Sunday, June 13, 2004

Return to sender...

Ahh... Back in IIMA. Second year beckons. So does all my luggage on the first floor. Big cardboard boxes full of heavy things. So more later tonight...

I have noticed an interesting trend. I get most of my hits on working days. Saturdays and Sundays are lifeless. Which means I get read in the office. Which means noone actually spends any money to read my blog. That makes me not want to write a book. Which means I wont get royalty and a heavy advance. Which means I wont make any multi-million charity contributions or civic donations. Society doesn't deserve that.

Read me on weekends. For society's sake.

And finally, an old mallu joke. Friends in a bus going through some photographs. Some camping trip or something. Bus very crowded. Bus breaks suddenly. Hero drops a photograph. Photograph glides through the air vehemently searching for a resting place. Finally finds one on the floor safe in the shadows of Cicily aunty's shimmering silk saree.

Hero: Madam can you lift your saree for a second?
Cicily: WHAT???!!!!! WHY???!!!!
Hero: I want to take a photo...

Have a great new week. And England Rocks!!!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

great joke! best wishes in new school year "wise fool" (sophmore)- second year schooling (college and grad school) have always been a trip-up year for me.

contributing to your altruistic future-charity-donation scheme,

jm

Rajesh J Advani said...

How do you see the number of hits to your blogs here?

Anonymous said...

First time here. Nice post :) LOLOL for the joke ...ppl are staring at me now! I'd better leave.

-serena

Nirav Kanodra said...

Hey sidin
i guess as long as ppl get to read ur blogs for free they will,
but if they rnt left with an option they wud buy ur books ...
i hope u employ me as ur illustrator, so i too can become one of the donors to the society ;-)

PS
does ur WAC course help u to be a better writer at IIMA
and well wht abt ur short stories ...
wanna read some before coming to IIMA

Anonymous said...

sidin me lad...
have been directed towards your blog by our man suddu. very funny and good entertainment. will be here more often than not. :-)

and i'm sorry about england. i share your despair.

- ali
a.k.a. the fooding buddy

Vivek Kumar said...

Most people read blogs from offices only. Its the same story with my blog.

*with a tinge of jealousy in the voice*
not that it gets as many hits as yours!

England rocked for quite a while.. but then, Zidane is made of a different stuff :)

BTW.. did you ever go on a white water rafting trip to Shivpuri? Your post title "Return to Sender" is actually the name of one of the "rapids" there!

Quite a coincidence, if it is!

Gaurav said...

I noticed the same thing with my blog....a big dip on weekends. The Penguin fellows noticed that too and my royalty cheque bounced. :(

vinod menon said...

Find your musings eminently readable. I am reading this during what might be midnight… in India. Here on the flip side, it is the middle of my late-lunch on Wall Street. Oh! And don't be put off from writing a book. based on what I read on your blog, you can have my money. I trust, this is going to be a paperback - I don't, as a matter of principle, buy hardbacks.