All the turmoil within me

courtesy: http://www.lonvig.dk/pr-page9.htm

This pic captures the state of my mind right now. I can't explain why, but it does.

The 8RF Game

I have been tagged by the candyman and the twilight fairy and inspired by Czar's 8RF.

After a certain delay, here I go.

Here are the rules:

1. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
2. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
3. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.

8RF about me:

1. I started crying while I was watching the movie Rang De Basanti. I was with my friends and suddenly people around me started becoming sad, that made me sad and I generally started crying. Shame on me. I am not a man. Talking of masculinity, I feel No man should ever wear pink and refrain from wearing yellow. They are GAY colours. Women look best in Black and Pink.

2. I am scared of horror movies, I must not have seen more than a couple of them in my life.

3. My dad used to buy me hot-wheels cars whenever I came first in the monthly tests in my school. So I had a wonderful collection of them. One day I saw a program in Discovery channel and was inspired so much that I ripped open all the cars and later that day my dad ripped open a few layers of my skin. I was kid you see.. Class IV.

4. I used to get ALL Biology diagrams done by my mom. That she graduated with Botany and Zoology as her subjects was of immense help. But I did the human reproductive system diagrams on my own :D

5. When I was learning Sanskrit for the first time (in Class VI), the teacher was telling the class about the word 'kutra', meaning 'where'. I was absent that class. In the next class, she asked ME the meaning of kutra, not knowing the meaning and a reputation to keep upto I said ' Kutte ka Putra'. That apparently spread like wildfire in the school and all the teachers and students came to about this student who thinks kutra means kutte ka putra.

6. Somewhere in the seventh standard, I had a crush on my English teacher. Looking back (and knowing all the parameters of evaluation), I think she was a Bomb - Hot and sexy. I hate to believe that she is married. In my Class XI, I had a crush on my Computer Lab teacher (Her brother studies here in IITM :-S) she had a soothing personality and I loved that purity about her. I had also promised to take her on a world-tour. She is also married now.

7. Once I was playing cricket without wearing the gaurd. You would have obviously guessed what happened. Since that day, I have a fear at the back of mind that I mind be.. err.. impotent. I am yet to get an occasion to clear my doubts. This was in my tenth standard.
On another occasion the following year, I got hit by a rubber ball and it has changed the shape of my nose a little bit. :(

8. When I was a kid, I used to threaten mom that I will commit suicide if she bothers me too much. At other times, I threatened to run away from my home. I did run away on a couple of occasions, probably stayed out overnight once too.. I can't remember.

I tag: Dharik, Ugri, Bulby, Punchar, Sirisha, CB, Uss, Naresh.

BENGALOORU FOR YOU:

I am back to the the Insti. I have every right to be. After an eventful journey over the last three months, I feel good to be back here.

Looking back, they were the most wonderful summer holidays I have had in a long time. I was in Bangalore, famous for three things: I.T, Girls and Dogs. I got a taste of all the three (not literally you see). My intern has just helped me realise that I.T is not my domain. All the reduntant 'for' loops were a wee bit too much for the rather humble mechanical engineer within me. But I did 'go to work' every morning. For a good amount of time, I liked to believe I was a corporate :D. Coding is good, it's wonderful, In fact, that is keeps the wheels of the economy powered but it kinda sucks. The A.C cabin, the cubicles, the desktops, the googling and the Visual Studio - were just too good though.

Girls.. Ahem.. I am amongst the less fortunate of the lot to have been roaming around the malls of the garden city with a guy (Hi Uss), but none the less, we never let go of an opportunity to ogle at the good young things that walked past us. Somehow, Uss couldn't help being fixated at those things. At the end of the day, he would say "Yaar, zindagi mein ladki toh zarur honi chahiye". And when he saw HOT young things with apparent losers and hippies, he would do the VIP-ad "What's he got that I ain't got?". Well, at most times I was only echoing his sentiments. But there was a certain occasion when we did manage to get a real Hot young thing interested in us and she kept constantly staring at us. That we did not have the balls to even talk to her is another issue.

Bangalore is more famous for it's dogs than anything else. The Times of India is planning to bringing out something like a dog-bite update every week on the lines of Times Classifides. There are an enormous number of dogs and they make their presence felt all over the city and in the morning newspapers. That said, I was luckiy enough to come back bite-free. Dogs, they say are man's best friend. But I doubt the Bangalore-man would disagree.

Old habits die hard, that's Bengalooru for you.