Archive
Fiction, essays, and abandoned manuscripts from a previous life. Written between 2007–2020 under the pen name Athul DeMarco.
About the Author
"Athul DeMarco resides in Bangalore. For now. He is a travelling design researcher. And when he is not traveling, he is seated, in his boxers, writing on his laptop or shouting at the television. He took a break from a cushy job, gave up a company expense account in 2009, and now spends his time writing stories instead of making PowerPoint presentations. He is delusional when it comes to cricket and believes that Ajit Agarkar is the greatest player of all time. He also believes that Sherlock Holmes truly exists."
Ran out of cigarettes
Ran out of cigarettes, patience and resolve. Had a slightly better week than the previous week but still a shit week.
Genre: Addiction
For people who have loved something that was slowly killing them.
Happy Reading... I Suppose...
The farewell post. A writer uploads everything unfinished, says goodbye to a blog that spanned 13 years, and walks away from the blinking cursor. For now.
Genre: Personal Essay, Farewell
For people who have ever abandoned a creative project and felt the specific guilt of leaving characters mid-sentence.
Struggle
Like the kids say, 'The struggle is real'. Been having trouble setting my sleep schedule, tried syncing it with my regular school schedule.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Trial run
Starting a new experiment. Lets' see how long this lasts.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Week 2 - An Absolute Waste
Did absolutely fuckal all of this week. Only started to study think from Saturday onwards.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Seeking money!
I don't like people who get obsessed with money. Think it blinds people from what really matters.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Questions
Questions like - Why is there is a sudden rise in minor voices being heard in mainstream media? Minor voices = marginalized voices.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Here Is What I Think the Future Holds
A 2017 prediction piece about technology, culture, and human behavior. Some predictions landed. Some aged like milk. All of them reveal how we thought about the future before the future arrived.
Genre: Futurism, Technology Essay
For people who enjoy reading old predictions with the benefit of hindsight. Part time capsule, part accidental comedy.
Insecurity
I have a confession to make. Confession is definitely not the word.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
The Debt Collector
A man who collects debts for a living discovers that some debts cannot be repaid in cash. Short, sharp, and surprisingly human.
Genre: Crime Fiction, Short Story
For people who like their crime fiction served cold, in small portions, with an aftertaste that lingers.
The Man With No Name
A mysterious foreigner with no name, no memory, and a missing chain wakes up beaten on the streets of Bangalore. What follows is a violent, funny, and surprisingly tender chase through the city's underbelly.
Genre: Noir Thriller, Dark Comedy, Bangalore Pulp
For people who like John le Carre's sense of dread mixed with Guy Ritchie's sense of humor. Set in a Bangalore that tourists never see.
Badlapur Review
A review of Sriram Raghavan's revenge thriller that is less about the film and more about what revenge stories reveal about the people who love them.
Genre: Film Review, Essay
For people who watch Bollywood revenge thrillers and think about them for days afterward. For Varun Dhawan skeptics who got converted.
Molested Poppy
A detective buddy novel set in the underbelly of Bangalore. Two unlikely partners, a series of connected crimes, and a city that keeps its worst secrets in plain sight. The longest unpublished manuscript in the archive.
Genre: Crime Fiction, Buddy Novel, Bangalore Noir
For people who like Lethal Weapon's buddy chemistry transplanted into Indian crime fiction. Long, messy, ambitious, and completely unfinished.
How I got dogs and learned to love the smell of shit
Once upon a time… By that I mean a couple of years back. When I was still single and so were my friends.
Genre: Relationships
For people who overthink love and are honest enough to admit it.
Two Kinds
Stop me if you have heard this one before. There are two kinds of people.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Things I have learned since I got published
The story about quibbling, quarreling conjoined twins titled ‘An.Al – The Origins’ hit bookshelves sometime last August, 2013. What follows is a list that starts reasonable and quickly stops being one.
Genre: List
For people who like their observations numbered and their judgments unsolicited.
Weekday Zombie
The day is Friday. You refresh your mail box one last time, hoping and crossing everything which comes in pairs.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
AL.AN - The Nemesis
The sequel to An.Al - The Origins. The AI has evolved, the stakes have escalated, and the line between creator and creation has become dangerously thin. Previously unpublished.
Genre: Science Fiction, Techno-Thriller
For people who read The Origins and wanted more. For anyone who thinks Ex Machina did not go far enough.
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I had just poured myself a cup of coffee. My first and only cup of coffee.
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
Manjhe Means Matlab
A screenplay that uses the metaphor of kite-fighting to explore manipulation, control, and the thin strings that connect people who are trying to cut each other loose.
Genre: Screenplay, Drama
For people who like The Kite Runner's emotional register but want it as a film script set in the lanes of old India.
Lessons from the past
‘History repeats itself. First as a tragedy and second as farce’ – Karl Marx As most children raised before parenting books started topping sales chart, I was accustomed to corporal punishment, both at school and at home.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Dear Mr. Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat, Subject: With reference to Times of India article dated 01 November, 2013 titled ‘Being Hindu Indian or Muslim Indian’ Dear Mr. Bhagat, Hope this letter finds you in the pink of your health.
Genre: Open Letter
For people who enjoy watching someone say the quiet part loud.
Now an E-Book
If you have an e-book reader, I don't really have to tell you what you need to do right? I mean you can't be that daft.
Genre: Book Review
For people who want opinions served with personality, not objectivity.
An.Al - The Origins (Excerpt)
An excerpt from a sci-fi novel about artificial intelligence, consciousness, and what happens when a machine starts asking the questions humans have been avoiding.
Genre: Science Fiction, Philosophical Thriller
For people who like Asimov's questions wrapped in a page-turner. A preview of the published novel.
Pappu can write saala OR How I now call myself an author
Allo, Hi, Hello, I am proud and ecstatic to announce that the much awaited day has finally arrived upon us. I finally hit 'Send' on this mail, which has been festering, for months, in my drafts folder.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Reached home?
Dear Reader, I hope you are well and not of the curious disposition to read the rest of this email. I hope you are not one of those curious people who just has to know who is speaking from that missed call from that unknown numberyou got in the mi...
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Juvi Zenny is Juvi
I actually started writing this post in Comic Sans. But then I decided to go with Courier New.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
BOOBS! - An Obsession
We, men, women, children who have access to the internet, we are all interested in a pair of boobs. We find them interesting.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
On Your Marks. Get. Set. BANG!
A hitman, a gamble, and a room dressed in dark. What begins as a contract killing unfolds into a layered crime thriller about loyalty, betrayal, and the price of doing business in the underworld.
Genre: Crime Fiction, Noir Thriller
For people who like Tarantino dialogue and Scorsese stakes. The extended version of a story that started as a short and refused to stay short.
Flatmate wanted
This is, if legend suggests, that time of the year when I begin my hunt for flatmates. When I say ‘hunt’, I mean more like valiant search for that particular variant of mango which looks like a ball and has really thin skin and a really small gott...
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Just trying to make sense
I am trying to understand things here. So do bear with me.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Review: RIP – Mukul Deva
The following is the overview of the book which prompted me to read this book. The Resurgent Indian Patriots.
Genre: Book Review
For people who want opinions served with personality, not objectivity.
Lucy and Her Three Best Friends and the Big and Ugly Lizard
A children's story about a girl named Lucy and her unlikely friendship with a big, ugly lizard. Deceptively simple, genuinely sweet, and written for the child in every adult.
Genre: Children's Fiction, Fable
For people who still read Roald Dahl and think The Little Prince is philosophy disguised as a bedtime story.
Alex & Irene
Two people. One story. Told from both sides. A relationship dissected with surgical precision and reassembled with something that might be tenderness.
Genre: Literary Fiction, Romance
For people who like Normal People's emotional precision but want it set in India with messier characters.
Bleurgh
Working on a new writing project. But, as always I am unsure of what it is that I am working.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
100 years of Indian Cinema
There is something to be said about black and white photographs. The monochromatic color scheme is very much like a haunting melody.
Genre: Review, List
For people who like their humor unfiltered and their lists unreasonable.
Open Letter to the Chennai Male Engineering Students
Hello you-male-incumbent-potential-future-ignorant-regressive-khap-policy-makers, Before I begin, let me first clarify as to why I intend this letter to be both open and specific to Chennai Male Engineering college students.
Genre: Open Letter
For people who enjoy watching someone say the quiet part loud.
The Bankster - Book Review
The Bankster by Ravi Subramanian is a story about bank fraud, people mysteriously dying and somebody piecing together the puzzle, connecting the dots and unveiling the big picture. The Bankster took me by surprise.
Genre: Book Review
For people who want opinions served with personality, not objectivity.
The Lost Art Form
Batting in cricket is instinctual. Good batsmen are reflexively responsive to their instincts and great batsmen learn to discipline these reflexes.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Mumbaistan - Book Review
So let me split this up into two bits. Things I liked about this book and the things I didn't fancy.
Genre: Book Review, Family
For people who understand that family is both the wound and the bandage.
Naoko - Book review
** SPOILER ALERT ** For starters, I am not sure what the blurb writer found funny in this story. The story wasn't funny.
Genre: Book Review
For people who want opinions served with personality, not objectivity.
Red Jihad - Sami Ahmad Khan : Review
'What happens if the faction of Indians who do not believe in democracy (naxals) join hands with our neighbors who don't want democracy in India?' This in a sentence is the basic premise of the Red Jihad.
Genre: Review
For people who want opinions served with personality, not objectivity.
The Terrorist - Book review
Where do I begin? Reckon will start with the things I didn't like about this book.
Genre: Film Review
For people who want opinions served with personality, not objectivity.
Untitled
There are three types of fiction you will come across. Works which makes you stop and ask yourselves, ‘I can never ever write like this.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Non - twitterized conversation with self
‘BOOM!’ ‘I heard! You don’t have to mask your farts with the sound of BOOM!
Genre: Poetry
For people who think in line breaks.
Flight 3G 742
A plane crash. A mysterious passenger. A story that spirals from disaster thriller into something far stranger and more philosophical than it has any right to be.
Genre: Thriller, Speculative Fiction, Philosophical Drama
For people who like their thrillers with a side of existential crisis. Think Lost meets The Twilight Zone, set on an Indian airline.
The curious case of the murder in the bathroom
Now, this one is a proper, proper short, really short story. Now for you fancy shmancy pants, there is the mobi version for your kindle HERE and for the smart phone people, the epub version is HERE.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Boxer Shorts - A Brief History
The sequel nobody asked for. A historical deep-dive into boxer shorts that is somehow both meticulously researched and completely unhinged.
Genre: Humor, Satire, Mock-Academic
For people who enjoyed the Grand Classification and wanted more. Also for anyone who has ever argued about underwear with a straight face.
Grand Classification of Men - Underwear
A taxonomic study of men based on their underwear choices. As rigorous as it is absurd. Part one of an unfinished magnum opus on male classification.
Genre: Humor, Satire
For people who like David Sedaris-style observational humor with an Indian twist. Warning: you will never look at underwear the same way.
Audio BOO!
I don't like Chennai and I need to go buy a belt. I don't like Chennai and I have to buy a belt (mp3) What the bible doesn't teach you...
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Social conscientiousness thingy
I was whiling away my time, sitting on the dining table, nursing my morning cup of coffee (at 12 in the afternoon) when one of my mates posted this rebuttal to her colleague's article.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
ADAM - Screenplay
The screenplay adaptation of ADAM. Same existential questions, different medium. What works on stage becomes something more intimate on screen.
Genre: Screenplay, Philosophical Drama
For screenwriting enthusiasts and anyone curious how the same story changes shape between stage and screen.
ADAM - The Play
A stage play about the first man, reimagined. Adam is not in a garden but in a room, not with Eve but with questions. A theatrical exploration of creation, free will, and the weight of being first.
Genre: Stage Play, Philosophical Drama
For people who like Beckett's existential traps and Stoppard's wordplay. A play that reads better than most novels.
AL.AN - The Origins (Prologue)
*Prologue* It was a quiet night. Much like the ones before that night and much like the ones after that.
Genre: Fiction, Serial
For people who like raw, unpolished fiction with more ambition than restraint.
Alphabets - How I imagine them to be
I have been thinking about this for quite some time. And by this, I mean, trying to give new images to the alphabets than the ones which are ingrained by rote in my memory.
Genre: Poetry
For people who think in line breaks.
Chapter 2 - The Sleuths
*201 Swann Street, 2004* The phone rang again, as it had been for the last twenty minutes. Andy switched on the bedside lamp, blinking rapidly trying to get used to the harsh light.
Genre: Short Fiction
For people who like raw, unpolished fiction with more ambition than restraint.
A Moment to Remember
A love letter to the 2004 Korean film that proved melodrama, done right, is not a guilty pleasure but an art form. The kind of movie review that becomes a personal essay.
Genre: Film Review, Personal Essay
For people who cry at movies and are not embarrassed about it. Also for anyone who thinks Korean cinema peaked with Parasite and needs correcting.
Mere Brother Ki Dulhan – A non romantic con
Directed by first time director Ali Abbas Zafar and produced by Yash Raj Films, Mere Brother Ki Dulhan is a take on the age old bollywood formula of love triangles. We have been conditioned to foresee the end even before we step into the theater.
Genre: Poetry, Family
For people who understand that family is both the wound and the bandage.
The Girl in Yellow Boots - Mr. & Mrs. Kashyap, take a bow.
Written by the newly married couple of Anurag Kashyap and Kalki Koechlin, ‘The Girl in Yellow Boots’ is like a black moor fish, swimming alone in a pond filled with gold and koi fish.
Genre: Poetry
For people who think in line breaks.
Brilliant Cinema
It has been quite some time since I wrote something which wasn't fiction. Been reading 'The Best American Noir of the Century', which is an anthology of completely and utterly brilliant noir stories from the pulp fiction era.
Genre: Film Review
For people who want opinions served with personality, not objectivity.
New project
I am writing again. I say this with great amount of pleasure and self satisfaction.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Vodafone – Superweak
Vodafone is a mobile service provider. It is easy to confuse it with a hip – hop or a R&B star, especially considering the many avatars it has undergone, much like Prince, P.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
A dog’s life
They say your life flashes by when you are dying. They say you don't remember much from that age, but not me, I remember.
Genre: Personal
For people who appreciate honesty that hasn't been run through a PR filter.
Butterfly flapped its wings and Roger wanked
Roger was a Don Juan, a born coquette, a charming lothario, well you get the idea. And Roger believed in loving one and all, which meant he was not really picky about his audience before he decided to drop his pants, flashing his enormous anaconda...
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
I BRRRRR'ed
I Brrrrrrrrrrr'ed. It is dangerous, fatal even.
Genre: Poetry
For people who think in line breaks.
Monday
It was touted to be the scariest movie ever made. The director claimed that this movie would leave the audience frozen in their seats.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Movies, Music, Books and Lisp
I woke up about an hour back and decided that today is a good day to make a podcast. Even though I am not in the best of the moods courtesy crazy unreasonable woman.
Genre: Film Review
For people who want opinions served with personality, not objectivity.
Sebastian! Y U NO HAVE COMMON SENSE?
I am reading this book. And I do NOT like it one single bit.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Shoot on sight
The early morning sun seemed to be having identity issues as it shone like the midday sun on his naked motionless body and her pale white self. He opened his eyes gingerly as he tried getting his bearings right and ascertaining where she stood.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
The never ending tune
The wind was in a playful mood that day, as it mischievously lifted girl's skirts up, played catch with little boys' caps and old men's toupees.
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
This is just not any another feather in the cap
India won the world cup today. The last time they did this was in the year 1983.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Traveling light
It was the summer of 1978. The movers and shakers of the world were flying to exotic locales like Disney land and Timbuktu to meet Mickey Mouse and the many starving princes.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Who cares! It's a holiday anyway...
THE TRANSCRIPT Me: So you all dressed for Easter?She: Maundy Thursday. Easter is on SundayMe: What does Maundy mean?
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Post Coital Series 1 - Eggplants
She's sweaty… why can't the fan move any faster! I need to take a shower… maybe tomorrow sometime… wondering if I should record us having sex… I may have to lose some weight and work out before I do that… both of us will definitely look fucking ug...
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Post Coital Series 2 – How do you like your eggs?
What am I supposed to say to that? Why won't men have sex and just fall asleep?
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Teaser - Alan
Again, as it had been for the last 25 minutes. Andy opened his eyes, blinking rapidly, trying to wash the remnants of a rather disturbing dream involving lumberjacks, Alfie and a rather menacing dog snapping at his legs realizing that the weird so...
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
What’s been happening?
I know I skipped on the yearly recap of 2010. And I have been feeling guilty about it for quite some time now, considering that I have come to think of it as a tradition, so to put my raging irritable bowel to rest and taking a break from writing ...
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
2011 - First Podcast of the year!
Apparently I can get quite narcissistic after I have had one to many to drink. Shouldn't come as a surprise to those who are acquainted to me and me ways.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Random arbit thought starter
Been waiting in this airport for the last two hours trying to control my urge to Christopher Walken on the escalator like he does in that fat boy slim video.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Typical 4 a.m drunk rant.
You know the times when you realize that you are an emotional fool? A blithering, slobbering savant who has had a pineapple shoved forcefully down his bottom?
Genre: Opinion
For people who enjoy watching someone say the quiet part loud.
Long overdue update!
Allo, I am not even going to bother to find out how long it has been since I last visited this place. But, it did seem that there was a long overdue update pending.
Genre: Personal
For people who appreciate honesty that hasn't been run through a PR filter.
Its PODCAST TIME!!!
Sheila and me talk about movies, crying at movies, oxes and bulls being castrated. Sheila's obsession with peeing.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
James Bond and the art of stripping
Niall helped me out with the quality issues but suffice to say it wasn't enough to audio photoshop me voice into something Barry Manilow. After hearing this podcast, me chances of getting laid plummet from zero to -infinity.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Sheila and Zenny (TRY to) make a podcast
So considering how disastrous my first two attempts at podcasting were. I managed to convince Sheila to lend me a helping hand.
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
Hotel California
The walk around the garden hasn't helped me one bit. Maybe I should open that bottle of beer.
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
Recollecting the Acid trip
Disclaimer – This is NOT a review. This is a recollection of the experience AND if you haven't watched the movie, I strongly suggest you to NOT read this.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
There are heroes and then there are Gods…
I was in 7th grade when Ajit Agarkar came into the limelight. It was around the same time when Ajay Jadeja had just been given a call for the Indian Test squad after his delightful performance in the then recently concluded One Day series with Sri...
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
9 reasons on what makes the Whore of Sparta!
We are all awesome and lame in unequal proportions, take Whore of Sparta who is so lame that he puts the 'me' in lame. A 9-item list that tells you as much about the writer as the subject.
Genre: List
For people who like their observations numbered and their judgments unsolicited.
Awesomeness Inc.
It has been a L O N G time since I have been this excited and proud to own something. The last time it was the Zippo and before that it was my first pair of Nike.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Cows not allowed!
Disclaimer – This post is in no way meant to hurt sense and sensibilities of people, especially the woman who got caught in the cross fire.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Evolution, Caveman and Retail Therapy
As always my intellectual masturbation, primarily due to the vow of abstinence after the now infamous 'cow's year of 2009', has left me with a rather cunning theory, which in no way will be leading to an equally cunninglus encounter with a hot bru...
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
The Great Indian Mythology (Vol I)
The Mahabharata retold for people who slept through the original. A 89-page irreverent, modern retelling that treats mythology not as sacred text but as the greatest soap opera ever written.
Genre: Mythological Retelling, Satire, Epic
For people who think Amish Tripathi plays it too safe. For anyone who wants the Mahabharata with footnotes, attitude, and zero reverence.
2009 – The year that was
Before I begin, I suggest you tuck yourself into your nice and warm duvet, I recommend this cause in all likelihood you are going to fall asleep reading this really, really long post.
Genre: Life Update
For people who appreciate honesty that hasn't been run through a PR filter.
All I want for Christmas is… You!
I know… stop with the rolling of the eyes already, it is corny song, but I quite like it and I love the movie too.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
500 days of summer – Review
After being disappointed by movies which I was say mildly excited about (G.I Joe, Transformers 2 for example), 500 days has once again proved why I love watching movies, and why I love stories where I can see the characters enact the emotions I se...
Genre: Film Review
For people who want opinions served with personality, not objectivity.
Blue - Review
Now I have never been known to review a movie in a separate blog post altogether which I don't end up recommending and raving about for weeks and months on end.
Genre: Film Review
For people who want opinions served with personality, not objectivity.
I need somebody to play spin a yarn with me for a little while
(And if you are a regular reader, you might have got a copy of that story in your inbox asking you for your feedback) Anyway, till things clear up on the whole proper job front, I have begun another writing project.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
IF...
If my report card came out in the form of a greeting card... this is worse than the infamous incident of the broken pencil, 1999. True story.
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
Stained Glass
Credit to be shared with Anon (yes I know you don't like that name…) :P Stained Glass 'Things really weren't supposed to be like this. I was just supposed to meet him for coffee.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
The show is still running
There are very few things apart from being inside an airport and watching movies, which make my heart glow with orgasmic joy. And since with the current credit crunch, I haven't been able to visit my happy place.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Soul crushing week
It was more soul crushing than the day I got lectured by that physics teach about how I will never be any good for anything and literally trash me and every single dream I dreamt off.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
A lot of first’s this weekend
As you grow old there are a lot of things you can knock of your bucket list. Well even though there are not things to look forward in life you know with the rising debts and no means of clearing them up, life has a way of throwing you a bone now a...
Genre: Personal
For people who appreciate honesty that hasn't been run through a PR filter.
Breaking News
Submitted the synopsis, sample chapters and personal statement for the Bitmead Bursary. But what really has got me all excited and peeing me in knickers is the news that my application for the 110th TGC has been selected and I am expected to go to...
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
I am crying! I am drunk out of my senses right abo
I am drunk out of my senses right about now, I know nobody will be coming down to this section, which is I have had to track this thread down to write it all down... I want to scream, wail and bawl my eyes out.
Genre: Personal
For people who appreciate honesty that hasn't been run through a PR filter.
It’s been a while
I am all dolled up in Rum n Coke and I am tripping on this song… Doesn't do me any good, that is for sure.
Genre: Poetry
For people who think in line breaks.
It’s the same damn story all over again
It really is, and this time I am not even going to blame anybody here, not me, not people, let us just face some facts.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Phew! That was some long run!
It has been quite some time for a lot of things. It's been quite some time before I went on one my usual movie marathons (kind of helps that none of my roommates are at home to try and talk to me or disturb me while I watch a movie), it's been qui...
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Will always remain a boy
There was a good reason why I never wanted to go back home, but I guess in the two years I did not call home or even entertain the thought of going home made me forget the reason.
Genre: Essay
For people who like reading someone think out loud, unedited and unapologetic.
Goa Hangover!
As I sit here, twitting and deciding if I am going to continue writing 'Alan – Tales of a Nobel Prize Winning bastard' there are a whole load of questions running around in my head.
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Mama I am coming home
So, after nearly close to 2 years, I am going back home. The reasons are just too hard for me to ignore anymore.
Genre: Humor
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Some more theories
So, while the job hunting is going on at an alien wrap speed which makes it look like it really is crawling along but gives you the impression that many light years have gone by since you last checked the tachometer readings.
Genre: Essay
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What have I been keeping myself busy with?
There is only so many hours I can sleep in a day, watch tv, shit, shave and eat. So, while looking for something to keep me occupied in this period of inactivity, I came across what I can only call as my lifeline.
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An uneventful birthday
So, I turned another year old yesterday. Well, these expectations were based on a number of variables, to begin with, it was on Monday, my roommates had gone home, which meant that I would be not alone not only on the weekend but also on my birthday.
Genre: Life Update
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Busy Social Year
I am pretty sure I would have mentioned this before, but there are an awful lot of people getting married this year. I mean every year lot of people get married, I was referring to the people I know of.
Genre: Essay
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Cathartic Women
I realized that the more I get to work in office the more I want to write, somehow gets my grey cells active. Anyway, the whole thing about cathartic women is much like that fling most women have after a serious relationship.
Genre: Essay
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Quite Interesting
Did you know that the Earth had more than one moon? But that happens on rare occasions.
Genre: Addiction
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Following customs
Customary blog after the trip to Mumbai, probably the first personal trip I have taken to Mumbai in a really long time and boy has this trip been eventful.
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Just hope I don’t delete this like the rest of them all
So quickly let me run through the things which have been happening in this really long absence – Started being a nice loser guy I was when I was back in school kinds, you know the one with morals, principles and all that jazz.
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Wish I could do something like this...
You guys so have to go check out the voicemails on this one. Check out the link - http://scherle.com/psychoexgirlfriend/voicemails.html I know a lot of women, especially the last one would want to do something like that.
Genre: Humor
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And finally
I find something to write about. It's been quite some time hasn't it been, what with all the abstinence and shit, well let me tell you one thing, sex is like a bone to a dog and when that is taken away and is not replaced with some other toy the d...
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Hearts Locked in a Gran Torino
Well, think my quest for a character finally gets appeased. Not by some 20 – 30 year old idealist trying to fight the system, but by a 78 year old man who still has you thinking he has not changed for the last 30 – 40 years.
Genre: Relationships
For people who overthink love and are honest enough to admit it.
Low Mans Lyrics
Listening to Metallica after ages. The one thing I like about them is that their songs have that magical quality of transforming their meaning according to the feelings and emotions you feel at that time.
Genre: Essay
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Say Anything
Loved the movie, John Cusack makes such dude movies if you actually think about it, take 'Say Anything', 'High – Fidelity', 'Con Air' I mean you can't get more dude in your movies than that.
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Things which I never understood
And in all probability things which I will never understand, I believe when questions are asked such as the ones listed below the look on face is the same as the one on a baboon's when asked to solve a quadratic equation.
Genre: List
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34 things which men think girls like (but secretly they hate) and what I hate about them!
Well, I was reading up men's bible of the 21st century (is it the 21st century or the 22nd century now?
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Ah the golden and olden days are almost back!
You know the best thing about starting to play regularly is the fact that this is probably the only thing which still connects me with who I was in the past.
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Applications invited
Yes, you heard right. The position for a booty call just opened up and you are eligible if you believe you satisfy the following pre-requisites, also find the benefits (if any!?!) below – First and foremost, you should be female.
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I am a Delhiite
This is not an original composition - I have picked it up from some friend's notes on FB. And I love it… I will not return calls.
Genre: Personal
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I am made of 2 parts!
And both of them are joined together with the help of a single joint at my back. Man I feel like a bleeding ball of dough on court… And I now realize as to why so few people take up to playing squash, you need a back which doesn't fucking creak, a...
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I should be felicitated
I seriously should be, a day should be named after me, scholarship should be given to kids and shit. I mean seriously, this is the 3rd consecutive day I have taken a bath, the first day showered in hot water and the next 2 days in cold fucking water.
Genre: Essay
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I still do keep some promises and I hate old age!
It's true, I may not keep all the promises which I make out like handing out candies in Halloween, but I do keep some promises. These promises are more like tattoos, things which will stay with me forever.
Genre: Essay
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I want to act!
You know as I am watching 'Swingers' the movie I can't help but think, of all the movies which were made into Hindi movies, this is one movie which I would love to watch, even better act in it.
Genre: Essay
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Listening to Loser!
Every once in a while I tend to feel like a loser, am sure a lot of you out there feel this way from time to time, and probably are good at keeping these feelings to yourself rather than share it with anybody, but not me, oh no!
Genre: List
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Seperate Ways...
Is the song I am listening to on repeat currently by Teddy Thomson, seems kind of apt at the moment given the situation that I have just washed my hands off a cool 80k. Easy come and easy go is what I say.
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You think I will learn!
I mean seriously! I don't what is it about me, is it just plain me, or is it because I am a guy or what?
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Bloody Civilians
I mean this has been bothering me for quite some time now. The huge disconnect between people's perception of people in the armed forces and the actual people in the armed forces.
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Dev D’ed Finally!
I am left speechless. Speechless, because I absolutely loved the way the story was told.
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Epiphany
Whilst listening to Tonic's 'If you could only see', I realized that am not that good at being single. Am not good at handling being lonely, and neither am I good at being intimate, it really is a catch – 22 situation if you ask me.
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Fuck…Fuck…Fuckity Fuck!!!
I tried to do something fancy with my blog…fuck…fuck…fuckity fuck… well it did not turn out what I expected…and I lost all the cool things in it...especially the cool zodiac sex thing...
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I have a temper and beautiful feet!
When I lose it, I literally do lose, not many people have bore witness to it, for the people who have, it is always a scary sight… So, consider this as one of those things people tell other people to be wary off.
Genre: Essay
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Q & A
Don't you think you seek attention purposely by speaking about your life in such hopeless terms? I think I would have to say Yes!
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Should have worn a goddamn rubber dude!!!
Am not really sure if the news of this 13 year old dude aptly named 'Alfie' making his 15 year old girlfriend pregnant, and I guess the Hollywood version of 'Kya Kehna' (Juno) more or less inspired his elder girlfriend to keep the baby instead of ...
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Something I wrote 2 years back but never completed
Prologue 'You are born once, you live once, you love once, you marry once and then you die once.' Yes, a lot of bullshit that is alright thought William, as he sat ruminating by the window having a smoke in the morning.
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There is a happy ending after all!
I just got off the phone with a dear friend of mine, who turns out is going to tie the knot this summer.
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Wait is finally starting to end
But you think that all the waiting has come to an end. there is still some more waiting, like the wait for me to actually go see Dev D.
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Woo – Fucking – Hoo!
And no this is not something which the rest of the world is up to because of the Oscars… But as you can see, finally the little black book, looks like a little black book… And am happy I witnessed history being made with Slumdog sweeping the award...
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Emosonal Atyachar - X Rated (Classic)
Makes Sutta na Mila sound like Twinkle Twinkle little Star...This is AWESOME...A Song of impeccable taste, unprecedented fashion, and sophisticated wit...This song is like the mini cherry on top of the regular cherry on top of the sundae of awesomene
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Here's to the whole Gang
An unfucking believable new year party. Will talk all about it once am done with this darned accounts paper.
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I am Dev D. and I am in love with Chanda
Yes, as the fever of Emosonal Atyachar catches the fancy of millions around the world and as the film is poised to make history once it releases, I thought let me write something recapping the month of Jan while the sound track of Dev D reverberat...
Genre: Relationships
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The moment of truth
The whole premise is that there are 5 levels, each level has about 5 or 6 questions, and like KBC as the question number keeps increasing the difficulty keeps increasing similarly in this game each question pushes the envelope of with the level of...
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Who are you?
I know I am asking a lot, and I am what you would call a narcissistic, self obsessed SOB and hence I am greatly intrigued by people who seem to be dropping and reading whatever that is I write from time to time on a regular basis.
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2008 – A year best forgotten
Well, in my case my life has turned around on its head in over a year. This would be probably be the first time since 2001 that I would be celebrating as a single bachelor.
Genre: Essay, Bangalore
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Classifieds
Wanted - A house mate & a true Spartan! Three Spartans (Software Engineers who are into marketing, market research and programming respectively) are currently residing in Sparta, a lovely cozy two bedroom apartment in GM Palya.
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Do me some more Emotional Atyachar!
mere Patna Presley's...this is what adores my desktop right about now, and for a long time to come now... Never has a single teaser for a movie driven me to such extents!
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It has been a long
Long, long past couple of days. What was supposed to be a week filled with kick ass work soon got mauled and raped by guys of my age with shit loads of ammunition.
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Karan Arjun
Watching Karan Arjun on TV after ages, and every single time I watch one of these movies it just takes me on an emotional roller coaster rides.
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Silver Lining
There is a silver lining after all. Well, to really see and appreciate the glimmer of the shiny silver beaming around the ragged edges of the dark clouds, you really have to get to know these dark clouds, really well.
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Slumdog Millionaire
Just finished watching the movie, and I am compelled to write this. I have no idea why, but never has the theme music of KBC been so uplifting.
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The one where I get married to Kurian
Or was at least advised to. Recently moved into my new place, which would put a lot (NO!
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Another one of those posts
Where I am search for things to write about because I am so jobless because I am in office, and I came about this article in Yahoo, I thought to myself, I am pretty weird when it comes to noticing the little things when it comes what I like in my ...
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Dev D is doing Emosonal Atyachar for real!
And so he did, and gave me the most heart breaking news one can receive on a Monday afternoon. That of an awaited movie being shelved, which means that the strains of ‘ek, do teen, char, cheeeee!
Genre: Essay
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Emotional Atyachar!
today has been a productive day at office. I have seen the trailers of movies ready to hit theaters as far as 2010.
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FAQs
I have no idea why, not that I am complaining but there is huge surge in the number of people who are now reading my blog.
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I am so fucking mad right now
Lets just say that the picture doesn't really do justice to how I feel right now...And I have left the quote box empty because I suddenly realized there are people who occasionally read this place and that word will get around.
Genre: Personal
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I think I finally figured myself out!
And this would be a clinical no holds barred statement about me from me - I am defined by pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a
Genre: Essay
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My biggest insecurity
Now, I think this was right about in the middle of 7th grade, right after the summer hols. I remember vividly, the first day back in school and almost everybody asked me what was wrong with my voice, and the numbers definitely tilted towards girls...
Genre: Humor
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New Fad!
I have no idea where I caught this bug from, but for the last couple of days I have been tripping on hard core Bollywood songs.
Genre: Poetry
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Quantum of Solace
No matter what people think about the new bond, I love him. I love him for being the brute headed goon he usually comes across as.
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Things in the last week
For which I have said 'This is so going in my blog' Well I just realized as to why I like some women better than the rest (I love all women, just not the same) – It has a name – 'Woo Girl' effect.
Genre: List
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This! is...going...to...be...AWE-UH-SOME!
Fuck me sideways! I am just kicked about this movie and this trailer has just upped the ante now.
Genre: Essay
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Three things you already know about James Bond
I have paid to see exactly one James Bond film: 1987's The Living Daylights, a project that starred Timothy Dalton and involved a highly sexualized female cellist. What follows is a list that starts reasonable and quickly stops being one.
Genre: List
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Ugly Revelations
Well some of these things which I heard in the last couple of weeks are not the most pleasant of things. Well for starters, I know I was a weird ass case back in my 11th and 12th grade.
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Back from the City that never sleeps! – Part 1
With plans of going back again at the drop of a hat. I have to admit that, this was probably the best Diwali I spent in a very long time.
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Kurian…He plans on adopting me!
But it was surely worth the time because the best things in life do not come fast and/ or free. Let me start with the bad stuff about Arvind, because, as I said, the best things in life do not come fast (and/ or free) There are times when I wished...
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Off on a Legendary Trip
And I realized couple of things; I love having money and having people tending to my needs Spent about 10 thousand and guess how long it took me to do that? And no I did not spend that 10k on my tickets to Mumbai that is a different 10k altogether.
Genre: Essay, Bangalore
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Potpourri – 3 weeks
I define it as the single pot with different shit. And this one has shit from the last 3 weeks.
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The bestest Diwali Ever!
There should be a word called 'bestest'. If there is one and being the ignorant nincompoop that I am my diwali was that.
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The Bro Code
I am writing this for Charan and Gopal's reference, since they obviously are not fucking aware of these things and therefore tend to fucking break these codes more times than I fucking curse.
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The remaining part of the weekend
Yes, having been woken up by getting kicked and hurling abuses first thing in the morning is not quite many people's ideal scenario of being woken up, proabaly the few times I can count as being normal this would be one of them.
Genre: Personal
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This is supposed to be a tag!
This is supposed to be a tag! And I have no idea as to what I can fucking actually write in here, because this tag I am supposed to write my own shit up.
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Airports make me feel good again…
And things are back to normal I suppose, well almost. One of those epiphanies hit me, the kind which blind sizes you whilst you are in mid sentence in a conversation with a bunch of people sitting around you.
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And am back with a headache to deal another…
September 1, 2008 Its Monday, just landed in Jaipur. The stewardess kept giving looks and I did check her butt (which was bit on the wider front, not that am complaining, it was cute, though she had ugly panty lines coming through them) on more th...
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Blurg by Vishnu
I've always been picky when it came to the people I call friends. I've pissed of plenty of unsuspecting 'friends' over the years because of my stubborn refusal to call them my friends.
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Character Analysis Continues…
As you have what it takes to be the best. One thing you must have or develop over a period of time is 'ability to forgive'.
Genre: Poetry
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Character Analysis
How do you describe someone who keeps changing? But I guess there are something's that never change.
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Did you know?
Did you know that Farhan Akthar was on face book and the rest of the celeb town who have brains which I could qualify as half decent? They are all on facebook.
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Fuck - II
I am here again, at the airport, Mumbai for those who have a irritating thing for details, but oddly and weirdly this is the first time I am not happy to be inside the airport. I mean this is definitely the first time.
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Fuck…I hate this…
So, I managed to get sleep for exactly 17 mins, before it was time to start walking towards the bus stop, time on my fucking watch 0245 hrs.
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Fucking tagged again
There used to be a time when I used to think why doesn't anybody tag me but now fucking everybody tagging me, the entire novelty is wearing off… But like all the other tags this one again looks interesting, so will give it a shot… Ten Things You W...
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How do I manage to do it?
It is super surprising to me. I mean how do I manage to go fuck up a simple thing like talking to a girl eh?
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I am Gorgeous!
Well apart from me being sick and trying to nurse myself back to good health by consuming copious amounts of sweet corn chicken soup and watching re-runs of 3rd rock from the sun…I realized couple of things • I am not Harry Solomon, like I believe...
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My english breakfast!
=) Nothing better to cheer me up in the mornings than good, piping hot English breakfast, would have been nice, if I could have gotten some bacon and sausages and cornflakes with cold milk. But what the hell, you can't have everything now can you.
Genre: Personal
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No points for guessing
But, given my given state, the state where there nicotine is absent from my system for more than 3 hours does not present a pretty picture.
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So finally…
Finally, I have found the perfect thing which will start me off on something which I intend to finish before am 25 years old.
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Some more excerpts
I was watching Bridget Jones Diary: The edge of reason, while the chicken was simmering in the pot for dinner.
Genre: Short Fiction
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There I go…again
Yeah, have to be at the airport at the ungodly hour of 0500 hrs in the morning. Which means I have to leave home sometime around 3 to be lucky to catch the shuttle bus to the airport which is in a different country altogether.
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100 things one must do before one dies!
Well, the guy who wrote that book and the guy who came on Oprah died at the age of 47. So, just wanted to check how many I can cross off this list of 100 things.
Genre: Personal
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10 things that makes blokes cry
I was reading BBC news online when I came across THIS article. A 10-item list that tells you as much about the writer as the subject.
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And am Back!
On the flight back home and I can't help but think about things such as 'Fuck, why is it that I never get to sit next to a girl?
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Californication
I now consider officially hooked to this series called californication. And this is what I realized, I do not like to see people enacting and showing how ugly things really are.
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Demarco got tagged
Hammy boy decided that it was time for me to get tagged, and honestly after looking at the tag I don't mind it one bit. So here goes nothing...
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I love my life!!!
Just yesterday I was talking with this friend of mine who is eagerly his graduation in about 2 days time (congratulations bitch!). And I realized how embarrassing and humiliating the past couple of years have been for me.
Genre: Relationships
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I think am going to rip somebody’s head off!
I really don't understand couple of things with regards to people. Why is it that people think it is fucking hilarious to instigate me just to get a reaction out, not about frivolous trivial, shit like world peace when one is staying in a well fur...
Genre: Humor
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It’s raining :’(
It's raining like it's time for Noah to start building his ark. Not the best beginning to the week if you ask me, I mean watching it rain is good, but getting your knickers soaking wet is not.
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Long weekend? Don’t remember much of it
As I am brutally made aware that I would be expected in office sometime around 9 in the morning tomorrow (though I hope to make it there at least before lunch time, or as soon as this bleeding hangover passes by).
Genre: Personal
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Pappu pass ho gaya!
Not a fucking surprise if you saw the fucking papers. Though honestly, the marks are pretty dismissal in nature, now I don’t mean to sound like a smart ass, but honestly, it’s worth shit.
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So guess where I am?
Back at the airport, there is something about this airport which just makes me write, about what? I really don't have a bleeding clue, but still it's nice to take out your laptop and pretend that you got shit loads of work to do and shit.
Genre: Personal
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The Barnacle is BACK!
The barnacle is back. I had taken a sort of a hiatus, tried getting my soul back from the devil, little did I realize that I am the Devil.
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The Era of comebacks
Just finished watching Mama Mia! Yes, I believe everybody knows how I am a sucker for clit-lit and chick-flicks.
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The Kid
Just finished watching the kid. No, not the Charlie Chaplin one.
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There I go again
Surprise, surprise… I am at the airport. In the next 2 days I am going to make my presence felt in 3 cities, flying in and flying out using 3 different airlines, now anybody wants to fucking do a survey on customer satisfaction study on frequent f...
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This trip’s playlist
Well, equipping myself for a trip requires me to make sure that I take the following things along Clean shirts, iron them (hate feeling sweaty and stinky) and hope that a cute girl sits next to me Toothbrush Deo (the most important thing) Boxers (...
Genre: Poetry
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Well this what, transpired from the time I got to
So I sent my marks down to the one family I consider my own and NO! am not talking about the ones whose genes I share.
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Evil League of Evil
I have now taken the mantle of calling myself a pseudo Dr. Horrible; That's because I have a PhD in Horribleness.
Genre: Essay
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I love you!
You are the greatest super villain of all!
Genre: Relationships
For people who overthink love and are honest enough to admit it.
Letter to self…
Hey, Bleeding bored in office, so I thought I would send you a mail or something like that. I mean am not doing no character analysis here, but when I was more tolerant of shit, I used to tell him all that, and maybe there is a grain of some truth...
Genre: Personal
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Letter to self…
So, first round of exams are done, did pretty decently. Should score pretty good, not worried about, have to pull out the schedule for the next batch of exams, and just finished celebrating first round of celebrations.
Genre: Personal
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Letters to self (part of a new series)
July 27, 2008 Just finished taking mock tests for the papers, scored 82 and 80, which is good, I guess.
Genre: Personal
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Presenting Ver 1685.07.22.08
The butt kicking, [orgasm inducing (in women...but obvious)] savior of the world just got an image makeover. From the oft mistaken cute-chocolate boy, to the extra working in the Ram Gopal Verma's underworld movies to now...
Genre: Essay
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Why...So...Serious....
Tomorrow is the first exam I would be writing after 2 whole years. Finally managed to get into a momentum of studying while working.
Genre: Essay
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Another mysterious case solved
I mean the office is supposed to begin and the last time one can get their tight firm buttocks in is about 0945 hrs. BUt guess what times for the last 2 months have chris and I have been walking in?
Genre: Essay
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The horrendous horror story of the 6 pack sporting Irish speaking Greek god
But, coming back to the point, I suddenly noticed now when I looked at me'self in the tinted glasses at the parking lot of me hotel. And lemme tell yea you lads and burls, it aint a pretty sight no more.
Genre: Essay
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Top 10 Worries…
I just finished Chetan Bhagat's latest book called 'the 3 mistakes of my life', and knowing the Indian consumer this too shall climb the best seller list, not good as 5 point someone, not bad as one night at the call centre.
Genre: List
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I lost my Phone!!! =)
I LOST MY PHONE!!! WOO-FUCKING-HOO!!!
Genre: Personal
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Silence
All of these moments where silence is all you get to hear, will tell you the story of who I am, the stories of what I have felt, the hurt, the joys, the laugh, the cries, so many stories, each one of them being spoken as I keep silent, as I look i...
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
The Noise and the Silence!!!
I've been thinking a lot about silence lately, ever since someone told me that I am insecure in the quietness of life. Funny, because I always thought I cherished the in-betweens, thriving taking a step back to acknowledge, observe and imagine.
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
Things I want to talk about, But… I can’t!
I don't I started writing something, but I have erased it all, because somewhere things jus did not sound right you know, I mean I want to talk about M, and how in some weird ass way I yearn for that comfort feeling of having somebody I can call a...
Genre: List
For people who like their observations numbered and their judgments unsolicited.
8.3 Seconds – That’s All You’ve Got To Make A First Impression
Everyday, I get thousands upon millions of electronic mails asking how to pick up women. The truth of the matter - however unnatural and fundamentally opposed to everything you've ever learned about the opposite sex – is that a woman actually pick...
Genre: Essay
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Am Tagged!!!
Am tagged WHOOHOO!!! well this OTT reaction is cos of 2 things...
Genre: Essay
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Confessions
I feel like I'm faking being normal. Before I make decisions, I think about every possible outcome in vivid detail.
Genre: Personal
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Masala Weekend!
Well it certainly was a long ass weekend. But the weekend did start off on a sad fucking note, and I really am surprised as to how a guy like me could actually feel such shit and to top it all voice it out...
Genre: Personal
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Same Shit ! ! !
You know off-late something has been bothering me cos I have heard the same shit time and again and people think its a given esp when it comes to me.
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
The Pyramid of Screaming ! ! !
HEY STUPID BLOG READERS!!! WHY DON'T YOU READ MY BLOG MORE?!?!
Genre: Essay
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Wifi, Mosquitoes, Sleep... Let the good times roll ! ! !
So I finally moved into my new place. Followed by the mourning of Kolkata Knight riders first loss in IPL.
Genre: Addiction
For people who have loved something that was slowly killing them.
Bache ki Jaan
Facing exploitation at work... Bache ki jaan le rahen motherfuckers...
Genre: Essay
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Meltdown
I am going to have a motherfucking meltdown and I am going to give him a piece of my mind and put my papers and keep fucking walking... ps: I wanna fucking scream out so bad...
Genre: Essay
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Smoke Away !!!
In this yellow jungle flows this smoke, am burning with each gulp, smoking these leaves, there is smoke in these eyes, and the lights are all out, nothing here and there, feeling a little low, feeling little pain, but kinda like it a little, and i...
Genre: Poetry
For people who think in line breaks.
The week that went byeee!!!
The last week has been a whirlwind of sorts. Loads of shit happening.
Genre: Essay
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Tuesdays Gone and so has a week and a half....
I was down in chennai for a good week and a half. And the entire trip boiled down to 3 conversations I had with 3 different people all on the last day.
Genre: Essay
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Women and Shopping
I was watching 9 months the movie. Yes the same movie where Hugh grant needs the eyebrow thing which women do to weed out the extra growth of eye lashes on their eye-brows.
Genre: Essay
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99 Problems....
Life is right now a cauldron of things happening in my life. But before I go in any deeper, I got to tell you this...
Genre: Essay
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Am a Prick!!!
Definite indicative signs that I am a prick and I am progressing to the becoming a prick of a higher dimension. One of my friends was generally talking to me about something he did and he felt good about and being the dick I am, acted a proper prick.
Genre: Essay
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Fuck... I Don't Like this...
Yesterday I got a call from me mum saying that grandpa(dad's dad)got a heart attack or something along those lines. Now if you have been blind as a bat or Nikhil for that matter, or deaf as a [fill in the blanks...
Genre: Essay
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In My Arrogant Opinion
I had gone to my colleagues place for lunch. But fucking when somebody fucking tells me what to do, when to do, and how to do… I fucking will take a bat to their heads.
Genre: Personal
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My Brother is Gay
My brother is gay or so I thought. But turns out the slimy little chuth actually likes women.
Genre: Personal, Family
For people who understand that family is both the wound and the bandage.
No Smoking...
No Smoking People, who know me, know that the cigarette is an extension to me, 30 minutes won't go by without you noticing me aching for a smoke. And people also know that I see cigarette more as a means to do what one wants.
Genre: Essay
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Sexual Harassment....
Sexual Harassment I can now formally say... I understand women much better now.
Genre: Essay
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Shootout at College
Though ideally and normally, being an Indian (who are known to have a high feeling of the lottery effect) I would have rubbished the whole shootout shit.
Genre: Essay
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Yahoo.com and Relationships...
following are the list of Q's yahoo.com (which are listed here and you can see that am not Bull shitting you...click this shit... ) said can tell me if you (I) have a good relationship choice...
Genre: Essay
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. . .
I am being called a liar. My intentions are being questioned.
Genre: Essay
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Brillaint Personality Report!!!
Introduction to Agreeableness This section of your profile describes your interactions with other people.
Genre: Essay
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Couple of Things...!!!
First of all, I would like to confess that am doing something which am not too proud of... What follows is a list that starts reasonable and quickly stops being one.
Genre: List
For people who like their observations numbered and their judgments unsolicited.
I am just a Kid.
I love the commute I take every morning from home to office everyday morning. Switch on the radio and begin contemplating.
Genre: Personal
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My current Status!
Current Status: Single? Thats me in the pic.
Genre: Personal
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OCD... =)
Obsessive compulsive need to keep everything neat and clean. You heard that right.
Genre: Essay
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Open Letter to All who Took offence to my statements abt the headlines in the newspaper....
women women women... ever given a thought, as to how certain things can be taken out of context but should not be done so?
Genre: Open Letter
For people who enjoy watching someone say the quiet part loud.
Right Here Waiting ! ! !
Something I always managed to do for all Jan 30th's =) You always find a way to keep me right here waiting You always find the words to say to keep me right here waiting And if you chose to walk away i'd still be right here waiting Searching for the
Genre: Essay
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Shopping List
list of things i need to get 1. What follows is a list that starts reasonable and quickly stops being one.
Genre: List
For people who like their observations numbered and their judgments unsolicited.
What would life be without these Q's?
What does one do when life throws you the option of taking the safer option or to gamble everything you have? What does one do when the stakes are high and are dealing with respect, ego and love?
Genre: Personal
For people who appreciate honesty that hasn't been run through a PR filter.
Who the Fuck is Anon?
I know I gotta find out a way to find out who leaves behind these anon comments, not that I am complaining about it. I know one anon is now happily (?
Genre: Essay
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5 stages of grief
Grief is a somewhat complicated and misunderstood emotion. Yet, grief is something that, unfortunately, we must all experience at some time or other.
Genre: Grief
For people who have lost someone and don't want to be told it gets better.
AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Terrible weekend. First I lose the keys to my apartment and then I have to jump from my neighbors balcony onto mine and then do a brilliant Thomas crown shit.
Genre: Essay
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Almost Lovers
I never want to see you unhappy I thought you'd want the same for me Goodbye, my almost lover Goodbye, my hopeless dream I'm trying not to think about you Can't you just let me be?
Genre: Poetry
For people who think in line breaks.
And the Memory remains...
your image fleets across my mind, i hold back these tears with a timid whimper, still hear your whispers, calling out my name, we still play the kissing game, it really is a shame, it is...
Genre: Poetry
For people who think in line breaks.
Birthdays and Baby-Making
Have you noticed that there are bunch of times when you are just flooded with birthdays of people you know in the year.
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
Francium: Symbol Fr and Atomic # 87
Am feeling unstable right now. Am more or less on a self-destruct mode, with the only thing holding me straight is my work.
Genre: Essay
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Not my day
Its freezing cold outside, with no trace of the sun, I am like a pseudo Superman, I get my cheerfulness from the sun.
Genre: Personal
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Review: Johnny Gaddar
I am well aware that I am late by miles and months since the movie released. And I am more than late on my knee-jerk reflexes owing to the constant drunken stupor, but I have to say this, Johnny Gaddar is by far the best movie to have come out of ...
Genre: Film Review
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Sometimes
Sometimes you wish you could comprehend their way of thinking. Sometimes, you wish people could read our mind, while other times you are glad they can't.
Genre: Essay
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The Year Gone Bye...
The year is coming down to an end. Its been a mixed year.
Genre: Essay
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Things which I realized...
9 items on the list. Starting with 'I ask a lot of questions, and I brain fuck myself.' and going from there. A numbered inventory of opinions from a time when blogs were the only place to put them.
Genre: List
For people who like their observations numbered and their judgments unsolicited.
To do or not to do? But what the fuck to do???
But what to do is what am thinking about? I mean rugby would be fun.
Genre: Essay, Bangalore
For people who know Bangalore is a feeling, not just a city.
Am I the male version of Paris Hilton?
Try as I may and the rest of the world population to guard their children and themselves from this virus called Paris Hilton, we fail miserably. And I am no exception as one avid (?
Genre: Essay
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Excerpts from the book am working on:
Excerpts from the book am working on: 'Well, the first thing which comes to my mind when I think about a book, is something bound not in the S&M way and has pages in it, now am not sure if it has pictures in it, no actually am pretty sure it doesn...
Genre: Short Fiction
For people who like raw, unpolished fiction with more ambition than restraint.
Few More Excerpts:
Excerpts: Marie’s doing her own thing, washing the dishes, bonding with her mum on the phone, reminiscing about all the fun times she has had during thanksgiving, Alan on the other hand is getting impatient in the bedroom waiting for his wife to s...
Genre: Short Fiction
For people who like raw, unpolished fiction with more ambition than restraint.
Interview
One of my Friends decides to interview me here are few excerpts ( Fine, she sent one of those forwarded mail, but the lie is definitely cooler than the truth ain't it ) 1. Whom are you named after?
Genre: Essay
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Is Paris Hilton a telepathic robot developed by the military to distract the masses?
The vacant gazes, the mannequin poses, the soulless eyes. She's a robot all right.
Genre: Essay, Army Life
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Mind it.
' itni shiddat se maine tumhe paane ki koshish ki hai ki har zarre ne mujhe tumse milane ki koshish ki hai....kehte hai agar kisi cheez ko dil se chaaho toh poori kaynath tumhein usse milane ki koshish mein lag jaati hai...
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
God.
I can't quite recollect as to the last time when I prayed to god. In the way people, the masses tend to, I can't recollect when was the last time I found solace in having conversation with thin air and seeking answers and feeling good about the wh...
Genre: Essay
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Biscuits ?!?
so what can I blog on? So I turn around and ask me colleague ' dude tell me a topic to blog about?'.
Genre: Essay
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Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani
And it went like Ek Tha Raja, Ek thi Rani, Dono Mar gaye Khatam Khani. Well today am going to fill in between all these lines.
Genre: Essay
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Fart Theory
And it is called the fart theory. If I have been in a relationship with you and/or really liked you, then you would have been in a fellow participant in the fart theory.
Genre: Essay
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I love this one!
As usual, when I came across this 'http://bluebirdsinging.blogspot.com' blog where the woman had answered this questions. =P Crashed a friend's car?: I don drive.
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
My first Hangover!
And it fucking hurts!!!! Willy up, but none of them left me with a hangover which people keep complaining about, the ones where your head is the stage for a bunch of african tribal dance with the Tom-Toms passing on some ancient jungle message to ...
Genre: Personal
For people who appreciate honesty that hasn't been run through a PR filter.
Once...
Once there was superman, And like all heroes he had a super love story, But then he had to leave and save the planet, And so he left from the pages of the greatest love story ever… Once there was this girl who, Fell sick quite often, superman was ...
Genre: Poetry
For people who think in line breaks.
Reality is pain in the wrong place...
New office: is another 4 KM away from my prev work place, so that kicks up the commuting cost. New Pay Package: Though am getting ample saving options in this new pay package, I will be getting lesser money on hand than what I was getting previous...
Genre: Essay
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Shopping. =) . AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 15/09/07 So the 5 spartans residents of sparta Apt # 301 decided in their monthly general body meeting that we needed to get ourselves cots (i prefer to call them as beds) and show rack.
Genre: Essay
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This Part of my life is called : ' Fucking A'
No that is not the secret code of some JDC ( for those of you who aren't clued in on the most happening things in life, JDC stands for Jaw dropping cute woman) am currently linked pro-creatively ( ironically am not seeing anybody) anyway point being.
Genre: Personal
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Top 5 Rock Bands.
5 items on the list. Starting with 'Metallica (thank.) : It was by far the biggest band to have ' and going from there. A numbered inventory of opinions from a time when blogs were the only place to put them.
Genre: List
For people who like their observations numbered and their judgments unsolicited.
Your worth... =)
Am just crossing my fingers that by writing this am not jinxking anything, because I have had a lot of false starts. Oh trust me on that.
Genre: Essay
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301: Spartans - The Next Rising
A legendary weekend it most definitely was. Cast: Kurian (a.k.a DJ Nairuk) Dominic (a.k.a Dogilivy) Abdul (a.k.a Bachu) Asif (a.k.a ass-if-ek bal) Me (a.k.a That Only) Introducing: Jatin (a.k.a Gita) Mahesh (a.k.a Makila) Furquan (a.k.a Furki a.k.
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
A Legendary Dinner!
Me shall continue with that. Tuesday Afternoon: Get a call from Gopal asking me to keep myself free for tommorrow night.
Genre: Essay
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Fuck her gently! - Tenacious D is AWESOME !
A lot of you people will find this video and the lyrics not upto to your sense and sensibilities. But does it really look like I give a fuck about it.
Genre: Poetry
For people who think in line breaks.
Houston we have a problem!!!
Am not telling what problem. But there is a problem.
Genre: Essay
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How i Got Cigarette Aids!!!
The present awesomely sick physical state am in is what I call as Cigarette Aids. But the symptoms are totally different.
Genre: Addiction
For people who have loved something that was slowly killing them.
Measure of a man... =)
All those who have been in touch with me for the past couple of weeks would have known that I was undergoing a major Identity crisis. Now major is most definitely an understatement.
Genre: Essay
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My version of I wanna be a rockstar!
I'm through with standing in line, to the clubs i'll never get in, Its like the end of the tunnel, and there is no sign of promised light, This life hasn't turned out quite the way I want it to be Ask me: tell me what you want?
Genre: Poetry
For people who think in line breaks.
Pursuit Of Happyness!
This part of my life is called as Happyness. You have seen me go through different parts of life, failure, heartbreak, living it large.
Genre: Essay
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Smoke 2 Cigarettes and Call me in the Morning!
I've never been sick a day in my life. How is that, you ask, given my considerably communicable extracurricular activities?
Genre: Addiction
For people who have loved something that was slowly killing them.
Statement of Purpose...
Brutal Honesty will help. Dear Sir/Madam, 'Why does he want to work as a Research Analyst?' These are probably the words running through your mind right now.
Genre: Essay
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SUIT UP... Answer to all my woes....
Anyway I was trying to get over one single girl ( yes. you heard that right.
Genre: Personal
For people who appreciate honesty that hasn't been run through a PR filter.
What qualities would you seek in the Ideal Leader of India?
Well am presuming that before he/she being looked upon as an ideal leader we assume that he/she is a ideal human being too. Ignoring all the presumptions and assumptions.
Genre: Social Commentary
For people who think about what India could be, not just what it is.
You Are Destined to Rule the World
You Are Destined to Rule the World You have the makings of a very evil dictator... Which is both kind of cool and kind of scary!
Genre: Essay
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Day 2...
And honestly i feel miserable. I don like the fact that it is making feel like a woman pms'in.
Genre: Essay
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Have you ever?
Have you ever felt lonely in a crowded room? Or felt like breaking down but couldn't because there are people around you?
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
I finally did the unthinkable!
Hours before ( 16 hours to be precise ) me had my last smoke. And yes i had written about this earlier but the last time around I succumbed to the whole i need nicotine now phase pretty quick.
Genre: Essay
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LICENSE NOT TO DRIVE ...
'My name is Athul DeMarco and I don't know how to drive.' God that feels good to say. For years, I've been ashamed and embarrassed—handcuffed by this terrible secret from a society that demands we strap ourselves into mobile deathtraps one by one,...
Genre: Essay
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RamaFuckingDoss!
Statutory Warning : This is meant for people who think they are god's gift to mankind and thereby have the right and feel the need to arrest other people's freewill. This is not a polite discussion this is a fucking cry of war.
Genre: Essay
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Slap me the next time I...
Say or want to quit smoking. I mean sure I had fought the battle against my best friend.
Genre: Essay
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Suit Up!
There is going to be a momentary (I hope not) detour the barnacle way. I have realized.
Genre: Essay
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Am a Super Super Hero...
Things you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask me. * My tears cure cancer.
Genre: Essay
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Answers to all your Qs
So I will try and think of all the Q's you may possibly have and answer them. Q) So Hows Blore?
Genre: Essay, Bangalore
For people who know Bangalore is a feeling, not just a city.
Something which I already knew...
You Should Be a Film Writer You don't just create compelling stories, you see them as clearly as a movie in your mind. You have a knack for details and dialogue.
Genre: Essay
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Tata-Birla Chennai...
Bags are all packed, but you always have this irritating feeling at the back of your head that you are forgetting something. Something important which you made a mental note couple of days, hell couple of minutes back.
Genre: Essay
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Amul - A Short Story
A young man in Mumbai discovers that the woman he loves is promised to someone else. What starts as a love story curdles into something darker and more desperate.
Genre: Literary Fiction, Urban Drama
For people who like Murakami's quiet desperation meets the chaos of a Mumbai local train. Raw, unpolished early work with genuine emotional weight.
Am not a Player!
I know, I know a lot of you are fuming right now. All of you thinking what a bastard, he is like the biggest player ever ( well I appreciate the sincere and hostile compliments).
Genre: Essay
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Army???
Off-late thats been like a weeks time, I have been seriously been giving thought, of joining the army, I mean its a totally different issue that this phase of me seriously joining the army comes in when I (a) Don't have many options in front of me...
Genre: Essay, Army Life
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Blore here I come...
Its 4 o clock in the morning, I just cancelled my flight scheduled to fly me out from chennai all the way to blore this saturday. And instead of this saturday am flying today.
Genre: Essay, Bangalore
For people who know Bangalore is a feeling, not just a city.
Borderline disorder....
Yes, I suffer from it. And in case you are wondering what's it all about, lemme brief you with it.
Genre: Essay
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Clarifications....
Yea I mean its been really long time since I just sat at home and din do much, I mean not that i was flooded with options and choices and I just shut down.
Genre: Personal
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Comedy story???
Jesus people somebody requested me to write a comic story. Now thats funny enough.
Genre: Humor
For people who laugh at things they probably shouldn't.
Frank Miller's 300 Quotes
More like quotes that never really made it through the final cut. Here are some scenes that you never got to see in the epic movie that is 300.
Genre: Essay
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Ghosts of my embarrassing past!
Disclaimer: Its ok, if you begin to think am a pansy fucker after this post. Don't really give a fuck.
Genre: Personal
For people who appreciate honesty that hasn't been run through a PR filter.
Godhra - Short Story
They say your life flashes by when you are dying. I was born when the godhra riots broke out.
Genre: Short Fiction
For people who like raw, unpolished fiction with more ambition than restraint.
Hindi Movies...
I don't understand peoples growing disinterest in hindi movies, I mean they are being looked upon as something cheap and prefer artsy movies or english movies. I mean cmon gimme a break.
Genre: Film Review
For people who want opinions served with personality, not objectivity.
New Signs... For Urinals!
Yes, my fascination with loo's and shit still continues. What follows is a list that starts reasonable and quickly stops being one.
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Orkut...
I have been told that there does exist a funny bone in my body, and it lies below my belt. Anyway for all the people who seriously don find any work to do, or generally don treat work as god ( fine, i agree not everybody can be me, but still...
Genre: Humor
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Should I???
But the question is should I do something like that? I think not, for me writing is all about having fun, and so are all the things which I love doing, whether its musing about the non-linear dynamics, hanging out with friends, sarging, its all ab...
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Should Religion Influence Intimacy Decisions?
Before we go ahead and answer this question, lets us first understand what religion means. This is how Wikipedia defines religion “A religion is a set of beliefs and practices generally held by a human community, involving adherence to codified be...
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Tattoo anyone???
Yes, thats a tattoo, and yes it most definitely is on my body part the last time I checked when I took a bath...( erm...
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What Kinda Hero I am???
Well I was bored... So me took up the test of 20 objective questions and the results ( not sure about the truth but sure does give an excellent ego massage ) So this is what it said for me...
Genre: Personal
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10 Signs am Growing Old...
10 items on the list. Starting with 'I don't feel like getting up in the morning and playing bask' and going from there. A numbered inventory of opinions from a time when blogs were the only place to put them.
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Chapter 3: Start of a sibiling rivalary
Well, sometime in the year 1989 ( ok fine, august 3 to be precise ) my brother Ashwyn ( yes its spelt with a 'Y' don ask me, ask me ma ), was born, and I was enchanted with something so angelic.
Genre: Short Fiction
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Chapter 4 : Neha
The J jinx continued to follow dad, and we soon found ourselves moving out from jalandhar, punjab to jorhat, assam.
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chapter 5: Delhi
This is the only place which I somehow feel associated with. But with delhi it was different.
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The Game...
I don't think a lot of people in India ( esp Women ) really know about Neil Strauss ( touted to be the greatest Pickup Artsit in the world) or his book.
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The Things That Define Me...
There are a lot of things people think define, it ranges from the latest handset they carry around, or the amount of horse power one has under the hood, or the explosion of pink for some ladies or anything chocolatey in that manner, seems to defin...
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Well...
I tried writing about the life in jorhat, delhi, henoch schonlein syndrome, well its just that my life is so fucking layered and peppered with so many incidents, which make me cringe thinking back about my stupidity, and things which are so bloody...
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Ye Hai Bombay Meri Jaan...
Came back from bombay. Still in one condtion, atleast the last time I checked.
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Zippo's
just cast a glance on this thing of beauty. Added to the fact that I found Constantine to be an anti-smoking movie just drove me further into smoking and finding my own style.
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About me???
' I could tell you many adventures - beginning from this morning - Atleast I knew who I wasWhen I got up this morning,But I think I must have been changed several times then .
Genre: Personal
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Bored....
this is the bored man again, ( Again??? ) am now uncovering my hobbes ( though i wish i was as cool as calvin).
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Dancing and Me...
I shake my booty in much more pathetic way than this. But i wasn't always this bad.
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How Did This Happen???
How did this happen??? Well it all started with a call.
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Random Arbit Fun!!!!!!
The past week was solely dedicated to random-arbit fun, not the one-nite stands type, but you know something like the musscle man kind.
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5. someone???
Well i donno from where this came up but, charan wanted to have a say so the next post is his, in his own words...
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Constipation...
Ok before i begin to describe the shitty feeling of being constipated i just wanna say that am feeling shitty at the moment and i wanna write something funny to divert my mind from the harsh realites of life.
Genre: Humor
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Dreams and Reality...
Seems like two opposite poles don they, i mean if you gonna go by the usual talk of practicaility then sure dreams are something which never happens and reality is what is happening, dreams everything seems picture perfect but that doesn happen in...
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Ego Massage...
And presenting to you the only photo in which i look everything else other than me... and that being somebody sober, pensive and most importantly goodlooking.
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Fun Night!
Its suprising that a normal night of fun can actually be so much fun, you do not need a whole bunch of people, just another person who understands what you say and can engage in a stimulating conversation.
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Like a Stone...
on a cobweb afternoonin a room full of emptinessby a freeway i confessi was lost in the pages of a book full of death reading how we'll die aloneand if we're good we'll lay to restanywhere we want to go in your house i long to beroom by room patie...
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Lonliness
You know right now the song which is struck in my head is elvis singing ' Are You Lonesome Tonight ?' and the answer is what any many with 2 dicks will say when the tailor asks him left or right? and the answer being 'YES'.
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Love Affair With The Cancer Stick
Well the picture says it all doesn it. My love affair with the cancer stick started in december 01, and it has continued till now, and i loved every single moment i spent with it.
Genre: Relationships
For people who overthink love and are honest enough to admit it.
Men...
Yea i know, most of you must be thinking what the hell is wrong with him, but like i said if a man aint secure enough about his sexuality he will refrain from talking about certain things and i aint one of them.
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My Father...
Everybody who has a father (who has been present thru their formative years), knows his importance in shaping his/her perspective on everything.
Genre: Personal, Family
For people who understand that family is both the wound and the bandage.
My Ideal Woman... Betty
Well i know Betty from Archie's is ideal woman not just for me but for millions of nice guys out there who grew up reading about archie and his stupid antic's ( Ok there will be a section in the audience who will wanna counter me on being a nice g...
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Women and Secrets....
Funny aint it... I mean women and secrets they are like black and white, ying and yang.
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION Disclaimer: I do not intend to make this book resemble any other book be it catcher in the rye or naked or any other book, i want to write this because i want to write but it will mostly will have no time line no structure it will be ...
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Queer habits
everybody has their set of Queer habits, i know i do and thats why am writing it, brilliant aint I??? Anyway i have a list as big as-well there jus aint anything to which you can either compare it to either in the sheer # of them of in their weird...
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Originally published on Little Black Book (whabook.blogspot.com). Manuscripts previously unreleased.