Had a good breakfast after many days today.

I have been sleeping too late to wake up in time for breakfast, and have been sleeping too early to have breakfast and then retire. The crows were cawing when Cyph called me, and so I decided to go and shut them up with some toast and sweet tea, Indian style. When I dropped at Cyph's room, Baj was there too. It seems that they had been listening to left-wing propaganda all night. Hmm, I rubbed my two day stubble, sleep deprivation plus commie eloquence is a potent combination. Baj was totally sold on to deconstructing America by empowering the common American man.

I believe more and more people are starting to dislike the American imperialist ideal. My opportunism keeps me moving from one pan to the other, though I seriously believe that America has no business over how elections in Iraq are held. Baj, still red, was expounding a communist missionary model to spread camaraderie amongst Americans like Christianity spread. I raised a valid point, Jesus was impaled to the cross, not a kind of death I want to have. Nor some toxic injection, nor some sparky chair. I still haven't decided how I want to die. I hope I will have enough time to plan for that later. Anyway, how much sense does it make to plan for something that is not in your control anyway?

Dropping the morbid subject, I discovered today that there exist something like half-boiled eggs, two of which Baj wolfed down like the weasels on Animal Planet. So did Cyph, but he did it in a much dignified manner. The mood was still red, with Cyph's ardent love for Hitler and the Nazi flashing in between. It was quite good morning enterntainment, a commie and a nazi arguing about what system was best for India while I munched on a toast, laced with butter patiently, like a guy in a ration queue in an Indian metropolis. I couldn't take the 'kill all those not in the interest of the nation' rant that Cyph tugs when he imagines himself comandeering an SS Waffen division in Riga, Latvia. Almost a hundred thousand people of the Mosaic persuasion perished there., I am told.

Athata Baudhika! I cried in my mind, and I jumped into the debate. I had had a very fruitful discussion with Gaurav on the same topic a while ago, which helped me reaffirm and readjust my stand on many an issue. Cyph is an ardent Nazi, believing that people of a country should be the same race, the same religion, the same culture and speak the same language. Cyph, maybe he forgot that Baj is a Tambram. It is not for nothing that it sounds like a missile, Baj was on him like a Dane with a massive snout, tearing him to shreds. We all trooped back, Cyph still shouting "Zeig Heil!" in his head.

My meeting with Ivan was quite fruitful for him, since I gave him a lot of information about Hinduism. I am a trifle ashamed to admit this, but after my jab at Singaporeans yesterday, I was totally clobbered today when Ivan asked me what dvaita and advaita was, and what was the difference between Hinduism and Buddhism. That is more than most Hindus know, even those whose first name is Advait. I'll eat my hat if he wants me to. It wasn't fruitful for me, apart from the banana milkshake I had in between. After grilling me for 4 hours, the chap finally let me go, having written more than 12 pages about Hindu history, it's decimation, it's role in the Indian Independence, the threat of Hindu fascism, and what the world could learn from the Hindu religion. He is going to mail me a copy of his report, so that I can read what the Christians and the Muslims he interviewed said.

Let's see it's 2047, and more than 12 hours since I have had any food. I am hungry, but I am too lazy to go to JP and eat at moshi moshi Mos Burger again. I think I am in love with Kathryn Jeanway, I can't explain it, but I think it's the hair. I know she is 40 years old [Voyager was shot in 1995], but woman in uniform and woman in command, I am selling out lock, stock and barrel here to go and join the army, or in this case, the Starfleet Academy.

This is Captain Onkar Joshi of the Federation Starship Durvasus.....nyah...not quite as impressive :(