Mostly Harmless

Projects

2011-12-27T22:59:00.002+05:30

Now a few interesting things that I would want to do in my life...and from now on the goal is to earn enough to get the ideas flowingand eventually execute...

1. Travelling the silk route
2. Go to Angel falls
3. Jump from the airplane in excess of 15000 ft.
4. Make the video for Kandisa
5. Make a documentary on my Village
6. Make a film on the sweets of Calcutta

Most importantly get a job in Kolkata

Search

2011-07-24T20:24:00.003+05:30

Since coming to B'lore the eyes are looking expectantly at faces and buildings and trying to recognize somebody or something that i would have interacted with 11 years ago, and like everything else almost everything has changed in someway or the other.

Another problem that I realize now is that I do not have any reference point..no photos nothing...amazing that you have stayed, worked with people for 2 years and not take a single photograph...i guess nobody realized that this will be required ..nobody thought that we will not be in touch... :( ....also..I don't know how they will look like now...and the problem is that the people I know then will not expect me to show up and hence the chances are slimmer...

Still ...I am hopefull, I will hear my name shouted out or propbably a small tap in the shoulder somewhere...

Hurry ...friends...

Dentists

2011-01-29T00:25:00.002+05:30

For the last 3 weeks I am going to the dentist for a root canal treatment...two things came to mind when the dentist was drilling...1...what kind of apartment is he making and ...2 will he pay me rent..finally though nothing of that sort happened...however with your mouth open with various instruments chipping away at the hardened tobacco scraps an overwhelming feeling of being violated comes to mind

Money it is...

2011-01-16T04:24:00.003+05:30

Well...yeah a lot of hardwork is required for you to earn big...become rich.... e.t.c... e.t.c.....but the point is money is necessarry ..the more I think the more i believe in it...let's debate the case...Superherors...why are they and how is it possible for them to be so..well one ..they have powers which a normal homeosapien will not have ..some can fly and are industrictable like the superman( he is not from this planet...so let's not count him)...or like the green lantern..who has a ring that can actually beat the Superman himself...some like the spiderman are blessed with powers of the spiders...radiactive ones at that or for that matter the members of fantastic four or the X men, some woman too..like wonderwoman ...that leaves only the phantom,the batman and Mandrake..i do not consider Bahadur as superhero, also Hanuman is not a Man..so lets meet Phantom first...and is he rich...big time...he actually has a cave of his own with a army of pigmys at his disposal..and the riches of the African Jungles...with a private beach at Keela wei with its golden sands..phew...no wonder here...now let's move to Mandrake..now this dude is loaded for a magician...i mean this guy lives in Xanadau..with Titanium gates with speakers on them ..to reach the main house you have to go through 7 security levels and then you have Lothar..the strongest man and Hojo the 10 degree black belt ..you tell me ..is he loaded ..he has to be..last but not least..and also my favourite..Batman... Bruce wayne..owner of Wayne industries..this guy is loaded like 5 sheiks in one .. no wonder he is what he is...
Point is You need to be either have some super power or have enough money to pull off stunts like they do... sigh.. Money in itself is a Superpower..that I don't have ..thus I will take the lift or stairs and will drive my beaten esteem and work boring shifts and not kill any criminals or bust their camps...jump from house to house............

Found

2010-12-08T00:35:00.002+05:30

Guys invented the spark..the best line that I have heard in a long--long time..i have used the spark thingy for such a long time..never actually understanding it...GAWDDDD...am I an idiot...ha ha ha ha ha

Who am I

2010-12-05T16:18:00.002+05:30

Traveller...couch potato...loner...lonesome...lonely...dreamer...????????????

I can now breast feed a baby

2010-09-19T02:45:00.000+05:30

HMMMMMM

yeah

2010-08-21T01:52:00.002+05:30

oo yeah...oh boy..oh boy...shabash.....zawab nahi tumhara...kya bat hai...lajavab...sahi hai bidu..tumsa koi nahi...kaise karte ho tum..tum bhagwan ho..

Well all the above compliments are for myself...WHY...i just remembered the blog password...he he he he he

One week-- from Sunday to Sunday...first counted as one among the equals ..that was a heavy boost to the ego..and the weather in Hyd was awesome...also met two awesome people..one was the auto driver "prince" and the other was the 72 years's young Mr. Sherry Vakil...

But the big one was Meeting friends again in NAGPUR...man that was wonderfull, again smoking and drinking on the roof..chatting away the whole night and then meeting the others and laughing all day...some moments...just can't be priced ever...

I am happy...have found the thread of life again...will be going back to what I am ...feels nice...really nice...

Life sucks..work sucks..but then who cares...it is a very small part of your life...enjoy the rest..

Week

2010-08-04T02:04:00.002+05:30

good..that is what i will say about this week so far....i have clicked a few snaps.. Sunday early morning.... met my ex flatmate after a long time..smoked, ate Momo's and drank beer while it was raining.. getting wet in the process.. saw inception - Brilliant movie ...smoked, talked, home...sleep...Monday went by okay..so did tuesday.. another girl in the pipeline ... no response..great..no more calling...hooray.. have to find a way to get the second one out of the way...but that is tomorrow.. so far things are looking okay...not promising..just okay..anyway next week will be in hydrabad ..so that is going to be fun...

Social Incompetence

2010-07-20T23:53:00.003+05:30

Have been mentoring one guy for some time in my role, wherein the work related mentoring is going on I am getting mentored albeit unconsciously on social etiquette's, and just started to understand what I am missing and will continue to miss with my current location, work and lifestyle.

Having been with friends at work is probably a situation most desired however it also has it's side effects, work moves friends apart...and suddenly you are lost for that uncomplicated, unrestricted and taken for granted company.

Now things have changed...

not that I am averse to meeting people..it is more like what do I do in front of them ..sit down, touch feet...the protocols are just to messy for me to remember...not that I have this problem everywhere, however meeting new people seems to be a problem.

New friends are difficult...

Bob Dylan's Song...Things have changed comes to mind

ME to me

2010-06-26T01:34:00.000+05:30

All that matters is lost on me

Why Bother

2010-05-30T03:40:00.002+05:30

White hair...2 on the beard....1 on the moustache, and 4 on top of the right ear....this bothers me...as in the eternal youth thingy seems like not happening...ok...so learnt my lesson...

Friends going through disappointments and hard times...though these that will go away in few years...time heals.... but it does bother me

I am losing interest ....like reading, meeting up with people...movies, trekking, travelling...knowing....instead becoming a lot cynical....bothers me a lot

Somehow not being passionate about anything is th worst possible thing....not wanting things to happen to me...this bothers me the most....

Need to do something so drastic..or need something to jolt me big.....KAZZAT

Ever Wonder

2010-05-27T03:52:00.002+05:30

Can we call the Pandavas the first artificially inseminated babies?

What was the surname for people in Ramyana and Mahabharatha ?

Why all the characters in Ramayana are called with a ji..e.g Ram Ji, Laxman Ji, Hanuman ji..Raja Dasrath..e.t.c wherein Mahabharata is on first name basis like Arjun, Bhishm e.t.c

How many Sons did Draupdi have ?

Thought

2010-05-26T01:39:00.000+05:30

Life doesn't mean much now a days..

World's changed so should the stories

2010-05-17T23:24:00.002+05:30

I remember the story...not the author...it was in class 6 or 7...yeah...really long time back.

The story goes like this :

An old man dies and leaes everything to hie two sons...and along the way there is a hugh fight between them and it was decided by the panchayat that the older brother will own the Blanket and the Charpai at night and the younger one will own them in the morning...so theyounger one created a big fuss and went through a lot of torture for some time before the bulb lit and he took steps to make his brother realize that two can play the same game and got him to see the light....

Now the same story would have moved very differently...

Th younger brother would have actually liked the idea as he is working in a call center...and therby no dispute and hence story ends without any issues...awesome

Appearence

2010-05-06T01:12:00.002+05:30

I look like a pregnant woman...the side face...kinda a demi moore when she was pregnant... man boobs hanging out...with the Pot belly...hmmm.. I think about 6 months .....don't think it's going to change soon...

Outside

2010-05-02T23:43:00.003+05:30

Need to step out of the house...becoming a loner in true sense...so much so that I hate going to office :)

Have been planning to go to CP for sometime, however since I don't have anything to do there..the plans just keeps on getting postponed...and actually why should I go anywhere...just don't get interested at all....

well maybe would like to go to the Hard Rock cafe once...but then I am not a big drinker...

Probem is...I would want to go anywhere with somebody or to meet somebody or to get something...so just getting somewhere has kinda gone out of my option list...everything has to have a agenda...and needs to be important...otherwise I am home in front of the TV of laptop...or in bed...that is how I have started liking it in the past few years...signs of aging..

Loss

2010-04-29T02:46:00.003+05:30

Big time...and rally starnge too...the more I live..claim to become wiser knoweldgeble grow up in the corporate ladder the less I know of what I used to know earlier... for instance...what is the weight of a formula 1 car...I used to know...and everything else about formula 1...all right...currencies of different countries...i used to know them all and that is before euro came together .... films..books...football matches....basketball...ladies vollyball you name it...whatever I knew I just don't remember any of it anymore...so

The question is .....is it worth it... Answer is a resounding NO

SO...what will I do...most probably absolutly nothing...SAD huh !

EPIC

2010-04-18T02:27:00.000+05:30

Well at least it could still turn out to be...

The idea is simple...ride my cycle from Noida Sec 19 to Dwarka Sector 9

The distance is long...the weather is hot...even in the evening....

How many Hours it will take...not sure...

Whether I will actually undertake this task...not sure..

The start is the problem...If I start I will finish...

Let's Hope

Shubho nobo borsho

2010-04-15T00:40:00.002+05:30

Well that is Happy new year as per the Bengali calender..

Also, Shubho is back ....

And most importantly met the old gang again after a really long time...

Subho, Pete...you guys missed it ... nevermind...will organize another one...

Thus...yes... and other good news's are still to be shared...

Hence a definite good end to the last yesr..hopefully will have a better new year..

Life

2010-04-07T01:19:00.002+05:30

Well not too bad really, not too good as well...just going on.

Not inspired to write today...just logged in for the heck of it...

well the good thing is Barca is winning...KKR is better off than the last two seasons... don't know where Mohanbagan is....and I wish Manchester United looses..and Liverpool starts to win...

I think I am just tired need a vacation

thought

2010-03-20T18:53:00.002+05:30

familiarity breeds CONTEMPT -

i know you is such a "" you are mine" statement

You are mine can be such a offensive statement

Knowledge

2010-02-26T02:30:00.004+05:30

Blog hopping reached "How to find Mr. Wrong" awesome blog..have added her on the list

Yeah..also came to know that Samtha fox was a pornstar never knew that ...just imagine...that Bappi Da sang a song with her as well...too good bhai too good... Wikipedia is amazing...it also talks about Asia Carrera...another porn star...the case for asia is actually quite amazing...she has an IQ of 150+...imagine that..always had good tastes in Pornstars...

Want to write really nasty stuff but the inbuilt comments moderator kinda working overtime...but the above info about Samantha and Asia are correct...don't drool on the photos

Pehli bar

2010-02-18T01:10:00.002+05:30

Negative comments on my blog about me...hua hua hua pehli bar...

Anon got angry ... I hope you will continue to write though ...

By the way I was quite enjoying the argument on marraige and what's in a name... should we continue it ??? :)

Maharashtra

2010-02-17T00:50:00.002+05:30

Have been in Pune for the last 4 weeks, unfortunately have been able to meet only one person so far.

Most of the things that I had wanted to do has been missed completely...

However I am not happy...going to Mumbai on weekends is too special to miss...the only regret is I can't do it more often... meeting my nephew's have been the happening time for me...

Staying in Mumbai with family also makes me realize that you as a human become a bit more stable mentally... you are more grounded.

Went to Shirdi along with MA, though personnaly I will not go their again as the spiritual side of me is on a long vacation...

Thoughts

2010-02-10T16:10:00.002+05:30

I have been thinking lately on arranged marraige... if and whenever it will happen

1. The whole pomp and ceromonies ...need somehow to manage people and convince them to scrap it.

2. When I meet the girl for he first time...what do I say...and what do I talk about..hmmm .... need to think here..need to keep the conversation interesting or find a way to make the person realize that it is not a good choice to go ahead..

3. Now if the marraige actually happens...the first night is not a problem..... I don't think sex would be applicable here...it would be more like conversations and to worry whether she will snore as well ...

4. Now how will my life be...in the first few days... need some thoughts here

See these are things about marraige which are really scary to me..

Writer's block

2010-02-04T22:53:00.003+05:30

See... why i don't write as often I like too...well the issue is not that I do not have the ideas in my head or that I am short of words to explain the emotions...quite contrary actually...I have ideas ...oh man have I got ideas...and the words...rolling in my head...so then WHAT THE FUCK is the problem...well so I analyzed ...and here is the diagonasis...

I just don't like to login...well so would you be...see here...login to the hardware first...then login to the operating system ...then login to the internet...then login to internet explorer..now till here it is still ok...now comes the bitch....login to the blog...why...well...see I do not remember the password quite well .... on top of that the username is quite as long one...on top of that somehow I always get the combination wrong...followed by is it yahoo.com or yahoo.co.in or did I put the underscore in the righ place...SEE...see..

( just for the smart alec's..this is a office laptop and I cannot store PASSWORDS)

This just is utter boring...

So on the days that I actully write as in today....you got to admit that it is a herculean effort.

The other thing is the spelling and the pronounciation...so here it is...

for example the word "sacrilege"..i actually had to check in google for spelling and pronounciation...just stops me from expressing myself..
So there ...is the word that i have tumbling on my head..i know quite distictly the meaning ...but hey...the fucking spelling is missing...and so is the pronounciation,,,hence use 10 words to express and that too not in a really good way and voila....a post that is not exactly what I thought it would be...

and lastly...well not anymore any case...some moral obligation to write in a way so that it is not objectionable...well that is out of the window anyways...

oh I forgot...on top of all this there is this mouse pad on the laptop... now I am not fond of this gadget..that is why I carry a mouse ...however...frequently and accidently my finger touches the mouse pad and wooooo...I am writing at the start of the paragraph...and nothing makes sense...

(Again for the smart Alec...the disabling option for the mouse pad no longer exist...

And then there is the powercut...would you beleive it that my laptop has 20ms that is correct folks millisecond of backup...

So I say what the hell and go to sleep.

See...I hope you appritiate the effort I put in here...

Another one

2010-01-28T23:35:00.004+05:30

Now there is something going on between the Volvo companies buses I take to travel from Mumbai to Pune.. and me.

For some reason they make my journey try to make my journey as miserable as possible

Last time it was dill bole haddipa and this time it was life partner.

Now life partner was not that bad...as in it was not bad as dill bole hadippa ... where in case somebody tells you to watch this movie....go ahead and abuse your heart out...

Well the Movie.. has three friends 1 divorce lawyer and 1 professional and 1 Son of a business man and hence a business man himself

The professional has one girlfriend whom he loves and who does not have any talent...the girlfriends father supports his daughter on all her venture

The lawyer does not believe in getting married or has a steady girlfriend

The business man is a virgin does not have a girlfriend and is despearate to get married

Now the business man's family decides to visit an old family friend and where the son finally marries on an arranged marraige basis and gets to have the much needed sex to relieve himself of the burden's virginity at last

The professional who went along with the family with his girlfriend also got married there

and hence after a few days decided to get divorced where their friend helped them with the divorce

The lawyer now gets hooked and decides to have sex with the same girl every night and decides to get married and it is here that he invites everyday and makes them meet each other and gets them all remarried...

End of story

The movie is boring but has a few instances of humor if you dig deep...

My recomendation ... Abuse anybody who recommends this one and strike them of your guest list

START WRITING

2010-01-18T23:24:00.002+05:30

SHUBHO NEEDS TO START WRITING AGAIN....so does Aneri masi

the brainbit has kinda stopped penning his thoughts for some time now...and I miss the updates...wish he will start again...

actually..a lot of others have kinda stopped... aneri masi another example...

People what is wrong...I don't have much to do in life..one of the things I like is reading blogs...`so whats up....

Popular demand says that you need to fill in some bytes in he blog world...so hurry up

Dill bole Haddipa

2010-01-17T23:28:00.003+05:30

Pet bole kadippa
sir bole daddipa
muh bole ..teri ma%$^#&%%^*%$^%$

Now the movie is a story about a girl who wants to play cricket with the mens team (nothing wrong here....sardar...raging harmones...ok...understood the concept)

Now nobody wants this kudi to play in the mundyas team with a very logical reason of different genders have different teams for some reasons ... no the hyper girl does not understand that and dresses up as a Mundya...ok

The guys father has a friend in Lahore and both hime and his friends have private teams...(nothing wrong here as well)
For the last eight years the indian guys team is loosing to the pakistani team...ok
So enter the hero as the son who lives with his mother in england and speaks english in American accent..ok...chalega

So the son who plays in england is a good player comes to india to help his father salvage some pride by winning the cricket match...

Now comes a really hot girl driving cars and jeeps is scantily clad ..as if just walked out of the ramp and into the jeep to woo the hero....

who somewhere in the film is suddenly wen missing...cause the hero wants his girl all desi...

well..why was this film made...

how come the Punjabi mundyas...known for their thurkiness miss the boobs whenever they do a pappi and jhappi....what the fuck is wrong here....

in the locker room how come they did not notice a fully clad guy everday for six months and not ask question

Given a choice of sliding down a really sharp object to stab my balls and to watch this film... I will go with the stabbing...

PUNE

2010-01-15T21:08:00.002+05:30

another day another week another office..i do not feel the change

Negative

2010-01-12T19:09:00.003+05:30

Newpaper article : The pyramids were not made by slaves and that they were paid for their work also they were given the honour of getting buried in the shadow of the great Pyramid.

Now the question : What is the point?

Why should I help others....hmm....self fullfillment ?

I wonder...

Death

2010-01-03T23:19:00.001+05:30

The final fullstop for life...nothing happens after this.

Looks

2009-12-15T23:54:00.002+05:30

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

2009-12-13T23:04:00.002+05:30

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

2009-12-11T03:20:00.002+05:30

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

2009-12-11T03:16:00.002+05:30

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

2009-11-25T00:22:00.004+05:30

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

2009-11-01T23:18:00.001+05:30

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

2009-10-22T03:43:00.002+05:30

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

2009-10-16T02:12:00.001+05:30

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

2009-10-05T00:55:00.002+05:30

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

2009-09-06T10:09:00.000+05:30

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

Post

2009-08-31T23:24:00.002+05:30

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

2009-07-14T02:17:00.002+05:30

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

2009-06-27T04:35:00.002+05:30

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

2009-05-29T23:58:00.001+05:30

When : 7th March year after next....

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

We the people

2009-05-26T21:17:00.003+05:30

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

2009-05-17T02:23:00.002+05:30

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

2009-04-28T22:35:00.002+05:30

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

2009-04-09T23:25:00.002+05:30

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???

2009-03-26T22:51:00.002+05:30

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

2009-03-11T22:45:00.003+05:30

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

2009-03-11T00:52:00.000+05:30

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

Sirf naam hi kafi hai...

I am ok , I am fine

2009-02-26T00:43:00.004+05:30

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

2009-02-23T12:34:00.002+05:30

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

2009-02-19T21:55:00.000+05:30

Missing presumed dead

2009-02-18T22:00:00.002+05:30

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

2009-01-27T19:50:00.006+05:30

Things I have not and may not do this year

2009-01-27T19:42:00.005+05:30

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

2009-01-25T00:21:00.005+05:30

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

2009-01-19T20:14:00.000+05:30

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

2009-01-17T23:39:00.004+05:30

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

2009-01-13T21:44:00.001+05:30

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

2009-01-06T23:24:00.002+05:30

...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".

The Babu Rao Story

2008-12-17T22:45:00.002+05:30

Interesting story for the name babu rao...I don't think many remember it though.... remember rana...he joined along with Sanjit...the name was given to both Sanjit and Rana...as they used to sit together, and also used to have the same haunted look...and they came from Daksh from the same team...since Rana left soon afetr the name was given, Sanjit bore the burden of the complete name and the two name were added to make " BABURAO".

people ...I meet daily

2008-12-13T15:16:00.005+05:30

first me .... I am a great guy...very few think of me like that but I know..I am great...my ability to screw up things is legendary to just name a few...I can become sensitive to callous in a matter of minutes from clean to plain dirty...in seconds...from available to missing in Milli seconds...I can go on and on about myself... I am so surprising that I often surprise myself...

Sanjit .. Another amazing person...likes to look at himself in the mirror...keeps himself fit...eats good and sleeps well...wears good clothes.. has an amazing knowledge about bollywood..I have not met anybody better than him.... his amazing quality ....he watches the most outrageous bad movies...something like Deshdrohi .. one thing though he will not skip a single scene....watch the songs as well... He is god in this matter.

Chaitali is called Chat-lee and many other names by her friends now married to Piush Dhiman.. my ex flat mate.... now they were living together for about 2 years before they decided to tie the knot....what a pity ...... well then life goes on...the good things don't stay forever ...

Megha .. no body knows why so many guys fall in love with her....so much love that they call her all the time...poor girl...her list of admirers alone can fill a large room...a fun loving funny creature who is always polite and caring ...starts to cry as soon as somebody gives her a sob story ... extremely hard working and dependable to finish any work given to her and is taken advantage off by everybody including yours truly....

Shunali... started work when she was a child in Genpact..and still working...dirty minded to say the least ... and my heart throb in 22A.... don't know much about her but then a person who is working since her childhood there's not much to be known..ha ha ha ha ha....

Suvidha ... now this girl is special.... before she came in my contact .. she used to be a english speaking hindi girl...and now you look at her...her hindi has words like "Kintu, parantu" with an odd muhavra's thrown in ...cool to boot and with guys not daring to approcah her..this girl has not been proposed with lines like " main aapka friend banna chata hun"...and you get the picture ....i hope

Raj...otherwise named as Raj "rona" Suri.. smart...hmmm okay smart.. good looking, tall and fair... i think he is blond and has his hair coloured in some colour ....what is left of it anyway...nice guy..likes to beat people ( I like that)...always is in thick of action..he is action boy..always in the middle of some fuck up he did not create.. his ability to be in the wrong place and in soup is so refined that it is not even funny..

Anita ... another amazing person.... to top her working abilities...she is (groan) very efficient... now a person who finishes her work in 8 hrs and attends meetings plus has time to have chit chat is just horrible to work with (imagine my plight who can do only one thing at a time)..

Akash... well to say Raj is happy because he is there as his supervisor says a lot.. a person of immense wit and charm, with his down to earth intelligence he is a force to reckon with...

Chatting -- ADDA

2008-11-20T01:02:00.002+05:30

That is what it is called in Bangla -- ADDA... the best possible thing in this world...beats everything....
So I was driving back from work...and it was really too long a drive on empty roads...and I drive real slow...60 is fast...between 40 to 50...usually when I drive down there is a bit of traffic so things are usually a bit interesting...

today was an exception...so I started calling first I called home... then I tried hati...he did not pick his cellphone ( I will abuse him) ...then I called and congratulated Jhamb on his marraige...now...ok...called shubho...told him my situation and started chatting...ok...then I had this bright idea of calling Naveen and conferencing him...oopps...i can't my phone or account does not have this ability...so Naveen said he will conference us both so the conference started and we decided to include Shaji...who then tried to get Arun but then his cell was switched off..so shubho conferenced Sudip...
Now do not be fooled...it was not that easy..inbetween Naveen's cell got disconnected twice and then it hanged...so Shaji finally got the conference back up...

thus we had this circle of Delhi, Gurgaon,Pondi,Kolkata and Mumbai complete...

and it was as usual a nice one hour of chat, lot of abuses...

Good things happen in life when you try...eh

Dinner - Cabbage et le eggs et la veg a la jakas

2008-11-15T01:30:00.005+05:30

Now I am not a big fan of cooking...however when I cook...it will be nothing like what I planned...from rock hard basic sponges( Cake) to something completely horrible...I can do it all...so after I came back from office I decided to test my endurance again and cook food for myself...the availability of ingredients that I had were..

1. Garam Masala ( about 1 year old)
2. Cabbage .. I bought it about a week ago
3. beans
4. Shimla Mirch
5. Tomatoes
6. Salt
7. Pepper
8. Eggs

So first I mentally prepared the dish.. the idea was to make a bed of thinly sliced cabbage

parboil( so that the shape is retained) rest of the vegetables and then stir fry them in oil and serve...

However as I started cutting the vegetables I came up with another plan

Just boil everything and eat it like a soup...

Now by the time I cut all the vegetables I forgot both the separate recipes and mashed it into one..so I fried everything and then added water and it lookked really terrible...

So imagine my surprise when I tasted this grub..it was wonderfull... so I decided to name it....

and who knows I might just be famous

Who would I like to get married too - 2

2008-11-15T01:24:00.000+05:30

One interesting point..nobody seems to realize.. the brother angle...there has to be a brother in this script else I will end up working...running the business...

I realized it later and then understood how life teaches you so many things...

folks all you have to do is to watch " Kam-chor" and you will realize the importance of the brother...see.. in the movie Rakesh Roshan after getting married has to again work in the factory to win his bride back .... now had he been as brialliant as me he would have just gone ahead and made peace with the brother in law and then he would not had to work at all...

Important lessons

1. you have to have no " EGO"
2. kill your ambition after marraige
3. to make sure that you are pampered get ready to play the game... dirty game

and enjoy the life....

Who would I like to get married too

2008-11-13T18:40:00.002+05:30

Who would I like to get married too....

this is good question...especially for me... I have been trying to think about it for some time and came up with the following list of requirements

1. The family should be a rich family.
2. Should be a really rich and willing to give his daughter away to me
3. No hidden costs...the business should not be suffering from bad losses

The way it should work out is...

The families meet, I meet the girl as well ( Not the most important thing...but then), it is decided that the families like each other especially the father is charmed.... and we get married... her father on the day of marriage says.. beta join the business...and I join immediately....her brother who wanted to take over the business did not like this one bit..so I speak to him and handover the business to him... ( Ye le mar)...he is happy..as all he wanted was to run the business and in return and gratitude since I gave him the opportunity to run the business, he decides to give me lakhs of rupees or dollars( I am not too choose y about money) and my wife manages them and invests them also since he was so shamed that he doubted me that he decided to take care of all my expenses..

Sigh.......................................

Pujo Barshiki

2008-10-20T17:51:00.016+05:30

The Start of this puja was not very exiting.

I was home way before the start, still I remember to be in Kolkata as always special just before the start of Puja's, you can actually feel the excitement and anticipation in air..the sweet and intoxicating smell all across the city, it actually happens to be my favourite time in Kolkata, alas...this time it was different, the air was thick all right however with two other things.
1. Will NANO get built2. Will DADA play the australia series.
infact apart from meeting Shubho there was nothing much happening....

Some of the pics clicked during the pujas and a bit of funda..

MA Sarbo Mangola Mandir (Pink colour top) - actually all the land belonged to the diety, it is said that the land will be enough to feed the diety and its fllowers... ... The Second and the older structure you see in the background is Someshwer Mandir it is more than a 1000 years old..
Intrestingly there are many such shaped buildings which are more of buddhists architecture rather than Hindu temples

Two generations during the puja's

Sindur Khela- this has almost turned out to become HOLI now a days, earlier only the married woman were allowed to play

My mother in Joipur her home with her sisters....

I just liked this photo...not sure of the significance ...Shubho...please help

Two old freinds sharing some time together... (incidentally both of them are my relative now, one is my brother in law and the other is my cousin brother) .. catching up on years of comraderie

The most memorable time for me...this is called binge.. group of men carry there deities all accross the village and gather in front of the Sarbo mangola temple for viserjan

Colours of my village

The old and depleted Jamindar badi.... nobody to take care of ....but the splendour of yesteryears could still be felt..... on Nobomi the old queen died,

as per traditions and beleifs all the festivities stopped, no AARATI nothing till her body was in the village.

She must be more than 100 years old when she died...sadly she came in wealth and left in a state of dispair..with two of her four sons dying before her....

The all impartant DHAK

and the DHAKI

The most gruesome sight....BOLI..or animal sacrifice..wathched and celebrated by many ...

The glee and the dance that followed was scary...it really brings out the animal instincts in Humans...men and woman alike were cheering wildly,in fact there was a lady who was standing beside me calmly shooting the full video, I was not able to click the last few pictures...you actually can't ..after getting the front row seats ( the head of the family sacrificing the animals happened to be my father's friend) and watching about 50 animals getting slaughtered the last scene was just too much...it involves cutting the head of the buffolo and then dancing with the head with blood streaming down their heads and faces......and I did turn shakahari...no meat for the next 7 days.

All in all it was a good time....I enjoyed it, will go again next year, will be better prepared for this ...don't know when but I will doa documentry...probably next year....fingers crossed...

Just for the record

2008-07-23T20:10:00.003+05:30

Shubho is in kolkata...
Prashant is somewhere in America
Shaji is going to chennai
Gaurav is in Chennai
Sunil is in Airtel
Soumya is in germany now
Sanjit is in office
Sulogna is in office
I still do not have net at home

I AM BORED, (hastily)... aur shadi is not the answer

I was born today...33 years ago...

2008-07-22T20:10:00.000+05:30

there is something special about these...11,22,33,44...e.t.c something like the eleventeenth birthday of Bilbo Baggins...though I do not think I will live that far or long....it is like crossing the line, so today I started the journey of crossing this threshold...unfortunately nothing can stop this process now...the time machine has not become popular and it is certainly not cheap for a single household to buy..mass production never took off..

Just the question of getting old has eaten my brain for sometime now....Question is have I done anything ...problem is nothing I do will ever satisfy me after the Madhya pradesh trip...

So what I have not done...

1. travelled in a bike to LEH
2. been to the everest base camp
3. travelled the silk route
4. seen amazon forest
5. seen a Hayena
6. LEFT MY JOB again

In short nothing special... in the last 33 years.. though my father would disagree...saying that I completed my formal education itself is hugh task in only 15 years ,I should be awarded a Nobel prize for such great feat

Never mind ...life is hard...I chose to live it....hopefully.

Let's see what changes in the next 10....

Worst thing I had today

2008-06-30T00:03:00.000+05:30

hmm...this POST is dedicated to Shaji Cherian...
The man who made something and called it TEA....the worst one I had in my life...I propose that he should be given that "something " that he calls TEA forever pity Betsy makes awesome tea...

Let me try to describe it............................

half cream milk mixed with water in a ratio of .5 to 3 where .5 is water, boiled and with sugar with a green tea dip.....

So weall said that it is no good at all...

Second try...

The above mix with the green tea et all and a packet of earl gray tea bag....uguh.....

Result...

White tea with uh... skin

If you can imagine..we saw and suffered

Meaningful

2008-06-14T17:48:00.000+05:30

Very few...understand the meaning of a meaningful life, and i for one is a living example... just do not have my priorities right, unfortunate as it is Job is still the top dog in this list.

"Part2:Hazrat Nizammudin to New Delhi Via Madhya Pradesh --- The SALS

2008-04-13T19:13:00.000+05:30

The problem with these kind of posts are that it takes a long time to complete them...and especially for me who has to go to a cyber cafe to complete these kind of things it is hell but then " life is a bitch and then some"

So I am stopping now on this posts....

Part2:Hazrat Nizammudin to New Delhi Via Madhya Pradesh --- Ahoy to Kanha

2008-03-24T12:46:00.000+05:30

The train journey itself remained quite uneventfull except for a few instances,
1 Making friends with the kids2 Food from commesum in Agra3 Sitting in the attendant bench at night looking out of the door4 listining to actual Hindi after a long time with words like swastha, aavashyek e.t.c.... 5 Making plans to buy a toothpaste in one of the stations6 Taking our bunk back after giving it to somebody else as the TT would have required it
After food in Agra we decided to sleep, with Prashant on the top bunk and me on the middle one. With the bed being set the night quitly passed and gave way to the morning sunlight...
Being woken up by Prashant is not a pleasent feeling you can ask Alok Aggarwal....
Anyway the day started with me smoothly sliding down the bunk, realizing\told that we do not have any toothpaste...nevermind...Datoon hai...chalega....is the potty clean...yup...with liquid sopa....amazing ...three cheers to Indian railways..... life is good
( For those who do not know me...Potty is the most essential work a human does... there is nothing heavier than a ass full of potty)
Well with my mind and heart clear and most importantly with my Stomach crystal clean...I set upon the grim task of chewing on the datoon...after a considerable time... my mouth was clean...only thing foul coming out of it was the language...the breath was clean...lovely..
Jablapur....I have been here...actually...Madhya Pradesh is one place you can say I have been to.... did my Hotel Management from nagpur some 5 hrs of bus drive from here....... Also it is close by to Katni...the gateway to Morwa and to Singrauli...I did my schooling from there... so all in all I kinda belong even without knowing anything I somehow know...
All right...onwards we move...decide that we need to have a plan...and after a lot of planning again using sophisticated methods of initiution and feelings we decided that we will take the train from Bhopal to Delhi...with all the plans being crystal clear we walked to the reservation counters and filled in the form... filled everything except for one small detail the name\number of the train... never mind I said I will ask and fill it in.....as we do not know what is the avaiabitlity situation....
Stand in the queue ...my number ...5...after about 2 min the person in front of me moves out and joins another queue...Why??? Impatient people....ah after about 40 min my turn comes in and I was told that the form needs to be complete .....
KILL, DROWN,HACK,....just a few feelings that were coming to my mind so after a little bit letout we went back to the station for something not sure what and baught the Madhya pradesh MAP, still not toothpaste though...took a rickshaw to the place in Jabalpur where we could get some internet....cool...reached the square...had DOSA, idli e.t.c.. and onwards we walked to the internet cafe...booked our tickets and startedthe long march to the bus station...I did not realize that it was that far off...or that I am so out of practice ...unfit e.t.c..
Reached bus station, tore the sleeve of my shirt...ok....just rolled it a bit more...got the bus that we were lookin for ...and actually slept....this happens to me...I can sleep anywhere..anytime...poor Prashant...I ave no clue what He was doing...I guess clicking....
Mandla...again woken up by Prashant..abused...reminded him that I am elder to him and he should give respect.. :)
Sat down and after a lot of talk went out to get some food, drinks and most importantly Camera Rolls...
A new bus, definately better but slower than the previous one...it had to be...people in Calcutta would know of these buses ..1B, 2C e.t.c.Same speed, and same intentions...maximum filling...
There in after a few breaks the chai shop, with a difference, you can ask for some salt in your tea's and nobody will ask any questions or raise eyebrows apparently it is quite normal to do something like this...great.....I am with the freaks....I am home......

I AM IN KANHA

Part1:Hazrat Nizammudin to New Delhi Via Madhya Pradesh -- Delhi to Jabalpur

2008-03-23T15:18:00.000+05:30

Bit of a strange journey for me as well.... never having been to a journey without any final destinations
Actually the plan crashed quite at the start itself....I forgot that there was a training that i need to attend...small oversight .. big problem.... all but ended the plot...what an anticlimax...then standing on the verge of cancelling trip I get mail saying that I am not eligible as I had not responded to a set of questions related to the training ...Yahoo .......ignorance again bailed me out....HA HA HA HA AH A... i am going for the trip...nothing can stop me now.. the next steps were taken call up Prashant....Make plans I say....Tell my superiors that i will be gone for 5 working daysSend emails to my client about my inability to communicate for the next five days
Confirm the plan again...Prashant was thinking of going with some girl...made him realize that I am a better travel companion(young guys...do not see the point right away)Any ways with the plan all set and knowing that I would need to be in NOIDA by 12:30A.M to close on the complete plan, So the plan is to reach NOIDA by 12:30 and latest by 1 p.m because I need to be in office to fininsh up a few work items....(bugger)
obviously I was late...now that has to be expected.... so le3:25 PM 3/23/08ft office late reached home late requested Sanjit to drop me to NOIDA he agreed, left home late...as in the time that I was supposed to be in NOIDA i was leaving DWARKA (my place)...but this is normal....people who know me won't be shocked.....anyway as I do not travel on the same road twice( Main RAJA HUN) however I had to reach the same destinantion...heregoes....
DWARKA-DHAULAKUAN-SOMEWHERE IN DELHI Prashant calls up, gave him the longitude and latitude he gave us another set of directions and voila we were supposed to reach somewhere we reac hed cannaught place...ah...never mind...35 min of high tech tracking through satellites and a talking GPS systems with great speech patterns kinda like the computer in HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO GALAXY...and NOIDA it is where we reached after about 2 hrs to speed driving
Lunch...love it food here, the best veg. food in NCR....
Next up get everything, put in Sanjit's car and start of to the station, reach the station, and get in the train sit in the allocated seats and incidently the train started right on time, quite unexpected I say.......
And Peta takes his camera out and starts connecting with people in the train especially the attendants......
And i start contempleting about my life...had a tough week\year needed this journey to unwind

Social networking and net

2008-02-26T20:36:00.000+05:30

That would be my next topic

Old City new city

2008-02-26T20:14:00.000+05:30

Ahh...Chandani Chowk...a fairytale place I tell you... the word amazing is just not the correct word to describe it...there is so much there.... u really need to look really...for me personally...it is definitely heaven...people, emotions, drama u ask for it and it unfolds right in front of you as if by Magic... nothing else can explain the open arm friendship, the " Oh you need help ..here I am" attitude.. and the most important " Being Humble"...you want to see it ...come here people...it is a different world.

It is usually the old parts of a city which have LIFE. be it CAl, or Delhi or Bangalore ... you just need to know the rules and you are in the team...

Whichever city you are in just for a day...leave your pizza huts and Mcdonalds and visit these dhabas, sweet shops in the old city... trust me when I tell you...you will enjoy like you hav never done ever

Pregnent

2008-02-26T20:01:00.000+05:30

I am pregnant with ideas and the possibilities about what I will become.... I think an abortion is about to happen.....

Stop

2008-01-31T19:53:00.000+05:30

yup that is what my life has come to.....total stagnation...complete stop....full burnout....

It is said that rolling stone does not gather moss...I think i have become a tree...dead at that, rooted to one place neither growing tall nor increasing spread....

Nothing exites me anymore...recently saw the result of lot of hard work in my work... amazing by any standard...received a lot of accolades ...however just did not get exited...did not think that it mattered...people in my line of business would understand my problem I guess....

Need something to excite me...I think my 2006 failures has at last caught up.....need something to move myself mentally.....

As they say roll with the punches.... I wish I could

Things

2008-01-19T20:26:00.000+05:30

I have often noticed, of things past that we do not do any more....

I probably ate (yes siree , ate...well chewed rather) on a sugarcane after such a long time, it is years...so long ago that i don't even remember when was the last time

Saw my Father getting up at 5 in the morning to watch India in Australia ( Last time I remember was probably in the 80's in front of a black and white portable TV in Ranchi in the winters with the whole family in one room)

Ofcourse the culinary delights ..that my mother regularly churns out.... dying art I say...dying art...we are definately the blessed generations...cause the next one won't have any idea about Gujia's pithe's, e.t.c....

Failures

2008-01-19T20:21:00.000+05:30

hmmm..won't lie...the phiolosphopy is definately my brain child, however I got this idea after reading Prashant's post on relationship failures ....

Philosophy is a simple one....

If i don't do something I won't fail at that ...

Confused....

E.g....

I am not a failure in relationship cause...I am not in relationship....

Amazing...

Life is definately simple all you need is a correct vision

Marraige

2007-12-30T12:11:00.000+05:30

A Human must marry....WHY????

Is marraige the ultimate goal in life...is there nothing else...kya yehi hai akhari Manzil....and questions like it keep on flowing in my mind.....

You need a companion...you do not realize it now but when you are 50 you would know...

Well I think I will do just fine...as it is I do not like a lot of people...adding another emotional balance is not a requirement....

The house would become home....and yo would like to come back from work....I still like to come back from work...the problem is going to work ...

Are you afraid to take responsibility...no I am not, i am not ready to take unnecessary responsibilities..

I like the way I am..

Photos Updated

2007-12-23T18:18:00.000+05:30

Jaiselmer is updated in flicker

Din soman jaye na

2007-12-15T20:59:00.000+05:30

This is what my great grand father used to write in his diary every day...basically means that a " Day does not pass in the same way"....

Talking to DAD and MOM..and trying to know them better...also somehow...always seems to have a fascination for stories from their time....

I think their generation is the most blessed one.... they have seen so many changes...amazing....

Kudos to all of you.....

Jaiselmer

2007-12-08T21:04:00.000+05:30

hmmm... actually disappointing...especially from the sonar kella point of view.

The fort looks more like a hugh house with big walls, it is a city fort, did not find it impressive, the fort at Jodhpur was my measure... it was a disappointment, anyways, the thrill was there ...i guess all feluda fan's would understand...taking the same route of barmer e.t.c to Jaiselmer.

Things that Put you off : People... everybody seems to n\be the tout there, you are walking on the road, just stop and ask about anything as small as a pan ki dukan and you set yourself for the range of questions from them...

Where are you staying, how much does it cost, are you going to see the sand dunes....STOP.... I wish I could shout...

Anyways after reaching Jaiselmer got on a SUMO to take us to the hotel, it was located inside the fort, good place, nice rooms and more importantly clean bathrooms.

Time to eat: it seems none of the resturants are open between 3 and 6 so we had to do with a road side stall of pao bhaji and dahipuri...e.t.c...

Next day started out well.. saw the fort itself and then the taxi wala came to take us to the sand dunes.... ohhh man...the only thing missing here was water otherwise I would have thought that we are in Mumbai much less in Rajasthan...so many people....offff....

I did not like this place.

TOOOOOOOOO Commercial

Going to Jaiselmer

2007-11-10T18:47:00.000+05:30

A road going nowhere, that is where I want to be.

Have taken a lot of pics in the last few months, all I need to do now is to upload them, will do so after the Jaiselmer trip.

Yup parents are in I think I will be traveling now....

Change is Constant

2007-11-03T21:42:00.000+05:30

We invest on our insecurity

Not much, just made a few changes here, house is clean, parents are coming in, going to be fun...I hope

Held Back by what

2007-10-30T16:13:00.000+05:30

Reality is ruining my life -- Calvin and Hobbs

I would like to travel to different places in my life, top of the list is Mansarovar ki Yatra, followed closely by the Silk route and a trans himalayan trek followed by the Ankorvat temple.

Those are long term plans, what I don't understand is why I can't just pack my bag every friday and zoom off to the nearest station outside of delhi. Especially since no one is waiting for me, it seems there is just a pull from somewhere which holds me from becoming a partial nomad.

I should have been in Rishikesh on Saturday jumping on a raft rather than sitting in the office doing quality check on my team members, there has to be something better, now I undersand that i like to work, in fact I think i would like to succeed where I am working, and that is saying a lot, what i can't figure out is why on a saturday, what has gone wrong with me or am I just like this, lot of want very less need

Potential .. lots of BARF

2007-10-13T12:08:00.000+05:30

People have no clue who I am and more so what I am ........Good for them...

Philosophy

This philosophy stems from the view that evrybody has potential

therefore I am not Sachin Tendulkar or Ganguly or one of the khans or the Tata's or Birlas because one I have a different surname and secondly had I been one of the above they would not be what they are ( EGO)

it is like I am not first because had i been first the first boy/girl would not have been first... right....

Great philosophy

Too much about myself

2007-10-13T11:56:00.000+05:30

nah...not worth it...the depressing part of it ...I never knew that i was having fun at that time...ooooo the foolishness of the young....
after my last post...I was sooooooo depressed that I had to stop writing for a while, thus I am not writing any more about myself....after all i know everything about myself anyways...u actually cannot quiz me...I can actually challenge others ...In fact a discovery..I am the most knowledgeble about myself..I feel GREAT .....

Barkhana

2007-09-09T21:08:00.000+05:30

"Used to live such a uncomplicated life"

Our first cycle...a red colored hero...normal...cycle, with no gizmo's attached...and the pain of learning.

Learning to ride it ...half pedal, ( hmm..difficult to explain, you ride the cycle with one hand on the handle and the other on the bar, connecting the seat and the handle, with your legs pedalling )

shitting in the school..( very embarrasing), from here onwards I was disowned by my sisters

yoga classes in the school...

Death...of one of my classmates...sister of rakesh

The school was divided in several blocks or barracks...The school was located in Ramgarh cant( Infamous for bhinderwale rising)

Class three, being asked by teacher to become a murga..., watching suresh getting 11 players out in a game of tangri

asked to be part of the marching band

Contiue on our stay at Barkakhana...near Ranchi

2007-09-01T22:10:00.000+05:30

Hmmmm...slightly older now...so I remember more.....but of course...here it goes

PLESE REMEMBER THIS IS A AGE OF NO TELEVISION OR MOBILE PHONES, WE ARE TALKING A LONG TIME BACK

ALSO I WAS A GOOD LOOKING CHILD WITH BEAUTIFUL EYES

We went to Barkakhana, not exactly sure as to how I we reached from Singrauli to Barkhana, I think it was the train, however do not remember anything about the journey now..

The first memories were that of the rest house, do not remember the interior however what I remember is the gate a big wide one it was situated at the end of the street, we got a house which was at the other end of the same street.

We shifted to this quarter it had a wide and long Maidan ( Playground ) in front of the house, after that there was the main road and then the coal india (CCL) quarter where my Father was working.

Next was going to school, again not sure how this started, however we had two stands which were at the opposite ends of the street, one was stand 2 ( or the second stand where the bus used to stop, you would get a place to sit.) and the last or most probably the last stand were you WILL not get a place to sit. there were two buses a blue and a orange one I liked the blue one, it was somehow better and faster... do not know why...anyway even though we lived about two houses away from stand 2 and 7 or 8 houses away from the last stand we ( me and my sisters) very often missed the bus at stand 2 and when we got them our Father would be running to the last stand to give us our tiffins .....

The layout of the house was 2 bedroom with attached bathrooms a dining room a store room a Kitchen a drawing room with a small patio and a large aangan( not sure what is it called in english)

Had a big garage for the Jeep first and later on the Garage was extended for the sky blue ambassodor ( Mark 4) trhe first car dad bought...

Remember Rambilas Ji our driver ...very nice man...perhaps one person my father was lucky to get.

Also there were two two DOGS which was adopted by about 5 or 6 houses I remember the name of one...BHOLU...

The famous family of teachers who used to be called MADDA's, I went there for about two days...Their SON was called the CHOTKA MADDA....HA HA.., all the kids who used to go there did not like them...the SON (poor guy) was at a receiving end of lot of things...

They had a house with two small rooms whioch used to get filled with kids from all over BARKAKHANA,
our Neighbour's SON used to go there..DIPON ( Great family freinds, still in touche with them)...dipon was special( he is currently the General Manager of tamarind tree hotels), I have never seen or heard a person who was so liked and riduculed all my life...he was called Murga because of the the way the three hairs used to stand up ...in the middle of summers and it used to be hot he used to wear sweaters under his shirts beacuse that way he was not hurt when hit by BADA MADDA..used to carry Mungfali to the tuitions, always getting caught for the wrong reasons always getting beaten up, in cntrast to his brother Sutu DA, who was intelligent and composed, to add to all this Dipon used to stutter as well...

We ( My sisters and me) along with Dipon used to have a meeting as soon as we used to get beaten up by our parents, it usually was me and Rini , Jhini was not beaten I do not remember her getting beaten up at all. Funny thing was we were beaten because we did not study...and either Dipon would watch us getting beaten or we would see Dipon getting beaten up, which would result in a ill timed laugh and would then result in the chain reaction of beating from one house to another culminating at the middle spot in the partition wall with a meeting of voicing are opinion to each other about the beating.

...

Will Continue ....

My Life ...and what I remember

2007-08-19T22:07:00.000+05:30

My Earliest memories

Sitting in the porch of the coal India quarter in Singrauli early one morning shouting something to my Father, something related to 100…( loved zero’s…explains my grades in school..)
Playing in the front yard one afternoon, something hitting my head and being rushed inside..( My sister claimed that she threw the rock…I will take revenge…will make her watch THE Himesh collection.)
Lots of children playing the train
My mother dragging me to school
Going to school….
Throwing a stone to Manoj, which hit him on the head..( He remembered. and took revenge in about 10 years..)
looking at the projector…which was showing a movie in Coal India club
My father’s Jeep
the playground next to our house
Sitting on a big reclining chair in the front yard of our neighbour, arguing with Amit ( he was 2 yrs older than me) that it was the moon which was moving and not the clouds ( Always had different ways of looking at things .. Normal is boring)
My Father and me coming back from the school
Asking my class teacher for permission to go to the loo ( the act was a funny one.. it involves…raising your right hand in a form of a pledge and asking for permission…and the same ritual follows whenever you want to come inside)
playing with Chakri ( a thin sheet of tin cut in the shape of a circle…with two holes in it …you need to pass a string through the hole and then twirl the gadget…not really sure what it did afterwards

14. In coal India hospital in Ranchi when my father had met with an accident

15. Eating gulabjamuns and kala jamuns at the hospital gate

16. breaking my left hand...and the subsequent plaster

18. First time in my life I have seen the lift...though not sure exactly where....

That is all I remember of my 4th year of life......

AH...

2007-07-16T09:23:00.000+05:30

Please keep your children away from CBSE schools as they have sex education as a part of the curriculum.......let them be uneducated...as our relegion does not allow sex education....so says our former HRD minister Mr. Murli Manohar Joshi....man...has he heard about Kamasutra ... wait a min ..it is the schools.. they are showing XXX movies and giving out playboys and hustler's as text books.....now ..cmon..be serious.....what is he trying to do..

And then we have shiv sena.... they are for the Marathi cause...please show Marathi movies for 7 days in every multiplex during the prime time...so that they learn the language ... hello... are you kidding me....I am not going to spend 130 bucks for a Marathi movie so that I can learn the language...and culture....

When wll this stop... have the Nazi's come back ....

My Day So far

2007-07-13T08:23:00.000+05:30

Good thing about having multiple email accounts at work place is that you get to delete a lot of emails, kinda makes it worthwile to have more email accounts,, so that is how I started my day today...deleted a zillion emails from both of my email ID's ...read the emails sent by IG...forwarded .....checked the blogs...checked flicker......5 hrs passed...great...very productive day....

Ah few things I forgot to add....smoked 9 times....trip to the loo twice...trips to the pantry...25 times...that is where you get the lemon tea ( the worst tea you can get in your life.....why drink.... just so that I remember life is not easy.)

RAM

2007-07-12T15:35:00.000+05:30

Today was the first time when I did not open the sent Item of my mail box to check what was the name of my blog....realised another thing...I am not a writer...I am more of a reader...and it would be tough for me to become one.