Goodbye....

She knew the time had come. She had to say good-bye to him as a new life awaited her.
She pulled the shawl closer to her as she felt a sudden chill. She also knew even without looking back that he had come.
She turned around and saw the all too familiar face, the slightly unshaven cheeks, the deep brown eyes which had lost its twinkle. He tried to hold her hand, she pulled away, too scared about the all too familiar touch which had once ignited the passion from the bottom of her soul. He kept looking at her with one question in his eyes for which she had no answer...

He: Is it time to go?
She: Yes
He: Again, I am asking you, why?
She: It wasn't meant to be....
He pulled her close to him, for the last time.. Smelt her hair, her perfume for the very last time. He kissed those lips that he thought was his for the very last time.
She pulled away and there were tears in her eyes as she slowly walked away from the only person she would ever love...
She walked away into the fading evening as he stood watching silently with tears in his eyes...
She turned back just once and then kept walking....
He watched her till he could see her no more and then turned back and walked away from a thousand dreams, hopes and the only love of his life....


Edited to Add: Vicky sent this song, which seemed apt with this post, so here it is:

Where are you?
Why do you hide?
Where is that moonlight trail that leads to your side?
Just like the moonraker goes in search of his dream of gold,
I search for love, for someone to have and hold,
I've seen your smile in a thousand dreams,
Felt your touch and it always seems,
You love me,
You love me.

Where are you?
When will we meet?
Take my unfinished life and make it complete
Just like the moonraker knows
His dream will come true someday
I know that you are only a kiss away

I've seen your smile in a thousand dreams,
Felt your touch and it always seems,
You love me,
You love me.

(from James Bond 007 - Moonraker, 1979)

An experience to Last a Lifetime!

Friday was one day that I will not forget for a long time to come...
As most people know it had been raining like crazy for a couple of days last week here in Bangalore...
On Friday, since most of us were going home for the Ganesha Festival - we left office early - because of the predictions that it would take 2-3 hrs to cross Hosur Road - which was mostly under water...
So, me and another friend we set off at 2, hoping that we would reach home by 5 at least...
(I will call my frn S here...)
But, our bus got stuck in Traffic half way thru Hosur road and the driver tried to turn the bus back to Electronic City.
So, most of us got down from the bus and started walking, hoping that we would get an auto.
But, as luck would have it, there were no autos and we just kept walking with another lady, who was very anxious to get home to her baby...
When we were nearing our destination - the Silk Board Junction - we saw that the rest of the
way was flooded and that the water levels kept raising. We decided that we would keep walking and cross the flyover...
Little did we realize what we had gotten ourselves into...
The water was a mix of rain water and drainage water (yuck!) and the water current was pretty strong...
The 3 of us held hands and started crossing the road to get to the flyover...
In the middle of this were a bunch of good-for-nothing guys who were splashing the dirty
water on everyone and calling out obscenities!
The water was knee length and we managed to cross the road... without any mishaps.
We walked over the flyover and then managed to get an auto for our destinations...
The worst part of this was - none of the cars were stopping to give a ride - at least to cross
the damn water... The police were not being very cooperative with anyone who complained
about the bad behavior of the boys who were splashing water...
I also learnt that a little bit of courage will take one a long way and that my friend S
was not someone who would back-off in times of adversity...
I also know that this might be nothing when compared to the experiences some people have
had with the rain and the floods - but, for the 3 of us it was an unforgettable experience
and for the lady going home to her baby - it was traumatic too...
God did guide us that day and gave us the courage to cross the road - which was not only
flooded, but most of the women were being splashed at or had obscenities screamed at them...
We also saw a bus which stopped right in all that water and the stupid Driver was urging the
ladies to get down in that water - he refused to stop the bus a bit further - on the flyover!
As those ladies were trying to get down, those boys kept splashing water at them!!!
We were stinking by the time we managed to get an auto, but we also felt liberated (I know, it sounds weird) that we did manage to cross without any mishaps...

September 14th, 2007 will always be etched in my memory - for that day - 3 ordinary girls,
managed quite an extraordinary feat!!
(It may not be as bad as getting stuck on the road inside a bus or getting stuck in the office...
Our houses weren't flooded and we didn't lose anyone in those 2 days, but it was an ordeal
for 3 very ordinary girls who had never had such an experience before!)

A Bit of This and That...

This weekend was peaceful... Yup, that's the word I would use to describe it...
Met my very close friend on Saturday and had lunch together - we had a great time and I'm hoping that we get to repeat it again...
We went to Garuda Mall - and did a bit of window shopping - which means - I dragged him into all the shops and he, poor chap came in and gave the appropriate answers for all my comments! (Very sweet of him!!) though at the end of it all inside Shoppers stop he asked me quite seriously how my husband survived one of these trips!!!
In Garuda Mall, especially on the weekends - you get to see a variety of weirdos in weird and allien get-ups!
I am wonder-struck by it every time without fail!!!
My one major question is - how do the parents put up with it??
Or are they ignorant as to how their kids dress when they hang outwith friends??
Or, maybe they all change clothes in the restrooms after getting to the mall?!!
What kind of a wardrobe is that - almost falling off jeans and blink and you can miss it tops,or the ragged t-shirts...
We saw this kid - who was dressed in over-sized t-shirt, track pants and shoes - he was tightly holding his - ummmm - "property" (You know what I mean!!) and walking all around!
Shouldn't such people be thrown out??

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I just read this and found it scary and the feeling of helplessness increased.
But, it also made me wonder - what would I have done? Would I have helped her?Why have our people become so cruel? does no one care anymore??
When I asked my friend - he said I was naive! Huh?!! Naive because I spoke of helping another human being in distress??
He said no one wanted the harassment of getting entangled with the local authorities...how sad is that? We live in such a sad world...

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It's been a week since my husband left for USA on work - it's been an eventful week...I have missed him and he has been on my thoughts constantly, but I am not sad or mopey or depressed which is a good sign :-)

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What is it when your higher-ups at work think that you are doing a good job only if you stay back late? I have never figured this out still, after all these years of experience...
The guys who stay back late are the "hard-working" ones... you mention that Bangalore is quite unsafe now-a-days and you want to get home early,you get cheesy comments like -
"so-and-so used to stay back till 11 or 12 and nothing ever happened to her!" or
"Let me drop you home..." (Said with a smirk on the face)
Good that nothing happened to her, but we have a life outside this office... is it so hard to get that?
Most of them have no sort of personal lives - they meet their wives/friends/family over the weekend... is that time enough?
What's the deal of a weekend marriage? Why get married then in the first place? What happened to maintaining some sort of balance?
Recently, credit was given to the guys who stayed late and did the work, not us who completed everything on time for the onsite guys to take it cross to business for approval or clarifications...

Team work has always been important to me - but, I see that the better you gel with your team mates, there is at least one guy who is trying to break you guys up with some sort of misunderstanding...
So, basically even if you are in the same team, you got to be deadly enemies and make sure that your team mate or one of your juniors get the blame... what kind of team work is that??

If I keep talking about this - I can go on and on and on... and it's all so negative and childish...

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I don't really know how to end this post - so I'm stopping now...

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