New friends

Hi, just when i thought that there were no interesting people left , fate knocks my door and presents me with a person who is outrageously weird and naturally funny and with beautifully preserved innocence, that it makes me believe that this country with all its imperfections has still not stopped producing characters with life and dynamism.

back

i am back baby, back with a bang. accompanied by cheesy 70's movie background scores and a whole lot of fotos. you will like em.

So many things

I havent

• gone to ibiza
• written a book
• bungee-jumped.
• done charity
• had thai food
• seen South Park
• learnt to read/write telugu
• read marx/freud/faulkner or the Bible
• gone on a hot balloon ride
• seen a wild tiger/lion/cheetah
• gone to the USA ( maybe it will be my song, a la Springsteen)
• learnt to eat with chopsticks, or even with a fork and knife.
• learnt to peacefully co-exist with other members of society.
• a moral, social or philosophical consciousness.

Room

Closet

Bed

Cupboard

Never been accused of being a neat freak. Wonder why? Cant they just take a look at my room?

Take over

I have just handed over total control of my life to a friend of mine. This includes my financial decisions as well as other " things to do". I am forced to do this because of a general feeling of inactivity that I have been experiencing.

My friend happens to be a fiendish, psychotic control freak who would probably be the best person to do this job.

Walk

I walked back from office yesterday. It possibly a distance of 4 kilometres (maybe exaggerating, could be 3 and half). It was the sort of exercise that I havent done in months, ok years, ok ok maybe decades. The thing I can be really proud of was I did it in really tight leather shoes I bought a couple of days earlier. An hour(hour and half) of walking, an exhausted self and two subway sandwiches later, I have come to this realisation.

I want to travel the world. A friend of mine and I keep discussing this a lot. He too shares the same idea. But we havent got down towards making any real efforts in doing so. I have a few reasons for not doing so. I am scared of leaving a lot of stuff behind. I dont know whether in quantitative terms, they would mean a lot, but it is something I have worked( question mark) for. A more pertinent reason would be money. I dont have a lot of it, and I am not the backpacker variety to be able to sustain myself in YMCAs and run down lodges. More than that I would say it comes down to family. I guess what I am trying to say is that if I were to do this thing, I would like to do it with a family, maybe not the immediate one but a group of people with whom I would share a comfort level. The more philosophical ones would say that you would make your friends on the journey itself. But I have in my mind a few people with whom I would not hesitate to immediately begin travelling the world. if i get a yes from them, I dont mind leaving as soon as possible.

weird

• A friend of mine has two certificates from two different schools for the same year, stating he has cleared his grade 10 exams.
• Another friend of mine coloured his hair bronze once, the unusual thing was he was almost 90 % bald then.
• Another good friend of mine once used used his ass as an ashtray. Funny thing, he is not a smoker.
• I know a guy who for some unusual reason likes to be called " daddy". Guess, he is one guy who will never be called in for a paternity test.
• Do you know someone personally or have you seen a movie where some one says stuff like my dad "always" used to tell me....", or as my uncle "always" said....., corny stuff like " life is like a train with just one final destination". Wouldnt have been fun being "always" told the same thing.
• Bell bottoms making a comeback.
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  Finally, I have to rub a smooth surface after hearing any sort of a grating noise.