Me and us...

I read this blog written by a certain Jammie sometime back...
It hit home..
(Sorry Jammie, have no intentions of stealin ur thots, i just think they're worth a repost)

"Far too many people are looking for the right person instead of trying to be the right person" - Gloria Steinem
i recently ran across this quote and tried to apply it to many of the relationships i know of and follow avidly (kind of like star plus soaps). is it true? is the season to adjust over? are we now completely formed human beings who will not mould ourslves into a couple unit if it means giving up a few parts of oursleves here and there? or is there still hope? is there still the chance that, once in actual love, we will not hold on obsessively to what we constitutes "me" and move on to what constitutes "us"?
i dont think in this context, the concept of "being the right person" exists on its own as an abstract idea on personality. i feel it has more to do with the way you are as a couple. if you are right for each other. and once in the marriage, the changes that you make are to be the right person for the person you just agreed to spend the rest of your life with. another thought that came to me was about forever looking. i remmeber a time in life when our discussions used to range from "how do we know this is IT?" to "what if you meet your dream man at your very own wedding?". the concept of choosing and THEN making it work was alien. we were all looking for the RIGHT man. one who would have all the qualities, goodness, sexiness and romance in perfect parts. we didnt anticipate ourselves changing at all. and now that we are grown up and shit, we realize, oh my god, so it is eventually, after all, all upto me to decide to be happy? because once i decide to, somehow, someway, the universe will conspire to make it so.

Jammie..

Quotes and stuff i loved... (sucker for TV that I am)

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

Buffy: "I haven't processed everything yet. (with a small laugh) My brain isn't really functioning on the higher levels. It's pretty much: fire bad; tree pretty."

Buffy: "I think horrible is still coming. Right now, it's worse. Right now, I'm just trying to keep from dying. I can't breathe, Will. I feel like I can't breathe."

Spike: You listen to me. I've been alive a bit longer than you and dead a lot longer than that. I've seen things you couldn't imagine and done things I'd prefer you didn't. I don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain so I make a lot of mistakes. A lot of wrong bloody calls. A hundred plus years and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of. You.Hey, look at me. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say I love you, it's not because I want you, or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you and I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You are a hell of a woman. You're the one, Buffy.
Buffy: I don't want to be the one.
Spike: I don't want to be this good-looking and athletic. We all have crosses to bear.


MEET JOE BLACK

Allison: I should have my head examined again.

William Parrish: Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived.
William Parrish: I want u to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.

Susan Parrish: Love, passion, obsession, all those things you told me to wait for, well, they've arrived. What are you afraid of, Dad? That I'll fall head over heels for Joe? Well, I have.

William Parrish: I thought I was going to sneak away tonight. What a glorious night! Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly... perfect memory. Sometimes we've had our ups and downs, but we're all together, And you're mine, for a night. And I'm going to break precedence and tell you my one candle wish: that you would have a life, as lucky as mine where you can wake up one morning and say, "I don't want anything more." 65 years, don't they go by in a blink?

Susan Parrish: Tell me you love me now.
Joe Black: I love you now. I love you always.
Joe Black: Thank you for loving me.

Joe Black: Can do no right by people. I com' to take you you want to stay - I leave you stay, you want to go.

Jamaican Woman: It nice it happen to you. Like you come to the island and had a holiday. Sun didn't burn you red-red, just brown. You sleep and no mosquito eat you. But the truth is, it bound to happen if you stay long enough. So take that nice picture you got in your head home with you, but don't be fooled. We lonely here mostly too. If we lucky, maybe, we got some nice pictures to take with us.
Joe Black: You got enough nice pictures?

Susan: What will we do now?
Joe: It will come to us.


LEGENDS OF THE FALL

Susannah: Tristan, I have no where to send this letter and no reason to believe you wish to receive it. I write it only for myself. And so I will hide it away with all things left unsaid and undone between us.

Susannah: Forever turned out to be too long.

Tristan: You know when Samuel died... when Samuel died, I cursed God. Did I damn everybody around me as well as myself?

One Stab: I thought Tristan would never live to be an old man. I was wrong about that. I was wrong about many things. It was those who loved him the most that died young. He was a rock they broke themselves against however much he tried to protect them.

Alfred: I followed all of the rules, man's and God's. And you, you followed none of them. And they all loved you more. Samuel, Father, and my... even my own wife.

One Stab: It is hard to tell of happiness. Time goes by and we feel safe too soon.

One Stab: She was like the water that freezes inside a rock and breaks it apart. It was no more her fault than it is the fault of the water when the rock shatters.

Ok i admit she is adorable!

Mano's E-TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY

Once upon a time two years back, a black ball of fur was born to a Persian cat. True breed or not, I dunno…
*focus* that is not the point of the story..

Well, some weeks later, the very much loved by some and respected by others Janni Bhai bought the little billoo and presented him to us…. The little billooo made himself right at home, starting with peeing in my room, whenever it got the chance…
I am not lying…
for those of u who know my love for shoes, those were dark dark days for me…
Mano even peed on my shoes, *sniff sniff* I had to give away two pairs…

Than finally when its sniffing system started working properly and it could make out the litter dabba, and when it had achieved proper bladder control (important milestone), it focused its energy elsewhere and so my room was spared…

Since than its been the most adorably ugly cat one cud ever have…

• For one, its fur ranges from dark grey to white depending on the weather, but strangely its face remains black…
• Nanii maa put it very nicely and eloquently when she said that Mano’s face resembled Tom’s (from tom and jerry), not the usual-Tom face but the one where Jerry hits him on the face with a large frying pan and Tom’s face goes flat…
• Its eyes are honestly like marbles, and they change colors according to what he’s feeling… freaky mood eyes I tell u!
• It sleeps the whole day and is up the whole night… ammi believes tht this has something to do with the fact that billlooo is honeyz cat… they share the same sleeping pattern apparently… the weird thing is (of course, there is a weird thing.. What did u expect… our family is weird to begin with.. And now so are our animals..) that around 2 to 3 in the night, billlooo goes all hyperactive and refuses to acknowledge the warnings we give him… It starts running around the whole place, jumps on the sofas and attempts to fly across anything that comes in his way… it is my personal belief that my sister is secretly feeding him RED BULL or some other version of the drink but that is yet to be confirmed… any help in this matter will be much appreciated.
• When we got the cat, the fraud shop walla told us it was male. Nobody bothered to contest that statement… billoooo spent a good 8-9 months amongst us 3 adoring female fans as our very own beloved BILLA…. We later found out it wasn’t a HE-cat, it was a BILLI… imagine our disappointment… we still havent gotten over it… our friends still wonder why we refer to him as a male cat and why we apply the male tense when talkin about him.
• Manoojiii being in heat is a completely different story. We literally have no sleep or sukoon in those 4-5 days… That is when when we are reminded who the cat actually belongs to… (Honey!) … and she shud be the one who shud suffer the most… of course, that rarely happens, and the cat is let out in the lounge, where she pays a visit to every door and attempts to serenade us separately for a gud 25 mins per person, while inside the rooms, we do a variety of things, ranging from plotting how to kill the cat, or throw the cat out without Honey noticing, to moaning, groaning, and attempting to sleep…
• The high moment for our little kitty, I believe, was when it killed a lizard in my bathroom… and that was it, just killing… no eating it.. No playing with it… our cat is evil I tell u, she killed the big fat lizard and sat and looked at the dead thing for hours… when gonngii came and threw the lizard away, billooo cried for 4 days outside my bathroom, the way cats cry….
• We once brought a DULHA for manojiii… a big Persian cat in camel color… it was absolutely the most beautiful and magnificent cat that I had ever seen… it was huge and weighed as much as my two yr old (very very healthy) cousin… Honey tried pickin him up… her legs buckled underneath her and before any serious damage was done to our poor frail little elder sister I took him… it looked like Simba (from the lion king) … for all its greatness, it was a big wuss… his purrr wud go khurrr cuz he had a constant cold, and his nose was always running… (not a very cute sight) …. of course our little miss prim and proper manojiii had to have a problem with him.. She refused to eat in the same food tray as him, she refused to even go near him and of course the big KHARR (translation: donkey in pushto) that he was, he absolutely adored her… he would follow her everywhere… she wud run from one room, into the lounge, jump across the sofa and into the next room, and he wud be there rite behind her… It was like watching Tom n Jerry all over again (except for the mouse that was missing and the one cat that was extra… but u get my point don’t u). The funny thing was Simba was scared of our little mano… she wud go GHURRR in a low voice and he wud move two feet back… Female empowerment! Since there were no signs of them getting along even ten days later, we had to give up all dreams of mazedaar biryani for their valima dinner, and cute little Persian kittens running along our whole place (which ofcourse we cud sell for some solid cash) **sigh** Than we gave cute little simba away…. Cuz Honey couldn’t bear to part from her ugly gay cat… I tell u, its gay… that’s the only explanation for rejecting Simba… my heart still aches for the poor kharr!!
• Lolz, chicki just stated that Manoo is the only one who openly defies papajiii… when he says manoooo come here, she just looks at him n than turns away.. He turns a little red, goes MANOOO come here, she still looks away… he musters, not knowing what could be bringing on this rebellion, and what if it spread to his children and wife… SITUATION MUST BE CONTROLLED! He bellows, MANOOO COME HERE!!!!… manoo notices the change in wind and *cat*walks away….
• Our cat is abnormal… seriously, im a third yr medical student, and I can safely say that she is abnormal…. There is no other way to explain why it wud try pushing a heavy wooden door with its head and when the door opens slightly, she tries running out only to get her neck stuck in the door… one day it is going to die this way, u just wait and see….
• We have a pencil thief in our home now… Mano of course… she manages to steal every pen pencil or any object resembling that shape, and plays with it in the lounge… one of the pencils ended up in her litter box… all that was cute till I lost my mascara one day and gonnggii found it a month later behind the coffee table… now that was not funny…. Im just waiting for payback time… hey, don’t blame me, the mascara was expensive….
• One of the funniest things our little kitty has accomplished to do is unnerve our baby titan…. That is not an easy task, I tell u…. there baby titan was, one fair day, opened the fridge, and the baadrang (translate: cucumber) lover that he is, chose a nice one… and looked around to make sure mano wasn’t around… (mano loves baadrang too)… coast was clear… closed the fridge door, settled onto the sofa in front of the tv…. Took a nice big bite… ***maooo*** lol, and there was our little kitty, standing at his feet wanting some baadrang as well… since than, they’ve been at war…
• The paitooo mano that is ours, like any other person with gud taste, loves chocolate to death…. Literally to death… she will kill and be killed for choc stuff… everythin from cakes, brownies, candy, to chocolate icecream… u leave an empty HOBNOBS box in the kitchen and 5 minutes later mano will be nowhere to be found… of course if ure smart u’ll check the box…. Bhooka nanga nadeeda mano is in the box eating crumbs like oliver twist who had to ask for more… she will stare at u when ure eating brownies and if ure superstitious like me, ull probably give her some as well, in case she gives u a badduwaa and u have a stomachache for 3 days… oh n she had choco icecream once… thn was sick for a week with a fever… who knew cats cud have fever…. Well, apparently they can, and u have to feed them egg-white than….HA HA… that’s for eating my icecream manooo!

So in case u wanna know more about manoo, or are totally in love with her (I hope u are by now), please feel free to come around and take her away…. Please (do not take my plea lightly!) P.S: can abnormal, gay cats be reported anywhere???

Ramble away....

Im trying to get my friends hooked onto this blogging thing but unfortunately my friends are sadaa k sust and dheet…. A little too much like me
*grin*
Zuljin managed to make a blog, which when u try opening says PAGE NOT FOUND.
Trust him to leave things unfinished, in the middle of nowhere.

With chicki, I had to torture her for days. Every time she’d sit on the net, I’d be there with a open-this-page-to-make-ur-blog. I have a nagging suspicion in the darkest corner of my mind that she only (finally) made the blog to get me off her back….
*sigh*
I only do whats necessary and they hold it against me…..

(On the mention of the darkest corner of my mind, baby titan proceeds to correct me, u don’t have a mind… its all just primitive space-taking liquidy thingy uptill now
**note to self: try beating him up and than running away really really fast.. don’t wanna start uni with bruises, baby titan is good at hittin, with his bones getting heavier n all… and yet u ask, why the prefix Baby along with titan… only those with younger brothers will understand…)

Meet Joe Black was on last night. Bless u Star movies. I am yet again convinced that Brad pitt is THE only living greek god… Scientists should try experimenting with his genes or something, try distributing the lovely eyes and lush hair to the rest of the male lot to make them a little more bearable… how I envy Jennifer Aniston who managed to marry him, (and eventually lose him, yes, but marry him is what I am focusing on…)

**note to self: when the genie gives u three wishes, the second one is I want Brad Pitt all to myself. The first wish will be referred to in some later blog)

Brad looked so adorable in that movie… and the way he kept at that peanut butter…
:D since last night Ive decided I love peanut butter too… its my fave thing in the world (the fact that im allergic to peanuts big time is a teeny weeny detail that can oh-so-casually be overlooked)

Anthony Hopkins was such an utter sweet heart in this movie… the way he goes on about finding love and lightning striking to his dauhter
(I can soooo imagine papajiii saying all that to me… lolz, zoya u never know when lightning may strike…. Yeh rite, that is so happening. the humor of this I think, only us sistas and baby titan will get)

I love the dialogues too…wah wah
Esp the one about the pictures, where the sick Jamaican woman says:
“It nice it happen to you. Like you come to the island and had a holiday. Sun didn't burn you red-red, just brown. You sleep and no mosquito eat you. But the truth is, it bound to happen if you stay long enough. So take that nice picture you got in your head home with you, but don't be fooled. We lonely here mostly too. If we lucky, maybe, we got some nice pictures to take with us.”

Ofcourse the little speech Anthony gives to his daughter (the above mentioned speech) about dancing like a dervish is one of my fave ones too… I believe I have it written down somewhere… wait...
**rummaging**
*open drawer, open books, open journals….. Not here**
**back to bloggin**
(a project for some later time…)

All in all, one of my fave movies ever…. *bliss* *sigh* *giggle*

P.s: for anyone who loves me enough and wants to get me a good birthday present….
Or just a present cuz they love me so much… please note, I want BRAD PITT!!!!

Funny funny!

Read this on the following site : http://www.greghoward.net/index.php/weblog/twisted_sithter/
Lolz, very funny, a must read!!!


Twisted sithter.
My friend who works at Lucasfilm slipped me an advance copy of the Revenge of the Sith DVD. It contains a series of deleted scenes. I thought I’d transcribe them here for my fellow film geeks.

SCENE: Anakin and Padme at home.
ANAKIN: You look so beautiful.
PADME: That’s because I’m in love with you.
ANAKIN: No, it’s because I’m in love with you.
PADME: No, it’s because I’m in love with you.
ANAKIN: No, no, I’m in love with you.
PADME: No no no--
ANAKIN: Okay look, shut up.
PADME: No no no, you shut--
ANAKIN: I’m serious. Stop or I’ll brain you with a lightsaber.
PADME (bursting into tears): You’re breaking my heart! You’re going on a path that I can’t follow!
ANAKIN: Hold that thought. You’re going to need it a few scenes from now.
----
SCENE: The Emperor is about to kill Mace Windu. Anakin watches impassively.
MACE: Help me, Anakin! You can’t let him kill me!
ANAKIN: Why the hell not?
MACE: Because I’m almost the last black person in this entire galaxy! After I’m gone, the only one left will be my nephew, Lando Calrissian!
ANAKIN: Oh really? I’ll have to settle up with him later.
MACE: Whoops. Guess I should have kept my mouth shut.
ANAKIN: You really should have. We’re the dark side of the Force, but not the dark side of the force--you get me, Jules?

--- SCENE: Bail Organa barks out orders.
ORGANA: Wipe the memories of the droids, so they forget the secret of Luke and Leia.
(pause)
And wipe the memory of Kenobi, so he’ll forget that Leia is the “other” in Episode V.
(pause)
And wipe the memory of Anakin, so he’’ll forget he has a daughter and won’t sense Leia’s identity when she’s standing right in front of him in Episode IV.
(pause)
And wipe the memory of Leia, so she’ll have some bizarre memory of her mother in Episode VI that she couldn’t have.
(pause)
And--
YODA (interrupting): Shut up, you will.
---
SCENE: Darth Vader takes his first unsteady steps in full armor.
VADER: What of Padme?
EMPEROR: Eh, she’s dead and so is the baby.
VADER: NOOOOOOOOO!
EMPEROR: Also, you can only eat through a straw in that get up.
VADER: NOOOOOOOO!
EMPEROR: Also, the air conditioning unit is broken, and the parts are on backorder.
VADER: NOOOOOOO!
EMPEROR: Look, do you think you can stop doing that? The whole emotional outburst thing doesn’t really fit the grim and malevolent image that you need to project.
VADER: Yeah, it doesn’t really feel right. I think I’ll never do it again.
EMPEROR: Excellent.
VADER: “This...is CNN.”
EMPEROR: Don’t do that either.
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Going traveling?

Going traveling? Tips from someone who’s NOT done a lot of it…

• Travel light. U wana shop, don’t u?
• Take the camera along. U mite just run into Brad Pitt or Nicole Kidman. (don’t waste the pictures on scenery; Brad with you in a pic will impress people more)
• Go with people you can have a laugh with.
• When in a hotel, take a room on the highest floor with a balcony or a big window. This is in case the above mentioned people get on ur nerves, u can simply give them a push out of the window than.
• Keep extra money for chocolates. In case u meet a lush lad only to find out he’s committed, gay or an arse hole. U have to have comfort food around for such emergency calls.
• Make sure u bring everybody u know at home horribly dull pressies. They wont ask u for souvenirs again…. Ever.
• If u plan on going back home soon, be an adult and handle ur passport urself.
• If u have a weak Digestive system and plan on NOT spending all ur time in a loo, do not, I repeat, do not try eating anything with a name u cant pronounce.
• Don’t shower too much. Will help u save money instead of spending it on soap, shampoos and utilities. Plus the extra-nice way u smell will ensure extra seating space on buses and trains, cuz well, nobody will want to sit next to u.
• Pretend ure deaf and go AHHH….KIYA???????? (Really loudly), each time one of ur traveling party tries talking to u. Will ensure privacy and nobody will try talking to u for the rest of the trip. No pestering…Ah, heaven!
• Each time u and ur party travel by public transport or take cabs, perform the “im short on change, pay for my ticket, I’ll pay u in full when we go back home” line. Will save u lots of money, which u can happily spend on shopping. Of course when u go back home, refuse to recognize the person who paid for u.
• Anytime, during the trip somebody calls his family, u talk to them as well, and leave messages for ur family with them. Do not call ur family up urself. Remember, ure trying to save money so u can shop!

Well, enough for this time. Have fun.
Bon Voyage!

I love...

I love...

• Mum… she is capable of loving me perfectly when im totally unlovable
• Baby Titan… Brothers come with a ‘guaranteed get love’ voucher
• Zuljin… understands when everybody else refuses to
• Writing… gives me wings and sets me free
• Pictures… capture people in a way nothing else can
• Shoes… my feet can be perfect when I cant
• Fairytales… everyone lives happily ever after
• Girly mags… everybody seems to be effortlessly beautiful
• Money… it might not buy happiness but it can sure buy things that make u happy
• Shopping… retail therapy
• Running… fools my mind into believing I might just break away
• Traveling… unexplainable reason, congenital defect maybe

Henna and me

What they said

What renowned people all over the world said about our Holy Prophet (p.b.u.h)...

Lamartine, the famous French historian speaking on the essential of Human Greatness wonders: “If greatness of purpose, smallness of means and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only… This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls… all these attest not to an imposter, but to a firm conviction which gave him the power to restore a dogma. This dogma was two-fold, the unity of God and the immateriality of God…” [Lamartine, Historie de la Turquie, Paris, 1854, vol. II pp. 276-277.]

Mahatma Ghandi speaking on the character of Muhammad (peace be upon him) says
in ‘young India’; “I wanted to know the best of one who holds today undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind… I became more than convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet, the scrupulous regard for his pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.”

Diwan Chand Sharma wrote:
“Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him” [D.C. Sharma. ‘The Prophets of the East’, Calcutta, 1935. pp. 12]

Edward Gibbon & Simon Oakley speaking on Islam wrote:
“I believe in One God, and Muhammad, apostle of God is the simple and invariable profession of Islam… The intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honor of the Prophet has never transgressed the measure of human virtues; and his living precepts have restrained the gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion.” [History of the Saracen Empires, London, 1870, p. 54]

The famous poetess of India, Sarojini Naidu says:
“It was the first religion that preached and practiced democracy for, in the Masjid (Mosque), when the call for prayer is sounded and worshippers are gathered together, the democracy of Islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant and king kneel side by side and proclaim: ‘God Alone is Great’… I have been struck over and over again by the indivisible unity of Islam that makes man instinctively a brother.” [S. Naidu, ideals of Islam, vide speeches & writings, Madras, 1918, p. 169.]

In the words of Professor C. Snouck Hurgronje:
“The league of nations founded by the Prophet of Islam put the principle of international unity and human brotherhood on such universal foundations as to show candle to other nations… The fact is that no nation of the world can show a parallel to what Islam has done towards the realization of the idea of the League of Nations.”

The American writer Micheal H. Hart in his book on rating of who contributed towards the benefit and upliftment of mankind writes:
“My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels.” [M.H. Hart, ‘The 100: a Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History’, New York, 1987, pp. 33.]

The British philosopher Georges Bernard Shaw said:
"It is also the only religion which is in harmony with all the various stages of life. I view that Muhammad should be named the rescuer of humanity. If a man like Muhammad ruled the world, he would solve its problems."

New to this

I finally took the plunge.... jumped on the bloggin wagon i mean