Long delayed...

... has this post been on the state of affairs in the world. I'm largely bored which explains both the lack of something to write about and the lack of enthusiasm to write about something. But we're changing that. The cobwebs that have grown around the keys have been wiped clean and those little bits of dust stuck in between have been dealt with an ingenious device - the USB powered vacuum cleaner. How cool is that? USB powers the world at large if no one's noticed. After cell phones and Microsoft, USB is binding us and bringing us closer.
How? I don't care it just sounded cool to give the port importance.
Slumdog has swept the Oscars. Leaving a very disgruntled Sukhwinder Singh moping on the sidelines. Little unfair but c'est la vie, apparently. Resul Pookutty is da man. But seriously best film and best director? Think the Academy needs to take stalk of where they stand. It's a good movie, different from the rest of the stuff that comes out of Hollywood and apparently different enough to make Benjamin Button, Frost, Nixon and the rest of them seem - ordinary at best. In any case it won and a bunch of Indians are jumping around claiming that it's our movie. No it isn't. It got shot in Mumbai, that doesn't make it our movie. If it were our movie, it would have never reached the Kodiak Theater. It wouldn't even have run longer than Billoo Barber (which till I got to know better, I was hoping was a rip off of Sweeny Todd).
So stop calling Slumdog an Indian movie and feel happy for AR Rehaman. His work is finally being recognized.
And global and local warming has arrived making life a sticky sweaty mess most of the time. Polar bears are apparently turning bipolar with the glaciers melting, and Arctic Terns have decided to no longer migrate. I'm looking at a Honda Civic Hybrid and coming with a cruel reality that even the electricity that would charge the car is generated by the burning of fossil fuels.
It's all going downhill and the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep. Before we go back to the stone age. Though I still believe we were at the height of peaceful coexistence then. Largely because there were too few people to make a difference.
Morbidity apart, I've blissfully rediscovered the Star Wars, comics in .cbr/.cbz, pakistani music, lounging around in a lizard like fashion and other such hedonistic pleasures that would at best last the next 3 days till I find myself back in Emergency.
Oh well, that's fun too. May the force be with you.