“If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . .
No, that’s stupid. I feared hundreds of things: the dark, the death of my father, the possibility that I might rejoice the death of my mother, sums involving vernier calipers, groups of schoolboys with nothing much to do, death by drowning.
But of all these, I feared the most the possibility that I might go mad too.”
– Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
Girl : “Kelly, do you know what I’m going to get you for Christmas?”
Kelly : “What?”
Girl : “A backbone.”
“We have to keep trusting God. We can’t just trust God when he’s doing what we want. We have to trust him even when things are not as we would like them.”
– Family Life, Akhil Sharma
“My dramas don’t help me sleep, they simply allow me to pretend that I’m somebody else, someone who’s not lying saucer-eyed on a sweat-drenched mattress, watching minutes flap forward and awaiting the dawn of another dry day.”
– Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
.. not the movie. I’ve been doing a lot of self reflecting this Ramadan (don’t laugh) in order to become a better person on the whole. I was thinking about grudges and how some of them consume us like a fire. I have decided to not hold grudges against anyone and not feel so strongly when someone else holds a grudge against me. I realize that everyone is dealing with their own issues and holding on to one hurtful thing that someone said eons ago is not going to make my life any easier. Holding a grudge is like adding on an excess weight to my shoulder that I do not want. I don’t want to waste precious time in my life from wondering why so and so was mean, rude, etc.
I’ve decided to be carefree about these things and not let them gnaw at my brain. ‘Cause really, no good can come from these resentful thoughts.
P.S : How horrible was that movie The Grudge? I despise the entire horror genre.
“If everybody likes you. you’re pretty dull.”
– Bette Davis
“To be myself I need the illumination of other people’s eyes and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self.”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde
Steamed Shanghai vegetarian bun, Mama Ji’s, San Francisco
Shrimp stuffed mushrooms, Mama Ji’s, San Francisco
Fish with chillies and Sichuan Pepper, Mama Ji’s, San Francisco
“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”
– Oscar Wilde
Jerk Chicken, Suya African Grill, Oakland
“The beauty of the world.. has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
– Virginia Woolf
#chubbytoes
“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.”
– Charles Dickens
Super Dynamite Roll, Fuji sushi, Downtown San Jose
Maybe In Madras 