Diwali weekend

The lure of lucre had me at the office on Diwali Friday. Returned home by the time night had fallen & was witness to Diwali celebrations in full swing. Of late, B'lore seems to have embraced the North/East Indian Diwali celebration style .... that of making the most noise. And so there were people exploding 'aloo' bombs big enough to make car alarms go off & people stopping traffic by placing Chinese 'launcher' cracker boxes in the middle of the road.

Anyway, got home, lit up some diyas around the house. Priya had thoughtfully purchased some girly Diwali stuff & the sisters had a whale of a time burning it all up. The 2 had been planning on buying cellphones since the last couple of months & today was deemed d-day! So off it was to the dealer's.

Priya had made up her mind regarding the ....


.... Nokia X3 & that's what she bought. Shanu though, was another story. Having gone in with the Nokia C3 in mind, it took a bit of convincing to make her agree to the ....


.... Samsung Corby. It is a big moment when a middle class Indian lets go of his obsesion with Nokias & decides to try out another cellphone brand & I could feel history being made as the payment changed hands.

Came home & spent the next few hours growing increasingly engrossed with the nifty little touchscreen. Must say I'm quite impressed, even though it's got no Amoled or Android.

The rest of the weekend .... it rained. It was as if the Gods had decided to halt the downpour only for Diwali day & following it, the quota was released in full force. The rains this year have been sickening. I'm sick & tired of having to look at the same overcast sky for days on end. And the icing on the cake was when the waters took out my Walkman. Clearly, the rains this year have not been kind to moi.