Read this on a walkway on the quad while I was walking to office today…
“One day can make your life.. One day can ruin your life. Life is just a couple of big days that change everything…”
SO TRUE!
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Current Mood: Happy….
Current Song: ‘Bhor’ by ‘Indian Ocean’. Mesmerizing.
I guess after about 10-15 years, I watched an episode of Malgudi Days today… the one with Swami…and I enjoyed it thoroughly…. in the first 5 minutes I could understand why my uncle used to call me Swami (he still does sometimes )…. it really felt amazing..i could just recount my childhood days…cricket with friends, ghost stories, the wish to become a hero to prove to the grown ups that you are good and still fear sleeping alone in a separate room with the lights turned off!!
Aah..the childhood days…. 
Current Mood: Happy and nostalgic..
Current Song: ‘Sapnay’ by ‘Silk Route’…
Power of S had in the recent past written a post about Nelson, the supposedly unlucky score of 111 or its multiples on which cricket umpire David Shepherd raises his one leg. And then he told me that I too will get the Nelson curse….I am not sure about the unlucky part but freaky it sure has been since I got the curse because I have been seeing the Nelson number somewhere or the other almost everyday since then..and its almost two weeks now..
1) The clock on my office computer seems to be perpetually at 1:11 pm. Its freaking me out because I am seeing that time of the day almost everyday for the past two weeks…and no, I do not check the time deliberately or subconsciously or whatever…
2) I opened the book I was reading and the page number that showed up was 111
3) The presentation day before yesterday got over exactly at 1:11 pm
4) I was about to sleep and opened my phone to set the alarm..the time was 1:11 am
5) I checked my time while going for lunch – 3:33 pm
6) The day after his curse when I flipped open my phone to call him, it was exactly 1:11 pm.
7) And the nail on the coffin, the event which prompted me to write this post..the number of message in my gmail account at this moment.. 1111
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Current Mood: Spooky
Current Song: ‘Mathey’ from the movie ‘Morning Raaga’. Excellent Fusion.
The Police. Wrigley Field. 43000 people. Experience of a Lifetime.
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Current Mood: Content
Current Song: ‘Every little thing she does is Magic’ by ‘The Police’…
I resolve to call her up a thousand times a day
And ask her if she’ll marry me in some old fashioned way
But my silent fears have gripped me
Long before I reach the phone
Long before my tongue has tripped me
Must I always be alone?
Every little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me on
Even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on…
This sound of raindrops that I can now hear..
takes me back to the first days of school
of the excitement of the new raincoat mummy would buy..
about ba’s ‘do not let your hair get wet’ rule…
the sound of thunder..
makes me think of the occasions..
when I proudly explained to my younger brother..
that Lord Krishna had just hit a six high up there..
and his century was close by..
this intense lightning
takes me back to the moments..
when i would look up in the sky and flash my teeth..
for I was told it was lords way of taking a picture to remember me..
the puddle of water outside..
reminds me of the times of football..
of the warnings of ‘no white shirts’, of the soiled clothes and the frown on my bai’s face..
and of blowing in the water to win the paper boat race..
The dripping water from the roof tops..
takes me back to places..where there were gum boots, dirty buses and earthworms..
old wooden drawers that had buscuit boxes with tightly closed lids..
and sights of one umbrella holding two naughty kids..
as the rain washes the ground right now..
I cannot help but wonder that years have been washed away..so fast..
and how time has taken away the with it my good memories,
only to flash glimpses..to make me sad..
for surely, once upon a time..rainy season was a beautiful thing..
Whoever drew angels in white centuries ago must have had the premonition of Rahman’s concert in Chicago last Saturday..the Man was wearing white…but the concert had all the colors that music can conceive…great evening…good crowd, great atmosphere, very good singers and the man himself….though I know how difficult it is to sing live the songs that he has sung himself..I wanted him to sing a couple more of his own songs…especially lukka chuppi, yeh to des hai tera, fanaa, thee thee from thiruda thiruda or even piya haji ali….but oh well…I was more than happy just thinking that I was seeing AR live..I knew I wouldn’t mind if he would keep singing for the rest of my life…
This was the second time I saw him live…and I am sure there will be many many many more occasions where I will see him perform…rock on AR!!
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Current Mood: Happy and Satisfied
Current Song: ‘Dil se re’ from my all time favorite movie soundtrack ‘Dil se’.
Although I had downloaded the documentary Born into Brothels a year ago, I somehow never had a chance to watch it till yesterday..and I am kind speechless since then. I believe that growing up too fast is one of the worst things that can happen to a child…while for these children, there is no so called ‘innocence’ to begin with..but they are still children..only that they are born to prostitues. The documentary details the efforts of one lady to teach photography to these children and her ultimate efforts to get them out of the hell.. into boarding schools and child care centers…so that they do not end up being a part of the ‘line’. Its amazing to hear those children talk about how they see life..raw, honest emotions and how the lady brings out the creative side of each one of them. And how after all her efforts, hopelessness still is the only answer for some of those kids.
This is a must watch. Zana Briski, I salute you. I am your fan.
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Current Mood: Sad
Current Song: Rahon pe rehte hain from ‘Namkeen’ by R.D. Burman.
I remember the time about 3 1/2 years ago when I was in Mumbai..I had just given my GRE and was working like a dog at my job just because I had nothing else to do. My friend used to call me each weekend and ask me what I was doing and I would say ‘Nothing’ and she would laugh and say that I had the “No Social Life” Syndrome..we used to laugh it off each time…but I knew at the back of my mind that she was telling the truth!
I just remembered her this weekend because I feel I am going to suffer from that Syndrome again for the next few months. Summer has just come so the days are long, friends are not around and I am living with just one other roomie who is busy with his thesis, so no roomie talks.. and no playing volleyball either because of the stupid broken finger. But I am still getting a feeling that living alone is not a bad idea after all. I did a lot of trivial but useful things that I would have usually avoided just because I had something or the other nonsense going on all weekend.
1) cooked twice in a day!! ..thats record output for me
2) did my laundry
3) Made tea..after about 3 months..
4) sorted out my box of pennies and dimes..i had about 1000 of them in all..from the teen-patti that we played for the last 3 years!! wikipedia is going to get richer
5) left feedback on amazon and ebay.com
6) read 50 pages of Heart of Darkness
7) watched ‘The Insider’ which i thought was over rated
8) took a nap
9) bid for two items on ebay
10) ironed my clothes..
11) called up my sister who didnt answer her phone at usual
12) checked airline ticket rates to NY..
whew…that was quite a busy day…
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Current Mood: Adventurous
Current Song: ‘Message in a Bottle’ by ‘The Police’. Haunting.
Walked out this morning, dont believe what I saw
Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
Seems Im not alone at being alone
Hundred billion castaways, looking for a home..
In the past few months, I have suddenly discovered my liking of a range of topics that I never dwelled into too much before. First among them is the connection between politics and economics throughtout history, and the second is the most famous debate since time immortal…no, not the chicken or the egg question, but about the existence of GOD. And these two are inturn interconnected because GOD is a good excuse that people have given for vested political and economic gains they have wanted and still want over their peers.
A stunning BBC documentary I watched about the Galapagos Islands, articles and lectures of Prof Richard Dawkins, reading about human rights issues and the economics of War ( Addicted to War is a good easy start) , watching lectures of Dr Noam Chomsky and quite a bit of stuff that I’ve subsequently read on Darwinism and other topics have screwed up my mind because there is no way a person who believes in science can reject evolution.. and if you accept evolution, you implicitly reject GOD. This makes you think why did you believe in GOD till now..which leads to the fact that society in a large way affects your morals, the way you think and behave, and that taken a step further means that we were/are (un)knowingly forced to think and behave in a particual direction because the higher powers in society gain from it..and that most of us are nothing but just puppets in the higher scheme of things. The church gained control over entire continents for most part of two milleniums by means of GOD…and billions of people have blind faith and strange superstitions that make them question their capability to do anything…( A Clockwork Orange makes a lot more sense to me these days ).
I might be offering the depressing (and true?) point of view, but it still makes more sense to me than believing in lies and see people slit each others throat for the sake of something they never understood and will never care to think of rationally… I can only hope that sanity and rationality will eventually prevail…should I say InshaAllah?
Although I had lost interest in the Cricket World Cup the Friday that India lost and even though I was not supporting either Austrailia or Sri Lanka; I infact actually wanted the final between NZ and SA, I still watched the final coz I knew I would not be able to forgive myself later for not watching a Cricket World Cup Final. Australians won again and became the first team in the history of the game to win three consecutive World Cups.
Feeling a little low about not being first in anything for a long time now (the last I remember was coming first in the class in my 5th grade ), I reassured myself by becoming the first person in history to edit the Wikipedia entry of the Australian Cricket Team with the line that they won the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup.
Finally some acheivement in life…
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Current Mood: Silly
Current Song: ‘Roz roz aankhon taale’ from the movie ‘Jeeva’ by the Almighty R.D Burman
Roz Roz Aankhon Tale
Ek Hi Sapna Chale
Raat Bhar Kaajal Jale
Aankh Mein Jis Tarah Khwaab Ka Diya Jaale
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