Burj Khalifa

I was told to write
Four sentences about
The 828-metres high
Burj Khalifa, the tallest
Structure in the world.

I got stuck after two!

A few things along with Onam Wishes…

My friends, do you have any idea how lovely it’s to be here reading and replying comments, reading your posts, commenting…All these make me feel so good, so damn good. Of late, I’ve been a bit late to reply to your comments. I’m sorry, it was just hectic and I was busy meeting insane deadlines.

Let me make a confession. It struck me very recently that you, one and all of you, reading my posts in the midst of your busy schedules. Till recently you’re just those pictures, but then suddenly it came to me, a banker here, a journo there, an editor, a poet, a writer…all reading my posts in their separate places; you adjust your position in the chair, you smile, you frown, you knit your eyebrows…I can’t explain it in words; the feeling. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart, thank you very much.

Wish You All A Very Happy Onam. Cheers!

Statutory Warning: Drinking is injurious to health. Any person who associates the above mentioned ‘cheers’ with drinking or view it as an indication to drink will be doing it at their own risk. Dark Alley or the very nice gentleman named Arun Meethale Chirakkal who writes it, is in no way responsible for their deeds or misdeeds. Cheers!

PS: For the last two months a bottle of ‘Chivas’ has been waiting for me back in my hometown. I can see that impatient friend of mine buzzing around it like an ill-tempered bee. Last time, I met a guy in a toddy shop. We are friends now and he has promised to introduce me to a new toddy shop. I’m all excited. I’ll be heading home soon.

Once again, Cheers.

Ciao

Blindness

Your smile is crooked,
Teeth zigzagging,
Hair smelly,
Eyes like a dead mackerel’s…

I just wonder, why
It took me so long
To realize it all
Till now, till you
Told me; ‘get lost’.