Friday, February 25, 2011

Rambings

This is the shortest gap between two blogs for me....Actually for a long time internet was not working at my home...And I was holding it responsible for my infrequent blog updates. Even though at some level I knew that even if it was up and running there would not be much change in my blogging frequency.
But I realized, that less frequently u blogged, more was the urge to blog about something spectacular instead of just some random thought that pops in ur head....I have shot down many such thoughts with the stern ...."Na..not worth blogging about"....
It reminded me of a conversation with my friend. She argued...that her boyfriend had never bought her a gift. And the fault was not his. Every time they visited a store when he wanted to gift her, she just could not pick up a thing; once given a choice, she wanted to pick something that was spectacular and exquisite, something that she could never buy for herself and even tad expensive. Somehow, nothing could qualify all the three filters. Quite true, isn't it?

And I realized that less frequent blogs were creating a similar situation for me. Longer the gap, more exquisite and spectacular I wanted the post to be. (Though, looking at my previous posts, you may wonder whether this was my definition of "Spectacular") May be not exquisite, but definitely something unique.

But hey...I had never started out to write something spectacular...It was supposed to be for all the nonsensical, seemingly logical or illogical things that interest or amuse me. I am tired of my ramblings and so is Blogger.com and may be means to say , "Tathastu"




Thursday, February 17, 2011

Like a Green wave in the Sky

I have often be chided by my significant other for walking inattentively on the road leading to frequent ankle twists and toe bruises (it is possible too). And my defense generally is, "I am not inattentive; rather there are better things on the road that catch my attention instead of say a speed breaker in front of me." Doesn't a a colorful looking shop or a hawker selling wooden dinosaur deserve my curiosity?
But yesterday, I was actually proud of my "idhar-udhar dekho" habit. I was walking towards the station looking at the sky walk that has recently opened to the public. Unlike hundred other sky walks that have been built throughout the city, this one actually had people using it.
And suddenly out of no where a green wave spread across the sky. And like a wave it retreated. And then again it rose....this time it was less dense but again it fell. This time I carefully followed it. 15-20 parrots were the creators of object of my amusement. I have seen parrots number of times before, even in groups but never before had I seen a collective flight like this. Even their color is so distinct. Blame it on too much use of Color coding in Excel,looking at them, I remembered the parrot green color appearing in a square box in the color grid in excel. While shouldn't it be the other way around.
The parrots had somehow found shelter in a palm tree close to the railway station. Strange. Surely it must be a stop over. But yes it acted as a perfect launch pad. After two or three iterations, they seemed to have got bored. Two of the parrots had now glided to the window grill in a building close by. I kept looking at them for a while, waiting to see the wave effect again. But now they seemed stationary.

I was getting late...and decided to move on...And as I finally focused ahead on the actual road , I saw people like me going to their daily destinations, absorbed in their own thoughts with their heads down or even held straight but none of them staring at the sky: You missed it folks.