Strange Ramblings

... you pay more for drinking water than what you pay for fuel. ... you sweat buckets within 5 mins of standing under the sky in aug - sept. ... you get high quality Sheesha. ... you fail to see a single cloud for like 10 months a year. ... you see or not see the burqa-clad women wherever you turn your head. ... you find most of the retail, banking and other public services snoozing off midday around the year. ... you wake up at 3:30 am to get to the office for a few months. ... you cough up 130 Rs. for like 5 pcs of GolGappe. . .. you get a whiff off a butchery shop in the most poshest of malls let alone street shops. ... you pay over 800 Rs. to watch Avatar in IMAX 3D, the theatre o'course still being not upto Indian standards. ... you have the biggest football game in Qatar history in 2-3 weeks and still the authorities are clueless about everything starting from tickets. ... you are stopped from entering malls and restaurants on a friday stating reason

Warning: Content might be offensive to some. As if we needed any more telling on this. Still, from time to time, we stumble upon stuff that tend to reestablish the fact that "World is Crazy". One such masterpiece is  this . Yup, it is very much what the name suggests. A social (sexual) networking website. I mean who was the genius who thought of this. The 'usual' mapping of where people are having sex in the world is there, ie o'course if people are crazy enough to share it, with some nice add-ons. The age old question of "Where" is addressed beautifully: Indoor, Outdoor, Car, Boat, Hotel with a few more pointers about safe sex, first time etc. If this was not enough, they further go on to categorize mapping with hetrosexual, gay and lesbian markers and the "BIG BUNNY" steps in wherever there is to much bang*** going on. And how I have forgotten about the positions. O'course they have those too. The site would have been incomplete otherwi

Yes, I was bold enough to get bald . Just hope that you recognize me when our paths cross on some random street. So this is how I spent last Friday.  Worrying at first. Should I or Should I not. Getting to the barber's and going for the same ol' boring cut. "Oh what the heck, dekhi jaayegi"  kinda attitude to stop the barber in between and go with the trimmer. Indecision was a big part of the whole affair. Just wondering if all the first timers had such difficulty in going through with it. All said, I am glad that I did it and it has turned out pretty darn well. You might feel compelled to ask Why? For me it was more of curiosity about how i'd look and how it'd feel and the little thing called now or never .  'Delighted' is the word that describes my current state of mind. The small joy's that it brings like finally being able to ditch the everyday combing, the feeling of a well-mowed grass on your head, the water droplets reaching your skull