Psychedelic Slippers

Finally laid my hands on this classic. The book's a fine read. After years i finished a book over a weekend. The book is about 2 kids coming to terms with things around them. Through Jem and Scout the author paints the world through the children's eyes. Where everything is black or white, and there are no shades of grey. This conversation between Jem and Scout , i feel , is the crux of this book. "Jem kicked off his shoes and swung his feet to the bed. He propped himself against a pillow and switched on the reading light. 'You know something, Scout? I've got it all figured out, now. I've thought about it a lot lately and I've got it figured out. There;s four kinds of folks in the world. There's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbours, there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes.' 'What about the Chinese, and the Cajuns down yonder in Baldwin County?" ...

this one's for "you". ( i hope "you" will know its you) I've been wanting to say this for quite some time. "I love your eyes". They have something in them, that takes things a little beyond the obvious.That child like curious inquisitive look of yours, it amazes me how you can always hold it (in calm and chaos alike) i love the way you lend the "extra" to the ordinary... the way you add "depth"... just by the way you look at them. the way you change perspectives, and especially how u make others see them. i love the way you hold things in your eyes... and make them mean much more i love your eyes... really !!! i wonder if you think with them too. (p.s. this post was inspired by this pic. photo by Aakash Johry flicked from his fb album)

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together ." --Marilyn Monroe

someone shared this link on twitter... http://www.aaronpeng.org/?p=1876 speech by Adrian Tan at NTU convocation ceremony some excerpts " Work kills. The Japanese have a term “Karoshi”, which means death from overwork. That’s the most dramatic form of how work can kill. But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there’s nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust." " The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth. Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence." " It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. ...

GEC is a green campus.. esp in the monsoons. (green in the true sense, engicos wil know wat i mean) n i have a green fren (nt so literally). it started in the monsoons. this green guy running behind butterflies (no he isn a 3 year old). this green guy is a man on a mission. a mission to capture every butterfly in gec. his sole aid was his tiny sony ericsson. you wud find him walking out from the most unexpected places walkin towards u with a triumphant smile. n then there would be times when he would be runnin towards nothingness. Spending hours hovering over flowers, i d wondered if he d turned into one of em, springin in n out of ur vision jus like one of em butterflies. capture them he did. but it din stop there! this green guy wants to secure the habitats of butterflies...give them a brighter tomorrow. butterflies are sensors of a healthy environment. they tel u how GREEN the greens around you are in essence.the more u find them around u, the greener ur avenues. this green guy is v...

this an ode to one of the bestest guys i hav met in my life.... shreyas. he is gonna be 20 soon on 28th may , n i don think i wil b able to write on that day.. ( cos thats the day our sem 6 exam begins) Shreyas is synonymous with "lets do it" . he is one of the people u can count on always. he lets people assume stuff about him-- esp. assume he is an idiot . he lets people take him for granted .... and a lot of people do ( many a time, me too!) he enjoys being there for people. he is alwes there to help, n when it comes to that he doesn care who is askin for it... its like something has programmed him to help people. he is a person with "zero ego" he is always ready fr stuff.... then may it be jus hangin ard after coll, a dinner, picnic or a tech fest! its jus a matter of a call... n puff there he is right with you in no time! at first sight... m sure not many of you will like him... he'll appear to you like some wannabe ... with all the stuff he tries...