Adopted a 4 year baby from superstore shelf....

After having a marathon week of continous work, travel to Cambridge, travel to London and few Leaving Do pop in, It was a so tired Friday evening.

Though tons of work piled up at my desk, I decided myself to get back home early (with thoughts that 48 hours of weekend could be spared for work rather than a sweety pie Friday evening).

I want to relax and rejuvenate myself, so I planned to rush towards home. But asusual, I missed the early service and left with the option of heading towards home by the last bus service :(

Actual rush was to relax at home, whereas when I came home we decided to go for shopping. We went to Cribbs Mall to help out a friend to buy few watches and clothes. Later we steer down to Tesco at Bradley Stoke for buying groceries and miscellaneous.

Whenever we go to the Mall or Tesco, I'm so good in window shopping and motivating others to buy things. Benefit for store owner , sometime friends become bakra (victim) of my recommendtion ;)))

This time, I become a victim myself (but still happy :)). When I was young I like gardening muchhhh... this makes me to peep in the flowers and plants shelf at any superstore. This time the discounted price Orchids were smiling at me, just 5 quid for a 21 day guranteed Orchid plant. I sunk keen and struck to get a one. When I was looking to opt a better Orchid, the 4 year old baby at the corner made me forget the Orchid.

Yes!!! the 4 year old baby is the Bonsai that is packed so clean and left for sale at an impressive price. Now I decided to adopt a baby Bonsai rather than an smiling Orchid. I don't know why, but my school day lesson/poem about Bonsai made this massive diversion in my mind.

Finally I decided to buy......I bought...... and now this baby is at my room ;)))

God, give me the strength and time to care of this baby for a life time... She is so young, so charming with tiny branches and tiny leaves... She is going to young for a long time and make me jealous ;)

God, give me the grace to live long... so that I could make her live long ;)))

Tears of soft petals......

Millions of Roses lose their smile today to make someone's Love smiling and comfortable......
Yep! Valentine's day makes millions of people to comfort their love with a bunch of flowers, especially the beauty queen;s that smile in the winter gardens. These beauty queen's (I mean the roses) are sold in the high street with a high value price tags.
Slaughtered from the fields,
smelled by the cargo's,
trimmed by the flower vendor,
organised as a bouquet and filled with arches of beauty around her by making together with her friends... These beauty queen's get on their way to comfort someone's love with yielding a huge profit for the high street bouquet men....

Though there are many stories and belief behind Valentine's Day in the history, the most accepted message is: Along with Saint Marius, Saint Valentine secretly married couples during the throne of Claudius II in Rome. This is because Claudius II cancelled all marriages and engagements to make Men recruited for his army. When his defiance came the light of Claudius II, Saint Valentine was brutally beaten up and put to death on Feb 14th, about 270 AD.

But today...... Donno whether it is because of the curse fo Saint Valentine or because of the crucia Claudius II, millions of roses lose their life and smile....

William Shakespeares quote on V'day (Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5):
"To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I be a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
And dupp'd the chamber-door;
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more."

I'm sure...I would comfort my lady love with a Queen (Rose) on her own smile with her roots.... That would even let me understand how my lady love bothers about me every day ;)
Wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day... Don't come rushing to say be my Valentine :).... Already the queue blocks the down town road of ma home ;)

Jai ho....

Towards where......??????

We never know toward where our life is going and what would happen next minute?

Gujarat quake.... Tsunami..... Haiti quake are some of the classic examples that I had seen in my life time...

From womb to tomb, if we see the individuals life.. they have some dream or plan or aim or goal and they strive toward that. In this materialized world these individuals (same as us) strive their best to make Hard currencies that could comfort their life.

When they reach the edge of the tomb, they realize on their own... "In such a colour life, just because to materialize the best we have missed the very best" I wonder towards where we are rushing and missing all the happiness.
The comfort of living in the hometown would never come even if we go to heaven. May be for money and fun thousand miles away would give a comfort to live. But the real happiness, affection and love gets stricked off slowly....
This evening is a fuzz evening, which made me to think all these .. Towards where ...? we are striving...
Looks I need a vacation, just to chill .....
My thoughts are getting scattered, my words are getting confused.... Now I need a sleep!

When would we see a change?????

Were we treated so badly in a foreign land, only because we are Indian Citizen????

I'm proud my home country, the great India or Hindustan or what ever, boasts in every other aspects...
Let it be Wealth, Education, Econonmy, Production, Population, Corrupution and list goes upto the heaven as well as hell for it's own good deals and bad deals....
But I felt shame when I went to renew myself I'm a Indian Citizen. Yes, just my Indian Passport Renewal experience is shared here....

Passport Submission
On a pleasant winter morning, by 6:30am itself, I went to renew my Indian passport with High Commission of India at Aldwych (As I was advised by my friend, there would be a lengthy queue if I step there late). After reaching there about 7:00am, to warm myself I thought of having a Costa with croissant in the opposite cafe. I could notice the queue length getting stronger, so I rushed once I'm done with the energizer.

There is no exception in the queue... Children, Kids, Elderly people, and youth folks like me ;) lol
For the doors that open at 9am, there is a big queue of 100 plus people in the winter weather without no exception of individuals age..... There is no waiting hall, there is no roof/barrier to hide yourself when the nature pity on you with showers and breeze... Though there was a extensible roof in front of the building, it's set out only after 9am (what is the use, after someone's health is detoriated for 2 hours or more???? itz hopelesss)

Finally I reached the token counter at 9:20 am and stepped in with a huge happiness.... I could hear from everyother side, this people would never develop.... such a shame "getting blasted by your own people at your own door step"

Before I reach the counter I could see pan spitted everywhere around, cigaratte buds like a smoke point, and belive me... somebody shitted on the corner... Our nation can't acheive everything in western world due to population, but why such a environment even in London?

When my token number flashed on the monitor, I rushed from the last row (Which was warm 'coz of the close by heating system).. The lady in the counter has no patience to look around, skipped to next token number (by then I was there...) She asked "Token Number '32???'" as if I did a big blunder....

The website says "all pages other than blank pages to be submitted" So I was prepared in that fashion, but she requested.. no no ordered as "First,last,visa and address page only"..
which lead confusion at the counter for me.... Somehow managed to pull out and passed those pages..

After 2 hours of waiting in the shivering weather, with frustations at the counter and a small walk.. I reached Covent Garden to relax my mind fom stress and frustation...

This is not the end.... it continues...

Passport Collection
Another pleasant morning, with with snow patch everywhere, like a heavenly spot... I made my way from Bristol to London for Passport collection. Keeping in mind, I should be atleast 2 hours before else I have to wait a long while or asked to come again....

Same like other day, today also, its a freezing day... But still made to wait outside fr a long time in the freeing weather.... I consoled myself on seeing the kids and elderly people waiting along with me...

Finally at 3:30pm, we all were allowed inside without any toke/system.. I wondered how they are going to issue the Passport to individuals..... As I wondered, they opened a counter and a staff inside said aloud collectionssss...... As soon as she said, they complete group of people for passport collections rushed to the counter... there was no queue no syste... I remembered the ration and train crowds in back home.... The lady at he counter collected all our receipts and went for collection...

I'm Luckkkkky.... I was served first, as my issue date was a week earlier and I can't make it due to snow.......

It a wonderful, sick experienc :( by my own country embassy in UK.... Which could not forget whenever I turn the passport pages.....

So my best advise is cloth appropriate to the weather or even more comfortable appropriate than the weather... Else your health would get spoiled for sure...

Our country boasts in production, software, management, largest constitution..... But we can't make a proper systematic procedure for our own mission abroad... GREAT SHAME!!!! AND NO LAME EXCUSES FOR IT... When you don't know how to respect your own Citizens, you can't develop in the world arena...
I have missed to explain many more experience at the same spot.... better not to bug myself for their stupidity....

Jai Hind....

New Year's Eve at London

Every New Year it started with a unique rhythm... Same as every other year, this year started with multi cultured people gathered on the bank of Thames river to see the brilliant colours that shred out of man made giant wheel (London Eye)...

It was so colourful, when I revert back to those moments in my mind....

After having a 3 hour drive, standing in front of the 150 Year old pillar (Big Ben) that strikes every hour with chimes, chatting funny stuff at the mid of the road with few colleagues, looking at the massive multi cultured crowd, shivering the winter weather and listening at the music that waves in the air......ALLLLL for a simple reason: to welcome the baby 2010 with brilliant colours that shred from London Eye.. which is a one year planning done by a French firework man for the 10 minutes marvellous...

Hurrah to all the hillarious colleagues gathered at London on New Year's for that brilliant occasion....

It makes me think... 2010...Get old soon, let me have another colourful evening...