On the other side of 30

I celebrated my 30th Birthday last week on Tuesday.
Well don't gawk at the 'figure'! And just in case you are thinking about curves move over!
It is the 'figure' 30 that am referring to!

I feel 30, just that 30 is not an age which is defined as 'old' by any standards (surely not by my standards)
For some reason though, people declare 'THIRTY!!!!'...as 'o...ld' and phrases like,
"hmm..so you are now brinking on 30 huh!" OR "how does it feel to be..ahem..'On the other side of 30'??!!"
....ring all about!


On the other side of 30!
they ask me? I answer:
I see a whole new world

On the other side of 30 I see
Permanency
Stability
Financial independence and a firm foothold in my career
Steadied emotional anchorage
Maturity strengthened with experience

Indeed..A whole new world
A new beginning!


I am grateful to God, truly grateful to give me wide experiences, varied in nature..

Let me tell you a little about my birthday...and the bitter sweet run-up to it..


Got a special midnight treat
As I was with someone sweet!
And then a score,
spent standing outside my home door!

Special elders slept through the midnight wishes
While I shed a tear as was really missing my sisses!
With the bright sun came morning
And was showered with blessings

Love, hugs and kisses
made up for all the misses :)

While i wore dabs of satinny orange on a black beautiful cover,
My friend beautiful gave me a top satinny, lots of flower
Expecting the day from bitter to sweet a range
half a wonderful day at work, what a change!

The last working quarter came with lilies and roses
A cake to cut and many a birthday proses
A call sudden but wonderful announced a special entry
And I ran down, covered six floors from the pantry

Comments on how I carry my dress
Feelings mixed, angered happiness
Special someone sat beside Daffy Lean
Waiting for me to take him to oriental cuisine

A round of reconciling...to and fro's
Half smiles and half furrowed brows
Forgiven, forgotten, misunderstandings clear
Its lovely to have by your side someone very very dear

Contemplating what after the Lovely munch,
Should it be the big screen - "When we met"
or time with each other maybe books a bunch?
Aromatic being, Books, Poetry, Coffee...., totally swept!

Followed by prayer for the new born girl
and an overwhelmingly cute birthday jingle
Walking up home with that someone special
Did not know what was in store..? Truly exceptional

A connection, an apparel,
A good read, fragrance, lots of sparkle!
Her cake, the very best!
3 generations! aint I blessed :)

Aaah too early to have taken rest
My bearer asked me to take the bump test!
So 30 in all is what I got
loads of fun with pain was fraught :)

You must be seeing all the smiles now
Its because by then I had started to wonder 'WOW!
And then with my predecessor's predecessor
Went to have our evening chow!

Special someone was so much family
Unspokenly accepted, the path now less up-hilly
Another wonderful couple friend joined
Happy Beginnings were slowly coined!

Thank you One and Thank you All
For making it big, a thing so small.
I love the fact that we are together
Was in the air, just like a feather

Feather to wings, it won't take time
Higher and higher, a tough climb
Flying, the sky of happiness we will find
Locked into togetherness we shall bind

That's how was my day of birth
30 years ago when I landed on earth
was it a stork, or from heaven i fell
don't know, but when its over in this very earth I'll gell

Teer-e-Ishq

Was going through Atishbazi's blog. What a superb shayar he is...
What I have written has been inspired by someone else, but the spark is attributed to AtishBazi
Aaah! also can't forget the push that Rhea's blog entry on her uncle's shayari gave to me

Arz Hai...

"dard-e-ishq tera bhi jawaab nahi!
maar daala hume ye haqeeqat hai khwaab nahi!
agar hai khwaab to khwaab main hi jee lene do,
aisi zindagi se kya jahaan teer-e-ishq aar paar nahi!"

Revel in Blood?

One's blood another's taste
One's a beast another's chaste

One's meat another's meal..
One's pain the other does not feel..

Some not aware of the pain they go through
Some aware yet continuing to chew

Sucking blood, gory sight,
To pacify the palate,their plight
We are stronger let's show our might!

Revel in their beats stopping, beasts that we are,
Cut them through not knowing its no other than us who we scar

You may ask though...
Greens, don't they have life? they do
Don't they feel the pain? of course that too

But its not just about choosing the lesser evil of the two,
Its also about choosing what nature sought us best to do
We are not meant to eat veal,
Our bodies this clearly reveal

Our constitution doesn't allow us to eat meat,
Else we would have had it raw
unlike the greens that we can have as per nature's law.

Our anatomy and taxonomy
Say we are closest to fruit eaters
Eating meat, fish and flesh
It is clear that Nature deters

Our Teeth, our Jaws, our Belly our Juices
all are meant for processing green
If you don't believe me yet,
go through these links, and you'll see what I mean!


http://www.tierversuchsgegner.org/wiki/index.php?title=Taxonomy
http://www.ourkarnataka.com/madhwakalyana/vegetarian.htm

Ecstatic!

My ecstasy knows no bounds...
what do you do, when you cannot be happier?
how do you stay planted firmly on the ground?

Its ok, is it not to at times fly..
to feel lighter as the weight lifts?
and walk two inches above the ground?
its ok, it is, up until the focus shifts..

One hurdle crossed, left in stead is the other
as we have crossed this, so will we tide over another
belief in God and in self, all will hold us in good stead
creating momentum enough for us to tide over the rest

I look forward to the days as they close in,
weeks, months fly past and you are heard over the din
of the constant humdrum that, "can't choose for yourself, hey you!"
I look forward to the days when what you have chosen is what they want too!

This Wait... weight...

This wait...weight...

As passes this day and approaches the eve
I wonder what the outcome will be.

This wait...weight..

Will this eve bring relief..or will there be strife yet
I wonder shall work be mine or will it be fret?

This wait...weight...

When you are connected, there is no disconnect
Whats at that end, at this end does affect.

This wait...weight...

I pray for you...you- my end, my beginning
Believe there will be a change tomorrow with the sun rising.

I want you to know that I will sleep today as the sun sets
with the hope of this wait ending...the weight lifting off us...
know I will rise tomorrow with hope in my eyes and love in my heart even if tomorrow may not come tomorrow,
...every morning, every night....

Gesture...Red...Fragrant...

Made aware of

....his entry
....his presence
....his absence
....his permanence
....his importance
....his love
....my love

By his Gesture...Fragrant and Red...

Filling up my life...

I want to..

The weather is beautiful today and I just don't feel like working. Just one of those days..actually its not 'just' one of those days. Its a day when the rain gods have been very kind. The sun has not been seen since my waking hour today.

So we have decided to celebrate by ordering food (Papa John's pizzazzzz, to be precise) in the office as well as wrap up work by 4 pm today and go out for movie, shopping or just go gallavanting... Its not a day to work...no!

I added my share of celebration by sitting and writing new blogs and completing old ones, finishing incomplete mails, missing people I love and generally wishing they were with me today.

Nunu, Di, my nieces...I miss you
Ted...i miss you

you know what my idea of celebrating is ...definitely not having pizzas or going to the malls or movies...no...
you know what I want to do?

I want to go to the water park today
I want to go for a long drive
I want to be gifted beautiful flowers
I want to be lifted high up in the air
I want to fly off a cliff
I want to run in the wild
I want to dance away in your arms
I want go to the sunflower fields with mudzy
I want to have this day to myself and for all those who I love
I want it to last...
so that when you come back I can do all this with you..

You know what?
Its a pleasant day, but something is amiss....
you..