it started with a message from asif, with an ode to potty. a dumb question, but read the winning answer. personally, i read on the job. it explains why i spend three hours while i’m at it.

which reminded me of a bong poem taught to me by partho. i can’t find it anywhere, but it starts “maashi o maashi, pacha hashi”, and goes on to describe the aunty, an umbrella, an elephant and a mushroom. funny stuff. and both of us were solid drunk.

and then there was this japanese rhyme about a frog. as a fresher, i was asked to memorize, sing, and act it out. i still remember the words

kaeru no uta ga
kikoete kuru yo
gwa gwa gwa gwa
gero gero gero gero
gwa gwa gwa

get the pronunciation guide here, and a sound clip here.

yes… deep stuff.

i finally got my pan card, yesterday… i finally have a form of id. enough of my explaining to people that i am a good citizen of this country, i just don’t have a license, or a voter’s id, or a ration card, or any other form of identification.

say hello to citizen aswpp1090p

i now work at cyberclay. you wouldn’t have heard of it before… it’s a start-up web 2.0 company, but it’s due for many great things ahead if things go as planned. and as for my role there, i can’t really define it. but it’s interesting… more about cyberclay and me in the months to come.

and now, a job posting: we’re hiring people who know web 2.0 technologies. any/all of the following: php, javascript, mysql, ajax… and things like that. most importantly, you must be smart. and must realize there’s more to life than working in a place where they give you a badge to wear to work. i still don’t see how that’s a job incentive. contact me for specifics.

my name used to be ousep for a while after i was born… not for too long though. it got changed to joseph, and that set the ball rolling for more joseph pottenkulams in my family. i know three others, and i’m sure there are many more. i have been asked if i’m the joseph pottenkulam who…

• studied at alleppey [x]
• is studying in std 12 at cochin [x]
• got married recently [x]
• got married a while back [x]
• has a shrimp farming business [x]
• does handstands [x]
• died a few years ago [?]
• is slowly going bald [imagine tick here]

so, to sort out the whole identity crisis issue, i’m shifting my blog to this shiny new domain. so… even if nobody knows which ousep i am, they’d feel pretty stupid asking if i’m ousep from cochin. that’d be like asking someone if he’s raju from nepal.

for those who don’t know, which would be most of you… ousep (or ouseph) is the malayalam version of joseph. much like the italians have giuseppe, and the arabs have yusuf, and the czechs have jzoezsepzf. okay, so i made the last one up. plus, ousep was my callter-ego back in school. the name has served me well in the past, and it is mine again…

so, for both my regular readers, update your bookmarks. or learn the new spelling.

so things will be missing from here… again. until i find that back-up i made. so keep reading this post, until then.

update: got all my posts and comments back up… but a whole lot of characters seem to look a little ugly… back to manual editing, i guess…

i know. they both take you to the same page.

i know. big deal.

and prabin, who kindly arranged the required hot chick, may keep her to himself. lucky prick.

no more of that, i say.

and to distract people from that ugly thought… here’s something on more pleasant lines. paul and i are planning a road-trip to pondicherry. new year, woo-hoo, and all that.anyone else has nothing to do/wants to get away from family or other boring situations, come by here. we have no clue what we’ll be doing there, but my good friend joe pondy assures me that there’ll be nothing to do, there might be some ?dj-party type thing?, and absolutely no scene for half-naked women.

as of now, dilshad is probably on as well. and the car’s big enough to seat four, at least. so here’s an open invitation… anyone wants to join us? to pre-qualify for the trip, you must not be any of the following: whiny; over-talkative; excessively hungry/crappy/pukey; boring; an ugly chick; a hot chick who doesn’t want to make out; leon from the previous post; anything else that may be objectionable.

i guess it’s going to be a fun trip. sign up by mailing me, or commenting here.

the schedule*:

• 29th dec… leave cochin
• 30th dec… reach pondy
• 31st dec… get drunk etc
• 1st jan… recover
• 2nd jan… leave pondy

*: published schedule is liable to change without prior notice at the discretion of travellers.