3 May 2006, and I’m typing in the hot, sweaty darkness of my first full-blown power cut since my arrival in Hyderabad. Sometime last week I contributed my 2 cents to an article in the Express on the Hyderabad-Bangalore “race” and whether India’s Silicon-city was losing it’s premier position to the upstart Biryaniwallas, I said, “Aye! For they have learnt from Bangalore’s mistakes,” But I guess the cup has slipped… so… “stop the presses! I retract!!”. But seriously, one hopes this is a one-off thing that doesn’t warrant a full recant… or an emigration. Unlike Bangalore, you can’t exactly shrug off a late night power cut here… which explains in part why I’m writing this blog at an hour one swore as early as yesterday one wouldn’t keep… but as usual the fates conspire.

While surfing the web for the umpteenth time at the Cubicle Farm today, I learnt of Pramod Mahajan’s death after 12 days struggling against the fratricidal attempt on his life. Predictably, the news channels compete to spend air time on the event and the history of the man. In life, as in death, he’s hailed as the BJP’s chief strategist and Mr. Fixit – some epitaph…

On a more personal note, I wondered if my recent tirade might have been too harsh… after all, he does seem to be quite a decent chap and all. It’s awful when you say or imply rotten things about a person and then they promptly kick the bucket…But then… I think that the fact that he seems to be this nice, warm person is exactly the problem we have to face – is this the best we can get? And so… I recant my recant… that is to say, I can’t recant…My Machiavellian self now wonders what is to become of the case and my alleged cover up… will the family break ranks? Are we going to hear more in the days ahead? Que sera sera… As a mark of respect for the departed soul, I cease my tasteless tirade here…

But not my rant for the evening!!!!

Nefarious S, who is my sole blog-reader these days brought up my comment on Ash’s moribund acting and acting lessons for sex-scenes. “How does one teach pre, post, in the act, orgasmic expressions?” S asks. And so, I thought that it’s really not that hard. After all, one could well provide either in-the-act kinds of practical training, OR, for sati savitri types, one could provide some kind of manga comic tutorial. Since, a blog is not the best kinda medium for a practical tutorial (though curious young ladies with a burning desire to learn could contact me directly)… and since this is a shantam-paapam kinda blog, I decided to restrict my investigation to a how-to of sorts. While pondering over it, I figured that this is just the kind of thing, faithful readers… including but not limited to Nefarious S might just be interested in contributing to. So… here are my humble efforts in providing the adept with some guidance on how to pull off a good post-orgasmic reaction when acting in a sex scene so that poor unfortunate souls get their money’s worth. My contribution is as follows:

Example 1: The “WOOO Gawd – this is feeling fantashtic!” look. Recommended for middle aged characters that aren’t likely to get any.

Then there's the once-in-a-lifetime Geek-love moment

And then... the "I'm a cool-dude but still blown-by-the-experience" look

And just so we dont' start assuming here that my knowledge/repetoire is limited to the state space of male expressions... which in fact would be far... FAR from the truth, and be purely the figment of an envious mind's imagination... I present... the "That was so mind-blowingly good I'm squint-eyed in love with you" expression for "ladis wonly"

In the interests of keeping this open, the random reader is encouraged to send in their contributions with cartoon sketches that could be added to the tutorial. I shall then compile them and attempt to have them sent to the IceMaiden who was turned into Ash. :)

So... for now... au revoir mes amis... please... pretty please?? You will visit this blog again.. won't you? Won't you??? Aaaargghhh!!!!