Bas ek Lamhe ka Jhagda

Bas ek lamahe ka jhagda tha....
dar-o-deevaar par aise chhanaake se giree aavaaj
jaise kaanch girata hai...
har ek shay me gee, udatee huee, jalatee huee,
najar me, baat me, lahaje me
soch aur saans ke andar
lahoo hona tha ek rishte ka, so vo ho gaya us din
usee aavaaj ke Tukade utha kar farsh se us shab
kisee ne kaat lee nabje
na kee aavaaj tak kuchh bhee
ki koee jaag na jae
bas ek lamahe ka zagada tha........

~By Gulzar

Itni Jaldi kyo hai bhai...?

The moment tyres hit the strip with a slight thud , bouncing off the ground a couple of times. The pressure of the air against its extended wings soon slows it down . It glides slowly on the strip , making a couple of lazy turns while some lady on the announcement thanks you for flying with them even though they made you wait whole night at the airport and tells you the temperature outside is way too low than you hope it is . Now the plane stops down . And then , the interesting part starts..

People jump off their seats , brushing their bottoms against each other faces . Uff . Excuse me . Watch it. Will you please pull off your suitcase off my toe ? Pulling open the flaps over their heads . Switching on their cellphones . Someone yells "What ? You havent sent the car ? What the hell! waise sach yeh hota hai.. inhone kabhi car laane ko bola hi nahi hota... bas aise hi tashan maarte hai". Lalu koi or naya ghotala kare us se pehle most of the people stand scrunched in the aisle , all forming an unstructured queue, looking with tense eyes towards the end of the plane , wondering why the doors aint opened yet.

I still lie pushed down in my seat , Or mast gaane mere kaan main ghul rahe hai.. (Main Jaha Rahu, Chahiye to bol dena. I hate piracy , starting tommorow)

watching people stand on each other's feet , I wonder , jaldi kya hai yaar ? This plane blows up in three minutes ?? aisa hai to jadli batao yaar.. hum shyaad kuch madad hi kar de aapki..

So many people are in so much hurry . That guy in a Yamha R15 (Note kiya jaaye hume bhi chahiye yeh bike) behind my office bus who is honking is in a hurry to get to his office ( Yaar overtake karte hue gaali kyun deta hai ? Accha hindi ki gaali to mat de ) . Students are in a hurry to read their chapters before they face the exams . My boss is in a hurry to get that report. People at the boarding gate are in a hurry to get onto the plane . When it lands , they are in a hurry to get out of it. Everybody is in a hurry to get somewhere . Few people want to stay in the moment they are in.

Now I don't know . Maybe these guys know where they want to get to, Hume to aaj tak pata nahi chala ki jaana kaha hai.. Chalo koi to hai mere bharat mahan main jo jaanta hai ki woh kaha jaa raha hai or kya kar raha hai. You see , driven , focussed people. Achievers . Desh ko aage badane wale log. Maybe I am just a slow guy who likes to listen to music and type down words which interest nobody while the world around me reaches for the stars . You see , I don't have a problem with the 'wanting to achieve things' thing . Even I want to achieve things , even if they are a Allu Tikki burger with cheese , and a TV remote , and someone who shares all that with me.

But what I don't understand is that why hurry ? Jaldi kya hai . Kidhar jaana hai ? I mean , life is not in the future . Life is now . This moment .I mean , it's like..

When I was in school , people told me happiness is getting first class in board exams. When I got those First class (Gir pad kar hi aaye they) , they told me happiness was getting into a top engineering college. I know yeha kismat ne saath nahi diya... Neeche se TOP engineering collge main admission mil gaya , Then they told me that happiness is definitely getting into some MNC and earning a salary which is in six figures. Pakka . Sachi . Muchi. Confirmed. Arre 100% happiness yehi hai . USA mein researchers bhee yehi kehte hai.

Now When I have done that , happiness is ? Hello ! What is it nowwww ? Bol do Kaake . Kidhar jaana hai ab ?

So ladiesh and gentlemans , now that the world has been telling me what to do , this is what I have learnt - all the above stuff is important , but happiness is something they dont need to tell you about. It is something you feel . And only you decide what makes you happy . When others don't know where you want to be , how can they tell you how to get there ?

Like , for me , happiness is..

On a lazy Sunday , I watch a Moive on Inox, eat a full lunch with friends, and a long drive kisi ki bhi car main Taxi bhi chalegi yaar..

When dad asks me to take a bath and I put my arm around his shoulders and say "Chill, Pa.Do dinn hee to hue hai."

When I say stupid things to someone who would not think "Huh? Isko problem kya hai?."

Sitting in my balcony on a December morning and takeing sip of a garma garm chai.

Talking to someone who understands me, and accepts me even when I am all boring .

Caring for someone I want to care for.

Meeting a bunch of friends over a couple of huge pizzas and crack pathetic jokes about our college professors and why worst guys get the best girls (Haa yeh mera fav topic hai).

Happiness is just, being me .

So you see , what makes me happy is stuff I have not achieved, but stuff, which I already have, had all the way along . So I know I need to achieve things, but hey, there is no hurry .Because I need to achieve things to survive, but to be happy, not much is needed . Some music and a Tikki burger, with cheese, will do just fine for now...

Virgo..

Virgo is one of the most complex and intriguing of the constellations and Virgos are some of the most complex and interesting people. Virgo energy is female energy, whether you’re a male or a female and is the only female symbol in the zodiac. Whether human, animal or inanimate, all symbols represent male energy, apart from Virgo, so Virgo stands alone, the only sign that represents female energy and because of that she embodies aspects of all the goddesses.

Do you believe in all this...?? ya i know few people trust on this... Me too virgo but some how i feel that i never behave like a typical virgo...

My maximum friends and relatives are virgo only... but non of us behaves in same manner.. I have a doubt that if we all are virgo then there should be some common thing between US... but we are not at all same not even a single thing common between us...

Even my three cousin born on the same day including me... per hum teeno ek dusare ke just oppsite hai..

There is one more fact that people use to say ... that..

"Demeter is the Earth Goddess, or Earth Mother and this is the goddess of Virgo, so Virgo encompasses the Earth Mother in all of us. Virgos are very in tune with the cycle of nature and growing things and are very focused on the cycle of life."

There are hell lot of nice thing u can find on net about virgo... but in genral there are hell lot of people are on earth who hates virgo.. even i hate virog.. noting wrong abt this... I am a indian or as a indian i have freedom of thoghts... i can love any one(hehe.. kitni pyari feelig hai.lol), i can hate any one.. haa haa .. juth nahi bol raha hu..:-)

dont know what ever written on net or i heard abt virgo its all right or totally wrong but, i have a strong feeling that i am no where belong to this sun sign... apart from one quality that i love to pointing out the mistakes.. i dont have any other quality of this sun sign.. but i want to be like a virgo.. nway it dosnt make much difference for me...

Some might say that Virgos are too fussy, but without their organisation and ‘mothering’ ways, we’d all be worse off. They just need to watch that they don’t take it to extremes.

No baat only bakwas..

• I am transforming into a workaholic. The types who’s name have taken by default in last cab list. Have taken a total of 1 day off since March 2009. Monday is no more a scary day. I send out office mails almost every Sunday. Two weeks ago, sent a mail to Lead at 1.50 am . He stamped into my cabin next morning and insisted that I get a girlfriend. Not that I want to be on the cover of Time. But I like working.

• I regret not helping a fresher who wanted me to refer his CV to HR. I said I will help out, then totally lost track of that. If they had a record for the number of promises broken, my picture would be in the Guiness Book. Front cover. Full color.

• I have stopped using my Mp3 player. I like the radio more. More unpredictable. More talkative. And cheaper than an iPod.

• Why does everybody in the conference room laugh when the big boss cracks an intended joke? I did not find it funny. A Atal bihari vajpay’s speech is more funny than his joke was . But the guy on my left slapped the table twice and roared. Another one could not stop giggling for a complete forty seconds. I mean, was it in the terms and agreement when they joined?

• I have stopped drinking cold drinks. I like the tea and fresh lime soda more. More tasty. More refreshing. And cheaper than an soft drink.

• So much involved in my current project that even in sleeping mode some time i use to finding the solution for all the pending issues...

• Four year of corporate world. And I am almost into the habit of thinking in bullets. I think you have an idea of that.