You know you have lost it when you have lost it. I am talking about losing the link to your blog. Sounds funny but that’s what happened this morning as I realized that I had forgotten the link to my blog but this was inevitable considering how much or little I have blogged of late. This translates to horrible realizations that you can't write well at all when you take it up after so long. So I am gonna play safe and turn it into a diary-like sequencing of events.
The randomness and non-linear narration zone ahead
I have gone so lazy and this scares me at times. I preferred indifference. At least it helped me stay lean. So on one hand I skip meals bcos of having to walk all the way to the mess and then more than make up for it once it's NC (Night canteen) time.
Reached London on the night of 7th April to be picked up by a cab driver from 'India's best friend' at the 'cheapest' rates I could ever get. Yeah yea. See a stretch limo and for a moment think this is what they call jetlag. Get dropped to the acco and I find the city so desolate,so devoid of people at 2300. Goto a McD and straightaway this 'Will Smith'y guy there asks me if I wanted to use the toilet.I give him the smile you reserve for people who are your size when bent half and flash that I-am-a-tourist face. I buy the first of the five burgers of the next 24 hours,ouch!
Had fun in the appts and at work but laters.
Duabi is different. There are no locals here and it should rank as one of the best cities in terms of openness of culture and the rest, if we leave out Philadelphia. The city is up all night and vibrant. There is a lot to see in terms of architecture. Each building is differently designed and you can see the money flowing when you see diamond studded furniture. Only 13pc of the population is local and you can hear at least 8 different languages every 100 steps you take(Highly debatable point. How do you differentiate between languages X and Y if you know neither but then I am just guessing and I do get the stats from people here.
Already been to quite a few interesting places. I won't count malls. Went to a beach resort, a bean bag pink pop kind of gathering which was really cool with this lead singer smearing herself with chocolate because the theme of all her songs that evening was chocolate! Went to this disc that was gonna be pulled down the next morning and a lot others equally interesting.
The apartment is as royal as it can get and there are perks (sunbathing females by the side of the rooftop pool) and the steam bath chamber I accidentally walked into with my laptop in hand.
Keep seeing these Orkut profiles and the "friendship initiation" scraps.Its turning out to be a hilarious pastime. Ignoring the grammatically preposterous ones, there are some which proclaim that my back button got stuck on your profile and yes the one which goes " Being shattered with the flogging of ruthless facts, I'm in need of a freeminded friend like u" and " wuld youl ike to join with me plz replay me and this is the one about the stuck back button " know its preety unusaul 2 write sum 1 a scarp 2 whom u dun ever meet or havent even said hi b4.....but dun know whether its ur grogeous face and ur preety eyes or sumthin wrng with my browsers bck button .....its doesnt let me move bck without givin u a compliment dat ur smile struck like a lightin" Now now I know this is bad but I couldn't help laughing especially when you know the poor people who are at the receiving end.
Then there are the "not my car" pics as well as "yeah that’s me :D" pics. Then you have one with friends which reads "Dil Chahta Hai" with the location mostly being Goa or any wall three people could sit on. Then there is that pic with a same-sex (mostly girl) with the caption reading "my soulmate"
Ok enough of it. Watched a lot of movies on campus. Looking forward to be back there and absolutely dreading the amount of work that hopefully waits once I pass out.
More later
and you have typical blog postings that have headings like "random"
