Think Tank

Heres some absolutely random musings from a very very rainy sunday in north georgia .

1. Friday night I was driving back from the airport at 2 at night . ..my favorite song to hear on a late night spin through downtown ..especially on a dry moonless night in summer is this song called " Chandnein Raatien" ..Its from so long ago ..I dont even know who wrote it anymore ...but anyways ..it talks about talking to the stars while the rest of the world sleeps ..the kind of silent conversation that speaks more than a 1000 words .
I love Atlanta ...especially driving between ext 246 on I75 and through downtown

2. If I enjoyed the same drive on Friday - the kind of grotesque thunderstorm that went through my quiet world on saturday night ..made it impossible to remember the night before ..
I was driving - about 20 minutes away from home when seems like the skies collapsed around us ....the remaining 50 minutes ..crawled ..in rush traffic with hazard lights on at 10 miles an hour ...i felt bad for my wipers ..anyways ..I blasted Adat in my car ....only so the music was louder than my wild heart ..and prayed through the storm .....come to think of it ..I might have even enjoyed it ..maybe the skies were only expressing what was inside my mind

3. I just learnt that AK ..in AK47 stands for Avotomata Kalsahnikova ...its weird ..I've known this word since the 6th grade maybe ..yet never once have I known what it stood for ..and never once have I wanted to have known .

4. Saturdays with Messi and Sundays with Deco make a wonderful weekend

5. Theres a dessert in PF Changs which makes me beg ...its banana dumplings fried in chocolate batter ..with pineapple-coconut icecream , honey sauce and sprinkled with fresh strawberries and blueberries .....i;m still thinking about it :)

6. I am not very excited about watching the new superman movie ....but sometimes I do think that the world needs a superhero ..

7. I heard that in Ghana the president acutally requested the coal and gold mines to stop production for a few hours during the us-ghana game ..so that everyone would have enough power to watch the game on tv ...this called for *respect* ..thats what the spirit of the game means to some ..unlike lukkhas like me who sit at home on rainy sunday afternoons and watch ..this is what makes a team formidable ..and a victory commendable .

8. I gave up drinking tea 3 months ago ....the first 2 months were very very difficult ..but I;m okay about it now . I have another Kausim to share - most of the things that cause us vexation and grief are habits ..whether we are habituated to a person ..a feeling ..or a place ..and when I feel like I'm drowing in my love for a habit ...I try to quit another habit ..which is an older and a far more difficult/ stronger one ..Its always worked ..You get to kill two birds with one stone ..
Its been much harder to deal with my other "Aadat" ..but only time can tell ..the weight and the value of something or someone in our lives

9. I love the spanish channel ..unlike ESPN ..it shows all the pre game action ..the sombre walk from the dressing rooms to the greens , the flags and the national anthem ..theres nothing more inspiring than watching the teams stand together and tall during at the start of the game ...no matter how crazy they get in the hours to come ..thats what these players are ..at the start and finish of the game ..tall , proud sportsmen.

10. On metacafe.com ....if you do a find on "Ronaldinho Pepsi" ..it will take you to a pepsi commercial called "how it all started" ..its to die for ..and made me fall in love with Ro all over again .

11. I see these crazy neurotic squirrels climbing up the conifers outside my windows ..they are nuts ..they jump from brach to branch ..and never looks discouraged ..summer or winter ..they certainly dont look afraid of heights ....makes me wonder if they are high on something ..I'm serious ..I could get dizzy just looking at them ...I'm scared oneday I'm going to wake up in the middle of the night to find a giant mutant squirrel eating away all the trees in my yard ..

12. I'm reading a book called "Shantaram" ...yes ..it is life changing ..in several ways ..
I've only read 3 books in my life so far which have made me want to underline things in them ..The Fountainhead ..The Alchemist and this one ..

To sign off ..I'm going to share something I read from the book .
It says that in life we come across 12 people ...3 teachers , 3 loves , 3 friends and 3 enemies ..
The catch is that we dont know who they are untile we loved them , left them ..or fought them .

13. Someone once told me " Dont be afraid of tommorrow - God is already there"

May you have an extraordinary week.