Category: Life Ordinary

  • Read Only Memories

    Tagged by Prero
    Total number of books owned:*Loading* (while i go check my shelf) 93

    Last book(s) I bought:Cryptonomicon (gifted to me), Shalimar the Clown, The Peacock throne
    Five books that I have really enjoyed or have influenced me:
    Influenced: Tomorrow’s God, Fountainhead, The Lost Hero, The Drifters, God’s little Soldier (currently reading), a lot of magazines i can’t mention 😉
    Enjoyed: Ramayana series (ashok Banker), Foundation series, Jeffrey archer (all), Night of the Dark Trees, The Great Indian Novel, and those magazines
    Book(s) I’m currently reading:God’s Little Solidier
    Books I plan to buy next: Strong believer in love at first sight, there’s no planning 🙂
    Books that caught my attention but have never read: sigh, a lot of Maxim these days, but seriously, i usually end up buying the books that catch my attention
    Books I own but have never got around to reading: Quite some, but here are a few – Lila, Desirable Daughters (that title is very misleading!!hehe), Goa ( i will, one day)…
    until next time, pick up the tag, it might make a good read 😉

  • Heresy

    Not that i spray the entire area with snowflakes, or carry the flakes around on my black t-shirts, but yes, they say prevention is better than cure and i agree…
    and that is what took me to the clinically clear shampoo…. and i’ve to admit they have got the formula perfectly right.. if i continue using it, i’m sure i’ll have no dandruff problem..after all, if i have no hair left, where will the dandruff stay?
    Please note that this has nothing to do with the latest playa on the endorsement scene.. well, there’s the Big B, then there’s SRK, and then there’s tralalala….SwB !! Don’t believe me, read this… 🙂
    until next time, hair today…..

  • The new magicians

    Sometime last week, saw a photo of P C Sorkar passing his magic wand to his daughter, apparently a passing on of the baton to the next generation…
    A long long time ago, i think a couple of decades back, i had gone for one of his shows, in my hometown… that was still a generation that was eager about magic.. i even had tapes of david copperfield, doing much more complicated stuff… and yes, magic did leave me wonderstruck then…
    A few months back, i saw a show on axn which revealed the tricks of the trade, they also mentioned that there were a lot of stores that sold magic kits… but i wonder how many kids would be interested in them… aren’t the days of pc sorkar and co. over?
    the new kind of magis is perhaps being created by a different kind of pc.. and thats just the bottom of the chain.. for there are much more advanced and specialist comps that are making break throughs indifferent kinds of technologies at a much faster rate than ever before…and like many other things, an innocent old art that has been entralling generations is in the process of getting relegated by the wonders of technology….
    and we become part of a world which has no time for magic… or maybe its just that even magic aint what it used to be…
    until next time, abracadabra…..

  • There goes our culture….

    Heres one for the moral police…
    I read this a few days back on the ‘age no bar, sex baar baar’ scenario- More youngsters are experimenting with casual sex than they did five years ago, according to a survey commissioned by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).The Behavioural Surveillance Survey (BSS) 2006, conducted on 40,000 people between the ages of 15 and 24, found that 8.4 per cent, or 1.5 crore youngsters in the country, are snuggling up for pre- and post-marital sex.
    A few days back, i heard a contest on our only 24-hr english music station- it was something to do with a new store that has opened here. The question was what the store – ‘apple of my eye’ into – apples, ‘mom and child’ shopping or apple pies. Sarika, who called in, answered correctly – a ‘mom and child’ shop and she got a gift voucher from the store…
    only, sarika is a 2nd PUC student.. now, purely out of humanitarian concern, i’m worried about sarika, will she gift it to someone else, or will the voucher encourage her to get herself a kid to redeem the voucher herself?

    until next time, not just kidding 😉

  • ..and while on context

    I suddenly realised that long before google came on the scene, we were used to the concept of context… a few days back, i had sent our recent goa photos to an old schoolmate, and instead of sending me a reply, the damn fellow decided to leave a scrap in my orkut account.. and so, i was forced to go to my not-so-favourite site and check it out… and while i was there, i also visited his page and couldnt resist checking out old schoolmates (or as SwB claims, peeking at old crushes, which i vehemently deny..hehe)…
    we are all out of touch, except for the stray e-mail blasts that get launched every once in a while that someone feels particularly nostalgic…and its not just school friends- college friends, colleagues from previous jobs and so on… of course, maybe its just me, but i feel its quite a common thing to lose touch with people who were once an inseparable part of our lives…(perhaps that explains the success of orkut, because it gets one back in touch)..
    and thats when i realised that perhaps, wittingly or unwittingly, we make contextual relationships- school, college, jobs.. and its not just people but sometimes even places and cities… and since these relationships are in context, they end when the context ends… and leaves in its wake, memories, which in times to come, give us those bouts of nostalgia….
    they say, as we grow older, we tend to go back to our roots, perhaps, a few years down the line, we’ll see a generation going back to a prehistoric site called orkut to relive their glorious past 🙂

    until next time, take a trip down memory lane…