Forgive me father if I've sinned....

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear blah blah
Happy Birthday to YOUH!


Belated wishes to you oh dear....Hope you are happy wherever you are

Belated wishes for yesterday and premature wishes for tomorrow....Do you remember what tomo is? Not a big deal, but still....

Murali,
You may yourself not remember down the line what tomorrow is....Hence the etching onto blogger.com...

quotable quotes

These are from live, living, walking, breathing, eating, talking ppl I know

You never know who can get hurt by what you say.

A girl always breaks up a gang of guys........

Don't trust your friend with a secret if you don't trust yourself with one.

Helidd maathu kelalla (means "Doesn't listen to you"......this one was about a dick........A dick doesnt obey the host to which it is attached apparently....Only I'm being too blatant about it...NOW i see the sun....)

knowlezz! tanks ppl.... Maybe more to come.... :)

Mukha nodi mane haaka beda...

Fig 1 : Sand....Stealth....Phone Camera.....Cat!


Title of post is a kannada proverb, which means do not judge by face value...

Exactly that is what I should not do in ze future is what I've learnt!

First of all, a prelude to this post please? Bheemeshwari, Jungle Lodges and Resorts! The destination for our first ever section offsite....Which meant hanging out with unknown folks most of who shall, almost as a rule, remain unknown folks after the outing too! But what about the ppl u know and who u work with? Well turns out u get to see very interesting sides of them! ;) Intrigued??? Lets dive right into the details!

Friday the 27th of October!

8:15 is bus departure time as intimated through electronic mail the previous day. Ally being pursuaded to have a spot of breakfast by the almighty mom! Looks at avlakki with undisguised loathing cos at that unearthly hour, he'd rather eat leaves growing on his compound wall....

After some avlakki has been forced in, a distressed look at the clock with the minute hand at 12 and hour hand at ohfuckeight!, ally makes way for the gate rather hurriedly! And who must appear out of the neighbor's house, but a shining pearl! Turns out some article had to be returned by this delicacy to our house and I bumped into her without any form of any regret! "Whoa! My day's started out pretty well!" Me thought.... At that very second, God was goin "he he he ya sure paapu!"

We manage to leave for bheemeshwari finalleee at 9:10 am....Instead of takin a direct road to vidhan soudha, we are taken for a ride around it...THAT! that is the point where I shud've taken the hint and braced myself....All I did though, was munch on some lakeview sandwiches and pastry.....

Well, wat do i say of the journey oh patient readers?!? All of FOUR FUCKING HOURS to cover a measly 100 kms, albeit most of it was off Mysore road on a bumpy track.... To make the journey just that smidgen more pleasant, there was bellowing of its passengers in what was termed a 'singing competition' called antakshari....As if this wasnt enough to stifle the musician inside me, there was also a dance by a grown MAN in a tumbling, bumbling bus aisle to 'Kajra re'....Man! Once u've seen THAT, u've seen it all I believe (MY EYES MY EYES!!!!!!)

The only bright spot was probably that delightful face, that smile, that calm demeanor amidst all the chaos that stood out and caught my eyes! Who was she? Which team is she? Where does she live? A weird sort of exhilaration! Must make contact with this particular instance of Class Human! is what registered in my mind....But noh noh noh! I didnt chose the topic of this post jus like that! Lets just say that she was in more than one way a rather huge disappointment, once I got of the bus and well...."got" more of her!! Lets just leave it at that ok? It hurts way too much to talk about it! Alas! Akatakata!!!!! :D


Now the story takes another twist....On landing at 1.30, we were censured quite deservingly for being whoppingly late...And hence were asked to wait for lunch....And how did I spend that half hour u ask? By playing frisbee with a project and a section manager! :O Man it can be a relaxing and entertainin game!

Lunch...well wasnt just lunch was it?? There was some mention of champagne being served which evaporated like petrol being exposed to air....My chances of gettin some into my own system went kaput! Still there was no dearth of beer though....And someone somewhere better be damn bloody appreciative of the fact that I did not drink!!

Post lunch was a coracle ride, where I saw three crocodiles!! While this isn't exactly an 'aamir khan swallowing a fish that he caught in DCH' kinda proud moment, it was pretty cool to watch this deadly, deceptive creatures barely show themselves and disappear instantly! We all sang "jhalak dikhlaaaaaaja" like good boys, but nothing doing....

After that, some quality time spent amidst the hammocks and small rock kinda formations humming to myself, splashing kaveri maa water on me fayce, taking in the scenery and saying things like "ah this is the life" out loud...It also involved me sitting on a rock which had some traces of tar on it, the afternoon sun just starting to melt it....God help my mom take THAT off mah pants :D

And then THE moment....it started raining!!!!! You have an expanse of water and u have water coming in from the heavens and oh my god thats a scene to behold!!! And when some laidies wanna party in the rain and get wet, you just sit there, with ur lips sealed (probably in awe) savoring the sight and some hot tea baibee.........

Thats it follks! Time to get back onto the death machine and trudge back to the place we know as earth..err ...bangalore... Wait a minute! Lets make it more tiring shall we? We'll add an hour this time....FIVE ! thats the number! We'll take five hours to get back!! Yippee.....Get off bus @ 10.30 with "mercy! pls show us mercy!" on our lips and rush back home in ten minutes on mah bike!

Phew!

Vacation

Fig 1. Hen and cock


Mysore

The place where I used to have bucket loads of fun as a kid! The place where I played with big boys when I was a kid, a heaven only magnified by the fact that summer holidays were spent there....Now I've heard many ppl saying its a dull dud place where nothing happens, time stretches to eternity and blah blah


I'm running away with my description here...one thing at a time pls....

Left at around 8....Got to Shivalli restaurant unscathed....Then started the peril....I started insisting vehemently that I would drive the remaining distance to Mysore...Dad thought, eh? havent been adventurous for a long time....So gave me the keys..

Was one of the funnest parts of the whole trip.......Cheching at 90 sometimes, I made the road mine! Constantly admiring the concept of banking, I rode the streets as though I was infected with wanderlust! Caressing the steering wheel and stroking the gear shaft.......(err....um....where am I going with this? )

Alas @ Srirangapatna my brother woke up to the fact that he was missing out on some quality fun....So he commanded me to slow down, step out of the car, keep my hands on my head....No no just to hand the wheel over to him.......


Reach mysore and I had a well planned itinerary for us in mind.....A cunning relative of mine tried to mould that into his favor....Nothing doing me said (thats me standing up for what I wanted....)
and proceded to watch the Man Utd vs Liverpool even though the other guys went to KRS and saw water dance to dhoom machaale dhoom machaale dhoom! Even though it seems frivolous that I would prefer a football match over an outing with my relatives in THEIR house, but thats what I wanted to do and would be most happy doing.....

Oh ya, saw last formyula one rayce of schumi....Masth man he is i thinks....

Monday saw both sons of the Rao household waking up rather late and looking sluggish (as was intended :D ) Within no time, it was afternoon which had been reserved to see "Don" by my brother....But we left a lil bit early and visited karanji lake ! (sound familiar?? "Koorakkukkaralli kere....telakk karanji kere......." :D :D ) Man what a nice place?! Pedal boating and future discussings with brother for alf hour to 40 mins and then a visit to the local aviary....Man the camera in my phone has never seen so much action! Snapped and snapped at everything from spoonbills to peacocks (Refer to fig 1) to rabbits running around.....Tranquil, serence and beautiful!

Then Don @ 35 bucks per head! (Can yu beleev that??? 35 bucks for a top notch hindi movie!) Not too bad a theatre either.....No multiplex but not gandhi class seating either.....Well, post movie, I was filled with a lot of questions, awed by udit narayan's rendition of khaike paan and driving around mysore to get back to our residing place while avoiding crackers on the road and resultant heart attacks!!


Tuesday saw me visiting a relative's place and playing cricket with a 3rd standard goin kid! Man he was small......He taught me how to do "swing bowling".....Hadnt played cricket for ages! And he stumped me with some astronomy related questions too! :O Where did all the info I gathered about stars, eclipses and other shit go??? Major leakageonomy!!! Thats when it most hit me that I so want to be a kid but have grown up and its inevitability staring at me!! Che


Mysore...The simple place....Where u can cover 10 kms in 15 minutes.....Where people talk to u with a smile while giving directions.....Where there is beauty.....A nice place and always close to my heart it will be!

Questions

What if I got it wrong?
And no poem or song..
Could put right what I got wrong,
Or make you feel I belong
What if you should decide?
That you don't want me there by your side
That you don't want me there in your life.

Coldplay is a smart band
Cos, you know, they only ask the questions but dont answer them.......
I'll go a step ahead and say that its unimaginably healthy and best to NOT EVEN ASK THE QUESTION SOMETIMES!

No answer no khich khich
Peace everywhere
Screw all
Hallelujah!!

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Epitome

I've seen the man use the needle
Seen the needle use the man...........

Bathtub tips

Preparation
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1. Clean the bathtub
2. Pee (Lot of water stimulates ur urinary system)
3. Winamp -> Music selection -> Remove Shuffle

Here's my list of songs which I am generously lending :

Pink Floyd - Learnng to fly
R.E.M - Everybody Hurts
Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera (Preferably being listened to after 6-8 months)
Coldplay - Fix you
Metallica - N0thing else matters (acoustic)
Iron Maiden - Dance of death
Velvet Revolver - Fall to pieces
Coldplay - Speed of sound
Iron Maiden - Afraid to shoot strangers
Iron Maiden - Hallowed be thy name
Velvet Revolver - Loving the alien

4. Get some drinking water...This is because of dehydration once you get into the tub, especially since u've followed step 2 in Preparation phase.....I am not generalising here, but makes sense to have water which u can drink.....Also Ironic how being in water can make u want water more!!

Tha Bath
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While you are performing step 3 in preparation, bath tub shud be filling up with water....Select right mixture of hot and cold water......Don be afraid of hot water......Its good and soothing

During bath, one is allowed to get out and come to computer to change song which is playing...Pre bath song tastes will differ from in bath mood....Fore warned is fore armed.....

Also, if the song volume on ur music system is causing vibrations in err ..um ... some parts of ur body, time to decrease volume to avoid post bath parent kickass

Also, if there is no drinking water, u will feel the effects of the dehydration when u get out of the bath tub to perform above mentioned actions....You mite even see urself swinging and swooning....Relax its just a mirror...

Post bath
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Approximately when u 1/3rd of Loving the Alien has been completed, u remove the stopper in the tub to let the water to drain.......After all the water has gone out ("I never noticed....how lovely were the aliens......"), get up...take another shower, dry urself nicely and

FLUMP!!!

Thats u hitting the bed......Congratulations on completing an hour long bath.

Live shit binge and purge!!!!!

Yup
Its finalleee here

What is it about Metallica that makes me go "yikes!!" or "yoicks!!" or "hooooah!!" or "aikeeaah!!" or other sounds which denote excitement!?

Is it the fact that when the camera focuses on him just before the concert backstage, James Hetfield choses to say "Hey fags and sluts!!" to the crowd??? (No thats not the reason, but couldnt resist mentioning it here lol :D )

Is it the fact that they've gotten equally heavy and melodious in their music, with masterful guitaring and mind blowing lyrics??

Yenopa.....I like them....And nothing else matters..... B-) :cool

Am gonna watch and savor this 2 dvd set like fuckin hell yeah!!!

My little bubble?

"......My heart's like an open book, for the whole world to read......"


- Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue

I wish this were true....

Concealment, pent up anger maybe even grudges are commonly available articles in today's market i feel....either that or its being push marketed to me!

Formality and reservedness is what is given to u, whether u like it or not....Instead of being shouted at and the issue cleared, silence is observed....the heat of the moment clouds the brain....Trust and Consideration are at an all time low....

I do wanto take this space to see it from the "victim"'s point of view....when one is wronged and hurt by u emotionally, it is hard, for one, to clear the dark clouds of pain and look for the teeny tiny possibility of a misunderstanding....
But the bottom line is, which according to me has stood the test of time, that ANYBODY deserves a second chance, a consideration especially if ANYBODY is ur friend.....

And in the case where u are wrong, and u have the guts/courage/righteousness/humility/acceptance (pick one or more or add more), to admit that u were wrong and to be genuinely sorry is something which is taboo.....Yeah u are not given a chance....And its almost like the sorry coming out from you is just a namesake and is not meant by you....

Good....

P.S : I'll forget this post soon.....sooner than the others....Have that feeling....