{"id":443,"date":"2004-02-13T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/gollum-gollum\/"},"modified":"2004-02-13T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-13T18:25:00","slug":"gollum-gollum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/gollum-gollum\/","title":{"rendered":"Gollum Gollum!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in Bangalore on Sunday, to conduct an Entertainment Quiz. It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welcome.to\/kqa\">KQA<\/a> quiz, and I am very <i>very<\/i> nervous. Have that awkward  Androclesian feeling ( &#8220;Sigh! I am about to be eaten up. There is a teeny-weeny chance the lion knows me and I know the lion, and we&#8217;ll hug each other and be the heroes of a story that someone two thousand years from now will be reading in a text-book. But no, the unknown-lions to Androcles-familiar lions ratio is just too much. I am doomed!!&#8221; etc ) I had just a week to prepare questions for it, cannot repeat any of my previous questions because, like the Raphus Cucullatus i am, I had passed everything, from the prelims to the finals, including visual questions, to <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggolb.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">bloggolb<\/a> and the rest of the Motorola Quiz Team.  *sigh*<\/p>\n<p>But, the brighter side &#8211; I will be seeing Return of the King with Mons tomorrow. Oh yeah! So now I can come back on Monday and sneer at all minor mortals in Hyderabad for their LotR-deprived lives. *insert ominous laughter here* Please god let us get tickets.<\/p>\n<p>I just remembered that today is 13th February. Precisely a year ago, at this time, I was seeing AR Rahman perform live, from about ten feet away from the stage. It was the day of the rehearsals, the concert was on the 14th. Vasu and myself, we had gatecrashed Gachibowli Stadium and&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Naah! That&#8217;s a tale for some other day.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>*<font size=\"-2\">loosely translated: I am lazy and I don&#8217;t have time and I need to catch a bus and all of you have a nice weekend.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in Bangalore on Sunday, to conduct an Entertainment Quiz. It&#8217;s a KQA quiz, and I am very very nervous. Have that awkward Androclesian feeling ( &#8220;Sigh! I am about to be eaten up. There is a teeny-weeny chance the lion knows me and I know the lion, and we&#8217;ll hug each other and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}