Who's behind this mess?

Goodness gracious me, my blog is important enough to warrant its own About page. I have lived!

My name is Deepak Gopalakrishnan. I am by day a social media professional for Windchimes Communications and by night, I'm, a crime-fighting supervillain in a peacock suit. Actually no, that's not right. I do a bit of cartooning and writing and stuff - and have been lucky enough to do it for people like Cricinfo, Pagalguy, Yahoo!, Sify, CNNGo, India Today and a few others.

I love rock music and I collect water bottle wrappers. I doodle a bit, and used to play guitar with some path-breaking average college bands. We opened for Zero, who opened for Parikrama, who opened for Iron Maiden. So by that arbit mathematical law, we opened for the biggest heavy metal band in the world. Much coolness.

Brief life synopsis:
1984 - 2000: Boring life in Bahrain. Studied at Asian School, Bahrain
2000 - 2002: Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Kochi. Oh yeah
2002 - 2006: Highly enlightening course in Chemical Engineering. Government Engineering College, Thrissur
2006 - 2007: Excel jockey, Accenture Chennai
2007 - 2009: Here's where things took a slight turn. MICA, Ahmedabad \m/
2009 - now: Bombay, baby!

Chronicles of Dementia was the confluence of an idea whose time had come, along with a need for quality humour writing in the mid-2000s result of my wanting to appear cool too, when other, more talented individuals pwned the online space.

There are many things much better than this blog, you'll find most of them on my blogroll.

If you'd like to get in touch with me, I don't know how to make one of those cool form-like things, so let's stick to the old-fashioned methods:

1) Mail: chuck.of.all.trades [at] gmail [dot] com
2) Facebook: www.facebook.com/chuck.of.all.trades
3) Twitter: www.twitter.com/chuck_gopal
4) Homing missile: Usually somewhere in Bandra East, Mumbai.

Thanks for taking the time to read CoD. Have a great day! :)


PS: Many people have asked me 'Why Chuck?'. So here goes the story:

PJ in Malayalam = Chali (chuh-lee). During my wilder youth, I used to be a sort of peddler of the jokes of the more groanable variety, which led to a friend christening me 'Chali Deepak' which became shortened to 'Chuck'. The name just stuck, and well, that's it!