Stasis

It takes a certain tenacity to not be the person people suggest that you are.
Even if you trust and respect that person's opinion.


Category: Blindsided

Run Away :)

'I think it's pretty.
But if you ever wear that in public around me, I'm running away. '- Pi

The City of Atrocities



Category: Bangalore
vimal

Back. Quack.

Anil Kapoor swivelled around in his chair to face the contestants and glared at both of them. The tension hung heavy in the air like the coming monsoon. The two finalists of "Kaun Banega Lounge Piranha Bass-pati" shifted uneasily in their chairs. Both had taken a tireless tirade of questions on music theory (designed by Kamal) and rock history (designed by George), and they were tied on 115 points - it was turning into a photo finish. "Alrightttttty then!", yelled Anil Kapoor, "This is the golden goal round! I ask a question and if you hit the buzzer first and answer correctly, you win the contest!"... excited whispers went around the studio audience.. "If you hit the buzzer and answer incorrectly...", Anil Kapoor paused for effect and suddenly looked very serious, a hush went throught the audience... "You loooooose!", the studio audience went bananas, somebody screamed and had a heart attack and was rushed away by paramedics.

"So letttttt's do it!". "First question - everybody loves Miles, can one of you tell me what key his trumpet was in?", chatterchatterchatter went the audience... Runtun looked stunned and wondered who Miles was, "Must have made some music before I was born...", he thought to himself. Shalini had two fingers on her foreheard and had gone into a trance. Flashback. She was 7 years old and in guitar class. Her guitar teacher was trying to make her understand the difference between a major and minor seventh when suddenly an earthquake rocked the house, everything caved in and within no time she was lost in the rubble and the house was on fire. As she crawled towards the window, tears streaming from her eyes she saw a poster, it had a trumpet on it and a scale chart, what key was it in? Her photographic memory was straining to the point of breaking, she'd only glanced at the poster for a moment and it was years ago but now her life depended on it, she strained further sending electromagnetic shockwaves from her skull, far away near Iceland, a ship's compass suddenly started spinning violently, somewhere in Bihar a Bodhi tree sprouted flowers, back in Bombay she came out of a trance and hit the buzzer with a smile on her face. She had the answer.

What: Return of Lounge Piranha

When: Thursday, 28th May, 8pm

Where: B Flat - a gorgeous new bar on 100 Feet Road Indiranagar!
# 776, 100 feet road, Indiranagar, (opp. Little Italy restaurant), ph: 42414000

Why: Mins Because

As always, please come :)


and please not forget...
www.loungepiranha.com for one cup sykosis
www.myspace.com/loungepiranhamusic for one spoon noise

Self pity

Self-pity is the psychological state of mind of an individual in perceived adverse situations who has not accepted the situation and does not have the confidence nor ability to cope with it. It is characterized by a person's belief that he or she is the victim of events and is therefore deserving of condolence. Self-pity is generally regarded as a negative emotion in that it does not generally help deal with adverse situations. However, in a social context it may result in either the offering of sympathy or advice. Self-pity may be considered normal, and in certain circumstances healthy, so long as it is transitory and leads to either acceptance or a determination to change the situation.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-pity

'You are lucky... For me'





Her mother, to her.

Category1: Sticky words
Category2: ♥
Source: http://sowmyanair.blogspot.com/

Fly

Location: The Wall

Both patience and kindness have an alarming capacity to rub me up the wrong way.

Category: Be patient, be kind, be patient, be kind

fluid

There are certain signs, symbols, nuances that belong to / have meaning for certain people
And cannot, will never belong to anyone else.

Category: Esoterica

Letter

You won't be stolen away from me will you?
I'm not careless with you.
More,
Comfortable.
It's easy to mistake the two, one for the other.
ox

Sticky words

What you seek, you shall never find.
For when Gods made man,
They kept immortality for themselves.
Fill your belly.
Day and night make merry,
Let days be full of joy.
Love the child that holds your hand.
Let your wife delight in your embrace.
For these alone are the concerns of man.

-The Epic of Gilgamesh

It seems as if the most fragile part of the human body turned out to be the mind.

yes kir miss u

Discrimination, it's what makes us human isn't it?
And also inhuman.

Category: in varying degrees

Suspend

Location: Goa

Episode 15

Based on a true story, in case you wanted to know

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The girls

Tam, Nol, Kan, Meg, Law

Love

'Oh shatter!' exclaims Sir Rohington.
Looks like we've got a war on our hands.
(passes the pipe)
Lord K takes a drag.
(passes it back)
'What's the matter?' inquires Lord K.
'I broke the love platter.' Sir Rohington looks disparingly at the pieces and also the crowd gathering around, intent on war.
'No worries.' Says Lord K, putting on a fake Scottish accent for the amassing crowds. 'All we have to do is HYPNOTISE them.'
'Stare intently at them and say it with me Rohington, my boy.'
"Make love, not war." "Make love, not war."

The crowd one slightly confused moment later takes up the chant.
"Make love, not war." "Make love, not war."

More and more people join in and pretty soon the whole world is thinking this way. All thoughts of war set aside for the time being.
The day is saved.
Lord Kamal is declared hero and saver of the day.
Autograph signing session to be held.

Where?-TBA
When?- after the show
Why?- Chumma. Be there.

:)
Make love not war. On the bed, not on the floor.




Category1: Sample invite for Lounge Piranha Show
About me : Aspiring invitation maker

The boy and I were discussing someone I know and I said,
'There's a place for him in my..'
'Heart??' the boy contributed.
I looked at him a bit funny.
'In my head.' I finished.

Category 1: Everybody has a place in my heart
Category 2: Sheppard

Circa: 2007

Someone claimed to have experienced a future life, and in that future, she explained that human being were evolved mentally and considered emotional reactions base. Something vulgar even.
I've been trying lately not to rationalize my emotions as much.
I think this, more than anything, is what makes us human.

Category: Emotion sickness

Category: Object

It's hard to tell sometimes if it's a wall, a person or a pat on the back that I'm looking forward to.

Category: Spoiled

Episode 14

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Barbie Diaries
Guess who ended up watching
:)

Category 1: Barbie sucks?
Category 2: Only officially, I loved it :)

Q: What'll I do without you?
A: Read a book, listen to some music, grab a beer, play some tunes, write a book, cure cancer perhaps

Category 1: :)
Category 2: Rhetoric

Occassionally I have conversations that go like this

Colleague: (10:18:02 AM): knock....knock...

Me: (10:18:08 AM): who's there

Colleague: (10:18:08 AM): good morning.!! :)
Colleague: (10:18:27 AM): its me ... Mr. World....:)
Colleague: :)
Colleague: (10:18:29 AM): hehehheh

Me: (10:18:39 AM): what's that supposed to mean?

Colleague: (10:20:21 AM): hmmmm.......ohhh dont temmme u dont know that...
Colleague: (10:20:22 AM): :(
Colleague: (10:20:27 AM): :(

Me: (10:20:28 AM): no

Me: (10:20:32 AM): oh!
Me: (10:20:38 AM): like miss universe?

Colleague: (10:22:14 AM): yeah
Colleague: (10:22:15 AM): :)



Category: :S

I was given climbing shoes today. Just like that.
!

Ramgiri, Kan

Category 1: Initiation
Category 2: Addicted to that rush

Stand and you'll see

Tags: stand and you'll see, praveen, mahanya, put your hands in your pockets, neem berry, ow my toes, you can do the tango up there, i've got you, the voice, it's ok if you fall you've got enough cushioning

You decided this
-Hide and Seek, Imogen Heap

High

Ramnagar

Category 1: Awesome!!!
Category 2: Climbing

Any way you look at it you lose.
-Mrs. Robinson, Simon and Garfunkel

Episode 13

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Explaining things when they are implied
takes away from the magic.
The magic of implication.

Category: Stop, please stop

She thinks about getting married.
I think about dying.

An onslaught of emotion met an onslaught of rationale.

Category: So what?

They lied.
I know.
They don't know I know.


Category: Do you wonder why I'm different?

Episode 12 (World Cup 2006 Special)

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The only nice thing about Easter was my Dad's grilled chicken.
I love that.

Category: I hate mass, messaging in church, hell and other stories

The idea of her, the pretty girl, wanting to be with him, raised him in his own esteem
And made him fall a little more in mine

Today was just all over the place.

I wonder if my relationships are like a certain type of number.

Category: Imaginary

We showed him our palms
Scraped and red and hurting.
'You're getting climber's hands,'he smiled at us.
:)

Category: Initiation

The book of truth
They opened it
It was blank

Episode 11

I guess that's settled then.


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I'm constantly reminding myself who my real friends aren't.

Category: Bad memory

Megan&Maya

Courtesy: Gareth Hoover

A friend of mine decided to resign and decided to tell his boss today.
Shortly after he broke the news, this conversation ensues.

Pi: My manager refuses to believe me :|
Me: How can he not believe you?
Pi: It's april 1st

Category: Funniest thing I've heard all day

http://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/

Relationships become invasive when one side believes they're entitled to the right of ownership over you (the other).

Category 1: Never!
Category 2: Get away from me

I have a feeling that I influence her.
:)

About me: Influential

He'll never tell anyone. Neither will I.

Episode 10

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:)

I looked at a picture of the Cathedral de Notre Dame at the 'French' Loaf (a coffee shop in the neighbourhood)and said,
"Holy Ghost Church??"

Category: How familiar
:)

It was like adding insult to injury.

About me 1: Injured
About me 2: Insulted

Do unto others before others do unto you
-byker

http://www.byker7.blogspot.com/

People make up alternate names for irresponsibility all the time.
I wonder what I'm going to call it.

Radiohead respond to Miley Cyrus' rant

Thom Yorke alludes to teen star's temper tantrum


Media sources have been reporting that Radiohead responded to teen star Miley Cyrus, who lashed out at the band for snubbing her at the Grammy Awards last month.

In a recent radio interview, Cyrus vented her anger at her one-time "favourite" band after they allegedly turned down an invitation to meet her back stage at the Grammys. She said: "I left 'cause I was so upset. I wasn't going to watch. Stinkin' Radiohead! I'm gonna ruin them, I'm going to tell everyone."

According to E! Online, Radiohead responded to her remarks by saying, "When Miley grows up, she'll learn not to have such a sense of entitlement." As it turns out, the band's publicist reportedly issued the statement and not the band themselves.

However, in a posting yesterday (March 12) on Radiohead's Dead Air Space blog, frontman Thom Yorke alluded to the incident, saying: "Wish us all a safe journey if you still like us and you're not one of those people i have managed to offend by doing nothing xx"

http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/43453

Me: We can meet near the statue
Kat: The statue of the man?
Me: No Kat, it's a statue of queen Victoria
Kat: No man, It's a statue of a man
Me: I know it looks like a man.., but really, it's queen Victoria

Location: Cubbon Park
Category: Men

she gifts a key to a thousand locks
she doesn't even know what she's opened up
and i watch as pandora's box
spills out glittering diamonds
-at

Chicks Dig My Ride

http://sloganmurugan.blogspot.com/2009/03/chicks-dig-my-ride.html

Courtesy: Slogan Murugan

No, I have to. In order for me to please, provide, and protect a family one day I have to set up a foundation "right now!"
-Cool Will C

Category: On working 16hrs a day

Episode 9

PS- Jesus, the Hindu pantheon, a meteorite in a box, etc, etc. Not that different, eh?

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that it's all for the best?
because it is
-Imogen Heap

Me,
I look at her and think
How perfect she is.
She,
Not knowing any better
Looks at me.
She thinks the same thing.

sinking
feeling

People make it seem sometimes, like it's wrong
almost sacrilegious, to admit that you're happy.

Category: not admitting anything

Episode 8

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I'm crossing my fingers for people.
Someone's crossing their fingers for me.

Position of fingers: Crossed

When you touched someone's life,
couldn't you have done the best that you possibly could have?
If only I had known.

Right and wrong,
Neither exist.
Only what's real no?

Category: Oscar movies

I have this expectation.
It's unreal. Unkind almost.
I expect people to be strong.
Just because I imagine I would be.


Category 1: Luxury of circumstance
Category 2: Self absorption

you know how when you meet someone you can tell if you're going to know them for the rest of your life, or were supposed to meet them, like they were waiting at that moment in time, for you to arrive, or rather, that moment in time was waiting for the two to arrive?

it doesn't happen will many people, but I got that feeling with you
-anonymous

Category:gtalk conversations

Episode 7

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Rise

What would I do?
What would I do if I was attacked?
'Be careful ok?' a friend, a boy, tells me concernedly. 'If somebody provokes you, don't fight back. Just try to get to safety'
Three girls(that I know of) were attacked. One of them a girl from the neighbourhood.
She could have been anyone.
She could have been me.
'Cover yourself when you walk on the road ok?' A concerned colleague advises me. I try to explain that in winter I'm covered from head to toe, yes, socks and woolen hats, not a bit of myself exposed. But in summer, It doesn't strike me as unreasonable to wear a sleeveless T-shirt to counter the heat.
This clearly isn't the point.
Again I think, what would I do?
I replay the situation (being attacked)in my head a thousand different ways. Always using a rational approach. Only to conclude that it's fanatics that I'm dealing with. Not people you can reason with.
I try to understand what their agenda is. It most certainly isn't maintaining the purity of our race, our culture. I'm aware of far worse behaviour that shouldn't be allowed in any culture. The most obvious, attacking women.
The police from the sound of it seem to be on the side of chaos. Dismissing the claims of these women almost unconcernedly.
I have no conclusive response to my question. All I know is that these women who were attacked represent every woman I know.
A support group involving the Alternative Law Forum and the Blank Noise Project has been formed.
I can only assume that there is strength in numbers.

http://baware.in/

Vicky Christina Barcelona

ahaha
:)

Category: Film Critic

"Pappa is a bad girl".
-Megan

Definitions:
Pappa: My father; her grandfather
Bad girl: useful term of admonition


Category:♥

How lovely it is to have made a new friend.

Q: How do you deal with someone who makes you feel claustrophobic?
A: Avoid them like the plague.


Category: Tempting; very tempting

Category: Radiohead

Episode 6

I HATE SMS lingo.
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Episode 5

Rant rant rant.
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What's the good word?

Q: rain.bath.blessings :)

A: :) need help with one?



Category: I have funny friends :)

Megan

I'm writing this for you.
For you to remember.
You're two.
You found a dress on my bed. About your size.
You asked who was going to wear it.
I said, 'You'.
You can't imagine the joy on your face.
I told you it was for your birthday. You started singing, 'Happy Birthday Megan!' Your birthday is two months away.
But your aunt, Joanne, in tradition with and being completely true to herself has already bought you your present (TWO MONTHS IN ADVANCE). A lovely long, blue dress, that will make you look like a princess.
I tell you that we'll get you a tiara, a cheap one from behind Commercial Street. 'A cheap one', you say, like it's something special. 'Cheap'. So, quickly to save my reputation I tell you that it doesn't matter whether it's cheap or not. It's going to be pretty and THAT's the important thing. Effectively sowing the seed of superficiality and instilling an unhealthy sense of commercialism in your innocent little heart. heh :)
So you start saying, 'Hello Megan's birthday'. I think it's my fault that you do that. I make you say hello to inanimate objects like the sun and the trees and Missy and Tiger our stray dogs and if you throw something on the ground, like a finger puppet, I tell you that it's crying because you did that.
You continue, 'Hello Megan's birthday, hello Megan's dress'. 'Happy Birthday Megan', you sing then you clap and blow out your candle. It's all in your head. You've even made the guest list. Mamma, Maya and me.
It's something special to watch the person that you are. Words don't even come close.
♥

I could remember everything about him.
Except his name.

Category: What's his name?

Competence is attractive.

the manipulator; the manipulated
it's hard to say,
who is which

Episode 4

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She looks like a man in a dress.

Category: Things it's ok to think but not say out loud (except when you're gossiping with your sister;)

Some once told me that they thought i was full of myself, ever the optimist i smiled and said, half full..

-Andrew Kelly

He said: something as simple as learning not to lie.
I thought: what terribly high expectations he has of people.

Category: Tea and sympathy

Episode 3

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It's like primary school all over again.
Everybody wants to hang with the smart kid.

heh :)

Well don't you see, don't you see
That the charade is over
And all the "best deceptions" and the
"Clever cover story" awards go to you

-Dashboard Confessionals

About

I discovered eye shadow.
Now I'm going to play with the dough.

Category 1: Face painting
Category 2: Art and Crafts
Mood: Excited

She looks like Princess Fiona.

Category: Things it's ok to think but not say out loud

Nazi

I saw a Nazi today.
A little red car, with a white circle on the hood and a black swastika in the center.
And a little lady with glasses driving it.

Category 1: Nazism
Category 2: How to be a Nazi in India
Location: Lingarajapuram Flyover

I thought about a splinter today.
And also a log.