January29
I just finished another epic book. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. As always with his works, I am left in a state of hangover. There is definitely something about this guy which makes me crave for his books. In itself Murakami is a genre of books. If you could refer to something as Shakespearean then probably you can call his books Kafkaseque ( which of course represents his most famous work Kafka on the Shore ) .
The book is a story revolving around a limited number of characters. There is Tengo, a big 30 year old math teacher cum novelist. There is Aomame ( i love her name for some reason ), who is a fitness trainer and then there is Fuka-Eri or Eriko Fukada, a 17 year old girl who wrote a book Air Chrysalis. Somewhere in their lives the usual year of 1984 changes to a differnt time. For convenience sake its called 1Q84.
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January5
Call it an emotion. Call it a way of life! A lot of us are here because of this. Reminds of the Delhi Police slogan : With You.For You.Always! ( I hope it was Delhi Police )
I have often come close to writing about lust but well I always got carried in emotion. Finally though I got there today. I pushed myself that no matter how hard is tries to seduce me, i would not give in to lust.
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January1
The night is still cold
I am still sitting here
Shivering at time due
to this sudden breeze
There’s no soul in sight
Its one of those dark nights
Where you just sit alone
And all there is that stone
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December4
I have been searching for long
A place my own
A place I would like to call home
A place where I’d come
And forget all there was
A moment of silence
A flash of dawn
And wherever I go, it follows
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November6
The last one year has been full of changes. Not just for me but the world around me. Just the magnitude of the things have increased so dramatically. From all-sweeping tsunamis to earth-shattering earthquakes, we have seen them all in the last one year. We have also see uprisings and struggles at the scale we never had before. We are witnessing change all around.
And so it is with me, who has changed too. I look at myself a year ago and there’s almost a mild mischevious grin on my face. I was just very naive maybe or just young. I have grown in this one year. I have experienced alot maybe as much as the 2nd/3rd year of college put together. You might even add the few months at Cisco and still wont be able to match the last 10 months or so.
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November1
I walk on these empty streets
The night has fallen
There’s a song in my head
The one I sing
But the words have long been forgotten
I try to remember the words of past
Nothing comes to mind
And finally when I am about to give up
A voice murmurs from behind
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October27
Its been sometime since I have written. A possible explanation as provided by one of my Chinese friends is ‘You are Happy’. If i try to analyze this statement, well yeah i have been happy and hence did not really have the urge to write. I have been happy about a lot of things. I have been sad a bit too. But i have not needed to write because maybe I had an outlet to vent out my frustration. ( Nothing serious, it might just be my new secret iPad)
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September24
You are breaking down
In front of my eyes
And i am wondering as to why
I can see that look
That asks me not
To ask you again a why
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August24
I was wondering about the new India rising up. We are all rising up. Up up and Up. Up against what i wonder? Somebody whispered its up against corruption? The one word that has become the motto of every man, woman and child in India. We all wont corruption to end like it is Ravana from Ramayana itself. And if there is Ravana we need a Ram. And we found our Ram in Mr. Anna Hazare.
Its pretty convenient actually. Someone started a small fire promising food and we all join in for free food. I mean anyhow we don’t believe we can cook by ourselves so we decided to move into a house where someone will cook for us and who knows even feed us!
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July23
Its been long time since i wrote. Its also been long time since i felt like writing. Its been even a longer time that i had something to write about. And even longer for some of the things that have happened to me lately. Another thing that has happened after long is that i have felt certain things!
There are the good emotions that i have felt lately. But somehow I have always believed that i have got over anger, hate and jealousy. I mean there was nothing in this world, i felt, that could make me feel this significantly. But then something happened. I came across someone who resembles Wesley Mouch of Atlas Shrugged OR Ellsworth Toohey of The Fountainhead. At the beginning i had no real interest in him, so i was hardly concerned.
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June26
Talk to me, say something
I am waiting for your words
My eyes are closed
And yet still open
Unaware of this world
I am playing this song
The one you hear
Words drifting on the water
They come but slowly
Like the wind, and get lost mid-air
I hold your eyes
And then your lips
A vast gulf separating them
And then in this moment
I die, happily forever!
May26
I have heard this often and so must have you. Money is the source of all evil. Its funny how we blame money. True it causes a lot of issues. True it creates complexities and chaos. Even more true is that greed exists. Yet i cant help but think of the words ‘to choose between bad and evil’. Its not a easy choice to make but that’s what we have to do.
Just imagine a world without money. It will be a total chaos. There will be no measure of value. How will you measure value? By 2 truckloads of salt or my love of moon! Does that make sense? For without the existence of money nothing that we see today is possible. How will we barter a space shuttle expedition with my sister’s education. How then will the limited resources be allocated for unending needs?
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April30
This post is dedicated to someone who changed my life.
I try to hold on
But the moments slip through
I want to hold on
But my mind is against you
I am sorry for not being
To walk with you
For leaving you alone in
the journey of life
It may be easy to tell you
all about it
But to feel it inside
brings me strife
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April20
Life has funny ways of proving us wrong. I had always considered myself a intelligent person. Rather i had considered myself a knowledgeable guy. Until i went outside India. At first i was at all a loss on what to do. Things just didnt seem to fall into place. Either i googled or read the instructions to the S. Slowly i did learn and it was fun. But to be in a new culture gives you different angles to the same thoughts. And as i was sitting in the airport waiting for my departure i suddenly had a realization.
It was about the human mind. If you try to disclose something from it, the more it wants to know about it. Its not just about events and thoughts. Its also about what we see. If you try not to show it a pen, the more curious it is to see the pen. If you know about a pen, have heard about it and talked about it with your friend a million times and yet never seen it, the urge could become overwhelming.
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April7
All the words i had, vanished
Somewhere along this road i walk
Flowing like water at times
Or stuck behind a block
I can hear the thunder and the waves
Something seems to be closing in
I struggle hard to remain outside
But finally it engulfs me
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