Wordless Wednesday No.2

Wordless Wednesday is a weekly post which I had started long back but didn't follow up much with the start. Here I'm on course of getting the weekly posts back on track.

1. Below pic was clicked at Marina Beach, Chennai. It's close to 3 n half yrs since I made it to any beach. I find no peace in beaches anymore. But at times it's heaven.

2. When you are broken down into pieces believe me listen to music. It works.

3. It's important to make sure you keep yourself in the driver seat of your life. Else someone is going to takeover.

4. Every time I get hurt I learn something new. Which I call as lessons from life.

5. Hope is what keeps me going!

6. A coffee with a nice book in hand can take you to a new world where you alone have the license to enjoy!

7. This one will always remain best in my list. When everyone ask me which step have you reached today?! I can proudly say "I WILL DO IT" Whatever come may I am doing this. Just one feet away from success and I am willing to take than one complete step in my life.

Thank you.

"Love" End of Series

"Love" series is all about reminisces of my early days. It feels great whenever I write and publish a chapter in my blog. Some part of me always feels proud for how good my childhood days are. 

I had never received such a response for any of the posts I did except for this love series which I'm making it in a chapter pattern. And the story line was completely of my own and I don't need to think much of how to highlight certain portions of the protagonist so that every chapter takes an interesting turn. It was completely true and very close to my heart. And that might be the reason why "love" remains on top with 1204 views and subjected to increase the count in time. 

I hereby wanted to declare that there will be no chapters coming in this series of "love" now it's all done and dusted! 

 I don't know why I'm so connected to Facebook all the time. May be it was her who held the responsibility of teaching me the basics in Facebook when I was all new back in 2010. Yeah. Today I'm in Facebook not because it was doing well globally, not because we can flirt with any girl of our wish, not because we can play any number of games freely. It's because she had an account in Facebook. With no second thought I was into Facebook and as expected she happened to be the first friend of mine. 

My mobile flashed with an unknown number at around 11:40PM and when I checked with the message it was Anu. After 7 long years I felt like some pure luck was just around the corner. But it's not. Something very horrible was just about to come my way. I had no other way to go. I need to accept. 

After what makes a serious conversation with Anu I was left dumbfounded at her response. I tried my best to make her understand what she means to me. She waited patiently for me to complete. And now its her turn and she broke the news. 

"I can no longer be available on Facebook for chats and I can't even make time for friends hereafter. I was getting married this summer and it's all over for now." 

-She finally declared! 

180sec. I couldn't figure out what I had just heard. Is that true?! May be yes. May not be yes. I can't think much of what she said but I know that I lost something more precious in life which can never ever comeback to me. 

I don't know what to reply now. You have been good to me all the time. All I can say is I'm sorry for you. 

I replied! 

It's okie. Good Night. 

Came the message from Anu in no time. 

I don't understand how in the world I can have a great night after finding myself again in that so called depression. Seriously I felt a bit heavy last night. I don't want to sleep and I don't want to weep. I wanted to be alone and fortunately I'm alone all the time. 

I kept thinking why it happens to me all the time. Probably I'm not luck with the concept of love. May be yes. Not every love story has a great ending. Some are enough to shake you up for lifetime. My story is one of that kind. 

In simple words I will miss Anu lifetime. 

This is what my Facebook timeline showed. 

"Last night. I cried like a 2 yr old kid. Yes. After 3yrs I'm finding tears rolling down my cheek. I was shell shocked!! :'( Some facts are hard to digest. I will miss you life time. :'("

Creative Blogger Award.

In response to Suneetha Dasari who nominated me to the Creative Bloggers list. I wanted to thank you for finding some kind of creativity in me. I don't even know whether anything of such exist in me. 

Initially when I came to know that I was nominated for the Creative Blogger Award I thought they would call me up and inform that you won this and that. Or else I expected to receive a mail from them saying you are nominated and you deserve a Gift voucher worth some precious amount and you can explore Higginbothams and get whatever you want. Haha I went deep down. But there is nothing of that kind. When Suneetha clarified me on what these awards are about I came to understand finally that these awards are meant to encourage the bloggers so that they keep writing better stuff. And yes I'm pleased with what Suneetha said. The concept was new to me and I really liked it. At least I must admit that because I had one such award by now.

I Googled for creative blogger's image and Glad I have found one. 

Okay now there are some questions to be answered by the nominees which means I have to do my part. Suneetha had set 4 nice questions to all the nominees. 

Voila! 

1. what are the things that make you smile ? 

Can't say one thing alone which makes me smile. There are plenty. For instance when I see school kids I laugh at them. It remembers me of my days. And when I find someone leaving a comment after reading my blog. Whatsoever the comment was. I always listen what people had to say me. 

2. Your Favorite book?

I have a list of favorite books. Once again it's hard to pick one. When it comes to romance I loved reading "If It's not Forever" by Durjoy Datta and Nikita Singh and when it comes to Humorous one I like "LOSER" by Dipen Ambalia, coming to story oriented it's Preeti Shenoy all the way. "The Secret Wish List" and "Tea for Two and a Piece of Cake" and finally when it comes to emotional ending it was "Till The Last Breath" by Durjoy Datta. (Believer me a tear rolled down my cheek when I read the last few lines of the book)

3. If you are a politician what will you do to the people?

This is something which I never thought of. Firstly I never wanted to become a politician. Just in case if I happened to be the one I would personally make a team of my own which can serve people for a better purpose. More importantly would like to upgrade all the systems in my office so that work can be done easily. I always find some schemes organized by the politicians makes completely no sense to the public. I will be eliminating all that. 

4. You are allowed to ask only one wish to god, what will you ask?

God's been so kind to me at times and I never pray god to give me sufficient money and all that. I find it funny though. I always keep on asking god to bless everyone and do good to the people who deserve.  And I have the habit of asking god to shower some luck on me so that I can clear my exams. Somehow it works most of the times. 

With that I'm done answering all the questions what Suneetha had asked me. I guess I answered them properly so that I could pass this test with flying colors. Haha. Once again thanks for nominating me. It really means a lot. 

Thank you. 

And That's How It All Happened.

24th June 2012. The day I first blogged about a friend of mine who celebrated his 21st birthday in Chennai. I never ever thought I would keep blogging consistently till date. Now I have been in this world of blogging for 10 months and I have made 53 blog posts for now. I'm happy with the way how this was going. I'm getting some readers coming in and responding to my writings. That always makes me feel so happy.

When I first pen down a post titled "My Life My Crush" I was in some serious trouble and that shook me up. It was my experience with life. The words are more out of pain and loss. I felt low. And months later I came up with "The Break-up" it went good. And this post paved a way for my writing abilities. Friends of mine asked me these questions repeatedly "Is this your story?!", "Why don't you try writing a book?!"  Your writing was so simple and I can relate myself to the story. Keep writing more.

The idea was good but Can-I-do-that?! constantly rolled in my mind and later it was moved aside. I kept writing other stuff and I got used to these words. I never took them seriously. I still have a serious doubt of whether I can really write a book?! And this man comes from nowhere. And that's Dipen Ambalia.

Dipen Ambalia is an Author of National Best Seller "Life Of a Software Engineer" (LOSER) and "In Their Shoes" and now his 3rd book "To B.E and Not to B.E" was hours away for the pre-order links to get published on his timeline and also in his website.

LOSER will be the second quickest book I have read all my life. Being a very slow reader I finished reading his book in 12 hours. I was laughing all the way. The book has enough fun in it. I say it's worth reading!

And now I wanted to write a book.  

I hereby unveil the cover of my book.

Voila!

 And the second one! 

The above are the sample cover photos of "The Sambar City"  I want all my readers to check with the cover photos and comment which looks better. And I repeat this is just a sample. Best is yet to come. And to get into the details of the book. It deals with all the humors aspects of the city and so this will contain whole lot of fun. And you can have enough of love and all others stuffed in this single book. For now I believe that I can make this happen. I can make this sample post as a reality. With the support of Dipen and all my readers I once again believe I can do this.

Need your wishes!!

Thank you!! :)

A Ravin's Story that Touched my Heart.

Last ten days was all about Ravin-Kushi and last night was about Ravin-Simar. To give you all a brief understanding of what I'm going to talk about through this post was how Ravinder Singh's "I Too Had a Love Story and Can Love Happen Twice" happened to be a National Best seller. To make things very clear I find myself in the shoes of Ravin while reading. Not completely but partially.

"Not everyone in this world has the fate to cherish the fullest form of love. Some are born, just to experience the abbreviation of it." 

When Ravin said 'I love you' it meant forever. Not just the kind of love stories that we come across these days. I find budding lovers everywhere and wonder how many of these stories will last longer. Hardly not even 10% share of all these stories will have a happy ending.

Love stories now are more of a requirement than care and affection. I find no love in their stories. When I made some kind of survey on love stories of the recent trend I came across some unexpected responses from those close friends who wanted to get into a relationship and start their love life.

Here we Go!

Me: Hey hi. How are you doing?!

I name the one in-love person as Shantanu.

Shantanu: Yeah. I'm doing good. Thank you.

Me: So wassup?! You seemed to keep busy all time with your mobile. And you are missing all the time at weekend meetings.

Shantanu: Yeah boss. I have got into a relationship now and I hardly find time to turn up to the weekend meetings.

Me: Oh!! That's great Shantanu. Btw how was the life going now?! You are having some good time na?!

Shantanu: Nahi dude. Initially it went good but I'm slowly losing interest with this one.

Me: Hmm. What's the point in losing interest?! You are into this with so much of love.

Shantanu: Yeah. But nothing going good between us. We have lot of things in common when we are good friends. But now it changed. I'm finding difficult with her needs. She never comprimises with me.

Me: So what next?! The Break-up are you looking for?!

Shantanu: Not really. I don't know how to initiate this point with her. I can't let her Go! Yet I can't adjust with her. I'm Confused!!

Me: Hmm. That's okie. Will catch up sometime later. Take care. Don't take wrong steps. Sort out the issues.

This is how the love stories these days are running. They don't believe in each other and they don't even know to where their relationship was heading to. I say majority are in a Confused-State-of-being-In-Love.

They come up with a lot of expectations in the beginning and once they get fulfilled they slowly realize that there wasn't much hereafter. They will be understanding the fact that it was merely an attraction and hardly there is no love left between them. And that's how the differences arises. They start hating each other with the reasons which made them love long back.

I don't want to be a lover of this trend. Actually this love makes no meaning to me. True love is defined by Ravin in his masterpiece titled "I Too Had a Love Story" 

Ravin and Kushi made love through a matrimonial website. They made love through chats and calls until life put their love to the ultimate test. The way Ravin gathered all his words to shape it in a perfect book was nothing less than awesome. It already touched a Million hearts by now. I feel elated to be one among the million readers to witness what happened in the life of Ravinder Singh.

Having said that Ravinder Singh was an Author by chance. He never ever thought of getting into this world of fiction and create such a buzz in the Indian Fiction scene. But it all happened after he lost his Kushi back in 2007.

The words said by Ravin in his first book.

Dedicated to The loving memory of the girl whom I loved, yet could not marry. 

...Otherwise, I wouldn't have come across an author in me.

 The above lines from Ravin makes complete sense to me. I had been through the dark phase of my life. That was from 2009-2012 Mid. 3 years It was like hell. The only difference was he was admitted to rehabilitation center and I was left all alone. I felt intense longing for her love. The way I poorly believed in somebody's words that she means the world to me. Those words I asked them to repeat more and more when they say "I can see your love for her in your eyes" I was completely out of my senses by that time. 

I always wanted to talk to her, Yet couldn't gather enough courage. 

I always wanted to feel her fingers on my face. Yet it was just restricted to my dream.

I always wanted to keep staring at her. I can't get her off my eyes. 

I always wanted to protect her in my arms. When she was miles away from me. 

I always wanted to laugh like a kid when I listen to her innocent talks. 

I always wanted to love her like anything I did ever before. 

I love her and she love somebody. She is now making her path clear to get married to the guy of her wish and wanted to get settled in her love life. I'm going to lose her forever in my life. 

But I always feel great when it comes to writing. Had I not failed in this love with her I wouldn't have come across an author and an avid reader in me. To be precise reading and writing was not in my cup of tea. Never in my wildest dreams I thought of writing something where people gets connected to my writings. I have made some good friends in this journey of Fiction reading and Blogging. I explored many ways to get her off my thoughts and this one really worked well with me and it shaped me as a better person. 

If I happened to write a book of my own in the coming future I would surely dedicate my first work of fiction to her. Her name would appear first in the acknowledgements part. And that's the least I can do to her.

Note: I don't want to hurt anyone with the dedication part. There are many who helped me in getting over the so called serious trauma or the depression in simple words. Without them I'm nowhere into this scene. I would surely make an acknowledgements post once the time comes.

Thank you.

"Love" Chapter-5

It's never ever going to be easy getting out of your comfort zone. I know that. But I had no other option. The best part of living outside the city in which you lived all these years makes you nostalgic but it's the only time where you can witness what real world means to you and what role it plays in shaping you as a better person. Between Anu is still running in my thoughts. 

4 years passed by and nothing really changed with the past. The same Anu and the same thoughts. I also wonder she might have forgotten me totally. And to make things better I thought of moving to Chennai for my Graduation. New State, New Language, New People always excites me. By this idea I wanted to get Anu out of system totally and completely. Finally I got my train to the land of dreams.

Train no. 2711 Pinakini Superfast Express from Vijayawada to Chennai is ready to leave from Platform no. 1

The Announcement came from the Railways and not think much of anything I plugged my ear pods in and slipped into sleep. Some questions started raising in my mind. 

1. Do I need to move?!

2. What if I struggle to survive in a new city. 

3. Can I really make a good impression there?!

 

Huh! I already got an admission there. So I have to make a move on. I thought to myself. It's nothing more difficult than my lost love. I made myself calm down with those words. 

Train no. 2711 Pinakini Super fast Express from Vijayawada to Chennai  has arrived on Platform no. 8 

This time the Announcement came from Chennai's end. I find no difference in these announcements. Everywhere they sound similar to the other. I took a quick look at the surroundings and made a mind that this is going to be my home for the next 4 years. 

09-09-2009: 

My first day of College at Chennai started with this fancy number. I never had a thought of what Chennai had in stock for me. But I'm all ready to accept what this college and city offers to me. Day-1 at college was quite normal. I see people running here and there with books and files in hand. They looked professional in their blazers. I made a quick look at the infrastructure and felt ok-ok kind of college I was into.

You can never compare your life with movies. The one blockbuster that shook Tollywood in the year 2007 was Happy Days by Sekhar Kammula. It was quite opposite with my college lifestyle. 

Not so good-looking-girls too. Huh! I can clearly sense that I landed at a wrong place. :( When I was about to lose everything she came into my life. As a ray of hope. With her I felt like aiming skies. I strongly started believing she means a lot to me. But I never thought she has something to say which can pin me down to earth and tear my heart into pieces.

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End of Chapter-5

Welcome to "Love". In case you are new and do not know what "Love" is all about. Here is the link and you can read all my posts related to "Love" where I end up tagging the titles with Chapters. http://jayanthmajety.blogspot.in/search/label/Love

Happy Reading! 

Love.

Jay. 

At Crossword Book store with Preeti Shenoy.

I never thought of meeting my all time fav. Author "Preeti Shenoy" this soon. I always had that in my wishlist when I first read her book titled "Life Is What You Make It" And from all the reviews that I came across in Flipkart I realized that majority of the readers were experiencing their not-so-good days in their life and everyone found the book motivational enough.

And her latest release "The Secret Wishlist" is out and doing great as of now. I'm sure that's going to be a National Best Seller in days time. The best part of this writer is that she responds to her readers. Not too many have their time for their readers but she always makes time for her readers. I always respect her for that.

When someone asked her about "why would you waste your time by responding to readers queries and comments when the fellow writers never bother to reply anyone who writes to them?!" And for that she replied this way. "I never asked anyone to read my books. They themselves picked it up and read whatever I wrote. And when they feel like sharing their experiences while reading my book. The least I could do is to thank them for reading my book. And that's what I'm doing." 

By the way I'm always in touch with Satish Shenoy than with Preeti Shenoy. He is a funny man at times. We used to comment on cricket stats and he always tries to pull my leg by saying you can be an Actor not just a small role but a Hero whenever I change my profile pic on Facebook. The euphoria of getting to know some good people was growing better. 

"The Secret Wishlist" by Preeti Shenoy was officially launched in Chennai on 19th February 2013 at Crossword Bookstore, Alwarpet. And when she updated her status that she will be in Chennai this Feb 19th I was totally shell shocked. What can get bigger than this?! And believe me for the first time in the last 4 years I felt proud being in Chennai. 

It took me 3 long hours to reach the destination. Crossword Bookstore. I had never been to this place earlier and everything was taken by surprise. 5:45PM the clock at the crossword showed. I let out a huge sigh of relief and was checking at the New Arrivals slot. I have found "Someone Like you" and a few more. The Secret Wishlist can also be seen among them. 

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And its time when I saw that man who is in my friend list for nearly more than 6months and never ever had a single chat. It's Saffin Mathew. He organized a TedX event where Preeti Shenoy, Durjoy Datta and Nikita Singh were part of it. I hesitated initially to reach him coz he seemed like a perfect professional and I'm never close to the way how he look. Hahahaha. And that's when Preeti Shenoy arrived in. I heard those exchange of words where Preeti thanked Saffin for making it to the event and Saffin reacted in a Pleasure-Is-All-Mine fashion. I reached Saffin and he recognized me in less time. And we kept talking all the stuff. I felt like he is one of the victim of being in my friends list as I keep updating my status every now and then.

 And to my surprise there is a girl sitting next to me was looking simple good. Not too often you find these kind of good looking girls in Chennai as I thought to myself. And all of a sudden I heard a female voice calling me Hey! Jayanth??! Once again I'm dumbstruck. I had a conversation with her on Facebook reg. The LIT FEST 2013 which happened just 2 days prior to this event and she had asked me some info about Varun Agarwal. And never in my dream I thought of meeting this girl here at Crossword. She is extremely talented I must say. She made a nice Quilled card for her.

The event kick started at something close to 6:40PM and there was some introduction about the Author and what makes this author special. After which the mike was handed over to Preeti and she started spilling out how "The Secret Wishlist" came out and also about the other 3 books which were already in National Best Sellers List. She is named as one of the Most Influential People in India.

After a good 15-20 minutes it's open up to audience where anyone can put up one question to Preeti and she would be answering it. Initially it's oldies all the way. They kept asking questions with no space. Once they slowed down a bit we had the opportunity to make our call and luckily I have managed to put on 3 questions which was rolling on my head by then. Somehow I'm impressed with what Preeti replied to all my questions. And some kept asking their questions and she kept on answering all with no hesitation. 

And they called it a day when the time went past 8:00PM. And its time for photo session and also getting copies signed. I have got my copies signed and also a photo which I was waiting for so long and so that I can upload it on my Facebook wall which always remains to be an achievement for me. She said some few words to me while signing my copies. This is what she said "I have opened your Facebook profile pictures to find you here"  Yeah. A day before her Chennai visit I commented on her post saying You have to recognize me and that's the way she did. 

Yay! Here I'm with Preeti Shenoy. 

Signed copies are as Follows. (Tea for Two and a Piece of Cake) 

The Secret Wishlist an already signed copy through Flipkart where Jayanth Hope you Enjoy this! Was added.

And after bidding a bye to Preeti Shenoy. I and Saffin made our way to the exit and planned to move for some restaurant for dinner. Had some good time. Exchanged the numbers and parted ways.