arranged love!!

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lyrics

Metallica: The Four Horsemen By the last breath of the fourth winds blow Better raise your ears The sound of hooves knocks at your door Lock up your wife and children now Its time to wield the blade For now you have got some company The horsemen are drawing nearer On the leather steeds they [...]

of chocolate cake,coffee and cigarettes

another sleepless,futile night i did not start studying even today started the day…no,that is all wrong…the day did not start actually,because the previous one never ended,right?anyways…went to dadu’s for a slice of chocolate cake followed by coffee and cigarettes.notice all the c’s? by trying to cut down on cigarettes, i have been smoking more and [...]

yo ho ho and a bottle of rum-I

##warning : some of the words used in this post are best not used in presence of more polite company, ladies, friends, and sometimes your boss. decide whether to read on the basis of your sensibilities. Well, a bottle of vodka normally. But who cares, so long as it has alcohol and tastes good. Besides, [...]

game theory

we are pawns, charting out strategies, against each other, setting plots and ploys, participants in an infinite prisoners’ dilemma,voluntarily stonewalling every effort at communication. allowing mistrust to creep in, deciding on utilities, we look at the other, as objects-pawns, to be sacrificed by dominant strategies, stonewalling every effort to talk… we both lose. N.B. for [...]

more jog

ended a very long lethargy today.after another night with only half an hour of fitful sleep, decided finally to do some work, and before i realized, it was 5 40AM.fever was there,but cold had given me a slight respite,and on an impulse,went to jog.4kms in 22mins 10 secs.the XL DreamRun proposed track.i guess i will [...]

night

couldn’t sleep even tonight,even though i have been nursing a bad cold and been feverish.spent the night downloading papers for my dissert,i think i am going to have to scrap half the stuff i earlier read.sad situation.first i dont work.then half the work goes down the drain enhances my knowledge but has no use for [...]

Google

and now,google keeps a parent’s eye on your mails, preventing you from sending mails you will regret. as they say on the official gmail blog , “Sometimes I send messages I shouldn’t send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that [...]

moment

the windows are closed, and the curtains pulled, and opacity is back in life. no wind rustles these curtains, nothing disturbs the old books, grimy,dusty pages are not opened, and an ersatz,uneasy peace reigns. the nights are empty, and a silent noise fills up the space, pretentious music hangs in the air, and the orderly [...]

living life

lately i have been living life in slices-anything between 20-36 hours of consciousness followed by anywhere between 8-13 hours of sleep.i use the word consciousness deliberately here,trying to indicate the futility of even those waking hours,where nothing happens,where the time is not passed,not used for doing something productive.these hours are spent merely in the wait [...]