And justice for all

I really thought the trial for Mr. Kasab would be a joke. But Mr. Kazmi doesn't think so. That's why he wants a month to go through the entire 11,000 page long charge sheet. At the end of which will happen what? He'll find something which will acquit the guy? :-\
unlikely...

So the next best thing he could think of, prove that the guy is under 17 and try him in a juvenile court instead... ha ha ha ha...
And also not to forget this.
We live in a really funny country...

But this is funnier, don't you think?


Tell you what, here's what needs to be done:
Chop off the bloody fucker's head and count the number of rings... There, you have his age... Problem solved...

Andheshwariwaragaon

Yeah, you guessed it right. It's a combination of those 4 places, and it comes pretty darn close to describing my latest workplace.

Now Playing:

Track: You're so beautiful
Artist: Akon (Now you know why I hate Akon? Wait, why would you... :\ )
Album: I dun give a fcuk
Vaidu’s classification: I-dun-give-a-fcuk something

There was a cold day

The joke goes like this:
How'd a foreigner (very generic, ain't it) tell his India servant to open the door?

That doesn't have too much to do with the fact that the last 5 days have been the coldest of the year, not the calendar year, mind you.
I strongly suspect that it's got something to do with the Voltas Vertis Plus that we got installed last week.
Take that, ...summer

(Still didn't get the joke, did you? Chris obviously will)

Now Playing:

Track: Wake
Artist: Rosetta
Album: Wake - Lift
Vaidu’s classification:Progressive/Post Metal

Old School

Highlights from RAIT Alumni Reunion 09

• Wasn't present for much of it. By the time I reached at about 11:30 PM, the smell of beer had died out too, can you believe it?!
  
• Most of whom I was expecting to meet had left.
  
• Kapilavastu got his share though, and then some more. Did an encore, from Reunion 2K7, complete with the puking and stuff... Frigging tea-spoon!
  
• Met up with Ranga, Kapil, Baba, Khosa, Dhaval, Mohsin, Pankhil, Animesh, etc...
  
• Waited for Ranga to get sober before we could leave
  
• Found some booze. Got soft drinks to go with it too.
  
• Found more booze. No soft drinks this time.
  
• Played some racing game and Dead or Alive '4' on someone's X-Box
  
• Ate slices of pizza lying around on a desk outside. Hmm... dinner...
  
• Made Mohsin a tattoo with a permanent marker. He was too sloshed then to thank me for it.
  
• Reminisced
  
• Cursed the current state of affairs in the college
  
• Reminisced
  
• Cursed the current state of affairs in the college
  
• Reminisced
  
• Cursed the current state of affairs in the college
  
• Reminisced
  
• Blurted out things I shouldn't have
  
• Cursed people for not showing up/leaving early
  
• The mosquitoes reminded me of my first night out in college
  
• Ranga and Kapil waited for me to get sober before we could leave
  
• Had tea and Sun Feast biscuits from the cycle chaiwalla under the LP flyover at 4-5 am
  
• Had breakfast at McD's - Some stupid Big Veg Breakfast Thingie - for the last time
  
• Had to spray my face with deo
  
• Still managed to have a ball of a time
  
• Still hung over
  

I still love the college, it's just the wusses who studied there that I hate now...
(This is the last bullet pointed post, promise...)

Now Playing:

Track: O Fortuna
Artist: Amplifier
Album: Insider
Vaidu’s classification:Post/Prog Rock

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:


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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...