Though I am not too much into politics, I could not help but get involved in the excitement that was Obama.

I think his Victory Speech was very good and very understated and very people centric instead of saying everything about himself like the candidates usually tend to do..

Something brief about this man which I liked.

Yes we can…

Well my two pigeon babies have grown and yesterday I opened the nest up so that they can fly away.  But NO.. the babies though they can fly insist on coming back to that same window sill and doing “cheep cheep cheep” there..  At least I will not get up at night thinking what is beating at my window so strongly. Sometimes I forget in my dreams that this family has adopted us.. Sigh..

The other day I found two stranded pigeons.. One had fallen off another nest.. a young thing and was limping and the other had its feather stuck to each other with some strong industrial gum..

I took them and was frantic.. tweeted to friends and asked around what could be done for the poor birds..

Well the update is that the sick bird is almost ok and has flown from my veranda.. seems it has gained some of its strength. And though it lurks around below near my car for food and rest I have the consolation that it can at least fly away if the cat chases it.  The limp is gone. I did have a feeling that all it needs is some rest and food and it will be fine.. So I am happy for it. I like seeing him perching next to my car on a pipe looking down at me.. seems thats its favorite spot..

Now I am also happy to report that we did work on the next bird. Saturday night it was all quiet. Dad said use kerosene oil and it will help. Internet said : no gasoline..  We decided to go with kerosene little by little and see if it worked and well it did.. Later we got this bright idea to use MR MUSCLE kitchen cleaning solvent.. and it worked wonders together.  The kerosene diluted the gum and MR MUSCLE did clean the feathers of its stickiness… Buhahahahah

Rocky painstakenly removed the gum feather by feather.. while I held that boyd.. and it did seem to understand that we wanted to help it.

So Sunday morning we did that.. and after testing its feathers and tail and seeing all was ok.. it flew off..

Alls well that ends well..

Now the cats, rats and the other animals can look at a different prey for food..

PS: pics are of the two grown Pigeon babies.

This was something that I wanted to jot down when I was in Assam and I was sorting out old letters and throwing what I did not think was important.

I came across a shoebox of letters from my penpals and I re-read each of them and relived the days of my teenage years when there was no net and well only a phone and the magic of penfriendship. I still don’t remember how I got into that. I remember just picking up SUN magazine which used to be a rage in Shillong for teens and adults alike and started writing to strangers. And lo and behold !! I realized from the cozy room tucked way amidst rolling hills that there was a world which could be explored via pen and paper and my pocket money of 5 to 10 bucks would actually enable me to indulge in something worthwhile and exciting rather than spending it on friends who would inevitably be short of money and would keep asking me for some with no account.

There were some very eloquent friends with whom it was a pleasure sharing thoughts, hobbies, answering questions and asking the same over topics which only a teenage could wonder. And it was one pen friend who remains close to my heart and I read his letter over and over again just to relive. A wrote long letters and yeah I used to think that finally I met my match in writing long letters. I used to spend all of my pocket money on envelopes, stamps and stickers.

We had a very interesting relationship. A used to be full of advice and me as usual used to question him and would love to put him on a spot. It used to be nice just waiting for his reaction on his many epistles. Hahaah !! When I had exams, he encouraged me. When I was upset, he would write such interesting thoughts that I would be happy reading his letters. When I was angry, I fought with him and yeah he was generous enough to apologized. He never let me forget that he was 4 years older to me hahaha !!

Somehow for a girl tucked away in the remote hills, A did open up some of the world to her eyes. Though it did not make much sense to her, it still made her happy.

When I fell in love for the first time, A was there telling me all the right things to do and not to give in to impulse. A used to write me letters sharing his views on movies and his views on many topics and well I used to really look forward to his letters and yes this was the only person whose letter writing frequency was more than me.

Somehow I lost touch with him and it was not his fault. I deviated and meandered through my path of self discovery when I lost touch with many of my friends. It’s been more than a decade but as I was reading A’s 3 to 4 and sometimes more pages back to back letters and having this really nostalgic walk down memory lane where my whole world was to be just a carefree and a brat of a teenager.

Even today as I write this I remember him with so much fondness.

And guess what !! I pinged a similar name in LinkedIn with similar background blindly and today morning the email confirmed that it was him. Yeaaaa !!!

Man it was too good to connect with him and here I am overjoyed and happy to get this good old pal back.

We never met but somehow he was one of my best pals with whom I could be the really confused and brash teenager that I was.

I was thinking as I was driving to office that I should be really lucky if my blind ping would connect me to this soul friend and well I guess I did have lady luck smile down at me.

On a different Note :

Watched Road Side Romeo.

• Loved the movie. Ok I like Animation Movies.
• I loved the villain Chharlie and his “jokes” voiced by Javed Jaffrey. Too good.
• I loved his PJs.
• I really do not like Kareena so much.. Sigh.
• Found Romeow cute.. and the movie funny.
• Animation was smooth and a pleasure to watch.
• Highly recommended if you like animation movie.
• with this movie, it feels like animation has finally arrived into the bollywood scene.
• Loved the songs.. Choo le na is a good number.. feel like dancing to it.. reminds me of the Shymak Davar song..

Watched Golmaal Returns

• Do not bother. It was totally flat.
• It was like they were trying to do comedy too hard.
• Directors should stop making sequels.
• I am happy to stick with Golmaal.
• Not reccomended even if you have timepass free time.. nope nope nope..

It felt nice to sit by Cafe Coffee day on a Sunday morning at Fame watching the crowd go by and looking at all the fancy cars rolling in as we waited for our movies.

We found that the best time to watch movies cheap and without fuss.. of booking tickets is on a Sunday morning.. buhahahah !! Jai ho to Baruah Smartass idea.. Buhahaha !!!

If anyone is interested in Plays, Rangashankara has this theatre fest going on. I would love to catch some plays there.. given the time. I love plays.

Hamilton won the F1 championship…  wethinks that there was some locha at the last moment.. not possible. But anyway Jai Ho.. to him

Shioks has reopened. I loved having my drinks at Moss.. Madhu is offering 15 percent discount on weekly lunches.. Do go. I am definitely going one of these days.. Location rocks.. and the lounge is cool. Calender this if you already have not visited.

To be back in Bangalore.. banging at my keyboard.. and adhering to the joyous routine that is work.

Have zillions of emails I need to catch up.

Some deadlines I have to work towards…

Diwali was nice with family. Missed Rocky. It was good sitting at home and watching the lights and wincing at the sound of extremely loud crackers.

Conducting business in Assam is a pain. It seems that tomorrow never comes when it comes to getting money.

One, is laziness which produces lots of excuses and the other is pure defiance.. Sigh..

What else is new. ?  No the bomb blasts in Guahati are not..

Seeing a very modern Guahati was new..