I have unfortunately struck a weird sort of writer’s block. Anything I seek to write comes out purely in a philosophical manner. Does this mean I have grown old, mature and more serious? Now I see why they complain about growing up!! I have been on a soul searching (coincidentally, also a sole searching, after a glass went up my leg!) mission to regain that cracking sense of humor which if applied in a 350 page book would have given me a review - “ a script so funny you would need Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy to do justice* to the roles”.
*Fine, its for Jim and Eddie fans. A mallu version goes – “Cochin Haneefa and Jagathy”. And while we’re at it, though late, respect to the versatile actor.
So after a much needed boost of ego and patting myself on the pat, let me see where I can go with this. The need of the moment is to be able to successfully complete a post without having to refer to key philosophical words viz life, mind, chicken soup, opportunity, reason, BS, optimism, pessimism, (infact *ism for that matter.) In a completely unrelated thought sequence, notice how I have given myself credit by calling a total inability to write a writer’s block, and thus referring to myself as a writer; and consequently in the line following, highlighting that what I (may) have tried writing is philosophical, in the true sense of the word!! Desperate times lead to desperate measures I guess.. I have been out of any particularly useful ideas what with the world proving itself to be unbelievably humorous. And please note by “world”, I totally imply a set dominated by the CWG committee and its press releases. The one that ripped me up was Lalit Bhanot’s release where exceptional standard was shown, when he used the word standard 8 times in a sentence that highlighted how the Games Village was “the clean”. His reference to the difference between the cleanliness standards of the rest of the world and “the” Bhanot’s, while apparently implying India, (quite obviously a technique to enable the possibilities of a white-lie-denial), was hilarious.. Quite sadly, googling him titled him as the Delhi Games Spokesperson. With spoke(s) like those, no wonder the wheel wouldn’t move so well.
But then again, all is well that ends well. Though I still haven’t been able to get my hands on a “full stream-able video which can made to be looked like a client system or atleast something less colorful” copy of the Commonwealth games, few sections which I managed to see while swapping between that and a horribly bad Malayalam movie, were really good.. Long sentence short, CWG inauguration good, mallu movie Utharaswayamvarm suicidal!!
And since we are on the topic, CWG totally had a ossumm (mallu dictionary : n : (pronounced ohssome) : awesome) “Chendakottu” representation.. Ha! The amazing feeling you get when you realize you have seen a part of the same thing which people paid thousands for, while you were walking(rather dozing) reluctantly, half naked, next to an elephant, is brilliant. But yes, setting aside the localized smugness in seeing a huge mallu representation, on the whole India was at her best..
So kudos to India and real proud of her ability (at least to the extent it is) to integrate such a huge cultural variety. Well…hoping to be able to come up with more relevant posts and with a plan to foray into micro blogging, that’s all the BS there is for now. J
