3.13.2006

Love THEM all !!


8th of March

It was just an usual day for me. During my normal tryst with the newspaper I found its pages overflowing with articles and write ups about WOMEN – their empowerment & social status. It was International Women’s Day. A day meant especially for them.

So in my routine “good morning” messages to all those dear ladies, really dear to me, I included special greetings for the day.

In the night my brother called me up from Bangalore and told me that our dear lil sis had rang him up to express “her GRIEF” that he had not wished her for the DAY but that only I did. He explained to her that I would have send the same message to all girls whose number happened to be in my address book.{thank u bro..}

But surprisingly she said “ whatever be it, he wished me” {‘surprisingly’- because she never took sides with me especially against big bro}

My brother kept on laughing for a long time and then kept the phone advising me to cut down on my messaging tendencies to the fairer sex, or atleast not to send such messages to sis dear that would land him up in similar trouble.

After that I thought about that message I send, as my bro had guessed, to almost all ladies whose number I had….it read..

“to one of the most wonderful and amazing

Lady I have ever known

Happy women’s day”

I decided not to send anyone anymore messages just for the sake of messaging, in future. But then I pondered over the message. It was not a “just for the sake of messaging” message. I had meant what I had typed.

Every single lady/girl whom I had send the message is actually amazing and wonderful in her own way. That’s the beauty of women. They are so beautiful and amazing in their own special ways.

That’s why ladies…
I love you all….





3.05.2006

LIFE… CHASING IT !!

LIFE…its something I always wanted to live to the fullest.

Three years in NDA, a place where people think you having nothing called “life”, but I had lived those three years to the fullest . Live life King Size- that’s what I always followed. Maybe the charm & glory of becoming a fighter pilot after the three grueling years pushed me forward.

Dreams are great motivators. They have the ability to make a person sail through anything. Dreams are powerful…they are STRANGE.
Life and dreams…a twin package where to enjoy one, the other is quite essential. You lose track of one its difficult to bring the other to terms with you.

Pilot to navigator at AFA in lieu of my non-possession of flying skills… well, I never understood if it was shattering of my dreams or if it was life slipping out of my control. It played confusing games with my mind. It made me believe that I had lost the life-dream package. I just wished that it was a treacherous reverie I could wake up from. But when I woke up I found myself facing life…. A life that was fast running away from me.

Life is strange. Its like a Neigro’s left ball – its neither fair nor is it right.
The faster you realise it, the better. So here I stand like a fool watching life run away with all my dreams. He turns back and smiles at me – a wicked smile – through which he kept shouting “you fool, you thought you could conquer me with your dreams”.

But hey, I am no fool... - “ I ” – the one who lived life King Size…. I’m no fool..

So here I start chasing life again, sure to conquer him this time, for little does he know that I have got bigger dreams now….. BIGGER than he could possibly imagine…