Time Lapse...

Dont we all have this feeling that life is going too fast... that we cant take it at this pace anymore... Don't you sometimes feel life was way better when you were a little kid... and people and places have changed so much... Like the world is rotating at a faster rate... days pass by even before you could blink...
This video brings all those feelings back... Such a powerful video... Its as though the race against time will never end... Its as though we have fallen into this artificial world... like some video game.. where everything is a blur... You dont even know who you are... You have no clue what you are doing... But your in a race... just because everyone else is in it too....

Diwali : Festival Of Lights ( read noise).....

Deepasya Aavalihi = Deepaavalihi
Thats how the word originated. Its sanskrit. The word deepa means light and aavalihi means arrangement... So it means "Arrangement or Display of lights"... Over the past few years my outlook towards this festival has completely changed.....

1997....

I was in 6th grade. My mom woke me at about 4:00 am in the morning. I was not sleeping actually. I was full of excitement. It was DIWALI!!! Hurray!!! I took a hot water bath with "sheekai", got the blessing of my grandparents and took my new clothes from them. Wore them as soon as i could and ran out with my bag of crackers.
After bursting crackers for more than five hours straight, i went back into the house tired and hungry. Mom served me with awesome sweets and then the main course.
Then we all sat down to watch some new flick on TV. After that a small nap....
Evening we went to the terrace and there were rockets, flower pots, chakkars etc etc... Then dinner and then another movie on TV...

2006

I got up at arond 9:00 am... Would've slept for a longer time if not for those idiotic crackers... Slowly and unwillingly i got up, brushed my teeth, had coffee and came and sat in front of my computer... Checked my mail. I then took my mobile phone and was disgusted to find my inbox flodded with "WISH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A VERY HAPPY DIWALI" messages. Deleted them all, dint bother to reply tomost of them...
The noise outside was extremely irritating and getting on my nerves by now... So i came back to my computer and was just browsing...
I looked outside my window, and my face lightened up... IT HAD STARTED TO RAIN!!!
The north-east monsoon has set in... HURRAY!! No more crackers, no more noise... I imagined what my reaction would have been if it had rained like this on diwali day few years back... I would've been so dejected....
I dont like diwali anymore... Its just noise noise everywhere... I have completely lost that "Spirit Of Diwali" that i still have no clue as to what movies are gonna be aired today on TV!
This is a conversation i had with a friend some time back...

He: Hi da, have you bought clothes and crackers?
Me: No dude, I dont burst crackers anymore.
He: Oh.. You are missing out on all the fun man! You are not one of those "pollution"
freaks are you?
Me: Well, Fortunately i AM one of those pollution freaks man.. So tell me, how much
did you spend on the crackers you bought?
HE: I guess around 3000 bucks...
Me: Oh awesome man... know what? you could've as well jus took 3000 bucks and burnt
it in the stove! the only difference is there wont be as much noise... but if you
want i can give you all that noise for free....
HE: Whateva man, dont impose your principles on me....
Me: I am not imposing or anything man, its just that your grown up enough now to know
what is good and what is not....
He: Ok mr. save mother nature! I've gotta go now... Gonna burst some crackers. So see
you soon...
Me: Ok man... i really hope it rains on Diwali... take care...


So here i am... Blogging at 10:30 am.... Something i have never done on any Diwali before....

Antarctica Time lapse: A Year on Ice

I saw this video and my jaw was hanging in amazement... I love cold climatic conditions... I wish i were in antarctica... What a beautiful place... check out the 'Aurora Australis' towards the end.. it just fascinates me... This is one hell o va video.. dont miss it....

The Bus Trip : Part II....

I was travelling by PTC toaday ( yet again ).... I luckily got a seat and that too a window seat... As i was looking outside ( to my right ) i noticed this slaughter-house truck loaded with so many goats. These goats were all crammed up into such a tiny area... They literally had no place to even move an inch... A very disturbing thought came to me... These goats are going to die soon... I wondered what it would feel like to know that you are going to die soon... and i wondered if the goats knew their plight... Why do humans inflict pain on so many other creatures? I felt so sorry for the goats. With this disturbing thought in mind, i slowly looked away and turned to my left......
I saw so many people in the bus.. all crammed into such a tiny area... They literally had no place to even move an inch.... And a smile spread across my face.... These humans were suffering more than those goats....... I dint feel sorry for these people...

Rain...

I detest people who detest rain.. Its is such a lovely thing.. I jus love to stand in the rain and enjoy the feeling of water droplets falling on my face... I love the sound of thunder and the power of the lightning... It is as if the sky intends to clean us all up and wash away all our emotions and feelings and when we wake up the next morning we are in a new world, deviod of all that we went through in the past... A new beginning...
I met A.R on orkut.. I was captivated by her photographic skills... The picture above was shot by her... I am in love with that photo.... Nothing else can describe the beauty of rain more than that photo....

Carpe Diem....

A friend of mine recently said... "Why are most of your posts very depressing?"
That made me think a lot... Why am i depressed? Well, one reason is evident from my previous post... Looking at the bigger picture, I realized the problem with me is that i think too much into the future... and when i don get what i expect i get depressed...
This was the right time to understand the phrase 'Carpe Diem'... A latin phrase meaning 'Snatch the day'....
Thanks a lot miss "Random thoughts from chennai to canada" for making me realize a few things... And from now on i will try not post depressing stuff unless absolutely neccesary....