How To Make A Paper Plane
This was my first ever performance of something I’d written.
Performance
Sunshine Moment
‘Little Miss Sunshine’ is about a dysfunctional American family. But I think it’s really about kicking ass. Let me tell you my own Little Miss Sunshine story.
On The Gentleness Of Silence
So much comes up in silence, even somebody else’s silence.
I Style!: Moustache Ro!
If it’s been awhile since my last I Style! spotting, it’s because you people are just not being adventurous in what you wear!! But I guess what makes this fun is how a surprise might be waiting around any corner, any minute (oh, I really must carry that camera around…
55ers win over Culture Shoq’s Big Mic Vol.12
So I was at Culture Shoq’s Big Mic at IBar the Monday before last. And for the first time, I actually won. :-p I strung together four 55-word stories that I chaptered into a larger narrative called ‘Monsoon Romance’. They were Here’s my ‘performance’ (with apologies for the garbled voice,…
The Differences Make It Fun
How similar do people have to be to get along? How do you deal with the differences?
The Writer On The Artist Spectrum
I think all artists need an audience. This is everyone from musicians to sculptors to painters. Everyone who has ever expressed an idea in tangible form or otherwise has needed an audience. To those who disagree – if they didn’t, then they’d just keep the idea in their own heads….
Musical Memory
I’ve had a strange relationship with music. I’m musical but not by identity. I remember listening to Winds of change by the Scorpions on my Walkman, lying between bundles of sheets and clothes in a corner bedroom. I remember that I was wearing a pair of corduroys that seemed to…
Manguide 6: Alcohol
Alcohol is like a man. In its many variations, delightful or otherwise, it mirrors the vagaries of my favorite vice. Here’s how. Breezer – This is the boy you grew up with, the one who sat next to you in fourth grade and helped you with your homework. You don’t…
A Voice That Shatters Glass…The Glass Ceiling!
I was an amateur singer in college. Inadvertently, the campus festivals also became my ground for shattering glass celings with my voice.