It’s been a long journey. There have been good times and bad times. There have been highs and there have been lows. There has been joy and there has been sorry. There has been love and there has been hate. There has been darken and there has been light.

And you have stood by me. You’ve given me a shoulder to cry on, you’ve listened to my every ( Read more... )

Current mood : WTF?

Current music : Come as you are - Nirvana.

Why are most marriages in India absolutely retarded affairs that involve oodles of money, splendor? Why are they opportunities to display monetary prowess and influential connections? Why are they made into jokes with receptions and long and drawn out ceremonies?

I will use a ( Read more... )

My watch read seven thirty. I sipped coffee as I glanced through the day’s newspaper. It was always the same, some politician had made a huge donation to charity to pick up some political mileage, and another accident had killed some more people. By the time I reached the sports section, it was eight - time for my shower and then breakfast. After ( Read more... )

After a long blank in my life, here is a blog to fill in the electronic void. Right now, I am supposed to be working out Unix commands, doing strange tasks like cutting fields from a file and puting it into another file. But, the point is I am blogging. Most bloggers, I know have stopped blogging. I did stop too, but momentarily ( Read more... )

The system clock reads 11:11 as I type this. The night outside is chilly and the stars in the sky seem no different. There is Floyd as usual playing on Winamp in the background. My 10’o’clock visit to Coffee Day in Jayanagar was no different except for the red balloons and a sign outside which promised that Coffee Day would stay open till 4 a.m. ( Read more... )

After a really long break(yeah…8 odd days) from blogging, I finally got hold of a computer and figured it was high time I put fingers to keyboard(yeah…should have been pen to paper or such like, but hey, we are in the electyronic world aren’t we?) lest I forget important things ( Read more... )

It was a long train journey filled with illegal passengers wanting places to sit, eunuchs asking for money, food reminiscent of mess, vada pav and chikki at Lonavla. Interesting to say the least. And to provide for laughter on the way we had one chap missing the train and electing to fly down to Mumbai. The surburban railway is a brilliant thing ( Read more... )

If at any point of time, you consciously wish to render yourself brain dead, all you need to do is to put your TV on and switch to any one of the following channels ( Read more... )

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My daily horoscope for today claims that I will write to get rid of my pent up emotions. Now, this is nothing new because I end up writing almost everyday. At home my blog rate is very close to one per day. For the simple reason that I have nothing better to do other than reading or writing. Today, just to make Shelley von Strunckel feel a little ( Read more... )