Where I Sleep At Bidadi

What does this say about me?

My Side Of The Story: In Bubblegum Pink

All What-her-ed Down

This little deviation from the usual brought to you by the randomly-strung-group-of-words that was my status message then:

All what-her-ed down,

That’s me,

And yes, my eyes are chocolate brown,

As is the skin furrowed by my frown,

If I were king, I’d probably look silly wearing that crown,

Probably a little less sillier than being a clown, (at a child’s birthday party – )

I would have my fair maidens feed me sweet sweet grapes,

As I sipped from a goblet, and I’d be in a few minutes,

All what-her-ed down.

It’s been quite a week. I managed to stay at Bidadi for nearly a whole week without spiriting (no, not sprinting) back home. Yesterday I had to come home and learn a bit of SQL. And it proved to be well worth it. I learnt quite a bit (something about SQL JOINs being really cool as opposed to SELECTs from multiple tables,) and stayed up quite late into the night in the process (4:30 AM). I had to be up by 6:00 to leave for Bidadi before the city woke up. I woke up at 7 AM and found myself disJOINted and groggier than ever. And this continued through the day.

Could hardly connect with Objects today in class. Wasn’t I certified for being able to do a little bit of that? Planning to finsh that up during the weekend. Also somebody’s going to be a lot poorer this weekend. And I know it’s going to be me. Goodbyes will be said, people will break bread, and talk of the dead, all to mark the end of another era and the beginning of something new.

And yes, this week also marked the twenty-second incident of the earth going around the sun since when I was considered existent enough to be called ‘cute’.

Of course, a lot has changed now.

I’ve always held silly contrarian views on birthdays. I’m beginning to like them now.

To all those who checked in: Thank you. To all those who didn’t, I’ll look you up on facebrook.

Was On The Phone One Day When…

I noticed it:

Yes, this is what I noticed.

Sunset at Bidadi

Took this on the my very first day at work. We had just come out the building where we’re being trained, and I just had to take a picture of something to remember the occasion by.

The sun seems to be current favourite subject of my photographs anyway.

It's Another Tequila Sunrise

Took this from the balcony of our hotel room in Pondicherry in December of last year.

We stayed at the Aurobindo Ashram Guest house.

Call us lucky to have snagged this room.

You see, my father knew a guy, his brother knew a guy…

Morality And Morons

Checking back with Facebook after a gap of two weeks, I found this discussion on “morality coming from morons”. Oddly, this is the only one I could actually think of responding to.

The discussion was centered around a joke:

“If electrcity comes from electrons, then doesn’t morality come from morons.”

My response:

If current is taken to move in a direction conventionally opposite to the direction of motion of electrons, you can apply the same analogy to the motion of morons, to deduce that morons moving away from morality leads to moronism.

So, it is the direction you choose to take, and not the effect of a label you have been tagged with.

It’s not about being a moron. It’s about taking the same direction as another moron moving away from morality that makes you a moron.

Ah, wordplay sucks.

Think I wasn’t really making a point there? Neither did I.

More Spam

Ah, Ms. Jolie, we have been awaiting your presence in our midst.

Say what you want about spammy bots. They’re hard workers.

This week (in no particular order):

• first week on the job
• doubts aplenty
• I’d recently gone so far as to term myself ‘healthy’ – must retract that statement
• Uncovered an allergy to dust I might have had all this while
• Have spent the last 4 days doing an impression of a barking dog. Needless to say, the street dogs in my neighbourhood are very concerned about the evolution of the canine species taking a wrong turn
• SMS is a very expensive mode of communication (At Rs. 2 a day)
• I can very adjusting to power-cuts (6 AM – 11 AM/3 PM – 6 PM/10 PM – 10:10 PM/12 AM -4 AM this week)
• I find waking up at 5 in the morning everyday  pretty easy when I’m not asleep in my own bed
• Apparently, the tea that I brew is better than the tea that the people at the canteen at the training center brew
• That goes for coffee as well
• I suck at web-design
• The Pianist is a great movie
• TOTAL Mall is one of the best places to get stuff for cheap
• You can never trust the twitterati not to spin anything that you say into something against you
• If there is one thing I have learnt from all this Facebookishness, it is that I will never able to truly comprehend the answer to the question “Who are these people?”

And finally: while I depend on the internet for many things, I am not unable to live without it.

“So, what’s the weather like?”

“Let me show you.

It had started to rain.

“It’s rainy and dull. It’s like everyday in London from every movie I’ve seen that is set in London.”

“Well, you can’t have  seen too many of those!”

“No, I suppose not.”

(The picture above is from one from my trip to the Amrutha Insitute of Engineering And Management where I’ll be going for pre-job training conducted by TCS)

My Remake of Ants

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