Today's the day

The day has dawned
Sunshine is here
Today's the day
To celebrate and cheer

The goal was taken
With hard work and pluck
But lets not forget the wishes and luck

The future has dawned
Tomorrow is here
I wish the way forward
Is paved without fear

We walk ahead with a song on our lips
A promise to keep striving
And follow our bliss

I only want everything

A beautiful mind, behind a pretty face
A noble heart, much courage and grace
Wings to fly to the heavens above
Leave behind all my sorrows for love
I only want everything
Not really much, only everything

A kind heart, a helping hand
Able to rescue every helpless man
Chests full of money, and diamonds too
Closets with shiny dresses, bags and shoes
I only want everything
It's not a lot, only everything

I want my prince and bouncy babies
Rule the world, be a first lady
Castles and ranches, fields and farms
Breakfast in London, Dinner in Japan
I only want everything
You think it's unfair? It's merely everything!

Run all businesses, see all sights
Show the world my intellect and might
Sleep all day long, read all the books
Be famous in every cranny and nook
I only want everything
Perfectly reasonable, only everything

Be a doctor, learn engineering and business
Travel the seas, and find true love
De-mystify life, think with clarity
Find true purpose, live life with dignity
Wait a minute, I did do that all right!
Okay Okay, maybe not the stars but I got a piece of the sky

But of course, there is no end to want
There is but one life, I need everything to flaunt
So kind sir, could you point me to 'everything land'
Lies just beyond the stars with floors of glittering sand
I'm headed there, to continue my ranting
On how meaning lies, in wanting everything

The Question

If you've asked me THE Question- the one about my unusual background, this blog post is specially for you. Here's a very straight-faced list of the 25 reasons why I do what I do. Drum roll please!

1) Because it's there
2) Because I can
3) Congratulations! You discovered the question to number 42!
4) So there are rules?
5) Because as that Kennedy dude said; "Most men look at something and say why, I say why not"
6) My internal GPS is faulty. I try to go to the right destination, but it gives me the wrong way!
7) Who says that you only study for a job? Whatever happened to self-enrichment?
8) Because we only live once
9) Because in my past life, I died illiterate, so this is my burden. My karma
10) Because I only want everything
11) I was beamed up at age 11, and they did this to me. I was Taken..and modified
12) Because I am the subject of a novel experiment to prove that humans can achieve whatever they set their minds to. Experiment codename: "The geek shall inherit the earth"
13) I am an evolutionary link, to super-humans. One day, they will talk about me as they do about the archeopteryx
14) And why do you do what you do?
15) I'm different
16) I'm the one
17) I have Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personalities). We all decided that its only fair to give each one of us a degree to call our own.
18) I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you
19) Ranchoddass Chanchad pays me for each degree. Its a living.
20) I'm cool like that
21) I'm too hot to be taken seriously as a doctor
22) So you're an engineer, with an MBA? I agree that is completely different from my case, because I'm the one who 'wasted' a science degree. An MBA after BTech is exactly what Jawaharlal Nehru had in mind when he set up the IITs. Those two degrees are so meant to be.
23) Someone's got to do it.
24) If Farhan Akhtar can sing, dance, act, direct and write; why can't I do different things?
25) "Hazaaron khwaishen aisi, ki har khwaish pe dam nikle. Bahut nikle armaan mere, lekin phir bhi kam nikle."

I see you through love’s eyes

I see you through love’s eyes
I’ve been waiting for you, all of my life
I see you as my knight in shining armor
I dream about you every single night

I knew I’d meet you one day
And you’d drive all my troubles away
One by one, you’d rescue me
From my dark chambers, tall towers of ivory
From fire breathing dragons and demons within
From wicked stepmothers, ogres and goblins

In my search for you, I may have kissed many an ugly toad
And many a times traveled the wrong road
Without a guide map, traveled the seven seas
Banking, on wishes from fairies, clover leaves and destiny

And lo and behold! On that fateful day
I saw you from afar, and knew this time; I’d walked the right way
You were standing in front of me,
With a happy look and a smile on your face
Your eyes just melted my heart away

It was love at first sight, followed by many magical nights
Filled with friendship and conversation, and maybe a few fights
Every minute with you, felt like a dream
Like a picture with rainbows, in a valley of flowers by a stream

You make me so happy, every single day
Memories of a life before you just fade away
You’ve set me free, carved a new way
Where I can be free and fly away

Our life ahead, is a happily ever after
Filled with love and sunshine, children and laughter
My Prince Charming, please wait for me
Together we shall rule the world, and create history

Overrated

I started out
As a baby, crying
In a wondrous world
Promising opportunities

I grew up
With stars in my eyes
An imaginative mind
Rife with possibilities

I ploughed ahead
With burning dreams
The will, the desire
The thirst for victory

One by oneI slayed them all
Plunged the depths
Conquered mountains tall

Others watched, and commented
Some felt jealous, some felt jilted
Some were my Rocks of Gibraltor
Most however, waited for me to falter

I achieved it all,
With much conviction
But the meaning I yearned for
Still appeared distant

I struggled, I wept
My faith was shaken
I could feel inside
The core of my being taken

I wondered covertly
If they were all right
They said I had gotten it all
And yet I always cried

But how do I explain
This innate desire
This involuntary itch
This inextinguishable fire

This voice inside
That refuses to quieten
This restelessness, this strife
The need to enlighten

So I plod ahead
in yet another direction
In my quest for meaning and perfection
The storm inside still unabated
'Coz what I've found till now..
..I've found overrated.