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Let’s do math!

I had got a few complaints for the little captcha protection I had added on the comments so I went ahead and removed that. For those of you scratching your heads its the lil box with garbled text that says type this even though you can barely read it and looks like..

But.. I had to have something. I had 13,000 pending comments out of which I think 12,991 were spam. I'm sorry to the 9 genuine folks who wanted to honestly tell me that my post was merda. Sorry, but those comments got removed with the 12,991 spam comments.

Anyway, so I have gone ahead and changed that to a much simpler spam protection plugin called "Math Comment Spam Protection" which I found here. Thank you oh unknown creator of simple plugin.

All you need to do is add two numbers and put in what it totals to. Yes, I know its hard and again, I'm sorry but I was tired of the spam. Might as well make you guys do a teeny little bit more of work so I get less spam. Right? Keep commenting. Cheers!

PS. If you have no idea what the heck I'm talking about, don't worry too much. Your life will remain the same ... mostly. Keep commenting anyway

Black Fingered

So i voted. I was very keen to vote because i wanted to make sure my neighbour doesn't land up buying another car worth a crore and a half with my money. I do think that is a good enough reason. i took a half day off from work like i normally do on Saturdays and went home for lunch. Mum had already gone and got our voting slips by the time but couldn't get her own. Her name wasnt on the list(!) which is quite ironic considering she was the one that gave all our names when they came to take them. Oh, and she did vote the last time around, with her name in the list. What was even more interesting was that apparently, my name was on the list twice! Anyway, so off we go to the voting booth close to home to vote and see if something can be done about her name missing. Obviously not, we found out. The guy did very helpfully give me a URL on which I can check for our voter IDs though - http://www.bangalorevoterid.org/

Now here's the best part and the real reason for this post. My names(?!!) on the list:

No. Area ID Name Age
1 B T M Layout 1011 Zubin Saigala 28
2 B T M Layout 1070 Jubi Saigal 26

I voted as Jubi Saigal in the end, simply because they gave me that number and not out of choice. And no, as much as some of you might think or would like to believe, I do not prefer the name Jubi!! Oh, and yes, Jubi's growing younger as well

Pages

leaves from my book
they're falling out a page at a time
scattered all over the place
filled with things that cross my mind

its all for show now
the things that I've never ever said
lets see how much gets walked over
and lets see how much gets read

pick up the one's you like
they're yours for the taking
I'm lying between them now
scattered like them but breathing

featherhead

a spring in my step
i'm reaching up
running my fingers through clouds
sprinkling rain along the way

i'm as light as a feather
gliding along
floating down mountains
flying over lakes

running up through the air
i'm rearranging stars
free falling through the atmosphere
my destination, everywhere

Blind

The Black Moon

the black moon, my ugly friend
stands out in the deep grey sky
yellow teeth and drunk red eyes
looks down towards me

the black moon, my ugly friend
i hate him, i cant stand him,
he's beaming down an ugly grin
a face changed over night

a highlight of white lingers behind
reflecting on the water below
ripples in the dark water
coming towards me

drink up he thunders,
swallow it whole
bitter it may be
its good for you soul

Bits and Pieces

Goodbye