Confused? Please don be..i aint writing any rhyme…I’m writing about - rowing experience…!
I’ve always liked the adventurous things I’ve seen in TV. The things I knew I could never do….
For example, I saw the movie “Cliffhanger” and I thought climbing those gorgeous looking mountains would be fun… I saw “Vertical Height” and I thought Mount Everest was the most beautiful thing in the world and decided atleast once in my life time I will climb that majestic beauty… I saw the Free Willy series and I thought the sea was so enchanting and whales were cute, so I wan’d to check the deep blue sea and the whales…
Apart from getting my inspirations from TV, I also had other passions… I wan’d to get into any one of the wing of the armed forces( INA was my most favourite)… wan’d to finish the 3 years in NCC… Wanned to learn Bharatnatyam… BE able to dance western dance efficiently… Wished I could learn Ballet or Gymnastics… So on and so forth…
But……I’ve never-ever thought about ROWING… I used to enjoy watching it on TV though… As I always said, God brought this opportunity of being able to learn how to row, my way… A Rowing competition between companies, an event which the company I worked had been taking part for two years… Even this year it was taking part and wanted people to participate… I was skeptical about it in the beginning, but decided to try my luck at home and when I got my permission, I went for the practice.
I was marveled by the way things happened in Madras Boat Club… It has the honour of being 150 years old along with a great reputation… I wasn’t there to start my practice but just to see how everything went and decide upon whether I will continue or not………I loved it there and decided to continue…….
The next day, I was all set to take up my rowing sessions, I was there and went thru the warm ups and did the ergo…(Ergometer is a machine which helps u get an insight to the rower’s movements and the oar’s as well…)and then waited to get hold of the bank tub or simply a static boat. This is a boat where a person realizes how his movements are going to be and how he has to use the oars when he gets into the boat which can move……but unfortunately I dint get the chance to use the bank tub…And my coach came back from his coxing for others and thus started our circuits…they are nothing but a series or exercises to be don together without pause…and trust me, for a person like me who’s an alien to exercises, the circuits were tough…
Actually, I was wondering why we had to do so much of rigourous exercises after all the rowing…? The explanation I got was perfect…It goes like this….
When a 700 mts race is held, the first half will be a cakewalk and mostly the last 200 mts will be determining the winners...So, doing rigourous exercises when we think everything is over, will improve our stamina which will also help back to back racing as well…!
Brilliant isn’t it…..!
Only after getting into the water will I know how it feels to actually row a boat, both for pleasure and for a race…!!!
I am waiting to experience the feeling of rowing the different kinds of boats available…Scull, pairs, pairs-doubles, fours, fours-doubles, pleasure, out rigger and of course bank tub :-)
Sculling is one person handling both the oars and basic rowing would be in pairs or in fours where there are two and four people respectively with an oar each…In pair, the person in the front is called the STROKE and the one behind is called BOW (the first two are called stroke pair and the next two are called the bow pair in fours… This way, we got sculling pairs(two rowers with two oars each), sculling fours(four rowers with two oars each)…!
And finally, I went rowing on a boat that was not static…!
WOW…! It was such exhilarating feeling!!! I should accept that I was freaking out from inside coz the open span of water in front was scaring me a bit…
I was in pairs and am the stroke…I face the cox and I should say, mine was really tolerant with my squeaks and brainless behaviour of letting go of the oars for a couple of times…The boat rocks like a cradle when rowed in a wrong way…and I was really good at rocking the boat than rowing it smoothly…! After a couple of mins, I kinda got over my panicky feeling and felt real cool when me and my partner (bow) rowed steadily and the boat moved comfortably…!
I realized that fear can stop one from doing wat he/she wants to do or enjoy doing…I will not say, I was all that cool, but the panic did reduce gradually and in few more day, I’m sure it’l VANISH…!
But for that, I need to be real careful and remember the words of my cox as a MaNtRa: “Don even dare dream of letting go of the oars…” – holding the oars, help in balancing the boat and more importantly, STAYING THE BOAT…!
Now, I’m hoping I learn to do the rowing properly without letting my oars go and making sure don fall into the water…ah! And of course, not to take my cox and Bow along with me…!
Luv
aLiEn
P.S.: As reminded by my friend i jus decided i would also write down the very thought that i was gonna be on the boat, gave many a reason to laugh their heart out..!
Being a hefty person, the thought was that the moment i sat in the boat-it would go down to the waterbed as in loony toons and be sitting there with a glum look and waving goodbye...! A friend who was allegedly expected to be my patner when i went rowing in the water now flatly states, she aint gonna be my partner for she loves her life......! we used to laugh together thinking about ou fate as no one else for sure would not trust either of us andaccompany...This leaves the both of us - TRUSTING eachother.... :-)
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
“Pourquoi………?”………“Why………?”
Have you got stuck half way through your sentences, while trying to make a point and wonder what u have to say next……….?
It happens to me most of the times…! Not only for the fact that I got the extraordinary talent of forgetting things in a jIfFy, but also because most of the times, I just cant put in exact words for my emotions…! I have always had this problem, of assuming, understanding & explaining a situation or a problem in a totally different way, than most of my friends…and have ended up quarrelling, fighting and sometimes even losing my friends…!
The most recent of such an argument, was with one of my friends, on the topic – “LoVe” – the feeling that’s got to have your hands and knees shaking, sweating beads of perspiration forming, have a dry throat and a dazed look (or so the amazing movies of Hollywood and Bollywood say…!).
She and I,went on arguing for a long time and at one point I couldn explain myself to her anymore and I dropped the argument….this rarely happens to me coz I’m a gal who loves arguing n wont stop till I get my point across…she then told me, "write it down gal, coz u are able to express yourself better that way."…And thus I sat down to write this - a piece of ma mind…Just for the sake of it…!
The argument began to outta control from the point where I stated (as I always do), “I don’t get it!!! Why do people fall in love?” and my friend started explaining to me that, “love, does not happen after a good day’s planning, but happens all of a sudden…!” Agreed! But why does it have to have catastrophe as it reaction?(all the time - according to me, only sometimes - according to my friend…!)
As a matter of fact, I am not a person against love, though I don understand very well about that ABSTRACT feeling or whatever it is called…But my only question is, “Shouldn’t Love supposed to keep the ones who fall for it happy? Shouldn’t it make lives better, than destroy it? Why does it happen in such a situation where it’s very clear that happiness is not in the way?” I have always presumed and assumed that “LOVE” should have a happy ending…I know expecting fairy-tale-happy-ending all the time is ridiculous, but when the picture is clear, stating the fact beautifully, that the pathway will not lead to happiness if love comes that way, then why do people want to be in the horrible path, falling 'MADLY' in love…!
Oh…did I use the term 'MADLY' with which people take advantage of (the word) “LOVE”?
Just because there are examples of people who walked on the surface of earth, exclaimed to be MADLY in love, everyone around now, are taking that phrase for their advantage to escape questions like, “Why did u fall in love when u know its not going to work out?” they don’t have an answer which clarifies their point of view, but explains to the one listening about how insecure the person is…!
If its not insecurity or the feeling of being totally unsure, why do they say they don know why they fell in love, even when they know its not going to end up giving happiness to them and to the other?…What is the use in calling a feeling 'love', when it is not being reciprocated?
TRUE is the fact, that love doubles n give more happiness when its given or shared…but wat about the love which is, yes…given, but is not accepted…! Only when its accepted does it give happiness…Otherwise, it ruins even the little happiness that’s around that person…!
If I accept the fact that love can happen anywhere, to anyone and towards anyone, then any person can fall in love with anyone, irrespective of age and marital status ( I as a person consider only these two as important factor for a man and a woman to be happy together… as again, this is knowledge, collected from novels I read and movies I watch . By marital status I mean unattached by the bond of marriage or the bond of love…) Any one could have any number of 'love' in their life going hand in hand at the same time…This thouhgt if becomes true, then rather than calling ourselves 'civilized', we should start calling ourselves 're-incarnations of the ape men'.
Such a behaviour would be wrong, Isn't it? most of might not accept when i say,' mistakes done by mistake is forgiveable, but a mistake done knowingly is equal to sin'...Extra-marital affair is wrong, but having a side track in one's love life aint wrong???
Most of the one-siders ( ones who love some one n haven told the person about the love, but still keep longing for the love and those who love someone and their love’s not been reciprocated-due to various reasons) think this is the last thing that can happen to them and they have lost the love of their life…but I think its their mistake…if there had to be love in their life from that particular person, then it would surely reach them, but if it doesn’t come, then they are searching or waiting for it at the wrong door-step…
I know many will not agree with my views ( most of my own friends don’t…most of them react saying, “you don know how it is gal, so drop it.”), but even from the point of view of a person who has witnessed love only from the audience perspective, I think that LOVE is being HARASSED for what it is not………!
Only love aint gonna help anyone…Love implied correctly to the right person is a BOON…!
Wish I am blessed with the BOON soon.... :-)
LOVE
Alien
It happens to me most of the times…! Not only for the fact that I got the extraordinary talent of forgetting things in a jIfFy, but also because most of the times, I just cant put in exact words for my emotions…! I have always had this problem, of assuming, understanding & explaining a situation or a problem in a totally different way, than most of my friends…and have ended up quarrelling, fighting and sometimes even losing my friends…!
The most recent of such an argument, was with one of my friends, on the topic – “LoVe” – the feeling that’s got to have your hands and knees shaking, sweating beads of perspiration forming, have a dry throat and a dazed look (or so the amazing movies of Hollywood and Bollywood say…!).
She and I,went on arguing for a long time and at one point I couldn explain myself to her anymore and I dropped the argument….this rarely happens to me coz I’m a gal who loves arguing n wont stop till I get my point across…she then told me, "write it down gal, coz u are able to express yourself better that way."…And thus I sat down to write this - a piece of ma mind…Just for the sake of it…!
The argument began to outta control from the point where I stated (as I always do), “I don’t get it!!! Why do people fall in love?” and my friend started explaining to me that, “love, does not happen after a good day’s planning, but happens all of a sudden…!” Agreed! But why does it have to have catastrophe as it reaction?(all the time - according to me, only sometimes - according to my friend…!)
As a matter of fact, I am not a person against love, though I don understand very well about that ABSTRACT feeling or whatever it is called…But my only question is, “Shouldn’t Love supposed to keep the ones who fall for it happy? Shouldn’t it make lives better, than destroy it? Why does it happen in such a situation where it’s very clear that happiness is not in the way?” I have always presumed and assumed that “LOVE” should have a happy ending…I know expecting fairy-tale-happy-ending all the time is ridiculous, but when the picture is clear, stating the fact beautifully, that the pathway will not lead to happiness if love comes that way, then why do people want to be in the horrible path, falling 'MADLY' in love…!
Oh…did I use the term 'MADLY' with which people take advantage of (the word) “LOVE”?
Just because there are examples of people who walked on the surface of earth, exclaimed to be MADLY in love, everyone around now, are taking that phrase for their advantage to escape questions like, “Why did u fall in love when u know its not going to work out?” they don’t have an answer which clarifies their point of view, but explains to the one listening about how insecure the person is…!
If its not insecurity or the feeling of being totally unsure, why do they say they don know why they fell in love, even when they know its not going to end up giving happiness to them and to the other?…What is the use in calling a feeling 'love', when it is not being reciprocated?
TRUE is the fact, that love doubles n give more happiness when its given or shared…but wat about the love which is, yes…given, but is not accepted…! Only when its accepted does it give happiness…Otherwise, it ruins even the little happiness that’s around that person…!
If I accept the fact that love can happen anywhere, to anyone and towards anyone, then any person can fall in love with anyone, irrespective of age and marital status ( I as a person consider only these two as important factor for a man and a woman to be happy together… as again, this is knowledge, collected from novels I read and movies I watch . By marital status I mean unattached by the bond of marriage or the bond of love…) Any one could have any number of 'love' in their life going hand in hand at the same time…This thouhgt if becomes true, then rather than calling ourselves 'civilized', we should start calling ourselves 're-incarnations of the ape men'.
Such a behaviour would be wrong, Isn't it? most of might not accept when i say,' mistakes done by mistake is forgiveable, but a mistake done knowingly is equal to sin'...Extra-marital affair is wrong, but having a side track in one's love life aint wrong???
Most of the one-siders ( ones who love some one n haven told the person about the love, but still keep longing for the love and those who love someone and their love’s not been reciprocated-due to various reasons) think this is the last thing that can happen to them and they have lost the love of their life…but I think its their mistake…if there had to be love in their life from that particular person, then it would surely reach them, but if it doesn’t come, then they are searching or waiting for it at the wrong door-step…
I know many will not agree with my views ( most of my own friends don’t…most of them react saying, “you don know how it is gal, so drop it.”), but even from the point of view of a person who has witnessed love only from the audience perspective, I think that LOVE is being HARASSED for what it is not………!
Only love aint gonna help anyone…Love implied correctly to the right person is a BOON…!
Wish I am blessed with the BOON soon.... :-)
LOVE
Alien
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