This day evoked mixed emotions in my mind… I spent almost the whole day searching for questions rather than answers… Sounds interesting no? That’s how sometimes a scribe is forced to think… So often you get wild when answers evade you… but a journo gets wild for all the wrong reasons… like I did today… rather this afternoon… I don’t remember what I was doing till afternoon… In fact, it’s a lie… I know exactly what I was doing… Listening to two of the dreariest commentators cursing the Indian batting line-up which collapsed like a pack of cards against the mighty Aussies… A hardcore cricket aficionado is bound to be forlorn whenever India caves in as meekly as they did today… And being one ever since I was born (Pardon me for exaggerating…), suddenly I found myself completely out of sorts… And the post-lunch session (though I relished the yummy dahi thadka rice…) was extremely unsahikkable… (Hold on guys… Don’t run for your dictionaries… it’s a Manglish word – Malayalam plus English… and it means unbearable...)… I was assigned the job of preparing a questionnaire for doing a well known Chennai architect’s story… What a wrong timing! I couldn’t say NO, as I couldn’t say NO… Hope you guys understand… Having sat in front my laptop (even it appeared pissed off with me for the shabby treatment meted out by my great self…) for hours on end, finally I gave up, even as I kept telling myself.. “This is one of those days…”…
As I was running my eyes through some of the mails I received in the afternoon, a blog invitation from one of my Orkut friends caught my attention… As I went through the blog, I was truly amazed at the way she has put her feelings down… The way she described even the minutest details was truly astounding… While reading it, I could visualize each and every thing she mentioned… the crowded Mumbai locals… the chaos… the commotion… the pandemonium… the snobbish ‘first-class’ travelers... I could feel those words she has written… What I found more attractive was the touch of casualness in those words spelt in an SMS style… My first thought, ‘well, she should have used proper spellings…’, immediately gave way to ‘well, that’s the beauty of the entire thing…’
I think I should thank her, for not just giving me a chance to read her piece of mind, but for bringing back some serenity in my mind as well….
She is a true TALENT…. LATENT now, but will be BLATANT pretty soon…
1 comment:
oh my god! thanks yaar! yeah...that was what made it stand out and besides i was too bored to pen down my feelings in the prim and correct manner! ;)
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