Sunday, August 27, 2006

Compress and waste

Bangalore has now become a small place. It won't take you to be a genius to bump into people from your not so distant past. Especially with the kind of people our college nurtures and kicks out every year: The "aawara" types.
Also with the number of software companies recruiting and henceforth increasing the influx, something like this is bound to happen. Not that I'm complaining. I welcome the company of the enlightened souls, from the past, into my present.
The list includes Anshul, Auto, Naagu, Lino, Alan, Siddharth, Venkata, Pylee, to name a few. This list, of course, is not complete and I expect it to be ever expanding.
Having such a companionship does have its benefits, in that you can spend your weekends fruitfully... uh.. yeah.. well.. mostly... that is, if the fruit is beer.
The interesting thing is that Bangalore is blessed with pleasant weather all throughout the year, and you would rarely feel thirsty. But that doesn't stop people from hitting the pubs. But then thirst is really not the reason people drink, is it? Nah..
Hmm.. I went and started conjuring up new theories, so I will end with a non sensical note, just to show that I haven't lost my insanity.

If you ever have the fortune of going abroad, please do the following exercise:
a) Find a sufficiently crowded place.
b) Start doing Bhangra or any random desi dance move.
c) People will start thinking that you are part of a bollywood movie and actually stand and watch.
d) You can then proceed and deliver autographs at your leisure to the poor unsuspecting foreigners. Maybe even be kind enough to be a guest in a local talk show. Who knows what fame will bring you?

Ah... the pleasure one can get in wasting other people's time.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Results out...

and I passed. Our university did a grand job of letting us hang by the thread, playing with our feelings and giving all of us a lot of false alarms (as usual). The result was supposed to come out "tomorrow" around 2 months back, but it came today... so.. uh.. whatever..
So now I can sleep peacefully and not have dreams where I get 3/100 (serious) and find out that I lose my job because of that.... gave me the creeps the other day.
The results getting published also means that I have to make the grand trip back to Cochin and meet the familiar faces which are slowly fading away. So that should be nice.
Other than that I managed to blow some of my salary by doing some shopping. Both the amounts (amount spent and salary) are strictly confidential and are left as an exercise for the reader to speculate :P . The clue is that I brought 3 shirts and an iron.

Peace.

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

What's new?

The blog post frequency has literally fallen to an all time new. I myself am not visiting my blog to see how many hits I have got (hey cmon.. everyone does that) and ergo increasing the hits. I didn't see any movies in the past weekend, so I don't have any movie reviews to bore you with. I did go to a 5 star resort as a part of a company trip. I have a few photos from that trip, but I will show you the one that matters (rest are inconsequential):