Riders on Love

A debated subject - Love. Some people can tell you what it feels like, some can't . We force our affections and bonds into forming a big cloud called Love.. just to give a proud definition to the feeling that we can't describe. If it fails, we end up thinking.. this wasn't love... True love is yet to come through I guess.. What we dont realize is this is where WE go wrong, not LOVE. Putting riders on love doesnt make it happen. Love isnt' about feeling happy or frustrated, meeting or failing expectations, partying or reading a book together, looking at the glass half-full or half-empty... It's all rolled into one! If you are able to be yourself, mirror each other through time and can experience closure at the end of it.. I think you have found the royalty that you were meant to be with

Photo Timeline - F.R.I.E.N.D.S

It's been long since my last post... Guess I ran out on topics to write! So... I am revamping my blog to include my other pursuits... like book reviews.. or description of memories etched in pictures... so please bare with me!!!
I possess extreme luck in terms of finding friends... either very very close... or very very far..!On this blog... posting the ones who are extremely close to me... for those who've been left out... Sorry.. I did not have a  picture to post... !! So don't forget to send me one..!

Rohan and me... Chilling with loads of Non-Veg food...Good times....

Ruha and me... brought together by awkward circumstances... still bonded strong!

Shweta and me... taking the spotlight away from someone else's birthday.. something we are good at...

Swati and me.. Recovering from the shock of an expensive bill... which thankfully I did not have to pay...

Neha and me.. posing like two good kids out for dinner @ Pizza Hut..

Raka  and me.. posing before stuffing ourselves at a scrumptious buffet..!

Ruchi and me... posing (at gunpoint..) in a KKHH pose... GOD!

Steel gets Real!

I don't care if Rotten Tomatoes hates it... I don't care if IMDB calls it a rip-off....!!! What I care about... is the awesome punch that Zeus got from Atom half-way up in the air!!!!! Wham!

I haven't had this much fun since I last saw Inception!!  I was literally at the edge of my seat... with my roomie having to pull me back!!! Real Steel was engaging...an adrenalin booster.. and with the background score a total hit... Wings of Icarus reminded me of Driving with the Top Down by Ramin Djwadi though(soundtrack of Iron Man)..
The Movie was a good watch.. especially the the boy.. Dakota. He seemed to take the spotlight away from Hugh.. A good actor.. strong and determined. and very very adorable.. especially with the Introductory Dance at the start of every fight and the emphatic challenging of Zeus at the end.. He rendered a majority of the spunk to the movie.

The robots used looked like aesthetic creations of electronic art.. I loved Twin Cities.. and the way Atom (our A.I Hero) 'confuses' him.

I'm not gonna comment on Hugh... because my view would be biased. Frankly.. I half went to see the movie just to see him box around! Oh...that black t-shirt!!! (Guess someone's listening...) And the part about shadow boxing towards the end.. the intensity and ferocity.. was marvelous for me.. personal opinion... gotta listen to your heart over your head sometimes, right?

People around me have been having a hard time dodging my backhand punches... atleast better than my last break-down of trying to save bottles from falling down by shooting webs out of my hand... So i decided to dish it out...  Just a thought! 

Music & Lyrics

I often utilize my 'SkullCandy" to its full potential... just like today. Was listening to different genres of music (As usual, my playlist is always diverse!!), two songs in particular... It struck me.. The balance of music and voice was different in both the songs.

The first one, by Adam Lambert, was heavily backed by an electronic bass tone which monotonously continued though the entire song. To enhance the tomes of the song, there were layers added like bass beats and what sounded like continued ringing of guitar strings (I am not a musical genius, I simply rely on my ears!) The highlight of the song was Adam's voice, without which the song would've gone unnoticed!

The other was from Poets of The Fall.. I love Maarko's voice though personally... so I will not comment on the voice aspect because it would be biased. But what came out was that they had a lot of instruments to play around with.. And the music and the voice gelled very well together.

Most of the club sings today have heavy music, with passable lyrics.. mostly about how 'aesthetically attractive' the opposite sex is.

But then, Music is not meant to be technically correct always. You cannot expect to dance to Eagles or Queen or Pink Floyd. They are meant to be enjoyed with people that you're close to.. or just alone.. reminiscing about memories.. probably by the sea shore or in a dim-lit room...accompanied by what my roomies would call 'Emotional Talks' (This seems to be the ultimate goal we have on weekends now a days!!!)

Music is a different world that has complements for every emotion.. Heavy metal for Aggression, Fast-paced when you really want to be quick in acting, Saxophone instrumentals for Romance, Old Rock for those lazy evenings, Emotional Ballads for the times when you feel down, Club hits for times you feel elated and just want to let it out and Technically correct songs when you feel like Mozart!

Just a Thought!!

Victorian Relationships

"And from this gutter we're still staring at the stars".. the feeling of eternal hope even when the world starts collapsing around you... the sense to hold on to bonds, by brute or bliss, is well displayed in "Lady Windermere's Fan".. a play i recently happened to read. Not a very big fan of classics.. however, I found this one very intriguing and was given a good peak by Wilde in the superficial and uptight relationships of the Victorian era.

The fictional suspense of the entire story is built around a fan! It's presence or absence has the authority to control Lady Windermere's future.. what seems ironical is that the decisions effected by logical sense of judgement and the compassionate understanding needed in a relationship are seem to be brought about a 'Fan' and not by the lady herself.

Coming to Lady Windermere and her fellow members of the High Society, they exude an unnatural aura of elegance and pretence, drawing up social boundaries of right and wrong. They define their own world, defining the behavior, conduct of those who are priviledged to live in them, the story draws on from the gossips of such 'royal gossip-brewers' which go on to poison the mind of young and effluent woman, Lady Windermere, who blinded by hr self-esteem, treads on to defy and run away from her husband for a better, ye a flirtatious prospect. The cause...the husband is held accountable for holding an objectionable relationship with an immoral woman.

The striking point of the play is deception through character sketches. The play very cleverly builds up the immoral woman's characer as being someone who is attracted to money and men. But just as you begin disliking her and pitying Lady Windermere, the plot twists to conradict your immaculately calculate ending, altering your exclamations at the end of the story.

The mentality of the Victorian Era towards relationships, husbands and retaining relationships was more commanding and preset as compared to a mutual bonding. The practice of treating men as a busboy at your beck-and call, to my view, could be responsible for the men straying towards greener pastures. I think what they just wanted was a woman who would listen to them, treat them with respect and honour them with dignity,as they did unto their wives.

If you look around you, the Victorian Era comes of age in this modern era too. Ultra-modern as one could call it. The society remains the same, the marriage remains the same, partners remain the same... more so even the genders and the roles they play!! Have we been able to change anything? Rest being a fixture by nature, haave we empowered purselves to change the way were are in a relationship? I don't think so. Demands remain the same. People do take each

for granted, misunderstanding their actions. people are still expected to behave as per the other's whims and fancies.

It isn't wrong to expect out of a relationship. but, impractical expectations are unjustified. when we bond, it is about two different lives pairing together. not just your own life attaching to the other. Your own wish to be independent, wish for some space or simply an expectation is mirrored into the other person as well. Where we fail is in acknowledging someone else's identity above us. And most of this happens subconsciously. None of us are bad, we just behave

unlike ourselves when we are bonded. From a third view, itis just another relation, like a brother-sister or a parent-son relation. The meaning changes when you delve deeper in.

Well... 'Lady windermere's Fan', on the surface a witty comedy, there is subtle subversion underneath- "it concludes with collusive concealment rather than collective disclosure"...

Finding True Love

“We share a common caste.. An amiable age difference of me being elder to him by a month and a half which he loves to tug at… A common foodie interest of ‘Alu ki khurchan’ and ‘Manchurian with Rotis’… An active interest in Dragon Ball Z… we share a lot in common.. like him playing with my hair… patting my head… Me leaning against him when he is driving… Could this be a mere coincidence or was it written?”

For the girl who thought it was more than just a coincidence, life had been on a roll, with a good educational background, a restricted but close-knit group of friends and a life filled with dreams and realistic hopes. Not opposed to the way in which most girls would reply if asked about the dream man they would want to be with, she too harbored hopes to find a man that was humorous, intelligent, sensitive, good-looking and caring by nature. She wanted a man who was chivalrous… but knew the way to treat a girl right. And she thought she had found the one…The guy she was with, was caring, good-looking and was true in his feelings. And how she felt that he really was the one, and started to believe that you need to sacrifice for love, step down from the decisions you take, consider not making new friends just because he doesn’t like it. She really believed that she would be able to please him as long as she was around, and he felt there could never be another girl that was so tailor-made for him, she was exactly the way he wanted his girl to be. And he made sure she stayed that way.

Not far away from where she lived, lived a guy… with whom, she believes now, she must have crossed ways as she remembers seeing his dog, an adorable Dalmatian, around her place. He was very well-read, intelligent, caring, and reasonable and fit perfectly into the definition of ‘Tall-Dark and Handsome’. It had been about four years since they had lived minutes apart from each other, belonged to the same communities and yet, they had never come face-to-face.

March 8.. . was the day they met. Highly unlikely and unbelievable unless you believe in the ‘Karmic connections’, that bind the souls of the ones that are meant to be together. He had been to perform at a concert in her college; she got talking to him as his songs were intriguing and sounded much more addictive when he sang them. Mailing ids were exchanged. And they started chatting after a few days from the ‘special day’. The talk was strictly formal in the start but ended up with him asking, “Would you mind if I asked you out for a cup of coffee?” She replied, “I would love to, but I have to be back at college on Saturday, I feel awful.” She really did feel awful, because he was interesting and attractive.

Talking to her, he felt that he wanted to know her more, know the way she thought, the way she was, the things she liked, because of the sole reason that she seemed intelligent and interesting to talk to.

He tried calling her up again after a couple of days. It so happened that day she was busy that particular day on an important assignment and was not able to receive his call. Being an apt astrological blend of Aries and Capricorn, armed with a fierce ego, he never called a girl a second time, if she was not responsive. He did not like hanging around places where people would deem him unnecessary.

But as Fate would have it, she called back the next day, and that was the day when everything turned in favor of them. They spent 7 hours on the phone, chatting away the whole time. They found out that they liked Alu ki khurchan, loved eating out of serving bowls, discussed the way Gohan destroyed Cell with his Kame-ha-meha attack. In the middle of the talk, he asked her if she was single. She felt a twitch. She wished she was single. She had loved the way he had animatedly listened to her the whole while. She wished she could be there… be there to give him a warm hug when she came to know what he had been through, she wished she could run upto him and tell him that she wanted to be his for her whole life. But she couldn’t. That was the first time she had realized the true love that she had dreamt about and talked about forever was at the other end of the line, and not beside her. But there was nothing she could do about it. There were constraints, she did not know if he felt the same for her. And she was with someone. She could not take the risk.

He was dismayed, after a long time. How many girls had he met… flirted around with… been in a serious relationship before. But this girl… had beaten all of them hands-down. She was the most ‘interesting chick’ he had ever talked to. She was witty, funny, believed in commitment, liked the same things as he did… and resembled a lot like his mother and sister back home. He still describes her as being ‘Desi and Modern at the same time’. She held a flavor of India that he had grown up witnessing at home. The girlish way of gossiping with the independence of a modern day woman; she was all that he had ever wanted. Yet, she could not be his. He was heart-broken, after a very long time.

They both had a hint that they had developed feelings for each other, amidst the silent romance of the night that had passed by. He finally mustered up the courage to tell her, “I think I love you.” She wished she could tell him she had started loving him too. And it seemed the most natural thing in the world for her. And that was when she decided, she couldn’t let him get away.

After a stormy winding up of old obligations, they were finally together. They went out on their first date, a drive to the nearest ice-cream shop. They never ate ice-cream, merely held hands and stared into each-other’s eyes for what seemed like eternity. He had brought her a rose, which she still preserves to this day. Today, after eleven months, they are still as crazy about each other as they were when they had first kissed. He still does the one thing he never used to do, tell her that he loves her insanely every single moment that he can find. She is as committed as no one can ever be, and still considers him as her lucky charm, the one that turned her life around.

True love does not mean big sacrifices. It does not mean giving up on your identity. It shows in the smallest of ways, which you cherish as long as you live. It means being there when the other needs you; gently holding him when he is angry; giving up on those devilishly desirable shoes to gift him his favorite Chelsea jersey, just to watch him break into the most precious grin, building up trust and giving them he space that they need. It means being there for each other and putting them before you. True love…. It was not about what they felt… it was about the way they had felt it.

Six Lives... One Roof...

People say, the way we think, influences the environment around us. The power of thought possesses the capability to override the consequences of human actions. it would be thus plausible to say that the entire gamut of energies residing under a single roof are bound to be interdependent.

Is this really true? Does this mean, that two people living together under a roof think and act in accordance with each other?

I believe this is something refuted by reality... always....

Six lives... all different from one another... showcasing all possible shades of dominance and bluntness.

They showcase the same qualities, in different extremities, but yet... lead very very diffferent lives. the outcome of their nature color their canvas differently... some green for hope and optimism in return.. some grey with uncertainty, some white for limitless yet unpredictable future, and some red for everything spontaneous.

Individually, they seem to be heading their separate ways, but yet.. when they combine... they outshine as a bright rainbow.. complementing each other as would all the seven colors.. glued together in times of extreme emotions for the future... happiness, concern, anger,frustration, comfort.. or why categorize... just being there.. do we really need a reason to be there for each other?

I don't think we do... presence does not need a reason.. it requires a thought.. a thought of security.. a thought of soft spot for each other.. a thought of understanding..

Wouldn't be incorrect to say.. we do truly form a rainbow even with the other three colors misssing..

But guess... we don't even need the other three .. do we?