Burn

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That piece of desire,
Deep in my soul

Just needs a fire
To turn into gold

I,thus tell myself
Burn, Burn, and Burn!!

 

 

 

 

 

In response to Daily Prompts : Burn

An Aubade

a mistress,I am to you
clad in a seductive white
i wait for you
deeply rooted in here
as the night grows old
i yearn for you more
and sing this song of twilight
though miles apart we are
never can hold our hands
or kiss
but your gaze,those
soft moonlit rays,
from the heavens
i glow and twinkle
in your love
i grow whimsical
nothing more do I need
and as this aubade ends
i too will wilt away
yearning for your love
from this far across land!

Note : A song between the moon and water lily,at twilight

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30 / 31 Birthday_Bucket_List

Hurray,I turned 30. And what a relief,I am still the same :D

Just that I was down with an ear-splitting cough[for neighbours] and undetectable fever[yess...,visible only on the doc's thermometer,alas!!].

Celebrated the day with a surprise outing planned by hubs in between his busy [boring] schedule,and the with movie "Deadpool".And then back to home,where I got to cut my  favourite cake,bought by my dearest,  Dad.

And as to keep up with the tradition, "29 / 30 List" I am hereby putting up my 30 / 31 : list of "30" things which I want to complete doing this year and capture the very essence of me stepping into my "Thirties" :)

And here comes the list,

1	Read a book every week and write a review on it. You can find my reviews on this blog,and the updates on Goodreads. Its sada to say that I could never be on time with my "how-i -felt" posts about the books,though I am almost through the challenge.
2	A huge makeover to my technical blog !
3	Bake an original 2 tier cake with icing  Wait for the picture !
4	Bring in a morning / night routine for making more benefits out of me.
5	Stitch at least 3 salwar.
6	Learn to drive car confidently.
7	Set up a beauty routine.Perks of stepping into 30's :) Another pending post!!
8	Show up at the gym,Do that workout, Run,Go breathless. Its safe to say that Gym has become a routine in my schedule  and I am so very happy about working out as well!!
9	Create three distinct paintings,for the very sheer of creating it.
10	Plan a lovely get away for a week :D . Went to Munnar.And yess,planning for yet another for New Year's!!
11	Switch off -Nonsense TV,Chattering FB,Intriguing Quora especially after evening. Yess...FB,Quora and TV and all those mindless stuff are off limits.I have made this rule to myself that if I have checked a site once in a day,I will no longer open it up again! And the time to check is after gym :)Well if no gym on a day,then there is no entertainment that day :P
12	Plan and sketch and make a high yielding ,self-sustaining vegetable garden - For amma
13	Plan and sketch and make an elegant outdoor garden - with pool,green turf,birds nest,potted plants.
14	Music is good,listen to them more often.  And a couple of songs does make me high!!
15	Learn something new which helps me with my work both technically and personal skills
16	Make some time and actually,start writing my novel - every day.Finish before Nov
17	Make a cute terrarium for living place   Post to follow up soon :)
18	Clear off my credit card loan - Payment in 6 months and Not to use it ever again.  Finally,I have locked up my credit card,though it was very helpful at times,but then locking it up was one of the best decisions I have made so far :)
19	Make cookies at home
20	Start and make an up to date - diary for N  Instead I got an email-id for my girl and send almost daily-weekly mails to her :)
21	Make a money making android app and publish it in google play :)
22	Make sketching with a routine.Try everything - Zentangle,Doodles,Simple Sketches anything,but keep sketching
23	Spend more time with family - especially with my little girl "N".She is growing up too fast :)
24	Bring on meditation into my life,even if it is for 5 minutes a day.
25	Blog more frequently and with more variety,connect to like-minded people,built a huge friendship network :)..what are the odds !
26	Write about all these projects :)
27	Travel at least to some nearby places :)   Explored near by tourist places like Thenmala, Dams, Kuttikanam :)
28	Being bold,patient and myself.To be able to do that shit which my faint little voice keeps telling :)
29	Blog every alternate day
30	To be decided

A Bird, a Plane, You!

I have always wanted to travel and I am more than happy if I can travel through time.Well,I don’t want to alter the past or the future.

Let the things,the places,the events,the people be just the same.All I want is to witness some of the most important things of history happening right in front of me.Just like rewinding and watching a videotape,I would love to watch all the events happened in this world,of course with me in it :).Events that capture my curiosity would be,

• The Indus Valley civilisation,how they developed their script,what happened to them ?Were they attacked and wiped out ? Or did they manage to migrate else where ?

• Or may be if the great war -Mahabharatha really happen ? Can I get a seat at the arena to hear Lord Krishna delivering Bhagavad Gita ?


• How did they built the Great wall of China or the Great Pyramid built ? 

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• If only,I could,I would love to watch Susruta,conducting precise medical surgeries  ?
  
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• How blood-ish was the French revolution ? How agitated were the people ?How did people take the world by storm ?

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• I am getting all goosebumps while thinking about the one chance to listen to the revolutionising speeches of Gandhi or Hitler or Lenin or Churchill ?

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• May be walk along side Gandhi on Dhandi March ! And be a part of our freedom struggle.

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• What about a time travel to the atrocities committed by Nazis ? Inspired by E.M Night 


• Well,how about travelling to the time when Charles Darwin who wrote the Origin of Species and researched about evolution? Or even Copernicus proclaiming that "Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe"

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• I want to know all about the landing on moon by Neil Armstrong."That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

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Ha..there are so many !! :)

Closer home,I would love to go back to the time when my brother was born…I still love his pink feet :D and if I could re-live all the fun and innocence of my carefree childhood  days!

I would absolutely be on cloud nine,if I could only go on for a time travel on to the exact day my girl 'N' was born :).

Being a part of something historical,something mysterious,something important and finding out how it might have happened,I believe that is an experience in itself for a life time.!

In response to the Daily Post : A Bird, a Plane, You!

Gratitude Challenge

http://localadventurer.com/52-weeks-of-gratitude-challenge-complete/

Why start this challenge ?

Now the answer for this question is related to how the year 2015 was for me.To tell the truth,2015 was the hardest year of my life.

The pain,I had to undergo was excruciating.I never knew,I had it in me to accept this pain and then overcome the same.But,this pain showed me how strong I am,in so many different ways.I discovered a part of me,which I never knew had existed.

And I realised amidst of all of these troubles and pain,one can always find a silver lining of hope,of a better tomorrow.But,towards the year end,I somehow understood that the pain made me suffer it was a boon in disguise.That made me extremely grateful..I am grateful to be able to undergo the pain,and find my way out through it but by being grateful for the same pain.

Thus,I felt the need to dedicate this year, for gratitude :)

Sorry,I'm busy

In busy traffic junctions of Indian roads,right when the signal turns red,we can always find a group of people comprising of children,girls,boys,even older folks covering you from all your sides.They all are trying to sell small but cute things or sun shields etc to the people who are stuck in the signal.Occasionally,I do buy something or the other especially if there kids.[Thats why they employ kids!!!]

It was one such day when we were stuck in traffic,the only difference being that I was with my team on my way to a team outing.But that day,it was a very old man who came to us,started tapping on the car window with his bony hand.He was trying to sell a packet of ear buds.He was crying and asking us to buy at least a packet of those ear buds.He really was in hunger,pain and shame :(

But I chose to ignore him.I chose not to look at him[yes,I am a rude-jerk].I am not sure why I did that.I am ashamed of myself,I still am and will always be!! :(

That pathetic look of the old man,is still giving me heart aches even after a year of this incident.After a few days,I went looking for him but could not find him.It still haunts me that when I could have made a difference by buying that kit or even giving him some money or at least even buying him a meal,I chose not to do it.

Its such a relief on being able to tell this out loud,now.

In response to the daily post Sorry, I’m Busy

Next Year...

It was the end of one more grant year for Deeps.She was excited to exit the year happily and was so ready to embrace the new adventures from life.

The new year party was at full swing.It was just few more minutes to 12 O'Clock .The count down had already begun.

"10..9...8..7...",even before the count down could finish Deeps heard loud noise of heavy artillery firing from behind.At first she thought that it was the loud Metallica playing in the fore ground added with the cheerful New Year Party noises of the crowd gathered,but she felt quite uneasy.Her gut told her to move somewhere "safe".Even before she could get a sense of whats happening,the time became still for innocent Deeps.

She suddenly had no more "Next Year"!

 

Note : Paris killings in mind!

 

Favourite book-to-movie

Well,that has to be To kill a mockingbird...



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The book was so good and the movie was too.Very few movies manage to capture the essence of books mostly due to sheer volume of imagination put forth by the famous books.But To kill mocking a bird as movie was just right.



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I enjoyed the movie as much as I enjoyed the book :)

 

A Confession...

It had been cloudy all day
Just like my mind
But I am determined
A confession is all need from her
I slowly walk into her room
And open the closed windows
The floral curtains sprung to life
The pages of her book just flipped across
As I turn around to look at her
My heart aches like none
The ruffles of her bed
The dried flowers of vase
The books in shelves
The dusty floral curtains
Everything is as same
But,nothing is same at all
Frozen, I stood near the window
From here,I still see her lifeless body
Lying in the bed I made

Battery Operated

I could not lift the arm.Its unusual.Never once in my life did I have the trouble of using my arm!!

I yelled to my wife,”Honey,I can’t lift the arm” .Can you please help me ?

“Oh well thats because,I forgot to charge the batteries to your arm last night .Can you please use your human hand ??“,my wife yelled back !

Since the whole advent of battery operated hands have taken place,it feels very odd to use my own hand :)

Writing Prompts :)

 

I am just trying to flex my brain into including the above listed writing prompts for whole month of December and I am quite excited to see how well it goes!! :)

Favorite Quotes From Favorite Books

So,lets get started...

• “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
  ― George Orwell, Animal Farm


• “A small fact:
  You are going to die....does this worry you?”
  ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief


• "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. ”
  ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Favorite :Female Character

These are the few female characters who came to my mind,

• Kalyanikutty of Nakshathrangale Kaval


• Della of The Gift of the Magi


• Dominique Francon of The Fountainhead


• Gowri of Gowri


• Madhavikutti :) of Neermatalam Poothakaalam

You bet there are so many more!

:)

Favorite : Male Character

Quickly from my mind,they are my favourites,

• Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird


• Howard Roark of The Fountainhead


• Morris of Tuesdays with Morrie


• Sherlock Homes of The Complete Sherlock Holmes


• Christopher Johnson McCandless  of Into the Wild


• Noah Calhoun of  The Notebook 

My favourite writer

As always,we can never single out from among any of our favourites,its a difficult task to just pick one from my list of favourite authors,poets.I always feel that even if a person in his life writes just one line which can touch your heart in any way,(s)he will always be a favourite to you!

Nanditha - a lover of love and of death.She was a versatile and talented poet who has a special place in my heart.



Her words,their meanings ; they sting you so deep...and you are left in awe.

Quoting here is some of my favourite lines from her poems,

” My Mask too fine and serene,
My smile ugly, words worthless
The mask is torn to pieces 
Still I wear a self conscious laugh….”

Goodreads

A book I love but hate at the same time!

Its definitely  Kafka on the Shore,

A book I hated!

I was young,when I read this book and I could not comprehend what the author wanted to convey.I was thinking,what is there in this novel for it to be a Nobel prize winner!!!.I felt absolutely stupid,not being able to get to the bottom.

I hated it.Period.

I want to re-read this once again...who know,may be I can then understand the depth in those words :)

A book that makes me happy :)

As there is no point in talking about the favourite book from my favourite series,I shall share you about that book which makes me happy, All the time :)



This is the book which transformed me from a just-another-book-reader to a book-worm,at an age about 12-13.

A friend of mine bought this book to our class.Just to show off :P,the kind of books she was reading.Anyways,I also got a peek of the green cover and the small snippet of the story behind the book cover.

"Baammm....I was hooked ".

I wanted to know Totto-chan.

I wanted to read the book somehow.But my friend was in no mood to lend me the book,so that I can read at home.She said,"Mom will scold me for not bringing back the book".

I cajoled,tried to bribe her..even literally begged her to lend me the book.Now to think about it,I didn't know why I behaved so :).Anyways,my friend took pity on me and said she will bring the book the next day as well.Since that day we had some function at school,and there were no class,I could read it :).

Even today,I can vividly see myself bound by that feeling of being able to read Totto-chan the very next day.My restlessness even got me scoldings from my mamma :P.

Next day,I finished the book in like about 3 hours (if i remember correctly,I'm old now :P).That day I realised,

I love books, I am a spreader and most importantly I can do anything I wanted,if I really want it ;) ;)

The book,its green cover,the school,various incidents that happen there,the head master..and most importantly Totto-chan ,everything is still etched in my head.

Every time,after reading a book which made me happy,I realise I can never be happier than the day on which I finished Totto-chan! I am still looking for a book that can bring me the same feelings,I felt after reading Totto-chan :)

Best book I read last year!

Undoubtedly it is "Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick".



I bought this book on a whim during an annual sale of books @amazon.Even though the book was of the genre which I would never have thought of reading :),I certainly did not make any mistake in picking this up!

This book has definitely led me to find a pattern in everything that is chaotic.I was hooked onto this little devil right from the start and each chapter is packed with such information,that I admit James Gleick  has done a marvellous job in giving me an introduction to The Chaos Theory!.

30 Day Book Challenge!

I am so very happy to finally dive into this 30 Day Book Challenge,telling all about my favourite books,characters,authors :) in my favourite place!!