My Motorcycle Diaries - An introduction

Nothing like Che Guevara here.

Simple reason: I didn't want to end up an equipment measurbator ( You know what word it is - Thanks to Ken Rockwell -http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/7.htm - Search for Bottom Level 1 here)

I bought a bullet not because I had a lakh of cash stashed in my bank account; but, because I love it, and because I want to ride it everywhere.

I had modest interest in knowing how these little beasts work; they had always been in my childhood dreams. I have been told that "only if you have cash to maintain a car, you dare buy a bullet and maintain it"; God, it is so true.

ooh... I said "little" beast. No flaming war here; Bullets are 350 cc, nothing like the Harley monsters.

You guys should watch the 'The Motorcycle Diaries' featuring Gael Garcia Bernal; a beautiful movie. Motorcycle is just a tool used by Che to 'see' South America; I thought, okay, let me buy the tool first, let me look at South India next, and 'see' it later. As you all know by now, I am lazy as hell, and would like to do things sequentially.

My motorcycle is a Royal Enfield Thunderbird, 346 cc displacement; cool bike, hot looks. I did a modest 24000 kms (15 K miles, you Liberians, Burmese and North Americans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Metric_system.png) in the first two years.

I rode my bike on plains mostly, to known towns/cities through unknown towns/cities. Villagers have hitch-hiked on my bike; I have met several interesting people, but nothing I remember or have documented :) I am lazy.

View my bike here, same color but more chrome:
http://www.royalenfield.com/Content/IN/images/downloads/wallpapers/tb_1024.jpg

I did not want to start a different blog under my name. I will label the motorcycle related posts appropriately so that you can search if you want to read them all. After all, why are these labels for?

Comments in blog......

After watching this, and reading a couple of articles, I think I have changed my mind about comments on a blog.

So, folks, no more comments on my blog. Send an email if you want to say anything.

Blogs I read, forums I visit

English is very convenient; 'read' in the title is both past and present tense.

Fake Steve Jobs - http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/
John Gruber - http://daringfireball.net/
Joel Sposky - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/

Motherf**ker - http://atomicwang.org/motherfucker/Index/Index.html

Prasanna - http://kuraikudam.blogspot.com/
Barath - http://enn-ennangal.blogspot.com/

The last two: not just they are my cousins, I never knew that they are really really good in expressing what they intend to. Prasanna is blogging his poems - I remember him writing such things when he was at school. Barath is writing random stuff - so nice.

Fake Steve Jobs - Really speaking what Real Steve is thinking.

John Gruber - Read it.

Joel Sposky - 'Even if it is a slightly-no while interviewing, it is a NO' - The art of interviewing and software-engineering related stuff.

Mike Lee - I just love him. esp. Read the "How I became a programmer"

Forums: The MacResource forum (http://forums.macresource.com/list/1)- Fun place to get along with fun people who speak random stuff; from 'how-to-fix-my-powerbook-now' to 'how-to-shift-gears-clutchless'.

Read on !

First blog!

Not really the first.

I definitely have another Blog address which I do not remember :)

Anyway, a word of caution: If you are scared of random articles written by people who are totally lazy, stay clear of mine !

This blog is here today because of my amerikki-cousin Prasanna (http://kuraikudam.blogspot.com) and his bro Barath (http://enn-ennangal.blogspot.com); not that they WANTed me to write; am just jealous :)

Welcome me and congratulate me, y'all !