Rum. Rum is good.

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The bad part of being depressed - for me, that is - is that when those words - 'I'm so depressed !' - are in my mind, I actually hear them in my head as they are said by Marvin - voiced by Alan Rickman --- which makes me burst out into giggles. There is something hugely wrong with this scenario ...

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I hope everyone has been well. I was awfully ill last week, and before that things were such that I haven't been able to go properly into lj, ij, jf and dw for a long time. The end result is that my email accounts are a mess and I daren't dnld mails to outlook express till I clean them up online first. I'll be doing that from afternoon today. I feel almost nearly myself today.

Almost.


Also, I plan to buy the paperback of 'Unseen Academicals' as soon as it is out !

But that's a long way away :(

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m sick. The left side of my neck and lower jaw are painful and I feel feverish :( :(

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Native Indians are seen as soft, timid and easily bullied - for jollies and into submission - in many parts outside India. This is sad, because there are always exceptions ... which usually prove the rule :D

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Alan Rickman Meme XD (From here - I turned it into a meme because it was OMG So apt !)


I bolded the ones that apply to me


I had to, Alan Rickman is the only person in the world who keeps me from going completely batshit insane



( Alan Rickman Meme )

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I am feeling intensely depressed, and I miss my people, and I want to go Home. Right now.

:( :( :(

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Go read this

*Still laughing too much*

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It is Impossible to get pissed on Rose :/

And I Like Rose ! :{



Btw, these are icons I'd posted at jf in random lounge





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Usually, people drink coffee, or maybe even take a nap if they feel tired and exhausted

I watch 'Borat' and read my journalfen f-pages - especially the net-wank-related stuff - for example - 'Snape on an Astral Plane'

There can be No possibility of any sort of redemption for me

None !

XD

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Dementordelta’s New Snarry WHEEEEEE !!!


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And, finally, ‘m answering the pending comments which I've been thinking about answering *RELIEVED*

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Voting for Golden Bubotubers

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One of the most astounding things I have ever come across is this thing - I quote :

'I am saying that, having suffered trauma, the victim is elevated to a privileged rank because of that trauma - the privilege would not exist without the trauma.' (http://impertinence.livejournal.com/480847.html?thread=9983823&style=mine)

I can't believe someone actually thought that, leave alone write it down as a well-constructed sentence. Just reading that sentence has shocked me so much that I keep re-reading it because I find it impossible to believe it actually exists.

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Warning/Z : Could possibly make an ill-mannered, ATTENSHUN-SEEKING, OMG–So-OPPRESHD!, presumptuous, racist, backbiting habitual-butthurtee ‘net-bully of Indian extraction Cry Moar Tch Tch

A/N :Therefore, comments are screened in order to prevent Moar OPPRESHUN of ATTENSHUN-SEEKERZ-onna-‘net


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Once upon a time, I decided that whenever I come across something that really infuriates me online, I’ll consider well before I react.

I have considered, and now, I shall speak … er … I mean, write a letter. It’s all about free speech and the necessity of speaking out, amirite ? – even if as a letter …

So. Here’s an open letter, then, ‘kay ?

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Dear lj user karanguni,

You have been asking difficult questions hesitantly, somewhat apprehensively, and hoping, even asking - for answers to increase your understanding and knowledge :
http://community.livejournal.com/bromatheon/3199.html
http://community.livejournal.com/bromatheon/2579.html

What you have got now are responses from a presumptuous, racist, backbiting bully who ( is of Indian extraction --– kinda family, eh ? --- me being Indian and all … … … )

Dear lj user karanguni, I, as an Indian, apologise for the existence of such hideous Indians that are, actually, --- IMVVHO, of course – but then this is my personal space ! --- wastes of good oxygen.

And finally, just to make this completely clear – my response stems entirely from my considerable understanding of Indian culture, values and tradition and isn’t personal in any way whatsoever.

Yours etc. … … …
ajatshatru (ij, jf, dw)


PS – Dear K, I hope this open letter has rendered you pleasantly reconciled to being bullied and insulted by an ill-mannered, ATTENSHUN-SEEKING, OMG-So-OPPRESHD, presumptuous, racist, backbiting retard of Indian extraction and it’s group over the ‘net.

Thanking you yet again, etc. etc. …
ajat (lj)

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If you wander by again, that is …


Tsk Tsk, can't resist checking on even the faintest of criticism, eh ? How very typical XD


Okay then, let me be totally frank.
Because this's my personal space, innit ?
Right, then, here goes.


You're a foul bully --- who discriminates according to colour of skin and presumes to be spokesperson for people who share your citizenship and who picks on a kid by posting it public in personal space only so that other things like the disgusting bully that you are can join in the badmouthing, and who then starts on an advertising-trip of troll's remorse.

So, next time you pick on a kid and try to gang up on said kid, do it outside my sight.


I'm only trying to be kind, yanno. To you. This one time.


Btw, OMG who died and made a nasty bully like you a spokesthing for me because of my citizenship ? God ? For the first time, I've felt ashamed to be an Indian on lj and dreamwidth.


Pity.


And I'm faintly sorry for the presumptuous, racist, backbiting bully that you are. Because I won't forget.


Good thing I came to know about your loathsomeness, though, because if I was dying of thirst, I wouldn't accept water from you if you were the only person left living besides myself.



And No, I will not link in this post, because 'Sicko c_b(lj)/cb(dw)/whatevah', you really, really Luuurve attention, you disposable piece of rotting, stinking rubbish.
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'kay, say someone asked some questions very honestly and with a sincere desire to learn from the answers. She's a kid and phrased these as best as she could within her ability and experience - which, frankly, is not vast. So, does she deserve to be attacked by a butthurtee behind her back because said butthurtee didn't like the way these questions were phrased ?

UGH. There are times I am ashamed of being in such a world.

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A really nasty heatstroke and dehydration doesn't make for a quick and coherent brain :{

I really, really need the monsoon to begin. It's way late already, and the heatNhumidity's making me unpleasantly sick and slow to recover from the heatstroke, and what with rl being a spot bothersome there're large number of pending comments I can't think properly enough to answer *Annoyed*


I loved this lovely little ST-TOS comic :)


Friends, if there's anyone wanting dreamwidth codes, please do send them over



Is it me, or is Sacha looking a little bit like Sarah Jessica Parker in this pic ?



I think he does. Interesting :D

Speaking of 'Bruno', here's a link that is Not worksafe XD



Will possibly be able to get at comments when I'm a little more organised rl :(

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From here :


It's interesting to see each other's balls. Mine's, one side is a little bit rougher than Ben Hilfenhaus.
Mitchell Johnson explains that Australia's bowlers have practiced different methods of shining the Duke balls used in England
Jun 15, 2009

( More of Foot-In-Mouth Disease XD )

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Pompeii icons (from here, through here)





Some more later ...

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Still haven't managed to answer Really Very Important Comments from so long ago Which Should Have Been Answered Already.
Will do This tonight ! *DETERMINED*

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( CRICKET SQUEEEE )

GOSH ! WHEEEEE !!

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Ahem.

In other news, journalfen comments-notifications is a bit wonky :]

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Nothing like reading up jf to try chase away the bad moods ... Especially with something like an obit post beginning 'Yes, I know it's been 2000 years, but approximately one billion people are still in denial. So it's fresh news, really'

*GoeZ into Raptures of XD*



ETA - Ooo, heZ leik, yanno, Snape XD XD

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I have some important comments to answer, and the way things are going rl, I don't know whether I'll get to them before the weekend



So here's some Vogon poetry (generated here) :

See, see the nuts sky
Marvel at its big pink depths.
Tell me, miaow do you
Wonder why the human ignores you?
Why its foobly stare
makes you feel grumgly.
I can tell you, it is
Worried by your nrupli facial growth
That looks like
A chicken.
What's more, it knows
Your work potting shed
Smells of bacteria.
Everything under the big nuts sky
Asks why, why do you even bother?
You only charm open drainss.

Let me know whether reading this made you want to claw your eyeballs out. If it didn't, then the poetry generator is a complete failure :D

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Waiting to receive mail from a carioca (resident of Rio) saying she, her friends and family and extended French family are alright.

I can't think.

I can't.


An hour after mailing :
ETA - She mailed. *Collapsing with relief*

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ETA 2 :

( Context )

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( Curry Bashing )


What's the chance of such happening in Europe ?

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Thing-with-very-possibly-damaged-neural-networks-but-I-thought-otherwise-before-Oh-Stupid-Me !, which part of ‘I want to take the tickets for returning to X in May, 2010 from Y to X around February or early-March of 2010.’ is so unclear to you that you ask me in response ‘I have one quick question about your return date, do you wish to return May 2010 or in February-early March?’ *REPEATED HEADWALLING*



To other news ---

( Thanks, Australian Government, Soo Chuffed Here ! And I hope every other peoples take note. )


Doesn’t make me feel very safe, really. Let’s see what happens … One thing’s for sure, I’ll put out full accounts hereabouts.

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'nets acting up BigTimE for me atta mo'

:/

Yes, it's because of 'Aila'

Is that the name of a woman ?

Last I knew, 'aila' is a word in Marathi that means '(he/she/it) is coming'

Hope I'm right there, and if not, please do correct me, Marathi-speakers

However, if 'Aila' was named from the name of a woman, then I Protest Massively !

Trust me, guys who name environmental disasters with feminine names, I can be a few times worse than any of those you've named if I really put my mind to it *Fumes a little*

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Always, in spring and summer and a good bit into the monsoon, I am awakened (sometimes at an insane hour - like just around 3:30 AM or so) by the Magpie Robin and the Koel



( Magpie Robin )


Everyday, Magpie Robin does a different ditty, and quite often, 3 to 6 different, very complicated ditties, actually, till it’s very much morning and sunny :D


Koel just goes Coo, Coooo, Coooo with increasing intensity for hours and hours. Very loud guy.



( Koel )


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Bird songs searchable here

Sound files are all of small size

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Gmail for all journals appears to be acting up intermittently, so ain’t getting comments and mails. Hope it’s resolved soonest :{
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I posted this pic rather fearfully in lj, expecting brickbats

And everyone seems to be squeeing instead

And so, here it is


( Lookie here )


What an adorable foto, innit ?

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Cyclone on here, lines are overhead, I expect they might go any mo'. *Worried* Power's out now, I'm writing on batteries. Will answer all comments as soon as I next get online

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there were fics with Zaphod Beeblebrox, Captain Jack Sparrow and Gilderoy Lockhart ?

XD

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Notes to self : -

I am here to be part of the fendom I like as much as I can.

'm not here to get distracted by irrelevant matters.

'm not here to get distracted by ‘sudden-crazes’ (closest I could come to the translation of what my basic linguistic group calls ‘hujug’).

I Do Not Hold with excluding any part of fandom.

And so, I am Not interested in exclusion of fen that’re albino-shading-to-pale-shading-to-palish – even if that's only the name of a community.

Except for the LULZworthiness of names of some comms – such as lj comm foc_u XD XD --- I mean, for God’s sake, if that one was named unintentionally, it’s a scream. And even if it was named intentionally, it’s quite funny XD


Relevant links : -

Pathway of melanin-production

Genes controlling production of melanin

Melanin is produced as protection against sunlight



Relevant point : There’re nasty people of every possible colour (within melanic limits, of course) all over the world !



Personal decision : I would prefer to remain ungrouped according to colour on the ‘net just as I would prefer not to bother with anyone else’s skin-colouration/s. Especially as OMG My First Fandom Star Trek Is Back OMG OMG !!! :) :) :)



So, racefail, mammothfail, whatever, GOODBYE ! And stay away from me so long as there’s any sort of differentiation according to skin-colouration/s.
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I have to rec this !

Lord Snape expressed a clear willingness to breach the code of conduct

Moonie said he would not break the rules, which he said were "made up as they go along"

XD OMG all that’s needed is a Mr. Riddle somewhere, smilingly saying he had no idea about anything of these matters because he was away visiting a friend on the continent at the time XD
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Someone asked me for ‘tandoori chkn’ recipe, can’t remember who, and I asked back whether ‘I shd include skin-plus modification/s’ – at least I’m sure I did, but I can’t remember whether I actually did – Anyhoo, here’s a recipe I’d use as a vague guideline, with added indications towards the ‘skin-plus modfcns’ …


( Tandoori Chicken )

Chef’s Tip : To make Chicken Tikka, use boneless chicken pieces cut into 1 and half inchish cubes and proceed same as Tandoori chicken.

Do Not use vinegar in this recipe. Ever.

I can’t remember where I took the original from, but I’ll put the link in if I can find it.

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Eta : Link - http://www.indiaexpress.com/cooking/tandoori_chicken.html
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I was considering taking an Air France related line when I travel next.

But I won't.

I will also discourage family, friends and anyone else I know who look like subcontinental Asians from doing the same.

Because I know what is racism and what isn't, even if people/conglomerates-of-people accused of it deny and explain everything away oh-so-plausibly.

Links here :-
- http://news.google.co.in/news?um=1&ned=in&cf=all&ncl=d6XHpZBcvaYl-MMRMcSt5c_fbK8fM
- http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1255241
- http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=1&theme=&usrsess=1&id=254055 / http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?date=2009-05-13&usrsess=1&clid=1&id=286651 / http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r63/ajat10a/articleaf.jpg

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ETA 1 : 9:13 AM, IST

The best part ? - Air France has disabled the 'Suggestions'-link on the page of it's contact-links page for India (I have pictures to prove it and will put them up as soon as I have them cropped and uploaded)


ETA 2 : 9:37 AM, IST

‘Contacts’–page through the webpage for India – screencapped

‘Contacts’–page through the webpage for another place which is also in English – screencapped

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It's rained again and It's So Cool ! What larks !! :D

My brain works again. A little, though not entirely. For it to work fully, I need fried potato and roti. God, I haven't had it for so long. It's the liver infection I had recently - couldn't eat anything but yoghurt and toast and water and boiled stuff for more than a month OMG almost-torture !

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Yesterday late afternoon, after a few days of 41 degree celsius plus temperatures, the skies came over all dark-like, and evening came early, and it stormed, and it hailed, and it rained alongwith ... And all the sleep I missed on those hot, hot days have come back en masse to weigh on my head.

Not a good idea, I am very busy rl at the moment, and can't think of anything till I get this visa-app done and through.

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Nice little nor'westerly yesterday, and high speed winds. And a large number of overhead phone lines gone as a result. My home's was repaired some two hours back.

Btw, anyone who has geocities account/s - it's going to go later this year.

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A proper icon uploaded as default :) :)


*Poking people* Hey, lemme have yer drmwdt acc so I can link up there

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Random trawling turned these up *GIGGLE*


Cooking with 'parcel-flakes'

Grendel Comes To Troll

Is JKR a Snape/Hermione shipper in the closet?

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I want Johnny Depp to play Moist von Lipwig XD


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( Lyrics from 'Sweeney Todd' )
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I'd also like 'The Most Holy St Bobby' to be played by one of my favourite characters from another fandom :) :)


Anyone want a nice little picture of Death from 'The Last Hero' ?


Interesting - Cohen the Barbarian and Carelinus come from the same rl mould XD XD

This one -

XD

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( Twenty-five headlines we're afraid we're going to see this IPL season )



( And the best one *Snort* is ... )

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It’s hot enough that ‘m not getting much sleep for the last few days. I just had a full shower. At this time of night !
The only consolation is HeHe there’s a huge number of people hereabouts who’re in the same boat.

Why has my Very Important Letter not arrived yet ?! It should have come within this week ! *Petulant foot stamping*

It’s interesting to note that the ‘epics’ are all compilations of fanfics XD XD That is to say, ‘epics’ from every culture XD Now what’re the historians and religious fanatics and random-people-who-try-to-find-rl-explanations-for-the-unreal-things-written-down-in-these-large,-large-stories going to say about this, huh ?

Btw, random twatty spammer, Do Not expect me to even keep a mail in the inbox which has the subject ‘Guranted Job’ Eww.

Anyone has a invite-code for dreamwidth I could ask for come the 30th ?
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This post at dreamwidth is XD absolutely brilliant XD - Why Aren't People Commenting on My Post/Story/Whatever?

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