Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Monday, 27 January 2014
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"You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart"
Earlier
romantic love songs, were just plain songs. With useless lyrics. Black and white
lyrics, that I couldn't relate to. The engine
of my existence was chugging along, alone, on the track of life. And then you
happened. And the bogies of happiness, alacrity, purpose, zeal, ambition and
reason – all joined on. Love songs suddenly became all the more romantic. All words,
all sentences I related to you. You bought a different kind of meaning to life,
that was earlier missing. A different kind of care, an unknown sort of
happiness that I was alien to. My black
and white life found its own reasons to be colourful enough. Losing sleep
became a reason of happiness. I had atlast found the tiny streak of light in my dark
world. I was happy, despite the fights and small misunderstandings. Then one
day you left me. And you never returned. You promised me happiness forever and
with you left my only reason to be happy. The reasons, let it be inknown. For in
my heart I know, you were never wrong. Still, the heart is a stupid organ. It still
makes me miss you. Moving on is just a myth. Life is again back to square one.
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
~Dil ka mijaaj Ishqiya~
Aisi uljhi nazar unse hat ti nahi
Dant se reshmi dorr kat ti nahi
Umra kab ki baras ke safaid ho gayi
Kari badri jawani ki chhatti nahi
Vallah yeh dhadkan, badhne lagi
Chehre ki rangat udne lagi
Dar lagta hai tanha sone mein jee
Dil to baccha hai jee
Thoda kaccha hai jee
Haaaan dil to baccha hai jee
Ta ra ra rararar raa
Ta ra ra rararar raa
Ta ra ra rararar raa
Kisko pata tha
Pehlu mein rakha
Dil aisa baagi bhi hoga
Hum toh hamesha samjhte the
Koi hum jaisa haan ji hi hoga
Haaaye zor kare kitna shor kare
Bewajah baton mein aaive gaur kare
Dil sa koi kameene nahi
Koi to roke
Koi to toke
Iss umra mein ab
Khaaoge dhoke
Dar lagta hai ishq karne mein jee
Dil to baccha hai jee
Haaaye thoda kaccha hai je
Dil toh baccha hai jee
Sunday, 5 January 2014
New year 2014
This new year, things were a bit different than the usual years. This year instead of visiting the Kamakhya temple, we visited the Umananda temple and the Uzan Bazar ghat. Also this year there was an additional member to the usual number. I, and Gita were accompanied by Gita's youngest sister. It was an awesome day. Had oodles of fun.
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
Date a girl who reads
“You should date a girl who reads. Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico
Date a girl who take photographs
Date a
girl who takes photographs. Date a girl whose favorite sound is the
click-click of the shutter as it closes and opens tocapture a memory.
Date a girl who sees the wonder in the simplest things. Date a girl who
looks at the world and wonders how to put a little of herself in it.
You might find her in the park,lost behind her lens, the world a blur around her as she tries to capture a single moment in time. Youmight find her inan exhibit, a look of concentration on her face as she contemplates a photograph that called out to her as she was passing by. Or maybe you will findher in a bookstore, a book inher lap as she pores over photographs of weddings all the while wondering what hers would look like.
Take her out to photo walks and laugh as she tries to take a picture of you. When she gets tired of walking, buy her cupcakes but wait until she has taken pictures of them before proceeding to eat them. Listen as she tells you her ideas for a photo shoot on the ride home.
Take her to a restaurant and wait patiently as she surveys the menu carefully, appreciating the food photography. And again, wait until she has takena photo of your food before digging in. Allow her introduce you to Ansel Adams while you both eat your lunch. Introduce her to your favorite musicianas you wait for the bill to arrive. When you get home, change your Facebook profile picture into a photograph she took of you. She silently hoped for it.
Take stolen shots of her. Compile it and give it to her onher birthday. Tell her you love her over and over until your voice replaces the click of the shutter as her favorite sound. Kiss her after she lifts her head up from the camera. Give her camera-shaped necklaces. Go places with her.
You will never be bored again.
Date a girl who takes photographs. She will never whine about a little dirt on her favorite pair of jeans as she kneels down to get a better angle of her subject. She will never be afraid to take adventures with you. She will take photographs of you not just with her camera but with her mind as well and keep it to herself to admire at night. But above all, she will teach you how to look at the world with a brand new perspective and she will do that unknowingly.
Marrya girl who takes photographs. Ditch those wedding photography books and give her the most beautiful wedding you could. She will teach your kids to find the beauty in everything just as she had taught you. Every day willbe an adventure as she tries to create photograph-worthy memories withyou. She may wake you up in the middle of the night because she is buzzing with ideas but she will make it up in the morning with a stack of hot pancakes beside a steaming cup of your favorite coffee blend.
Grow old with a girl whotakes photographs. Sit with her on the front porchas you both pore over the bits and pieces of the moments you’ve had together. Stroke her hair as you both relive the photo walks that you took and the places you have been when you were both young. Smile as youboth reenact your clever wedding vows.
Date a girl who takes photographs because she will always see that “something” inthe most “nothing” of things. She will never let anyone take you awayfrom her like she never lets anyone steal her photos and that is just one of the evidences that she loves you.
You might find her in the park,lost behind her lens, the world a blur around her as she tries to capture a single moment in time. Youmight find her inan exhibit, a look of concentration on her face as she contemplates a photograph that called out to her as she was passing by. Or maybe you will findher in a bookstore, a book inher lap as she pores over photographs of weddings all the while wondering what hers would look like.
Take her out to photo walks and laugh as she tries to take a picture of you. When she gets tired of walking, buy her cupcakes but wait until she has taken pictures of them before proceeding to eat them. Listen as she tells you her ideas for a photo shoot on the ride home.
Take her to a restaurant and wait patiently as she surveys the menu carefully, appreciating the food photography. And again, wait until she has takena photo of your food before digging in. Allow her introduce you to Ansel Adams while you both eat your lunch. Introduce her to your favorite musicianas you wait for the bill to arrive. When you get home, change your Facebook profile picture into a photograph she took of you. She silently hoped for it.
Take stolen shots of her. Compile it and give it to her onher birthday. Tell her you love her over and over until your voice replaces the click of the shutter as her favorite sound. Kiss her after she lifts her head up from the camera. Give her camera-shaped necklaces. Go places with her.
You will never be bored again.
Date a girl who takes photographs. She will never whine about a little dirt on her favorite pair of jeans as she kneels down to get a better angle of her subject. She will never be afraid to take adventures with you. She will take photographs of you not just with her camera but with her mind as well and keep it to herself to admire at night. But above all, she will teach you how to look at the world with a brand new perspective and she will do that unknowingly.
Marrya girl who takes photographs. Ditch those wedding photography books and give her the most beautiful wedding you could. She will teach your kids to find the beauty in everything just as she had taught you. Every day willbe an adventure as she tries to create photograph-worthy memories withyou. She may wake you up in the middle of the night because she is buzzing with ideas but she will make it up in the morning with a stack of hot pancakes beside a steaming cup of your favorite coffee blend.
Grow old with a girl whotakes photographs. Sit with her on the front porchas you both pore over the bits and pieces of the moments you’ve had together. Stroke her hair as you both relive the photo walks that you took and the places you have been when you were both young. Smile as youboth reenact your clever wedding vows.
Date a girl who takes photographs because she will always see that “something” inthe most “nothing” of things. She will never let anyone take you awayfrom her like she never lets anyone steal her photos and that is just one of the evidences that she loves you.
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