Archive for March, 2008
Word Are Spreading
Lingo is infectious. More so when it defies the boundaries set by grammar, which makes it cooler to use. Lingo has been an integral part of life in college, and at work as well, and most of my spoken lingo has been contributed to by the friends that I have been in contact with. I can't stake claims on having come up with new lingo (yet), but I [...]
Life is an iPod in Shuffle Mode
Don't say I didn't warn you. The whole iPod related tirade continues thus... I figured out the other day that I have almost 30 GB of music on my 30GB ipod, which translates to roughly 4500 songs, approx. Over the past couple of months, I have been listening to a very small subset of that huge number of songs, and these numbers that I have been [...]
Unchained Melody
Public displays of emotion and affection are not really the norm in our country, but this trend of venting out one's feelings ad nauseum seems to be catching on here as well, after having been firmly rooted in practise in different places all over the world. I for one have no hassles against public displays of any sort, so long as I have the [...]
The Downfalls of Ego Surfing
Firstly, it feels good to be home, there's no place like the Motherland to unleash cheapness ad nauseum, and that is what I intend to do! One of the highlights of unleashing cheapness is to see one's online presence by engaging in what is called ego-surfing. Googling for one's name to see how many pertinent hits come through, and then seeing [...]
No More Mister Manager
I used to manage a band named Swarathma. The odds of you following my LJ regularly and not knowing about this fact are pretty low. I am saying used to because I am not doing the whole band management thing anymore. Swarathma has grown too big, and as a heavy duty professional outfit, they need a professional manager and not a novice who is prone [...]
Invasion of Privacy
$50 extra blown up in the process of having had overweight luggage, I was resonably aghast at having broken one of the first tenets of seasoned travelling, which was to travel light. However, I consoled myself by saying how this was due to the extensive shopping that I had to perform, in order to keep the shopping list generators in the family [...]
Getting punched in the face by Irony
Free Wifi is welcome. Changi airport is supposed to be the Mecca for wi-fi freeloaders. However, one major stumbling block that has kicked me in the shins, figuratively, is that post registration on the Singapore wifi access hub, one has to enter one's mobile phone number in order to receive SMS with the cofirmation code. Now, I have three [...]
Of Plane Travel and Last Words
My stay in Seattle is coming to an end, and a huge part of me wants to just rush home. Home, back to the Mysore and Bangalore, both places now have the tag of home associated with them because I feel like home in either place. Of course, there is no place in the world like Mysore, but you can't always get what you want. So the homeward bound [...]
