"...Good morning :), its 7 in the morning and I just woke up from a sound sleep, absolutely fresh and raring to go and sipping on a cup of hot tea. :)"
Except thats a big fat lie... :|
i dint sleep...as usual... and just finished reading 'one night @ a call center' by chetan bhagat. The guy is funny, in a very Indian sort of way...and its light reading but i think i cried a couple of times reading it.... my head has gone for a toss ..i cried when i saw '50 first dates' yesterday and i even cried watching the "coldplay...live in concert"...and its not even PMS yet! Most likely, my head needs a transplant!
Anyway, i got out to see what the world looks like early in the morning...and the instant i opened the door to the balcony ...i coughed...(my lungs got a lil baffled i suppose)...but it was quite a pleasant whiff of air ... (its something that we generally overlook, ..but different times of a day have their own peculiar smell...! and early morning smells are pleasant.) However, i saw some tubelights on in quite a few houses and smile of satisfaction spread across my face...after all, there are other ppl like me..Then, sadly, I saw a man walk in his balcony with a mug of tea and a newspaper in his hand... uh huh..So.....they are not like me..they are NORMAL people, who snuggle in their beds by 11 and wake up at 6 dutifully...coz they leave their houses by 7:30 for Infosys!!( I somehow feel half of the ppl in b'lore work for Infosys, and therefore they are all geeks!)
There is a Meenakshi temple very close to where i live, and like all other temples/gurudwaras..there are always bhajans blaring in a very screechy and unpleasant way...(guess, they havent heard abt BOSE speakers...or even if they will ever hear, they'll prefer spending the dough on a 2 kg gold necklace around a statue they think is God himself!!Aiyyo!). Dunno if they are trying to wake up ppl or themselves!
As if this is not annoying in itself, the 'hot tea in a mug' guy decides to play his very own bhajans.... at a louder volume to subdue the bhajans from the temple..! (these tambhis are competitive about everything and they think they are intelligent and all..but actually they are just morons, most probably running on some kind of computerized chip!)And i dont know how this 'mere pass louder bhajans hai' guy's family tolerates him...!
I remember once my dad, in one his weird 'i am devoting myself to religion' phases, started playing 'jagjit Singh' bhajans early in the morning...for almost a week. Me and my sis woke up in such a bad temper throughout the week that he stopped..i think he thought the bhajans were just making things worse instead of 'bringing positive vibes in the house'!
Whatever... who wants to listen to jagjit singh singing "maa..hey maa" in his irritatingly resounding voice at 6 in the morning?!... if u ask me, it just makes u want to add a certain verb after 'maa'.!
So, peoples..please go ahead, pray, but do it in your head or in sound proof rooms!
HMPH..
and another monday begins...
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Thursday, February 23, 2006
What if God was ....................available to talk?
Today, suddenly i had an overwhelming feeling to meet up with GOD over a cup of coffee, (or whatever He drinks) and ask Him:
"So, what exactly are your plans for me?"
I have a feeling that He might take a drag of His ciggarette (or whatever he smokes), and say:
"Well, my child, I am sure..u dont wanna know"
:(
"So, what exactly are your plans for me?"
I have a feeling that He might take a drag of His ciggarette (or whatever he smokes), and say:
"Well, my child, I am sure..u dont wanna know"
:(
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Waah..and waah waah.........and some 'err...ahem..'
Waah- coz my ofc comp is letting me create a blog and not saying "Access Denied" in BIG BOLD RED!
Waah-waah - for something brilliantly brlliant I read in a fellow blogger's blog today:
Dhundley kaanch par do naam,
Aur aadey tedhey se do chehrey,
Ginti ke woh paanch baadaam,
Aur do khilauney andhe behrey,
Bachpaney pe sharmindaa hoon,
Par yeh sab hain to zindaa hoon.
now the 'err..ahem'
I wasnt sure whether this was the blogger's own or she was quoting Gulzar, so dint mention the source in the original version of the blog. And instantly after posting this, i got a comment from her(check out the comments section)... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :O
So, no, it was'nt a deliberate act of 'plagarism' and i hereby offer my heart-felt apologies - "muaafi" - *bows and touches the heart with the right hand in a true indian gesture, asking forgiveness*. (I am a melodrama queen, please excuse!)
So, y'all...the above poem is from Inkspill (see the comment to visit her blog, i dunno her name!), who apparently lives in London but has proved with this soul-touching poem that she is still quite a 'hindustani' at heart.
Dear inkspillz, here is some more truly appreciative and slightly embarassed 'waah waah! waah waah!':">
Waah-waah - for something brilliantly brlliant I read in a fellow blogger's blog today:
Dhundley kaanch par do naam,
Aur aadey tedhey se do chehrey,
Ginti ke woh paanch baadaam,
Aur do khilauney andhe behrey,
Bachpaney pe sharmindaa hoon,
Par yeh sab hain to zindaa hoon.
now the 'err..ahem'
I wasnt sure whether this was the blogger's own or she was quoting Gulzar, so dint mention the source in the original version of the blog. And instantly after posting this, i got a comment from her(check out the comments section)... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :O
So, no, it was'nt a deliberate act of 'plagarism' and i hereby offer my heart-felt apologies - "muaafi" - *bows and touches the heart with the right hand in a true indian gesture, asking forgiveness*. (I am a melodrama queen, please excuse!)
So, y'all...the above poem is from Inkspill (see the comment to visit her blog, i dunno her name!), who apparently lives in London but has proved with this soul-touching poem that she is still quite a 'hindustani' at heart.
Dear inkspillz, here is some more truly appreciative and slightly embarassed 'waah waah! waah waah!':">
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Crank pot
I think I have gone completely nuts… and I just proved that by cooking lunch at 5 in the morning! Was tossing and turning in the bed for 4 hours…. (pubbing+headbanging+6 smokes+3 hours of hindi cinema= migrane!!!) so, I could not sleep and I woke up and thought what to do, coz reading or sitting on the comp or listening to music…only worsens my headaches..! So, I thought of doing some cooking..and while I was at it…I thought “why not experiment with some ‘Microwave cooking’?” (have been using the poor bugger as a reheating machine!) And I tried my culinary skills on all possible vegetables I could find in and outside the fridge! And the result LOOKS quite disastrous…am in no mood to taste it at 7 in the morning. And, strangely enough my headache is gone..! (???!!) I have started ‘Cooking’ to cure headaches??? How sad is that!
However, sat at the comp again to do some charity work for my brother in law! ( I don’t know why I said ‘yes’ to this damn unnecessary slog..! Jij….YOU OWE ME BIG TIME NOW!!)
(Something is really wrong with me coz I made tea, which is not tasting anything like tea or any 'tea like' concoction!) Damn!
No blogging for the past 2 weeks….coz I haven’t been doing much except shaking my head every few hours…(so much that my neck’s hurting..and I think I will have a spondilitis condition soon!)
yesterday…(which is still like today for me coz I haven’t slept) went to a pub called Purple Haze. Had the very usual pub like dingy interiors but music was awesome…after TC, this is the first time I liked the music in a pub..and the marks it lost because of dingy interiors were immediately regained…coz it had huge screens showing the videos of the numbers being played…. So, good job, pub owner…! Keep it up!
The crowd was also good, music enthusiasts with no fuss about clothes and accessories and all the crazy show off like TC. But, then that can also be dubbed as a lil boring, coz when u are not so interested in the ppl accompanying u, u can at least look at other people and make fun of them in your blogs! Huh, anyway….. guzzled beer like a bloody maniac… and felt dizzy with dehydration soon after..! Then, scooted for RDB… and I was so looking forward to watching the movie, but dint enjoy much… I thought it would be fun…but I ended up crying more than a couple of times..and I hate that because its embarrassing and you look very foolish when the lights suddenly come up in the intermission and u are caught with running ‘kajal’ and a solemn look on your face…(some people even give u the ‘c’mon its only a movie’ look!) It’s a well made movie with a not so ‘in your face’ kinda ‘moral of the story’… its left to the audience to make sense of it! However, I wasn’t as much touched by the ‘dying of a flt. Lt….or his mom going into coma, or all the gory killings thereafter…But by the whole depiction of university fun and the scenes of my ‘praanth’;) ! reminded me of my 'bygone' days and the fun we had and the whole culture thing..which we have left faaaaaaar behind…! Especially, after coming to this ‘thambi land’..which like the U S of A has no culture of its own except that it will be called 'Bengaluru' now and i am sure it might jst be mistaken for 'Bengal'by the rest of the world. Also, i asked someone to teach me some kannada to teach a lesson to the freaking auto fellas and he said.. if anyone troubles u, just say 'Simply Adjust Maadi'... so much for kannada...!i rolled my eyes till they were about to fall out of my head... ..!! Morons!!
At work, things have been the same ol boring and have become irritating also because a new fat lady has joined the team…! She is short and fat and has green eyes (which make her look more cunning than she is!) So, this fat cat reminds me of CC… not because of the way she looks but because of the way she talks…she frequently uses phrases like ‘conspicuous by his absence’ and ‘for one fleeting moment’….(???!!!) I don’t know who the fuck are such people are trying to impress….?? Helloooo…The Britishers are long gone ... u morons!
Hmph….. another fucking week ahead and the Monday starts without sleep…!! God help ppl around me… I get very cranky without sleep!
Completely forgot abt the ‘concoction’ and its cold now…DAMN..DAMN DAMN!!
(See… cranky already!)
Till next time…!
However, sat at the comp again to do some charity work for my brother in law! ( I don’t know why I said ‘yes’ to this damn unnecessary slog..! Jij….YOU OWE ME BIG TIME NOW!!)
(Something is really wrong with me coz I made tea, which is not tasting anything like tea or any 'tea like' concoction!) Damn!
No blogging for the past 2 weeks….coz I haven’t been doing much except shaking my head every few hours…(so much that my neck’s hurting..and I think I will have a spondilitis condition soon!)
yesterday…(which is still like today for me coz I haven’t slept) went to a pub called Purple Haze. Had the very usual pub like dingy interiors but music was awesome…after TC, this is the first time I liked the music in a pub..and the marks it lost because of dingy interiors were immediately regained…coz it had huge screens showing the videos of the numbers being played…. So, good job, pub owner…! Keep it up!
The crowd was also good, music enthusiasts with no fuss about clothes and accessories and all the crazy show off like TC. But, then that can also be dubbed as a lil boring, coz when u are not so interested in the ppl accompanying u, u can at least look at other people and make fun of them in your blogs! Huh, anyway….. guzzled beer like a bloody maniac… and felt dizzy with dehydration soon after..! Then, scooted for RDB… and I was so looking forward to watching the movie, but dint enjoy much… I thought it would be fun…but I ended up crying more than a couple of times..and I hate that because its embarrassing and you look very foolish when the lights suddenly come up in the intermission and u are caught with running ‘kajal’ and a solemn look on your face…(some people even give u the ‘c’mon its only a movie’ look!) It’s a well made movie with a not so ‘in your face’ kinda ‘moral of the story’… its left to the audience to make sense of it! However, I wasn’t as much touched by the ‘dying of a flt. Lt….or his mom going into coma, or all the gory killings thereafter…But by the whole depiction of university fun and the scenes of my ‘praanth’;) ! reminded me of my 'bygone' days and the fun we had and the whole culture thing..which we have left faaaaaaar behind…! Especially, after coming to this ‘thambi land’..which like the U S of A has no culture of its own except that it will be called 'Bengaluru' now and i am sure it might jst be mistaken for 'Bengal'by the rest of the world. Also, i asked someone to teach me some kannada to teach a lesson to the freaking auto fellas and he said.. if anyone troubles u, just say 'Simply Adjust Maadi'... so much for kannada...!i rolled my eyes till they were about to fall out of my head... ..!! Morons!!
At work, things have been the same ol boring and have become irritating also because a new fat lady has joined the team…! She is short and fat and has green eyes (which make her look more cunning than she is!) So, this fat cat reminds me of CC… not because of the way she looks but because of the way she talks…she frequently uses phrases like ‘conspicuous by his absence’ and ‘for one fleeting moment’….(???!!!) I don’t know who the fuck are such people are trying to impress….?? Helloooo…The Britishers are long gone ... u morons!
Hmph….. another fucking week ahead and the Monday starts without sleep…!! God help ppl around me… I get very cranky without sleep!
Completely forgot abt the ‘concoction’ and its cold now…DAMN..DAMN DAMN!!
(See… cranky already!)
Till next time…!
Sunday, February 05, 2006
She came, she conquered...................(our hearts!)
(Again sunday, and again some 2/3 am in the morning and no fucking sleep..damn!)
Last week was fun at the workplace (i think that must be one of the rarest sentence ever!). Twas completely dedicated to the 'phirangan', Sandi Rose. (i hope my blog is not Googleable!) Had loads of fun with her (quite opposed to what i thought it would be!)
She cracked me up with her amazing sense of humor. Shes the kinds who can brighten the lives of the dullest people with just a chirpy whole hearted "hello". And I couldnt help but notice how amused everyone from the security guard, to the canteen guy, and even the technology support (the hardest to please)were with her.
The crab and I took her out shopping (in a mall..i know ..how stupid ..! Like she has never seen one in her life.. how Indian that is?)and I thought she would just shop like crazy for 'Indian' stuff.. but she too just like us, rolled her eyes when saw the price tags..and told the sales girl she will come back when she had a second job!
Was quite amused be in an auto rickshaw...and went 'weeeeeee' with both her hands up in the air at every bumpy turn! (which are not very rare in b'lore) And after some time made all of us do it!!
It was fun to explaining her things which are so indian that you have to think twice to translate them effectively such as, how are the 'gulab jamuns' made, and what is 'gutka' ( she thought the packets hanging on all small khokhas were 'condom packs'!)
And on the last day of her stay in India, went out for a drinks and dinner session and laughed our heads off!
Thanks Sandi for lightening up the workplace (and lives to an extent), even if was only for a few days. I'll miss your company :(
Thats the crab, sandi, and me (quite visibly laughing like a retard!)
Back to the boring work and bruce lee and the crab..*sigh*!
Till next time
Last week was fun at the workplace (i think that must be one of the rarest sentence ever!). Twas completely dedicated to the 'phirangan', Sandi Rose. (i hope my blog is not Googleable!) Had loads of fun with her (quite opposed to what i thought it would be!)
She cracked me up with her amazing sense of humor. Shes the kinds who can brighten the lives of the dullest people with just a chirpy whole hearted "hello". And I couldnt help but notice how amused everyone from the security guard, to the canteen guy, and even the technology support (the hardest to please)were with her.
The crab and I took her out shopping (in a mall..i know ..how stupid ..! Like she has never seen one in her life.. how Indian that is?)and I thought she would just shop like crazy for 'Indian' stuff.. but she too just like us, rolled her eyes when saw the price tags..and told the sales girl she will come back when she had a second job!
Was quite amused be in an auto rickshaw...and went 'weeeeeee' with both her hands up in the air at every bumpy turn! (which are not very rare in b'lore) And after some time made all of us do it!!
It was fun to explaining her things which are so indian that you have to think twice to translate them effectively such as, how are the 'gulab jamuns' made, and what is 'gutka' ( she thought the packets hanging on all small khokhas were 'condom packs'!)
And on the last day of her stay in India, went out for a drinks and dinner session and laughed our heads off!
Thanks Sandi for lightening up the workplace (and lives to an extent), even if was only for a few days. I'll miss your company :(
Thats the crab, sandi, and me (quite visibly laughing like a retard!)
Back to the boring work and bruce lee and the crab..*sigh*!
Till next time
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