My Friend Shakthi

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"

Shakthi is one of the few such friends in my life. Lot of people come into our lives but people like him stay in your heart and memories forever. What can I say? He is one of the most wonderful people in the world. A very lively, jovial, optimistic and a positive personality, being in his company is the most pleasurable and refreshing experience I would say.

What I like the most about Shakthi? Well, he has this wonderful talent (should I say) of laughing away all the worries and sorrows. To put it in his own words he has mastered the art of efficiently managing frontend and backend :).

Going back to the title of the post, it sounds very familiar to one of the most recent animated movies, "My Friend Ganesha" :). Infact, I would say we share a similar relationship as in the movie. No, not exactly a “God-like” person or something, they say “whatever your heart clings to and confides to is really your GOD”. For me it is a belief, strength which gives you hope and encouragement to get better in life and his friendship has helped me revive myself as a person and helped me regain my kind of lost confidence in myself. Thanks Shakthi, for being there for me always.

Why am I writing this post today? Well, tomorrow, the 15^th October is his birthday. And I could not think of a better gift than dedicating this post to him (btw he is one of the people who has inspired me to start blogging).

Happy Birthday Shakthi!!! May this year bring lot of happiness, success and prosperity in your life….

Sajti rahe khusiyon ki mehfil, Har khushi suhani rahe

Aap zindagi mein itne khush rahe ki, Har khushi aapki Diwani rahe

Hope you liked this surprise…..

Ah, this post will be incomplete without his favorite punchline "Whatte Fun!!!" :)

Ps: I wanted to keep this a surprise, so did not take your permission to post a blog about you. Hope you don’t mind

Life's Like This???

I'm back with the treasures from my pandora box.

One of my hobbies was to collect good articles form various sources. During my Pune days I was a regular visitor of rediff especially the Rediff Diary. I would like to share some of the articles from my collection once in a while. 

Here's the first one for you. There was this nice poem about life which I quite liked it...

Life's Like That

Life's a busy schedule

Once your are born cool

Soon your are in school

With friends in the pool

Physics, Chemistry and workbooks

Confused between theorems and your looks

Feeling curious what mummy cooks

Ready with shirt without hooks

School over, college starts

Posters of Madonna replaces chemistry charts

Maruti in, out bullock carts

Dating, flirting are on the cards

Mamma's kitchen recipies close

Restaurants, pizzas no one oppose

College over, begin professional course

Choose computers ofcourse

Between LOTUS and WORDSTAR

You wonder where is your lucky star

Your job is full of scars

No time to visit bars

Growing old, marry soon

Have kids and frequent honeymoon

Goes morn, come noon

You with Ramayana, kids with Mills and Boon

Here it begins, here it ends

This is life, my friends

This, friends, is probably the lifestyle of most of us.  Many a times I wonder "What is it that we are achieving in life. Sincerely handling our duties and responsibilities at every stage of our life?????". Naah....that's not an achievement for me in any ways. 

I have always wanted to do something unique, challenging in life. The world around has given us, taught us a lot of things by the virtue of which we are what we are today. In return we need to given back something to the world, in whatever form it might be. That according to me is the true sense of LIVING. 

But, I must admit that never in my life till date have I ever felt that I have contributed something great....This definitely is thought provoking!!! What say???

Well, these were just my few thoughts about life. I now open the thinking box for you all to fill in with your thoughts....

When you were born,

You CRIED and the world REJOICED

Live your life such that-

When you die,

The world CRIES and you REJOICE

See you soon with more stuff....