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Life is a series of deadlines 26 Aug 2013 | 01:48 am
A week in my life is defined by deadlines which are defined by emails from my professors and my peers. Campus curfew is a deadline. 8.30 am class is a deadline. That “get out of bad, get ready, look p...
“What strange creatures brothers are!” 10 Aug 2013 | 09:13 pm
Jane Austen was right. Relations between siblings are complex. Siblings have a common origin, are brought up in the same household and more or less bound by the same family norms. It is complex beca...
When a dull exercise breaks a routine: Sorting music and nose piercings 22 Jun 2013 | 12:54 pm
There was this one day I embarked on the task of sorting out my music artist wise and soundtrack wise. In the event that there was an overlap, the song would be placed in the artist folder and not the...
Beneath One Little Star 3 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
Wisława Szymborska was a Polish poet, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was awarded the Nobel Prize “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and ...
The Pursuit 31 May 2013 | 11:43 pm
You’re at your desk. Somehow the only thing that soothes you is the clatter of the keyboard while typing. The distant, muffled sounds of friend’s yelling and presumably having a good time doesn’t reas...
There’s never a good time to blog. 2 May 2013 | 10:30 pm
Telling stories in ways I could never tell alone. I give thanks to the songwriters and their songs. And I lie in the sound - Mark Schwahn Its been a while since I’ve blogged. The innumerable and poi...
Turn and turn again… 28 Apr 2013 | 05:16 pm
In light of all that’s happened and all that’s happening against humanity- So turn and turn againWe are calling in all the shipsEvery traveler, please come homeAnd tell us all that you have seenBrea...
There are times… 10 Apr 2013 | 02:36 am
There are times when I try to convey an emotion, and I’m up against all the writers from all the worlds that came before me. And that’s when songs like LIE IN THE SOUND come to my rescue. Telling stor...
Bakbakee: 2012 in review. Thank you WordPress! 2 Feb 2013 | 11:55 am
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 21,000 views in 2012. ...
The Hashtag Revolution #blogpost 2 Feb 2013 | 11:47 am
Back when I was 10 and when I had a telephone (and not a cordless phone with an answering machine), I often wondered about the use of the hashtag or as it was known then as the “number sign”. Till … C...
