The 'Kaal Vaasi' Life! (Now nearing Paadhi Life)

This post is going to be disgusting. So, for those of you there, who can't stand the sight of shit or piss, a word of caution before you go ahead with this post. If you do go ahead, never say you were never warned of the after effects.  There is a popular saying in Tamil,  "உப்பு நிறையப் போட்டு சாப்டா சொரன ஜாஸ்தியா தான் இருக்கும்". For all the non-Tamil speaking crowd, it says, "if you have too much salt in your food, your emotions and ego are definitely going to be high. And today is the first day that I asked my mom in all 25 years of life, on why she had to to use all the salt that she has used till today in cooking food.  Friends and socialites kiss each other on the cheek. And if the 2 friends are guys, and you go ahead to kiss him, the first reaction to bounce back on you is "yeah right! Kiss My Ass!" unless the other is gay. I know people who use abbreviations to denote it saying, "KMA!" If you were to betray a friend and he has to retali

Life is beautiful!* * always with a back-up plan! Life is always lost without it.   My dad keeps yelling at me to this day to always have a plan in life . It is not uncommon with guys of my age to hear the dialogue "where do you see yourself 5 years from now?" and I keep blinking where the present is leading. 5 years??? I can't even think of one for tomorrow! And I used to scoff at my dad for being so 'conservative'. Every other day, my conversation with my dad started with a casual thing like, 'the weather is so hot in Chennai today' to anything about astrophysics to astrology and yet it always ended with my dad asking, "what is your plan? I don't see the fire in you." What started as a casual conversation always ends in a disgusting argument with my dad.  I used to think I'm always right and I still do. But then Life is the greatest teacher one can have. It teaches you on real terms. Our brains are designed to dream eve

It was 2005 and my uncle introduced me to this artist. I was hooked!  The first song I heard was comfortably numb and it was right there I fell in love with the style of music. This song could relax you in the most tensed of situations. Retrospectively, it usually makes me think of the days I was a kid. As a kid, I used to suffer from severe asthma attacks and I used to lie on the bed gazing through the window sill at trees swaying to a tune made by air. It used to relax me a lot then. It was haunting. And a song to bring out those memories from a deep brain is simply an amazing feat. Each one of us would have had such abstract thoughts in our childhood which we would probably not admit today. But, each one of us will have some abstract memory flashing in our eyes if you'd listen to 'comfortably numb'.  The guitar literally sings in Gilmour's solos. And there is something in the singing of the guitars, that will relax you in any given tensed moment, like a shot of mo