Posts from — August 2002

Monday Blues and musings on the weekend…

So today’s Monday … and a start of another week so to speak!!

Traditionally, the world over, Mondays are regarded as an unnecessary evil. Something that somehow has to end the blissful joy of a wonderful thing known as a ‘weekend’. What a pity that Mondays come once every week! … but on the other hand what good fortune that Mondays don’t come along more than once a week. What am I speaking about?!… I’m sure most of you would infer from these statements that I’ve taken leave of my senses and I am just blabbering to fill up the space and to hog some bandwidth. In a way you would be right. Mondays do that to me!! After a relaxed couple of days, when I get up on a Monday morning, I find that many of my faculties are yet to wake up from the slumber… and so they stay in a dormant state throughout the day. Only the ability to get irritated is up and kicking. So, if you catch me on a Monday, don’t worry, I’m quite a likeable guy on other days of the week.

To add some insult to injury, I found that tag-board.com messed up their act during the weekend and swallowed up few of the messages from my tagboard. Plus, enetation.co.uk was also offline for most of the weekend and so that meant no one who came to this site were able to comment. In short, the feedback mechanism on my blog site was f****d up over the weekend.

By the way, the weekend went off pretty well. Saturday was pretty relaxed for most of the part. In the evening though, my sis, Ashwini dragged me along to this place in Bandra called Globus. There was some sale going on over there. (It really is a mystery to me how the word ‘Sale’ attracts females. And I’m sure this is a global phenomenon. I definitely need somebody to explain to me why this is so.). After a tortuous couple of hours, Ashwini could not find anything to her liking and I ended up buying everything from undies to shirts and everything in between! God bless my sister! … she bought me a pair of trousers! Anyways, I strongly suspect that the reason that I bought so many things for myself was the pretty assistant in the store who cheerfully helped me in my shopping! I’m glad that her friends called her for a coffee break otherwise I would have run up a lot more credit on my card! ;-)

They were showing Dil Chahta Hai on Star Plus on Saturday and I must say, I never get tired of seeing that movie. Its just too damn funny and touching at the same time. Great debut film by Farhan Akhtar. He’s surely destined for greater things!

Sunday was one more wasted day. Wasted, if you consider good old dozing off as wasting the day! ;-) Nothing much happened in the evening either. The Hungarian F1 GP was being shown live on TV and I didn’t have the enthusiasm to watch it. Normally I am a huge F1 and follow each race religiously. But this year, somehow, I get bored watching Ferrari win race after race without any competition from either BMW or McLaren. So, out of sheer boredom I surfed the net. While surfing I realized that I have an account on tripod and therefore I can put up my site there. So, I sat down to do just that. I’ll probably have that site up and running in a few days time.

And oh yes! … English Premier League kicked off this weekend and so now the evenings on weekends will have some purpose! ;-) Last year I rooted for Arsenal and it won. This year I have yet to decide my favourite team. But Arsenal looked awesome in their first outing against Birmingham. On the other hand Man U and Liverpool just about managed to get past their opponents.

Wow… this must be the longest blog ever from me!! … I guess I have to wind up now. So, bye then… till next time!

Cheers!

Quite an uneventful day!… Very busy and nothing happened of note! … just the routine… boring!!

so consequently… there is nothing worth writing. Just a small thing though…

Thank God Its Friday!!!! … two whole days of doing nothing! … LOL … I getting used to this doing nothing bit! … But then I’m enjoying it… ha ha ha!!!

Just to remind my regular visitors… and the new/irregular ones as well!! … that you can find some of my efforts at pensmanship (hah! … now thats a big word for what I do!!) under the heading Some of my scribblings. So try and read them… LOL
anyways… hae a great weekend! … I’m off … mostly to slumberland throughout the weekend! ;-)
cheers!

Heyyy! … its India’s 55th Independence Day today! … Long live India! I am really proud to be an Indian and I’m sure so are the millions of Indians across the world!

So, I had a holiday today. Spent it at home… relaxing completely! I did nothing… nothing at all, the entire day… slept… listened to radio (these new FM channels are great!) … ate home-cooked meals (something I miss when I’m at the workplace)… and slept some more! *LOL*

Well, finally in the evening I went to this new supermarket which has opened recently at Phoenix Mills compound. Its called Big Bazaar. And boy!… is it BIG!!! … just too damn big and today being a holiday… it was just too damn crowded! Checked out a few things there… a new Nokia model (a cell-phone model, I must specify!) caught my eye. It was loaded with features and was good looking too! … but I wasn’t loaded with cash and so I deferred buying it. But I liked it a lot! :-)

The I went to Planet M which is just next door to this Big Bazaar. It was supposed to be Planet M’s 3rd anniversary. I picked up a few casettes n CDs… (bought a casette of Bombay Dreams… Rehman has supposedly outdone himself in this album… will have to check it out!). I also bought a computer game… its been a long time since I bought one! :-)

So, all in all… not a bad day!… and just one day to go for the weekend to arrive!! :-))

Ok… so I guess thats it for now! cheers!!

… and oh yes! … if you want to check out some of my scribblings (my pseudo ‘literary’ efforts!!), then you will find them on the links on the control panel to the right of the page! ;-)

Blog Status : Back to normal
Reason      &nbsp: Brain refreshed! … *LOL*

Blog Status : No blog today
Reason      &nbsp: Brain overload. Brain is currently down for maintenance.

I’ll be back! …(I say that in a voice similar to Arnold Schwarzenneger in Commando/Terminator and sign off for the day!)