1. Early mornings are very peaceful, unlike evenings that come with a hollow feeling in the stomach.
2. The electrician and the plumber are important people on the phone list.
3. A good STD plan helps.
4. Post-its are more important than toilet paper in the house.
5. There is a lot of charm in roughing it out.
6. The breeze in the city smells not just of fish, it smells of dreams and hopes.
7. Haji Ali gives the best black and white shots and the sun sets most beautifully at Marine Drive.
8. It’s gratifying to make a sunny bright home out of four cold walls.
9. I’ve stopped relating to a lot of people.
10. And I’ve become something I never was - careful.
11. Somewhere along the line, I also became okay with eating alone.
12. Love the character of Todi, Phoenix, and all these other mills.
13. There’s nothing like three months of rain.
14. I’ve learnt that rebate is not just a word that rhymes with debate.
15. The process of evolution is much faster when you live by yourself.
16. I still have to cross the line from missing my friends feverishly to fondly remembering them.
17. You get very little time to feel or think in this city, in that sense Bombay can be a great escape too.
18. I enjoy being the outsider. It’s liberating.
19. My opinions and feelings are no more rigid, black, or white. They are fluid, like the waves.
20. It’s important to keep in touch with yourself, perhaps through music, books, photography, and writing. Otherwise, the chaos of daily life in the city can swallow you.
21. Wish Blue Frog was less steep, Hard Rock less far, and Zenzi less faffy. Enjoy them anyway.
22. Have two lifelines, two best friends. Also, have a few lovely acquaintances in the city. For a drink, or a chat.
23. Roar of the sea during monsoon is almost deafening, it absorbs all the disturbing sounds.
24. Independent is a highly misunderstood word.
25. I breathe a truly hysteric air.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
25bulletpoints
1. I always use two plastic cups for my coffee at work.
2. I associate songs with people. I associate people with seasons. I associate seasons with moods.
3. I have gone from being overly expressive about my feelings to being painfully guarded. I oscillate between two contrasting zones.
4. I love the 70mm experience. I fall for small eyes. I enjoy watching pigeons. I have a weakness for white flowers. I fear the sound of flowing water.
5. In my growing up years, I wanted to be a professional singer. I now want to be a farmer.
6. There is only one person in my life that I haven’t met, and I still call him a friend.
7. I am dyslexic about paperwork and technology.
8. Catharsis is my favourite word. I don’t believe in religion. There may not be any connection between the two, except my passion for both.
9. The most unusual compliment I ever got was about my shape of my chin.
10. To me, dark rum is my rose with a thorn. It gives me blisters but it makes my day anyway. No I don’t usually drink during the day.
11. I was on Life Saving Drugs for 12 years. Five years ago.
12. I can listen Wish You Were Here by Floyd in loop for days, nights, months. And I love exaggerating. But no, really.
13. I am still nervous getting off a bicycle.
14. I went a zoo on my second date with my boyfriend in school.
15. I am big sucker for art house hindi cinema and have not left a single dvd, cd, video cassette ever. Ek Doctor Ki Maut and Ijaazat are all time favorites.
16. I have extreme love for some of my friends and I truly believe they have rolled over from my past lives.
17. I want to end up living beside an apple orchard. In a small cottage house with picket fences and all that jazz.
18. I think I am pretty good at photography. And no, this is not about self love, I have evidence on my laptop and my walls.
19. I want to be immortal. I can’t fathom the fact that one day all of us will die.
20. I have simple fantasies – like riding through sunflower fields in a cycle.
21. I used to be the black sheep of the family. I’ve turned out to be quite a hero now.
22. I am a sucker for travelling and have an insatiable love for the mountains.
23. As a child, I never played with toys. Make belief cricket, without a ball and bat with my Dad is what I played.
24. My mother once locked me in the bathroom with a hen gifted to us by Dad’s orderly on Eid.
25. My most wonderful Simla memory is being an 8-year old, wearing home knit clothes, going to buy bread from the bakery every morning in winter, balancing my my gum boots in snow.
2. I associate songs with people. I associate people with seasons. I associate seasons with moods.
3. I have gone from being overly expressive about my feelings to being painfully guarded. I oscillate between two contrasting zones.
4. I love the 70mm experience. I fall for small eyes. I enjoy watching pigeons. I have a weakness for white flowers. I fear the sound of flowing water.
5. In my growing up years, I wanted to be a professional singer. I now want to be a farmer.
6. There is only one person in my life that I haven’t met, and I still call him a friend.
7. I am dyslexic about paperwork and technology.
8. Catharsis is my favourite word. I don’t believe in religion. There may not be any connection between the two, except my passion for both.
9. The most unusual compliment I ever got was about my shape of my chin.
10. To me, dark rum is my rose with a thorn. It gives me blisters but it makes my day anyway. No I don’t usually drink during the day.
11. I was on Life Saving Drugs for 12 years. Five years ago.
12. I can listen Wish You Were Here by Floyd in loop for days, nights, months. And I love exaggerating. But no, really.
13. I am still nervous getting off a bicycle.
14. I went a zoo on my second date with my boyfriend in school.
15. I am big sucker for art house hindi cinema and have not left a single dvd, cd, video cassette ever. Ek Doctor Ki Maut and Ijaazat are all time favorites.
16. I have extreme love for some of my friends and I truly believe they have rolled over from my past lives.
17. I want to end up living beside an apple orchard. In a small cottage house with picket fences and all that jazz.
18. I think I am pretty good at photography. And no, this is not about self love, I have evidence on my laptop and my walls.
19. I want to be immortal. I can’t fathom the fact that one day all of us will die.
20. I have simple fantasies – like riding through sunflower fields in a cycle.
21. I used to be the black sheep of the family. I’ve turned out to be quite a hero now.
22. I am a sucker for travelling and have an insatiable love for the mountains.
23. As a child, I never played with toys. Make belief cricket, without a ball and bat with my Dad is what I played.
24. My mother once locked me in the bathroom with a hen gifted to us by Dad’s orderly on Eid.
25. My most wonderful Simla memory is being an 8-year old, wearing home knit clothes, going to buy bread from the bakery every morning in winter, balancing my my gum boots in snow.
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