Posted in Srilankan Tamil, Tamil Tigers, blogging, chatting, tagged John Donne, John Irving on October 30, 2002 | No Comments »
Yesterday night I spent chatting with a Sri Lankan Tamil friend of mine - Anton. He is the most “happy” person you all can meet in life, there is not a single day when he has been grumpy or sad. Always with laughter; with appreciation for the world around. With his patent emoticons :-)), :-). [...]
Posted in pets, tagged rain on October 28, 2002 | No Comments »
Cats and Dogs and Dogs and Cats. Gosh! Don’t show me another blasted cat. Really had a minor heart-attack today, while lifting the kitten out of my room. For me its like that with cats, I am so repelled by them. Just don’t like cats, I am a thru and thru dog person.Worse, I nearly [...]
Posted in blogging, marriage, parents on October 27, 2002 | No Comments »
Morning Munchkins,
Got up and read the news - happy that they ended the hostage crisis in *such* a brave way. Which reminded me of what we did in India during the hijacking of a AI plane to Kandahar. We released terrorists (with our home minister escorting them), gave them safe passage and went hysteric when [...]
Posted in blogging on October 26, 2002 | No Comments »
Those of you who want to have secret weblogs (;-)) can use websites like www.talknjot.com. I think even www.blogger.com has a service which allows you this kind of restricted access. There you can create an online weblog and give the password just to a few friends. I don’t think that idea holds for me because [...]
Posted in Chennai, parents, writing, tagged Booker Prize, Osho, parental opposition to writing, Pondicherry, Yann Martel on October 25, 2002 | No Comments »
Finished reading Agatha Christie’s Three Blind Mice and Other Stories, Anita Desai’s Where Shall We Go This Summer. This is the fourth Anita Desai book I read. Nice book, really interesting reading, she *is* a character-based writer. No need of plot for her. I am a wee bit like that I guess.
Heard about this year’s [...]
Posted in health, younger sister on October 24, 2002 | No Comments »
How mean of me. Becoz I have a bad cold + fever, I am calling everyone at home to prove their love by kissing me when I have this goddamn cold. Yes, becoz if they love me, they shouldn’t mind my cold right… For my sake they shouldn’t mind catching a cold right…. I didn’t [...]
Posted in writing on October 23, 2002 | No Comments »
Awright, I went back to Nanowrimo, and checked in on all the Indians there. Here is what I learnt.
Madhuri: 15+, female, Chennai, in school [Has an online journal]
Ritesh: 27, male, Delhi, software-engineer [has his own website]
Anand: age not known, male, Neyveli, profession not known
Pratyush: age not known, male, Kolkata, profession not known
Anish: 27, male, married, [...]
Posted in Chennai, activism, intellectuals on October 22, 2002 | No Comments »
How many of you say Chennai is intellectually vibrant. I am not sure there are even two of you who would agree. Well, I will tell you why Chennai lacks an intellectual atmosphere:
The only people who come to activism are the lowest in terms of brain power. Because all bright children find themselves pushed into [...]
