Sunday, November 21, 2010

BEER BELLIES

(Just returned from Mrinal's reception. I'm pretty drunk and I know what I'm writing is shitty but what the heck!)



The brotherhood of beer
it sure sounds queer
invites critcism from all corner
but to me heart it's very near

remember the time
harry was to reach home at nine
but we downed a few beers
and lost all our fears
we sang and we danced
with total strangers all night
with fire we romanced

the brotherhood of beer
do lend me your ear
harry chatty raj n I
drove to morni and got high
in the tiny camp we shaded our faces
in a desert,it sure felt like an oasis
we sang, we joked,
we fought we smoked
snaps without pants
those pictures sure still haunt

the brotherhood of beer
we hug and cry out our fear
Tarun would no longer be single
it was one of the last time that
beer, chikku n I mingled
we cried the past away
we embraced the future so
by the time it was time to say
our faces began to glow

the brotherhood of beer
the awesome smiles we wear
Sanky Anuj n I
we'd cry we'd howl we'd sigh
PhD's difficult you see
love & security's a thing of the past,
and there's just insecurity ahead
and it's all for free
and it's vast
We down a bottle or two each
and we begin to preach
how beautiful life suddenly is
we're soaring like eagles
no one to block us,
we rise we decend
we do as we please

the brotherhood of beer
come and meet the seer
his name's Taran n he's cool
I had it with him and talked of the pool
the one where you jump
and those who wish not to be broke
lie on their back and use the Rai-stroke
God's man he's always high
if he's not on His, then there's
beer on his thigh
thank you for being strong
thank you for never going wrong
Cheers to you n all my friends
let's meet up together with the bottle again

Thursday, November 18, 2010

It's rainin Madonna

The sound of the falling droplets outside remind me of Rain by Madonna, it's been a long time since I heard the song. Remember back in school, I'd play it every time I was home and when it rained. I rate this is as one of her best songs. Yeah! I was obsessed with it at one point of time.
Here's a link but make sure you're plugged into a nice speaker system before u play it to do justice to the melody.
Nice lyrics, awesome music and of course, Madonna's voice-- another winner by Madonna.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzbhiNl0roY

Saturday, November 13, 2010

BJP-CONGRESS

what a vicious cycle:
We won't create chaos if you stop creating chaos by talking about the chaos the we once created. No one gives a shit about creating chaos in the common man's life.

Sunday, November 07, 2010

Two lines that caught my attention on a Discovery Channel program on Crocodiles

1. As the night drew closer, so did the predators.

2. As the thirsty are drawn to the water, the hungry are drawn to the thirsty

Saturday, November 06, 2010

Friday, November 05, 2010

For Ash Brill

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Like a true Ashleigh Brilliant fan, I say this:
"if it doesn't kill you, it'll make you stronger, though it may also maim you!"
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Thursday, November 04, 2010

Myanmar(red)

I don't clearly remember the first time I heard the name Burma or Rangoon. Maybe it was in the school days in the late 1980s when its name was changed to Myanmar and we kids were confused about how to pronounce it or maybe it was on TV watching that old number "mere piya gaye Rangoon, kiya hai wahan se teliphoon" from the 1949 Hindi movie "Patanga".

Yeah, Yangoon sounded ridiculous after being so used to Rangoon but hey I don't even wanna get down to telling you what Bengaluru sounds like to me!

The name of the country, either one, is derived from the name of the major ethnic group of the land, the Bamars. There are other minority ethnic groups in the country as well and therefore deriving the name of the country on the name of one group doesn't sound fair but hey that doesn't bother me eh, after all mine is a country divided over races, castes, religion, region, colour, sects etc etc...phew! Oh! Gees! there's more but I'll let it rest here.

It's a densely forested country and is the world's largest exporter of teak and some precious stones; yeah that means they are chopping off their forests but what else do they do? It's a poor country with a majorly rural population.

I don't konw if S.D. Burman had his roots here but another person sure does, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is from Burma. At 65 she's as old as my mother and had been under house arrest for more than a decade and a half. Her father Aung san is considered the father of modern-day Burma. Why is she under house arrest? Apparently the military junta wouldn't let her govern the country, in other words, let democracy prevail in Burma because apparently her party, the National League for Democracy was too popular and won 59% of the national votes and 80% of the parliament votes and therefore the junta thought it best to lock her in her house and let her cook dishes instead of brewing trouble for them outside it. I mean who'd give up power like that!

By the way the word junta is not Burmese, it's of Portuguese/Spanish origin and translates to "committee" in English. Military Junta however is a term used to describe Military Dictatorship and there are many examples of these like the juntas of Brazil, Nigeria, Greece, Bolivia to name a few. I guess for some armies, when they don't fight any wars for too long against an enemy nation, they turn on their own governments. Shucks! it's not their fault, it must get really boring to do nothing with all that skill and discipline being wasted.

The Burmese junta however isn't all that well meaning though, did I mention teak in the list of exports, add heroine to it, of which Burma is a major exporter. Huh! but why do I bother, let those who take drugs, take them and die. But wait! Drug addicts are a nuisance anywhere they are, aren't they and those promoting nuisance and earning money out of it can't surely be good people. Well Junta, you're being bad boys by doing this and censoring the media in your country to an extent that nobody in your country will ever read what I'm writing; the internet too is heavily policed. I hate the place I live in for n number of reasons but i can't even begin to imagine what life would be like with my "I want more freedom" mind as a Burmese citizen. Hey I'd in Burma I'd probably be very free by now...free from my body, a spirit roaming in the teak jungles and sniffing poppy plants eh! Nice!

Senior General Than Shwe, is Burma's military dictator. It just came to my mind how uncannily it sounds like the Hindi word for dictator "tanashah". This guys been the big boss for a long time now, since 1992 to be precise. He's weird ok! When the common Burmese folks struggle to procure just enough for their subsistence, Than Shwe lives like a megalomaniac and is incredibly superstitious. Next time somebody asks you to frame a sentence with the word "unconscionable jerk", you know what to write.

So what's with the new Election hogwash in Myanmar?
It's nothing really it's just going to be transition from a military dictatorship to a non-military one. Suu Kyi is still detained and debarred, and other, more than two-thousand political prisoners, these elections were meant to be nothing but hogwash.

So why does the junta need to wash its hogs? Ah! International sanctions you see, there's more to the world that the junta gets so the junta is carrying out a cosmetic surgery to change it's appearance. After all, after the world no longer recognises them, or fakes to not recognize them, as a military dictatorship, they'd start to lift their sanctions. Why would the other countries do that? Aha! Because Burma has something the whole world drools at the prospect of obtaining; OIL!!
China certainly has more money than India to appease Myanmar and it is definitely doing so in lieu of exploiting the Burmese oil and other resources.

I end the article here. With this wee-bit information you can form your own clear opinion and read more on the aspects of this article that you wanna know more about. But the last, and definitely not the least, of the questions that comes to my mind is this, What kind of neighbours are we surrounded (hounded) by?

Monday, November 01, 2010

Goodbye

Goodbye (she used to tell me to never use that word)

She: Take care babu . (1-Nov-10 16:14)
Me: U take care babbus. have a happy life. (1-Nov-10 16:15)