As I stood there gazing at those eyes
A cold rush flowed through my body
Abstract images kept flooding my mind
Nailed to the surface beneath my feet
Inches, she moved, she swayed
The hair brushing against the softness of her skin added to the mystery
Her scent was overpowering
heightened with her smile
I thought her fingers were trying to tell me something
A sign, to maybe move closer
To feel the warmth of her breath
Gentle drizzles filled the air
This was the moment
And she was ready
One latte and quick, she said
The waiter am sure didnt hear a word
He was mesmerized as well
words kept flowing, but I could only see her lips move
A glance around her,
Maybe she was expecting someone
Or maybe she didnt want anyone with her
As she stretched her arms
She should have felt so relaxed
Her body slid back into her chair
And then something happened
She knew someone was looking
She knew it was I
An attempt to adjust herself
She was clumsy this time
She is human afterall,I thought
Her cheeks turned red
She realized wat happened
I smiled, She did too
maybe there is something in the air
Maybe there is more to her
She was a beatiful thought !!!
July 06, 2006
Entangled
Why do you seek meaning
When Reason is right in front of you?
Why do you seek Truth
When Trust is behind you all the time?
Why does being away from you
Feels like total relief to others?
Why does the concept of you not being mine
refuses to dawn on others?
Why do I detest you so much
that it kills me from the inside?
Your a dream and am out of your mind
Your a haze and I want you out of mine
Your just a dream, You always will be
You have lost out on life, you have lost me forever!!!!
When Reason is right in front of you?
Why do you seek Truth
When Trust is behind you all the time?
Why does being away from you
Feels like total relief to others?
Why does the concept of you not being mine
refuses to dawn on others?
Why do I detest you so much
that it kills me from the inside?
Your a dream and am out of your mind
Your a haze and I want you out of mine
Your just a dream, You always will be
You have lost out on life, you have lost me forever!!!!
July 01, 2006
Psychology of the Mind
There have been times when I have sat and wondered what it would be like to be inside the minds of people. Is it a healthy affair? Or would it be an affair to remember? Whatever it is, it sure would be an affair that has the ability to leave you spell bound and speechless and would definitely leave a lasting impression. The mind sure plays a lot of games with the self and also with everyone around us. It is the essence of any person. It has the power to imagine, it has the power to think and it has the power of reasoning. Or wait a minute is it the brain which does all that and not the mind?
Is the mind different from the brain? Or are they the same? In the time of the great Rishis and the Munis people had the power to sit in one place and enter the minds of people. The bodies of other people and enter the body of their previous birth and live the life, live their life. Isn’t that a little too hard to handle? Would I have the strength to do something like that if I had the power to do that? The movie HOLLOW MAN got me thinking. Though it was a crappy movie, the concept of being invisible fascinated me. Am sure it is every guy’s fantasy to be invisible, at least for a day to be able to fulfill all their dreams. The most common being step into the ladies change room. (How clichéd does that sound) What would I do if I had the power to be invisible? Ok, am going way off target here. Coming back to the mind here. Focus Iyer, Focus.
I love psychology and I love everything that has to do with psychology. I think in life, everything revolves around people, the mind, the thoughts, the way people react to things and it is psychology all the way. A write up or a proposal that I read from a friend of mine got me thinking. She plans to do an entire photo feature on people and their psychology and relate that with advertising. Interesting. But needs more clarity for sure. She wanted to discuss the whole thing with me and this post is a direct result of the write up from her. Maybe I could answer her queries with this, maybe I could answer myself with this or maybe this could just be something that I wrote sitting in a coffee shop waiting for a radio jingle to be produced.
Photography, advertising, and psychology. Three different topics, interlinked to create a desired effect, food for thought? I wanted to study psychology when I was just about to finish my school life. Spoke to a few psychology students and ‘Elders’ from the family, the result am in advertising now, not a software engineer, not a doctor or a lawyer, but an advertising dude with long hair and weird eating and sleeping habits. It’s fun how my eagerness to do psychology quickly faded away, but the passion, the fire for the subject still is engraved in my system. Fortunately I got to do psychology in the course I did for my under graduation and my post graduation. And I loved every bit of reading about Freud and Lacan and the various other twisted, perverted and repulsively real psychologists this world has been subject to. Freud particularly caught my attention. The man was a genius. But unbelievably twisted in his brain. He has come up with startling reports about the human mind, hard to digest for a lot of people and more so for a few of my girl colleagues in college. They used to twitch and turn every time we had a discussion in class. They just wouldn’t take the ‘S’ word of the ‘G’ word. How funny is that? The oedipal journey and the electral complex, psychology students would understand what am referring to here, for the others, there is always Google and Wikipedia.
The world of still photographs- images is absolutely mind blowing. How the concept of capturing a moment of time between four frames came into life. How the photograph has a life of its own, not that of the person or the image in question, but on its own. More than abstract images captured, or more than the sunsets and the sunrise. The empty roads and the tall buidings, the distant mountains and the horizon. The beach and the boat. Its people that is more interesting. Human life forms are interesting subjects for photography. The contours of the face, the depth in the wrinkles, the smile, the eyes. It’s poetry. Real, true, breathtaking poetry. I have been working a lot with video, that I have lost out on the joy of still photographs. The way light can change the mood of a picture, the color can add beauty to the subject. I need to get back to photography. (takes the scribble pad and makes notes to self).
How can you bring in photography to describe psychology? How can you just use subjects, normal people, in normal setting, to project normal or abnormal behavior. How would a certain someone react when he is subject to different environment, under different circumstances? Would he be the same? Or would there be a drastic change in his behavioral pattern? This is Iyer the psychologist speaking here. Is it possible to perfectly blend the two – photography and psychology? If yes, then how? A silent photo feature about the activities of just one individual? His day to day activities? The people around him, what he likes, what he doesn’t, what he believes in and what he doesn’t. How do I juxtapose all this?
Maybe when I start off with something, or someone, I might be able to get answers to a lot of things, and maybe others who are put in similar situations would also get the feel of what it is like to be in their shoes. Would I react the same way as the subject? IS my life different from that of the other person in question? Clarity my friend is what is needed here. Shit loads of clarity.
I could get under the skin of people by doing this. I could understand what it feels like to be in another persons shoes. Maybe this is what the Rishis or the Munis did without the help of a Nikon Fm10. So getting into someone’s mind is not that difficult after all. We all do that in one form or the other and there is just no way of stopping us. Some do it cautiously and some without an idea.
Does that contradict everything that was spoken earlier? Does that contradict everything that psychologists have taken years to analyze, study and project? Is getting into the minds of people that easy? In a way it is like the Truman show. I know you more than you know yourself. But still knowing oneself is a whole different perspective. That is a spiritual journey. That is the search for peace, that is the search for truth and that is what we all know as Soul Searching.
Is the mind different from the brain? Or are they the same? In the time of the great Rishis and the Munis people had the power to sit in one place and enter the minds of people. The bodies of other people and enter the body of their previous birth and live the life, live their life. Isn’t that a little too hard to handle? Would I have the strength to do something like that if I had the power to do that? The movie HOLLOW MAN got me thinking. Though it was a crappy movie, the concept of being invisible fascinated me. Am sure it is every guy’s fantasy to be invisible, at least for a day to be able to fulfill all their dreams. The most common being step into the ladies change room. (How clichéd does that sound) What would I do if I had the power to be invisible? Ok, am going way off target here. Coming back to the mind here. Focus Iyer, Focus.
I love psychology and I love everything that has to do with psychology. I think in life, everything revolves around people, the mind, the thoughts, the way people react to things and it is psychology all the way. A write up or a proposal that I read from a friend of mine got me thinking. She plans to do an entire photo feature on people and their psychology and relate that with advertising. Interesting. But needs more clarity for sure. She wanted to discuss the whole thing with me and this post is a direct result of the write up from her. Maybe I could answer her queries with this, maybe I could answer myself with this or maybe this could just be something that I wrote sitting in a coffee shop waiting for a radio jingle to be produced.
Photography, advertising, and psychology. Three different topics, interlinked to create a desired effect, food for thought? I wanted to study psychology when I was just about to finish my school life. Spoke to a few psychology students and ‘Elders’ from the family, the result am in advertising now, not a software engineer, not a doctor or a lawyer, but an advertising dude with long hair and weird eating and sleeping habits. It’s fun how my eagerness to do psychology quickly faded away, but the passion, the fire for the subject still is engraved in my system. Fortunately I got to do psychology in the course I did for my under graduation and my post graduation. And I loved every bit of reading about Freud and Lacan and the various other twisted, perverted and repulsively real psychologists this world has been subject to. Freud particularly caught my attention. The man was a genius. But unbelievably twisted in his brain. He has come up with startling reports about the human mind, hard to digest for a lot of people and more so for a few of my girl colleagues in college. They used to twitch and turn every time we had a discussion in class. They just wouldn’t take the ‘S’ word of the ‘G’ word. How funny is that? The oedipal journey and the electral complex, psychology students would understand what am referring to here, for the others, there is always Google and Wikipedia.
The world of still photographs- images is absolutely mind blowing. How the concept of capturing a moment of time between four frames came into life. How the photograph has a life of its own, not that of the person or the image in question, but on its own. More than abstract images captured, or more than the sunsets and the sunrise. The empty roads and the tall buidings, the distant mountains and the horizon. The beach and the boat. Its people that is more interesting. Human life forms are interesting subjects for photography. The contours of the face, the depth in the wrinkles, the smile, the eyes. It’s poetry. Real, true, breathtaking poetry. I have been working a lot with video, that I have lost out on the joy of still photographs. The way light can change the mood of a picture, the color can add beauty to the subject. I need to get back to photography. (takes the scribble pad and makes notes to self).
How can you bring in photography to describe psychology? How can you just use subjects, normal people, in normal setting, to project normal or abnormal behavior. How would a certain someone react when he is subject to different environment, under different circumstances? Would he be the same? Or would there be a drastic change in his behavioral pattern? This is Iyer the psychologist speaking here. Is it possible to perfectly blend the two – photography and psychology? If yes, then how? A silent photo feature about the activities of just one individual? His day to day activities? The people around him, what he likes, what he doesn’t, what he believes in and what he doesn’t. How do I juxtapose all this?
Maybe when I start off with something, or someone, I might be able to get answers to a lot of things, and maybe others who are put in similar situations would also get the feel of what it is like to be in their shoes. Would I react the same way as the subject? IS my life different from that of the other person in question? Clarity my friend is what is needed here. Shit loads of clarity.
I could get under the skin of people by doing this. I could understand what it feels like to be in another persons shoes. Maybe this is what the Rishis or the Munis did without the help of a Nikon Fm10. So getting into someone’s mind is not that difficult after all. We all do that in one form or the other and there is just no way of stopping us. Some do it cautiously and some without an idea.
Does that contradict everything that was spoken earlier? Does that contradict everything that psychologists have taken years to analyze, study and project? Is getting into the minds of people that easy? In a way it is like the Truman show. I know you more than you know yourself. But still knowing oneself is a whole different perspective. That is a spiritual journey. That is the search for peace, that is the search for truth and that is what we all know as Soul Searching.
June 19, 2006
Silent Zone
The mind is abuzz with loads of things
A lone man stands tall
Braving distractions, or he thinks
Time plays havoc, plays games
A game not very enjoyable
Helpless, he looks around
Only to have cold faces around
A chill down the spine, he sure has one
What ever happened, he wonders
Puzzled, perplexed and pissed
Yea, whatever, I write what I feel
If am pissed, I am PISSED
Puzzled, Perplexed and Pissed
He enters the dark depths of the silent zone
Nothing really happens here on the surface
Everything happens beneath layers
Beneath layers of Trust, Integrity
Beneath layers of Love and Friendship
Its been a week now
Since I entered the Zone
My feeling – I want to break free.
P.S When am screwed in the head, I feel like writing.
A lone man stands tall
Braving distractions, or he thinks
Time plays havoc, plays games
A game not very enjoyable
Helpless, he looks around
Only to have cold faces around
A chill down the spine, he sure has one
What ever happened, he wonders
Puzzled, perplexed and pissed
Yea, whatever, I write what I feel
If am pissed, I am PISSED
Puzzled, Perplexed and Pissed
He enters the dark depths of the silent zone
Nothing really happens here on the surface
Everything happens beneath layers
Beneath layers of Trust, Integrity
Beneath layers of Love and Friendship
Its been a week now
Since I entered the Zone
My feeling – I want to break free.
P.S When am screwed in the head, I feel like writing.
May 25, 2006
Haiku Highway
Scorchin Summer Light
Moist Pebble on the Sand
Expectin waves of Mist
Trudging along the wide Horizon
A Broken Edge
Wilderness in not Far Off
Entrapped between Love and Lust
Lost between Hope and Despair
A young voice Screaming to be heard
A Soft Touch
A Deathly Kiss
And She thinks its Love
A Hard Thrust
Scratches all Over
And He thinks He's MAN enough
Moist Pebble on the Sand
Expectin waves of Mist
Trudging along the wide Horizon
A Broken Edge
Wilderness in not Far Off
Entrapped between Love and Lust
Lost between Hope and Despair
A young voice Screaming to be heard
A Soft Touch
A Deathly Kiss
And She thinks its Love
A Hard Thrust
Scratches all Over
And He thinks He's MAN enough
May 14, 2006
Now I have seen everything
Talk bout crazy forward mails in ur inbox. This one steals the cake (read Diamonds).
Got this thing on my inbox on a lazy sunday afternoon. I didn't know wat else to do with it. So here it is for public viewing. Ensoooooy Maadi.
Sub: I need your help to relocate my diamonds from Miss Chisolu Fodeh
Copy:
Hello dear,
How are you,I would like to apply through this medium for your co-operation and to secure an opportunity to invest and do joint business with you in your country.
My name is Chisolu Fode from Liberia,I am 26 years old and i am presently living at Dakar Senegal.I have some Diamonds i honourably intend to invest in your country into a very lucrative business venture of which you are to advise and execute the said venture over there for the mutual benefits of both of us.The diamonds is well secure at the deposited Institution here and all the relevant documents is well kept at my possession.I hope to hear from you soon so that i will give you the full details of the Diamonds.
Awaiting to hearing from you,
Yours Faithfully,
Chisolu Fode.
On a different note.
Currently listenin to 'Black Earth' - Hallucination Theory. Check it out ppl. New progressive rock band in town. They have just released their EP.
Buy it - Save Music.
Peace
Got this thing on my inbox on a lazy sunday afternoon. I didn't know wat else to do with it. So here it is for public viewing. Ensoooooy Maadi.
Sub: I need your help to relocate my diamonds from Miss Chisolu Fodeh
Copy:
Hello dear,
How are you,I would like to apply through this medium for your co-operation and to secure an opportunity to invest and do joint business with you in your country.
My name is Chisolu Fode from Liberia,I am 26 years old and i am presently living at Dakar Senegal.I have some Diamonds i honourably intend to invest in your country into a very lucrative business venture of which you are to advise and execute the said venture over there for the mutual benefits of both of us.The diamonds is well secure at the deposited Institution here and all the relevant documents is well kept at my possession.I hope to hear from you soon so that i will give you the full details of the Diamonds.
Awaiting to hearing from you,
Yours Faithfully,
Chisolu Fode.
On a different note.
Currently listenin to 'Black Earth' - Hallucination Theory. Check it out ppl. New progressive rock band in town. They have just released their EP.
Buy it - Save Music.
Peace
May 02, 2006
It could get lonely without me
I want to trip inside your head
Spend the day there
To hear the things you havent said
And see what you might see
I want to hear you when you call
Do you feel anything at all ?
I want to see your thoughts take shape
And walk right out
Freedom has a scent
Like the top of a new born babys head
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
Ive had enough
Im not giving up
On a miracle drug
Of science and the human heart
There is no limit
There is no failure here sweetheart
Just when you quit
I am you and you are mine
Love makes nonsense of space
And time , will disappear
Love and logic keep us clear
Reason is on our side, love
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
Ive had enough of romantic love
Id give it up, yeah, Id give it up
For a miracle, a miracle drug, a miracle drug
God I need your help tonight
Beneath the noise
Below the din
I hear a voice
Its whispering
In science and in medicine
"I was a strangerYou took me in"
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
Ive had enough of romantic love
Id give it up, yeah, Id give it up
For a miracle, miracle drug
Miracle, miracle drug
Ok, I know everyone comin here into this world is pretty upset with the fact that i haven't updated in ages. I have written bout five stories (read posts) but don't have either the inclination or the patience. Work is awesome, doin some really kickass projects off late and life is soo full of things and people. Went home for a few days last weekend and had a really wonderful time. Did a small pooja at home and came back totally charged and rejuvinated.
I have my very own V ISITING CARD. My seventh job in the last five years and my first ever card. Feelin elated and I understand how small and simple things like this can really get you all going.
Shall update this space a lot faster, till then u guys go out there and kick some butt.
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