Thursday, May 12, 2005

Usual Musings of an Unusual Day

I met a friend today after a year… after she came back from Dubai… she has done her course of MBA from S.P. Jain there.

It was the most unexpectedly fabulous moment, the minute I saw her. I couldn’t even imagine that it was a YEAR ago that I had seen her last. The warmth, the truth of having been there with each other through a lot of heavy and light things…. Just having stuck around with each other for more than six years now… amazing. I’m just short of words to express myself for the first time (probably!).

We caught up more on new times than old. What I was pondering over was, how there is a marked paradigm shift in our conversations sometimes. I mean, here there is this girl who I spoke to in the junior college years. The topics included ‘boy friend, family issues, discs’ and suchlikes. Now its ‘placements, pay, future plans, family issues…. Then, maybe boyfriends’. Funny I tell you. We grow up so fast but all at the same time. We need so many things but all our needs are quite similar. We see different aspects of life and they are quite common to all of the peers that we have. We use different words and form a jargon. All in all, what we think of ‘vast’ is not quite so. Perceptions, I might say. Clichéd piece of a write up, I know, but was really taken back by the thought. ‘VAST but still so small…. Vast Iota’. Yeah, that’s what life looks like sometimes.

And the evening closed with a fabulous Udpi dinner with an extraordinary company. When I see both these females, (and not to mention my mentor and friend Ma Sanju) the lines that come to my mind are:
“The time has come”,
The walrus said, “To talk of many things,
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
Of cabbages and kings.
And why the sea is boiling hot?
And whether pigs have wings”

Loved my evening. Thank you both. Karishma and Khyati. Its amazing how we talk no end and still make sense of it all. Amazing!

2 comments:

banthehyphen said...

'Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!'

Flippertygibbet.

And I mean that in the nicest possible way.

abeer said...

Not to be mean or anything, but don't you have a mentor too many???
PS- Pardon me for the surly mood, but you know how learning about the intricacies of Quadrature Phase Shift Keying can work wonders for one's soul.
PPS- The meaning of life is this:
V BPSK (t) =√(2Ps) cos(Wc t + φ)