Recent headline-grabbers : Part 1

A roundup of some of the key events of recent times :-

1. Anna Hazare scores with his version of the Lokpal Bill - most of us have no clue if it makes any sense or not but the dude wears Khaadi and thinks Sharad Pawar is a doofus... So it probably does. (Also, guys on his side get to wear funky Nehru caps and tees with "I am Anna" prints - We're in.)

2. The 1 year Greek Sovereign Bond yield crosses 98%. Thats Greek-speak for "Give me your money. The world is over 98% certain that I wont return a cent but wtf, I gave you  Toga parties. And feta cheese. Toh paihheyy aan de."

3. Sahara One launches a new soap - "Niyati : Sindoor ka farz ya Doodh ka karz ?"

4. Rival-producer Ekta Kapoor resorts to binge drinking to deal with surging popularity of above. Last heard, she promised, through a drunken slur, to unleash her vengeance by assaulting your mom and mine with 13 new Saas-Bahu serials.

5. Petrol prices hiked by another 3 rupees. To counter resulting crash in car sales, Tata ties up with BPCL and launches innovative marketing scheme : "Buy 400 litres of petrol, get 1 Tata Nano free".

"Simon, go beckkk"

After a brief hiatus (3 years - give or take a bit), we're back.

Its been an interesting 3 odd years : Went backpacking across Europe with some buddies, did more of Europe again on my exchange program, discovered the greatest pizza joint in the world on a small, nondescript street of Florence, did the Oktoberfest (Bucket list - check), moved across Asia a couple of times including (and especially) Phuket with some buddies on a Bachelor trip, began learning how to play the guitar, gave up on learning how to play the guitar 24 minutes after I began, saw superhot blonde lesbians making out in a club, in real-life (again, Bucket list - check), gatecrashed a wedding (wearing chappals), learnt poker, learnt that I'm awful at poker, went backpacking to London, learnt of 4 new pick-up lines that definitely dont work, passed out of B-School, began work-life, got pretty bored of work-life.

Mostly, in that order.

I also gave a fair bit of thought to the fact that if you folks could survive the global financial crisis, the Japanese quakes and 'My name is Khan' in this interim period, you’ll may just be able to make it through some more of these blogs.

I could be mistaken.

Im aware.

Cheers anyway.