17 Hour Shift!

28th February 2007

Just too beat right now to write... will continue...

After 6 Years

26th February 2007

Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel

After a span of 6 Years, went on the basket ball court again, after the most tired I had been in a long, very long time, some how got the energy to play a match again, the score line wasn't that good... But atleast I did better than how I thought I would do... got a few good blocks and didn't lose the ball...

We lost at the end... but it was fun.

1 day enough for 2 years!

24th Feb 2007...

3 Years since graduation and any physical activity [on the fields ;-) ] and then I have the bright idea of playing once again, this time for KUSOM...

11:30 Raj Dal Battalion,
Ok... try-out for the basket ball team... yeah, the last I played was the Alumni Team v/s School team, back in 2001... 6 years cool... Well atleast I can say I didn't end up not scoring... one 3pointer from the mid court line will impress a few dames even today... not bad... :)

Played almost for 5 - 5 1/2 hours... and at the end also played a game of cricket... bowled first... haven't done that for 3 years now... first over was quite good... only 1 run.. next two... rather not say... what was it now - 3-0-26-0 ??? Then batted... again atleast I can say didn't get out for a duck... got 5 runs... off the mark with an edge... hit a four... good enough...

Then... then what! went to sleep at 5 PM and woke up at 5:30 AM hadn't slept like that in a long time... well one day of sports was productive... got a good sleep... now my body hurts like anything...

Next? Lets see...

Rationalize Love?

Can you rationalize love? Can you explain why you love someone?

You can't rationalize the feeling...
she's not as shiny or as sleek...
she doesn't have the best fuel economy...
or is most comfortable on these old narrow and pot-holed filled streets...
one would ever ride a bike like this using one's head...

I ride this bike with my heart. I ride her because I just love it... I just love her... You can't rationalize love... You simply can't explain it... You just feel this feeling of being in love... feel it all around you... over you, under you, beside you... everywhere you go... you just feel it... you bask in its warmth... feel it like a shadow in the mid-day scorching sun... You can't explain this feeling... You can't explain love...

You just love... that is what I do... I just love her!

We band of brothers...

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Just a few lines from "Henry V", but when you think about it, there is more... much much more... there is something about these words that the Young English King Henry told upon his men before the Battle of Agincourt, when victory looks uncertain... when all odds are against you... when the world has turned its back to you... or at-least your world has turned its back to you... Do you cower? Do you think otherwise?

With just your fellows beside you... or even if there aren't any... Rise and face all opposition with all your might... Let the world which shied away know that it was weak and you were not wrong...

Now what does this have to do with me? Not a lot... I just have these words stuck to my workplaces... just to remind me... what I am doing might not be remembered... might not even be known... but who cares... I am doing what I am supposed to...

This 14th Day of the Second Month!

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

When it rains it pours... when it snows... what can I say?

When it rains it pours... today was just that case... rained like anything... poured I should say... also it snowed... when it snows... what can I say...

62 years... Its been 62 years that it snowed in Kathmandu, and it snowed today... on V-Day... don't know what the weather gods had in store... but I am sure Cupid played a role... just the day to snuggle with your one around a cozy fire and inside the blanket... just wonderful... what can I say...

I was in class (MBA - Econometrics), sitting in the last row (as always)... when I just looked back and saw some abnormally large rain drops... must have been hail... wasn't the case... what can I say...

car got stuck in the slush... had a hard time controlling her on the roads... defogger gave up... was fun getting wet... the steaming hot plates of momo and those glasses of Smirnoff... what can I say...

Well, what can I say, I'll just quote Vaughn Monroe...

Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

It doesn't show signs of stopping
And I've bought some corn for popping
The lights are turned way down low
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

When we finally kiss goodnight
How I'll hate going out in the storm!
But if you'll really hold me tight
All the way home I'll be warm

The fire is slowly dying
And, my dear, we're still good-bying
But as long as you love me so
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Well, weather gods... Cupid... let it snow! let it snow! let it snow!

Woh dosti ke pal (Those moments of friendship...)

Woh dosti ke pal...
yaaden... ek din woh bhi yaadon me kho jayengi... bas baki rahenge to woh pal... dosti ke pal... sunye madam, hum waiso me nahi jo bhula de... woh zulm hoga... to kya hum zulmi hain... lekin aapke dost aapke saathi hain... aise mat samajna ki vibhu bul gaya... vibhu ko yaad hi kaha! haan yaad hai... kuch kuch yaad hai... nahi sab kuch yaad hai... vibhu waiso me nahi jo bhula de... yaad nahi raktha... jaise raat ka andhera suraj ke roshni se juda hai... waise hi yaaden - bhulne se judi hai... haan hum yaad nahi rakhte... kyuki hum nahi bhulte... woh dosti ke pal... woh dosti ke pal...

*** Translated into English ***
Those moments of friendship...
Memories... one day these too shall disappear in memories... what will remain would be only moments... moments of friendship... listen madam, we (I) are not like those who would forget... that would be cruel... so what - we are cruel... but are amongst your friends... don't think that Vibhu fotgot... when did Vibhu remember at all! Yes we remember... we do remember something... NO - we remember everything! Vibhu is not like those who forgets... does not remember... the way the darkness of night is intertwined with the light of the sun... the same way remembering and forgetting are twined together... YES WE DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING... BECAUSE WE DON'T FORGET ANYTHING... those moments of friendship... those moments of friendship...