Devil's Advocate

New Year - 2012

2012-01-01T21:45:00.000+05:30

Hello,

Its been really long long time since I posted something here. Its not that, I purposefully did this nor was the case that I had nothing to write. Lot of things were there, and I always had loads of thing to write, but as usual procrastination and laziness did this to me.

Lot of things changed since I switched company. Not even a day have gone by when I didn't feel of running back to old place. Not that my new company is bad or I am not enjoying my stint with new company. I am perfectly enjoying my work and company too, but somehow things have gone predictable again. Everything has, came back on same old routine. And here was I who thought everyday will be bring new things afterward. When everything had to be like this only then what was the point. In fact, life is meant to get bored with all the triviality around you.

I have been reading like I never read before. Joined runners club. And left over time on movies,serials and lot of other stuff.

And well, last but not the least - Thanks for visiting my page even though I am not writing often. Wishing all my blog readers a very happy new year 2012. Cheers!

P.S. - Not a resolution but would try to write at regular interval. Take care.

Last working day tomorrow @ XYZ

2011-09-24T21:09:00.000+05:30

Mail was sent on 12th September to my colleagues for 13th September being the last day with the Organization. Surprisingly, drafting the mail took a significant time, but time given was totally worth considering I stayed with my first organization for more than 5 years. And I can shamelessly say that I may have continued for my life time with this organization and I do intend to come back some day. It was/is/will be best company to work with.

Mail body as below :-

Hello Everyone!

As many of you know, tomorrow is my last working day @ XYZ.

Looking down the memory lane, I had a lot of unforgettable moments and specially, wonderful people whom I met during my stay at XYZ. I would like to thank each one of you for lending me your invaluable support, help, co-operation and encouragement whenever I was in need for the same. It was a professionally and personally enriching stint with XYZ and I would definitely cherish the moments which I had in the past five years at XYZ.

A, B, C, D - I sincerely want to thank each one of them for guiding, believing, mentoring & supporting me through my entire time in XYZ.

At last to my friends who are one of the asset which I earned in this company and people who would really be interested to stay in touch. You can reach me @linkedin or @ facebook.

I wish you all the very best in your personal and professional life. Hope to see you guys someday.

Warm Regards,

Ankur Anand

THE 5 year Moment!

2011-08-07T22:26:00.000+05:30

This blog page is slowly turning into my random musing. So to not much is there for blog reader for checking my blog page anymore.

The year 2011 is like a year of milestones for me. Completed 5 year of my blogging, 5 years after passing out from college and today marks the completion of 5 year in my organization as well as in IT sector. There were moments when I could have taken a different path altogether but things just happened and I was definitely here to stay. Not sure how long I will last long further but definitely there is air of uncertainty. Have learned the lesson; no matter what happens, what we do, life keeps going on. Though I have said in my previous post to be regular on the blog page, I really find it difficult now-a-days. The inspiration factor is lost, but this is not the end.

Many more to come..

Homecoming

2011-07-31T16:39:00.001+05:30

It is almost a cliche' to say - I was thinking something for my blog-page since long time. I have decided to return as usual, not sure how much long this tryst with my blog page will last. New post coming in couple of days! Loads of milestones are covered and some are nearing, more about them in next post. World has changed, so has everyone except..... except....

Pursuit of HappYness

2011-04-29T18:08:00.002+05:30

How often does it occur to you that you start planning to write something and you don't get the right words to start with. At least this happens to me quite often. I write I press backspace, again write and then press backspace button. And in the end I do not get the right words and eventually start with something totally unrelated like what I am doing here to get the flow.

Pursuit of HappYness - though the title suggest has nothing to do with the movie and its central character Christopher Gardner and his acting on the favorite Hollywood theme or say any movie industry theme, where the hero suffers in the beginning of movie but carries special talent, shows special traits and emerge as champion in the end. Whatever!

I have been thinking lately what people actually look forward for? And reached on conclusion that everyone in this world runs to achieve a single goal - "to get happyness". Crap about being a business czar, a famous personality, a powerful officer or even anything better than their current status is just the mean to reach the common goal. Probably that's the reason we find few people happy with life though they are running with minimum support system and why some people are frustrated to the core even though they are filthy rich.

Happyness can be as simple as getting a tasty chicken burger while standing in the burger shop with appropriate change in pocket or it can become abstract and complex as understanding the mindset and thought process of someone standing in front of you. Well chicken burger was an over do, but I can't help as I am dreaming of eating it since past two days. But definitely one of the most amusing and difficult thing is mind reading until and unless you have paranormal powers.

And as the saying goes we get bored with the thing which we get in plenty and then evolve to aspire for something else every time we achieve our milestone. Take for an example, when we were kid balancing on the bicycle gave us utmost pleasure as we achieved the goal, same was with getting into our preferred course in graduation or later to our preferred job or even seeing India winning the cricket world cup this year. But question is how long does it last, and how quickly we forget the achievement and aspire for something bigger, something better to reach the ultimate goal. Or probably we as human being are never satisfied with what we are, where we are and the reason behind being 'we'. So ultimate goal is just a mirage rather than being a reality till the moment we get or shall I say 'accept' the ultimate GYAN that - rather than running behind something unknown just enjoy the moment because nothing last longer, neither happyness nor the sadness. A friend of mine recently quoted a very nice thing, it goes as -

"The problem is when ambitions don't meet abilities. I have the ambition for a president , but abilities, that's a completely different story. this is what causes frustration most often."

Ending it abruptly as I don't think I have any other random thought for the moment. Rest for later.

I have used Y in place of I for the obvious reason. If still it is bothering you then the reason is - once you figure out what happyness is all about you will not bother whether its Happiness or Happyness.

P.S. - Though I have generalized the idea but there would be many people who would disagree with this. This post is definitely not written you and not even for those who agree to it. And neutrals - Man! why you are even reading this post.

P.P.S. - I may or may not be waiting for the moment where I can say - This part of my life... this part right here? This is called "happyness." So, stop getting the idea.

Game of ladder and Snake

2011-02-27T16:56:00.004+05:30

I couldn't get any apt title other than this though it is not the game which I am going to talk.

There are times in life when you pick something as a void filler and eventually you get addicted to it. And that becomes an annoying necessity, you want to get rid of it and then land up into doing something else to deviate your mind out of it and cycle begins. You pick one activity, get addicted, try to come out of it, pick something else and so. Usual addiction list goes like – comics as kid; story books/TV/sports as a teenager; sitcoms/movies/novels in early 20’s; money/social interaction for rest of life (I suppose). I too followed a similar cycle but have still retained some ‘void fillers’ like books/movies, but not as a addiction. Couple of months back what started as a innocent attempt of deviating mind from situation of not doing anything I landed up in share market. I also got the fact that what may seem ridiculous at some point of time become a fantastically awesome object of attention. There were days when I was of the view of share market as a monkey business like what the stories says below and there is (or shall I again say was) time I liked it for sheer thrill and suspense of luck factor. Well, almost by now the interest in share market has faded and I am back with the books and movies.

“The famous story goes like - ' There was a village where there was plenty of monkey and people where annoyed by the damage they were making on regular basis. A clever guy came from town (not sure why clever guys always come from town, as if shrewd people are not in village) and he brought a business plan for the villagers. He told sell me monkey for 10 Rupees each. People first doubted why he is paying for monkeys when he can catch it himself. He told about absence of resources to him and hiring a outside hand will cost him more (much like the way IPO comes to collect funds from people rather than going to banks to get loan). And the medicinal importance and usage in pharmaceutical industry of Monkey and convinced everyone about demand. People started catching monkey and delivering to the guy, who kept them in cage made specifically for this. Time came when the monkey openly available were much lower in number leading to no seller of Monkey’s. The town guy increased the offer price to 15 rupees for each monkey and at the same time brought one helper to manage the monkeys. Villagers tried hard and got him whatever monkeys were left . And finally a stage was reached with no more of monkeys left in the village or nearby area, hence no supply but demand still exist. The town guy told to people that he is still in need of almost same amount of monkeys which villagers have caught so far and is ready to pay 50 rupees as he is badly in need of completing the target.

After giving out this offer he told he has some work so he will go to town and will come back in month time. In the meantime if villagers can catch any monkey they can deliver to his helper and he will pay out money once he is back. Once he left, the helper went to people and told they can buy monkey from him at the rate of 30 rupees and later can sell the monkey's to his boss when he returns. And he will tell his boss that all the monkey ran away from the cage which he bought earlier. People still saw a profit of 20 rupees for nothing and gladly bought the monkeys from the helper. After all transaction completed, helper left the town in the darkness of night leaving behind village and people to never return. Villagers kept waiting and no one turned and what they were left were just the monkey. Possibly same is the case of Indian share market, a perfect example of monkey business with operators and FII'S acting as the clever chaps who make money and leave leaving behind the retailers losing money and sleep after losing out.”

I guess anecdote itself has gone beyond the word limit that my main post will be smaller than the main content. hehe

Off late have been monitoring the monkey business, but like anything and everything I have eventually bored with this too and thought this is the best time to pen down before I miss out on my interesting notes in time.

Contrary to investment honcho’s saying the market doesn’t run on the fundamentals, it runs on pure sentiments. Else they wouldn’t have had been sitting and giving lectures.

One person profit can be coming from miseries of many other people, and still one can’t be blamed for other’s loss. It’s all about choices and coming up with the stop loss.

No matter what criteria you select you ought to make losses in 50% stocks you select. Luck prevails. Industry P/E, EPS, Book Value/ Company book/ DEBT all are useless.

Share market can fall down by more points than it can rise in even coming 1 week consolidated value.

If you think that you are the most intelligent person by investing in particular firm you will repent later. Shares which you sold as useless will reach 300% and the shares which you thought are good with positivity around can fall by 50% values.

And last but not the least if you are investing the money, forget the money completely else you will definitely come out with loss.

You can almost see the shameless big shot investment executive who would be talking about 10% points increase of sensex/NIFTY one day and can come with contradictory theory by week end if the market crashes they would be the first one to change their statement saying market will be crashing by 30-40%. And they call it as correction and consolidation. haha

It’s a fantasy game and can’t be called as a business.

Wanted to save it till the last, very often have seen people coming with posts on the message board saying this -

"as soon as I bought any particular script the price of continually upward moving script started plunging and soon hit the abyss. Alas! If I could have bought it at this lowest price, I would have had made huge profit "

or this -

"Damn! As soon as I sold the non-moving script, seems the resistance was lost on it and increased at rate of 5% every day, as if it had enemity with me having the stock".

And well I am no exception, in fact I went extra mile and was thinking on idea : to charge the companies for not letting me buy any stock or to charge them for selling all the stocks which I own for their company so that they can grow leap and bound. hehehe

Well to end, I have another say. To be happy and keep the money always around either give it to friend or put it in fixed deposits and if you want to lose (or make quick bucks with remote chances) then put it in share market. Long live Market!

P.S. – Usual Sentence. A Cliché’

Lately

2011-01-31T23:46:00.000+05:30

I have been away from my blog for longest duration I ever had. Writers block! Lost interest! lot many things running around!

I have been thinking lately - life sucks or I suck at life or probably both. Wasted!

Life is no more the same. And reached an state where the reminiscence looks more lucrative. TFS!

Happy New Year Folks! But to be honest not sure what's happy about it. Still saying, as this was the custom so far for my first post of any year.

Warning : Any comment is unwarranted. And yes, the post was written taking into consideration that this post shouldn't have any flow. And things should be out of sync.

Sitting on other side of Table - 100th Post

2010-09-29T17:57:00.000+05:30

Disclaimer : - Content Personal in nature. Can be avoided.

I am returning on this page after a gap of almost 3-4 months.Think I was never away for so long. And possibly the reason was resistance at 100th post, was thinking to write something special here but thought I can never do that so lets move and write some BS like I write always. Guess this is how the Sensex or share prices moves up and down, and stay at some point for longer duration - they have some resistance at some point but later they cross it without any good reason. Yeah I had a look at this terminology couple of days back.

Fortunately or unfortunately have completed my 4 years in HP last month on 7th Aug. Had never thought that I will last this long though my friends had no doubt about it owning to my lazy attitude. But I guess my working location kept on changing in all these 4 years which was the important factor for keeping me in same company and that too the one which I joined as a campus recruit. First Chennai, then Bangalore then Brussels and now back to Bangalore. Contemplating on different city option now, living in same city for longer duration makes me unhappy.

Last week I was offered to take interview for new applicants who have same level of experience or even more. And my first reaction was, what? I haven't given or taken a single interview post my campus interview what do you expect from me? But it was insisted so later accepted it and went for the interview. While accepting it I remembered the dialog which I gave almost 5 year back during my campus interview for the question - 'Where do you see yourself after 5 year from now'. For which I answered - 'Possibly on other side of the table' and we all had a good laugh. Little did I knew at that time that, it can turn into reality and I would be sitting on other side of the table exactly 5 year from then.

Anyways, as I never interviewed anyone before nor had any experience of job interview in my entire tenure of 4 years I was little bit scared. Yeah, interviewer is scared to take the interview. And had to do a little bit of preparation over the questions and some real time scenario over which I can ask question. Rest are company internal details so can't be divulge but all in all, its fun being there and a good experience in itself. And you may get a sudden realization that you have to work on your skills. :-)

P.S. : I may be coming with the Europe Travelogue and some interesting experience I had while my 350 days stay in Brussels. So keep visiting this page now onward.

P.P.S : I never thought that I will be able to last this long or would reach 100th post. But I did. So much of underestimation probably.

God

2010-06-18T00:08:00.002+05:30

Disclaimer : - Do not read this post if you are sensitive with respect to God and Religion. As content of this post is going to hurt your feeling. And also don't look for me to kill because of post content. Thanks to all orthodox, god fearing people for not reading any word after this. If you still read further then screw you and I am not responsible for any damage done.

I'm back - this is what T-800 Model 101 of terminator would have had told at this moment. And with what, true machine sense and doubtful on every subject which comes around. Rather than giving more of BS I will come straight on the point. I think I need a change in my blog design. This design doesn't have new post link, which is possibly stopping me from writing a new post (or say BS).

I have started watching Mahabharata TV serial recently, to complete it end-to-end for all the episodes which I missed due to electricity outage during childhood. Its indeed an epic saga and I suggest everyone should watch it, in fact watching it now was making more sense to me and definitely in nonsense way. I am planning to come with my own version of Mahabharata pretty soon, with each episode and action analyzed from different angle.

Coming on the topic God - if someone mention about Mahabharata then not mentioning about lord Krishna would be more like a sacrilege. I was wondering why Gods are never showed ugly and dead beaten by poverty. Guess God were defined as those class of people who are affluent, good looking and with hottest girls in town as their companion. Similarly I never saw any Goddess as ugly and cry-baby instead they are the hottest girl in town and never land a dumb ahole like what you see beautiful girls landing with, Instead they too get a God and hottest dude in the town as their companion. Why? Also they are either born at some king's palace or are raised at house of richest person in the town if there parents are in Jail. Why? Why? They have magical power and weapons to fight people, can't they work like how Iron-Man or Batman works? Or are they want to justify their power by saying they are from Krypton like Superman or from Jupiter like Sabu ? List is endless with lot many super hero available in this world. Well I would like to mention one more superhero before I go back to BS - he is Kick-ass. Why can't God be like that. :P Why? Why? Why?

Why Gods are like hot-chick magnet that wherever he will go hot chicks will flock around , this is so unfair for common people and also to effort given by Barney Stinson. Why God's have brainwashed people so that they can't see the unfair ground. Why whatever they do are fair and same stuff if done by common person attracts wrath of the society and is mostly a laughing stock.

After watching Mahabharata I was totally confused why did Krishna came to real world, was the terror instigated by Kansa was beyond the level what terrorists are doing in current era? Looking at the suffering of current era people, I can definitely say that this is the time when God is suppose to come in this world. If not now then when?Or are God's afraid that they will not be able to handle the situation? Or they do not want to hold the sinking ship? If not then what was the use of taking birth as Krishna in Mahabharata time and Rama in Ramayana period.

One important point - how Media will react if God will come into existence in this era? Will they be attacking God's privacy like they are doing for all celebrity or will they keep their mouth shut in fear of getting screwed by God's wrath? How many fan following will be there on Orkut, Facebook, Twitter? Will his twitter account will be verified like Sachin Tendulkar or will he prefer to have non-verified account like Salman Khan. How many people will be impersonating God and How many will be requesting God with this message 'Please re-tweet this once God'. Hahaha.. Yeah these are genuine question - mind you. :P How many video hits will be there on YouTube and other video hoisting sites for any God's appearance? And most important what actually God will be doing? Will he be killing the terrorist and corrupt politician or will he hold back the fire and will take bribe from them to live his life peacefully like other great heroes are doing? Or would be updating his twitter status that what is this happening in this world? (definitely he wouldn't be able to prefix it with Oh God!) haha .Or will God be playing lottery and jackpot or will be betting on sports like Emraan Hasmi in Jannat, as he would be knowing all the results beforehand. Cm'on, he is God.. forgot? More I delve into thoughts, more confused I get and more questions comes. So leaving this point here only for reader to ponder upon.

One more thing, lets take the case that God came into this world, then what happened to their progeny? Do they live among us? If yes, then what happened to the God's traits and magical skills? Why God didn't pass on the traits and skills to their children. Wouldn't it would have had been a beautiful world with God's progeny being a boss of this world. this was unfair from God's end. Or did God believed in keeping certain knowledge to himself to avoid things getting common later. Or did he foreseen the patenting rule applied on the genes and scientist doing behavioral analysis to develop similar mechanism into every human being making everyone as a God, causing more confusion.

Note : My post shouldn't point that I am an atheist and well it definitely does not represent though that I am a theist either. But yeah I can definitely put my status as confused over religion and God. And mind you - any comment specifically pointed to any religion in the comment section will be honored by me with a solo post on your God and your country in mostly mutated sense, so no sh*t! Last but not the least, no hate comments are allowed.

Nothing Important

2010-04-15T20:46:00.002+05:30

Disclaimer : This post will not make any sense and totally personal, but as it is written on open forum you have all rights to read it risking your valuable time.

I was inactive on the blog portal, and probably will be inactive for some more time. Broke the chain as well, did not write even a single posts in March. Neither feel like posting nor get any topics to write. Couple of weeks back I activated a program to identify what is the post hit and was surprised to find the people around the world visit my page mainly because of two posts ‘Woman dominated Society’ and ‘Young Generation Vs Old Generation’. The post which were written long back. I think such topics will never die. Though as per the trend whenever I say I will be away from the blog I somehow get something to update the page. Hoping not to get anything.

BTW was on Europe tour during march month a rare of rarest occasion of me traveling around. I think apart from Greece/London I have gone to all famous places in Europe. Few more less-known are in my list but hopefully will go during the weekend or long weekend. Luxuries of being almost in center of Europe. I was thinking to write a travelogue for all my travel destination but then later dropped the plan. But yes, its really a good thing traveling around and meeting new people.

Lot many items in things-to-do-list, MBA bug is hitting again (or did it ever stopped), feels pity for being in same company for almost 4 years now. And as a standard norm that’s a shame if you stay for more than 3 years in your first company. Totally my company fault, they never gave me opportunity for peak frustration. Before the threshold is reached they either changed my work location or out-of-turn-promotion or out-of-turn-hike. I like being here and people say I do not want to come out from comfort zone. Waiting for peak frustration, hope never get that as money was never constraint for me. But feels good rejecting offers from new company.

BTW perspective causing a lot of trouble, as the perspective says I did not do anything great in life nor doing and worst part is not even trying. Stagnancy sometime do wonder. Peace!!!

Untold Story Part - 3

2010-02-12T04:38:00.004+05:30

I am back again with a story after long long time and this time I will not be putting any disclaimer as well, so go ahead if you want to read this post. Do look for other parts if you disliked this post so as to hate more.

After writing the first line I realized that I have loosed my story writing capability and above it - loosed the normal writing capability. I guess this is the side effect of being a front-office lead where you mostly have to talk non-stop with some technical jargon to convince everyone involved in discussion. Whatever, let me try again. This is about another mischievous act of mine back in college, basically story where I was screwed.

Time Period : February/March 2004(4th Semester);

Subject : Genetics;

Lecturer : XYZ (Ma'am);

College : Wasted Institute of Technology;

Branch : Don't ask me, I think it was some technology which as one of my professor said - "This will go for its natural death in next 2 year". And Irony is - that professor is dean of that school now and is still taking student for this technology since 7 year now. I was in the first batch.(In India as well)

So here it goes -

I think I was never serious about my life not then, not now and probably not in future as well. So was the case with my engineering period as well. Whole engineering life I spent saying that I am non-bio student and worked mostly on programming and mathematics subject which were remotely connected with my branch. And still it beats me how I passed in bio based subjects with not much of study, no cheating and not so good image in teacher's eyes. I guess story writing capability and page filling capability in bio subjects ensured that I pass my engineering with good grades.

Genetics was a major subject for semester with 4 (max) credits so as per the school's rule and schedule it had 5-6 classes in the week. And I loved this subject more than any other subject and always looked forward for this subject - not because I was very keen on learning the genetics concept or I was planning to take that as my major study area at some later point in my life. I loved that class because it almost always got canceled because of instructor's unavailability and we were getting free period for that. 1 hours of free period just before the lunch break or after lunch break ensured that we were away from the books for 2 hours. Which gave ample time to go back to hostel or roam around in campus or laze in the class itself. But good thing always have some bad part as well. I never picked up anything in the subject (as if I would have had done something if I the classes would have had gone normally) but yeah Lecturer did missed the fact that, nothing can be done for me and let this guy be like this only.

And like every good time comes to an end so was the semester and to complete the course lecturer started taking all the classes and finished the course. And as per the rule for 40% marks we had internal exams/10% for class participation and 50% for external paper (which too was kinda internal only but with too much of hype). Worst part was 10% class participation marks - for which other lecturers gave some common assignment to submit and on submitting everyone was getting anywhere between 6-10 marks based on number of pages and the image of participant in lecturer's view. And being a non-bio student I always needed them badly. Yeah I was a non-bio even after studying 18 bio based subject out of 36 subject in first 2 years. And for that matter was non-bio while taking my degree as well.

Assignment always amused me though while in college because like a hidden agenda everyone knew that participants are going to copy without checking the content from some master copy (prepared by some serious student) reducing the number of lines, omitting paragraph to reduce the effort. So instead they could have asked everyone to bring a xerox copy instead of copying it manually and give whatever marks they wanted to give. I think this amused the Genetics lecturer as well, so instead of asking for an copied/xerox assignment she asked us to go for real class participation ensuring that the course is covered through this class participant and presentations.

Standing on dais and giving some serious talk was always a nightmare for me and that too on bio based topic? That was a cruel punishment I could have had got but when 6-8 marks are on stake had to take that as well. Anyways the D-day came, I was tensed because - first, I had to go on dais to present something and second, I totally did not had idea what the topic actually meant. Good for start. Named were called in alphabetical order sadly my number came quick. I missed one important point - the presentation has a minimum time limit of 8-10 minutes and had to had 5-6 slides.

My Turn - I think all my enemies as well as friends were waiting for my turn only, because this was their moment to punish me. Because as soon as my turn came a huge noise started like some great thing is about to begin. Indeed it was great. I had 5-6 slides, I had distributed 2-3 dummy questions already for which I knew the answers and had given those chits to my friend so that they can ask me during the question round.

Me : Hello Friends ( Total time : 5 seconds)

Me : First Slide -> Content - Topic Name is XYZ and presenter is of course me (Total Time : 10 seconds)

(Noise, Laughter, Noise)

Me : Second Slide -> Content - Some diagram with marking. [Strangely the class became serious thinking that I am talking some serious content, and few started taking down as notes as well. Hehe. For which I told I will give this slides to you so no need to take down the notes] (Total Time : 20-30 seconds)

Me : Third Slide -> Content - Topic Name and 2 liner definition (Total Time : 15 Seconds)

Me : Fourth Slide -> Content - Any Questions?

Lecturer : (got the real shock and told) Its hardly 1 minutes through your presentation with no major content, topic itself is a question. What question anyone can ask? (Huge round of applaud, laughter, noise)

(Three hands suddenly shoot up in class on last bench)

Me : (Smiles)Yes Ma'am, there are the questions.

(Huge round of noise and laughter in class)

Lecturer : Silence!!!

(No noise but giggling can still be heard)

My Savior-1 : (Once the noise was down he raised his hand for questions and then stands and smiles with the chit hiding in his hand) You explained in slide-2 about the diagram, could you please explain it again.

(Laughter and then more laughter as other knew about the scheme)

Me : (Back to slide-2 on projector) Ok, see this is the diagram. And this is due to this particular behavior (One liner answer). Next question.

(Applauds, laughter, noise)

My Saviour -2 : (And here he went over board, was laughing while asking question with the chit open in his hands) Anand, in the third slide you gave the definition, could you explain that again?

(Laughter, Noise, Laughter)

And before I could say anything, all hell broke loose. Lecturer saw this

Lecturer : What is this? Ok enough of playing around, we are done with your presentation. (Class suddenly became silent)

(Total Drama of question answer - 1 minute)

Me : (Atlast!!! though sensed the lecturer anger) ok - so this is the last slide. Slide-5 -> Content : Thank you. [last nail in the coffin, all hell broke out again, huge round of laughter, this time from lecturer as well] (Total Time - 5 seconds)

Total presentation time - between 2 to 2.5 minutes

Unfortunately, to lecturers surprise and fortunately for me- all back-bencher and couple of more people gave similar kind of presentation, with few more lines than my slides, but more or less same. Guess assignment copy effect came here as well. But at least this ensure that everyone of us will get at least below average marks (4-5).

Later in the week, my friend who had good image with lecturer came to me and told I got 0 marks because I started this drama. To get marks I had to write the assignment on my own and had to submit it. I think that was the only assignment which for which I prepared a master copy, but again the content was worked by my Savior-2 whose over enthusiasm made me do this. And in spite of all this I did got A in that subject, which was a magic. :D

P.S : - Do not go for grammar and spellings, I know it sucks and nor going for grammar or spell check as well. Flow as well might not be good like previous part as writing after long time.

Why?

2010-01-21T19:23:00.000+05:30

Disclaimer :- No major content and hence post should be avoided.

Why?

- Why only at the critical moment someone tells the head of the family/team/society or even God that "I never asked you anything in my life ever, this is the first thing what I am asking, please approve it, Please!!!" - I have a say here as usual - Damn!!! why the fuck you are coming with your emotional blackmailing sentence at the critical moment and that too after giving silent approval for all the things which happened earlier which were more like a base to the current situation I am putting into. Why did you never asked before or why you never retaliated earlier? Screw you!!!

- Why the first feeling after getting screwed is repentance rather than plan to get out of the mess?

- Why it happens that no matter how much we earn, we complain at some point that we are getting less?

- Why people get bored with anything everything?

- Why the bad time appears longer than the good and happy times?

- Why the time taken to reach office from home always look lower compared to time taken to reach Home from Office.

- And why the world seems upside down when its critical to get/reach something/someone

Update:-

Life is going good with temperature showing signs in positive, had never thought that I would be happily roaming outside in Tee, when the temperature would be 2'C and would be saying what a wonderful weather it is. Was bored and frustrated with the continued snow-fall and negative temperature since past month and half. Happy days are back with mercury rising. Yippie!!!

Another Weekend

2010-01-18T16:05:00.005+05:30

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Another weekend with movies and virtual world. I wouldn't say it was a wonderful weekend but left me with some ideas. It seems to me the Indian movie industry has come to an stage were it can proudly say that they are coming with better story, better acting and better box office performance. Though the industry still remains slave of big names and big banner but atleast they have some good story though bad star cast sometime. In past 2 weeks have seen almost 8-10 movies and almost 4 movies had good story and acting though couple of them may not do the good business on box office. But still 4 out of 8 is a good number.

Movie industry has moved from the regular script of rich vs poor , horse riding Dacaoit's (Looter) theme movies to movies which actually have some content. I am not saying those movies were complete waste, instead I would say they were melodramatic and were perfect for that time period. Current movies in those time could have had created a lot of noise with no real outcome. Its like a marketing concept, never launch the product before the market demands nor launch it after the market is overloaded. Do it just on the time and you would be the king maker. Anyways, coming to the topic - We do not see the agony of a person who is not able to go to get the president award for his hard work because of lack of money and other responsibility. Instead, we see the richest of the lot, UK, US based rich people who drive expensive cars, and party hard in some posh restaurants. They never get problem in getting Visa, never have to bribe officials and never get monetary problems(if have, then usually it lies in billions of dollars , lakhs and crores are no more problem for them). Well planned loots happened with billions of dollars at stake which would make earlier loot based movie look more like a child play. Its fun seeing these moments, only reason I was grown in that era of movie which will look more like a shit or melodramatic sequence from today's perspective. Anyways, coming to Movies which I watched during the weekend.

Accident On Hill Road - I guess this movie was released long back but due to some reason I was avoiding it. This movie made me think how a bad star cast can spoil the mood for watchign movie and at the same time how a good story can hold you till the end in spite of having irritating character. This was a heroine centric movie with couple of out of context scenes but over all a good story and which will hold you till the end. This was another movie ( Mein, Meri Patni Aur Wo) which I saw till end in spite of unbearable flow but both for different reasons star cast was perfect for other but not for this. Or may be Celina Jaitly did played the role perfectly well which left me completely irritated with her acting. How far people can go for the sake of their own life and career is something which is unacceptable. And becoming inhuman and emotion less is something a complete NO NO. Bitch would be a compliment for the heroine after watching the story and shouldn't be taken in derogatory sense.

Chance Pe Dance - Another good movie, but was more like a cocktail of 'School of Rock', 'Persuit of Happyness'. Story goes on regular story line of current era - hero wins all and hero is the best type movie. No matter whatever hurdle comes he always wins, exception is something defined for hero. Slow heroine suddenly become 'Schumacher' to get the out of turn opportunity for Hero. Whatever, Shahid do know how to dance, and terrific dancing steps by him. There is nothing as such in the movie which you have never seen if you are a regular movie goer. But still acting and the flow will hold you till the end. Guess this would be doing good business on box office taking into account star slavery and total masala content.

Raat Gayi Baat Gayi - How can Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shorey and Neha Dhupia become so natural in acting? I am sure this movie will not be doing good business nor it will win any awards but still, its a good movie and should be watched by everyone who cares for natural acting and good story line.There is something about the trio (Rajat, Vinay and Neha) when they come together become natural and make the viewer feel like a real moment. Characters did the justice to the role and lived it well. This is story about a party and moves very fast maintaining the suspense. One more thing which I noted that Vinay's movies are usually low cost movie involving little of 'Movie Set' cost. Songs too are good. This is voted as best movie for this week by me.

Did see some old English movie in free time after watching these and yes, I do not do anything apart from watching movie.

I wanted to book tickets for my 2 week holiday planned in February but couldn't do that because of the unavailability of credit card with me and eventually that made me to apply for it today. Hope I will be able to make it before the cost of ticket become insanely high. I miss India now where the Bank agent were regularly giving irritating calls for new credit card and their scheme and where I had the credit card with me even before I had my regular debit card. I hate the companies who insist to have a credit card to book the tickets. :(

???

2010-01-17T03:54:00.003+05:30

First thing first, blog readers - going forward you will not get much of content on this blog so you can avoid following my blog and save some time to read other useful content on the virtual world.

I think I am lost and is running away from the reality. Too Bad for a short life.

I think human kind goes through this self-realization very often but they shun it and move forward without any solution. Thing which made us happy once has become liability now and feels like a load. May be the greed is driving everyone insane and unhappy about the situation they are. I think we never understood our priority and will never. When we were child we wanted to become become adult to take all decision on our own and were never happy about the schools, homework and punishments. And now when the child has grown s/he wish to be a kid again to have the luxury of Schools, homework, punishment and to have someone who will guide at every moment. Much like a paradigm shift - There was a time when we longed for future and now when the future has been reached we long for the past.

Resolutions

2010-01-13T00:56:00.001+05:30

I was thinking, when is the right time for making resolutions, though I didn't get the right time for making resolutions but I definitely got the wrong time for resolutions. New year Eve, Your Birthday and any special day in your life shouldn't be day when you should be making resolution. And to top it, your worst day, depressing day also are not the right time to make the resolution. You will get to know why (in totally unusual and incongruous way).

If I check the resolution list on internet, I find myriads of resolutions for the people who are living a public life through blogs, twitter, social networking site etc (Not to mention, I have lot of free time after office to do these things) And most common of the resolutions are one or more among the list mentioned below:-

To give up the habit of drinking / smoking / overeating / procrastination / laziness / latest one is virtual world involvement(too much time spent on internet or computer).

Last item joined the list of of negative habit since 3-4 years only, else it was a positive quality earlier and was in Geek's lexicon only to show supremacy over others. Seems life is getting tougher with each passing year. Good quality are becoming bad and bad are becoming worst. World was much better earlier with less knowledge and less addicting things invented around us.

Anyways, coming to topic - Giving up such habit would be the most depressing thing one would be doing on eventful days (on either of good or ugly day). Depressing because you were habituated to one or more things and you actually enjoyed doing that. And who in the world said that stop doing things which you enjoy doing most (Obviously those things only, which will not make life bad or difficult for others and impacting no one but you.)

No wonder we have more number of people who are not able to keep the resolutions compared to miserable number of those who actually keep it for long time. Because once the threshold is reached you are back to your age old habits. :-)

But I suppose people make resolution on eventful day just to remember since when did they gave up on enjoyment and to feel proud for keeping the resolution for X number of days before giving up on resolution. ;-)

A DaY In LiFe Of SwE

2010-01-12T20:48:00.003+05:30

One Day at work, the SWE spoke :-

I hate my job, being answerable for others slow pace is pretty lame and pathetic when you can't get rude with your colleagues. It Sucks being in this situation. I need a change in profession itself.

It was the same SWE who said long long ago :-

I see myself working in same profession after 5 year but at some responsible position.

How fast the priority changed and how fast the mind. Do not wonder if the same SWE will say tomorrow :-

How lame I was to think this profession sucks, this is the most wonderful profession with easy money and growth rate. I love this job.

Phases through which each and every SWE passes, either in a single day itself or during a week. Healthy work environment and enjoying the work has long become a thing of past (or did it ever existed?).

Note: SWE are those class of people who suffers from multiple personality disorder and are called in respectable way as SoftWare Engineer, same way like we call bribe as gift. :-)

Woman and Religion

2010-01-11T17:15:00.004+05:30

One question popped up in my mind for which I couldn't get answer or shall I say that, I ran away from reality.

Why most of the religion doesn't have a Woman as a God (Goddess) ? In my knowledge, only Hindu religion have Goddess who are prayed at mass level. Does it mean something?

A question that need to be given serious thought but need not be answered taking into account the sentiments associated with the religion.

Movie Marathon

2010-01-10T02:32:00.008+05:30

It was snowing whole day making it impossible to go out, nor would have had gone anyway. And hence whole day was dedicated to movies. And my note on them as below. This is just for my personal reference, so you can ignore this post .

Pyar Impossible - or Dekhna Impossible!!! How could you do this? Please for Hell's sake do something. Movie start with BS note, gets little better in middle and ends with BS. UC n PC combo was deadly and to top it Mandakini's child version, you gotta be kidding. Coincidence happens only in movies . India is developing fast, real fast. And Danu Danasur??? Was he there only to deliver loser's dialog. That all. But hey wait, did what I told made any sense? No? Really? Well then welcome to PI, it will be the same.

Dulha Mil Gaya - FK, I mean Fardeen Khan, you gave a real FK performance in the movie as usual. This movie is about a dog, hey I am talking about Bozo(key character). I guess I found this movie good because I watched this after Mission Impossible (PI).

Bolo Ramm - Not sure either my taste was getting worse or the movies were getting better but by the time I completed 'Bolo Ramm', I actually felt better that I saw something good today. Movie had a good story and the star cast though new, were perfect for this story. No big names, nothing, but this movie should be watched if option is given between PI and BR.

Marega Salaa - I am happy that I did not see this movie earlier though it was released a week back(or two). And also realized that Jimmy Shergil is most underrated actor though he has a huge potential. His movies are good and mostly have off-beat theme. If he will continue to take the movies like this, one day he will join the class of Nasruddin Shah, Anupam Kher and Om Puri (not talking about comedy kinda role) because his role always carries some weight. and have a good narrating voice. Its a suspense thriller so will not give any spoiler. But yes, all the members are equally important. You may like Kim's confidence and attitude, though it would look copied from some Hollywood actress.

That's all for today.

P.S. - I have a record better than this. So no need to get shocked over the number. And not to mention this is my views, you may like the movie which I disliked and dislike what I liked. You may think one more thing, that don't I leave any movie? Well in my capacity I try my best to watch as many as movie I can because "director itni mehnat karke movie banata hai, kaise usko niras kiya jaaye"

Movie and Property price

2010-01-09T16:58:00.004+05:30

hehe, I wanted to come with something good but couldn't resist myself coming with this short post. Also, I usually do not like blog post with picture, but exception are there. and exception is as below.

I got this picture from my apartment maintenance team saying property prices might soar after its LAUNCH in movie 3 idiots. It took me some time(or can I say lot of time?) to identify what they were showing in the picture. hehe.. LAUNCH??? That's a good one. I do not know what will be the property price for IIM Bangalore now. :P

BTW one thing is sure they have downloaded the movie illegally and were seeing it on their computer and some over over-enthusiastic member posted it to the group. Wish someone from anti-piracy team go for a system check and screw them so that they never try to send any stupid posts like this. ;-)

Opportunity for film producer/directors now, you can churn out money even before the movie or songs are release. Just make a deal with such apartment owner to show their building. Who says ideas are over and no more opportunities are left for making money. =))

Happy New Year!!!

2010-01-03T07:05:00.005+05:30

Though its kinda late to come up with such kind of posts when the new year eve is past 3 days. And writing this post at 3 am in the night don't make sense as well except if I would have written it on 1st of Jan. But again, I have a point, when to celebrate as new year moment lose its sense once you are out of the country and are in different time zone. Same was the case with me as well. I was not sure if the click of 12 am 1st Jan in India was THE moment or THE time when actually it happened in my time zone. So I decided its never late wishing my blog readers a happy and prosperous new year. Though I have made lots of resolutions this year and to tell you, this time it is different from last year. Sadly or shall I say happily, I couldn't get last year resolutions (Click on link to see what resolution I made last year) completed though I made them comfortable enough. :D Which made me get one idea about myself. I am perfect and its difficult to improve on perfection(Courtesy : DCH). Hence this year resolutions are tough enough so that I wouldn't think at the year end that, damn I couldn't complete these things as well?

I am more or less addicted to internet now and spend almost xyz hours on computer now. Will not come with the figures as it gives me panic attack writing those figures. And latest addiction is due to twitter. Why Twitter? What so special on it? I will come on this point in days to come. BTW why did I mention Twitter here? Because I was going to take one quotes from there for New Year eve, funny and lovely. And the quote is :-

"Universe is 14 billion years old. Seems silly to celebrate one year. Be like having a fucking parade every time I take a piss."

haha.. whatever!!! Still I would like to wish my readers once again, a very happy and fun filled new year. And yeah keep visiting my blogs this year as I have decided to come on it very often.(I hope so because its not there in my resolution list). Cheers!!!

3 idiots

2009-12-30T00:34:00.009+05:30

Forewarning:- By any chance if you haven't watched this movies then stop here itself. There might be some spoiler. But if you are a regular HINDI movie goer, I wouldn't call that as suspense anyways.

3 Idiots? That's just for the the name sake. Reality is something different. But why why why? Why this happens only in movies? Hero wins all as usual and hero is the best of lot. Now coming to few points about movie and loopholes:-

1) Ground work about the engineering could have been done at higher level. Movie forgot important fact that night before the exam is most sacred of all your semester night. If you do not study on this night, no one can save you from failing. In engineering terminology, the amount you devoted a night before the exam is directly proportional to the marks which you will obtain. With threshold differing from person to person, for some its 1 am for some its 5 am. A night before exam in hospital not studying, you can pass but certainly not top until you are in the exception list. More about exceptions will come in point three.
2) No one join engineering thinking about insane ideas like knowledge and learning. Students are immature and their minds are not corrupted with words like Value and Learning. Everyone join it for job and recognition of degree. Leave the terms like value addition, learning etc for MBA aspirants and PHD Scholars.
3) Those who are topper are mostly non-fun kinda people who have a bypass for rule number 1. Because they have devoted all day and night to studies and preparing notes and have read the theory so many times that they can even teach their children after 30 years without looking at book, . And these noble souls are the one whose notes, oops xerox is going through hands of 99% to-be engineer. No offense meant to toppers. In fact everyone will praise you highly entire life for your notes which made those 99% lot getting engineering degree. You were like saints who never thought about wordly desire and gave life for the greater cause - well being of mankind, a philanthropist I should say.
4) Dare to give counter reply to your professor, you can be sure of one thing between two - egoistic, insane and ahole prof/lecture is highly pissed off and will either complain about you to Dean or will make every attempt to screw you while checking your exam papers. However good you are but you won't be topping like Rancho.
5) Names? My goodness, dude how did you came till this far. Children though less known for cruelty but are nonetheless most brutal at emotional level, names like Ranchor Das Chanchad will be hot cake. :D Forget about Schooling for a while engineering will definitely carry some funny name(and may be butt of all jokes) for you rather than being Rancho like some hot dude.
6) Taking cuts at your director, leave lecturer or even professor, but director?? and director needs reason to rusticate you out of college? And pressurize others to stand against you? Dude - day one, one Disco (Disciplinary Committee) And Day two, you will get lucky and OUT!!! Immediately Out of Hostel minimum and suspended from college. College prof takes pleasure in doing such things, one such example in my knowledge, merely for playing Holi(A festival) with no college property loss or physical or mental abuse to prof ,18 noble souls where rusticated from the hostel and suspended from the college for week along with fine. But again these are the things which makes the college life exciting and adventurous. Definitely after coming out not when in college and while passing through such mental trauma.
7) Committing suicide? That too for studies or year back? Cm'on I have seen people partying hard when they had year back and over it 17/18 arrears (fail grade) out of 19 subjects in year. No one commit suicide. Everyone is damn happy. But yeah after coming out engineers are the one who run through identity crisis and may think about suicide all the time. No one in sane mind would give so much importance to studies when in engineering college. Or may be people are camouflaging their suicide by reasons like not able to learn google wave.
8) Real time project? Which world are you leaving in? Are you sure you was talking about Indian engineering? No one works on new idea, they are left for masters degree holder or doctoral candidates. I have seen people taking fake report and fake presentation to get the final degree.
9) Well its not the case that engineering degree from low end college like my college was/is only like this. Even IIT's are like this. Please do not defend on the basis of ranking if it was comparable to IIT's or not . It would still be BS for me.
10) Aha forgot the most important thing, Doing such stunt in ragging? haha, one thing you can be sure of right away - you are not studying in this college for sure.
11) Director complained about the student's performance to his/her parent and talk harshly saying their ward will not get the degree because of poor performance and next day guy found dead as he committed suicide and still police is not arresting the director?Where is media? This is totally bad, you should show some reality in movie.
12) Beautiful girls in engineering college are like rare engineering concepts which will stick to your brain cells when professor is giving lecture, I mean near to nil(for god sake, do I need to tell it again and again). And they going for Chanchad? As in Ranchor Das Chanchad? That's complete insanity and height of fantasy. Girls do go after rich kids but atl east not Chanchad, or probably I am ill-informed. Hey, no offense meant to reader who is unfortunately Chanchad.or have best friend as Chanchad. Anyway, Some great writer had said, "What In Name" but unfortunately he added his signature as Shakespeare so that no one else can own it. hehe

This post was written so that people do not get wrong idea about engineering portrayed by 3 idiots. hehe. Well, I can write tons and tons of matter about engineering and its greatness no need to give proof about it. ;-)

Good movie, a must watch. Low comparing Amir's standard but still can be seen. Dialogs are good in fact would call the best, because even after watching it once, dialog would stick to your mind like mischievous engineering plan's. To end, go and see this movie, because baad mein sochoge ki, accha review the movie ka, hall mein lagi bhi thi, bus ticket black mein mil rahi thi, lekin fir bhi thodi si himmat karke thode aur rupye deta to ticket mil jaati aur movie dekh leta. (Translation, though will nto make much sense : Go and see the mvoie, because you may regret later that movie review was good, it was running as well in the cinema hall, tickets were being sold in double or triple cost, but if would have given some more money would have got the opportunity to watch the movie on big screen)

P.S. :- Its not easy degree but not tough as well. Anyways, engineers always work on the concept of Rockets. Do not start work until your ass is on fire. ;-)

P.P.S : - On serious note, if Aamir/Directors would have taken note of all 12 points and boring stuff about engineering, you wouldn't have had been watching this movie N'th time in same week.

P.P.P.S : - (Disclaimer)Whole post was written on lighter note, and shouldn't be taken seriously. If any of my comment hurt your emotions, please leave your comments in comments section I would edit that part.

P.P.P.P.S : - And here I make world record for my own blogs by posting post notes after post notes. And reason is, its tough to be in real world and have to write disclaimer to make people aware that I can make the change if they did not like anything (Only if ,you think I am trying to defame you).

2009

2009-12-27T04:28:00.005+05:30

When the end of this year is fast approaching people have started thinking about the things which they did in last one year, so do I and this retrospection gave some astonishing revelation., not all is coming here.

This year was happening both at personal as well as professional front. This year there were many moment when I wanted to come to my blog and write something but somehow or other I failed to do it. And at the same time it happened first time since I started writing that, I wrote one post every month, though not useful sometimes. Loosing at SPJ call to winning new role in my job, Organized and stable in job to unorganized and screwed career plan, Feeling of standing nowhere to ecstasy of achieving something, loosing out contacts with old friends to making shallow attempt to make new friends ; all seems standing side by side and leave with a awkward sense of being lost. Though I was passionate about writing, but seems that is also dying slowly and now is struggling to write, not sure if I would be writing anymore including the gibberish stuff. One thing which was done consistently was nagging and the procrastinating attitude, which are the main cause for slow progress. Time demands a change, but being a neophobic it would be a tough call. But sooner or later have to go through it before I get caught by stagnancy.

Google Wave

2009-11-29T19:04:00.006+05:30

My first impression about Google wave. Well it was supposed to come a month back ,time when I started using the wave but mostly laziness was putting it in 'things to do later' list.

- It is an attempt by Google to save their bandwidth and space requirement. So Google would be the one who would be highly profited by this entire business. Reason - ever wondered when you are sending mail(forwards) to group of friends how much space it takes at Google server? Well they all get a copy of the mail ,so if the mail size was somewhere around 500kb and if you sent it to 10 people then total Google space used was around 10*500kb + 1*500kb (10 for your friends Inbox and 1 for your sent item). And now top it up with another 500kb in your Inbox (obviously how would you forward a mail if it doesn't exist in your mailbox). Now the wave would be using only 500kb space and that's because when you receive a wave you just drag your friends name to the wave . This will eventually save A LOT of space for Google. And I am damn sure however big they are, they too have space constraints, and nothing could be better than wave to handle it.

- It is another attempt by Google to manipulate the way people think. As all the data is centrally stored you would immediately know if someone is manipulating your data or if someone is replying to you wave(I would say it as mail). Now comes the real fun. say you are typing something and your friends too would be seeing what you are typing at each and every key stroke. Again I am not talking about disabling the feature, else it would loose its charm. Now the fun is, other party would be able to see at every point what you are thinking, what you are changing after writing it and crap like this. Think about it, its like reading someone's mind. No proposal would go through wave because once you thought it and wrote it , no matter you edit it later but if the other party have seen it there is no going back. You would be screwed. People would be questioned, why did you disable this feature? Or why did you thought like that. haha. Pseudo couples would get more reason to fight as if existing reasons were less in this world.

- To use the smiley, translator, making wave public and things like this you have to use robots. Its wouldn't be easy for common people to understand the idiosyncrasy of wave. Though features are damn good but how you expect mass to get it. Even have seen techno-savvy people having trouble using the service right now. And tragic but funny - heard one news that someone committed suicide as he was not able to understand how Google wave works. No offense meant to his soul, but man!!! its insane to commit suicide for such silly reason, you could have written in suicide note about bad mess food, stupid college education system or even over stupid education system. And if that was not good he could have mentioned failure to get any failed reason. Crap.

- Google need to do a lot of work on bandwidth utilization, because it eats the bandwidth like hell. And when I am saying hell, it means definitely hell here. With my 6mbps speed it runs like a horse between formula racing cars. Think about India where the internet speed is called BROADBAND when it is 256kbps, which eventually gives a download speed of 32kbps. And anything above 256kbps is luxury and there is nothing above 2 mbps internet speed. You rnet would be screwed once you would be using the wave.

Over all its a good attempt to combine everything under a single window. Google is trying to win the market once again by doing all these tricks and that's the reason they came with this idea quickly in preview version only. And at the same time maintained the charm by making to it by invitation only. Those who started using Gmail since the initial days knows what I am talking. It was by invitation only at that time but it was beta version at least which devastated the yahoo mail completely by incorporating the chat and Google lab features with the mail. Wave too us e invitation but for a change this time it is preview version, God knows when they will actually come up with the beta version and when the full fledged version. One thing which they are loosing right now is the charm of their social networking site called Orkut, which has been taken over by Facebook now. I hope Google is not sitting silently over it and might be thinking something to win it back. May be Wave would do the magic. More to come on it soon.

P.S:- This post was in my draft since sometime and did not care to post it.

P.P.S. :- This is mostly my understanding after going through several document available on forums , if any of the reader have different thought please do post it in comment area.

Life's Ideology

2009-10-19T15:42:00.006+05:30

I am not sure if the topic suits the body post but did not get anything better than that. This post is not written to hurt anyone's religious sentiments and post would be removed in case it is being asked unanimously. :-)

Suddenly why this topic came into my mind the reason was I had a discussion with a preacher who was talking on the good thing about his religion and it was good knowing about other religion. But in the end what left me in uneasy position was his question on my take on change in religion to his one. Though I gave some reason but guess real reason was left unsaid. But guess reason given was good enough though funny.

I have gone to few of the religious gathering and someway or other found them talking the same thing. Most of the preachers talk about following God,Allah, Bhagwan and their deity's saying and their holy books . And the funny part is in most of the cases it ends with discussion on life after death like Swarg and Narak in Hindu's, Haven and Hell in Christians & Jannat and Dozakh in Islam. What amuse me the way description about these places are given and life's definition. I didnot meet even a single preacher till now who gave importance to current life and told me to live it to full. All I heard was I have to be thankful to God(read deity of their religion from now on for word God) . And I should look forward for Haven (Read corresponding places for their religion ) and do good deeds and pray God, because life is very short and our 100 year life is just 2-3 minutes as per God's time. And life after death is infinite years of God time (think about it in our time and I suppose Avogadro number won't be able to define it). So whatever may be the religion round about things go in same fashion. And everyone defines the life after death as if the Haven exists is a concrete truth and over it the Haven is the place you need to be. If I go through various religion I see a myriads of religion and their corresponding hell and haven which make me think if these are different place or same. May be one is more affluent over another. ;-)

And irony is no one talk's about current life, rather than being a good citizen and a good person talk is given on what is best about their religion. I have a say over here - life which we are living right now should be the one which should be given utmost importance rather than giving importance to life after death, because no one have ever returned saying - Man!!! Its awesome out there, that's the place you should come man, this place sucks and things like this. So have party, enjoy life, be a good person. Rather then living under terror of Haven and Hell. And to be honest I believe its normal human nature to get bored with their current situation and place with time - for some its quick and for some its not so quick. And I don't think if the identity exists then the nature will not - it will be. So think about it, you are bored of Haven but you can't leave it and then you will realize - Sh*t I am screwed. So utilize this 2-3minutes as per God time in nice way so that it won't hurt you more when you are in Haven or Hell. ;-)

Now coming to reason for me not changing my religion - well I am Hindu and there are almost 0.33 billion (33 crore) Gods and Goddess - so I have opportunity at each point of my life to choose another God or Goddess if I get bored of one(though I pay a very little heed to it so chances are less).

And the reason which I did not speak was - I am a Hindu though do not as such follow it with GREAT attention, sometime gets frustrated with it and speaks bad about it. Never ever read about the religion, never participated in rituals and that too when I have so many opportunities to choose God's from. And definitely other God would help me through his/her sources to get into Haven or Hell. What will happen if I will change my religion to yours? I will say something after getting frustrated about it and there wouldn't be any other God to support and get me the esteemed position in God's nest. I suppose I will be screwed then. Bottom line is I do not care about life after death. And I am happily unhappy with my life and have no remorse. ;-)

Note:- I carry a very liberal attitude about religion and take the view that religion should not be something which would restrict you to some boundary, it should give you enough space for thinking, for doing work and other than normal social norms and one defined by law shouldn't take anything as sin. And holistically all religion have the same ideology.

P.S. - Again I was too lazy to check the grammar and spelling, if you find anything wrong then post it in comment area, I am not going to correct it anyways.

SpiderMan

2009-09-20T20:14:00.002+05:30

All those who have seen the movie Spider Man surely know this dialog.. with great power come great responsibility but I am sure spider-man would have liked to say something more than that, but couldn't say to avoid the supercilious censor board. If he would have got the freedom he would definitely have said - Great power comes great responsibility and also loads of chances to get screwed topped with the bloody load of work and people expectation. Its tough to be a super hero.

Well well well... why did spider man came into my mind? Its a short and simple - Front Office SPOC in software industry and super hero are more or less comparable when you take the disadvantage part. Business expectation and work done by the back office. Covering the incomplete work of back office to business and patiently hearing the business is not easy. And why should you? Most of the time you will get escalations for which you shouldn't be called responsible. But NO - the Industry thinks differently. Here Business will escalate because the work is not as per there expectation and back office will sought why there is too much of work load, manager will sought on the escalations sent by business and leads will think there s no proper channeling of communication. At the end of the day everyone will be in peace except the poor FO-SPOC. After reaching this position, I realize its too easy to be a team member and too tough to be a lead, because you don't need to be worried much if you are a team member. You just have to manage yourself. But for lead other then managing himself s/he has to direct the whole team which is not a good experience if the team become in-cooperative or the business become stubborn. Team members can take leave any day can leave anytime, but the leads - poor leads, they can't take leaves without planning everything earlier and intimating all the parties involved. For coming late s/he need to drop mail. Well there are few lucky souls who enjoy in any role - and when I say enjoy it means those who do nothing and come to office just to complete the quorum.

Super heroes would be dead after one week of work in software industry if they have to go through the mental agony rather then the physical pain or if there villains would have had been a project manager asking them to review the code (which was written in worst possible mode) rather then creating nuisance by doing sci-fi act.

Note:- Above post doesn't have to do anything with my team. Everything was written on lighter note with no serious objections on anyone's activity.

P.S.:- Post looked incoherent while I was reviewing it, but did not made any changes as I was too lazy to make it.

P.P.S.:- Contrary to my expectation I am having tough time here with my role and place too. Guess both will take sometime to come to normal stage and are coming too. :-)

Summers

2009-09-17T19:58:00.002+05:30

I never ever though that I will have a chilling Summer before coming to Belgium. Whoa!!! I am not sure how winters will be but definitely summers are not summers in Indian context, they should be called as Winters.

Contrary to the last post, I think Sun is definitely gonna be a important factor for deciding a day as good or bad. I shiver in this summer when the Sun don't show up for the day.

I feel in coming days I will start hating my job where I have to wake up early to reach office by 9 or people will start hating me for coming to office like I am still sleeping.

BTW one out of context text, I learnt how important the plastic money is, and how it makes people to spend more without giving any considerable thought.

- More boring posts to come

Richie Rich

2009-09-06T03:45:00.004+05:30

I suppose Richie Rich will die out of frustration after seeing people around here(In Brussels). Now don't ask me who Richie Rich is, if you don't know than its awesome. BTW if not he, definitely I will soon and if not then Once I will be back in India, I will be called a hell of spendthrift.

- Taxi Drivers are so rich that they drive Mercedes which cost a whooping 40 Lakhs Rupees in Indian currency and you can see the car only in posh area with affluent people in India. And Taxi driver will definitely be dead next day with Car gone in parts across the globe if he is caught using Mercedes as a Taxi, and moreover why he will be a taxi driver if he have enough money to buy Mercedes. ;-)

- What a pity, Mercedes are used as a TAXI!!! India at the max if people will think they can take only Tata Indica and recently Logan as a Taxi.

-Finally I came to know what Burger Index is, you can definitely judge the spending power of people and even economy too on the basis of Burger cost. 7 Euro's for Burger!!! Think in Indian currency and you will die out of horror thinking to eat a 500Rs Burger on a road side shop(definitely I am not talking about 5 star hotels).

- Beggars? I am thinking if I should call the people who are asking as beggars here. It will be a dream come true for an Indian Beggar to get a Job as a beggar in Brussels. What a life!!! Even I think a mid-level s/w employee in Indian firm would like to have such a fantastic life of Beggars which are here. Have you ever seen the beggars who are sipping beers and having french fries asking for alms and that too in nice cloths? They made me think that if there is a PROFESSIONAL uniform for Beggars too. Come to Brussels you will see that. Even I envy them now, getting 40-50 euro daily(tax free) with french fries is not a bad job where I don't have to do anything ;-)

- On hearing that I am from India, first think they say is.. aaha!!! TajMahal, bloody hell!!! I have never seen real TajMahal and they are mentioning it as they are using it as their home and are acquainted well with it. But guess this is how people start the converstaion anywhere in the world. If you are within the boundary of the colony.. aaha!!! You are in that house, and then boundary of town comes with comment.. aaha!!! that colony? And like I stay in Bangalore and always used to get the comment on saying I am from Bihar... aaha!!! Lalu Parsad Yadav as if Lalu Yadav is her/his chum.. Guess - 'that house', 'that colony' and 'Lalu Parsad Yadav' are replaced by 'TajMahal' till the time I am here in Brussels!!! And to be honest - I just love it. ;-)

Well well well.. don't think that's the only thing I came here to see, but I am not writing any travelogue. So definitely not going to mention the places, its just the people and their behavior comes in my list for writing.

- More of funny comments to come, so keep reading!!! Will be back soon..

Note:- You may see grammatical mistake, spelling mistake here and there because I am not editing anything and posting whatever coming in my mind. So its kinda an unabridged version and you shouldn't complain but if its blunder do post it in comment area which will NOT be corrected definitely. ;-)

Great News for thieves

2009-09-04T03:06:00.002+05:30

Few more thing:-

If you are interested in stealing motor parts then welcome to Belgium, you will get all design and make of car parked on road, pick whatever you like. I understand the only time ANY car have a home is only when they are in put up for sell(I mean in shop) or in manufacturing units. Else, starts from Mercedes, Hummer, Ferrari, SUV's name it and you will definitely get it parked on road openly all the time (including nights). In India if you leave expensive car outside the Garage, and you will not miss the talent of thieves I bet. That's called the guts to do adventurous thing. ;-)

Why people drink beer all the time in Belgium instead of water? Why shouldn't they - if you get beer, water, coke all @ 1euro, why one will drink water.Same like 'Super Nirma Advertisement during DD1 days' - jab kam dham mein wo mile to koi ye kyon le.. and mann gaye deepika jee... aapki parki nazar or belgian beer dono ko.. (translation won't make much sense to non-Hindi people or those who did not see the ad ever so not giving it, let me know if still look for it)

I never new that sunlight was so important in your life that the day become great or gloomy depending upon the sunlight. If its sunny - then you will see people with happy faces around saying what a beautiful day it is and when its cloudy or cold suddenly they will become sad and say its a bad day. Come to India or shall I say directly to Chennai? Yeah Chennai sounds better - come to Chennai and enjoy the GOOD days.. and I hope you will never be gloomy when you won't see the sun.

- Enough for today, more to come

Reached Belgium

2009-08-31T22:41:00.003+05:30

My first trip on air craft and my first trip to any foreign country were supposedly had to come together, and I reached Belgium. Interesting experience. Will be coming with the experience soon. First expression of this place as below. Mostly coming with tidbits -

- Its wrong to say that people smoke here, here people breath smoke like we breath oxygen in India.
- People are friendly and helping, if you will ask for directions they will almost not leave you until you reach the destination skipping their important works.
- People don;t roam around much and very quite place.
-Evening comes around 9:30PM to 10PM(during summers, I mean now) and morning starts from 4 to 4:30AM, little weird when you compare with normal Indian schedule where evening starts from 6PM and morning from 6AM.

-more to come..

Google Tricks

2009-07-31T00:10:00.001+05:30

One of the most amazing feature, simple but no one thought before. Enable this feature in your GMail if you think on some day(oops late night) you may send some REAL truth to your Boss or Friends (acquaintance) , either due to intoxication or due to frustrating events happening with you.

And it will save you from embarrassment later. But yeah dont enable this feature if you think you will propose through a mail either to your girlfriend or boyfriend late night after thinking pros and cons of your action. Because even though you are mentally aware but after solving these 5 questions, probably you may not send the message. ;-)

Perspective!!!

2009-06-02T23:33:00.002+05:30

A short post after a long one,

IPL T20 reminded me of some dialog which we say while watching One day cricket matches.

"This player is just crap, playing as if he is playing test match" - This comment was for those cases where the player was playing with strike rate of some 50 or 60. And a player was called good if he is playing with strike rate of 80-90.

And similar comment came while watching a T20 match -

"This player is just crap, playing as if he is playing in One day" - and the good player of One day was not good enough from T20's perspective.

P.S.:- Celebrating 10k page hit for my blog page. :-)

Gandhi's Talisman

2009-05-26T21:53:00.000+05:30

"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to Swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."

- One of the last notes left behind by Gandhi in 1948, expressing his deepest social thought.

Hello All,
Was away for long time with my sarcastic notes though I had lot many ideas but was too lazy to write it down. Few notes before I start with the post main body. First, I live in Bangalore since past 2 year and its my nature to get bored with anything any place where I stays for more than a year(or is it less). Second, I don't think I need to tell about who "Mahatma Gandhi" is/was in this post. Third, Above talisman was present in all the NCERT course book like a preface of any book. Never felt it carries some significance to me. But guess it had. And the talisman still carries the charm with it but in different perspective. ;-)

Last weekend was a happening one with me agreeing to come to Tirupati with my friends who happened to show the gratitude to GOD for making them successful in their endeavor(Read top rung Management college ranked between 1 to 8). And I joined them as this was going to be the last trip(first and last obviously) which I was making with them as they will be heading to northern part mostly and also to show gratitude to GOD for not making me successful in my endeavour(again read some management college).

There were 7 of us, 4 from Bangalore including me and 3 from Chennai (Heaven on the earth). This trip to Tirupati was TOTALLY unplanned we did not have tickets for the temple. Few souls who are not from India and visit my blog read about tirupati because this temple(place of worship) is one of its kind where there is a needs to have ticket/reservation to see the GOD. You will definitely find how great the GOD is because you need to take appointment to see him and that too for fraction of seconds. Govindaa Gooovindaaaa!!!

Due to my work commitment I was not free till 8PM Friday so asked friends to book the train which leaves last from Bangalore to Chennai. Boarded the train at 11:45 PM in night and from there our joy ride started. As its summer season so it was hot in Bangalore too which I thought was unbearable so didn't sleep till the train started running at full pace. Nearly at 12:30AM I slept and was woke up after hardly an hour. I was drenched with sweat as if I had some ghostly dreams. But truth was something else train had entered the lovely and cool weather of TN which was the main cause of my sweating heavily. Couldn't sleep whole night somehow reached Chennai early morning. Took local train and then an auto-rickshaw to finally reach my friends house. But the situation was If it was allowed in India/Chennai, I would have done striptease. Basically the word striptease doesn't fit hear but guess those who are dying in Chennai might understand my plight. Took a bath as soon as I reached his house had breakfast, another round of bath, had tasty food which friend cooked and then again a round of bath. Played cards (famous game of 29) for couple of hours and then we decided to leave for Tirupati in 2 hours. 2 hours time line because again everyone had to take the bath before leaving (after dinner obviously). Somehow I feel in Chennai, people(not all, only disgusting people like us) thinks food and bath are lovely pair which shouldn't be broken. Another friend of mine who was popular for saving water by not taking bath for weeks (or is it months) during engineering days was religiously following the 5 times bath a day schedule. ;-)

Trip from Chennai to Tirupati:-

However much I will say about the trip it will be less only. I guess one phrase what written for such moment only 'Few things in this world are unexplainable and the real feeling can be felt only if you are present at that moment'. Though we started from Chennai after having a nice bath, but the happy feeling was gone as soon as we stayed in the outside weather for say 20 minutes(or is it less, or am I exaggerating?). Somehow reached the bus stand and then we came to know that the bus which is about to leave is the last bus for Tirupati. We boarded it hurriedly and took the ticket. Lucky US!!! But the lucky feeling too was gone after taking the ticket because we got last seat, and you will never know what fun you get when you are traveling on bumpy and hilly road while seating on the last seat. And that too with all enthusiastic people who are excited about going to Tirupati, or is it travelling for first time? Whatever, they were making noise at the peak and at the same time hot weather was aiding to our plight. But guess it was not enough, the bus which we boarded and which was about to leave didnot leave and we were inside the bus for 20-30 minutes contemplating bus will leave now. Grrr.. But wait wait, this too was not enough because we saw another bus with no passenger at all coming to the same stand :'( And unfortunately we cant change the bus too, because we already took the ticket. Grrr.. And you know what, bus which came later left before us. :'( :'(

Thank GOD , after full 35 minutes our bus started finally and then something happened that they stopped after 2 KM hardly. And now we thought enough is enough, its almost 11:30 PM and now weather is cool outside. So lets get outside till the bus starts. After doing some goods loading the bus started at 12 AM. We thought at last we will be reaching tirupati on our planned time and with ample amount of sleep too. But our luck did not leave there too. Enthusiastic people never stopped talking and thanks to the co-passenger beside us and the heat due to whole commotion we were never able to sleep and whole night was gone awake.

We reached the tiruapti/tirumala somehow and started looking for ticket. And then yuppie!!! That thing happened which we were expecting may happen to us. We didnot get the ticket as ticket are sold in tirupati not in tirumala for same day darshanam. And we were thinking what to do now, because if we go back to tirupati and take the ticket it wouldn't have been possible to do the darshanam same day, as informed by few people there. Suddenly, we were approached by our well wishers who want to give us opportunity for darshan today itself. And he asked for 5000 Rs for the well wishing off course. We were taken aback and told thank you and we wont be taking the offer for two reason's. One it was too much and other we didnot carry that much cash combining all 7 of us. And there is reason for that too, software engineer do all the thing either online or through card for him there is little existence of material thing called hard cash!!! We finalized to go for free darshanam and we started for it. And take my experience, never ever try for free darshnam!!! you will be crushed in the queue until and unless you are body builder.

Free dharshanam!!! Was it free? you will get to know it soon. It was nearly 6'0 clock in morning when we got into the queue for free dharshnam. And then reached the cell, yeah its called cell only like one you have in jail, with only difference motif's and out come are different for going into the cell and coming out too. And we were welcomed by big board outside the cell, which said 9'0 clock dharshanam. Wait wait, it was not for 9 AM even though we reached the cell at 6:30 AM. It was for 9 PM, a whooping 15 hour wait for getting into the main queue for dharshanam. And we were like, WTF!!! What shall we do now, shall we go back, shall we stay or what shall we do now. And that indecision moment helped us greatly. Gate keeper started shouting to get into the cell and we told we have to stay inside that cell for 15 hours. Guessing our urgency and feeling we might go away without the dharshanam he asked us to stay outside the cell for a while. After 5 minute, he closed that cell too and then called us, and told 200Rs each person, for putting into main queue and also told we will be done with the dharshanam by 10 AM today itself. Exciting offer!!! but we were little suspicious because we never heard anything like bribery in Tirumala atleast taking into account how auspicious place it was and how people fear about doing anything wrong there. And one thing I want to clear people go to Tirumala because they want to thank the almighty and also sure that the mere dharshanam will clear all the wrong doers they did in their entire life. So it was fine by our part giving the bribe by us. ;-)

The guy was true marketing professional, and he told put away your suspicion, he wont be taking any money until the moment he puts us in main queue, from where it will be mere 2 hours wait for dharshanam. And that's what he did. Now everything in fast forward and boring way(or was it boring earlier), we paid the money, we had the dharshnam and we left as quickly as we can, reached tirupati from tirumala, got into AC restaurant, had good food (though it was not good), and did not leave until we got an AC bus, reached Chennai, had something good (this time is was good), boarded the bus to reach Chennai station to catch the train, got into the train and reached Bangalore. Oops, missed one thing again between reaching Chennai and having good food, and you know what was that. Nice Bath!!!

And reason for writing everything in fast forward, it was too long for a post and second I don't think I will be able to review it before publishing this post and also don't think readers will be having enough patience to read through our plight!!! Though I sincerely believe in on psychological statement, one's plight is others reason for enjoyment.

This is the end!!! Thank you if you were able to last till this point.

P.S.:- It was half written a months back but never felt like completing it. But finally completed it. And also I am sorry for spelling mistake, grammatical mistake wherever it happened. Dharshanam means seeing the God's temple, Temple is at hill called Tirumala, and Tirupati is the starting point of the hill. I guess this will be enough. :-)

P.P.S.:- Why Gandhi's Talisman??? Well I was kinda feeling that Bangalore is getting hotter and it is loosing its charm. But guess it was not the case, it is still better comparitively (on weather front).

Aimless

2009-04-13T15:02:00.003+05:30

This post is more like a personal post and reader wont find anything good below.

Life has been much like a roller coaster ride since past one month, with a nauseating feeling. Done with the SP Jain interview call. Performed at the abyss. The way I started with the interview surprised myself too, tried doing damage control later but the end result was expected. I was kicked out. The whole episode was running in my mind at each and every moment for a week. The twinging effect will take some time to subside I suppose. Even after a month has been passed but the moment hasn't stopped giving me nightmares. Immediately after the interview I decided not to try for such adventure again. :-)

Now with all this resolutionary moment, I find myself standing nowhere with no idea where to go. Passing the second, minute, hour, day, week or month without any serious thought. An oxymoron, jobless with job. And this feeling is hurting hard. But whats decided is decided. I will be passing my time either reading some novel or playing some computer game or may be sometimes writing some BS till I get the point that life has something more than mentioned above.

Another thing which was keeping me busy and wasn't allowing me to come for writing something useful was my obsession toward an online game called mobwar on Facebook.

And award goes to....

2009-03-17T14:05:00.004+05:30

Wasn't getting time at all since past few days and to make the matter worse I got some work during last Saturday and Sunday too. Couldn't sleep at all during weekend because I was working almost 48 hours continuously. :(

Today thought to work on the blog and this time with the award which has been given to me. I am being awarded "Fucking Fabulous Blog " which came from daisyblue, an avid story teller.

This award comes with some rules with it that I have copy pasted below :D

* Put the image on your blog
* List 10 truths about yourself
* Give the award to 5 other people
* Provide meaningful quotation

So here goes the image,

Before revealing my truths, I would bend a little and provide my quotation first,
"Once the game is over king and pawn goes to the same box." This is just to remind me that no one carries any advantage when on a level ground and should be treated equally. There are still 2 or 3 favorite quotations of mine but guess we are allowed to give the best among all.

And here comes some truth:-
1) I have an opinion about everything and somehow they are always right.
2) I never touched the computer in my life before joining my engineering and guess couldn't have had if I wouldn't have had joined it.
3)I am pathetic in English grammar and English is kinda nemesis for me.
4) I get bored with anything in a short period and always looks for something new.
5) I hate waiting for anything or anyone even though if it will do good to me. And want everything ON time .
6) I want to die once and then come back again in same body to see how does it feel to be dead.
7) I am very lazy and prefer sleeping long hour on sofa rather than exploring places.
8)I am short tempered and can shout like hell when angry.
9) First thing which I install in my computer after installing the OS is Cambridge dictionary to use as a reference for spelling.
10) If any idea strikes me while walking/roaming I save it in my mobile to blog on it later, though I never wrote on whatever saved on my mobile else my blog count could have had gone in thousands.

And I pass on the award to,
Amitabh Bachchan
Manjunath
Desh
Anish
Abhinav

Disclaimer:- Except Manju and Anish I never met any other lsited here in person but follow their blogs sometime.

P.S.:- I forgot to mention an important point or say a truth, I forget peoples face and their name very soon and when I meet again I wonder where did I met him or her. ;-)

Human Psychology - A mess???

2009-03-04T00:32:00.004+05:30

Well well well.. Am not here to give a lecture on psychology. Its just an observation and the thought process which gave rise to few questions.

In which case we curse ourselves more? Change money which we forgot taking from bus conductor or huge sum which we spent on trivial stuff?
What among two options make us feel stupid? Shares which we sold projecting the fall in prices later(which unfortunately rose much higher) or Shares which we did not sell projecting increase in prices(which again unfortunately fell till abyss)
What hurt us more? A failed love(one sided off course) or A failed relationship(real one)
Who is more careless when -? Your spouse who got pickpocket or You got pickpocket.
What gives more pleasure? If someone we hate, lose or we winning something(one you hate is not your competitor)?

Not sure if honest answer comes as second option for all question. Human mind somehow attracts me for it complexity and dis synchronized and double facet pattern of behavior which it shows. I expect 80% will go for first option. But why? That's somehow unexplainable. Or may be unconscious mind never stop wanting our SELF at top of everything.

P.S.:- I was busy playing game all night past 10 days, and that was the reason of me posting after a gap and also for coming up with such a dull topic. Wanted to write over Oscars and Slumdog Millionaire but somehow didnot come up. Watched a lot many movies past few days and yeah I do such activity when I am lost and bored completely. :(

Online Marketing

2009-02-20T00:05:00.002+05:30

Time for a lesson on online marketing - a layman perspective(advanced and choosy of course)

This thought came after seeing the change in ad pattern on hotmail which was probably trying to come in Yahoo Beta version plans. Those who use hotmail might have notice it that the advertisement which used to be on top of the page horizontally is now in right side of the screen,vertically. The way in which yahoo beta version is advertising. I am not sure who advised them to come with the advertisement in right bar , vertically and that too with pictures in it. Yeah it indeed catch the eye and you can't miss it, but at the same time it irritates too. And that is the reason due to which I restored the classic version of yahoo mail after trying the beta version. Hotmail, high time to introduce features like restoring, else I don't see myself using hotmail in long run probably. Best way of online marketing, is how google do it. How come you are so good ,google. I hate you I hate you. Text advertisement in vertical right bar. And pictured advertisement in right bottom of the page. In none of the case, I ever clicked the ad though. For me advertisement in horizontal bar was more like a theme, which made feel good inbox. Wonder who gets trapped in the net of this online marketing. [:thinking]

Moral of the story:- Pictured advertisement in vertical right bar is a bad idea of online marketing.

Being IIM

2009-02-19T12:31:00.002+05:30

So what's the first thought came into your mind after reading the title of this post? Indian Institute of Management(IIM)? Story of IIM student? About fight to get into IIM? MBA? C'mon give a break. Time to grow up. This post doesn't have to do anything with mentioned above. This is a story about Indian IT Male(IIM), a profile which is very common in India now. And yeah this spicy post shouldn't be taken as true reality though it might be. :P

Engineering a very easy degree in India, which can be obtained from grey market(fake one) other then getting it first hand with your effortless effort of 4 years in engineering college. Here engineering doesn't mean working on new idea or developing something on idea already existing, but just to cram some formulae, theory a night before exam and just vomit everything(I am not talking about vomiting literally %$#%) you crammed a night before in the paper to clear it and come out with a bright,shining degree. Engineering degree can be analogous of "India Shining" campaign which was as hollow as the degree. So coming to what an engineer learn at educational front? Answer is in one word NOTHING. Now don't come to me saying that you have learnt a lot in your engineering life. ;-)

But few things they become good at, and that are, giving bolvachan (say, philosophical thought), how to download movies & songs and from where, crashing the computer and rest are clandestine and shouldn't be spoken over here. :P And Achievement after completing the engineering degree are, thousands of movies and songs stored in there TB(in our time it was GB) capacity hardisk, a long list of movies they have seen, few friends and of course a degree. Its pity if you did not do it in your engineer life. And am really sorry if you have wasted your FOUR precious year studying some engineering concept or some research paper which you will never use.

And there are two path after completing the degree, one come and join IT or go for higher studies to again do the same stuff. :P And those who join the IT give rise to flavoured IIM. But someway or other one admirable quality of Indian engineers are, they can DO anything under given timeline and that is the thing which make them survive the IT.

And now comes what they do and what they think. Starting from fresher till they become experienced player.

Before joining the company they are full of enthusiastic to do something great in life. Yeah they start thinking about LIFE, a questionable and debatable topic. Pass the training period which lies anywhere between 1-4 months, get into some project and then suddenly 8 more month passes (yes without doing any work and not to miss, learning), which completes the first year. By that time looking around no work, no learning situation the seed of higher education planted. And only thing which they find is, yeah, its the one and only one, CAT. Donate some money to coaching institute, and later more donation to colleges for filling the form, and bingo when the exam is just a month away, WORK as a blood thirsty demon in face of project lead comes from nowhere. Feel frustrated with it, but somehow do the work and preparing side by side for exam. Write the paper and fail to reach the expected percentile and then donate more money for application form where their percentile requirement they can fulfill. Take adhoc leave in Jan/Feb/March to attend the selection process and process follows as mentioned in my previous post 'yem bee yee'. Get admission but realize that college doesn't match there aspiration, drop the plan for admission thinking in mind to prepare again. And this marks the completion of TWO years in IT. By the time third year begin the very thought of preparing starts dieing, third year passes with retrospection. Feel more frustrated, plan for shifting the company and some take this measure while some do not. Think about career option beyond Master's course and the monotonous IT life. More they think more interesting ideas they get. Few are listed as below in priority level.

To go back to village and start farming.
To open a PAN shop.
To open a tiffin shop or restaurant.
To commit suicide???
To continue working in IT

Whatever career option they think, they do continue with the least priority thing which is continue working in IT. And this complete there fourth year in IT. Fifth year may result in them thinking that them becoming stagnant in career and then taking some part time course to improve the resume and in side working on marriage plan, as by the time they become lead they become lonely with everyone flocking around mostly with selfish motifs. And then the never ending cycle continues. Guess I will be able to comment over the final destination after reaching there till then, No Comments!!!

Possibly story of IIF(Indian IT Female) also goes on same line, till they get married and from there IIF and IIM takes different path because for female life become secure while for male probably it become insecure. hehehe Making males taking some different measures. ;-)

Blog Hit - a milestone achieved

2009-02-12T15:50:00.005+05:30

I was happy to see that blog hit for my page is reaching the figure 9000. That's not bad taking into account my intermittent postings. Over it due to my dormancy on my page for past 12 months, my blog hit was just 1700 last year. So overall, the average for my blog ranges in 3650 hit an year(nearly 10 hit a day). Yuppie!!!

Few more thing I found, mostly I write sarcastic comments or something related to advertisement. Guess its giving an insight into my thought process too. :D

Special thanks to all the readers for checking my blog page regularly. :-)

Yem Bee Yee!!!

2009-02-11T23:59:00.003+05:30

"Yem Bee Yee " a disease which have the ability to to become chronic if proper action not take now. Or I guess its too late!!! It can be easily be observed from the figure. CAT taker for year 2006 was around 1.7 lakh which increased to 2.2 lakh in 2007 and reached a figure of 2.8 lakh. A consistent increase of nearly 25% every year. And if you believe the analysts, the figure will reach 3.5 to 4 lakh in coming year. And so is the case of coaching market which is growing leap and bound and have reached nearly half a billion rupees. Colleges which were never heard say 3-4 years back are now tough to get into. And the colleges which were tough to get into 3-4 year back are now nearly impossible to get. :D

Lets just do a quick check who is gaining due to all this operation? I would say Coaching institute, Colleges. Why? Well I gave the analysis part in paragraph above. And who are the losers? Aspirants off course and the company where these aspirants(if working) are working. Doubt? I salute the person who gave the statement, GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER THE OTHER SIDE. Might be written for donkey's but fits aptly for MBA aspirants. Running or say quitting attitude and the greener picture post MBA make them think suddenly life will take a turn in Z-axis from current 2 dimensional monotonous system. They think post MBA will make them get a fat pay cheque with not much of effort. And coaching institute, media air their desire, and they start running for never ending run of MBA putting aside there work, ignoring opportunities, responsibility. Though the beginning give a filling low input and high output scenario, but once into it realize that what they were looking was just a tip of iceberg, and viola!!! the Titanic riding for dream destination 'MBA' hue and cry over the exorbitant application fees of colleges which comes with a deadline date much before the main exam. Greed made them fuel the ship so as to reach the destination quickly. And there is a twist in the story, this time the approaching iceberg is not that big to affect the ship and ship sail through with little damage on pocket for which anyway there company is paying.

Comes the exam date, and then few realizes that damage which they thought was not that small as they were thinking they need to do some repair, some more application are filled now. By the time the whole application process gets over, aspirant realize that the damage on pocket was also not small and was huge for applications only, say a modest figure of 20k-25k, nearly a month salary (minimum). No heed to the damage is given as still the bright and greener picture is in view. Thank God, calls starts coming out. And somehow the applicant make it finally to few colleges selection process. Start preparing for the process, and start thinking about why MBA, why this college, aim in life, ideals, where they want to see them after 5-10 year, plan to achieve and crap like this. And surprisingly no one comes out with the correct and honest answer. Few examples:-

Q. Why MBA?

Honest Answer:- I feel that a fat cheque will be waiting for me after completion of course and moreover I am good for nothing and my condition is similar to what my manager is. And I don't want to work at all that's why I want to do MBA. And also all my friends were doing it without knowing why they are doing so I was also doing it. :P

Answer which is actually spoken(Touch of honesty Zero)? :- Something on line of growth opportunity, aspirations in life which can't be achieved without MBA and it goes on an on.

Q.Why this college?

Honest answer:- I am not getting any other college and someone told me the placement figures are good for this college as compared to other one.

Answer which is given:- College ethics and ideals matching with mine or something on this line

Q. Where after 5 year

Honest Answer:- 5 years? are you mad? I don't even think what I am going to do in evening, planning for year 5 year from now is crazy. Screw you!!!

Answers which is given :- entrepreneur and going hand in hand with Bill Gates or Mittal or Tata or something similar to line above. :P

Lot many question are there, its a hell lot of work. Will come out with the dossier in days to come.

Lets get back to the agenda. After few more interview, final call list comes those who are selected jumps with joy and those rejected try again next year, because once you are addicted its tough to get out of it, more like a narcotics. Lets talk about those who were jumping with joy, reach the college, then come the rigor of course. Think I am screwed why did I come here? Summers start, get the feeling how easy it was thrashing the lead those days rather than getting a summers. Every day pass with a feeling, thank GOD at least one day has passed. And then comes the placement days. And from nowhere iceberg appears only to crash there dream run. Manage to get the job somehow which feels like peanut including the tax figures and expectation from the recruiter. Think of the golden days of IT and sighing on decision to come to MBA taking into consideration only placement figure. And the titanic sink again this time.

Disclaimer:- This post is written on a lighter note, take it sportively and don't take it as real picture of MBA. Two years which you are going to spend will be the best days in your life no matter what the placement figures are. It will be surely a refreshing break from the work. And this gives you another opportunity to make life long friends (in loads) after your graduation with IQ level similar to yours. And last but not the list, writer is not trying to defame any institution nor demeaning the aspirants. Post will be deleted if more than 100 comments comes against it. :P

Google Chrome!!!

2009-02-09T01:21:00.000+05:30

Google trying its hand in everything, and no doubt one day we will hear that it has a market share for OS too. But I am sure of one thing, they are probably gonna caught in some legal issue some day or other. I dont know how many of you actually encountered the problem, google doesn't support MS mail (Hotmail) upto some extent. The application doesnt respond properly with hotmail. Also on google chrome, all sites other than google's crash once and you will get the page broken link and site not exist. Belive me it came for yahoo.com too!!! screw you chrome!!!

I am writing this after using Chrome for nearly 30 days and after declaring chrome as my official browser last month on 26th. Chrome has replace mozilla and due to my habbit of throwing/scrapping things which I dont use made mozilla to go completely out from my TV(means laptop), browser which I used for almost 2 years.And now I miss mozilla!!!

I hate you google!!! And yeah I can tell this while using your so called application blogger and I will still use it. :D

P.S.:- I am back with my posts which lack synchronization and not to miss, clarity of thought. :P

Bell Bazao!!!

2009-02-02T23:50:00.007+05:30

I hope many of you might have seen the advertisement by BELL BAJAO initiative on television(Indian Chaneels only) these days. Boman Irani alias Dr. J (dot) austana [Coutesy : Munna Bhai MBBS] urge people to ring the bell to halt the domestic violence. And I know people will love to see what the starting line of web page has to say.

"Bell Bajao" (Ring the Bell) urges men to take a stand against domestic violence. Ring the bell and intervene in situations of abuse. A simple act from your side is all it takes to bring it to a halt.

I would like to ask three question :-

1) Why only MEN need to take a stand against domestic violence. Can't women take stand here? Or I guess Women Organization are already working with there protests and slogan war against men(alas, he is always the culprit), so some people thought lets come up with this idea of men against a CRUEL man. ;-)

2) Why its been projected that domestic violence is solely caused due to man. And women doesn't have to play any role there? At a time I would have accepted if it could have been rural area, but urban area I guess, you try your hand and you will get one on you too. [WELL I never got into such situation, if u r cooking something like that in your mind as of now then]

3) Why we hear only crying lady and a beating man? Can't they come up with opposite idea? It will be heard for sure. :D

Domestic Violence initiatives? Do we need it? We already have so many laws and initiatives in this regards.And seldom law is found in use anywhere and if used then that too at upper or higher middle class, and that too many a time to gain some monetary benefits. So whose morality is in question here? And also its a known fact outsiders interference with personal matters (yes personal you read right, I am saying its a personal matter) usually have sever repercussions. At the end its the morality of the person involved (man or women) which stops such incidents. Anyway lets hope the initiative will work. And also hope ringing the bell dont give shock like the havells advertisement - "Shock Laga laga shock laga". Amen!!!

Inspired by yahoo

2009-01-29T10:55:00.004+05:30

In an attempt to revamp the yahoo and to come at the level of google, yahoo has improved the features. But the thing is they, do things pretty late which takes away the market from them. Had they taken initiative before google, they could have been a leading web portal in the world and richest company too, and their share prices in 100's of $ like Google's 342$ per share, in place of current value of around 12$. But one thing they are still top on, that's the web cam feature in there messenger. Google probably still struggling to get it done.

But thing I like about Yahoo, they do learn from mistake and they never take back step whatever may be the condition is.

Declining Microsoft hostile bid, in spite of crisis running in the company need a hell lot of courage. People may say the aftermath of declining the offer was devastating for yahoo, but the same rule hit hard Microsoft too. And MS attempt to topple the board of directors gone in vein due to strong hold of Yang and Filo.

And improving on features, on mail, messenger, personal after taking lesson from GOOGLE success is another learning.

Hope yahoo will achieve its lost glory again. :-)

Crossed finger Vs Luck!!!

2009-01-27T21:24:00.002+05:30

I wish I could have added one more item in my resolution list, and that is, to make promise to update the blog regularly and break it always. At least this would have saved me from guilt feeling of not working on my blog page and would have also added something in my achievement list. Achievement of making Routine/Plan which I followed with heart and soul. ;-)

Coming on topic, I use to hear this a lot while waiting for something good "Keep your finger crossed". Always wondered the correlation between the twisted finger and luck. If I take this as a fact then it means those with naturally twisted(abnormal) fingers are luckiest lot. Which I doubt is the case. So why this? Human is a very strange species and usually come up with strange ideas for every moment. Lots of unanswered behaviour. BTW if crossed finger would have brought luck I would have had tied all my fingers in crossed form with string, so as never to fail in luck game because for me hard work is not found in dictionary. :D

P.S.:- Surprisingly got a call from SP Jain over my educational profile, which gave a boost to my confidence as I never thought my profile has the spark. Hope crossed finger will bring luck, else I am still going with my resolution. ;-)

Resolution Time

2009-01-03T12:44:00.003+05:30

Before starting off with my post I would like to wish all my blog readers a very happy and prosperous new year. Cheers... :-)

Each new year comes with new hopes, expectations, planning and last but not the least, Resolutions. Resolutions which we make so as not to commit the mistakes which we committed earlier and also to start soemthing new. And many a time it takes a weird outlook, feels mine one too. And somehow it always happen that, we make the resolutions and forget it never to follow it. But good part is this gives a chance of doing analysis at the year end what we did and what we shouldn't have done.

For a change this year I am making resolution which I bet I will follow even in my dreams/ unconsiously. My resolutions for this year:-
1) I will not study seriously to get into either something big or small.
2) I will not concentrate on my work and won't do any work seriously. [I can write this as I didnot give link for my blog page to any of my colleagues. He he]
3) I will delete scraps from public forum entered on my profile page.
4) I will sleep atleast 11 hours a day
5) I will not go to gym regularly.
6) I will make long duration calls to everyone in my phone book. And will see to it that my phone bill don't goes below 1200 atleast.
7) I will eat as much as I can and also whenever I can and will reach target of 36 waist size by year end.
8) I will take loan whenever opportunity comes and wont let the debt amount on me go below 10k a month.
9) I will not decide to have a clear goal in my life and wont even think about actions needed to achieve that.

I think this is all for now. May add few more points later if and when I will remember. WISH NOT TO FOLLOW A SINGLE RESOLUTION MADE THIS YEAR. :-)

Ambition / Dream redefined

2008-12-30T20:13:00.004+05:30

Read somewhere that and I couldn’t agree more with it.

Dream/Ambition is not what you see in sleep,
Its something that doesn’t let you sleep.

And unfortunately something which doesn't let me sleep is or I would say are MOSQUITTO and causes me to stand nowhere. And this sudden realization is hunting me down.

P.S.:- I am on a pathetic attempt to keep my blog page alive. Hope it will make me write again.

Why I was never serious about life!!!

2008-12-26T16:30:00.005+05:30

Below lines (doha) from Saint Kabir can unanimously be voted as best lines told by him in his life time.

Kal kare so aaj kar, aaj kare so aab,
Pal mein parilaye hoyegi, bahuri karega kab

I read this line first in my seventh class. And it changed the course of my life entirely. And I made this lines to live (imbibed is the right word). For those who don't understand above lines, translation goes as:-

Do the thing which today itself which you want to do tomorrow. Next moment itself is full of uncertainty (apocalypse may come next moment) then why to put thing to future.

And now I blame Saint Kabir entirely for spoiling my life. I never studied properly and was never serious toward studies as I always felt Kabir was right. He only said next moment is full of uncertainty then how I am planning to put thing on tomorrow? And so I never studied, because what’s the use of working so hard to finish the work when next moment will put the thing back to square one (or probably into ground zero) and most sadly it never happened. Not till the moment I am writing this post. :'(

If it could have happened long back I wouldn't have had to study this much and nor would have worked for higher studies too. Seems this concept of uncertainty is more like cricket which is called as game full of uncertainty, but this uncertainty never worked for Indian side and nor me, and hence I was never serious toward life. ;-)

Food for thoughts - Smokers!!!

2008-12-23T19:22:00.003+05:30

Often I observed

People passing the lighter/matchstick and even cigarettes to lit others cigarette.

Smokers/drinkers sharing a different kind of bonding/friendship.

And I concluded that this is due to below reason respectively:-

They share as they don't want to die alone.

They need someone to miss them BADLY after there departure from this mortal world.

P.S.:- No offense meant to anyone. ;-)

An Interesting Observations!!!

2008-10-08T14:09:00.004+05:30

Saw this note on a billboard featuring a Lady and a poacher(who happened to be a man) :-

"Wear Designer cloths, distract poachers and save wild life"

A thought crossed my mind, why to wear the designer cloth of yours for which lady has to pay a hefty price.

So note suggested by me for saving wild life .

"Join the league of animal, save money and save wildlife"

League of animal means Get Nude LIKE them. :P

Food for thought - Swearing!!!

2008-08-12T19:08:00.004+05:30

Something to ponder upon:-

*Calling someone as SOB has much worse effect than calling them as DOG. Wonder whats the difference does it make. Both means the same I guess as per English literature. Now don't ask what SOB stands for.

*Calling a female as Bi*** can cause severe damage to you (or in worst case the female itself). Either you will end up in jail for harassment or she, for killing you.

*Few people don't seem to mind the word 'Ar****le. Sometime they feel proud of it. (May be inspired from Dennis Leary)

*And over it, use of magic word 'F***' seems alright in any sentence.

*Word 'Bl***y' is probably obsolete and very rarely see people using it(mostly by greenhorn)

Absolutely no idea what made me to write this ,so no idea about ending and hence is the cause of abrupt ending. Adios!!!

P.S..:- May be I shouldn't write anymore. Else will end up with such posts. Probably I am losing the touch or the Interest or may be both. :(

Another milestone!!!

2008-08-07T19:29:00.002+05:30

A lot is there to say over the milestone achieved and things happened to reach up to this point. But as always caught under the time constraint, so wont be able to post a long matter. And I am sure no one will be bored to read it. For the time being, I would like to inform my blog readers, Today marks the completion of 2 year in the industry where I wanted to come entire my college life, and from where I want to run away since joining. :-)

Satisfaction is what I never get and I never want to get satisfied from anything. Hope I will be able to move to next field where I am currently wish to go. To start a new cycle of event. Amen!!!

I congratulates myself for achieving the feat of dissatisfied 2 year in IT. :-)

Murphy's Law!!!

2008-07-14T16:02:00.002+05:30

There are surely something in this world which is above any scientific explanation. And even if some theory is provided its too vague. A similar incident happened with me(say crossed the limits of being an incident) for which I am still thinking about explanation and thought Murphy's law will be the right way of explaining it, if not completely then partially.

Prologue:- It happens that every morning, I have to catch bus(City Bus) after attending the classes from 7-9 AM. It takes nearly 30-45 minutes to reach my house from classroom (depending upon traffic situation). and for that I take bus no 171. But it never happened that I got the bus immediately after coming out of the class. I always have to wait at least 10-15 minutes. So by the time I reach my home,it almost cross 10 AM. And I am always in little hurry after the class because I have to go back to my home and get ready for office (which takes another 30-40 minutes) and again have to come to bus stand to get my office bus which leaves at 11 A.M. And whenever I wait for bus number I see a lot of bus numbered 164. And when at least 3-4 buses with number 164 passes I get one bus numbered 171 which is jam packed and I board it somehow.

Stroy:- Generally I don't work on Saturday but due to project requirement and none availability of any other resource, I was suppose to work last Saturday. But to my relief, I was given flexibility to work from Home and was asked to be online at 9:30 AM sharp to attend the client meeting. I didn't have internet connection at home so I was provided with a data card on Thursday. And from here on, Murphy's law started its play.

> I tried installing the data card software in my laptop whole Thursday and it was never detected and I was not able to configure the card for net accessibility. Was pissed off completely. Sent the communication to my lead saying IF he can assign the work to someone else, as I wasn't able to configure the card. I was told I can go to some cafe and from there I can work. I told, Ok. [First]

> I wasn't worried that much though as I thought I will use my brothers data card which works absolutely fine in my system. But dint take it Friday morning.

>Friday afternoon a mail came to all of us that a riot has started in some area out here in Bangalore so we may have to stay late as buses wont be plying at stipulated time. Late at night while going back to my house I called my brother to tell him to bring the data card so that I can access the net Saturday morning. And I came to know that he wont be coming tonight as the area is little disturbed so he will be spending the night at his friends house. [Second]

>At that point of time I thought I will access the internet from cafe. Then realized cafe wont be opening before 10 AM. And it will take sometime to configure other network to my system too. Done!!! I can't rely on cafe too. [Third]

>Thought I will go to my friends house after the class and will access the internet there and will complete the office work. And as 164 was a frequent bus I wont be having problem reaching on time, as from my classroom it takes hardly 20 minutes if I get the bus number 164. Things were taking shape now. And I slept peacefully.

> Woke up at 6. left for my classes. But just to be extra cautious about timing I came out 10 minute before the class end time. And started waiting for bus at bus stand. And as expected I saw a bus coming at some distance. But number was not clear. And to my surprise it was 171. Crap!!! I thought may be I came earlier thats why I am seeing 171. No issues!!! Wait was still on. I waited for nearly 30 minutes at bus stop and to my surprise nearly 15 bus passed and all where numbered 171. I was so angry with this rally that I decided not to take auto. [Fourth]

>At last, I got the bus 164 at 9:20 AM. And I was fuming like anything. I asked for ticket and got to know that bus wont be going till the stop near my friends house. [Fifth] Grrrrr

> Still boarded the ticket and went till the last stop and from there took the auto and reached my friends house at 9:40 AM. In between I tried calling my lead to inform him that I wont be able to join before 9:45. No one responded. [Sixth] Grrr

Epilogue :- Completed the work sent the communication and I was so tired by that time that I slept for whole day. Woke up in evening. Went to home. Was so frustrated with the unproductive day passed that I made it more unproductive by watching 3 movie in a row on my system. And finally slept at 2 AM thinking never to say 'YES' for working on weekend.

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

2008-06-27T13:51:00.003+05:30

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

I remember reading above poem by famous poet Robert Frost, during my school days and above it, remember how difficult it was to apprehend the real meaning those days? Or is it today too? While reading today it stroked a chord in thought process. Isn't there any possibility that poet might have written a simple poem with not even a mild thought of relating the flow of poem with real life by taking philosophical jargon of personifying the character to our life ?And then a questioned popped up in my mind. Isn't it the case that we start looking through that perspective only which we are been told and go with the biased thought only until we want to prove something different. And as truly said Human being always look for easy path and stop thinking rationally for better opportunity(If not said, then I am saying it). And I personally feel Human kind is guided by certain age old beliefs and perspective and pass these beliefs from generation to generation. An answer which need to be questioned.

Hell!!!

2008-06-24T14:43:00.002+05:30

I guess it was a long awaited post and in fact most of you might be waiting for it. Even all my friends started wondering and they thought something must be wrong with me. Its been almost 10 months since I moved to Bangalore from the heaven called Chennai... whooping 10 months!!! Gosh!!! And still I didn't say a word against this place? Nay!!! It was just waiting to reach the threshold and finally it came out. This place too sucks a big time. Not due to weather, not due to work culture,not due to food problem, not due to people.. or wait, I guess little modification here.. not due to people who doesn't own a vehicle.

Just have to say, people residing here doesn't have any traffic sense and nor do they have patience to let other go, or I guess they don't like the smooth movement of traffic at all. Keep shouting over the messy traffic all the time and when the time for them to contribute at least there share of orderliness??? Gracious!!! Everything fly away from there mind. They will keep moving there vehicle too the extremes in such a way that it may be possible that there vehicle making a 85 degree angle with the road. Or to say simply they just block the whole traffic and eventually nor they nor other are able to move ahead even if the clearance is given by the Traffic police. Its really an irritating experience to get caught in such a traffic with full of these irritants.
Moreover I guess Bangalore is in DIRE need of proper traffic arrangements or say signal. And most importantly a sense of traffic among all.

But if one forget the traffic congestion for a while then its seriously a great place to live(at least a hundred thousand times better then the heaven :D). Or guess may be opinion will get changed drastically after an year or so. And then I will head to some other destination, some other place to scoff on. ;-)

Desire!!!

2008-06-20T17:02:00.003+05:30

Many a time this thought cross my mind. What we really want with life? And answer was, we as a human are never satisfied with what we have and always yearn for more more and more. And after achieving that, that MORE kinda joins the list of NO more!!! We no longer feel good about it and look for something better than it. And probably the phrase "Grass always looks greener other side" wasn't written for donkeys and is surely for human being . And being an unsatisfied creature always make him/her pay. Be it on personal front or sometime on professional too. Kids want to go to school when they see there elders going to school. And when join it they no longer wish to be there and after learning about some place name college they wish to go there. They think they will be free like a flying bird, swarming where ever they will wish. Ground reality strikes harder when in college, regular statement coming out of there mouth is "Being in college sucks" and yearn to get a job to become free of all burden. And sadly after getting into Job some odd feeling comes and wish to either go back to college or to get settled(I am not sure whether its settling down or not) by getting married. And the cycle goes on till they see there kids going through the same cycle. And finally when they reached the death bed, they realizes being kid was the best thing that happen to them in there life. And in fact they look back through there life and keep sighing, how great it was during THOSE days!!!

Reincarnation!!!

2008-06-10T16:45:00.001+05:30

And finally decided that I will take out some time from my ad hoc kinda busy schedule(People in Indian IT industry do understand the meaning of ad hoc kinda busy schedule :|) and will write something be it a trivial stuff or any serious stuff, but yeah not on daily basis, once in a week. Lets see for how many more months/weeks I am able to keep up with it.

Next post to come soon!!!

Adios!!!

Why Bhajii Slapped Sree???

2008-04-26T21:08:00.003+05:30

This post is gonna be short and crisp. This has a question and an answer thrpough a different angle.

Question : Why this slapping drama?

Reason: Do you remember the Indian Idol or any other reality show. How the participant and the judge do a hell lot of drama for nothing. I feel similar is the case out here. IPL needed more viewer for Mumbai Indian and Punjab Kings XI matches, in fact for other matches too. Slapping attracted even those who don't watch cricket to know what the game is all about. And hence both bhajii and sreesanth should be given best player award for maintaining the player spirit, and playing not for the thyself but for team. Bhajii for slapping and Sreesanth for weeping on board. As per latest news, England 20-20 teams and players are ashamed of thyself why they didn't think about such a marketing policy and US and China are working hard so as to get into 20-20 format of cricket. And viewership(TRP) has increased by a whooping 14% after this slapping event. Three cheers to cricket.. Hip Hip Hurray.. Hip Hip Hurray.. Hip Hip Hurray...

P.S.:- No hate mails or comments for this awesome piece. It was totally written for fun and I am not a fan of IPL but indeed took interest after watching this event. And each and everything is written in pure sarcasm. BTW gracious what an angle was it. he he he.. On serious note, shame on the players for doing this, Please let the game be a game. :(

An Untold Story - Part-2

2008-03-19T14:36:00.003+05:30

This is continuation of story about my four precious year spent in my college the worstEST IIT. Ahem Ahem... Yeah indeed I studied in IIT with a missing self feeling, a college which ran on principal of togetherness (WE) I mean with missing “I” and a “V” to replace that I. Crap!!!

Here comes the part-2. This is again on my hostel story in 2nd week of my stay. My goodness things are so vivid in my mind as I am still living in my old college days back in July 2002. Here comes few more characters that are going to play an important part in my story and those characters are none other then my roomies. Here I am not talking about 229, I am talking about my hostel record room 215, whose story I wrote before. And here goes the star cast for this part: - Jhabra,Ponde,Pankha,Vidhwa and me. Here I wont give there real name so as to maintain a little level of dignity with regards to there integrity. One more thing, as I wanted to maintain the flow for hostel incidents that’s why I am not including my first day in college, the inaugural ceremony. And this will definitely come in some later post as it has a very important component which had a deciding role for my whole college stay. So here it goes : - Part 2

Students join the Engineering College with the central idea of studying regularly for a better future. But many of them or say most of them drop the plan of studying regularly and land up repeating the promise during every end semester examination to study regularly from next semester and that next name came. In fact many of them carried this principal for there life journey too. Ah, I deviated a bit from the main topic to discuss the trivial stuffs like all engineering students do. As I mentioned students drop the plan of studying regularly, so what do they do? Grouping,Fighting,Sitting idle and many a times talking about some girl/boy are few major pastime. And over it watching TV in common room. I personally feel desire for TV among college students can be comparable to the desire of ring of power by Gollum (LOTR central character, well I don’t take Frodo as the hero) and so was the case with us. And there were fight which happened mainly to get hold of the TV remote. And oops initial round of fight happened between my roomies and some other group. And eventually I too entered it many a time just to spoil the case. In fact the crisis has reached a limit where getting hold of remote showed the power and status. To clear the raising doubts I guess I need to explain little more over how it showed the strength to get hold of the remote. My college happened to be in core south where there were very few channels which can be termed as Hindi channels. And to the surprise of college authority, the ratios of North to South students are more then 1 for the very first time. Thanks to AIEEE(All India Engineering Entrance Examination), through which this lot has joined the college. Well many southies too came through AIEEE who eventually changed there stature to be counted in t,he power circle (Majority). ;-) So it started with a conflict over a religion which nearly everyone follows in

India

. And it was kind of derived that those who are not following this religion are not patriotic. Well well well don't get too much of wicked ideas. India still a secular country which gives freedom to everyone to follow and choose the religion (materialistic). No offense meant to anyone. I am talking about Cricket which is running in blood of all the Indian.

Probably other group wanted to watch some local language movie and my roomies wanted to see highlight for the match which they saw live a day before. And unsurprisingly this led to a verbal fight and the warden dropped in after hearing the noise. Punishment for the noise, everyone were warned and remote was captured. Somehow this fuelled the region level fight and now Warden was supposed to come for the rescue, he decided to call for the meeting to declare the TV timing for everyone’s taste. My hostel record roomies, the other group, a senior (no idea why he was there) and all other waiting outside the warden’s room. Warden ordered everyone to go tot the room else they will be OUT of the hostel. Crowd started thinning on hearing the order and I too moved out but surprisingly the warden saw me and told

Warden: You!!! Come here. Where are you going?
Me (Poor): I was not part of anything sir. Why me?
W: Ah casually!!!
M: ok

Meeting started: -

Channel timing/days decided and declared. Everyone agreed but like the usual TV producers/directors the fight came for prime time 8:30 to 9:00 P.M. No one agreed for anything less then this time allocated to channel of there choice. Noise was rising and then that thing happened which is lost somewhere in the sand of time.Warden repeatedly asked why all wanted to have this time?

Me: You wanted to here the truth that why we don’t want to give this slot?
Warden: Yes, that’s why I am here for. And I will be more then happy to resolve the matter.
M: Really?
W: Yes. Now tell
(Silence everywhere, like the silence before the thunderstorm and it came straightaway)
M: We want to………………

Everyone’s were stunned on hearing my answer which needed some guts to be spoken publicly and then a loud laughter came afterward. Ice was broken and the issue was resolved.

I seriously believe that my First year warden was very friendly and good hearted person. He never made any official complain of the incident and many a time he tried saving everyone. Yeah those shrill OUT!!! OUT OF THE HOSTEL dialogue was his pet one which he used to deliver occasionally or is it often, just to keep everyone in control.

P.S. :- other group and me were kinda friend afterwards for the whole stay in college. And yeah dont ask me what was there in that blanks. Fill it by yourself with whatever you like. ;)

An Untold Story - Part-1

2008-03-05T15:02:00.003+05:30

This is not a story and is a real incidents picked from my engineering life. People might be wondering suddenly what happened to the guy that he is going back to the past. Reason: Been to Chennai last weekend(1st & 2nd) and a feeling of nostalgia struck me. I kind of liked going there. But wait wait, don't give too much idea's to your mind, that I started missing the place or I changed my opinion about it. I still loathe the place, but yeah I miss the friends with whom I shared the grievance and sorrow of being there in Chennai few month back(most of them by college gang). And we had a good chat over what are the mischievous things we did during our stay in college(XYZ,#$@^%). And whole thing revived as it happened yesterday. And thats why I gave the topic as PART-1 as there will be lot many to come.. They may not be in sync but when I will complete then I will arrange the topic in chronological order.

This was just the beginning of my college day(2002). I got admission on basis of my AIR into some alien branch "Bioinformatics" and was desperate to do the engineering so came and joined. And as per the custom I got a dormitory for few days(say 30 days) before getting allocated to any hostel room. I shared the dorm with 20 other guy from different different part of the country. Made friends too in a very short span of time. Few to name are Gosta(Jagnanath),Pamela(Whom I never called by this name, his name was Pramendra),Khargosh(Sushant),. Giving names as they have some good role to play somewhere in my story. And Pramendra was the guy who was partner in all kind of mischievous deeds. Whatever. Coming back to the story. As I said everyone was suppose to get hostel after spending first 30 days(max) or on availability of hostels. After few days list came out and alas!! I wasn't allocated a room. Grrr. Feeling of missing the friend made me to go and find out who actually declared the list. And got to know that the culprit is the director of admission. Ran to admission block and entered his cabin without any hegitation and threw my hostel application form and asked like a DON.

Me: Whats the criteria for hostel allocation. Why I am not allocated any room(Angry Voice)
Director: What??? (Confused)
M: Repeated the question.
D: Is this the way to ask anything? First tell who are you and whats the problem then I will answer your question.
M:(Calmed a bit) Told who I am. Reasoned out and told the situation.
D:(Impressed) Hmm.. Ok Give me your application. Wrote the room no 101.Happy???
M: Ofcourse. Thank you and bye.
(End of the scene)

While returning to dorm I was making plan how to get the room changed to one in which my friends are there. PLAN SET. Won't go to the allocated room and will go to the room where I want to go. he he he

Directly transfered the luggage to the room 215 with other friends. luckily the guy in my room dint turned up else he could have been stranded in middle of no where(or is it other way around). Anyway entry of hostel warden for room checking in night.

Warden: Whats your name and branch?
Me: (answered)
W: (searched in his list) Your name is not in the list of those who have been alloted the hostel. What you are doing here.
M:(Produced the signed application of director)
W:(Looked at it) You are not allocated with this room. Go out immediately to the one which is allocated to you.
M: Sir Please Sir(little bit of buttering and funda)
W: See nothing in my hand. You go out immediately.
M:(Immediately asked) Whose hand the power is??
W:(Angry) Hostel Superintendent.
M: (So you are nothing)Ok so If I will get the approval from him then I can stay in this room. Right?
W: He wont give the approval.
M: I will give it a try. Thank you
W:I am sure he won't allow you. You leave the room immediately.
M:ok (warden leaves after hearing ok)
(end of scene)
Plan again made in my mind. I won't leave this room. Stayed there only. Warden again came on round and warned me. I dint say anything. He finally left.

Next day morning I wrote an application to hostel superintendent.(Short and crisp.. he he he)

Sir,
I have got the permission to change my room from 101 to 215 from my hostel warden. And he just need the approval from your side to maintain the record.
Regards,
Anand

Superintendent looks at me as If I got something which was impossible. Question me,

Superintendent: What is this???
Me:Application for room change sir.
S: Changing room is not allowed.
M:My hostel warden has given the permission.
S:Really???
M: Yes Sir.
S: So why did you come to me. He is the main authority.
M:(Astonished, gave few love word for the warden in my mind and then told) He want your signature on this application just to keep it in record.
S:If he has given the permission the I don't have any problem.(Signed)
(end of the scene)

Night Time, Warden Visit at 9.

See's me still in the room.

Warden:(Gets angry) Say, OUT!!!Immediately Out of the hostel!!! And go back to the dormitory. Even though I warned you,you are still in the room?
Me:But I got the permission sir for room change.(Produced the signed application)
W:(Looks at the application then to me,surprised)What???
M:(No words)
W:What???(With more surprise)When did I say that you are allowed to be in this room.
M:Sir, you only told that you DON'T (putting stress on don't) have any problem on me moving to this room if I get permission from superintendent.(Laughing out loud inside.. he he he)
W: Hmm(Lost the game and left)
(end of the scene)

Indeed he learned that more of me has to come in the near future. And I dint proved him wrong. ;)

And the room I fought for I never stayed in that room ever. It was like a sleeping room(or storage room) where I use to come at 4 A.M. to go out again at 7A.M. for college. Most of the time of first year I stayed in room 229 instead of 215.

P.S.:- Pretty long for a hand written post but it was indeed worth mentioning(My Opinion).

Good bye 2007 & Happy New Year 2008!!!

2007-12-31T23:59:00.000+05:30

So here comes the end of an year. The year which we celebrated and welcomed with all our enthuse and energy. And now we are on verge of moving to a new year 2008 with kinda same enthuse and energy. It depicts the brutal reality of human race to praise the rising sun and to forget the old and obsolete. And we call it a change. And is kinda an adage that "change is the rule of this earth" [Partivartan hin sansar ka niyam hai].

Though from broad perspective, 1st January is nothing and doesn't bring a grand change to our lifestyle and is same as any other days in a year. But it just give a reason to celebrate and call our loved one, friends, relative, those whom one dint contact since long and to start or add a new string to the relationship front. To start a new venture, resolutions and a loads of stuffs.

Hope to see a better tomorrow and a better future ahead with some value addition on personal front.

Wishing my blog readers a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2008. May all your dreams comes true. :-)

Oomph Silence Oomph!!!

2007-12-27T17:30:00.000+05:30

Forewarning:- If you haven't seen the movie(Om Shanti Om) and want to see the movie with full of MASALA surprises then stop here only. As the post might be having some spoiler.

Well Well Well!!! Seems the whole perspective of movie making has changed since my last post on two wonderful movie on which I wrote my version of review. Or indeed I have missed some good movies. Watched Jhoney Gaddar, Dhol and recently Om Shanti Om. Wont say OSO is a must to watch but yeah Jhoney Gaddar and Dhol are good movie with not so big name as actor or actress but with real good piece of suspense and acting and performance by the artists.

Watched OSO just aftermath the recent disasters and wanted a change, so was impressed with the dialogs which were working like a moral booster for my sunken heart. So its a perfectly biased opinion. And hence watch the movie at your own risk.

As the topic says the movie is full of energy and funny acting(or shall i say foolish as per current acting trend). Movie start with a platonic one sided love between Om Pakash MAKHEEJA(excellent choice for name) and lovely Shanti Priya. Our Om, 6-pack Uncle, keeps talking to his love(An ad poster) whenever he gets depressed or whenever he gets some reason to jump with joy. And best one out of all dialogs he deliver is "Tum Bore to nahin ho rahi na"(U r not gettign bored, right?) Enna rascal!!! mind it.. all these dialogs are been delivered to a giant sized poster of dear Shanti.. Thats the beauty of love or say your boring dialogs that can make even the posters bored. Anyway all this goes scene by scene and suddenly one day our hero's luck shines and he get the chance to meet his love and to invite her for a date,after saving her. And then goes the songs and some wonderful scene that shows the technique involved in old movies for fast driving, snow fall etc. Hero jumps with joy.. but alas!!! here only make his life biggest mistake by delivering a dialog which changed the entire scene. And heroine gets impressed and get inspired to do accordingly and She propose. Enna Rascala.. Mind it.. not to our hero but to some one else whom she loves.. he he he...Now I know why our Shadhu and Mahatama's are single, only reason they did these kind of blunders at some points in there life and oops instead of coming to them there love goes for the one whom they love. [;)]

But as per the custom, the person whom Shanti loves turns out to be a Villain and kill her and bechara Hero also gets killed while trying to save her.

And here the story takes another turn. Both takes birth at different places but well scenes are now changed. Now hero become a great actor and the heroine takes the life of a common girl. Hero do all those things which he aspired for in the last life and same with the heroine. But one thing didn't changed. And that was there love. Which came into life when the Hero accidentally remember all the things which happened with him in his last life. And then comes the revenge scene. He searched for the heroine.. Enna Rascala.. Mind it.. he was able to do it in our 1 Billion population. Why? Because he is the hero. And they kill the Villain in the end with the help of Ghost of Shanti. Happys Endings. Full of melodrama and Masala. Nothing was left on luck to make the movie a big success.Name a thing and you will find it there, be it a Ghost,Rebirth,Kick ass fighting,Comedy, and last but not the least, Shanti Priya. And now the movie has become a great success in the Hindi film industry for year 2007.

Kya shandaar likhta hai yaar.. wah wah.. kya shandaar likhta hai yaar.. (what an excellent writer.. bravo..what an excellent writer..) raising ur eyebrow on my writing? Enna Rascala!!! Mind it!!!

P.S.:- Indeed I missed many good movies last year. Watched them all since last few days. he he he

Dreams Unlimited!!!

2007-11-23T14:51:00.000+05:30

"First I was dying to finish my high school and start college and then I was dying to finish college and start working. then I was dying to marry and have children. And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough so i could go back to work. But then I was dying to retire. And now I am dying and suddenly I realized I forgot to live.

Please don't let this happen to you. Appreciate your current situation and enjoy each day."

I read these lines in a forwarded mail.True to the core. We keep doing things to satisfy ourselves but don't realize that, what we are and where we are may be a dream position for some other person. Wont say that running after dreams is not good or people should content themselves with where/whatever they are in present. One should keep fighting at each and every point , but yeah shouldn't loose his/her heart because "Kehte hain, agar kisi cheez ko dil se chaho to puri kaynat use tumse milane ki koshish mein lag jati hai.Or hindi filmon ki tarah hamari zindagi mein bhi end tak sab kuch theek hi ho jaata hai. Happys Endingz! Aur agar theek na ho to woh ‘The End’ nahin! Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost. Picture abhi baaki hai haan" . [Translation : It is said that if you want something from the bottom of your heart and soul then the entire universe tries to unite both of you. Like in our films, even in our lives every problem gets sorted out by the end. Happys Endingz! And if all is not fine, then it’s not ‘The End! The film is not over my friend. There is more to come]

It alleviated my sunken heart to some extent after the disaster or say series of disasters(Its not a disaster as such but from my perspective it is, indeed).

P.S.:- Gar Khuda ki zid Hai, yahin bijlian giraane ki,to meri bhi zid hai, yahin ashian banane ki. :)

Tagged!!!

2007-11-22T14:51:00.000+05:30

I was tagged long back by Chriz , Goamthy and probably Sandhya . Din't take any action at that time as was neither interested in putting these kinda info on my blog portal nor did I have time. But for a change thought of doing this thing. And I am not tagging anyone as its a old game and I am the last one to play it. So here it goes : -

1. Pick out a scar you have, and explain how you got it.
I have a scar just at the corner of my left eye and got it while playing hide and sick. Just saved the eye.

2.What does your phone look like?
Nokia 6030 Black Color. Having it since the week it was launched in India. Brought probably around August 2005. Reminds me of my college days. Wants to change it now but wants data transfer(which is not possible) So virtually not changing it in coming few months too.

3. What is on the walls of your bedroom?
Nothing now. A week back there was some sticky for reminding me for last dates for application and also learnings from my mocks.

4. What is your current desktop picture?
Sunset picture in dark(blackish) background.

5. Do you believe in gay marriage?
No. But believes its all about personal choice, be it a lesbian relationship or a gay one.

6. What do you want more than anything right now?
Take a long break from my job and do nothing.

7 . What time were you born?
At 3'o clock in the morning.

8. Are your parents still together?
Yes.

9. Last person who made you cry?
Myself and luck but well not cry exactly, it just left me with bad mood.

10. What is your favorite perfume / cologne?
Not specific.

11. What kind of hair/eye color do you like in the opposite sex?
He he he... Confidential issue. But yeah innocent eyes appeals me most. (But big NO to Grey)

12. What are you listening to?
Me chewing the bubblegum.

13. Do you get scared of the dark?
Yeah. But depends on situation sometimes.

14. Do you like pain killers?
Yeah many times when needed.

15. Are you too shy to ask someone out?
Not at all. But don't get anyone. ;)

16. If you could eat anything right now, what would it be?
Anything Home made.

17. Who was the last person you made you mad?
Myself.

18. Who was the last person who made you smile?
Diya Banerji (An actoress name in a serial)

BILLI - An untoward Ending!!!

2007-11-21T20:15:00.000+05:30

I thought of coming back on this portal on positive note but alas!!! It was not in the fate. But still there is some positivity in it. You can say positivity in disguise of negativity. Too confusing way of word usage. Isn't it??? Anyway, well this is about my coveted dream/desire to do something big for the first time ever in life with my maximum effort till last moment. But destiny speculated by me wasn't in my side and I ended pathetically on wrong side.

Few might be wondering what I am talking about? This is all about an unpleasant ending of a race I call use to call as 'billi'. Did a blunder on the D-day and was en route failure. It would have given me a little satisfaction if I could have made it to at least first level. But I guess its just console myself over the shattered dream. Presumption & impatience in answering without reading complete detail and also taking something as too important and perfect too hurts a lot.

Anyways, Hope now I will try to be regular on this blog portal now onward. I missed to mention the positive thing out of this failure. And that is : - Now I don't have to worry whether my GD/PI dates will clash with other institutes. [;)] And hence I am saved from the hobson's choice :)

Chuck De Hey Baby!!!

2007-09-10T14:45:00.000+05:30

Forewarning:- By any chance if you haven't watched these movies then stop here itself. There might be some spoiler.

I may differ or in fact will surely differ from others opinion about chuk de and hey baby. ;)

So here is my version of review for chuk de.. Sole aim of the movie was to bring back the scooter back to his house. Alas!!! days of scooters are now over else we could have seen some good ad there, or may be not, because his scooter seemed to have either maintenance problem or may be mileage problem. How? Dint you see, Kabir bhai was rolling the scooter instead of driving it most of the time. And to showcase how a small mistake can make you pay a humongous cost(Thanks to Media). Jokes apart this movie was so so(watchable).But if you are seriously looking for something real good then this movie is avoidable(but taking into account movie standard these days you can watch it if you are a movie buff ). Few points I noted after watching the movie(or guess directors know the secret):

Movies with some religious issues(add India-Pakistan match too) and movie will break box office records.[Question: Can't you feel that there is a need of change over this caste and religion related thing]
Movies with sport theme generally gets better opening if a weak team emerges as a winner(and obviously that team is Indian Team.. No offense meant). Indirectly we are accepting that we are weak and some miracle will make us win. [Question: If weak emerging as strong finally is so much sought after, then why do we try to keep weak away from the main line.]
Movies were everything depends on last 3 minute performance or which make ur adrenaline flow faster generally emerges as a winner on box office(be it a lagaan or chuk de). [Question: Why Mr Kabir didn't gave direction for 1st two shots on goal which resulted in close call with Australian team ;)]
And yeah evergreen formula - show the hero as Bechara(chucked out from main stream) and help him regain his old stature through the movie. And you will get a super hit.[Question: Why movies are so distant from cruel reality?]

These formulae comes one or other way in most of the hit movie(w.r.t. sport based).Whatever may be the case at last our kabir bhai(the great coach) was able to bring back the scooter to his old house. [:D]

Anyway, hope India winning the Asia Cup, teams superb performance throughout the series and soft corner for Hockey developed after the movie will make hockey to reach those heights or say surpass those heights which where a cake walk during 1940's(Dhanchand and Team).

Hey Baby or Baba!!! Why on earth do you make such wonderful movie. Put us in situation of saap and chuchunder(snake and mouse ka bhai.. don't remember the actual phrase). I mean they make life of movie watcher difficult.I found it difficult whether to laugh or weep or commit suicide at such wonderful emotional scene(yeah even though I watched the movie. So I am entitled for an award). I don't have words to explain the beauty of this movie. But just have two words to say. "AVOID IT". Be the emotional touch given by star's or director everything was just intolerable. Director/hero/heroine everyone seemed confused about there stand in movie. Things move at fast pace but are never able to hold the attention. Overall a big failure for each and everyone.This is perfectly my opinion and its a consequence of literally wasting my precious 2.5 hours. And I don't expect other to go by it as opinion differs with people.

Few lessons!!!

2007-09-06T13:48:00.000+05:30

Grass always looks greener the other side.
People need to realize that a career is a marathon run and not a sprint, one won't go far by jumping jobs.

Unfortunately we as people are never satisfied with what we have. [:]

Drama!!!

2007-09-05T17:33:00.000+05:30

These days I started watching news channels and little more of ads and thats the reason for many of my blogs topics based on these things(btw ads interest me always). And media!!! Its always on my hit list. [;-)]Now without deviating much from the topic(though its not justified for this post) I will come to it to tell,why I am writing this crap.

These heading took my attention:-

Actions will be taken on a government officer for touching legs of sibu soren(Convicted for murder and later released from all the case probably)
Constable suspended for hugging sanjay dutt
IAS officer suspended for not recognizing voice of CM(Nitish Kumar,Bihar)

I dint get the point for creating hype over this issue. And i was kind of surprised to see these news running during prime time, and continuously showing same video(touchin, huggin and scoldin/suspension). What if the officer was a close relative of Sibu soren and was showing his respect to him by touching his legs(well it may not be case but we percieve what media shows)And I have seen media making news to be on top in TRP rating(if don't believe then go and find out in some cases where too mch of things are being said, take example of attack on Dhoni's house after bad performance in world cup, count on me it was a madeup story). I feel pity for this officer,this constable who got suspeneded due to media coming as saviour of morality(who themselves behave immoraly in many case). Suspension of IAS officer has nothing to do with media its all about how things become a big issue over nothing. Pity this officer who got suspended/transferred(probably) for not recognizing the voice of CM. Might be clash of ego or irresponsibility shown by the IAS side for not acting on public request.But this shouldn't be a reason for showing these video tapes repeatedly and that too by saying this is today's hot news or say prime time news.

And news over Salman's ordeal was little or say negligible as compared to what happened in case of Sanjay. May be due to ever going fight between sallu and media(or am i ill fed? ) Anyway, Salman thanked media later on (for this only probably). [;-)]

P.S.:-I am finding it difficult these days to synchronize my thoughts. And due to this have developed a dislike towards blogging[:-(]. And I guess this should be included in the list of reasons for my intermittent posts. yeah one more reason, was shifting place(now out of chennai).So was kind of busy due to this. I am master in giving excuses.[;-)]

P.P.S:- Surprisingly I dint use these letters (h & e)together as a single entity. But yeah I dint leave the smilies yet as I personally feel I don't enjoy writing without it and above all it will be like dishonoring the noble purpose of Scott E. Fahlman(inventor of smilies)

AD!!! :))

2007-08-17T12:50:00.000+05:30

Happy 1st Anniversary : Big Question???

2007-08-07T08:30:00.000+05:30

Well this topic too was there in my draft since 22nd May'07 (The day I took my last exam in college). But say it, my laziness or my workload or things happening in fast pace around me making me to struggle daily(It doesn't mean I am a slow performer) or some personal problems which were keeping me on back foot and hence I was not able to complete this post till today. BTW its not the wrong time today too, as this is the day when I joined this prestigious(people call it, and I am confused about my opinion.. he he he) company called HP(Its Hewlett Packard not Hindustan Petroleum) a year back(7th August'06) with lots of dreams and enthusiasm and with a little worries/anxieties too.

Lots of stories where flooding the rumor market that this is what which happens or thats the thing which happen and so many other things. Everything got a break I entered the company premises in Bangalore and interacted with people around(Well it was lots of talking by there side only, about the glory and do, don't in company). Everything was going merrily until it was told to me and few others that your time is done here and you have to move to Chennai(Heaven on Earth), It was a sad moment(as we were suppose to leave the ravishing beauties in Bangalore. [:|]) though we were being informed beforehand that we have to move to Chennai after 2-3 day of induction in Bangalore. :'( Till that day beauty and aura of heaven was alien to me as I never been there before, though I spent 4 year in TamilNadu(In a heaven like college.. uwa uwa). Yeah u r right, I don't like traveling much.. And leaving all the beautiful girls in Bangalore I was in my way to Chennai.[It doesn't mean Chennai doesn't have such beauty.. so no comments over this]

So many memories are associated with this place now and its very difficult to pen down so I won't write it.. And also I don't want to get dooced by giving some wonderful remark [;)] and make myself ineligible for reaching the second milestone.. he he he . But thought is underlying that it has both sad and happy memories. So Why I am here I am so pissed off with things around me? People(few) asks me as they think so about me...[;)] And answer is, to celebrate the anniversary for surviving against the adverse situation(little exaggeration is here :P) and to give my expert comment/writeup for others to learn something from me... :| But yeah one thing is there I love this place but in a different and peculiar manner of mine. And we scold those whom we love as we expect something from them... he he he [;)]

Happy 1st anniversary to me and Congratulations for making up to this historic moment of glory.. [;)]

[Question: Why Do I often start my post with a WELL??? I am thinking over it.. You don't have to answer.. :P]

P.S.:- I sometime do posting with back date and sometime with future dates too.. so don't get confused that I am in some special timezone...And Yeah, thanks for bearing with me for my intermittent posting...:)

Ad season!!!

2007-08-01T10:28:00.000+05:30

Here is another advertisement which touched the soul. What you are thinking is absolutely right.. I just watch ads, as nothing else worth watching comes on T.V.(considering the fact I am in Chennai [:'(] )

Ecstasy of the octogenarian or nonagenarian(probably) made me get goosebumps

P.S.:- This too was in my draft since long. Not sure whether this ad comes on T.V. these days or not.

P.P.S.:- I am not trying to make my blog portal a advertisement window nor I am making any money by doing this.So comments shouldn't be guided by this idea. Thank you. :)

P.P.P.S.:- I guess I am the first one to write so many post script. But I was forced to write this part so as to make the life easier for those soul who can't access youtube(as the link will direct it there). Its a ad for a newspaper company but here in my blog context it has little to do with the ad of newspaper. This video mimic an incident that how a old person felt and how he celebrated when he found himself in a over joyous situation. well seeing the video will make you realize the intricacies of emotion.(So if possible see it if you get chance) Video starts with a child running with happy face having a newspaper in his hand. He shows the news which has been published in the paper to everyone in the village and a festive ambiance take the charge.. finally the boy enters into a house and show the paper to his land lord.. on seeing the news all family member starts dancing with other people who came to their house celebrating the news.And the news was:- Prakash Mirjakar,PM (there son,probably) is selected for Indian Hockey team for Olympics games and team is leaving tomorrow. A lady (Probably PM's mother) takes the news paper and show it to a old person sitting on chair idly. And he seemed to have no energy left with him. But on seeing the newspaper he go straightaway to his trunk where he kept another piece of news which might had come a long time back. And news in that old piece was about dropping of Mirjakar(Probably this old guy) from the hockey team. And then he check the recent news and feel ecstatic about the news(Best part of the whole video) and starts dancing due to immense pleasure which he got, which was a dream/a wish he longed/desired since long. And there was a fresh deal of energy which was showing its face out of that old person. It was awesome. Thats it.. Enjoy.. :)

KFC ad

2007-07-31T14:25:00.000+05:30

An ad which I like, in fact love watching again and again. Both for the girl's beauty and facial expression(he he he)and innocence of the sardar.(Yeah chicken too.. but haven't been to the restaurant yet to check the quality.. so not included in the reason for loving it..he he he)

Ad sector is learning a bit.. well forget few stupid ads(viz. amul inner wear.. hmmm..I am not sure about the brand name).. which was a publicity stunt and nothing else..Finally it has stopped coming. :)

P.S.:- After posting it I realized it that this ad is in Hindi.. so little bit of translation for the content of the video in post script. Believe me I am good in it.

Sardar has planned to give the ring to his girlfriend, So he calls for a meeting in KFC restaurant.. (but get tempted to order this chicken dish after reaching there.. inside story.. he he he) He asks the girl to "close her eyes"(ankha band kar) and take out the ring.. but alas in the meantime the dish hove into the table and the Sardar is lost in the lovely taste (no idea, have to taste yet.. so try it at your risk).. and here the girl keeps on saying "shall i open my eyes"(kholun). but when she hears no response from the Sardar so she peep through her fingers(Best Part of the ad.. he he he) to find the Sardar eating the chicken.. and Sardar just pushes the ring to her but don't leave the dish.. ;)

P.P.S:- Well the ad end there itself, but I dream what could have happened to Sardar on his act of absent mindedness.. Probably this was his LAST bite of this dish for his life time.. he he he ;)

Ordeal of a Hero!!!

2007-07-30T11:27:00.000+05:30

Forewarning:- This is not written to spoil anyone's personal image. Changes will be made if any defamatory remarks will be encountered by someone.

Warning: Words used in the title are not my words and I don't think in the same manner as media thinks. And as I used to say before and will keep on saying that "media can make anyone a hero or an accomplice\transgressor depending on there mood". Anyway lets talk about the so called hero (Dr. Mohammad Haneef). Thanks to the hype created by the media.

Gone are the days when mass use to say that your status will deteriorate/downgrade if you will go to jail now(in free India). It was a matter of pride to get jailed during those days of freedom fighting(for as**ole's: I am not taking about going jail due to crime like murder or theft.. talking about going behind bars for giving contribution to freedom movement). But in current era the things hasn't changed to great extent. And we can see the example(Thanks to media again for the hype.. well it helped up to some extent though) of Dr. Haneef.

Dr. Haneef, Indian doctor who was detained in Australia due to terror charges against him(Which wasn't proved finally). The whole chaos was caused due to a missing SIM card by the doctor in question and presence of that SIM card later at some location inhibited by some terrorist. (Not much idea.. so it is debatable.. any light over the situation will be welcomed.. thanks in advance).

Well, lets not deviate from the topic... he he he.. the media took the PAINSTAKING effort to publicize the matter so as to mint more money and attract more listeners for there news channel and ultimately making there channel high on TRP rating (Yeah.. that's how I look these news channels as, exceptions are there).

And well I was not utterly surprised when each and every movement(ordeal, return, family history etc.) on this matter was incessantly been shown on nearly all news channel. And even politician thought of utilizing the situation(as usual.. this is a compliment... he he he) to increase there vote bank(strictly my opinion.. guided by old reference.. may not be true in current situation). Latest news I heard/read(by mistake) that Mr. Haneef is been offered a government job.

Last 25 days(2nd July.. days of detention.. till 27th July..free of all charges) might be really horrible for Dr. Haneef. But hope present ducky treatment from everyone will wash away all the gnawing memory.. Amen!!! :-)

25:15:5:20:35 [ :'( ]

2007-07-29T10:39:00.000+05:30

Well this figure neither represent any time zone nor any figure count of a beautiful lady(doesn't fits anyway.. though I was tempted to make it like a perfect figure.. he he he). This is the current hot news about disgorging of information about selection criteria for IIM B(Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore) and I am sure many of those(die hard seeker of CAT) might have got a heartbreak after seeing the news.

Gone are the days when people used to say that there is not much use of marks scored in your past. What matters is the marks you obtained in your last exam and that too for admission in accustomed college... But no one have ever thought that for a competitive examination like CAT where the selection exam itself is a nightmare give very little weightage to its selection exam(mere 20%) rest of the marks are divided like 25% for 10th+12th marks and 15% for graduation marks and God knows what the use of giving weightage of 5% for those who did Charted accountancy (CA) course (they want manager or some accountant).. Well 35% for GDPI(Group Discussion and Personal Interview) makes some sense as it is part of the selection exam.. But giving a weightage of mere 20% for written test(CAT) is ridiculous.

Well till now only IIM B has revealed its selection criteria and that too when they were forced to do so(thanks to RTI Act). And I guess thats why they use to call it there "trade secret" before..Probably one can expect similar thing from other IIM'S too (sadly). So now it doesn't matters what's your performance in current situation. It matters how bright your past was. Its so devious.

Above all management is something which can't be learned by joining a B-school.. Its something inborn/prodigious.. (strictly my opinion.. so no debate over it). B-school's just make the shaping or say gives the final touch. They were taking best talent/cream before and saying that there alumni are best in the world(huh.. why not?).. Above all this weightage scheme will put lots of pressure on those who are dreaming(and yeah some pressure will come from parents too, who wants there child to be a manager) about pursuing MBA degree from renowned IIM'S and currently beginning there career(10th board to be precise).

IIM's should understand it by following this selection criteria they are putting people in dark those who were not so bright in past but trying to improve or working hard to change there present and future despite of having a dark educational background(as per latest scale). [:|]

The Great Politician Challenge

2007-07-28T11:41:00.000+05:30

Though I don't like(hate) to read newspaper or watching news channels I came across a comment made by Mr. Pervez Musharraf . He commented on Lal masjid clerics "to come out or else get ready for the consequence"(as if they could have been dispensed if they would have come out.. he he he) which was due to clear confrontation between clerics and the government. I am not sure whether to mention him as a politician or not(so topic as such is not apt as he is a army chief as well as president). But whatever he did is perfectly a decision worth following in such instance if encountered anywhere, he finally gave order for military attack on the mosque(a place which is counted as very sacred) when he didn't get any proper response from the rebellions and operation was named Operation Silence for the demolition of the extremists/militants.

This decision to storm the mosque was the toughest decision he took or say was forced to take. And he was able to satisfy both the hawkish forces and the secular fronts.. Hats off to him!!!

Highly impossible to carry out such operation in India. (I faintly remember such situation few year back in Kashmir). In Indian context first of all such action can't happen or if by any infinitesimal chance if any action is taken the aftermath will be a riot all over country.

Finally after nearly 20 days(i mean today) the mosque is opened again for the prayer. And the extremist has learned the lesson too that they won't be able to carry out there activities openly or either hiding in a secular place like mosque.

P.S.:- This topic too was in my draft since long(8th July, operation silence) but got the time today only to publish it. Hope will be able to clear all my draft soon. Adios!!!

Food For Thought:- Profit of dying/death!!!

2007-07-27T10:34:00.001+05:30

Some may think that topic is disgusting. But after reading it they will also feel that it worth dying... he he he There are lots of lucrative offers death brings(debatable as once existence as a person is not known), whose luxury you can't enjoy until you leave this mortal body/earth(i.e hell)

One will become Highly respectable between people around you as soon as news of your death spread. People will come for condolence meet and will say good things about you. And if there are no good things related to you then your bad qualities will be twisted to make it good. It doesn't matter how disgusting, cruel or crook a person was during his life time. But death will erase all those memories from the mind of people. demerits will be counted as merits(It may be possible that person has committed suicide due to continuous torture and taunts.. he he he).. scumbags(polt) you-know-who(exceptions are there) become taint/sins free..

You become SWARGWASI/late.. No one and nor me ever heard that one became NARAKWASI.. after death.. (may be one was already in hell thats why he get chance to move to heaven.. i assume.. this too is debatable.. but I am in hell and I am sure about it as I am in software field... he he he )

You will be above the worldly affairs(Rumor says it this too is debatable.. I want to know about this precious knowledge )

You suddenly become relative of smarmy group of people(Only if you were rich and grumpy and left a lot of money but no takers). And you where sighing about lack of people around you all your life time.

Suddenly you will be come powerful though you where the weakest link during your life time. And people will, fear from you. I wonder why people never get frightened of a normal person but feel scared being with a dead for even a hour, though the dead person can't give you even a scratch as it is still.

There are some more ideas coming in my mind but its quite disgusting(Yeah above were not). So this is it.

P.S.:- I will try to give away all my disgusting ideas/topic regularly from now onward. And yeah I am not ensuring that this is all truth.. Part may be or all depending upon circumstances.. The whole topic is debatable. So follow it at your own risk. :)

Idle!!!

2007-06-12T13:31:00.000+05:30

Even though I committed to myself about updating the blog regularly, I find myself unable to write anything for a while.. May be this downtime will get over soon and I will be back with something when time permits. [:|] till then adios!!!

General Talking Terminology

2007-05-25T13:59:00.000+05:30

Following are the list of the pet dialogs which can be heard from the mouth of a NORMAL working employee(in corporate of course) while talking to his/her friends.

और बताओ/सुनाओ?(then what else?)
कैसा चल रहा है? (how is it going?)
अच्छा (oh/okay)
बढियाँ है. (cool buddy)
दिन काट रहे हैं (passing the days somehow)
चल फिर, और सब बढियाँ ना? (then buddy, everything else is fine, right?)
चलो फिर, और क्या बतायें, कुछ भी नहीं है बताने को ( okay, then bye,what shall i say, nothing to say by my side).
चलो हटाओ (leave this)
कालेज के दिन मस्त थे यार. (buddy!!! college days where great)

These are the same set of people who were use to talk till 4'o clock in night or say till morning continuously. And this was routine for all 4 years in college. And now just a year has passed and the energy of every person seems liked sucked from them. Closed friends too search for a topic to talk. Either they keep repeating these dialogs or hung up the call in middle. And you can find them sighing many times that "Wish we could get those days back" :)

Food For Thought :- Equal Opportunity

2007-05-24T12:32:00.000+05:30

I read this ad for recruitment drive somewhere :-

"Our company is an equal opportunity employer. Providing exciting career opportunity for women. Refer women candidates and win exciting awards/prizes.."

Alas!!! No awards for referring a MALE candidate, in fact may be no opportunity for MALE candidates. That's the hidden agenda and that's the side effect of reservation. And that's how equal opportunity is defined these days. And this is the situation everywhere. Exploitation of Equality issue. [:|]

Disclaimer:- This writeup is not intended to bring defamatory remark to any company . Writer will not be liable to any legal action. And the post can be deleted if it is defamatory to a person or company(if requested). Thanks :)

One Evening!!!

2007-05-23T10:16:00.000+05:30

"All the character in this writeup are NOT fictitious/imaginary and they resembles my flatmate's and me ONLY. Any similarity to anyone else living or dead is purely coincidental... "

Well I was confused about what topic header to choose so I kept it in general as 'one evening' , though this is the routine/story which repeats everyday..

As soon as the sun sets and darkness starts covering the area, stars of one mobile service provider starts shining in our apartment. One can find all the flatmate's talking continuously over phone . Fortunately or unfortunately three of us are college mates cum branch mates cum bench mates, so we have a common set of friends from our college. We scroll through our contact list and keep calling here and there till its time to sleep.(BTW Mind it, we call/message only our friends not any tom,dick or harry). Sometime it happens that we don't find anyone to call as we have called that person already a day before.Then we get bored. To find someone to talk we send birthday wishes to our friends(though its not there birthday), so that at least one will call back to scold and we are again back on talking business.. he he he It happened sometime that we sat in queue so as to call one particular friend, and till the time one is calling, other will either be calling someone else or will be waiting like a vulture for the line to get dead. And as soon as line gets dead other can be seen talking to same friend.. Once it happened that one of our friend who was not calling for a week days due to cost cutting(was tough but managed somehow), got a call from service provider at the end of 8th day that "Sir, is there any problem in our service that your number is not active for outgoing calls since last one week???" ha ha ha

BTW it doesn't mean we don't talk among ourself and we talk only over phone to other friends. We do talk with each other and when we get bored of all this, then we starts singing at the highest pitch(pity neighbor) which we can(late night), and that too in group or either sometime we play ludo/snake and ladders.. he he he. And finally when we are tired to death, we sleep.

Thats how our life is passing after coming to corporate and thats our stress buster.

Corporate Culture!!!

2007-05-22T10:40:00.000+05:30

Truth about corporate culture:-

Plight of being a software engineer

2007-05-12T23:37:00.000+05:30

when i was in college I use to say to my friends that if someone doesn't have any work to do and if s/he want something which show that s/he is doing something.. then join engineering college. Now I am passed out of college and doing so called a decent job,. And my perspective too has changed a little... Now I have new statement to make and that is "if you are thinking that many things are happening in your life and if u want to become stagnant and have a f**ked up life then join a software firm." And I am serious within 4 to 6 month u will realize that you are enjoying the luxury of hell before dying from this earth.

First thought with which I wake up early morning is "I shouldn't go to office today and should sleep for some more time :'( " And last thought too is that "Oh i have to sleep early as i have to go office tomorrow". Best days are weekend. But best days never live for more days. And then life get back to mechanical track.

I feel like changing the way i am passing my time(yeah thats the word for s/w job and if someone is saying that he is working on something real good then he is lying) but then lazy attitude pulls back. Feel like running out of the company, but on looking around i find all are in same boat. Still apply for other place gets offer, decline it or gets call but don't attend interview. Where i will land up finally I don't know. Forget important things and many more things like that. Well this is not my situation. Nearly everyone says the same thing. And those who are not saying are trying to hide there thinking... he he he.. Whenever free, we discuss that this is not right and company is exploiting us... he he he.. Thats all for now.. more to come on this as this is gonna my fav topic I guess.. he he he

P.S.:- There may be some exaggeration and its purely my view, so don't go word by word :)

Some Ugly Truth

2007-05-11T23:37:00.000+05:30

I am reading a autobiography(business tycoon) these days, for a change. And I was surprised to find that this person was successful since his childhood in every work he did... he he he.. be it a sport or extracurricular activity and finally the business. Well this is not only his case, I guess anyone who has reached a certain high position writes about him/her, that s/he never failed in her/his life(except some crap where loosing and winning doesn't matter). And sometime they seem to learn to change a lot after a messy incident which became public(by mistake).. otherwise they were always doing great in there life... he he he.. I guess becoming a great person(without any wrong doer history) in this era will be pretty tough.. as our great friend (media) publicize the history and geography of the person from zero to infinity, with some made up things too (not the case if they are bribed) he he he..

Food For Thought:- Girls Emotion Quotient

2007-05-10T10:40:00.000+05:30

Yesterday I saw an ad of suit company. Well i was seeing that ad since long but idea came yesterday only about the greatness of girls... he he he.. Ad was for a suit company, melbonte(name changed). A reporter was shown taking the viewpoint of a pair about 'meaning of style'. Guy answered for him style means his girlfriend.. ;) And he was very happy with the reply.. but his face changed as his girlfriend answered.. he he he.. for her style meant Mr. Shan (name changed) she kept praising Mr. Shan while his boyfriend ran away due to embarrassment... later on Mr. Shan who happen to see this on TV showed his kindness and gave this guy melbonte suit.. and girl lived happily thereafter(probably) he he he..

well motive to pen down the ad was something different. I read it in many books(sources say the same) that girls are very emotional and they care for others feeling, and don't try to hurt it, and don't make anyone down by saying anything bluntly. And also they don't go by looks.. etc etc.. list is long. But the fact is just opposite.. he he he.. as the ad showed she didn't give a damn to all this crap. They live in there own world. :D They always run for the fame, emotions doesn't carry a meaning(exceptions are there). In fact I guess guys act like a emotional fools and they let go there best option just for there love. History is witness of this. Even the movies shows the same thing. Check out titanic, rang de basanti and many more. he he he.. That's all for now, as I want to live for few more days.. :D

Promoting Religion

2007-04-27T14:07:00.000+05:30

Since last three days some program is going in the church beside my house. And they start their prayer from early morning. And to make the matter worsen they are using LOUDSPEAKER. Due to this reason I find myself unable to sleep. And this will go till next one month.

BTW I didn't get any proper title to keep for this entry. So I kept this only. Well this is with respect to a particular religion 'Christianity'.(in Indian context). And the on going unpleasant event happening with me made me write this. But i guess in a day or two when I will get completely irritated, then will go and shout at them or either will rent a loudspeaker myself and will play WONDERFUL songs, as anyway I won't be able to sleep. But at least this thing will make me happy.

I was thinking that this event is something to get more and more people to accept there religion. As the event attended by small kids(3rd, 4rth class student) and their TEACHER'S who might have given threat that to get better marks they have to attend all this. And in turn I guess teacher will get money for increasing head count. I thought that this is something like business, you convert 1 person into Christian get Rs 500 and bring more get more. Children's are also happy as they are not that rich. Here they get chocolate for singing with them and free lunch. So everyone is happy except me and my flatmate's. There are lots of stuff which I can write out here but as they are offensive so I will keep myself out.

Well the whole thing could have been written for other religion also but as I am suffering due to Christian movement(it may not be the case, but I will say this only) going out near my house.

Down the memory lane

2007-04-23T15:19:00.000+05:30

I feel the content of my blog has gone through a major change. I was used to write more on controversial topic before but now i don't get such ideas. I guess either I don't find anything controversial now, or may be i find controversies more normal in day-to-day life.. watever.. :)

Thought of writing some tragic cum funny incidence from my chilhood days. When i look back everything looks blurred but few of the incidence are quite vivid. :D

I was in 2nd class, Bal Bharti school, Dumka, Bihar(Now jharkhand). It was saturday(yes I remember this too but I forgot the date). It was most happening day of my life, I assume. Anyway, My result for mid term exam was suppose to come on that day. I went to school. I was sure that I had performed the best and will get good marks. And I was damn sure that marks in mathematics will be exceptional. And was sure to get atleast 98 out of 100. And when I reached the school, in the first period itself the result was announced by the teacher. And I was not wrong I performed exceptionally in maths. I got two(2) marks only in mathematics. Teacher praised me for a while for my wonderful performance. And really she was not praising in sarcastic manner, I got fifth highest total in class even though I got such mark in maths. And then she asked abt my great performance in mathematics. And I said, I was expecting something else in this subject. School got over by 1 p.m. I returned home and told my mom that I am going to friends house for playing(but i didn't tell her my exam result). Don't think that i ran from my home so as to save myself from scolding due to my lovely performance. I sincerely went to my friends house and started playing after that i watched some cartoon movie in his home. And I completely forgot that I have to go my home too (careless).When I remembered this, It was too late. By the time I reached home it was 7 P.M. or so. And there was a chaos created due to my absence. As i was never out of my house later then 5P.M. during those days. And also my result was somehow leaked, and they thought I might have ran, as My mom had already called pop and he has searched through all my friends house already except the one whose home i went(as it was too far from home and they didn't expect me to go there). And infact by the time i reach home he left for that place too. I got sever scolding from my mom for coming late and was then started waiting for the second round of scolding from my pop. And seriously I got that too. I was sad. But became more sad after talking to my younger brother. And he told me about something that happened when I was not here. A qalandar came with a bear in my colony.(bhalu nachane wala) And i missed that show. hehehe

National Anthem of India - Promo Video

2007-04-16T14:37:00.000+05:30

How can you Respect your Nation if you can't Respect your National Anthem. Respect your National Anthem, Respect your Nation.

This Video truly depict what does it means to be an Indian.

No Topic!!!

2007-04-10T15:06:00.000+05:30

This is another article which i wrote during my state of dormancy. Here I was suppose to convince the Eskimo to buy my product(ice) in limited words(100 words). Unfortunately the topic of competition was changed a week before the submission date( due to low entry submission). And later I didn't get much time to write anything on the new topic. I took the idea from regular tv shopping ads. And I guess the entry below will look/feel good when one will read taking into consideration the real context(same shrill noise).

TV Advertisement for ICEBERG Snow

“Bored with same age-old stinking, cold white snow? Here comes breakthrough. Our snow uses titanic drowning iceberg formula for super strength and is added with harmless materials for pleasant smell, look and warmth. This enhanced snow costs only 0.99$/kg. Order for 100kg and get a chance of winning bumper prize* (400cc Honda sledge). Our snow is added with innocuous chemicals for emission of high pitch ultrasonic waves which kills animals and insects. And hence gives solution for daily hunting too. What you are thinking then? Want to live royally and safely? Then call us on #96802730203665. Order now for an assured gift. So rush.”

*condition applied

P.S.:- For those who would like to solve some simple crypto , there is cryptic msg in the entry. Find it and decipher it. [Hint: True for all articles brought on such shopping ads.(upto some extent)].

Rejuvenation(Crucifixion) of Indian Cricket(er)!!!

2007-04-09T16:59:00.000+05:30

The cricketing industry is going through a major change in rule following the ugly and early departure from the world cup. When we look at cricket perspective then the decision seems perfect. But looking at players(only few who got mazor endorsement) perspective it seems they are in deep shit. But eventually when we analyse the rules the scenario is soemthign different. This was the thing which was suppose to come long back. Anyway its still not that late.

The new rules willl make them win matches and perfom better so as to earn money(which they were earning from endorsement) and also to stay in the team. Previously the scenario was totally different. They were getting money by showing there great piece of batting, bowling and fielding ON TV(which was a rare occasion during the match).

Now the new endorsement rule will restrict the player to 3 endorsement max. And also they won't be allowed to go for ads 15 days before the match or during a cricket series. So atleast now, lets hope they will utilize the time to play cricket for which they were getting money(oops.. I forgot that they were getting heavy sum for playing REAL cricket). This decision was followed by harsh comment from cricketers and ad gurus. Few of the comments are as follows(not exactly word by word):

*BCCI is a 4000cr ruppes industry and now they only are denying to give the shares to the player those who are bringing that money.

First thought which came in my mind was, why the BCCI is paying them for? For playing cricket on pitch or for playing cricket on ads. huh.. and now the new rule will make them earn more money(but only if they will be winning) And I guess its a fair rule. No industry pay for junk delivery or bad delivery.

*Another comment(Well i forgot the exact comment but it was something like this only):- you can't restrict or say to a player that he can't have sex more then 3 times a week or something.

hehehe.. what a great comment to make. AS far as i thought I didn't find any correlation between the comment and the endorsement rule.

There were other comments too.. Anyway.. The point is, these people forgot that few cricketers were giving nearly 65 to 70 days in a year for there media schedule. The time which they could have utilized for practice so as to make there performance better. But huh.. in the blind race of signing contracts they forget the real thing.

As per the new rule now the player will be able to earn better. The new rule says:- ODI fee - 1 lakh and TEST fee - 2 lakh(Just for playing) and if they will win the match then they will be earn upto 3.5 times of the match fee. And over this if they win the series they will get more money. But alas there is no rule, what will be done if they will lose the match. No deduction in match fee for loosing. It means for them this is a win-win situation in any case.

कहने का मतलब है कि पांचो उँगलियाँ घी में ओर सर कराही में.

So lets hope for the better cricket from our so called stars whose lights became dim these days. And so forth Indian cricket will touch new heights in the coming years. :)

Cricket - Whom to blame???

2007-03-26T15:10:00.000+05:30

Indian cricket association and few more countries were protesting for the entry of (before World Cup '07) mediocre team (viz.

Bangladesh

Ireland

Netherlands

, etc) to play in world cup. And were saying that they are no good to the world cup and wastage of time [Source: News Channels]. And when Indian team played against

Bangladesh

, "Ho ha

India

... aaya

India

became ho ha

India

...tata

India

".So the funny part was, a mediocre team(Bangladesh) showed them way out and other mediocre team(Bermuda) tried there best to get a win over Bangladesh so that India can go to super8... he he he Anyway Indian team learned the lesson that " don't ever take the opponent lightly"

( दुश्मन को कभी कमजोर नहीं समझना चाहिऐ ")

After India's loss against Bangladesh I was thinking who will be blamed for loss?Sachine? Dravid? Harbhajan? Ganguly? Or Chappel? And suddenly a message beeped in my cell. Message body said "person solely responsible for India's disastrous loss against Bangladesh is Mrs. Indira Gandhi as she only created Bangladesh." he he he

Then came the next match India against Bermuda. It was an easy win. Even Dravid was able to hit a six in the match (rare occasion). India won so no one was blamed. People became too optimistic, and thought that India will win over Srilanka and will enter to super8 and infact will win the world cup for India. But alas... India loosed the match in a most dishonored way. But wait here also we can't blame Indian team for loosing the match. Person responsible was 'HANUMAN', a character from Hindu mythology. How? Well he only didn't destroyed srilanka completely though he could have. (People who read/saw Ramayana they know about it.) he he he

India chances were nil in REALITY. But Indian and in fact Indian cricketers too were looking forward to the last match between Bermuda and Bangladesh. If Bermuda could have won(which was sort of miracle as Bermuda stands no were in cricketing world) India(cricket team) could have entered into the super8 and ultimately could have won the cup. But Bermuda didn't play well. Grr.. So they are ultimately responsible for Indian team exit... he he he

so over all I guess we can say Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Hanuman and Bermuda can be blamed for this shameful exit from the World Cup. Not the cricketer as they are THE best and increase the sales by giving flashy ads, which make people to buy those products, ultimately working for India's growth. So at least they were doing something. But shameful as this is the only game where India is taken as a challenge. In rest of the game they just go to REPRESENT a billion people country.. he he he.. And also due to them(Mrs.Indira Gandhi,Hanuman and Bermuda players), Indian cricketers are in problem. Now who will make these POOR cricketers, brand ambassador, who will buy the product supported by them. And how they can give there IMPORTANT input to india..

I guess ICC started this SUPER8 funda so as to make world so call best team to fight against each other and also to earn more money. As during those days of SUPER6, TWO good teams were generally left out(seems like that). But alas this also didn't help at all. Guess from next time they will come up with idea of SUPER12 or SUPER10... he he he

But wait this is not the end. Why to leave blaming ENGLAND. They were the people who started cricket in India. And if I believe the movie 'LAGAAN' as true historic event, then the person who was impersonated by AAMIR KHAN should be blamed for all this mishap. He only made people to think winning a CRICKET match(not hockey, football etc) is TOO EASY and also can be a mode to get rid of all there problem(as they were given freedom to pay the tax for three years by winning a SINGLE game).

On serious note, I guess the time has come to look at other games too. As too much of cricket has blocked the growth of other games. And to revive them so that we can stand somewhere in other games too. which will be better then being NOWHERE in ANY game. :)

Creativity!!!

2007-03-15T10:55:00.000+05:30

I wasn't totally inactive during my period of hibernation. I wrote an article for my company magazine that was published in January edition. Hmm... not article actually... it was sort of story (short story), which anyone was suppose to make on the basis of first line... "The scream was deafening..." One was free to take the story in any direction and I choose thriller/suspense. There was nothing much I could do as there was word limit too. Anyway story was selected and published... My first story/article to get published in a book/magazine. In fact I think second one... before this I wrote one article for 'The Hindu' ... :-) So creativity continues...

Story as follows...

Encounter with Death

“The scream was deafening like a sonic boom and the sound started echoing in between the mountains. Maya was falling freely from the cliff. Death seemed just a few feet’s below her head. Her heart was pounding hard as if it will come out. And she can see her husband, Arjun, laughing like a devil on the cliff. She closed her eyes as if she will be saved by closing her eyes. Her mental position was like an ostrich in a desert that skulk his head in sand to have an illusion that hunter can't see him. Maya was repenting accompanying Arjun here on such a height. She couldn't believe that he; her husband can push her from the cliff. And suddenly her thinking got a break. It was all over. Yippee she was moving up in the same way as arjun told her. This was so exciting moment. And this was her first experience of bungee jumping, her hubby's favorite sport.”

Woman Dominated Society!!!

2007-03-14T12:22:00.000+05:30

It’s a cliché that our society is man dominated and follows patriarchy. But on doing the drill down I guess one will realize that in the deep roots this is the woman who is leading the society on her will. I read a joke somewhere few days back that is as follows:-

GOD called his beautiful creation human for meeting. In the meeting he asked men to make two group based on, whether they are dominated by there wife or they are not dominated by there wife. The group who was not dominated by his wife has only one man and the rest were in dominated group. GOD got angry and told the dominated men, you fools I made you to rule the world and you are dominated mere by your wife, a woman? Shame on you! Then he turned to the one who was odd one out. And asked how you manage to make your wife to follow your order. He gave a prompt reply and told NO IDEA, I am standing in this group as my wife asked me to. :D

Woman is the main lead in all span of a man's life. He lives under the order of mother, sister (like what to eat, what to do and so on) thinking that once he will get young he will be free like anything and he will enjoy his life. But alas!!! His dream gets shattered after getting married. Now it’s his wife who rules on him. Who keep on telling what to do, what to eat, what to wear and so on... ha ha ha... Not agreeing with me? OK then there is a question for you... Tell me TEN TV or even RADIO advertisements which don’t have a female voice or female appearance? Don't try hard. You won't be able to I am sure. My goodness even the ads for men's goods which don't have even a distant correlation with women have women supporting for the good. You want examples? Inner wear, Shaving Equipments... etc list will go on and on. You might be thinking what it has to do with domination by women? Well its women who decide what to buy and what not too. :D

Even the psycho boss who give nightmares to his subordinates and make there life f**king hell. He rules the office and roams around like a king (pig... he he he). The so called KINGS life takes a U-TURN as soon as he reaches his home. Enters like a BHIGI BILLI. He gets the same treatment as he gives others in the office. One out of context phrase as we are talking only out of context things… "you reap what you have sown”... ha ha ha

Well I am exaggerating most of the fact... and the situation is not like this. In fact the society is quite balanced. No one rules anyone. It depends upon the scenario/instance/situation that makes one weak over another. :)

Renaissance!!!

2007-03-12T10:52:00.000+05:30

After being inactive for nearly 4 month I decided to come back to this portal. And will make entry once in a while, whenever I will get the free time. Infact I decided to do everything that I will feel like... he he he.. no wrong interpretations.. :) will be back with something good and controversial pretty soon.. as i guess thats in my nature... Usual things freaks me out.. and I alsways wish unusual to happen... he he he.. adios.

Dead!!!

2006-11-28T16:38:00.000+05:30

Last entry on this portal (probably). Not getting enough time and above all losing interest too.. So good bye :)

Corporate world-My views

2006-10-24T14:37:00.000+05:30

Hi, I am back and thankfully not with any controversial topic. I am writing about what I felt about the corporate sector (mostly about s/w firms) in a short span. Well it’s too early for me to make a comment but as usual I will make it. he he he

Before joining the company I was used to hear a lot about the corporate, as a bitchy world where there is cut throat competition among people. But fact was little bit different from this. People who were saying all these forget the fact that those working in corporate are from the general world only, with same sort of emotions and feeling. And jealousy is something which is in the blood of human being, so it doesn’t matter whatever stage/place a person is he/she always try to show him/herself superior than other. Its not the fault of corporate sector.

I was thinking that getting a real good friend is quite difficult in corporate. That’s why I was contented sort of that friends EARNED in college will be the last paragraph of chapter called ‘NEW FRIENDS’ in my life. But phew… I learnt that its you who can make the change. People are still the same with a minor change... they don’t want to take the initiative. And keep waiting for someone else to come and say ‘hello’ ha ha ha

One great thing I saw here, that one have to call anyone by there name, irrespective of there post/ designation or age. And from a guy from a middle class family or say intertwined in the Indian culture like me... it was really an awkward situation. Well the GURU’S give the logic behind this sort of system that ’it create a vibe of equality and comfort among peers’. But again my brain worked in funniest way and I analyzed it as follows: - person who created this sort of ideology must be very unsecured about his/her future. I mean s/he might have had think that what will I do when the person junior tome gets a rank higher than me by his/her performance, will I be able to call him sir/ma’am. So better let’s keep a system with people calling by name and will do the SCREWING job on my own if someone is not giving proper salutation, by using my designation...ha ha ha well reason may be anything but its good to a certain extent.

And I felt everyone related to s/w get stuck with the virtual world only and forget the own relation to some extent and give lavish commitment for virtual friends or say friendii depending on gender... Hah...

People become spendthrift and they spend so much of money for any new thing and that suits there eyes, it may be the case that thing won’t be of any use on later stage. They became shopaholic...Hah… Very first day of the month or the first weekend they go out in the open world to buy whole world with the limited salary credited for last month so called HARD work... and alas dream get shattered after buying few costly things and then till the month end they hide in the den with a dream to win the world next month salary..ha ha ha

And yeah corporate sector description will be incomplete without describing the ‘love stories’ running in the cubicles/corridor/floors ha ha ha... I m getting on controversial subject now: D so will refrain myself from writing on it for the time being. Will be writing it in coming updates of corporate sector. There may be many things which are obvious and I have missed it as I didn’t analyze those things. Will update when learn more about it…. Till then adios... Anand

Standard!!! Wats the definition???

2006-09-27T17:33:00.000+05:30

I don't know why, but I like writing a sarcastic note on controversial thing. Anyway, here I am back with another topic about those people who follow western culture; accent and uncountable number of thing which make them feel above the general crowd...hah

First let’s look why we/one need to follow there accent, cultural notes, etc. America is a super power and has lots of resources. So people praise U.S. and imitate what they do, but in a funny way. It’s the other issue that it’s not Americans only who COMPLETELY made it a superpower & full of resources, there is a large contribution of other country people also.

Whatever comment people make that “we are not following westernization and we are following the standard rules “. But looking at there mindset broadly, make it more then obvious that what’s there in their subconscious mind. These people raise there eyebrow on a particular act of there own country mate and will laugh over it. But if American praises the same thing they will start the retrospection and start thinking in the positive direction...ha ha ha

This shows the mental weekness.One must learn how there country got independence BEFORE looking at U.S. history and how U.S. got freedom??? And what do U.S. people eat and what do U.S people do??? I am not saying whether western culture is bad /good. I too appreciate there culture and behavior as they strive to learn things. They never look at constraints (like age, money, etc), if they want to do anything. So one can find a person (in U.S.) completing his/her education at the age of 65. There ability to say 'NO' and there ATTITUDE toward life is what that makes them successful. But point is to learn the good habits. Not just follow what do they do but what the mind set they have.

I used mental weakness, not to offend anyone. It was just to clear the fact that these people think our country will take hundreds of year or may be millions of year to come up to U.S. level. But they forget that the THINKING and there ZEAL to excel is what that made them superior. We or someone else could have also reached that level and we/other could have been a standard other then U.S....hah... what’s the difference? U.S. got freedom from colonialism in 1776 and worked for its excellence. And it’s a famous phrase/cliché ‘GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES'. So I guess GOD (if it exists) has helped them and TO add up the support, brilliant but blind supporters from other countries helped it to become a super power.

So over all, I want to say that people should do the retrospection and should learn to respect there own identity/country/country people. China and Japan can be taken as example who identified there priority and worked for there prosperity.

Chennai-Heaven on this earth :)

2006-09-23T18:58:00.000+05:30

I know many of you won't like it really, but it’s not about hurting anyone's emotion. It’s all about my experience. So please don't take it personally. And even if you take it then I can't help. Sorry. :

Chennai...aah...heaven...previously called madras... it’s same old city or say metropolitan city… with MISSING metro thinking, due to ‘BROAD MINDED’ and ‘HELPING’ environment...hah...My experience about this city is just wonderful, and it’s virtually impossible to write everything down... It’s more than true that each place has good and bad people/part but I don't know why I saw the bad part only. May be I saw what I am.. hehehe

People out here are VERY FRIENDLY, OPEN MINDED. My goodness they are JUST wonderful. No one can imagine what drives there mind. If you don't know LOCAL language, you will be WELCOMED like a GOD. you will GAIN weight and SAD feeling will NEVER come into your mind.

To elaborate a little about FRIENDLY environment, I will quote few instances:-

*If you are stuck somewhere and asking for CORRECT location, watch out. you are going to get a toughest set of multiple options (like an objective test) out of which NONE will be correct. So you are surely going to FAIL in the test.

*If u r planning to stay in this so called METRO then it may happen that while searching for an apartment,may be, you will be asked about your CASTE & your CUISINE(veg/non veg). At least this thing, I never heard anywhere in MY knowledge.

*It may happen that if you are asking something to someone (I mean locals) then you may not get any reply as if you didn't ask anything...but wait wait...its not your fault, not the fault of other person also..as other person DON’T want to hear or say anything other then LOCAL language... but wait there is something more to it...if u want to force him to say something... just show your anger by saying an abusive word(mind it,not to him..else you will be screwed up)...and seriously it will back fire...you will learn more abusive words in YOUR language about which you was also unaware...ha ha ha

*Real state agent or property dealer??? you won't find anywhere in this world these many number of so called property dealers. Even a road side BEGGAR can be a property agent. But mind it, never listen to them though they sound lofty else you are surely going to loose the money and peace of mind.

This is very little about the FRIENDLY and BROAD MINDED attitude...there are lot of it...

FOOD I won't comment as it’s very difficult to change the eating habit for a person of other locality just in few days.

And WEATHER of Chennai is BEST infact BESTEST in this world. You will feel that your skin got special power of sticking to anything.

Transport is very cheap, seriously...no sarcasm here...but BUSES are TOO packed. Take yourself as LUCKIEST person in this world if you get a seat to SIT on in the midway. And bus drivers are excellent driver; I don't know how they manage to drive a bus which is TILTED at an angle of 45◦ or something, due to overload. And if you happen to take an auto, be ready to get your pocket picked in MOST dishonored way.

There was so many thing which happened with me in this METRO that I thought I won't be able to make it in this city...and either I will starve to death or I will kill myself by the mental pressure. And seriously, doing my regular JOB was much EASY as compared to adjusting in this place. But somehow I managed to save myself, guess to have one more achievement in my life.

But one class of people I found here, which I never met in my life anywhere. These are GEM, who are quite rare. These people will help you to take you out of all your problem even though they DON'T know you. You may feel suspicious at one point why this person is helping me. But you must have to be very lucky to get them. Thank GOD I was able to get one.

But seriously, I mean it, if Chennai is heaven I wish I could add up to my sin to get hell...ha ha ha. But now it’s too late…My GOOD deed has crossed a level and I got heaven. Finally I am again saying this is what I felt in the starting. Just hope the thinking will change in meantime. I have to explore a lot. This is just the beginnning of the show.

P.S.:-No offence. :)

Hmmm...

2006-09-19T18:47:00.000+05:30

Well i am completely out of business these days. Don't get time even to think something. Infact i guess i left thinking..ha ha ha

will try to be back to this portal with my great theories :D but confused what topic to choose???

Entry to corporate world....

2006-08-12T16:17:00.000+05:30

Well not writing much as doesn't have ample time to write with full description.. but its really a great experience.. what we see or do in our college life seems an obsolete thing (except the love stories and all..ha ha ha.. as its human nature and it can't change).. well will be writing in detail soon.. enjoy..

Good bye...

2006-05-26T16:00:00.000+05:30

Today is my last day in MY college.. and last day to the free net too... till now there was not even single day when i didn't said the PRETTY words to my college.. and yeah i m not changed till now...hehe.. still GREAT words coming out.. Its an end to many thing and a guess will be a beiginning to many things too... lol.. i m quite confused.. emotional??? huh.. the college gave so much of thing(sarcastic) that i m not havin a small feeling for it.. and hope will nvr have. will be out of this virtual world for long time... and yeah missing my friends.. a lot.. :'( singing songs in my GREAT voice to supress the emotions..hehe anyway.. it was nice being in the college all these years.. and truly to say college gave me FRIENDS for forever.. did a lot of leg pulling.. fought... played.. linebazi.. running after girls..ha ha ha.. teasing them.. and many more thing we did together.. Wel friends INCLUDES both.... anyway.. don't know what to write more.. can't write much else won't be able to leave this place tonight. college was quite happening to me.. but other then few instances nothing much happened to me... he he he... rest in peace... good bye friends. :'(

P.S.:- For my college friends only... yaaro I am not that bad...bakwas mar raha hun...yahi soch rahe ho na . anyway u all know it too i guess... i did many things so that u can make fun of me and more then this i teased u people.. i m not that bad and of uncaring nature as it seems.. :D i care for u all... just ask for my help ever i will try my best to complete the task.. miss u all.. and hey miss me too.. i think too senti.. anyway... you all now thank GOD that the end to ALL this has come.. and finally i m out.. so no one to make ur life hell [:D]... hehe..enjoy

News channels-How authentic they are???

2006-05-07T12:15:00.000+05:30

Television is best known as an "IDIOT BOX" and when we look around the myriad of TV shows then then we come to know why it is called so. All that is being shown is JUNK eating up the mind of the society. Its general tendency or say human psychology to take whatever being shown on TV as TRUTH. And to the best the large no of news channels are also not doing any good.There is stiff competition that who is WORST :D

The news running on the news channels seems like MADE UP. Anyway its nearly impossible to run the news channels for 24 hour without including artifacts or false information. People want changes and they can't stick to the channels until and unless something great doesn't HAPPEN. And news channels are helping a lot :D

There are several examples to prove my point I guess all might have remember the case of theft of passport of our cricketer during there foreign trip last year. All the news channels where showing different numbers, like some where showing 5 some 7 or 4 like that. And funniest thing was that the same news channel gave different figure while showing at different time.I am not sure whether they would have arrived at exact figure. There main aim was to
BLAME the security and system.

Similar was the situation while running the lead story on our former president who was hospitalized due to severe illness. He was announced as dead even before the doctor declared him dead to get more publicity about there news channels that they bring the news fastest. And later they said sorry as it was National issue.

Sometime people just wonder what was so important in the news for which it is being broad casted...ha ha ha But point is how one knows whats the correct information and what is crap. During the olden days news was broad casted only if they have some CONTEXT. But in the current scenario it seems to be first in bringing the news they FORGET about the CONTEXT and FRAME it.

They sometime choose the right topic to talk upon but make it MASALEDAR(spicy) and forget about the content so that they can sell it at high cost. And on several occasions it was found that they LOST the touch. And yeah they do the SCREWING in the best way. Jumping into confidential matters and spoiling the integrity of the celebrity. They tries to STIR the EMOTIONAL base among people and CARES VERY LITTLE about MAIN INFORMATION(or say they are NOT interested at all in it).

If we consider the moral or ethical obligation the things going around are not at all good. Media is there to REPORT the NEWS, NOT to MAKE it. Professionalism is good but keeping on stake the integrity of someone or Nation can't be approved.

I may be exaggerating at certain points but in the current scenario I can be proved wrong.(I assume). And yeah its the people who are responsible for it. Looking at someone else matter or looking for something spicy is pretty BAD. :(

Do we need a Government???

2006-05-06T13:13:00.000+05:30

I am using my right to express my views as per the Constitution of India and its not an offense. I guess the topic could have been do we need politician or not??? :D but this indirectly lead to the whole political system so I choose this topic. Its very rare to find a man of class in the dirt of politics but still. Its a well known saying "KAJAL KI KOTHRI MEIN JA KAR BINA DAAG LAGE AANA SAMBHAV NAHI" (Its impossible to come out of black room without getting stained). The whole political system is that dark room only whoever tries his luck get the dark mark for sure.

We see a wide variety of politicians from well educated with intellect to the JHOLA CHHAP(illiterate). All behave the same and do the same. So why do we need them??? I don't think there is any need to explain what they do. :D It is well known.Its a common saying POWER MAKES PERSON MAD. But its the height of madness. What they say and what they do is completely different things. They become thick skinned after becoming NETA(Politician) and don't get worried/ashamed about going to the same voter for whom he/she didn't do anything.

Each year they get a large sum for the development of there constituency and nearly whole fund is returned back to the government account. Well I guess WHOLE fund is returned as the record of INVESTMENT is well maintained. Otherwise GOD would have also wondered about the fate of money too..ha ha ha But I never get whats the problem in spending the money for the development of there OWN constituency. Nothing is going out of there pocket. May be they don't want to make dirty there hands in cleaning there OWN home.

Since last few month some good initiative like "PARITRANA" etc are taken. Well educated and young people are coming, who wants to do something. But they too are not open minded to some extent. And are giving opportunity to ONLY those with whom they are bonded through there ALMA MATTER.

The Indian politics need nothing like well educated or intelligent people. It need OPEN-MINDED people who wants to do some work for the prosperity of the country. And yeah others shouldn't raise there eyebrow or shouldn't count it as bad if they are working for there own prosperity too ALONG with Nation prosperity, and providing the JANTA(public) basic amenities and fulfilling there requirements. :D