Sitting on the plastic hard-backed chair at the brown table facing the bookcases with a thick file in front of me and a new wad of ruled paper threatening to break the file's spine, I'm about to sneeze because I'm catching a cold when I notice a book on the top-most shelf of the second bookcase from the right, which is lying on its spine because it's too tall to fit otherwise and has interesting drawings on the back cover that's facing me, causing me to wonder if that book is a huge comic book before realising that it can't be because it's the wrong section, and I get more curious and more curious, trying to figure out what those drawings are but they're too far away to make out, and after gaping for a while, the sneeze momentarily forgotten, I start wondering when I'll ever stop.
Get up.
And go take a look at the book.
Then I sneeze, and I look back down at the brown table facing the bookcases and the thick file before me and the new wad of ruled paper;
Hoping for something else to distract me soon.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
Of night and light and the half light
What is it i like so much about friends?
Is it the midnight confidences?
The sitting in groups and talking about everything [and nothing at all]?
The confessions over msn?
The catching up on the latest news [not plain gossip]?
The playing together on stage, not caring how it sounds?
The fooling around, playing library catching and getting caught [by the librarian]?
The way i take out my phone to call you, just as you call me?
The way you tell me not to wait but to go home first, when i'm about to say i'll wait for your bus?
The way you know i'll be online?
The way you sms me, asking me if i'm leaving school, just as i walk up to meet and walk out with you?
The teasing of every other person with a weird accent, or who thinks St James is a kindergarden?
The predictions we make over the EPL?
The guessing of what on earth the food we've been given is?
The complaints about our workload?
The discussion of tactics, whether it's better to study [if at all we do] for the lecture test or mock SPA?
The creation of an empire in class?
The way we train our arm muscles in the hope we can do 2 chin-ups before we leave the school?
The way i ask you to draw me a picture, and the way you do it in a matter of minutes?
Is it a combination of everything, or is it the way these come in little bits, each so different?
Reply Tags:
shanti: lincon and i are planning for it to be after the A-levels, or if too many people are overseas, start of next year. LOL yea i know. you and reuban share the same birthday!
simran: princess of the elves?? oh please. you can take princess of the dwarves, if u want =D haha just kidding. and by the way, elves aren't hip and happening, they're classy and a cut above mortals like us haha!
shanti: haha, feel short more like it. unless you're talking about the enid blyton kinda elves =]
raghav: yea man!! haha. especially our comments during the play! lolololol =D pity acad day won't be the same.
"Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W B Yeats.
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Is it the midnight confidences?
The sitting in groups and talking about everything [and nothing at all]?
The confessions over msn?
The catching up on the latest news [not plain gossip]?
The playing together on stage, not caring how it sounds?
The fooling around, playing library catching and getting caught [by the librarian]?
The way i take out my phone to call you, just as you call me?
The way you tell me not to wait but to go home first, when i'm about to say i'll wait for your bus?
The way you know i'll be online?
The way you sms me, asking me if i'm leaving school, just as i walk up to meet and walk out with you?
The teasing of every other person with a weird accent, or who thinks St James is a kindergarden?
The predictions we make over the EPL?
The guessing of what on earth the food we've been given is?
The complaints about our workload?
The discussion of tactics, whether it's better to study [if at all we do] for the lecture test or mock SPA?
The creation of an empire in class?
The way we train our arm muscles in the hope we can do 2 chin-ups before we leave the school?
The way i ask you to draw me a picture, and the way you do it in a matter of minutes?
Is it a combination of everything, or is it the way these come in little bits, each so different?
Reply Tags:
shanti: lincon and i are planning for it to be after the A-levels, or if too many people are overseas, start of next year. LOL yea i know. you and reuban share the same birthday!
simran: princess of the elves?? oh please. you can take princess of the dwarves, if u want =D haha just kidding. and by the way, elves aren't hip and happening, they're classy and a cut above mortals like us haha!
shanti: haha, feel short more like it. unless you're talking about the enid blyton kinda elves =]
raghav: yea man!! haha. especially our comments during the play! lolololol =D pity acad day won't be the same.
"Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W B Yeats.
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Style?
Last week was too fast. This week is too busy. Next week's gonna be too packed.
I'd alarm mself and everyone who reads this by counting off the days we have left before the promos, but that isn't my style of writing and who needs to be reminded about those again anyway.
National day celebrations were pretty okay. Except for the heat. Amoudtha's henna was an instant success and Mrs Jay, who volunteered to help, was awesome too. Thanks to everyone who helped!
I'll be glad when october's here. No more exams [except PW, urgh], and as much time as i want with the cricket girls! and there's the cricket camp to plan for =D and the ICS chalet =] and class chalet, if we have one!
I want time to imagine. Imagine if i would survive in isolaton, imagine myself as a character in a book or movie, imagine the smell of honeysuckle [i've heard it's bittersweet, but what kinda smell is that??].
Quite my style, isn't it?
It's a pity that all i'm allowed to think about now is whether i should go study for the chem skill B mock SPA tomorrow, or forget about it and study for the lecture test.
I'd alarm mself and everyone who reads this by counting off the days we have left before the promos, but that isn't my style of writing and who needs to be reminded about those again anyway.
National day celebrations were pretty okay. Except for the heat. Amoudtha's henna was an instant success and Mrs Jay, who volunteered to help, was awesome too. Thanks to everyone who helped!
I'll be glad when october's here. No more exams [except PW, urgh], and as much time as i want with the cricket girls! and there's the cricket camp to plan for =D and the ICS chalet =] and class chalet, if we have one!
I want time to imagine. Imagine if i would survive in isolaton, imagine myself as a character in a book or movie, imagine the smell of honeysuckle [i've heard it's bittersweet, but what kinda smell is that??].
Quite my style, isn't it?
It's a pity that all i'm allowed to think about now is whether i should go study for the chem skill B mock SPA tomorrow, or forget about it and study for the lecture test.
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Reply Tags:
Pushpa: Afzal and Sharrvesh listened to us one evening, and were telling us how it sounded and stuff. =]
Simran: hahaha i can just imagine you marching up to the organisers and demanding that they speak in english =] thanks, simmie.
Shanti: haha this year's YOUR year! aww so sweet, shanti it's okay don't go against your school lol. thanks loads! spam away, spam away! i don't mind in the least =D
Raghav: haha i will. and congratulations =]
Sneha: hahahaha. well i didnt do it alone. and seriously, it would have been a waste if you'd come this year, cos supporters arent allowed into the preliminary round room. and since we didnt get to the stage, you wouldnt have heard us at all. haha yea weird =]
Sometimes, things people in movies say just stick and get you thinking. Like in Pirates of the Carribean-The Curse of the Black Pearl, some of the convicts are talking about the Black Pearl, and how there are many horrible stories about how those who run into the ship never escape alive. Sparrow cuts in at this point and asks- "If there never are any survivors, how do the stories get out, i wonder."
And in The Lord of The Rings (i think i've mentioned this before)-
Gimli: "I never thought i'd die fighting side-by-side with an elf."
Legolas:"How about side-by-side with a friend?"
And in Troy-
Priam: "I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest."
Hector(to Agamemnon): "I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed."
That's why i enjoy watching movies much more than other shows on TV. In fact, apart from movies, i hardly watch anything else.
"We'll sit under an apple tree, you and I,
Talking so deeply time passes us by.
I'll suggest climbing up to see the view,
You'll propose sitting under with an apple or two.
We'll end up doing both, as is always the case,
But we'll never stop our chat, face-to-face.
You'll try climbing up, just to please me,
And I'll sit for an eternity under the tree,
Just for you."
Pushpa: Afzal and Sharrvesh listened to us one evening, and were telling us how it sounded and stuff. =]
Simran: hahaha i can just imagine you marching up to the organisers and demanding that they speak in english =] thanks, simmie.
Shanti: haha this year's YOUR year! aww so sweet, shanti it's okay don't go against your school lol. thanks loads! spam away, spam away! i don't mind in the least =D
Raghav: haha i will. and congratulations =]
Sneha: hahahaha. well i didnt do it alone. and seriously, it would have been a waste if you'd come this year, cos supporters arent allowed into the preliminary round room. and since we didnt get to the stage, you wouldnt have heard us at all. haha yea weird =]
Sometimes, things people in movies say just stick and get you thinking. Like in Pirates of the Carribean-The Curse of the Black Pearl, some of the convicts are talking about the Black Pearl, and how there are many horrible stories about how those who run into the ship never escape alive. Sparrow cuts in at this point and asks- "If there never are any survivors, how do the stories get out, i wonder."
And in The Lord of The Rings (i think i've mentioned this before)-
Gimli: "I never thought i'd die fighting side-by-side with an elf."
Legolas:"How about side-by-side with a friend?"
And in Troy-
Priam: "I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest."
Hector(to Agamemnon): "I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed."
That's why i enjoy watching movies much more than other shows on TV. In fact, apart from movies, i hardly watch anything else.
"We'll sit under an apple tree, you and I,
Talking so deeply time passes us by.
I'll suggest climbing up to see the view,
You'll propose sitting under with an apple or two.
We'll end up doing both, as is always the case,
But we'll never stop our chat, face-to-face.
You'll try climbing up, just to please me,
And I'll sit for an eternity under the tree,
Just for you."
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)