The Hol Blog 2

     I'm shit bored here, man. The first week of holidays was spent in eating. Like. Hell. I also met a lot of friends and finally delivered the Mridangam to a senior's mom for repair and maintenance. Now I am spending time with the cat, which sleeps all the time and reading The Fall of Giants. The book, as I said is amazing.
     Now blasting Ensiferum(Exotic tastes, people, exotic tastes, read The Hol blog 1...) in my room. A beautiful thing about Indians is that thy neighbor is never troubled, at least he acts as if he's not, by the decibel level of thy music, 'cos
    1. He's too lazy to stand up for his rights as an Indian, preferring to curse and whine and gripe about you rather than knock at your door.
    2. He had been doing the same thing to you a few days back and is resigned himself to the fate that he's paying for his sins...
    The music is just a metaphor for those little, but not so little things which your neighbor does to upset you, like keeping a dog which is a barking alarm at two in the night, dumping his garbage in front of your gate, buying non veg from the road sellers(This, coming from a non vegan, but it attracts flies and stinks and the hawker putting his hand inside the fish's mouth.. ew!), having an AC which has a leaky nose and a liking for your head...
     The worst neighbor is the Cheapass neighbor. The neighbor who washes clothes in the terrace because he doesn't want to waste his own water, uses the common plug point to run all his electrical appliances. That's worse than having a friend who eats at your mess and increases your food bill. Am I touching some nerve here?
     I checked my mail and saw that there was this mail thread linked to ideas for Sangamam 2k11. Thats the classical dance show of Raag for the second semester, usually based on a story or a theme. Holy shit, some of the ideas were wonderful. Professional. A little twinge of guilt here, having not offered any ideas myself. Ajay(The prez) is going to kill me...
    I also want to talk about the wonder woman and lobbyist Niira Radia. Not about the scams she's involved in. That's already going on full blast(Or, is it? Newspapers aren't willing to lose ad revenue from our dear Ambanis, are they?) in the media. All I want to do is offer a 21 gun salute to the daring nerve this woman has had in putting up our democracy and India as a republic up for sale, right from selecting portfolios to ministers, cozying up to the biggest names of corporate India to bloody deciding what newspapers should publish. Yep, that's the parliament and the Freedom of Press taken care of. Anyone for telling me what else democracy means?
   Mom's getting me a lappy for the next sem! Will use it only for slides...