Who is the beast?

The latest Census figures show that tiger population in India (home to approx 40% tigers of the world) has halved over the past five years - The wild cats count stands at 1,411 now, down from 3,642 in the last major survey in 2002. [However, certain section of press doubt that 2002 numbers were largely rigged].


At the beginning of the century there were close to 40,000 tigers in India. The numbers fell to 1,827 in 1972; however after the Project Tiger began in 1972, the numbers rose to a happy 3,507 in 1997. However, the happiness was not to last for long.... Since then, inspite of crores of rupees spent in the name of tiger preservation, the numbers have dwindled by 60% to a meagre 1411.


Terror has been spread wide across the states… and is shocking to the say the least…
…And the famous Sariska has no tigers left!!

We all know the reasons/ processes which are responsible for drawing these beautiful cats so close to extinction; so I won't elaborate on that.

The thought that comes to my mind is... Apart from humans, there is no other species in animal kingdom who kills for leisure/ thrills/ frills… So, who is the beast amongst us all?

Glint...

Both of us walking

"You are so unfortunate... you can't read my blogs..."

"Yeah... that is for few privileged people"

pause.

"You can read me though..."

two pairs of eyes glint.


PS: And in a typical 'A' fashion, I can't resist praising myself for that awesome one-liner :D

PS: Don't 'just' go by the posts, 'happiness' is yet to arrive. "There's Many a Slip Twixt the Cup and the Lip"

Does anybody else feels like this….?

Aah.. the music plays in my mind… my feet can feel the song and the rhythm…. they are in invisible action…

".... Aasmaan ko bhi yeh haseen raaz hai pasand… uljhi.. Uljhi saanson ki aawaz hai pasand… Moti luta rahi hai saawan ki badaliyaaan…"



I so badly want to dance… (its 9 in the morning and I reached office at 7 today!)
My feet are drawing circles on the carpeted floor while I am stuck in the office chair
… and my gaze is towards the ceiling as though I am staring into the open skies…
… I can feel the delicate tension in my body when I try to get up from my chair, like I am about to take flight..
… and I am walking in the corridor as if I am entering onto a stage
... and, worst of all, I touch the water dispenser as if I am touching my partner…

Is it the song or is it one of my periodic dancing urge or is it 'you'? I think it’s the second sparked by the first and compounded by the third….

PS: Old readers, remember my post about a dancing room in office? (http://imemyself123.blogspot.com/2007/08/for-whatever-reasons-i-have-not-been.html)
Funnily enough, this kind of urge is like a nature's call for me. I shall be restless till I dance…

How to say 'I am happy'? Just say it!

Why is that people blog less when they are happy? Because they have better things to do [:p]..Oh, dear fellow bloggers, please don’t be offended, I am just kidding…

I think it is because its easier to express sorrow/ thoughts in words, joy/ happiness are much more difficult to portray... In case you are wondering why am I opening up a previous thread of thought, I shall announce that I am happy these days; There are things still holding me back but I am happy….

And I wanted to write a blog expressing my 'happiness' for quite some time now but failed; so I thought I shall put it discretely 'I am happy' :)

One simple question

Dear my ego/alter ego/ soul/ heart/

One simple question has answers to almost all the problems of the world (at least at a personal level.)

"What do you want?"

So, could you please be a little considerate and answer that one.... Please..

pls...

I would do whatever is in my capability to fulfill your wish, but could you please tell me what do you wish for...

pls...

pls...

PLSSSS!!!!

...

Now!!

COULD YOU PLEASE tell me what the f***ng hell do you want in life!!!!

EEEEKKSSSS

Weakness - confront it.

They don’t say it doesn't mean they don't feel it A…. Every man/woman is allowed to be selfish but aren’t you being too selfish?

And secondly, losing your ground on the things that you yourself decided… Isn't that being 'weak' is all about?

Remember, 'Its not what you are inside but what you do that defines you'…

Alight

I thought I had forgotten to feel
but was it the warmth of your hands last night

I thought I had forgotten to see
but was it the glint in your eyes which met mine

And I thought I was happy alone
but were it you around me who set my thoughts alight

There's Many a Slip Twixt the Cup and the Lip

lets get happy

You know what, I can bloody well write 1000 times more interesting (& happier) blogs than I currently do. I realized this after reading another blog site (the best blog that I have read till date) - I mean I can throw some really neat one-liners at times [:)] but what I do instead is keep on sogging the page with my emotional melodramas. shucks A...

Take charge darling- So, what if you are completely hating your job to the point where your fat bonus is not compensationg for it; and you are 25 (and single again); and not sure what exactly do you want from life etc. - you can still be happy and 'in control'!

Hope

Dil na-umeed toh nahi, naakaam hi toh hai
lambi hai gham ki shaam, magar shaam hi toh hai

Saw Shawshank's redemption (I know I was late in doing this, but it has been on my waitlist since long). A very nice movie. The moral I would take from the movie is 'one should never let the flame of hope extinguish'. Things would be difficult, life is not supposed to be easy anyways but one should try not to let the 'inner core' be affected by the external vagaries of life. No doubt, we will learn, change and adapt but something in us should still remain the same - Not sure what this 'something' is though - Might be 'hope' - hope for 'joy', 'happiness', 'freedom', whatever one really wishes for....

Easy to preach but what about i me myself??