Favorite Car still !!

From the days of walking through the industrial estate of HMT opposite to Kendra Vidyalaya 01 in Jalahalli, gazing(drooling ..is the right word) over the Rover standard SD1 2000 parked in one of the factory...my interest for car has changed from one to another. Ranging from Tata Indica, Matiz, Palio, Gypsy in India to Mercedes, BMW 3 X5, Jag's XK XJ, Modena, Camry, Civic, Aston Martin etc.. Sometimes the choice is based on emotives like, style, way it carries it self, ruggedness, machine, mileage,Performance, visibility around ...
Infact the taste have been changing; for example: Tata Safari was THE car, but then when i saw, Ford Escape... i felt the later more refined... now since Indica is my regular taxi, it longer carried the 'stuff' when it was launched (guess my only comparison then was a Zen). From Rover SDK to the present Fiat Linea or Chrysler 300. There has been a long list and off course more to come.
But I wonder, What if i were to stick with one car? which car would that be? which car would retain its status with onslaught of new car...Many concepts that we cannot even imagine!!.. well it’s a difficult question ...and after reflecting on each car...
I guess that would be:
Maruti Gypsy.....coz, i still love to own,drive it!
PS: only time will tell ;)

Being a lesser and a Greater Fool

Couple of days back i visited one of my relatives. This is a home of voracious readers...as soon as i entered their territory, i attacked the section which is a mini library...After going through the names..i choose two books...one… a book on Sales by ‘Ziglar’ and another from my favorite Author 'Paulo Coelho' titled 'Like the flowing river'...

I requested my cousin if he could lend the books to me which i shall return it to him by March during my next visit to the city. He agree to lend and said..."The one who borrows a book is a Fool'...Caught off guard being called a Fool, I immediately retaliated(being defensive)…I am not borrowing but i am taking it(well, taking advantage of being a close relative...off course i shall return this books by March)....but he continued... 'and the one who borrows and returns the book is a greater Fool'...I had no argument to counter and also didn't want to pursue to counter as it leads nowhere ....

Now that I have been reading this book from Paulo Coelho...I have come to understand the weight of my cousins Argument...After all.... When you are reading your favorite author....NEVER borrow but buy and own it...coz, you don’t want to return...

Mis-match!

Many time, we are in place we are in team of two to do an common task...like in cricket...2 batsmen or a couple dancing or doubles partner in tennis,...where your indivual performance counts but also the action in resonant rhythm to deliver 1+1=3 ...you come across situation you are playing well than the other or vice versa...so in situation where in you are not in good as the other and other is blazing away...what do you do????i remember once a cricket comentator said..when Sachin Tendulkar is blazing from one side...what can the batsmen on the other end do? ....Just watch the magic happening and enjoy the moment....

Stranger than Fiction

I was watching the movie "stranger than fiction" ..a movie wherein an authors fiction is someone's real life... sad part is that the writer is a 'tragedy' writer...hmm...wonder if our destiny has already been written...is the author a tragedy writer, an optimist ? or an drama writer? is the author of our lives like a movie story writer, who has filled our lives with sweet ,sour, bitter, spicy tinges.... can i answer this question now, though i am 27 as of today ? what more is to come ? is the sweet or the happy part over ? (just as in movie, where the begining is live with humour and later becomes serious with a plot/struggle)?...Just as sometime, when things do not go in our wishfull ways, sould we take up the cliche phrase "Let Go"...we also do point it on destiny /fate as some one had already written that in our individual fictions...we have some many targets to reach...same with many people.. how each ones target crisscrosses is mystery...we try to be there at many places...be many persons...when i pose this questions to myself i wonder...why question? just, Live your present...

As Emma Thompson's character puts it in "Stranger Than Fiction,"

"Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies, and fortunately, when there aren’t any cookies we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or a subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys, and nose-plugs, and uneaten danish, and soft spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and much nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange. But I also know that it just so happens to be true"

Keep in Touch...

Today I met my engineering college friends (to be precise 2: coz, they are twin brothers) after 6years, and also part from a friend whom I might not be seeing for a long time (cynically thinking)…then I wonder, I would have thought the same, six years back too when we finish our course and each one was at an exit point ready to go their own ways chasing his or her destiny… No assurances or guarantees that we meet except for the cliché phrase “Keep in Touch”… only feeling that was guaranteed was/is the Hope to meet. As an old saying goes,…meets and depart are ways of life, but depart and meet are hopes of life… so guys, catch you soon…

Top of the world

Yep, i am on top of the world...This is one important ( not so ordinary ...if humbly put) moment of my Life..... Today the November 17, 2007...02: 32 AM ( Bangkok time)...Google thinks that, The most relevant weblink concerning the word "WINSON" which happens to be my name is in it's entire information world database is provided by my Blog "Homepage de Winson".

Page rank of 1 of about 739,000 for winson. (0.22 seconds) ...

Cheers....n Thank you, Google....

Eureka!!!

Last weekend, i caught up with some old n close friends @ my friends new appartment ( + reason to open some wine)...We came to bangkok as part of our studies and now we end up working in BKK...

We see that, our lifestyles has changed from the days of university and now...Flashback wonders us on the things that we used to do ....You can imagine a typical students room..how,we have devised our very own indegenious systems to keep the room clean...let me list a few...

--Keep your glasses/plates/spoons in the refrigertor after use... no need to wash...
--If you have opened a can of Rosgollas, then keep the can in plate with water..so no Ants...
--Keep the flowers in the comode.
--Keep the expensive perfumes in the refrigertor.
--Keep you football jersey/Boots/Socks after playing for "Air Wash(Hang it in open air)" prior to wash.
--etc etc...cant remember nw...you can add if you remember...

Obvioulsy Thing are different now....gone are the days of Flowers/Morning football....