The Truth!

Haha! Love it!
:)
Why do we voluntarily sign up for these things!?!
Theres a reason 1,2,3 & 4 top this list!! 
Word.

Our Time.

With every passing day I believe even more firmly that it is so important to live in the moment!
The fragility of this life overwhelms me!
There's no telling what will happen, where, when, how or, most irritatingly- WHY!
But one thing's for certain-
We can spend our minutes meticulously planning our moves,
but life- with its strange sense of humour- will not stop pulling the surprises (good or bad) it's kept in store for us.
I just know this-
(and I don't care how many time's it's been said before, because I'm still going to say it now! For me!)
It's time to pay attention. 
It's time to be happy to be alive.
It's time to be thankful for the friends and family that I have.
It's time to stop taking things for granted.
It's time to live the moment (this very one!- with words flowing from my fingertips, being sung by my soul, with barely a thought!) 
and take it in
and love it.
It's time to value that very thing- time.
We have it! 
Don't clock it. Live it.
It's time!
Our time.

'The Catcher in the Rye' Effect

Catcher in the Rye- The title itself comes from the lead character, Holden Caulfield, mistakenly thinking that the Scottish Ballad, (or originally poem, “Comin’ thro’ the rye” by Robert Burns) in fact had lyrics which went “Should a body catch a body, coming through the rye”. Whereas, the actual lyrics were, “Should a body meet a body, coming through the rye.”

Written in the distinct dialect of the youth in America back in the 1950s, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D. Salinger, captures life as seen and experienced by its anti-hero, Holden Caulfield.

The story is a narrative in the first person, as told by Holden himself. From start to finish it envelops the reader in the, more often than not, downs than ups of his existence.

It definitely does not make for very easy reading, but in a way that’s where I found the interest and intrigue to lie.

A young boy in conflict with practically every emotion he feels or person he encounters, endlessly searching for anything that isn’t, what he calls, “phony”.

This is an extremely thought-provoking read, and it makes you wonder about so many different things. Things we probably often think about, in a fleeting moment and then pay no attention to, offering our easy disregard instead.

It makes you wonder about ourselves- as human beings.

Are we all show-pieces, constantly show-casing ourselves?

Bordering on corny fakeness?

Are we all just living, unconsciously, for the occasional tender moments we spend with the people we truly love?

What do we really think of God and different religions? Really.

Holden, as he engages you in incidents that occur or have occurred as a result of the, often hasty, decisions he makes, opens a window to the world of a person on the verge of depression. It illustrates, in a way, the strength of our humaneness despite the state of mind or body we may be suffering through. And above all, it provides a sense of comfort to read and see that in all our loneliness and in all the rejection we may have to face from the world, there will still be people who care. Good people we love, who will love us back. We must always keep them close, because when our world falls apart, they hold the power to make it, if not entirely, partially whole again.

*Incidentally I’m on a John Mayer high (with the new album and all) and one of the latest songs by him is “war of my life”. It just struck a chord (literally) considering I was reading this particular book. Give it a listen! Good stuff.

One Month to go!

With a Month till Christmas, 
I can already feel the yuletide
cheer in the air!

Home today, in fact, was full of 
dance and song and laughter 
and carols at the piano!

Plans with the family and friends, 
coming in from cities and countries all over,
have started taking shape!

And it's so hard to concentrate on the things 
that really need to be done right now! 
(Design submissions to be precise)

I love Christmas!

There's an undeniable magic in the air, 
this time of year. 
Wherever you are. 

Whether its lying in the snow making 
snow-angels of a white Christmas, 
or on a beach somewhere on the Indian 
west-coast watching fireworks, 
or at home after mid-night mass- sipping wine 
and nibbling at multi-coloured marzipan or 
like the song says... Somewhere down in Africa. 
It's Christmas the world over.

Peace on earth! Good will to men!

I'm loving The Circle

Bon Jovi. Enough Said.


What would you say to me?
If I told you I had a dream
If I told you everything
Would you tell me to go back to sleep
Take a look in these tired eyes
They're coming back to life
I know I can change
Got hope in my veins
I'm telling you I ain't going back to the pain

Can I be happy now?
Can I let my breath out?
Let me believe
I'm building a dream
Don't try to drag me down
I just want to scream out loud
Can I be happy now?
Been down on my knees
I learned how to bleed
I'm turnin’ my world around

Can I be happy now?
Can I break free somehow?
I just want to live again
Love again
Pick my pride up off of the ground
I'm ready to pick a fight
Crawl out of the dark to shine a light
I ain't throwing stones
Got sins of my own
Ain't everybody just trying to find a way home?

Can I be happy now?
Can I let my breath out?
Let me believe
I'm building a dream
Don't try to drag me down
I just want to scream out loud
Can I be happy now?
Been down on my knees
I learned how to bleed
I'm turning my world around

You're born then you die
It’s all gone in a minute
I ain't looking back
Cause I don't want to miss it
You better live now
Cause no one's going to get out alive, alive

Can I be happy now?
Can I let my breath out?
Let me believe
I'm building a dream
Don't try to drag me down
I just want to scream out loud
Can I be happy now?
Been down on my knees
I learned how to bleed
I'm turning my world around
Can I be happy now?
Ohhhh
I'm turning my world around
Can I be happy now?

Tweetheart!

Haha! I just replied to a John Mayer tweet!...I called him a Rumour Starter! Cheap thrills at their best, huh!
So, I'm totally new to Twitter. 
I don't have much of an opinion about it actually. It's different with Facebook though; we've had time to bond.
I just recently logged on to Twitter (after ages) and the first thought through my mind was, 'ok. Glorified status updating and no one to care because I don't have too many followers.'  The few friends I was following before I never went back, a while ago, obviously didn't have much they wanted to tweet about... 
Then I decided to go against all my Bon Jovi principles and follow some celebrities. 
(We weren't born to follow right?...)
wrong!
Of course I'm like every other fan out there who wants the likes of John Mayer and Oprah on my list! duh!
Now what?
I suppose for celebrities its cool. Any publicity is good publicity right?
Especially if your fans think it's coming straight from your fingertips. That makes me wonder...
How many of those high rollers have friends or colleagues or employees tweeting for them? Sheesh... what suckers we are for the famous. I'm not going to be hypocritical and say.. yeah right! who gives a sh*t about John Mayer man! hello? I do! (He's very hot!)
And yes, my small little interesting-in-its-own-way life will still go on if he doesn't Re-tweet (I'm getting in with the lingo!) me... But you can be sure I'll be blogging Bazooka(with a capital "B")-like if he does! haha! watch for it! ;) until then, 
I must get back and pacify FB; I'm no two-timer you see... not unless... 
John?

Quoting the Great Fitzgerald

I just recently finished reading 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott. Fitzgerald and this was a read I thoroughly enjoyed, start to finish. For many reasons, this makes the list of books I'd recommend. [Not that I'm particularly fit to recommend because I'm definitely not the most seasoned reader around! But, I know what I like. And since I consider myself the average, ordinary, every-day book lover, I'm OK to recommend, I think! :)] so yeah! All that and, it happens to be considered one of the greatest American novels. Amongst those reasons are the fact that the story is pretty well drawn out, maybe a little too coincidental but it keeps you gripped all the same, the characters are very interestingly thought of and portrayed and above all, the English this book is written in is divine! A total treat to anyone who prefers calling a serviette a serviette, if you know what I mean. You probably don't [unless you've hung around me often enough]; but I'm not here to do a book review.
As I went through the story, I came across a whole lot of sentences or quotes or random statements or call-them-what-you-wills that Fitzgerald, I thought, did extremely well to concoct. The ease with which he creatively explains different circumstances and emotions his characters experience with immaculate articulate clarity had me wishing I could think straight enough to write like that someday. So, I felt the need to have these lines that meant something the moment I read them all in one place and so in my usual fashion, I made a list- a list of the ones I loved. Let them mean what they will to you! Here goes...


1] "I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."


2] "I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' this isn't just an epigram- life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all."


3] "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."


4] "Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men."


5] "In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year....Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it."


6] "It takes two to make an accident."


7] "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."


8] "It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment."


9] "Can't repeat the past?…Why of course you can!"


10] "There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind"


11] "Let us learn to show friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."


12] "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning-"


13] "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."