Random Musings

I saw a huge hoarding of some Chatrapati Yoga Maharaj (what a terrible name to have!) who has decided to go an indefinite hunger strike against terrorism (or something along those lines) in a glass room.
Now I have two questions
1) How does it help if Mr. Yoga Maharaj goes on a hunger strike? Does he think Osama Bin Laden is going to be moved to tears by his thoughtful gesture and permanently renounce his activities?

2) Why, I mean WHY a glass room? He can fast if he wants to. There are plenty of loonies like him craving for publicity. But why a glass room? I have no issues with glass rooms as such but still! What difference is it going to make if the room is made of glass or wood? All the photographers who he thinks are going to hound him can click his pictures in any room! Or does Mr. Laden have a fancy for glass rooms…?

Have you ever come across a disinterested beggar at a signal? He will come up to you so lethargically and ask for money. Even while he is asking for money he will be looking at something else, completely disinterested in you or your money. He won’t persist if you refuse. He will just walk away without looking back.
I mean seriously atleast try to make me feel sorry for you! Make me want to give you some money! Don’t just do it for the sake of doing it! It is your job. Shouldn’t you take it seriously?
I can hear a lot of people clicking their tongues at me for making fun of poor people. I’ll stop now. Please don’t hate me.

I was watching the news this afternoon. The CBI has given Jagdish Tytler a clean chit in the 1984 riots case and needless to say the Sikhs have not taken this news too kindly. So they decided to protest outside the Congress HQ. In a symbolic protest, some random man was playing a dummy Jagdish Tytler and 5 others were pretending to hit him with a chappal. One bloke there took his job a little too seriously and was actually thrashing that guy with his chappal. Honestly it was rather funny! Poor Mr. dummy Tytler! I’ll bet that’s not what he expected when he signed up for that job.

See disinterested beggars? This is what you call taking your job seriously :)

Do you remember the show ‘Kids Say the Darndest Things’ hosted by Bill Cosby? For those who haven’t seen that show, Cosby used to interview these kids who said the most amusing things unintentionally and with such innocence. Now see those were the good old days when kids were kids-untouched by consumerism, technology and all that jazz. But kids these days…..tsk tsk…


My closest friends call me Twiggy. Not too many people know the story behind that. We were shooting for some project in Dobu’s building and we needed a few kids for the shoot. There was this group of kids playing nearby and so we went and asked them. You know how every group has this jackass who thinks he is supercool? Well, this group had one too. This ten year old boy looks at me and goes, “Oh my god! She looks like a twig!” And I was too shocked to respond. When I was ten, I would never have even thought of insulting a random stranger. I’m not even sure I knew what a twig was when I was ten! And that is how i came to be known as Twiggy...
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I was walking on the street today and there was this little girl who was a little over 2 feet walking behind me. Now she kept stepping on my chappals and I almost tripped thanks to her. I didn’t expect a sorry or anything but then she walked ahead of me, looked back and gave ME a disgusted look! And I’m like, wait I second did I do something wrong here? Now I can’t just let that kid get away with something like that. So I stuck my tongue out at her and made an equally disgusted face. Aha! Take that! Sorry Missy, two can play at that game!