A Vignette

At Kaira, over lunch:

G: Oh! I think the name "Carnation" is pretty cool a name for a car workshop. So creative. A similarly cool one is "being human". I mean I never thought one could just reverse human being and ask people to just "be human" and run philanthropy under that name. Yes people, please be human. That is so on the dot!

N: Duh. I thought it was just the right name for a brand of clothing. Only humans wear clothes no? How more appropriate can it get?

The Niki!!!
I know you're not the mushy type, but *teary eyed* I LOU you, for being crude and primitive and original, and hence inimitable!

PS: I must confess here that I hardly know anything about "being human" or its activities, except that Salman Khan is associated with it.

Ishmael

Ishmael may give you several refreshing ideas, you may not entirely agree. But I just had a heady combination of Ishmael + Life and Times of Michael K! Leaves one bewildered and ashamed of being human.

A Burthday and A Girlfriend and A Boyfriend!

Alibi is the flavour of the season, definitely seems like it!
So while senior political leaders are brandishing alibis to proclaim they werent there at the spot of crime, my student wants me to prop up an alibi before his parents and convince them I am taking class for him whilst he's off celebrating his girlfriend's 21st!

A weighty thoughty!

This is just in:
My body weight is directly proportional to my propensity to cook.
I cook and I cross the half century mark.
I stop and I return to normal!

Err. I really must learn to cook properly, without throwing people into the world of cholesterol and diabetes and obesity!

I am calling. Where are you?

I am sure you all remember Smirnoff's hugely successful tagline: "Life is calling. Where are you?"
My "smirk"-off remark: Dear life, I am calling. Where are you?!
I know it doesnt sound good or wise or prudent when I say I am investing my whole energy into a particular gamble of an exam, but that does look like what I have done.
Discretion is the better part of valour. Let me just go do the necessary groundwork for putting in place a Plan B as well, just in case Plan A decides to abandon me.