I'm SO glad you're a boy!!

I'M BAAAAAAACCKKK!!!!!


*Deafening silence*



Oh well, don't say I didn't tell ya.



Ages since I logged in.....am sure there's tons of great posts that I've gotta catch up with. Been kinda bogged down with work (aren't we all).... some of it pretty shitty at that. And a 'life', so to speak, remains non-existent. Hmmm.... atleast somethings are constant. As a colleague of mine puts it "Life ees the sucks, man!!!" No, he's not a school dropout or something, in case you're wondering.

A quick clarification on the title....it's NOT pro female-infanticide. It's got to do with a tag that Philip passed on to me eons ago...procrastination's just one of my many virtues btw.

So here goes....T&C of the tag are as follows:

Pick up the nearest book.
Open to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people, and acknowledge the person who tagged you.

Confession: I've Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V'd the last 5 lines from Philip's blog. Y'see, it's like, y'know, this little neurotic fixation that the yum-bee-yay tribe has.... we do not type and expend precious energy if there's any means of avoiding it in the first place.

Step 1: Thou shalt pick up the nearest book
Blindly sweep my arm over the table next to my bed. Pick up topmost book that gets knocked to the floor. Maeve Binchy's "The Copper Beech". Ok I can see all you macho dudes roll your eyes skyward... trust me, it wouldn't hurt to read this genre of books once in a while. And in my opinion, Maeve Binchy does NOT write chick lit, though her stories appeal more to women. Background info time. The book's about a group of classmates who grow up together in an Irish village. Each chapter's named after one person. Each chapter traces a series of events through the same time period but from a different person's perspective. And thus an entire story builds up.
Time for step 2.

Step 2: Thou shalt open to page 123
Done. Next?

Step 3: Thou shalt find the fifth sentence
Got it. Wait...oh damn..that was the seventh line (or was it the sixth?) Never claimed I was good with numbers anyway. Recount. Ahhh. NOW I've got it.

Step 4: Thou shalt post the next three sentences

"I always told myself that when we were both sixteen, I would tell you I've known since the very beginning that you were a boy. I was afraid to tell you that I knew in case you'd stop writing. I like you being a boy"

Cryptic?? Simple enough really. Eddie's an awkward young fella who decides to make a friend through his school's pen-pal program. So this nine-year-old picks out 'Chris' from Scotland. Chris's first reply reveals that Chris is actually short for Christine, AND she thinks she's writing to an Edith, not Eddie. The rest of it goes about how Eddie remains Edith for a few more years blah blah blah, till Chris writes to him on his sixteenth birthday, from lines five to ten or so on page 123.

Step 5: Thou shalt tag five people, and acknowledge the person who tagged you.

I tag thee...

Nikhil - who writes about pretty much everything under the sun. His only problem here would be which book's page 123 will qualify. Or if it happens to be one of those pro-female books that he uses to take a dig or two at me. ;-)

Sritanu - The Bong bard will have something interesting for sure.

Dennis and Pradeep - Two amazingly talented writers who share one teeny-weeny flaw. They don't write. Duh. One hasnt touched his blog since January (unless he's moved it elsewhere)...and the other since June. GUYS.PLEASE.WRITE!!!

Only four people on my list...really dunno anybody else I could tag.

Acknowledgement: I raise my cup of filter kaapi to Philip, who tagged me.

Hope to write the next post after a much shorter interval...cheers!