Bubble Top.

Its been a while since i have blogged, let alone post something its been aeon's since i even opened my page, so here i am trying to see if i am still up to it, eager to find out if someone had actually viewed/ commented on my posts and i get a tad excited to see someone has actually commented..my ego bubbles up a little- literally translates into " hell i am good even when i am not blogging" and what do i find ???

an ad for viagra.

do i need to rant more?

nuuu picha..nuu sytz...nuuu....What the $#%

After the installation of wi fi in my apartment, i cm 2 ve 2 mch o tym ta kll.. awww fuck i cannot do this to myself.... I was checking out FB and saw a comment on my friends photo...

Details below...

nuu cut...nuu cut...pweettiieeee picha..

I did not understand even a word - if you can call it a word, of it. Can you? (if you can you are truly a born linguist) I initially thought this was some cryptic code used between the girls,but how wrong i was.

Phew, the amount of abbrv. that is being used these days are mind boggling. Not that i am against it or i am "old fashioned" (as one of my friend addressed me), but i feel down the line we will need dictionaries to "expand" the words and people will forget how the word is actually pronounced and spelt!!!!

One used to find a lot of people trying to mimic Americans, now that era has long gone by, a nu(new) generation has come out trying to imitate the gangster slang there..sheesh..."nuf s nuf"

A extent of abbrv is accepted as its understandable and is for convenience. But this degree of abbrv is actually complicating the sentence rather than make it simple.I know its considered to be "cool" , "rad" and "slick"......but its just so bloody fake. Get real. Grow up.


and btw...

it actually means...


"New cut, new cut..pretty picture "


Kudos to those who got it right.....

Hey Ram...

I just saw Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle (not that it needs an introduction), there is a particular scene in the movie when the character Arvind talks about Benjamin Franklin on a 100$ bill and eventually Irfan Khan asking the protagonist Dev if he knows about the personality on the Indian currency, Dev replies he doesn't with the utmost honesty. Pause.

I asked myself,” Do I know about Gandhi??”

Unfortunately, I don’t know much about him. All that I knew was from my history text books giving a vivid picture of his contribution to the Indian Independence (much appreciated) but a rarely any reference is made to the man’s personal life itself. I did not know what Gandhi was as a normal man, only the projected Mahatma image.

Inquisitive and cynical in nature I actually searched for Gandhi in wikipedia and what a shock I was to receive. The content in wikipedia was exhaustive and by habit I skipped to the contents of the article and found part which refers to Gandhi’s bramacharya…DING..he was married and had 4 chidren…!! Curious, I continued to read on….

Apparently when he was having sex with his wife his father died, giving him a deep sense of guilt and became a vowed celibate deeply influenced by the philosophy of Brahmacharya.

“For Gandhi, Brahmacharya meant "control of the senses in thought, word and deed."”

Reading on was even more shocking to me……

Towards the end of his life, it became public knowledge that Gandhi had been sharing his bed for a number of years with young women.^[38][39] He explained that he did this for bodily warmth at night and termed his actions as "nature cure". Later in his life he started experimenting with Brahmacharya in order to test his self control. His letter to Birla in April, 1945 referring to ‘women or girls who have been naked with me’ indicates that several women were part of his experiments.^[40] Sex became the most talked about subject matter by Gandhi after ahimsa (non-violence) and increasingly so in his later years. He devoted five full editorials in Harijan discussing the practice of Brahmacharya.^[41]

As part of these experiments, he initially slept with his women associates in the same room but at a distance. Afterwards he started to lie in the same bed with his women disciples and later took to sleeping naked alongside them.^[40] According to Gandhi active-celibacy meant perfect self control in the presence of opposite sex. Gandhi conducted his experiments with a number of women such as Abha, the sixteen-year-old wife of his grandnephew Kanu Gandhi. Gandhi acknowledged “that this experiment is very dangerous indeed”, but thought “that it was capable of yielding great results”.^[42] His nineteen-year-old grandniece, Manu Gandhi, too was part of his experiments. Gandhi had earlier written to her father, Jaisukhlal Gandhi, that Manu had started to share his bed so that he may "correct her sleeping posture".^[42] In Gandhi’s view, the experiment of sleeping naked with Manu in Noakhali would help him in contemplating upon Hindu-Muslim unity in India before partition and ease communal tensions. Gandhi saw himself as a mother to these women and would refer to Abha and Manu as “my walking sticks”.

Gandhi called Sarladevi, a married woman with children and a devout follower, his “spiritual wife”. He later said that he had come close to having sexual relations with her.^[43] He had told a correspondent in March, 1945 that “sleeping together came with my taking up of bramhacharya or even before that”; he said he had experimented with his wife “but that was not enough”.^[42] Gandhi felt satisfied with his experiments and wrote to Manu that “I have successfully practiced the eleven vows taken by me. This is the culmination of my striving for last thirty six years. In this yajna I got a glimpse of the ideal truth and purity for which I have been striving”.

I am not making any judgment on Gandhi based on this. I am still in the process verifying the claims made in this article. I let you guys decide upon how much you know about our Father of the nation. I felt like an ignorant ass after coming to know about all this from wikipedia and not our history teachers.

Was surprised, shocked, ashamed at myself for coming to know about this after my education is over.

More to come on this, the unknown about Gandhi, you know any references send them across.

Personally... How does that smile look now? Sweet and innocent or otherwise...? i would really like to know..

Source of italicized content

:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi#Brahmacharya

Shantaram..

Why is this post named as it has been? No particular reason. Its been a while since i have posted anything in this space...Well, its been almost an year, time flies... Now i am back in business with a net connection and a swanky wi fi router..Its been a year since i was offline..Wow one can write in regional language here..ஒதா ...Internet was a luxury i coudnt afford, but now what the heck... :D.. Balls to the recession.. Life on a genral has been monotonous with most of my time devoted to my work, which i seem to apreciate and enjoy as days pass by.....

Mumbai has been through its troubles during this one year and so i have been.. I can seem to able to connect to this city..This is the most dynamic city one can see..strong and full of passion. Its a city of contradictions...People are either too caring or really dont give a shit..... Sometimes i hate being here..sometimes its almost home...But home will always be good old Madras and Mylapore.

When away from one's home, one tends to appreciate the finer aspects of home..I miss good old vathakozhambu with vadaam, thaiir saadam, pallavan bus, chitrakulam, kabali..63 moovar..ther thiruvizha...mylapore festival...RR sabah...SSK road...Marina..Bessi...bessi fast food..the dirty gobi 65 and fried rice..and many many more......aaaahh chennai....

I AM BACK......

After a long hiatus (i always wanted to use this word... :D got the opportunity just now) I AM BACK. Two months in Trivandrum and now posted in Bombay….TCS has changed my life entirely…away in a distant land, unknown language (trust me that is a big barrier) every day is an adventure….

But till now MUMBAI MERRY HAI..!!! I love this place…for its speed, people and obviously the babes… :P

So this blog will now be bullshit not only from me..but also from Bombay……

BEWARE…..

Dog Wars

This post is not about the dysfunctional system in the suburbs but about DOGS and the menace they create.Though dubbed man's best friend i prefer to keep my distance from them.I had a terrible confrontation with a Alsatian once and lost four kilos from my thigh.Due to the gore involved in the incident i will refrain from going into the details.So this particular incident in my 8th grade changed me from being a dog lover to a paranoid human petrified of anything that has sharp teeth,nails(vinod)claws.I stay away from untamed dogs,cats and strays as much as possible.

Its been four years since i have moved into the suburbs and the biggest problem i had ,besides adjusting to the new environment ,was that of adjusting to the martial law of the dogs in my street.Seriously...after 10 'o clock the curfew begins and the dogs take over the street.It is impossible to move around without them snarling menacingly at you.It is a risk i normally do not take.

Having a lot of free time to kill i began to name them...

1) Black beast -big fucking dog...as big as a Pig...forgot to mention..the territory is also shared by pigs also. i think he is the alpha male

2) Scarface --This dog was subjected to gruesome tests by some mad scientist living nearby i reckon,because this dog's face is distorted in the most ugly way which would make Scarface(from 'the Texas chain saw massacre ) look elegant. ***Menaka Gandhi are you reading this???

3)Fucked---this dog convinced me that someone's sexual orientation in my neighborhood was on psychotic lines.

4)Big Bad Brownie and 5)Spots.


These were the ruling dogs in my street...what is their lifestyle....?? Fuck around the entire day...howl in the night ...fight with the dogs from the next lane..and bite the occasional postman or the courier guy...

I made my peace with the dogs in the first week i shifted to the suburbs by offering them biscuits and i stay away from them as much as possible.If i am late..i ask my dad to pick me up from the railway station nearby to avoid any confrontation.
Who said dogs were cute and cuddly.....??? They should have a look at the dogs ruling my streets.......i hear from the society that they are planning to remove the gurkha,because his job is easily taken over by these "best-friends of man"....wait wait....i can hear the gurkha wailing in the background...think he got his pink slip...or did he get mauled by Big bad Brownie?????

Australian tourist Q&A

The questions below about Australia are from potential visitors.

They were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the website officials, who obviously have a sense of humor.

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Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? (UK).

A: We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.

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Q: Will I be able to see kangaroos in the street? (USA)

A: Depends how much you've been drinking.

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Q: I want to walk from Perth to Sydney - can I follow the railroad tracks(Sweden)?

A: Sure, it's only three thousand miles, take lots of water.

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Q: Are there any ATMs (cash machines) in Australia? Can you send me a list of them in Brisbane, Cairns,Townsville and Hervey Bay?

(UK)

A: What did your last slave die of?

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Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in

Australia?

(USA)

A: A-fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe.

Aus-tra-lia is that big island in themiddle of the Pacific which does not

... oh forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Kings Cross. Come naked.

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Q: Which direction is North in Australia? (USA)

A: Face south and then turn 180 degrees. Contact us when you get

here and we'll send the rest of the directions.

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Q: Can I bring cutlery into Australia? (UK)

A: Why? Just use your fingers like we do.

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Q: Can you send me the Vienna Boys' Choir schedule?

(USA)

A: Aus-tri-a is that quaint little country bordering Ger-man-y, which is ... oh forget it. Sure, the Vienna Boys Choir plays every Tuesday night in Kings Cross, straight after the hippo races. Come naked.

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Q: Can I wear high heels in Australia? ( UK)

A: You are a British politician, right?

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Q: Are there supermarkets in Sydney and is milk available all year round? (Germany)

A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of vegan hunter/gatherers.

Milk is illegal.

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Q: Please send a list of all doctors in Australia who can

Dispense rattlesnake serum. (USA)

A: Rattlesnakes live in A-meri-ca which is where YOU come from.

All Australian snakes are perfectly harmless, can be safely handled and

make good pets.

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Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Australia, but I forget its name. It's a kind of bear and lives in trees. (USA)

A: It's called a Drop Bear. They are so called because they drop out of Gum trees and eat the brains ofanyone walking underneath them. You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking.

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Q: I have developed a new product that is the fountain of youth.

Can you tell me where I can sell it inAustralia? (USA)

A: Anywhere significant numbers of Americans gather.

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Q: Can you tell me the regions in Tasmania where the female

population is smaller than the male population? (Italy)

A: Yes, gay night clubs.

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Q: Do you celebrate Christmas in Australia? (France)

A: Only at Christmas.

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Q: I was in Australia in 1969 on R+R, and I want to contact the

Girl I dated while I was staying in Kings Cross*. Can you help?

(USA)

A: Yes, and you will still have to pay her by the hour.

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Q: Will I be able to speak English most places I go? (USA)

A: Yes, but you'll have to learn it first.

I don't know if they were really posted in the website,But the stuff was just too good and so i had to post it.

P.S:: I got this as a mail.