Blame it on Devdas

It all started when I was chatting with a friend at about 12:30am and telling that I plan to go and have a shave for the next day and she was rightly perplexed.
Shave at 12:30???
Well in my defense my logic was that I was not getting any sleep and I might as well shave and sleep an extra 15minutes in the morning (who doesn’t love to sleep an extra 15mins in the morning?)
Her expected response was Oh God!!... in the native tongue of course (speaking of which, have you ever noticed how easy its for people to type in English yet when u read it, its totally in the native tongue. Not only is it easy to type, its also easy for the other person to read….but oh anyway, back to where we were!!).
Well so I went into the bathroom and stared at the half beard on my face (it certainly was much more than a simple stubble, it was a proper 6 day half beard-that’s what we can call it) at about 1am and very wide awake at that point. But somehow the thought of splashing my face with water at that wee hour wasn’t enticing (yaa like its Bips in Dhoom-2 calling me.. *rolls eyes*. Oh Btw don’t waste your time on Dhoom-2, its nothing more than a Captain’s movie. You might as well download and leer at the person u wish to leer).
So with that half beard I roll into my bed and try to sleep…. and for some reason I just couldn’t sleep at all. It was then I realized that since its already pretty late, there is a very great chance I would wake up late and was wondering whether to sport a bearded look. On that thought, I went about speculating the reaction from the people. Some would just ask the explanation for the beard but yet a majority of people’s reaction would be—love failure??
Oh what nonsense?? Can’t a guy just sport a beard for the heck of it or to change his look?? BLAME IT ALL ON DEVDAS.. that’s right the lovelorn drunkard who destroyed his life and brought a bad name for the beard.
At this juncture I was trying to think of the explanation as to why people would assume so. That would most likely be that there are not much famous personalities who sport a beard and walk around. Even Albert Einstein wore a proper shaved looks. Speaking of the man… he could not spare time to set his the now famous unkempt hair, but had enough time to shave his beard (which apparently takes more time no matter how bad your hair can be). So right now my two attempts to Google (trust the Google company to take its name and coin it as a verb and also get accepted in the dictionary. Orkut is another example… anyway before I digress.. I do have to agree I digress a lot. Well getting back) up some famous personalities with beard has resulted in pretty much a negative response.
Oh well I did remember Dr.Manmohan Singh, but he is a Sikh and almost ever Sikh sport one (again digress…. I guess it’s in the genes of the Sikhs to be able to grow a full beard!! How does the bloody testosterone in a Sikh know that it needs to have more hairy characteristics?). Also how bad was I to forget Abraham Lincoln. I am wondering if we should take a poll around the country of USA and ask them to name a famous person with a beard, it would be fun to see how many people can recall Abe Lincoln. Tom Cruise had a beard for a short while, but that was not consistent.
So anyway as u can see, that not many famous people with beard are/were around, which brings us back to….. why did the poor beard get such a bad name as to be associated with lovelorn poor men?? I guess we should go about and try to change that conception.

Need to add a Disclaimer that I am talking of a full beard, not goatee or French beard which got pretty famous. There are of course many more types- the Sideburns, Van Dyck, chinstrap and what not. Search Wikipedia (This is not yet a verb) for more answers.

devil or deep sea.....

So who would u rather have as a friend- a back stabber or a back bitcher..............

....................well with friends such as these who needs enemies right??????

The wonderful Flying experience.

OK So Finally after 3 years, I managed to visit India for 3 weeks (an interesting stat that I am boring people with is --I visited India in '03 for 3 months and after 3 years I visited India again for 3 weeks).

Anyway was looking forward after all this time away from the home country, departed on 14th Oct and reached Singapore uneventfully (actually a wonderful flight experience aboard the Singapore Airlines) on 16th Oct morning 1am. The next connecting flight via Singapore airlines would mean a 19hr halt in Singapore and I was not at all interested in staying for such a long time. So took the much earlier Indian Airlines out of Changi Airport (Singapore Intl Airport) scheduled to depart at 7:50am. Well it was scheduled to depart, while in reality it was "re-timed" to depart at 11:50am. A cool 4 hr delay with no explanation whatsoever. The only thing offered was a measly breakfast coupon with which you could obtain yourself a a small dessert or a simple bun.

Coming to the flight itself--
Sing-BLR.
This was the earliest flight out of Singapore to BLR (the other otion was to wait until 8pm in evening to catch a SA to BLR) wanted to reach early hence took this flight.
The flight was "re-timed" to a 4hour delay and no explanation whatsoever was given. Finally got on board only to find the seats broken and of course the AC in the flight being a complete non-AC. Food was pretty average (Singapore Airlines served a better Indian Food than this crappy airlines). Absolutely no IFE to speak of, not even a distance single TV. All you could do was sleep. This was near impossible as the plane was shaking uncontrollably, in all possible degrees of freedom (It felt like they were trying to rip your innards out). They lacked even the basic amenities such as making sure that all passengers had an air-sickness bag with them. The result- people puked all over the aisle (you would expect that with the plane shaking repeatedly violently).
I am a guy with mild air-sickness but too much air travel over the past 5months was what just about kept me from throwing up. I was sweating profusely though and at the end was just freverently praying for a touchdown in Bangalore.
Lastly they stewardesses went about sparying some sort of aerosol in the plane and an announcement was made that this is safe. It was utterly ridiculous and I had never seen this before in any flight. It smelt more like a room freshener. At the end of it all, I was simply glad to make it out of the plane in one piece and not throw up. Me being a citizen of India am ashamed at the kind of service the country's airlines industry offers.
All this after an incredible flight in Singapore airlines from SFO to Singapore.

Never again do I plan to set foot in this airlines, I dont mind shelling out extra dollars and waiting the extra time, but its a definite no-no into Indian Airlines.

A total experience (not in a good way though) for the last sector of the journey. Boy was I glad that I am flying Singapore airlines all the way on my return leg. That was an excellent journey!!