Saturday, September 9, 2017
Here I come.
Monday, December 2, 2013
Vienna Tales!!
Me: I find the room to be too hot,can you reduce the temperature.
I open the door to find a shell shocked guy in suit staring at me for some seconds.Imagine an expression on Michelle's face when she sees Kim jong coming out of Obama's bedroom,in a pink sleeveless night dress and Barack with a whip and...ok hope you get the shock quotient.
He keeps staring at me.
Comes in
Sunday, April 8, 2012
The Last Laugh...
My Wife: No. DON'T take that tee shirt, doesn't suit your age.
Me: It's Funky.
She: That's right. You are too old to be funky.
Me: But...it's so bright & colorful
She: You are not a rainbow.
Me: Yes...but
She: The argument was over long time back...
At the billing counter
Salesman: Boss...Why don't you get more stuff..We have a discount sale going on for college students.
Me - turning behind and giving her.......the last laugh
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At home - Mom reading stories to my four and a half yr old nephew. Followed by his moral after ending of every story.
Story1 - Hare and tortoise
Mom: So what was the moral of the story?
Him: Slow and steady wins the race.
Story2 - The golden goose
Mom: So what was the moral of the story?
Him: Don't be greedy.
Story3 - Jist of Ramayana
Mom: So what was the moral of the story?
Him: Hmmm.. We should not take sita anywhere out.
The atheist in me : The last laugh...which lasted for an hour.
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My colleague SJ - who is not a great fan of my theatrical activities. Feels it's a waste of time as the returns are not great.
SJ (introducing his teammate RG): Hi, this is RG.(With an evil smirk) He wanted to speak something with you.
RG: Hi.(After initial formalities). You write scripts right?
Me: Yes..Kind of.
RG: See I have got this wonderful state-of-the-art camera during my last onsite trip. It is a HD camera, with some great features like 20x zoom..blah blah blah...I am having some friends, including two pretty looking girls.
Me: So..?
RG: We are planning to make a short movie. Almost everything is in place. The cam, the actors....we have even got a cool beach resort for rent. Just one thing is missing..we need a story,can you give a script for us.
SJ - Gives me a wink.
Me: Oh I write only VB scripts and macros. I don't know what script you are looking for.
RG: Oh ..I see.. (gives an angry glance at SJ)
Me - The last laugh...
Sunday, January 1, 2012
The year that was - 2011.
Me being the not-so considerate cyber user has decided to contribute to that ... here goes my list of top i-dunno-wat
a) A wonderful 3 months trip to Copenhagen....had some lovely as well as not-so lovely time
Lovely bcoz of the following reasons
- Blond girls
- Blond girls in clear heels
- Blond girls playing volleyball in the beach
- A place where indian english and accent is not the funniest
- Ppl stopping and watching us with confused looks...when we are playing cricket that is.
- Was back to my bachelor days..and realized my booze resistance is not the same as it was 5years ago..ah age is catching up
- Ofcoz was paid in a currency which was more than INR
- Blond ...ok I stop it here.
- Missed the chaos
- Had a visit to germany- which made me feel why didn't the americans nuke germany...argh..hated the place and no i aint buying a BMW or Audi or Merc ever ever in my life... well not that there were too many affordable..either way.
- And yeah..i was single..come on there was no one to blame when things go wrong.
b) Moved into my new apartment. There is a saying in tamil "Get a wedding done and get a house built".. means both are financially exhaustive. One can never estimate the costs and none ever knows all the nuances.
If building the house part is smoother,trust me the moving in and settling down will make sure it sucks out everything left. Guess I can write a whole series of blogs on this.
c) Managed to stage 2 shows with my theatre group. Was a miracle indeed,what with 80% of the team members being offshored.
d) Hearing quite a few voices speaking inside me..and asking me to write a book. I hope it would be a bigger best seller than some of the holy scriptures going around.
e) There was some point in the year where I was completely lost with gadgets, bikes n cars..was using lot of smileys in mails and worst started loving justin beiber's music(i know that's a oxymoron)..phew..it was like some teenage girl's spirit taking over me. Thanks to non-stop rambo movies, absolut, JD and their ilk, the spirits are gone now tho.
New-year wishes..
- Wish SRK stops acting...Anna stops fasting...and obama starts working
- To enter politics
- Stop drinking
- Reduce social networking
- Write more on this blog :-).
Last but not the least..I wish the calendar app used by mayans had crashed,hence there was no 2013 for them ;-).. the world is still so beautiful...
Sunday, September 18, 2011
A Different take :-)
Monday, July 4, 2011
Danish Cookies...
So now I know a lot more things for which Denmark especially Copenhagen is famous for..first on my list is the cost of living....its weird to find shops selling the same stuff with varying prices. Second on my list would be ..hmmm..drunken peeing in elevators....infact one of my colleague who is pretty interested in getting danish citizenship has got a trick up his sleeve...to be more danish than a dane...Drive a cycle to work, get tatooed, smoke like a chimney, gulp in 15 cans of beer and do the second thing mentioned in my list..voila..you get the green card!!. Luckily no one here is ready to follow his advice.
Stopping my cynicism, this is a very beautiful (but yes at times boring) place to live in. The environment consciousness of the people is historical to say the least..coming from a place where everything goes in a breakneck speed and in a rather loud way ..was feeling pretty lost initially. Imagine no one honking ,cars driving past with the slightest noise(blame it on volkswagen, BMWs and the german engineering), the danish language being spoken without the mouth being opened(no words even remotely resembling an oye or an ayyo) ..I got into this habit of clicking on my ears once a while to check if they are indeed working fine. My only living abroad experience was in New York, which can give a run to kolkata and mumbai on loudness meter and the number of Indians were higher than ones seen in Chennai.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
The Battle in Bengaluru
The Play is being staged on November 21st,2010 at Alliance Francaise, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru. The shows are at 4 PM and 7 PM and tickets are priced at Rs.150 /-.
Tickets are available at www.indianstage.in, Crossword [Residency Road], Blossoms Bookstore[Church Street].