Is this the end...

Wish you smiles all through 2008:-)

2007 is gone. It was exactly as my forecast on Cainer described it:

Comet McNaught may this year, live right up to its name and bring you plenty of nothing. Much, at the end of the year, may remain as it was at the beginning - in the physical sense. In between the two times, though, you look set to be taken on one heck of a journey during which major attitudes alter for evermore.

I am glad I lived through 2007. Yes, my status quo is the same. Nothing has changed. Absolutely nothing! It was not one of those drastic years where everything goes topsy-turvy and you are lost amidst too much. It was also not one of those years where things hit you with a bang and you are open to some crazy realizations that challenge your beliefs. It was not about surviving a life altering experience but settling in to a somewhat altered domain that was thrust on to you from somewhere, somehow. It was about realizing the spaces, wondering about their vastness, filling them up in a mad rush, and then abhorring it all. It was about moving away, only to socialize with the self. It was about re-examining the filled-up spaces, realizing the sin of indulging in excess and depriving others in need. It was about a sudden mad desire to wipe off everything so that it could be filled up with beauty. It was all about filling up the bottle and then emptying it!

I feel nice about starting a new year. I have a few resolutions. I am working on them:-)

I wish everyone a grand 2008. If you are looking for any kind of change, I feel you can achieve it!

Love,

Me:-)

Limbo...

There have been no new experiences, no indulgence in interesting activities, nothing to talk about really. I have learnt nothing new. I did read a book and a statement in it captured all my attention.
‘Will is Force’

Force reminds me of Newton, always!

According to his first law of motion:
Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.

Hell, I need a will to change. And I don’t get it!

Mom on her wedding day!

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,
in life after life, in age after age forever.
~Rabindranath Tagore~

Tag – Few random facts and crazy habits

M! Tagged with me the comment, Iris – I love reading her answers and just so that I can see a new post up on her blog. Awwww… now when someone tags you with such sweet comments, you cannot sit back and continue to be a louse. So, here...

Tag Rules
1) Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
2) People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.
3) At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and include their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment and
4) If you fail to do this within eight hours, you will have to acknowledge Quicksilver as the Queen of the Universe (*I already did, and now it's your turn guys*)

**************************************************************************************************************************** 1) Black - That’s my colour. You will mostly find me dressed in black tees. If I wear anything drastically different, I feel like an alien walking around. White and red come next. My wardrobe is mostly limited to these three colours.

2) You will never see my nails painted. They can’t breathe with paint on!

3) I get obsessed with things (Thank God! Not people :-), especially with things to eat and do. I indulge like crazy. Once, I’ve had enough, I don’t look back.

4) I like to keep my arms covered. You will spot me in full sleeves, always. I feel more feminine. (Dunno, if that works as an excuse:p)

5) I like symmetry. Distorted shapes/designs/colours disturb me. I can’t sleep on a bed that has either dark-coloured bed sheets or cluttered patterns on them.

6) I have a bit of night-blindness (or so I think:D). So sit in my car in the nights at your own risk:D.

7) Whenever I go shopping, I always have a problem deciding between two things. I just get stuck and make everyone go mad… till I am made to buy both:D

8) I don’t really believe in 'A' soul-mate. But there are some people I meet just once, and I know I like them immensely. I speak to these people with all my heart and I know they understnad me.

Okay now, @tom, Ish, sai, Gopal, Alex, Lemon, DJ and Shalu... you guys need to sit down right away and chalk down this list. You may feel nice after you are done, just like I am right now:-)))))))))) Thanks M!

Tag - Thinking Blogger Award

Okay, so I agree! High time we had some kind of awards for WE, the poor bloggers who spend endless hours raving and ranting about the never-ending miseries that strike our otherwise frikkin torturous lives.

Yes WE, the bloggers spend unbelievable hours to glorify all our deeds and bring about a holier than thou image when we are only monsters in the making.

And yes, it is also WE, the same set who is blessed with prodigies (and not to forget the ones in the making) who can express their inner beauty with an ease that is as natural as the flow of a river. These are the ones who reflect their revolutionary ideas with electricity that jolts the dormant cells in your brain, who express honest concerns in the nudest of their forms that shames you for ignorance, and who share their child-like innocent thoughts with a beauty that wrenches your heart and pleases your soul.

So, ladies and gentlemen, all this effort and talk is not in vain.
DJ tagged me with the Thinking Blogger Award.
He sure is Kind! And I know you agree:-)

And hell, I am pleased and I feel honored but I am also wondering… Do I ever think? ummm… at all?
I’ll be honest. Oh! I like being honest, you know.

Nothing, absolutely nothing hits my head. It’s blank! Thoughts don’t come easy and yes, I need the jolts that would pain me enough to wipe off the fungus and let me grow.

As luck would have it, I do get blessed occasionally with people who sprinkle their magic and charm on me and I feel renewed. And I want to thank these magicians who touch souls with their gestures, their thoughts and their being.

• M! (You top the list and I hope you know that already.And yep, you are the best Queen of the Universe:D:-)
• Josh (Let me know when you are in Delhi)
• Priya (You know, you do stir up the soul!)
• Jyotsana (Your warmth radiates even in your posts)
• Ah! yes, Ashwini

Yep, these and many other wonderful people I READ... in this space, do manage to make me THINK (Yep, a big task this one:-) in their own unique ways.

Thanks! I read you and I grow:-)

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The Thinking Blogger Award rules: This award was started here. You have to award five others whose blog you think deserve this award. Please make sure you pass this list of rules to the blogs you are tagging.
The participation rules:

If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.

Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.

Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote.

Please, remember to tag blogs with real merits, i.e. relative content, and above all — blogs that really get you thinking!

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:-))))))))))))