REvisiting old days
I have just re-visited some of my old favourites .. one of them is
textfiles.com. It is the "graveyard of the internet" . a repository of all old text files from various bbses around the web. I'm slightly numbed because of the medication .. feel as though i'm floating around in cyberspace . I also visited
Eric Raymonds page . Had a glance at the "cathedral and the bazaar"
My other favourites included
cyberspace.com .. the grex shell account .. and nth newer metawire account . I remember those days whe i had just got myself an Intel machine . Those were good days .. I used to wander in the corridoors of
Alt 2600 looking out for philes :)
.. the web is a more complicated place now .. lots of poeople and lots of jazzy things around .. Places like textfiles still keep the old days alive ...
Angels in the city of the dead
It took me almost a year and half in mumbai to finally believe that angels could exist in this city so dear to the devil . Its difficult to find people even in the better parts of the world who have understood the simple principle of
"Living life" . Of enjoying the smaller joys in life .. because they are the real joys of life. Even something as simple as cooking lunch for a friend can be so touching for a person who has not had the taste of home food for ages.....
This bizzare meeting .. or shall we call it just a sweet coincidence ? whatever it was, it has given hope to me .. to continue living in Mumbai .. the city of lost souls..
The Metro Bubble - Mumbai's biological Underworld
I had not yet been under the watchful eye of the
GOD of probability...
And he saw me .. A bad streptococcus infection made me realise the power of
the biological underworld .
Mumbai plays host to a plethora of
viri and bacteria . Some dreaded whilst
others less feared. Any potent virus which is contagious can become an epidemic
in a matter of a few days in mumbai .. and one cannot escape that..Especially those
travelling in the mumbai local trains during peak hours.
For me fortunatey, the antibiotic i was consuming worked. The bacteria was not immune to
cephalexin .
As a consequence of that terrible intrduction with the biological underworld of mumbai, I have started respecting my body .
