Ice-screamin' AWAY!

Hello peoples... well.. manglore eggs further on... i had a beautiful evening on the beach yesterday.. serene white.. clear beaches.. and clean of people also.. and that to on a saturday evening... to enjoy a weekend sun-set on a quite beach is very very.. idyllic.. ofcourse silver is nice.. and quite at mid-night.. but well..

and then.. i went for Bunty aur Babli here.. you rem the thing they say.. sometimes.. you don't realise. how privilidged you are.. well something similar happd.. the movies here (hindi movies) have little audience here.. and so they come relatively late.. but to cash-in on the movie craze.. some ppl show the pirated VCD's immediately.. and the quality well.. as ever.. leaves a lot to be desired.. they're even CUT in - between.. so well its QUITE a sad experience.. and then.. yesterday.. before the movie... i went.. to Hangyo! thats the other brand besides Ideal.. and had an ice-cream there :D..
the Hungyo ice-cream.. was Spl. Gudbad it had.. again choc and 2 other scoops with jelly and a few more random things.. what joy!! and then.. i saw an ice-cream parlor today.. called Igloo? i think.. it looked v. cool.. i will go there tmrw i think.. :D...

and then.. there aren't many mosquitos here.. YAY!

and stuff here is cheaper :) like the Taj here... has an un-limited beer n kebab fest.. for 300 rs only.. NOW if i only had some good company to spend an evening of beer and kebab's with... hmmm..

i spent today.. first sleeping till 11.. then watching tv till 1.. then i was out.. walking the streets of manglore.. some ppl think.. walking is the best way to know a city.. so i gave it a good-try...

i found a lounge bar - liquid lounge and then a CCD... its funny how much we (or atleast I) dig for familiarity in a foreign place ( and then.. south is hardly foreign) anyway... so then.. in my walking around.. i sorta passed the lunch hour.. so the good kitchen's were all closed... and then.. being in the city of ice-cream parlours.. i had ice-cream for lunch... triple-scoop :P pista + choclate + black currant... :) and then.. a couple of hours later.. i even had a coffee + veg puff at the CCD.... and then.. i went book-store.. hunting.. book-store.. coz... i was hoping to find some books which the stores here might keep.. and might not be so easily available in mumbai (once more.. looking for familiar territory) and then.. i bought 4 random oldish books.. none of them are entirely unique to the area i think.. but they would take some digging in any part of the country.. and since i had the time for that here.. i found them.. i heard there are 2 more bookstores in this city.. so i will try and find them tmrw...

Life is a boat!

Did anyone except me see this film? it was a typical american film made one fine day i think.. about an estranged kid and a rich re-married father.. and how the sun and the father bond.. over the father's life-long dream of building a house... kinda corny.. stupid.. what-the-hell film.. but it was an afternoon well spent many years back...

Why i bring this up now... coz last week.. i saw the UEFA cup final (for the uninitiated thats soccer) with a couple of my friends... and wished.. LIFE were a soccer match.. heh

well.. the match was between AC Milan (very strong favorites) and Liverpool (more of underdogs who got here by chance form or just a lot of heart... SUCH underdogs infact that they haven't even qualified to participate in the UEFA cup for next year...) so the competition is well clearly defined i guess.. and then 45 mins into the match.. AC Milan had scored 3 goals... and were half-way home with another trophy...

but then came our beautiful men in red from behind.. to score.. 3 goals in 6 mins... and then all was hunky-dory again.. the world was a better place... ofcourse over the next 30 odd mins of play and another 30 mins of extra time... nothing much happened there were a few chances on both sides... god ofcourse was favoring our brave men in red who'd come from behind to equalize the 3 goals.. and then hold fort the next 60 odd mins..

then it came down to penalty-shoot-outs... by most standards a VERY CRUEL way to judge a team's year long performance.. but then.. such is life sometimes? and it came down to penalty shoot-outs.. and to not bore you any further and cut-thru-the-chase... Liverpool WON :D :D :D

now wouldn't life be so much nicer if it were a futbol match.. instead of a boat.. you'd get rewarded for the efforts... and well.. your existence essentially would be entertaining for others too.

I'm badwith endings so in conclusion i would like to end.

Manglored

I am in the city of ice-cream parlors... by the looks of it..there are 2 major brands.. ideal and one more... and there are lots of ice-cream parlors all around. Ofcourse i haven't been to any so i will refrain from passing judgements on the quality of the products offered but all in all.. it seems nice and refreshing a change after a lot of mumbai.

its a fun place.. trying to compare it to mumbai is stupid.. so i will not try... but eyes always search for the familiar.. so i always look at the malls in a city.. what kinda shops do they have.. does this place have a shoppers stop? (heh if they ever knew of my devotion.. they'd have a platinum card for buyers like me)

anyway... its kinda hot.. isn't everywhere in this time of the yr.. (unless yr in london ofcourse) but yeah.. nice place.. not many tall buildings.. and the city has a rough edge to it... they made it all over the mountains.. no-one really bothered enough to level the land before constructing on it.. so its full of ups and downs..

will post more.. as i discover more.. for now i like the music their reliance-web-world plays..
its not LOUD n JARRISH like the mumbai web-worlds..

BeeR here?

i wanted beer all afternoon..

since roughly 2 pm..
its been 4 hours..

i've asked abt 4 ppl i think... and all of them have turned me down..

so i am yet a deprived man...

i'd go drink alone.. but beer seems a group drink.. and i think good convo enhances the taste of good beer..

so i shall let the sun-set.. on that thuoght.. maybe the moon'll come out with a golden-bubbly hue?

in pursuit of nothingness..

yesterday..... cruel world tried so hard to ruin my day...
yesterday..... i met old friends and troubles went away :)

heh... so from being a crusader for justice.. i just ended up spending the whole evening with old college gang..

course it meant.. i did not keep my date with the cops...
maybe one of these days i will complain against them..
for now we await my telephone bill...
with baited breath.. for the 27th of May....

all contributions welcome...

Crusade against the system

This comes as something new.. to someone like me. I'm not really the kinds to bother much about the system and how exactly it works, try not to bother myself much with such trivialities.

But over the last few months of doing nothing.. i have had terrible experiences with my Cell phone service provider.. my office courier and the traffic cops...

Now most people who care about such things would tell you that this is a lot of usual suspects as far as mal-services are concerned...

But maybe its the doing nothing.. or reaching the threshold of my patience... i am taking action against all of them together...

from the cops i expect almost nothing except troubling them for about an hour or more.. from airtel i expect a little more.. and they have in someways started pay-back by giving me free 100 sms.. .*wink wink*

and well from my courier guys... i expect my 3000 rupees back.. and ofcourse they'll get a lot of grief in the process.....

one of these days when i stop procrastinating... i shall write letters to all 3.. and post them here...

for now i have a date with the cops at 8 pm at the airport chowki ;)

mic.. testing