The Paragraph Tag

I've been tagged by Alex and Gopal to publish the 5th paragraph of page 123 of the book I am currently reading. Thank you people and I am sooo sorry for taking ages to post it. Hope I will be forgiven by you!!! :-)

I also tag: M!, Nautilus, Meera, Lemon and DJ. Hope you will enjoy this:-)))))

The rules of this Tag:
1. Name the person (of course with the link) who tagged you.
2. Describe what you are asked to do, in this case publish 5th paragraph of page 123 of the book you are currently reading. (if the page does not have 5th paragraph, take the last paragraph. And if the book doesn’t have page no. 123, take the last page.)
3. Tag five people.

Well, I am not reading anything right now, but I am posting a paragraph each from two books that are currently lying with me right here right now.

This excerpt below is from a book that has been lying on my desk for long now, and is about a man I quite admire...
'Riders on the Storm –John Densmore'
2nd Para, Page 122

This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end, it hurts to set you free,
But you’ll never follow me,
The end, of laughter and soft lies,
The end of nights we tried to die.

Can you picture what will be, so limitless and free,
desperately in need, of some stranger's hand,
In a desperate land Morrison at his best, or is that him at his worst???? Dunno...

This other one is an excerpt from a book that I picked up from my hotel room in Jaipur last month, 'The Essential Dalai Lama – His important teachings’.

“Of course, if you believe we have only this present life, then at death everything comes to an end. But if you accept the possibility of future lives, then death is just like changing your clothes. The continuity of the mind goes on. However, as we have no idea what the future holds, it is necessary to engage now in practices that will help us then.”

Dalai Lama, always at his best:-))))))))))))

Tagged!

Thank you, M! for tagging me:-)))))))))))
I read this tag on your blog and so wanted to take it myself. And here, I oblige:-) happily :-)))))))))))))))

3 things that scare me
1) Ghost movies
* If at all I’m forced for one, all I do is look sheepishly at the screen … cover my eyes each time I know something disastrous is going to appear… and if required, scream aloud:ppppp*
2) LIZARDS
*the very thought, even in my dreams … they scare the hell out of me.*
3) Death

3 people who make me laugh/smile
*Ummm… nobody makes me laugh! Most funny people are just that!
A few people who do manage to make me smile with their great humour…*
1) Sarah Macdonald in Holy Cow
2) M! in most movie-reviews posted on her blog
3) My dad

3 things I love
1) My ‘wild’ hair :-)))))))))))
2) My Nirvana!!!
3) My self

3 things/kinds I hate
*Hate is too strong an emotion for me, just like love. I don’t indulge in either of them often* But then, there are some things that even God cannot defy…*
1) Insensitive people
2) Inflated egos
3) Pseudo spiritualists

3 things I don't understand
1) Lies
2) Lies
3) Lies
*For everything else, there can be a reason:-)))))))*

3 things on my desk
1) A clay bowl I made and then glazed in my pottery class
2) New year cards given to me by kids at Sshristhi
3) A miniature Taj Mahal
*There’s more, but I’d spare you the knowledge:DDD*

3 things I’m doing right now
1) Running my hands through my hair
2) Pursing my lips
3) Thinking hard


3 things I want to do before I die
1) Renounce all the worldly pleasures and move away to the Himalayas and live the life of an ascetic
2) Indulge in all the worldly pleasures super soon :ppppp
3) Make a few short films... someday

Damn, there’s so much I want to do. I want to learn to paint, visit all the historical places the world over, teach kids, run my own flower boutique, visit Brazil, write the story of my life… there’s so much!
But, then there are times, I crave for nothing!

3 things I can do
1) Be content with myself
2) Get very strong vibes from people
3) Colour my drawings

3 things you should listen to
1) Dance of Kali by Prem Joshua
2) You’re Beautiful
*It still stands as one of my favs*
3) Indian Ocean live in a concert

3 things you should never listen to…
1) People who try to make you say a Yes, when you want to say a NO
2) Your evil side
3) Hard Rock

3 things i'd like to learn
1) Conceptualise my thoughts to be put on a canvas
2) Sway to the toughest of beats
3) The truth about life

3 favorite foods
1) Chinese
2) Breakfast at American Diner’s
3) Aaloo Poori

3 beverages I drink regularly
1) Water, all the time
2) Cold Coffee at home
3) Cappuccino at CCD

3 childhood TV shows
1) Chitrahaar
2) Mahabharat and Ramayan
*an essential in my house then*
3) Spider man

3 childhood books
1) Amar Chitra Katha for all the mythologies
2) Noddy and Naughty Amelia Jane by Enid Blyton
3) Nancy Drew *my fav, as a child* and The Three Musketeers

My blog buddies, you are all tagged! It’s a fun thing, these tags. I often go down in a slumber and every time I take one of these, I wake up somewhat to life:-))))
Here’s your chance… go for it:-)

So long…

It’s so tough for me to say Goodbyes. It’s painful!
It feels horrible to have things that make up your world , go away.
And it hurts to see them hurt.

My car got bashed last night. It's almost died.

Thank you for being SO SO wonderful to me and being with me all these years!

Raindrops keep falling on my head:-)

Delhi feels nice. It has been raining! And I am in love with those tiny droplets falling straight form the heavens and spreading ripples of love and joy. It’s beautiful! The pitter-patter and the sweet chill that makes you want to snuggle up to someone in your quilt and gaze out at the rain from your window.

The other day at Dilli Haat, I wanted to hold an umbrella and move around in the rain and enjoy the fresh downpour. I wanted to jump into puddles and send water splashing at my friends. I wanted to run around in the fresh breeze and be chased by them for dirtying their clothes. But I was made to stand under a shed like a louse and sip that hot coffee so that I don’t fall sick. How very boring! :(((

I know winters are still on, but what the heck! I love it when it pours:-)))))

Shine on YOU crazy diamond :-)

Nopes, I am not going to be writing about this track by Pink Floyd:D
Though it does kinda remind me of someone I quite like:ppp. But that could wait for now:D

There are other things to be written about. And here I am with absolutely NO TIME!!! :(

I am SO dying to say, SHINE ON you crazy Diamond:-)
We are back in business and I want you to know, I love you:-)

More later...

My dreams are dead!

I think I killed them,
Or maybe they died a natural death.
Did they commit suicide?
Perhaps!

I search within,
Not a sight
Nor a word from them.

I am glad they are dead,
Those demons!
Some were beautiful.

Life is a wonderfulcoaster!

(Wrote this few months ago, but this seems to be the appropriate time to post it. And here it goes... )

I always thought my life was incomplete and something was amiss. I was always searching….searching for a purpose, a reason, perhaps to live, love or die.

I did not know that the real joy lies in holding the reins of your life in your own hands. We just revel in being swayed by the flow of the stream where it takes us and believe that is our destiny.

Not doing anything about our incompleteness and the voids that exist……we turn into these vulnerable beings; anyone can fill the voids with their truth and their lies, with real and illusions of eternal love, bonding and life.

Ignorance vanishes when knowledge arrives.
And when it does…..it takes you by a serious surprise!!!

Well, it’s important to let go, to let loose, to free all that binds you and your soul!

There will be spaces, but you must learn to fill them up quickly. It’s important to be in constant motion. We need to end the cycles that we are done with, to start new beginnings that give us bigger lessons and even greater joys.

Life is an experience and we are set out on a journey......everything that goes by, is a means to an end.

But nah....there is no end....there is just you!!! And you are the end!

And to all you wonderful ends..... I wish you great beginnings, new lessons, happier times and wonderful new joys :-)

God bless:-)