Loving my hair and...

his hidden smile...

A pic from the recent garden party...and the guy with me is Siva....

Arab on a treadmill

A guy in kandoora on a treadmill:





just for fun guys...

A busy WTF week!

I thought everyone would think that I to have taken tweeting but no! I was seriously busy with all the college stuff draining life out of me. But hey, most the week is over now, so time to let my hair down.
Mostly it is due chemistry practicals that are going and we are doing salt analysis which I am not getting...of the six lab session, not even once I got it all right! That's odd!
My ex-buddy called me to tell How Bullsh*tty happy is becoz he is going to get married!! And he *cordially invited" me...WTF!! I had a huge huge fight with him a year or so back I have completely stopped talking to him...and now he expects me to forgive all that insanity and be good friends...no way!!

Today we dissected a snail..an apple snail in the lab today...it turned out to be awesome but of course some girls went sick...mine went all well except I had cut its intestine...and it stinks like hell!

I also bought a new book from the local book-store, called Abel's Island by Willaim Steig a kid's book but I enjoyed it throughly!!!

In the meantime, I installed Ubuntu OS instead of Vista but I didn't like it so it took me much time to figure out how to get back to Windows...why I hated Ubuntu, I dunno! So in all this process, despite back-up, I lost a considerable chunk of data!!!
So I am at present taking all time installed the apps and bookmarking your blogs..

Tweeting, tweaking and screeching

Finally, I have evolved and took up to Twitter recently...with very less luck!
First time when I looked at my page, I almost dropped my jaw *Is this what ppl are behind?*
Ayway, I went on with all the ritualistic enrolment process and all I was to set up my mobile for it!!
Good! And thats what I have been trying to do from last 22 days or so!!
I send everything needed and I wait, wait and wait!! So, so far, Twitter hasn't impressed me....well I can't say I don't like it...but fingers crossed until my mob sets up!

My dad brought/ bought me an Antivirus programme from Mct...I didn't even to open till today what was it...somehow my AVG Antivirus fucked up and  I took to the one Dad brought, called Kapspersky....I have a good opnion on this but this took hours to load and then activiate and then update and scan....a wholsesome of 5-6 hours...of which for 2 hours it updated (my internet speed was decent) So far it hasn't done any heroic attempts to save from bugs..but lets see...

 I am hearing that Windows 7 is nicer and better...but I haven't yet laid my hands on it...a buddy and software freak named Vjay would install me that next week...again I am so curious whats in store for me, that I can hardly wait...{btw Vjay is a guy who is physically challenged and with an IQ of more than 150...he somehow inspires me to live a life than is not so shitty as mine is...but then c'est la vie! :) }
On the other hand, a guy met me online and called himself DDk, said that Win 7 is a crap...but nothing wrong in trying it right?

I fell in Love

yup with no one else other than myself...
after all how can I love others if I can't love myself?

it is no nonsense..I am just elated by all the good things that are happening to me...of course I can't tell all those good things but all I can let you know is that I am no longer "single"! Got it!
Good!

from deviantart

Scatter-mind post

They are now en mode  so here is mine:

1.Got a call from Mr.A...in a way I am happy that he has joined a college and doing some course in Hyderabad. He was supposed to visit me while I was in Hyderabad last week (to visit my uncle) but it didn't work out...anyway..he said he would meet me when I will leave for Muscat. I am waiting...and next time I will shed all the mystery that surrounds this guy...

2. My weight loss is getting nowhere...I think I am in one of those plateau regions of weight-loss graph...but I haven't put on any so it doesn't matter much. I have been long deprived of all the goodies of life like ice-creams...alcohol....I am scared that once I will be in Muscat I will put on my weight...lets see

3. College is something that more or less changing into some Little Buds Nursery...in a sense because we are not allowed out of the college during the break-time. The canteen is almost meagre and the campus is small...then they implemented UNIFORMS...for a degree college...putting of my choice of wearing anything...plus if you fail in an exam your are expected to pay fine of something like 1 OR/ 100 Rs...it is indeed irritating...

4. I am again into Yoga, I had stopped it long back due to some unpleasant experiences but thanks to the building up pressure of studies and *^%@#$% I am forced to take up again. So far, I think I all well under control.

5. My uncle's daughter called me...I can sense something *fishy* coz:
She: Hi, Bobby...........eh..........howyoudoin?
Me: Yeah..fine, you?
She:Eh.......................fine.........*chuckles*
Me: Is there anything I can....
She: *more chuckles*....na....I just simply called...
Something is really fishy...

6. "*^%@#$%" in #4 refers to my new found enemy back at college...lets call that enemy as B*tch (you can choose other like: piss blobs, fa*...) ok I am so bloody irritated with this b*tch...she is always interfering with me and trying to dominate me....it is just annoying, if someone tells you only to shut when the whole of her friends are giggling. But I am a big boy. I ma not gonna complain....that wud be behaving like nursery kid!!

Gosh!! it is already 7:45...gotta run!

I am going to cum...

to Muscat!
LOL! Pervert!

Yeah! I will be there by early December...and I am all flying high about this...
My dad planned this for me as he wants me to take off sometime and get my hair down. I must say I am significantly over-stressed by the college and some family matters...

So, I will be there in Muscat for 2-3 weeks, the tickets are all ready and it is just counting days and starting a diet (ya! gotta look thinner...THINNER...MORE THHHINNNNER!!)...

I have shared this with everyone I consider as Human back college, and also to those whom I don't consider Humans - just to feast on their jealous looks...hehe! I have even arranged for leave and planned my studies also!

And just now, I finished a lengthy list of things I want t buy, things I want to "see" and eat...I am thinking I will burst with excitement...a lengthy 4 page list...As of now, only my friend Nells (I haven't talked of her before in the blog, but Nells or Nelly is a school buddy and a good friend of mine) is in Muscat, the rest are scattered in Canada, India and one somewhere lurking in Manila...the Manilian one may come too...

Whatever, It will a nice cool December - pampering myself with everything and everyone I missed...Oh! baby! That's going to be good, and if all backfire, I wouldn't care ~ after all Muscat is still my Home and there is no place like Home to doze off....

P.S:
The English Prof is teaching pr-onun-shzee-ye-szhun!!
I juzst waan-ted to szhhare!

The thieves manifestation

The area, I live in this small town is one of the posh areas...it is filled with huge houses - new with paints and some even now under construction. It still has some empty plots left and my building is in the middle of a huge empty plot. It somehow, makes me feel isolated from the rest of the houses of the street but no doubt, my house-owners maintain it wonderfully better than any other...

So it was on Eid day, my grocerer informed me that there is presence of thieves in the area and asked us to be careful.. Though till date, no case of robberies have been reported but still she warned us to be careful....
It all started from then on...now that I am living alone and my mom is at gran-uncle's house, she calls me every night to remind me to lock all the doors.

But yesterday night was difficult because I could hear someone on the top terrace, some kind of movement of huge and heavy objects (there is a lot construction material on terrace)! Really I was chick scared for my neighbours aren't there and I am alone on the floor. I immediately locked up all the doors and closed the windows...added to my bad luck there was a power cut. I grasped a torch and cell and sat in my bed waiting for something to happen....until I dozed off...

The noises subsided down...today morning I went up to check...I found two stray dogs on a heap of iron rods...

Etiquette of Exams and Mysore Bondas

I wonder why? Why I am so sluggish today? I am having exams at college, and I am no way thrilled of them. In fact I am bunking an exam today, doing so for the first time in life.

The exams I gave till date....sigh.....I am very disappointed with my performance in the recent exams and I have just three things to say why I been such fucked up:

First, the invigilator, should be vigilant and his duty is to vigil not TALK with us! Bloody idiots! All they did is to disturb me and others..."Why are drawing you so many diagrams?" "Why are writing you so slowly?" WTF they want? I want to get each of them fired....

Secondly, We are student so of University level, not of Kindergarten and I am amazed how many turned up without appropriate stationary....I am irritated when someone asks me..."Can I have pencil?" and worse if the person takes it without asking!!

Third, I dunno which bugger arranged the seats, I am seated next to a seriously retarded dude...for the physics exams, he would write just one page, and the rest of the time, he would play with my colour pens....BLOODY HELL!

Many think I am putting up reasons for my up-coming low marks. Anyway, the complaints have already been sent in...and if I see no effect, I am no way hesitant to write to the University...

I don't want my blog to become some whining ventilator....so leave it!
Coming to some colourful side of life, I am addicted to these things:

Don't freak! These are edible! They are dollops of flour/curd mixt...deep fried in hot oil. These can be compared to our Aloo Bonda, except these are without the potato gravy inside. These are not available in Muscat!

And guess what? Miraculously I am not even putting on weight! But these too soon had to go as I will take diet ( I am growing excessively jealous over Mrs.Cush/ Angry's work! So I am kinda eager to start off, but equally lazy!)

Racial Discrimination....

There is a hotel nearby, I knew the owner pretty well because he is a north Indian and I know his mother tounge well. We talk in his mother tongue..the normal chit-chat...

So I went today, and I gave my order and waited for the parcels to arrive. Meanwhile, I asked how much it costed me, and he said Rs 36. I gave him a Rs 100 currency note and he gave me back Rs 14.

Then he asked me how much I gave, I said "Rs 100" and he gave me the needed Rs. 50. And went back to counting his money. Then he looked at and started shouting in his language "Kaminey!(louser)You gave only Rs. 50! Give back my Rs. 50!!" I was shocked and politely asked him to check again! He wasn't no way listening to me!

In the mean time, men gathered around: The owner, went on shouting that I cheated on him! I openly asked him to take back Rs.50 if he wants, but I challenged him, I will show my Rs 100 note.

Taken aback, he said that he didn't need my money and insulted that my race itself is a cheating one! And over the decades, he had seen so may people like me!...then continued to the expletives (as if he only knew)

Lucky for him as he said that in his mother tongue! Had he had said that in the local language, the consequences would have been dire!
I collected my parcels in silence and left! Silent? NO way! My mind was screaming! But then...I remembered the famous lines of Wole Soyinka:

"Silence. Silenced transmission of

Pressurized good-breeding."

Yes! I sighed! Pressurized good breeding!

But for the first time in my life, I was identified with a race...for the first time...I was discriminated of my birth! And even now, after a busy day, my mind is still numb!

(For clarity: I am a South Indian and the owner is a North Indian)

The electrician and ...thinnies

Something happened to my fan, and it was not running/rotating or whatever, so I called my house owner, who in turn called an electrician.
The guy came, after an hour or so, he was thin, pale, short fellow with bright eyes....he repaired it.instantly...and we both have same names,and we went on talking and talking, from fans to cell towers to the house owners...
It is something creepy now, as I look back, that we became so friendly in just seconds....
I am not new to these firefly friendships, but perhaps it is their short span than enthrals us...
Now, this incident happened long before Ramdhan, then he turned up again on Eid, just to say his greetings...Q8!

And talking of other guys back at the college, all are thinner than me, and no one has specs -- so the first impression is I am a nerd....sad! But there is one guy, called M, chubby, dark but has sharp features with very curly hair and lazy eyes...now M gives me all sorts of uncomfortable feelings in the class, but I can't actually say uncomfortable, he looks at me fleetingly, staring at me when I am talking to other but he never talks to me. Its odd and rather you-know-what!!! But yea, I am enjoying all that...

"Ode to autam and yapples"

Yep! Yp u got it! It is yet another WTF blunder of my English Prof.
This time, it is with something more respectful, The Ode to Autumn by Divine John Keats....
So his version is here for you:

Seazon of mistz and mellow fruit-fullness
Cloze bausom-friend of the matuuring sun
Conspiring with him how tew load yand bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
Tew bynd with Yapples the moss'd cottage-treez,

And it went on and on, until we reached the word "o'erbrimmed" and he said "O" "ER" brimmed - does anyone know what it means???" I didn't say anything, not even to my friends...nothing...I was o'erbrimmed with remorse...or worse...

Well, the complaints, I heard have gone against him, (I didn't complain) at least I assume cause my Vice Principal had said something that meant "...to send away those (profs) who aren't good, we first need better ones..."

So...I am waiting....

Change...you can't see it coming...change...

My love for Shobhaa De

It was five or six years back, when I first found Shobhaa De's book in an old carton full of books.
Something made me read it. I didn't understand the book then, but I read it...till end

After her, I read many Indian authors, older and senior and better than her but I still love Shobha De the most. My dad and his literary friends criticized me and her...they apparently find her writings erotic than needed, exaggerated and unrealistic...but I find them full of life...life that is hidden from the open society, dirty lives that we all live hideously...


Perhaps, my unreasonable devotion for this writer is the writerherself, than her writings...because she looks at the world in some oddkind of way, never restricting to the social boundaries is what thatkeeps me read her books...

Whatever, there are some things that are unreasonable, so is perhaps this.

As I recall, my first book I read was Sultry Days, then I didn't find any of her book. Until recently, while in Hyderabad, in an old bookshop I found Shobha's Snapshots (the previous owner of the book curiously scribbled "Woof! Too hot!" on the front page...I still wonder why...coz I never found anything Hot in it) along with her Speedpost, Starry Nights...

Apart from Starry Nights, I am clinging on to another thriller called Cyclops by Clive Cussler

Happy Birthday Mrs.Winehouse

Amy Winehouse turns 26 today, and of all the things I have to say of her, I only wish she will have a healthier future!

"Is Tolstoy a man or a woman?" My English prof asked!

"Is Leo Tolstoy a man or a woman?" my English prof had asked this question...as he genuinely never knew!

I was sitting in the first row of students and I couldn't hide my anger towards such an ignorant fellow. Honestly, I was hurt. I mean, Leo Tolstoy is someone who everyone knows (at least those who are into English) as he is generally regarded as the greatest novelist.

And here I am being taught by someone who doesn't know Tolstoy's gender! Had he been a chemistry prof or zoology one, I could have overlooked but English is his profession and he asked such a thing!


I don't like to consider myself someone who holds more knowledge than the English prof, but it is his ignorance and non-curiosity towards his own field of profession is something that infuriates me.

The other day, he was lecturing on  W.H. Auden's "The Unknown Citizen" and trust me I could not understand a thing. He merely translated the poem into Telugu (my mother tongue and is used extensively in college when English fails to reach the common students)  stripping  the poem's beauty and meaning.

It is almost shameful to share such a thing, because back in Muscat, I was taught by an old man (pbuh) who is highly conversant in language and literature and spoke so elegantly....

Of course, I did talk over the issue to my Dad (an English prof too), who asked me keep quiet on the issue and leave it to him until he realizes it all by himself
(and let me suffer till then)

The saach ka samna tag!!

From Raphael

The rules are thus…
RULE
You can only say Guilty or Innocent
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Here it begins...!
Ever kissed someone of the same sex?
-guilty! I didn't put that question over there!

Asked someone to marry you?
-Innocent. I was asked by someone when I was 15! It was silly to think even!

Ever told a lie?
-Guilty, guilty, guilty!....unto "n"

Had feelings for someone whom you can’t have back?
-guilty. :(

Kissed a picture?
-guilty! I am not going to tell of whom it was!

Slept in until 5 PM?
-guilty. Yes or more!

Danced on a table in a bar?
-innocent. no way!

Fallen asleep at work/school?
-guilty . many times, while other slept for History & English, I slept for chemistry & physics!

Been suspended from school?
-innocent. NO WAY! I am the Student Fabulous! Trust me, my teachers talk of me even now!!

Worked at a fast food restaurant?
-guilty! I served at my neighbour's Gujarati Restaurant - when they ran out of workers!

Stolen from a store?
-guilty! I didn't do it for me, though!

Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose?
-guilty. ohhh yes. Once even rice grains...

Caught a snowflake on your tongue?
-innocent. It is my dream!

Kissed in the rain?
-innocent. I am allergic to rain!

Sat on a roof top?
-guilty. The one of my ancestral house...it was fun!

Sang in the shower?
-guilty! I suppose it is some kinda addiction...

Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on?
-innocent! I have never been to the pool-side! The fear for water bodies developed after I got drowned in Qantab beach and had to be pulled out by Omanis...it was quite embarrasing!

Made a girlfriend/boyfriend cry?
-guilty! Not as much as the other made me!

Shot a gun?
-innocent! If I use a gun in future, it would be to kill a incessantly noisy nasty dog of my neighbours that keeps me awake at night...

Donated Blood?
-innocent! I was rejected - dunno why though!

Eaten alligator meat?
-Innocent!!!!!!!who made this question

Still love someone you shouldn't?
-Innocent!

Liked someone, but will never tell who?
-Guilty. If I keep telling, I keep losing'em!

Been too honest?
-Guilty. I am known for that!

Kissed someone you shouldn't?
-Guilty! the best kisses are those when you kiss someone whom you shouldn't!

Ruined a surprise? 
-Innocent! I always have a strong temptation to ruin..

Ate in a restaurant and got really bloated that you couldn't walk afterwards?
-Guilty...ad infinitum! Every time I walk out of my favourite restaurants, I struggle to reach the car!

Erased someone in your friends list?
-Innocent! I just let them be there...

Dressed in a woman's clothes [if you're a guy] or guy's clothes [if you're a girl]?
-Guilty. when I was a kid...
But I liked Robbie Williams in She's Madonna so much! ;)

Been told that you're handsome or beautiful by someone who totally meant what they said?
-Guilty. but now, I think I am ugliest one alive...with dark tan, oily pimply skin...flaky hair! Ewww!

Had communication with your ex?
-Innocent. I slammed the door!

Got totally drunk on the night before your exam?
-Innocent! Expect me to be so, if I fail my exams

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Everyone's tagged!

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thanks to Blogger for fucking up my format! I hope some evolution takes places in this and copies what it is asked and not what it wishes to in its own way!

The salt-less diet

IT is the new craze down here. Ask anyone, they will tell of a million reasons to stop eating salt. In fact, eating salt is now considered as something compared to eating with hands in the western world.

But the diet is simple: Cook everything without salt, and less amount of oil.
The real mess begins when we taste what we have cooked for especially  Indian cuisine demands a minimum level of salt, chilli and oil...remove them from the food..it is better to starve.

So, the diet comes with salt re-placers like groundnut powder(?), dried cabbage powder(???), til seed powder...pomegranate seed powder (??????) to add taste and nutrition to the food. Chillis are also expected to be avoided and the diet lays importance on consumption of various vegetables like cabbage, tomatoes, fruits mainly papaya.

This diet's proponent, Dr. Raju - who conducts various programmes to promote naturo-pathy and this diet claims that even diabetes be brought under control. He says that weight will be 'healthy' as there will be no 'fat' loss but the excess amount of water that is stored in the body will be eliminated because, salt retains excess amounts of water in body.

He also recommends various 'cleansing' methods of gut - some call for natural laxatives, to reduce weight.
All is good! The weight loss is fast and easy when the diet is 'strictly' followed but then once we stop, the weight gain is also equally fast.

My cousin brother who weighed 93 kilos at the start took this diet and in 3 months, he got down to 75 kilos - his dedication to this diet is awesome and he in fact improvised it by adding loads of fibre, vegetable juices, and salt-less recipes.

And here I am jumping, jogging, skipping (meals also) from last 4 or 5 months and having lost just 13 kilos...
But me taking up salt less diet is almost impossible with my mom staying in India with me...she openly refused to cook without salt and she insists that salt is crucial for ion balance within the body - a complete removal of salt can put the body into dehydration and ultimately weaken the metabolism.

There is truth in her words too...because the sodium is important in nerve impulse transmission as well as an important mineral, the deficiency of which can cause dizziness and cramps...

So I am hanging between a lucrative diet and the risk of screwing up my nerve....

(Pic source: http://www.cychefs.com )

Tagged...

A friend of mine, Omnibus - tagged me on Multiply..thought I might share! ENJOY!

 

1. What type of M&M's are your favorite?

 The green ones. :)

 

2. Gay Marriage?

Yes, Should be legalised

 

3. Lower the legal drinking age?

 18 - I am past that!

 

4. Red vines or twizzler?

I wanna eat both

5. Who is the best hugger that you know?

"A" 

6. Do you believe in love at first sight?

I don't know. It never happened to me

7. Is there something you want to tell someone? 

Yes, so many things to so many people

8. What brand of shirt are you wearing? 

Pepe jeans

9. Would you kiss anyone on your friend's list? 

*chuckles* Yup!!

10. Favorite Disney movie?

 Tarzan?

11. How many kids do you want to have? 

I have not decided yet!

12. Have you ever dated anyone in the military?

 Umm...NO!

13. Do you wanna change your name?

Yes!...at least change its spelling

14. Last time you saw your father?

2 weeks ago...I will see him in a month's time

15. What did you do for your last birthday?

Sleep

16.What time did you wake up today?

6:30am

17. What were you doing at midnight last night?

chatting with my Indo-Filipino friend

18. Name something you CANNOT wait to do:  

<> 

LOL!!

Nice one! Do try and lemme know!

One year....so fast?

I still feel it was yesterday or so, seeing my sis being rushed into the operation hall somewhere near midnight, while we all waited anxiously as she gave birth to a extremely cute son...
And here I am now at his first birthday party..with all the relatives rushing in to wish him...
Isn't it odd how fast children grow? (AH! I sound like an elder!)

This lad, still remains un-named formally but we call him "Amy" at home! So Happy B'day Amy!

And he started teething recently (oh yes, he does bite hard!)...we are eager...

Random thoughts from my gr8 grndfather's bed....

Okay, I have been opening blogger, and intending to write something or the other and then leaving midday either out of boredom or laziness or remembrance of some incident or job....
And neither do I see any of the interesting topics (I am sorry!!Muscat blogosphere is severely dull!) that provoke me to write a blog on nor there is much happening in my life now that I am blobbing to tell you all...it seems some kind of stagnant period of my life - Home>college> Home>College - sounds rather nerdy but yeah that hows life is...

It had been such a long time that I have actually talked to someone on the issues I would talk on (like films, music blah blah). The recent hot topics of my mind had been Organic chemistry, DNA fingerprinting and how to bunk the English class...
Friends are here many and they are very much unlike those at Muscat, in fact I can say both extremes of life...while my muscat friends are pompous, gaudy, promiscuous and open mined those that are here are simple, superstitious, conserved and scared (of my gigantic physique). Except one or two, I don't talk to many yet my name all around in the college...(instant fame when you are an NRI and 6 ft plus)

Apart from the boring things I am into, there is something that I had been planning and pursuing -- it is restoration of our family's antiques (mostly furniture and some paintings, statues, books, manuscripts and stuff like that). At present I have shifted some of the furniture from my inhabitated ancestral house to here - which includes a bed that belonged to my great grandfather (nearly 100 years old), a table that was made by maternal grand father, a 1970 model table fan of my grandma, an undated clock....I had been also sorting ut books of my grandpa and reorganising them...though the task is time consuming but it is interesting also...

Apart from that, I am also focussing on my weight loss once again but I am waiting for the winter to start as it is quite dangerous to change any diet in monsoon because immunity will be affected...Swine flu is not here as far as the reports go, but yes I find it very worrying that it is rampant in Muscat...so folks up there please be very careful...alert..at least wear the masks, wash your hands...Ok!

Just to add, now that my "A" is up there in North, I was too lazy to any move in my love life, I was lazy to search I didn't want to deceive...but then suddenly, ppl are taking my numbers and calling me and inviting me...for a coffee/ chat or whatnot....ain't it not silly that no one turns up when you really need someone in life...but ha, whenever time is there I go

Its raining from 8 hours....

You all know how much I hate when it rains, and my hatred increased when I broke up with my ex for my ex loved rain like hell...
And now, here I am in the middle of true Indian monsoon, all wet, muddy and sliperry with pigs and dgs fighting in the rains pools...I feel I am drowned.
On my way back from my college, a truck hit the pool on the road sending my croc tee (white) to all coffee colored......grrr...I wanted to call the police....
Anyway, thats minor when  compared to the 3 hour power cut we had today due to the rain, the news says that rain will/ may continue for next 48 hours and they may tide over the drought which otherwise will start on the South...
I am starting to like rains - I can't imagine of being deprived of water or fighting with ladies at water tanks...

 

Naa...it is not  that bad, but yeah, its that foggy and watery...but one thing, rain in the paddy fields at the end of the town are an awesome vista to see...

  

But yeah...too much of rain may spoil the crops...all seems new and awe for this is the first time I am living in the countryside of  India...

Bobby back on blogging

It is just minutes my broadband has been activated and I am all in high sprits to blog and share where I am and what I am upto....bu then time is such restraint and I am equally lazy.
Anyway, I am now doing bachelors in biotech - genetics somewhere down in South of India...the teachers and fellas are good...
I living near to the college, in an apartment surrounded with antique furniture and paintings...brought from my ancestral home...
Dad and mom are in India, so sis came to stay with us with her cute son...
So, this bobby is lil chubby again for some time....
India after all is a nice place to live...when with power and water.........

Suffering gross side-effects of Dieting

All my life, I kept trying one or another diet in my own way. Always trying to shed all the flab through some magical diet. It started when I was 15 or so and weighed a whopping 120 kilos. I took the resolve to shed all the fat and become slender but it never worked. From then on I am cutting on and on about what I am eating.
Now, after three years I have reduced to 95 kilos - after more than 3 years of dieting, I am still in the "overweight section" of BMI.
From the common low-fat diet to the (in)famous low-carb diet, my body went through all the stress - I never settled on one diet and at times I went extreme like all-juice diet or raw-diet. They all helped me in modifying my eating habits. Low-carb diet is one which I love and detest equally - the diet is not only bleak and tasteless but also so weakening that my mom scared I will be on IVF by the time I finish the diet. But, it worked showing such significant weight loss that I never felt with any other diet. I was weakly glad. That was a year or so ago!

But I gained the lost weight soon after that, I went back on a low fat diet. More than diet, I intentionally and successfully reduced my portion sizes - I now eat less than half what I used to eat three year ago. I have even used medicines too to induce weight loss - I used Ayurvedic medicines which called for strict diet excluding almost everything except lemons and honey and those laxatives which I used under doctor's supervision - they worked though I wouldn't recommend it.
Exercise was something I started late, my main activity was walking/jogging but I also had lots of flexibility and stretching exercises as well. Now I have very flexible and agile body. The hard work is paying off after all.

 

thats me in 2006 and now...

Then came all those things which many don't talk about...those awful side effects of weight loss and dieting. The significant side effect in me is wrinkles on my tummy, on my toes...the skin has become rough and flaky. My hair too has lost its lustre and shine and has split ends and breaks. Though oddly my nails aren't affected, their growth however has slowed down compared to the past. The weakness has become something used to but hey I wasn't that drained off - after some deviation from diet I normally recovered.

And more indirectly I have created those eating habits that are very unsuitable in India....you can't expect a bowl of oatmeal for morn or clear soup as a starter for lunch...it is almost impossible. The breakfast here consists of idlis or oily dosas and the lunch is a huge pile of rice with always oily curries or acidic pickles...
But since I am eating less there isn't any weight gain! So till now glad! And once I will start living on my own - I will revert to my old eating habits which are indeed very odd for a common Indian.

Top 5 Indian male habits that suck!

Written by Neetu in Harryjerry.com 


The Staring Habit:
Males all over love to stare at women. Indian males love to keep staring at women. They’ll stare you to death if they want to. You can try giving them ‘the look’ in the eye but no use. Somehow their eyes are rock solid, on target. They scan you from top to bottom and left to right. Their dark eyes scan every inch of flesh on you. 

They have not left me - my height attracts so much looks...:(

The Stinking Habit:
Indian guys stink, to the core. Guys this is a a wake up call. I believe that guys think investing in a 100 buck deodorant hurts more than investing in stocks. Every time a guy walks by and I can feel that disgusting body odor. I wonder if you guys even hit the showers every day.
Can't agree more....I spend most of my money on perfumes, sprays and hair-removers

The Peeing on the streets Habit:
This is not new. At any given time there’s an Indian guy peeing across the street in the public right in front of a sign that says, “Yahaan peshaab karna mana hai” meaning you can’t pee here. Just because you guys can pee standing up doesn’t mean you must pee everywhere. Use the public loo next time.
Many do it - I jus don't understand from where do they all get the guts to do it!


The Comment passing Habit:
Walk across a bunch of guys and your ears automatically gear up to pick up the sound signals. Every single woman in the country is so bloody used to these comments that it doesn’t bother most of them anymore. Sexually unfulfilled, testosterone charged males would make all sorts of attempts to prove their worthiness out on the streets.
Yup! Neetu is right! As a brother of many sisters, I have learned to bother the comments and commentators  and taught them (wit hand) to shut up!

The Over-friendly Habit:
Indian males tend to become over-friendly for all kinds of reasons known to them. Go to a public place and drop a pin, hundreds of men jump out of nowhere and battle to get that pin back to you. Then they’ll strike a conversation with you. They’ll want to know all sorts of personal things about you. They just don’t seem to stop. There’s a fine line between being a gentleman and being uncomfortably friendly. Indian men cross the line as usual.
Okay! I have to defend! Oddly, a bunch of girls tried to strike friendship with me last time at the college! Did I tell you that they were all Muslims in burqas (abaya)

I am being generous in not dealing with other worse habits like "ball-scratching", splitting saliva, public nose digging and thrusting hips at others in buses.......


Don't worry! Since I grew outside India, I don't have such habits except stink! 
 Anything else you can think of? Please post them as comments

Note: Both Neetu and me are being practical, humorous and talking in general! If you think this hurts, kindly F*ck off! I have no time to listen to such comments! Alternatively you can laugh and move on

Am I an Indian? - or some alien with net?

I still have no clue why my internet habits are such highlight in my famlily's gossip! My uncle is all restless this weekend while I am sifting through various blogs. He stood behind me and pretending as though not looking - the same continued when I shifted for laptop! I have no clue what the hell is happening!

Its just internet and I am just a guy - whats so big deal in making fuss about it! He remarked that my cousin once said that I am an internet addict and went on n on! I am not so freak but yes I need this to keep in touch with the world! And if say something in "So! What?" manner he would say something under-breath and leave and quit talking for the next couple of days. He would treat like I am some stuffed lifeless animal.

Whenever I come to India, I modify myself unlike many of my friends - I try to be like..like a real resident Indian - I internally suffer coz of dirtiness, cunning mentalties and prying nature of the locals, but I supress and put on a big smile and try to be as common as possible. This includes from my table manners to my sleep timings - everything to make it up look like a real Indian walla.
And here I am being criticised for surfing habits. When I say such things to my cousin brother, he says such things are normal and every Indian parents behave so! I don't get it! Mine too are Indian - they never touched my personal things! They never pried on me while I surfed though they are well aware that I am brainy enough to circumvent Omantel filters!! So what is my uncle's prob - I am no way to understand! I openly asked him if he wanted to install any parental filters - he can! There was no response either!
When my parents backed me and asked my uncle to leave me as I am - he got more restless and is now noisly shifting channels! It looks ridiculous but they are elders and I can't voice out like I can't eat with a spoon - This is INDIA!

Its frustating when someone looks like you are doing something gravely wrong when there is nothing wrong (in my perspective!) Perhaps I can never understand Indians - I wonder how much of such experiences are on the way!

Back onto the world....

Finally.....Finally, I am back online...that too under my name!!!
But this internet connection has cost me almost an arm and leg...not that its that costly but I had seroius hard time convincing my uncle to let me have it. He still fears that I may spoil his son (did I tell you that he is 27 n I'm 18) via internet.

I literally refused to eat until I have net and this had created quite a stir but I needed it badly...some kind of primitive need.
Exams over and I am out with a guy whom we will call Mr.A.for time being, gr8 guy! hv'g gr8 time!
Odd that few weeks ago, I'm addicted to sedatives to combat chronic insomnia........

So i will back soon fully with regular blogging and commenting

I AM leaving for India 2nite....forever and frustataed!!

What you read is true! I'm leaving Oman...I'm! Not my parents!

I don't want to come back! Not that I don't love Oman but I have to go! I can't tell what all happened but I want leave early and I am leaving tonight! I have no intentions of coming back either! Until some people leave the country! (some ppl includes that idiot ex-buddy!)
or I do something like...........


I think I will need time to recover and get into public life...before I end up being violent or worse..self violent.....I just to go away from all the stuff and people for sometime!
I may blog once in India but I can't be sure.

I also have exams to deal! FUCK!

More clouds, more rains, more wine...

My petite gadget is buzzing violently with the excitement of the prospects of the heavy rains tomorrow. The sky seems already bleak and extremely cloudy over Wadi Kabir. And my dad is home early - the govt people always knew it first - (though they occasionally tell whatever)
These rains now dampen my plans for the weekend of the get-together of my friends at the near Pizza hut - depends on weather though!

IT seems, "mother E" is taking revenge on me by giving so many cloudy days. Yuck! Sun! I'm already missing.

While at home gulping my black wine, I stumbled across this wonderful wine on Swapna's Cuisine - a great cook blogging from Kuwait I think!

What the hell does my ex-buddy want?

From the I arrived from India, I'm really annoyed by the fact that an ex friend of mine (who lives and works in WK) with whom I have cut all relations is still continuing to bother the hell with me.
After a continuous friendship of two years, we had a clash on our opinions on God - he is a devout and I am an atheist - I never asked him to become like me - but he opposed my views and had a big fight uselessly on such a personal issue. Even after the fight, I continued but he started ignoring me and he started criticizing my lifestyle - and finally I have to quit! I have never seen such an idiot - who would loose a friend over a personal choice of the other. In my friends, I have everyone from religious, non believers, gays, lesbos, whites,blacks - everyone but we never discriminate each other as what they are of their choices or an involuntary genetic disposition that they can't help. Right?

He and I had a really nasty ending and I thought it was over. Now he is bugging me in many ways, first he somehow befriended my neighbors who praise him day and night, and now he is targeting my societal  friends - and people who are friends with him are ignoring me and some have stopped talking to me (I wonder what he tells them'bout me) . He wanted to get near to my dad and mom also - my dad himself said that he visited nearly four times while I was in India...
Luckily, my loyal school friends are still with me and they knew right from the beginning how nasty he had become with me. And in fact, my "significant other" predicted such clash and asked to cut relations long before - she is so so clever!! But as usual I didn't listen!

BUT now, I actually can't understand what he wants! He is behaving like a congenital schmuck! But more cussing can make me moronic! 

Anyway, I am only here for a few days to spend with my mom and dad and friends - so I think it is useless to think of such annoying things - so...on the brighter side, I did some shopping for me and my sis - I got new jeans and a shirt from Sana Fashions - now I think I will get more clothes - Centrpoint? I never visited it!

iCook: Cauliflower in Almond Tomato sauce...

I love Cauliflower, apart from its taste, it the easiest vegetable (or flower) to cook. I cooked this yesterday as I had some guests at home. They seemed to like and asked me the recipe.
So.here we go...

Cauliflower Almond curry with pulihora

Ingredients:

1 medium sized cauliflower
cut into florets
2 medium sized tomatoes*
1/2 cup almond paste**
2 or 3 green chillies
3 tpsp oil
2 or 3 medium sized onions finely chopped
1 tsp curry powder (optional)
1 tsp tomato sauce
1 cup milk
1-2 tsp ginger garlic paste
1 pint of cumin seeds
1 pint of termeric (or red/food colour can also be used)

* Blanch the tomatoes (dip'em in hot water for 5 mins and peel them) and blend them

** For lazy cooks like me, almond powder is available - just mix the powder with hot water or boiling milk. If you have almond nuts, soak them in hot water for 30-45 mins and blend them with some milk.

Preparation:

- Take a heavy bottomed wok, add oil. Once the oil is heated, add onions - saute till they are golden brown.

- Add ginger-garlic paste to the onions and fry until the raw smells leaves. Add green chillies

- Now a pinch of cumin seeds and add tomato paste fry until the mixture is thick.

- Add the cauliflower florets to the wok and fry them well. Keep the lid and let them steam for 1-2 minutes

- Add the curry powder and stir well. Now add almond paste and mix well.

- Add milk to the curry and let the cauliflower boil fully in milk for 5-10 minutes. Add turmeric or food color.

- If the curry isn't thick enough, you can add a tablespoon of cornflour (mix cornflour with water before adding- to avoid lumping)

- Add finely chopped pieces of curry leaves (optional) before serving.

- Enjoy with chapatis or rice.
Bon apetit!

Tip tip tip tip tip BOOM tip tip...

That is all I am hearing from last night. The lightening made me wake from my delicate sleep and I am awake from 3 am. The whole Wadi Kabir seems to be drenched with mud, water and piss (it stinks of piss when it rains) making me almost sick.
IT is all cloudy out reminding me of some wintery drab place. I hate cloudy days, they just shut all my metabolism and I end feeling drained and fatigued.
Added to this, I need to visit my friend today and collect some books from him. He lives somewhere in Ruwi and I had to wait for hours to meet him. Imagine traveling on such a dull day!

On the other side, my "significant-other" called and wanted to meet me. I blandly rejected the offer as I am in such languid mood, it could only make my on-off relation more cold!

So now, I am finally tugged into my blankets with a book (namely Collected short stories of O.Henry) and made warm with a shot of a "mixed fruit wine" which I aged for 3 years...
But of course I have to get back to my studies by evening!

iCook: Channa Masala...

This recipe is so nice, I love it! Though it is available

outside, it is always better to make it at home. I learned this recipe from my
aunt in Hyderabad.
Here it is for you:

Ingredients:

1 medium onion

6 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 1-inch piece

fresh ginger, minced

1 tablespoon crushed garlic

1–2 green chilies,
seeded and minced

1/2 teaspoon red chili powder

1 tablespoon ground coriander

1/2 teaspoon ground cumin

1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric

1 cup water

2 cups chopped
tomatoes, drained
1 can garbanzo beans, drained

1 tablespoon amchur powder (optional)

1 teaspoon garam masala

Directions

1. Peel and quarter the onion, place it in the food
processor, and process until smooth. Pour off the extra liquid and set aside.
2. Heat the oil in a medium, heavy-bottomed skillet over a
medium-high flame. When very hot, add the onion and cook until browned,
approximately 4 to 5 minutes. Adjust the heat as needed so that the onion does
not burn.
3. Stir in the ginger and cook for 2 minutes; add the garlic
and cook for another minute.
4. Add the green chilies, chili powder, coriander, cumin, and
turmeric, and mix to blend.

5. Lower the heat to medium, add 1/2 cup of the water andthe tomatoes. Continue cooking and stirring for two minutes.
6. Add the remaining water and mix well.
7. Stir in the garbanzo beans.

8. Lower the heat to medium-low and cook for 10 minutes.

9. Add the amchur powder and garam masala and mix well. Cook

for two minutes and remove from the heat.

Modifications:
I have made the puree of tomatoes also. After frying the onions till golden brown, I added this paste little by little frying in small quantities - the trick to get the taste is to fry till the sourness of the paste.
To enhance the taste, I too added the paste of cashewnuts and cus-cus (poppy seeds) to the curry.
And don't forget to add fresh cream and butter just before serving!
The recipe is from beyondwonderful.com
Bon aptitet!

It's Raining!...I am missing my TV show

All of a sudden it started to rain...and in fact there is warm air and rain...odd
Well, anyway I hope it stops coz my Dish TV doesn't work when it rains, and the lightening makes it more dangerous to watch TV.

Today are the finals of a Telugu dance show and we missed it thanks to the weird weather. Acutally I can't understand why my dish tv only goes while raining but my Hotbird is all fine...

Shakey Photographer and his pics

It isn’t that I don’t love my new digital camera but sometimes I feel it is absolutely useless…especially at night. I always loved night photography and I wanted my cam to capture the night shots awesomely and that stupid Malabari salesman of KMT said it will do so. But I was pretty disappointed when I learned that my camera needs to be more sophisticated (something like SLR) to get those splendid shots of night. Added to this, I am also in need of a tripod (coz my hands shake a lot)…but is it necessary? - I am only in my first steps of photography? And I must learn to click first before I fly high…right…
When I bought this camera I was unaware of shutter speed control which is absent in my camera, therefore I cannot click anything in motion like a flying bird or a running child or a firework and even if I click, it would be something else. Anyway, one of my friends and fellow photographer said that I am over enthusiastic and any kind of learning needs time and practice from simple then complex.

So while I was in India where I always hang the camera around coz India is one of those places that is so diverse and surprising, I don’t want to miss a shot. (And a place to show off too!) One of the noted photographer said so of India, “Sit in one corner of the street [of Delhi] and click and you will click for lifetime as every moment is different yet beautiful.”  Despite of filling up my laptop and EHD with 1000s of picture, I still feel that I have missed some shots. Most of the pictures are shot within the family in various moods and moments, some of the locals and landscapes, flowers and at times children…

The following are some shots from my sister’s garden and her roses:

 

I don't know what these flowers are called...Gill any help?

These violet flowers smell like garlic!

And despite how much I despise my camera at night, I was somehow able to capture these pics:

These were the lamps set up at a local temple

 

And of course the flashy and flamboyant decorations...

Do tell me how the pics are! There are many more to come - of my nephews and houses...very soon...so keep visiting.



p.s I had some HTML probs when posting this post,though I solved'em but do inform me if the post doesn't load properly.

spring cleaning...heart cleaning

This happens always...whenever we leave Dad at home - leave and return to see a hell out of it!
Now that we've been away for whole three months, the home is like anything...papers, books, ash, vessels, leftovers, clothes...and the list is endless.
Well, it took me and mom to get back everything in shape, but we are not still satisfied...we finished with kitchen and hall...and bathrooms are to be done (their condition is unexplainable)
Meantime I have finish some studying also...and my significant other called up -so there may be a date on Saturday. But I dunno if we can make it becoz both of us are having exams that very day...weird.
What is more weird is find the stuff(a gift) of an ex-buddy inside my house - dad said that he wanted to re-establish the relationship - which infuriated me...I mean he was the one who started the fight, he blamed me and made my parents shout at me (they never do this usually)...and now he wants be back...errrrr....I hope some devil fucks him to death

..well that for now...I am enjoying the sun here and it is indeed awesome...I didn't call anyone that I'm here...neither do I wish to as I am going to stay for a very less time!

I am BACK in Muscat!!!!!! Almost nude.........

Sitting on my own couch, my favorite mug filled with Nescafé and me on the net typing this post - listening to my fave music, while the sun in Muscat is shining through windows onto my back – Ah! Isn’t this heaven?  (And I am almost nude! Only 10% of the body is covered at present) Well yes home is heaven and I am really fucking happy that I am home…

All the while I was in India, I spent my days at my uncle’s house in Hyderabad or at my sister’s in PPD – both the places were good, they have the basal facilities but they are not homely. I am glad that I will have nothing to do there for the next couple of months at least. But next year, when I will be joining my degree – I will live near to my sister’s and of course will live alone…I am elated and anxious…I could have done degree in Oman but simply, I want to be on myself…which means that I will have to face the negative consequences of life too…living alone is not easy moreover my lifestyle and India make it more tough.

And in the short time that I have in Oman, I have too many things to cover up…I have to get my laptop cleaned and formatted and I am thinking of installing Windows 7 – if available in the market or on net. I would have to visit CFO and get my mark sheet from there. Apart from these I also need to do some shopping – particularly clothes for me and my sis (And I’m very lazy to shop). If all done in time, I want spend time with mom and dad as I will be staying far from now on for very long periods…

But before that I need to prepare for my finals coming up in April-May and I am really running off time…I hope with right time management (I never mastered this in my life and I try to, I fuck up the whole ) I well can get over the finals.

Ok guys, I will keep on posting more and of course there is lot to read too in all your blogs…so get ready for my comments!

And do wish me best of luck for final revision! 

This too shall pass....

Actually that is what I have been saying to myself from the last few weeks and it seems like my life is still and passing....
I have finished with those tests and I don't know of the results. My mom is still happy with her grandson and having her dentures fixed (she is now grandmom..) and I am in that same ol' Hyderabad where I split my time btwn books and TV.
My cousin bro does take me out regularly but somehow I feel as though I am dead!
Oh! Leave it! there's lot to live! :)

So Valentine's Day is up...uh! I am bombarded with news that Valentine's Day is banned in India, I don't know how far it is true but Sri Rama Sena had said so! (To be frank I derive no inspirational values from either Ramayana or Mahabharatha....they seem like some tele serials for the then people. Completely confusing and useless....coz to live a good life you don't need to be some scholar in Puranas or religious txts. Helping others will suffice. )I am still ashamed that parties like Sri Rama Sena and Shiv Sena (at times BJP) are not banned in India. Renuka Chowdary had been shouting that some action should be taken on such religious addicted  parties.  I think until  she  starts  biting  people will not listen

Well, despite such hot things, I am happy that Indian lovers are all ready to blow themselves off on 14th. I am eager to see Hyderabad on 14th
The Best Valentine's Day I had was 2 years back, my ex and me....I think in garden....and last year was the horrible one as that was the day I knew I am about to split up...If I was in Muscat I could have spent the day to myself or with some friend
Well this year I am intending to sleep the whole day as I am sleepless for last 2 nights...(this fucking weather here.....it is cold and hot and cold...I have come out and in of my quilts!)

Wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day. And do post your experiences....

So...I hope that "this fucking boring period of my life  too shall pass."

Still alive...in a strange way...

A lot to write of many things which include my new found interest in gardening, shaving and hanging out but not now...
All this time I was trying to get my wifi and I could not get it and finally gave up..when it will arrive...I will see to it...
SO, guys whats up? I actually need to ask this as I have no clue what the heck is going on with the outr world and forget about Oman. (btw did we really win the gulf cup!!!!)I was pretty busy as you see read, I am now having my practicals in my college..so bit clumsy dusting off my mind..and books....
Meanwhile, I am getting bored to hell in here as I am NOT with my LAPTOP, iPOD and not even a PEN DRIVE.  They are all seized from me by my sis who felt that I spend more time with them than with my books.(Don't believe her)
I know it is odd as it is without internet and now not even a laptop Uggh!!
Here is a friend of mine (real and good one) who blogs (I think) awesome: Kiran do visit him and encourage him





ps: to Jana I will edit that post soon
to Gill thanks for putting me in the list!

I MISS YOU ALL and UR BLOGS

Bobby Bollozou
hoping to become normal again

Six Random Things about me...

Mean Reds in Muscat had tagged me...long time ago..but you know, so MRM I am sorry for sucha late response...

1) I am the 2nd  winner of the Neurological Science Quiz 2008 conducted by Nizam's Institiute of Medical Sciences - I was even awarded a medal for this thing - I participated in many quizzes  and my dream is to become one day a quiz master like Anne Robinson and teach the Bollywood stars (who know nothing and host quiz shows ) a lesson
 ~~ the fun part was that I left the school I represented the next week after the quiz!

2) I am with Mean Reds when it comes to marriage - I don't get it why people bug me and my opinions on marriage - guys I am just 18! And when I conformed to my mom that I will NEVER marry - she started crying - I simply don't get it!  Is it obligatory to marry someone to live a happy life -- I don't think so...I love loneliness! I think after 3 break ups I have become selfish and narcissist!!
On the other hand, my sis - who was eager to turn 18 so that she could be married -- she forced my parents to get her married early to her lover boy - who is a son of my uncle (mom's bro)...

3) Though you may find it hard or weird....I know A-to-Z of make-up! I know hows and whats of this science -- though I never tried my knowledge on anyone else other than my sister...who is pretty impressed by my skills...but I can't figure out when and where I learned it....and my fave is smoky eyes

4) I haven't cooked anything since I have come to India - it gets complicated here coz Indians (my family)  feel that kitchen is a woman's place and if you have cock - you better not cook ! -- I know stupid -- sometimes I feel like cooking such people

5) Coffee in India sucks - I have tried everything from Bru to Sunrise - I don't get the taste I enjoyed in  Oman - and it is so sugary -I think the coffee itself is some 3000 calories...how do these people drink this (making weird noises while drinking ....zuuurrrrrrr....zuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...zurrr..uffff.zrrr) and enjoy that - I wish I could drag them to some Starbucks or Cafe Latierre! I am eager for some good coffee - Oh I am starving

6) My toy box never contained anything violent like guns, racing cars...the normal boy's stuff I simply feel that I  never like anything violent - even in gaming  I never played anything like Quake or Hitman! (they are my sis's )...the last game I played was nearly 4 years ago and it was Tarzan...my sis is playing Tomb Raider! - she should in Indian Armed Forces!!

the USB modem I ordered was rejected because I need to be a local ( any idiot fucker who lives in Hyderabad, even a terrorist will get this but I wouldn't WTF!) to get that and as I am living with my uncle...I am no local so I am rejected -- I thought I am in India which is one country and I am in my own state - Andhra Pradesh - not in some Andaman and Nicobar - so why am I not a local I don't get it!!
So what, I am going to get the modem from my sis's place -- under my sis's name!! I am very cunning haha!

belated Christmas wishes n happy new year!!!

First, sorry ppl for not being able to blog for such a long time! I was at my sister's house all these day obviously having fun with her 4 month son and other members of the family and I had no access to Internet there...no time...

Anyway, I missed the Christmas badly, I think I almost forgot time there!!! I am sorry!!
So wishing you all a happy new year,
I am wishing that at least in 2009, India will have cleaner roads, minds and keyboards....
Good news is that I will be soon in Muscat, within next 10 days...yahoo!

Bad news is that I will stay in Muscat only for a short period of time - perhaps 15 days - shit! I have my finals coming in march -o0o- gotta work for that!

I will also soon get my wi-fi USB modem soon which is supposed to look something like this...cool right!
I gave the order today, and that salesman said it will work in my sister's place it better should!!
I am juggling with time at present...so guys and gals take care.....

with less than 30 hours before we enter into the hope filled 2009 I wish everyone a happy and extremely safe new year

oops: I will soon visit all your blogs and will comment........I am just super busy right now! Thanks a lot for visiting my blog!!

Happy B'day Maggie

Like everyone else of my age, I first saw Dame Maggie Smith in Harry Potter films as Prof. Minerva McGonagall . I loved her from that very moment.

After that I saw her in "A room with a view" and David Copperfield. She and Judi Dench are a bliss to together on screen.
She is one of the most versatile and beautiful actress I have ever seen. Though I did not see her in her very old films, she seems very beautiful even though she is old...
She turns 74 today, lets hope that she live many more years and have a peaceful and healthy life.







Once again, Happy Birthday Dame Maggie!

 

How to lose 3 kgs...

I am not kidding like those stupid dieting sites, but sharing my personal experience.

I have lost an astonishing amont of 3 kilos in just a month. The diet is simple and flexible. After years of frustation on weight loss and the info I gathered on dieting has lead me to make my own way of diet. I am fed up with low calorie diets and low carb diets give me energy drains. I am a vegetarian Indian whose staple food is rice with vegetables!

The idea is simple and easy to learn:
in the first whole month just reduce what you are eating, not excessively but notable reduction of what you are eating and a must of 10-15-30 minutes brisk walk - do not use any machines - even treadmill - just walk on the platform. Weight loss may not be seen immediately but you will feel lighter. If you have any signs of weakness or energy drains - STOP THE DIET IMMEDIATELY.


The second month,  if you drink fizzy drinks like me - change diet cola - once in a week and give up all the other junk foods, eating fruits is not a must. I am not a fan of calorific calculations - if you want you can go low calorie. Walking of 30-45mins - 1 hour is a must.The weight loss is significant..it is in this month I lost my first 3 kgs.

To help you ease the stress, you can have a break once in every week - that chosen day you can eat whatever you want, but from the third month you will have to stop this.

The third month, is a hardcore month. Increase your fiber levels in the food. No junk food at all - the exercise should include a 15-30 mins additional time to your regular walking. Fruits is a must - at least 1 per day!
The weight loss may occur or may not - If you do not loose your weight, don't be discouraged - measure yourself and you might find your are loosing inches. Don't be obsessive to lose weight fast - it is fatal. So your goal for three months should be a total loss of 5 kilos at the most
After the three months, give yourself a break - eat well and good food but make sure you do not gain weight again!
Start the process all over again when you feel the need!

Other instruction and rules include:
Never miss your walking sessions especially in the first two months.
Take lemon juice with honey every morn b/f eating anything. This reduces the weakness caused by the food reduction and also gives a full feeling.
Drink lots of water! - the most important - nothing less than 4 liters.
Try it! Modify it to your lifestyle and I am sure it will work if you do it with dedication.

The most hated printer of the world...

I am  stuck with a HP F4180.

HP f4180 is one of those new  printers which come with scanner, printer and xerox in it. I have no clue why my Dad bought it (Imagine my surprise when I find this device after I returned from India he bought it when i was away), may be coz of xerox...
Dad got it this August from the Lulu Hypermarket - I am sure he is cheated by some oil haired Malbari salesman...oh poor dad!
Whatever, I print very less - can be said negligible but I scan a hell lot. I have photos, drawings, designs, notebook, articles everything....I need a very good scanner with the best OCR software..but the scanner in this printer is so awkward  and useless. It can't recognize any letters from any printed text. And the photos too seem dull so are the drawings. The only fucking facility it gives is xerox which consumes my ink like hell.

I have 2 desktops and one laptop scattered in my house and this printer should be able to to render itself to all the systems, I simply can't figure, even after following all the instructions to network this printer, it doesn't print if the order is not from its main computer. I am really fed up with this whole thing...

I don't know where my old Lexmark and Benq are, if I don't see them soon, this printer is going out of window...

Photography Addiction

No it is not dew, I sprinkled water ;) 

 

These cute lil balls seem to grow competitively

  

I found 100Bz on terrace....

 

In Oman, even sunset is bright!

  

B 4 *Bobby*

From the time I got my cam, I have been clicking incessantly. These are the few chosen ones which express my urge to become the best...

What do you say?

 

Indian Noodles - Bachelor's kitchen

Ingredients

Noodles
Carrot - 1
Tomato - 1
Onion - 1
Beetroot - few shredded
(all finely chopped)

Procedure:

- Boil the noodles and drain the water and keep aside.
- In a pan, add oil, add rosemary,fenugreek seeds, mustard seeds
- Add onions, carrot and fry.
- Add the flavor that came with noodles
- Add the boiled noodles and mix.
- Garnish with the beetroot.

Side dish - optional

I am obsessed with addicted to yogurt so I mixed some yogurt with some raw garlic and added just a pinch of coriander powder and garlic-chili powder.

Recipe: Indian Fried Rice

Ingredients

2 cups basmati rice     

250 g green beans

250 g peas

1/2 teaspoon

salt 1/2 teaspoon

chili powder

1/2 teaspoon      cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon garam  masala

3 teaspoons ghee

8 cloves minced garlic

1/4 cup cashews nuts

 Directions

1. Boil a medium pot of salted water

2. Stir in the rice and boil for 10 minutes (until done)

3.Drain the rice and set aside to cool

4. Cut all the vegetables into long pieces

5.Pour the ghee in the frying pan and add the garlic and cashew nuts and sauté

6. Stir the mixture until slightly browned

7. Add the vegetables and fry until they are fully cooked

8. Add the spices

9. Add the rice, stirring well to coat with the spices, and fry until heated through and well mixed

Recipe from: cook duke

Modifications:

I didn't cook the rice before, instead I added washed raw rice to the frying pan, along with veggies and made the rice fry for few moments (I like to get that brown tinge on the rice).

I then added boiling water to the pan. (Water+ Knorr Rice flavor cube & 1 cup rice*2 cups water)

As I cooked this recipe for dad, I made it more spicy with lots of chillis and un-ground masala

I have added carrots, beetroot too. I have no intentions of using ghee (clarified butter) instead I use sunflower oil or corn oil.

And my side-dish is Raita - just add some shredded onions , carrots, corriander to whisked curd. Et voila!

If you want this also spicy, you can add green chillies or some garlic chilli powder (from Nensey's )

 Bon appetit !

We are really high after Mumbai Attacks

I don't get it! Something bad(attacks of Mumbai) happens somewhere then every one at public places is checked and made sniffed by Extra Sensory Perception dogs ( I abhor dogs esp those black giants) for a month or two and then everything becomes normal again!!


With the fear of further attacks on other major cities like Hyderabad, "strict" measures have been taken to ensure that no one with anything like coins or key chains or nail files are allowed inside into places like airports and railway stations!
So, as it happens always, I have travel in such hard times as we are not ""allowed"" to stay in the house of the deceased...after the final ceremony of my grandma we head homes - but wait you can't go to your homes straight from the house of deceased. Beautiful! Fuck those Bramins
So travelling nearly for 12 hours in the blessed Indian railways to go to my home, with just a half an hour away from home we have decided to spend sometime in hotel....24 hours fucking hell

And at all these ports - 3 railway stations , I was checked thoroughly by pot bellied cops to big booped dogs... especially at the Hyderabad railway station I was even asked to remove my shoes and belt...
what annoys me is that only just a handful of people really going through all these tests the rest simply go from the sides of the metal detector door and the cops don't even say a thing! Fuck the system, not to mention if the guy is someone known to cops!
On the whole, the security measures kept to prevent any further attacks is nothing but a show by the Indian government...the are inefficient and idiotic.
So once in the train another cop waves the metal detector in to air, I never knew that air has metallic weapons!!! he is supposed to check us not air - all the while he was doing that waving thing , he was talking to someone on mobile-- Am I @@~#$ - eww! Indians Indians!

If such a situation continues we can never be efficient - and become a more easy target to the terrorists - and the cops - fire them all from all over the India - get them spanked or whatever - fuck them to hell until they take their job more seriously!

So this is from the hotel's Cafe with cute (but dirty - like someone threw up or cummed on this keyboard) Logitech keyboard - that's for now as I have buy Dettol to wash my hands!



In my next post I will tell you what happened on my grandma's final ceremony day and how happy the others are and how unhappy I am about the whole thing!!

The edibilities and inedibilties

There are somethings which are edible and some inedible.
Then there are those things which hang between these two categories (like edible underwear... my GF's fetish)
But I came across this weird thing - categorized under edible things - believe me, it took 15 mintues to cut it with my spoons and other 15 minutes to chew...
What is it? The box says a Turkish Delight - Lourak something something.
It is nothing but, sweetened cornflour - and hardened by something - you can use it as brick.
AW! My teeth!

What is wrong with you ppl!

Now that is not something which applies to the cafe keyboard I'm typing on but on the whole, the whole city looks a lot neater and clean.

Coming to the other art where Indians top (no! not reproducing -in that they top even rats!) is their driving skills! It was just yesterday when I thought of the whole two hours I spent in an auto rickshaw, I will end up dying and meet my freshly dead granny! The whole vehicles seem to pour on my little auto - I get so fucking scared that there were butterflies in my stomach!
I am so happy that Angryin not living here - she would have at least gone in coma if not worse...The driver managed to get through two huge traffic jams to take me to the destination. He must be having super driving skills - at least he knows how to crawl his vehicle 

Safe and cold in Hyderabad!

I have arrivedinHyderabadthis morningthrough that very stupid airport which now seemed like a huge glass house!
Iam stuck wit a very loose keyboard in this petite cafeso forgive me for the mistakes!

and yesd it is fucking cold here in and soo foggyI can't see a thing!

Enjoy your holidays
I' be backsoon

Off to India...

By the time you are reading this, I might be somewhere up in the sky, in one of those teeny weensy seats of our Oman Air, heading for Hyderabad.
This visit to India is something which I wish gets over fast as I want to be back in Muscat as soon as possible.
I think, if all goes well I will be back within 4 weeks.
SO guys, au revoir till then

Blog Freeze - but you won't be bored

I am unsure whether I will get to blog when I am in India, so I decided to put up some random post in schedule – I got the post till the end of this month. I will in the meantime also try to blog if I get time and chance!

Hope you will like the post, which I have written and will be posted. I am surely going to miss you all gals and guys! I think I have weaved myself so much into the Muscat’s Blogging community that life becomes blank fuck without commuting with you all people!

Well, take care ppl!
Keep blogging, keep visiting, keep commenting!

Black Magic Case of Wadi Kabir -- Part 2

Things have gone more complex now!
 The saints who prmised a cure within a week failed...I am not surprised.
Her hands now have gone into a strange tinge of blue-green ( My fears of complete clotting of blood/ stopping of circulation of blood have come true ) and she has lost weight.
Only improvement is that the attacks of that old woman have reduced.
She now talks and walks but she is extremely weak and can be seen crying at many times because of the pain in her hands.

She is on medicines too. The doctors of Sama have said that the pain is the indication of the unblocking of nerves/ veins in her hands. (I can't rely on them either!)
She is going to leave to India, for better treatement (-wonder if it is again some saints or some good dcotors-).

Poor lady! lets hope to see her better soon!

Imposter Syndrome whilst shopping...

When you are fifty, and a grandparent you simply become the most messiest person on the face of earth..yup I am talking of my parents! Mom and Dad all of a sudden realized that their new-born grandson requires a sweater for this winter and they want to make sure that they get him his first winter gear.
So, by evening I find myself in Sana Fashions, holding a basket and perhaps looking like a dog who is suffering from claustrophobia - my mom has decided to see everything that fits her grandson and is busy imagining him in them while hogging brains of two salesmen all the time talking to Dad on mobile, who is struck in traffic jam...telling him the color, texture etc...
She was seeking my opinion too, I asked her to call Sis instead of pestering me! My attention drifted as an Indian mother (faux-jeune) and her daughter (some 13-15) entered into the row!
They too were shopping some winter clothes and when I heard English accent of that daughter - it was American - I was impressed...on quiet observation of her accent, she was trying to speak like Americans - now why would someone want to do such a thing?
You are an Indian - not an American - you simply don't need to copy their accent! That would mean self disrespect - one more thing, one must encourage people to speak in their mother language
Take my family for example, apart from Telugu which is our mother language (and also the largest spoken language of India, after Hindi)
I know: Hindi, French, Gujarati, English
Mom knows: Hindi, English, bit of Tamil
Dad knows: Hindi, Sanskrit, French n English
Sis knows: Hindi, English and Gujarati
despite this we never anything speak other than Telugu in day today life, and when we talk the other languages all we bother is a correct pronunciation and grammar.
Many Indian parents think it is fashionable to speak English (with grammatical and pronunciation mistakes that give me suicidal thoughts) with their kids but they don't understand how stupid they are...use English when needed but not for everything!
English is essential when in interaction with other people who doesn't know your mother tongue!
WHY am I blabbering all this? SPEAK in your language - your mother tongue, because every 2 weeks one language dies - it should not be your mother tongue! Got it! So speak it!



And yes getting back to shopping, we got a nice cute dark green sewn sweater, a skull cap and some socks...after a hell of 2 hrs n 45 mins, I am out of a cloth cage!

written on Dec 9Th - 11pm

laws of universe [Humor]

Law of Mechanical Repair:

After your hands become coated with grease,
your nose will begin to itch.

Law of the Workshop:

Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least
accessible corner.

Law of the Telephone:

When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy
signal.

Law of the Alibi:
If you tell the boss you were late for work because
you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.

Variation Law:
If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were
in will start to move faster than the one you are in now. (works every
time)

Bath Theorem:
When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone
rings.

Law of Close Encounters:
The probability of meeting someone you know
increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

Law of the Result:
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't
work, it will.

Law of Bio mechanics:
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional
to the reach.

Theater Rule:
At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the
aisle arrive last.

Law of Coffee:
As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss
will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

Murphy's Law of Lockers:
If there are only two people in a locker room,
they will have adjacent lockers..

Law of Dirty Rugs/Carpets:
The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich
of landing face down on a floor covering are directly correlated to the
newness and cost of the carpet/rug.

Law of Logical Argument:
Anything is possible if you don't know what you
are talking about.

Brown's Law:
If the shoe fits, it's ugly.

Oliver's Law:
A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Going to India....

I and mom are leaving for India, on 10th. We could not get the date any earlier coz of the Eid holidays.
Ceremonies required after the death of my grandma are already done. There will be one more ceremony which will be conducted on 11th day after the death.
Every one born/ first related to the person died has to attend this ceremony. My dad could not come, though he will be in holidays as he has get a paper permitting him to travel has t be signed by GD - and GD in somewhere in Germany!
The return dates are not yet decided and we are thinking of buying tickets from India. I think we will return somewhere in Jan.
I hope all goes well in India, cox the atmosphere is very depressive and my mom is both physically and emotionally very fragile.

The worst part is I CAN'T CRY!!
In India, if someone dies, everyone has to cry, I feel sad at heart but simply my eyes don't show it! It s is so bad if you are a social gathering and everyone is crying - I can't, they will stare at me like hell!
It is not something funny - they think I am inert to such things. Actually I am not - I feel sad my grandma died - but I can't shed a tear...
Am I the only one with such weird thing?

The orgins of Bobby

In my last visit to India, I visited our old house where no one now lives. Rummaging through the time and dust, I was able to find some things which are priceless in my view. One of such things is a bag full of albums. I brought them to Muscat so I could scan them and upload to Picasa...so that the pics all available to all my family members around the world. So whilst scanning, I found these pics of mine:
1) Me n my grandma (dad's mom)

I haven't got a clue why I am semi-nude.

Don't I look cute! I was only 6 months at that time. Bobby is the name given by her. She has named every grand-child of her with names starting with "B"
This is in the garden behind our house. Grandma was obsessed with gardening.(By the time I grew up, the garden wasn't this full and vibrant) she maintained 3 gardens with the house. All of them cleverly designed and grown.

She was a farmer, businesswoman, investor and knew French! She died in 2005 coz of cancer.

2) My sis



So that was my sis somewhere in early 90s. She looks so much like her son right Look at her hands, I am gonna make her look this page! LOL!


I am surrounded by more than 100 photos. I am continuously scanning, photoshopping them. Some need so much work to be done! So lot of work to keep me busy throughout night.
If you also have got old photos, do scan them in to PC and upload them to Picasa or Flickr...

If I get time...I will post some more pics soon!

My grandmom is...no more!

 

me n my Grandma - 1991

A simple women

who saw joy in growing saplings 

she always said that we(grandchildren) are all saplings

she was a huge tree for us

but I never knew trees too die...

She died on the way to the hospital in Hyderabad, in the hands of my uncle...

she died peacefully...

after a very tiresome life of nearly 80 years... 

I an Mom will be going to India, soon..

A case of Black Magic in Wadi Kabir....

There is a young (25) woman living in the floor below us, a wife of a business man and a close friend of my mom. From last two weeks she is suffering from pain in her hands. She took the whole thing normal and visited the  al-Sama.

Well, the medicines seemed to aggravate the pain. From last week, she was noted to be behaving oddly - body language is changed so are the habits.

Today morn, my mom and I went to visit her...and she was NOT the SAME person...according to her husband, someone has used "black magic" to attack her and so all the nerves in her hands don't work and she is also dominated by an old woman...probably a ghost or the witch who conducted the black magic.

I couldn't believe at first, but the whole hour, I and mom stayed she didn't recognize us at all instead was asking her husband to cigars to smoke (a typical habit of old women countryside Indian women). She walks and talks exactly like an old woman - I am left with no other option but to believe.

When the old woman leaves the body of this young woman, everything is back to normal - except the pain in her hands - which is not present with the old woman inside her. Her husband can actually twist her hands completely and the lady didn't say a thing.

To counter the black magic, "white magic" is being done by some saints in India, they are conducting some prayers and asked a time of one week for the complete cure.

In the meantime, she is also taking medicines...

Her husband says that is not the first time, their family is attacked by black magic. Many of their family enemies, jealous of their riches (they are fucking rich ~3000 OR per month) have done such a thing. He then showed me some videos of her previous attacks - I was amazed how her behavior changed, she was at times violent!

I am a hardcore atheist, I have no belief in god or ghost this is a puzzle beyond me. I am also a student of Psychology, this case cannot be understood in that way either. I still recommended a visit to some psychologist.

Whatever it is, a black magic or some psychological disease lets hope she get well soon...

I have heard of such possibilities of soul domination when I was learning Yoga. "The ancient texts like Sutras of Yoga, contain the ways how one can dominate and occupy others' souls . These texts are no longer available to the public but the ways are still known to some saints and of course black magicians." explained my guru

Rains in Oman...gays in news

LOOK, my gadgets are buzzing and the sky is signaling too:

My weather desktop gadget:

Check in detail here

The cloud gathering in Wadi Kabir...I hope it rains, but not heavily...

btw thats the first pic from my new SONY W120

And here is a funny clip


No intentions of discrimination/ offense guys! Only for just a laugh!

Got a new Sony Cam..

First kisses to my mom and dad! They are the best! I believe there are no other parents in Muscat who wud give their son, more than what he want within three hours!

I love my Sony W120 - it is awesome!
I got this from KMT under a winter offer for 85 OR.
I am so excited I dunno what to write!

Isn't it cute!

I actually went to buy a relatively cheaper Cannon A470 but my mom and dad, insisted that I go for Carl Zeiss lens and Sony than Cannon.

Well. I think I made a right decision by choosing the Sony cam. I am still meddling with the settings of the camera. I never thought I would buy the camera today, but it all went in flip second. Whats more, I enjoyed the shopping for the first time as there was less crowd. (I think I have mild agoraphobia), my dad and mom to enjoyed their time while in KMT cracking jokes with the salesmen.And a neighbor bumped into us, she also shopped with us for sometime. It was a lovely evening over all and gave me a break from those freaking music reality TV shows

So just wait for the pics to come....I am cliking

I am no "ruwi call girl"

Yes, I am not a call girl hailing from Ruwi!

From the time I installed Google analytics (thanks to Angry for that),this is the most popular keyword leading to my blog! Almost everyday someone hits my blog with this keyword!
I have never mentioned anything with the call girls yet (wonder if I ever used the word *girl* in my blog) and Google is not the only engine leading to me with this keyword but also ask.com and yahoo too.

Some other weird keywords which lead to me:
- Numbers of Ruwi call girls
- Muscat fuck
- What are the thing do you find in Muscat? - humans and hills
- Night fucking in Oman
- Chemical toilets - Can someone explain!
- Best broadband connection in Tiruvulla - No mine isn't best n certainly not in Tiruvulla
- Different people live in Muscat - we're not buffaloes to look same.
- Filipino in Muscat- there are many, I wonder if any blog!
- Hai hai girls - this blog belongs to Bye Bye Boy..
- m v stolt valor in muscat
- prepone periods+homeremedies(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Apart from the above shit, I love Google Analytics. It is awesome and simple! I love to see where my readers are from and what do they read! So till now, the most famous post is of JUDI DENCH followed by my near death experience.

Do tell us about the weird keywords you come by...it is fun knowing!

Pakistan Rejects India's Charges, Seeks Proof

By Emily Wax and Rama Lakshmi
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, November 30, 2008; A19

MUMBAI, Nov. 29 -- Pakistan demanded late Saturday that India produce evidence to support allegations it was involved in the three-day assault on India's financial and cultural capital, a battle that came to a close earlier in the day.

Indian officials said they had killed or captured 10 gunmen responsible for the rampage through Mumbai, as authorities pulled more bodies from the wreckage of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel. Mourners marched in tearful funeral processions for some of the nearly 200 people killed in the attacks, which also targeted another hotel, a Jewish center and several other sites. Six Americans were among the dead.

Indian intelligence officials said Saturday that the only surviving attacker was from Pakistan.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said his government was not involved. "If they have evidence, they should share it with us. Our hands are clean," he said at a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital. "We have nothing to be ashamed of."

Pakistan warned that it would redeploy troops involved in the terrorism fight on its border with Afghanistan to its frontier with India in response to any Indian troop movements.

"Tension with India is mounting. The situation is very critical, and the next 48 hours are very crucial," a senior Pakistani official said on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. He said Pakistan had put its air force and navy on high alert. "In case of any Indian aggression, Pakistan will respond to it in a matching way," he said.

Similar finger-pointing after an attack on the Indian Parliament brought the two governments to the brink of war in 2001.

In Washington, U.S. intelligence officials said the evidence continues to point to a connection to Kashmiri separatists, although the sources stressed that the investigation has barely gotten underway.

"We're in the very early innings," said a U.S. counterterrorism official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "But now that the shooting is over, the Indians have a lot to work with." Key clues will probably come from the gunmen themselves, "both the living and the dead," he said.

Islamist fighters in Pakistan have sought for years to provoke a new war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, the disputed province that both countries claimed after the 1947 partition of the subcontinent. Indian and Western intelligence officials have specifically cited Lashkar-i-Taiba, an Islamist network based in Pakistan that was founded to fight the Indian army in Kashmir.

On Friday, Pakistan reversed a decision to send its spy chief to aid India's investigation, saying it would send a lower-level official. But officials said they would help India identify and capture those behind the attacks.

"My heart bleeds for India," Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari told an Indian television channel. "As president of Pakistan, if any evidence points to anyone in my country," his government will take action, he said.

Nationalistic pride has surged across India even as officials struggled to deal with accusations of a delayed government response to the crisis and poor coordination, especially at a Jewish center in Mumbai where five people were killed, including a rabbi from New York and his wife.

At a meeting in New Delhi, officials said they would station special commando forces in cities to expedite crisis response, and they emphasized the need for better coordination between the forces and local police.

"Now we are thinking about how to reduce the delay and get into action and not lose the golden hour," M.L. Kumawat, special secretary of internal security, said at a news conference in New Delhi. "In the very near future, we will have such units at least in the big metropolitan cities. And in just a few hours, they will be able to mount an operation."

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met with security agencies Saturday and has called a meeting of all the political parties Sunday to discuss an anti-terrorism plan.

In Washington, President Bush promised to support India in its recovery effort and investigation.

"We mourn those who lost their lives, including American citizens," he said. "We pray that the injured will recover. We pledge the full support of the United States as India investigates these attacks, brings the guilty to justice and sustains its democratic way of life."

Lakshmi reported from New Delhi. Staff writer Joby Warrick in Washington and special correspondents Shaiq Hussain and Haq Nawaz Khan in Islamabad contributed to this report.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/29/AR2008112900858.html


What I say: Manmohan, Simply delcare a war on Pakistan under the suspision of terrorism. If Bush can do it! You can too! Whats more you can even prove unlike Bush!

Sis Unwell! Cause Unknown!

My sis is admitted into the hospital in her town in India, three days ago with the complaint of fever which is at peak in morn and reduces by night.
Almost all the tests have been done and the doctors find no fault with her. She is having hard time as she has feed her baby boy. Lucky her husband and mother-in-law are there to help her. She is not allowed to take any solid food and is living on fruit juices and milk. Which is nearly hell!
She has asthma problem long back but that was completely healed right in Oman. It is her second year in India,and this is the first time she is staying completely in hospital.

She is unable to talk at present. All she does is to moan "um"(yes) and "umuh"(no).
My mom is upset and she can't leave for India right now as her (and mine) visa has to be renewed.
I hope my sis will get well soon!

Omantel Filters are down........

for most of the P-blogs!

A friend of mine texted me that Omantel is not blocking any of the pornographic blogs! For the time being! I believe it is again one of the "technical problems". I am checking the sites! (Am I gross?)
He is true! Guys my advice is to download some stuff....and keep if you know what I am talking about!
Have a gr8 time! ;)


REMIND YOU THE BLOGS ARE UNBLOCKED NOT THE SITES!!

Terror strikes Mumbai..

I am really sad and shocked at the state of Mumbai. The news channels are bombarding the info like anything. I am confused how these people got in such hi-security places and hotels. I just hope that everything will be back to normal again as soon as possible.
I was roaming around those very places yesteryear. The Taj and Victoria Terminal. I have so many friends in Mumbai and happy that they are safe and  I am also worried about Daniel...I hope he is safe.
And what is more distubing is the fact that this horrible hits in 26th. This is not the first time 26 has troubled India - last time it was Tsunami..and many other small unfortunate events.
With nearly 3 police dead and many other people (100 n counting) dead, I don't understand what these terroists want or why are they doing this shit!
And yeah where is that Raj Thackray? I don't see him anywhere..where is this Mumbai fanatic?

Automatic confession system!!!

LOL!
I am rolling on my bed! HAHa


at 3:48 am

and yea, Youtube looks awesome wit widescreen !

I have been tagged

I have been tagged by Gill, And this time it is more interesting!

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Yup! I am named after a Saint!

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? After watching Brokeback Mountain...for 2 days!!

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? I love my handwriting!! I feel mine is the best!!

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? I am a vegan!

5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? I am a kid!

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? I don't think so!!

7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? Not much! But I love reading or listening to it!

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS. I have no probs with tonsils

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? NO, NO, NO

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? I am having Oatmeal........

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?  Umm...yes if mom is there

12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Ask my friends!!!

13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? I literally can't remember the last time I ate an ice cream! Vanilla I think is my fave

14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Height!

15. RED OR PINK? how about green?

16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? My weight

17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? I don't miss anyone!! I am a loneliness lover

18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? Yes :)

19. WHAT COLOR SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? White

20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? Dosa with dal

21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? My neighbor's conversation with my mom........

22. IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Green

23. FAVORITE SMELLS? Bakery, Blue for men!

24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? My Girlfriend...........

25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? Yes!

26.FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? Cricket.....I feel nice to see so many FOOLS at once! LOL

27. HAIR COLOR? Black! I am thinking of dyeing brown

28. EYE COLOR? Black

29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? No.

30. FAVORITE FOOD? I any anything tasty
 
31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Tragedies......luv them

32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? Quantum of Solace..........left it midway

33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? White

34. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer

35. HUGS OR KISSES? Both!!

36. FAVORITE DESSERT? Badam Kheer

37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? I don't understand this question!

38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND. I don't understand this question!

39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? The Best of Speaking Tree

40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? I am using a gel-mouse pad! Spent nearly 2 rials!

41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT? America's Next Top Model

42. FAVORITE SOUND. Glass clinking

43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Rolling Stones

44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? Been to Ibri! Not that far - right

45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? None!

46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Hyderabad ,India


Ok who ever reads this, THEY ARE TAGGED! Enjoy making the list! HAHA

100 years ago........

THE YEAR 1908

This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!
The year is 1908.
One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!

Here are some statistics for the Year 1908 :
************ ********* ********* ******

The average life expectancy was 47 years.

Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.

Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.

There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles
Of paved roads.

The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.

The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower

The average wage in 1908 was 22 cents per hour.

The average worker made between $200 and $400 per year .

A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year,
A dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.

More than 95 percent of all births took place atHOME

Ninety percent of all doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION!
Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which
Were condemned in the press AND the government as 'substandard. '

Sugar cost four cents a pound.

Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.

Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.

Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used
Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.

Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from
Entering into their country for any reason.

Five leading causes of death were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke

The American flag had 45 stars.

The population of Las Vegas , Nevada, was only 30!!!!

Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea
Hadn't been invented yet.

There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.

Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write.
Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores. Back then pharmacists said, 'Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind,regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health.' ( Shocking? DUH! )

Eighteen percent of households had at least
One full-time servant or domestic help.

There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE ! U.S.A. ! 


Awesome! Right! I stole it from Multiply

Crazy taxi drivers, Crazy french teachers

I knew something like this is going to happen! Why? Coz Bobby is happy! Something should get fucked up!

I had my first French class at CFO (Center Franco Omanais or French Omani Center) today after a 5 month break! So those who were with me previously have finished their course and I was informed I will be put in a new class.

The class starts at 5 pm. I started off from my home at 4:30. Thank god the taxi was downstairs.

I asked if he was going and I sat in it.

Almost immediately, the driver got down and opened the door on my side and stared cleaning it with sprinkling water all over the door. Yea there were some water marks, but they don't obstruct the view or anything - I was shocked and for a moment I didn't understand what was going on! Was he suffering from OCD!

He was almost going to wet my jeans. I again asked him if he was going to take me or not.

He rather reluctantly came and sat and started driving. It didn't take any long to understand my driver is a bit oddSo we were almost near the Wadi Kabir R/A. The green light was on, and if this idiot driver would have driven fast, we could have crossed in time. No! So waiting at Wadi Kabir R/A, same thing followed at Sheraton, Hunda, OK center everywhere. When he reached OK center, he parked the car on the side and stopped moving.

To cut the long story short,

It is already 5 pm; I was angry and got down from the taxi. Then he was demanding "2 rials" for getting me from Wadi Kabir to Ruwi. I gave him 200Bz and he was shouting something in Arabic. I didn't bother to answer him. I took another taxi and engaged till CFO... (This guy is lot better - he's 50 something and listening to Nicole's Baby Love)

I was soon on my way to CFO and by 5:30 pm I was there.

It took some time finding my class! So I found and opened the door!

To my utter surprise, an old (old = 65+) lady is my new teacher! My previous teacher is a young belle cute lady...........

She quaked "BOOONSOIR"

Bienvenue Bobby. Le novel etudiaaaaant! Aloooooooooors Bobby, ANYTHING SPECIAL

"Anything special" how do I look - a server at some hotel!!!! Then there were people who were later than me, and she wished them in the same manner "anything special!"

Does this phrase mean something other than what I understand?

So the class went on. She teaches well -- better than my previous teacher.

I hope she wasn't wearing fluorescent blue coat!

So back from CFO, I stopped at Ruwi. I had some shopping in Ruwi so as I was hopping from shop to shop - I collided with one of my old friends lets call him............Hatim

OK...Hatim is one of those guys who spend a year or two more than required in the school! He is awfully handsome............but he smokes(he asked me for a lighter), he is no older than I am but why does he need to smoke? In fact everyone from my class now smoke! I find the whole thing dirty and self-destroying. Anyway it is their life and they are now mature (at least physically) to know good and bad!

But what if their parents come to know of this? 

I know what dire consequences smoking can lead to coz my granddad, who smoke like hell died of pneumonia, and my dad (who can be qualified as chain smoker) had already two attacks of pneumonia.

Living somewhere luxuriously in Gulf doesn't mean that one should booze, smoke and fuck around more than 10 girls....wherever we live, we must try our best to uphold the trust our parents had kept in us...one who fails so, is worthless. Sigh! I feel so sad that my friends don't understand this simple truth.........

HAD A GR8 WEEKEND!

Normally I complain that people get so noisy on weekend but this time I was the who was in noisy mood
Why? I don't know. May be I wanted a break from my from my monotonous life.
So I get into this mood, I like roaming about....I decided to go to Juma Suq, it is nearest to my house and I wanted to be near to my house after the freaking things happening to me on roads!!!
Well I went to Juma Suq, nothing much to buy, what I will buy - abayas? I roamed and roamed and bought couple of Omani perfumes, I love perfumes especially the strong Omani scents!
I also bought myself a couple of shorts and track pants - I am really amazed to find my size in a suq normally don't find them even in CC or Lulu. They were damn cheap so I wouldn't care even if they didn't last longer. My neighbors met me in the suq, they were too buying clothes, so we all had popcorn and drinks (me -Diet) and had great time walking in the wadis.
So by midday I am in the house. And then.....going against the normal Indian Television Science, one Channel showed a fave movie of mine! I enjoyed the movie and to add cream to this wonderful day I was asked to babysit my neighbor's son....Ok I love babysitting and children until they don't harm my laptop and books! So I spent the whole evening with this 7 year old cutie and taught him how to type and blah blah!! Its fun whatever!
I had really good sleep yesterday, I was asleep before 12pm - I can't believe it!!!! Without aspirins or cold pads or anything - sleep! Ah! I am so happy today...
I hope you too had a gr8 weekend
I didn't get time to blog from morning as I was struck with a job-work (yea I work part time) on "TCP/IP name resolution"...I am near to banging my head!

Coftas in Chilli Tamato Sauce

The actual name is "Manchurian Balls with Gravy" but if I post with that title Omantel may block me! Who knows!

Manchurian Coftas in Tomato Chili Sauce

Ingredients:
For Manchurian Coftas:
Cabbage - 1 medium shredded
Carrot - 2 medium finely shredded
Corn flour - 1 cup
Pepper Powder
Green Chilli paste - 1 tsp
Garlic Ginger paste - 1 tsp
Oil - for deep-frying
Salt

For Tomato Chili sauce
Tomato sauce - 1 cup
Onions - 1 cup finely chopped/ shredded
Soya sauce - 1-2 tbsp
Chili sauce - 1/2 cup
Chili paste - 1 tsp
Garlic Ginger paste - 1 tsp
Ajinomoto
Salt

Procedure
Manchurian Coftas

1. After chopping/ shredding the cabbage, add salted water and quench the cabbage to remove the excess water
2. In a bowl, add the quenched cabbage and carrot and mix well. Add pepper and salt to taste and add green chili paste and garlic paste
3. Add cornflour <> and mix well to the above mixture and make the thus formed dough into small balls/ coftas

These are the coftas b/f frying

4. Deep fry these coftas until crispy and golden brown.

5. Make sure you remove all the excess oil using Palace Tissues

Tomato Chili Sauce
1. In a pan, add 2 tbsp of Oil
2. Add onion pieces and saute them till brown
3. Add soya sauce, Ajinomoto, tomato sauce, chili paste, ginger garlic paste and chili sauce.
4. Mix well until the sauce thickens

Pour the sauce over the Manchurian Coftas just before serving.


Modifications:
1. I am not that fave of tomato sauce, so I used half cup tomato sauce and half cup fresh tomato paste...it didn't alter the taste
2. I am far too lazy to blend chili paste and garlic paste separately so I made Chili-Ginger-Garlic paste. Do NOT use the pastes available in the market! They are not good in taste.
3. Ajinomoto is optional if you are allergic to it don't use it
4. I added chopped corriander leaves to my sauce to make it more aromatic.



The Event

I am on a low-fat,low-carb, low-sodium diet from last one month - It has been well over month that I ate anything tasty! I like Chinese food but no one eats in my family so I called on my neighbor (who loves Chinese food but no one eats Chinese in her family too ) Mrs. Joshi. In fact she was the one who gave this recipe!
Mrs. Joshi is our neighbor from last 7 years, she is like a member of our family. (yep, Gujarati & very good cook) She came to help me out! She and I had fun cooking this recipe. So thanks Mrs.Joshi!

Near death experience

I am thinking of changing my blog's name to something like Muscat's Accident Reporter -Reporter by accident


It was yesterday night(around 11 pm ), after coming from my usual walking I was crossing my road and suddenly, a car -god knows from where it popped up - was all ready to smash me. I was frozen and rooted to the road! Of course he did put the breaks and that was like less than a meter away from me.

I think I screamed ! It is not funny...and I cannot understand why the driver found the whole thing soo FUNNY! He was smiling laughing leaning from his from his window. What if I was really hit by that car! There was no honk, no signal light nothing! There weren't any people on the road but that doesn't mean that he goes the way he wants right!  Is he drunk? I dunno! Or may be someone mentally unstable!
What the FUCK he wants - to scare people like this on roads! The whole event has lead me to a crazy bodypains -coz of the shock it went through!

I feel so unsafe now on the roads! It gets me worrying where any vehicle will come and hit me!I feel unsafe for those kids and ladies and people on the road! I hope Oman won't turn its(her) drivers in like those in India!

Here is pic! It is next to Sana Fashions in Wadi Kabir.I was attempted to be murdered by that crazy driver on this very road! Angry seems so right with these roads and their manners.

The post was written on 17 november 2008

Google Images is UNblocked

I can't rely on that! But for the time being it is working.
Omantel is going to freak me out. Every now and then, I find some or the other thing blocked. It is not that I cannot go over these filters - but then....I am lazy to do all those settings and programming
I simply like others can't grip waht Omantel is going to do?
I heard Orbit doesn't block anything. May be I should try that

In India, I get my internet from Airtel through bluetooth from my mobile to laptop - I can say it is free (1 rial per month) and unlimited. The speed is something we have to compromise, but I never heard of blocking and unblocking of any sites.

Google Images blocked

It is not opening - I am getting the infamus omantel message! WHY?
probably I am going wacth nude pics.............grrrrrrr.........I need pictures for my neighbours son............picutes of animals!
Fuck Omantel! What do they want - sexless Omanis and Indians?

AMAZINGLY SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES

1
AVOID CUTTING YOURSELF WHEN SLICING VEGETABLES BY GETTING SOMEONE ELSE TO HOLD THE VEGETABLES WHILE YOU CHOP.

2
AVOID ARGUMENTS WITH THE FEMALES ABOUT LIFTING THE TOILET SEAT BY USING THE SINK.

3
FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE SUFFERERS ~ SIMPLY CUT YOURSELF AND BLEED FOR A FEW MINUTES, THUS REDUCING THE PRESSURE ON YOUR VEINS. REMEMBER TO USE A TIMER.

4
A MOUSE TRAP PLACED ON TOP OF YOUR ALARM CLOCK WILL PREVENT YOU FROM ROLLING OVER AND GOING BACK TO SLEEP AFTER YOU HIT THE SNOOZE BUTTON.

5
IF YOU HAVE A BAD COUGH, TAKE A LARGE DOSE OF LAXATIVES. THEN YOU'LL BE AFRAID TO COUGH.



DAILY THOUGHT:
SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES - NOT REALLY GOOD FOR ANYTHING, BUT THEY BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN YOU PUSH THEM DOWN THE STAIRS.

I am not sure of exact source but it is from Multiply

My first recipe -- Tamarind rice

Pulihora is an authentic andhra recipe made of rice. It is commonly known as tamarind rice. You can feel the sour, tangy, spicy taste all in one wonderful dish. Pulihora is made in difference varities (rice, ravva, lemon, mango).

Ingredients

2 cups cooked rice
1 cup tamarind paste (thick pulp)
6-8 whole dry red chillies
2 Tbsp urad dal
2 Tbsp channa dal
1 tbsp mustard seeds
1/4th cup peanuts
couple of pinches of hing
2 Tbsp turmeric powder
6-8 green chillies
Curry leaves (fist full)
1/4 cup oil
1/4 cup sesame seeds (toasted and powdered)
Salt to tast

Procedure

Heat oil in a pan on medium flame, add urad dal, channa dal, peanuts, whole red chilles and fry till light golden brown. Add mustard seeds, hing and fry till mustard seeds start to crackle. Add green chillies, curry leaves, turmeric, tamarind pulp, salt and cook for 10-12 mins on medium flame. When the mixture becomes thick, turn off the heat. Add rice and sesame seeds powder and mix well. Adjust the seasoning and serve.

Notes and tips

Sesame seeds powder is optional. You can add ginger also. Add it along with green chillies and curry leaves. If you are allergic to peanuts you can substitiue with cashewnuts. The rice should not become too soft, each grain of the cooked rice should be seperate and rice should be cold. I usually cook rice for pulihora in a rice cooker and spread it in a plate to cool.

source: Veggiecookbook.com

I love this recipe. I always ask my mom to cook it. This time I cooked it with the help of my mom. It did turn out good.

Modifications:

I have changed the recipe, I didn't use urad and Channa Dal (I already have two fillings in teeth and no reason to increase them). I don't like asafoetida (hing) but I have added ginger. And don't add the rice to the seasoned tamarind paste, but add seasoned tamarind paste to the rice. mix slowly in large bowl.

Tips:

After you have cooked rice, add a pinch of turmeric to the hot rice, this will enhance the color of the rice and add a few curry leaves too for the flavor. Add lemon juice if you want more sourness while eating. I personally like it with curd but one could eat it by itself.

I love this guy! I love trains and 2 more accidents in Wadi Kabir

I just received an email from my sister in India.
She has sent me the pictures of her baby boy and herself. Dad and Mom are staring unblinkingly at the pictures. They are smiling and giggling to themselves looking at Rose's pictures (Rose is a nick-name he isn't yet named).



Dad: Doesn't Rose look like his mother?
Mom: Yeah she was like him! so much?
Me: What?
Mom: Look at his smile!! He's so cute!
Dad: Yea! So cute!
Me: Where? I don't see him smiling!
Mom: SHUT UP! He is sooo cute!




I love the picture, both my sis and Rose look so alike in this picture. Don't mind the spot on Rose's nose -- it is just a spot of surma/ khol kept to ward of evil looks -- pretty common in India.
Well I am glad that all are fine in India and I would soon join my sis and her family to a tour to Tirupathi -- the costliest temple of the world. Though I am nowhere interested in the temple and in-existent God (I am an atheist who also knows philosophy of Yoga so bear with my two opposite faces) but I love the flora and fauna there. Many plants which are said to be extinct in other parts of the world.
It would also mean I would be travelling by trains till there! I love trains may be because they are aren't present in Oman. Every year we used to take flight till Mumbai and then travel by train for nearly 40 hours up till my native place Yanam. It was kinda long fun ride.
I love the food I get to eat. The people i get to meet and at times the pictures I like to take. And I sleep peacefully in train coz of the rocking sensation. If there is one thing hated in trains, it would be crowd and stinky shit smell at the stations.
However my dad and sis just hate trains! If they want (or have to)to travel they always book themselves in 1st class AC or no train travel. At once I remember me and mom in the general reservation compartment while my sis and dad were in AC compartment. I hate AC compartment coz the time I am in India it will be raining so all the AC compartments smell of socks or rotten eggs. And you don't get anyone to talk or look through those dark glass opaque windows.
IT is nearly 1 am and I am noway near sleep but gotta try! And yeah there had one more accident at Muz'marah Roundabout (Wadi Kabir R/A) and one more at Rawasco in WK. Again none was hurt but had caused a traffic jam! Love these drivers (Indians! Malayalis!) for making me walk from Rawasco through all the dirty gullies (lanes)! Fuck you both ! can't you both just look and drive
written at 12:00 am on Thursday night

Bobby is toe-tapping to....

It has been a while I upadted my iPod or for that matter I saw VH1 or MTV. With the fucking Dish TV and the sanguine Indian serials and those horrible Indi-Pop (coz they copy from western or almost rape the old classics with their stupid meaningless remixes) Ok so here is the list of my latest faves:

1. Sweet about me -- Gabriella Climi





This 20 year old Australian singer is the first to attract me. Her voice is crisp and fresh. I love the song and the music. Though I have a faint feeling of having already heard the music, her singing style is just awesome


2. Womanizer - Britney Spears





Here we go with the famous Britney the bitch. I love this song, though there is lot of voice modulation, it is that bad better than Paris Hilton. There is so much nude scenes to see of Britney which is neither new or exciting coz I have been watching her so from my childhood. One thing is that she is just like the Britney we know in "baby one more time".
Thee vid I posted is an album one!


3. SO What -- Pink




She hits back with this song which is perhaps about her break up with Carey. Whatever it is I love the song and not everybody can for this song. Pink gives me break from all the sad or lovely melodies with song which to my ears sounded like "Shut Up and Drive" of Rihanna

4. Disturbia -- Rihanna





Rihanna is my all-time favorite. This song written by Chris Brown sung beautifully by this lady. I love the bum-bum-e-dum which still humming from the time heard 2 months ago.

5. Miss Independent -- Ne-Yo



Ne-Yo's latest Miss Independent is cool to listen and I love the video. I haven't
yet heard the songs with full attention but I love the beat!


6. If I were a boy --Beyoncé


This lady has been singing sooo much! I think this is her third or fourth release this year. After Upgrade U, Crazy in love and one more with her Jay-Z. Anyway nice song here, with loads of meaning in it! But I wonder why the vid should be in black-n-white.

7. Yesterday -- Leona Lewis



the video has not been yet out. Her latest is "forgive me" which I didn't like at all! This is my favorite sing from this somber singer.

I love French music as much as I do for the English music. These are the present best from the French
8. La roue tourne - Zaho



Zaho's is a french singer who has been singing from 1999 I think. However I know her from her previous single called C'est chelou! No doubt she rocks! Her songs are full of new and kinda mixed appeal. Her voice too is crispy and sexy for me. In this clip Tunisiano sang with her -- he is another French rapper -- it awesome how he plays with the words.

9. Comme il se doit -- Marc Antoine



pic here
His last single "tant de besoin de toi" was awesome. I loved it so much that I know the whole song by heart. he doesn't disappoint me with this song either. Love the music, I feel there are some tingles of Asian style.

10. Rayon de soleil -- William Balde



I love this song. It has been released long back but I like to listen it encore! Can anyone tell me which style or genre or era this type of music belongs to? I find it hard to decide on one -- is it 80s style?


But then, there are those who Bobby doesn't understand why they are singing. Example Duffy!! I haven't got a clue what and why is she singing! I feel like killing myself or killing...

Words of Wisdom

1. A day without sunshine is like night.

2. On the other hand, you have different fingers.

3. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

4. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

5. Remember, half the people you know are below average.

6. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

7. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

8. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.

9. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.

10. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

11. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

12. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

13. How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? Raise my hand.

14. OK, so what's the speed of dark?

15. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

16. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

17. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

18. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines

19. What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?

20. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

21. Inside every older person is a younger
person wondering, "What the hell happened?"

22. Just remember...if the world
didn't suck, we would all fall off.

23. Light travels faster than sound.
That's why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.

24. Life isn't like a box of chocolates.
It's more like a jar of jalapenos.


I think they are lifted from here.
So which one you like the best

More than 20 Russians killed by nuclear submarine

MOSCOW (AFP) — More than 20 people were killed and another 20 injured when a fire extinguishing system was inadvertently activated aboard a Russian nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean, the Russian navy said Sunday.

"During sea trials of a nuclear-powered submarine of the Pacific Fleet the firefighting system went off unsanctioned, killing over 20 people, including servicemen and workers," said Captain Igor Dygalo, the navy's spokesman.

The accident did not apparently affect the submarine's nuclear reactor. "The submarine is not damaged, its reactor works as normal, and background radiation levels are normal," Dygalo stated.

Dygalo told AFP that President Dmitry Medvedev was being kept informed about the situation by Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and had already ordered a "full and meticulous" investigation of the incident.

The incident recalled the 2000 Kursk disaster, when 118 crewmen died when their nuclear submarine sank after an onboard explosion in the Barents Sea.

The Kremlin was harshly criticised at home and abroad for its sluggish and secretive response to the Kursk disaster, but seemed to be moving quickly to avoid a repetition this time.

Dygalo said Medvedev had also ordered the defence ministry to provide "all possible aid and support to the victims' families."

The submarine was carrying out sea trials when the accident occurred and the stricken vessel was ordered to put in to a port on Russia's far east coast temporarily, he added.

The spokesman did not say exactly where the incident occurred or specify which port the submarine would return to.

Twenty-one people with varying degrees of injuries were evacuated from the submarine, Dygalo said.

A total of 208 people were aboard the submarine when the accident happened, but of those only 81 were servicemen while the others were naval technicians and specialists.

Fire suppression systems on submarines are relatively sophisticated and may rely on chemical liquids. It was unclear however how the accidental activation of the system on the Russian sub resulted in the deaths and injuries.

The submarine, accompanied by a rescue ship, the Sayani, was steaming towards a Russian Pacific Ocean port for temporary basing and was due to arrive in some 10 hours, Dygalo said.

The destroyer Admiral Tributs went ahead of the convoy to deliver the injured to port, he added.

The name and type of the submarine was not released.

However, in October officials from the Amur shipyard reported the launch of sea trials for the nuclear submarine Nerpa, of the Shchuka-B type (Akula in NATO classification), the RIA Novosti news agency said.

Since the Kursk disaster in August 2000, Russia has seen a string of accidents and mishaps with its naval submarines.

Nine sailors died aboard a K-159 submarine when it sank in the Barents Sea in August 2003 while being towed to port for decommissioning. Only one of the seamen on board was rescued alive.

In 2005, a mini-submarine of the Pacific Fleet got snared in a fishing net, leaving the crew trapped underwater with dwindling oxygen supplies.

A British rescue team using a high-tech mini-submarine managed to extract the Russian vessel and there was no loss of life.

here is the link: 20 russians

I don't understand why no one is talking about it! I was watching BBC, France 24, Al Jazeera, Euronews apart from the blabbering Indian new channels. In fact I never knew the existence of nuclear powered submarines until I read this post. I still don't understand how accident happened -- it is a kind of mystery. I hope no *green freak* will start a research of radiation effects of nuclear submarines on some rare russian fish!

Accident in Wadi Kabir

A car with the license no 1745 has collided with a motorcycle. Luckily none was hurt though the motorcyclist had lost consciousness for a moment. The motorcycle was broken at some part and the car's front light is broken. Not much damage. But fuck you both for spoiling my sleep!!

Both he car driver and the motorcyclist are now fighting separated by the guard at the pub -- Palms Hotel (formerly known as Silver Sands/ Summer Sands) where the accident occurred. Palms Hotel is very notorious for all such things. Many young Omanis and Indians come here to drink and dance. If they drink and dance and go from here there would have been no problem. They come out and fight - pulling each other's clothes that so fucking sick to see. At the midst of the night you hear people banging bottles on the road and shouting at each other uselessly. There are also so much prostitution going on here -- at times I feel ROP is doing nothing!
There are 2 guards at the doors both are gigantic and useless! Then there are those customized car with those fucking stereo sets which seem to vibrate the walls --and the songs they play are so unpopular.

Seriously speaking Wadi Kabir is a decent family area with loads of Indians and Omanis. People are lovely and nice. Palms Hotel is the only disturbing thing in Wadi Kabir. If you don't know where this fucking place is come to Golden Oasis and follow the back entrance road -- just a short walk away......

So thank you driver and motorcyclist, thank you Palms Hotel for fuckin up my night!!!

Are you safe?

From the time I arrived in Muscat, there has been one thing that goes unaltered:

5:00 pm: I look out of my window, looking the building opposite mine.
exactly at this same time a thin guy in brown shorts (he has been wearing those for weeks) walks with his laptop and sits in parking area of the opposite building.
5:30 pm: He is there now talking with his earphone and adjusting the screen of his laptop.
7:00 pm: He is still there and frantically typing something
8:00 pm: He is still there
8:30 pm: He leaves

When I first saw, I thought he was just using his laptop, but I realised later he was actually HACKING a WiFi -- he hacked and using it illegally.
Now we all have broadband connection with those wireless modems but it seems many don't know how to protect them from brown short guys.
I then ran a network search for WiFis and found 2 wireless network in my area. It is dangerous if they are left unlocked, especially the office ones, they could lead to disasters.
And even they are locked with security standards like WEP or WPA , it is useless. They can be hacked very easily if one has the right knowledge and a good laptop. And it seem in Oman WEP is used which is outdated and most easliy hackable.
There are many softwares available on the net (and those sites aren't blocked by Omantel) which can hack any WiFi. These softwares can absorb data packets and decode the key for your network and once the hacker is in the network he can do anything he wants. This may cost you more than one can imagine. And don't think that your Windows is going to protect you or show you the hacker on the network -- it won't-- there are ways how one can hide within the network. Hackers are everywhere and be careful with your data.
Apart from fucking your data, he will use your internet and causing you to pay high amounts. Internet in Oman is costly and we know how good it is with half the sites blocked. In India it is cheap (you get unlimited for less than OR5) and there too many use it hacked. I don't think there is yet any law to fuck these guys both in India and Oman.


Don't worry if you are having a wireless, click here to learn how to protect it.
I still feel, having a wired connection is better, though it limits mobility for laptop users, it is safe -- for this sole reason I have network wires running throughout my home.

I have been tagged

After reading Gill's post, I started and it took quite a while for me to compile top six interesting things about me:

1) I am allergic to gold metal! Whenever I come in contact with any gold object, immediately my skin develops rashes! Doctors failed to explain this strange thing.

2) I am a great cook! I cook mostly Indian and at times Chinese food. I want to learn European cooking. I can cook almost any vegetarian dish of India. I am called the *finest chef* in my family

3) I hate planes -- no it should be I abhor planes. As I have told you I suffer from severe ear pain and headache, I try to avoid planes as much as possible.

4) I suffer from Internet Addiction Syndrome. It is true I cannot live without Internet -- on an average I spend nearly 5 hours on Internet each day.

5) I love key chains!!!!!!!! Yup! I love them! I have hundreds of them different shapes, different sizes -- I keep changing keychains. I am so obsessed with them that I have keychain hanging even to my pen drive, my mobile, my binoculars, my pencil pouch. I give keychains as gifts to others. 

6) I am nearly 90 kgs and extremely tall for my age but I love badminton , it is the only sport I love playing for hours -- of course I ain't that good but I love it!

There we go! 

If anyone reads please do post your unusual/ interesting things!

A Saint's Cry

All I await is the return

Of my inner saint, let my body burn

Under the harshness of karma

All  I seek is the divine coma

 

Neither in lofty mountains

Nor in book's mountains

He does stay

 

Like the large stars

Twinkle less from far

He makes me lonely,

Never tells me clearly

What He plans

And here I suffer pains

 

Rare are those who seek Him

Few are those who sought Him

For He is the most nearest

And he is the most distant of all

I ask Him to undo my fall

 

Not as easy as it seems

Hard is to cut the worldly beams

Alas if my principles hold true

Hope I would get out of worldly bleu

Soon, oh God, make it sooner,

Please get me out of this world, so loner

 

You test me or detest me

I do not know

But let me seek the holy vow

I cry for you, not for satisfaction,

But for gratification,

You seem lost now, never bothered like ever.

Neither can I live

Nor can I die

All I ask is a kiss from cosmic

After so many days, I ended up with this poem! I think it can be better but I am impatient.

studying leisure

Yep I mean it! 

Muscat International School has given an assignment on Leisure Studies of UK. My neighbour, Sarah who is a student in MIS gave the book to me for causal reading.

THE book is written by Linda and published by Collins. Among all the books I have read this book is the crappiest of all.

 I can't just understand why would anyone want to know how much percentage of old people of UK are watching cooking channels or how many are pursuing gardening as their hobby! It is a huge book of 175 pages containing all such useless information about the leisure activities. In the point of practicality the benefited of this book are those people who in the industry of hotel and tourism. And Gods knows why Sarah is reading such kind of crap! when she is studying economics in that blessed school.

Coming to the book, it seems it has done a lot of research into this subject and gone to an extent of finding out how many people visit spas and how many TV sets are there in UK. i can bear till the number of hotels, recreational clubs but.......

So, Iam studying my parents who are engaged in 2 leisure activities -- TV watching and playing scrabble on line

here are the observations: 

TV watching:  30 hours per week(!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Online Scrabble: 14 hours per week. 

and ya Italians also spend same amount of time before their tv sets! 

Ideal parents aren't they? 

Back in Muscat

It had been nearly a week I and my mom have arrived in Muscat from Hyderabad. I wasn't so well on health so I did not post anything.
We came from the new airport at Hyderabad built earlier this year --somewhere in March. The airport is located away from the city at a distance of 25 kms -- it is a huge distance to travel in the heavy traffic roads of India.

that is the pic inside the airport

From my home it took me nearly 2 hours to reach there.
Coming to the airport -- it is huge like some giant but for some reason it wasn't that beautiful despite of the glass work and the special decoration for Diwali ( they put lamps and lights everywhere making it look like Lulu ).The staff was good and helpful after a wait of 1 hour or so we were into the waiting gate. Now they are some duty free shops scattered at the gates so my mom and I went (obviously) into the book shop -- I bought a couple of books and my mom bought some novels and poetry.
The books I bought are:
The Best of Speaking Tree -- Vol 2

Indian Cooking by some Gujarati.
Then we both had coffee there. At a rather oddly named -- The coffee beans and tea leaf. the coffee was good though.

Ok so the gates were opened and here starts the whole problem.
I hate air-travel for it gives me ear ache like hell. My ears are extra sensitive to the hi frequency waves of the plane and the pain leads to total discomfort. It takes a day or two to let the pain go away after the travel. Though I was in the plane for just 2 n 1/2 hours -- it was pure hell.
Anyway I am alright now and happy in Muscat where air is crisp and happiness is everywhere.

Me+Telugu = Dilemma

Suddenly I can't speak Telugu> I have never lost touch with my mother language in the whole 19 years I have lived in Oman and all of a sudden I can't speak it nor can I understand it.
It had been two months odd I came here to India and my Telugu seems to get worse!
If I speak I speak stringing words or unconsciously shift into other languages. It is a bit worrisome while others seems to enjoy my new childish Telugu!
I was at a local Cd rental shop and I could not read the petite letters in the catalog so I asked him to show the Cd's so I could choose from the covers. And the person felt it was something nice ( a disability to read their own mother tongue).
I am not at ease with the family members too! I quakle somewhere in the speech and forget about reading anything. Oh God even illiterate is better than me.
The only sol -- MOM yup I am coming to lurn Telugu

Sound Pollution

Finally after many days, it is sunny -- and I am spending much time outside in the sun!
We are having a great time with my sis's son
But once outside on the road, I am pretty scared coz of the heavy traffic which seems to pour on me from all the sides and the sound pollution which makes road worse than airports. Before, there were sounds assigned for lorries seperate and bikes. Now the flamboyant horns of lorries are attached to bikes. Therefore the bikes sound like heavy vehicles which literally drives anyone pale!
The governmnet should do something about this sound pollution -- actually speaking people should think of it themselves. Before people are adversly. And they should introduce seat belts too.

Les bonheures of life

It was on 25th of August, my sister gave birth to a baby boy and from then on the whole family is quite busy with celebrations and ceremonies.
He is of course very cute like his parents. Here is the pic for you:

Chaotic Dasavataram

I normally do not see any Indian film for all of them seem same to me. But it was yesterday, after continuous pestering from my bava (bro-in-law), we went to this movie called Dasavataram.
The only reason I accepted the offer is that, the hero plays ten roles in this movie.
So by evening we were in the hall smelling of rotten socks, and the movie started -- and after 2h35m I didn't understand a thing!
Well the movie is about a biotechnologist named Govind working in US, who invented a germ which could kill anyone instantly. After realising the effects of this biological bomb he decided to kill the germ but as his boss does not accept it, Govind runs with the germ culture and somehow arrives in India. For more info go here

Well that story was good and it is based on Chaos theory. And it seems too chaotic to comprehend unless one watrhces it twiuce ot thirce. So it is agan one of those boring movies.

And I do not see this movie as something that teahes anything to me. I wish people who are making movies and wacthing them go to some sensible and realistic ones -- one which are based on daily life of someone or on human values not on guns and weapons. Indians shoud come out of the view that hero shgould be muscular and he save the world from peril or achieve something abnormal in life or make make his enemies fly in air.

If we wacth a movie we should remember it for the lifetime and in the present Telugu moviue world, there is not even one such movie. I bet!

Angry in India

Today can be perfectly called the bad day for me. First of all it was so sultry here and I am suffering from blisters on my skin. Added to that there is pain in my right leg, so today morning I went to the doctor and there was a throng of people there as usual. The guy who sends the patients to doc sent the ones who came after me, ignoring me. I cannot understand how he cannot see a 6 foot tall fat man!
Well so by midday I am out with medicines back at home. When I reached home, I found that my laptop's top had been scratched by someone and it drove me crazy. I could not sleep properly as my house owner was doing some drilling work in the backyard. Why has she got only the afternoon? Anyway I don't get sleep in the night and she's spoiling the afternoon one too.

So by evening, I had puffy eyes and couldn't concentrate what I am reading. And it's night now and I am suffering from a terrible headache. And the house could not keep her mouth shut and started lecturing about the side effects of obesity and ways to avoid and cure it.
What the fcuk!
Grave -- it seems I will start to abhor my life.

Eid Mubarak!

I know Ramadan started in Oman>
AH! Imagining the peaceful atmosphere prevailing in Oman is so relaxing to the sultry and busy over polluted and populated life here. I wish I was there. I am not a Muslim, but our Brahmani Hindu family is inclined towards Islam. It somehow means we are clinging on the thread between Islam and Hinduism. Whatever it is, I love Ramadan, like the peaceful minds and the joyful Iftars. When I was in school in Oman, I used fast along with my Muslim friends. It was fun and ....... I think holy.
In India, it is pretty different to what Ramadan is. For you do not see any visible changes in the
social manners. Because India is a secular country, she has tolerate all the region's rituals and faith in itself at the same time not disturbing the other social groups. In the place I am living I have not yet seen a mosque nor heard the Hazaan or Prayer Call ...odd!
Well, today is an Hindu festival too, called Vinayak Chaturdhi! For this fete, one prays to the Lord Vinayaka especailly students and youth for knowledge. They pray to the idols of Lord Vinayaka, made with mud. After a week or two, they emerge the idols in the nearby river. I followed this fete I think 11 years back. The odd part is that few celebrate this fete only for the show off..like the bigger the idol, the bigger the flamboyancy..blah..blah.
I knew of an athiest who used say "You do not even need to pray if you do good things to others or else even if you spend your life in prayer while harming others and desiring worldy riches, it is useless." Many times, when I look people using others' faith and relgious beliefs for their advantage, I remember my friend.

c'est la vie!

It seem as though it had been eons I had posted anything!
Well I am India with my brother-in-law and sister. It is not the first time or new for me staying in the countryside of India, but this year of my visit was cool and beautiful.
The village where I was staying called Pedapudi is an petite ville full of farmers. I'm very attached to this peaceful recluse.
My own native place the Union territory called Yanam was special for me, but today when I visit it after nearly a decade it is so changed or as others call it is so developed. I accept it is developed but with so many new people and extensions..........Yanam has lost its --what's the phrase-- charm. It looks to my eyes as some camp of industrial people. Such change is I know for the welfare of the people but I wish something was done to retain the antiqueness of the city and the level of immigrants.
The present place I am staying is Samalkot, it is a beautiful place with gentle people. I like the place but wish it was neater. The village is famous for its money lenders and footwear. there is still some remains of the village lifestyle in this yet developing town. I wish they remain intact.

Here in India

Here in India,

I am loved by everyone
I am hated by none
I am cuddled by "someone"
I am cared by more than one

I am admired by one
I am inspired by everyone

But I am understood by none.

Bobby -- enjoying under the Indian monsoon and sleepless in sultry nights.

My Life

When the sun sets,
When the sky wears an orange shroud
When the tired leaves wave to lazy evening breeze
When the sparrows peck on the cobbled platform I walk
I ponder
As I walk on the fragile life of mine,
Thinking whether the next step will be a pit or a plain or a step
Thinking whether I will fall into in steep valley or climb to moon

On the second thought, I want to stop thinking of something so unknown, so volatile
I want to stop thinking of my future, my life.
So, I take a deep breath and make another step...........................

Heart

Heart

Gone were those days when my heart used to stop for you
Gone were those days when my eyes used to wait and weep
Gone were those days when my feet stumbled at your sight
Gone were those days when I used to sit in trance
While my mind overflowed with eager dreams

Now, it is more of ‘me’
That’s what you taught me
A lil selfish I have grown like you
Which I learned well from you
Now I don’t give a fiddler’s f**k
About the ever beating muscle blob
Called heart which once I foolishly worshipped

lil = little

fiddler's f**k = damn

hmmm

It is 4.56 am here. I was awake from 2am and now I having a headache coz of the lack of sleep. Apart from my insomnia, there is one more issue which disturbs not only mine sleep but most of the wadikabirans.
Wadi Kabir is a peaceful colony filled with pavements, gardens and families. For whatever reason there is also a bar located amid this colony. And unfortunately my building is right in front of this bar. The two buildings are divided by only parking place.
The pub/bar hotel is very famous among Omanis and expats. Everyday many Omanis and expats visit this. The business is mostly active at night times starting from 10pm goes until 2-3am. There is no problem when the bar was a BAR in 2003-2006 but in 2006 they introduced dance club and special late night concerts with no consideration to the residents.

In later part of 2006, this hotel started giving out girls (and rumored gays/boys too) for its customers. It became a common sight to see some Filipino or Indian come out of hotel in some skirt and climb into a car. I do not know what happened in 2007 as I was in India but when I came back, the hotel's management changed. I was happy to see no more girls / guysoutside and no more loud music.

But then there arose another problem. With the habit of alcohol on increase with both Omanis and expats, many times they get over drunk and start fighting outside the hotel. This has become a nuisance for the residents as in their fights, they sometimes destroy property like car panes or glass doors.
Yesterday night was particularly horrible. The fight arose between 4 omanis. They started beating each other until the bodyguards intervened. The 4 Omanis then started beating the bodyguards and started to run away but the bodyguards chased three of them and started beating them. In the meantime the staff of the hotel was outside and many were peeping out of their windows. Until the police arrived the shouts did not go down.
May be other residents might have gone to sleep but I and insomniacs like me had a blanche-nuit (white night)
Nobody neither Omani nor expats have ever bothered to complain. When we and our neighbors complained in 2006 about the loud music and drunkards sleeping and peeing in the fire exit of the building, the manager asked us to install gates and locks for the fire exit entrance. ( how stupid)
p.s i wrote this in English US.

Center Franco Omanais

or abbreviated as CFO. The CFO is a Franco-Omani organisation which promotes the french language and culture here in Oman. This center is located near to British Council in Madinat-Al-Qaboos. The center provides language courses throughout the year with French teachers. The courses are divided into three levels namely Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Each level has 3 to 5 sub stages. The french is taught here in a communicative manner. The professors here are very friendly and this is the best place for friends.

In the Center's backyard there is a café -- Café Glacier's branch where one can enjoy a break with a cappuccino and chat.

Apart from language courses, there are also cultural programmes like movies, musique concerts and plays. The students are shown a film at the end of each session for free.

I joined this somewhere in February. I am at present in Intermediate Sub level 2.

BB Brune

BB Bune (pronounced as bébé broone) is the latest musical group in the french music arena.

This group constitutes of four members with lead lead singer Adreien Gallo (aged 19).
Adrein Gallo writes and plays and sing for the group.
This band was known locally in France as Hangover in 2000. They changed to BB Brune (Blond/ brunette baby) in 2005. They realesed their first single album Blond Comme Moi (Blond like me) with the hit song Dis-moi! (tell me) in 2007.

This band gets its musical influence from 1970s music style.

here are pics to enjoy

BB Brunes

Adrien Gallo

Things we can't live without...

The following article is taken from the magazine France Label - a french info-cultural mag.
You can get this from Centre Franco Omanias for free. This month's edition covers Books and People.
The following are the words of the French writer Gilles LaPouge

"When I was a child, each book seemed magic to me. One day, a man put some small marks on a piece of paper and then these black marks went into hibernation. But all that was needed was the ray of light for the extraordinary world to unfold. I saw the most modest book shop as a shop of miracles.
A book is the flimiest of mechanisms and nothing is more robust than it. Throw this trifling device into a cellar or attic. Forget it for a thousand years, then blow off the dust that covers your incunabula, turn its pages, and the minute instruments begins to make noise. Invisible connecting rods and pistons crank. It is like heart that begins to beat again.
beneath your eyes a fantastic opera arises, a woman weeps or dances, an entire family moves around a house, a war breaks between two countries, a storm breaks over the sea, and a wind moves forest..............."

I have not read his books but what he says abve is I think an universal truth.

The Insomniac

Clock's still ticking

One..two..three

Mind's still clicking

This..and..that



I see the world sleep

Dream and drown

In pleasures



I see the world's hidden face

Dark and cold

But my heart bold



With red swollen eyes

I see latenight's

Drunkards, lovers, muderers



With a swollen face

I see YOU

YOU smilng in dreams



I envy you

I envy you for your dreams...your snores.

Great Definitions

School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays

Nurse: A person who wakes you up to give you sleeping pills

Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man looses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters

Life Insurnace: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so you can die rich

Classic: Books which ppl praise but do not read

Yawn: The only time when some husbands ever get to open their mouth

Smile: A curve that can make many things straight

Experience: Name men give to their mistakes

Conference: The confusion of one man mutilpied by the number present

Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be wise after death

Doctor: A person who kills your ills with bills, and kills you by bills


Source: Kamat Restaurant (Ruwi br)

new soul

I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take
But since I came here, felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake
La, la, la, la (21x)
La, la, la, la (21x)
See I'm a young soul in this very strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout what is true and fake
But why all this hate? try to communicate
Finding trust and love is not always easy to make
La, la, la, la (21x)
La, la, la, la (21x)
This is a happy end
Cause you don't understand
Everything you have done
Why's everything so wrong
This is a happy end
Come and give me your hand
I'll take you far away
I'm a new soulI came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take
But since I came here, felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake
New soul... (la, la, la, la,...)
In this very strange world...
Every possible mistakePossible mistake
Every possible mistakeMistakes, mistakes, mistakes...

The above song is sung by Isreali-French singer called Yeal Naim (pronounced as EÉAL )
She rose to fame with this song which was used by Apple Computer's ad for Mac Book Air.

In her interview with France24 (a french info-entertainment channel) she sung much more beatiful songs.
Here is a video of the song to enjoy





Sources: Wikipedia
Metrolyrics


Sources: Wikipedia
Metrolyrics

Take another one

Oh most unlike
And we never alike
But still in amour’s bleak
Like the hidden birds of coop,
Hearts are one, alas alikeness is a loop
Of fire to forget, or to pass

So let be there a difference
And live away in distance
For most unlike, the sameness
Keeps up apart, but your caress
Will always vibrate my heart’s core
Never was a love of this kind before

A pure form, or formless
For we both are not heartless
Now in black shroud I lay
Within the walls of clay
And you too lay
In the walls of vie
But when will you see
For I am always with you
Within you

Like the sun set
Or like the sea’s fret,
We now seem indifferent,
But still love flows in undercurrent

Oh pity those who seek love as a desire
For they face the results so dire,

Love is a need,
Not of greed, not a deed
Of bodily union
But of two hearts collision
For then is the way to feel
The eternity in you and in all

Bobby

This poem is dedicated to my..............................
I just love it
vie -- life (fr)

Love

Many moons ago,
You loved me
Or you lured me
Under the hood of causeless cause
You ripped my heart
To taste the sweetest nectar
I then cried in pleasure

Now, you stamped my heart,
with claw-clad legs

then’s sweetest nectar is now sour

Love can make someone or break someone.
Love is extremely hard to explain and I keep myself at a safe distance from such notorious thing.
At the same time I am loved for sure by numerous people. I too love them equally.

This is grave

MUSCAT — In one of the rarest cases reported among the expatriate community here, a middle-aged Indian woman strangulated her two children to death and made a futile attempt to kill herself. The children were students of the Indian School Muscat (ISM), and the mother, Priya, is an employee of the African Eastern Company, Ruwi. According to a friend of hers, Priya, who is a resident of Muttrah, herself called the police, friends and relatives, including those in India, and informed them about the barbaric act and her plans to end her life. The police and a friend who immediately rushed to her flat, managed to prevent her from committing suicide. The ‘Times’ did come across some missing links at the time of its enquiries, but eyewitnesses, including the caretakers of the buildings, pointed out that Priya had been taken into police custody between 8 and 8:30am, though the police had reached the spot approximately after 5am. Her dress was stained with blood while bruises were visible on the bodies of the children. With no official comment available on the tragic incident, the actual time and motive behind the gruesome act are not clear. According to some of the residents in the building, adding weight to speculations that it was a pre-planned murder, Priya, on Wednesday, asked her full-time resident maid to proceed on leave. According to the residents of the building, Priya did not mingle much with the other residents, though her son, Jerrmya or Jermy, as he was fondly called, was quite popular among his friends. His neighbour described the second standard student as a ‘cute little boy’. The name of his KG student sister is not known. Most of the residents were in a state of shock as Jermy and his sister were seen playing with their friends as recently as Wednesday and Thursday. Priya too had projected herself as a strong woman capable of taking difficulties of life in her stride. The family had moved to the ill-fated fifth-floor apartment only last year. Priya’s estranged husband is said to be staying in Dubai. Her parents in Thiruvalla, Kerala, were in a state of shock and unsure of the future course of action. She has two brothers, and one of them is in Abu Dhabi.

The above report is taken from Times of Oman

The above news shook the people of Oman. My neighbour, Mr. Kishore and I cannot stop thinking of this muderer mother

Patricia Routledge

Particia Routledge is a 79 year old English actress and singer. She is most famous for her role as Hyancith Buket (Bouquét) in the comedy sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. She plays a role of an upper-middle class lady who tries to baost herself in every issue.

She is also a great singer -- perhaps country side and classical opera and moreover despite of er over sized body she is a great dancer too.

She made a great contribution to the theatre of both UK and US.

I also like her in another dective series called Hetty Wainthropp Investigates in which she palys a high profile dectective with teenage Dominic Mchaggen (now a star). She is extremely beautiful even in her late sixties and her action cannot be explained in words.

Apart from these all she also acted in many movies.
I see no other actor who can do two different roles in the same years and make us feel that Hetty and Hyancith are two different people.

In telugu industry I think only late SuryaKantham can do so.

Juma Suq

Jumma Souk/ Friday Market/ Souq-Jumma

Wadi Kabir is famous among many foreign and local shoppers for hosting a weekly souk/ suq on Friday known as Souq Jumma or Friday Market.

When I first came to Wadi Kabir, I thought looking at the market from faraway, a congregation of women. (an illusion created by abayas/ burqas hung in the market). Eventually, I got used to going to this suq almost every week just to roam about.

The souq consists of Omani and Indian vendors who sell you from underwear to computers. It was very large in 2003-2005 but with the decline in purchasing power the market too shrinked. Vendors are provided with electric facility and sheds from the Mumcipality of Muscat. The souk consists of two larges sheds and an empty parking place to hold up to a hundred cars (yes they sell cars too)

This is famous among both Omanis and expats for many traditional and festive items are available at very low costs here.In Ramad'han season, the souk overflows with vendors coming from all regions with their goods like carpets, sheep, furniture, clothes and dates.

Even if you don't buy anything, just roam around and feel like a local with the simple life -- away from the mechanical life of apartments.

Anne Robinson

You might know her. She is the most famous and meanest quiz master (or quiz mistress).

At the age of 63, she holds the place of one of the most powerful women in the world.

She is criticised for abusing and shouting at her contestants of Weakest Link (the quiz show she host in BBC Prime) and therefore nick-named as the Queen of the Mean.

This pint sized woman is an alcoholic and a bad mother of a 30 year old divorced daughter.

She wrote two books, one her autobiography -- Memoirs of an Unfit mother (odd name)

She speaks English very fast, without stop.

In the quiz, apart from winning, the contestants inner goal is also to make her laugh which she does very rarely.

She is famous for saying "You're the weakest link. GoodBye."

Judi Dench

Judi Dench

My favourite comedian and actress for her role as Jeanne Hardcastle in comedy sitcom of BBC Prime As Time Goes By. She plays a role of a widow who is fussy and finds her teenage lover after 38 years of separation.

Judi in Mrs Henderson Presents

She has a talent of playing any kind of role, she once played a widow mother of a dead solider in her Oscar nominated film Mrs. Henderson Presents or Mme. Henderson Présente (fr) in which she runs a theatre for soldiers with young girls. She also played the role of M in James Bond films from 1995.

She speaks a kind of Scottish-London accent English. Her voice, dialogue deliverance, body language all are perfect....tuning of centuries

I like her most in her role as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love of 1998.

She is a widow and has an obsession of Shakespeare. She contributed a lot to the Theatre of England and Theatre of Comedy

 

Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer from As time goes by

 If there is one such actress in India, I would have loved watching Indian movies and serials. Unfortunately the present TV serials are nothing but the endless fights between families and the movies are just a bunch of nude pics. I am waiting for some gigantic change to come...

Audrey Tautou

Audrey Tautou in Amélie (2001)

You might have recognised her. She is the actress who played Sophie Nevue in DaVinci Code.

Audrey Tautou is a French actress who came to limelight in France with her first cinéma Amélie. (2001). Amélie tells us about a young girl who helps everyone without givign time to herself and her love. After that, she became known thorughout the world with her role of Sophie Nevue in DaVinci Code in 2006.

She is known for her simple mode of action and her beautiful smile.

I like her for simplicity in action

Moving On

Today, I came to know of the dates by which I will be setting my feet on my sweet motherland.
Somehow, I am eager than any other year to be back there in India. Normally, I feel some kind of uneasiness when I have to leave Muscat. But ths time I wanted to prepone the dates.

Anyway, I will not be in Muscat from 29 of June to 3rd of November.

In India, I may be travelling by train from Mumbai to Hyderabad. This long journey which I did more than 3 years ago. This train journey exposes me to the natural beauty of my varieted India.
Hope to get lots of pics and vids through this.

Bubbly

my present favorite song : Bubbly Collbie Caillet

ME and MY musique

My hero Albus Dumbledore said "music is beyond the magic done by any"
I surely think it is. I am no sperate from the music I hear
I moslty listen to english and french (at times Italian). I am very selective about choosing my favourites songs. Over a period of 3 years I have collected only 150 songs
Under this label Iwill post my favorite songs from time to time

Hi
my name is Bobby. I live in Wadi Kabir in Muscat. I am 18 years old and had been living in Oman sice 2000.
Though an Indian by birth and nationality, I never felt foreign here. It does not mean I hate India but I somehow feel homely in this peaceful counrty.
I have been living in Wadi Kabir since 2002. I love this silent place where beauty lies in neem trees to evening gossip groups.
I belong to Yanam in India -- a growing city (ot town) more than Yanam I like my country side like Pédapudi and Mettakur. I also like Hyderabad to stay for few days but not to live.

Eternal Beam

• Eternal beam
  
  To find comfort
  Even in the death’s lap
  Is the man’s life’s flop
  Few are those who wait
  Many are those who fear
  Rare are those who ignore
  And at death’s roar
  They blink wisely.
  And, in the pulley
  Of deaths and births
  We seek mirth’s
  Kingdom to find again
  That life is a myth -In drain
  Of laughs and cries
  For none in real dies
  For none is really born
  So why is our life so torn?
  Amidst cruelty and duality
  Filled with men of so low quality!
  Answers are found
  Deep in hearts’ bound
  With love and respect
  For they are the real prospect
  Of the mans’ awakening
  Then starts the breeze
  Anew with pure intentions
  And a world with no detentions
  In such world alone we find Him
  In the form of eternal thought beam
  For only then we welcome even death
  Just like the mirth

This is my first poem written last march. I think it is my best poem also