Luck

V: Do you believe in luck?
S: You want to know or you know the answer and just want to confirm?
V: I want to know
S: I do. It is my escape route.
V: Hehe. So if some one succeeds, you will call him lucky eh?
S: No. I will consider him talented. But if I fail, I will consider myself unlucky.
V: :-)
S: :-D

Home alone

I will write pretending like I havent been away for a long time.

I have nothing to write actually. Apart from the fact that a flight across few seas and a couple of oceans, to the erstwhile land of dreams, happened a month ago, life has pretty much been the same.

I write today because today is different. I am home alone after a long time. Must admit, life 'home alone' is disturbing. Partly because it brings back some deeply buried memories and largely because I have simply lost touch. Things inside feel 'uncertain'.

I miss my 'mummy' mom..
I miss my 'wifey' mom..

Dilbertesque again

Wifey: I have to work till midnight tonight. Come and pick me up.
Hubby: At what rate do they pay for overtime?
Wifey: I don't get paid for overtime.
Hubby: Well, it must be some important work then.
Wifey: Not really. My boss wants me to change some "PowerPoint" slides for a meeting.
Hubby: Well, atleast you will be prepared for your meeting.
Wifey: It was cancelled. But that's okay because the project isn't funded anyway.
Hubby: So ... you want to stay till midnight to work for free on a presentation for a meeting that won't happen for a project that doesn't exist.
Wifey: Yes. At what time will you come?
Hubby: Ok. I will be there.

Sunfeast 10K and 5 years @ TI

Completed 10km in 63 min..

Completed 5 years in.. 5 years

Shyness my shield

.."It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no disadvantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage. My hesitancy in speech, which was once an annoyance, is now a pleasure. Its greatest benefit has been that it has taught me the economy of words. I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. And I can now give myself the certificate that a thoughtless word hardly ever escapes my tongue or pen. I do not recollect ever having had to regret anything in my speech or writing. I have thus been spared many a mishap and waste of time. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man and silence is necessary in order to surmount it. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word. We find so many people impatient to talk. There is no chairman of a meeting who is not pestered with notes for permission to speak. And whenever the permission is given the speaker generally exceeds the time-limit, asks for more time, and keeps on talking without permission. All this talking can hardly be said to be of my benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth"..

- MK Gandhi, The story of my experiements with truth

I am not a Gandhi fan. My superficial knowledge has made me conclude that had Gandhi settled for life in Natal, we would have gained independance atleast 20 to 30 years before 1947. But 100 pages into this book and I am amazed at the clarity and resoluteness in thoughts, humility in words and conviction in deeds that one man can show. I still havent stopped believing that he delayed our independance. May be after I am done with the book my belief will stand shattered..

New sykil

My 4 year old Hero Hawk hurts in the wrong places. After much consideration, thinking and thorough research (all of it lasting for a cumulative 15min), I bought this last Sunday.


A Hero Octane NV with 21 gears : Rs.7500
A ting-tong bell that reminds me of school: Rs.50
A sturdy red lock: Rs.300
A seat that hurts almost as much as the previous cycle and the inability/lack of 'meter' to tell mom the same: Priceless!

The last one is not entirely true actually. Just felt like exaggerating and adopting the MC ad here.

'Height' of joblessness

During the golden era of the Vijayanagara Empire, while cows slept, grazed and defecated, humans slept, ate, defecated and built these.

Shopping!

Vinu wore this jeans pant yesterday.


We went shopping after lunch to Garuda mall. As part of a 'well planned' shopping expedition, she was searching for jeans which satisfied these criteria:
1. Should fit. Even when she contorts her body at an obscene angle and tries to look at her backside that pant shouldn't show a crease out of place.
2. Should be of a dark shade.

After around 90 minutes of relentless trials (I think her back ached and she stopped looking behind with her 'own eyes' and used the mirror instead) she settled for this.


Blind or what! Ofcourse they are NOT the same. Doesn't look like subtlety is your middle name, does it. Tilt your head 90 degrees to the right, raise your left hand exactly 30 degrees, pucker and move the focus behind the pant.

See the difference? Enlightened? Well, I am!