tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54406793411139324892024-02-19T07:41:43.493+05:30Dil SeGrumblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16063522933105978372noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440679341113932489.post-21907132288686512322010-06-11T23:37:00.005+05:302010-06-11T23:43:48.558+05:30The Bangalore Mutation1. You develop a false sense of intellectual superiority to peers from other places..umm..aa..we work at Bang-a-Lore(bang a what).<br />
2. You start cribbing when you realise that your hometown/village does not have the likes of Dominos/KFC/Chillies. Not even Ronald McDonald!!These places are probably under Maoist control!<br />
3. Start whining that the mundane and nonchalant restaurants(oops "hotels") there are bereft of the royalty called "home delivery".<br />
4. Take the phone and abuse the Internet guys in Bang-a-lored Inglis that their connection sucks."You know, we have 4-16 Mbps connections in B'lore.Go and replace your scrappy medieval age stuff"..um..aa...(sign of bangalorean royalty).<br />
5. Exclaim silently :"Uncivilized beggaerz(Jayan style)!!", when your attention is called upon by someone with a "ssssh/aye" instead of namma "Axzcuse meee".<br />
6. Be clean shaven and flaunt that retarded grin at all times.<br />
7. Shudder at the cruelty of some states' liquor laws. Keralites have to queque up(yes,stand in line!!)at BEVCO to get some over priced God knows what s@#t drink."If they don't have bars, ask them to go to pubs"(Queen Marie Antoinette style).<br />
8. Jump signals, honk as much as you can, esp near hospitals/schools and try to "fill up the gaps" at all places, left right left...<br />
9. Wonder why the shanty grocery store guy at some non descript village can't understand cards!<br />
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All this when a a couple or more years ago:<br />
1. You would swear eternal royalty to the Rs 12/- meal at Pappachan's.<br />
2. When a recharge of 100 bucks would last for a couple of months(now 333 lasts for approx 3.1415926 days) .<br />
3. 9k was not seen as a cocktail treat but a semester's tuition fees.<br />
4. You used to call strangers as "ssh/hello/oye".<br />
5. Bike stunts were seen on TV with the warning: "Please do not try this at home. The following acts have been performed by professionals under trained conditions".<br />
6. Having a pot biriyani at Mezban's in Calicut was wow.Grumblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16063522933105978372noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440679341113932489.post-78008567021241357262010-06-07T22:39:00.001+05:302010-06-07T22:41:59.396+05:30Neelathaamarae(Blue Lotus)One of my friends MKT took this pic during our days at Calicut.<br />
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Recall some lines of a song:<br />
നീലത്താമരെ പുണ്യം ചൂടിയെന് <br />
ധന്യമാം തപസില് ...... <br />
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which translates to :<br />
Oh pure blue lotus,<br />
Deep in meditation....Grumblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16063522933105978372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440679341113932489.post-33724296602567446312010-06-07T21:57:00.004+05:302010-06-07T22:00:16.254+05:30Aadhi dhoop aadhi baarishSnapped these using a modest cell phone cam at Nandi Hills sometime in Oct 2008.<br />
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A method akin to the one followed by Hercules of using a burning firebrand to scorch the neck stumps after each decapitation has to be followed, the root cause to be tackled.A word for the likes of Ms Roy-the scores of the CRPF formation who were sitting ducks and the innocents aboard Jnaneshwari Express, didn't they deserve to have human rights?Grumblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16063522933105978372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440679341113932489.post-81682843684676225092010-06-05T22:09:00.004+05:302010-06-07T23:12:49.811+05:30A New Sunrise<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"> The sun is burning ember on the azimuth,</div><div style="text-align: left;">The tranquility catches up with me,</div><div style="text-align: left;">As the waves thrash about to make a deal,</div><div style="text-align: left;">The sea gulls hover around screaming</div><div style="text-align: left;">Heralding the onset of another day of light, despair and hope?</div><div style="text-align: left;">The wind thrashes at my face,</div><div style="text-align: left;">Awash fish and shells and foam,</div><div style="text-align: left;">A conch to the ear, and a wish to hear,</div><div style="text-align: left;">How mutinous would be the waves this year....</div><br />
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