the last 15 days

a realisation of sorts has dawned on me. while i can't tell you what it is, i can just about tell you that there has been one. so much has happened and so much unfolds ahead - these must be times of great instance. I have just returned from a trip to Bombay - from a wedding and my mom's 50th birthday.

the wedding was nice. the food was really nice. but the bastards serving us conned us into eating too much puri & bisibhele bhat - so when the time came to eat sambar-rice, i was already fidgeting with the belt. i got kappu & amol (the couple) a vcd set of Alfred Hitchcock's movies and I wish them a great life together.

Met loads of old timers too. Best - meeting Piyush, my pet hate from vIndia. It's so strange what time does to one person - it's stranger what it can do to two.

Mom gave us all a bit of a scare complaining about chest pains and throwing words like Angioplasty around. Hypochondriac!!! It gives me great relief in announcing that there is nothing wrong with her heart.

So Mom's 50th birthday - the finale to my Bombay trip... it began with some serious gift shopping. It then picked up momentum when I met up with the band. Nigel (Jhaantiya) the drummer from Split had it up all night long and I can't remember when I forgot to hate him, but it's back.

24th May was a blur. High points - Mom taking out all 50 candles in one giant huff-puff and the following speech. My cousin, half of Split and I also got caught sans helmet, license. Fined 300 rupees by the hard working traffic police. Bangalore could do with some of the Bombay Traffic Police. They look so fucking mean, but dep inside they just wanna get paid. The Bangalore cops lack that look which says - "I can make life bad for you if you don't make mine just a little bit better".

DC -suck mine.

Home (followed by th Product Awards)

The next 2 weeks pull me back to Bombay - my mom's 50th birthday on the 24th, a friend getting married on the 22nd. Then there's cousins with newly delivered babies and friend's not met in over a year. I wish I wish that someone makes a teleporter and sets the first 2 pods in Bangalore and Mumbai. Like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly, I will zip naked across thousands of kilometres.

In Bombay, I will eat good food. My mom's food. Then I'll curse the heat and the traffic (something I've done quite often of late in Bangalore). Then, with nothing else to do, unless forced by circumstance, I will sleep on my bed.

Now - for the Product Awards

1 - Southpark
2 - Google
3 - Yahoo (esp Radio)
4 - Nokia
5 - The Matrix Trilogy
6 - Counter Strike
7 - RATM

These have touched and changed my life and I would be a very different person if it wasn't for them - so they win a PA each. These are the products that make me stop and think "Now how the fuck did they think of that...?" RATM might not exactly be a product, but it is somethingg that I consume... so I suppose...

Thing to do when bored

Pretend that you are an actor - the lead role person in a movie. All the people walking on that road ahead and sticking their heads out of windows are actors. Pretend that the wind thats blowing is industrial stength fans camouflaged to perfection. Pretend that your mom is one of the actors too.

You won't be that bored.

PS - You HAVE to stop pretending in under 6 hours - else you are toast.

OnMobile-isms

Rex Server - A virtual server (kind of like the server set up when Satish and I play Slime) that handles all recognition-grammar for our voice services.

Chamu - Affectionate nick for one of the bosses.

Morphues - A software that never tells the truth. Quite the opposite of our bald friend from the Matrix.

Nemo - A software that manages content. I like Nemo.

Afternoon Stroll - Jhamu rolls a joint in the toilet (if I'm not sleeping in it), and walks down the nearby dusty road. Occasionally, I join him.

Chloromint - A new trainee who looks uncannily like the guy from the Choloromint ads (the one who gets his head dunked in the paanwaalaa's bucket). He could do with a Chloromint or 2 too.

Today was not one of my best days. I had a lacklustre presentation with the customer and then an hour of uncomfortable sleep in the loo. Too many cigarette breaks and a growing body of unfinished work have caused an uneasy feeling (it's sitting in the front of my head right now) . Let me go do something about that.

DC- if you are reading this - tomorrow we commence Project Livable to Lovable

Taj Mahal On A Piece Of Rice

On why I named my blog Bob's Ark

Being a huge Southpark fan, it obviously came to me one day that I should begin work on my own animation. I decided on a 12 episode mini-series set in a post-holocaust Earth. My 4 central characters would be Bob and 3 women (Chinese, American and Indian), besides cockroaches.

Now, it is all up to Bob to procreate and save the human race from a premature death. Sounds good - except that the tremendous pressure he is under makes Bob's dick refuse to respond.

The series will be called Bob's Ark.

The chipped tooth

Someone new joined office today and I don't really like him much... atleast I didn't. Then I happened to notice his right central incisor - it was chipped. Just like mine. I now like him a little better.

Honestly...

First blog. Inspired by friend and roomie DC's from-the-heart blogging. I've never been too much into blogging - last kept a diary for about 2 years and in retrospect, it was so badly written and uninteresting ... and so I quit.

However, this last year has taught me that it's not about how badly I suck... if it were, I'd petrify myself immediately over. Instead, it's about how many books you read and how many games you enjoy playing. It's about how much I do with the time I have been given.

Blog. Such a nice word too.