Travel Lessons Learned the Hard Way

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I do not like traveling at all. By that I mean long distance of over a few hours or overnight or a few days. I like seeing new places but I hate the actual travel part. I do not enjoying going in trains and prefer buses but they are not practical if you are traveling for more than an overnight journey. I just hate the smell of trains. And I hate the food & the beverages that they serve in Indian trains. I always dread going to the bathroom when I am traveling; it’s ok in a decent hotel room/service apartment but in smaller places or trains, yuck!

I also hate it when there are noisy families with screaming & crying kids as fellow passengers in buses or trains. Oh they can be a huge headache. I remember this one long bus ride; it was packed, I had to stand in the crowded bus, it was raining heavily so all the shutters were down, suffocating and these two kids were singing & shouting so loudly for an hour after which the proceeded to start crying for another 2 hours. I almost threw the parents and the kids outta the bus!

As for packing, I find that I always miss out on something and which I find out only when I reach my destination and unpack. I forget soap or toothpaste or a lungi or a towel or something. Once I forgot to pack socks! And I was there for 6 days so I ran out to buy some cheapo socks at the first chance I got. And sometimes it’s the other way round; I forget to collect all my stuff when I leave the place. I don’t care if it’s soap or toothpaste but anything else and it’s a real problem. I left my phone charger once in a hotel room but luckily someone got it back for me the very next day.

Pack enough and more stuff, keep water with you, keep snacks with you. Recheck your packing, perhaps even keep a check list (and in a total dork moment say a loud “check” each time you check things off your list). Be prepared for falling ill, getting a tummy upset and vomiting. Keep spare cash with you in a couple of different places just in case.

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The Cruelty Of Illness

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Two evenings ago my mother went with two other ladies, both family friends who my family have known for over 40 years, to visit another family friend. This 3rd lady is unwell and mostly bed ridden and has been unwell for a couple of years. However things have taken a turn for the worse. It is a nervous disorder which basically shuts down all functions, slowly one at a time. She first started losing her eyesight and then it started affecting her speech and her ability to move.  Her husband & son have hired a home nurse and two house keepers to take care of things at home while this lady has spent the last two years of her life in agony. For a long time she refused to let others see her, with ofcourse the exception of her immediate family. Other than her son Sujith aka Joji who is 2 years younger than me, she has a daughter Sapna who is a year older than me.

I grew up with Sapna and Joji till the age of 11. Since then I have seen them exactly 5 times, at parties and stuff. I’m sure they and their parents was there at my sister’s wedding in 1995 but I do not remember seeing them at that time. I think I saw their mother the last time in 2001. If you met this woman you would be struck by how beautiful, classy and what a wonderful person she is to talk to. She is kind, caring and everyone always comments on the fact that she is very energetic. She used to be involved in so many activities, other than with her husband’s business. She hosted parties for her friends and relatives and adored kids. I remember wondering, along with other people, how she always managed to look so young & pretty even as she became a grandmother – if you saw pictures of her & her daughter even 5 years ago, you’d be hard pressed to guess that they were mother & daughter.

And it is to this person that this awful illness had struck. There is no cure and complete paralysis is a certainty. My mother went to see her and had to excuse herself after a few minutes as she couldn’t hold back the tears from falling. She told me that to see her lying in this state is torture to everyone and she doesn’t get as to why this had to happen to a wonderful woman. I have no answers myself. Why does it have to affect someone so nice?

When I’m at My Best

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I’m at my best when I’m totally opposite from what I am right now – I am at my very worst. I’m at my best when I have a purpose, when I know what I am gonna be doing tonight, tomorrow and the days coming. I’m at my best when I’m relaxed and my mind is at ease and therefore I can concentrate on the task at hand and not worry about 10 different things at the same time when all my energy & focus should be on something that is truly important. I do my best work and best efforts during those times and I know I can truly shine at those opportunities. But they don’t always come your way.

I can remember a time when I had less tensions and those were the best times to make something work out. You always need support and good people working with you, especially your team and it’s something that can really work in your favour if you can guide them properly and unite them to work towards something as a team, with the same intentions. It’s hard but it’s worth the effort and the satisfaction that you will get from such a success is sweeter than anything else that you will ever get.

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Losing Touch with Old Friends

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I think we all do have friends who we couldn’t keep in touch with and look back and regret the fact that we couldn’t. I find it ironic that in today’s world of easy access to communication via phones, cell phones, SMS, MMS, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs etc we probably find it even more difficult to keep in touch with people. Is it just me or do you all agree? Here’s the situation, everyone is just so busy and unfortunately that is not gonna change anytime soon. But odd that I find lots of time to send 20 tweets that are read or can be read by 300 people atleast and I have met around 10 of them in real life & know what another 50 people look like through their pics that they post.

I studied with around 55 other students from grades 6 to 10 and I thought that I’d be lifelong buds with atleast 20 of them. I catch up with them on Facebook & the occasional email. From the ages of 16 to 23 I had some really strong friendships that I thought would last – I do not have contact with any of them! Friends I made since then are much easier to keep in contact with, I dunno why just is so. But I can tell you that I regret not keeping in touch with atleast 30 people, who I think had a lot to contribute to my life and experiences.

And believe it or not I also have a few online friends, ones I have never met in real life, that I regret not keeping in touch with. I wish I could have changed that. Sometimes with some people, it doesn’t matter that you have never met them or never will. They still are great friends and precious to you. I treasure the friends I have now – here and online. And I promise that I will try harder.

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Stargate Universe : Episode 31 “Deliverance”

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As we ended the previous episode, The Destiny is under heavy attack from the drones. Eli notes that there are hundreds of them, more than their one ship could ever hope to shoot down. Chloe tells Scott that she sent a signal to the Nakai, the blue aliens, who have been following them into this galaxy. Thanks to her signal, however, they now know where to look. Three Nakai ships drop out of hyperspace, as Greer accuses Chloe of betraying the humans. She denies it saying that she did it on purpose as it was the only chance that the crew had. No sooner does she say this when a lot of the drones start attacking the Nakai ships, indiscriminate in their targeting of any alien technology. Using this diversion to their advantage Destiny sets it’s way to the control ship, while Eli & Rush work on jamming the signals coming from it.

Destiny takes heavy damage on approach, but Rush and Eli succeed in jamming the drone signal. The momentary break is enough for Destiny to close the gap and fire on the Control Ship, obliterating it in a few shots. With the Control Ship gone, the drones are dead in space. Rush praises Eli for the idea. The Nakai were hit hard, losing two ships. The third seems to be heavily damaged. Now, the shields are down and they need a couple of hours to repair it before they can go into FTL. Meanwhile Telford has been in contact with the Ursini who claim that they didn’t trust Destiny to escape without fighting and hence took them straight to battle. However in trying to contact their brethren the Usini discover that they could very well be the last of their kind and another drone ship & a lot more drones are on their way towards them.

The crew bring a dormant drone on board in order to study it better and find a more permanent solution. But now the remaining Nakai ship block the way demanding help in dealing with the next wave of drones. Rush adds that this is a chance to cure Chloe. The aliens surely possess the ability to reverse what they’ve done to her, and the alternative is to put Chloe off the ship at the first opportunity. The aliens agree and although with the risk of the Nakai getting all information about Destiny from Chloe and not returning her, there is no other choice. Scott watches as two Nakai approach to take Chloe with them. She is brought back to Destiny by Scott in the shuttle and upon examination, she seems to show no signs of the infection. The new control ship & hoardes of drones arrive.

However a surprise is in store for the crew of the Destiny. They receive an apology note from the Ursini, who are making a suicide run at the control ship. Although their ship is destroyed before it could reach the target, the brief respite allows Rush & Eli to upload the new commands to the inactive drones; after learning about the inactive drone they brought to the ship, they programmed  new commands which set the drones on each other. With minimal shields, they head out to a bumpy FTP jump away from the battle.

Top Albums I Listened to While Growing Up

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I’m going to say growing up will be from the ages of 11 to 20. 11 is when I really got into music, the seeds of which were sown when I was 10 but by the age of 11 I had an identity. I was a rocker! Headbanger extra-ordinaire and proud of it. The guitar ruled my world and I wanted to be a rockstar.

During these years (from 1987 till 1996) I listened to a lot of Europe, Bon Jovi & Def Leppard. In particular the albums Final Countdown, Slippery When Wet, New Jersey, Pyromania & Hysteria. Metallica & Guns n’Roses were new finds for me in 1989 and I embraced the sounds to my ears, soul & heart. GnR Lies, Appetite For Destruction and the 1988 Metallica album And Justice For All were on constant playback on my stereo player. Poison would also soon become a favourite band of mine and the two albums I played a lot were Open Up & Say Aah & Flesh & Blood. I discovered Rush in 1992 and their Roll The Bones album is something that I worshiped.

Scorpions were a big band for me and I consider them to be a huge favourite – I had a greatest hits compilation album of theirs that was glued to my tape deck and ofcource Crazy World which came out in 1990. Jeff Healey, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Nirvans & Alice in Chains – all these bands/artists would become huge favs and I played them all the time. Aerosmith was a big attraction, a band I discovered in 1989 and whose albums always were played in my room. PUMP must have been played the most!

From 1993 till 96 the Crash Test Dummies breakout album God Shuffled His Feet was like a best friend. Blind Melon’s debut album was another great find. Ugly Kid Joe’s debut LP As Ugly As They Wanna Be & their first album America’s Least Wanted were solid gems that I played over and over again. Pearl Jam’s Ten, Vs & Vitalogy were always big favs then and now. No wonder they are my fav band.

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Home Is…

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Home means comfort and safety. It’s a feeling of belonging and of being secure in the fact that nothing can drive you out of there. It’s a place we run to when the big bad world gets us down. When things get too tiring and too much for us to handle. When it seems like the whole world is against you and nothing can go right. Or when you just need a break?

If you have a place to go to that feels like the answer to that, then it’s home. You can be with family small or huge or you can be living all alone. Home can be a modest house or a huge mansion. It can be a small one bedroom apartment or a huge loft with plenty of space to play football in. It can be a hole in the wall or a cardboard box. It can be a trailer or a house in a boat/yatch. It can be designed with the simplest of furniture, practical & cozy or it can be decked with the most expensive stuff you can find. Or it can a minimalistic and bare. As long as you find it to be yours, then it’s home.

It’s where you load up on goodies and relax. It’s where you put your feet up and the end of the day. It’s where you watch your movies, listen to your songs and where you build your dreams and your goals and create your fantasies. It’s a huge part of you. It defines you. Mine is a small apartment with 3 small rooms. I hate the colour of the walls, I hate the building and they could have done a much better job. But it’s home and it’s my retreat. It’s my rock and it’s my 4 walls & ceiling. It’s HOME!

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Unjust Cruel World Takes A Life

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A few days ago a neighbour’s daughter passed away. The girl was 16 years old. The big house she lived in is opposite our building, just a little to the right. If I threw a ball from my bedroom window, I could easily hit the outside walls of the house. Yet I didn’t go as I didn’t know any of the people in the household and I didn’t know the young girl.

She had some medical condition of which the details are vague but from what I know she died in the middle of the night after she had a brain aneurysm. She fell from her bed and someone found her and an ambulance was called. I heard the sounds of the ambulance sirens at night and wondered who it was that was being taken. I came to know the next day that it was this girl and that she had passed away in the early hours of the morning. She had a twin brother; from what I know of twins, he’s going to feel the loss more than anyone else in the family.

The family’s mourning was long and they had a lot of relatives & friends visiting them. See the family is a very rich one, based on the income that they get from a highly successful business and are sort of giants in their fields. Indeed they are the biggest in the state. Other than the huge house, they have a vacant lot opposite the house and an office building which has space for cultural events as well. Hence the number of visitors were huge and we had cars parked all over the area. Being christians they also had prayers going on throughout a particular day with the prayers being sung over mics that were fixed to PA systems and the whole area could hear it. Although I am saddened by the untimely death of a young person, I do hate this act of public mourning; mourn and mourn in peace but let others be.

Whenever a young person dies near me I always wonder why them and not me or you? I just can’t help but wonder as the “unjust” rule of nature of taking people at random and letting others live. Why this young woman who had clearly not yet been able to live out her dreams and do things that she would have wanted to do? Why not a hardened criminal, rapist, drug dealer, arsonist, spousal abuser, terrorist or murderer? Why this child? We will never know. It just isn’t right!

Lost Girl : New Show On The Supernatural

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Time for introducing a new tv series that I’ve been watching. Well quite new acually. Premiering in September of 2010, Lost Girl is a Canadian supernatural crime/drama series focusing on the life of a succubus Bo (Anna Silk) as she learns to control her abilities, help those in need, and discover the truth about her origins. Orphaned as a baby, Bo was raised by human adoptive parents who never knew about her power to steal people’s life force through their mouths with a kiss, to bewitch people with a touch, and to feed from sexual energy during intercourse. She herself was unaware of her powers & came to realize it later in life.

In the pilot episode Bo saves Kenzie, a human thief from being assaulted by a man an drains him of his life force. Bo later comes to know that she is one of numerous Fae, abnormal creatures who live among humans and who were often the inspiration for mythological & fairy tales. Like Dyson (Kristen Holden-Reid), a cop, who unknown to humans is a Fae who can transform himself into a wolf. When Bo’s presence becomes known to the Fae world, the elders ask her to choose a side; between the ‘light’ or the ‘dark’. Bo declares herself as a neutral, siding with the humans and deciding to start a detective agency with Kenzie, who has attached herself to Bo, and takes help from Dyson. She also starts a sexual relationship with both Dyson and Laurem (Zoie Palmer), a human doctor who is associated with the Light Fae, while searching for her origins & the truth behind her existence.

I’ve watched the first 3 episodes and I like it. The show has received mostly positive reviews and has that John Fawcett touch (he also directed the Ginger Snaps movie series). The settings look mostly sexy & glamourous and they’ve kept the green screen & CGI to minimum and realistic as possible on their budget. Plus there’s Anna, who as you can see her, is smooth as Silk and sexy as hell. She is one of those women who can make gay men to go straight & straight women to go gay! Habahabahaba. I’ve seen her in guest roles in some tv series and her 3 episode appearance in Being Erica. The first season had 13 episodes and season 2 is airing at the moment.

A Reality Show I’d Try Out For

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Indian Idol – but they only sing in Hindi and so no thanks. American Idol or The X-Factor or India’s Got Talent. I would rock that joint and bring the stage down and blow the roof off the house! And no I would not use explosives at all! But wait; the really best singing competitions in my awesomely correct opinion were the two seasons of Rock Star – Rock Star INXS which started the whole ball game and featured a lot of excellent talent and Rock Star Supernova, which admittedly was just pulled up to ride on the bandwagon and was not really sincere at all but hell anything those rockers did was so much better than watching stupid 16 year old American girls trying to prove the America that Britney, Christina & Mary J Bitch songs have actual meaning & emotion!

So that would have been my number one choice. I also liked some of the home improvement shows because of the really good designs that they have. And ofcourse I would want to be the Bachelor that sexy women would be competing for. Isn’t that every single guy’s dream….every single straight guy’s dream and yes many married men’s dream as well? Some of the dames who have come on these shows will do anything just to get a little attention and so it could be a lot of fun (spelled S. E. X) to be around that kind of a situation.

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Vice Versa

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I remember watching this movie back in the early 1990s and loving it. Released in 1988, Vice Versa stars Judge Reinhold & Fred Savage in a movie about father & son switching bodies, similar to Like Father Like Son, which came out the previous year. In this movie however we see the father & son having to live out the lives of each other and finding out what it is like and the experience brings them closer together.

The plot is pretty simple; Marshal Seymore is a divorced VP of a huge department store based in Chicago and he returns from a buying trip in the South Seas and accidentally gets his hands on a stolen ornamental skull which has magical powers. He is contacted by the smugglers who arranged for the skull to be shipped to the US and fixes a meeting after the weekend to exchange the skull for a vase that he was supposed to get. However, in a verbal confrontation with his son Charlie, who is visiting while his mother is on a vacation, his mind gets swapped with Charlie’s and vice versa – the dad is in the body of his 11 year old son and the pre-teen kid is in  the body of his adult father. This happens when they both wish that they could be the other and both just happen to place their hands on the skull.

What follows next is the hilarious situation of Judge Reinhold who basically carries this movie. His transformation as the dull, serious minded father to the fun loving & rock music loving version while Charlie is supposed to be inhabiting his body is fun to watch. The father & son duo have to get through the next few days in each other’s roles and that itself should be fun and make the movie. They try to find out how this happened and more importantly how to reverse it. Charlie in Marshall’s body has to go to the office and work and also date his father’s girlfriend, while Marshall in Charlie’s body has to avoid bullies in school, do well in class and also gets a girl to have a crush on him.

They also  have to dodge the villains and Charlie’s mom, who comes home early and sees her son drinking a martini – only it’s actually Marshall in his son’s body. Marshall has to help Charlie get through a very important review but gets kidnapped by the smugglers and Charlie chases after them with the skull. In the end the two smugglers, a lady & a man, gets interchanged with each other while father & son get the skull back. In the final scene Marshall & Charlie change back to their original bodies, having become closer through this ordeal. The end.

This movie was a flop but I still like it and will pull it out for that occasional rainy day viewing. 7 outta 10!

The Meeting Of The Three

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This afternoon I went to the Cafe Coffee day franchise in Pallimukku (opposite the Medical Trust Hospital) to meet up with my best friends Anil & Madhu. We hadn’t met in a few weeks and I was quite looking forward to it. Nothing much planned, we said that we’d meet for some coffee for a couple of hours as both Madhu & myself are broke and searching for new employment. But it had been a while since we have hung out and anything was better than nothing at all. So we fixed the time for 3pm. Around 2:45 pm I left home in an auto and Anil joined me at the junction as his office is quite near my home. We made our way to the Cafe and got a nice seat at the front of the cafe. I hadn’t noticed that CCD (or maybe it’s only this particular franchise) had become a semi-self service place – you had to pay for your drinks & food at the counter once you had decided on what you wanted and they would serve it to you at your table. Prepaid service is more appropriate I guess.

What I did notice was this tall white chick, I’d say American but I couldn’t be sure who walked into the cafe just ahead of us. She was with an Indian guy but from the way they sat and talked, it looked all professional. She wasn’t very pretty but still quite pleasant and she had these nice long legs. She was wearing a skirt the length which was….well before she sat down I knew that if she was  gonna sit at a slight angle from me I would be able to see the path onto her rose garden!! I was facing my back to her but the wall in front of me was a full length mirror on one one section and I could see  her very well. Very well indeed. Nice legs indeed. She crossed them and I got a nice view and I must admit that she has such lovely legs. Then she uncrossed me and I felt like I was getting my own version of the scene from Basic Instinct! Hmmmm!!! OK! coming back, I tried looking away as hard as I possibly could and was finally able to be engrossed in conversation. Oh and sometime before all this Madhu joined us.

The three of us talked for a good 2 hours. We have a Choco Rocks, kinda like a cold version of hot chocolate with plenty of ice and a little later Anil & I had small chicken burgers while Madhu had a spinach corn sandwich. Anil & Madhu said that things would become better soon and that they would try to help me out. Well both Madhu & I need some help in getting a good job but atleast he has some income coming in from some land in his name that is being rented out, plus his wife is working and she is making a good income. So atleast there is that. I am not in the same position and will soon be struggling. And by soon I mean in a few days. I sincerely hope that things turn out ok for me & Madhu as soon as possible.

We said our goodbyes at 5pm and I went to buy some medicines for mom before catching an auto and making my way home. I watched an episode of Stargate SG1 season 8 before getting up and making some coffee and some popcorn. It’s a beautiful evening and there’s a lovely breeze coming in. Along with some mosquitoes! Ick!

Caught In The Middle

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This happened a few days ago but I guess I just plum forgot to mention it here. A few days ago I was on Broadway street after hanging out in a cafe nearby having a cold coffee and a sandwich. I then went to this medical store to buy some meds for mom, as she had called me and said that she wasn’t really feeling well and an Asthalin inhaler for me. I had to wait a long time as the place was crowded; it also has branched out to sell a lot of other stuff including beauty products, candy, bottled juices & other soft drinks, some food & candy. So it was packed.

A rude middle aged man was holding the prescription paper right in front of the pharmacist girl’s face. Any closer and she could use it as a face mask you asshole! Anyways, I bought my stuff, paid for it and crossed across to Marine Drive and hailed an auto rickshaw to take me back home. My auto driver was a chatty fellow and I found it funny that he has 3 different horns – which he explained was 1) were for girls & women (a harsh high pitched shrill sounding horn that made people jump) 2) a loud horn for cars and 3) a funny sound just for kicks. I found this amusing and told him so but was regretting it 30 seconds later as the driver was a very talkative & chatty fellow and a bit too eager to engage his passenger in banter when he should keep all his efforts & energy on the road.

So guess what happened? We were in an accident but truly it wasn’t his fault. As we made our way towards St. Albert’s College, a red Alto cut in front of us without signaling and then slowed down a bit, causing the auto guy to turn quickly to the right. But there was a white car on our right side and there was no way that this auto driver could avoid hitting either side. We were caught in the middle and he could get the brakes in time and what happened is that he drove his auto right through the middle of both cars and hitting & scraping both! The red car, unfortunately as they were the cause of this accident, had the least of the problems as there was just a think long line of scratch metal which was hardly noticeable and easily fixed up. The white car had a big dent on the left side just behind the back door. The auto being in the middle had more damaged and the mudguard over both back wheels were damaged and needed a complete refit.

The owner of the red Alto, a harsh speaking and totally uneducated but rich woman wanted Rs.10,000 for the repair or she wanted to wait for the cops. The driver of the white car was in a hurry and after talking to the auto driver for a while, was convinced that it was not his fault and that he couldn’t get the brakes in time. But he was getting late and so after 20 minutes of talking & getting nowhere he had to rush. The people in the red car – a hired driver, two kids, the rude lady and another lady – didn’t want to do anything until the cops came were adamant that the auto driver was at fault. By then a small crowd had gathered and as a neutral party (yeah I am Switzerland) and someone who had seen everything, I was asked to tell my points of view. I made it clear that it was the fault of the driver of the red car, as he had cut in front of us & slowed down without even signalling and that caused the accident. Most people bought my story and I would have wanted to wait a while to see it through but I wanted to get the medicines to my mother quickly and had to leave ater waiting for 30 minutes.

I really wanted to shut that rude bitch up because she sounded like a total fuck up – the kind that had no education or manners to speak of but had probably married to a rich man or whose family got rich recently and probably not through the legal means. She wanted Rs.10,000 for a thin line while the auto guy would have to have a lot of repair done on his auto and his livelihood halted while the auto was in the workshop. I wished I could have stay there a bit longer.

Extreme Cold Or Extreme Heat

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I live in one of the hottest places in the world. South India is a cauldron of heat and it gets hotter due to the humidity. It’s an energy sapping heat that makes you sweat and drain you of internal moisture. And to top it all off, as I have ranted over & over again, we are hairy! Hot as hell and we have lots of body hair. Well, I am not hairy; by most standards I guess I am less than average and I do not have a chest of very thick hair – yuck! I can’t believe that some women actually like men to be hairy and especially men to have a big thick patch of chest hair. If a women wanted me to be like that, honey I’ll shave my chest hair and stick it on you – see how you like it!

Ok I deviate from the topic but you know I have a huge hair hangup. So ok I live in a hot climate. When it rains a lot things get quite cool and I love that weather as long as people and that includes me don’t get sick so often. This monsoon was quite heavy with rain fall and I got sick three times with fever, coughs, cold & flem infection. Ugh don’t want that anymore. So I am used to heat. Now what kind of weather would I think is better; extreme heat or extreme cold?

I think the cold would be better no matter how cold it got if we had plenty of options to warm ourselves up. Like internal heaters that keep our rooms & homes & offices & public places warm & toasty. Plenty of coats & jackets and woolen stuff. Warm underwear. Fireplaces. That kind of stuff. As long as those are ready available to each & every person and we could keep the animals out of the cold too, then I think that we could do with extreme cold weather. Cause you can bare it. It’s better than extreme heat because that is just so wrong. You can just throw all your clothes off and walk around. You just can’t. Sitting in air conditioners all day at work and home. I prefer if it could be extremely cold but with my conditions applied.

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