Poetic Gems

Heard these lines recently...and lo! Transported to another realm. To hear the full song, keep your ears open for the Arziyan song in Delhi 6. If I had to pray someday, this would be my prayer to the One.

Arziyaan saari chehrey pe likhkar laaya hoon
Tum se kya maangu mein
Tum khud hi samajh lo Maula...
daraarein daraarein hain baandhein pe maula
Tere Dar pe Jhuka hoon Meeta hoon bana hoon
maramad mukkadar ki kar le maula

Bolo Chai (TM)

I don’t boast of a very creative job..If it were a Rubix cube, no matter which way I twisted the cube, none of the dots are forming a coherent pattern J As I was sipping my favourite chai today, without realizing , my mind goes off making this business plan of opening a chai shop, and where else, but outside my work place. I can hearmy friends telling me to get a life. ‘What!! Is making tea your idea of a creative job? Go take a sabbatical, your idea is crap’. All I am telling you, my dearies, is wait and watch.

Until I get to boiling you a pot of tea, i hereby trademark my tea venture name to BoloChai. Dont smirk, we will be the StarBucks of India.

Several Perambulations

I love walking, aimlessly, with no destination in mind. No destination means no time limit is set to reach there. Having removed the fourth dimension from life, my mind is free-er to make new conversations, observations and sometimes moments of Nirvana .

On one pleasant morning, I was walking along with Dad, who is now 75+. I mentioned his age specifically, as I have been realizing that he is helplessly slipping away...succumbing to age...I don’t really remember when this process of ageing started. I noticed how childlike he was ...observing every nuance on the road. How I had to keep reminding him to walk carefully else some idiotic rash driver would knock him over.

It is one thing to know in theory that man in his old age is a kid again. Experiencing this firsthand has left me with a handful of learnings. I am learning to be more patient, more polite, learning to let go and let life take its own course with him, to just keep all my fears aside and help him experience life as much as I can.

The world is going to the dog

Was touring the city today. Saw this Amul ad titled ‘ Hot Dog Millionaire’ , which needless to say, was riding on SlumDog millionaire success. How Utterly Butterly(um...Cheesy), Amul