Lost and found!! Yup, this time i am lucky. . . .

In the fast pace of life, its quite natural that we people get busy with one or other work and we become careless too sometimes. And what happens in that occasions is that we become little absent minded for a while, which in return leads to loss of some stuff we are carrying. It can range from a small hankie to an expensive smartphone and not only that, whatever stuff we carry while being on travel. And most of the time the realization that we have lost it will come only after a long time and that time decides our percentage of luck in getting the lost thing back.

The previous day me too have gone through such a situation and i am happy to share the news that i am indeed very lucky to get it back.

Since my parents were going to my sister's house in Alapuzha to attend a function, few of my relatives too was joining them and so my dad assigned me the job of picking them in evening from their home a day before itself, since the train by which they are going Alapuzha have pretty early morning departure time. As scheduled i went on car to my native place to pick them and since my parents have already informed them they were ready and we planned to drive back after having a coffee since the night has already started to fall and we hoped to reach back home by the time of dinner. Back on wheels and driving hardly two kilometers i realized that something was missing. . . . With a shock, Yes my Bluetooth Headset!!

Buying a bluetooth headset for attending calls was not of any special interest for me since i had considered it as a bit show off while surrounded by public. But when our family bought a car and we used to take long rides in time, i realized that though attending calls while driving is not a problem for me, but it surely upsets the co-passengers at that time; and if the traffic too become dense, i avoided attending calls for the time being for the matter of safety. Thats the moment when buying a bluetooth headset striked my mind since i am sure it will definitely solve the problem. And i am happy that from the time i have bought it, i didnt have any problems till today in attending calls while on drive. So the missing of the same really hit like a shock over me.

Usually while leaving the car, I used to keep the bluetooth headset inside the car only, since i use it only while driving.  But this time i carelessly put it inside my shirt pocket itself and i could visualize the way i have lost it. Only confusion remains is that whether it has fallen inside or outside the car while i just took the car few minutes back. An easy check on the smartphone screen itself helped me to realize that the bluetooth pairing has been disconnected and so the headset not near anyway. Without wasting time i started the engine and drove back to my relatives home hoping to get it back though i was not quite sure about it. Time was already 8:30pm and due to the absence of any street lights nearby, it was only my car's head light which provided me assistance to search near the premises of their gate. As every second passed i could sense my heartbeat rising and my hope of finding it back was lowering. It was that very moment when i spotted a black stuff lying in the ground among the tiny stones. . .Ooops. .Its what i have been searching. .  my bluetooth headset!!! Besides the presence of few scratches over the body due to the falling impact, the headset was working perfectly like before. . .

Most of the time when i lose any stuff like this, i hardly get it back and i used to console myself, though i feel very sad deep inside. But this time when i got it back,  i am really overwhelmed with happiness and felt all this incident as a miracle . . . While driving back home i felt very much relived and thanked god for making me lucky this time. . . .

When a guest gives surprise visits frequently. . .

Its really nice to have a surprise visit from our dear ones in time, since it follows moments filled with happiness and funny stuff to share and treasure for future. Because as we get older with time, its only these sweet moments which will bring smile in our face and cherish the happiness even if we are left alone. Like everyone i too have the same opinion in this and i am lucky to have such occasions in my life though not frequently.

But how will it be the situation if the very guest who visit you is not just a stranger to you, but also a bit dangerous too??
Yup, i said the term correct; Dangerous and the guest i was referring too is not a human being also, but a 7 feet Snake!! Its totally strange na? I would not have considered it much important since snakes visiting home in time are a common stuff. But what if the same snake visit the home once or twice in a week? We can only assume that most probably its home too is near ours!!

It has been two months since this is happening and it was my mom who first noticed it. She was watering the plants in our garden while the snake made the first appearance. Though my mom was afraid on the first visual of the snake, she was a bit relieved when she realized that the snake she saw is a non-poisonous one. Still the fact that its a snake and the enormous length of it urged us to get it out of the compound wall sooner before it harms anyone.  Moreover it was the time for our doggie Prince to have leisure play time and we didnt want the doggie to get encountered with the snake.  But getting the snake out of the compound became a tedious job when it found a hole near the wall as a safe spot and started to hide inside it.  It took more than half an hour for the snake to feel comfortable and get out of the hiding spot, as we were far out of his visual and was checking him from inside of the house to know whether he has gone. And hence the first meeting of us with this snake ended dramatically leaving us a story to tell others. But little we know that, it was just a beginning.

The same snake made a frequent visits in the following weeks . And every time it visited, the hole near the wall became his safe hiding spot and it kept us engaged all the time busy observing it, till it leave the hole and go outside. One day my mom was cleaning the vessels at the back side of the house and she was shocked when she accidentally noticed the snake which was crawling over the compound wall slowly and passing to the neighbours house. During one of the visit he even get inside my house and made a mess and it was one of our neighbour who helped us in getting him outside. Luckily no one was hurt.

I am not sure why he is visiting our home in time; may be he too got bored of sitting alone inside his home. Whatever it may be , i am feeling less tensed since every time he visit us, he dont give us any trouble ( it was we only who feel afraid and tensed coz of his presence) and leave home calmly. . . .

huh, i am glad to see you in time my 7 feet friend. .  :-)

When Passion Vs Time for achieving matters

                     The passion for taking photos has been my companion from my school days itself, when i could barely hold an analog camera in my hand without shivering and take snaps. But from then itself, i used to get appreciations from the people who see it; not because of the clarity but for the subjective nature and the way in which i have shot the pic. To be frank i tried all those shots by the inspiration i got from watching a lot of movies and i am sure that it helped a lot too in all my way till today.

     

                    As time passed and when i started my college days while picking a mobile phone, i chose a model with camera like i have decided earlier itself because i don't want to miss capturing any moment which i felt special on the go. And from then i took the love for photography inside me to a very next level that my camera eye opened to capture a lot of precious moments whenever i travel no matter of time or distance. I can say like, i have now a whole range of more than thousand pics which i can showcase of these kind. Currently i am using a smartphone having a 3.2 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics which helps to brilliantly capture the moments with out losing the beauty; but still buying a digital camera have been my dream for a long time.

                    After studying, analyzing reviews, checking the common problems occurring for the users, overall product rating etc for more than a month in web and mainly trying to fit within my budget of purchase i finalized a model of Canon. It may be a coincidence but when i put a call to one of my friend, he too suggested the same brand only, since he had bought a similar model and is completely satisfied with its performance. This added the urge inside me to finalize the decision the sooner and buy the camera. Besides the condition of my health for which i have even took leave from office today, i went to the nearest ATM outlet by noon and withdraw the amount needed. Since my parents have already decided to have shopping house hold stuff in evening, i thought like i would buy the camera during the time they do shopping. For a matter of giving surprise, i didnt even informed my parents about my plan. While driving to town my mind was filled with excitement of owning a camera very soon.

                    But things didnt worked like i expected. After dropping my parents in a super market for buying things, i went in search of shops dealing with Canon. To my great disappointment most of them were having products of Sony and other companies only. But for the love i have for Canon lens which have created a big image in my mind by the reviews i have read all these months, shared from friends etc, i was least interested in other products. I was also a little hesitant to pick one from Duty paid shops for the doubt of genuineness. When the final shop i visited from where my friend have bought a Canon, it was really sad to know that their stock too have been sold out in the eve of new year. The only thing i could do which they suggested is to wait for a week or more for their next stock to come which i accepted happily because by then i have really made up my mind fully to pick only a Canon. After noting down the contact number by which i can put a call over to them for enquiring the details in coming week, i drove back to the shop where my parents were still busy purchasing stuff for home.

Now what remains as a slight confusion in my mind is that, with the full money ready on hand now, will i be able to survive the love for Canon with same frequency in coming weeks till my desired model come to store or will my mind be deviated to other models due to lack of patience or reviews from other sources. . . .

Just, have to wait and see. . . .

Another New Year went without getting noticed

Its said like celebrations used to bring happiness and prosperity along with it and bless you with immense joy; but for me it didnt present anything in particular and may be ie why even the New Year eve went like any other day. May be its because of my own mistake that i didnt take any effort to get involved or participate in the celebrations or is it because i am really least interested in doing so? What ever it may be, but i made myself sure that, none of my companions or buddies notice this sick behavior of me coz i truly wish not to become a reason to spoil their happiness because of me.

       Achieving happiness in life is what everyone dreaming off and sweet occasions really promise to give it a lot though the way of achieving it differs from person to person. And just for contributing my part and spread the message of New Year, i designed a  new year card and shared with my online buddies in facebook and orkut since social networking friends are the only people now, i keep in touch with. I understand that Social networking is a virtual world, but i am sticking to it for the time being since i am left with no other option.

Even then to an extent my this New Year is different from the previous ones coz it is the first time that i directly called a lot of my friends, students, relatives etc by phone for wishing them directly instead of putting a message. I dont know why i did like that, but i am sure that it made them too feel happy.

But being true to the core of my mind, i am mentally and physically broken down in this New Year and i wished like, it to be the last of this kind in my life. Emotionally broken down because of the losses i had in previous years while physically broken down because of the disease i am carrying on. . . .

Even then i dont blame anyone since the situation i am in now is what i have wished for always. . . . for the benefit of everyone. . . .