R V actually living???

Shaher ki is daud mein, daud ke karna kya hai?
Jab yehi jeena hai dosto to phir marna kya hai?
Pehli barish me train late hone ki fikr hai
Bhul gaye bhigte hue tahelna kya hai?
Serials ke kirdaaro ka saara haal hai malum
par maa ka haal puchhne ki fursat kise hai?
Ab ret pe nange pao tahelte kyu nahi?
108 hai channel phir dil bahelte kyu nahi?
Internet ki duniya ke to touch me hai,
lekin pados me kaun raheta hai jaante tak nahi.
Mobile, Landline sab ki bharmaar hai,
Lekin jigri dost tak pahuche aise taar kaha hai?
Kab dubte hue suraj ko dekha tha yaad hai?
Kab jaana tha shaam ka woh banana kya hai?
To Dosto Shaher ki es daud me daud ke karna kya hai
Jab yahi jeena hai to phir Marna kya hai?

All of u must have heard these lines from the very coooooooooooooooooooool movie “Lage Raho Munna Bhai”… U must have heard them, liked them n said, good lines, nice dialogues… But, has anyone actually given these lines a thought??

Can u actually recollect the last time u had a nice walk with ur dad?
Or had a heart to heart talk with ur friend?
Or just sat on the sand gazing at the beauty of the sunset?
Had a chat with ur best friend other than thru the internet…
Thanked god for wot nature has given us
Marvelled at the small yet very important things v posses?
Cared for someones emotions recently, given a stranger a smile?

Life for us has become: getting up, going to office, come back late, eat n sleep..
just including a sketch which i had made on the topic " Software professional's life is.."

I guess, the picture is self explanatory and does depicts the life and priorities of "v", the IT ppl ..

Have u ever thought about the changes that these so called “ hi-fi lifestyle” or the "urban lifestyle" has brought about in the life of not just the grown ups but also in the life of a small kid of the new generation??

Have heard my mom telling that wen she was a kid, she n her friends used to sit near the window facing the mango tree n wait till they saw or heard a ripe mango fall on the ground n then they used to run to collect it before the lady of the house cud get it… Dad says, he n his friends used to enjoy swimming in the canal (a water canal system mainly intended for irrigation) near to their home, n climbing trees n plucking fruits…

Well, as far as I can recollect about my childhood, most of it went in indoor games n to some extend some outdoor games like badminton, kho kho or dorge ball or stapu (the game mostly played by girls where u have a small flat stone piece in hand and are supposed to throw in the different columns one by one and have to jump from one column to the other with one leg folded. Well, I don’t think I have given a good enough explanation. Also ppl call it by different names, so u guys may not even be able to understand by the name i used...) or pitthu ( a game in which u have a pile of flat stones, carefully searched from the backyard or the school ground, u are supposed to aim at the pile by a ball n then again are supposed to rearrange them back in the "Kutub Minar style", the biggest at the bottom and narrowing down as u go up.. All this u r supposed to do in the midst of all the running around and one team trying to make the other team out.. I guess, u wud be thinking, yes, it used to be fun...) n there are some more games to name a few...

But, u know? Its been yrs thatI saw a kid play these games… they all are very busy with their studies n other activities which they are forced to do like attending self development classes, singing or dancing classes n not to forget the biggest culprit : the tuition classes…and they are made to believe they actually like doing those extra curricular activities instead of going out n playing with their friends.. Well, competition s high and every parent wants to make their kids "the all rounder".

My nephew, at the very young age of 3 knew how to switch on a pc, put his CD n play his fav game n play the rhymes he likes… He can play his fav animation movie “Hanuman” (very sweet one indeed) on the DVD player without anybody having to help him…

But can these movies n stories written on CDs be any comparison for the fun of listening ur fav bed time story from ur grandma ( in my case it used to be my sis.. she is the eldest among the three of us and used to read a lot.. so knew "all" the stories, is wot v believed. before v slept, she used to tell me n my brother one story every night. n wen she was actually exhausted with her "big" collection, she started making stories on her own n telling us..they used to be very unpractical but v used to believe it all :).. she still does that with her kids ;) )?

Well, if I continue like this, there will be many a things and the list will be endless..
These, which were a part of our life once n will remain,now, in just our memories…
V atleast have the memories, wot will our kids have??

But whom do v blame for these things that v are losing, and the life that the kids are unaware of…

I know, v cannot change the lifestyle v have now, but cant v just spare some time out of our so called busy schedules for the ppl v love, for those whom v care and for ourselves..
N try to add some emotions n feelings to the mechanical life that v are leading..

Well, guys I actually wonder " Agar yahi jeena hei to marna kya hei?????????? "
Just give it a thought guys…

About the author.. ;) i mean

"me"

Hey, before actually starting with my blogs, I wud prefer to give an intro about myself n wot actually made me become a blogger... I don’t know how many will be actually interested in knowing this but m still writing for very simple reason “I just want to “ :)

Me in my words:

• A telecom professional working in a reputed software company in India, trying to do something called as “telecom testing”
  A “bangalorean” now, m sure I will say “proud bangalorean” after a few more months pass by... too good a place to live in if u can actually forget about THE BIG TRAFFIC JAMS..
  
• Was a “proud and happy Mumbai’ite” till a few months back... Spent the most memorable part of my life there...
  
• Hail from South India, but lived most of my life in north eastern n central ( well..not exactly central) part of India. And now am somehow in the South. Though basically from south, I cannot say "am now back in south" since was never in this part in childhood... Hey do u know? I have a foreign origin? ie. was born in a foreign land.... Hmm keep guessing where it was.... ( I wont reveal the fact that it was actually " Bhutan".. I know, wen u say foreign, u tend to think UK, US n all... Ise kehte hein " khoda pahad nikla chuha ;)")

Well, there was me, till a few yrs back who used to know absolutely nothing about the interesting n vast world of bloggers n blogs, was even unware of its existance..
Came to know thru some friends who were actually very active in the blogger world and are very renowned (is wot I have heard about them and I actually believe it!!).. I used to read their blogs but used to be happy being just a mute spectator who didn’t even used to bother to leave a comment...
Not because the blogs were not good but because I didn’t know the importance of a comment den... It is termed as “comment” but actually is a compliment, suggestion, views n much more... that gives more insight to the writer about the topic other than, of course, strengthening his/her confidence n boosting his/her morale..

I have no experience in writing other than just writing some "good morning mails" to my friends grp, looooongs mails (which I enjoy writing ) to some close friends, few testimonials in orkut n of course some poems n stories in college competitions.

Well, now don’t think that I am a poet or a story writer… I used to participate in only those competitions which were in Hindi, be it elocution, poem writing or story writing or wotever...not because I had the talent in me but just because of my “knowledge of our national language...” (thanks to my dads job and my upbringing). Well, it is a pity, I know,but in Kerala (u can actually add on the rest of the south Indian states too in this list), not many are fluent with this language, Hindi. So I used to have an edge over them n used to guarantee a prize for my house atleast in Hindi competitions :)
Once I got second prize in Hindi elocution and I was pretty happy as it was nice to know that there were more ppl who knew the language at least... Well, came to know later that even that participant was born n brought up outside Kerala...

Oops, I wandered away from the topic... (that is one of my drawbacks, start somewhere, reach somewhere n end up wondering how to end n where. Result: too long a mail :( )...

Well, till a few months back, I used to be driven by my so called intuition. There never used to be any logical reasons for wot I said or did or felt. Had nothing wotsoever to do with the big thing called as “thinking”. One of my friends used to do that for me and I was pretty happy and comfortable that way... I have these three close friends who actually have a “bimari of thinking and analyzing” anything and everything that comes their way. Well, didn’t know then that it was a “thinking bug” that I guess now has been passed on to me too... (“Bug “, I know all testers would love to find one but a developer wud hate to get one to be fixed!!)... Well, this is actually a different kind of bug which I am happy with, even though m at the receiving end :)

Sometime back, it so happened that one of my friends said a plain compliment about my writing (mails) style that “it has actually improved a lot”. And another friend, with whom m just in the beginning phase of befriending (thru mails) who said that “I liked your mail. Its very sweeeeet. You can become very good writer.” (I know u guys must be wondering who are these ppl jinhone mujhe itna khatarnaak idea diya?.. Well, I won’t reveal, I know u will beat them for sure ;)

Well, I guess I took those sentences too seriously n too literally n here I am, trying to write my first ever blog :).. who knows, one day i might become a gr8 writer n may become the winner of the "booker prize".. Well, my annadata at one time, Mr. dhirubhai Ambani has said "think big, think high, Ideas are nobody's monopoly".. That was my inspiration for thinking sooooooooo high.. if he was alive, m sure he wud have taken his words back ;)

Had read somewhere that u shud use simple language wen u write or talk as it conveys the feelings better rather than wen made to sound complicated with too tough a language... M going to use this policy...( I hope this statement will cover up for my not so good writing style n pathetic vocabulary, not that bad but nothing impressive about it either..)

I don’t have a gr8 GK, no interest in current affairs n stuff... so my topics will mostly be about, some incidences that happened, wot I felt, wot I thought, human nature n all ie. mostly things that happen in our everyday life but things n their importance v fail to notice ...

Have no idea about any rules n regulations of blogging so its gonna be “free form writing” like the “free form testing” where u r not actually tied up with the limited test cases and test plans..

In short they are going to be some of my thoughts... just penned down for who so ever wishes or rather bothers/ cares to read...