Wednesday, April 30, 2008

9-5ers------------sui generis

day 1
join the bandwagon:
a ten minute walk from V.T to churchgate accross azad maidan a 7 minute smoke...a 1000 other 9-5ers..marching to auschwitz are we??
i went to my first ever corporate meeting.clad in formal clothes[not to forget the discomfort it causes] and marching up to the plush office armed with notepad and pen,i promised myself to pay attention unlike in a classroom,not go to sleep.
but i should've known what fate had in store for me.Miss I-know-it-all rambled like she got paid per word she uttered and stuttered about everything she ever knew, and me,instead of listening to her,indulged in an another activity..watching
what i watched at my first ever corporate meeting:
  • how MNC's blow trivial things way out of proportion
  • how they air condition their offices and upholster couches to match their walls and have coffee vending machine for their creative staff.
  • how the so-called-managers not manage to find anything sent to them,mails,posts,etc
  • how they gesticulate and ramble on like the leaning tower of Pisa may crash if they don't
  • how watching the setting sun reflect from their glass paned windows sounds a 100 fold interesting as compared to the nonsensical puking of phrases an d idioms straight out of 'how to make friends in 45 days'.
  • the bottleneck traffic seems like an escape!

[thank god for jack johnson and a profound acrobatic ability every mumabikar evolves to master-hanging out of the train]

Sunday, April 27, 2008

WISHED MY FATE...

part 1: the luminous monolouges

She stood there,watching her reflection with a hint of curiosity, her Brown eyes had an intense luminosity in it.her bronzed skin perfect around her cheek bones and pink full mouth...her hair tied in a knot up on her head.

she was luminous.she was fire itself

the wooden walls and floor of the attic room seemed to grow smaller with each passing day.the lone yellow bulb igniting a yellow glow around the peeling walls.....
absent minded her hands roving around her belly, her stomach deliberately arched forward,she tried to pass compassion to her unborn child...

Kira azar closed her eyes and mouth slowly what she believed in since she was a child

careful what you wish for

for wishes come true

careful what you wish for,

for me and for you

as a child she always saw her self fit perfectly in a white picket fence dream...a doting husband,two children a pet dog and afternoons filled with knitting baking and television.

but as she grew up she conveniently forgot all about it and got carrier oriented.she scaled upward in college with straight A's.but somewhere in her subconscious she still cherished her dream..he childhood wish.

but now here she was, with an unborn child [courtesy: a drunken night fling which she NEVER indulged in before], a ruined carrier that couldn't take a nine month pause,a to-be-single-lonesome-unemployed-mother.she was still calm...still not surrendered to this twist of fate...not given up on her white picket fence dream...

She was wondering now if the baby was picking up her thoughts and would they affect the baby's psyche and screw the bastard up.how easily she had mouthed the word bastard, when she was at her uncouth-sailor-mouthed best..and how that would hold true for her unborn child now on.she wondered about herself as a foetus in her mother's womb...what thoughts did she have then?was her fate decided when she was her foetus.

she wondered what sex the baby was going to be?what would she name it? her name meant fire ...kira...was the sun in persian..azar..her father...9th month in the irani calendar meant fire...a boy would be Kenneth...born of fire...a girl would be Fiamma...oh how trivial and petty she was being...what difference it made..a bastardized child has no name other than that.

she remembered the father vaguely...she wanted to look for him,go a-hunting.she knew they were of a different race..he was caucasian with icy blue eyes...over 6 feet tall.but her mind alternated debated and drove her mad in an attempt to save her child from the societal bastardization...a hundred thoughts swam in her brain,a hundred apprehensions..she felt dizzy morning sickness came an overwhelming way.thats when she heard a thudding soft knock on the door...

part 2: a twist of fate

dizzy she walked towards the door opened...a wave of shock came over her and she collapsed in the arms of the stranger...

when she woke...she looked at him...flashes from the drunken night coming back...she was at the bar...the handomest young man she had seen...airy was his aura...blue were his eyes...they matched those of the stranger in whose arms she now lay...and afer an eternally forver minute of gaping at him in amusement they exchanged words..not from a drunken high mouth...but y twist of fate... from 2 people who were going to have a baby...

he told her that night was an unforgettable one for him...he looked for her evrywhere for the last two months..and he wanted to find her so bad..to spend the rest of his life with her...

she told him about the baby...he was more than thrilled..he made love to her so gently that she would've set the room on fire and he would have fanned it,let it glow,let it burn brightly in his love...

she finally asked him what was thinking when they first met... and he said ''here is one woman who cannot compensate for a million others..i wish i could be tied to her eternally..a bond be made that is unbreakable...

a smile played on her face...she looked in to his eyes and said

careful what you wish for
for wishes come true
careful what you wish for,
for me and for you....

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Reminiscence of long time back,an eon and a half ago...

[found this on a (s)crap of paper..from around a year back.so that means post T.Y.you can imagine no?hehe]
Adrenaline diaries
22.30: 2nd april 2007
A strange day a strange night
To start your diaries
I lay there satisfied, staring at the horizon that was blocked by a four storeyed apartment block, my mind oblivious to the vortices that were coming to fetch me
I can foresee the storm, but choose to numb myself to it
I settle down with a college-mess-style-breakfast for dinner today
Toasted cheese garlic peppered bread with piping hot coffee…piping? No, scalding!
That is how I like mine.
Well, not very favorable for somehow who puts on weight by merely looking at food, but anyways exceptions can be made I guess on days like these...
like today, a classic example of a climax, in a satisfied sense
I probably would have jumped off the train or shot myself today
Not to kill myself…but to pump up some adrenaline into my defunct grey cells
The wind so tempting, beckons you
Adrenaline wanted desperately
I wake to the sound of music my eyelids a level tired, my body in lumps.
But the day ends with a grin, outcome not cared for please note.
A compound of inaudible happy memories sets in to conclude this non-'pms'y day.hehe

16:50 3rd april 2007
Talking, it helps but doesn’t give satisfaction, just the mandatory I-updated-my-world
My world …my friends, my family, some acquaintances on the brink of friendship, some friends on inertia of denial, some depressed some happy some content..where am i?? where am i??

A couple of days later…
11.30 am
Hmmnn adrenaline encountered again…but today it was anger…at the society, at my world, for living according to my fancies
It rushed and gushed in the form of whining and complaints, dejections resurfacing, not affecting any one but me


Fast forward by a month or so….11.40 am
I really hoped a month ago satisfaction would set in…but to no avail
Fate… very surreptitiously takes away what you deserve...all I asked was mere satisfaction
Or maybe in a positive light this was awakening to reality…to a not-a cakewalk-thou -life –is kind of reality

09:20 some more days later
End of an era
It’s strange how your life can change overnight…with the blink of an eye the party is gone…migrated to a better place…all you can see instead of the festivities and the lights is the silent deserts and the mournful setting sun that is inherent in a situation like this…
Your paths may never cross again, ever; with the people you shared a laugh with, a silent prayer or anxiety for 5 wholesome years…all is gone with the blink of an eye
These probably were the best days of my life. My past I do not care about…my future very strangely looks bleak now…some of them triumphant some did not, for some like me defeat was inevitable thing to happen.
It probably is me and me alone now…I can fantasize about mountaineering trips id love to take to the Himalayas, or go sailing across the Atlantic maybe backpacking across Europe[throw your head back and laugh], Europe the correct amount of wilderness and the wild…or I could land with a thud into reality and wake to nothing but incessant nonchalant gaping sessions and long lonely walks by the highway, watching the trucks and trailers speed away, not waiting to make a difference in my life… like a lot of other people one would wait for an eternity.
The storm has passed its aftermath yet to come… hoping that this is a passing phase that will pass quicker than it should …

a continuum between holidays,wastedness and the summer of 2007
10.40 pm
Sloth is a tricky word they say…it could possibly describe a walk around a lake lit by the setting sun and surrounded by woods; it could be lying on the bed and staring at the ceiling perspiring on a lazy summer afternoon or gorge on roasted chicken and wonder when will you start losing weight. Whew!!!!

14:10, still deeper into the wasted period
Everyday, from the time we wake to the time our head hits the pillow; it is filled with questions… some whose answers are known and yet you are too terrified to admit to it… some have been there for an eternity, some spell inscrutability of the future, some ambiguity of the past. There are hardly days were one has a clear happy head devoid of all hurt deception and rituals…


18:10, a retrospect :
As I sat and watched the sky from faraway on a cement parapet sipping gingered tea, I watched silly little kids trying hard to play!! In little dresses in pink and blue with stilletos to match, they were flaunting to each other their music cds and a new computer game installed on their computer or a new smutty step they learned at dance class today!!!
I sat there and watched them for 15 whole minutes without missing a single piece of their conversations too 17 year oldish to handle for 7 years old brains.
And those made me pity them and laugh at their parents who brought them into this premature world
I thought of my childhood memories…there was nothing in there but innocence, happiness carefree untamed wild escapades…with children ignorant about age, sex, caste, wealth…there were days when we would run wild in the fields with a wheeled fan, eat candy floss, roadside ice-cream, chase dragonflies, tie up roman the mad dog, climb guava trees and a million other insane things,
I want those days, those overalls-and-wild curly bronzed hair days [where insanity was not what it meant] back!!!!!

**************** end of wastedness..post graduation begins..or so i thought..***************

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

MY HEAD N ME

23 days n 23 hours later i saw the going of my moody blues
1 word reverberating in my head-holiday!!
i'll carry my wallet, my gloves, and my trekking shoes
i'll fly with you to wherever you say

i'll come and watch the beckoning grey sea
i'll sink my toes in the grainy soft sand
i'll let the breeze caress and waft past me
i'll watch the crimsoned horizon from the edge of the land.

i'll hike with you to a snow-capped mountain
& not care about the lack of electricity
you and me, we'll dine under a luminous lantern
& forget all about modernization and life in the city

i'll travel the world or just its half
roam the streets of Spain, Luxembourg and Italy[!!!!]
be drunk on happiness,chatter and like children laugh
& not care of being childish or silly

ill come with you to wherever you say
from the cliff to the sea we'll plummet
ill come with you on a holiday
we'll watch angel voiced street performers with his flute and clarinet

ill come with you to wherever you say
ill come with you on a holiday
ill come with you to wherever you say
ill come with you on a holiday

Monday, April 14, 2008

STOLEN GLANCES FROM THE FORBIDDEN'S JOURNAL...

I could just slit my wrist

and watch myself die.

flashes of memories both good and bad would summarize my life in a gist

and in the little time left i could wonder who will miss me and cry.

Or i could just down some poison

and ascend from all perdition.

I'd let iciness creep in and let my face ashen

and end this journey of damnation.

i could glance out at the stream from a speeding train

its beckoning waters reflecting the electrified evening blue sky

jumping off would be a short burst of adrenaline and forever the end of my pain

there would be no more to cry and no more to lie.

another solution could be the cold metal .45,

a click, a last breath, and on the walls a splatter of brain

with the angel of death I'll have my last jive

no more eccentricities,childishness and worries to be slain.

Ironically, the lack of bravery for a cowardly act like this

which in it's mysteriousness promises bliss,

has stopped me from turning to the slit, the gulp, the click or the jump

helpless now sets in choking my tears and leaving in my throat a fist-sized lump.

i hear voices in my head saying its the hormones or the legendary PMS

honestly, i couldn't care less... i couldn't care less...

Sunday, April 6, 2008

THE RAINY REDEMPTION

from my little window
it pilfered all the sunlight
power and authority it tried to show
driving me to bend to its might
the prison with one window I'd once loved to call home
but now like a penniless vagabond i wish to roam.

so i ran out bare feet with all the vigour
my last attempt to break free
trying to wipe out memories of disdain and its trigger
my last attempt to be me

so i ran till i was short of breath
dirt and grime clung to my sweaty face
looking up at the grey sky,I looked for the angel of death
if he'll behold me in his sweet embrace

but all i saw was a flash of light
and quickly following the flash it descended
the sky now an orange tint of the night
just for me it came, or so it pretended

blinding sheets of silvered rain!
and i absorbed every drop of it
as i stood still drenched in my pain.
i watched it as it hung to the tip of my nose
it spiralled down my hair and clung to my body so close

with arms wide open i looked heavenward
grateful for the watery blizzard
it did flow through my body like balm and morphine
that i needed in all these years,counting to a nineteen

i was drained n spent and spent and drained
for I'd been standing all along as it rained
and then i fell to my knees
i sobbed i wept and i cried
to whom i don't know, but i prayed begging please
till all my tears were spent and my eyes felt dry

finally i stood up and walked towards my now windowless prison
were id spent and will be spending the other summer and winter seasons
reminiscing about those heaven sent sheets of silver rain
that had blend with my sweat and tears and left me drained
maybe it already reached the city sewer through the gutters
but every night a thank you to it my lips will stutter!

Friday, April 4, 2008

The Wonder Years

A hundred thoughts a hundred reasons
A hundred shots a hundred seasons
we've fallen into murky pits
and crawled through yards of shit
and emerged winners
and also some dopers, smokers and sinners
A hundred trophies a hundred regrets
A hundred coffees and a hundred cigarattes