WOODIES - V Call Ourselves!!!

3725 and 3696 Hammerwood Ct people are called WOODIES.. Anyone pondering what this 3725 and 3696 is?? Its our house number. 6 of us, 2 in 3725 and 4 in 3696 together form the WOODIES. Am a new member to WOODIES since May. WOODIES formed in March'08.

We go offie together, cook together, dine together etc. Ofcourse, these people need to be introduced. Whom to start with???!! I will start with the senior infoscion amongst us.

He is Balaji Ammanji Sundararaju. His name says he his a Telugu and i believe this makes him more angry than anything. He jus yells "Hey Guysss am from the heart of Chennai. No way a Telugu. I donno which worst moment my dad gave such an expansion to my name. In school it was too short." So this is Balaji. He is ofcourse a good cook.

Next is Sriram. He is the 'bada' of the group. Most responsible person and takes care of mostly everything, understands people and situations well.But god knows what he's gonna say.

Next is Pradeep. I believe this guy needs a good description. He is talkative, gives lots of expressions, quite good at heart. According to these ppl its less compared to mine. But i strongly feel he overtakes me.

Next is shilpa, my dear roomie. She loves sleeping a lot, a dead fan of Harry Potter. She is ready to fight with anyone for Harry Potter.

Next is Hari, alias Pillaka. The youngest of the group, he jus pulls ppls leg and make us fight with him. He is actually Jack of all Traits. My guru in car driving!!

This is just a quick short introduction. Lotsss to talk about each, cherish all the good time.

Cheers to all.

Guess where i am!!!!

I wish, I dream, I .....

sleep seeing the stars n angels on the roof,

talk aloud,

spend time with tiny tots,

run down the stairs and call out,

am at a place where i stand incoherent,

am happy around a small table with my family,

feel am on top of the world..

Guesss where i am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its my SWEET HOME

where i am what i am ALWAYSSSSS....

What!!!!!!!!!!! am I silent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Being Multilinguistic helps u a lot when you are at a place where you can never expect to find a group of people from same region.. When we are outside home and its like we have to find an accommodation it’s obvious that we prefer people from same state. But when outside India, we go for Indians irrespective of whichever part of India he/she is from.

I really haven’t felt adjusting is too difficult unless we dig into matters. Digging in ofcourse complicates things. Jus leave the way things come and pass. After all its Acceptance that matters. I have learned "ANYTHING + POSITIVE EMOTION is ACCEPTANCE." It’s difficult to practice most of the times but if we are prepared or have a mindset it would not be difficult.
I wanna talk for the title I mentioned. Am I Silent!!!!!!!!! I am going back a week to talk on this.. I had been for a long weekend trip. I was with a group which had a majority spoken language as Tamil. I can understand Tamil for sure. Anything that happened funny was conversed in the majority language. Though I can understand and enjoy the humor I badly felt I was going silent. Inside got a feel to talking many stuffs I felt funny and so on.. But language became a hindrance here. Ofcourse we do have the common language to communicate and express but after all own mother tongue helps you express more. :):)

Thoughts were running over my mind. Anything I found, I had a lot to talk about them. Everything I saw on the way looked beautiful and I wanna express its beauty but here I failed cos of the lack of fluency in the majority language. It isn’t ofcourse difficult to learn a language but expressing is. That moment is when I felt what’s happening, Am unable to talk and express. People usually wanna me be to be silent and now I feel am extremely silent. I have a friend who once gave me a Chewing Gum jus to keep me silent. Also pulled me to a game in which I have to be silent for an hour and then the turn would be his. For few hours I hated my silence cos i felt my silence is gonna make people think am no way enjoying their company though I really was. I realized in my mind's eye its always better to know a feeling of silence at times so that i can spend sometime for me and was pleased as a punch.

I learned times of silence helps know ourselves better. Its jus no noise coming out of you but your mind and heart talks a lot. I enjoyed the silence.