tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77998982024-03-07T15:01:49.297-08:00Drives, Notes and Paranoidal Delusionsgerminal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-27791536790915512722011-01-31T17:09:00.000-08:002011-01-31T17:21:29.141-08:00A Good ByeIsn't it true that we know not whom we meet,while some make your heart wildly skip a beat,there are others that make enduring them a feat,the few with who you dream, hang out and eat,its with those that your heart’s free of deceit. when they leave, you are lost and dazed in confusion, but, embrace it even if it seems without reason, for what you feel now makes you distinctly human, no wonder germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-5963932483791733132008-08-22T10:27:00.000-07:002008-08-22T11:31:04.177-07:00Madras nalla MadrasIt's not just the place. It's not just the human psyche, playing games, matching places with emotions. Its not purely rational either. Its a bit of everything, culminating at times, into pseudo masculine tears, wanting to break out, because the emotions causing is like the place itself, a myriad mixture of nostalgia, sadness and pride.Madras, now Chennai, has turned 369. Not that I need a day, agerminal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-4418850607018793902008-05-30T16:49:00.001-07:002008-05-30T16:50:10.035-07:00Return to InnocenceTickets from Chennai to SFO for 2: 130,000 Rs.Flight tickets to Buffalo for 2: 5000 RsRide on the maid of the mist cruise: 1500 Rs.Watching my parents become children again: Priceless.There are some err... many things money can't buy, for everything else there is mastercard.germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-2363075299128657562008-05-16T10:50:00.001-07:002008-05-16T11:20:47.645-07:00Clown? Ortist?Masters Degree! 6 years of hard pointless education in a field which now I think is not suited to me and to celebrate that huge Fiasco they dress people like clowns(as shown left) in gowns(irrespective of gender;unisex, one size fits all cap... COOOOOLLLLLNESSSS) that would make any clown proud and make the whole world laugh and smile with you. May be that happy moment to all those who are germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-34636948290621579702008-04-14T18:31:00.000-07:002008-04-17T01:19:32.068-07:00P(No_H1) = 0.2301"What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss ?" - Javier Bardem , in 'No country for old men'.Anton Chigorh, a psychopath serial killer, from the oscar winning movie, posts this innocuous question to his victims, before he kills them. It would have been definitely nerve wrecking, if the victims knew that their life was at stake. Seeing them, knowing that they would die if they lost in the coin germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-64997780169350031812008-04-02T15:31:00.005-07:002008-04-02T17:37:32.563-07:00Mallu, Metal, Misc, MacadamiaBeing a rock music lover, I do follow Indian rock and its products. They come and go like lightning. There is Parikrama(probably the best of the lot), Sceptre, Moksha(Lead vocals passed away, Leon- RIP), Brahma, Pin Drop Violence(Nu, death, trash, contemporary metal), Thermal and a Quarter(again a mallu band, but vocals in English though, comprising of 3 mallus and a guy whose grand pa is a germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-61914486216002064002008-03-24T23:40:00.008-07:002008-03-25T02:06:30.306-07:00Swung out"If I could tell you what it meant,there would be no point in dancing it"- Isadora DuncanWe were driving along foothill express heading North, when S almost carelessly rammed his car into the median following a left turn. He was pre-occupied with something. Thanks to his cognition, resurrection of his senses and some timely "not-so-loud-i dont-want-to-panic-u" alarm from his co-passenger, S germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-8241995072184420802008-02-21T23:07:00.004-08:002008-02-21T23:55:31.564-08:00Grey ScaleWhen you are taking pictures, you neither want it to be too bright nor too dark. You want the picture to feel soothing to your eye, like 18% grey, so to speak. Its something I have learned over the years. Any walk of life, demands balance. Its about striking the right grey scale. I love grey. My little scribbling so to speak..........My SketchesBe good , be grey! Click the above pic to see more.germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-833479783943115952008-02-12T09:53:00.000-08:002008-02-12T10:00:45.027-08:00jus cos everybody's doin it????so, here he is, a specimen of modern day fad, a victim of lifestyle, doin that thing he does Or rather doin that thingeverybody does. Dressing up in clothes that do not suit let alonefit, throwing up an attitude that a five year old would identifyas faked, twisting the tongue, probly the only movable muscle in his body, to try and pronounce the simplest of english words to sound "english",germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-67095187601110629222008-01-30T23:14:00.000-08:002008-01-31T00:41:04.470-08:00Introducing Sam Anderson!I beg of you to watch the video. Please.Review: Actor Sam Anderson and Miss No-Name have together produced, easily the most mind boggling video ever in the history of mankind. A trillion thanks to my friend Ifthikar Ali Talha to have found this. Sam Anderson- undoubtedly a look alike of Thomas A. Anderson aka Neo in the 1999 blockbuster The Matrix- has panache and charisma equivalent to that of germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-30437556810224130082008-01-16T16:04:00.000-08:002008-01-16T16:26:23.626-08:00Midas TouchI just couldn't resist.Look at this for a shot. Brett Lee bowled a pacy bouncer into Sachin's body, Sachin sways back to avoid it and in the final moment of the ball passing decided to push it over the slip cordon, off the meat of the bat. This is why Lara is just a wee bit below Sachin in my books, Lara never adapted, was never consistent, nonetheless a genius by his own standards. Sachin is germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-55078674208433372722008-01-11T15:11:00.000-08:002008-01-11T16:45:41.996-08:00Bloody ShitOne song I have been hearing a lot these days is this.Its the background score in the movie Guru, when Madhavan lip locks vidya balan. Just one of those very romantic scenes, which are very rare these days, that makes a lasting impression. Maniratnam is indeed the best in India. This piece of info is neither bloody nor shitty. Just a random thing.Ok this post is about a exotic rare (read as, not germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-80920794887791089902008-01-04T14:55:00.000-08:002008-01-04T16:23:17.997-08:00True LoveWhat is he? Is that a bat or a chisel that Michelangelo held? Is his mind as strong as that of Gandhiji's? Is it a straight drive or a stroke of a painter wielding his brush making his magnum opus? Is he the greatest sporting hero ever one could see in a life time? Am I the one of the gifted people to have seen him all my life, covering all his career? Does he hold the happiness of millions of germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-81165573075234684232007-12-21T13:37:00.000-08:002007-12-21T14:55:08.741-08:00The Dimple EpisodeLets go back to 1995, Aprilish time. Just when the school starts usually. This was my 5th std. There I was a newbie to school and excited as I was seeing a lot more kids than I was usually used to. My 4th std was in a school where I was the only one in the class. (Read it twice, thrice, yes its true , more on that on a different post). The one before that was in a villagish town called germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-87492617250394344072007-12-12T16:33:00.000-08:002007-12-14T17:58:04.697-08:00The God of small thingsArundhati Roy - The God of small thingsThis is like a politician making a true promise to the people. That's how rare is the occasion of me writing a review on a novel. For starters the book is easily the best novel I had read so far. That brings the next question, how many have I read and what are they ? Its countable using fingers and mostly recommended by bibliophiles who recommend them, germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-29985274951154787712007-11-21T13:53:00.000-08:002007-11-21T15:11:03.433-08:00Marriages are made in heaven?Recently (read as within a span of 2 days) I have come across incorrigible stories. Three stunning stories, from my Motherland. Alas.Here goes the first one.Synopsis:JALPAIGURI: A 36-year-old man married his teenage daughter and made her pregnant, justifying his perverse act by claiming he had divine sanction for his incestuous lust. What's even more galling is that his wife was the prime witnessgerminal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-52570938624902613082007-11-14T10:25:00.000-08:002007-11-14T17:04:31.461-08:00Perfect StrangerWalk a busy street, meet a million faces. Some tickle your hormones, some befuddling, some bring sympathy and almost always feeling felt is not apathy. Some, we watch regularly, on a daily basis. But they aren't just there, they sneak in your agenda, your life, without your permission. They not being 'there', transforms your eyebrow into a 'tick'.I remember million such people, perfect strangersgerminal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-39876598209770025352007-11-07T22:39:00.000-08:002007-11-08T00:20:59.851-08:00DDiwaalee DDiwaaleeBack in 2000-01, IIT coaching classes were abundant. L.V or L. Venketaraman was the Professor. He seemed like a genius, who did every problem that existed using progression - AP, GP and HP. Me and few other big losers used to attend his classes. It was close to diwali, he persisted that we attend his class regularly. I knew I was no good for IIT, lost hope and was wasting time and money there, germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-34584866604840387982007-08-27T21:50:00.000-07:002007-08-28T23:51:48.365-07:00The Bond Girl!Nope.. not Hally Berry.This is the plot.It was 1997. I was close to 138cm high(do the math, converting to feet and inches is too embarrasing) and I was this brown, very thin kid doing 8th std/grade. Prodiguous! mostly due to my size and appearance-so small that a 4th std kid would be temped to rag me. It was music class, for some reason that class room was inside chemistry lab! A physics lab germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-17516000389920402402007-07-26T17:52:00.000-07:002007-07-26T17:53:35.012-07:00Of myths and men The Potterisation of a gifted sportsman — in popular perception — robs him of his essential humanity, writes Nirmal Shekar May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung, May you stay forever young, Forever young, forever young, May you stay forever young. — germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-77385668747409631032007-03-27T23:10:00.000-07:002007-04-02T01:40:50.267-07:00Emotional EntitiesWhy are we so emotional? 'we' as in Indians. Isn't cricket a sport ? Isn't the BarmyArmy of England sportive enough to support a dumb team like the English cricket team, even though they lose more often than not ? Life of an Indian is mercurial. Extreme is normal, normal is abnormal, abnormal is undefined to most. From pointless stardom worship in Xollywood (X = {B,K,T}) to weird unhealthy germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-1166813550480380212006-12-22T09:03:00.000-08:002007-02-18T19:46:30.136-08:00Perception of the fairer sexHave you ever wondered how your own perception about something has shaped up the way it is?Well I do. This post is going to hover about my perception about women in general, has shaped up to what it is now. May be someone from gender and women studies can use this as a excerpt of how a Indian thinks about women.When I was a kid, about 2nd or 3rd grade, it really doesn't make a difference if its germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-1164835552004383872006-11-29T13:22:00.000-08:002007-01-04T13:56:47.546-08:00Guide to good kalaai: Part IThe following is for the sake of fun and fun alone. Not meant to spur anger and hatred.To kalaasufy someone, you can either be gifted enough to weave a 'on the spot' irresistably funny comment, or get the usage and lingo of colleagues who are kalaaichufiers or you can do some homework, plan and use it nicely to make others laugh at someone who you do like but not at that instant.Pick up and use germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-1161935216264476772006-10-26T23:56:00.000-07:002007-02-01T19:57:16.756-08:00Confessions of a 21 year old psychoThe fact that I call myself a Psycho is not because of lack of self esteem nor its a matter of pride but its a plain simple 'fact'. Someone said (Robin williams) "everyone is instilled with a spark of madness and its not worth losing it". Not that I read this quote and I chose to be one, I loved being 'childish', whatever that means. 'Lose control' was the raaga on which my life has been based germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799898.post-1159827681467754252006-10-02T14:32:00.000-07:002006-11-05T14:13:21.436-08:00Meet the Batch mateThe thought of missing India is a system level daemon that seizes to kill itself. I and many others who have come to this country (US) for the sake of 'studying', to establish a career and the many other myriad reasons, miss our homeland badly. Let me not whine about it. But rather I would wanna talk about the "characters" that we miss being here.I/We call them 'batch mate'. This is a male(most germinal dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664902110497635808noreply@blogger.com8