Healing "brands"

Retail therapy worked.....:) lately shopping did not much affect me...but today after a long time it made me happy again...maybe coz it was semi "drop dead" shopping today...after a long time..i  popped beyond architecturally appreciating the building & the interiors & actually focused on "pure" shopping...thanks to the great collection - Biba, melagne, ginger, fame forever,max , global desi & so on...

...And gravity takes it all

One of my weird thought sets' thought - "optimism the geoscientific way" -the earth also wants you to be happy...(the poet in me isn't speaking this).. scientifically...the gravitational force acts on  the ocular salinity to suck it off...whereas it fails to act on the concave facial curve...lucidly said...the earth takes away your tears but cannot scientifically affect your smile..(with an exception of an earthquake)...

Penultimate acquiescence ....

Tera tujhko saunp de.....kya lagat hai mor....mera mujhme...kuch nahi...jo hovat so tor...
Selfless faith...human or divine?...

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening...

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there's some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

One of the most beautiful poems i have ever read....Gosh..its been 15 long years...i still very clearly remember sunita miss's(my english teacher's) reaction when i had summarized this poem in the class....  class V (A)...:)...maybe for a 9 year old even attempting to decipher a Robert Frost masterpiece at that time was unimaginable but now when i look back at those daysi feel...i had only sparingly understood the gist then...& as for what i know of it today...time's running...i should spare time only to take a deep breath & resume fulfillments...coz i may be sleepy any time...

Life is strange...

Life is strange....it defies all logic the moment you feel you are in full control of it....its like...you smile in triumph at your perfect anticipations & life says "picture abhi baki hai mere dost"...its kinda crazy to be pitted against your life to colonise it & it hits back giving pleasant & unpleasant surprises, unfulfilled expectations & bliss beyond expectations, incorrect judgements & so on...its crazier to contemplate whether your life is your friend or foe: (courtsey to the thought - the stupendous ups & downs life offers)......&......its craziest to be not able to decide who should actually win(you or your life) ....since its life who knows the unforeseen not you...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - A legend...

sawan beeto jaye ...

Conditions apply...

sinus says...it'll let me live ....conditions - stay away from all those things you love the most... fair deal ?

Somethings last forever...

Since quite a long time that dilapidated sight was stirring a lot of emotions in me....everytime i used to look at it i tried to rotate my head as well as my thoughts...running away from it was something which was more botheresome ... finally today i stopped by the salvage & pondered over something that can never be recuperated...it might sound dramatic but even the most practical section of my brain could'nt stop me from actually visualizing "tuning forks"(our rock band)in the heap of dust where it stood sometime back ...it took me not more than 5 mins to re travel from the day way back in august 2003 when i, for the first time entered the rehearsal room as a nervous singer, the later days of sheer dedication to riyaz, the days of rehearsals all day & submissions all night, the days of swollen fingers coz of the guitar pick, the summer of 69 performances,the preparations for inter-collegiates, the cutting chais,the ccd partys... the fasts before every performance...the barefoot performances...Sir's small treat after every performance...to my last day in college & at "tuning forks"....
i sincerely wished if only for one more time i could see abhi on the synth, rahul on the guitar, akash on the tabla, nandu on the octopad , amit on the drums, me on the lead & Sir with his hand on my head saying "beta ashich gaat raha" ...
music will remain with me forever...but the medium that let me experiment with it (tuning forks) & the medium the let me exhibit it & won it overwhelming responses(the auditorium) for 5 long years are no more existant..."buildings live"...the masters say...i cudnt understand this better than today...coz today i mourned at the loss of "buildings" as i would have for someone alive...

The song which I will always and forever associate with TUNING FORKS

Alter ego...

Kal raat ek beshakal si

awaaz ne chauka diya

maine kaha tu kaun hai

usne kaha awargi

its said that the good & the evil exist simultaneously in a person & are constantly at war with each other...its he who knows which one to use when makes the difference...