the division bell

December 25, 2008

On Ageing, Death and such…

Filed under: A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. — sathya84 @ 4:27 pm

Wrote this one to cheer up a friend. Don’t know what to call it yet.

Do you age as you grow
or do you grow as you age?
Don’t ask me
it’s not in my page.
I started with death
and am ageing toward life
I am so many years younger
than I was at five.
You are so good with numbers
Tell my age, will you?
It’s not just polite
but a compliment too.
Don’t break your song,
or think you are old
I once was the same
or so I’ve been told.
I had it in my bag
Here, take some hope
Don’t fear for me,
I always bring more.

I am joy,I am wonder
I am carefree too
I have defeated already
that which frightens you.

December 20, 2008

Solo Pic!

Filed under: Funtastic — sathya84 @ 8:52 pm

Some everyday conversations have contained some comic gems. I decided to put some of these fun bytes together in a category that I chistened ‘funtastic’. This is, in other words, a blog filler, whose sole purpose is to make me feel good when I have nothing original to say. Also, by means of this category, I have introduced characters A and B, and will continue to introduce others like C, D and the rest as the need may be. AA, BB… may also make frequent appearances since these conversations often involve members in excess of 26. Here’s one which cracked me up today:

A: Sathya and Sidharth get together for a solo pic!

B: I want to be a part of the pic too.

A: No. I said solo pic!

December 19, 2008

Something about nothing or nothing on anything?

Filed under: Uncategorized — sathya84 @ 12:41 am
I want to write a song. But the process of writing seems to be too complex. Looks like I might have to have a few “GRE” words in handy , but I am usually a guy who is sometimes ‘lackadaisical’,sometimes ‘cavalier’ about language. Looks like I would need to make the last words of every sentence rhyme (or they would call it a crime, something like that!), but I always thought it was rumor that humor and tumor rhymed. Looks like it helps if your piece was funny, but again, I am a guy who laughs loud when an old lady trips and falls. Also, I came to know a subject is essential. I thought about this for a while (lack of subject matter started to look like a good subject). I have nothing to say about death (or life for that matter), I think Nature is gay and romance is bullcrap, I don’t care if God exists or not. So, looks like we are stuck, eh…writer’s block, writer’s block…But then things are taking a diametrically opposite turn as you are beginning to witness. As I look back (or I could say, ‘in retrospect’ yells Visu the consultant), I have written something about nothing. All these days, I wrote nothing about anything. So, something about nothing seems to be a better thing in comparison. I started to write a song and I dont have one. But I have a blog that I didnt’ start out to write. I was so bored  but I have been engaged for a while now. But now I have bored the living shit out of you, the reader. The process of writing is quite simple, I conclude. You only have to be bored enough. Now that I have bored you so much, I feel the time is right for you to start writing. You could write one of those masterpieces like ‘Gone with the wind’ or ‘War and Peace’, that only a person bored to death could come up with. And what’s more, only stupendously bored people would even read that. So, maybe, you were bored even before you started reading this. Anyway, now that I have accomplished to get some material written, I will let you have yours be written.

Cheers!

“A pen is mighty to the bored!”

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