Randomnophobia...

Saw the long queues in front of temples yesterday and suddenly felt a whiff of fresh air blowing on me alone. There are advantages of being an atheist seriously, I need not be bothered about

• The Big eye watching me from the sky
• The kurma..err..Karma of all my actions
• Availbility of virgins in heaven
• What I am gonna be in my next birth
• Santaclaus getting me a gift
• Memorizing!! Hell I can't mug up to save my life. Can give rest to my weak brain which is bad at these. Need not mug up religious scriptures, especially when there are more than hundred versions of them around.
• Long queues. Finally I can relax on festival days, have a drink with friends, spend time with family - more priceless than spending time the long winding queues to get darshans.

Abar had tagged me for the "All in fours" tag...so here I go

4 places I go over and over:

1. The cubicle in right end corner of my floor(Made friends with the guy who sits there, so I can go meet him and also take a look at my latest green eyed crush :P)
2. Mirchi - A restaurant near my place, love the food and the hospitality.
3. Office cafetaria :)
4. Well...not sure if i have any more.. probably the loo :P

4 people who e-mail me regularly

1. All my PG classmates n rebelz folks
2. Some blog friends
3. Ex-colleagues
4. Off late my HR

4 of my favorite places to eat

1. The mirchi one I mentioned
2. Opel inn
3. Cascade
4. The nameless fastfood shop near my place which is open till 2 AM

4 places you’d rather be NOW

1. My college
2. My previous company-to make the folks who are being pink slipped laugh and bring a smile with my somewhat tolerable sense of humor.
3. In front of my computer playing Age of Empires
4. In some rave party :)

4 TV shows I could watch over and over

1. Seinfeld
2. Medical Detectives
3. World's scariest places
4. Mr.Bean

4 movies I could watch over and over

1. Mambo kings
2. Roja
3. Ace ventura series
4. Thillu mullu

4 people I hope will respond
My new year resoultion - Not to pass tags :)

My merciless neighbour[pun intended :-)] Swarna had awarded me the favourite commentator award. I am really honoured, thank you fellow burrper. Need to pass this on to people whose comments have adorned my blog, I would want to list out everyone in my blogroll. Still I am handing it over to the following people. Those who felt left out, don't abuse me you may be breaking one of ur new year resolutions :P. I have just left out for my poor awardees to pass this on. Rule for the awards

1. Display the Award in your page
2. Award them to your favourite commentators
3. Ask them to forward it to their favourite commentators
4. And don't forget to link their page to their names

Here are my awardees - people who are patient enough to leave a comment in this crappy place
Meher , Aparna
Bhargavi, Arvind
Verby, Kanupriya
Curious, Smita

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Thinking out loud.

Thanks to all the tags I was able to get out of a small block which I was going thru,but now with our show nearing I better not have any blocks and clogs.

Wanted to write more about the Mumbai blasts,but then there is a sudden vaccuum which envelopes me, followed by an all encompassing numbness.What is the point in venting it out in virtual world, signing petitions, calling names etc,. I find it adding on to the frustration and helplessness.Meanwhile came across this hard-hitting article by Gnani, it makes us raise more questions.

Something which my layman senses fail to grasp is the blasting of politicians. Accepted, most if not all of them are corrupt and hopelessly selfish,but then they have not jumped from the skies.They are a part of the system,so the blame is equally on the whole nation and every individual. We had a peace march where politicians were mocked and names called. Leaving alone the questions about whether there was a protest march when a fellow indian was beaten to death[by indians] just bcoz he came in search of livelihood to a different city,I still get questions,questions and more.

Mumbai[and the other 'metro' cities] has a voter turnout percentage which is pretty low compared with 'troubled' jammu and kashmir.When we don't participate in the process of selecting our rulers why hold them responsible now.It's like an atheist blaming god for the tsunami.

The oft repeated excuse is ofcourse - none of them are worth to be voted to power, why should I vote. But that too does not hold good now with 490 [though it's final implication are not known yet]. During the previously held assembly elections I had resoved to make use of this provision but was warned by friends and family about backlash from the party poll observers. After seeing quite a number of thugs around the polling booth my bravery failed and I cowered[though one of my friend's parents did do it successfully].Voted for a guy who I thought was the most educated and the best amongst the lot,as expected he lost. Felt really hopeless and had an urge to take a AK-47,go door-to-door and kill the so called elite class who did not move their ass out during election day,but sat in their couches and were watching/analysing/criticizing the results

If I did sound like painting a glorious pic of our netas,well that was not my aim. My only grouse when I saw the angry protesters was the knowledge everyone had in advance -it was a march in vain, may have given fodder for the news hungry media, may have given platform for some NGOs but whats the change that can be done with this.Though it hurts, the answer is ...Zilch

Phew!!When i started this blog I had resolved not to write about religion and politics but then looks like its not gonna leave me :)..

Also take this oppurtunity to thank Bhargavi and Vimmuuu for their sweet awards. Bhargavi for the "Proximidade" scroll .

This award is given to a blog that invests and believes in PROXIMITY – nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award

And Vimmu for a shiny little cup..The first I have got in my life,thanks dude.

Passing the awards on to Curious, Sindhu, Zephy, Verby, Kanupriya ..hmm guess all others have got them.

And have also got verby aka abhithakuchalambal's tag to do. Movie Quirks of mine, I rarely watch movies at theatre, so pretty limited list I have here.

1. I wanna watch the movie from the beginiing,right from the first films division reel they play[it's not more done though] till last line of the credits rolling out.I curse my friends due to whom I may end up missing the first few scenes,even if it is seconds.
2. I can watch movie with anyone,I mean no restrictions in going out to movies with met-a-few-secs bfore pals.I feel watching movie and later discussing about it makes us get closer and well acuqainted.
3. I have an OCD with regards to leak points in movie halls.I hate to use them unless until the situation is explosive :P
4. Love to watch the movies of big stars and the kinda frenzy the fans go once the hero comes on stage.I get goosebumps and used to wish someday I will be a hero like that :)
5. Used to re-enact the scenes of some average/mediocre[let's leave the names now] stars at home in front of mirror.
6. Hate couples who make out in movie halls,not that I am jealous just that I feel it is sick.

That's all so far....This looks like a 4 in 1 post :)..not too sure about my time till 21st december, so thought of getting everything done.

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It eez awards time...

Thanks to verby, I have got a pretty butterfly as an award from her. Actually this is the second award in my 25+ years of existence[celebrities don't reveal their true age..ok wannabe celebs too]. The first being the stainless steel tiffin box I won for sack race in my 3rd Grade [Once upon a time me too was an athlete].And aah, I also did win a sachin tendulkar poster during my high school days,this was in a "name-the-chimp" contest by camel stationeries. I named the chimp as Simbu[apologies to his fans].

Without beating about bush or Mccain, lemme detail some rules about this award.

1. Put the logo on your blog
2. Link the person who awarded it to you
3. Link the bloggers you are about to honour

The ones I would pass it on to are:
Sindhu Meher - Because kids love awards :-)
Praddy - The one who introduced me to blogging[now those who can't stand my posts you know where to send the email bombs to :P] and taught a few tricks.
Prasad - Reasons?..Hmm..bcoz he is Maamz :) Actually he typifies the adjective cool to the tee.
Curious cat - The most artistic blogger I have come across.
Aparna - Well... bcoz she is the mother of A ...LOL!!
Bhargavi - Bcoz I respect elders a lot ;-)

I would love to award everyone in my blogroll but then not too sure how many would like this...And yes folks please pass on the awards. I wish all are happy and there is world peace [aren't these the words Miss World awardees parrot :)].

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