Shibani.net-Personal website of a web & graphics designer

I had gone for a meeting today. There, some lady asked me, ‘Are you Kashmiri?’. It was probably my sense of humor in a stressful situation that I promptly replied, ‘No, I’m Shibani’. The ‘and I’m a Sindhi’ only followed later. Everyone had a good laugh. Trust me to say the weirdest things at the most inappropriate times

1. Jefferson Starship – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us
2. Led Zeppelin – D’yer Mak’er
3. Arno Elias – Question d’Habitude
4. Howard Jones – What Is Love?
5. Rang De Basanti – Roobaroo
6. Right Said Fred – You’re My Mate
7. Joe Satriani – Belly Dancer
8. Staind – Epiphany
9. Enrique Iglesias – Can you hear me?
10. Queen – The Show Must Go On

Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.

No nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travelers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands;
A voice so thrilling ne’er heard
In springtime from the cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.

Will no one tell me what she sings?–
Perhaps the planitive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago;
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of today?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?

Whate’er the theme, the maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o’er the sickle bending;
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.

..for I will be gone by sunrise
to an unknown and mystical paradise.
So let my candle burn, dear friend
I have only but this night

Celebrate Bandra 2009 kicked off on Saturday 15th November. It’s an all-over Bandra event that covers various spheres such as Art, Dance, Food, Music, Photography, Theatre and some very good social awareness causes. It’s a 2 week long festival that gets this part of the city buzzing with activity.

I was looking outside my window on Sunday, waiting to go for the rock show performances later that evening. Suddenly, a car stopped on the road opposite my house (MH-04-AC-XXX). A lady got out of the passenger seat and went to the back seat to pull out a foul smelling package containing stale food, and she dumped it on the road. The road has clear hoardings talking about keeping it clean. The lady seemed decently educated but she didn’t think one bit before using the stretch of road as her dumping ground. Idiots, I thought.

Later, when I went to Carter Road for the show, I saw that very same lady there. The theme of Celebrate Bandra this year is Go Green but somehow trashing the road doesn’t seem to appeal to the civic sense of some people around. Shame, shame! I pity the organizers who have taken pains to improve this part of Mumbai that is still being abused by a bunch of educated fools.

Incomplete books, artworks, needlework, shows, posts, promises, conversations and arguments..a life of incompleteness. When will things be complete and whole? When you realize and want to mend ways, there is no time..it’s too late.

I still can’t get over the vocalist (Morten Harket). I’ve had a huge crush on him since the longest time. Here’s a rare original from A-ha *blush*

Smiling next to you..

Bheegi huwi koyi shaam woh
Mehka huwa koyi naam woh
Bin baat hi hoti hai nilaam woh
Mash-hoor hai phir bhi badnaam woh
Jaane huwa hai aaj kya hamein na ham
Jaane kyun humko yaad… aaye woh

Ab is tarha usko sochta hoon
Guzre huwe woh pal rokta hoon
Woh pal kahin kho gaye hain jo apne
Aur saath bhi ho gaye hain jo sapne
Jaane huwa hai aaj kya hamein na ham
Jaane kyun humko yaad… aaye woh

Woh roshni woh aag hai
Ya phir koyi charaag hai
Jisse dheere dheere hai jalna
Jisse is tarha hi hai chalna
Kissi mod pe woh aaj bhi qandeel si jalegi
Shaher ki dhoop si bewaqt hi dhhalegi
Kyun humko yaad…

Bheegi huwi koyi shaam woh
Mehka huwa koyi naam woh
Bin baat hi hoti hai nilaam woh
Mash-hoor hai phir bhi badnaam woh
Jaane huwa hai aaj kya hamein na ham
Jaane..kyun humko yaad aaye woh…