The art of being jobless

Yes! That's right! If collecting rocks, stones and toilet seats and making figures out of them can be an art, if making drawings that look like roadkill can be an art and if numerous other equally useless things can be termed art.. then why not useless-ness itself be considered an art?In fact I would say being jobless is the mother of all those other 'arts'.How would I know you ask? For the pure and simple reason that at this point I would be hard pressed to find anyone else as jobless as I am. I am, what you would call in fancy terms, a connoisseur of the art of joblessness.What discriminates being jobless from say simply passing time, or procrastination is that there actually IS nothing to do. Jobless people do not avoid doing work like procrastinators, they are not simply passing time till they find something better to do. They are fully aware that there is nothing to do and lack the motivation to find something to do. For example watching tv is what I would call passing time. Jobless people won't even do that, instead they will wander around a bit.. pick up the remote, have an internal moral debate whether they should really be watching tv, decide that it is impossible to decide and put the remote down and wander off somewhere else.Walking aimlessly is aslo a part of the activities of jobless people... if you don't mind the oxymoron in there. Walking and looking like they are involved in some deep philosophical thought or thinking about something important is not an easy thing to do and that's what makes it an art. You either have it or you don't and jobless people, thanks to quite a lot of practice, have perfected this walk.Another thing jobless people do is write complete nonsense... and sometimes subject other people to it! Which is precisely what I am about to do....

hong kong or that big gorilla...

movie review time.. !I went and saw Hong Kong.. sorry I meant King Kong. Whatever. It was Sasikumar who said he wanted to watch Hong Kong in his drunk state.. so for me the movie has forever earner the title of Hong Kong.So for a one line review - take some jurassic park, some titanic, add a little bit of Tarzan, mix it al up and season it with a little bollywood emotion and then let evolution go wild!... so much for that.Now that a couple of days have passed since I wrote that review and much has happened since then I will move on to the next topic.I have decided to reform and quit being an alcoholic....mostly because my poor laptop went on a beer drinking binge (entirely involuntarily) causing it much harm. In light of those events I am going to stop drinking more than once a week! This condition of course does not hold once my second trimester results are out.On a more random note... one of the most annoying things in the world is to have broadband internet that's got unlimited hours and be not able to use it. Damn sify! I have to resort to primitive methods like using dial up, opening up this page, disconnecting and then writing this out and I will connect again to publish it. Admittedly that's the true blue desi way and if I didn't have better options I would be doing that gleefully but since I do, it becomes very painful.Time to reconnect and publish this post....