Selective Amnesia There was a point to this. But I forgot.

13Aug/062

Bhaarathi – காணி நிலம் வேண்டும்

A plot of land I ask for, Parashakthi,
just a plot of land.

I shall put up a walkway
and portico, in this land.
While you will build, by your hand,
a bungalow for my stay
By the far corner,
Oh Shakthi, you will dig me a well
and a shelter of tatch, for me to dwell
as i sip on coconut, tender.

plant me coconut palms, by the dozen
between the leaves of which, pearly light
o’ the moon washes over, it’s a sight.
To do this, you are beholden
I will want to hear
the cry of the cuckoo bird,
as the gentle winds cool my head.
definitely something to cheer
songs from the lips of a charming maiden
may a thousand verses emerge
as our joyous passions surge
[1]
thus shall be my haven
and in this little heaven,

oh shakthi, you shall be my guard
my dream, true it shall come, by god
and the song i write with my pen

[1] Correct/interpreted better by Anuradha

12Aug/065

Travel

From Tamilnadu to Kerala, the journey part of it, is like foreplay. You are coming, coming, coming. Almost there. And then, you have come. But being who I am, I like the foreplay much better. The destination, not so exciting. You reach the end, sticky and tired. And only thing left to do is wash up and go to sleep.

11Aug/069

Chenthil sucks

I am appalled and dumb-struck by the audacity, impropriety and sheer jealousy of Chenthil.
(And no, I will not give him a link now and make him even more popular) How can one man be so vile as to question the order of things in the blogosphere? Who is he, what provenance does he have, to offer ghost-write blogs? Who, in short, does he think he is?
After all, he started off as one small time blogger, reviewing books and restaurants. Now, look at him! Just because he wanted to be on top of the PutVote.com rankings, he goes and creates a controversy. And then, when the self-righteous blogosphere busted his scam, he apparently apologises and then, creates one more controversy – he says he will ghost blog.
Agreed, he does write well, with some kind of wit and intelligence. And I will also agree, the overall quality of writing in the blogosphere sucks big time, but what impertinence?

Chenthil. You are not my friend any more. I renounce our friendship, and will look upon those coffees and vadais we shared at Woodlands a bad patch on my character.

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11Aug/063

Fucking hilarious

Remixing remixes

[via Prabhu]

10Aug/062

Why the cartellians are wrong

Folks. I admit it. My fellow cartellians are all wrong. I was too, till recently. But one incident opened my eyes up. And I realised the folly of my ways. I eat humble pie (since I am on a diet and all, I shall eat only one portion, though) and hang my head in shame.

MY FELLOW CARTELLIANS ARE ALL WRONG. There, I said it. Though I won’t live to see the coming Independence day of this great country (After this post, the Cartel’s high council would have met and discussed what to do – I think Madman’s knives will finally pay off its investment), I am proud I have bared all.

Here’s where the cartellians have gone wrong: Logic.

You see, being the super-gods and extra-terrestrial intelligent beings of light they are, they don’t understand, barely comprehend even, that humans don’t get logic. Oh no!
To a human being, Logic is as alien as the cartellians themselves. Or a more fitting analogy, logic is to humans what 42 is to Nilu.But the cartellians, not knowing this, censure the humans, who more deserve pity.

As the Cartellians go through this blogosphere, trying to make reasoned comments and logical repartees and structured thoughts, they are looked upon by the other side in abject terror. And as fear makes the adrenaline boil and adrenaline makes the humans act – and since they act in heat of the moment, they know not what they write.

Take my very close and good friend Shivam. What a human! His heart bleeds. His words sting. His actions speak. (I personally haven’t seen him act on his causes, but that’s my untrusting, suspicious Cartellian sense, really) But, much as I admire the boy, oops, man, I would be forced to admit that Logic is not his strongest point.

Take, purely to illustrate the idea, a post I made recently, about him goofing up on the difference between anonymous and pseudonym-ous (a word I just coined now. That’s why I am the best darn writer there ever was)

All this, dear reader, is just the preamble. Honest or not, I know not. But the point is,
If the cartellians aim to show the world of humans that their way is the right way (and I do think it is) they can do zilch with logic. To convert the humans to this side, they need to talk to them in the language they understand – gibberish.

For instance, when in an argument over, say, Government regulations on blogs, if the cartellians say “Free Speech cannot be subjective. Free speech, by its very nature, is for all.” and attempts, through logic to explain his point (sadly, much as we cartellians hate being sexist, there is not a single woman in the cartellian conclave. So, a cartellian will continue to be a he. Unless of course, one us discovers HRT), he will get no where towards convincing, heck – even making the other side comprehend his point.

But, if a cartellian were to try illogic (crude example: You moron! Free speech as in free-software, not free beer), you can be sure the cartellian would have made his point, loud and clear.

Which is why, I say, my fellow cartellians are on the wrong. They should liberally use illogic, till the human is converted. Once that is done, life will make sense for all.

I repeat – all logic to those illogical can only be illogic.

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10Aug/062

National Underwear day

Heh!

[via Adrants]

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9Aug/060

Calling all ye flickr folks

Go here, and tell me your story.

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