My Memory from the Past...01

I still remember that day....around 9 years back...It was the final public exam day of 10th standard board exam...since it was the public exam,it was used to take place in National Junior College,Barkur...Around 20km from my home...Even though i did my schooling from kokkarne,we have to go for some selected colleges to give the Board exams.So it takes around 45min by bus to Barkur from Kokkarne.Since i have come from poor family background,we never used to have wrist watch at that time..and moreover the exams halls never used to have wall clocks.During exams we never know how many times left to finish the exams.It will be very useful if you know the time during the exams, to uniformly distribute the time for each section of the question paper.Time management is also very important during the exams.otherwise we left with some questions without answers even if we know the answer because of the shortfall of the time at the end..this happened to me many times during school days.But this is the 10th board exams,we have to perform well to score good mark.Good mark is necessary to get admission into good colleges for Pre-University and also to get into Science stream (PCMB).

Usually during the exams i used to carry my dad's watch to exam hall.since dad's watch is too big to fit into my small wrist,i used to carry watch in my pant pocket.That day it was Physics exam.Morning i woke up early and make myself prepared for facing physics exam.Ensured everything is put inside the bag like pen,eraser,HB pencil,sharpener,extra pen refill,etc etc and last but not least dad's wrist watch into my pant pocket.With all these preparation,somehow i was able to catch my bus at 8:45AM from kokkarne bus stand.Since everyone are in hurry to get the seat so that they can study in bus too.so am i...Finally managed to get rear seat just near the rear bus tire mounting.Usually in the buses near the Rear tire,there used to be a protruded convex shape inside which was coming direct in front of my seat.So i placed my leg over that and started studying in the eleventh hour...Really preparation in the eleventh hour gives some kind of self satisfaction for us that we are trying our best....and also at least one question i used to study at the eleventh hour was surely used to come in the exam...!!!!!! After about 45min of traveling our bus made a brief stop in front of the NJC,Barkur.In the exam tension everyone got down hurriedly and reached the college entrance and sat on the corridor for last time revision since i still had 10min for exam to start...I started taking out the important things to exam hall from the bag and finally to ensure that i have carried the watch i put my hand inside my pant pocket....But I surprised to see that the watch wasn't there in the pocket.After searching in the bag also,i couldn't find my watch..But i was remembered that i took the watch in home....ohhhhhh,nooooo...i lost the watch in the bus..Because of the seat,convex shape of the floor,i putted my legs over it while on seat..and because of this,the watch was fallen outside from the pant pocket...That was the chain watch made of steel belt,making easier to slip outside the pocket due to heavy weight of the watch..I was in big tension about thinking as to what answer i should give to my dad...With so much of tension and disturbed mind i entered the exam hall and finished exam with thinking about the lost watch all along the exam.I don't know how i wrote the exam with so much tension in my mind.After finishing the exam,i came back to Kokkarne in a hurry and inquired about my lost watch with the TC of the bus.But he said he haven't seen any watch in the bus..then i thought,there is no hope of getting back the watch..With a great sorrow,i started walking toward my home reluctantly.

In home i started acting normally as if nothing happened..My dad asked me about the exam paper..i said it was OK..not easy but not that tough too...My father usually used to go to market to get vegetable and other home material in the evening,after finishing the agricultural field job.And on going to market,he wore the wrist watch while going to market....so as that day,he started searching the watch as it was not there on the wall stand where everyday used to have.After unsuccessful search,he asked my mom...mom said she don't know...and told about me who took the watch to the exam hall in the morning.So dad asked me about the watch.I was fully terrified and apprehensively told everything that happened in the bus..Actually that watch was costlier in that time costing around Rs.1500.For us its a big amount..He started scolding me about my carelessness.But what to do,even he knows by scolding me,never get back the watch...so we lost the valuable watch...and in that time,we are not able to afford for a new costlier watch of that kind..we managed to purchase simple watch...I never felt bad about the fact that my dad scolded me for loosing the watch but for my carelessness,and because of me,he now wearing a some cheap watch...
After this event,i decided to give a good watch from my own salary when i get a job...so now i used to give him a watch every time when i go home...Now every time when i give him the watch,it reminds me of this event.

Japanese movie "taiyou no uta (song to the sun)"

Last Sunday i watched an Japanese movie named "Taiyou no uta (song to the sun)" online..This movie all about the life of a girl who got a type of skin disease wherein she will die if her skin gets exposed to sunlight.Because of this her parents never allowed her to go outside in day time even if she intends to go outside.she is always go outside for walk during night time.She is too much affectionate about playing guitar and singing along with that..Here in japan usually people do singing and playing guitar along the roadside on weekends..Not because they want money but for entertainment and this is the hobby of the most of the Japanese..
She used to walk alone on the empty road in the night and go to a place nearby her house and start playing guitar and sing the song narrated by herself.During daytime she used to sleep for a while and sit near the window and see the beautiful coastal scenes.one day when she is young,she saw from the house through the window,some school boy who is waiting for his friends at a bus stop...daily he used to sit and waiting for his friends arrival b drinking some cool drinks purchased from a vending machine.she used to see him daily and somehow fall in love with him.She always wanted to meet him and talk with him.After some day he purchased a surfboard and he and his friends used to go to sea for surfing daily.All she can do is just watch from the window.nothing else she could do.
One day her close friend saw her watching him through the window and asked about the fact and she told all the story to her seeking help from her to get the more details about that boy.Her friend gathered all the information about him and gave it to her. one night when she is singing on the road,the boy happened to pass by that road and she saw him and ran towards him to talk about her interest on him.After that they become close friends and he used to take her to the major city of the japan Yokohama..one day she started singing on the road of Yokohama,where usually many people do the roadshow;audiences gathered large in numbers when she started singing the song playing the guitar.Then only she came to know about her talent as how well she could sing.and later on that night he took her to the seashore where he used to do surfing daily and started waiting for the sunrise to start.But as soon as she realizes about the sunrise,apprehensively she starts running towards her house in a intention to reach the home before the sunrise.Her boyfriend helps her to reach her home just in time.but still some portion of her hand get exposed to the sunlight which eventually cause the disease to get exaggerated.
Someday later her boyfriends informs her about the music competition held near Tokyo and insist to participate in that event.She agrees to participate in the show and hence she starts practicing the guitar daily.One day,when she is practicing she realized that her fingers of left hand gets paralyzed making impossible her to play the guitar.on consulting the doctor it was clarified that her disease will eventually gets intensified making her whole body paralyze and finally leading to death.But without losing hope she starts practicing a song for the radio channel.and Finally she sang melodious song "ON AIR" radio channel and made CD's of the song for selling.
Day by day her skin disease get intensified causing her death leaving behind her melodious song to the people of japan.Her parents and friends gets gratified when they hear the song on the radio.Thus ends the story with a tragedy ending.

Even though the movie ends with a tragic end,the scenes were shot on beautiful coastal area of Japan.The romantic feelings between a boy and a girl,love of a parents towards their child and friendship are manifested on screen so realistic that you will get involved in the movie as one of them.The sentiments attached between the parents and child was directed marvelously.and also the girl never accept ed failure in life because of the skin problem,she still worked hard and achieved her goal of becoming a singer and create her own album.Some of the scenes make you cry.Hats of to the director and story writer for such a wonderful and beautiful movie.One must watch this movie.

Click the following link to watch the movie "Taiyou no uta"
http://www.veoh.com/search/videos/q/taiyounouta#watch%3Dv17851095j3xmsHpD

Face is an index of mind...how far true ?

This was the incident that happened during my recent visit to hometown in India..I went to Udupi (around 40km from my home) to do some shopping of spicy food items to take to Japan as these kind of things are not available in that alien country.Since the distance was to long i took a bus from Kokkarne which usually takes 1hour 30min to cover the distance of 40km.I reached Udupi in the morning and on the way i saw some posters of the newly released Kannada movie "Jossh"..Posters made my legs walk towards the theater to watch the movie..Even though the movie was not up to my expectation but worth watching it for a ticket of Rs.15. After finished the movie did some shopping's in a newly opened Big Bazaar..I had no intentions to buy things other than spicy items,but the monsoon discount sales made me to buy dresses,perfumes and other items...So finally somehow managed to put a full stop to the shopping the time was 4:30PM...Fortunately there was clear weather outside..with purchased items hold in both hands started to put my steps towards the bus stand..Since it was busy hours for schools and offices,there were many peoples like me waiting for the buses...after waiting for about 15min,my bus arrived on stop..With luggage's on both hands somehow tried and managed to get into the bus first and occupy a seat.After some seconds or so,one more person came and sat next to me in the same seat.The bad smell of sweat from his body was attracted my eyes to have glance at him unknowingly. With his torn ed out shirt,dhoti which looks like its never seen water and soap from the time of its purchase,with beard and mustache which i guess not been shaved from last 1 year and i am sure his body also have not soaked with water and soap more than a month..These descriptions about him made me confusion whether he is a beggar or a thief or a gentlemen.My sixth sense gave a signal to my mind that aware of him..he looked like he is on a urgent,with lot of tension and he was glaring everyone..Suddenly he turned his face towards me and started glaring at me.Now , i was totally nervous ,scared a bit and remembered all the mantras i knew and prayed to god.."Oh god,please save me from this man"...His notorious look still continued towards me...I turned my glance outside window just to make comfortable myself that such a person is not sitting besides me..But the bad odour from his body reminded me his presence..When the bus takes the turn on the roads,he used to fall on me which appears to be purposefully he wanted to fall on me...with luggage on my both hands and 2 luggage's on my lap,i was not able to move a bit..the bus also overloaded with peoples..there wasn't a space to stand..there were people who used to get down at some stops but again double the number of people are getting inside the bus at each bus stop..I was hiding my watch,mobile phones and wallet from his notorious look.But my bad luck,my mobile phone started ringing the tone " ahh zara touch me touch me touch me,zara hold me hold me hold me...!!!". With no other way than to lift the phone...I said " Hello...Who is this..?"..From the other side " Hello sir,i am ****** calling from ICICI bank..we have a good offer now sir...we are offering home loans at very low interest rates of 8~10% sir...would you like to apply for home loans sir..?" and suddenly i rejected the phone blaming the
I was waiting for my stop to come...He was continuously starring at me all along the journey;may be he was thinking about How much amount of money he will get from my wallet..?,what will be the total cost of the luggage i am carrying with me..? I waited for his bus stop to come and prayed with god that let his bus stop come before my bus stop.But the god does not hear my prayer..finally my stop came and i was making myself ready to get down from the busy bus...Hurriedly i picked up all the luggage's and walked toward the exit of the bus and got down safely..and started walking fast towards my home as i wanted to reach home before the weather becomes dark as i wasn't having torch with me.It takes 15min of walk from bus stop to my home through the shortest forest route.
As i started putting my steps towards my home,i heard somebody calling from my back,saying " Hello sir,please wait for a minute". I looked back and surprised,scared by seeing the person.He was the same person who made my heartbeat to beat at its peak throughout the journey in the bus,he was the same person who looks like thief,poor beggar....as he started walking towards me my heartbeat raised,looked around to see at least some people will come to help me in case i got robbed by him...As he approached towards me,raised something from his hand towards me and said " sir, I think this is your wallet, i got from your seat ,may be this has fallen down from your pocket when you started getting down from the bus hurriedly".He handed over the wallet to me and returned back to the same bus for his bus stop without giving me time to say thanks for returning the wallet to me.All the credit cards,debit cards,money etc were there in their original position without misplacement.I personally thanked to that person and to god for giving back the wallet.I felt shame on myself for misunderstanding the person from his face and external appearance but i could not able to understand his inner heart and could not even read his mind from his face.I questioned myself all along the walk till the home "Face is an index of mind...how far true ?" and reached home before the start of the dark night with a feeling of "one cannot judge the mind by seeing the face".

Journey to Sweet Home after one year...

After many discussions with company HR we finally got permission to go to India on vacation as per our contract.(even though the period has been shortened to 15 days from earlier committed 22 days due to recession,H1N1,etc etc)...In between we never been thought that we are going back to India after 1 year...But thanks to our coordinator chawla san for his continuous attempt.... Finally, it was D day..we all waiting for this day from the last 1 year..Today is the day where we all again going to become true Indians from aliens..yes...today is the day where we are going to our home country India to enjoy the vacation.

We a batch of now 10 people all set for our journey to India.purchased many gift items (even though most of them are "made in china" tag on them) from the last 1 month..Got up early in the morning at 4AM..and began our start of the journey at 5:50AM from the Aliens Hostel...Since we have already couriered our baggage's 2 days earlier to the Narita Airport,we haven't got much luggage now to carry along with us apart from handbags...Being accustomed to Japanese life style from the past 1 year, we have managed to reach the Railway station(Hamamatsu eki) 15 minutes before the departure time(6:17AM) of the shinkansen(kodama)...As it was early in the morning and moreover its a holiday,there wasn't much people waiting for the train as it would be on rush working hours.After some group photo sessions we boarded into the Bullet train.The train started at 6:17AM...On the journey some of people were sharing their schedule in india and some started dreaming their stay in India by closing their eyes and some people were having nice time with listening to the music from the ipods.At around 8:01AM the train reached the Tokyo station..There we have got 29minutes to change the another train which will take us to the final destination "Narita Airport Terminal 2"..Since Tokyo station is very large and confusing,reached the platform on time by asking with the people.Embarked into the Narita Express train...since we have reserved our seats during the booking of the tickets there wasn't any problem in getting seat.After around 50min of journey we reached the Narita Airport terminal 2 at around 9:28AM.After claiming the luggage's which we have couriered 2 days back went for boarding tickets and luggage checking.Getting the boarding pass,next went for security check where the staff checked me twice for security as the red light flickered as i passed the scanning gate.After the security check,we all entered into Duty free shops where we could fine many many shops selling gift items,fashion dresses,liquor items etc etc...someone put forward the idea of purchasing liquor items and some people showed interests in gift items.After doing some window shopping,the time in my watch showed 11:15AM,so started walking towards the terminal for boarding.There i could saw giant AIR INDIA flight waiting for us.Took some photos with flight as well as the airport.Finally the ground staff announced the boarding of the flight AI307 (from tokyo to Delhi)..With a prayer to god for safe and happy journey, entered into the flight.And the flight started taking off at 12:00PM.After traveling about 8hours we landed the Delhi New Airport terminal at 4:30PM (IST)..The outside temperature was 35degrees...!!!!! Started feeling the Indian weather once we got off from the flight..There wasn't monsoon started yet...God of rain wasn't showed the pity over the Delhi peoples yet.After collecting the luggage's we came out from the airport.All people started moving towards their home.The family of the friends from Delhi had come to receive their son to their home...Lucky people they could reach home by 1 hour or so..But for me hailing from Karnataka could take at least 13 ~ 14 hours to reach home by shortest way.Since we had a plan to visit Maruti office on way to home,there was no other way than staying in Gurgaon on Saturday and Sunday.So me with Sayi San started moving towards Taxi booking to go to our old friend s house in Gurgaon.As soon as we placed our steps on Indian soil,the clouds were so happy that it started raining.Rain brought down the temperature to lower to some extent giving us the good feeling.After meeting with the friends in Gurgaon went for the party on that night..Ate like we haven't taken the food from the last 1 year.The stomach was filled with the delicious Indian food gave the feeling of going to bed for a nice sleep.
On sunday got up at 8AM,had breakfast after freshening up.Venkatesh came to that house to meet me...he and myself went to meet Narendra who is staying along with his mom in the same residential area.We got warm welcome from aunty and spent happy time over there..and came back, went for shopping in malls with Sayi.We had to do shopping of spicy items for Japan for the next 1 year,it took us around 3 hours to finish the shopping.Before going to shopping we had booked tickets for watching the Hindi movie "New York" at 8:30PM show...But we are managed to finish our shopping's at 8:00PM..With kind help from Kiran could manage to reach the theater 8:45PM...!!!! Even though missed some important initial scene from the movie,it took us some time to get along the movie.The movie was good, giving nice story and concept with tragedy ending..!!!! The movie was based on the 9/11 terror attach on WTC in america.After finishing the movie went back to home and packed the purchased items neatly.and got into sleep.
On next day got up early since i have to go to office.In office i could see many new faces and few known faces waiting for an escape from the company.After meeting colleagues and friends in the office,came back to home to get ready to catch flight to Bengaluru at 3:00PM...Reached Bengaluru at 5:30PM and from Bengaluru airport took the bus to go to Majestic to catch bus to my Home(Kokkarne,in Udupi Dist) which takes 9~10hours.Finally i could reach my sweet home on tuesday morning at 8:00AM...This gave me feeling of achieving the final destination...i could clearly feel the difference in my feelings as i reached home.Even though there wasn't much change in the village after one year,it still made me so comfortable and homely feeling that i never get in other place of the world...