Chez Moi

I tried… I resisted but I give up! I have to pay homage to Krish Ashok and I shall!

I came across his blog, entertainingly titled ‘Doing Jalsa and Showing Jilpa’ awhile back, whilst searching for, of all the things, Chennai 600028 mp3s! (Okay, for the illiterates out there, the title of his blog is a loose translation of the hit number from the Tamil movie entitled Chennai 600028.) I moved swiftly on, when the said jalsas and jilpas weren’t the ones I was looking for. Then, I tripped over this blog again and decided to delve deeper.

That was yesterday.

I still haven’t finished splitting my sides. The dude has a real quirky way of talking about stuff and the fact that he’s from my own neck of the woods means I can actually understand what he’s going on about - most times, that is! Where else will I come across pearls such as ‘nor am I fully cognizant of social mores and anto-social yogurts’, ‘How does one make a quintessentially Italian dish Russian? By Putin in to it, a glass of vodka?‘, ‘Jabba di Hutti (Finest Pnjaabi cuisine on the planet Tatooine)’ and the incomparably ’snooty’ Les Sappadeaux. He killed me!

So, as you can imagine, browsing his blog was more enjoyable than wading through Interactive Design : beyond human-computer interaction. (No offence to Jenny P, et al)

From a louwr’s guide to Chennai to Navrathri to desified Chinese cuisine to Delhi survival guides for Madrasis to the funniest review of the Order of the Phoenix, the bloke even has a funny map of Chennai and when I came across the area labelled ‘Weekendboozapuram’, I fell apart. Krish Ashok - you so totally rock, dude!

Whilst on the subject of funny Tam stuff, the following vid is unmissable. I found it thanks to Sayesha’s entertaining blog. Please do not sue me if you split your sides and are unable to put them back together. There! I’ve warned you!

Thank you Sayeesha and Buffalax!