Freethinker's Chronicle

and on that day  it’s as if the sky and I were one in sync  we both turned gray  my tears aligned with the rain  the wind began to hum sad songs with me   

Can't live eating air & drinking water, Can't wear leafs, Can't replace petrol with water So, I need the most important thing on earth With which I can buy things I need & you all know what it is Honey, It's called money......

More, more & more We keep on wanting more It's been so much that we already have Yet we want more We get never satisfied One wish fulfilled Another desire sets home More, more & more We are getting restless Been there, done that Yet we are not done We never get satisfied Want this, want that The list is endless Yet in the end All that counts is only love How much did we love  & get loved is all that We will think about in our death beds Things that we've acquired won't make us happy But only moments filled with acts of  true love & compassion will do.

You feel sad for not having iPhone !!! and here a Sister is sad for Not having a shelter to live and some food to eat....

I know I am on an endless quest, but I go on, the voice in my head tells me to. I am fully aware that it is unachievable, that it does not exist, and yet I see it in everything, but myself, perfection.

I feel immobilised by my fears. I have so many dreams, yet I waste time, not taking a single step towards them, all because I am scared, all because I am scared of failing, even before trying. But how will I ever know, if I never try? I must face my fears, I must chase my dreams.

Two dreams, so powerful, yet might not be fulfilled ever & we cry over such silly things.... Like

At Bombay, It was my regular train journey home from work. I boarded the 6:50 pm train from Church Gate. When the train was about to leave Marine lines, a samosa vendor with an empty basket got on and took the seat next to me. As the compartment was sparsely occupied and my destination was still far away, I got into a conversation with him. Me: "Seems like you've sold all your samosas today." Vendor (smiling): "Yes. By Almighty's grace, full sales today." Me: "I really feel sorry for you people. Don't you get tired doing this tiresome job the whole day ?" Vendor: "What to do, sir ? Only by selling samosas like this every day do we get a commission of 1 rupee for each samosa that we sell." Me: "Oh, is that so ? How many samosas do you sell on an average each day ?" Vendor: "On weekdays, we sell 4,000 to 5,000 samosas per day. On an average, we sell about 3,000 samosas a day." I was speechless ...

Bottle finished Life finished Hopes lost Dreams died down Fire within burnt out Colours of life faded out Still clueless about the purpose of my existence Now, awaiting only eternal rest My epitaph will read Here lies a nobody whom nobody ever cared for.... Like

“Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink along the map turn red.” ― Marya Mannes

If I knew you and you knew me, If both of us could clearly see, And with an inner sight divine, The meaning of your heart and mine, I'm sure that we would differ less, And clasp our hands in friendliness; Our thoughts would pleasantly agree, If I knew you and you knew me.

Friends, once you try this recipe, you will thank me forever. SOUTH INDIAN CHICKEN 65 RECIPE : Preparation time: 2 hours 30 minutes Cooking time: 20 minutes Serves 4 INGREDIENTS: 300 gm of chicken breast, cleaned and cut into small cubes (boneless) 1/4 cup of thick plain yogurt (or 1/2 cup buttermilk) 1/2 tsp of Kashmiri chilli powder (adjust to taste) 1/2 tsp of cumin powder 1/4 tsp of black pepper powder 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder 1/2 tsp of coriander powder 2 tsp of ginger garlic paste 2 tsp of rice flour or corn flour (corn starch) A fistful of curry leaves 2-3 cups of oil, for frying 1 tsp of vinegar (optional) INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Mix the yogurt with all the spices, corn flour, ginger-garlic paste, and some salt. Add the vinegar only if your yogurt is not sour. Add the chicken pieces to this and mix well. Refrigerate this mixture for about 2 hours to let the marinade work its magic on the chicken pieces. You can even leave it overnight if you want to prep it ahead. ...

Just a refreshing thought ..... "Love thyself". Loving yourself doesn't make you narcissistic. Be your own friend, you will never be alone. On the same note, sharing with you all an amazing poem by Derek Walcott. He won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is from St. Lucia, West Indies. "Love after Love" The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Go ahead,  tell me that I'm not good enough, tell me I can't do it, Because I will show you  over & over again THAT I CAN !

Shit ! There's a fly in my chai I shouted at the chaiwala with the chai-cart down the street with a bucketful of choicest abusive words not found in any dictionary & emptied the cup into the gutter by the street & left without paying him anything Next day morning, once again, I found a fly in my chai I removed the fly with a spoon & drank it silently This time I was at my home & the chai was prepared & delivered at my table by none other than my better half !

Regret feeling ill for my words. Feeling ashamed for being vulnerable. Feeling lost in search of hope. It’s ironic  how hate  has slipped into  my vocabulary like an old friend. 

Tip-toe On the snow Time moves In a flow Yesterday has gone Tomorrow unknown Write your dreams In the song Hum along Short or long Make rhythm And feelings strong New day And new time Every minute And every chime Don’t forget But forgive No regrets Only bliss As time has Moved on From midnight To new dawn Live the life Love the life Time don’t wait It just slides Build tomorrow On yesterday’s smiles.

One interesting word in English. Oxymoron: An Oxymoron is defined as a phrase in which two words of opposite meanings are brought together.... Here are some funny oxymorons : 1)  Clearly Misunderstood 2)  Exact Estimate 3)  Small Crowd 4)  Act Naturally 5)  Found Missing 6)  Fully Empty 7)  Pretty Ugly 8)  Seriously Funny 9)  Only Choice 10)  Original Copies 11)  Open Secret 12) Tragic Comedy 13) Foolish Wisdom 14) Liquid Gas And people say the Mother of all Oxymorons is- 15) "Happily Married"

Tonight's Menu Crispy chicken wings fry Preparation time: 45 mins Clean the chicken wings thoroughly. Make corn flour paste and dip the wings..  Keep in the refrigerator for about 15minutes. Make ginger garlic paste. Chop a pint of dried bhoot jolokia, cumin seeds,  one bay leaf and cardamon. In a pan, add two tablespoons of oil ( tastes best in olive oil) Add grated onions,  saute for five minutes, add the paste, cumin seeds, and bhoot jolokia. Now add the chicken, salt to taste,  saute until the water from the chicken is soaked completely in the flavors. Add two tablespoons of yogurt. Saute for 3 minutes. Then add the bay leaf and cardamon... Add little bit of red chilly powder... Saute until the chicken takes the golden color... Serve the receipe with chilled beer. Cheers!

Mr Singh walks into a bank London and asks for the loan officer. He says he's going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow £5000. The bank officer says the bank will need some kind of security for the loan, so Mr Singh hands over the keys to a new Rolls Royce, which costs quarter of a million pounds. “The car is parked on the street in front of the bank,” says Mr Singh, “and I have all the necessary papers.” The bank officer agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan. After Mr Singh leaves, the loan officer, the bank's president and all their colleagues enjoy a good laugh at the man for using a £250,000 Rolls Royce as collateral against a £5,000 loan. One of the employees drives the Rolls into the bank's underground garage and parks it there. Two weeks later, Mr Singh returns, repays the £5000 and the interest, which comes to £15.41. The loan officer says, "Sir, I must tell you, we’re all a little puzzl...

An Engineer was unemployed for a long time. He could not find a job so he opened a medical clinic and puts a sign up outside: “Get your treatment for $500, if not treated get back $1,000.” One Doctor thinks this is a good opportunity to earn $1,000 and goes to his clinic. Doctor: “I have lost taste in my mouth.” Engineer: “Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient’s mouth.” Doctor: “This is Gasoline!” Engineer: “Congratulations! You’ve got your taste back. That will be $500.” The Doctor gets annoyed and goes back after a couple of days later to recover his money. Doctor: “I have lost my memory, I cannot remember anything.” Engineer: “Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient’s mouth.” Doctor: “But that is Gasoline!” Engineer: “Congratulations! You’ve got your memory back. That will be $500.” ...

“One day the Buddha was walking through a village. A very angry and rude young man came up and began insulting him. "You have no right teaching others," he shouted. "You are as stupid as everyone else. You are nothing but a fake!" The Buddha was not upset by these insults. Instead he asked the young man, "Tell me, if you buy a gift for someone, and that person does not take it, to whom does the gift belong?" The young man was surprised to be asked such a strange question and  answered, "It would belong to me, because I bought the gift." The Buddha smiled and said, "That is correct. And it is exactly the same with your anger. If you become angry with me and I do not get insulted, then the anger falls back on you. You are then the only one who becomes unhappy, not me. All you have done is hurt yourself." Like Show more reactions

There's no science to support the dangerous myth that you must "eat less to lose weight." For example... A study conducted by the National Institutes of Health followed nearly 49,000 women for 8 years. One group of women ate an average of 120 fewer calories every day… That's 350,400 fewer calories overall. So after 8 years, they must have been a lot thinner, right? Nope. The lower-calorie women were less than a pound lighter. That is not a typo. Eating 350,400 fewer calories had less than 1 percent of the impact predicted by conventional calorie math. Conventional diet thinking is based on the assumption that taking in fewer calories forces our bodies to burn fat. Scientists know this is false... so it's time you knew the truth. Restricting the number of calories you consume can only lead to one thing... Complete and utter weight-loss failure for at least 19 out of 20 people! (specifically, a 95.4% failure rate) That's the documented...

I don’t know where I am, Every day is a different kind of hell; And the words that spill out of me Aren’t mine. And I look down for one second But when I look back up, There’s another person mad at me. I know I’ve done it wrong; I know I’ve done it all wrong, And you know it too. I can feel your disappointment, And it’s the worst feeling. So I turn to the one thing I’m good at, And it turns out, I’m not anymore. What do you do when you’re not good at your thing anymore? I’m falling down; Deep into this void of nothingness; Feeling so stupid And naive. I’m trying so hard, But trying doesn’t cut it and I don’t know what to do anymore.