Of this and that ....


These days, life is whizzing by and I have more to do than I have time for. Here are some snapshots of the world that I see and experience ....


India seems to be doing well at Trentbridge (Thank God for small mercies).


I need to find a new song to play on my guitar ... there's only so many times I can pound out the odd Pink Floyd/Coldplay.


I finished reading "Face to Face with Ramana Maharishi" ..... great book. My plan to visit Arunachala at Thiruvannamalai has not yet materialized though.


I am currently reading "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". Nice little book. The chapter on the inception of taxes is quite revealing and amusing, especially when you see that taxing the proletariat/middle classes these days is simply the Capitalists applying a Commie stunt squarely back at the Commies who wanted the rich taxed to begin with. Karma never seems to fail us.


I should be traveling again .... sometime this month to the west-side of the USA .... the tranquil Pacific beckons and I look forward to my rendezvous with it. I never get tired of saying that I was a fish in my last life. Probably a whale... or a dolphin ... a shark perhaps.


I have been surprisingly regular at running, and have dropped some weight ... I can comfortably
pound the earth for 35 minutes non-stop at a reasonable speed. On the downside, I have picked up the odd knee niggle which I hope will go away soon.


Work is piling up and my brain to-do list has hit the alert button following its last overflow.


I ate far too many hot wonderful jalebis yesterday (my favourite sweet) after a very long time .... I really shouldn't have.


And finally, in between watching the test match I channel surfed to find a bronzed Aishwarya Rai, in Dhoom2. I'm glad I wasn't dragged into D2 like I was into D1. Another one of those stooopid movies that we just cannot seem to get enough of. For her part, Aishwarya looked quite fabulous, but everything else about what little I saw of the movie ... the script, the dialogues, the acting, was so terrible that I wondered (once more) how any self respecting individual can be party to this crap !!! And Aishwarya would have been so much better off keeping her mouth shut.