So I was watching American Idol the other night (Subtle way of saying, I have TVeeeeeeee, wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! ) and it was "Idol gives back" night. The same old story - white dudes go to Africa, are appalled by the impoverished/hungry/sick people there, come back, make a nice montage of it, with keane music as background, show it to other white dudes, who for some reason are absolutely shocked by it all, like its all news to them, then they all sing (or sway to) "Heal the world, make it a better place", give money, shed some tears and will go back home to their f****ed up white ways.
No asks why Ayf-Freeka (you gotta say it like they do Man! and notice how its not country specific, like kenya, zambia etc, its Ayf-Freeka, one big bloody convenient bracket), a region that has abundant mineral wealth (and by minerals we are talking gold, diamonds, platinum, iron, all the things thats "Hot" right now) is so freaking poor. Someone obviously has been filching all of that, ain't it? Somebody has been taking all of that and in return, has been supplying weapons, backing military dictators, engineering civil wars and ignoring genocides
You want to do something for Ayf-Freeka? Oust people like Mugabe, get rid of the government in Sudan, do something about the Darfur situation, but no its "Heal the world" on a crappy singing contest.
Grow Up!
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Monday, April 09, 2007
Arms raised in a V
Updates.
Have quit my old job. Yes the one that made stay till 2 am a while back. The best thing about quitting jobs is the interim break. Being “temporarily unemployed”, there’s nothing sweeter than that. It’s a beautiful lazy state of being with the comfort of knowing that soon you’ll be in a brand new office, meeting brand new people and getting f****d in brand new ways. Its Joy.
So what did I do you ask? Well slept for most part of it. Got up at noon on most days. Since I’m into Heroes these days, got the complete DVD set. You know everytime I start explaining what Heroes is all about, I sound like an idiot. “Er, a bunch of people start developing extraordinary powers due to genetic mutation”. But honestly its such a clever TV show.
As my new job is in pune , the “moving out” needed to be planned. Parents had to be comforted. The Closet had to emptied and clothes scrutinized. It’s a futile exercise if you ask me. The realization would always be that one does not have enough Clothes. Which ofcourse lead to SHOPPING. Not just clothes –shoes shopping but fancy adult stuff like Luggage, kitchen stuff, electronic yada yada.
I also got a nice back massage at spa.ce, this new spa place at cunningham road. Oh that felt heavenly. And when it was over I was sad. I was leaving Bangalore just when I had found a neat spa place.
Then there was the matter of the farewell party. Which I organized and planned. At opus. Because I have bastard male friends who turn up 1 hour late. Opus has “Kroak Knights” Karaoke and I wanted all of them kroak me a tearful farewell song, but as luck would have it, it was Booze-n-brains night instead. It couldn’t have been more appropriate. The legendary tonic team meets up for dinner and the restaurant conducts a quiz. I beginning to believe we are destined to quiz. Well the pitch was if we won the booze-n-brains quiz, all the booze at the table would be on the house. So obviously Nag, Gowday and Jalan were excited. And I just wanted to win. Alcohol doesn’t excite much since a certain fateful office party a year back, were I got pretty drunk and got f****d in office later. Ok coming back to the exciting prospect of free booze. Team tonic with Gowday in tow did fairly well in every round. We were coming in second for most parts because the team that was coming first was googling their way through. That was allowed btw. And the beer was flowing at our table in anticipation of a victory. We were still second when it was time for the last question. We trailed the first team by 3 points and the last question was worth 5 points if we got it right. It was do or die, and I really wanted to “do” rather then face a gargantuan Alcohol bill. And buggers we got that question right. We won!!! We got booze worth 2.5 K free. And I didn’t have any of it. After we won, I wanted to have some celebratory beer but the bar was conveniently closed by that time!
Shucks is right but pretty good times :)
Have quit my old job. Yes the one that made stay till 2 am a while back. The best thing about quitting jobs is the interim break. Being “temporarily unemployed”, there’s nothing sweeter than that. It’s a beautiful lazy state of being with the comfort of knowing that soon you’ll be in a brand new office, meeting brand new people and getting f****d in brand new ways. Its Joy.
So what did I do you ask? Well slept for most part of it. Got up at noon on most days. Since I’m into Heroes these days, got the complete DVD set. You know everytime I start explaining what Heroes is all about, I sound like an idiot. “Er, a bunch of people start developing extraordinary powers due to genetic mutation”. But honestly its such a clever TV show.
As my new job is in pune , the “moving out” needed to be planned. Parents had to be comforted. The Closet had to emptied and clothes scrutinized. It’s a futile exercise if you ask me. The realization would always be that one does not have enough Clothes. Which ofcourse lead to SHOPPING. Not just clothes –shoes shopping but fancy adult stuff like Luggage, kitchen stuff, electronic yada yada.
I also got a nice back massage at spa.ce, this new spa place at cunningham road. Oh that felt heavenly. And when it was over I was sad. I was leaving Bangalore just when I had found a neat spa place.
Then there was the matter of the farewell party. Which I organized and planned. At opus. Because I have bastard male friends who turn up 1 hour late. Opus has “Kroak Knights” Karaoke and I wanted all of them kroak me a tearful farewell song, but as luck would have it, it was Booze-n-brains night instead. It couldn’t have been more appropriate. The legendary tonic team meets up for dinner and the restaurant conducts a quiz. I beginning to believe we are destined to quiz. Well the pitch was if we won the booze-n-brains quiz, all the booze at the table would be on the house. So obviously Nag, Gowday and Jalan were excited. And I just wanted to win. Alcohol doesn’t excite much since a certain fateful office party a year back, were I got pretty drunk and got f****d in office later. Ok coming back to the exciting prospect of free booze. Team tonic with Gowday in tow did fairly well in every round. We were coming in second for most parts because the team that was coming first was googling their way through. That was allowed btw. And the beer was flowing at our table in anticipation of a victory. We were still second when it was time for the last question. We trailed the first team by 3 points and the last question was worth 5 points if we got it right. It was do or die, and I really wanted to “do” rather then face a gargantuan Alcohol bill. And buggers we got that question right. We won!!! We got booze worth 2.5 K free. And I didn’t have any of it. After we won, I wanted to have some celebratory beer but the bar was conveniently closed by that time!
Shucks is right but pretty good times :)
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