http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com Thoughts rescued from the certainty of a social miscarriage Sat, 06 May 2006 13:38:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever thought how it would be to take on a police officer because he jumped a signal? While most of us would cringe away and get on with our lives but Swaroop Srinath, a Bangalore resident has chased down an ACP (yes that’s right an ACP) and gave him the ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/05/06/retribution-against-the-cops/ Zacarias Moussaoui, the only convicted person in the 9/11 attacks has been rejected death penalty by the jury. Now he will serve a life sentence without possibility of parole. My only sentiment is thorough dejection and disgust. How can a jury respond to a guilty plea against the charges regarding one ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/05/04/sympathy-for-the-devil/ I wanted to write a review on the funeral proceedings of Late Dr. Rajkumar. I guess it’s too late after all the news channels have covered it already. Also I think I should have written this post when the incident happened. Would have been on a more acerbic note. But ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/05/04/riots-101/ Alas one of the few politicians I regarded as reformers has left for heavenly abode. Mahajan according to me had the panache, poise and perspicacity to bring India to the level of a developed nation in whatever capacity he could. Agreed that the divestment of many PSUs was something he ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/05/03/on-pramod-mahajans-death/ The Artists’ Right Society has lost it I must say. In a fit of rage the ARS has pointed out to Google the fact that it was violating artists’ moral copyright to art by changing the logo to reflect the artist’s style. Google, as we know, keeps modifying their logo ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/04/24/f-art/ One turned 23 on the 14th of April. J’ai 23 ans, maintenant. age += (year) 1;  http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/04/24/ohi-forgot/ Just this Sunday I was with a couple of friends and we were pondering over the mercurial growth of the IT industry in India. I was the only "wicked" person with an opinion that India is no superpower as many people call it. To summarize my argument I would say ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/04/24/why-india-wont-become-a-superpower-any-time-soon/ People are very practical when they are blaming someone else for something. But when it comes to one’s own outbursts, the practicality suddenly vanishes. Kapoof! You may say, ‘That’s why they are called outbursts, dumbass’. But then why do we allow our practical side to be taken over by the ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/from-sweet-to-thankless-bastard-in-2-minutes/ This claimer: This post is entirely written in jest and does not mean any offence to any one person or a group of people in particular . Well the post has nothing do with the title. Just felt like squeezing in a Beatles’ number into one of my posts. The sun ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/03/13/here-comes-the-sun/ Till date I thought my name meant unparalleled in Sanskrit. But a search on Wikipedia.org gave this result with 100.00% relevance. Take a bow, subjects, take a bow! http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/02/06/im-an-egyptian-diety/ Yes. The iconic CBGB, which defined and introduced punk rock during the ’70s and ’80s, has completed its lease period. And now the New York city high and mighty want to bring down the axe upon it. Please don’t let this happen. Let us not let an era end like ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/01/14/cbgb-is-being-forced-shut/ In Bangalore, a lot of times one comes across these boards declaring the statistics on the accident scene. According to them the number of people dying of accidents has drastically gone down over the years. It seems they’re thankful to the road safety police for that. What else do you ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/01/10/logical-reasoning-dharam-singh-zindabad/ According to Guardian, the number of girl foetuses that are killed every year has slowly but surely reached the 0.5 million mark in our country. It’s shocking to see that in this day and age so many parents choose to abort the child if it is found to be a ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/01/10/female-infanticide/ I have often wondered what the source of true joy could be. And upon pondering enough and finding no solution, I have left it at that. But this morning I was reminded of someone by someone else and the solution came rushing to me as the stench from a typical ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/01/09/true-joy/ Thanks to a post by Ramanand long back, I decided to listen to this new ARR offering. Must say I’m pretty impressed. ARR has come up with another gem. Full of youth and vigor. My favourites from the list are “Rang de basanti”, “Lukka Chhuppi” and “Paathhshaalaa”. Check out Ramanand’s post ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/01/09/music-from-rang-de-basanti/ There’s this extremely hilarious advertisement on the radio these days. It’s for Lux Body Wash. It starts off with an extremely horny character reaching a wrong number and the phone is answered by a bored housewife-like person having nothing better to do on a lazy sunday afternoon. Horny ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/01/09/ohbaby-doll/ How great should a nation truly be if the world’s most powerful country is sanctioning $114 million for it’s security personnel to learn the foreign language. Read it all in this article in today’s Times of India. The funniest part is the opening lines itself. The world is truly becoming ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/01/06/meraa-bhaarat-mahaan/ Came across this really neat piece of humour by a blogger who calls herself “Crystal Blur”. She’s sort of re-writing the Mahabharata and man is she good. Here’s an excerpt from her latest post “Forest Hump” Durvasa: “Aha! Payback time. Let the fleecing begin.” Durvasa decided to overcharge heavily. He got them ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/01/05/hilarious-mytho/ A new product called the Sling-box, developed by the start-up Sling Media, is making waves in the US. It is basically a gadget which when attached to your television source (cable, terresterial or satellite) will stream the content via the internet to a computer. Now this would sound like a ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/01/03/the-sling-box-is-a-hit/ …with Megadeth, especially Holy Wars (the punishment due), is bound to give any thrash metal fan an incomparable high. God bless Metallica for kicking out Mustaine. Else we wouldn’t have seen this gem of a band. Gold! http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/01/03/mega-start-to-the-day/ …and everything is very much the same. I still had to wake up early to get to office on time. The road was still full of potholes. People were still peeing next to a wall sign that reads “Please do no urine”. The woman in the next alley was still ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2006/01/02/2nd-day-of-the-new-year/ Okay. So something interesting did happen during the day. Hence the second post. I’m very pissed, terribly incensed thoroughly disgusted and extremely furious. All my plans for 31st seem well on their way down the drain. I’ve been disturbed, like many others in Bangalore, because of this fresh new threat that ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/30/party-poopers/ If nothing interesting comes up in the day, this is probably going to be the last post for the year that was, 2005. Don’t know why but it seems to have gone by at a not-so-break-neck speed. Maybe because it was the first year when I have been completely on ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/30/last-post-for-the-year/ The serene campus of IISc was set astir yesterday by an alleged terrorist attack. Prof. M C Puri, a retired Mathematics professor at IIT Delhi was shot when an unidentified person in army faitgues opened fire just outside the J N Tata auditorium. He was declared D.O.A by the doctors ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/29/terror-in-silicon-city/ Well you wouldn’t be asking that question if you were living here. Imagine if your town was named “madar****” or “ch***ya” or “***** ke baal” Imagine also a situation where you had to tell someone where you came from. Disturbingly funny isn’t it? There was this question in a quiz once, which ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/28/whats-in-a-name-eh/ The title of this post literally translated from French to English means, “the wit in the staircase”. Have you ever kicked yourself for being a tad bit slow in making a barb at someone? Have you ever felt that you could have put someone in his/her place with a witty ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/28/lesprit-descalier-2/ Sunday evening saw me having the most fun time I’ve had till date, in Bangalore. For those who are still unaware of how boring Bangalore can be for a person in his/her early twenties, I would really suggest spending a weekend here with no friends around. That apart, I’m very ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/27/abhi-to-main-jawaan-hoon/ Sounds a bit odd, doesn’t it? But it’s true. As of 20th December 2005, Reliance Infocomm Limited has decided to discontinue usage of their own landline service at any of its office buildings. And Santa seems to have arrived on-time (or even before time) for MTNL, as the Mukesh Ambani-controlled ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/27/hello-ril-shifts-to-mtnl/ An Indian doctor settled in the US and running a clinic, has lost his doctor’s licence due to a malpractice issue. Today’s Hindustan Times carried an article on him. The US board says he allegedly used weed killers and pesticides to cure cancer patients. Why not I say? He merely ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/26/whats-up-doc/ It feels like it’s been a long time, although it was only a year back that tragedy struck its most fatal blow. It was around this time, a year back, that the tsunamis hit the coasts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India, taking numerous lives and leaving behind devastation of ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/26/remembering-26th-december-2004/ The power of the rupee hasn’t been very alluring. But at least we can get them phoren lukkhas to shell out their monies for our luxurious and depraved ways. Team India’s recently landed a humongous sponsorship deal with Nike. The American sportswear giant has signed a contract for about $27.2 ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/24/sabse-bada-rupayya/ Way back in 2000, the Times of India decided to make the most of the Dot-Com revolution and came out with Indya.com. Big banners, hoarding and print ads declaring the renaming of India from the 52 year old nomenclature to a hep, new, snazzy, cool name, were in circulation. This ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/22/re-definition/ It all started when I sauntered into Garuda mall on Monday night. Was just passing by Inox when I randomly thought of booking tickets for a movie. So I called up a friend of mine and ask her if she wants to go on Thursday. She says, “Neal n Nikki ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/16/move-ye-neal-n-nikki/ Bite me, huh! http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/15/cause-i-feel-like-it/ We are half-way through with the first decade of the 21st century. And a spectre haunts our country. The spectre of corruption. A lot many scams have happened in the past uncovering the decadent face of polity in our country. So many are they in number that it fails to ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/14/sting-stench/ Although I haven’t been watching or following the Indian encounter with their sub-continent neighbours Sri Lanka, it was a moment of mixed feeling of pride, joy and vicarious accomplishment when Sachin finally broke the long standing record of 34 centuries, in the 2nd Test at Kotla. Details of the event can ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/12/13/the-elusive-century/ Oranges are the thrill-seekers and daredevils ofthe aura spectrum. They love the challenge andexcitement of physical danger. They love tochallenge their environment and go beyond anyaccepted physical limits. What Is Your True Aura Colour? brought to you by Quizilla http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/11/24/dog-be-dead/ Where did it all begin? Most would attribute Charles Babbage, a squiggly old guy who looks like Whistler’s mom without the cape, with the nobel idea of inventing the box. Some would call Ada Lovelace (what ho, babe? ooooh behaaave!), the Mother of modern computing. Sometimes I wonder what the ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/11/17/a-brief-history-of-computing-and-every-other-shit-it-has-to-do-with/ Have you been endowed with a taste for good music? And by good I don’t mean exactly Engelbert or Sinatra or M S Subbulaxmi, God bless their souls. Not even Ozzy or Hendrix or anyone remotely to do with modern popular music with sympathy for the devil. I mean are ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/11/16/crass-croonings/ Having nightmares because your driving leaves behind a body count worse than the Chernobyl Disaster? Do you drive like an 80-year old lady with a distended bladder and has had astigmatism since she was 3 and who’s gulped down a couple of Mickey Finns with 5 Tequila shots for lunch? ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/how-to-get-your-way-with-the-insurance-company/ I’ve always prided myself on the fact that I’ve never been in an accident (car or bike) nor been apprehended by cops for violating any rules. But as I went through a blog post by Salil I was taken back to my 2nd year of Engineering. It was a beautiful ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/11/09/capping-the-copper/ I’ve been in Bangalore for a little over a year now. Many of my friends had greeted me for having landed a job in the Silicon Valley of India. My brothers-in-law had given me gyaan on how to keep switching jobs until I landed a lucrative one and how it ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/08/29/14/ Here’s one really eerie thought. What if someone was idle enough to collect random people’s suicide notes and decided to put them all in a digitized format for everyone to read online? Well someone’s already done so. Although I doubt the authenticity of the documents and many of them sound ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/07/13/live-after-life/ THIS http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/07/12/desperately-waiting-for/ Here’s an excellent site for those who can’t get enough books on paper. This Russian Website has a looooot of great books for free download. The text is all in Cyrillic but you can hower on the links which have suggestive names like libdetectiv.html for detective novels and so on. Have fun, ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/07/09/for-the-book-lover-in-you/ A few months back I got a call at around 7 in the morning. Here I’ll let the post speak for itself. Ring….ring….ring… Me: Hello…. (very drowsy greeting) Caller: Who this is? (Buddy, it’s me who should be asking this question) Me: This is Anup….may I know who’s calling? Caller: S*. I friend of R*. ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/07/08/early-morning-waker-upper/ These are a few of my favorite things: Chocolate Harley Davidson Playstation (1 & 2) Beer Angelina Jolie Hard Rock . . . http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/07/08/gods-gifts-to-mankind-2/ Pecos, off Brigade Road, is one helluva place. It is a very “Beer n Smokes”, basically college kids kinda joint. But the main attraction isn’t the cheap booze, the succulent bites-to-eat or the laid back feeling. It’s the music. It’s one of the few places in Bangalore that have remained ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/07/08/pearls-of-wazzzup-dom/ Thanks Ramanand for the link. http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/07/07/the-survey-of-the-decade/ I saw the movie Gunda featuring the ever-green (augh) Mithun Chakravarty in all his flamboyance (yeah, right!). For those yet untouched by this epic, already being hailed as the movie of the century, please watch it. It’s soooo complex that it’s beyond the comprehension of any earthling, present or future. ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/07/06/utter-lack-of-creativity/ The guys at ClearPHP have been naughty again. So here I am with my old post (inspired by Black Adder) making a re-re-debut in the world of Wordpress blogging, with the help of a new service called Blogsome. The previous link will still work and you’ll be automatically redirected to ... http://seymourprivates.blogsome.com/2005/07/06/backagain/