Wake up every morning,
Breathe in the fresh air,
Feels good to be alive
Feels good to know we're still there
I look out my window
The sky is covered by clouds
Who will watch the watchmen
Who will save them when they scream and shout?
Get ready and head off to work
The same old boring job everyday
Where are the angels that I was promised
Where is my sunshine when I wanna make hay?
Done for the day going back home
Time to unwind time to relax
I don't want to be myself no more
Gimme my money, gimme my six-packs
Chopping vegetables to make my dinner
Cut my finger there is some blood
Wish I could punch him between the eyes
Would love to see his body hit the floor with a thud
Munching on the same food that I have everyday
Changing channels staring at the same old crap
Is this the kind of life they wanted me to have?
When she left me, I wonder why I didn't give her a slap.
End of the day, on the bed, about to go to sleep
May sweet dreams come to me
Life will go on tomorrow as another day
Maybe, after all, this was how it was meant to be
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
23
"I survived the world for 23 fuckin' years and I don't plan to give the fuck up too soon."
This was my motto on the 20th of August in the year 2008. That was 3 days ago. One more birthday, one more candle on the cake, one more chapter in the book of life. One less year to live, one less tension, one less part of life to look forward to.
Birthdays. One more reason for people to ask you your age. One more reason for them to ask you to take them out for a treat. One more reason for you to get gifts from them. One more reason to have cake. One more reason to "have your way for a day". As if!
I never really liked my birthday. I never like celebrating it. Why can't I just leave it as a day for myself? When all I want to do is be normal for a change? Let it be a day that starts and ends like every other day. It's just a milestone. All it tells you that you've survived another year and thus are one year closer to finally not surviving it. Anyway, for all those who want to know, this is how I spent my birthday:
Evening of 19th August: On my way back from work, I grabbed a cake from the local grocery store, for my colleagues. Then I went and got a take-out from Salad King (Thai food) and had dinner with my cousins. Got home and went straight to sleep. I didn't wanna talk to anyone. I wasn't planning on celebrating my birthday.
Midnight of 19th August: Arya calls up to wish. I'm sleeping on the couch, I wake up and answer the fone. My flatmates are making a lotta noise. Whatever happened to "basic decency to keep quiet when someone's on the fone"? Anyway, then they force me to cut the cake they've got for me. Get a call from parents. Call them back. Cut the cake. Flatmates gift me a Sony Cybershot camera and a set of Calvin Klein perfume and after-shave. I'm not a big cosmetics person. I don't think I'm using that too soon. But the camera is something I wanted for a long time. I thank them for that. Then we all pose for a pic. We go to sleep at around 2am.
6am on 20th August: I wake up. I get ready. I make tea for my flatmate. I leave for work.
Morning of 20th August: Work, work, work. Colleagues love the cake. Had to be. My choice. I always believe in getting the best. After all, I earn money to spend it lavishly on others. Get lotta fone calls.
Afternoon of 20th August: Met up didi for lunch. Had fish and chips at the li'l place near my office. The one my manager considers the 2nd best in the GTA. Didi loves it. I'm happy. Get back to office and then more and more work. Work's getting hectic now. It makes me feel good though. Keeps my mind off other things.
Evening of 20th August: I walk home. 12-13 kms, 2.5 hours. All along the lakeshore. It feels good. iPod in my ears, lake by my side, sun in the sky. This is the best part of my day. Smile across my face. I should do this more often. Maybe every Friday evening. Reach home, take flatmates out for dinner as they say they'll be all formal when we go out for dinner with my cousins. I'm sick and tired of Wheat Sheaf and Montana's. This time we try out Brazen Head, a pub near our place. Turns out to be a great choice. We play cards. I don't lose any game this time. Birthday Luck? I don't think so. We come back home and go to sleep.
Evening of 22nd August: Part 2 of celebrations. Taking cousins and flatmates out for dinner. Went to an Italian restaurant called Il Furnello on the Harbourfront. Next to the water. Nice place. Kinda classy. We were sitting in the back patio. It was nice. Went for Baskin Robbins after that. Walked home from there. Cousins gifted a $100 gift certificate for BestBuy (an electronics store). Thinking what to buy from there. Anyway, after coming home, went to sleep. End of birthday celebrations.
That's pretty much all that happened. Not that it interests many people. But just for the sake of it, I put it up here. After all, you needed a blog post, didn't you? So yea, Happy Birth-fuckin'-day to me! Bullshit!
:-)
This was my motto on the 20th of August in the year 2008. That was 3 days ago. One more birthday, one more candle on the cake, one more chapter in the book of life. One less year to live, one less tension, one less part of life to look forward to.
Birthdays. One more reason for people to ask you your age. One more reason for them to ask you to take them out for a treat. One more reason for you to get gifts from them. One more reason to have cake. One more reason to "have your way for a day". As if!
I never really liked my birthday. I never like celebrating it. Why can't I just leave it as a day for myself? When all I want to do is be normal for a change? Let it be a day that starts and ends like every other day. It's just a milestone. All it tells you that you've survived another year and thus are one year closer to finally not surviving it. Anyway, for all those who want to know, this is how I spent my birthday:
Evening of 19th August: On my way back from work, I grabbed a cake from the local grocery store, for my colleagues. Then I went and got a take-out from Salad King (Thai food) and had dinner with my cousins. Got home and went straight to sleep. I didn't wanna talk to anyone. I wasn't planning on celebrating my birthday.
Midnight of 19th August: Arya calls up to wish. I'm sleeping on the couch, I wake up and answer the fone. My flatmates are making a lotta noise. Whatever happened to "basic decency to keep quiet when someone's on the fone"? Anyway, then they force me to cut the cake they've got for me. Get a call from parents. Call them back. Cut the cake. Flatmates gift me a Sony Cybershot camera and a set of Calvin Klein perfume and after-shave. I'm not a big cosmetics person. I don't think I'm using that too soon. But the camera is something I wanted for a long time. I thank them for that. Then we all pose for a pic. We go to sleep at around 2am.
6am on 20th August: I wake up. I get ready. I make tea for my flatmate. I leave for work.
Morning of 20th August: Work, work, work. Colleagues love the cake. Had to be. My choice. I always believe in getting the best. After all, I earn money to spend it lavishly on others. Get lotta fone calls.
Afternoon of 20th August: Met up didi for lunch. Had fish and chips at the li'l place near my office. The one my manager considers the 2nd best in the GTA. Didi loves it. I'm happy. Get back to office and then more and more work. Work's getting hectic now. It makes me feel good though. Keeps my mind off other things.
Evening of 20th August: I walk home. 12-13 kms, 2.5 hours. All along the lakeshore. It feels good. iPod in my ears, lake by my side, sun in the sky. This is the best part of my day. Smile across my face. I should do this more often. Maybe every Friday evening. Reach home, take flatmates out for dinner as they say they'll be all formal when we go out for dinner with my cousins. I'm sick and tired of Wheat Sheaf and Montana's. This time we try out Brazen Head, a pub near our place. Turns out to be a great choice. We play cards. I don't lose any game this time. Birthday Luck? I don't think so. We come back home and go to sleep.
Evening of 22nd August: Part 2 of celebrations. Taking cousins and flatmates out for dinner. Went to an Italian restaurant called Il Furnello on the Harbourfront. Next to the water. Nice place. Kinda classy. We were sitting in the back patio. It was nice. Went for Baskin Robbins after that. Walked home from there. Cousins gifted a $100 gift certificate for BestBuy (an electronics store). Thinking what to buy from there. Anyway, after coming home, went to sleep. End of birthday celebrations.
That's pretty much all that happened. Not that it interests many people. But just for the sake of it, I put it up here. After all, you needed a blog post, didn't you? So yea, Happy Birth-fuckin'-day to me! Bullshit!
:-)
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Time Flies
Well, it seems that it's been a looooooooong time since my last post.
*checks the date of the last post*
Hmmm, March 13th, 2008. That makes today exactly 4 months 20 days or 142 days since my last posted. Time does fly, eh? There was the time when I was posting 2-3 times a day. Well, maybe that's what happens when you're part of the Rat Race. The only time you get, you try to spend it in relaxing, and I guess I never reached the "Blogging level" of my boredom. :-)
Anyway, today is August 2nd, 2008. Yesterday was my grandpa's birthday. He would have been 85 years old yesterday. Too bad he passed away 6 years ago. Wow! it's been 6 years, eh? I still remember the day. I saw 2 of my mentors for the last time ever that day. 6 years is a long time indeed. So much has changed in the last 6 years. What was I doing on this day 6 years ago? I don't even remember. But yes, I do remember what I was doing on this day 5 years ago. August 2, 2002 was the day I reached my college. I stayed at a small hotel in Warangal, India. Then I went to college. I met my seniors, I was ragged for the first time. So many things change, so much happens in 5-6 years. I was 17 then. I will be 23 now. I left home then, I left my home country now. I met new people, I made new friends, I had fun. Oh well, I guess, that's changed a bit. But then, there are many things that haven't changed. And I'm glad they haven't.
Maybe I should note down things that have changed, right? (Yes, I'm an engineer. Lists DO help!) So yea, here's my list:
Things that have changedin the last 5-6 years:
1. I'm an engineer
2. I'm not in India anymore.
3. I got more close friends than I ever had.
4. I got my own iPod!! :D
5. I can spend money without thinking how much I'm spending. After all, it's MY money now!
6. I'm fatter, balder and uglier than before. :-)
7. I've done one of the things I had vowed not to do: I've smoked.
8. I've changed my musical taste to more soothing music like Pink Floyd and Radiohead and sometimes even dance music.
9. I've learnt that I can cook pretty tasty food :D
10. I've fallen in and out of love more than once, but still hated each of them after that.
11. I've lost my temper reeeeeally bad once. (I take pride in the fact that I can control my temper) But I still regret it. But the bright side is that it was only once :-)
12. I've started sleeping less. I sleep only 5-6 hours a day now.
13. I've improved my people skills a lot. I'm a bit of an extrovert now :-)
14. I've gone into the depths of music and explored the darkest side I could, and still survived :-)
15. I've had a near-death experience.
16. I've crashed 3 cars.
*checks the date of the last post*
Hmmm, March 13th, 2008. That makes today exactly 4 months 20 days or 142 days since my last posted. Time does fly, eh? There was the time when I was posting 2-3 times a day. Well, maybe that's what happens when you're part of the Rat Race. The only time you get, you try to spend it in relaxing, and I guess I never reached the "Blogging level" of my boredom. :-)
Anyway, today is August 2nd, 2008. Yesterday was my grandpa's birthday. He would have been 85 years old yesterday. Too bad he passed away 6 years ago. Wow! it's been 6 years, eh? I still remember the day. I saw 2 of my mentors for the last time ever that day. 6 years is a long time indeed. So much has changed in the last 6 years. What was I doing on this day 6 years ago? I don't even remember. But yes, I do remember what I was doing on this day 5 years ago. August 2, 2002 was the day I reached my college. I stayed at a small hotel in Warangal, India. Then I went to college. I met my seniors, I was ragged for the first time. So many things change, so much happens in 5-6 years. I was 17 then. I will be 23 now. I left home then, I left my home country now. I met new people, I made new friends, I had fun. Oh well, I guess, that's changed a bit. But then, there are many things that haven't changed. And I'm glad they haven't.
Maybe I should note down things that have changed, right? (Yes, I'm an engineer. Lists DO help!) So yea, here's my list:
Things that have changedin the last 5-6 years:
1. I'm an engineer
2. I'm not in India anymore.
3. I got more close friends than I ever had.
4. I got my own iPod!! :D
5. I can spend money without thinking how much I'm spending. After all, it's MY money now!
6. I'm fatter, balder and uglier than before. :-)
7. I've done one of the things I had vowed not to do: I've smoked.
8. I've changed my musical taste to more soothing music like Pink Floyd and Radiohead and sometimes even dance music.
9. I've learnt that I can cook pretty tasty food :D
10. I've fallen in and out of love more than once, but still hated each of them after that.
11. I've lost my temper reeeeeally bad once. (I take pride in the fact that I can control my temper) But I still regret it. But the bright side is that it was only once :-)
12. I've started sleeping less. I sleep only 5-6 hours a day now.
13. I've improved my people skills a lot. I'm a bit of an extrovert now :-)
14. I've gone into the depths of music and explored the darkest side I could, and still survived :-)
15. I've had a near-death experience.
16. I've crashed 3 cars.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Indian Superheroes 2
This is the continuation of my Indian Superheroes post. Here's the rest of my list of Indian Superheroes:
7. Inspector Steel - Unfortunately there is no wikipedia page on Inspector Steel, which is sad indeed. People should respect the Indian Robocop! He weighs approximately 450KGs and as far as I know isn't half-human half-cop who can change his mind according to his emotions. I haven't really read Inspector Steel comics, but what I can say is that "the only part of him that is human, is his brain, which is wired to the rest of his body" sounds like some kickass stuff to me. At least he has better weapons than Robocop (not just a stupid revolver).
8. Anthony - In a world where the dead are the bad guys and crows are terrifying, comes this guy who shows that it's just the mindset of people that terms these things "bad". Hats off to you, Raj Comics. How original a concept is making a dead man a superhero and his pet crow as the one who brings him back to life? And you thought a dead man with a pet crow was out to kill innocent people, eh? Think again. I can't stop praising the brilliance of this concept. It breaks all boundaries. An undead man who fights crime and cannot be killed. How superheroic/superhuman is that? Forget the Ghost Rider, Anthony is The Man (With the crow)!! Go Anthony go!! :-D
P.S. Anthony wears his underwear INSIDE his costume! :-P
9. Bhokal - In Indian culture, a teacher is considered equivalent to God. Bhokal shows that very respect. You may say that Bhokal is very similar to He-Man. Like He-Man, he is a prince and wields a sword that can cut through almost everything and also gains his superhero strength by reciting "magical words". The difference between Bhokal and He-Man is that Bhokal can fly, but only using shield (and not like Superman). The best thing about Bhokal is that he doesn't get his superpowers by taking the name of some stupid castle. Instead, he utters the name of his Guru (Teacher). Sets a good example to the kids, doesn't it? That's what Indian culture is all about, after all. Another thing about Bhokal is that he doesn't have a silly wimp of a tiger who turns into a roaring lion like stead, whenever he points a sword at him and screams, "I have the power!!". How immature would that be? :|
10. Shakti - Though there is a wikipedia page for Shakti, I found more info about her from the Raj Comics site. So, I have put that as the link for more info. Anyway, I don't know if there is a Western counterpart for Shakti. She's supposed to be the reincarnation of a Goddess. She possesses the "fire of anger of all the women in the world". She has a third eye that can release infernos to kill people. She can travel at the speed of light. She can melt all metals and use her mind power to mould them into whatever she wants. PHEW! I really wonder how anyone beats her at all, though I think they never do. After all, who can beat God(dess)?
11. Fighter Toads - Step aside Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Fighter Toads are in the house. Masterr is like Donatello, using a pole (stick) to fight enemies. Cutterr is like Leonardo, using a sword to fight enemies. Raphael and Michaelangelo aren't there. Instead we have Shooterr who shoots arrows with cup-shaped or duck-feet-shaped arrowheads and Computerr, who is always hooked to a PC. Just like the TMNT, they live in the gutters and hide themselves from humans. As a matter of fact you can say they are VERY similar to the TMNT, the only difference being that their fights are funnier than those of the TMNT.
12. Chacha Chaudhary - As promised, the best has been saved for the last. Chacha Chaudhary is the most unique and most loved Indian superhero of them all. He is so unique that I don't think there are or ever will be any Western counterparts for him. With a "brain that works faster than a computer" and a super human alien friend with him all the time, he has to be one of the most physically weakest yet best superheroes of India. I don't know of one person who has read a Chacha Chaudhury comic and disliked it. It' just amazing.Chacha Chaudhury hardly uses force to defeat villains. Instead he uses the power of the mind instead of muscles. This is another good lesson for kids. The best part about Chacha Chaudhary is that he is shown as an old middle-aged man with a wife and no kids and living in a small town. He doesn't need to wear any stupid costumes or have elaborate adventures. He has shown that anyone can be a superhero if they want to. All that is needed is the ability to think logically and come up with solutions fast. I guess I can go on and on about Chacha Chaudhary, but that would take up a full post. So, I'll leave this description here.
I hope all of you enjoyed the Indian Superheroes post. My personal favorite would be Chacha Chaudhary. I would recommend everyone read it at least one. There are too many comic characters that I haven't mentioned here. This si because I wanted to mention only the most common ones.Check out the next post, it may be a bit interesting too.
7. Inspector Steel - Unfortunately there is no wikipedia page on Inspector Steel, which is sad indeed. People should respect the Indian Robocop! He weighs approximately 450KGs and as far as I know isn't half-human half-cop who can change his mind according to his emotions. I haven't really read Inspector Steel comics, but what I can say is that "the only part of him that is human, is his brain, which is wired to the rest of his body" sounds like some kickass stuff to me. At least he has better weapons than Robocop (not just a stupid revolver).
8. Anthony - In a world where the dead are the bad guys and crows are terrifying, comes this guy who shows that it's just the mindset of people that terms these things "bad". Hats off to you, Raj Comics. How original a concept is making a dead man a superhero and his pet crow as the one who brings him back to life? And you thought a dead man with a pet crow was out to kill innocent people, eh? Think again. I can't stop praising the brilliance of this concept. It breaks all boundaries. An undead man who fights crime and cannot be killed. How superheroic/superhuman is that? Forget the Ghost Rider, Anthony is The Man (With the crow)!! Go Anthony go!! :-D
P.S. Anthony wears his underwear INSIDE his costume! :-P
9. Bhokal - In Indian culture, a teacher is considered equivalent to God. Bhokal shows that very respect. You may say that Bhokal is very similar to He-Man. Like He-Man, he is a prince and wields a sword that can cut through almost everything and also gains his superhero strength by reciting "magical words". The difference between Bhokal and He-Man is that Bhokal can fly, but only using shield (and not like Superman). The best thing about Bhokal is that he doesn't get his superpowers by taking the name of some stupid castle. Instead, he utters the name of his Guru (Teacher). Sets a good example to the kids, doesn't it? That's what Indian culture is all about, after all. Another thing about Bhokal is that he doesn't have a silly wimp of a tiger who turns into a roaring lion like stead, whenever he points a sword at him and screams, "I have the power!!". How immature would that be? :|
10. Shakti - Though there is a wikipedia page for Shakti, I found more info about her from the Raj Comics site. So, I have put that as the link for more info. Anyway, I don't know if there is a Western counterpart for Shakti. She's supposed to be the reincarnation of a Goddess. She possesses the "fire of anger of all the women in the world". She has a third eye that can release infernos to kill people. She can travel at the speed of light. She can melt all metals and use her mind power to mould them into whatever she wants. PHEW! I really wonder how anyone beats her at all, though I think they never do. After all, who can beat God(dess)?
11. Fighter Toads - Step aside Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Fighter Toads are in the house. Masterr is like Donatello, using a pole (stick) to fight enemies. Cutterr is like Leonardo, using a sword to fight enemies. Raphael and Michaelangelo aren't there. Instead we have Shooterr who shoots arrows with cup-shaped or duck-feet-shaped arrowheads and Computerr, who is always hooked to a PC. Just like the TMNT, they live in the gutters and hide themselves from humans. As a matter of fact you can say they are VERY similar to the TMNT, the only difference being that their fights are funnier than those of the TMNT.
12. Chacha Chaudhary - As promised, the best has been saved for the last. Chacha Chaudhary is the most unique and most loved Indian superhero of them all. He is so unique that I don't think there are or ever will be any Western counterparts for him. With a "brain that works faster than a computer" and a super human alien friend with him all the time, he has to be one of the most physically weakest yet best superheroes of India. I don't know of one person who has read a Chacha Chaudhury comic and disliked it. It' just amazing.Chacha Chaudhury hardly uses force to defeat villains. Instead he uses the power of the mind instead of muscles. This is another good lesson for kids. The best part about Chacha Chaudhary is that he is shown as an old middle-aged man with a wife and no kids and living in a small town. He doesn't need to wear any stupid costumes or have elaborate adventures. He has shown that anyone can be a superhero if they want to. All that is needed is the ability to think logically and come up with solutions fast. I guess I can go on and on about Chacha Chaudhary, but that would take up a full post. So, I'll leave this description here.
I hope all of you enjoyed the Indian Superheroes post. My personal favorite would be Chacha Chaudhary. I would recommend everyone read it at least one. There are too many comic characters that I haven't mentioned here. This si because I wanted to mention only the most common ones.Check out the next post, it may be a bit interesting too.
Monday, March 10, 2008
A Crazy Dream
6:18 AM me: Holy shit
That was what my GTalk window said on March 10th, 2008. The person I was talking to was Veg (Vaijayanti Varma. Check her blog here.) Her reply was "wt?" She was shocked that I was still awake. I wouldn't blame her. Who stays awake till 6am anyway? Anyway, I told her that I had dozed off with my earfones on (as usual) and had just woken up from a crazy dream. I noticed that it was Rammstein - Benzin playing on my playlist. I told her so and all she could do was laugh away. She asked me to blog my dream. So, I realized it's a nice idea and told her I'll do it later on. Thus, this post. I know not many people are really interested in others' dreams. But hell, who cares, eh? I'm just putting it down for the sake of it. My dream was as follows:
I'm at home and I have my earfones on and there's Rammstein's Benzin playing at max volume on my MP3 player. I was chatting with Veg, but I'm too tired, so I just switch off my PC without saying goodbye. Then I head off to the kitchen and I get a pot just like I do at home to heat some milk to have before going to sleep. But in this dream, for some reason, I fill it up with a deep red liquid, more like oil. Then I walk towards the stove with the pot in hand, happily listening to my music. My phone starts vibrating in my pocket. I know someone's calling me but I can't pick up the phone because I the pot in my hands. I look at the liquid in the pot and then the line "Ich brauch Benzin" plays in the song. Literally it means, "I need petroleum". Then I realize that the liquid in the pot is some form of gasoline (I know gasoline is black but this is a dream, remember?). Then suddenly my mom rushes to me and takes the pot from my hand and asks me to take the call. I quickly take my phone out and see that it's actually 4 messages. Surprisingly, 3 are from a college friend of mine, Vaskar, which is odd because I never gave him my number. The 4th message is from Veg. So, I check Veg's message first. It says "Join some room right now." I guess that I hadn't said bye to her so maybe she there was something she wanted to tell me and wanted me to come to some chatroom (another odd thing as we never been to a chatroom). Anyway, so I immediately head off to get online, but instead I end up at the roof of my 5-floor apartment building. Then, somehow I'm looking at myself from third person view and I see myself look around totally zapped and confused and then all of a sudden, there's an explosion in the top 3 floors of the building and all the glass windows are shattered. I realize that my home is on the 3rd floor and I'm shocked to see just a few wall cabinets remaining there. All this time the Rammstein song is playing in the background.
At this very moment, I woke up and looked around me and heard the song still playing on my earfones. For a moment, I was stunned. Then I looked at my PC and there was the GTalk window with Veg and I came to my senses and put my fingers on the keyboard and typed out the words: "holy shit" on that window and pressed Enter. It reminded me of the time when one of my friends was high on weed and he came to my room and I was listening to Rammstein. He asked me to stop it after a few seconds. Said he was starting to "see scary shit like monsters and stuff". I guess Rammstein really is scarier than it sounds :-D But, all in all, I guess this will be one dream I will always remember.
Moral of the story: Do not listen to Rammstein when you're not in your senses ;-)
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Indian Superheroes 1
The credit for the idea behind this post goes to my good friend, Vineet Roy. Check out his blog here. Anyway, his latest post talked about how pathetic Smallville (TV Series) is. I have never really seen it, but after reading his post and the wikipedia page on Smallville, I don't think I even want to. I thought to myself how over-hyped these Marvel Comics heroes and DC Comics heroes are. Then I looked at the comics available in my country. When I was a kid, my parents didn't allow my mind to be "polluted" by "these silly unrealistic comic books". The only one I was allowed to read was one called Chacha Chaudhury. My parents, especially my father, encouraged me to read books and not comics. I respect him for that and thank him from the bottom of my heart for that. You're the best, Dad :-) Anyway, as I was saying, I checked out the superhero comics available in India. What I found was AMAZING, to say the least. Most of these comics are printed in Hindi, which (in case you didn't know) is India's most widely spoken language. So, I came across the masterminds behind these Indian superheroes, a company called Raj Comics. As I read more and more about their different superheroes, I realized how much better some of them are than their Western counterparts. I realized I HAD to share this wonderful world of Indian comic book heroes with all of you and thus this post. I must admit, of course, that I had gone through these comics MUUUUUUUUCH before this post. I had my first "experience" when I was in college and some guy brought a few of these comics on his way back from home. I still remember how much demand there was for those 2-3 books worth INR 60. It was amazing. The other reason why I am writing this post is because I was discussing about Indian comics with Vineet and he suggested that there should be a post on them in one of our blogs, and then said that he wanted me to do it instead. Thanks Vineet for letting me have the honour :-) Now, I give you some of the most important Indian superheroes, followed by a comparison with their Western counterparts. I haven't described them as that would take up a lot of space and time. Instead, I've put wikipedia links on their names. All you need to do is click the name and you can read the "Plot Summary" on wikipedia to know more about them :-)
1. Nagraj (Snake King) - Nagraj is very similar to Superman. He has the timid alter ego who can't be recognised just because he has a different hairstyle, wears a suit and glasses. He comes from a royal family while Superman was the son of an alien scientist. He even wears his underwear on the outside of his pants! BUT Nagraj is muuuuch different from Superman. Firstly, he doesn't wear a cape and fly (and "Thank God!" for that). The secret of his power isn't the fact that he's from another planet (Seriously, bullets would NEVER bounce off your chest even if you're on Jupiter :| ). Instead, the secret of his power is microscopic snakes in his blood instead of White Blood Cells (WBC) (Did I hear you say "Antibodies" and genetic engineering?) The only thing that weakens him is Serum (Anti-venom) and not a piece of his home planet. (Imagine a piece of Earth that could not only weaken you, but also kill you if encountered on another planet. Note to astronauts: Wipe your boots clean before you leave Earth.) The interesting part about Nagraj is that he wasn't always the nice guy, like Superman. He was initially a contract terrorist, before he was enlightened by a sage, so he knows what exactly a criminal mind is like. In addition to this, he is the real immortal. He is considered ageless. So, though Superman may eventually die someday and be replaced by his son (as shown in the movie, Superman Returns), Nagraj will never die and so will never need to be replaced. (He can choose to have sons nonetheless ;-) ) The best part of Nagraj, I save for the last. Nagraj can go INVISIBLE!!! (Beat that, Superman!) Though he can do it for only 3 seconds by breaking his body into atomic particles (using his microscopic snakes), but still, INVISIBILITY baby! Woohoo!
2. Super Commando Dhruva - Ok, so I couldn't really find a Western counterpart for Super Commando Dhruv. The nearest I could get to get to was Beastmaster, a TV character who could communicate with animals telepathically and see what they saw. I'm sure there is a superhero who is like Dhruva. I just need to search a little more. So, all I'm going to do is praise Dhruva here, without comparing with any other superhero. Dhruva is a simple guy. He is probably the most realistic of all Indian superheroes. The only superpower he has is that he can communicate with animals, and even that has a valid reason. He was born and brought up in a circus. This also explains his agility. Dhruva's greatest power is his quick thinking. He is known to use everyday objects around him to outsmart and capture the villains. The only hi-fi gadgets that he uses are his Star Line, Star Blades and Star Transmitter, which aren't that great if you look at them. Like all superheroes, he wears his underwear on the outside. Dhruva has no special weaknesses, he is a normal human being who bleeds when cut and feels pain when punched. The best part of Dhruva is that he NEVER kills the villains, unlike most superheroes. He always captures them and hands them over to the police. (Name ONE Western superhero who doesn't take law into his/her own hands) Thus, he is actually GOOD for kids. He teaches them that anyone can be a superhero and that eventually it's the police who should decide how to punish a villain. I don't remember seeing a single Western superhero who does this EVERY SINGLE TIME!
3. Doga -Doga is the most ruthless superhero ever produced by Raj Comics. He is literally kickass! The only Western superhero I found to be like Doga was The Punisher. Just like The Punisher, Doga became a superhero because his family was killed by goons. The other similarity is that both of them ABSOLUTELY HATE crime, no matter how small it is. Their punishment is usually the same, instant death sentence. Also, both of them use heavy arsenal to fight crime. How is Doga different from The Punisher then? Well, for starters, Doga doesn't have a lawmaker background. Doga is better physically as he is a body builder and martial arts expert. Unlike The Punisher, he wears a costume (Yes, the underwear is on the outside) and a dog mask. This makes sense actually. If I knew the face of the guy who kills ruthlessly, won't I either lock him up (if I was the police) or get him killed (if I was a villain)? So, The Punisher roaming around with no mask to hide his identity is basically a stupid idea. Then, there's Doga's superpower. He can communicate with dogs, which is a pretty reasonable idea as the popular Hindi saying, "har gully ka kutta" ("dogs of every lane") itself shows how big India's dog population is and how they bear witness to every crime committed. I would say the best part of Doga is his ruthlessness. He takes the whole superhero persona to the extreme, where the good guy is literally the bad guy's worst nightmare (But nowhere connected to Mr. Freddy Krueger though). As wikipedia claims, he is slowly becoming the most loved Indian superhero (Violence sells in India too :-D )
4. Tiranga(Tri-color) - And here is India's reply to Captain America. Tiranga wears a costume which is a tri-color (Indian flag). His cape is the Indian flag. He is VERY patriotic and punishes whoever insults the country in any way. How does he differ from Captain America? Well, for starters, he doesn't have ANY superpowers (He definitely cannot fly. The cape is there so that when he stand on top of a building, his fluttering cape looks like a fluttering Indian flag. Innovative, eh? :-D ). He wears a bi-colored mask and not a stupid mask with wings on it. The best part about him is that unlike other superheroes, he doesn't wear the typical underwear on the outside. Instead, he wears a traditional Indian underwear called a langot over his costume (Talk about patriotism to the core :-P )
5. Bheriya(Wolf-man) - Though many people would like to compare Bheriya to The Astounding Wolf-man, the only similarity between them is that they are wolf-based superheroes. While Wolf-man is a werewolf, Bheriya is from a tribe of wolves who could walk upright and wear a pair of trousers and have a wonderful hairstyle. He only protects his forest and it's residents. The best thing about Bheriya is that unlike all other superheroes, he doesn't he have an alter ego. Instead, he has a completely different entity known as Kobi, who is a much more violent version with Superpowers.
6. Parmanu(Atom) - As the name suggest, Parmanu can very easily be connected with Atom. Both of them wear similar costumes and have similar powers. They use the power of atoms to fight villains. While they are VERY similar, there are differences nonetheless. The first one I would say is that Parmanu is VERY realistic, compared to Atom. He uses the power of the atom to fight villains. His most famous weapon is the atomic blast. All this seems very believable to me, at last. What I don't understand is how a man can shrink himself and others "using atomic power", like Atom does. That is something Parmanu neither attempts to nor needs to do. The best thing about Parmanu is that he flies, and that too without a cape! Now, that's harnessing atomic power right there. He also keeps an eye on the whole city not by just flying over it, but by placing cameras all over the city and connecting them to a robot who tells him every time a crime is committed somewhere. (Talk about technology! How's that for common sense?)
I've realized that this post has become too long and I'm just halfway through. Besides, it's 2:45am here and I need to get some sleep. So, I'm dividing this post into two parts and will continue the second part of this post later. Keep looking forward to it. The best is yet to come ;-)
1. Nagraj (Snake King) - Nagraj is very similar to Superman. He has the timid alter ego who can't be recognised just because he has a different hairstyle, wears a suit and glasses. He comes from a royal family while Superman was the son of an alien scientist. He even wears his underwear on the outside of his pants! BUT Nagraj is muuuuch different from Superman. Firstly, he doesn't wear a cape and fly (and "Thank God!" for that). The secret of his power isn't the fact that he's from another planet (Seriously, bullets would NEVER bounce off your chest even if you're on Jupiter :| ). Instead, the secret of his power is microscopic snakes in his blood instead of White Blood Cells (WBC) (Did I hear you say "Antibodies" and genetic engineering?) The only thing that weakens him is Serum (Anti-venom) and not a piece of his home planet. (Imagine a piece of Earth that could not only weaken you, but also kill you if encountered on another planet. Note to astronauts: Wipe your boots clean before you leave Earth.) The interesting part about Nagraj is that he wasn't always the nice guy, like Superman. He was initially a contract terrorist, before he was enlightened by a sage, so he knows what exactly a criminal mind is like. In addition to this, he is the real immortal. He is considered ageless. So, though Superman may eventually die someday and be replaced by his son (as shown in the movie, Superman Returns), Nagraj will never die and so will never need to be replaced. (He can choose to have sons nonetheless ;-) ) The best part of Nagraj, I save for the last. Nagraj can go INVISIBLE!!! (Beat that, Superman!) Though he can do it for only 3 seconds by breaking his body into atomic particles (using his microscopic snakes), but still, INVISIBILITY baby! Woohoo!
2. Super Commando Dhruva - Ok, so I couldn't really find a Western counterpart for Super Commando Dhruv. The nearest I could get to get to was Beastmaster, a TV character who could communicate with animals telepathically and see what they saw. I'm sure there is a superhero who is like Dhruva. I just need to search a little more. So, all I'm going to do is praise Dhruva here, without comparing with any other superhero. Dhruva is a simple guy. He is probably the most realistic of all Indian superheroes. The only superpower he has is that he can communicate with animals, and even that has a valid reason. He was born and brought up in a circus. This also explains his agility. Dhruva's greatest power is his quick thinking. He is known to use everyday objects around him to outsmart and capture the villains. The only hi-fi gadgets that he uses are his Star Line, Star Blades and Star Transmitter, which aren't that great if you look at them. Like all superheroes, he wears his underwear on the outside. Dhruva has no special weaknesses, he is a normal human being who bleeds when cut and feels pain when punched. The best part of Dhruva is that he NEVER kills the villains, unlike most superheroes. He always captures them and hands them over to the police. (Name ONE Western superhero who doesn't take law into his/her own hands) Thus, he is actually GOOD for kids. He teaches them that anyone can be a superhero and that eventually it's the police who should decide how to punish a villain. I don't remember seeing a single Western superhero who does this EVERY SINGLE TIME!
3. Doga -Doga is the most ruthless superhero ever produced by Raj Comics. He is literally kickass! The only Western superhero I found to be like Doga was The Punisher. Just like The Punisher, Doga became a superhero because his family was killed by goons. The other similarity is that both of them ABSOLUTELY HATE crime, no matter how small it is. Their punishment is usually the same, instant death sentence. Also, both of them use heavy arsenal to fight crime. How is Doga different from The Punisher then? Well, for starters, Doga doesn't have a lawmaker background. Doga is better physically as he is a body builder and martial arts expert. Unlike The Punisher, he wears a costume (Yes, the underwear is on the outside) and a dog mask. This makes sense actually. If I knew the face of the guy who kills ruthlessly, won't I either lock him up (if I was the police) or get him killed (if I was a villain)? So, The Punisher roaming around with no mask to hide his identity is basically a stupid idea. Then, there's Doga's superpower. He can communicate with dogs, which is a pretty reasonable idea as the popular Hindi saying, "har gully ka kutta" ("dogs of every lane") itself shows how big India's dog population is and how they bear witness to every crime committed. I would say the best part of Doga is his ruthlessness. He takes the whole superhero persona to the extreme, where the good guy is literally the bad guy's worst nightmare (But nowhere connected to Mr. Freddy Krueger though). As wikipedia claims, he is slowly becoming the most loved Indian superhero (Violence sells in India too :-D )
4. Tiranga(Tri-color) - And here is India's reply to Captain America. Tiranga wears a costume which is a tri-color (Indian flag). His cape is the Indian flag. He is VERY patriotic and punishes whoever insults the country in any way. How does he differ from Captain America? Well, for starters, he doesn't have ANY superpowers (He definitely cannot fly. The cape is there so that when he stand on top of a building, his fluttering cape looks like a fluttering Indian flag. Innovative, eh? :-D ). He wears a bi-colored mask and not a stupid mask with wings on it. The best part about him is that unlike other superheroes, he doesn't wear the typical underwear on the outside. Instead, he wears a traditional Indian underwear called a langot over his costume (Talk about patriotism to the core :-P )
5. Bheriya(Wolf-man) - Though many people would like to compare Bheriya to The Astounding Wolf-man, the only similarity between them is that they are wolf-based superheroes. While Wolf-man is a werewolf, Bheriya is from a tribe of wolves who could walk upright and wear a pair of trousers and have a wonderful hairstyle. He only protects his forest and it's residents. The best thing about Bheriya is that unlike all other superheroes, he doesn't he have an alter ego. Instead, he has a completely different entity known as Kobi, who is a much more violent version with Superpowers.
6. Parmanu(Atom) - As the name suggest, Parmanu can very easily be connected with Atom. Both of them wear similar costumes and have similar powers. They use the power of atoms to fight villains. While they are VERY similar, there are differences nonetheless. The first one I would say is that Parmanu is VERY realistic, compared to Atom. He uses the power of the atom to fight villains. His most famous weapon is the atomic blast. All this seems very believable to me, at last. What I don't understand is how a man can shrink himself and others "using atomic power", like Atom does. That is something Parmanu neither attempts to nor needs to do. The best thing about Parmanu is that he flies, and that too without a cape! Now, that's harnessing atomic power right there. He also keeps an eye on the whole city not by just flying over it, but by placing cameras all over the city and connecting them to a robot who tells him every time a crime is committed somewhere. (Talk about technology! How's that for common sense?)
I've realized that this post has become too long and I'm just halfway through. Besides, it's 2:45am here and I need to get some sleep. So, I'm dividing this post into two parts and will continue the second part of this post later. Keep looking forward to it. The best is yet to come ;-)
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Really, who are you?
Hola amigos and amigas. Como estas? (This is the only Spanish I know other than "Buena" and "Gracias", so don't act smart and try replying in Spanish. Don't make me Google Language Tool your reply. It's too much work :-D ) If you liked the "Quote your status" post, then you may like this one as well. So, read on.
Now, if you've read the "What does Axe do when he's bored?" post, you'll know that at times I social networkise. The other day I was orkutting and I saw my "Recent visitors" list. There was this "thing" there. It went something like "Life's like a black man's left arse..". Believe me, I was intrigued. Who is this creature? Where is he from? etc. So, I clicked on that "thing" and I saw this profile. The "About me" section said something like, "..neither is it fair nor is it right". Really interesting, eh? NOT AT ALL! Why not? Because I still couldn't make out who this person was. So, I looked at the top of the page and I see that this creature is on my friend's list. WOW! Who is this creature? How do I know it? So, I checked the albums. Ahhh the first one is full of Pink Floyd pics. Nice, but useless right now. So, the next one has pics of cars and bikes and, ahhh yes, there he is, bare-chested without a great physique. Oh yea, this guy went to school with me. Now I remember who he is. How wonderful. I had a good mind to scrap him about this and let out all my frustration. But then I realized, it could be worse. Like so many others that I've seen on orkut, he could very well have not put up his pics at all and used an e-mail address that was no way connected to his real name, and I would have to do a complete Sherlock Holmes on him. Anyway, so I decided the only way to let out my frustration was to blog this. So, here I am.
I wonder what these people are really thinking when they come up with such ideas to change their profile names. I understand that you got a nice nickname that you REEEEEALLY like and would like to share with the world. But c'mon, at least think of those who have to think so much to just know who you are. If your name is "Life is like a black man's left arse..", then what am I supposed to make of this? Your first name is "Life" and your last name is "Arse" and "is like a black man's left" is your middle name, I suppose? Or if you're a South Indian, your first name is "Arse" and your last name is "Life"? Well, then I don't see any reason why you should be offended if I call you "Arse" or "Black man" (Though I would stick to "Arse" because the other one is definitely racist while I'm not). I mean, seriously my friend, WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING? Isn't your given name enough for you? If you don't like it that much, why don't you really get your name changed to "Arse"? I am sure you'll love it when people refer to others by your name, eh? Doesn't matter if it's used in an insulting way. We use Shakespeare's name to insult people with good vocabulary, don't we? I really don't understand why someone would want to name himself/herself after a quote. Would you really introduce yourself as "Opinions are like assholes"? "Hi, my name's Assholes. Opinions are like assholes" (In James Bond style). I wonder what your parents would really think if they saw that. Anyway, besides that, how do you expect your long-lost friends to find you on these sites? I would NEVER in my wildest imagination, think of looking for Mr/Mrs. Opinions are like Assholes, or Mr. Life is like a black man's left arse, when I want to to know if my friend is on orkut. This bring us to the other kind of name changers who are a lesser nuisance. They are the ones who use special characters to write their names. An example, Mr. /-\|\|/-\|\||). (Mr. Anand, in case you can't make out). WOW, Anand, you can use symbols to type your name! AWESOME! But, what if I'm your long-lost friend who wants to get in touch with you? Am I supposed to dream up that you mentioned your name on orkut that way? Of course there are worse cases too. The ones who delete all their scraps, remove all their pics (even the display pic) and change their name to some thing like ". ." Why the hell do you need to change your name to an unpronouncable symbol? Who do you think you are? Prince? Absolutely stupid and unworthy of remaining on my friends list, I would say.
Then comes the other fun part of their profiles. The "About me". In Mr. Left Arse's case, it read "..neither is it fair, nor is it right." So, that's your "About me"? Here's what I could make of it: You are not fair and you are not right. Let's take the first one, "Not fair". Does that mean you're dark? But your pics say otherwise. So, I guess it means you're unfair i.e. a cheat. Remind me to delete you from my friend's list, "pal". I don't befriend cheats. Then there's the other part, "Not right". Does that mean you are always wrong or that you a leftist (communist)? I don't mind your political opinion, but if you're wrong, then DEFINITELY remind me to delete you from my list. I don't want a cheat who is always wrong, as a 'friend". And if you aren't one of these or this isn't what you meant, then why didn't you think before you put it there? Then there are those whose "About me" is 2-3 pages long. I agree I had Marilyn Manson lyrics in mine once. I am guilty as charged, too. But that was waaaaaay back. I was stupid too. Anyway, now I know how painful it is to scroll through 2-3 pages of lyrics that are supposed to tell me about someone. In addition to that, some people put the names of each artist they listen to and each movie that they like even remotely. I've done the artist thing myself, but then I realized, isn't it easier to just mention the specific genres and some of your favourite artists? 5 or 6 sounds good. Not a 100! Funny thing is that I see this list most in those who love rock and metal. As if the more bands you listen to shows how big a fan you are. I am a rock and metal fan too. I mentioned them too. But I guess now I understand how much of a nuisance that is. As for movie lists that resemble IMDB's Top 250 list, I don't think I need to comment on them. :-)
Another pain-in-the-wrong-places thing is when people fill their albums with pics that have NOTHING to do with them. I understand those who put pics of their room, their surroundings, pics taken by them, etc. They are related to your life, so it's ok. But c'mon, pics of celebrities, bikes, cars, etc? You put a pic of Tom cruise as your profile pic. Am I supposed to think that you look like Tom Cruise? If you like Aishwarya Rai, put her poster of her in your room. I don't wanna see her pic that you downloaded from Santabanta.com or Indiafm.com, in your album! If you don't like to put your pics in your album, then please don't put ANY! We aren't forcing you to. Please don't waste our time with those.
My last resort when it comes to finding out who the creature is, is to check the e-mail address they are using to log into orkut. It gets extremely frustrating when even that isn't connected to their real name. Then, I'm totally lost. Unless I remember the address, I have no idea who the creature is and how I know it. Why can't you leave at least some part of your profile to help me identify you? If your name, pics, "About me" and e-mail address don't give me any idea about who you are, then I don't really see a reason why I should keep you on my list, because technically, you are a stranger to me, and strangers are never "friends".
I guess a lot of us face the same problems that I have mentioned above. Unfortunately we can't do anything about it, as some of these people are our "friends". I just wrote this post, so that someday if Mr. Left Arse or Mr/Ms/Mrs Opinions reads it, they'll know exactly how we feel about it. Ahhhh, now I feel so much better. Thank you for bearing with me and my frustration :-) Keep reading on for the next post and pray it's a bit more interesting ;-) Ciaoies amigos and amigas (Don't even think about it!The Spanish thing, I mean :-P )
Now, if you've read the "What does Axe do when he's bored?" post, you'll know that at times I social networkise. The other day I was orkutting and I saw my "Recent visitors" list. There was this "thing" there. It went something like "Life's like a black man's left arse..". Believe me, I was intrigued. Who is this creature? Where is he from? etc. So, I clicked on that "thing" and I saw this profile. The "About me" section said something like, "..neither is it fair nor is it right". Really interesting, eh? NOT AT ALL! Why not? Because I still couldn't make out who this person was. So, I looked at the top of the page and I see that this creature is on my friend's list. WOW! Who is this creature? How do I know it? So, I checked the albums. Ahhh the first one is full of Pink Floyd pics. Nice, but useless right now. So, the next one has pics of cars and bikes and, ahhh yes, there he is, bare-chested without a great physique. Oh yea, this guy went to school with me. Now I remember who he is. How wonderful. I had a good mind to scrap him about this and let out all my frustration. But then I realized, it could be worse. Like so many others that I've seen on orkut, he could very well have not put up his pics at all and used an e-mail address that was no way connected to his real name, and I would have to do a complete Sherlock Holmes on him. Anyway, so I decided the only way to let out my frustration was to blog this. So, here I am.
I wonder what these people are really thinking when they come up with such ideas to change their profile names. I understand that you got a nice nickname that you REEEEEALLY like and would like to share with the world. But c'mon, at least think of those who have to think so much to just know who you are. If your name is "Life is like a black man's left arse..", then what am I supposed to make of this? Your first name is "Life" and your last name is "Arse" and "is like a black man's left" is your middle name, I suppose? Or if you're a South Indian, your first name is "Arse" and your last name is "Life"? Well, then I don't see any reason why you should be offended if I call you "Arse" or "Black man" (Though I would stick to "Arse" because the other one is definitely racist while I'm not). I mean, seriously my friend, WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING? Isn't your given name enough for you? If you don't like it that much, why don't you really get your name changed to "Arse"? I am sure you'll love it when people refer to others by your name, eh? Doesn't matter if it's used in an insulting way. We use Shakespeare's name to insult people with good vocabulary, don't we? I really don't understand why someone would want to name himself/herself after a quote. Would you really introduce yourself as "Opinions are like assholes"? "Hi, my name's Assholes. Opinions are like assholes" (In James Bond style). I wonder what your parents would really think if they saw that. Anyway, besides that, how do you expect your long-lost friends to find you on these sites? I would NEVER in my wildest imagination, think of looking for Mr/Mrs. Opinions are like Assholes, or Mr. Life is like a black man's left arse, when I want to to know if my friend is on orkut. This bring us to the other kind of name changers who are a lesser nuisance. They are the ones who use special characters to write their names. An example, Mr. /-\|\|/-\|\||). (Mr. Anand, in case you can't make out). WOW, Anand, you can use symbols to type your name! AWESOME! But, what if I'm your long-lost friend who wants to get in touch with you? Am I supposed to dream up that you mentioned your name on orkut that way? Of course there are worse cases too. The ones who delete all their scraps, remove all their pics (even the display pic) and change their name to some thing like ". ." Why the hell do you need to change your name to an unpronouncable symbol? Who do you think you are? Prince? Absolutely stupid and unworthy of remaining on my friends list, I would say.
Then comes the other fun part of their profiles. The "About me". In Mr. Left Arse's case, it read "..neither is it fair, nor is it right." So, that's your "About me"? Here's what I could make of it: You are not fair and you are not right. Let's take the first one, "Not fair". Does that mean you're dark? But your pics say otherwise. So, I guess it means you're unfair i.e. a cheat. Remind me to delete you from my friend's list, "pal". I don't befriend cheats. Then there's the other part, "Not right". Does that mean you are always wrong or that you a leftist (communist)? I don't mind your political opinion, but if you're wrong, then DEFINITELY remind me to delete you from my list. I don't want a cheat who is always wrong, as a 'friend". And if you aren't one of these or this isn't what you meant, then why didn't you think before you put it there? Then there are those whose "About me" is 2-3 pages long. I agree I had Marilyn Manson lyrics in mine once. I am guilty as charged, too. But that was waaaaaay back. I was stupid too. Anyway, now I know how painful it is to scroll through 2-3 pages of lyrics that are supposed to tell me about someone. In addition to that, some people put the names of each artist they listen to and each movie that they like even remotely. I've done the artist thing myself, but then I realized, isn't it easier to just mention the specific genres and some of your favourite artists? 5 or 6 sounds good. Not a 100! Funny thing is that I see this list most in those who love rock and metal. As if the more bands you listen to shows how big a fan you are. I am a rock and metal fan too. I mentioned them too. But I guess now I understand how much of a nuisance that is. As for movie lists that resemble IMDB's Top 250 list, I don't think I need to comment on them. :-)
Another pain-in-the-wrong-places thing is when people fill their albums with pics that have NOTHING to do with them. I understand those who put pics of their room, their surroundings, pics taken by them, etc. They are related to your life, so it's ok. But c'mon, pics of celebrities, bikes, cars, etc? You put a pic of Tom cruise as your profile pic. Am I supposed to think that you look like Tom Cruise? If you like Aishwarya Rai, put her poster of her in your room. I don't wanna see her pic that you downloaded from Santabanta.com or Indiafm.com, in your album! If you don't like to put your pics in your album, then please don't put ANY! We aren't forcing you to. Please don't waste our time with those.
My last resort when it comes to finding out who the creature is, is to check the e-mail address they are using to log into orkut. It gets extremely frustrating when even that isn't connected to their real name. Then, I'm totally lost. Unless I remember the address, I have no idea who the creature is and how I know it. Why can't you leave at least some part of your profile to help me identify you? If your name, pics, "About me" and e-mail address don't give me any idea about who you are, then I don't really see a reason why I should keep you on my list, because technically, you are a stranger to me, and strangers are never "friends".
I guess a lot of us face the same problems that I have mentioned above. Unfortunately we can't do anything about it, as some of these people are our "friends". I just wrote this post, so that someday if Mr. Left Arse or Mr/Ms/Mrs Opinions reads it, they'll know exactly how we feel about it. Ahhhh, now I feel so much better. Thank you for bearing with me and my frustration :-) Keep reading on for the next post and pray it's a bit more interesting ;-) Ciaoies amigos and amigas (Don't even think about it!The Spanish thing, I mean :-P )
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Stereo Types
Listening to Q107 Classic Rock FM station online. The show is called Psychedelic Psunday. Nice stuff. You can listen online too. Just visit http://www.q107.com/ and click on "Listen Live". Pretty neat eh? Anyway, I was just listening to it and they just played Pink Floyd - Money. Ahhhh bliss! The first sounds of the falling coins and cash registers scream out aloud that it's Pink Floyd - Money coming up. So, I listen to this song and I think to myself, what good is Psychedelic Psunday with no Pink Floyd? Then I realized how I'm being stereotypical. Pink Floyd isn't the only psychedelic band in the world. Maybe the most famous, but not the only one. And I thought to myself, how true is it, when we think of certain genres of music, we end up thinking of just one particular band or artist first. So, I decided to come up with this post listing out the bands that I think of when I hear the name of a particular genre. It may be that I'm not right about the genre in most of these cases, I don't really go by genres. I believe all music is equal and dividing it into genres is like dividing it into races. Of course, in that case, I'm a racist of sorts as I can't stand pop, hip hop, r&b and rap :-D Anyway, here's my list of genres and the bands/artists that I associate with them.
1. Psychedelic rock - Pink Floyd. This is a clear winner. Anyone who knows psychedelic rock, HAS to know Pink Floyd. I'm sure a lot of people will agree with me that when they think Psychedelic Rock, they think Pink Floyd.
2. Thrash Metal - Metallica, Megadeth. Though I usually associate Metallica only with Heavy Metal, I know it comes under Thrash Metal.
3. Black/Death Metal - Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir. Ok, so I have no idea which is which. But these are the two bands that always come into my mind when I think darker side of metal.
4. Shock Rock - Marilyn Manson. This guy feeds on Shock Rockism.
5. Industrial Metal - Nine Inch Nails. I don't know why, but that's the band that comes to mind.
6. Heavy Metal - Metallica, Black Sabbath, AC/DC. Black Sabbath, we all know are the Fathers of Heavy Metal, so no comments about them. AC/DC and Metallica, I dunno just come to mind.
7. Pop Rock - Bryan Adams. I used to think he was soft rock, but I now think otherwise.
8. Hard Rock - Guns N Roses. With stuff like Sweet Child Of Mine, I don't think I need to tell you why.
9. Blues - The Doors, Dire Straits. I'm not sure if they're Blues are not, but they come to mind.
10. Country - John Denver, Bob Dylan. I don't really like Country music, but I know these two for sure.
11. Techno - The Prodigy. That's all I can think of, really.
12. Trance - Paul Van Dyk, Chicane, Paul Oakenfold. I'm not sure if they really belong here.
13. Pop - Used to Backstreet Boys, now Britney Spears. Don't really need to tell you about it.
14. Rap - Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, DMX, Eminem. These are the four rappers I've heard and I know.
15. R&B - Alicia Keys. I had no idea what it was till I heard her. So, she's my R&B example.
16. Classical - Enya, Yanni. These two are amazing
17. Grunge - Nirvana, Pearl Jam. I guess all of us would agree that Grunge was Nirvana and Nirvana was Grunge.
18. Punk Rock - Sex Pistols, Green Day. I don't really like Punk rock much, especially not Green Day.
19. Soft Rock - Bon Jovi, Def Leppard. I somehow always thought these two bands to be soft rock.
20. British Heavy Metal - Iron Maiden, Judas Priest. Somehow, whenever i hear these 2 bands, I'm reminded of this genre instead of vice versa.
21. Progressive Metal - Dream Theater. This band is one of the best progressive acts around.
22. Rock n Roll - Elvis Presley, The Beatles. I guess Elvis was the King of Rock n roll, so it's fair. Somehow, The Beatles also qualify as rock n roll for me.
I guess that's the list as of now. WOW! I didn't know that there were 22 genres that I think of. Anyway, do leave comments and let me know which ones I'm wrong in, so that I can correct them both here and in my head ;-)
1. Psychedelic rock - Pink Floyd. This is a clear winner. Anyone who knows psychedelic rock, HAS to know Pink Floyd. I'm sure a lot of people will agree with me that when they think Psychedelic Rock, they think Pink Floyd.
2. Thrash Metal - Metallica, Megadeth. Though I usually associate Metallica only with Heavy Metal, I know it comes under Thrash Metal.
3. Black/Death Metal - Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir. Ok, so I have no idea which is which. But these are the two bands that always come into my mind when I think darker side of metal.
4. Shock Rock - Marilyn Manson. This guy feeds on Shock Rockism.
5. Industrial Metal - Nine Inch Nails. I don't know why, but that's the band that comes to mind.
6. Heavy Metal - Metallica, Black Sabbath, AC/DC. Black Sabbath, we all know are the Fathers of Heavy Metal, so no comments about them. AC/DC and Metallica, I dunno just come to mind.
7. Pop Rock - Bryan Adams. I used to think he was soft rock, but I now think otherwise.
8. Hard Rock - Guns N Roses. With stuff like Sweet Child Of Mine, I don't think I need to tell you why.
9. Blues - The Doors, Dire Straits. I'm not sure if they're Blues are not, but they come to mind.
10. Country - John Denver, Bob Dylan. I don't really like Country music, but I know these two for sure.
11. Techno - The Prodigy. That's all I can think of, really.
12. Trance - Paul Van Dyk, Chicane, Paul Oakenfold. I'm not sure if they really belong here.
13. Pop - Used to Backstreet Boys, now Britney Spears. Don't really need to tell you about it.
14. Rap - Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, DMX, Eminem. These are the four rappers I've heard and I know.
15. R&B - Alicia Keys. I had no idea what it was till I heard her. So, she's my R&B example.
16. Classical - Enya, Yanni. These two are amazing
17. Grunge - Nirvana, Pearl Jam. I guess all of us would agree that Grunge was Nirvana and Nirvana was Grunge.
18. Punk Rock - Sex Pistols, Green Day. I don't really like Punk rock much, especially not Green Day.
19. Soft Rock - Bon Jovi, Def Leppard. I somehow always thought these two bands to be soft rock.
20. British Heavy Metal - Iron Maiden, Judas Priest. Somehow, whenever i hear these 2 bands, I'm reminded of this genre instead of vice versa.
21. Progressive Metal - Dream Theater. This band is one of the best progressive acts around.
22. Rock n Roll - Elvis Presley, The Beatles. I guess Elvis was the King of Rock n roll, so it's fair. Somehow, The Beatles also qualify as rock n roll for me.
I guess that's the list as of now. WOW! I didn't know that there were 22 genres that I think of. Anyway, do leave comments and let me know which ones I'm wrong in, so that I can correct them both here and in my head ;-)
Monday, February 18, 2008
Songs 2
11. U2 - With or without you
12. REM - Everybody hurts
13. Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the sky
14. Blue Oysters Cult - Astronomy
15. Celtic Frost - Dying God coming into human flesh
16. Amon Tobin - Verbal
17. Paul Oakenfold - Ready, Steady, Go
18. Apocalyptica - Faraway
19. Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine
20. Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
12. REM - Everybody hurts
13. Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the sky
14. Blue Oysters Cult - Astronomy
15. Celtic Frost - Dying God coming into human flesh
16. Amon Tobin - Verbal
17. Paul Oakenfold - Ready, Steady, Go
18. Apocalyptica - Faraway
19. Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine
20. Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
Friday, February 15, 2008
What has Hollywood taught me?
Ok, here's the deal. I absolutely love Hollywood movies. There are sooo many actors, directors, etc that you don't get to see the same one in half a dozen movies every year, playing every role imaginable, which is the case of Bollywood movies. 90% of Bollywood movies have one or more famous actor out of the top 10, which sucks. Anyway, I'm not discussing Bollywood here. I'm going to discuss Hollywood. Today, I was sitting in the subway and thinking about how wonderful this country is and then for some reason I got reminded of Borat and how he made fun of U.S.A. and the Middle East. Then it struck me, what if the not-so-literate people of the world had all their knowledge about the world from Hollywood movies? How would they look at the world? So, I decided to come up with some of the things that they would assume:
1. Big American cities are frequently attacked by monsters and aliens, especially New York.
2. The monsters and aliens love to destroy the American monuments, over and over again. Still, the Americans keep rebuilding them.
3. No one calls 911 when a man kills someone in the middle of the street, especially if it's the hero.
4. If you are chasing someone and you make a jump that is supposed to be very difficult, chances are that you will make the jump and not fall to your death.
5. It's very easy to steal a car. Especially when it's owner is standing beside it and the keys are inside. The owner never hears you open or close the car door. and yea, the hero always steals a car with no alarm in it.
6. To save the world, you need to be perfect. You should be good looking, perfect driver, good shooter, good kicker, hot girlfriend, etc. But you must always stay in a shabby apartment and be almost broke.
7. All the super heroes of the world , only look after one city and the villains somehow always attack that city.
8. You can shoot a gun even after you're shot in your arm and kill the other guy with one shot in the stomach.
9. All the people in Middle East wear loose fitting clothes and drive dusty old cars. People in India are always labour class people or villagers. Middle class doesn't exist and definitely not the Higher class.
10. In the future, all cities will have REALLY high buildings and cars that fly in lanes and somehow never seem to need to stop for traffic signals or fuel. Also, the "ground level" will be full of slums and homeless people and dirt all around.
11. All robots can TALK and give better advice than humans, but they can never save the world.
12. If you go out driving at night, your car will always screw up in the most deserted part of the highway.
13. Wherever you walk, music plays around you and it changes according to the situation you are in.
14. While cracking a password of a system, it takes lesser time to tell you that the password is incorrect than to tell you otherwise.
15. Americans hardly brush or take a bath before they leave their home. While out of home, they hardly eat as well.
16. The police never fine you for breaking traffic rules or blowing up cars or destroying public property. Also, the police are very easy to fool and usually miss when they are shooting.
17. The villain hardly has any family. The hero almost always does and the villain always exploits that.
18. You get to kiss your girlfriend passionately only after you have killed the bad guy.
19. If you are weaker than your enemy, you will definitely win.
20. The bad guy may kill your whole family, but never kills your pets. Also, even if everyone dies, a dog or a cat is always saved in the end.
21. If you are playing a game against someone, you will lose to them initially and then start catching up, making the winning shots only few milliseconds before the game ends.
22. If you are trying to break into a bad guy's hideout, then the security will be the last thing you need to worry about. The bad guy chooses the most stupid people in his gang, people whom you just kick once to stop them from shooting at you. Also, to dodge their bullets, all you need to do is run straight.
23. If you wake up in an Intensive Care Unit, the first thing you should do is tear off all the sensors and drips that are placed on your body and then scream and walk out of the hospital, beating up everyone who tries to come in your way, no matter how weak you are.
This is not the complete list. I will add more and more as they come to my head. Funny, how we make fun of Bollywood movies, when the great Hollywood movies are no different. Of course, I will be posting about Bollywood soon. But that list could probably turn into a book :-P
Hope you enjoy this list and next time you see a Hollywood movie, you'll probably notice these things. :-D
1. Big American cities are frequently attacked by monsters and aliens, especially New York.
2. The monsters and aliens love to destroy the American monuments, over and over again. Still, the Americans keep rebuilding them.
3. No one calls 911 when a man kills someone in the middle of the street, especially if it's the hero.
4. If you are chasing someone and you make a jump that is supposed to be very difficult, chances are that you will make the jump and not fall to your death.
5. It's very easy to steal a car. Especially when it's owner is standing beside it and the keys are inside. The owner never hears you open or close the car door. and yea, the hero always steals a car with no alarm in it.
6. To save the world, you need to be perfect. You should be good looking, perfect driver, good shooter, good kicker, hot girlfriend, etc. But you must always stay in a shabby apartment and be almost broke.
7. All the super heroes of the world , only look after one city and the villains somehow always attack that city.
8. You can shoot a gun even after you're shot in your arm and kill the other guy with one shot in the stomach.
9. All the people in Middle East wear loose fitting clothes and drive dusty old cars. People in India are always labour class people or villagers. Middle class doesn't exist and definitely not the Higher class.
10. In the future, all cities will have REALLY high buildings and cars that fly in lanes and somehow never seem to need to stop for traffic signals or fuel. Also, the "ground level" will be full of slums and homeless people and dirt all around.
11. All robots can TALK and give better advice than humans, but they can never save the world.
12. If you go out driving at night, your car will always screw up in the most deserted part of the highway.
13. Wherever you walk, music plays around you and it changes according to the situation you are in.
14. While cracking a password of a system, it takes lesser time to tell you that the password is incorrect than to tell you otherwise.
15. Americans hardly brush or take a bath before they leave their home. While out of home, they hardly eat as well.
16. The police never fine you for breaking traffic rules or blowing up cars or destroying public property. Also, the police are very easy to fool and usually miss when they are shooting.
17. The villain hardly has any family. The hero almost always does and the villain always exploits that.
18. You get to kiss your girlfriend passionately only after you have killed the bad guy.
19. If you are weaker than your enemy, you will definitely win.
20. The bad guy may kill your whole family, but never kills your pets. Also, even if everyone dies, a dog or a cat is always saved in the end.
21. If you are playing a game against someone, you will lose to them initially and then start catching up, making the winning shots only few milliseconds before the game ends.
22. If you are trying to break into a bad guy's hideout, then the security will be the last thing you need to worry about. The bad guy chooses the most stupid people in his gang, people whom you just kick once to stop them from shooting at you. Also, to dodge their bullets, all you need to do is run straight.
23. If you wake up in an Intensive Care Unit, the first thing you should do is tear off all the sensors and drips that are placed on your body and then scream and walk out of the hospital, beating up everyone who tries to come in your way, no matter how weak you are.
This is not the complete list. I will add more and more as they come to my head. Funny, how we make fun of Bollywood movies, when the great Hollywood movies are no different. Of course, I will be posting about Bollywood soon. But that list could probably turn into a book :-P
Hope you enjoy this list and next time you see a Hollywood movie, you'll probably notice these things. :-D
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Quote your status
ABC XYZ online. Status Message: "The road to success is not straight. There is a curve called FAILURE, a loop called CONFUSION, speed bumps called BAD FRIENDS, red lights called ENIMIES. But there are caution lights called FAMILY , green lights called FRIENDS and if you have a spare called DETERMINATION , an engine called PERSEVERANCE , Insurance called FAITH, a driver called GOD ...You can make it to the place called SUCCESS".
PHEW!!! See the above paragraph? Yes, boys and girls, THAT Insanely huge thing is the "Status Message" of one of the people I have on my GTalk list. Whenever the guy comes online, the notification itself fills up the entire right part of my screen. Beat that! I'm not even gonna mention the times when he's got a bad connection and gets signed in and out every few seconds. I leave that to your imagination. ( I refer to those times as the times when I can catch glimpses of the right part of my screen) Anyway, nice way to let everyone know that you're online, eh? Whenever I see a HUGE GTalk notification, I know it's him. I don't even need to check the name. Of course, it's a different thing that I always abuse him in my mind when I see his "Declaration of Presence" and am always thinking whether or not to go ahead and block him. (I hardly talk to him anyway ;-) )
I remember the good old days of status messages. There were those few that you could choose from: Available/Online, Busy, Not at My Desk/Away, Stepped Out/Out for Lunch, etc. Then there came the custom status messages, where people would put stuff like "Can't wait for so-and-so event", "Happy Birthday *blah blah* ", etc. Those really were the golden days of status messages. Now, look what's going on. I remember when I was a kid and there was no internet, you had to read books from the library to look for quotes and motivational stories or hear them from people around you. Then came the internet and with that came e-mail, which brought along with it, "Forwards" which gave birth to Chain Mails, etc. I'm not gonna discuss Forwards (Leaving that for a different post ;-) ), but status messages. Anyway, so forwards and chain mails and some websites (including blogs) were where you would look for quotes and motivational stories. Now, it seems, as they say, the world is becoming a smaller place. So all that stuff has decided to shift itself to Status messages. Now, instead of knowing if Mr. ABC is busy or at work or planning a trip for the weekend, I get to know the secret of success. And since he comes online everyday, I get to read it everyday and get inspired, right? WRONG! I'm more bugged by the whole thing than inspired by it. Why would I want to know what the responsibilities of a man are with respect to his family and friends or if life is like a box of chocolates or a bunch of stale cookies that look great but follow the age-old law of "looks can be deceiving"? Why, may I ask, should I be the victim of someone's opinion about how I should treat life and family and friends? I really don't understand what a person is trying to say with a status message that says "Everything has been figured out, except how to live". Is he trying to tell me that he has figured out everything, except for how to live? What am I supposed to make out of it? It's weird the way the world is going. It seems no one is taking things literally anymore. Everyone wants to use every possible place to "express themselves" without really thinking for even a minute whether it is the right place to do so.
It seems MSN saw this problem, or maybe they were just trying to make the most out of it and so unlike other messengers that I know of, they decided to let the users put up quotes by placing a "Personal Message" field in their messenger. I never really understood what that was all about anyway, and I think nor did many other people who use MSN. I mean, am I supposed to put a Personal message up there? Is that supposed to be a message from me to some particular person, but viewable by everyone on my list? Or is it supposed to be some kind of message from me to everyone on my list. I think they wanted people to put messages like "Happy Birthday" and "Going for a trip to ______ " in there, but of course people put quotes there. Then they allowed custom nicknames and people put quotes there too. I have a friend on MSN whose nickname is supposed to be "Men, it has been well sed, think in herds; it wil b seen dat dey go mad in herds, while dey only recover their senses slowly 1by1" which in proper English would be "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one". I just asked my friend, "What am I supposed to call you? Men? Herds? Senses? Men-quoter?" and my friend just laughed and said, "You call me by my real name". Sure, I did that. But what about those who don't know the real name? What do they do? But of course my friend didn't think of that. And we think we are smart. *SIGH*
After reading all this, I'm sure all of you would agree how annoying those status message quotes are. I mean, really, if you want to share a quote with me or think I should know some morals, then mail them to me or send them as a chat message to me, that I can delete and forget if I want to. Spare me the agony of having to know that you're online by seeing half of my screen covered. I would prefer knowing about YOUR STATUS than some person's thoughts put into words. :-) I would like to end this post with one of my status messages on GTalk when this status quote phenomenon started:
"A status message is not the place to look for quotes" :-)
P.S. For all those of you who think I'm just preaching and not practicing, here are my "vital status-tics":
Current: Listening to....*Artist Name* - *Song Title* (I'm using HyperIM status changer for this)
GTalk previous ones:
1. A status message is not the place to look for quotes
2. Send a message only when the dot is green
Yahoo previous ones:
1. Sleeping..zzzzzz
2. Not at home...
3. xx Years of nothingness.. / Happy Birthday to me!! (My birthday messages)
MSN:
Nickname: Nobody
Personal message: If the message is supposed to be personal, then why should I type it here for the whole world to read?
:-)
PHEW!!! See the above paragraph? Yes, boys and girls, THAT Insanely huge thing is the "Status Message" of one of the people I have on my GTalk list. Whenever the guy comes online, the notification itself fills up the entire right part of my screen. Beat that! I'm not even gonna mention the times when he's got a bad connection and gets signed in and out every few seconds. I leave that to your imagination. ( I refer to those times as the times when I can catch glimpses of the right part of my screen) Anyway, nice way to let everyone know that you're online, eh? Whenever I see a HUGE GTalk notification, I know it's him. I don't even need to check the name. Of course, it's a different thing that I always abuse him in my mind when I see his "Declaration of Presence" and am always thinking whether or not to go ahead and block him. (I hardly talk to him anyway ;-) )
I remember the good old days of status messages. There were those few that you could choose from: Available/Online, Busy, Not at My Desk/Away, Stepped Out/Out for Lunch, etc. Then there came the custom status messages, where people would put stuff like "Can't wait for so-and-so event", "Happy Birthday *blah blah* ", etc. Those really were the golden days of status messages. Now, look what's going on. I remember when I was a kid and there was no internet, you had to read books from the library to look for quotes and motivational stories or hear them from people around you. Then came the internet and with that came e-mail, which brought along with it, "Forwards" which gave birth to Chain Mails, etc. I'm not gonna discuss Forwards (Leaving that for a different post ;-) ), but status messages. Anyway, so forwards and chain mails and some websites (including blogs) were where you would look for quotes and motivational stories. Now, it seems, as they say, the world is becoming a smaller place. So all that stuff has decided to shift itself to Status messages. Now, instead of knowing if Mr. ABC is busy or at work or planning a trip for the weekend, I get to know the secret of success. And since he comes online everyday, I get to read it everyday and get inspired, right? WRONG! I'm more bugged by the whole thing than inspired by it. Why would I want to know what the responsibilities of a man are with respect to his family and friends or if life is like a box of chocolates or a bunch of stale cookies that look great but follow the age-old law of "looks can be deceiving"? Why, may I ask, should I be the victim of someone's opinion about how I should treat life and family and friends? I really don't understand what a person is trying to say with a status message that says "Everything has been figured out, except how to live". Is he trying to tell me that he has figured out everything, except for how to live? What am I supposed to make out of it? It's weird the way the world is going. It seems no one is taking things literally anymore. Everyone wants to use every possible place to "express themselves" without really thinking for even a minute whether it is the right place to do so.
It seems MSN saw this problem, or maybe they were just trying to make the most out of it and so unlike other messengers that I know of, they decided to let the users put up quotes by placing a "Personal Message" field in their messenger. I never really understood what that was all about anyway, and I think nor did many other people who use MSN. I mean, am I supposed to put a Personal message up there? Is that supposed to be a message from me to some particular person, but viewable by everyone on my list? Or is it supposed to be some kind of message from me to everyone on my list. I think they wanted people to put messages like "Happy Birthday" and "Going for a trip to ______ " in there, but of course people put quotes there. Then they allowed custom nicknames and people put quotes there too. I have a friend on MSN whose nickname is supposed to be "Men, it has been well sed, think in herds; it wil b seen dat dey go mad in herds, while dey only recover their senses slowly 1by1" which in proper English would be "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one". I just asked my friend, "What am I supposed to call you? Men? Herds? Senses? Men-quoter?" and my friend just laughed and said, "You call me by my real name". Sure, I did that. But what about those who don't know the real name? What do they do? But of course my friend didn't think of that. And we think we are smart. *SIGH*
After reading all this, I'm sure all of you would agree how annoying those status message quotes are. I mean, really, if you want to share a quote with me or think I should know some morals, then mail them to me or send them as a chat message to me, that I can delete and forget if I want to. Spare me the agony of having to know that you're online by seeing half of my screen covered. I would prefer knowing about YOUR STATUS than some person's thoughts put into words. :-) I would like to end this post with one of my status messages on GTalk when this status quote phenomenon started:
"A status message is not the place to look for quotes" :-)
P.S. For all those of you who think I'm just preaching and not practicing, here are my "vital status-tics":
Current: Listening to....*Artist Name* - *Song Title* (I'm using HyperIM status changer for this)
GTalk previous ones:
1. A status message is not the place to look for quotes
2. Send a message only when the dot is green
Yahoo previous ones:
1. Sleeping..zzzzzz
2. Not at home...
3. xx Years of nothingness.. / Happy Birthday to me!! (My birthday messages)
MSN:
Nickname: Nobody
Personal message: If the message is supposed to be personal, then why should I type it here for the whole world to read?
:-)
Sunday, January 27, 2008
What does Axe do when he's bored?
Yes yes yes, Axe does get bored. It takes a loooooooooooooooooong time for Axe to get bored of something, but when he does, it takes the same amount of time for him to get un-bored. So, what does Axe do when he's bored? Good question. Here are a few things Axe does when he's bored:
1. He chats with other people. Axe uses Google Talk, Rediff Bol, Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger. Axe has tried out IMVU (It was cool till Axe realized that a lotta goths turn up there and that all they do is try out the different tricks their avatars could perform :-| Axe got bored), ICQ (Axe liked ICQ till some moron decided to hack his password just coz he had left it as his DOB :-| ), Second Life (Axe really could never understand how a person could fly in any life. REALLY! :-| And the people were scarce and all Axe could do was roam around like an idiot and get more bored. Also, the program ate up Axe's CPU and RAM and internet speed).
2. He social networkises. (Axe does "networkising" and not "networking". That's his way of doing it. Now, stop whining about grammar, will you? Freakin' Shakespeare descendant!) Axe uses orkut and Facebook now. He has accounts with hi5, Zorpia, Neatvibe, Friendster and Ryze. Of course, he just uses his hi5 a/c out of all of these and that is only in PEBs (Periods of Extreme Boredom).
3. He watches videos on youtube and Stage6. Axe doesn't like Google Video.
4. He watches a movie. Axe loves to watch older or cult movies more than the latest movies. This is because he is a bit impatient at times and wouldn't want to waste 2-3 hours of his time just to find out in the end that the movie basically sucks.
5. He BLOGS!!!! (Phbbbbbbbt!!!!) Yea yea, I know, you thought he blogged for fun. No, he doesn't. He blogs when he's bored and has nothing else to do. And yes, this is one of THOSE times. (FYI: The haircut post came a week or 2 AFTER the actual haircut :-D ).
6. He reads a book. Axe prefers reading any book that he can get his hands on. He likes books with real characters and about real life, not fantasy stuff like Harry Potter (Axe ABSOLUTELY hates Harry Potter) and Lord of the Rings. Axe prefers reading an e-book over a paperback. this is because, it's easier to "turn the pages" and you don't need to hold the book all the time. Besides, Axe can easily listen to music on his laptop while reading an e-book.
7. He gives missed calls to people he knows expecting them not to pick up and just missed call him back. In case you are one of those weirdos who does pick up his calls, you are dead the next time he meets you, even if you know that he's just being a bit dramatic right now.
Now, all of you who are wondering why Axe didn't mention listening to music, read carefully. Does he mention that he breathes, drinks water, takes a bath, etc? Does he need to? Of course not! That's because he does all this on a normal basis, just like he listens to music :-D He doesn't listen to music when he's BORED!! He listen to music, as much as he breathes. You should have known that if you read this blog. :-) And to end this post in a very fitting manner, Axe has a special message for you :-)
BLAH BLAH BLAH!
:-P
1. He chats with other people. Axe uses Google Talk, Rediff Bol, Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger. Axe has tried out IMVU (It was cool till Axe realized that a lotta goths turn up there and that all they do is try out the different tricks their avatars could perform :-| Axe got bored), ICQ (Axe liked ICQ till some moron decided to hack his password just coz he had left it as his DOB :-| ), Second Life (Axe really could never understand how a person could fly in any life. REALLY! :-| And the people were scarce and all Axe could do was roam around like an idiot and get more bored. Also, the program ate up Axe's CPU and RAM and internet speed).
2. He social networkises. (Axe does "networkising" and not "networking". That's his way of doing it. Now, stop whining about grammar, will you? Freakin' Shakespeare descendant!) Axe uses orkut and Facebook now. He has accounts with hi5, Zorpia, Neatvibe, Friendster and Ryze. Of course, he just uses his hi5 a/c out of all of these and that is only in PEBs (Periods of Extreme Boredom).
3. He watches videos on youtube and Stage6. Axe doesn't like Google Video.
4. He watches a movie. Axe loves to watch older or cult movies more than the latest movies. This is because he is a bit impatient at times and wouldn't want to waste 2-3 hours of his time just to find out in the end that the movie basically sucks.
5. He BLOGS!!!! (Phbbbbbbbt!!!!) Yea yea, I know, you thought he blogged for fun. No, he doesn't. He blogs when he's bored and has nothing else to do. And yes, this is one of THOSE times. (FYI: The haircut post came a week or 2 AFTER the actual haircut :-D ).
6. He reads a book. Axe prefers reading any book that he can get his hands on. He likes books with real characters and about real life, not fantasy stuff like Harry Potter (Axe ABSOLUTELY hates Harry Potter) and Lord of the Rings. Axe prefers reading an e-book over a paperback. this is because, it's easier to "turn the pages" and you don't need to hold the book all the time. Besides, Axe can easily listen to music on his laptop while reading an e-book.
7. He gives missed calls to people he knows expecting them not to pick up and just missed call him back. In case you are one of those weirdos who does pick up his calls, you are dead the next time he meets you, even if you know that he's just being a bit dramatic right now.
Now, all of you who are wondering why Axe didn't mention listening to music, read carefully. Does he mention that he breathes, drinks water, takes a bath, etc? Does he need to? Of course not! That's because he does all this on a normal basis, just like he listens to music :-D He doesn't listen to music when he's BORED!! He listen to music, as much as he breathes. You should have known that if you read this blog. :-) And to end this post in a very fitting manner, Axe has a special message for you :-)
BLAH BLAH BLAH!
:-P
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Songs 1
I can't believe I haven't put a post naming songs I like. Metal and Rock are like religion and oxygen for me, respectively. Anyway, here's a list of songs I've loved, liked, got stuck in my head for a while, blah blah blah. The songs are in no particular order. Keep checking these posts. You may find some good songs out here that you never heard before. :-)
1. Pink Floyd - Wish you Were Here (My all time favorite song :-D )
2. Radiohead - Creep
3. Cradle of Filth - Hallowed Be Thy Name
4. Mogwai - We're No Here
5. Paul Van Dyk - Nothing But You
6. Korn - Blind (Live in Woodstock 99)
7. Queens Of The Stone Age - In My Head
8. Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
10. Apocalyptica - Nothing Else Matters
1. Pink Floyd - Wish you Were Here (My all time favorite song :-D )
2. Radiohead - Creep
3. Cradle of Filth - Hallowed Be Thy Name
4. Mogwai - We're No Here
5. Paul Van Dyk - Nothing But You
6. Korn - Blind (Live in Woodstock 99)
7. Queens Of The Stone Age - In My Head
8. Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
10. Apocalyptica - Nothing Else Matters
Friday, January 11, 2008
YAY! A haircut!
So yes, the author of this blog got himself a haircut (at last). I don't even remember the last time I had one. Anyway, now I did. YAY for that! I dunno if it looks cool or not or whether I look more bald than before. All I know is that it feels good to have short hair again. I was planning to shave my head, which is why I wasn't having a haircut for quite some time now. But then, I just decided to get one. I like it. Makes me feel a bit light-headed :D My flatmates say that it makes me look a bit younger and less bald. Ironically, according to them, I look more bald when I have long hair. Anyway, I do agree that when I had longer hair, I used to look like I was over 30. Now I look like I am 26 or 27. (Psst, I am 22 right now :P ) But still, pretty good for me, eh? I wish I could put up a pic, but that's one thing I am trying not to do, turn my blog into an album. Maybe, I'll try to get just my hair :P Let's see. Keep watching this page.
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