Shallow Hal

I like the Modern.
I like tall skysrapers, the glow of streetlights and wide roads.
I like a city buzzing with shopping streets and restaurants.
I like trendy clothes, good shoes and the fashion magazines.
I like well groomed people, who dress up well and make themselves look good.
I like having food in an expensive restaurant with the waitors treating you like royalty.
I like living in a house which is big, spacious and has big windows.
I like indulging myself...
...Even if that makes me sound materialistic and shallow.

The dream

I don’t know how I got so lucky.

I don’t know if I have become a better person. I don’t know if God suddenly woke up to all the good karma I had done in my previous life. But someone up there sure did pull some strings for me.

For I haven’t been this happy ever. I have gone through more than 20 years of my life and it all feels like a different era. The world is still as mean. There still are people who are selfish and insensitive. Some friends have gone, the inevitable clash of personalities bearing too much strain on relationships. Some friends have stayed, surviving the rough and the storms. I am still a doof. Nothing much has changed with life as we know it.

Except one. He.

He decided to fill my life with sunshine. He decided I was worth the effort after all. He has made me feel loved. He has shown me a part of myself that i never knew existed. He makes me feel the way I had always wanted to feel about myself. He has made a moron like me fall in love. I never thought it would happen, but it has. I love him. Its the least I can say. And it is the most diminutive expression of emotions that I can allow myself.

I’m living a dream, and I don’t want to wake up!

The one and only

A tribute to a brilliant performer
And the guy who has made me fall in luv with tennis all over again

I've been blessed...

The piece ahead is hardly original, but I just stumbled upon it, and I couldnt have rediscovered it at a better time...

Today, upon a bus, I saw a girl with golden hair
I looked at her and sighed and wished I was as fair.
When suddenly she rose to leave,
I saw her hobble down the aisle.
She had one leg and used a crutch
But as she passed, she passed a smile.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine
I have 2 legs, the world is mine.

I stopped to buy some candy
The lad who sold it had such charm
I talked with him a while, he seemed so very glad
If I were late, it'd do no harm.
And as I left, he said to me,
"I thank you, you've been so kind.
It's nice to talk with folks like you.
You see," he said, "I'm blind."
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I have 2 eyes, the world is mine.

Later while walking down the street,
I saw a child with eyes of blue
She stood and watched the others play
It seemed she knew not what to do.
I stopped a moment and then I said,
"Why don't you join the others, dear?"
She looked ahead without a word.
And then I knew, she couldn't hear.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I have 2 ears, the world is mine.

With feet to take me where I'd go.
With eyes to see the sunset's glow.
With ears to hear what I would know.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I've been blessed indeed, the world is mine.

A few drops of dew

I have been asked the significance of the title of my blog a million times by now. And to all those curious souls who are wondering, my answer is simple: its the meaning of my name! Apart from signifying a constellation of stars ( think astronomy, and think 'nakshatra'), it has another little known connection - a drop of dew!

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf


As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, so this old world is made brighter by the lives of folks like you


Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep


In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf

PS: Thanx Aditya for posting my pic! :)

An End and A Beginning

Hope and faith...
A sermon isnt intended here, just an encapsulation of the time that was, the time that promises to come and the lesson that it has chosen to impart in the only way it can. Anything is possible, be prepared for it. When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, and when there's nothing you can do about it, keep a little hope. And faith too, in yourself and your ability.
Its been a long time since I last posted on this blog. All this while I had been trying hard to come up with something that could make me smile, but it seems this is all I have at the moment...
The year has been drawing to a close. A year that I can best describe as 'an eclectic medley of extremes'! For I have seen the extreme facets of life this year, in sentiments, emotions, luck, society, success, failure, acads, relationships and friendships. Changes happened constantly and the constants kept changing...
I can already hear the footsteps of the New Year... Still have no idea how to welcome it, perhaps in quiet solitude and with a smile. My only resolution this time would be, come what may, have hope and faith...Guess thats one resolution for the keeping[:)]