BlogKing

If you see the last 3 posts from me, you would notice that there was 1 post in 2008, 1 post in 2007 and 1 in 2006. That compared to my wife who blogs between every two breaths of air, is like a priceless diamond that has value beyond compare. Its all about equity, dear reader. What do you value more? A one-in-a-million or a one-in-a-mill (as in run of the mill types)? Ask the question to yourself .. dont be shy .. be courageous .. want to be a heir to the throne? or a hair on the throne?

Given that this is likely to be the only blog i write for 2009 (given the empirical evidence illustrated above), its value like my previous posts continues to appreciate. I am willing to sell my blogging rights to anyone who is interested!! anybody out there with a lot of money and a penchant for high-value blogs? Your future is here !!!

At long last

After much coaxing, i make a brief return to the blogging world. I read in the newspaper day before yesterday that some dude's dog in Australia ate half a kilo of yeast dough he had kept ready for baking. Yeast, being true to its nature, fermented inside the cozy confines of the dog's innard and became ... viola !... Alcohol !!! and Alcohol being Alcohol in a rapid guerilla attack, took over the dog's mental capabilities resulting in one heckuva sloshed canine!! The dog actually couldnt walk straight and had to be taken to the vet to be de-alochol-ized!! I think some party instincts run in all living forms / farms alike!!

Thats it for now. No thanks for reading.

Finally !!!

Ok, its one of those occasions that are apt to justifying an unplanned, almost year-long hiatus from blogging.

After several days of trying and several sittings on the potty, i solved the Rubiks cube. Now this might not be a big deal for many, but for a man of limited intellect such as myself, this is worthy of being heralded as a small victory!!

Of course, i know some of my friends who are near geniuses or a genius who were solving it without breaking a sweat more than 12 years backs when they were just 14 or 15 .. so as you can see i am a late bloomer!!

Rubik rules ....

Some day in life, i will try a 5*5 cube...

All things pure and joyful

Several things have happened to me in the recent past that have made me take a walk outside myself and enjoy the simplest joys of life, and touch that imperceptible membrane between nature and man's struggle to become part of it. Everytime such an incident has taken place that has given me reason to smile, i have felt surprisingly refreshed mentally and reassured emotionally that there is a lot of things around us that can change the way we look at life. So a few quick excerpts!! This will be a series of blog articles i reckon so the TBC at the end is left unstated.

- GT 1. I am making my way through the streets of Baroda in a chauffered car, from the airport to my guest house and we make remarkably slow progress not because of badly maintained roads or anything but because of the hordes of cows that seem to have invaded Baroda! And these are not your normal cows, these are your super-cool-check-me-out-dont-mess-with-me kinda bovine mastadons! They stand ever so happy bang in the middle of the road, lolling their long rubbery feisty tongue out unmindful of the fact that there is an Innovo right behind them filled with people with better things to do than ogle at their tongue. In a city known for its growing industrial economy and commerce, these cows decide who gets to work and when! They reminded me of the junkies i saw in goa, completely doped out and at peace with the world!

- GT 2. I am taking a flight out of Baroda to Mumbai and I need to board the plane. Waiting for the connecting bus to take me (there is a slight drizzle and the air is chill) when a very well-meaning airline official told me that i was free to walk across the tarmac with my trolley and board the plane. So far so good. But when i looked at the sprawling "tarmac", all that my eyes could take in was a magnificent puddle of water stretching from just after the step i was standing on all the way to the aircraft. And i smiled once again.

-GT 3. This one involves a chuppy, a pink dolphin and a photo-shoot which i shall elaborate on in my sequel to this post. But for the first time in as long as i can remember, my eyes welled up with tears of joy, overwhelmed by the purity that nature manifests itself in in every walk of life and then how we (mankind) systematically proceed to wreck all the good work done.

A ball of a time

Yesterday, from work i went straight to my recreational paradise, read as Fun square (bowling company) in Lokhanwalla, Andheri. I have been a bowling buff for sometime now and do spend a lot of time knocking pins down. And it was yesterday that i had one of my watershed days in this brutal activity of decimating pins as strike after strike dissolved the vulnerable targets in a blinding flash of white!

My score sheet read (after 4 games) 167,222,161 and 225, the last one being a clean game! So that made for a stupendous average of 193 for 4 games. That officially is now my new record for the highest average for 4 games or more. Awesome it has been! Awesome it will be!

When i was in chennai last week, i did some serious shopping for books with my sister who took me to a really nifty bookstore that had the most obscure books at really ground-level prices. I bought 14 books (8 of them being bestsellers) for Rs 750 or US$18. Nothing can beat that. Have already finished Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, Omerta by Mario Puzo and am currently devouring Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. Recommend all the above for the discerning bibliophile.

More in my next.

Its been a while

After May 21st, which was when i posted my last blog article, i had let myself get immersed in a world of frantic activity and bohemian enjoyment and hence never got close to my blogging life. Mumbai has been reeling from the train blasts and the stories have been everywhere.

Some people are saying that Mumbaikars are resilient and always ensure that normalcy returns to as soon as possible after such deadly attacks. And there is counter school of thought whose followers believe that Mumbaikars are too self-centred and egotistic who do not care about what happens in the world around them as long as they are ok and doing well and that explains the quick return to normalcy. Whatever be the attitude, its been heartening to see that people always dont need a strong personally motivating reason to help their brethren as was exemplified by the thousands who came out on the streets to help the wounded and the dying.

Someday, these lunacies will stop. Someday, the lunatics will reform. And I am not too sure that all of them are on the other side of the calamity. There shall be light!

Of monsoon weddings and card magic

Those who are close to me, by now would have realized that i have been caught in the inexorable grips of card magic! A fateful evening in KL under the auspices of Mr. Cheepz was enough for me to be taken in, hook line and sinker! After that i have just been following the greats .. michael ammar, jay sankey, michael finley, brian tudor, brad christian, devo, paul wilson and till date i am yet to get out my mesmerized magical state of existence. Some day, i shall be the master onto myself with card magic so strong, you will believe its true!

Was in Delhi day before yesterday to attend the wedding of a dear friend. She had a monsoon wedding so to speak, most unexpected in Delhi at this time of the year but well, if the gods want to shower their blessings on you, very little you can do or would want to do about it. She had a grand wedding and will continue to have a grander life as a married girl!

Watch this spot for more interesting stuff on card magic. Also, me thinks me shall write about internet marketing soon.

At the Razr edge of Technology

It has finally happened. From May 2002 when i bought my first mobile phone (Nokia 3310) to July 2004 (Nokia 6800) upto day before yesterday. When i got a Moto Razr V3 in my hands, a gift from Chupster. While the V3 is not in the league of a great phone, it has definitely been a quantum shift from the Nokia 6800. And the proselytization is well and truly underway.

Apart from that, i had a blast at Goa the weekend before last. Great fun with the I-420 bunch. You can catch the I-420 blog at http://i-420.blogspot.com . The place to be where life is a party all year through!

More in my next blog. This was one was just to relieve the pressure of abstinence from blogging for some time now.