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Damn Funny!!. Via Venki.

Behind Maggi 2 minute noodles pack:

Step 1: Boil one cup of water
Step 2: As soon as ganguly goes for batting, put the noodles in the boiled water and add the tastemaker.
Step 3: Stir till ganguly is on the field.
Step 4: As soon as ganguly is back in pavilion, your noodles are ready to eat.

If that’s an old one, blame me not. It was delivered to me on e-mail, just yesterday.

to become an Amazon member. I know that you can walk into a desi store, where, the door bell rings when you open the door and buy a Dosa mix. But then, being online is online.

BTW, I am not very choosy with food but while in the US, these things tend to get your taste buds, belligerent. Just mentioning this because the last posts were on food and you might end up thinking me as a Gadothgaja.

Sania Mirza is the latest matinee idol. I don’t say that. But having got more than 6 email forwards, just today alone, filled up with images of Sania Mirza, I accept. No pics of Sania in this post just to beat that.

Anyway, let’s not have another Anna Kournikova in making.

I don’t frequent Sulekha anymore. Not like how I was hooked onto it four years back. Initially when I discovered Sulekha online in late 2000, it was a dream website to me. Then Sulekha was still growing and wasn’t as big as now.

Until 2001, I didn’t even know a word called Weblog existed on the internet. Then, Sulekha was my haunt. I went back again and again because Sulekha had writings of Indian Diaspora with whom I could relate to. It wasn’t like a column nor it was like an email sent by a friend. Its writings were somewhere in-between and were truly classy. To think back, sub-consciously, Sulekha was a big inspiration for me to start blogging. I never wrote anything on Sulekha but admired the writings. Newshopper and Coffee house where the places of my interest. Newshopper had the best of Indian news items that never weren’t headlines but were just good opinions.

These days Sulekha is cluttered and full of ads sprinkled. The good writing is lying there somewhere but then who has enough time to dig them out. Their weblogs section really needs a re-org desperately. To put it simply, they have just too many information on a single page and they are trying to sell them hard. A part of the right side is devoted to those gif advertisements which keep blinking at unexpected intervals and keep pestering click here…click here for those cheap $5 phone cards. Sulekha have grown over the period and probably this financial model is doing well for them. In this internet age of Weblog boom and neatly designed websites, they probably should also look into designing their site, uncluttered.

The point here is that, while googling for the Giggles bookstore, I came across this article, The Chennai Sojourn, written by Ranga Rangarajan. Yet another Sulekha gem. This, I believe this is a work of non-fiction though only the writer can say what percentage of fiction is involved. However, Rangarajan brings in front the contemporary Chennai that I see everyday. His observations finest and his detailing very vivid. As someone pointed out in the comments there is a sad undercurrent throughout the article but that only makes it a engrossing read. Do read.

If Adam and Eve had been Chinese we’ll all be in Paradise, because they would have ignored the apple and eaten the snake. A heady gag. Who else but Kamal Hassan cracking this during a chat about Mumbai Xpress. A good look at the pic in the link would make you guess a couple of things. Kamal as Avinasi would be a deaf and a wannabe US settler(note the USA emblem on his leather coat as he watches a plane fly high). More…

Hurray !! Just one more month for the Thiruvasakam in Symphony to release. Maestro Illayaraja will come back rocking. More…

Shahrukh ‘stereotyped’ Khan talks about lending his voice to the remake of The Incredibles as Hum Hain Lajawab in Hindi. This is however a great effort. More…

Goodbye Arthur Hailey. While a teenager, I was hugely inspired by his thrillers like Hotel and Wheels than the best selling Airport. We will miss you, forever. More…

Have shifted to Total Choice Hosting service from Bloghosts. Bloghosts are closing for business and hence I had to switch to a new one. The guys at bloghosts were amazing and I didn’t want to actually leave them.

TCH guys gave away a great deal for bloghosts customers of a free upgrade. So currently I am on a plan that gives more bandwidth and ample storage space. These guys also have great support. What more do I need to ask for.

Last evening, I switched the nameservers and so for sometime you must have been seeing older entries because my new site was backed up few days back itself. I have brought back the older enteries from the copies I had. The comments of the last four posts are missing. I know the previous post did have a good debate going on. In a day or two I will back up all the comments and put them as they were posted.

I’m Back in Arnold’s Terminator tone :

I’m Back from my mariage hungama and ready to dive into deepest corners of the internet. After a week long detachment from the internet, my emails are over-flowing with spam and lazygeek site looks very new to me. This is my longest break from the internet, ever.

Thanks to Kiruba and Ravages who made themselves available for my marriage reception. It took a while for me to recognize Kiruba and his wife. Only when I saw them with Ravages, I understood it was Kiruba. As Kiruba said, it was too tough to stand with that smile on your face for two long hours.

Thanks for all of you guys who wished me through all communication mediums including telepathy. I was enthralled to see so many well-known, known, unknown people wish me on my marriage page. Thanks again.

All fellow bloggers, patrons, light readers and critically acclaimed critics of this blog are invited for my marriage reception on March 4th 2004 at Mylapore, Chennai. Here’s more.

And now you know why I was lazy to scribble for the last couple of weeks. Don’t you ?

On an another note, scribbles of a lazy geek ;-) just completed 2 years last week. Following The Hindu way, here is This Day That Age, my first blog post.

Monday, February 25, 2002

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Strings, Euphoria and lil bit of Patriotism
(Title inspired by Chennai Blogger Meet 2004) :

On the republic day, the Open Air Theatre of IIT Madras took a hop for 3 hours. Strings, a guitar specialist band from Pakistan performed as a part of the Saarang 2004. Like Saiyoni fame Junoon ( not the DD megaserial), Strings have a distinct aura around them. Dhoor, their hit number was amazing. It takes a lot of attitude to perform in India on the republic day and these guys are definitely not short of that.

Then came running with the indian flag around him was ‘Euphoria’ Palash. Popularly known as Polly, this doctor-turned-pop artist, was with a white sleeveless banian and an unbuttoned shirt which seemed to fall off any time. From then for the next 2 hours he and his euphoric band kept the 8,000+ audience at their feet. So as he came running with the flag and started Jana Gana as the first song of the day, IIT rose up and stood unmoved. Polly continued to sing A.R Rahman‘s Vande Matharam. So did the crowd. We’ll keep the argument surrounding A.R.R’s Vande Matharam and patriotism to the next post. As you can imagine the decibel levels of thousands of collegers shouting at their alto voices, Vande Matharam. A spirit of patriotism swirled across us and it was a definite goose bumper.

While other bands keep singing their own compositions, Euphoria just bothers about keeping the audience happy. Their mantra is just hit numbers. Some interesting numbers they played includes Scorpion’s With or Without You, Queen’s We will Rock you, Bon Jovi’s It’s my life, Shankar Elson Loy’s Dil Chahta Hai and ofcourse ARR’s Dil Se Re.

With just a handful of albums and numerous hit within those albums, the future awaits Euphoria to create wonders. And they can really do it.

Observing Saarang :

a) Guys seemed totally geeky and girls, very freaky.

b) The Alpha and the Omega was found roaming around and I bumped over him on the second day.

c) I missed JAM finals in which I think Suds was also a jammer.

d) The Crossword show called Crossie seemed pretty much easier than I expected. Not that I crack crosswords with my left hand but I aint’ bad also.

e) Hutch introduced the public mobile phone booth. So the hutch guy outside would be sitting with a mobile phone in his hand. If you want to make a call to your honey or to your nanny, you got to pick up the mobile and get into that mobilephone sized booth, talk and give it back to that hutch guy. Good Idea, wrong execution.

f) Radio Mirchi was trying to do something very different with a couple of RJs(Radio Jockey). It was fun to see the expression of RJs from a transparent booth where he/she was talking with that same FM supersonic speed.

g) A chap who was standing beside me during the Euphoria show was replying to SMSes with full swing. While Phalash started to sing It’s my life, he was jumping heaven high and still typing sms in his mobile. I had no clue what was he trying to do. But thats the spirit of Saarang.

h) Finally, the sillier one. They sold pure mineral water with some added color and code named it as Pepsi for 15 bucks.

An Ode to the networked world :
This poem ( can it be called as a poem ??) was written by me during a speaker’s forum in my company . I had basically no big facts to harp on, so i thought of getting my point across by a small poem. Quite a few people say that is in the lines of a similar poem which floated in the net. I am oblivious to that . This is my CREATIVITY !!! you see .

An ode to the networked world

Gone are the days when played games on the road,
Today we code on the road with laptop.

Gone are the days when we stood to watch birds
Today we see and hear them in mpeg files.

Gone are the days when we sat to chat with friends on grounds,
Today we chat in rooms

Gone are the days when we carry watterbottles and chips to movies
Today we watch them in our e-PCs

Gone are the days when we sit back in our father’s swinging chairs and read Alice in Wonderland
Today we purchase them for 1 dollar a chapter and read it from our monitors

Gone are the days when i write such poems in the last pages of my rough notebook
Today i type them in my notepad

Gone are the days when we have marriages for 3 days including baarath
Today we meet at baarat.com, wedding.com and reception.com

( A decade later )

Gone are the days when we have panel discussions in dinning halls
Today we meet using video conferencing in the virtual office.

( 50 years later)

Gone are the days when i used to meet people …i mean real people…
Today i met my creator…. he was real..he was a human
and i am his creation ….I am a ROBOT.

My friend quits celibacy:
He is a mad at Metallica. Crazy about Bryan Adams. We used to wonder who is gonna marry him including his ex-girl. the saying somewhere someone is born for you has become true. he is engaged to a girl whom he describes as one of the girls who make sense while talking. Hey, thats his opinion….not mine. He is excited about the whole stuff but this sets me thinking on grounds on psychology of a man who gets ditched for no mistake of him. Does the man think all girls are crazy ? Does he think all girls are useless? . Ram, Please answer!!!