blog make over...

I realise that lots of posts here was just immaterial junk, and that this blog needs a make-over.... I want to take a new direction with this space.... What should this blog look like?.... Thinking about the "zen of blogging" now.... Please comment if any of you are reading this -- what are you looking for when you read a personal blog....

Happy new year!!!!

Have a great year ahead.... May each moment find the best of you and vice-versa....

2008 .... 2009

Here goes a year.... sometimes I care about clichés, sometimes I do not.... Anyway a psychological boundary of sorts.... Sometimes I live a lot in the past, sometimes I do not. Looking back -- I think I had a pretty good time -- that is about it. Nothing memorable....

I just got an idea now.... should I be shouting eureka.... but I am sure that it ought not to be original, maybe I have read it somewhere, and forgotten about it, but in the thousands of years of philosophical thought.... well here goes....

I am not static. I, you, we, us all dynamic entities. There is no real you or me. I sometimes feel like a crowd. Do you feel that. I sometimes talk to myself, sometimes when I am bored I hold running conversations among the different me's. Again I digress. There is no single you, or there is no single me. Neither is there any real you or nor real me. We are changing. Our ideas change, our attitudes change, our moods change, our values change, our beliefs change....

The you reading this is not the you who started reading this..... One year is a long time to change. I may not even remember in some aspects the me who was a year back. Selective memory, I sometimes feel, is what is keeping us sane.... Anyway too much of television depresses me, hence this post.... Bye then -- and wish you a happy new year..... wish you a clean slate to start over, but is there any clean slates.... hmmm....

Enjoy....

P.S: There are no resolutions for me. I am too lazy to keep them anyway, too set in the old ways of being me.

the visit home(?)....

I went on a flying(by train) visit to good 'ol Kochi, my home-town... was there for 24hrs....

Met up with friends (those who were there).... bad timing to be there -- most of them were either travelling out or into town for the holidays. Hope to have better luck next time.

Met up with relatives.... aunts, uncles, cousins and others.... many long time no sees....

Went walking around town @ random.... went nowhere in particular

Went to the temple that I used to 'frequent' as a child....

Attended a wedding... I have become a formal invitee who comes into state for weddings and other such occasions. For 21 years I am in and never out, and once I get out I never go back in.

Listened to FM.... Aaah wanted to do this for a long time, to tune into the new (and much hyped) malayalam FM waves, it was good, while it lasted (a couple of hours travelling).... could make do with malayam internet radio stations out there -- but that will have to wait for a high bandwidth connection i.e till next year....

Ate porota and chicken biriyani :P.... pending long time....


And more impertantly what did not happen....
Wanted to check out the new malls (again much fabled) but did (or rather could) not.... Wanted to buy some Malayalam literature but did not(time and money issues)....
I did not go home.... planned to but....

???

Should throw in the towel and delete "this"....

.... But then that is not me, bad for you - the imaginary reader....