Holi Shit

Shaju does choose moments to discuss tigers and snakes especially on our wild walks in Aarey. Life is strange. You look down and look up and the world has changed. Holi was full of colours and flirtatious with water balloons finding women targets with mind blowing regularity.

Dahanu: 3 Days

So What am I doing in Dahanu? I don’t know. But Dahanu is a quiet seaside town in sleepy northern end of Maharashtra. It’s am escape from the polluted suburbs of Mumbai. The summer has begun bringing nostalgia and heat and dust and a sense of picnicking.
Dahanu has two storied builidings and massive chikoo plantations. We walked at dusk for around 3 kms to the nearest beach. That’s the first thing we did since we came in the morning, ate a lot and slept through India’s mediocre batting. In the evening we were enjoying a 5 km walk through the beachline and a few stars. Nothing spectacular in the sky. The walk was nice and full of oxygen. So was the late night dinner at a lonely spot in the beach. It’s called a restaurant but a nice place, well lit and since it was a week night we were the only people around. One of my friends got drunk. He also happened to be the driver of a van that got dangerous for dogs at midnight.

Yawn! Indo-Pak Matches

No one cares for Indo-Pak matches anymore. I think it’s probably too much fixing or is it obvious victory or is it because I play and thus action is preferred to couch potatoing. But hey Indo-Pak matches have become a yawn.

My Kerala visit

My Kerala visit to the Ayakkad temple features at the click.

The walks in Aarey

The walks in Aarey have diverse topics. shaju decided to discuss how
snakes are avenging angels when you kill their mates. In fact, this is a
popular belief all over India. It seems that snakes do seek revenge if
you kill their mates.
–
Suneal Varma
livingontheedge@fastmail.fm

A star is born

I have nothing against Bill Gates but suddenly the
Virus makers are after his rear. My Word was
performing illegal functions and Internet Explorer had
become a hub for viruses. And I have broken free from
the Microsoft empire. I use the free beta version of
StarOffice 8 available at www.sun.com
Yesterday I scanned the net for best options.
Openoffice is great but Sun is giving free beta
version of staroffice 8 and it looks mind blowing. Who
knows I may be shifting to linux next.

Please try Firefox browser from Mozilla
StarOffice from Sun
And if you need a slick wordpad try C-Edit.

The only guy I know who sleeps with Coffee

is me. The other morning I had coffee that my mom made
me and zzzzzzzzzzz. Is it because I’m a teetotaller or
a total screw up. I will never know.
Let’s talk bill gates. Most virus cater to destruction
of MS empire. I have found a better option to internet
explorer. Called Firefox. Downloads in a ziff. And is
fast and much better looking with that fox logo.
I’m using Macromedia’s Dreamweaver and it will soon
show on my website. Frontpage was hideaus at times.
What you see is what you get is absolutely bollocks in
case of Front page.
Coming to Word. I had two love affairs. Wordstar 4
(and seven with the 4 front end) in which I wrote all
my poetry.
Word came post 95 and I loved the font Times but was
afraid until I had to teach it. Anyway my Word is
corrupt. Pun. And i’m using Jarta. Cool.
Why use a truck when you need a cycle. and
experimentation is good. I killed a mosquito. Got to go.

I hate summer, I love summer

Having lived in NZ for two years and planning to live
there for twenty more, I would naturally be averse to
summer or so I thought. But summer has raised its ugly
head again and I am neither shivering nor shuddering
at that thought. I’m surprised to say the least. I
guess all the sweat that I have worked up after
walking in Aarey jungles, partly out of fear I must
admit has opened my pores, which is important because
it helps remove the toxins. I’m back on my garlic from
hell and chilies from volcano land diet. The Kerala
trip also has done me a lot of good. That reminds me I
have to fill the Kerala papers. This time I wanted to
do it slow and savor every element of the trip, which
is incidentally blogged at ohkerala.blogspot.com