Looks

I think I have lost weight...however two things kinda tell me that I may be wrong...

I do not see woman looking with lusty eyes when they see me..hmmm..since I have lost weight am looking like a moviestar....ok..so woman have not noticed...well may be they are not too bright..can't distinguish between good and bad...ah I am in Mumbai...too many stars here..let me reach Delhi...hmmmm...then the madness will start

However more importantly my trousers are still skin tight ... hmmm..they must have shrunk...too much washing you know...

SHUBHO

sir yes sir.....and let the history speak for itself...but for now...

SHUBHO is a married ...... with a capital M

however to my dissappoitment..as he said he will not put up with the actual rituals.... Man I should have been there....would have made this a time to remember...

Well some things just don't go your way does it... still that he is married only leaves me with getting Pete married and I ..only I would remain THE BACHELOR...

For sometime I was worried...Shubho seemed like sharing my throne... but now I am relieved ..... for Prashant is but a small issue and would be dealt in by close of 2010

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.....

OF CITIES

Now I am in Mumbai...last six months I have travelled between hyderabad.... delhi... Jaipur...Mumbai

All the cities are so different from each other..yet I am not out of place...Delhi and Jaipur I still understand as I have been living in Delhi for such a long time..but Hyderabad and Mumbai..they are so different from each other and from Delhi and jaipur...somewhere the Nomadic life seems to have kicked itself back to life and I have in a strange way started liking it.

Hyderabad was where I in true sense "got out", never been a pub or going out to drink person, things really turned with drinking at least a beer almost every night became a ritual of sorts not to mention clubbing...that was new and I did not dislike it primarily because I did not have to dance ...still very awkward when somebody asks me \ forces me and also because it was 10 Downing street..a pub where great music is played.

Jaipur.. would have been a really a drab place otherwise, but Padma..the conspirator of good times being there..hence Tabloo (Have already written about it) or some new place to eat. Once she left did not really have time to reflect due to the heavy work schedule.

Now in Mumbai ... this is my second stint here...lat time I came it was in 98 working for Birdy's by taj in Bandra..never liked it then, however now... very different experience..DUM HAI SEHAR MAIN...never seen such a safe place...though have not experienced the night life..the fact that none of the roads are empty is a testament in itself.

Let's see where my next destination will be...

conversation

Thakur, Sucharita I consider NRIs too
Thakur, Sucharita am a fair person.. no discrimination
Sinha, Arobindo hmmm...I am a dark person...still no discrimination
Thakur, Sucharita definitely NOT...colors and its shades are a part of life..
Thakur, Sucharita u must be thinking - what am I talking at 1 in the night
Thakur, Sucharita :)
Sinha, Arobindo no shade is shadey
Sinha, Arobindo nopes
Thakur, Sucharita :)
Sinha, Arobindo now you wonder what I am talking
Thakur, Sucharita no my friend.. I follow u..
Sinha, Arobindo to
Thakur, Sucharita and appreciate ur thought process on shades
Sinha, Arobindo indeed
Sinha, Arobindo or in thought
Sinha, Arobindo now that was clever of me
Thakur, Sucharita I like self appreciating ppl..
Sinha, Arobindo no body likes depriciation
Thakur, Sucharita u bet..
Sinha, Arobindo nothing
Sinha, Arobindo not the betting kind
Thakur, Sucharita yeah yeah.. I hear u..
Thakur, Sucharita how much did u lose?
Thakur, Sucharita :)
Sinha, Arobindo I actually gained.... weight
Thakur, Sucharita Mumbai food is it?.. or only air?
Sinha, Arobindo that is what I am full of...air
Thakur, Sucharita too much

Posts

My world of posts seems to have dried up over the last couple of weeks...

seems like everybody has taken a break ....

anyway..been busy thinking....

and as usual had some talk with Pete...put a small plan together...good thing...

AND now enjoy the pics of my Nephew Rishan...he is 3 months old...

Touched

Not sure how many of you would have seen the latest IOC fire in Jaipur.

The office that I work in is 4 KM away from the site. The blast that occurred at 7 P.M shook the building, shattered all the glasses, the false ceiling came down, the doors in the basement were blown away, people who were about to get in the building fell to the ground of the 80 odd people who were there most of them got away with minor injuries but the people who were in offices which were glass covered were injured really badly..others who were closer to the blast site were not that fortunate ....

I was not there....I had called in sick....

When I got to our other office from where the rescue was getting coordinated... and which was supposed to be the gathering point...the efforts had not started as the police had cordened of the area and nothing was allowed to pass... the problem this created was most of the people were left stranded, quite a lot of bravehearts got their vechiles out and took out loads of people with them, some found the way in autos and the most unfortunate few walked 7 KM's in a state of shock...and the worst were the people who had panic attacks...the shock will not go away for some time

This is the first time I have met, spoken to individuals who are victims...and for the first time I understood the pain people had to go through

How to become rich

I am talking about really rich...and I should not to slog for it

1. Born rich
2. Adopted by rich
3. Marraige
4. Stumble into a goldmine - while I am on a pleasure trip
5. Inheritence
6. In a natural disaster area, where I do not get affected, but get compensated
7 My Nokia phone(old one) is bought for a Trillons of dhirams as a antique
8 My Car is bought as a antique

Please suggest others, otherwise I will have to rob a bank...

Love

yup...I am in love...with Justin Shepiro, Megan Mc'ormak....I am ready to marry both of them even if they are not rich....anytime and any day..

Tabloo

Drinking alone has never been a habit, and it is a very difficult hab it to cultivate.

Off late have been going to a bar called Tabloo in Jaipur quite regularly with another collegue of mine, now that she is gone to get married.. I looked and Tabloo..and here is what I saw.

1. It is served by people wearing pajamas....
2. Tha bar is too small
3. It is too lighted..
4. The setting is just not right...since it has no roof...there is no smell of beer, smoke e.t.c on a oak table...well the tables are made of Marble...
5. It is more of a place where you would go with somebody...actually you should go only with somebody...otherwise no..

The point here is..people..I need a really nice place to drink and it should not be my room.... in Jaipur

Travelling Again

For work...and that is tiresome..to say the least...

Post

Since this is the last day of august...i at least should write something...since i have not posted anything since my last post...to say that I was feeling lethargic...or just tired...are just few excuses that i have stopped giving myself...end result...I did not write because somehow just did not feel like writing.,..

So what has happened so far...

1. I saw Hyderabad.. nice city..nice weather nice people...bad autowalas.'
2. My sister was blessed with another baby...boy...now people who have not taken a new born in their hand will never know of the experience...
3. To my great surprise I missed Delhi..
4. I now realize...completely...going to school was a big mistake

वाह क्या दिन था

Well Monday came and went by...but this one was special, in more ways than one...

to start with,

I actually now know the historical bearing of the Haryanvi word ग़ँणा... I know it's origin...you see this word actually originated quite receintly, I will say about 50 years ago in the Haryanvi litreture...a person by the name of Ghona da visited haryana, the amount of influence he left on people thgat they actually coined this word on his name, of corse no body remembers it now... but that is all right..


next in the evening i received a message from a dear old friend...well none other than Gaurav Narang, so I meet him over bottles of beer and disect the Chennai..and man is it fun... oh I did this after a long time i already feel a few kgs lighter... pity it will all come back in the morning....

Tomorrow I am off to the city of Miyans, enjoying biryanis ....

What do we worry about

No harm done...not to me anyway...well you see I don't know if anybody is harmed actually...see it diod not happen in a area where a lot of TV channels were there...well actually, you need to be really adventures to see the harm...

Here I am fretting about the heat, the backup power(imagine) not being there, the world at least people in india are glued to tv to see what happened to Salman khan's Heart... Then MJ dies...who won t20, what happened to Mahi(hate this name) ... man this is news... that a small area of only few thousand kilometers in the interiors of west bengal...people are dying...that can never be news...and this is the sad part....

I just wonder if the cyclone had hit Kolkata in a worse way would it be news still....how insensetive have I become....I just wonder...will I actually cry or help somebody...uhhhh ...will I question first or act...I think I have reached a stage where I or me matters... I think I will ask this simple question ... how does it matter to me... answer is usually it does not... so I move on...I know somewhere I will get hurt real bad... probably that is when I wll realise....

Getting Married

When : 7th March year after next.... 

Guest list : If you can make it ... you are in the list

We the people

Two big events happened yesterday 

1. Cyclone Aila

2. Jalandhar rage

Cyclone Aila hit West bengal like there was no tomorrow, a category 5 cyclone, destroying what came in it's path, uprooting trees, electric poles e.t.c... I was not aware as were many peple in west bengal where the expected arrival was in the late evening to mid noght yet it hit in the middle of afternoon.

Killing\attack on Sikhs in vienna - I just did not understand the mob fury on buses, trains, shops ...what is the meaning of all this...I still do  not understand the reason behind a group of people suddenly burning and destroying everything in response to a attack that happened so far away.... wherein the anger is justified but the show just does not make any sense to me.

I was expecting a better coverage of these events in TV but noooooooooooo... that was not to be . Same thing happened during the bihar floods as well, then it is actually the way we are, our span of attention to is so low that TV channels don't have any option but to look for more and more news and it is one breaking news after another... 

The meaning or the idea behind breaking news has changed ...  as in now every news is a breaking news as it breaks away from the last one to the new one....  

living alone

I did not realize, I have never lived alone in my life, either had family or friends all the time.

So this was the first time I was living alone...really alone..afetr the initial few ays...things have kinda settled down to a really slow time wrap around me especially saturdays and sundays.

DO I like it like this...not too sure but it is not too bad either... I knda like the complete ownership of the place...IT IS MINE...comes to my mind quite often...however i miss the conversation... e.t.c

One thing I notice is that complete silence... just shut down everything at 1 in the morning...and you will not hear anything at all.

Saw congress win today...this was good, we needed a strong govt. in the center especially during these troubled times.

At last CPM lost it's majority stake in west bengal elections, I hope Mamta does not squander the chances away in the next two years... she needs to understand that ...it is probably the best opening she has got in the last few years... to win the assembly elections...and I hope she wins...not that I beleve that she is an astute leader, but the fact is she will be able to break the CMP stronghold which will be beneficial in the years to come.

lastly, I do not know why people compare India and US...and think that we shold have the same systems that they have...   guys you need to realize.. we are a very young nation, a varied one to the last detail,within India  we do not speak the same language, we have different cultures, we have different faiths, no other country in the world this big(India is the 7th big nation)  has so much diversity .... I love it here.

PROUD TO BE INDIAN

Awesome Sunday

My parents left for Kolkata last week...was having a real bad time...suddenly the house was all empty...nobody to talk to...it was really eerie... on top of it Cahitali and Puish suddenly withdrew the offer for drinks...not a good thing... suddenly that I have to cook and that food will noit be ready was a reality...ohhhh my god

So sunday happened...i am supposed to go to Prashant's place... cool... so I was there and again loved the way the food is cooked...ah...as I have said earlier...if you want to eat best veg in NCR he place to be is THE BHARDWAJ's.. simply too good...ohhhhhhhhh... jabardast....

and then after a 10 min work on the visa form Uncle started on Hindu mythology...  mazza aa gaya ( the interesting thing about Uncle is that he will give so many clear examples to explain how something which seemed so unreal is actually possible... )

So from 1 - 6 ...I chatted and chatted... was something really that I needed that day...

Some words don't have meaning

Yet they are so meanigful...funny thing about these words that you cananot convert it in any other language...I am trying to compile a list of such words...I have 4 of them till now 2 of them are Bangla...and 2 in Hindi, please help me with improving my vocabs

1. AA molo ja... I have not been able to translate this one... if you know bangla you would know the hugh meaning this word has ..

2. Daksitee.. 

3. Bakaite

4. chutiyap.....

Why???

well actually why bother????

but then I like to exhibit...ah not that kind..dirty mind

well the thing is why...is such a profound question...

imagine this...

Son you should not kill a fellow being... Why???

You need to work Harder .... Why??? ( hmmm...now don't ask this question if you are working somwhere...cause they have found the answers and most importantly attrtion is not the big thing now a days :( shit...shit shit....

Hmm come to think of it unless you are a kid...there is not much cuteness in it eh..

something like

You need to wash yourself....why??? cause you stink...so ?? go wash!!!

does not really sound neat from say a 33 year old... that would be me...

hmmm ... dammit...I started the post with so much thoughts with why... now all is gone...shit ....shit...shit

Decipher This

Situation  : Teacher in a class room

The answer to this problem will be posted in the same blog after a few days....

1. Teacher to students : Both of you three get out of the class

Uncoded

3 Students sitting in one bench each... 

so two bentches become "both" thus Both of you three.....

Calvin and Hobbes

Send one liner's on the above topic...for e.g

Sirf naam hi kafi hai...

I am ok , I am fine

yup that is what I am...no ...no n..no...it is not that I am ok or I am fine...actually I am far from being ok or fine or good ....it is the attitude that I have ...which is ok or fine about everything...now if this is not sad...tell me what is...

and strangely it is about everything....things most precious after a point of time just loose their shine...and be it anything...and I mean anything...take for example .... the sudden anger in mumbai....things are just back to normal...I have even got a name for it...eh...26... 11....now I was so angry on 27 th, 28th , 29th, till about 7th or I think 15th dec was latest....ah... the best thing is I forgot about the delhi blast that happened a few months ago...again I was very angry...and the story just goes back and back

Why don't I do something...why can't I remain angry ...why don't I question more....why do I forget to demand for what is mine...why have I become like this....

Random ...ness

Well... I have too many things that interests me and then dis-interests me... need to scale down ...my thought process ugh....just missing....

I hate teenagers...especially the ones who have just come out of college.. they yap so much... man it is depressing ... they have opinion about everything...they like or dislike everything...that is so stupid...they have yet to learn about ignorance....ahhhhh


I like kids.....

I like to sleep...so much as much as I can...

Delhi 6

Missing presumed dead

Next week, the death toll in the post Godhra riot will rise from 952 to 1180, seven years are up and so all the missing persons will be declared dead... by Shobha Naryan in Hindustan Times.

This was the first lines that I read today as soon as I came in and promptly forgot...and I am ashamed... somewhere deep down a small voice told me to care and slowly after hours it got louder... and the pitch is slowly but steadily going up....

Somewhere while growing up I have forgotten about Humanity...I think I see too much of it getting bombed, knifed, gunned .... this I argue has killed my ability to get shocked.

I accept the dead and the dying as normally as I only can, I do not worry after a while... '

I have seen all .. I argue.... I am too small to help them.... I say.... how am I related .. I think... I have other things to worry about.. I feel .... I am not responsible....

Yes I do not think I will do anything... today or tomorrow... but I will.... somehow...I will

Interesting -- hmmm

Things I have not and may not do this year

Reading Prashant's post, remembered....

1. I have not been to Chandni Chowk
2. I have not eaten in Chandani CHowk
3. I have not and will not eat this year the famed " DAULAT KI CHAT" ( What a miss)
4. I have not been to CP
5. I have not met anybody new or interesting
6. I have not bought any new book...


OOOOOOOHHHHHHH...it is depressing.....

Just passed

Well yes, I think i just about came out of the oldest predicament in this world... I am hoping that I will not require to go into it again but then...that will be too much...however I think for the time being things have stopped...ah...what a relief......

In other news...Himanshu completed a 36 hour transit from Jhansuguda in Orrisa to New Delhi...and he was in a hurry to reach Delhi... though to be fair to Indian railways..this happens with him...that is he is never on time cause he is jinxed...and I really cannot blame the Indian railways...

And..the biggest achievement of this year found the wall in facebook...so the recent activity in facebook is because I found the wall, lot of people told me earlier that they have written on my wall.... वल्लाह परेशांन हो गया था....even searched...by "wall" on the net and I used to get the updates about dravid and what not... well now ......am I cool.... or am I

Particepta and puli pithe

The above mentioned words are a gourmet delight for sweet lover's in bengal.

These are not something that you would find in a Barista or ccd or any of the plush resturants... but by god if you find any body making it...do not stop yourself prom tasting them...

Why am I writing these... he he..cause I am eating them.... love it....wah kya zindagi hai....

Robbed

For the first time in my life I got robbed ... it is not the pseudo robbing that i usually go through ... it was not that "किसी ने मेरा चूतिया काटा" it was actually robbing..

How it happened

Two guys in a bike crept in silently ( I did not hear them) while I was talking on the phone snatched the phone right out of my hand ( I was holding it not clutching it) .

First reaction was of utter disbelief.. and then I thought somebody I know has played a prank and then came the anger surging out ...and I abused... by the time good sense prevailed alas it was too late the guys in the bike were gone..wherein I should have been looking for the number of the bike I was abusing ...thus I lost my 4th phone in the bargain.....

No I am not traumatized or anything...abusing kinda released the nervous energy.

Well I need the number's again, please forward it to me....

For the Unread -- Catch 22

Catch-22 is a term coined by Joseph Heller in his novel Catch-22, describing a false dilemma in a rule, regulation, procedure or situation, where no real choice exists. In probability theory, it refers to a situation in which multiple probabilistic events exist, and the desirable outcome results from the confluence of these events, but there is zero probability of this happening, as they are mutually exclusive.

Logic

The prototypical Catch-22, as formulated by Heller, involves the case of John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier, who wishes to be excused from combat flight duty. In order to be excused, he must submit an official medical diagnosis from his squadron's flight surgeon, demonstrating that he is unfit to fly because he is insane. In order to get the diagnosis, he must approach the surgeon to ask for one.

However, “catch 22” — the twenty-second of the guidelines used by military surgeons to “catch” those falsely claiming to be insane — is that an insane person should not believe or suspect that they are insane. Thus, to be recognised as insane, a person must not ask for an evaluation, because doing so implicitly shows that they suspect themselves to be insane. But, if a person does not ask for an evaluation, they cannot be recognised as insane because the evaluation is the method by which such recognition would occur. Thus, nobody can ever classify themselves as insane (even if they genuinely are), and thus nobody may ever use an insanity diagnosis to escape flying combat missions, ignoring the possibility of someone else recommending an evaluation for a peer.

New Year Ahoy

...for the next 365 minus whatever has passed I am going to be the host..I hope it has a good stay and at the end of time will gracefully go out so that when I look back i would remember fondly and say..." Ah, now that was the year, the year of 2009".