Flying high

Recently on a cool sunday evening, I was standing over the balcony of my flat and was watching the sun go down so slowly behind those big buildings and suddenly a pigeon from the nearby wall just flew very close to me. Oh! how lucky, it can just fly whenever it felt like. This thought somehow reminded me of the days when I used to fly so much :), well in airplanes though.

It was the time when the flight rates rocketed downwards and it was a 1000 Rs from my place of work to my native town, and it was the cheapest among all. For almost two years, I hopped in and out of my native town in flights (well I have been in Kingfisher, Deccan, Sahara and Jet and even Indian Airlines). It was like riding a bus for me. I was used to flying to my place so much that our house owners kiddo, who live in the ground floor in our native town, (he must be 2-3 yrs old), remembers me as the one who comes home always in a flight :D. Whenever there is a airplane going up in the sky, he just shows it to me and asks me, did you come in that ?. And if anyone asks him about how I came home, he would signal a flying plane.

For a person who is afraid of heights, flying was a new experience altogether. It was so much fun and somehow, irrespective of my acrophobia, I enjoyed each and every flight journey of mine. There was this time when I travelled at night and it was so rainy and so much of turbulence inside and it was lightning outside. It was so good to feel the jitters. And one more time, it was as if we are on a cotton bed, it was fully covered with white clear clouds and nothing was seen down. I enjoy the ride above the western ghats especially, where we could see in a clear day light the never ending stretch of the mountains.

I do miss them all now, because of the high tickets rates and the distance between my place and the airport (it got shifted to a very very far off place). Wish I could fly to a new destination and to a differently new place sometime this year. Let us see..... But I was lucky enough to enjoy the pleasure of riding high :D anyways. It was really a time when even a comman man could afford to feel the sky. Hope those days come back soon.

Happy New Year

It has been a very long time since I really blogged :)
Let us start with a Happy New Year. Hope this new year brings in joy and prosperity to one and all.
Well for me, it started on a very hopeful note. Overcoming my fears and renewing my hopes. It was a little bit stressful, but all is well that ends well aint ?
But in general, I guess this New Year brought in lot of surprises to all with the Satyam , Maytas Scam, Economic Slowdown etc etc. But let us hope that it doesnt depress us and let us wish that in these dark times we try to keep up our hope that things will be better tomorrow.
Just like what Dumbledore says, Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Ok, now coming to my usual stuff of books and movies :)
Recently I just finished one of my ever favourite book which I had always wanted to read. And completing it gave me so much of relief that I have achieved something. How much pleasure does one get when one get to do what they *really* want to do.
The book was "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. I have read this in my school years as part of the non-detail text. But reading it in full classic mode, was something so much of pleasure. I guess everyone who likes to read novels, fiction, stories, should read this once atleast. The kind of english used, the emotions, the characterization, wow. You feel as if you see them before your eyes alive, as you read them.


My next book would be "Bram Stoker's Dracula". Well more about it after I read the book. I have loved the film though, more for the performances of Sirius Black (aka Gary Oldman) and Little women Elizabeth (aka Wyona Rider) and the cinematograph. It was the first ever movie which made me scream :), when I was watching it with my friends in the hostel at night.


Sari rombha late aayidichu. Feeling very sleepy. Buenas noches.

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein

If we live another day to see, it is a miracle. :) Keep smiling and Keep your hopes high.