Meaningless

Ooo i feel so down,
Sometimes I think,
I'd better have been a clown.
Life seems still,
To get it moving,
There ain't no pill.
There ain't no more fun,
While smoking I say to myself,
Mann you are gonna die young.
Hope I was lying to myself,
But The face in the smoke said,
You are killin' yourself.

TeeVee

Read this, this is funny... lest for me; thought about it while sitting in front of the TV after a long working day at office. Not that the television was switched on, well i was wondering about the evolution of TV.

Remembered the old days. When my grandpa used to say, "Son! Ours was one of the few houses in town that had a color Tv at that time!". It was a sonodyne by the way and the whole family used to get involved while switching on the TV. There used to be only one channel, the doordarshan and all the people trying to hook on to it, the signal used to be weak. Biggest and the highest antennae was a status symbol at that time.

Sunday morning 7am. Grandpa fully pumped up to see the news on DD. Now see the drama. Dadu switches on the TV, sees all pixated. Yells and calls my dad. My dad, very talented in making the TV work; he can smell the signal out of thin air :P, scratches his beard and says... "Hmm feels like we have to rotate the antennae in the correct direction, can you see the hill in the north, the Tv tower is right on that, the antennae has to face that". Look at Dad's research, he even knows wherethe TV towers are!!! Now you need to look at the Tv and at the same time turn the antennae to stop at the point where it starts catching signal. You need 3 people here, Dadu and Dad are already there, one more required, I am called in only to run up stairs and rotate the antennae, while my dad standing in the courtyard giving directions and my dadu twisting the TVs ears as if punishing him for not showing up the stuff! Start working beeetch!! Grandpa yells in punjabi... and whoa.. the very next moment, dad says stoooop, and I hold it right there. I listen a bit more carefully and I hear the old DD news jingle; it still lingers in my ears fellas!

And now, there are so many channels and there is a new term coined to have a look at all of 'em.. 'channel surfing!' And the remote, I think it is the biggest vice for mankind today. It kills a human, makes him handicapped :P. You do not beleive me, take the following example and I am sure all of us have done this. Sitting on the lazy couch, you are watching your faourite TV serial and suddenly you remember, OH! What is the score... you look out for the remote to change the channel and you find it lying 3 feet away from you on the table. Goddam hell... how lazy we become... picking that remote is just like climbing up a steep hill and we wait for someone passing by to pass on the remote to us, we we won't damn get up! See the laziness! :P

Well now, coming back... I am feeling lazy to remove my clothes fellas.... brrrrr... wanna keep on musing.

Rebello...

Same shit different day, and it was Thursday. Mrs. Osbourne (yea may be Ozzy's Mom, she is as scary as him) drops in an Email, "You have a parcel". I knew, It was none other than my Rebello :-). In a flash, got the goody to my desk. Went runnin' around desks, got a pair of scissors and set it loose.
She is black, She is sexy, there you go, she is Manny's new WIFE (Wonderful Instrument For Entertainment :P), my Canon Rebel DSLR cam. In eagerness to turn it on, I get online to find my beetch Mysore... my inspiration...and he guides me how to get the cam ready to click
(Colleagues: Mohsin, Balaji (my Client, a veteran) and Rajesh)

Mohsin: (In his Hyderabadi accent) Kya ree tu, kitne ka leeya be yeh?

I: (I say some price)

Mohsin: (Fishes his mobile out and looking at it) Kaisi baatan kar rah... mera yeh mobile ka kamera dekh ree tuu.. free ka hai baba... masttah photu kheechta ... Chal pose de... ek kheechta teri!

I: Chal ree...

Then I send an IM to Balaji sayin' the cam is here. Balaji comes runnin'. He is a typical old school photographer, still uses a film SLR cam. Always up with his tips for me.

Balaji: Wow man! Welcome to the SLR club. Lemme bless your cam. (Takes the cam in his hand, makes a few clicks and says). First thing, get a UV filter!

Rajesh (With his usual face devoid of expressios, no matter wht happens): It is like..
Example.
(Balaji: Rajesh! The production Intelligence Server has crashed!!!

Rajesh: Oh is it.. Okay... I ll see... excuse me .. I am talkin to my wife..

Balaji: Production server is down!!! (Shrugging his shoulders, he turns to me). Look at this guy man... users are up my ass and he is after his wive's :P

Mohsin: Relax balaji, abhi bas 2 mahine hue hai potti ke saath shadi banaye hue.)

Rajesh: Manny, can I take ur new cam to my DC trip.

I: Yea sure, and leave your wife with me!

Rajesh: Hmmmmmm (No expressions again!)

He did not ask after that.

Whole day, keepin' the cam beside me, savouring every sight of it and finally it was time to go home. Now.. the packing was ripped... and I did not have a cam bag. Now what to do? Hmm... It was time to sacrifce the skull cap for my cam; did not care about cold. Slid it in that cap and brought it home.
Whole night long we made love, me reading her favourite book and clickin all her controls. it was not long before I figured 'em out. Soon she was moaning in my hands, making those sweet sounds that get things in focus :-).
That very weekend I set myself out on a photo shoot to the Great Smoky Mountains and this is what I captured: http://www.flickr.com/photos/redninam_eye/sets
My first baby :P.