Story in parts : The first meeting

They were standing on the edge of a cliff.

The drop below was around 300 meters and could be termed as fatal. She grasped his hand more firmly. She then looked at him. How their lives had changed.

They had met around 8 months back. It could be told that a mutual friend had introduced them to each other. But the mutual friend was unaware of this. They had met on orkut. He had looked at her profile through his friend's friend list. It had caught his eye immediately. For over a month he went through her scrapbook to understand what kind of lady she was. She had not uploaded her photo. But he had formed an opinion. Neither she not the common friend knew that he was visiting her profile so often.

And then orkut came up with the brilliant idea to display the list of people who have visited the profile recently. She noticed that this person was in that list almost daily. She traced the common friend and enquired about this person. He had not uploaded a photograph. But she had formed an opinion. She began to check his scrapbook everyday. He could see her name in the list almost everyday.

It took a month for the first scrap to be exchanged. She had decided that it was time to see who her cyber stalker was. She wrote this in his scrapbook "Can we meet".

He could sense her gaze on her. She looked more beautiful than the day they had met for the first time. How could he ever forget that first meeting. Though he had expected her to come alone she had brought that common friend of theirs along with her.

He had arrived 30 min early to the rendezvous point. She came along with her friend 30 min late. He did not believe in love at first sight. And it was not to be. But he was very nervous. He tried to reassure himself thinking he is just meeting a girl. It was not a date. But he couldnt take his eyes off her during the whole of next hour. Most of the talking was done by the common friend. By the end of the hour he had decided that he would make the next move.

She turned her eyes away from him and looked at the crevice below. She couldnt even trace the bottom. She felt as nervous as she was when she met him for the first time.....

From the moment she had written that scrap askin him to meet she had had second thoughts. But she was curious to find out more about him. She decided to take her friend along with. At least her friend knew both of them. They had reached about half an hour late. She did not believe in love at first sight. But she was captivated by his looks. By the time the hour was up she was sure he too felt the same.

That night the second scrap was exchanged between them. She read the scrap from him. "Can we meet again....and this time alone". She smiled.

She now felt dizzy standing at such a height and still not able to spot of the bottom. But she could sense the determination in him to go ahead. They had reached a decision and did not want to turn back. Though a lot of things that happened since the first meeting were inevitable some could have been avoided.............

To be contd....

Current affairs

So its been quite some time since I have posted. Lets me see whats been happening in my life

There are moments in life when you see some gal and think " eh this is the kind of gal I want to be with....." Please note the words "kind of". That could also mean she is not the actual gal but someone like her. Or could it be that gal itself you want to be with and you are the one not realising it. Well maybe.....whatever

I met that gal some time back and now I dont even remember her face properly. Or maybe if I just get the opportunity to meet her again.....uh anyway I dont have the guts to do anything about it..... So it could be a crush thats already crushed.

Coming to the topic of crushes. Well as I try to count the number of crushes I have had......taking into consideration the ones that lasted for 23 years to the ones that got over in 23 min.....I can recall around 6 to 8. But these dont include the unattainable ones like her and her. Well if you thought I would any clues on who are these people then you must be crazy.

When I had just got admission into college and was waiting for the 1st sem to begin Some of us were ragged in the locality where I live by our seniors (these were our seniors in school). It was not much....we were just asked to sing something and were asked some questions. I was asked who did I have a crush on. And I gave a blank stare......What the hell is a crush.....The deceiver that I am and the reputation that I had...they really felt I had not heard of the word crush and that I had never had one. Little did he know that I had had crushes long before he had even heard of the word ( *grinning mischievously*)

Coming to more on the current affairs ( if you thought I am going to reveal the current affairs that I am having then you must be crazier) after the death of Dr Raj as I was watching the news channels (that was the only option) I saw a lady on the street telling this to the camera "the government is to blame for his death" What crap??? Now people have started blaming the government for natural deaths too.

I had attended my cousin's engagement function last sunday. It was in the other part of the city. Now I am usually the guy who has always avoided these social functions involving the family. Well but this time I took the pain to actually go. I think its time people got to know I too existed. Well you might ask why. Now that I am 23 and earning I could be the one searching for a bride in some 5 years. So people need to know that I am also a prospective candidate for their daughters right. So I thought I need to start making my presence felt in such social gatherings.

Or maybe it was the thought of some good food that enticed me into going........

God only knows

"Do u believe in god?"

"Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to."

People who have read Dan Brown's books will immediately recollect that these were the words used in his novel Angels and Demons.

So I thought I will try to identify the school of thoughts that prevail on this earth on the issue of God. I am only considering the people who have a attained a level of maturity which allows them to formulate their own views on stuff and provide logical reasoning for it (in simple words i mean i am leaving out the kids and the very old people). That leaves me with only the middle aged ones.

1. There is this category of people who believe that God exists. These are the ones who strongly believe in science but also claim that God is the creator of science. We could also sub categorise this section of people as the ones that follow idol worship, the ones who only believe in the existence of a supernatural force but do not give any it any form and so on.....But I am only interested in the emotion called faith. These people blame God for mishaps and thank him for success.

2. Then comes the group called the agnostics (yeah yeah looked it up in the dictionary). The dictionary claims these are the ones who are skeptical about the existence of God. I would rather say that these are the ones moving away from the responsibility of taking decisions. They are non - committal. Ok they do not want to argue on either side. But internally they are confused and scared. They are not sure if they should turn atheist or not. Their views are governed by the society.

3. And as mentioned the other group is the atheists. They deny the existence of God. But I am a bit confused about this school of thought. Lets say they dont believe in the existence of a supernatural power. Then will they be in a position to provide explanantions for miracles. Ok maybe I shouldnt use the word miracles....lets change it to" events with no scientific reasoning yet". Maybe they are not the looking for explanations for them. Which again gets us back to the point called faith. They refuse to believe in the existence of God.

I believe that man only uses God as a solution to his problems. U could argue that there were so many events in the past that have gone unexplained which is the favor of the existence of God. But I say that as science has progressed and we have answers to more questions the existence of God is becoming more questionable.

For example, if any phenomenon occured a thousand years ago man to which man had no explanation then he would give the solution to it as the existence of God. Most of the scientific phenomena in those days would have been classified as miracles which increased man's faith in God. But as time progresses and Man finds scientific solutions to stuff his faith in God will reduce.

I would rather say Man created God ( irony eh!!!)

Couldnt come up with one

A couple of years back I was watching the movie Legend of Bhagat Singh with some of my friends. Being the patriot I am, I had fallen asleep somewhere during the middle. I woke up towards the end and asked

" Hey what happened to the heroine"

I got stares from all the people around me. Heroine????

Dont scratch your heads now on who the heroine was. I am sure all of you were busy relating the sequences in the movie to the stuff you learnt in the history lesson on the freedom struggle. The hatredness towards the British and Gandhi would have been in your thoughts while my thoughts were on the heroine. It was Amrita Rao.

I would rate her at 8.5 on a scale of 10 for her beauty. ( Of course Riya Sen being 9/10). I am not making any comments on her acting or comparing her with people like Rani, Kajol and that league. When it comes to acting I am not a good judge. I have never really paid any attention to acting skills. But when it comes to beauty I believe Amrita rates high on my scale.

But what the hell am I doing writing a post on Amrita. Well its just this piece of news that got me writing on her.