December 2011
1 post
lesson of the day: how to make it in life
in 3 steps
conform
suck-up
get in the christmas spirit
September 2010
0 posts
losing
today i feel anger and guilt. anger to have lost a job. guilt because i lost a friend or two. forty-eight hours ago, i was feeling good about myself. two days. from up to down. i am losing and i have lost.
February 2010
1 post
bandwidth
it’s hard for me to like people. it seems to me that when they are around me all of their annoying habits are amplified. their qualities are buried under layers of pretension. their smiles are distorted as if i am looking at them through a bottle. their words become white noise. their sound drills in my head and with every fucking syllable they drill deeper in, until they hit my off switch....
January 2010
1 post
wilir
what i learned in rajasthan
sometimes, and only sometimes, the company of friends is overrated. talking to strangers or not talking at all are good replacements for familiar and stale conversations
lemon tea is the next best thing to strong coffee. make it a staple on all menus across the world. and what is that strange masala they add in your tea in pushkar. it’s all kinds of amazing
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October 2009
5 posts
101
Plan to do this in 1001 days starting October 8, 2009. Fingers crossed and all that.
1. Get a digital SLR camera
2. Restore old photographs
3. Master Texas Hold’em
4. Write a feature script
5. Watch all the Star Wars movies
6. See Radiohead live
7. Get a tattoo
8. Run a marathon
9. See a match at the Camp Nou (preferably the El Clasico)
10. Give up smoking
11. Drink only good whiskey
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pictures
i was looking at my parents’ wedding pictures the other day. it had been a while since i saw them and they looked so young. at this moment, you are thinking, “of course, you dumb bastard. they were young.” but that’s not the kind of young i am talking about. they had the look of a couple who don’t know what they were going to do for the rest of their life. it was a...
bastard
i get this feeling often that i am the worst asshole i know. i ruin relationships over the pettiest matters. at least that’s what people tell me. but then those matters are not really petty to me. they really do matter to me and it’s what matters to me that counts, right? if only life here was so simple. this maybe called the bastard’s life. but i have to play the good man role...
broken
i just realised a few weeks back that i have started stammering. it’s an unnerving feeling. as far as i can remember events from my uneventful childhood, i’ve never stammered or had any speech defects. there were days when words would refuse to form. they would just hang around my mouth. i would mouth them, feebly. sometimes i would be the only one to react to those words, but more...