winding whirlpools...

Friday, March 17, 2006

Meghna Is...

"This is major feeding of the ego or living anothers life... but a lot of fun... wanna do the same?
go to google.co.in and type in "(your name) is " and hit on search.. be shocked ,
be scandalized...ummm be flattered... be happy? ;)
1. Meghna is a terrorist....
2.Meghna is one of the four topics of Japan Bangladesh Joint Study Project...
3. The mighty Meghna is continuously hitting the dam on about 2 kilometre area ...
4.Meghna is a member of a Muslim terrorist group...
5.Meghna is an academically oriented individual ....
6.Meghna is flamboyant and the queen of body language...
7.Meghna is the timeless river of Bangladesh....
8.Meghna is on the board of DOXA, Vancouver's documentary festival...
9.Meghna is just too cute to describe.. just as cute as a Barbie doll....
( will pass the barbie bit on )
10.Meghna is a very happy-go-lucky girl...
11.Meghna is a girl who is a quiet and a bit weird .likes to challenge death- runs ...
12.Meghna is among those few people who can never be known enough...
13.Meghna is a cool, sexy babe... ( i will buy this one ;) !!! )
14.Meghna is instrumental in bridging the divide between theLambanis in Hampi,
a lot of Rajasthan, the bylanes of Goa...
15.Meghna is supposed to direct Jhamu Sugandh's next movie....
16.Meghna is an actor to watch out for....
17.Meghna is quite lovely & we hope to see more girls like her break into the
international modelling scene.
posted by meghna mohan at 11:36 AM 0 comments

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Meghna’s list ( 100 things about me)


I'm just an ordinary gal in search of the perfect handbag and shoe to match. Here's my list...


1. I always thought my name was not very good.I longed to be called Saiba – which translates into Darling in Goan. I have come to love my name courtesy some one special :) he makes it sound like the most amazing name on the face of earth.


2. I have good word for everyone. Its rare that I do a turn around on that side of my character.


3. My favorite food is ice cream.

4. Chocolate chip ice cream, vanilla ice cream with strawberries – sinful!!!

5. I'm creative.

6. I'm also analytical.

7. I know that is a contradiction. It drives me nuts sometimes. I am a walking talking oxy-moron. Love this word.

8. I'm an information junkie.

9. I'm proud of this!

10. My personal philosophy involves serving others.

11. One of my gifts is seeing word and number patterns easily.

12. This makes me good at Scrabble.

13. I'm an avid reader.

14. No kidding! Stop laughing! I do manage to find time

15. I have a "thing" for paint and glass. I love them! Gives me a chance to be messy. I am very clean person otherwise. Routine is boring!!!

16. Some women shop for clothes, I shop for shoes …and clothes. Stop rolling your eyes!

17. I love taking long walks... especially in the rain.

18. I like to… sorry make that - love to eat!!! Surprisingly, I'm not overweight.Don't hate me

19. Love sleeping- eyes open or not!

20. I refuse to go to movie theaters alone. It gets scarey. Plus I want someone next to me to pass weird comments with ;)

21. There's something about being in crowds that I don't care for.

22. I have a paralyzing fear of getting lost. But then again I am the adventurous sort. Might just be something I’v always wanted subconsciously.

23. ……Or being separated when out with friends.

24. I believe silence is golden! Give me a book and you will know what I am talking about.

25. I've been called a traditionalist. hehhehehe! Come read my deep innermost thoughts people.

26. I have lots of things going on in my mind but most times find it difficult to express myself.

27. I wish I was a better writer.

28. Communicating verbally is sometimes difficult for me. My brain and mouth do not work in co-ordination with each other.

29. I prefer dark chocolate over milk chocolate with a tall glass of milk. Actually I will take it in any way / any form

30. It breaks my heart to see children unattended!

31. I cherish my friends.

32. I'm a worrier.

33. But have no gray hair or wrinkles ( though a microscope might reveal otherwise) or worry lines on the forehead.

34. I'm not afraid of the dark. Ghosts enthrall me.

35. I don't bullshit people regarding things I know nothing about. I would rather stand up and say I don’t know and be laughed at then make a total fool of myself by proclaiming I do when I don’t .

36. I consider myself an independent thinker.

37. I deal with depression alone, but then again, who doesn't?

38. Sometimes I think there are too many hours in a day, and sometimes I think there's not enough.

39. Rap music isn't my cup of tea. Songs I cannot follow or hum along are out!

40. Everyday should be your birthday.

41. I feel comfortable in my own skin. I don’t want to change anything about me.

42. Will anyone actually read this list? If anyone does read it, will they care?

43. I often wonder if I'm making a difference, or an impact in this world. I try my best though!

44. I consider myself an accepting and progressive individual.

45. I'm running out of things here.

46. Black is my favorite color.

47. My feet are always cold. They would have been an Eskimos’ in their previous birth. They are frozen solid every single time I touch them. The rest of me feels very hot no matter what time of the year. I have to have the fan / a.c on.

48. I think the word "basically" is way overused! I don’t like people who use it out of context.

49. My fingernails are strong. Very tough to cut them with a nail cutter. My toenails are brittle!

50. Holding anyone’s hand without or with a reason is a wonderful moment.


51. I was born on the 26th of January 1982. Stop Sniggering I am not that old! My date of birth is something I am proud of. My country became a sovereign republic that day. I love my counrty. Wouldn't trade my citizenship for even Australia or a place on the Moon.

52. I have 16 (overweight) cats. Stop falling off your chair every other minute! My neighbours and I take care of them.

53. My favorite color is black and sometimes blue for reasons only a certain someone knows. He also knows why I like pink and white stripes on a garment

54. I enjoy watching sports – cricket & football mostly.

55. People should be valued for what is on the inside, not for what is on the outside.

56. I love an adventure and a challenge.

57. I can operate on 5 hours of sleep a night.

58. I believe children hold the key to the future.

59. I love the Movies


60. Integrity means a lot to me.

61. I have faith in the goodness of people.

62. I'm an optimist most of the time.

63. Some days I'm pessimistic, but it doesn't take long for me to snap out of it.

64. Theory will always clash with common sense.

65. I'm a terrific speller. I watch the spelling bee international championships and do manage to get a lot of the words right.

66. I've danced in an over crowded disc, almost stood on top of my partners feet, and I've slept in beautiful solitude under the crisp open sky. In an ironic way, both experiences compliment the other.

67. I'm a shoe person. I loveeeeeeeeee them… my shoerack is overflowing I wish my wardrobe was.

68. I'm a certifiable chocoholic.

69. Certifiable choco-alcoholic, I love the liquor chocs my friends mom makes . out of the world.


70. I only consume some of the finest chocolate made by man (thanks to my friends and cousins who live abroad).

71. Chocolate is my weak spot (I think this is obvious now).

72. I truly live life to the fullest every day!

73. I treat people the way I want to be treated. Never do unto others what you don’t want done to you is my mantra for life

74. I enjoy traveling – to and fro between home and work ;) no freedom for anything else. I want to be free someday!

75. My philosophy about luggage is: Never take more than I can carry! And that is not much ;)

76. My collection of books is mostly a mixed and crazy assortment.i don’t know how a Mills & Boons one landed there. Someone must have left it at my place. I hate the book. Too predictable!!!

77. I love chocolates and pizzas …I eat them by the packages (no need to have ½ open packages laying around for others to eat).

78. Surprisingly, I'm not overweight.OK! i should stop pushing my luck!

79. I would rather be a driver than a passenger.80. I am truly thankful for every day.

80. I suffer from STM- short term memory. Such a show off! Psychology was one of my majors.

81. I have a passion for words! Love the way the some words roll out of my mouth. I love the fact that I can transcribe words the way the Oxford Dictionary does. Those wierd symbols you see next to the actual word in english are Phonemes.

82. It's the small things in life that matter to me, like a smile.

83. I love to smile. I love to flaunt the deep dimples that accompany them. I love my mom for giving them to me. I love my entire family as well :) Every one of us has a dimple or a pair of them, I have the most - 6 in all :D

84. To me Quality is more important than quantity.

85. …which is why I'm ending on #85.

86. Wow, I'm on #86 already. Never thought I would make it this far.

87. I told you I suffered from STM. Should have stopped at # 85 but did not. I forgot ;)

posted by meghna mohan at 5:02 PM 0 comments



Mooning from afar....
Sitting by the big open window of a mini luxury bus, i decide to take in the sights of the city that I have come to love. Its around 7 o' clock in the evening and I see the local people all headed homewards to settle down for the day.
My eyes wander around casually as I look for a familiar face. It helps when you have to travel long distances. The silence is deafening. Being a regular traveller at peak hours, has helped me block out the incessant noise of the vehicles whizzing past the bus. Aimlessly my eyes dart here and there at an occassional bill board, a traffic light - waiting for the ticking seconds to hit ' 0 ' so we can move, a weary cop waiting to rush home after a long day of gathering dust and money ;)
My companion on such trips is my cell phone. It seems to have deserted me as well. The blank dark screen stares back at me as I hope for a ray of light to wink back at me. I sigh! I take out my camera and decide to have a shot at something in the line of vision. I look high and low for a good subject stationary or moving. I shoot some building and short skylines that would be dwarfed by the ones in NY. When the bus stops for more passengers, I manage to shoot pictures of people huddled under the bus stand to avoid the dust thats being sprayed around everytime a large vehicle or gust of wind goes their way.
I am blinded for a moment and then when I looked up I saw him. I rubbed my eyes to be sure that this wasn't another dream. It took a pinch and some more staring to make me believe that this gorgeous creature was actually looking at me. Dazzling in all his (k)night-in-shining-armour he seemed to have eyes only for me. I tried to break away from the trance he held me in. I tried real hard to stop staring at him but I could not resist.
Seems like the two of us were in the same boat. I found him following me. What a feeling! I was thrilled to bits.
An occasional building or tree would come in the middle but I found the two of us peering on either side of the obstruction just so the view would not be obstructed. I smiled coyly. He beamed right back at me.
Our eyes did most of the talking, given the distance between us. I wanted, desperately to capture his beauty in my lens, but would he be mortified. Would he sue me! To the eyes of the untrained, he would seem a not so unsual part of the woodwork. To me he was something more. So etheral so mystifying. I wonder what lay behind all that brilliance that was him.
He followed me all the way home. His watchful eyes followed me like that of a pocessive boy friend. I was pleased. I looked up and I saw my reflection in his eyes. I was doubly thrilled!
The moon was in love with me as much I was with him!
posted by meghna mohan at 11:13 AM 0 comments

Wednesday, March 01, 2006


The soothing sound resonates through my being. I hear it repetitively. Calmness engulfs me as I let myself be taken away into a world I never saw myself venturing into.

Life has fallen apart.

I remember that repeating this to myself over and over again not so long ago. This habit of repetition came to me along with a set of dimples, a nice tiny nose and a bad temper amongst other things, courtesy my genes.

Who would have thought that I, of all the people, when at the threshold of my life would just give it all up and don a robe and a mala and make that long journey into the frozen lap of the Himalayas. And this, because of a man whom, I promised myself, I wouldn’t let to get to me.

I brushed off allegations that he was seeing another woman. If I believed everyone so easily why was he to be spared the special treatment.

Nut case they christened me. But hey! I loved the man.

My inability to see it coming stemmed from the fact that I was too drowned in work to have a look at the tabloids. The ink used to fill the papers were extracts from the juicy gossip being spread by the jobless mongers. Jobless Jacobi’s is what we call them – mom and I. Apt! And this was all about the man around whom my life revolved and the woman around who’s his revolved. Unfortunately I was not the woman.

Maybe if he did know I exist perhaps I would be- I think to myself grinning at the foolishness of it all. “Star Struck” should be stamped all across my forehead. I walk with his flag draped all over me. His name never left my lips except maybe when I had to breathe and between mouthfuls of my food.

Sigh! Let bygones be bygones. One fine day the world deemed it right to get him married off to this ice cold, wait make that stone-cold (doesn’t it remind you of some WWF Star?) maiden. Old witch I’d rather say. How can the whole world be so ruthless?

Rumors afloat, my man steers his boat carefully and throws in an occasional “No we are just friends” at hungry sharks, who snap and bite at it eagerly. He wants to maintain a clean picture for himself. But the media sharks won’t let him remain the God of all that’s good and picture perfect for long.

And why should they? For once they’d smelt blood and a good kill it was. Not far after this was splashed all over, he tied the knot with her.

Hell freezeth over! The term just came alive, literally. So cold, that I made way to the Himalayas and have been there for quite sometime now. I have learnt not to scoff at what astrologers have to say after reading ones horoscopes. Dad must be mighty pleased.

Atleast someone’s happy!

The icy cold silence continues to stab at my robe clad being and I am kept alive only by the warmth of the mantra I seem to be chanting endlessly, like an automated machine gone awry.
posted by meghna mohan at 2:18 PM 1 comments