Posts from — August 2002

Hare Krishna… Hare Krishna

Blog-status: No blog today!

Reason: (Been busy as hell today) + (Its Krishna Janmashtami today. There’s a pooja at our house. So, would be busy as hell in that for the rest of the evening)

Comments: yayyy!! … lots of sweets to be eaten today! ;-)

So, byeee!

cheers!

The joke’s on me!

Ok… here’s something about myself that I re-discovered today. I realized (while joggin on the treadmill and looking aimlessly into the wall-2-wall mirror) that I get dimples on both my cheeks when I smile in a particular way. *LOL* As I’ve mentioned… it was just a re-discovery. But all the same, I filed away this discovery in my brain for use later in situations that might demand showing off my dimpled cheeks (the cheeks of my face… to be precise!) ;-)

Then, there’s this conversation that I had today with one of my colleagues. We were talking about people who make sad jokes or groaners (or PJs, as they are called in India). I argued that it takes a special ability to crack a groaner. I mean, what is a groaner or a real sad joke anyways?! … It is… seeing the most obvious aspect of any situation or a word and turning it around to make it humorous. Since, this humour is often based on the most trivial aspects of any situation, people fail to appreciatethe humour and either the humour falls flat or the listener cracks up with laughter and curses the person, who cracked the joke, for being so trivial.

Quite often, such sad jokes are pun based. Now, it is a known fact that punning is almost an art form. Most of our literary giants could pun at will. So, did these guys have such a low sense of humour?!!

I’m reminded of one Issac Asimov story in which he told about a person called, Sloane. Now, Sloane had a pet rock (remember this is a Science Fiction story… so anything goes! … even pet rocks who can move!!). This pet rock was called Teddy. And since it was quite common to have pet rocks, their owners often entered them into racing competitions (just like they have greyhound racing or rabbit racing, etc.). So, once in a race Sloane entered his rock. Now, once the race started, all the other rocks started moving towards the finish line. Only, Teddy did not budge. Sloane begged, pleaded and cajoled Teddy to move… but to no avail. Finally, Sloane offered Teddy something to eat… but only if he moved. Now, Teddy was a special rock… he could move very fast (almost lightening fast). So, when the other rocks were close to the finish line… Teddy made his move and dashed across the finish line before any other rock could! It was amazing… everybody cheered and clapped and congratulated Sloane and his rock. The headline in the local newspaper read the next day…“Sloane’s Teddy wins the race”

A classic punny story that was!

Anyways, you people put in your thoughts on this in the comments.

Aaahhhhh! … I’m in this weird situation here! My head isn’t aching… but it has grown sooo heavy that it feels as though it might just slump to the side if I tilt it even a little bit! I’m sure I’m gonna get up with a splitting headache and a choked nose tomorrow morning. Ugghhh! … I hate that!

Well… okay… what else’s new?! … Ahh yes! … Amrita has got a new domain and she’s moved all her sites to the new domain. Thats really really grrr8 news, Amrita!! … See what happens when you dedicate blogs to me! ;-) *LOL*

Thats it for now from my side… I guess!… Ciao folks!

cheers!

Chalking the blog on the big bad Net

This is my new blogchalk:
India, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Prabhadevi, Marathi, English, Hindi, Sameer, Male, 21-25, Reading, Computers. :)

Enough to satisfy Google’s hunger, I think… or rather… I hope!

Happy days are here again!

I’ve had absolutely no time to blog today!! … been busy most of the day and then I had to attend this seminar in the afternoon. Absolutely bullshit… it was! …dunno why I even attended it (I had a sneaking suspicion that it was gonna be a crappy session!). Then I went to the gym… and just returned from there!

While on the topic of working out… It seems I just overdid a few exercises a wee bit yesterday. It being my first visit to the gym after a gap of 2 months, my whole body started aching in the night. And I woke up this morning like an egyptian mummy… totally stiff in all the joints!! *LOL*

You know… I couldn’t even raise my hand to my mouth to brush my teeth … I had to raise my arm halfway and then lowered my head a little so that my teeth and the brush met midway… and my teeth got cleaned.

But things improved during the day… and by the evening, I could dare to go back to the gym and have another session of workout! ;-)

Well, as I said yesterday, its been a great day for me… with Tristorm.org elevating me to Star Site and even Amrita dedicating her blog to me. I’m getting to be quite the popular guy. *LMAO*

By the way… Congrats to Amrita for passing her driving test. Now, Mumbai has one more qualified driver! … ;-)

Anyways, I got my look-alike (well, at least to some extent, he looks like me… but some people might not agree!) done at stor.co.uk. You can see it to the right ======>

Ok… I guess thats it for now… bye!

cheers!

I’m the Fat Cat

Quite an uneventful day, today!

I casually happened to look into a full-length mirror and believe me I am not joking, I nearly let out a gasp. Instead of seeing a lean, mean, muscular torso (*LOL*… I wish!!), all I saw was the onset of a tyre developing around my waist.*eeeeeks*.

Its funny how a honest look in the mirror provides an unbeatable incentive to resume the daily workouts in the gym. It was just a glance in the mirror in the morning that did what a lot of coaxing and cajoling from friends could not do. So, here I am… resolute in my resolve to start going to the gym from today *LOL*. I only hope this doesn’t turn out to be like those new-year resolutions (well, to be honest, I haven’t broken the only resolution that I made at the start of this year. So, I’m not too bad at sticking to the decisions I make… or so I like to think!). But, the freeloader that I am, I’m just gonna use the company gym rather than pay up an astronomical amount to some gym(some time back, I used to think that paying huge fees to gyms would prove to be incentive enough for me to refrain from slacking off w.r.t. the workouts in the gym)

Oh well… with workouts come diets and I hate going on diets as you all already must have realized from one of my articles (link’s available in the control panel, to the right).

And, mom had made an absolutely delightful sabzi made from mushrooms n spring onions. mmmm… the tangy taste of that excellent preparation is still lingering on my tongue (don’t worry, I did rinse my mouth after the lunch!) ;-)

Ummm… what else happened today?!… *sheeeesh* … nothing happens around here! … I’m such a boring guy! *LOL*

Well, yours truly got a Star Site rating at Tristorm.org. (I have this broad smile on my face right now!). Thanks a ton Abe!! :-)

Hey, now I really got to run off to the gym! As someone has said… Procrastination killed the enthusiasm… well, to be frank, nobody said that… it was just me! ;-) So, the point is… I should haul my butt to the gym and resume my love-affair with the treadmill and the dumbbells. ;-)

Okay… thats it for now… see you all again tomorrow!

cheers!