I believe in the kingdom come
You really start feeling old"er" when:
1. You start paying taxes and abuse the govt for not utilising them properly.
2. You realise that you joined college
7 years back.3. People ask you whether you still follow metal at your age.
4. Kids around the street start calling you "uncle" instead of "bhaiya".
5. You subtract a 2 digit number from your age and are still left with a two digit number.
6. You realise that there is nothing else that you can be, other than your present occupation, when you "grow up". And believe me, that sucks.
7. The bands that you grew up listening to or which burst upon the scene in front of you, start releasing "best of" albums.
8. You actually have to stay at home, because the carpenter is going to come to fix the door.
9. You realise that Roger Federer is "actually" your age and has already won so many titles.
10. You talk about old TV shows, which nobody, other than a couple of people can seem to recall. 11. People are actually talking about Sachin Tendulkar's retirement. It always seemed so far away :(
12. You are the seniormost guy in your team in terms of experience. ( ...whoa!!)
13. Your father is no longer the superhero he seemed to be.
14. You start paying back for something that you bought, via monthly installments.
15. You actually start repaying your debts to your friends :)
16. When people your age are busy buying land and houses and other such stuff...(and you dont know head nor tail of what's going on :-D )
17.People who care about you actually want to know what you plan to do with your life....
18. ..... and when " I dont know" is not a good enough answer to that.
Current Music: Byzantine - Ancestory of the Anti-Christ
Of Unrelated Geometry
This seems like a familiar place. Reminds me of my blog somewhat? Wonder what happened to it? Maybe it too fell on bad days ...poor thing...i can only sympathise with its author who must be busy earning his daily bread much like me. Trying to get more and more work squeezed out of his fatigued body, nay soul maybe.
Ok enough of the oblique excuses, the last day has seen me stumble upon somethings that are worth propagating. First is a wonderful book of short stories titled "The Red Carpet" by Lavanya Sankaran. I have read just 2 of the stories in the book so far, but have been smitten by this lady's subtle wit and immaculate picturisation of the Bangalore youth and spirit. Lets hope the remaining stories too match up. The book was actually a worthy recommendation from a friend of mine, who we call Bib as a tribute to his clumsiness, when we got around to discussing why there werent too many books that had ever tried to capture the feel of living in Bangalore. Yup, i agree that not many would want to write about living in Bangalore today with its traffic and other monstrosities but there are a bunch of things that do give that city a whole lotta soul. The second would be these awesome radio shows that go by the name of Global DJ broadcasts that any self respecting trance fan should listen to. Just checkout the roster for the guest DJs on the show and you would know. Look up
http://www.globaldjbroadcast.com/ for more details.
On an absolutely unrelated and tangential note, did anyone see this (
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/columns/content/story/258516.html) . No no, forget the stories, just scroll down to the 2 nd pic and well ...ya ..pick your jaw back up. And yes that is Vinod Kambli with one of the hottest chics that i have seen in a long long time. Man, how the hell is it possible i have no clue, but that guy must have done something right in his lifetime.
And then you get to hear news like this (
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowbizNews.asp?Code=ZK44187L&headline=steve_irwin_killed_in_diving_tragedy) . The Crocodile Hunter is no more. Struck rather ironically by a sting ray and not a croc as would have been much more poetic. RIP steve. Animal Planet would not be the same without you.
Current Music: Bonham - Wait for You
