These are a few of my favorite things...

(a real post yaaaaaaaaaay!)

So, as it happens, am in a bloggy mood today :) In case you havent noticed (and you probably havent, i mean most of you have but some havent).. I've blogged lyrics yesterday... Today, the real thing :) I remembered now a Friends episode where Chandler goes like "This is the Real Thing. Capital R, Capital T" :)

Anyhow, on with the post...

* Charm Bracelets
i luv them... i just do.. you know this tradition when you get a charm bracelet and every occassion (every anniversary, every birthday, whatever), you add one small toy that means something or refers to something? I always wanted to do that :) And maybe one day i'll do that.. but i'll have to buy a new charm every month or something, to make up for the lost time :)
this seems to be something like i have in mind.. (esp that the purple stone is Amethyst, my birthstone)

* What am reading
hmmmm... I finished "The Rule of Four" almost a week or more ago.. I liked it.. not LIKED it, just liked it.. i dont regret reading it, but it didnt knock me of my feet at all.. not reading anything else at the moment.. just some women magazines.. waiting for the Diwan trip..

* R.E.M. (pronounced "rem" by me :))
I discovered i actually like REM.. dont know many of their songs honestly, but I luv Imitation of Life.. And i luv Losing My Religion (its one of the few songs that i actually like when someone sings it on his guitar).. Been singing (no.. humming :)) it for a couple of days now....
you can download it from here (that was so cool to find it! illegal but cool :))
The tune is so catchy but its mainly the words that i like so much :)

Life is bigger
It’s bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no, I’ve said too much
I set it up

(chorus)
That’s me in the corner
That’s me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don’t know if I can do it
Oh no, I’ve said too much
I haven’t said enough
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

Every whisper
Of every waking hour i’m
Choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt lost and blinded fool, fool
Oh no, I’ve said too much
I set it up
Consider this
Consider this
The hint of the century
Consider this
The slip that brought me
To my knees failed
What if all these fantasies
Come flailing around
Now I’ve said too much
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

But that was just a dream
That was just a dream

Casablanca

a beautiful classic movie i hope one day to watch............... It has some of the most memorable quotes like "We'll always have Paris"
Also Humphrey Bogart's famous phrase to Ingrid Bergman "Here's looking at you, kid."
and what Bogart says to the pianist "You played it for her, you can play it for me! . . . If she can stand it, I can! Play it!"

anyway, i just wanted to blog this song, "As Time Goes By"

You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by
And when two lovers woo
They still say, "I love you"
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by
Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs man
And man must have his mate
That no one can deny
it's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by

(i know i shouldnt blog lyrics but i love this song :) )

Dear Murphy

(not necessarily in response to Duke's old post about Murphy's law)

Dear Murphy-
With all due respect, you are wrong. Things can (and do) work out sometimes for people.. Sometimes things are going off cliff when miraculously, they actually do work out. You need to understand and believe in it, or it never will come your way.. Of course sometimes things tend to have a mind of their own and just screw themselves up, but you never know when they're going to get better!

Murphy, you need to do your work keeping in mind that things can go terribly wrong, yet believe that they can work out.......

Dear Murphy, give me a call sometime and i'll either bring sunshine into your dark side or give you a heart-attack... Both ways, you'll deserve it..

Cheers,
N.

interesting google links...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/guess-what-just-turned-34.html

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/we-get-letters-3.html

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/point-of-google-print.html


AND, everyone.......... check this out:
http://www.google.com/codejam/

Cross your fingers..

Kareem (not Karim, but you probably know the difference by now *yawn*) is starting a new job today...

Everyone, keep your fingers crossed for him and wish him luck!

Say a little prayer for him.. If everyone who reads this said a little prayer in their own language and faith, chances are, something is going to get him :)

There is this Swatch ad, where everyone in all parts of the world jumps in the same moment in slow motion, then when they touch the ground a Japanese old man sweeping leaves find that all leaves on a tree are falling for no reason. So its a bit like that...


Real blog later isA :)

Cheers,
N.

Pretty Baby

(Lyrics but forgive me for that... luv this song, its for Vanessa Carlton and its so sweet.... read it thru and try to listen to it)

You light me up and then I fall for you
You lay me down and then I call for you
Stumbling on reasons that are far and few
I'd let it all come down and then some for you

Pretty baby don't you leave me
I have been saving smiles for you
Pretty baby why can't you see
You're the one that I belong to
I'll be the embrace that keeps you warm
For you're the sun that breaks the storm
I'll be alright and I'll sleep sound
As long as you keep comin' around, oh pretty baby

And I know things can't last forever
But there are lessons that you'll never learn
Oh just the scent of you it makes me hurt
So how's it you that makes me better

[Chorus]

Why can't you hold me and never let go
When you touch me it is me that you own
Pretty baby oh the place that you hold in my heart
Would you break it apart again... oh pretty baby

[Chorus]

Pretty baby, why can't you see
Pretty baby, don't you leave me
Pretty baby, why can't you see
Pretty baby, don't you leave me,
Pretty Baby
My Pretty Baby
My Pretty Baby
Don't you leave me

a "blog"

(as opposed to lyrics or quotes or whatever :))

As i started to do recently, i've been writing over the span of 2 weeks in the sort of points (some of which i forgot what they refer to :))

*Missing what i dont have
I dont know.. i just promised to start my blog with this.... missing what i dont have refers to a different nostalgia.. a nostalgia for something that could've happened.. i dont want my words to be interpreted in a thousand meanings.. am not referring to something in particular.... its just that i believe that the possibilities are always so immense :) enough on this point, but i fulfilled my promise..

* Winter
I luv winter... i simply adore it.. i like chilly weather... i luv rain, i luv walking in the rain.. i like walking in fog (but not riding in cars).. am looking forward to winter because it just cheers me up... the morning chill i feel when i go down to work is an instant pick-me-up

* Lithuanian Elephant
when Chris was in Lithuania, he got me this tiny smiling elephant that is made from clay (we have an elephant thing, i picked it from karembu and apparently its an ITWorx thing as well)... it looks so nice and u can clearly see fingerprints on it, so its lovely.. i have it on my desk.. generally i dont like decorating my desk or workplace because it would make me like the place and thus feel torn if i had to move.. (a trait i have like cats, getting attached to a place more than to the people in the place )

* 90 pages away (Or what am reading these days)
hmmmm.... i wrote that right before last weekend when i was 90 pages away from finishing American Gods.. i loooooooooooooooooooooved it... (Thanks, Duke!) i finished it by Thursday then Friday i started AND finished The 5 people you meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.. a lovely easy read that is full of sentiments.. Now i started The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason.. a book quoted to be "the Da Vinci Code for people with brains".. I'm a little more than 1/3 way thru, and i like it.. i dont have enough time or energy to read these days tho..

* "Ignorance is a bliss" Vs. "The truth shall set you free"
hmmm... this referred to an old argument.. I am from the believers of the 2nd phrase... i.e. acknowledge it, admit it, lock it up, and move on.. as opposed to the "what you dont know wont hurt you" attitude....

*Losing my Religion (or in this case inspiration)
Suffering from a severe case of demotivation.. i dont wanna talk about it.. i just feel like i'm slowly losing my lustre and becoming dull and "lukewarm" if you know what i mean.. thats all about that.. even in my blogging, i feel its boring.. in my work, i feel am not productive altho i work my head off sometimes... am not the me that i thought for myself..

*Delirium "coats"
"She was no longer Delight, and the blossoms had already begun to fall in her domain, becoming smudged and formless colours, and she had no one to talk to..."
Delight becomes Delirium, in SANDMAN #42: "Brief Lives:2"

This is one of my favorites ever:
"What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago." "There isn't one." "Oh. I thought maybe there was."
Delirium and Dream, in SANDMAN #43: "Brief Lives:3"

Kareem (not Karim) got me the whole sandman comics collection on a CD :) I am still to read it tho (dont like e-books..) but it also has this software that makes you browse it blablabla

*Eleven Minutes
"In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.
It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it."

"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."

(i read the book when it was still new and it really touched me in parts.. I would recommend it to anyone who will be able to overlook its directness and read between the lines)

a quote..

"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it." ~Winnie the Pooh

(very true :))

top of the world

I was walking home tonight.. the weather was very nice and i started thinking this song (no implications ;)):


Such a feeling's coming over me,
There is wonder in most everything I see.
Not a cloud in the sky,
Got the sun in my eyes
And I won't be surprised if it's a dream..

Everything I want the world to be
Is now coming true especially for me.
And the reason is clear,
It's because you are here
You're the nearest thing to heaven that I've seen..

I'm on the top of the world
Looking down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found
Ever since you've been around
You have put me at the top of the world.

Something in the wind has learned my name
And it's telling me that things are not the same
In the leaves on the trees
And the touch of the breeze
There's a pleasing sense of happiness for me
There is only one wish on my mind
When the day is through I hope that I will find
That tomorrow will be
Just the same for you and me
All I need will be mine if you are here..

I'm on the top of the world
Looking down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found
Ever since you've been around
You have put me at the top of the world.

a bloggable thought

a thought occurred to me.. in the following minute, two concurrent thoughts occurred.. the first was "this is soooo much like something Kareem (not Karim) would say" and the 2nd being "This is sooo much like something Seinfeld would say" (and btw it was Karim -not Kareem- who introduced me to Seinfeld in the first place.. it was about the time he introduced me to "el mashroob el holami" as well, 7-up or Sprite with mint syrup)

Anyway so i shared this thought (the very 1st thought that occurred to me) yesterday with Kareem (not Karim) and he went like “I CANT BELIEVE IT!! I HAD THE EXACT SAME THOUGHT AND I THOUGHT THIS WAS SUCH A BLOGGABLE THOUGHT” so I shared with him the other 2 thoughts….

Since we both wanted to blog that thought, we agreed that we will see who gets there first….

The thought in question is, “why the $#%#$^ do they name hurricanes after women?” ;)

Wikipedia said:

In keeping with the common English language practice of referring to inanimate objects such as boats, trains, etc., using the female pronoun "she," names used were exclusively feminine. The first storm of the year was assigned a name beginning with the letter "A", the second with the letter "B", etc. However, since tropical storms and hurricanes are primarily destructive, some considered this practice sexist.

Read more at this wikipedia link

A long post is in store… wait for it… and happy Ramadan everyone!