An Author, A Guest and Some one!

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 This blog post is based on "Prompt for this Tuesday" - creative writing thought initiated by preetishenoy- Author of two national best sellers .(http://justamotheroftwo.blogspot.in/)

This Tuesday's meme:

"The table is set perfectly, for 'tea for two'. (and the piece of cake is ready too).  I am really looking forward to this. There is still a good half an hour left for my guest to arrive as per the  text  I just got. Suddenly the door bell rings..............  "

I assume this as a scenario (at present) which has three characters,Preeti Shenoy,A middle aged man and the guest"

Preeti has made the environment perfect and is eagerly waiting to the guest arrive. She has thought to prepare the tea before 10 mins of the guest's arrival. The piece of the cake is yummy and has all the ingredients to be called as "awesome",both in the flavour as well as in the way it is baked. It is still half-an-hour time for the guest to arrive. Few days back,she was thinking about presenting a gift to the guest as that would be more impressive and could show the level of rapport between them. Preeti suddenly remembers that she forgot to purchase the gift which she had decided already. When she is thinking about this,the door bell rings.Though she is eagerly looking forward to invite the guest and there is a hitch,that she forgot to buy the gift.The door bell keeps rining.

Though she has two different thoughts now,but she needs to open the door anyways. There stands middle aged man with a notebook in the hand. He enquires "I need to meet preeti shenoy" and preeti shenoy replies with a mild confusion "Yeah I am". The man replies with "There is a courier for you, Please sign it and receive".Preeti signs and receives.Now she has to open it.(Say that,that is a online-ordered gift). The clock shows that it is still 10 mins for the guest to arrive.Ghosh..She needs to prepare the Tea as well.Walking towards her kitchen, she opens the gift. A Suprise,that is the gift which preeti wants to gift her guest. That gift has been from the guest whom she is eager to invite. She feels great to be gifted by the guest and now the guest stands high in her heart.

"Hey Preeti",A acquainted voice comes from the door.The door is left opened,as she did not close the door after receiving the gift from the courier person.The person who stands high in her heart,stands there with the loving smile. How can she forget the courier person as well..


Do I really need to say that the meet is going good.? :) :)  Let us not disturb them.

Let us have a cup of tea :) :)

Innings to remember

  Early morning in a sunday.My favourite time slot in the week.Calm and Cool here in chennai. I just want to share something I would want to follow this week. When I start writing,I am occupied by a belief that I am gonna have super good week. Everyone is a great motivator of one-self.I am thinking about few cricket games and trying to infer somet interesting facts about it. Here are those innings come into my mind.I am sure every cricket fan remember these innings,so do I. I may be wrong in the game's/innings's perception.but still I feel that I am right to some extent

Innings performances of Dravid,Sachin,Yuvraj:

Rahul Dravid:

Who could forget his 270 against pakistan in 2004.He had pressure in playing against the rivals and India was in need of a win to clinch first test series win in pakistan till then.Dravid was playing cool strokes and reached his Double hundered.He scored many singles and he was rotating the strike.One of the good test matches I have ever seen. At the same time,Brain Lara scored 400 runs for West Indies and set a new world.It still remember that match was drawn. Lara scored 400,new world record.Bravo! Brian Lara - You were smart and strong.Meanwhile,Dravid's 270 runs against pakistan at Karachi,was a match winning game. In Windes,the game was just drawn since the team had been concentrating on Lara's 400.Windies had three days of their innings in a test match.

His innings of 270 is the best one I have seen in a test matches.There were many players who scored and still scoring 300 odd runs,but to me - what matters is what does one do to get the team win.


Sachin Tendulkar:

 Master Blaster,little master,super man and call what ever you've named and he is upto it.He shows the perfection,classic and style who can never adopt in their game.He is unique and "THE ONE" to have game plan with the extra ordinary determination.I would prefer his world cup innings performances in 2003 are his best ones(as a collective one - a series). In 1996 ,he was young,energetic and did not have so much pressure as he had in 2003.He was out of form before the world cup and he needed to proove himself. He was consistent throught out the series and won the golden bat. Who can forget his sixes against caddick and akthar.I can clearly think/visualise of both the sixes.

His games were perfect,determined and success-oriented. He had a excellent patience,perseverence,plan and thinks that could make a perfect game.Though the records can state many more excellent matches/innings of him,I considered this series to be the best in terms of consistency in a series. Though he had great knocks in Sharjah,Bangladesh Independence cup (1998) (I prefer these series as the best ones of him), 2003 was something special to him.


Yuvraj Singh:

 
   Singh was King on 2007 t-20 series.As everyone,considers his six sixes against stuart broad as the most rememberable games in t-20, I am no odd. Even though the game was balanced between both India and England, that special over made the talk of the cricket world.6 6 6 6 6 6. Every ball is a new game,the bastman could not have a instinct on the bowler's mind.But this man, scored sixes all around the ground and measured a good distance. See,This ia a important point I want to mention this innnings.Yuvi should have thought that he could go for scoring runs in this over though the broad was already set and yuvi should have been adamant in scoring the maximum runs from tat over and That was a bind blowing..666666

At the end the game was with us.

So,Why do I talk about cricket now ?.There are few lessons in these innings.

1. Team Game: We are in a team,either a family or Profession. Team matters more than a personal account.Somehow team win would felicitate your performance if you contribute to it.Joy gets doubler and relationship grows strong. Lara scored 400,thats ok. Windies played 3 days of a match,they never wanted a win.Just played for one man's record? What do you call it?

2. Consistent:What ever you do, you need to be consistent at any time. In the recent years,history cares the last recent moment.We need to be passionate about whatever we do.Once we live at that,the game is with us.

3.Decide the win and find the path: If we decide or have a instinct of win,the oppurtunity would come to us by any way.We need to be adamant about winning,thats what I remember yuvraj said in a interview about the game.


Team work,Consistent and Adamant about winning,Hope these three things would carry us to anywhere we would want to go,provided we would play the best innings.

College Dictionary ;-)

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College dictionary

                            Every college has its own history, so do the freaky and weird words which are getting used in the college. I am just want to write few words which I found interesting during the college time.
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      There is a dialogue which you could listen in most of the all the college-based-love stories : "Those days were awesome,I wanna be a student again": I am no odd to tell you the same dialogue. Every graduate has his own stories about his/her college life and fun. If asked, I could write too many posts about the fun and good times I had in the college and which every one could do. Of all the fun times,I liked the way my friends used some freaky words. In mepco, almost 85% of the students were hostellers.I got a chance to meet and be friend with people from different places.I always loved to hear the language slangs used by my friends.We had strict hostel rules and yet there was a great fun.About the freaky words,never heard of them before I joined Mepco Schlenk.

Here I go

Well, once you enter a new environment,even a sorry/thanks from a unknown person you meet(In college) seems to be weird for some one who comes from the town/village. This happened to me


Friend : Machi,ennada verithanama padikura.

He said this on the second of the college. I really could not understand this verithanam. After few days

Friend 1 :Machi ennada kettathanama padikura

He did not know I was reading the Ananda vikatan books which I brought from my native.

I had no clue what was happening in my second year for first 3 weeks. Fourier series or "freak"ier series .Hell with that.I hated X and Y series.sin appeared as "sin" to me.

I already had no clue on what did he mean about "Kaatuthanam and Verithanam".I heard few more words I never heard in my life till then. Let me share you those words in this post.

I still may not be right on what friends really meant the following words.


Kaatuthanam  - Either so good or so bad (in studying).

train        - You cannot understand the topic or subject but you still need not miss the chapter

Kettathanam  - Hard worker.

Verithanam   - as Kaatuthanam.

Vilanguda ne - One who gets high marks.

Koduran      - One who studies in the last minute and scores good marks.

kattuvaasi   - Person never takes bath or brush during the exam time.

mirugam      - as Kettathanam.

Appalam      - Arrears 


There is a dialogue I used to hear from the computer science friend "Machi avan vilangu mathiri verithanama padichu miruga mark vaangitaanda". I though "Man, Where does he come from?.Imported from congo". :-)


This seemed to be really fun after the exam duration : "Machi Namakellam Appalam thaan"

Another one: "Mild ah padichittu wild a mark vaangitaanda".


As said,every college has its own dictionary with more words like these.There were few "Maanidaaas" who rarely understood or had clue on what was happening around them:):)


I am glad all my friends are doing their best and still continuing their mirugathanam.Always I take a pride and glad to be a mepcoite for giving such a wonderful time and these excellent friends

P.S I love you

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P.S. I love you.

Hey dear,


           I am sure this is not gonna be just another few lines of words that merely convey my love to you.There is no particular structure or format exists in the world to draft a perfect love letter.Mutual love never cares about the perfectness.Let it be just a random outcome of what my heart says. You have been so kind to me since I know you and done so much to me. To be frank,Yes..This love comes in turn of what you have done to me. I am amazed by the word you spread the happiness and fun in your family. You have an excellent family and relatives for whom I could fall in love with you again and again.You never bother about disikes,differences blah blah.In this whole world, how can you be so awesome to everyone though they crticize and betray you at some times. You care about many lives,make them feel good to be a part of a wonderful relationship. You have been hurt by your relatives few or many times since your birth,you  still consider being good to them.You give me what ever I expect from you. I had cursed you many times for not being the same what I wanted in you and dear, how could you be so adamant in loving me. You are the best example of the old saying "Be the best to anyone and dont expect anything in return,for your value of being the best to them".You and my mother have similarities in many good things.May be you both are meant to be like that?You showed me the world and brought me in the center to show my abilities and yet you expect nothing from me. You have an excellent heart and mind. Your heart has space for all the things around you with equal love to everyone and your mind thinks in terms of doing to them.You are independent, you have your own skills,strengths,principles or beliefs or thoughts .whatever...you are still a awesome relation to everyone. For someone you are a MISNOMER, some one embraces you and some others hurts you, but still you have been gregarious to everyone around you.


 
                    



      What more..I am sure there should be many more reasons to have fallen in love with you again and again.Thanks for being an wonderful friend,love or what ever.. Thank you my nation. Thank you India.On this day,I just want to tell you "You mean so much to me"



P.S. I love you

Tea and piece of a cake

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Tea,It is not just a drink or a three letter word for me.I always share my happiness or sorrows with a cup of tea.A low cost energy drink. Most of the Indian relationships begin with a cup of tea :) :). Whenever I meet my friends or make a new friend,the first thing I would take him out for tea. Most of decisions taken while having a tea have been great and working :) :) I could call it as a sentiment :) :). You may just wonder why it is so important to write something about a cup of tea on which everyone would have stories to tell us.

            

Here I go.

So Next?

 
 As like everyone,my father has been a superhero to me since I had known him. Super hero for the family. This Super hero in the family sacrifices anything that would cost the benifit of the family. So does he. Tea was his best companion most of the times and he considered "Having a cup of tea with the family at any time boosts me to do many hard things" . I used to guess "How could this man be so crazy about a single cup of tea" and many times it worked out for  him.On feb 17 2008, while were discussing about a family thing, he was quoting that "sweetness of tea will be known in its hottest taste(He never knew that Cafe Coffee day exists :) :) )and taste will be there for final sip, so does our life . We must need to face the hottest problems and yet the sweetness of the life would never go down till your last breath stops". I was making a fun of these freaky dialogues and never cared. But I never knew that was the last day that was the last tea with him and  I could talk to him ,that too was on sunday.We had fun watching cricket,Cups of tea and cakes. what not.Enjoyed the holidays  and went back to college. Got a news on feb 19th 2008, that he was no more ! Shocked and .... can't find/add words to fill it now


If I could invite anybody for 'tea for two' today it would undoubtedly be My Dad.
                                        
What did make me to write about tea and why?

                                                                       
     I just want to thank preetishenoy,an author two national best sellers ( 34 bubblegums& Candies and Life is what you make it) for being a good inspiration to indulge in writing. I have read both of her books and impressed with the way that she narrates the story. One could easily bring out the visuals and characters infront of you. I take pleasure that I have read both of her books and flipkarted the third one (and title goes with my favourite and unforgettable words).Tea for two and a piece of cake


 

I am a Champion ..

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  Starting a Blog has been my long term plan,but I failed to execute the plan the number of times I decided to start. I have lot of things running in my mind on drafting the first blog post. I remember a video which had seen a couple of months back which gave me real value on that day.

We face criticisms,failures,break-ups and stuffs like that (both personally and professionally). We can't do much about it. This video in youtube impressed me a lot and I watch it once/twice in a week. I just want to share the video and wanna share something about it.

In this video,the players were getting ready for game. Before the start of the game,(only few mins) Coach was motivating the players. Thats what every coach does. but this guy is just awesome.You just cant stop listening his speech. Aggressiveness about the WIN and only WIN. I am sure the players would have got the heat of WIN ,abilities and strengths to approach the win.

Loved this video and I am not sure they won the match or not but sure they would have fight to their best for the win. They would have never surrendered.