Monday, February 25, 2008

confused, as always....

"I love you
I hate you
I can live without you.
I breathe you
I taste you
I can't live without you. "

aah! i never thought the lines of any song could be so true.
aah!

i must learn hate!

i hate you!

THE FOUNTAINHEAD

Ive read some novels, few novellas and myriad stories. Many of them interesting , quite a few were boring. But "The Fountainhead" happens to be something I've never been through. Its not free flowing like a Sydney, its not that interesting like a Dan Brown and it certainly does not have any captivating plot like one of the Frederick forsyth's and yet it baffles me no limits that its "un-putdownable". Its addictive, its dangerous!
The whole character sketch of the male lead of the story, Howard Roark, as an idiosyncratic zealot, committed only to his freewill of being an unbound architect leaves you in awe. The character starts to haunt you. At least am feeling the brunt of being with him for last 268 pages. I mean I go about doing my jobs and every now and then, I reflect back and wonder as to how Roark would have handled that, and it just leaves me ashamed that I had not done it to the point of perfection Roark would have had put in it.
You even start to look out for that "Dominique Francon" of your life.
The brutality of idealism is really shocking if not convincing.
Never been through such stuff , and its seducing me in to its magic. And am loving it!

And may be that’s why they say it’s a masterpiece.

Satan save me from the next 400 pages.

Friday, February 15, 2008

vengenace... the path of satan...

This is to document the pain that am feeling. I can feel that frustration, a slight dizziness , ears feel hot. Heart seems to be burning. It’s a sense to do something, hurt someone or myself. Mind is screaming for a shot of intoxicant. Still the consciousness of mind prevents me from attempting anything stupid. But feeling is unwavering to document this pain, and feel it when needed, and seek vengeance. A vengeance without the onslaught of emotions, for emotions make a man weak. Vengeance worth the pain, pain for pain, loneliness for loneliness, an ignore for the ignore, frustration for the frustration.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Clint eastwood

And they say Clint eastwood is a good director.
And I agree no less.
Am no critic, neither have I watched many of his movies but it doesn’t take long to appreciate what he does.
Just been watching my third movie(million dollar baby) of his direction and am awed by what magic he pours in to the scripts, the background score, the cinematography, the movie as a whole. Of course the movies are totally set in American contexts but the realism of emotions that is enacted and portrayed is really commendable. The stories aren't stories about winning or loosing or some cheap thrill of being made to laugh or scare, they are just simple stories. Stories about people their live s and their real lives alone, nothing else.
The magic it seems emerges form the simplicity and a knack of portraying the same constraints, frustrations…. a lack of control over the way the life is and moves on, and the whole beauty of creation that emerges from even such a pathetic set of bondings and shortcomings of human psyche.
And that is what I think makes me identify with many of the characters that are portrayed in his movies.
Totally different from the way I am, the way I feel and act, yet their humanism makes me feel what they would have felt had they been real rather than reel.
My tributes to the acclaimed and gifted director!

just another word...

oxymoron /ksmrn/ n. M17. [Gk oxumoron use as n. of neut. sing. of oxumoros pointedly foolish, f. oxus (see OXY-) + moros foolish (see MORON).] A rhetorical figure of speech in which markedly contradictory terms appear in conjunction so as to emphasize the statement; gen. a contradiction in terms.
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For many its just a word. A self-contradiction, a part of speech, vocabulary, general English language. It seems funny, a joke, when you actually be in an oxymoronic situation, may be when you reflect back at your life, the way you are and whole mess you have been through, you are and will always be and you find it all contradictory. But as you realize that you could've been without the whole mess, and then finally it turns that the whole mess was you … the pun starts to fade. I always wanted to be good, that loving-caring 'angel' but the only feeling that I arouse in people, at least the ones I wanted to be good with, is pathos…

I love this song called 'Always' by saliva, a stanza of it goes…
"I love you
I hate you
I can live without you.
I breathe you
I taste you
I can't live without you. "

So oxymoronic, so meaningless you may say, To intensely hate a person and to still love the same may be the most equivocal, ambiguous statements, yet the pain it embalms can only be felt. It’s a feeling beyond criticism or appreciation in words.
I felt it. May be today…
No jokes, it hurts bad. Especially in the ways I felt it. Somewhere down the centre left of chest it starts to burn, its intense, its painful and beyond the relief of companionship, console or medicine. Having someone as a friend, as a companion, with you, near you, around you and yet feeling that absence, an absence not in the body and spirits, but in the ways you wanted the whole scene to be…
May be that’s what Oxymoron(ic) means….

Its just a word. I 'felt' what it means.

Friday, February 1, 2008

love, friendship and me....

What is friendship???
A so called socially approved, morally correct relationship of symbiosis between two individuals having something common to share. But mind the word " symbiosis", in no ways has a selfless tag attached to it. In fact this symbiosis is just a guise for everyone's parasitism. You may argue that you will do anything for your friend, but alas! So do, all my so called friends say. Even I say so! But in the heart of my hearts they as well as I know its all fake, just a mockery of human emotion of being that caring angel. Consider a catch-22 situation and relate yourself to it you will defiantly find the answer that it was for yourself and yourself alone that you had cared for. And this is no baseless hypothesis am making, this is just the plain truth in what little experience* I had with all type of "friends". They all stab you, and if not stab they very much ignore or leave you when you find yourself in all the helluva misery or need company.

* ~(I would also like to share that I've studied in 6 schools in 5 cities from class 1-12 and nearly 2 years in college, making friends with all the types of people. From the fringe group of useless backbenchers, to the extroverted party animals, to bookworms, to a combination of all, to the "stick with nobody/everybody" mongrels.)

So am I not the friend to my friends???
Am I just another back-stabbing villain, as I myself had concluded??? lol (May be… a whole lot depends on the way you think…)
Rather than a friend I would like to be called a trustworthy symbiot. No more, no less. K lemme explain.

Mmm… well it was in the midst of last sem that I truly started to believe in what I have written above, and since then I've tried to follow this;
1. Am no friend to nobody. I stopped expecting things from people, specially from "friends".
2. And I don’t consider any enemies.( But provoke me and I will seek every heaven and hell to hurt you a badly as I can.)
3. Those who ignore me, I simply stop being with them.
4.Seeking a win- win situation for all, I follow pure symbiosis with the philosophy that doing good gets you good (lol. See justin timberlake's what goes around comes around - video, for more).

Now that will make you think… yaar! this stupid misanthropic despot is not worth wasting any emotions, friendship least of all.
But trust me,
My symbiosis is pure!, help me and I will help you, love me and I love you back, no malice, no jokes!
And the added feature among all is that I don expect things from you, Just some goodwill that I can sense(not even a goodwill gesture).
But just don’t fuck with me. I can be emotionless.

The Twisted transistor®

Firstly let me clear it once and for all that this isn't a travelogue or even a faint attempt at writing an adventure essay. This is just a "memorabilia" I am attempting to "write" so that it always remains bright and clear, that sometimes it is these simple trips to these unusual places you visit that makes the whole life thing seem a whole lot more fun!
So today we (myself, amar-the most faadu/amazing/humble/humorous, anumpam-automobile geek/the moustache guy/the studious guy)went for a excursion to nai sadak. As most of who are reading this would already know that the place is where you get all kinds of new/old books.(Yes books that we consider "untouchables" till the arrival of exam season). And most of the people also would ask … books??? And me(abhi)???, well actually my abysmally pathetic situation in the last sem really forced me to reconsider my stand at least regarding purchase of books. So there i found myself in midst of all the books, the market, the ballyhoo of nai sadak of purani Delhi.
And unambiguously, I had the time of my life. The whole market seemed to be more thrilling than a roller coaster ride in amusement park. Being there in all that mad rush, the jostling crowd, the busy market, the unending bargains… well looking at the repetitive schedule of collage life, all were sheer joys of life.
Of course the high point of the trip was all the savoring food we had. From fresh baked cookies to paani puri to papdi chaat to the mouth watering paranthas of paranthe-wali gali, we tried it all. The trip ended with full glasses of mausambi juice and then a round of carrot juice lol.

And now you might ask why is this piece of shitty essay called a twisted transistor??? Well that’s cause the luck charm of this trip happened to be our good ol blockbuster from the master rockers "the KORN". And trust me I left no stone unturned to listen as well to make the song heard to every god dam worthy soul on the trip( and that includes our cookie wale bhaiya to book wale bhaiya to even the bull that crossed our path on the road!)