It is generally a rare occasion for me to scribble a poem but I was unconventionally compelled to write one. My poem is tribute to people who saved me from dangers of skiing in pyrenees, France.
I call the title of this haiku "SNOW", here you go:
This is inspired by a newspaper article (TOI, Bangalore) regarding the same topic.
When is love the sweetest? Is it during the teen years, just-before-marriage-adulthood, after marriage or during old age. If you do not believe in love, better stop reading now and go see a doctor :p The rest of you normal people, dig in !!!
Teen years: This is the time when "crushes" develop at the rate of 2 a week. It is all blind rage and love with constant calls and texting complete with dialogues such as "no, I love you more" and "you cut the call first". Countless pointless research studies have pointed out that it is all harmones at play. But then, who cares. So long as you have a great guy/girl by your side, time just flies by and everything seems magical.
Before marriage: By now, there have been a few heart-breaks and so you are more wary. Plus there is all the maturity-baggage. Of course there are still a few who refuse to grow up and fall in love at sight. For most, it is the calculated "yes, I think he/she will make for a good pair" feeling of love. In any case, the thrill comes slightly close to the above mentioned category and makes for many enjoyable moments.
After marriage: There are 2 distinct categories here. One - "wow, my spouse is great. I m in love with him/her". This is the genuinely liking my spouse people. They mostly do well in marriage and manage a romantic side to it. Then there is the "oh well, I m already married to him/her. Let me make it better for everyone and just love the person for who he/she is". These people do ok in marriage and respond with "yea life s as usual" when you ask "how s your married life". Not that it is bad or anything, it is just the way it is.
Old age: By this time, you re finally done with the fighting and just decide that its time to put it all past you and love the person. Or it could be the "my wife s been my best friend for 40 years" grandpa. I love seeing such couples. They give me hope. At 70 or 80, you re glad you have someone to listen to when you gripe about your dentals and hearing. Then you can return the favor and everyone else at home is happy with the arrangement.
That brings me to the end of this post which I thoroughly enjoyed writing. Readers, if not for the forthcoming municipal/assembly/national elections, please do pitch in with your votes for this. Love and be loved.
I was watching Shruthi Haasan's interview on Indian Today website. Most of the time, the camera angles change and the cameraman was focusing more on the shoulder of shruthi than her face. In the beginning, I couldn't understand why that crazy fellow is showing shruthi's shoulder than face of both interviewer and interviewee. Later, I figured out that there is something like a tattoo on the shruthi's shoulder. So I googled it like any curious mind.
You know what, much to my surprise it is her name tattooed in tamil. Wow! She is so proud of her name and her language (I think). I always used to admire her father (Kamal Haasan) for selfless attitude. He is obviously one of the great actors of India. I like most of his movies and he took tamil cinema to new heights. I never thought shruthi will be like her father.
Shruthi wears many hats, she is a singer, actor and musician. Her recent movie luck has been released on July 24. I hope she will emerge as a good actor. Good luck to her! Coming to the tattoo, I have now become a fan of her mainly due to the tattoo and her braveness to show it to the public. Anyone like me?
Yesterday i was doing a chit chat with my chinese friend (xian fei) during our walk from office to home, i usually ask him some serious conspiracies. He is a pretty cool guy who handles the situation aptly. Since he is getting married with his long time sweet heart in china , i asked him the differences in the olden day chinese women and modern day.
His answer was pretty pragmatic, in olden days, a chinese woman did everything for her attached man whereas the modern day chinese man do everything (cooking is their major activity, as far as i know) for their attached woman. The women play a major role in decision making rather than being viewed as "baby-producing machines".
Immediately stuck to me is the desire of the indian women in the modern era who are equally educated (in terms of thinking according to me) as the men, they also work their ass-off for their families as the men claims !! So the indian women also expects her beloved to do atleast a minimum in everything or is it the responsibility of the metrosexual indian men to take into account the women equalism rather than they being assertive???
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