sleepless on a week night

One evening i was walking down the road when i suddenly saw a wolf of a problem. I turned into a rabbit and burrowed a hole and hid in the dark, i shut my ears and closed my eyes and waited for the wolf to go away. When i opened my eyes I saw i was actually a tomato being hurled towards a rock wall, so i quickly turned into a river and became so big and massive that the wall got blasted out of my way like a little toy lego block, then i thought i found a cozy canyon to flow thru, but as i went on, the walls of the canyon kept going higher and higher and no sun could reach me, and i was like a little silver black snake at the bottom, when suddenly the rocks stopped and i jumped of the cliff with a roaring laugh and shone and sparkled in the sun as i did so.

Then one day i was walking down the road, and there came a dark fog...

Coffee Spoons?

You have heard of this poem?

I was thinking of it this morning because yesterday evening felt like a waste of precious time, it is amazing when you make petty things in life, a walk 5 minutes too long and in the cold or spices mixed not quite rightly*, important, how unimportant your life becomes. What, the evening is gone, and nothing worthwhile, no rest, no joy, no progress made of it? Nothing that leapt and made the heart rejoices or even challenge and stretch the boundaries of what I know^. Feels like life being measured in coffee spoons, like death by insignificant useless little cuts. Out, out brief candle! There be the radiance of a thousand suns, burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty one...


*both fictional examples
^tho I think I am quite OVER the challenges for the time being, but I think even when painful, they are meaningful

Swami Sivananda

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

A funky kitten and funky furniture for it

I would like a nice placid home kitten, but before it can come, the house really needs to be ready for it! I am working at sorting and getting rid of the junk in the house. But a kitten/cat would also need a scratchpole and other things like that and true to being - a lover of all things expensive - how awesome would something like this be:



These are available here.

Arco Lamp

Firstly, considering how many people came to my blog looking for a chesterfield, here is another picture of a Chesterfield (beautiful colour!), AND with Tina Fey sitting on it!!



Secondly, in my thirties and even after, i am sure I'll be able to find room for an Arco Lamp. It is the lamp in the picture below:



This picture is from Apartment Therapy's House Tour of Eero Aarnio. (<- You want to click on that link!)

Arco Lamp, there is in fact a website dedicated to it! Once upon a time, I did not know that pieces of furniture and lightings had names. The above picture changed it all, first I realised that the owner of the house designed "bubble chairs" and then I spent forever trying to find someone somewhere with that lamp, without knowing that it had a name! (and a rather big price tag!)

The word for the year:

(the 100th post on this blog!)

Life is sometimes confusing, or maybe I am being a bit daft - but the thing is there are times in life referred to as the 'aha' moments. The fish is dying... because the filter is clogged - aha (not based on real life); there is no hot water... because the taps are leaking - aha (based on a real life incident). Sometimes, it is like this - their dumplings do not open up in the pan of water while being boiled, because they use egg white to seal them! aha! (def. based on real life!)

And for some reason, while it hasn't been like that most of the time*, but the year has been marked with a sense of mis-identification or un-identification of causes leading to certain effects. The effects have been less than pleasurable most of the times, but even when they have been good - it has only intensified the feeling of random-ness, and lack of control of my experiences.

and so, a bit belated, here is a traditional word for the year:

PERPLEX
transitive verb
1: to make unable to grasp something clearly or to think logically and decisively about
2: to make intricate or involved : complicate

but to stop at that, would be aweful, so this year there is a bonus word for the year, which is actually the REAL word for the year:

DEVELOP
transitive verb
1a : to set forth or make clear by degrees or in detail : expound
b : to make visible or manifest
c : to treat (as in dyeing) with an agent to cause the appearance of color
d : to subject (exposed photograph material) especially to chemicals in
order to produce a visible image ; also : to make visible by such a method
e : to elaborate (a musical idea) by the working out of rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme

2a : to work out the possibilities of
b : to create or produce especially by deliberate effort over time
3a : to make active or promote the growth of
b(1) : to make available or usable
(2) : to make suitable for commercial or residential purposes c : to move (as a chess piece) from the original position to one providing more opportunity for effective use
4a : to cause to unfold gradually b : to expand by a process of growth c : to cause to grow and differentiate along lines natural to its kind d : to become infected or affected by
5: to acquire gradually

intransitive verb
1a : to go through a process of natural growth, differentiation, or evolution by successive changes b : to acquire secondary sex characteristics
2: to become gradually manifest
3: to come into being gradually ; also : turn out 2a

Origin of DEVELOP
French développer, from Old French
desveloper, desvoluper to unwrap, expose, from des- de- + envoloper to
enclose —
more at envelop
First
Known Use: 1750

All definitions, as usual, from Merriam-Webster (http://www.m-w.com/).


*tho I do realise it has been an ongoing theme with me.

A good ol' neat bathroom

The wise folks at design sponge put up a collection of bathrooms to look at! And I think I'd love this bath and shower curtain (on the left) to go up at my place:


and while I am at it, I wouldn't might a bit of skylight to go in there too!



So, how does a bathtub and skylight in a bathroom sound for a birthday present? Pretty awesome, don't you think!