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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

I'v been reading LOTR (finally) since the past few days. Lots of people love all the songs in there. But there's one song which is probably an uncommon favourite - atleast I love it! Just copy-pasting it here...


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Sing hey! For the bath at close of day,
that washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!


O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain,
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
But better than rain or rippling stream,
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.


O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat, and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if we drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.


O! Water is fair that leaps on high,
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet,
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!

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Probably not a song many will state as one of their favourites from the book, but I can totally identify with the sentiments!!
[Notice the capitalization he's done everywhere, as if the hobbits really revere Hot Water!!]

Bangalore.. Finally

Finally - net at home and all that, so even though I do not own a laptop yet, am going to post about Bangalore from my roommates'.

I reached here about 5 weeks ago, stayed at a place called diamond district for a fortnight, searched and searched and searched for apartments and finally found something we liked. About this place...

--> Bangalore is very green, but definitely NOT clean. There's a lot of garbage generally lying around on the raods, there are open nalas which stink, and I'v even seen a couple of cockroaches and rats on the footpath :|

--> There's a CCD every 500m. Seriously.

--> Girls get looks from passers-by as early as 9-930. Being from A city like Pune, I never thought 9 could be late for going home.

--> I don't even want to get started on the auto drivers. They blantantly ask for anything between 100-150 bucks for 5-8 km, and actually expect you to pay!! The bus drivers also happily charge more if u ask them for the actual ticket. Blatant corruption.

--> There are a lot of malls here.. and all of them are really huge. And movie tickets will cost you a fortune!

--> The best thing about this place is surely the weather! Its been pleasant all throughout. Light drizzles, always a cool wind, great atmosphere in general.

--> These guys build houses and even building which have no space in between. In fact, a lot of these have common walls. Even though I live in a apartment, our wall is directly connected to our neighbour's terrace!

More later..