Thursday, December 23, 2004

Its been a while !

Its been a while since I wrote anything . Basically attributed to my own innate inborn inertia and laziness and the tendency to procrastrinate on things that should be done much faster. So a possible new year resolution could be : I shall blog atleast once a week but again considering my track record its going to be a tough ask on myself.

Anyways I blog this from the location from which the nickname "madrasi" originates, Madras the city of 3 summers , and currently in the winter of summers. Am here because of certain family reasons, and promptly fell ill with a nice flu. Receiving brickbats at my appearance (forgot the art of shaving for the past month) , countless arguments for a smaller waistline from one and all (the one thing that unites my considerably large family who disagree on everything else inclusive of the kanchi seers arrest ) and generally staying away from the computer for a while inspite of promising some research work to a couple of guys. !

Went and watched Swades at Satyam , an eminently likeable movie thankfully without the matkas and jhatkas of a typical bollywood movie. The only sad part about the whole experience was the presence of the innumerable silk saris ads and gold jewellery ads. It appears as though the whole of Madras is obsessed with silk saris and gold in general . T Nagar should be rechristened , Thyagaraya "Pattu Javuli" Nagar (Pattu = Silk in Tamil ). Things certainly have improved here except for the meters of the "humble" madras autorickshaw and the state of the water . ( it just gets redder and redder) ...:-) ...


Well enjoying the music season and the associated arrival of audio tracks in the music stores. Had fun in obtaining a few cassetes for the daily drive from home to office and back :-) .... Did some time pass in Landmark . A visit to Madras is never complete without a visit to the Landmark store in Spencers which puts everyone else to shame ! Looking at it am reminded of Charles Trumper's Barrow in "As the Crow Flies " by Jeffrey Archer , though the Barrow would have sold everything that Landmark did and tons more :-) ...

More on the travails and travels in Madras tomorrow as I go down south to Adyar and the associated locales.