Showing posts with label Fantabulous February. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fantabulous February. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Trial

Yo, anyone up for *insertadjectivehere* August? Lemme know in the comments! QUICK!

Also, if you say yes, please be a nice helpful person and email inspiration (photographs, quotes, youtube links, whatever you fancy - but please also send in the source/artist so I can credit them) to me at kanika.kaul22@gmail.com.

Also, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, click on this.

Please let me know as soon as possible so I can begin gearing up! I really need something to focus on other than work and sniffing into a handkerchief for days.

Love love,
Kanika 

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Unbearable

Somedays it's an explicable spring in my step, some nights an imponderable gloom, and an almost constant will to express but no strength to articulate my brain.

It's been a struggle to not care about the shitty things that happen in a day (because everyone tells you not to care) but I care anyway. It's easier than trying not to. And I feel better about not denying anything that goes on in my head.

I am slowly beginning to realise the things that make me happy. A clean table, a plant on my desk, a good cup of tea, laughing with friends, a cozy nap in the afternoon, people who lend books, a lovable bulldog puppy who plonks his butt into your lap and demands attention, my new-and-improved fairy lights (photos soon!), sharing a cigarette in the dark in the balcony, logo design books, and I could go on and list things that seem so tiny but add up to really really fulfilling days.

All of this, and Fantabulous February is up soon! I almost cannot contain the joy right now :D

So for people who don't know what FF is (where have you been?!) let me take you through.

Fantabulous February is an exercise I cooked up to keep myself engaged in writing, because I began to feel at this time last year that I was losing my love for the written word. It goes like this: every day for the month of February, I'll be posting an image or quote or basically anything which is even half-inspiring, and by the end of the day, I'd have used that inspiration to write a post of my own. It's like forcing yourself into creativity. And the best part, anyone who wants to take part can do so, all you need to do is write a post on your blog, post the image/quote/etc. there too, and once you're done send me a link to that post, because I like including them here :)

This is the FF label, so you can see the crazy prose we came up with last time :) HERE.

YAY FOR BLOGGING AND BLOGGERS AND FEBRUARY AND LOVE AND EVERYTHING.

Love in ecstatic restlessness,
Kanika

Monday, May 28, 2012

Sleep can't cure this

"Go away," she said,
"leave me be,
to wallow in my misery
to soak up in all this self-pity
because no one seems to care."

Yes, I wrote that. I'm a genius with poetry, am I not?

- I have too many feelings inside me right now, and they are threatening to come in the way of my daily routine. I feel like curling up in bed and sleeping for days so that no one is able to hurt me anymore.

- I want to do another Fantabulous February, except this time it'll be Joyous June. Let me know if it's a good idea and if you would like to join. Read more about FF under the FF label. Click on the top of the post.

- I'm going to spend tomorrow entirely without using an internet connection. I was going to say computer/laptop but I forgot I'm at work and without solitaire to calm me down I will probably brutally beat my fellow intern. No facebook, email, twitter, tumblr or blogging tomorrow. Can I do this? I'm certainly gonna try.

Love with feeling, (if the labels on this post are any indication)
Kanika



Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The last and very fabulous day of Fantabulous February! *updated*

Hai gais.


Wow. FF is over after 12 am tonight, and I really don't know what I'll do. Thank you to everyone who took part, you're all wonderful writers :)
On a happier note, Soumi [her blog is here] wants to start Memorable March, so please go take a look and join us because I will join FOR SURE.

Anywho. For the last time in a while, email your bloglinks to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com or send them in on facebook. I'll update by tonight.

My Post:
Unsure and undecided, it's almost like standing on a metaphorical precipice. One wrong step and you'll be flailing and wondering what would have happened had you been unwavering. It's a horrible feeling, to never completely know if you're worth any of this, to stand in front of a mirror and look at yourself with doubting eyes.
How do you make your self concrete enough to not break at the slightest touch of skepticism? Be strong enough to stand up and fight for who you are?
Take a leap of faith, love.


Blublubling wrote here: http://mytalentissowasted.blogspot.in/2012/02/have-you.html
Dark Angel here: http://sinneddarkangel.blogspot.in/2012/02/still.html
Tanya here: http://thetimesofmylifelovendhim.blogspot.in/2012/02/fantabulous-february-day-29.html
Sam B here: http://samrandomrants.blogspot.in/2012/02/29th-day-of-fantabulous-february.html
Soumi here: http://sold-for-shoes-overweight-intellectua.blogspot.in/2012/02/adieu.html
Cyniqueen here: http://cyniqueen.blogspot.in/2012/02/keep-calm-and-leap-on.html
Joyee here: http://joyee-bhattacharya.blogspot.in/2012/02/whispers-in-wind.html
Akanksha here: http://lizardtailgonecrazy.blogspot.in/2012/02/just-let-yourself-float.html
Shiromi here:http://nicotine-overdose.blogspot.in/2012/02/believe-my-sunshine.html
Vidhi here: http://chroniclesofchaddimanz.blogspot.in/2012/02/leap-of-faith.html

Pyaar and more,
Kanika

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Twenty Eight! *updated*

Inspirationnnn:


Email your bloglinks to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com! Or send them in on facebook!
CANNOT BELIEVE TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY.
*starts to cry in a corner*

My Post:
The sun felt nice and warm on my hands, and while I was engrossed in a dog-eared and much-thumbed-through copy of Harry Potter, you leaned in close and kissed me. I'll never forget the shit we got into for kissing in a public place like that. We left the sunny park and ran, laughing all the while, holding hands and feeling extremely young.
The sun rattled down on my neck when I was sitting next to you, looking stoically at my hands clasped tightly in my lap to prevent the inevitable tears and I listened to you tell me how you want to grow up. You didn't say those words, but I think that's what you really wanted to tell me.
There's something about a lovely sunny day and how it always makes me think of that stolen kiss, and I always smile and wait to find another person who would run away with me when the world tried to get too close. Not you anymore. You left, and I'm glad.




Love and lots of it,
Kanika

Monday, February 27, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Twenty Seven! *updated*

Hi hi hi sorry for the delay.

For today, here:

Email blogpost links to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com or send them in on facebook. I'll update this post tonight :) In case I update earlier than you send your link don't worry, I'll add it by tomorrow.

My Post:
I'm laughing to myself at something you said to me, sitting alone in a coffee shop and waiting to be asked for my order. It's a lovely day, the kind you and I would spend walking along the riverbank with ice cream sticks and sunglasses that made everything look golden. 
Was my love not enough to fill your heart?
The cups of tea we shared in the evenings along with cigarettes and thoughts that had drifted for long enough to be said...were those cups of tea too bitter?
Why would you feel the need to go out and find someone else who makes you happier than you have ever been...was I not enough?


Soumi wrote here: http://sold-for-shoes-overweight-intellectua.blogspot.in/2012/02/fantabulous-february-day-tweny-seven.html
Joyee here: http://joyee-bhattacharya.blogspot.in/2012/02/cup-of-darjeeling-thats-all-they-need.html
Blublubling here: http://mytalentissowasted.blogspot.in/2012/02/you-make-excuses-to-not-hold-me-in.html
Namrata over here: http://yellowyesterday.blogspot.in/2012/02/fantabulous-february-day-twenty-seven.html
And Tanya here: http://thetimesofmylifelovendhim.blogspot.in/2012/02/fantabulous-february-day-27.html


Pyaar and all,
Kanika

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Twenty Six! *updated*

An unexpected break yesterday due to various technical reasons like the unavailability of a laptop till really late and then no electricity because I live in such a weird strange place. Sorry guys. I didn't want to take one, but exhaustion really took over.

Anyhow, it's 26th and here's today's inspiration:


Email your bloglinks to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com or send them in on facebook. I'll update this post by tonight.

My Post:
A splash of color in a monochrome brain, you blinded me.
You're so beautiful it almost seems unreal to me, that I get to be around you ,with your grace and my unrefined being. I love to watch you when you're swaying softly in happiness or wither in despair.
I would love to watch you die.



Love and other things,
Kanika

Friday, February 24, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Twenty Four! *updated*

Today's inspiration is here:


Email your blogpost links to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com or send them in on facebook.
Post will be updated by tonight :)

My Post:
You're such a waste of my time.
I shouldn't do this to myself, for being around you is like a bad habit that turns your body black, but I keep coming back, because maybe I don't care about dying anymore. Nothing you do is aimed at my happiness, yet you make me happy somehow, anyway. I'll never understand how.
I light up when you're with me, and you really couldn't care less. Whether it's an unreturned smile or a one-way feeling of relief at not being alone anymore. In a snide of glance of pity at an oblivious joyful mind. I break when you're gone, always finding the self-esteem to pick myself up again and piece my heart back together, slowly and with immense amounts of grief, and do it all over again the next day. Like a cigarette you know is killing you softly, but it calms you down, makes you a better you, so why not go ahead anyway, take your drags, kill your insides.
It's a long way down, and death is all too sudden.
I'm almost there.

Blublubling wrote here: http://mytalentissowasted.blogspot.in/2012/02/her-first-dream-her-first-love-dance.html
Dark Angel over here: http://sinneddarkangel.blogspot.in/2012/02/confused-soul.html
Soumi over here: http://sold-for-shoes-overweight-intellectua.blogspot.in/2012/02/fantabulous-february-day-twenty-four.html
Shiromi over here: http://nicotine-overdose.blogspot.in/2012/02/so-i-lit-up-crashed-and-cracked.html
Tanya here: http://thetimesofmylifelovendhim.blogspot.in/



Love love,
Kanika

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Twenty Three! *updated*

Five more days and this is going to be over.
*slow wail*

Today's inspiration:

Email your blogpost links to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com or send it in on facebook.
I shall be updating this post tonight.
I have so much work, but FF is way more important than anything else right now :P

My Post:
Upside down and in reverse, love still doesn't make sense to you. It's not in the little notes you leave me next to my head when I'm asleep or the joy of smiling at each other right after the hefty resolution of an argument. It's not just about being happy for me when something good becomes of my efforts or feeling sad looking at me cry.
It means understanding that this is who I am, and loving me hopelessly still. Loving me at my ridiculously low points and dragging me right back up with a smile.





Love,
Kanika

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Twenty Two! *updated*

Hai gais :)

Today's inspiration iiiiiiiiis *drum roll* :
Props to Ruhani for sending this in despite her boards and shit.
<3

Email your blogpost links to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com and be back before 12 am today to read the updated post. Yesterday 7 people joined (I saw you, Vidhi <3) and I only hope today there are more :)
Tell your blogging friends! :P

My Post:
Tell me you hear it too. That eerie silence of my heart.
The stars are no measure how much I care for you, but you never ever believed me. Even when everything pointed to the most obvious of truths. Like twinkling witnesses of my heartbreak, they watched you as you slowly moved far away from all of my madness. Why did he do it? I'll never know. I'll never get to ask.
Hope chimes in my ears, and my eyes are as dry as a bone. Never again will I sit with you on lonely nights and while leaning against your head softly I will never ask you to be mine. 
Can you hear it too?

Little thing guys. Next time you tell someone about fantabulous february, mention my name. I'll feel better. :)


Pyaar,
Kanika

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Twenty One! *updated*

Hello :)

Here is today's inspiration:


Email blogpost links to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com. I will be updating this post by tonight.

I'm so happy Fantabulous February is working out. Is anyone up for doing it again maybe three-four months down the line?

My Post:
Sometimes words are not enough. More is said in the smiles you shyly grace me with when late at night the world is caving in on you and me. Your eyes are more coherent than your lips at times, the silence makes you easier to read. Sometimes there just aren't any words to describe unerringly just what you're feeling at a given moment out of the many you experience. What do you do then?
You come to me, and what you don't say tells me volumes about what's been keeping you up at night. I know you're restless by just how many times you blink in seconds. Sometimes you can have faith that I will understand you, irrespective of the words that escape your mouth. Your sighs will let me know of the hidden agitation in your head.
I'll always know.


FULLHOUSE TODAY :D I LOVE YOU ALL!

Love,
Kanika



Monday, February 20, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Twenty! *updated*

Wow man. Twenty days? I've been forcing myself out of this slump and making my brain think for twenty days? Shit. I really did not think I was capable of this. Nine more days. Yes. It will happen.

Inspiration for the day:

You know this right? The whole email-your-bloglinks-to-kanika.kaul22@gmail.com and I'll-update-this-post-tonight routine? Though anyway, email your blog - oh you get it. :)

My Post:
Aware and oblivious all at the same time.
He knows she can never be his completely as he would like it, but if she chose his shoulder to lean her head on even if for a moment, it all becomes worth it again. Her pointed edges and stark dimensions are pastel and subtle to him, and it would never matter what she says she feels...it is beautiful and resplendent in his own twisted way. His chains of doubt break when she is around and no one yet had ever done something so obstrusive in his life, yet he finds himself craving her curiosity. She wants to be let in to his fortress of a mind, and otherwise fiercely defensive, he gladly opens the gates. To his mind, and to his heart.

Shiromi wrote here: http://nicotine-overdose.blogspot.in/2012/02/pretty-little-things.html


Love and such,
Kanika

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Nineteen! *updated*

Hello fellows, here is today's inspiration:


Email your links and shizz to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com and attach inspiration for later days if you please.
Imma update this post tonight, if I'm still alive after the mountains of work I MUST finish today.

My Post:
Your words are as hollow and empty as your heart and I'm stuck here in the middle of your life without an exit. There are moments ahead I know are going to be better than any of this, and I'm going to wait for them. Because hopefully all these feelings will have a purpose. All of this. I'll be forever indebted to you for showing me a side of myself  I didn't know I possessed - heartless, cold and completely independent.
"If you love me, won't you let me know?"


Pyaar and all,
Kanika

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Eighteen! *updated*

Happy birthday to my retarded sister who finally becomes a teenager today. I feel old.

Inspiration for today:
If I may say so, my favourite FF picture till date.

You know the drill, but still, email your bloglinks to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com.
Add me on facebook if you please, over HERE. Just add a message saying you read my blog. Okay :)

Shall update this post by midnight. Fo shizz.

My Post:
It must be nice for you to have someone to hold you tight during nights where you aren't sure of yourself at all. He makes you remember what makes you worthwhile, he adds a dimension to you that you fervently hope never diminishes. You both seem so dysfunctional, like you could self destruct at the slightest poke, but time after time you prove that you are more than a lightly built house of cards. You can't topple. He won't let you.


Amour and all,
Kanika

Friday, February 17, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Seventeen! *updated*

TEN THOUSAND HEARTS TO SHIROMI FOR SENDING IN THIS for inspiration today! :)


Email your blog links to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com.
And if you like, also attach inspiration for tomorrow! :)

Shall update this post tonight.

My Post:
It's a lonely road I'm walking down.
No lights, nothing. A dark winding expanse of fear.
I miss your hand in mine, it made me feel whole.
Completely unharmed, completely immortal.
You were the light at the end of my tunnel.


Soumi wrote here: http://sold-for-shoes-overweight-intellectua.blogspot.in/2012/02/fantabulous-february-day-seventeen.html
And Dark Angel here: http://sinneddarkangel.blogspot.in/2012/02/flicker.html
Shiromi here: http://nicotine-overdose.blogspot.in/2012/02/lights-will-guide-you-home.html
Tangerine here: http://ifeltthis.blogspot.in/2012/02/distant-echoes-and-blurs.html


Love and all,
Kanika

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Sixteen! *updated*

An awesome gif as today's inspiration:

Spread the word about Fantabulous February!
Does anyone want to contribute an image for FF? Email me :) I would love to lessen my workload and only post for the day. It's a tedious job, looking for something everyone wants to write about.

I will be updating this post tonight.
Email your bloglinks at kanika.kaul22@gmail.com

My Post:
You're an epiphany wrapped up in a bundle of tears; jostling your way into what you call your comfort zone. You're a trembling set of fears, not sure of anything at all, but confident that you'll find your way, somehow, somehow. In a roomful of people you find it hard to meet anyone's eyes because you wouldn't know if you fit in at all, ever, anywhere.
Yet you've carved your own cave away from that which matters to others, and you're quite content there, huddled up with your memories to peruse through. Stay safe, I beg. But I don't need to be worried. "Not even a little bit, not even at all."


And Malvika, YAY, my nearly-wife and housemate wrote here: http://nodyingcauses.blogspot.in/2012/02/save-your-breath.html


Bohot pyaar
Kanika

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

And we're back! Fantabulous February - Day Fifteen! *updated*

Hey fellows.

Sorry about being AWOL yesterday. One of those college days where I left way before breakfast and returned way after dinner, tired and cranky and wanting to pass out the moment I saw my beautiful glorious bed. Went to a letterpress yesterday and another industrial printer and had a nice time.

Boyfriend surprised me with an entirely home-cooked meal when I went to meet him in the evening, and he made sure I saw all the food only after having complained for about twenty minutes how absolutely unsatisfying all my meals had been for the day. :)

So. Inspiration for Resumed Fantabulous February is here:


I'm hoping you all missed me yesterday so lots of you will post :)
(Only)Email(don't comment and leave) your bloglinks to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com.
I will update this post by tonight.

Read more about Fantabulous February HERE.

My Post:
I feel quite as lost as you, on the same road.
I'm a ticking time bomb, itching to explode at the slightest opportunity, insufficient as it may be. Waiting quietly in my little corner, watching the world with disdain. Not trying to read you anymore, simply trying really hard to get through the day.
I've been tolerating crazy thoughts in my head and controlling the urge to burst up in flames, then sift through the ashes to decide what was the cause. Because after this, starting over seems easier than fixing anything. First devastation, and then nothing to keep in mind anymore. 
You aren't running away from me yet, you have no clue what you're getting into.


It's one of those nights where I'm saying hello to my fairy lights and sleeping next to Coldplay. :)


Love and such,
Kanika

Monday, February 13, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Thirteen! *updated*


Hey, happy pre valentines day :)

Inspiration for today is up there.

I'm so sorry for yesterday's absence. That post AND this will be updated by tonight. And please don't comment and leave your links, it's easier for me to remember then!

Read more about FF in previous posts,
and email your links to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com

My Post:
I saw her from the crack in the door, pulling at her sleeves as she sobbed. I had never seen her so distraught about anything, anyone. She was one of the calmest people I knew, till you came along.
Her favourite white loose knit sweater, with comforting super long sleeves and a warmth only she felt. It was nearly in tatters, falling apart at the seams, and each time she wore it she swore it was the last I would ever see of it. Yet whenever she thought of you, the sweater came out of the darkest recesses of her closet where she had guiltily stashed it after the last encounter.
I saw her from the crack in the door, cigarette boxes strewn all around her and closed kohl-rimmed eyes that were asleep but the tiredness was apparent. I crept in as quietly as I could and kissed her forehead, wondering if tomorrow she would wake up and wear you around her neck one more time.

Pyaaaaaaaaaaaaar,
Kanika

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Twelve! *updated*

Inspiration for today^

Email your links to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com.

I won't be able to update this tonight guys, so you send in your links anyway, I'll add them tomorrow morning.
:)

More about FF in previous posts!

My Post:
A slow feeling of dread crept up behind me and tapped me on my shoulder and I turned around and smiled. I greeted that feeling like an old friend. It was familiar and almost comforting. I knew how it functioned, how it would progress. A hole in the middle of me that grew bit by bit, swallowing every happy thing I'd known. 
It was much later that this hole began to make sense to me. I always let it come and go as it pleased but after one time too many I sat down and talked to this ache, asked it where it came from. 
Your name was whispered.


Love,
Kanika



Saturday, February 11, 2012

Fantabulous February - Day Eleven! *updated*

It's been ten days!

Inspiration for today^

I'm having so much fun with this. Writing this way makes me feel productive. Even if I'm paying more attention to FF deadlines than college ones :P

Email your blogpost links to kanika.kaul22@gmail.com
I will be updating this by tonight :)
Read more about FF in the previous ten posts!
My Post:
Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten,between your trips to a different world without me. 
You thought you never feel that way again again, the way you did when you still felt whole and complete once upon a time.
Here comes a feeling you haven't felt in a while, but don't let it scare you.

Soumi wrote here: http://sold-for-shoes-overweight-intellectua.blogspot.in/2012/02/waking-up-to-dream-and-nightmareat-same.html
Ruhani over here: http://ilikebigbuttsandicannotlie.blogspot.in/2012/02/you-are-only-exception.html
Love,
Kanika