Thank You

This post can be considered as the follow up of for the post titled, 'Things I Want' and is dedicated to some special people in my life. First of all let me say that I was very overwhelmed to see my friends and family wishing well and being there for me on this special day. The effort you all put up to make this day special  was simply amazing. Everyone had a role to play in it and everyone despite having their own problems to counter with, left everything aside and decided to be with me.


There is a reason I linked this post to the earlier one and that is because of the amount of gifts showered upon me. It was literally a double. Let me clear, I seriously did not write the post to plant ideas in your mind. But, I feel I made it easier for you, because even without the post there would have been gifts.But I liked it all, from Mouth organs to headsets to customized clocks to caps and even the piggy banks. I loved it all. More than that I loved the time that I spent with you all at Juhu playing Dumb Charades ( I could only find this spelling from Google). Thanks a lot for everything and being there for me. Such moments obviously gets us thinking that after all we are important to handful of people and realize how lucky we are.


Now that I have got some of the things from the list, I guess its time to cut them off. :)

COLD

Greetings with smiles

Some laughter

Could not have been any better

A sudden prick

Took its time to transform into pain

Reached the wet spine

Blood! Blood!

Amused to see it

Pain made it obvious in the form of tears

Turned around

Only to find something unlikely

He stabbed

Before he could come to terms

Another jab

Fell to his knees

On the red bloody floor 

Smack! 

Opened his eyes only to 

See one of the hands getting severed

He could not understand, why

With a smile he said

“Don’t explain”

As I said I would always be there 

For a friend like you

Things I Want

Whenever I think about the things I have wanted, it occurs to me that, it is categorized. There are things I have always wanted which acts as a constant and things I want according to the circumstances. 


I will start with things I want according to the circumstance. I want a new set of headphones, because as I write this I realize that only one ear of my headphone is working. I want my office AC to actually do what it is supposed to do so that we can switch off the noisy damn standing fan. I want a new phone with a good battery life and one which is ideal, i.e. cheap and has all the features. I want a THOUGHT-to-TEXT converter so that I could not waste time writing and this would have been up on the blog a lot earlier. I want to do something interesting like shoot something. I mean a movie or a sequence. I want to watch Metropolis which was recommended to me yesterday. I want to scream out loud. I want money, money and more money, so that I can lead a normal satisfactory life in times of inflation.  I want someone close to my heart. Since the things I am mentioning are the things I want under circumstances, I can also mention what I will need at some point in life. I may need a cool walking stick, external hard drives, pen drives, wife, children, etc. Last but not the least I WANT PEACE, not that my life is less peaceful but I like to be in peace continuously! But again, when I think of these things can come in the list below too. 


Things I have always wanted. I want a jersey, I want a mouth organ. I want a drum set. I want a bike and car. I want a Lion, a Tiger and an Elephant as pets. I want a big home, I want a small home, I want to buy a grand gift for everyone I love and I want money, money and more money for this. I want to backpack across the world. Last but not the least I Want PEACE, at least within myself!


I stopped here because, now I really want to pee and get to work.

Intimidating

While I was younger, I always misread ‘intimidation’ as ‘intimation’ and I thought it had something to do with being intimate. But when I got to know the actual meaning, I began to wonder the instances when I get intimidated.

The central character from the series 'Tales of Mere Existence'
by Lev Yilmaz  

I am intimidated at sight of an attractive woman, or if she drives an attractive car. Much more if, she rides a bike, if she dresses well, or she talks well, or the slightest thought that she is better than me.

That’s not all that I get intimated by. I get intimidated by my intelligent friend who can talk on every damn thing below the sun, or my not so intelligent friend who can act wise, or my metal-head friend who has a band, or my colleague who I think is better than me, or my colleague who is good for nothing, or my boss whom I work for, or my friends who are fit, or my friends who are unfit.

I am intimated by the person who has a good fashion sense, who wears a pair of good shoes, who is talented, who sketches, who cooks, who plays, who writes, who makes clay models, who has good drinking capacity, who does not drink, who can run fast, who can swim on the back, who can float on water, and so on. Even the word intimidation intimidates me such that I find it difficult to pronounce many a times.

**Note:  This is just an experimental style of writing which I very much adore. The man behind my inspiration is Turkish-American Dir, writer, producer, artist Mr. Lev Yilmaz. Check out his interesting work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P785j15Tzk