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Mr. Bay, You are not Rajni

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This post follows a situation in which I chose not to speak, though my heart pounded in an urge to do respond. Simply put, it was a lovely moron who questioned me on the ‘most important’ inconsequential thing (saying it was a question could be an injustice to the intimidating and ordering tone). The details of the situation, I cannot go even slither more deep. But, to satisfy myself and to get a good night’s sleep, I am having to do this; though I know this is not the ideal post to celebrate the second anniversary of my blog. What follows is an outburst of all love I had to express to this moron ever since I knew he was one. And one request before you read further: if you can, please avoid reading this post. If you can’t stop yourself, then read it and forget it! For the comfort of conversation, let me call this moron as ‘Bay’, the word whose little variant might actually fit the character.

Dear Bay, 

Thanks to the real estate restrictions, I am pleasedat hell to share the corner with you. No one except you could have had the uncontrollable need to throw in a towel to reserve that place. Come the first opportunity to leave that place, I am off from there, for such a place is reserved for your uncorking highness! If you ever want to spare a thought for why I think I cannot afford to share your corner–which I know for sure your highness shouldn’t bother to, and even if you did, I am sure your highness has the brains only to read the lines as published–here are some of my thoughts. Continue reading →

My Dad is a romantic husband

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At a restaurant few days back, my father shared this with my mom. It crossed my eyes, and I thought it would be a nice memory on my blog. I know now, my dad is a romantic husband, but well before that he became a teacher. This is how academics show their romanticism (that perhaps includes me too!). My mom only has a cute smile to share when asked about what she feels with this. :)

Freshers Day @ SMS, MVGRCE

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Today, 1st October, 2011 would live long in my memory. And so would it be with the senior students who have organized a fabulous welcome party to their juniors who rocked the day on every opportunity presented. I don’t recall seeing such exhibition of energy and stamina in some time. Wow! That was a great day! Oh, Yes. It was Freshers Day for the incoming students at School of Management Studies, MVGR College of Engineering.

The day started at around 10:00 AM with the Correspondent, Principal, and In-Charge Head of the Department sharing a few words with the students. Performances from students shook the stage and music flew all the time. Dance, Songs, Skits, Contest to identify the best freshers…everything was crafted into the script beautifully by the seniors. Juniors have cooperated the way seniors expected them–breaking through hell with their noise. That sound is still ringing my ears. Couple of exciting things were to happen to me: one, bounce on my feet after a long time, and two, get a few roses from students (I had to be shy writing this, but then it is the effect of the day that I find new freedom!).

I am so happy to have all your love, friends.

All that aside, I promised to click a few pictures. I could do it partly, and could not do it for the significant second-half of the show. But I hope that is fine, we had many other cameras covering the event. I would have loved to cover it all, but had to save my energy to be with you all (believe me, my camera was heavy!). Of those I covered too, I am not greatly satisfied because I missed a few great moments, and on other moments I had technical glitches. Some were high action scenes where photos were spoiled, and some time it was poor lighting. Some scenes were repeatedly shot in burst modes. All in all, however, I could gun my camera about 250 times or so. I have uploaded all those pictures here using picasa web albums. I wish you find some of them good! Also, some videos I shot during the event are now uploaded on YouTube. You can watch all of them here.

I need to make a request too. Just to have all the pictures of the event accessible to every student who took part, I ask everyone who took a few snaps to upload them on their picasa web albums, make them publicly available for viewing, and share the link in your comments to this post. If you need instructions on how you can do it, go here.

Some pictures which I thought were good to go a news paper are here:

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Reading my blog…I find life is indeed fascinating

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I realized. May be a little too soon to come to a conclusion since I have crossed similar phases before, but it is showing up. The frequency at which I am blogging is not at my normal. While this does not mean I am not writing so much, it definitely indicates that I am not spending enough time on my blog (or perhaps thinking about what goes up there!). This is where I am feeling like dried out of topics. My creative mind (if it were at all when I began writing short stories) I find has gone numb, and the active element in my brain seems to be attracted to experiences so much that life looks more fascinating than fiction.

I repeat that line, life looks more fascinating than fiction, for perhaps it is real. Now, in this phase where I was pulling myself to put up something here, I get these fundamental questions: why am I writing anything, who are reading it, and what are people interested in reading in my blog (which is kind of a cluttered place after a little information burst I observed has happened in the last couple of years; I am referring to 300+ posts on my blog!). I figured out I could not work on statistics in detail with any level of satisfaction, but there were certain numbers that hit in my face. They were just jaw dropping evidence about what people read in my blog–which were completely against any of my imaginations. Beginning with story writing, then jumping into writing my life, and in between somewhere with snippets of experimentation around different kinds of stuff like six word fiction, two line stories, and research summaries; my blog has taken enough twists and turns for me to claim that I am an experimenting blogger (experienced and educated also, if I may say). Let me get back to what those jaw dropping observations were.

  1. People who read my blog is a close group of friends and enthusiasts who show interest in what I am doing. Others who hit my blog come mostly through google searches with words ‘communication patterns‘, ‘symlog‘, ‘dyadic communication‘, ‘patterns of communication‘, ‘life is fascinating‘, ‘what is fascinating‘ and then a few popular words that are related to me and my work, work place.
  2. Most read posts on my blog in that list are: Bales’s SYMLOG Model, Norton’s Communication Style, Bernstein’s Linguistic Codes.

These observations just tell me that my blog is mostly read by scholars in communication. Unfortunate for them, I am not the authority nor what I have posted is research work in absolute but for the summaries. It is also kind of unfortunate for me because I realize now that people do not necessarily read what I like to write. Surprised! Shocked? I do not exactly touch base with my feelings now, but it is clear in my mind that I would be happy to have more readers for my stories on any day compared to those research summaries that are not really my property. Even when it comes to people reading my own research (numbers seem to be exaggeratedly good here!), it still does not fill my heart. Perhaps, I am and was always in love with fiction. To see that my first post–a tiny story–having only twelve hits is for sure not a happy feeling. How I wish I could write stories that could attract more readers and let them fill in their hearts!

And, What an irony! When everything in my life begins to look more fascinating than fiction, my heart still leads me to write fiction that is fascinating. Life indeed is fascinating!

Brand New — as always

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New things come into life. Accepting them is a momentary task. However, what we do before we go on to really take up those new things is rather refreshing, literally. The tendency to settle down before beginning something new (brand new as it reads in the mind) has always renewed a man’s desire to live better–I think I can safely say that with very little resistance from the other side. That has been the case with me, at least so far. :)

Just before taking up my new responsibilities in a new institution (as if it is really new! My friend observed, I had changed six institutions already), I took a two-week break, one to spend with my family, and one to go out travelling with my soulmate. One with my family was wonderful. I am witness to the transformation of a responsible family man to someone who is more lovable; guess that is an effect of retirement, that one tends to put more value on members of the family–now and always as it seems–than on tomorrow that is to come. The one with the spouse is beginning tomorrow. And I look forward to intimate interactions with nature while I fall in love again with my dearly sweet heart. Bangalore is the place we have marked on the map this time. If you have been my reader, let me tell you this: “There is more to come, and of a different kind I am planning. Be with me.”

Life is fascinating. It always is!