Weak End

Gahhhh... it's the weekend again... somehow the last weekend of a month is something i never look forward to... perhaps it's because i'm absolutely cash-strapped by then... it's two of those days in the month when i sleep and i sleep and i sleep, hoping the day would just pass by... i miss those days in college when a weekend either meant meeting up with the guys or a stroll along the beach with the girl (guess that's the only part of college i'll ever miss)... all that's happening now on weekends is depressing music and even more depressing movies...

Life has now come to a standstill... it's not good, it's not bad... just somewhere in the middle... it won't improve, neither will it deteriorate... there's absolutely nothing to look forward to... the light at the end of the tunnel is still a tiny, shimmering spark...

Perhaps it's time.........

The Two Big R's

I guess by now we are familiar with the only two big R's that have any significance in this blog - Road trip and Random thoughts (!!!)...

Yep... road trip...  with Chowder...
My friendship with Chowder goes a long way back... close to fifteen years... back in the days when he was called Prijo... the days when we made the television for our annual science exhibition in the fifth grade, and watched the TV getting flung across the class (by Leena Rajiv, our social science teacher) two days before the exhibition!... sigh... those were some days...




Anyways, off we were.. to Munnar... in Chowder's brand new Fortuner...

The drive up was quiet steep, with Chowder expertly maneuvering the vehicle...

it does get pretty tiring after a while, one wrong move and you could end up falling off the cliff and tumbling down the hill (just as Ajo 'predicted')...

once we reached the top...

we went for a little mountain climbing...

...and then we got back to the hotel, and set about doing what we are good at!...

The weather was quiet pleasant... though it wasn't really good... guess Munnar isn't the right place to visit at this time of the year... but surprisingly, I began shivering at night... the temperature: 18 degrees!!!... i guess i'm getting a little too used to the average 40 degrees temperature, that anything below 20 degrees has the capability to freeze my ass!!!...

That's pretty much about it about the road trip... my ability to describe events has begun wearing off... that's why i don't remember much... and it's been ten days anyways!...






Now comes my favorite part of the blog!!!... the Random Stuff!!!... i love this section because whatever i write in here doesn't necessarily have to make any sense!... the name itself implies it's senseless!... bah...

• the other day i was talking to Ajo... oh i talk to him everyday!!... (we are that deprived of 'work and company'... or let me rephrase it... 'enjoyable work and enjoyable company'...)... and now, if talking to him at night weren't enough, he calls me during lunch as well!... he was telling me about his roommate... named 'Dhanpal' (which did get a certain close friend of ours very excited till Ajo began regretting telling the name!)... we were discussing the mindset of Tamil parents when they go in to name their kids... stark examples: Karuppusamy, Neil Armstrong (yeah!.. that was the name of a professor in my college!), Lingasamy and so on... but the name that did get us thinking was "Kuppasamy"... hell! that's equivalent to naming your kid "Shitlord"!!!... how cool is that?????!!!!!.... what do these people call their children at home??... "Kuppa" (Garbage!!!)????????.....

• on a weekend i was traveling from Trivandrum to Cochin... and there was this guy sitting next to me, who apparently had a very very strong head, literally!... the guy was sleeping the entire time, with his head resting on the bar behind the seat in front... every three minutes, due to inertia (bah! scientific ol' me!) he would slowly move backwards (in his sleep), and then, (due to Newton's some law of force/motion... ok ok... i'm not that smart!) he would come back to the bar with full force and.... THUDDDDDDD/CRUNCHCHCHCHCHCHHHHHHHHH!.... his head would crash on the bar... every time he did that, i expected his head to crack open, and his brain to start leaking out (due to some pre-conception, i consider the brain to be made of a slimey semi-solid material... such that, if a hole is made in the head, it would start leaking out)... but it didn't!!!... it did remind me of my own college days!!... back in those days, if i sat in a particular spot for more than two minutes, i'd immediately fall asleep (except at nights... when i could stay awake for all i wanted)... so the same used to happen in college buses as well... i used to fall asleep... and every three minutes, i'd be briefly woken up by a skull-cracking THUD (caused by my own head hitting against the bar)... perhaps that did contribute a little to my becoming retarded!... :P

• oh... another bus story.... again i was traveling from Trivandrum to Cochin (guess that's pretty much the only traveling i do these days!)... and i came across this lab, that tests your, errr, stuff... and right outside the lab, a board read, in bold, 

               "********** LABORATORY
                  WE TEST YOUR PHLEGM, STOOL, URINE, BLOOD"
  
i thought that was really, really gross to write something like that in a public place... won't people understand if they just mentioned that it were a testing lab????!!!!!!.......

anyways... i'm off for now... got a few good things lined up for me to happen... if those things don't happen, boy, "somebody gonna get a-hurt real bad!".... ciao!....

Trip to PCB!

That's the entire Pondy-Chennai-Bengaluru trip in a nutshell...!... exciting... depressing... relaxing... pissing off... dangerous... tiring... memory-reviving (though i wouldn't exactly call it nostalgic... 'cos the whole thing didn't have much of a positive effect)... blah blah... 

Ten days was all it took... Chennai -- B'lore -- Chennai -- Pondy -- Chennai - and back home...

B'lore was ok... though nothing much can be said about the b'lore trip, meeting couple of school friends after around half a decade was pretty cool... otherwise ugly weather... couldn't go out much...

Chennai it was the four of us back again... the only difference being we were much richer and there was very little aimless wandering (since we were tight on schedule) this time round... but on the whole Chennai did seem pretty different... few dead people, many 'dead' people, and many people who think i am 'dead'... 

Then of course... there was the much-awaited visit to Cake Walk... a grab of one of those blueberry cheesecakes was all i needed to make myself feel right back at home...

Ajo did seem pretty charged up during the entire trip... this was on our way to Pondy... Pondy did seem like a tiny highlight in the whole trip... partly 'cos i was supposed to visit the place for some work, and i ended up doing everything else other than work!... the return trip was quiet adventurous... with Ajo getting tensed up every time we passed a police checkpost (since he was carrying the bag laden with "treasures from Pondy" if you know what i mean)... but we did manage to get back safe and in shape...

Now you know why Chennai's so dirty!!!....

And then... post partying with all the goodies from Pondy, we had the usual "Thrash-up-abhi" session... where we took turns in thrashing him... (he did thrash us back though... but i do not wish to make him look good by uploading the pics with us getting thrashed!!!... however... if you're really curious... i'll give you a preview.... that's Ajo getting thrown around (below)...)

Then there was the much-awaited Ajo's treat at B-B-Q Nation (did i just say treat???!!!!.... Mumbai's been really getting hard at Ajo off late!)... 

The grills were simply irresistible...

...that Nandu and Abhi could hardly wait!!!....

The dessert... equally delicious...

...that Nandu and Abhi could hardly resist!... Abhi started eating the spoon!!...

Ajo with his usual "wanna-get-beaten-up?" expression...

                                           

That's from our visit to Mocha Mojo... the pic in the middle was a result of our brilliant special effects....

Sai and Karthik popped in as well... my ex-roomies from college... was a pleasant surprise...

That was Abhi's perunal celebration pic... (i still haven't figured out what the right spelling of perunal is!)

And finally!!... THE roadtrip... 3 (jobless) men... out on a mission (to do nothing)... Chennai to Trichur...

...Nandu and me took turns driving...

...and Ajo tried his luck at getting us killed...

The long road ahead....

...break time...

KERALAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!......

...and finally... Nandu's place... Home Sweet Home!

The car locked up safe and sound...

On the whole, the trip was refreshing and fun... but... something did happen... something that has changed my life forever!

 

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.....

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...