Gadgadpakshi And Other Things

It was the first time I had ever kick-started any bike. And what a ‘Royal’ way to start!

I have coveted a Bullet for long and now I am finally a step closer to getting one. I applied for the Learner’s licence today; should be getting the final one in a month (unless the Europe trip manages to come up). I won’t be buying the Bird in Mumbai though. It makes more sense to buy it in Bangalore – my intended abode post September 2005.

Getting the learner’s wasn’t much of an issue, though the RTO guy took an inordinate amount of time with the girl standing in line before me. Most of this time was spent in flirting with the girl and staring at her chest; didn’t help that the girl flirted back. What surprised me was the ancient biometric technology at the RTO. After taking down my details, the officer took my finger and daubed it in ink and pasted my thumb impression over my photograph. As I stared at my own thumb print, distant memories of dermatoglyphics and Shankh etc awakened inside. I didn’t get much time to examine it though as there were others in queue.

Listening to Eric Johnson now, I need to learn to play Camel’s Night Out!!

And hey, I didn’t write those lyrics in my previous post. U2 did.