Till Death do us part !!

"When I'm gone, just carry on don’t mourn, rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice. Just know that, I’m looking down on you smiling and I didn't feel a thing, so baby don’t feel the pain, just smile back”  – Eminem

In a wedding, in all the oaths, chants & the vows you hear, I mostly just remember the last line

"Till death do us part"

Sharing lives together, being partners in happiness, sadness, sickness & health till death does them apart.

What exactly happens when eventually death plays its part ??

Does anyone know that ? We all have our theories & beliefs, nothing else.

Some days back, a friend told me how one of our mutual friends drowned in Rishikesh. He wasn’t a close friend but certainly was a friend.

From that moment on, I can't stop thinking about him. I keep recalling the memories, the time I spent with him, even if it was just the brief 10 day trekking trip we took together.

Its not just him, but all the obituaries I've come across over the years, mostly on Facebook where one of the friends dedicates an fb page to pay tribute to their memories.

I can't but remember by ex-GF's best friend who left us a few years back. The last time she had called me, was to try patch things up between me & my ex but I was in such a foul mood, I ignored her call. At that point in time, talking to her didn't really seem important.

But right now, I wish I had taken that call.

Even if you think that it wouldn’t have made a difference or I wouldn’t have made any difference, I believe picking up the phone receiver could have caused a butterfly to flutter its wings differently and maybe she would've been still here with us. I didn't even know her that well but I wish she was here, with her friends, her younger brother & her mom.

One of my juniors at school, an adorable little kid, who resembled my brother, a boy of 15 years of age, who used to play for the school U-16 cricket team, passed away in the arms of his friend, while on tour to another school, coz of an asthma attack.

An uncle, who slipped in the middle of the night and never woke up, a physics teacher who died of throat cancer or a peon who fell under the school bus while boarding it.

I can't imagine the agony, shock and the sadness in the witnesses' eyes when I can't even bear the news which reached me a month after the demise.

You don't suddenly start seeing the Thestrals from the magical universe when you witness a death nor do you hear a canon shot fire when someone's heart stops beating in the hunger games arena but whatever the feeling is, it surely is unbearable.

It leaves a void, an emptiness which can be never be whole again but will only have to go numb with time. We can still see & talk to that person in our dreams but is that in our control ??

Even in that unreal dreamland, we just wish it to be like an inception, where death only results in waking you up from a deep slumber.

“You used to captivate me by your resonating light, now I'm bound by the life you left behind. Your face it haunts, my once pleasant dreams, your voice it chased away all the sanity in me” – Evanescence

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Gadgets to Girls = Ashes to Wine

My first post "The Yin - Yang Combo" was inspired by a song. The name of this post is also inspired by one !!

Ashes & Wine by 'A Fine Frenzy'.

But this time, the meaning is exactly the opposite of what Yin & Yang stands for.

Ashes & Wine are not related and obviously aren't from the same universe. Wine, which is an alcoholic beverage, consists of a lot of acids which dissolve anything and everything mixed with it but with one exception, charred ashes !!

That's exactly what Girls & Gadgets are !! They literally don't go well together ...

I'm not saying the girls don't even know their phone's model numbers. C'mon, that'll be an insult. But do they know:

·         The tech specifications of their PC

·         What’s a Graphic Card & if they need one in their PC (You remember this ??)

·         Where exactly does the RAM fit inside the CPU

·         How to reset the message center number in the phone & what IS a msg center

·         How to get the IMEI number from the phone's memory

Oh trust me, I can go on forever.

So why exactly this kolaveri di ?? Guys nowadays have a sense of what fashion is, the most elite of the chefs in the world are men, changing a nappy isn't a rocket science for us anymore.

But these creatures from Venus ??

They can't handle the expensive little machines that make our lives so much easier. They rely on US for this task. A pretty face can wring you dry off your money, break up the closest of friendships & start the most brutal of wars but whenever it comes to these instruments, with their little buttons, sophisticated softwares and touch interfaces, they're the typical damsels in distress !!

If they actually are from Venus, the hottest planet (No Puns here guys) in the milky way (Over here too plz), then these gadgets are their KRYPTONITE.

Atleast I think so ...

Every girl can't be a Jessica Beil, operating a Military Tank while wearing a sizzling army tank top or ScarJo, who can hack into the most sophisticated of the defence systems in those hot leather pants or Megan Fox, who made Grand Theft Auto look like a piece of cake in that orange top & skin tight jeans.

They're all like a stereotypical Isla Fisher or Rachel Green, the fashionista shopaholics who know how to "swipe" a credit card but don't really know what's the mechanism behind the Credit Card POS Machine.

Therefore, I rest my case ...

Never-Ending phone calls: A necessary EVIL ??

You met a girl whom you like. She likes you too. You ask her out and BANG, you're in a relationship.

It seems too short but soon the honeymoon period ends and believe it or not, ur a normal couple just like the others. This is not the hard part but yeah, it's not easy too. The most difficult part and also, the crux of this post, is the painstakingly long and torturous phone calls you share with the love of your "current" life.

I never seem to understand the fact how the couples talk n talk n talk for hours at a time ... I've seen my pals glued to their phones and repeatedly calling the person at the other end of the line, "JAANU" or "BABY" (Pyaar ka Punchnaama Flashback anyone?) and talking till the wee hours of the morning. Not only the phone calls are long, boring and unyielding, the lengthy e-mails and text messages are intolerable too. A lot of girls can relate to Rachel writing the 27 page long letter to Ross about how she feels. 27 PAGES ...

FRONT AND BACK.

I remember the phone calls, where my replies were confined to the occasional "so" or "really" or "ok" while she would go on and on, the emails that could easily make up a chapter of the Lord of the Rings novel (which is super lengthy btw) to which I used to reply with a one or max two paragraph response, with don't know how many line breaks. I almost landed into trouble when my folks got the page-long (ironic huh) phone bills on every single phone I dialed her number from.

I bet, if I had the phone made of the two cans a string, they would deliver a hefty phone bill at my home. So really, why do girls always have to "express" themselves in so many words ?? Or should I be furious at the English language, where there are endless words to explain how they feel. I don't mean guys don't say what they feel, we just choose the shortest, the most precise and the fastest route. Ever seen a heterosexual guy who writes long letters and make those phone calls and actually talk most of the time? (and is not a stalker of course). If these creatures exist, please, enlighten me !!

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Bad Boys & Good Girls: A Yin Yang Combo ??

Some days back, I stumbled upon a song named "free falling". The original version is sung by Tom Petty but the one I heard was by the great John Mayer which he sang live at a concert. In the song, he talks about how he's been a bad boy and broken a "innocent good girl's" heart. He goes on about how happy she is now, in her perfect world without him.

This got me thinking. Are girls really suckers for bad boys ?? I don't really know about the real world but the reel world sounds affirmative. The sentiment is even stronger , in the era of the Twilight Saga, Vampire Diaries and True Blood. So are they really just aching to get those fangs into their necks ?? Even in the song, John Mayer uses the vampires in the same context as bad boys, making them synonyms.

And is it just the good girls or all the girls ? The good girls and bad boys, agreed, would be like the ultimate yin yang or the north and south pole in the laws of attraction but the bad girls too ? I mean, c'mon, give the good guys something to work with. Taking an example from a cheesy Hindi dramas or movie won't really help my argument but what about the Hollywood stories ?
Most of the popular chick flicks show the bad and spoilt young brat falling for the innocent sweet girl who lives a world apart from him. A walk to remember, Cruel Intentions and She's all that to name a few. They fall in love and a couple of years later, the guy has straightened out, has a good job, a family and they live happily forever.

To make it worse, most of these flicks are inspired by best selling novels (Nicholas Sparks is a major influence FYI) and this topic never seems to get old. Those, coupled with the break up songs by Adele n Rihanna, the good guys have to find a way out or else, their only option would be to go gay !! The last book I read was named "One Day" by David Nicholls. Even that one is on similar lines (I mean Bad boys and good girls, not homosexuals)

That's about the good girls, but the bad girls too ? The heavily tattooed, gothic and rebellious girls with father issues ?? I don't thing I've ever noticed one of em with the the geeky, law abiding, good hearted boys. You'll see plenty of em with Charlie Harper (Two and a Half Men), Drake Bell (Drake & Josh) or Barney Stinson (Do I really have to tell you the name of this show ??), ofcourse taking the Big Bang Theory guys as an exception. But I can't really say how many exceptions are there or will be there.

So please give the good ol guys, the Ross & Chandlers of the world, a chance. They're nice, funny, chivalrous & most importantly, NOT GAY !!


So a frnd of mine, supposedly A "Good" Girl retaliated and wrote something to refute my thesis !! Here it is ... Have a look and tell her she's wrong


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