Date: 27th May 2011

Place: Chennai, India

Me: I let you win all the time.

Fiancée: I let you win more

Me: ……

Date: 17th February 2011

Place: Bangalore, India

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2010. If those were steps, it would have climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa 4 times

In 2010, there were 6 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 14 posts.

The busiest day of the year was March 22nd with 97 views. The most popular post that day was Then – Now.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, axz-me.blogspot.com, Google Reader, orkut.co.in, and touch.facebook.com.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Then – Now March 2010
21 comments

About me October 2009

Aaaaaargh! April 2010
2 comments

Story July 2010
3 comments

Conversations August 2010
3 comments

Woman: Your wish. I am fine with both X & Y.

Man: But what would you rather do? X? Y?

Woman: What do you want to do?

Man: Ok, lets do X

Woman: Why did you choose X?

Man: No reason. We just had to pick one. So, picked one.

Woman: True. But why X and why not Y?

Man: No reason!

Woman: If you don’t want to tell me, then say so.

Man <Trying to end the ridiculousness that is this conversation>: No! No reason. Well, I picked X because of A, B and C.

Woman: So, why couldn’t you have just said that at the beginning? It’s so complicated with you. I have to try so hard with you. Are you sure you are not lying to me?

Man <Getting irritated>: No! I am not!

Woman: Don’t shout at me!

Man <Getting even more irritated>: I am not shouting!

Woman <Starts becoming teary-eyed>: See. There you are shouting at me.

Man <Shitting in his pants>: I am sorry baby. I am sorry. I did not mean to hurt you. I am sorry.

He met the woman with the 3 desirables but she was 2/3 on the undesirables.

Then fate intervened and she was 1/3 on the undesirables.

Then the world was supposed to go into a flux and make her 0/3 on the undesirables which was when the man had decided that he would make the move.

But fate addeth one and taketh one away. The count remained 1/3 and she remained unattainable.

A choice unmade,

A friend cries far away,

Another escapes the past,

As I wonder WHY…

Today sleep will elude.

Let me try and pen down my take on a few things.

Family – As a silently rebellious teenager who wanted to get away as far as he could from home and family. My friends were my family and my family was a bunch of people who just didn’t get me. I find myself in very different shoes now. I have come to realize that my parents and my younger brother are the only people who have been eternally forgiving of all the crap I have pulled. My apathy and neglect towards them in my younger years never diminished their concern for me. Note to self: Family is very very important. Spend time with them. Do those small things which make them happy even if it cramps your style.

Job – If you are one of the smart ones, you are fucked. Once you figure out how to do your job well, the challenge ends there. It will be a matter of time before you are bored. Find a job that lets you try out different things or try doing things differently at your job. If you can’t do either, get out. You don’t want everyday to be a countdown towards the weekend, do you? And if you are not one of the smart ones then shut up and stop cribbing. You are lucky to have a job in the first place.

Love, Relationships and Women – Women have this funny effect of enhancing the intensity of your emotions. The highs in a relationship are incredibly high and the lows, incredibly low. Net, net you are neither better off nor worse off. So what’s the draw? I want to believe that the answer lies in the need to procreate billions of years of evolutionary biology but I am too much of a romantic to do that.

However, there are a few lessons I learnt along the way.

1. Don’t try to replace your friends with your girlfriend. You need both for the simple reason that if she walks out on you, you are fucked.
2. Don’t change yourself…too much. If things don’t work out you will hate yourself and if things do work out you will (at some level) hold it against her.
3. Don’t expect her to change too much for you. Corollary to point 2.
4. Respect is more important than love. You can respect someone who you don’t love but you can’t love someone you don’t respect.

Money – Very intriguing concept. Forgive me my moment of indulgence but I believe I have a beautiful and elegant explanation as to why it is the most lusted after object of desire.

The lust for money is derived as it is the ONLY economic concept that does not lend itself to diminishing returns of utility. Every incremental rupee is always welcome. There are bigger, better, more expensive things to be bought and consumed.

That having been said, I myself am not immune to its charms. I believe money is important for a comfortable life. However, I hope I have the prudence to use it as a means to an end and not make it the end itself.

God – I believe in God. It is not terribly difficult for me to imagine a superhuman, supernatural force that is governing the universe. Religion, on the other hand, is a man-made construct created by certain classes of men to subjugate the others. Religion promotes fear, demands submission and does not lend itself to questioning. That’s not what God is. This space is too small for me to convey the essence of my arguments. This topic demands a dedicated post. I will write the same sometime in the near future.

Looking forward to the comments.

1. Remaining part of the Jaipur trip
2. The Drift
3. Trip to Bangalore
4. Trip to Wayanad
5. Then and Now
6. My new year resolutions