My dear wilted rose

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 4/2/2013 1:19:00 PM

';;;; It is not the endLife gives a second chanceTake it and bloomMy dear wilted roseThat is forever behind youForget about the painIt was good riddanceMy dear jilted rose.But remember what you hatedOr it you might becomeAs rotten, as twistedAs dry, thorny and tilted roseI see the marks and prunesBut I won’t throw you outOr confine you to a book My dear mud silted roseInstead I’ll be your sunshine,Your water and your roots.Till grow back. Don’t worry,My dear wilted rose'

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My DoppelgAnger

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 2/6/2013 11:02:00 AM

'I recently got to know that something horrifying was done to a person near to me. After that I have no rest, I can't sleep, I can't think of anything else, every time I'm not distracted it starts playing in front of me like a video on infinite loop. And then I start to imagine how it would be, but in the next 2 seconds I stop, because I can't take it, it's too horrifying to even imagine what it would have been.Now I know what Joseph Gordon Levitt meant by the lines - 'to feel the an(...)'

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Why you should marry an alcoholic

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 1/27/2013 4:38:00 PM

';;;; All my advice till now has been for men, but now with the wave of feminism abound I guess it’s better to be called anything else but sexist. So this latest blog post is relevant for women; about how should they take the most important decision of their life. They should really, whole heartedly, thankfully marry an alcoholic.Now I’m sure you must be eyeing this with the suspicion that all women eye everything men tell them, so let me recount you people the benefits of marrying a(...)'

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The Uzi and the Dragunov

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 12/26/2012 7:49:00 AM

';;;   Have you ever been in a war? Ok probably not, but I’m sure you must have played Counter Strike or seen the movie S.W.A.T. (Michelle Rodriguez looked hot in that by the way).So the objective of every gunfight is simple and singular, kill and don’t get killed. And the weapon you chose on your opponent, the surrounding but most importantly your fighting style. Same goes for pataofying a girl.I use the word Pataofybecause there is no English equivalent. Asking a girl out(...)'

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Lights, Camera, My Opinion

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 10/22/2012 6:41:00 PM

';;;;  Best Movie – V for Vendetta Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate.' This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valourous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only(...)'

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Life. Is good

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 10/4/2012 3:42:00 AM

'It was 2nd October. Approx 6:30 in the evening. I was sitting in my brother's car as he was out buying booze, with time to kill I tuned into the radio. Oasis's Wonderwall was on, and I sat there listening to the song with my mind blank and the music coming in from my skin pores and I suddenly said to myself "Life is good"'

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Save for the rainy day

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 9/9/2012 2:40:00 PM

';;;; Save for the rainy day. Wait for the storm when it arrives. Study hard in school to get a good college.  Study hard in college to get a good job. Work hard at your job to retire early. Take consultancy work post retirement so you can get out of home.  Network rather than making friends. Be happy when your bank statement arrives in the mail. Forget that your son also had sent a Father’s day card. Instruct your parents to only call on Sundays at 9:00 PM. Hedge your risk(...)'

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Murder, She thought - Part 3

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 8/23/2012 5:14:00 PM

';;;; I was lost and I needed someone to bounce ideas off. And as always my feet turned towards Divya. She was my quiet place in between the rough sea that my life was. I went to her to imagine me. She was all I was at that age, or rather what I could have been at that age. Smart, cheerful, pretty, a genius and in love with somebody. Divya loved her husband despite all his faults. Despite all his faults. It was an old fashioned arranged marriage when her parents had fixed her with a (...)'

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Curious Incident of the Restaurant in the nighttime

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 8/2/2012 9:06:00 PM

'It was like one of the many instances when I was travelling to Bangalore, and like most times I was about to reach before time to the bus stand. In fact this time I was an hour earlier and was travelling light as I was only going for one day. So I asked to the auto driver if I could get to eat something nearby, he said “Haan bahaiya paas mae kaafi hotel hai”. I asked him to drop me there instead of the bus stand, got down after a while, paid him and starting walking towards wh(...)'

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Murder, She thought - Part 2

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 7/18/2012 6:32:00 PM

';;;;  I still remember that fateful night, I relive it every day. Like a slapping scene on a Soap Opera it keeps repeating on and on. Every time I took a step and it pained, every time I looked into the mirror, every time Naresh introduced me to someone and he went from his name to Oh ….We were an insane couple who were insanely young and insanely in love with each other. It was when Kavita was 6 years old; we had left her with the neighbor and finally had some time to ourselve(...)'

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James Bong - The Spy who Scrapped me

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 7/8/2012 7:24:00 PM

'It was the summer of 03 when Jishnu banerjee aka JB first saw American Pie on his friend’s new PC . He had lied to his parents about going to Debashish’s house for studying. Debashish had lied to his parents about his stomach ache so as not to go on his parent’s trip to Digha. They were home alone and that only meant one thing, watching forbidden American movies. There were too afraid to ask the CD Rental guy for the real good stuff and no fun in Schwarzenegger movies now so they se(...)'

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Tell me where do I draw the line?

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 6/30/2012 12:00:00 AM

';;;; Travel for days and hopeFor an hour with youA lifetime in return to, for you, pineTell me where do I draw the line?Wither away in the day, daydreamingAnd go hungry all evening. Why?Only so with you I can dine?Tell where do I draw the line? Suffer from your indifferenceAnd hide behind my smile.You really think for no reason I whine?Tell me where do I draw the line?Of course we are not Just friendsI have done much more alreadyToo much tears for me and bitter wineTell me wher(...)'

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Murder, She thought - Part 1

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 6/28/2012 4:46:00 PM

';;;; Every story teller starts his or her story was setting in the time and rules of the world that the story takes place in. I intend to do the same; the time is right now, 2012 A.D. And the rules? I don’t know about the rules of this world. I do not know what I am, a spirit, a specter, a poltergeist. The only thing I do know is that I am dead and I want to find out who did it.When you think of the word murder the mind always thinks of stormy nights, murderer in a cloak and big kni(...)'

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The five girls you meet in India

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 5/27/2012 9:50:00 AM

';;;; "Ryan Bingham: I'm like my mother, I stereotype. It's faster."Delhi –  Delhi requires a big purse, big car, big biceps, and possibly other big parts too. Be prepared to dole out serious cash when you take her to the Orange Room for Bloody Mary, Khan Chacha for kababs and then a drive around India Gate in your rented sedan, finally ending up at your distant cousin’ sister’s friend’s farm house. If you can’t convincingly nod to “What does this girl think about herself, she i(...)'

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Descent into Madness (Again)

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 5/26/2012 10:30:00 AM

' "I have labored to pass many a days but my years have flew by"I have got 10 mins to pen my thoughts, then I need to take a shower and head out to get more drunk. I am two beers down and feeling like writing. I just watched Dev D in parts for the 100th time and whole thing is feeling like Deja Vu.I have been in this place before, at least two times I can distinctly remember. Days seem a blur, I get up, push myself to go to work, even though I hate going to office, but I get thi(...)'

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The girl you love or the who girl who loves you? : REDUX

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 5/13/2012 7:35:00 PM

';;;; Whom would you marry? It’s an honest question. Probably some romantic idealists would say neither, but in a world of 6 Billion people what is the probability that the person you love also found you and only you to love? Or the other way around? Very bleak I would say. And if you are saying that you don’t know the whole world then you are just compromising with the people whom you you know; while your ‘Soulmate’ (if such a thing exists) might be in some other country, speaking s(...)'

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The girl you love or the who girl who loves you?

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 5/6/2012 7:00:00 PM

'Are you one who has lovedWith the passion of a burning fireOr are you the one who said ‘I love you too’And in same breath called yourself a liarBut I will stop the watchAnd inanely compose such a rhymeKnowing no one will answer, I‘d ask,Whom do you wanna be this time?Whom would you marry? It’s an honest question. Probably some romantic idealists would say neither, but in a world of 6 Billion people what is the probability that the person you love also found you and only you to love?(...)'

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The Great Annual Appraisal !

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 4/25/2012 9:36:00 PM

'Ok this part is true – File this in the non-fiction shelf.My company’s campus is such that it is some distance from the main gate to the building where we all work (700 meters to be precise). And it’s uphill. And our company through its green initiative or some other HR shit decided to keep bicycles at the gate which employees can take from the gate to the main building. But the problem is, as I mentioned before, that it is some distance and it is uphill. So much that lazy fat basta(...)'

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Dread Lock

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 4/21/2012 12:28:00 PM

'I just tweeted sitting on the shit pot that I was feeling prolific. And I was, I had two ideas that I could write on. One of them was something I have been trying to write from quite some time.But today I'm not able. I'm filled with this all-consuming sense of dread. It is near paralyzing. I don't what's wrong but I sense that something is or is going to be, I just can't put my finger on it. And for this mega sense of dread I'm surprised that I slept well, both last night and in the(...)'

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Idiot's Guide to be a Star at Work

Author : Anirudh      Blog : Momentary Lapse of Reason      Date : 3/25/2012 9:26:00 AM

';;;;You. Yes you. Are you an incompetent slob whose idea of agood days work in office is to change the toilet roll? Or do you think applyingnail polish in office is too tiresome a work. Are you the modern day Shidas whose touch turns everything to shit? Doyou think that your life’s aim of able to grab a pretty money grubbing whorecan be only be fulfilled by swindling a lot of money from your own firm? Do youhave trouble getting up 12 and can’t keep your eyes open after 1 but st(...)'

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