Still the next best thing

Spotted

"Journalism ails from its perception. Blogging, from its own structure, and the very people constituting it." - Anonymous

"Blogging will always remain the next best thing. Anyway you look at it." - Anonymous

Ouch!..

p.s. - I couldnt have agreed more.

Royal Crackheads

Our trigger happy Prince Harry's long time wish to get his head count(kill count) to increase manifolds just hit a roadblock. He is, much to the celebration of the british army posted in Iraq, not really going to the battlefield.
The interesting thing is, everybody except the redhead himself has greeted the news with celebratory dinners. The soldiers in Iraq dont want him, their wives and children dont want him to go, lest their spouse be in the line of fire, and ofcourse, the royal family isnt complaining either. A special mention of Prince William who wants his bro to be by his side in his moment of self- inlflicted crisis(he recently broke up with his gal..yes ppl, even the prince is in the same boat as us..(SP, Pj, Nik, me, William, AB Vajpayee, and Himesh Reshammiya)..
The prince had initially threatened to quit the army if his appointment to the blood soaked land was taken back. And his plea was actually considered!..Please, make sure this news doesnt reach any of our Hurriyat Conference people, who threaten to quit every time they have the urge to pee.
Nevertheless, his 'i threaten to quit' file probably will now lie with the 'i have more plans'-the tony blair one...

And, btw, what is all the fuss about Charles doing an autobiographical movie?..He's using an ass double for the sex scenes though..Appropriate enough..

Conversations of my kind

P: Tell me frankly Pourush, am I beautiful?

Me: Well, do I have reasons to believe that it might jeopardise my future interactions(and lodgings) in the future, if the answer isnt quite favourable to you?

P: Oh c'mon, that's the last thing you should be worried about. Shoot...

Me: I fell for you some dog years back. You were real beautiful then. You lost out some bit with time. You probably hit rock bottom in record time! And then, you vanished. You vanished with all you had. You vanished from the world around you, and all you did was just confine yourself, within yourself. I didnt see much beauty in that. I still dont.
Then, just when you were a lost chapter, a had been, in everybody's eyes, you resurfaced. This time, your beauty exceeded the comprehension of many a drooling male groups. And the best part was,you hardly seemed to care. The earlier in-your-face girl had now sobered up. You had grown intelligent by leaps and bounds. One could have thrown in all adjectives and would still curse himself for his limited vocabulary, coz you would still be standing there, grossly under-complimented(if thats a word!). You were a lady. You had the grace now.

And now, when all around you seem struggling and fighting for space, you have elevated yourself above everybody else, and created a niche for yourself, a space that nobody could venture out to occupy, coz they dont know it exists. And there you shall be, undefeated by time, a silent victorious smile on display, a celebration within yourself. That, is beauty. I dont know if I've answered the question within the parameters of the question itself. Have I?

P: I have all the reasons to believe you have.

Much ado for nothing

Chennai..Besant nagar..CCD..friends..jobless..

"Kareena kapoor is shit! Period."
And there she said it. Some guys ran for cover, some died that very moment, the allegation was too much for them.
Others, like me, braced up to defend the kapoor babe. We had to. She questioned our taste, our love for adoring our desi on-screen cleavage goddess, and most of all, our choice of fantasising her while shooting blanks(SP only).

I sprung into action. Her knight in shining armour had come to her rescue. "You are so wrong gal. She is our answer to the blonde(read dumb) Pamela 'big' Anderson. And after Jockey, she's the next best thing to naked for guys like SP, and Varun.

Deb: What nonsense. 'If looks could kill, she would have been charged with suicide! She even lacks the basic intelligence to know that Euthanasia is not a member of the Asian Cricket Council! Last time someone asked if she supports Euthanasia, she replied yes, and would like to have a concert for her fans there!..

Me: 'Intelligence?!! You have no right to insult her like this. Who cares for intelligence or common sense from a babe who knows to flaunt, and flaunt well at that!. And why would she ever do it if she had brains?!! And, on the same line of thought, look at whats happening to your intelligent actresses out there. Ayesha Jhulka said yesterday that she's waiting for good scripts to come her way where she's the lead actress. No comments on how appropriately she's using her 'freedom of choice'! And dont even get me started on Preity Zinta with her 'pink' advertisements and BSNL best bitchings.

Deb: Whatever! I need a coffee, Kareena needs sense. I will get mine real easy, and sadly she still has a long way to get hers. And btw, who said she's beautiful?

Now was the time for Varun to come out of the dead and throw in his expert(yuck, boring, killing) comment. "Kareena can act, talk Chameli. Kareena is cute, watch Refugee. Kareena is, intelligent enough to ignore this conversation thats going nowhere. Now if you'll please let me finish my Frappe and help me justify why my coming to Chennai was worth it!

It turned out to be the final nail in the coffin. But somebody forgot to tell Bhargav that, coz two minutes into the next talk on some pass out coming in wth his gal, he blurted out, 'I like Kareena. She is good. Wotsay Amrita?'

Period.