Guests can be the bests with some ifs and buts....

“Athiti Devon bhava” the Sanskrit phrase  needs a lot more of explanation because I cannot comprehend it ,not because I know little Sanskrit, but because I want some thoughtful emphasis on the numbers,categories and duration of the guests as well.One cannot handle a dozen of guests with the same tempo in scorching summers as one can do when the number restricts to 2 or 3.When we are talking about guests  then we need to be ready for all the categories.There may be some who  won’t really mind asking for their favourite dish from their invisible mind written menu cards,some others might  get so comfortable that they may  wishfully misunderstand your home as  a real sweet home.I mean how offensive it would be to live in a house which is near one of the stations,never really  could hit my mind in such a way,before.Well anyone reading the blog must have had understood by now the fact, that I am not happy and the straight away simple reason is that I am sick of too much of “guesting”.

It is not that I like to live an unsocial recluse life,I appreciate being in touch with everyone,I like to meet people and and I do believe in giving them warm welcome but what if someone you know little are going to stay (not just as a meeting)…Yes they mean it STAY. Specially when they are not even one of your relatives,then physically and mentally you start retreating yourself from the word “GUEST” even more.C’mon I need my own space at my own house.I can’t see my cozy master bedroom getting occupied by someone whom I least know,I cant push all my stuffs into drawers and wait for them to go.(yes I am possessive for my belongings).I need to access Internet which I won’t be able to, for the next few days,my Friends series will too go on a break(Because we live in a house, not hotel that I can find place for every ABC thing I want to do).Oh so many sacrifices…God have I become so pathetically nonadjustable??and am I my parents’ daughter who are so very excited to see them after long long years?? Waiting desperately for my space back and singing to the tunes of “Atithi tum kab jaoge”…here, I sign off…L

Akshya

Newspapers???

I have vacations and reading newspaper is a good habit(as thay say it :)).So yes I am a bit more informed about my surrounding these days .From past few days the latest news which flushed out on the newspaper pages were all  about the 34 years of end of Left’s reign  in east and Mamata ddi’s splendid win,ofcourse accompanying Jayalalitha or amma’s win in south, which obviously followed the editor’s and media person’s predictions and critics for many days on the grand events as the aftermaths.(As if the Bangloreans or Mumbaites or any outsider has got  to do anything with how well  these two madams are going to perform on the big stage or how much Bengal or Tamil Nadu are going to gain or loose).Well and yes ofcourse then the petrol price hike news(which has become such a routine work nowadays  that it’s hard to call it a news now!! ).Ahha  see I told I am reading :)

Though with internet gaining momentum many of us prefers to have a look on the headlines on wwws or even the job lookers do not need to rely on rozgar pages of newspapers,  but still newspapers have its utmost significance maintained till today in our daily life. Even though we get the same news being repeated hundresds of times on TV channels ,still the morning freshness with a cup of tea can only be felt completely when you get your hands on newspaper(for many of us!!).

I really get amused at times on how important an engagement it becomes, for many people at many places.Let it be offices,railway stations or even airports,one can easily find a good 60% of the public engrossed into newspapers atleast when  the clock shows a time between 6am to 10 am.

        Once while travelling from Bhubaneswar to Bangalore which takes almost 

30 hours, I found a co-passenger,an uncle  ,who was also travelling alone.To my surprise rather shock, he spent atleast 15 hours of the journey reading newspaper where at the same position I was awfully frustrated with the boring journey and was continuously switching between movies and magazines. Though I can understand the binding force a  novel provides with its sequencential flow but how can a newspaper create the same magic??(Yes it can be a good question for many newspaper readers like me :))

Anyways what I can think of now can only be of  what a different person I could have been with an intellectual interest in newspapers.I would have known all the scandal’s histories,I would have been able to know better about the share markets or the Indian dramatical politics ,I would have had an unbeatable vocabulary power or rather in a nutshell I would have been a miniature form of encyclopedia .But after thourough self analysis I know now, no matter how hard I give it a try  still I am going to stuck myself between 5 to 6 articles :)

Tip:-Reading headlines is a great job as well..Join wih me :)

Cheers!!

Akshya

I am thinking...

Dear blog,

Why do I write so seldom??

1.I don’t have time- The bleakest excuse.

2.I don’t like writing blogs- Hell!! then why would have I started it on the first place??

3.I don’t find relevant topics- Liar Liar you don’t need to find topics ,if you have that tempo then it comes to you by all odds.

4.I am a Facebook freak –Used to happen long time  back,(touch wood )I am normal these days.

5.I have become more professional-Yeah I do spend lots of time these days finding & evaluating better options for me but did I ever deny that I love blogs.

6.I like reading blogs more- Here my thinking machine hits a ‘eureka’ key.Yeah may be I like reading more about people,their views or some national issue blogs or just anything .So now when I know the reason I will try to maintain may be not an equal balance but atleast a less imbalance between the two J.