vivek sekar

October 27, 2008

away

Filed under: Thoughts, Travel — Tags: , , , — vivek @ 12:36 am

its a known fact that one is close to 6000 km away from home. the arrival here was with the knowledge that one is going to stay away from home for a certain duration.
with all this as a known, why is it that there is still this feeling of making this place like home? so as to avoid the level of distance that is actually physically there?

Why expect to be home when you are not home?

I always try to stick to

“i hate the feeling of being at home, when i am travelling or away from home”.

“yeh joh des hai” from swades becomes the anthem, all the words from the song seem to relate and feel more meaningful.
somehow married Indian men become so heavily dependent on their wife, that they forget how to live a basic life for survival. i think the survival instinct is lost or may be they have become slaves, even though considering that they might be treating their other half like one.
Ashutosh Gowariker could not have gotten ‘the village elders’ and mohan’s talk about the cultural differences more spot on, dialogues from the movie seem to be allusively used in many instances.

i was planning to title this as ‘home’ but somehow decided not to since i value the word, and did not want to waste the title for this.

the road to understanding that home is some distance away might be long, but its more about how fast you want to travel it and understand it that seems to be a bigger question.

October 22, 2008

cheaper thrills

Filed under: Inspiration, Thoughts — Tags: , , , — vivek @ 1:24 pm

in a foreign place where everything is organized, routine and predictable. surprises are limited and randomness kept to the bare minimum.

cricket, bollywood, tollywood help.

laughing out at slapstick comedies. unconnected, random, filthy and cheap jokes.
seeing life getting changed in a moments notice in movies. shaving blades splitting bullets into 2 and thereby helping in taking out 2 of villain’s countless sidekicks.
edge of the seat finishes in matches, where the pendulum swings just as the dice rolls on, to play its own game.

Virtue and life needs some cheaper thrills.

cloudy

October 17, 2008

excerpts

Filed under: Thoughts — Tags: , , — vivek @ 11:51 am

the thing .. thinking about .. how long i want to continue .. work .. wat options …

what if i am … crazy … who cannot be handled … its all hormones thts all
… need to slow down things sometimes .. and keep the over excitation to the right moments

sometimes u think, a solution is found in a particular way, but mostly it turns out, the solution was the other one u did not take

Why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy. - Paulo Coelho

random excerpts from me, my friends far and distant geographically, general stuff. for all the activity missing form this blog, i have some news, pictures and experience updates coming soon. how soon is again something i am not sure about.

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