Before The Spring Equinox!

Before the spring equinox;

the cold will last

only a night or two more

(Rotsu)

Hot chocolate and bread

Curling up in the bed!

(Arushi)

This Haiku is written for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai for Tan Renga Challenge!

Dessert Under The Bridge!

Chocolate brownie and ice-cream she stole from Chokola! :)

She sat cross-legged, the empty platter in her hand,

All ready to dig in as soon as it lands.

Her mouth was watering, she was hungry,

She hadn't eaten for days,

She lived under the bridge next to the bays!

The dainty little fairy waited eagerly,

~ For the ice-cream and sizzling chocolate brownie ~

It smelled so good, so heavenly delicious,

Her mother Bought it from those bakers.

But she wondered why they were running after her,

a spatula in hand and cursing much louder!

But she ran with her mother the brownie in her hand,

And hid with her, still giggling, behind the pile of sand!!

This Puente is written for Laurie's prompt "Bridges" at The Poetry Jam!

 Me on the bridge over The Jog Falls in Karnataka (India).

The Small Scoops Of Ice-cream...

Candylicious at Dubai Mall, Dubai

There are times when you do not actually know what exactly you want.... Its like you're standing in an ice cream parlor with those beautiful and colorful ice creams displayed in a glass refrigerator and you haven't tried so many flavors, or you have but you've forgotten what they were like, or then again you have but forgotten that you ever had, AND you want to have them all.... But still somewhere inside you there is an anticipation! Of trying the wrong one? Or ending up eating something you had eaten already and had not liked even then? So then you end up with two options...
First, go for your all time favourite chocolate ice cream and enjoy it the way you always do; Or else, try a new flavour victoriously relishing the change (not to mention leaving behind an anticipation for the next time you enter the place), or grudging not having taken the chocolate ice cream after-all...

The decision becomes no simpler by tasting every flavor, rather it becomes a complicated matrix of various flavors mixed and put in your mouth in a matter of a few seconds! Tough job... Very tough...
If that much thought could go in choosing an ice cream flavor what would it be like to make bigger decisions in life.... To choose between two options when life is kind enough to present you with options (silently and wickedly smirking behind your back thinking Buddy your destiny is predefined choose whatever you may, you still get only what I want you to have) and you wish with all your might you were never given any options. And all along you know about the wicked game you're trapped in and you still play along.... You'll challenge it hoping against hope it would make a difference, and its only fair you should.... After-all existence without a fight, a challenge, should be monotonous, boring, hopeless....
And then there are times you end up making a compromise... Times when you still don't know what exactly you want... Times when you choose two half scoops of the most beautiful colors of ice-creams wondering all along what others would have been like!   

My Birthday!!! :)

Hand made chocolates gifted by Rahul More

There is a beauty in the expression of friendship... like they say 
"Miles away cant keep us apart,
'cause you'll always be in my heart."

Alone in my hostel my 22nd birthday would have been the loneliest had it not been for all those super crazy people I call friends.... Let me also add it was one of the most amazing birthdays I had so far... At precisely 0000hrs on 19th of January this year, I cut the most delicious and unexpected cake of my life ... a Veggie Delight Sub with no cheese and extra olives with three friends singing Happy Birthday on a conference call... It was awesome... :D

One of my best friends actually came all the way from Pune to be with me on my Birthday...
One of my friends played a birthday song on his guitar and mailed the recording to me.... ( much later but i love the way my birthday goes on and on and on...)

And I got HOME made chocolates with my name on them for a gift...

Could it have gotten better? :D