Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Oh the Innocent Heart..

Mirza-greatness once again. Butchered translation follows..

Dil-e-naadaan tujhe hua kya hai;
Aakhir is dard ki davaa kya hai.

Oh Innocent Heart, what has happened to you?
*Sigh* what's the medicine for this pain?

*Raises hand high like an eager schoolgirl*
I KNOW
I KNOW
more music...

more tear-inducing, leg-moving, foot-tapping music

Thought

I told you I do my thinking at night.

Thought of the hour (or more like the minute).

Are Chai Tea Lattes a new form of Macaulay's Children? A form that is Indian in both taste and look, but wholly British (read Western) in thought. Oh Orientalism..

More Late Night Music-ing

And now Tiziano's making me cry..

Nights of Insomnia

The best nights are spent in the company of brilliant music, turned up as loud as you risk turning it up without waking up your household, with a pot of tea and pure, unadulterated darkness - except from the light of the computer screen.

I could do this every night - but then I'd eventually be completely brain dead. Given my current state of relative exhaustion, it's not the best idea.

I wanna be a rockstar

and a photographer

screw school (?)

Friday, 17 October 2008

The Second Act



The World's a theatre, the Earth a stage.
Which God and Nature do with Actors fill.
- John Heywood




Mirza-Saab - Dil Se...


A simple one this time - however just as beautiful as the rest. This one was popularized in the movie Dil Se...(an absolutely brilliant SRK movie) in the song Satrangi Re (one of my all-time favourite A.R Rahman songs).




Ishq par zor nahiin, hai yeh woh aatish Ghalib;
Jo lagaaye na lage, aur bujhaaye na bane.


Silver Bowls Full of Thoughts OR How I Wish I Were Dumbledore

I have an interesting, yet odd, life. Well, let's phrase that again. I think I have an interesting and odd life, one in which things occur that probably don't occur in the lives of others. Being the person that I am, I tend not to share these occurrences with many people - it's not because of a fear of being judged, but rather, a desire to keep those things that are special and important to me special and important. I've always found that things become less exciting once you tell another person. Secrets that only you know about are so much more cool than the morning's gossip.

But it's hard sometimes to keep things inside you for so long, especially when you're the type of person that remembers exactly when something happened, right down to the time and what you were wearing and what the weather was. Can you tell that I'm a person that does that? And when you wake up one day and realize that its the anniversary of something momentous in your life, and have no-one to share it with - because you don't want to share it, or can't share it - it gets even harder.

As silly as this may sound, I wish there was a way I could take a part of my memory and store it somewhere. Erase all knowledge of it from my brain, and yet keep it somewhere for those days that I need it to function - sort of like the pensieve that Dumbledore has (or had, now that he's dead *sobs*). It would make days like these so much easier.

*to be born again, first you must die*