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17/03/2009

Some days you come home really itching to write. Something... anything... even if you have nothing of any particular significance to say. You just feel like writing long winding sentences with multisyllabled words. Sometimes you feel like composing the odd silly rhyme. And slowly, out of nowhere a post is born. It sort of pops out of your ear like an extremely determined gob of wax. The ear belonging to someone with a somewhat questionable concept of personal hygiene of course.

See... there i did it again. Went on for a solid 82 words about nothing at all.

This post is dedicated to N for the brief but enlightening discourse on ear wax we once had.

And to I. I am glad my use of words with more than 3 syllables pleases you. I am just as pleased to have e-st-a-bl-i-shed an a-ss-o-c-i-a-ti-o-n that goes beyond mere a-q-uai-t-a-nce. Also, you own a bike, which is an extremely endearing quality in a man.

And further to Raquelle. I am struggling for a way to link you up to the contents of my lousy little post (186 words ... 187... and... 189... counting... 190!). Apart from the obvious fact that i love you. Oh what the hell... to Raquelle... because i love you.

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So like i said. There are some days. This is not one of them. Today, as a matter of fact i have a million things that merit detailed documentation (and not simply because i think so). My life has become a tad more eventful of late (That may have a lot to do with the fact that i have resumed writing about it. Lets ignore that hypothesis for a second). I would love to wax eloquent about my recent exploits but i imagine that my readers are about as pressed for time as some of my bosses pretend to be. So i shall present what we in the analytics world quaintly refer to as a “Snapshot”. Trim the fluff, dispense with the gory details. Salient features only. And my mortal enemy: Word-limit.

1. And then came the rains
A) Event Description: A mean person from work screamed at me today subsequent to which i cried.
B) Key Highlights: My boss who claims to have never gone beyond shaking hands with female colleagues put his arm around me (in a non-creepy way) in order to stem the flow.

2. Onslaught of gadget brat-ism
A) Event Description: Recent improvement in liquidity situation has led to mild extravagance as evidenced by purchase of laptop and i-pod. Next in line are speakers, wi-fi and possibly a camera.
B) Possible Mitigants: Procrastination
C) Key Highlights: My laptop is fluorescent green.

3. The Single-Mingle Phenomenon
A) Event Description: Extreme boredom coupled with unexplained proliferation of men has led to experimentation with the phenomenon casually referred to as “dating”.
B) Key Highlights: Facilitates fulfilment of long cherished ulterior motives such as date dissection and gossip. Excellent way to explore new restaurants in Bombay.
C) Outlook: Hazy.

4. White man’s burden
A) Event Description: Have established closer ties with Gora neighbour.
B) Key Highlights: Gin and tonic. Oh the conversations are great too.

I’m tempted to go on but it wouldn’t be much of a “snapshot” if i did. Be prepared to read detailed versions of points 1 through 4 in addition to exclusive coverage of “NK: The Andaman Exploits that almost never were”, “The Global CEO is coming: How power-point ruined a perfectly good weekend” and of course the evergreen “Goa Chronicles” (contingent on my actually going there).

Hopefully i will very soon exhaust my store of existing nonsense and aspire to lead a slightly more interesting life. Till then its just going to be more mundane rubbish. But then again my life at present is handful enough. And if i manage to pull together some 643 words to describe it on a daily basis then i suppose its all good.