What is the ticket window at Thane railway station littered with?
Newspaper pages? Wrappers for groundnuts? Train tickets? No. It's littered with bus tickets! Surprising, isn't it? But not on second thoughts. People come to the station by bus. They buy tickets in the bus and keep them in their shirt pockets. On reaching station, they walk to the ticket window. Take out money from their pockets to buy train tickets. Find that the bus tickets are still with them. Throw the bus tickets on the floor and give the money to the guy occupying the ticket window. Finally, there are hundreds of bus tickets scattered on the railway station!
Panic after midnight
How often do you hear clock strike four in the morning? I have been hearing it quite often these days. Not long ago I boasted of an ability to fall asleep at any time at any place at will. There was a time I used to sleep fourteen hours a day, everyday!! Unfortunately things have changed now. Every other day I wake up in the middle of night, terrified that I won't be able to fall asleep. It's not that twisting and turning in bed for hours that bores me. What I hate about staying awake upto wee hours in the morning is that it spoils my day entirely. Sometimes even the entire week! When you doesn't sleep well at night, you are not enthusiastic during the day. It makes you tired, sleepy and dull. It lowers productivity tremendously. That's what has been happening to me frequently over the last two months. I try to recover the lost sleep on weekends but that's not always possible and often not sufficient.
I have spent as many sleepless nights in the last two months as I have spent twenty eight years before that. I hope this condition doesn't last for long. Insomnia is a big change to cope up with, for a someone like me who had the ability to fall asleep standing in a crowded local train!! Well, it's almost 11 p.m. right now, and the thought that's topmost on my mind is, "Will I be able to sleep well tonight?"
Good night. And best wishes!! :-)
How often do you hear clock strike four in the morning? I have been hearing it quite often these days. Not long ago I boasted of an ability to fall asleep at any time at any place at will. There was a time I used to sleep fourteen hours a day, everyday!! Unfortunately things have changed now. Every other day I wake up in the middle of night, terrified that I won't be able to fall asleep. It's not that twisting and turning in bed for hours that bores me. What I hate about staying awake upto wee hours in the morning is that it spoils my day entirely. Sometimes even the entire week! When you doesn't sleep well at night, you are not enthusiastic during the day. It makes you tired, sleepy and dull. It lowers productivity tremendously. That's what has been happening to me frequently over the last two months. I try to recover the lost sleep on weekends but that's not always possible and often not sufficient.
I have spent as many sleepless nights in the last two months as I have spent twenty eight years before that. I hope this condition doesn't last for long. Insomnia is a big change to cope up with, for a someone like me who had the ability to fall asleep standing in a crowded local train!! Well, it's almost 11 p.m. right now, and the thought that's topmost on my mind is, "Will I be able to sleep well tonight?"
Good night. And best wishes!! :-)
I have always fought against the Congress. I have fought against them for two reasons:
A. For what they have done to the country whenever they were in power, and
B. For the impression they have created that only those who are born or married in the Gandhi family have the right to rule the contry.
- George Fernandes in a interview to MJ Akbar on CNBC
A. For what they have done to the country whenever they were in power, and
B. For the impression they have created that only those who are born or married in the Gandhi family have the right to rule the contry.
- George Fernandes in a interview to MJ Akbar on CNBC
In the evening, everyone reaches home faster!
The other day as I walked out of the office with Hemant Phadnis, a colleague of mine, he told me that he brings his two-wheeler to office. Knowing that his house is just five minutes walk I was surprised, but quickly I realized that a five minute walk in the morning is sufficient to drench one is sweat, and I pointed it out to him. "No, it's not that. I don't mind walking in the sun in the morning. I bring my bike because I hate getting delayed by five minutes on my way home in the evening!" His answer really surprised me! So while I drove, I started thinking about it.
Long ago there was a science journal aired on DD wherein Dr. Yash Pal (the scientist with long hair, know him?) answered viewers' queries on various scientific topics. One curious question a schoolboy had asked (and I remember it because it was so odd) was that he always rode his bicycle faster and faster as he approached home from school. He wanted to know the scientific reason why he rode so fast!! The answer was that it was just his eagerness to reach home earlier that was behind his fast riding! I myself experience this everyday. On the way to office I average a speed of about fifty kmph, but on the way home I have to take efforts to keep myself at seventy.
Some years earlier when I was in school we had all gone to visit taatyaa maamaa. Ashutosh had just taken up a new job in a bank opposite BSE. He took a train to Churchgate and walked from Churchgate station to BSE, and did the same back home. I asked him how long it took between Churchgate station and his office. "In the morning it takes me half an hour, in the evening it takes me ten minutes". Innocently I asked, "Why? Do you take a different route?" "No", he said, "it's because in the morning I am going to office and in the evening I am coming back home!" Although the answer left me totally puzzled, the elders had a nice laugh and all agreed with him!
Now I understand ... in the evening everyone wants to reach home faster!
Long ago there was a science journal aired on DD wherein Dr. Yash Pal (the scientist with long hair, know him?) answered viewers' queries on various scientific topics. One curious question a schoolboy had asked (and I remember it because it was so odd) was that he always rode his bicycle faster and faster as he approached home from school. He wanted to know the scientific reason why he rode so fast!! The answer was that it was just his eagerness to reach home earlier that was behind his fast riding! I myself experience this everyday. On the way to office I average a speed of about fifty kmph, but on the way home I have to take efforts to keep myself at seventy.
Some years earlier when I was in school we had all gone to visit taatyaa maamaa. Ashutosh had just taken up a new job in a bank opposite BSE. He took a train to Churchgate and walked from Churchgate station to BSE, and did the same back home. I asked him how long it took between Churchgate station and his office. "In the morning it takes me half an hour, in the evening it takes me ten minutes". Innocently I asked, "Why? Do you take a different route?" "No", he said, "it's because in the morning I am going to office and in the evening I am coming back home!" Although the answer left me totally puzzled, the elders had a nice laugh and all agreed with him!
Now I understand ... in the evening everyone wants to reach home faster!
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none else has the praise. Blame neither man nor God nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.
The infinite future is before you, and you must always remember that each word, each thought and deed, lays up a store for you, and that as the bad thoughts and bad works are ready to spring upon you like tigres, so also there is the inspiring hope that the good thoughts and good deeds are ready with the power of a hundred thousand angels to defend you always and forever.
- Swami Vivekanand in What Religion Is; Chapter 2: Principles and Practices of Vedanta
The infinite future is before you, and you must always remember that each word, each thought and deed, lays up a store for you, and that as the bad thoughts and bad works are ready to spring upon you like tigres, so also there is the inspiring hope that the good thoughts and good deeds are ready with the power of a hundred thousand angels to defend you always and forever.
- Swami Vivekanand in What Religion Is; Chapter 2: Principles and Practices of Vedanta
Another of my friend's blogsite. This colourful blogsite is by Jeffrey:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/puremeteor
Some of my friends' blogsites:
Ramna's musings -
http://ramna.rediffblogs.com
Manasij's -
http://manasij.blogspot.com
Aniket, when are you going to create yours?
Ramna's musings -
http://ramna.rediffblogs.com
Manasij's -
http://manasij.blogspot.com
Aniket, when are you going to create yours?
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