I’m a meet eater
Much like “Ravages” (selectiveamnesia.org), a blogger for “donkey’s years”, who says he doesn’t need to get anything out of a bloggers’ meet except good company, some good jokes, and probably more readers.
A nice story on Bloggers Meet by Ramya Kannan in today’s Hindu Magazine Section. Check it out.
Question to all netizens
What makes porn so popular on the net, asks Avinash, over at Interactivity
If you know the answer, stand up and get head, er, i mean get heard.
Ammani’s Virus
Quick Tale #1
The Signal.
He stood there in the blazing sun, willing the light to turn green impatient, fearful, revving the bike up as she sat behind him hanging on nervously, not knowing what would happen. The light turns green, he rushes forward, unknowing that the city buses are colour blind, especially of the colour red. In a bloody instant it’s over.
They who were afraid of their father’s death, are now dead.
Ammani, does this match up?
Tag. You’re it.
Yazad has a good meme running on his blog, and has tagged me. Ever the obliging friend, I have taken it up.
Total Number of Books I Own: Never counted. Somewhere in the region of 500. This is besides the textbooks on Economics, How to guides on CSS, XML, Visual Basic etc, books on Advertising, and those “motivational” books. This 500 also excludes books I’ve borrowed from friends and family and which have never left me since. (Chenthil, I shall return your Bill Bryson soon.)
Last Book I Bought: Let me see. The last book I bought-bought was “Tales from the Sun – Folklore of Southern India” – highly recommended and “Cutting Edge Advertising” by Jim Aitchison.
Last Book I Read: Actually, the last few books I am still reading – Bill Bryson’s A short history of nearly everything, Kalki’s Sivagamiyin Sabadham, Jim Corbett’s the Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag.
Five Books That Mean a Lot to Me: This is always the most difficult part. Why restrict it to only 5? Ok, here goes.
- Richard Bach – Illusions. If the English Language had no other book to claim as literature but this, it still would be the best language on earth. What a book!
- Kalki – Ponniyin Selvan. Where do I begin describing this epic? I don’t actually. I let you folks interested to read and find out yourself.
- David Frawley – Gods, Sages and Kings. Like a good skirt, it hides more than it reveals, yet keeps you salivating for more.
- Ayn Rand – Fountainhead and Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal.
Tag five people and have them do this on their blogs:
Like Yazad, “All are welcome”. But specifically, I would like the following people to take it up.
Nancy Gandhi
Chenthil
Jax
Pleomorphous
and Unantha
And once again, this is open to ALL, not just the names mentioned above!
Mumbai from the trenches.
Well, a few quick points, before I rush to work.
The place stinks. A combination of rotten fish, open sewers and the fag end of platform 1 & 2 of Chennai Central. There’s no escaping the smell in Mumbai.
The city’s huge. I live in a pretty big city myself (35th largest, at last count), but I am amazed at the scale of Mumbai. What would a person, from say Sangendhi (a village of 10 homes and a temple) near Trichy would think of when he lands in Mumbai?
Met proportionately more bloggers in the 3 odd days I spent in Mumbai than the 2 years of blogging from Madras.
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Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is a copywriter, photographer and goofball from Chennai. He is also an archaeologist, historian and a city lover. He is currently a documentary film-maker and desk-monkey for a film production house.
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