sonia - ' kabhi aana tu meri galli'

Sonia Madam,

while my appeal might seem like another piece of flattery and it may leave hoards of congressmen jealous of me for having this brainwave ( there is no dearth of sycophants in congress who want to out do each other in pleasing you madam, you should know it better though), but i want to assure you that this appeal is truly genuine, coming from the core of my heart, sonia ji.

No, i dont want a MP ticket or a contract or a flat in Adarsh Society, Sonia ji, all i want for you is

Kabhi aana tu meri galli.

I plead you to just cross my neighbourhood once, even if you dont want to cross, will you please be kind enough to make an announcement of your plans to get here. even that will do.

You see Sonia Ji, strange things start happening the moment you announce your visit.like you see what is happening in Imphal.strange phenomenon, some aliens seems to have descended from may be another planet, who have a broom on their hands and they are sweeping the streets. this i tell you sonia ji has never happened in history of Manipur. Manipur soil has suddenly become so fertile, you have to see it to believe it, the roadside has yielded marigold flowers overnight, this I am sure would be a record whichever standards you apply, be it Italian standards or the standards that were used for commonwealth games.

so i was thinking that galli does not have a black top road and the marigold also takes to long to yield a flower. if you could just plan to visit just once.

the icing on the cake would be if you can cancel the visit at the last moment. You see, if you actually come, there there are a few hiccups though we are quite accustomed to it, like the roads being barricaded or some dirty portion of the city being closed ( out of sight is out of mind, you see) there by causing traffic snarl. But traffic is also not much of a hassle in Manipur, thanks to the eco friendly approach of our neighbouring states who do not want us to burn fossil fuels. so there is no fuel in petrol pumps. you therefore dont worry about traffic, only vehicles that you will find on the road would be lined up outside petrol pumps. the line however may stretch for kilometers, full of funny people who think just because they own a vehicle, they have right to buy patrol too. quite funny, he he . ( this is a quick tip for rahul Baba, who reached to some place in UP unannounced and he had suffer a FIFTEEN min traffic jam, can you imagine , FIFTEEEEEEEEEEN long minutes, Rahul Baba, there is no such danger here, this place is suitable for planning your unplanned visits.)

look, some more fools would differ with me. thats not something to worry about, they are just the hawkers, and road side. they keep complaining that their unlawful encroachment has been dismantled. Dont you worry about them, i can tell them that its just for a few days, wait for another 3-4 days and pay to the local authority appropriately, you will again get a chance to put up your stall. As for passing your time, you can attend the rally and add to the gathering. The more the merrier, you know Sonia ji feels so happy to see a big crowd.

that all for now sonia ji, if you finally decide to come, do let me know, you are travelling exactly in which vehicle or chopper, i can atleast wave at you, there are a number of vehicles in your cavalcade, that confuses me actually. Madamji, just one more request, if there is no weight restriction for your luggage, can you please get me 20 litres of Petrol for my Maruti 800 ( you see, my galli is quite far from rally place and i so much want to attend to your rally). yeah, just to tell you why i travel in Maruti 800, its just that bigger the car, bigger is the tax, you know there are so many taxmen in manipur. And tell you what, these taxmen are quite efficient, unlike those in your government. when they ask for payment, we must pay else they deliver justice much faster than the local court.

ok bye for now, cya in your rally.

LIVE THE MOMENT

its 2 54 am. i should be deep in my slumber at this moment considering that i need to wake up at 5 20 in the morning for PT. but the more i chase sleep, sleep runs away from me; like it happened to you in high school when much sought after beauty queens just kept that safe distance from you ( i say ' you' because i studied in an all boys school). i know that when i get up in the morning i will be groggy and curse myself for keeping awake in the night- and that is worrying me.

And that brings me to the point of writing this blog. how many times have i forgotten to live the present which is beautiful and enjoyable because i dwell in my past or i m too busy worrying about the future. i think of the present now, i find no physical pain. there is nice music playing in the radio, the mercury is just perfect. then why is it that i am giving up all this for something thats gonna happen in future. chasing sleep is a perfectly sensible thing to do and i will be crazy to keep awake all night. but, what is driving my chase for sleep. its being driven by fear of a bad morning. I would be naive to suggest not to plan for the future at all, that would put me in the category of being careless. but there is such a fine line between planning for future and worrying about it. i must admit, more often than not, its the latter one. i can help in finding that fine line. while planning is based on reason and logic, a worry rides on the back of hope and anxiety. fear and anticipation are its companion.

if only i can learn to live in the present. i can break this cycle of fear and anxiety,hope and anticipation. i can then live in the present, live the moment and make the most out of it.

its a simple lesson. but the fun lies not in finding complex rules, rather in living with the simple rules that you lay down for yourself.

P.s

do you listen or do you wait to speak.

when in a conversation next time, try and figure it out. hey and don't worry about it now... as for now, just live the moment. hope this moment brought you joy of reading a simple piece of thought :)

hi frnds,

seems i m obsessed with drawing hands. not true, the thing is that i m yet to figure out how to draw from imagination. so whatever comes across and looks easy, i try n draw it. so this one was done in 15 minutes. have used stumps for smudging. that makes the shading job so much easier. their are flaws as i see it, numerous. but its for u to point out n give me a thing or two ( only these many at a time) to improve.

the carrot is some day i will reciprocate with drawing your portrait :)

trapped!!!!!

hi frnds,

once again i just wanted to rub it to u ppl telling u that i m just having a bit too much of time at hand. this is what i came up in the weekend.

now that Plagiarism is the buzz word here, i will do well to site my source :)

so i happened to come across this drawing in one of the you tube videos. i liked it and i had time to try it out so it is here.

i couldnt come up with a suitable title - big brother is watching u- could be one. or' trapped ', i liked 'trapped' more because it seems the guy is trying to tear off the paper n get out of the trap.

tell me how do u like it :)

seems i have tons of time :)

hi frnds,

havent blogged for so long.

reason being simple. i just wanted to cook up something good before putting it on a platter. n the masterpiece just wont occur.

its only when i m here in US for a course and i have a lot of time at my hands that i started with a new hobby to fill up my time. now dont go on a laughing spree when i tell u that i have started doing pencil sketches.

n its only then i realised that the fun is not in producing masterpiece. the fun is in the process.

while i wont turn u ppl green with giving you details as to how do i have plenty of time.

i would rather leave u with some of my masterpieces( well as i told u the product doesnt matter, i enjoyed the procces)