In a new abode.....

Shifted in with Bejoy two days, officially that is...I was anyway staying with him for the past two weeks. So now shifting in officially with him means I have got to split the rent :( !! Well all good things have their own price ;) !

We have started cooking over here and ok its fun to begin with...but certainly going to tax you if you have to do it day in and day out.. Suddenly I understand why mothers, or to be more specific housewives get mad for teeny weeny things during morning and afternoon...I have to hand it to mother for having done this for so long and in between , find time for washing, cleaning and being my hindi tutor...Phew !!

The new place is quite roomy and new and much better than the dump I was staying in. The owner of the dump though was quite a nice person.. The ironies of this world, they never will cease.

I lend to a bank :)........

I came across this definition of an account at

A bank is a business that is based almost entirely on financial transactions. In addition to acting as a lender for loans and mortgages, banks act as a borrower in a special type of loan called an account. The lender is known as a customer and gives unspecified amounts of money to the bank for unspecified amounts of time. The bank agrees to repay any amount in the account at any time and will pay
small amounts of interest on the amount of money that the customer leaves in the account for a certain period of time. In addition, the bank guarantees that the money will not be stolen while it is in the account, and will reimburse the customer if it is. In return, the bank gets to use the money for other financial transactions as long as they hold it.

Now that is a novel thought :)... I mean come on your lending money to ICICI or Citibank. And isnt it ironic, that its the worlds richest people who borrows from a bank :).......

Rain.....

There has been many romantic notions about getting wet in the rain throughout the world. But no where else has it been embodied in such a wide variety of colors, shapes and emotion than in our films.

Be it a lustful encounter, a romantic duet, a sorrowful parting or an electrifying first meeting rain is a "natural actor" to give the scene an appropriate color!!

But frankly for me its a nuisance, especially when you have to wash your own clothes and you dont have good water in your house to take a bath.

Chennai is one place where rain is a "Natural Villain". It just has to rain for 5 minutes for the roads to be awash with muck from the open garbage cans (if any) and open sewer :( !! Worst in Chennai you cant even pray for no rains cause, as that is the only source of water for the millions of people over here. Funny why none of the bright brains in Chennai never thought of the sea a source of water. Desalination plants are quite common in the world now and certainly Chennai could use that as a cure for its water shortage.

But then bright ideas are never associated with politicians and bureaucrats.....

War of the Worlds

Went and saw war of the worlds yesterday and it was dissapointing. Guess Spielberg goofed up on whether he wanted to portray the aliens or on the hero or maybe he made a casting blunder in tom cruise. Although histrionics wise Tom Cruise was good, but some how he didnt gel in with the movie.
Maybe Spielberg had to compromise on somethings while he made the movie or some other problems, but the only thing is this is certainly not one of his better movies and he has made some good ones at that !! I had seen one of his earlier movies Duel and trust me that is some movie.

There is an interesting comment by the narrator at the end of the movie(WoW)

"..man has earned his right to live on planet earth at the cost of millions of lives spent in acquiring immunity to all the diseases and viruses that has been in existence on earth for a long time...."

And at the end of it all what does man do ??? He goes and finds love with (of all creatures) a monkey and relinquishes his right to live on this planet and this, for a feeling of bliss(??????) no longer than the snapping of a twig....

God sometimes, you wish you were a woman :( !!!!!

GreenPeace

There is regular greenpeace gang at the landmark on nungambakkam. They cornered me once made me a subscriber...well I intended to join anyway but I guess they would have been demotivated if I acquiesced too easily :) !
So I have started receiving their newsletter and while going through it was wondering, how extreme these people must be. I mean the people who are active campaigners with GreenPease. They must be either completely committed, sincere with a truckload of guts or completely callous.. there is no other way anyone can be a part of that community !!!

My onsite thingy is driving me bonkers..its like I dont exist for my company at all. If I had some stron moral principles in me I would have quit and joined another company...but the lure of dollars is not easy to just brush aside... Been hoping things would get settled one way or another but till now nothing has happened.. have tried calling the MATC people and as usual they dont pick up their phones :-/ !!

Hmmm.. maybe I should start a "whineyard" or something could help me :) !!

An Accident

Guess this was overdue for a long time now....Although its my first real accident....unsurprisingly I have no sense of acheivement, meaning I guess I should not be repeating this milestone :).

I have played down the accident quite bit to myself and others too. But I know that I was very lucky. Very lucky to have worn my helmet, very lukcy to have gone at a sedate pace(60-70), very lucky to have noted beforehand that the guy in front was trying to stop, very lucky to have noticed the dumbass cop running into the middle of the road from nowhere.... Yes I have very lucky !!

I distinctly remember feeling dizzy after banging my head with the helmet on the road and my sight all going fuzzy...i could only see outlines of people and that too a very poor outline... i was scared that i was loosing my sight.. but thankful.. i was just dazed.. If I had not worn my helmet, I really wonder whether I would have been alive or not !!

But whatever Iam just glad to be ok at the moment... My elbow is still recovering from the laceration whis are a bit deep and its healing.. i banged my chest on a post too and thats paining too...:) !! And most of all I was lucky that Solo, Jai and Arul where there to help me out.. Especially Solo... have a lot to thank him for...

Dont want to repeat this incident, although I can say that Iam not exactly responsible for the accident...But what I do know was that I was not concentrating enough while riding....

Cant even think of what would have been the case if there was pillion with me. Hmm..well maybe I wouldnt have had an accident. For one thing i wouldnt have been going even at that sedate pace, it would have been slower and I wouldnt have let my mind wander either :) !!

Lessons learnt : always wear a helmet and dont day dream when doing a group ride !!!!