Tagged...

1. Were you named after anyone?
Yea my neighbors dog was called anil

2. Do you wish on stars?
yea, my bad luck is the reason for falling stars

3. When did you last cry?
I cried out in bed(does that count)

4. Do you like your handwriting?
Yea, sometimes when I can read it

5. What is your favourite meat?
pamelas frontals(it counts right)

6. What is your most embarrassing CD on your shelf?
“How to use a CD ROM” actually pretty useful to hide porn cds in the case so I keep it

7. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you?
I am schizophrenic

8. Are you a daredevil?
Yea. I mean I am in love so it shud count for something

9. How do you release anger?
Well, after I am angry I generally end up in jail…so…

10. Where is your second home?
It was hard to convince mom dad to keep me so I really don’t see a second home soon

11. Do you trust others easily?
Yea, I was lead to believe toys come alive in the night, I am an insomniac now(curiosity u see..)

12. What was your favourite toy(s) as a child?
My neighbors one year old kid…I kinda ruined his childhood I guess..

13. What class in school/college do you think is totally useless?
School/college is useless

14. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
You are intelligent( open to interpretations)

15. Have you ever been in a mosh pit?
Yea, but After the lights came, I realized it was HIS pot belly and not HER boobs that I had been feeling
16. What do you look for in a girl?
Anatomy
17. Would you bungee jump?
Yea, closest to suicide right…

18. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
I generally pass around nose clips and oxygen masks

19. What's your favourite ice cream?
ice cream is my favorite

20. What are your favourite colours?
Grey

21. What are your least favourite things?
fish goo, bird shit (esp after the bird flu) hair(see now u know why I don’t have much)

22. How many people do you have a crush on right now?
pass

23. Who do you miss most right now?
my brains

24. What are you listening to right now?
Arey for the past one week there is a shrill sound in my ear, koi achha dactar janthey ho

25. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?
When I was a kid I used to put my craons in some unspeakable places. Believe me..I DO NOT want to be a crayon

26. What is the weather like right now?
light

27. Last person you talked to on the phone?
She said “ the hutch number you have dialed is busy” I generally get to talk to her al the time

28. The "first" thing you notice about the opposite sex?
I first look around if my girl is noticing me then

29. Do you like the person who sent you this?
NO(fifty questions)what is this a CAT paper

30. How are you today?
FAT(everyday)

31. Favourite non alcoholic drink?

WATER

32. Favourite alcoholic drink?
anything. its fun to watch people high on booze

33. Natural hair colour?
It was black till it turned invisible

34. Eye colour?
Black I guess

35. Wear contacts?
Yea especially would like to wear my female contacts

36. Siblings?
My parents realized their sins after me

37. Favourite month?
November

38. Favourite food?
“If vegetarian then eat”

39. Favourite day of the year?
Thursdays(god)

40. Have you ever been too shy to ask someone out?
Yea, but he was straight so…

41. Scary movies or happy endings?
Happy endings make movies scary to watch

42. Summer or winter? Spring or Summer!
In south India we have summer and not so summer

43. Holi or Diwali?
Holy diwali(couldn’t resist a PJ cmon 0 answers what do u think I am jerry Seinfeld)

44. Do you like your name?
Will being named Ganty Gates make me richer?

45. What book/magazine are you reading?
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

46. What's on your mouse pad?
hand and mouse

47. What did you watch on TV last night?
censored

48. Favourite Smell?
food
49. Have you ever regretted breaking up with someone?
Yea and she died in her kennel

50. Most tiresome thing you’ve ever experienced/done?
Wooing a girl…

Trains and Tribulations

It is trivial but have you ever realised the enormous potential of exposure that a train journey has for an average human being. I know the past few posts have been high on philosophy but I guess I finally got my share of Vodka so I am back to senses.
These journeys are informative and exhilirating to the deepest and most sublime human sensibilities. No, I am not exaggerating and No I am not doped as I write this post...I did something better, I travelled by a two tier coach and now I am back...a better person...a better human being...more in touch with reality (Is someone saying, " Chuck Art of Living, Ticket kataa mumbai chalthey hain!")

So it all begins with the goodbyes...
Bye cusin1.
Bye Anil! (Okie!! ten more seconds 10...9...8..7..)
Do visit us sometime cusin1.
Yea sure.(When I start getting suicidal!!)
The train horn...
(4 3 2 1.....Where is the rehab I am stressed??)
So after a 'teary' farewell and waving my hand to that quadroped which looked like a "distant" cusin as the train leaves the platform, I rummage my way through the hustle of the compartment to find a seat. By then, my olfactory nerves have had a ball, they smelt chana aloo, chaas, bhelpuri, brut, nuclear wastes, alien concoctions and other heady smells that have left them dazed about the variety of sebaceous glands.

The best part is the people in trains. The garb of anonymity that the train journey provides. A conversation can be taken to any heights even in introductions-

Hi. So where are you going??
Home.
Oh!

Hi! So where do you stay??
Home.
Ok.

Hi! So what do you do?
I work for the CIA.
Ok.

Hi! So you are from Vizag huh?
No. I came here to settle a narcotics deal. I sell cocaine in my spare time!
Hmmm.. (Moving to the next compartment...)

The best guys are those who buy these magazines. They bury their head into the magazine that I wonder if he believes that he can talk to that half naked model in it and is waiting to hear her speak. But they are an interesting lot because do whatever you want, they wont let go of the book and women of a similar ilk

On page 1
Hi! Interesting book!
she nods.
So you are from...
she nods.
You are going to...
nod nod.
I love you!
nod nod.
HUH??
You are a serial killer on the prowl!!
nod nod.
#$#@##@!!!!
Its midnight, and she is still on page 1 and she sleeps in the lower berth with the book on her face (talk about OCDs!)

Then there are these kind who never buy mags

Sir.. that is my mag!
Acts as if he is busy reading..
SIR, MY MAGAZINE
(I am congenitally deaf kind of look)
Please gimme my mag
(Who are you?, which planet is this? kinda look)
Then you snatch the magazine and he picks up another mag to see pictures....

You have these friendly aunties who have their daughters and sons in the twelfth or something and the moment they hear you are in some engineering college, they beam with happiness like they have been searching for you since the kid was born

"Please advice my son about how to crack the CAT"
the Crack of a son is playing with some gameboy he gives a damn
And he listens to your sermon

"So you should do math everyday!"
(Okie!! If i can get him to look at the window, I can bang his head with the bar and he would pass off!)
"And dont forget english!"
(Wait ..I can ask him to go to the door and push him out)

"DI is important!"
(Die bastard!!! DIE!!)

And I save my skin narrowly from the killer intentions the innocent gameboy playing kid has by moving to the next seat..

The stellar conversations are with those chicks from bangalore (for all south indians, Bangalore is where all chicks come from, we believe, even Cameron has bangalore origins)
Hullo, you are from bangalore?
Yes.(Are you from earth?)
You study there?
Yes.( Which pig sty do u work in?)
Cool, so why are you going to Chennai?
We have some work there.
I am from Chennai.
(Okie lets get back home then!)
Oh I am Anil!
Okie.
What are you called
Barkha Dutt !and this is Drew Barrymore!
Hmmmm....( me burying my face in the book and sliding down into the seat wishing I was invisible)

The best kind who are otherwise harmless are the ones who are oblivious to all existence that doesnt spell FOOD, they have a simple policy
If sold, then buy and eat..

I had the pleasure of meeting the guy who can eat a bhelpuri, followed by an ice cream and coffee, Chips and coke, vada pav, Goodday, and probably the samosas and the wrapper. He did have an appetite but blessed are those in his company who have a blocked nose

With these observations I rest myself on the upper berth
Asleep. (Yea aishwarya, come closer, closer, now touch me ...No dont push me no dont jolt me!!)
Ticket Collector
These are funny people, they somehow know exactly when to wake you up and check your ticket
I mean when a guy doesnt buy a ticket check in the Toilet not on the upper berth.

I wake up to find that I reached destination!

I alight and wait for Dad to come and pick me up wishing that they would be excited to see me after they literaly pushed me to visit cusin1 in Vizag(they were very persistent) After an hour of waiting...
I call home
Hullo?
Yes..??
Dad...?
Whom do you want?
Mr Lakshminarayana..
Oh he has sold the house and left a week ago.......

By
Oruganty

I...

I play the creator
A god and devil I am
To create to annihilate
And I watch the act in glee

I play the creator
When i fiddle the strings to see
What does your heart speak?
When I ferret the answers I seek

I play the creator
When I touch your soul intrigued
To realise my existence
A reason that I Be

I play the creator
Of verse and song and synch
When I say what you believe
And you believe what you see

I play the creator
When I make him cry and her sing
When I make autumn in the midst of spring
With a fiery eye and a sleight of hand

I play the creator
When I take you on the trip
A journey of your own self
An enigma the unknown

I play the creator
A master piece I make
A magnus opus of creation
A brilliant brush stroke

I play the creator
I make I break and dream
When all my life exists
Between those dreams

I play the creator
Of death and my destiny
For a clap of hand and applause I seek
I play on my life with ease

I play the creator
When I sculpt my stony heart
When I have no life than to create
And I have no longer a part

Of pain and stress
Of sorrow and fear
Of a wait that never ends
I wipe a tear I hold my plume
And I resume to create

by
Oruganty

Me....Them...Us....me

An existential oblivion.
An inclusive elimination.
A precise miss.
A noticeable blur.
A tremble in the tremolo.
A beat in the bass.
A missed note in the orchestra.
A broken guitar string.
A speck on the pane.
A stone in the grain
A mote in the eye
A key in the scheme
A silence in the script
A pause in the speech
A mute in the song
A letter in the prose
A petal in the rose
A drop in the ocean
A second in your lifetime
A moment in an epoch
A nail in the frame
A pixel on the screen
A brush stroke in the magnum opus
A flake on the iceberg
A strand on her mane
A mark on her hand
A dot on the wall
A leaf in fall
A bone in the carcass
A ray in the noon
A mediocre man
About to be famous
About just as unknown
Another life
Another face
Another breath
Another desire
Another and the other
Another loser
Another blogger
Another name
Another player
Another....

I stop here. If I am mediocre and have been that all my life then I would not have felt bad. Am I that Icarus whose aspiration to fly killed him? So...is mediocrity my bane or talent.?

Ignored...

1. When all you hear on your phone is" the hutch number you are calling is not able to take your call"
2. When people behave as if your larynx is sound proof
3. When the postman throws your letters in the dustbin
4. When you take the dog for a walk and the hot chick asks the dog how his day was
5. When your girlfriend changes her orkut status to single
6. When the police do not check you even when you are dead drunk and smoking dope
7. When the electricity and phone bills come in your dogs name
8. When on your budday, you throw hints
   "Guess what day is it"
   "Saturday"
   Who was born today"?
   "Why? Is it a public holiday"?
9. When your comp refuses to accept your login
10. When your answering machine automatically takes all your calls
11. When the prof does not call your name and asks about your absence
12. When in a doubles, you only get to stand and watch
13. When in a singles, the refree declares a walk over
14. When the salesman looks at you and notes down "No Answer"
15. When your name does not even make up the census numbers
16. When the doctor looks at a bleeding you and asks your mom "where is the patient"
17. When you feel that "Invisible Man" Is your biography and can relate to the character in Hollow Man
18. When you start dreaming about your call being answered
19. When the beggar guy asks your scooter headlight for money
20. When you are not in the papers after a serial killing session and immediate surrender
21. When you read your obituary
22. When everyone in your office talks about your "Missing" ad and return your newspaper after reading it
23. When the last time you opened the door was to clear the bird nests on the doorsill
24. When your phone has cobwebs on it
25. When your friends asks about your health at your funeral.
26. When I comment on my blog