X'mas... Now and Then.....

X'mas has always been an occasion i look forward to... it's somewhat like your birthday... 363 days of the year, you are totally excited about it, and keep counting down the days... but on the 364th day, you have a pile of work to finish, or some uninteresting place to go to, and on the D-day, you are dead tired that you end up spending the entire day sleeping!!...

After spending the last four consecutive X'mas' in India, yesterday was the first time i attended the Indian midnight service!!... and i gotta tell you this, i was shocked at the shocking difference between the midnight service in India, and that in Muscat!! (i used two 'shocking's in the same sentence... i guess that itself explains how shocked i was!!)... i might be a little embarrassed to say so, but i must say that the more exciting version is definitely in Muscat, a Muslim-dominated capital!!!... atleast the Santa's in Muscat look pretty realistic, and they hand out those amazing 'walking-stick' shaped candies (i don't know whether they have a specific name for those candies... i'm not really into candy nomenclature) that take ages to finish... sometimes you end up chewing on the candy the entire night, and still have half the candy tucked away in the refrigerator!!!... however, in India, the Santa's, with their paper masks and the eclairs they hand out, are definitely a no-no!!!...

The dressing senses are as contrastive as day and night!... in Muscat, there are the 'dare-to-bare' aunties and chicks, and the 'suited-up' men... if you're not in your suit, you're just "oh, one of those mallus".... in India, however, the attire ain't that complicated... if in case you happen to be one of those 'gentlemen' who wear pants and tuck in their shirts on special occasions, you're sure to get admirative glances from all around the church!...

Then, there's the excitement of parking your car in Muscat. the church's parking lot gets filled up, half a day before the service starts!!!... more often than not, you end up parking your car in the temple parking lot, and walking back kilometers... however, in India this time, i was half an hour late for the service, yet i had the privilege of parking right near the church building entrance!!!...

Then, there are the 'angled-dashers' in Muscat... they are those bunch of male kids who are somewhere between the 7th grade and the 11th grade... an hour before the service, an hour after the service, and throughout the entire service, they keep dashing through the church premises for no reason!!!.... they don't exactly run, just walk... walk as fast as they can, with a bounce-y motion... they angle their shoulders in such a way that the right shoulder is a full 20cm ahead of the left one, and it gives you the impression that they're charging at someone, when in reality, they are just walking... walking for no reason... they have nothing to do at their destinations... hell, they have no destinations in the first place!!!... all they do is walk around the church... they only want to make themselves look busy....

Oh and that's the biiiig cake i cut last week for my birthday!

Ah... i guess that's it for now... hope you all have a wonderful X'mas!!!.... with a long list of parties lined up for me, i'm pretty much sure i'll be having fun!

*****MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!*****

BFAM!

everytime we meet, it's "the last time we're ever gonna meet".....
everytime we drink up, it's "the last time we're ever gonna drink up".....
and yet, we do meet up, again, n again, n again....
Thekkedath Ajo Jacob is here!....

ah anyways... goda go....

uhmmmm.... am i forgetting something???
oh yeah.... think tomorrow's my birthday.... blah.....

The Proud Indian

Two minutes of silence and few lines of space.... all i can give on the first anniversary of the Mumbai 26/11 attacks....


our heroes who laid down their lives for the sake of the nation.... We salute you! Jai Ho!

The Past 10 Days

Short Version : Wikipedia... Editorial day out... senior ISMer... house hunting... stupid girl & hot girl... Columbia Pictures... workkkkkk... drencheddddd...

Bet you've understood nothing from the 'short version'... so, here's the.......

DETAIL VERSION (!!!!) : i've been screwing my brain real hard and thinking about what it takes to be on wikipedia (even Sarah Jane Dias is on wiki!!.... she's my senior from school btw... every morning on my way to office, i stare at the huge hoarding with her heavenly face on it... truly a masterpiece!)... i've been seeing too much of wikipedia in the past 8-10 months, that i suddenly feel it's really cool to be featured in the site!

then there was the Editorial Board's day out... my teammates, their boyfriends and good ol' me! (don't ask me what was i doing there! it didn't seem this odd then!)... a quiet movie, preceded by nothing, and followed by nothing.... the movie - Kerala Cafe.... made somewhat on the lines of Dus Kahaniyan, with ten stories and stuff (of course, atleast 8 of the 10 movies were crap in the mallu one... haven't watched the hindi one)... oh, and add to it the joy of meeting a fellow ISMer! (one of Nixxx's friends is an ex-ISMer...).... sigh... i wonder what's going on at ISM these days (in case you're still wondering what ISM is, it's Indian School Muscat)... the last thing i heard about ISM was the "evolution" of the students there... it has become real cool (for the guys) to wear their pants below their knees, and wear bangles covering atleast half their forearm!! (i'd rather not talk about the girls!)... the limits of 'cool'-ness!!....

then there was the house-hunting session with dad... apparently the area i stay in looks like a garbage dumpyard to him... for the first time, he found the interior of my house MUCH better when compared to the exterior!

and finally(!), the (five-hour) bus ride to cochin from home... the stupid girl and the hot girl.... first the stupid girl... a particularly ugly female sitting diagonally in front of me, out of nowhere, suddenly opened up her laptop and started watching movies! (even though it was a perfectly normal thing for a human being to do, it sadly seemed out-of-place to me)... considering the aged men sitting around her, i came to the conclusion that she was trying to impress me... geeeeee... if in case she WAS trying to do so, the sad-ass movie she was watching, was definitely not one that could be used to impress a guy!!! (come to think about it, i wouldn't have been impressed even if she were watchin American Pie!!!)... then there's the hot girl, who was sitting in front of me (ha! she had no idea who was sitting behind her!!)... a striking contrast of the stupid girl... she had such a heavenly voice!! (she was flirting with her boyfriend over the phone almost throughout the journey... sigh....)... the hot girl, her voice and the air-conditioning was putting me in a really embarrassing situation!!...

over the weekend i've managed to make an astonishing discovery that could change the lives of millions across the globe!!... Columbia Pictures... the secret is finally out!!... pick up a movie made by Columbia Pictures... at the beginning of the movie, when they show the Columbia Pictures thingy, with the lady holding the lamp... watch closely next to her right arm... in the clouds, there's an impression of a chubby, sleeping man!!!... i bet none of you had noticed that before!!! (or am i the tubelight here???)

and at the end of it all, i'm back here in office, staring at the wall, visualising my pile of work that's left for me to do... hmmm... i wonder how depressing it would have been if we didn't have computers, and had to stare at actual pile of papers!

sigh.... the rains are back again... along with haunting memories... why?? why?? why?? why can't there ever be a rainless year in india? why can't it snow instead??....

gotta go...... sighhhh......

Payday, Murder and the Indian Restaurant

a month of work over!!!!!!.... it's finally payday!!!!.... woooooooo!!!!.... my first pay!!!!!.... (i hope my teammates have forgotten about the treat i promised them!!!... or rather made me promise them!!!).... i can't wait to see the five-digit balance in my account!!!.... it happens only on rare occasions.... like when i'm shifting houses and need to pay the owner's advance, or when i had to pay my college fees....

oh... then of course there's the murder part!!!!.... it's nothing actually related to a murder.... let me elaborate.... i've been to a couple of interviews so far... and i have to admit, the question that has left me totally bamboozled at all interviews is "Tell me about yourself"..... i have never been able to figure out the right answer to that!!!!.... before every interview, the only question i prepare myself for is this!!!.... and yet... at the interview, when the dreaded question arrives, i'm blank!!!!.... luckily for me, this time round, at the interview, they forgot to ask me the question!!!... (perhaps that is why i got in!!!!....).... instead they substituted that with another deadly question.... "What type of books do you read"??...... the fact that i read only books related to psychopath killers has led my mom to come to a conclusion that i'm a psychopath and will make a fine serial killer some day!!!!.... i guess the interview panel thought the same too, when i told them about my taste!!!.... and today, i just consolidated the fact!!!.... i was the only person in office today.... my CE walked in later, and found me laughing to myself!!!!.... luckily, he was amused, and didn't take it otherwise (i think!!!)....

and finally.... the Indian Vegetarian Restaurant....(or is it just the Vegetarian Restaurant???... most of the vegetarian restaurants are Indian, or have Indian staff!).... after staying in Chennai for so long, i'm always under the impression that all veg restaurants are run by tamilians... so whenever i walk into a VR (even in kerala!), even if the waiter talks to me in malayalam (or some language other than tamil), i still end up saying "anna... konjum thanni.... oru masala dosa"!!!.... anyways.... since i'm on a crash diet (like duh!), i've been sticking to veg food for sometime.... long enough to have made a survey and a very important conclusion.... it's about the chutney.... or whatever re-serves (like sambhar etc.) you can get, without paying extra.... first of all, chutneys are never served fresh.... if a chutney is prepared today, it hits the serving dish only from tomorrow (onwards)!!!.... so whenever you ask for a refill of chutney, if the waiter makes a face equivalent to why can't this guy just leave, it means the chutney was just prepared the day before... however, if the waiter repeatedly comes to you and keeps refilling your chutney, it means the chutney is atleast three days old!!!.... so, the next time a waiter keeps refilling your chutney, don't think that he was born into a nice kudumbam, and that he's living upto his family's great name!!!.... he's only trying to get rid of the old chutney in the kitchen!!!!.....

peace out!!!

Last Days & First Days

Finally!! change has arrived... my last day at TIME, first day at Au Courant Publishers, and most importantly, the last day of the Crazy Bus Guy!...

It was definitely an emotional farewell yesterday at TIME... i got extremely emotional after my wallet got half emptied after my farewell treat... hehe!!!... anyways, it was time to say goodbye to TIME... (ok... that was lame!)... oh... TIME stands for Triumphant Institute of Management Education.. i don't know whether i should be calling the guy (who coined the abbreviation) a genius or a nuthead!! so... that's it about my time at TIME! (again... L.. A.. M.. E..!!!!)

Then, there's the Crazy Bus Guy... thankfully, i won't be seeing anymore of him... ok here's the story about the CBG... since my mom thinks that i'm crash-prone, she wouldn't let me take the car to classes... so i used to commute by the local blue buses... (blue is such a pleasant colour on the buses... i seriously have no idea why buses in TN are coloured an irritating green... but then, Tamlians never had any sense of colour... their favorite colour is fluorescent yellow!!!... one of the apartment buildings i stayed in (during college days), was fluorescent pink!!... i used to get blinded everytime i went home!!... another thing i've never been able to figure out is why, in the whole of kerala, only Cochin's buses are red... and that too, not a mellow, pleasant red, but a red colour similar to the colour of paan that has been chewed and spat!) (speaking of buses, Muscat used to have those massive air-conditioned beauties that used to run with a sound like wind blowing through trees... though i've never got into one.. in all those years!!!.... ha!!!.. who needs them anyways in Muscat, when every Tom, Dick and Harry owns a Hummer or atleast a Corolla!!!).. now, in front of my TIME coaching centre, there's a traffic signal... all i have to do is step out of my bus and walk a few yards to the building... but if the signal's green, it's a long way back!.. on my first day in the bus, as the bus was approaching the signal, i was about to get up and get out of the bus, when another guy jumped up from his seat and got to the floorboard before me and waited, under the sign that read (in bold) "DO NOT STAND ON THE FLOORBOARD", for the bus to stop. the bus stopped, and he got down... and just as i was about to get out, the signal turned green and the bus sped off... i cursed the guy, and was determined to beat the guy the next day... so the next day, i got up well before the signal, and stood on the floorboard under the sign that read, in bold, "DO NOT STAND ON THE FLOORBOARD"... (sigh... we indians nah... perhaps if the sign read "PLEASE STAND ON THE FLOORBOARD", no one would have bothered to go even close to the floorboard!!)... but it wasn't a "sunny" day for me that day... the signal was green and the bus didn't slow a bit... so, neither me nor the CBG got down... (the funny thing about bus drivers is that if they see someone trying to get down from a bus, they step on to the accelerator and speed up the bus as much as they possibly can... like as if they're trying to make the whole situation more thrilling... perhaps they enjoy watching a guy jump off the bus and run straight into a lamp post, or get run over by a car!!!...).... this went on for a couple of days... everyday i would reach the floorboard first, only to find out that the signal was green... around the tenth time or so, the CBG got to the floorboard much before i did, looked at me, said "why do you keep trying?!!", and gave me a look that was the equivalent of "if you dare to get out of the bus before me once more, i swear i'll be eating your intestines for dinner!!"... that's the Crazy Bus Guy for you!!!... i'm very much relieved that my intestines are still intact, and that i won't be seeing him again!!!

Monday's my first day at Au Courant Publishers.... hope everything goes smooth and fine!!....

All In A Week's Time

so much has happened this week!!!!.....

first of all, my fifth tooth.... bang!... gone!!!!.... a fifth extraction.... (i must be closing in on the records for the most number of extractions!!!!).... this one being the most messiest of all.... i got stitches in my mouth.... oh god! the sight of the doc sewing away into your mouth, and then later on feeling the bunch of thread in your mouth... i wouldn't exactly call it a delightful experience!!!....

then there was the visit to JJ's.... as usual, the sleek bottle of Romanov was waiting for me at his place!!!!.... ah.... such a pleasure!!!.... anyways this time things didn't exactly go real smooth for me.... with all the puke and stuff.... i've taken up a cagg and have decided to firmly stick to it!!!!.... i really hate it when things end up with puke.... the worst part with me is that, even though i always aim correctly for the commode, it just ends up all over the toilet (floor and walls!!!.... and my clothes... sometimes).... things get real ugly if you puke in your sleep and manage to not realise it!!!.... then, in the morning you end up waking in a pool of puke and your shirt'd be caked with dry puke.... i guess i need not go into the details about the odor!!!....

and finally... my broken nose.... on my bus ride back home.... as usual i was sound asleep.... drooling on mine and my co-passengers' shirts..... and then BAMMM!!!!.... the stupid driver slammed the brakes!!!.... and BBBBAAAAAMMMMMM!!!!!..... my head went flying forward and crashed into the bar in front of me.... i'm not sure whether my nose is actually broken.... but i can surely feel something very freely moving around in my nose.... and the pain is a slight preview of hell!!!!.... but i'm too scared to go to a doc and get the thing scanned.... i can barely imagine a doc sewing away into my nose!!!!........

Sadhya For Thought.... (warning.... might cause severe indigestion!!!!)

~It's that time of the year again!!!... the only time when mallus feel more important than the Rest of India!!... it's Onam, baby!!!!... Onam Ashamsakal to all mallus around the world.... it's the time for mundus, white sarees, mallipoos, delicious sadhya (for those non-mallus who don't know what sadhya is, it's not the name of some girl!!!!... [hmmmm.... if it were so, "delicious sadhya" would have been much more interesting!!...], sadhya is malayalam for the "feast" they serve during Onam).... wait a minute! did i just say "delicious" sadhya??!!!... trust me, it is far from delicious!!!.... rice (belch! i hate rice!), sambhar, rasam, hundreds of pickles (well.... not exactly 'hundreds'!!!...) with some more garbage.... EEEWWWWW!!!!.... half reminds me of the horrors of life in Tamilnadu!!!.... the only thing missing, however, is a dosa!!!... lol!!!... why can't all festivals be like Christmas, where wine, chicken and glamour make up the entire festival??!!!.... sigh.... the woes of a Christian mallu!!!.... (oh by the way, in case you can't find me in the pic, the guy who looks aged and bored on the extreme left.... that's me)

~I've been conducting an intense survey of Indian culture, and i've come to the conclusion that mallus are the most culturally open people in India!!... you take any show, be it reality or live, at least 90% of the songs sung or danced to are either hindi, english or tamil!!!... now, like all indians, even mallus have the habit of planting a huge box speaker right outside your door and blasting your ears during festivals... ok, now the bomb!!... this time around, guess whose songs were playing for Onam.... none other than the legendary Daddy Yankee!!!!... (haha!!!... i must be the only guy so far to have called the guy a legend!!!...) let me remind you that these people who are in charge of blasting your ears do not exactly form the middle or the upper echelons of society... hmmm.... DY seems to be making waves in rural India!!!... lol!!!...

~Ok... let's have some fun with words... hmmmm.... let's start with FUNERAL... rearrange the letters and what do you get???.... REAL FUN!!!.... and what does that imply???... Funerals can be loads of fun, or, it could also mean that having real fun could end up in your funeral!!!!....

~Indians are the most suspicious people in the world... they don't even trust their car keys!!!!.... they walk a few yards away from the car (like as if expecting the car to blast in flames when the lock button is pressed), lock their cars using the remote and then walk back to the car and go around all the four doors making sure all the doors are really locked!!!.... i don't really get the point of having a remote key then!!!!....

~Gone are those days when Super Glue used to be the unrivalled champ when it came to fixing broken stuff.... the other day, something broke in my house and i had to rush to the supermarket to get some glue.... my head began spinning when i saw the number of choices!!!.... there was Mr. Fix, Ms. Fix, Quick Fix, Ultra Fix, Magic Fix..... i closed my eyes, quickly grabbed Ms. Fix and ran out of the place....

~Why do almost all music records come with a bonus track???!!!!.... why can't they just include the "bonus track" as a normal last track????.... why the bonus????.... what good deed did we mortals do, to deserve such a huge bonus???!!!!...

~There's this new facewash ad in which a female (must admit that she's pretty!!!!) keeps throwing coloured water onto the screen.... perhaps they thought that we'd duck thinking that the coloured water is going to come right through the screen and splash onto our faces!!!... Idiots!!!... they have no idea how intelligent we are!!!.... anyways.... what's weird about the ad is that the soundtrack goes like this: if you think i'm fresh, i'm fresher than you think!!!!... uhmmmm..... doesn't that mean that the female is very fresh, but after using the facewash, she doesn't look as fresh as she actually is????!!!!!

~Suffering from lack of concentration???.... what are you waiting for???.... here's the ultimate remedy.... listen to Xzibit's Concentrate, and watch all your concentration troubles vanish!!!....

~Ever wondered why we don't have coke-vending machines in India???... it's because the primary requisite for the CVM is a crisp and clean currency note!!!.... so, obviously, how would it work out when more than 80% of the currency notes currently in circulation in India closely resemble soiled underwear??!!!!... perhaps a good idea would be to introduce CVMs that use coins instead of notes.... that would also help in eradicating poverty in India!!!... wondering how???.... since it uses coins, beggars would take out couple of coins from their daily collection and get themselves a can of coke... this way, together with the garbage they eat, the combination provides the ultimate unbalanced diet!!!.... thus, eventually, the beggars start dying and lo!... no more poverty in India!!!!...

~I've been watching a lot of CSI lately... kinda love the way they say "DB" for a dead body... makes dead bodies sound really cool and complicated....
Oh... and by the way, i've been seriously considering spending my retired life in Miami instead of the Bahamas (thanks to CSI!!)... atleast i'll have a hot coroner examining me in case i get murdered!!!!....
But the problem is the damn attire.... just every damn person walks around in white clothes... white shoes, white pants, white shirts, white caps.... so damn blinding.... even the polished and shiny black niggers (somewhat like the singer Akon) wear white!!!.... it's always either a plain white shirt or a white shirt with big orange or blue flowers on it!!!... that sucks!!!... i always wanted to walk around in a lungi and a vest when i get old!!!.... it's much more easier to take off a lungi, in cases of sheer emergencies, than the traditional unbuttoning, unzipping and pulling down!!!....

~ok... i know this may come as a shock to many, but i still gotta tell you... i've been going through couple of CAT papers lately.... and.... yeah... i'm giving CAT this year!!!!.... my fortune tells me that something unexpected is going to happen to me towards the end of this year, and that it's going to change my life forever!!!!... so i'm expecting to murder the CAT this year!!!.... lol!!... ok here's a question from one of the CAT papers.... now remember.... the question is exactly word-to-word and i'm not making it up!!!....
Ms. Rima leaves a station at 5pm and goes south on the highway at an average speed of 50kmph. Mr. Tony, her lover, leaves the same station at 5.30pm and chases her at an average speed of 60kmph. Mr. Tony will
a>overtake his sweetheart at 7.30pm
b>overtake his sweetheart at 8pm
c>be 25km behind his sweetheart at 5.50pm
d>catch up with his sweetheart at 7.45pm
now.... doesn't something seem oddly out of place here????..... (for those jerks who're actually working out the question, the answer is (b) )

~couple of days back, i happened to watch "Tamil's first superhero movie"... ha!... i must admit that it was insanely superheroic of me to have wasted 40bucks and 2.5 precious hours of my life!!!.... honestly speaking, it was Shreya Saran's hot hairdo that pulled me towards the movie (everything else repelled me!).... ok, SS did do her part of 'heating up' the movie, but then.... there it was!!!!.... back again!!!..... her stupid belly dancing!!!!... why does she belly-dance in each and every movie???!!!!.... it's making me sick in the stomach!!!!.... ah... guess we can do nothing about it!!!.... anyways... the movie was about a CBI officer who doubles as a superhero in a cock's (i mean the rooster!!!!.... no pun intended!!!....) costume... all i can say is, you really have to be a superhero to sit through the whole thing!!!.... oh.... not to forget.... the name of the movie..... KANDASAMY..........

Keep Off The Grass!!!!!

people!!!.... my poetic genius is back in action!!!... this one's loosely based on Afroman's Because I Got High... so i might suggest you listen to the song before you read this to help you get the rhythm right....

I always wanted to be a clean guy
before i got high
but then fags n booze i began to buy
'cos i wanted to get high
now my life is half screwed up
n i know why!!!
hey hey.... 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high.....

I wanted to get into MIT
until i got high
i got into a crap indian university
then i got high
now 4 years of my life got screwed
n i know why!!!
hey hey.... 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high.....

I dreamt of dating a Brit chick
before i got high
ended up with a dumb skinny prick
n then i got high
now my brains are half "banged" out
n i know why!!!
hey hey.... 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high.....

I wanted to top in college
until i got high
realised i was a dumb cabbage
so i got high
now i'm a jobless engineer
n i know why!!!
hey hey.... 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high.....

I wanted to own an expensive car
before i got high
but i still can't even afford to go to a decent bar
so i got high
my pockets are absolutely empty
n i know why!!!
hey hey.... 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high.....

Last week i was out n got caught by cops
cos they thought i was high
i wanted to, but didn't call my pops
'cos i was high
so i spent a night behind bars
n i know why!!!
hey hey.... 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high.....

i wanted to start my own business
until i got high
but my job-hunting's causing me dizziness
so i got high
now i'm jobless, penniless n homeless
n i know why!!!
hey hey.... 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high.....

i wanted this poem to be a few lines more
before i got high
but my brain is already sore
'cos i'm high
so i'm gonna wrap this shit up
n i know why!!!
hey hey.... 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high, 'cos i got high.....


hehe.... i can relate to most of the stuff!!!.... except that i've never been behind bars, and i'm not homeless.... lol!!!!....

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always remember....
alcohol is fun...
smoking kills...
mary jane ain't cool...

Trip 2 Chowdy's

phew!!!!... i'm back from a very much needed trip.... a trip to reinvent myself....
and who better than chowdy aka chowallax aka choxxx!!!!.... ha!!!.... apart from the fact that the guy looks significantly much older, he's still in the league!!!!.... apart from the trip there were couple of "trips" too!!!!.... know what i mean right?.... there... that's chowdy for you on the right......


apart from that, the whole trip was kinda jinxed.... getting caught in the middle of the night by cops and narrowly escaping.... the heavy rains.... and the biggest of all, the car's tyre getting blown right in the middle of nowhere!!!..... the threading simply fell out of the wheel!!!!... how cool is that???!!!!









and then chowdy had to change the wheel...




by then we had had enough and decided that the roadtrip was not meant for people like us and headed straight back home, and got back to doing what we're good at!!!!.... lol!!!.... oh.... another highlight of the trip, i had buffalo intestines!!!!.....

yummmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!

Eclipsed!!!!

Sigh.... would you believe it???!!!!.... it's the last total solar eclipse (TSE) of our lives!!!!.... which means we don't get to see another TSE!!!!... oh my gawddddd!!!!.... that's terrible!!!!.... haha!!!.... big deal!!!!..... anyways.... today was the day!!!!.... when the moon shoved its butt in the sun's face.... haha!!!.... (k... this post ain't that funny.... so i've included the "haha's" in between just to make you laugh... kinda like those laugh tracks on the tele sitcoms.... there's this new show (new 'cos i've never watched it before) on tv called 'Two and a Half Men'.... i gotta tell you, the show would've been much funnier if it weren't for the laugh track... it's about two guys with oversized tummies and who keep thinking about food... so, the dialogues go somewhat like this :
Guy 1 : I need to talk to you (Hahaha)
Guy 2 : Let's have dinner first (an even bigger hahahaha)
Guy 1: That's a good idea (Hahaha)
Guy 2 : I wanna have tuna sandwich (hahahahahahahaha!!!!!)
Goddd!!!!!.....).... anyways.... since i couldn't get a live view of the TSE, i had to watch it on tv.... sad.... kerala is such a non-happening place that even solar eclipses don't occur here!!!!!.... so here i was at 6 in the morning, when i should be sound asleep in bed, watching the stupid ninny's scream "Oh my God!!!... There it is!!!!... Isn't it amazing.... the moon looks gorgeous.... blah blah blah....".....

hmmmm.... it was quite interesting actually.... you know, sudden darkness after a few hours of bright sunlight.... it'd have been great if we had eclipses like every alternate day for around an hour.... so people'd have to carry sleeping bags to work or colleges.... and as soon as the sun's off, take a quick one-hour nap and get back to work!!!!..... haha.... weird......................

Close Shave!!!!....

i was at Zara's couple of months back... and i didn't notice the ghost next to me!!!!.... the television behind him is all proof!!!...

RIP MJ

Even though this memorial's come in too late, i guess i need to put this post...
a legend passing away while i'm alive.... doesn't happen too often....
the King of Pop passing away while i'm alive.... doesn't happen too often....
a man born as a black guy, and dead as a white guy.... definitely doesn't happen too often....

i'm guessing by now, even God must have completed couple of lessons in moonwalking!!!!... but still....

RIP MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON
(b. Aug 29,1958 ... d. Jun 25,2009)

Annoyers Top 10

a top ten list of what's been annoying me lately....

1> first and foremost!!!.... people never-endingly enquiring about my job status...

2> the growing number of reality shows on TV...

3> (that reminds me!!!) anusha dandekar's fake accent...

4> people coming in uninvitedly and crashing into my car (3 times in the past 2 months... BUT LEMME REMIND YOU THAT I'M NOT A BAD DRIVER!!!!)...

5> new bloggers who post once or twice and then totally forget about their blog...

6> the requirement for an address proof and an id proof for any crap service you wanna acquire in india...

7> people asking me about VG's future plans and whether i still speak to her, and informing me that she'z become real hot now...

8> i joined twitter recently.... more specifically, yesterday, at 11:45:23 (IST).... and they give you an option to follow the blogs of celebs of your choice.... and i (stupidly) chose to follow Dr. Dre, of all the people!!!!... atleast now i get to know what Dre does every 5mins... here's a sample from Dre's tweets...
10:30 -- i went into the recording room
10:35 -- i sat down and put on my headfones
10:40 -- i began thinking about some good lyrics for Soulja Boy
10:45 -- i wrote them down
holy crap!!!!... now that is some tweeting!!!...

9> MS Dhoni's ads on TV... i just hate the guy... honestly speaking, i hate all guys from Ranchi!!!... (Dhoni's from Ranchi rite???...)

10> the numerous tamil movies that are coming out, with hot heroines and ugly story lines... a friendly piece of advice... never, ever watch a tamil movie with Trisha in it, no matter how hot she looks in it... the movie is sure to be a dud!!!...

11> lack of good "unhealthy" food in india...

12> friends who happen to be very well informed on current matters, and are more than proud to inform the world about their knowledge...
Bet you didn't get my point there... and that's why i decided to give you examples of status messages on facebook.....
- This year's Financial Budget has proved to be really deadly. I can't wait to see how Sensex reacts to this!
- Google Chrome OS is going to be serious competition for Microsoft OS!
- The transfer of C. Ronaldo is a big bonus for Real Madrid
God!!!!... who gives a tiny piece of shit about what these people know???!!!!... why tha heck is the thing known as status message, if what people put up is messages about what's going on in the world???!!!....
But then, again there are stupid people who post status messages like "I made sambhar today" or "I'm so happy that i'm gonna make payasam" or "I'm having thayir saadham".... that's when you know that you've reached your level of saturation and that your brain can't take it anymore!!!!...

13> while we're on facebook, another thing that annoys me is when people reply by 'comment'ing, when you 'post' on their wall... so you end up taking the pain of finding them, going to their profile and searching for their comment...


ok... i just realised that it was a top-ten list, and now i got 13!!!.... gotta go.... tadaaaaaaaaaaaa..........

Flip Aby

today..... i was aimlessly walking down the streets of trivandrum.... all alone as usual.... thinking to myself.... what a wonderful world!!!!..... and then!!!.... it happened!!!!.... something was blocking my way.... and then i looked up.... and who do i see???!!!!..... Mr. Flip Aby.... (k that's not his real name.... but these techno wizkids these days nah... you write any shit about them in any corner of the web, and they'll sniff you out....).... our comp HOD back in ism.... my favourite sir... hands down.... anyways here he was.... with a wife and a kid who looked exactly like him.... lol.... the kid would barely move.... he had to be dragged around.... guess he's already "got a lot of weight on his shoulders"!!!!.... i got so emotional after seeing someone from ism after so long... i had to try real hard to hold back a tear drop... and i did succeed!!!!.. anyways.... he did remember me!!!!.... which i thought was really great.... hmmmm... we didn't do much of catching up.... i didn't talk much.... (i used to be a very quite guy till a few months back.... now.... i'm even more quite!!!!.... if i stood with Flip for five more mins, perhaps he'd have collapsed on the street and gone off to sleep!!!.... i've put people off 2 sleep while i was talking to them over the fone!!!!.... lol!!!!...)....

anyways that's it for now.... i'm off...

Nirvana Nites

hmmmm.... i'd almost quit blogging after one of my close friends told me that my writing makes no sense.... instead, i decided to start writing about the indian government and the stock markets.... but then... all i know about the indian govt is that the same sardar (with all due respect Mr. Singh, no racism intended here... i blame it all on my school... in my school, a punjabi is a sardar, a tamilian is a pandi, a keralite is a malbari, a gujarati is a gujju, and a bihari is always a bihari!!!... lol....) is PM for another 5years, and that some school kid is rural development minister!!!... So!!!!!!.... here i am!!!!... back again!!!!... writing nonsense.... :D

ah... speaking of close friends.... i was going through the Nirvana Nites' fotos.... Nirvana Nites were supposedly THE last parties (of my life.... of my life in chennai rather.... :p)....

Nirvana Nite part-I was on 14th March (this was to mark my last day in college... my project submission day).... at the Baikada House.... Abhi, Ajo, Nandu and me.... the usual people.... since i wasn't "very much in ma senses", i don't remember much.... so, i'll upload the pix, and you can make up the story....


that's the four of us who made it to the party..... (no one else was invited!!....)


abhi meditating before the superchargers were served....


and then the fun began!!!!.....


and i joined in the fun too!!!.....


ajo comes up with a spine-chilling story!!!!.....


and i had to come up with a story of my own too!!!!....


....while ajo took a drinks break....


....and while abhi tried to poke and gauge his eyes out.... (or was he doing something else????.... ok now i'm confused!!!...)

nandu was busy with the chips, so we couldn't manage to get his attention away from the chips and face the camera!!!.....

k... the next couple of pix were taken after we were all super-charged!!!.... :D


Ajo: Nandu, did you piss in my glass????!!!!.... this thing suddenly tastes kinda weird!!!!.....


Ah.... anyways it tastes gudddddddd!!!!!!......


Ah!!!!.... we finally managed to get nandu for a pic!!!!..... the facial expression says it all!!!!.... ajo's pinching nandu's ass as hard as possible.... and nandu's half in pain, and half enjoying it!!!!!.....


and then we went on a long drive.... which none of us remember.... only nandu does.... he was the only guy in his senses!!!....


hmmmm..... looks like abhi's in his senses too!!!!.... he can clearly see the spaceship parked in front of our car!!!....


We're 3rd standard buddies!!!!!.....


And We're 4th year roomies!!!!....

Finally it was abhi's turn to tell us a story!!!.....



Dudes!!!!.... i was going on my bike today and guess what happened!!!.... i came across this chick who....


was this muscular....


and had such massive assets man!!!!!.... phew!!!!.....


Duh!!!!.... Haven't you met khushboo???!!!!!.... (oh.... khushboo is ajo's ex-roomie btw.... a chinky chick!!!... hahaha!!!!.....)

ok.... so that was the end of Nirvana Nite part-I.....

then came Nirvana Nite part-II..... on 18th April.... again at the Baikada House.... (this was to mark my convocation day)....the only difference was that Nandu was replaced by a sheesha stand!!!!.....


the 3 of us....


...and the sheesha stand....



abhi's on fire!!!!.... as usual he's got the white stuff on his mouth....


learning how to do it....


since the sheesha stand wouldn't click pix for us, we had to pair up and click pix two at a time...