how I win Warcraft... Only my junior Ambarish knows about it!!!
The lil left out time in the day goes for my after noon naps, the soothing evening walks and my morning tuitions! Every night, I go to my study schedule and shamelessly look at what all I have been accumulating, undone. But I think it is just natural to be a lil casual in the first "few" days.
"The Quality of English is twice blest!
It blesseth him that takes him that gives!!"
If you are thinking where these lines came in suddenly, it is my appreciation for the ambiguous words in English like few, around, about... And the lines?! A rip off from "Quality of Mercy" by Shakespeare !! :)
There are certain specific things I'd like to say... Deeper ones.. More thoughtful moments... Very insightful incidents... Catch you soon with them! This is just the prelude!!!
Love...
Sri!!
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