Showing posts with label blah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blah. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 26

Why Pinterest is more poetic than Merriam-Webster

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Saw this on Pinterest and went '(sigh) I knew there had to be a term for this strangely beautiful state...reminds of the time just before I wrote that poem...."










And then I found this, on Merriam- Webster and went 'Damn, why does everything beautiful, fun or exciting have to end up labelled crazy. "


Which one would you prefer?

Monday, June 11

Turn My Days into Letters

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Dear you,

Ours was not how most love stories start. Not with cuckoos singing and the spring breeze blowing fragrant petals on our faces or to be more realistic, not with stolen glances, secret smiles and covert phone calls in the middle of the night; instead, in a gloomy depressing place.

You had found the broken me -the scrap that time had made me into, way beyond the state of recycling. You took me in like a collector takes in, with cautious excitement a priceless antique piece. You dusted, mended and brought back my shine. You made me yours and worth much more than I ever thought I was.

I thought to thank you I would write you a love story.
(Since this world is clearly can no longer sustain a real one)

I wrote something grand and beautiful;
Something that the heart aches for and yet knows to be unreal.
With a lovelorn hero and his beloved,
With all the odds against them.
But all the odds are fought and all the demons slain.
And they make theirs a happily ever after.

You read, appreciated but insisted that we live it instead. So began our ‘Once upon a time…’.

Next, I thought I’d write you a love letter.
(Since the spoken word doesn’t always come out the 'write' way)

I wrote something out of the deepest corners of my heart.
It read beautifully and brought tears in my own eyes.
With poignant poetic words and noble intention promised,
The scented letter lay by your side as you slept.

You read, appreciated and carried on with your day. Disappointed and gloomy eyed, I went on with my day. It is only before I almost found myself asleep at night that I realised that you don’t write me letters you just simply make each day a new love letter for me.

Sincerely,
Living our story,
Me

Wednesday, May 23

10 Day "What's on Your Mind?" Challenge - Day 3

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What is this challenge all about? Post a status on Facebook for the next 10 days(starting today) and post screen shots of the same.
Keep it 'interesting'. Although originality is preferred, no one's going to throw you to the piranhas if you quote.

Where are the previous posts?
If you'd like to join in/share, find the linky below:


p.s: It is quite a lame challenge, agreed. But I am tired of the poor blog gathering dust. Maybe this will get me started with serious blogging again. *fingers crossed*



Tuesday, May 22

10 Day "What's on Your Mind?" Challenge - Day 2

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What is this challenge all about?
Post a status on Facebook for the next 10 days(starting today) and post screen shots of the same.
Keep it 'interesting'. Although originality is preferred, no one's going to throw you to the piranhas if you quote.

Where's day 1?
If you'd like to join in/share, find the linky below:


p.s: It is quite a lame challenge, agreed. But I am tired of the poor blog gathering dust. Maybe this will get me started with serious blogging again. *fingers crossed*



Wednesday, April 11

The Writer and the Block

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Hot aromatic cuppa in one hand and a black-inked device in the other I felt, albeit for a moment, I could word the thought.









'Erasing the hurts. Band-aiding the tears....'

The moment ended and the thought-er thunk it all not.





Friday, November 18

20 Questions - (un)popular opinion

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I am feeling awefully candid today. So here is a list of questions I'll answer, depending on the demand for the question. I'll update the answer in the post, as and when the question is chosen.

Send me a number and I’ll tell you my unpopular opinion (each person gets to chose only 2 numbers):
1. A crazed-over television program you do not/never cared for.
2.
A color you think is over-rated.
3.
A selection of celebrities you don't give a rat's add about.
4.
A pastime you 'don't get'.
5.
A habit you can't stand.
6.
Something you really like doing which everyone else around you cribs about.
  • Waking up early in the morning. Been the eternal wake-up call and have been sworn at, gotten things and tantrums thrown at meself . #jobhazard.
7. Your favorite household chore.
Getting supplies and storing up the fridge.
8. Popular websites that make you go 'blah'.
9.
White chocolate or Salad?
10.
A sport you don’t like, for whatever reason.
11.
A body part you really like, for whatever reason.
12.
Something that people always tell you when they meet you first and you hate.
13.
Choose three not-so-positive adjectives for yourself.
These are not exactly three words but its my game and i m allowed to break my rules!
  • Impatient and impulsive.
  • tending-to-unsocial
  • Queen-of-digression-while-story-telling.

14.
You wish you are never a Corporate Hotshot.
15.
A classic must-read did you last read and absolutely hated?
  • Ulysses -James Joyce
16. Something that people around you are good at or at least try their best to that you hate and can't get around to do it.
17.
A color that you don't like wearing.
18.
Something that you'd really enjoy eating that most of your friends would go 'yuck' over.
19.
A celebrity crush that maybe even you don’t understand.
20.
Uninhibited  rant on whatever crushing your cookie at the moment.
All colors, violent colors in my head when I think of the crusher. Good thing. Because words would have confused me and not blended in so well. The nerve behind my ear is about throbbing so hard it's as if it'd burst out and all the colors' would splatter slowly  forming almost legible words; trying albeit not entirely successfully to pass on the message.



Wednesday, August 10

(Almost) wordless wednesday

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Tuesday, July 26

Godot or something like that.

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(Previously)
There was a picture on the wall of a little girl turning a page of a book that seemed heavier than she was. Below the picture there was a table with shreds of important looking paper and blots of poetry-filled ink. This starts like an episode worth remembering, like a moment a photographer would like to capture for it had the air of the antique and the elegance of the sublime.
The winterlessness of the summer and the twilightlessness of the evening made it easier to long for an event, something out of the ordinary. The thing about boredom is that it makes one unavoidably curious. And curiosity, as we all know, kills the cat. The cat did die, in spite of the nine life myth.
(Then)
John- no, none of the famous one(s)- returned home to find the cat dead. It has always been dead. It is a picture of a dead cat for chrissake. Why would he have a picture of a dead cat hanging on his living room wall? Well, his dead almost-girlfriend-whom-he-was-still-in-love-with loved cats and he had never forgiven her for dying. So it goes . Anyone else would have at least waited till they had gotten down to the act so he would lose probably the only chance at losing his virginity. That bitch. It’s no fun being a 37 year old balding virgin who doesn’t have the nerd-genius tag to use as an excuse for his ‘condition’. 
Coming back to the dead cat, it was probably John’s twisted sense of poetry or humour, whatever you would like to call it, or maybe the cute shopping assistant at the bookstore that John to buy the picture. Not that it matters. What matters is why would the bookstore have a big poster of a dead cat for sale? Now that is twisted.  So the cat is dead and the dead cat is photogenic- yes, the cruel universe!- and John would certainly prefer to have its picture hanging on his wall rather than his own miserable self’s.
(Now)
The thing about boredom is that it makes one unavoidably curious and although the winterlessness of the summer and the twilightlessness of the evening made it easier to long for an event, something out of the ordinary. Nothing really happened.  No one came, not even Godot. All that one could say, even with the underlying curiosity and longing for something extraordinary, was that everything was hopelessly ordinary.

Sunday, July 17

Surprise, O beloved lovers!

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Two love-struck figures, cozy by the window,sipping coffee, fingers entwined somewhere in the intricacies of the grill,feeling the drops of rain. Then...



and

Poof






p.s: Is it Sunday? Amidst all the weekend plans if you can write a micro-fiction in 160 characters, go visit The Monkey Man!!!

Wednesday, June 8

I see, eye sea, Aye!

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Magpie's prompt
 

The ayes have it,
The eyes have it.

What I see is what I aye.

They edited the way i spelled 'love' in the confessions of those would-be nights of us-ness, as if my life was a piece of their published genius. They told me, I'd have to see and learn and break exactly how the legends in the field have, if it were all to mean anything. They told me there was a rule to how all this worked, that the heart would break into exactly 999.9 pieces, shapes might vary though. (Well, thank god for that!) They told me I wasn't what I thought I was when I was the most me in your arms. 

I hiccuped endlessly to word out the mushy goo in my head, to unsay the sighs they mistook for words of conformation, within every jerking cell of my body raising an urge to connect the dots quicker than I ever would imagine to be possible. 

Hurriedly, yet ever-so tenderly,
I pluck out my eyes-
yes, those beautiful brown eyes, 
for I can aye no more. 


Wednesday, December 22

Trend-spotting

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I am not much of a tweet-er but here's my take on some of the trends that caught my fancy today:

  • #lastminutegifts - bad memory+ late realization +a deeper hole in the pocket out of guilt + inadequate effect on the recipient. Advice: one might want to pack it brilliantly for an initial 'wow' effect, which would most likely be followed by 'Oh! Its nice(I-don't-know-how-else-to-hide-my-disappointment)!' effect.

  • #ihavenorespect- for someone who doesn't finish all the dessert on their plates.
  • #icanttakeyouseriously- if you try too hard to make me take you seriously.
  • solstice-  comes just four days after 18th dec(see no. 8 )
  • Onions-  like them cooked- burnt, fried, curried, pickled, irrespective of the price they might be sold at.
  • #stacheswaggin - no ^&^% idea what that means but me likes the way it sounds.
  •  Comic Sans- all time favourite font, hands down. Elegant but fun!
  • #dearex - remember how I used to say those three special words all the time? Well, I've got three new words for you, 'Screw you, B**CH!' sincerely, I've moved on.
  • #dontgosmack- If you thought you were being real smart but ended up seeming #dumber than usual.
  • dumber - All I've got to say is I wish I could tag people for this one.

Tuesday, December 21

When grey matter turns fuschia

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Sickened by the -ism binge in the past couple of months, I had decided to put on the rosy glasses again.

To think without prejudice, caused mostly by the 'knowledge' that I had willingly/otherwise forced down my throat, was the plan.

Ideal situation: I was getting paid and appreciated for every word I DID NOT write(/think). The more I did not write(/think), the more appreciation and money came my way, and I spent every penny I did not earn by writing(/thinking) to increase the amount of writing(/thinking) I did not do. I worked indefatigably from dawn to dusk at not writing(/thinking) anything worthwhile.


But I guess the damage has been irreparably done and I failed, quite pathetically, I must add.

Plan B? To get back to whatever I was supposed to be doing, avoiding the implementation of any creative ideas for escape that might creep in now and then.

I freaking failed again!! (yes, quite pathetically, I shall add!)

 The more I wanted to write(/think) the  more I could not.

Plan C? I, hereby, take up a week-long challenge! To post here everyday at least once for the next seven days failing which I shall not indulge myself in dessert of any sort for a fortnight!

gray matters

Saturday, November 13

Blank Please

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It was only two days ago that i was begging my mind to stop thinking incessantly! I tried as many things as humanly possible without killing myself or my brain.
It's not fun when there are at least 100 different/unrelated/merged/oh-I-don't-know-how-to-categorize-anymore thoughts running through your head, ALL THE TIME!!!!
No sir, It's not.

Okay I am going to make this a short post and you will soon find out why.


Bam!

something happened last night.


And now I am feeling free. I feel peace and calm and a blank space in my, otherwise plethorised , head.


For the first time in life I feel i am truly on a vacation(I am in the middle of my end terms, by the way)where I am free from all worries, all thoughts, everything that I need and don't need. 

I am blank at the moment.
I am free.
I shall get back to being in the state(this lil blogpost made me think!).

cheers to life.
cheers to all the things I can't put a name to coz right now I am BLANK and I am loving it.