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Hilarious awards for writing bad!

Was reading something about something, and came across something entirely different and side-splitting: There is a 'Bad Sex In Fiction Award' given every year to apparently the worst sex scene written that year.


I could not resist quoting some of the 'winning' passage excerpts (Hope I am not crossing any copyright restrictions; If so, please leave a comment and I will look at it in my leisure):



"Hoyt began moving his lips as if he were trying to suck the ice cream off the top of a cone without using his teeth ... Slither slither slither slither went the tongue, but the hand that was what she tried to concentrate on, the hand, since it has the entire terrain of her torso to explore and not just the otorhinolaryngological caverns ..." (Now that name reminds me of a conversation Joey and Monica have)


"She closed her eyes, saw his dark-as-treacle-toffee eyes gazing down at her. Weirdly, he was clad in pin-stripes at the same time as being naked. Pin-stripes were erotic, the uniform of fathers, two-dimensional fathers.." (Now that's weird!)


"Her hand is moving away from my knee and heading north. Heading unnervingly and with a steely will towards the pole ... Ever northward moves her hand, while she smiles languorously at my right ear. And when she reaches the north pole, I think in wonder and terror -- she will surely want to pitch her tent." (Tacky..)


"It is time, time ... Now. Yes. She is so small and compact and yet she has all the necessary features ... Shall I compare thee to a Sony Walkman. She is his own Toshiba, his dinky little JVC, his sweet Aiwa ... Aiwa" (I can continue this with '...Siemens lost, Ericsson was gone and Sam sung and smoked a cigarette right after...' oops! Watch out Awards 2012!!)


"Meanwhile her ears were filled with the sound of a soft but frantic gasping and it was some time before she identified it as her own." (Now she is much better.. she remembers her name!)


"She made a noise somewhere between a beached seal and a police siren" (.. but she didn't win the mimicry award)


"Liz squeaked like wet rubber" (I don't know how to respond to this!)


"Detaching mind from over-eager gnomon and its exquisitely appointed, shadowy task, he began to make love to her." (Wait, a female sundial?)


"Their jaws ground in feverish mutual mastication. Saliva and sweat. Sweat and saliva. There was a purposeful shedding of clothing." (Wow. Mastication. Wow.)


"She is topping up your engine oil for the cross-country coming up. Your RPM is hitting a new high. To wait any longer would be to lose prime time..."


"She picks up a Bugatti's momentum. You want her more at a Volkswagen's steady trot. Squeeze the maximum mileage out of your gallon of gas. But she's eating up the road with all cylinders blazing."


The author of these last two quotes is India's own Aniruddha Bahal, from his fiction 'Bunker 13'. So, no comments from me for these two. Zip. None.



Until next time I find something quirky enough to be irresistibly shareable... 


- Gaggy

'Slutwalk'

Wow... there was a time when I used to think the first part of the title word was vulgar... I don't understand the reason for this whole 'walk' thingy... Sure, it's healthy to walk a couple of miles daily, but organising a walk just to justify what you are already doing? Are you not sure of yourself enough now that you need more people to join you to make you feel what you're doing is right?

Of course, the officer who made the comment would have been naive in speaking a bit coarse... but I really do think he has a point there... Wearing skimpy clothes close to nothing is your choice, bit make sure you and your surroundings are both comfortable with it. If there are a bunch of rabid creatures around, better learn how to protect yourself.

And what is the point of these protests happening in a country with a completely different cultural background, in a place where history tells us repeatedly the position given to women is the highest? Educate yourselves, fight for right to knowledge, work and honour, not for wearing shorter mini-skirts and showing more cleavage - which you are entitled to do anyways!

But then again, I'm not too sure what I need to do with my life, so I should probably stop opinionating about such things and should start thinking in a productive manner...

Till next time I get one of the crazy spells then...

- Gaggy

One of the top 5 dangerous countries for women?

"India is rated the fourth most dangerous country due to high levels of female foeticide and sex trafficking."

I was really surprised to read this statement posted on a news webpage today... How has it come down to this??

India has been known to have a rich culture of treating women with respect throughout the ages. We have a proud heritage with a lot of well known women throughout the ages in literature, politics, spirituality and many other fields. Our culture treats women with utmost respect.

Is westernization one of the reasons that the culture is being perpetrated? Or is it lack of education among literate people?

It wasn't him Charlie, it was you!

It was my night, I could've taken Wilson apart. So what happens he gets the title shot outdoors on a ballpark and what do I get? A one way ticket to Palookaville...

You was my brother Charlie you should've looked after me a little bit...

You don't understand I coulda had class... I could've been a Contender, I could've been somebody, instead of a bum. Which is what I am, lets face it.

It was you Charlie.

The most wanted list revisited after Osama's death...

http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/04/the-worlds-most-wanted-list?cat=world&type=article

NFS: Why, When and How

I am currently on the much traversed path of completing all the NFS series games, and am stuck with NFS Pro Street for about 3 weeks now, playing a couple of hours every weekend... Still have the NFS Shift, NFS Undercover and NFS Hot Pursuit (new one) to come in the next few months.


The craze about racing games started when my friend from school had got a sparkling new PC to his home. PCs in those days were a rarity in India... You had to be from a very affluent family to afford one.


Anyways, this PC had a 5.4 inch floppy drive, a 3.5 inch floppy drive, and guess what: a state-of-the-art 12x CD drive! Anyways, what I was personally interested was in this particular racing game called the "Need For Speed II SE". This game in itself was a revolution in 16-bit Graphics, with the cheat "FZR2000" which enabled the fastest car available in the game, with top speeds of over 400 kmph (I think...). Played the game a number of times over and topped all the tracks.


A couple of years (or was it months?) later, I was introduced to this browsing center near my house who offered "NFS 5 - Porsche Unleashed" and a Force Feedback enabled Steering Wheel to top it! I used to pay a lot of my pocket money for hours of this first effort of NFS series to make driving realistic.


Then I got my first PC shortly after, and there was a flurry of games I had always wanted to play... exchanging floppy disks and CDs with friends, having night-outs for completing some levels... Then, I started with the NFS series again. Got my hands on the original "Need for Speed", the first game in the series.. found it very blunt when compared to NFS 5, but went on for a while with it. Then the NFS 2 (still my sister's favourite), the NFS 3 Hot Pursuit (first in the Hot Pursuit series), NFS 4 High Stakes, and the NFS 5 which was the last of the game series I could play on my PC with only an on-board Graphics card and 128 MB RAM. Still remember the time I used to play this game over and over just because I did not have any other new ones!


Anyways, some years later, came out of college, joined the job I was offered in campus, struggled for a bit and traveled onsite, to complete a long time dream of having a "laptop" of my own! Bought a Sony Vaio VGN-CR29XN/B just because I liked the black matte finish so much! Got it delivered on my birthday too.. but I digress as usual. So what do you think was the first game I played on the new laptop? It HAD to be NFS Underground, which was in buzz... followed by NFS Underground 2, NFS Most Wanted and NFS Carbon. Loved the evolution, but hated that I again could not play NFS Undercover on my Laptop, which again does not have an additional graphics card! (Grrrr... damn you Sony for not giving me an option!)


Now, after much consideration of cost vs usability, and thinking of buying it for a lifetime, I decided out of the blue one day to buy the PS3 Slim. Not sure why I like the PS3 over XBox 360, but am sure glad that I bought the one which allows free online network access ;) So what do you think I got this time? NFS Shift was my first game :) Though I played about 60% of the game only, and I started getting other games for the console. Of course, I got the NFS Undercover, NFS Pro Street and the latest NFS Hot Pursuit games, along with Blur, GT5 Prologue and some other games, 19 in total. Not sure if I will complete all the racing games in time before NFS Shift 2 gets released!


I am still wondering why I have not bought the NFS Hot Pursuit 2 game, need to get it some time just for the heck of it ;) 


Until next time I get a topic to write about... me signing out!


Gaggy 

On crossroads

Someone somewhere told me not so long ago that I have reached a crossroad in my professional path. This hadn't felt so much in line with reality until now.

I think I always wait for some sort of sign or sequence of events to occur to make something happen. However, am I intelligent enough to know that the series of events has started to occur?

Always in a state of doubt, very rarely in a stable happy mind... most people would probably connect with this common sentiment, albeit at different times and in different situations... what happened to the positive in me? Should probably wait for the next set of events to occur to find out. May be it is time to make the right decisions this time, hopefully I have started already.

Until next time then...

Leaving yet another time

Leaving Bristol again for the second time for good, and does not feel as heavy as the last time. Funny that, because the responsibilities have apparently increased more, what with my sister's marriage in 4 months and all, but funny, life teaches you to adjust to hardships at each turn...