DUH????

Here is a list of some dumb things, people come up with

--> Topping the list has to be the "mileage question". Whenever I am on my bike and meet somebody new, the first question invariably is" So what is the mileage?" about 34.75 on the higways and 33.987 in the city and 32.675 if you are abovethe speed limit

--> You meet somebody in a theatre and he/she goes"How come here?" I am their visiting veternarian and was checking on whether the rats had been fed properly

--> You see somebody after a long time and they go "So whom are you seeing now?" Your girlfriend buddy

--> Caught sleeping in class, the lecturer wakes you up and says."what are you doing?" Sorry sir, I am still a litle doozy to be able to do justice any good answer to that

--> The same lecturer threatens to break your teeth and put them in your mouth.. Like I had them up my nose before you came around

--> This happens very often in my friend's bookshop. He has a placard announcing that a particular magazine or book is sold out, and people look at it and still come up to him and ask him if it is available. only if you can carry off a tank top and a mini skirt

--> You have been going around for some time with this girl now, and she says"do you really love me?" No, its just that I like your deo sooo much that I can't let go of you and my therapist says I should stick around until this phase passes

--> People asking a waiter about what dish is good in that restaurant. Don't order the fish today sir. We poison it on teusday's you see

--> You are struggling with some weights in the gym and somebody comes up with"you need some help with that?" No thanks. I was just trying to maim myself today..


I had lots more in mind when I started this post, but somehow lost track of them midway...Like everybody believes this lame excuse

Profanities

Ever wondered how these words have become so much a part of our vocabulary that we do not think twice before utering them. Some of us do it as being part of the cool brigade and othere just to express about every other emotion that we know of. A simple word like "FUCK" which does not mean a lot literally more than a rude term for sex, can express joy, hatred, jealousy, hurt, elation, frustration and a whole gamut of emotions, and your listener hardly ever raises an eyebrow. I wonder how many actually know the origin of this "F" word. Well here it is anyway:
In the old english days, the times of the king and knights, every man who was newly married and had to bed his wife had to have the consent of the king. That is how the word came about. It means-Fornication Under Consent of the King
Now I guess some of you might think twice before using this word..In our workplaces,there are a lot of times we use these words unknowingly and try to look innocent, hoping no one else heard it, and if they did, jut grin sheepishly and hope it does not reflect badly on you...but it is exactly the opposite in college..the more often you use profanities, the cooler you are!!! That's fu***ng right, you know!!!
To sum things up this qoute from Calvin is just perfect-->"Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words."

And, Do I have the perfect corollary or what??--> "I'm only civil because I do not know any swear words" too fu****g cool !!!!

Chennai- The Indian Sauna experience

Is Chennai hot or is Chennai hot??? easy question I guess. You can rest assured that your answer is right, but if you are still groping around for an answer, then my friend please lead your browser elsewhere....
Well, getting back to Chennai. I had to visit this place for a day, and I now know the Secret behind all the slim tams in the movies. I guess the heat even explains their tempers. hmm..no wonder they are so docile in bangalore..put them back in their humid native and they are ready to take down the neighboring auto driver, and a few of his accomplices...
Man, the way those autos move around re-instates my belief in luck. Or else how do you explain so many vehicles hurtling recklessly and none of them colliding with the regularity you expect..Those guys use their brakes as the last resort..mut be the heat factor again...
The heat was so oppressive that, all I had to do was step out and walk for 10 minutes, and I would be soaked in perspiration...And the meticulous person that I am, no hanky or anything other than my sleeve to wipe my brow....I elicited quite a few stares..Imagine walking around the place looking like you stepped auto of a shower,clothes et al....When I arrived at the hotel, the lift operator did not have the patience to wait for me to get off before he started guffawing t my plight..The AC in the room did seem like heaven after that...
Before arriving at Chennai, I was warned about the con artist there who walk around looking like auto drivers..Surprisingly this was not a worrying factor for me..or maybe I was not very focused considering the heat..
Lunch at Chennai was a good one though. The local branch of Pizza Corner had an offer of all-you-can-eat for 100 bucks(99 actually..but lets not be cheap here..what's another rupee when there are 99 more involved)..I reckon they have taken down all their signboards after I left them..After devouring the first pizza, the waiter brought in the second one with his smile already inverting.....The third pizza brought out a weird look on his face and by the fourth he was wary of my table...I had a difficult time getting his attention after that..I wonder why???
It was a pity that I could not visit any places in Chennai, what with my schedule...I would have liked to see the beach..but decided against it after realizing that me and the heat did not get along very well....On the brighter side, I might have lost a little weight....I think one of my rides will be towards Chennai..but in winter....

Freedom

It's been so long since I have gone on a ride. Did a one-day trip few weeks ago, but it is just not the same. The wind on your face, the long stretchesof lonely road, the amazed looks of people on the road..They make the ride so meaningful...I hope to be riding this weekend, hopefully to Pondy, and if this doe not happen, I think I will visit my relatives in mangalore... When riding I absolutely love the wind rushing through my hair. But this does not happen often enough since I need to wear a helmet most of the time. I love to ride without the helmet, but safety does come first...It is just too good when you stop at some dhaba for tea, and when you look at the odometer you see that you have covered more distance than you had planned..Most of the time when I stop somewhere and people come over to have a look at the bike and start asking questions about it,the first question invariaby is " What's the mileage?"...This has happened without fail..my answers vary between 15-50 depending on how gullible my audience is...
There are a lot of other thing that make you love the ride...It is something that has to be experienced to be appreciated..
Someday I want to be able to ride to the Himalayas..see ladakh..and even upto Marismek-la..the highest motorable road in the world.... But until then...It is just gonna be

Miles and miles to ride before I sleep (Robert Frost)

Fahrenheit 911

Ii managed to squeeze in this movie yesterday..This movie is a real eye-opener. It starts off with the chimp(read Bush) being elected into office and all his blunders after that...
This was more of a documentary but the narrative by Michael Moore made you sit up and take notice..It always kept my interest..I wanted to see what was in the next frame...
This movie looks like an outlet for all the frustration and angst that americans having toward thier President. It is well researched though. Michael Moore succeeds in convincing us that the IRAQ episode was one big hoax and that all Americans have been duped by the chimp, Bush.
It shows all the connections he had with the Bin Laden family even before the sep-11 episode. It even talks about the Saudi connection which kept bailing him out of all his bungled business ventues before turning to politics..and bungling up the country in turn...
The authencity of the movie is heightened by the fact that there are real people who have suffrered..and all unneccessarily... There is a clip of an Iraqi woman who has lost 5 relaives and for no mistake of hers...
The blatant errors of the US government is on display here...Imagine the FBI come calling for you just because you were expressing your opinion on sep-11, and that too in a private gym..with your friends.. this has just made eemies of all friends..The Americans have been subjected to such apprehensions of terror.that they have lost faith in their friends too...anywhere they look they just seem to see terrorists
There are many instances of Bush's bungling and irresposibilities which have to be seen to be believed..
The icing on the cake is that Bush is gaining popularity in the forthcoming election..Well if he gets elected again..there is nothing more to say other than that those PEOPLE who vote him in deserve him!!!

I am back

Finally..I have a few minutes to spare this week... It has been a busy week..and I have just had not any time.. This early shift reinstates my belief that I am definitely not a morning person... I am a late bloomer..My spirits are high as the day passes by..this is why maybe I enjoy working at night...i even abhor parties that start during the day...
Well.That opens new avenues..I wonder what an ideal party would be like..I guess this means different things to different people.. I kew people in college for whom an ice-cream at the local parlour was equivalent to painiting the town red..and a movie was an outing of a lifetime...not that they did not have the means to do this as they pleased..they just were not the sort who liked fun..the others(read as people like me) were just the evil ones, out to poison the world..It certainly did not help that I gave them a good run for their money when it came to exams...
College was certainly the best experience in my life...It was like I was given complete freedom after being confined to the rigors of school for 10 years. In the beginning it was a heady experience..I was away from home for more than 8 hours a day..and all this was unaccounted time..Well in a way it was accounted time..cause my folks thought that I was sitting dutifully in college and looking upto my teachers..If only they knew...Anyway,as I was saying ,college in the beggining was a heady experince..for one..I had to avoid ragging..i saw ragging as a means to embarass you and my ego would be badly bruised if i let myself be subjeted to ragging..every evening during the last class i would make elaborate plans for my escape route...Inspite of this i did get caught once,,but realised that ragging had a good side to it..you made new friends...my new friends were people I would otherwise have not talked to..but for being in the same ego bruised group that was being ragged...
College has really changed dthe way i look at life..it was like walking out of a dark room and into the sunlight..your eyes take time to get adjusted and everything becomes clear ..but it takes time though..

Hey! reading what I have written so far..the tiltle hardly makes any sense..and I have been digressing like a cat with butered paws on a oil slick.. i think college entitles another post..Will do so soon..

Befor Sunshine...

This is the name of a very good movie contrary to what the name might suggest to some people. The name might bring a lot of ideas to some minds and they may watch this but am sure will be pleasantly surprised. I am in complete awe of the person who wrote this story. I imagined that Quentin Tarantino was in a class of his own but this movie is pretty close to his school of thought. The primary focus of this movie was the guy-girl chemistry. The chemistry was heightened even more by the fact that both knew that they might not meet each other again.
The whole movie looks more like life captured as it happens. Ethan Hawke and Julie are so fantastic, that it does not look like their lines were rehearsed. Their questions and responses seem so natural.
The movie actually starts off with the two protagonists traveling in a train and they just start vibing, which seems so natural. They are still talking and are interrupted when Ethan has to get down at Vienna. He has to catch a flight to the US the next morning. Both feel that their conversation is incomplete, and so he asks her to accompany him in Vienna till the next morning. This is where the fun starts.
Every line of dialogue is written with such intelligence that it seems like we are just prying on a natural conversation. For me the whole experience was like I walked in on conversation and could not walk away until I knew how this ended. The fact that both knew that they might never see each other again, I guess made them lose their inhibitions, and they talked about every issue under the sun, including feminism, sex, past love interests, their dreams, fantasies...
The best scene in the movie according to me would have to be the one in the bus. Both are seated in the last seat and the camera is on them. The bus is moving on both are involved in a conversation. The whole scenes lasts for nearly 10 minutes, and you hardly notice this fact because it seems so natural. This would have taken a lot of effort I am sure. During this scene there are some subtleties that make it even more enjoyable. This almost stands up to the scene in Mad About You, where it lasted for over 20 minutes. The whole scene was shot with Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt outside a door, with their 3-month-old daughter inside the room. Their conversation too is so captivating that you tend to forget that this was such a long scene. To make sure you appreciate this they even make a crack about this scene before the credits roll out (in typical Mad About You) fashion. Well I am digressing here. But what the hell, it's my blog, so only my rules apply...

How I wish .....

How I wish my blog had been anonymous.. There are SO MANY thing I want to vent, but won't, for the fear of being judged.. That is my waterloo I guess.. being judged for what I am not.. I have always had this "gift" for being labelled for things that I am not..and things I would not like to discuss here.. On another note does this not makE me a hypocrite for starting a blog and then writing stuff that is just "creative" and not "personal". The initial stage of blogging was fun..now it seems like a task more than something pleasureable...That is why I wish this were a private blog...There would be more updates then, since I would not have to be "creative" all the time.. well you never know, I just might start another anonymous blog soon...