'cause I know it too..

It's been so long i scribbled some bits of text up here. To be honest, i did attempt a couple of times but ended up saving some as drafts. I have been thinking a lot, of late..reasons? Well maybe some time later. You know some of those issues which are intrinsically way too complicated to contemplate over in one go..that's pretty much the generalized reason i can give right now (maybe that's just with me, but ya it is the reason why those drafts are not up here.)

Anyways, I'll talk about something absolutely instant..that just happened..something exciting..i donot know how app an article here since this one's no flash, nevertheless i shall leave that to you to decide.

I went on a drive (calling a 4 km isn't technically incorrect 'cause it was still a drive i mean!)... so yepp.. I went on a drive when my watch was working absolutely fine showing 11:50 and it was the moon's turn to occupy the sky zone in my country. Now i wasn't up driving at this hour because I had a punjabi wedding to attend or something...it was some urgent work instead.

Hmmm...so what? a short night drive? big deal?
Well yes to me and maybe to you too once you read this :)

Night drives excite me like crazy and i know i share this fascination with a HUGE group of people across the globe :). So ya when i got this chance, there was no way i could miss it.
I did not turn the ac on. I preferred the car windows open instead, and played a collection of some of my favorite songs, and ya a lil louder than normal. It was such a pampering to the tired, irritated, all worked up person inside me. The feeling of fresh air breezing through my hair, the view of those yellow beams reflecting on the windshield and making the city streets glow, the respite from the nonsense metropolitan traffic...everything.. just everything was such a bliss..short timed..but a pure bliss. i could literally feel my face gleaming with a constant uncontrollable smile..yess...SMILE - that something which comes on your face when you achieve something you always wanted, that something which fills your heart with pleasure when you hug someone you love, that something which nourishes your soul when you feel that comfort and security being among people you trust completely, blindly. To generalize i was smiling because i was happy. Happy- not like I-Met-Amitabh Bachhan-Happy..but happy like Everything's-Perfect-Happy! :)

And so well I had been cruising for some 15 minutes now. Just then my phone buzzed. It was like fingers snapped to wake me up. I looked at my watch..time was 12:05 AM..I picked up my phone and was pretty instantly reminded of the fourth and fifth gears in the car machinery by mom on the phone.
(I felt like that kid being dragged out of the warm cozy mink blanket to get ready for school on a parky winter morning at 6 in the morning when it's still dark and hazy outside).

The time then was 12:10 or something. Even though i knew why she ordered me to accelerate, I did not want to actually think about it, or about all the WHYs or WHY CAN'Ts about it. I was getting late and it would have been only stupid/ impractical of me to argue. As much as we say we live in a well educated, cultured, developing and advanced society, there's no second thought to the fact that we are not entirely being truthful by saying that. I knew my mom's right. And I was at home when there were still ten minutes to half past twelve!

The wake up call..

With rights come duties. Nature, which turned into an abundant source of resources after the industrial revolution in the late eighteenth century, was also mistakenly considered to be inexhaustible and while this myth still exists in some parts of the world, those which are aware do not find themselves capable enough of doing anything much about it . We all demand fuel, water, electricity and all sorts of resources but seldom do we realize how self centered citizens of this planet we are. we are not bothered about the future, busy consuming what we have in hand. and why not, we have earned it , right? but who's responsible for the future? yes of course we have organizations but are they adequate? Are few people powerful enough to make it up to the consequences of fatal actions of billions of people all around the world constantly stepping forward towards nothing less than disaster? i do not deny the fact that people are more aware than they were a few years back. what started as a concern of few is now a global issue and people all across the planet are being made aware. But then, it's not only pollution, it's not just global warming, it's not just population or extinction of breeds which once existed; It's about all this being collectively existing in our present,reminding us of how our past used to be and pretty much threatening as far as the future is concerned.Each one of us is responsible for how our tomorrow would be. We must do our bit to save our home planet before it's too late.If we don't now, it'll not be an exaggeration to say that life would become so difficult that eventually our unique blue planet would come to an end. And then even if it takes millions of years for it, it will take a rebirth; Earth will transmigrate into an empty, a barren, a mere huge oval dry piece of lifeless land and nothing else.We wont be there to see this because we won't exist anymore, none of us, no animals no plants no oceans, no life at all. Earth will be back but not us, you know why, because Earth has all the time in the world, but we don't....

Turning Point

Turning Point : As quoted from the dictionary,the word means , an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend. while the discussion of the same would be my objective, the context is something u'd find in the text, later.

A Cricket Match

Cricket in India is a highly loved game, and we all know it, we watch it too..but one of the best things i love about it, and about any sport for that matter is,the post match presentation ceremony where the entire game is evaluated and key points are pondered over. Have u ever noticed one of the most common questions at the end of the match,during the presentation ceremony?Be it the winning captain or the losing one, the one question asked from the two is what according to them was the turning point. And the probability of this question being asked is a direct function of the closeness of the contest.The more close is the contest, the more crucial and clear this Turning Point tends to get.
Do we get the analogy here?If we draw one between life and cricket?Discussing what this life is all about is probably the most cliched topic and I understand the monotonousness that it brings with it. yet we never stop trying to understand the answer and keep on searching for one that satisfies us completely.But the irony is, the more we look for it, the more complicated it tends to get.
My aim is not to contemplate over this subject, not a bit! because my point is, The Turning Point.
Here's what i mean.
Picture this.
You are standing with your fellows, as the presentation is about to begin.There's this one man with a mike in his hand, on the stage positioned in the middle of a five and a half acre field, among millions and millions of charged up rooters in the stands, singing out loud, playing music, everything's but adding to the exuberance in the environment. And now it's your turn. HE calls out your name, asking you to come up on the stage in front of all.And as you walk your path up to that podium, while your eyes look around to see people cheering out loud savoring each moment of what's happening, your mind retrospects all that happened during the entire time u were there on the field playing that game, and starts preparing u for the questions that you'd be answering two seconds from now.And now when u reach up there, there's pin drop silence as the crowd turns still. With a smile on HIS face, HE asks you just one question,
"What do think changed the game?What, according to you, my child, was the turning point?"

And it gets rolling..Now..

Hello World!
For my belief in the significance of a firm bedrock in any form of understanding, here's what I'd begin my blog with.

First things first : Definitions
1. Inspiques : "Inspi" , which is a short for inspiration, and which is the English translation of my real name in hindi, is concatenated with another word in english, "Piques",therefore INSPIQUES. The name suggests, that I am here to pique you, your mind but the tricky part is to stick to just the one meaning i intend to hold on to ;)
I am not much of a blogging person, i mean i prefer talking stuff to people close to me in the real world than loading text up here in the virtual one. so what you can probably expect here is random assorted stuff, sheer thoughts, maybe few implemented ones and well experiences too. As from my end, I'd try and keep this blog updated with stuff that belongs here.

2. Hello World : This one's quite expedient a title here helping you acquaint with the stream of work i am into as I put my first post up here :) . For those who do not get the jot, I am plainly referring to the fact that this is my very first post along with the fact that, coming from computer science background, i am familiarized with programming nomenclature.(well ya you may call it show off too but then i like it this way as i have always liked beginning languages practice work with displaying these two words on the screen :) )