You are my poison,
You are my sweet.
You are a toxin,
You are good enough, too.
You have gutted my heart,
You have filled it too.
And when we're apart,
I miss you.
Give me your best,
Give me the worst.
Give me all of you,
To quench my thirst.
Moments...
Boat
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Saaya ... Dragonfly!
Dragonfly
I saw this movie much against the immediate circumstances: Then since am much into supernatural events and enjoy watching such movies; Taking to ‘DragonFly’ was, but, natural. The protagonist seems justified in her desire to serve flood victims. However, the husband finds it impractical. The sweet lady, after all should be caring for her foetus... She’s pregnant.
They see each other for the last time when she decide to go anyhow, and ends up getting stuck in a flood prone (Oh, should mention the Hindi replica “saaya” of this movie) – Both are good! Area.
The fun part begins when the hero spots signs and indication of her presence... Unthreatening yet desperate~~
He shows the concern to widow next door (Who, to be coldly judgemental, makes for a sexy-wiling-young woman in the Hindi flick, but, some zombie type of elderly lady in the flick being Reviewed).
Enjoyment is embedded in some scenes of the paediatrics ward and some wishy-wooshy stories narrated by the hospital staff, minors admitted, and, the ex employee nurse nun: though sounds ‘filmy’ (pun intended), most of the shots are reality-encompassing and palatable since direction is VERY sincere (Though I can’t, again, hide the stubborn melodrama inserted into the Hindi version...
Take time to watch since the juicy meaty stuff doesn’t show early on.
Pls see
I saw this movie much against the immediate circumstances: Then since am much into supernatural events and enjoy watching such movies; Taking to ‘DragonFly’ was, but, natural. The protagonist seems justified in her desire to serve flood victims. However, the husband finds it impractical. The sweet lady, after all should be caring for her foetus... She’s pregnant.
They see each other for the last time when she decide to go anyhow, and ends up getting stuck in a flood prone (Oh, should mention the Hindi replica “saaya” of this movie) – Both are good! Area.
The fun part begins when the hero spots signs and indication of her presence... Unthreatening yet desperate~~
He shows the concern to widow next door (Who, to be coldly judgemental, makes for a sexy-wiling-young woman in the Hindi flick, but, some zombie type of elderly lady in the flick being Reviewed).
Enjoyment is embedded in some scenes of the paediatrics ward and some wishy-wooshy stories narrated by the hospital staff, minors admitted, and, the ex employee nurse nun: though sounds ‘filmy’ (pun intended), most of the shots are reality-encompassing and palatable since direction is VERY sincere (Though I can’t, again, hide the stubborn melodrama inserted into the Hindi version...
Take time to watch since the juicy meaty stuff doesn’t show early on.
Pls see
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
OLD~- GOLD
Old Age...
It was my first year, ‘Lady Sri Ram’ BA in Psychology... and Boy was I happy. My deep seated interest, perhaps for the comfort scene that it symbolizes, was to get hired at an old age home as a counsellor. Though now it makes me think... Is there an automatic presumption here that senior citizens need support? Let’s see...
The first teacher I truly humbly loved at LSR was Parul ma’am. Take me back someone! (*sniffs loud*)...she took General Psychology and introduced me to the term – Gerontology. Studies about old people.
I didn’t explore any further, not because seemingly I lost interest(?)... But because the fast turmoil that finding direction can sometimes become... simply sticking to syllabus and day-to-day work was accomplishment enough. As a psychology graduate 6 years later, my agenda here indeed, is to just dedicate an article to heavenly ideas that my mother sometimes devise!
She takes it that since the real work of parents finishes when the kids take smilingly to their OWN lives, anything that comes n the way of settling couples and parents needs to be tackled. No(!), PLEASE don’t just presume that she is being All-super good since her idea seems to reflect the Western world’s “I’d rather be own my own” stuff, mostly judged as ‘attitude’ or ‘individualistic’ arenas. Ahem.
So what exactly should this refer? This is to convey that should any sincere newly wed couple, so to say the ‘newer generation’, seek to devote finer energy support to career and family (considering the hurdles even these seem to have become!), sitting and showing the positive side of shifting to an old age home might serve the purpose in less ‘inhumane’ fashion as depicted in most bollywood and even real-indian scene. This doesn’t undermine the sacred scene of joint families, the fun of seeing one’s grandkids everyday, and the simple availability of everyday elderly nick picks-cum-suggestions-cum-guidance... this is to highlight that some parents INDEED would prefer having their own-like company, sharing black-and-white screen days, making efforts to stay active (which could get overshadowed by fast urban life often seen as ‘better’), making an assumption that their kids are indeed comfortably set into their schedules and serving nation and community as offshoots of their sincere hardwork.
Thanks everyone for taking time to read the undeveloped nestling hovering idea... Since the ‘empty nest syndrome’ seems to have been chirped about way too often- to see the other side of coin. Thanks!
It was my first year, ‘Lady Sri Ram’ BA in Psychology... and Boy was I happy. My deep seated interest, perhaps for the comfort scene that it symbolizes, was to get hired at an old age home as a counsellor. Though now it makes me think... Is there an automatic presumption here that senior citizens need support? Let’s see...
The first teacher I truly humbly loved at LSR was Parul ma’am. Take me back someone! (*sniffs loud*)...she took General Psychology and introduced me to the term – Gerontology. Studies about old people.
I didn’t explore any further, not because seemingly I lost interest(?)... But because the fast turmoil that finding direction can sometimes become... simply sticking to syllabus and day-to-day work was accomplishment enough. As a psychology graduate 6 years later, my agenda here indeed, is to just dedicate an article to heavenly ideas that my mother sometimes devise!
She takes it that since the real work of parents finishes when the kids take smilingly to their OWN lives, anything that comes n the way of settling couples and parents needs to be tackled. No(!), PLEASE don’t just presume that she is being All-super good since her idea seems to reflect the Western world’s “I’d rather be own my own” stuff, mostly judged as ‘attitude’ or ‘individualistic’ arenas. Ahem.
So what exactly should this refer? This is to convey that should any sincere newly wed couple, so to say the ‘newer generation’, seek to devote finer energy support to career and family (considering the hurdles even these seem to have become!), sitting and showing the positive side of shifting to an old age home might serve the purpose in less ‘inhumane’ fashion as depicted in most bollywood and even real-indian scene. This doesn’t undermine the sacred scene of joint families, the fun of seeing one’s grandkids everyday, and the simple availability of everyday elderly nick picks-cum-suggestions-cum-guidance... this is to highlight that some parents INDEED would prefer having their own-like company, sharing black-and-white screen days, making efforts to stay active (which could get overshadowed by fast urban life often seen as ‘better’), making an assumption that their kids are indeed comfortably set into their schedules and serving nation and community as offshoots of their sincere hardwork.
Thanks everyone for taking time to read the undeveloped nestling hovering idea... Since the ‘empty nest syndrome’ seems to have been chirped about way too often- to see the other side of coin. Thanks!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
p.s. i love you... Extempore ;)
I happen to be a person who RARELY dislikes a movie. This however, is just as long as nothing better to be done is at hand. Seriously speaking, be it sunset or sunrise, am addicted to ‘doing nothing’.
SO!!!
p.s. I love you was suggested, sent and mostly talked about by a sweet cousin and the friends I have tamed (wink) over the last two years. Though very particular about keeping myself afr-eshed in case of ever B(h)ollywood flick, me went stale with this one. That being done, my feedback:
Sniff. Sniffy sniff. That’s the sentimental aspect. Sugary marmalacious—lustful lumpsome... Makes your heart weep, makes the eyes watery. OMG – Anyone who dislikes this movie should get himself/herself cross examined. Oh-alright, me is bing too melodramatic, but then half the praising seems to be (also) engraved through EVERY person who saw this movie. Upon that, I was being repeatedly requested cum ordered to watch it.
Ummmm. Letters that arrive after demise of the writer.
Fishy.
He steals every girl’s heart. He seems to be around when he is not. That’s Jerry. But, make that totally ‘as portrayed by girls’. In reality, he might just be any other guy... Personally, me didn’t find him too sexy or like-able... Funny and considerate – Yes.
Speaking of the heroine... The charm would have missed without her two silly spooky friends... Throughout...
The theme, direction, naturality and totality is fun... Must watch must watch!
YEAH I KNOW IT’S ONE IDIOTIC REVIEW. COULDN’T DO BETTER!
SO!!!
p.s. I love you was suggested, sent and mostly talked about by a sweet cousin and the friends I have tamed (wink) over the last two years. Though very particular about keeping myself afr-eshed in case of ever B(h)ollywood flick, me went stale with this one. That being done, my feedback:
Sniff. Sniffy sniff. That’s the sentimental aspect. Sugary marmalacious—lustful lumpsome... Makes your heart weep, makes the eyes watery. OMG – Anyone who dislikes this movie should get himself/herself cross examined. Oh-alright, me is bing too melodramatic, but then half the praising seems to be (also) engraved through EVERY person who saw this movie. Upon that, I was being repeatedly requested cum ordered to watch it.
Ummmm. Letters that arrive after demise of the writer.
Fishy.
He steals every girl’s heart. He seems to be around when he is not. That’s Jerry. But, make that totally ‘as portrayed by girls’. In reality, he might just be any other guy... Personally, me didn’t find him too sexy or like-able... Funny and considerate – Yes.
Speaking of the heroine... The charm would have missed without her two silly spooky friends... Throughout...
The theme, direction, naturality and totality is fun... Must watch must watch!
YEAH I KNOW IT’S ONE IDIOTIC REVIEW. COULDN’T DO BETTER!
Women Empowerment
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
When I was told the Presentation had to be on ‘Women Empowerment’, my first thought was “Shit”. I apologize for the language, but, since the topic has been so often spoken about, mentioned in debates, and discussed over feminist classes, that my interest began to shudder.
It implies that it doesn’t excite me much, speaking about women upliftment, empowerment, feminism and the like. However, the decision to talk on this topic also emerged from within me. Should I wonder ‘why’?
Maybe yes, maybe no. The biggest and all encompassing term ‘Feminism’ has been subjected to much discussion. Having studied in a feminist institution myself, I can’t help, but, make myself aware of the facts. So, what is feminism, the buzz word?
[Invites answers]
To simplify, Feminism is EQUAL RIGHTS IN EVERY SPHERE OF LIFE. This doesn’t really pertain to just women. Just actions for both sexes is the main aim of feminism. That women have been the victimized section, apart from certain exceptions, can’t be denied. But, this same harping, and misuse of extra concern by women is sensibly noted by men. Sex not being an agenda of feminism, RIGHTS are more like it. Individual rights. Human rights.
Feminists—that is, persons practicing feminism—can be persons of either sex.
Women today shine alike their male counterpart is a cliché. That 21st century girl has dreams as lofty as skies, can’t be skipped. So what is the catch?
1. Of the 1.3 billion people who live in absolute poverty around the globe, 70 percent are women. For these women, poverty doesn’t just mean scarcity and want. It means rights denied, opportunities curtailed and voices silenced.
1. Women are paid way less than their male counterparts, for same and equal work.
2. Throughout world, women hold only 7% of the property.
3. Certain cultures in third world states consider women as cattle – to be kept, fed, and used to profit building.
4. Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, according to the United Nations Millennium Campaign to halve world poverty by the year 2015. The overwhelming majority of the labor that sustains life – growing food, cooking, raising children, caring for the elderly, maintaining a house, hauling water – is done by women, and universally this work is accorded low status and no pay. The ceaseless cycle of labor rarely shows up in economic analyses of a society’s production and value.
5. Women earn only 10 percent of the world’s income.
In India, an NGO project working
with adolescent girls noted that
“they are often seen only as temporary
people who will cease to be – at least for
the father – once they have disappeared
inside a marriage.”
MEASURES:
Instead of just holding presentations and awareness camps, for populations that don’t need it; let the pitfalls of female foeticide reach nooks and corners of rural India.
Provide women with safe environment.
Reservations are just a baby step, empowering women needs psychological upliftment, a vision for themselves, and some perks like safe zones.
Ending all sorts of discrimination, oppression, and encouraging education should be the key ideas.
Conveying to the hard core patriarchical society that baby’s sex is not in the hands of mother.
Psychology of Women
Women and politics
Eve teasing
Datin issues
Safety ~
When I was told the Presentation had to be on ‘Women Empowerment’, my first thought was “Shit”. I apologize for the language, but, since the topic has been so often spoken about, mentioned in debates, and discussed over feminist classes, that my interest began to shudder.
It implies that it doesn’t excite me much, speaking about women upliftment, empowerment, feminism and the like. However, the decision to talk on this topic also emerged from within me. Should I wonder ‘why’?
Maybe yes, maybe no. The biggest and all encompassing term ‘Feminism’ has been subjected to much discussion. Having studied in a feminist institution myself, I can’t help, but, make myself aware of the facts. So, what is feminism, the buzz word?
[Invites answers]
To simplify, Feminism is EQUAL RIGHTS IN EVERY SPHERE OF LIFE. This doesn’t really pertain to just women. Just actions for both sexes is the main aim of feminism. That women have been the victimized section, apart from certain exceptions, can’t be denied. But, this same harping, and misuse of extra concern by women is sensibly noted by men. Sex not being an agenda of feminism, RIGHTS are more like it. Individual rights. Human rights.
Feminists—that is, persons practicing feminism—can be persons of either sex.
Women today shine alike their male counterpart is a cliché. That 21st century girl has dreams as lofty as skies, can’t be skipped. So what is the catch?
1. Of the 1.3 billion people who live in absolute poverty around the globe, 70 percent are women. For these women, poverty doesn’t just mean scarcity and want. It means rights denied, opportunities curtailed and voices silenced.
1. Women are paid way less than their male counterparts, for same and equal work.
2. Throughout world, women hold only 7% of the property.
3. Certain cultures in third world states consider women as cattle – to be kept, fed, and used to profit building.
4. Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, according to the United Nations Millennium Campaign to halve world poverty by the year 2015. The overwhelming majority of the labor that sustains life – growing food, cooking, raising children, caring for the elderly, maintaining a house, hauling water – is done by women, and universally this work is accorded low status and no pay. The ceaseless cycle of labor rarely shows up in economic analyses of a society’s production and value.
5. Women earn only 10 percent of the world’s income.
In India, an NGO project working
with adolescent girls noted that
“they are often seen only as temporary
people who will cease to be – at least for
the father – once they have disappeared
inside a marriage.”
MEASURES:
Instead of just holding presentations and awareness camps, for populations that don’t need it; let the pitfalls of female foeticide reach nooks and corners of rural India.
Provide women with safe environment.
Reservations are just a baby step, empowering women needs psychological upliftment, a vision for themselves, and some perks like safe zones.
Ending all sorts of discrimination, oppression, and encouraging education should be the key ideas.
Conveying to the hard core patriarchical society that baby’s sex is not in the hands of mother.
Psychology of Women
Women and politics
Eve teasing
Datin issues
Safety ~
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Love Quotes
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles - ancient Greek playwright (dramatist)
"We love because it's the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni - Grammy-nominated American poet, activist and author
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker - American writer and poet
"Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker - an African-American poet
"Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature." - Howard Thurman - author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader
"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain - American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer.
"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde - playwright and screenwriter
"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning - poets of the Victorian era.
I love being married. It's so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." - Rita Rudner - renown comic, Rita Rudner
"To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement
"We cannot really love anybody without whom we never laugh." - Alice Reppler Be happy and laugh, and THEN let yourself get in love. a content person is more true in love than the one who finds content through love.
Never lose heart. "For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it." - Ivan Panin - who achieved fame for claiming that the text of the Hebrew and Greek Bible contained numeric patterns
We can only learn to love by loving." - Iris Murdoch - Dublin-born writer and philosopher
"Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." - anonymous
Can be like an adventure; don’t be scared of it. “Till I loved I never lived—enough." - Emily Dickenson – renowned writer
Love represents a range of human emotions and experiences related to the senses of affection and sexual attraction.[1] The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. This diversity of meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.
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"We love because it's the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni - Grammy-nominated American poet, activist and author
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker - American writer and poet
"Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker - an African-American poet
"Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature." - Howard Thurman - author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader
"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain - American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer.
"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde - playwright and screenwriter
"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning - poets of the Victorian era.
I love being married. It's so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." - Rita Rudner - renown comic, Rita Rudner
"To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement
"We cannot really love anybody without whom we never laugh." - Alice Reppler Be happy and laugh, and THEN let yourself get in love. a content person is more true in love than the one who finds content through love.
Never lose heart. "For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it." - Ivan Panin - who achieved fame for claiming that the text of the Hebrew and Greek Bible contained numeric patterns
We can only learn to love by loving." - Iris Murdoch - Dublin-born writer and philosopher
"Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." - anonymous
Can be like an adventure; don’t be scared of it. “Till I loved I never lived—enough." - Emily Dickenson – renowned writer
Love represents a range of human emotions and experiences related to the senses of affection and sexual attraction.[1] The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. This diversity of meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Treat 'em norm
Treat them normally
“I sat like a statue, without a clue to how I should behave”, my friend told me. She was sharing her dilemma of feeling perplexed whenever confronted with a disabled person. Travelling by bus, she had spotted a blind man standing due to unavailability of seats. “I didn’t know whether to offer him my seat or not. I felt that anything I would do could hurt his sentiments”.
For me, a physically challenged person myself, this came as a surprise. Putting myself in that man’s shoes, I knew for sure that I wouldn’t have felt as vulnerable and easily hurt as imagined by my friend! So, after giving her a satisfactory reply, I pondered over this ‘dilemma’ faced by perhaps many others as well.
Firstly, is the dilemma a ‘dilemma’ at all? I don’t think so. We err when we sideline PWDs (People With Disabilities) as ‘them’. They are ‘one of us’. Each human being is different, and so are his/her needs. Hence, a disabled person is just differently-abled. The way you modify your behaviour when switching from an extrovert companion to an introvert, just be considerate when it comes to people with disabilities, not confused.
* See PWDs as wholesome individuals, not someone ‘born-to-be-helped’.
* Don’t be too scared to ask about the disability. They’d rather talk about it than let you have any misconceptions. At the same time, don’t bombard them with your curiosity.
* In case of kids, talk to them directly, not through their attendants/parents.
* If it’s a complaining PWD, just lend a patient ear and offer practical suggestions. Don’t feel inadequate at not being able to help.
* If it’s a smiling PWD, smile back. Don’t feel amazed. Happiness is a state of mind, not circumstantial.
* Don’t start rattling about a particular person who has a similar problem, or a miracle cure, or your heartfelt understanding of how difficult it must be.
Life is both roses and thorns, be it for anyone. Learning to live with the similarities and differences among people is important. Appreciating the same is an art. If ABC is happy enjoying the fragrance of a rose without having seen it, life doesn’t become less beautiful. But, since s/he might notice the sound of wind hitting against its petals, too, his/her life does become differently beautiful, yet equally enjoyable.
“I sat like a statue, without a clue to how I should behave”, my friend told me. She was sharing her dilemma of feeling perplexed whenever confronted with a disabled person. Travelling by bus, she had spotted a blind man standing due to unavailability of seats. “I didn’t know whether to offer him my seat or not. I felt that anything I would do could hurt his sentiments”.
For me, a physically challenged person myself, this came as a surprise. Putting myself in that man’s shoes, I knew for sure that I wouldn’t have felt as vulnerable and easily hurt as imagined by my friend! So, after giving her a satisfactory reply, I pondered over this ‘dilemma’ faced by perhaps many others as well.
Firstly, is the dilemma a ‘dilemma’ at all? I don’t think so. We err when we sideline PWDs (People With Disabilities) as ‘them’. They are ‘one of us’. Each human being is different, and so are his/her needs. Hence, a disabled person is just differently-abled. The way you modify your behaviour when switching from an extrovert companion to an introvert, just be considerate when it comes to people with disabilities, not confused.
* See PWDs as wholesome individuals, not someone ‘born-to-be-helped’.
* Don’t be too scared to ask about the disability. They’d rather talk about it than let you have any misconceptions. At the same time, don’t bombard them with your curiosity.
* In case of kids, talk to them directly, not through their attendants/parents.
* If it’s a complaining PWD, just lend a patient ear and offer practical suggestions. Don’t feel inadequate at not being able to help.
* If it’s a smiling PWD, smile back. Don’t feel amazed. Happiness is a state of mind, not circumstantial.
* Don’t start rattling about a particular person who has a similar problem, or a miracle cure, or your heartfelt understanding of how difficult it must be.
Life is both roses and thorns, be it for anyone. Learning to live with the similarities and differences among people is important. Appreciating the same is an art. If ABC is happy enjoying the fragrance of a rose without having seen it, life doesn’t become less beautiful. But, since s/he might notice the sound of wind hitting against its petals, too, his/her life does become differently beautiful, yet equally enjoyable.
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