Lovers for Rent

Under the sunshine they met as strangers
Words were hurled and hearts were broken.

Under the twilight, observed from afar
They held their hands and sighs closer

He took her by the mouth and gazed in her dreams
She grabbed his shoulder and held his desires

Each touch was calculated
Each stroke was measured
Every kiss drew blood
Every tear drew love

They gazed in the sky till azure was upon them
A final kiss was exchanged and they left each other

Under the sunshine they met as strangers
Words were hurled and hearts were kindled.

A little bit of Godness

Listening to: Janis Joplin/Lil Wayne (seperately)


Watching: the monitor

• Have started to believe in God. Living in a place where you like no one..u start believing in some things that you thought you never will. Will have to think a lot about that..does living alone have any effect on how you perceive God? Does being away from family make you believe in what they say strongly?
  Is God a man or woman? ....What the hell!
• Saw an episode of Fringe...and i must say that it is Not at all Lost...Joshua Jackson was a good addition. But will have to see more to say more..
• Working on a report writing assignment right now. Apparently our class wanted Bush to be killed in Chennai, but the teacher thought it might be a bit too much..
• Thinking of watching Fashion this weekend. Might do too

Random small sized posts

• I am on a Monty Python spree. Have started watching it like MAD and I think I might do my project on it. But will have to do immense research for it.


• And now for something completely different.


• Have decided that Journalism may not be the best area for a non-socializing person like me. Have started to believe, "Hell is other people." There is no escape!


• Have discovered the benefits of a torrent. After a successful download of Dark Knight, have become a Torrent fan. Might have to buy a wi-fi connection soon.


• US election is coming up and fates will be decided. Honestly, my vote doesn't count and neither does my opinion, but I would prefer Obama to be the new leader. He seems young, radical, motivated and is liberal. I admit to not knowing more about his politics, but his stance on issues like war and abortion seem to be neutral. Anything's better than extreme.


• Chennai has books and movies and loads of them. This weekend I bought - books on film theory, plays by Girish Karnad, Another Agatha Christie novel called Dumb Witness. Also purchased a few films like Iko, The Birds, and Poirot movies... cant get enough of Christie


• Have stopped watching television all together. This thought scares me a lot! I am spending a lot of time on the laptop, but television is just another screen dimension. Missed so many F1 matches this season, along with new series on english channels.


• Will see the new Potter trailer and report. Cant believe I missed that one. Shame on me!


• Have started listening to BBC podcasts. I get a very slow connection here, but the podcasts are very small. So I can easily download a few. They are very informative and interesting.


• Dilli or Delhi? Once , I go back I might decide whether I am a Dilli-ite or a Delhiite. Makes no difference either way. To live in Delhi and not be a part of it is a shame.

Recently, conversations have been turning to subjects like marriage, caste, religion, region and family and what I discover is that all of these matter more than identity. Maybe because they are a part of one's self. Apart from these traditions, there are a few hangups that never leave us and are passed down from earlier generations.

I had never given much thought to what others believe because I always think that thoughts and beliefs are mutable, changing constantly with new experiences. One can never believe that anything is fixed because nothing is. How can anyone believe that our ideas and identities are permanent, when we live in a world that forces us to scrutinize our actions and doubt our ability..

• Just saw the HP trailer.. so familiar, it reminds of comfortable Delhi days...()

New Year Resolutions

Listening to : Evil Ways by Santana

Liberian Girl by Michael Jackson

Crystal Ball by Keane

Another new year. For me it usually means, a chance to spend more ways learning how to waste time effectively. However, this year I might waste it in much better ways. Firstly, by buying and reading more books. Secondly by watching more televison which includes reruns. Thirdly, by trying to write. This one might be on the threshold, of pain and pleasure, wasting time and actually attempting to come up with what some might label trash.

And lastly, I have decided to finish all Agatha Christie by this year. Given below are all of her works. I have read a few, mon ami.

(the ones in black=done. Virginal and untouched=Blue)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Secret Adversary

Murder On the Links

The Man in the Brown Suit

The Secret of Chimneys

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Big Four

The Mystery of the Blue Train

The Seven Dials Mystery

Murder at the Vicarage

The Sittaford Mystery

Peril at End House

Lord Edgware Dies

Murder on the Orient Express

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Three Act Tragedy

Death in the Clouds

The ABC Murders

Murder in Mesopotamia

Cards on the Table

Dumb Witness

Death on the Nile

Appointment with Death

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Murder Is Easy

Ten Little Niggers

Sad Cypress

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Evil Under the Sun

N or M?

The Body in the Library

Five Little Pigs

The Moving Finger

Towards Zero

Death Comes as the End

Sparkling Cyanide

The Hollow

Taken at the Flood

Crooked House

A Murder Is Announced

They Came to Baghdad

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

They Do It with Mirrors

After the Funeral

A Pocket Full of Rye

Destination Unknown

Hickory, Dickory, Dock

Dead Man's Folly

4.50 from Paddington

Ordeal by Innocence (Read a long time ago. Have to read it again.)

Cat Among the Pigeons

The Pale Horse

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

The Clocks

A Caribbean Mystery

At Bertram's Hotel

Third Girl

Endless Night

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

Hallowe'en Party

Passenger to Frankfurt: An Extravaganza

Nemesis

Elephants Can Remember

Postern of Fate

Curtain: Hercule Poirot's Last Case

Sleeping Murder

At the moment I am reading The Unexpected Guest.

(p.s. - incomplete list)

Random but Important

- Listening to lyrics like these...

I got this icebox where my heart used to be (said I got this)

I'm so cold, I'm so cold, I'm so cold, I'm so cold

Omarion

- Icon with the opening quote from The Departed.

- Watched Lord of the Rings Trilogy. It was a long time pending. Peter Jackson has done a wonderful job along with the animators/special effects team. Loved Gollum and how he was done. Frodo's constant bickering with himself and Sam about the burden he carries is well managed. Have to read the book. But the size of the series weighs upon me....

- Aamir Khan has probably more blog entries than mine. That man...I tell you! He should dazzle us with more screen time too.

- Discovered that I loathe Ekta Kapoor more than I realized. This recent discovery based on the fact that she's got half of my family hook, line and sinker.

-Dreams by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

-and to finish it off... A quote that summarizes my feelings for the language that I have learnt and internalised.
The writer, making every effort to appear innocent and noble, takes his revenge with the pen; while the murderer, less hypocrtical, takes it with the sword.

My entry to Flair