Friday, June 30, 2006

life

The honey jar will get sticky.

Anantha

Let the grass grow..

Thursday, June 29, 2006

So like me

A sign above a dead fish read, "If I hadn't opened my mouth, I wouldn't be here".

Early bird

The early bird catches the worm.. What did the poor worm get for waking up early? Huh?? He got eaten..

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Moulin Rouge

The greatest gift of life is to love and be loved in return

Z

No wrath like a woman scorned.

twisters

I came. i saw. i left.

i think, therefore it is.

when in rome, do the romans. : )

ps. go ahead add more to the list.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

yah!

take yr time, pick a side...
it's either my way or the highway..

a few of my favourite things..

Reading chick lit is one of them.. From my current reading.. here goes..

In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams

Afterwards, the universe will explode for your pleasure.
Douglas Adams

Somebody already broke my heart.
Sade

Where there is great love, there are always great miracles.
Willa cather

Someday somebody’s going to ask you a question that you should say yes to.
Old 97’s

I don’t have to be careful I’ve got a gun.
Homer Simpson

Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

I just need your star for a day
Nick Drake

Source: Girls in Pants, Third Summer, Ann Brashares.

Monday, June 26, 2006

think abt it

Is there a black sheep in very flock?

Where does the darkness go when the sun comes out?

If there were no day, what would be there instead?

Did satan borrow your soul for a day?

Don’t you always want to quit on a Monday morning?

No one notices when you arrive early.

What did the dreams tell the soul?

Did Satan whisper in your ear?

The dots don’t connect do they?

Are you on the highway to hell?

Ever notice the lunch hour seems as the shortest hour in the day.

Two minutes depends on which side of the toilet you are.

How is it on a Sunday you wake up even before the sun decides to come out.

hmm

Why is it we spend all time, trying to take a liking to things that we hate, excelling in things we are terrible at?

hello!!! at the end of the day, what happens to the things we love... they just take a back seat.

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Time

One day while walking through the wilderness, a vicious tiger followed a man. He ran but soon came to the edge of the cliff, climbing down a vine; he discovered another tiger at the bottom. Then two rats started gnawing on the vine. Suddenly he noticed a plump ripe red strawberry. He plucked it and popped it in his mouth and said delicious…

Cherish the moment. Happiness is acting according to the circumstances whatever they may be..



Source: Zen Speaks, Shouts of Nothingness. Tsai Chih Chung

Clouds in the blue sky, water in a bottle

Don’t worry about whether the clouds are going to turn into water or whether the water is going to turn into clouds. If it’s the clouds, take a cloud’s leisurely point of view, and if it’s water, take the water’s placid, carefree point of view.


Source: Zen Speaks, Shouts of Nothingness. Tsai Chih Chung

A cup of zen

Is life a yarn of thread?

Would you go in search of the one sheep you lost, leaving behind the other ninty-nine to wander?

How does hollowness sound?

How does it help a blind man carrying a lantern?
He’ll never know when the light goes off, and in addition he is carrying the extra weight.

Seize the moment.

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Jerry Garcia

It's no longer good enough to be the best of the best, you have to be the only people who do what you do.

Lead guitarist of The Grateful Dead

me

this isn't the life i had ordered!

i need to get my life new writers..

(any writers available)

truth

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it must be a horse.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Happiness is....

picking up your best friend at the airport...

gifting an i pod..

knowing you will fight with her in less than 12 secs..

spending the nite at her place..

hoping her dog is tied up...

knowing you will chat up whole nite long and forget that you have to go to work in the morn..

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Living life..

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

life is...

sundays
fairy tales
romantic ending
box of chocolates dark ones, gooyey ones, bitter ones, nutty ones & yummy ones.
summer holidays
refreshing ice tea
havin a cat
speed breaker
finding a kitten on a rainy day
money in your jeans pocket
finding true love
chick flick
lemonade
sunsets
a great friend
a broken heart
gettin caught in the rains
ride on a bike
curious shakin of gifts
a white christmas
tiffany blue box
sailing
whatever...

Attitude

When life throws lemons your way don't forget to make lemonade.

Monday, June 19, 2006

Wear Sunscreen

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists,
whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advice now.

Don't worry about the future.
Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective
as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind,
the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts.
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.
Sometimes you're ahead,
sometimes you're behind.
The race is long and, in the end,
it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive.
Forget the insults.
If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters.
Throw away your old bank statements.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll divorce at 40,
maybe you'll dance the funky
chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either.
Your choices are half chance.
So are everybody else's.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go,
but with a precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle,
because the older you get, the more you need the
people who knew you when you were young.

Travel.


But trust me on the sunscreen.

Extract: Mary Schmich (newspaper columnist, Chicago Tribune)

life is..

Life is a mind game..

Saturday, June 17, 2006

Preksha

Take your time, just dont take soo long.. that someone else makes the decision of your life.. while u still stay staring.. unaware of what is happening..

pyl

When I feel like exercising, I lie down and let the feeling pass.

Friday, June 16, 2006

more Calvin & Hobbes

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!"?


I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.


That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Friends - Rachel

Everything you need to know is in that first kiss.

Karma

Oracle: I'd ask you to sit down, but, you're not going to anyway. And don't worry about the vase.
Neo: What vase?
[Neo turns to look for a vase, and as he does, he knocks over a vase of flowers, which shatters on the floor.]
Oracle: That vase.
Neo: I'm sorry--
Oracle: I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to fix it.
Neo: How did you know?
Oracle: Ohh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?

Source: Matrix

hmm.. would he have broken the vase? i wonder, if she hadn't said anything abt the vase he wud not have turned and crashed into it. if she really didn't want him to break the vase she should have told him to stay away from it.

wud it not help to know abt it, if you could stop the action. or is it just karma and it had to happen.. the purpose of the oracle shud have been to help him prevent his karma.

Steve Jobs

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.


Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.


Extract: Stanford Report

Chewies

Life is a boomerang. It will come straight back at you.

No one ever said on their death bed, "I wish I'd spent more time in office".

The way up IS the way down.

Don't cry its over, smile it happened.

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Snoopy

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm Happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Source: Charles Schulz.

Chief Seattle Speech

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? That idea is strange to us.
If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carries the memory of the red man.

You must teach the children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers.
So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin.
Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother.
Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth.
If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

This we know, the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Even the white man, whose God walks and talks with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny.
We may be brothers after all. We shall see. One thing we know, which the white man may discover one day - our God is
the same God.

The whites too shall pass, perhaps sooner than all other tribes.
Contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. But in your perishing you will shine brightly, fired by the strength of the God who brought you to this land and for some special purpose gave you
dominion over this land and over the red man. That destiny is a mystery to us, for we do not understand when the buffalo
are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with the scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires.
Where is the thicket ? Gone.
Where is the eagle ? Gone.
The end of living and beginning of survival.

Source: extract from Chief Seattle Speech.

Elixir of life

There are four basic food groups, milk chocolate, dark chocolate,
white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.
Source: Unknown


All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
Source: Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)

Forrest Gump

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.

Source: Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Clement Greenberg

We have differences but we're not made different. If you don't agree with me, you're wrong.

Andy Warhol

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.

Monday, June 12, 2006

Calvin and Hobbes

My favourite, don't think life would be the same without c&h.

Nobody asks me how things oughta be! I've got tons of ideas!
(me too!)


I gotta get my life some writers.


To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.


Reality continues to ruin my life.


Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.


A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.


I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!
(where can i buy all the lemons of the world)


Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.


What's the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?


Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.


Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN!


From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can play together all night!

Julius Caesar

The die is cast.

Et tu, Brute?

The Ides of March are come; to which the soothsayer answered, softly, "Yes; but they are not gone."

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Chick flicks

Can't help being a romantic, can I?

Never Been Kissed (1999)
"That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that that it will go away all at the same time."


When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning?

"...And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."


Father of the Bride (1991)
Love is wonderful. Until it happens to your only daughter.
(sure dad would agree to that one)

Frankie and Johnny (1991)
You never choose love. Love chooses you.

Before Sunrise (1995)
When love can come as a complete surprise

"If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed, but... who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt."

The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
"And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before."

Meet Joe Black (1998)
"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."



source: Filmsite

Frieda Norris

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.
That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.

Meera Zachariah

Choose the battles you want to fight.

Bhargavi

The day brings many adventures,
the night changes many thoughts.

Fortune cookies - pyl

This too, shall pass.

Some memories last forever.

The truth, sometimes is not easy to understand.

Take your time, but not forever.

Forever never lasts.

pyl

Wish on the first star of the evening. If your wish is not granted, well wish again tommorow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

love

Love is like war: easy to begin, hard to end.


Can you make yourself love?
Can you make yourself be loved?
source: Ann Brashares


In your eyes I am complete.
[still waiting to hear that from someone ; ) ]
Source: Peter Gabriel

J R R Tolkien

Not all who wander are lost.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Harry Winston

As the world around you becomes mass-produced into monotony, we ask you to remember this.
Nothing perfect ever rolled off an assembly line.

Perfectly symmetrical, yes, and perfectly attractive.
But nothing perfect.

Perfect is breathtaking.
Perfect is inimitable.

Perfect comes from staying awake until 2 am deciding whether to tilt a stone one hundredth of an inch this way or that.

Perfect is not rational.
Perfect is tempestuous.
Perfect hurts.
Your brain doesn't know perfect. Nor your eye. The only part of you that knows perfect is the exquisitely painful way your heart beats in its presence. That part was born knowing perfect.

What will you own that's perfect? What impossibly beautiful thing waits to become yours?

Find it.
Make it yours.
Bring it out.
Because when you do, your perfection will
make the world's heart hurt.

source: Harry Winston

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Bill Cosby

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.


That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Paulo Coelho

When you least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

Alchemist

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

Extract: Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

Monday, June 05, 2006

African wisdom

Don't set sail on someone else's star.


Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you.


The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery.


When elephants fight, it is the grass beneath that suffers.

Paul Rand

Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Geoffrey Beene

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Saturday, June 03, 2006

pyl

I open my mouth, to change feet.

love defies logic and reasoning.

Lance Armstrong

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything.
It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.
Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God is in the details.



Less is more.

Vladimir Nabokov

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Zen Speaks, Shouts of Nothingness.

Snowflakes fall where they should.
Everything under heaven, whether it be large or small, important or insignificant, has its own particular place. And when it arrives in its rightful place, why ask why? That's just how it is!

Source: Tsai Chih Chung

Friday, June 02, 2006

kota

Want, does not mean get!