Monday, July 31, 2006

Drawing pictures of mountain tops...

Thoughts and patterns have been alternating between the story of Rama and the nature of karma. Rama, primarily cuz I have been devouring the Ramayana series byAshok Banker. And karma, well, cuz somehow I seem to be associated with it :).
The sale at Walden gave me the opportunity to pick up 31 songs by Nick Hornby. The same guy who wrote High Fidelity and About a Boy. Imagine telling the story of your life through songs. A song for a year. A song for every incident perhaps. Happy songs and sad songs. Angry songs and mellow songs. Songs that I jumped up and down to when i was a kid. Songs that I turned to in the darkness of the night.Which one would it be for now? "Shimmer" by Fuel ? "Epiphany" by Staind? Ahh...where are my Pearl Jam cds.....

Current Music : Immortality - Pearl Jam

Sunday, July 16, 2006

And there it goes...

Wednesday 12/07/2006 5:45 pm

Normal boring office day. Some plans to play basketball in the evening and then maybe go off to catch some late dinner. Was thinking about what to do over the weekend. There was Superman to watch, and my new Megadeth and Silverchair DVDs to watch. And then there was basketball to play and some books to read. All in all a weekend that I could look forward too.

Wednesday 12/07/2006 6:30 pm

On the basketball court. The whole MS team has met up after a long time. A few jokes shared, some warmup and then we get into a game. A make a clean swish with the first shot i make :) It feels good. Then I again get the ball and make a clean break.A team mate is running to my right. Somebody comes over to guard me so i think about a pass to my open teammate.He has a good open shot . All it requires is a nice fake and then a swivel on my right leg. Fake comes of well. Then i swivel. But my knee refuses to hold me up. And i crumple to the ground,writhing in pain. I dont know what went wrong. It was meant to be a nice move.

Wednesday 12/07/2006 7:30 pm

My roommate is rushing me to Apollo Hospital's Emergency room. I am on a wheelchair. My knee feels as if its been crushed by a hammer. "Oh god! Not again! Not again! Anything but that pain..."

Friday 14/07/2006 10:00 am

I wake up all groggy and can barely see around me.I am in a delhi hospital. My knee is all bandaged up and i know that i am just coming out of anaesthesia. My mum's in one corner giving me a reassuring smile. The doctor tells me that I have torn a cartilage and a ligament in my knee and they cleaned that up during the operation. I was lucky to have not ruptured the ACL ligament that he had reconstructed in 2002 in the same knee. However it does have a 20% tear. I ask him what I can do to give it strength again . He says " Nothing...just dont fall again." He says that no sports for me ever again . No basketball, football, badminton or squash. If i tear the remaining 80% then there isnt much that they can do. Its only treadmills, weights and swimming from here on for me.


Life sucks...and how!!