Here is another long awaiting tag ... this one was by Solitaire... so here I am completing the impending and interesting “ing” tag ... :-p
Watching: saw "Jaane Tu Yaa Jaane Naa" today … this one gets two thumbs up from me … a cool, juvenile, invigorating and vivacious movie … liked it very much … will go for it again next week :)
Listening: Nowadays my playlist comprises of Jaane tu yaa Jaane Naaa – AR Rahman rocks yet again; Boond – Jal's new album (not very new, latest would be the right word i think; nice songs); Dus Kahaniya (not many people know that this movie actually has 10 lounge tracks as well … and a few of them are simply awesome); Khuda Ke Liye; ... and actually many others like Kailash Kher, Fuzon, Atif, Rahat Ali Khan etc
Wearing: yea I have been having a quite wearing time lately :-p okay okay I know this one doesn’t mean that …. fine… at this moment I am wearing - shorts & a white t-shirt... and a big grin :-)
Missing: a few of my naalayak friends who are all having a merry time in US summers … the worst thing is that when I was in the US … I had been missing them then too since most of them were back in Mumbai that time …
Hoping: to catch up with a school friend next weekend for sure (unfortunately for some reasons or the other I have not been able to make it for abt last 6-7 weekends in a row now … and we will be catching up after years)
Craving: had been craving for a nice cuppa tea in the past 2 weeks … spent most of my time in office and was fed up with the vending machine and my office’s canteen tea …
Finished Reading: As described in my post a few weeks back … finished reading "God's Debris" & "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" … I recommend the first one to those who (literally) like to get their head spun inside their skulls … very heavy but though provoking… and the second one is good too ... best i have read till date in terms of being unusual …
Thinking: at this point I am thinking about an answer for the below question ... [I have begun to get a lot candid nowadays on my blog]
Loving: For lack of a better answer; I am loving my blog … I mean both my blogs Serenity and QQ :)
Hating: the time when I can’t be in
ciao friends ...
Friends,
First of all, sorry for not visiting any of your blogs since the past few days as I have been having a torrid time at work this week; with situation as bad as sleeping for only 5-6 hrs in 3 days :) ... things are getting better now ...
And now here I am [this is me :)] breaking yet another sabbatical of sorts and taking up one of the two imminent tags ... this ones by ceedy ... and its kinda the myself essay we used to write during our Kindergarten days :) only a touch lengthier than that :) And this one also has also compelled me to come up with narcissism, self-introspection, confessions, candid avowals, immodesty, blabber etc etc :) so here I go ...
I am: a boy, my name is Hiren; I am 27 yrs old :)
I think: never consciously and never unnecessarily …
I know: that destiny has good things in store for me :) ...
I want: that all the people, whom I have acquainted with, to experience a gladdening emotion (like maybe a contented smile) whenever they think/talk about me...
I have: a bit of flab which I can and I should get away with :) [my weird habit related to gym is not helping this one though :-(]
I wish: *not able to express my exact emotion here* maybe just at a high level, I wish I can go back in time and prevent a cataclysm... [sorry peepz no details here]
I hate: people who are unkind to their parents, grand-parents, elders etc and ill-treat them or even talk ill about them.
I miss: my close friends as most of them have shifted base to Uncle Sam’s’ land ... and my maternal aunt, uncles, cousins …in the UK ... and nx nnn the most [crypted coz of the unable to express trait of me ...]
I fear: loneliness (not the literal one)
I feel: that no one can make (plan) life … it just happens !!! :)
I hear: nowadays, a lot of advice, recommendations and warnings to get married :)
I smell: scent of wet mud during the rain ...
I crave: for as much time possible (and more) with the people I care about...
I search: and hope for tranquility in life [this ones a cliché .. alright]
I wonder: how do so many people actually tolerate me and care for me :)
I regret: hmmm ... nothing as such ... no significant regrets !!!
I love: nature, adventure, serenity, get-together with friends, cricket, unix, challenging assignments, outdoors ... [sadly, none of these is the name of any girl :-(]
I ache: when I fail to live up to any expectations of anyone...
I am not: an atheist
I believe: A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be ...
I dance: with two left feet ... :) [except for garbas of course :)]
I sing: not to please others ... :)
I cry: only from within ... hvnt seen my tears at all since the time I can go back in my memory ...
I don’t always: lose my cool ... in fact never with my kins or friends …
I fight: a lot with my younger sister :-) … but she wins most of the times :-(
I write: yes … am a literate :)
I win: quite a few awards and recognitions at work :)
I lose: not without giving my best shot
I never: express my inner thoughts/tensions/apprehensions ... very very rarely can anyone make out when I am truly emotionally down ...
I always: trust my discretion and instincts
I confuse: my friends and family members with certain decisions of mine :)
I listen: a lot [per my friends I am a very good listener and problem solver (well, I am modest too … but for this post … I have kicked my modesty aside :)]]
I can usually be found: on the phone or internet or watching cricket when I am at home ...
I am scared: about not being able do all that I want to do for me and my near and dear ones.
I need: to find a soul mate :) [many people think it’s high time :)]
I am happy about: being born as hiren metalia ...
I imagine: this one is kinda weird … I do get lost in reveries but if u tell me to imagine a particular situation I cant do that impromptu … and while I am discussing my day dreaming here let me confess that sometimes I tend to hover down the fantasy lane....and visualize myself doing heroic things :) winning the man of the series in World Cup; preventing a catastrophic terror plot etc etc ...
pooooh ... I have never ever thought about myself so much ... :)
Let me know your impression about me after reading all this :)
ciao,
- hiren
This is one time of the year, when I feel very irritated with myself and helpless too ... the prime reason being that I have to resort to using the crappy means that I condemned so much a few years back.
I am talking about the managerial crap that I hated to receive from my managers .... But today how much ever I try to be objective, fair, transparent, and reasonable; there is no escape .... I do find myself resorting to some of that very crap while speaking to my subordinates ....
I have tried to reason this; haven’t got a very convincing explanation .... but I have at least understood that at times there is no way other than to beat around the bush .... am not trying to justify this but it’s a fact ... there are always a few situations when I have unwillingly had to just give fundas and no specific answers to the direct questions of my subordinates (sometimes I myself dont know the answers ... and sometimes its just not advisable or practical to share the answers wtih them ...)
Having said this I am not at all advocating for the managers who are walking stores of fundas :)
Anyways, during the last couple of days, I have received quite a few pearls of pathetic, creative and intellectual sms’s ... read those & njoi the same .. :)
My message to the world – "If you like me, raise your hand ... if not then raise your standards ..." ;) [full on attitude ... man .. awesome :-)]
Read on the fuel tank of a truck – "kam pi rani, bada mehenga hai yeh Iraq ka paani ..." [now who says truck wallahs are not intellectual and creative ???? In the light of the recent hullabaloo about the exorbitant hike in fuel prices .... it cant get more creative than this]
Aap aap ho toh kya aap ho, Hum hum hai toh kya hum hai
woh golgappa kya tasty hoga; jismein paani kum hai
isse bakwass sms bhejo; agar aap mein dum hai :)
[Can anyone of you beat this in the degree of its quotient content of pathetic ness???]
Lesson to learn from Vodafone: "job rotation"' the dog earlier with network has been now transferred to the customer care department :) [do we have a case-study here that can be used in the IIM curriculum??]
cheerio,
hiren
the night ... from Marine Lines to Sion .... aweeessommee .... drove at an average speed of 100 kmph and a top speed of 125 kmph .... simply blissfulllllll :) [not that I haven’t driven such mean machines at such speeds earlier … but never got a chance to do it in Mumbai .... driving a bike on the Marine Lines to Haji Ali strip at this speed was a ultra satiating experience] ... sadly had to depart with the bike at Sion as that dude lived there :( ... got into the car from there to home ... Sat was even better .... got together with some long-lost college friends and visited another friends place to congratulate him on becoming a dad ... then we all went to a sports bar to see the DD-XIP match ... played some pool [me unfortunately lost both the frames :(]... Sunday was a bit laid back... and for a change [and also to the surprise of my kins] did some work at home :) ... then saw the MI match on TV and caught up with a coupla friends in the evening ...
Thankfully I am back to my book reading habit.... the current book I have laid my hands on is "God's Debris" .... just started it yesterday late night …. so not much comments except that it's a bit unusual & i found the premise good enuff [this book is described as a thought experiment written for people who enjoy having their brains spun inside their skulls :)] … And surpris
ingly the author of this humor devoid book is Scott Adams (Dilbert creator). And the earlier one which I finished reading has been one of the most atypical book I have read till now ... but I liked it a lot ... its title is "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" .... written by Mark Haddon .... its very differently (unusually) scripted … its about the life of a child suffering with 'Asperger Syndrome' ... not a thriller, no suspense, no romance …but then too a nice read ... a bit heavy to start with, but gets intriguing after a while ...
The latest innovative idea by Solitaire about coming up with a matrimonial ad for self prompted me to post this amazing forward that I had received sometime back.
Disclaimer: These are not my views ... (although I am not saying that i dont agree to them :p) ...
Now that I have seen almost 26 years of my life and most of it without anyone who I could in the true sense call as a friend ... I have been thinking now for a while as to how my spouse oughta be ... [i wud differ here ... by GODs grace i have got a few friends in true sense]
I am not looking for only a beautiful, slim and an intelligent girl....They are all clichés. [cliches are good to have too ... actually :)] The ones that matter are: -
--> The first prerequisite I expect of my wife --- No it isn't the ability to understand me, that's the second ---- the first one's a sense of humour for me and all my nonsense. [not sure abt the dude who wrote this but in my case this ones gonna be the toughest ask for her :)]
--> She must sleep in my lap and allow me into hers. She must run her hand into my hair and fight me with pillows as often as she can. [Pillow fights ... this one will be kinda first for me ... have been involved only in fists fights till now :)]
--> She must allow me to disturb her, Which I will, --- no matter how busy and serious she is and I am --- , while she goes about our household chores. [You can bet your fortune on this one ... she is gonna be ultra-irritated by me]
--> She must sit with me shoulder in shoulder when we watch the late night movie together and must oblige to have a midnight walk anytime in the night. [Midnight walk ... thoda problem hai ... no good place for a midnight walk arnd :( ]
--> When the curry isn't nice and I stare into her eyes, she must straight away go and make an omlette for me. [uh huh .. m a pure veggie ... so daal-bhaath or khichdi or sandwich too would be just fine :) .... on after thoughts .... I hope that she knows how to prepare curry in the first place]
--> When she is downright tired she must flirt with me to win a cup of tea or a glass of cold water. She must be ready to blow a kiss any time any day and any place. [It would surely take a lot of flirting for this :) and blowing kisses ... ahem ahem]
--> She should call me nicknames and how innovative she coins out new ones the better and must be prepared to confront some deadly ones in return. [Nick names .... yea why not ???]
--> She got every right to beat me up when I annoy her while she watches those dready serials. [Dready seials ... this ones the toughest ask for me to bear :)]
--> She can also extract what she wants of me on women's day. [Why only Women's day?? She can do it everyday :)]
--> And I am also ready to share her pre-marital crushes and secrets. [You know I would surely like to know about those lucky guys who didnt have to suffer for their lifetime like me :)]
--> On those rare occasions when we might fight and then go on a mourning spree, it can continue for the night. The next morning must again be normal. [Hmmmmm .... why wait till morning ???]
--> I aint promising her a paradise but yes she will always get more of my love than our children. [Dude ... paradise, more love than children ??? ... not sure i i get this sentiment of yours ??? doesn't make any sense to me ...]
--> And finally, she must have a higher life expectancy than me. I may not be able to live without her ... [hai naa ekdum filmy ??? But i guess yea i would like this tooo ... :)]
--> And the biggest expectation that this dude missed out ... she has to agree to live with my other loves ... cricket the most important of them :)
So people now that you know my expectations ... references are most welcome !!!!
Take care peepz !!!
cheerio,
Hiren
"The misfit" .... well, all tees of my size were sold out .... so had to wear one that was a size shorter .... consequently making me look like "aspiring to be Salman Khan" :( ... but there was no option of not wearing the Mumbai Indian T-shirt ... was there ???? :) [let me hear an astounding Naaaah :)] so i decided to take this tarnishing :) and anyways no matter how many hours I spend in the gym .... I cant become Salman ..... coz I must be at least half a foot taller to him :p ... pooor he :) lol ... 
"The Ground" .... players ironing out their skills with the "Last Minute Revisions" :) before the match
"The Mexican Wave" .... Can you spot "the Mexican Wave" going on in this pic??? tried many times ..but in vain to capture it properly ... finally took a video :) [btw ... can you also spot any empty place to accommodate any more people in da stadium ???? There was no space left unoccupied] 
"Standing on the Edge" I think I said that a bit too early ... cricket enthusiasts can invent an empty place even when there is lack of it :)
"The Pretender" ... Nitesh wearing the MI t-shirt was actually rooting for the DDs.... his tongue out expression is more like a "Ohhhhhh" than a "Yeeaaaaaa" .... [this snap was after one of the sixes hit by Robin :) .... ]
"Dont you dare DareDevil me..." ... hmmm ... yea .... I can give that "I will beat the **** outta you" looks ... :)
"Taking your child to heights" ... is there anyway a team can afford to lose if it has supporters like this??? [the father gave his sweet little daughter an elevated view almost throughout the entire match and she seemed to be enjoying it thoroughly with incessantly clapping and waving her hands]
"MasterCard" …. There are some things that money can’t buy; for everything else there is Master Card :)
"Cowboy" ..... bang bang bang ....
"Bald Sachin" ... couldn't resist taking this one ... this kid sitting in front of us was very much engrossed in the game .... jumping at every possible ooohhs and aaahs with the crowd and then after jumping and all he would ask his sister whether it was a wicket or six or four :) .... amazing enthussiasm :)
"Child Labour" .... after all the political hullabaloo over cheerleaders ... while the DD team had banned cheerleaders altogether ... the MI team had a team of skool going kids [appeared to be so ...] performing as cheer leaders .... thus making many of us shout "Child Labour" cries time and again :)
"Save the World" .... and some compassionate guys also came up to the rescue of the cheerleaders citing a very noble cause .... any takers for this righteous cause ???
"Exit Nature Enter Virtual" ... a nice capture with the sun setting and the floodlights coming on …
"Time Please" …. we all taking a breather … [which didn’t last for more than 30 seconds though with Shaun Pollock getting rid of Mallik and getting us all up on our feet and dancing]
"Rockster kiddo" …. Now this kid sitting right behind us … was joining us in all our chants and antics … and moreover he was shouting and rooting at the top of his lungs …. Some of his comments were so innocent … "Arey Mcgrath raap raap …. Jaane de boundary" [urging Mcgrath to misfield and let the shot go for a boundary] ...
"Elated" … dancing in anticipation of the win ….
"Ecstatic" …. Jubilant after the win
"Victorious smiles" ….. Yes "V" rule :)
"Last and Best Shot" …. Showing our back to the world :) ….aint able to get time for blogger these days :( am caught up with loads of work post my 2 week vacation :( so get absolutely no time during my (extended) office hours (am signed off on gtalk as well for most of the time :( so no stress buster at all ... ) and add to it never ending meetings :( ... late evenings are spent watching IPL matches and later some telecons ...
hope will get back to normalcy soon ...
btw here’s a good quote which i think will make most of us relate to it :)
“If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all ...”
~ Joey Adams.
Take care yaaa’alll and have a splendid week ahead ...
ciao
~ hiren
(Korbo, Lodbo, Jeetbo …) :)
- the feeling of purity, un-adulteration .. all around …
I came across an intriguing piece of news; which revived an anecdote during my youngistan days (cant say childhood days as it was during junior college and terming it as adolescence days gets a bit out of context :p). First, excerpts from the news article, “Germans have come up with a suicide machine which can be used for Mercy-Killing (what beats me even after weighing all the different point of view is that how can a killing be attributed as merciful?). This machine can execute people in seconds and as per the lawyers it’s not illegal as it’s the person himself who will push the button.” Some crazy researchers and their crazier inventions …
So, now getting back to the revived anecdote; during those days, courtesy one of dad's influential friends; we used to get invitation passes or privileged entry to a lot of movie/TV related things like film shooting locales, special movie screenings by producers for distributors/buyers (this one used to be the best; I had seen a few movies even 6-8 months before their official release … I remember one of such was "DIL" … while I had also seen a couple of crappy ones which aren't released even after decade now … remember one from such lot as well .. it was something like "Kaaghaz ki Naav"), television shows etc and quite other TV related stuffs … and such trips were quite exciting back in those days (arnd 10 years back). So, one such time, I got passes to participate in a talk show “Kiron Kher Today” which used to be aired on Star Plus on Saturday's prime time. Not that I had even an iota of IQ to take part in a debate of even any average topic; but who used to care then; we would be seen on TV ... on Star Plus … yeaaaa… So, me along with a couple of school friends got all dressed up in our then best pair of jeans & shirt and reached the shooting location on time.
After we reached the set, there were a few assistants explaining the topic of debate to all participating audience and a few also providing readymade questions :). We were told that the topic was “Euthansia” ... hmmm those days ... couldn't even pronounce this word properly ... forget about understanding the meaning of it. So, somehow the guys out there explained the concept of mercy-killing and told us that the debate was whether to support it or not. (btw they had to explain this to almost 90% of the participating audience :)). The experts’ panel did comprise of 4-5 proficient doctors and Mrs Kher hosted the show with aplomb. I don’t really remember the questions discussed there … and the final consensus; but I remember that I did ask 3 questions of which 2 were aired on the show and 1 got edited (btw getting edited doesn’t mean getting censored)
A few years later I did eventually begin to understand the profound implication of this term (and its different perceptions - suicide, murder, mercy-killing etc); and have been thinking over it a lot of times. Even after not taking into account the strong legal resistance and the radical moral views on this … it’s one of those topics that would always spark an endless debate … For a moment it seems logical; it’s given that the patient’s ailment is incurable … and sufferings unbearable … the eventual human fate is just around the corner … what’s the harm in relieving him of the torment … that too only with his acquiescence (this ones called voluntary euthanasia and there’s something like involuntary euthanasia too for patients who are in no state to take a decision…) But on the flip side … it seems simple considering the above facts from a third persons view … but just for a second put yourself in the victims place. An ailing person can consent anything that would end his intolerable ordeal; or even worse imagine you to be one of patient’s kin and it would hurt like nothing else when faced with such a situation (forget the decision, the mere idea of thinking on these lines will be like subjecting the kins to one of the euthanasia machines)
Its pretty tough to decide whether to support it or not … but I think I would end up on the non-supporters side… as miracles do happen … science has failed at times … whatever the medics envisage … you never know the subject might begin to lead normal life after all … (and with all the Hindi News channels nowadays showing umpteen number of unbelievable miracles … it seems that miracles are happening too many and too often these days) … no one should die before his destined death … but again what makes me so sure that euthanasia is not destined death … what makes me so sure that euthanasia is just not another way of natural death like cancer, accidents, heart attacks … well I don’t know .. maybe intuition … maybe yearning … maybe just beliefs …
That’s about it … I think I will stop this … apologize for this abrupt end … but its getting all too serious now … and someone’s said humor is my forte … so let me not venture into an unknown territory :)
Take care friends,
- hiren
P.S.: The term euthanasia comes from the Greek words "eu” and “thanatos” which combined means “well death” or "dying well".
Friends,
At present, I am faced with a crucial dilemma ... no wait ... a couple of crucial dilemmas ... and am just not able to arrive at the decision(s) ... think that i will need to resort to the penny technique that i posted sometime during the incpetion stages of my blog ... hope i will be able to make the right decision using it ...
sry, hvnt been able to write anything in the past coupla weeks ... for fillers u can chk out a post i wrote long time back which kind of goes with this situation of mine ...
take care guys,
ciao
When i saw a comment on ma blog stating that I was tagged; i took it to be yet another invitation of that social networking site where people tag each other ... and having ignored such tag invitations umpteen times already, i was all set to disregard this one too and visited my frenz blog (who tagged me) with the intention of writing a comment on his blog in a very decent language (yea yea .. you got that right) to stop spamming. That’s when i got to know what actually this tag is all about ... trust me i found it weird and senseless to be doing this; but hell … i found it to be interesting too ... so here i am giving it a go ...
the rules of this tag are as below
-->Link to the person who tagged you and post the rules on your blog. - The weirdo who got me into this is Viral and unfortunately I don’t have the luxury to decide whether or not to get linked to him :)
-->Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself. - really doubt if i will be able to come up with 7 weird facts about me ... you know i am so close to being perfect :)
-->Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs. - Again not sure if i will be able to come up with 7 bakra/bakris to do this weird thing :) god knows why did the inventor of this tag thingie came up with this number 7; he would have been better off doing some feasibility analysis ...
-->Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. - this one is not that difficult; if i can take care of the previous ones ...
now below are 7 weird (read as unusual) facts about me ... actually took me an eternity to think of these ...
Avik – pending
Manali – pending
Kunal – pending
ciao juntaa,
hiren
With a pile of 300 résumés on his desk and a need to pick someone quickly, my boss told me to make calls on the bottom 50 and toss the rest.
"Throw away 250 résumés?" I asked, shocked. "What if the best candidates are in there?"
"You have a point," he said. "But then again, I don't need people with bad luck here."
- Becky Horowitz (Reader's digest)
