The Indian Spelling Juggernaut

There was a time when I thought only mallus took perverse delight in spelling a word phonetically.
Anyone who has been to kerala would have noticed the myriad sign boards proclaiming such nuggets like ceeyem stores. Or peepee enterprises. Or yemyem press.
But lately, I have noticed that this trend does not restrict itself to the south.
The extra K's for example. Ekta Kapoor and her Kkusum's+ daily load of soap operas. But that was forgivable. After all, those were words which were in Hindi. There could always be more than one correct English rendition.
What irks me is a transgression like Himesh Reshmiyaa's,(I hope i got the spelling right there, anyway, its the nasal sounding guy who permanently wears a cap), movie Aap Ka Suroor. It has an inane tag line which says 'The Moviee'. What exactly is that extra 'e' doing there? Spell check is screaming at me right now. Any kid going to watch this movie will of course be ieeenspired and will coin more of such nuggets. In ten years maybe we will have to run a page through a speech synthesizer to figure out what was meant.
Eyes wide shut. Ears wide open it will be then.

lizzy

The previous post was a sample test on what my posting would look like. It looks nice.
Here goes.

Lizzy is a tawny six inch long lizard. Stays with me. Pays no rent.
But what the heck. He has been staring at me for the past five minutes. From under the tubelight. I have already checked for insects on me twice. Wonder what he finds so interesting. Assuming its a he. He just lost interest. He has just seen a moth. There it goes. His dinner's done i guess.

Its so simple for Lizzy. He eats, sleeps and roams around. Period. And I sit opposite him doing complicated things which make my life even more complicated. Guess Lizzy can teach me something there.

I will go have dinner.

numero uno

First posting!
Yippee!!!
First things first.
The reason this posting exists is because:
1) There are still ten minutes for my mess to open for dinner.
2) I am jobless. Both literally and figuratively.
3) Its free.
4) "A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world."
That was courtesy the start tour in blogger. Its generality prevents the existence of a purist blogger i guess. Incidentally, are there certain people who call themselves that?