About City Boy

This is Amortya Ray’s personal blog. He is passionate about technology, all things Apple, New York, Dunkin Donuts and of course Scarlett Johansson. Amongst others.

Letter to 16 year old Amortya

Dear 16-year-old-Amortya:

Hi!

First things first. The Backstreet Boys are so 1997. The Nick Carter middle-parted hairdo that you are going for is just not working. You have thick bushy, often curly hair. You cannot pull off the straight-silky-bouncy hair look. So stop trying already.

You cannot look like him

You turn 16 [...]

Tales from Madrid: Day 1

I arrived this morning, heavily jetlagged, super cranky but extremely glad to meet one of my closest friends after 2 and a half years. This trip also scratches item 39 off my life list. We drove to her crazy fancy home in one of the poshest areas of Central Madrid. She showed me to [...]

“What’s in a name?” my ass

Swatiji and Mr. D are the cutest couple ever. Like EVER. And Swatiji is majorly preggers at the moment. So I’m thinking that she should definitely name her first born after me. Because I’m all sorts of awesome. So the other day, I make a little drawing for her on a paper napkin and [...]

I got my teeth cleaned, yo

Earlier this week, I decided to be volunteer patient for a Lil’ M’s dentist sister Dr. Hottie. She’s taking her final licensing exams in a few days, and needed someone to practice her toothy sciences on. Now normally, I have plenty of productive things to on a Monday evening, but instead I decide to [...]

Dining with killer government agents

Last night, after getting home from an exhausting 4 hour drive from Virginia (and, no I didn’t drive. I can’t drive. *GASP* But sleeping in the back seat of a sedan that’s stuffed with 2 comforters, 2 pillows and a gazillion coats is a tough job, so youbettershutthefuckup), I unpack (read: drop two dirty [...]

New Life, New Moon and New Year

A few hours ago I tried importing all the posts from my old Blogger blog (all 66 of them) into this one. And as I was painstakingly rearranging the newly imported posts, categories and tags, I realized that a majority of those articles were from a past life. A life that has long left [...]

Lost In Transcription

I was meeting a friend for dinner yesterday and it was the one thing I was looking forward to in an otherwise mundane day. Said friend leaves me a voicemail message confirming the appointment and Google Voice picks it up for me. I get an email with the message transcribed. Here’s what the email [...]

A Bollywood Dream and Burn

So I’m on the phone with a buddy of mine and suddenly it occurs to me that if they were to make a movie on my life, I’d insist Ranbir Kapoor play my role. Why, you might ask? Because just like me, he’s good looking, well read and physically fit. My friend bursts out [...]

Mona Lisa Smile

I had coffee with an old friend yesterday. Someone whom I haven’t met in a very long time, in spite of living in the same city. I have never seem to get her. I usually figure out a person within 15 minutes of meeting them. However, even after 3 years of knowing her, I [...]