It is tough when you want to post something profound or insightful or interesting or exciting on your blog every time you set out to post. It is tough because most of the time none of the above happens to me.
Anyhow, since this blog takes various forms, from dear diary to posting random links from youtube, today's post is more like a combination of both or something that falls in between.
As my trip home is drawing closer things are getting a bit hectic. There is some work-work to finish, meetings with professors before I leave, shopping for self (there is the new pair of jeans and a pullover that has been on my list for a while now) and shopping for friends & family. I love doing this even though everyone says not to bring anything since "everything is available in India", but I do it anyways for the pleasure of it - really. I enjoy giving presents (and receiving is not too bad either). But what I don't enjoy is that as my travel day gets closer, I get calls and emails that goes- "listen I don't mean to bother you but could you get me a laptop or a cell phone or an ipod and if it is inconvenient or too costly then please don't bother. Ok? Ok. " Hmmm...My only problem with this is why wait till last minute. Tell me at least a month in advance. Closer to my travel date I am precariously balancing my credit card and other available funds. So it can get a bit tricky.
What else now? So many things going on in the world ( which is nothing new)- from killing of international wanted men to leaking of risqué telephone conversations between MPs and other "VIPs". I am really not a news junkie and some days I even miss reading the daily newspaper, although I do manage to stay reasonably informed on current events. Thanks to face book I suppose, which seems to have become this one-stop-for-all-info place. Atleast that's how my facebook page looks. Maybe it is the trend or maybe all my friends are certified nerds. Major events or an interesting article is posted from some mainstream news site or the other, with a personal analysis, more often something provocative and then its open to comments. Depending on the topic and how provocative the analysis is, there is a frenzy of comments being posted and "likes" being clicked.
You know my mind has gone blank all of a sudden. As this is my silly old blog and not a syndicated column, I can stop abruptly-right? right.
Adios!
2 comments:
Lissen i really want to bother you. Would you please bring me a fully grown Hawaiian palm tree with fruits and a coconut tree with coconuts of course. If you can't fit them into your sooscate can you buy one lapteetoptee and an iPaadu ? and one cell phone blackberry, blue or brown berry but get me some berry. And one huge Sony TV flat screen ?
In exchange i can give you one truck load of pest infested Salem mangoes. You can sell them in Kerala or back in Honolulu and make some good profit.
Actually i am doing you a huge favour.
Sorry about the late response Rauf.
By the time I saw your comment I was already traveling. Next time ok. I think you might enjoy blueberries- the dried ones that I can bring in to country. Delicious!
I was in Chennai for a day--got fried.DMK should have promised to distribute Air Conditioners with one year free supply of electricity. They would have won the elections.
So, how are you doing?
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