Cars and More

Correction: More Cars and No Car

Now picture this: My father's four- members family has four vehicles, an WagonR, a Ford Fiesta, a bike (Hero Honda I guess) and a scooter (good old hamara Bajaj, what else). My in-laws' 3 members family now has 3 cars. Two Maruti 800 and a brand new Scorpio (latest model) is on it's way. My husband wants more, and is currently thinking about an Alto!

And here I am, spending every day at least one and a half hours of my precious precious time, on an average, waiting for some generous colleague to kindly give me a lift in his or her car to my 25 kms far cross-border office...

Tonight I can write the saddest lines : Pablo Neruda

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, 'The night is starryand the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.The night is starry and she is not with me.

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Tuesday Morning Blues

Tuesday morning blues...
Well, it happens when you get dead drunk on a Monday night and then sleep actually Tuesday early-early-morning, and then wake up really early morning and then reach office early morning in a non AC car after a 45 min's drive (fortunately, I don't drive) only to discover that the veteran scriptwriter you were so proud of has put lines in the script (lines that the client so happily approved) which make no sense and you cannot change it now because all the animation has already been done to those lines ...
And before solving that problem you realise that you have pain in your knees, ankle, hands, elbows, back, neck and oh yes...head also...
And then you realise you desperately need a break, may be for two months, but alas, you just filled up the leave card yesterday, and have already exhausted 3 extremely valuable hard earned leaves...
These are the circumstances leading to the phenomenon called Tuesday Morning Blues... :-(

hOmE_aLOnE

...and here I am, left alone again, to remember fondly the rare moments of affection and care. Everything inside the house this time is hell bent on reminding me of him. He stayed for less than a week, and now I cannot enter into the bedroom, cannot even go the hall, cannot go to the kitchen... every corner is so full of his absence!!!
Every time I see him off at the airport or he sees me off at the airport I consider the prospect of leaving everything yet again and going back, to the comfort of home and family, just so that tomorrow even if circumstances take us further away from each other (in the true sense of the term 'away'), I wont have to regret not spending enough time together when we were still so close... But oh well! Who knows what lies beyond the visible, who knows what future holds, and who knows whether 'home' is still there waiting for me...

Lost and Found

Lost:
People
Poetry
Love
Losing:
Home
Hope
Friends
Found:
Work
More work
Even more work
Lost and Found:
Good ol' solitude!!!

UTNiLTeD

When confusion overpowers logic and reason...

Just wait, and wait, and wait...

And oh yes, please do nothing!

My Life is Great

It has been one of my a little less good days...
My laptop screen is showing the third crack in the lcd display. Mobile phone lcd is gone. The landlord at lajpat nagar refused to let the house out to me. Why! Because I live alone. (Oh I so liked the house...)
Informed my business head that I am resigning by end of July. He did not like the idea, but how does that matter.
Husband is out for some party and is not receiving my calls...
Dont you think I have reasons to celebrate? My life is great after all...
And you know what...the worst is yet to come...