And Then

Thoughts Began To Fly

Why?

Published by Aakarsh under on Tuesday, April 25, 2006
As i turn over the pages,
your face shows up,
somewhere on the other side.
Why?

A lot of our story still exists here, unfinished.
smiles & joys, woven along,
with seething silences sometimes.
all etched here and there,
carrying the burden of remembrances.
these blank pages,
fragranced by each of them,
like those from an old book.
Yet, these black doodles become dry,
and at times, seem to invoke fire.
Why?

Strange!that it is only in my dream-I have seen you
and i still wake up with moist eyes.
Why?

Value of a Value-Added Service

Published by Aakarsh under on Thursday, April 20, 2006
No matter how hard we try to make some things happen, something just snaps in the end. so does our patience. Owing to some career obligations, i was too preoccupied on my mind which kept me away from blogging all the while.To be brutally honest with my ownself, i can blog everyday and i would like it...Afterall tis is my own page which i wuld love/hate to look after 'n' (n=1-30 days/months/years) years. But now that something has really snapped, i feel very relieved to come back to my ownself. Now i think-" do i blog only when life hits on two extremes?". I think i must reorganise my time so that i can encapsulate my thoughts when i am swinging between these two extremes.Must give up this habit of writing only when my position becomes static at extremes.
As i typed along, just now, i received an SMS on my mobile. "Fall in Love-Service", by Airtel. One of those dating fundas, but i am amazed at that statement, "Fall in love service". Great, Kudos to those moronic brains who are making a business out of it. so, it is not just sex, even Love sells. and probably we all are running after the bigbucks only to buy these pseudo-feelings so that we can curl around in the compromise-zone and enjoy the life to bliss. Just read yesterday that the Mobile music market in valued at Rs.500 crores while the legal Music Industry in india itself is valued at Rs.700 crores. With lakhs of people switching over to mobile every month, the aue of Mobile music industry is expected to increase atleast by 30% in the coming year , which means it would be overtaking the actual Source. Now, if you are wondering what this mobile music industry means- Ring tones and caller back tones where the caller will get to listen to a song when he rings up someone.The Piracy thing has greatly impacted the legal music industry and now, with mobile music industry ready to overtake it, i guess it is going to hit the rocks.
We already have dating agencies, real and virtual, which facilitate/induce this so called "Love" (utter hogwash) and they are already minting great bucks, to the tune of billions.just imagine how would it be, if these "Fall-in-Love" services on mobile emerge as key-verticals in the Value added services in Mobile Market. How big the market could be? how many people would fall for it? and how would their mental-makeups change, once they flow/drown in this madness?How would they be, to talk with, if we meet them, sometime in future? how would the relationships be?the chemistry? the growth in them?More so, what would be the real Value of this Value-added-service called "Love", in our lives?

New blog : Trivenis

Published by Aakarsh under on Saturday, April 01, 2006
Time is 7:00am. Very unsual that i am awake at this hour. No, the sun hasnt come up from the west. It is just that i havent slept at all. From the past 7 hrs, my eyes are glued to this computer. After many days, myself & ravi worked together, online, to come up with something productive, atleast on the creative front. We just finished giving the finishing touches to a new blog "Triveni".
A new blog on which we plan to put up some Three line verses (Triplets) called Trivenis, took the entire night. i had to compile few verses while Ravi , impressed by their form and style, started off with his own Trivenis. i couldnt resist more and posted them too. Meanwhile,our discussions steered towards the look for the blog and within no time, we were on the job of template-hunting. Ravi came with couple of templates, of which i choose the one depicting Full-Moon on a Night.Can't help, as you can observe my fixation for Night is evident in most of my writings.well! I hold the copyrights you see.
Ravi had some tough time meddling with the template so that the look gets it right.We then had to make lot of adjustments, like links, fonts, getting the header-names right etc.,. Finally, the result is cool.it has to be, for it is me and ravi who worked on it.Alter-Egoz you see.
Somehow, the feeling we experience when we collaborate on something, big or small or minute, is really different. It reminded me of those days when we used to spend hours and hours with each other...either with tapes or keyboards or even utensils and bottles,partially-filled with water...so that we can use them as percussions. Then, there were days when we used to go for a drive, talking about everything under the sky. Either it had to be destinationless-aimless drive or a drive which ended at a bench on the footpath of Osmania university or Landscape Garden or just any place.
I know i am getting nostalgic, but it happens right! since both myself and ravi, took out time , after so many days, to have a endless-chat with each other, free from other worldly-mundane pressures, while working in tandem, on/for something we both greatly adore...Writing.
Anyways, Coming back to that blog, i am currently fascinated with these Triplets, so you will see me more active there.Yet, i cant let this blog lie idle...After all, thoughts dont stop flying.
 

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