Along came Mary !!

There was a girl named Mary. As usual there is also a guy in this story named Aston. And this story revolves around these two characters. Just for the sake of saying, its not at all the story of "There is something about Mary".

Lets start with a flashback!!

14 years ago:

Mary and her family just moved into an entirely new place. Big city, new people and everything around was new and so was her school. She stepped into her class with a smile on her face and a glaze in her eyes. Those were enough to raise the tentacles of the guys. Every eye was sparkled, every mouth wide open and every heartbeat went high. Even Aston was quite surprised to feel the high pulse rate which he normally doesn't get, because he never got attracted to anybody till that very moment.

She sat in the first bench and Aston as usual used to sit in the very last bench to keep an eye away from the poking questions of the teachers. Just to mention, only those people prefer to sit in the first bench who are either prepared with all answers, do their homeworks regularly and can sing quite beautifully. While Aston was a dumbass in all these, Mary was superb. Totally opposite characters so to say. Speaking of which, Mary was flamboyant, talkative, beautiful, fun, jolly and naughty. Aston, in contrast, was dull, dumb, book worm, shy, totally hopeless guy. Usually, Aston was never got attracted to any girl. Putting up in another way, he was shy enough to talk to a girl, infact he used to change his course of path if he used to see any girls coming in his way. But still then, there was something about Mary that made Aston go crazy.

He tried to talk to her, let her know what he was feeling. But Mary was always surrounded by her friends and never was found alone. Moreover, Aston was actually not able to gain his total courage to go upto her and start a conversation. Afterall, he had a reputation built up against his name of being a member of hate-feminism-group.

Both of them used to take the same school bus for commuting. She again used to sit in the very front seat and Aston used to take up a seat at the back in such a position that he would be able to get a clear picture of her all throughout the journey back to home. Luckily they stayed just a couple of kilometers away, as in neighbor colonies. And these two colonies used to be hardcore rivals when it comes to Cricket. So they normally used to have cricket matches every now and then. Aston saw an opportunity to go to Mary's colony often and he joined his colony's cricket team. When he finally took over the position of captain of his team, he used to visit Mary's colony frequently and spend most of time in there just in the name of meetings and arranging schedules with the opponent captains. All these because he was pretty much excited to see Mary taking a walk with her cute little dog every evening. That was the only motivation for him to live upto. But still he didnt get a chance to start a communication yet.

4 years passed and still the scenario was the same. Mary didnt even notice that there was a guy in her class who had so deeply fell for her. The only thing that she knew about this guy was that he was a complete nerd, jerk and weird. Mary used to sing amazingly and was in the school prayer team. Aston tried to get into the prayer team too but his pathetic singing couldnt help him. So he tried his hands on being the commander so that he can stay close to her. He used to stand so close to her that among all other voices he was able to distinguish Mary's voice pretty clearly. He never used to miss any of the prayer sessions or even any of the classes, no matter what, with a hope to see her at least once in a day. And teachers used to think that Aston was a very studious and regular guy without even knowing the real reasons. But by this time Aston was so much deep into trouble. He was mad about her. If he wasnt able to get a view of her for a day, he started remaining sad. She took all his minds away. But still there wasnt any talking between them.

8 years ago:

In the meanwhile, the 10th exams got over and the list of the students for 11th class were posted in the notice board. As soon as Aston heard this news, he rushed to the school. He found a large gathering of students and parents checking their scores and admissions. Aston tried pretty hard to get inside that crowd and took a look at the list. The first thing he started searching was the name Mary. He browsed the entire 100 students list but didnt find it. He thought he might have missed the name, so he searched again. But no success this time too. He got frustrated and started blaming the person who printed those results. But he tried to find the name again but luck wasnt with him at all. All of a sudden, his friends started congratulating him for securing the highest percentages in his section. Actually, he was so obsessed with Mary, that he didnt even looked at his own score and when he was told by his friends, he looked at his results and tried to feel happy about it but he couldnt. All throughout the summer vacation, he had been thinking that there was obviously some kind of error in the result and probably Mary might show up in the class itself. Came the D-day, the very 1st day of class 11th, but Aston's eyes were not able to find Mary in the class. So, he attentively listened to the roll calls thinking that her name might be called up if she wasnt able to make up for the class on the very first day. But God was never with Aston and he felt miserable.

He started finding about her whereabouts. He went to her colony many times and asked people that he knew but no luck again. After a lot of search, he actually got to know that she had taken admission in one of the colleges. He was elated because she was still there in the city and didnt go anywhere else. As soon as he figured out her college, he started standing in front of her college every evening to at least have a glance of her. But God again didnt help him out much in there. For complete two years he stood there almost every evening eating junk food, but wasnt able to achieve anything. His faith in God started fading away.

Aston's life then took a U turn and he was compelled to leave that city to go for higher studies and become an engineer which he didnt at all wanted to pursue.

6 years ago:

Aston finally left the city but usually used to come back to his native where he left his heart with a hope that this time he is gonna find her and tell her everything that he has got. But God didnt show any sympathy to him and he kept wandering. In the meanwhile, 4 years of college life had totally changed Aston altogether. He gained so much confidence that he was not at all afraid of talking to any girls anymore and in a sense he was totally ready to take heads up and speak his heart out to Mary if he happens to find her. In every girl he met in his college, he was searching for Mary in all of them but he couldnt find any similarity because of which he preferred to stay away from any relationship stuff. As time passed by, Mary and her smiling face began fading away from the minds of Aston. By the time he got his degree, he was totally over the Mary effect and was open to all. He began to think: As this has been a long time, Mary wouldnt be there in the city anymore but if he ever got a chance to meet her once, he would speak everything up right away without worrying about the results. Who knows she might have got married by now.

1 year ago:

Life was moving pretty smooth for Aston. He got the job he always wanted. He was independent. He started taking decisions of his own. But all of a sudden, after a booz session, Aston got to know from his intoxicated friends that Mary had been seen in a marriage party and that she had been doing a job there itself. Although Aston was totally out of control after having 4 large pegs of cocktails in a pub, his eyes sparkled, his mind started working again and he ran all his resources in the city to get her phone number. And finally after two months of hard search he was able to get hold of her number but wasnt sure what he was gonna talk about.

Mary wouldnt even remember him. They didnt had a talk for the entire period they were classmates. So there wasnt any slight chance that the name Aston would ring any bells in Mary. But then, he decided to speak up everything in the first phone call itself because he might not get a chance to speak to her again. So he picked up the cell phone, connected her number and the ring started to bell. He was profusely sweating in the month of December which was considered to be the coldest month in a year, he was nervous and he cut the phone off. He took a deep breath and tried again, but no success this time too. He dropped the plan and thought to carry forward whatever he had been doing so far without taking much tension in life. But then, he wasnt able to sleep at nights thinking that he has the contact number of Mary with him for which he had been longing so dearly, because of whom he changed himself totally just to have a talk with her and now that he has everything, what is that which is stopping him. After 3 days, he called again with a solid rock heart and a i-dont-care attitude. And this time he didnt shut off the call. The bell rang and a sweet voice answered the phone. Yes, it was Mary and it was Aston talking to her. Infact she was able to recognize him as the same old jerk and moron. Aston was on the cloud nine that his so many years of search had finally ended. But he wasnt able to speak everything up as he had decided earlier. She was the same - jolly, fun, a little bit serious and naughty. After a few days, the frequency of phone calls increased. The talks were never-ending. They started to hover around every kind of possible topics one can think of.

Thats it...Flashback over and lets get back to the present!!

Now:

Finally both of them got a chance to meet over a coffee after 14 damn hard years of when Aston saw Mary....

What happened next??? Even i dont know much. Probably Aston or Mary might be able to take over the story further from here.

Om Shanti Om Review

Om Shanti Om. When you say this word, is there anything else ringing your bells. Well let me help you out. Its the song in Karz (starring Rishi Kapoor and Tina munim i suppose), its the proverb that Sadhu-sant used to say umteenth times in mythological movies, its the word that you say after you finish up your daily prayer routine and blah bla.

Came November 6th 2007 and the only meaning this term has got is "hey its the Farah Khan movie with mindblowing Shahrukh abs". I say what the crap. People have gone crazy, girls who stopped loving Shahrukh have started loving him all over again and guys who hated him for some reasons started hating him more because Shahrukh deliberately doing the same thing over and over again adding to these guys' ruthless distaste in him.

Coming to the movie again, following is the summary of who-is-doing-what:
Movie: Om Shanti Om
Release Date: 6th November 2007
Director: Farah Khan
Genre: Drama/Romance/Drama and more pathetic drama
Tagline: He was a junior artiste. She was a star. For some dreams, one lifetime is not enough.
Cast and Crew:
Shahrukh Khan as Om Prakash Makhija and Om Kapoor
Deepika as Shanti and Sandy
Arjun Rampal as Mukesh Mehra
Shreyash Talpade as Pappu Master
Rani Mukherjee, Zayed Khan, Vidya Balan, Juhi Chawla, Priyanka Chopra, Shilpa Shetty, Arbaaz Khan, Malaika Arora, Salmaan Khan, Amrita Arora, Kajol, Mithunda, Ritesh Deshmukh, Saif Ali Khan, Dharmendra, Lara Dutta, Sunil Shetty, Rekha and many more. The list is just unending.

The reason for writing a review for this particular movie is neither that I liked nor that I hated it but I just wanted to put something down on paper regarding the fact that what a jerk am I to listen to what people say and waste 3 precious hours of my life which I will never get back again. But anyways, let me try not to be biased and jot down what I truly feel.

The plot starts with the copied Karz song in 1970s or something when Subhash Ghai's movie was being shot and Om Prakash (Shk) was a junior artist in it standing in the audience and clapping. This fella has got ambitions to be a superstar someday or the other and recieve an award for being the best actor. He meets the well established actress Shanti (Deepika) and tries everything to win her heart. But this poor lad's heart gets broken when he gets to know that Shanti is already married and was about to have an illegal child of the then famous producer Mukesh (Arjun). The drama begins there and its was a non stop till the end. Woh kehte hain naa "Jab tak film ka ending sukhad nahin hota tab samajh lena ki filam khatam nahin hui hai" - crappy dialogues....eeeak!!

There is a song from the movie which is hitting the top list in the music world and i dont know how and why. Its Dard-e-disco. I never liked it and i guess will not be liking it in future. But there is one song which i liked the most among all the worst songs in it - Dhoom tana. It has got old movie style sets and the song has also got lyrics and music similar to 1970s. Nice one but not that much good that you gonna remember it for more than a month. Coming back to Dard-e-disco, there is a hype about it because Shahrukh has shown his 6-pack abs in it. The crazy world and i dont know why people start doping just because of money. God save them and their future old age.

Speaking of dialogues, you must have noticed innumerable number of times how much overacting shahrukh khan does. Here he proves it again and gets rid of this fact and acts even more jerkily with too much overacting to get digested by a common man. I dont blame him though. People mostly his fans specifically the girl fans want him to overact and so he does. Go and watch the movie if you really want some overdose of overactings by him and his lead actress.

Rating: 3 out of 10 (-3 for making it a horror movie which i dont like at all, -2 for the genuine overactings, -1 for the crappy songs which you would certainly skip if you are watching on a dvd or computer and -1 for a stealing the concept of Karz with few changes)
Feedback: It just so and so movie.
Advice: Can be watchable but you need to have full stock of popcorns and soft drinks with you so that you can have some good time eating it if you ever get bored by the dialogues
Lessons Learnt: Never ever believe what people say and waste your time. Go for what your heart says. Just because Farah has good contacts with athe film industry and she can make all of them come to the stage in one single song, doesnt make a movie hit. Main Hoon Naa sucked and so does this second try at making a movie. People should stick to what they are best at. She is good at choreography, not movie making or even directing one of them.

Oh, did I mention that Deepika is a real hottie!! You can well watch it for her if at all you hate Shahrukh Khan. I did watch it only because of this reason.

Saawariya Movie Review

There has been a lot of hype about this movie for quite a long time. I have been thinking what this heck is all about. Its just another Sanjay Leela Bansali movie where there is gonna be emotions, drama and the movie will end with a happy note but the audience will still have tears rolling down their eyes thinking that the movie should have extended a little bit more till the time they feel happy about one of the characters they love.

Adding to it, to my utter surprise the DVD print of this movie is online after just three days of its release. Thats kind of weird but I was happy that afterall I will get to watch this so highly awaited and anticipated movie with a clear full screen view.

Here are some tit bits about the movie:

Movie: Saawariya
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali (please not the extra 'h' that he has added to bring good luck)
Tagline: When he first fell in love...
Cast:
Ranbir Kapoor as Raj (God knows who the hell is he)
Sonam Kapoor as Sakina (Goddess knows what does she think of herself)
Salman Khan and Rani Mukherjee (Nice and very nice as always)

When I first saw the trailor of the movie few months back, I was under the impression that Salman and Rani are in the main lead and surely this is gonna be a super hit. Not because of Salman but because of the combo of Rani and SLB (yeah Sanjay has changed his name to some freaky initials which took quite a while for me to understand). Later on, when I realized that they are just having a special appearance, half of my interest in it was lost. But then the remaining half interest was so much that it compelled me to surf the internet to look for the lastest and clear print of the movie for 2-3 days continuously. And finally I succeeded in finding one.

So, there it goes.
Movie starts, I am so very excited.
Movie continues, I started chatting with friends and watching the movie simultaneously.
Movie continues till interval, I put on the TV to watch some comedy serials alongwith watching the movie.
Movie reaches climax, I opened winamp and started listening to songs of Linkin Park at high volume.
Movie ends, I dont know what happened in the end because I totally lost track of what was going on in the movie and who the hell cares.

That was my experience and there goes the biggest super duper expensive flop of the year without even catching any of the eyes.

The reasons behind it being a flop what I can think of are:

1. The movie starts in such a set that bores you to the utmost point
2. Every now and then it has got songs in it which you wouldnt even like to lend your ears to. Please let me know if you wanna listen to the songs and I will help you out to literally watch the video songs and that the entire movie. Remove the songs and the effecive length of the movie with dialogues is not gonna be more than 15 mins.
   
3. The lead actor was portrayed as if he is a sexy item bomb, wrapped up in a lungi and showing off. I mean i wonder how many of the guys would like to see those scenes. They should have put a parental guidance in the beginning of the movie that should say "Strictly inappropriate for the people who are straight"
   
4. The girl in the movie was not at all hot from any angle. So, no hope from that side too
   
5. Even before you know whats going on in the movie, you would have completed half of your sleep and dreamt about Kangana Ranaut thrice.

The biggest lesson to be learned is that the name SLB doesnt mean that the movie has to be good and watchable anymore.

Rating: -100000.... out of 10 (yes you read it correct.. thats negative)
Feeback: It sucked, it licked and still I am not pleased. Thats the kind of horribleness it has got.
Advice: Dont at all think of wasting your money and time on it. But yeah if you want to go with your gf/bf for some other reason, i would strongly advice to go for it because you will get a lot of time to do all your stuffs and most probably the entire theatre would be empty. Good luck

Do you smile frequently? Think again!!

Three people are sitting on the other side of a round table and looking right on to your face asking one simple bloody question: Can you give us explanation why your results are not correct and most importantly, delayed?

Do you have any idea what expression in these kind of situations would perfectly fit. As far as I knew, till today, a smile can bring no harm to anyone. And so i did - a smile which i always wear on my face. But i had absolutely no idea that the saying did not say anything about you and what consequences it can bring to you. What it meant was for the sake of others. Try smiling in such a scenario and the most likely answers, rather questions, you gonna hear are:

"Why the hell are you smiling?"

"Does your smile mean that you are not at all serious about your work?"

"What do you think you are?? Are you out of your minds?"

"I haven't seen a ridiculous guy like you before"

"Do you think what I just said was a joke?"

"Well gentlemen, I don't see anything constructive coming up from this meeting. So, lets call it off for today. Lets give this chap a little time to save his ass in explaining the big managers about the loss of 2 million dollars"

blah blah....

But did you realize something. They have forgotten the fact that we all are engineers who haven't done anything right at the very first time. And if they mess it up in the first place, they dont touch it the second time. And if at all they do, write it on rock, that they gonna fail the third time too.

Now I really think: Does that old saying about smile have to be modified a little bit? If yes, in what respect. After a few googling, i ended up analyzing some of the quotes that seemed to be famous to me till now :

• "No matter how small, a smile on your face tells all" - This is what affected me i suppose. A big smile refers to a big blunder that you made and in addition to that, it also conveys that you are not even sorry for it.
• "If you find a friend without a smile, give him one of yours" - Well, i would certainly like to give 50% of my smiles to the one i hate the most so that he gets screwed daily. Any takers?
  
• "A smile a day" - And literally means exactly one smile per day. You go beyond it and O'boy you are in a deep trouble. Most of the people took this proverb otherwise and twisted it such a way that nobody thinks about what it really wants to mean.
• "If you smile you can change yourself, others and your future" - One thing missing in this statement is '....for the worst unimaginable things'.
• "Everyone makes mistake and thats why there is an eraser on every pencil" - I just want to kill the guy who wrote this or even uttered it for the first time. Its the mouth and the voice thats gonna keep your ass moving if you do a mistake, not a speechless smile.
• "A smile is worth a thousand words" - Surely it is but not a thousand words. Its just three words that it translates in such a mess 'I dont care' !

There are millions of these proverbs which do not at all make sense if applied in such situations.
The best one that i liked and has got all the intelligent thinking behind it:

"Every tear has a smile behind it"

I dont think anything other than this would better suit the situation that I am talking about. I really need to find the guy who quoted this and congratulate him for his great achievement and the intensive research that he did for coming up with such a wonderful one liner.

So, the question still remains. Do you really need to smile all the time? If yes, then why does it screw you up? If no, what are the criteria when you shouldn't be doing it?

Taking life seriously

First things first.
After a long time, almost after 6 years, I became serious again regarding my life ahead. The engineering job that i have been doing for the last 2 years is interesting but I dont see much of a jump in the career. At this point of time, I am not at all worried about money. So whatever is coming into my pocket is way more than enough to pay for my parties, petrol and buying things to have fun. But sooner or later, I think i will be in need to much more money when i think of getting married and having a family. Whole lot of responsibilities which ask nothing but money. Afterall, love is not everything in life...to sustain it one needs money.

So, last night i was thinking what are the options left with me. One of the alternatives that I always have is to get into one of the IIMs and get a Masters in Business Administration. But the only problem that I see is, its not gonna make much of a difference. One cannot get an instant jump in his career even if he gets admission in one of these coveted colleges. Moreover, the exam is too tough and i have been out of reading and sharpening my analytical skills which can get me through with this bloody exam. The funny thing is, I have been thinking of giving CAT from the last two years, bought all the materials to prepare but never was albe to buy forms and actually sit in the exam. I dont know but CAT seems to be a too difficult task to bell it.

Another option which seems quite feasible and the most easiest way to get into the top management of any big company is to give GMAT and get ur MBA done from a college abroad. GMAT as compared to CAT is very easy and as soon as u finish your degree you get paid in dollars which is apparently 40 times of whatever you would be getting in India. Thing is I had already given GRE two years ago and I guess this makes me quite confident about cracking this exam without much tension.

So from now onwards, this website will mostly contain everything one needs to know about GMAT, processes of getting admissions in the top colleges abroad, the materials needed to prepare for the same and stuffs realted to it which i am yet to figure out.

That was a weird but kool experience 6 years ago - (part 1)

Now what I am gonna write here is totally for adults. So, if you are below 18yrs or arent done with your puberty thingie or have any kind of awkwardness while listening and talking dirty, please back off. Back off right now because what follows is a sheer prose containing explicit language that will surely be undigestible to you.

Manytimes this thought comes to my freaking mind that why on earth specially in indian colleges there is so much usage of slangs. Slangs which you have never heard of till ur 12th grade but suddenly after finishing your schooling, you are put into a college where all kinds of people come together. There are varieties of languages, cultures, people with pagdi, people wearing kurta pajamas in night and not the lest people wrapped up in lungis. There isnt just a diversity in outlook but also the manner in which a person speaks and pronounces words. Biharis, Lucknawi, Gujraati, Delhites, Bangalees, Entraas, Asamese, etc and all having a different style of accent while speaking hindi.

I cannot speak for others so lemme jot down the story that happened with me. I used to be a simple and shy kind of guy way back in school days whose only motive in life was to mug and bury himself up half the feet into books. Then life took a U-turn and got a chance to move out of my parents' house and went to a hostel. The first three days were normal as my father came with me to settle me down. But he has got a job to attend to because of which he went back where he came from leaving me all alone in this cruel world to fight by myself. The very next day, my wing mate ("wing" is a set of 10-12 rooms in an aisle or floor) came to my room and asked excitedly "Madarchod, kahan se hai tum?". I was able to understand what he was trying to ask but i wasnt able to comprehend what he said in the beginning of the sentence. So after replying back what he wanted to know i just asked him out of curiosity "Ye madarchod kya hota hai?". And i cannot forget the laughter on his face the very next moment i asked him this silly question. I wouldnt say it silly at that time because it was entirely new for me.
Then he sat besides me, took a sigh of relief and pointing his finger to the wall of my room, politely asked "Do u have any idea what is written all over on ur wall?"
I looked at it and stared at it again but it was out of my knowledge. It said "Assholes, fuck the shit off my room!!".
I said "Yes, i am able to udnerstand the point that the statement makes which is to stay away from this room. But i am still not able to understand it completely"
He went again "Okay, now i get you. I think you are not that exposed. You have to be polished from the beginning then only you will become a perfect diamond"
"Would you please mind telling me what is the meaning of that. Its written in my room and if I am not not able to understand it, what i am gonna tell people who will visit my room and ask about it.
"Seriously dude, nobody is gonna ask you about this. They will just laugh when they will read it. You dont have to explain to them at all"
"Okay...you are not at all helping now"
"Badka chutia nikla be tum to!! Asshole ka meaning hota hai stupid and dont just go around and say them assholes instead of stupid."
"Then why didnt he wrote stupid instead of asshole which would have made sense to everybody"
"He is not doing a social service in here. Those who can understand, they gonna appreciate him and those who dont, they will always remain looser just like you."
"I got you. But it would have been great if you would have told it. Anyways, its 10pm now and its time for me to go to bed. So if you can go to your room, may i head towards my bed because we got a class to attend at 7am tomorrow. Good night"
And he went back to his room wishing me a great night.

Next day, it was a pretty hectic day as for the first time in my life i attended class for continuously 9 hrs without any SUPW, Games or Library periods in between which I used to have in school. Exhausted I came back to my room and out of tiredness went directly to bed. At around 1:30am, there was a big knock on my doors which was enough to wake me up. As soon as i opened the door, there were six people standing right on my face, one of them being the same one who came to my room last night. They told me to get dressed quickly and come with them, they had something to show me. I hesitated a little bit as the next day I had a class to attend right at 7am. But then they forced me and pulled me with them.

We entered into a dark room which was there in the opposite aisle of the same floor. I had never been there. The only thing i knew about the hostel was the canteen, my room and the exit of the building. There were chairs all over the place. Two carrom boards tables were also there with nobody attending it which was obvious at such a weird time at night. Suddenly the TV went on. And then i gotto know that it was nothing but our hostel's TV room. One of the guys went near to tv and did something with VCD player.
I said "Guys, i am glad that you called me up to watch a movie but right now i am not at all in a mood to see one, Lets wait for the weekend to come and then i can watch with you. I need to go now."
One of them replied "Just watch for 5 min. After that if you still think you need to go to bed then we wont stop you at all. Moreover, in weekends this room would be full of people and its normally the week days when you will find this room empty"
I agreed as 5 mins is not too much of a time.

The movie started and they all sit in front of the TV. It was murky eveywhere which i hate the most. I looked around a little bit in the dark as it was totally a new place for me. One of the guys was sitting right besides the door as if he was a watchman. When i turned back to the TV, my eyes were stunned, my mouth wide open and my mind completely shut..............

........[ to be contd ]

Life is freaking fucked up!!

It would not be a lie to say that at this point of my life, everything seems to be so pretty fucked up. Reasons being:

1. Lots of work and dont even get a single time during the office hours to enjoy a bit or take a break.
   
2. The colleague of mine who was helping me to get some indian home made food has left this place today. As I am very bad at anything related to kitchen, dont even know when is the next time I'll get some good food
3. Adding to the previous point, there is not even a single Indian restaurant in Waterloo or even in a radius of 60 miles around it. So, the option of taking some food outside is also closed
4. Went to have an hair-do today after two months when i realized that my hairs have grown sufficiently and long enough (10cm) to give them a treat of shaping up. But the lady who was appointed to cut my hair, dealt with them pretty harshly and what she left with me is a 1cm long hairs all over my head. Man, it sucks...Need to buy a funky cap pretty soon.
5. Missing my friends a lot over there in India. Aww man! cant forget the memories of screwing boss and messing up with the sweet lady from the other department during the lunch time and in front of everybody.
   
6. And last and the important one being I dont even get a 5 hrs of relaxed and tension-free sleep because the person whom i love more than anybody else in my life has posed some questions that freaked me out completely. So, always my eyes are red and burning when my mind is blank and confused.

Everytime I am involved in some fun, God invariably interferes and does something which makes all the enjoyment go dissapear. I just hate him!! Why cant this fucking life be pretty simple and laid back?

An evening with the Beer

Warning 1:

The readers of this blog should be 18 years and above. If you dont suffice this criteria, I suggest you to stop reading right now and close this window.

Warning 2:
Drinking of alcohol brings sudden rush of blood flowing into ur head which sometimes becomes out of control. So be careful when u do it and do it at your own risk. Parental guidance strongly recommended.

Okay, for quite a days i have been freaking obsessed with beers and its not just one variety, I have tried almost all of them available on this earth. The weather is getting colder day by day in Waterloo and nobody can survive it unless he takes something hard. As i have quit vodkas and rum (when i say quit, i mean i take them occasionally in parties and thats it, nowhere else), beers are the only form of liquid remaining to stick to. I know its a pathetic condition but its better to have something than nothing.

Well, here is the deal. When you are out of touch from all sorts of hard drinks and you grab yourself a 6 beer crate from the nearest store, I can hardly imagine how one would be going for it.

• Option 1: As soon as you park your car in the parking spot, you dont even care how you parked it, you rush to your room, slam the door side open and jump onto the couch, get hold of the TV remote, put on some good rock music channel and even then amidst the noise of the music on TV you are able to hear the sound of the top flip ripping out of one of the beer cans. Aaaw man!! u feel as if u are on cloud nine

• Option 2: You park your car very cautiously as if you gonna get a ticket if you dont put it in the right spot, u stroll hazily with the beer crate towards ur room, when u are at the doors, you suddenly remember that u have forgotten the keys at the office desk, you head back to the office when everybody has left to their sweet homes, when you are at ur desk u just get tempted to open up ur computer and check few official mails, as soon as u do that u realize that u are pretty fucked up and u got all sorts of crazy works pending, u keep ur hands off the crate of beers and there u go working till late night, you come back home again with a lazy and tired walk, open up the doors and directly hit the cozy bed and when u wake up in the morning, u realize O'holy fuck, i left the beers at the office..shit man!! m screwed.

I guess nobody wants to get into the 2nd situation. So, as soon as u park the car, be pretty much sure to rush into the couch.

Anyways, there was a time and it doesnt date too back, when i considered beer to be a form of Horse urine. I mean it smelled like that and it tasted too. Well, ask any of the first time drinkers and they would have the same opinion. But then, somebody said correctly, when you are damn thirsty even hot coffee gives u the same sensation as if u are gulping down some freezing iced water. Another reason to take the side of beer would be that I have heard it helps u gain some weight.

So, yesterday night I cannot even believe that i could possibly have taken the entire 6 cans all of my own which i get to know in the morning when i see the empty cans lying here and there around the couch. Wow!!! I knew my strength and it was hardly half a bottle of mild beer in india. Dont know how come that capacity increased all of a sudden without even an occurrence of surprise pukes. That felt good after a long time.

But most important thing that i noticed in the morning with all senses intact is two of the cans were not in the round shape at all. They were twisted, squeezed and the top portion freaking ripped apart. O'boy, Can somebody be so much desperate in not even leaving the last few drops in the cans? I still wonder whose spirits got inside of me yesterday !! Still a question

Brains of a species called Human Being !!

This might seem a little bit weird. But as you can well figure out I dont have anything important to do at home except surfing the internet, I came across this piece of image which brought a little smile to my face. To be precise, let me just jot down the major important differences between a male and a woman brain:

1. Look at the listening particle in male brain which occupies a lot of space in that of a woman. This is not that much true as far as i have seen both the parties. Seen many men who just listen to their woman and keep doing it for the rest of their life, can do anything even before their woman asks them to do, can miss an exciting cricket game if their woman wants them to switch the channel to a freaking daily soap opera.
2. Can you notice the two areas of Beer in the male's brain. I think that should have been increased to 7 small sections spread all over the space. And this is a normal trend for the whole week in a man's life.
3. When there is a talk over telephone between man-to-man, the duration does not exceed 8 min maximum with an average rate of 4 mins. There will be a hi-work-bye kind of communication. But when it comes to woman, goes 10 min, pasts 30 mins, gets over 1 hours but after that women are like warming up. Nobody has got any idea why they talk so much when its woman-to-woman. If there would have been a talk between opposite genders then the things would probably seem pretty straight and clear. But woman-to-woman that too for more than 1 hr sounds not-very-straight!! There is acutally a different name coined for this kind of behavior...he hehe... God knows what they talk about!!
4. One cannot find a shopping spot in male's brain because they hardly put their mind into shopping. Its like just passing by one of the beer bars and if there happens to be a shopping center, they just stop by and buy the things that their eyes see the very first moment they enter the mall. While in the case of women, 6 hours of walk in the entire mall, turning each and every single piece of item upside down, having ice cream breaks in between just to keep the tempo high, one ends up with only a single piece of red top. What the hell!!! So much of pain for a single 14$ top. Had men been given the chance, they would have bought the same red top for the woman within 4 mins - 1 min to get in the shop, one to select the top, two to get the bill paid and one last min to get out of the store.
5. Finally, the major difference that occupies the centres of the brain. Male has got more than 60% of their brain occupied by the strong desire for sex and look at the same area in women's brain - commitment which as a matter of fact doesnt at all exists in male brain. God has done a major mistake while putting up things in brains and this is the one area where he failed. Its not at all compatible. Thats why i guess males have accepted this fact and try to get into woman's commitment zone and then try to explore into the tiny spot of sex in woman's mind. Its difficult though to find little spot among all the other big areas but still then people have been successful in their earlier days of datings which apparently dies down as times passes because the Jealosy part in woman's brain takes up all the remaining space eventually. Oh gosh!! This is damn difficult to explain actually

Anyway, i dont wanna be a bad guy so i am stopping myself here. I guess all others conclusions can be easily drawn hereafter. he hehe

Love Everybody - Period !!

The very first thing that is taught in any school or college is to "love every human being". And as time passes by, humans are so very much attached with this word "love" that they start using it in each and every moment. No wonder when it comes to friends and near and dears, this makes sense. But i got this very interesting caution signboard somewhere in the internet and the most funnier part is that the website is dedicated to bring peace and harmony to this this world. I was not able to comprehend how to fix an equation between the name of the website and the message conveyed by this signboard. Maybe they wanted to say, love your enemies so much that destroy their existence from the world so that you can love everyone again. Quite crazy!!!

How are Rose and Love related !!

Ever wondered why the rose is considered as the most important aspect in the life of lovers? Well as of me, I never thought about it before and I would certainly not like to ponder on the reasons behind it. There are certain things that have been carried forward from generations and we accept them without even questioning. Its like why you wanna take a bath everyday, why people wear clothes (if they wouldnt have from the beginning, all you can see now is naked people all around you and you being one of them), why you get to sleep only in the night and work during the day and why isnt it the other way round, etcetera....There are a hell lots of questions like these but nobody even cared to think about them for a moment. So why should I be wasting my fucking time on it. Well, now that i dont have anything better to do at home, I wont mind thinking about these questions for a moment and come up with some valid and interesting answers.

Question:
So the first question is why rose is a symbol of love? Why only this flower, why not a lily or tulip or the freaking spider orchid? or why a flower at all? why not a common thing like pen or a shoe?

Answer:
I did some research on it which apparently is a wikipedia search and lots of reading, i ended up in a pretty funny answer. If you play around the word rose and jumble its letter up a little bit, you will get a name called "Eros". What is it then?? Its the name of the god of lust, love and intercourse. Wow!!! that was something i didnt know before. All i knew was the god of lust and intercourse was Kamadev. O'boy i was so wrong till now and nobody corrected me. Strange!!! Now i really need to brush up my knowledge on this.
Anyways, the apart from the resemblance with the god of love, the color of rose depicts something else. As this color is no other than the color of blood, I can well co-relate why is it so. Heard about romeo-juliet, heer-ranjha, laila-majnu, bla and bla? What happened to them and to their so famous love stories? One of them has always died. Yes, and thats the click. The color of rose demands blood in all these stories and one of the lovers has always to sacrifice for it. Thats kind of freaky!!!
What about the petals on the rose? You can see many of them and all entangled. Thats what it is all about. It makes life confusing and more difficult to deal with. Just have a look at lily or orchid, they have got so simple arrangement of petals and yet they look so beautiful. You know what i mean, dont you?
Last but not the least, its the most easily available piece of flower in market and is available every day in a year. Any goddamn person can fetch it anytime whenever they want it. Its not that you have to wait for a whole season just to give your beloved a flower that is a symbol of love. And this reason i think is the best and the valid one that i can think of. Nothing can surpass this.

Are you in Love???

Now let me start writing some blogs regarding romance.

There is a very distinct line between "love at first sight" and "lust at first sight" which is otherwise called infatuation. Somewhere i read a quote that "infatuation is a love of emotion and real love is the love of devotion." And seriously speaking i have no idea what it means. Anyway, the thing is many think that they are in love the very first meeting they have with the opposite sex. Even i was doing the same a few months back. But these people will find that they are falling in love every now and then. Be it a mall and a hot lady passes by you and you go like "O'man!! I have fallen for that lady' but thats it. End of the story. Or you might go to a dinner or coffee with someone just because you work together and you prepare yourself all throughout the day for the dialogues that you gonna frame, the topics you gonna talk about, the dish you want to order and at the end of the day, you might say to your friend "I think I am in love". Come on, you have just missed a word in the statement which would make all your emotions look differently. You should have said "I think I am in love.......again". Give me a break, its not at all giving a single hint of love.

You might want to consider your first meeting to be a love at the first sight if one of the following three things happen:

1. Accept the fact that you have arranged the very first meeting with her only because you like her physical attributes. There is nothing to be ashamed of in it. Thats totally natural and thats what is visible to the bare eyes. Afterall there is no other way to look inside somebody. But you wanna consider that you are in love if you are taking things slowly in the first meeting, your eyes are exploring her eyes for the entire time, you dont go by your prepared dialogues and everything comes to your mouth automatically, you try to put yourself up as you are and if you are true to yourself.
2. What most of the people do in a date is blabber about themselves so as to let the lady know how good you are from all the man that are after her. This is not love. Its like u just want to get in, have an affair in ur database and get out. But if you are diverting all the talks towards her and show enthusiasm to know everything about her that common people would not be knowing at all, O'boy! you are really into it.
3. Last thing that will happen to you is that you start having mushy feeling inside of you. I guess thats what people call "dil mein hulchul hi ho rahi hai". You cant stop thinking about her all the time.

There you go, you are certainly in love if any of the above starts happening in your life. Just watch out!!!

Old Gang from Escorts

This is a picture that was very close to my heart because it reminds me of lots of mistakes that i have done in understanding people. It dates back to the days when i used to be in Escorts, faridabad. It used to be glued just besides my computer in the office right in front of my face.

These are the friends that i made the very first day i joined a company, the first step in market. And i must say i am quite happy to make such lovely friends.

• Ravi Gawhade: The left most guy in sky blue. The hilarious of all of us. He can make out a comment of any statement that u make. So spontaneous that we used to call him "kya kha ke paida hua hai tu?". He has got a natural sense of humour thats quite uncommon. Now he has got married recently and it was most unfortunate for me that i was not able to attend it. I felt so sorry for that. He is the 2nd one of us to shift his job to Mahindra, mumbai. We had a good time for almost 1 and half years
• Tushar: Dont even remember his last name anymore. This guy is a dickhead. Although he got a masters from IIT-B but still then his mind up there is totally empty. He wasnt sure aobut what to do with his life. What to do with the skills he has. And most importantly he was a big liar. Can able to disguise things with the way he puts things up. For quite some time in the begining, i was not sure that he did his engg from iit because ppl passing out of these insitutes are quite rough and tough in the way they behave and in the way they take things up. I couldnt believe he took eveything seriously when i addressed him with hindi version of "motherfucker". that was ultimate scene. He was like literally coming on to me to kill me. But they he allowed me to speak to him in the way i like because he was fed up of getting angry on me but i was still doing it in the same manner as i always to. God knows where he is now. Such a feeble mind that left job without even saying anything to aanybody. Just like that vanished. Thats why the tag - Shift+Delete+Enter
• Asheesh Maharana: And thats me.....
• Yash Pal Gramni: Another comedian of our group - pukka jaat. He gets heated up if u call him jaat because he is not a jaat, he is a punjabi. But he had got all the qualities of a jaat. The most romantic guy in our group. Never went a day, when he didnt use to get a phone call from the call center girls and he actually hold them up for more than one hour. But this guy was quite commited to his college love and finally settled with her in Noida. Unfortunately again, i couldnot attend his marriage where i was invited so cordially. Although he got engaged and nobody in office or our friends get to know a single word of it. In a weekend, he went to his home just like that as he always does and Monday he blew the bomb that he got engaged and marriage is in 2 months. Best of wished for his life ahead. Btw this is the only guy who is continuing in Escorts till now. I see him as the head of a department there in a few years from now.

There were a few persons missing in that pic. We used to be a gang of 12 guys with all of them having different flavours and insight towards life. Vikrant Pandurang Ranaware, Kapil Verma, Krishna Kumar Sharma, Bankm Chandra Biswas, Saravanan, Shrikant, Manoj Ranjan Jha.....Dont have their pic right now but I wont be able to forget this gang for the rest of my life.

One more learning !!

There are certain things that cannot be explained through any literature or through any blogs. But lemme try this out once.

There are few moments when you think that you dont have any existence at all. What i mean is, until now I was under the impression that "Everybody has taken birth on earth for a specific reason." Be it the President, be it the big industrialists, be it the civil middle class person, be it the riskshaw puller or be it the beggars. All of them have got a particular role to play which cannot be performed by others. But recently I discovered few deviations which forced me to rethink this notion. Well, to be precise, this is what I have ended up with.

"God do exist and he has made destiny for everybody without even applying his idiotic mind."

Yes, till now i didnt have any faith on God but now I hate those who pray to god for small favors, i hate those who take pride in showing off how much religious they are and what an atheist i am.

Mid Year Review of Resolutions

This is not the only year i made resolutions. Every beginning of a year, i used to make a list and stick to it as long as possible. So the list that I prepared on 31st dec 2006 night after getting fully drunk is mentioned below with its status. Let me see how many of them i have been able to complete and which one needs urgent attention to work upon:

1. Change the company by March: This is the minumum duration within which a guy can switch a company. One month for searching the job and giving out interviews and another 1-2 months is the notice period. So right away from day 1, started posting my resumes in the market and wham!! resigned Escorts on 18th Jan with a notice to separate from the company by 15th Feb. This resolution was right on track and completed.
2. Propose the girl whom i loved since i was a child: Initially thought of proposing on Jan 1st no matter what the results would be. If the answer was 'yes', i would have to change my casanova attitude and if 'no' go back to the hunt again. But it took me more than 6 months to do that. Gosh, never thought it would be so difficult. Relationships cannot be maintained by any resolutions. If it has to develop, it automatically does. But happy that i had gained courage to do it.
3. Quit drinking: Used to be a regular drinker. To be very specific there wasnt any wednesdays and saturdays when i slept without vodka or rum. But 31st dec night was the last one when i drank with my friends. Apart from any official social parties, i havent touched alcohol till now. Great things happening.
4. Quit smoking: Used to smoke a lot too. 10-12 sticks per day. To achieve this resolution, i took my brand a lot higher and made it Marlboro so that with the same money spent on cigarettes i can smoke less number of sticks. So, it came down to 5 till July and its now even 2-3 per day. It sucks...why the hell did i made this resolution in the first place?
5. Will take CAT exam seriously: Total waste. not even started a single step towards this resolution. Guess I have to delete this one from the next year onwards.
6. Buy a powerful Bike: The first thing that i did with the very first salary of John Deere was invested everything on buying Pulsar-150. I was looking for the 180 version but people advised not to go for it in Pune. Anyway, 150cc is quite powerful than regular bikes. So no guilty feelings. I was quite unfortunate as just after a month of my purchasing the 150cc, the 200cc version of Pulsar was launched. Shit will take that into account next year. Mission accomplished
7. Learn to say No: This was a very big challenge and i am dealing with this right now too. I hope by the end of this year, i ll be strongly saying 'no' to anything that i dont like. Work in progress.
8. Never say anything that might hurt my friend's feelings: Learnt this when i started joking about friends when they are in trouble. Anyway, till now no casualties this year and i guess this has been quite successful. Its better to stay silent and say nothing than to say a single word and hurt somebody. This will again carry over to my next year's resolution list.
9. Give my parents a gift: Till now i havent given anything, not even a single penny, to my parents who have done so many things to make me stand of my own. So, it was in April that i bought a brand new car for them. I can not forget the smile and happiness on their face for the rest of my life. Accomplised.
10. Maintain a diary whenever i do a mistake: No mistakes till now so no diary at all. he hehe....Jokes apart I have forgotten how to write with hands. So, kind of maintaining the diary over here in blogs. Thats the most and the best i can do. i would rather grade this resolution a partially finished.
11. Read novels on regular basis: Flunked it miserably. The last one i read was in November last year and it was Da Vinci Code. After that i never got a chance to get my hands on any good novels. Thinking of finishing off Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Still incomplete.

Well that was the assessment of my resolutions till now. Will surely check again at the end of the year with which ones to carry forward to next year or drop it. Aaaaw man!! seems like i am doing my appraisal review myself....he hehe....but it was fun for me.

Guys on Bikes !!

One thing I love the most in my life is taking long rides on bike. And if its at late night, I cant even describe the felicity.

Yesterday my colleagues were planning to go to Daman and Diu for a weekend trip. When everything related to lodging is finalized then somebody popped up a question about travelling. Plans containing hiring one taxi, going by MTDC (Maharastra Transport something Corporation) bus and god knows what else. All the travelling plans were making me bored and was giving a 'not interested' kind of look to everybody. Suddenly somebody came up with the idea of going by bike that raised my eyebrows. I was the first one to support the idea and place a condition of me being present on the trip if at all its travelling by bike, otherwise count me out. Some were reluctant as the distance to be travelled will be quite high. Its almost around 300kms one side. Finally, 6 of them agreed from a team of 25 guys. With six bachelors and three bikes you can well imagine whats gonna happen. Adding to the spice, we all are leaving Pune on Friday 6 pm and it’s a 7 hours journey including all the tea, dinner, sutta breaks in between. Gonna reach there at 1 am most probably and drink all throughout the night. Next day, some beach volleyball and wooing some babes in bikinis !!!

Its going to be a great weekend I suppose. Highly looking forward to it.

Linkin Park vs My Neighbour

Got my hands on some of the Linkin Park videos. As this band is my favourite I already have their entire album with me. But this time I got their live performance in Texas. And when I saw it for the first time my mouth was wide open saying the F word aloud infinite number of times. That CD which was a gift from my brother contains all the hit songs that this band has sung from the day one of their origin in the year 2000. "Crawling" and "Papercut" are the songs that I like the most apart from "In the End" which is on everybody's lips now-a-days.

All my neighbours are already quite irritated of me because I use to hear music at the loudest volume. But they didn’t even bother because all of them were in hindi and they were enjoying too. This time, its all english and adding to their agony its hardcore rock. One of my fellow neighbours who happened to be a typical maratha knocked at my doors at 11:30 pm I suppose. Opened the doors and there stands a real jerk as if I have disturbed him just when he was about to start his love making process.
"Kya re tum sota nahin hai kya. Raat kitna ho gaya, tumko koi ata pata hai bhi ya nahin. Sare mohalle waalo ko jaga ke rakhne ka iraada hai kya tera"
"Arre uncle hamara is duniya mein hai hi kaun bas is TV aur DVD player ke alaawa. Raat ko to sab koi so jaate hain aur kissise phone pe baat bhi nahin kar sakta. Moreover yehi time hota hai when I am totally myself. Office mein proffesional type pretend karte karte thak jaate hain. Aakhir kaar kabhi na kabhi to apne asli soul ko bahar nikalenge"
"To iska matlab ye to nahin ki tum hum logon ko jaga ke rakhega" in a very furious mood.
"Room mera, itna heavy rent bhi timely deta hoon, jo kar raha hoon room pe hi kar raha hoon, darwaze aur khidkiyan sab band kiya hua hoon bas aap logon ka thoda khayaal rakhne ke liye. Uspe bhi aapko tension. Jyaada muh mat khulwayiye hamara kyunki aapki bezzati nahin karna chahte hum"
"Nalayak ho gaya hai tu, tere baap ne tujhe yehi sab sikhaya hai kya?"
"Bahut bura kiya jo mere baap ko bich mein le aaya aapne. Baapu ne humko ye bhi sikhaya tha ki kissi ke room se agar raat ke 12 baje azeeb azeeb si siskiyan nikal rahi ho to wahin pe darwaza khatkhatane ka aur sab thik thak hai ki nahin poochne ka. Par aaj tak humne aapke darwaaze pe kabhi raat ko aake disturb kiya? Nahin kiya kyunki agar baapu ki baat maante to aaj aapke yahan do ladke nahin ho paate. Ehsaan kiya hoon aap pe aur ehsaan ka badla is tarah chukaana aapke yahan sikhaate hain kya?"

Just when we were about to start an infuriated argument, his wife called him from upstairs and he had no other option but to listen to her. Hard Luck!! Aww man I was so desperate to have this kind of converstaion for a long time. I thought to myself I lost the bakra. Anyway, in a day or two I am sure he will again come back.

Paakizah

Just had a chance to move my lazy ass on Sunday evening to a CD shop nearby and to my utter surprise the CD guy had something that i have been looking for ages. Since the time i was in college i was searching for a movie called "Paakezah" but never got it anywhere. Its a very very old movie and i dont even know if you have heard of it or not. Searched the entire Delhi for one and half years but still no success. When i came to Pune, been to all the big shopper stops but still nothing came into hand. Fuck!! what happened to our entertainment business. They own all the crap movies that one would never love to buy and would never watch even for the first time.

And this shop i am talking about is a very small one that one cant even recognize from outside. This is a perfect example of "bagal mein saiyaan aur gali bhar dhindhora". Pardon me if i am wrong in making this citation. In fact i am horrible at it. Anyway the CD uncle, very old and was coughing time to time, was not at all ready to sell it but i managed to get its 2 video cds set at 350 bucks. My roomie said that i am a real duffer when it comes to buying something. I just pay what they ask and never have an argument.

I definitely need to learn how to bargain.

Servicing Center Story

This weekend I had nothing better to do, so gave away my Ram-Pyaari for her first servicing. The servicing guys were creating a lot of problems as I was late in bringing her in. Late as in almost 15 days late. She had to be serviced within 30 days of sales. But, a little bit of fight with those guys made my work done. They adviced me to come back after 6 hours to take my Ram-pyaari back. I was like "WTF, you would literally fuck my darling for continuously 6 hours and you think I ll allow you to do that. You guys crazy or what?? How can you stand continuously for six hours?" Then only, they agreed to return her back in 3 hours, not less than that. So, I left my beloved with them with a warning that if anything happens to her, I ll not at all hesitate to screw their wives openly in front of them. I seriously need to watch out for the language that I use no-a-days. It's becoming more filthier day by day.

Soooo…3 hours !! Howwww to spendddd? There was a theatre nearby and Spiderman-3 afternoon show was about to start in 15 min. I had seen this movie just a few days back but still then, its better to divert my mind somewhere else and let my beloved get raped in the servicing center. I booked a ticket and to my utter surprise it cost me just Rs 70/-. I was like, are these people trying to screw their business up? Which theatre in Pune sells movie tickets in that price. But again, why to speak aloud unnecessarily when I was in a benefit. But this time the movie was somewhat different from what I saw last time. Yes, it was in Hindi. Aww man!! It was really awesome. You ll surely start comparing the dialogues that were there in English version with this Hindi one and am damn sure that you gonna enjoy it. Spiderman-3 review will also come in the forthcoming blogs.

Anyway, the movie consumed two and half hours and I was ready to take my lady back with me. And after the makeover in servicing center she looked even more beautiful. Finally thanked those guys for their great job and apologized for the misbehavior that I showed towards them earlier in the morning. She has been doing great after that nightmare - might not be for her, but it was certainly for me.

My First Bike

The first thing I did with the very first salary that I got from John Deere was buying a Pulsar 150 DTS-i.

The most difficult task after that was to name it. If you look at it standing in any parking area, you can easily figure out its slim body and its well structured contour that you will feel like kissing it at the very first sight. So, I gave a little bit of thought processing (which I rarely do) on its name and ended up giving it Pamela. Yes as in Pamela Anderson. Every morning I ride on her till my office though it’s for a very short duration, but it gives pleasure. While in the evening, I take the most advantage of her. Instead of taking the shortest path, I usually take the longer one so that I get a chance to ride for about half an hour.

But as time passed by, I was fed up of with the name Pamela mainly because it was western. Moreover, it sounded so erotic. For the second time, I gave a little bit of thought processing again (O boy!! Since when I began thinking), and came up with yet another amazing name for her - Ram-Pyaari. That was quite Indian and riding on an Indian lady is much more fun than on a western one. Most of the guys in my office were quite surprized by the name but then they also started loving her and call her respectfully with the name that I have given.

That reminds me of a proverb "Duniya ko peeche bhaagne ki aadat hai. Pehle thoda sa hichkichate hain, par thodi der baad fir nadi ke bahav ke saath ho lete hain". Did this proverb ever exist or I just made it up? Who cares. But facts are fact.

Elizabeth Town - 5/10

Movie time again and this time it was "Elizabeth Town". If you havent heard about it, lemme tell you that it has been nominated for 4 movie awards, but that too not for story, acting, screenplay or stuff. But for its songs. Nice songs I should say.
Actor - Orlando Bloom
Actress - Kirsten Dunst (she is cute especially her dimple on one cheek)
Villian - No-one
Comedian - Nobody

So, you can easily figure out that this is also a kinda love story. And yeah it is….Here are few tit-bits that I liked:

1. Orlando is a designer - a shoe designer to be specific, who had designed a shoe after wearing which people are preferring to go bare foot. Therefore, the managing director of the company calls him up to his cabin. The cabin doors are quite exaggerated. Two doors and each door cost is whooping $762,000. Its was a notion that if anybody is called in that room for a meeting, it was either or his promotion or otherwise. I liked the way this MD makes Orlando understand what a loss of $962,000,000 means. It goes like "You know it’s the money that a mid-size country runs for a year", "You see down there - the employees working, if I cut their salaries for one whole year, I wont be able to recover that money" and the best one "How can I make u understand what a $962million dollar is. If you round it off, it’s a billion dollor goddamnit"
2. The way Orlando finds a way to commit suicide. Totally innovative. Conjured a lot of engineering skill in that too. But hell!! He didn’t do it
3. Talking on the phone with Kirsten who happens to be an air-hostess for an entire night and meeting her up to see the sun rising in the morning. Nice romantic sequence.
4. Everything else in the movie is a heck….totally bullshit so much so that you can throw this DVD back on the director's face and I am sure he wont get much surprized.

Thats the reason, I would give this movie a rating of 5 out of 10. 5 because it gave me enough time to have a nap in between the movie and again catch up the whole story when i wake up after 30 mins

Anyway, its weekend time and lets see what action plan I have got. On Sunday, got to meet two friends of mine who are also staying in Pune - Girish and Naresh. Its not Girish why m meeting these guys, it’s the other guy. Havent seen Naresh after he left our school in 10th. And people say that he is more like a angrezi-babu : speaks, laughs, walks, eats in english. Had a telephonic conversation with him and was quite fun pulling his leg. Lets do it hard and this time face to face. Good luck Nareshda, here I come.

The ages old story of a crow

Whenever I hear something starting with the phrase "Once upon a time….", it reminds me of only one story - the story of a crow. If you havent heard it before, rewind your memory back to say 20-30 years back and I am sure you will get it right. For those who have got a memory loss problem like me, here it is. A crow decided to fly to California to meet his lady love that too from mumbai. On his way to destination, he felt very thirsty. And unfortunately he was directly above the sahara desert (or take any goddamn desert in Africa). So, he found a well which was totally empty and just nearby there was a earthen pot almost empty. Few drops of water were still remaining in that pot. So, he got an idea and started collecting stones. He put them one by one into the pot and because of Archimedes Principle all the stones sank and the water thus displaced came to the top. He drank those drops and moved ahead towards California to live a happy life with his beloved forever. And its not yet over, there is a moral yet to come at the end of every story.
Moral: "Be patient and work hard, then only you can succeed"

That was the story and it has got a hell lot of versions which my aunt, my aunt's sister, my father's brother's wife, my bog cousins and god-knows-who-didn’t used to tell me when I was what - four years old.

But now when I evaluate this story, I think what the hell people thought of me. Were they considering me a total fool or what?

1. Just to name a few technical flaws in this story:
   What the hell was the crow thinking. Why didn’t he took the way which goes over pacific ocean i.e. by the east of india which would rather be much shorter path and there would be full of water & islands throughout his way.
2. When he put stones in the pot, instead of making the water level rise, the particles over the stone would have absorbed those drops of existing water and in no case, the level can come up. At the end, what the crow would have found is a pot full of stones and nothing else.
3. The moral that was told to me was a total bullshit. My new moral: "Never do what the crow did in this situation. Get a straw from somewhere (if he can find stones in a desert full of sands why cant he find a straw) and suck till the last drop of water makes your throat wet."

- "Following the ways to do things that world does, brings you no identification. Always look out for your own, different and better ways." - MAsh

Click & You got it !

There are two types of movie genres that I am aware of and I categorize all the movies into:
1. Romantic
2. Non-romantic

Recently saw a movie called "Click" and was quite confused where to put it। Ben Stiller - one of my favourite comedy actor plays the role of an architecture who keeps himself so much buried in his work that he totally ignores his family - wife, children and parents. Suddenly he gets a universal remote control from a store that can fast forward his life moments, can mute all the arguments that he used to have with his wife, can increase the volume of gossips that goes nearby him which are normally don’t audible to bare ears, can even make his intimate love making process complete in 1 min ( huh! Just one min!! Cant believe that there are people who are so engaged in work that they just want to get over it as quickly as possible). In short, wherever he points his remote to and clicks, everything happens in the way he likes. There are some few tit-bits where you can literally watch tits bouncings in slow motion. Thanks to the remote. Wish I had one!! Anyway, like in all hindi movie trends, the climax is one helluva happy ending and you think why the hell did I waste my one and half hours which I could have invested in a fancy day dreaming and could have got much better things in return.

And by the way, I did finally complete Gadfather-I though it took me four sessions। But in the end mission accomplished। Godfather-II has already been started and its my 6th or 7th session and I am not even 20% complete. Lets see how long does this one take. Got another DVD of perfect murder & basic instinct-II which are in next queue.

"Always think what you can do for others and never expect anything in return. Thats the only funda behind being happy." - MAsh

Updates till now

Well, its been quite a while that I have posted anything on this space. Lets see I ll try my best to update it as much as possible. I cross my heart and swear to death that i ll keep on writing no matter what it takes. Though I have taken this oath zillion number of times. Screw me and then only I'll get on track.

To begin with lets start at where I left. That was way back in Feb 2007 when I left my previous company Escorts Limited. One can easily find a blog regarding resignation just a few articles below. So, after that a lot of things have happened in my life which have completely changed me.

Good Bye Faridabad: Last few days at Escorts were hurting me the most. Not because of the shivering cold weather but the warmness that my friends showed towards me. Every now and then there used to be a farewell party where I had to stop my tears to come out. Afterall, maintaining a rock-hard-heart image requires a lot of emotionless feelings. Anyway, left Faridabad on 15th Feb without even meeting with the friends that I made in the last 1.5 yrs. On my way to Bhubs, I called each and everyone of them to say a warm good-bye

Bhubaneswar: My plan was to go to Pune directly after leaving Escorts. That’s why I gave John Deere HR a joining date of 19th Feb. But, later on I dropped the idea of joining the new company and instead came to Bhubs. Called up the HR personnel and gave a vague reason of joining the company a week later. Felt so good to come to my homeland after six months or so. But this time I had very strong reason to come. Family had never been my weakness as they are always with me in whatever I do and where ever I go. Actually I found the lady I love from the bottom of my heart since I was a child and this was the only chance to meet her after 8 years and at least gave her some hints if not anything. I know this was not the perfect time to say those three words and I had only a few days with me. Saying nothing is always better than saying everything in a hurry and a haphazard manner. Met with her two times and got to know her better. The more I got to know about her, my love towards her increased. Independent, frank, totally open to anything that comes, serious when time requires, career oriented, just to name some, were the things that I liked in her the most. God knows what happened to me. Just a few years back when I was in college, I was not at all attracted to any of those hot babes. In fact, everytime our gang used to go to the canteen, all the girls sitting nearby cleared up the space or just left the canteen. But now, I can clearly understand why that kind of thing used to happen. My mind and heart was preoccupied with this lady that I never wanted to know or get closer to anybody else. Scolded god a lot when I had to leave Bhubs for Pune at the end of the week. It was just for 5 days of stay and I felt that I had lived ages in those days.

Pune: New city, new company, new work, new surroundings, and a lot of new friends to make. Joined office the very next day I reached Pune and I was totally amazed by the office building. Never in my life I had seen a manufacturing company looking like this. Even before joining, my workstation was all set, email id created, project alloted, what else can I expect from a new company. Made some really good friends in the smoking zone area. One of them turned out to be from Orissa and invited me to stay with a room near him. Well that was kinda unexpected!! I didn’t even have to roam around with a broker and pay him a hefty amount to get a house. Was just lucky enough, what more can I say. Fortunately, this guy - Dibya Prakash Jena, was quite a good cook. I had to learn cooking badly as my love didn’t know much about cooking. At least this way, I can help her out, no matter how small it is. But two months later, Dibya came out with flying colors of being the best non-veg cook that I have seen in my life and I came out to be the best supporting cook who cuts potatoes, tomatoes, onions and stuffs. That was my limited area and if at all by mistake I touch the hot cooking food, it becomes uneatable. And then again, my life took a U-turn. Things I always hated to do were happing in my life. The engineers in USA were quite happy with the ideas that I showed them and they wanted me to come over there and work for them. As its very difficult to get a work permit for me, 6 months in a year I will be in US and the rest 6 in India. That was the deal that my boss told me. I never wanted to go to US and work for another country's benefit. But work is work. I tried all my tricks on my boss so that he wont send me to US. The last trick was about the philosophy of my boss of not approving a single leave. So, I told him that I want to go home for a week before going to US otherwise I'll not be moving my ass there. Surprisingly, he said yes. I didn’t have anything else to say but to go. Lets see how it turns out.

All in all, whatever happened till now in the last couple of months have been good for me. Although I don’t believe in god, but sometimes I wish I can.

Movie Time

Sundays are the only when i got to watch movies after a 6 long hectic days of work.

The first matinee show was from 3-6pm.
Movie: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Starcast:
- Robert Downey
- Van Kimer
- Michelle Monaghan
Plot: Murder mystery

Frankly speaking, the movie sucked bigtime. Bought the movie to see if there is any scenes, u know what scenes m talking about. The name of the movie is given in such a manner that it diverts you from what u were expecting from the movie. Searched the whole movie for around 2 hrs and got nothing more than just a single nipple slip humour.

The second one started at 9pm.
Movie: Godfather
Starcast:
- Marlon Brando
- Al Pacino
- Didnt give a damn who else was there

I tried to see this movie three times before when i was in college. But i felt asleep just after 15-20 min of the start. This time it was different because we rented the hindi dubbed version to watch the movie till the end. But again the same thing happened. After 30 min i lost patience to watch all the three CDs. Yes!! it was got a goddamn three cds which would easily consume 3 precious hours. So, cutting the crap going on in the dvd player, we preferred to watch MTV instead. That was all about it. Dont know how people consider this movie to be the best one ever made in the cinema industry. All bullshit

Before & After Resignation

Sometimes you feel so lazy that you have nothing better to do than blogging. Yes and thats what is happening exactly with me right now.

Before resigning, I was stuck to the followings:

1. Work, drink and sleep in the office if it asks for
   
2. Romance comes later
3. No time for net surfing hence blogging literally is a dream
4. Chatting with friends on gtalk is a rare thing to happen
5. Listen to boss and nod your head to all his directions
6. You reach your room so late, as late as 9 pm, that you miss all the daily soap operas that you are addicted to
7. As soon as you finish your dinner, your eyes will automatically get closed
8. You wake up late in the morning and without getting even a bath (talking about winter days in Delhi) head towards your office
   
9. You attend your office at 9:30 am in the morning when its usual timing starts from 8:30 and get a frosty nosed look by your boss daily
10. You get only Saturday evening and whole sunday for entertainment and enjoyment but you feel so exhausted that you will sleep all day and night on your bed rather than roaming in the malls and having some bird watch
    
11. Last but not the least, you life is totally fucked up

After resignation, the following takes place:

1. Romance comes in the 1st place of your priority list
2. Suddenly you become so very much in demand that you are put through all kind of emotional sentiments and bargaining in your salary by your boss
3. But you reject everything only because you were searching for such a instance to fuck all of them really hard
   
4. You are no more worried about the work you do in this transition phase as you are not bothered about anything going wrong
   
5. Nobody has got any rights to speak to you in a way he used to, not even your boss thinking that you might embarass him in front of everybody
6. You go home early viz as soon as 6 pm
7. You enjoy all the daily soaps and watch all the crappy boring stuffs on TV
8. Suddenly TV plays an important role in your life without which you might think of your life to be doomed
9. You have a relaxed night and a very good sleep everyday
10. As a result you wake up early in the morning and watch MTV roadies @7am
11. You reach office doors right on time and your boss gets amazed to see you so early
12. You want to have parties everyday but you are let down because all your friends are going through the previously mentioned state
13. Last but not the least, Life seems so wonderful to you all of a sudden

But this will not last for a long time. Just one month seems so very less.