Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Of speakers and in ear earphones and I-P-O-D or something

Recently I had my son and his family over for dinner.
He has twin sons, both aged 12. Now anybody who is a grandfather of 12 year old in today's day and age
knows deep inside that a 12 year old chump knows more about the facts of life than him.
By facts of life I mean
1 How to work a cell-phone without reading the manual and make Grandpa look stupid in front of his
friends.
2 How to wear new high tech jeans that seem to hover just above the private parts.
I believe they are called all-rise or low-rise or whatever..........
[At this point one of my grandsons had something to say and I quote
"DAMN IT GRANDUDE!!!!!! ALL RISE IS NOT A PAIR OF JEANS BUT A SONG!!!!#$&&$@*$!!]
Point taken....
3 How to interrupt Grandpa while he is imparting sex-ed to their younger cousin...
4 How to correct Grandpa while he is imparting sex-ed to their younger cousin...
5 How to replace Grandpa's gold-rimmed glasses with girly pink ones without him knowing......
The list is non-exhaustive..........
Anyway, my son gifted me 2 high-fidelity [dunno what it means] speakers, an IPOD[which is
apparently a device the size of my wallet and can hold thousands of songs....wonder why the name though?]
and "in-ear earphones" of a very creative company.[At this point one of my grandsons had something to say and I quote
"DAMN IT GRANDY!!!!THE NAME OF THE COMPANY IS CREATIVE...AS IN A NOUN NOT AN ADJECTIVE!!!"]
Now, I know what you are thinking...........why would anyone name their company Creative????
I was astounded by the quality of the speakers they looked smashing. Would have been great if
i would have been able to work them though.The ipod was great and surprisingly after banging it a few times on my desk i
managed to play a few songs on it. The in-ear earphones sounded great the first few times I tried them
but after exposing them to my ear wax five times they started malfunctioning and
strangely as if expressing their feelings through song the ipod started playing obscene songs.
Technology reached a new high that day............

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Trust Vote

Trust Vote
-not related to voting for a particular trust...........
UPA had gathered all the support it could before 23rd of July- D day.
By the way what the hell does D stand for? Death? Dreadful? Dumb? Daljit Singh?
Who knows????
If you know the answer please sms A, B or C to 362436.
That way I'll earn some money enabling me to buy paper and ink because let's face it this
really does not have the makings of a best-seller or for want of a better word "seller".
I mean look at me I started with the UPA and the trust vote (really....go check)
and ended up doing what half the people on Mumbai's roads do....asking for money....
the other half does not believe in asking (but let's not talk about that half cause I’m
not interested in receiving extortion calls as the pension I get is hardly enough
to sustain me forget some gentleman with a gun.)
Well, now that I've managed to drift a light-year apart from my actual topic i.e. and the trust vote
let me just get back to the topic.
{PS in the middle of the article: A light-year believe it or not is a unit of length
and not a unit of time although it sounds an awful lot like it.
bet you didn't know that did you??......You did? Oh well it must be just me then. Old age does these things to you.
Old age is kind of like childhood...the only difference being that god awful smell that follows you around.
By the way I bet you haven't realized the fact that I’ve been writing in a bracket for quite some time now)
Anyway it turns out the UPA was well prepared and won the trust vote by a comfortable margin.
Goooooooooo!!!!!!!!! Nuke deal........
Anyway it's goodbye for now. I'll see you soon....probably on the streets of Mumbai.
-Messerschmitt
[I'm NOT GERMAN neither am I a gun or a plane]