Do you know...

• that I have moved back to the Andheri office?
  
• Heck! Did you ever know I was in Ghatkopar since the last 3 months?
  
• that there are worse things than just burning my tongue from the hot tea, that I have to worry about?
  
• that the Guardians of the sons of the soil have an Entert(p)ainment wing as well?
  
• how it feels when first thing in the morning on a Monday, you get an SMS saying, "The site is down, come to office quickly"?
  
• that the last direct train from Andheri to Panvel is at 21:11?
  
• that I haven't gotten on that train, except for the first day in Andheri?
  
• about Chaos Theory?
  
• that I am a Senior Developer now, and not a Technical Associate anymore?
  
• there were renovations going on at my place since the last 4 months?
  
• that Kendra Wiklinson is giving up nudity?
  
• that I can bid all my formals good bye?
  
• that I have tons of posts in my drafts that I don't have time to complete/refine and post?
  
• about blabrarium?
  
• that there's a huge pay cut at my office?
  
• that the last rusty nail of the coffin, that was our relation, has finally been struck? (someone would beg to differ)
  
• that I have pictures of XvaXsuX in compromising positions, that I'll use to black mail him, when the need arises?
  
• that A one shoe man doesn't feel comfortable boozing alone, but not going all the way to Pondicherry all by himself?
  
• that I don't get to watch Scrubs anymore?
  
• what's Post Metal?
  
• that my iRiver player is almost out of battery from listening to the above for so long?
  
• that I was in the office, working on IndiaVoting, on the morning of Holi, after being in office the whole night?
  
• that, that's when I found out that Jogeshwari station is closer to my office?
  
• that this is one of my longest posts in a long time?
  
• that I miss the Ghatkopar office a lot...?
  

I know all this...

...and more

Now Playing:

Track: A Three-legged Workhorse
Artist: This Will Destroy You
Album: This Will Destroy You
Vaidu’s classification:Post Rock

Norsk

This joke of a blog just got a visitor from Norway!
:)

Must have mistakenly thought that this blog had something more to do with this...
Poor guy...

By the way Mamba is now officially the murderer of joy...
I don't know if I should continue mentioning his name here.
(I'll hopefully start posting frequently soon... Tied up with a lot of things at the moment...)

Thungabhadra!

For the geographically challenged, Thungabhadra is a river in south India, (otherwise popularly known as Madras; I presume that's how the term Madrasi came into being) into which, passengers on long distant trains to their native places, throw coins, which, children on small rafts on the river, dive into the water to collect, and some of which sometimes ricochet off the poles along the bridge and hit other passengers, traveling to their native places, standing near the doors of the train.

But all this doesn't really explain why Mamba chose this URL for his blog.

Anyways, as I said earlier, welcome to the Blogosphere/Bloggers Park, Mamba...

It wasn't over yet...

On top of all the below mentioned woes, my name was mis-spelt in my salary check cheque.
So now it'll, hopefully, be encached encashed by tomorrow.

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:


Hello,

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reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google
AdSense at this time.
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Issues:
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that matches the information on your domain registration.
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If your site satisfies the above criteria in the future, please
resubmit your application and we'll review it as soon as possible.



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