Moving on... to new House !

I have been feeling nostalgic for quite sometime.. especially after I have given the advance amount for the new house at Valasarawakkam (4 kms from my current house)..

Have been staying in the current house since I shifted to Chennai from Bangalore.. that is for past 2.5 years.. In Aug 2005, after getting penalised by many house owners for me being a bachelor, this house owner finally agreed to let me stay in his house..

Have had both good and bad experiences living in this house.. with in a week of shifting to this house, I was caught by police for jumping over the compound wall aroung 12 midnight.. :-). then got my right knee broken in a accident inside my office.. Moved inside the house - 20 feet length with the sticks for few weeks.. soon after the recovery I went on to complete my CCNA exam as I had planned earlier... a sense of achievement as this was the first (infact the last too) certification exam I had given..

I had enrolled for MS program in BITS, Pilani.. completed the three semesters of theory exams, hardly studying.. Got my own bike and met with a accident within a year to get injured in my hand.. since my childhood days, I don't remember getting hurt in my hand or leg so badly.. all new "experiences" for me.. lucklily I recovered well after all such incidents..

There were few days of loneliness.. had ended up to talking to myself... questioning myself about what I had been doing and what i had planned to do.. finally realised the ill-effects being lonely for a longer time.. Ofcourse there were times with my my friends visiting me, chatting with them and dear ones for long time..

In the coming days, I will definitely miss Nisha, my neighbourhood friend who sends flying kisses everyday when I leave for office... so naughty, fun-loving girl... I love to be with her after I come back from office... we use to play/listen songs together.. I will happily kill my time in her presence.. she is just 2+ years... :-)

By now, I had prepared myself to face surprises... Learnt to accept changes and more importantly to adapt myself to the situation/location.. Need to keep moving on in life..

Will be shifting to the new house in few days time... its bigger with two bedrooms and a hall.. my brother can find someplace to place a TV which he has been waiting for quite sometime.. my mom can find a pooja room to offer her prayers, read devotional songs.. And I can find a room for myself to sit and blog in the net.. ;-)
And there is a Murugan temple very next to the house for me to enjoy the divine proximity..

Eagerly looking forward to have better days & welcome surprises there... :-)

On the New Year Day.....

This new year day on 1st Jan 2007 turned out to be different from the ones in tha past. The new year days had always remained as holidays so far. This time it was termed as "Restricted Holiday" by my Employer.

Since I took "off" on the previous friday, I did n't want to prolong the weekend; decided to go to
office on 1st Jan 2007...

It was a pleasant morning marked by phone calls and SMS messages from my friends and relatives wishing me a happy new year...

The office space wore a deserted look with very few turning up for work.. Obviously the "holiday" mood was there in the air and no body seemed to be interested ro work. Just left the office early by 5 pm itself.

Came home and took my mom to Vadapalani Murugan temple as I had promised her earlier. It was a long queue... Normally it takes hardly 15 mins to complete the "dharsan"....that day we were in queue in more than an hour...

While standing in queue, got to observe people around me... (didn't have any other choice)....

Few people kept talking loudly on their mobile phones...
Some were busy SMSing...
Few others were found lost in their thoughts...
Some kept chatting, teasing & making fun of each other...
Some others are trying to "bypass" the queue with their "intelligence" taking advantage of the gaps here and there...

Started asking myself what for we go to temple.... to realise peace of mind, to offer our prayers, to seek divine forgiving for all the mistakes we commit unconsiously... to seek strength to face the life's challenges.. to thank GOD..

But what happens with few people is the contrary.. Some come to temple just for the sake of coming there.. completely forgetting to realise the sanity of the place...

If we are not self-disciplined even at the place of worship, where else we are going to be !!!!

It was more disgusting to see some people who violate the queues thinking they were more intelligent than others... To whom are they proving their intelligence ?... to the GOD ???.