Fabulous Yellow Roman Candles Exploding

If extraordinary is normal. Let's be normal.

A Long December

To Counting Crows and my friend.
I wish you all the luck in the world.
:)

How careful I am with others things. How careless with my own.


Category: Carelessness

Terrible Times

The following seem to have gone missing in the last month.

-My pretty diamond earrings
-My love interest
-My phone (which I love) and
-My secret talismans

I don't know if this is a combination of bad luck and carelessness or simply an encounter with thieves!
What a terrible time I've been having.

I like challenges. Challenge accepted.


Category: Having your work cut out for you

I must be tired of something.

There is no rest for the wicked.

Merry Christmas everybody.

Love,
The Grinch

Christmas

This year, I bought most of my presents in advance, even wrapped them all up myself, even though my true self had initially gotten one of my darling sisters to agree to do it for me.
I listened to annoying Preethi Sagar type Christmas carols among others.
My dress is ready and to be picked up tomorrow.
I'm determined to reach mass on time and suffer through the entire process.

I am a changed person.



Category 1: I don't do well with church
Category 2: I hate shopping when it's over an hour
Category 3: Preethi Sagar is annoying as
Category 4: I hate wrapping presents
Category 5: I love giving presents

I don't understand.

She's beautiful. And fun. And pretty cool.
You would imagine that someone like her would have the stereotype.
The happily ever after as a matter of course.

And yet, on her wedding day, she wasn't sure. She was freaking out.
I'm sure.

She settled.

We had a long, lazy breakfast. The only decent kind of breakfast to have on a Sunday morning. An intellectual conversation included. We shopped for ginger wine and did a brilliant job with our painting project while discussing Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory and taking pot shots at each other for fun.

I haven't spent this much time with my family in a long time. 

Category: Loving it.

Today I felt like we achieved something.

Category: :)

2012

The year of the jackass.

What I should be feeling

Relieved.

I feel

A little bit stupid.

What are you doing in the world??

- Megan Sitara
(Meaning to say: What in the world are you doing??)

Disgusted

I didn't judge. I'm not going to.

I like social norms except when they interfere with what I feel like doing.

I love Mother Mary, Saint Joseph, Baby Jesus and Santa Clause.

- Megan Sitara

Mountain maal

Being someone else.

Category: The most tiring thing in the world

Intouchable

People lose their cool all the time.
I think I'm going to refuse to. Outright.

Racing Along

Two different people, an entrepreneur and an artist on separate occasions spoke about a woman that I don't know.

The first called her a dear friend. The second, someone who tried to intimidate him with her chest (a trick she probably picked up in B-school?).

 People have always interested me and now rodents do too.

The internet will haunt you till you die, won't it?


Category: If you let it

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same

It's a good day when you meet someone interesting, engaging.

Nothing's worth it if you're not having fun.

All around me I see them.

Category: Performing Monkeys

I personally think children should take precedence over love interests.

I'm thinking right now about who would have come to the airport with me tonight so I wouldn't have to go on my own. I can count 5 people. 1 I don't talk to anymore, 2 don't live here, another would be in appropriate to take along and the last I've stopped spending time with, so, it would just be weird to ask.

Looks like I'll be going on my own.

It's so easy to forget. Out of sight is out of touch.

My mom thinks there's a ghost living in the empty apartment upstairs. She hears someone running up and down every night.  I can hear someone running right now. It's 3:00 AM.

She closed herself in and closed us out.

Lazy people can't stand people who aren't.

I think that this person is stepping down. Stepping out. And while this can only be considered a good thing, for me it is a sad thing.

I drink tea out of a small plastic cup. Twice a day. Everyday. I seem to think that having tea twice a day would make a difference to the life of the man selling it. I wish I didn't. I wish it wouldn't.

I hate tea.

That bull from Times Now is  bellowing. It's like he's sitting in my head. :/

I will put up the Europe pictures.

Category: Resolute

I thought that this phase. All this attention. That it would go away in a little while. It hasn't.
I wonder why it wasn't there when I cared.

Life gives you things when it no longer matters 

Now and again I wonder why I open these cans of worms. Boredom I think.

Maya turns 5

The saddest thing

I read once about a Russian girl. A 9 year old. She was selling her body and when the journalist asked her why, she said it was because she wanted to buy a barbie doll.

Category: The saddest thing in the world

I always knew we were, we are, friends because I truly believe you're a good person.

But good people don't do bad things.

The new additions

The slacker, the intern and the gay guy.

Category: The office

Ctrl Q

All you need in life is a cup of tea and a sense of humour, really.

Courtesy: http://yetanotherbloomingblog.blogspot.in/

Saigon Kick

Category: Dubai

Notes

Perceived value

My Girls

J, K, L, M, N

Category: <3 p="p">

There are some people who have a capacity to make you feel like something special.

Thank you for that and the pizza.

Consider.Inconsider

The office B has been located. No doubt about that.

:)

For a little while I'm myself.
I'm not working all the time. I'm not wondering why.

For every person that tries to push you down, there are at least three that will try to pull you up.
The odds are in our favour. 

How could I?
How could I assault them with the way I think?

The world spins madly on.

I always say that I'd rather be on my own than have friends that didn't meet the bar.
And if you make even one friend in the course of 3 or 7 years, you're lucky.


Category: Pure luck

So, I've discovered a new super power and in the process hit a new low.
The super power is looking 5 years younger than I actually am and the sub super power off shoot that comes free with the super power is that I attract people who are also 5-7 years younger.
Whoop! :/


Category: Where have the old people gone?

Not Normal

My Mother calls Akshay Kumar 'Akki' for short.


Category: Funniest thing I've heard all day

Mind Control

Ads on Star TV

Girl tops board exam because she uses whisper pads.

Category: Funniest thing I've heard all day

I miss being real. So much.

I can't decide whether I want to be inspired or entertained.

Dream

I have to write this down. It's the only nice dream I've ever had. My total collection consisting of 2 nightmares and a succession of dreams where I've dropped the ball and forgotten why, yes forgotten, with catastrophic repercussions (seriously wtf).

In this dream there's stone. A stone room. Arches that I can see out of and trees. All I can see is trees right outside the arches and sunlight. Muted but streaming. I'm in my bed. It's clearly my room. It's beautiful. I'm happy.

Category: In another life

I like people a lot. I dislike them just as much.

I met this person I used to know. And when I knew him he was mad and independent and adventurous.
I'd like to think that nothing's changed.

How to have fun while cleaning the car

1) Put the radio on loud
2) Slaves

This post is important mainly because of the people in it.

Who LOVES working on a Saturday?

The higher the horse, the harder the fall.

work hard.work fast

Save the straightforwardness for things that matter.

Counting Crows

I can't remember who I associate it with but the it's good. It's all good.

Category: Films about ghosts

Pony rides

I think I'll swap my horse for a pony for a little while.

Category: High

I've lived around deserts and I've lived in the city but I've never lived near an open field and yet, that place was familiar. Inexplicably so.

Category: In another life

Worn out faces, worn out places

Fans remind me of summer. Summer reminds me of open spaces. I miss open spaces.

Managing Expectations

She told us today to do what I've always told people to do.
Under commit. Over deliver.

Category: Great minds?

Tired. Tiring. Tiresome.

Category: Me

Tired. Tiring. Tiresome.

Category: People

"Is that from Zara??" "No, it's from Forever21." "I saw the same thing in Mango." "I love Promod clothes."



Category: Slow death

It isn't difficult to seperate the wheat from the chaff. The couth from the uncouth.

Hail Mary full of grace
The Lord is in the pillowcase

Category: My Father teaching Little Megan her prayers

Ugly

The only beautiful thing about her was her smile.

And her mind.

I'm loving the stupid haircut.
I got annoyed with the fringe the hairdresser foisted on me. She told me my ugly forehead needed to be covered up.
I chopped it off the next morning. The fringe. By my self. That's right. I have the hair cutting skills of a monkey.

My forehead isn't ugly.

 

I have a lot of pictures waiting.
Just waiting.

The Best :)

http://xkcd.com/1110/

Trust

As little as I like to acknowledge people who fall outside of the purview of my expectations, I need to trust that people as a rule are good and not just shells of empty, stupidity or self absorption.
Trust.

Google's taking over the world.
And we don't mind.


:)

That would be you then.









:)

We spoke about being cultured today.
We agreed.
You either are or you aren't.

Blurry

Nobody told me what you thought.
Nobody told me what to say.

People like the type I met today make me appreciate the people I know more than ever.

Mood: Slightly disturbed

Thinly veiled. Thickly veiled.

Category: What I am. What I want to be

I don't trust people that wear leopard print anything.

Be more.

Yesterday was goodbye. On a good note.

I hate church like anything.

Current state: Dying

Category1: Blogging in church

Category2: Shortcuts to Hell

 

EVERY workplace has its stereotypes. Most especially an office filled with women.
As a part of my new recreational program, I've started the process of stereotyping.
To categorize them briefly, so far, we've got:
-The office boss, who's awesome
-Then there's the office creep. He's called Jeepers
-There's the office innocent and the office foul mouth
-The office hottie and the kind girl
-There's the calm girl and the drama queen
-The office boy (the only male apart from Jeepers) and the office assistant
-There's the office mute and the office ditz

I haven't figured out the office bitch, office know it all or office slut yet.

That being said, the colleagues overall are smart, funny and intelligent. Oh AND good looking.
This office seems to hire only good looking people! So, if you're good looking and looking for a job...

Category: The office

We'll make a plan. It will be ok.

How old do I look?

People will lie to you.
Don't lie to yourself.

I

elitist
a snob

All the things we loved. All the things we ate as children.
She gets them the same things :)

Category: Ham, sausages, caramel custard, jelly, olives, mushrooms, cheese, ice cream

The end of an era

Bore. Boring. Bored.

It takes very little sometimes to turn a man into a woman.

Category: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

Talismans

I love them. These little things. Stupid really. And still, there's one on my hand. Another in my wallet. One more in my bag. Just like that.

I told my friend Kat yesterday that asking a thinking person to stop believing in logic was like telling a religious person to stop believing in God. That it was just cruel to do something like that.

Category: :)

There were those that were
One that needed to latch onto someone to make him
A couple who bought into brands to be
And another who probably just needed a man to feel

Category: Incomplete

Tied up. Tied down.

Run. Read. Recover.

If you lose your purpose, it's like you're broken.
- Hugo

Life is beautiful

Jumping off the bridge-Zurich

Not enough hours in the day. No.

I've made 4 different plans with 4 different people for tomorrow. I will only end up doing one of them.
Soon I will have no friends.

I always believed you were a good person.
But good people don't do bad things.

How would a close friend describe you?

Serious. Loyal. Petulant.

'What, do I look like I need a wingman?', she said sarcastically, indicating to herself with her hand when someone joked about her best friend being that.


Category: Bitch, please

I've been lucky in exactly two areas.
-Best friends
-Sisters

Category: <3

Never one, always two, sometimes three.

Category 1: WTF
Category 2: Love

Barely enough to hold on.

Hampi. Anytime.


Category: <3

Avalanchi

Pictures will never replace being there

Location: Ooty

When everybody loves you
That's just about as funky as you can be.
-Mr. Jones, Counting Crows

I had decided the day before that I would judge people based on how they treated animals.
And then  there you were the next day, feeding that dog at the airport.
Who would have thought.

Category: <3

So many lovely people to look forward to.

About me: Lucky

Why can't we all be just a little stereotypical? Seriously.


Category: Breaking the stereotype becomes the stereotype
(:

In the blink of an eye, you finally see the light.
-Amazing, Aerosmith

Spread thin.

He's cutting, rude and obnoxious.
But very funny.

Category 1: Akshay
Category 2: <3

Waiting for it to all go to hell.

You can't force someone to feel a certain way.
Especially not yourself.

Hampi

Category: <3
Tags: Lester, Jeff, Shrada, Surekha, Kiran

While we're shattered, our emotions in pieces all over the place,
There's a calm rationale running alongside, all around, holding it all together.

If a boy's paying attention to you, there's no chance that he wants to be friends, is there?
:/

I don't laugh like that with just anybody but I suspect you do, with everybody.

Category: My potential friend
Position of fingers: Crossed

There's no place for me. Wherever you may be.

I have a baby girl.
(Message from May 24th)

Category: <3

I hate the idea of having to slum it through the holidays (ie. cut down on my shopping).
The only solution...
Make more money.

I don't know why people are so taken with misdirection.
It's stupid not clever.
Unless it's magic tricks. Then it's awesome.

Push over. Pull over

Category 1: :)
Category 2: Lester

An unending Sunday.

Mood: Happy

I don't think half the people who asked what my name / twitter handle was would have, if they knew how old I was

Category: #KFBeerup

When people say that they want to go climbing with me, I actually believe them.

About me: Dumb

By clubbing yourself with the lot, you separate yourself from it.


Category: Particle theory

Violate.
Inviolate.

I found out yesterday that  Satyamev Jayate [May truth prevail], is the national motto of our country.

Category1: Funniest thing I've heard all day
Category2: I love my India

Today I swam 10 laps, actually make that 11 (I was tricked into doing 11), in the small Catholic Club swimming pool. I also cycled a stretch of 10kms after that. Imagine that, for someone who hates 1) Cold water 2) Exercise

I share this oh so exciting news with my sister who looks down her nose disdainfully at me and indicates that this really isn't a big deal. (She just ran 10kms in an hour this morning)

Looks like we're turning into a couple of enthu cutlets.

Category 1: My favourite kind of cutlet
Category 2: Getting stronger

I understand. I wish I didn't have to acknowledge that I did.

My sister was talking about words peculiar to Indians.
Here are my favourites. Peculiar to a 6km radius from the center of the Universe.
-Amma Potey
-Aunty Shanti
-Enthu cutlet
-Sidey/Super sidey
-Sad, very sad
-Fail
-Cancel that
-What and all
-What for me?

Rider

It's my soul. It's valuable.
Let's sell it.

Born Again Believers scare the bejesus out of me.

Category: Eek

Cooke Town is the center of the universe.
In case anyone was wondering.

My mind has learned to stay awake.
If only my body would follow suit and stop hurting.

Category: Wake up it'll be ok

My favourite kind of cutlet.

Category: Enthu cutlet.

When I said I was light years ahead of you,
I meant it.








Maybe we aren't so far apart anymore.

I think existentialists and great philosophers have too much time on their hands.
They should get out and do some real work or watch a movie.


That being said, developing coordinate geometry does count as work and I also kind of think I have a crush on Descartes 

I find things beautiful.
And you'd imagine that everybody else would see it too.

Nobody does.

New Boy

I think this person has an alarming capacity to talk,
An alarming capacity to listen.

You know, you don't have to buy into everything you read
Or what people say.

That's what you have a mind for.
A rational, thinking, emotional mind.

I'm not even sure why I care enough to say this.

So...

As it turns out, the key to getting more hours into your day
IS to sleep less.


Mood: Dancing on the ceiling
:/

Not enough hours in the day.
Not enough days in the week.

Category: There is no rest for the wicked

One of those days when you want to escape into your head.
Realizing you can't escape from where you already are.

Category: Sitting all alone inside your head

I'm grumpy, happy, angry and pleased, all at the same time. All for different reasons.
Category: Secret things in my mind, secret things in my bag

When everything's rushed and people speak like there's a motor attached to their mouth and flit over to the next thing before you've even completed your sentence.
I like to speak slowly. As if I have all the time in the world.

Category: As if

I never want to be that woman.

Quand le moment vient, faut sauter la barrière sans hésiter.

Psychobabble

She said that the basis of their relationship was trust.
She spoke bravely saying that it was.

A kiss on the neck.
Not hers.
She'll never know.

I'd forgotten what it feels like to be jealous.
I see it control me.
There was nothing I could do about it but stand back and watch as it destroyed everything I meant to be.


Category: Bare

I'd like a sacrificial goat.

Grief

Box it up.
Keep everything in.
Close everyone out.

May

The month for burning bridges.
Three people bothered me last week.
Two I mentally cut off without a second thought.
The third, the albatross round my neck.

Category: Let's blast it all to hell

Muse.
Amuse.

I've been instructed not to lose needles on the bed.
I never listen.

Category: Really not looking forward to going to bed tonight
:/

To be able to wake up when your body does and not before.

Category: Happiness

Damn

Some people, have their bridges built for them.
The others, they just have to build their own.

Category: Beavers

Prelude Allude Delude

Still a man hears only what he wants to hear and disregards the rest
- The Boxer, Simon and Garfunkel

Not enough hours in the day.

Megan (age 6, while getting caught impermissibly slathering bright pink nail polish on her hands): Can you see me?? I'm doing a new ninja technique.

Category: Megan

Vanity, my favourite sin.

I would like

This and this

Yann Tiersen - comptine d'un autre été: l'après-midi

I've also been informed that Alpha Males are a myth.
Like I'd take the word of some person over Wikipedia.


Category: Alpha, alpha minus and beta plus males rock. Alpha females are just irritating

Makes you laugh a little slower, makes you talk a little lower.

I get super irritated when people understand the exact OPPOSITE of what I'm saying.
I mean, how bad could my communication skills be?


Eg.Me: You see that dog on the left?
 Other person: Right??
 
I'm not saying they're dumb.
Ok, that's what I'm saying.

I never apologized.
How could I?
I wasn't wrong.

Did you know that you could be wrong
And swear you're right

My Arshad left town.
Bummer :/

Update: He came back.
 This is getting old.

Eventually, they stop bothering. As they should.

Maya (Age 4)

She looks at this big tear in her night dress and is a bit annoyed, thinking that Megan, her sister's, done it.
She then shrugs, resigns herself and says, "Let it be. Lot's of fresh air has to come in."

Category: Maya
:)

It feels slightly wrong to be happy.

How difficult could this be?

-Exercise
-Study
-Work
-Read
-Paint
-Make jewelry
-Stitch
-Watch movies
-Swim
-Climb

:/

I feel like having my own house and some green tea with honey.

My Arshad is in town :)

Mood: Happy

Out of sight is out of touch.
All the way is far enough.

You could be wrong and still be right.

So many things to savour.

Mood: Savoury

Hank Moody is a fictional character.
Just saying.

Watch Her Disappear

I love when things are implicit.
When humour and ideas are implied.
I can't bear it when people feel the need to discuss it and ruin it.

They're like low grade cement.

Thinkers and talkers are tedious.
That's all there is to it.



Fancy yourself a thinker??
:) :)

How to plan to take over the world

Pi: IDEALLY speaking
this works in a year or so
and someone buys it off from me
and I retire to Goa with my own shack
Me: lol
sounds good
Pi: :)
Me: I'll come visit
Pi: I'll have a hammock put out for you no need to pay stupid hotel guys
Me: I'll keep my sun hat ready
Pi: heha
ok chica, I'm going to crash now remember.
confidential for now!

Aren't all of us stuck with the choices we make?

I wish I could manage it.
I wish I could be less affected by it.
Act more unaffected.

I try.

It always happens.
When you give these little people power, it goes to their heads.
Like strong drink.
-Lady Grantham, Dowager Duchess of Downton

(:

I knew an awesome person once (I've known at least 8) and I lost him. It was sheer carelessness.
I hate losing.

I should just give up and get up.
Not the ideal start to my Saturday morning.

I cut my hair by myself because it was falling in my face.

It just occurred to me that in an unrelated move, Megan(my 6 year old god child) did the same thing a couple of weeks ago.

I really should stop asking myself why Megan does the things she does.

I'm reading.
And eating chocolates.

That's all I feel like doing.
That's all I'm doing.

Mood: Happy

I didn't go to Goa.
I bought a book instead.

Illusions aren't real.


Category 1: Blue pill, red pill
Category 2: It's only in your head

When her friends (the Seven Dwarves) found out about it,
they telephoned Prince Charming.


If only it was that easy.
:)


L'histoire de Blanche Neige

In that case, more for me :)

Category: Nutella

It's only in your head.

off beat, interesting, kind

The only people for me are the mad ones.

Black tongue.

Weird

Courtesy: http://pispeak.blogspot.in/

"A house can have integrity, just like a person and just as seldom."
- Roark

So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?

It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.

Having to deal with someone just like yourself.

Category: Karma
[Try to be a better person ]

I wish I didn't have to budget.
:/

Category: Work hard, work smart

If I had to describe anything, I'd say it was circular.
And layered.


Category: The world is just a great big onion

Core

Like your abs, your mind needs to be strong.

Unlucky

Yesterday I felt unlucky.
Today I saw a 6 year old carrying a pot of water
And an old faced 14 year old pushing a pani puri cart.

I don't know the first thing about being unlucky.  

I'd have risked the isolation and boredom for the connect.

60,000 Rupees

-A face painter working 20 days a month, 4 hours a day
-A photographer working 10 days a month, 8 hours a day
-A comedian working 1 day a month, 4 hours a day
-A singer working 3 days a month, 2 hours a day
-An MC working 4 days a month, 4 hours a day


Very ordinary people at very ordinary jobs.

The price?
Insecurity.

I don't want to save the world.
Not from a thief government
Not from religious nuts
Not from consumerism
Not from anything.
I have no purpose.

I just long to be entertained.

I wish you weren't so afraid of failing.

Category: The truth is, we all are

There's this girl. She's quite beautiful. She seems a bit mental.
Or maybe she's just young and experimental.
She has a tattoo. On her hand.
Of her mother's signature, ending with her mother's favourite flower. A lily.


We do everything we can to hold on.

These days are rare.


Category: 80 on a Sunday morning
Mood: Happy

Everything's so blurry
And everyone's so fake

I caught myself smiling today. At the children playing.
They're so beautiful. All of them.
They belong to my sisters but they're also mine, aren't they?
A little bit.

I'm getting lovely and brown(er)

Category: Lovin' summer

All the conversations I have in my head these days happen with a Brit accent.

Category: Downton Abbey
:)

What do I do with all the emotion?
Box it up and put it away.
What else?

The truth is neither here nor there.
It's the look of the thing that matters.

-Dowager Countess of Grantham, Downton Abbey

Imparfait

Aren't we all?

It's strange how
You feel this slight movement, a slight tremor
And you know, somewhere, someone's world is falling apart.

Emotion, yet peace.
Ignorance, yet knowledge.
Passion, yet serenity.
Chaos, yet harmony.
Death, yet the Force.

-Jedi Code

I'm learning to be calm.


Category: Not there yet

It's difficult to betray promises that were never made.


Category: Judas

It irritated me yesterday that two people that I'm not attracted to or attached to, in separate incidents, kept leaning in on my space. Very irritating.

There's no story here. No.

I'm not good with church. Thank god I'll be missing it. I won't however be missing hot cross buns, Easter lunch or Easter eggs.

Category : There's beauty in the breakdown

I hate when things are over.

The Tamil Good Friday mass singers sound like dying cats.

My sister asked my other sister to harvest her crops on some game on Facebook otherwise her helper would eat them.

Guess who ultimately ended up harvesting crops on Facebook today.


Category: The things we do for family

Leveling the field.

Negative

I'm learning the hard way, that it doesn't pay to be on time in events.
No one else is.

I just whistled at a bunch of boys.
(In my head)
:)

Readymix
:)

Sling

I woke up to the smell of rain today.
For a few minutes, everything was ok.

I miss meat like anything.

About : Hating lent

I'd like to wear something that fits like a sock.
Sadly, I don't own anything like that.

Heh :)

I often hate meeting new people. The filtration process is such a bore.

-I've have all your stories. Don't you miss writing?
=I do.



About: Writers and entertainers and people you can love

You’d think that a woman who’s been trampled on and scarred, would do anything in her power to never be trampled on again….

(Taken from a Yellow Rabbit)
Tagged: Idiots

The roads feel like sewers.
The traffic, like sewage.


Category : Sewage

Poise and rationality

Why I like Gareth Hoover

He doesn't hold a grudge forever, the way I do.

Category : Gareth Hoover

There's this person who was talking to me about the masses, sheep mentality, corporations and the responsibility of the artists to try to make available to the masses the choice to be free. It was not everybody that would see, but only a few.
So I heard, 'chosen few', 'free choice'(which I translated into 'free will') and 'he who can see, let him see'. Sounded like Jesus to me.
I told him so (tongue in cheek of course).

He went ape shit on me.
:/


Category: Jesus of suburbia

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

"If you want my advice, Peter, you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?"

People flirt and smile a lot more in summer.

Category : Lovin' summer

I'm only caring about what I care about at the moment. Not sure why.

Category : Want, feel, need, don't

My question is, if he took the blue pill, so what?


Category: The apathetic

Thinkers can be tiring, tiresome.


Category: I think, therefore I am

I could love someone just for their tongue in cheek sense of humour. I truly could.
I could forgive them their trespasses too.
:)

6. be happy.
7. smile.

The Hunger Games.
Not bad.

Category : Movie review

I launder money. Literally.

Fear is crippling.

Nauseating or sweet?

Defenses down

I'm Sexy And I Know It

I love the song for the sheer audacity of it.
:)

I <3 Shalu

I'm lovin' summer.

A rock, a hard place.
The devil, the deep blue sea
Losing you, hating myself.

When we were breaking up, when I was breaking down,
I wanted you to deal with the outburst, to tell me that it was ok,
But you couldn't, because it wasn't.

Condemned to silence

How can I blame you?
I was there too.

The wheel breaks the butterfly.

Sherlock Holmes: [sarcastic] Oh, you meant "spectacularly ignorant" in a nice way! Look, it doesn't matter to me who's Prime Minister, or who's sleeping with who--
John Watson: [somewhat bitterly] Or that the earth goes around the sun.
Sherlock Holmes: Oh God, that again! It's not important!
John Watson: Not important? It's primary school stuff! How can you not know that?
Sherlock Holmes: Well, if I ever did, I've deleted it.
John Watson: "Deleted it"?
Sherlock Holmes: Listen: [gets up and points to his head] This is my harddrive, and it only makes sense to put things in there that are useful. Really useful. Ordinary people fill their heads with all kinds of rubbish, and that makes it hard to get at the stuff that matters! Do you see?

I want the world to shut up for a while. Just shut up. And sit down.

General Knowledge and Trivia

I don't see any point to it apart from
A)Parading yourself around as someone who knows it all
B)Winning free booze at Booze and Brains

Are you seeing someone?

-Are you seeing some one?
=I'm always seeing someone.
-So, are you really seeing someone?
=Sort of.

Category 1: Questions at work today
Category 2: Safe answers

Maria makes me laugh.
No, she doesn't. Not even a little.

Category: French class
:/

I love how the ordinary can be so extraordinary.
I love how the mundane can break your heart.

:)

High Maintenance

I only yesterday realized how high maintenance I am. Yesterday, my boss asked me if I wanted to go to a concert, some Shanker, Ishan and another person.
The first thing I do is make a face and ask if it'll be nice, adding that if it's Carnatic I'm not coming. He says it's not. I then say, I'd like to go, but is it okay if I cancel at the last minute, in case I change my mind. He says, ok. Then I explain that the reason I never go for concerts is because they're always at Palace Grounds and the dust! and the crowd! I then want to know if it's a sit down concert. My boss is slightly flabbergasted by now, so I explain that the last concert I went to at Palace Grounds (the German Film Orchestra)was a sit down one. So, he says no, it's not like that but it shouldn't be too much of a crowd. Only about 1500 people.

1500 people :/

So, I'm going but I think I shouldn't be invited to concerts ever.

Fight or Flight

I was thinking about compulsive liars yesterday. I wonder why they do that. It usually isn't even about anything of significance.I'm starting to think it's an inherent survival tactic.Perhaps their gene pool decided that flight (escape through a lie) would ensure the survival of their kind. Me, personally,for the most part but not always, I'd say what I had to say and handle the situation. I'd fight I suppose.
Does that mean I have stronger genes or stupider? I'd like to think the former.

Category: Lying compulsively

The water was beautiful. I didn't take twenty minutes to get in the way I usually do. The hot shower and beef burger later were even better.

Mood : Happy

Maybe it wasn't cheating.
Maybe it was just a different value system.

Category : Karma

Slightly inspired

Out of nothing at all.

My best friend says I'm mean.
Because of a picture I put up.
I think she thinks she looks fat in it.
I don't see it.
I think when you know someone, they look beautiful to you.
It doesn't matter what they think they look like.

Vulcan

At best, I'll be in Goa.
At worst, I'll be in the Catholic Club pool.

Don't be scared.
Scare.

About me : Practicing my scary look

Learn to be brave.

Other side of the world-KT Tunstall
Hide and Seek-Imogen Heap
Por una cabeza-Carlos Gardel
Somebody that I used to know-Gotye

sincity.thegreatgatsby.hampi.pi..
banksy.lace.nirada.stringtheory.
rockclimbing.vforvendetta.touch.
hotwater.constantine.bostonlegal.
dashboardconfessional.shortshorts.
porunacabeza.caribiner.speed.adrian.
tokillamockingbird.asimov.gaiman.a2j

Let
the
full
weight
of
who
you
are
fall
on
people
and
let
them
deal
with
it

There are few things that I love. Fewer people.
But I have to admit, I love Banksy. It's hard not to.

:)

Put a spin on it.

Pandora

I don't know what to do with the sadness.

What could I possibly know about that.

Judging Kushy

It's not something perverted. It's something perfectly natural.
-Kushy

[High Five Kushy]
:)

Unabashedly.
I'd have liked that.

Excerpt- Chapter 6

They all had their edges and her's was a jagged one. She stayed very close to it, waiting. She had no choice.

-The Story

Did circumstance cage me in?
Did I do it myself.


Category: It's only in your head

Currently I like green. Dull green and gold.
It isn't my favourite colour at all.
I like dull yellows too. And reds and blues and rusts.
For the moment.


Category 1: What's my favourite colour?
Category 2: Let's be dull

We watch every single movie that comes out.
I'm not entirely sure why.

Category: Avinash and I

I want an uncomplicated answer she tells me. Just answer, she says.
I can't.

Category : Things I'm incapable of
The question : What's your favourite colour?

Dilemma of the Day

Bikini or monokini?

Category : Hurray for summer
:)

Today's DIY

How do I remove super glue from clothes?

Note to self: Leave mochi work to the mochi because you're SUCH A FAIL at it

Mood: :/

Juvenile. That's the only word for it.

The Fundamental Truth

is that I'm a sore loser.
The government owns me.

Mood: Angry
X|

so you want to be a writer?

so you want to be a writer?
by Charles Bukowski

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.


if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.

if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.

don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.

when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.

there is no other way.

and there never was.

I think I'm going to let this little faux pas that's in fashion pass.

Category : Those funny pants that pleat and bloat at the hips

The small town smell of Vishakapatnam.

Paranoia dreams

Bigger than me.
Stronger than me.

Andrew: Radhika said she thought we were cousins.
Andrew: I said, good looks run in the family.

High five Ander Pander
(:

I'm trying to figure out what the best flight timing for me would be.
11am?

There is no rest for the wicked.

Me: Maybe next time round it'll be better.
He: What was wrong with this time? What do you want different?
Me: I want Superstardom!

Category: Superstars
:)

Isn't the contentedness that comes with mediocrity
just as awesome as the exhilaration of superstardom?

Category: Superstars

You'll always be ok.
:)

I told someone that I missed them.
I'm not exactly sure that I did.
I miss people rarely.
Or not at all.

"How old do you think I am??" I asked the boys as they seemed to be talking to me like I was a little girl.
One boy blushes and says, "Charming."
The second mumbles, "Sixteen."

Category 1: Sixteen and charming
Category 2: Other reasons why I love Chennai


:)
[I'm 30]

Anywhere and everywhere.

I don't care about good looking people.
I care about good people.

Law: Megan, why are you so...
Meg: Busted?

Category: Megan
Age: 5

Once you rule out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
-Sherlock
:)

Where am I?


Category: Maslov's Hierachy

He is attached to me, the way I am to him.
I understand completely.

Question 1: Who is he?
Question 2: Who is him?

Fragile

The television on in a semi dark room, bereft of people, at five in the morning can seem pretty surreal. But that was the situation Friday morning as I left the house and as I stepped out of the house, the man on the TV said, don't carry your issues or problems with you beyond the end of the day.
So, based on absolutely nothing, I decided he was right.

About: My mom's yoga teacher

My own bathroom.
My own hot shower.


Category: <3

There's beauty in the breakdown.

How to kill a tree

The very first thing you do, is bring religion into it.
That's right.
A few years ago, maybe 3, my friend Gareth noticed a picture of a Hindu god at the base of the tree. He immediately took it and threw it aside, explaining the intention behind it. That is, a future area of worship. He said it could turn out to be a nuisance.
The next day, the picture was back there. Remembering what Gareth had said, I took it to throw it aside. When I did, this is what I saw, a certain kind of ant/termite, presumably meat eating because they were placed behind the picture at the base of the tree along with some chicken bones and sticky mud. (Yuck). Ready made start up tools for an ant hill/ future shrine to the Gods. The things people get suckered into praying to.
So the picture of God eventually disappeared but as it turns out, the termites stayed. And one day about four years later, someone discovered that the inside of the tree was rotting. So the forest department turned up, and cut it down. This tree that's been around all our lives. Just like that.
Just. Like. That.

I have a theory, that the state of your room reflects the state of your life.
Mine's a disaster area and I just don't feel like cleaning up. But I am.

What does your room look like?

Not enough hours in the day

-Should I sleep less?
-Plan my day better?
-Not meet anyone?

Category: Argh

Because it is

It's all for the best.

Loving my new love handles.

Category: About me
How to get them: Eat ghee EVERYDAY for ten days
Mood: Pretty darn good :)

My older Mallu born again believer roommate Sneha
trying to explain the meaning of 'hump'
from the Black eyed peas, 'My Humps'
to my Iranian roommate Saba.

She kept singing it the WHOLE time.

Category 1: My Humps
Category 2: Funny

I want out.
Of
here.

I have to get my mind together
and try.

Nothing matters today.
I don't know if this means
a)That I'm free
b)That my carefully built up world is crumbling OR
c)I'm pining for a holiday

Sometimes, now and again
When I remember who you were
And how we used to be
I miss you.


Category: Bison

Don't give me choice.

The truth is, I like children the same way I like people.
Discriminately.

Unakkum Enakkum

We, Arshad and I,were doing some work in the Beach Area and when we were done, he asked me if it was my first time in Chennai and I said, yes. He asked me if I'd been to the beach and when I said no, he asked me if I wanted to go and I said yes.

So, we got onto his yellow sports bike and went.

We sat on the shore and as invariably as always, a vendor came up to us. An old man. Only when he started to say things like, we'd have two babies, did I realize what we looked like, and worse, it was Valentine's Day. We didn't buy anything from him and so he went off cursing us, saying that evil wouldn't leave us.

The next person to come along was a lady selling peanuts, she dumped a cone of peanuts into the crook of Arshad's arm blessed us with a baby boy.

The lady after that, came and pinned/sold jasmine flowers into my hair without so much as an, If you please.

The last was a little boy. He tried and tried to sell something to Arshad who refused. While Arshad is refusing, the boy suddenly changes his voice and says in Tamil, Hello... I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to the 'pati'.

Pati can either mean a) Grandmother b)Item

Arshad suggested we leave, before his family and stock of junk food expanded to disproportionate proportions, so we did. Me, thinking about life and people and Arshad the ships on the ocean.

Location: Marina Beach

Is the bottom line that I'll be bored if I'm not being paid attention to?

Category: Bottom lines

"I'm going to retreat into this place inside my head," she said. "If y'all don't mind."
And they didn't.

I'm sitting on the beach,  talking to this boy about something quite possibly related to girls when he says, "Look." And I do and he points to a couple of ships on the horizon,  quite unrelated to anything I'm saying and I look at them and he says, "They're nice aren't they? "
Perfectly, innocently.

Category 1: Boys
Category 2: Yes, of course they are x)

I feel like my life could only have two possible outcomes relationship wise.
Claustrophobic or Heartbroken.

Category: Anything in between

Too wired to be tired.

I feel... I don't know if touched is the right word.
But I feel something close to that.

Category: This city, its people

Saar=Sir

Category: Madras

She could be wearing a bikini and she'd still look like a nun to me.

Category: Quotable quotes
:)

vapid

The woman, the woman.

-Sherlock Holmes, A Scandal in Belgravia

I put on a fake local accent because I can.

About me: Such a loser

She talks about soul mates.
I think about soul searches.

Some beautiful things from today

A train sunrise, an old colonial building a new whitewashed store.

Uncouth everywhere.

The water smells like sewage
And I smell like Chandrika


Yuck

Yank.

It's not the work that's tiring. No.
It's the people.

I'd like to say that fat people can't help being that way.
But the truth is, they can.

About: The fat person overflowing into my seat from his own

It feels strange and a little disconcerting not be wired.

Category: Bad, very bad

Let's get a little disconnected.

You don't always have to be beautiful.
Sometimes, you can make beautiful.

Just because someone says something about you unflattering or flattering, it doesn't make it true. Either way.

Category: Instructions to the children and the grownups too, I guess

The weaker strain of the species.


Category: Alcoholics

Actions speak louder than thoughts and intentions.


Category: The road to hell

How Beautiful

http://bonifisheii.blogspot.in/

Mediocrity or madness?

I'm tired of eating out.
I'm tired of eating.
I'm tired.
I.

Don't make sense anymore.

I've been finding it hard to hold
My train of thought
My temper

Bed=<3

Searching for the sun.

Some people are
Unlucky
In love

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

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

- from Kate and Leopold

Category: :)

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


Category: Sacrilegious

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

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

Stalk.

We cannot do without our boys.

Category 1: Truth
Category 2: <3

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

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

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

Category: :)

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



=Quietly.





Category: :)

Anomaly

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?

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

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

Mood: Shitty

You're very close to killing your cool factor.

Note to you: Be cool

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

Category: Get strong

The straw that broke the camel's back.

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

It begins.

(Toit)

(Toit)

And goes on.

(Picture missing)

(Chocolate mousse cake)

(Home)

And on

(City Bar)

And on!

(UB City)

(Breakfast at Cafe Noir)

Tag: 30

Grateful.Ungrateful

The best people

The only kind I know.

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

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

Self

Category 1: Aware
Category 2: Absorbed

Goodbye

It was a good one.