Taare Zameen Par.

This movie, the way it was taken just took my breath away. The story is fabulous, it touches your heart so much that you leave the movie with a lot of things going through your head and a lot of emotion in your heart.

Hats off to Aamir Khan for not making any movie that comes his way. This movie deserves all the accolades possible. But, the real star of the movie was that young kid, Darsheel Safary. What a brilliant portrayal by him, he makes you smile and cry at the drop of a hat..

If you have not seen this movie yet please go out and watch it. It's fantastic.. Don't look for some dramatic story or any high flying action. Just appreciate the message that they are trying to convey. It's beautiful...

Rahul..

Probably my last blog of the year.. -- Random Musing

Hmm..

Well I've been quite moody lately.. Don't know what's going on but, well have been snapping at people more than normal... Have been a lot more on edge.. Well, I guess it happens from time to time...

There are times when I feel a lot less moody and am quite Sociable, this is one of those moments I guess, 'caus I'm taking the time to write this blog.. There have been a few people I have snapped at over the last few days.. Not really their fault.. I've noticed one fact about me when I'm in this state.. I either tend to get a lot of work done or do absolutely nothing, just sleep.. Man, I'm a guy of extremes..

Well the New year is on our head.. I started this year with a huge revelation to my folks and a few weeks of sheer torture before the dust started to settle and there was not hiding anymore.. But then before I knew it I was on a flight to the US of A. To a new world with new experiences and well, I'm not really embarrassed to say it but, yeah, I did shed a few tears on that flight, in that airport.. I was leaving behind everyone in my life who meant anything to me.. If you read my blog you know by now who I am talking about.. My family.. My girl, my sis, my folks and a few close friends.. I don't know, feels like I've been here so long, but it's just been 8 1/2 months...

I thought I'd adjust to this world quite easily.. Little did I realize just how much I would miss a certain someone.. Well, thank God for calling cards.. They are a life saver... And now, all I am looking forward to is April, when I go home for 2 weeks to see everyone and to name certain relationships and etch them in stone forever and ever.

Well world.. Wish your 2007 was fruitful.. Hope 2008 is a great year.. Happy New Year!

Chill and Take care..

Rahul..

Google Brain

Watch this short Vid, quite funny..

:)

http://blogoscoped.com/videos/googlebrain.wmv

Rahul

Why watch movies?

Why do we watch movies? Why do we spend 2 hours watching fiction?

Different people have different reasons... Well most just like to spend a few hours lost in a fictional world marveling in the wonders of story telling.

There are those of us who enjoy seeing things blown up or watching movies about wars or maybe just mindless killing.

But honestly, which are the movies that really touch your heart. They are the movies about Human interaction, movies about relationships, Good or bad, the way the relationships are portrayed are what capture our imagination.

I love watching movies about the human spirit, or movies about relationships, I admit that movies about love capture my imagination more than others because I find them easier to relate to... But a movie good when I pulls you in and makes you feel a part of the story or makes it easy for you to find your story in the movie.

There are so many times when I watch a movie where there are scenes that I think were so wonderful, seems just like me and my girl. But that's just me..

I still enjoy a movie that makes you laugh from start to finish, those movies are meant to forget your troubles for a few hours and just be lost in the moment.

But movies and the stories they convey are more than just entertainment at times, they can be quite therapeutic if they make you laugh, cry or remember your emotions for a few hours they make you whole again in this hard nosed corporate world.

Well that's my opinion anyway..

PS. If you are wondering.. Yes, I wrote this blog just after watching a movie...

Rahul...

QuarterLife, Afterworld, YouTube, MySpace..

Do you really need a TV anymore? Real life, Semi professional or semi amateur videos, blogs all these things seem so much more real and interesting than anything I have seen on television.

Any way just a quick blog before I hit the sack.

Found this new series online, seems to be quite cool, check it out if you get the chance, looks like it's about the confused life of our generation. Seems fun and real all at once.


Website : http://www.quarterlife.com/

You Tube Trailer :



Anyway these series, give me something to do online.. :) .. Afterworld a cool concept, if you have not seen it yet check out my previous post on it. It's into Season 3 now..

Rahul

Generations - The Eternal Conflict

Many years ago I drew this picture...

This picture symbolizes the eternal conflict I have with my Dad. Well It's not a picture to say we don't get along. I guess it is one which says we always have different points of view.

As a child, I grew up in awe of my Dad, he is a brilliant man, someone whom anyone can look up to. Seeing my dad come up in his career, well that story is inspirational.

I have never wanted to enter my father's chosen career path, I have not wanted that life, but one thing that I do want to be like him is the work ethic, the way he has come up in life, with his own two hands. I want that for me too. I never really knew what I wanted to do with my life.. Maybe I still don't, But I have now reached a stage where I feel like I enjoy what I do, my job, though it may have it's ups and downs, though it may have the occasional day when I wonder what the hell is this. I really love it, and there is one thing that my dad taught me. Put in an honest day's work, when you put your head on the pillow in the night, if you have you will sleep well.

Over the years as I have grown up. I am in the 24th year of my life. I am no child any more. No one would say that. But some where, at some level, the fear of my father still exists. The eternal need for his approval, wanting to prove to him that I am capable of making something of myself.

Well, I am not sure if I am anywhere close to the goal of proving to him that I am capable, and that I can take good decisions in my life and in my own way be a success one day. But, I feel, I am at a stage where I should be able to talk to him openly about what I feel, what I want from my life, because, at the end of the day it is my life.. I need to live by my choices, Right or Wrong, mine to make.

This fear, so deep seeded that anything I ever wanted to tell my dad was through a letter, I never could speak to him. My weapon has been silence, I have used it so many times in my life, it comes to me too naturally. Silence though is wrong. the Silent form of protest is torture for the ones you love. I guess even though when I put my hand on a keyboard or a pen the words flow through, the conversations that matter never seem to leave my lips.
I'm no child anymore, I'm in love, i have been for many years now, I'm working, I'm a professional, I respect people I work with and I get the same in return as well. But, in front of Dad, I still sometimes feel like a child, and sometimes still throw my silent tantrum.


Well the reason I started writing this blog was to tell myself a few things. I'm not a kid anymore and I should stand up and say what I feel. I respect and admire my Dad a lot for what he has achieved in his life, but that is no reason for me to be scared of him. It's my life, I have to live it, and maybe make some of my own mistakes.

But, this blog has ended up more as a very personal account of my relationship with my father. A man I love, respect and admire, a man I need to learn not to fear, but to trust. I love my dad, I don't say it very often, It's true. This is a really new blog for me, never have I spoken about how I feel when I comes to my parents. They are my world.

Rahul.

Keep 'em Close.

Ever wondered how important friends are? How they impact our lives? What our lives would be without them in it.


I guess we all know the importance of those precious few. Those friends whom we never lose touch with no matter where we go.


What about the rest. The ones you have had a good time with or a short friendship with at some point in your life.. Most of us don't really bother to keep in touch with them too much.

I was really taken aback by my attitude in this regard when one of my friends. He and I have been friends from longer than I can remember, but as time went on our lives took different paths and we lost touch. It did not really matter to me if I knew where he was or how he was doing. But then one day we met for Lunch and I felt,

"Well it's not right, to take any friendship lightly or brush it aside. No matter how close or how far you are, No matter how well or how little you know each other. A friend is a friend is a friend. Even if you don't make an effort to keep in touch, don't push your friends away".


I guess Orkut helps a lot a us in this regard. Helps me atleast say the occasional Hi to a friend I have not met in a while. Or catch up with a close friend I have not had the chance to talk to.. Or to just reminisce with friends I met just a day earlier.


The point is, no matter how.

Friends are important. Keep them close. If nothing else, they can bring a smile to your face.

Rahul...

Pick Me Up..

Over the years, when I've felt really down in the dumps, when I've felt really confused.. Not really sure what life is about or what I'm doing with mine, there has been one song that has lit up my day and brought a smile to my face.

Through these years I have been very possessive about this song. I have let only a few of my close friends and some of my relatives listen to it while I tell them what it means to me. I know that sounds silly. How can you be possessive about a published lyric, a song that's not yours. But this song, is a story of most of our lives. There are parts of this song we can all relate to. I felt today that this is something everyone should listen to a few times in their lives. So what I am doing here is 2 fold.

This is the song :



These are the lyrics (These are from my friends Blog, Natty) :

http://ennangal-ezhuthanal.blogspot.com/2007/10/well-make-it-through.html

If ever you feel down or you feel you don't know where your life is headed, don't fret, all of us go through that from time to time. Me well I feel it quite often.

This song delivers a few truths in a manner that you would actually listen. But my advice. If you really want the most out of this song. SING ALONG. You'll pick up the lyrics on this one faster than you can imagine.

Trust me on this one. This song is a must hear for everyone. At least twice.


Rahul ..

Rahul's Blah - Really Don't Know what to Call this Blog... Too Many things in One..

Topics in my blog have ranged from the Mundane to the Thought provoking to the Really Really Personal.

I have been an on and off blogger for over two years now. When I discovered this medium of communication, I found for myself an outlet to one of my favorite pass times. I love to write. No matter what it is about. The subject matter more often than not has reflected my mood at the current time. Of course I know my writing at times seems to ramble on with out getting to the point, but that has more to do with the flow of thoughts in my mind than the actual inability to write.

Over the years I must have tried to maintain a diary (Unsuccessfully) documenting the tings that have happened in my life. I used to write in my diary for a few weeks or a best months and then I would slack off and completely forget that I ever had one. Then sometime down the road the urge would be back to write, to log my thoughts and feelings and it would be back a New diary with new new events.

This stop and start nature has continued with my blog as well. But it has been the longest I have ever kept up with anything to do with writing that I have started.
Blogging in a sense gives me this strange kind of release where I know I might be read one day or the next and it not being written for no one to ever see again.

The possibility is always there that what I have written gets read by those close to me and they know what I am feeling and how I am doing. I remember one such blog that provoked quite a strong reaction once.

But then I have to say, Rahul on the blog world is Anonymous, on most occasions Posts here are not things I discuss while I am not on my blog. In a sense it is a release a way for me to share my thoughts and feelings.

I love comments, I love responses. I like most people like to know that others read my blog. But like most journals, my online journal seems to be quite repetitive in a sense. Moods and feelings that come and go, when documented all seem to similar.

Although I have been blogging for a long time now, I have started reading blogs only off late. I find that a lot of us find that our blogs give us the easiest ways to vent our feelings. Not too many of us actually publicize our blogs, of course we make it known that we have one and it is open for all to see. Reading certain blogs at times makes me feel so close to friends I have not met in a long time or even those that I do not know very well. I has reinforced a lot of friendships for me.

The frequency of my blogs has increased exponentially since I have come to U.S.A. Well I guess the reason for that is quite simple. I was surrounded by the people I love back home and other than the odd instance or thought that really captured my imagination that I felt needed to be blogged I hardly ever did. I would start of every 3rd or 4th blog with . Wow it's been a while... But here, it is my way to keep in touch with friends and family, for people I know to hear my thoughts and perhaps hear my voice in these words.

Sentimental I know, but that's who I am a Cancerian through and through, I an really attached to my love, my family and my friends. Keeping in touch has never seemed out of my mind.

Today I am blogging only because I wanted to write. I put my fingers on the keyboard and what ever is coming out is from my heart. I know it is tough to give this particular blog a subject as it seems to cover a whole gambit of thoughts. Well I guess it's all about Rahul's Blah...

Not Really A Blog - Just 2 Points of View.

Well my friend just put up a blog. Made sense in a way. And well provoked me to comment.
Comment is long enough for a blog, but I don't want to take the credit away from his blog. So Just the link to the Blog.

http://viswajithandharry.blogspot.com/2007/10/dollar-bug.html

Interesting thoughts Vishwa..

Rahul......

"As we forgive those who trespass against us."

This line is from a prayer that many of us might have said every day for years. (I did for 14 years)
It's a line where we ask God to forgive our sins the way we forgive the sins of others.

Have you ever thought about what it means. What it is to hold a grudge? How it is to will someone ill.
Would we ever be able to live with ourselves if what we wish comes true?

I don't think there is a single person in this world who is evil. There are different points of view. There might be a few people who might do harm to another but they are another story. I am talking about the anyone who is mentally well and has no murderous instincts. This blog is about Love, Hate, Being a good person. I started with a line from that Prayer as i felt it was an apt way to convey a message.

I'm not going to reiterate that message now. Maybe I will later, for now, let's get to the point.

All of us at sometime or the other in our lives would have been hurt by someone. Instinctually we wish that something bad happens to that person. It's something that comes to all of us at that instant. But how far can that hate go? And whom does that hate hurt more?

I can state for a fact if will hurt you more internally than it would ever hurt the person you are hating!

There are occasions where that person does it knowingly to payback something you did or maybe did not do.Or there might be times it might be a provocation. The worst and the most common of all is when we are hurt by someone we love. Someone we care about. We are hurt to such an extent that the pain, the anger and the hate boil up and hurt us more..

So what do we do? Hate back? Hurt Back? I don't think that's the way to go! Well I'm not going to be all spiritual and say Turn the other cheek. It's an option, but in the short term you can try and fix the problem, or you can walk away from the pain.

But as the anger subsides and only the pain remains, try the magic cure.. Try and forgive. It will give you more happiness to forgive and forget the pain than to hold it up inside. Think of the good times and smile. Maybe your relationship with that person may mend, maybe it will never be the same again. Either way, you will be a better person for it. It may take time for this forgiveness to happen, but when it does you feel better.

I have in my own life tried what i am writing here today. And I can say it works.

Be a good person. Don't wish anyone harm. Life's too short for all that. Just be the best you can be, to yourself, your family, your wife, your girlfriend, your best friend, your neighbor, your ex, who ever.. Anyone you encounter. Give them a smile, It might brighten up their day, but it will certainly work wonders on yours.

Rahul......

An Ode to My Love

When She cries, the heavens cry too.

When She's sad, my heart breaks in two.

Her sadness brings pain to my heart.

To make her smile becomes a purpose for me.

I try and I try till my tongue and my eyes can say no more,

But but her eyes say more with every tear than my words can ever say.

I wish I had the power to take away all her sadness and replace it with Joy.

I wish I had the power to make her smile.

To see her smile makes my day, to hear her laugh would take my breath away.

I wish for her to be happy always. To be the best that she can be and make my days for eternity.

Hello World

This is the most common first program that anyone learning a new software writes..

It's an initiation into the language and the structure of that language..

BUT.......

This blog is not about Software..

It's about Me.

A bored Software Engineer who just felt like saying "Hello World".

So What's been happening in my life...

Well nothing much really.. I was insanely busy over the last month and frankly I couldn't think of anything to write about. But now I am sitting idle.. I'm in between assignments and I felt it is the right time to write a blog...

I never did realize how working becomes a part and parcel of your day to day activities..



It's only when you sit back and have nothing to do for a few days do you realize how cool it is to go to work everyday and do something all day long..

Not giving your self more than a few minutes every now and again to relax and just spending the day with colleagues/co-workers and friends..

I guess enjoy work or not.. We all love Work at some level. There is no way we can get through day after day if we did not. I we don't like what we do, we learn to like it.. Well I never did think when I started out on this line of work that I would like it at all. Now 2 years down the line.. When I get my first chance to sit back and think about it I realize that I actually enjoy the challenge. Be it the coding, be it the calls, be it the design sessions.. I enjoy it all.. We all somewhere along the way find something that we love in our jobs even if there is a lot that we hate..


I never pictured myself as a guy who would be singing the praises about working. But well I guess I surprise myself at times..

Chill Guys...

Cya..

AfterWorld.. Where will you be after the Fall.

Check Out Afterworld..

It's a new Online series..

It's an interesting concept.. What would happen to the world if 99% of the population disappeared and technology became non existent..


There are videos and a journal which tracks the protagonist's life.. His Name is Russel Shoemaker. Seems to be a normal guy trying to make the best.

The series is of to a solid start and I hope to continues in the same vein.

A nice combination of Anime and Story.. The only thing that I can say is a little frustrating is the length of the episodes..

They are just too Short... Just as u start getting into it it's over..

Take my advice..

Pace your self.. Don't see all the old episodes on one day if you are new to the series..

You'll have to wait for a new one to come out every day..

:)

Anyway, Hope you like it.. I find it fun...

the URL is : http://www.afterworld.tv

I guess the videos are uploaded on YouTube as well the Channel is called AfterworldTV..

Enjoy..

Rahul

Friends...

There are so many people, who touch your life in so many different ways,

When you sit back and think about it..

It makes your day..

The friends through the years, the friends who where there when you needed one..

The friends who are in different parts of the world now but their friendship and memory still brings a smile to your face..

They are your friends..

They are priceless..

This blog is dedicated to Friendship...

Treasure your friends..

They will be there for you even when they are not around..

Sit back and think for a while...

Remember your friends...

Remember your times together...

Here's to Friendship

Rahul...

Congratualtions Team India

Well That's a Test Series Win For India.. And what do you know, Anil Kumble scored a century.

Well it's been a while coming, they have started winning matches and recently series overseas and we have started expecting it more and more from them, especially from teams we feel they are equally matched against.


Congrats Team India, That's an impressive win.

Rahul..

A Thought

Whatever you do in life... Give it your Best Shot...

To give it you best shot, you should really want to..

Love what you do and it will turn out well..

And....

You will love doing it.


Just a thought...

(This applies to anything you do I guess.. Not just your Job.)


Rahul

A Personal Congratulations to Rahul's Blah

Well Almost 2 Years old

Next month it will be.

I started Blogging on 2nd September 2005.

My Previous blog was supposed to contain this congratulatory message to Me.

Considering my 50th Blog has been a long time coming.

I have started and scrapped a lot of blogs over the last few weeks and months, I guess it was writers block or maybe it was just being lazy and/or tired.

Anyway congrats on your GOLDEN JUBILEE.




Rahul

OBITUARY

I regret to Inform you that the Live cricket scores that were once available on this Site are no more.

The Source feed seems to be dead.

Here is the link to the Grand Inauguration that we had for the feature

"Cricket On Rahul Blah"

So I felt it is fitting to give it a similar end, with a blog to mourn the Cancellation of the feature.


Who knows, if a new feed shows up somewhere, We might have cricket on Rahul Blah after all.

Regards.

Rahul

Blogging. What it means and Why we do it.

Hmm..

Wiki Defines A Blog as :

A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.


Strange topic to talk about on a blog. I notice a lot of my friends have blogs of their own. Well I guess for each of us it is either a passing fancy to have a blog or just talk to your friends or maybe the unknown world.. For some it might be a way to vent and to express all our thought and feelings somewhere where there is a kind of free abandon. Nothing controlling what we do or say other than those who read the very blogs we write. I assume if a blog gets too graphic or hurts somebody's sentiments a lot it might get flagged and eventually pulled of the air.

But, I guess from most of the blogs I read I find that it is a personal journal or our lives, our thoughts and our inner most feelings. It is not about saving the world, but it is more about healing ourselves. Most are written as if we are talking to our friends and a majority are in first person.

When you know the person well, or if you consider them your friend, then reading their blogs, good or bad makes you feel something for them, but there are situations which my own blog has shown, where a total stranger reads the blog and gets touched by what they have read. It might light up your day or lead you to a situation where you sit down to think or in my case blog.

It has been a while since I have blogged. Well that is mostly since I have been busy with work and there has not been a topic that has really caught my eye or I felt like writing about.

Today when this abstract idea popped into my head I just felt like sitting down to write a blog. It some how makes you happy to share your thoughts with apparent total strangers or the closest of friends or relatives.

I guess that is why people blog. So that what they feel get read. It might get read by atmost one person, but that really does not matter, because we feel happy when we realize that our thoughts are shared with the world.

PS :

What makes people all the more happy is when we see comments on what we write. It's confirmation that you had that patience to read what we wrote.

Rahul...

Another Year.. Another Birthday

Well.. I guess it's Happy Birthday to me..

Another Year another birthday.. Well this year, far away from home it was well a different day..

My birthdays have always been a special day to me. And maybe so because of my family and friends around me. Moreover the last few years, well my birthdays have been wonderful.

This year has been a polar opposite of my birthdays of the past. This year despite my friends trying their very best to make my day special, there was something missing, my family...

Well happy birthday to me. Looking forward to many more birthdays with family around..

Man I sound depressed. My Girl's gonna be so upset when she reads this. Well this is how I feel..
I miss them all.. I miss my Family. I know this is the first time I have been man enough to admit on my Blog, but well that's the fact..

Rahul......

Well It's been a month Since my Last Blog.. I've had a few drafts since then, but have not had the time to work on them.

So here's a blog just to fill some air time

The Flight

This is a Video of US trying some insane stunts at Six Flags over Texas. It was gr8 Fun, The video is a Month old as well. So you can see.. I've not really done much since..


Chill Out...


Rahul

What makes You laugh, Makes me Cry.

Have you ever thought about how often it is that we laugh in the face of another person's agony.

Why is it that we find another person's owes hilarious?

Are We such a hurtful, such a scornful species that we take pleasure in another's pain?

The simplest little thing. A guy gets up in the morning from bed and is walking to the loo and he slips and falls, it would evoke a rip roaring laugh from most people.

It seems to be at the very essence of human life.


If a person you really don't like or a competitor has a hard time somewhere in your heart you feel happy.
Why would anyone take pleasure from another's pain, well that's our nature I guess...

Well this is a blog with a thought to ponder over. Do you Laugh when someone else crys?

Do you find other people laughing when you cry?

Think about it.

Rahul..

When Yesterday was better than Today.

Well a friend once told me,

"The Day you think you yesterdays are better than your todays,
It time for you to do something about it. To make you todays just as good"

Well, I did do something about it 6 years ago. I changed my life, I made my Todays, my only day. I lived for the day. I took each day as it came. I made some great friends and I completely changed as a person. There was nothing that I wanted at that time but make my life different.

That was a stage in my life where I wanted a fresh slate, and to my good fortune I got it. I might have taken it a bit far. And like one of my best friends once said, I developed a new trait, a need to prove myself. To show what I am made of. To show I am good. Something which i didn't really need to do.

Over those 6 years I matured as a person, I overcame a lot of my insecurities and made a lot of great friends. I also learned a lot about people and relationships along the way. I might have as a result become a little less trusting of all people, but very trusting of others. It's a trait I have noticed in myself over the years. I tend to take people at face value a lot. Maybe that's my nature, I am what you get, good or bad, but that's not how the world works, and I am learning that the hard way. I went from a boy out of school, to the guy I am today but my nature has not changed much, I am trusting, angry, loving, honest(at least to myself) and try to be happy.

I have always tried to smile, No matter what, I have tried to smile, when I am feeling down I look in the mirror and give myself a big bright smile, I perks me up a bit. As a result I may get pushed around a bit, not everyone takes me seriously, but this is not a trait I really want to get rid off.

I met someone along the way, that someone changed my life. She has been my emotional support, a friend, a sister, she has always been there for me, through the thick and the thin. She has been wonderful.

And then there was that girl, she came into my life and my life that was taking it's second downward turn and she turned it right back up. I fell in love. She is the most loving person I ever met and I find it really difficult to express any feeling about her. She's my world.

Through all my years, I had taken 2 people for granted. My Parents. They were always there when I needed them and I never thought twice to ask them for help. Their influence over my life is profound to say the least. Over the last few years I have come to see my folks in many lights, but I wont go over that online. Let's just say they mean the world to me.

There have been those friends, who have always told me the truth no matter what, friends who have been my listening posts for years, My friends who take me for what I am, and don't try and change me.

Well, Is this blog making any sense?

Did you notice anything strange about the tense of the entire blog?

Yes, it's in past tense. I am in a new world now and I find my self back where I started, and I remember the line my friend told me that day,

"The Day you think you yesterdays are better than your todays,
It time for you to do something about it. To make you todays just as good"

Well this time around, I am not going to change anything about me or my life.

I am in a new phase of my life.

A phase where my past influences still exist and I very much want them to be a part of my life. My Love, My parents, My sister, my best friends.

But this phase is about me.

This is going to be about how I take my yesterdays and still make them a part of my todays, even though most of my yesterdays are half way across the globe.

These todays are going to be about how I take my life forward, without leaving my past behind.
In a world where work seems to be everything, I need to strike a balance between, Life and Life at work....

My need to prove myself is showing it's face at work and that I am sure can be tapped to get the best out of me.

Well yes, today my yesterdays seem wonderful, but my todays don't seem to bad either. I just need to strike a balance. A way to make my Yesterday a part of my today.

Rahul..

Smitten

We have all been smitten, Or so we think. To be Smitten with love is quite something else.

Websters defines smitten as "strongly and suddenly affected".

Our first crush, or our second... Oh how we thought that was it that was the real thing. But then comes along that one person. That one person that makes you feel indescribable. That one person whose presence in a room livens up your day. A person whose voice makes you happy.

When you just met her and you are on your way home afterwards, and you start missing her at once. You know you are Smitten.

You miss her when you are in a huge group of your good friends, You know you are smitten.

When you are with her in a crowd and you can see only her, you know you are smitten.

When you are miles apart and you feel like a part of your heart has been ripped out. You know you are smitten.



When you feel incomplete without her. You are smitten.

You are smitten with Love. You are helpless to do anything about it. You are hers. And if you are lucky.. She is yours too..

Oh what a feeling it is to be Smitten. To be in Love.

To be in love for so many years, to write something like this after so long, to feel the intensity in your heart when you are writing it shows the power of love, the power of true Love.

A thought of a word, produced a blog, the fingers on the keyboard evoked emotions and emotions brought out my love in words. That's being Smitten.


Rahul..

Anger Management

Well this article is not exactly about anger management. It's about Anger Utilization.

Anger, a human feeling. One of the most primal feelings on Earth. We all get angry. That's natural. But how long it takes for us to get angry, what we do with our anger. Do we use it, misuse it. How long we hold it in. This is all different.

Some of us Burst like lava bursting out of a volcano and some of us simmer and simmer and hold it in.

But the power of anger, such a lethal force. If that bountiful energy that gets generated is tapped. Imagine the things that can get done or undone, depending on the way it is used.

Take for example, you get fed up with a nagging boss. You could get so frustrated that you could destroy half the work that you have done or you could get so keyed up to show him who's the man, that you could sit through and power on and give him what he wants way before time.

People burst like balloons filled with water and wet everyone around them. They seem to be happiest when exploding on someone. Then there are those that keep it all within and seem to implode. These people are dangerous. The day they blow, you'd better be a mile away. Be nowhere close by.

This is Anger Utilization. A short blah on the characteristics of Anger.


Rahul

I,Me, Myself

The Various Faces Of Me.




















To change my appearance with one single shave is something that everyone I know, knows about me. It is a trait that I love to use. To apply the Shock Treatment like I call it. Great fun. The Fun in changing my appearance and in a fresh feelin and outlook in life. Feeling energized and all set to look at life anew for a while atleast. Well Jus a blog to show this aspect of me.

Chill out........


Rahul

Lunch Time

The universally accepted effects of Dal and rice or Sambar rice or Bisibella bath have been very well documented.

These meals when taken in reasonable proportions have the effect of putting an insomniac to sleep. They are much better than any conventional drug available in the market.

If you do a survey of productivity of an individual before and after this lunch you will most definitely see a nose drive.

But anyone would endorse this statement too.. "Sleepy, so what? Ghar Ka Khanna! You Rock!!" Zzzzzzz.zzzzzzzzz..........z....

Chill Out People....

Rahul

The Beauty of Love.

"Tu Jo Hai, Toh sab kuch hai, Nah koi Kammi Hai......"

Such an awesome line. It translates in English to,

"
If you are there, Everything is complete, there is nothing missing. Life's complete."


When you meet someone in life who makes you feel...... Inexplicable, who makes you feel like you are at the top of the world and is always there to catch you if you fall, someone who completes you.

A few years ago, there was a girl. She was sweet, smart, had the most mesmerizing features, the most fascinating smile, a great personality. When a guy who was drifting along in life lay his eyes on her, he knew that there was something there between them, Something that was, FOREVER. As time passed they became the best of friends and one day while they were just sitting together, confessed their deepest feelings to each other. That was the first day of the rest of their lives.

This could be a paraphrase from any love story. There are many movies that have story lines along these lines and even more real stories that live this everyday.

They built a relationship, on friendship, trust, honesty, long walks,a need for a ear, a shoulder, care, compassion and an unknowing love that crept in without even knocking. They realized that without one another they were not going to feel complete. Everything in life took a new dimension. It changes that very moment. It's a new world. A more fulfilling one.

A Relationship, a bond, a forever is built on small things, but these things are the most important the most irreplaceable things in the world. The little things may be different for each relationship, but they do exist.

Life has this way of testing out relationships, throw a curve ball your way. When the relationship comes through with just a few scratches and bruises, you know it is in good hands.
Long distance relationships being the typical example. We get so used to the one we love being around all the time that when we are not able to see them for a long period of time, we start to feel like having one leg in India and the other in USA. Over time, you start understand that the relationship over such distances needs a lot more care and love than one where, you can hold hands, look into one another's eyes and all is understood. Care for the little things, care for the love. Understanding the pain of separation and the strength of the bond. Remembering the good times and the ways they got through the bad times together adds strength to the relationship.
To hold on to little things to keep the big picture in focus.

As most who know me must have guessed by now this is quite autobiographical, this is about my life, the changes the past and the future. My love is something that I can never put in words.

Love is forever, it keeps you strong and also give you strength to face each day with the all conquering confidence.

Rock on Love. You are forever in the people who have experienced what it is to be in love.

(Dedicated to all the people in Love, especially the ones in Long distance relationships and of course last but not least, My love.)

Rahul.....

The Sky........ The View......... The Rays....

THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN AS WE WERE GOING FOR A WALK. I think it looks beautiful. Almost like the rays of God breaking through the clouds and Shining through.....

It's a Complicated World

I have a strange attachment to people.

My Life, I have tended to bother a lot about what people think. What would someone think if I did this or I did that or said this or said that.

There is a part of me that always wants to breakaway and just live life on my terms and not bother about the rest of the world.

But is that really me. I have never considered myself a Non Conformist by any stretch of imagination. I have always been the run of the mill guy that loves his life, Love the people around him. I guess at some level I just like to be surrounded by people and make people laugh.


I know I must have spoken about this a lot, but really one thing in my life that has always been true is my desire to see a smile on the face of people around me. I Love seeing people smile. That just the way I am I guess.

There are sometimes when I wonder if it is being very soft or very concerned about the rest of the world. Although, I have been saying that I am a people person, Am I?

I do mean it when I say I love being around people. But, I am kinda closed off. There are parts of my life I don't talk about. Well that's me. Anyway, there are still some people in this world who are to me beyond words. They are more to me that anything in this world. These are the only people who know the entire me. So is the case with most of us in this world.

A lot of people think they know me. Well they do, but the entire me? Nah, I don think so. Even I don't know me. That's why I think this world is so complicated. I can't make sense of it.

I guess the best way I know how to live my life is to be positive about whatever happens to me. I of course get angry, disappointed, frustrated. But, I'm committed. I'm Committed to live my life to the fullest. Life is not all Money N Work N blah blah.. .There is a lot of Heart involved. Live Life with all your Heart and you can get up and rock on everyday.

Well That's what I think anyway.

I love this space. This space where there is no rules, no laws, no regulations. I am ME. My tribute to Rahul Blah. My Blog, My Website. This is me.

Most of my blogs are similar, this is life. My life.

Chill Out. Have Fun

Rahul

3 Weeks - 21 Days - 504 Hours - 30240 Minutes

It has been 3 Weeks since I came to the States.

I have to be very frank, not found too much different in this city from home. Chennai and Irving are different in many ways but in advancement, in technology, in freedom, in openness they are at par with one another. Of course there is more in Chennai than there would ever be in this city. Irving is a place where there is not much but my work. Chennai is home. No Comparison.

The Work is different, the work is great. I love the work. It's not so different that I cannot compare it with my job in India, it's just that the atmosphere is different.

My Life is Eating, Sleeping, Cooking and Working. This is my life these 3 weeks. Let's see what else happens. Lets See.

Rahul

Cricket at Rahul Blah

Some New Features have been added to Rahul Blah today.

1. During any on going cricket series, you can see the live score right here on my blog.

2. You can also get quick updates on the latest happenings in cricket with the new Cricket news section..

Enjoy these new additions and let me know what you think about them...

Cheers...

Rahul

P.S : Do Let me know what else would be good here.. Movie Reviews? Headlines? Lemme know.

My Life

In My Life, I have been very fortunate to have come into this world with a silver spoon in my mouth. I have not been denied one need or one comfort. I have always been helped through every step in my life.

In My Life, I have seen the most hard working people, who are extremely dedicated to their professions come up on their own two feet and are now at wonderfully successful positions in their career.

In My Life I have met people who are concerned with nothing but money and for whom, love and family were secondary.

In My Life I have met people who change colors like the day changes to night, who behave one way today and another way the next.

In My Life I have met people who are so loyal, so affectionate, so friendly, so helpful. That you wonder how you lived the years before you knew them.

In My Life I have met people who love to make you feel lesser than them. (Well that could also do with my own complexes :-) )

In My Life I have met people who live life like there is no tomorrow.

In My Life I have met people who live life and try to spread joy every moment along the way.

In My Life I have met people who will tell you the truth no matter what. They believe that the truth needs to be told. (I really respect people who do that.)

In My Life I have met people who don't understand some limits of friendship, some feelings of others.

In My Life I have met people who live in their own world, who don't care what the rest of the world thinks, who think that there is no one they need to justify their life to anyone.

In My Life I have met people for whom work is worship, work is life. Work is their world.

In My Life I have met people who fall so deeply in love that being without their other half is like tearing a part of themselves out of them.

But in My Life I find it very difficult to out myself down in a line. I am a combination of all these people in one way or the other. I have the good and the bad in me, I am in some way a person evolved from all these people I have met.

All Of us, All of us can make such a list. This list will if nothing else tell you who the people who impact you life the most are. The people who make you what you are. The good or the bad the things we take in our lives to make it whole.

P.S : Please If you know me, Don't try and find yourself in any of these people. This Blog was not meant to offend anyone. It's just a post about my Life. My Life alone. So I could all well be that all these people are in one way me, or I at least wish they were or never wish to become.


Rahul Murali Venkataraman.


Note : Please let me know If any of you think anything about this post is too hurting. Sorry If it is. Please understand this is a personal blog and nothing else.

So how Important is English?

English. The language we all speak everyday. The language I am writing this in now. How important is this language. What would you do if you did not know English? Well I guess you would not be reading my blog for starters.

Anyway the idea of this post is to talk about the various different types of English. I mean we all speak the same language right. How come we don't understand each other at times? Of course I am not talking about what I am writing here, it's more about spoken English. Why does it sound so different.

English is second nature to most of us. So when you speak to a person from another country, but still speaking the same language it feels very different when you strain to understand what they are saying. Is it an inadequacy in our understanding or is it just that English is not one language but many, Indian, Asian, American, Australian, European, and the English English. Maybe we all speak similar languages, not the same. It has the same script but sounds different. But it serves the same purpose. We can communicate.

Well we have to agree that it is the only language that most of the world can understand. That's how important this language is.

P.S : Rambled on a bit in this post. It's a bit incoherent. Well just felt like writing. It happens I guess.

Rahul

A New Life.

My Life...

It's the same one that I came into this world with 23 years ago.
These 23 years have had ups and downs, they have had a lot of joy and it's share of sadness.
This life has definitely had a lot of learning though..
The good or the bad there has been a lot I have learned on the different aspects of life...

Life for each individual means something different. Life is just everything that happens to us everyday.

My New Life, I, A person who lived almost all his life in the same country in the same city moving to a New Country and New style of life is a major change of gears.

I have so much at Home.. So many people extremely dear to my heart. This change triggers so many parallel emotions at the same time that it is really difficult to process.

Especially for me a person that loves his family and friends so much.. There are certain people in all our lives that has such an effect that we find ourselves partly hollow when that person is taken away from our side..

I know I am writing this with my Love in my mind, I know how much she means to me and I to her.

But there are also some other people, Some people who mean as much to me. Those people who taught me how to talk how to walk and made me the person I am today. My Parents. They mean so much to me, they are so much of my world that without them around it feels too different. Who does not love their parents. We all do.. Most of us as we grow stop showing it.. But the fact that they are an integral part of our lives never ceases to be true..


My Sister(Mu Bolli ho to kya, who meri apni behan ki tara hai mere liye) my listening post my best friend, too much for me to say. There are no words for this girl. She's just great...

These people are my Life, these people are my world.. This new country This new city cannot change that.. My Family is my Life...

Contemplative......

Rahul...


P.S : I know although this post says nothing about my love, there is a really big reason for that. I find it too difficult to speak about someone that is my world. Someone that is the reason for this heart beating.. MY LIFE.

Far Away from Home

Well...

I'm far away from home now...

I'm in Irving... Chennai Seems a million miles away...

But people there are not even a inch further away from my heart....

Miss u Chennai... But new life, New Adventures and challenges on the cards...

Let's see what life holds in store for me...

Cya...

Rahul

Why Blog???

Why? Why do we blog?

Why do we write something and post it online?

Do we know who reads it?

Are we expecting someone in particular to read it?

How many of our blogs get read by people other than our friends and our near and dear?

Are we expecting to make a change? Make people think?

Why? Why do we put our thoughts online????


Well I Blog... On and off I Blog... I write... I write because I love to write... It is a wonderful outlet for me.. It is my way of expressing myself.. This blog does not give me the freedom to write... I have always had that... It allows me to share my thoughts and experiences with the world... Even if it might just be a handful of my friends...

So many of us blog about our lives.. The way it is going and where we would like it to go, then there a those among us who write about the happenings in the world..And like most of us.. Just whatever comes into their head....

My Blog is not my Online Diary... It is not A Propaganda Portal... It is just a place where I come to Heal...

Blogging .... Healing.......

Makes no Sense right?

Well Blogging... Somehow makes me feel great... Even if I am not writing about anything significant... I am writing from my heart.. That is how it heals me.. Makes me feel Happy.. Makes me think...

I know some of the people who read it...

Especially One person.. Sometimes they are for Her.... Sometimes they are for my Passion..

My Passion For Writing....

Sometimes it's just for One Person... ME..


I BLOG FOR ME!!
That's Why I BLOG!!!!


So anyone else who Blogs or Writes or Does something they are passionate about... Why do you do it?

Welcome 2007

JUST A THOUGHT


Ideas and Ideals are nothing without the Will and Desire to make them Real and the Hard work to take them to Fruition...

Rahul ...