"Today Has Been OK"

"If love were enough, she'd still be here with you."

Friends tell me it's spring
My window show the same
Without you here the seasons pass me by
I know you were not new
That loved like me and you
All the same I miss you
Today has been ok
Today has been ok

The preacher lost his son
He's known by all in town
He found him with another son of God
Feeding on the prayer
Nevermind what God said
But love had lost its cause
And I thought today had been ok
Today has been ok
Today has been ok

Wind has burned your skin
The lovely air so thin
The salty water's underneath your feet
No one's gone in vain
Here is where you'll stay
'Cause life has been insane but
Today has been ok
Today has been ok
Today has been ok
Today has been ok

I love this song, specially when it comes up in Grey's.

Blue. And yellow and red and green.

I feel the need to document this feeling. Since I so rarely have it. I'm homesick.

Due to Holi. It was like a given at home. You're gonna get up early morning on Holi, cover yourself with oil so that the scrubbing process later would be easier. And you would help mum make gujhiya, if you could not get out of it by making a "But I need to study!" excuse. Then you would eat lots of gujhiyas, right out of the kadhai, despite the fact that the khoya inside was too hot.

Then you would go and get generously coloured by neighbours and all the random people in the world whom you saw only on Holi and such occasions. Oh and the aunty who was very scared of colours and would hide at home and tell her kids to tell everyone who came that she wasn't home. And how the house was literally broken into and she was eventually coloured, despite the claim everyone made "bas teeka lagayenge".

I even remember the route that was taken every year. The pichkaris and all. And the gulal. And the buckets of coloured water that were made and kept at home in the porch. So that they could be dumped on people who came to visit. But somehow or the other ended up on you. And the 'geela' purplish-pink colour that runs when you bathe and how people would empty the whole packet on your head, so that when you had a bath, a few buckets of water would change colour ever so fast.

And then the eating of sweets with your hands a combination of colours.

Oh and then the long long baths. And the scrubbing. Wah.. I miss Holi! :)

Interesting links

UFO sightings!

Facebook group with the title "I have more Foreign Policy Experience than Sarah Palin"

Holi ke din dil khil jaate hai rangon mein rang mil jaate hain..

So I just realized its Holi today. HAPPY HOLI! I really look forward to playing with colours some day soon :)

And I got randomly reminded of my neighbours. My neighbours had some friends who used to come around 2pm on Holi when everyone had had a long, painful bath and were finally relatively clean. And they used to paint them in silver paint, every year!!

Of unproductive days and nights

So I just wasted about 5 hours plus doing jackshit. Watched Batman Begins - kinda interesting. And Friends some more. And Alchemy and Chuzzle (Yahoo! Games). And re-opened the same sites about 5 times each. But apparently no news seems to come up in 5 hours. BBC is as depressing as ever. TOI is as stupid as ever. Facebook is not used much by humans anymore, no notifications. The little red flag at the bottom right somehow usually cheers me up. Not even many status updates. So basically I did nothing useful.

I haven't even had dinner. Don't think I'm going to either, unless someone drags me out of the room. I can't remember if I had any yesterday.

And I also think that I should take my blog off the net. So that I don't piss off/depress any more people with descriptions of my interesting state of affairs.
Ahh wth this blows.