Tatyana in medias res

Getting drenched to my skin in the rain. The sky right before it’s about to pour, the cool scary breeze that warns you about the storm that about to hit. I love it. I love getting wet in the rain. There is an emptying yet fulfilling feeling about it. Its happiness. I think about the time when we got wet in the rain together, and instead of trying to get inside, we kissed, like there is no tomorrow, in the rain. Knowing deep down that this might never happen again, hopeful nevertheless. That is my most fond memory of you. When nothing else mattered and the skies rejoiced with the glee in my heart. The way the clouds rumble, making my heart beat faster with nervousness and anticipation. Often blamed to be gloomy, rain is my favorite weather, I love the splattering on the windshield, the little puddles that become a lake for all the origami boats, the announcement of the oncoming rainbow, I love rain. I also sometimes think about the time we rode the rush-hour subway and you took a c...

There comes a time in everyone's life, when they get the realization, that there is too many things to do and too many places to see and very little time. This realization can come at many different times in life, or at any stage. It can come when you graduate high school, when you graduate college, when you are nearing the end of a really long relationship, when you get you first real job and hence ur first big paycheck, or when ur 48. I can say with much conviction, that this is a life changing moment in a person's life. It usually affects all the immediate people around them. Partners, roommates, love interests, parents, friends, siblings etc. and if the counterparty is caught off guard, it can be very discerning for them. Here I'd like to repeats Peter Parker's uncle's words. With great power comes great responsibility. So here is the deal; power because when this enlightenment hits you, you are infinite in that moment. You are responsible to break it ...

As a teenager in an Indian house, there was nothing I rebelled against more than the institution of arranged marriages. We are the children of technology, we have seen it go from nokia 5110 with the antennae to the iphone5, and we have seen technology evolve faster than anyone else. We moved quickly from black and white cable TV to the satellite that showed us everything from friends to how I met your mother. So naturally, we saw the same movies as kids in any other country, we saw love in every (H)bollywood movie as it was no bad thing. And yet everyday at home, there was a struggle to accept that you can be made to spend the rest of your life with someone your parents pick. When I was 16, I wouldn’t even wear something my mom picked, leave alone marry it. However the amazing thing that growing up does to you is realizing that nearly a billion people couldn’t be wrong if they have regular everyday happy lives like everyone else, even though they married their parents’ choice. Com...

"Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve. Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow. She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be in...

One of my friends posted a very simple true and heartwarming quote on facebook today. And it accelerated what I have been thinking to write about for a while. He wrote "We may not talk for months or see each others that often. But, being my friend is like having a permanent diplomatic mission with me and there is a part of me which will always be yours entirely."  If there was an eHow on how to be friends, this would probably be in it. It’s true, when you meet someone, whether you like it or not, they take away a part of you with them. This will always be theirs no matter what. And that is the beauty of friendship. It doesn’t always ask and tell. You don’t have to be formal and worry about things. Its funny how making a new friend is almost like dating. You want everything to go well, you want to like them and you want them to like you. You set up times to go shopping or 'hang out' or movies and see if you have the same opinion, and if not at least don’t ...

Sprinklers. Cars. Shopping. Friends. New Friends. Books. Harry Potter. Photographs. Memories. Movies. Food. Lots of food. Cooking. Music. Bollywood. People with passion. Desire. Rain. Nail paint. Hula hoop. Literature. Poems. Balloons. Gifts. Gifts that are wrapped. Paintings. Cartoons. Dancing. The way the weather is right before its about to rain. The smell of the first rain. Most rain related things. Romantic comedies. Really stupid action movies. Romance. Love. Parents of friends. Karaoke. Window shopping. Writing. Reading. Talking. Good long conversations about nothing. Jumping in a rain puddle. Sprinklers. Inspirational people. Football. Arguing about everything. Traveling. The 90s. POP CORN. sleeping. chivalry.Rainbows. Cats. My grey parrot.

 So most of my blog posts are about people or relationships or food, because well if you aren’t passionate enough, you aren’t going to do it right. So here goes. To every guy who has broken a girl's heart for the wrong reasons, you are a pussy my friend. I’d feel better picking a fight with a skunk, because its lies probably don’t stink as much as yours! And this very specifically is aimed at the guys who have broken up with a girl over the phone or IM or email. And of course to every guy who has been in a long distance relationship and destroyed them. It’s just never going to be okay to spend time with your girl and then break up right after she is back to where she lives. After you spent the best summer(month/week/days) with her, promising her everything was alright and of course baby I still want to date you. You are not a man of honor. You know very well you are going to end it, do it to her face if you have the guts. Here's the thing about long distance relations...