Picture abhi baaki hain doston

Its a regular Saturday morning;
On the king size bed that we lay by each other,
Endearingly, i caress your hair  and leave for my chores with a peck on your cheek.
After two hours when i check for you at the breakfast table,
the tea has turn cold and food has lost it aroma.
By now, we have come to terms,
that dragging you out of bed is the kind of love you prefer.
So be it!
Willingly i surrender to your embrace,
When the warmth of our proximity recharges you enough,
We are back to talking of how we can spend the rest of the day.
For loving someone the way they want despite your rational is what selfless/unconditional love is!

There will be days when you will learn how having a fat-free yogurt vs Greek yogurt or arranging bowls before  glasses in dishwasher or separating whites from color in laundry makes a difference to establish peace on dinner table.
There will be nights when i will have to believe staring at TV does not mean you are upset at me or letting you hang out with your guys or making the first move in bed makes a difference to establish  passion in hearts. 

Between
Your acting boyish: leaving the toilet seat up, throwing wet bath towel on bed, leaving stinky socks in hallway and
My acting girlish: taking selfies everywhere, throwing  tantrums, getting excited over little nothings- Saying sorry for things we do not really understand, will be part of our lives from now on.
Sharing is caring they say:  ab, Sharing that king size bed with giggles and caring with cuddles every other day is the picture we choose to re-play.
Its something we would exchange for belonging to each other. 

Excerpt:
Raat Haseen Ye Chand Haseen 

Tu Sabse Haseen Mere Dilbar 

Aur Tujhse Haseen, Tera Pyaar

Pyaar Mein Hai Jeevan Ki Khushi

Deti Hai Khushi Kai Gam Bhi 

Main Maan Bhi Loon Kabhi Haar 

Tu Maane Na ...

Yeh Nayan Dare Dare...

Teri Lat Lag Gayii II

એક નાની બાળકી ની જેમ  
તુ મને રિઝવે છે  દિન પ્રતિ દિન. 
એક નવા રૂપ સાથે  એક નવા  રંગ સાથે, 
ભજવે  ચે તુ એકજ પાઠ ઘણીં  ઘણી વાર . 
ને હૂં  નિહાળું તારું આ મનોરંજન 
એજ વિસ્મયતા, એજ ઉત્સાહ થી 
જેવી રીતે જુવે છે એક વહલી તેની નાની બાળકી ના ખેલ . 
મારી આંખો માનું તેજ ને મુખ પરનું સ્મિત  
છે તારા આ રંગ-રૂપ ના ઋણી.

વિદમ્બંના એ છે મારી, 
તને રાખું કેવી રીતે મારી પાસે ? 
આંખો માં તું સમાતી નથી ને, 
હાથમાં તુ આવતી નથી. 

ભૂલે  કદી ના વિચારતી  
કે છે તું અણગમતી . 
તુ નિરાશ થાઈ એ પહેલાં 
એક નજર આ જરૂખે ફેરવજે 
મળીશ હૂં તને ત્યાં ,
તારા આ દિનના રંગ-રૂપ જોવા.
હા, કોઈ દિન સમાજ ની માયાજાળ માં ફસાઈ જતા 
કદાચ ના બેસી શકું તને નિહાળવા.
પણ તારી અનેક છબી જે મારા સેલફોનની  ગેલેરી માં છે , 
એણે જોઈ સાયંકાળે તને અચૂકપણે મળીશ ખરી. 

શબ્કોષમાં તારું વર્ણન કરવા શબ્દો ખુંટી પડે છે, 
સેલફોનના કેમેરા નો લેન્સ જાંજો પડે છે તારી આ ચંચળતા ને કેદ કરવા, 
પણ પછી ખ્યાલ અવે છે કે, 
જો તારા આ દિનના રંગ-રૂપ ને  ગમે તે રીતે કેદ કરી પણ લવ
 તોહ બાકી ના  રંગ-રૂપનું શું ? 
કરણ કે, તુ તો મને દર રંગ-રૂપમાં ગમે છે. 
એજ્  આશાએ કે ફરી કાલે તુ કાઈ નવું કરે
 ને મને રીઝવે એક નાની બાળકીની જેમ 
તને દર સાંજે ભારે મન થી વિદાય આપુ  છું . 

એ કુદ્રત ,
તને  કરું હૂં સલામ, વારમ વાર ! 

Kabhi Socha Hain Tumne?

View from flight

आसमान में उड़ने की,

बादलो को छूने की,

चाह तोह सब रखते हैं !

लेकिन कभी सोचा हैं की,

यह आसमान में छाने वाले बादल क्या चाहते हैं ?

भीड़ में कोई गलती से ठोकर मरके जाता हैं 

तोह चिल्लाने लगते हैं , बात हाथापाई पे भी आ जाती हैं!

लेकिन कभी सोचा हैं की 

जब वायुयान में रहके इन् बादलो को चीरते हुए जाते हो 

तोह इन्हें कितना दर्द होता होगा ?

जल्दबाज़ी में कहीं बार चीज़ें गिरा देते हैं,

तब समय की नज़ाकत को दोष देके भूल जाते हैं!

गहने बादल कभी ज्यादा बरस जाते हैं 

तोह कोसने लगते हैं !!

लेकिन कभी सोचा हैं की ,

इन्हें भी कहीं जाने की,  किसी को मिलने की जल्दबाज़ी हो सकती हैं ? 

To liberate is to give!

To fly is what i desire,
So be the wings for me.
Love does bind people,
but to liberate is the new to give.
I know you fear heights,
So I shall undertake such flights
And capture those views.
Because when i land,
Be rest assured,
I wouldn't blink my eyes,
until you grasp those views.

Teri Lat Lag Gayee!!!

O Dear,

As they say "A picture is worth thousand words"
I would attempt thousand clicks to capture Your shot,
But for a charming lady like You,
Neither a picture nor word would do justice.


You are a sheer delight to any beholder.
I am sure people have praised you earlier,
But, what is it about You, that i get allured each time?

Be it a dawn when you wake up smiling,
Be it a morning when you shine radiantly,
Be it a twilight when you blush involuntarily,
Be it a evening when you retire graciously,
Be it a night when sparkle delightfully.


What is it about You, that i get allured each time ?


Even on a dark cloudy day when you(sun) peek through playfully,
you seem flawless like a painting smeared with shades of gray and white.
Even on a stormy day when you(wind) sway the world around you,
you seem harmless like a intoxicated girl dancing in a night club.

What is it about You,
that i get allured each time?

Like a mother,
You burst into laughter(sunny) with me when happy,
You shed tears(showers) with me when gloomy.
 Each time,
You welcome me lovingly in your embrace,
And allure me to a sweet paradise.
No wonder, they call you -Mother Nature.

Bomb Tagity

Tags are fun ways to know people. 

Recently i was tagged by Tarang and Stephen.  Feel free to air your views on these tags, if you like. 
Rules are never to be followed , so lets skip those. Nor am i tagging any specific people. 

If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
To be at different places with different people at a single instance of time.

What was your favourite childhood television program?
I dream of Gennie, Three Musketers, Small wonder, Chip and Dale, Surbhi, Banegi  Apni Baat, Hum Panch, Akbar-Birbal

Have / had any celebrity crushes?
Not really.

If you could visit anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Mauritius

Name one thing you miss about being a child.
Trips to Maternal Uncle's place for summer breaks and Mingling with people without bias or pre-conceived notions.

Name the one comic/book character that you loved the most and why?
Never been a book reader but i liked to read about tin-tin's adventures.

What is the one thing that you are dying to try but haven’t had a chance to do so yet?
Scuba and sky diving.
Do you have a role model – someone you want to emulate? Whom do you admire the most?
I find inspirations in many people that I interact with and like to emulate their peculiar qualities. Isolating one particular one as role model has never been my philosophy.

What do others make of you?
First impression is not always the last impression.

Have you ever gotten into a fight or punched someone?
Ya, i have been a very impulsive kid :).  

My sibling would be the biggest testimony to it and few others whom i grew up with. 

I remember punching a guy in my school auto while fighting for sitting next to auto-walla.

For Girls – If you woke up tomorrow to find out you are Brad Pitt, what would be the first thing you’d say upon looking in the mirror???
Girl, look at that body, I work Out. I am sexy and i know it....

Is there anything that others complain about you..?

When would you grow up? 

What is the meaning of your name? Are you happy with it ? , If not  then would you like to change it and to what?

Dishita means one who shows directions to others. I love it except that my younger brother interprets it as traffic policeman.

 What is life if full of care?

Can't agree more. you got to take chances, move and look around.

 So among Tom and Jerry whom do  you support considering the actions of both.?

 Jerry.

 If stranded alone in an Island with the one you love,  then what will you carry with you? Why?

If i knew it in advance, how would i be stranded, wouldn't i find ways to stop being stranded? duhhh!!!!

If you were on a sinking ship with one who loves you a lot, and another who you love a lot... and could save only one, who would you save? why?

So filmy. 

What are your goals in life?

I will let my actions speak of it.

 Do you have any regrets in life?

Yes, i do regret not learning many things i should have learnt earlier.

One thing which you could change from your past or present?

As mentioned above.

What do you write?

Anything.

What do you think about me?

Story teller.

Tell us 3 things about you that we don’t know, 3 things that would take us all completely 
by surprise?
I still have soft toys by my bedside while i sleep, i am not embarrassed to admit and few friends call me Don.

So, that was about me.

 I would like to know about you.  

Just Listen

Recently, I happened to be suffocated in a conversation, for it was all talking and no listening. This incident reminded me of the adage:

“You have been given two ears and one mouth for a reason.”

Truth is bitter but being silent to those bitter things does not mean what is being said is true. It takes patience to understand the silence.

When you turn patient, probably you would listen to the words which you took for silence.

I found this note on listening from a book i was reading. 

When I ask you to listen to me

And you start giving advice to me

You are not doing what I have asked.

When I ask you to listen to me

And you begin to tell me why

I should not feel that way

You are trampling on my feelings

When I ask you to listen to me

And you feel you have to do something

To solve my problem

You have failed me.

Strange as that may seem.

Listen! All I ask is that you  Listen.

Don’t talk or do-just Listen

Advice is cheap;

And I can do by myself, I am not helpless.

When you do something that I can do

Or need to do for myself

You contribute to my fear and inadequacy.

But when you accept

That I feel what I feel,

No matter how irrational,

Then I can stop trying to convince

You and get about this business

Of understanding what’s behind the irrational feeling.

And when that’s clear, the answers are obvious and

I would not need advice.

Irrational feelings make sense when

We understand what’s behind them.

Perhaps that’s why prayers works for some people-

Because God is mute,

And he does not give advice or try to fix things.

God just listens and lets you work out things for yourself.

So please listen, and just hear me.

And if you want to talk, wait a minute

For you turn and I will listen to you.

-Stacia Glimer

Somewhere over the Rainbow

Oooh oooh

Oooh oooh

          I take a deep breath as the pilot announces it’s a successful take off. I fear heights.

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high

And the dreams  that you dreamed of

Once in a lullaby

oh somewhere over the rainbow

Bluebirds fly

and the dreams that you dream of ,

Really do come true.

6yrs ago when I boarded  my first international flight, I never realized, me smiling over the passing by airplanes and dreaming to be in it once, would be a history. It became a routine to see the fighter planes fly over my head over the next years as my apartment was next to airforce base.  I secretly wished my family could experience the flying adventure, as I did. Last December, the dream came true. I saw the sheer joy lit up the faces of my family members as we flew from Mumbai to Cochin. It was their first time travelling by airplane (excluding the helicopter or jets).

Well I see trees of green

And red roses too

I will watch them for you and I

And think to myself

What a wonderful world

Well I see skies of blue and clouds of white

And the brightness of day

I like the dark and I think to myself

What a wonderful world.

And the dreams that you dreamed of

Dreams really do come true

             With extensive travel history, I have flown across many oceans and seas. It gives me goose bumps to see how an airplane can take me to heights, I would not dare to go even in my dreams, with such a ease. As winter is coming close, I dream of the blue and white cold wintery nights. Dreaming of snow holidays. One of the perks, I would miss being in school.

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

 Motion always makes me sick. And, I sleep most my way or gossip with fellow travel mate. Just as the airplane makes way through the clouds, I dreamed of making my name in the research field through ink.  Who doesn’t like being on top?

Oh somewhere over the rainbow

Bluebirds fly
And the dreams that you dreamed of

Why then oh why can't I

It’s a dream of every researcher to see their work getting acknowledged by the established pioneers. This September, made that dream come true, where i not only got a publication on name but got to discuss my work with  a researcher whom i followed closely for my work.

The colors of the rainbow

So pretty in the sky

Are also on the faces of

People passing by

See friends shaking hands,

Say how do you do

They are really saying: I, I love you

Its fall and I am viewing at the rare green region and flowers, which I might not see until spring. Friends add colors to our life in most unimaginable ways.  I am flying to Chicago to meet two such wonderful friends. Have you come across a person, who can smile until you feel the flash of their pearly whites and make you go wild with the most influential company? Well, then i would say, you have't meet Sakina. Sakina, is one of my friend, who can blow you off by her personality and charm. One person who make friends at the very instinct you are around her. Though, I am 5 yrs younger to her, she gives me the liberality to boss her around in the walks of life, such is her humble attitude.

I hear babies cry

And I watch them grow

They will know much more

Then we will know

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world

           I was seven when I first held a baby in my hand who grew up to call me Masi. My second reason of flying to Chicago, is another friend, Kena.   She influenced my way of thinking and living within a short span of 2yrs living together in dorms. Surely, we have had our dark days, as every relation does. Kena is one of my friends who have seen my extreme personality of bubbly girl to stern lady. She is gonna make a proud masi again. Unlike other times, it gives me sheer joy to become masi of her kid, because I have earned this title through our friendship. 

Earlier this week I came to know, a close friend of mine has become a proud parent. Years ago we discussed what the names of our babies would be, such is our bond. Somehow, I believe it’s a breeding season for Indians (do the math feb 14 + 9 mnths = Nov 14, as sad a joke it is, as real it is). For american counterparts, (consider new year + 9 months = labor day week).   These babies are gonna make us proud one day with their amazing abilities.

Oh somewhere I’ll wish upon a star

Wake up where the clouds are far behind me

Where troubles melt lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops

That's where you'll find me.

           Time to unboard the dreamy flight and step into reality. Eureka as they call it. J

PS1: This particular style of relating the lyrics of song to convey my feelings is not an original idea. Something, I never do, but have seen it through Zeba’s posts very often and thought would give it a shot.

PS2: Those of you are unaware of this song, here is the link. Beware, its addictive.
PS3: Did you know, rainbow is not only a spectrum of 7 seven colors but it is a 7 letter word too?

View from my lab in Ohio

No strings attached- come away with me III

Hi there,
As I mentioned, I have been travelling and relocating to a new place pretty soon. I feel great relief  flowing through my eyes and spine when I return to my abode. As they say nothing feels as great as it feels at home. What is to be at home? Is it the welcome door mat, the pure aroma of spices in kitchen, the laughter in rooms, the flat screen plasma, the murmurs behind the doors, the luxurious bed, the tiny patio facing the sea, that makes you feel at peace? Its the overall effect of being with ourselves and with the surrounding, dear ones that we cherish. A home captures the memories of several "first moments" and sentiments while we take shelter and foster ourselves in it. When life seems gray and haunting we seek solace in our tiny room of home, no matter how big it is, no matter where it is located or how much it costs.

Been six years i have been to the place i am at present. Still it amuses me each time, I feel I have known it. As my life demands progression, I am moving with new set of goals and objectives. Never, until now it occurred to me, how life outside this place would be.  Not, that I never wished to be outside the small town, but feel heavy within to wave it goodbye.  How do you say Goodbye to something you have hold on to be what you are right now?  Is it so easy to loosen those strings attached with you?

Treading mysterious life,

loosening the Strings attached;

Summons other Fall.

As travel is on my mind, I recollect the wording of the song from Metallica .