Monday, June 4, 2007
A cool race and a lame contest
We interrupt our usual profundity to bring you two important public service announcements —
- Fellow blogger and ridiculously talented photographer Akshay Mahajan and a couple of his friends, are doing this awesomely cool thing called the Rickshaw Run. They have volunteered themselves for a race that takes them driving 3750km across India, in the monsoons, in an auto-rickshaw. Wait. Pause for a second, chew, swallow and digest that completely. Monsoons in India. 3750km. Auto-rickshaw. Oh and it is through the Himalayas. Yes indeed. They have completely lost it. (No, not the auto-rickshaw.)
This crazy run is meant to raise funds for charity and they need your support to make it happen. Head over to Akshay’s site to read all about it, find the Paypal icon and donate generously, and then spread the word and get others to do the same. Contributors will naturally get some inherent good karma that comes with such things, but also get a print copy of one of Akshay’s pictures, which in some circles is worth more than all this karma-warma business. So go do the needful.
- Fellow blogger and ridiculously jobless grad student Kaushik Gopalan has announced the unimaginatively titled Lamest ever Orkut challenge. Unsurprisingly enough, this is a contest to find the lamest, most hilarous and yet effective will you make friendship with me line. The prize is a neat little blogging T-shirt, so there’s good incentive to use your Orkut skills and help build the mother of all ships.
The first will likely ensure that you run into fewer auto-rickshaw drivers in your life who ask for return sawaari. The second will provide romantic hope for lame desi grad students everywhere, which as you know is a noble and mostly impossible task. So go be part of both and earn some cosmic brownie points.
lol! this should be fun!
Monday, June 4, 2007 @ 7:29 PM
Hmm… “lamest line ever”? Now that’s one list which would be worth reading. But does lamest mean cheesiest? Hope lameness is determined by the “success rate” (or the un-success rate in this case).
The rick-race seems like a “24 at Daytona” kinda thingie. Who knew our friendly-neighbourhood auto (apart from carrying almost endless number of passengers) could “reach so high”? ;)
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 @ 12:43 AM
didn’t that lamest line contest kind of show up on one of your blog’s comments?
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 @ 9:27 AM
[Megha]
Hmmm… Apollo-Gs for not leaving a comment on the last post..
Comment 1 (for last post on bathing tomatoes and what not) - I seriously suggest politics as a career path for atleast one of you.. Just look at the comment space.. 3 sentences can incite so much flurry of activity.. liked all the responses as much as the post itself..
Comment 2 (for this post on auto rickshaws and lame pickup lines) - Will definitely check the site for Rickshaw Run and also try to gain some karma warma.. My faith in all things Indian is now more strengthened… cos these guys are taking the humble 3-wheeler where no 3-wheeler has gone before.. Won’t be surprised if our local AutoShankar gains an entry to Guinness records for climbing Mt.Everest in Auto.. beware all ye Yamaha/Suzuki snow mobiles, our very own auto’s gonna kick your butt.. :)
BTW, will “If I could be any mathematical symbol I wished, I would like to be the Integral, so that I can be the area under your curve” make it in the lamest line contest? ;)
PS: No, I didn’t make up that pickup line.. heard somewhere.. that’s all..
Regards,
Ganga
Friday, June 8, 2007 @ 1:42 PM