And They Lived Happily Ever After.....

Tada Tadan.........

I completed the project and this is my first day of 'pipeline' stories. the time after you comlpete a project and you keep hearing from your delivery manager ' I have something for you in the pipeline'

Somebody gotta handle those valves of the pipelines better.........I just see only pipelines....where is the fliud in it?

Its just the first day and I am already getting emotional....I will get used to this in a week.......

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Another Tadan Tadan....

This is a new background music...I started this blog in december 2008....and I got the next project within 3 hours of my release from the earlier one...and There was no looking back....

worked all of feb, without any break, got only 3 weekends in whole of 5 months.....what more can I ask for...btw, this project is over too (dated 15 May2009 Circa) and tomorrow is my go live and I have a small break because the UAT is done ...monday on..I am in the new project and the cycle goes on....

Anyways........I did not have any new topics to write, but like I said before, this is straight from the 'Draft' stack.

This issue again, has been long forgotten........as a part of the growing ritual........its been dumped in to the deepest of memory blackholes.........I am glad it survived and got back in to the memorylanes......

This realisation stuck me when I consiously 'Noted' that I am watching this movie ' Enchanted' for the Nth time and I still want to watch it a million more times.Then I started finding a pattern...I am watching the ' Pride and Prejudice' BBC version of 6 CD's ( each last 90 minutes).....almost all the weekends when I get an off...and then I realised I started liking 'Oswald' and 'Winnie the Pooh'......and suddenly....like a flash of lightening....my memory lanes got lit up.....I could see the way to my lost world...............

Well............its about my long lost world...........I wouldnt say I lived in it, but I loved it..............The Fairytale world...........

I am really thankful for my friend ( aka Soumya..the mills and boons stuff) to help me revisit these wonderful memories.....I donno when it actually struck me, but now when I sit down and think, I have realised one thing for sure.,...I started liking these mushy romantics n fairy tales now...I never had a particular inclination after my childhood..but now....given a situation...I am more likely to see a mushy romantic movie....over a reality show......

( I suddenly recalled a new blog topic which stuck me a week ago...and I forgot all about it....now that I started writing...I remember whats it about....its about my Adoloscence.....the phase that I never had..bingo....'Draft mode')

so........the actual topic....

the first thought which comes to my mind when I hear about Fairytales is the TV serial I watched when I was a Kid. Some English Serial, every sunday afternoon, and yes, on our very own doordarshan.

Its a Pity I cant recall the name, but it was all about fairytales...

I can vaguely remember a story where one guy plants a seed and it grows high in to the heavens and in to the fairy land and how he finds his lady love and all that.

When I used to watch those kind of shows, I would transcend in to a new fairy tale world and all this 'Outside' world would'nt matter.

I would vicariously feel the sweetness and simplicity of the world.....no complexities...no plots...no bad...even if there is some bad...its juss 'bad'...its not the cruelty. like the basic color, the bad here is always basic human tendency. so I would not call this as bad...i would call it a tendency...Greed, Anger, Jealousy . 'bad' would be the worse forms of the same tendency...some thing like corruption, rage or hatred..

So this world is simple....and sweet and always ends up in a 'Happily Ever after ' sequence.

for a world of make belief, it gives a sence of simplicity, happinesss and faith...of beliving that everything DOES end up as happily ever after. of the belief that everything is simple, that everything has a reason, and everyone is a friend.

another of my favourite is 'Winnie the Poo'....I cant recall ANY episode which went beyond a normal day in a human....no 'Save the world from aliens' series....no fights.....no actions

its juss the normal life.....

Poo is hungry, so piglet gets him honey...

the Bunny plats carrots and the tiger( forgot the character's name) jumps around and ruins his field. ( The bunny does not shoot him for that audacity.....the bunny always has something so sweet....the tiger will never do that again)

I just wonder if the guys who script these stories , live a life like that........I mean...imagine you have to write a simple sentence in the above situation...its not rage, its not anger...it has to be handled and it has to be understood by the guy whos reading....above all, should sound real......

I thought of some thing which I can say, but I cant think of what to say in this situation....

Well..you can only get the thought, when ...well...your life is 'Simple'....do these guys have a simple life like this....well....I need to meet the guy who writes 'Calvin and Hobbes'

so that simplicity is what makes me love this world....Poo invites everyone for a party and is tensed about how to handle it..and to make everyone happy...end of the day, everyone is happy

and so is the reader/viewer

It might be a fake sence of comfort and happiness (sorry to use the word fake...the word I hate the most...but I am tryingto see the situation from the other angle).

End of the day, the cartoon strip does end....the fairytale story does end....and after the 'happily Ever after ' ending....the Channel might show you abused kids , some Nithari cases..or something so Ghostly....you cant believe you belong to a animal society...forget about a human world..

May be the world defintely isnt that simple

may be it is JUST a STORY.............May be it is......

but for that moment...I am in that world....for that scene.....I love the passion.....for that character...I love the innocence...for that moment, I am a part of that world....and I live in that world....and maybe I will think simple...may be I will just believe that life CAN be that simple...MAY BE I will percolate some of that simplicity in to teh real world..........

May be....I am juss living in a shell..........

but come to think of it.....what if we take things a l ittle lightly...atleast try doing it.....be a funny character for some time......and think of things that can be said ina simple way..in a worse situation.......if you live in that make belief world...may be one day...you might become Winne the pooh...........

But trust me...I reallyw ant to meet these guys who create these comic strips...not the political strips....thier life is far easier....

but the winnie the pooh and the Calvin and Hobbes guys( I cant recall such famous stuff in Indian litreture..somehow we aer more serious guys...Malgudi days is a closest contender...but its not that fairytale..Chandamama is second.....but somehow the way it is handled....the reader already in a state of mind that its a story.......we need something which does not sound like a story....some fairytale......May be my lack of intelligence and poor knowledge is uanble to see beyond these...I dont know if such stuff exists in Indian litreture)

and until then..think of a simple sentence for a situation where someone ruined you carrot filed...and you have to sound your sweetest best........

.........and they lived happily ever after.........

Note: I wrote this in 30 minutes...no revision..no continuity of thought...but I wnated to write.....sorry for the lack of continuity....may be the beauty of my thought is lost....but I wanted to put my thought on paper.............