Blabberations

Blabberation 1 - The big M
Do you know how lord krishna died? After He witnessed his people (of dwaraka) destroy each other and bring themselves to their pre-destined end (due to the curse of the rishis), and after he saw the passing of his elder brother Balarama, Lord Krishna wandered in the wilderness...he lay on the ground and slept. A hunter, prowling for game, mistook him, among the shrubs, to be a wild animal and shot an arrow right through his infoot (or the sole of his foot) and it pierced through his whole body, causing him to depart the world of men.
I hope you havent come to the conclusion that this post is about Lord Krishna, or Mahabarata or death or something! But the account mentioned above is something i think of in the semi-awake state every night, before drifting into the bliss of slumber, and in the process of thinking so, involuntarily make sure my blanket covers each part of my body, neck down....and why, you may ask. Ha...we here in chennai, live in an era where mosquitoes disturb sleep more than power-cuts do!( i mean the intensity, and not the frequency) These are the days when 'odomos'- THE mosquito repelant of all times (which is no longer yellow, and has a more pleasant smell and tube than before! shit, i sound like i'm trying to market it...), is applied at the 'soles' of the feet, which have been declared (from experience) - the "sweet spot" for a mosquito's feast... and thus, the relation to Lord Krishna's death! There are times that can be worse...and those times are the one's where you end up covering your ears (and in the process, most part of your face) to prevent yourself from being entertained by the monotonic singing of these insects which control the fate of your sound sleep! Covering your ears not only cuts off the 'oh!so pleasant!' sound, but also gives you the assurance of the sacred passage into your ear being shut-off to the wandering m's! You can't apply odomos on your ears can you?! Perhaps i should give it a try...! One of the worst combinations in the world is found right here, in the city that harbours one of the longest beaches in the world. The combination being sweet-sweet-summer and
mosquitoes! You don't want to cover yourself because its so hot, but if you dont, there are always the m's...and you'll understand that sweating is way better than looking at a pink, swollen arm/leg first thing in the morning. And that to, only if you manage to sleep! ok, i'll stop! :p

Blabberation 2 -...and Partitran....means protection
Its election time in chennai...and we've all heard of Lok paritran (am so glad this phenomenon began in chennai!)...i saw this interview of Santhanagopal vasudev, the guy constituting from mylapore...and damn the U.S educated guy, he talked so well! What attitude! There was this article abt them in the metroplus (here), and looking at that photo...i thought 'wow...' - all so well dressed (they're so not in white veshti sattai!), and the minute you look at them you know they're educated! While we have other local parties promising 10kg of rice and sugar with door delivery (yeah, like this is saravana bhavan!) and free cable tv (pah! they cud just lift the set top box system...that'd do!), Paritran promises good governance, transparency, accessibility and freedom from corruption! They even talked about simplifying the process of attaining a ration card, school admissions, and said bureaucracy and corruption are the reasons simple procedures become complicated! (i hope they'd added college admission to that list!) Some things they call 'the basics'. Doesn't that bring out the difference? So, to Lok Partitran - We salute your spirit! And we hope you bring about the right changes...Good luck in the lands untrodden by the educated!
If you wish to show your solidarity...there's a meeting at Nageshwara rao park, mylapore, at 2.30pm on 24/4/06.

Blabberation 3 - Ads
I'm not an ardent fan of Hrithik...but sometimes, i just cant help but appreciate a few things. Very recently, i saw a 'john players' ad and a 'hide n seek' ad... i just came to the conclusion that there are some people who are so unfairly handsome! And talented... you should see him dance in the Hide n seek ad...damn!

Blabberation 4 - baah (dont know what to name it!)
There was something in today's paper about the book, 'the catcher in the rye'...just made me realise how much i enjoyed that book...and i just thought i'd put this quote from the book...(The character's answer to what he'd be doing later in life)
"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."
One crazy book...!

I think i've blabbered enough...i saved you guys the trouble of reading more of it - each of the blabberations was supposed to be a different post! Complied it :D Thankyou for your patient reading...

Yours 'its 11.41pm and i haven't applied odomos and the M's are feasting on me'ly
Signing off.....