browse control!!!!!!!

Thats what takes up pretty much of my day @ work..:)
Have been web browsin quite a bit of late....the web, the newsblogs and stuff like that.

One such place is Orkut, where in, I regularly stumble across phunny, whacky profiles and testimonials.Talking about testimonials, they can get pretty smutty if one is not very careful with the words used.One such testimonial writtten by a guy(fortunately) for his friend, in trying to praise his cricketing abilities read something like this:".....likes cricket,balls like wasim bhai,karnataka express...".There you go!!.You see,if not careful,testis(pun intended) can go awry..;)

Now that sleaze talk has crept into this post, I cannot help but mention this piece of news I read today.Teachers and the likes of them in Amrika are in a sort of a dilemma.They do not know if they should just tell or show while teaching stuff about sex education?
For me, the process of learning and unlearning started way back when I was, I guess in the 6th class or was it 5th???? Does it matter?? No.But what mattered then was, how quickly I learnt "things" and how good I was @ spreading the (incorrect)gyaan all around me..:D.I would not mind schooling again if they start showing things instead of just telling them.

Talking about sex is one thing and coming to terms with the unexpected aftereffects is another.Methinks it is this that has taken toll of Tom Cruise's brains and made him go totally insane following Scientology.Here is some pure(couldn't find a better adj) crap of a news.Katie Holmes, Tom's girlfriend, is about to give birth and she has been adviced to practice silence during child birth. Along with providing placards that would remind Katie to keep silence ,he is going to provide her with ipod that will play calming tunes all day long.I call this the epitome of religious fundamentalism.:D.Its time Katie gives Tom some mungi treatment(for the uninformed,it is putting red ants on the tip of the erect crotch,a third degree punishment practiced by the Ugandan police) and make him understand what is pain.

But not all women would advocate that,rather they prefer being beaten up,more so the African women, because on an average 40% of them think that "wife beating" is acceptable under different circumstances.Most bizzare of those is when they happen to "burn the food".Read more here.
As for me,I would not mind indulging in the mild form of "wife beating" popularly known as "spanking".Would like to know what Indian women think about this ..;) ;)

Too much of crap for a single post.Ye baat kuch hazam nahi hui.I better stop this before Hugh Hefner comes calling for my vulgar writing skills.:P

i 've some company!!!!

Now I know, why I am still single.
It is not that I am sad or happy @ being one.Just the feeling that one gets when one thinks that, may be the grass is greener on the other side.But I found this piece (@ the bottom) while browsing through OutlookIndia site and its surely left a smug smile on my face.



It is not me but the stats that are responsible for my singleton!!!...:D.
Only time will tell, how long will yours truly belong to the 20(lucky/unlucky) group ?

my engagement with reading

"The art of reading is to skip judiciously"-Unknown

Came across this quote and my mind quickly started relating to it.Of late, I have taken up heavily on reading,be it blogs,books,or the web. Earlier, it was the tube that kept me occupied but now it seems as reading is also getting its due share of my time. I dont know, why I never did this amount of reading during my school and college days? May be because the focus was more on academic pursuits and less on anything else. Another reason could be, none of my close friends was into reading, also never did my folks put me into this habit. But I am still happy that it have finally started reading.It is never too late you know.

But as the quote above implies, it is very important to make ones choices with respect to what one would like to read, be it books as a whole or things within a book.

Months ago, I laid my hand on "Ignited Minds" written by our great President.I must say it is a must read for every Indian, young and gunning. It just makes you feel more passionate about being an Indian. All said, I still skipped a chapter of that book which was on Saints and Seers of India.Not sure exactly why I did this, may be my agnostic nature came to the fore.

Likewise, I am less drawn towards books by the likes of Jeffery Archer/Sydney Sheldon.Although I accept my limited ability to comment on them, I perceive them as a factory produce, a novel a month aint for me.:( . But I do not rule out reading fiction completely. I never will. I got an English,August few days back.

I also loathe the self-help/management kinda books. Learning how to live/manage ones life/work through books is an absolute silly proposition(MBAs and the wannabes will kill me). Although I have read a few of these kind, I have been quick to realize that implementing those profound thoughts has never been possible for me. Its better to live the way you are, pretty simple, do things as long you like them else procrastinate until you are in a soup and then come out drinking it.

I prefer reading books that are humourous and light in nature. I loved reading P.G. Wodehouse's first book on the Jeeves series(have to get the next one), Dilbert's Principle by Scott Adams(not complete as of yet), Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams(just started on it..). I just love their metaphors and sarcasms on real life. Basically anything humourous is easily enjoyable.
Same goes with the blogs I read, light and crispy. I find GPS's blog very light as he describes his daily chores in Banglore almost very poetically. Aneekets blog is interesting for its weird weird posts.My daily dose of humour comes from the blogs I have mentioned under the heading 'My Dose of Humour'.

Though I am not very much into reading stuff that dwells into various social,economic,psycological issues(it is tooo heavy for me..:D..i do not think i am among those advanced,exalted species..), TOI,Rediff,blogs by JAM Mag Editorand The Great Bong help me keep abreast of developments/views on these fronts.

All in All, I hope my new found engagement with reading grows stronger,helps me shrug incorrect perceptions and eventually culminates into a long term relationship.Relationship...hmmm ...GOD,when will I have a heterosexual relationship??????????? Damn!!!

nothing serious....just a few garbled thoughts

aye sala..abhi abhi..
hua yakeen..ke aag hai..muzhmein kahin..
hui subah..main jal gaya...
suraj ko mein ..nigal gaya..
roobaroo roshni...roobaroo roshni..heyyyy

It is not always that I get addicted to a song as much as I have been to this one.The last instance when something of this sort happened, was I guess after listening to the song Fanaa from Yuva.But I think this time it seems more stronger.And I am loving it.

Some things have kept me amazed and amused around the last fortnight.

The amazing things....
I am amazed about how some guys have way too much luck with girls.This capricorn,who pretends to work in my office but flirts heavily on orkut is a philanderer defined.Though this chic magnet, as some call him, is a mere grad ,very unassuming and down to earth kinda guy, he has become a serious competition to guys with lot more on their resume than his.He does stuff thats weird.His art of scrapping is down right incomprehensible atleast 95% of the time but still sensible chics happen to respond.If someone happens to visit this guy's scrapbook,50% of the time one would find scraps from chics you would lick my ass for and the rest would be envious scraps from useless guys like me.If you are still guessing who this guy is,it is Arvind Shanbag for u.

The amusing things....
I have always enjoyed my way back from work through the forests of Ghodbunder,not just because I am returning home but more so for the cool breeze that blows during the ride.But recently, things have not been this pleasant,primary reason being the small bus that we have been riding in lately.Two adults just cannot manage to sit comfortably in a single seat.But to overcome this,me and my good friend Arvind have had a few tricks up our sleeves.They are pretty simple.Get first up on to the bus,grab a unsited(ya I am getting pretty liberal with words) seat and sit on the outer edge of the same.The next thing you do is "Act".Act as if you've had a real bad day @ work.Strike up a yesteryear actor Manoj Kumarisque pose,just so that everybody else trying to find a seat will pity and think on these lines "Let me not disturb this guy...he seems pretty worked up today".And the next moment you find the poor fellow cooling his ass somewhere else...:D.All this sounds pretty simple yet amusing,and has been successful almost 9 out of 10 times.

Some thoughts about the change in the name of my blog.
I have always nutured something I call as the "Change Mentality".Was contemplating to change the name of my blog to make it sound more appropriate with my personality.Yes Yes, I do have personality that is very much common.The word "Procrastination" defines my sense of being.I am, for the matter of fact an "incurably" disorganized,distracted,hopeless LAZZY BUM...and thats were the new name comes from. :)