one place to another

for an evening with d mallu boys in campus that started with a mojito n from there a confused list that ended with cheap macdi icescream soda, the new movie Gulal was like d perfect close. first it s d perfect movie for a midnight show..it will leave your mind full of colourful nonsense n psyched dreams when you finally go to sleep, but hey i liked the movie.
i loved the way the hero..mm, not exactly, damn difficult to point out d lead in a movie like this.. so anyways as i was sayng the sleepwalking student who is like drunk on the the girl n then in the end goes..well leme not spoil ur fun, anyways that ending was least expected and kinda made the movie for me..maybe it Anurag Kashyap thing to show heartburn..the way dumped love gets nearly physically painful. dont know if it s just me or perhaps the movie s actually good

paranoia

this long extended break is coming to an end.. all the four years i worked in Dubai i was looking forward to this break.. i justified almost every sad/bad thing about work and the place by saying.. "there is a definite end in sight".. and now that has come and gone!
when i start work in April it will be after nearly 3 years.. after 3 years on BREAK!

and now this has to be the last 'big vacation' for a long long time .. like for about 35 odd years!

and lots of not-so-happy things staring at me..
1. i am nearly 27... the number looks big even to me now a days.. like shit that is OLD.. for most of my life i was like the youngest guy around.. and it has taken me most of the 2 year MBA to realize i am on the other end of that spectrum now.
2. unexiting pay..cant afford to spend like no tomorrow for .. the foreseeable future :(
3. unknown location of work..i just cant imagine selling oil in lets say Kerala.. even for a year.. or some district in karnataka.. i'll die
4. logic tells me i need to get married in the next 2 years..i'l be touching 30 then!
5. every guy needs a house, car and money to stay up in style.. i always assumed when i needed these things i'd have the cash.. :(
it boils down to this..age puts those breaks on the risks you can take in life, each decision becomes uncomfortably more serious.. okay i was never the flamboyant risk loving dude, yet i wasnt the conservative type either. i scoffed at the relatively risk averse guys n girls.. it could be the super conservative family guy who would think twice before eating out (and i never thought i'd be like that some day) or the guy who would be super careful about investments.. suddenly one day you are 26 or 27 and you think.. there isnt much time now.. if u scew up now. there is little less time left to fix it..investments you have now are important because suddenly in a few years you are going to have a wife..and kids.. (yeah the idea seems so funny now..but it is real:(.. )and it is going to be that much more difficult to have a disposable income..

suddenly the government needs taxes (Dubai never asked for them!), parents need supporting, loans need repayment, life and medical insurances need premiums, that savings account needs some support..

reality strikes.

random wierdness

have you ever looked at a coconut tree sitting or sleeping right under it, or around there somewhere? .. i was, and i was imagining that in a situation if trees were to come alive and move around, the coconut tree would be like the huge alien machine in the movie, "War of the Worlds." it would take tall steps and fire coconuts at people, like the alien machine (which by the way fired deadly lasers in the movie). i counted 6 coconut trees from where i was sitting, if the war started, i would be a slight outnumbered. though there is the problem of each tree just one feet.. hm.. perhaps they would hop around. a tall one legged hopping coconut throwing army
..and so my creative juices flowed.. :) boredom can do some wonderful things to your mind.

false impressions..really

A couple of weeks back, when i was at home in Eraviperur, i read Jeffrey Archer's False Impressions. it was suprisingly sad. as bad as a bad book can be.. illogical, predictable, long and badly written
Jeffrey Archer is popular right? but then how could be write something this bad, i mean if i just decided to write a book, i would probably end up somewhere on the same level of lousy.. but this guy makes millions off his writing!
this is a book that makes you go out and blog on how bad it is, and here i am :) back to bloggerland

da Camera

yes so i got myself a toy. (it is a very nice and complicated toy...and the more complicated - better the toy)
it is a SLR camera from Canon. the 1000D or the Rebel XS. I got the body and the kit 18-55 IS lens
Canon india has a price of Rs. 29995 for the 1000D with a 18-55 non-IS lens. with a 2 year india warranty and a 2GD sandisk SD card.
the gray piece i got has a price of Rs. 25,000 for the Rebel XS (US sold) with a 18-55 IS lens. no India warranty, no SD card.
got a decent bag for 900 and a 2GB Sandisk for 350.
no warranty so i hope it comes up with no manufacturing defects... or any other defect for that matter for the next 100 odd years

the search for the camera started 2 weeks back. the though of buying one started 3 back. the very idea was relatively new as well. even though i am telling everybody hey i always wanted an SLR.
in a sense, i like photography and dabbled with it in my viscom days.. i did some shooting with a film SLR though i came up with atrocious pics then.. a film SLR cant show u the pic till u print it and by that time your scene is long gone.

so Sid in campus had this nice camera so the idea was appealing, then Gaurav got one and it became unfashionable. then Suhasini got one.. and i got to play with it.. man that was interesting indeed
so then again..i wanted an SLR
so read read, read read, ask SID who kept telling me wrong stuff, but good anyways
so read read
and then there were 2 cameras fighting for my money the Nikon d40 and this one
and this won

blog block

it s been too long, blog.. and it feels a little awkward writing again. it s like a person u meet after too long, and you don't know how to react. For instance this schoolmate of mine who came to campus today and called me. You meet someone after 6 odd years and always there s this sense of disappointment. On the phone i guess we felt excitement, and we met and suddenly it was like.. yeah there u are,.. and u know what.. u look and sound like u always did.. did i know you? yeah i guess i did. i must have looked bored after the half hour i was there.. she said..hey u carry on! :)
maybe all meetings are like this, for instance for the past 2 weeks, i was reading up like crazy about the SLR camera i dreamt about buying. i never actually decided to buy it for sure till much later. so reading up was fun. there was this excitement. how would it look, what all new things we would do.. and then i told everybody i wanted to buy one, in a way this was so that i wouldnt chicken out and not buy. so once i went and got that 25k from the ICICI ATM in Aundh and picked up the camera from this small camera shop in Aundh itself after some nasty bargaining and arguing, suddenly it felt like an ending rather than the beginning of a long relation between me and the camera. rather it felt like an ending of the search for my camera. and i lovveed the search..:( now i'l have to fall in love with the camera itself. :)

new heights

Suhasini got placed.. time broadband.. a new media company. with a good profile as business dev mgr..and.......
she s coming to pune...
yestday i trekked up the 800m high sinhagad hill.. :) this week is turning out to be quite something.. :D