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13Dec/046

Cholas

For all their conquests, travels, achievements, magnanimity, bigness, and all, the Chola clan have failed to live on.

Even today, there are people named Pandyan or Pandya rajan, (not just the actors) and you even had a Veera Pandya Kattabomman to oppose the British. But the Cholas seem to have died out.

I personally, or otherwise, know of no living Cholan. But I do know of a man named Cheran, and men named Pandyan. Why is it so?

13Dec/047

All things PSBB

SO I met a friend from PSBB. (For those not yet in the know, PSBB stands for Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, my school)
Just while we finished bringing each other up to speed on what’s happened to our respective lives (nope, she wasn’t the one who confessed. At least not yet) she mentioned she met a few other PSBBians and “I’ve met so many of them last week, it’s not funny”.

Which kind of corroborates Anand’s story here. There are really too many PSBBians in this world. And it so happens that you get to bump into them every once in a while. And it definitely is not funny.

There ought to be a law against us folks proliferating. Or atleast, a regulation that says “Thou shalt not meet more than thy fair share of PSBBians” or something. Not that I would respect such a law, cause me being a sworn anarchist and all (with or without the cartel’s blessing)

Speaking of which, I know atleast 5 other PSBBians who are sworn anarcho-capitalists.

Malayalees are everywhere, and so are the bloggers. And if one where to believe Anand, the PSBBians far outnumber all. The logical conclusion therefore would be that the most common species of humans would be a Malayalee Blogger who studied at PSBB. But I’ve not seen or heard of one yet. Goes to show how faulty logic can be.

13Dec/040

Thoughts from 100 feet above ground

A sunray (no, not this one) is almost a physical thing. I can see it, discern its shape, trace its path, and more or less touch it. Or rather, feel it touching me.
Just a general observation.

People confess to me. All kinds of people. All kinds of confessions. From their lovelife to their career. From their school days to how they fought their way through their first job. Folks, I’m honoured. I appreciate you opening up to me. But it so happens that after a point of time, I am so chock full of confessions, I can write half a dozen books. Each 400 pages long. The problem is that none of them stay put, the confessed thoughts. They interact, blend together. Go on dates with each other. I am afraid the confessions see each other so much, they might have kids of their own.

I love the roof of my office building.

Nature intended all things to be circular.

7Dec/040

CBZ Chronicles or a measly attempt at Motorcycle Diaries

The CBZ, folks, is probably the best bike in the world. 10+ hours of non stop riding. Through some of the roughest terrains in the state. Through a 34 degree and climbing sun. Through 0% relative humidity. With a rather heavy guy sitting astride.

Riding on the motorcycle thought me a few things. Like backpain doesn’t exist for guys driven by adrenaline. Like speed is only relative. Relative to the beauty of the passing scenery. Like you don’t mess with the bike’s chain when you are 200 miles from home. Like Tamil Nadu can be both large, and small, and in the same locality.

A bit of news for PS fans – 13 or so kilometres from Gangai Konda Chola puram, and roughly 7 from Veeranam lake is a village called “Vanamadevi”. I wanted to get a snap of the board that announced it, but due to some big bloomer on my part, the camera wasn’t functioning well.
– More later.

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7Dec/042

Roadtrip

To Chola Nadu and back in 10 hours. On a bike.
To those familiar with Ponniyin Selvan and Tamil History, I did the journey Vandiyadevan did (or atleast, a third of it), in one day.
Sunday I left home early in the morning, travelled across Tamil Nadu, went up to the old Chola towns of Gangaikonda cholapuram, Jayamkonda chola puram and a few other places.

Still stiff and exhausted from the travel. To PS fanatics, I have lots of news, for others, I have a lot of history to share. So keep watching this space.

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7Dec/040

Battling comment spam

I tried hard. Real hard. I tried moderating comments. I tried to close comments after an X number of days but ended up screwing my MT installation and had to restore the original. I have zero knowledge of PHP and Perl and stuff, and haven’t been able to install any of the third party utilities to prevent comment spam. In all this, I overlooked one little tool that comes with MT 3. Typekey.

Beginning today, Selective Amnesia will require all of you to register with TypeKey to comment. It’s a simple process, quicker than signing up for an Hotmail account. Just choose a Username and a password to register, and whenever you folks need to comment here (hopefully, a lot), sign in using typekey and comment away.

This might be a bore, and you folks would have to remember one more username and password, but please do hang in there. This only till I figure out how to Install MTBlacklist.

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3Dec/044

Not so good

120 feet above ground staring out over thousand trees distant sea rolling restlessly waiting for night and peace dark fluffy clouds gathering conspiring shredding the sun into million pieces of gold overhead an eagle soaring up floating blissfully on column of hot thermal a flash of blue and red down below an angel in designer jeans i lean forward nice to meet you Macadam

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