Quandary time ...

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

Chai Time ...

The 3WW prompt for this Wednesday; viz Apartment, Began & Numb; took me down memory lane to almost a year back to sometime during late Jan 2007. Well, during peak winter in the States; the diminishing of sunlight as early as 4 pm itself makes a depressing surrounding... and moreover in Chicago; the killer chilly winds blowing across ur face don't even make it possible to wander (by foot) around even a few blocks; no matter how much you are geared up.

Twas one such typical cold, windy Chicago winter twilight; and moreover I didn't have much work (for a change) to see the day off... hence it was getting all the more boring. Consequently, I left office around 4 and hopped across to my abode (luckily, against all norms; I had rented an apartment (on 31st floor :)) in downtown itself just across the road from my office :p ); but even the meager 60 seconds that are required to cross the street are enough for the cold Chicago winds to make their presence felt. As usual, I opened the apartment door with my fingers all gone numb due to the chill; threw the laptop to a corner and turned on some desi muzik. Now such a setup (wintry day, depressing environment, desi music:)) is apt for nostalgia to creep in; and as it is people like me (away from hometown, family, friends) are sitting duck targets for the nostalgic melancholy.

Luckily, I had figured out a way to drive away such "feeling-low" times (which didn’t always work though :)) there were a few pals who were game anytime (like me) for a readymade cup of tea… :) so buzzed them up and told them to come by in another 5 minutes … and as expected no one said they couldn't make it :) So, I entered the rarely frequented cooking quarter in my kitchen and began to make the much famed "Hiren ke haath ki chai"… (I was certain; that this fame was only a ploy by my friends in order to get readymade tea; but then this was the only useful thing I could do in kitchen … moreover I ended up for my luncheons/dinners at their place more often than not) … And the smart me, to live up to the reputation; would put in adrakh, elaichi, chai masala (this one from home) and wat not :) and take somewhere close to an eternity to prepare the chai.

So, within another 15 mins or so; all of them arrive; one thanking me as she was also getting royally bored; other showing off as he was doing a favor by leaving his work and coming for the tea and the last one cursing her manager :) Now, we all get our hands on the tea-mugs and the khakras, chakris, theplas etc etc … and settle down in the living room …

The tête-à-tête starts gradually… "Arey yaar yeh kya music lagaya hai?? Change kar. ", "abey muzik bandh kar, TBS laga … ‘Friends’ aa raha hoga", "hiren tu har baar itni mast chai kaise banata hai? ", "aaj office mein Smith ki band baj gayee … John ne hum logon ke saamne usko mast daat diyaa …", "arey yaar aise mausam mein chai peene ka mazza hi alag hai", "chai peene ka majaa toh baarish ke time pe aata hai yaar… mast baarish aur garam chai ka glass .. ", "Bhatt na kandaa bhajjiyaa and chaa …nothing can beat that … howsoever unhygienic that was :) wat say hiren? ", "Don’t forget Shiva ki chai", "ppl, chai toh mere college canteen mein mast milti thi; the best I have ever had still (giving an apologizing glance to me)", "jab bhi mera sar dard karta tha .. my mom used to prepare mast masala chai and i did be alright within mins ... ", "hiren yaad hai? apna woh lohegaon waala trek ... wahan woh raastein par stove rakhke chai bana raha tha ..." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . .... . . ... . . .. ..

And here we go… we ended up doing exactly what I wanted to stay away from, by calling these nuts …but believe me … "feeling nostalgic" with few friends around is far less distressing, and much better than standing by the apartment window all alone, sipping tea and getting drowned in reminiscences …

Give it a try !!!

Ciao friends, Take Care …

P.S.: - Now that I am back home, I no longer prepare tea; so all the requests for readymade tea will be forwarded to the nukkad waala chai tapri and he does make excellent chai … (you got to believe this as its coming from a pro himself) :)

Rest ...

I came across this blog where they publish three words as cues every Wednesday ... and one needs to come up with a write-up, story, sonnet, couplet or anything (expectantly meaningful :-) ) which includes the provided three words. Such an initiative is surely helpful to ppl like me who, in spite of wanting to write more often …, are challenged by the lack of topics/ideas (except cricket of course) to write about … so first kudos to the creator of the 3WW blog ... good idea dude :)

The 3WW words for this Wednesday are rest, twice and sidewalk. And here is my naïve attempt at this. Actually, I did try very hard at first to come up with some fictional, attention-grabbing, thrilling story; but the end product was a jumbled garb of sentences :-) so finally the saner half within me took control and just came up with my thoughts ... (having said that, if i would have published that jumbled garb ... it surely would have provided a good laugh to all of yaa :-) ) ... anyways let me begin now ...

The word rest straightaway brought the following quote by Sir John Lubbock to my mind “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time…” … appealing thought eh ????

But then today’s fast paced corporate/metro life has made such rest as a much craved for, once or twice a year sporadic luxury that too can be achieved only when coupled with the cost of a vacation. Physical rest is managed somehow; but it’s the peaceful rest of mind that’s what eluding most of the metropolitan dwellers.

Going for a long stroll along the sidewalk under serene night skies has become just a topic of conversation & prose in today’s existence. The demands of life, society, career etc have increased manifold and after a hectic and stressed week; all people yearn for is some physical relaxation during weekends along with completing the other social commitments.

I was having a discussion with a couple of friends on this topic (gotcha right … there’s no other interesting matter to discuss nowadays … life has become so boring & routine :-( …) to identify the root cause for this transformation (although ditched the process of doing the Pareto Analysis or preparing the Ishikawa diagram :) …) and the final verdict was that majority of the civilization has accepted the fact (or myth that’s debatable) that life has to this fast paced … else you would miss out … but there is this diminishing minority too who still find out time for their mental tranquility …

Anyways, lemme conclude this serious (yea i can be serious and preachy sometimes :)) post of mine with another quote … “The time to relax is when you don't have time for it…” … another appealing & thought provoking quote eh ???

ciao and take care !!!

Benefits of blogging ...

All yaa fellow bloggers ... check this out - "Regular blogging could improve your social life ..."

Blogging is doubling up as social networking possibility ... in addition to a place where one can let go of his/her views, ideas, writing skills etc ... ah haan ...

Move away orkut, hi5, friendster … :)

Future of indian sports and Jodhaa Akbar ...

Firstly, sorry for this weird title .. but couldn't think of anything else ... if anyone gets some better ideas after reading the post ... please feel free to suggest ...

Secondly, I had penned down the below post on 19 Jan 2008 (the day when India won the Test match at WACA); just couldn't put it on the blog earlier. Many (not that i have many readers :)) will find this post totally out of context or even un-apprehend-able (for yaa all, check out my take on Jodhaa Akbar in the P.S. note) ... but I am sure that die hard cricket/tennis fans will be able to relive the exact feeling that i wanted to convey from this post a month back ...

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Today (that's 19 Jan 2008)... the present that the Indian cricket team has given to all us cricket fanatics is just inimitable ... am sure that there would have been many moms/grand moms etc asking "Su thayu ???" (for non gujjus, this translates to "what happened ???") when their kids must have simply started screaming their lungs out and dancing too... when R P Singh's yorker uprooted Shaun Taits off stump ...

And for once, I was delighted with Star (Hindi) News creativity ... they were airing a nice slide show of snaps from this memorable win with the background score of Lagaan's "Chale Chalo" ... and when the line "Toot Gayee jo ungli utthi ... " came, Ricky Ponting's snap, the one where he had raised his finger at SCG to (incorrectly, cheatingly, unsportsman likely) pronounce Saurav as OUT, was shown ... and this moment surely got me smirking with pride...

And yes ... Ek aur Karega ???? this simple question of Kumble to Ishant Sharma will surely become a lingo close to all cricket lovers for years and years (i think even generations) to come ...

and also today, 19 Jan 2008 saw two Indian stellar performances down under ... one at the WACA ended up on the winning side and other at Melbourne sadly on the losing end ... I am talking about Ishant Sharma and Sania Mirza ... somehow i found a lot of similarities between the contests that they were having ..

---> both were fighting out against the best in the business ... one vs ponting (in particular) & other vs Venus Williams ...
---> both are young and inexperienced
---> both gave their rivals a torrid time. Even though Sania ended up losing the game; this was one of the hard fought win for Venus. (Believe me, I had a tough time shuttling between the tennis and the cricket match; Sania was playing awesome tennis)

Today gave a satisfying feeling about the future of Indian Sports ... just hope that these talents are groomed properly ... AMEN !!!

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P.S.: saw Jodhaa Akbar yesterday night; it’s an okay movie, magnificent sets, costumes and all, great direction/cinematography for sure ... but somehow i didn’t find anything great that would justify the rave reviews it is getting on all sites. And I am sure most of you all will find this berry funny ... but I enjoyed watching Rohit Jugraj's SuperStar (the one in which Kunal Khemu plays a double role) more than Jodhaa Akbar ...

JoJhol

I am back to end another of self imposed exiles of sorts by writing about Jo-Jhol ... nay... this has got nothing to do with the "Namesake" character Gogol ... this is a creative union of names of my friend aka “Jhol” and his latest* love interest “Jo” (as he likes to call her) …

I won’t bore ya’all by writing the nitigrities of their love isstory (read as none of us “close” friends too were aware of any of the happenings until his avowal very recently :)) ... just that this incident has reinstated my faith in a couple of maxims; so jotting those down on ma blog for the benefit of rest of my single friends …

--> Keep trying unless you succeed ...

Almost on the verge of giving away his dream (the one that he was dreaming since his adolescence days) of a love marriage; to the extent that he had also seen 3-4 girls following the dreaded process of arranged marriage (add to it he had met girls from remote places outta mumbai too :))... but then this kamina was still trying to pataofy girls ... and (unfortunately for Jo :)) he finally succeeded after 10 years** …. So friends, never lose hope and give up; success might just be round the corner J … (Always have the story of King Bruce and the Spider going on at the back of your mind …)

--> Destiny can strike out of the blue ...

Things that are meant to be are just meant to be … and totally unexpected situations can lead to what is destined which in itself is unbelievable until it happens … like who would have thought that two people from vastly different cultures and backgrounds, who have met in person just for handful number of days and are sited about 650 kms apart would decide to spend the rest of their life together …

hmmmm … will end this post with hearty Congratulations to Jhol & Jo and wish them luck for an awesome life together.

ciao friends n take care,
hiren

* use of the word “latest” here is intended to mean recent just in context of time and not in numeric context; although people knowing Jhol might want to disagree :P

** 5 in college + 5 at workplace. Efforts below the age of 18 do not count, so school & junior college years not considered.

P.S. 1: Real identities concealed only after extreme pleading by Jhol :) (m writing this with a smirky & devilish smile on my face ;)) & all brutes who might get itchy to cash on this post for their sadistic pleasures are forewarned not to reveal true names in the comment section …else they might face severe consequences (jhol dost, don’t worry, I will set the comment section to be moderated:))

P.S. 2: Most important of all; no one is allowed to use this post and write comments to the effect of giving advice to me for settling down etc etc …. In short no comments about me getting married and all will be entertained. :)

Last day of your life ...

A few days ago, someone on my organization's bulletin board posted that she wanted some ideas for a write-up for a topic "What will you do if u come to know that today is the last day of your life?" ... At first it struck me as a senseless topic for a write-up for an event (must be some weird kind of event to have such a topic for write-up) ... but then gradually the topic started intriguing me ... I was busy with meetings the whole day but this question lingered in the back of my mind the entire time ... & by the time to bed I actually realized that there would be very few more thought-provocating topics than this. What if really you came to know that it was the last day of your life ??? There will be a zillion things that you would still want to do in life …

A couple of situations come to my mind straight away ...

• All the prisoners who have been sentenced to death. What must be going through their mind & heart too? Each moment after the sentence, they exactly know the number of moments they will continue to be real and then just a memory. When I talk about prisoners; don’t just think about the hoodlums and antisocial elements; but a lot of our freedom fighters were also given death sentences.

• Zaheer (Jimmy Shergill's character) in Munnabhai MBBS; the instant he comes to know that he is going to die soon, he realizes that there is nothing he has still done in his life ... was just busy taking care of all responsibilities and now he was facing death with still wanting to do so much in life.

Now getting back to the crux of this post ... what I would do if I knew today is the last day of my life ... hmmmm ... maybe play a cricket match for the last time (and perform like the man of the match of course :)) ... or maybe watch Andaz Apna Apna one last time (am sure it would already be over 100 times by then) … and identify some friend to beat the shit outta him .... (Gogo saab, main marne se pehle ek baar isko peetnaa chahtaa hoon ...) .... or maybe spam the scrap books of all my friends on orkut or send a virus to all of them (this one is bringing out the always curbed sadistic side of me ...) or maybe complete the project report that I have to deliver next day (I have always been very responsible & dedicated when it comes to work …(having a angelic smile on my face)) … or maybe … forget it …don’t want to get into the sentimental stuff…

I think the best way to avoid this situation is to believe that “Today is the last day of some of your life …” .... Doesn't this simple quote say a lot ???? (No no ... I am not the kind of guy who seeks art of living sessions :) ... just smitten by the genuineness of this quote ...

And yes .... calling someone a monkey is not a racist remark and Ponting is a cry baby and Steve Bucknor should retire ... (how could I not write something abt the biggest cricketing controversy?) ....

ciao friends,

tag - a weird post ...

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 ...

1. Sleep has always alienated me; and i too keep the animosity burning by eluding it at every possible opportunity ... sleep is never into consideration at all in any of my planning ...

2. i despise a lot of vegetables (no hyperbole intended) and my family & roomies too have been at the end of their nerves to keep up with this peculiarity of mine ...

3. Any song that catches my attention - i can hear to it repeatedly in endless loop (rather than i can, i actually do this :)) ... and to add to the weirdosity (nice word ehh ???) even after hearing to the song countless times; i cant recollect the lyrics except for the couple of lines and the tune that might have caught my attention ...

4. i am a huge donor when it comes to Gyms; I have enrolled in gyms irrespective of my location and the gym costs (india, US etc) ... but i end up hitting the gym like a couple of days (on a higher side) per month :)

5. this one is more like a flaw in technique - in cricket while batting (of course on field and not on the comp), when i intend to hit big shots (which is almost every ball) my fore finger comes out of my grip and is stretched out on the backside handle and the neck of the bat ... (i know i run a risk of fracturing my finger like this ... but then that’s why it classifies as a weird habit) ... somehow this habit has its psychological effect on me ... (and all you buggers who are smirking now that they have got privy to this secret; they can use this to their advantage against me while bowling ... bring it on !!!)

6. my reading habit is really extreme; when i am onto it i finish a book in a matter of couple of nights ... and finish around 15-20 books in couple of months time ... and when somehow i stop reading i don’t read a book for months altogether ... currently i m into the not reading phase since last 5 months or so ... hope to switch to the other phase soon!!! Any suggestions to a good book???

7. now the last one ... and i hope ... actually, i pray … that my manager is not reading this ... i can come up with content for my blog posts only while working in office ... somehow even if i sit at home at leisure to write something i cannot come up with anything ... but while in office and amongst crunched schedule with meetings and other deadlines ... i tend to jot down stuff for the blog ... maybe stress & pressure gets the best out of me :)

now the bakra/bakris in alphabetical order ... although couldn’t think of 7 (didn’t want to tag people just for the sake of it… will add to this as and when I identify someone in the capacity to bring out his/her weird side :))

Ankush – pending
Avik – pending
Manali – pending
Kunal – pending

ciao juntaa,
hiren

Bad Luck ....

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)

Amazing point of view; aint it ????

Catching Up on last 3 months ...

Several times during this self exile of sorts since my last post and today ... I did put pen to paper to write something (pen/paper sounds better than type .. ain't it ?) but somehow never did manage to go farther than a couple of lines ...

Anyways, a lot has ensued during the last few months ... so lemme summarize the important stuff point wise para wise … (those who require more details can get in touch with me ;))

Let me start with something that will give most of my friends sadistic pleasure ... Yes ... I have grown a year older ... on Oct 31^st, I completed 27 years on earth (naturally of this birth ... with all these reincarnation movies coming up nowadays its good to be precise) ...

Another milestone I stumbled upon is that 5 years have gone by of my professional life ... (and also of my loyalty to Infosys:)) ... Damn … can't digest the fact that it is more than 5 years since I made the drastic transition from the enjoyable grueling of academic days to the ever demanding & competitive world of IT services ... Even in this world, all is happening seemingly too fast ... I have transitioned rapidly from a fresher to Software Engg to Analyst to Team Lead and now toddling towards managerial chores ...

Amongst all this; I earned an Excellence Award in my organization for my performance in 2007 (this is the third consecutive year that I have won this award :-) ) ... The award was presented by the Chak De India girl - Vidya (for those who just paid attention to her looks and can't recollect who Vidya ??? – She was the captain/goal keeper of the team…)

And yes how can I not mention the most prolific thing that has been happening all this while; my family members, relatives, close friends, not so close friends, neighbours, neighbours relatives and many other shubh chintaks can not stop advising (along with expert opinions, analysis, and believe it or not case studies too) me to get married and settle down in life … The pressure sure is mounting day by day … seems like some girl is going to suffer soon :-)

Lot has transpired in the world of sports too… the young Indian team won the T20 WC title :); MSD got promoted to lead the ODI team along with T20s (think of it ... he now leads SRT whom he has been idolizing all his time while growing up ... some guys do actually live their dreams...) RD was dropped from the ODI side ... Aussies continued their dominance over the rest of the world ... and Dhoni's boys swept Pak in the ODI series ... and yes this one needs a mention too ... Kimi Raikkonen won the F1 championship despite all odds (life sure is full of surprises) ...

Our very own bollywood too has some updates … RGVs aag has ceased … SLB has tried to do an RGV with Sawariyaa but he has to accept the fact that its impossible to beat RGV... OSO is just so-so … the pick of the lot in the last 3 months or so have been Johnny Gaddar, Jab We Met, Dhamaal to an extent …

Signing off for now and hopefully not for another exile … cya soon !!

Cheerio !!!

(A)AGony !!!!!

Even after reading (g)rave reviews by all possible media mediums; I had to give in to pressure by a couple of good friends (i know its tough to digest that anyone other than a foe can take you for such a movie; but then my friends have always been unpredictable and adventurous). I agreed to make a FOOL of myself by going to watch the disaster (one in a century types) RGV ki AAG ... (although I agreed only after making a deal with ma friends that no matter what we will leave the theatre in the Intermission). It was all the more agonizing for me (being the cricket fanatic that I am); as for this movie I was missing England’s run chase from the Ind-Eng 5th ODI match ...

So, finally after beating the Sunday evening Mumbai traffic; we managed to enter the theatre just before the show was about to start; and believe me I have been to theatre for many many pathetic movies which most of you would never dare to watch on TV too... but never ever in my lifetime I have seen a theatre so empty … that too on a Sunday :-) Well, nonetheless we made up our minds to at least derive some sadistic pleasure from this movie; settled down in our seats with pop corn, samosas, pepsi and then the defining moment struck ... here was Mohanlal in his hybrid Hindi taking some cops into flashback where he got two taporis to help him in his vengeance against dreaded hoodlum Babban ...

I won’t be able to give a detailed review of the film because I hardly saw the film for 20-25 minutes (that too adding up all the time that I was in there eating popcorn as I spent most of my time in the theatre lobby :) ) … but whatever I saw is enough for me to pronounce this film as the best effort to make the worst film in the history of bollywood … whoever say that B-grade flicks are unwatchable should watch this movie for 30 mins (if I advise anyone to watch the entire film .. I run a risk of getting charged for attempted murder)

But then God is great ... the multiplex where I had ended up for a torturous suicide; had plasma TVs in their lobbies and they were playing the IND-ENG ODI :-) So, for most part of the movie I ended up standing in the lobby watching the match :) (those who don’t believe in GOD do take note … RGVs AAG has done at least one good thing; it did amplify my faith in GOD). My friends had more endurance and patience to watch the film for a good 90 minutes … before they broke up …

But I can say that the end of this film is a BIG suspense … more so because there are not many who lived to see the end of the film … so hardly any one would know the climax of AAG !!! Can you believe this; a good 4-5 people left the screen even before the entry of Amitabh Babban.

Even if the original SHOLAY is released into the multiplexes; I am absolutely sure that it will do much much much better business both commercially and of entertaining the people.

P.S: I have never reviewed any film before this … but this time I thought that if I can save even one soul from watching this movie after reading this post of mine ... it would add up to my good deeds in life and I would feel like a doctor who saves a life !!!

Luck ...

He worked by day And toiled by night.
He gave up play And some delight.
Dry books he read, New things to learn.
And forged ahead, Success to earn.
He plodded on with Faith and pluck;
And when he won, they called it luck …

A nice little sonnet by an anonymous writer ... I am sure at some point, all of us have been at the receiving end of this :)

A nice addendum in the comments section by Neo -

One was asked- "Do you believe in luck?"and he replied -" How else do you justify your rival's success!!!!!

Just like that ...

It might seem that I am getting obsessed with cartoon strips of late :) ... but this one presents predicament of thousands in a plain simple sentence.


BTW this ones from "Just Like That" featured in today's TOI.

Saddened by today's Media ...

Not that this is something new or unexpected ... but when you look at the articles and footage and the melodrama created after just one sentence of Zaheer Khan in an interview to a news channel; you are forced to smirk at the desperate measures that media are taking to thrive in today's throat cutting competition ... and reinforces the business strategy of any field ... Give more of what sells rather than what makes sense !!!

Any of you sensible guys out there who must have got a chance to see the interview .. can easily figure out that it was just an innocent sentence which said .."Not really ... I was not tired as such ..." (What do u expect him to answer a question "Were you Tired???" ... do you expect him to say that "Yea .. I was dead tired !!!") ... and voila ... the media got fodder for their cricket gossip ... with headlines "Zaheer contradicts Dravid", "Zaheer takes on Dravid", "Zaheer's disclosure brings more embarrassment for Dravid", "Zaheer's beamer to Dravid", "Zaheers bouncer: I was ready for follow on" ... whereas in the interview Zak also followed up his comment saying that the follow-on was a team decision and he definitely went with the team decision ... never during his interview does one get the feeling that he opposed Dravid's decision of not enforcing the follow on ...

But just imagine what the number of people who wouldn't have seen the interview; will start thinking after reading/seeing all these about ZK as a team man?? Many will think that just one good performance has gone to his head ... Wat repercussions will this have on Zaks and RD's working relationship???

I do understand the competitiveness of today’s media due to which each one trying to come up with something that can lure in audience ... but how I and million others just wish that they would spend the same amount of time, enthusiasm and resources and focus on some REAL news !!!!

P.S: Having said this I would like to duly mention that our media has been doing a lot of nice, extreme and real journalism too .. which has been a triggering force for lot of improvements nation wide ... but just that all of them give more than required footage to such gossips .. which is what gets annoying at times ... you are surfing the news channels to get some news and you are bombarded with BREAKING news like these :-( well ... rather than annoying it makes me sad ...

Addendum to the last post ....

Another cartoon by Rajneesh ... on the similar lines to the last post ... i wouldnt say that this one relates to me .... but its nevertheless entertaining ... :)

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P.S: - I had obtained the soft copy of the last cartoon strip from Rajneesh himself ... and today he sent this related one across to me on his own ...

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@ Rajneesh -> thanks man ... and keep up the good work of making people smile !!!!

My state of mind ... literally

An excerpt from a fundoo cartoon strip "This is our life" by Rajneesh Kapoor. I couldn't help but smile after reading this one ... relates to me cent percent :-)

Cheers !!!

Resume Gaffes

A nice read for linkedin members ...

http://www.linkedin.com/answers/career-education/resume-writing/CAR_RSW/76934-7009368?trk=mh_viewq_2

Hum kis gali jaa rahe hai ???

"Hum kis gali jaa rahein hai ... apna koi thikana nahin ...."

I have always wondered how everyone tries to relate to some song/movie/incident in others life to their own. And I bet that almost 90 % of entire human race will relate to the above quoted prologue of one of Atif Aslam's song from his new album Doorie.

I have always admired (secretly though ;)) my friends, colleagues who were so clear about what their objectives in life and planned according to their goals ... and I am glad that most of them have been successful in doing so and are doing pretty well ... (Actually it’s not just the big professional and personal goals in life; I am more amazed at how they are clear about far more trivial things in day to day life)

But damn I am very bad (worse actually) at it ... so I have always coin a nice little excuse for that ... "I like to take life as it comes …" ... well I think I actually do… and by gods grace have been doing well without planning as well !!!

P.S : - Relating to ones own life ("philosophical crap" as most of my friends would put it ...) part of the song aside; this song is awesome to listen to as well with nice guitaring (if there is such a word)... give it an ear sometime and I am sure you will like it ...

Can't make up your mind ????

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No - not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping ...

This has happened to me ... and it works !!!! :-)

One more beginning ...

well ... i hv been reading tonnes of blogs of friends, friend's friends, strangers ... and every time i would finish reading one i would be compelled to write one myself ... not that i do not want to be left out of this blogging trend ... but am convinced that jotting down the learning's, observations, experiences (good & bad) etc of owns real life incidents has a calming effect somewhere or the other ... so i m ready to showcase my terrible writing skills to all :) so ppl BEWARE and get prepared for some torture ...