Cause and Effect..

it never struck me. the extent of that tsunami last year until exactly a year after. i don't know how or why but yesterday i was so grieved and then you read about survivors and their memories of the waves...it was disturbing to say the least.

and then i saw this song, an effort by usha uthup and other singers from tamilnadu...their way of showing support with those affected...but the lyrics of the song were pleading with the sea. how can you plead with nature? and just when a group of experts have surveyed the seabed and told us the faultline has yet to be fully corrected and when it does...tehre will most likely be another such earthquake near sumatra and trigger off another bout of the tsunamis.

well...i just wrote something..more to put into words my thoughts than anything else...


The morning after Christmas
The morning after a girl’s night out…
How different could it be?
How more eventful than those morns of past?
Sound asleep when the seabed changed position…
After years in one place, you would want to move…
If only by inches

Someone said there had been a mild tremor
Its happened before, and the roofs didn’t fall…
So what now?

Ripples of waves from the sea to inland waterways-
Geography though long forgotten the order of nature is assumed constant, usually..
Why then?

There are times to thank the media and
One such had come…roaring and tall…
The impact, the devastation- how else
Would I’ve known?
The terrible hand dealt to so many.
So many lives washed away unlived.
Homes and livelihood swept away,
The fury and spirit, the awe and splendor
Shadowed and shrouded by destruction and pain…

A year to the day,

Do we take and accept a scientific outlook-
Nothing untoward, just some tectonic plate movement.

Or do we deserve it?
Isn’t it just that nature vent her fury?
Fury and growth, that we’ve
Chopped and killed, cut and long curtailed,
Mercilessly and unrepenting.

Faults aplenty and with no atonement.
How benevolent can one be?
Even science advocates and agrees to
The theory of cause and effect.

How to then can we plead nature?
How to can one be guilty and pardoned?

And how can we expect,
If we don’t give?

do you want me to take you??

well....we just had our first chemical company turn up for campus interviews.

we knew a week in advance. but me being me prepared my resume the day before the actual event. i din't look through one book. din't read one jot. actually i went to sleep at nine, woke up at midnight..read a novel and then went to sleep at four. waking up the next morning at 7..i sure didn't feel like going..i mean really..what were my chances against the engineering bookworms? but i did..what did i have to lose..so i got there and like clockwork...everyone is revising..asking doubts..refreshing..and madam walks in like i have no care in the world..well yeah..

so ok..they give us a low down on their company and then take us through the procedure of how they'll pick less than five of us(not mentioned) from the 300 in attendance..so anyway..first the written..general aptitude and technical..verbal was a breeze..the numericals sucked and logic was ok..and technical..that which i did not prepare for..i actually did pretty well..and guess what..i got through that round..i mean everybody MUST have been worse than me!!

ok..so i go through to GD...a topic as mundane as automation in industries...really!!! how many points of view are there? and how many different points can you come up with? well whatever it was..four of us from that GD got called for the personal interviews..me included!!

ok the interview...i just walked in there again with not much prep at all..i know my basics but specifics of subjects...i'm pretty bad..and how many subjects can you revise overnight? so i just went ahead slept and got my beauty sleep...atleast i'd look fresh!! so i was there waiting to be called and grilled..and who comes and sits next to me???? this guy with an awesome voice and looks pretty good too..sorry..not naming him..ok what the hell..he was called tony..like the frosties tiger...and a nice too..so when your sitting next to a guy with an awesome voice and are discussing the refrigeration cycle with him..your butteflies just fly away...

so when my turn came...i walked in..four uncles..two of them smiling...and two a tad too serious..well they asked me to introduce myself..talk about what i like..din't like blah blah..when did i want to get married blah..why a chem company and blah...anyway that was the nice part..then came cooling towers..distillation columns..the number of plates you need..absorption and then NPSH and the types of pumps and how i determined the diameter of a distillation column...truly..i messed..i told the the basic process in each equipment..technically..i was blank...and no surprises..i didn't get through...

well i ain't in the least bit feeling bad..my dad actually thinks i didn't prepare for the interview..coz i didn't want soda ash manufacture and gujarat or fertilizers in UP..he's right.

well........

ok...looks like my comp's back on track and so hopefully my blog will have a lot more posts than it has had these past few months..

and i've got to say....there are few things during this time that i've noticed with some satisfaction..some with a little fear..some i've already forgotten but yeah..

• service...service as a whole has improved in most companies..the government ones included..
• the fact that the roadworks department repair roads in the dead of the night is quite heartening..i mean i never thought i'd see the day when public inconvenience was even considered...but then again...they did pile up tons of earth onto the road so they made quite a natural speed breaker coupled with a roller coaster..
• then airtel...kudos to sunil mittal...his company provides me brilliant service...comlaints are attended to within the day and so many cross checkings...it feels good!!!!!!! and let me hope i haven't spoken..or rather typed too soon..
• and then the no parking zones...i never actually realised they WERE no parking zones, until the cops came and locked up a couple of car tires...i wouldn't like it happening to me, especially not when i'm out driving on my own and have to go back to my dad for the cash...but i (i know its gonna sound stupid) like the locks they use...these huge iron squares with locks....yea well...if i go on anymore...
• rains...the kind i've never before seen in madras.. and scary in its wrath...sure we've all wanted a little more water down here but this torrential amount!!!! and water in houses...people displaced..the kind of thunder and lightning...dams being opened...water over the kotturpuram bridge!! yea well...i hope we've seen the end of them..
• the weather satellite images...i never ever have paid any attention to this black and white image on the paper...but these rains made sure i learnt to..
• tamil movies...i've watched more new tamil movies off late than i have ever before...sure mani rathnam movies are something i've missed but more due to the parents than my intrest in them...but now...there are actually some awesome tamil movies...
• ABHISHEK BACHAN in bluff master!!!! he's just unbelievably hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• indian cricket!!! they have improved and thats an under statement...and dravid as captain just rules!!!!!!!! he is the best!! i don't wanna diss ganguly....but DRAVID!!
• exams....well my exmas just keep getting postponed due to the unprecedented rains that have taken to hitting madras off late...
• cross words....though no pro at it and frequently blank...i've taken to doing the crossies most days...and i do think thats a good thing..

and i'm bloody sleepy.......so.....