This wait at the doctor’s has become familiar I watch people pass by – at first with some company Now, I brave the fluorescent waiting room alone. Some are elated at a new discovery Some have faraway looks in their eyes. But everyone, I’d like to think hangs onto hope What if it works, What if it was a report ...
I can almost taste the Malibu & Coke The salt on my skin. The light from a rusty old lamp Perfect for hiding my hot cheeks . . Beep “I’m back, how has your day been?” Beep “Welcome back, perfect now” . . “Forgive me but have we met? You seem oddly familiar” “Allow me to introduce myself. I’m the ...
I remember what it used to be like On nights like this. When the alcohol flowed freely And you twirled a cigarette in your fingers While he twirled my hair in his.
C and I celebrate another milestone today – half a decade since we got married. I am excited and also a bit in awe that we made it this far. 5 years later, C still elicits the warm and fuzzies. With his dopey grin and perennially sunny nature, he is a lumbering tower of optimism and complements my comparatively safe ...
To my friend, I hope you are at peace. And that angels took you home. I hope you get to look down on your family and watch your babies grow. But most of all, I wish you the peace of life everlasting and eternal in the father’s hands.
I recently read an article about how Gen-Y look for job fulfillment vs security doing a stable but boring profession. Right now I’m seated at a production house, the place reeks of stale cigarette smoke and coffee. I see people my age, perhaps even younger walking about in jeans; work stations covered with their personal effects – pics of family, ...
I just realised that I hardly write about cooking, which I happen to enjoy very much. I’m not the type who will cook rice and curry everyday and my close friends don’t find it strange anymore when they find me nursing a large steaming vat of Watalappan at 10pm in the night. My cooking style is a mix of recipe ...
I am not the religious type. I have my faith and it is unwavering, but you wouldn’t see me at mass every sunday evening or find me observing lent with the same zeal that the rest of my family does. In fact, there was an age when I religiously rebelled and didn’t go to church just because I knew it ...
You know how little moments take you by surprise? Randomly and out of the blue? C and I were watching a movie recently – The intern, and during the part where Anne Hathaway’s husband’s affair comes to light, C exhales deeply and exclaims “oh no” I turn around and ask him why, he very simply said “oh but they’re married ...
Clearly trying to write more has proven to be futile, and this is a somewhat feeble attempt to keep the juices flowing. C turned 35 yesterday. I think I get more excited about his birthday than he does! I generally start planning 6 months in advance, sometimes even earlier if I see something I think he’ll like. Guilty as charged, ...
Ever not wanted something for years and years and then in a bizarre twist of things want it for reasons best known to you and not be able to have it? That.
Today I choose to be calm. To be zen when simple things spiral out of control when they could have easily been avoided. To accept what I cannot change and to generally view things with an aura of mild amusement. Stark in the clarity that my life is whole & good and that in itself warrants celebration.
We have 2 guests One the golden type And one.. a mouse. She’s a darling little mouse With her Minnie mouse ways Scampering, totterring Catching us by our pinkies Makes me wish at times I had a mouse of my own. A mouse in a house.
It was the end of a long tired work day. More so than usual. More BIG things happening than usual. I’d barely made it through my jog that evening. I stopped on the way at my regular supermarket to pick up some milk and bread coz we were out. Just as I got out of the car, a young man ...
To my best friend, lover & confidante. I hope this year brings you the very best coz you deserve nothing short of it. Next year will be big for us and there’s no one else I’d rather do epic with than you. ♡ forever and a day..
When it’s time for you to go, every second counts. Every meal, every evening, everything that you know nothing about. Every detail is planned in my head, and every length gone to, even if it means I go to work with peach fuzz, foregoing that half hour salon ritual, to get kochchi for your coconut sambol, just the way you ...
A year ago for the 5th of Sept. my sweet gentle grandmum passed away at the Durdans ICU. One minute she was taking her morning wash and the next she was collapsed on bed holding her back in pain. Everyday there was a new tube or machine willing her to live. Everyday there was a new complication. Everyday that ensued, ...
