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I was reading Dinesh’s blog. i thought the way he expressed was like a montage - a series of shots we see in an ad film. Very well written. And suddenly i was traveling backwards.

IT should be about 15 years back but its still fresh.
The movie was “Nee Pathi Naan Pathi”. I have never bothered to see that film.
But this “Nivedha “song was just incredible, fabulous and what not. This song had no lyrics. Just the word “Nivedha” and the sa sa da ni ’s of carnatic music.

It had the one and only SPBs voice, and Gowthami at her stunning best, and some 150+ brilliant shots for the whole song.

Director Vasanth’s taste stands out till date.

I don’t get to see this song on TVs nowadays.
It’s a pity that some awesome songs gets lost because the films did not fare well.
This is one classic example.

Vasu

This is especially for you. I missed out this person in my post. Awesome chap.

He: Is it arranged marriage? Or is it love? Or is it love-cum-arranged?
She: It is arranged love.

Ashtray : World’s smallest graveyard

Here is my first visual blog post. These are essentially visuals with an underlying message. Long live Adobe.

Man essentially is a product of habits. Habits come in all types and colors. So, part of the growth process is to stimulate and acquire new habits which results in desirable outcomes and drop out of undesirable habits.

There is always a laundry list of things to learn and do. It can be, a keenness to update the blog everyday, waking up early in the morning, visiting the gym regularly, attending classes to learn a new language or anything for that matter. All these chores take time to grow into our daily routine.

But in the initial phase there is resistance to change from our own psyche. As is always with psyche, it is our weapon and also our threat. This resistance to change has to be dealt with by our psyche alone.

It has been my experience that all habits take about 6 months to form part of a daily routine. In this context, I am talking about endeavors like physical exercises or reading.

I have enrolled into many a courses and dropped out. There has been far too many failures in my life so far. But in the last 6 months, I told myself I will try to update my blog regularly for the next six months. Initial stages were painful. I hardly got any comments/ responses. I felt lazy sometimes. Mental agony about someone did not help either. Updating the blog was not paramount after all. What will happen if I do not update? Nothing.
But I told myself I am going to give it a try till April – May and maybe drop out of it if I don’t like it.

I thought about my blog in April and I definitely felt good about it. These 6 months of regular blogging has expanded my horizons in ways I did not imagine. I don’t wait for quick fix solutions. I don’t wait for utopia. I realize struggle is an essential ingredient of happiness. Now I am thoroughly enjoying my blog posts and am having fun with other’s posts as well. If I had stopped this long before I would not have seen the fruits I am seeing now. New contacts have been made in this period. I think it has evolved into a small beautiful community of like-minded people.

This blogging experience and the ensued learning has prompted me to turn to other aspects of my life which need a change for the better. I am trying to implement the same 6 months rule to make the much needed change to my life. It’s amazing what a positive experience can do your life.

So friends if you are implementing any positive change to your lifestyle, don’t quite before six months.

I have become a compulsive blog reader nowadays. I read and post my comments without any reservations no matter who writes. Be it Chakra, Deepak, Mukundan, Narayanan Sir and the rest of the folks. All of them write exceedingly well.

But I am particularly impressed by this Lexington Gang. Well the famous Lexington gang comprises of Subha, Kay, Dinesh, RS, Prabhu and Priya.
What is so striking is that each person has a unique voice.
Kay’s posts are always comical, funny types. Subha writes about esoteric poems and uses words like “Frazzled”. RS, I am planning to start a fan club for her anyway. Dinesh and Prabhu do not post everyday but when they do, it is always of an exceptional quality. I really liked Priya’s apt lyrics post.

It is refreshing to find what people have to say in their early 20s when life is full of hopes, enthusiasm, high aspirations and sense of humor. I am not going to say I was also like this at their age. I was markedly worse for sure. These guys are setting benchmarks for me in terms of writing style, content, good attitude and the basic goodness and sincerity that reflects through.
I certainly look middle-aged when compared to all these folks.
I believe even Chakra, deepak, Thennavan and Narayanan sir will agree to what i say.

Lexington folks you are awesome. You may not know but each of you have made my day more than once thorugh your blogs. Each one of you deserve my sincere appreciations. One day I will write as good as any of you, just wait and see Maybe it has something to do with the water you drink there

What is life at full voltage?
It is when you begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
When things are looking like looking up, when we are pepared to wipe away all the misfortunes and tragedies as blessing in disguise.

The fact of the matter is I’ve been offered admission in University of Sydney’s Masters in Design Science (Digital Media) program for March 2006 intake.
For some mysterious reason, this program comes under the Faculty of Architecture.
They should have given me admission based on my 4 years industry work experience i guess.

Will i make it? Will i not make it? How will I manage the financial aspects? What will happen to my mom? How am I going to handle my marriage issues?
These questions still remain and still haunt me.

But what the heck, I needed some good news to feel good and here it comes pouring.