Saturday, December 19, 2009
A Tiger's Tale
So I come here to present my side,
Coz' unlike the diplomats at the Climate Summit,
There's not much left by media for me to hide!
I had thought America had become liberal,
When they handed the nation's affairs in Obama's care,
And now they point fingers at me,
When I have handled just 13 white women's affairs.
Only if I had done this in India,
a few weeks and people would have forgotten it all,
And how can you expect a golfer to be perfect,
he is bound to lose control of a 'couple' of balls.
Indian and Chinese governments are impressed by me,
they want me to lead the population control campaign,
Coz I had 13 affairs but no illegitimate kids,
My God!That's awesomely insane!
My sport didn't involve any physical activity,
so I just found an alternative way to stay fit,
And what else do you expect person to do anyway,
when all he hears is 'High performance.Delivered' & 'Just do it'?
But now even when my wife asks me to'Go on.Be a Tiger',
I just run away and I hide under the stairs,
Coz' I have inspired more jokes in 8 days,
Than Mr.Bush did in all 8 of his Presidential years!
I fully sympathize with Woods' family and was trying hard not to write this one but frankly just like Tiger Woods I simply lost self-control!
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Lovefool :D
just like 'Kaala bandar' from Delhi-6,
Now I feel like BJP questioning its own ideology,
I have never been in a bigger fix.
You were 'An Inconvenient Truth' for me,
Bigger than the one told by Mr. Al Gore,
Like Wasim Akram's yorker to a Bangladeshi batsman,
You bowled me out for sure.
My heart began beating so fast,
It could have been the engine of an F1 car,
I wouldn't have been intoxicated half as much,
even on gulping down the whole of Mallya's bar.
I could have become a translator by profession,
what everyone spoke sounded Greek & Latin to me,
Gonna write CAT through handicapped-partially blind quota,
Coz' you were the only thing that I could see.
Not even an AIIMS doctor could save me,
being bitten by love bug is a terminal case,
I was as paralyzed as a politician is,
when a terror attack takes place.
You are my desi Kylie Minogue,
Chiggy wiggy is all I want to do,
Forgive me all this bullshit,
Just want to say I've fallen for you :D
Couldn't let November end without a blog entry :)
Title courtesy-Aakriti
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Break-Up!!
But in that state even an hour I couldn't pass,
It was like expecting an Indian to feel pathetic,
when our cricket team whips Pakistan's ass.
In treating you like a woman,
I spent more than my apartment's rent,
I'd rather listen to Himesh all day,
than sit with you even for a moment.
Even Siddhu will get embarrassed & shut up,
You can talk nonsense for that long,
You are a cumulative punishment God had given me,
For my past seven lives' wrongs.
You are so dumb that even George Bush,
could get a Nobel Prize for being smart,
You were so cold and mean at times,
that Osama seems to have Mother Teresa's heart.
I would have called you a vaccum cleaner,
If you sucked even a bit more,
Time spent with my Granny is more exciting,
You are that big a bore.
Oh yeah,maybe I loved you once,
but now those feelings I totally lack,
I would rather date Rakhi Sawant,
than ever have you back!
Not my best and not meant to be offensive,but this is how we all feel when things don't work out and then after some time we think of all we thought at that time and find it funny.Just got inspired by Guns N Roses 'Used to love her' and listening to Blink-182 a bit more than necessary :D
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Been A Long Time..
Well,to be precise 9 years 3 months and 17 days.A lot has happened in these years,marriage,divorce,moving abroad,coming back,successes and failures.A lot of things have changed.
But he still finds approaching her to be the most difficult thing and talking to her the easiest.He still feels like making her laugh,only so that he can see her smile.So maybe a lot hasn't changed.
As he is trying to make sense of his thoughts,she smiles and summarizes them,"We may be the same but the time surely isn't".
He laughs and says,"I hate it".
"What?"
"How you always conclude my thoughts before I reach there".She just smiles.
Suddenly he realizes that they aren't alone,and he understands she was waiting for this,she laughs and says,"Meet my husband.".
He is suprised at how oblivious she made him to the world.
"Oh!Congrats man,you are a lucky guy."
Her husband smiles,"I'll give you guys some time to catch up".
"Thanks."
Being alone with each other doesn't feel the same anymore,though it's still much easier than being with someone else.
"So when did you get married?"
"It all happened so suddenly..".
"I asked you when and not how.".He smiles,she still hasn't lost her habit of giving justifications.
She gets why he is smiling and starts giggling and tell him,"It's been 4 years."
"Great."
"So how've you been?"
"As awesome as I've always been.".He has never been a convincing liar,but she lets it be.
"You shouldn't have walked away that day."
"You could have stopped me."
They both know that the other is right and they find though there is a lot to say,they can't do it without hurting someone.
They stay silent for a while,thinking about everything and nothing and then he tells her,"You know for everything we've been,I want to ask only one thing of you."
She gets anxious and asks,"What?"
"Today I want to be the one walking away.".He starts laughing.She playfully hits him and says,"Have it your way."
He still laughing,gets up gives her a hug,"Take care".And walks away.
He thinks,for once she didn't realize that he wasn't kidding.He just couldn't have seen her walking away from him again.
Not realizing that she did and is wondering,"Why do you always find it so difficult to just ask for what you want?"
Co-author,one for the team :)
For anyone else who reads my crappy posts and is interested enough,read the previous post,'As He Sees It',to get the full thing.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Change
If you knew that you would die today,
Saw the face of God and love,
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you knew that love can break your heart
When you're down so low you cannot fall
Would you change?
Would you change?
How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses? How much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around,Makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change?
Makes you change?
If you knew that you would be alone,
Knowing right, being wrong,
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you knew that you would find a truth
That brings up pain that can't be soothed
Would you change?
Would you change?
How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses? How much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around,Makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change?
Makes you change?
Are you so upright you can't be bent?
If it comes to blows are you so sure you won't be crawling?
If not for the good,
why risk falling?
Why risk falling?
If everything you think you know,
Makes your life unbearable,
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you'd broken every rule and vow,
And hard times come to bring you down,
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you knew that you would die today,
If you saw the face of God and love,
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you saw the face of God and love
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change?
Would you change?
Monday, September 7, 2009
As he sees it..
For some unknown reason it's awkward.She can't take the silence any longer,in her most vivacious voice,she tells him,"You know you are a really nice guy"
He knows it's just her attempt to get the converstion started,but today for some godforsaken reason,he knows he should be honest,"I am not a nice guy,I just know how to control my emotions better."
She looks at him and starts laughing,she has a habit of doing it when he doesn't intend her to do so,but something in his eyes makes her stop midway.She doesn't see that look of unbridled admiration and affection that he always had for her;it was as if for the first time that his eyes were expressing not what he felt for her but what he actually felt.
He turns away from her,and in a barely audible monotone tells her,"I cry at my losses,revel in my victories,I feel possessive,I feel jealous;but I just make sure that they gnaw at my insides rather than hurt someone outside."
"Is this fair to me or you?"
She has no answers,he continues,"I know that I am certainly no better than anyone because I feel what anyone else would feel but does it make me any worse?"
She moves her hand towards him but he backs off.
"I wish I could hurt you sometimes just to see that you actually care."
He knows he shouldn't have said that but he realizes that they have gone past the point where any apology could undo things.He gets up slowly.The thing that used to bind their absolutely disparate personalities together has become too frayed to hold them together any longer.
He knows it's time to leave.
She says,"why couldn't you say all this earlier?"
"Because I never wanted to hurt you"
"And aren't you hurting me now?"
This time he has no answers.But he also doesn't have the words to set everything right.
"I should have never listened to you",she wipes a tear and walks away.
And he realizes that this is the last time that he is seeing her walking away.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Mera Desh Mera Gaon..
I really wish I was born in a village in some Bollywood style evil zamindaar's household.Here's why:
1.I wouldn't really have required any education apart from basic reading and writing skills and despite that job won't have been issue coz the UPA government is trying to enforce NREGA(National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) efficiently.
2.Wouldn't have required to travel in trains,buses etc to got to work,infact I could have gone to work on horseback in the Feroze Khan style.
3.Since NREGA work consists of building roads,hospitals etc,I could have actually contributed to nation building.
4.I wouldn't have required to give tests to prove my effciency at work.
5.My NREGA contractor wouldn't order to me to relocate from Rampur To Lakshmanpur for a project.
6.I could go to the village well(obviously on horseback) and hoot at the 'gaon ki goriyan' without the fear of a molestation case being filed against me(my dad is a zamindaar,don't forget!!)
7.Living in a gaon would have been so much cheaper.
8.I could have probably met Rahul Gandhi and all the foriegn dignitaries that he gets down to villages to see the 'real' India.
9.I wouldn't have needed facebook to play Farmville.
10.I could sell my land to some SEZ developer and earn big bucks for it.
11.But on a serious note life would have so much stabler.
I would have known where I would be,with whom I would be,what am I going to do etc.It's miserable if you think that you have lived with yourselves for 22 years and still don't know the answers to those questions but perhaps where I would be,will be clearer by 45-50,with whom,hopefully by 30(though the odds are pretty much stacked against that happening),and what am I gonna do in the next 5 years.Maybe all this is just arising coz I am scared about losing what I have right now,if I move ahead but then,I am not even sure if I have those things.
I am pretty sure,there must be a 100 cons about being a gaonwala too but I am not even thinking about them,coz right now I am plain pissed.I just realized you may be known for what you are,but you are also known for where you are from.So I'll make sure I don't enter TSEC version of a B-school.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
R.I.P Boozigar
Mommy said,"Khote!Don't even think!!",
But it just seemed a case of sour grapes(pun intended),
And so I began to drink.
What was the need for apples anyway,
If drinking had it's health benefits,
Beer was said to be good for digestion,
And Wine was to keep the heart fit.
Shivji had Bhaang,Indra Dev his Som Ras,
So surely drinking couldn't be a vice,
And maybe if I drank a bit more,
Some chick might get lost in my 'nashilee' eyes.
So I attacked all booze in the same way as,
Bush did on Baghdad and Kabul,
And I have never seen the glass half empty,
So I always kept mine full.
But something was amiss,coz Devdas on 'desi tharra',
Got love from both Madhuri and Aish,
While I couldn't even get a half decent female,
Despite finishing my Dad's imported stash.
I suddenly came to realize that,
the only nutrition I was getting,was vitamin Pee,
How did Johnny Walker ask me to "Keep Walking",
When even standing was difficult for me.
It wasn't peg size Saif talked about while,
saying "make it large",I suddenly got to know,
And then I realized,the money spent on booze,
Could have nearly bought me a Nano!!
Now even if Vijay Mallya was to adopt me,
Mommy,about boozing I won't even think,
For becoming the King of Good Times,
I am pretty sure I needn't drink.
Writing this was as hard as gulping down my first beer!!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Epiphany
Just like anyone else,there have been a lot of things that I wish I could have had and just like anyone else I have had my fair share of disappointments.But if failure to have what you want is such a common thing for everyone,why does it hurt,each time that things don't fall into place and if it hurts that much,how do we get over it?Just imagine a scenario of hooking up with someone,there are 6.5 billion people in this world(I am including the possibility of a person being bisexual),if you like a person,what is the probability of that person liking you back..1/6500000000..even worse than possibilty of Bangladesh winning the World Cup or Chappell and Ganguly making up or Mayawati finding a husband or Veerappan winning the Nobel Prize ,I guess you get the meaning,then what is there to feel bad about?!!
Bottomline,we make it to be a big deal.We just hold on too tightly,we also fail to realize that as time passes even the things we want change/the thing we want changes,and we just hold on to the illusion that everything is the same.Even in the rare cases that we still want the same,we at some subconcious level realise that it is not to be but just don't have the courage of admitting it to even ourselves.
Just like the flow of river where you can't seggregate parts because contents(the water) in the part keeps changing and yet there is a continuity,so it is in life.You cannot define it by moments and people.Nothing in life is too important to let go or too paltry to hold on to. Life goes on regardless of everything else.Things change,people change,relationships change and so do we and our needs.Once you accept that,everything makes sense.
Friday, August 21, 2009
We..
I hated the fact they always seemed less,
I miss you telling me everything,
But I hated that you first made me guess.
I miss your senseless chatter,
I hated it when you were quiet,
I miss you giving me futile advice,
I hated it coz you were always right.
I miss the times I made you laugh,
I hated when you just put on a polite smile,
I miss that you grasped the most subtle jokes,
I hated that the grasping took a while.
I miss the funny arguments we had,
I hated that you always let me win,
I miss the times that you corrected me,
But I hated when you asked others to join in.
I miss all the fights that we had,
I hated that one of us needed to apologize,
I miss the crazy dreams that we shared,
I hate that those dreams we couldn't realize.
I miss the times we messed with each other,
I hate that it has now become a game,
I miss everything we ever had,
I hate it when you tell me,"it can't be the same".
Man this is really sappy and corny,so my realizations after writing this:
1.I should watch fewer chick-flicks n avoid gossip girl for some time.
2.I need to go for a gender test.
3.I was a definitely a chick in my previous life.
4.I need to start working soon!!!
Monday, August 10, 2009
Midnight Rant...
Anyway,as I grew up,I tried to follow this mule-headedly(I used to try more than 3 times),be it with studies,some skill or some girl.But at the same time I began to realise it was failing to work(I could have tried "trying" infinitely for certain things,but how can you do that when the given situation doesn't exist anymore!!).
So I was given a new mantra by people,"You can only get what you are destined to get".This was so much easier!!I could just chill out and wait for the Universe to hear my wishes and reward me what I am destined to get.But actually this worked worse than the first plan:my grades dropped,I led a stagnant life and was chick anti-magnate.I still had faith in the Universe,(in Rhonda Bryne too) but the universe nearly flunked me in my Physics paper(trust me,even though i appear indifferent towards everything,flunking in anything is still a big deal for me).So my love affair with the Universe ended.
And then I reached a compromise,"Do your best,Universe will do the rest".Well the success rate with this philosphy wasn't that great either,but it has worked since you cannot decide whom to blame when you fail.Whether I didn't do my best?Or the Gods were not with me?Pretty convenient :)...but then I have begun to have my doubts with this too.If you are supposed to do your best(i.e keep trying for what you want) and God will take care of rest(i.e he'll grant you what you deserve or are destined to have),then how to decide to what point do you keep trying?When should you be able to say,that I have given my best now?For that matter,how do you even know what is your best?
So my conclusion,which I am ready to admit might be totally wrong,is that we all do what we want at a given stage and just find something convenient to support it.There is no destiny,no best shot,it's just what you want to make of something in the moments that you have.
Friday, August 7, 2009
The Reason..
so I try to make a few words rhyme,
But I know I won't be able to,
Coz' I haven't in all this time.
We have reached so many finish lines,
Then we have made so many starts,
That I don't know where I stand,
Whether close or a million miles apart.
At times we couldn't stand each other,
Of our fights,we have had our share,
But even in the moment we hated each other,
For each other we still cared.
We have both catered to our egos,
of being self-absorbed idiots we've had bouts,
but when one of us would need the other,
the other would be there,without a doubt.
We've sometimes been cold to each other,
even strangers to each other we've been,
And yet we accepted what the other wanted,
though no logic to it could be seen.
There couldn't be two more diferent people,
This fact took some time knowing,
And yet somehow we managed it all,
we were both weird,that kept us going.
"All good things come to an end",
Yes,I have heard such stuff,
But what doesn't last forever,
I don't believe is good enough.
It isn't perfect right now,but it's fine how it is,
Our relationship changes with the season,
But of walking along a bit further together,
Like always,we might just get some reason.
My third longest poetry till date.The first one that I didn't have to sit down with a paper-pen to write.Could have been better,but imperfection always leaves room for improvement the next time.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Everytime You Leave...
You break my heart for sure,
If this was true literally,as "Man-of-multiple-hearts",
I would have belonged to medical folklore.
It was dark before you came,
Now,my world,your smile lights,
There would be no load-shedding,were you there in every home,
Coz' your smile could light up the nights.
And whenever you are gone away,
I am like a ship lost at sea,
I become like the Indian Police,
I am everywhere else but not where I am supposed to be.
Your absence makes me an artist,
composing and writing gives me a kick,
But now,even when I have to go to pee,
I sing & tell it to everyone like Anu Malik.
If I was you,I would never leave again,
If you heard me telling this to you,
that I am as clueless & incomplete in your absence,
as Rabri Devi is without her Laloo.
But I am sure all this can't stop you,
I now seem to understand why,
Because if humour would have been so seductive,
Rajpal Yadav would have married Aishwarya Rai!
I started writing it as something serious(hard to believe!),as a combined effect of watching Love Aaj Kal,hearing Rufus Humphrey sing "Everytime you walk away" in season 1 episode 17 of Gossip Girl(awesome series & awesomer song) but I think I have lot the capacity to be serious since Rakhi Ka Swaymwar started.Ahh I love being/trying to be(however you may find this) FUNNY!
Sunday, July 26, 2009
The Good,The Bad,The Ugly
2.Nobody can teach you to be brilliant at verbal section in CAT :)
3.Quants is something that can be worked upon.
4.Everybody is unreasonable at one time or the other.
5.Sometimes not carrying an umbrella when it is raining turns out to be more pleasent than imagined.
6.The best things in life last for just a few moments(after that it becomes routine).
7.A leader is not just a person who takes initiative,but also knows when to take it.
8.Junk food may not be good for your health,but is definitely good for the mood.
9.The moments when you recognize someone but are unable to recall his/her name are pathetic.
10.It is futile running after someone/something which moves faster than you can.
11.'Love in the times of cholera' is an overrated yet awesome book.
12.Johnnie Walker has the most fantastic slogan ever coined 'Keep Walking'.
13.The things that you want the most are mostly the most expensive,the most difficult to obtain or already the most sought after.
14.The 'human factor' can always end up screwing things,so better only take up things where the only human involved is you.
15.I am on the verge of becoming a dragon,i.e-have fire in my belly.
16.It is four years exactly to my taking admission in TSEC,being trapped in the 26/7 deluge and frantic messaging to everyone close,thinking that I was going to die.
17.I will be back..just like Arnie!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
In Your Hands...
It's already time to get on the stage,
The world is an audience to this show,
I'll try my best,I want you to know.
You really don't need to fret,
In your hands I am but a puppet,
Go on till the strings don't break,
Go on till your hands begin to ache.
You lift me up,bring me down,make me go around,
It's hard to express anything,when you can't make a sound,
The world laughs yet I love the moments together we spend,
In my head I keep on praying they never end.
Without you I am just so incomplete,
I can't wave my hands,cant stand on my feet,
I'll be with you,whatever life brings,
Though the only thing joining us are a few strings.
But when I get old,me somebody will replace,
But in my life,it will be hard to fill up your place,
You made me what I am,gave me a voice,
I'll let it be this way,if given a choice.
The show is over,the applause grand,
It's all for you,not for the puppet in your hand,
It's my fate,by you I can never be wronged,
I am back in dusty corner where I belonged.
Just imagine if a puppet could actually think & feel;the beauty is that it can be interpreted in human terms as well,though it could have come out a bit better,but it's still pretty decent.Hadn't written anything serious for a while.God!Why couldn't you bless me with some other talent?!!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Rage against Age
Circa 1997,I am 10-happiness is all about playing cricket,videogames and running and climbing terraces and walls.Sadness is perhaps just being whacked by my mom
Circa 2000,the corruption starts-slowly and steadily you are becoming a part of the rat-race,though the ideas of love is probably limited to having a crush on Priety Zinta.Thoughts of career are still pretty vague..it's engineer today,lawyer tomorrow,armed forces the next but getting wet in the rain still makes me happy.
Circa 2003,the dark forces have got me-10 boards,I am officially a part of the whole circus.I am sure I am in love(though I don't know what it is!)...I leave the small pond and enter the big lake(come to Mumbai)...get a bit lost..leave the only chick who I liked who liked me(someone's kaala jadoo for sure)..impressing people becomes an action and not a result.
Circa 2005,the chemical romance begins-the bloody competition,it kills..though I ended up with 6 admits and perhaps picked up not the best one.I take up something as a probable profession just because I liked it,no other thought.Start of the major ass kicking days.Start boozing just to prove that I ain't a nice guy(the thousands spent and for what?though beer was the only good thing to come out of this phase.One of teachers back in 6th told me it was good for health and I was scandalized at that time,she has to see me now!).Career becomes a reality,not a figment of childhood fantasies.I start noticing that nearly half the world is of the opposite sex.
Circa 2009,Keep walking-I don't know how and in what direction my career is gonna shape up.I dont know if I like someone.I don't know how anything is gonna shape up and miss the days when I could change my profession everyday according to my whims and fancies,happiness was just about being graded 'Good' by the teacher,sadness was just having a silly fight with your best friend,love was just liking someone and being with them.
As we grow up,our tendency to be hurt,to hurt,to be scared,to feel lost increases while instances of being happy,doing something nice,being selfless,to forgive,to trust which I thought would increase,keep on reducing.
And yet as long as I can see a kid and smile,I know it's worth giving my best shot.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Ooooooooooooo.....
The end of the world is nigh,
Just as devastating as Shivji's teesra netra,
is the nasal voice of Himesh Bhai.
Some believe he's delivering a coded message,
when he starts every song of his with 'Ooooooo',
It could be from a lost civlization,but NASA,
believes it could be from some other galaxy too.
But the truck and rickshawalas got a new Beethoven,
Altaf "tum to thehre Pardesi" Raja's days are gone,
You might have even got a free ride,
if you could even attempt to sing along!
For extracting information from unwilling people,
investigators found a new torture technique,
Make the guy listen to Himesh for an hour,
And just like Navjot Singh Sidhu he'll begin to speak.
His movies insult human sensitivity and dignity,
the Human Rights Commission has let HimeshBhai know,
he puts public at an even greater risk coz' seeing him act,
Even KRK(of deshdrohi fame) and Sonu Nigam feel they are Al Pacino.
But you've gotta give him credit,
He took sales of caps to a new high,
and some believe we got the nuclear deal from US,
in exchange of a new WMD,our very own Himesh Bhai!
WMD-Weapon of Mass Destruction
Himesh Bhai rocks...n I loved karz n aap ka suroor..best comedies of their respective years!
Saturday, July 4, 2009
If Women...
This might appear to be insane,
But for once just try to imagine,
What if Adam was the one to bite the apple?
What if the world was run by women?
The Rashtrapati Bhavan will become Rashtra’patni’ Bhavan,
& the Parliament might be painted pink one day,
Shilpa’awesome figure’Shetty will become the Health Minister,
& the Bharat Ratna might go Ekta Kapoor’s way!
National policies won’t be discussed at Cabinet meetings,
But gossiped about at ‘Kittie parties”,the Prime Minister keeps,
Petrol & cooking gas prices might hit the sky,but,
accessories,designer wear and make-up products will definitely be sold cheap.
Flying vehicles will be invented much faster,
‘Coz women driving on roads is equal to jams,accidents & fights,
& its very understandable not to be ready on time,
So ‘Right To Be Late’ will become the latest Fundamental Right.
Bitching & gossiping will never be looked down upon again,
If you said “She’s ugly”,no need of guilt or shame,
Hockey,cricket & football will be prohibited,
Shopping will be our National Game!
Deols,Schwazenegars & Stallones will be out of work,
as all action movies would be banned.
& men would be forced to watch only romantic movies,
till they can cry with women while holding hands.
Punishment for hurting women will be made so strict,
that even forgetting an anniversary,will give guys nightmares,
Breaking up might lead a guy into the prison,
& cheating might land him up in the electric chair!
Well this idea is food for thought,
Though it appears funny on this blogspace,
I am pretty sure if women ran the world,
It would have been a much better place.
Disclaimer-Resemblance to any woman,living or dead,is not purely co-incidential :)
I have mentioned a couple of cliches..I know women can drive well,they aren't always late and even men like to bitch and watch romantic movies...but the intention here is to just have a laugh without demeaning anyone...n honestly I do feel women would do a better job of running the world...for one there wouldn't have been a Bin Laden or a Bush!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
France, je t'aime(as in,France,I Love You)
But fantasizing isn't that hard,
Imagining myself living in France,
and owning a couple of vineyards!
Everyday would be spent,
eating cheese and sipping wine,
To Hell with dosas,parathas and curries,
Without them I think I'll do just fine.
Here,nobody would be made a eunuch by them,
I'll make sure that Nana Patekar knows,
No filaria,malaria or dengue,
Coz in France,there are no bloody mosquitoes.
Speaking French won't be an issue,
Just have to make sure my tounge twirls,
& since it is the most romantic language,
I might even get a girl!
He is the President plus has a HOT wife,
Mr Sarkozy is a God,I have no doubt,
& now that he is banning burqas,
there will be many more chicks to check out.
Yeah,the grass is greener,
& the French girls are damn pretty,
Being born in New Delhi & not in Paris,
Oh God!What a pity!
This one is complete insanity written at 5 in the morning...coz I was thinking bout
1.me being totally lukha
2.Russell Crowe's movie The Good Year,where he inherits a vineyard in France(awesome movie,thanx for recommendin Jay)
3. Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni(If she was to marry me,I would be ready,even to be a politician)
4.Nana Patekar's immortal dialogue-"Saala ek machchar aadmi ko hijdaa bana deta hai(One bloody mosquito can transform a man into a eunuch(for those devoid of imagination,one has to clap while killing a mosquito))"
5.Guns 'N Roses's Paradise City
I think I need to go for a psychiatric evaluation..Doctor!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Writer's Lament
I am in pain,anger and shock,
I've just lost my mind,
Hell,I am suffering from Writer's block!
My mind is haphazard like Delhi's traffic,
No thought running in its own lane,
Its clouded like this time's monsoon,
It's a pain but it doesn't rain.
Once I could write about anything,
But gone are my glory days,it seems,
Thoughts come flying around,
But I can't catch any,just like the Pakistani team.
It is so grossly unfair,
Feel like TZP's Darsheel Zafary,
The words and thoughts are dancing infront,
But I am just not able to connect any.
I lost my personal fiefdom,
The only thing I was good at by far,
Now I understand how Laloo must have felt,
When he lost Bihar to Nitish Kumar.
I knew I couldn't write forever,
But this is too early to get to that stage,
So please God give my superpower back to me,
And let me write till Khushwant Singh's age!
Fo those who don't know Khushwant Singh is 94 and still writing!
I am actually suffering from a writer's block and honestly couldn't think of anything to write,so I just wrote about what my ailment is :) and trying to put it in a humorous way was awesome.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Mirror O Mirror
hanging on the wall,
Tell me which Indian politician,
is the dumbest of them all?
Arjun Singh thought he could pronlong his career,
By doling out 27% quota without hesitation,
But forgot that in the 21st century,
politicians are the only backers of reservation.
Some find him stupid,coz when Mumbaikars protested,
wearing 'lipstick,powder,jeans',Mr Naqvi was pretty rude,
Insiders tell me,he just wanted the protests American style,
And wanted the protestors to go nude ;)
Or is it Mulayam Singh Yadav?
Who went haywire,in his election fever,
and thought that banning computers and english,
would make our minorities achievers!
It may be Laloo's 'lugaai' Rabri Devi,
who of garnering publicity found some great ways,
but mam you won't win an election in Bihar,
by calling Mr.Nitish Kumar gay.
Mr Prakash Karat has started finding,
his foot in his mouth,more often than not,
He proclaimed 'Singh won't be King' anymore,
But got his ass kicked even by Mamta Di's lot.
Mr RR Patil has my deepest sympathies,
Only if he had paid attention while studying Hindi,
He wouldn't have called 26/11 a 'chotti baat',
and got himself kicked to do 'kheti baari' in Sangli.
But alas,I so wish that George Bush had,
Mathura and not Midland as his home town,
there wouldn't have been any competition,
he would have won hands-down!
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Break To Mend
This is exactly how,I thought of this post.
My final semester exams are over and as of now I am a B.E(Bekaar/Berozgaar Engineer),so there is lots of time to kill.I believe every idle mind has an affinity for the idiot box,and that is where I saw the program "From G's To Gents" on VH1(Tuesdays at 11.00),where some thugs are transformed into civilized beings.This show had an awesome line,"Sometimes you gotta break something weak,in order to make it stronger".
This made me remember a story I had read when I was a kid(guess it was about Lal Bahadur Shastri,our second PM),where as a kid,he had a boil on his back,and he took a red hot iron rod and pressed it against the boil,to burst it and relieve himself of the continuous pain.What amazed me as an 11 year old at that time was not the courage he displayed,but the fact that sometimes you have to hurt yourselves more to do away with the pain you already have.
As I grew up,I realized how accurate my perception as a kid was.Every trial,every tryst,that a person goes through makes you tougher.Adversity not only brings the best out of you,it also makes you stronger.If I have been hurt once by one thing,it'll take more than that thing to hurt me again(even hitting me with a baseball bat!).Call it jadedness or call it conditioning,your immunity to anything of the same sort becomes greater.
But the question is are we strong enough to hurt ourselves?Are we ready to amputate the limb or are scared enough to allow the poison to spread through the body?
Answering this isn't easy,and there might be times when you could be wrong but one never knows unless one tries.
Hoping someday I will be,
stronger than ever before.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Why Did You Have To Go?
"I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 2009
"I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 26, 2008
"I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be -- hold hands." --George W. Bush, on how he can contribute to the Middle East peace process, Washington, D.C., Jan. 4, 2008
"Make no mistake about it, I understand how tough it is, sir. I talk to families who die." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2006
"I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 4, 2006
"Wow! Brazil is big." --George W. Bush, after being shown a map of Brazil by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2005
"It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005
"This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table." --George W. Bush, Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 22, 2005
"Who could have possibly envisioned an erection -- an election in Iraq at this point in history?" --George W. Bush, at the white House, Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2005
"I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed in the atmosphere, and they say, man, you're looking pretty." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Nov. 4, 2004
"The truth of that matter is, if you listen carefully, Saddam would still be in power if he were the president of the United States, and the world would be a lot better off." --George W. Bush, second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004
"The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself." -George W. Bush, Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 29, 2003
"We are fully committed to working with both sides to bring the level of terror down to an acceptable level for both." -George W. Bush, after a meeting with congressional leaders, Washington, D.C., Oct. 2, 2001
"It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." -George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.
"We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House - make no mistake about it." -George W. Bush, Feb. 7, 2001
"People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002
"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law." --George W. Bush, Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000(This one is actually smart!)
"Never again in the halls of Washington, D.C., do I want to have to make explanations that I can't explain." --George W. Bush, Portland, Oregon, Oct. 31, 2000
"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet." --George W. Bush, Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." --George W. Bush, Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas." --George W. Bush, Beaverton, Ore., Sep. 25, 2000
"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness." --George W. Bush, in a CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000
That's all folks :)
Thursday, June 4, 2009
sumthin like...
we baked it together,
but you alone ate the whole cake,
I hate you so much right now,
I could drown you in a lake.
My blog quality is going down!!!!wtf!
5 A:M
And i am still awake,
What seemed so real,
was something so fake.
This life's pretty ugly,
But beautiful I did try to make,
I tried to put things right,
Just for your sake.
But all the shit now,
is really hard to take,
I can't keep trying,
if there is nothing at stake.
The road seems steep now,
And I am about to break,
Going to sleep is difficult,
And equally hard is staying awake.
was just testing,how many rhyming words can i put with awake...test results r pretty gud...had another stanza but it didnt fit..
Monday, June 1, 2009
Choices
How do you make a choice when you don't know if what you want is achievable or isn't?
How do you make a choice when what is achieveable isn't right and what isn't achievable is?
How do you make a choice when you can't make out the difference between between the right and the wrongs?
How do you find the answers?Even google doesn't help!
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Main shaayar toh nahi!
1.Seether's version of 'careless whisper' by Wham, is amazing,d best ever cover of any song(well that was my effort to promote rock music,give it a hear,people!)
2.My college life gets over in another 4 days..and unlike most people I really don't feel emotional..just thinking of what to do for the next 6 months!(No rude suggestions allowed)
3. I feel pretty awesome,for a change because of myself.
Around 10 years back, I saw 'Bobby'(No,not the hot chick from roadies,but the blockbuster of yesteryears,Dimple Kapadia-Rishi Kapoor starrer,the first rebellious teenage love story which has been copied atleast a 1000 times after that :),movie).I tried hard to share my mom's excitement,but the only thing that I liked(apart from seeing Dimple Kapadia in a swimsuit..drooling) was the song "Main shaayar toh nahi" which went like...
" main shaayar toh nahi
magar ae haseen,
jabse dekha maine tujhko,
mujhe shaayari aa gayi"
Now even though I write great poetry,this post isn't about Dimple Kapadia or the countless subsequent chicks being a source of inspiration for my writing.Then why all d blabbering?I have a different take on the song and here it is...
I have heard a zillion times "you don't know what you have got till it's gone" and that is true but it's also true that,"you don't know what you've got,till you reach a situation where you've got to use what you've got".(for instance I didn't know I could write so well,till I started falling for chicks,thanks,love you all!(notice the sarcasm))
Anyway not deviating from the theme,most of us really have no clue as to what we are capable of,until we get to a situation where that particular thing is demanded of us,just like,in Harry Potter, underage wizards performing magic when faced with adverse situations.It could be as simple as solving a mathematical puzzle out of nowhere to something more serious like getting over a heartbreak or moving to a new place.
Now why does something like this happen,I have my theories about it,although none of them verified..
1.We underestimate and underanalyze ourselves too much.We are so much interested in what is happening around us,that we forget that there is a centre to the around.I don't ask anyone to be self absorbed but aleast try to know yourselves more than you know others.
2.A man/woman is like the universe(the woman a much bigger one),even if you try to explore for a lifetime,you would have just touched a corner,so why even try?
The first one is a reason,the second an excuse :).
But both are true and the best that one can do is I guess to constantly try to put yourselves in situations,which help you to explore yourselves a little.Join a dance class,learn martial arts,play a guitar,go boozing!As Baz Luhrmann said in the song 'Sunscreen'...
"Do one thing everyday that scares you"
You may just end up knowing a fraction about yourselves,but you will be glad for it and as we know from Maths,a fraction is bigger than zero!
Friday, May 29, 2009
UNTITLED
Those sorrows,the hurts,the pains,
Those memories coloured my life once,
Now they just seem to be stains.
Destiny meant us to be together,
Love made us feel the same,
Now as we are being ripped apart,
Can't think of anyone to blame.
I try to forget it's the last time,
These few moments that we share,
Life may hold a lot ahead,
But I just can't seem to care.
We made our sacrifices,did our best,
We know that in our hearts,
We are still where we were,
But yet so much further apart.
They are things that one wishes,
The way they are,they could stay,
But the harder you try to hold on to,
the further they keep moving away.
It makes things both harder and sweeter,
To know that you still love me,
I won't ignore our reality,
But will have faith in our destiny.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
WTF!!
1.Dont feel like studying
2.The last piece of poetry I wrote is damn narcissitic,so will put it up when I am on cloud 9 :)
3.Cant find guitar tuition ka notes,so cant practice
4.There is no one to call
5.I just wanna waste some time
I was talking to one of my closest friends yesterday and as I am known to very few people..asked her a random question,"needs or principles?",idealist that I believed she was,she surprised me by answering "needs".Following that I had conversations with a few people, and somehow from last night to now set me thinking what drives us to act,not when it is about our,but someone else's needs(everybody acts for their own needs)More so because I was asked to do many things which I wouldn't have liked to do in the same span of time :).These were my conclusions...
Half the people lack the conscience and find inaction as the best solution and would choose something like "arre mera thodi banta hai yeh karna" or "I dont think so he/she would have done the same thing for me" as their excuse,but what if "Tera banta hai" or "He/She would have done the same thing"..that is where this half firmly believes "Ignorance is bliss" and they find their comfort.
The 'others' or according to the previous category of people "the foolish ones" or the "ones to be taken advantage off" have three reasons to do what they do..
Fear
Responsibility
Love
Fear I believe is the biggest driver for human action,fear of "losing someone,getting hurt,getting disliked,being spoken ill about etc etc".Though this reason is the worst of the above three,but it is fair enough..atleast you are doing the right thing.But this does get back to you at one point of time because your fears afterall only make you more vulnerable.
Responsibility is something I believe in,because you would only want to be responsible if you have a sense of self worth.If a responsible person cannot do something which he is supposed to do,he'll feel guilty and would look down on himself.So in a sense he is doin it for himself as much as for others which is commendable because he is equating needs of others to his own.
Finally,love,the least visible and the most potent reason of all.You place the ones you love above yourself,their needs more important than yours,you throw yourself overboard to save them from drowning(though you yourself don't know how to swim) and it also gives rise to the above two reasons,"fear of losing ones you love and feeling responsible for them".
The world would be a better place if more of us can believe that there are more important things than instant gratification and playing on someone's fears!Ending it with a few lines from one of my favourite songs...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
TRUE LOVE WAY
I Want In, Like A Substitute
I' Ve Been Working Awful Hard For You
But You Dont Say,
You Just Hold Your Breath
So I Can't Touch What I Haven't Yet
She's A Poor One And It Hurts Me So
And It's A Dark Path And A Heck Of A Cold
And She Can Feel Me Like She Did Before
Oh We'd Be So Free
Happy Alone
Sharing A Smile
So Far From Home
Push In And I Pull It Away
It A Hard Part But The True Love Way
Till You Want It Like I Want It
Now With Your Smart Mouth And Your Killer Hands
With A Potion Oh That I Have Made
For A Young Man Its A Heck Of A Wage
And I Feel Crazy When I See Your Face
Cuz We'd Be So Free
Happy Alone
Sharing A Smile
So Far From Home
And We Would Laugh
Laugh Till We Cry
Making A Song
Making Me Lie
And People Say I'm Crazy For Walking This Town
And People Say I'm Bigger For Walking This Town
And People Say Maybe That Its Coming Around
And People Say I'm Bigger For Walking A...
And We'd Be So Free
Happy Alone
Sharing A Smile So
Far From Home
And We Would Laugh
Laugh Till We Cry
Making A Song
Making Me Lie
Happy Alone
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Afterglow
You were my guiding light,
lighting spaces whose existence i didnt know,
I cant feel your warmth now,
but still burn in the afterglow
Just had an urge 2 put sumthin up rite now,gotta complete dis!!!
Friday, May 1, 2009
Election sewer..err..fever :)
The BJP might have been in slumber,
But with elections Advaniji has lots of questions,
Somehow they all sound like,”Kab aayega mera number?”.
They care two hoots about the country,
But at anything against Mrs.Gandhi,Congress will frown, (now Rahul Baba as well)
Well,they would have won the elections,
But Kasab and Recession caught them with their pants down.
The 3rd Front is a varied confused lot,
Just like a pornstar about her origin,
All they want is a 'Tata' to the treaty,
Because their only enemies are Mamta & Manmohan. (Read:Mamta Banerjee)
Three Musketeers Laloo,Mulayam & Paswan,
Want to lead to glory the 4th Front,
But if ‘Bhaiyas’ become Kingmakers,
To Raj ’Marathi Asmita’ Thackeray,it’ll be an affront. (and Bhaiyas in Maharashtra will bear the brunt)
Our ‘Behenji’ is slugging it out all alone,
Yet dreams of becoming the ‘Pradhan Mantri’,
If her dream & our nightmare is realized,
Euthanasia(Mercy Killing) will be required by the country.
In such people’s hands our country's future,
is like a slaughterhouse for a goat,
Hats off to the valiant ‘Aam aadmi’,
Because he still hopes for a change & votes!
Long live democracy!!!!!!!!!!!
Disclaimer-The views expressed above wholly belong to all concious citizens of our country. Jai Hind!
On a more serious note,have nothing against the above mentioned people,its just their nation wrecking policies.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
ESTRANGED
We didnt wish for it to happen,
But it all ended in pain,
After that we never wanted to,
But here we are again.
You walking out on me,
was probably my worst fear.
My heart was all shattered,
But I couldn't shed a tear.
Now my eyes are wet,
But it's just the falling rain,
Lovers we were,
now we seem to be estranged.
Once we talked without speaking,
Now even words aren't suffice.
I couldn't wait to be with you once,
Now it's so difficult to be just nice.
It doesn't hurt me anymore,
of those wounds I carry no scars,
We seperated at that crossroad,
And now I've walked too far.
It all just seems someone else's life,
No reason to stay,no words to say,
Was wrong when I said we are estranged,
In truth we are strangers on our own way
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Her And You
She slowly grows onto you,
To her errors you turn a blind eye,
You chose to forget what you always knew.
You begin to care so much,
That for her caring you pine,
The parameters for actions she sets,
Your emotions by them you define.
She tells you what is wrong to her,
Though it might be right for you,
You are only allowed to wonder,
Why things happen the way they do.
You are stuck in a spider's web,
You escape one,another one she spins,
She will force you to give up,
Without herself ever giving in.
But you still stay behind,
With her are you bound to be?
Or chose to stay back because,
Nowhere else youself could you see.
You always have the choice to make,
To walk the path that is going to be,
Dont force yourself to follow her rules,
Learn to defy the Society.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Where are we?
Lesson1
There are two ways to go about things,either be totally selfless or be absolutely selfish..you cant be selfless for your own gratification.It only leads to an imbalance in your equation with people where you feel you are giving more and recieving less.
Bottomline:Find ways to extend relationships without extending yourselves beyond a particular limit.
Lesson 2
The futilty of all planning!Life takes you where you are destined to be,you just go along.It is like a river where one moves along the current,but still you have to put up an effort to stay afloat,to move forward faster.I have truly started believing,"Only the unplanned works".I guess everything in my life(apart from being born) has been due to something unplanned.
Bottomline:Be certain about the uncertainity
Lesson 3
As Chetan Bhagat put it,"Life screws you right when you feel you have it all figured out".Stop trying to figure things,specifically about human emotions.There are so many permutations and combinations,that the odds that you live in a fools' paradise are pretty high.Base big decisions on concrete facts.
Bottomline:Stop assuming things
Lesson 4
If you are still reading...being strong(mentally and emotionally) may make people like you,but people only get close to each other when there is an element of vulnerability.No need to elaborate this further
Bottomline:Stop being a He-Man/Rani Lakshmi Bai all the time
Lesson 5
You need to learn to voice your own needs to the people close to you because if you dont you start resenting the people you love.Even if they dont/cant do anything about it,atleast they wont mind.If you are weak,you feel good,if you are strong,you make them feel good.
Bottomline:Those who matter dont mind,and those who mind dont matter.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Where Am I?--Official Rant
Friday, January 16, 2009
PRESENT OF HOPE
Because I had no one by my side,
There was a storm raging on,
I hadn't a place to hide.
There was nothing to hold on to,
I just kept falling down,
I kept walking around,
the streets of a long dead town.
I let everything slip away,
Thinking they won't get far from me,
Time has brought me so much ahead,
when I turn back,there is nothing to see.
Past became sanctuary for present,
It was the oasis in life's desert,
It was believing what had brought me down,
Could now heal my hurt.
I chose to ignore the present,
Thinking next moment it will become the past,
I had forgotten that maybe,
I could do something till it lasts.
This moment can give hope to the next,
That all miseries will be gone,
Life maybe at its worst now,
But it's the darkest before dawn.
This is for all the people who have given me hope when thing have been screwed up!!