Pieces

Two things you can do:

leave the broken pieces on the ground

or

try to pick them up and put them back together

first one is harder to do in the short term - but perhaps the best in the long run...

dammit

spices and thumbs

in response to unwinding's comment on the last post...





so i was having eggs this morning - sunnyside up



and i dont know how many other people eat their eggs in this way..but i like those chili pepper flakes on mine - an uncle of mine (well he's actually a friend of my dad's...but I still call him uncle)...anyways, so this uncle of mine once had his macho ya gombe with chili flakes, and i thought it was weird

so one day, being the chili lover that i am, i decided to try it - and it was really good!

back to the topic at hand though

so i was having my eggs and decided i wanted chilies. now - if you remember, i'd cut my thumb kinda badly - and idiot me had taken off the bandaid because it was getting annoying.

and i picked up the chili flakes with my thumb and index finger....and...ouch..yes....

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November 28th


i have a tendency to do idiotic things with chilies. I hadnt eaten all day, so when i got home, i decided that i wanted to get a sandwich from Subway - i wasn't in the mood to eat home-food. so i went and got my usual veggie sandwich. and obviously i made the guy put both types of chilies in it.

and then - i came home, washed the bus-grime off my hands, and started to happily eat my sandwich and i gave some to my sister as well. she didnt want the chilies in her's so i took them out for her.

and then - having realized that my contacts needed to be thrown out, and having already washed my hands before eating, i decided to take out my contacts without washing my hands.

jalapenos in your eyes is definitely not fun....

The Importance of Thumbs

Realization of the day: thumbs are actually quite important - and you only realize their importance after you lose the use of one


so i have this mug - in which i drink my tea. it's my favourite mug - has elephants all along the edge. i love elephants.

so one day, my mug's handle chipped - and because it was the handle and not the mouth or anything else, i decided to keep on using the mug. and it's been completely fine.

i had my tea yesterday - so i washed my mug. and then i was drying it - and i cut my thumb (quite deep actually) with the chipped part. so now i can't use my right thumb...

which is really annoying - it's hard to hold a spoon, to use a knife, to do up buttons, heck to even write.

ahhh thumbs...

Disgraced Death

another spark of brilliance from Mirza-sahib

hue mar ke hum jo rusvaa, hue kyon na Garq-e-dariya

na kabhi janaazah uThtaa, na kahin mazaar hota

When I died, I became disgraced

So why was I not drowned in the ocean?

Had this happened

my funeral bier would not have been lifted

nor would my mausoleum have been erected

Sanskrit Shahada

Mahmud of Ghazni - one of the many Muslim kings who carried-out incursions in South Asia, once struck a coin (dirham) at Lahore that had a Sanskrit version of the Shahada. Fascinating eh?

here's the Sanskrit (colloquial Sanskrit according to Sheldon Pollock) version:

अव्यक्तं एक मुहम्मद अवतार नृपति महमूद

The Unmanifest is one; Muhammad is incarnation; Mahmud is King

Realization of the Day

It's weird. I've never officially had a motto in my life. I had to have one in grade five cuz my teacher made us have one - and i think it was 'the world would be incomplete without math' - yes I was a nerd (still am according to some) and a math nerd to top it off (which i no longer am - more of a politics nerd as some would say). Anyways.

So I came to the realization today that I actually follow this one sher by Allama Iqbal more closely than anything else. And I don't follow it for the sake of following it; it's just something I've done regularly and religiously for the past few years - especially since I got that letter (which I still haven't opened) in grade 12. What that letter is - you'll just have to ask me.

Anyway, so it's a verse that neatly sums up what my life is like - what I believe in - how I lead my life (I think).

khudi ko kar buland itna ke har taqdeer se pehle

khuda bande se khud pooche, bataa teri razaa kya hai?

make urself so strong that before writing your fate

god him/herself asks you what your decision is

Cuter Than A Cartoon

I was wandering around campus the other day - putting up posters for our event and taking random pictures (cuz I want to travel the world and take pictures one day). And I saw the cutest mouse ever. It was eating an orange jelly bean. So I had to take a picture.

Here it is

I'm Feeling Lucky...

Well..I'm actually not feeling lucky...but the reason it's the title of this post is because it refers to Google's I'm Feeling Lucky search function...

So because of the wonderfullness that is Sitemeter, I'm able to figure out how people are getting to Selfistan - yes all - i know where you're from, and how you're coming to this land - think of it as the information you give to the customs official when you travel - same deal...

what amused me the most - and seriously i've told all the people i know who read selfistan about it....at least i think i have...

is that if you type Dysfunctia

and press the i'm feeling lucky button on google


you'll come to selfistan....


Dysfunctia + I'm Feeling Lucky = Selfistan


nice equation eh? and a bit ironic, yet true...

N

Blasphemy?

This particular sher has often been seen as blasphemous. I love it - not the fact that it's blasphemous (although, to tell you the truth - blasphemy is quite exciting - it challenges the opinions of some), but the entire imagery of the verse. I wish Mirza saab were still alive. Then I'd sit at his feet, pour him some sharaab every so often, and watch him tie knots in cloth. And buy him mangoes.

Imaan mujhe roke hai, jo kheenche hai kufr
Ka'aba mere peeche hai, kaleesa mere aage
- From Baazeecha-e-atfal


That which restrains me is faith - what pulls me is blasphemy
The Ka'aba is behind me, and the Church stands before me