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Project Mayhem
It’s funny how things pop up out of nowhere at the work place, taking one by pleasant surprise and causing mild amusement.
I got a mail sometime back for creating a project titled, you won’t believe me if I told you, ‘Project Mayhem’.
Project Name: Project Mayhem
Task: Implementation
I was struck dumb for some time [...]
Filed under: Books, Events, Experiences, General, Work | 5 Comments
Tags: Amusement, Fight Club, Funny, Mayhem, Project, Project Mayhem, Surprises
The unwanted visits
Strange things have been happening. I could swear that there’s someone else present in the house. I find things out of place sometimes, wet towels, unwashed dishes, strewn papers… inexplicably open cupboards and misplaced books. Why only the other day when I was having a bath, I heard a voice from the bedroom. I turned [...]
Filed under: Books, Boredom, Crap, Events, Experiences, Fiction, Frustration, General, Insanity, More Crap, Movies, Still more Crap, The Dark Side, Uncategorized | 8 Comments
Tags: Life, Fear, Scared, Insomnia, Sleeplessness, Danger, Risks, Vistors, Nights, Loathing, Paranoia, Strange
9th May, ‘08 - 0230 hours - We start in half an hour. The hours have passed in a blur. I’m finally beginning to feel the excitement. My mind is on a roll. It’s not as if this trip is going to change my life; it’s definitely not on the lines of those brothers in [...]
Filed under: Books, Conversations, Crap, Events, Experiences, Friends, General, Girls, Hyderabad, Society, Suffocation, Travel, Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Tags: Airport, Bahai, Delhi, Jammu, Landmark, The Bahai Temple, Uttar Samparkranti Express
Tagged… again
I got tagged by Kalafudra. Time to play Smart Alec.
1. Last movie you saw in a theater?
Ironman.
2. What book are you reading?
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander.
3. Favorite board game?
Played only one so far - Monopoly. But that’s no reason to put it down [...]
Filed under: Books, Boredom, Catch 22, Crap, Experiences, Humour, Longings, More Crap, Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Tags: Me, Personal, Smart Alec, Smart-ass, Tags
Don’t bother
The Dude and Mr. Quiet were having a conversation about an author and her works. They were in amicable disagreement. I wanted to shout out to them, tell how both of them were wrong. But I hadn’t been invited to it. I sighed and bent down to stare at the monitor at my desk.
The Dude [...]
Filed under: Books, Conversations, Crap, Experiences, Frustration, General, Longings, More Crap, Work | 5 Comments
Tags: Fuck-up, Ironies, Irony, Life, Thoughts
Fishing in dark waters
I bunked office yesterday. There was no particular reason to do so, but there was no reason not to do it either.
I guess I was just tired of the everyday ritual. I needed a break. Routine makes one a zombie. All the windows of thought are locked, power of reasoning shut out. The comfort of [...]
Filed under: Books, Boredom, Crap, Experiences, General, Insanity, Longings, Movies, Nostalgia, The Dark Side, Work | 7 Comments
Tags: A Map of the World, Break, Despair, Jane Hamilton, Life, Once upon a time in the West, Routine, Sergio Leone
The only idea related to actions and events arising thereof or otherwise that I was aware of was causality that in simple terms refers to the cause and effect theory. Every cause has to have an effect and every event has to have a cause. There can’t be any action which doesn’t produce any effect [...]
Filed under: Books, Experiences, General, Science, Uncategorized | 40 Comments
Tags: James E. Thompson, Synchronicity, Sci-fi, Science fiction, Causality
I was fortunate enough to go to a school which had English as the medium of communication. In those days, schools were less in number and most of them imparted education in vernacular languages. As I grew up during my schooling days I realised how much pain and struggle my parents had undertaken to put [...]
Filed under: Bhubaneswar, Books, Experiences, General, Nostalgia, Orissa, Uncategorized | 13 Comments
Tags: Authors, Bhubaneshwar, Childhood, Dash Benhur, Education, English, English Course, Growing up, Library, Literature, NCERT, Schooldays, Schooling, Schools, Text books
Last evening’s last thoughts…
I watched Shaurya y’day. Having watched A Few Good Men, I wasn’t expecting anything but a decent copy but it failed at that too. Some pointers:
- Shaurya could’ve been titled Shit… and nobody would’ve even noticed much rather complain.
- KK’s performance was commendable but the way his character was portrayed as a bigoted zealot only [...]
Filed under: Books, Conversations, Experiences, Frustration, General, Longings, Movies, Music, Nostalgia, Rafi, Trivia, Uncategorized | 5 Comments
Tags: Buddy Holly, Ghostworld, Gumnaam, Jaan Pehchaan Ho, KK, Rahul Bose, Shaurya
