i turn away potential customers

Dear Fans and Avid Readers!!!!!!!!!!!

(yes, all 7 of you) 

Sample this :

Friend: now that you have so much time on your hands you should start a blog

oof: i already have a blog


Friend: oh wow, really? send me the link!!!! i will read it!!!

oof: uhhhhhhhh no




Friend: haha! aacha, you'll send me the link tomorrow na, i want to read it!


oof: no!


[END OF CONVERSATION. END OF CONSUMERISM.]

careers in tv news - anchor

1.45 AM - wake up

2 AM -  get picked up by office cab

3 AM - reach the office (which exists in a far flung suburb of your city)

3 AM-3.30 AM - Brush teeth inside office loo, drink pure, authentic, deliciously non-flavoured generic coffee from the office coffee machine, check emails

3.30 AM - 4AM - read up for your bulletin

4 AM - go for make-up

5 AM - return from make-up, looking oh-so-delicious at 5 fucking AM, complete with a fancy formal coat (but wearing your ratty jeans and bathroom chappals)

5 AM - 5.45 AM - read up more for your bulletin, write catchy headlines, keep checking with the assistant producer if your progress is ok

5.45 AM - go to the studio, stand under the lights, smile, look beautiful (hide your ratty jeans and bathroom chappals behind your desk so that the audience won't notice)

5.59 AM- 6.25 AM - ON AIR (and feel supremely flustered at every single mistake you make - and get yelled at by the studio director in between breaks and once the show is over for your impeccably miserable performance of looking stellar while stumbling in spite of the teleprompter)

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But who will watch news at 5.59AM in the morning?

Your mummy and daddy, of course.

"Why is it called DLF IPL? Is it because it is being played in DLF?"

(My mother to me, in a moment of pure angst and mystification)

March 2006 - this blog has 0 known readers
April 2010 - this blog has 7 known readers

split wide open

Fans and Avid Readers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The moment you've all been waiting for is HERE!!!!
The ultimate, sad, ugly truth about me.....

... is that i used to think that i only liked strange cinema in languages that i don't understand that came with subtitles
... is that i absolutely LOVED UTV World Movies and NDTV Lumiere because the entire thing was in strange languages that i did not understand and constantly subtitled for my viewing pleasure
... is that i deliberatley kept away from most shows on Star World because, to my untrained eyes, they all looked alike (Psych, Heroes, Boston Legal, Prison Break, Ally McBeal, X Files .... endless characters, complex plots, no comedy, lots of lawyers / people with guns / police cars)
... is that ever since Star World, which is an English language channel, decided to subtitle each and every show, i find myself watching in rapt fascination...

And so. Dear Fans and Avid Readers - the ultimate, sad, ugly truth about me is that i will watch absolutely ANYTHING that comes with subtitles .

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(Now there are no secrets left between you and me. You have been exposed to the vagaries of my mind and the indescribable pleasures that tantalize my soul.)

blog fantasies

dream - some really important publishing bigwig out there reads my blog, decides i am the next big thing , offers me a book deal and some widely distributed Sunday magazine like Brunch features me

scream - will never happen as i do not talk about my blog to friends, family, acquaintances or strangers and am lazy about blogging and do not often comment on other people's blogs (therefore if you don't know my blog exists you will never find it)

dream - my blog becomes a place where i pour out my heart, and soul, and write uncensored and angst ridden thoughts

scream - will never happen - because if i haven't already poured out my heart , soul, time , uncensored and angst ridden thoughts to you then you probably will never get to read them.

my young mind gets confused and corrupted...

... when Genelia D'Souza sells me aerated drinks, deodrant and fairness cream in back to back ads aired on tv.
ps. What will the children think?