\”Man is like a breath, his days are like a Passing Shadow\” – Psalm 144, 3
As another long day draws to an end, I never expected a month begin with such depressing news. Todays\’ day was long, tiring, but has ended with shock and grief. Received a call from Dave at 9.55pm, that one of my Brother\’s closest Friend, Jawaharlal, better known as Babazin, passed away due to a fever. It came as a total disbelief to me, in fact for us. There was this stunning silence all around. Just received a confirmation from Tino, that it was dengue, a haemorregic fever caused by mosquito bite. We all know Babazin as this right hand man of a lot of people ( a la Circuit of Munnabhai MBBS). He was always there, when people needed him, The bubbly character that he was, never could figure out what his profession was. He must have come into our lives maybe 2-3 years now, coz i\’ve never seen him before with my bro, but everyone would take a liking to him simply bcoz he was an affable person. At TI, quite some time back, we had this conversation about people being named after leaders. Of all people in the world, we never knew Babazin\’s actual name was Jawaharlal, The first time Dave n fly and I heard it, we erupted with laughter. Of course ever since then, we\’d smile when he passed by. He may have barely been 30 now, which makes it even more hard to believe. Sometimes, we really wonder, why does anyone have to die so young, Well, we just have to believe that God has HIS plan for all of us. Its just that he takes his favourite people to him earlier than others.
\” The Lord is faithful in all his words, and gracious in all his deeds\” -Psalm 145, 13.
At times like this, One begins to ponder, We really do not know, when we will be called to him, are we ready to face him? Have we done enough on earth to be worthy of him? Ever since my Dad\’s illness, I\’ve always been looking at the worst case scenario situation, What could the worse thing be? When the Doc called us in at the time of my Dad\’s operation, we never ever imagined what the doctor would tell us. Had we given up hopes at that time, we\’d never ever would have the oppurtunity to keep Dad alive for 11 months and give us the chance to grow up. Today, most of my decisions in life does analyse the worst case scenarios, before taking any step ahead. It also allows me to look at life much better, smile at the small joys around us and try to be with peace with all around.
Today morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see my bro also commence his own blog, I dont know if this was sheer coincidence or if we are falling for all the marketing gimmicks of yahoo and msn, but in any case, All the Best to you! The Blog can be found in my blog roll to the left of your screen.
Yet another defence institution may be using our services, This time its the 6TTR, Ponda. In the last 8 months, we\’ve been in circulation with quite a few defence installations, ranging from Verem to Vasco. Its mostly been due to referrals by one organisation to another and not forgetting Suchita\’s constant shuving of our visiting cards in their faces. Thanks Suchita, I know you\’d scream at me if i did it in person.
Our Web Servers are constantly in problem these days, Quite a new excuse this time, being affected by KATRINA, Believed it for a few moments, until i realised that Katrina was in Louisiana, that\’s South of USA and the servers are in California! I like the cheek of one of my client, who claimed that i was only decorating A site and not treating his site as MINE, Well, Excuse Me for that, If you gave me a lil space to try my ideas, you\’d get a real kick ass site, but Oops!! U weren\’t listening!
My Skywards Miles are expiring this month, Hey I\’m not scheduled to travel at all, So rather than waste those miles, I might as well allow Tino use them anyway he can. I think I\’m gonna wait a while to travel by plane again, Totally excited with the A380, even more excited that Uncle Mallya is gonna give me the Good Times in it later on in life. Well until then, hopefully i make enough money to fly KINGFISHER Class.
Well, no television for me today, real no mood for it, I will say a small prayer for Babazin, and say Good night then.
