Time...

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I had hounded my ma for weeks with my cribbing, then threats of not going to school, then tears, and finally when i promised not to ask for anything more that month, she mercifully gave in...and i got that beautiful piece of time!!

It's transparent plastic straps had small, blue Mickey mouse heads on it.
The dial was in the shape of Mickey mouse's head...the colour a brilliant, metallic blue that shined on my hand when i played in the sun...
But the inside of the watch was the best part...it had Mickey, himself, telling me the time with his hands!!! Tiny, gloved hands that moved with every minute...with every hour. Man!! i was a girl obsessed with her watch...i'd wear it even while i slept!!

But like all good things, the watch didnt last long either. I was playing with the other roughians of my neighborhood when i bumped my hand into the wall...i heard a crack and was paralysed with shock...shuddering to even look at my hand!

The round, domed glass was cracked, and one of Mickey's perfect blue, metal ears had a dent in them! i cried like i had lost my leg!!...and for days after that i kept the watch on...and everytime i looked at the damage i'd caused it, i would well up...

It's been years now, and ma probably still has the watch in her cupboard somewhere. But i'll find it some other time...when i'm not mourning my loss anymore...

Fly on...

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Well, she's walking through the clouds,
With a circus mind that's running wild,
Butterflies and Zebras,
And Moonbeams and fairy tales.
That's all she ever thinks about.
Riding with the wind.

When I'm sad, she comes to me,
With a thousand smiles she gives to me free.
It's alright, she says it's alright,
Take anything you want from me,
Anything.
Fly on little wing.

--Jimi Hendrix (Little Wing)

What piques me

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It irks me to no end when....
People who claim to be pukka vegetarians dont blink twice before slipping on leather shoes...

They'd even go to the lengths of shifting chairs at the restaurant, so that the carnivores can sit on the "other" side of the table!! ***CUMMON*** !! meat in your diet would actually do you more good than camel hide under your feet!

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Permission to Fly

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Half an hour in line at the Passport office,

1000 rupees as official passport fee,

500 rupees and freshly made neembu paani to that lech, goon of a police man, (to smoothly forward a positive police verification report)

50 rupees to the happiest postman ever alive (who delivered the passport and this - "kitni khushi ki baat hai aapki beti ka paasporat aa gaya"),

budget holiday in Europe....HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOoooooo

Sunday summer evening

Gurgling grey clouds filling the sky, sifting rain

Eddie Vedder and Jimi Hendrix serenading me...one with his dark chocolate honey smooth voice, and the other with his soul wrenching guitar play

Sweet, strong hot chai with coconut biscuits

AAhhhhh!!!! there's nothing better!