Wednesday, July 9, 2008

If...

The only poem that has taught me more than the books at school & college...

This is an all time favourite... M-A-S-T-E-R-P-I-E-C-E!


If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:




If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:




If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"




If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!



- Rudyard Kipling

Friday, July 4, 2008

Cheap Thrills :-)

Calling a fellow woman "machannnnnnn" when a conventional looking mami's around...

Cutting chai with butter biscuit in the road side tea kadai opposite college! :-)

Begging road side anna-kadai "anna" to give us all discount on PP ;)

Haggling with the auto guys for twenty bucks discount and 'winning' :D :D

The kick when the same auto guy recognizes you the next day as the woman who haggled with him the previous day ... lol...

Taking a bus to the other end of the city to kill time

Asking the local librarian for a book that i am SURE he hasn heard of (just to feel more educated :P)

Morning beach trips just to comment on random couples getting all cozy (pretty vetti i kno :P)

Getting lost in usman road and asking a frnd in another city to give u directions...

Laughing my LOUD laugh in class... ;)

Laughing with the laughter club in marina beach... lol...

The kick when someone recognises you as the gal with the "bure bure" ring tone... ha ha!

Meeting an oldddddddddddd friend after severalllll years just to catch up :-)

Random lingo - 'ei','ya''esssss'

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Something to think about...

Noone is indispensable, they say.. i question it. If a new person could replace someone else that
easily, would we have everlasting relationships? - like family for instance, marriage even... or a lifelong friendship... that one very special best friend we all love to confide in?...