Greek God

I realized of late that I'm a Greek God of sorts...

Now, now... hold onto your horses... I didn't mean in the classical sense. Just how people perceive me...

So when I talk to people, I have a tendency of being a little fast in terms of talking... some may even say I have verbal diarrhea.

So when I'm talking at that pace, people say that they don't understand me, and it's all GREEK to them.

Also, when people see me, their first reaction is, "Oh My God, he's coming towards us. Please God, don't come towards us."

Hence, putting statement A and Statement B together, I think I'm pretty much a Greek God.

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Preferences

Caught two buses today...

So which bus did i enjoy taking more?
Hard to choose between,

1. Puke stench, and 
2. Deodarant defying perspiration - alcohol combo.

The Greatest Unresolved Battle

Tea, or Coffee.

Personally, I'm a die hard fan of a nice cup of filter coffee. I often would like to say, "It's filter coffee way, or the gully way", but I don't.

On the negative Z-axis though, I love iced tea. And usually when I go to a Chinese restaurant, I'd like to order some Oolong tea.

I'm basically like a flipped coin that landed vertically.

So I took two phrases, one relating to each one, and attempted to break it down.

Now, in the blue corner, weighing a packet of international appeal, is coffee. It's most popular phrase being, 'Coffee break'.

In the red corner, careening to expensive types of leaves, is tea with its popular phrase being 'Tea-time'.

The battle between the two comes down to technicality.


First off,  COFFEE - BREAKS

• A coffee-break can be taken whenever.
• Makes room for impromptu get-togethers 
• It is more random and spontaneous. 
• It cannot be dependable on a daily basis (and hence the sometimes exclaimed, 'Give me a break').
• Due to it's lack of a fixed time slot, it needs to be allotted some time at possible opportunities, and this results in coffee breaks appearing many times a day (especially college canteens when you skip class). 
• Flexible enough to accommodate tea-time snacks into the itinerary. 

Next,  TEA-TIME

• Tea-time is a fixed time of the day.
• A daily schedule revolves around tea-time (for example, 'I say, why not you and your wife join us for some tea. Jolly good, ho ho, and all that old chap).
• Is very orderly, similar to a very well disciplined army general.
• It can be counted on to be there every single day, but lacks spontaneity due to the set routine established. 
• Since tea-time is at an established time, it definitely appears divisibly (made up word) lesser than coffee-breaks.
• It has a huge range of snacks dedicated to it, known as tea-time snacks.

Conclusion
Well, if you are orderly, disciplined, have a daily routine, etc. then you should soothe your 'non-spontaneous and predictable life style influenced' mind by drinking tea, like a gentle man/ lady.

And if you are spontaneous, excitable and impromptu, then you should mellow down your fickle, 'No future plans for life' mind by enjoying a nice hot cup of kappa.

For everything else, it's a tie.

Marriage Invite

So, my cousin's getting married, and part of the whole marriage process is formally inviting friends and family to the wedding... Unfortunately, my cousin's perception of a formal invite is slightly skewed...

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Lovers!!

I am getting married to my girlfriend of more than 3 interspaced years, with the last year spent virtually (thank god for skype).

Please treat this as a formal invitation to all you buggers and your bugger's families and lovers and all those you pay to love you to my wedding in coconutland on the 16th of May 2010 and the reception in Bangalore on the 22nd  of May.

But more seriously, i will publicly abuse you if you come up with any excuses for missing either one or both.So please update your calendars,blackberry phones,palm leaves,whatever . 

Do let me know if you guys are coming from out of town and need a place to stay. I should be able to arrange for the acco.A little before hand would definitely make things easier though.

And yes, ill try and send out the invitation card properly as well.As soon as its printed.

Cheeresh!!

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It's too funny not to have it's place in here...

Holy Smoke!

Found at Bombay Mart...

One letter short from the brand name, which would have made it the ultimate spiritual high!!!

Monopoly

Just when you thought Disney had a monopoly over theme parks and family movies...

              

Seems like they'll end up being the Google of consumer goods too, starting with 'Premium Bananas'.

Conversations

Guy 1: I got the new motorola kodak camera phone which has a 5MP camera!

Guy 2: Oh cool! What's the best feature in your opinion?

Guy 3: Definitely has to be the sentence completion. I type a letter and it writes out the whole sentence. Problem is, it's never the sentence I want. I spend more time deleting all the words than actually typing the whole sentence. I am on the verge of ceasing texting as a whole. I'm really frustrated.

Guy 2: But can't you disable it, like predictive texting?

Guy 1: .......             

Original One Liner

Clumsy-ism is my new religion...that way, I stumble across God more often.

Being Friendly

Could happen to any one of us...

                              

English Language

Interrobang is basically a quesclamation mark. Usually super imposed, but while being typed out, is a question mark followed by an exclamation mark ( ?! ).

That's not what I thought of when I heard the word interrobang the first time. I had a totally different picture.

----------------------------- Picturization -----------------------------

A pretty white exclamation mark sitting at a table in a room devoid of any other furniture. There is one empty seat at the opposite end and one hanging light in the whole room right above the table. The only door to the room opens and in walks a tall dark question mark.

"Do you know where the diamond is?", asks Quest.
" I don't know anything I tell you. NOTHING!", exclaims Ms. Mark.

Grabbing her by the sides of her shoulder, he raises her from her seat to a standing position.

"If you don't know where it is, then who does??", he puts forward the question in a gentle, yet threatening voice; his questionable moustache ready to scrape the skin off of Claim's gentle skin.

Being so close to each other, things heat up.

Retro techno music begins to play.

They lunge at each other like wild grammatical errors, tearing at each other's clothers.

The lyrics to the techno song fade in.

Female chorus singing, "Interrogation...interrogation...interrogation...in...in....interrogation".

All of a suddent, the music stops, and the male voice associated with the song whispers in a voice not too different from that of Barry White, "Interrogation Bang... Interrobang!".

The "adult" movie by Punctuation Studios, Interrobang, will appear in a medium of communication near you starting Ambiguity 25th, XXX A.D

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Stress Release

Last weekend I finally got out of home and did a few things.

• I ate a pretty decent dinner.
• Wrote a check.
• Pulled some strings.
• Met a bunch of girls.
• Flew a kite.
• Changed a few light bulbs
• Bowled, batted, and fielded.
• Caught a train.
• Cut a whole lot of vegetables.
• Pimp slapped a couple of people.
• Twisted my leg quite a number of times...

...all within the span of two hours.

Well, that's basically how I dance free-style.

Being Indian...very Indian

There are lots of things we overlook while in India because it's considered normal. It's only when you travel abroad do they surface. The example that comes right off the bat is the famous Indian head shake.

Reason for the head shake being famous: Same action signifies approval and disapproval, and is usually accompanied by silence which doesn't help the cause.

So how did this come into our culture? I am pretty sure our great great grand parents never shook their heads. They were way too proud to have a vague shake like that This was definitely a recent development, maybe even in our parent's generation. I would like to postulate a theory.

Stevie Wonder.

Influential Music

I was having dinner at this Chinese restaurant which had authentic Chinese music playing. Not that I have a problem with Chinese music, but this time round, I became a young disciple of martial arts in training, who had a penchant for playing pranks on fellow disciples. Reminiscent of happier times. Then the music became melodramatic. An incoherent scream in an exotic language (resembling a wail of a wounded animal), and a crash through the window  onto the streets were all that were remaining for the transformation into a formidable opponent.


The adrenaline rush to avenge fallen comrades ruined my appetite.

Goddamn you, brilliant martial arts movies...

King of Vocal Chanting... Wilbur Sargunaraj

We got the best from the rest...
Tamil Nadu is in the house!!!

Used items

So I was just wondering when used stuff go back on the market as second hand items, their value more often than not, goes down (antiques & collector's items excluded). So what happens when someone goes back onto the singles' market?

What the Frick?

I hadn't been out suffering through the snow in a really long time. I of course, helped the cause by being totally ignorant about the narrow slits in my shoes.  So walking through the knee deep snow at Frick park was eventful in more ways than one, since we were also fortunate enough to come across deer prints and deer scat in the snow. Oh wonderful world! Life is indeed good.

P.S.: Didn't take pics of the scat though. I'm trying to keep this blog as clean as possible.
Parents, your kids can view this blog with no fear of their innocent little minds being tainted.