and I'm back!

I feel I've done so much injustice to this blog - quite similar to what I do with novels: Start, and then leave for a long time! But now, I'm back, and quite positive that I'll be regular now!


So many things have happened in the past four months of my life, that I can not possibly talk about all of them. So I will only try half-heartedly:

Started working (my first job ever!) - and I love it till now.
Lost a lot of weight (have tons to go yet though!)
Tried water skiing in Indonesia (and did well), and will probably ice skate in London soon! ;-)
Passed my exams for approval by FSA (the financial services regulator in UK) and aced one of them :-)

Will soon write about experiences in Singapore, and now in London, Indonesian beaches and other things.

C.I.D.

This post is about a hindi television series, which, not many would believe, is the longest running series on Indian television. I found this fact when I read about the series on Wiki - it has been running for the past 12 years! And yet, whenever I tell any of my friends how much I like C.I.D. they fret as if they've found the most tasteless person on the Earth. So who are the people who watch C.I.D? There have to be thousands of them if the wiki page is true.


Anyways, here I'll describe why I like C.I.D. First things first, the chemistry between ACP Pradyuman, Senior Inspector Abhijeet and Inspector Daya is just great! It's almost as if they were born to be in those roles. The way Daya slaps every murderer (and every time, the slap is enough to force a confession), the way Abhijeet flirts with the forensic doctor, the way ACP moves his index finger saying "Par yeh laash yahan ayi toh ayi kaise?" are elements that combine to make every episode enjoyable. I actually miss any of them who goes absent in an episode. But the thing that, above all, keeps me glued to the show, is the instances of lateral thinking that change the game in every episode. Yes, there is a trend in the way each episode is constructed - the initial suspects are always innocent, and the actual culprit is either someone who the CID team is initially sure is innocent, or someone remote, who the team reaches through a series of highly unorthodox clues.

I do not really like the not-so-subtle humor of Fredericks and sometimes Salunkhe, but I am not sure whether I would still like CID this much without them. In my opinion they are intended to distract the viewer from the point of the episode, so as to get a feeling of attachment to the characters, by enjoying lighter moments with them.

Anyways, I think I should stop now. This post has fulfilled my purpose of being able to talk about the series and my liking for it.