to the only one who can make me smile: i don't know what i would have done without you.

and to the only one who can make me cry: how i wish you'd get back to making me smile.

and to the one who makes me do both: please, please go away.

certificate of completion

आधे अधूरे ख्वाबों की
आधे अधूरी सी नींद को
पूरी करने को किसी की
आधी अधूरी हंसी काफी है
फिर पूरे हुए ख्वाबों से
कुछ जुड़ते पूरे रिश्तों से
पूरी होगी बिखरी ज़िन्दगी
पूरी होगी आधी अधूरी हंसी

crazYness

छुटकी सी पतंग
सतरंगी खुशियों से
उजली किरणें बनाती
अँधियारा भगाती
खुले आसमान में
सपनों पे उड़ जाती है

नन्ही सी खुशी
बावली बातों से
उलझी भवें सुलझाती
ख़ुद से गुनगुनाती
बिन कुछ कहे
कहानियाँ गढ़ जाती है

आ जा मैं हवाओं पे
बिठा के ले चलूँ
तू ही तो मेरी दोस्त है
आ जा तेरे सपनों को
आसमान देता चलूँ
तू ही तो मेरी दोस्त है

[inspired from tu hi to meri dost hai from the movie yuvvraaj. written for C - Bhai and best friend]

ends justify the means

prof to class: you can take the horse to the water but you can't force him to take it in.

naween: sir, saline??

[:P]

saccharine

night out. followed by breakfast. where i had coffee. and asked for extra sugar. and it reminded me of something.

when i go home, mummy makes some things for me. but every time i enter the kitchen, i come out with sugar in my mouth [:D]!! and mummy goes almost mad seeing me preferring sugar over all that she might have made.

i have even mishti doi with sugar [:D]

and the beast lies within. sleeping. patient. waiting. all i can do is buy time. do everything i can to stop it. and i make a deal with it. i'll try to be good. but sometimes i wonder if he's having the last laugh. me being 'good' to pacify him. and i'm torn. who's the real 'me'? the beast or the one who's good?

it ain't easy being superman.

anticipatory bail

i love you.

okay.

!!!!!!

what??

just an okay??

so what do you want?

do you know the amount of thought and courage that went behind that statement?

it isn't as if i don't know that you love me.

you know??

oh! come on!! the doting fool that you've been - it couldn't have been anything other than love.

so you've just been enjoying the attention all along??

while i had the chance, yes.

you could at least have told me!

what! and miss all that entertainment and attention?

so you don't love me?

now when did i say that?

!!!!

what??

so you love me?

of course i do.

then why didn't you tell me?

coz i was waiting for you to get sure about your love.

and what about your love?

if you had taken some time out of the crazy world you inhabit, you'd have seen that i've been sure right from the start.

oh!

i love you too.

तुम जो नहीं हो तो क्या
बातें तो रुकती नहीं
तुमसे ही कहता हूँ
सपने सभी
ढूंढें तुझको मेरी हकीकत की ज़मीन
पर तुम नहीं

आँखें बंद कर लूँ जो मैं
देखूं बस तुम्हे
ख्वाबों में ही कह सकता हूँ
अपना तुम्हे
रहने दे मेरा ये वहम पे ही यकीन
ना जा कहीं

[half-lifted from naa jaa - euphoria]

vote for congress!!

hand-i-work of a managerial ethics class.

in the upper left corner i was trying to compare the lengths of my thumb and forefinger.

:P

semiotics

all the symbols we know
might all be just cymbals
playing a music very different
from what we actually hear