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Mangatha Da!!

2011-10-09T06:37:00.000-07:00

It happened last night when I was figuring out the laws of the universe by counting numbers backwards (thus trying to induce sleep!). Out of nowhere, I got this sudden urge to post a review about the movie Mangatha. It was probably the effect of listening to the "one track" on different radio stations over and over again that the only thing stuck in my head at the wee hours of the morning was "MANGATHA DA! " :P ! I groped for my mobile and checked the time. It was close to 12.20a.m. Mom and Dad were fast asleep. I thought I'd let it go and try blogging sometime later. But my mind refused to give up. I started going through the entire movie in my head and I realized that I definitely had to start now. It was like now or never!! Grabbing a couple of tissue papers by my side, I started jotting down everything that came to my head.

Likes

The title and the director's touch in the last few scenes, explaining the nomenclature!
Ajith's salt and pepper look
Trisha's wardrobe
The plot (Brilliant)
Lack of sentiments (Brutality through n through!)
The twist in the climax
Premji - IIT Gold medalist ( Compensates for a (-)Santhanam movie! ;)
Goa!!!
Machi open the bottle and the other one-liners!
Trisha does not meet Ajith in Singapore! ;-)

Dislikes

Spelling it as Mankatha!
Poor Dialogues ( And their incomprehension due to the "cigarrete hindrance")
Pace in the first half ( slow pick up! )
Lakshmi Rai (:O) and her sudden entry into "the plot" (Probably because they couldn't recruit "Sheila" and they had an "almost item number" in hand!)
Anjali, Andrea ( Who? where?Hmm.. Male centric? )
"Vaada Bin Lada" track - Lame entry!
The Paradox with the Climax! ( The twist in the end comes in the last few minutes. By the time you appreciate it with :O on the face, it's gone. In order to see if it all fits, now in full awareness of the twist, you will need to watch the movie again. But then, the truth is you can't watch it more than once! By you, I strictly mean " I " :D!)

Neutral ( Read as "Can't decide!")

1. Smoky effect in the movie
2. The other co-actors presence in the movie (including Arjun)
3. Yuvan's Music
4. Premji's effort in comedy

Lessons from Mangatha!

Money... lots of Money --> People See Money --> People Cheat --> Go Home Now ( And Yeah! Take care of your money ! )

Money Conquered Them All !

Jest for Jolly!

AH : A could've acted a little.
AF : How dare you?!! (Thrashes AH)
IB : What happened?
AF : He says A could've acted a little in M.
(IB immediately starts thrashing AH too! )
IB Justifies : How dare you!! Of course A has acted - A LITTLE! ( ;-) )

(Ref : A - Ajith, M- Check title :P , AF - Ajith Fan, AH- Ajith Hater, IB - Innocent by-stander, GSS - God Save Sow!! :D )

Dear Mom...or rather..Amma!!

2011-09-24T06:26:00.001-07:00

You are no chef, but you are an amazing cook...
You are not a teacher, but you have always corrected my mistakes...
You are no magician, but you can always make my sorrows fly...
You are no architect, but you have built and shaped my character...
You are not an explorer, but you discover joy in everything I do...
You are no priest, but you forgive so easily...
You are not God, but you made us (with some assistance of course! :D)
Mother, you are the most divine of all creation!

-Love you forever
Sowmie

Eve-ism!

2011-03-05T02:15:00.000-08:00

The clock strikes 12. It's noon and I'm in my room, listening to music , musing about life and also reading a book. Yup! Multitasking! It's an interesting way of mixing thoughts with whatever you're reading and then end up going "hmmm!" for a while, thus establishing a jobless, sleepy Saturday afternoon! Just when I'm bringing in some focus to the book I was "supposedly" reading, my mobile goes beep! The text message from my friend says "Women's day is coming up! We have a plan for printing a tee shirt. Check your mail right away! ". A smile and a frown compete for my attention - smile at the thought of getting another tee shirt and frown at the thought of getting up from my cozy corner to connect to the internet! Yeah! Born lazy! I connected to gmail and found my inbox glowing - happy at the thought of receiving an actual mail, other than Linked-in Reminders, Tweets and updates from Facebook , Orkut or just someone's status update on Buzz! I tried hard to bring back that smile on my face again and opened the mail. There were two attachments - both pictures downloaded from the internet. I submit the same for thy perusal ! ! ( Hahaha! Just kidding! Found the line extremely hilarious! Perusal! Why the hell does that sound like a turn on to me?! :D ) The first was about feminism and girl power while the second one was about evolution (atleast technically!! )

As soon as I saw the pictures, I realized just one thing. Women today are better than they were before. On a logically intentioned positive note, in comparison to women a few decades back, there's been massive changes in terms of development, independence, freedom of thought , expression and repression. Changes have happened and women sure have evolved. Being a newbee to the corporate world, everyday I find atleast 10 women inspiring me in one way or the other. I think we are fast approaching a balance that some "wise women" dreamt of years ago, atleast in the urban sectors! The term "weaker sex" is on its way to extinction. I'm more a supporter of equality than feminism as such. Having made that lame statement, I immediately type feminism on my search bar. Wikipedia comes to my rescue(as always!) Feminism refers to movements at defining, establishing and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. (So, I am a feminist after all! *Phew!* ). Gender equality! The term itself is a distant dream. It's funny to expect this from a society that hasn't even recognized its third gender! Talk about equality and social rights for women. While female foeticide is still in practice in several parts of the country, it is depressing to find that the person committing the act is a woman, a female! The use of young girls for sex trade, sexual harassment at work places, domestic violence against women and the list goes on. While one half of the nation has developed to an extent of seeing women achieving greater heights in politics, sports, media, business, the other half of the nation is still caught in a web of poverty and dowry and hence opt for female foeticide! If someone's said that education is the basis for earning bread (which I'm sure noone has and it was just my mind in action!) the first step to this many-step approach is to make things available to all. When equality doesn't exist amongst people of the same race, then how can we expect it to exist amongst genders? I strongly believe that with education comes understanding. The next step is to stop portraying women stereotypes, especially in the media sector - tv serials, movies, "item" numbers! What is missing is mutual respect for all three genders ( stressing hard on the "three"!). This lack of mutual respect from all individuals somehow disrupts the balance, even if virtually achieved if not virtuously! Have we got our definitions right in the first place? Can mere acceptance change the outlook of an entire society? In a room of 10 people, atleast 8 of them don't have an opinion in anything(will be referred to as "neutralists" in the post). Of the two that remain, assuming them both to be men, the chances of finding even "half a feminist" in even one of them is far fetched! Picturing this itself is complicated! The problem with us is we are happy being "partial neutralists" ! Female foeticide! And we go "Oh shit! Soooo sad!" (By using "we", I include myself diligently!) I'm not discussing poverty issues. Nor am I discussing prostitution. Because the former is reality and the latter is choice - both of which I have no right to comment upon. The neutralists are high on acceptance, to the point that nothing has a strong impact on them. A lot of men I know think that equality is just physical and immediately try to prove the point with a hapless effort to host an arm wrestling match! Ofcourse men are physically stronger than women. That doesn't make women weaker in any sense. Does it? Women are strong, men are stronger despite being a part of the same human race! I guess it's as simple as that! If every person can just realize this, I don't think there would be any need for reservations !

Somebody said something :

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." - Clare Boothe Luce

On a funny note :

" Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their oppressors" - Evelyn Cunningham

Funnier :

"Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece" - Author unknown

P.S : I picked the evolution picture!

eH! Is everything okay?

2010-12-12T20:57:00.000-08:00

I've never been in this point of life where everything I look at tells me something, has some memory or the other to it. Where's the good in goodbye? Why is it so difficult to say it out loud? Why does it have to hit me only in the last minute..when I'm packing my bags and ready to leave? What's so overwhelming about this whole goodbye thing!?! Don't I trust myself? Can't I stay in touch? Is this because I failed to keep in touch the last time I said goodbye?! Why am I downloading all the songs with the word goodbye in them now? Don't I know that it would only make things worse? What the hell am I doing even blogging this? Am I making a memory out of the way I'm feeling right now? Guess not! But yeah...I'm jobless now and have 9 hours to kill before I take my train. 9 hours to cherish my final days in Goa. The magical Goa. 9 hours to think about all the things I'll be doing in 10years to bring me back here. 9 hours to think about all the people I'll be missing...9 hours to think about all the hugs yet to be shared...(Yeah the dots are back! Just beat it!)....9 hours to feel things I've never felt before...9 hours to pay my respect to those who taught me and made my stay an intellectual experience...9 hours to have the final cheese maggi with coke float, donut and tea. 9 hours to think about everything that has to go into my book of life, 9 hours to think about the small moments we've had in the silliest places ever. I guess the rambling will go on for the next 9 hours, probably in different mediums (blog is just one.Should stop using it like my journal!) I guess it would be appropriate to say the damned words now...! Goodbye Goa. Love you and will miss you every single day!

BBC's list of 100 books

2010-11-29T06:36:00.000-08:00

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other potential book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (English)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

P.S - Bold - Books I've read
Italics - Books I started reading but never completed
Bold+Italics - Books I did not read because I saw the movie first!

I'm tagging - Shara, Shruti, DPR, Dad, Niru, Disney, Niranjan

Tagggloooooo - After a BIG BREAK!

2010-11-28T05:37:00.000-08:00

Rules - Type 20 names in random before you read the questions. Copy the questions to a file and start answering them.

Tagaloooooooooooo! (Missing count of the O's now) atlast! Just came across this old post of mine ( http://creativeexplosives.blogspot.com/2008/03/tagggloooooo-after-break.html). Thought why not now? Given the fact that I've stopped blogging for quite sometime now, I took it as an opportunity to make a memory out of it. I decided to make it my "Master Memory!" :P ! I've typed in the names of all the people I know, admire, respect, acknowledge or have atleast shared a meal with at BITS,Goa. I hereby declare that the following names were typed at random, and the questions following them were answered truly to the best of my knowledge.

1.Akriti
2.Savitha
3.Parva
4.Vishnu
5.Sushma
6.Shruti
7.Kalai
8.Moni
9.Sachin
10.Kabilan
11.Bhakti
12.Kushboo
13.Teju
14.Vidhya
15.Ganesh
16.Mayank
17.Arun
18.Krishna
19.Sumit sir
20.Prakash sir

How did you meet 14?

My junior in college. The first person to come to my room and give me a hug and a chocolate for "her" birthday! :)

What would you do if you have never met 1?

Goa would have been a boring place! Wouldn't have had anyone to share videos and songs with. Wouldn't have anyone to cheer me up when I'm low!

What would you do if 20 and 9 dated?

Laughed My Ass Off!

Did you ever date 19?

Noway! :) *Respect! Respect! *

Would 6 and 17 make a good couple?

HAHAHAHA! One of them would definitely be lucky if that happened! :D

Describe 3

Parva is a cool guy. Has a cherubic demeanor. Totally wild on the inside. Can speak about anything for hours.

Do you think 8 is attractive?

'Course I do! She's a cute person

Tell me something about 7

Kalai is a really good friend of mine. She has a mind of her own and stands up for something she doesn't believe in. Something I admire in her. Never takes shit from people.

Do you know any of 12's family?

Heard a lot but never met anyone in person.

What's 18's favourite?

That would be Music and Dance.

What's 11's specialty?

Her child like innocence. Her nature to truly care for someone.

Who is 9 going out with?

Clueless!

How old is 16 now?

Too much Math! (*dislikes question*) Hmm I guess he's like 26 now.

When was the last time you talked to 20?

Last sem!

Who's 2's favourite band/singer?

Band/singer - no clue. But I do know she likes Ilayaraja's works the best.

Would you date 4?

Nopes. We're good friends for now!

Is 15 single?

Probably yes

What's 10's last name?

Mani

Would you ever be in a serious relationship with 13?

Not really! She has other plans! :P

Which school does 3 go to?

Same as mine!

Where does 5 live?

A few rooms away!

What's your favourite thing about 6?

Her attitude! Totally rocks!

A far from wonderful after life!

2010-08-25T09:35:00.000-07:00

Time 8.00 p.m.
Status - Before I saw "Its a wonderful after life" - - - > (seeing the title and Sendhil Ramamurthy ;-) :D :D :D :D :D

Time 11.30 p.m.
Status - After I saw "Its a wonderful after life" ---------> :X :O damn it! :X :O !

And then I couldn't sleep. I usually count from 1-100 if I m desperate to get some sleep. But tonight, out of the dejection of having wasted a wonderful 2 hours on a pointless expedition, I thought of making up words from every alphabet separately to describe the experience of watching the movie - oops sorry - watching a mistake!
These are the first "-ve" words that popped up ! Just venting out the frustration in someway!

Atrocious

Banal

Coarse

Dingy

Erratic

Flimsy

Ghastly

Hoax

Immaterial

Junk

Klutz

Levity

Mourn

Nosebleed

Obtuse

Plague

Quibbler

Reckless

Sinister

Trite

Ulcer

Vexed

Wily

Xerostomia

Yuck

Zipped

DARE - Watch this movie and bitch about it in the comments section!

Sin sentido!!!

2010-08-13T06:37:00.000-07:00

I resort to poetry when the situation is tight and
When all my senses command me to write...
I start off with lame phrases like "true" love and serendi"pity"
Gambling away with words which I "think" sound real witty!
To make it sound cool, I try and rhyme every line possible
My mind conjures up words and images contradicting affable...
That was one example of how I would "mis"(s)rhyme possible and affable
Ending up with something far from plausible and barely applaudable...!
Juggling with alliterations and metaphors coming along
I keep going like it's just a mere furlong..!
No matter where the words take me...
No matter how pointless I find the journey to be...
If there is one thing that I am sure of as hell...
It would be my desire to write poetry as well!
This is for all those who have the "block syndrome"...
This is for all those who ran out of words while facing the "doom"...
This is for all those who find nothing interesting enough to write and
More importantly, this is for all those who won't give up without a fight...!

-s()Ms!e

P.S - Sin sentido - Spanish for "meaningless, pointless, senseless................" .
I'll let you figure out the rest on your own! ;-) !

HMMMmmmmmmm!

2010-08-05T07:18:00.000-07:00

Entry into blogosphere --> Unstoppable!Everything counts as a blogpost!
Passion - 10, Creativity - 10, Content - 10
After a year of blogging --> Moving to experiences and sharing wisdom!
Passion - 10, Creativity - 8, Content - 10
2 years down the lane --> Dwindling posts!
Passion - 8, Creativity - 5, Content - 5..(Another term to add) Desperation - 10
After 2 years --> The wistful ages!
Number of new posts - 0, Passion - barely alive, creativity - nearing negation, Content - 0, Desperation - Infinity!

50 things I wonder about ...

2010-07-21T22:50:00.000-07:00

I wonder what it is like ...

to take a road less traveled
to remember how it felt to hear the first sound of applause
to feel the rhythm of the waves in the sea
to meet those eyes which speak volumes
to dance to an imaginary tune
to receive a hug from a stranger
to reincarnate something from rejection
to feel the music at heart
to go for a long drive with blaring music
to fly a kite and outrun the winds
to feel ecstasy in a cup of coffee
to remember how it felt to experience the first spatter of rain on the face
to live life straight out of a book
to see God in a person's eyes
to be loved in return
to liberate emotions completely
to feel divinity in the little things of life
to be in the moment with no past or future in mind
to hear someone close to you say "you make me proud"
to find a journal from the past still unblemished
to have kids running around when you're busy fooling around
to watch a movie and see that it's actually your life story
to stay young at heart even when the mind's approaching senility
to visit a random place out of a history book
to have a prediction come true
to save someone's life
to have unshakable faith in everything
to review the most boring book in the world
to have money and not know what to do with it
to paint an abstract that makes sense
to live in the mountains
to hold someone's tiny finger while crossing the road
to clean a closet full of memories
to befriend a bird and fly with it
to discover something beautiful out of a random wall scribble
to play "holly wood" with a co-passenger on train
to sing (unrestrained) in the bathroom and hear cheers from the neighbors
to master a recipe and become famous
to speak a foreign language and be understood by a native
to save a penny a day and become rich someday
to be an umpire in a cricket match
to do something stupid not bother about what people think
to write about "how to write a book" and also get published
to play nursery rhymes on a guitar
to go through pain and happiness simultaneously
to build a sand castle and save it for a night
to witness sunrise and sunset every single day
to defy destiny
to live someone else's life for a day
to die happily - smiling away to glory

Poetry at its best

2010-06-01T23:03:00.000-07:00

Today is a Wednesday..The second of June,2010. I got up with this sudden pang for poetry partly triggered by my writer's block( Yeah that's what I'm calling my long absence as), buried away in the subconscious. I do not know why or how but I had this sudden urge to read poetry. I began with one of my favourite poems in high school - " The tiger" by William Blake. I'm astonished at the depth I'm now able to see in those lines. It's amazing when you take into account the hidden meanings conveyed through a string of words and to make them sound poetic! Back in school, I've always remembered the funny way the poem started " Tiger tiger burning bright, in the forests of the night!" . Almost like a nursery rhyme where I imagine myself holding the hem of my school uniform, chanting in chorus with an amused expression on my face! I remember my high school English Mam who actually brought a "soft toy"( Read as Tiger) to the class. Can't blame her futile efforts to get us involved in appreciating the poem. Maybe this was partly the reason why I remember the poem so vividly. Back then, it was just a nice poem with an easy essay answer. "Attemptable" ! Reading it post 20, I begin to understand what people meant when they said " Reading between the lines" ! I salute William Blake for his sheer brilliance in the choice of words! As I was reading the "Tiger", I remembered one another poem which had been my favourite in secondary school(precisely class IX). My memory can surprise me at times! This poem is about an experience at the dentists'- " This is going to hurt just a little bit - Ogden Nash". Hilarious, witty lines which somehow managed to rhyme properly!A wonderful read, especially when you have nostalgic experiences at a dentists'. Next in line is another favourite of mine. A little more mature poem (Yeah..I was hitting the 20's when I discovered this poem). It's an elegy written by Alfred Lord Tennyson in honor of his best friend Arthur Hallam. Again, beautiful lines and a classic ending! The poem is pretty emotional. It isn't witty or descriptive like the other two poems. But it has enough substance to moisten your eyes. That's it for my poetry spree today. I'm pasting the poems here - strictly for the interested.

1)TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

- William Blake
1757-1827

2)THIS IS GOING TO HURT JUST A LITTLE BIT

One thing I like less than most things is sitting in a dentist chair with my mouth wide open.

And that I will never have to do it again is a hope that I am against hope hopan.

Because some tortures are physical and some are mental,

But the one that is both is dental.

It is hard to be self possessed

With your jaw digging into your chest,

so hard to retain calm

When your fingernails are making serious alterations in your life line or love line or some other important line in your palm,

So hard to give your ususal cheerful effect of benignity

When you know your position is one of the two or three in life most lacking in dignity

And your mouth is like a section of road that is being worked on

And it is cluttered up with stone crushers and concrete mixers and drills and steam rollers and there isn't a nerve on your head that aren't being irked on.

Oh some people are unfortunate to be worked on by thumbs,

And others have things done to their gums,

And your teeth are supposed to being polished

But you have reason to believe they are being demolished.

And the circumstances that adds to your terror

Is that it's all done with a mirror,

Because the dentist may be a bear, or as the Romans used to say, only they were referring to a feminine bear when they said it, an ursa,

But all the same how can you be sure when he takes his crowbar in one hand and mirror in the other he won't get mixed up, the way you do when try to tie a bow tie with the aid of a mirror, and forget that left is right and vice versa

And then at last he says, That will be all, but it isn't because he then coats your mouth from cellar to roof

With something I suspect is generally used to put shine a horse's hoof,

And you totter to your feet and think, Well it's over now and after all it was only this once,

And he says come back in three monce.

And this O Fate, is I think the most vicious that thou ever sentest,

That Man has to go continually to the dentist to keep his teeth in good condition

When the chief reason he wants his teeth to be in good condition is so that he won't have to go the dentist.

- Ogden Nash

3) In Memoriam A.H.H.

I envy not in any moods
The captive void of noble rage,
The linnet born within the cage,
That never knew the summer woods;

In envy not the beast that takes
His license in the field of time,
Unfetter'd by the sense of crime,
To whom a conscience never wakes;

Nor, what may count itself as blest,
The heart that never plighted troth
But stagnates in the weeds of sloth:
Nor any want-begotten rest.

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'T is better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

12 good things about doing Masters in India

2010-05-14T09:12:00.000-07:00

1)Ragging is more fun and not racist
2)Can watch IPL live
3)No "wannabe" pressure
4)You still understand the prof's accent
5)No big changes when it comes to food
6)Manageable shit when it comes to academics
7)No fine to pay when you litter the streets
8)You get to vote and act like the perfect youth icon
9)Even if you're just a few hours away, you're still treated like a Prince(ss) when you go home
10)No need to buy stuff to please all your relatives when you get back home
11)Parents don't need to face a visa interview to come and see you
12)Get to eat mom's food every now and then