I try to say a lot while saying very little. Get used to it.
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my event of a lifetime
Feb 8th
It’s been too, too long.
Wish I had a good excuse.
Maybe this one: “Marriage does that to you.” Or even: “Things change like this after marriage.”
At the very least, marriage gives you a scapegoat that most married men will commiserate with. “Yes, yes.. I know what you mean.” Its either commiseration or a devilish satisfaction (as I saw on more than one recently married face that was turned to greet me). “Yes, yes… now you shall know what I mean! Muahahahahaha!”
I have enough things to write about that I might be able to post more often. However, the future looms close with promise of having to wait on the Mrs hand-and-foot.. so no promises.
certain beauty to see people turn up out of nowhere to get the job done. Accommodation, food, transport, luggage.. a virtual well-oiled machine cannot be a better description. Even before I could think, “What about this?”, it was already being prepared for and underway. I only wish I could appreciate such people more.
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Tying the knot around her neck (‘thirumangalya dharanam‘) really felt like the culmination of a long, long journey. I could reminisce here about the first time of the many things that make up a relationship, and so on and on… but those are details that shall remain shrouded in the mists of time. The Mrs was looking like a dream at that point – one I won’t forget – the feeling of first taking her hands in mine and then being guided to tie the knot suddenly made me realize the responsibility I was so naturally able to take in my hands. As I attempted to make hazy sense of ancient Sanskrit during the ‘saptapathi‘, (something struck me about the part of only holding hands with each other until the ‘saptapathi‘ was completed), so many thoughts, feelings and words were jumbling up inside me… its hard to elucidate. There was elation, there was some part of me that wanted to yell out to each one present what I was doing… there was also some vague realization of how there were so many people there – all so happy to see me (and her) go to this next phase of our lives… there were memories of days past, there were flashes of what might happen in days to come.
clubbing together a month’s worth of everything into one big gigantic post
Dec 22nd
This is the 4th attempt I’m making at trying for a halfway decent beginning to a post. Have I really been reduced to saying such banalities? I can’t quite believe it. When I look at my front page, most of my recent posts are about movies. Reviews, basically. Most of my recent posts have also ended with a sign-off saying that I will have a proper update soon. This post, by virtue of being an “update”, doesn’t count as a proper post either. I have notes here, there and everywhere galore… none of which I have really expanded on. Hell, when I was going through my drafts I realized that I had a started a post last winter which I never got round to finishing.
I’m not happy with that start either, but its a start.
I then spent a week modding it with copper and putting it back together. Happy realizations struck: (1) HP laptop architecture could not be worse, (2) I need to blog a long post about how to do what I did, (3) I should have done this ripping-apart 6 months ago. As it is, the damage appears to be too extensive despite my best efforts. I have to bake the motherboard next. You read it right. Bake. The. Motherboard.keeping in the spirit of sporadically posting random updates for the sake of it
May 22nd
Yes, I know that’s a long title. Looooooooong.
I appear to have run out of things to say on this site. Every day is like a new deadline. Its been 4 days since you last posted. Its been 5 days since you last posted. Its been 7 days since you had something original and new to say. And then the tension mounts. Maybe I’m out of creativity. Maybe I should have written more when I had the chance. I knew I would eventually run out of ideas. Should really have forced myself into it. Parallels are drawn to random things such as photography. Sucks that you’re killing off stuff you should be improving. You really need to discipline yourself. Your research will go the same way. You guys really don’t want to know what comes next into my head. Not pretty.
But then every day is a challenge to get something or the other done in research (which may not always work), watch something interesting online (currently Star Trek T.O.S. again, since House M.D. and Scrubs are over for now) , and read something good (currently Gaiman’s The Sandman and have to start an Archer). And of course, movies. The list extends to infinity now. I have a complex formatting and color-coding on there, one of the few things I actually think I did pretty smartly. Miscellaneous other activities have to be in there as well, making the day pretty damn full.
Before I go onto other topics, I’ll say it out loud. Angels and Demons (the movie) sucks. The book was half-assed anyway, but a pacy read. I could overlook obvious stupidity like I did with The Da Vinci Code (which I did not watch, now I know why). And did they do a good job of ensuring the movie is a monumental exercise in irritating stupidity. For example, all deadlines can only be reached within 5 minutes of the end-time. Heroes and villains likewise have no issues recovering from really big explosions and/or major life-threatening situations within a matter of seconds. The supposed villains are so cheap they only fax over their logo – no killing/branding unnecessarily for them (like in the book). The fact that they actually use their own name for their “secret society” tells you how half-assed the source material is.. but anyway.
i’m back
May 20th
and brown. and bursting with ideas. and buried in work.
bummer. for you guys anyway 
the lack of a title
Mar 30th
i last posted on march 20th, according to the post below. which makes it nearly 9 days since i came up with an
ything to put on here. including tiny tid-bits about the porn stars around us; or maybe the fact that i got something new. which reminds me that i got my second transformer recently, i now own both bumblebee and skyblast. not that that had anythign to do with trying to make up content for this post. as you can imagine, i’m pretty stoked about the fact that the transformer can actually convert into the robot.
the question is still what to make of this current post. in other news, i have managed to watch ‘race’, as well follow the beautiful number of messages on the rediff message boards about the review written. including comments about the reviewer’s antecedants, as well as about the sheer brilliance of the movie. which has kinda been missed by me. its a pretty straightforward movie to follow, once you realise that no-one in the movie really cares about it in the first place. the directors, of course, care least of all… including conveniently forgetting the lack of script, point, twists or anything that could possibly construe making it worthwhile. don’t ask me why i was watching it in the first place. such is life.
my flickr has been suffering, with over a 1000 photos in india alone, and not one of them making the album… simply due to lack of time. its a little frustrating to have a hobby and not be able to develop it the way i want to. i’m not sure why, the lack of a time table is probably playing a larger role than i deem to acquiesce to. this has obviously carried over into this space, i don’t like that this is happening with me.
seeing as i have managed to make a post about the lack of a title, about the lack of so many other things, its fitting that the post lacks a conclusion.
