Random Expressions

Juneli tagged me (yet again!) and this time on a topic I am passionate about. But two small caveats a) Usually, I don’t have ‘the’ favorite numbers; hence it is always a wide array of choices that I keep. So, I will twist the rules in this tag; and b) lists like these keep changing; had I taken up this tag a year back the choices might have been vastly different; a year down the line, probably I might not agree with this list. So, these choices are for now, for this moment:

Your favorite lyricist and the lyrics you remember the most:

I am not too lyrics-oriented man, in the sense that I give preferance to the tune, the music, the interludes, the orchestra and the rendition. Hence, even a silly sounding Sunday ko bulaya (I Love You) finds a decent place in my collection!

Shailendra: He pioneered the use of simple Hindi in film music, without dissipating the weight of the thought or emotion he needed to express. His vast repertoire include such shimmering gems like the tongue-in-cheek Chhoti si hai duniya pahchaane raaste hain, the celebratory Aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai, the philosophical Sajan re jhooth mat bolo, the sorrow-ful Ae mere dil kahiin aur chal, the pious Manmohan krishna murari, the titillating Ang lag ja baalma and the romantic Tum hi tum ho mere jeevan mein.


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Anja Merret gifted me the tag about why I blog. Several times over the past months I thought of re-penning the ideas that have hazily suspended like a vapor but never crystallized into any cohesive post. Of course, I have time and again, especially on blog anniversaries, hinted why I continue to do so, and what exactly is the driving force behind Random Expressions. Here is a comprehensive list of the reasons for being alive on the net:

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I recall I wrote on a nightmare I had while I was in Nepal; unfortunately, the older blog doesn t have a search option, and I couldn t find that post in my back-up MS Word file. Perhaps, it was part of another post. But when I saw Manish’s tag the sense of deja vu was extremely strong.


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The learned say that the best way to tackle a problem is to hold it by its horns directly. With two tags in a single day, I thought it was best to delve straight into them and finish them off chronologically. Since I read Anks’ post first, so here we go:

(My comments in italics)

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No, no, no - this is not a review of Karan Razdan’s yet another forgettable click Aath-Shani. This is a tag that Juneli gave me. In this I have to inform who tagged me (which I have done), say eight things about me (which I will do shortly) and tag six people (which I will refrain from doing).

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I was tagged by Silky Moon, with the alphabet ‘K’ – this was a tough one, coz I hardly could much from this alphabet from my life.

Here are a few of them: 

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Total Number of Books I Own

Plenty. I do not have a count as both my father and myself buy books separately and the collection just keeps growing.

The Last Book I Bought

Last Sunday - Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons
Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone

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