raining words: 2012

Who is this?

There are somethings which you know with such crippling surety that you wish there was a doubt.

Stating the Obvious

It‘s funny how some people like to state the obvious. Here’s an incident:

Evening time, you just left from work. It’s raining cats and dogs. You forgot your umbrella at home. And now your sorry self is getting soaked, standing by the street, waiting for a rickshaw to stop. And right then, in all his sheltered glory, a colleague passes by and goes, “Oh, you don‘t have an umbrella.”

And with a smirk that would impress Damon Salvatore himself, you reply, “I do have my umbrella in the bag, it‘s just that I love a two hour commute back home when my clothes are dripping wet.”

You would think stating the bleeding obvious is a dying art, but no, here’s another common encounter.

You wake up late. Skip breakfast in the hope of making it to work before ‘late morning’. On your way to the work station, your colleague says, “You got late to work today.”

It takes every ounce of self-restraint you can muster on an empty stomach to stop from saying, ”I got here on time. I was just sitting in the lobby for the past two hours staring at all the brilliant people who work here.”

Superheroes in our times need not have the ability to fly or break walls; I reckon we need smart, witty and funny people, for saving the day, one dull moron at a time.

Doctor Who

The Doctor: I said you were the most beautiful thing I'd ever known.
Idris: Then you stole me. And I stole you.

~Quotes from the show

Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful

I've been watching your world from afar,

I've been trying to be where you are,

And I've been secretly falling apart,

I'll see.

To me, you're strange and you're beautiful,

You'd be so perfect with me but you just can't see,

You turn every head but you don't see me.

I'll put a spell on you,

You'll fall asleep and I'll put a spell on you.

And when I wake you,

I'll be the first thing you see, lyricstop

And you'll realise that you love me.

Sometimes, the last thing you want comes in first,

Sometimes, the frist thing you want never comes,

And I know, the waiting is all you can do,

Sometimes...

I'll put a spell on you,

You'll fall asleep,

I'll put a spell on you,

And when I wake you,

I'll be the first thing you see,

And you'll realise that you love me.

I'll put a spell on you,

You'll fall asleep 'cos I'll put a spell on you,

And when I wake you,

I'll be the first thing you see,

And you'll realise that you love me, yeah...

Creepy but beautifully sung.

A Quoi Bon Dire

Seventeen years ago you said
Something that sounded like Good-bye:
    And everybody thinks you are dead
            But I.

    So I as I grow stiff and cold
To this and that say Good-bye too;
    And everybody sees that I am old
            But you.

    And one fine morning in a sunny lane
Some boy and girl will meet and kiss and swear
    That nobody can love their way again
            While over there
You will have smiled, and I shall have tossed your hair.

~Charlotte Mew

wonderblah

I should be writing a test right now. But it’s a hot Saturday afternoon, and so I instead spend my energy mooning over John Mayer.

And I am never getting over the way he sings

‘Damn baby
You frustrate me
I know you're mine all mine all mine
But you look so good it hurts sometimes’.

Read Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth. How on Earth she managed to win the Pulitzer still beats me. But anyhoo, I read the book knowing the fact that her previous short stories I read were, for a lack of better word, crap. On my defence, I should add that my office library only had that one book under Fiction.

I know I am missing something, but I don't exactly know what!

If constructive criticism is given in a destructive way, is it still constructive criticism?

raining words

Who is this?

Stating the Obvious

Doctor Who

Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful

A Quoi Bon Dire

wonderblah

I know I am missing something, but I don't exactly know what!

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