Sunday, June 29, 2008

The Inevitable

Death during those days meant that i will be left alone @home as my parents have to go for the death house,meant notin to me .the first death that affected me was of my cousin brothers and after a long gap somewhere around 2003 i was involved in the whole process of after death ceremonies .the first of its kind for me and i got inspired by one small girl who happens to be the daughter of the dead guy.who happens to be my cousins husband who died in a freak industrial accident in kuwait,so below is wat i felt was a better work of mine.,,,,

THE INEVITABLE

I saw her face, those restless eyes
Busy hands on a piece of paper
trying to draw a senseless piece of art
but it meant a lot to her
a daughter’s depiction of her father
a father gone far away promising her a doll
now he is back, promise broken
but why? She did not know
a day she will never forgot or is it that,
will never fade from her thought’s
she saw her weeping mother
and wished never seeing that again
people poured in from all corners
to their small house, distant relatives
distant by relation and communication
she smiled at them but no courtesy was shown
she saw her ever complaining grandmother
besides her sister, a rare sight
the usual evening after school was missing
she saw her sister being kissed by her grandmother
everything was new to her that day
on one asked her to do her homework
she felt sad for her mother
assuming that she hurt herself
young and ignorant, my heart bled for her
she did not know the darkness that lay ahead
she did not know the reality that would bite one day
she did not know the depth of her loss
the table, her play center was occupied
by a long box under a dying 40 watt bulb
people peeping in to it , what are they searching?
She questioned herself , one day she will get an answer
she was in her usual mood
she did not know that everyone pitied her
everyone saw her with sympathetic eyes
she did not know that every one knew something,
about her that she did not know
where will she be in a few years ?
what will she be when she grows up?
Who will make her feel protected?
Who will she look up to when she is in a crisis?
Will all these be unanswered question?
For me it was becoming more unbearable
to see her ignorance
to see her when she will
long for the lost love
the day will come not far away
the pain of knowing that
there is no one to lead her
no one to cuddle her.
death is inevitable but then,
a father for a daughter is more than inevitable

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Saturday, June 28, 2008

a page off my book titled LIFE

am i filling up the blog ?NO cuz this blog will one day stand testimonial for wat i was made up of ,wat was this man feeling,cud prove tat am not that bad a guy but as normal as any so called good soul,if i was to be asked wat my life was all abt ? my answer wud be some bad times wit bad failures,some good time where i myself was not happy but also the ppl around me were.ultimately by the end of your life its not how much ur bank balance is nor the big posh home u build tat will prove your worth but the loss ,the vacum u have created in many a sad minds.i blv and will always advice tat life is worth living to the fullest ,sucess and failures r just passing they just need a medium and no one is left untouched.on that note here is a page from the book of my life ,i have torn it just for whoever is reading this :

the year 2006

As I boarded the Oman air from Dubai on the 22nd I prayed for the window seat cuz I like to see the ground when the flight takes off I get sooo thrilled to see the wings shake and the pneumatic and hydraulic works goin on them. And then I went down the memory lane ,jaz is getting married the next day ,the reason y I hurried with my resignation and how I challenged my frnds back in rak that I wud be there in India to attend the wedding of my dear jaazzz at any cost. As the flight took off targeting the sky, my mind came down searching for the old chapters of my life, digging deep.


It has always been a dream that I should take part in jazz’s marriage .that gal has influenced me a lot ,she has made me a bit more softer or shud I say all the 4 of them .I hav always been a wild rebel ,never compromising on my principles and ideals never letting any one rule over me ,never letting any one influence me but then she did .my affinity towards girl kids was always there ,always wanted a kid whom I cud pour all my love and affections and that affinity multiplied beyond limit after meeting the 4 of them .its funny though cuz I knew I had a cousin in peer but never had much contact with him until recently but never knew tat he had the privilege of being the chachu of 4 beautiful angels and when I knew, my affection for him grew ,so its like thnx to the 4 angels for letting me share a brotherly relation with peer. there was a time when we (me and peer) wearing half pants moved around our family home hands on each ones shoulder not knowing how we were related talking about life and death (durin our elder cousins death) and then he went his way and me mine. years passed but I still had his face clear in my mind some thing kept on sayin in me “u need to refresh ur relations) but I always hated my family people for the simple reason that as a kid my mind was so hurt wit too much of fights and hatred they had between them .they did not even spare us kids they showed their hatred even to us .it was always like in one camp or the other so u cant go from one camp to other cant speak to them, I hated them all and never wished to meet them ,I wud just run off from the place where these ppl might probably meet ,I had a good nose when it came to the smell of conflict. I did not know who my uncle or aunt were ,I did not address them at all cuz they never addressed me decently, all I remember is the word they used to call me was like “blackies son blackie” as my father was the blackest of them all and me his son was a blackie like him. I cud hav killed them all but 5 0r 6 year old was helpless but my mind which was so plain in those days was already getting filled wit hatred wud always hang on to my mothers pallu ,did never go near any of them ,not a word did I speak to them.
And one evening after years of no contacts our telephone rang giving my mom and dad a bad news saying “sithis husband siraj died in an accident”, me and my sister were dropped off at a family frnds house and our parents left off in a taxi. Did not mean a thing to me cuz i did not know who sithi was nor did I know who siraj was. Our parents came back the next day the same night I heard my father cry, unusual it was, he cried and cried the whole night keeping on sayin “she is still young with 4 kids what kind of a god this is?” this time i felt bad cuz i hate seeing someone cry, i cud go weak on my knees if i see tears in the eyes of any one regardless.

My dad flew back to auh, and one fine day when my brother came we had a taxi ready and my mother asked me to dress up, but I did not want to do so, my brother stared and the next minute I was on the car to kuleshekaram.all I knew was it was peers sisters home and that she has lost her husband in a freak accident. I did not meet sithi akka nor did my brother .my mother did all the consoling and I kept on bugging my brother “watz the point in coming here if we cant meet the person whom we have come to meet?”,stare again my mouth was sealed .my mom came out, we had to leave .car started moving and all of a sudden my mom said to me “look .look sithis kids ,three of them goin to the madrasa”.the first face that I pictured was tat of soumy Nina ,that darling of mine ,the other two were so small .my heart felt so heavy when I saw the 3 of them ,I wanted to jump off the car and run towards them shouting “hey angels do u know me? Am ur chachu“.but that did not happen, I was over the car seat looking towards the kids thru the rear window Stare the next moment I sat mouth shut.

Years flew off ,our gang of friends became roadies with bikes in between our legs ,I wud have gone past the same house a number of times and each time I passed thru I wud set my eyes for a glance of the 3 kids, never did I see them. And I knew if I wud search this way I wud never meet them at all.

Years flew again ,I went off to Chennai for college, my dad in the mean time retired and getting to know his roots ,peers father expired .peer was getting closer to my dad cuz peer opted for a degree in commerce like my father .and my dad became his guardian of sort.soumy Nina was teasing my dad ,her grandpa by ringing him up and askin whether he knew her ,so some kind of good vibes started growing in the family, nothing unusual in our family cuz the whole of our native people wud say “MA (my granpa) ,MA’s family wud fight during a wedding and reconcile during a death funeral” funny isn’t it ,some one has to get married for the family to fight and the someone has to die to reconcile ,crazy morons.

One fine morning I came back from Chennai and what I saw was a small gal taking care of my toddler nephew, she was so cute and I all of a sudden was able to relate with her. My mom told look she is sithis daughter the last one, I asked her name, she said sherin banu and in latter years still now MY CHELLAM. The same day we had to attend a family wedding, even in good mood I wud say no wedding functions please they are a waste of time but when my mom said peer wud be there and even sherin wud go off after the wedding, I kept my principles aside and went with them. Met my dear bro, my soul keeper, and my friend and punch bag there after a looong looong time. After marriage he insisted that I go with him to kuleshekaram even my mom wanted me to go.

I said to my self “well then times have changed the old ones hav gone, no more fights during wedding, hope it does not go the other way down and the MA family fight during death funerals and reconcile during weddings”. Off we went to kuleshekaram.









The same house that I have gone past several times on my way to tirparaappu falls with my friends, the same roadsides were I wished to see those three angels I have seen years before. A well made house, rich in all sense.
I said to my self “the four gals r blessed, they are lucky but even god envied them and so he just took away their father”

As I entered the house I felt some kind of a relief ,a fullness ,and a sense of fulfillment ,after a looong looong time I met sithi akka ,even though I did not remember her face I cud just get a flashing picture of her in my mind but am not sure whether I wud have identified her before this somewhere else.Surmi was the first one I met ,I hav heard her name before ,I mean a long time ago .the reason am so specific about her name is cuz the words that reached my ear durin those days of siraj bhais death was that as soon as he was hit by the truck he kept on repeating her name “surmi, surmi, surmi till his last breath.the moment peer pointed at her and said “this is surmi ” my mind and mouth went dry and heart filled with some kind of a heaviness. but even there I was searchin for that face that kept on haunting me for all the years ,that face which had much maturity even at that young age ,soumy i knew the name ,my mother used to say how soumy used to ring up my dad and keep on bugging him ,the chatter box .But I did not expect that it was not these three gals who gonna change my world upside down but the other one .the first, jasmine ,am a slow starter when it comes to new frnds and relations that to a bit grown up gal ,it took time for me to connect with her but the slower the firmer she started influencing me ,to an extent that at one period of time I cud go talk with real strangers cuz they resembled jazz , slowly we started to talk and I saw so much goodness in her that I just cursed my self for being so late in getting to know her.her crooked smile ,rolling eyes and the way she stretched my name from one end to another whenever we met, bichuuuuuuuuuuuuu.my fondness for black tea became her trump card I wud get it the next moment when am at the sithis manzil.she never let me wear a soiled dress always willing to wash and press them for me.each time I lit up a cigarette she wud ask me for a puff and I did offer ,she wud take up one puff and say “quit it mama ,its not good”. In a short span of time she became my frnd rather than a niece, we talked about everything and she never let me feel uncomfortable always there to ask me what’s in need.


There she was getting ready for her wedding and I got no chance to make it in time, I made up mind to get satisfied with whatever video coverage peer wud bring back after marriage. My plan was to quit my job and hit India by mid June, reasons were many .finance ,a new job and the two frnds of mine who wud hit India by mid June ,gonna see them both after 3 years cant miss the chance. May 17 peer took the flight to India I did not even think about me being there for the wedding but I kept on sayin this to a frnd of mine that I wish I cud see jaaz clad in those expensive sari and her beaming face glaring off all those jewellerys and camera flashes. But I knew that’s not gonna happen. May 18th rang up sithi manzil jaaz asked me when am gonna be there in India, I got no answers but some thing told me “say, say it to her u gonna be there on the 23rd morning right on time say it to her damn it”. May 19th gave my resignation, rang up my cousin who is a big shot in the company, he promised me that things wud go smooth not to worry, words got stuck in between my teeth and cheeks, I wanted to ask him to some how finish off everything a bit soon so that I cud be there for the 23rd wedding. But me being what I am and all these years working in the company I did never go to him asking any favors even when I was goin thru the worst phase of my life when every evening under the shower I was not able to identify my tears from the water, never knew whether it was the tears or just the water from the shower that I was having a bath. by 19th evening I broke that principle of mine of never to ask a person a favor who has given u more that what u hav expected, I pleaded to him sayin “23rd morning I got to be there so that I cud attend the wedding” he was like “WHATTTT impossible” and I said “but u gonna do this for me and am damn sure about it”...he just let his fingers move thru his fast balding hair line and said “ring me up in the morning”. morning I was damn prompt 8 o clock poor chap I did not let him hav his bath,,, he asked me to run towards the technical directors office, got hold of one of my colleagues mo bike a Honda power engine,, vrooooooom on the way picked up the Italian technician dropped him at al-hambra hotel gave him a 300 aeds which he did not accept for a some champagne.
Met mr jaykumar our tech director along with my tech manager both of them wanted to know y I gotta quit ,y biju whatz the problem ,we cud solve it ,we cud revise the salary and ur position ,all I gotta say was I gotta be there by 23rd morning,jayakumar rang up my cousin and had a chat wit him and after tat signed my resignation and for one last time said ,any thing biju anything cud be solved just tell me ,I just said 23rd sir I gotta be there....bid goodbye to both of them ,dropped in my documents ,went for cancellation of my visa came back picked up simone the Italian ,a bag in within 5 champagne bottles we had stuffs put near our new site .made arrangements for tickets ,got my settlement money everything paid in cash as per instruction from mr.jayakumar ,I said to my self thnx cousin ur a gem of a person. I did not stand to hear how much was the settlement money just took it. Now I got the bad news, ticket ready for 21st but the passport has not yet come back after cancellation, my frustration had no measure, went straight to Mr Jayakumar while I had my cousin on telephone informin both of them about my passport. the personnel department ppl came in search of me literally lifted me off from there and started pleading “please .please MR syed u can catch ur flight on the 22nd please ,,”.I was getting more confident about me being there on the 23rd morning. I said with an air of command “ok guys but make sure u get me the best flight”...


21st night was farewell for me champagne, wine and fun ,,,ppl I least expected came up with some speech or something ,there was lots happening but my mind was filled with the beaming face of jaazzz and I punched the air shouting YES ,,,,,,

22nd Dubai airport

23rd morning 6 am IST trivandrum airport, 11am wedding hall, there she was clad in that expensive sari .I felt that my eyes were gettin a bit moist but nothing mattered other than the smiling face of my jaazz, the other 3 were happy to see me but I shud admit no one was more happier than jaaz herself when I nodded my head giving a thumbs up.

26th jazz wud leave to her hubbys house ,the last time I felt a bit bad on such an occasions was when my sister bid goodbye to me after her marriage, the day before and on the morning of 26th jaazz was literally chasing me she wanted to talk and be the same old gal but I kept on disappointing her ,dont know y may be cuz i did not want to look gloomy after shez gone ,don’t know y .and when the time came to bid goodbye she looked at me rolling her eyes giving me that crooked smile without even spilling a word she conveyed what she had to “am leaving mama ,please do come and visit me whenever u can”. She was gone, I did not want anyone to see me anymore nor did I want to see anyone, packed my bags and bid goodbye to everyone, gloominess showed all thru but I kept my smile intact,

Bye dear, all I expect is that u have a happy life filled with all the joys and happiness nothing else is more important to me or to peer, bye dear


And then I knew wat a relation is all about and how it cud withstand all other hurdles in the form of a bad, quarreling family history. I don’t believe in fate cuz for me its deeds tat come first and its the deeds that finalize ur fate but here am confused was it fate or the deeds tat made me sentimentally attach with these gals .God exist or else there wud never be a mother , a sister or a wife for men ,blessed r the men for they hav women in their life’s to inspire and be the pillar of strength and am blessed ,blessed to be loved by such ppl without whom I wud hav been like the man of the stone age,,,,,,,,thnx dear ,a million thanks to u ,u made me feel and live like the chosen one.












puke

there are few moments in ones life tat make u think and re think whether r not to let others know it ,i had them too.i blv that i fortunately or unfortunately have this quality that when i write abt my self i just open up or to be more in my terms i puke my life out,open book they call it one such moment is puked down below:

19/02/08
9.30 pm
This thought has passed my mind a numerous time, but today was different, after 28 years in the world nearing the 29th is like on the verge of tasting the seed of the mango while all these years I was eating the fruit. There must be a reason behind my birth, I must settle on to some thing that could lead me in to fulfilling that reason. But like writers block even my fate and the life which the fate decides is blocked indefinitely. Yes today was different from the other such days when the thought of my unsuccessful life has come to a point where I have started to loose the belief in me as I have started hearing voices of unknown saying what a waste my life has been .This got to stop somewhere ,either this unsuccessful life or just this life. When you walk all alone from your work place towards a shelter that you are not sure how long? Thoughts just philander with you .And as I walked along i was drained off my mental strength as well as physical .Now where do I stop? I was adamant that I stop no where, I wanted this pain, and I wanted this melancholic feel.

If you were reading a novel the author would add in the back ground of this 29 year old making sure that the readers understands why this guy has to feel what he is feeling now .But then this is no novel and there is no writer, this is life ,pure life .

well no good reason i cud give y i was feelin so low on the above mentioned day......

now here is some one else's puke:

20/02/08
7:15 pm
After a meeting at Dubai healthcare city which never happened or to be precise I got missed out, i went straight to the site where Haridas and our driver khan were getting ready to finish of the day so here I am I need not walk today back home. It has always been fun and laughter when Haridas was around, even though being a senior to me by miles we had no problem in sharing a cig or a few adults jokes. A few days back he was hospitalized for a mere heart attack,
Mere??Yes mere heart attack was what he described it as .Today we had ample time to talk and laugh, he was talking about his life pre –Gulf .he went on like this.....
I was taking up railway contracting works while I was working with blue star air conditions ,my sister being a civil engineer it was easy for me to take a license and as usual in India I would do some under-the –table deals and get the work done so obviously the quality of work was below average and all through I was using my sisters signatures for all the work as she was the license holder and when one such project got screwed up due to some premature damage in the railway bridge ,my sister got a warrant from the court and was asked to pay the compensation .My sister never knew that she signing a few papers in the beginning would lead her in front of the court ,even though I tried to calm her up she did not forgive me and still hasn’t till to date .Then I had to transfer her license to another name in the meantime I did a few more under the table and cleaned up the whole mess. And on one such issue of a railway project I was in deep shit as the person who was supposed to sign my invoice and payment release has been transferred and was replaced with some son of the soil who apparently has won some medal from the then president of India that simply meant that I was doomed .I had to meet him get the papers signed but he was adamant that he has to inspect the whole project, doomed I was. Can I bribe him? Will he accept it? And as per a friend from the railways instruction I prepared myself the day before Onam, jam-packed my car with all vegetables and other such onam specials. After ringing the bell I stood there with all those stuffs which by now was like a market at the doorsteps.the door opens and there stands the man asking me “what all these”? I with all my innocence said “sir its onam and all these stuffs are from my estate ,thought you will need them” he roared “ bloody are we related to each other or what?” get lost and don’t forget the inspection will happen as planned ” as he was saying this I saw some one near the window laughing a laugh that tested the real me ,I could have ripped that mans stomach open for what I was , I had the money ,I had no fear and no one ever has stood against me. My blood boiled up after seeing that smile on her face who happens to be the engineer’s daughter.

Now I was in deep shit, once again under-the-table for a few people at the railways I was able to rectify the whole issue and made sure that the site was ready for the engineer’s inspection .But my mind was in a rage, furious as that smile kept on coming back to me. Haridas interrupted the story as he had a call coming form India ,he spoke on the phone for a while and came back informing me that it was his wife on the other side. He continued with the story and I was not complaining as we were still stuck in the traffic of sharjha .So he continued....
I being a person who was born in to a family where money was never a problem and nothing was impossible was not able to digest that smile that came from the girls face .I wanted to teach her a lesson .I with a help from a few railway friends faked a birthday party and made sure that the girl came exactly on the day of the inspection .A car ready with the ignition on and a friend on the wheel ,it was kidnapping pure kidnapping off we went .the terrified girl tried to open the door ,I pulled out a gun off my pocket ,a licensed one that my uncle used during his estate visits .She had nothing to do anymore .This is my moment of glory ,by tomorrow morning yours and your fathers smile will fade off for ever and I swear that I will not touch you nor will I disturb you but that’s the beauty because you will be crucified for no reason .Off we went to mysore .

The next morning Indian Express had my name and the gals photo in it ,my job was over she was free to go .But she wouldn’t ,she wanted to die ,she begged me to kill her ,my problems got doubled up. Back in Cochin the girls brothers have received quotation form my life they would prepare a purchase order any moment but then whom ever they send the PO I will come to know because there is no bigger scoundrel than me in Cochin. But that was not my worry this girl will not leave. Either she will commit suicide or will make me kill her.

By this time we have reached sharjha and I had to get down off the car, Dhas Bhai what happened after that was my question .The car did not move in the traffic, his mobile rang again. Car started moving.
He said “what happened? cant you see that am talking with my wife ,wife who was consequence of that one mysore trip ”and before the car faded off in to the traffic he said “look I never indented to get married nor did I have any bad intention before taking off with the girl but this was destined to happen and it had ,and my wife of whom I am still not sure about the religion caste or creed feels that we had to meet up like that 27 years before to be man and woman for the rest of our lifes”.I stood there like a nail hammered on to hard wood .No more words to say ,but then all those people who have their roots at the south of south India where mother India washes her feet off both the Arabian sea and bay of Bengal had that IT thing in them to live life on the edge...........I happily accepted the invitation to meet Mrs. & Mr. Haridhas & family at their Bangalore residence by June.

Friday, June 27, 2008

top picks...........hmmmmm topics

bad habit ...i write when i write i mean i over write when i have the feel hmmm is it bad ? hope not.so wats my topic today or is it tonight? anyways i got some topics and am findin answers here i gooo

Family

Why this topic all of a sudden ? cant give a specific answer as this topic for me is not new ,its been there somewhere in me for a long time, well people who know me consider me a good friend with a good ear and as far as i know only a good fiend can be a part of a family.a good friend out side the family circle will be a better family guy these are my views.yes a network that you manage in ur friends circle will help you in managing the network called family.....
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~Jane Howard

Father and son ....
Well quite a confusing title for me to comment on but the below quote will say a thousand storyz of what i have in my mind.

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
~Johann Schiller

Nuclear family..


Hmmm tatz wat we all know and tatz wat our parents wanted and now we wish we cud break it atleast for the weekends but alas small people with big egos ,even weekeds we spend with our nuclear family ,the television sets eating our brain ,lots on the table but no one to share ,questions in ur brain ,no one to ask.thatz the situation ,qoute suits the best.
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
~Margaret Mead





Is this why?................................

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal ...
~F. Scott Fitzgerald



wish we cud give this to our next gen,,,b4 tat let us get well with our roots ,,,all thru your life someone might have dragged you to your roots and would have made you do a prejudice on each everyone of them but dont you think now that you sud do ur own diggin up and get close to the roots ? yes better do it cuz u have a set of eye ,ear and u have the sense so u better do it urself ,past is not for us but future is for everyone wat do ya think ?

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
~Erma Bombeck

Remember....................
The family is one of Nature's masterpieces.
~George Santayana

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Vaffanculo brutta

gap ....hmmm gapz ,wasnt able to get online as i was @ the hospital singin a farewell song to my 15 year old pain or sud i say tat one thing tat made me feel tat am human too ,well am talking abt the bulge on my left hand some where near my small finger ,anesthesia and stuffs ,nurses trying to get a vien out off my bulky hands ,seen a many OT's (operation theaters) befor installed many an ot lights ,control panels ,nurse call systems, medical gas units and never did i ever feel tat some day i might be half dead half alive lyin on the ot bed being operated ,everything went off fine ,no pain .but wen the crazy nurse pulled off the sticky tape oof my hairy hands to remove that sryinge i just used the swear word on her ,thank god she did not understand (vaffanculo brutta).well am gonna miss that one piece of me ,my pain that made me feel human.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

party cinema and gettin pissed off

i got lost in a marriage function,not my way of spendin a day but then when its jazz whos invited me i just cant say no,started from our ancestral home wit a bus full and day b4 that was quite a enjoyable one ,me ,my nieces and nephews had a small party with tattu dosa ,rasa vada and omlete ,played chess wit farzu quite a tube light she is ,well it was fun.the previous day Farhan came up wit the idea of goin for dasavatharam ,we planned for the second show at kaliyakavilai ,news spread like wild fire everyone wanted to come .i knew i wudnt be able handle this alone so pulled in my cousin ,he was ok wit the idea and we did watch the movie takin the AC box 15 of us kids went ga ga and started over reacting,well the movie was ok tatz all i wish to say.if kamal is serious abt good cinema then he sud rope in serious directors fine who am i to comment on that.on the other side am gettin pissed of by my source wish he cud understand others feelings.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Zikr

The sound of Zikr from bose the forgotten hero by ARR have become some kind of an addiction to me nowdays ,after that tooth brush incident i have made sure that i take good care of my other accessories too .with a bad cough and irritating chest filled with disgusting mucus i went on to get my first pankaja kasturi.Atlast i might get my driving license ,its been years that i have been without one.

Wow watta composition Bose –the forgotten hero ,sad that the movie did not do well.i just love the way each track has been decorated with some outta word arrangements ,trumpets ,obe ,strings and percussion .me nota religious person but i have been singing the zikr track as if i am possessed ,i feel as if am a sufi saint .

I was wonderin y ,y should i do this blog and then i came up with the answer “i need to fight myself out of a few bad qualities that i have never considered bad for me”,,,Faith is wat makes the world go round and round ,and this 5 letter word is what i dont have Faith in any thing even in me .Few say its God hmmmmm i need to stick to something real soon but i need it to be so personal cuz religion ,god and spirituality is so personal

zikr hai behatar nafarat se
zikr hai behatar Gafalat se
zikr hai behatar hujjat se
zikr hai behatar Giibat se
(Zikr is better than hatred)
(Zikr is better than carelessness)
(Zikr is better than disobediance)
(Zikr is better than saying bad things)

zikr aman hai,
zikr hai fatah,
zikr shifaa hai,
zikr hai dawaa
(zikr is peace.
zikr is Victory.
zikr is Healing.
zikr is the Cure)

so then watz Zikr?
Sounds like a cool word. Zikr, looks pretty neat in Arabic script.Zikr, according to the book Fiqh-Us-Sunnah by Sheik Sayyed As Sabeeq, mentions that, "All words of praise and glory to Allah, extolling His Perfect Attributes of Power and Majesty, Beauty and Sublimeness, whether one utters them by tongue or says them silently in one's heart, are known as Zikr or remembrance of Allah



hmmmm well thatz for to day ,hope i could do some Zikr .

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

ohhhhhh pablo

Long time ago ,some time during the mid 80’s i happened to meet this one day old gal ,a small tiny puny fairy ,did not know from where she came from but there she was .i slid my small fingers on to her palm ,she grabbed it hard and i like a fool started jumping thinking that she grabbed it just cuz it was me .She grew, she turned out to be my lively toy to play around and fool around. she flew off abruptly only to come back fed with a few word in her brain ,went round and round askin me to marry her .i just moved off cuz i hated the idea .slowly she became some kind of an allergy for me ,she was not to blamed ,i knew but i need to run .and so i ran ......the last time i did talk with her ,and when the mid 80’s passed off to mid 90’s and then to the 2k’s slowly i felt that i was being so unfair to her and i apologized by writing in a few lines for her ,as usual am not much of a talker but a better paper ,pen man. she kept on supplying the pens and papers and so i wrote and she wrote and at last she wrote and suggested that we fall in to that adam ,eve’s feelings( i for you and you for me) ,and i knew from Pablo Neruda that love is short but then forgetting is too long, well then one fine dark night she suggested that i should start forgetting so that may be some day i shall forget ...........ohhhh pablo ,pablo..........u surely were heart broken when you wrote that poem .wish i could i say and you could hear me say “love is short but then death is infinite and i prefer death”

brusin my teeth tommorow

after three dayz of search i aborted my mission of geting back my tooth brush and exactly at 20:30 hrs i was @ the supermarket (?) here in nagercoil ,got a tooth brush,well i need to brush my teeth tommorow .

along the way i came across an old scribblin of mine ,taking no chances this time am goin to safe gaurd it this time cuz only time will judge or should i say wine gets the taste as time goes by :

Gypsy on the road
Am like this gypsy on the road
Picking up the thrown aways
Or forgotten to pick those things they lost
Memories are the thrown away
And am picking them up one by one
The most ugliest ,the most precious
And the most treasured, all lying down
And when the sun comes down
I walk away carrying all those ugly things
While you have all the treasured precious ones .
P.S Biju syed

ya ya i know i sud update on the previous blog hmmmm i did get a response and thatz it ,well i wished i could hit to the booze house and drink and drop dead but i did not ,well times are changing and so am i ,cuz the change is wat we are.....................................

What the world, in the form of experiences and accidents

Bestowed upon me, I am returning…

Sahir......

Monday, June 16, 2008

Me? who me ? no am in peace

na sataish ki tamanna na silay ki parwah,
gar nahin hain mere ashar main maane na sahi
Translated in English as
Neither a craving for appreciation,
nor a caring for reward,
If my verses are meaningless, so be it
Ghalib..


it did not take me much time to understand that if i where to pen in my daily routine in this blog then i would just abrubtly finish of this blog and then forget the username and password ,Ah yes some thing kool happened ,after a loooong loong time i finished reading a book Black Friday (a documentary on the bombay blast) ,hmmmm am still havin the startin problem may be cuz i got a few issues that am tryin to solve ,i did contact the person involved the issue to help me out ,seemz like she is not interested but i feel am clear from my side ,,,well well i got other stuffz to do so maaaa salaaama ,,,(hope i continue this blog)

Sunday, June 15, 2008

y Gypsy

Y Gypsy ? well y did i choose gypsy ,hmmmm mentally i feel like a gypsy cuz i have never been had any fixation towords anything ,i just move along with the wind (mentally) .And the other reason is that am so fasinated about the Gypsyz ,their way of life and the principles they hold.well i juz dont wanna go on and on abt my title,i just want you to know that am just like a gypsy.
so as they say this is juza beginining so here i am doin wat i was supposed to do a long back ,wish whoever passes by my blog would take me along to some place which could be the destination am in search of..........ma salaaama