VIBGYOR

Believe anything?

This was my horrorscope - should I believe it?

• Yesterday: You face a new challenge today -- one that may demand more of you than recent events have. It's a good time to enlist support from outside or to work on developing new coping skills.
• Today: Your boss, client or closest friend could be a problem today, as their opinions are inflexible and they may be considerably more demanding than before. You can get them to relax, though.
• Tomorrow: People may be gossiping around you, but you have no interest in taking part. Of course, you may overhear a few juicy bits that keep you thinking, but you can hardly be blamed for that!

Yesterday's is the case almost daily - working on developing new coping skills goes for a toss as soon as a backlash occurs.

Today's one is already something I have been facing for a few weeks from a client - and I thought I succeeded in getting through the coldness that was emanating from her but on Friday it was back again. Am trying to understand why - if anything I thought I was the "victim" but perhaps she feels the same too.

Tomorrow: Considering how many people I will meet tomorrow I guess around me means my neighbours. Since I hardly know them, I think I will not even understand if they gossip - so I can keep thinking of things I overhear through the balconies :).

I love it...

It is years since I made anyone an April Fool - today I seem to be on the roll - ah! the thrill of inventing stories and then listening to the exasperated voice on the other side of the telephone!!!!!! Those were interesting fantasies though - wish it were true. It is easier to be convincing when reliving your fantasies and talking about them - try that as a formula.

An hour late

So did I wake up an hour late or did I get an hour extra of sleep or did I lose one hour or ....

As I lay in bed with a splitting headache, I opened one eye partly and looked at my telephone display - it said 6. I sighed and decided to turn over and sleep. I had wanted to be up at 6 but the headache perhaps was telling me that I need more rest. I reached to my mobile to switch off the meeting reminder that had popped up. The mobile said 7. I bolted up in bed - my head complained making me drop back in bed immediately. Oh dear! I lost an hour ... no I slept an hour longer... no I woke up an hour later...

I love the change over of time in winter. I think I do not like the change in summer. This would also mean the sun sets later - there is less of night... and so on.

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
  - Bill Nye

Just quotes today

These quotes struck me on a day I feel particularly helpless and am drowning in work - so cannot stop to sort out the helplessness.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- Einstein

I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you
exactly which way it's coming.
- Mitch Hedberg

Thought for the day.

Once bitten twice shy,

Once smitten thrice shy.

emotionally exhausted

maybe time to take psychiatric help.

It is really a year ago

As I was reading the MBA Diary today, it took me back to a year ago. The MBAs leave for the MBA Olympics today. New friendships were formed over this trip... some friendships became stronger. A year later many of them still go on strong - but life has moved on.

Keeping up the spirit of last weekend,

partying life continues. Yet it is with the people from new life. The atmosphere reminded me of White Horse in Lausanne a year and few months before when we used to meet for drinks and have a dinner later on Friday evenings. I believe that is what some of my colleagues do in the Snug Pub on Friday evenings.

Brussels continues in its true tradition

but we plan a movie in Antwerp, shopping in Lille (ok... shopping in Antwerp might be a good idea after all it is famous for diamonds), uh! and my favourite activity - cleaning!!!

Reflections

Normally I hate admitting that I am glad I am married. Somehow today I feel like saying - I am glad I am married.

My favourite quote at this moment - Baroness tells Maria: "There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him".

Isn't it true the other way too? After all we are all egoists in some way or the other.

The music of Kya Yahi Pyar hai and the haunting lyrics too as I drive back...

Kya Yahi Pyar hain
Haan yahi pyar hain
Dil tere bin kahi lagtha nahin
Waqt Guzartha nahin

Kaise Bhooloongi thu yaad hamesha aayega
tere jaaney sey jeena mushkil ho jaayega
Ab kuch bhi ho dil se koi zor tho chalta nahin

I have been getting in touch with a lot of my school friends through orkut. When I was in school I was very close to some of them. When I did not do as well as I had hoped to, I ran away to hide myself not even getting in touch with my best friends of the time. Now we are back in touch after 15 years and it brings back memories of going to Maya's house to learn Physics, she coming over to my place, Indu and I grabbing cockroaches and running behind Mani chasing him all around the class, gifting him with a matchbox with cockroach inside (I hate cockroaches but just for this prank I used to overcome this fear), climbing the tall chairs in the labs to get a peak at the readings of some chemistry instruments for some readings... Running from Remani teacher's critical glance before all news of my pranks reached my mother who taught in the same school. Moonstruck... you probably remember a few of these but then you were a very diligent person about work at the time.

I loved the energy of this weekend and it can only become better. I loved the feeling of being alive after the energy expended - it made me laugh... it made me happy. I went crazy for sometime and I love going crazy.

and I am sure this weekend does not even come close to what I am going to live through the rest of my life now that I have found back the energy but it looks like I will need a few days to get my limbs working again - until then I will live with the memories.

Here?

You pull off the quilt and smile at the warm air in the room. You get off the bed, walk towards the bedroom door and slowly pull it open. The cold air rushs all over you waking you up immediately. You run into the hot water in the shower and you do not feel the cold in the air anymore after this. You open the shutters of the windows of the living room and gaze out at the sun bathing plants with multicoloured leaves still covering them late in November – what a perfect warm winter you think. You wear your thinnest sweater and pull on the autumn jacket.

Open the apartment door, open the building door and that is when it hits you. There is ice on the car, ice on the road, ice on the leaves (the poor leaves that got cheated by the weather) – there is ice everywhere. The world has turned to white from green. You rush back inside; change into the warmest possible clothes. You pick up the paper from the postbox and while your husband moves around the car scrapping the hardened ice you enjoy the sun in the chilled air and the paper.