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In Random Crap on April 26, 2009 at 3:58 am

I’ve come to this blog more than a few times in the past couple days and stopped short of making an entry because

a) when I first made this blog, I was determined that it wouldnt be a place where I come and whine about myself
b) if I ever did whine about myself, it would be done in style
c) it was supposed to be a place for creative expression of common thought.

Unfortunately my mind is not beautiful enough for me to make it what I intended it to be. Maybe some day I’ll manage to pull it back into shape. For now, I”m convinced of one thing, that is, sometimes the healthiest thing to do is to sit and whine about one’s self. I said sometimes. Being honest I do it more than sometimes but I”m a writer so I”m entitled. Hah. So as days go by and leave my mind blankER than it already is, I shall whine in plain words.

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The day started of as usual – I woke up at 5ish, realised I’d fallen asleep without having turned out the lights and such. So I got up, turned off the computer, the lights, turned on the AC, neatened up the bed area and went back to sleep. Woke up again at about 8ish and took out my phone and mp3 player from underneath me. Went back to sleep. Woke up again at 10ish and stayed awake.

It was a rather boring day, after that, as holidays go. It generally has been..pretty dull around here. Even with the exhibition coming up and whatnot. Its like going from walled enclosure to walled enclosure. Life here is like that. Its either my room or the living room or some fucking mall or shop or grocery store..with very little in between except for traffic jams and drives spent arguing with someone or the other about something or the other that really shouldnt make much of a difference. Even daydreaming about catching a flight to somewhere on a whim is ludicrous because of the shitload of legal formalities to be carried out before one can leave the country. The earliest I could ever leave is two days, considering its the middle of the week. I’d never be able to work at an airport and what all those people leave and be stuck in one place myself.

Heh. I just spent the last half hour looking for the cheapest flight out of here. Turns out search engines dont work that way. I’ve got to type in a destination. Funny thing..I dont really know where I’d rather be.

Its easy to think being in a different place would make me a different person. To an extent, maybe…but it wouldnt *really* change much. I would love to keep traveling. Pick up and start afresh somewhere after 2 to 3 years. Live in those places, encounter new people, encounter myself encountering new people, new things. Life gets boring in the same place. In pursuit for constancy and “settling down” people forget how much is out there. Its not a small world. Not in the least. Or maybe its just about having no strings attached, no bridges to go back over except the ones I choose not to burn. As clean a cut as I will it to be. Selfish? So be it.

My recent physical crash I have determined is/was a physical manifestation of..well, this sense of feeling trapped, bogged down, etc etc. After several pricks and tests and whatever else, its been diagnosed as..hmm..nothing too serious. But it couldnt have been nothing. It was too fucking much to be nothing. The last few test results will arrive tomorrow but I”m pretty sure they’ll be clear. They say all situations can be changed but I dont know how to change this one. The cursor blinks now…I have no more to write. Its 4am and I should probably be getting to bed…to wake up to another walled enclosure to spend my day in.

In Blurbs, Uncategorized on April 25, 2009 at 1:14 pm

A moment ago I knew what to write here.

In Semi-Poetic Gibberish, Uncategorized on April 21, 2009 at 6:22 pm

The sun hangs hollow
shining hollow rays
that turn iridescent when refracted
through hollow things -
and in the emptiness of the day
what more can you say except
you have no more words?
what more can you feel except
a hollow, unending weakness?

Extract – Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

In Authors, Artists, Lives, Lessons on April 19, 2009 at 6:14 pm

When she is alone in rooms, I hear her humming to prevent herself from thinking. But she is morose all day long, suddenly weary and sullen.

She suffers like a miser. She must be miserly too with her pleasures. I wonder if sometimes she doesnt wish she could be free of this monotonous suffering, of these grumblings which start up again as soon as she stops singing, if she doesnt long to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. But in any case, that would be impossible for her: she is too set in her ways.

In Semi-Poetic Gibberish, Uncategorized on April 19, 2009 at 5:17 pm

He thumbs through
your belongings
absently
when you take leave of him -
(the burgundy scarf
pale lipstick,
pencil, sketchpad)
and places them on a shelf
with similar items.

Having cleaned his room (of you)
he steps out the door
to find his pick for the night.

In Semi-Poetic Gibberish, Uncategorized on April 19, 2009 at 5:11 pm

A leaf falls
in the garden
by the pond
on our wet picnic mat
close to your lips
singed by the sudden heat
of the gun barrel
that you held between them

In Societal Woes on April 18, 2009 at 7:21 pm

Madness is a luxury – to willfully give in to crippling fears, insecurities, to surrender to whims, to give up simply all form of socially acceptable living…to live for ones self is a luxury. To call it selfish would be pointless. Everything we do is selfish. In acknowledging the selfishness, in bringing ourselves to embrace it, at least we are not being hypocrites.

They say there is a link between madness and creativity. Woolf, Keats, the big and famous, the literary giants, the painters, the musicians, the everything, all of them were mad. Does that mean then that I must surrender creativity for normalcy? Does that mean that I will lose my creativity in embracing normalcy?

I can feel it already – thinking inside the box. Its a box bigger than most, I agree. But a gold cage is still a cage and a box with invisible bounds is worse. It isnt exhaustion, it isnt momentary creative block – it is a thought pattern that has nestled cozily and helped itself to my brain-juice. I am spent without having spent anything. Creativity has been diffusing out of me within these confines – within these spaces that only allow me to be creative in such way, in such context, in such direction. You may only be creative when it is required of you, in the mean while please maintain a clinical distance. Clean cuts, suction, no mess and healing stitches. Keep your creativity bandaged up until we need it. Otherwise it is of no use to us.

This post is an attempt at explaining away my mediocre creations of late. Of course, it is untrue. I am responsible for my creativity, to channel it through whichever pathway, outlet. I am responsible for my mediocrity. Nothing gets to me more.

I hate people.

In Random Crap on April 12, 2009 at 6:58 pm

Its really as simple as that.

“People” includes me, in case you thought I think I’m a saint. I’m not. I’m probably a bad person. At this moment it doesnt bother me much. Its human nature to be bad, isnt it? You’re either bad to other people or you’re bad to yourself. Or both.

Right now I”m ignoring my baby sister’s calls for “doodie” <– me, and I am procrastinating which is eventually gonna bit me in the ass. I’ve also spent the day being used as a doormat. Its a good feeling, to give. Yeah, it really is. <– sarcasm, in case anyone missed that.

I’d better get to that assignment I’ve been avoiding for two weeks.

Bits of the Day that I felt awesomely :L

In Bits of the Day on April 8, 2009 at 6:47 pm

I am in an oddly chipper mood after my mindBLASTING headache…<–weird joke.

The day has gone well and I might even be able to borrow random books from somebody! Yay! Books make me happy :L

I have also accomplished (I hope) something that I have been trying to finish for a while now (Yay! again!) :L

And despite the fact that I miss a lot of not so random people terribly (Darky included but not exclusive) I feel GOOD :L Does anyone realise how fucking hard that is around here? :L

*happy sigh*

I made a random drawing today..of…well, take a guess… in the uber awesome drawing session thingie. Tis scanned and attached below.

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No, It is crumpled paper! :P

In other news, the colour photography shooting went beyond disasterously. Well, it actually didnt..go at all. There were seniors in the studio during our scheduled session AND they stayed for about 3 hours. But oh well. Life is GOOD! :L and no, that is not sarcasm.

Needless to say, I have not written anything today as I do not feel like shit. Thats an odd relief. I’m thinking I will not attempt to write until I really do feel like it, instead of force stuff out like I have been. I will wait and bottle shit up so the next piece of mine is a masterpiece :L aren’t I smart? I am SO ready for a masterpiece.

Anywho, that is all of this lunatic’s ravings. I shall now proceed to work on my many assignments and random other side projects. hooraaaa! :L

Toodles :P

Letters to …

In Random Crap on April 8, 2009 at 6:16 pm

Darky! I miss you!

(Yes, I had to publicly declare it)

In Authors, Artists, Lives, Lessons on April 8, 2009 at 6:14 pm

Its not going to stop
No, its not going to stop
till you wise up

~ Aimee Mann

In Bits of the Day on April 6, 2009 at 7:08 pm

My heart beats for no reason. I feel dizzy and light headed and I can barely type because the strength of my fingers seems to have given out. I want to crawl into bed and stay there..as I did today. But I have work. Sketches and a test and a process book to get bound. And a colourful dress to choose for photography. And? And. *sigh* I am out of breath. But I havent been running. I have barely moved today.

I should go..and do some work.

In Semi-Poetic Gibberish on April 4, 2009 at 11:07 am

I saw you
the other day
sipping tea in the place I left you
darjeeling with mint
I knew from the window;
and from the window I wondered
if it was fear that kept you still
or loss of a certain consciousness -
if you hoped you were like the steam
rising and dissipating
above your mug
or if you had already condensed
on the ceiling
or the cooling fan.

It began to rain
then,
so I left you
twice the same
once – after our bodies had aged
but we were still
youthful
and again – after our bodies had aged
and youth had fled our tongues