Typicality at its utmost

Why is it that the same community you expect to be your support system does everything to pull you down!!!

Why is it that while you are building your dream these same folks do everything to bring the walls of your dream down!!!

Your imagination, your creativity gives birth to a mirror of ideas and when that idea is finally taking a form, shape and spreading cheer and inspiration and joy abound, a stray pebble whizzes thru and tends to shatter it.

Its so hard to build something and so easy break it. Why then those destroying hands dont help with building!!

This is for a friend and her struggle with her uniqueness and her intent to make a mark and to raise awareness for a special gift and her ultimate passion.

Information overload

haha!! While I begin to write this I am ending up posting a blog for people to read(yet again). While I am happy to be a part of this day and age where all information is at your fingertip, I feel frustrated that you do not have a one-stop-shop for any information on anything anymore. Few years back you bought a piece of equipment and a user manual came with it for you to understand the workings of that equipment. So you read that, figured it out and you were good to go.

This past week I got my new kindle(not kindle fire). Its nothing hi-fi. Simple device to download books and read. Really want to give myself another chance to get back to my avid reader self. I miss that. It bothers me. But they redirected me to amazon site to find information on workings of the kindle. Great! Maybe no problem for people who love browsing any time of the day. I am the one who loves succinct information. For the past hour I have'nt been able to locate just one info I need. Please do not mind my ignorance regarding this, readers, but I have read up some free ebooks online and I thought kindle would be my best bet to readup whenever, wherever. Now its taking me time to research the workings of the kindle. When I brought this up with my kiddo, she goes like - 'kindle fire is user friendlier'. Really? What happened to technology at your fingertip with devices which where just released maybe say a couple of years back?  Now they have better devices where consumers have to spend a lot more to get user-friendlier devices. Am bummed!!! Ya Ya!! I know! I know!! technology changes every second these days. I know there are quick user-guides for equipments, too. But still, its a concern. Its really getting tougher to catch up. Am sad about how much I dont know.

Am I that old already? Do I sound exactly like my own parents now? I keep questioning myself. I am an IT pro and yet small print is what I am trying to drive away from? I remember my dad said long ago - 'always answer your exam questions in bullet-points, clear and concise' and thats how I like expressing myself. Not just a jumble of words.

Thats yet another story - the lack of proper communication that I faced during my hospital visit last week. Its the best children's hospital to be at, for care and treatment, when your child needs immediate care. But like my friend put it - there is a lot of administrative chaos. As a parent it was difficult to cut through this chaos and understand the way things work. Anyways - will probably take up another page to share my frustration about that later.

leaving you with this thought - How much information do you think is enough to wade through OR to get a grip on anything?

Want to own a home?

You ask me - is it good to rent or own a house? I am uncertain. But if you buy one, make sure you plan on staying there for at least 10 yrs to build some equity on the house. Its a buyers market and hence there are numerous properties sitting in the market for sale. The dilemma comes when you have to mark down the list price of your property in this competitive market so it sells.
How low can you really go!!
I started exploring some options and the next best I found is "renting it out". Now the question is how soon can you get a renter/leasee.
Still to see that!!

BTW if you are reading this blog please take a look at this link:
http://www.movoto.com/tn/682-huffine-manor-cir-franklin/571_1381513.htm

This property is also available for lease :
http://www.nashvillesmls.com/listing/1388157-682-huffine-manor-circle-franklin-tn-37067/
Happy house hunting!!
 

Facebook

innumerous blogs about the latest and greatest I am sure. nothing else really grabs anyones attention for this long. u love to hate it and yet you are glued to it.. all thru the day checking updates from friends, news, views, things happening around the world..
how did I know about the AMRI hospital mishap in india - thru an update from my friend... and it goes on and on
wow!!!
a portal to world affair
the newz at your service
any catastrophe and political issue, anything on this globe or outside finds focus here
what a media!!! what way to communicate!!
people have almost forgotten the newspaper
some still use it to satisfy part of that unfulfilled intellectual thirst to read an actual print and feel it while reading, news,views and gossip..
today I read about Kony 2012 and shared a link with all my friends, so even if someone didnt know will know now about this heinous criminal in Africa.
I got sick - posted an update so then friends called to find out how I was doing..great way to convey a message when living here in the US you even might not know your own neighbor, but he happens to be your FB friend(since he is a common friend of your friend)..
great!!
sending bday messages to people you havent even seen for ages..
reconnecting with high school and old friends and in keeping with the famous saying - "Make new friends, but cherish the old ones"..
sharing pictures, videos of every miniscule event in anyones life..
yeah!!!
I am smitten by it .. yet after spending sometime , I feel guilty that I wasted my time on facebook.
kids asking for permission to create their facebook accounts as their bday gifts.. how far can it go?
this has been here and will probably stay .. google+ didnt fly that high.. buzz - I wonder how many seriously use it.. orkut is history.. FB's in for a long haul!! there I said it!!! and now the wheel will turn and something new will replace the FACE of facebook.. or will it!!!

Relax!!!!

Who?? me? I wish I could.. its hard.. someone tell me how to.. a simple 5 letter word.. so circumstantially different.. its been a while I have actually completely relaxed.. even during sleeping the events of the day pop up in my dreams coaxing me to think of what to deal with next day.. ya!! relax!! try!!

misfit in a gym

oftentimes I am inspired to go to the gym..but with anticipation I enter 'Thy Kingdom'.. I get clumsy around the humongous equipments.. I somehow feel all those grave faced athletic looking people exercising their life out, are looking at me with piercing eyes ready to mock me at the slightest mistake I make in using an equipment.. aside from the treadmill(my bud), I dare not look at the other less friendlier ones..and during those rare occasions of going to the gym I finally gathered up the courage to acquaint myself with Mr Elliptical(just by watching others) and the bike too and that my friend is all I use if i ever step into Gym Kingdom.. its more the fear of messing up and the savory ego of not letting the other frequent visitors know that 'I am ignorant'.. :(
but I have found yet another comfortable and non-challenging method of exercising - a brisk walk in fresh air, in the mornings.. no exercise can beat that.. my goal - a healthier lifestyle..

Reflections

constant changes.. everyday u emerge as a new you, without even realizing.. when duty calls you sometimes go beyond urself and establish certain idealogy that surprises u..