an exotic week

of fruit and drink (all of the non alcoholic variety).
hows this for a list
jackfruit, jamun, star fruit, litchee, plum
and juices of
pomegranate, guava, mango and kokum.
hmmm... summer has a few benefits for sure doesn't it?

Tum jiyo hazaron saal

Har saal mein ho din hazaar...
Now heres this guy who has probably called me 2 or 3 times in my life - and i am just finishing off a call with a friend where we are talking about him and he calls...
Not sure the friend likes the subject line but it is funny how these things work :)

cars have locks

one gets so used to the metal tiger with no locks to speak of - that i spent a full 20 seconds tugging at the car door this morning wondering why i couldn't get in!!!
its locked - needs a key.
well ok - wouldn't it be great in a world where locks weren't needed?

May - it be the last day

No - i am not being a doomsayer...
rather in the syle of capt jack sparrow "it be the last day of may"
the end of May used to evoke a happy reaction back then.
it signified the killing summer drawing to a close - a new school year starting - back with friends and of course the coming of the rains very soon - rains that i have always loved.

oh how beautiful

saturday night epiromized the beautiful game and everything we love about it.
this Barca team is probably the best that every played on this planet.
keep at it - you guys give us hope in the times of the Netherlands, the Ronaldos and the Gatusos.
Sir Alex's expression said it all didn't it - no shame losing to this side - and congratulations on not playing ugly Man Utd.

lifes good

Seen on my 1 year old's T-shirt this morning
"Life is good when you are ME"
really?

when every day is a picnic

my son is in that kind of an age...
summer holidays, some food, a hamper, a mat and every breakfast is converted into this nice little picnic!!!
oh what fun.

Intellectual stimulation

Can be produced by beer and boredome on a lazy evening... How?
Well advertisements (really difficult ones) that i couldnt follow for weeks or months all became clear as i sat in front of the idiot box in such a state.
Thinking clearly i was but what were they that produced such ads thinking when they did it?

still - yellow

hard luck danny boy. hope you get another chance in the final

Onions

when i was younger i ran on most mornings.
in onion fields down a narrow road.

every winter they harvested the crop and stored it - i was fascinated - yes everything smells like onions but i was fascinated by their storage huts - i found a photo on the web

you could even buy it off the fields - for about Rs 10-15 for a 20kg bag.

As i visited my childhood home one of these days i drove down the same road - no longer narrow - now a 4 lane high traffic road.

there were no traces of onions, storage huts or even the fields. concrete everywhere - the farmers (or middle men) have made a lot of progress...

hijacked in passing

a scene from this morning reminded me of an interesting incident i observed a few months ago.
peak traffic time one morning after a night of heavy rains - theres a major disruption because the rains have opened up a very big pothole blocking a full lane.
so there is this bulldozer going on its merry way when 2 policemen go up and have a word.
what they have done is requested the bulldozer guy to pick up some gravel from the roadside - dump it into the pothole and roll over it a few times. the bulldozer guy obliges and in 5 minutes we have a usable road.
surely no case of missing initiative there - imagine having to do this through the normal bureaucratic channels.

a fresh pair every time

my top 4 reason why you would be forced to wash your clothes after just 1 wear.
1) do something which makes you sweat like a hog and hope that the sweat smells like one too - gross eh?
2) have a nagging wife :(
3) have a dog that loves puddles (and you).
4) love biking in an indian city - especially when it rains.

well - thankfully i have nothing to do with the first 2 - generally avoid 3 and really like 4.

whats your top 4?

Abort, retry, fail?

Which of these did she choose is what went through my mind as our airplane coming in for a landing at pune suddenly put on full engine power and pulled up.
Well a full minute later she comes on the PA and announces "as we came in for our final landing ATC announced dogs on the runway and we had to abort. We are circling back and will be rescheduled for landing soon"
Dogs? Well i guess she did choose the right option whatever the problem may have been...

Maa mati manush

The results both in bengal and tn makes one hope that the voter has gotten over the very basic needs of food and started asking for better governance.
Good luck to us all in this pursuit

The bootstrap effect

When the standard of living of the country goes up its rich become richer, middle classes become richer and so do the poor.
I call it the bootstrap effect and i believe (without sufficient data though) that a higher percentage of people in this country today live in relatively less trying conditions and have a better chance of a brighter future...
The said bootstrap is however elastic in nature and hence the difference between the classes seems to go up - a dangerous condition indeed and one whose fix is hard to grasp (probably socialism).
In effect the employment of maids drivers and cooks is a way to distribute the wealth in such a massively populated country via this effect. Fair? Donno...

thump wump wump

goes the metal tiger.
it rouses the heart and drowns out the world.
with the wind on the face - its a beautiful time to reflect and just enjoy the ride...

Quite a bit of salt

In that salt and pepper hair of mine....
And while the barber did not claim it to be "galich" this time around, he sure did want me to spend some good money on hair dye...
Par yeh baal kya maine dhoop mein pakaye hai? I refused to give up the distinguished look ;)

so whats my style

  

अजीब कश्मकश है जिंदगी में 

someone help me decide. 

good wine, confirmed bachelors and duality

A few glasses of good wine later - i asked this confirmed bachelor if he would ever get married.
well - after a short discussion we concluded that yes he should but only to his perfect dual.
happy hunting buddy...

A reminder to question

Its strange and insightful at times when a computer generated random password that you use several times a day starts with "why"
Well reminds me to be inquisitive at all times for sure.