How do you watch your tele?

Watching tele is no fun any more. Me or my roommates hardly watch the tele now a days. It's mainly because of two reasons; the first being its summer and most of the shows are re-runs, and the second one being the absence of furniture. We moved out of our old apartment after discarding all the furniture we had. The living room in our new place looks mostly bare, except for the two desktops, a cabin that holds the tele, vcr, dvd player, and three lamps. The acoustic doesn't seem right; it echoes and sometimes it's difficult to understand the audio feed from the tele. There were days when I used to sleep on the couch watching the tele until finally, the bug-monster took over the couch. The bedbugs are nasty creatures. I don't really know what purpose they serve here. They suck blood annoying us and reproduce in large numbers to keep the cycle running.They can survive for almost a whole year without feeding. Inspite of this they get killed, easily. They can't fly and can only run FAST. Well, before they are dead, they would have had their share of annoying us. Two months back, I had to change my sleep pattern to prevent myself from being bitten by them.
Sorry for side tracking. What do we need to enjoy the tele? Of course a decent place to sit on – so that our posture is comfortable and we can concentrate on what's shown to us, and good picture quality and sound. The content of the show comes later. This really is not a criterion, as we have so many channels and one of them is bound to suit our needs. This would have been a concern when we had just DD1 to look for.

Am just wondering how the fall season will turn out. We will have new seasons of Smallville, DHW, Gray's anatomy and of course NFL. If the present conditions prevail, all these will have to be watched sitting on the floor with the subtitles on. If we don't have any furniture by then, I plan to put two of my suitcases in the living room to ease out the echo.

Pardon me for using the word 'tele'. Lately I've been influenced by 'Coupling' and other English shows.

Tagged for the first time!!

This is the first time I've been tagged. It reminds me of questioners given by product testing companies. Just kidding...Here it goes:

I'm thinking of:
My home in India.

I said:
Live for today and got ridiculed.

I want to:
Graduate soon.


I wish:
I had lots of hair on my head.

I hear:
"Dead people"...kidding. Most of the times I hear myself impersonating others. It is possible...you could do too.

I wonder:
Why the weekend should end

I regret:
Not taking the front seat while rafting in the New river

I am:
Not a hypocrite…only one person knows what am referring to.

I dance:
to no tune

I sing:
in the water-closet.

I cry:
Everytime I watch the movie “Anand”...and after listening to “punyakoti kathe” from my mum.

I'm not always:
Working...some people really think I am.

I make with my hands:
My food

I write:
Fortran codes, rental checks, comments, notes and of course, nonsense in my blog

I confuse:
My professor (hope he's not reading this)

I need:
Cheap, reliable calling card to call home.

And finally:
Nope...am not tagging anyone today. Don’t know many people around here.

Decorating with the dead!!

The so called ‘baby boomers’ no longer follow the old parochial ways when it comes to the dead. Many of them now believe in the concept of celebrating the dead. Am sure you would have read the articles in NYtimes or other blogs in the internet about what am going to mention.
Now we have event planners for the funerals. It’s no longer held in the church, but held in the everyday places where the departed loved ones used to spend their time. Like on the other day, I read about a funeral held at the 18th hole of a golf course. The reason was that the person spent all his Sundays at the golf course rather than at the church. Makes sense, right?
Well, this post is not to paraphrase the articles from different sources. It’s about how we remember the dead long after we’ve lost them.
Many people collect objects their loved ones left behind. The objects need not be originally crafted by them; it can be things collected over their lifetime, like for instance paintings. Some collect books and build a small library in the name of their loved ones. There are some who hold on to the jewelry, like the ear rings and necklaces, and some others to dresses. Yet there are others who just have the memories of their departed loved ones.
Now there’s another way. Thanks to technology and the human curiosity that continuously churns out new ideas. Today I happened to listen on the radio – things called ‘Life gems’. What they do is, collect the ashes from the cremated bodies and extract the carbon out of them. Then use that carbon to make diamonds. This is a wonderful idea, isn’t it? One can say he/she was worth so many diamonds. Am just kidding…one has to remember the second law before coming down to such comparisons. Anyways…For some people, diamonds are priceless; things that are irreplaceable. They would have the same feeling towards their lost loved ones, right? In such cases, won’t it be appropriate to convert the loved ones to diamonds?
I had this crazy idea of preserving what my grandfather used when he was alive; his bed, pillows, comb, dentures, half used soap…his room; I mean everything. Then my uncle brought me to my senses by saying ‘No’. What I have now is his memory and his voice on the tape. I don’t need to decorate myself or my house with the articles he used. At the same time am not criticizing those who collect things, or those who have signed up to make diamonds out of their loved ones. It’s their way of doing things.
From all of this, one thing strikes to my mind. If one could make diamonds out of us, man and nature are one and the same. We are just different manifestation of things around us. Well I wish to go on…but wait, I’ll save it for another post.