Smells, one of the many things that binds you to the past. Be it pleasant or repulsive, smells manage to bring out long forgotten singular instances. A memory, a smile, a hurt, a fight, a person, a name, a time, a day, a promise, a reason, a season, a poem, a thought… why, it can [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Who kicked Chandrika into the water?
Posted in Muses Who?, tagged childhood, amma, Palghat, kolam, kozhikode, swimming, chandrika soap, smells on April 28, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Chennai ‘pattinam’ summer shots-3
Posted in Nature, tagged Rain tree, summer flowers, summer shots on April 22, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I love that unusual bit of nature’s design which I don’t click intentionally, but gets captured and comes to my notice only after I print or copy them onto my system. They manage to bring out that whacky 4-year old girl in me with the weirdest of imagination, who would go, “I cAn sEE d back of two [...]
A ‘SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS’ Bday present!!!
Posted in Muses Who?, tagged bday resolution, bday surprise, birthday, Birthday present, friends, love, shitty song on April 20, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Yay, yay, yay and a yay, yay, yay!!!
It’s been a long way
Its been a big sway
But hear me today
When I look at you n say
To come along n play
Coz its my day today!!!
Ok there have been sadder songs. Like the one we came up with last night. Its called the shitty song and it really [...]
What dreams may come…
Posted in Thoughton's column, tagged dreams, ganapathy temple, scary dream, toddy shop, witch on April 17, 2009 | 16 Comments »
In an attempt to save my dear friend, i bit a witch before she bit me and i howled in my sleep and got woken up by my startled roomies only to resume the dream and see ‘big daddy’ taking me to the most beautiful ‘Ganapathy’ temple and stopping by at a local toddy shop [...]
Chennai ‘pattinam’ summer shots-2
Posted in Nature, tagged new leaves, peepal leaves, pink leaf on April 14, 2009 | 8 Comments »
What nature takes, it also gives back. A week ago, this ‘Peepal tree’ was a story of drought and death with skeletonic branches stretching out in horror. And today, it is almost irrecognisable with its new coat of healthy new leaves.
“And the young ones danced merrily in the breeze and under the open blue [...]
The summer is on in Chennai ‘pattinam’…
Posted in Nature, tagged April, pink tehoma blooms, summer blooms, Summer heat, Summer in chennai on April 12, 2009 | 11 Comments »
….and its sema hottt machi…!
The bright young faces of our times started to whine and wither as the Sun God stirred up in his seat and got ready to claim and abuse his power. The cycle of the seasons had come a full round to give him free reign once again on the hapless [...]
