Echoes

In search of the perfect Bollywood action/comedy script - Preface

2010-10-10T14:33:00.000+05:00

For quite sometime, I have been thinking how the script of the perfect bollywood action-comedy film would turn out to be. I am talking wholesome entertainment - action, comedy, story-telling, interesting conversations,, characters with depth and above all kick-assiness. I have seen a fair amount of Bollywood movies till date and but it is difficult for me to point out movies that have really

A theory of communication

2010-09-21T10:08:00.002+05:00

A: It's incredible how you guys manage to communicate with your bai. She speaks only Telugu, and none of you speak Telugu. B: Ya. It is ok most of the time. We just need to tell her how many cups of tea she has to make in the morning and how many chappatis for lunch. A: But how does it work out when she has to tell a more complex thing. Like just now when she was telling you this story about why

One among strangers

2010-09-21T08:19:00.000+05:00

If there is one thing that brought me joy more than anything else, it was disappearing into the crowd - getting to meet myriads of people in their myriads of moods. Gokul, the painter and teacher who was kind enough to gift me a painting. His nephew, who had never visited Pune and wanted to do so because he had heard so much about the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations there. The two brothers from

Ek seedha saadha sadhu

2010-04-27T10:27:00.005+05:00

"Kitna hua?", I ask the driver at the end of the journey in the Vikram. "Fifty," he replies. The sadhu perched beside him in the front looks at me and shakes his head silently. I know what he means and stare at him for a few moments. He puts up three of his fingers. "Tees hi dete hai hamesha." I didn't tell him it was my first ride in a Vikram in that route. "Nahi. Fifty lete hai." The sadhu

x

2010-04-16T12:22:00.003+05:00

Writing this post is akin to start writing a book from the middle. The only saving grace, perhaps, is that this story can begin anywhere and it won't matter much.I have been facing a writer's block as far as this trip is concerned. Going places, meeting people, eating everywhere - it is an experience that is difficult to put down in words, more so when you are in the midst of the experience! But

To-do list

2009-12-20T21:33:00.004+05:00

Where do we even start?Let's make a todo list. A list of things that I need to do. Or undo. In which case it won't be a to-do list anymore. It will be more like a to-undo list.Making the later is definitely tougher. It is easy to find things that you want to do. For an undo list, you have to look deeper inside yourself, find things that you hate. Be honest with yourself. Find ways of ripping out.

Logging out

2009-09-20T11:30:00.000+05:00

He woke up to the loud and annoyed home system. It had started hurling abuses left and right, at an elevated voice. He had failed to wake up on its earlier wake up calls and pissed it off. It took him some time to calm him down and he asked for his mails, prioritized. He picked up the first. It was from Sarah, a pissed Sarah at that - even if he muted the mail, it would have been evident from the

2009-06-14T02:15:00.003+05:00

The song is 'Ode to my Family'. By the Cranberries; and it is haunting. But that's not the point of this post.it is one of those moments when i need some retrospection/introspection. this post aspires to do precisely that. before i begin, let me define the mood - 1:21 am, all my flat-mates asleep, a can of beer already drowned, and i have been surfing over orkut people from my school, whom i have

Lazy Sunday

2009-05-10T12:54:00.003+05:00

First post after making the CSS changes. But still too lazy to write anything longer than this. Best viewed in CSS3 compliant browser.

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2009-04-26T12:35:00.002+05:00

Joining the twitter revolution. My thoughts don't fit in to sentences longer than 140 chars anymore.

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2009-04-26T10:58:00.002+05:00

Learning how to draw manga. Proficiency: 1/10. Now know how to draw eyes, lips, hair.

2008-12-02T01:23:00.001+05:00

i have got nothing to say. thought i will blog about it.

your job and you

2008-09-17T20:24:00.006+05:00

what a shitty joblehman brothers file for bankruptcy, the us feds bail aig out, and oil hits less than $100 a barrel. a month back there was news about citibank selling its flats in mumbai to raise capital. and what's the most common reaction i see in people around me?everyone's happy; in a sadistic way. but happy nonetheless. it is the kind of happiness that comes when australia loses a cricket

Agony aunt

2008-09-17T20:13:00.000+05:00

Trip.

2008-09-03T11:51:00.001+05:00

I got woken up by the persistent knock on my door. It was pitch-dark and I could not help wondering who could it be at the door. A glance at my cell-phone told me it was a little before 4 am. Knock. Knock. I went to open the door, anxious. There were two of them at the door: L and F. As if not to lose any time, F blurted out: "Dude, we are going to Goa."I just stood there, pondering over the

Difference between Yahoo and Google

2008-09-01T14:01:00.002+05:00

π

2008-08-21T10:17:00.003+05:00

Incidentally, I know upto 15! Something I memorized when I was in my 8th standard and remember till now. Does that make me a ****?Image courtesy: ToothPasteForDinner

2008-08-07T20:18:00.003+05:00

Every once in a while, you decide to be completely true to yourself, what your innermost desire is, and discover that to be the toughest thing to do. Granted, it is indeed a really tough thing in itself to find what you absolutely want. And the way to discovering that is finding out what you don't want for sure, and avoiding that. Again, if what you abhor conflicts with what someone else does

Working from home

2008-08-06T00:18:00.000+05:00

2008-07-27T00:41:00.002+05:00

you can't even cry

Guess

2008-07-16T15:23:00.002+05:00

CH: Your wallpaper - is it a boy or a girl?Me: You can take 3 guesses.

The Rise and Fall of the Tummy.

2008-07-04T13:54:00.004+05:00

I have gained a lot in the past one year. 8 kg, to be precise. Or 12.5%. My weight had constantly hovered around the 63kg mark in my entire under-grad days. 4 months into my job, I had gained 2 kg, and another 8 months later, extra 6 kg. The progression is definitely more than arithmetical. (I haven't plotted it, but it might turn near exponential!)I am not that scared of the current state I am

This and that

2008-06-23T13:49:00.001+05:00

I have been encumbered by some heavy clouds of thoughts hovering over my head. It had to eventually rain. And what better place to rain it on than my fertile blog.Saw Tashan a few days back. I don't see why there's a big hue and cry about 'Size Zero' (courtesy Bebo). I can't fathom what's so cool about looking like a stick? A woman should look like a woman. This is not to say that people should

The future is here...

2008-06-18T13:38:00.002+05:00

First 35 to familiarity

2008-06-13T20:04:00.001+05:00

I think I can control my anger. And that makes me nervous.Sometimes, when things don't go my way, I try to think it is all a joke. But it doesn't seem so funny even when I try.I suck at keeping in touch with people.I have no explanation for that.I would prefer a quiet night in a park to a party with a multitude of people.I think life has been quite fair to me till now. It makes me scared.I think

Words

2008-06-13T19:59:00.000+05:00

bored, football, censored, funny, incredible, hungry, pop-up box, scared, romeo and juliet, dire straits, pink floyd, music, insti, memories, wing, hostel, godav, saras, jam, change, night, movies, dcc++, search, net, chat, epao, closure of net, torrent, nift, party, beach, people, fake, dislike, keep in touch, lose touch, new people, books, schumacher, realize, federer, *****, bengali, punjabi,

Echo

2008-04-21T14:57:00.000+05:00

A monk asked Hogen, "I, Echo, ask you, Master. What is Buddha?"Hogen said, "You are Echo."Link

100 suba post

2008-02-18T21:25:00.004+05:00

Does it creep anyone else out a little that 'ten years ago' refers to 1998?

Being honest

2008-01-24T09:13:00.000+05:00

How is it important to be honest? How different is it to be honest with one’s self and to be honest with others? How much is others’ perception worth while determining someone’s honesty? Isn’t it possible for someone to be completely honest with himself and yet dishonest in the eyes of others? If someone chooses a place where he can be all alone with himself, a place where no one else can touch,

Ctrl C , Ctrl V

2008-01-22T10:34:00.000+05:00

# How do you extract iron from Hema Malini?Get her drunk. Then she'll get tight. Now u have hema-tite. You can extract iron from that.# son: mom, what's there to eat?mom: hum eat ka jawaab pathhar se denge# Two paint tankers, one carrying red paint, and one carrying purple paint, collide. The sailors were marooned.# Two atoms are walking along. Suddenly one says "oh no! I've lost an electron!""

on writing

2008-01-10T12:11:00.000+05:00

“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.” - Terry Pratchetti'm alone and i have time to kill. i want to write about something, anything. i'm just unable to decide on what. (should it be 'decide on what' or 'decide what on'? i need a wren and martin!) a lot of things have tempted themselves before me, for me to put them in writing. for example, i could write about what i did today,

Getting ready

2008-01-08T23:59:00.000+05:00

No Smoking

2008-01-08T22:39:00.000+05:00

(This post contains spoilers - a lot of them. Not that it should matter when you decide to watch the movie!)"To be is to do"--Socrates."To do is to be"--Plato. "Do be do be do"--Frank Sinatra thus the movie began. And it had me enthralled from then and there! Two people had recommended it, which is my usual criterion for watching a movie. I was warned of the movie being a ‘mind-warp’ and was

Sunday evening

2008-01-08T11:09:00.001+05:00

BeforeAfter

2007-12-19T18:56:00.001+05:00

s or t?? ah! wht a dilemma!!

Evanston updates

2007-12-17T13:42:00.000+05:00

The place has taught me how to greet ‘Hi’ to one and all without any awkwardness. I’ve always felt sort of ill at ease when people greet me on roads, more so if I’m not too familiar with the person. Indeed, my most hated moment in flights is when a beautiful, well made-up stewardess greets me with an uncomfortable cheerfulness. I’m the sort of person who would look at the person from a distance

The Bird People in China

2007-12-15T06:52:00.000+05:00

(this review is posted simultaneously at reelsuave. thanks to the editor, john, for his effort. visit reelsuave to discover some extraordinary cinema.)“And again I slept thousands of times, but I have never seen a dream of myself flying.” It is one of those movies you are scared of writing about lest you might end up robbing the reader of the joy of discovering the movie by himself. I strongly

2007-11-26T12:51:00.000+05:00

ColdA clear moonlit skyAnd still, my senses becomeThis warm winter night.I crave for some sleepThe air stirs reluctantlyAnd your thoughts blind me.While across the seas,The snow falls incessantlyDo you feel the cold?(Written on 26th January, 2005)FateI drifted down the meandering river,Unaware of the curves of time.With the current ,my spirits heightened and fell;I was too meek to swing my

A day in Haiku

2007-11-07T13:44:00.000+05:00

(In 3-5-3 ‘s and 5-7-5 ‘s) (1) Smoke, risingBlends with the earlyMorning fog (2) Facing left, she sitsLit in the warm winter sunBut her eyes – brighter (3) Rain, lashingA leaf falls, dancingIn the wind (4) Dreams nestledInside anotherIn sound sleep (5) The sway of the swingIn the night’s moulded darknessSilent, but the creak.

Movi(e)ng thoughts...

2007-11-06T12:02:00.000+05:00

I wish I could frame myself in a movie – a movie that captures every moment of my life, every day. There are times when u believe u’ll get a better picture of a situation if u were in someone else’s shoes. Looking from a third (or second?) person’s perspective at me doing something will certainly give me more insight into the state of affairs. This solves a certain dilemma – when u need someone’s

2007-09-28T20:22:00.000+05:00

And I'm ;aughing as ever!!

...and back!

2007-09-11T16:43:00.000+05:00

You might want to read To Vizapur before reading this post.The place is a beauty - very much untouched by civilization (apart from the ruins of the fort itself). The undulations of grass-covered land offer a vision of tiny hillocks waiting to be explored. There are small ponds of fresh water. For the perusal of the army, we concur. The flag was now in our reach and it now looked certainly

To Vizapur

2007-09-11T16:39:00.000+05:00

The PlanWe leave Pune around 10:00 am in the local train, reach Malawali in an hour, do some peaceful trekking, come back home before it is dark.The ExecutionWe leave Pune at 1:30 pm, on bikes. Isi assures us we’ll reach there in half an hour. Half an hour stretches to an hour and another half an hour more, before we reach the place.We lose no

A butterfly and the wind

2007-09-03T22:49:00.000+05:00

I sensed the wind coming from a distanceSteadying, preparing myselfTo battle against itOr was it to welcome it?She came with the wind,Taking me by surprise –Complete, pleasant, jittery.My wings hurt as I tried to steady myselfMy strength ebbed.Was it an illusion?My senses cheating on me?But I saw myself – or a part of me..I can, still.I moved to touch her – but my limbs were immovable,

Thoughts

2007-08-26T11:32:00.000+05:00

I have quite a few Thoughts born in the recent months waiting to be put down in words – like a bunch of small rats jostling for a place inside a small cage, waiting to get out. Tough for me that way, don’t you think? Form a queue, I tell them. I’ll give each of you an opportunity to present yourself. Let’s make this an organized affair, shall we? All right. ‘Without further ado’ and all such

we r the champions (ii)

2007-01-07T22:40:00.000+05:00

(standing (from L to R) - raj, sandeep, senti, prasanna, yahoo, vivek, popa, l2, lpdon't know what he's doing - bobokneeling/squatting/sitting (from L to R) - fm, pogo, G, talli, deja, soody/shaggy, shampoo)i've taken my bows and my curtain callsyou brought me fame and fortuneand everything that goes with iti thank you allbut it's been no bed of rosesno pleasure cruise- queen ( we are the

Haha

2006-11-28T10:29:00.000+05:00

Gunda II

2006-10-05T21:50:00.000+05:00

If you are searching for the epitome of a pure Bollywood movie, go home and have a hot drink of coffee, or whatever you do when your search for the epitome of a pure Bollywood movie is over. For, I have here a movie that every bollywood movie strives to be, a movie that a Karan Johar or a Ram Gopal Verma can only dream of making, a movie that’s bound to leave every movie-goer’s every inch of the

Gunda

2006-10-04T09:08:00.000+05:00

“If it were not for Him, I’d have been an atheist.” -God, on Mithun"Dekh! Upar aasman mein! Ek pakshi hai…ek Hawaii jahaaz hai!.. Woh to Mithun hai!” - Junta, on Mithun. [Translated:“Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird...It's a Plane... It's Mithun!” - People, on Mithun ] “On the number line of arbitness, Mithun is infinity.” -

Shaastra coecelanth equivocate s zeppelin durbatuluk

2006-08-26T00:30:00.000+05:00

All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go (to durbatuluk)I'm standing here outside shaastraI hate to wake u up to equivocateBut the dawn is zeppelinIt's coecelanthThe taxi's shaastrablowing his durbatulukAlready i'm so lonesomecoecelanthso equivocate and durbatuluktell me that u'll coecelanthhold me like u'll shaastra (aaaaaa)coz i'm leaving on a zeppelindon't know when i will durbatulukoh babe, i

Google wars

2006-08-24T07:01:00.000+05:00

Coecelanth, shaastra, zeppelin, equivocate and durbatuluk are the words specified for shaastra's SEO competition.

A fishers' family

2006-08-23T08:25:00.000+05:00

Nganthoi woke up, rubbed his eyes, and looked ahead into the day. It was dawn, and time to go collect fish from the net he and his father, Chaoba, had cast the previous afternoon. Nganthoi, like most children in his neighbourhood, had no particular liking for fish.His neighbourhood comprised of a group of around ten floating islands on the lake. Each island was just big enough for a hut (for a

2006-08-07T06:29:00.000+05:00

You have two cows (2 cows) [My tribute to the insti footer team] Aravind G: He likes colorful cows. You will find him in cow races, cow jumps, or for that matter, any cow event that’s going on right now.Yahoo! : Knock, knock.Who’s there?Two cows.Two cows who?Moo. Moo. Talli: Yeh kya haraamipan hai? Two cows ki maa ki ch***. [3 sentences down the line, the

Anger management

2006-07-25T16:58:00.000+05:00

Of late, I’ve started finding faults in people more often that not. I get irritated at things that I would have normally dismissed as silly or unworthy of my attention/thought. In short, I’m getting pained. It’s not so much about people paining me as me getting pained. I see the virian virtue of empathy slowly trickling away from my blood. But I ask, is it for my good or bad?? And how do I even

Test

2006-07-22T01:04:00.000+05:00

An embedded Youtube video. Let's see if this works...P.S. In case it does, can someone strip and flog the guy with the headband??

Maria Maria!!

2006-07-15T00:13:00.000+05:00

An event that surreptitiously went unnoticed behind the World Cup hungama was this year’s Wimbledon. Even Federer’s outrageous performance, which one journalist claimed to be the best performance on grass since Jimi Hendrix's in the 60’s, escaped the attention it deserved otherwise. What did catch my attention was something else. There was something about the two women’s finalists. One had

Manipur Diary

2006-07-13T08:39:00.000+05:00

If there was anything that dictated the way I lived, it had to be the load-shedding routine. It was complicated, and my attempts to completely decipher it proved futile. Roughly, the current came at 8-10a.m., 2-4 p.m. and according to a complex method, it would be decided whether it would come again at 6p.m. or 10 p.m. which would last till 4 or so in the morning. With

2006-07-12T22:21:00.000+05:00

I'm happy!

Right now

2006-05-10T12:53:00.000+05:00

Four years have passed since I entered this institute, and I hardly noticed how things have changed. As I look back and immerse myself in introspection, it seems like the I that was then and the I that is now are different, in ways that I'm aware and in ways that I'm not. Maybe a good way to judge this is to ask someone who knew me well before and haven't been in touch with me for the past 4 yrs.

Bird flew

2006-02-21T15:49:00.000+05:00

The first reported case in Asia was by a Korean poultry farmer. One fine morning, he discovered that one of his chickens was missing, and innocently uttered, “Bird flew.” Den, dey thot da name wasn’t k3wL enuff, and ‘bird flu’ was born. Since then, birds started flying everywhere else, with the latest flights being sighted in France, Nigeria and Iraq, as reported by u-know-WHO.Apart from birds,

2006-02-15T00:25:00.000+05:00

I crave for some sleep The air stirs reluctantly And your thoughts blind me.Scouring the deepeststrata of my memoriesFor a perfect gift.You and me, aloneThe empty skies above, anda tractor, perhaps.(14th Feb.)

Movie marathon II : Koreans attack

2006-02-03T21:35:00.000+05:00

These Korean movies are a revelation. Superb story-telling with some neat acting have made these movies make my list of all-time favorites. Not to forget the beautiful background score that underlines all of them. Memories of murder (8/10) You guessed it right. There’s a serial killer in the movie, but the movie is more about the investigators - two rural cops and a special detective from

This and that

2006-01-31T21:00:00.000+05:00

Imagine a dish that you relish the most. Let’s call it Zoso. Now, you are invited for this dinner and informed earlier that you are gonna be served Zoso. At the dinner, you find a carte du jour of lip-smacking, saliva-enticing food, but you see no sign of Zoso. Your host starts serving you. You start eating. The food is good. But, u want the zoso. The voice of the host is no more than a

Bored in class

2006-01-24T13:20:00.000+05:00

Me:On a rock she sat, with drooping eyesSeparating herself from the liesShe thought, "Oh! How time flies?Shit! My paneer butter masala must be burnt."Jat:Time actually did flyNot just the paneer,rather [the] house itself was burntand so was the baby childand the husband who was blind.Me:You bloody sadist...#Plagiarised:And now the dhabas are changing,new dishes have come and gone,sometimes when I

Lord of War

2006-01-24T13:18:00.000+05:00

Guns. One of the three g’s that have fascinated men over the ages - the other two being girls and games. It might be the image it conjures, or could be the way it gets stuck up in your throat and releases itself nasally when you pronounce the word. I remember reading a thriller, the name and the author of which pass my memory right now, in which a politician was assassinated using a rubber

We are the champions, my friend

2006-01-10T09:55:00.000+05:00

The scores:Leagues:1-0 vs. Delhi0-0 vs. KharagpurSemis:0-0 (4-3 in penalties) vs. MumbaiFinals: 1-0 vs. Delhi We were thus crowned the footer (known as football or soccer to the world outside) champions after a drought of a long 15 years. Oh boy! what a joy it is to be a part of a gold-winning team and what a pride to be a part of a defence that yielded

Ah!

2005-12-06T10:31:00.000+05:00

Home, home againI like to be here when I canAnd when I come home cold and tiredIt’s good to warm my bones beside the fire Having endured 2.5 + 2.5 hours of intensive practice, soaked in the incessant rains, enjoyed an invigorating shower and a scrumptious dinner, and having watched half of a movie (Monty Python and the Life of Brian) that I have been waiting for with bated breath, here I am.

You killed Kenny, u bas%%$*

2005-11-29T13:55:00.000+05:00

“God is dead. Actually, He committed suicide. And the system swept the entire episode under a massive carpet before anyone got to hear of it.” -an atheist from Area51.In our institute parlance, the word refers to someone outstanding, or someone who looks outstanding. God. n. Someone who is outstanding or someone who looks outstanding. (syn. stud). adj. god-level (syn.

2005-11-17T09:57:00.000+05:00

And I choose to be busy.

Waking Life

2005-11-10T11:43:00.000+05:00

A metallic cold seeped through my skin as the muzzle pressed close to my chest, almost touching my ribs. That instant, fear gave me a strength – an infinite strength – that was adequate to displace the gun and make my escape. I ran for my life. Passages, alleys, boulevards blurred past me as I ran, ran and ran. Perhaps, I would have run more had I not hit a dead end. The edge of a cliff, to be

The last meeting

2005-11-05T07:52:00.000+05:00

He heard his name being called in the distance. He recognized the voice; it was Jenny’s. He had wanted to ask her why she was absent today, but before he could say anything, she had started to speak. She never stopped talking once she started talking. “Your van has not come yet”, she observed. His van was late again. These days, the driver was being very careless. He didn’t care much, but

A apwptga pmpt

2005-10-23T09:42:00.000+05:00

Thp gp jtpt tm andtpd wmt? Dmdpmt pdakw mdam amwthmg. Wmt bm pgq gm wmtp pamtp dmp ak g bpd

'Kant' explain[ed]

2005-10-23T09:34:00.000+05:00

Cause: Sunday morning. 8: 30. And u can’t go to sleep. There’s nothing u could be possibly doing. Effect: Blogging. A priori synthetic: When u have nothing to do, u HAVE to do something. A posteriori analytic: Sunday mornings are meant to be spent in the bed. The Transcendental Unity of Apperception: The blogger is unknowable. “I” is aware that there is an “I” subject, or self that

You have two cows

2005-10-23T09:21:00.001+05:00

Unimaginative/Pragmatic people: You have two cows. Light bulb Jokes: How many cows does it take to change a light bulb? Two Absolute Monarchy: The king has two cows. At the end he gets hanged, and so do the cows. Cambodian Communism: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you. Enron Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly

Q&A

2005-10-16T13:04:00.000+05:00

Q: Imagine u are a kid studying in say, 9th or 10th standard. What is more satisfying than going to a reputed institute, playing against their team, and getting to drink lots of cold drinks for free?A: Going to a reputed institute, playing against their team, raping them and getting to drink lots of cold drinks for free.Q: Which one is better, a dreamless sleep or one with a dream?A: Dreaming 4

Visi, vidi, vici

2005-10-10T08:35:00.000+05:00

Four hectic days of Shaastra (arguably the best technical festival in India; those who disagree may google for ‘directions to hell’) just got over. And its end has brought in a terrible lethargy in me. Basically, things are back to normal. Shaastra, to a lot of people in the institute, is a time for an extended siesta. In fact, a lot of people just ‘crash’ through it. For some, it’s a time

8:40 a.m.

2005-10-03T08:24:00.000+05:00

Alarm. Class.Life goes on.

Confessions of a peculiar mind

2005-10-03T03:04:00.000+05:00

It is that time of the day (night?) when my mind works at its weirdest. There’s no-one I can bug in the wing, and that sweet slumber is eluding me. There’s nothing that seems to interest me. My mind is in a maze – not a maze exactly, but…. u know what I mean. I’ve tried doing every possible thing in my book – watched T.V., surfed all my favorite sites, chatted, orkutted, smsed, called, tried

2005-10-03T01:15:00.000+05:00

ding!

Where is my home?

2005-09-28T14:58:00.000+05:00

Was google-earthing..Thought of taking a snap-shot of my place. It's not very clear. But A looks like Kangla-park. The yellow line must be Tiddim Road. And, B sud be my place (the circled part is the airport).Nostalgia!!

A dream

2005-09-25T15:18:00.000+05:00

i was hugging heri slepti dreamti was carrying hershe was a childi woke upi was hugging her

Because We Can

2005-09-25T15:10:00.000+05:00

“I was floating above heaven; I think that’s why nothing made sense.” “Do you hear yourself? You’re not making any sense!” “I know, it sounds crazy, but I’m telling you, the only reason we didn’t know is because we brought it with us.” “What?” His fists had unclenched he was interested again. Johnnie just smiled, ” Earth.” There was a long pause, the interrogation had

Why?

2005-09-25T15:06:00.000+05:00

Within Dreary feelings,A gleaming hope? Creepy blackness,A rousing light? Countless dialogues,A concealed cause? Blatant angerA hidden calm? Seeming dislike,A fervent love? Lifeless history,A pristine start?

For those who came in late..

2005-09-25T14:54:00.000+05:00

For those who came in late and early in my life. For those moments of solitariness and ruminations. For the times when ive searched for the "real" me . For the times when ive doubted myself and others . For the times when ive felt really alone n yet so much belonged to someone. For my happiness and for others . For the trying times that lay ahead of me. For those who know me or want to know me.

Yum yum

2005-09-17T10:19:00.000+05:00

A dosa fest, it was called. What i saw was this: 10+ varieties of dosas, a couple or two of uttapams, 250+ students and an unending queue. But it was a welcome change in the mess, especially after being treated to food that have an inherent enmity with ur appetite, day in and day out. There was a bit of an apprehension about the quality of food to be served in the fest, after reading those

The striker’s dilemma

2005-09-15T09:16:00.000+05:00

My cell-phone rang in the now familiar ‘There she goes’ tune. However, I had no intention of attending to the call, precariously poised as I was, and engrossed in a game of Counterstrike (though I admit I am a novice still of the game). Though my right foot was firmly rooted to the ground, my left foot was on my desk, beside my keyboard. Three of my fingers were hovering excitedly over the keys a

Jobless!!

2005-09-12T08:50:00.000+05:00

Edited: Post-dinner, 13th September. I have been staring at this Josie Maran (bet his dad is a terrorist, the bomb that she is) wallpaper for a few minutes now, contemplating my next course of action (or inaction). Decided to add these reflective comments to this post, which i didn't have time for, before.A cancelled class..a novel that just got over..and a jobless me!!Your Outrageous Name is:

Jokes apart.

2005-09-08T20:36:00.000+05:00

Jokes can be pretty funny sometimes. Once, a particularly profound joke of mine exacted a response more than I bargained for. The victim murmured something that sounded like, "You bloody…", and as he searched for a suitable qualifier/noun, the following images flashed by in front of him, all in quick succession – pig, butter, girl, rice, puke, football, Maria Sharapova, a dog, a chappal, puke,

Two fags and a boat

2005-09-08T20:24:00.000+05:00

(Please read the post above before reading this) A guy is traveling alone in a boat. He has two fags, but has nothing to light them with. Assuming the cigarettes he has are not Gold flake lights, how does he get to light a cigarette? Sol #1. He throws one of them into water. The boat becomes lighter Sol #2. He starts praising one of them. The other burns out of jealousy. Sol #3. He

The shaggiest shaggy dog story ever

2005-09-08T20:20:00.000+05:00

(Please read the post above before reading this)A kid found a stray dog on the road. It started clinging on to him. So, he brought it home and showed it to his mom."Mom, isn't that the shaggiest dog you ever saw?" he asked."Why yes, that is the shaggiest dog I ever saw!" said the mom. "I will show it to ur dad.”His mom showed it to her

First Fifty to Familiarity

2005-09-01T08:47:00.000+05:00

You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was "but we've always done it this way." A million dead people can't have been wrong, can they? --Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant Two hours to go before the next class, and I’m unable to crash. So here I am, again. I stumbled upon this simple, crisp format in some blog and thought I could put it to good use. So

Movie Marathon

2005-08-29T22:10:00.001+05:00

It’s fun watching movies. And it’s more fun watching three movies at one go. Scouring the insti LAN for movies is fun too. But not so much as watching them. This weekend, we decided to have a movie marathon. And I was the eventual winner (there was no one left in the end but me). We started off with Heist(7) - a movie about gold and greed. Cross, double-cross, twists, turns and a

4 haikus

2005-08-27T12:50:00.000+05:00

(1)A blank stareAn unmoving screenAnd I wait (2)Rain-drops bringVague, still memoriesA faint touch (3)At night – aPassionate embraceMy pillow (4)Purring lionDumb at times but thisDiamond shines

I am God

2005-08-25T07:39:00.000+05:00

This is the height of noodliness!! The ‘Flying Spaghetti Monster’ is the overlord of a new parody religion- ‘Pastafarianism’. (Remember the famous Rastafarian Bob Marley, anyone???). Wikipedia has more. Some interesting ‘facts’ about the religion – Prayers are ended with the word Ramen rather than Amen.Like the noodles they worship, Flying Spaghetti Monsterists have flimsy moral

Cogito ergo dolero

2005-08-24T17:11:00.000+05:00

"It seemed that thinking about almost anything led to a dilemma, and where you had a dilemma you had this little pucker between the eyebrows." - Kate Grenville, "The Idea of Perfection"When faced with an inevitable predicament, there’s no need to brood over it. You stop thinking about it, you stop worrying about it. Why bother when you know there’s no way out? If u keep thinking, u might even

Chirah

2005-08-21T15:22:00.000+05:00

Chirah in a mood for..umm..err... no idea! Anyways, thanks, big B for the photos!

Unable to sleep: 6 AM

2005-08-19T06:00:00.000+05:00

ding!

Independence Day

2005-08-17T09:00:00.000+05:00

What did i do on Independence Day? Hmmm..let's see if i can answer...11 at night. It was raining cats and dogs. Beach House. 1+ 1/2 vodka. 1/2 whiskey. 4 packs of cigarettes. 8 guys. Rice, scrambled eggs, chutney. Streaks of lightning illuminating the sea for precious seconds, soliciting a cry of awe everytime we saw it. Claps of thunder to add to the drama."It's 12. Hey, happy Independence Day,

What's in a name?

2005-08-13T11:39:00.000+05:00

The little B finally got christened after days of extensive search on the web. It had to start with a 'chi' as indicated in his kuthi (kundali). Some 15 probables were selected including Chiara, Chimera, Chin-Hwang, Chi, Chini etc. Not to mention the Chinese Chins, Chings and their numerous derivatives. Interestingly, the winner turned out to be one from outside the probables list. It's a Persian

New species found

2005-08-12T13:44:00.000+05:00

The insti has always seen a shortage of beautiful members of the fairer kind. We were indeed surprised when we saw a few of them some days back. Laundiya: Arre yaar, mast ladkiyan hai yaar. Teeno ke teeno. Figure wigure sab sahi hai.Me: Kahaan hai yaar?Jat: Kuchh kharidne gayi hai. Main toh ja raha hun andar.Laundiya; Tu bhi jaa, andar hai. I come out after buying 2 sachets of Head & Shoulders.