Notoriously Splendid!!

I stood with a man
Watching the sun go down
The air was full of murmurous summer scents
And a brave breeze sang like a bugle
From a sky that smouldered in the west
A sky of crimson, amethyst and gold and sepia
And blue as blue as were the eyes of Helen
When she sat
Gazing from high tower in Ilium
Upon the Grecian tents darkling below.
And he,
This man who stood beside me,
Gaped like some dull half-witted animal
And said,
‘I say,
Doesn’t that sunset remind you
Of a slice
Of underdone roast beef?’

- P G Wodehouse
(Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit)

I love this piece of poetry. It is very simple and at the same time conveys our hopelessly high expectations of people. Mortals will be mortals. :D

The 350kmph Circus

Ferrari comes out on top… again! The constructor’s championship was wrapped up sometime back when McLaren were stripped of their points. And the closest competitor being a world away – Ferrari having a lead of 103 pts – the race for the supremacy among the teams was pretty much a one horse race. One prancing horse that is. At the same time one can’t help but feel sorry for the British rookie Lewis Hamilton. The lad did come dangerously close to achieving a dream. A feat never seen before in the annals of the sport. Who knows? If he had not missed that gearshift on the 18th lap, we might have seen a rookie lifting the greatest honour in motor sport for the first time ever. But that is life in the fast lane. You will forever have people nipping at your heels. Blink and suddenly you realize that all your glories and triumphs count for nothing. But like someone once said, you only fall so that you may learn to rise again. People were sceptical when a relatively unknown German rookie challenged the set order in the early nineties. He was regarded more as a nuisance than anything else. But he went on to break every single record in the sport that was worth breaking. You know him today as one Michael Schumacher. So look out for the new faces that caused a stir this year. You just might see the spark of a champion in those eyes. One of them might be the next Herr Schumacher. If Kimi lets them that is… Godspeed Iceman!!

My Fairytale

Such beauty never foretold,
Is my love,
The one that I yearn for,
My angel from up above,
Her face so celestial,
With a smile,
That brought joy to my heart,
And brings more by the mile,
She portrays the greatest queens,
All royal and cold,
But I perceive a princess within,
If I may be so bold,
And though I know she be,
The owner of a million hearts,
And though I know I may shatter,
A mirror into a million parts,
Hope in me is alive and strong,
That she may look my way,
And at that magic moment decide,
(And this I fervently pray),
That she sees in my heart,
The love I hold for her,
As pure as the morning dew,
And as endless as forever... and ever.

Dreams of Freedom

If I keep my eyes closed,
And fly on a fantasy,
A slumber so cold,
Will you reach out for me?

If I open my eyes,
And trip on reality,
Will you help me up?
Will you stand up for me?

If I'm ever blinded,
By the bright lights of authority,
Will you be my eyes?
Will you see for me?

That one small step,
That stride of mine,
Leaping over the edge,
For one last time.

But they hold me back,
These chains of lament,
My dreams of freedom,
Lasting but for a moment.

And as I look out of the window,
The world goes by so fast,
I've got to accept life again,
I think I'll start by killing the past.

MumBhAi!!!

Aah! Mumbai!! This majestic city has had the privilege of being home to a number of great minds. It added another one to its roster on the 18th of June, 2007, when I touched down at the CSIT. With a bag of hopes and dreams I must add. Now while I do not remember much of that fateful day, one thing I do remember was the incessant rainfall. It was like the city was trying to show off its monsoons. I know this because of the fact that it chose to rain only whenever I stepped out. I do remember lugging my baggage from the airport to the institute building to the new hostel to the old hostel and then back to the new hostel! I remember paying a rickshaw driver ten bucks to take us a distance of hardly twenty metres in the rain. I remember being so dead tired that I skipped dinner. Something I haven’t done in a long long time. I guess that day set the tone for what was to follow in the next two years. It wasn’t all damp though. The first few weeks were all about the excitement of doing an MBA. It all died down pretty soon and ground realities sank in. I probably did more work in those few weeks than I had done during my four years of engineering! Got me thinking about whether this is what I really wanted to do. But having already chosen a dozen different career paths over the last dozen years I figured I’d just stick to this and see what it all leads to. Here is to a future without regrets. Cheers.