Thursday, October 26, 2017
I forgot to make a door
Sunday, October 22, 2017
The heart wants what it wants
I haven't washed my hair; it's been seven days. Last I washed my face with some thing other than just plain water - some sort of soap - was some days ago. The soles of my feet are black and dirty - an uncanny resemblance to my soul perhaps, who knows. I have been wearing the same t-shirt since... over a week now. I haven't put on any fresh clothing since then, except for when I go to work during the day - sane enough (yet) to adhere to social standards of upkeep.
And yet the outside world is of the idea that I live a close to perfect life. Now that's some achievement.
Or is it?
The fire that burns within and keeps us alive, is dead inside me. It's now a pile of ash - it might have taken everything with it. There could be an ember hidden under that pile somewhere, dying but not dead yet. Or there could be nothing. A part of me hopes it's not nothing - while the other, well, the other doesn't give a damn.
What does my heart want? And why won't it speak to me in a goddamn proper syntax? Beats me.
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Fine tuning
*sighs*
Attune yourself to hurt, me love. And everything shall be fine in no time. I know.
... *smiles*
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Monologues from a dreary afternoon
Woe to you my precious, for what are you if not a boulderstone?
Saturday, November 23, 2013
With apologies to Allama Iqbal
Sighs.
One verse I love quoting out of its original context.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Monday, November 11, 2013
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Thursday, October 31, 2013
The battles within.
I'm not, almost never, in a position to raise a finger at anyone, whatsoever.
My actions might very well as well be far more objectionable.
Sighs.
... I'm not proud of whatever I've become.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
Monday, October 14, 2013
Of Techno City, depression and Kat baby's legs...
I don't want to be depressed.
It's so not me.
Since when did I start letting things bother me yaar...
I've become so brittle.
Sighs. Choro.
French braid banao, chalo.
Aaaye haaye!
Teil tou lagga liya karo.
*empties a tin of Sasso over head*
Thodi Thodi depression tou aati jaati hai na... Some tend to stay longer than others.
Some even stick with us for our whole life.
We can't do anything about that...
And jis tarah ke hum hain built... You know... The type who are usually always backward looking and who hold on to the past. Tend to feel more depression...
But then automatically, we also find the good fuzzy memories in the past too, which bring us a smile...
The idea is to deal with our depression our own way... Even if it means watching Kat's legs!
(...)
I just... I don't know. I can't seem to locate (and access the cache holding) good fuzzy moments in the past.
I wish I at least had that ability.
You do have that abillity. I guess bad natually always has a greater influence than good. So we can't help that. But just cause you can't locate or remember them, doesn't mean they aren't there.
Acha sunu.
Chalo.
Kahan Chalain?
Techno City... Quad core lainay!
No Techno City, too much garmi man. What is wrong with you!?
We go techno when it - rains.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Friday, October 11, 2013
Kuj onj vi raahvaa'n okhiyaa'n san
...
Kuj gal vich ghamaa'n da touq vi si...
Kuj saajan kasar na chori si
Kuj zehr raqeebaa'n ghol dita...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Working from home
Monday, October 7, 2013
Let's be honest
You don't need a friend, a lover, a healer.
You need an attendant.
Sighs.
... Where do we find you an attendant?
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Tu mere safar ka shareek hai - Nahin humsafar!
... Yeh jo raig-e-dasht-e-firaq hai
Mere raastoun mein bichhi huwi
Kisi morr per rukay kahin
Yeh jo raat hai mere chaar suu
Magar iski koi sehar nahin
Na chha'oun hai na samar koi
Meine chaan dekha shajar shajar
Mere charagar...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Monday, September 30, 2013
Umr ki raftaar...
Dar se uthte hain tou, diwaar se lagg jaate hain
Ishq aaghaz mein halki si khalish rakhta hai
Baad mein sainkrroun aazaar se lagg jaate hain
Pehle pehle hawwas ik aadh dukaan khoulti hai
Phir tou bazaar k bazaar se lagg jaate hain
Be-bassi bhi kabhi qurbat ka sabab banti hai
Ro na pa’ain tou galay yaar se lagg jaate hain
Katranain gham ki jo galiyoun mein urri phirti hain
Ghar mein lay aao tou anbaar se lagg jaate hain
Daag daaman ke hon, dil ke hon, ke chehre ke Faraz
Kuch nishaan umr ki raftaar se lagg jaate hain
Thursday, September 26, 2013
I don't usually dream
I felt a rainbow and a lone butterfly inside my stomach. I felt a little scared too. I didn't want my eyes to close, and my mind to sleep and wake up the next day to the same miseries.
I dreamed for myself last night.
But last night, I didn't feel well. I kept having this sinking feeling, my body ached and I tossed and turned. For a moment, I thought I might not see another day. Like the reaper was somewhere near me, around me.
Can dreaming end up in something so morbid?
-
I am scared. I'm walking down a tunnel and I can suddenly see a light at the end; and it's... It's frightening me.
The 'what-if's' are tearing me apart.
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Saturday, September 14, 2013
In a loop
You know what's the hardest phase of grief, don't you?
It's that part, when something horrific happens and you...
You run it over and over again, inside your head, like a video in a loop - trying to register it with your brains. Trying, and failing. Trying again; failing again.
With every try, it hurts. It hurts harder; it hurts deeper.
With every replay, you relive the horror.
With every moment you relive, a hundredth of the reality registers with you - acceptance. A sharp pang sinks into your existence.
On the count of hundred, you come to terms with what ever happened - and numbness follows.
Quiet. An eerie quiet, is all you hear.
It doesn't hurt anymore.
It haunts.
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Zara Dair Mein Ufaq Pe
-Parveen Shakir
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Monday, July 29, 2013
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Of hope and paralysis
'I don't want her living off hope.'
'There are worse things.''You're wrong!
Bad news stops us for a while, but then you move on. Hope - is paralysing.'
(Criminal Minds)
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Monday, July 15, 2013
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Monday, July 8, 2013
Early monday mornings
I feel weird.
And in another story: I've realised that the tiniest variation in the tone, and smallest gestures, or their absence, gets to me.
It's the bloody expectation gap, i believe. But what am i supposed to do about it?
Saturday, July 6, 2013
xnduwsqiwgus
The brevity of the momentary spans of happiness in my life has started getting to me now.
*tired sigh*
I should have went to office today. There was so much work; and now I'll have to suffer for probably the rest of the coming week.
All for nothing. *throws her hands up in the air*
Besides, it has been a horrible day so far.
Econ lessons, life, and similar nuisance
But then this is life we're talking about after all; and that's how it's been since the beginning of time. So, what's there to it then?
Nothing. There's nothing to it; save the fact that there are people who quite very often end up having higher opportunity costs...
You're reading a post written by one.
Friday, July 5, 2013
Tareek raastoun mein..
Tareek raastoun mein kaheen kho na ja'ain hum
Sehra-e-zindagi mein koi doosra na tha
Suntay rahe hain aap he apni sadaa'ain hum
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Expendable me
I feel so dispensable. And well, let's face it - it is a truth; the truth. I wish it wasn't.
But I wish for so many things... *flicks her wrist at herself* Who cares!
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Of reviews, and work on saturdays
Shah Saab: .... Tumhari Russain ko English banna raha hon!
Me: .... *bursts into laughter*
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Of scents, and moods
I think this new template has a little glitch - I cannot comment on my posts, nor reply to comments.
Hmm....
Friday, June 28, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Jab koi duusra nahin hota...
In times like these
Liz, she used to be around all the time. I know she was just a cat but believe me when I say, I wasn't so lonely with her around all the time. I used to have someone to talk to, whom I knew, for certain, won't judge me, or criticize me even if what I had to say was utter nuisance (which mostly is the case). Whom, most of all, I could cuddle, and whom I knew I could've forced into listening to me.
*sighs* Anyway. The morning has lit up. I guess I'll go back to bed now.
... Lizzie - I miss her. A lot.
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Lonely Summer Afternoons
With S and papa jaani gone on their separate little expeditions; ammi, Zizoo (she'll kill me if she finds I call her that here) and I are sort of, feeling a tad wee lonely. It's quieter around here now. Not saying papa jaani and S used to ensure a havoc back here- well I'm sure about S at least. *giggles*
Trimmed my nails. I think I clipped them a little too short, they're going to bug me a little now.
So... Do you have something to say?
Please don't say no. Say something; anything.
Dil chah raha hai koi mujhse
And for the same reason, I miss Gruph. She talks a lot. A lot lot! The emphasis on a lot cannot simply be over emphasized, that's all I'm saying.
I want to go meet her; and I know, she's going to get a bit out of hand and go on talking without any need for input, or response from the other party. So, basically I know it's going to be a one-way communication. But, I am desperate. *deep breath*
Lazy, lonely, summer afternoons. Sounds like a good time to read, eh?
Let's see how the day unrolls.
Adieu.
P.S. Ohhh... How do you pronounce Les Misrables? Leh-what? Lol.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
I am supposed to be working.
And, I'm tired of being around people... *smiles vapidly*
Exhausted, actually - So would've I told you, had you stayed to listen.
-
Such an unsatisfied soul I have turned into.
I've lost so much. And everything that remains is fading out, slowly but surely. Allah saeen, family, friends, loved ones, inner peace, the slightest essence of life, all's lost.
Iss qadr iztaraab hai ke sumajh se baahir.
Zindagi kaise flip karjaati hai eik he dum mein youn achanak. Sambhalne ka mouqa bhi nahin deti.
I want to go back to the States. I know, coming back from there last October, I had almost sweared upon my own life never to return; but now I want to. I miss being around bj, rayyan... these are my pretexts.
Loug qurbaaniyaan kion dete hain? Kya haasil hojata hai? Izzat, aqeedat...? Aur woh jo zindagi bhar ke malaal haath aatay hain, qurbaan kiye jaanay wali cheezoun ka gham?
Dosroun ke dil tootne se bachanay ke liye, apni zindagi ki azeez tareen khwaahishat qurbaan kardi jaayn tou kya hota hai?
I've lost my zing - the factor that was me, that made me, me! I cannot concentrate on anything, anymore. Eik saraab ke peechay bhaag rahe hain hum. But can you blame us? Will you blame us?
Can you blame a weary desert traveler, beaten down by thirst and the scorching sun, for his mind's nasty illusive tricks? Can you blame him for chasing mirages, and hoping against hopes?
Hope's a nasty thing. Umeed jo marti nahin, insaan ko maar deti hai aksar.
S's in Istanbul, having loads of fun mashaAllah. She's one lucky gal. My cuddle monkey! *smiles* Knows how to get what she wants. May she always have what she wants, and for the better. Ameen.
Mein bohat zaalim hon? Nahin tou. Shayed... Nahin. Yaqeenan. Nahin yaar, mein zaalim tou nahin; bas halaat... ne aisa kardiya.
Aap khatarnaak had tak bigri huwi hain muhtarma. Aap chahti hain aapko pyaar kiya jaaye, aapka khayaal rakha jaaye, chahay aapka apna rawaiya kitna he na rawwa kion na ho. Aisa nahin hota yaar... Aisa kaheen nahin hota.
Aapko meri yaad nahin aati?
Mujhe khwaab nahin aatay... na burray na achay. My sleep, it's nothing but darkness. A vaccum, not even static. Time, wasted. I wish to have dreams while I sleep. I once asked Bambi to sell some of the many dreams Bambi sees almost every night, to me.
Mujhe neend se kya dushmani hai? Na sirf apni neend se, balke dosroun ki neend se bhi. *sighs*
Meine kya kiya hai yaar?
Kisi cheez mein dil nahin lagta - na deen mein, na duniya mein. Duniya ko tou jhoonko aag mein, yeh jo Allah saaeen aur apne beech itni duuri le aayi ho is per kion ghour nahin karti bibi?
I must go and work now. Office bhi jaana subha. Don't want to sleep, might not as well. Dinner bhi nahin kiya. *takes a deep breath*
Feel like reading punjabi poetry.
Uski muskurahat kitni pyaari hai na. *sighs and smiles*
Allah Hafiz...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Of things, you never imagined living without
... Lizzie bohat yaad aati hai yaar - har waqt.
*sighs*
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Monday, June 3, 2013
I miss my sillu Lizzu.
It's pathetic, how much i miss her.
What's even more pathetic and heart wrenching, at the same time, is the recollection of that night, when all I wished was for her to make it through the night n the day to break, so that I could've taken her somewhere- somewhere she could be tended to...
Death's inevitable... I just have an issue with it being so hideously painful for the dying, while others are left with no choice but to helplessly look at them die slowly n painfully.
I wish... Oh, forget it. *sighs* What does it even matter now.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Dear May,
You've been unkind to me in the most heinous ways possible. You've robbed me off things I couldn't have imagined living without. You took away things that meant the most to me. You've been brutal to me. You've hurt me. You've been unfair to me, and exceedingly so.
You have not the slightest remorse, do you? You're ruthless.
I shall never forget all that you've brought unto me, and neither shall I ever forgive.
Ann.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
"Is that all?"
“Then you and I should bid good-bye for a little while?"
I suppose so, sir."
And how do people perform that ceremony of parting, Jane? Teach me; I'm not quite up to it."
They say, Farewell, or any other form they prefer."
Then say it."
Farewell, Mr. Rochester, for the present."
What must I say?"
The same, if you like, sir."
Farewell, Miss Eyre, for the present; is that all?"
Yes."
It seems stingy, to my notions, and dry, and unfriendly. I should like something else: a little addition to the rite. If one shook hands for instance; but no--that would not content me either. So you'll do nothing more than say Farewell, Jane?"
It is enough, sir; as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many."
Very likely; but it is blank and cool--'Farewell.”
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
I think it's about time I read it again.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
0229: Wide awake
So, I woke up at this hour with, as if, a bad taste in my mouth. The bad taste of an incomprehensible annoyance, i reckon. I woke up feeling unloved, un-cherished, unsolicited(?), if I may go on to say... Exhausted. Tired. Feelings that are not even close to what I had last in my mind before I surrendered myself to slumber.
Those are outrageously berserk feelings to come across in the middle of night, right out of nowhere- me thinks.
*sighs*
I'd like to go back sleep now.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
I wish she was here to watch me, in her particular avid supervisory manner, as I worked.
You simply loved doing that, didn't you, my lil fluffball?
I miss you Liz. I miss you all the time. Mum misses you too baby.
The most mundane of every day chores remind us of you. There's not a moment that passes by, without one of us letting out a cold sigh remembering you, wishing you were here with us, with all your snowey furriness.
K was heart broken hearing about her Snowey too, Liz. She misses you too.
*sighs*
Friday, May 17, 2013
I wish I could shut my eyes tightly, pray to Allah saaiin for all this to be the worst nightmare, and wake up to find you cuddled into yourself beside me.
*sighs*
I wish I could return home from work, and find you there. I wish you could nuzzle with my feet, in your own sillie welcoming manner, like you did every evening.
I'm sorry Liz, I couldn't save you...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Elizabeth...
Liz isn't well. She's too sick to even move on her own. She won't even open up her blue marble eyes at times. She won't even move hear ears like a radar and respond when her name's called out. She...'
An incomplete post in my drafts from yesterday. I don't have to finish it anymore, do I?
Friday, May 10, 2013
Let's be honest
I feel like an object all of sudden, a piece of property.
There are rights attached to me; an entitlement, yes? Like the bundle of rights, per se?
Damn you, reality checks.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Sunday morning musings- right out of the bed
Mein hoon woh nang-e-khalq k kehti hai jisko khaak
Issko banna ke kiyon meri mitti kharaab ki...
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Of night, slumber and dreams on french leave.
The pitch black curtain never rises after I close my eyes; losing hope, I open my eyes every morning.
Bittersweet symphony, turning a tad sour
Mein bohat jaldi thaknay laggi hon ab. Chaar qadam chal ker he saans charh jaata hai.
I've become so volatile.
It's a bit too much, if you ask me. I've achieved the level where one starts to annoy one's own self.
One moment, all I crave for is solitude, while the next, it starts creeping me out. Kaheen jaanay ka dil nahin karta, aur ghar baith ker bezaari hoti hai.
Work was a get away. My dilemmas however, have started to envelope that too in dense clouds of grimness.
Only so much time left now.
'It's only a matter of time now'... someone told me. I have not looked away from the ticking hands of the clock ever since.
It's been a month now.
Lagta hai zamana guzar gaya.
Will I ever be happy again? Not that I want to be. No sir, not at all - mostly because it doesn't make a difference. It's just an objective question that I find myself asking the blank spaces around me often.
If there's something that I wish now, is to be indifferent. Not happy, (but!) nor miserable either. I want to live the rest of my life, as if riffling through the life of an independent third party. I wish not be expected anything of.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Kissi ko mera khayaal nahin
Dil chah raha hai k bachpan ki tarah aaj phir iss baat per rooun k, koi mujhse pyaar nahin karta, kissi ko mera khayaal nahin.
I thought she loved me, cared about me, and hence was by my side, standing right next to me, but...
*sighs*
You grow up to find out that stars aren't exactly glitter n sparkles sprinkled over the night sky; they're goddamn dead planets or whatever celestial bodies set on fire.
Right back at you, huh?
... Guess it was just a moment, without much to it, but erratic sentimental value.
The thing with moments is that they pass away, this one sure was no different.
I lose again. Ha!
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
... These pangs of deadly agony in my chest, that travel down my arms, to my wrists, and then hands. My veins, it feels as if they constrict with in a fractin of a second, resulting in nothing but sharper and deeper pangs of excruciating pain.
It hurts - from the inside out. It's tormenting.
Why won't anyone make it stop?
It hurts, goddamnit.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013
Monday, April 1, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
I can't breathe.
Ajeeb wehshat si horahi hai sham ke baad se. Kuch sumujh nahin araha. Bohat besukooni hai, bohat iztaraab.
The moonlit skies look beautiful. The underglow that the moonlight creates as the clouds glaze over it, is but plain wonder.
Magar bas phir achanak saara manzar dhundla gaya, roshni bikhar si gayee, aur aankhoun mein jallan ke siwa kuch nahin raha.
I can hear the clouds roar. They sound upset... It's raining.
Life, reverse blasts, Mr. Freeze and other disasters.
It sort of reminds me of something I studied back in school- digital and analogue signals/ values. Or binary data- It's 0 OR it's 1- and that's that. Or if we had to bring in the economic cycle, it would be something unlike the conventional cycle; minus the recession or recovery transitional phases.
Here, a sad attempt to illustrate it for you:
Well, on second thought, I guess they're there; so to speak. Although, they're more of something like as steep vertical drop, yes, a roller coaster drop perhaps- and ohhh! Not just any other drop; it's like the 90 degree drop of Mr. Freeze from Six Flags, to be precise.
Holy skittles! Eureka!!!
I think I just figured life out. Just as I typed the last line, it occured to me- like an epiphany. It's the new Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast.
Damnit! I've got it all figured... *walks away slowly, mumbling to herself- flabbergasted at the discovery*
Monday, March 25, 2013
Giggly Revelations
Search: 1 - Tommy Hilfiger
Google didn't search him for us for some unknown reason, however did give us 'people also search for' recommendations. So, we went ahead with that.
Search: 2 - Paco Rabbane
*weird face*
S: Aise tou humaray chowkidaar!
Search: 3 - Kenneth Cole
S: Aye haye! Bechara! Lagta hai ke waqai watches banata hoga!
Search: 4 - Yves Saint LaurentS: Sunkee buddha!
Search: 5 - Christian Dior
*drum rolls*
....
*flabbergasted*
Me: He's a.... man!? O_o
*weird pause*
S: He is a ganja?! And not a ganjee?!!!
*wants to faint*
And the search went on... treading along similar lines.
P.S. A draft from a few months ago.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Average life expectancy
Bas itni si zindagi hoti hai khushiyoun ki...
As long as it takes for an eye to open up after a blink.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
The flagbearer of wrongdoings
You somehow end up being wrong all the time. ALL THE TIME. How do you do it? How do you manage? Must be really tough, huh?
I find it funny, I'm so sorry, I kinda sorta do.
*smirks*
Monday, March 18, 2013
Aik aur sach
Aur sach tou yeh bhi hai ke, kuch lougoun ko khushiyaan raas nahin aati. Aur kabhi woh khushiyoun ko raas nahin aatay.
Tou bas phir nateeja kuch youn hota hai k, barra mukhtasar sa saath hota hai inn lougoun ka aur khushiyoun ka.
Mein bohat khud gharz hon shayed. Apne dukh k aagay, kisi aur ka dukh, kisi aur ki pareshaani koi maaene he nahin rakhti.
Saari duniya aag ki laptoun mein jhulas rahi hai tou kya? Mujhe tou bas apni ragoun mein uth'ti huwi teesoun ki azeeyat ka ehsaas, aur kuch nahin, kuch bhi nahin.
Ya shayed, bohat behiss hon. Behissi k aala tareen darje per faaiz.
... *smiles*
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
*smiles*
Kitna bewaqoofana sawaal hai... But can I blame you, my precious? *shakes head* Beyaqeeni hai ke khatam he nahin honay mein aati...
Eik lehze mein paaon ke neeche se zameen khenchi gayee... kuch pata he na chala. Itni taizi se ke, abhi tou nuqsaan ka andaaza bhi nahin ho paaya theek theek.
Har guzarta din eik nayye nuqsaan ka ehsaas liye howe aayega ab tou.
.... *shakes head*
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Hai youn bhi ziyaan aur youn bhi ziyaan...
Kuch din tou basso meri aankhon main
Phir khawab agar ho jao tou kya
Koi rung tou do mere chehray ko
Phir zakham agar mehkao tou kya
Ik aaina tha so toot gaya
Ab khud se agar sharmao tou kya
Main tanha tha, main tanha hoon
Tum aao tou kya, Na aao tou kya
Jab hum he na mehkay phir sahib
Tum baad-e-saba kehlao tou kya
Jab daikhnay wala koi nahin
Bujh jao tou kya, jal jao tou kya
Eik weham hai yeh duniya is mein
Kuch kho'o tou kya aur paao tou kya
Hai youn be ziyaan aur youn bhi ziyaan
Jee jao tou kya mar jaao tou kya...
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Saturday night musings
*shakes head and smiles*
The tragedy of my life is that I somehow cannot find someone to blame, but myself... Every time, every.... time.
Why do I have to be so insatiable when it comes to affection and care? There is only so much people can give away... *smirks* And suddenly, I make it sound like alms, and not love.
-
The clenched fist you hold in front of yourself, you are afraid of opening it, aren't you? Almost as if you are afraid whatever you were holding on to so tightly shall not be there any longer. And truth be told, my precious, it isn't there, is it now? You know it too, don't you? That whisper you keep drowning in your noisy delusions, it keeps popping its head up every now and then. You'll have to lend it an ear sooner or later, love- sooner or later.


