jEDI blogs

Day 17
Would you rather be famous or notorious? Do these things differ too much in meaning these days? After all, today’s mantra is - Any publicity is good publicity. Would you, for instance, call Saddam Hussein famous or notorious? People might still despise him today but the very same people would pay thousands tomorrow to [...]

Watching cricket so early in the morning is not the wisest thing to do, I feel. These Australian matches are always broadcast at odd times. By the time it finished in the afternoon I was feeling too lazy to do anything at all. So I generally rolled over and dozed off most of the day. [...]

Punishment time, in the air lurks gloom, Females ready for shopping, spell the doom!
Another mall, another shopping day and I’m left with the only choice. Go sit in the movie hall while it happens. The movie I chose this time was called Zinda. I couldn’t care what it was as long as I could kill [...]

Had my final session with the dentist today. I’m happy that I got it done with well in time this time around. Had to wait more than an hour beyond the appointed time though. Do appointments even mean anything in this place when someone’s uncle, the doctor’s niece, the doctor’s mother-in-law’s brothers step daughter, or [...]

Cineplexes have sprung up all over Delhi just like malls. Most of them are inside malls anyway, which is a great business idea. This also has huge benefits for the male gender of the homosapien species. You can now take all the ladies including right upto your grandmother and let them *shop* for hours together, [...]

Again I tried to avoid it, again I got dragged into it. And just like on numerous occasions before, it ended in disappointment. What a perfect start India made! They were on course for piling up a huge score. Tendulkar scored a lot of runs and it worried me a bit, mainly because, each time [...]

There are many pleasant ways to start your morning. Have a nice shower, take that cuppa coffee or tea, pick up that newspaper and sit in the warmth of the morning sun. You could go for a nice little walk, stretch a bit. If you are one of those deeply religious souls you could listen [...]

Day 10 and the strenuous Indian lifestyle is catching up with me. All I needed was to buy a bunch of tickets. The amount of hassle it involved was amazing. For all the “progress” people keeping harping on about, the common man’s day to day life is as tedious as it has always been for [...]

Evening: My 10th day back in the motherland. As I take out my pocket note book to jot down my little experiences, I realize that I have little recollection of what I did these last two days. Call it a memory lapse, call it confusion but except for a vague idea, these two days have [...]

There is a very noticeable improvement in my condition. In fact, I already feel almost cured. I had written myself off for a week there, but no. The super drug did its job and amen for that. It probably induced 15 side effects on the way, which would reveal themselves 3 years later. [...]