Remembering a lost word!

In addition to my Every Thing Leads To Youtube theory, i just discovered a corollary called Random Videos Lead To Lost Words.

Guess what word this random video reminded me of.



'पगडंडी'

Who would have thought. A word which i believe has extremely remote chance of appearing in any Hindi speaker's vocabulary. Or why just this, thousands of others too. I am not complaining, just a thought. In evolution i believe.

Nothing gold can stay

"Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay."
--Robert Frost

These beautiful lines could be interpreted in out most pessimism if wanted, eventually fading innocence, love, attachment to anything new. Or they could just describe transient nature of life and it's end. I want to believe it is later that Mr. Frost meant.

Hip hip hippie

I think i am a hippie magnet.No matter where i am I always find one and as we get in to conversation, at the end of it mostly I am few dollars lighter in my pocket! Such rogues some of them.They are sharp I tell ya, they know the bakra when they see one.

Speaking of hippies ...how cool is hippie fashion,the tailored one though.Funny na when actually this fashion was supposed to be non conformist we now have rule books on it.While Hip hugging bell-bottom jeans with fringes and flower patches isn't my cup of tea I dig summery transparent cotton dresses with huge/multiple junk jewellery, cloth bags, funky flat slippers, weird coloured bandannas/scarves, flowers all at once.I can never carry it off I know but anyone who does is my fashion icon. Period.

That said I think I need to rent Taking Woodstock asap.Its been on my watch list since last July.Don't you think Demetri Martin is hilarious in a geeky nerdy kind of way! Let me see if I can find some of his stand ups on youtube. I could find the trailer easily though.

Do you get teary eyed listening to National Anthem. I do. Teary eyed heavy hearted. Even when i was not living away i felt the same.

Quote Unquote

"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops"
---Kurt Vonnegut,Slaughterhouse-Five


What to do, these could only be found in gift section.Don't judge me!!I just collect coasters and mugs..that's it!

And...

i wonder, is it an art to negate..
There are times, i play games
with your thoughts and mine
I say, i tell you things for your good
but i wonder if that is true
Do i bolster my ego by lowering yours
or do i really care for good
Do my words have motives
hidden somewhere in my thoughts
There are times you need to know
there are times i want you to know
I tell you what you did wrong
but i don't know how to make it right

They say it is an art
and i must say i am inept
And you say that is a good start...

Good Start!

What better way to start a new year than few lines of wise men send to me by another wise old man! Dad sent them through mail on the new year to me and my sisters Greeting us with Dear Fellas! There is nothing like dad in a chilled out cool mode!

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice
And to make an end is to make a beginning
--T.S. Eliot (British poet & Noble Laureate)

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
Men's reach must exceed his grasp
else what's a heaven for!
--Lennon

Saal Mubarak!