This is a picture of the Mahamaha kuLam, shot as four different pictures and then ’stitched’ into one panoramic view. I just love the way this has come out, though there is still much to be desired.
When I was looking to change the template for this blog, I was wondering I should have some pictures in it too… So I searched in my collection and finally convinced myself to use this one on the header. The picture in the header, is a slightly ‘post-processed’ version of the one shown here.
One of my favourite photos with the Canon A95.
P.S. - It is better viewed in FLICKR. Simply click on the picture and follow the link.
One of my favourite words, and one of the most frequent words I have come to use.
According to Wiki –
Dude is, under certain circumstances, gender-neutral. Mostly used by young men it has also evolved to be used by female members of the society. “Dude” may also be used alone in a sentence denoting a feeling of surprise, happiness, disappointment, amazement or other emotions. The word might also be used practically anywhere in a sentence in order to convey such sentiments in conversation. The cadence, volume and length of the word is also used to denote the feeling, such as a clipped “dude” for irritation, or a long “duuude” for amusement, surprise, or wonder.
Merriam Webster’s definition says –
1: a man extremely fastidious in dress and manner :dandy
2: a city dweller unfamiliar with life on the range; especially: an Easterner in the West
3:fellow, guy —sometimes used informally as a term of address <hey, dude, what’s up>
Wikipedia’s definition, in a sense has been captured in some of the recent BUD LITE advertisements. Last night, as I was watching Family Guy, there was this Ad, where the only word I heard was ‘Dude’…and I was curious as what it was about. Fortunately, I noticed towards the very end of the ad, the website being displayed at the bottom of the screen — www.dudemadness.com. Pretty cool background music too.
Check out the website if you like creative ads, and well, dude stuff. Also, as a personal recommendation, please watch “The Big Lebowski” for more all-in-all dudeness.
…Have been meaning to change the template to something different… realized I am really difficult to please, with respect to the existing wordpress templates. I could, say, do custom CSS stuff… but then I do not blog to eat. I eat to blog. So custom CSS is out of the question. (yes, I am lazy… very..)
So after quite sometime, I finally decided on the current template… any comments, suggestions, stone-throws, or any kind of decent/indecent/really vulgar behaviour in the form of comments are also acceptable. Please read **disclaimer** for underlined section.
Disclaimer: Owners of the type of comments in the underlined section above, please realise that such guilty pleasure will certainly come at the cost of irreparable damage to your ego, in the form of comparable verbal abuse.
If you jumped into the conclusion that this is a post about drug abuse… NO. it is not.
Its just that, for the past 2 weeks or so, my eyes have become extremely itchy and watery…and I just have not been able to resist the urge to scratch ‘em every once in a while. and I…scratch them, and they become all watery..
So, I tried Claritin D, Benadryl and then finally after seeing (and succumbing to) the uber-cute, albeit a little bony, chick on TV commercials for Zyrtec, tried it out yesterday while at work.
Observations:
Ingested the said drug (tablet) around 2-3 pm… Interestingly enough (for me), watery eyes TOTALLY stopped…within a few minutes of ingestion… which is probably a good thing?
Felt really sleepy around 4 or so… so much so that, I was actually dreaming about sleeping while at my desk… (sorta like LSD symptoms, no? )
Reached home around 6pm….and felt the need to sleep even greater! was struggling to keep my eyes open, like REALLY HARD.
finally crashed at around 10.30, cos I didn’t want to stay awake the entire night by sleeping early.
Haven’t had watery-eyes problem so far…. for roughly 24 hours after ingestion.
So I conclude based on scientific observation, that Zyrtec is definitely promising in fighting seasonal allergies.
Assumptions: I do have seasonal allergies.
For all I know it could be something else, but I am not paranoid enough to believe I am an alien, based on my looks, so I think the results have a more than fair level of credibility.
or alternatively, the title should maybe read, “whose life is it anyway”? oh… or maybe, whose “lunch” is it anyway? or meal….
sometimes, when I was a little boy, and I constantly kept persterin’ me mum, especially when the poor thing is trying to have meaningful conversation with some relative who had come over… she’d go “yerumamaadu….pesa vidu da..” Thinking about it now, makes me a little proud, especially after having seen this marvellous video clip.
Also, there is this adage in tamizh, which compares indifferent people to buffaloes, by saying “yerumaatu mela mazha penja maari nikkariye” and other variants of the same. What I take from this is the patience inbred within the buffaloes… However, when shit goes down, and Mr. ‘Lo’s mighty ego is poked at, it definitely gets real ugly….I mean, REAL UGLY.
see this fantastic NGC video to see what I mean… also watch for the section around 05.49 and see how the lion’s (lioness maybe?) arse get thrown in the air. whoa!
From this day on, Mr. ‘Lo gets a new level of respect in my mind. You can take a bow now, you big mighty black meatloaf… I derive inspiration from your mighty spirit. Thanks for being, well… you.
One of the managers at work is named Richard. So what? you might think… It’s just a regular name you say? Not when he chooses to go by Dick. It’s just weird to call him by that name… you know… I can’t imagine myself saying “Hey Dick, how’s it goin?”, especially if ever, we happen to meet in the restroom. I just can’t do it. So I decided I will not call him ever, even when I have to get him to help me co-ordinate a project, and have resigned to always emailing him, and if the need arises I just ask my manager to give him a call and talk to him.
I always wonder….what if he was bullied in school for his firstname? and then he suddenly remembers all that in some conference call that I am in, and senses the uneasiness in my tone when I call out his name…and…um…. thinks I am a dick. you know?
While I searched the cosmos, pontificatin’ about such life changing questions and such, I wondered whether any names back home would be similarly embarrassing. Guess what? I didn’t have to think for long.
Kunjumon.
**Update: Now, I know most of my friends who read this blog would cringe, wondering why I have to write posts like these and reveal more and more of my “dark side” in public. These people and others, would not care to comment although it might have brought a little smile to their faces, for, **gasp**, they will be judged. Either that, or it will be revealed that they have already crossed over too, and they are just confused double-agents.
The one at Olive Garden, is just delicious! Next time anybody goes there, please try it, if you like cheese cake and chocolate.
Basically, it is a three layer cake… Two layers of chocolate (possibly different varieties, and possibly one dark among the two) and a middle layer of cheesecake…or something like that… and get this… chocolate chips at the base of the slice… as in, in a triangular slice, the base of the triangle has these tiny chocolate chips embedded.
Have you ever been in a situation where getting the simplest things in life done, gives you so much satisfaction and you are on top of the world for that one (maybe few) moment?
Finding and installing the drivers for my K1m phone and getting it to charge via the computer was such a thing. Of course it is as simple as talking on the mobile phone itself, but the way I’ve been lately, it just felt really good to get the drivers installed and my phone is almost completely charged as we speak. phew.
also I noticed, that air fares kinda dip as the day progresses? any ‘geeky’ insights anybody? asked a couple of friends about it, and they kinda did not know. I remember reading about it or someone telling me about it - At the start of the day the airfares are at the possible highest for that day, and as the day progresses the fares start to dip and also something like reserving a ticket later during the week gives you a better chance to get lower fares for the same travel route. Something to think about, when you are planning a vacation innit? especially during a long weekend… So, if anybody knows/remembers about this, please transfer some knowledge…. please… seriously.
….Guantanamo Bay - was hilllaaaaaaaaaarious! :) If you liked the first part, you certainly will like this one too.. Though I am not sure if I liked it more than the first one. Also the girl who played Vanessa, Kumar’s long lost dopey girlfriend, is reaaaaaaaalllly cute and hot at the same time. Being a sucker for pretty smiles, I totally fell for this one too
Looking forward to watching IRON MAN this Friday….. Robert Downey Jr. surprised me in the trailers as a super-hero character. Surprising because I hadn’t seen him for quite a while in any recent movies… and somehow I thought he wouldn’t quite fit the bill for a fiction-super-hero character. But the trailers make it seem otherwise… 4.75 days more to go, and we will find out…won’t we
