:)

The cheeks are dimpling
My heart's a goner
There's that smile again
Tugging at the corner

Alight with mischief
The eyes an innocent hue
Now what did you break this time
Little two feet two?

:)

You & I

We're similar
You and I
You're unique
and so am I!

Windchime

I bought a windchime
And had it ov'r my door fixed
Just so the favourable winds
Don't pass by unnoticed... :)

Bookworm back!

Rediscovering my love of books... :) Currently on: The Tenth Insight - A sequel to The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield... Loved that one! It corroborates a lot of what I have believed in and still do, but it is nice to see it put down in words... :) Funnily though another book is pulling me towards it: Harry Potter-The Half Blood Prince! LOL The two books are worlds apart, yet compelling reading for me! :) Love the fact that there is a (actually 2 now!) book (that I like) waiting to be read by me! Aaaaah bliss! :) Life is good - just as my T-shirt proclaims! LOL

D...R...E...A...M...S

Dreams fly...
without any wings
in the vast, endless sky

Dreams dare...
and calmly tread
where even angels normally fear

Dreams hope...
buoyed by an unexplained force
on life's otherwise slippery slope

Dreams die...
a slow agonising death
and right behind it the nightmares pry

Dreams rekindle...
the childlike joy in life
that sometimes begins to dwindle

Dreams dream...
of a smile, a laughter shared
of floating upwards on a sunlight beam

Bout of Gout

if you are suffering
from a bout
of gout

you have to move
your limbs and groove
to some music
that doesn't make you feel sick(!) ;)

so that you do not frown
when you have to get up or sit down

and lest you forget
even if in jest
to drink lots of water
then don't cry after...

the uric acid level will then rise
and your joints can then go eat rice!

LOL ;) :D Unbelievable that at 5 am a poem (if this can be called one!!! ;D) struck me!!! :D

Thank you Doctor!!!

In India there's a festival everyday, but this is a new one for me...Doctor's day?!!! Oh and we are supposed to thank our doctor today for ... Well, let me not dilly dally and start. Allow me to thank the doctors on behalf of not just myself, but others as well...

THANK YOU DOCTOR, for prescribing us medicines we didn't need, so that you could get your cut and that vacation!

THANK YOU DOCTOR, for taking advantage of our neurotic feelings of being ill and inducing an illness...so that you could cure it!

THANK YOU DOCTOR, for lying to us about the severity of our illness...so that you could justify the expensive operation you conducted on us!

THANK YOU DOCTOR, for getting all those tests done that we didn't need, to make sure the employment rates don't sink! Think of all the jobs of lab technicians...and we have the doctors as social workers!

THANK YOU DOCTOR, for prescribing us medicines for an illness we didn't have, because you were too tired to conduct a thorough examination or weren't capable enough to diagnose correctly!

THANK YOU DOCTOR, for not consulting another doctor and for treating us based on your limited knowledge of your field, even though there were symptoms that you didn't understand! After all, the human body is compartmentalised, one specialist does his/her part and that's it. How is he/she concerned with other problems that he/she doesn't understand?!!

THANK YOU DOCTOR, for turning the noble medical profession into a business like every other...

THANK YOU DOCTOR, for making us lose faith in you!

THANK YOU DOCTOR...

P.S.: By the way, when do we celebrate the shopkeeper's day, the stockbroker's day, the engineer's day, etc.? After all, these people are also putting in hard work to run their businesses!!!

Infinite Lunatics Out Here! ;)

Warning:
This has been brewing for long, so it might be a tad strong! :)
(la la la... I might as well sing the rhyming phrases! ;) )

I'd like to ask a question... to no one in particular, but to all in general. What is your contribution in being born where you were born. I mean, is it to your credit or discredit that you were born in a particular country, state, city, area, family, creed, caste, colour?!!! I'm sure, I can't say something like: "Oh, you know, I made sure I was born in this family this time". (Maybe there are higher beings who can decide these things, but alas, most of us can't brag about being those 'Higher Beings'!)

Well, if you can't control where you were born, how can it be something for you to be proud of? ...since it's not YOUR achievement! Amazing that we brag about things we don't even have had a say in! LOL Weird are the ways of the world! We take ourselves at face value and feel proud about things that are accidental. At the most we can perhaps feel blessed to be what we are in terms of the accident of birth. But to be proud and vain about it is to be as stupid as one can be... And to fight and kill only for this reason? I can't think of any adjectives for this level of stupidity!!! What if the messiah of jehads had been born a Christian? Oh well...he still wd've been a terrorist... terrorists don't belong to any religion anyway!

And I'm feeling strongly about it, coz in the recent past dumb comments regarding a particular state have been made. Does one care so much where you're from in this era of globalisation? Every thing, every minute thing in our lives today is, at times, a contribution of a whole lot of people, communities, countries... How can one then simply isolate oneself as a community and indulge in blatant self-promotion... at the cost of others? And how can people tolerate such blatant attempts at breaking our nation? These guys belong behind bars, maybe doing community service, so that they may, just may, one day understand that they actually happen to be part of the HUMAN community. The wonderful Newspapers and Media (that we are blessed with nowadays) are serving a GREAT purpose by printing and advertising every dumb word these so-called leaders say! Gone are the days when the media used to exercise restraint, in order to maintain a certain level of peace... Nowadays every sneeze is sensationalised, peace be damned! What use is news if it isn't BREAKING NEWS?!!! Hmmm, being a democracy has its downside as well... ;) But I still wouldn't want to trade it for anything else... LOL

All this simply makes my belief stronger that we humans are the worst parasites ever to have infected the planet EARTH!!! We'll make supercalifragilisticexpialidociously sure that the planet and none of us survive! Lovely! Signing off on this optimistic note... ;)

Sarcastically Yours!

Daily life can be monotonous at times... understatement of the year, decade, century? LOL Well maybe not! Even monotony can be hilarious, if one cares to look at it from a refreshingly different point of view! :) Wonder, if a lot of people will agree with the refreshing quality that I'd like to bestow on the 7 letter word called 'Sarcasm'! ;) It's another matter to be on the receiving end of it though! LOL... but even that teaches one a lot... and makes one better prepared for this wonderful (literally full of wonders!) journey called life... meines Erachtens. Here are some gems that take the whole cake! Warning: I do not take literary credit for these; just happened to read them somewhere... :) And am trying to push in some of my own... and letting someone else take the (dis)credit for them! LOL (P.S.: Achtung: These work only when one can laugh at oneself... otherwise it's plain mean...) - I'm sorry I made you cry, but at least your face is a whole lot cleaner now! - YOU are my whole world... big, fat and round! ;) - Do you intentionally use this makeup or are you naturally ugly? (mean, mean, I know! But one can always retort with something like: "Sorry, are you looking at me or the mirror nearby? I mean, one can't always be sure with the lovely squint that you have!" ;) LOL) - Sometimes I need what only you can provide: Your absence. - I find television very educating. Everytime someone turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - I've had a perfectly wonderful evening; but this wasn't it. - Don't let your mind wander, it's too little to be let out alone. - Before giving someone a piece of your mind, remember to leave a little something for yourself. - If at first you don't succeed, destroy any evidence that you ever tried! - I'm not fluent in IDIOT, so please speak slowly and clearly. Okay, giving up for now... there are more urgent things than letting your devil's workshop produce little devilish pieces of work! ;) P.S.: Read some more recently...Here they are: - I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid! - I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant! - I’ll try being nicer if you’ll try being smarter. - If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. - Someday, we’ll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.  LOL ;)

Do NOT keep in touch!!!

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there used to be letters and postcards and an occasional telephone call. One would chat to one's heart's content... or maybe not, coz the calls used to be a bit expensive... And the letters used to take some time to be delivered...and to get answered...and for that answer to reach back to the sender. Period. One had time to get on with life, to live, to experience, to enjoy... without having to report about what one was doing.

Then came the mobile phone and the internet. Now one was 'trackable' and reachable almost everywhere. But the mails were not always answered immediately, so one still had some breathing space...

Now there's Orkut and Facebook and Twitter and what not... You breathe and the whole WORLD gets to know ... each and every person on your list gets an instant update about whatever you care to post on your account... Even people, so called friends of friends can peep into your heart and your life... Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeks!

It is, of course, nice to be in touch and good to know what your friends are upto... but this is really taking matters too far! There's a beautiful German word called 'Privatsphäre'... and unfortunately it's disappearing... Next step: Reading minds!!!

Hmmm, how about adopting the slogan written on trucks? :D Instead of 'Keep in touch' one says: 'Keep (some) distance'!!! LOL

Distance anyway makes the heart grow fonder! ;)))