Smile please :)

If not, then read the following blog...Powerful Smile, and come back to read further with a smile :). If not then, definately see a psychiatrist! I do not have time to blog, but this post was worth replying and putting on my blog for the rest to smile :).

I was not smiling in the beginning, but by the end of this blog i was all :D feeling the arch between my ears. There is a saying in Bengali "smiling from ear to ear" often referred in Satyajit Ray's series on 'Pheluda'.

Sorry for the offtrack but it's so true, an honest smile always comes from your eyes, unlike a constipated one. It's surprising how one can see a smile over chat or phone. Although you don't need a webcam or be physically present, seeing or even feeling a smily face, makes such a striking difference.

I think this is something I have learnt during my stay here. First time I went back to India, I had frowing faces looking at me, giving crazy looks as I got into the habit of smiling at everybody. Strangers or friends did not matter. Although the tagged 'How is it going?' and 'What's up?' that people ask here is not so exciting BUT the smile IS. It does not cost much to smile and make another person smile anyways. So why not smile?

Not to quote against my desi fellows, but I have noticed the rate of receiving a smile back from a non-Indian, stranger is higher than an Indian. Most eye contacts here end up in a smile, except from some Indians, where it ends up looking at the road, or outside the window in a bus, or looking at ones own shoes, or just staring in the space. Its funny. It's even funnier to watch people hiding or running away from the smile you give them. It's so pleasant to see a smiling face with glitterring eyes :). I just flip 180 deg, at a good smile. And if I get to see the glitter in their eyes, then its might end up as a crush too. Somehow you don't get to see the eyes always, as they are hidden behind the gogs! but nevertheless u would know...the difference.

For me - grummpy sad faces : KEEP AWAY!

Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Sometimes I smile on behalf of them, just to balance what they do not have any more to give. I don't know why people put so much effort to frown, which stresses 43 face muscles while a smile just costs 17 and in turn also initiates many synaptic pulses. Besides a smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks :) also you never know who's falling in love with your smile.

Anyways, now I should stop smiling and am sure that I don't need to say 'Smile Please' by the end of this blog too. If I still have to, then you know where to go : THE PSYCHIATRIST :), :P . Some how this post goes with my recent post on visions too Musu Musu Hasi, an unexpected coincidence. And I hope that by now you have smiled enough to have a laugh :) , Cheer's - 'Bakwaas'

7:25 - 8:31pm

Ok, that was my timing on bike today, from my place to Dewitt Picnic Area on HWY 89. It is around 4.89 miles from the rangers station, which is around 1.5 miles from the start point.

Started at 7:25 = 0 miles
1nd dam upper - 7:35
2nd dam - 7:49
Dewitt Picnice area - 8:05
2nd Dam - 8:13 (coming back is always fun as its down hill)
Start point - 8:31

So I guess it was, around 6.39 miles one way ..not sure of the exact distance will believe it atleast as 12 miles both ways..before heading to my rejuvination point, for 30 mins and came home :)

10 miles

I have decided to keep track of miles i bike, this was the first diff route I took other than highway 89, after being suggested by a friend.

On the way back did some additonal distances, to make it 10 miles total..

On the track

This is my friends blog :) Am just copying his link here...as I believe and enjoy the same.

I enjoyed 'Yesterday'

Except that its not just try-it-alone, its more than that...for me sports or playing is my boosting, energizer, duracell, for the evening and rest of work. Sometimes I feel I can give up work but not playing :), there have been days when I haven't done any work, but I will stick to my routine of playing :)....nothing to be very proud about but thats how I am....

Besides I don't think or believe in the concept of alone...my brain is constantly rambling with so many thoughts, ideas and definately people all the time. How is A, what is B upto now a days, Oh, C did not reply, Man I have to call XYZ... and the list continues. For me I think its the other way round. It gives me a break from them :), it's like my time. People keep out or Don't disturb Me. It helps me focus, prioritize, concentrate, and plan on short term goals. Else I get lost into future or beyond, which I believe is pointless. It helps me live and enjoy the present.

Anyway I need to get back to work, just read my friends post so had to write my thoughts on the same...Cheer's to all who enjoy doing so...

Moments Together

I was with you the other day
Walking by the river
Silenced by the wind
The warmest night we ever had.

Time just flew by,
From the day we met,
The toughest walk,
The longest climb,
As always seemed,
The most peaceful moments,
We always have.

Time flew by
Since the second we met,
We laughed,
We cried,
We hugged,
We fought,
Till the second we had to say bye.

I hated every moment
I neared the time to say good bye,
I never told that I would miss you,
But I heard you whisper wanting me to come back,
Your heart was louder than the river, the wind that breezed by,
A silence conversation,
That you never wanted me to know!

I will be back soon,
In warmer nights,
By the river, silenced by the wind,
To gather the cherished moments,
To hear every word unspoken,
To fight every second,
To see your hidden smile,
As I whisper the words,
You never thought I would reply.

Inspired by the Windy Morning by the Virgin River