December 2010
10 posts
saying hello like it were the last.
Saying good-byes have never been the same since Valerie.
In the last 12 months(and abit),
She and he said nearly 5 goodbyes,
From Coventry, to Bombay, to
Singapore, and each time
They never knew when was the next
Hello.
Their first goodbye was their
First hello. And now after 6 months since
Their last goodbye, they will once more
Prepare to
Say hello like it were the last.
boxing day: he didn't stare, he didn't scowl.
He didnt stare at me, he didn’t scowl at me. That made him different already.
Its a chilly Dec 26; its as if Winter decided to be kind to Christmas pilgrims and waited till the 26th to spread its chilly fingers across Delhi. There is a fog/smog that hangs over the city this morning so much so you could stare at the sun directly and there was hardly glare.
I’m waiting for Ana at the...
the wooden box & fiction.
I brought home a wooden box from the INK Conference. A small-ish rectangular box, it looked like any regular one, probably for a lady to put an earring pair or two. I bring it to the office.
the wooden box
I passed it to about 7 people, both my colleagues and some visitors to the office. My challenge to them was, without using any tools other than hands, to open the box. Simple. How difficult...
tasting spur-of-the-moments
Ever found yourself smiling when eating a favourite food when you’re so hungry? KFC, ice-cream…I remembered smiling like that when I had kaya spread last week here in Delhi.
I found myself smiling the same way this morning. But this time I was in a taxi on the way to the airport; I was flying out to Bombay. I am now waiting for the gates to open.
Last evening at a work meeting, I...
diplomats are not always diplomatic
Singaporean diplomats, through the latest leaks from Wikileaks, have been claimed to call India “stupid” in relation to India’s relations with ASEAN, and calling Japan a “big fat loser”.
Singapore’s foreign affairs minister says these were leaked and quoted out of context, dismissing it as cocktail talk. Well, it is a fair argument, but that’s the old...
4 days of traveling on the inside
I’m tired, and drained. Its 3am, Delhi.
But yet I’m buzzing, excited. The last 4 days was spent at the INK Conference [http://theinkconference.com/] in Lavasa, outside Pune (India). Other than the travel from Delhi to Lavasa via Pune, I’m more mentally and emotionally exhausted than physically tired.
untold stories
4 days of intensive talks, conversations, debates with the...
a country of possibilities.
In a country with 151 main languages (because including all the dialects would bring that number to 1,652), and about 330,003 gods worshiped by the main religions (Hinduism contributes 330,000), India is surely a country of possibilities.
I morbidly joke joke that India is a country of possibilities; the possibility of dying is pretty high too, in reference to a huge crack appearing in the...
delhi belly.
I open my eyes, and all I see is nothing.
I wave my hand in front of my eyes, and I see nothing. Nearly hearing its mechanics at work, my logical reason tells me I am lying in my Delhi bed. My drugged consciousness however is suspicious. I try waving my hand in front of my eyes again; nothing. I hear nothing; this cannot be Delhi, too silent. And then it came.
Like hands of a...
story-graphs: of rishikesh & the ganges
“Beyond the territorial formations of heron, And the ash, consumed by the current, from the skins of devotion…”
- The Ganges, Peter S Gardner