Saturday, 22 August 2015

Kuch Baat...

Ek din maine usse kaha
Tujhse kuch baat karni hai,


Wo boli,bata kya baat karni hai
Mai thoda Sa ghabraya,
Thoda Sa sharmaya
Aur kuch samjh na aya,
Ke baat kya karni hai.


Aur maine yuhin keh diya
Kuch bhi, sab kuch, bahut kuch, aur kuch bhi nahi...


Is par wo boli, kitna asatyabhas(paradox) hai tu,
Sach kyu nahi batata kya baat karni hai.


Maine apni bhavnaon ko tatola,
Aur apne mann ko jhakola
Parantu shabdo ka chayan na kar paya.


Aur maine usse likh diya
Priytama ye to mujhe bhi nahi pata ke baat kya karni.


Par itna pata hai,
Jo bhi karni hai,
Tujhse hi karni hai...


Kuch bhi, sab kuch, bahut kuch, aur kuch bhi nahi...

Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Dilruba


It was just like any other weekend and we decided to go to Nuremberg to play Lazermax.We took a train from Ingolstadt to Nuremberg. There we were,three of us, desi guys.

We went inside the indoor sports complex to buy tickets and coupons.

I went to the ticket counter and there was nobody as it was early in the morning and they have just opened and after a minute or two girl from a distance waved to me and gestured me to wait, and as she came nearer my jaw touched the ground.

She said "hello sir",
and with a stammering voice I replied.
Three tickets for lazermaxx.
30 euros please.
While I was stumbling with my wallet.
She asked cash or card.
I winked and said both.
She giggled.
And I gave her the card.

She was grand by far.
Must be 5"7 or 5"8.
Pink as plumb, with black hairs.
Big almond shape eyes, with bushy eyebrows.
Collarbone was shinning under the spaghetti straps of her red top.
And a bodacious rack.

My feet were not ready to move an inch away from her.I was in complete awe of her beauty.

My friends dragged me to the play.

But I cant take my eyes off of her.
And leaving the the lazermax in the middle, I went to the counter to talk to her.And I didn't know how to start the conversation but anyway I went to her.

And stared her for couple of minutes, and she saw me and smiled.I asked where is the wash-room.She smiled and showed me the board on her right.

I kept standing there, and asked her, "so where are you from".
She said "Istanbul and you? Espanol"
I said " Nah, I am from India".

This bought some glitter in her eyes and she told me her father is Indian too.
And this bought even shinier glitter in my eyes,
and I asked "what's your name?"

She said:"Dilruba".

I said "Abbas... Pleasure meeting you".
"Same here" she said, and went away to attend the counter.

And I left the complex along with my friends and came back to Ingolstadt only to frantically search her on fb.

And BAM!

There she is.I found her and sent the request.
And it took her two days to accept the request, for which I was on pins and needles.And than started the never ending conversation.And she told me everything about Turkey and how her parents got married and blah blah blah...

Truth be told,  I have fallen for Turkey and everything Turkish.

You Visit Germany and You Fall for Turkey!

Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Just For Fun!

Joel: I can't see anything that I don't like about you.
Clementine: But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.
Joel: Okay.
Clementine: [pauses] Okay.


She told him to forget her.

To forget anything ever existed between them.
To forget everything, just like he did in the past.

To forget.
As simple and as complex it may sound.

Simply, shift and delete everything.
Like she did in a blink of an eye.

As if, it was that easy for him.
As if, he didn't find the connection between them magical...

So, he asked her:
'Say you didn't mean anything you said'

She said:
'I didn't mean even an iota of what I said.
It was all for fun'

And he sent her a poem:

Forgive me,
If I stumble and fall,
For I know not how
to love too well,

I am clumsy,
and my words
do not form as I wish.

So let me kiss you instead,
and let my lips,
paint for you,
all the pictures
that my clumsy heart
cannot.

And.
BAM!

They both blocked each other and never talked.

And in a parallel world.

I just gifted myself a fortnight of travel break.

The break was like that hot cup of chai on a miserable rainy dreanchy morning.That works wonder for you.And now, even the thought of it makes me want to kiss my life like a lover.

I have spent so much of time in busy streets of different countries and different cities, sometimes in buses, other time in plane, sometimes under the sun,other time waiting for the sun to set,sometimes in the rain, other time running around for cover in the rain, crawling through art museums, cathedrals,canals, hogging on the doner kebabs, waffles, crêpes, falafel, gulping down coffee and hot chocolate. While at the streets cafes staying up through the night talking to strange strangers I'm sure I will never see again. :)

And  I now am back...

I can't wait to buy myself a tinnnnnnnny apartment and do it up myself. I want to have all that antique finishing with Remington typewriter on the table, bookshelf filled with hardbound copies of all classics, huge grandfather clock on the wall, old gramophone on the side table and one wall adorned with black and white family photos in tiny frames and other wall by starry nights by Van Gogh and La Marrie by Marc Chagall, and a rocking chair with giant hand rest,window overlooking seashore and flower vase with tulips in it.

All this and much more.

WHY AINT I A CHILD PRODIGY WHO IS ALREADY THE CEO OF SOME COMPANY? ;(

Or, I could become a conman. No, too much effort.

The smaller the house, the bigger the heart. Very true.

Chalbye!.

Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Paris is Always a Good Idea


This is something I always dreamt of, sitting on the grass of lush green garden with archaic buildings all around, sipping some hot chocolate, *YOU* sitting next to me and Eiffel tower right in front. And I want to pause the life there.


As you once told me, love is not looking into each others' eyes rather its looking together in the same direction.


And it is a complete bliss if that direction leads to Eiffel tower, what a marvel it is,which looks best after sunset with those lights which can make you stare at them for hours and hours. But one thing is certain, whatever I try and write about it will not suffice the sheer beauty.
So I rest my case here.


Paris was so full of life, with music at every nook and corner of the city with people playing songs on the guitar or violins or saxophone or trumpets or local bands performing here and there selling their CDs or groups performing different dances around the tower with tourists joining them randomly and sketch artists and painters spread all around making sketches of people and making random paintings and what not.


There was some indescribable love in the air. With some couples kissing each other,while others dancing with or without music, few were singing songs loudly, while others sitting on the bench quietly enjoying the beer and smoke, and few others were busy clicking selfies. Even the flora and fauna seems to be drunk in love, with flowers in there full bloom and birds were engulfed in mushy air.


All this and much more which my feeble mind can't make me describe in words, struck me in reverse.


Not that, I was sad or anything.


Rather.


I was happiest than I ever was.
But on a contemplative mood.


And I missed *YOU* honey.
And no one else.
Only you are my one true love and in rest of them I was just trying to seek *YOU* .


One of them talks like *YOU* .
One of them looks like *YOU* .
One of them had same choices like *YOU* .


But, still no one was like *YOU*.
And thinking about anyone else seemed a waste of time.


So, I sipped some more coffee and took a long drag, and thought about *YOU*.


I know *YOU* must be busy raising your kid and loving your better half.


And its not that I want you to come back or anything of that sort.


I am happy in missing *YOU*


"Har ishq ka ek waqt hota hai,
Wo hamara waqt nahi tha,
Par iska ye matlab nahi,
Wo ishq nahi tha...
Wo ishq tha".


Paris made me miss *YOU*.
Paris made me miss *US*.