Now and Then - Stay Connected

I have been working for the last 3.5 years now. I am an adult. I drive, I go out with friends for drinks. I am a professional when it comes to my work. I know what I want and work towards achieving my goals. I have dreams and aspirations. I am a person who thinks logically and rationally, or so I'd like to believe. However, I wasn't always like this. A lot has changed about me since I was a child. So how was I any different from what I am now?

In every woman there is a little girl that she leaves behind as she grows up. I am no different from any one of them. Just like any other girl, I too had my dreams and fallacies. I was carefree, a feeling that I haven't experienced in a long time now. As I was growing up, there was this movie that played an important role in my adolescent years - Now and Then. It's about four twelve year old girls and a summer when they get involved in investigating a local mystery. Both happy and unfortunate events occur. These four friends make a pact, when they were younger, that if one of them ever needed each other they would be there. Now and Then used to be my favorite movie when I was younger and it still remains one of my favorites. This movie is absolutely wonderful, even now I could watch the movie all over again. It puts me in such a great mood. It makes me think that real friends do exist.

I was inspired by this movie in ways more than one. I still remember how I would cycle my way around the whole block from dawn to dusk during my summer vacations. It changed the way I thought and also my outlook towards things. As you are growing up, you tend to pick up a habit or a trait from everything around you. It could be actual people, a sitcom or a movie. All or any of it. It makes you who you are in today's world. I know I am one such person, a combination of many such things. Without them I wouldn't really be the person that I am today. And it's a good feeling when you relate to those things after all this time. 'Now and Then' reminds me of the times back THEN and then I see the NOW which is in front of me.

What's yours?

What do you really care about? What are the things in your life that make it rich and fill your days? What are the things that you consider yourself an expert on? Are you into gardening, photography, cooking, traveling, cars, bikes, jewelry and books? What is it that you enjoy doing? What is your passion?


Passion is the emotion of feeling very strongly about a subject or person, usually referring to feelings of intense desire and attraction.

What is it that I am passionate about? I don’t really know since there are more than just one thing that interest me. I enjoy traveling and meeting new people. I like exploring new places and this mixed with photography. When you are able to capture all those moments which with every passing minute keep becoming a thing of the past. It’s like only if I could hold that moment right there, for as long as I wished to. A camera allows me to do just that. And so when I think of photographs, every photograph reminds me of how a story or an incident is connected with each one of them. They become a part of our memories, which remind us of all the good times.

Ever think that you just want to let go of everything. Do you ever feel that you want forget everything that is worrying you and that’s on your mind? Think of something like dancing. Well that’s something I used to be passionate about. It allowed me to let loose, to forget everything and everyone. It was about me and only about me. It would let me focus on myself. It made me feel good and made me feel like I was on top of the world.

People who are passionate about bikes might probably look at this way. The open road, the wind blowing into your face as you cruise through the city life. The engine which roars like a lion and the feeling that you experience when you traveling at a high speed.

It's simply out of this world!

India - The twenty20 world cup champions

Cricket is a sport that every child/man follows in this country. It’s in his blood. Ask him what’s the national game of India and he might just end up saying – Cricket.

Traditionally so, cricket is a game of 50 Overs played with 11 people each in 2 teams. It usually is a long game, which essentially means that it takes up a lot of one’s time. Nonetheless, people love the sport and have been following it religiously for several decades. However, its audience which includes housewives and young women might have found it difficult to sit through a long game day after day during a world cup series.

Now the modern way of cricket is a game of 20 Overs. Hence, it’s been given the name Twenty20. How are people taking it? Not so good and not so bad either. Like they always say that there are two sides of a coin. Similarly, there are some people who love the idea and some who do not support the idea. They probably love the idea because now they can remove time and actually watch the match and enjoy it just like all cricket lovers do. It’s like finally getting to know that what’s the whole fuss about watching a cricket match.

The recent Twenty20 World Cup was a resounding success. I think that they were successful in their attempts of trying to entice the younger people into the grounds.

It’s a quick and exciting game. It brings a new audience to the game and generates interest in Essex. And here’s the biggest one - The Indians brought home the cup after 24 years.

Chak de India!

A day in our lives!

Every morning I wake up and get out of bed, head towards the closet and prepare for my day. Whether that means heading out to an office somewhere, sitting down in front of my computer, or may be just having breakfast with the family on my day off. We all do this day after day after day.

As I am driving to work, waiting for the computer to boot, or taking a shower, my mind is a million miles away. I am thinking about all that has to get done that day in order for me to have ‘done my job’. I read this somewhere, that in any given day a human mind has 8 million and 4000 thoughts.

I reach work, the security guard at work smiles and waves good morning. I open my email and mixed in with all the business emails is one from a friend just telling me to smile and have a good day. The day passes, I get busy with my work and appointments.

It’s the end of the day. I come back from work and I am exhausted. I realize that my list of things to do got longer instead of shorter. I sit and wonder why life has to be so hectic all the time.

I sit at the dinner table with the family and talk about the events of the day and all that is happening in my life. I nod and smile but my mind is on all the things that I still need to do. I collapse into bed, thinking about the project and appointments that have to be completed by tomorrow. I let my mind ponder on these things for a while and then I dose off and let my mind slip into la la land.

I arise again the next morning, my mind already in overdrive trying to figure out the best way to ‘attack’ the day. This is what we do. This is our life. Day after day!