Smile

I have listened to a couple of songs all praising someone's smile, trying to make someone smile.
For quite some time I could never understand what is this hue n cry over trying to make someone smile. I mean after all its just a smile, whats so special about it that you write poetries, songs and paragraphs praising someone's smiling face.
That was until I myself I realised the beauty of smile. Some people have such a genuine smile that the smile stays on in your memory for a long time.
Lots has been written about the smiley faces, its a crooked line that sets all the wrongs right, it makes all the things correct etc. But that is not what I am referring to, its more to do with the calmness one feels when one sees a child smiling. It is such a pleasant feeling.
When you see your friends smiling, your parents smiling, your spouse/your partner smiling , the feeling is very special, one has to experience it to believe it.

this is the song that comes to my mind on smile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBXjR-CPvGs

12th March 1999

Some days and some times just remain with you forever. One such day which I kinda remember is 12th march, exactly a decade ago. My tcs trg in tvm had come to an end I think on 10th or 11th of March.
5 of us were assigned to Mumbai and we were all going back together by train. The training had just ended a day ago and graduallly everyone had started travelling back to their destinations. Quite a few people had come to drop us at the station, the station ended up looking like a mini tcs campus.
Suddenly when I saw the date, I was reminded of that time in history and started wondering what is it that makes me remember this date distinctly.
I think those times were less stressful, I wasnt worried about my job, my next project, all the stress was concentrated around how will I be spending my weekend, which tourist spot would I be visiting , with whom (I had a choice of joining couple of groups during those days :). The atmosphere in the campus was also friendly.
There other equally good vacations, stints I had, but tcs trg is also one of the memorable ones.
Do I want to go back to those times, I dont think so.. Some memories are better left untouched :)

Favourite Season

Off late courtsey my work location, I end up listening to the FM radio to/fro my work place.

Just the other day, they were asking people to list their favourite season and the reason for the same.

I found this to be a very interesting topic. Your favourite season can reveal a few interesting things about your personality.

For me, the fav has to be (of summer, winter and rains..given that one doesnt really experience autumn, fall and spring in mumbai :) rains.

It does get muddy in the rains, and travel becomes difficult but nothing beats the joy of getting drenched in the rains. As kids, it was a de facto routine for us to get wet during the first showers. Sitting by the window, watching the rains beats anything in this world.

Close on heels, is the winters which I love, not the kind you have in Mumbai, Mumbai winters one can hardly say are winters. The best part about winters is the snowfall, something I had always wanted to experience, but which always alluded me until few years ago. I have played to my hearts content in the snows, had long strolls in snow filled lanes.

I was wondering, given a choice would I like to have just one season ?? nah..I would like
lot of rains, followed by some snow and for a change a sprinkle of summers.
And last but not the least, though spring is not in the list, I have spend a few springs outside India and the one I remember distinctly is in London, abundant daffodils everywhere, it gave one a feeling that it was pure heaven on earth.

Now, what does your favourite season tell about your personality,
summers : more of an outdoor person, adventurous
spring : nature loving person
Yet to figure out my personality type !! :) (like winters and rains)//

Dostana

Its a long over due post, tht I should have written long bacK..
Its my take on the movie Dostana.
Apparently the movie is primarily based on the gay concept, showing the lead characters who act as thoughthey are gay.
But what I liked in the movie, over and above the fact that it was a good entertainer, good songsand good storyline is the friendship between abhishek, john and priyanka.
Some of the lines I loved, or a line I liked is when Priyanka mentions a couple of timesthat abhishek/john are always booked for her and they belong only to her. I think I too am lucky to have some friends like this.
Again the whole song, jaane kyon takes me back to my numerous trips away from home, when I was staying with myfriends, we would come home after office/college and then go for a coffee/dinner. This song just broughtback loads of memories, it would be so nice to go back in time and relive those hostel like experiences.
Again when all the 3 friends are talking abt how their lives have turned out to be, John (rather melodramatically)mentions that he is just happy with his life coz he could met Abhi and Priyanka. I may not go to that extent in reality, but the scene does portray how strong a friendship they share. It was a nice scene where 3 friendsdiscuss what they had dreamt and how their lives had turned out to be. At this age, I also do tend to do the samewith some of my friends, we reminisce, what we had thought of and how life has turned out to be.
A good dostana if I may say