Shrine of the Miraculous Cross in Goa

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A panoramic view of the shrine in Goa

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So i went to see the chronicles of narnia...

"My mother was a black dwarf" said the big, fat, bearded white man.
-by far the funniest line in a movie from the classic "put me off to sleep" chronicles of narnia: prince caspian.

I came across this picture of Sindhudurg fort while going through some old pictures in the archives of my computer folders. I can't believe i had witnessed something so beautiful...
I had posted this earlier as part of my Malvani Odyssey but couldn't resist putting it up again...

Harry Potter and the Order Of Utter Boredom

I went to watch Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix the day it was released; not because I'm a potter fan but because I was plain bored. There are just two antidepressants that work for me.... watching movies and eating chocolates.....So I paid the premium to be part of the elite multitude who flocked Theatre 1 at Inox in Goa to see the movie the day it released..... I buy nachos and that huge tumbler of coke which would be dinner and take my seat for the movie.

The movie was or I should say still is so bloody boring....

The best part of the whole show that night in Theatre 1 at Inox in Goa was this trailer......



Being a big Simpsons fan I just can't wait for it to release!

Talk to me, don't blow up the world!

Whats with these so called action movies these days?

Movie makers have spawned a new breed of movies where after intense dialogue between the hero and the villain realisation dawns on the villain that what he is doing is wrong. He should not have kidnapped the poor girl or robbed the bank or plan to destroy the world. Its wrong, he should stop and listen to the hero and try to make this world a better place to live in.
I saw it in spiderman 2 (and 3 to an exent) then in Fanbtastic 4 rise of the silver surfer.
Is this the fate of our movies? are we going to have psychiatrists for heroes, men who don't feel loved for villains and a couch for the battleground....
Whatever happened to the good old fashioned crash, boom, bang.. KAABoom -batman and robin style or even the dish-kyaon dish-kyaon... I want to see the villain blown up...trying to be evil... not by his own doing, because he has just been enlightened with something everyone knew all along.

I take it all back.... I just watched Die Hard 4..... my faith has been renewed

Ode to my hot cuppa chai

A long overdue tribute to many a cups of delicious chai!
(sung to the tune of Last Kiss by Pearl Jam)



oh chai, oh chai
wont u set me free
from my recurring dosing spree
Ive got to work its half past three
I need ur anti snooze remedy.

oh chai, oh chai
wont u refresh me,
im feeling so tired and so drowsy
i can hear sleep callin out my name
im gonna drift off, don't u put me to shame.

oh where, oh where
could the chai wala be
doesnt he know its time for my afternoon tea
im losing control, im about to snore
i need u now more than ever before

-chai-a-holic anonymous

In pursuit of chocolate

Its 3:00pm, sunday afternoon, it has stopped raining and the power supply shows some sign of stability. Iam studying for a certification I intend to get, when suddenly i get this craving for chocolate... Impulsive as Iam i want to get out and get some. But then i think... i've got a dump of more than 400 questions running into some 800 pages or so to go through, i cant just stop to get some chocolate... be rational... i've got to be serious about this, continue with the questions and may be later...

On my way out as i walk towards my bike i think to myself....
its sunday + 3pm + goa= there's no way in hell shops are goin to be open

i was right my regular supplier was closed... I on ride still hopeful that the shopping center would be open

Im at Panjim... supposedly a city in Goa... the capital too... yet after 2pm everyday all shopkeepers will shut shop and hit the sack for a snooze... a city called panjim

As i swerve onto the main road i get hit by a few drops of rain... i think to myself "should i turn back... nah just a few dro...." Swooosh it feels as though someone has emptied a bucket of water on me... literally...

in one sychronised motion all the bikes on the road including me ride onto the pavement and stop under the parapet of the adjacent building... ALL of us.. as though its an unwritten rule ...bikes allowed on pavements only if it rains... off the bike and i wait for the rain to stop

i feel my tummy ...hmm... it has gone in... maybe if i don't eat the chocolate my on going efforts will bear fruit and it will go in further... but then, when i visit my aunt she'll look at me and say "U've lost so much weight... here... EAT!!".... it would be like removing a drop and adding a gallon...

either ways an ocean will still remain relatively the same ... the rain stops and i continue

I've been pretty depressed for the past two days... I wanted to go to my cousins place, but then decided not to.. i did not get much study done yesterday .... i need to complete these questions... now i've got to deal with the guilt of wasting yesterday and the depression while I continue studying... way to go...

The certification is important.. people are counting on me for the benefit the certification brings.. what is it about me that makes people think they can count on me?
is it my not so broad shoulders..
my huge belly..
or the blank expression on my face when someone asks "could u do me a favour?"

..i will never know

i reach the center... its open... maybe it is a city after all

i find the chocolate counter to be unmanned ... i go behind the counter to get a better look at whats there and whats not....i hear a voice coming at me ...."could u tell me where i could find a shirt of my size" he says plucking at his shirt....
Im wearing a crumpled T-shirt..semi soaked jeans..with wet, messed up hair and my trademark ... a stubble u can spot from a mile

.....what makes u think i will be able to find u ur shirt? do i look like i work here... look around the guys who work here look a whole lot decent..

think...person...think... some people i tell u cannot be rational at all...

i said i had no idea, he aplogises and walks on to the next unsuspecting customer..

Damn "the one and only chocolate that i would want and eat" is not available.....

thats me being picky

i walk out to my bike.. ride around the city ... nothing is open ... or "the one and only chocolate that i would want and eat" is not available... but i could buy some fancy pajamas or have a dosa....

after a while i give up and settle for baskin robbin's chocolate mouse royale.... only the most yummiest and creamiest chocolate ice cream in the whole wide world.... but it will have to do ...tsk tsk

moral of the story... im not sure ... not figured that one out yet.....its back to page 159 question 76.....