5 wierd things about me

Reading a random blog and came across this. So i decided to celebrate the government unblocking my blog (or so i claim) by writing this.

1. I touch my nose atleast a hundred times a day. So i guess people think i have a permanent cold and other things not that complimentary.
2. I hate drinking coffee & tea, not that i dislike the taste but just the fact that they burn my toungue. AHEM !!!
3. I think fighting with my boss and bragging about it is cool.
4. I love to think i broke realtionships on my own accord when its very much the opposite (am i saying too much....Does not matter, please refer to my next wierd statement.
5. I actually think People read my Blogs :D and consider myself a BLOGGER

Too senti for me but dats the mood now.

Marriage….WHY ???

Got cornered by my aunts yesterday about when and who I shall marry. Well imagine my state when four battle hardened ladies who make you sit in a easy chair in the corner of a small room and pull chairs all around and bombard you with questions about your future. When? Who? Why so Late? Wanna be bald before you marry? You are no longer Young now? You earn enuf? Any painful break-ups? Anyone we should know about? Can we start searching?

All that torture finally got me thinking…. WHY?

Have listed the options here and frankly I care a hoot for what people think but if you are a well-mannered, courteous, civilized, polite, decent MORON. Please stop reading.
So again, Marriage….WHY ???

• Companionship: I get bored while I am lazing around my room on a Saturday but that’s how I unwind. And while I love company don’t you like having your own space? And I have enough friends who know when to come over and when to leave but marriage would actually mean that I have to put up with her for life. Read this to see the irony!
• Dowry: Well I shall not steep down so low after living through a comfortable life till date (fingers crossed). Also it comes within our family that we abhor the very concept of dowry even though it remains the single reason why the education industry is thriving around the globe.
• The Dreaded word which got Sania Mirza and Khusboo into trouble, SEX : well you get a lot of variety outside wedlock, try being decent looking, owning a car and having cash to burn (esp. for a condom). Not that I am about to do any one of these, but I can still hypothesise.
• Procreation: Well with the population of India being what it is, I can be a true India ala rang-de-basanti and do my bit for the country by not contributing.
• Children: you can have one without getting married again hypothetically esp. in India but I have nieces and nephews to fill that void and love them, so it really does not make a difference.
• As hard as I tried I could not come up with another reason and excuse.

So let me come to the first point again, WHY?????

A Phone call

D: Hey you all rite?

ME: Ya why the question?

D: you have not blogged for ages now, so I thought you were sick or dying or something like that (in a hopeful tone)

ME: Nothing like that, I have been too busy.

D: Like I believe that

ME: seriously

D: So what are you doing now?

ME: I am in Bangalore, Chilling

D: I thought you were transferred to Hyderabad

ME: Yes, but I had come down for the weekend

D: And you want me to believe that you were too busy

ME: well……………

Anyway since the rest of the conversation went on equally boring terms I shall stop. And I am mainly writing this blog as a tribute to all those vela Junta who follow this stupid blog and have the temerity to ask me why I have not been blogging.

Here’s why?

Shifted to Cyberabad – Now get calls every minute about some escalation or the other- have numbers to deal with- staying out of my car/suitcase as I have found no abode for myself- still single and painfully so onto the 26^th year of my existence- and have work now so cannot blog regularly.

So here’s to Velagiri .

God how I miss being Vela!!!!

Moving!!!

Blogger moving to Cyberabad!!!!
So all the people who are gonna miss me, do go into depression.
All the people who are really overjoyed and i am guessing these are in the majority, Feel jealous b'cos there always is Hyderabadi Biryani!!! Slurp :-)

Awesome Year

Saw snippets of the BEST and Worst of the year in most websites so came up with this post about my year.
In 2005 I :

• Finished my post graduation and with that hopefully came to the end of the road of my academic career.
• Conned Wipro, Intel, MBT, Vistasoft, IBM, Covansys and I-Gate into giving me job offers. 7 offers to work (never knew I was so wanted)
• Started working and more importantly EARNING.
• Started taking a Bath everyday and a shave every two days (unwelcome change from IIT days when the periodic activity for the same was fortnightly and monthly respectively).
• Got my first Bonus.
• Bought my Mom a Really Nice Present.
• Learnt Cooking with successful results.
• Cut down on excesses due to a Bad Back aka Slip Disk (Now you can speculate about what excesses are :-D)
• Saw a VERY Close friend get married and put his life in order.
• Tried playing Cupid with mixed results
• Spent a year SINGLE and loved every moment of it. (i.e. Became a bigger Geela)
• Joined a GYM for an obscene amount and went there thrice ..to date.
• Invested in Mutual Funds and Insurance (Ahem…running out of things to write)
• Started BLOGGING

In Effect…grown up (both mentally and physically)
Hope the coming year will be as fruitful (AHEM) to you.

HAPPY NEW YEAR