The Vintage

2011-05-25T00:33:00.000+05:30

Kan Ram Khi!

America te'n khovel tawp di ana chih uh kha ki pumpelh nawn ahih chiah, mihinna lam mah neuchik mitsuan non phot mai le. Atawp taktak hial ma a I gam uh neng chik beek ahoih beh lunggulh na kawm in.

Office a sep di om het louh toh a om luat hun nak ki khiak lawsam. A om het lou chia chu ka loh (pay) hon cut sak zek mai ve ua kisuan lah huai le kasa lua chih theih khop a hih di omlo, sepna te a siam ua a'ihkeh seppih te siam ziak a'izaw diam ah, Net bang ki khoih khoih thei vanglak a a dan om mah mah. Khat vei vei bang Facebook leh Zogam.com/online vel te khoih man hon pia uh mah bang sek aka. Atam chia bel, ki sou nilnil in ka loh (pay) na pung sak kei ua leh ka hong kuan nawn teuh kei di chih ut huai phial mai. Hile, sep di tam sang a sep di tam louh hun tam zaw, leh gen le, Net surf dia office ki kai in a huai mah dia loh hon pia uh hileh kilawm. :)

Hiai sepdi omlouh hun a Facebook a mi baang (Wall) khong ka va baan kal guangguang leh lawmte khat wall a hiai ana ki post, “Govt. order omsa dungzui a kibawl lel, LANVA luipangte a protection wall te lunghimoh huai sakna omzek.... Contractor bangzah hiam te'n metre hunkhop tak a kihawm rual in Nghathal khotaw apan Pearsonmun tan bawl ding uh, bawl lellel hita. Cement tehna atangpi in 1 X 3 khawng himahleh, hiaite ah 1 X 15 khawng hitel dan ai...sawt daihlou peuhmah d chihna hita”. Lungsim nuam khin vak lou, lah hih theih om chuang lou. Huai kia a bei hile bel adan om di, Lamka Times te post khat va tuak kha nawn, “May20 in SBI PO apply dek khen1 SBI/Ccpur ah Ground floor counter 1 ah tu in SBI exam fee Rs50 lakdi laka Rs75 la, a utlou te hisak nuamlou. Tuni in Branch Manager panlakna ziak in gen hilem hita.” Spidey luat ziak le hiven heh huai sak na khat bang hon piang thei dek in hile I hih theih chu tawm law mah mah poisak a I sak louh ngal.
Ahi a, etsakna haih vual louh bang le ki nei khin ta, Mata Dam a bang tampi zir khiak theih ngal leh kilawm hina pi, I gam uh zaw ki it zou tatak lou deuh lai hiveh aw chih theih a bang kasa.

Lanva lui dung puah di a ki gen pen pai lel lel ahih na ah, a technicalities bel thei lou, mawl deuh in gen le, sah deuh leh muan huai deuh din hon bawl thei le uh deih huai chih chu duhthusam khat hong hipah. Lanva lui dung puah na di khong lampi dung a hat deuh a hong tai fawtfawt chia bel et nuam law het lou di, a'ihkeh Lanva lui dung puah nang veng tuam daih, a Lanva lui luan khak na le hilou khong a ahong ding veuvuau le bel phatuam kha khollou mai thei lai ahi. A et nuam lou chih pen thutuam. Nidang a I na ginat louh na uh leh I na ginom louh na te uh ki ban thuak tou tou ahi chih lungsim ah koih thei le bel, gen gen le ngai lou mai thei di. Tua pan a I thil bawl uh leh lam touh te uh a foundation phuh kip in detdou le bel khang sawn te pahtak kiloh in a vual zawl na uh le kiloh kha maithei. Hauhsak na bang in le hon pum tuam zaw kha mai thei, gam hausa, changkang leh khang tou I chih te gam puah a it a maban saupi na en te ana hi zel uh ahih chiah. Nna hoih sem peuh mah phot le chu mi deih sak na tang in sep di tamzaw le I khut ah hong lut kha mah na!

Mi'n lampi Inches 2/3 khong a sah a bawl lai ua enchu hawk tui taihsiat zoh lam pi ki buai pih lel.

Vaite lak a om in thil sai haksa kisa, innlam khong a om a mahni pau chiat zat na ah bel thil sai ana nuam biik le kilawm, lah ana huchi tuan lo in kilang veve. Sawt nai lou in Bank Scam in I minse nasa sim uh, sum zaw ki en lah chiat hiven. Gam le it Sum le itzaw lai chih bang thil lam dang lou hi in, sum it ziak bang a gam le va it vak theih hihtuak sim, amin pu a gam it hilel le le.

Tua exam form kihawm na a a val a valak chih kha minsiat na dia le huai se diak abat na khat chu mi khat 25/- belhsah a hih sak. Hile, 25/- ichih bang le chu tampi hong suak thei maw, tui mal mal te'n tuipi a bawl chih pian sim a, hile, chi lai le; I minsiat ut dan te uh le hi law chiit chiit se in chin, cheap lua. Huai sa cheap zaw le chu om, Phailian a SDO. :D Huai zaw thutuam in koih ta le, Veteran hita uh amau zaw. Hi chi neneuh te'n I mihing hin zia susia in lam tan pi dal baan zel hi. I innsung te uah chu “Diktakna in Nam a tawisang” ki chi vek chiat sasauh maw. Hiai lou bang le zum huai pi pi a iki exploit na uh tam ding a sut le le mulkim huai kha ding hiven.

Media a hong hat a, media te power I theih ua I zat siam dung zui un mipi bang le ki khang lou dek ta ahih chiah, maban a et di chu omzek lai maithei. Hichi dan khong a initiative la thei I hong tam chiang ua I gam in le neng chik beek a phat tuam pih kha ding a ging tak huai ahi.

Spidey time again ;)

Zogam Lia Ching

2011-03-17T03:10:00.001+05:30

Tawlsim ka hi ding e, lup na tung a lum in innlam te toh ki text nilouh a ka om lai un ana ihmu khin der ka hi maimah. Tawl ziak eidia aw, beer ziak?

Zaalmang gam lamdang ah…

A mel daang kiuh keuh ka en a, mittui nang vual louh in hon buak. A kam leh nak a pan pipe gui zam te a nak liang liang lel ahi. A lu tuamna a lian a alamdang sak a a lungziin huai. Apam ah screen neu khat ah line kiziik tuan leleuh ka et in hehpih na leh khasiat na lamdang tak in hon pum tuam nawn. Kei le hat lua ka hi kei, ka lu hon tum lilit om in ka thei a, ka nak lah mahmah ta, puk mai thei in ka om a ka chau se gawp hile amel muh ut tinten ka hih man in a pindan a va lut in a bul ah kava tu tei a a khut nem leh zeen zizeuh te len kawm in ka va kidiik nilouh hi.
Thakhat thu in a nak hong buai in hong kisat ta a, a khut ka let hon len kip tinten in ka thei, a pam a screen ka et leh tuan leleuh nawn lou in a tang zinzen ta a “Beep…Beep” achi lel ta. Ka let na khut awl awl in hon khah a, ken le a muk tawp in “Kon it lua, hon it gige di kahi” chi in ka puk suk tei ta.

Khanglou guih ka hi ding e, ka cell phone a na vak kiukiau a ka mit tui ana pawt mawk. Ka phone ka et leh text message khat hong lut ana hi a huai in hon phawng zot dan hi ahi.
Enzual in kei le ka ihmu suk nawn pah hi.

Delhi chu lum sim ta deive chih ngaihtuah kawm in ka dong te kasa a, guantheih guanmoh teng talah pipi’n ka hen suk ten ten a, kho ul kai puap in ‘khovel’ ka chi lungsim. Pathianni ahi a, Pathian ni nawn a Bangalore apan Delhi pai tum, lit le phur thuah in ka om melmul nilouh a, ticket cancel dek sek, tawp thak khong in ka buai khop mah mah kei khom khom in. Kaal khat nei lai. Nitak lam dak 3 ahi ta a, ni sang lai. Tawl kisa a ka khawl leh lawmte Mang toh Sang hong diang lut ua, Beer 2 hon puak lelat uh kizen sa in kipah thu gen a phat kawm in ki valh gai pah giaps. Dang taak leh tawl deuh a dawn chu khum zezen a bang, limkha a tave! Hon peidek suih, gil kial ziak ei ngei di.

Ejipura a om ka hia, pawt dia hong zawn uh ahih man un (dawn beh zek di chih na), ka ki zui khe thal thal ua, innlam bang a ki pawt tuah nang leh nungak hel nang chih dan te kha vaang law mah mah dan ahi, gen sa le hilou in Shivaji Nagar lam ka manoh ua, Shivaji Nagar Bus Terminal khang zek a Bar khat ah ka va tu keuh kauh ta nilouh uhi. Tangval tleilor tung mah akihih ziak hi, bang lou teng kigen in numei thu mah tung pah, peg kawm a numei thu I gen chu, aki thuuk lut baih mahmah ve.

Shivaji Nagar a eimi lawi omkhawm na PG khat ah kava hoh tei ringot ua, ki sah kha zaw hiven lim khong ka va kiban lak ta nilouh uh. Nuam sa a lawm te toh inn kong a ka om lai un a sunga nau don a tu khat ka gal muh a, mi lian lua hilou - Nurse figure nei, thau hetlou le Rasi hau mahmah khat, nuih mai leh nel huai sim khat ahi hi. Zogam lia ching. Nupi kasa ka et masak in. Tel! a man nau don eimawk chia maw. Va lut a a bul a kava tut leh theihngei mel deuh a honna en char char kha chu, ka nau don pen ‘Pa’ na hi hon chih bawl khong bang mai kasa. Kizum theisam ahi, amel se lou sim ahih chia. ‘Kei hilou kei ngal’ chih khiak doi di’n hoih hial.

“Nang hiai mun a na om na sawt ta hia?” chin ka dong a, a mit lian kilkel te leh a sam tang zizet ten mit ana hip khin.
“Kaal khat hipan, vacation zang dia hong hoh ka hi.” chin hon dawng a, hong nuih seuh leh a etlawm na a su puang, ngaih huai na apiangsak.
“Aw, koi a om e, bang zir? Bang chik chia kik di?” chin ka dong thuk nawn a, a nau en kawm in “Andhra ah, damlou khoi didan kisin, kal 2 ka om lai di.” chin hon dawng nawn a. Lungsim in chu ‘progress’ chi kawm in ka liang hon beng thauhthauh abang kasa zezen hi. “Huai na thil tawi nang a hia?” chi in a nau don ka en a, aman a hong tung na te uh a hih dan hon hilh chu Hatu hul zen a ana kinui kha hihtuak. “Achih leh nang chu Virgin lai chih na maw” chi kha zezen, nuih za a hong nui tetauh bang chu a nau don sang in le a iplah huai zaw. Huchia ka ki hou hou ua leh Rayburn College a kai khawm ka hih lam khong uh ka hong kithei suah uhi. Hoihlua. “Hon meltheih sim ka hi” hon chi guih a, “Na zuau eive” ka chih leh, “Rayburn a na tonpih sek nu…” zou sak man lou in, “ka lawm pa ngaihzawng nu hi” chia kana gen kalh gaih leh, hong nui seusau nawn a, “huai kuan hon dong a eita?” chiin hon tot bawl ngal.

Amuk san tii-tiai tawp tonton din ahoih. Laizial tep din innkong ah ka pawt khia a, lawmte omna lam kava naih phei a Sang kiangah, “Selou, teuh tauh mai.” chiin ka va nui heuhau a amah le hong ding suah tei hi. Sang in le en kawm in, “teuhs tel, na bang di oi?” hon guk chih suisui lam ka za. A min thei nai lou ka hih dan ka thei thak a dong dia ka paiphei kawm in Sang kiang ah, “Malta meh di.” ka chi gaih hi.

“Sakmin ah bang om hiam?”

Hun dang a nalh kasak luat hetlouh leh kana ngaihnat luat louh chu ahi ngei a, hile “Lun ahi” ahon chih ton kiton in zak nop kasa a, gen nop leh sap nop kasa pah, nem kasa a numei min dia analh ber ahi ka chi lungsim pah. A min toh aki tuak kher mai, eikeh a melhoih kasak ziak a kituak sa a nalh sa ka de aw?. Hong ding hial leh hon chia tou dek, a taksa frame ngat ziak a neu muh ki hi di hi. Half pen teng tihteh a T-Shirt eng aa, sam deklam a gaak. Nalh kha deuh. A khut malngaat te len a nitum kuan nizung in a kap singseng na mun tuipi geia piaunel tung khong a paipih ka nuam. Loupa hing didip tung a tut pih kawm a tongpeleng sai a ama a dia laa sak ruarua khong ka nuam, tum thei a aw hoih a laa siam hi leng.

Ka muh tung a pan ana ngai law khin kana hi. Sesuih mai.Eh, ka lungtang hon guk sak khin chi in amah ngoh zaw ni.

Rayburn a kai lai khong gen khawm in sawt tak ka houlim ua, ka tui mahmah uh ahi di, lawmte’n pai hon sawm tak un dak 8 bang ana ging ta. Siam theih tawp suah in lawmte theih louh in a number ka ngen gu chen chen a, mel in ‘hehpih leh tanai bawk tak in’ chi mah bang kawm in ka ding deldal a, ka phone la in amah aki miss call cheuh chu a ‘hehpih leh tanai bawk tak in’ mel mang pah in khovel a nungak melhoih pen lup pih khin mah bang in ka nui vur vur ta mai. Lohching.

Auto a tuang kawm in ka ki text nilouh ua, kaal nawn chia Delhi lam zuan a pai di ka hih dan ka hilh leh, ‘chipah mawk, ki thei pan pan hanga…’ chih teng a hon dawng na in lungsim tawng a deng e. Lawmte kiang ah lei beh di chi in Bar ka lut nawn ua, Ejipura ka tun un thu om dan ka gen leh, “zingchia pawt pih di” chi in ana phur ten uhi. Ka dawn kawm un sun hun a Lalbagh Botanical Garden hoh pih didan ka hon sawm ta uhi. Ken le ka thil sawm uh gen kawm in ka phone a, nui kekelh kawm in ‘Umin…’ hon chih kau leh nuam kha tel e, ngaih huai kasak na a puang. Kamsiam him him le zaw hikha mai thei. Zogam lia ching.

Thohtanni zing ninou etlawm tak hong suak, phur leh kilawp tak in ka thou khia a lawmte hong tot touh di kar ka ngak lah ten ta. ‘Happy Monday’ chi in ka text tou pah a, aman le ‘Zingpha, na thou baih ngei. Fellua ” hon thuk kik ngal a, ki nui vur vur mai.
“Hon mangmat inga, tuni pawt na di phur lua a ihmu thei nawn lou :P” chiin zuau siang thou toh ka dawng keuh a ( mang lam a bang kimuh peuh mah a chih chu thei bun lou), hon dawng kik na in ka kha bang a tawm khe sak dek phial. Ka kilam en kei a ka ging ta thei kei.

“Eile phur lawvoi, kimuhpah di himei ;)”

Lawm te hong tung kar bang ka ngak lah lawman. Dak 10:18 in a hong tung ua, Shivaji Nagar lam ka manoh pah ting teng uhi.

Jeans ngat zizet leh T-Shirt vom kigak tit-tet toh Kolhapuri Sandal hon bun a, hou chik a kichei lel hina in a etlawm mahmah. Kawi kawi din a hoih. A mel a vak a, a mit hah a fel tel, a khohei a et nuam mang e, zeih zeih mai. A nawi bawk litlet leh taw bou ten a chei nasa a, mit a hiip.

“Nalh thou” chi in ka melh phei zauh a, a mai a hong san tiai zezen.
“Kam siam vanglak” hon chih leh bang kizephawk luat in om e, ka nui dur dur ua ka pawt na du lam ka manoh ta uh.

Delhi pai di lai bang lit tha hong suak dedeuh in pai louh mai khong a ut huai tel, ni 2 chouh in sam ta, ka kihou thei ta kher mai uh. Ki text toh call ka thuah deuh zut ua, gen khe kei mah le ung itna khuukpi a ke khin zaw kana hi uh aka. Om leng la aman hon paisan pah di. Paileng la kal nih amah om lai di chih toh lung sim akisual sual thei. Bangalore sung fang kual in ka hun teng uh ka zang bei sek uhi. Nidang a ina phak phak na sa te bang amah toh ahih ziak eideuh dia a thak ngen a bang a anuam a hun a pai hek.

“Tuni ann hong ne ve maw” chi in phone a pan in ka zawn a, bang hon chi dawng peuh mah hiam chih en ut kawm in, Aw a chih leh chu aman le hon ngai chih na dan in ka ngaihtuah. En khe him him di.

“thei lo maw, ka u ten hon phal duam maw, kei vuak hon pawt phal khollou un chin” hon chih in Aw a chih na toh ka pom a, lungmuang a kipak in ka kitawm ta zot zot mai.

Nitak lam dak 4 vel in kava pi a a cousin nu toh, meh di khong lei in nuam sak chih tak in nuam kasa maimah uhi. Ka room ka tun un dak 8 bang ana ging ta a, ann leh meh huan in ka buai pah tetet ua, cheet na mun thak chi lou din hong panpih a a fel tel. A tuan a gang a, nnasep a siam. Chiamnuih thutak dedeuh khong in kaki hou ua, a flirt pian lamlam khong in ka ki chiamnuih uh chu hun bei hat ei. Ann ka nek un dak 9 bang gingta ahih toh a nih ua giak din ka zawn a, ut sim la bang ut lou sim la bang in a om nilouh ua tawp in chu a U te phone in pailou a giak dek a hih dan uh ahilh khong uhi, amah vuak hilou hileh zaw phal lou du hia chi in ka nui gu thremthram nilouh hi. Lung a om chu mel a dawk, “na kipak maw chemchum mai” chi in ‘naughty’ mel deuh in nui kawm in hon chi, nuih lel louh chu gen di omlou aka le.

Bangalore huih vot hiau hiau leh van siang kilkel a aksi tangte nuai ah, ka inntung uah, tu in ka thum un kaki hou nilouh ua bang tan hiam nung in a cousin nu’n lum di chi in hon kumsuk san ta. Phaze ei.

“Ngaihzawng khawng nei lou maw na siat lolouh toh?” chi in dang tawng bang hah masa zen in ka donga, nei lou chi ou ka lungsim in a nak chih lua.

“ei khong kuan hon deih dia, ng la?” hon chih nak khum hina tel e.
“nei leng kon nung delh delh dia hia, pil ve” chiin ka thuk nawn a ka et phei leh ana nui heuhau a, khavak nuai ah asam huih in a mut leng hiau hiau toh a kilawm thou e.
“kamsiam thou e, delh taak mamah khang ei” pitek thum hat deuh bang in hon dawng nawn daldal a huai hun chiah in chu khovel anuam ahi.
A khut len phei kawm in kading dedu a, hon lak khiak sak dia aw chih ngak kawm in, hon lak khiak sak lou in hon let thuk tei tak in, “kong ki interview diam?” ka chih leh kun suk in a hon dawng hetkei.
A khut la khia in hon nung hei a, “interview pe ut teitei maw? ching khin a kikoih lou?” hon chih in ka khovel a khek ta.
Ama a va ding in a khut tegel ka len a ka muh tung a pan ka lungsim hon luah khin ahih dan ka hilh kawm in amuk san tii-tiai ka tawp tonton ta. Leitung a mi teng in pahna zaila awi uh hen!

Sawt khop kong ki tawp nuau nuau ua, naklah zen in ka hong kikhah thei khong uhi. Itna thu zaknop pi pi sawt kuam tak ka hong kikup nung uh leh damsung a dia kichiam khin lup vai sawm di chi in room ka lut suk thei khong ta uhi.

Itna puang khiak nitak a lup khawm ngal chu kilawm het lou hina pi’n ka lunggulh tenten mai a, puan kawm a ki kawm thiam thiam khong ka ut tei mole. Tangval sisan hat chih mah tak.

“hong lum ve kon kawi kei dia” chia ka chiamnuih leh ut lah hi, lah ut ngam lou chih chiang deuh mai in hon dawng a ken le thumu kisa in kasam thak nawn hi.

Itluat leh ngaih luat ahi a, ka hat tel uh. Nga vei mawng mawng ka pang trang trang peih uh mole zankhat thu in. Anuam leh lungkim huai pen lai.

Zing kar thoh in chu zum sim tuak ka hi dua mit bang ki en tuah ngam lou in ka om den ua ka va khak a a inn ua ka om tan un le ka mit uh aki tuak kha nai kei.

Ka pai nang ni khat vuak om ta ahih toh va bazaar di chi in lawmpa gari khel in ka pawt nawn ua, dong tamkhop lei in Commercial Street lakvel a kithoh kawm a ka tai kual kual lai un ka nung lam ua pan in nasa deuh in ka gari hek hong ki nor zot a, puak dop zen in lampi ka ki den na tuak uh.

Khophawk sim mial mial a ka om in Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital a ICU ward a om kana hi der uh. Lawmte kihou na a pan in gim mah mah tuak ka hi uh chih ka thei mial mial a, khophawk louh na gam a ka leng nawn diai diai hi.

Kho-ul kai niu-niu in ka lupna apan ka harh khe phut a, ka ngawng delh khial sim ka hi dia ana na velvul, mangpi le kiman hih tuak. Alarm set ka et leh 6:15 AM 13 March 2008 chih ka mu ti-tiai a thou khe din kakisa ta. Ka mumang thei ching nawn chiah lou in leh ngaihtuah dedu kawm in coffee ka bawl a, coffee dawn kawm in ka ngaihtuah nilouh lai. Nungak melhoih leh ka lungkim a ka it mahmah khat mu ka hi chih bel ka thei mial mual. A dang bang mah ka lung sim ah a chiang kei. Kihah siang in ka van te ka et leh thaang law mah mah ahih chiah a hong tung di Pathianni a pai di ka hih toh chin ka van te ka rem khawm a ka kikibuai sak pah hi.

Suun nileng a van hem a ka ki buaisak lai in lawmte nih hong hoh ua, fridge a pan ka beer gaih lou 3 om te 2 pia in kei le kibual din bathroom ka lut san a Net khoih din ka sawl hi. Ka mansiang tak in nitak lam dak 2:45 gingta a, hih di om tuan lou ahih toh chin pawt na di zong a kihou in ka om nilouh ua, atawp in lawmpa theihngei te nungak khat hong zin ahih dan leh Shivaji Nagar a tung ahih dan hon gen a huai lam a hoh di’n dak 3:00 chiah in ka hong ki thawi dok ta uhi.

9th May chu...

2010-05-06T01:26:00.001+05:30

Mi bang a kihou zihzeh te ka hi kei ua kha khat in 2/3 vei kan ka ki hou kei uh. Hile, hiai a ka kihou khak sun chiang un nuam sak na leh lungmuanna in ka dim sek. Thupi lua gen kahi kei ua, “Na dam zel hia? Bng na chi zel a?” “ann na ne

hoih zel maw?” khua a lum lua hia, bang achi?” “nuam nasa zel na maw?” chih te baak hilou, hile hichi bang a deihsak na leh itna a dim kidot na ka tuak vang mahmah kasa a dam man om ka sa, lawm le vual kal ah hichi bang kidot tiau-tiau na a om vang mahmah.

January a inn lam ka va pai in kikhelah diak ka bang ua, Delhi ka kik dek ni bang in bang mah gen tam thei le ka om kei uh. Dang tawng bing eh-uh a ka om lai in lam lai a ka zat di chiin sum tam lou aneih a hon pia a tui thawl neuchik a ka tui dawn di hon na thun sak bang ka pakta diak hi.

Tomchik sung va om kahi na a amah toh hun ka zat khawm khak uh atam zaw ahih ziak in lungkim leh lohching kaki sa mahmah. Nitak a lum baih nuam deuh a, kihoulim na di hun a vang deuh chih man thu. A sun a zan a kimu hina pi in pai di hun in a hon naih hiai hiai leh ka khelah in ka ngai dedeuh mawk a a guk in haksa kasa gu thei mahmah lel hi. Itna leh ki ngaihna ichih zaw namai na hikei ei.

Kal nih hun nuam tak ka hon zat ua mi dang le ngaihsak biik lou a ka om zoh un pai a hong hun mai chu a lithuai ngoih ngoih mange aw. Lungsim mial tak toh om bang zaw ana nuam liai lou ahi. Kimuh toh kiton a kikhen hizel mai, bang chik hun chiang in dam in kituak nawn dia aw chih te bang ngaih tuah na ah hong laang mahmah ua, ki ngaihna leh lunglenna hon su puang mah mah hi.

A hon meh puak sak leh nektheih tuamtuam tamlou te bang lim diak in ka thei, amah hon thun sak leh ama hon puak sak ahih ziak le ei biik di.

Nu, ka kipak!

Kum tawm chik ka hih in ka Pa’n hon na omlouh san pah a, ka nu etkol na nuai a khanglian ka hih deuh ziak le eidia, ka it in ka ngai khol diak. Hile, hon it na te bang kana haih hun omsam a, ka lei Pathian ahihlam ka mangngilh hun om law tham. Huchih lai inle kei a di’n thu hon nget sak in a hon na it a kei a din ana pang thou thou. NU’ ITNA zaw thupi lawtel aka!

Nu’te Ni zat nuam chiat ni.

Mother’s day (Click theih)

Chim Huai Himai!

2010-04-20T20:34:00.001+05:30

0915 Hrs (IST)

Mission Road, Lamka.

“Hello darlin' nice to see ya
it's been a long time
you're just as lovely as you used to be
how's your new love are you happy
hope you're doin' fine
just to know it means so much to me…”

- Conway Twitty.

Lampi phok ninet leh lei vui khu deuh mai lai ah ka lawmpa toh Lamka khosung a tai kual in ka om ua, Mission road phei ka totkhak tak un lungtang bang tawm mang zot thei phial leh kilawm in a gal apan in ka mu guih hi. Amah le Activa a hong tai ahi a, kou tuan na pen kei hek ahih ziak in ka gal muh pah hi. A hong nui phei tii-tiai mai zaw zing nisuak kilawm tak bang mai ahi, hon na en chenchan a hile apoi ahi aw… ama a tu pa kawng a kawi phei traal mai!

Ka nung a tu pen inle mu pah zaw ei ngei dia, “eh Min, huai ah!” hon chih guih leh nervous sim toh lamsiik a nullah lam bang gari hek in naih tuai-tuai ta zen veh e. Nuam khin hetlou a nuih liai-luai thuah in gari bang ka hat tai sak zot kha thethup hi. Ki pel kin mang e aw! A side glass a ka guk melh lam ka lawm pan hon na thei ei ngei dia, “nunglam et kik kik di hilou, maban et di aka… dechia a kawi na bang le tungpah di ihih toh…” hon chih leh Na Hinkhua Maban Di En In Aw, Nung leh Hei Hun Hi Nawn Lou hon chi bang kasa mawk!

Kum thum leh akim sung khawng kimu nawn lou vilvel a om in tua kava tuah khak phut zaw, ki lamet louh lai a, gen di bang bei peuh mah. Ka va pawtna mun uah bang ka nguui ngial ei. Lai sim sunzom di chih suanlam a Bangalore pai lou hileng zaw den a a angkawi tinten pen bang kei le himai thei hi ing a chih na in lungsim teng luah gai mawk a…

“What's that darlin' how am I doin
I'm doin' alright except I can't sleep I cry all night 'till dawn
What I'm tryin' to say is I love you and I miss you and I'm so sorry that I did you wrong…

Look up darlin' let me kiss you
just for old times sake
let me hold you in my arms one more time
thank you darlin' may god bless you and each step you take
bring you closer to the things you seek to find…”

2006 summer nisat lai tak a Class XII result suak hiven kei le mundang a laisim sunzom dia kisa in ka bem ten hi. I pawt khiak masak na di pen ahih toh ki phur lawsam. Huchia pai dia kisa in zankhat kimuh theih na di ka zong ua a hong rem thei vanglak. Lawmpa gari zang in nitak khomui zuul dak 6 vel in ka va pi a, Hebron Veng a ka lawmpa room ah kikhe lah tak in ki len tinten kawm in gen di thei zok lou in ka om nilouh uhi.

Zan hong sawt in fone bang chu hong ging mun sim mahmah ta. Atawp in chu pai di vai a hon sawm thei sam, khiak la khiak lah huai lawtel a hun in lah hon liam san zungzung ta mai, Sidney Sheldon in a laibu gelh Bloodline a line khat bang lungsim ah hong lut dundun tazen, Time is the enemy of love. The thief that shortens all our golden hours…ana chih hi dik sa law tel. Hon pombelh in, “Umin, pai dah ve maw…ken ka hon zoh hun chiah iki ton na di, kum khat lel hita hia maw, aike’h le ka hon zui mai aw…” a hon chi khialkhial mai chu, dawn di dan buai huai hina mai e. Dai dide in ka kawi nilouh a atawp in chu kenle , “Hilou e, vapai di inga ei a dia munrem ana zong di kahi, ginom tak in ana ngak lechin December a le ka hong pai pah theih lamen kahi…ana ginom in aw…” chi kawm in ka tawp suk tei hi.

Huchi’n zan dak 11:00 lak vel in Central Lamka lam manoh in ka ki pawsuk ta uhi. Manpha kikhak na kawm in a gate bul uah ka tawp nawn chonchon hi, atawp na tatak di ahihlam thei leng zaw…

Kum 2 le akim khong kingai ta chi in kei le kilungmuang sak deuh in ka maban zotna di lam manoh kahi tamai a, Gwahati tan gari tuan pen kigawt na di isak leh ana hi phiangsan lou hial, gari tuang kawm a Nagaland tang dung te a nitum di kuan in hon kap sengsang a lunglen bang chu train a tuang a lunglen toh kikhe deuh hiau ana hidan ahi. Ka laa ngaih dia hon tel khiaksak ka fone a hon koih sak te ka ngai kual nilouh den hi. Bei baih sak in bang om diak abang.

Ni 1 le akim khong nidang a hun nuam kana zat khawm dan te uh ngaihtuah na in ka zang bei hi. Train sung ahi a ngaihtuah na bang a pai viau kasa. Ka paipih ka lawmte bang ka phawk kha vak kei a amah fone theih na didan kia ka lungsim ah om den hi.

Chennai Jn. ah chu a hong khawl ngei tak a, phaze sa in PCO ka naih pah belbel mai. Mi ana tam lawzel, minute 3 kaki hou nung un line a ding tam lua ahih chiah kisuanglah leh khiaklahtak thuah kawm in ka hang up mai chu, anuam law na a anuam hetkei!

Bangalore tung thei in kai na di khong ka saifel thei pah hi. Lungleng leh ngai ngoih ngoih a om in ka hun te ka hon zang bei thei zel vanglak. Kha 3 khong hong kivei in chu Calls bang le a hong lut vaang sim mahmah ta a Msg le muh luat ahi nawn kei. Ken le a fuh lou om eidia aw chi in ka lawm te bang ka ban dot zel sam a hile thu bang mah om lou ahon chih chiang un ki lungmuang sak suk thei zel. Mi va gal ngaih pen zaw ana haksa lawsam mah ahi ngut.

Kha 4 khong bang mah thu omlou a ka hon zat (kakisak lai a) khit in chu, zingkal khat ka lawmpa’n hon fone a ka thoh ma in, poi ahi mai. Thoh khiat di bang a lit huai ahi aw. Am-hai chur chur leh dek sa vevu kawm in ka lum nilouh mai, inn lam pai ut na in ahon zou petmah lah kava hih theih di a om nawn chuang kei.

Kha li sung lel a a damsunga di ana mukhin ana hiphet mai, poi vasak louh di chu ahaksa a hile hampha sa in ka kipahpih law mawk.

“Goodbye darlin' I gotta go now
gotta try to find a way to lose these memories of a love so warm and true
and if you should ever find it in your heart to forgive me
come back darlin' I'll be waitin' for you…”

I’ve never understood then, why lovers count their happiness, in days and nights and years, while our love can only be measured. In our joys and sighs and tears…
-Sidney Sheldon’s Bloodline

(Phuah tawm thu ahi, office a sep di omlouh kal a chim ziak liauliau a ki gelh mawk2 ahi – kawk tuam nei ahi kei, thulaktak di le om biik lou :D :D :D)

2010-04-20T20:32:00.000+05:30

0915 Hrs (IST)

Mission Road, Lamka.

“Hello darlin' nice to see ya
it's been a long time
you're just as lovely as you used to be
how's your new love are you happy
hope you're doin' fine
just to know it means so much to me…”

- Conway Twitty.

“What's that darlin' how am I doin
I'm doin' alright except I can't sleep I cry all night 'till dawn
What I'm tryin' to say is I love you and I miss you and I'm so sorry that I did you wrong…

Huchi’n zan dak 11:00 lak vel in Central Lamka lam manoh in ka ki pawsuk ta uhi. Manpha kikhak na kawm in a gate bul uah ka tawp nawn chonchon hi, atawp na tatak di ahihlam thei leng zaw…

Kha li sung lel a a damsunga di ana mukhin ana hiphet mai, poi vasak louh di chu ahaksa a hile hampha sa in ka kipahpih law mawk.

(Phuah tawm thu ahi, office a sep di omlouh kal a chim ziak liauliau a ki gelh mawk2 ahi – kawk tuam nei ahi kei, thulaktak di le om biik lou :D :D :D)

ADIOS, MY FRIEND ADIOS…

2010-03-15T17:50:00.002+05:30

¹ There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:

a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot. -Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 (New International Version)

Days rolled into night and nights unfurl a new day, a new day of yet another despair, of longing and missing for a dear friend, who, with and for all his reason(s), left us torn and broken, not a single word to whisper nor the courage to look into each other’s eyes. Even the good old shrug won’t help. Sang, you must be laughing at us mortal souls even as we try to hide our grief and find solace, eh?

They say, “Each drop of a tear is costlier than anything in this world but no one knows its values until they have it in their own eyes for someone.” How profoundly true! The tears we shed Sang… each drop bespoken of a thousand words.

Bangalore 2007.

Life would be such a bore had it not been for him because he was the one who get us all together in the first place – I, Biakte, Sonmang and Soson. I never expected to meet him in Bangalore, which too, at the Church used by the ZCF. After having lost contact for nearly a year since we finished our HSE, it was a joyous reunion; one of a kind that ends with a bottle of pure Jamaican Rum and a fat boiled chicken spread out on the table. As usual, when the spirit kicks in we’d reminisce about the good old days we had back at Rayburn College. It was a lovely moment, one that will always live down memory lane.

Our friendship rooted during the summer of ‘05 at Rayburn College in New Lamka, where we’d be punished and huddled to the dreaded Student Dean’s Office ruled over by the ever-active Ms. Muanching for bunking Math and MIL classes. More often than not, a few good and practical advices would be shot at us, which we were immune to such thing anyway as well as the boring lectures in our class, with her steely voice filled with concerns and that always ends with a prayer with both her hands in our heads. After that ritual, a suppressed and understanding nod between us would follow suit meaning we’d be more cautious the next time around. Such was life.

Cheerful as always with an air of easy g oing attitude and a happy go lucky charm, Life – for him is for the free will. Outspoken to the core, ambitious as can be, and a zeal to live life to the fullest – Ginsang is one helluva guy you can get as a friend, and I am proud and lucky I can call myself, without an iota of prejudice, one of his few and well chosen friend, God bless his soul.

We did, atleast the four of us whom he dearly called friends, always admired his quick wit and presence of mind, his good old nature and humors with his never say die attitude inspiring us to learn (a lot) from life as well as from him. His uber-cool jokes and humors would never fail to entertain us albeit, sometimes, at the cost of other. His outlook in life is always open and sometimes hilarious, which is reflected in his ways of words.

He was always there through ups and down and his presence makes a whole lot of different things altogether. On the lighter side, Men’s night-outs would never be complete without him among us, he had had this enviable talent of making things happening, of making things work wonders even on a bad night-outs. The good times we had together at St. Joseph’s College in Shanti Nagar on the occasion of the Northeast Fest and the incident that follows which rendered us to return with a torn shirt and a blue-black eyes, the GIR night at Palace Ground, the Mizo Fest (Chapchar Kut, yea!)…The Lingarajapuram incidents… Sang, all we have is the sweet memories now but worry not for they will be cherished, as always, till we meet to relive them all over again.

Well, it’s because of him that I gained three new great friends in Bangalore who are always ready to do anything for my well being, I owe him a lot, we owe him a lot. Biakte – always fair in his dealings, Sonmang – the guy who never lost his innocence he’s born with, Soson – always with the charm. Damn Sang, they are fine men, the best gift ever…you are great buddy, just great. I could not praise you more, word fails me.

Delhi, March 5, 2010 (5:30 IST).

My cell-phone buzzed in my hip pocket and I was quick to fish it out, as it was really unusual at this unearthly hour for a call to come (Delhi-Bangalore Standard), the caller’s name flashes Apoo Sang. I was wondering if it was yet another of his prank so I was reluctant to take the call at first thought, then it rang for the second times and this time I took the call with good spirit… (A recall from the memory bank)

“Na Z, hia pick up hak na chia pelpol chin. Na bang hih e? thou nai lou maw?”

“Thou e Pu, Saket va pha kahi ka tawp a, nang la thou hai maw na thou baih ngei…eikeh na giahna nu’n pai dia hon sawl pah hia? Hahaha…”

“hehe…gengen vial lou e…thil dang daih genle, Delhi ong phak ut sim kale…tu summer a…nang vuak om lai mah teh maw?”

“om e, om e…hong pha ois…lawmte le hon zawn kual ve Sonmang bang ut ten lou d hia? Biakte la? Chi thou hia?”

“kong ki dawp kual du aw…nang le ana thuzak himhim in aw”……..

2100Hrs IST (Bangalore to Delhi).

“ Mang, non call zenzen a…bang chi? Bottle bang zah zoh na hita a? hahah…”

“Min, lawmpa uh thu za lou maw?”

“Bang la?”

“Ginsang in hon beisan eivoi…”

It was as simple as that, gone! I pinched and poked myself but I was wide-awake…sitting at my workstation. I prayed it was all a bad dream; I don’t care if it’s even the worst nightmare ever but I prayed and wished for that.

Then the next call from Biakte did it. It was real all the while and my prayers were not answered this time, or did I pray a tad too late? God must have taken it as a joke! Damn! Right then and there, bolts from the past came flooding even as I try to compose myself and make sense to what I just heard. It can’t be true; he cannot go just like that. He was too alive when we planned for the big time in Delhi with friends. Life, they say, hits you the hardest when you least expect it, and it hits you right at the point so good that you are never the same again, ever. Sang, we will never be the same again with the void you have left in us.

Life as it is…

Adios, my dear friend…Adios…

“True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for awhile. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die they're never dead in your heart.” – Anon.

BIAKTE (Bangalore): Sang, hiai leitung ah kimu nawn kei lele koua din thu honna nget sak lai in aw, dawn bang kituak a Sian angsung’ ah tangtawn a hun nuam zang khawm di’n. Van kong khak ah khut zaak in chibai buk in non na vaidawn di aw. Pathian kiang I tun kim chiang un zaw kah leh khitui nul omnawn lou in I lengkhawm ta di uh.

SONMANG (Bangalore): Sang, I already miss you alot, I wish we could spend some more times together, and it kills me that I couldn’t say goodbye in the right way, but I have to accept God wishes cause we are all gonna die one day, thank you so much for always being there for me in my darkest hours...You are the only friend and my rival (the latter confining only to the campus of Kristu Jayanti College and our study table) I have in Bangalore..guess I’ll be alot lonelier now... I am filled with emotions each day thinking of the times that we have spent together, there are good times as well as bad times but I’ll go on saying I love u so much…Yea, it hurts a lot but Sang I’ll will overcome the sorrow, the pain, sadness and the agony of losing U with the good friends that you have made for me...Now I must end this, by asking a Blessing for your family, friends and all those who love you. See you again in the next life… Je t'aime et que vous manquez, au revoir Bro…

SOSON (Aizawl): Sinlai va bang phawng den lawm it Sang, hun lou pi a na hon muallliam san mai zaw, thuaksiam haksa ngei. Na lawmte’n machiang luankhi toh malbang hon kou ung. Na suulnung dai in dam e… Lawm it Sang, na min theibang hong lou kha zel ung. (Awaiting)

REST IN PEACE NOW OUR BELOVED FRIEND.

A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You're free at last.

-Charlie Daniels

IN RETROSPECTION.

2009-12-29T18:04:00.000+05:30

As the year draws to an end I can’t help but retrospect my life. As for me it was a year well spent, though with a lil’ bit of ups and hard times, but they are the package that comes with life, I can take that.
Slogging my ass as hard as I could, doing nothing but to survive (the harsh reality of life) sometime brings a tear or two to the eyes, without a word spoken but conveys the burden I’ve to live with, a silent language that holds thousands of mixed emotions. A single drop justified a thousand words. But, you know, life as it is.

But, one thing that is good, it makes me wiser (on my own term), life teaches.
Sometimes one has to bear all the bitterness and hardships just to appreciate that fraction of a smile that comes your way deep from the heart. Life without it’s cruelty is not worth living. The best things that can happen to anyone doesn’t come easy, you appreciate your success because you have been through all the obstacles and hardship you have to brave that leads the way to your ultimate goal(s). That sweet feeling is rare but once achieved it makes one bounce with joy and happiness and you seldom forget that golden moments, it just stuck on you. The sweetness of your labors. Your tears of sorrows turn to tears of joy and jubilation, of happiness. That’s good. Really. And sweet.

I would often reminisce about the jolly good times I had back then when I was a lil’ younger, my teens life – to be precise. It was great. I don’t regret anything; I have lived my life to the fullest. I did what everyone at my age would do. I was content.
All those street fights, my first kiss, first puff, drinks, love et al. my teenage rampages, tantrums and rebellions. They are a thing of the past now but a golden moment and my greatest assets that I can safely tuck away in my archives of memories. I am happy I lived my life to the best that I can and wished.
Of course, there’s time I fooled around so much to the extend that my family had to interfered, much to their annoyance. But that was life. My life.

(By the way, I am the official black-sheep of the family).

As if even that’s not enough I had to learn things the hard way many a times. But they are the priceless experiences that made me who I am now (nothing, a non-entity), but I am glad for the fact that I am what I am today. Nothing more, nothing less. I learnt to take life as it is, as it comes. And thanks to life, it offers and showers me a great deal of blessings, some that I deserved, and some I don’t. I am content.

I don’t complain, I don’t crib even when I don’t have a morsel to feed my rumbling stomach. I dare not complain even when I shivers with cold and with an empty stomach coz’ that’s how I know and learnt how to appreciate the smaller things life has to offers but which one usually took for granted.
No, I don’t care even if I go without food for a day or two, there’s millions out there going without a morsel for-god-knows-how-many days, and without a proper clothing to fight the bitter cold. I am lucky, at least I considered myself one, even though I stay in a room even smaller than the kitchen of a loaded people who had 2 or 3 Accounts in the Swiss Bank or for that matter, the Bahamas. A 100 bucks in my wallet did a great deal in making me feel secure, I don’t worry coz’ that’s gonna last me a week.
But, I regret, really, for the fact that I make friends when I am loaded (too – though not often), when the wallet is full upto it’s limited capacity. As long as there’s a wad of money in pocket they are ready to wash my feet, but as Time will always had its way all my good “seasonal friends”, who would stoop to wash my feet, disappear to god-knows-where. The reason, you say? It’s because I don’t even have the luxury to have a square meal a day. A simple fact, I ate only once a day, mostly dinner when the month is on its way to end and introduced a new one. In other word, when I am broke.

Something I would never forget, though it is childish. (Don’t be judgmental on this one; I know it’s absurd too).
This happened when I was working as a Sales Assistant for West Side show-room at Commercial Street in Bangalore. A ‘good friend’ of mine was working as a Sr. Sales Asst. close to our show-room, and it was the end of the month (5 days to go), I was
dead broke (as usual), so nowhere to run and no other viable options I went to him with my sob story, asking for a mere 10 bucks (yes, really). My intention: get the 10 bucks, call Mom and ask for 500 bucks just to last through the week before I get my salary.
I was in for a shock (of my life, not literally, though), his attitude and words appalled me.
I could not believed my ears, coming from a friend (as I considered him one with great honor – I think he did the other way round) like him.
“Why do you need that?” he asked. I told him why.
“Let me tell you something (FYI- it sounded more like it), we are all professionals working here, I don’t and never lend anyone any money be it 10 or a 1000 bucks, so sorry buddy, I don’t go against my principles.” So much for his principles. I could have punched him and knocked his teeth out right there itself, but I knew better.
All I could do was wipe away the tears that streams down my cheek before I knew it.
Five days without breakfast and lunch, forget teas, and you will know how I felt then. Worse still, doing overtime because it was a Diwali season sales.

No, I don’t blame him but I won’t forget it either. Forgiving? Pray, I don’t know.
The fault was entirely mine; I should not have any expectation(s) from him (or anybody else), I should not have approached him let alone asked him. After all, he was a friend, a working professional infested with principles, friend. A friend who never fails to come and drink and eat at my place on every special occasion, be it a birth-day bash or weekend revelry. He was a ‘good friend’ who never lends 10 bucks to a desperate someone just because he does not want to compromise on his principles.
The balls he had, when close and dear ones of mine threw a farewell bash for me when I was shifting base to Delhi, I don’t know who the fool had the insanity to invite him but he was there, with his girlfriend! Gorging on the foods and drinks – apparently it was a free treat for them, no wonder. But I feel good, I feel real good for the fact that I feed a hungry and thirsty friend.

Anyway, that was a long time ago. One and a half year (not sure). No big deal and no big issue. Last heard, he was fired (reasons best known to them – I am not curious, and it does not concern me). I don’t feel anything, anything at all. Such is life.

Okay, here let’s have a look at ourselves and ponders on how we deal with something that comes our way, to the things that we don’t have any commands or controls over them.
By the way, do you ever get the feelings that you are being side-lined by your friends? Do you ever feel that you are not welcomed at your friend’s do or stuffs remotely like that? Ever felt that you are left-out? Ignored? Though, ironically, those who did that to you are the one, and only, who ran to you when they are in deep shit.

The solution:
Take it easy, CHANGE is the only constant being in this life, so you never know what good fortunes or blessings and lucks awaits you. Suffer in silence, accept victory graciously. And be wise. Learn, wake up and smell the coffee.

I don’t know what the New Year will bring but I am ready to take it graciously and welcome it whole-heartedly. I feel wiser now (as I count myself on my own term) to take things as it comes.
True indeed is the proverbial saying, “experience is the best teacher”.

Tips: To keep friends and people flocking around you trying desperately to please you and be at your services, be loaded. Have money. It’s a proven fact and it never fails. And even the most powerful tools/weapons to harvest power and fame.

Happy New Year to all of you.
Let success and happiness be the answered and gift for your aspirations, dreams and wishes.
Stay blessed as always to all my readers who took times out to read this self-indulgence, sorry write-up. I’ll try to come out with a more cheerful and positive one the next time. Sorry about this one but I feel way much better now, having laid this out.

(Hey my Black Forest Queen, thank you for the encouragements and guidance, hearing me out to everything I have to tell at any given time, specially when I am down, you are a blessing I can’t do without. You are a real friend and I am proud to call you one, do keep on shining.
And to my dearest of dear friend Lian(piliuliu), imagine if we have some 20/30 people just like you how beautiful a place it would be, our Lamka.
Do have a great and fulfilling life).

WHITE CHRISTMAS BLUES

2009-12-23T15:26:00.002+05:30

Now, now hear, hark! The Herald Angels Sings, Glory to the new born King, Rejoice…Rejoice…Hic!!

50 bucks in the wallet and all alone in my cold room, bloody good friends left for home, probably, to have a damn good times of their own. No joy here, no joy at all. Albeit Joy to the World the Lord has come, let Earth receive her King.

No, I don’t have my cell-phone with me, my dear; it’s still at the Servicing Centre in Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi. And this goddamn weather playing its best on me, its cold in and out. Cold it is, my lil’ friend down South is experiencing it too, first hand, I’d say coz’ it SHRINK!!! Its like two (2) times smaller than it generally and normally is. That’s how cold it is, got the picture now? (not the picture of my lil’ friend you bloke head, the weather man, the weather) Hope you got it right now, right? Good.
So buddy, you jingle your bells through the snow, if there is any, with glee while the cold is getting to wreck my bloody nerves, hell!
Good going.

And you know, to make the matter worse, really, I got this Christmas songs compilation playing away randomly, shuffling through O! Holy Night to Chiamsa Mang Immanuel…from my Mp3 Player. Sad, it is.

There’s more, as luck would have it, I ran out of my cooking gas. Good timing, you’d say, I did too.
And the room is a perfect mess (there’s nothing more perfect like perfect being imperfect), literally buddy, it’s a total mess, one could pass it off as a garbage dump, but don’t you dare, it’s a man’s room after all. My room.

Now not certain if one could die of feeling blue or getting home-fucking-sick but I am feeling like one (near death feelings) now. Home-sick overdose, eh?

(Any desperate someone? You can join me, no string attached). :P :P :P

Alright, this one specially goes out to all my brain-dead good friends, who has had the enormous guts to make me feel insecure (easily they did it), to envy and (who) desperately attempts to get me jealous, to keep me longing for home, I shall not wish you a jolly good times let alone a Merry Christmas; I’d rather wishes you a bloody boring one(s)… :wink: :wink: :grin: :grin: :smug: :smug:
Yeah, really a boring one. You, my dear friend(s), out of all people, deserve that, at least from me! Offence intended.

And to all those poor guys (n gals, is it?) who happens to be in the same shit as I, I know how you feel…so a hearty and warm FELIZ NAVIDAD. May your days be as glorious as can be.

Okay now, positively on the brighter side there’s something I can be proud of and would gladly and eagerly show it off, you know I am celebrating the CHRIST this time, not the MAS. Circumstances’ gift and blessing. Really, you should do too – even if it is for once, its therapeutic.

So tell me, three (3) Wise men at the Church or 3 Idiots at the movie hall? Upto you.

FOOTNOTES:

Sure, I am going home for Christmas; I’ll certainly be home at Christmas, next year.
Damn sure I’d be, and you know what I’ll do then?
I’m gonna laugh at this lousy and nonsensical write-up.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU.
Do repeat the sounding joy, coz’ the Lord has come…

Hic!!!

(I’ll probably be catching up on my strict beauty regimes, sleeping – that is, if you want to know, dreaming of a WHITE CHRISTMAS, just wake me up when the ray of light strikes the horizon and the feast is ready with a glass of French Wine in hand).

FELIZ NAVIDAD.FELIZ NAVIDAD

CHIAU-GAAL HUIHKHI

2009-12-16T21:32:00.001+05:30

Nidanga high-school leh college (2nd PUC) kai lai khonga lungsim suangtuahna a I na geel, vaigam nop didan leh utna a I na dim dan khong leh pawl 12 zoh chianga paithei a laisim sunzom di chih khonga lunggel na I na neih lai zaw nuam in ngaih huai thak veh e.
Hinkhua zat didan leh maban geel kawma a khawsak kisin didan te khong ngaihtuah a hun I paisak lai, vaigam a bangkim thoveng a baihsam a I muh theih lai, a na omsa te bang ngaihsang na khat leh en-na riau khat I neih theih lai te khong hun nuam tak ana hilai dan ahi. Mawltak a hing in baal leh ankam meh khong ai’keh beteh leh allu ta-ngal bai meh lai khonga I ut leh ngaihtuah a I na lamet petmah te zaw bang thupi lua ana hi biik lou dan ahi, I gam leh I gam in nun-zia a hon piak toh teh in.
December khovot tak zingkal khat Pearson Chiau-gaal a ka cousin nu toh walking taai a kineih (Sic), Vaigam koipeuh a – a diak in Landlord leh vai lawmte/classmate/work colleague te kianga numei lawm I neih pouh “Ka Cousin ahi” I chih suk gaih a dotna leh muanmoh na tampi I sukveng na dia I gen gaih te bang hilou in, ka sanggam tatak – nu kibanglou pa tuam ta ngat, khutzung khauh gigeuh toh naptui luang dek zena ka tawmsuk tha-thrauh lai un Pearson field sak a EBC Biakinn mike apan in Christmass laa hong kikhah khe derder mai zaak chu anuam ahi aw.
Meei ziing zii-ziai koma ni-zung te hong ki khoh lut in zingdaitui te hon khoh tle seselh bang chu mit a din a taai huai khop mai, a background a la Christmass laa aw nalh tak a ki awi diai-diai zak di om, huai behlap tu dia vasa neu neu te ham tiautiau lai, zing nisuak etlawm tak te pahtawi a kikou chu eipeuhmah di un ka ging, leh aktal khuang zekai deuhte’n a subukim zou mahmah. Anuam in a chidam huai.
Foundation field ka tungsuk ua huai mun ah khawl zek kawm in tuap dim zeen zeen in Zohuihkhi Siang vot sek sek te duh am deuh tak a nak-vang parh dordor zen in ka diik lut hu-hu nilouh hi. Lungkim tak zaw kihi ahi di a mitsi deudaau sawt sim tak ka ding leh sanggam nu’n le maksa sim eidiam ah ngawng kawi teii-tawi zeen in ana en nilouh, kam bang ka sim zezen in. Mit ek eikeh napkhem khong biang a ana gaw gipgiap lai eidia aw chih theih khop leh kilawm, ai’keh melhoih mu ngei lou hinget hia hiai le chih bang lungsim ah hong ki vialleh dek man, sanggam te hilou hileh chu Hope om sak bang a le om kha mai thei lai dan ahi. A hon et dan.
Hai honsa zaw hingal kenteh chiin ka na ki hehnem sukmai, utleh hai le honsa ven aw poilou, hichi banga mun awng-thawl a mahni kamsuak a X-Mass la zak tiaitiai kawm a ziing huihkhi siang dong (thei) kua lungkim lou om zenzen dia. Zing kal teng a “Aum Namoh Shiva-I ” chih toh dak khet ging longlong zak sang in chu a nuam zaw khop mai, zingkal a paper lei dia kuan in Samosa, Omelets hiam aw Pakora chih te vel sa-thau man tawm chik man a ki kang mui tuai tuai te gim sang in zaw a pahtak huai zaw, nuam ahi nuam, Orgasmic himei… nuam sa a thum huhut hial a ut huai thok. Teh pih theih vual ahi kei hiai Sing-gam a Chiaugaal huihkhi siang te chu. Dam theih huai ahitop mai.
Huchia naak vang bangzah vei hiam parh sak nung in kou le Bungmual Pearson Colony a zing singpi dawn din ka pai suk nawn thethreuh uhi, huai mun a le ana nuam law zel, Puri Sabji nek kawm a Lamka Post hiam aw Manipur Express I hon sim thei bang zaw, mahin kam pau a duh duh gen a nget theih lai, Delhi a Hotel thupi taktak a Coffee/Singpi nou neuchik khat a a Toih te uh tawh nou khat a 700/- vel khong seng te chu na enhuai nawn het lou dan ahi ve ua. Anuam em-em ahi tawp mai.
Hotel a Papi zing singpi dawn kawm a mah ni kipil sak a athei pen dan a thil gen lala te theory bang zah hiam ka ngaih khiak nung un kou le Pearson lam manoh in ka kik tou nawn uhi, thu tuamtuam ka houlim laitak un(Ngaihzawng te thu mah kikum kahi uh – tleirawl te top priority dan a aki koih zel te) ka Cell Phone a Msg khat hong lut in Bangalore a lawmte khat ahi a a Advance X-Mass lop dek dan uh hon sial ana hi phiang san in; “Mink, koramangala a zang d, na str nu le hng tel d, nuam awms, Bacardi Rum 2 lh Sula Red wine, na ut get awm.” Chih ahi lelauh a hile en bang tuh nak eng louh lua ana kihi dan ai, “Zawngtah sathu gawi toh Uisa, nou a toh a teh theih ngal dia hia pelpol chin, nungak le atam mai hiai lam ah, ka tasam kei e, bawngpi neilou ten le bawngnawi ngawl tuan lo, lawm aw.” Chih teng in ka thuk kik, inn-tung di kal kia ngak lah ana kihita, anitak a inn kong tual a lawmte toh khavak nuai a guiter tum kawm a Bawngsa mei phual a hai hul pen meh di ngaklah lua kihi dan ahi, huai hai hul lai a zaw a “achapot” dia eu khiak zek bang chu nak ut huai lua, hile Pa-neu te mai a va hih phelphal pen kha a ut huai lua hilou zel inchin, et zaw etlah huai lawtel hiven aw.
X-Mass hu ahong hat mah mah ta, ni thum hong pai leh Kum tawn a ina ngak sek uh hong tung petmah di ahita, ahuchih ziak mah hi in teh Pearson khaw sak a Reserve a Taak-Sing dawn ngek te X-Mass Tree dia sat a kuan lah tam hiai hiai, aneite’n thei le uh zaw a lung uh kim law din ka ging het kei. Pammaih mahmah lel e chih louh a hih di dang thei tuan lou ihih chia ettum vung vung in omsek hi.
Thil serious taka ngaih tuah ngeilou pa lungsim hon deng kha guih mawka, kei le kaki ging ta thei kei, mawl ziak hia eikeh bang ziak a chih le ka thei tuan kei, hih theih biik le ka nei tuan sam kei hile poi kana sa law mawk.
Ni khat ni nih zat di lel a hiai sing dawng te tempawng a vai I va hawm khum pen uh chu a hoih na om din ka ging ta kei himhim. Mahni inn chei mawi nanga tua sing izat pen un X-mass zat nuam sak biik di hia? Bukim sak zaw di eidia aw? Neih leh lam ki show na a zang ihi maimah uhia? Banga a phat tuam na? Status boost na dan ahi hia leh? Ahih keh I sing kung neih sunsun te uh manphat dan theinai vual lou I hi duam aw? Bang a a phat tuam na? Thil hai huai ahih lam thei thei lou ihi uh hia? Lamka pen tak a mipil ki tam lua le hilou amaw? X-Mass Tree omlou a Mass zat nuam tatak zou lou hia chi nuam dan kahi.
Hun hong pai zel di te a I gam uh hong keu hiai hiai di ahi e, en thuak ban kei lele Tu-le-Ta bang I hon neih chiang ua a thuak du etlah pih huai het lou dan ahi. Hichi dan a ngaihtuah na tel het lou a mahni kisuk lungkim nang lel a I hih te un a kho nung a hon nuai ek thou di ahi, kholum lam chia huih lum vuvut leh kholum uang sak tu a pang di ihih lel chiang ua, huai hun chia zaw I X-Mass Tree te uh vak pheng phang lou hial di ahi.
Bang dang le zaw hituan kei, kum khat kum nih sunga Vaite gim namse pipi te thuak a vai gam huih nin dedeuh maite (napkhem vom ngipngaip zou hial a nin te) ki mut sak khit nung chiang a I Zohuih neih sun te uh diik thei dia I om pen nuamlua ahih ziaka I mansuah di uh lauhna ziak liau liau ahi, van vualzawl na te I suk siat du lauhna ziak lel hi, thupi kei. Zingkal a vasa ham ging chiapchiap te, Chiaugaal huih vot leh siang herher te I khiak lah luat ziak ahi.
Zo-huih khi siang leh boruak nuam tak a I na khosak na te uh vai-gam bang a a hong keu gaih di lauh ziak hilel veh e. Pilvang thei chiat ta le maw, mahni in I hih theih khom khom suah le, ei mah ahi I gam bawl hoih a su nuam thei tu, mi dang in hong puah lou hial du ahih chiang in.

X-Mass leh Kumthak zat nuam chiat ni, uang deuh in.

CHIL LOU TAK IN CHIL BAWL THEI TA LE MAW. A UT HUAI.

(Pearson khawsak vuak a sing te hilou in “Ka Gam” I chih theih na chiang a Sing le Gua te kem bit thei in duat le chi I hi).

Confusion, what was that?

2009-07-23T15:08:00.001+05:30

Reading late into the night yesterday I came across a column by Kunal Kapoor, the actor and one of the new Bollywood star columnist for the HT City, gets me thinking about CONFUSION. Right, I was a confused guy up till now; I am still one and will be for a good deal of time.
But, momentarily, I hope, I know what confusion is all about. Okay, let me summarize; its not what happens to the state of the mind or for that matter the spirit of the mortal being, but what and how you perceive things ( purely according to me) that comes your way and how you handle them and comes out victorious or the other way round at the end of the day.
Hell, I am confused or is it that of my naivety that had to do with this tantalizing abstract tormentor all along the way? Or is it because of my outlook and mind frame that gets me to this, hope the answers comes to me someday. Praying.
As for now I am content ‘coz at least I know that I am confused.
And thanks to this confusion (but no thanks), I lost out a great deal of opportunity that comes my way, a whole lot. Confusion, certainly not a good one – never a blessing.
Recently I had to wake up to a bitter truth that I dreaded a long time ago. Why does it have to happen now, when life is great and the going is good?
Well, I fervently pray and hope this better be a blessing in disguise lest I cannot take them anymore and fall, uh! I am already falling. Down but not out.
As I write this a recollection comes to me with a full force, clear and true it is but not much of a help.
Once a very very good friend of mine – my one time girlfriend, to be precise, quoted a maxim that runs thus…
“Sometimes I wished I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.”
In one of her letters, I didn’t quite grab what it means back then but I did now, loud and clear. Surely bruised knees are better than a broken heart, na?
Ouch! Talk too much already (or wrote? Confusion, yaar!) I better shut up now than blows my own trumpet.
It’s been quite sometimes now that I don’t write or nothing peculiar to write about that comes my way, am already lost for words now literally, I must say.
Okay, I am signing off here again for now. Hope I come out with better ideas and be more creative the next time to give you guys who took your precious time out to read my what-goes-around-me-stuffs that’s full of self-indulgence. I’ll try.

And hey, B& S this one’s for you if you happen to come by;

Time is the enemy of love.
The thief that shortens all our golden hours.
I’ve never understood then,
Why lovers count their happiness,
In days and nights and years;
While our love can only be measured
In our joys and sighs and tears…
Quoted from Sidney Sheldon’s Bloodline.

(B&S, you gave me immense joys and tears with a heavy sighs. Keep the faith as always).

Foot notes:
An angel came to me in my dream the other night, all torn apart, his white robes shattered and his face wrinkled with long lost glory. He came and sat next to me and whispered with a weak voice, “My son, what is life?” And, “huh?” Comes my surprised answer, not knowing what he really meant, again he asked me, “Son, what is love?” to that I answered, “Oh! Great one, life is as it is, love that I don’t know. Robbed of love I lost life and without life no love sustain. Guide me to life and give me love so that I can answer you and be at peace forever…” Then he sigh with a weary head and said to me in the most humblest way I ever knew, “Son, Love is the elixir of life and life is what makes love lovable, and love is what makes life beautiful again, co-existing to complement each other, without anyone of them they are nothing but dead. And Son, love was yours and you live it but along the way you lost them, you never knew love was by your side till it’s gone, but all hopes not lost. Have faith and stand firm and believe in yourself and the miracle of love and life ‘coz they will be yours again, don’t let them pass again this time. I’ll be your guardian Angel from now, chin up and rise, love is coming your way and it’s yours for keeps. Go and have faith, I’ll be watching you…” And with that he slowly began to fade into thin air as I watched in awe till a loud shrills from my cell-phone woke me up…then as I rubbed my hazy eyes, it left me pondering, could this be a message or just a random mid-summer night dream? Or is it possible that that Angel might be my heart taking the form of an Angel? Am I being paranoid?
Gets me confused again…confusion…confusion and more confusion…a silly way to while away my time, aye?
Heart, angel, angel, heart, heart, love, love, life, life, angel, angel, heart…. Arrgghhhh! Why does such a dream have to have that much impact? Must be because I am devoid of love? It was only a dream, no?
Confusion…and more confusion…heart…angel…love…life… what the heck?

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt.

2009-05-28T09:16:00.000+05:30

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF RECESSION, HOW TO TACKLE IT – THE MASTER PLAN!!
Part 1 (soon to be followed by 2 if the mood sets in).

As the world tumbles and crushes economically, I think I will not be mistaken if I said that the buzz word is RECESSION everywhere, be it the newspapers, media or any intellectual discussions. Truly a menace and a celebrated one now, whatever way it may be! Battled by the world over, affecting every nook and cranny, this is what we, the ZOMIS officially, call the MAUTAAM!!
Policies are being made, strategies implemented and planning are drafted for future references, but the end result? Well, it’s all around you to judge for yourself. We, forget the North-Eastern tag and stereotyping it, as an Indian are an entrepreneur lot. As you and many have the knowledge that India’s economy is still on the rise and gaining momentum, stock market sky rocketing (but not stable enough to bank on it, believe me I am not into it but I know – courtesy the TIMES OF INDIA), building a nation to be trusted and respected by one and all in the near future, as it is with like the US of A today. The days are not far when India will shine and that ray of lights will be reflected and echoed through the hills of the North-Eastern hills, heralding a new beginning, a new hope and faith (No this is not a utopian dreams, for instances, just take a look at the huge amount of funds going to and being spent on the North East part of our country for different developmental works, but, only fell into the hands of a few section of people, nonetheless, who boasted of a connection in the higher ups, the head honchos et al).

Forget all this stuffs, I am not good writing nor narrating or discussing this kind of complex topics nor do I intend to, my creativity and heart just doesn’t have the ability and enthusiasms or the will to indulge or involve in this God-knows-what situations.

On the lighter side, the bugs of this economic slowdown or recession or mautaam or whatever you want to term it, let it be, bit me hard. Yeah! We are affected albeit in the midst of the growing economy and power of India, hard on the wallet, leaving me disabled, paralyzed – not literally though. I have never thought or dreamt, even in my wildest nightmares, that this mess could get me or play its cruel games on me, much less, that it would actually affect me enough to let me pen this down! It’s a mistake I had to learn the hard way, hope for the best and prepare for the worse was what I needed before, way before.
So guess what, in a retaliatory firing (to use the military term), the things I did or measures I adopted (most of them I discarded or never put to practice though), and mostly advices from friends.
To fight this, are listed as under, hilarious it will be, for sure and even awkward and just plain absurd for some, but I can’t help it either, the bugs in me is affecting my wallet faster than a supersonic fighter, a little exaggeration here though.
Here we go, brace yourself.

Firstly, visit friends often, thereby saving your electric bills to some extent and if lucky you’d be invited for a lunch or dinner depending on the times of the day, I’d advice you never to refuse the offer although try looking reluctant at first, but don’t push too hard lest they let you be and have their dinner/lunch without you, while on the other hand, you, trying to look as if you’re too absorbed in what you do, say reading/browsing through a magazine, and regretting your politeness or courtesy of declining their offer, sulk silently. Say “NO” once or twice only, they will still insist you join them, maybe out of their hospitality, but do join them, looking as if you were not really hungry at all at the moment but dig on it as much as you can ( a ne a minse ta vanglak chu, chiou!).
It’s cost cutting, yaar!

Second, never ever carry your wallet/purse loaded, the thing is you’d just end up emptying them at the end of the day. When you are with a friend, buy a stick of ciggy, not the whole pack, dude! And flash the interior of your wallet/purse intentionally to let them know that you are dead broke but still giving the notion that you are doing him/her a big favor by buying a ciggy to be shared between you and him/her, and just one stick remember, out of respect and courtesy.
Let him/her get a whiff of how much you have in your wallet/purse, it’d be best if you carry some notes not more than a 100 bucks of 10 or 20 denominations.

Down to the third trick, if you are a student, try and practice whining to your buddies, that you have a tiff with your folks back home and they are cutting your monthly allowance by 20/30% - this will work wonders if you have the patience to wait for the result. And most importantly, patch up with some locals, I mean, your class-mate who grew up in the place where you’re studying (Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Calcutta, Shillong et al), they are indispensable. A big help when you get into trouble and not only that even if you should borrow some 100 or 200 bucks from them, they’d give you whole-heartedly and they seldom mind at all. But it’s best not to make a habit out of it, money doesn’t buy friendship but rather ends it.

Fourth, a private company or a govt. employee? Good, at least you are secure and stable as long as you deliver. You have a secure and assured income because of your dedication (sic) to your works, but chances are that you’d be approached and cajoled into lending some cash to your loyal unemployed friends, whom you think, are a pain in the ass ever since you have got the job that pays you atleast to sustain yourself. Do give them, but with an interest rate of, say 1 or 2 percent, you are setting up your own business here and your golden chance to be your own boss, eh? A good, easy and quick ways to earn some handsome cash, that is, if you know and master the tricks of the trade.

This one’s a little filthy, but hey we are talking about cost cutting here and fighting the recession on our own ways, alright?
Okay here it comes, brush only once a day, and apply a small amount of toothpaste, for the namesake, if you get what I mean. Use as minimum soap as you can and take bath only when it’s really necessary and unbearable anymore, like once in a week, that’s gonna save a lot of soaps and your valuable times..
Eat only once a day, you can survive, preferably at night, no extravagances like breakfast with steaming hot coffee, omelette’s and bacons, you can do it. And don’t worry, lean people are in vogue now, plus it’s a good way to rid all those extra fats accumulated due to your laziness, frankly speaking and a great way to fight obesity! Drink water, they are cheap and good for your body as well as skins, helps clean up the interior part of you.

Hmm…this ones gonna be difficult, but let’s see. Try ridding off all those stain contributing gutkhas, paan masala and all those stuffs. It’s hard, I know and takes a lot of will power, no exaggeration. But if you still can’t kick the habit, wait for your friends to turn up and ask them for a pouch or two, it won’t hurt their budget and you’re not a pain in the ass.
After all, it cost a meager 1 or 2 rupees, but hey we are talking about cost cutting and recession here, dude.

Well, we came to the sixth with a mix bag.
Okay, cell-phone buff? Hmm …complex one but quick and practical trick that works almost all the times.
Call up your friend and hang up within a minute, best time is when the conversations flows smoothly, and send him/her a message immediately stating that your balance is over, albeit the balance currency you have is around 50/60 buck, enough to talk to him/her about anything for a good 35/45 minutes. “Balance over, please call back as I am not done talking to you, got so much to discuss with you.” This will do the tricks or just give them missed call and wait for their response, but not on their land-line phone, mind you.
As a matter of fact I never tried this trick before, nor will I do it in the future, I am just sharing my weird thoughts.

Okay, to the Seventh, when outing with a friend(s), feign and act as if you are dying of hunger, thirst and dehydration. Give them the notion that you won’t refuse their offer to have a sip of a chilled coke with a sandwich, of course on their treat. Mention that you haven’t had a morsel the night before and that you can even eat a horse. Ah! Sympathy is a blessing and an amazing emotional act naturally possessed by every one, just try taking that advantage. And most importantly, don’t forget to praise them from head to toes, do exaggerate a little here, it won’t hurt.
(Side notes: I learnt this trick from a Bukpi friend of mine way back in the year 2005, he played this trick on me. But as experience is the best teacher, he won’t fool me no more, except that if he had invented or thought about another new ways to play the trick on me again!)

Hmm…a long drag to the ninth points (this is strictly for men only, sorry ladies but you still got the most important role to play here):
Got a female friend? 98% of the answers will be positive, that’s a good sign.
Good, here’s the trick. Try being as polite as you can (most female species succumbed to a little praises and flattering and politeness, most of them) and as charming as you can muster, and charm them too, shower them with praises and on the way persuade them to do your laundry using their detergent, of course you have to help them out, after all it’s your laundry and you are using her detergent. Think about how much you saved: your energy, detergents and money and times, dude!

Here now, can’t do without newspapers every morning? Same here, visit your neighbor casually and struck up a conversation while you get busy flipping through the thick copy of the Times of India or Hindustan Times of the day’s issue, it would help if you are an expert at multi-tasking – I mean, keeping the conversation alive while you still go through the pages. You save 2 to 5 Rupees, neat na?

Again, desperate to dig on some non-veg. curry but got no bucks to buy it yourself? Not to worry, call up one of your friend and invite him/her over for a dinner (chances are, she/he might bring the thing - meat - you crave for out of obligation or if not courtesy). If that doesn’t work, gently and sweetly persuade him/her to bring the goods (read meat) and mentioned that you’d be giving back the money for the goods (again read meat) when he/she arrived. And here’s what you are going to do, act very innocent and as if you had forgotten all about the money completely. He/she won’t ask you for it, rest assured (that’s one of the most beautiful things about taking advantage of your friendship).
You saved a hundred bucks while you still enjoyed the food you craved for so much, with or without you feeling guilty, that’s upto you.
This I learnt from a friend recently, I never get the 150 bucks back….Grrrrrrrr!!!!

Short of money or broke? Worship your friends who are drawing a neat 10k to 20k every month, just worship him/her. It never fails, a friend once told me and now I am out hunting for one to try the trick, a word of caution to all my dear friends, beware and when you realized don’t blame me that I didn’t warn you, I did warn you now, publicly!

Personal grooming problems? Easy dude, easy! Go to a friend’s place, dress appropriately (as if you are going out somewhere for an important work, just pretend for the sake of it) and stick to their dressing table, asked them innocently about their new styling gel, spray or perfumes. Ask them politely if you can try them on, they won’t refuse for sure.
Apply a good amount of the gel on your hair and spray the perfume on your clothes, as soon as you get the green signal, not the body because it tends to stays longer on the shirt. And for God’s sake, don’t wash your hair for a day, just wet them when needed or when you are to stay out of the house for hours, the shine and style will be back again even after you’ve slept on it.
Cost cutting, my dear cost cutting!

Whew! Lastly, got some friends visiting and you out of obligation and formality have to serve them something, right? But that’s gonna burn a hole in your pocket and could actually disrupt your week’s planning and budget. Worrying won’t solve the problem, do and try this trick and ask them, “Hey, want something to eat or drink? May be a tea or a coffee?” the answers will be affirmative mostly or just a plain ‘No’ which is good but if it’s unfortunately a ‘YES’, tell them straight in the face “Alright, feel at home and feel free to make them yourself, as you like it, I won’t complain.” The chances are ripe that they won’t have the guts or the courage to do that by themselves, not at all as long as they are not on their comfort zone.
On the contrary, if you face the same situation, grab the opportunity and make a good one, lots of milk powder, sugar and tea leaf – the kind of tea you’d get at the Tea Lounge of a Five Stars Hotel! Your host won’t complain at all, atleast not in front of you.

Some real absurd ideas, eh! Alright, this much for now. These are the collections I gathered over the last weekend, over a bottle of a Scotch Premium whisky (my treat, that is, to my friend, I don’t know if he is playing the tricks on me but I do get a good kick out of it).
It’s applicable even if you are not a master or natural actor, as long as you don’t let them know what your intentions are when you netted your victim, just act as natural as you can.
It’s legal and in no way cheap, it’s a way of cost cutting, recession remember?
The mantra is, to quote a dear friend who is studying abroad, survival of the thickest!!!

It's Mother's Day!!

2009-05-09T19:47:00.004+05:30

“Her life was never easy, not like the one I'm in.
Her hands show the places she has been.
The voice she gave us sounds like the horns of heaven.
Her dance comes from the native land.
Her children are blessed with a mother of such worth,
a woman who has seen the heavens and earth.
God, Thank you for this woman, the one you chose for me.
The one whom I love and care for gently.”

Courtesy: The Internet.

Nu,

Nu aw, tung pasian venna zar damtak leh lungnuam taka na om lamen ing. Kei le na hon deihsak na leh na hon thumpih na te ziak in kal suanthei zel in ka om hi.
Toupa min phat ni.

Tuni a, khovel in NUTE’ NI chia chiamteh a a zat lai un, nanga dia hiai lai hon gelh thei dia ka om man in hampha ka kisa a ka kipak petmah hi. Tampi te’n “NU” chih di aneihlouh lai ua ken hiai tungtawn a ka kipahthu leh ngaihdam hon ngen thei dia ka om ziak in ka kipak a vuaklzawl na thupi pen hi in ka ngaihsun hi.

Ahi Nu aw, nidanga kana gentheih louh chihphet louh a kana theihsiam louh na thupi na te, na nunnem na leh na thuak zoh na te thupi kasa hi ka ngaihtuah kik chiang in. Nu, nang omkei lechin tua ka omna tan ka tung ngei ding in kaki gingta kei, na hon thunget sak na te ziak leh na hon itna te ziak kia ahi kachi lou theikei. Nang panpihna tellou in hiai tan tung lou ding kahi, kakipak ahi.

Tuisik lel kahih apan a itna toh honna kem tuni donga na itna kiamlou a nahon et, bang chik chiang in kahon din kik zou dia, ka leitung Pasian aw.
Mi simmoh leh pampaih a ka om a nuihza buk kahih lai inle na itna mittui te’n hon khamuan a lungnopna leh lungkimna na hon pelai hi. Nang angsung ah ka om in pawlam khovel bangmah ahikei. Na thupi lua, Nu aw.

Damlou, gim leh tawla hatlou taka ka om in na aw nemtak leh na khutlum a na hon zut a nahon houpihna te kei a di in manpha in damdawi hoih taka hi, Nu aw. Dah leh lungkia a ka omlai a na hon hehnep leh hanthawn a non khamuan nate thupi in manpha hina maizen e. Khovel ah mihing kahih na nahon pia a na hon subuching zou hi, Pasian in hon vualzawl hen.

Neuchik kahih a pan tu dong na hon ompih keia di’n vualzawlna thupi pen ahi. I biak Pasian kiang’ kipahthu na gen ning. Maban kum khua a ka paina lampi di na hon kawk muh a na hon paipih zel lamen in ka thum na ahi, Nu aw.

Hile Nu aw, keia dia chiil hetlou a na panga, tha leh zung senga na gim leh tawl na te theihsiamlouh mana kakiphin a ka hon suk lungkham nate leh na kha siat na te ziakin na ngaihdam ka hon ngen hi. Sisan-naisan senga na pang nate ka muh theihlouh man in na ngaihdam ka hon ngen nawn hi. Na hon itna te theisiamlou a ka om te hon ngaidam in.

Nu aw, bang hang a hichi tel a hon it nahi hiam? Keia di chi a na nek di leh na dawn di tang tang teng kei na hon piak, na kam a omsa kei a dia na hon piak teitei, Nu aw na itna lian lua in ginseng ngeikei ning. Alim a aal ne ngamlou a zum leh zah khual lou a ken ka gual te ka eng di na lauh man a na kipiak khiak na hichi tel? Nu ei, ken na hon itna bangchin ka hon dinkik zou dia?

Thupi na maizen chia maw Nu aw, na thupi lua, I biak Pasian kiang thu hon na ngetsak ning aw, Nu aw. Na von thum te’n nanga di in masuan in pang n’ung ei. Na thupi na pulak ding in.

Nu aw, nang hon itna tuk mundang koimah ah mu non lou di kahih ma’n kum sawt pi kal hon suanpih in ka ma di hon khoh saklai in aw. I biak Pasian kiang’ hichin thu na ngen ning aw, kum 100 na dam leh kei kum 99 leh ni364 dam ding in, huchi leh khovel a NU bei a omlou peuhmah di kahih chiang. Nang tellou a hinkhua zang ngam lou a kalsuan ngam lou kahi aw, Nu ei.

Nu aw, kum khua hong pai in hong ki hei zel dia nikhat tei nang hon su kipak a, lungnuam tak leh lungkim tak a hon koih di kahi aw, na ngaklah ken. Na tup hon tangtun sak di ka hi, ka bul a na om gige a na hon pai pih gige nakleh. Huai dia damtheih na leh hatna na neih di ka thumna ahi, hat in aw Nu.

Ka hinkhua ka en a na thupi na akilang hi, lungke lou a na dinga na pang zoh dan a thupi. Mi luhhlur ber le itna tak toh hiai tan na tut zoh, nang chouh na thupi, ka hampha lua.

Nu ei, na ngaklah non ken, kei ziaka mittui na sengte a thawn suaklou di ahi aw,nang kon nei a hat ka hi aw, ka tha nahi aw, ana ngaklah non ken.

Gendi hileng na hon itna leh ka ‘NU’ na hihna ka ginseng ngei kei di, ka damsung inle na thupi dan maimai le ka gen zou kei di. Nanga di’n Pasian kiang na kun ning – chidamna, lungdamna, kipahna leh lungkimna, khamuanna te nanga ahihtheih nang in.

Hiai teng in ka hunsak phot di, lai, laitui leh kammal te’n hon daih lou di ahih chiah, na hon itna leh na thupi nate gendi hileng.

Damtak leh lungmuang tak leh lungnuam tak in a na omta in aw, vualzawl nate nanga hi di in.
Malam hun nuam tak ah damtak leh kipaktaka I kimuh nawn di kal ka ngak lah.
Hun phot hen, omnuam inla mangpha aw.

Lai at,
Na ta it.

10th May, 2009
New Delhi.

An ode to my mother

Min Khooptong

There is a woman in my life,
Whom I adored and admired with great respect
I suddenly remember…for all those years of care she gave me,
With an undying love she stood by me.
Who encouraged me when I’m all torn apart, hopes fading away.
She’s the one who shed her priceless tears for me.
Showering me with a new zeal of life,
New faith and new hopes to take the world on my strides,
She fought through her sweat just to give me all the comfort of this world, all she could.
Who ran her humble hands over me when I am sick,
Guides me through with her love and faith,
Without her I would have been nothing,
But I am everything with her around me;
Coz’ she’s my everything.
Her tender words reflect through my heart when I am down and feeling blue.
Just the thought of her gave me the strength and solace I need to face the world again,
She’s a beauty in my heart and unique in her own way,
With grace and warmth around her,
She’s the only one I got, that my everlasting love lies in her.
Mom, you are great!
Wishing you all the best in life.

10th February, 2005.
Oxford Hall, New Lamka.

2009-04-18T14:24:00.001+05:30

“LAMKA EIVE LAMKA!!!”
Chapter II

“Bang e na ngaihtuah, hah et na tel chia, lungleng tuak ve.” Sanga in hon chi a, “lungleng khollou e, Lamka tu kum 2 sung lel a a khang dan thupi kasa lua a hi. Sum omlou a chih chih lai ua gari hoih pipi a taita, inn hoih pipi kitung khe venvon mai…kare, talab hawng, raja hawng khong bang le RCV in kheng khe ta hilou maw,” chi in ka dawng a ka etna ka kheng khe daih hi, lungsim a zaw thil dang daih hi om.
“Na lungsim a om chu ka theisim ve”, chi in hon chi mawk a ka lungsim sim thei mah bang in kei le ki ze phawk sim bang in, “huai lam hilou, nang chu na thei kei maithei a om om na hi a, na kim na kiang en dih le sum bang chi muh muh a bang chi dan a hichi tel a khang hat a diam maw, gintak louh pipi bang gari hoih deuh mai khong in hong ki khoh ta vor vor lai uh huchi lou a I theih luat a I gin khollouh te’n lah building khong in hon na vaidawn ta uh, I gam a hoih a nek zonna kingak na tham a piang chih di lah om vak lou, nengkha chik nuam lou e…”, chi in hon thugen pih dek pen kha ka hei khe daih hi.
“Politics avele politics, mi che thei ve te, nou khong inle na hon zir tou dua na hong siam dua solkar nna na gelh ching zoh kei ua leh le politics khong ah hong lut le uchin, ei kilamet na om sun hi ei. Huaichiang in chu eile dak sang deuh in Car in na hon tai sak dua, terrace ah I party zazaih dua himai eivoi. Den a na lampi kou loi loi te bawl hoih tu di le I hi kha moh dia maw.” Chi in hon dawng zauzau zel a, “ken ka zir pen tawp san”, chi in ka dawng nawn daih hi.
“BA?”, hon chi khe dua a, “ka peih nawn kei a hi”, chih teng in ka zou hi.
“Mihai, mi pil hetlou pa aw, zir maimai inla graduate lechin kum nih lel omta eivele, enlah na graduate chia sepna mu sa ngei ngei dia hon kikoih a, aniam pen a govt. teacher bek”, hon chi a hai sak mel deuh in hon en phei gega zezen hi.
“Bang e? bang ziak in eita mawk zezen?”, chia dong in ken le ka en tei hi.
“Nou Congress hilou maw? Maban a limchi lawvoi…” hon chih in ka ngaihdan lam lou tak ahi a ken le, “Nak hai huai khiak e maizen, hai lian lai na mah mah chia maw reurou, mi zak din le nak zum huai na e. Politics ka lunglut louh dan na thei voi I ki pil sak zou khop a na kikup chiang un I theih teng I hong kum tei chih man thu huchi lou in hichi bang ngaihdan khong ka nei ngei kei him him bakah huai khong ngaihtuah nang in hun ka nei kei a ka lungsim le ka seng peih kei, kua mah le ka support kei a vote le kanei nai kei, huchi bang ngaihtuah na khong nei non ken lungsim neu huai lua ahi, kon deih sak thu hilh di.” chih teng I ka dawng suk ngal hi.
“Tulai paidan hilou maw ka chih man thu ahi.” chih teng in hon dawng hi.
Ka pai suk zek un ka taklam uah Cool galaxy om ka mu suk a, “kare, huai le lunglen huai na e, a tunga cabin kha fuh kha hita ven, college kai lai khong hon phawk sak na susuih e, Sunday sunchia mipi kikhop kal a nungak hel dia pawt in ki dawn masa gige hia hiai mun a, sum bang ki thoh nai nai zel. Ki ba le ki ba thei man eingal ve, nitak lam chiah lunglen khii khe di’n I va tu uh aw, Beer kon treat di,” ka chih leh lawmpa’n, “dak 5 a khak ta eive ua,” hon chi a maksa kawm sim in, “dak 5 ma in I va dawn lel kei dia, bang ziak e a khak baih himhim ngei uh, khaam uh hia?” chi in ka dong hi.
“He, alouthei lou ut in ut kei le uh le, ‘A’ te khaam ahi, mi thau ki kam khum gegeih uh salou na maw,” chi in hon dawng non hi.
“Tamai aw, bang ziak a? zu’ man su pung lel lou di uh hia, a chih leh zan’tak a I dawn te uh la koi a pat e?” ka chi nawn leuleu a, “black a eivoi, kitheihpih I neih a sum piak beh zek di I neih nak leh haksa lou pi hile mi a theih ngeilouh uh leh a muang louh te uh, nang dan dan te, mawk piak tuan lou uh, kei tel lou in va lei tum lechin hon hang khum du ahi aw,” chi in nui kawm in leh ki chet theihsak mel deuh in hon dawng nawn hi.
“Black e? ken la huchi lou inle black kasa law khin a, Imphal a DSP bottle khat 180 a kilei thei a canteen a hiai mun (Lamka) a a khep nih phial a kilei a, beer khong la zakhat val khong a I lei hun om a maizen a pung mah du maw, kua’n dawn zou di? Hichi pi a le zukham a buai na bawl zou zou khong om lai hia maw. A black lou a le black lua hia, eikeh ki theihsiam na nei khong eizaw d’uam maw, thei ta khang maw Lamka ahi e Lamka,” chi in a vei deuh bang in ka chi ngau ngau hi.
“A huchi a atam zaw in local a dawn ua a se hul hul ve uai, meitei te’n kin deuh leh a hat deuh di chia a ut teng uh a soh khawm ua kin le buang a a bawl te ngen un dawn in a taksa uh a kiam hiai hiai vele…”
chi in hon dawng nawn hi.
Huchia ka ki hou lai un Thangbawi le hong tai suk thoh treuh threuh a, a hon phak tak in gim chi deuh tak in hong nak ging huhu a, “ka om louh kal a bang e nana gen uh? Hon na gen sia zaw hi get kei ni uh te’h maw.” hong chih thathrat leh Sanga inle, “hong kawlgit su luk nak na chia, hon gen sia le hi khang I hon gen khak chiang in a sia mah bang in a kilang sek a thutak I gen leh, na hih na mah I gen chia na pom theih louh nak sek eive mak, ahoih him him gen di om lou, a gen theih om sun chu na lup dek chia na thum na neih himai huai le bangteng gen man nei diam ah mitsi in hak pah non ngal, habit a nei a thumlouh zen sah chia va mitsi cheuh zel nei zaw diam ah, ‘na theithou na ve maw’ chi khong mah bang.” Hon chih leh kou le ka nui khe zai zai uhi.
“Denchiah man chiang in Saauliim ah hong pai tou un achi ve nang hial hong tung na hih leh hon treat ut hin teh,” hon chi a, “Eh! nuam dek na vial e, kei hon pi bawl zaw eidi maw na lawinu’n le , eikeh mi khen khat mah bang a mi thak thak pak ta achih te uh hia leh…” chi in kenle ka chiam nuih thuah hi.
“Pelpol eive, thutuam dang gen non le na sum 2500 khong hon zang sak ve na pai ma in ka hon pe kik nawn na di, nang nahih ziak in interest ka hon pe kei na di,” hon chi nawn a ka nuih banga leh zak daih zezen hi.
“Nuam ei, na hon muanga kipah huai him him, bang di eita? huai zah zah nei di in na hon ging a hia?” ka chi a a hon dawng ka ngak bawl hi.
“Kha lui masa a sum pung la kha inga a piak kik didan buai kahi, 2% hia,” hon chi a, “bange? 2% e? bang di e huchia na lak mawk? Kua kiangah eita na lak?” chi in ka dong hi.
“Sumpung hawm te kiah eikei dia, atawm hilai ahi aw saptuam upa ahia ka ki naih pih sim te uh hilai inchin huchi kei leh mi’danga 5-6% khong ahi aw, a khen te a bang 7% khong hilai.” chi in hon dawng hi.
“Bang dia na lak him him e?” chi in ka dong nawn teitei hi.
“Ka hon gen khin voi, gengen nawn lou e…” chih teng in aman le hon dawng hi.
Khat vei a Delhi a ka om lai a hon phone a hon gen khak lai ka thei, hile ken le a thu omdan thei chiang ut kahi a lah ka dong nuam non chiah kei hi, aman le hon gen thak di’n le ka ging kei.
“Achi dan e…” ka chi khe numnum hi a dang gen di thei tuan lou in.
Sanga ahihleh pau selou in ana om a a gen di ngaihtuah eidi ka chih lai a ka houpih dek geih leh amah hong pau khe masa zaw a, “chi non daih le thutuam daih ah, vaite khel law khol lou uh hia huai lam a?” hon chi a, “khel khol kei ua eidi ki tuak kha nai lou hiven, mi mit sip na dia I va om kei peuh mah leh mi’n bang hon loh tuan lou pi ua, hile ei vaite tuk in tam le chu vaite’n hon nak thuak louh di uh dan chu himai, ei toh teh a chu hoih law tel uh chih di ahi, ngaihtuah ve amau gam a va om a amau khong vaki vaw ngam in vaki chang ngam lai tel hia, amau ei gam ah hong chi le uh bang I lawh phet dua aw chi kahi, bang mah khelh na aneihlouh lai ua le a khelh na du zong a khoih tum thou thou te kihi hia, ki khiak a zaw om kha tel eive maw,” chi in ka dawng nawn hi.
Huchia ki hou suk a ka pai pai lai un Central Lamka te Biak-inn kong ah ka lawm te , ka star khak ngeinu ka gal muh a lamkhang lam a pai lai ken le aw ngaih deuh mai in “Lun” ka chi khe ong ong a aman le zapah in hile hon mu pahlou in a dak vuivui a ken le ka sam thak nawn hi atawp in hon mu khong khong a nidang a kana haichilhpih dek phial phiala a nuih dan in hong nui tou selsal a lung khong hon suleng sim mawk hi, bang ziak eidia aw hia nu kana delh suak mai louh, bang ziak eidia ka feelings te kana gen khiak ngamlouh a hichia ka om, ka lawm te adi banga mi gen sak sak zaw hi inga kenle bang ziaka ka lawmte khong ana sawl kha mai lou ka hi dia aw, chih khong ka lungsim ah hong kisel zot zot ua ken le ngaihtuah louh tum tei tei in nui kawm in chibai buuk di’n ama lam ka naih suk hi.
“Oi Min, bang chik a hong pai e? ka manglam kasa dek zezen voi maizen, kanak surprise e…” hon chi khe pah sal sal a, “sawt law nailou, nou khong I hon muh khak leh chia hong pai tei ringot I voi, non phawk kha lai d’uam ah chih man thu hiven,” chi in chiamnuih thutak in ka dawnga ka gen theisiam leh chi na inge chih bang ka lungsim ah hong om mawk mawk hi.
“Hmm…a zak bang nuam dek ta zezen e, ei ziak le eikhol diam maw, hunlui lam lui zui khong a hong kuan na hi lel diam maw, a thu na theih beh a om hia?” chi in hon dawng a ken le a gen dek ka thei pah a ban a gen non ma in, “I, huai te gen lou ding, ka theih ut bangmah om nawn lou, ka lungsim a a sisa ahi a hon suk hing nawn sak dah mai in, nou khong na om nak ua leh ka lungmuang lawlai ahi,” chi in ken le ka dawng nawn a kisuanglah chi mel tak in hon nui nawn cheuchau a, kare mit taai lel e et et di’n hoih kasa lua, mi ding sang law lou ahi a ngou vak lou, sam te seselh, zut le bang om zenzen leh kilawm phial in hon en a, “nou la bang na chi ta ua? Huf lai uh maw, phone balance a hek sim lai hia?” chi in ken le ka dong thuk nawn hi.
“Hehe, nou pasal te mawng mawng na thring theih theih uh tawh, sing omlouh na a gua kizang chih kha a bang chi lak khak nei duam ah apply bang na siam lua ua taksap awng huk nang na mu thei lawtel uh aka, hile a hoih nakhat chu sum hek nawn lou inchin balance le thun zih zeh ngai non lou,” chi in a hon hilh hi, ki khen uh hita e chi in ka lungsim bang a nui vor vor zezen hi.
“Pasal teng ki bang vek lah hilou a, kei bang tuam a tuam kei ve, na hon test nuam hia? Ka phone number ka hon pe thak diam? Na ut hun hun a hon call thei nahi,” kenle ka chi nawn tuau tuau hi.
Huchia chiamnuih thutak a ki hou hou in minute thum vel di khong ka ding zoh un ka ki khah khe thei khong uh hi.
Ka lawm te sau sim ana tung man ua ken le paisuk kawm in ka ngaihtuah kha nilouh hi, ka thil ngaih tuah a lunglut lua kahi ngei dia Pulsar thak mah mah khat a side diklou lam a hong tai in hon het kha dek petmah a a horn hon mek khum tonton a keile ki guih zot in ka kitawm kha zezen hi.
Naupang chik , na mul le a pou kim nai dia hia, chih ut huai phial khat ahi a a mah bang heh zaw mah bang in hon en sal lela zezen hi. Vuak ut law mah mah kahi a ken le man tang chot in ka khut tum ka lak gelgawl a, a chabi ka lak sak ngal hi, ka lawm te’n hon gal muh ua hong leh tai touh ua hong len tatat uhi.
“Ehe! Vial mah mah, kua kahi a na hon thei hia?” hon chih in hon su thangpai diak a ka gawl mat touh lelaw hi.
“Kua tu-kua ta nahi chih kon thei kei hile tutak a ka khut a om nahi, na gari hek dan ka nak muh thadah lua, bazaar lai tak ahi a hampha lua nahi ka hon khoih kei di hile pilvang mah mah in ka hon tuah khak non leh hon nak hawi louh lawtel di kahi aw, na suang’ mah mah na sungte ahi aw damdawi inn a hon dom lut tu di,” chih toh ka biang bet a lawmte’n hon kai khia ua kei le ka kisum zou khong a ka paisuk thei nawn khong uh hi.
“Naupang pang tetaw mai kanak iiplah e, mi respect na nei ta mawng lou, accident le vang kasa ve hichi tuk a gari zat dan theilou lak ah,” chi in ka phun suk num num lai hi.
“Tapa duat sual eivoi, thil teng sum a lei theih sa te eive ua le, ka thei law ve hiai pa le a pa kha contractor ahi, nidang a haksa sak a sa ua tua hon neih zoh zot ua leh ki mihing sak ua thuak hak ahi uh, lal ngei lou lal ana a chih te uh ahi ve. Sum gina a alei uh le hi mah mah ken teh, a expose di dan om leh hichi te khong ahi expose di chi, developmental work ngaihtuah ua a mau sung kia hong ki developed bang chuh et hak thou ahi, kuama’n la bang mah gen ngam lou I hih chia nuam sa lel a ve ua, saptuam vaai ah la sum tam pipi thoh a inn-tek mah mah te hilai, huat huai lawtel uh eive ua,” chi in Thangbawi in le hon na hut bawl a ka lung sim sa vuvut pen kha hong dai thei vanglak hi.

Ka gari bawl sak na di ka tung suk ta ua, kou le Sang toh kuva bawl sak in dawr khat ah kana ngak uhi, a bawl man di, a kheng ngai teng, a lak theih hun di teng hong ki hou zoh un Thangbawi le hon pai tou a kuva ka hai zawh un sum la khe di chi in SBI ATM ka naih suk uhi.
Mi ana tam mah mah a ki vual dedat in kei le a last na ah kava ding tei hi, minute sawm-le-nga vel nung in ka tang kha a sum draw khe khin in ka paitou uhi New-Bazaar lam zuan in.
“Kare, khawn-vak tui la dek mah bang maw, zingchiang a news a limlak khong a tuang khak di a lauh huai tel mai…” chi in chiamnuih kawm in ka chi a ka nui lalaih uhi.
“Phatuam lawtel eive hiai hong om kha maw,” Sanga in a hon chi tei hi.
New Bazaar a khichri ne di’n ka ki thumuh ua kou le Mizo te dawr khat ah kava tu phen phan uhi, huchia tu kawm a ka dak vial vial leh pangal nupi leh meitei nupite meh zuak a tu neinuai ka mu a ka lungsim lou lam tak ana hi chitchiat hi.
“Bang e huai a mihing te’n ahih uh? Bang chi dan a hiai lam tantan a a meh uh hong zuak uh? Dekdawk geuh, ei gam mah khong a le MEITEI PAU in meh khong a lei ngai ta di e…” chi in ki pil sak deuh mai mel in ka chi phanphan hi.
Huai kia di kasak a leh a sak zek a cinema hall om ah meitei te a mah a poster khong uh kitak ka ban muh phei zezua hi.
“Kare, huai te a le meitei te film suak sak uh maw? Maizen I bazaar ua meh hong zuak uh le deih khop lou uhia oi?” chi in heh mal deuh mai in ka lawm te ka dong pheia, “huai chi kei ou cable en lechin na thei mai di, a film uh a khah louh chiang in a music video te uh a khah dua naupang chik chik in le zui thei lalat ta uh ahi aw,” Sanga in hon chi a kenle poisak mel deuh in, “kare, ei nupi te a gam uah mehzuak in va tu le uh bang a na lawh tel dua aw, huai kia lou a Local channel ua khat vei le Tribals te a akhah lam uh ka thei kei, local channel bang nih nei zezen uh hia, hong nak maingal na uh e maw, hon nak simmoh mai zen zen uh toh maw…” ka chi dal dal hi.
“Sum ziak mah ei kei dia, denchia I gam uh le hon luah dim khamoh na uh, sum I duh thei si ua, maban di et chih bang tuh omvet lou hi in maw, ei le ei kizuak kihi lel, I theih hun chiang un lah aki khel gawp ahi ta dia, poi mah mah khat ahi ngut ve,” chi in Thangbawi inle hon kum tei hi..
Huchia eimi te hai kisak na toh ka ki kupkup uh leh dak bang hong tam sim man a pai tou ding chi in kou le sum pia in saauliim lam ka manoh tou ta uh hi.

SAAULIIM ka tung dek phial un a pau zaw sam omlou ka hih chiang un ken le, “tuni a iki hou na te uh kha ka gelh di Delhi ka tung chiang in,” chi a a ban ka gen zom dek lai in Thangbawi in, “zen zen eive, mi huat di na ut a hia? Thil gelh ziaka nuam lou chik leh ut huai lou pi a le omtheih ahi aw,” ahon chi a kenle, “bangziak eita mawk mawk in, mi siat na gelh di lah hilou inga, a reality mah eive le, I gelh siam khol kei di chih man thu huai chiah a vek a le gelh di kahi kei, nengchik petmah ahi ka gelh di, a them chouh,” chi a ka dawng leh, “hilele…” Thangbawi in hon chi teitei a, “bang e hilele chih?” chi in ken le ka dawng phei nawn hi. Thangbawi nungak nu’n le hon na wave a kou le step a kal tou in a mah om na lam ka zuan phei uh hi.
“Bang eita hilele chih teitei?” chi in ken le ka dong thou thou lai hi.
Ka nung a hon zui Sanga in, “LAMKA EIVE LAMKA!!!” chi in hon zou gaih hi.

P.S: Sanga leh Thangbawi aw, na sim theih di un ka gelh thou thou a hile ka gen mah bang in a vek in ka gelh kei, banga na ngaihdan uh hon hilh un, ka phone number khek lou kahi a incoming call le free ahi aw.
Lun, na hon phone di ngak lai kahi.

One wild night at the Vasanth Continental...

2009-04-16T18:32:00.000+05:30

Whoa... I had a blast last night, not literally though, I was at the Vasanth Continental, Vasanth Vihar in Delhi as a lady friend of mine - no names and it's not like the way you guys thought it was, she's one with a good soul, anyway she invited me over and I jump at the opportunity before she even finished what she had to say.
Okay guys, this is my first in Delhi though I have been here for the best part of last year, honest. I have been to loads of Pubs in Bangalore like the Styx on MG Road, Taika on Church Street, Fuga on Wood Street off Brigade Road, HiNT - Bangalore Central, Cohiba Club on Pavilion-Church Street and a couple of more and this is my debut, if the word is not too bland, in the Pub culture of Delhi and by far this is the best and it's addictive, I must say.
Well, I had one hell of a time in there, we reach the place by 12:15 in the morning while Delhi is in deep slumber, we - the creatures of the night were dancing away those lazy hours with a pints of chilled fosters beer, that sets our moods and gave us an instant high, at least for me coz' I didn't eat a morsel that evening, no I am not at all that excited, and you know what it's like to introduce these thirst quenching drinks to an empty stomach.
Anyway, reluctant to hit the dance floor initially, I was like ‘who gives a damn, this is my space and I'm gonna have it all, the hell with it,' after a few sips. Yeah! I danced with those perspiration in the temple, the fosters are delivering their works efficiently.
(But then again, as the ambience and the concept is perfect for a night out, it was a little bit expensive with a bottle of beer costing you 250 bucks INR, I don't have any idea about the entrance fee/cover fee as I have a pre-booked Pass tucked away in my pocket and I don't take the trouble of asking the same.)
Then and there, my male instinct got the best of me again, it's not that often though - a rarity, this one chick - I presume she's from the NE, drives me crazy with her short hair, fair and tall with a well built body - she's an angel, I told myself, no not a good one but surely an angel, a fallen angel may be. She must have noticed that I stole a glance at every given opportunity coz' she gave me that inviting smile and those tantalizing looks, virtually seducing and flirting with me. If only looks can kill I wonder how the YPA would term the cause of my death as in those black-boards of theirs.
No, I don't have the chance to patch up with her nor do I get her number, it's sad.
After having the best time of my...life? No, not life - the best time of my...what? My vocabulary is limited, sorry.
Finally after some shakings we left the place with a handshake with an Afghan body builder, a huge guy - almost a giant compared to me, but with a big heart probably, at around 3:30 in the morning. I told my friend about that mystical lady who captured my heart for a brief moment, describing her as well as I can, "Yeah! I noticed her, quite a lady, can shake really well, must be good in bed too, huh?" came her reply, "Oh boy! That's what I was thinking, stupid me not to go up to her and get her number, damn!" I shot back with a trace of pain in voice.
"You know what, hichi bang te khong et le et vet louh di himai, a mi hoih du chih na se omlou hichi bang mun khong a tuah khak te khong, serious lak zen zen lou e, ngaih le ngaih sak tak lou pi ua eile mi'n hon chi thou na dua, what lies beyond those beautiful face and skins is the workshop of evil." She lectured me.
Whew! That changes a whole lot of things and eases my heartache.
Adieus my fallen angel, adieus.
Pray, someday somewhere we may meet again and I won't miss the chance there.

2009-04-05T17:18:00.004+05:30

HON NGAIDAM IN, PUPA DAN IN.

Ni guk vel bang paita in Zogamthuthang tungtawn in news lungphawng huai tak a hong ki khah khia,
Pa Vungkhanthang, a tapa toh a farm-house a giak lai meltheihlouh te’n a va suam uh, Pa Thang’ hinna mulkimna bei in ana laksak ta uh.”TAGET AW!” ka chi vengveng a, a dang gen di le ka thei tuan kei, sunglam a pan in hehna a hong suak khe guih a, lungsim nuamlou leh om didan lemlou tak in a hon koih geigui hi. Amah, Pa Thang pen zaw ka theihkhak ngei le a hikei a hilele mi kihouna khong kana ngaih khiatkhiat chiang in mi hoih leh fel pi hidi’n ka ngaihsun thei hi. “Taget Aw,” chih mai a hong bei di’n zaw poikasa, ni thum - ni li a hong bei dia, a hu lum a hong dai non pah dia, mangngilh in hong om non pah dia, history hong suak non mai didan ahi, I zaidam thei lua ua.

Zomite, a biik in ei PAITE te kha hatlouh na dilam a hat, fel louhna dilam a fel, chettheih na dimun ah ‘Chiik’ le chingam loute I hi ua, poi atave! Ki mihoih theilua, kizahngai theilua, nunnem lua, ngaihdamna le kihau lolai inchin buaihuai hiveh aw. Pupa chiindan dopsang na ditak a domsang theilou,(laa chih phet louh) aleh-amak a hei kualkual thei te kihi lel maw,na se mahmah.

Mihing I chih pen I hinna uh ei khut a om hilou, hinna kilaksakthei hile kipethei lou I hi ua, I value uh nak thupilua ahi. Social Animal-hihtheihna leh pilna, sia leh pha theihna neite I hi uh chih I haih hetkei uh, huai theilou tel dia hai lah kihi samsam lou a maw. Ahihleh, bang jiak a mihing ‘HINNA’ value thei mahmah lou? A manphatdan mutheilou se I hi di uam, mihing hinna poisakna bei a I kilaksak sek uh? Mihing I chih a haipen leh a pilpen, a zawngpen leh a haupan tan inle hih theihna tuamchiat kinei ahi. A chihleh, hiai a manphatdan thei gegu a mi’n (selfish deuh in) ei namte (read Paite) a hon thahsak chiang ua dai vengveng sek I hi duam? Kithahna hial tan in zaw thuk ni chikhang, hilele a hon maingal theihlouhdeuh nang un step la in kalsuan le, a muanhuailou la kihi samsam lou a maw. Thau tawi in kidelh hehu ni chi le hituan sam khang hilele dan zuih di omte pansan in enle a nuaitheih na lamlam ah nuai le, thahatna hizaw lou in ngaihtuahna sangtak in zoule chi I hi. Khanloh hun lo mahmah ta hilou hia maw?

Khat le khat kithattuah in a khonung a ngaihdam kingen. “INNDONGTA” vai a “PUPA DAN” a lakh khat-lakh nih leh puandum leh voksa khai a kingaidam suk jel mai maw. Lakh khat-nih vel zaw hinna khat kilei nadia tawmlua hive aw. Mihing hinna khat in a hihtheih thil tampi pen sum in khengkhe zou ngeingei lou di aih’bang! I man uh kha nak tawm lolai eive, I HINNA man uh. Mihing hinna kingaipoimoh lou lua, a value kiniamsak lua, hinna a manphatdan kitheilou lua sa kahi. Sum leh pai, khovel hauhsakna leh thupina in a leikhiak zoh ngeilouh di thil ahi. Pil ni, pil hun lota ahi (Rayburn College a Physics lecturer a ana pang ngei Sir. Angam gen dan in.).

Pupa dan leh Indongta system sawisel ka hi kei, hiai te tellou in I society uh a nawngkai lo di chih I theihsa uh ahi hilele hiaite I zat uh kha ahuntan omsak le. Nungak-tangval kitaipih, kisual-kisat, kiselbuai, guktak-laktak leh khotang buaina te a chu a lou theilou a I zat di mah uh ahi. Hilele kimat-kithat thu ah zaw dan zuih di India Government in a bawl, huaite zuitheih in zangthei le chi I hi. Law & Order om a, Court om a, police om zomah lai a, huaite a zatna diktak in zangtheile ei a hampha kihimai ahi banah, kithah-kimat le hong kiamzek leh kilawm maw,tampi’n zaw chi khang e. Pupa dan I chih te bel eimah a iki vaihawm khum lai ua I zat uh ahi. Huai hunlai in chu a loutheilou mah ahi hilele tua I dinmun uh I et chiang un kum 50/60 paisa toh kikhelaw petmah ta, kikhekna lianpi in hon opkhum, I zuih uh la hingal ahih chia, a kim sipsip in zuithei ni zaw chikhang hilele ahitheitan ah zat sawmle ei a dimah hiven. Loukhou a nek zong sang a office kai a nekzong kitam zota, ahun in hon puakkhiak kikhekna toh khantouh na lam manoh a pai I hih ualeh hiai kikhekna leh khantouhna in ei a dia a hoih zaw hon tun theih nang in panla peuhmah le a gah hong khum mai di ahi. Pupa dan paih ni chikhang, a zatdan siam zaw ni. I kim-kiang a kikhekna omte toh khanglou khawm khosa ni, tu maimai non kei ni chi I hi.

Tulai paidan a chu lakh thum lakh li khong neile mi thah theihna power nei toh kibang mai maw. Huat deuh khat khong va that zual in, Inndongta sawl in kamsiamdeuh tak in khutkhelh man sum, puandum leh vok khong va khai lut le hun himai leh kilawm chi ou!! Bang a na ngaihdan? I hinna uh hia sum hia poimoh I sak zawk uh chih le theihkhen haksa ta. Theihsiamna I hau mahmah ua, hichi bang thil te a theihsiamna dia ana zang mailou in I theihsiamna neihte uh I heutute uh theihsiamna leh zah na in zang zawle ma le kisawn zaw leh kilawm. Lakh khat-nih lel a kitheihsiamna kileisak sang in maw, ai’na?

Na iit a na ngaih mahmah khat mi’n hon thahsak uh henla, ngaihdam ngen din hong kuan le uh, a hi diteng hikhin, a poi diteng poikhin hita, huai hun in na lung akim lawvak din ka gingkei, kei le kahi-alungkim thei ngei ngei lou di khat. Sum chu hong om zel di hin maw hile hinna I chih pen a mang/bei nak leh hong om non ngeingei lou di ahi. Ahi, sum ziak pentak le hikholkei mah in teh, I mihoih ua, lungsim liantak I put baak uah ngaihdamna I hau law mahmah ua, I kim I kiang ua te theihsiamna in I dim ua, lungmuangtak a I om veu-vau sung ua mi’n I nunglam ua bangvai ana sai uh a chih kitheibanlou ahi. I mihoihluat ziak ua le miten hon simmoh ua, I pil ziak ua hon haza uh le ahi khamoh kei di, pilvang ni. “Ngaihdamna” leh “theihsiamna” a hau na uh chi a hon philphil uh le hikhamoh lou di uh eive, ka gingta.

Enliam maimai non kei ni in, enle panmun la in dingkip le, thautawi a kidelh vevu di chihna hikei, a kuul leh la nak poilouh lua maw,I nei sam ve ua le. Lehkhasiam leh pil I tam ta ve ua, mi phalah te lah kisam lou a, kipan le. Kiveng ni, pilta ni uh. I reputation uh tungding thak non le, “Nam” piching I hihna uh langsak le, eimah ahi a vualzou di,eimah ahi ma kai di.

“Eihun” tungta ahi chiilbawl kei ni.

06 March,2009.
New Delhi

(Posted on the site zogam.com in the wake of the killing of Pu T. Vungkhanthang at his farm house by unknown miscreant with vested interest and thereby the subsequent ordeals that follows in the name of the customary laws of the tribals of the Lamka District, THE PUPA DAN.)

2009-04-03T17:31:00.004+05:30

“LAMKA EIVE LAMKA!”
Chapter - I

Zingkal ann nezou in Hebron veng a dawr kong khat ah Sanga toh Thangbawi kana ngak kawm un chiamnuih ginalou chik chik khong gen kawm in kana om uhi.
Sawtlou nung in Thangbawi le hong tung tou a kho ul kai niu-niau kawm in,phalbi zing chu eina a,a bike hon tolh ket-ket a kou le va naihphei in ka tolh khel pah ua, kuva hai zou in New-Bazar lam ah a gari bawl sak di’n ka pai suk nanat uhi.
Lamka Public Ground a Peace Concert om di chih ziak in Delhi a pan inn pai, ka tun ni om man ham ham in ani nawn in Lamka lam ka ki khoh tou pah cher-cher mai hi, Delhi a zaw Lamphel Lamphel chia ki gen gen a kisak theihpih sim mahmah zaw kihi hia hile mahni veng le ngaizou lou kia lou mahni inn-lum ale om man lou hial in lawm te ngaihna in hon zou zaw hinteh direct bus a pai masa di pen ah tuangtou pah fanfan ngalmai.
“Inn ngai a hong pai le hikei, kou ngai a hong pai le hikei the, lawm te chih nana delh a hong pai na hi lel voi maw. Na kik na di ticket hon ngaihtuah sak lou di kahi aw na hichih leh”, ka nu’n hon chi a, “ken nei khin, return ticket di saifel sa a hong pai kahi, kon lak diam?”, chi in ken le nui kawm in kindeuh in ka dawng hi.
“Pelpol mai, mi toh va buai hetken la mi lak a ah omdan va siam in, na Pu te’ inn le na va pha di”, chi in hon vai khak a kenle ka kom kuva hai a tui se khe zat in, “hilua heh pi aw, ka phone balance le a bei a ka nau Moite a hong tun chiah hon eRecharge sak un”, chih toh mangpha khak in ka back-pack nung kuah vauh in ka bus tuanna di lam ka naih san ta hi.

Concert om di ni sun in Thangbawi toh nungak tonpih di zong bawl kawm di chi in lawm lui leh class-mate lui te kiang khong ah ka ban vak ua omtuak lou sa in lawmpa inn lam ah ka tai suk nawn veng veng ua, “poikei maw, pasal vuak I hih a leh nuam zaw, thoveng zaw maw, denchiah tai nang hiam omleh eikeh peg cheuh ut bang hile nuam lou di eichia, care di omkei leh nuam zaw hilou maw”, chi khong in ka ki heh nem ua, singpi dawn kawm in ka phone a virus lut te ka scan sak a ka hah siang hi, “thil gina lou lou na koih a hichi ahi aw na phone kha, sanggam te etsak ngamlouh di zen a bang sel na diam ah password a lock di bang hau vial chia”, hon chi a, “kon Bluetooth diam? Eh! Nang a ahoih lou te ki Bluetooth theihlouh te maw…” chi in ken le ka nuih san nanalh a, laa ngai kawm kawm a limlak khong en kual kual a ka om lai in mei hong mit a, “sub-station thak phut uh kasa” ka chih leh “Lamka eive Lamka”, chih teng in hon dawng a kei le lupna tung a lum suk in ka sun ihmut hiau uhi, light mit a pawt nang omlou lai chu a chim huai khop mai Lamka le.
Nitak lam ann nekhit in Sanga le hong tung suk a ka thum un Thangbawi’ bike in Public ground lam ka zuan suk tan tan uhi. Concert ka va en nanaih ua, sepaih te singpi bawl bang lim kisa tak eidi va ki line zih-zeh mai, va la thithe. Ki phur zou tatak kei chi in peg zek le chiin ka ki thupuk ua amun a lawmte bang zah hiam toh ki mu khawm nawn in sum kaki contri ua a khonung sawt lou in Sanga in coke 1.5ltr te khat toh contessa bottle nih leh chips bawm nga a back-pack ah hon paw til til a kou le kil khat naih zai zai in a mial na mun deuh ah ka va nawd/dawn cheuh uhi. Sung hong sa suk pah hiai hiai in nui sim pah threm-thram mai, ground lam naih a paitou batuh ki sawi sim pah nek nek mai, hoh man om e chi in kua phawk pih louh a lam der der tamai chu nuam kha atave!

Kon thil gen nop pen tak a concert thu eikei a a huai mun a ka hoh ziak ua ka thil tuah uh leh tangval tung pan mahni pil a ki pil sak ngen te ka ki hou dan uh leh ka ngaihdan un gen nuam kahi zaw, mahni ‘ ngaihdan’ dik sa vek chiat a ki kum ka ‘muh’ dan mai mai te uh ahi.

Concert hong bei in lawmpa le a gari la dia kuan mun khat ah kana ngak ua, hong pai hak sim a ka phone dek chiah leh a man hon phone man a hong pai suk un hon chi kou le bang thu a chi in kava pai suk uhi. Bang chi a chia ka dot ua leh hon dawng selou in a bike kawk gaih a, kou le ka en ua a bike tanky ah mun thum a kigit na ma om in melse tak in a rong a kia a a pei hu khah thep sak tuak un, a seat ki at kek a a side glass te ki khen sia bakah a siade light te le suksiat ahi a a thautui pai na gui le ki at tan lai, a number plate bang deih khop tek a ki khep neu sak in om a a hah na dia kikoih paunak sia le a mang hi. Aloh ngaihna di thei lou in kaet thoh mai ua, New-Lamka tan kaki tawl kakhel uhi, kigim sim chiat ei dia a pau peih le om non lou in ka ki et thoh mai ua ka zu gim uh la nam lah a kick la bei ta eichia heh tha ngen suak, a khoih se tute muh khak in om le uh zaw paih leng vok vok dia hoih uh ahi huai hun chiah in chu.

Zinglam dak 9:30 lak vel ahi dia gari bawl sak di ka kuan uh, ki hou suk kawm kawm a pai in ka thil gen a lunglut lua zaw kahi dia lampi enlou a khut vai zen a kapai lai in lamsiat na kuak/pothole te ka sik khial kha a ka khe su hek dek in na sa lua kha, “nana mah mah e! kua te inn lam na val a kibawl a kua te gari lei na val a hiai alcatara kisung ahitel a? hichi lel tak, ak ann zong in a thaisiat zoh di phial khonga bawl minsiat se sang in a building lam uh interior decoration nang in zang uhen la a gari uh modi nang in zang bei vet le uh eive le, lampi rong nuh vom mai mai a ki suk minsiat sang in”, ka chi khe kah loi loi zezen a, ka kiang ua pai te’n bang hon en hei hoi ua, “na bang uh a? melhoih mu ngei lou uh maw?”, bang ka chi suk nuam phial lai hi.
“zan’tak a numei tleirol kum 15/16 vel te na na mu uhia? Hoih thei sim sim le om uh eive, koi veng te khong ei’duam ah”, chi in Thangbawi in hon chi a,
“pal uh le kasa, a naupang thetheih u toh, a sungte’n le phal tel uh eiduam ah, siat kipat na bulpi eive, bangkim a a curious hun laitak uh hi zomah, hih moh hih lah la nei kei ve un chin aw, pammaih. A hichi law selsal ua a numei hih na uh mi’n zahtak sak lou pah pah ua cheap sa zel mai uh ahi. Cell-fone tawi te uh bang hoih thei fiit in ei a bang lak khiak ngam huai lou di khop a hon koih thei uh aka, a khekol tengte uh la veih bang sang le uh le a suah chiang un ‘piit’ chi thei pan leh kilawm khop a tight, a sam te uh la a sung hat louh ziak uhia eikeh a tui nek uh hoih louh ziak a hichi tuk a san sehsah chih theih di khop a om – tui ek mah bang! mit te bang vom ta kilkel in, hiai te khong zi dia neih khak di zaw lau kei ve, siang le siangthou non mamah kei un teh, numei’ siangthou na manpha a kep siang di ahi chi in thu hilh dek lele, ‘pupu aw, na thring lua, khanglou ve na mawl lua’, khong hon chi mai le uh kilawm”, chi in Sanga in hon gen khe mot mot mai hi.
“zezen eive nang le, ngal tel. concert a hoh I chih khong a siat na om lou pi a, ki polh lim na ki suk halh na khat eivoi. Entertainment eivele, I gam uh hoih hen la hichi bang om zezeuh le chi zomah kahi, a poina om lou pi a, hiai te hoh a huai te hoh theih louh chih om tuam la hilou a, mi lifestyle eivoi en banga I gen theih di om? Hun a pai zel dungzui a enle kikhek na I neih theih sam di eivoi. Khat vei vei ki khah zan di mah hi. Conservative deuh mai a a ki kol a strict tak a inn-sunga ki kol a vai ki hawm khum sanga chu hichi bang social life khong I neih theih uh hoih lua ahi. Sung kuan khen khat khauhtak a kikem in nu-le-pa bang tuh sikha lauh a lau mai hile a nung ngat san nak ua leh la vasa khah suah bangmai le ki om ahi, ki kol leh ki kep dan dik louh ziak a, hichi te tata ahi thunun haksa a khollou zaw te”, ka chi tei ringot a ken le.
Thangbawi in hon sunzom a, “himah e, ki conservative law zezen, bang tan hiam ah zaw ki liberal deuh leh I society uh hichi tel a se din ka gingta kei, bang hiam khat hih di I ki kham gegu chiang ua I thil theih ut na pen uh kha puang zaw ahihchia maw,sanga nang na conservative kon chih na hilou ahi ana kip e lawse ken aw, a uang law zen in liberal ni zaw chi khang hile I mindset uh bang zah hiam kheng thei ta le. Ki etkol dan siam in tate’ lunglut na te enkai thei chiat le zaw ei lawi talent hoih pipi pholh suah louh nei te kihi lai hia. Huaizoh chia…” chi in gen zou man lou in Sanga in ana pau tuh nawn a, “ koilak ah eilawi pi Biakinn sung a halleluijah chia mi theihlouh di lau hileh kilawm a kikou a lam dau-dau thei, Biakinn kong pelh nak leh la setan inle lawmlawm tel chi nuam phial leh kilawm a mi hin’ zia kheng thei te kihi lai ei, guai!”.
Hon gen zawm zel a, “ den a na gen uh nungak tleilor te le na thei hia? Inn sung khaw dai dide zezen te eive ua, a sung te’n kou a nu zaw hoih lua,pau tam lou a chia a phat phat te uh ahi aw, tua sungte’ theihlouh in concert khong ah a ki sawi zai-zaai dua kum 8/9 nung in inn kiim inn kiang te gen se dia a tai louh sung un mit khup diai diai in Biakinn ah la-vek in la sa in aki sawl dawl dawl kei di ua, thulak louh hon.”
Thil dang daih kana ngaihtuah a, “zan’tak a te dendrite hip te ahi du, ka ngaihtuah leh, ahahna puan bang mang hial eileh maw, na chi uh hia?”, ka chih leh Thangbawi in hon en phei a, “nang na hip lai in na huchi khel hia him him in?”, hon chihleh kot kisa in ka nui hemhum a, etna di bang thei lou in ka dak kual kual zezen hi, dot khak bang tuh kisik huai mah mah eive.
Ka nunglam apan in gari horn ngaih deuh in hong ki mek khum ton ton a kenle kua ahitel a kinchi na e, koia kileh dek e chih bawl sim mit hah in ka en sal tou gega a, ka nung lam hon phu kha dek mah mah in hong khawl chat a, Thangbawi toihnu (a boss nu) ana hi a, “bang chik a hong tung e? bang tan om di? Na hon hilh tel kei a, ki awi thou chia, 31st zang khawm di aw”, hon chi pah sal sal a ken le, “sawt nai kei, jan. 4 khong in ka pai tou di, ei toh zat khop na ut in chu ahi law ke! Na boss pa’n bang ngaihdan anei get diam maw, a hon phal di a leh chu a na kisil siang lechin maw…”, kachi chiamnuih suk ngal hi.
“kheu khou eive, ki kheng tuan lou maw, hong pil khe deuh di I hon sak leh a ngei bok hi thou, vai te’n hon na vaw ek2 le uh kon chi ve”, hon chi a nui sel sal kawm in, “vaigam a om a pil teitei di chih na om hia? Huai hon vuak du zaw nang lou le hon deih sak tam uh ei…” chi in nui kawm in ka dawnga pai suk ka thuah uhi Sanga toh.
Lailam lei ka phak ma deuh uh ahi a Sanga gari tolh sak nawn in a gal a building ki lam zou chiah lou a tung a sik kung dawk sesauh te ka gal et veng veng kawm hi.

to be continued...

2009-04-03T16:51:00.001+05:30

Calling O, my love.

The ray of hope flashing through the twilight,
With distance apart, miles between our hearts,
Nostalgic calling felt in this lone walks,
Reminiscing the past days of auld lang syne,
Bleeds my heart by your love,
Longing for the kiss,
Your lips had planted on mine,
The kiss of a novice, sweet and heavenly,
We know not when our hearts will meet again,
Anticipating faithfully with undying love,
Godspeed, my love.
O! Long sought.

(a dedication to a love lost,who taught me how to live with a broken heart,in memoirs of the days of auld lang syne with her,priceless.)

3rd November,2005.

Jaipur, Rajasthan.