Morning news..

My newspaper guy doesn't like me! for one he refused to put a paper at my door for very long.. telling the watchman, putting up notices etc did not work.
and i really need the newspaper in the mornng,... especially the thick TOI types which has so much to gloss over and not much to read, but which you dont unfortunately get in this corner of hte world (here it is only the Hindu and Indian Express, both apparently believe in saving newsprint and printing only the boringest of news..and editorials..the newspaper gets over before it starts!...and then you have the mal paper Malayala Manorama which believe it or not, devotes maximum space to obituaries!! serious! the last 2 pages are obituaries..and it is almost certainly the most read page in the whole paper!..

..any way i have deviated to a sad kerala rant..so coming back to the newspaper guy..

one day i actually decided to catch the dude in the morning..so i got up at 5:30 and stood out to spot him.. and at 5:45 there he came dropping off papers to my neigbhours and ignoring me.. so i caught up with him and asked him nicely.."chetta..pls put the hindu at flat 3-5/2 tommorw.."
so the chetta replies.. "oh sare.. u r a bachelor?"... i m like hmm yeah!.. so he says sori.. cant give paper to bachelors!. apparently bachelors dissapear without paying or some crap like that.. so i fished out 100 bucks and gave him..advance good will money. so he promised to put a hindu at my door the next day.

next morning all excited i open the door at 7 and tada! there is a malayala manorama at my door!.. and hence all my attempts to make him put a hindu have failed.. obviously the watchman forgets, newspaper man does not read A4 size notices on my door which said "PUT THE HINDU"..

so now i sip my coffee with obituaries in the malayala manorama.. i think i am turning into a real malayali

blog or not to blog

I have not been blogging for insane long now.. but not that i have forgotten abt this page or not that there hasnt been much happening either.. (in fact a lot lot has happened.. more on that if i can restart d blogging)

but i was just thinking on why i should blog..

well, i think for one it is very flattering to think somebody actually reads the blog..makes you feel important in some inane or vain way..
then equally important is that the blog life seems so much more interesting than the real thing.. it is mysterious,vague and leaves so much to interpretation that almost always you end up looking smarter than you are
like for instance right now my social life can be summed up in two words (non-existent) .. yeah even one word might do.. nada!.. but till i said it you didnt really know right?
and somehow whenever i read blogs mostly i wonder how their lives would be and leaves me curious to know more.. again that mysterious things works for me atleast..

and of course you can use spell check and the thesaurus to put in big words, you can cook up variations in your story etc (no..i dont do that .. )

so in all.. i think i have convinced i should keep blogging.