"Prehistoric garbage trucks have the city to themselves...."
"....all i can do is hand it to you, and your latest trick." M. Knofler is good.
Thought Id give all you folks a quick update.
Jeebus is this what I have reduced myself to? "Quick updates .."? Take me now.
I have been obsessed with thinking about getting a Royal Enfield motorcycle. A british motorcycle that was left behind and is still made lovingly in india. A collegue of mine( Chris from RI) had told me when people at this point of life start looking for a motorcycle, it shows they have entered their mid life crisisssy zone.
I had a a revelation last evening. levis and other brands sold in india are also made in India( very likely the ones sold in the States are also made here) but they are made for a "different price point". They still cost the dollar equivalent of about USD 40 but the material etc is much lighter and the whole quality thing seems severely compromised. And people buy them like there is no tomorrow.
Indian media is the pits. Of late they are trying hard to emulate the states or perhaps they are just stealing straight from US newspapers/tv media and writing stories that parallel recent US events.
For example:
US: 9/11
India: 26/11 ( they also want to have surgical nuclear strikes in pakistan. All (gods minus allah) help us all.)
US: Enron
India : Satyam
( media has assumed that since india too had a failure in corporate governance that it is just like the states.)
US: "Sully" saves lives as he lands a full flight in the frigid Hudson after birdstrikes kill his engines. he is the last man off and traverses his cabin twice to ensure everyone is off. He is a hero who shuns fame and unassumingly declares that all pilots are trained for such emergencies and he was just doing his job.
India: The indian presidents helicopter decides to land between two runways in Mumbai without notice to air traffic control. An AirIndia flight about to start its take off has to abort. Pilot responds correctly to air traffic control request to stop. he applies brakes and stops. media goes to town with headlines about a pilot , who heroically saved a plane full of passengers by keeping a cool head. After snagging an interview with the pilot( he shuns fame)the media reports that he unassumingly answers in an interview that "...any pilot instructed to stop his take off run would have done the same." Our very own "Sully". Coincidentally his name was "kohli".
I cant bear to read the morning paper. I read the trashiest glossy gossip section because it seems to be more truthful about what it is doing. How eating papayas can make you feel younger. or how i can tell if my spouse is having an affair.( "She wont be interested in sex") . WTF?????
so i have been reading TinTin comics before i go to bed. I highly recommend getting a hardbound three pack edition. great artwork and very imaginative stories. And you will feel you are twelve again.
this is such a negative post.
.
Thought Id give all you folks a quick update.
Jeebus is this what I have reduced myself to? "Quick updates .."? Take me now.
I have been obsessed with thinking about getting a Royal Enfield motorcycle. A british motorcycle that was left behind and is still made lovingly in india. A collegue of mine( Chris from RI) had told me when people at this point of life start looking for a motorcycle, it shows they have entered their mid life crisisssy zone.
I had a a revelation last evening. levis and other brands sold in india are also made in India( very likely the ones sold in the States are also made here) but they are made for a "different price point". They still cost the dollar equivalent of about USD 40 but the material etc is much lighter and the whole quality thing seems severely compromised. And people buy them like there is no tomorrow.
Indian media is the pits. Of late they are trying hard to emulate the states or perhaps they are just stealing straight from US newspapers/tv media and writing stories that parallel recent US events.
For example:
US: 9/11
India: 26/11 ( they also want to have surgical nuclear strikes in pakistan. All (gods minus allah) help us all.)
US: Enron
India : Satyam
( media has assumed that since india too had a failure in corporate governance that it is just like the states.)
US: "Sully" saves lives as he lands a full flight in the frigid Hudson after birdstrikes kill his engines. he is the last man off and traverses his cabin twice to ensure everyone is off. He is a hero who shuns fame and unassumingly declares that all pilots are trained for such emergencies and he was just doing his job.
India: The indian presidents helicopter decides to land between two runways in Mumbai without notice to air traffic control. An AirIndia flight about to start its take off has to abort. Pilot responds correctly to air traffic control request to stop. he applies brakes and stops. media goes to town with headlines about a pilot , who heroically saved a plane full of passengers by keeping a cool head. After snagging an interview with the pilot( he shuns fame)the media reports that he unassumingly answers in an interview that "...any pilot instructed to stop his take off run would have done the same." Our very own "Sully". Coincidentally his name was "kohli".
I cant bear to read the morning paper. I read the trashiest glossy gossip section because it seems to be more truthful about what it is doing. How eating papayas can make you feel younger. or how i can tell if my spouse is having an affair.( "She wont be interested in sex") . WTF?????
so i have been reading TinTin comics before i go to bed. I highly recommend getting a hardbound three pack edition. great artwork and very imaginative stories. And you will feel you are twelve again.
this is such a negative post.
.