citrus

2012-01-30T02:25:00.001+05:30

Bed=<3

2012-01-29T12:59:00.003+05:30

Searching for the sun.

2012-01-29T12:59:00.001+05:30

Some people are
Unlucky
In love

2012-01-27T18:56:00.001+05:30

Most boring 45 mins of my life.
On the plus side, I am now white something or the other and glowing.
Just what everybody wants to be.

Category: Getting a clean up at Bodycraft

2012-01-25T20:01:00.001+05:30

A man washes a dish and no one sees it,
it didn't happen.

- from Kate and Leopold

Category: :)

2012-01-25T13:21:00.002+05:30

The butter in the house has been replaced with some Naturalite shit!

Category: Sacrilegious

2012-01-23T07:39:00.001+05:30

I'd like to categorically blast all those burning bridges to hell.

2012-01-22T15:40:00.001+05:30

I've always thought that when you're a loser, you lose.
So, why am I the one who feels at a loss?

Category: Loss

2012-01-22T12:49:00.000+05:30

Stalk.

2012-01-21T11:44:00.001+05:30

We cannot do without our boys.

Category 1: Truth
Category 2: <3

2012-01-20T21:36:00.001+05:30

Imagine being married to a whiny woman.
I'd kill myself.

Category: Lucky for me, that isn't an option

2012-01-19T15:00:00.002+05:30

There's no 'I' in TEAM
But there is a 'U' in STFU.
(Nitin)

Category: :)

2012-01-19T08:52:00.001+05:30

-I don't want to sneak in.
=We won't sneak in. We'll walk in.

=Quietly.

Category: :)

2012-01-18T02:26:00.001+05:30

Anomaly

2012-01-15T12:06:00.001+05:30

I have more books than I could possibly read in a year and yet
here I am, as I type, buying more.

Kammi Illa Pa?

2012-01-15T11:45:00.002+05:30

I don't understand people who insist on bargaining at a place where things are Rs 5, Re 10 and Rs 25 per kilo.

Category: Sunday Bazaar

2012-01-15T08:59:00.001+05:30

I refuse to see what's right in front of me.

Mood: Shitty

2012-01-13T20:10:00.001+05:30

You're very close to killing your cool factor.

Note to you: Be cool

2012-01-11T11:00:00.001+05:30

Sometimes I wish I had a brother, or a husband. Someone taller. Stronger. To do the things I can't.

Category: Get strong

2012-01-09T16:03:00.001+05:30

The straw that broke the camel's back.

2012-01-08T09:30:00.002+05:30

The shiny new people that I've come to know are all starting to come off as juvenile.
The sad part is, they're all on the other side of twenty five. Some thirty.

It goes on and on and on

2012-01-07T13:45:00.000+05:30

It begins.

(Toit)

And goes on.

(Picture missing)

(Chocolate mousse cake)

(Home)

And on

(City Bar)

And on!

(UB City)

(Breakfast at Cafe Noir)

Tag: 30

2012-01-06T09:57:00.000+05:30

Grateful.Ungrateful

The best people

2012-01-05T09:03:00.000+05:30

The only kind I know.

2012-01-04T11:40:00.000+05:30

Time makes all men equals, doesn't it?
:)

2012-01-03T14:21:00.001+05:30

Never, never, never quit.
-Chiron to Hercules, Young Hercules

2012-01-02T10:47:00.002+05:30

Self

Category 1: Aware
Category 2: Absorbed

Goodbye

2012-01-01T05:51:00.000+05:30

It was a good one.

2011-12-26T05:24:00.000+05:30

2011-12-22T11:43:00.000+05:30

"The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
-Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird

2011-12-20T23:20:00.004+05:30

I wanted to talk to you but I didn't have anything to say.
So, I talked about how fat I'm getting. The truth is, I don't really care.
And I talked about clothes. I don't care about that either.
And I talked about what I plan on doing on my birthday. Don't care. I only pretend that I do.
I guess there's only one thing I've ever cared about.

2011-12-18T23:57:00.002+05:30

I saw some beautiful things I'd have liked to buy today but didn't.
-a thin marcazite bracelet
-2 pair of earings
-a pair of toerings

Now I know how I never had money even when I did.

Category 1: Amrapali
Category 2: If it's shiny, it's sellable
Category 3: Nirabhara Sundari

Sweet

2011-12-17T16:10:00.000+05:30

I'm coming off as sweet.
I guess there are worse things to come off as.

My How Well Do You Know Me Quiz

2011-12-16T12:34:00.000+05:30

Who's my current celebrity crush?
Gerard Butler
Tony Hawk
Robert Downey Jr.
Salman Khan

Which is my favourite book?
Twilight 1
Twilight 2
Twilight 3
To Kill a Mockingbird

What's my favourite form of exercise?
Gym
Rock climbing
Running
Yoga

Who's my favourite author?
Stephanie Myers
Gorgette Heyer
Terry Prachett
Isaac Asimov

How tall am I?
5'1
5'2
5'3
5'4

What do my girlfriends and I talk about the most?
Getting fat
Men
Getting fat and men
Clothes

What's my newest nickname?
Kan
Princess Anastasia
K-bomb
Pedophile

Which is my favourite band?
Metallica
Dashboard Confessional
Hootie and the Blowfish
Lounge Piranha

Who do I expect to pass this quiz but I actually think is going to fail?!
Marlene
Nolita
Laura
Joanne

What kind of music do I like?
Trance
Commercial House
Dance
Alternative Rock

What's my least favourite form of exercise?
Gym
Rock Climbing
Running
Yoga

What's my favourite song?
I'm sexy and I know it
Choli ke peeche kya hai
Crash into me
Una Paloma Blanca

Which place in the world would I choose to live in?
Toulon
Cinque Terre
Adelaide
Bangalore

Who is my superhero crush?
The Hulk (size matters)
Spiderman
Green Goblin
Wolverine

What religious roots do I claim?
Syrian Christian
Hindu
Roman Catholic
Muslim

My Mother

2011-12-14T17:26:00.005+05:30

She wants to go out and buy some nice candles.
Guess why?
In case she dies, she'd like equal candles for her funeral and we might not have the time to go out and buy some once she's dead.
You need to have the funeral immediately, she informs me.
"Aren't you being a little premature?" I want to know.
"Oh!I'm not going to die." she exclaims.
Turns out she's taken out a whole life policy and is planning on waiting for it to mature before she knocks off. However, you never know what God's plans are and hence, the candles.
Also, a note to my sister Jo who is the beneficiary of the above mentioned policy.
That money is for funeral expenses. That's right. The remaining, after that, is for you.
My Father's got one too.
:)

Category 1: My mother.
Category 2: Planning ahead?

2011-12-14T00:07:00.001+05:30

The are three places that I fell in love with.
The first was Gokarna. For the place.
The second was Nainital. For a person.
The third was Pondicherry. For the food.

2011-12-14T00:03:00.002+05:30

I find myself being kind now and again. Reluctantly so.

2011-12-12T15:48:00.000+05:30

Touchmenots.

If

2011-12-10T13:28:00.003+05:30

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream and not make dreams your master,
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them, "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And which is more you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Category: An exception, a rule

2011-12-10T13:26:00.000+05:30

She wouldn't let me hand over a glass of water to a poor, drunk man.
She insisted I give it to one of the boys who then gave it to him.
What could he have possibly done to me?
What could I have possibly done for him?

Globule

2011-12-10T09:25:00.000+05:30

Category: Ex-friends

2011-12-09T22:39:00.004+05:30

A man runs around the street shouting emergency, emergency at the cops. A woman riding a tvs pushes her over large helmet back from her face as she rides. A boy touches my hand, subtly.

2011-12-06T19:09:00.003+05:30

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there."
- Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

2011-12-06T16:04:00.000+05:30

The cuts are never clean.
Always jagged, open.

2011-12-06T11:26:00.002+05:30

Nothing like a spoonful of 'Aunty Susan'* to help the medicine go down.

Category 1: Maya/Medicine
Category 2: Humour

*Aunty Susan- Maya's nursery principal

2011-12-06T10:06:00.001+05:30

Goa ready

Category 1: Guess what about me is?
Category 2: :)

Recur

2011-12-06T09:56:00.002+05:30

It's almost as if I get one more clue as to what it's about every time I have one of them.
Normally I wake up with only a sense of what's happening. I never remember. I watch the blinking blue light of the wireless reflecting off the woodwork for a bit before I go back to sleep.
Last night was different. I didn't wake up. I only dreamed.
So far all I know is that I've done something terribly wrong. Making amends means I could die.
In the dream last night, I was making amends.

Category: Wake up, it'll be ok

Maids: An update

2011-12-05T00:14:00.003+05:30

It was time for Megan to get ready for school. My mom was trying to get her to put her socks on but every time she tried, Megan would cry that it was hurting her. Turns out there was sand in her socks.

So.

When Selvy(you all know Selvy. The thief.) came to work, she got a talking to and instructions that when socks are washed, they need to end up sandless. Capish?

Later in the day, my mom knocks on my door asking if I've seen Selvy.

No, I haven't. Maybe she's in the toilet upstairs.

An hour later, she still hasn't come back.

Later in the evening when she returned to possibly explain why she had walked off in a huff, she was politely told to bugger off.

The good news? Shalu's back.

Yay.

Shalu-The best maid with the worst attendance.

2011-12-02T23:08:00.001+05:30

I always thought that I was like rock. And everybody else, like water.

But I think it may be the other way around.

2011-12-02T09:55:00.000+05:30

So unrequired.

2011-11-29T15:31:00.002+05:30

-Are you going to get me a scooter for my birthday?
=Yes.
-A shiny one??

(Maya-Age 3)

Category 1: If it's shiny, it's sellable
Category 2: How women make their buying decisions

2011-11-28T19:01:00.003+05:30

I don't trust my knee not to buckle when I jump.

Category: Trust issues

2011-11-27T19:06:00.001+05:30

Shopping.

Category: Slow death

2011-11-26T12:29:00.000+05:30

"Il était une fois un petit prince qui habitait une planète à peine plus grande que lui, et qui avait besoin d'un ami..."
-Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Now that I can understand, I understand.

2011-11-26T11:49:00.000+05:30

I love Ander Pander like anything.

Category 1: Ex friends
Category 2: <3

2011-11-26T11:29:00.006+05:30

I hate liars.

One day I'll hate myself.

(Taken)

2011-11-25T19:58:00.002+05:30

The trick is to read the instructions.
ahahaha

Category 1: Loraspora
Category 2: Advice
Type: Free

2011-11-24T09:39:00.004+05:30

I woke up in a good mood.
Only to find out that the thief is back working for us :/
I've now been instructed to lock everything that can be
And also not to talk loudly about her thieving ways.
"We shouldn't give her ideas." my Mother says.

Category: Selvy, the new/old maid
Mood: :/

2011-11-23T16:33:00.000+05:30

I don't believe in anything.

Papel

2011-11-23T01:02:00.004+05:30

What he wants to know is this. If I wasn't funded then what was the point of me going to New York? I tried explaining but now I have a headache. I know this headache now, it's all too familiar. It's the communication breakdown headache and it hurts like hell. Physically. And it lingers the longest. So now I have to dissect it or I can't go on with my day. He's thinking money. He's thinking bottomlines. He's thinking if they didn't pay for my ticket then what's the big deal. He doesn't understand. He doesn't see that money is just pieces of paper only worth the things you can buy with it. Like a ray of light invisible until it falls on something worth seeing.

The one thing you wrote that I love.
Still In Transit: Papel

2011-11-23T00:48:00.004+05:30

It was a tough decision but someone had to do it.

Category 1: Laptop background
Category 2: Drool

2011-11-23T00:06:00.003+05:30

I only talk about stopping to care. I never actually do.

2011-11-22T20:23:00.001+05:30

I rode the scooter today.

Mood: :)

My Mother is an Ugly Woman

2011-11-22T13:22:00.000+05:30

http://www.mindtree.com/subrotobagchi/my-mother-is-an-ugly-woman/

2011-11-22T12:34:00.001+05:30

Missed dinner.
Again.
Sheesh.

2011-11-22T00:36:00.000+05:30

in love. asleep. apart

Category 1: Word games
Category 2: Mind games

Apathethic

2011-11-21T23:45:00.001+05:30

I was thinking about that word today. About how it was the only way I could possibly be to survive whatever it is I'm surviving. Everything I see is ugly. And now, a friend tells me that's what he's being.

Category: Ugliness everywhere

2011-11-21T12:55:00.001+05:30

There's this child who messages me.
I find it tedious to respond, so I don't.
I've just found myself in the position of that child.

2011-11-21T11:28:00.003+05:30

I dreamed again. The traces of it in my memory indicate that there was violence. Overwhelming it all, futility.

2011-11-21T01:37:00.000+05:30

Looking glass script.
:)

2011-11-21T00:31:00.001+05:30

Idealistic / Realistic

The Ides of March

2011-11-21T00:27:00.002+05:30

Slow. Serious. Interesting.

Category: Movie review

2011-11-21T00:26:00.000+05:30

The path of least resistance.

2011-11-20T16:34:00.002+05:30

We have no maid.
Today I did a load of washing, cleaned my bathroom and I'm going to be doing some more housework post this post.
It makes me realize how insufficient I am. How convenience has made me water fat.

Category: Rectifying that
Wondering: Who gets the reference

2011-11-20T12:00:00.001+05:30

The best things in life are either
A) free or
B) very, very expensive

2011-11-20T10:23:00.001+05:30

There's only one reason I come out.
So I guess I'm being antisocial too.

Mode: Antisocial

2011-11-20T00:27:00.001+05:30

There's a saying (translated):
Stuck between a tiger and a wall.

2011-11-20T00:25:00.000+05:30

It's hard to care. It's hard not to.

2011-11-19T16:19:00.001+05:30

Questioning.

2011-11-19T10:23:00.002+05:30

A cupboard full of clothes and nothing to wear

About: Eliminating the need to think about something like that

2011-11-19T04:18:00.001+05:30

Want.
More than I could possibly ever have.

2011-11-17T20:02:00.001+05:30

Rome wasn't built in a day.

About: Comments on my ability to saw straight
Category: Carpentry lessons

2011-11-17T19:10:00.001+05:30

Be kind.

2011-11-17T16:20:00.000+05:30

When I was a child, I never understood the implication of this question.
'Own house?'

2011-11-16T23:58:00.000+05:30

I wonder if anyone can hear the story I haven't told.
It isn't my story, but it's there. Very much so.

2011-11-16T23:50:00.002+05:30

The stories that aren't told.

Here's one.
Imagine the possibility that this world is virtual. It's something made up by someone. It's one tiny thing among a million.
Imagine looking down at the millions. And among them you pick out the world. Tiny. And look closer. There's someone hoarding their gold.

How much is it worth?

2011-11-16T21:36:00.001+05:30

I 25% contributed to making something beautiful today.
Maybe we'll have a picture soon.

Mood: Happy

2011-11-16T21:22:00.003+05:30

'Do you have a boyfriend? Lover? Married?', she asked.

2011-11-15T23:10:00.004+05:30

Write less, learn more.

2011-11-15T21:24:00.001+05:30

Star crossed.

2011-11-15T16:48:00.002+05:30

The world's going to end, we're all going to die.
If that doesn't put things in perspective, nothing will.
Stop being so sad. And all you happy people, you're going to die too.
Heh :)
You can do anything you want in the mean time. Anything.
So go do it.

Category: Stop being sad

2011-11-15T12:12:00.002+05:30

She woke me up this morning to run and she laughed when I cracked jokes about people on the street, her and myself.

Category: :)

2011-11-15T12:08:00.000+05:30

I'm turning into you and you, me.
You're remembering to eat your meals and I'm forgetting.

2011-11-15T12:01:00.000+05:30

“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.

I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life.”

I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.

I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.

People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

― Maya Angelou

(taken from a rabbit. a yellow one)

2011-11-15T11:54:00.002+05:30

I'm not unhappy. In fact, I'll even concede that I'm a relatively happy person.
And yet, I always feel as if I've got this melancholy air about me.
What's that about?

2011-11-14T18:51:00.000+05:30

There's a saying.
'Strike while the iron is hot.'

2011-11-14T17:07:00.001+05:30

She drew stars on our hands because that's what we are.

2011-11-14T16:13:00.002+05:30

The misery, as it were, stemmed form fatigue, cold and boredom.

Status: OK

2011-11-14T02:52:00.002+05:30

The only thing I want to do and I'm doing exactly that is be miserable.

2011-11-14T01:08:00.001+05:30

I suppose lack makes people steal.
But mostly I think it's greed.