One of my favorite pieces of Web Zen: “The decent man is no longer one who lives within his own means. Nowadays he is one who lives, thankfully, within others’ means.”
They call it ‘a high standard of living’. I call it excessiveness. Garish, unnecessary, stinking of obnoxious opulence. One man’s luxury is another man’s necessity, [...]
Akyab (n.): The contortions on one’s countenance, when a sneeze almost arrives, but doesn’t. Not to be confused with a Bhamo, which is the facial expression just before one is about to throw up.
Prome (n.): Complete exasperation at something so innately different that one can’t comprehend it. (e.g. The Toilet Paper philosophical divide between India [...]
Pudu (n.): A person as irritating as a sneeze in the middle of a pee. Nothing you can do about it, can’t be stopped, totally unpredictable, and something you totally don’t want happening to yourself.
Rocca (n.): The silent creeping realization that one has gone onto chats with office friends replete with expletives and wry humor WHILST still connected to NetMeeting at work, thereby broadcasting arbit conversations to a bewildered Aussie colleague. Word can be used as a replacement for ‘blooper’, ‘boo-boo’, ’shit-creek’ or even ‘mammoth screw-up’.
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Alexandra (n.): The Christmas-morningy kind of feel one gets while opening one’s inbox after a long time. Can also refer to the feeling one experiences whilst opening new presents. (Example: I just felt an Alexandra, dude. Yippee! New email! Someone loves me in the world!)
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Imagine a situation where you are dumbfounded by a very simple question, that too in front of a million people. Something even a kid with basic education could have answered. What does one do in such an embarrassing position? Grin and bear the shame, and try to learn better or get booed by the audience, [...]
Elliot (n.): The small cardboard cartons that people always carry when they move offices. (And not air-bags, plastic bags, shoulder bags, cloth bags, hell, not even paper bags). Can also refer to the mysterious place where one gets these cartons from.
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Westin (n.): The weird sleeping position (not sitting, not lying) that one assumes only on Economy class flight seats.
Gadzillion (n.): The large number of aunties (close to infinity) who will, arbitly, for no reason, and without any knowledge about you, tell you at your cousin’s marriage that you are next to get married.
Thumbbum (n.): [...]
5th January 2008. I’m still sleepy, groggy and quite irritable at 6 frickin’ o’clock in the morning. But what to do. Four hundred sing dollars can buy me a ticket only in good old Air India, and they can put me only on a 7.45 AM flight to Singapore. After canceling the flight that I [...]
Siddhachal (n.): First few days of a new calendar year when one keeps writing the wrong date on cheques, diaries, bills and the like.
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