Ray of light

Monday, 30 July 2007, 14:17 | Category : 55ers, Citywatch, Fiction, Roving I
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He looks at her from the corner of his eye
Thinking she won’t notice
Secretly hoping she will
So secret, he won’t even admit to himself
She feels his look
Like sunlight, warm on her cheeks
Her eyes stay downcast
Shielded from his blinding gaze
Warmed nevertheless by its intensity
Then it starts to rain.

Romantic setting

Friday, 27 July 2007, 22:19 | Category : Citywatch, Mumbai metblogs, Roving I, Spectator, X-post
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It’s a filthy city, no doubt, strewn with plastic waste.
But when you have someone real to walk with you, even a walk through a plastic world can seem romantic.
Apparantly romance has nothing to do with beautiful places and comfortable surroundings. Who says Mumbai has no romance?

This is a candid shot of a couple that walked [...]

A pick-up line that works

Thursday, 26 July 2007, 15:34 | Category : Voicebox
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I think I’m going to let you buy me a coffee today.

It works, for me. On me as well.

Escapist

Thursday, 26 July 2007, 12:44 | Category : Reflections
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Being online at the same time is the virtual world’s equivalent of being in the same room with someone else. It’s a lot easier to pretend you haven’t seen them, though.
Oh and shutting your eyes is much easier as well…you just logout/disconnect/logoff/shut down. Then, for all purposes the world you don’t want to be a [...]

My love is the thorn on the red, red rose

Monday, 23 July 2007, 12:10 | Category : Poetry
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I am nothing, if not Intensity in person. And I’m bored now.
Do I fall in love out of boredom? Do I feel things because they’re plain entertainment? Alright, you were right then.

If love were a poem, I’d be an ode to your being.
If love were a song, I’d be a serenade to you.
If love were a [...]

It’s only me

Saturday, 21 July 2007, 15:19 | Category : Reflections
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Is it life coming a full circle when you see others doing to you what you did to other people long ago? Good, bad, strange, ugly, inexplicable, heart-warming, touching….when you start recognizing your onetime self in other people, its first heartening and then disheartening. It leaves me with a feeling that…
There’s really no one else in this [...]

Don’t go to bed with ANGER

Friday, 20 July 2007, 10:55 | Category : Humour
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Someone tell me what this means. I get such bizzarre fortunes/horoscope predictions…and then people say I’m weird.
 
In the immortal words of someone who found me in their bed,
What eet eez???!!!