HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. 

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)
"He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven"
from the Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Hmmm i love the smell of a bookshop, something about the scent of books tingles every muscle in my body. It makes me want to set up camp and spend the days and the nights wandering through the aisles, lovingly gazing at each title. And the touch of the crisp pages of a new book, always gives me goose bumps!

Pick of the day: 'Pride and Prejudice' 

One Major Step for Democracy

A sharp blow was bestowed on democracy when Musharraf suspended the constitution in Nov 2007,  however today an extremely crucial step was taken in reversing the damage done on that day.

Today the Supreme Court ruled those actions (the so called implementation of "emergency" rule) as illegal and that all judges placed in the courts by him - all having pledged their allegiance to him - will be removed. 

After all the trials and tribulations the people of this country have been put through, we are finally beginning to see steps being taken in the right direction to fix our judicial system and truly become a democratic nation.

Recessions totally bite!

I had two aims for 2009...come August I am still no where near either of them: First being, getting promoted and secondly, getting into grad school (for next year).

I spent the first 6 months of the year working my ass off trying to meet my targets (extra incentive for the management to promote me) only to find out that the mid-year promotion cycle had been scrapped altogether (aah the joys of the recession).  Absolutely no word yet on what can be expected at the end of the year (I told my supervisor that i am starting to feel like a total schmuck having spoken to our boss so many times about the promotion), hence 5 more months of depressing waiting is ahead!! im told that i should be thankful for having a job at least! (blah blah blah)

Subsequently i also thought that since job prospects are so bad (I have the choice of a thankless existence at my current job until they finally have no further use of me and give me the boot anyways, or start looking for another job which in the current market is highly unlikely) i might as well use this time to go back to school. Sadly enough that requires far more money than i can ever save, and hence have desperately applied for a scholarship a second time. Interviews have already begun and everyday that goes by that i dont get a call makes me worry more and more!

I am told by many that one should be patient, that good things come to those who wait! Sadly for me, I live in the real world and know that sometimes no matter how hard you work, something just might not work out ur way. Yet here I am, still hopeful that 2009 will bring some good news and it will turn out to be a good year after all!

"Leopold, o' Leopold, Where art thou my Leopold"

I saw the movie 'Kate & Leopold' (with the extremely yummy Hugh Jackman) after a very longtime today.

I couldnt help but wonder what a strange world we live in; wouldnt it be nice to have so much faith that we would blindly jump off a bridge because we knew true love was waiting for us. Instead in this cynical world we live in, all most of us can think is the absurdity in doing something like that, that only someone insane would attempt something like that.

Im not saying that we should literally be jumping off bridges (although that has apparently become a sport now), but that maybe we should stop over analysing everything. It seems that the passion from life has been lost because we are too afraid to believe in something so blissful!

It seems one leap of faith is all it takes!

Its scary how short life can be; here one moment, gone within a few seconds!!

A family friend's son had a hemorrhagic stroke today...and he was only 21 years old!! :s As far as I know, it would take a miracle for him to recover. Whatever happens from this point onwards, I pray that he feels no more pain.

Things like these really make you think...live your life as best you can today, for there really may not be a tomorrow after all!

The Cookie Monster Anthem

I loved watching Sesame Street while i was growing up. Elmo, Cookie Monster and the count were always my favorite.

I was quite surprised to find out that a few years ago, the Cookie Monster went all healthy just like the rest of the show. Cookies are now only a 'sometime food' and he actually eats eggplants! So no more songs about his cookie addiction, instead he's got a new one.

Funnily enough the he song is a parody of "A Woman is a Sometime Thing," from George and Ira Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess".

As glad as I am to see the show promoting healthy eating in children, it almost seems sacrilegious!