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Boy Busied by Buses

He likes Spiderman but he's terrified of spiders He buys the twenty rupee pack of peanuts On the bus to the valleys beyond the city The peanut shells are mothers to the peanuts The dichotomous peanuts are sheltered from the harsh world in their brown housings Here the boy sits and peels off the shells Discarding them all in a sheer plastic bag All dead mothers lying together He shrugs away the dark thought and tries to focus his mind on the electroacoustic music wafting slowly though this earphones A portrait of his favourite colours is the desktop wallpaper of his choosing He's always had an affinity for abstract anonymous art pieces His mind can't focus and so can't his attention It's something he's had to forgive himself for feeling Others around him assume that it's okay That him having an unstable mind is somehow an acceptable part of who he is But he doesn't care about the others as much as he cares about himself Nobody has ever att

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A for Aloo Bhujiya B for Banoffee pie C for Cheese omelette D for Dutch truffle pastry E for Eggs sunny side up F for Frappuccino G for Gulab Jamun H for Hot chocolate I for Iced Tea J for Jam butter bread K for Kaju L for Lemon tart M for Mango N for Nuggets O for Oranges P for Pasta Q for Quiche R for Ramen S for Samosa T for Tuna Sub U for Unsweetened chocolate V for Vada pav W for Watermelon X for Xmas mulled wine Y for Yoghurt Z for Zapiekanka

After Twenty Years

If you could only see what you gave up on in time to work hard to keep it You wouldn't have lost it forever Because once you give up and move on, you're likely not going to look back Nothing is irredeemable unless it was never good It is very redeemable if the good stuff came from from a sincere, pious place You didn't deserve her Because her love for you for pure It never held back, it never asked for much Besides respect, besides acknowledgement, besides attention I like to think sometimes that you regret it You regret losing such a beautiful love I like to dream that your new life feels uncomfortable Like it's not supposed to be real, like the first reality you forged was completely irreplaceable But I know that's just fanciful thinking It's a childish wish I like to think that maybe her love is thinning with the years flying by But a heart once broken never truly heals Especially since that heart never knew another You will never realise wh

My Top 16 Fave Beauty Products

This is unlikely of me to do, but I thought of putting together all my favourite skincare products of all time. While I'm not big on makeup, I love me some indulgent bath and body products. That said, I can't say no to a nice eyeliner and I love a good lip balm. Growing up, my father would take a lot of international business trips and he got into the habit of bringing me nice bath products every time. I got so used to it, that every time he'd come home, regardless of how post bedtime it was, I'd rush to open his bag and find the goodies myself. He still remembers my love for that kind of stuff and the last time I saw him, he got me two giant bottles of Pantene and Sunsilk shampoo. Not exactly what I was looking for, but it's the thought that counts! This is the stuff that I'm truly shaukeen about and the kind of stuff I imagine I'll always want to splurge on. I'm not one for material things, but this stuff is right up my alley! After all, pampering y

Bountiful Brown Bedhead

This new Google Keep It's too fancy for my liking I have a favourite towel It's yellow and has a jigsaw print It's got Pooh and Piglet smiling in a friendly embrace with eyes closed It says "Friends like a jigsaw, fit together" I've had the towel for years now But today I really saw it and read it And decided it was my favourite Not because I'm sappy about friendship But because it has Pooh and Piglet and a jigsaw and it's yellow I don't expect you to understand Very few would But I have this fear that one day I'll forget Then all I'll have are these dumb writings To remind me of who I was I mean, who I am Or who I used to be? The book I'm currently reading is about a woman who wakes up in the middle of the ocean belted to the seat of an aircraft that just crashed She finally ends up on a shore with no memory of who she is and how she got there All she knows is that she has a missing daughter she needs to rescue than

The unfathomable expanse of the Grand Canyon

I've been thinking about the Grand Canyon, and simply thinking about it doesn't encapsulate how vast it is. The thought cannot accommodate it. It's like thinking about the universe, and the limitlessness of it, and how futile an effort it is for a small mind to just understand. To just understand what it is like to have such a wide, deep, long, unexplored mass of space. You can't understand it. Just like you can't understand death; or life even. The Grand Canyon exists to remind us of who we are; who you are. It exists to say "Hello, I'm here. I've been here 6 million years. Can you understand me? Do you dare to?" I'm moved. Terrified. Humbled. Shaken. Taken. By something that hasn't moved in 6 million years. And I felt like sharing how I'm feeling, almost 2 months since I went to see the place, just as a tourist, just for a couple of hours. No pictures can really do it justice. No month long trips can do it justice. Nothing, and n

'MURICA!

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My STA s seem to have taken a backseat for wonderful sibling bonding trips instead. And I'm not complaining! 😊 This post is going to be super long and unlike Japan's post , this one's actually co-written by both Harshita and I. It's long overdue! I was back home in July, but never had the motivation to bring my laptop home from work to actually write until today. This is from Harshita's daywise + citywise journal followed by mine (she stopped notetaking in Houston) and of course with plenty tiny photos :) Day 1 Arrived LA airport after a long 12 hour flight on Cathay Pacific from HKG. Food and service on the flight was crap, but what more can you expect in economy. It was a long wait at customs. Got my bags out and one of my wine bottles broke. Met Kamna,  got a shuttle bus to Hertz, hired a Nissan Illinois plated red vehicle there and drove to Westfield mall to get a SIM. Drove to Calabasas down the I-405 and had Thai takeaway dinner with the family