Month: February 2008

A Day Without Coffee

- Roshan

This is about yesterday and not today. As I was sick and all pukey, I didn’t have anything to drink, just little sips of water. I was advised not to drink any coffee and maybe to have lemon tea in the late evening if I was feeling much better. I didn’t have the tea as I do not really like it and I didn’t have any coffee at all yesterday. I wanted to, you know, but my situation didn’t warrant it and I kept away from it.

No coffee for an entire day, 24 hours! What was that like? For a guy who usually has between 3 to 5 cups on a daily basis, it is strange not to have any at all. I was tempted to have atleast one black cup of coffee but I stayed away just by thinking about all the puking that I did. However, today it was back to normal – 4 cups.

Coffee, let you and me never stay apart for so long again.

Iron Man Movie

- Roshan

Ok this movie will officially be the most anticipated & eagerly awaited super hero comic turns to movie for me! Yes of all time. Even more than Superman, Spider-Man christmas in wonderland movie & Batman. Why? I dunno but the moment I read about this happening, I went back to my childhood where I’ve read a few Iron Man comics and it just seems a better suited (no pun intended) super hero for me at the time. He may not be my all time favourite (that is the Flash) but still I am actually excited by the news about the movie.

The movie is directed by Jon Favreau and stars Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark a billionaire industrialist who builds the iron suit as a means of escaping from Afghanis terrorists, who had captured him. Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrance Howard, Jeff Bridges (as the villain Iron Monger) and Samuel L Jackson also star in the movie, which is to be released by May. My only question on the casting is : Robert Downey Jr as a super hero? Don’t get me wrong, I like him and his acting. But I just never imagined him as a super hero who saves the day by beating the bad guys! Oh well, I’m sure the movie will rock though.

Pukefest 2008

- Roshan

I just can’t believe it!

Ok, let me fill you in the story. I was hard at work yesterday, arranging things for the session that our clients are going to take all the employees of my company through. Its a 4 hour session and the person from the client will be coming for 10 days and take a session each. We have around 420 staff in our company and so it isn’t the easiest task to organize things. Since my boss is away in Bangalore for a few days on official business, I tried doing everything I can to keep things ready for Monday. I got almost everything organized, and the two minor things left can wait until Monday morning. I sent all the mails and lists and stuff.

A couple of the newly promoted guys wanted to treat 3 of us, so they waited until 7:15 pm when I finished and we headed for the bar at Hotel Sea Gate. We ordered some vodka, 7 up and soda and one guy had beer. We had some beef to go along with it. After a few drinks, I was unsteady on my feet and headed to the loo to take a piss. A couple of minutes later, I puked all over the wash basin there.

Another guy, the host, was also sick and we then went down to catch an auto for Neil & me to come back home. It must have been past 10:30 or so by then. I puked a little on the ground while waiting for the auto and then puked twice more on the way home. Each time ofcourse, the driver stopped by the side so that I could puke properly. I felt like crap. I reached home and fell right into bed, after taking off my clothes and washing myself ofcourse. I slept fitfully until 4 am when I ran to the bathroom and puked again. I tried going back to sleep but it was of no use.

I puked a total of 10 times last night and today combined and by the end it was just water. I tried drinking some soda as I was building gas in me but a few sips brought forth another round of puking. Finally I got some medicine prescribed by an uncle who is a doctor and the security guard of my building got it for me. The meds calmed me down and I slept the entire morning away. In the afternoon I took a little ‘kanji’ (rice & water) and about 90 minutes back I had two dry toasts as I have feeling hungry. I am so tired and I had a nasty headache as well. I’ve never puked this much before and it was terrible. I think it was probably food poisoning or something.

Argh, I never want to go through that again. Not for a million bucks!

Thinner

- Roshan

I just finished reading Stephen King’s novel Thinner, written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. If you haven’t read the book or watched the movie based on this work, I suggest you go read it. The book is written in a compelling page turner of a style that even people, who don’t like King’s books or horror in general, will not be able to put the book down.

the scalphunters online The book is about an obese lawyer who accidently kills an old gypsy woman when he is distracted by his wife. The lawyer is acquitted but the gypsy’s old father puts a curse on the lawyer by saying the word ‘thinner’. The lawyer starts losing weight day by day, despite eating even more, until it finally seems like he is going to waste away. The worried and rapidly thinning lawyer must now go on the trail of the gypsies to get the old man to reverse the spell and he is willing to beg & plead for it to be reversed. But at what cost?

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Compelling, riveting, scary and a must read!