your friends ask you to treat but you are like-

and then after they are done eating and preparing to pay you suddenly stand up and say, ‘My treat.’ and walk away before they make any other demands-

and they are like-

because I’ve never done this kind of impulsive act before, in my head, I’m like this-

but I know, when I see my empty wallet when I return home again, I’ll be-

And my friends are like, ‘what’s wrong with you? why are you treating?’-

For now, everyone looks happy and even I’m like this when suddenly- 

2 more friends arrive who weren’t there for the treat and I’m thinking-

but they eventually get a treat from me and I pledge to myself to never give a treat impulsively again. Seriously wth goes wrong with me sometimes? xD Atleast, everyone enjoyed, hopefully :)

Get a grip! So, what? We’ll die. End of the world. Or, is it? There maybe intelligent life out there. There may come a time when human-like beings will be born again on another planet. Who knows?

Somehow, I find all this a bit silly. Earth could probably get collided by some huge comet or something and get shattered this MOMENT. But nothing like that has happened, yet(“yet” is a beautiful world isn’t it? You can never really say anything for certain if you just add ‘yet’ to it. There is a difference between saying ‘We haven’t won this game!’ and ‘We haven’t won this game, yet.’ Gives you immense hope, doesn’t it? And yet, it can also be quite scary :D). And that doesn’t mean it never will. What I mean to say is, we could have died any time! I could not even have been born to type all this out! The human race could have been destroyed long long ago, and it’s a miracle we have survived till now. It’s only a matter of time when some thing happens and living on earth becomes impossible. It may be now, tomorrow or a billion years later. But what is this paranoia about 2012? Don’t you realize that we could die any moment? Don’t you realize that this means that we, living now, in this moment, is another miracle. And this moment, is to be cherished, and lived without regret, so that when it is time, we can look forward to facing death like an old friend(did I quote something from HP?). We’re going to die any way, any day and your death is never in your control until of course you are suicidal(which is plain stupid- death happens once, die in a better way, seriously :-/).. so why freak out so much about it? Live. This. Moment.

There was a time when I felt that the best way to die was to die in your sleep. No fuss, nothing. But then, I came across this quote-

“I wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD…I want to feel what it’s like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don’t want to miss it.”

-Jim Morrison

I actually had to read it a few times to understand why he said what he said. Death is just a one-time thing, it’s special isn’t it? We spend 1/3rd of our life sleeping, do we want to sleep even in death? I for one, am willing to wake up early if I know I’m going to experience death. Wow.

Sorry, if this post freaked you out a bit. It’s just I got a little annoyed with people going, ‘omg i’m gonna die this year, boo hoo’. Blehh, if you’re gonna keep whining about it and don’t respect the life you have in your hands right now, you probably are better off- No, I won’t say it. I hope you’ll change your thoughts even if by a bit.

This past week I’ve heard almost every song in my playlist for about 2 hours everyday. My ears hurt(not because of the music but those weird-sized earphones :-/ ) but I’ve realized something- I could write a blog post on every single song in my playlist. I’m proud of those songs, no matter how often or rarely I listen to them. I make it a point to not listen to the songs I absolutely love for a reason. It may sound weird, and I know many people who listen to their favorite songs on loop, for over 50-60 times, but I can never do that. I will never do that. My favorites are so precious to me that I fear listening to them for so many times continuously will make me get bored of them and one day I might just stop listening to it cos it’s just irritating, or I’ve heard it too many times, or it’s not special anymore, or I end up taking it for granted, something like that. For me, my favorite song will be there when I need it, like a true friend. If not in the playlist, it’ll be in my heart and mind. These songs are something I don’t wanna get sick of or take for granted. *talk about attachment. aishhh*.They give me company when there’s no one around. Here’s one to music. For lighting up my life. Thank you. :)

Composer Ravi Sharma passed away yesterday. May his soul rest in peace. To be honest, I didn’t know he was the genius behind songs like Chaudhvin ka Chand and Aage Bhi Jaane Na Tu.

I especially like Chaudhvin ka Chand. Beautiful singing by Rafi saab, soulful composition and those lyrics. God, those lyrics. There are zillions of old Hindi film songs that use several words to describe the beauty of a female character(the actress), but this stands out for me. It’s sheer brilliant poetry.

http://indiansongtranslations.blogspot.in/2008/06/chaudhvin-ka-chand.html

Zulfein hain jaise kaandhon pe baadal jhuke hue
Aankhen hain jaisi mey ke peyaale bhare hue

Chehra hai jaise jheel mein hansta hua kanwal
Ya zindagi ke saaz pe chaidi hui ghazal

Honthon pe khelti hain tabassum ki bijiliyaan

waah waah! And the dialogue before the song is also awesome. Guru Dutt’s character says stuff like -‘I won’t force you to show me your face, I’ll leave that to my fortune and your choice. But, for God’s sake, do see mine. I am dark, face is full of spots, and teeth are protruding like an elephant’s tusks!’ Waheeda Rahman’s character gets shocked by this and looks around to see him. He then says, ‘Waaqay chaudhvin ka chaand ho(truly like the full moon!)’

haaye, maar daalo! :D

The song with english subs is here, but it just doesn’t do justice to the beauty of urdu lyrics <3

He explains so beautifully, and his narration is so amazing. Some people have such captivating voices, that you want to listen to them all day. He was speaking about how Titan has liquid on its surface, and that liquid was not water, but methane. If that TV show had any other person hosting it, I for one, who hardly ever watches Discovery or BBC Entertainment or the like, would have changed the channel(cos honestly, I used to believe until today there are enough things that we should investigate in our own backyard than look into our neighbours’), but this sir, Prof. Brian Cox, explains with a smile, and that calm voice, as I said, I could listen to him all day, but also understand what exactly he was talking about. :D And because he said stuff like, ‘This is fascinating because now there are two Earth-like planets in our solar system’, I’m more interested in our neighbours xD

P.S- And he is an Englishman! :O First it was Benedict Cumberbatch, now Brian Cox. And OMG, both have the same initials! :O :O

Okay, the end. :D

Delayed it quite a bit didn’t I? It happened on Sunday, Feb 19th 2012. Easily one of the best and happiest days of my life. No wonder I’m feeling a little down since that day cos I haven’t laughed that much for a while :D And by laughing I don’t mean in a mockery sort of way, I truly truly enjoyed it. Not a moment passed when I wasn’t smiling widely and my cheeks hurt so bad, I’m sure they had gone crimson! :)

Anyway, I had some work which went horribly so I only made it to the event at half past twelve. I followed 3 Japanese to the venue(my first time seeing Japanese people in my country!Maybe I’ve seen them before, but thought they were from the North-East! Aah gomen, if that sounded rude, I love Japan and am fiercely protective of north east indians, ask my classmates! I don’t let them call ‘chingis’! How annoying it is!) So, when I finally went in, my friend A was standing there and I was almost jumping and dancing around looking at how grand the place looked! A said he should have taken a photo/video of my face as I entered! :)

*Most photos are by my friends J and A since I couldn’t take many! I hope they won’t mind. Naah, they won’t. :D*

Should have taken a proper photo of the entrance, but oh well, something is better than nothing! To the right, a lady was handing out the Japan Habba booklet which showed the events that would take place during the day.

Okay, then, we went to the food court where everyone(mostly) were having lunch and I saw my friends in the queue buying noodles. The quantity was too less for Rs.100! T_T But I guess it’s okay since many other things were for free. Here’s us trying to eat with chopsticks for the first time in our lives(atleast a first for me! wooden chopsticks!) My first try looked almost like a pro handling it.. later on, I just couldn’t hold those chopsticks properly :D

And then, I saw kids. OMO OMO OMO they are sooooo cute.. kids are always cute, but these japanese kids, it’s as though looking at a rainbow(okay sorry, dumb simile, but you get the drift i hope!), so many of them and choooooooooo kawaii, we honestly wanted to kidnap some of them! xD

More kids-spam-pics coming up! ;) And sooo many of them together!

Some of the other things that were put up were-

It was nearly 1pm when we decided to go to the Yukata wearing corner. God, I wanted to do this so badly, wear a Yukata, but what do we see there?

“Nooooooooooooooo!!” is exactly what I said when one of the ladies apologized and told us to come next year! :D We will, we definitely will! >.<

Because this is a super long post, I’ll divide it into parts(also cos I’m hungry now so I’ll leave this much for today!)