here's to the food the wine it better be good
and we step back and take a bow, watching men from across rampart row
there's a black horse they say he's colored
comes alive at some time every year

and we flayed all noon, mesmerised but still talking
looking hollow, figuring it all out,
and beyond the pillars and  the greek reverie we stood
to want to dance 

Deshu's Invitation

so my friend sends us this kickass wedding invitation

it goes like this:

My Wedding Invitation

Hello Everyone,

Here's my wedding invitation. Please don't look for an attachment because there isn't any. My able advertising friends failed to meet the deadline, so I'm relying on my written words to persuade you to attend my wedding or my reception.

My wedding is this Friday, 17th February, 2012. Please don't ask me why it isn't on 14th February.

The wedding is in my girl's hometown Bhilai. For those of you who just know where Zurich or Capetown is, I would like to inform you, it's a humble steel city in Chattisgarh. For those of you who don't know where Chattisgarh is, seriously, fuck off.

If Bhilai seems difficult for you to reach, here's another option.

Come for my reception. It's in Dehradun on Tuesday, 21st February, 2012.

Monday is a holiday, at least in north India. Depending on how much you love me, you can apply for a leave on Tuesday and Wednesday.So you'll have a full five-day weekend, where you can plan a trip to Auli (a skiing resort quite far from the Alps), or Rishikesh, or anywhere in the Himalayas. On your way back you can attend my reception.

So that's the deal. A friend's reception and nice holiday in the Himalayas.

Please don't feel bad if you can't make it because I won't feel that way either. We all have our job pressures and deadlines. Even I've missed quite a lot of close weddings for exactly the same reasons.

Even if you do come, don't expect it to be the grandest of affairs. My dad says splurging on weddings is for those who have black money. And in advertising there's little opportunity to earn it.

Let me add there won't be any booze either. Just get drunk on your way.

And if you do get drunk, let me assure you there won't be a cheap-ass 'Sharma DJ', but an authentic pahadi dhol to dance to.

Alright then, please consider attending my reception, and if you decide to come, wear your best clothes and make me feel proud.

That's all folks.

Abhishek Deshwal

2012 - The best is yet to come

Welcome 2012, hope you bring in lotsa happiness and prove all the doomsday theorists wrong :-)

Now as a new year resolution, i intend to take some time out for writing, something that has been at the back of my head for a rather long time. 

drafting can often be an annoying bitch to live with, can try living with some unstructured non contractual non obscure pieces of verbiage sometime.

as a parting note here's Barenboim playing Chopin

cheers and a happy new year 2012

:-)