Friday, July 30, 2004

fridays

are wonderful. they compensate for the sick feeling I
get the later half of sundays.I have always felt bad on
sundays, post-lunch, without fail. Not this one, but.
shifted flats this weekend. is painful moving stuff.hajaar
junk. mumbai is fine as long as one has a place to stay
and call home , preferrably shared with like-minded people
( preferrably , as opposed to usually ) and a company bus
to take you to office and drop you back home, and of course,
the expendable green ones.then you don't see that face of
the city which has the sharp teeth.I like to imagine there's
a big void out there, a crack somewhere and every once in a
while circumstances keep pushing me towards it. without
tiring, without fail. Like the Red Queen said, "You gotta
keep do all the running you can to stay in one place".
this place is humbling, depressing.

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

bored and sleepy

as usual. afternoon is a bad time to be in. especially in office.
we have a wonderful family tradition of sleeping the whole of the afternoon away.
only to be made to sit upright and ( horror of horrors ) work
post-lunch in ill-fitting seats ( which is seats that don't let you recline,
like a bed does ) by the grotesque thing that passes off for culture today.
like pollution and remixes and pizza. Gimme curd rice under a mango tree any day.
Reliance quarterly results are out and as usual the guys have raked in
the moolah. Must be a wonderful company to own.
As special bonus, I am treating all readers of this blog to dinner sometime
soon.That means you  Potha, got it ? next time I hit Bangi.
Coming back to me against afternoon working, in Asterix in Corsica,
the Corsicans are these cool-dude guys with flick-knives ( a.k.a switch-
blades ) and a compulsion to take a nap in the afternoon come what may.
Even Dale Carnegie ( who is Dale Carnegie ? an old old who chap wrote a book
on how to win friends and influence people and not worry and speak in public .
made oodles out of it ) agrees. says a nap after lunch does wonders for your health,
state of mind and efficiency. proven by medical tests , he says. Are you hearing Mr. HR-man ?
Can anyone tell me if I can start doing Yoga asanas from a book, without the supervision
of an instuctor ? Even if the book has lotsa illustrations which the author says are
for those readers who go it alone ? what if the author is the world reknowned B.K.S
Iyengar of India who taught, among others, Yehudi Menuhin ? let me know what you
think.
Mumbai is an great place. more about the Amazing Rat Race called Mumbai in a later
post.
talking of curd rice and mango trees, there're always good things come and gone.
only most of us close the stable gates after the horse has bolted.  with this to brood
on,  I take leave now. al-vida
 
 
hazaron khwahishen aisi ......

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

wrong turn

thought blogs were for one to preach on the net, hold your
own literary durbar, so to speak. realized that can't be.
the concept of one's diary being public is not for the
faint-hearted. or the shy ones. or the absolutely truthful.
which is why I thought twice and decided I won't be falling
in any of those categories.

Friday, July 16, 2004

starting off

got my blog.my very own blog. owning anything called a blog inherently
whets ones' appetite for novelty. so off we go

froogy, ain't it ?

the stream gurgles by as I sit on the rock, idly fingering the matches
in my pocket.been a whole week now.
my camera conked off early in the trip. didn't take the fall into the water
too well. weakling. now i just remind myself to take a 'snap' mentally
each time I come across a breathtakingly splendid piece of scenery
and then file it away hoping I'd be able to recall it sometime later.
hmphh, later is another place, but there's so much to see and feel and do
here now. like the cold air under my eyes and the woodsmokes'
dance with the breeze. makes me wonder , and sound suspiciously
like a Led Zeppelin song.
the words 'cosmic waiting room' rings a bell...