Trainspotting

I saw the movie last night, not because it was directed by Danny Boyle, but because it is based on drugs and the etc. The movie opens and closes with quotes that'll keep you thinking, I loved this movie.

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life . . . But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? - Mark Renton (Opening)

The truth is that I'm a bad person. But, that's gonna change - I'm going to change. This is the last of that sort of thing. Now I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm gonna be just like you. The job, the family, the fucking big television. The washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electric tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisure wear, luggage, three piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing gutters, getting by, looking ahead to the day you die. - Mark Renton (Closing)

There's nothing much more to say. If you have this novel, please lend it to me, I promise to return it back.

Lingerie Consulting

The, well, I read about it, on, you know, internet, Hmmm, women, think it's necessary, aaah, I dont know, It's aa, need ?

I've read about innovation and entrepreneurship, experienced a little of both, who ever came out with this, DAMN impressive. Hyd opens itself to a new level of care and comfort.

Whats the difference between being beautiful and being pretty ?

Being beautiful: Beautiful is when, a guy looks at a girl and describes her in one word.
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Being pretty: Pretty is when, when a girl looks at the same girl that the guy has seen a minute before and describes her in one word.

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For Nalini

For Nalini,

Who is still attempting to decipher Vamsi's statement.... This is not a descriptive on how that statement came about... that would be self explanatory....

I hope you've been to hyderabad sometime... if u were, I am sure you would have noticed these....how do i describe them??? these small restaurants... i wouldnt call them that... indeed,if you forgive my romantic idealization of hyderabad, they are like the cafes of paris... nice wonderful places where you are served flavoured tea -"maska maarke"... I doubt if bangalore or any other place in India has an equivalent of hyderbad's irani chai or irani tea stall...

These are the places where blue collar workers, labourers, bill collectors and all the bhadralok ie proletariat of hyderabad converge, in the hope of tea, smoke and entertaining conversation... It is not a place for us white collar types... I doubt if any one in my family ever had tea in an irani tea stall... or would even approve of the fact that I did it... We white collar bourgiouse(alright I am weak with spellings and the french are terrible with theirs....) prefer our tiffin centres, restaurants(tiffin 330-7 pm only) or as has beeen seen nowadays, the I am too hep for you because i work in an IT company and I make less then the Irani stall owner kinds always prefer CCD, Barista...(tea costs 55 bucks there...wtf!!!!)... I guess the wonderful thing abt it all - wrt us - is that we are supposed to belong to the white collars... not the bhadralok( its a bengali term for the proletariat!) and yet there we were, drinking tea, smoking fags (people at home, I doubt, still dont know abt it :D) and of course - discussing SPSS and Excel....

I guess this rag tag picture of amusing anecdotes could not have been complete without our mode of transport - A 4 lakh car!... I believe it is like some kind of rock music isnt it? the jarring sounds have a beauty of their own and become music... the hilarity and outright ridiculousness of the whole incident is wat makes it so wonderful!

Hope you could understand....

-ani

We've come in a Santro to an Irani cafe, had 2 irani chai's and Osmania biscuits and talked about SPSS, Microsoft Excel.

-Anirudh !

The bollywood effect

Most of us Indians learn our Hindi through movies. A fellow male colleague of 23, hailing from Andhra and identifying himself with the foregoing category of hindi learners, wants to invite his female Delhiite boss of 28 to the next client meet... He goes up to her and asks, 'Tu aati kya?'...


and he didn't know he'd committed a folly!

The betel leaf is one of the more exotic specimens of flora in India...Popularly referred to as the Paan patta in central and northern parts of the country, it is an efficient digestive, an object and mark of hospitality in old muslim khandaans of UP and Bihar, a delectable after dinner treat and a very interesting base for culinary experimentation. Try the following quick stuffings if you are bored of the conventional choona, supari do's:
1) Whipped milk cream and seedless cherries
2) strawberry sauce
3) Paan coated with hot melted chocolate
4) maybe melted white chocolate too
5) Thick sweet rabdi
6) ground dry fruits coated in honey

Its time the popular Indian delicacy was subject to a little innovation after all.