had a lovely time today!!!

met up with some friends, and had a heart to heart chat about life, love and everything else. feels good!!!!

two things that tell me the world sucks

one, the Austrian father who confined and repeatedly violated his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven kids thru her, and two, that Condoleeza Rice has the temerity to suggest that improved diets in India nd China may also be one reason for the worsening food crisis. these two recent news items convince me that both at the micro as well as at the macro level, we are heading towards the dark ages, with no end in sight. seems the concept of the kali yuga is not so far fetched after all!!!

to be...

do we need the money, or someone's patient ear or someone to love? what drives us? what is the veil behind our lusts, or greed, dreams and unvarnished quest for fame? whom do we want to be? why aren't we going with the flow? why do we blog and fall in love, or never out of it, even after years? who cares for us, and us them, and why? do we need to figure out these things or just bob around, like a leaf coursing through a stream? life is like a leaf drifting serenely along a seemingly myriad course. to be is to put pen to paper, and wait for the comments;-)

honesty turns me on

having lived for all of 30 years, i feel wise and conceited enough to say with some degree of stereotypical certainty that most women are dishonest. they routinely lie about their real intentions, motives, beliefs, emotions etc. so, it is quite rare to come across a woman, or for the sake of statistical etiquette, a few women, who are honest and who believe in saying what's on their mind. i found one such friend yesterday, rather i rediscovered her yesterday after all these years. of course, our conversation is not for public scrutiny, but suffice it to say she was articulate about her feelings, and extremely honest about conveying them too. that makes her join my small but significant list of women friends who are kind, compassionate, intelligent and of course, honest. this is so refreshing from the usual clutter of rabble rousers who mistake honesty for shrill speech, or intelligence for scorn and kindness for being not feminist enough. my small band, in single digits now, has my unconditional positive regard and respect, not to mention love and affection. may this tribe increase with age, and convince me to shed my misogynistic view of the opposite sex.

Through a Glass Darkly

This to my mind is a better movie than Wild Strawberries. It is complex, edgy and filled with nervous energy. Ingmar Bergman seems to have gone one up over Strawberries.
Plus, has any one of you seen Dario Argento's movies? I saw Phenomena last night, essentially a murder mystery, but very different from the usual. It could even be classified as horror, although it doesn't have supernatural elements in it. I was scared.

wild strawberries

phew!!! what a movie!!!

sometimes

like today, you just want it all to end. just like the Columbia. just debris. sometimes, like today, you just want to sit still and get struck by lightning. sometimes (sigh) you just want to sink into a black hole, sucked in leaving not a trace.

take me to a place

where i can eavesdrop on the conversation of stars, where comets promise destruction and meteors, of fondest wishes.

with each passing year

you remind me of Pink Floyd
and their immortal lines
'there is no pain
you are receding'

Reunion

We met after almost 14 years. School chums. Many couldn't make it as it was a week-day. But for the ones that did, it was emotional and fileld with nostalgia, peppered with much good humour. Now, we plan to make that a monthly affair. There are no better friends than those from school!