gimme a drink
29/1/2003
old obsessions : chocolates, icecreams
new obsession : fruit juices :-)

boy they seem more costly than imagined :-(

sleepy
27/1/2003
its been a bad day for me... markswise, moneywise :-(

been to Achyuta's marriage yesterday... 

came across this at idlebrain.com :
"In Madanapalli, the tickets of Indra were sold in the lots of Rs 1000/- and Rs 1500/- each. Hoards of movie lovers from various cities of Karnataka like Kolar, Chintamani, KGF, Genjinuru, Siddagadda, Chikkaballapur came to the Andhra border town Madanapalli to watch Indra. It was released in 4 theaters in Madanapalli and 16 shows were exhibited and Indra collected 6 lakhs on day one in Madanapalli itself."

burnt
24/1/2003
while reheating the curry, I forgot all abt it, immersed in watching TV... turned the curry into black paste :-(

read Lyrics of lowly life by Paul Laurence Dunbar.. few ones in it are too good... interested in Telugu cinema? how abt knowing the latest gossips ?

if u r concerned abt whats happening to Bhopal gas victims, u can chip in here

zzzzzzzz
20/1/2003
i am born to sleep :-( i keep 3 alarm clocks to wake me up at remotest corners of room... and somehow manage to switch them off in my sleep... and before i realise, its 8 in the morn...

Somebody wake me up!!!!!! 

Save Sunderbans
18/1/2003
its really painful to see money for poverty-alleviation programs used for unscientific development works which in a long run will be a source for tremendous poverty. Take the case of mangrove forests in Sunderbans and coastal Orissa.. People are developing prawn breeding grounds which is resulting in death of these forests.. this is the most dangerous disaster waiting to happen... These forests protect soil erosion.. if not for them, entire eastern India will be ravaged with winds, intrusion of sea water into local water systems, vast tracts of land (thousands of square kilometers) giving way to the sea... Agriculture will prove uneconomical and crores of people will be poverty stricken and displaced. There will also be no barrier against cyclones whose strength wont diminish while travelling thru land, making them more potent.. Economy of a sizeable part of India will be destroyed. Ecologically, these forests are considered great carbon-sinks, a few ranks below the Amazon forests.

Solution: Swallow the bitter pill. Displace few hundred villages to interior areas. Declare these as Reserve Forests. Ban prawn farming (lets import prawns from poor countries... now we can afford to do that. Remember Imperial Britain... they always imported raw materials from colonies)... Create awareness... Transfer adjoining lands from Revenue Department to Forest Department... Declare it as an ecological hot-spots.

Fact: If we respect Mother Nature, she blesses us. If we dont, she blesses us more. But later, she can only curse us.

awaiting exam blues
13/1/2003
yummy yummy... just had anitha's Gobi Manchuris! too bad she prepared very less :(

i will start studying tomorrow... today even 3 alarm clocks didnt make me wake up... and the entire day i spent on nothing.. on an average i have 2.5 days to complete each subject for exam... and I AM STARTING TOMORROW... NO MATTER WHAT...grrrrrrrrr

i seem to have a grt liking to the CM character donned by Ramesh Kumar in the Kannada serial "Manvantara" (no i wont watch it... but cant help having a glimpse of it when mom and aunt huddle sometimes to watch it)... my grandpa knows him well, since they both come from near Srinivaspura, Kolar Dist..... its said that Ramesh Kumar led life wildly!!! it seems hez become sober and astute with time that he sometimes preaches moral lessons in his political speeches giving his own misdemeanors as examples!

few days ago, mom, uncle and aunt went to some temple... and they returned with prasada -> toffees and peppermints!

btw... visited few blogs on the Net... wasnt impressed at all... few looked too jazzy and many seemed irrelevant.... not that they are bad... its just that they wont suit me... so i am comfortable with the journals of those i know personally...

historian
7/1/2003
I am enjoying... i am soaking in luxury... i am floating in tranquility. I am glowing ... Secret? hee hee.

btw, having a mini-vacation in the midst of study holidays!

currently looking at dozens of sites and hundreds of pages over Net in rediscovering my India. I remember running round 3 city-central libraries in bangalore (u can borrow my cards) and 1 very great private one in madanapalle during my high-school days, feeding on translated religious texts of all faiths and commentaries of secularists, communists and foreigners. Never had a chance to hear the Nationalists. Thanks to Net, now this is possible!

these days, finished reading Geetanjali by Tagore. He has great imagery. also done up with William Blake's Book of Innocence and Experience.

busy itinerary!
6/1/2003
today i caught up with a lot of frens.... each of them having their own problems and lives, now that its hard to believe that we all once used to gather to play and swim and chatter... now all has changed... but one thing has remained and will last... our friendships..

met some in their houses... some big bungalows... some modest tenements... met some in clubhouse.. met some in their "addas"... and as the day came to a close, visited one who lives in servant quarters... sitting on the mat outside his room, laughing again at all those jokes we laughed together once.

a breather
5/1/2003
labs being over, now some breather. went nightout to "help" jaisingh and manju for their java project.. but ended up sleeping almost throughout the night and late into morning!

Nagendra and Krishna went to Narasimha Parvata near Agumbe to celebrate New Year... They were lost in the forest for 2 days, and after roaming without food, climbing down some 5 waterfalls, they finally found some village. No prob, they r somewhat pros in trekking, taking with them ropes and tent. I was supposed to go. But couldnt since I was tied up in Bangalore due to labs:(

anyways had a very sober new yr celebration.

Latest addiction: Icecreams

Check out this site. 30% of it is false, 50% of it is exagerrated.. But the remaining 20% is shocking..... a fodder for my thoughts.