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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
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12:12 pm - To them TV executives
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Can we have an India-Pakistan 5 ODI series, starting in the middle of April? I'll pay to watch, if I manage to sell my subscription to willow.tv on E-bay.
current mood:  apathetic
current music: Nike Ad for Team India
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| Saturday, October 28th, 2006
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5:43 pm - The latest Gujju joke...
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What do you call Anita Behn, Anju Behn, Manju Behn and Sarala Behn munching on jilebis and farsan on an Air India flight?
"Snakes" on a Plane
Simbly a joke from a Mallu ungkill.
current mood:  giggly
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| Monday, July 10th, 2006
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12:14 pm - Headline I'd love to see
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Zidane headbutts to ensure that his tell-all autobiography will be a bestseller.
current mood: heady
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| Sunday, March 26th, 2006
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9:06 am - Tendulkar
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| Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
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5:03 am - Headlines I'd love to see
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DIC(K) leaves LDF
No DIC(K) entry into LDF
LDF to face elections DIC(K)-less
DIC(K) may enter UDF
For the uninitiated, DIC(K) is Democratic Indira Congress(K).
current mood:  cheerful
current music: Appozhey paranjilley pokanda pokandannu....
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| Friday, February 10th, 2006
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7:53 am - Main shaayar tho naheen..
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Pakshey ee kavithakku entha oru kuravu??
Enne vannu thodoo....
"Ayaluday nirdayatthwam veethikalay maatti, ennay akatti,
Athu ente ishtatthe nirutsaahappeduthhi,
Enne vishramamillathakki.
Enne ingane nokkaruthu
Enikku sahikaanavilla,
Enne ingane nokkaruthu.
Town-ilulla aalukal njaan parayunnathu kelkkaanaayi chuttilum koodi nilkkum.
Aagrahatthe utsahippikkoo,
Aagrahangal adakkathirikko,
Ennay vannu thodoo."
"Raathriyilay kannukalaanu ninte kannukal
Aa raathrikalil chandranum urangum,
Aa kannukalil rathriyum othungum
Njangalum athinullilaakum,
Chandranum athinullilaakum
Ninte niswasangal avarkku kanmashi ezhuthum"
"Jeevithatthilekku varoo ee kannukalilekku.
ente thoovalayail ninte chumbanam njaan kettivacchu.... athu maayum varey"
"Nite vaakkukal kopippikunnanvayaanu
nee chudukaattu veesunnathupolay alasamaayi..."
"Njaan mutuukutthunnu.
Ennay vannu thodoo.
Aagrahangal ulkkondu njaan nilkkunnu
innatthe ente raathryile nente nizhalaanu nee
Inthente athbhuthamaanu."
"Swakaarayatthil chodikkoo, kallam parayaruthu
Aa sirovasthratthil olikkoo
Curtain-nte pinnil avalude naanam
Oru moddupadatthinum ente dukham maraykkaanavilla."
"Enne nokkaruthennu aval paranjaal vishmamaakum.
Ninteyoppam aadipaadiyirunnu njaan
Chandranum urangum athinullil
Nee entethaanu, pazahaya nagarangaludey ormakalil
nammude gaananm muzhangunnundaakum.
thekkuvadakku neeley nammal randu perum aa nagaratthil nadannu.
Aa mahathmavinte vili ippolum kelkkunnu.
Ninte karuttha kannukalude manoharothayode...
Ninte kannu kittathe njaan samrakshichhu,
Njaan punchiricchu ava illathakki.
Nammude shareeram vedanikkattey, chundukal pottatte,
Ennay vannu thodoo."
Innanu aa raathri.
Ninte reethikal enikku ishtamaanu,
njaananu ninte oreeyoru aaradhakan.
( Don't worry, )
current mood: translated
current music: Kajra re
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| Friday, December 16th, 2005
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2:48 pm - Small world...
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| Thursday, June 16th, 2005
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2:31 pm - Bhoomikulukkam -2
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Now, this
is worrisome. This is the 3rd major earthquake in our vicinity this
week. Will we have a Playboy pictorial of the girls of Arizona coast
soon?
current mood:  worried
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| Sunday, June 12th, 2005
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11:25 am - Bhoomikulukkam
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So, I slept through my first earthquake. But I do have vague memories of being tossed around in the bed.
current mood: shaken
current music: The Ground beneath her feet - U2
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11:19 am - Where were you when that happened?
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A lot of guys of my generation from Thrisshur have anecdotes about where they were while "ThoovanaThumbikal" was being shot. A few of them also think that Mohanlal is Trivandrum's greatest son.
current mood: Trivial
current music: Onnam Raagam padi -
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| Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
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10:15 am - Clueless
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Eons ago, in a place far far away, I set my first and only crossword clue so far.
Reduce iron (8 letters)
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kvk and mujib promptly mentioned that it was inscrutable and sadistic. And rightly so. Yesterday, a friend, a fellow mallu, cracked it- the first one to do so. I feel vindicated...
current mood: vindicated
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| Tuesday, April 19th, 2005
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10:17 am - Oldboy...
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..., the Korean flick, is the sickest movie I've ever seen. Period. It makes Se7en and Kiss of a Spiderwoman look like Kindergarten picnics. It won something or the other at Cannes. I'm too traumatized to write a review. Please check it out at your own risk.
current mood: deflated
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| Saturday, February 26th, 2005
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2:32 pm - Oscars
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Last night, I walked up to a prostitute and asked, “How much?”
She said, “For 300 bucks, I’ll do anything you want.”
“300 bucks? Paint my house, bitch”
- From a Chris Rock stand-up routine from the 80s.
Chris Rock is the reason I am watching the Oscars tomorrow. I hope “Before Sunset” wins the best adapted screenplay award.
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| Monday, January 31st, 2005
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9:54 am - Mountain
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Nailed the black. A few times, for good measure...
current mood:  accomplished
current music: Beginning strains of Voodoo chile
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| Monday, December 20th, 2004
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2:42 pm - Sun Diego
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We’ve discovered that the good SoCal weather is no hoax. I went skiing on Saturday, and played Frisbee with the woyf at the beach on Sunday, while listening to bagpipers usher in the sunset.
Sadly, I can't tell this to my friends in frozen NY.
current mood: sunny
current music: mausam mausam, lovely mausam
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| Monday, June 28th, 2004
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12:57 pm - Yuva
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I may be living in a cultural outpost and all, but I finally got to watch Yuva. It is the movie inspired by Godfather, right? The gangster’s wife getting an abortion was so from Godfather. No? Wait, wait! Yuva was inspired by the pretentious “Hazaar Chaurassi ki maa” – the rich Bong revolutionary and his mom thing was so from it. What, I am wrong again? OK, OK, so Yuva had to be inspired by Pulp Fiction, right? Parallel story lines meeting at a point and all that. No? Wrong again? What? Yuva is loosely based on Amores Perros now? What shit? How? Why? Where? What is wrong with all these other movies? A tad too mainstream or a bit too close to home, eh?
And yeah, I didn’t like the music either.I know it is a sacrilege and all, but there is not a single tune that stuck to my head. The fact that we don’t get bombarded by too much film music in Noo Joisey doesn't help things. I so need a new “Nila Kaigirathu” or “Pachai kiligal” from the maestro.
Have to say this :- the saving grace of the movie was Abhishek. Undoubtedly the best gangster I have seen in a Hindi flick .
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| Sunday, June 27th, 2004
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11:01 pm - Nerd jokes...
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| Thursday, April 29th, 2004
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5:55 pm - Kavitha
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Sometimes, like a robber, you enter from backdoor and surprise me - that's poem!!
At least, that is what the subtitles in Minnale DVD say during the following lines of the song Vaseegara...
thirudan pole pathungiyae thideer endru
pinnaalirundhu ennai nee aNaippaayae adhu kavidhai
current mood: Gudabhogam
current music: Vaseegara
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5:48 pm - ?
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So, who was Tintin's travel agent? And where did he get the money to go globe-trotting?
current mood:  okay
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| Tuesday, March 30th, 2004
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5:17 pm - Factual post in linear time
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My mother visited me for two months last summer. She made some really awesome food – including the the best ada payasam I ever had. She made that for the guests at my cousin's wedding. She met Aparna there. The wedding ceremony was a blend of 'east and west' ;). Contrary to expectations, neither I nor rahulms got wasted.
Couple of months later, Aparna moved into my place with her knickknacks and dreams in tow. We drove from Dallas to Noo Joisey - a small matter of 1700 miles and 13 states - in two days. We thought we had a flat in Louisiana. A mechanic unmounted our tire and pulled out a three inch nail. He refused to charge us, as the nail had not gone in all the way to create a puncture. Speak of southern hospitality! During the trip, we witnessed a complete lunar eclipse from beginning to end. It took fifteen minutes for us to figure out that the moon wasn't changing faces, as Calvin might have put it. I listened to 'America' fourteen times during the trip.
A month after the trip, we got married in Bombay. It was a small ceremony – Aparna knew all the hundred odd guests. The ceremony lasted five hours. We left for Jaisalmer for our honeymoon the same day. Jaisalmer is the Golden city and hence not to be confused with Jaipur (Pink city), Jodhpur (Blue city) or Udaipur(White city). We spent a week there – that was long enough to visit all the local attractions twice. We also watched a lot of cricket. The song "Kaliyon ka chaman" followed us everywhere.
We also had a reception in Trivandrum. Again, it was a small ceremony by Trivandrum standards. But I hardly knew any of the six hundred guests. Aparna met mujib and Shahina at the reception. mujib joined a bunch of us at Kovalam for some fun'n'frolic. And a lot of beer. And Frisbee. We sat around in a circle and listened to Tutu sing our farmaaish. We also had the best Dum aloo Kashmiri in the world – from 'Nirvava'.
On our flight back, Air India bumped us off on the first day. So we got a free business class upgrade for the next day and some serious money back. We encourage everyone to fly Air India.
Back here, things are fun. I am getting further domesticated. I can now pull the shower curtain back, put towels back on the rack, screw the cap of the toothpaste and do dishes, all without being asked. I have come a long way. kvk visited us during a weekend. It was too cold to venture out. So we sat around, had a few drinks and watched a lot of movies. Aparna and I went for a quiz the other day with Narayanan. No, we did not name our team "Sahib,Bibi aur Ghulam", but we should have. We went to Greenwich Village once to relive our New York date. Of late, we have been following Team Samsung in Pakistan.
Maybe, I'll try and update more often from now.
current mood: uxorious
current music: You are nobody till somebody loves you - Singles OST
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