For A Cause

First of all, I am sorry for not visiting your blogs for quite sometime now. I haven't even replied to some of the comments on the previous post. Once in a month this happens, I receive a message that says – Dear airtel customer, your bill amount for the last month is still pending, please pay immediately to avoid any disruptions in the services. So I hope you guys will understand ;)
Keep track of the following desultory talks; something productive would be coming up by the end of the post. Hopefully!

When I was a kid, I had dreamt of being a doctor. I remember my schoolteacher questioning the class about what each of us would like to become when we grew up. A Doctor- I said. Eventually I took up math, physics and chemistry as my subjects in intermediate and ended up being an engineer- a software engineer after graduating in Electronics and communications.
>A dream crushed by an engineer<

In my eighth standard, our class was given a task of collecting funds for an old age home. A few among us who had collected a fairly decent amount were allowed to visit the old age home to greet their members. The experience was touching, something I would remember for life. I would say, in these 22 years of my life…that was the only good thing I've done for someone other than family and friends. During that time there was much resentment against those who left their parents to old age homes. Probably that was the first incident, which inspired me to establish an old age home by myself.
>A dream gone astray<

While watching news channels that show thousands of victims my eyes are filled with tears. I wish I could be of some help to them.
>A momentary dream that vanishes as soon as I switch the channel for a reality show<

When I was doing my third year of engineering, grandpa passed away. That was when a serious thought struck my mind- of building a foundation on the name of my grandpa.
>This dream I wish would come true someday<

There's a saying I've always loved: When you were born, you were the one crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life in such a way that… you leave this world with a smile on your face and leave a tear in everyone else's eyes.To live with love, gratitude and respect from others each of us has to make some efforts for the betterment of the society. We may not be too intelligent to serve the country through our knowledge. We may not be so rich as to donate large amounts of money in charity. But with the little money that we are earning, we can still make a difference just by contributing a small/negligible percent of our earnings for doing good for the needy. Though I know it would take much more time for this dream to come true than what I anticipate, if anyone here would be happy to help me create a trust on the name of my grandfather, I would sincerely and wholeheartedly be thankful to him or her.

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Now for the second part of my post - its Neha's aka Joie's birthday. There are some people with whom you feel an instant connection. That, I've felt with you Neha. Happy birthday!

My Blog's Wedding :P :P

Contemplating how things have been a year ago and comparing them with how things have changed over time…I can say one of the best things I’ve done during this one year is to start blogging. Thanks to some anonymous profile on orkut which had a profile name saying *Read my blog* that eventually inspired me to write my own. And thus began Divvu’s journey into the Bloggerland. My first blog post –Peace of mind. Today it seems strange enough that I’ve entered into this land even without introducing myself. It does give an idea about the depth of frustration I was going through back then and the need to express my resentment through some means .

To Speak of the immense change that Blogging has brought into my life is a difficult task. Today it’s a different ME altogether. Ok, I know some people here are all geared up to throw surprised faces at me if I said that I’ve grown up :P. So let me put it this way – I’ve STARTED to understand things and people better…if not completely, to an extent I stopped whining about people not being able to reciprocate feelings, I’ve made some really sweet friends here who will hopefully last for my lifetime, and most of all I’ve come to believe that I can write poems :P.

If you guys are wondering the actual intention behind these talks…there are two really special occasions that call for celebrations.

The first being my first blog’s first birthday ;). I’ve never really thought of my other blog as a separate one…just had to switch places coz of some personal problems. But that little world of mine called A RUBIX CUBE will always remain close to my heart for it gave me the best gift I could ever ask for…the ones that I call -my friends.

Now for the second… on this auspicious day THE RUBIX CUBE is getting married to one of its closest and dearest friends THE WHITE WINDOW. To read Rubix Cube’s love letter to White Window…click here later. So people I hope each of you will come over with your near and dear ones and not to forget with lots of gifts for the new and FIRST couple of bloggerville. Thus creating a history. Your presence and blessings are much needed. As for who is the bride and who is the bridegroom…that’s for you to decide/assume ;)

That’s not all…My sweet lenu janu is being my first ever guest blogger…to write something about my blog and myself and how our blogs have marked the first steps of a budding friendship.

Once upon a time I happened to come across one blog. I don’t actually remember how I got there but I know why I didn’t leave it. The girl in the blog was asking questions, which I thought I knew answers for. Not that I still have these answers or think they were right ones but back then I thought I could share some experience and wisdom with that girl.

Time showed she got more wisdom than I at times, just like many of us happens to be confused about life every now and then.

divya said...

@lena

I dont deserve to get blogrolled though :P i dont get to access net very often...but thanQ so much for the privilege :)

Isn’t she cute, huh? As if I asked her if she wants to be blogrolled. I just did. And never regretted that. And I know I never will. Her posts reflect her personality very well. She might seem as a crazy/mad little girl who asks weird questions and has a lot of fun while replying to your comments in the most unexpected way. But even then one can see how really wise she is, what sensitive topics she picks up and how caring this girl is.

She is so much honest with expressing her feelings. When she loves, it shows, when she is sad, you can see it, when she is happy, it is obvious. Each word in her posts is real, and if one cares enough to see behind the words, he will see the real Div, the girl who loves, who cares, who understands but never misses to have some fun.

I went through her first posts today and memories flashed. The first post I ever read there, first comments, words that marked the beginning of a wonderful friendship. Words that went straight to the heart and never left it.

There is not a single day when I don’t check on her blog, sometimes even before I check on my own.

And there is not a single day when I don’t thank myself for landing up on her blog that day. This place brought so many positive emotions in my life every time I needed it. And be it Rubix Cube or Divvu in Bloggerland, that’s the place that deserves to grow old together with us. One year is just not enough!

Happy Birthday! :)

And here's the love letter that White window has written for Rubix cube ;)

“Once upon a time in bloggerland, there lived beautiful blog “White window”. Her peaceful n beautiful life took a U-turn the moment her eyes fell on “Rubix Cube”. For the very first time she got someone who complemented n completed her in every single aspect. :P . Wowwwwwwwwwww the life was never the same again. It was changed and the change was the best thing that can ever happen to her in life. Yes she was in love with “Rubix Cube” and so was he. They solemnized their love and decided to become one on a very special day. And what other day can be a special one other than their birthday!

Every blog in the bloggerland including them were surprised to know that they share the same birthday i.e. 17.09.07. Without wasting a single minute they proposed to each other and in the presence of their guardian blogs: “peace of soul” n “sameera’s haven” and other blogs they tied the knot that very day. There’s been the first ever love-story of bloggerland and this way they became immortals in the pages of bloggerland’s history.

And they lived happily ever after….”

Dear Rubix Cube, after many years from now, this is one of the ways the future generations of bloggerland will remember us. Isn’t it just great that we share the same birthday though we came to know about it just one day before in spite of our owners/ creators/moms being best of friends? Peace of Soul says that it seems we know each other even before we met.

U can’t imagine how happy, excited and honored I am to know that my life partner is none other than “You” who holds the biggest slice of my heart within him.

Yes darling, we definitely will stay together to fight every storm that comes through our way.

“The more you play, the harder I get” will never come in our life. For us it is only “Just Love ME” and the “Escape route to my Soul” is there for you forever and ever..

*I LOVE YOU*

Yours and only yours forever,

White Window

If words were enough to thank Janu and white window for the kind posts they have written for my blog and also for being there with me, loving and caring like real sisters…I would gift them a dictionary of sweet words :P. But I guess that’s not needed, as they already know what they mean to me.

Alive...in my dreams and memories

There's one thing I had always hated about being by your side during the time you were on the death bead. Somehow the good and happy moments that we had together are being overshadowed by the times you were sick and suffering. Rather than remembering you as the one who taught me alphabets and numbers, who bought me an ice cream of my choice on the first of every month, who was my teacher at home, who always told me about the power of positive thinking, who gave me some valuable lessons on life, who paid my school and college fees, and prominently as the one who is most responsible for the better part of me; I remember you as the one who I went along with for those chemotherapy sessions, the one who had asked me in the middle of the night to apply some oil on the neck that was bleeding after an operation, the one who let me press his legs for the first time ever when he was sick, the one whose body and eyes were turning yellow because of the jaundice attack, the one whose forehead I kissed only after his demise, the only one who had tolerated so much pain without heaving a sigh. This could be the only reason why I avoid thinking about you…pushing myself to think something else that did not give me pain.

But dreams are things that I have no control of. And in my dreams I see my grandfather…. alive but always sick with cancer.

My crazy obsession for voice chat :P

22nd year of my life and I've never used headphones until the 6th of September 2008. I'm loving it.

Hardest part was of course fixing them to my computer. If you think I am dumb, for now I will agree :). Thanks to harika- my best friend…she taught me the ABCD of fixing headphones to PC.

Instructions for people who still do not know how to use the headphones ;)

1. Look for three colored ports at the back of your processor. For people who do not know what a processor is…am glad you are dumber than I am :P.
2. Now look for the symbol of headphones on one of the two wires that come from your headphones and fix it into the green colored port of your processor (precisely the middle one). And the other into the pink colored port.

It took me a while to decipher the colors coz all the three looked *white* to me. My computer was losing hues L…. Or maybe I am losing sight?

Anyways if you think you are done…sorry you are mistaken!

Call someone and test. If you are as fortunate as I am…you would hear the voice of your friend but your voice wouldn't reach him :P.

Hence check the audio configuration of on your pc and enable the microphone. This wasn't easy, it took me 4-5 hours to figure out the problem with the settings. My pc was giving some weird errors- you cant place the volume icon on the task bar coz the volume control program has not been installed. That left me wondering how I could adjust the media player volume if the volume control wasn't installed.

If you were smart, it wouldn't take so long though.

Let me know if I was helpful :P.

Drifting apart but staying together

Office hours were such a stress
When he returned home he just slept
Files, papers and timeless meetings
His peace of mind was by far amiss

And here she waited for him to join
The dining table that longed for their union
To talk, laugh and together dream
Was all and everything she ever asked him




He skipped his meals and often got sick
But his struggle for life forever sustained
So much into work that he never bothered
A family of four he barely looked after

Was she being taken for granted?

Or was the love lost in the ashes?Many questions were bothering herLeaving her depressed and insecure 

The love was there concealed in his heart
How deeply he cared he failed to show her
Despite the abeyance he was always there
Pity she could not see the hidden gestures



With time she knew he was doing it all
For them alone and their children's future
One good opportunity was all he looked for
A promising career that could end the disaster

:(

My other blog The rubix cube went private in april.
The reason being my brother who has been constantly prying into everything I do with the Internet :( and myself forgetting to clear the history each time I leave the system.
A strange intuition that my brother might have hit upon my blog url by then, forced me in making it private.

Today I was wondering… how come the idea of changing the URL never occurred to me? :(