Away From You

A blurry life
A run to the green
Watching the sun
Go down so clean

Everytime I remember you (1)
It always feels theres something new,

Crazy are the nights,
Crazy are the lights,

Crazy are the nights,
Crazy are the lights

That keep me away from you...

A blurry life
A run to the green
Watching the sun
Go down so clean

The darkness makes me cry so dry, (2)
And I always wanna see the sun to be so high

Crazy are the nights,
Crazy are the lights,

Crazy are the nights,
Crazy are the lights

That keep me away from you...

November Rain

Axl Rose, the lead singer of Guns N Roses, worked on this one for 19 years. 19 years to bring out a 9 odd minute number. The music video of this song created an equal amount of buzz as the song itself . It is till date the 13th most expensive video. The song was conceptualized on a short story by Del James called "Without You" which is about a top rockstar reminiscing his times with his girl, which ended with the girl killing herself with a gunshot. The video of this song has amazing cinematography and the bride who dies, the protagonist's fiancee, wears a bridal gown which had then cost the band a staggering $8000. The video cost them a $1.5 million. So much hype. So much drama, about the drama. But in the end, all worth it! Enjoy!

Sometimes I wonder....

Sometime I wonder why I feel like writing only at nights. Does my right brain not work during the day, or does the left have too much of "financial" load?

Sometime I wonder why I keep forgetting my bag here and there

Sometime I wonder why I took finance

Sometime I wonder why I get high on water

Sometime I wonder why I am growing my hair

Sometime I wonder why I don't shave regularly

Sometime I wonder why I listen to music a lot lesser than I should

Sometime I wonder why I left my guitar at home

Sometime I wonder why I talk to a friend on the phone about monkeys and bananas and connect them with simplicity of life at 3 am

Sometime I wonder why I sit on my college staircase right below the board which reads "Do not sit on staircase"

Sometime I wonder why I never wrote in school

Sometime I wonder why I don't read enough

Sometime I wonder why I don't ever cry publicly

Sometime I wonder why I was born

Sometime I wonder why I never liked cheeseballs in school and my friends loved it

Sometime I wonder why I would get a headache when I used to eat cheeseballs

Sometime I wonder why I don't sleep early

Sometime I wonder why I love theatre so much

Sometime I wonder why I hate a particular profesor as such

Sometime I wonder why I don't get a lot of comments on by blog anymore

Sometime I wonder why I love my laptop so much

Sometime I wonder why I stopped dedicating entries on my blog to people

Sometime I wonder why I don't iron my clothes well

Sometime I wonder why I am so philosophical

Sometime I wonder when I am going to write my next poem

Sometimes I wonder why I crack so many lame jokes

Sometimes I wonder why I'm such a foodie

Sometimes I wonder if my name would be Alice, I could make up a nice title for this post

And sometimes I do wonder how you guys are doing out there.....

So a "wonder"ful cheers!

Dear Friend,

I'm in my room now. The fan is on. The light is off. The breeze created by the fan hits my face and my arms. And the light of my laptop is slightly straining my eye. The dog just howled. I am feeling pressure. Pressure which is turning me into a zombie.
Stuff is happening around me. A lot of stuff. Random and specific.
I just saw some redness reflecting on my window pane. I got scared thinking that it might be a fire. I hurried to the window and looked out to see that there was actually a huge fire on the road, at the corner. I looked harder, someone had burnt a tyre. I wonder why someone would burn a tyre. There was a man walking around the fire. He came from behind the fire, with his back facing me, blew his nose facing the fire and shook his hand vigorously so as to get rid of the snort and projected it into the fire. I was just amazed. I came back and sat on my bed.
Now. There is a vaccuum. I feel the pressure again. There is nothing happening in the room. Nothing. But I still feel the pressure. My eyes are burning. My stomach is growling for something. Though, I am very full in my stomach with tasty Veg. Biryani that I had for dinner.
Anyway, it is late and I think I should catch up on some sleep. Thanks. For listening to randomness. See you soon yaar.

Love,
Avinash.

The Distance

It's a beautiful sunday morning. And something is missing. A part of me is missing. I am here, on my bed, writing this out, while experiencing a hunger which cannot be satisfied. The hunger of a homely breakfast on my dining table with my family.

Fresh Idlis , Sambhar , Coconut chatni or be it the traditionally sindhi cokie with dahi, anything would do. I have to make do with Maggi here. And yeah, the maggi that mom makes, tastes totally different!! Never valued home more. I can just remember a saying which is put up on my Nani's bedroom wall-"A house is built of bricks but a home is built of hearts"

It is the distance, that makes us value. For years, I took everything for granted. But that is really the rule of life.There is a difference between knowing the value of things and realizing their value. The realizing part is what is important, be it anything.

अंजान दलदल

एक अंजान सी घबराहट,
बेकारण, बेहिसाब
जब मैं न समझूं,
छोट्टी से छोट्टी बातें ।

क्यों रुका हूँ मैं,
क्यों नही चल रहा,
न मैं जानूं यह,
क्यों थमा हूँ मैं यहाँ.

पेट में अजीब सी गुड गुड
न पास है घर,
रास्ता भी चौडा,
और दूर है मंजिल.

रात है बड़ी घनी,
सूरज उभरेगा जल्द ही,
इन चन् पलों का गुज़रना,
ही तोह लगे जैसे एक सदी.

Lady of the moment: Zoya Akhtar

Applause. Debutante director Zoya Akhtar does magic."Luck By Chance", I would say, is a wonderful work of film making because of many reasons-

1)Great direction, fantastic screenplay and editing. Added the winning angles to Farhan's performance.

2)Farhan somehow just can't stop the whole undying connection that he has established with the audience. He carries of the script in his unique and typical 'andaaz' and connects to his viewers very well.

3)Koko! Love her.

4)The sattire in the movie was brilliant. There were so many times that the audience was mum and behaved like zombies. Trust me, i was rolling.

5)Hrithik came in time and again. It was as if he was 'glittering' the screen.


6)Shah Rukh Khan exuded power in his performance(Sorry to break this to you but just had to mention this. After seeing the movie, you will know what I am talking about)!

7)It was great to see Rishi Kapoor acting very well to fit into his role perfectly.

8)Dimple Kapadia stole the show with her 'adaayien' once again. But a crucial 2 minutes got a lot of reality of the film industry and gave solid depth to her character.

9)The hidden paradox in the movie, which makes up its theme, is depicted in a very subtle way.(Do not want to disclose the hidden paradox. Let it be hidden)

10) The music is fitting and not unnecessarily glorious as in many bollywood flicks.

11) It is an intelligent movie.

12)It leaves you thinking.

Worth a watch. Spent Rs 140 on it, plus the popcorn. Surprisingly, did not come out regretting that I could have watched it on my laptop.

Hope to see more of such movies. Expectations are rising. Bollywood is improving.
Cheers.

Lines on which I flipped !!

Below are some quotes which I found thought provoking. Read on.

On Emotions
One mad magenta moment and I have paid for it all my life-Alan Bennett

On Fashion
I like to dress egos. If you haven't got an ego today, forget it-Gianni Versace.


On Love
To be wise, and love, exceeds man's might-William Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida.

On Marriage
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup
Whenever you're wrong admit it
Whenever you're right shut up.

Odgen Nash in 'A Word to Husbands'

On Men and Women
I think men talk to women so that they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so that they can talk to them- Jay McInerney in 'Brightness Falls'



On Conscience
Thus conscience makes cowards of us all- William Shakespeare in Hamlet

On Food
Kissing don't last: cookery do! -George Meredit.

Happy New Year

New: "Original and of a kind not seen before"
Wish all of you a very happy NEW year. Lets make 2009 a year which is unlike any of the years that we have ever lived.

A Beautiful Bliss

The one who brings a smile on my face,
With whom time flies in conversation,
Who helps me deal with the world's fast pace,
Her company is always a vacation.

Such happiness which cannot be explained,
To form landmarks in my memory lane,
I cherish the feeling, wondering if its ordained,
Because no one else makes me be this way.

I dont know what this exactly is,
I dont even want to know because,
Whatever this is, it is a beautiful bliss,
As serene as the mosque, as holy as the cross.