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!)

Beneath a Marble Sky

I'm reading one of the most mesmerizing books, Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors. It's been a while since I've read a book that I want to savour pleasantly rather than devour till I reach the end. I mean, the last fantastic series I read was the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer and that's more of a page-turner and something that you'd wanna get to the end of, than read slowly. But Marble Sky is so awesome and it's like a yummy Indian flavour that you would just want to relish. It's a fictional story about one of Shah Jahan's daughters, Jahanara who falls in love with the principal architect, Isa, working on the Taj Mahal (one of the most beautiful and awesome architectural wonders of the world). The book is so picturesque and as you read the words, the pictures automatically appear in your mind. It is based on history so there are some interesting facts and Shors has really woven the entire piece beautifully. But like I said before, I haven't yet gotten to the end because I'm savouring each taste as I read it slowly. But pick up a copy, and I think after reading the book, it shall make one's actual experience of the Taj Mahal even more special when they finally see it. I've always wanted to go to Agra to see the Taj but I'm glad I'm reading the book first because it'll definitely hold special for me when I do get the chance to see it in all its pristine glory.
So go ahead, pick a copy when you can, it's guaranteed to make you fall in love with the book, with its characters and the author for writing it so splendidly... A must-read for all kinds of book-lovers, lovers of art and history, too.