When I Whine...

I found this inspirational poem in one of the forwards, and sure it moved me:

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Today, upon a bus, I saw a girl with golden hair
I looked at her and sighed and wished I was as fair.
When suddenly she rose to leave,
I saw her hobble down the aisle.
She had one leg and used a crutch
But as she passed, she passed a smile.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine
I have 2 legs, the world is mine.

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I stopped to buy some candy
The lad who sold it had such charm
I talked with him a while, he seemed so very glad
If I were late, it'd do no harm.
And as I left, he said to me,
"I thank you, you've been so kind.
It's nice to talk with folks like you.
You see," he said, "I'm blind."
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I have 2 eyes, the world is mine.

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Later while walking down the street,
I saw a child with eyes of blue
He stood and watched the others play
He did not know what to do.
I stopped a moment and then I said,
"Why don't you join the others, dear?"
He looked ahead without a word.
And then I knew, he couldn't hear.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I have 2 ears, the world is mine.

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With feet to take me where I'd go.
With eyes to see the sunset's glow.
With ears to hear what I would know.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I've been blessed indeed, The world is mine.

My Blogging Personality

Found a link to Blogthings from a fellow blogger's archive; Dharmabum. Here's my blogging personality...

Your Blogging Type is Confident and Insightful

You've got a ton of brain power, and you leverage it into brilliant blog. Both creative and logical, you come up with amazing ideas and insights. A total perfectionist, you find yourself revising and rewriting posts a lot of the time. You blog for yourself - and you don't care how popular (or unpopular) your blog is!

What's Your Blogging Personality?

I must agree, the last bit is quite true!

Wedding Bells!!!

My friend Beta wedded Pavethra last Friday, the 29th of December. The wedding took place at Nagercoil. Beta was right about the warning on how the actual wedding will be. He said that it will be a circus and he will be the clown, well, I can’t say that I was disappointed. Circus it was! Yes, there was a band, and two funny looking dwarf men dancing around the band with colorful ribbons tied to their hands; and lo, behind the band, gallantly walked the groom with a blue suit and a huge white garland.

Pavethra was clad in a cream coloured saree and the church wedding was all of 20 mins! From Chennai, six of us attended his wedding which included, Deepu, Suzy, Arvind, Prasita, Smrithi, and myself.

Apart from us, there were nine of Beta’s other friends who are all part of his aquarium hobbyists community. Beta and some other aquarium hobbyists run a community called http://indianaquariumhobbyist.com/community/. It is an open forum for all aquarium hobbyists. Feel free to visit it if you’re another one of those fish/sea creature fan!

After the wedding, Arvind, Prasita, and myself joined the nine of them to venture out into the tiny town. Purpose? To collect sea creatures, coral, et al, what else can it be? But since they could'nt find anything, we finally found ourselves on the sands of a sparkling beach at 4:00 in the afternoon getting roasted under the sun like retards!!

All in all, it was a great trip.

Will try get hold of some pictures of the couple and the wedding, and post them in my next post.

Theatres Galore!

The New Year seems to be unveiling itself with a lot of plays this Jan-Feb.

The National Bestseller ‘Five Point Someone’ is being adapted into a play and is being performed by Madras Players at the Museum Theatre, Chennai on 5, 6, and 7 of January. I liked the book a lot and for those of you who haven’t read it, it’s a story about three young men and their lives during the years they spent at IIT.

In the author Chetan Bhagat’s words “This is not a book to teach you how to get into IIT or even how to live in college. In fact, it describes how screwed up things can get if you don't think straight."

If you want to catch it, be there on time because they are running only one show each evening at 7:15 PM.

Evam, the entertainment company that started in 2003, completes showing 150 plays this February. To mark their third anniversary celebration, they’ve scheduled to stage four plays (old and new); Art, Love Letters, The Odd Couple, and Oh God, in January and February. They are calling their new production 'Evam150'. Visit www.evam.in for play schedule/timing and venue.

Au Revoir 2006

A year has gone by as fast as it came, and honestly, I don’t feel anything new or good about this 2007. I’m not going to write anything about this year or the new year to come, simply because I’m not up to it.

So here’s a simple wish from me, (FOR me) for the coming year to be as good as, or even better than 2003-2004, purely because I enjoyed every bit of those two years.

Here’s wishing you all a glorious New Year!