The Prodigal Blogger

Yes convention dictates that if I have a blog, I shouldn't be so highly regular with abandoning it, in Angel's words!

This blog is my first love (or maybe second or third, not so sure!), how can I ever entertain the possibility of abandoning it?? :D

Anyway sorry about the long hiatus! I can spout all the cliched blah about how busy I was with Parichay, but I will not, since by not blogging about that when I was immersed in it, I put myself in a position to now have to recall it to write about it :) I think I'm not making sense here, so I'll cut short the justification trail!

2 weeks before Parichay was due, BB publicity was left to me. And boy, did we mess up!! Well some of us from the team did make some really silly errors, but then some dogs, namely a fellow called Venkata Anup Kumar Gorthi, acted a little too smart for our as well as his own good. I wanted to rip his ass apart on the BB, but like Mads said, it would have been adverse publicity for Parichay.

I don't care about my reputation, but Parichay would have faced the repercussions caused by my retaliation... Got into some major fights due to that particular screw-up... Lost quite a few friends as well... But I don't have regrets about my flare-ups... I stood up for friends... Have done that more often than people know...

People sometimes ask for a gilt-edged invitation to trouble... Gorthi asked for it earlier when he posted the lyrics of You're Beautiful by James Blunt on Hyd Creative... Remotely creative! And now this... It took the SOB 3 seconds to trash 3 months of our efforts... He's been warned now, it would be in his own interests to stay as far away from me as possible!

I put a lot of poems on the BB as part of this publicity exercise... All about dance and stuff! People liked that probably because it was different from my usual morbid ones ;)

Post-Parichay there were few morons asking why there was no Telugu song used in the performances, despite the fact that this show was in Hyderabad... Fucking Racists!! Assholes abound around... Or like VSS says, Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one :P

These were the same breed of guys asking why KK did not sing a Telugu number earlier, when he performed at Hyd DC.... Damn man!! How does one exercise tolerance with such nincompoops around?

Anyway Parichay went off pretty well :) I managed to remember all my steps except in the last song of the finale :( So all that does not end well, is not well??? Naah I don't think so!! The Parichay debut at Hyd DC was pretty impressive.

I guess what helped was zero expectations from the audience... Best part of the show was that audience stuck around to the end!! What more could we ask for?? :)

Worst part for me was...hehehe...well, the fact that I tore 2 pairs of trousers during the splits in my dances! Had to do the last 2 sequences with a considerable breeze swirling around my privates :P So now if I catch pneumonia, the costume guy will have to pay for poor stitching!

Makeup on the girls and the guys who opted for it, looked bad! I'm glad I didn't use makeup :P Not that it would have helped in reducing the scare quotient of my face, but that's another story ;)

We got the pics and videos as well... Posting some of them :) Yeah you might get bored, but well this blog is intended to be narcissistic remember :D

Spider web we made for the dance prop! I say we, even though it was Divya and Rachana's labour. I have managerial skills, I can take credit for someone's else's toil ;)

We got these awesome t-shirts made for the entire team. They turned out lovely :)

Guess which one is me here ;) Hint: I'm not at the extremities :D Incorrect Gender :P

Day after Parichay, Mads, Udatta and me were sitting segregating costumes. This is Mads and me against our stage backdrop.

There were more pics of my other dances, but blogger has decided I have uploaded enough for this post, so they will come later!

Mere Watan came out awesome!! All of us were in sync, which is a miracle, given that the steps were super-fast and coordination was something we had never achieved during our practice sessions!

You're My Sonia came out well too!! One female looks at a pic from that dance and tells me "Cute Butt"... Uhhhh Thank You (?) :P

We had a post-Parichay team lunch as well... Chaos reigned in the FoodCourt, courtesy, US! :D

I sent Angel another story from the archives of her Fav Author! Her reaction was AWESOME!! Heheh!! Yeah Angel, go ahead sue me, I will still continue to send his stories to you :P

Someone was stupid enough to act smart with me on the BB on Tuesday! And my innate sarcasm came pouring out! Angel asks if I use a whetstone to sharpen my tongue :D I'll take that as a compliment!

But I think she was right, all that venom was probably from me not blogging for a while. So Jay, Corny, Nilu bhai, Angel, here you all go :)

I have a lot more to write about but will save that for later :D

If anyone has any idea on how I can edit a VOB file, please let me know. I copied the Parichay DVDs to my laptop, but I need to edit them...


Feeling like : Unanswered Questions

Listening : Do Ya Thang - Need For Speed