Ever wondered why one always ‘falls’ in love? Because it’s that height you get to from where people can throw you off. There are those who trust and hold on to each other when they climb atop. For the others, well be glad at least you experienced the world from up there, however fleeting. After falling down the precipice you do land onto the stable plains. The plunge may have brought down your adrenaline level but you don’t realize the height you got to without diving right down. The terrains would bring you again to the foot of another bluff. Don’t let the dive and drop stop you from climbing yet again.
In the walk of life
May 10th, 2011 | RoInstinctive Shopper
May 8th, 2011 | RoDon’t you wish your girlfriend shopped like me? You would if you knew that I take an average of a minute to know whether I would buy a piece of clothing,footwear, accessory or not. I’ve amazed some ladies who’ve been privy to this quirk. Of course it’s quirky if a member of the fairer sex is so!
Like today, went in to Fab India, set my eyes on a lovely red kurta, asked for my size, dashed into the trial room and rushed right out to the billing counter. I knew i would buy it the minute I set my eyes on it and found the price favorable. This was one of those times when I know in a split second that this is it. Bought a pair of earrings at this counter at the same lightening pace. Took under 15 minutes to pick up a pair of footwear as well. I just don’t see what good comes out of thinking long and hard whether a top looks good on you, whether the one in the shop on the next street was a better bet than this one, whether it goes well with your beige patialas, etc., etc. I also believe i decide in the same lightening interval against buying an item. One look at myself with the object and I seem to know if it’s a keeper.
and i thought i bought my first smartphone
December 12th, 2010 | Roi brought home my first smartphone and was very proudly showing off its brilliant multitouch zoom, immediate photo upload, always on internet. And just as i was doing this the mother of all ironies happened.. I received a call. I tried in vain to click all the buttons on the screen and the couple on the panel. Not one to give up i made my aunt call me and furiously tapped away and dragged my hand all over the screen only to be the laughing stock of the family! I finally resigned and read the manual for the otherwise ubercool Samsung Galaxy 3.
Bleeding edge of technology!
November 27th, 2010 | RoFighting a long and arduous battle with famecinemas.com by the side. I’d booked 3 tickets yesterday for a movie on sunday that 2 more want to join us for. So I log on to the fame cinemas website and voila! see 2 more tickets right next to the earlier 3. Excited, I proceed to book them only to be bailed out by the site, TWICE, before I could book the tickets. Each time I log on again, the seats that I wanted earlier were no longer available and appeared booked. FAME would do well to overcome this inconvenience where people who haven’t bought tickets hog seats that even they can’t use! Since they were good seats I didnt mind coming back to them 10 mins later. And during each of these times I go through the seat selection, I have to take care to uncheck the 200 bucks worth food & drinks that they want me to buy. Why i’m still trying .. INOX tickets are priced twice over for the same show.
Is virtuality real?
November 5th, 2008 | Ro24 hours in a day. 14 hours in front of the notebook. But it is a tossup if i can type faster than I can write.
Work/play/friends & family are all online. Cisco’s thrilled about this human network. It means better & faster collaboration across the globe. Exposure like we’ve never seen before. So much that I dont realise all the times it rain’s in my city but I can see the weather in Oklahoma. I talk to my friends everyday but I do not know it best when they say nothing at all.
Work solutions have been made easier with the net but the difference between virtual creativity and creative virtuality is but a blur.
Music/movies/sitcoms/forums/radio only do more to keep me glued to the notebook.
- Swivel chair Potato
Reggae takes on Hip-hop
August 18th, 2008 | Rothis time at the Bird’s Nest, Beijing. There is a silent war brewing on the olympic tracks between USA and Jamaica for sprinting supremacy. This year, after 50, that war has been won fair n square by the laid-back Jamaicans, what with both the fastest man and woman this year, Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser,hailing from the Caribbean island. That’s not all, the second and third fastest women, Kerron Stewart and Sherone Simpson were also Jamaicans. All this with lesser facilities and money and power-enhancing drugs than the Americans, Europeans and Chinese.
Sands of Time
August 4th, 2008 | RoThe e-mailbox. Me and Ammu had a whole lot of fun poring over mails we’d sent each other ages ago. Was just like reading a journal. We were surprised at some incidents we’d described in detail in the emails but had so long forgotten we didnt even recall them. Some insignificant and amusing. Yet some that we were glad to remember.
The internet 2.0. At least a half dozen blogs I might’ve started and started yet another after a stop-lazy-gap so that it may have no traces of neglect.
All footprints in the e-sands of time.
my set of 32 pimple-free teeth
August 4th, 2008 | RoThe high returns on getting well-flossed teeth, twice a day, one earrly morn is the risk I face-washed. Toothpaste and face soap both in tube, side by side – no more.
