MindRewindMania

As Abhimanyu, while in the womb, learnt how to enter the battle formation but not how to come out of it..

A river's current born in the stony womb of the mountain had learnt how to go forward, not how to retrace its journey back..

Alas, a river's current, youth, time, this world, all of you can only go forward and not return on the path you have left behind, strewn with golden pebbles of memory.

It is only a human mind that looks backwards, the rest of the world cares nothing about it...

And we humans though very well aware of it, can't help winding and rewinding our memory..

I have become a victim of this "MindWindMania" after my return from Thai tour. I have started constructing metaphors based on scenic beauties of Phuketh to characterize human nature. Though most of them are very weird and make no sense at all, I am enjoying them thoroughly.

I am no good a poet else this post would have been filled with amazing poetic appraisals of the islands of Phuketh. One is ought to go there in one's life time.

The immediate second thought that pops up into my mind as soon as I remember Phuketh is the Para-sailing I had tried at the Coral islands. I made all possible gestures I could come up with, to convey my lack of knowledge in swimming, to the guide who was a typical Thai native. Alas.. I made it!

When I was soaring up high in the air, many thoughts waded me. Worst of worst being- " What if something goes wrong all of a sudden?! The moment this terrific thought splashed into my mind, I could think of very few people and the last messages I wanted to share with them.. :P  As I was slowly drifting from one thought to the other enjoying the cool chilling breeze parallelly, I heard a few voices from the shore screaming at me with lots of confusing gestures. All I could understand was that I was expected to do something in order to descend the parasail. Oops! I don't remember what the guide had told me before I set off. Shall I untie myself from the sail so that some saviour from the gang beneath would rescue me from drowning into the water?! But surprisingly, I had not put in the slightest effort to rewind my memory and recollect the guide's words. Probably this is what people call "Fate". Anyways, I am here which makes it evident that I had somehow reached the shore :P :) And my friends who were observing all this from a distance say that mine was a perfect landing :D May be it is!!

However, this trip has had its impact left on me.. which I am still cherishing.. :)

My name is Complicated !!

Never ever in my life did I expect that I would be addressed by my surname- Uppu, which means 'salt' in my mother-tongue, Telugu. In fact that would be the least thing I would ask anyone to do. Now that I am left with no other choice than accepting the fact that my foreign friends would even more spoil my name, I have decided to better go along with them rather than put myself into trouble trying to teach them pronounce my name correctly. 

My first trial with a Chinese girl went this way:

me: Hi. Hello.. your good name??

her: ___.. How about you??

me: Sree Lakshmi ! (Better I make things easy for her even before she makes an attempt else Goddess Lakshmi might feel bad :P ) You can call me Sree.. S R E E.. sree..

her: Three?? 3??

me: (Good that she has made a gesture else I wouldn't have spotted out immediately how exactly she understood my name!! ) Noooo.. Its Sree... S R E E.. not T H R E E..

her: Ohh... Okk.. SHHHREEE... !! ( Oops.. English alphabets are not of much help in this case.. Probably I have to learn their script and only then can I produce the same sound.. )

me: (No other option left Sree.. You have to do it.. cmn.. !!) Err.. You might as well try calling me Uppuuuu if you find Sree difficult to spell.

her: Ohhh.. Uppuu.. Uppu.. Upppu... !! Cool !! ( Enough ... plzzz stop repeating it for god's sake.. )

 I guess its only we Indians who can TWIST our tongue whichever way we want.. But that somehow landed me into problems..

Hmm... So.. gave up after that.. But good that she had put in her effort and learnt to address me SHREE which relieves me to a great extent :) :) And shez become one of my good friends here..