This city is getting hotter. Its pretty unbearable nowadays. Recently we were watching the news at around 11.30 in the night and it showed "Live Temperatures" - Chennai 30.4 degrees Celsius. Its quite horrible actually.

Aside from our latest Cluedo addiction, Joseph and I arent doing anything other than laze around because of the heat.
Its too hot.
Way too hot.

So today, we went to Vivs. The Vivs famous for its Chilly Beef. I like Indian Chinese food. But really, I think Vivs is a little overrated.

But anyway, the food is okay.. and we really cant cook, so we dont have a choice, but I'll still grumble.

Joseph has decided he wants to go to Mumbai.

It might be a place not many people like, but I absolutely love Bangalore.

Twice before, have Zothan and I planned a trip to Bangalore, both of which failed. Third time, with Megadeth ticket in hand, (atleast mine and PITA's) we head to Bangalore.
Incidentally, the train was the same train abhinandan dhakal, (sikkim boy), had missed a couple of weeks back. So we decided to reach 2 minutes PRIOR, thats 120 seconds mind you, to the time the departure is mentioned on the ticket.
However, the Indian Railways disappointed us by ensuring that the train left half an hour POST the time written on the ticket. Thank you, Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav.

Megadeth undoubtedly was awesome. Anyone who said they sucked (all the people who werent there, ie) can jump into a bucket full of water and old underwear.
They were fucking brilliant
Setlist:

sleepwalker
wake up dead
take no prisoners
skin of my teeth
washington is next
in my darkest hour
a tout le monde
chris broderick solo spot
hanger 18
tornado of souls
symphony of destruction
trust
peace sells
burnt ice
Holy Wars.. The Punishment Due/Mechanix Medley

Undoubtedly Peace and holy wars and a tout le monde had the most number of people jumping around (a tout le monde too, yes)

Motherjane was brilliant.. loads of stuff from their new album they played.. interesting sounds.. sort of like a sound make over for them. it suits them.. brilliant stuff!

Millenium, I'd never heard of them before, but they got the crowd moving amazingly well!

JYG was good.. a bit off on that day.. but enjoyable nonetheless..

TAAQ, I missed.

Prestorika, Ive never exactly been a huge fan, but they seemed pretty tight with their music..

Casino Blues.. I missed most of their stuff, but they did a good cover of U2's Where the streets have no name..

pentagram, I didnt bother.

BUT I FUCKING LOVE BANGALORE!!

Today, I wandered off into this blog, the link to which I found on Ankita's. It was about Kerala. All about Kerala.

I love my state. I love my city more. My city is Kochi, for those of you who don't know. I get the piss taken off me for being Mallu in this city (Chennai). But its okay. I'm a "patriotic" mallu. As Sriram (in an inebriated state) once put it, "Malluism is a way of life".

So true. Once a mallu, always a mallu. Loads of people who go abroad always think of their state. Its because of the natural beauty of the area. Nothing else.

The ugly side of Kerala, however are the hartals. I hate hartals. It paralyses life in the city. Its become better more recently though.

The funniest thing I ever saw was the ruling government's response to why they declare so many hartals,
because the people enjoy it.

I laugh at them. I hate governments, whether in Kerala or here.

They are useless. They do no productive work.

And then we crib about them. We put them to power next term by not voting.

"Its not like it'll make a difference though, cause all politicians are the same".

Enter politics. I would'nt mind. I would'nt let my country down. I love my country. I love my state, and most of all, I love my city.

Living Alone - Part 1

Well, I have shifted out of my uncle's place into a place that is relatively closer to college (by about 45 minutes). A quite interesting place it is. Its a house with about 8 bedrooms, bath attached and TV, So you rent out a bedroom with your friend. And hence I do that, and my room mate goes by the name of Joseph.
Its quite a different experience in the sense that I never really had to worry about the most basic things in life - the newspaper, drinking water etc. Now that I've moved out I do have to worry about these things. So I have just ordered a subscription for the New Indian Express or The Indian Express, whatever it is called here. I'm not a fan of the Times of India, nor am I a fan of The Hindu, and there's no way I'm going to subscribe to the Deccan Chronicle.

Hahaha.

So anyway, I moved here on friday the 29th of february. This is a very clever move, you see, because now, no one can barge into our place next year or the year after until we finish college demanding a treat for "One year of time in the house" or "Two years of time in the house"