Life’s unexpected turns come in sharp bends,
Suddenly, unaware and unwanted –
Sometimes difficult and sometimes sad
At times unprepared, other times bad.
Difficult to fathom, untrue to the ear
Like a dark tunnel; A scare, a fear.
A want to light-up, cheer up and smile
But an obstacle like a hundred mile –
But good times have to come to all
To all of us, big or small
My time is running out I feel
Time’s of essence, come or I steal
A cheer, a smile and gurgling sound
Is what want my-side bound!
The happy day I’d know is near
When dimpled smiles replace a tear!
6.19 pm
26th November, 2007
November 26, 2007
October 30, 2007
Happy and more...
Happy is a feeling
Feeling is happy
Happy makes music
Music means smiling
Happy I am
Happy he is
Happy you are
Happy, oh please!
Feeling is happy
Happy makes music
Music means smiling
Happy I am
Happy he is
Happy you are
Happy, oh please!
October 07, 2007
August 24, 2007
Mood
PERHAPS! My favorite word in the English dictionary! It's suggestive, hopeful, mellow yet encouraging.
I have no particular reason to write about a word but there are some words in my life I am linked to and this is one of them. Will come to others later or maybe never –
"Words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; now, that’s how important words are. Perhaps – it’s one of the easily used words in our language without grit or precision but yet holds so much weight.
Perhaps some day I will come back to this page and write why it’s a part of my life. This word holds a lot of meaning for me and I am still finding out how deep the meaning of this word can be!
I have no particular reason to write about a word but there are some words in my life I am linked to and this is one of them. Will come to others later or maybe never –
"Words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; now, that’s how important words are. Perhaps – it’s one of the easily used words in our language without grit or precision but yet holds so much weight.
Perhaps some day I will come back to this page and write why it’s a part of my life. This word holds a lot of meaning for me and I am still finding out how deep the meaning of this word can be!
August 05, 2007
The sweet bitter valleys
Let me start from where the road begins.
This is San Francisco and we were on our way to visit 2 of the biggest winery at the Sonoma and the Napa Valley.
Our guide was Mr. Ken Washington with a very deep voice and a crispy sense of humour was going to take us to these places telling us all about it all the way to the destinations. To ensure all our ears were on him, he would often go back to 2-3 descriptions of the past and test our concentration quotient. He was a short man with a limp on one leg with a very cheerful and pleasant disposition.
It was a pleasant day and I certainly did not need a jacket but wearing it was better than carrying and losing it. The bus ride to the valley was amazing, around 1 and a half hours from our hotel at the heart of the city. We were busy taking pix all the way, there was no time for a snooze or anything as the countryside was too beautiful and virginal to miss out for anything.
We soon arrived. The hosts as they call themselves took us in for wine tasting and some fine wine etiquette. It was an experience by itself especially for someone like me who knew there are 2 kinds of wine, red and white. Now you can call me half a connoisseur till my next visit to either the wine state in California or maybe France, let’s see.
Now let me begin my short class right here – this is something I knew before my visit there… you are supposed to hold a glass at the upward stem level with your thumb and forefinger. Once the wine is poured first you smell it and relish the breath you take in.. Then you either roll your glass on the table top or simply pick it up and swirl is for the flavor to be at its best. Then you take your waited, baited first sip and twirl is around your mouth and finally drink it. Ah, that was neat, wasn’t it?
Cheers is not something to be done with a touch for the fear of breaking your glass, you should criss cross your glasses and go boom at the bottom where the stem begins to go down. The thickness of the glass is thickest and meant to be knocked ‘cheers’ so can take the bang so go on, try it, its worth the sound and cheers feels so much better since I learnt this trick.
There is more on wine chilling or chilling with wine and other winteresting little observations that I made so will come back to post that later, till then ciao!
This is San Francisco and we were on our way to visit 2 of the biggest winery at the Sonoma and the Napa Valley.
Our guide was Mr. Ken Washington with a very deep voice and a crispy sense of humour was going to take us to these places telling us all about it all the way to the destinations. To ensure all our ears were on him, he would often go back to 2-3 descriptions of the past and test our concentration quotient. He was a short man with a limp on one leg with a very cheerful and pleasant disposition.
It was a pleasant day and I certainly did not need a jacket but wearing it was better than carrying and losing it. The bus ride to the valley was amazing, around 1 and a half hours from our hotel at the heart of the city. We were busy taking pix all the way, there was no time for a snooze or anything as the countryside was too beautiful and virginal to miss out for anything.
We soon arrived. The hosts as they call themselves took us in for wine tasting and some fine wine etiquette. It was an experience by itself especially for someone like me who knew there are 2 kinds of wine, red and white. Now you can call me half a connoisseur till my next visit to either the wine state in California or maybe France, let’s see.
Now let me begin my short class right here – this is something I knew before my visit there… you are supposed to hold a glass at the upward stem level with your thumb and forefinger. Once the wine is poured first you smell it and relish the breath you take in.. Then you either roll your glass on the table top or simply pick it up and swirl is for the flavor to be at its best. Then you take your waited, baited first sip and twirl is around your mouth and finally drink it. Ah, that was neat, wasn’t it?
Cheers is not something to be done with a touch for the fear of breaking your glass, you should criss cross your glasses and go boom at the bottom where the stem begins to go down. The thickness of the glass is thickest and meant to be knocked ‘cheers’ so can take the bang so go on, try it, its worth the sound and cheers feels so much better since I learnt this trick.
There is more on wine chilling or chilling with wine and other winteresting little observations that I made so will come back to post that later, till then ciao!
July 27, 2007
Louvre, Paris
The first thing that caught my eye as I entered Louvre was that the only arrow and direction board to the entire gallery of the paintings was a Mona Lisa mention. Amazing. I walked with baited breath to catch a glimpse of the surround-eye lady and the walk seemed long through huge paintings hanging on either side and if you noticed the ceiling you would find angel-men with wings ready to fall on you any moment......
Finally after 2 or 3 turns and long corridors I saw a crowd and I knew she was there. The ONLY painting paneled by glass with a guard keeping eye on it. I pushed my way through the crowd forgetting all my recently-acquired-European manners and stood beside the lady on the canvas and just looked on. Mona Lisa was probably one of the smallest paintings in that particular hall with the maximum onlookers. I felt like I reached the destination - 18th July 2007.
My reaction was of utter amazement firstly because I was actually in Louvre looking on at Mona Lisa and then it was of multiple reactions and speculations on whether Leonardo da Vinci ever envisaged that his Mona Lisa would be such a hit.. Finally it hit upon me as to why France was taking such pride in keeping Mona Lisa in Louvre when it actually belonged to Italy. The huge paintings were intriguing too especially when I noticed that some took over 10 years to finish. I wondered whether the painting was what the person envisioned when he started 10 years ago...quiet a lot to think if you asked me.
A place to visit for sure!!
Finally after 2 or 3 turns and long corridors I saw a crowd and I knew she was there. The ONLY painting paneled by glass with a guard keeping eye on it. I pushed my way through the crowd forgetting all my recently-acquired-European manners and stood beside the lady on the canvas and just looked on. Mona Lisa was probably one of the smallest paintings in that particular hall with the maximum onlookers. I felt like I reached the destination - 18th July 2007.
My reaction was of utter amazement firstly because I was actually in Louvre looking on at Mona Lisa and then it was of multiple reactions and speculations on whether Leonardo da Vinci ever envisaged that his Mona Lisa would be such a hit.. Finally it hit upon me as to why France was taking such pride in keeping Mona Lisa in Louvre when it actually belonged to Italy. The huge paintings were intriguing too especially when I noticed that some took over 10 years to finish. I wondered whether the painting was what the person envisioned when he started 10 years ago...quiet a lot to think if you asked me.
A place to visit for sure!!
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