Jack Sparrows compass

jack sparrows compass. the one which takes you to what you desire most. now thats something i 'desire'. until i find out where to get one, here are some of the best inventions of man (in no particular order). my analogy might be flawed, but it doesn't really matter..

1. tandoori chicken: because its comfort food! i can have it from monday to sunday and still want some more the next monday.

2. the internet: because Facebook, orkut, youtube, savitabhabhi… whatever works for you is accessible only through it. (thank you harsh!)

3. the football: without which manchester united might have been playing cricket! 

4. escalators: because they are stairs that move! 

5. remote control: everything is so much better when it comes with a remote. the tv, the air conditioner, the car door, your playstation, xbox.. (lets face it, without a remote they would be as good as a 'station' or a 'Box')

6. the television: it has been our constant pillar of support through thick and thin. it was there when india won the world cup. it was there before every Agnel prelim when studying was the last thing on my mind. it was even there when sparrow said, "but why is the rum gone?"

(it will also be there when manchester united win the champions league. GGMU)

7. the ipl: not that india has any less reasons to divide the populace. i love everything about it. right from bhajji and symonds playing in the same team to chris gayles sixes which make spectators renew their insurance policies before coming in.

8. boxer shorts: because being comfortable is what clothes are about!

9. cheese: and i mean all types of cheese. cheese spread, cheese cubes, cheese slices, mozzarella, cheddar, blue cheese. everything tastes better with cheese. i should try karela and cheese, see how it goes. ("cheej pijja!!")

10. the iPhone: because i don't need to say anything about it ! <3

not everyone might agree with me. but you are free to tell me what makes you tick…

Handle with care...

just heard some very disturbing news. one of my old class mates met with an accident some time back and is no more. its one thing to read about such incidents in the paper but the fact that its a real tangible person that had some place in your life makes it worse. even though i did not know him personally, it did stir something in me. i can call it grief or sorrow but its more of a humbling feeling.

such incidents only emphasize how insignificant we are in the whole wave of life. 

as an outsider i don't know if i can fully understand the magnitude of their loss. all i can offer is this note as a tribute. may they rest in peace. 

look around you, the people, the relations and everything else - life is fragile. you don't have to believe in a god, just be thankful..

Power(less)ful Sunday morning!

sunday morning, a time to sleep. SLEEP!! something i've been getting very less of now days thanks to 5ps/min night speak on vodafone!

its one thing to be woken up from a imthesaviorofmankind-icanmakeAngelinaJoliepurrforme dream just because you have to piss. (you can probably take on the joker, the trinity killer, gabbar singh and even mugambo while fooling around with Jolie, but u cant hold your pee!) what makes it way more worse is waking up on a sunday at 8:30, when no one is at home just because the power is out. 

just how dependent are we on electricity? VERY! i know that electricity has complete control over everything i do. that is not the problem. the problem lies in the fact that i can do nothing about it. how do i disconnect 'myself' from the grid? benjamin franklin, faraday, thomas edison and such charged ones must be all looking down with contempt at me. "what does a guy have to do these days to earn some respect?"

i head down hoping that some anda-toast will disconnect the 'i-want-to-disconnect' guy from me. with considerably lifted spirits i begin studying automobile engineering from Kirpal Singh (i really like the name Kirpal!). after 2 hours of grumbling i check my watch.. it says it has been only 25 minutes. maybe i got warped into a parallel universe which magically appears every time the power goes off. 

my productivity seems to have dropped a few hundred percent. i managed to complete only 3 pages in half an hour (normally would have done about 10. and yes, it IS a big number)

above the deafening and mocking roar of the generator next door, i hear the whisper of my laptop calling me… begging me to put it to use. thank god (read steve jobs) for the brilliant invention that is the macbook pro and the brilliant-er invention that is its 10 hour battery. it gave me the inspiration to start penning, or clicking down my thoughts. and thus begins the long wait...

nonetheless there is light at the end of the tunnel (figurative light, because the power is not yet back) the leftover ice cream from yesterday was lurking somewhere in the freezer. someone had to eat it, cant let half a tub of naturals ice cream go waste, can we? throw in a few episodes of modern family and you have a power cut well spent…

P.S. the unit for electricity is WATT (what… what… what???) :D