Monthly Archives: September 2008

It is not Yelagiri…It is Athanavoor.

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As it dawned on Sunday in Yelagiri I realized a lot of things. My Paragliding dreams had crashed. Yes Yelagiri has a Adventure Sports Club which has quite some interesting things to do. But Paragliding was not happening yesterday. But to make yourself useful, the best things to do would be to meet people talk to them and see what you can gather out of the sleepy town with a lot of stray dogs and awesomely tasty fruits. (The Jackfruits from this town is great.)

Nothing much was done on Saturday either. Though I learnt to play Blackjack, Poker, 3 Cards and other card games sometime during the night.

Earlier on Saturday Sharan and I had taken the bus to the hill station before which we had waited for the bus at Jolarpettai while listening to a girl talk on one of those wayside Tea Stall’s Pay Phone. It was one of the most interesting speech I had heard in a while. Though I would have loved to hear the other side of that conversation too.

She was getting guys and girls ready for some programme. She was asking “Are the Girls Good Looking?” “Are they thin? because people either ask for thin girls or they ask for plump girls.” The guys were never discussed. She was loud and called herself Sindhu. Though I did assume what programme she was conducting I can assure you that it was not a Doordarshan Programme.

Back to my Sunday’s dashed paragliding dreams. though I did miss my adventure for the weekend I was very happy when I boarded the Banglore Express back to Chennai. I did something that I normally don’t, I crossed 4 railway tracks 2 railway platforms and got into the train from the wrong side of the platform. (What Platform actually there was no platform?)

Bleddy Adventure…

Ctrl + D – Bookmark yourself to Glory

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Bookmarks have been around for a long time. Even before the web decided to happen. But it is strange that today we have so many kinds of bookmarks in this era of web 2.0 that we have forgotten teeny weeny Mr. Bookmark. When I was in school bookmarks was one of the most cool things to have. It had a fan following of students teachers and parents alike.

Some students had the unfair advantage of having stay at home moms. Moms who would cover their notebooks neatly. Label the Notebooks and then stick a bookmark to a thin ribbon and paste it in the top inner spine of the book. Some of the mother even got the initials of their children drawn on the bookmark. I always found it ridiculous that parents would go through such trouble so that the children can show off their unique bookmarks to their classmates. I thought that bookmarks were too sissy and that they did not have the intended cool factor. So I never had one. (I Could effectively turn pages.)

So the parents loved bookmarks, my friends had so many bookmarks all stuck to their notebooks and the best part was they came with all kind of designs and I remember Tom and Jerry, Popeye, Asterix, TinTin and so many more and the lady teachers simply loved bookmarks. Because they said that it made life easy for them when they corrected the students Home Work(HW). Most teachers would be pissed off at me for not having placed a bookmark at the appropriate pages. Anyways there are too many bookmark stories. Basically I hated bookmarks when I was a primary school student at Don Bosco, Egmore.

Something happened at work which reminded me of bookmarks. We were in a meeting and  we had a discussion about bookmarks and how we could use them and Amousia man who is a SEO Specialist( He is brilliant at his job) says “We are already bookmarking all that needs to be bookmarked. Amousia man is too focussed to even understand what is happening in a world outside his SEO world. Wake up Amousia Man and smell the roses. there is more to life than just Ctrl + D .

Sex, Drugs and Rock’n'Roll

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Life is short so let’s rock it all the way to the end. But mind what you are rocking because if you rock the boat too hard you may end up in a sharks stomach.

It is sad to know that Music (Rock’nRoll) is associated with a certain lifestyle. There are supposed to be the rock stars themselves, then there are supposed to be the groupies(apparently the rock stars rock them) then there is the Drugs (which supposedly rock the rock stars)  So to put a better perspective

Drugs rock ROCK STARS

ROCK STARS rock the Groupies

No!!! The Groupies don’t rock ROCK MUSIC no way they can!!!

so

Rock Music which is just amazing does not fit into the Drugs and or the Sex Culture. It is Drugs and Sex which got themselves fitted into Rock Music.

I have been to a few rock shows thanks to FindNearYou.com, RockandRaga.in and Unwind Center and the best part is I have been on stage with the rockers (I was not playing music, of course not) taking photographs and shooting Videos. It is incredible to see the kind of energy and talent that is required for the rock stars to play their music. They need all the energy which cannot be given by Sex or Drugs.

Narain and me are going to be at Underground 2008. Look out for the bald guy and the thin tall guy with their respective cameras.

WeP Printer Manual Story

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I was once told that the best DMP printer that I could lay my hands on was a WeP LX 800DX printer. As usual I never bothered to verify their claims and just got it. For people who have never had to know what a DMP is, it is a Dot Matrix Printer. Yes the one which goes keeech… keeech, kich…keech…keech, keech and takes about 2 minutes to print a single fanfold page.

Careless fellow I am I lost the printer manual. So I emailed the folks at WeP asking them for a manual.

from Aravind Kumar <kumarbac@gmail.com>
to wep.dmp@wepindia.com

date

Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:45 PM
subject Need Printer Manual….
mailed-by gmail.com

Hey,

I own a WeP LX 800DX Dot Matrix Printer. I have lost the user manual for this printer.Would you kindly Send me a Copy either as an attachment or as a link from where I can download it from.

Regards,
Aravind Kumar B.

I got this reply

Ramdinsanga Saiawi – Corporate – Product – Marketing <Ramdin.S@wepindia.com>
to Aravind Kumar <kumarbac@gmail.com>

date

Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:13 PM
subject RE: Need Printer Manual….

Sir,

Can you send us your mailing address & contact no.? We will have a copy sent to you.

Regards,

Ramdin

Yes I did reply to them today

Hi God,

Dont you think it hilarious that I would still own a piece of crap like your printer. more funny that you would be so courteous and reply to my mail after March, April, May, June, July, August, September and you ask me for my address. Are you sure you are not using the Indian Postal Service to send Emails.

Rest assured I am putting this right away in my blog. Highlighting the Turn Around Time you take and you want my postal address to snail Mail a copy of the printer Manual.

Just to let you know I trashed that piece of shitty printer..

Best Wishes…

Aravind

P.S.: Nothing Personal it is just Business

These guys are Freakingly Funny. Why would they remind me of a piece of shitty printer whose manual I don’t have.. I am just an average Indian Customer you Corporate Honchos. You can SHAFT me all you want and I will usually take it lying down.

P.S. : I got pissed off because these guys are still asking me for my postal address and contact number so they can send the printer manual to some of my descendants. Hold on to it guys who knows it maybe a collectors item then…

Girls and Women are complicated…

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You could also call this Part 2 of Girls Colleges are dumb. Well you can call this what you want I really would be happy if you came up with an alternate title for this post.

I was surfing You Tube this morning and I normally look for Stand up Comedy shows. So I was watching this clip of Carlos Menci…

http://www.youtube.com/v/rzsfIA3YKvs&hl=en&fs=1

Funny guy, he says what he says with a lot of courage and gets people to laugh. But I don’t know if he has feminists wanting to murder him. I would love to see if I can get away with this.

Anyways basically girls/women are complicated. Read Narain’s experience with a 7 year old called Yasmin. Poor fellow freaked out with the things she said. I really doubt if a boy would have said the things Yasmin said.

Just like Carlos says women have too many things on their mind. Sometimes it is very nice. But most times it gets on my nerves to know that they are thinking of something/someone else when they are talking to me.

So coming back to the college culturals… Did I mention that I was not allowed to go out for lunch and worse still was they did not have a Restroom for guys.( Restroom is such a stupid word, whoever coined that must have slept while taking a poop or maybe while standing at the urinal to take a leak) I was offered by a girl that she would stand guard while I took a nice grand leak in the ladies room. (Ofcourse I refused.) What’s worse I was complaining to a few lady professors about how we were not being allowed to go out for lunch or any break for the matter of fact and this lady professor looks at me and says “Oh, they probably think that you are a college student” I was like “What, are you kidding? this must be some kind of joke” The professor just left with a grin whose meaning I am still deciphering.

All said and done, My friend Amirtha was not let into the college. Fishing Embarassing. But Narain who also happens to be her friend somehow managed to get her in. The question I had and still have is “Why won’t they let a girl into a girls college?” Men please dont attempt answers to these questions because we are not meant to answer them. Women please do leave your answers.Men please ask more questions.

Cheers!!! People. I have so many Girls College Stories. Someone of them give me nightmares. (Just kidding about the nightmares.)

I am Looking

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My Dear Blogizens, Faithful Readers,

I am currently getting crazier with all the work that I think I will be doing. (Mental Pleasure.) I am looking out for people (Men/Women/Boys/Girls/Children) anyone at all, to pose for my Camera. If you don’t believe that I am a good photographer, Click here. If you are interested, let me tell this outright I am a poor man and cannot pay money (coffee, food and talking should not be a problem). But yes we can do something about the money in the long term. If you are still interested you can either mail me (kumarbac@gmail.com) or better still call me (+919894312787)

Cheers!!!

Aravind