The Goat

 

Gupta Rajan: “But then someone walks into the room and stand in front of this little man. ‘Put the guns away’, the man said. ‘Nobody will die today.’”
Crowd: “Who? Who was it that saved him? Yeah, tell us. Who was it? Who was this man?”
Gupta Rajan: “Navorski. Viktor ‘The Goat’ Navorski.”

Lines from Tom Hanks starrer The Terminal where janitor Gupta Rajan dramatically describes the incident that heralded Viktor Navorski’s widespread popularity and endearment at the terminal. Nice movie, that was. But the focus tonight is, The Goat.

The Goat, suggested as an alter for me by Hari. The word alter (not to be confused with alter ego ) was used for lack of knowledge of better word/phrase and for sounding cool . The idea is a name or entity which would represent me in cyberspace – an avatar. The primary reason for this this suggestion is the tuft that I let grow under my chin, under the pretense of a goatee. Now, this bunch of hair draws mild to serious flak with some people I meet, but still, I keep it as I think it looks okay on me.

Coming back to The Goat, when I think of it, is indeed a good alter/avatar for me. Add to it, the fact that my zodiac sign is Capricon, again The Goat. I have to dig up facts and folklore to see whether I have something in common with the goat – I’m expecting to see “Goats are the most intelligent animals on earth …” and stuff like that. The Goat might just be the harbinger of my fame and fortune, as was Mr. Navorski’s. Blah!

P.S:- I lost today, the vainness of being non-reachable out of home. Got a mobile phone and a connection to go with it, I meant. Sayonara, the jaada of telling someone that I consider the mobile phone a burden. You will be missed.

Happy Birthday!

Gundu a.k.a Poocha (the former being the original name and the latter, the current usage), the resident feline at my home turned a mighty six today.

To cut all the fancy imagination, her allegiance is more towards my mum who feeds her, she doesn’t respond to my beckoning and petting if she doesn’t feel like during most of the time she spent around me, we had the beloved company of either food or slumber. Too intelligent and sophisticated to see through us dumb humans. I don’t fancy having a buddy chat with a real cat, anyway.

But she keeps me company and is verily a dear part of my life for the past six years as much as anything else.

Happy Birthday, pal!

P.S:- Damn, I don’t even have a nice photograph of her to put up here. Sigh . Time to get a digital camera of my own.

Swimming!

I religiously wriggle myself out of even minuscule amounts of physical activity. Yesterday, I went swimming with Hari, that too, without even the slightest of prodding from his side. Now, haven’t I got two sentences which implicitly contradict each other? Yes.

• Went swimming in the mini-pool at the Akkulam tourist-whatever.
• Almost got the pool to ourselves, since the other inhabitants were a college-guy-duo like us, and a young dad taking time out with his two young kids.
• Greenish water from the Akkulam lake, chilled to a toe-curling temperature by the incessant monsoon showers.
• No doors for the shower-rooms and no bath towel with me; Hari wisely suggests we bail out 5 minutes before the culmination of our one-hour slot.
• Local men fishing by the banks of the lake, reminding me of Vijith (a friend from college) going fishing the day before our current exams began.
• Massive potholes craters partnering with heavy showers make Akkulam road every commuter’s dream stretch.

Anything left out? Ah, yes.

• I was swimming after almost three years, the last dip (no swimming, just rollicking in the chest-high water) being at Veega Land during my 11th standard tour.
• I didn’t drown. (saved me from certain death and grave embarrassment in front of Hari, who started paddling a good number of years after me)

Hiatus

Yes, hiatus. And more hiatus. And more.

Blues

I’ve decided to port over from Blogger to WordPress. I have trucked all the posts from the one at Blogger (actually, WordPress did it for me. Thanks, mate!) to WordPress. My current idea is to maintain the two as mirror images of each other. I repeat, my CURRENT IDEA (not even a CURRENT DECISION).