Category: Life Ordinary

  • The Travel Bug

    All the travelogues, all the travel programming on TV, and all the photos on image sharing platforms- I’ve read them all as messages, but never picked up the bags and set about travelling regularly. Now, i can give operational excuses, but i also know that those are not the real ones. For quite sometime now, I’ve had a block in my head, but could never decipher it myself. And the worst part is that it wasnt always like this. While i’ve never been a travel freak, i’ve never shied away from it either.

    It took Nude Ellie to give me an insight into this bug. The first and easiest insight is that i am incredibly lazy. Even that trip might not have happened if it werent official :). And it is perhaps only fitting that it was an office space that gave me a thought.

    I’ve realised that travel necessarily means meeting new people. And not just meet, but also see large amounts of humanity that i may not meet, but faces that i know exist. In this case, floors and floors of cubicle farms.

    Now this might sound weird to many, but that to me, is a bit like those starlit nights. And while i love staring up at the sky, I’ve slowly built up a revulsion to the other thing that evokes in me a feeling of insignificance, a feeling that i haven’t done anything to be truly special.Ego/ Frustration? Or plain old existential angst?

    until next time, wanderbust?

  • Ok Tata Bye Bye

    And its time to say bye. Its been a long time and I’d been planning this for sometime now, never actually got around to doing it. But it’d be sheer injustice to postpone this any longer. Most readers would agree that this is way too melodramatic for a week’s vacation. But hey, its a 55.
    until next time, see you next monday

  • Insectuous relationships – 55

    These days, there’s tremendous amount of sexual activity happening in our house. I confess, I do not spend a lot of time thinking about it, but D does and she is extremely unhappy about it. After all, she’s the one who has to deal with the increasing number of cockroaches and lizards in the house.
    until next time, did that bug you? 😀

  • Mind Games – 55

    He didn’t mind the rain. It meant that the idiots who paid lots of peachish Gandhis got to see only 50%. He wasn’t much into the mass sport now, 20-20 win notwithstanding. He’d get up early tomorrow to watch the F1 race. He did, and saw a track beset by rain. His expression was priceless.
    until next time, are Suzuka and Bangalore cosmic twin cities?

  • Nude Ellie

    That was the status message on my Google Talk for a couple of days last week… A lot of guys who dont bother saying a hi when i have a normal green button insisted on saying one when i had this custom message with a red button… It happened to elicit a lot of responses ranging from numbers associated with Ellie – her vital stats and her mobile number to social questions – whether i could do a quick introduction.
    Now, it was the first time in 14 years that i was seeing this subject of extreme curiosity and i must say i was pleasantly surprised. Cleaner, calmer and most definitely hot, changed my perspective completely. And thanks to this reacquainting, i also got to meet two people who i have known only virtually. While i spent only a few minutes with N, since we were both on working time, i had dinner at J’s place. While i exhibited my usual atrocious sense of humour and other anti social skills, she really couldnt kick me out, since she had a plastered foot.
    But, i digress, this is about nude ellie, only Shobha cracked it, and the most heartfelt response i got was one i got on facebook was this
    (reacting to the status – Manu is exploring Nude Ellie)
    He: I want to explore nude ellie too.
    Me: All major carriers have flights from Mum-bai to Nude Ellie
    He: Manu, you are terrible

    until next time, have you met Erica ? 😉