Wake me up when September ends!
Monday, September 19, 2011
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Life Plus
Life is wonderful!
Every time there seems to be a correction, there is a glimmer of hope that there is something that takes one towards a destined purpose of general good.
While the wily ways of the world play out in abundance, there is always a sense of positive feel around the corner standing in reassurance that the best is yet to come, certainly.
This bolsters my belief in the fact that adversities, no matter however tough and imposing they appear to be, are in truth only a very minor deflection from greater good!
Life is wonderful!
Every time there seems to be a correction, there is a glimmer of hope that there is something that takes one towards a destined purpose of general good.
While the wily ways of the world play out in abundance, there is always a sense of positive feel around the corner standing in reassurance that the best is yet to come, certainly.
This bolsters my belief in the fact that adversities, no matter however tough and imposing they appear to be, are in truth only a very minor deflection from greater good!
Life is wonderful!
Friday, August 19, 2011
Sights and Sounds
We could have never loved the Earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~ George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Footnotes:
Among the pictures taken while in Ooty this time around. This one was snapped during a night trek. Can't tell you in words how wonderful it felt to relive the experience of life in the mountains - absolutely soulful.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Home-bound
There is no promise more stronger than the hope of going home! One cannot, in so many words, convey that feeling or pick out a particular attribute that brings within the self that sense of elation at being home-bound, and for me, beginning now, that feeling is only compounded many multiples as I imagine the mighty blue mountains, everlasting lush green and a sense of unmatched calm!
Terribly short though, this vacation is a long awaited break and a much needed refresher, one that I hope will help shift focus and most importantly reinvigorate a passion for all those finer things in life that I have been so painfully missing out on!
I also hope to resume visiting your blogs soon.
Do have a good weekend and be safe.
Terribly short though, this vacation is a long awaited break and a much needed refresher, one that I hope will help shift focus and most importantly reinvigorate a passion for all those finer things in life that I have been so painfully missing out on!
I also hope to resume visiting your blogs soon.
Do have a good weekend and be safe.
Monday, August 08, 2011
Happy Birthday Edge
One of music's most widely celebrated name, David Howell Evans, better known to the world by his stage name 'The Edge' celebrates his birthday today!
A very important pillar of the Irish group U2 since its inception, he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record.
His ways on the guitar are legendary and "his use of a rhythmic delay effect yields a distinctive ambient, chiming sound that has become a signature of U2's music."
Redefining Oblivion wishes him unending success in his quest to transport us all to a world so vividly distinct and so full of creative excellence.
A very important pillar of the Irish group U2 since its inception, he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record.
His ways on the guitar are legendary and "his use of a rhythmic delay effect yields a distinctive ambient, chiming sound that has become a signature of U2's music."
Redefining Oblivion wishes him unending success in his quest to transport us all to a world so vividly distinct and so full of creative excellence.
Friday, August 05, 2011
The Lost Generation
This was sent to me by a colleague and I thought it apt to make a post of it! Please watch, with your speakers on, in its entirety - This is only a minute and forty five seconds in length and definitely not one to be missed.
Monday, August 01, 2011
State of Disconnect & Dissociation
My Dear Blog
You have for so long been a very inherent and important part of my life, so much so that we view each other as part of the same self and an equally similar faculty of the mind and the body in harmonious co-existence.
For sometime now, however, there has been a sense of disconnect and dissociation, owing largely to how my life has been deeply involved with the routine of work. Such a neglect surely is unpardonable, for work, I have always believed, is only a portion of life and not life itself.
That I haven't been able to keep you abreast with my thoughts and that I haven't been able to visit and pay obeisance to the collective creative excellence of your wonderful counterparts has cast long and dark shadows of melancholy and despondence within me, to the extent of what is now a wound such as a deep abyss!
I will strive hard to center my life on life itself with the realization that all else is merely an add on to life, and that my mind, with its constant endeavour to seek the purpose of life, as a part of that very effort, will sincerely attempt to attach itself more deeply and passionately with the way that you help chart forward.
I cannot say how much comfort you provide me, for there could be nothing so blissful as talking to you.
Lots and Lots of Love and Peace
Rakesh
You have for so long been a very inherent and important part of my life, so much so that we view each other as part of the same self and an equally similar faculty of the mind and the body in harmonious co-existence.
For sometime now, however, there has been a sense of disconnect and dissociation, owing largely to how my life has been deeply involved with the routine of work. Such a neglect surely is unpardonable, for work, I have always believed, is only a portion of life and not life itself.
That I haven't been able to keep you abreast with my thoughts and that I haven't been able to visit and pay obeisance to the collective creative excellence of your wonderful counterparts has cast long and dark shadows of melancholy and despondence within me, to the extent of what is now a wound such as a deep abyss!
I will strive hard to center my life on life itself with the realization that all else is merely an add on to life, and that my mind, with its constant endeavour to seek the purpose of life, as a part of that very effort, will sincerely attempt to attach itself more deeply and passionately with the way that you help chart forward.
I cannot say how much comfort you provide me, for there could be nothing so blissful as talking to you.
Lots and Lots of Love and Peace
Rakesh
Monday, July 11, 2011
Life Connect
The more I see life, the more I feel the compelling need to reach out and connect with nature.
It'd be nothing short of bliss, I suppose, to spend time in calm solitude wishing upon the evergreen expanses or the blue waters where time seems to stay still and life is less plagued by the pressures of wants, needs, desires and dreams!
Sometimes I do think that life would have been absolutely idyllic eons ago when civilization meant togetherness, devoid of technology, information and knowledge, and yet sometimes I think that true bliss is now, in the making, only if one is in quest for it!
Perhaps, it is, after all, the effect of a Monday morning!
It'd be nothing short of bliss, I suppose, to spend time in calm solitude wishing upon the evergreen expanses or the blue waters where time seems to stay still and life is less plagued by the pressures of wants, needs, desires and dreams!
Sometimes I do think that life would have been absolutely idyllic eons ago when civilization meant togetherness, devoid of technology, information and knowledge, and yet sometimes I think that true bliss is now, in the making, only if one is in quest for it!
Perhaps, it is, after all, the effect of a Monday morning!
Monday, July 04, 2011
A & B
Some people bring unending happiness with them and it is truly a matter of pleasure to be associated with such folk, for they show the way forward to a happier self in their sincere effort to spread joy where ever they go.
It is intriguing how wonderfully well like minds can come together, and that is precisely what happened when A & B stopped by to spend a small part of the weekend with us. What was initially thought to be trivial, and supposedly close to being formal, soon turned out to become larger than life, evoking a sense of emotion in me that was unseen for decades, to have been able to laugh out like a child without any inhibitions that would normally be the besieging hallmark of an adult!
It didn't take a lot of time to realize that some of us are indeed strongly connected by threads that last much beyond ourselves and our lives, and that true happiness lies in being happy together!
Truly remarkable of how wonderful a tapestry we make!
It is intriguing how wonderfully well like minds can come together, and that is precisely what happened when A & B stopped by to spend a small part of the weekend with us. What was initially thought to be trivial, and supposedly close to being formal, soon turned out to become larger than life, evoking a sense of emotion in me that was unseen for decades, to have been able to laugh out like a child without any inhibitions that would normally be the besieging hallmark of an adult!
It didn't take a lot of time to realize that some of us are indeed strongly connected by threads that last much beyond ourselves and our lives, and that true happiness lies in being happy together!
Truly remarkable of how wonderful a tapestry we make!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Disconnected - For now
Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties."
Footnotes:
Some testing times resulting in mid-air turbulence, which hopefully should pass off sooner than I expect. In the interim, I'm losing out on visiting your blogs and also responding to your comments. I want you to know that I value your comments very much and your support has been a tremendous source of comfort and encouragement, like none other, and so, you will continue to be a very integral part of my life, always and all ways.
Footnotes:
Some testing times resulting in mid-air turbulence, which hopefully should pass off sooner than I expect. In the interim, I'm losing out on visiting your blogs and also responding to your comments. I want you to know that I value your comments very much and your support has been a tremendous source of comfort and encouragement, like none other, and so, you will continue to be a very integral part of my life, always and all ways.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Sometime in June
I could tell you a hundred things about how experience and learning from life are constantly working to transform the person I am, but I guess the best possible way to put it, candid and concise, would be to be admit the fact that life does quite a bit to educate to the point of being able to replace an empty mind with an open one.
One step closer to realizing the purpose, perhaps!
One step closer to realizing the purpose, perhaps!
Monday, June 20, 2011
History of Nearly Everything
Presently reading Bill Bryson's acclaimed work 'A Short History of Nearly Everything.'
Couldn't help but make a post on an opening excerpt which reads thus;
The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary; 'I don't intend to publish. I am merely going to record the facts for the information of God'.'Don't you think God knows the facts?' Bethe asked. 'Yes,' said Szilard. 'He knows the facts, but he does not know this version of the facts.'
Footnotes:
Originally stated in Taming the Atom by Hans Christian von Baeyer
This conversation struck a deep chord within me, owing perhaps to my regimen of log keeping that is now so many years into the making!
Couldn't help but make a post on an opening excerpt which reads thus;
The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary; 'I don't intend to publish. I am merely going to record the facts for the information of God'.'Don't you think God knows the facts?' Bethe asked. 'Yes,' said Szilard. 'He knows the facts, but he does not know this version of the facts.'
Footnotes:
Originally stated in Taming the Atom by Hans Christian von Baeyer
This conversation struck a deep chord within me, owing perhaps to my regimen of log keeping that is now so many years into the making!
Friday, June 17, 2011
Together and Universal
Evening last, I had the opportunity to visit Sai Mandir in Chennai, a place known for tranquility and the immensely peaceful lush green locale that it is.
At about the same time, I was recollecting a picture I had seen earlier in the day on Boston Globe's Big Picture of two individuals in prayer, with folded hands, at the site of what used to once be their home before the devastating tsunami struck Japan, some three months ago.
Couldn't help but wonder how universal the sign of folded hands has become to denote prayer and eternal submission, and how closely united so many of us, across the world are, by merely engaging in such a characteristic display!
Truly, we are all conjoined as if in one big tapestry, for what is true to you is certainly true to me too!
At about the same time, I was recollecting a picture I had seen earlier in the day on Boston Globe's Big Picture of two individuals in prayer, with folded hands, at the site of what used to once be their home before the devastating tsunami struck Japan, some three months ago.
Couldn't help but wonder how universal the sign of folded hands has become to denote prayer and eternal submission, and how closely united so many of us, across the world are, by merely engaging in such a characteristic display!
Truly, we are all conjoined as if in one big tapestry, for what is true to you is certainly true to me too!
Monday, June 13, 2011
Reclaiming the Outdoors
It has been a while since I wholly connected with nature, apart from those occasional trips to Ooty. Now, that I get to do so right in the lap of where I stay is like being satiated like nothing else.
So, on a weekend, to enjoy an evening walk in the midst of neem trees and on well laid pathways leading up an almost isolated beach is a treat of sorts and more so for the fact that such a getaway is available in Chennai.
It is heartening to hear cuckoos crying in response to one another and feel the wind blow onto the face, while the eyes are comforted with expansive greenery, and the senses are rewarded with rich smells of virgin nature
Truly, for the seeker, paradise is a preordained reward!
So, on a weekend, to enjoy an evening walk in the midst of neem trees and on well laid pathways leading up an almost isolated beach is a treat of sorts and more so for the fact that such a getaway is available in Chennai.
It is heartening to hear cuckoos crying in response to one another and feel the wind blow onto the face, while the eyes are comforted with expansive greenery, and the senses are rewarded with rich smells of virgin nature
Truly, for the seeker, paradise is a preordained reward!
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Goodbye Picasso
News just in a while ago that the acclaimed artist M F Hussain has passed away, marking the end of 60 odd years of artistic excellence and a life that witnessed many raging controversies!
Redefining Oblivion pays homage to this oddly eccentric creative exponent, whose legend will live on for many generations to savour and perhaps for so many to follow.
He was without doubt the Picasso of India!
Redefining Oblivion pays homage to this oddly eccentric creative exponent, whose legend will live on for many generations to savour and perhaps for so many to follow.
He was without doubt the Picasso of India!
Monday, June 06, 2011
I and Now
On the personal front, a very different phase of life begins for me, here in Chennai. This will provide a great deal of opportunity for introspection and thought, a whole lot of anchoring will take place and I quite feel the difference coming around!
The key is to peel off the layers and understand that core which resides within the self and I'm hoping that there are some truly memorable times to come.
But that apart, life has been very hectic with no time for anything but work - and devoid of some good reading and music, I need to urgently buckle up!
Theres probably no bigger a sense of feeling different than the feeling of ushering in change and letting it be!
The key is to peel off the layers and understand that core which resides within the self and I'm hoping that there are some truly memorable times to come.
But that apart, life has been very hectic with no time for anything but work - and devoid of some good reading and music, I need to urgently buckle up!
Theres probably no bigger a sense of feeling different than the feeling of ushering in change and letting it be!
Monday, May 30, 2011
What It Is
Mark Knopfler has enthralled millions since the inception of his iconic band, Dire Straits, which he co-founded along with his brother, David, in 1977. His signature style and supreme dexterity on the guitar need no introduction and those passionately belted out wonders transport any listener from the midst of moody blues to an instant state of unequivocal ecstasy.
Now, there are many wonderful tracks that could easily be picked up and named as Kopfler's best, but this one, titled 'What it is' stands out for a very exuberantly telling message it conveys.
Master craftsman, par excellence, on the guitar, Knopfler is indeed a legendary entertainer.
Part of the celebrated album, Sailing to Philadelphia, released in 2000 on September 26, this track is definitely an outstanding super single!
Now, there are many wonderful tracks that could easily be picked up and named as Kopfler's best, but this one, titled 'What it is' stands out for a very exuberantly telling message it conveys.
Master craftsman, par excellence, on the guitar, Knopfler is indeed a legendary entertainer.
Part of the celebrated album, Sailing to Philadelphia, released in 2000 on September 26, this track is definitely an outstanding super single!
Friday, May 27, 2011
5 Years Later
Its been quite a journey since I made my first post on this blog on 27 May 2006, a journey that has taken me through time, places, rich emotion and a very fortunate one that has connected me with some of the finest people life can offer!
Today, 5 years since the inception of Redefining Oblivion and almost 7 years since I made my first blog post, there is a wonderful feeling of reflection, contentment and happiness, all of which I could never have attained through another avenue!
So, this post is not really about me, my blog or my blogging experience, it is about you, the motivator, the friend, the ever-positive unconditional pillar of support that has kept me going forward in my quest for bliss and joy.
I must say that it is truly a privilege to be associated with each one of you, and I sincerely wish this association furthers in depth and proportion with the coming times.
And as for me, there's no stopping the 'underdog's desire to reach out to the world in an effort to learn and experience the many wonders that are!'
Thank you very much!
Today, 5 years since the inception of Redefining Oblivion and almost 7 years since I made my first blog post, there is a wonderful feeling of reflection, contentment and happiness, all of which I could never have attained through another avenue!
So, this post is not really about me, my blog or my blogging experience, it is about you, the motivator, the friend, the ever-positive unconditional pillar of support that has kept me going forward in my quest for bliss and joy.
I must say that it is truly a privilege to be associated with each one of you, and I sincerely wish this association furthers in depth and proportion with the coming times.
And as for me, there's no stopping the 'underdog's desire to reach out to the world in an effort to learn and experience the many wonders that are!'
Thank you very much!
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