He-Mess Reshammiya!!!

This happened a few weeks back. I was in Mumbai, at my cousin’s place. It was a Saturday evening and we were lazing out in front of TV watching a very popular movie awards being given away (don’t remember which one, there are so many of them). After almost two hours of BLACK, lots of BLACK and still more of BLACK, we soon got pretty bored watching more and more of Sanjay Leela Bansali. And then, came the award for Best Singer award. And surprise surprise, (or for most of us, shock shock) its Himesh Reshammiya!
And it took not more than 5 minutes (1 min for typing the message, 1 minute for transmission and 3 minutes for my 3610 to detect and receive it), along came Nick’s SMS. As soon as I saw it was Nick’s, I knew he was also watching the awards show somewhere on this earth. As it turned out, it was a condolence message, mourning the so called death of Hindi Music.
Nick’s exasperation is quite understandable. He is definitely one of the most out spoken critics of Himesh Reshammiya. One can not blame him, because of you have ever lived in hostel 6, and had food in its mess, being subjected to the “Aashiq Banaya Aapne” a zillion times in the span of few weeks, you would be in the same place. As he puts it, “Ah-Sick-Banaya Aapne”! All thanks to this particular mess worker of ours, whose name I do not know, but who keeps it going with his own “singing” during those power cuts, making us dread the process of eating in mess day in and day out.
His rancour reached its zenith recently when he started going around the campus, asking people for his address so that he can go and kill him! It turned out that Himesh Reshammiya’s new album got released, and nick’s quest to find out the meaning of “Suroor” drove him over the edge. Poor chap.
The latest bout came in the form of the following SMS …

“Who is Himesh reshammiya?
a) The lead monkey in the story "Monkeys and the cap seller"
b) Leader of "come what may, we won’t save"
c) Next step in the evolution of donkeys...”

I am sure there is a blog somewhere around the corner, some place for him to vent out all his furore. What say Nick?

Juggie Me!!!

Ideas for blogs hit when most unexpected. This one came during my trip back from home. I had been home to Hyderabad for holi. Raju had his farewell to attend, so he left early and I was destined to travel all alone. The Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy was not enough to keep me occupied through all of the 20 hours of journey, and coupled with me travel insomnia, my creativity went into overdrive.
Now Jughead has been my LAN id and nickname around the college for quite some time. Surprisingly, most of the guys here have no idea who Jughead is, and always keep asking me about my obsession with him. Let me tell you that I just happen to identify myself with him a lot. So I thought, why not put up a blog about him. This also gave me a reason to dig up on this character, with a bit of help from wikipedia. What came up was pretty interesting.

For starters, Jughead Jones is a fictional character in Archies comics. Though Archie and his gals, Betty and Veronica are the main protagonists of the series, Jughead Jones, Archie’s best friend, is easily one of the most liked characters. The "weird one" of Archie’s friends circle, Jughead is notorious for his eating habits, cheeseburgers being his favourite. He has an enormous appetitie and has won all eating contests in Riverdale in the past 10 years! As a result, Jughead is the most preferred customer of most of Riverdale's food establishments, especially Pop Tate's Chocklit Shoppe, and a very respected food critic who is said to have perfect taste, in that he can taste a dish and tell you exactly what's wrong with it. His other major interest is sleeping. He has white sheepdog named Hot Dog (I wonder why it wasn’t named Cheeseburger) and is often chased by Ethel Muggs, whom he loves to hate. In fact, Jughead does his best to avoid girls—unless a free meal is involved. Always dressed in his blue turtle neck with a big "S" written on it and his trademark crown-shaped felt hat, Jughead is seldom known to have opened his eyes. He loves to skateboard, plays drums for the Archies band and is the second best student in the school next only to Dilton!!! His IQ levels are known to be way above average and has street smarts that will knock you off your feet. Definitely the funniest character around, for those of you who haven't read Archies ever, let me tell you that you have definitely missed something.

Some other lesser known facts about him :

1. Full name : Forsythe Pendleton Jones, named after an uncle who fought in the revolutionary war.

2. In the Spanish versions of the comic book, Jughead's name is Torombolo.

3. He has a baby sister, Forsythia Jones, who is named after him! She is also known as "Jellybean", because she was born in a traffic jam caused by a hijacked jellybean truck!!!

4. The reason why Jughead doesn't like girls? He had a childhood sweetheart named Joani Jumpp, and when they were 6, Jughead's family moved to Riverdale, and had to leave Joani behind. Determined not to go through the heartbreak again, he swore off girls.

5. In the TV movie and subsequent comic book To Riverdale and Back Again, which portrayed all the characters 15 years after their graduation from high school, Jughead has become a psychiatrist.

6. To this day, the letter "S" on Jughead's sweatshirt is the biggest secret that Archie Comics has ever kept. No one knows what it stands for.

7. Instead of spending him money on girls, Jughead often blows his allowance at Pop Tate's, and currently, he holds two records...one for eating the most burgers at Pop's, and one for having the largest tab at Pop's!

Regardless of that fact, there's always something to like about Jughead, not very unlike me ;-).