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The First 24

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Yeah I have been up for the past 24 and I hope to be awake for for the next 24 too.  I just cant sleep. If I shut my eyes I feel like a car is going to run over me, HEAD ON!!! Scary Shit. I have not had nightmares like this in a while so I am enjoying it while it lasts. I have had suggestions to pop sleeping pills but I think if I remove my lenses for a bit I should be fine. I am not FB’ing or twittering or Gtalking or doing any of that shit. I am just sitting here browsing the internet and doing some pending work and yeah ranting on my blog. Please don’t give me suggestions on how I should try and sleep. I am fine the way I am. I just hope to be in a condition to get to work tomorrow.and complete the next 24

P.S. : I have been awake for 72 hrs non stop But that was 5 years back and it was a fitter version of me. Do you think I can beat my record???

Update I did Twitter after all. Click Here to see me my twits

Eat the Words

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Have been excited about the food walk happening on the 10th. Just wondering if there will be anyone who will get that plate of mollaga Bajjis. Anyhow after a long meeting today (no there will not be any specifics about the meeting) a few friends and me decided to go drink some coffee and maybe eat something. The closest Coffee day was the one in Purasawalkkam. Cafe Coffe day Purasawalkkkam was were I used to frequent before I joined FindNearYou.com NO one disturbs you and Ganesh the guy who works the evening shifts would just keep refilling espressos. Some good memories there.

So a visit to CCD today was NICE!!! Ordered some Sandwiches polished them off in minutes. It would have made the Earl of Sandwich proud.(Don’t ask me how!!!) So my greedy stomach wanted to have some more to eat. So we called this guy who serves us there and I asked for a Sandwich while another friend asked for a Wrap. (How do they come up with such names for food) 

The guy who should have taken the order, simply said “Sorry Sir, There is just one piece left” I was like “So what’s the problem?” and he says “No Sir if that part of the food display counter is empty, our manager would be a very unhappy man and might even take me to task” I was dumbstruck to even say anything. Must be one helluva DUMB Stupid Moron Manager. Why would I not wanna sell what I have? I am clueless at the moment. if anyone from the Cafe Coffee Day Management or CCD enthusiasts wanna answer ‘why someone would have a standing order like that?’ Please lemme know my mind wants to know.

I Walk, Talk and Most of All EAT Food

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Well, I was wondering how I love to eat so much food? I am just fattening by the day and the Doctors have threatened that I will have all kinds of diseases and die a dreadful death. But I really give two shits about what doctors say. (I think I am like a grandfather of mine. He really did not bother about what doctors told him.) If something tastes and smells good it should be tasted first and if you don’t die immediately you should savour and eat lots of it.

Anyways while we were at the last Blogoholics Meet (6th one to be precise) We found that all of us loved to eat not the Chips made by an MNC or the drinks which are nothing but sugared water. We loved what Vasant Govind got for us. Udacha Kadalai Muttai does not have an equivalent in English and it is an awesome snack.

Anyhow since a few people wanted to go eat street food we @ Blogoholics Anonymous decided to have a Blogoholics Anonymous Food Walk. The Idea is to Walk, Talk, Eat and most of all Blog. I will even tell you some humourless jokes. (Yeah I Love them, Sathya will tell you that) You can RSVP Here. or you can mail me here aravind@aravindkumar.com Incase you have issues getting to Mint Street you can call me on +919894312787

SO on January 10th 2008, Saturday @  1730hrs in  Mint Street some of us are going to be walking talking eating.(I will be Live Blogging) If you think it sounds good and that your mouth is dripping like a leaky piece of plumbing  please do join us. And for those of you who love molagga Bajji I will treat you to a plate if you answer this question. 

Why did the Sardarni Keep Staring at the Pack of Orange Juice???Leave your answers as a comment.

Did you know : That the Color RED sends a signal to the brain which in turn let’s your stomach think you are hungry. (My Mouth is Watering as I write this. Off to lay my hands on some sweets)

Know What You Eat

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Hey I am back just as I promised. Where else would I go? Though I did get blog pangs I did not blog about random things just because I promised myself that I would not. This is a post from one of my previous blogs eatem.blogspot.com
If any of you have any requests on what should be written please feel free to mail me. My Email address is in the side bar. You can call me also. Number is in the Side Bar too.
Cheers!!! And New Year Wishes for all of you and now moving on to the post.
Over the course of several centuries our food habits have undergone a drastic change. We have looked towards the west for approval of our food facts. The western civilization has commanded the information we get. But do we really know what we are eating. I am not a scientist nor have I researched or published about these topics. It is merely out of interest that I have taken to gathering information about knowing what I eat.
In today’s era of globalization we look for maximum food production by using optimum resources (land, water etc…). But even though we have tried several techniques to maximize our food production we have failed miserably to support the population. There has been shortages in food grains and pulses the world over in recent times.
Scientific knowledge has always found ways around the problem. But what is the true solution???? Are we ready to accept the fact that, what we eat today is not only harmful to our health but is also harmful to the very existence of any being, living or non living.
Even though Organic Food is becoming a very fashionable term these days, it is again a scientific way of farming with set rules and organizations to certify the produce. But it is better than eating a whole lot of chemical growth induced food.
So know what you eat. Because what we eat, determines what we become.

Bloggers, a Broken Bridge and the Sunset.

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Hey Bloggers. I was on a Blog Break and wanted to write about food and stuff related to that but then I have so much running through, so much I wanna say that Here I am…

Today was the 6th Blogoholics Anonymous Meet. I have been to every one of them and I have invariably not spoken about blogging nor have we said anything that has to do with blogging. AA or Alcoholics Anonymous is about Quitting the practice but Blogoholics is about Fun about meeting new bloggers and see where the blog world is going.

Anyways I have been asked to get the blog addresses of people who attended today. Suprisingly I realized that I don’t have some of them on my blog Roll. But Yeah I will have them there soon.(Dai Nee romba Lazy da)

We had a total of 15 Blogoholics. Here they are.

Yuvi Panda a.k.a Yuvaraj Pandian a.k.a Paparazzi Mandaya Goes Crazy with the Camera. Check What what he has done to me. Grrrrr

Jolly Roger you were lots of fun. We have to catch up sometime during the week. If you have the time.

Divia runs two blogs Princess of God and Dr.JC’s Classroom A BIO GEO Chemist Well she was asked by Arisa the Japanese Photographer to pose for her and she was like I will only pose with my Sunglasses off. I hope to get a copy of that photo from Arisa. But Divia How did you manage to Study Biology Geology and Chemistry. Biology was my personal “Hate Subject in school”

Lemonade she was like… No Forget it I will not say it. Sathya has a lot to say about her. Lemme not steal his thunder…I think she is a sport and will make a wonderful designer.

Sudamshu I think he speaks Tamil with an accent I have never heard of before. It is great to hear him speak the language. He has gotten a new Canon 450D and I am sure he has got lots of photos. Waiting for them da. And Try doing Tamil Podcasts I am sure it will be a hit.

Gautam Gurumurthi Machi again two blogs http://ducoergosum.wordpress.com/ and http://www.orcaeita.blogspot.com/ you are the man. Wait till I get a handle bar too. You are fun by default. We are supposed to have been running a Mottai Boss Club on Facebook

Varun Shridhar a.k.a the Aussie Bugger stopped writing when he went to Australia. He says the Women in Australia have turned off his writing Skills.

Vasant blogs at http://vasanthgovind.blogspot.com and also at http://learner-tops.blogspot.com/ How many of you you know he even existed. He was like the Observer. Quiet and taking it all in. He says he is observing and learning. Hey Thanks for the Urundais. Awesome man.

Dilip Muralidaran wanted to take Narain’s trip as usual I wish he had for the benefit of the new comers. It would have been fun.

SriVatsan was the Tall Guy who was jumping off the broken bridge and having fun in his own way.

Joel Suganth – He was the guy who was photographing one and all. A Brilliant Visual Artist. I wish he did play the flute. Some of us missed it.

Arun Ganesh an Open Street Maps Evangelist is a guy who has roamed the streets of Chennai and is behind the Bus Routes Project on Open Street Maps. He has Interesting Quizzes about Chennai City.

Aswin Anand Machan please dont join with that Yuvi Fellow. He will Spoil You. Avan Romba Kettavan. Ha ha ha ha

Dhruva a Lawyer a RJ and an avid traveller

Will have to get Dhruva’s Blog addresses Will have them out tomorrow.

Thanks to all you Blogoholics.

I just hope and wish I did not miss anyone out. If I did please excuse my lack of memory I am getting old.

Broken Bridge is an awesome place I loved the sunset and also the fact that we took over the entire end of broken Bridge People were afraid to walk past us. Thanks to the blogoholics who bought Stuff to eat and drink. (Oh I bought the drinks) Anyways now I know that the path to the broken bridge is filled with a Kuppam and sad part is Dilip and Arun encountered some unfriendly forces there. Please avoid going there after dark simply because of the reason that cops chase you out of the place.

Those of you who missed the meet No Issues we have one every month. join our Facebook group

Update : Now we have our own place set on the web www.blogoholics.in

or mail us at blogoholic@blogoholics.in and we will keep you posted about when and where the next meet is happening. Cheers People.

Hobbes the Tiger – My Friend

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I am crazy about dogs. It is not like I hate Cats. Cats are cool in a Cartoon strip. But Dogs are cool in real life. Dogs understand people better than cats. I have written about relationships with so many people, But why did I not realize till I read this post that I should write about my now gone Doggy friend, Hobbes.

Hobbes named after the Tiger from the strip Calvin and Hobbes. Anyways Hobbes is a yellow Labrador who I took care of during my days in a lonely town with hardly any friends to talk to. He was a jolly good fella with mischief written all over him. He would climb all the way to my first floor apartment but would refuse to get down. (I later realized that the fella feared heights.) He would go chasing other street dogs. But he was shit scared of Bulls and the best part he would go after women. I don’t know why he would do that but he would really chase women. His favourite thing was watching what I did on my computer. He did not like television and better still he would lie in my office the entire day in the comnfort of the Air Conditioner and refuse to budge.

Anyways we had to part ways and he was given away by my dad to a friend of his. I think I should go visit him one of these days. He has apparently fathered puppies. I got him for free and I gave him off free. Yeah Ketaki keep looking for that free puppy you are bound to get one your way.

Looking Back…

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When I started blogging in January 2008 (Was it before that. I keep forgetting. Anyways whatever it was) I used to visit Blogs like crazy. I used to leave comments on a regular basis. One of the first blogs that I ever read regularly was NEVERMIND (her posts, they are funny) Then I found Ouch My Toe written by a guy who calls himself Jammy Damn funny guy. There have been so many others who I eventually started reading but my most favourite haunts are listed in my blog roll.

I mention these two blogs because they have seen me through a time when I was destructing my life. They kept me sane. Not only have I made a lot of great friends but I have also had a career change, started a group called Blogoholics Anonymous with this Dude and this Dude and this Lady.

The ride has been awesome upto this point. I am going to see this through.

At Work – Seriously!

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You people must know about Sathya the Domar Dawg who come up with all kinds of Mokkais but sometimes we do a few things seriously. Like Work for example…Yeah we guys are serious about what we do. But we also enjoy what we do. One thing we guys would hate is a sad office with everyone taking everyone and everything seriously. Trust me, it is always better if we are ourselves. Funny!!!

Anyways we guys are starting a new Serious(No, it is not a typo) and we call it At Work – Seriously. Click here to check out the audio podcast at Sathya’s blog.

The People

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The People are who are important. What else is important in life. Relationships are important. But do realise that for some it is these very relationships which screw up their lives.  Right now everything is so damn confusing.

What if someone you had a relationship and ended it conveniently decides to come back and haunt you??? Are they the ghost people???

Bleddy Relationships, Bleddy Ghosts and Bleddy People!!!

Diwali – The True Story

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It is that time of the year when you get to stuff your face with sweets. Anyways here is to not wishing you a Great Diwali!!! Why?Am I freakin’ out of my mind? No No. As I say there is so much confusion about Diwali. See there are so many stories behind it. Here is the most ridiculous one I heard.

There was a Asura (Demon) known as Mahasura. He was a real wicked Dude living in the mountains. Eating shit loads of stuff. He was a terror in the neighbouring villages. So the villagers headed by our Panchayat chief (Nattammai Vijaykumar) signed a treaty called The Mahasura Treaty. Find the conditions of the Treaty below

The Mahasura Treaty

  1. The villagers will send a chauffeur driven bullock cart with three Massive Balls of Rice to the Mountains.

  2. In Return I Mahasura will not come to the village and eat random people.

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Mahasura a.k.a The Wicked Dude

Nattammai Vijayakumar

So the villagers (under the explicit orders of Nattammai Vijayakumar) started sending a chauffer driven bullock cart with three massive food Balls everyday. As the Days went by they could see a new peak in the moutain range. It was the bones of the bullocks and the chauffeurs which was piling up along with all the shitting going on.

So one day Mr Bhima (Not to be confused with Bhim Boy from Michael Madana Kama Rajan, though he did play Bhima in the Mahabharatha Serial) who was in exile with his family members (i.e 4 brothers, one mother and the common wife) found out that Nattammai Vijayakumar is hand in glove with Mahasura. So he kills the Nattammai, and tells the villagers that he will be the chauffeur this time. His Mom asks him not to go. He does not care. The Common Wife pleads, cries and begs him not to go as none of the other brothers are as good as him in bed. (Yudhishtar can’t fantasize because that’s living a lie, Arjun is always aiming for the spot but he is only good with arrows, Nakul and Sahadev are really losers and can’t do much.)

But being the hero he is Bhima goes with the cart. and once he reaches the asura’s cave he realizes that he is very hungry. So he starts gobbling the massive food balls. But while he is eating the third food ball Mahasura wakes up and stands on top of the mountains and sees him food being eaten by some Mahmud Ali Look alike.

There is a huge fight, but each time Bhima tears Mahasura’s body apart he says some magic and the halves join together.

Bhima may have been good in bed

But bleddy no brain in his head.

Once out of frustration he throws the halves in opposite directions. Now body halves got confused and could not join. So Mahasura died and to celebrate his death we eat all those sweets!!! Well this is something I heard from a very unreliable source but he argued till the end that this is the real deal.

Yeah I have never heard this story being connected to Diwali. But Diwali is supposed to be celebrated on a New Moon Day(Night when the moon can’t be seen, namma moon samy can see it though) Why is it celebrated on the previous day in TamilNadu?

After winnig the war in Sri Lanka Rama boarded the special BJP jet plane from Colombo but as the flight was passing the Arignar Anna International Airport it developed some technical snag (Flights were free gifts to the party by Air Deccan) and had to land in Chennai better known as Madras then ;) Rama and his team were made to stay at The GRT Raddisson and the people of TamilNadu heard of the dark dude and the fair lady and visited him there. The Sivakasi Firecracker Manufacturers Association(clever people that they are) told the Tamil People that bursting crackers was how a hero has to be welcomed. So that’s how fireworks came into existence.( No it was not the Chinese for Godsake!!!Please stop saying Chinese for everything) All this happened one day before Rama got to Ayodhya. So we celebrate it one day before the North Indians.

Also apparently the Tamilians don’t eat meat on the New Moon Day. So that’s when a conspiracy was hatched to celebrate Diwali one day ahead of the real festival.

If you have any Diwali stories. Please leave a comment I sure love listening to them and blogging about them.