Friday, July 29, 2005

God's iPod

I had gone to a place today details unnecessary, there was a religious setting to it.......and the context is also similar....... where in the back ground was a constant drone of some familiar shlokas, religious songs and mantras kinda thing goin on.....when i looked for the source of the low volumed series of chants, i found a small box plugged into the electric socket! First impression was "hmmm...cool!?"

Then at a later moment in time, a discussion on that funny lil "godbox" came up and I found out that it was a pretty versatile box indeed! It could "store" about 54 different shlokas....and there were options like repeating a set of shlokas, or even one shloka for that matter, thruout the day!!

Truly, the wonders of God and Electronics have merged in a beautiful union to form God's own lil iPod is what i thought!!!

Monday, July 25, 2005

get together!?

Yes i am a lil bit confused as to waht exactly happened today at lunch coz karan seemed to think that get togethers are pretty formal events and our meeting that happened to day for lunch at the Oriental Spice on Infantry road was supposed (and intended)to be pretty informal.

Yappa........just to mention that i had gone out to lunch with some college friends yeshtu deliberation alla?

Anyways, after Oriental Spice since "apparently" none of us wanted to go home sweet home(padma would want to disagree.....all she wants to do thru out the week is to go home), we landed up in Barista on St Marks Road......Had some stupid Hazelnut Cappuchino there.....stupid it was (and the word is borrowed from Swetha actually) coz i did NOT find any traces of hazelnut that they claim to have added to the coffee.....came bak home and had another cup of coffee and tasted the same.......

Oh totally forgot.......Today's buffet lunch was courtesy Samanvitha Kumar and Swetha Rao, two unbeatable IBM stipend getters! Kudos again to their effort!!! Without which we would not have had this treat.........

Also, Karan bought a new bike today.....well yesterday actually.....Its a Pulsar 150 with Alloy wheels and Nitrous oxide(ya laughing gas all in his bike......funny fellow he is actually !)

Also, It was a pretty cold rainy day.........apart from the warmth generated from the mindless, aimless teasing session (mostly that is all that actually happened....makes me kinda sad.....nobody ganged up on me actually thankfully....the axe fell hard on pragnya actually....we all left peaceful, happy looking forward to the next weekend where hopefully all of us would meet again using some other probably posh venue ending up in coffee day, while all through the week we slog in our regular jobs with our routines, dreaming abt our weekend meet up to eat expensive, probably even harmful food with weird chemicals in it)inside the oriental spice thingy restaurant, I have been rather cold through out the weekend........

Thursday, July 21, 2005

oopsie

The topic of my previous blog was supposed to be "Ganesha....nesha.....nesha...sha"

Sorry for the slip up....got caught up in hello

Hello all .......


I am happy today!


This happiness is a carried over joy from yesterday's play Hayavadana by BENAKA at the Bangalore's Colosseum RangaShankara!!!


Written by Gnana Peetha prashasti vijeta Dr.Girish Karnad and directed by the gr8 B.V Karanth, yest evening could not have been spent in a better way i guess. And that too due to the kindness of a stranger who happened to have ONE(yes exactly one!!) extra ticket on a Wednesday Evening at a House Full RS !!! I mean was that just perfect or what?!? Would also like to draw attention to the fact that RS was housefull on a Mid weekday!! Hmmmm namma bangalore starting to appreciate art?!? Good for them !!


Anyways, although the play is too long (2 and a half hours!!! of pure awesome talent disply tho )to be described here, what i would like to emphasize for anybody who is convinced by this post to go n watch it(yeah next weekend replay) is the nature of this play. Its basically a fictional story with such a wicked sense of humour set into the storyline, and the main thing that attracted my attention was that it was an outright traditional nataka! song, dance and pure acting talent and emotional display( everything YES everything done by the actors themselves! no choreography/playback singing here NO SIR!!)


Now lemme get to the piece of news that has maintained my state of happiness....for some this might be a 'ohhhhhhhh ishte na piece of news' but for me ........ ahhhhhhh


The following football jerseys are scheduled to arrive in Bangalore courtesy my brother's awesomely good deed!!! :


here goes....these are four players whose skill n talent i adore n respect : They are probably 4 of THE greatest in the world right now.....in short, put all of em in one team and u have a winner!!!!


P.S : the topic of this blog is a part of a song sung yesterday at RangaShankara in the wonderful play!!




Ryan Giggs - Man Utd.....MAN is he an awesome player!?!!!Posted by Picasa


Dennis (the Menace) BergKamp - Arsenal....not just menace! threat for other teams!! Posted by Picasa


Ronaldinho Gaucho - Barcelona ..... the catalan king!!! Posted by Picasa


Arjen Robben - Chelsea.....The ace up Chelsea's sleeve!!Posted by Picasa

Sunday, July 17, 2005

yesterday

Yesterday i played pool with a baboon(no no its jus a simile.....not areal baboon)

Twas a waste of time.......che all the things i could have done in that time

And money.....I regret it when money is spent that way no matter what amount.

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Eh?

Swalpa perplexed is what you are when a website flashes you the message :

LOADING DOWNLOAD..

!!!!!!!!!!!

(S)Team(y) meeting!

Ok ok b4 all the pervs go off their rockers what i meant by steam was a tough lil situation my mentor put me in by mentioning my strengths/skills/interests slide of his presentation( my mentor is the most exp guy in my division and also the div head : which means i am screwed)

He was sayin some cocky thing or the other bout everybody and when i scanned the slide quickly for my name, i found to my exasperation :

Murali : how-to-yawn, F1 racing

I am like ehhhhhhhhhhh??

I was bloddy ****in(felt like using the stars this time....not in a bad mood to say the word out loud) embarassed!!! When had he caught me yawning so many times to make that comment?! When many such things were runnin in mah head, he turns to me n says "No offence murali but i am talkin abt ur diagram"


A huge oooooooooohhhhhhhhhh came out of me !! The other day when griz had come to my cubicle sayin he was eggstremely sleepy he had written a neat lil Functional Diagram abt yawning describing it in three steps.........no rfcs to reproduce the diagram!

And so now i may have ppl comin over for yawn tutorials! nothin has happened yet but I think it functioned as a cute lil icebreaker!!

And another thing that i learnt today amidst all the Techtalk (which made a lil more sense than the last one.......only teeny tiny!! ) is that our team has won a lakh of rupees which might be spent on a team outing!!!!!! Jingaxe is what i felt asa i found tht out!!! Maybe i'll get a jacket too!!!

Things do seem to be picking up here in HPVille!! More to come maybe soon.........

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Time and again, she repeats lets be friends
I smile and say yes, another truth bends i must confess

I try to let go but i know
we'll never end til we're dust

My body aches from mistakes
Betrayed by lust

God help me please on my knees
Betrayed by lust

How could this be happening to me
I’m lying when I say, ’trust me’
I can’t believe this is true
Trust hurts
Why does trust equal suffering

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I'm diggin my way,
I'm diggin my way to something,
I'm diggin my way to something better,

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Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Trust

Sorry if this is repeated :

Apt.......parts of it

Give up possessiveness

Lost in a dream
Nothing is what it seems
Searching my head
For the words that you said
Tears filled my eyes
As we said our last goodbyes
The sad scene replays
Of you walking away

My body aches from mistakes
Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other so much
That in nothing we trust

Time and again
She repeats let’s be friends
I smile and say yes
Another truth bends,
I must confess

I try to let go, but I know
We’ll never end ’til we’re dust
We lied to each other again
But I wish I could trust

My body aches from mistakes
Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other so much
That in nothing we trust

God help me please, on my knees
Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other so much
Now there’s nothing we trust

How could this be happening to me
I’m lying when I say, ’trust me’
I can’t believe this is true
Trust hurts
Why does trust equal suffering

Absolutely nothing we trust