Spirit

After continuous buzzing for two hours,
I looked through the window
to find myself standstill in the air,
above the clouds
They took a dip
along with the Atlantic

We were sailing on a sea of ice
without any jerks, but a buzzing sound
The only proof of movement was
the gradual change of pattern, under our sails

A little farther, the patterns dissolved into mushy white.
Farther away, they turned white,
a glowing white,which
diffused a few inches into the blue,
a lighter shade of the ocean

I was now surrounded by blue
and It took my breathe
the next moment, my ego
It brought tears

This is not the first time,
A mild weight on my chest
unknown pressure inside the lungs,
consciousness of the expanding air
head resting heavily.
The strength of nature
gave me great happiness
and immediate tears

It happened every time inspiration exceeded my threshold
Nothing ever influenced me as intensely as Nature

It was getting dark
I saw a star
and then, a thousand of them
It was now dark blue below me

I suddenly realized I didn't hear the buzz all this while

I was already thinking about the first sailors
the great adventures of Human history
Their doubts
Their fears
with all their confidence in wood
against the forces of sea,
travelling into a world of only their imagination

They lit the unending darkness
meter by meter
chasing land,
always a million hands away

I wondered how their evenings would have been!
The transition from day to night
the darkness that would never seem to end
on waters that drowned even light

And the winds, of which they never knew!
if they'd show them a new land?
or leave them in the sea, stranded?

With infinite uncertainty around them,
and frequently fogged hopes
they never turned back.

Was it their lust for money?
How intense could it have been!
Or was it a flair for adventure?
God bless you,
Take my life, for another such journey

In the warmth of their desire,
whatever it might be for,
I celebrated the spirit of Humanity
Their journeys instilled faith in me
that man will never cease to exist

We will not watch the Earth melt
We will pull it off
"somehow"

Into me

I used to think Ohio was in Japan, and that Massachusetts was a Japanese Company

I'm now lost when I enter usnews.com!!

this song http://www.ramaneeya.com/smilfiles/rampopup.php?FirstPass=1338 is my this week's favorite.. what a vibe! amazing lyrics and awesome music. I used to sing this song aloud when I was around 7years! My father could never make out what attracted me! it was devotional and I was too young to understand it. It was the music. or, was it the singing? not sure!

China was not in my list as far as I remember, for the next 5 years!



I'm getting better at cooking

After as long as 12 years, I can still sing along "kamalakucha choochuka kumkuma tho niyathaaruni thathula neerathano" to a very good extent..

Consciousness of a woman is influencing my actions again!

Family

after i've travelled the world
conquered every mountain

seen the best of humanity
and when its worse things start showing up,
and I get tired of this world,

When I turn restless,

When I get bored of money
and of manipulating people

When I'm looking for purity 

and searching for my soul,

Let me go back into this photo.
Into the security of my mothers arms,

let me re-live
the joy of my brother's companionship,

let me relaxe,
smiling innocently at my father
I got no other wishes.

Happy mother's day to my mom and her mom (also in this photo)

To new moms and mom's who're going to have their first child soon. It must be so exciting!

right, wrong and the Perfect

Only Mathematical problems are right or wrong, and nothing else


Men can only move towards perfection

YO - my new pet---already into the past

*wrote this on May 13th. but couldn't publish it on that day*
Today being a Sunday, watched a second show yesterday night....... so late to sleep and usually got up very late today....

Was unwilling to open my eyes. I could listen some, Hmm... many voices. Understood that relatives have come, my mother mentioned it before going to bed last night.

I didn't want to get up. I covered my face with a pillow and tried to sleep. Not even 1 minute passed and my pillow was pulled away.
It was my mom. Remembering that it was Mother's Day, I Wished her and slept again.

She quickly came to me again and said that the relatives have come and wanted me to getup..... But even before she left, even my bed was occupied by relatives.They just flowed in.

Now i had to get up.......
Wished all of them and sat before system. My Dad came and asked whether i'll come with him to the local Fish market. I answered that i can't

But somehow, i had to go with Him

It was a 15 minutes drive to the fish market. At last we were there in the fish market.

Now, without bath and the heat over my head, i could really feel what a fish market sounds like....

We went searching for fish.... the market was closing. Every one were packing up.

Then, behind an auto we found a vendor selling Crabs.
My father went to buy something else, but i was standing at the Crab stall admiring the way they were using their claws...

so, my father bought me one. I declared that I'm gonna keep this one as a pet and my father readily agreed.

I was excited, I have never heard of any one having a crab as a pet and that i was gonna have a "CRAAAB" as a pet!!!

By the time we reached, our bike was burning hot. I couldn't even sit on it.. Some how managed to reach home.

Took the crab out and announced in the home that i was gonna raise this one.

There was no visible disagreement. So i went on, got a tub and put it inside. Filled it with water.

Doubts arise naturally to me....now it was about, whether it was a freshwater species or a marine one?
Browsed the net to get a picture of a crab that would be resembling my pet.... After a lot of research, i could onlyyy understand that it was a male that I'm having.

Then small research on crab feed made made it clear what to be fed. I got some fish feed from a pet shop. Then it was his naming that has to be done.
Saw a list of names in a "pet names" list. None were satisfactory...

Then it suddenly occurred to me and named him "YO".....

"YO" was showing lots of attitude from the beginning. He was not even allowing me to touch it.
He also tried to bite me(not a bite actually) with his claws. I escaped it but learned that i have to be careful with this fellow.

After sometime, i was good at handling YO.

then had a photo session with YO
and here's YO


By the evening, he had enough food in his tub.

The Aquarium i had earlier has leaks from all sides, so it's not used these days.
So, i decide to buy a new one for "YO".

I also took another decision---decision 2. That my aquarium would have aquatic animals other than fish.



Then i became busy in browsing the net for "YO".
Suddenly, my son came running to me and said that YO has died.This is the Danger with long relationships. You become Dad or sometimes even Grand Father even without marrying and that too at small ages when you are still calling your neighbours as Uncles and Aunties.

I was shocked and went running to it and saw that it was motionless. Tried to lift it from the water then He moved and suddenly used his claws against me. Escaping this time again, i was sure that this fellow is a 'hard to die' one. Once in my childhood, i was bitten by a very small crab in a beach when i tried to catch it in the sand.

Later on, after some more research, I was a failure in knowing it's species. But i came to know that YO's family could be mostly a scavenger species and hence they are omnivorous and they eat anything.
So stopped worrying about the feed...knew some more interesting facts about their growth in those hard shells that they have.
Whenever there's a need to grow, a crab sheds the "exo-skelton"(outer shell) and then without these shells they look just like pieces of flesh, white in color. They grow in this period and then form another exoskeleton. This is called "Molting". They do this twice a year.

My Dad came to me and said "the crab died". I explained him that even he could have been mistaken just like his grandson i.e, my son. But went to see.

Shocked this time to see it motionless even when tried to lift it from the water and even after lifting and giving some jerks, it was motionless.

Everything stopped suddenly before me......
each second was taking hours..
He was motionless....may be I came to know by that time, what had happened

Still shocked and grief stricken that Yo died and that tooo soo ealry.... i mean i was expecting to raise it for some months minimum.

I didn't want to throw it out. i kept it's corpse inside a jar.The next day, there was foul smell around the jar. Mom wanted to ask me to remove the corpse from that place but did not do that afraid she may hurt me.I could understand it and after realizing that i cannot store it practically and having nooo other choice, had to put it into the dustbin with a heavy heart. Putting my pet into a "dustbin" was sad, really sad.

Then, sat down to analyze what happened.

In the afternoon,YO tried to jump out of the tub and even succeeded twice . I collected it and put it into the tub both the times.
sooo it could be because he was a Marine animal.

this was the only thing i could conclude.

sooo feeling sad that my excitement vanished in hours and my short relationship with Yo made such an impact on me..., i decided to raise at least one crab successfully.... till then I'll be trying my best.

Coz not many people has done it before, I'll definitely do it and that too successfully.

my coin collection

i opened my coin collection again after may be some 5 months.....

that's pretty a very long time for someone who used to open it every hour.

very rarely i'm opening my collection these days. Reasons could be various.
First thing is there are no friends in my new college who collect coins so that i could be exchanging them.

Once i have entered engineering, suddenly i found many other things that can be done, so lost time for hobbies....... new friends and lots of places and occasions to freak out with them....

amongst all this, i just used to open the collection to see whether it's still present.

While i was collecting them with enthusiasm and interest(some 4yrs back), I used to be able to say everything about every coin and currency note in my collection....

details ranged from it's denomination, the country, names of the personalities on them....

One thing i definitely learned from them are Arabic Numericals

here are some pics of My Collection :
(i) Asian currency Notes and Coins

this pic (i) shows all the Asian currency i have....the bottom most note belongs to JORDAN and is 10 DINARS.

the top most is CHINA and is 5 YUAN...just now, found that it's an older version.
top right-inclined one, with a bearded face is the 100 RIYALS of OMAN.

there are old INDIAN notes beneath all these...there are many 1 RUPEE and 2 RUPEE notes. There are many INDIAN coins also..... about them in the next pic...

(ii) Very OLD INDIAN coins

these are the oldest INDIAN coins that i have got

about all other coins that i have in the next post....
I'll be including currency of Nations from other continents(other than Asia)

perfectly planned against me

here i'm, back again....

today was superbly plannned against me.

had Fluid Mechanics exam...which was a nightmare at 10 in the morning...

OCT was better. Like never before in my life, i studied for a full day. May be tht's the difference tht i could see in the xam....i was not able to answer even 1 question completely.... and i was not sure about those i have answered....

this was never my position in an exam. Earlier, i used to atleast understand what i write. today was hopeless.
It all started with the question paper. I think it was set by our professor who knows us pretty well. It appeared as if he knew what questions we were expecting and soooo didn't ask any of those.

So i had to answer all those about which i only had a vague idea.
Had to gather all my general knowledge(write everything u know, need not be relevant) to answer them.

Thus today was all shit......., perffect bullshit
Adding to this, we had to wait for an hour for a bus. that too wasn't a direct bus. So had to change another bus.

All over, it took me about 3 hrs to reach home after writing the exam.All the time, either waiting for the bus in the hot 1 o' clock sun or had to stay compressed between two heavily sweating souls....
that was becoz all the buses were crowded.

Among all this frustration, i reached my home at 4 in the evnng.
Climbed three floors and fell on the door to open it only to find there's no one at home.
Had to go down to watchman and get the keys and again climb back to enter my sweet home

It is soooo sweet because the sweetest and the cuuutest creature on this earth always lives in it.....that's my pet Sona.....

that was the end of "operation ranjith" meant to devastate me.

'cause, as soon as i entered, sona came wagging her tail and licked all over my face to relieve me off the frustration.

I could find all my joy in her curious eyes.

Now neither the Fluid shit nor the paper setter nor the Sun nor the two sweating souls can take me away from this comfort......

Now after having a lonnng and reeefreshing bath, i sit here to write all this...

writing for me

aahhh....

at last, started a new blog for my writing my experiences and not "my views" (which u can hav a look in virtuallyunbound.blogspot.com).

it almost took me three months to write my first blog. the trouble in writing was nothing actually....

and then it took me one more month to start this one.

as of now i have nothing in my mind to write.

Having nothin in my mind is totally because of the Organic Chemical Technology examination tht i wrote recently.
Had to study a loot without exaclty knowing what it is....

most of the time had to byheart (batti...)

as i have nothin in my mind(mind, not head) at present, i'll stop writing for now......