Date:	2007-11-04 22:54
Subject:	"We are here to devour each other alive" - Hobbes
Security:	Public
Mood:	thankful
Music:	Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues

It's been six years on this journal. There is nothing more that I want to write here anymore.

This blog has now moved. Thank you for reading, commenting, loving, hating or being indifferent. It's been worth its while.

I'd like to end with a fragment from a poem by Lovecraft, the part that appears as an epigraph to "The Haunter of the Dark", which as the editor's notes inform me, was written "in the sinister small hours of the black morning after Hallowe'en" and first published in the Vagrant, June 1918. The story is dedicated, by the author, to Robert Bloch.

I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name.

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Date:	2007-09-19 22:45
Subject:	Time out.
Security:	Public
Mood:	recumbent
Music:	Keep Talking - Pink Floyd

This blog needs to hibernate. Will be back if/when it wakes up.

ARS BREVIS

There is
one art,
no more,
no less:
to do
all things
with art-
lessness.

ASTRO-GYMNASTICS
Do-it-yourself grook

Go on a starlit night,
stand on your head,
leave your feet dangling
outwards into space,
and let the starry
firmament you tread
be, for the moment,
your elected base.

Feel Earth's colossal weight
of ice and granite,
of molten magma,
water, iron, and lead;
and briefly hold
this strangely solid planet
balanced upon
your strangely solid head.


THE UNATTAINABLE IDEAL

We ought to live
each day as though
it were our last day
here below.

But if I did, alas,
I know
it would have killed me
long ago.

- Piet Hein

For a great collection of more such grooks, please click the link.

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Date:	2007-09-19 10:29
Subject:	Traffic Report
Security:	Public
Mood:	calm
Music:	Dream Within a Dream - Alan Parson's Project

On your way from SV Road towards Mahim, there are usually people standing holding some sort of a poster as a promotional gimmick for some company or the other. For blue umbrella, there was a chain of people standing on the sidewalk with blue umbrellas. Today, there were a bunch of midgets standing at the same place holding the BPL Mini validity poster.

This observation has nothing to do with anything, except I found the BPL gimmick rather idiotic.



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Date:	2007-09-19 00:01
Subject:	Thoughts and happenings of the day
Security:	Public
Mood:	tired
Music:	Walking on Broken Glass - Annie Lennox

- GUI design is painfully cumbersome.
- Joesphine broke a glass today.
- The next dog I adopt will be named Annie. Just so I can go, "Annie in kutton ke saamne mat naachnaa!" every time she goes around flirting with the dogs in the neighbourhood while the current song plays in the background.
- I can also come up with some inane and curious title to her biography ala In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones.
- I have lost all patience for gossip. It makes my stomach turn at times; so do a lot of other things, but that's a long list.

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Date:	2007-09-17 22:54
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	calm
Music:	Awargi - Ghulam Ali

Some days flow smooth
like water over a pebble
Some glide,
like an eagle over the hill
Some seem to never end.
They last, until
a hand covers the sun
and hides the day
like a spark in night's
dark fists,
burning away.

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Date:	2007-09-16 22:33
Subject:	:)
Security:	Public
Mood:	peaceful
Music:	Jee Chahe - Abida Parveen

Ji Chahe, Abida Parveen

Hori hoye rahi hai ahmad jiya ke dwar
Hori hoye rahi hai ahmad jiya ke dwar
Hajrat Ali ka rang bana hai Hassan Hussain khilad
Hori hoye rahi hai ahmad jiya ke dwar
Hori hoye rahi hai ahmad jiya ke dwar

Aiso hori ki dhoom machi hai
Aiso hori ki dhoom machi hai
Chahu or padi hai pukar
Aiso anokho chatur khiladi
Aiso anokho chatur khiladi
Rang diyo sansar

Niyaz piyara bhar bhar cchidki
Niyaz piyara bhar bhar chidki
Ek ki rang sahas pichdar

Hori hoye rahi hai ahmad jiya ke dwar
Hori hoye rahi hai ahmad jiya ke dwar



2.

Ji chahe to sheesha ban ja, ji chahe paimana ban ja
Sheesha paimana kya ban na , mai ban ja, maikhana ban ja
Ji chahe to sheesha ban ja, ji chahe paimana ban ja
Sheesha paimana kya ban na, chahe to paimana ban ja

Mai ban kar, maikhana ban kar, masti ka afsana ban ja
Masti ka afsana ban kar, hasti se begana ban ja
Hasti se begana hona, masti ka afsana ban na
Is hone se, is ban ne sa, accha hai deewana ban ja

Hasti se begana hona, masti ka afsana ban na
Is hone se, is ban ne se, accha hai diwana ban ja

Deewana ban jane se bhi, deewana hona accha hai
Deewana ban jane se bhi, deewana hona accha hai

Deewana hone se accha, khak-e-dar-e-jana ban ja
Deewana hone se accha, khak-e-dar-e-jana ban ja

Khak-e-dar-e-jana kya hai, ahle-dil ki ankh ka surma
Khak-e-dar-e-jana kya hai, ahle-dil ki ankh ka surma

Shamma ke dil ki thandak ban ja, noor-e dil-e-parwana ban ja
Shamma ke dil ki thandak ban ja, noor-e dil-e-parwana ban ja

Seekh zahin ki dil se jal na, kahe ko har shamma pe jal na?
Seekh zahin ki dil se jal na, kahe ko har shamma pe jal na?

Apni aag me khud jal jaye, tu aisa parwana ban ja
Apni aag me khud jal jaye, tu aisa parwana ban ja


Seekh zahin ki, seekh zahin ki, seekh zahin ke dil se jal na
Tu aisa parwana ban ja.

~~ I don't have the album cover and couldn't find the poet online. Will update this once I do tomorrow.~~

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Date:	2007-09-16 21:43
Subject:	Links, links and more links.
Security:	Public
Mood:	indescribable
Music:	Roshan Jamal-e-Yaar - Abida Parveen

For the lack of anything substantial to update, this post is dedicated to yet another splurge at Landmark (The bookstore that kicks Crossword's shiny ass IMHO):

- The Cult of the Amateur: The introduction had me grinning all the way to the next book shelf. Couldn't have not picked it up.
- The Long Tail: Wrote a crappy assignment on it at MICA. Might's well read the book was the thought.
- The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Speeches (1877 to the Present): Has some really fascinating ones and was available at a discount.
- Blink: A supposed good read 'n all of that.
- The Call of Cthulhu and other Weird Stories: This one was long overdue.

Also got The Eraser and The Johnny Gaddar soundtrack. The former still needs to grow on me. The latter has been written about here

The daily horoscope for the next few days will be as follows: Ganesha says, lack of sleep will lead to bad headaches, irritability and eventual homicide.

One would think living right next to a hospital will grant one some immunity to the horrendous drum noises outside. But one is wrong because one is stupid.

Thank Goodness (should I say?) for Abida Parveen and headphones.

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Date:	2007-09-16 00:33
Subject:	Weekends are weekends are weekends.
Security:	Public
Mood:	calm
Music:	Hook - Blues Traveler

This world belongs to Roscharch.

The Fog Horn makes me terribly sad.

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Date:	2007-09-14 17:16
Subject:	Funny for the day
Security:	Public
Mood:	working
Music:	50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon

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