And I are back!

2 months 25 days 23 hours 6 minutes and 59 seconds since i last blogged. For everyone who knew me well, I dint do the math of course. I hate the subject and its teachers for quite a long time now. So this did the job. I m not sure to what else the site can do. Still figuring out.


Anyways, for my followers and ahem 'fans' (no exaggeration here :D), these no-post-days were actually an extended-break that i started for my sem exams. Not that i was into some serious exam preparation or anything, but this is generally how people convince themsleves, tat they are preparing for such stuff - by sacrificing. Parents see to it that the mobile and cable connections are gone while their kids do 12th grade, as their 'sacrifice' and many people live anti-orkut lives during examinations. And tats exactly the same protoytpe, as to how my Pensieve got the axe. Can't say it helps, but hey i passed! even in SS! :)


Well, tat was then and it went good. And then followed my holidays which was even better! Playing fifa, (still) trying to read LOTR and watching Dexter/Hustle all day with late night movies, occasional family parties and lots of phone calls and traveling to top it up. Went like a dream, i might say. So why am i back here?
why give myself the trouble of thinking something to blog about or trying to better my never-improving English?
why rather than playing fifa, try and do long lines of boring text?
why?
Cos this is one of the few things i do 'very non-lazily' and pursue this vice is what i must do.
Cheers everyone. :)

NRI-pl?

The first few thoughts that striked my mind when i heard the 'Indian' premier league is shifting out of India..


~The format - Group of matches played on different grounds, 14 for each team and the teams with the highest points will play the semis followed by the finals. The home/away concept that seemed to be an interesting quotient in the first season is lost!


~Will teams be renamed to Durban Daredevils, Cape Town Royal Challengers and the Kimberley Kings XI? Uhh!


~Also this means no complementary-free tickets for namma ooru MPs and MLAs and they could concentrate on some real work rather than chit-chatting with celebrities and chief guest-ing over matches.


!!!Lekha Washingon's compering will be sorely missed. :(


~Karuvachis for entertaining the crowd? (Ofcourse Mallya could import a piece or two for variety!). Now i m no big racist or anything esp.when it comes to entertainment, but like a majority of ppl believe - shouldnt the 'fairer' sex be fair enough?


~I don't think Sharukh and Preity have a lot of mumbo-jumbo African fans. So dancing or singing in the VIP box could draw some eerie eyes.


~Another chance for the Indian youngsters to do some globetrotting. But be careful guys, Africa is the source for a lot of things!


~Even kindergartners know that, not a lot of Indians perform well outside the sub-continent. So does it mean we r not getting any of those colored caps again this time?


~With the Economic meltdown, any form of lucrative deal should be grabbed by the government! Security being the main reason for which the event is moved out of India baffles me a lot, cos if any foreign cricketers get shot/killed, India would be blamed. Yes. But if any of the Indian cricketers (which includes a larger percentage!) are killed in SA, again India would be sinned for not letting someone get killed in their own country!


~Will each franchise have an African Ambassador as well, to promote the event there?
Not a problem for the Chennai Superkings! they already got one! ;)

Weird!

I passed my SS 2nd interns!
Mallya's Force India finished a F1 race!
Like they say..
Its a
medical
engineering miracle!!


Now I know the previous post is contradictory to this one, but i guess that creative writing just about nudged me pass the finish line :)

Not again!

The windows were unusually closed and the aeration in the hall was very low. Everyone were busy plotting methods in their minds on how to go about it. No one even did their usual i-dont-think-we-will-make-it smiles. The whole setting was too grim and ominous.
I slowly made my way to the right end of the room and took the empty seat in the second row. I waited as she moved a few paces and handed it over to me. Fingers crossed, i slowly moved my eyes up and down, scanning for something i knew or at least something that i have heard of.
Q1? nope
Q2? nope
and on it went till i had nothing more to read. I looked up to see how others reacted. They still had their heads bent over their sheets. So its just me.. hmmm (Sigh). And out of nowhere, Mr.Reaction slowly(!!) turned towards me (for i guess he believed he would find solace in my reactions) and held his lower lip cranked down, indicating he knew nothing as well. Mr.Representative and Mr.Sony (so u ll join in anything tats going on, huh?) did similar expressions. The in'vigi'lator issued her warning against practice of malpractice. Lost and desperate, i suddenly remembered I still had one last chance to get what i wanted. The one tiny little ray of hope i had! - Mr.128!!
Excited, I started to turn my head slowly towards him. Like those tamil movie slow motion scenes.. My pen slips out of hand and is on its way to bounce off the floor. I accidentally elbow the guy next to me who gives a muffled scream. I finish my turn and 128 comes into my view.
I stared into a pair of eyes. Closed ones. Ah! now theres my solacement! :)


P.S. SS 2nd interns was more like the 1st. It was more of a creative writing competition towards the end.

The team that it (wa)s

~Winning consistently, Sehwag getting scores, a keeper who can also bat (though not elegantly), real bowlers(not Ajit Agarkar!), no low-scoring loses, no falling apart if Sachin gets out, no 'blaming on the pitch', no bowlers with an economy rate of 8+, no coach-BCCI-vaika thagararu, no fielders who drop sitters, and no shirt-swinging-hyper-aggressive-Captain, who loses his match fee.


9 wins in a row now. And all of them convincing and consistent enough to say, finally we are dominating the game we worship.


Where is the unreliable Indian cricket team that we had known so well?

Sin city #0452

Chingu chaan serial bulbs
+ Artistically arranged Tube lights.
+ Flex-boards in every possible 'free space',every viewable direction.
+ >20 feet Cut-outs.
+ Arcs over the sky and the road as well.
+ Flags that paint the city red and black.
+ Morphed pictures.
+ Divided dividers.
+ Billboard-ed autos.
+ Jarring loudspeakers.
+ Lyric-altered-facsimile movie songs.
+ Drunk Eulogy by functionaries.
+ Humbug Captions. (one even read he gets younger every year.. Curious case effect..)
+ Idolization.
+ Hypocrisy.
+ a smiling rim-glassed Madurai's Mr.You-know-who..


Bigwig Al turns 58.