~ WHISPERING GALLERY ~: January 2010

Give Me A Loan Today

Give Me A Loan Today!

When he borrowed money yesterday afternoon his wife cheered, “we’ll get that new car pretty soon!” They danced in a circle then fell to the floor “hey maybe they can loan us just a little bit more!” We need new appliances and a trip to France! lets ask the bank for another loan in advance They got all their money fast and on time and it took only 3 months to spend every dime When the statement came in, with the money all gone they thought, “gheesh, that sure didn’t take very long” NOW how would they pay off that high interest debt? then remembered they have one big credit card left “we’ll take from Peter to pay off Paul” until we can finally pay it off all… they searched and searched until they found a new lender who said, “we don’t care that you’re a big spender” They breathed a sigh of temporary relief, promised it was time to turn over a new leaf “Financial Responsibility”, was their latest motto an example to set for their children to follow No more cars, toys, games or unnecessary things, no more computers, tools, or fake diamond rings, no more trips, furniture, flooring, or nights out, they stayed home they were disciplined they took the honorable route Four years have passed with their debt fully paid and now they’ve decided to sell their home and upgrade They called their bank to qualify for another home loan and were approved in five minutes, right there on the phone. What is the moral of this loan moaner tale? “Our bad habits can change, we aren’t destined to fail, with our life back on track, we can relax and exhale”.

by Barbara Tremblay Cipak

Dream Catcher

Dreams have always been an integral part of my life, in ways i can never express in mere words. Each time they have embraced these eyes, they have turned me up side down and bought out a new me(whom i never knew existed in me). I wish i had more time to write some original piece of poetry on dreams but alas.. life's moving so fast and there's no time to relax and unwind. I dedicate this beautiful poem by sarojini naidu to those wonderful dreamy feelings :)

Once in the dream of a night I stood
Lone in the light of a magical wood,
Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang;
And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang,
And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed,
And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.

Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my delicate youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.

~ Sarojini Naidu

Love to me

Happy new year.. Hope 2010 will be all that you hope and pray for...

The remaining parts of Chennai Chronicle will soon arrive, until then hope you might enjoy reading my thoughts about this one all time favorite question of mine, why do girls fall for the wrong guy?Is there some kind of attraction towards the fatal? not alone that, you fall in love with the wrong guy and cry about it, try harder then ever to forget him but in vain. Why does love have to be so complicated?

Is it always the love with the wrong, thats complicated? or are the one's made for each other also experience complicated love? lemme not complicate it with too many questions. Let's try finding some answers here.. Firstly, why do girls fall for wrong guys, the answer would be - with a hope to find the right one - trial and error method i guess... Then why doesn't she dump him once she know's he's not right. cos' they are stupid enough to think that they have the power vested in them to change this wrong guy into their Mr.Right just like in fairy tales. Alas, life is no fairy tale...

Next let's talk about the fatal attraction, i guess it comes very naturally to humans. We are attracted to everything that could kill us, it excites us. Else we wouldn't have snake fighters, wrestlers, formula one racers, sky divers, deep sea divers. What say? so a girl developing liking to a wrong guy and getting into a hollow relationship isn't an impossible task,i say. and hey, if the guy was wrong for the girl what about the vice versa rule?

Love and complications are not as complicated as they seem. I've noticed few simple lovers too i would like to classify them into three categories(if i have left out any category and you would want me to add please let me know about it. ) namely -the lead-follow lover's : here one person leads and the other merely follows ( now who leads and who follows is not an issue) and no problem arises between them. Secondly, there's open lover's : Here it doesn't bother the partner's what each other do in their personal life. They appear understanding and very matured to the outside world. The chances of complications are less in this kinda relationships too. The final one True Lover's :who accept their partner's for what ever they are and both partner's are true to each other ( do we find such people in the world today?? I'm still looking!!)

Don't you think all this simple explanations of complicated love and complicated explanation of simple love is actually ******* .. That's what i feel too. Any person could be right/wrong it all depends on the perspective. Make sure the feelings are genuine from both ends and just love each other, remember to change with time but never change your feelings for one other, you grow old but don't let your love.Most important of all, understand your partner is another human being who has a life, a job, parents, siblings, friends, colleagues, stress, tension, hair fall, weight problem,height problem, fairness problem, allergy, ulcer, cold, fever, throat infection, malaria, cholera, blood pressure, blood sugar,body pain, needs, wants, desires,responsibilities... just like you do!