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Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

Today at work we had a small fire in the basement storage area. While I was downstairs blasting fire extinguisher everywhere, one of my coworkers ran upstairs and grabbed the phone saying, "I'm going to call 911. We have a fire." A customer interrupted her phone call to ask, "Do you sell scarves?"

Later, the fire department was ventilating the smoke out of the basement; the front doors were open to let air through, but we had three lines of yellow FIRE LINE DO NOT CROSS tape across the entry. Two women walked up to me and asked if they could come in. As an aside, one was pregnant and the other pushing a stroller so yah, they've already bred.

Somehow the only thought in my head is, "The stupid! It burns!"

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Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

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• 12:28 Reached Sunnyvale #

In the heart of

Mylapore

past

Luz


connecting North Mada (mAdA) Street and

Katcheri Road

is a small street...lane...called "Maddala )Narayanan Street" (maddaLa nArAyaNan)

Who Maddala Narayanan was, history does not see fit to record (at least, I couldn't find traces on the internet!)..."maddaLam" being a variation of the percussion instrument, the


Mridangam

the instrument being more used for harikathA and yakshagAnA....

but for a long time, many musicians resided on this street or its surrounding areas.

There are still some music shops here, where one can buy veeNAs, tablAs, or repair various instruments...

But MY song, today, is about the small jewellers' shops that also sit on this street, and this particular one:




Can you see the shop there? Yes, it's that tiny little...well, literally window of opportunity that's open next to the motorcycle!

In this shop, for at least thirty years (to my certain recollection) sits Sri T G Purushottaman Achari.

( More about this, with little digressions )

Well...in my grandmother's day, the jeweller would probably have been called home, where he would have spent the entire day on the "thiNNai" (the front porch) in the shade of a neem tree or two, setting and repairing jewellery....my generation went to him to get our work done...who knows how the next few generations (I certainly don't envisage women giving up jewellery in the next few thousands of years!) will manage?

Number of pages in the latest edition of the TIME Magazine - 115
Number of pages in the latest edition of the TIME Magazine containing ads about medicines - 23

That is - 20% of the pages of the TIME Magazine talks about medicines. The pharmaceutical companies must be spending a lot of money to get these ads out.

I have not had any medicine for the past 25 months. I had antibiotics in Sept 2007 because I had the Chikungunya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya). I do not take flu shots (Even the swine flu shots). I do not take medicines unless it is absolutely necessary.

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Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

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Why did the M&M start going to school?

He wanted to be a smartie.

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Last week, me and one of my friends were talking about how we were glad to only have three days of school this week, having off for Thanksgiving, and the day after. In this middle of the conversation, she stops by saying,

"Wait, why do we have off Thursday? I'm pretty sure Thanksgiving falls on a Friday this year."

*facepalm*

Recently been reminded of this one:

Three female friends of mine shared a flat in West London. Two of them were single so wanted to find themselves a man each. Frequently on weekends they would go drink at a pub somewhere locally.

After a couple years they were again single and decided to drown their sorrows again. I was visiting and asked if there weren't any nice blokes around the pub, seeing as they must have got to know the regulars prety well by now, going there two or three times a week.

"Oh, yeah, there's lots of guys who seem really nice, but they just never seem to be interested in that way, you know?"
I found this hard to believe, so I asked them which pub it was.
"The Birdcage. On the High Road."

Just a minute. The Birdcage? That wouldn't be the pub on the High Road with all the rainbow flags outside it, would it? And the rainbow pub sign? And the posters advertising AIDS benefits events? And regular drag nights?

Yes, that's the one. Why?
You didn't think that the men there seemed very fond of each other? Holding hands, etc?

Eventually I had to spell out for them in words of one syllable that rainbow decor = gay pub and this might be not the best place for straight women on the pull... I have no idea how they could be so oblivious for so long; one had even gone there with her gay best mate and his boyfriend, and we grew up in Brighton, gay capital of England!

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Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

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Iran rebuked by UN nuclear body

When I saw this headline, I immediately thought of this: ( NSFW )

I didn't believe that the soup would really work out, so I put very little stock in it.

I don't get it, how does a stereotype if it has no fingers?