Thlalak Album

2009-01-12T17:55:00.009+04:30

Families & Friends '08

Time for a long, long, way overdue update. It's the beginning of the year, and it seems it's only when I come back from my Christmas trip home that I update this blog. Anyway, this time, I'll show more organisation. Divide my posts into two parts - people and things. This will be the people post.

Friends -
Family - my sisters getting ready to pose for the yearly family picture.

Family - more of sisterly love :)

More friends and family -

More friends -

And the more angelic members of the family :)

Sharing a muffler - I didn't expect this, but I'm homesick.

2008-10-02T11:00:00.003+04:30

2008-03-20T14:48:00.002+04:30

Flying foxed..

2008-02-07T14:03:00.000+04:30

Happiness, and everything that's beautiful...

2007-11-18T11:13:00.000+04:30

Warped!

2007-11-09T04:22:00.000+04:30

Summer

2007-10-28T15:39:00.001+04:30

Along the harbour....

2007-10-10T09:30:00.000+04:30

My cousin's little boy - He likes torturing small animals. I'm kidding, that's him showing off his new kitten to me.

This is why I think my sister would make a ladylike wife - she puts scented candles and feng shui thingies in the bathroom.

2007-09-29T13:33:00.000+04:30

Why am I always so far away from the people and the places I love?

2007-07-25T10:33:00.000+04:30

Hampi

2007-07-04T11:49:00.000+04:30

Chaltlang, Aizawl, Mizoram - Kan veng!

Samuel again. Look at those feet, aren't they the cutest!

2007-04-25T09:14:00.000+04:30

Chhem-a
Mom & Kimkim-i

Thlamuanpui-a

Poinsettia on my mom's balcony

The hills after the rain

2007-03-26T14:47:00.000+04:30

Way to California

2007-03-05T10:27:00.000+04:30

2007-01-25T13:07:00.000+04:30

'Years ago I preferred clever people. There was a joy in beholding
a mind bearing thoughts quickly translated into words, or ideas expressed
in a new way. I find now that my taste has changed. Verbal fireworks
often bore me. They seem motivated by self-assertion and self-display.
I now prefer another type of person; one who is considerate, understanding
of others, careful not to break down another person?s self-respect. My
preferred person today is one who is always aware of the needs of others,
or their pain and fear and unhappiness, and their search for self-respect.
I once liked clever people. Now I like good people.' - Solomon Freehof

Ditto!

2007-01-18T16:43:00.000+04:30

Laughing my ass off -
It's the Ninja again.

'Run, Paul, run! Anywhere on earth but Ohio! There's a codependent, clingy, dysfunctional clan of weirdos there that is trying to drag you into a monotonous hell of watery chilli and mediocre sports franchises!'

Q: Are the people you kill bad in anyway?
Ninja: Yeah..yeah! BAD AT LIVING!

Q: What does a Ninja smell like?
Ninja: Regret.

Q: Can I have it back?
Ninja: You never had it to begin with!

Q: Why do I suck at life?
Ninja: Because you let life suck at you!

Q: How do Ninjas raise their children?
Ninja: From the dead.

Q: How can I best apply my Psychology degree to my Ninja skills, or vice versa?
Ninja: Try smoking cigars with your mother. Or vice versa!

Q: Hey are there self help books for lousy Ninjas?
Ninja: Yes. They're called funeral directories.

Q: Ninja, oh Ninja, wherefore art thou Ninja? Hast thou been slain by a Ninja who is yet more skilled than thou art?
Ninja: Yes. There ARE gay Ninjas.

Q: What do you think?
Ninja: Maybe.

Q: Do Ninjas fall in love?
Ninja: No. Ninjas glide silently into love with two swords drawn.

Q: How many people have you wrongly killed?
Ninja: Just one. But I went back the next day and I killed him correctly.

Q: What would you say is the proper etiquette for hugging a Ninja?
Ninja: DON'T.

Q: What do you think of Tom Cruise as the baddest Samurai ever?
Ninja: Tom Cruise was pretty bad but I've seen worse. There was actually a Samurai named hiccup who killed himself with a pen while he was signing up to become a Samurai.

Q: Who was the badass Ninja who trained you?
Ninja: His name was Badass. Sir Badass Killington.

2006-12-22T18:42:00.000+04:30

Stark contrasts....

2006-12-05T10:51:00.000+04:30

Three random pictures from my desktop cluttering it up and are therefore, going to be sent off to Siberia making their last bow..

2006-11-20T11:46:00.000+04:30

I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!"

Revelations 8:13
Banjara Hills - looks like this is gonna be my home for a much longer period now than I anticipated. Not a bad thing.

2006-11-09T12:05:00.000+04:30

My sister Carmen

Home and friends

Right, I'm homesick!

2006-10-27T16:54:00.000+04:30

To Good Memories....

2006-10-20T11:59:00.000+04:30

Cutest missing tooth grin ever! Sarah

2006-10-12T13:23:00.000+04:30

Dussehra In My Neighborhood

2006-10-06T15:04:00.000+04:30

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

- Khalil Gibran

I really like this picture. It was taken by a good friend of mine from Chillicothe, Ohio. I wonder where he got the guts to hang out on that lonely graveyard that early...and foggy in the morning. Not a soul around. Not the visible ones at least.

2006-10-03T14:45:00.000+04:30

Mehndi on Tabitha's hands

2006-09-29T13:21:00.000+04:30

2006-09-22T16:39:00.000+04:30

I think the Gold Flake people should pay me -

2006-09-20T17:21:00.000+04:30

It's a Rupert Brooke Day!
Pictures and the poems of Rupert Brooke's they each remind me of -
Okay, I'm putting this up without permission. They won't mind since they look so nice anyway. This reminds me of 'Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body'
'No perfection grows
’Twixt leg, and arm, elbow, and ear, and nose,
And joint, and socket; but unsatisfied
Sprawling desires, shapeless, perverse, denied.
Finger with finger wreathes; we love, and gape,
Fantastic shape to mazed fantastic shape,
Straggling, irregular, perplexed, embossed,
Grotesquely twined, extravagantly lost
By crescive paths and strange protuberant ways
From sanity and from wholeness and from grace.'

This next one's of Brooke's poem 'On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess.'
A friend made this picture of me.
There's something extremely sordid and vulgar-looking about it...I guess it's all the red. Reminds me of red-light districts. 'SHE was wrinkled and huge and hideous, She was our Mother.
She was lustful and lewd—but a God; we had none other.
In the day She was hidden and dumb, but at nightfall moaned in the shade;
We shuddered and gave Her Her will in the darkness; we were afraid.'

2006-09-09T16:41:00.000+04:30

Under the harvest moon,
When the soft silver
Drips shimmering
Over the garden nights,
Death, the gray mocker,
Comes and whispers to you
As a beautiful friend
Who remembers.

Under the summer roses
When the flagrant crimson
Lurks in the dusk
Of the wild red leaves,
Love, with little hands,
Comes and touches you
With a thousand memories,
And asks you
Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

Carl Sandburg

2006-08-31T19:30:00.000+04:30

Taj's Under Deck

10-D

2006-08-31T17:51:00.000+04:30

Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.

Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
Haunts me night and day.

2006-08-19T09:58:00.000+04:30

Saturated me!

I see so many golden women;
When they walk, their feet don’t touch the ground.
But me, I’m always out of rhythm
I’m weak and I fight like a fool
And if I could trade my voice
For the silence I know that you need...
I didn’t want you to see me like this
So frightened of losing so soon...

2006-08-10T18:22:00.000+04:30

2006-08-04T11:28:00.000+04:30

2006-08-01T15:41:00.000+04:30

P.B Shelley min ti hrechhuak...'Nothing in the world is single, all things by a law divine, in another being's mingle..'

K/S

Laiking

Khuaibu thli chhem thlak -

Pa

Vaki. He vaki hian Telegu ngat a biak loh chuan mi a chhang thei lo!

Pathiam kawrkilh kan tih thrin ang kha an ni em heng hi? Ni chiah lo tiro?

Phengphehlep
Parva
Hei Rami Edmisawn hmuh kan lo lawmpui zan che...

2006-07-22T23:42:00.000+04:30

For Joe

Sometimes I feel a wave
Of a past break in my mind
And I know it's gone for good
And it makes me want to cry
Is this all we get to keep
As the years go rollin' by
Just a memory
For all the days gone by?

Oh you're always in my heart
And you're often on my mind
I will never let it die
Just as long as I'm alive
Sometimes it makes me sad
That we never said goodbye
Oh I guess it never hurts
To hurt sometimes.

You try and hold on to the moment
But time won't let you stay
But for every step you take
You lose something on the way
You can't look forward to tomorrow
And still hold on to yesterday
Oh I hope that you can hear me
When I'm saying

Oh you're always in my heart...

-The Oakridge Boys

2006-07-21T18:12:00.000+04:30

2006-07-21T17:09:00.000+04:30

Geronimo!
Somebody called me 'Jeronimo' today. So I thought I'd remember the day by posting a picture of the real, true Geronimo here. A hero!

My Google Family

2006-07-20T15:07:00.000+04:30

2006-07-20T14:57:00.000+04:30

A Few Questions

Why do I feel like You hear these prayers of mine
When so many oughta be ahead of me in line?
When You look down on me,
Can You see the good through all the bad?
These are just a few questions I have.

I wasn't there the day You filled up the oceans
I didn't get to see You hang the stars in the sky
So I don't mean to second guess You,
Or criticise what I don't understand
These are just a few questions I have.

2006-07-18T18:10:00.000+04:30

Everyone's high and happy, it's your turn at the Karaoke. One advice - you DON'T want to pick that corny song and spoil everyone's fun and lull them all to sleep!

An old picture from last Christmas in Delhi
US

2006-07-13T10:49:00.000+04:30

Rami leh Akshay Delhi - Hyderabad introduction

Rami, meet Bennet, previously known to you as Morpheus

Biteii tan Akshay leh Jeet. Hei chu duh angin shoot thra hman lo a, nakinah a thar kan rawn dah ang.

2006-07-12T15:04:00.000+04:30

KARAOKE NIGHT

Mandar doing a rendition of a Metallica song...

Akshay & Me, Bottles & Chimneys

Now what was that the Ninja said about Karaoke..
"Now Karaoke revolution!
I think we all know what's wrong with this soft-core por-aoke, lame-aoke, I-Really-Don't-Care-aoke!
Points?? That's it??? That's the punishment for singing badly? With points?
When in history has that been a punishment?
Even American Idol is worse than a point system to me, that's public humiliation!
How about up in the stage like maybe if you sing the wrong note, a bunch of poison darts shoot out of the microphone into your face?
You'll be like "Oow, jezz, aargh ooww..I guess that wasn't a B flat!"
That's what I call Kill-aoke!
...You're gonna find yourself with more poison in your face than a private concert in Bret Michael's basement!"

Kaala Chasma!
My time to do a rendition - of Akshay's favorite obsession - Surds!
Picasa saturation hi sam rawng test nan thra dawn riauin ka hria..
Khu vaipa khu an lam nasa em em khawp a zankhua khan. Thla lak lai tak hian tlemin a lo insawi lo ve deuh hlauh a.
Anand! Meng sexy chuai chuai ania! :-)
Adarsh & Anand. Chhas pahnih.

2006-07-11T15:35:00.000+04:30

A DANG ZEL...

Ka piancham ni kha
Tlangval chhe lo ber pahnih nen -
Mazualtea leh a hope tu!
Nula Sailopari aka Sunshine. Vacancy a la awm e!
Akshay-a chhas!
Samuel!

2006-07-11T14:57:00.000+04:30

ChALTLANG KHAW MIPUITE

Carmen & bialpa Nau-a
Kawmchhak nula kuhva ei chunga nui lai..
Kawmthlang tlangval hairep nen a TV en lai muhil
Salvation Army biakin bul ah Sarah & a thiannu an leng.
Khuangbengi is Back! Biteii!
Cute dun nia - Michael and Hmingi fapa!

2006-07-10T18:43:00.000+04:30

Like my new T-shirt? :-)

Taj's Ahalas - Mary's birthday party. My latest craze - bright red nail polish, the ones that make your hands look like your fingertips are bleeding! A K.S an tia mahse ka lawm rih tlat, a K.S chu keipawh ka ti ve deuh tho na in.. :-)

2006-07-10T18:37:00.000+04:30

Vur tla a ang lutuk a, he plant hi. Tlak loh hmel e - in the middle of June!

Jezebeli LOL!

England nge Argentina?? Chaltlang tlangval lar Chhama.

Now that's what I call FOREhead! Chhama chaldar!

2006-07-10T18:31:00.000+04:30

Chaltlang nula ho! Heh!

My favorite little guy trying very hard not to cry seeing me off at the airport.

With my little guy & sister Carmen...

The night before...

Filming myself. A video ka rawn tichhuak ang nakinah..:-)

2006-07-10T18:28:00.000+04:30

With Kym

Chhams nen World Cup kan en lai ..

Daud & me.Hyderabad a ka World Cup en pui partner ve ber.

Peka. He's going to break a lot of hearts!