Monday Morning Blues

The way she dodges my questions really amazes me!

Add to it the fact that I found out that there are no direct buses from Bombay to Chennai and also that the Tatkal ticket booking is actually Tat-con, that too at about 6:30 in the morning...

So there I was waiting in the line, Digit magazine in hand, for more than an hour, just to find out that there were no Waiting-List-less tickets to Chennai for the weekend. By the time my turn came up, I wasn't even very sure if I should really try for it. I ain't spending 10k for a 1 hour gig, no sirree...
I might not be grinning after all, it seems.
But mind you, I haven't yet given up. That is more of Chris's forte.

If anyone wants to sponsor a one way ticket at least, I'd be more than grateful.

Now Playing:

Track: Hessian Peel
Artist: Opeth
Album: Watershed
Vaidu’s classification:Progressive/Melodic Swedish Death Metal

Harvest

Sorry for not living up to all your combined, yet measly expectations, and not posting on the 1st of January... Luckily for you, not being blessed by a hallowed post of mine on the very first day of the new year doesn't necessarily mean you won't have a good year ahead.

Crap apart, I got my first salary in over 5 months.
Ya, I am happy; it was a 'decent' amount, being 3 months' worth. For the concerned lot, the other 2 months' was given to me as part of my Full-n-Final settlement by TechM.

But that retarded grin I had, when I got into that auto, from the ATM near that petrol pump close to Shivaji Nagar, on my way to the training centre at Wakdewadi, on the 1st of January 2006, was missing. As Homer once said, "...until the weight of the world crushed my spirit".

I am very much tempted to treat myself to an Opeth gig. Now don't you feel that it's a cleverly titled post, huh, huh? Happy, Mamba?
That grin may after all reappear. Only time (about 3-4 hours) will tell...

Now Playing:

Track: The Noose
Artist: A Perfect Circle
Album: ???
Vaidu’s classification:Yet to figure out (think along the lines of Tool)

The Shame...

Google just rejected my AdSense request!
Oh the shame...
Is it thaaaaaaaaaaaaat bad?!?!? How the hell did they know about my abysmally low readership???

Here's what they had to say:


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I reiterate, "A year best forgotten..."

Now Playing:

Track: In My Heart
Artist: Moby
Album: ???
Vaidu’s classification: Electronic/Pop Something...

Farewell... Farewell...

Chal then, bye bye 2008...
As one of those news channels put it, "A year best forgotten..."

No time to come up with anything more sizable...
(Yes, I'll probably come up with an equally lame post tomorrow, just for fcuk's sake)

Now Playing:

Track: Mumbhai
Artist: Javed Jaffry
Album: Bombay Boys
Vaidu’s classification: Something ahead of it's time, as far as Bollywood is considered.

Bachchaa De Basanti

A Generation Gives Birth...

(What a lame ass post title na?)

Has anyone else noticed the sudden appearance of a slew of 1-2 year olds?!
There are at least 6 in my society and 2 in my family... that I can remember of...
And, Boy..., are they smart or what?!

But I am a bit apprehensive about the negative attitude...
A kid in my society keeps telling me "Tu jaa", every time she sees me... Then there's always the "Yeh appa ka hai" rhetoric. She believes my jeans, my cell, my floaters, all are her Appa's.

Any attempts to play with my niece are greeted with an animated "Nahi Chahiye". The other day I offered her a Vadai which was eagerly and expectedly replied with a "Nahi Chahiye". She took the Vadai, of course.
Just yesterday when I called up to wish her on her second birthday, she refused to come on the phone, saying, yes you guessed it right, "Nahi Chahiye".



The blog has started resembling that Twitter thingy, what with all those 2 line posts earlier. So here goes...

Some other random things from the week:
It's been more than a year now since I have seen my 'chin' :P

Two days back I let a bearded guy place some 3-4 boxes just outside my office. He said they were batteries... So far nothing has occurred to make me regret letting him do that.

Today as I was returning from an uncle's place, I was asked to throw away a bag of (rotting) flowers from a pooja last week, into a lake near Kurla. Just couldn't get Arch Enemy's 'Burning Angel' outta my head:

These are dark times,
Suspicious minds breed like rats.
Guardians of corrupt morality,
Spread their filthy lies.

(Well, the same song was playing in my head during my last few days at TechMahindra too... Such a versatile song!)

I think it's time to chuck the goatee...

Now Playing:

Track: Goblin's Dance
Artist: Ensiferum
Album: Ensiferum
Vaidu’s classification:Folk/Power/Black/Thrash Metal

His Own Peace Initiative

At such wretched times when the motherland and the neighbours are on the verge of war, the only person actually making some efforts to bring peace seems to be XVaXsuX.
Hope his love making spreading initiatives across the border bear some humane fruits... get it...? 'bear some human(e) fruits...' get it...? :P

A Wednesday

How I wish this whole episode would have turned out more like the movie.

I hope this time the powers that be can't come to the defense of the wicked for the sake of a few votes...

I am ashamed of living in such a pansy country...

Now Playing:

Track: A Nation Crying

666
Yeah!!! \m/

Now Playing:

Track: Some other old Hindi film song...

...before you get me wrong, let me clarify that I had been listening to these songs even when we were... er.. eh.. hmm... whatever...
Even then I felt weird listening to songs that went like how the below two go...
But now it feels even more awkward...

That apart, poor Ishita is never going to know what her Globus Membership no. is...
She'll probably never 'Flash her card & Njoy Xclusive benefits just 4 her!' as the SMS that I received from Globus (along with the membership no.) said she could.
Oh cruel world...!

Now Playing: (in the background)

Track: Ek Hasina se... blah blah
Artist: ???
Album: ???
Vaidu’s classification:Really really old Hindi film music

...and now, The Irony

The Gathering - You Learn About It

Now that we're through
the hell with you
We don't mind
We just give it a sigh

We hardly knew
what you were capable
of doing
But why don't you give it a try

Oh, you learn about it
Oh, you harvest (until you can make no more)
All that's eating inside
All that's eating inside

---

The Gathering - Saturnine

The day you went away
You had to screw me over
I guess you didn't know
all the stuff you left me with
is way too much to handle
But I guess you don't care

You don't need to preach
you don't have to love me, all the time

Whatever on earth possessed you
to make this bold decision
I guess you don't need me
While whispering those words
I cried like a baby
hoping you would care

You don't need to preach
you don't have to love me, all the time

You don't have to preach
all the time

---

Two songs that are wearing out my iRiver lately...
But I swear to God, I don't mean any of it... well, most of it...

Now Playing: (hover over here)

Track: Not Unlike The Waves
Artist: Agalloch
Album: Ashes Against The grain
Vaidu’s classification:Ambient/Folk/Trash/Grey Metal

The Diagnosis, actually...

As the 4-5 of you must already be knowing, Life sucks for a major part of it... for everyone...

I won't be making little hearts out of pieces of red card paper. I'll be grieving in my own ways...

The Cure?

Suddenly Chris is making little hearts out of pieces of red card paper instead of his normal female bashing...

Now, if only Osama, Raj, and a whole lot of other eminent personalities in the world 'scene' fell in love suddenly...

Why die a nut?

Caught myself wondering the above at 2 at night some days back...
Why should anyone?! I ask...

Do something interesting before you die. Base-Jump off the Eiffel Tower, wrestle with Great Whites, shit on a pigeon/crow, form a tr00 Brutal Gridcore Melodic Horror kvlt Progressive Black Death Metal band, do a gig at Razz, get banned for life, watch KANK or for that matter, DDLJ, HAHK, K3G, K2H2, DTPH, TRRP (Ta Ra Rum Pum) and say it out loud, create 1,001 communities on orkut, dig your way through to the US, protest outside KFC for growing those mutant chickens, stop the Iraq war, end world hunger, search for Elvis and a whole lot of other crazy stuff including learning knitting etc...

But do something. Don't just sit on your lazy buttocks all day, every day, watching advertisements on TV, or on your PC. And please don't give that lame-ass excuse for an excuse, 'arre budda ho gaya re iske liye sab' ( A one shoe man, listening? ).

Live a life less mediocre. Give your kids (Vasu - something must have surely found its way through, Anshu - chod) something to talk about during their History period.



I used to work as a production support engineer (call centre for a call centre) and used to get calls at midnight for issues. Why-die-a-nut is what the firang at the other end of the line called me, on the only night that I ever picked up a call. If you bought any of the above psychobabble, you're a nut and you should die...

I joined my new place (id8Labs) just yesterday.
Details about it later.

That means I have to travel to Four Bungalows daily, as follows:

Home	---> Chembur Station	Auto/Walk
Chembur Station	---> Wadala Station	Train
Wadala Station	---> Andheri Station	Train
Andheri Station	---> Office	Bus

I had to get some of my certificates to work on the first day, and on my way back was planning on buying a cell from Alfa 'Air conditioned Shopping Mall', so here's what I decided was the best thing to do:

Home - Office: 2 Hrs.

Home	---> Kurla	Auto
Kurla	---> Santa Cruz	Bus
Santa Cruz	---> Andheri Station	Train
Andheri Station	---> Office	Auto

Office - Home: 3.5 Hrs.

Office	---> Andheri Station	Bus
Andheri Station	---> Vile Parle Station	Train
Vile Parle Station	---> Alfa	Auto
Alfa	---> Santa Cruz	Auto
Santa Cruz	---> Ghatkopar	Bus
Ghatkopar	---> Home	Auto

(I dunno how to remove those empty spaces before the tables)
Ok, those 3.5 Hrs. included about 45 minutes on the phone with her without me covering much ground.
My shoulder still aches from holding the phone.
I had a relapse of my 'Apendicularitis' and my head stared aching too.
Just to add some more injury, the cell was out of stock.

And Anshu says that I can't complain because I don't have a strict dress code.



Everyone in India started traveling in Bombay recently...

Now Playing:

Track: Ornament/The Last Wrongs
Artist: Oceansize
Album: Everyone Into Postion
Vaidu’s classification:Progressive/Post Rock/Metal

:)

brb

Am not in a state to post much these days... But trust me, lotsa things happening...
Will be back soon, and hopefully with a bang.

Now Playing:

Track: Music For A Nurse
Artist: Oceansize
Album: Everyone Into Postion
Vaidu’s classification:Progressive/Post Rock/Metal

Fate's Warning

That's the name of a progressive metal band. I like all my posts to have something to do with music. Well, this post has got nothing to do with music, though.

One night while returning from that hell hole my colleagues call an 'office', passing by the petrol pump with a naked flame in my hand, found myself wondering this:

This 'fate' that people speak of, that last excuse for failures, is really a bad thing, isn't it...? What with it always being used in contexts like "Don't ride without a helmet, you don't wanna tempt fate now" or "Pay your insurance premiums, don't tempt fate".

Ever heard anyone go "Go buy that lottery ticket and tempt fate"?

Don't think too hard, just some random thoughts trying to fill the void left after the 'emancipation'...



Sweet thing, I watch you,
Burn so fast, it scares me.
My games, don't leave me,
(I've) Come so far, don't lose me.

...sang Anneke Von Giersbergen. I can't sing that any longer, and mean it, or can I?

Now Playing:

Track: Reality Dream
Artist: Riverside
Album: Out Of Myself
Vaidu’s classification:Alternative/Progressive Rock/Metal

Some (after?)thoughts

I took that proverbial plunge sometime back.

And am yet to discover how deep the water is...
I am as confused as you about the benevolence of this 'depth', though.

Is a job just something that you do to earn a living? Are hobbies supposed to compensate for those things that you really like doing?
Is a propitious combination of the above two even possible?
So many questions, no answers in sight.

Hell yeah! I am scared...

Nature-Boy strikes again

A One Shoe Man aka Jawaan aka Senior Citizen aka Buzurg aka etc. etc. etc. is a weird human or as he rightly puts it, Un Human.

This is a person with whom normal things happen, not very often. He truly deserves a whole blog, but at the moment this is all I can afford.

Imagine being inside a huge (I mean really huge) mall with a covered atrium, wearing a stupid cap all the time. What is the probability of a bird pooping on your head?
1.0, for you see, A One Shoe Man lives at Singularity where all known laws of Physics just break down.

His day was not over yet. Later while traveling back he was found trying to avoid a tiny (I mean really tiny) lizard on the wind screen of the cab, from falling on him (Keep checking Flickr for pic[s]).

But you must realize that it's all in a day's work for a guy whom a Kite once tried to abduct and who once found a live frog inside his pant pocket.

Now Reading:

Title: Interpreter Of Maladies
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Yahoo Yippie Yahoo!!!

Just successfully completed a small project in CGI Perl and Ajax!!!
Am king of the world!

Now Playing:

Track: Death Is The Road To Awe
Artist: Clint Mansell
Album: The Fountain - OST
Vaidu’s classification:Too Awesome to classify!!!