What's in a name?

I haven

Current Mood: Grand
Current Music: Laaga, chunari mein daag - Manna Dey

Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!

In many amusement parks and sometimes where coffee, tea or canned drinks are dispensed by machines, one can find a "Change Machine." I can never walk past such a contraption without feeling a twinge. How tempting! A machine that brings forth change, all one has to do is push some button. Wouldn

Current Mood: Cheerful
Current Music: Change the World - Westlife

Gifts of one who loved me, --
'T was high time they came;
When he ceased to love me,
Time they stopped for shame.

from Essays: Second Series (1844)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have you ever sat there and wrecked your brain to come up with what you thought would be the perfect gift for someone special? I am sure you have, then you will also surely forgive me for my post today. (Am I allowed to vent?)

So I was faced with a decision about what to give. It was a special occasion and nothing seemed good enough. I made long lists in my mind of possible items that I could give, only to cross them out almost immediately. This one was too insignificant, that one too common, this one too elaborate, that one too impersonal. I needed a special gift for I had Khalil Gibran

Current Mood: Heartbroken
Current Music: Gift of Love - Bette Midler

Questions

Who can tell what the future holds?
What would the future be?
Is it really free will or is it already written?
If it is, who wrote it?

Why are we here?
Could we alter the future?
Maybe ...

Would it matter at all?

The questions are endless.
Limitations of the mind make us short-sighted.
We could spend all eternity asking
But who would we ask?

Current Mood: Confused
Current Music: The Question - Scott Lindley

Labor omnia vincit - Work conquers all things or does it?

Unless someone with influence acts soon, this post must serve as an obituary for the hopes I had earlier this year of reform in my place of work, sighs. Today I was again stuck most of the day in meetings, which I absolutely detest. They are nothing but counter-productive, boring, tiresome, useless, impractical, futile, means for mis-communication, discrimination, blame allocation and picking veiled fights, in short an utter waste of time. Now I know what whoever coined the phrase :

Current Mood: Bored
Current Music: Time - Pink Floyd

Alternatively : dhobi ka kutta, na ghar ka, na ghat ka

I am sure that the terms ABCD and BBCD (American/British Born Confused Desi) have been used a gazillion times before, but I still haven

Current Mood: Grand
Current Music: Who Am I - Petula Clark

To Whom It May Concern

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Current Mood: Bye!
Current Music: So Long, Farewell - Sound of Music Soundtrack