Goodbye 07 !....

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( The first one to read this was Mr adheesh'LP' , obviously ;) .. and
i could not find any layout problem wit this page.. copy + paste to a
notepad was a good idea anyway )
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I dont know how God looks like - it is not like how those paintings
depict anyway -  bearded, old , uncool . All I know is that he is a
good off-side player - they say 'after god there comes saurav  ! '.(a
saying among cricket fans, especially indians, just trying a joke
here! )

In Sunday school we were taught that each of us will have to face him
one day.Who knows when and what all questions does he love to ask.I
hope all sincere guys will be picked in his team.Whatever be the
religion and all..

Drunkards will be welcome to heaven - they are like children atleast
when drunk...In fact Sinners are actually closer to God. Every time
they break the string of love they are attached to god with ,he 
re-connects them..and ,they getcloser and closer to god.No doubt
 good people will have a wild card
entry. No questions asked.Thus in the end most of them will be in.
Politicians and Terrorists will be kept out ,maybe..Hope they will
also get a benefit of doubt-for many of them what they do is 'holy
war'.All children will be there in heaven,all mothers will be
there,all young people will be there hallowed by their loving ways of
friendship and 'friar'ship.Afterall our God is a loving God...The only
kind that should be left out is those who fake love and those who
cheat.All sins can be justified some way or other but faking love
never can be.

Reading 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens once again on the
christmas eve,I got some insights.Some insights were rekindled
actually, for those things were inside me always.December and the
magic of christmas help introspections.I realized that this christmas
could be the turning point-the christmas that separates a sensitive
young boy and a cold adult.I had been this boy all my life who had
nothing and still was happy.The boy who knew that his life depends on
a lot of people and his happiness also depends on others.He was just
grateful that nothing was going wrong for him.He was happy inside,
whatever the world served him .Was it a small overflowing mind
building a fools paradise? Was it a mild case of Stockholme syndrome?
Doesnt matter anyway.The important thing I realized while going
through that evergreen lovely christmas novel can help
everybody who is afraid of trading the child inside of them for
adulthood and the sins which come alongwith it. The chilling
possibility of becoming an Ebenezer Scruge ,who is the central
character of the fantasy novel can be felt while one is halfway
through the book.While in school and college all of us are loved by
most people.We might not have a single school mate who is a hated soul
in the village.But look at the adult generation-a good percentage of
them are unbearable.So , somewhere the evolution must take place.Some
of us cool guys will turn into cold adults , and the thought is
chilling.Imagine your adult soul being helped through above your
hometown streets by one of the three famous 'christmas ghosts' (must
read christmas carol first of all).At 2050 , you are an old man (
maybe trying to look young in T shirts and jogging tracks and shoes
and all ) and all of a sudden on a christmas eve you are roaming in
the company of a friendly ghost and you see the hell lot of people you
turned your face from.You see the happiness you denied to others and
what kind of a cold winter you were to your fellow beings.You will see
how much you misused the valuable time of your life.And you will see
fellow souls too.College mates , close friends,and even
forefathers...The misery with them will be,clearly, that they will
seek to interfere, for good, in human matters, and will find to have
lost the power for ever.Very very deep subjects these are, I dont know
how to explain.I have some concepts anyway..Deep inside I am a sincere
christian kid..I dont care how uncool I sound here.And I also know I
will never get to share these boring ideas with anyone too.This blog
is the most un-publishable I have written , it seems.Atleast It can be
a small diary note , atleast..

Anyway , was it a good year ! 2007 . ..I hit some funny and secret goals
I had set,It got me a job and I am getting pretty good salary ,
much higher than what I was expecting
earlier as a boy. In my high school dreams I placed myself as a
graduate  in  an advertising company, doing research and suggesting
ideas.I had a collection of the weekly column called 'ad-lip' which
appeared in The Indian Express. I had my list of favourite ads ,
blunder ads etc.All turned out to be nothing. I flowed along
mainstream and ended up as an 'engineer'.( With all respect to real
engineers !! lol lol lol !!! ). I was really good in physics but even
that fact makes a joking picture of me now. Good in physics and trying
to learn java.Amen. ( Anyway the ad guy in my dream would never fetch
a five figure! )

I now belong to chennai very much. This new city is where I want to be
- cultured people , cricket loving and kind. My company is cool too-
my friends are sucking deep in the  infees, teeceeyesses and
vipprows.And  I am enjoying christmas vacation here, warming the
famous 'bench' from home rather than office .( From dec 20 to 31, it
was unexpected ! thanks to 'sub-prime-crisis' .. eh.. sorry.. cant
reveal more.. classified information :) ..)A beautiful christmas
vacation it was.. the village is loving me.. This too shall pass I
know , tomorrow it is return ticket time. Back to
tharaward.'Tharaward'.. the name our chennai home.. the real domain..
for the coming year and one more, maybe.

Life seems good at this point. ' This too shall pass ' I know. Still
the ball is in my court as far as my life is concerned.I make my own
happiness. When I go to sleep I feel that 'I am the master of my fate
and captain of my soul'.. Perfectly normal , I suppose for an
independent boy ..eh .. man. Once independent , there should be no
looking back for a young man..Lot of things are waiting to be done in
2008.

'2008' even  looks powerful and energetinc than '2007' also!..I hope
all of us will have a good year ahead.