Taking stock on September 23

1. Closer to model colony, an area in Pune, 28 lavish pent houses are being constructed called Skyone. I think it runs 4 crores+ in terms of cash and should be 4 BHKs or so. I say to myself “I would love a 4 BHK”, 3 rooms for the three significant people in my life (grandmum, mum and sis) and I shall keep one to myself. Call it a family home. Then I peep into my bank account and laugh at myself with the realization of missing zeroes. Nevertheless I like the idea of that home. It also tells me, no matter where I shall live, Pune will always be home as long as my grandmum and mum shall live.
2. I will meet Jolie someday. I probably will hug her out for five minutes. If she’s kind we may do coffee. If she’s kinder we may spend a day together. I will photograph her and then call upon someone to take a picture of me and her together. Don’t blame me for being crazy!! Life’s taught me to believe in the powers of the universe!
3. A moment comes in your life, like a flick of a finger, where you realize you can never be the child in the family anymore. You assume the guardian to everyone who has brought you up. Its terrifying.
4. If there’s one thing I could change from the past, I would buy less clothes and invest the same amount in assets. If I had two, I would make up for the loss of time (pointless gallivanting to nowhere) and invest it in social work.
5. “Pick a workout you like. A little of some that you don’t. Be consistent and regular”, is a learning I would take forward with me in the future. I love aerobics and working on the chest and biceps. I can hardly do pull ups. I hate doings lunges with weights.
6. Speaking of workouts, I would like to do the 48 hours of uninterrupted sex marathons like Derek and Meredith. I would like a lot of these marathons. I would marry the ‘one’ I do these marathons with.
7. Once I am done with enough of these marathons for a season, I would take a break. I would then sky dive or bungee jump. We had then go on honeymoon :-).
8. Rain mates with sunshine
   Every three hours
   In moments, a perfect world exists.    
9. I should push myself to swim more. Like dolphins or orcas.
10. There’s just one thought that excites me these days and turns out I don’t have the motivation to do it. When I get the motivation, I don’t find the time. Catch 22? No silly, I just need a kick on my ass to do that one thing that will make me proud.
11. On Sep 11, 2012, a friend of mine, Nanju, got married (or got his legal license of marriage). I am very happy for him. So are a million of his facebook friends.
12. That makes me love policy makers, at least some of them. I should be a little more aware of politics. I am such a dim wit when it comes to that!! Who would have thought we live in an era of g-love-lization where a Telugu boy from Bangalore got married to his American boyfriend in Washington :-). I don’t know the story since I left Bangalore in 2009 but next time I visit I am going to sit with him and have a chat over coffee. Get to know his story.
13. I am a good listener. However, I selectively choose whose stories I want to get to know.
14. One should take care when crossing highways. Use the under bridge or over bridge or whatever that allows you not to confront the speeding traffic. Playing safe is better than broken bones. Recently, I was walking with an acquaintance trying to cross the highway: lets just say he got bruises which otherwise would have been broken bones. Lesson learned.
15. I am excited to get more tattoos. The very idea of a visual representation of one’s soul on skin is exotic.
16. The last film that touched my heart was BARFI. It was on September 16, 2012.
17. In my experience, “one shouldn’t be overwhelmed by promises or all things that come in the form of ‘talk’. Let actions take your breath away. That is how great friendships are made and love is found.”
18. I want to visit London next year in Summer; meet my dear friend Vishal. Pub hop, get drunk, get wasted!! It has been a while since I did that. See, that’s why friends are super important.
19. As for love, all I can say is, love can never be forced. That dynamics is the emotional experience of your soul. “To revel in its exoticism cannot be faked.”
20. Time is a great healer, guide and philosopher. Take my word for it.
21. I heard of a great saying from a friend of mine once; “The trouble with life is, when you are half way through it, you realize, its a do it yourself thing.” I believe it to be an absolute truth.
22. Of all the poets I have heard of I remember Ralph Waldo Emerson’s words... “to leave the world better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or redeemed social condition. To know that one life breathed easier because you lived... is to have succeeded.” Another absolute truth.
23. Last but not the least, I want to thank Ganapati Bappa with all my heart for the wonderful days and years I have had. In the next 35 years if I can say to myself, “I loved”, I would have made my life’s worth!

Early morning dream!!

I had a strange dream this morning. I saw a beige mouse. Very pretty looking actually but I hate mice. So I freaked out in the dream... but in whatever unconsciousness, I realized this was Ganesha festival so it seemed like a very good sign!!

In the same dream or another, I do not know now, I saw an eagle. It dived down right to where I was and, in reflex, I raised my forearm for the eagle to sit. I was worried about the claws but when I saw the eagle dive down with such confidence, "I must know the eagle", is what I said to myself. Hence the forearm reflex. Isn't the eagle the national bird of US or something? Or some specific breed of eagle?

This morning I got something in my inbox and I have been thinking of the dream!!