Archive for January, 2008
National Treasure and Other Sorry Tales
Imagine you are with a friend, and the two of you walk into a supershady bar in someplace like, say, Koramangala behind the forum and sit down there to have a quick little drink before going to watch what turns out to be the worst movie that you hav ever seen in your entire life. Now, as is the norm at supershady bars, where no attention is paid [...]
Press Privileges
It is the first time in almost a year that I have had to pay paid money to go for a music concert - watching MotherJane and Zero live at IIM Bangalore, for Unmaad. A princely sum of INR 100 is what I have parted with in order to do that. Having had Press privileges since about May last year, its been a gala time for a cheap guy like me to [...]
SpitLeaf
Blagging on the move - enroute to Bangalore from Mysore. 7 AM in the morning. The things people do for cheap thrills. An ipod on shuffle mode can do the most wonderful things. With the Zero and MotherJane concert up ahead this friday at IIM B, it was really nice to stumble upon an hitherto unknown (to me) track by Zero, titled 'Spitleaf'. I have [...]
My Idea of a Protest
The Tata Nano will arrive later this year. Cheap guys are already rejoicing, as are the Tatas and all those that have set aside a lakh rupees or more as conveyance purchase budgets, for the Nano will make their dreams come true. When booking starts, there will be a greater rush to pick a Nano up, than you would see in Somalia when they'd be [...]
Mistaken Identity
I have a Vodafone connection for my mobile, and the number I got on June 3th 2003, let us call it 98860abcde is still the same one that I have. Considering Vodafone, then Hutch, had just about commenced its operations in Karnataka, and it was yet to engage in the process of recycling numbers, I think it is safe to assume that I was the first and [...]
Conspiracy Theories Galore!
It seems like various conspiracy theories are the order of the day, and in an interesting deviation along acceptable trains of thought, it wouldn't be an unwarranted assumption to imagine that the recent state of plummeting markets all across the globe, that happened due to a cascade effect of sorts after panic ensued due to rumours of a US-led [...]
Power to the People!
Ebbsfleet United F.C., according to a recent report I saw on TV has now had the distinction of being the only club that has been taken over by the people, literally! A-not-so-princely sum of 35 pounds was shelled out by each member of the website myfootballclub, and when 50,000 people put through such a sum of money, it does add up to a sum [...]
Recursive Dreaming?
Sometimes, the weirdness of circumstances forces me to write about random things like dreams that I have had. The phenomenon of personal blogging and writing about nothing else is not something I will ever adhere to, but in certain cases it seems like material for a decent post. Should you, dear reader, disagree with me, I don't really care. In [...]
