Insanity & its benefits

Well there is something about doing too much thinking work, which short circuits the brain, or rather if you have thought too much, your brain starts working super fast, faster than the normal course of day. Well the end result with me having done too much thinking is equal to some really interesting situations!!! :P
Today while working on some concept notes here and there. I was done after thinking about it for 2 hrs and getting no where, so I decided to have a conversation with my bag... or at least tell my friends I was talking to my bag. Those who know me, know that I am insane and I hope they agree that it is part of my charms :D...
Friend 1:
Me: right now i m talking to my bag 
My friend: :-) 
bag gives inspiration? (well seriously I think she expected worse from me, talking to bags is certainly not something to surprise this one)
Me: naa i don think my bag is giving me any inspiration
Me: i was just asking my bag if he wanted a 'bagvati'
My friend: lol
Me: well he laughed too and said - tere budget mein nahin aawegi
My friend: Yeah so true, there is waiting list for bagvatis'
Friend 2:
Me: right now i m talking to my bag
My friend: that's gud
Me: well i was just asking my bag if he wanted a 'bagvati'
My friend: wow
bbye
logging off now (wonder why the sudden urge to drop off?)
Friend 3:
Me: right now i m talking to my bag
My Friend: :-) (now I am starting to wonder, why people smiled when I said this to them!!!!)
Me: neways so i asked my bag if he wanted a bagvati
My Friend: ya right!!
My Friend: and I am sure being your bag......
My Friend: he said "NO!!!"  (Such a good thought, she is such a good friend)
My Friend: ;)
For those who did not understand, who is 'bagvati' please watch "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara"...  

The Little Things (Part 2)

Realizing that my subconscious that noted these little things, had gone on a temporary strike from bringing this up. I decided to brush this skill with a conscious attempt to notice things and smile once I had noticed them.

These observations that I share here are the two which I felt are worth mentioning:

• The Gate-keeping cats: Well I believe this tops the list of funny little things and one in a millionth probability. So here I was walking on my way to a bus stop when I pass this one floor home and for some reason on that day, two cats decided that they would be lions. One white cat and one blackish cat were sitting on the two sides of the gate, without facing each other in a perfect statue like state.
  
  They were concentrating so much on something that I thought they were actually newly placed home decors!!! However, on some closer view, I realized they were living cats :P. The photo here can best showcase what I saw: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2959697; although the cats were just 1 feet big unlike the photo
  
• The Newly weds: What I am going to say here, may not be a big deal for many. However, in India its easy to identify a newly wed bride (not sure about grooms yet), since they wear a lot of red bangles on their hands.
  
  While traveling on the bus, I noticed this couple boarding, as with our buses, they were crowded, and there was a sudden jolt, to avoid falling the bride quickly gripped her husband tightly. Her husband, held her hand, smiled and they both continued the journey.
  
• The Poor but Lucky Chap: I had noticed this once on my nocturnal drives I took with my friends. There was this lad who seemed so sloshed that he was unable to walk. Thats the poor part, the lucky bit was that this chap was being dragged not by a fellow friend, but by a girl.
  
  To say a girl, is misleading, he was being held up and helped not by 1 but by 3 girls. Well I think forest gump's dialogue can be modified here - "Lucky is what Lucky does!!!"
  
  I will add more instances as I notice them in this beautiful world that is trying its best to make us laugh.... Are you watching?

The Little Things (Part 1)

It is funny how some very small yet interesting things get missed in the hustle bustle of daily life. I have always considered myself to be a crack at it, with a great eye for detail. However, I have had a few interesting incidents that have turned my views, inside out or have put satisfactory doubt into my mind.

The first was at a friend's work desk, in the last two years I have walked there a million times, awaiting the next question she will throw which will put me in a quandary. She has this amazing knack of finding the 1 in a millionth possibility which will undo the hard work. Let us not take away the fact that, that 1 possibility will magically be in her projects only. Thank God for these small mercies!!!

Anyway, I digress, the last three times I have been at her desk, I started noticing things and was pondering when did they get there! Haven't seen them, and with my usual confidence, I asked when she had gotten them. Wham! (came the first smack to my precious ego), where she said that these things were always there. Double Wham!! (the second whammy came), you did not notice these for all this time!!!

I smartly beat a hasty retreat to avoid this cornering, but I returned and decided to mine the beautiful wall for, here are the two very interesting spoils I plundered from her desk:

"Sandpaper When you have to put up with mean people, Think of them as sandpaper. They may scratch you, Rub you the wrong way But Eventually.... You end up smooth and polished.

And the sandpaper...? It'll be worn out and ugly! Makes you think, doesn't it?
 
Never lose sight of who you are because you are the best thing God ever created! Embrace the gift."
 
"Common Sense Common Sense is NOT a Gift…… It is a Punishment!!! Because you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t have it!!!"

Again the confidence about noticing the little things, got thrashed. I was waiting for the bus that nicely packs us and delivers us to office, the sun was doing its all time best to bake me alive. When I moved under the shade of a pillar and was blessing it and wondering when it was put up for the greater benefit of me. That's when another colleague seemed to read what was on my mind and said, "yeh toh pehle se hi tha!"...... 

Aieeeyaaa!!!!

(to be continued)