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Haven't had a proper workout in three weeks.
Down with flu, B.P. on the lower side.
Started spanish classes.

Perverse

She returns home in three hours twenty five minutes,
Flashes the tube.

People praying everywhere,
Morning, day and night.

Her doggy pack up there's a matter of national debate,
You need to slim down,
Have you watched as closely your plate?

You've probably counted the seconds of her flight,
The hair in her brows, the steps in her marathon.

Get a life. Have a fling.
Take your kids out.

I got a question for you.
You even know the names of her fellow astronauts?
Patriotism grows perverse with time.

Too weak to contemplate

Seconds pass by, they will take my life some day.
My strength too weak to resist.

The smiles and faces will fade away some day.
My memory too weak to recollect.

Will I be the tragic Corleone or the villanous Nemo.
My imagination too subtle to fathom.

Will I be forgotten, am I even remembered.
My heart too weak to contemplate.

Today

Reflected on life
Closed 5 tickets
Got wet in the rain
Slept in the evening
Skipped Gym

Downloading some songs
Listening to a sad ghazal

Alter Ego

Stop drifting! Plan your life!

Drifting

The past few weeks have been very different than the usual hustle and bustle of work and other things. I've had the opportunity to sit back and take stock of things that have been going on.

As I see many of my friends and colleagues frantically planning their lives and striving to take themselves forward, I too get the feeling that something must be done. My impulse was, then, to truly touch upon what I want out of life.Naturally, I tried to unravel what the people around me wanted and assumed that maybe I want something on the same lines for myself.

So what is it that I see around me? People frantically turning the pages of education magazines, doing the rounds of management coaching institutes, preparing for exams that would take them abroad, not to mention getting ready for some caustic and mildly humiliating questions that would be asked in the consulate, striking off words like Vietnam, Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan and Iraq from their vocabs ... a seemingly endless list.

What is it that we ask ourselves when we take such decisions in life? Probably nothing. The lure of big money, good positions, a lush life seems simply too much to resist. But what's the motivation? Why do you want to do what you want to do?

I don't know about others, but the only answer that matters to me is to the question - 'Would I do it for free?' If the answer's yes, then that's what I'm going to do...

And that's quite consistent with the way I've lived my life thus far. My parents decided which school I'd go to, I just took up what my friends took up in junior college and graduation, and took the first job that came my way.

Am I perturbed by the fact that my friends are going place, or atleast are on their way? No.
Would I live my life another way if I had to? Don't think so.
Do I regret the least bit not having thought out my life a little more. Naah.

I'm a drifter. It's fun.

Groovy

I'm accessing blogger through one of those proxies...Apparently routed through some German server. Needless to say the interface is all German and makes me feel like i've walked straight into Lost in Translation. Groovy

A little over a minute ago i was reeking all the cynicism that I had accumulated in my life and now i'm feeling Groovy. It's a good start.

BTW, I love my new phone. As mentioned the joystick's a little hard, but the overall package packs quite a punch.

I'm nearing a 100 posts on the blog !!!

Deserving

I've been an impossibly pathetic cynic for most of my life, and deserve a lot of the shit that's happened to me.

So I'm Fickle Minded

After about two and a half months of research on the Sony Ericsson K550i and W710i, I ended up purchasing the W700i.

Quite an affordable walkman phone at Rs. 9800/-

Pros -

*Fast music transfer from PC to phone

*2mx camera with protective slide on cover for the lens; flash

*FM

*Shipped with 512MB memory card (Phone memory 34 MB)

*Comfy keypad

*Great earphones (Blocks out most noises)

*Orange backlight (BY FAR my favourite colour!)

Cons -

*No autofocus on camera (But the picture quality is still great, the flash took some good shots even with only a 12 inch tube light lit in my room)

*The joystick takes some getting used to, but compared to what the phone offers, one can (and should) neglect this.

*No EDGE/GPRS. Only has WAP 2.0 and XHTML browser. (I'd personally prefer a laptop to a cellphone if I ever wanted to be connected on the move)

Cheap trivia -

*One of the few phones that looks better in hand than on screen.

TIP - Don't go for the K550i. It may have the works, but the keypad is the worst in cell-phone history.