tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111570772024-03-08T06:30:43.052+05:30bronxmoonThe random rambles of a global wanderer. The mind wanders more than the body ever can and goes back and forth between infinite memories. Take a peek...........bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-49392809166754452312008-03-14T10:05:00.002+05:302008-03-14T10:12:34.474+05:30Baggins has moved to a new cavePliss to update your links and blogrolls ( we the deluded ppl believe that we exist on ppl's blogrolls)we are here now.Thanks for coming by every now and then . Do visit at the new place and look at our ring.bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-8608777766271346742008-01-14T22:14:00.000+05:302008-01-14T22:17:00.858+05:30Duh , really ??!!Your True Sign Is SagittariusFunnyConfidentEasily BoredPhilosophicalWorld TravelerSpontaneous and WildCarefree and IrresponsibleBlunt to the Point of TactlessWhat Sign Woman Are You, Really?bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-55463187583318404502007-12-31T21:55:00.000+05:302008-12-10T16:10:03.529+05:30ME-me 2007Main manta hoonMain is baat se poori tarah se sehmat hoonJab tum kehti hoKi, " Shayar na hote, to bahut jhoote insaan hote tum"( I admit, I fully agree with you , when , you say, that, If I hadn't been a poet, I'd have been a liar)Ubermensch started this meme and I picked it up at Parikrama's. It's easy. All one has to do is post a pic one has snapped in the year 2007 and also a short write up onbilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-6913556894610430742007-10-04T09:28:00.000+05:302007-10-04T09:38:13.163+05:30I am trying to use my soapboxHi guys,Finally peeking to scream for some ice cream.If you think I am nuts, ah well, PhD does expand to Pagal Ho gay(a/i) Dekho.For those who want to know ( my two readers that is), the thesis is on schedule and in a couple of wks I should know if I finally get to be called Dr. Baggins.till then , keep me in your prayers .And now for the soapbox part. My blogger buddy entered his pic in a bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-75113548191789069742007-07-19T10:07:00.000+05:302007-07-19T14:55:19.333+05:308 and 3I've been tagged yet again , this time by lalouve and nazi for the 8 and 3 tag. The number 8 reminded me of Thomas Jefferson and his obsession with the octagon. I visited the UVA campus in Charlottesville, Virginia in the christmas vacation of '02, and thats when , I had the opportunity of visiting Monticello and Bourboursville vineyard. The octagon was ubiquitous. We did get sick of it bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-10492889592335557872007-05-18T10:19:00.000+05:302007-05-18T10:34:53.317+05:30The sleep of innocenceThis happened almost a life time back. I was back in India, Delhi to be precise and was enrolled in a bachelor's degree program and commuted back and forth between west Delhi and Cannought Place. ( I still can't bring myself to call it Rajiv Chauk)I was on my way home and had my bag with a gazillion texts inside it sitting on my lap, when a young couple got in with a toddler and infant and the bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-61416329186396953312007-05-08T13:09:00.000+05:302007-05-08T16:06:13.877+05:30Friends for a reasonApril 04. I was at school at NYC and had decided to quit the program I was in, cold turkey and come back home to my parents in Tokyo. It took me all of 12 days to decide, get the visa, buy the air ticket, pack up a home I’d built over the last 2 and a half yrs and leave, knowing fully well I would have next to no social life once I moved. To add to all that, I had no clue of what I’d be doing. bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-48586222095866348802007-05-01T10:06:00.000+05:302007-05-01T10:10:34.532+05:30Am I weird or am I weird ???Posting here a conversation I had with a friend .A: hello!B: hey dudeA: how are you?B : long time no see.A: I guess weekend no see!B: I guess soA: so whassup with you?B: me wondering if I should stop being a grammar NaziA: why?A: what happened?B: turns out almost no one speaks grammatically correct English anymoreB: and bad grammar is a pet peeveA :)B: any guy I talk to in the matrimonial contextbilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-79253789153532462062007-04-17T15:16:00.001+05:302007-04-17T15:16:39.286+05:30ME Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-26059705515919070322007-02-12T09:55:00.000+05:302007-02-12T10:04:48.505+05:30Of faith or something like itI’ve moved every three yrs more or less till now. New places, new people and new things… Yet there are some things that aren’t so new. These are the things that I’ve carried with me from one place to another, at times across countries. And, each time I start doing up my room, the collection only looks bigger. Lets take a peak into what this magpie has refused to throw, come moving timeI am not anbilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1167693330296655502007-01-02T04:42:00.000+05:302007-01-04T13:58:48.850+05:30Horoscope for resolutionsSays the MSN astrology pagewhat does mine say1) Fun has never been a problem. During August and September, resolve to show the higher-ups the brains behind that humor everyone loves.2) Get even more serious about your short-term goals by fall.3) Don't deny yourself that new experience you've been craving, be it a trip or a class.4) Make nice-nice with your family. March might be best. (No faces, bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1165302973117572432006-12-05T12:01:00.001+05:302006-12-06T11:42:52.753+05:30A wkend in GunmaI recently had the opportunity to attend the anniversary celebrations of the founding of a Buddhist temple in Japan. The officiating priest, R , has a doctorate in Indian Buddhist Philosophy from Delhi University and he runs this temple in a quaint village in the Gunma Prefecture in Japan. It took us two hrs to get to Gunma from Tokyo. We were met by R who then proceeded to show us around the bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1161381586175984942006-10-21T03:20:00.000+05:302006-10-21T03:34:18.096+05:30Let there be light I am sharing , the diwali greetings I received, offcourse with the permission of the friend who sent it to me.According to the Vedic culture, the message of Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya (from darkness unto light) is given through the festival of Deepawali to all peoples of the world. During the night of Deepawali the myriads of little clay lamps (diyas) seem to silently send forth Deepawali messages:bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1159521177626831892006-09-29T13:57:00.000+05:302006-09-29T14:49:03.560+05:30Lost in translation - why it sucksYep, posting after a long time. It took something like today's event that brought me out of the forced blogging hiatus. So, a few days back, I finally got to see the orthopaedist for my arm . After a lot of prodding and hitting and all that torture, he ruled out Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Instead , he went, for further diagnosis, he'd need me to take an MRI exam. He went on to ask if I was bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1157526517035191812006-09-06T12:38:00.000+05:302006-09-06T13:11:20.350+05:30Random musingsHaven't been posting for a while, but I guess this could wait. Had a lot on the plate and then on the mind. Am done with some of the actual work but when does the mind really take a break.In the last wk, got diagnosed with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Did not really want to tell the folks about it , but they did learn of it via bro the tattle tale. Was asked to quit and come home. Makes me wonder, if bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1155018390165985512006-08-08T11:56:00.000+05:302006-08-08T18:10:12.363+05:30Another trip to mt fujiI've been in Japan for two years now, and , while I 've had plenty of views of Mt fuji, or as good a view as can be had from Tokyo city, the cliched view of the icecap on the peak of Fuji san and a shinkansen running in front of it, has eluded me so far. In this quest of mine, I've been to Hakone and fuji city. So, when a few friends expressed a wish to go to Mt fuji, I jumped at the bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1154591512816474462006-08-03T13:20:00.000+05:302006-08-03T13:21:52.830+05:30Tum pukaar loThats me crooning the number , or trying to .bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1154413057556989402006-08-01T11:47:00.000+05:302006-08-01T11:47:37.570+05:30Are you a lady?You Are 92% LadyNo doubt about it, you are a lady with impeccable etiquetteYou know how to put others at ease, even if their manners aren't the greatest.Are You A Lady?bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1154007862510279592006-07-27T19:07:00.000+05:302006-07-27T19:14:22.526+05:30Courtesy common ?"We often feel that we don't have the time or energy to extend ourselves to others with the small gestures that compose what we call common courtesy. It sometimes seems that this kind of social awareness belongs to the past, to smaller towns and slower times. Yet, when someone extends this kind of courtesy to us, we always feel touched. Someone who lends a helping hand when we are struggling withbilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1153533828179395562006-07-22T07:31:00.000+05:302006-07-22T07:33:48.193+05:30Much too PerfectWas in lab today and as is usual, was browsing blogs and came across an awesome read.Am not implying my own perfection here, but quiet a lot in this post struck close to home. Do read.bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1153529251413556942006-07-22T06:01:00.000+05:302006-07-22T07:18:22.650+05:30Home is...For a few days now, I've been downloading books and then reading them on my comp. on the monorail. As I've mentioned earlier, the monorail has picture windows that afford a nice view of the neighbourhood we pass by, and, the neighbourhood is beautiful, each second of the commute and each view is a Patel Shot.But , however beautiful a thing might be , if you see it twice a day, every day for 20 bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1152791833167217732006-07-13T17:01:00.000+05:302006-07-13T17:27:13.246+05:30An innocent hugbilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1151303068404104522006-06-26T11:37:00.000+05:302006-06-26T12:00:37.360+05:30The T-tagBurfi did the honors for this one. grrr. But, atleast he took the pain of coming up with one of his own :P .Here goes nothing1. Most desirable celebrity : Johnny Deppwhy, jack sparrow any one?!!2.Want to do this one day:roll my own sushiI live in Japan for cryin out loud.3. Want to visit this place: Shirakawa -go in the gifu prefecturethe houses with their unique roofs have been designated as bilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1151297977912931162006-06-26T10:28:00.000+05:302006-06-26T10:29:37.950+05:30How do I writeYou Should Be A PoetYou craft words well, in creative and unexpected ways.And you have a great talent for evoking beautiful imagery...Or describing the most intense heartbreak ever.You're already naturally a poet, even if you've never written a poem.What Type of Writer Should You Be?Well I do put on my pj bottoms before I start writing :Pbilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11157077.post-1151240623740846362006-06-25T18:29:00.000+05:302006-06-26T06:55:41.063+05:30A tag abt meWhoever thought up of tags. Been tagged by Apy, for this one. Thankfully its a small one. So, here are a few things about me at this moment.I am thinking about that besan laddu sitting next to the laptop. To eat or not to eatI said what? I don't remember now.I want to graduate.I missbilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16324778684367886967noreply@blogger.com2