Happy Bday RJR!!!

...And so it is... my last few hours as a 22 year old!!... n what does that make me feel???... nothing!... absolutely nothing!!...

Oh, if it serves as any source of excitement, I found out today that I have a relative named 'Pancreas'!!!... now what kind of parents would name their kids PANCREAS???... I can totally understand 'Neil Armstrong', 'Lawrence Kuppasamy' and so much more... but PANCREAS???!!!!... so, what if this guy ends up getting Pancreatic Cancer??... he tells people that he's got a cancer named after him???... how much more stupid can things get????...

For the past few months, I had been going through a streak of good movies when suddenly, out of nowhere, my friend came up and suggested I DON'T watch 'Slayers' aka 'Gamer' (see.. the psychology behind telling someone not to do something is very weird... when you tell someone NOT to do something, chances are very high that the curiosity levels of that person are likely to shoot up... he would definitely want to find out the reason behind the negation... (bah... sometimes I have no idea what I'm talking about, do I...))... there was this one point of time when almost every third movie that came out suggested that you never go on a picnic beyond city limits... because once you crossed city limits, there was a 95% chance that you may either run out of fuel, or get a flat tyre, or get an engine breakdown... and there was also a 90% chance that two of the people in your entourage are sex maniacs (we're talking heterosexual here) who can't leave each other's company... once these criteria are passed, there's a 100% chance that you're going to get attacked by zombies who eat everyone except for the main character and his gurl... this was the state of movies till five years ago... but after that came the "we're-warning-you-about-the-future" genre... where robots/AI take over and people have to simply sit at home, eat McDonalds and grow fat, while their robotic equivalents do their job... and that's what Gamer was all about... well almost... it may have been a wee little more, but I'm not interested in explaining...

Ahhh X'mas' coming up... time again for those fake Santas with those ugly paper masks... I hate the way 'Jingle Bells' is sung in Kerala... it goes somewhat like this... "Jingle Jingle Bells, Uncle Santa Claus, Come Come Come..."... I don't know the remaining... all I know is it's annoying...

I'm not in the greatest of moods today... pretty mind-fugged.....

Girl By The Window

A tattered and torn Good News scripture she held
a subtle smile for the biggest jokes the priest cracked
so near yet so far
I never believed a woman could be so perfectly packed


Right from day 1, I knew she were different
one of those species who'd landed from the 'Gelf'
day 2, day 3, days kept passing by
'Tomorrow's the day' I kept telling myself


Alas, I lost count of the days gone by
it was getting weirder and weirder
till finally the day came when I had to say g'bye
n' I said to myself, 'I still didn't meet her'


Just as I headed for the door
I happened to notice a glance
too late i noticed it was
I should have made good when I still had the chance


'N now, we're two worlds apart
don't know whether I'm gonna see her again
so near yet so far
the only satisfaction is that I'm filled with no pain

N Off We Went Sailing!!!...

The good part about this boat trip was that it wasn't planned way much in advance, that I had to start counting down the days, and by the time the date arrived I would be flat broke, and borrow money from everyone possible and then go on the trip... or wait a minute!... i was broke when i went for the trip!... :P

That was the six of us who went on the trip... since we haven't been seeing much of these people in this blog yet, I'll intro them... Vrinda, Vijay, me, Domnic, Shainu and Laseelan... they are the Cochin Division of my friends network... i like to divide my friends network into the Cochin Division, BFAM Division, B'lore Division, Chowder Division, The Old Men Division and Rest Of The World Division...

It was pretty obvious that I couldn't hide my excitement...

That was from Allepey Beach... though the weather looks pretty pleasant in the pic, it was quiet hot...

Since we hadn't found out yet that we were at the wrong place, we were under the impression that we were early for the boat... so we got around clicking random pics...

While we were busy posing, we forgot to notice what the gurls were up to... and before we knew it...

falling...

and finally...

Once we had had enough, we left for the boat jetty, only to realise that we were at the wrong boarding place when we reached...

An hour later, we finally reached the boat...

Though that's not exactly our boat, ours looked quiet like that... it was only after we got into the boat that we realised that we had forgotten to click the boat's pic... we decided that the nearby boat's pic would suffice...

Inside the boat was fun...

and the view was 'calm and relaxing'... maybe if I were from some other part of India or some other country, I would have used 'breath-taking'...

In the evening, there was the 'fun activities' and then the sleeping (which I guess everyone does, even if they're not on a boat!)...

The next day, we were all set and ready to go... back home...

That's us with the entire boat crew...

It was fun on the whole, and was a much-needed break from all the work I've been doing (and not doing) and the disappointments... I could use ones like these pretty often!!!...

PS: I went fishing too!!!!...