August beginnings!

August Tidings are here at The Curry Closet. A's moved out and will be blogging form cooler climes. So early in the morn, when I think he's on that final stretch, on a greyhound, to a new beginning. I'd thought I'd let you all in on why this August was so special.

For they don't just call it August for nothing!

A's

- Done, with the brainless job!
- Done, with thinking of new ways to torment his boss.
- Done, popping Out, every time the thermometer, hits 30 degrees!
- Done, being scrubbed by Scratchy!
- Done, minding his P's and Q's. Making sure that I do too!
- Done, suggesting that some one fuck Poly!
- Done, selling his soul for a magnum of Tanqueray.
- Done, being called Mr.Big, and I don't mean Mr.Big aka Carrie B.
- Done, all the doable men in Chennai.
- Done, Also, all doable men who travel into Chennai.
- Done, with Chennai.

I could go on, but then its not about whats done, it's all about what remains to be done, the possibilities! And It's all there for you babe...as you head out chasing a dream, I wish you the very best, for you deserve nothing less!

Grr Husky!!

Note:- Credits and Disclaimers

• August Tidings, by Usha Pisharody.
• Came out awfully cloyingly sweet and mushy, but then this was some August! So don't make assumptions, already.
  

Rank Outsider!

It's a long time I am going through the motions of being a new hire and gosh it can be hard. Since morning I have managed to speak to just two folks. I am taking this as a lesson on onboarding new hires...just don't leave it to them to break the Ice!

 

PS - The nice lady next cube, just made me aware that I can't have the window seat with a view. It's been here and on lease to the boss, so she wants it back...So will keep you posted on where in the office grid do I fall. Reminds me of a blog query in my ex employer's website - Is there a pecking order by Tenurity? I had responded 'no', but looks like it actualy does! Lessons we learn!

Turtle tales

They are perhaps the cutest things that keep coming to India year after year, and we do all we can to harm them... destroy their nests, steal their eggs, kill them for meat and shell... steal the young ones for exotic pet sales.

Read about some issues here.

And now there is a new port that is being planned at the locations these turtle keep coming to lay their eggs! Gahirmatha's seas are one of the world's largest breeding areas for the Olive Ridley Turtle. The Dhamra port could signal the end of this habitat forever.

Greenpeace has been pursuing the TATAs to change the location of the port since a while, and has taken out quite a few campaigns for this. This seems to be going on the right way as finally the TATAs seem to have taken notice and are hiring PR agents to look into the harm these campaigns are doing to their public image, and what can be done to save it! Wouldn't it be easier just to change the location of the port? Or is it that the souls have been sold already?

These turtles are going to need all the help and support from us that they can get. Read about the GreenPeace efforts here. I have been supporting this since some time now. I would hope you would be concerned and sign it as well and spread the word.

PS: I realize I have started sounding dangerously like one of those guys who are ready to march out for anything and everything....but I think I am concerned about the environment. After all, we have but one earth, and in the end of the day, it is left to us to decide what we want to make of it....we could turn it to a land of wonders, or a valley of shame. Let's make the right choice.

Akasaka

Just had some excellent Sushi and not very far form home. We were in Akasaka today for dinner and this was A's first experience with Sushi. So I was not sure how this would go!

The restaurant is located behind Jayanti Theatre in Thrivanmiyur in the ground floor of a residential complex. So you just might miss it, look around!

It was perfect from the word go, clean spacious, very attentive staff and excellent Sushi.. we had some Chutoro, Teka Maki and a mixed vegetable Tempura. The sushi was presented well and was very fresh ...even A, who was doing Sushi for first time loved it ( I somehow knew he'd like the fish!- go figure), but did make plenty of noises with the Tempura ( Our Man does not believe, they could charge so much for bhajjis). But overall I'd strongly recommend that you try Akasaka.

PS: The Manager Cyril, is always on hand to explain in case you need any help. Also he traced me back the next day to return back some cash that was over charged by mistake. I had not even left my card :) Thats service!! and I will be back!

Akasaka details in the link!
Sushi FAQ
Sushi Ettiquites

Buttered Buns!

Buttered buns! Anyone !

I just had the my cute masseur coax me into a hour long session on the table. It was business as usual I thought, me on the table and some one on top! But this time, the boy decides to notch it up a little and I am curious, it's not often you can surprise me.

Cocoa Butter.The man sure knows how to please...for an hour he gently coaxes every muscle, and that included a very sore tush.I walked out of that session, with more cocoa butter on my tush, then you have in your dark rich Cadbury! Tasty Maybe!


PS: Must gift him a CD of massage clips from you Tube, let me help him excel !!!

Magic books

I love/live books. I am still trying to figure what my existance would be like should at some point in time I would not have access to books. It's almost become addictive. Not that i need to read them all the time; but the mere presence changes everything for me.

Hence, now that suddenly I seem to have lost all my interests in boys (note that its boys and not men; Chennai suddenly seems devoid of dateable men, and even the boys are few and far between. Sigh!) I have regained my pace with books. So I completed 2 pulp fiction novels, 1 anthology of Lithuanian, Slovakian and some other -ian fairy tales, one Henry James and now on to this book called Magic City that deals with racial and economic issues in early 1900s. Well, I do read almost everything, so long as they are well written and leave some effect. Hence I have started avoiding certain popular writers, partly because I am a snob, but mostly because their books have no soul. It hasn't taken me too long to understand that popular does not equal good, and thank heavens for that!

But I am enjoying Magic City. It written very well, and somehow, the irrationality and the mystique makes it all the more real.

Let me read, and maybe for a while I'll not miss anything, or anyone.

Acts of trust!

So the Manmohan Singh government did finally win the trust vote, and how!

I had always thought of Manmohan Singh as an impotent puppet being played, and played well, by the powers that shall not be named! However, the trust vote was indeed, perhaps as low the political situation has gone in a long time. The whole parliamentary debate is a total farce, and yes, its sad to the extent of being hilarious, I still cannot imagine the strange apathy we, as the public have towards the whole on goings that we refuse to open our eyes when the right time comes.

Selective amnesia has never helped anyone, in the long, or short run for that matter. How can we be so stupid that we don't even care any more? I don't really have an opinion on the whole nuclear deal. But I do have a problem about how the entire dealing was done is such a hush-hush manner that'd shame the bollywood suspense directors...not that that is a huge thing!

The question is, where are we heading thus? Its kind of corny, but I suddenly can't get these lyrics out of my mind!

Ehsas thoda to jagaye, apni dilon main hum,
Jaana tha humko kahan, aur chale hain kahanpe hum!

I am not sure if I should have posted this post here, or in my regular blog, but WTH, I am still living here, closet or otherwise!

Domesticity?

I and B had gone out on an early morning walk to the beach, and I was just shooting randomly. This one was unique in that, in that rather crowded beach, this one had only the things I had wanted in the frame. No trespassers here, no Sir!

I do not know, nor can I surmise if these two are a couple, or even lovers. But I love the way the photograph turned out, and frankly, I must also admit, I am taken aback at the power of suggestion.

No more talk, do tell me if you like it.

Love Doggy Style!

comic strip by Laura

A - Strange bitch who likes cats ============>>>> I am stoned my love, so you will but forgive!

From a Dawg lover, with Nauseating, cloying sweetness and all things good - B

Thank god for Cats!

Meat heat!

We all love celeb bitch fights...this one, well...it almost makes me wonder if Pammie forgot she's blonde!

Now now, that was a blonde moment!

thought for the day

If Pratibha Patil must be the president of India, is this hot or what?

Of course Ms. Patil had no chance!

Love and Brutus

"There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries"

Some things are not planned, like falling in love and hoping it'll pass the test of time and fortune.

Bruce has gone back to where he's pursuing his dreams. My dreams seem to be taking shape. But life seems to be moving so fast, that at times I feel somewhere I just lost my way and got stranded in a labyrinth. Things were not meant to be so complicated.

But then, there's always a flip side to every situation...things I had almost always wanted are taking a concrete shape, and I am in love with a guy who loves me as much. Not many guys can say that for themselves. I'm happy...just not content somehow.

Al (one of my closest friends) gave me a whole new, and correct perspective to my situation. I was cribbing about how complicated things are, and she snapped back, "Dude! You are a guy, in love with another guy, in India! Things don't quite get more complicated. So stop cribbing and just be gay already!"

It's kind of funny how I had forgotten about the whole "being gay in India" thing in the midst of everything. It felt good.

PS: Bruce had sent me the quote...it's from Julius Caeser. I could fall for him just because of this. He's all that, and much more. I should stop before the mush turns to slush! :P

Happy Pride!

Happy Pride!

We just wanted to do a post in solidarity of the guys who will be marching the streets across the world today. Thanks!

Kolkata - 1999
Delhi and Bangalore - 2008!

Good Luck to the marchers in Delhi and Bangalore, you shall all be pioneers!

Cheers!

Some links:-

Kolkata Pride
Bangalore Pride Home
Delhi Pride in the Times of India
Wiki - Pride Events worldwide

Brazen?

B was totally fascinated with the colour of this dried up leaf!

I must admit I like it pretty much myself.