by Tony Sebastian who is proud that he has used a semicolon for punctuation for the first ever time :D

Its been a while since I've blogged in first person. Actually its been a while since I've blogged. The reasons for my being bashful - I don't mean to say I was having new year parties - are many. For one,this has been a particularly difficult time for me to blog since Satyam has come down. Before you jump to conclusions, I did not buy any Satyam shares. Although I am quite the Jack of all trades,I am in no way related to Jack and the B-stock.

What I mean to say is; it is extremely difficult for a guy, who relies on wordplay to induce laughter, to add a new post on his blog when everyone seems to have gone into a punning frenzy - so much so that there is not one original pun I can think of about Satyam! I swear! ;)

What compounded my misery is that I can't really think of anything as being Blog-worthy as of now. It would gladden you to know that I'm tired of blogging the dead horse - just inserting random puns with a really thin plot line. And since I'm not talented enough to come up with something that is actually good, it is very difficult to find some natural situation that seems bloggable.

Christmas at home was er.. nothing to write home about. Makes you wonder about the English language doesn't it? Wodehouse would have had something to say about that phrase, I'm sure. Like for instance, the other day, a friend of mine was telling me that he went out on a date with a girl, but they weren't exactly "seeing each other". I had naturally concluded that it was because "Love was blind" and told him so and he pretty much looked like a cheetah which had been told that it was supposed to go on a vegetarian diet for the rest of its life.

Vegetarianism is yet another thing that boggles me. I mean how can one not be tired of eating the same aalu boiled, then fried or fried and then boiled and chopped up and mixed with rice or sauteed till it turns golden and what not. My vegetarian friend countered this by reminding me that there was not just one kind of vegetable. Yes, I conceded, there were two kinds of vegetables - Po-tay-toes and Po-tah-toes.

But where were we? Ah yes. The reasons for my absence from the blogosphere. Something happened that further shook my belief in the ability of puns to elicit laughter. In fact it has left me wondering if it is irritating to have too much of it in one's ears. I'm talking about the iPOD of course - intensive Pun OverDose.

The aforementioned incident was a five minute skit about a firm which delivers human souls to its clients. I managed to squeeze in a few soulful puns ( Spirited Soul-utions, Soul-ar System, Quantum of Soul-ace, soul-itaire diamond...) into the script without it sounding too contrived. But as the show went on, while slapstick humour and overacting raised many a chuckle and guffaw, the puns were received with glassy eyes and upper lips as stiff as an engineering student on farewell day.

So while we are on the subject of souls, some jobless person actually weighed some people immediately before and after their death and based on the weight loss concluded that the human soul weighed 21 grams. Correct me if I'm wrong, but does he mean that the human soul is crap?

Which is pretty much what I feel like right now after the CAT licking (Malayalam translation "Jeevitham CAT nakki") which proved to me yet again that too much pride and arrogance always, always goes before a fall. So while I brood about it and make a promise to actually start working for once in my life, you guys go on and look at the top right part of the blog where I have added a new snippet - The Wit-a-min Tablet, the archives are a collection of some of my status messages and neologisms.

To sign off, here are a couple of neologisms from this week.

Ownerous: Burdensome nature of the landlord.

Presumptuous: An appetizer before a great meal.

Cheerio!

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