Tick-Tock

Time is short, my friend. The Clock keeps ticking and I'd have collected a million pennies by now for every time that I thought of the line, 'The Broken Clock is a comfort, it helps me sleep tonight..' from Broken by Lifehouse (one of my favorite somgs, by the way). Yeah, so like I said, time seems to be slipping beyond us at every moment and it's been true so far. I mean, this year has been going by super-quick. BANG! And before you know it, we'll be in 2010. It's also the anniversary of 26/11. Well, I do hope every one of you who lost your lives rest in peace, and I hope in our hearts, we can only commemorate your souls and think of a better nation, a better place for tomorrow. It was a sad event and one of the most infuriating attacks on Bombay last year, and it's not about us just emerging strong, it's the height of the sick bastardly fate we were put through. However, all the anger we felt and still feel can't be directed right back in violence but I just hope that peace prevails and we somehow make it through and we can provide a safer life for tomorrow. We don’t need movies, stories and other painful reminders to commemorate those who lost their lives on 26/11. What we need is peace, hope and the will to strive for a better tomorrow. It’s scary when you contemplate the enormous degree of evil in this world but what’s definitely and vastly more frightening is when you become numb to it all and that when the only way to obtain peace is fighting back in even terrible ways imaginable. It’s hard to believe that us, a species so great, which is blessed with so much, has turned in the cruelest way possible against its own kind. What we fear is not different religions, different super-powers, or foreign threats but our own race. That makes me sad to think that man has turned against man. Over what? Excuses like religion need to be put to the guillotine. I honestly believe in the name of religion, race and color, we have tried to out-pass others, to be better than others. But what is so dense to us is the fact that we might not come from the same DNA, but we are from the same species nonetheless. How is that difficult to get? Just stop all of this nonsense, this horrific blood-bath and live your lives. We are ultimately going to die some day but no one, nobody gives you that right to take our lives away… the only life you’re in charge of is yours. Leave mine and others’ alone.

Of happier things, what propelled me to this entry is lack of time and there are so many things that I haven't done yet, this was the list of stuff to be done before I turned 34 or may be let's put it as the list for the rest of my life while I'm alive:
(Random Order and What I remember)

TOP PRIORITY: To write for a Fashion/Travel Magazine and write & publish a book.

1. Bungee-Jumping off the Eiffel Tower
2. Visit Egypt, Paris, Greece and London.
3. Live in Paris and study art for a bit, and pick up french too, while I'm there.
4. Date a few guys
5. Live in NY someday and make it out there
6. Be in an ad (any ad will do, the funnier and crazier, the better)
7. Meet Ellen
8. Buy my dad his dream Transistor
9. Buy myself, my dream Video iPod or an iPod for that matter
10. Buy myself the dream perfume (for now it's YSL Elle all the way through)
11. Get a tattoo (essentially with my own hard-earned money cuz it'd be hypocritical to use my parents' for the same!)
12. Learn to ride a bike
13. Learn to speak Spanish
14. Learn B-Boying
15. To learn the Moonwalk
16. Surf a Wave (I would be, look and feel SO cool once I do learn the art!)
17. Get a Dog (I have my names ready)
18. Visit the Taj Mahal
19. Save somebody's life
20. Live with Nandini again for a bit (she was the best roomie ever, I miss her!)

It's her birthday!

This is Nandini. She used to be my roommate back in one of the many days at the biggest prick of a hostel- Kalyan Kendra. Now I know you cannot see her face properly and it doesn't matter because she hates attention of the paparazzi-likes-kind. And I'm definitely one of her much-annoying paparazzos! She is probably gonna kill me for this too. But maybe today shall be exceptional. It is her birthday, after all. Haaappy Birthday!

Since this post began really randomly, I have no idea how to begin adequately or what to say but may be I could start to tell you of her many exceptional qualities:

1. She will tell you like it is...oh,believe me,exactly like it is.
2. She has no hold-ups, emotional or superficial.
3. She loves Bono and Zakir passionately.
4. She loves wild life and Animal Turf.
5. If it's somebody she loves or something she loves, she will guard it more fiercely than a young mother-tigress.
6. She thrives on gossip. She has been known to hang upside down from her bunk bed at the hostel while straining to hear tidbits of shouting-matches between our warden's husband and son, from an open window and with of course, no care for her life.
7. She inspires me! Truly. She can inspire anyone, she's an awesome teacher.
8. She sees through your phoniness.
9. She loves her space and keeping in touch with someone really undermines her unique attitude and style.
10. She pretends to not care but she cares very,very much indeed.
11. She teaches you new bad words, language being no barrier.
12. She can love with unconditional abandon.
13. She is a great room-mate for the most unconventional reasons.
14. She is completely unconventional.
15. She's coolio!
16. She.....Oh well, I could go on and on, let me just say that I love her so very much and I really miss her like hell! Being with her is like being on a consistent trip and always in a very good way.