The Dream!!!

Today was an usually boring day, it was all wet on the outside due to sudden spell of rains and the fact that no one was at home made it even worse. So I was just wasting time watching movies in my laptop, I saw “Meet Dave”. I don’t know y I saw such a crappy movie. It was stupid, but sometimes for the sake of killing time we do all crappy stuff.

As I was wasting my time, it was nearly 4pm when mom told me to have my lunch and I m a really slow at eating my food. If someone were to ask me why I eat slow? I just tell them I got this tonsils in my throat that makes it hard to swallow :) he he. Most of them fall for that pathetic lie :) lol.

Mom then left for shopping, leaving me in charge of the house. I was getting tired of doing nothing today, so I thought I would take a nap for a while. So I went to bed at 5.20pm and dosed off in a couple of moments.

Usually I don’t get dreams in my sleep coz of the weird timings I go to sleep. But every once in a while, I do get some. Once when I was in the 9th grade, I had a dream where in I was writing exam with a girl sitting next to me, she was a north Indian girl with milk white skin and had black hair with a brown tint, and I was there in my school uniform. (sounds usual does it?) Actually I was in a boys school, and I was wondering how a girl was sitting next to me during exam. I couldn’t ask anyone too, because they would think I m stupid.

As time passed by I was in my 10th grade, one of the toughest times in life. Before I knew it, it was the day of the 1st exam. I was nervous, because I had this language (tamil) on that day. Even though I loved the language, I hated memorizing the poems.
I was seated at the corner of the hall. Then as soon as I got the papers, I started writing madly, fearing that I may not finish the paper on time. After 1hour, I noticed that someone was sitting next to me. Voila!! It was the north Indian girl:-O

Today I had a dream it wasn’t about some girl walking towards me and the whole crowd watching her;) No not at all, it was about a little girl, may be 8 years old. I dream't like I was playing with her, and I was chasing her all around the house.

Well the dream was little hazy, so I can’t be very clear. She was tiny in size compared to me. She was fair, and had really big eyes compared to her tiny round face. Actually she was a really cute looking girl, she was wearing a pink colour dress. Definitely not cotton, it felt like some kind of synthetic material. As I was chasing her(I don’t know why?), she was giggling all the while( I think she was enjoying it, as much as I did). When I did catch up with her, she was all smiles when I started tickling her.
But suddenly she gives me that “who are you mister?” kind of looks!!
Then I get down on my knees and give her a tight hug, saying its me your brother. She doesn’t react. Why doesn’t she recognize me? She was smiling when I chasing her, but now why doesn’t she recognize me?

Then suddenly I woke up. I didn’t care what time it was, but I wanted to see her again. I didn’t see her face clearly, so I wanted to go back to sleep. I tried to sleep again, but couldn’t. Then I was cursing everything in the room, from the fan to the tube light everything. Then I just got up and washed my face.

Usually, I forget my dreams before I wake up, but this dream was rather special coz I remembered it. I couldn’t get my mind of the my little sister’s face, it looked very familiar :-o surprised. So I thought harder, trying to remember who she was? And whether I met her before? In reality, I have never seen her before. She was just my mind’s master piece. I was only certain about her eyes, it was the eyes from a girl in my college. But the others where mere guesses, but still it gave me a faint picture of her. She’s an angel.

All I can say is that, this dream is a proof of that strong inner desire to have a younger sis. Even though I know its utopian. But one thing’s for sure, if I really had lil sis. I would have pampered her like anything. I would have even won an award for being the best brother in the country :) lol.

P.S: I only have an elder brother, now working at TATA MOTORS and no sisters.

My big day out!! PART II

(continued...)
While coming out of the shop, to my surprise it was raining:-O wow it always happens whenever i come to T-nagar.......surprising isn't it?? but its true.....

Everyone wanted to eat in a restaurant (P.S :that doesn't mean their mom's are bad cooks, but just for the completeness of the whole shopping experience).......During all the excitement in the shop, one of my cousin had to go to a friend's house to get her assignment, and he also promised to give me an intro with that girl.....he he rather interesting :D
According to my cousin, she was a cute girl......but i cant promise u anything about her looks, until i actually see her in person......but it was already getting late, it was around 9pm, so we dropped the plan of going to her house :(

So then uncle asked me do u want to have a pizza, the usual full meals or a slitzer(sorry if i had spelled it wrong). I havn't even heard of it, so my uncle said ok we'll have that, and that he knew a good restaurant in Nungambakkam......so we drove to the hotel, it was a short ride and everyone took the menus and all set to order......oh man it was an Italian restaurant, and this is my 1st time, lol......so i just kept the menu card down and left the other scholars to decide what i eat :(
We started off with tomato soup, to which boiled babycorn was added......i must say, it was damn good :)

Then it was pasta time, lol......we just ordered 2 pastas n everyone shared the lot........now for the main course, i was deeply searching the non-vegetarian items whereas all others except 1 of my cousins(the karizma guy) were vegetarians for today(its a saturday, so the other guys didn't eat non-vegetarian food), the waiter brought a steaming something(my chicken slitzer) which i m seeing for the 1st time in my life......it must have been brought rite from the oven, it was so hot that my tongue got roasted, he he :D
u missed it guyz, the chicken slitzer was a marvel.......especially the fried piece of chicken, it was really delicious......but to tell the truth i didn't like the other stuff in my rectangular plate......lol

The noodles was rather soft, there was large pieces of potatos(Really good at creating gastric problems), it had boiled carrots, peas, beans, etc. All boring stuff, didn't feel like eating. But still had a nice time at the table with my cousins, whom i m meeting after a really long while.....it would have been years since we all went out together......

Finally it was time 4 the grand finale, my cousin offered me the keys to his new Karizma.....It was my 1st time to ride a 235 cc bike, wow the bike was so smooth.......excellent handling, the bike had perfect balance which u would never find in a TVS STAR CITY :P

The road was slippery due to the evening rains, so had to drive slowly to avoid skidding......reached home at 11pm

there it goes, one whole day :)

It was an awesome 1st time experience with my cousins, besides the fighting and stuff.....it felt great to be with them after such a long while.....Nowadays people are more interested in earning money rather then spending some quality time with their kith and kin....so just reserve sometime for your loved ones :)

My big day out!! PART I

Today was interesting rather than my monotonous life at college, i was at home thinking about the losses in the share markets n stuff like that and counting the number of zeros for $8trillion..... and today I didn’t get a call from morning and it felt really odd, I felt so odd that i wanted to give a missed call to my mobile from the land line......just then my phone started ringing :D
It was my uncle who wanted me to come to his room in the 1st floor, whereas I live up in the 3rd floor.....

We were supposed to go for shopping cause he's getting married next month......as usual i forgot all about it......by 3pm we were all set to go :)

My uncle and the other cousins boarded my uncle's car, whereas I ended up as a pillion in my cousin's new Karizma :( anyway it was a racy drive to Spencer......where v went to pantaloons, to check out their latest collections, to our disgrace there was a power cut from 3 pm.
The place was all dark with minimum lighting, which wasn't good enough to check out the true essence of the fabric......so v decided to have a snack at sri mithai( my fav chat shop ).
There I ordered my usual favourite Dahi poori, wow its fun coming shopping with my cousins, lol.

I wanted to finish my order as soon as i got the plate, too greedy to share lol.....but my cousins where rather cautious and took scoops of my chat before I cud even taste it.
Now the fun started, as i was eating i saw a girl standing at a corner table, she was as tall as me......slim, pale skinned, with a white t-shirt n a black pant(even I wore the same combination), she had a friend with her. They both were in some type of conversation. It was rather odd that our eyes met every now n then......and one of my cousin started saying that she was staring at him, he he:D

And we waited outside the Sri Mithai for at least 10 more minutes because one of my cousin was caught up in traffic, who was coming from Perambur.......while waiting I was happily ogling at the girl, and my cousin claiming that she was looking at him, lol......n just then the power was back.

So we were back on our shopping spree, we checked out pantaloons but we didn't get a majority acceptance to their designs, because we all chose to wear the same design pattern of kurta for my uncle's marriage.....so after an unsuccessful search, we came out......on my way out, i saw a girl whom I've known for quite a while.......not that I know her personally, but rather heard so much about her, she's a girl from my college.......who was cute, with her twin-like sister, its their eyes that catches my attention.....but didn't dare to talk in front of my cousins.

As we were coming out, my uncle said we can find better designs at RMKV in T-nagar. This time I decided to go in the car......that's one wrong decision I made, the car was so cramped with my little cousins.....these guys have become really fat and it was hot inside the car besides having a so-called air-conditioner.......

We reached our destination, but a new problem arose!! we didn't have a place to park, now being a festive season for the shops filled with diwali shoppers......so we where circling Panagal park for about 15 minutes till we found a parking slot near the opening of a small street......

We then went into the shop, it was crowded but we didn't mind......we started off searching for good designs, it was human tendency that each one wanted his own selection to be worn by the others too..... so we fought for a while, in the end my uncle himself selected a kurta which was orange-golden-yellow mixed cocktail..... I was the 1st one to oppose it, then he asked me to try it on......I must say I looked pretty good;) , so from then onwards I started campaigning for the same..... This is a typical situation that happens in offices where in you have to convince all of your colleagues to win a majority......here I faced a similar situation with my cousins.

Despite my efforts, everyone was convinced except 3 of my youngest cousins, who were just too dumb and stubborn to listen to what we told them. We didn't want the little guys to feel left out, so we went to another shop, checked out the designs......but they weren't better than what we saw earlier in RMKV, so we went back n thought of ordering the same design for everyone.......but just then one of my elder cousins(the one who happened to claimed that the girl was staring at him back in Sri Mithai) started to oppose the design, this amused the little guys.....who where just too happy that we have to start all over again......by then everyone got exhausted, all they wanted to do was to sit n relax, so we just convinced my elder cousin......and then my uncle ordered 15 sets of the same in different sizes......
(to be continued...)

Global Meltdown

Well the day started like all saturdays.....everything was habitual, i woke up at 10am n my mom scolding for waking up so late.....ate my breakfast slowly, nibbling n playing with my food ( which i m not allowed to do in front of my mom ;) lol)

After enjoying my delicious meal, i took the newspaper.....wow it was the global economic meltdown that caught my eye......man these share markets are falling like deck of cards . The newspaper has quoted the losses in european, US, canada, australia , India, etc. But i was searching for china, there wasnt even a single report on china in the newspaper.....

It kind of made me think. Y isnt china, an asian country and also a developing country like India didnt plummet??? So i switched over to check the world markets(share market)
Most of the world markets where hard hit in the past 2 weeks, the badly hit where not the US markets, which where actually the cause for this global meltdown.......actually a stream of selling forced exchanges in Austria, Russia and Indonesia to suspend trading, and those which remained open were hammered. The Australians called it the "black friday" because of the heavy drop in the stock prices. At the start of friday's session, losses for the year totalled a staggering $8.3 trillion as measured by DOW Jones Wilshire 5000 composite index which tracks almost all the companies traded in the US. Whereas the Indian markets, the bombay stock exchange(BSE sensex) dropped by 800 basis points to 10527.85 and the national stock exchange(NSE) dropped by 230 basis points to 3279.95.

If followed closely you would notice that the BSE (30-share sensitive index) has lost about 50% from its all time high of 21,206.77 recorded on jan 10th 2008 by closing at 10527.85.

I was sure that definitely the chinese market would have plunged, ya it did happen. The shangai market dropped by 9%.

U might think what is our government doing?? Well the answer is ur seeing our finance minister P.Chidambaram nowadays on a daily basis addressing the investors. The government is trying really hard to gain the trust of the investors, just dont panic when the other markets fall is what the government is saying. Prime minister Manmohan singh claimed that our markets are not very susceptible to the fall in global markets, but he was proved wrong. Now the final option being to reduce the Cash Reserve Ratio(CRR), which pumps more cash into the monetary system there by increasing the liquidity of the market. So the government decreased the CRR by 50 basis points which effected on last monday. But still the markets failed miserably, so the CRR was further reduced by another 100 points which comes into effect from saturday(today).

All these selling pressure forced the weakening of the rupee which plummeted to its all time low of Rs.49.30 against the $dollar. The rupee has dropped from Rs.46.53 on Oct 1st to Rs.49.30 on Oct 10th.

The one thing which surprises me the most is that, (US markets) the DOW fell by 2.9%, the Std & Poor's 500 index was off by 2.87%, while the NASDAQ composite index was down by 1.16%

All these weakening markets have slow down the economic growth of developing countries like India, china, and other asian n african countries. The manufacturing sector is badly hit in India, as a result other sectors have also not faired well.

Now everyone is saying all these damage was caused due to an improper global financial structure, but no one is saying how to repair it!!!

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