Top 10 peeves about Bombay

1. Spam SMS:- Click here to see hot wallpapers, click there to get free hotel stay, click this for ringtones, click that to find a date!

2. Parking lot attendants:- Forever complaining about spare change, about the rate, about the duration of parking... every 1 rupee with them is a battle!

3. Traffic:- Bumper to bumper traffic no matter where you go in the evening. Bandra, sion, prabhadevi, powai.. everywhere

4. Humidity:- Dripping sweat within 5 minutes of leaving home..

5. Moral Police:- Shut down everything by 1, don't hold hands, hate v-day, blame it all on western culture

6. Eunuchs:- Roll down your windows at a traffic signal and you'll find a eunuch groping you all over

7. Local trains:- Packing density of persons comparable to the trains used by the Nazis to drive off Jew to concentration camps

8. Bandwidth:- Areawise monopoly of broadband service providers, terrible speeds, frequent disconnects and even zero service

9. Autos and Taxis:- Empty taxis slow down traffic by crawling around looking for customers. Hired taxis break all traffic rules and signals

10. Litter:- Maybe in my lifetime I might see a clean city?

working hard?

Look at the intense concentration
The strained eyes, the slight frown
Am I really working hard?
Or just posing for a snap! :)

Big words

I heard someone being described as an unctuous, pretentious, punctillious bastard! And my immediate reaction was... "Where is the dictionary!!?"

Discussions, arguments, confrontations, fights

Can you identify the fine line between a discussion, debate, argument, fight and a confrontation!! And they all take root in simple disagreements. So often at the end of a conversation, I have no idea which of the above forms did it take?!!

So confusing...

Johnny Crash'ed

I just read an Asterix. Perhaps only the second one I've ever read. Its too kiddish. Dunno why mota starts drooling at the thought of them.

I waste too much time playing on my cell phone :( Its bloody addictive and mind numbing. Every once in a while I get inspired to do something interesting with my life, every once in a while I get infused with energy and creativity. And then it wears down while I make my eyes sore over stupid Johnny Crash surpassing the high scores.

This week has been remarkably quick. Can't believe the weekend will be here in 2 days. Something to look forward to at last. I can't remember doing anything exciting on my birthday in the past 10 to 15 years. It always falls in the middle of summer when people are home for vacation. Hopefully this one would be memorable.

Tonight is the Champion's League finals. Hope AC Milan wins. Am confused as to whether I should I stay up and watch the match or just go to sleep. Since I proudly claim to be an avid football follower, this is the least I could do to prove the same.

And talking about work.... Somewhere the sting is missing. I plan, I get excited, I can see solutions in the horizon, but I really hate to sit and finish things. I am growing lazier by the day. Feeling wholly unsatisfied with my work over the past few months. Feel like blaming it on the client, the problem statement, the people around, the constraints.... and yet there has always been a part of me which has been reluctant, holding back, lazy perhaps...

I should go to the gym... the headache will just be an excuse. For the nth time, let me not break the habit.

People are two faced. There are some who overwhelm you with their charisma, their energy, empathy and wit. You start adoring them and want them as your friends. But sometimes I think their show of care and enthusiasm, their humor and apparent interest in you is but an act. Deep inside, they are shrewd, scheming and entirely driven by selfish motives.

and then there were none...

there weren't much to start with. but then came many. many and many more. but one by one they go. some overseas, some to far off cities, and some have evolved so much i scarcely recognize them anymore... time, distance, priorities have changed.

what of those left behind? what of new leads?

Stupid tendency

Sometimes things are going really well and then I have this incredible propensity to do something stupid and find myself in trouble. Now I sit and await the consequence.
And I am lost for words...

View from office

A good enough reason to go to work? :)