Renaming of Carter Road...

The road I once walked on as a child .. by the sea side will no more be associated with its old name Carter Road but instead it has been renamed 'Sangeet Samrat Naushad Ali Road'..

I feel like a part of my childhood and growing up days has been taken from me and renamed to something I don’t associate myself to at all.

 Understood most roads in India were named after some English or the other .. but its been years now and we all associate those roads with their original names , not with the people they were named after .. Each of these old names have a certain attachment to us and we don’t wanna loose it .. I have no offence to the name but why is it necessary?

 Infact my close school friends are from the family and hence probably I feel a sense weirdness writing this ,I know how happy they are to be living now on the road named after their grandfather but what about us? ..

 We still associate it to our  days as kids when we’d wait to go on the beach on carter road with our little buckets and spades to build sand castles, though alot has changed with times and all the commercialization of that road, its still holds a special memory to me and I wouldn’t want to call it by a different name, I would want to tell my kids about all my childhood days but if the names of all our reminiscent places will be changed how will they ever be able to associate our lives with theirs .. is my question ..

 I still love calling Bombay ‘Bombay’ and not Mumbai as it is now called .. why is it necessary?Ask any anyone of us born and grown up there, I’m sure all will agree with me .. it sounds beautiful to our ears, it is what we’ve grown up with,its part of our childhood memories and we love it.. 

I would like to ask the politicians who execute and decide all of these name changes, would they change their names if they were given some western names when they were born? Why change what has already been done is my point ..Build new roads and name them instead.

 I will still call Carter Road by its original name and request every Bombayite to do the same ..Cause we live in a place where democracy exists and hence since there was no vote taken by the people living on Carter Road and their opinion not asked the renaming should be taken back ..

Follow your Heart..

“Do as your heart desires” ..

Someone very special to me suggested that .. and I thought I always did so … but doesn’t seem like it .. Cause inspite of it all I have this burning desire to do something .. something that will make me happy .. though to me happiness is a state of mind that we choose to be in .. Rather than the outer drives that we have .. 

Yesterday .. outta the blue whilst sitting in class I began doodling with my pencil . something I haven’t done in ages ..  I have seen people scribble and then wow! there is something so good to the eyes on paper .. but I guess I have been concentrating so much on what should be done that I never let the pencil control my hand and it happened yesterday .. I just went on and on .. and the end result was this .. I had not scribbled like this in 6 years and I was so excited about it..and  that’s why I have put it up here.

 This sense of being has come  from this very special friend I met about a couple of months ago and spent so little time with him ... I feel happy and good to be myself , whenever i hear from him. .. today I feel like writing about him .. he’s funny,he's cute .. and above all very very special to me .. I may never be able to ever express how I feel and probably never know .. but still I wait to see him online .. I hope to hear his voice because it always brings a sense of cheer to me .. I wish I’d spent more time with him .. I don’t know what it is .. but he constantly tells me just give it a go .. do what u feel most happy doing .. I wish I could be like him .. he’s so vibrant .. so enthusiastic about everything he does and most importantly follows his heart .. he does things that probably most of us would normally spend a lifetime pondering about.. wish I could do this and wish I could do that and still never land up doing any of it

 Today I feel like dedicating this blog to this special person..

I don’t know if he’ll ever read it .. and even if he does .. he might not know its for him .. but I wish I could tell him how important he is to me .. I guess we all come across someone .. who we look up to and feel like believing in what they say cause they aren’t the ones who advice u on what you should do , but instead they inspire you by their actions .. he is so talented from the little that I know of him.

Everyone who know him have this  to say about him .. "he’s a darling" .. "a great person and most of all a wonderful human being" .. never thought he’d have such an impact upon me .. that I think to myself where had he been all these years ..

Bollywood Blogging!!!!!

I am doing  report for school ,on the changing trends of business in Bollywood.. now that’s a topic that absolutely intrigues me, I have no clue why I feel so connected to that world when in the real world I have absolutely no connection what so ever .As I was reading news articles from back home I stumbled upon one that drew my attention, it was one on film stars blogging away, and I thought I was new to this world!!!! Amir seems to be blogging about his days of recuperating from an injury and the most talked about “new blogger” is none other than the Big B himself. Mr. Amitabh Bachchan is making his presence felt in this virtual world too , so I thought of seeing what it is all about and  quite liked it .. 

Sometimes I try to put this sham on that none of these things affect me but his writing about his day to day life with a special underlined message in it makes me ponder. Like today he’s spoken of his days on the sets of the movie BLACK and how one day when they were shooting the climax for it , he went back in time and thought about his dad and his last moments with him. It was really touching, perfect I would say for a film, the words carefully chosen and more so I could picture each word typed away. He’s spoken about his attachment, love, adoration and respect for his dad. I felt like I was reading a part outta the script of ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham’ as Karan Johar rightfully put it “Its all about loving your parents”. So true, a bond we can never cease from. 

Confusion!

May 13^th …today was a mixed day for me .. though I started off well I have no clue what happened that it turned weird for me today .. Thought everything was going good, had a presentation and was all set to get it done with , but then one of the group members just backed out at the last minute and I have no clue why .. he seemed in a weird mood and it just went off ..Strangely I have no clue why I was as polite and accommodating as I was , cause it has always spelt a downfall to me, he asked me if he could speak with the moderator and try to postpone the date as he was just absolutely not upto it, and I agreed to his whims..I am still wondering why though,I could’ve easily put my foot down and said no we have to get it done today , but instead this sudden understanding came over me and I obliged .. only to find out later that he happily had informed the moderator that the entire group wasn’t prepared and hence could’nt be assessed .. I was furious .. again taken for a ride!!! .. I stood by him being a good team player , but for what? I have no clue cause I realize all our marks will be deducted. So much for being nice!!!! .. And this is not the first time I have obliged and been walked all over .. They say u learn from your mistakes but look at me .. I always try to see the other’s point of view and be compassionate cause that is what is taught to us ever since I can remember.

 

Where are all those values gone?, where we were told be nice to people cause what you sow, so shall you reap a form of karma. I still remember all those fairy tales showing the giving , understanding one always wins and the wrong doer or rather the greedier ones get what they deserve . I know I ain’t anyone to judge, but I wonder what probably is good karma on my end might just be absolutely foolishness. Do those lessons taught in fables and stories ever hold true or are they just dreams of a person who hoped things would be like that? .. I genuinely wonder, because in this real world you gotta be harsh , aggressive brutal if u really want something in life cause they say nothing comes easily. But I always thought it meant loads of hard work but seems like you gotta be selfish if you want to survive.My lesson for the day!!!!

 

Someone I really adore once said that in life we always are offered two paths , one the good and the other the bad. Depends on each one of us which path we want to choose, if we choose the quick easier way, things will be great at the start .. everything will be like a bed of roses, but when we reach our destination we won’t really appreciate it. We will feel a sense of yea! so big deal I reached. Now if we choose the tougher path , initially it will be absolutely hard to get by, disappointment will be at every turn to receive us, but at the end when we reach our destination we’ll be glad and cherish it to the fullest . Sometimes this too to me has different ways of looking at it and there we go again, my constant dilemma ‘perception’.

 

As hard as I try to avoid it .. it just keeps following me ..So here we are again at the point of where I started .. what to believe and what not to.

 

My First

So this is my first blog .. I do like to write but I have never shared it with anyone and yes I am an absolute novice to this whole idea of writing and posting it online for my friends to read .Infact even writing about myself on these so called social networking websites drives me crazy , I wonder how people can define themselves with words , for at he end of it you’re actually trying to convince your reader to actually like you, but on second thoughts I wonder , if all of what we write is what we perceive ourselves to be hmm what truelly matters would be feedback. Quite an interesting thought to myself of perception .I remember learning its meaning when I think I was in primary school in art class .. our art teacher clearly stating its all about perception, that time it was with regards to how we look at an object and then put it on paper .I loved that subject and as u see it even intrigues me now , I am constantly trying to figure what it is that people cant see about ourselves or themselves and say its because of our perspective ..

 

Last week my cousin took me to watch a silly movie .. I call it silly because the core subject of the movie was how to forget your ex. Very ironic I must say given my situation, well the movie has stayed on my mind since then and I wonder. It was called forgetting Sarah Marshall ..as the title suggest the main guy not that good looking to me .. but cute in his own way is trying to forget his so called ex girl friend who was cheating on him and in love with worldly stuff and never realized what she really had with her .. his loyalty and love . Yea I know that men get too complacent and we women want them to be on the edge of a sword at every moment ,and when they’re not we just kinda loose it … yea yea.. Well getting back to the point of perception, here Sarah falls for an absolute looser but a guy really good in bed, atleast that’s what they try to show and poor lover boy is left to mend his heart. In all of this one thing leads to another and then he meets someone new .How I wonder things can be so simple of moving on. I asked this question and the reply I most commonly get is perspective hunny , its how u look at it... Very clearly the movie makes out one person to be the good guy and the other the bad guy..but if you look at it percpectively, both were equally right in their own ways to have moved on.