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What-a-day! What a day!

May 11, 2007 by roshan.george in Madras

So at something like one thirty, Pipe arrives at my place and after narrating tales of our disjoint pasts we decide to go play some basketball. Except it's been so long since I've been to this court, I've no clue how it's changed. Apparently it hasn't been in use for a long while so there's a wasp's nest (wasp's nest, but it doesn't belong to just one wasp, wasps' nest perhaps?) there and we don't realise that until we start playing and I went for the rebound. Very nice.

So then we go back, fetch a couple of racquets and decide to play some shuttle badminton. Apparently I haven't gotten too bad, though my backhand has receded to the level it was when I was three years old. So after a couple of games over some 50 minutes or so we left. Pipe then had to go pick up his sister, so I went along with him because he had an a/c in the car and because sitting at home alone is boring. This part was uneventful.

Later in the day, it suddenly struck me that I had forgotten to recharge Bikram's SIM card and so he wasn't very happy with me. He's in Sikkim and can't do it himself and he needs some validity to receive messages. Poor chap. I needed to give in my negatives for developing too, so I decided to drive down and see if I could do both. Strangely, all the mobile phone card shops near Mount Road and Anna Salai were closed at seven forty five. So I proceeded to the Kodak shop near Gemini (where the people are polite and stuff). On the way, some imbecile managed to scrape my car while I was stationary! I yelled at him solidly and now I know why people do it, it has a cathartic effect. What a moron! In any case, the nice fellows at Kodak were very helpful and I'll be going to pick up the photographs tomorrow.

Oh and there are so many photographs! The trick of the novice photographer is to take lots of shots, that way at least some will come out nice :)

13 comments

MarcMay 12, 2007

DisJOINT pasts! Hahahaha!

And you managed to get into another accident. No wonder you keep getting arrested.

Your last line is horrible advice, if you're using a film camera.

roshan.georgeMay 12, 2007

Well, the part of our pasts which had nothing in common, like disjoint sets in Math, you know?

Why? Is there a problem you have with buying film?

MarcMay 13, 2007

Yeah. My problem is that it's so damn costly.

roshan.georgeMay 13, 2007

One hundred for film, two hundred for developing. You make it sound like a fortune.

MarcMay 13, 2007

Digital camera. Can store more photos for free.

Each snap is Rs. 6.70 to print out in photo quality.

ChetanMay 13, 2007

Damn. I'm late for the argument.

George, you have too much money, try spending it on something useful like that LBG album.

No, dope doesn't count.

roshan.georgeMay 13, 2007

Dude, just buy the damn thing next time you can. I'll pay you back for it. Ass.

MarcMay 14, 2007

By not buying the album for us you are encouraging us to pirate it.

roshan.georgeMay 14, 2007

Dude, I will, but their site doesn't work!

MarcMay 14, 2007

Piracy encourager!

roshan.georgeMay 15, 2007

Them, it's them! They don't let me get it.

koowoJuly 1, 2007

真是太喜欢了!
very good!

roshan.georgeJuly 1, 2007

Okay, I can figure out 'true', but I don't understand the rest. I really must learn that language, it looks awesome!