Egads!
(Words that appear minus this introduction, and the FAQs are to be imagined as appearing staccato style in American Typewriter Font – like the captions that appear when a CIA Top Secret, destiny-altering Mission zeroes in to the Pentagon where some desperately-trying-to-look-serious broad shouldered, blonde and sometimes cigar chomping men are purportedly trying to save the world)
Circa : 2005
Soul HQ: Inside the cavernous tunnels of a befuddled mind
Mood: Stark
SOM Preference: Shaken, sometimes serene but mostly salivating with curiosity about the whys and why nots and straight on the rocks (For those not in the know – SOM stands for State of Mind)
FAQs for the Day:
Q) When was the last time you did something for the first time? (One of the most beautiful lines methinks for an airlines ad. It has a world of meaning.)
Q) What drives men to achieve records even when they’ve been there done that and have it all, so it seems?
Discovery’s 2005 retrospective on Global Flyer with Steve Fossett setting a non-stop around the world record in an experimental aircraft with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic funding the project is a case in point.
Q) What drives men to accept bribes just to table questions in Parliament?
Q) Why do we Indians not have the scientific temper? Does everything boil down to the socio-economic fabric of this race and the country? Are we doomed to wrestle with questions on the ‘coming up now’ of a D’halli airport or a fly-over or a Metro rail or a dam over 4 or 5 great states and rivers that will displace tens of thousands and submerge hectares of fertile land?
Oh damn!
Am sure we’ve got a list of achievements in the 50+ years since the colonizers left us to our own destiny. I’m sure I will find it, it’s just that I’m too busy asking FAQs for the day, battling with a perpetually embittered SOM, cursing the traffic situation and errant and mindless drivers who seem hell-bent on causing a dent and generally changing gears to live life. You bet I’m on edge! But am sure it’s all there yup, all there, just got to look for it.
Q) Why does my back hurt me so?
Q) Why can’t I remember a single music video of recent times which shows India in a good light instead of bare naked ladies gyrating and pouting and letting it all hang out? Well I’ve got to think of some video that shows a blend of the cultural diversity and modernity of India of this century or some client somewhere will feel very let down. Sigh!
Q) Why does bread with some mozzarella cheese, vegetable toppings and about 15 cm in diameter cost an arm and a leg? So what if it originated in Italy, it’s still too much dough!
Q) Why don’t I just stop my car, turn my blemished face towards the eternal sky, feel the rain drenching my skin, spread my arms wide and say ‘Yes!’? Where is the girl who once stood atop the bonnet of a car along with 2 of her college friends and danced to music blaring from the sound system of the car, beside a kerb, with the sea rhythmically pounding to the beat ,on the other side of the divide, with passers by wondering ‘hey they’re mad, but they’re alive’? I was alive then. I am alive now. But there’s a difference.
...Sooraj Ki Antim Kiran Se Sooraj Ki Pehli Kiran Tak – yes Surendra Verma (author of the play, which was not very artful or dramatic, produced by Neena Gupta, well known TV artiste), thank you for acknowledging a woman’s sexuality – we like sex too. Why should we turn pink if someone sings, ‘Let’s talk about sex baby, let’s talk about you and me’. But I wonder! is it the turn of men to turn pink nowadays, especially in the urban milieu? It's the AXE effect.
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Q) Why am I not beautiful to look at? (And for that someone who says he’d dance with me again if he could… that just means I don’t have BO nor two left feet, but thanks for cheering me up, and hey, I’ll accept the compliment)
Circa: 3005
Soul HQ: All heart
SOM: Eternal sunshine, sitting on a bubble, plucking fluff off clouds like candy floss and saying 'wheeeeeee!' coasting down the rainbow (the pot of gold has been found see!)
PS – if anyone ever questions the relation between the title and the post following it, my repartee to that would be ‘Shrug!’
Circa : 2005
Soul HQ: Inside the cavernous tunnels of a befuddled mind
Mood: Stark
SOM Preference: Shaken, sometimes serene but mostly salivating with curiosity about the whys and why nots and straight on the rocks (For those not in the know – SOM stands for State of Mind)
FAQs for the Day:
Q) When was the last time you did something for the first time? (One of the most beautiful lines methinks for an airlines ad. It has a world of meaning.)
Q) What drives men to achieve records even when they’ve been there done that and have it all, so it seems?
Discovery’s 2005 retrospective on Global Flyer with Steve Fossett setting a non-stop around the world record in an experimental aircraft with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic funding the project is a case in point.
Q) What drives men to accept bribes just to table questions in Parliament?
Q) Why do we Indians not have the scientific temper? Does everything boil down to the socio-economic fabric of this race and the country? Are we doomed to wrestle with questions on the ‘coming up now’ of a D’halli airport or a fly-over or a Metro rail or a dam over 4 or 5 great states and rivers that will displace tens of thousands and submerge hectares of fertile land?
Oh damn!
Am sure we’ve got a list of achievements in the 50+ years since the colonizers left us to our own destiny. I’m sure I will find it, it’s just that I’m too busy asking FAQs for the day, battling with a perpetually embittered SOM, cursing the traffic situation and errant and mindless drivers who seem hell-bent on causing a dent and generally changing gears to live life. You bet I’m on edge! But am sure it’s all there yup, all there, just got to look for it.
Q) Why does my back hurt me so?
Q) Why can’t I remember a single music video of recent times which shows India in a good light instead of bare naked ladies gyrating and pouting and letting it all hang out? Well I’ve got to think of some video that shows a blend of the cultural diversity and modernity of India of this century or some client somewhere will feel very let down. Sigh!
Q) Why does bread with some mozzarella cheese, vegetable toppings and about 15 cm in diameter cost an arm and a leg? So what if it originated in Italy, it’s still too much dough!
Q) Why don’t I just stop my car, turn my blemished face towards the eternal sky, feel the rain drenching my skin, spread my arms wide and say ‘Yes!’? Where is the girl who once stood atop the bonnet of a car along with 2 of her college friends and danced to music blaring from the sound system of the car, beside a kerb, with the sea rhythmically pounding to the beat ,on the other side of the divide, with passers by wondering ‘hey they’re mad, but they’re alive’? I was alive then. I am alive now. But there’s a difference.
...Sooraj Ki Antim Kiran Se Sooraj Ki Pehli Kiran Tak – yes Surendra Verma (author of the play, which was not very artful or dramatic, produced by Neena Gupta, well known TV artiste), thank you for acknowledging a woman’s sexuality – we like sex too. Why should we turn pink if someone sings, ‘Let’s talk about sex baby, let’s talk about you and me’. But I wonder! is it the turn of men to turn pink nowadays, especially in the urban milieu? It's the AXE effect.
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'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
Q) Why am I not beautiful to look at? (And for that someone who says he’d dance with me again if he could… that just means I don’t have BO nor two left feet, but thanks for cheering me up, and hey, I’ll accept the compliment)
Circa: 3005
Soul HQ: All heart
SOM: Eternal sunshine, sitting on a bubble, plucking fluff off clouds like candy floss and saying 'wheeeeeee!' coasting down the rainbow (the pot of gold has been found see!)
PS – if anyone ever questions the relation between the title and the post following it, my repartee to that would be ‘Shrug!’
posted by Livin @ 12/12/2005 09:57:00 PM
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