Today morning, when I was having a shower (ok... not a "shower" per say since the shower doesnt work) ... somehow, I ended up thinking abt the cool phrases/sentences that I had seen/heard. Like on previous occassions of my mind wandering to this particular subject, the immediate after-thought was "Ive GOT TO write them down somwer"... and then ofcourse was the picture of me reading them in my l8r life and smiling .... But... as always when this "ghost" of a thought went bak down into the waters... I was thinking "Naaa... I cant carry arnd a diary all the time ... and I frgt these phrases pretty soon after I've "engraved" them in my mind" ...
BUT WAIT!! NOW I HAVE A BLOG!! And this is EXACTLY the reason why I started one!! So that I can write watever... That is wat this post is abt ....
I'll put down anything I remember now ....
"No Cannes do" --- TOI article heading abt some film that didnt make it to Cannes!
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going (home) " --- BREAD "allegedly" a cliched joke in BH4.
Brian from Whose Line is it Anyway playin the dating game while wearing different hats... He is wearing a miner's hat (the one with an attached flash-light)
Brian : "I cant date u bcoz I'm a minor"
"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. " -- Upneet's Stat msg ..LOL
"Gr8 example of how too much of a good thing is bad; 'awesome' is good, but 'awful' is bad!!" ------ GWWSIFI2Y
"Congress shows DMK no Karuna" LOLOL -- TOI article on Manmohan refusing DMK more cabinet seats.
11th August 2009
"Do you think movies should try to spread social awareness?" -- SMS poll question on the TV channel ZOOM. Just shows the kind of channel it is... stupid.
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I'll keep pushing this sentence down as I add more...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
ICHI
Aaaaahhh .... that feeling. No work, boredome, knowing ur mind is gonna drift off into hostile territory if u stay idle... A hundred thousand uncorrelated things floating around like pale ghosts beneath the surface of a not-so-calm lake that u desperatley wish had more surface tension to prevent their intermittent escapes.
Having accomplished the first thing that I wanted to accomplish with my first blog in the above paragraph (Write something vague and mysterious so that when I and other people read it l8r, I'll come off as a cool person) .... let me move on.
Having accomplished the second thing that I wanted to accomplish with my first blog in the above paragraph (come off as an even more cool person) ... let me move on.
Ok this can go on forever. (is forever correct?? is it for ever?? Darn ghostly shapes!! Go down! Down I say!)
I want to write a para for the person (rather the first post of a person) who imbibed in me a sense of ur-not-living-life-the-carpe-diem-way...
In her post she mentioned about words that held a special charm for her, rhapsody, bougainvillae, quintessence ... and I thought... here's someone who has put down the "carp" that goes one in her head... for wat?? For the simple reason that she felt like doing it. Thank you fatlady... Honestly I had read your first blog entry a couple of months back (butler wanted me to read his, I followed the trail .. thats all)... and I've been thinkin abt starting one ever since... Today I've enf ghosts jumping up from beneath the surface to make a reasonably good post.
What a gr8 feeling when u put ur music player on shuffle and even if the probabilty of ur favourite song being played is inversely proportional to the number of songs in the list.... and still, the lifeless, un-intelligent, robotic, black (0) and white (1) gadget somehow jumps to ur favourite song!! I ended up with a smile on my face and a fleeting feeling of affection for my phone that surpassed the norms of human-machine emotional attachment levels.... as it subtly converted compressed 0's and 1's to Slash's awesome solo
Speaking of human-machine emotional attachments, y is it that I love the life-less piece of metal and plastic that gets me to office on time more than I love most human beings??
musing 1) Is it because it lets me travel without the hassle of public transportation in bangalore... (which involves me having to put one hand on my butt-cheek(s) expecting a sneeky hand down the back pocket)??
musing 2) May be its the 180ccs of fuel-air mixture that is ignited by two spark plugs with ...well ...machine like accuracy and timing...chunking out the raw power that I feel when I open the throttle a quarter of an inch??
musing 3) The times we had... just the two of us... the places we have been to... the sites and sounds we have experienced... the near death experience that we had..??
Prbbly its the 3rd...
The other day, after leaving a boring day at the office, I was speeding along on inner ring road when I saw a host of red lights in the distance... Oh! Im supposed to slow down and stop now! OK... after coming to a stop behind a ferrari-red maruti suzuki swift... I turned off the engine and crossed my arms and squatted into a more comfortable upright position.
Traffic!! Its always the same... A guy on a 220cc with a hot chic on his pillion... an old chap on a bajaj scooter, caught in a desperate balancing act with his accelerator... trying to keep the engine running, IT pro's on everything from a 20 year old yamaha 135 to a BMW/merc-clk, a middle class family in a white maruti 800.... everyone, from the hot chic to the CEO, impatient, cursing, honking....
And I look up... and I see one of the most beeeautiful scenes that nature has to offer... beams of orange-yellow sunlight in the waning hours of day... sneeking out thru rain clouds in the heavens... Ive always found this scene ...divine... other-wordly may b... I lift up my visor and smile ...like a retard... not caring for the fact that the hot chic is prbbly thinking that Im some kinda loon......I take in this little piece of serinity... and a let out a deep.. cleansing ..haaaaaaaaa....HONK!! HONK!! BEEEP!!
Here we go again... as the light switches from yellow to green... I think abt the opportunity for a small moment of peace that was offered to EVERYONE... and felt a little good abt myself for being one of the few who latched on to it! :D
I think I've opened the gates of a dam!! Things I wanna write about keep popping up... In the interest of carpe-diem I'm not gonna stifle the flow... So here goes!!
Damsel(s) in distress
What is it about a girl struggling to do something that can possibly hurt her physically that opens up this.... this.... fountain of care and wanting-to-help in a guy like me?? Most girls are shrewd to know that certain guys have this weakness... and feminine instincts do not let them pass on an opportunity ... and mind u ladies.. we are fully aware of this fact... yet we still end up soldering that piece of PCB... burning our own hands in the process and feeling good about ourselves!! Damn that primitive cerebrum!!
Roja to metallica
That gadget again!! It jumps from "chinna chinna asai" to "MASTER!!" ... changing my mood from open-green-meadows to wacking-guitar-on-floor...
Music... another gr8 mystery... even music follows the laws of mathematics (yeah Im a geek)... But, it has to strike that balance ... not follow it strictly... but follow it well enf to be still explainable with a couple of averaging and median calculations ... "so close no matter how faar" ..vanny!! music explained in one line!!
Sakura at NPL
May be its bcoz fatlady had mentioned extensively in her first post her musings at PS1... May be its bcoz I'm jobless right now at PS2.... watvr ... but, this word "sakura" .... is something that holds a special charm for me (sorry fatlady for plagiarism)
Sakura = japanese for cherry blossoms. When a cherry tree blossoms it sometimes completely covers ALL of the green of leaves ... a perfect blossom!! And they fall down gently like drizzling rain when a breeze blows (my knowledge is based on a couple of jap movies and a handful of anime ok).... and although I never saw one at NPL, Delhi... there was a day there when I realised I wasnt looking hard enf!
Everytime I would encounter a mention of "sakura" in a movie (read Last Samurai) or Anime (read Samurai Champloo) I felt ...well...I donno disappointed mayb... that nothing with that level of beauty and serenity attached to it existed where I lived... (this was like 1.5 months into the 2 month PS1 program) .... yet one fine morning as I was walking along the boulevard leading up to the front doors of NPL... something fell ever so lightly on my head. Hoping that its not the excrements of one of the numerous birds that inhabit the ancient trees, I gently feel what it is that is on top of my head... Turns out to be a petal ... a yellow petal... from a tree that was FULL of yellow petals!! So much yellow that the green of leaves was simply non-existent... and I remember SAKURA!! Although sakura blossoms are rose/pink the sight was just as beautiful... and as a light wind blew ... more of it started "flowing" down .... and I stood ther with my arms a little outstretched in front of me ... looking up... only to be interrupted by a scientist with a wry smirk on his face who passed by and snorted (at me mayb??) Shame on him!!
As I hopped up the stairs to the front doors, I started wondering... where was this tree before?? Why didnt I see it for 1.5 months?? Was it always like that?? Or just today?? As I dug deep into my memories... I realized I simply did not SEE this tree... It was always there .. and since the seasons hadnt changed since I was there, it must have been flowering since the first day I was there... but y 2day?? Answer... I wasnt looking hard enf...
Mayb this is enf... If I write more ... Ill miss my lunch ... and I feel like doing nothing again... so chao
PS: ichi means 1 in jap :P
Having accomplished the first thing that I wanted to accomplish with my first blog in the above paragraph (Write something vague and mysterious so that when I and other people read it l8r, I'll come off as a cool person) .... let me move on.
Having accomplished the second thing that I wanted to accomplish with my first blog in the above paragraph (come off as an even more cool person) ... let me move on.
Ok this can go on forever. (is forever correct?? is it for ever?? Darn ghostly shapes!! Go down! Down I say!)
I want to write a para for the person (rather the first post of a person) who imbibed in me a sense of ur-not-living-life-the-carpe-diem-way...
In her post she mentioned about words that held a special charm for her, rhapsody, bougainvillae, quintessence ... and I thought... here's someone who has put down the "carp" that goes one in her head... for wat?? For the simple reason that she felt like doing it. Thank you fatlady... Honestly I had read your first blog entry a couple of months back (butler wanted me to read his, I followed the trail .. thats all)... and I've been thinkin abt starting one ever since... Today I've enf ghosts jumping up from beneath the surface to make a reasonably good post.
What a gr8 feeling when u put ur music player on shuffle and even if the probabilty of ur favourite song being played is inversely proportional to the number of songs in the list.... and still, the lifeless, un-intelligent, robotic, black (0) and white (1) gadget somehow jumps to ur favourite song!! I ended up with a smile on my face and a fleeting feeling of affection for my phone that surpassed the norms of human-machine emotional attachment levels.... as it subtly converted compressed 0's and 1's to Slash's awesome solo
Speaking of human-machine emotional attachments, y is it that I love the life-less piece of metal and plastic that gets me to office on time more than I love most human beings??
musing 1) Is it because it lets me travel without the hassle of public transportation in bangalore... (which involves me having to put one hand on my butt-cheek(s) expecting a sneeky hand down the back pocket)??
musing 2) May be its the 180ccs of fuel-air mixture that is ignited by two spark plugs with ...well ...machine like accuracy and timing...chunking out the raw power that I feel when I open the throttle a quarter of an inch??
musing 3) The times we had... just the two of us... the places we have been to... the sites and sounds we have experienced... the near death experience that we had..??
Prbbly its the 3rd...
The other day, after leaving a boring day at the office, I was speeding along on inner ring road when I saw a host of red lights in the distance... Oh! Im supposed to slow down and stop now! OK... after coming to a stop behind a ferrari-red maruti suzuki swift... I turned off the engine and crossed my arms and squatted into a more comfortable upright position.
Traffic!! Its always the same... A guy on a 220cc with a hot chic on his pillion... an old chap on a bajaj scooter, caught in a desperate balancing act with his accelerator... trying to keep the engine running, IT pro's on everything from a 20 year old yamaha 135 to a BMW/merc-clk, a middle class family in a white maruti 800.... everyone, from the hot chic to the CEO, impatient, cursing, honking....
And I look up... and I see one of the most beeeautiful scenes that nature has to offer... beams of orange-yellow sunlight in the waning hours of day... sneeking out thru rain clouds in the heavens... Ive always found this scene ...divine... other-wordly may b... I lift up my visor and smile ...like a retard... not caring for the fact that the hot chic is prbbly thinking that Im some kinda loon......I take in this little piece of serinity... and a let out a deep.. cleansing ..haaaaaaaaa....HONK!! HONK!! BEEEP!!
Here we go again... as the light switches from yellow to green... I think abt the opportunity for a small moment of peace that was offered to EVERYONE... and felt a little good abt myself for being one of the few who latched on to it! :D
I think I've opened the gates of a dam!! Things I wanna write about keep popping up... In the interest of carpe-diem I'm not gonna stifle the flow... So here goes!!
Damsel(s) in distress
What is it about a girl struggling to do something that can possibly hurt her physically that opens up this.... this.... fountain of care and wanting-to-help in a guy like me?? Most girls are shrewd to know that certain guys have this weakness... and feminine instincts do not let them pass on an opportunity ... and mind u ladies.. we are fully aware of this fact... yet we still end up soldering that piece of PCB... burning our own hands in the process and feeling good about ourselves!! Damn that primitive cerebrum!!
Roja to metallica
That gadget again!! It jumps from "chinna chinna asai" to "MASTER!!" ... changing my mood from open-green-meadows to wacking-guitar-on-floor...
Music... another gr8 mystery... even music follows the laws of mathematics (yeah Im a geek)... But, it has to strike that balance ... not follow it strictly... but follow it well enf to be still explainable with a couple of averaging and median calculations ... "so close no matter how faar" ..vanny!! music explained in one line!!
Sakura at NPL
May be its bcoz fatlady had mentioned extensively in her first post her musings at PS1... May be its bcoz I'm jobless right now at PS2.... watvr ... but, this word "sakura" .... is something that holds a special charm for me (sorry fatlady for plagiarism)
Sakura = japanese for cherry blossoms. When a cherry tree blossoms it sometimes completely covers ALL of the green of leaves ... a perfect blossom!! And they fall down gently like drizzling rain when a breeze blows (my knowledge is based on a couple of jap movies and a handful of anime ok).... and although I never saw one at NPL, Delhi... there was a day there when I realised I wasnt looking hard enf!
Everytime I would encounter a mention of "sakura" in a movie (read Last Samurai) or Anime (read Samurai Champloo) I felt ...well...I donno disappointed mayb... that nothing with that level of beauty and serenity attached to it existed where I lived... (this was like 1.5 months into the 2 month PS1 program) .... yet one fine morning as I was walking along the boulevard leading up to the front doors of NPL... something fell ever so lightly on my head. Hoping that its not the excrements of one of the numerous birds that inhabit the ancient trees, I gently feel what it is that is on top of my head... Turns out to be a petal ... a yellow petal... from a tree that was FULL of yellow petals!! So much yellow that the green of leaves was simply non-existent... and I remember SAKURA!! Although sakura blossoms are rose/pink the sight was just as beautiful... and as a light wind blew ... more of it started "flowing" down .... and I stood ther with my arms a little outstretched in front of me ... looking up... only to be interrupted by a scientist with a wry smirk on his face who passed by and snorted (at me mayb??) Shame on him!!
As I hopped up the stairs to the front doors, I started wondering... where was this tree before?? Why didnt I see it for 1.5 months?? Was it always like that?? Or just today?? As I dug deep into my memories... I realized I simply did not SEE this tree... It was always there .. and since the seasons hadnt changed since I was there, it must have been flowering since the first day I was there... but y 2day?? Answer... I wasnt looking hard enf...
Mayb this is enf... If I write more ... Ill miss my lunch ... and I feel like doing nothing again... so chao
PS: ichi means 1 in jap :P
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