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bronxmoon skip to main skip to sidebar bronxmoon the random rambles of a global wanderer the mind wanders more than the body ever can and goes back and forth between infinite memories take a peek friday march 14 2008 baggins has moved to a new cave pliss to update your links and blogrolls we the deluded ppl believe that we exist on ppl s blogrolls we are here now thanks for coming by every now and then do visit at the new place and look at our ring posted by bilbo at 3 14 2008 10 05 00 am 2 comments monday january 14 2008 duh really your true sign is sagittarius funny confident easily bored philosophical world traveler spontaneous and wild carefree and irresponsible blunt to the point of tactless what sign woman are you really posted by bilbo at 1 14 2008 10 14 00 pm 1 comment monday december 31 2007 me me 2007 main manta hoon main is baat se poori tarah se sehmat hoon jab tum kehti ho ki shayar na hote to bahut jhoote insaan hote tum i admit i fully agree with you when you say that if i hadn t been a poet i d have been a liar ubermensch started this meme and i picked it up at parikrama s it s easy all one has to do is post a pic one has snapped in the year 2007 and also a short write up on why that pic i snapped this pic in may this year i ve come a long way with the camera while i ve always loved to take photographs of people i love it even more when my subjects or victims if you want to put it this way enjoy being in front of the camera the pics come out better if i know the person well and have a nice conversation going they come out even better when i am drunk p anyhoo i love this particular pic because after i got done taking it the great man himself smiled and said she looks happy looks like she got some good shots so while people have liked their portraits after they ve seen them this is the first time some one could make out how the shot would turn out from reading the photographer s expression i did take a few prints of the photographs and showed them to the gentleman in question and after that as they say apun ki toh nikal padi i got requests for this pic and the others i had taken this one has also been published and i was introduced to the other people present as a very good photographer for those who are trying to guess the subject it is the great man of hindi urdu poetry sampooran singh gulzar this pic is special to me as it is taken at a time when i was really struggling sometimes a morale boost in one area helps one in others as well we all need the reinforcement of the belief that we can do a good job this pic was just that for me the year 2007 brought with it a lot of special moments like these and is ending on another moment hopefully 2008 would do the same posted by bilbo at 12 31 2007 09 55 00 pm 3 comments thursday october 04 2007 i am trying to use my soapbox hi guys finally peeking to scream for some ice cream if you think i am nuts ah well phd does expand to pagal ho gay a i dekho for those who want to know my two readers that is the thesis is on schedule and in a couple of wks i should know if i finally get to be called dr baggins till then keep me in your prayers and now for the soapbox part my blogger buddy entered his pic in a contest pliss to vote for him here thanku posted by bilbo at 10 04 2007 09 28 00 am 3 comments thursday july 19 2007 8 and 3 i ve been tagged yet again this time by lalouve and nazi for the 8 and 3 tag the number 8 reminded me of thomas jefferson and his obsession with the octagon i visited the uva campus in charlottesville virginia in the christmas vacation of 02 and thats when i had the opportunity of visiting monticello and bourboursville vineyard the octagon was ubiquitous we did get sick of it eventually today i am back to the number 8 and it does not make feel too well you see i don t like tags i definitely don t like tags that involve me talking about myself as nazi said i am full of myself i do like myself that way and don t really wanna share the fact that i blank out completely and can t think of anything to write is just another reason for not liking tags the number of things only seems to increase earlier it was 7 and now 8 uggghhhhh now lets see how many random things about myself can i come up with 1 i pass a few homeless ppl on my commute to work and back every day wkends i spend in roppongi and again on our walks we come across some more homeless ppl some of them sleep in pedestrian underpasses some of them sleep on stairs leading to shrines and gardens tokyo is an expensive place to live in roppongi the heart of tokyo more so i often wonder if i can cope with a life of that kind no roof over my head no walls around me to keep me safe and away from prying eyes no one to call my own no one to wait for me or care for me when i am sick no one and nothing except a few of my essentials in a plastic bag while i walk past these ppl i can experience a whole gamut of emotions its not a pleasant sight and it isn t a good life it isn t a life i can imagine 2 my dreams are real enough to scare me and sometimes surreal enough to know that they are just dreams i often see really rich colors in my dreams and when i still lived at home i often dragged my mom to shop for colors i d seen 3 talking of colors i have a tendency to get hooked on a particular color it was yellow one year till mom put her foot down and refused to pay for another outfit in yellow after that it was shades of peach and cream now i am stuck to grey and brown 4 since i mentioned peach and cream here s another view into that obsessive compulsive mind of mine mom has always encouraged us to do our own work as much as possible so she washed our clothes but we had to iron them ourselves something i took care of during the wkends i d iron all my clothes and then hang em on hangers with a color as close to the color of the outfit then each outfit would hang in order so you could go from dark to light when i was in my peach cream phase the clothes would hang with the peach outfit first the cream outfit last and all the intervening shades in the middle one day when mom and i were arguing about getting more color in my wardrobe she opened the door of my closet and then asked where do u see color you go mom you really know how to drive a point home 5 home is where mom is always we ve lived in a lot of places and for the last decade and almost half our family of 5 has been in 4 different geographical locations so when we go home for a vacation its wherever mom is delhi tokyo saigon delhi life comes a full circle 6 circle reminds me of the old oft repeated joke i am in shape round is a shape man that is scary shit that seems to be hell bent on being my near future 7 my immediate future though is scarier the roller coaster that a phd is is nearing one of its steepest slopes and it ends in a free fall as they say its the light at the end of the tunnel i am simply praying that isn t an incoming train 8 the last time i was on a train was in 98 we d gone to a bombay goa educational trip nuff said whoa i got done with the 8 part of it am not going to do the 3 part of it for now atleast i am not enough of a sadist to really torture any one else so not tagging anyone p s nazi i am an intp too now who da thunk posted by bilbo at 7 19 2007 10 07 00 am 4 comments friday may 18 2007 the sleep of innocence this happened almost a life time back i was back in india delhi to be precise and was enrolled in a bachelor s degree program and commuted back and forth between west delhi and cannought place i still can t bring myself to call it rajiv chauk i was on my way home and had my bag with a gazillion texts inside it sitting on my lap when a young couple got in with a toddler and infant and the assorted baby paraphernalia to say that they had their hands full would be an understatement while the husband sat in another seat with all the gazillion bags the wife sat down beside me with the infant in her lap the toddler stood between her and me to this day i don t know what i was thinking but i plonked my bag down on the floor and asked a very willing toddler to hop on before you could say lap he was sitting in it what he did next is something i remember even now he put his tiny hands against me snuggled and promptly went to sleep while i felt envious of his innocent sleep i could not help feeling a sense of warmth because of the implicit trust this little thing seemed to have put in me cynical me thinks that trust has nothing to do with it but with my own sleep problems i think trust is a big part of it i don t remember if i got off the bus first or if they did what i do remember is the feel of that child snuggled against me and the slow rhythm of its breathing life is wonderful with its little moments that stow away in our minds to be relived and reminisced later posted by bilbo at 5 18 2007 10 19 00 am 12 comments tuesday may 08 2007 friends for a reason april 04 i was at school at nyc and had decided to quit the program i was in cold turkey and come back home to my parents in tokyo it took me all of 12 days to decide get the visa buy the air ticket pack up a home i d built over the last 2 and a half yrs and leave knowing fully well i would have next to no social life once i moved to add to all that i had no clue of what i d be doing i d visited tokyo earlier and it did not strike me as an english zone it isn t one yet but let me not get ahead of myself here i wasn t blogging then i did write but wasn t really posting anywhere i did lurk on a few blogging sites thus coming in touch with a few ppl i d usually interact with them online for a bit and then if we struck a chord take it off line i made quite a few friends in this process beanie too was one such friend he wrote poems that weren t traditional rhymes and followed no rules just the same they expressed whatever he was feeling at that moment i still carry one of it in my wallet i d told him i was printing it out and putting it there those were carefree conversations about poems and feelings and life in general and the online world and the people that inhabited it and how close some came to their real beings even when they were running away from them online world offers an anonymity that makes it so easy for one to be just that one so when i decided to move i got quite a mixed bag of reactions most of them not too good in the midst of that his words to just go and learn about another culture and to see how i could imbibe it best stood out when the going got tough this toughie yours truly did try to get going and on some days failed miserably as i did on the day i had set aside for my packing instead of going to the lab to wind up all my stuff and tidy up the desk and all i sat in my studio and organized my clothes into piles one pile that was coming with me to nippon also needed to be ironed that s what i tackled that day and that s what got me crying eventually i ve never really thought of myself as a homebody while i do have chores around the house and i love to muck around in the kitchen these are things i do interspersed with my life of school and lab and i am hoping one day work so quitting a program not knowing what next was never part of a well thought out plan impulsive i am and i had gone a few steps too far this time as i realized ironing shirt after shirt so when in the evening i sat talking to him something in my voice gave away and i just sat and bawled on the phone i ve yet to repeat that stunt and i hope i never do trooper that he is he waited for me to calm down and when i showed no signs of it he just let me have a good cry and then asked me to breath whadya know i don t know how to breathe to relax i still don t know though that day i did get a clue with him counting on the other end of the line we kind of did the whole deep inhale count exhale count thing and it worked to calm me down a bit he was the last person i spoke to before i flew out and we kept in touch for a little while after i moved soon after coming to tokyo i started volunteering in the lab i am in now i applied to the graduate program i am in and got accepted and also got on the japanese govt fellowship around this time i also lost touch with my friend i guess my need for him was over he made sure i made the transition got settled and then left though i would not say that i miss him every once in a while i do take that poem out of my wallet and read it again i ve never made the attempt to memorize it i guess i need that touch of paper to make that memory a bit more tangible sometimes when i ve tucked myself in for the night and i am lying there not yet ready for slumber i can hear him count posted by bilbo at 5 08 2007 01 09 00 pm 9 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me bilbo jack of all trades hoping to be master of something view my complete profile blog archive 2008 2 march 1 baggins has moved to a new cave january 1 2007 9 december 1 october 1 july 1 may 3 april 1 february 1 january 1 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