Trivial Wish List

My trivial wish list -

1. A long leisurely shower
2. A shopping trip with great bargains
3. A little bit of rain
4. A day with no chores or work
5. Regular electricity and water supply
6. Batter time management
7. A more efficient brain
8. Ability to shut off from work once I close my lappie
9. Ability to actually close my lappie
10. A DSLR... sigh
11. An opportunity to shoot a great pic everyday....
    
12. Zit free skin!!!

It ain't that long... this list of small little things that I wish for, to be happy.... is it?

कयूँ खुशी नही रहती

ज़िंदगी की गलियों में अकेले घूमते हम
ज़ेहन में उठते सवालों का जवाब ढूंडते हम
सँग चलते हैं इतनों के
फिर भी तन्हा ही रेहते हम

खुशी के पल आते हैं
और चले जाते हैं
फुलझडी सी रौशनी कर के
दोबारा अंधेरा छोड जाते हैं

कयूँ नही रोज़ रोज़ रहता
वो खुशी वाला समाँ
कयूँ नहीं उदासी आते ही
रुख कर लेती कहीं और का

क्या ये हमारी फ़ितरत है
या दुनिया का दस्तूर
हम ही ऐसे जीते हैं
या सभी इतने मजबूर

Something i wrote long back... just found it while deleting old stuff from my comp...

What? Why? How? When? If ever.....

Lots and Lots of questions in my mind right now...
And no time to think of answers...

But then again, maybe I do not want to know these answers....

Falling Flowers...

Fading petals, originally uploaded by anksy06.

The one thing with thoughts is that if you don’t capture them when they appear, they get lost... often to not return, just like a moment in time that never comes back. So I had this thought that was weird, way too weird. I thought of a flower that has fallen from a tree… When the flower was up at the tree, it made the tree more beautiful. Smiling amongst the green leaves, it was a symbol of the tree’s health, its bounty. After falling from the tree, it gets picked up and makes something else beautiful. At the feet of a deity, it inspires devotion. It could be entwined in the locks of a lady, adding its fragrance to her beauty. It could be added to a vase or a decorative arrangement, a gracious welcome for a guest.

But what if it doesn’t reach the ground? What if it drifts in the wind… twisting, twirling, and floating in mid air? It is no longer a part of the tree, and not a part of anything on the ground either. It doesn’t belong and is lonely in this whole universe… imagine being that flower… mortifying, no?

Why did I pick the lilies?

Last evening, I saw a beautiful bunch of lilies... right besides the stairway to our house. There is a row of potted plants that we don't really maintain... I dont know how the lily survived, but yesterday, there were about 6 beautiful, long stemmed ones there... ruby red, smiling in the light of the setting sun...


And without a second thought, I plucked all of them and put them in a vase at home.... I, who am a big fan of letting flowers stay in the bushes... I have been thinking and can't decide why I plucked them and left them in the vase to wither away...








Tried a mango cake on this weekend... looked and smelled great... :) well, it tasted good too, but the texture was not light and fluffy... so I must be messing with the proportions.... have got to scour the net for a good eggless recipe... been wanting to do this for ages... sigh!

Saw Before Sunrise and Before Sunset back to back... loved the concept.... why don't they make romantic movies like that anymore? I honestly wish I could write that well.... I'd turn into a full time writer... :) It was a romantic's dream come true... a story based on a magical, spontaneous connection unfolding in beautiful locations in Vienna & then Paris.






The best part was that there was mystery and intrigue, the climax was open ended in both... as a viewer, I can decide how I want the story to end... in the words of one the protagonists, if you are a romantic you want to believe in the happy ending, if you are a cynic, you won't... How nice if we could choose what happens in real life too... if only, wishes were horses...