Bye bye Manoja!

I write this as you fly
Across the seas and mountains high.
Forever to the heart shall you be nigh
Godspeed Manoja, Goodbye! Goodbye!!



All those train journeys to and from Mysore,
All those late night football games,
All those lunch breaks where you made us all wait till you finished (and in the process made us curse you for it),
All those little munDaas you put on Pyammie,
All that bickering on the football field,
All those raucous juice sessions after football...
will be missed dearly.

Although you couldn't see Thierry at the Emirates, I hope you get to see Cesc and Kolo at least! :)

The list and the gang will be a lot less noisy, a lot less vulgar, a lot less indecorous without you.
But we shall miss you for those very same reasons.


But most of all... Basamma will miss you! :P

God only knows when I'll see you again.
Here's wishing you the very best of my wishes for all that you seek.
*LCFWS*

The Sunita Williams ballyhoo!!!

As our dear Lt. Col. Frank W. Slade would say 'WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT!!!'.
I have nothing personal against this lady.
What she's achieved in her life thus far is quite remarkable I'll be very happy for her if she goes on to greater heights.
But what the f*ck is the hoopla in the Indian media for Sunita Williams all about???

I mean, look at her history:
She was born half Indian and half Slovenian IN America.
ALL her upbringing was in the US of A.
She graduated from a Naval Academy.
She was a US Navy pilot for eleven years.
She's probably visited India ONLY once!!! (Unable to confirm that though)
And, and... tell me something. Which country's flag did she sport on her sleeve during the space mission???




Apart from having an Indian first name and an Indian ancestry (mind you, only HALF of her ancestry is Indian) how much of a claim to 'Indianness' can she boast of? NOUGHT!

And yet, the Indian media is so frigging obsessed by success stories of anybody remotely Indian that they go gaga over them!
Lines on TV like 'a testament to the triumph of human spirit over life's adversities' and the like just irk the crap outta me.
I mean look at the reality of the matter... She's the daughter of a highly successful Indian-American neuroanatomist (source : Wikipedia... STOP ROLLING YOUR EYES!)
with a fairly well-off upbringing and a plethora of opportunities having lived an American life.

OKAY, kudos to Ms. Williams for taking most of them, but does she REALLY deserve ALL that attention and sympathy from the Indian media?

Definitely NOT, in my opinion.

I'm sure, for the Indian media there is no dearth of INDIAN issues to focus on and no shortage of success stories of Indian women who've fought MUCH, MUCH tougher odds in life to succeed.
BAAAH!

Mind you as I mentioned earlier, I have nothing against Sunita Williams herself and I wish her the very best in her future endeavours.

Resignation

Aah.. yes.
It's been about a fortnight since I put in my papers at Infy.
It was a weird feeling of relief I experienced as soon as I clicked on the submit button.
Although the course my life takes at least for the next few months depends on that ONE decision to be taken by the Visa interviewer next month, having submitted my resignation makes one thing sure.
I will not be on the Infy payroll beyond the 16th of July.

My first attempt at keying my thoughts ( or the lack thereof)

Greetings!
I REALLY don't know why I'm blogging, but what the heck!
I REALLY don't know why I described this as diabolic, but what the heck!
I REALLY don't know why YOU are reading this, but WHAT THE HECK!
So here goes...
Since this is my first post I'll keep it short.

I'm no poet, nor am I a writer.
My only hope is that my posts in the future are brighter!

With that I wet my feet at being both a poet AND a writer. :)

Hoping this hasn't caused serious harm to your blog-reading sensibilities! (if that even makes any sense)

Abhishek.