Contemplations and Ruminations

So I am a sucker for quotes, I collect them and write down the best ones in a pretty little book. In college I used to scribble them all over the desk... any empty space I see, will eventually be filled with quotes. My friend Shilpa (who used to sit near me through all the 4 years of college) even mentioned it on her blog ... I was that vandalistic in nature. Over the years, I started jotting down quotes or phrases from people around me... At my previous job I came across one of the funniest guys I know, Dinesh Padhmanabhan. He used to have us (me and another friend Manney) in splits... he was that witty and hilarious, here are a few of his one liners. If you are not doing anything with what you get, you should not ask for more. Don’t worry about things that do not have any impact on your appraisal. If time doesn’t move, how come deadlines move? When things don’t work, you shouldn't be working too…. If GOD can make so many typo’s while writing my fate, why not me? ( there was this...

Wrote this poem when I was in a pissed off frame of mind... Yearning for Zen One phone call and the words begin to crawl Heartbeat quickens and the curtain starts to fall Lost again in a wave of raging opinions and views A different perspective, here comes the blues The yin and yang in me is veering out of focus Watching this ceaseless drama turn into a circus All the fawning, preening and prancing round the glen The situation, so skewed, is wrecking my Zen The wistful notes of a song caressing the night sky still linger Tugging at the surreal confines of my being and I wonder About that first snowflake which heralds a change in season And brings into focus a dazzling heavenly lesson In Buddhism, Zen is a state of enlightenment... accomplishment of mind over body. Yin (negative) and Yang (positive) is an ancient Chinese concept, they represent  the two complementary forces that balance everything in nature, and here it means a human soul.