Small Talk!

So! what's up?

Nothing?

YOU! nothing? impossible! Something?

Nothing!

Since when?

About an hour!

And before that?

Something!!

Ah! I see! I know! So what's up?

Nothing!

Oh common! your nothing always means something!

Right! Everything means something! nothing means something too!

Everything is something, and nothing is also something, which kind of means, everything is nothing, or nothing is everything!

Whoa! that is something!

Or may be nothing! or everything! who knows!

Someone!

I think everyone!

or maybe No one!

Everyone has to know something about someone!

Someone would know everything about no one!

But they would claim that they know everything about someone!

No one knows everything about someone!

Someone does not know everything about someone!

What do you know?

Everything!

Everything about something?

No! something about everything!

So! What's up?

Nothing!

and she...

It had been raining all night... literally !

She had not slept for a second ...

The sound of the rain drops, the sound of the wind passing through her windows, and her tears kept her awake...

The morning came... it had to...

And as she walked out of her house...

the cold breeze greeted her and said good morning...

the warm sun came out of the clouds and said a shining smiling hello...



some birds flew past her chirping all sweet nothings into her ears...

and she... she smiled !

and moved on...

... and before you reach any conclusions... I was not crying the last night :P I have been very very happy with the way 30on30 has been received ! Have responded to over 40 people, must have read/written at least 150 emails in the last three days about the 30on30 project... Have placed the first order for the the prints.. have a commitment of over Rs. 10000... have Rs. 4000 transferred as well... The month has started on a brilliant note !!!

and then....

It was cold, and it had been raining all day... and all she could see was black... pitch black... no light nothing !!!


All she could hear was her own heart pounding, and she just could not think either... it was like she needed light to think... it was too dark for her thoughts to come into her mind as well...

and she could hear were some faint creaking sounds, and breathing of the people who were left with her in that darkest of darks...

and then...


the power came back on
the elevator reached the lobby
everyone smiled at each other
and they (hopefully) lived happily ever after !

The Gravity of Love...

How much do you love me?

45 kgs

WHAT!!!! only 45 kgs?

Baby... you do not understand...its not only... its a lot
just that the gravity of my loving you is more then the gravity of the earth...so if you take the normal gravity it shall be only... but if you consider my gravity benchmarks its might be more than you can imagine...

The First first, that never happened...

He had bought the condoms... It was going to be his first time... He was nervous and very very excited... A fear of failure was looming large in his mind... He hoped that he could do well and make her happy...

She arrived at his place at the time they talked about... and like two hungry wolves they just pounced on each other as if there was no tomorrow...

No words were being spoken... no sounds were being heard... it was only lust that was playing its wicked game in that room... and then the time came... to use that packet of Kamasutra's he had bought...

And then he stopped... he felt it was not right... he should not be doing this...

She kept lying on the bed with her eyes closed waiting...

And he kept looking at her...

All he could do was ask her to leave... and all she could do was have that question mark on her face...

They met... but never talked again...

End of Story....

Class II

Not that it matters but he came first in class in Nursery, KG and First...

Today was the result day and he knew he was going to stand first again in his class... He had not yet been introduced to feelings like nervousness... so we can without a doubt say that it was just a usual day for him...

All he would have to do is go to the class teacher and ask for his medal and the certificate... He had still kept all the last medals and trophies he won in the class, in sports events etc.

So he went to the teacher in the morning... and asked her for the medal... instead of asking for the result... what confidance !!!

And the teacher told her that she could not give him the medal this time...

He did not understand why...

All he remembers today, is that he cried the entire day, not because he came second... but because his medal did not come to him...

From the UnderSigned...

They used to travel in the same bus back from school... She usually was on the window seat on the second row from the back and he somehow or the other managed to either stand near the rear gate in the bus or take the last window seat in the bus...

Looking at her through the reflection of the windows, or through the queues in the morning assembly, or while just walking around in the corridor of the school, or in the lunch time... he spent a few months...

That afternoon he gathered enough courage to tell her about what he felt... he pulled out that greeting card without the envelope, that he had stolen from a shop a week back, wrote some sweet nothings on it and gave it to a friend to give it to her at her stop...

And all he could do when he got down of the bus was run... the fastest he could to his house... and just hope that she liked him as much has he did...

and she probably did not even know who had signed the card...

Learning Growing Managing...

Things have been kinda different, strange, scary, unexpected, tough, hectic in the last few days... and I am looking for new ways to destress myself... and one of the newer things that I tried was reading quotes...

Had a Reader's Digest with me... that helped... and then Bloglines Quotes Feed pitched in too...

Here are a few that I really liked...

"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."

Oscar Wilde

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."

Edger Bergen

And here are a few I liked from RD.... some of them seem so apt to me...

"Having to explain it means you probably shouldn't have said it."

Cary Clock

"Hot Heads and Cold Hearts never solved anything."

Billy Graham

"The formula for a successfull relationship is simple: Treat all disasters as trivialities, but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."

Quentin Crisp

"Its just like Magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone."

Merril Markoe

HaPPiLy EvEr AfTer...

She... why can't you just take care of yourself... you will fall ill because of the way you are living these days...

he... there is li'il i can do about it... BPO does that to a lot of people...

she... let me come over this weekend and cook for you... atleast one day you will save yourself from the junk you have to eat outside...

he... only one weekend? can't you feed me for the rest of my life?

and they cooked and ate happily ever after....

sToRiEs....

Abha's parents want her to get married before she leaves for the job she got selected for through her college campus placements... She says she does not want to get married and does not want to make her parents sad either... she does not know what to do.. she is sad, confused and frustrated... to add to the pain, she feels that she is still not out of her ex relationship....

Meera's parents also want her to get married... No idea if she likes anyone or she ever had an affair... she has not expressed her joy or sorrow whatever over the fact that her parents are looking for a match with her... Her parents are very worried over the effort that has not resulted in anything so far for over an year...

Abha's ex boyfriend claims that he loves her, but he is not in a position to get married to her... For reasons that he himself is aware of...

Meera's elder brother Nitesh is a chick magnet... he really liked girls and always had more than he could handle always around him...

Sakshi is a very ambitious girl... she has worked very hard to reach the position in her career where she is today... and maybe its too late for her to get married now... @ 32 she is finding it very difficult to find someone who would match her ability, who would understand her, who would be able to digest her success in her work... and she has no clue about how she would manage a home if at all she gets married...

Chetna is doing just fine in her office... she has a good job, she is a well paid manager, but not really doing that gives her a professional satisfaction the way she wants... she has figured out other ways to channelize her energy... and tries hard to be nicer and better... there are days when she looses it completely and things totally randomly, but then she gets back to her ownself.. and carries on...

Niti is seeing this guy who she kinda likes, but claims that its only a time pass "affair"... she just might be trying to fool herself with the entire thought process, and the guy might be adding to it...

Chetna does not like the guy Niti is seeing these days... she can strangle him any day....

Nitesh likes this girl... not for keeps types, but likes it.. but while she is a great person... she is not good in bed... and he does not know what to do about it....

Keep looking around... you will see more stories building up then you can imagine...

There always is something more to it....