A perfect day for Bananafish

Moved...

2007-01-31T15:12:00.000-08:00

Here for good.

Looking within on a bright, sunny day...

2006-08-21T15:42:00.001-07:00

Imagine a warm and sinfully-chocolate muffin, standing neatly poised on white china with a clean, gleaming fork lying next to it. Imagine sitting in your narrow cubicle, stuffy and cramped. Work piled up high and the deadline approaching fast… imagine humidity eating through your shirt as the combination of the air-conditioning and a mass of busy people working in their damp clothes sends out a funny odour throughout the office which for some reason no one notices or chooses not to notice. Imagine the smooth and delectable fragrance of the warm, chocolate muffin going up your nicotine-scorched nostrils and bringing about a sudden twisting cramp on your empty, over-worked stomach.

Imagine being tempted…

MICANVAS marketing meeting...

2006-08-18T16:33:00.000-07:00

Time: 5 AM
Sleep-deprived
Due for field pitching in 4 hours
4 cups of tea...
2 drags of a borrowed sutta from GJ!
now...

GAH!!!

It's called the foot-in-the-mouth disorder...

2006-08-03T11:33:00.000-07:00

Q) How would you study biology?

Freaky: Sir we need to study the societal impact....

In my defence, I thought he had asked how would you study "these ads". Anyways, that HP guy surely did not go back with a very high opinion of MICAns!

PS: hopefully they'll ban me from future industry-wallah's lectures! :D

3 choices...

2006-07-30T15:13:00.000-07:00

1) To be
2) Not to be

OR

3) DCP

ps: I know its lame but what do you expect of a sleep-deprived soul at 6 AM.

ps #2: For the unaquainted, DCP = Desperate Class Participation (intra-MICA joke)

Till Kingdom Come...

2006-07-29T14:40:00.000-07:00

Steal my heart and hold my tongue.
I feel my time, my time has come.
Let me in, unlock the door.
I've never felt this way before.

The wheels just keep on turning,
The drummer begins to drum,
I don't know which way I'm going,
I don't know which way I've come.

Hold my head inside your hands,
I need someone who understands.
I need someone, someone who hears,
For you, I've waited all these years.

For you, I'd wait 'til kingdom come.
Until my day, my day is done.
And say you'll come, and set me free,
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me.

In your tears and in your blood,
In your fire and in your flood,
I hear you laugh, I heard you sing,
"I wouldn't change a single thing.

"The wheels just keep on turning,
The drummers begin to drum,
I don't know which way I'm going,
I don't know what I've become.
For you, I'd wait 'til kingdom come,
Until my days, my days are done.

Say you'll come and set me free,
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me.
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me.
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me.

:Coldplay

PS: uh...

1. Watched Omkara, found it to be rather average though brilliantly shot. Definitely had one of the best opening sequences I have seen.

2. Am feeling bored.

3. Feeling totally intellectually bankrupt.

Do you like apples?

2006-07-28T11:24:00.000-07:00

I got her number... how do you like them apples.

: Goodwill Hunting (1997)

When thoughts go by at the speed of sound...

2006-07-26T15:21:00.000-07:00

I hate being organised.

I hate perfect symmetry.

I hate it when people pretend to know more than they do.

I hate both black and white.

I hate the ones who dont try.

I hate them too who dont try hard enough.

I hate JK Rowling.

I hate falling ill and becoming dependent.

I hate crowds.

I hate the mundane light from orange streetlamps.

I hate air-conditioning.

I hate Jim Morrison fans.

I hate a sunny day.

I hate overtly romanticising a rainy day.

I hate capsicum

I hate it when communicating the simplest of emotions...

...becomes the hardest thing to do.

And the last one I hate more than everything else. Everything else but the capsicum that is!

To sum it up...

2006-07-25T15:47:00.000-07:00

A kick-ass party
A surprisingly interesting date, with a witty sense of humour (And I thought they stopped making them altogether)
Watching someone stand, head-banging and air-guitaring in front of the speakers to GAH-hindi numbers for a whole hour (read: Bose)
Realising that the frog was about to jump on Theni's face as he lay drunk and passed out in Kachnar, and not doing anything to prevent it...
Worrying about a nasty hangover
Trying the cold cocoa instead
and... and... dancing to "Another Brick in the Wall" & freakin' ENJOYING it!!

Damn, the shit was fun!

Stumped!

2006-07-23T11:25:00.000-07:00

Assess the macro economic implications for designing a micro economic policy of a firm in all functional aspects including HR.

94 of the land's best brains have been trying to understand what the afore-mentioned statement actually means...

Banned...

2006-07-19T14:15:00.000-07:00

... i mean has the government gone nuts? Stupid fucks, they gonna get so raped in the next elections!

PS: blood be oozing out of my nail, looks like my feared nasty infection is bound to happen after all!

Goin ill...

2006-07-17T11:57:00.000-07:00

... dont quite feel like taking medicines. And then suddenly you realise crowds can be extremely lonely places to be in.

Obstinacy...

2006-07-15T00:53:00.000-07:00

Classes and classes and classes....

2006-07-13T15:12:00.000-07:00

... and I dont even miss sleep much! :P

Corporate: A movie review (of sorts)

2006-07-09T01:31:00.000-07:00

"35,000"

"No that's too steep, 25,000"

"30"

"ok"

And the hot-shot executive just bagged a model-prostitute at a posh delhi hotel bar... cool. Man, If I ever had any doubts as to whether I'd like it in the "Corporate" world, Madhur *wat's his name* has settled them for good. Yey!

I slept through (and this is supposed to be taken literally) the rest of the movie to take it seriously.

Oh and there was Payal Rohatgi! Wow! Now I remember why I wasnt bitter at having the last of my bare minimum cash assets on a movie-experience which could've easily been replicated at the library (read: sleeping in air-conditioning)

Payal Rohatgi rocks.

Hear ye... Hear ye...

2006-07-07T07:33:00.000-07:00

A new beginning... even if it only means blowing out a lot of hot air (again)

PS: Some useless trivia...

# This is the exact same post I had started "Just before the war with the Eskimos" with, it's hard not to get emotional over the small things in life.

# "A perfect day for Bananafish" is yet another Salinger story!

# The significance of the url is that my hostel in MICA is "Palaash', and it has a Palaash sapling/tree growing in the middle of the courtyard.

# Iam feeling kind of sad.