Octoberfest

The Indian clone of the famous octoberfest, Germany, at palace grounds Bangalore. Was not bad, i must say. But then again, after some beer inside, anything will look good. We(my roommate Paresh, classmate Prince and myself) reached there by 3.30 itself. Entry fee was 150 bucks. A mug was 25 and a can was for 30. And only kingfisher. If you buy 3 mugs/cans you get complimentary games coupons. One coupon was for the card game flush and the other was for the puzzle where you have to arrange the broken pieces in a shown pattern. I chose the flush and miserably lost. While Paresh won an opener key chain for the puzzle. And ofcourse, we bought more beer to get more key chains.

Next they were calling volunteers for some ball game. Paresh was very enthusiastic and dragged us to the game. And you know what, our team won. The prize was a can for each team member. Not bad at all. Later on, the rock show started. Two Indian rock bands. Both bands played a mix of their own songs and some international numbers. The sound system was awesome. I am not too much into heavy metal. But enjoy them at pubs and live shows. The first band(forgot the name) included songs from Korn and Pink Floyd. But it was the second band, named Them Clones which really rocked. Really enjoyed.

The Tattoo shop at the venue was very inviting. But the prices were not. It starts at 1500 bucks. But one of these days i am going to get myself one. That would be coooooooooooool.
Yeah i am still juvenile.

Some Random Ramblings

Have nothing to write for a decent length blog. Therefore some random ramblings.

• I am getting at least one friend request from unknown persons in orkut every day for almost 3 months now. I feel very bad in rejecting those requests. Maybe i should either put my age or real picture in my profile. Yeah, that will scare them off.
• Was very mushy friday night after a brief encounter with someone.
• Finished making first version of my resume. Ready for the hunt.
• Tried chettinad food at The Legend Koramangala followed by icecreams at Baskin-Robbins on saturday night.
• Have to checkout the Octoberfest on sunday.

Palm Reading

Today there was this training going on in our office. It was a conference call training and pretty boring. At least for the first one hour. Then one of us backseater’s, started telling fortunes by reading every one’s palm. Well, the first thing that he told me was that i will have a short life. It seems my life line is not long enough. How much i ask. 45! 45? Well, its between 45 and 60, he said to console me. Who needs to live long anyway, tell me more. It will be an accident. Wow, an accident? But how did you know that and how are you sure that i don’t die from a killer disease like cancer or tumor or something. Because, my lifeline doesn’t fade gracefully, but ends abruptly. Don’t drive the bike too fast, he adds. Now i know from where he got that fortune. He had twice come with me on the bike.

More bad news. I wont make lots of money, but just enough. I will have a late marriage. Looking at the mishmash of faint lines in lower right corner, he declares that i will have lots of problems in life. Hmmm. Wait, all is not bad. It seems that i will do good in business and i will have a beautiful wife. But the last one, i think he said just to cheer me up.
Well, like they say, life is not fair.

ps: Don’t believe these predictions. Be assured, i am going to take over the world.

Girlfriend?

Everybody says i have a girlfriend. Right from my roommates to my colleagues in office.I wish i had. Seriously. . I am not sure from where they get that idea. Its been a while my roomie Amit and Raju have been teasing me. Their proof, after dinner i always stay inside the room, the door closed. And they assume, yes ass-u-me that i am either on the phone or chatting in the internet with my girlfriend.

Now in the office, its even bizarre. One day i go up to the cafeteria with colleagues to have lunch and the conversion turned towards marriage. Now many of them wanted to know why i havent got married yet. They were not convinced with my answers. After all i am going beyond the ‘marriageable age’ and soon there will be no hair left on my head. And if i wait even more, i wont get a decent girl. Who will want to marry an aged bald man? Now this guy who is silently watching all the proceeding, out of the blue asks me the name of my girl friend. ‘What?’ i ask surprised. He smiles as if he has caught me red handed. He tells me, he is an expert in these kind of things. He just married his girlfriend of 4 years. So he know all the telltale signs of person who has a girlfriend. Still disappointed at my denial of having one, he proceeds to put me at ease. He started telling about all other people and their stories in the team who have a girlfriend or who have married their love. So he assures me, its ok to talk about your girlfriend.
Now i am disheartened. No, not because i don’t have a girl while all others have. I was disheartened to tell him the truth that i don’t have one. This poor chap is so convinced that i have a girlfriend, whatever i tell him to prove my ‘innocence’, will make him think that i am a big liar. And remember, we have to work closely in the office and he is senior to me. Thankfully the discussion moved to something else, but he still thinks that i am hiding something.

Well, i wont deny that i feel flattered that others think that i have a girlfriend. Well, at least its the closest thing to actually having one.

Diwali

Today is Diwali. Festival of lights. I remember the diwali celebrations in my childhood. It was something i looked forward to all year round. We lived in a colony where most of the residents were north indians. Mostly from Rajasthan and Gujarat. During diwali, all through the day, every family visits each others house. And everyone serves the guests with homemade sweets. The colony had around 40 families. While our house used to have all those mundane kerala sweets, what waited me at other houses were the delicious north indian sweets. Now there is no comparison between the kerala sweets and northie sweets. They are simbly awesome. And yeah, i still have that sweet tooth. All 32(or whatever is left) of them.

For me, today is a far cry from those times. Almost all friends have gone home to celebrate or to take advantage of the long weekend. And this includes both of my roomies leaving this poor soul alone. There was a plan to bring my folks here, since it was a long pending demand from them to see my dwelling house in bangalore. But that also got cancelled, as my mom is not keeping well and the doctor has advised her not to travel. Our cook, Raju has called all his friends home and they are going to drink till dawn. And can you beleive it, i am not going to have a single drop today. . I didn’t want to disturb them so i tried going out for a while. Checked out for any plays at Rangashankara. But they are having only kannada plays for the rest of this month.Then wandered around Forum, and BTM area for sometime, but nothing interested me. So came back home. Went to the terrace and watched all the crackers and fireworks going on all around. After an hour, here i am nothing else to do other than blog. Pretty sad isn’t it?

Blog Fate

This post’s mission is to predict the fate of this blog. The last time I tried blogging, it ended with just 3 or 4 entries. That was 2 years ago in livejournal. It started with a travelogue to coorg. I think I was trying to find out if I could blog or not. It was a private blog. But one of my good friends (journalist by profession) saw the transcript in my laptop (without my knowledge ofcourse ) and said it was pretty good. Even though I knew it wasn’t true, it felt good. But in spite of that I couldn’t keep up writing.

Well that was then. For the past few months I have been reading some blogs, and I am like, why not give it a try again. So here I am.

Today is an optional holiday at my office and most of the people are on leave for diwali. No work and no bosses around makes even an office day a good day. So today I spent time on learning the wordpress features. Changed the default template, modified the side bar. Also, added my flickr photostream. The pictures are taken my camera phone. So the quality is not good, but hey nothing beats of instantly uploading the photos as soon as I shoot them. All thanks to my Sony Ericsson phone, Shozu mobile application and flickr.com.

Ok, So back to future. I am hopping that this blog won’t die like the last one. The main reasons that I can think of not making this work are,

1. I will get bored of blogging. Yes, I get bored pretty fast. In fact as I am writing this, one portion of my mind is giving reasons on the futility of this whole exercise.
2. I won’t have anything to write about. Well, at present I can think of a hundred things to write, it may not be the case after a few posts. I suspect this was the reason why my last attempt failed.
3. I don’t like my writings. As soon I finish typing, I don’t feel good about the way I said it. Then I edit it, re-edit it, get fed up with it and decides to leave it at that. It’s very embarrassing for me to read my previous posts.

So which one it will be, or will it be a new one? Hmm, this make me realise, I am person who tries to think about all the possible results that could happen when I venture into anything new. Be it a new work that I am assigned, a new trip that I am going to make or even for a new crush that I have. I have been doing this for some years now and you know what, 90% of the time the results are way off from my list. This is a little game that I play with myself. And this game has just started.

Hello world!

oh Well, finally i made a blog a/c here.
whew!! thats it for today. lets see, how often i will write.