Thought Collage/Part 3 (Homegoing edition...with special bonus feature)

Now as most of you who are nice (and jobless) enough to read this blog regularly would remember I have had 2 parts of “Random Thoughts” before. It is my honourable intention to make this part 3. However before I move on, the honour code of blog-ninjas that I strictly live my life by has required me to change the title of these posts to “Thought Collage”. Cuz you see when I hit upon the idea of making a post comprising of many different ideas, none of which had enough juice in them to be squeezed into a decent post, amongst many things I was quite pleased with myself. And after many many brain things in my head I decided to name it “Random Thoughts”. The blog-ninja in me was quite pleased and took a honourable bow. But then something happened that was about to compromise my ninja honour. Being extremely nice and even more extremely jobless (not to mention the honour code) I myself wander around the net reading many many blogs. And during the course of my journey I found that there were many others who not only jotted down random thoughts like I did but also chose to call them by the same name as mine. Some even went as far as naming their blogs that. This disturbed me deeply. Why...one might ask. As an answer I quote one of the many honour codes that we blog ninjas live by...

It is imperative for a blog-ninja to protect his creativity at all times and in case he finds himself in a situation where his creativity is comprised due to...,...,external replication,...or all of the above the blog-ninja must immediately do his utmost to restore his lost honour.

Of course, I was deeply disturbed. Fortunately the training I’ve had has prepared me to face such situations with courage. And in order to restore my lost honour I renamed my “Random Thoughts” as “Thought Collage”. I know, it isn’t exactly super-ohmygodRo-you are a fucking genius-creative...but still my lost honour I hope to reinstate.

And so here we go...

1. There is absolutely nothing worse than traveling 36-40 hrs from one side of the earth to the other in cramped up seats in airplanes spending 3-4 hours in layovers wandering about like an idiot in other airports only to find your baggage delayed/missing at the end of it all. I hate long-distance plane journeys...in fact even short distance plane journeys suck! The seats suck! The fucking pretzels suck! Everything sucks!
This can even be made into some kind of torture. You need to extract some information from some hard-ass secret agent, put him on a plane in economy class going from the US to India with at least 4 layovers with neither a window nor an aisle seat on any leg of the journey. Very soon he’ll be begging you to put him out of his misery. I can’t wait for teleportation to become a common thing!

2. Sri Lankan airlines airhostesses are hot! This was the only mitigating factor during my torture sessions traveling to and from home. I have a rudimentary theory that all the hot women from Tamil Nadu must have thought “Aaah...fuck this...we are too hot for this place...lets swim across to Sri Lankan and join their airlines”. And before you even think about mentioning the fact that they are hot as a requirement for being an airhostess, trust me that is so not the case anywhere!
I must add that my good luck could purely have been the result of some good deed I must have done in some previous birth and there is a possibility that you might be disappointed if you go solely upon my words! That said and done, let me reiterate “Sri Lankan airlines airhostesses are hot!”

3. Golu is getting married next summer...i.e in 2007.

4. Driving in the US makes you a sissy! Everyone is organized and no one tries to throw themselves in the path of your vehicle and later pick a fight with you. My dad had come to pick me up from the airport and while driving back home it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that I was freaking out like hell! There were many times when I just wanted to make him stop the car and lecture him about how to drive safer. Its going to be quite an interesting challenge to get used to traffic in India again!!!

5. I loved suffering from jetlag. You see...a normal person, when he suffers from jetlag ends up sleeping most of the day and lays awake at nights cuz his normal working times have been reversed. But I on the other hand am used to working late at nights and sleeping in the day anyway. So when I went home I was going to bed at 10pm and waking up at 6 am like a good boy. (On a somewhat related note, I never understood why would something like this make someone wealthy...I think it was just a cheap trick by the moral makers to lure young minds by tempting them with money.) Anyway now that I’m back it was the same story even here. Early to work at 8 am and go back home in the evenings...just like everyone other sane person. Unfortunately, just like ‘Buffy the vampire slayer’, my athletic build in my youth and the other good things in life even this wont last long and I can already feel my old habits slowly crawling back into my system.

6. Movie/Music update: If you still haven’t listened to “Right here right now” from ‘Bluffmaster’ you are working waaay too hard. This song has one of the catchiest beats I’ve listened to in quite sometime. Catch it!
“Munich” is ok. The movie serves the purpose of inspiring people to research everything about the 1972 massacre and the history behind it...but that’s about it. Maybe that was the only point of the movie. Plus it’s got some very weird sex scenes in it. And weird in a “mess-with-your-mind” way and not “look-at-this-baseball-bat-I-bet-you-cant-...” way.
Watch it to form an opinion.

7. In case you thought I am kidding about Golu getting married in the summer of 2007...Im not!

8. And now for the final bonus feature...here’s a pic that golu used to convince the half-gult/half-tam girl to be wedded to him.
These were his own words when the pic was taken, “Ro...check out this cool pic. Look at my cool cap and the cool goatee. And that incredibly sexy yet innocent look that I have. Top that with the fact that I am an IIT graduate doing his PhD in America and standing against the Manhattan skyline...I mean, who can resist me?”.
Well, it sure worked dear Dheeraj. I couldn’t be happier for you. :)
And I’m telling you guys...I’m not kidding! 2007 it is.

Woks...that’s it for now.
Blog-ninja code dictates I get back to work to protect my honour with my advisor. And so I am gone!