Posted by: Ajapa on: September 1, 2009
If I had to grade this city against Harry Potter’s Ordinary Wizarding Levels (OWLS) standard, I’d give it an exceeds expectations. I had expected to be utterly homesick, dismal and regretful of my decision to be here. On the contrary, I find myself perfectly content if not blissfully enchanted. I’d expected myself to miss the [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: August 16, 2009
Long fingers encircled
the necks of thin glasses
with liquid gold poured
from slender bottles.
In golden fuzziness
they let slip all reason
except the slenderness
of the short smooth time
in hand.
Before the fog broke to dawn
and the rooster crowed
they laughed and talked -
“seized the day”,
drenched their troubles in gold
and drowned them away.
I like black monsoon,
sat aside, dying to pour.
In the slender [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: July 23, 2009
If God didn’t exist how would things I’ve desired find their way to me? Like my Sufi Gurus say, “Tujhe dete huye nahin dekha par jholi bhari dekhi hai”
(I have not seen you giving me something, but my bags are full). Therefore, I know you love me.
This is from a post published on the 26th [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: July 16, 2009
On special nights around 10:30,
the sweet smell of magnolia
mingled with moonlight,
you, waft through my window.
But I don’t know who you are.
You listen to me as I ramble on
about life and death and college
and fate which joins me to you.
Then you leave assured of my happiness.
But I don’t know who you are.
Sometimes you don’t have time.
Too [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: July 16, 2009
You studied and studied to become oh so learned
Yet you never took the time to study yourself
You ran and ran to the temple without fail
But never bothered to enter your own heart
Everyday you fight Satan
But you never fight your own self (ego)
~ Baba Bulleh Shah
This according to my dashboard is my 100th post. I want [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: July 11, 2009
“Thousand poets dreamed a thousand years. Then you were born, my love”
“He said it to all his other wives as well” says his fourth and fortunately last wife. What is the point of saying such a nice thing if you are to say it to every one you come across. Do the words even hold [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: July 10, 2009
I’m grateful:
to my friend who took time from her flourishing new relationship with a vegetarian to eat chicken tikka with me
to the lemon smoothie I drank at Kaldi that scalded my newly scaled teeth but stopped my jaw ache
to the ATM machines around Kathmandu that make it possible for me to pamper myself
To Amelie who [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: July 6, 2009
My classmates and friends were doing this on facebook… I thought I’d do it here instead. I thought it would be different but similar to several of my previous posts.
Big Dreams small dreams and other dreams
For purely self interest
Uniquely me
Certain Things
Rules: Write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: June 21, 2009
“Baby is starting Mount Holyoke in the fall”- that’s from the 1987 Hit “Dirty Dancing”.
I wanted to put what I am about to write out of my mind for sometime but I don’t believe in manipulating my thoughts. I believe in letting them come as they are. So I thought about the memories I’m taking [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: May 14, 2009
I just got ticking about the Happiness logic again and realized that it is indeed so simple. If one wants to be dissatisfied and unhappy s/he can find plenty of reasons to become unhappy and dissatisfied but by just a little trying and giving one self what one truly deserves – that tiny bit of [...]
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