Too many things happening all at the same time.
The high points:
1) My keyboard is fixed. Nearly. Yippee. Now I can safely go back to ignoring it in peace.
2) Finished off a Conan novel – “Conan The Magnificent”. Still have to complete “Conan The Triumphant”, “Conan The Destroyer” and “Conan The Indestructible”. Yeah, yeah, that’s actual names of novels I am talking about….
3) Mr and Mrs Iyer. Thank you, Mrs Aparna Sen, for renewing my faith in Indian cinema. Thank you, Mr Zakir Hussain for making me buy one more cd.
4) Rhydhun, by Taufiq Qureshi is so, so, SO brilliant. Thank you, psasi, for lending it to me for such a long time. Wish you would never ask for it back, but of course you will, so I am gonna copy it anyway.
5) Best Book Stall. The place that never lets me down. Anybody wants a copy of Umberto Eco’s “Foucault’s Pendulum” for 80 bucks? What about a first edition of RK Narayan’s “A Tiger For Malgudi” for Rs 75? A hardcover sixteenth printing of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich for 200 Rs? These are the stuff I didn’t buy because I already have them…..imagine the stuff I actually bought. >:-)
6) Spy Kids 2. Red Dragon. Explosions. Yippeeee!!!
The low points:
1) Discovered on Sunday that I have this major caffeine addiction. There was this timpani beating in my head that refused to stop until I had two cups of coffee….
2) Brand Equity. The deadline ticks closer. And I still hate Business/Corporate quizzes….
3) The load-balancer code. Over the past couple of days, I have encountered everything from NumberFormatExceptions to NullPointerExceptions, and it’s only the first 90 lines of code, goddamnit!!!!!
4) Livejournal – This happened n times, where n is a positive integer tending to …well, not infinity, but a very high number anyhow.
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
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While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.livejournal.com/~beatzo/friends
The following error was encountered:
Connection Failed
The system returned:
(110) Connection timed out
The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.
5) The Filmfare Awards. Morons, you give ARR the best Composer award and conveniently forget Sadhna Sargam’s ethereal “Chupke Se”. You make India’s biggest ham the compere and forget to switch off the mic when he opens his mouth. You take the cowards’ way out and give both Kavitha and Shreya the same award and on top of it, you don’t let them speak a word on stage. You actually think Vivek Oberoi in Company was better than Amitabh Bachhan in Aankhein or Jackie Shroff in Devdas!!!!! And to think I respected your magazine!!!!
Actually, I still do, but I don’t trust your powers of judgement. (yeah, as if that matters, right? )
6) Spy Kids 2. Red Dragon. Explosive Trash, but Trash all the same. Not that I mind.
5 more days left for the next weekend.