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Tell me your Dreams

Sleep is a part of everyone’s lives. and so are dreams. Who doesnt like to sleep ? :-) who doesnt like to dream? (day dream). Every single person dreams. Even blind people do. And most of us day dream while attending a lecture, while travelling or even at work :-) Leave aside day dreaming. Its a conscious thing that all of us involve in. What about the dreams we get during sleep? why do we get them? How come some of them are nightmares? How come some show us having a good time with friends?

Most of us don’t realize the importance of these dreams. We just say to ourselves that “oh.what a nightmare!” or “that was a pleasant dream”. Dreams tell us so much about ourselves, things which we ourselves would not know or would have never bothered to know. Dreams help you know your deepest fears, your feelings about someone or about yourself, all your secret hidden desires and can show you a different personality of your own self! Dreams may warn you of an upcoming situation or a solution to your problem. Many scientists claim that they get solutions to a problem, on which they were contemplating for long ,in a flash while asleep. A woman said that she had recurring dreams of her husband cheating on her and she had a feeling that knew that woman well. A week later she found out it was her close friend. I had a personal experience a few months ago where i constantly kept dreaming that i hated a friend of mine and that I’d several fights with her. I wondered why I was getting such dreams. Only a few days later, I got to know of her betrayal. I still don’t know how my sub conscious had known it much before.

Dreams do express a lot. We do see various colors, animals and our friends and relatives and at times even strangers in our dreams. i would not say all but most of it do have a significance. All of us would have experienced dreams about most of the day’s activities or about people whom we interacted most with, on that particular day. We even get exam dreams which usually shows our anxiety and the stress during exams.

People can tell you a lot of things about you. You have different takes on people and even their views. But none of it tells you that much detail as what your dreams do. Thats cos dreams are your subconscious voice.We just have to listen carefully and attentively to what they are trying to tell us. Some usually maintain a notepad to write down what they dream about and later interpret it :-) I do not have the patience to do that . :-) But as soon as we get up, I think we all should spend a few minutes thinking of what we dreamed.If we try we can definitely recollect our dreams and most of all we should truly want to remember our dreams as they will definitely help us know more about our true, deep feelings and fears and frustrations and insecurities and never felt desires. So stay awake even while asleep and dare to dream :-)

click here to know about how to interpret the feelings and colors seen in dreams.

So when do u know its love? :-)

If you have it[love], you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.
—Sir James M. Barrie
Everyone of us talks about it, want it the most and feel it at times. Everyone loves to be loved. Especially when its from someone special :-) Its one of the most powerful emotions all of us are blessed with. Not only do most of our bollywood movies but most of our lives revolve around it. But how does one exactly know tat he/she is in love??
Recently I watched “jaane tu..ya jaane na “. The movie had only one single point. Two extremely close pals who cared the most for each other realised that they actually love each other only when they see the other in someone else’s arms. Even in KJo’s kkhh, Anjali(kajol) realises her love for Rahul(SRK!!!) when Tina(rani) steps in. Jealousy might not always be the key to realisation of love.
Some people believe in “silent love”. They have feelings for a person and the other person might not even be slightly aware of the situation. Some are of the opinion that “its not really love if you dont express it”. But I do not agree with that. If all the feelings are genuine, it will eventually surface. In some cases, its pure obsession. I agree possessiveness is essential but there is a very fragile line between love and obsession.(ex- tamil movie kadhal kandaen where the other person is actually scared n choked rather than feeling loved). Most times people make a transition from close friendship to love. they already know each other well and are comfortable in each other’s company and I feel that’s a secure transition. The most unpredictable of the relations are those that start off with attraction or admiration.
Movies come with up heavy “romantic ” dialogues and loads of crap year after year( must admit some of them are well made though :-) ) but still confusion over feelings always prevails. Especially when ‘age’ is also a factor. people always say that teenagers or adoloscents dont really know what “love ” is. I am of the opinion that love has no age. you cant say feelings should arise only when a person is above 23! that doesnt mean i support all the lame 13 yr olds who claim to be “in love”.
However, I feel that late teenage or early adloscence can be the perfect phase to be in “first love” ;-) Love can bring about such fascinating positive changes in a person during such a phase. The thought of someone caring so much for you is wonderful.Everyone perceives it differently though. Every morning when u get up with the thought that the presence of a person in your life makes it so special, when you face the mirror and feel that u’ve to look your best for yourself and in the eyes of that someone, when you have a beeming smile on your face and twinkle in your eye , when you wait for that person’s phone call and when you sleep with the comfort that to someone you mean a lot and that person means the world to you, its like you are in fairy land! And life is at its best! Of course the road is rough and there can be heartbreaks and tears but every moment of it ‘ll be worth it. Not only cos of the precious moments but also cos of the wonderful journey and cos of the transformations it has brought in you. The foll clip is from the movie “little manhattan” where a ten year old boy realises his first love and also learns from it:-)
So all of you, ‘ll ‘ve to realise in your own ways that you love someone or that someone loves you. And for those of you who aren’t in love, U’ll find a special person soon or look around.. may be you’ve never noticed someone :-) and if you are in a heartbreak phase, just cherish all the precious moments you had and just wait for love to sweep you off your feet again:-) And that’s cos—–
Everybody loves somebody sometime
Everybody falls in love somehow
Something in your kiss just told me
My sometime is now
Everybody finds somebody someplace
There’s no telling where love may appear
Something in my heart keeps sayin’
My someplace is here

If I had it in my power
I’d arrange for every girl to have your charms
Then every minute, every hour
Every boy would find what I found in your arms

Everybody loves somebody sometime
And although my dream was overdue
Your love made it well worth waiting
For someone like you

If I had it in my power
I would arrange for every girl to have your charms
Then every minute, every hour
Every boy would find what I found in your arms

Everybody loves somebody sometime
And although my dream was overdue
Your love made it well worth waiting
For someone like you.

Smiles all the way..

We do not remember days; we remember moments.  ~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand
 

 

  Life doesn’t give us too many special moments. and when it does, we should grab each such precious moment and be happy and thankful for it and always cherish it. I didnt like the final year when it started. Everybody could just talk about projects and GRE and CAT. Everyone seemed so different. To add to the joy, the teachers were so extremely partial and annoying.(they still are:-)).But I’m so glad that I’m gathering moments of fun and happiness.

It was shru’s b’day yesterday but we celebrated it today. I’m totally in awe of megs. She’d come up with the best gifts and most creative of ideas. It was a huge gift, which was a collage of pictures and special b’day msgs, neatly framed and then smaller gift of a shawl and a basket full of tiny li’l gifts. So adorable. And she’d also got “happy birthday” hats and masks .Kiddish but sweet. We danced to songs varying from early 90’s “hawa hawai” to the latest “pappu cant dance”. :-)  How can i forget the cake!

                                                    Birthday cake                              

The next session was the best! so many missed it.. We mimiced almost every single specimen of the class and every weird and not weird teacher(hardly any like tat ;-) ) We ourselves didnt know that we observe our friends so much and also that each of tham has their own set of characteristics and actions and dialogues :-) It was one of the best days of the past 2 months. As i walked back home i realised that i know about people and how they react to situations and also vice versa.

  Later in the evening a few of us went to see plays. A couple of them were good and I donno why the other plays were chosen :-) they were boring. But the company was great. I always used to tell Prad,a friend of mine, that we’d never get to see any show together cos either of us ‘ll be on stage. :) Finally we got to pass comments on every single aspect. I love such comment passing sessions ;- )  After which all of us took a set of totally wacky pictures. All of them are so hung upon “rock on!”, I donno why. (yet to catch the movie ).

I’ll treasure all those silly, insane , crazy moments. We should actually be proud that we can be silly and childish and not be embarrassed about it :-) Finally, final year seems to have a few shades of the hyped descriptions of “FINAL YEAR”. Hope it gains greater momentum..

Shivers down your spine..

  It was an extremely happy day. I was so full of energy and excited after i took a very silly yet funny “chinese horoscope” test:) I made all my friends take it too who blushed and giggled at the answers that they wrote. Later I was chatting for hours with 2 of my friends and I was surprised cos my friend was telling where we could buy “cute” tops.( surprised cos it was a guy but it was sweet though). Later I was involved in more gossip with a school friend. I thought the day was so pleasant while watching an MTV spoof  and as i scrolled through the channels  I saw the news flash  on all the umpteen news channels- “ Blasts in Delhi- 2 dead“. The pleasant moments of the day had ended. the first thing that occured to my mind was-’ again???’

 

     I was just silent for some time but i must admit it did not affect me as much as the previous blasts did. It is such a sad situation that we’ve got used to news of bomb blasts. I donno what the people in Kashmir undergo everyday. But the news did take me back to that state of helplessness i felt 2 weeks ago, sep 13th, when Delhi was attacked and 24 were dead and more than a hundred injured. I was furious and even more frustrated about the fact that i could do nothing about it. All I did was pray that the critically injured dont lose their lives. The thought that you go to the market on a saturday evening, may be to buy vegetables and never return back is more than nerve wracking.

                                                                         

I know it cos I’ve experienced the situation. It was July 25th.My friend and I decided to go shopping despite the cloudy gloomy weather. We felt so glad and thought we ‘d a good start as we bought shirts at really affordable prices in t adidas sale. We talked about the good old times and also were updating each other about the “recent events” in our lives over delicious food. We still had a list of items to buy when my friend’s dad called from bombay. He asked both of us to leave immediately and reach our places as there were blasts in madivala. At first, i didnt buy it. Later i convinced my friend that madivala was far from where we were( v were on commercial street). She agreed and as she admired a pair of pretty silver gray sandals, both of us started getting calls from friends. Everyone gave their own versiopn of the blast count in the city. To add to that the shopkeepers had their version of rumours. We decided to leave immediately leaving the sandals behind. We ran to the nearest auto and thankfully he agreed.The blast count had reached 6 by then. I got a msg saying that there was a blast in Shivajinagar which is a stone’s throw from commercial street and also on the vittal mallya road. To add to the situation the auto driver kept explaining as to how he was on vittal mallya road a few mins before that. the situation worsened when the network got jammed. All our friends and relatives msged but we could not reply back. That was the worst auto ride back ever. My friend and I were supporting each other and we hugged a million times and were constantly praying. We were terrified and literally had our hearts in our mouth thinking that a bomb could explode just beside us. The signals were the worst. I wished they never came. I just wanted to keep moving. Also, I didnt want to hear more news from the bikers who had a conversation with our auto driver.there were students loitering around on the streets and people entering movie theatres. I wanted to shout out to them and ask them to run to their houses. I had to take a different auto and its worse when you dont have anyone beside you. I constantly tried to call my friends inspite of the ‘network busy’ msg.

    I finally reached home and so did my friend.I got to know that my friend megs was on M.G. road and she hadn’t reached home yet and a friend of mine was so worried that he could not even contact her. Nor was there any way to contact my mom. I just waited at the door step until mom arrived. Later my friend informed me that megs too had reached.

After the blasts, I didnt go out for a week. The terror didnt seem to stop with bangalore. It spread to Ahmedabad and later to Delhi. I cannot understand how and why innocent people are killed cos of someone else’s ulterior motives.

I do not agree with Bush’s views on many instances. But this quote of his is true.

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.

GEORGE W. BUSH, speech, Dec. 18, 2005

The news of blasts has become so common now that we feel sad for some time and then the next morning we move on. The feeling of being so helpless is choking but its sad that we do nothing about it and in fact i donno what we can do than blame the police and the government and curse the terrorists. Its a pathetic situation to feel so unsafe in our own country and our own fav streets :(