OFFSIDE !!

From my experiences . . .

2010-02-27T03:55:00.000-08:00

There is never a girl who is both beautiful and bubbly.

Why: I really don’t know why though. The good looking ones seldom smile. And for the ones who can’t stop smiling – are pretty much like your average multiplex movie. You have a good time, but are never really going to watch it again.
Corollary: The chick factor of the girl varies inversely with her joke comprehending/cracking capacity.

You will never be satisfied with the car you buy.

Why: Many a times, due to smart salesmanship. Ever wonder why you always have the Maruti swift and the Maruti SX4 standing next to each other in any car showroom? This would result in two things – You either end up going for the SX4, even if you know in your heart that it is going to take three job shifts to be able to manage the loan instalments inspite of the fact that you don’t even have a parking space for it in your building or you end up planning your next car, even before the current one is delivered to your house. Both ways, the salesman wins.

Whatever you do, you are never going to be the best.

Why: Probably, nature has something to do with it. The good adapt because they need to survive. The best, know they are the best and hence don’t adapt and get eliminated. Believe me; the show “Panchvi Pass se tej” was totally on this phenomenon. For standard fifth subjects, a fifth grader is much better than you are with all your knowledge.

The more you hit the gym, the more you put on weight.

Why: This is something which I am sure you will all agree. You want to get from 100 kilos to 70 kilos. You hit the gym. After the first month, your weight touches 90 kilos. Delighted, you decide to give yourselves a small treat and go ahead and feast on your favourite chicken kebab at some uncle’s wedding. This tasty kebab makes you swear that from now onwards, you would continue eating this and put in more hours at the gym to make up. Unfortunately, over a period of time, when you have too much work to handle and you have to prioritize, you decide that you can’t give up eating and you give up the gym. You are back to 105 kilos, 5 more than before.

The more processes a company has, the less work it makes its employees do.

Why: More processes, more people to ensure processes are met at every level. More time for work to be done and more time for employees to relax.

Your appraisals are always, as ever, at all levels, hogwash.

Why: With all knowledge based companies coming into business, appraisals are the new way of exerting superiority over employees. That’s the only reason most of your goal sheets contain goals that you will never achieve, thereby giving your bosses an opportunity to screw at as many places at possible.

In a group of friends where girls > guys, the guys are, for sure, gay.

Why: Well, computed on empirical basis. Give me a shout if you feel otherwise.

Always watch DVD rips of movies having love stories.

Why: So that you can at least fast forward irrelevant scenes and finish the movie in world record time. The heck, you can also do a shift + delete if you hate them so much.

While playing gully cricket, always take batting first and NEVER fielding.

Why: Again statistics. In my last 25 years of cricket matches, a glass always breaks in the first innings and never in the second innings. Once a glass breaks, the cricket match stops and you never, I mean never get to bat that day. Also, in some cases, you might never get to bat again in your life. When the pitch doesn’t matter, which foolish fellow would want to wait to bat for around an hour and get out first ball?

When a girl says “I love you”, never reconfirm.

Why: In this case, you are being plain stupid. When you ask “REALLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYY !”, you are doing the following three things:

a. Giving her chance to back out. And given your chances, there might not really be another chance.
b. Proving her assessment of you as a potential mate as wrong.
c. Testing her intelligence by asking her if she’s sure. And take it from your Viva experiences, when any person asks you really, it means you are fucking wrong.
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Watched Vinnaithandi Varuvaya today. Kinda okay.

A Story of our times . . .

2009-09-16T20:49:00.000-07:00

Not So True an incident. But this is pretty much what would happen, if South Indians decide to come out of the closet . . .

No offence intended !

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The phone rings at the Seshadri household. Five years after the Seshadris sent their son to the US, there isn’t a single phone that has hit them as hard as this one would . . .

Iyengar Boy said, “Mom, I've decided to get married."

The Seshadris were ecstatic to hear these words pop out of their only son’s mouth. But they were also afraid at the same time. And from what they had heard from their neighbours, the US “does things” to perfectly normal people.

Mrs Seshadri asked nervously, “Indian No? “

“Iyengar”

“Thank god ! We will see the girl tomorrow. I will inform all our relatives. Ha ! I will first call your atthai( (Aunt)). .. Her son went to the states and ended with one of those Punjabi or something like that ! But my son, Good boy, saw an Iyengar girl !! I am proud of you “

“Amma((Mother)) . . .”

“What Amma, I have never been so excited in my life. First we have to see the girl. Give me her address . . .”

“I can’t give you the girl’s address...”

“Why not ? is it because they don’t know ? We will convince her... Don’t worry “

“No, it’s because there is no girl . . . “

“ Ennada Solra ?? ((What the F??)) “

“I am involved with an Iyengar, not a girl but a BOY”

“Is this some kind of TV show ? Is some shaniyan ((ass****)) going to come to our house now and tell us that all this was a joke ? He’s going to come now, isn’t it ? “

“ No mom, no one’s going to come. This is real. I want to marry him and him only...”

His father retorted, “This is not Normal, you know that “

“ Appa ((Father)) who are you to say this is not normal ? How do you know this is not normal ? I am going to marry him and him only.” Saying this, he disconnected the phone.

The Seshadris were appalled and did what other parents would do when presented with such a private conversation. They called their entire extended family over to discuss it. Grandfathers, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, their sons and daughters, cousins, all of them extended to express their views on the issue over filter coffee and masala wada.

“What nonsense, Seshadri ?? “ Asked the Grandfather.

“Is that nut serious ? In our community, there are no gays. “

“Amma, Amma, What is gay ? “ interrupted a six year old Acchu, loudly.

“Sssssshu, Aachu, go outside and play with Kichu .. . “ said his Mother embarrassed.

“Kicchu, Gay na bad word da !! ((Gay is a bad word)) “said Aachu running out . . .

“Ssssssh, Aachu. I hope he gets a girlfriend...”

“Comm’on Sarita, He’s just 6 !! “

“The earlier the better and I am certainly not sending him to US”

The Aunt joined in at this moment, “ Not everyone is like that. My son married a Punjabi. But he atleast married a girl . . .”

“You know she has a beard rite ? “

“ Oh Please, Atleast she’s a girl . . .”

“Enough Enough” the grandfather interrupted. “This is not about her daughter-in-law’s beard. This is a serious issue.”

“There are so many fundamental complications, like during marriage, who will be the bride and who will be the groom ? Who will tie the mangal sutra to whom ? The bride is supposed to sit on her father’s lap. So, in this case, will the groom sit on the Mother’s lap ??? “

“Yea, look at the bright side. Seshadri, atleast you wouldn’t have to spend money on the silk sarees. Those Nalli B*******, really screw me up everytime there’s a wedding...”

“And also on that Mehendi thing. Does your son want it ?? “

Laughs .

Periappa((Father’s elder brother)) interferes, “ Does you future son-in-law , er . . . . Cook ?? “

“Don’t call him my son-in-law . . . “

“May be you should call him that. That way, he would get embarrassed and turn into one of us.”

“Nopes, he will elope then. That is not good for our family name.”

Another cousin added , “ I knew he was gay. Right from the day he cried when he was watching Kabhi Kushi Kabhi gum with “

“It’s Gham, not gum “

“Does it matter, all he’s done is given us that, GHAM !”

Periamma ((Father’s elder brother’s wife)) added another technical problem,”How the hell will they have a baby?“

Her son, straight and married to a girl answered, “Amma, adu US ma ...(It’s US, mother). They would have discovered a way to that too . . . “

At this time, Mr Gay-boy’s mother started crying, “ I knew this would happen. When I showed his horoscope to the astrologer living in the Natatmoeutleswaram district of Tamil Nadu, He mentioned that he would get married, but will be as if he is not married. . . .”

Mr Seshadri interrupted, “It’s all because of you. You wanted him to go to states and earn money in dollars. Had he been in a government job, he would not even have heard the gay word . . . “. He then turned to the boy’s other cousin, “ You are also 27, do you also turn into this gay stuff ? “

“You can’t turn into one Uncle . . .”

“shut up you fool. It’s all because of that Stupid Michael Jackson and that britaany .... “

At this time the phone rings. It’s his son again.

“Appa, I wanted to tell something...”

“Son, why do you want to turn gay, just marry some girl . . .”

“Any girl ?? “

“Yes, yes any girl .. .”

“A girl who’s black . . . “

“Yea, a girl would do . . . “

“ who’s divorced three times . . . “

“everyone gets divorced these days. . . a girl . . “

“has three children . . . “

“We all love children . . “

“ who eats non-veg, drinks three mugs of beer a day and will call you by your first name ? “

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Adapted from an email forward - No idea about its source !

Shruti Hassan makes her Debut @ OFFSIDE. Another reason to be straight !

16 Reasons to marry . . . .Rakhi Sawant !

2009-07-03T09:56:00.000-07:00

"Give me one fucking reason why you would marry Rakhi Sawant . . ."
I will give you sixteeen.
1. Consider the probability of your victory. You are a part of a reality show that is going to be judged by person having an IQ of 20 and one who considers third grade arithmatics as magic and neutralisation in chemistry a miracle of god !!
2. Face it. Accept it. There's a 50% probability that you might marry a female dumber than you are. You may as well marry on reality TV saving on all marriage expenses and all your relatives can watch it from their living room. if NDTV Imagine gets a sponsor, they might even send you on your Honeymoon !!
3. Beat the recession,yaar ! If You get kicked out after your company makes you run half marathons; all you need to do is ask your wife to dance for a year's expense to be taken care off !

4. The after marriage expenses. With a wife who thinks Barista is in France and doesn't understand English; for a picnic all you need to do is take to the nearest Ganesh Mandali who puts on music.
5. You have a girl, who's dumb,rich and has her own house in Mumbai. Still didn't get it ? ? ?
6. You can kiss her in public.In front of the press, its even better !!
7. With reality shows starting every sunday and your wife a part of almost all of them, you don't even have to be around for her. The heck, you can even have an affair. And as long as you speak in English, you are alive and happy.
8. You have a ready made and well rehearsed dance partner. You can partner her to a dance competition and "gyrate" your way to victory.
9. The amount you save on clothes. Your wife believes in austerity and like Mahatma Gandhi can't wear GUCCI, when half the country doesn't have a thing to wear.
10. Rent out her Remix collections. Some idiot sings, another mixes, she dances and you laugh your way to the bank !
11. Save yourself from the bashing of the MNS and the Sena. You can turn into a hindu and a marathi by marriage. And they Love her too ! ! !
12. Be a winner for a change. Be the neighbourhood celebrity that you always wanted to be. After all those years of being an "also ran", be the owner of a Onida TV that is , truly, "Neighbour's Envy, Owner's pride" ! ! !
13. You can visit all the Page 3 parties in Mumbai and meet all those people who made socialisng a science. You can be among those special few, who consider going to parties their occupation. If not for all these, marry her for atleast the free booze you get at these parties . . .
14. What else do you have to do in life ? You are either a business analyst working your ass-off for some investment banker or you are some stupid software engineer wasting your time over some 15000 lines of cobol code which no one in the earth makes a head or tail of. You think you can become famous doing either of the two ??
15. Because you want to be happy and not *gay*. With women willing to turn gay rather than wanting to marry you, this is probably the only chance to prove that your straight !
16. Because you truly love her. You Sat through 15 points of bullshit and tolerated this shit of a blog to read the sixteenth point. No one deserves her more than you do !!

Rakhi Sawant plans to marry over the next three months on NDTV Imagine. She has around 16 morons to choose from . . .

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Katrina Kaif - Cosmopolitan Scans . . . Gorgeous as ever.

15 days to 2009 . . .

2008-12-16T07:16:00.000-08:00

Great to be back, quite a big break and a lot of things happening in the past three months. So doing the honours, very briefly:

Aditya Harihar Save: He’s very much among the stars. After a turbulent past two months, Aditya departed after suffering from a brain related disorder. Sorry for him leaving us so soon and happy that he did not have to suffer any more. R.I.P

Terrorist Attacks and Mumbai: Wohi Purani Nayee Kahani. A**h***s arrive. Bomb the better part of Mumbai. Our Bureaucracy with all its sloth blames Pakistan and “requests” Pakistan to stop doing the same. Pakistan’s government denies the existence of Pakistan’s army and wants the Indian Cricket team to tour Pakistan as a good will gesture. BCCI decides that there isn’t enough money in Pakistan and would prefer the Champions T20 tournament to take place in Nanded, where no terrorist will ever strike. While all this goes on, Barkha Dutt, the whole and sole person entrusted with the responsibility of protecting India from all of satan’s forces calls all her sources and keeps discussing the same nonsense on We, the People every week.

I was really irritated by the way the whole event was covered. I have a cousin, who had a couple of his office staff caught in the Taj cross fire, who made it very clear that none of the news channels, including certain reputed ones, were reporting correct information. You need to be very dispassionate while you cover news and it’s high time that journalists be responsible and behave in a mature manner.

BTW, from when did the TAJ MAHAL hotel become the “Icon” of Mumbai???

I probably, am as weak in geography as I was in my third standard.

Life goes on . . .

Indian Cricket: Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Aaj Tak and India TV make a living out of this guy. Anyways, enjoy the honeymoon while it lasts.

Recession in the US: Why the hell are we in India bothered? Because foreign institutional investors are only people who can power the market to 21000 points. If they take their money from away from India, the sensex travels through the time machine and goes back to where it was in 2003. Two surds and one Harvard graduate could realize that one needs more that cutting basis points to make the economy strong and healthy. Pass the infrastructure projects that you guys are sitting on dudes, will probably get both the economy and the unemployment stats back on track.

CAT 2008: Don’t have the balls to calculate my score. Anyways, its better to have some fireworks go out in the New Year. Have already been kicked out by IIFT. Looking forward to JMET, SNAP, XAT and FMS. Hopefully, should send XAT out to the stands, the Priya Geddi way!!

Varun Rajkumar: Still working on the Mainframe. Yes, working. Really don’t know what more to tell, when I confess that I wrote this post while I was working on my company machine.The sub prime mortgage crisis has hit my account pretty hard; still we here are alive and hearty. I don’t know where or what to do after the end of January 2009, once the MBA results are out. Probably, the results would decide where/what I would do.

In certain cases, all one can do is pray.

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Signing out with a good anecdote:

As I was walked into DAV College Bhandup, searching for my JMET examination class room, I decided to relieve myself and save the trouble for searching for a loo later. I couldn’t find one at all, in the dim light of the college and finally found one.

I entered and just as I walked into, I saw a couple of girls staring at me, absolutely perplexed. Confused as I was, I continued walking, while I saw a whole bunch of girls at the Basin there. Scarred as hell at that, I ran out, much to the amusement of my friend waiting outside, who burst out laughing!! Reluctantly, I looked up and saw this clearly written, “GIRLS TOILET”!!!

I had mis read that as “Gents Toilet” instead. But what really was the knock out punch was this line by my friend …

“ Main shayad IIM main bhi ghus jaonga life main, Lekin tu ab jidhar gusa vahan kabhi nahi ghus paoonga”

Remembered the Hutch joke, Life does indeed come a full circle!!

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My best wishes to Sunil Yadav, who got hitched on the 30th of November 2008.

Anna Ivanovic, Dedicated to Rohit Bhute.

ROCKING ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-10-16T07:16:00.000-07:00

Two years and three months ...........

More than 1000 hours of Efforts in every section .....................

More than a 100 Full length Mock tests ................

More than 50 TIME, IMS and Career Launcher Mock Papers .............

After two disasterous CAT papers ...

Finally its My turn to smile ..........................................

Pray, guys that my CAT score is atleast this report card ....

Religion and Underwear !!

2008-09-14T05:41:00.000-07:00

Yesterday as the Delhi blasts happened, I was reading a book for the sixth time to kill time. While I read the email sent by the radical islam group called Indian Mujhahideen, I also came across a very interesting Malayalam anecdote in the book:

An old man whose son was working in the Gulf sent him a parcel of colourful shirt pieces. In the habit of wearing a konakam, a kind of underwear usually worn by oldies, the old man took the shirt piece, cut it up into konakams and started wearing them. Desirous of showing off his new-found affluence, the old man acquired the strange habit picking up a corner of his dhoti to display his colourful underwear. When acquaintances asked him about his new konakams, the old man was only too glad to say that his son had sent them all the way across the seas. One day, the old man, in a hurry to get some errand through, rushed out of home forgetting to wear his Vilayati underwear. On the street, the old gent started on his favourite trick; picking up the corner of his dhoti. The passersby seeing the sight could not help laughing. But the old man thought the smiles and the laughs were all in appreciation of his Vilayati Konakam. “This is nothing, I have 14 more”, he told those who cared to listen amid the hidden smiles.

The same it is with religion. It is like underwear: an important personal thing. Its display makes it vulgar and ridiculous. Religion has often been brought down from the sublime from the ridiculous, just like the Indian Mujhahideen say that they are doing Islam proud. Religion then is to the soul what underwear is to the body. And to all those who make a show of displaying their brand of religion on their sleve, I can only say what I would have liked to tell the old man,

“Sir, your bottom can be seen!”

Source of the Story: Believe it or not , Kushwant Singh’s Joke Book 4.
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Picture : Gul Panag, Speechless aren’t you !!

Beijing's Bolt!

2008-08-21T22:33:00.000-07:00

Opening ceremonies set the tone for any event. Consider the 2004 Olympic ceremony at Athens; the IOC before the ceremony had major concerns on the Athens Olympic committee’s organization capabilities. The splendid opening ceremony dispelled all those for sure, increasing expectations from the Beijing 2008 four years later.
The Organizing committee at London, for the 2012 Olympics has already issued statements confessing that Beijing would be a tough act to follow. Never a one to be fatalistic at any point of time; I am forced to agree that the showpiece in China was probably destiny’s way of acknowledging what China had set to achieve when they bid for the Olympics; to show the world that China had arrived. The Athletes obliged as well. Michael Phelps chucked Mark Spitz out of the Olympic record books. Usain Bolt – Well, he simply ran his way into the records in 9.69 seconds.
A world wide audience of over 4 billion viewers watched the opening ceremony at Beijing. Over a lakh of support staff was recruited for the 2 week event, increasing stakes like never before. China’s Human rights groups, Beijing’s high pollution levels and of course the Tibet twist was completely eclipsed by the round the clock show piece.
Yes, Stalin still lives in China. Instances of land grabbing and of course the compulsory shutting down of factories in Beijing threatened to take the sheen of the marvelous opening ceremony. But China ensured that the limelight stayed where it wanted. The heck, it managed fox the rain god as well with the revolutionary cloud seeding technique.
Traditionally, the Olympics have always made a hole in the host nation’s economy. After the 1976 Olympics; the city of Montreal mentioned that they have just now managed to clear all Olympic dues. Of course, Los Angeles and Barcelona have made profits, but with the amount of money China has spent, it remains to be seen if they can recover it soon as well.
India surely would be sweating The Commonwealth games are on a smaller scale but the last successful event managed by India was the 1982 Asian games. The Indians have struggled to organize a simple cricket match properly and the construction for all stadiums is behind schedule.
What has made the Olympics even better, is the performances by the home team. China had set a target for their athletes to top the overall medal standings and beat the USA in their home Olympics. They have achieved that, by winning more gold medals. Of course the track and field events are on, and the US might still edge China out, but they certainly have given them a run for their money. The Indians on the other hand have beaten their own record of two medals, which is very good, especially the ones in boxing and wrestling.
Finally, it feels really sad to see the Indian government sponsoring politicians and federations chiefs to Beijing with the tax payer’s money. The Indian contingent had a 56 member contingent, accompanied by 42 officials!
Picture: Amanda Beard, Former World Breast-Stroke Champion and one of the sexiest athletes ever, beating Kournikova and Sharapova hands down!
Have quite a few of this stunner. Let me know ...

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Today’s exchange rate:
1$ = Rs 43.60
At the Indian Visa office today,
1$ = Rs 47.5
When asked about the discrepancy, the officials simply mentioned that they had received orders from Delhi to charge the rates and offered no explanation.
“Sau main se 80 beimaan, phir bhi mera Bharat mahan !”

The Sequel !!

2008-08-05T08:00:00.000-07:00

I still get Kudos for the 14 page Marathon I had written for the batch of BE Electrical 06. It's amazing, but I am really delighted that atleast a few of my batch-mates, and most of them remember this for the right reasons. Ofcourse, I did get a couple of death-threats, and I have removed/chopped some names of that post. But, believe me, I still like to read and remember all the things that happened over the past four years.

About 2 and a half years since that post, just decided to milk the same cow and bring out a sequel. All of this, excluding the conversation at the end are real incidents. The conversation is inspired by a real incident that happened a year back at Amsterdam. Trust you guys would enjoy this. I have taken names of only those individuals, who I am certain would take this in the right spirits. I have used initials, which I am sure you guys would relate to as well.

Finally, I would like to thank all of you all for being a wonderful audience and please give me a shout in case of any concerns.

Finally a warning : Reader Discretion Strongly Advised.

Incident 1 :This probably was in third year sixth semester. This was during a lab session, in the DSP lab in our department. We had to write C/C++ programs and this particular computer was shared by YT, SS and I.
I was doing the coding and as always YT was busy. SS had already checked the program the other batches were made to write and had copied the whole program from them. She asked me if we could refer to her program, which I had refused. I managed to write the program, that wasn’t giving the desired output.
Our computer practical then used to be much like a fish market. Everyone keeps talking to each other and surfing the internet. SS was busy, keeping many engineers and of course YT busy.
“Program nahi chal raha hai … mera yeh program dekhega kya ??”
“Nahi.”
“Program Dekhega kya ???”
“Nahi.”
“Book dekhega ??????”
“Nahi.
Finally, after an hour, frustrated….
“VARUN…………..DIKHAOOOOOOOOO KYA?????????????????????”
Not only me, everybody looked at her.

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Incident 2:This happened in third year, fifth semester. We had our PCT presentation, for which we were busy working in the English communication lab. This was when, AM, came running over, completely in tears. She came straight to another guy, NS sitting next to me and whispered something in his ear. The culprit was Bhim(Ameya Kulkarni , was at that time madly in love with another gal, lets call her NK– for the uninitiated) who apparently had rejected her material in the final draft and probably (not sure about it !!) had given her a good dressing down.
“Yeh Bhim Saala bahut bhav maar raha hai. Saala topper ban gaya toh kya samajtha hai.”
To our Professor, “ Madam, this Bhim is acting too much !!........................... “

I looked behind, one engineer was laughing like never before. I couldn’t understand, as to what exactly was there to laugh about. So, Kophche main lekar , Pyar se poocha..

“Abe, Kya hua ?? Kyun has raha hai itna ??”
“Mereko pata hai ki Bhim despo hai, lekin aisa karega maine socha nahi!!”
At this point getting exactly what he’s trying to say, started laughing.
“Lagta hai, Bhim ke height se, FOOTBALL bhi squash ball lagta hai !! "

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Incident 3:After bunking a Numerical technique lecture, which was followed by an SP taken, Electrical Networks lecture. Bhim walked in coolly, with absolutely new qualms about making a delayed entrance in front of the HOD.
When SP asked as to why the previous lecture was bunked, he remarked,
“Madam, isko kuch seekhaneko aata nahi hai.”

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Incident 4: Here’s another masterpiece. OOAD lecture, after Ankur Dani finished arguing with PG that his design rocks.
Aditya Save to a bored Rohit Bhute,
“ Are, shot nako lavus. Dani panchvees madhun tees anayche prayatna kartoy”

Dani responded,

“ BAAAAAAssss! Ikade chalis anayche vaande hot aahet”.

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Incident 5:

A self obsessed Bhavesh Ranavat, after semester 5 results, which had about half our class as casualties remarked ,
“CHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp, Chirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp, Baba aeeeee, ek dam sahi result hai, ek dam sahi result hai, Swapnil Jadhav fifth hai, MERESE EK MARK PEEEEEECHE !!!”
Needless to say, He was dancing just like Amitabh Bacchan.

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This was something Bhise had told me, a masterpiece, good enough to be replaced here.
AB, a passionate Kashmiri, was explaining to his team members, the idea behind, “Panun Kashmir”, or an independent Kashmir state, as I interpreted it.

So as he was going on,
“Kassssshmir, will be one state, where all native Kashmiri citizens will live together. This will be our own land. This will be different from our both Countries…….”

Rajan Arora, suddenly remarked, “This is impossible….”
Charged up, AB retorted, “How can you say that ?? Kaise bata sakte ho tum ?? “

"Aisa possible hi nahi hai. Sab Pandit ek saath rahega, Saala ek bomb dalega toh Sab mar Jayega na ???? "

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No one who’s been to Amsterdam has ever returned without making the best use of the nightlife the city offers. Apparently, there was this Indian pair, who managed to do the impossible. The Mayor there is having a Felicitation ceremony there, to felicitate these heroes, who returned home, in every sense of the word “Unscathed!!!”.
Following was their infamous conversation that took place there. Read on…

Before I proceed certain character traits:
AK : Yea, you can call him Akshay Kumar as well. A staunch hindutva supporter, at times I don’t understand as to how this dude could have uttered the dialogues reported. With Amitabh Bacchan’s height and a fetish for girls with long hair, Katrina Kaif never had it better.

VB: Similar Guy. With an even similar ideology. Loves Muslim girls. Wonder if that’s why he loves Muslims so much.

The Conversation begins:
AK : Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, finally aa gaya apun. Saala kitna din ke baad, finally pahunch hi gaya.
VB: {Kaisa Despo hai !!} KADAK, ek dam Special kadak !!
AK: Aaare, VB, Kay Babe aahe ikade !! Me aata ekade yeoon sagla finish karnar aahe.
VB:{ Ooth gaya hai saale ka !} hmmmmmm…
AK: VB, tikade bhag…………. BANANA BAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! chal chal chal jaate hai chal….
VB: Abe jaa mat, ruk idhar !!!!!
AK: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, Kya cheez hai kya kadak hai !, chal be, aaaj apuneko game karneka hai ek dam kadak.
VB: {Paidaishi Gh**** hai, kaisa aadmi hai} dekh, naya desh hai apuneko kuch pata nahi hai. Saala Gora log apuneko nanga karke bhejega na kuch samjhega nahi. Aukat main re tu. Ud mat, bahar se photo nikal aur jaaaaate hain .
AK: KYUN ??????????????????? tu kya itna paisa karcha karke idhar photo nikalneko aaya hai kya ?? Abe andar chal… ek dam “BANANA BAR” main “BANANA” Gussaake aate hain.
VB : Mereko yeh sab pasand nahi hai. { Main Homo nahi hoon Bhaiiyon !!}
AK : {Yeh sach main pagal ho gaya hai , Aisa kaisa keh raha hai ? } BAAAABA AAAAee . Abe tu chal, apun ek dam jhing-jhing-jhing-jhing karke aate hain .((No idea what that means, guys. The Dutch caught this guy dancing there.))
VB : (Frustrated !) Abe Ch*****, tera kya utha hai ?? reh na chaddi main. Ud kyun raha hai ? tu kya saala itna paisa karch karke idhar maraneko aaya hai kya ??
AK: ((Now Damn serious !)) { Saala yeh mereko India main toh kuch karne diya nahi. Idhar bhi taaang ada raha hai. } Abe tu kya baat kar raha hai. ((Now comes the Master-stroke. The protagonist with the irritating ability of dragging Ayodhya into any conversation, gives the killer punch)) JIS TARAH AYODHYA MAIN JAAYEGA TOH MANDIR JAATE HAIN,AISA AMSTERDAM AAYEGA TOH BANANA BAR JAANEKA HI HAI !!
VB: {BH********, M********} Mereko aisa sab sexual exploitation pasand nahi hai.
AK : ????????????????????????????????????????????? Badve, ghar pe BP download kar kar ke dekhta hai. Idhar aake dekhega toh problem kya hai tereko ?
VB : BP ka experience alag hai.((SHAMAAAAAAAAAAJ !!)) Akela dekne ko Majja aata hai. Saaala yeh accha nahi hai. BP main sab kuch forcefully nahi hota hai.((Jaisa yeh jaakar dekhkar aaya hai udhar!!)) Aur Boyfriends ke saath karneka alag hai.
AK : {Yeh saala Chu**** galat time par harishchandra banta hai} Abe saale, kuch bhi pakha mat. TEREKO BEDADAI ((Bhavesh style !!)) Vikas DICK-Shit bhi ek saal baad America jaayega na, sab karke aayeega. Ek haramkhor Mumbai main Mara raha hai bina kaam ka. Who apun dono par hasega. Bol raha hoon chal….
VB : ((Even more irritated)) Tereko jaane ka hai, toh jaaakar gh*** mara. Main nahi aa raha hoon. Mera Sanskruti hai.. …. Mera …… hai, Mera …. Hai ..
AK: {Fed up, spots another ½ a dozen girls entering banana bar !!} Kaunsa Kruti ??? theek hai, tu idhar ruk, main udhar andar guskar 2 ghante main sab niptakar aata hai !!
VB : BH****** , mereko pata hai ki tu chamadi hai. Tera gharpe bolega toh tera kya hoga. Baki gaya bhad main tu Bh%&^&^* hai, tu M$%#&%^& hai, Tu….
((This guy has already left. Not ready to hear him at all.))

As VB looks into the river near by, he says to himself …
Saala jaana chahiye tha kya?? AK badva, kaisa chu**** hai, kaisa despo hai re. Mereko Saala FE main hi pata tha ki yeh kamina jaakar kisse na kisse ka rape karne wala hi hai. Saala, Mumbai main aukat main tha, idhar aakar saale ko chad gaya.
Main bhi saaala ch**** hai !! Mumbai main toh saala kitna ladkiyan gayee. Saala koi nahi pati. Ab yeh bhi nachega. Abe thuuuuu hai merepe…

By this time, AK, comes back running.
“Saale, Popat ho gaya be. Andar toh chale gaya. Mereko saala Gora bolta hai Banana lekar aa. Bh******, saala raat ko 10 baje ko Banana Ugaakar lekar aao kya ??”

Finally, Minisha Lamba and Deepika Padukone; Ranbir Kapoor is a Dickhead !

YOU ARE OFFSIDE !!!!!

2008-07-23T09:43:00.000-07:00

Here’s a surprise for you guys, I have decided to rename my blog.
For people who have known me well enough; this shouldn’t be much of a surprise. Being a bit of a maverick myself, and a very moody, argumentative guy, such impulsive changes are very much expected.
To tell the truth, I never really liked LOVEBLOG. It looked very girly, something which I would never associate myself with. There are certain things that never go together, like Fire and Ice, Rohit Bhute and Windows, Vidhyadhar Bhise and Muslim rights and finally Vikas Dixit and S***** S***** (am really not sure about the last one though!!). Similarly, this never went well with my image. Ofcourse, this was named LOVEBLOG in the first place for certain stupid reasons which I would not like to stress upon. Since the phase is over, I guess its pretty logical for LOVEBLOG to be a passé’ as well.
Nothing much changes I suppose. Personally, this blog I think stands pretty well in set of blogs that SPCE Electrical started. Content wise, Expect not much changes.
Rest all well. Thanks to economic problems world wide, all companies have been hit hard. The BFSI domain, very much the main contributor of software income for companies like TCS, Infosys, i-Flex etc has been hit hardest. Merrill Lynch, my current account has recorded surprising losses this quarter and this has hit projects hard in the company.
Software has been hit so hard, that my friend, with a mainframe profile and about two years work experience got a call from just a single company in two months time. Even that company, is yet to send him the offer letter a month after confirming his selection.
To switch companies, this certainly is not the right time. With no elections at the moment and markets responding well, things should pick up soon. So Guys, stay put where you are and hope for the best.
Test series at Sri-Lanka at this time of the year. Probably, in their best efforts to make more and more money the BCCI probably thought they would be able to buy out the rain gods as well. But as it seems at the end of the first day, Sri-Lankan rain gods have certainly higher morals than the Indian gods; it has not at all rained in Mumbai for the past fifteen days !!

A Rainy Day !!

2008-07-01T06:47:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Mumbai’s rain, I get another unplanned leave. Another blog post, this one’s unplanned as well.
I was going through my archives today and thought that I had become a bit toooooo-much CAT centric. Yes, it’s true that my life these days revolve around the SIMCATs and the MOCK CATs I give. But yes, I do have enjoyed a lot of other things as well.
Watched three movies this weekend. Ohh Boy, that was a lot of watching, but believe me, everything happened by chance. First, stumbled upon an Om Shanti Om VCD, that I had got while doing a cell phone recharge. Decided to watch it on Saturday afternoon. Was good timepass . Shahrukh Khan lives twice and Deepika Padukone has a ghost appearance. Inspite of all this, the movie was still good. Guess, that’s why Mallika Sherawat had once remarked,” Only Sex and Shah Rukh Khan sell! ” .
Watched Iron Man this Sunday at my friends place. Superhero comic stuff. Certain action sequences were excellent. Robert Downing Jr was excellent in the movie. Watch it once if possible. This was followed by another sport movie, “Balls of Fury”. A table tennis prodigy plays ping-pong and wins against the bad guys. ;-) This wasn’t as simple as this, but pretty much that.
Finally signed it off, by watching the disappointing Euro 2008 final between Spain and Germany. Pathetic German performance. Not a single clear cut chance for them. Torres took the goal well, but personally more than Spain winning it, the German’s lost it.

All this Gorkhaland agitation I have seen, takes me back to the wonderful Darjeeling trip that I had in the month of March 2008. Believe me when I say this, Darjeeling is very different from Bengal. A lot more like Nepal. Gorkhas are the natives there. I saw plenty of support there for the Tibetans then, for their agitation against China (which was at its peak then). I still saw outdated posters supporting Prashant Tamang, their local hero, who had won Indian Idol 3, more than a year ago.
The rented cabs we took for sight seeing had their drivers passionately displaying Gorkhaland badges and GJM party symbols all over themselves.
Nice place to visit, probably the only place along with Goa, where you would see more foreign nationals than Indians. Sunset at 4.30 PM and temperatures less than 5 degrees at night, during summer, what more does a hill station need!!
Another thing, the girls there look very pretty. Also visiting Nepal from there is just an hour’s drive. Visited Pashupati market in Nepal as well, the place from where many imported items are smuggled in private vehicles. Most of them seem to be fake though for have never seen imported perfumes and cosmetics sold for prices less than 1000 bucks !
Final Word : I demand a separate state of the City of Mumbai. India became a republic in 1950 and the government then, decided to do the most foolish thing ever done, divide India on linguistic basis. In retrospect, I feel that the British way of Presidencies (like the Mumbai Presidency, and the Madras Presidency) might have worked better. Or simply divide it into zones. Sometimes, I also do feel that the State Legislative assembly is unnecessary. Bring it all into the centre under one department and probably have divisions in that. Thanks to regional parties and their equations with the centre, nothing happens to any major issue. Issues like the Cauvery water issue, would have been over so easily.

Think of it, No Shivsena, no DMK, no TDP, no GJM. Just one India !!

Picture : I don't know who is this. Caption below this picture : She looked at the mirror and asked about her waist. The mirror blushed.

Feast for the Eyes !!!

2008-06-12T08:41:00.000-07:00

Nothing to write about. Absolutely nothing to write about. Just wanted to put this one immediately. Have found Aishwarya's replacement ;-) what say guys ??

Somethings really deserve a Royale... Don't they !!

Sad days ahead :-(

2008-05-27T07:53:00.000-07:00

Six months to CAT. Here I am thinking about what needs to be done next for to make a fair attempt on probably world’s most competitive exam. For some crazy reason, I find myself aiming to get into very few A grade colleges; in fact less than what I had aspired for two years ago. Taking a deep breath, I silently made a list of colleges and the target scores one need to make the cut. I also took note of my highest scores in the corresponding exams that I had given this year, which together summed up a very sorry story.

Starting with CAT, all IIMs need at least a 99 percentile overall. My CAT scores at the maximum, including all my AIMCAT and other mock CAT scores have touched a 90 percentile @ CAT 2007. IIM Shillong needs only 85 percentile, but an impossible 80 % in the degree exams, about which I cannot do a thing.

MDI, NITIE and SPJAIN, all of which need around 98 percentile, which seems to be a very far shot from my pathetic 90%. For IIFT 2007, the cutoffs were around 32- 34 and I managed to score around 24.xx. For getting into IIT Mumbai, one needs a JMET rank of less than 300, I for one only managed 1000. XAT seems to be the only exam in striking distance with me managing around 96 percent overall and should have got a call, if not for a meager 64 percentile in Logic.

So at the moment, I am pretty much clueless as to what needs to be done. I am putting in the efforts but frankly am really worried about the amount of things that are not in my control. Remember, everything is on the percentile basis and I have never topped my class ever in my life, so the question of 100 percentile never arises.

This means that if I need a 99 percentile, I would have to probably do something that I have never achieved. A lot like a winning an F1 season on Debut or probably Bermuda winning the Cricket world cup. Odds against doing that are a 5 digit number.

As I stand looking at the daunting task in hand, wondering what needs to be done next to improve my scores, I read another story on the IIM OBC reservations. “Control the Controllable!!” These things are out of your control dude… no use bothering about them.

I amazed at how easily people want the easy way out. The best way to probably get into an higher education colleges is probably to be born a SC/ST. Even better if you are an NT (Nomadic Tribe – 1,2,3). I do understand that these people are really poor and reservations are a way to uplift these communities. But seeing the way they are blatantly misused, do we really need such reservations ?

I remember a friend of mine, who was filthy rich and had joined private tuitions for all subjects in 12th standard. He had managed a score of 283 in PCM. He managed to get into Swami Vivekanand Engg college, which closes for general category students anywhere around 295-296. He was an OBC. I have another instance of a friend in Engineering, who had managed to get into SPCE through a category.

The way things are going if you are a Brahmin, one having not enough money to pay donation, with no contacts in the management of any of the colleges, not from the land of Kashmir, not a grandson of a freedom fighter,does not have a parent in the army and finally a male (33% for Girls in Engineering ;-)), you need to score 99.xx percent/percentile. Else you can rot in hell !!

I was always proud of the fact that my ancestors were learned men, well respected by all members of the society and exploited the society then for their ignorance. I wish instead, that they had probably demonstrated in front of a British cavalcade, for it would have at least left me a more realistic target to achieve, in any and every exam !

Asin, look out for her in Aamir Khan's Ghajini remake.

My life continues...

2008-05-03T09:00:00.000-07:00

A few things to be mentioned, before I start again :
1. I got my SIBM reject letter 2 months back. Did not get selected, scored a poor 89.5 in GD and PI. I know guys getting around 100 getting the call. So, back to CAT business this year.
2. Now for some good news : My Project has finally been transitioned out to Kolkata. I was sent to Kolkata to complete the Knowledge transition and provide secondary support for about a month.
3. I got a wonderful appreciation mail, from a senior onsite associate, from the Client, From our Onsite co-ordinate and also our Group Lead. After all those reject letters, finally something good happens !! :-)
4. Had a nice time there and also at Darjeeling. Will probably upload the pics sometime later. Met another good looking North East girl at Kolkata, Nothing happenned ;-)
5. Got Released out of my account, due to no projects available. Currently on the bench; Spending time reading a few Cobol books and also preparing for CAT this year.
6. Don't know whether this is good or bad news , Am a lot into Philosophy these days. But, "itna pharak nahi pada hai !".
7. Another important point : Have lost my cellphone and hence also my contacts. My number remains the same, please SMS me your contact numbers, so that I can keep troubling you all from time to time.
8. B school news : Hrishikesh Thite made it to IIM C; another trainee mate of mine, Anuj Kumar made it to IIM A. Ameya should join MDI - Gurgaon as well. The best in life to all the three here. Hopefully, Aditya Save should make it into MDI as well; that clears some of the competition for next year ;-)
9. Finally, its great to be back here. I wanted to put in a detailed account of my Kolkata trip, but unfortunately left the draft at my office PC in Kolkata. Anyways, will probably let you guys know, when we meet later. No pictures today, will upload one the next time.

Till then , Cya and watch out for this space !!

Pune , SIBM, Et all !!

2008-02-08T08:46:00.001-08:00

About a week ago, Ameya and myself decided to come down to Pune.Ofcourse, some others were expected to join but finally we found the both of us at the State Transport Bus stand, travelling in a Volvo to Pune. Amey for a change, made the trip much less of a nonsense, by not going over the top at any point in the trip (yes that did happen, but sometime much afterwards!).But thanks to him, I could live in with him at his flat in Pune. We visited a couple of temples near his residence, had a sumptuous meal and went to sleep for the day.

The next day, was the interview day. I got up, a bit late than usual and immediately took bath. Amey took me downstairs to his Aunt’s place for breakfast and tea. We got ready by around 1100 hours and moved out to SIBM. We started a bit early and decided to have lunch some where near SIBM, as this would mean less travelling for me after lunch. We did not find any restuarants and finally settled for the Symbiosis canteen.

The canteen was decent. Just about the size of our college canteen, but a lot more variety available. It had a lot of students, especially girls from the nearby health sciences and the law college, but hardly could I see anyone with the SIBM blazer or t shirt (Very much their uniform you can say). The canteen wasn’t very crowded, but certainly was almost full. I had Masala Dosa (though I wanted only a Sada Dosa, the cook there was a more than generous I should say !) and Amey ate god knows what. Finally, after another half an hours wait at the canteen, I went to the SIBM entrance building and was greeted by a smiling member of the admissions team

“Welcome to SIBM. Please have your call letter, SNAP score card and Admit card ready for scrutiny.”

I adjusted my tie and had a look upwards. The SIBM building was just about two floors and was in the roadside. Other than the building, there was absolutely nothing that it could call its own, as everything else was shared by the other Symbiosis sister institutes.

I got the relevant documents checked at the reception and then were asked to sit in a class room. I entered the classroom and saw it was full of students, around 150-200 of them. I asked another student and was advised to go to the last row. The whole batch for the day was divided into smaller groups for around 12 people (my group had 13, god knows why the extra competition!)

I sat next to a girl, who was from NIT Suratkal and had worked in Oracle for a year. She had got very good scores in XAT (99.29) and also in other such exams and still wanted to get into SIBM somehow. I almost laughed at that and told her to aim for higher and better institutes; I don’t know what made me say that to a total stranger, but I am of the opinion that after taking scores as high as that, you should certainly aim higher than settle for an ordinary institute. Other than than, I did not talk to anyone else and after an hour or so, we were asked to have snacks at 1340 hours. Took a couple of sandwiches and had a cup of Tea to keep me fresh.

We were to have the following that day : Group Discussions(GD), Personal Interview (PI), Psychometric Tests (PT) and finally Group Tasks. Different Groups started with different acivities. We had our Group Discussion first, which under the scenario is probably was the best to start with. We were asked to go to a room and were made to sit in a semi circular arrangement. There were two panel members, one of them a colonel and a Communications Professor. The colonel took our names and we were reminded of all the rules in a GD. We were given a topic “Higher Education should be privatised” and were given 2 minutes to think over it before the GD began..

What started there was the worst GD I had ever witnessed to in my life. I haven’t undergone any training for the above and am not sure as to what panel members look out for in a GD. Some of them in my batch were shouting on top of their voices and some of them not even bothering to listen to what the others wer putting forth. Most of them I thought, lacked basic communication skills and very inarticulate, taking over a minute to put across a very silly point.

I myself could enter the GD only once. The girl next to me couldn’t enter at all. The Panel asked us to stop and made those who never made an attempt to join in. But I was never asked to talk. At the end, all of us were given 20 seconds to take a stand in the GD. I gave out a brief and to the point reply and finished it within 20 seconds. I was very satisfied with the finishing.

We were then made to sit in a room and wait for our interiews. I had some time now to get to know people from other parts of India. Most of them were North Indians, one from Orrisa, an Infosys guy and then a couple others from the south. They had very peculiar names, having not even their father’s name appended to their first name.

The interviews began soon. Thanks to my name, as always, I was the last person to be interviewed in the group. I was taken upstairs and made me sit just outside the interview room. I met a girl there, who was very friendly, very much a Symbiosis trait, all the students I met were very well groomed.

I was sent in. I politely knocked the door and asked them if I could come in. One of the panelists smilled and asked me to have a seat. There were a total of three people. Two males and one female, lets call them M1, M2 and F1.

F1 : Hmmmmm, So Varun Rajkumar… very much a Mumbai guy. Born in Mumbai, school in Mumbai, College in Mumbai, working in Mumbai..

VR :<> (Smiles !!)

F1: You like Mumbai a lot ?? Why ??

VR: (Smiles again !!) Yes, I should say it’s a nice city to live in.

F1: So would you like to settle down in Mumbai itself ???

VR: <> (Smiles again !!), If given an oppurtunity, I certainly would like to settle down in Mumbai. I am living with my parents who are in Mumbai, I would like to Live with my family.

F1: Ahhhhhha, tell me something about your family…

VR: Told them about my father and his Consultancy Company, my mother and my sister.

M2: Tell me more about the kind of work your father does…

VR: Told them about my father’s company.

M2: Why MBA ??

VR:<> Told them about my ambitions and how I would like to take over from my family.

M1: Mr Varun, I see you have got 84.5 % in 12^th Std. How did you get into SPCE with such low marks ??

VR : <<>> Sir, I did not have any problems in getting into SPCE. The PCM marks are considered while counselling and my PCM marks of about 96 % was more than enough to get into SPCE.

M1: Sure ?? How did you get in with such low marks ??

VR:<<>> Got through by Merit Sir,…

M1: What was your rank ???

VR : Around 900…

M1: What ???? 900 and SPCE??? Can you get into SPCE with such low marks ???

VR :<<>> Sir, I had no problems getting into SPCE. I took admission into electrical, while during my time, people mostly wanted Electronics and Telecom… just like in 2000- 01, people used to go after IT and Computer Science. <<>>

Most people like EXTC or ELEC, because they are more glamourous than the other fields like Electrical or Mechanical. I thought that Electrical was just as good as the others and decided to go for it. And I had no problems getting in, In fact there were 14 seats left after I took my admission.

M1: Really ?? At what percentage did it close??

VR : <<>> It might have closed around 285-286 ( Maaf Karo Thite bhai !!! )

M1: Hmmmmmmmm, So around rank ??

VR: <<>> maybe around rank 1000….

F1:<<>> Alright, Thank you Varun.

VR : Thanks a lot.

Was asked everything except the ones I had prepared for. Personally, I was slightly disturbed when one of the panelists decided to beat around the bush and this I think might go against me. Anyway, things would be clear by the 16^th of February.

We were made to wait for another 2 hours for our Pyshometric test and group test. We were lead into a very spacious room and then were given sheets to answer around 10 questions in two and a half minutes. I was not able to note a trend in any of the questions and marked whatever I felt was good enough. We were then asked to rate to five animals according to our preference.

I rated those according to my preference of usefulness:

1- Horse

2- Cow

3- Sheep

4- Pig

5- Tiger

In retrospect, I feel I could have rated Cow higher than the horse. We were then given our group task, which was to have our entire group standing on three bricks (WTF ?????). Half our team was blind folded (I was not blind folded !!) and we were given 30 seconds to strategize and about 2 minutes to implement it. There was a guy in our group, who was pretty dominating, never really listened to others. Though I did manage to put through my points and gave him a nice idea, which everyone agreed to and even implemented, it was very much a chaos.

The Panel then asked us questions and tried to put pressure on us. The guy I mentioned above, tried being a bit oversmart in his answers, but the the faculty reprimanded him for his attitude and showed him the slot (Deserves it, very much!!). The girl, I was refering too was complemented on the way she allowed herself to be lifted up by a guy for completing the task. I was neither castigated, nor was I praised. I was asked to give one word for Coffee, I said “Refreshing” , which was pretty good, I thought.

That was it. The whole process took about 6 hours in all, which I thought could have been reduced by planning better. I did mention this in the feedback and also praised their students for being very well mannered and well groomed. This certainly left a very good impression on me.

I met Ameya and Aditya (who had reached Pune by then) and had dinner. This was followed by a good stroll at night and then me and Ameya took Aditya’s interview. Gave him some tips !! ( We, of all people !!) and finally went to bed for a well deserved, good night’s sleep.

We got up at around 7.00 AM the next day and I took bath first. We then went for break fast at Ameya’s Aunt’s place and finally left for SIBM to drop Aditya at around 11.15 AM. Searched for a restaurant for about 15 minutes and finally settled for the SIBM canteen again!! Aditya went in at about 12.30 and then we spent a good hour sitting at SIBM’s garden space. What happened in that hour would be revealed later. Could very much be the turning point in not only my career, but also my life.

Amey wanted to visit his cousin in Kothrud, Pune.Went along with him and I must say that I had a nice time there. Finally did meet a girl, who pulls Amey’s leg better than I do!

We then went off to Swargate and booked tickets for the next days journey back to Mumbai. I decided to watch the latest “comedy” and very much a cliched flick called Sunday at E-Square Pune. Ameya being an Ayesha Takia fan, decided to join in. The movie was very ordinary, but certain sequences were very well executed. We then spent some time at Crossword, picked up Aditya, had dinner and went to sleep. Certainly, not before grilling Amey, for his mock PI!!. Believe me or not, Aditya turned out to be his nemesis, absolutely running though Amey. After a very enjoyable three days in Pune, we returned back to Mumbai.

Amey, made a U-turn at the last moment, cancelled his Pandharpur trip and returned to Mumbai on Monday morning with us.

I take this post to thank both Ameya and Aditya for the very good time I had with them and special thanks to Ameya for letting me stay in his house. I really hope that the rest of you guys can come with us to Pune the next time. We could really have a blast then.

A very nice picture of Gemma Atkinson for you guys. Christiano Ronaldo doesn’t have a clue of what he’s missing !! Another one , of the very beautiful Anna Ivanovic. Does anyone care about Sania Mirza any more ??? I rather watch her on TV than watch Sania at Banglore !!

As usual , coments and Brickbats welcome !!

Kat's the way !!

2008-01-14T19:37:00.000-08:00

Another apology will follows as expected. This is something I always aspire never to do, but the heck it always seems to happen. Six months, and absolutely no movement on LOVEBLOG is certainly disappointing. There was no motivation to write anything. But then, last night I was going through Bhise’s Blog and all his Baba-isms at work ! and finally decided that its time !! and yes uploading Katrina Kaif itself a reason enough to start again !!

Talking about it, “disappointment” seems to be very much the buzz word in my life at the moment. I don’t remember the last time, I studied so much and got such pathetic scores in any exam. The heck, I remember the ADIC paper in Second year, where we had been given an absolutely “Out of Context” paper and I still manage to get a half decent score. Nevertheless, unless a miracle happens on the 17^th of January 2008, it’s another year of hard and decent mainframe work. Congratulations to Bhim, Hrishikesh ,Aditya Save and of course some others, who have done themselves good by belling the CAT and hopefully should be making the big bucks very soon.

Talking about work, our project’s moving to another location in a couple of months, to Kolkotta of all places. Stereotyping someone as lazy is something that certainly should not be done. But an all communist state, with absolute love for lazing around, should probably be the last location where Mission Critical Project should be moved to. But then again, we get released without any pain and that’s certainly something that never happens in the Industry.

Have been giving tons of exams and chilling out with episodes of The 70s Show and Coupling (Watching them again!! probably for the 3^rd time!! ). Catch up both these shows on Star World whenever possible, both of them are really good and deserve applause!

Our college had an Alumni function on the 6^th of January 2008, very much on the same date as that of XAT, which would have deterred many of the pass outs of our batch. Ameya and I managed to reach only till Andheri Station at 1330 hrs and got to know that most of them had left college by then. So met Avadhoot at station and another Electronics passout Jimit there and went back home. Our college, I believe at planning to go Autonomous the VJTI way, which should happen for any institute to carve a niche for itself. But being autonomous requires plenty of corporate backing, which would hardly happen giving the haphazard way people were informed about the Alumni meet. None of us, received a postcard informing us about the same. True, it’s always the first of Sunday every New Year, but I still feel that we are worth a 15 or 30 paise postcard. Most of them did not get this information either.

A quick windup on some others : Vikas Dixit has gone to US for his Company. Well, a good 2 years there, which means we can book the Marriot Pool side for party when he comes back. I am in touch with Bhute via his Blog, and nice to know that he still finds time to fire up his computer. I for one, never manage to find time to come online, like I used to do everyday a couple of years ago. I haven’t touched my Keyboard for the past one year and am planning to revive all that again. Of course it would need plenty of practice on my part, but yes, this year I have decided, Life comes first, CAT later.

When I read about the Sydney Test Fiasco, I was wondering the amount of racist comments we used to make knowingly or unknowingly in college. For example : Mallu, for one is certainly a racist designation given to Poor Old Prakash. That was used to such an extent that Amar Pawar another friend and a fresher at second year, mistook that for his real name and almost wrote the same on his certificate!! I am still not sure as to whether Mallu is better or bad as a Monkey is, but the point is Prakash used to take it in the right spirits and that’s what was needed there as well. Laugh at it and forget it while you are off field. Of course, “Teri Maa Ki” certainly something that Symonds should be more concerned about than they pretty harmless Monkey!

Picture this time, the best of both worlds, Katrina kaif ! Copyrights belong to their respectie owners !

Finally, Wishing you all a very Happy New Year! Keep fighting over Hindutva and keep writing more about Italians. All of them certainly make very interesting reads and certainly keeps the spirit of the blogging community alive. One question for Bhise while signing off though…

The Devil , Why ??????

The BOSS of BOX OFFICE:

2007-06-24T06:34:00.000-07:00

Firstly, let me apologize to all Crazy Blog readers, who used to waste their bandwidth reading this blog of mine. Yes, every time I make a promise to continue blogging for life, every time I fail to keep up those. I know, I don’t get million hits a day, nor do I have half the world waiting to see those pictures I post. But then again, thanks to all those who supported me, I am back with a decent account.

Everything is going well. At the work front, we got a decent hike and also would be getting confirmed next week. Yes, a well deserved hike and also better roles to perform in the future. Otherwise, everything’s pretty much the usual. I was given Finance to specialize into here, which is a pretty tough system to work on for starters. But you feel good, when you are given this responsibility (due to whatever nonsensical reasons!!) and it’s great moving forward.

My CAT preparations are going somewhere. I am delighted to say that I am able to continue in this mission; with the same vigor I started it in November. Of course, certain things (including my quant scores!!) still rot!!! But at least, going somewhere is better than not going anywhere.

A quick update on a couple of dudes who matter: Vidhyadhar Bhise and Ameya Kulkarni have left abroad for Italy and Germany for their respective companies. Am in touch with both of them, with Ameya taking pains to talk to me from his office phone!! Great to know that you folks are doing great! Cheers and have a wonderful life!!

Nothing else has changed.

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Rajanikanth is back. With Shivaji-The Boss, he returns to the silver screen with an 80 crore production, directed by Sankar, the person who has given blockbuster hits in Tamil, which includes the much hyped Jeans (Jeans – just a pathetic), followed by the power packed Mudhalvan (Anil Kapoor ’s Nayak) and finally the Vikram starrer Anniyan(Aparichit in hindi – was a Huge hit in Tamil). Known for his big spending habits, Sankar has always been ahead of his peers. Add to this Rajnikanth and A R Rehman, AVM productions certainly have a winner in their hands.

I know I was insane, the moment I decided to treat my family to this movie at PVR Juhu. But then I was very excited myself, to watch what was touted as India’s most expensive movie budgeted at 80 crores and ofcourse, Shriya Sharan.

The movie begins with the Rajani, playing the role of Shivaji, a US returned “Computer System Architect (Bill Gates, Beware!!) Wanting to spend his 200 crore fortune on building hospitals and universities offering free facilities to the poor and deserving. To obtain various sanctions and permissions for the same, he is forced to bribe officers and government officials, very much against his will for the same.
While all this happens, he meets Tamil Selvi (Shriya Sharan… sorry Guys, can’t explain that name for you!!!) at a temple and like all masala movies goes head over heals to woo the female. Some silly antics and song sequences later, they finally decide to get married.

Now that we have a stage set, bring the Villain on!! The antagonist here is Aadishesan (Telegu actor Sharan) a politician cum industrialist cum educationist. For reasons unknown and not convincing enough, he decides that Shivaji’s had enough fun running around Shriya in Spain, and brings about a stay on his dream university and sends all his 200 crores to the drain.

Seeing that being righteous gets a person no where in life, Shivaji, turns into Robin Hood, and goes about robbing all the black money people have and passing it over to the poor and needy. Finally, he gets caught (Thanks to some stupid, sick plot!!!) goes to jail and gets killed. After all this happens, the reverend “BOSS” of the poor returns back… oh yes he does.

The movie is all about Rajnikanth. Being the phenomenon that he is, the 58 year old veteran has an amazing screen presence. His “Punch dialogues” lack the punch at times but with his fresh bag of tricks and style, the audience, as always remains enthralled. I personally loved the coin trick which he does and the chewing gum one isn’t bad either. With collections amounting to 150 crores, within a week of release, he is certainly a happy man.

Shriya is drop dead gorgeous. Probably one of the cutest of things that happened to Kollywood, she quickly changes from traditional sarees to mini skirts with ease. A very good dancer, she does make the song sequences look damn sexy. But she needs to improve by miles to become even a half decent actress. The chick quotient oozes, but its high time she realizes that acting just isn’t about laughing and crying. Like all other Sankar’s leading ladies, she’s just as special.

The real winner in the movie is easily Sharan. For the first time, I have seen an actor stand upto Rajini with such poise and confidence. An amazing personality (only Prakash Raj comes closer), he’s played his role to his vicious best. Of course, the villains are there to get beaten, but then Sharan takes the cake in all the scenes and the two of them combine together to bring to life the best scenes in the movie.

Comedy by Vivek is good as always. AR Rehmaan disappoints big time. The theme song lacks the punch of BABA’s Rap song (which I thought was the best Rajini Background track ever…). The other songs range from irritating to mediocre. The camera work is all right, with second grade special effects hardly worth a mention. The Action sequences are … well OK. Some of the action sequences are very silly (a Car Fight sequence… one of the biggest turn offs in the movie!!).

You shouldn’t watch this movie, you need to experience it. I realized how popular this guy is in Mumbai, when I saw that half the people watching this movie at PVR weren’t Tamil. The guy sitting next to me, used to whistle every time Rajani turned up on screen and I was amazed to see the enthusiasm people have. Probably time for Rajanikanth to make a Hindi Movie; So that he can cater to not only the tamil speaking, but also the remaining “brain dead” population of India and world over.

As he keeps saying throughout the movie “ “COOOOOOooooooolllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Ratings: Not Applicable

2007 Beckons!!! :-)

2006-12-31T01:52:00.000-08:00

This is true life incident that happened on the 30th of December 2006. Just bear the swear words... I am being very realistic here... Just read through:

Date 30th December 2006. Time:6:00 PM.

V: { Maroo kya phone??..S#####, B########, itna izzat du kya??... Chod jaane de… “KUCH PAANE KE LIYE KUCH KHONA PADHTHA HAI!!”…}. Hi!!! R******, Howzz life???

R: Hi, Whos this???

V: {B######## ne number bhi store nahi kiya hai…}. This is V Speaking… bhool gayee kya mujhe???{ Na mat bol…Please Bhagwan….itna bhi mat maar meri….}

R: ohhhhhhh…………V!!!!!!.. Wow!!!!!!!!! {who Haram ####!!!}, kitne dino baad.. kaise ho?? Aaj kal Dikhte hi nahi ho yaar… ???

V:{Chalo Chaadi Bach gayee!!...Dil Garden Garden ho gaya!!}.. bas kaam hota hai yaar.. time nahi milta hain bas…

R:ohhhhhhh .. good yaar!!.. Tera working hours kya hai????

V: {GAYAA… BACHA KUCHA IZZAT BHI GAYA……!}, well subah jaana padhta hai jaldi..i have to be there by 7 AM.

R:itne subah??.. ganda halat hota hoga na tera????????

V: Kaaam bahut hota hai…{Feeling Proud of himself!!.. chal abhi isko hatate hain is topic se…} toh plans kya hai?

R: Kabhi ka??

V: {WTF???....iska kya roj roj ka nakra hota hai kya?} 31st ka… kya plan hai??

R: Pata nahi yaar… abhi tak kuch finalise nahi hua hai……………

V:{Chance pe Dance!!!}..toh chal rahi hai bahar.. ghoom aate hain baju main kidhar…

R: Kidhar??{ Dekhte hain kitna akal aaya hai isme….}

V: bas yahin paar….{Location dhoond … jaldi.. }

R: {aur ek mauka….!!} Kidhar???

V: Chal Lifestyle jaa aate hain…{ It’s a mall in the Mulund Area. Bad choice actually!! One wont even get a place to stand …..}

R:hmmmmmmmmm…. Poochthi hoon aur raat tak bata thi hoon….

V: Kisko ???????????? MAA ko???????[:-)]….{Kya Sense of humour hai!!}

R: {Not Impressed at all…}nahi yaar… mummy ka problem nahi hai… Raj*** ko bhi poochna padega…

V:{M#########, B########, teri M### ka…}

R: bata thi hoon raat tak.. waise tera kuch plan hai Kya doosra???.......

V:{B*******, Hutch top 50 sunneka hai .. Radio pe….}haan doosre dost bhi pooch rahe the….toh unko bhi batana hai…

R: {chalo apne hi pair pe khuladi maar diya…}Accha.. toh ek kaam kar tu chale jaa unke saat……

V:{Aaie Z######, chal ek aur mauka} nahi nahi chalega chalega.. poochke bata chalega…lekin kal subah tak bata de…

R: thik hai.. aur kya… orkut vagaire pe bhi dikhthe nahi ho yaar…raat ko bhi nahi….Abhi online mil raha hai kya???

V:{chal… jaane de…hara hua bazzi hai…} haan woh night shift bhi hota hai kabhi kabhi….bahut kaam hota hai….

R: Kya Night shift??????????What the F?????????{ yea she does use the F word at times… sangat ka asar hai!!}

V: we need to take the Batch through at times and then we also have a Fraud detection system to monitor. There are urgent cases raised, with escalations happening all around… critical hota hai sab.. …{Naturally… Backup plan banakar hi aisa dialogue bola!!}

R: huh????????????????

V: Plenty of Work girrrlllllll.. plenty….{Whew!}

R: chal batati hoon baadme… aur sab kaisa hai?? How are your Parents?????? I still remembered the dosas she used to make!!! It used to be superb yaar… How’s She doing??

V:{B########, Main yaad nahi hoon.. mera Maa yaad hai… Dosa yaad hai… Itna rape ek saat…S#####, viva main bhi itna Nanga nahi hua hai tu….}all are well…

R: Haan aur ek baat, P*******(a boy!!) was asking about you.. …he wants some FIFA cd of yours...

V: {Yeh TEESRA Baadshah kahan se aa gaya???(This is a dialogue from Shahrukh Kahn’s Badshah!!)} Kaun P******????

R: mera bhai!!

V:{HAGA… with a Capital H, Capital A, Capital G, Capital A….} nahi nahi .. usko bol baadme deta hoon….{mera season khatam nahi hua hai…. :-)}

R: Thik hai…. Chal raat ko call karti hoon tujhe….tu free hai na aaj raat?? Ki kaam hai tujhe??

V:{Footbal Dekhna hai… Liverpool ka match hai saala…}.. nahi yaar… call maar…chalega{.. chalo ek baar replay se kaam chala lete hain…}

R:chal bbye… batati hoon kal subah……….. Bbbbbbbbbbyeeeeeeeeeee!!.. maa ko maine poocha bol…

V:{so cute.............lekin Vaapaas Maa!!... iske Ma ka toh b######}.. Bbye…

No Brownie points for guessing the boy… but a 1000 of those for guessing the girl… J

Believe me… she’s still the sweetest of things around… :-)!!

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I would like to thank the world for making my 22nd Birthday a day to remember. Plenty of messages, phone calls and scraps really made my day and made me realize how lucky I am to have such great friends.

Love you Guys…. Really do!!

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As the year draws to an end, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to look upon on what would have been a great year for some of us and a not so good year for the rest of us. Old habits never die, especially bad ones[:-)], so here I am presenting a set of awards to all the people who made 2006 theirs. Once again, this is just my 2p(Thanks for the Line, Hrishikesh :-)) and this is certainly a lot more serious than the BE awards.

So the awards are as follows: The News Makers:

1. Indian of the Year Award: Well, the world seems to have given it to Mr. Amitabh Bacchan already. But looking beyond Movies and Entertainment, I would like to give this award to Mr Narayan Murthy, Chairman and Co- Founder of Infosys and these days, their Chief Mentor. He’s one person, I have always been inspired by and he is an idol for all us youngsters to try to emulate. Infosys, completed 25 years and this man retired from the company he co- founded in 1981 in this year. He’s set a great example for all of us and I hope some of us aspire to move in his footsteps and take this great country to further heights.

2. Politician of the Year: I personally wanted to give this to Sonia Gandhi, but then I would like to go with popular demand and give it to Laloo Prasad Yadav. Everyone knows the way he revolutionized the way the way the railways work, turning it into one of the government’s few profit making ventures. He lost the elections in Bihar to Nitish Kumar but he still has the charisma to woo Bollywood. So Ameya and Akshat, thanks to you to for helping me make this choice. Also thanks to Vidhyadhar(Get well Soon dude!!) for coming up with suggestions.

3. The Indian Actor of the Year Award: Personally, Amitabh Bacchan wouldn’t have been that bad a choice either. But by his high standards he had an average year I thought. The same goes for Shah Rukh Khan as well. DON was good. Saif Ali Khan gave a performance of his lifetime for Omkara, after Parineeta and Salaam Namaste. But my vote for the Actor of the year goes to Hrithik Roshan. Krish was his comeback movie and he started the year without having a single release in 2005. This was followed by his uber cool role in Dhoom 2, taking him back to the top of the charts. His much talked about adlabs deal, makes this year … all his.

4. The Indian Actress of the Year: She’s drop dead gorgeous, with a figure that gets 10/10 anytime. Priyanka Chopra, gets this award not for being the best actress in the year. But for taking the right decisions all along. Krish was one of the movies of the year and DON the icing on the cake. Actress had a very much a quiet year; except for an amazing Kajol comeback in Fanaa, and a few good performances by Rani Mukherjee, there isn’t much to mention.

5. The Playback Singer of the Year: HIMESH RESHAMMAIYA.
There was no one who could stop him. Not even GOD. India’s latest “Self-Proclaimed” Rock star gave very easily the Album of the year in “Aap ka Surror”. Jam packed performances at international venues like Wembly Stadium in UK and at various places in the US of A. He romanced the best of models wearing a denim cap in his music videos and danced all the way to the bank.With him staring in a movie next year, god knows where the world is heading towards….

6. The Indian Song of the Year: This is the toughest decision to make. We had some very good chart busting action. But then again when I looked out for some good soulful music, the following songs come to my head. Atif Aslam’s “Tere Bin” is a great number, in a very average movie. KK’s “Kya Mujhe Pyaar Hai” from Woh Lamhe is another good choice. We had Gangster’s “Ya Ali” being just as good (another song which stresses the point that this has been the year for Sufi Music!!).

But the song that actually touched my heart is “Mitwa” from “Kabhie Alvida na Kehna”. This song has very a good classical feel to it, shot very well in New York and Malaysia and very easily Shankar-Eshaan-Loy’s best composition to date. This song was the very heart of the movie. Just Loved it!!

7. The Indian Cricketer of the Year: This award should have been scrapped. But am still giving it out to Sourav Ganguly, simply because he knows just as well to play the “game” off the field as he knows to do it on the field. Dada is finally back, and there’s nothing any person on earth could do to stop him. I won’t be surprised if he makes it to the One Day team as well.

8. The Footballer of the Year: Fabio Cannavaro might have beaten Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldinho to the “FIFA World player of the year” award, but then again any sensible football loving person would agree that its always Micheal Essien. Ghana and Chelsea’s midfield marshall, has awesome ball winning skills, with Mourinho him accepting the fact that he’s been the key to Chelsea winning back to back premiership titles. Ghana put up an impressive show at the world cup and this man continues to shine for Chelsea. A serious contender for next year’s best player awards as well.

Frankly, I couldn’t really think a lot more stuff. After all, working at odd hours does take a toll on you.

Finally, do drop in your comments. Wishing you all a very Happy New Year 2007. Do continue reading the nonsense here as well… for if it weren’t for you guys, LOVEBLOG would have died a silent death… Long ago.

Movie Review: Dhoom 2

2006-12-03T09:45:00.000-08:00

Firstly, I confess that I have not seen the original Dhoom completely. All I know about the movie is that it’s a simple “Chor Police” game glamorized. That movie made John Abraham the next metrosexual icon. It made Abhishek Bacchan the next big thing in Bollywood. And proved that a well toned body makes any girl look good. Even Esha Deol.

Dhoom was not great. But atleast it was a decent attempt made to make a movie on the lines of Fast and Furious. But in Dhoom 2 , Sanjay Gadhvi was expected to take this over to the next level. But, Dhoom 2 could be condoned taking into account the fact that even Hollywood sequels seem to lack the punch they promise.

So here goes my reviews of the movie. Just my 2p:

1. As a Film Buff: On paper at least, Dhoom 2 sounds a lot better than Dhoom. Having a Dream Star cast, is as good as half the battle won. But Dhoom 2 seems to have lost the war miserably. So this one has Mr A (Hrithik Roshan), a daredevil robber who wants to make the world his own, by leaving his own “A” mark on the world map. Less of a thief and more of an artist, he’s finally coming to India to complete his “A” on the world.

Enter Shonali Bose (Bipasha Basu), Assistant Commissioner of Police, who needs our original heroes to track and pin him down. So Jai Dixit (Abhishek Bacchan), who’s also Shonali’s childhood sweetheart and Ali (Uday Chopra) have to use their wits against Mr A and save the world.

Enter Sunehri(Aishwarya Rai), a small time thief who dreams of “Amsterdam and not Andheri” and wants to be Mr. A’s side kick. Mr A falls for the pretty lass and takes her in his team. So we have two thieves and three cops trying to create “Dhoom”. But sadly they create everything but that.

Let’s start with the actors. Hrithik Roshan exudes style and plays the cool thief to perfection. Sanjay Gadhvi makes him do everything he’s good at. He has a couple of awesome dance sequences and a nice background score going on everytime he shows up. But, disappointingly, he makes a mess of the only emotional scene he is given in the movie. Also the script is heavily loaded in his favour and hence it wouldn’t be fair to pass any judgements on this role of his.

Abhishek Bacchan grimaces and growls. But that is the only thing he gets to do in the movie. He plays the smart cop to the best of his abilities, but a poor script gives him absolutely no scope to prove his acting prowess.

Aishwarya Rai, is hot. Untill she opens her mouth. She came up unscathed from her earlier “Semi Tapori” role in Josh, but fails miserably at this one. Also the over hyped kiss scene is one of the most pathetic and absolutely passionless on screen kiss I have ever seen. Both actors end up on each other’s upper lips. Indeed Abhishek Bacchan has something to be worried about !!!

Bipasha Basu, doesn’t want to get out of the Bikini she’s worn. On top of that, she has a double role, which is done just to give her some screen time. On top of that, they make her dance..all together something she should forget.

The real show stealer is Uday Chopra. He makes the movie bearable and lively. But, he needs to come out of his “Phunny Guy!!” image and be a bit more versatile. Kudos to the dude. Unfortunately, he has very little to do in the movie’s climax. Very sad indeed.

The songs are all like the “copy paste” stuff we do in our project report to increase its length. Just there for the heck of it. On top of that, most of them are completely out of sync with the movie. So Suddenly, we have some old school reunion popping up for Jai and Shonali, we have Sunehri in the rocking in the club… all absolutely irrelevant. Crazy Kiya re seems to be the only hum able song in the entire movie. Mr Pritam, I am disappointed, especially after Woh Lamhe.

The Direction is OKAY. The back ground score, is just like all Hindi movies, average. The script, am not sure if there is one… is horrible. Some of the action sequences are good, but then again that’s the least expected of such a movie. Over all a very average effort for what could have been the movie of the year.

Mr Gadhvi and Mr Chopra, its time you learnt that you handsome hunks, two damsels (One threatening to wear a Bikini and one never wanting to come out of it) and one clown never create “Dhoom”. It’s just Gloom!!!

All you guys did was save the MTV Fully Faltoo Guys of making a spoof by creating a laughing stock of yourselves.

Rating: 1.5/5.

As An ASH FAN:

I AM SPEECHLESS!!!

Great movie. The heck I also enquired at Planet M about the DVD release for the movie today J. It was a dream come true for me. No wonder I was the only person dancing at the movie hall for CRAZY KIYA RE!!!

Don’t even miss this. Collectors edition for me.:-)

.. Good to be Back..

2006-12-01T00:13:00.000-08:00

Yup.. its still me. Still the very same guy who loves Aishwarya Rai more than anyone else in the world. The very same guy, who brought this place to life, thanks to a girl who never gave him a damn. The same guy who believes football is more important than life or death. The Guy who gets screwed almost always for doing anything and nothing…Oh yes.. its still the same old me.

Change is very much a part of life. But while I say this, I must also admit that I haven’t changed much. This means I have ceased to evolve into a better Human being and that threatens my very existence on this planet of mine. Also taking into consideration the industry I work in and the life I live, this is certainly a step backward.

Enough NONSENSE… to the point right now:-

Let’s cover everything I have missed for the past 5 months:

Flash Back to June 06: On the18th of June 2006, I had to take this Bus Journey to Pune, that would change my life forever. It’s amazing to look back at how so many things came together to make my life what it is today. So, this Bus had myself, Ankur (DAAANI BHAI!!), Vikas Dixit and Deepak Ujania starting a two month adventure, which I am sure the four of us would cherish for the whole of our lives.

Well, make that three of us. Deepak had to leave us for reasons not worth mentioning here. I had the honour of sharing my room with the Great Ankur Daani and Vikas Dixit had a room for himself.

Our room of eight had all SPCEites, with Pravin Patil (Mechanical), Jayant Naik, Ashish Gaonekar and Vikram Pradhan (Electronics) being the others. Aditi Manjure( Yup the very same girl…J) and Anay Dhoraje ( The Hutch Hund!!) had their accommodation at a much better locality, but we certainly had all the crowd pullers at our place, making it a real happening place at day and Night. So what if u guys had the Burger Kings and Mcdonalds next door, we still have Vikas Dixit and his stupid antics to keep us alive!!

All my room members were amazing characters. Ankur Dani is the very same serious and sincere soul, who still believes that all the forces in the world would combine all their energies to screw him up in life!! Vikas Dixit remained the very same slightly eccentric dude, who became a Super star there thanks to his theatrical antics we use to absolutely detest in college. Pravin Patil is Super Cool. Just the shadow of the Guy we know as Kapil Bodhke. Jayant Naik, had a tough time there, first running for his Provisional Certificate, then running after his TCS books which I had forgot in the Bus; the heck, he even spend his final day at training running after the Bus walla for his piece of luggage which got misplaced.

Ashish Gaonekar was the unsung star in our room, who used to smilingly crucify all the problems life were to throw at him. Vikram Pradhan is the only guy who is still remembers all that was taught to us there.

Okay, we enjoyed our ILP. The world knows that. The whole of ILP had so many interesting incidents, a few worth mentioning. I myself did get screwed on the first day of the training when my Life Skills Madam started getting “Negative vibes” from me. Being the only frank guy in the world, I wrote her name 5 times as an answer when asked about the five things I hate about the ILP place. To me, that was a huge turning point. The teacher never talked to me again. This could have been a lot worse had it happened when I was working or even studying in some college. This made me wiser and as they all say, “Experience is Great but a very costly Teacher!!”

I am not sure if I am risking anything here, but nevertheless just for information, Vikas did have his batch suspended for a day when the ILP coordinator found the whole class dancing to the tune of “Say Na Say Na” there!!.

Ankur, Ashish and Pravin were in Batch P3, whom I used to meet almost after every session. The training part was pretty average, in the sense, I knew everything they taught about things I know, and I still don’t know everything they taught that I don’t know.

We had a lot of fun watching all the Dull World Cup games there. About the tournament, which was aptly labeled as the most “Boring one of it’s kind, was frankly way below my expectations. The Germany Argentina clash was the best of them all, and I am pretty sure that tournament would have been much better if it had a South American team in the last four. Four European teams, simply meant too many cooks… spoiling the broth.

It was a wonderful experience to meet boys and girls from the same age group at that place. Each of them were very different individuals and it was pretty interesting getting to know all of them who came from different parts of India. Made some very good friends there (My Orkut List increased by a 100 Friends!!.. thanks to the ILP!!)

Soon, it was time to leave. I was among the lucky ones who got posted to Mumbai. Some of us were screwed and sent to places all around India. Most importantly, I will certainly remember all the good memories and would treasure all the new friends I have made over the two months of the training period. Hats off to the Batch at Pune, and my best in Life to all the Guys and girls there….

After coming back to Mumbai, I made it a point to meet all the morons from College. It was great to know that some of us had left for higher studies, some of us had met the love of our lives (SIC!!!!).Most importantly, all of us were not doing badly, which indeed was a nice thing to know.

The next step was the project allotment. This turned out into a Nightmare, where I was absolutely unlucky and was posted to far away Borivali, and had to work in shifts, which would mean me having to loose my sleep every alternate week. This was the only thing, I was never prepared for and as a result, was a huge blow for me. Things are slowly settling down and even though I haven’t really come to terms with the work or the workload, things are looking brighter by the day.

My Project is a GE MONEY UK based one. I am in the Production Support Offshore team (Yea, there’s ONSITE too!!) and right now I am trying my level best to grasp this Huge PLCC ( Private Label Credit Card) system belonging to CCSI, brought by GE. This is absolutely huge and has 37 subsystems. Most of the senior guys are given a subsystem to look after. There’s also a team who does the RCA and brings forth enhancements and upgrades. So it isn’t a development project. But as they all say, its one of the company’s major Moolah making projects and as a result under tremendous scrutiny all the time.

I also need to study a Fraud Detection system, which we need to support at Night. Here we need to have a basic understanding of the system and a few cook book solutions to put into use. This is requires constant monitoring on our part, as escalations take place pretty quickly and this is hanging on a very loose thread after laxities by many of our seniors here. Our Company could even loose this project, if left unattended.

So a lot to learn, and lots of work…J

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I gave CAT and hagofied there. The paper, which was easily the friendliest paper to have turned out in the past 5 years, was a wonderful opportunity to score well. Am not expecting a lot, but needless to say am Optimistic of landing a good score that would be morale booster for the more important attempt next year.

My Best wishes to Ameya, Bhupendra, Hrishikesh , Bhise and all others who seem to have made a better attempt at belling the CAT.

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I am still very much single. In fact, I met my very old flame of mine @ Orkut about 5 months ago. Too Bad, she too turned out to be Committed!!!. That’s one aspect of life, which always seems to be in jeopardy, no matter what I do. But with people Like Ameya and Weak –Ass Dixit moving ahead in love matters, MERA NUMBER AAYEGA!! ;-)

There’s plenty of development elsewhere. Would put up an account as things progress…

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I haven’t seen a single movie in the past 5 months. The Last one I saw was Krissh, some time in JUNE, couldn’t watch a single flick after that. Neither have listened to much Music, so nothing much to speak about.

That’s just about it for the moment. Life’s dull, ofcourse it would be foolish to expect everything to be as good as the good old college days. All we can do is to be positive and hope for the best in life.

Two pics for you guys.. One being Ash in all her glory... and the other Kareena Kapoor from arguably the item song of the season...Rejoice guys....:-)

Will Keep you all posted… That’s a promise

Cheers,

Book Review:Five Point Someone

2006-07-08T02:30:00.000-07:00

This is a Book Review that we are expected to submit as a part of our Life Skills Module. Just decided to put it on for your comments and your (sic!!) reviews!!!

Here goes

“…..Those were the best days of my life…..” goes Bryan Adam’s Summer of ’69. That’s exactly what every reader of this Book would be humming at the end of it. Call this a movie not a book; for that’s exactly what Bhagat presents in the form of Five Point Someone: What not to do at IIT. The prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IITs as they are known popularly in India) produces some of the best Engineers of the world. Being a part of this elite group is a dream of every student in India and maybe even the world. But as we chase dreams, we miss something that’s more important, Living and enjoying Life, in all its glory. Chetan Bhagat explores this dark aspect of life at these premiere institutions with this well paced account on the life of three IITians.

So, we have Alok, Ryan and Hari, three students in the Mechanical Engineering Department of IIT Delhi. They are all backbenchers; “Five Pointers” as they are called, come together to present us a titillating account of their four years at the institute. Hari, gives a first person narration of how they overcome various trials and tribulations there; from ragging at first year to getting caught stealing papers … it has them all. This one has a Love story between Hari and the Neha, Daughter of the Head of the Department, how students find answers in shots of Vodka and Cigarettes and how tough Life actually is in the campus. How true friendship overcomes every problem in the world is what the book is about.

Bhagat impresses with his narration. His first person account of the entire book keeps us mesmerized throughout. As the book unfolds, we have each character penning in their autobiography, which is really interesting. The story has a good pace throughout and most importantly, has realistic imperfect characters that are losers in life, despite achieving the impossible- the dream to be an IITian. It’s a lot like Farhan Akhthar’s Dil Chahata Hai or Nagesh Kukoonoor’s Rockford, full of witty one-liners and emotions. It has a feeling of Freshness and attitude that makes you drool and read the book, time and time again. His characters do everything that you would yourself have done during your college lives, some of them very stupid and insane and yet very very true.

For a first timer, Five Point Someone, could very easily get 10/10. This is a must read for every IITian and non IITian; for as they say, for some of the best lessons, step out of the classroom and Live a Life!!!!

Price: Rs 275. Rupa Publications…

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Everything else goes on.. Made a lot of good friends. But it's never like being in touch with your old mates. So it was great talking to you guys...

I am making a serious effort to cut on my swearing habit. I really don't know why, but I do feel bad at some level down there.. and so that's an area where I can improve...

All Professors here are OOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKK. Well we have our Life Skills Madam, who is a lot like "SHOT SOLANKI". Excuse me, But are all people who take communication related/informal sessions always like that??? This is the second time.....and me being among the more "enterprising" ones in my class...The last time she said".... You can do what ever u want...You are always being observed...".. She Looked at me!!!

Anyways..Life goes on.Got to watch football here, thanks to our caretaker and a few football enthusiasts here. Saw a few good games and slept at the lectures there... which is pretty normal for a few of us...

I am pretty happy I chose OOAD and PM as my elective in my Final year. Believe me, that really helps you if u are in any software firm. So if any of you are final year students, I'd advise you to choose the same...

Girls are good here.. am Smitten by one by the name of Natasha... she's in another Branch and is already committed.. but then again... Whats the big deal??(winks!!)

As usual.. comments and brickbats welcome....

MOVIE REVIEW:KRISH

2006-06-24T18:53:00.000-07:00

I am back ahead of schedule. I wasn’t expected to be back before the end of April, but I guess…

Here’s my review on Krish, the movie I caught up on Saturday at E-Square Pune. The Mall and the Multiplex as a whole impressed me. Saw FIFA world cup 2006 being played there on X-box 360… Yea, it looked better than most girls I have seen.

And to add one more thing, the chicks at a Mumbai Mall at any specific time, are a lot better than those at Pune…not that there aren’t enough “Kadwas” here but certainly I thought rate Mumbai higher.

Did not go to Ferguson College … maybe that would have set the score right!!

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Before I start deciphering Krish, remember, this is Hrithik’s first movie after …. God knows how long. Hrithik Roshan can dance, sing cry… the heck even overact at times. Whatever he does, he does save the best for his father’s movie and puts his best foot forward for all those things.

So, we all have watched Koi Mil Gaya… We all know that Aliens do exist in the world and we know one super cute alien gives power to mentally retarded people. But then for Krish, or Krishna (Hrithik Roshan) as he’s known in the mountains; he gets all that he needs from his specially gifted father, Rohit Mehra from Koi Mil Gaya…

The opening sequence starts with young Krishna doing everything a child prodigy does, makes life-like paintings, runs, jumps swings and does every thing that shows signs of the powers he has. To protect him from this materialistic, selfish world, his Grandmother (Rekha) takes him away from the small town he lives, to the mountains, where Krishna spends time running around like Tarzan along with his horse, aimlessly living life in his very small domain (TCS effect….Sorry about that!!)

Things move ahead when a reporter, Priya (Priyanka Chopra) comes for a vacation to the hills. Our desi Tarzan realizes there is more to life, than trees, hills, mountains and falls for our Singapore born and bred Jane. This forces him to follow her to Singapore, with Granny dear taking the usual “VADAA” that he would never let the world know of his powers.

Meanwhile, while Krishna was chasing birds, Dr Sidhant Arya (Nasseruddin Shah) wants to conquer the world with his time machine sort of thing, that Krishna’s father was working on before his mysterious death. Rakesh Roshan decide to save some money, by bumping Priety Zinta off as well. Dr Arya, now wants the world at his feet… and its all up to our Desi Lover cum Super boy to save the world.

The movie has a good pace throughout, especially Rakesh Roshan’s direction. He’s fast earning a reputation as one of India’s finest directors, and with Krish he certainly joins an elite list of top notch film makers. The action sequences, though not entirely convincing, certainly shows that the director has atleast put in some effort and not just copied sequences like Awara Pagal Deewana or Aparichit has done.

Krish is all about Hrithik Roshan. Believe me, the look suits him, almost everything is tailor made or put in place to make him look like god. His acting has certainly improved; and his one film at a time idea has certainly worked. The kids near me at the theatre were screaming and girls were going ga-ga every time Krish appeared on screen. Everything looks in place, and this movie is probably one of Hrithik’s biggest grosser. 10/10 to this dude…Keep rocking!!

Priyanka Chopra, I thought was disappointing. Probably for the first time in her career, she’s doing a role that requires her to laugh and cry at the same time. And believe me, she isn’t impressive at all. Of course she looks drop dead gorgeous and with that fantastic figure of hers, the last thing people would notice would be her acting here. But it’s certainly a film she would want to forget as far as her performance is concerned.

Nasseruddin Shah is at his vicious best. Mohra was superb; Krish isn’t far behind. He provides us with some of the best moments of the film. People like John Abraham and Shahid Kapoor need to take acting lessons from the veteran himself.

The music is pretty decent. All songs are good, but not great. Rajesh Roshan certainly doesnot disappoint. The back ground score by Salim-Sulaiman, is at times irritating. The stunt sequences vary from being Awesome to absolutely silly. But I would still recommend these action sequences to some of the others doing rounds.

Finally, for Hrithik Roshan fans this is a much watch. I haven’t seen Koi Mil Gaya, but I have heard that this is a better movie than the prequel. Of course, this movie does have the “Bheja fry” that every Hindi Movie has, but certainly an effort has been made to stand apart. The script goes a bit haywire in the climax…but then guys, its after all a Hindi Movie!!

For Kids, Yes “Krish” could be India’s answer to Superman..err or Spiderman, or probably the Wolverine (Yea he can Heal others … I think he can heal himself too.. No trace of a few Bullets that hit him in the climax). For girls… Take Hrithik Roshan Home…And finally for guys, Krish is certainly more than Priyanka Chopra in figure hugging tight jeans!!!

Rating: *** and a half!!!

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TCS training has started. Leave all the training part; maybe I could write some more later…

... THE LAST WALK.....

2006-06-01T06:49:00.000-07:00

This blog post of mine, could have been this way…

“……And that is the last time I would be walking this slowly. It’s been one of the toughest things that had to happen, should happen and would ever happen. And when I, who did not stare back at my school even once, gave half a glance to my college, felt for the first time how much I love the dull, half rusted stairway that had greeted me for the past four years.

I remebered my very first visit to the college. September 8^th 2002. SPCE Electrical. I came here with my father, rueing about the decision I had taken when I decided to take this stream. And most importantly this college. Venkat Sankar, the only “brave Heart” who had chosen this over Father Agnels, had spent his last 2 years telling me how bad a decision he ahd taken when he joined SPCE. How the electrical department lacked staff, how they did not have equipments and had no plans to cope with the Revised course setup. How half the college staff would spend hours sleeping and drinking tea and do their best to not do anything, anytime.

To leave Agnels, where college began on the exact day the DTE had ordered. We received our timetable on the first day. The heck, we were half way through the first chapter in Mechanics, for this “Hell” was to say the least, stupidity. But when I met him on the first day of his fourth year and my first year, he told me “Don’t worry, you will learn everything you need to…. Everything you need to live”…….”

Or it could have been…..

“Go Offline. Turn your computers off. Buy a lot of popcorn and turn into a Couch potato. The season demands it. Any other year, the football season would be put to hibernation, with some occasional club friendlies being played here and there. But every four years, the world’s most beautiful game, gives us a chance to celebrate “Life in an 8 inch diameter”. Hearts thump everytime the eight inch ball is kicked. And hearts are broken, atleast once every ninety minutes………….”

That’s it. That’s exactly where both those two ended. Two days back, I received a very early call from TCS. On the 19^th of this month to be precise. That spoilt all my soccer plans… and all that I proposed to do during the next month or so.

So, I am leaving this blog here for good. Atleast for the next 3 months. That’s because for the next two months, forget my blog, I won’t get enough time to sleep. I could have done a lot of stuff, atleast over the weekends if it were to be at Mumbai, but there is nothing much I can do if I am to be anywhere else.

So, after a one and a half years, LOVEBLOG is shutting down. Not because I want it too, but because I have to. Anyway, while we are doing this, I would like to thank:

1. Rohit Bhute, who got me hooked on to this business.

2. Prachi Deshpande(wink!!), who gave me a thing or two to write on this blog.

3. Prachi Deshpande again(wink!!... again), who made me change directions, just when this started rotting.

4. Finally, all trical bloggers and ofcourse some others who have spent their time reading some absolute nonsense. If not for their comments, I would have never reached this far.

So that’s the end of this thing. If I were to write anything, anywhere, anytime, this would be the place where I would do it.

But one things for sure…. The Blog would certainly not be called “LOVEBLOG”.

PS: I would keep reading and “Hagging” on all your blogs… so keep blogging!!!!

UPDATE:I actually forgot this.... I had actually prepared a huge FIFA world cup Post... but unfortunately it nver came up...

But, here's my Mcdonalds Fantasy Football team, I don't know if I would be able to follow the entire world cup; but neeways.You can select your own team at www.fifaworldcup.com

Goal Keepers:

Peter Cech(CZE)
Iker Casillas(ESP)

Defenders:

William Gallas(FRA)
John Terry(ENG)
Juan Pablo Sorin(ARG)
GioVanni Van Bronckhost(NED)
Sergio Ramos(SPA)
Ricardo Carvalho(POR)
Roberto Carlos(BRA)
Roberto Ayala(ARG)

Midfielders:

Steven Gerrard(ENG)
Frank Lampard(ENG)
Ronaldinho(BRA)
Kaka(Brazil)
Zinedine Zidane(FRA)
Micheal Ballack(GER)
Bernd Schnieder(GER)
Juan Roman Riquelme(ARG)
Freddie Ljungberg(SWE)

Forwards:

Ruud Van Nistelrooy(NED)
Arjen Robben(NED)
Cristiano Ronaldo(POR)
Thiery Henry(FRA)

Disclaimer: I am pathetic at these games... 9/10 times, the person I have taken gets either injuerd or sentoff!!! But nevertheless, thought these guys might light the stage up...

A GOOD ONE!!

2006-05-02T03:16:00.000-07:00

Nothing much... Just Comic Relief during testing times:

In some remote village of India, one masterji is teaching the Mahabharat katha to class 6 students. He is at the'krishnajanma' part of it.

Masterji: "Kansa heard the akashwani that his sister's 8th child is going to kill him. He was furious. He ordered to put vasudev n devki behind the bars. First son is born, and kansa kills him by poisoning... Second one is born n kansa throws him off the mountain peak. Third one is born..." Now Ramu, who is smartest of the lot, puts up his hand. Masterji, I have a doubt (sounding nervous n confused)

Masterji: "Ramu bete, whole india does not have doubt in mahabharata then how come u have one?"

Ramu : Masterji, if Kansa knew that Devaki's 8th child was going to Kill him, WHY THE HELL DID HE PUT VASUDEV AND DEVAKI IN THE SAME CELL ???

The Wizard Retires....

2006-04-28T05:51:00.000-07:00

Firstly, I would like to thank all those guys, who took the trouble to sit through the nonsense. I would miss you guys a lot, but then again life must move on... and I assure you, that a permanent link to that "BULLSHIT" would be up and running soon.

Moving on..... Here's a special "Kadak" (pheeeeeeewt!!!) Tribute to a legend. Read on...

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Let’s not go too far back…. In fact just a couple of years to Euro 2004. 90 minutes. Score line: England 1 France 0. Emile Heskey, forget the pitch, lucky to be on the plane as some would say, had just fouled Claude Makelele about 25 yards off the goal post. The French, were humiliated at the World Cup in Korea Japan, and were now on the verge of first defeat in any competitive game (They had a very impressive record under Jacques Santini – a 19 game unbeaten run or so…). Most importantly, it would have added fuel to all arguments questioning the ability of the Great class of ’98 of the French Football team.

The French team at that instant had not one, not two, but 5 dead ball specialists on the pitch at that time. The crowd about the ball cleared, and one man stood there. He intently watched the goal… only the goal; so intense were those eyes, I knew something was to happen. David James had taken his position, and the wall was arranged.

The Free Kick was taken, the ball rose, curled and went into the goal, James was left absolutely bewildered. What followed was what the Man in the No 10 shirt cared for. The French flag rose high and the Les Blues were away…..

He followed it with a well executed penalty, and brought to life for England one of their worst nightmares. He’s done that to Brazil at France’98. To Portugal, at Euro 2000. To Bayer Leverkusen at the Champions League final in 2002. Managers and Coaches Dread the No 5, in the Real Madrid team. That’s what Zinedine Zidane is to opponents. Nightmare.

Zidane, known as Zizou, started playing his club football at Marseille, France. A legend there already, he then joined Juventus FC where the world acknowledged his brilliance and control. He then became an integral part of the French world cup team, which until 98 had just two semi final appearances. The “Wizard” or the “Magician” as he’s called, was dreaded all the world for his wonderful ball control, his trademark free kicks, his “off the Ball” game play and most importantly his through balls to his fellow French forwards.

I still remember those two trademark “Sharp Shooting” headers by Zizou that finished Brazil off. People talked a lot about a certain Ronaldo (A legend himself..) tearing to shreds the French defense, which never happened. What we saw, was this man, who had missed a couple of games, early in the tournament, leading the Les Blues to their first World Cup victory.

Euro 2000, I thought was where I saw the best of Zidane. He was the architect of almost everything the French did; every goal had his name either on the score sheet or on the assist column. I remember his crucial penalty, on the semifinal of this tournament, at extra time, when Slyvian Wiltord’s low ball was handled by Abel Xavier. That of course, helped France qualify for the finals, which was won by the French in extra time.

At the club level , Zidane’s 72 million transfer fee still remains the highest transfer fee, between Real Madrid and Juventus. Of course he paid them back, with that awesome Left foot volley in the Champions League final against Bayer Leverkusen. Madrid‘s League triumphs over the last 5 years have been attributed to his assists, goals, pin point passing and his dead ball skills.

His goal against Deportivo, in which he beats 3 defenders inside the Depo D still remains one of the best goals I have seen in world football.

His UNICEF charity work also speaks a lot about the great man, who donates large sums for public welfare. When he retired from International football last year, the French were struggling to win games in their qualifying group. He returned back to help the Les Blues, and he did it in style by scoring in his first game, back. He helped them win the group and gain an automatic qualifying spot.

At 33, he’s all set to make his last appearance at the World Cup in Germany 2006. Some might call it a premature, but as he believes, its time French football finds a replacement to the MVP of the Class of ’98. Many lay claim to being the next “Zidane” but then, few I feel have the class this great football genius has.

Watch the sporting spectacle in a month and a half, to catch for the very last time, one of the greatest players of the modern era, doing everything with the ball, one could ever dream off….

I would like to sum up with this quote, any football lover would agree on,

“Ever Seen God??? He turns up in the No 10 shirt for France”.

God he is. For only he could do the Bharatnatyam with the ball on his feet.

A Tribute to the Batch of Electrical '06.....

2006-04-06T07:40:00.000-07:00

To tell the truth, I never thought I would pursue engineering; don’t even bring SPCE into the equation. I can’t help but believe in destiny that brought me here. I never for once thought I would get into the “Groove” this well, that I would probably spend the best years of my life in this college. Taking into consideration the fact that I did not know a single dude when I took admission here, this place did make me a lot mature; emotionally and socially.

I had this idea, of running to Mulund almost every holiday to spend time with my childhood friends. Slowly as all of this unfolded, I never felt better, leave alone the thought of going to Mulund. I always believed that, one is always alone all through one’s life, and this “You will never walk alone” thing is bullshit. But time and again you meet people who change your life; make it better. SPCE taught me all the lessons of life, infact it taught me to live.

I would miss the Electrical Engineering Department (bah!!), probably those pronites as well, but most importantly I would miss my friends, most of whom I would never meet again, all my life. So here’s a tribute to all the good things SPCE has given me and hope Life continues to enthrall each and every one of you, forever and forever.

The SPCE Electrical batch-2006 awards go as stated:

1. The Adolf Hitler Award for “Peace”: Vidhyadhar N Bhise.

Ask Abhinav Guha, Abhishek Bhatt and ofcourse all those Muslims who live on this earth!!!

This dude almost made violence “an avatar of peace!!”

He’s responsible for more than half of what I was in college. We fought over a lot of things, some on the same side, some on other sides…. But we continue to be the best of friends…..

Nick Names: BABA.

2. The Judge Dread Award for the “Law Abiding Personality of the batch”:

Ameya Kulkarni.

As Judge Dread( A Slyvester Stallone movie and a comic character) says,

“…………..I am the Law….”

And our ever law abiding Ameya says:

“… rule ke hisab se Attendance sheet yahan se aana chahiye!!!”.

“ … There are three aspects of Cricket…….”

Encore everyone!!!

For the first two years, we were just class mates. He’s always been the “crises guy” who does the trouble shooting when things go wrong. Of course, he continues to be the “epitome” of “despo-ness”; but then even though I’d hate to agree, he was right on most occasions.

So thanks, Bhim…. I think you were all the values I learnt in my four years of SPCE.

Nick Names: Bhim, Aided ka No 1 Despo….

3. The Aishwarya Rai “I know how appealing I am” Award : Prachi Deshpande

Sorry guys, just couldn’t help not writing it….

She keeps kicking guys out of her way, just as Ash keeps doing that to all those guys. Ask Yogesh Khare, half the guys from our class……and ofcourse someone else as well(wink!!!).

One thing, in spite of all that she had to endure because of me…(in those bus rides, in class, at freshies, the rose day(I gave her a rose… bah!!!)….and probably the Farewell as well..), its good to see that she’s taken it in the right spirits on most occasions.

Wishing her, Good times ahead……

Nick Names: Misty, PD.

4. The Vivek Oberoi “All time Udhas L###(ATUL)” Award: Abhishek Sawant.

After Ash, can Vivek Oberoi be far behind?? The poor fellow was always there when all the girls needed him. As many kicks as this dude gets, he’s still the “prince charming” of our class. Let’s hope he doesn’t get the drop kick from this Ash atleast!!!!

Kyun….. Laat Mila naa……

The best to him for his GRE and future in general….

Nick Names: Shawani.

Update: Please do check this space after say 3-4 years…. I would hand him over a new award, after the Guy Aishwarya Rai marries in Real Life….Naaya Hai… Agent Bhim reports….

… Ash would marry Vivek After all!!!

5. The John Howard Award for the “chatu/dog of the batch”: Bhavesh Ranawat.

A tabloid had George Bush’s picture and put in a dog next to him, labeled, “John Howard”. Well, we are pretty fortunate to have the Australian Prime Minister amongst us.

This dude has received a lot of flak through this blog of mine and perhaps a lot more places. Even though I hate to say it out here….. He’s more than responsible to whatever is out here….

Anyways, let’s wish the best to him….

Nick Names: make an owl like face, turn your right hand clockwise and left hand anti clockwise….and produce a chirping sound….

Bhaveshspandan….

6. The Bill Gates Award, for the “person with brains and Loves Windows more than his life”: Rohit Bhute.

Well, Bhute… please don’t get mad at me as Microsoft sponsored this award. The Linux guys were too busy for such nonsense.

Another of my trouble shooter friends; I always thought he was never justifying his potential, which could have made him the most sort after fellow in college.

One of my best friends, the best in life for the dude!!!

Nick Names: Bhoot

7. The Akshay Kumar “Playboy of the Batch” Award: Nirbhay Singhal.

Raveena Tandon, Shilpa Shetty, Twinkle Khanna, Priyanka Chopra…..The Akki list is endless….

I know I would get a lot of flak for this choice, as a lot of dudes thought this award was coming their way…..

But then guys, no one played “the Game” better than “Shawar” himself!!! He probably did in more girls than Akshay Kumar has done in all his movies…

One of the few guys I never got to know very well; He first seemed to be one of those guys one having a weird sense of humour. Of course, this opinion changed over times… but still never got under the skin of this guy….

Of late, tolerable… just the way he should have been right through. Better late than never…..

Nick Names: Shawar, Rocky.

8. The Ekta Kapoor Award for the “best Glycerin Sobbing female” : A**** M*******.

Well, she’s cried more than all those females on prime time. No one dared to ask the reason behind all those tears; because just like those females in the Serials, She could have erupted!!!!

But then again…. No one asked her to date Mr Akshay Kumar himself!!!.. she was always destined to cry!!

I have stayed out of her way for the past four years…If I were you, I’d do the same……

Nick Names: Mummy, Crime Master Gogo…

9. The Osama Bin laden “Al Qaida-Amatuer Terrorist award” for budding prodigies:Alokk Bhatt.

Just like Al Qaida, he likes to blow up things….Osama Bin Laden would be overjoyed at some of the things this dude as done….

Firstly, I have never really understood what this guy keeps speaking. Both his accent and matter do seem Greek….

He’s a workaholic….that’s the best and the only thing I can say about him.

Nick Names: Panun Kashmir.

10. The Emraan Hashmi Award for the “dude with the best strike rate”:

(You know where, right??)

Yogesh Tarate.

…………..Tina, Meena, Deena, Mona…. Mansi, ****a**, **a***, ***a*………..

Last seen he was with a girl at a call center, with the girl running her hands over his face… like the one in those Gillette ads….

Why do some holes get all the ducks????

This is one guy, I never wanted to be a friend with initially, but subsequently became one of my best friends I ever had. He always seemed to be that senior whom I would be more happy being far from, but then I would always put it on destiny that we met each other.

We were together for just a year (Actually.. though technically for some time more!!)…but then it always seemed to be great when we were together…

Nick Names: Head of CC, Fardeen….

11. The Shakti Kapoor Award, for the “irritant of the batch”:

Well, I would have to share the award between “That Mosquito”, which feasted on me on the night of Machines Paper 2 and

Chetan Mistry.

Hitler’s concentration camp would probably be a better place…..

“Laja Babu… soLee…. Or Dabaddeeee!!!”

Actually, he isn’t an irritant……I thought of him to be pretty sensible most of the times. It’s just the fact that our frequencies never matched….made me feel that way. May all of his future plans materialize and wishing him the best in life….

Nick Names: Chunky.

12. The Babasaheb Ambedkar Award for “book-rapist of the batch”:

Aditya Harihar Save.

He wants to beat Dr Ambedkar’s record of forty thousand odd books. And the way he’s going after that record, We have Norman Nice, Charles Richter, Hayt and Kimmerly…. All panting at heaven….

What else did you expect Save???...They all died, thanks to you trying the Kamasutra with them!!!

May you F*** books with the same vigour all your life!!!

He’s one guy who’s been with me…. through the entire duration of the course. He’s been with me, when I had a KT in sem 1, he’s been with me when I had my highs here. He’s the “despo” responsible for me finishing all my assignments; Most importantly, inspite of being showered upon by some of the best “obscenities” the world has ever heard, He’s still with me. Lets hope, I am as lucky and find such good friends all my life…

13. The “Real Estate Baron of the Batch” Award: Hrishikesh Thite.

He owns the entire Electrical Department Area and maybe even a bit of the Computer Department!!!

The best in life for the dude… May you marry a cute….Computer!!!!

Practical. This single word could be used to describe Hrishi. Even though we hate acknowledge this, the fact stays that it’s always a question of “Mind or Heart”, the heart wins a lot more in most cases. He’s one of those guys, who feel its Brain first….. And last.

Tell you what, I have always appreciated him for this attitude, because a very few people I know have this “ability” to see things in the right light. For, I completely agree, that is what makes you progress in life. So, thanks for being such a standing example to me … Thite.

14. The Silent “femme fatale” Award: Sheetal Savalge.

She comes. She attends lectures. She enters the student council. She screws those papers. She goes home. She tops the class…. And makes Dani drink Pani!!!!

A “femme Fatale” for sure…. Ask those papers!!!!

She’s very sensible. Atleast whenever she’s spoken to me. She probably was the only girl, who managed without being high profile and still made it to the class power list(if there were to be one!!). A lot like a hit man, who comes, goes about her business and leaves with much fanfare… leaving the world to talk about his achievements.

15. The Fame Gurukul “made for each other jodi” award:

Vikas Dixit and Shivani Shukla.

Couldn’t think of a better pair. Perhaps Shahrukh Khan and Kajol came just as close.

They don’t talk to each other in FE. They swear at each other in SE. They turn their back to one another in TE.

….. And in BE, they do the Fashion Show together……..

Well, Love is really in the air……… Vikas… Ankur Dani is a witness to everything mentioned here!!!

Vikas was a character. One of those Shoaib Akhtar kinda guys… He wouldn’t flinch twice before hurling a beamer at you. He actually stood for me at a time when I needed somebody to stand with me … and hence is a guy I would do anything for. He still tries to be ingenuous with his thoughts and is fiery when he doesn’t need to be… very interesting Guy.

16. The “Mr Congeniality” Award: Himanshu Bari.

No one’s, more talented and more deserving than this chump!!!!

Himanshu was one of those fellows with whom I spent my very first days in SPCE. We used to have a great time listening to “Ragging Routines” the hostelities were made to go through. After he moved into the hostel, I thought we got lost. Anyways, a very convivial and friendly dude…. Certainly Entertainment Guaranteed!!

17. The “Miss Congeniality” Award: Sorry girls, the winner is

…………Ms(Miss ya Mrs!!!) Shyamlee Solanki

Any Problem Guys???

Bah!!

18. The Elton John “Gay Icon of the batch” award: Sunil Kumar Yadav.

He gets turned on, whenever he sees Mahesh Zagade and Manish Kajurolkar.

And ofcourse…. ****an*.

“… Aeee Madar####, Aaie #####ya,…….##@##$%%”.

I am expecting this in the comments.

Another one of those guys, whom I never even dreamt of being a friend with. Believe me, He’s one of the coolest of dudes I have ever seen. He’s given me great advices @ going “Misty Hunting”, which unfortunately, I always kept making a mess of…..

Nicknames: Bhaiya, HOS.

19. The Thomas Edison “Inventor of the Batch” Award: Nikhil Parkar.

Thomas Edison invented hundreds of inventions during his life time. This dude broke that record by inventing more than half the vocabulary of the SPCE lingo.

No one’s used the “HAGA” word more than this dude.

Other Inventions….. Shawar, Shawari, Engineers…..and more….

We are a part of the Meghna Naidu Fan club in class (Me part time member; Parkar founder). Anyways, enjoyed those cricket playing days a lot….Let’s hope Anisha does give him a look … sometime in the future!!

20. The Dhobi’s Donkey “Kick my ass” award: Prakash Nair.

No one…. Not even in the entire college have got their Ass Whupped more than this fellow.

Probably, that’s because of his “Vaeelya Kundi”(supposed to mean :Fat ass.. though I am not exactly sure).

I spent the whole of first semester with this dude. Slightly irresponsible at times. But most important thing is the fact that he takes all the jokes… the right way. He was a part of the publicity team for SPACE 2005… Did a good job there.

21. The Hutch “next brand Ambassador” award: Yeah you got it right….

Anay Dhoraje.

The previous Puppy died. So Hutchinson Essar decided to recruit this fellow.

Very nice and considerate…… only towards girls though!!!

Does his best to please them… and would love to escort them to every place on earth……the toilet included!!!!!

Another of those guys… I couldn’t get under the skin off. Probably, because our priorities were at different places. A nice guy, tending to go over board for “Certain Female Species” with an eye for Technology.

Well, the only thing I did not like was the unnecessary shining he used to do during those machine lectures…. Otherwise a very nice guy….

23. The “Beautiful mind award” for the most creative of minds:

It’s our own Enggeniuses!!!

This is not the students council……It’s our Engineers!!!

Let me put this as a team:

a. Deepak Wagh(Captain & CEO))

b. Abhishek More(Vice Captain)

c. Lalit Zope(Special Executive Officer)

d. Nilesh Gholap

e. Ashish Natekar(Loverboy of the group!)

Backup:

f. Himanshu Bari

g. Ameya Kulkarni

h. Vikas Dixit

i. Pramod Gupta

… They continue recovering our Gymkhana Fees!!!!!

No comments.

25. The Indira Gandhi Award for the “next devil in the making”: SP

Just the initials… as taking her name would mean that happening to me… which happened to those dudes in the Golden temple during “Operation Blue star!!!!”

She actually isn’t the devil that we all dread at. I have heard a lot of interesting nit bits, where in she’s done a lot for us. Of course she needs to be authoritative and demanding, considering the position she is in….But I did feel that she needed to be a bit considerate towards the students.

I admire you a lot Madam…

26. The “Smiling Assassin” Award: RD

She will smile at you the whole of semester and also during your Viva exams…. And finally you see that you got 10 in your term work and got knocked out in your vivas!!

Don’t ever trust this woman. She’s the crocodile of the Indian Mythology.

27. The Thane Mental Asylum presents “The Madhouse of Bhavan’s Campus”:

SPCE hostel.

It’s a club, a beer bar, a fight club, a movie theatre and everything ….. all in one!!!

No comments about this one. I had a few friends, but it stayed at that.

28. The M M Kulkarni “Emerging Despo” Award: Haridas Dave.

This dude rang me up after reaching Mulund(while I was in Andheri) and asked (pleaded should be right word!!) me to fix up a date for him.

What a despo… control those hormones, else might very soon see your face in Mumbai Mirror as,

“A destitute women was raped by a rich kid, near Andheri Flyover”.

One of those guys, with whom I have had marathon chat sessions, but would hardly interact much in class. Actually, I have hardly seen him for the first two years he was there(Honestly, never realized he even existed…). But then, He turned out to be an idol for us emerging students, considering the responsibilities he had taken on himself at his age, while we used to bunk lectures and play cricket. He has his own business , which he handles while he studies.. which I thought was a really commendable, taking into consideration the amount of time and effort that goes in Engineering.

29. The CNBC-TV18 award for the “best employee of the batch”:

Bhagwat Vihire(for the TPO office)

He always had a dream…. “To be the Best TPC in the world. A TPC which nobody would have seen, nobody would have heard of… the best in the business”. He spent those sleepless night work for the award…. And was absolutely jubilant on getting the award!!!.....

I actually admire guys, who come have a very poor back ground and still gun for the stars. He’s one of them. But that’s the only thing I like about this guy.

30. The Mallika Sherawat Award for “the most desirable female”: Shivani Shukla.

“When I am good… I am good. When I am bad…. I am better!!!”.

What say guys??

One point about Shivani though, she’s one of the most misunderstood females in the batch. A very nice girl….

The best in life for her………….

31. The Anuja Falnikar “Ass like me” Award: Vikas Dixit & Chetan Mistry

Pun Intended, in both cases. Anuja, boasts of one of the best callipygian anatomies in SPCE.

Vikas proved how big an ass he can be, when he refused a ball room dance with her….

As for Chetan, he proves time and again, there couldn’t be an “Ass like him!!!”

God save the world……

32. The A**** M******* “Cry baby of the batch” Award: Ankur Dani.

This guy likes to cry. More like is born to cry. If he gets first, he would cry as he could have got more marks. If he gets third, “he would cry on how he could have got first”.

If he isn’t the SS, He would cry as he should have been the SS. If he is the SS, he would rue over the fact that he is SS!!!

The trauma Queen just gave him his award, just as the photo during the Aurangabad trip ( He was sitting on her lap… Like a baby!!.......... Waaaaaaaaaaaa!!!)

He’s one of my first friends in SPCE. I am glad that he would still be with me, in TCS. He’s helped me a lot whenever I needed help and I have returned the favour only by making fun of the dude. I take this opportunity to say sorry to this guy and hope I would be able to return all the favour he’s done to us.. and for the SPACE committee(he tried his best for Finance…), and ofcourse remain best friends with him… forever.

33. The T-series award for the “Bhajan singing foursome”:

Bhavesh, Sridhar, Rassay and Vaibhav.

Just like in Bhajan Sessions, they sing… the others follow….

…… And they attained “Moksha” at the SPCE Canteen…

They could cut in an album in years to come….

How Holy!!!

Unfortunately, I couldn’t join them. Neither do I have the voice.. nor do I have their set of skills. One of the reasons our class was popular, was due to these guys. Very talented and able musicians, who used to be ready to answer the call of duty, on very short notice, At times. They used to take initiative.. and believed in themselves(something, I could never manage to do) for which I respect them.

Kudos!!

34. The Nitin Bhitre Award(Co-sponsored by Mcdowells) “for the emerging Bhitre Award”: Vivek Palaskar.

Like most drunkards, he never speaks.

But when he does, like all drunkards, he blabbers something and goes…..

No comments. Doesn’t deserve any.

35.The Yash Chopra “top five happening romances throughout the four years”:

The countdown begins:

5. Aditya Save and Sheetal Savalge: One of them studies and the other gets marks….. I can’t think of a pair who would live for one another more than these two.

4. Deepak Ujania and Hiral Parekh: They know each other right from their Babubhai days; the ladies guy that he is, he goes out of his way to keep his queen happy!!

Pramod Gupta... burning somewhere.....

3. Vikas Dixit and Shivani Shukla: Well, theirs is the only thing that has stood the test of time. They have gone through ups and downs, but the best part is that they still are very much together!!...

Samajahh guys!!

2. Nirbhay Singhal and A***** M*******: Well, I don’t know how exactly it started, but then its one of the most happening ones in the entire college.

The charismatic Nirbhay with the ravishing A*****….. What say really!!

1. Abhishek Sawant and Prachi Deshpande: I think this was the one that went exactly according to the script, ie they met @ FE, it happened @ SE, they realized @ TE, and blossomed together @ BE!!!

…. Veer Zaara anyone??

Too bad… I missed the bus…..

Special Couple award:

Ameya Kulkarni and Aditya Save.

Broke Back Mountain???... Lets have Karan Johar remake this one for us….

36. The Femina “Miss India-Multitalented” award: Vaibhav Pathwardhan

This dude can sing, act, play the keyboard, play all the accompaniments, play the flute, ………………dance, eat……………study, …….. tell no lies, no swear words……….do the morning pooja, read those scriptures…………….

If he were a girl….. He would have won the Miss India title almost every year….

BTW, does he know to sing “Sutta”?? I at least know the first line…and the main line (wink!!)

If I could do , even half of what he could… I ‘d be out there proposing Aishwarya Rai. That sums up Vaibhav. Simplicity and a very good character.

37. The “Red and White Bravery” Award:Dr Nandkumar Kinhekar(BE, M.Tech in Power Electronics, ME in Communication systems, Doctorate in Power Systems and Power Electronics………………….. Currently studying Biology)

Does any person (leave alone a professor) have the balls to teach and give notes on any subject he hasn’t even heard of?

But then award isn’t for this….. It’s for his bravery and daring to sit for the viva examinations as well……

India could do with such people…….

38. The Bharat Ratna for the “Great Service done to Humanity” by giving this wonderful feedback: A Student who wrote in this feedback about Mr G Nargundkar, our Design and Estimation of Electrical Systems Professor and a much respected Hotshot in the university.

Name: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Class: BE Electrical Roll No: (Really no idea!!)

a) Attendance in Class: ???????????

(You really wanted me to put in 100 % after all that he makes us go through???

Anyway, where’s the time to attend those when I have to do the drawing sheets???)

b) Topics you liked:

i) Drawing Transformers ii) Counting Switches

iii) Stealing books iiii) The prospect of SP sitting for lectures.

c) Topics you have difficulties in:

i) DEES. ii) DEES.

iii) DEES. iiii) DEES.

d) Overall Syllabus coverage:

Did he even start????....

e) Comments/ feedback:

i) One request to you sir, whatever happens in your life, Please don’t stop coming to SPCE. We want all students to realize that all those jokes about Engineering being bizarre and suicidal are absolutely true.

ii) Please give that transformer drawing assignment every year, to every batch.

39. The “Tata Indicom- Customer of the Year” Award: Bhupendra Amodekar.

This dude is responsible for the growth of Tata Indicom over the last two years, thanks to his everlasting calls to various students… over all those four years.

The best in life to one of my best friends here, please keep calling me… all my life. Swear…. It’s no pain at all.

I have had Marathon Chat sessions with him…even from Hyderabad. He’s another guy, who’s been with me and helped me whenever I needed the most. He did my submissions, when I was down with Jaundice….and ofcourse used to give me first hand information on various college affairs.

Will certainly miss him…..a lot.

40. The PC Sarkar Award, for “Amateur Magicians”: Rajesh Noydial.

David Copperfield made the Effiel Tower Vanish……

This dude almost changed the Address of SPCE to:

Sardar Patel College of Engineering,

Bhavans Campus,

Thane(W), Mumbai-xxxxxxx.

Atleast Sridhar wouldn’t have had to travel much then………..

41. The “Black Rose of the Batch” Award: Vikas Dixit gave it to SP.

The “Love Affair” started after Sem 6 results…………. Ask Vikas what happened inside that cabin of hers…….

42. The “TERE NAAM- prototype” award: Nitin Rassay and Prachi Deshpande.

It began with a Rose from Rassay to Her… @ SE. But then it ended like Tere Naam, the Salman starer…where the Love story never really happened. It died a quiet and sorry death.

I really thought that “The Rassay Story” was on the way to the bank… too bad it disappeared somewhere on the way….

Can I have the end of that????

43. The “Next Sridhar Narayanan” Award: -------------NONE----------------------

There can be only one in a lifetime…..

For this requires you to first be a half mallu… who cannot give a proper description of where and how he came into existence. This then requires you to travel two hours… everyday…to and forth and keep composing tunes on cell phone while you do that…. Then come here…. And realize that you have missed one full lecture and one half lecture…….

But neither can you attend that lecture… because Abhishek Bhatt wants you to rehearse for the “AIEEE committee welcoming function” next day.

If u somehow (Bhatt doesn’t give up on stuff that easily… We all know that (wink!!)) manage to give that a skip, u still have to teach MATLAB to freshers…. Or arrange an EESA seminar.. to be delivered by a person on a subject which even SP has no idea about. But then u still have to attend it…. For obvious reasons….(Wink!! Again!!)

If that isn’t there… There’s always Siemens and Mr Madan to attend to… don’t forget Gayatri Gokhale(wink!!) of Reliance…..

After all that u need to sing, dance, make others sing, make Bhim dance(project woes.. what else…). You also need to play the Guitar when Bhavesh would sing (phew!!)…. And prove to the world… that u aren’t 75-25 after all…….

…. After all that… u still need to study!!!

I, myself, for starters…. Am also a Half mallu, tracing my routes……..

Some one could probably make a movie called “Being Sridhar”. Even though this is just half of whatever he’s done here… I think it would require a lot of a guy to even come close.

The biggest Achiever in our class…..no doubt about it.

44. The Winner of the Kodak “Smile of the year contest”: Sangeeta Madam.

Date: 23^rd March 2006.

Time: 12.44 pm… during her lecture.

Situation: 10 students attending her lecture on Rose day…. And when Madam gave us a sum that threatened to eat half our Lunch Break.

Dimension: 1 inch wide…. No it was half….actually might have needed a micrometer to measure that.

One Special Mention about Anand Ramachandran… The Only School and College Friend I am in touch with. Thanks a lot for that mate….

I expect everyone to take this in the right spirits and put the blame on this insane mind of mine….Probably, I had nothing much to do…….

This is the class I spent my life with. Maybe I forgot all the good they did to me when I wrote this….but those moments would always stay with me till the end of my life. I never wanted to write this farewell, so soon; taking into consideration a few eventualities that were to happen, I decided to post this on.

I have only taken those names; I consider them to be my best friends and would take this in the right spirits. The best in life for all you girls and guys….. And May you continue kicking asses…. Forever and forever!!

I would take this opportunity to wish all my friends( I can’t take all those names… you know who you all are), and give you one final shot at giving me whatever award you want to(Please let the joke be only on me….not any one else!)….And of course comments and innovations, Welcome.

I am very poor in being in touch with people... a miserable failure at that... So it might be the last time, u might see me/ hear of me....

So lest we meet again...

Signing out on this note, Bye,

Varun

Update(02/10/2006):Just one name removed.... nothin compared to the grandeur of the batch...

Rock on!!!

Check this out...

2006-04-05T05:34:00.000-07:00

Well, am posting after almost 2 weeks....but I would like to keep this Brief...

Check out the following:

1. The Aamir Khan-Kajol starrer "Fanaa" Trailer.... As an Aamir Khan fan, this is a movie I have eagerly been awaiting for a long time.....

2. Songs: Gangster. The Bhatts are known for their music. They certainly did not dissappoint with this one. The movie, which is reportedly inspired from Abu Salem's real story, has some very good numbers. Check out Kay Kay's "Tu hi Meri Shab Hai" (original and the Euro mix are both titillating). Also check out the Latest chart buster "Ya Ali". Great Music... for what should be an average Movie.

3. Aishwarya Rai... in the Lux Sparkle Ad. Nice one... Animated and super cool. She's shed all the extra flab.... and is looking ............Shamajahh guys.
Ash Rulz... as usual.

Finally, check this Space out on Friday the 7th. 14 Pages... of tribute to the Class and the Batch of Electrical' 06. We have our farewell then... And lets hope I am able to keep up to the Grandeur of the Batch.

... Ek din Aayega....

2006-03-22T02:25:00.000-08:00

Not at all the right time to put in obituaries. Even though I am listening to Karunesh's Punjab (one of the most soothing Lounge tracks, I have heard) ; it still isn't sufficient to put out the fire off . The Great Indian Slump, which I had almost forgotten untill today, I thought was more to be held responsible for the poor 212 run loss, rather than some superb swing and fast bowling the English men did. Anyways, Lets hope we are not subjected to such nonsense during the one dayers again.

I thought all of them, the top order especially deserved the stick and hope to see an improved performance in the one dayers; Guru Chappel has a job on his hand right now, to motivate the players to be in the right frame of mind.

Sachin Tendulkar needs a break, get himself fit once again and up and again iin the running for the 2007 world cup. He needs to go the West Indies and am confident we would see "Vintage Sachin" giving Lara and Co Batting Lessons.

Go India Go!!!

Only thorns!!!

2006-03-20T04:14:00.000-08:00

Rose day up next; it brings back memories of the one I attended last year, which sorry to say, would be something I’d rather forget. This day is a day which I used to take as a “beautifully placed official half day”, more justice to which could be done by having a nice afternoon nap.

I have two options this time around; one thing I can do is: Come home for Lunch, have a nice nap for about 2 hours and then read the newspaper which I never find time for. Also I could probably do a bit of GRE or CAT this day, if nothing else, prepare for the technical GE aptitude the next day.

That would also save me the Herculean task of “ironing” my Shirt for this day (I really hate Full shirts guys!!) and also save my Formals for the next day. Also this would save me the head ache that “Six Bins of Music” and the afternoon sun would provide me with.

Being there would probably make me wear those formals, which make you sweat like Hell, Watch half the class get black roses and the unsporting look some of them give, when people offer them red roses.

Most important thing, it brings to my knowledge, year after year, how horribly I have failed in the Girls Department. It nails into my head repeatedly the true fact of me wasting teenage hood pursuing the “right things” I should have done and the wrong things “I should not have done, but I should have tried to do”.

The other option, of course would be to attend the function, watch Samina Sheikh host the show and shake a jig, enjoy the “fun” when Bhavesh reads out fake Dedications and Bhim does “Jhin Jhin “ Dance … and half the class sing Old Kishore Kumar songs with Sridhar and co do the “Mehafill”.

So, Friends, I have decided to obviate my self from all the fun the planned “fish Pond” would have to offer me and spend my time at a place that would love me a lot more, my Couch!!

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It’s all about sex related crimes- to the extent that the news paper these days look a lot like some lascivious porno magazine. More importantly, they showcase the lack of maturity that people today possess.

Even though we can keep gunning the police down and keep blaming the government responsible for such heinous crimes, Sex Education is the most important way to go about it.

Bah!! Big Deal…. As if some one doesn’t know about it…..

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Sachin Tendulkar getting booed in his 132^nd test match and Rahul Dravid getting all the attention for his 100^th test appearance. Even as we congratulate either of them for their commendable achievements and the service they have done to team India, comparing both of them with each other is foolish to say the least.

They are both special players, probably won’t be born again for quite some time now; But rather than pitting them against each other, I would stress on how they have been special players all this while. Sachin has stayed there for a longer time than Rahul Dravid’s been there, but Dravid has had more match winning knocks against his name than Sachin does against his. So it does sort of even out.

So from my side, both of them get 10/10. As far as the Little Master being booed out in his own den, I would have Andrew Flintoff watch out for him in the 2^nd innings. Sachin has one Century fixed for every series; and since he hasn’t had one for about 10 innings now…. The next one is just around the corner.

@ Bhim: Lara my ass…..

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A great Ash picture site: Worth a look in for sure!!!

Congratulations to Vidhyadhar for Gifting himself an ipod Nano. Trust me, its one of the best things you have put in your money on.

I saw this happen....

2006-03-13T04:50:00.000-08:00

IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING!!!!!
I am fortunate .... I saw this happen....

A Prayer......

2006-03-07T04:14:00.000-08:00

Women’s day up next; isn’t it ironical that we celebrate the grandeur of women and the life they live… while we have more than half of them not even having the right to be “born” on this planet. Shobha De, put in a very touching article on the Sunday Times (dated the 5th of February) which brought to light, once again the conditions under which a normal woman thrives on. How we have a large percentage of women giving up even their basic needs to see that the needs of the family and the egoistic husbands are satisfied. How, every other women gets beaten by their husbands and their in-laws. How they are victimized by almost every faction of the society, day after day, year after year.

While Women’s day, continues to be glamourised by G-next and their claims of “Girl Power” and “Be a Chick, Be cool!!” kind of stuff, the basic idea of reaching out to the people and fighting for women’s empowerment seems to be lost. Every year, we celebrate women’s day (Channel V-ishtyle) and move ahead with no notable accomplishments to have been achieved.

So, lets pray to god at this juncture to have mercy and help those women leading a very hard and difficult life and give them a moment of happiness and joy that they have been longing for.

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The 78th Academy Awards threw up surprises as usual. BrokeBack Mountain, surprisingly failed to win the Best Picture Award, after all the critical acclaim it received at various film festivals. This Ang-Lee Directed movie, which reportedly dealt with a Love story between two cowboys, was beaten by Crash. Most importantly, they simply aren’t taken by people who make tried and tested Love stories and family dramas. Unlike The Film Fare Awards, the best performances don’t simply have to remain happy with the critic’s choice awards and that’s exactly the reason why even an Oscar Nomination is a reason to celebrate. If u notice, even when the promos of a movie are being aired, they highlight the Oscar nominated and Oscar awardees working in the movie. Here, Shah Rukh Khan gets nominated for all awards…. Every year….WTF????

Anyways, The Awards for those who did not bother to watch are given here….
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A prelude to the 2006 Formula 1 season: A lot has been told about the new V8 engines and the effect of these engines in comparison to the V10 engines used till last year. As I read in an article in the Times of India, in spite of the FIA trying to reduce the gap between the teams, this is going to hardly make a difference, as seen in the testing session at Barcelona. Unfortunately, we can still expect only the top 2 –Mclaren and Renault, to fight for the title honours this year as well; Mclaren, because their MP4-21 engines are the fastest in the business and the Renaults have the consistency that you need for a podium finish. I expect Toyota to be the under dogs this year, as I always felt that they had it in them to challenge the big two. Ferrari should be mediocre as last year and so should Williams. The new comers Super Aguri, with their old Arrows engine, should probably compete with Midlands and BAR to be the best among the “worst”.
Fernando Alonso should find it difficult this time around. Kimi Raikonen is with a better team and a faster car. Juan Pablo Montoya is my favourite for the World champion. He has tremendous potential but he needs to slightly less erratic and drive with a better temperament. Micheal Schumacher, probably in his last season with Ferrari (It’s high time he retires…) would end up depending upon how well Ferrari have come in terms with the new rules (they failed miserably last time around….).

Anyway, it should be a hell of a Season… Look out for the F1-chicks and the Brand New Mclaren in its red and silver avatar…

A few 2p's...........

2006-03-02T04:14:00.000-08:00

As a Cricket fan, I am most disappointed by the commercialization of sport. Cricket is huge in the sub continent; It also does need the money to come in from all quarters to succeed in its over all endeavour as a “global sport that is played all over the world”. But compromising on the quality of broadcasting is not the right way to go about it.

I am against the advertisements that keep coming on the screen when the cricket is on. The score was earlier displayed at the top left corner and the channel at the right; but now we have the score at the bottom and the channel Logos at both the corners. The space that remains has those “karlo duniya Muthi main….@ Rs 1” stuff being advertised time and again, all of which takes more than 30% of the screen. On top of this, we have “Lolly pops” and other stuff making irritating noises when ever a person scores a 50 or a hundred… or when the team reaches any milestone, small or big, relevant or irrelevant. This probably was started by Australian “Channel 9” which used to put up a “cute duck” whenever a batsman used to get out; the concept now is being abused by cheap marketing techniques at the expense of broadcast time.

The producers needs to take a leaf from football broadcasts; I watch football, like most other 21 year olds and though it’s a huge sport (cricket being nothing compared to it, both in terms of global audience and money influx) they yet do not have a single advertisement or anything that comes on , when the match is in progress. Of course, they do have the advertisements during half times or any interval, but nothing at the expense of broadcasting pure, hardcore football.
The cricket producers can sell the time in between their overs to cover their costs; they can also sell the “ultra motion” or the “dart fish” captures to sponsors…but selling the very soul of the game, is criminal. Another fact about football here, the national teams are allowed to endorse their team sponsors only at one place in their kit: their boots. That’s the spirit of football. Please read me again, I am comparing the games, I am talking about areas that need to be looked into, good feed is one of those.

I wrote about this to the International Cricket Council, through their website and I don’t expect the greedy cricket body (20-20 world cup… WTF??) to do anything about this. But at least they can’t say that no one cared about the welfare of the game. Till then, we continue watching Harmison’s body …. With Dhirubhai Ambani’s stinking face on it…..

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I am not taking the name of the company here, but any moron in our college and the clever guys from outside should get this very easily. BG, came to our campus to select a couple of guys for their “offshore work”. Now this gas major, is offering about 6.6 lakhs per annum, which probably should be the only reason it was supposed to be a final “dream” offer to all placed students. The whole affair was managed horribly by first our TPO’s and then the company it self. Even though It isn’t going to be much important and no one is going to care, I believe in being heard and this should be a good place to put it on:

1. We were made to pay Rs 2500 to be able to sit for a company that’s coming to our college. Of course, as we can’t be asked to pay for placements, we were asked to pay for being a part of our “College Alumni”. As far as I am concerned, any student, good or bad is by default the member of the Alumni. No one can stop us from claiming that we belong to our college and no one again can “make me member of the Alumni by taking money”. The Alumnus are important as they would increase the interaction between the college students and the industry. This in turn would benefit the college in the future and by asking us to pay for such things, we are degrading the esteemed alumni of the college which is a self supporting body in every college. A member ship fee of say few hundred bucks every year shouldn’t be a problem; but asking us to pay when we are not even out of college is something that’s not fair.

2. The college is losing out in this process. Say a guy, who is not allowed to sit for the 1+1 here, becomes a hotshot in some company. Now as he isn’t a part of the alumni, he can’t even do anything for the college without taking efforts to build a relationship with the college again. Naturally, he won’t care that much, and the students lose out due to this. The people here should understand that: for an alumni , being a alumni is all about having a sumptuous meal once every year and meeting old friends; it’s for the TPO’s and the students.. they are more important.

3. Plan B, which has students paying the money after they receive their first salary is even sillier. The TPO’s would probably run after every student, in the month of August and take that money. If a student pursues higher studies.. then the TPO’s would turn up at their door steps at about five years from now….

Only God knows what these people have in their heads….

4. Now for the company; BG, for the amount there are paying could have had an “Indian Idol” kind of selection process, which of course the people would have obliged for. What ever be the work, 6.6 lakhs for a fresher is a dream. So instead of just making a silly shortlist of 3 students each…. They could have had proper interviews of all the students (placed/unplaced) and then selected a deserving student. Selecting 3 toppers from a list of many for their interviews and short listing them with out an aptitude test… makes no sense to me at all.

Let’s hope... at least some gets to dream here…..
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Thanks to both Akshat Kumar and Ankur Saraf for their very enlightening experiences of their GD/PI's... I hope it would help all, in the present as well as the future.

My view about MBA... and Love....

2006-02-27T05:47:00.000-08:00

Firstly, very sorry about the CET paper held on Sunday. Most of my friends were banking on that as the last resort to immediate higher studies. I am totally against this idea of going for a management course, immediately after one’s degree, for it would deprive you the chance to work as a trainee and learn about the basic work culture at various places and stuff. This would also give you an advantage which would allow you to take courses that required a few years of experience. An MBA abroad, is impossible with out work experience. So taking into consideration the fact that one’s only 21 and the amount of time we have… giving CAT for a few more years wouldn’t be a problem at all, till you have a decent college.

People do opt out against this approach, as they feel that a few years of employment would take away the “urge to study” away from you. I completely agree on this point; this would also mean that you leave your job and then concentrate afresh on the job in hand. But then again, I personally feel that what you gain out of a few years of work experience; would be worth a lot more as compared to what you would be losing taking a year off(if necessary, that is). Software experience isn’t a lot of experience at all; but then again it would be worth a million when one has to take in a systems course. Also Vishwanath, currently @ IIM-A, agrees that work experience would help you appreciate Management a lot more than you would other wise.

Anyway, the bottom line is: Please don’t get frustrated if you don’t get into an institute of your choice. You might be better off, if you believe in yourself and try harder next time around…..

Ofcourse, it would be a bit difficult, As I would also be writing it this year(wink!!!!)…

I would take this opportunity to wish all my class despos, the best in life, and pray that they remain a lot more successful in life, than they have been with the girls in college.

My 2p it is…..

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The India-England Series: A great series to watch out for.I don’t like the prospect of Sahara One and DD covering the event and I hope we don’t have to see Charu Sharma and his fourth umpire show.
As a Despo, I don’t mind seeing Roshni Chopra though; but I prefer the hardcore Ten Sports coverage as a cricket fan.

India start as favourites; the England team has a weak batting line up and a pace attack that seems to have lost its sting. A very weak spin attack leaves them not even close to the Ashes team that the Aussies were unsuccesful in dealing with.
India, under Guru Chappel, seems to have built in a solid unit. A very good blend of experience and youth and a never say die attitude that Greg Chappel and Rahul Dravid have created in the team.

Test Series should be comfortable: 2-0 for the Indians. The One dayers would be a lot tighter; but the Indians should see it through.

Player to watch out for: Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

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Here’s something I received in a mail from a friend. I generally don’t get so emotional (you all know that I am not a Poetry kinda guy….). But then this touched me a lot. So am posting it…..as it tells..... I too have a heart after all!!!

The despos may skip it:

He met her on a party. She was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her, while he was so normal, nobody paid attention to him. At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was surprised, but due to being polite, she promised. They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything, she felt uncomfortable, she thought, please, let me go home.

Suddenly he asked the waiter: "would you please give me some salt? I'd like to put it in my coffee." Everybody stared at him, so strange! His face turned red, but, still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it.

She asked him curiously : why you have this hobby? He replied: "when I was a little boy, I was living near the sea, I liked playing in the sea, I could feel the taste of the sea, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee, I always think of my childhood, think of my home town, I miss my home town so much, I miss my parents who are still living there".

While saying that tears filled his eyes. She was deeply touched. That's his true feeling, from the bottom of his heart. A man who can tell out his homesickness, he must be a man who loves home, cares about home, has responsibility of home. Then she also started to speak, spoke about her far away hometown, her childhood, her family. That was a really nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story. They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who meets all her demands; he had tolerance, was kind hearted, warm, careful. He was such a good person but she almost missed him!

Thanks to his salty coffee! Then the story was just like every beautiful love story, the princess married to the prince, they were living the happy life... And, every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee, as she knew that's the way he liked it.

After 40 years, he passed away, left her a letter which said:" My dearest, please forgive me, forgive my whole life lie. This was the only lie I said to you---the salty coffee. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous at that time, actually I wanted some sugar, but I said salt it was hard for me to change so I just went ahead. I never thought that could be the start of our communication! I tried to tell you the truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to do that, as I have promised not to lie to you for anything.. Now I'm dying, I afraid of nothing so I tell you the truth: I don't like the salty coffee, what a strange bad taste..But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life! Since I knew you, I never feel sorry for anything I do for you. Having you with me is my biggest happiness for my whole life. If I can live for the second time, still want to know you and have you for my whole life, even though I have to drink the salty coffee again".

Her tears made the letter totally wet.

Someday, someone asked her “ what's the taste of salty coffee?

“It’s Sweet”, She replied.

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Comments and Brickbats... Welcome.

.. In god .... I believe.....

2006-02-22T08:00:00.000-08:00

Right from my childhood days, I was taught to do my daily prayers; I was taught to say my prayers before starting to eat, after getting up in the morning and also before sleeping. I used to do most of them out of fear of the fact that I would have to tell a lie in my Bal Vihar class. I was “threatened” of dire consequences, by both my parents and also my teachers, if I were to skip those sessions.

I still feel the same way, even after I am 21 today. I still do my prayers, in the morning as well as night. I do all the “stuff”, I am to do as a Brahmin, and also try to be a part of every pooja that would take place in my neighbourhood, or at my relatives place. Even though I do all these things, I do most of these without having a clue of what and why we are supposed to do such things, to get God’s attention.

Personally, I share a very simple equation with god. I talk to him directly; I try to be as direct and informal as I can and do that with a clear conscience. Most times when I am thinking, I prefer to remain aloof and have a one on one conversation with him. There are numerous times when I have been caught soliloquizing. But then this is the only way I try to put across my problems and my ambitions to him; try to work out a realistic and feasible solution by doing “mandoli”( nothing unfair… effort needs to be there) and then work for it. We then have a sort of agreement, which neither he nor I myself can break. The agreement could be anything from say doing a good deed, or just spending more time on my prayers or by not losing my temper etc. It could also be spending time with my sister, not getting angry at her, etc. Simply speaking, I have achieved almost everything I wanted to achieve, and he has made sure that I get that, all I needed to do was to live my life the way he wanted me to live, righteously.

So my question to all those people who make such a hue and cry about religion and stuff is:
In the above relationship, where does “Religion” come in???
No where. Religion is what you make of it and not what it expects you to make of it. Think about it…….

(wow…. I loved this line, could have used this to woo Zaiba... wink!!!)

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Dho … Dho…Dhoni…!! While the whole country is going ga-ga over this demolition man from Jharkhand, comparing him with Gilchirist is very premature. Even though He bats just as well as Gilchirist does, I still feel that his keeping needs to improve. The true test of a keeper would be to keep for Anil Kumble and Harbajan Singh on Indian dust bowls. Anil Kumble, especially is yet to trust a keeper after the reliable Nayan Mongia; but most importantly Dhoni has showed promise and is a wonderful bat down the order. Now all he needs is some time and trust, which Chappell’s sure to give him, making him some one to look forward to at the world cup 2007.
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The annual Day is coming up next; this being very much a management affair. The GS would have to do a lot less, apart from sitting on the dais and giving out a short speech. Geetspandan is being held on the 23rd, at SP Jain Auditorium. A Marathi mandal affair, this is supposed to be a low key music competition. But then again, using the auditorium for such a function, which wouldn’t be attended by more than a hundred people, is certainly not right. One could have used a drawing hall, or maybe the seminar hall. They could have arranged for sound and then conducted the program. As it’s our own back yard and we have the right to “take” the auditorium whenever we want to… it’s all right. But then again, it’s improper resource management to say the least.

Maybe, we would use the SP Jain Auditorium for the SPACE “Press-Co” next year.
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The Partner Swapping story published on the Mumbai Mirror cover today. It was a very interesting read (Remember Zebra Lounge.. The movie??), but what I found more interesting was the front page status given to such things by Mumbai Mirror. There are a lot more important things to be dealt with in Mumbai, Partner swapping certainly is not one of them.
The last thing a person wants to read about, early in the morning is legal Adultery!!!!

A hot Aishwarya Rai, after all her fitness training for Dhoom 2....Bikini it is....

.. SPACE 2006..

2006-02-18T20:30:00.000-08:00

I am sorry to disappoint those people expecting a SPACE 2006 awards post. The reason would be simply the fact that I did not spend enough time at SPACE this time around due to a number of factors and results arrived at the right time, so sorry about that. I would be giving out the BE awards soon, so stay alive for that…..It should be a rocking post, I am just trying to get the timing right(I was about to post that.. but then results happened and I don’t think the mood is right for that now).

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A couple of things about SPACE 2006, even though I couldn’t stop comparing it with SPACE 2005, both those years had their share of financial insecurities and problems. The first impression that 2006 succeeded in putting across was a clean, completely feasible event, but then there were numerous occasions where we did get a lot more things in SPACE than this year.

Firstly, the afternoon lunch, AFAIK there was no such thing this year. The id cards were not laminated (which was off track for a huge 3 day event like SPACE), and they got in a pathetic DJ. They certainly won in the sound department and of course kept the rock event separately at the carnival village, which we couldn’t do thanks to dug up area of the carnival village. We did try to make it up with some Sun-n-Sand type of thing, which clearly did not make up for that thing.

Anyways, overall, barring the security mismanagements on the Jal night, it was all well administered and conducted. I would congratulate the entire SPACE committee 2006 for putting up a fantastic show this year and wishing them the best for the future events.
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Jal-The Band was the best pronite I had attended in my four years of SPACE. Of course I have my own reasons, which should/would differ from what others would offer. I am making my points below, Please go through it before gunning me down:

1. Originality: Full marks to Jal for being original. They did not sing a single song that did not belong to them( They sang one… Mast Khalandar…Junoon, but even then I felt that the song belonged to the same genre of sufi-rock that Jal belongs to, so it was fine). Previous pronites had Roop Kumar Rathod one(No comments), Euphoria, which had their pop music, but then had an equal amount of hindi filmi and English hits(summer of 69), Avdhoot Gupte and Vaishali Samant, remix king and queen sang their hit numbers but then again did not have a lot original to offer.

Jal sang for one hour and fifteen minutes, but they sang all that was expected of them, which none of the others did. Full marks to them for making it short and sweet.

2. Versatility, within their limits: Let me get it clear, when I am saying this I am also claiming that they did sing songs from the slow “Teri Yaad” to the fast version of “Woh Lamhey”. What they also did was using different accompaniment patterns for the same song. Like for “Woh Lamhey”, they sang their version, Atif Aslam’s version, and also the one in the movie…that put in three different Guitar Patterns for the same song. For a tyro in keyboard, I completely understand how tough it is to get such things on and perform them, live.
They are professionals and are expected to do that, every rock band does that, but that rock experience is something that you never get from those pop and remix concerts.
Another interesting thing was that they did not have a key board player, only two guitarists, a lead singer and a drummer. Strings, another Pakistani band has only two people with no drummer, and are heard to make a mess of their concerts; Jal was better off singing this way rather than singing to those minus track accompaniments.

3. Short and Sweet: That may be due to their small song base, but even then it was very essential to get it over before time, rather than start boring the audience in a two and half hour concert.

There were a lot of goof ups as well in the concert organization. Pathetic security handling almost caused a stampede there, the security was under par, there were not enough chairs at all and the CTV VJ was about to get bashed by the students there for silly antics.

But then the Jal concert more than made up for them.

I am not comparing all the SPACE pronites here. Every SPACE has something eventful, that one was Jal this time around. It was DJ Ryan Beck’s night last time around, Euphoria before that and whatever three years ago.
One more thing, even though Annie was the clean winner, I thought Zeba whatever (I can’t spell her last name!!) looked stunning as well!!

Comments and Brickbats welcome!!

Results @ Sem 7........

2006-02-16T08:20:00.000-08:00

Pathetic.

(I dont want to elaborate anything more here. I am only making a log so that I realise later that I have seen such days too.)

My hero of the day: Deepak Ujania.

One should learn from him to laugh during testing times.
A three gun salute.

Update:kal thoda utha tha mera..... I feel it's a lot better to get 69.xx rather than get a kt.
At the famous Sydney test, during West Indies tour of Australia(Yeah lara got that Pathetic record there), Justin Langer got out for 99. That's when a reporter asked him on how dissapointed he was on missing out the century, then he replied,
" at the beginning of the match, if I was offered 0 or 99, I would have gladly taken 99, so I don't feel bad at all"
Being positive is the key as I had written in my last post,
Ooooooooooooooook thik hai!!

... Live your life.....

2006-02-15T05:26:00.000-08:00

I got really impressed by Dr Deepak Chopra and his editorial issue on valentine’s day. He’s a great thinker and one of the best life management gurus on earth. No wonder he charges a very high fee for consultation and his clients include the rich and famous and a few of the greatest success stories the world has ever seen. His Al Gore interview was very enlightening and probably one of the best ones on global warming.

Personally, I am a huge fan of The Times of India. Any person who reads the times, could never ever do with another paper, I know how much of an addiction the paper has become. Their “Guest Editor” innovation , which has had the likes of Sania Mirza, Vikram Seth, Mr Narayan Murthy and now Mr Deepak Chopra, really gave me a good insight about the way people go about reading their news, the way they perceive the world and the positive attitude they have. I understood that the difference between these great personalities and the ordinary ones, is that great men never give up hope, never think that their best is beyond them. They always stick to the “Impossible is Nothing” ideology and ofcourse achieve whatever they want to.

I am writing this under the cloud of anxiety over our results. Hence this lecture. But nevertheless, I admire such people who live their lives influencing others. I know how hard it is to influence the decision of one person, but people like Dr Deepak Chopra, certainly make life a lot easier to live.
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Yuvraj Singh, the Style Icon of Indian Cricket. The stylish left hander has had the best series in Pakistan and he continues to torment the Pakistani attack with those classic drives all over the place. His classy 79 was the winner in the third game and so was his 82, at Rawalpindi. Probably the best timer of the ball in modern cricket, He’s the man to watch out for in the England series and the West Indies one.

Over all the Indian team looks solid, ofcourse they still miss the 140 kmph + fast bowler. Taking into consideration the 2007 world cup at West Indies and slow West Indian Pitches, I don’t think that a fast bowler would be missed, but then again, against a quality opponent in the knock out stages, India would certainly need one. The wicket Keeper Department, the weak link of the last world cup, is some what sorted out. Mahendra Dhoni with his Power hitting seems to be one of the best finds of the current season. Still not yet the Gilchirist or Sangakkara we know, but certainly could prove to be atleast as good as them, if not better.

I am appealing to Nike, to bring out a better kit for the one dayers; I would certainly buy one of those kits, if it were to be slightly better and kewler……

The search for the next England coach is on. With both Guus Hiddink and Stuart Pearce not ready to do the job full time, It’s really difficult to get an experienced hand at the job. It’s just as difficult to do the England job as it is to be the Indian Cricket team coach; Both are lucrative and Glamorous jobs with a knife hanging on your head the whole time. I am not a great Sven Goran Eriksson Fan or his defensive and questionable strategies at times, but then again it would be hard to get a man with Sven’s temperament.

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SPACE 2005: It’s great to know that they have received good sponsors and have setup a great (Jal-the Band) concert. Very good choice, taking into account the publicity they would get by this but then their idea to charge Rs 50 per head for non spceites is a very bad idea. Last time, we had decided to charge about Rs 20 for the entry, which we had to do taking into account the acute financial support we had, but then again Rs 50 seems to be a bit too much for any college fest. Anyway, I don’t know whether entry fee had been taken to any pronite before ours, or whether the proceeds would go to charity; I am sorry that we had to set such a bad practice in SPCE.

Another important thing, this entry fee always is for the innocent and straight forward people who pay; the miscreants manage to get in anyway. So better than charge the poor, why don’t we accept our inability to allow rightful entry and not charge any one at all???

My 2p here……. and of course Kareena Kapoor, straight from Daboo Ratnani's calender Shoot...
This one's for Haridas Dave....Schnieder it is.

Present, Sir!!!

2006-02-06T02:44:00.000-08:00

There was a really stupid reason behind me not blogging for the past few days. But perhaps that gave me the much needed break to come be rejuvenated, and probably put in my best thoughts to paper.

While I am doing this, I am watching India defend 328 against Pakistan at Peshawar. The Indians have played well, taking into account the resources they have. I did quite expect the test series result. Yuvraj Singh was at his best, but somehow I had a feeling that Ganguly might have a thing or two to say about the outcome of the game. Very Disappointingly, He couldn’t make the best of the plot that could have taken him to those very levels of hero worship he’s been so used to.

I am also very disappointed by the one day Kits of the Indian Team. I probably expected too much from Nike, the official kit sponsors of the Indian Cricket team. Nike, which recently acquired Reebok, are very renowned for their innovative kits of big football clubs like Manchester United, Juventus FC etc, should have probably done a lot more than the “white tick” on the right side of the t shirt. A cooler shirt would have helped their Merchandising campaign, the present one not at all looking different from the lazy light blue the Indian team is associated with. With Adidas trying a variety with the Australian outfit, I am sure Nike’s turn would come soon.

It was great to watch some football; The English Premiership at its best, an awesome goal from Hernan Crespo, sort of summed up the weekend. Arsenal did manage a win against a Birmingham side, saving themselves thereby (3 consecutive defeats… after probably 132 matches or so… if they were to lose that one). Overall, a very good weekend of quality football action.
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We have massive electricity problems at Mulund. Very sorry state of affairs, considering the fact that we are planning to model Mumbai on the lines of “Shanghai”. We have about 2.5 hours of power cut daily; people in Virar(read Vikas, Piyush) have about 5 hours of power cut, and this could increase in the near future. I have never voted in any elections; considering the type of leaders we have, I would rather let my vote to be unaccounted rather than vote for any of those corrupt leaders. I urge you people to do the same, taking into consideration the absolute apathy the government offers us, the honest tax payers(Yes, I am one too!!!) and leave “this country to rot in hell”.

Those are the very words the people there use. There maybe those “sons of the soil” who may defend their country, but then apart from the three basic needs any person needs to survive, there is a fourth: Money. Those power cuts, affect every industry in those areas and that includes my father, who recently had to spend about Rs 20000 to keep our office computers running during the power cut hours. Most people are proud to be an Indian, apparently not a lot of people there are.

Our TCS medical took place last Saturday, amidst all the fanfare. It was a lot more like a picnic, with a lot of friends and very decent hospital staff. Well, we had a blast there!!!

The DES Professor, NG is miserable, absolutely awful. I couldn’t have been more correct here; certainly not a good teacher. He has a pretty good memory though!!!

The new Pepsi café chino ad does have two beauties Priyanka Chopra and Kareena Kapoor doing a jig. Not tried it yet, but then certainly those two make a great pair…. Absolutely, Threesome material!!!

Nevertheless, Angelina Jolie,with those very expressive eyes, dedicated to Ameya Kulkarni, 99.73 in XAT and a call from IIM-A for their FLP.

Keep rocking!!!

.. The babe's back!!!

2006-01-26T19:29:00.000-08:00

Well, firstly a new look LOVEBLOG....We all need a change once a while, so decided to put in some life into the Blog's look.
As for the content, I would try my best to make the world a better place!!!

Ahem!!

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Reality Television, with Quality. That's how I would describe Sa Re Ga Ma Pa(Zee TV, Thursdays and Fridays @ 10pm). I got hooked on to the show, thanks to my uncle, who never misses it @ US. They have a week's delay on telecast and they still sit and watch the show with full enthusiasm. He gave me an idea about the concept with all those Lingos they use, (Like Gharana, the Mento-Meter.....) and I found the show to be pretty interesting. Gajendra Singh's Brain child, who for sure has a huge hand in making Indian Music go Global, is an original copy when it comes to concept and idea. They began with 32 contestants(probably from Sa Re Ga Ma's huge Database of good quality singers) and then they continued the elimination by points part till they had about 12 singers. Now it's the audience voting that's brought the count to 3.

3 quality singers, very unlike the Qazi Touqeer we had, who used to score more points back answering Javed Akhtar. This scores over all the Sony shows, because Sa Re... gives more importance to hardcore singing,than performing and shaking a jig......

Hardcore Sa Re .... viewers(Like My Mom!!) are still pretty disappointed, because of the way those Music directors Fight and malign students.They fight at times, just the way I do it with my Sister.... which does look like degrading the once quality show, which gave us super singers like Kunal Ganjawala and Shreya Ghosal.

They have a much better host in Shaan, who atleast does know a thing or two about Music. Always better than the Noodle strapped Mandira Bedi;All she does is hugging the contestants.

This one also does have its dose of Reality television(the contestants staged a walkout last time out!!!), but nevertheless, this does have some good singing going on!!

Watch out for Vinit, a class Act!!!!He does have this Sonu Nigam fervor which should probably win him the title.

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Well, for all those people who thought I had forgotten Ash..... here's a good one!!!

As always, Keep commenting!!!!

... Women ... continued...

2006-01-25T03:24:00.001-08:00

First read Dave's blog Here......

Well, firstly, this is the last thing to write about…. After all the “Despogiri” I have already put this blog through. But nevertheless, with this post, I would try to “Add an extra Dimension to a couple of already known issues”. Ahem!!!

So I dedicate this post to all those despos, who have everything in life, except of course a Girl Friend..!!!!!!!!!!

Firstly, why were women made??? Because god needed something to start the Russian roulette of life. Well, then why the hell did he not make man Bigamous??? It’s pretty inconsequential as of now, but certainly, the first man could have argued about that!!!

Now, the next thing… Wooing a girl. I myself, have a very bad experience over all. Garam Masala, had this superb dialogue by Akshay Kumar as Mac, who says this when John Abraham gets a kiss from Neha Dhupia:

“Jo ladki hamme chahiye…..Usse ham nahi chahiye……

Aur Jis ladki ko hum chahiye…………..Woh kisse chahiye!!!!!!”

That just about sums up the scenario. Much as I would love to write with experience….I would however give out a few points of caution to all those aspiring Romeos…..

1. Eyes: Well, everything starts and ends there. It’s the very same eyes which you would fall for first…. Then those very same eyes won’t cry when you get beaten by either her Brother, ex boyfriend… or perhaps herself!!!! Things begin bright, just like the pupil of the eye in the excited state……but then things end with those same pupils about 50 times smaller… That’s exactly the amount of Love that would be left between you two…..

I am not a misogynist. I love girls… but when with a girl…. Always be careful about her eyes!!!!!

2. Patience: 1 in a million girls would, want you with her. If you somehow manage to get hold of that girl, then you need to be patient enough and you cannot cut loose, just like you have been doing on your friends. You do it, then its “Khud Kusshi” all over again…. Even Irfan Pathan might get that century which has been evading him for sometime…..but you won’t get another.

Patience is the wrong word to be used. The right one is Perseverance. It’s a lot like those things they put you through in Pakistani Prisons. In fact, that would be a lot easy to bear……….

3. Cry man, Cry: You need to master the art of crying. You cry when you meet her in the morning. You cry when you hear that she got a handful from her parents because she refused to get up in the morning at 9. You cry when She tells you how much she loved when that Street dog, whom you just kicked on your way to meet her wagged its tail. You cry when her secret “crush” gets those forties and fifties, (you get them always… Big deal!!!)…. Cry when Aamir Khan dies half way through the movie…. And so on…..

Crying is the name of the game….its like:

“Jo rooya……, woh dhoya
Jo nahi roya…. Woh Dhul gaya!!!!”

4. listen…… LISTEN!!!: Well, you have to put a tape around your mouth and Listen, listen and Listen. You have to listen on how good she felt when Her Grandfather danced at her first cousin’s wedding. You have to listen how she felt when one moron gave a rose to one of her best friends. Listen to everything irrelevant. And you can’t run either… because if u do then It would mean no talking and sulking for a few days or months…( And then u nee to do the listening for the entire week or so…..

So as The ROCK says, “Know your damn role and shut your mouth!!!”

5. Money, honey!!!: Well, I won’t say that they are really interested in this… but it certainly is a factor. You need to pay her canteen bills for a while. I have a friend who drops his Girl Friend home everyday from college. I asked him as to why he does this and why she doesn’t go home on her home like the others do…. He replied, “It’s about status, man!!!”. Well, that showed that the girls look for the right guy, subject to the availability of Money!!

But then the not so affluent dudes also have a girl friend……So it’s the middle people(ie those who have the money to travel to travel to college themselves, but not enough to take one along with them there…..) are the worst hit people.

Khud Kushi it is for them…….

There are others as well…. But then I hope I have put forth some of the best things needed…..

The best in the world for all Despos..... especially to Haridas!!!!!

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I have a lot of over exposed pictures of this babe.....but then... this one really stole my heart.....
Get a Girl Friend like her guys!!!!

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2006-01-24T03:55:00.000-08:00

A lot things happen and keep happening. But one of the most pathetic things that happened to me, was “Sangeeta Reloaded”. I certainly did not expect her to come back, after all she put me through 5th Semester. But then, “History repeats itself!!!”, so here she’s again. I don’t know whether she is well versed in the subject, but then the way she keeps taking those lessons in class, I feel we are in big trouble this time around.
Add, a bit(a lot infact!!) of Sangeeta to RD, we get our daily time table. This is what we have to go through, each and everyday. Well, that’s what Engineering is all about!!!
We had NG, a very senior man coming today for an introductory lecture on DES. The subject seems to be very practical and he seems to be a veteran at it. So, I hope that we aren’t subjected to the same soporific dosage here.

Lets put in a B+… shall we??
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I have started reading a lot, these days. Well, not being much of a reading Enthusiast, I first started with “Applied Cryptography”, by Bruce Schneiner; This has the book mark at exactly the same page I left at a month ago. Probably the genre wasn’t right… but then I picked up, Robin Sharma’s “Family Wisdom from the monk who sold his Ferrari”, another part of his super hit, “The Monk who Sold his Ferrari” Series. I loved the book, Life management at its best. But then again, I realized here that It’s a bit too premature to read such books, taking into consideration the fact that we simply have little experience of life.

Nevertheless, it’s a book I would want every management aspirant to read, for it tells us ways to live our life and the greatest treasure we have, “Our Family”. A must read for all doctorates. As for the book, its lying in Mulund and I do read it whenever I am not watching football or not teaching my sister.

At Andheri, I have Norman Lewis….and of course, The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. I am a bit late when it comes to this famous Trilogy, but read the first seventy pages of it yesterday…. It rocks man!!!
Thanks to Rohit Bhute for the book (would return it in 10 days man!!) and would put in a detailed account later!!!

As for me reading, atleast for once, it isn’t magazines!!!!

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The second test: I pretty much forgot about the test series, for it was already “ Drawn” , for me. But nevertheless, the MSD magic did take me back to the TV. A very well played 147, and a well hit six of Shoiab Akhthar; the innings was worth the watch.

The series is all square as of now, but Probably Rawalpindi would be the final round. Hope Dravid does the Tango at the end of that!!!
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Tennis is the sport to watch. Australian open, the first one of the year, has already enough players out to give Roger Federer an easy walk to the trophy. But then, that’s the only game along with football, which would have every game starting afresh. So hope Federer has a tough time. Bad for my favourite, Andy Roddick, who’s all ready gone home……

As for the women’s game, Sharapova wins….. 6-0, 6-0!!!!!!

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Finally, the Best in the world for Dr Amey Kulkarni, who got his call from IIM-C for their FPM program.
May god give him the best in life and……………… as his Girl Friend!!!
(He can fill in whomsoever he wants to.. or the others could do that for me!!!)

One piece of advice to the dude, Don’t only look at the girls while teaching!!!!

.. And the award goes to.....

2006-01-21T21:03:00.000-08:00

Technobreak 2006, did start in all its glory and I hope the best for it. Nevertheless the Technobreak Oscars would probably summarize the day as a whole:

1. The “I know, I am a chick” award: Undoubtedly, Prachi Deshpande (Moushika came closest to her, but even then she won it just as Qazi Touqeer used to win every Fame Gurukul Audience vote).

2. The “Next John Abraham” Award: Jai Baladhare.

Ohh……..At times I really envy Bobby Darling!!!

3. The “Ramsay Award” for lady Ghosts: G******* G****.

The last time I peeed in my pants was when I saw Shenaz Hussain with her make up. Yesterday, I peeeed again!!!!!!

4. The “Duracell” chalta jayee Award: Abhinav Guha

He “Managed” Technobreak and SPACE 1984, 1985,1986,1987………….2002,2003,2004, 2005……….2050….. 2065.

5. The “Most Valuable Player” Award: Abhishek Bhatt. For his “out-standing” contributions to Technobreak 2005 and SPACE 2005, and his “in-standing” contribution to Bhavaspandan, Annual Day, BE Farewell…… every year.

6. The “Despo” Award: Rajdeep Sharma.

Any Problems?????

7. The Suneel Darshan “Dosti-Friends Forever” Award: The three heads of Security,

Sunil Yadav, Manish Kajurolkar and Mahesh Zagade.
They put the Glycerin tears of Akshay Kumar and Bobby Deol to shame!!!
Their cult continues to work for these awards…. Year after year!!!

8. The DJ Aqeel award for “Emerging DJ’s”: The DJ there, on the FS night.

He put in the wrong CD. The worst hit, were the Finance team of 2005, who were still waiting for their “Sabse Bada Rupaiya” song. And it never came.

9. The best “12th Man” Award: Ankur Suresh Dani.

The boy bunked RD and Sangeeta Ma’m lectures and did everything a 12th man does in cricket for the FS team.

10. The “Men of Honour” Award: The entire team of Engineers. Electrical Engineers. They always win, don’t they??

11. The “See my Big Butt” Award: Bhavesh Ranavat.

Almost every one had a look and put in an opinion when they kicked his A**.

Bhavesh Manaya, Bada Mazza Aaya!!!!

12. The “kick My butt” Award: Karthik Trivedi.

Yes, he waiting there. At the very same place…….

13. The best “Watchman” Award: Abhishek Sawant.

The way he looked after all the three 21 year old girls of our class……
I am planning to hire him for my building……….
(Anay Dhoraje won this award, last time around).

14. The “Stud of the Day” Award: Rohan Barge.

I sensed that the moment he put on that “Great Walk”.
He won the Best Male Model Award.
May god give him the best in life and Lindsay Lohan as his Girl Friend!!!!

The Most Important Award:

15. The “Idiot of the Day” Award: VARUN RAJKUMAR.

Have you heard of any idiot who first went to Vashi board office on the day, spent four hours waiting to obtain his, “Mysteriously Disappearing” mark sheet, and then traveled to Mulund. Then came to Andheri, rushed to college and finally walked not once, not twice but thrice on the ramp… with no music on????

DAY 2:

1. The “We are the next Westlife” award: To Sridhar, Bhavesh, Nitin and Vaibhav.

They “sung” @ all places a man could “sing”. Wonder about those noises that came from the toilet.

2. The “living up to reality” award: Bhavesh Ranavat.

The only person “not” to expect the fact that he wasn’t up to the mark. Nevertheless, He’s a great singer.

3. The “Rape of the year” award: The guy whom I sat with for a debate on whether Action replays should be used in football. I went about really hard on the guy, and the judge adjudged me a “ hands down winner”!!!

He met me after Techno Break and told me how much I knew about the game….
Really felt like I kicked some ass….

4. The “Song of the year” award: Varun Rajkumar.
Well, I was called on stage to sing on stage by Sanjana Rao. I couldn’t really say no to her….

Well, then I started the song, “Kaho na Kaho”……..

5. The “ever Omnipresent” Awardee: Dr M M Kulkarni.

No two words about it. The biggest Despo was there and watching.
But seriously, wonder what came up that he refused a chance to sit next to a celebrity, beauty Queen!!!

6. The “jig of the year” awardee: The class of BE Electrical and Jayesh Parab.

Ohh boy, we danced for a Telegu song and with an hours practice. We asked the DJ to play the next song for Free style dance!!!

The BE IT and Mechanical dance… came just as close!!!

7. The “class of the year” award: BE Electrical.

Although we had negative points, we still won……….

Jokes apart, I know this is going to take more than a day to read.

But then I have taken a dig only at those people whom I feel would be able, to take this in the right spirit. To tell the truth, kudos to the entire Visual Impact and the Fashion show team for their superb contributions, especially on the Visual Impact night. Ankur Dani and Ashutosh Sahu deserve special mention for the time and effort that they spent in. The Musical foursome of Sridhar, Bhavesh, Nitin and Vaibhav did try their best to salvage something for the class. Very good efforts indeed.

I seriously felt that this was the first time in 3 ½ years our class tried to do something as a whole. The Jam session on the VI night was absolutely superb. The DJ did drugs and probably played some great music, and everybody had a blast.

Good going guys!!!

Do we really need this??

2006-01-18T06:54:00.000-08:00

Most of you would be reading this on the eve of our Intra College tech Fest, TECHNOBREAK 2006. Yeah, its one of the few occasions when we Engineers, get to enjoy. I am not against this at all, when I am writing this; I don't want to be a spoilsport. When I am writing this, I am trying to be as cogent as possible, please go through each of them.

Technobreak is a dress rehearsal for SPACE. Almost everything that happens in Techno, does happen in SPACE(Apart from of course the rock show and the pronites). We have a VI which takes place in techno. A pretty substandard Fashion show too does happen, followed by a much better Jam session.

So, taking into consideration the financial crunch SPACE faces year after year, wouldn't it not be wise to say hold techno and then this could be followed by one single Pronite(Celebrity Night) at Bhavans??

The above would mean just two Holidays(The management would be really happy; Also considering the Fact that it would lose just one working day compared to the three it would lose now). It would also mean almost the entire money to be handed out by the college; which would also include sufficient Money to bring home a decent Celebrity performer(I have seen the Budget dude.... we always have SPCE as the main sponsor!!!).

Another point would be less administrative headaches(Yeah, dealing those morons @ the security is often tougher a task than making SP agree for a 2 day Industrial Visit!!!). We need them just for two days!! Two days often are a lot easy to manage.... three does make it too long.
The enthusiasm would also be pretty high among all students and professors alike. We would get those Free lectures off more easily.With the sports schedule also being under check, More studying time is allotted which is really a must(considering the way we got F###ed in 6th sem).

Yeah, we could make it an intercollege event with a slight investment. The Finance committee could probably try their best to get more money for a particular event but then even if it doesn't happen(if those Tsunamis or earthquakes come again), you still have something that would save your face. So nobody loses at all!!!

And with the stakes a lot less, we would have less amount of politics in the picture as well, which would be a lot better for the college as a whole. We would probabaly lose out on having to watch Pathetic dance performances done for saving points, which I feel would be in the best interests of Humanity(what a torture!!).

We could come back to earth and work things to have a wonderful two day festival. But then if things in the world would have been this simple.....

The above is, as THITE says... my 2p worth!!!
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Katrina Kaif, Look out of her in the New Akshay Kumar flick, whose title is longer than Miss Kaif herself. She needs to work on a lot of things, except of course her body and her looks!!!

Comments and Brick bats welcome as always!!!!
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Aditya Save's Blog:http://myyarnofdreams.blogspot.com

The name's a bit different....Comments welcome again.

... Whack it hard!!

2006-01-17T01:35:00.000-08:00

254 it is. He didnot wait for the umpire or for the record. He played in style and went back in the very same style.

Some Lunatics have Brain Lara pics on. No one in the world is even close to "The Butcher". Slaughtered them all, didn't he??

God save Pakistan!!

.. A personality... nonetheless

2006-01-16T08:29:00.000-08:00

TEN sports is doing a fantastic job in the telecasts. I never actually thought that it would be this good.To tell the truth, ESPN-STAR was very irritating last time around when they were doing it; those Harsha Bhogle's and Wassim "Wazz" Akram were really artificial when it came to cricket. Bhogle does sound very good when that IIM-A tag of his comes good in doing the presenting part. But his Banal talk does sound very monotonous for passionate cricketers like me.

I really got Impressed by Imran Khan; probably the greatest of cricketers of all times. He doesn't yell, neither does he crucify English like Navjot Sidhu does. A highly Laconic speaker, Mr Khan does sound pro Pakistan most times. But what one could see was his passion for the game and the very determination which won Pakistan the world cup '92. The "millionaire playboy" of yesteryear's with his very charismatic personality of his, says this slow and yet very authoritative voice of his certainly made me admire him a lot. I really, hereby stand and salute the man, his style and his astute knowledge of the game.

Truly world class.

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Another one I really look and admire is Kareena Kapoor. I have anounced this earlier, but NO ONE, including Aishwarya Rai has the screen presence Bebo has. Whenever I see her sizzling on screen, it reminds me the necessity of the "X factor" for the success of any individual.

I don't know if I am wrong in taking her as an Analogy. But she does seem to me as one of the best examples of some one making it big and some one who would be remembered for what she's done to Indian Cinema, in spite of not giving a single hit movie.
That's the emphasis on the unknown, unexpected thing. Probably should try doing things a lot differently to succeed in life.

IIM's might teach you everything thats necessary in Life.The X factor is the thing that one needs to be successful in life.

The point I am trying to make here is, inspite of each and every one realising the importance of spending some time "Simply thinking", we are never stressed to allot time for that. We are never encouraged to think, to think of new ways and to develop our instincts. You develop the "X thing" naturally. Just need to do things other than what you regularly do. Need to bend a Few rules.... & break them at times.
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This post might seen very out of place here. But then, it's really something very relevant in the process of self development. And Believe me....... Blogging is one of the best ways of Developing that.

I could have put in a Kareena or an Imraan Khan picture. Decided for the former.

Nothing much at all

2006-01-15T01:23:00.000-08:00

Newspapers are the very portraits of our nation. We paint one very morning, for the world to watch and judge our country. I go through almost sixty pages of that every morning and end up being disappointed with every page; each of which had nothing good at all.
The Mumbai Mirror issue of Sunday the 15th had the following title as its front page

“YES, WE RAPED HER”.

Whatever else might be the top story, rape certainly isn’t front page material. I very much agree with Mr Narayan Murthy, when he said that News was something that should spread a positive vibe to each and every citizen. He should feel proud of the country he belongs to, and hence would put in his best efforts to roll the country ahead.

That was a very interesting issue, almost every page of which had details about very small people, who with their very sincere efforts did their bit to help the country move forward. It was the same thing, done by Mr Abdul Kalam , when he was the guest editor.I know that news today is very commercial and such eye awakening stories are very essential. But doesn’t the same society think that it’s such short stories of courage and dedication that keep us going. We all know about the corrupt ministers, the page three celebrities and the parties they attend. The true picture does need to be shown, but certainly not this way.

I might not be clear when I am trying to say this; even though I am able to tell what’s not right, I am unable to give the right direction in this matter.
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The India Pakistan series has begun on a very unsporting note. I think the Pakistanis almost outdid us, by exploiting our weak fast bowling department. Probably the much talked about VRV Singh would be interested in this track. But the Sourav Ganguly issue is really sad to hear about. Now he gets a real easy track to bat on. He should score a century here… due to which he would be a part of the next two test matches, also maybe the one day series.

But as we get heroes when the odds are down, Rahul Dravid stood for the team. But I hope the team doesn’t start going haywire this way by making such lousy plans. It’s unfortunate that we need to play such an important series with a make shift opener, when we have two specialist openers carrying drinks.

Pakistanis did something like that too. Imran Farhat is made to warm the benches. Well, that’s the way … Aha Aha…..
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I am beginning to realize the “Drool Quotient” of my blog, when Bhute suggested me this idea to prepare a monthly photo Blog of my Blog pictures. That chap has been the force due to which all this started. Try dropping in views on that, after those more important issues.

I actually had a lot of pictures to choose from. But then decided upon the absolutely adorable Lindsay Lohan. All of Nineteen, She was seen pole dancing with Kate Moss. Couldn’t believe such a cutie could come with such a history of dope and drug abuse. But then, that’s why we are better off seeing the better side of things……
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SPCE re-opens tomorrow. Ohh…. No it actually did on Thursday. But then we decided to postpone the opening. Well, RD wasn’t exactly pissed. But then you could call her that… as she looked PISSED… I could give a bit more on that… err……………. But .. lets have Lindsay’s shall we??

Well, comments appreciated last time around. Whatever they were. Thanks a lot and continue to rock the world!!!

A treat for all.....

2006-01-10T07:52:00.000-08:00

Many a times you lack an urge to move. But then, unless you force yourself to move on in life, you never would. The same thing applies to Blogs as well. You never move, unless you force yourself; it’s a lot like Ganguly running between wickets. So here goes another attempt to read life…..

Firstly, the most exciting and the keenly anticipated Indo-Pak test series. To let the truth out, without any hint of diplomacy, We kicked their ASS last time around. Losing at home, is something no side would ever accept. The one day loss was the true icing on the cake. Enjoyed every bit of cricket last time around. Would hope to do the same now.

Personally, I would say that Saurav Ganguly should be a part of this unit. You need some one of his caliber and experience to add some mettle to this lineup of stars. The bowling department might need him on those swinging wickets; most importantly they need him for his open aggression. He has that important quality, which he would exhibit against the likes of Shoaib Akhtar and Danish Kaneria. But all this subject to his being part of the final eleven…..

My Prediction: India to win the one days and to square the test series. Man of the Tournament: Virender Sehwag.

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Cat results are out. Very happy to note that a lot of my friends have found ways to bell the CAT. Interestingly, a lot of dark horses found better ways to tie the loop, which once again brings to light the nature of CAT paper, which succeeds in testing that part of the Grey matter that matters the most: Organization. That’s the key word which most MBA aspirants need to have in them. The paper only did the job of filtering out the ones.

Detailed study of such papers, truly make me appreciate the effort that goes in setting such papers. These papers test those areas, which we aren’t even aware off when we study for competitive exams. That pattern, which changes almost paper, is yet another instance of precise planning. Truly, a salute to those minds that run behind the filter.

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I spent the entire vacation … or whatever it was, watching plenty of friends and Coupling at my Friends place. Also watched Garam Masala and NO Entry. I am still trying to conclude which of the two was sillier. Garam Masala, was certainly an Akshay Kumar flick, which showcased his comic timing to the best. John Abraham looked miserably out of place and all the three models, all gorgeous, were just pawns in the chess board. Paresh Rawal was wasted.

No Entry was again, all about Anil Kapoor. I don’t understand his reason behind acting in such silly movies. Probably Boney Kapoor forced him to act in that, but certainly such a fine actor should be kept out of such “Year’s Biggest Hit” movie.
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The FA cup 3rd round ties. Most of them one, but too bad Man Utd did not lose. I would have loved to see them being buried by Burton, but then this is probably going to happen at Old Trafford. Kick Man Utd Ass, man!!!

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The South African Model rape : I actually wanted to write about it in the Social Cause Blog(which seems to be defunct as of now). But then, I decided to put this at the place where people had better chances of catching the message. Also, it was more a child abuse kind of Blog, so decided against doing that.

As this was a Model, who was the daughter of a hot-shot in Durban, this made the news. But what about those who can’t even report the crime. The BPO thing, followed by this, emphasized the need to better security for women. It’s a very difficult and a ghastly experience. The ever dominant Male Society, could probably start by NOT taking the girls to be just, “items” and treat them with some more respect.
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Ayesha Takia is certainly making waves. I saw a bit of her in those Shaadi No 1 Promos. I found this cute set of pics at some web site. I am uploading one of those absolutely delightful pictures, the others would be uploaded by me either in subsequent posts or in the same posts if possible. It's a bit hard on the Banwidth, but then its an absolute treat!!Hope you like them , comments and Brickbats welcome!!!
Please leave your comments, as they really encourage budding writers like me. That really keeps me going and reminds me that I, for one too have a voice… and am being heard.

the Daily WTF.....

2006-01-06T03:44:00.000-08:00

I really don’t know what to do….I remain stuck at the very same position I was, for the past year or so. My keyboard, which is very easily one of the most neglected beings in my house, demands my attention like never before. I am unable to allot time to it; I know I am sounding really silly here, in a vacation where I thought I could do so much and turned doing absolute nothing.

I actually decided to take a few keyboard lessons, while I was at Mulund. The problem now is that My keyboard Sir(No two ways about it.. An epitome of calmness.. I have tested that, dude) Has rightly told me that I need to spend more time on my keyboard if I am to move in any direction. I am right now in a state of saturation and frustration, which I can never get out , whatever I do, because it requires extra effort….lots of it, taking into consideration the time I spent away from it. I have become the most irregular student my sir ever had, competing with no joy against all those aspiring keyboardists who seem , at the moment ,to be armed with scud missiles. I return home every class day, totally frustrated and disillusioned and with no where to go. I am now beginning to understand what it feels to be Saurav Ganguly.

My GRE preparations are in some other dimension as well. My CAT isn’t going anywhere either. I propose to do that this year, but then I am here suddenly bombarded with so many things that I am finding it difficult to handle any of them. Real problem, also add to it a lot of traveling and those trips to Andheri and the Hospital don’t help either. My Uncle’s coming from US next week, so there I lose another week.

Even in the cricket field, I cant bat now, as I haven’t touched a bat for the past one and a half years. I have lost the really vicious in swinger (I was really proud of that and got rid of many people with that), all turning out to be full pitched deliveries. Very disappointed with that too. It’s damn Frustrating not getting to bowl, because its criminal to give runs the way I am giving.

My trips to the Board office, in Vashi and also the trips to my school and college are really painstaking. I also need give my sister lessons in all the subjects I once studying(her unit tests are going on now).

There is no current here in the morning for two hours. Nothing could be done then. Life Sucks………………

BLACK DAY…. No pic.....

On second thought... Life moves on....

... Swiss Miss returns...

2006-01-02T19:10:00.000-08:00

Let me first deal with the important one first. The latest piece of directive from the Law Ministry enforces the quota system on to the private sector. The main sector responsible for the countries growth and development. Very easily the fastest developing sector. The reason behind them: their employees. The best talent we have got, the best of the "civilised" youth, work in these companies and deserving get the best pay packages in the business.

This decision would very easily make the recruitment process very much like the FE admissions one. We can hold a Round 1, round 1-G.. and also a round 3-B. We can put in 30 % for the girls too.... After all the CEO's could certainly enjoy life with some amount of Greenery around!!

But then along with the horrible quality of Engineers we produce, we could also have ever drowning industries, that would only add on the countries woes. The politicians do seem to find the best ways to keep bloating their vote banks and as ever at the country's expense.After all why the hell do we ever bother about it at all!!!
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Aamir Khan's wedding. I must confess that my favourite actor got married. Earlier I used to make it a point to catch every Aamir Khan movie. The wedding, just emphasises the space celebrities get. Poor fellow, cant even get married in peace. Now he would have to worry about hidden cameras in his honeymoon hotel rooms!!!
For atleast once, I believe we are pretty happy not being famous......

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Yeah, the top story now. Martina Hingis is back. The charismatic Swiss babe, for whom I used to watch tennis(unless of course the Kournikovas and the Sharapovas turned up), won her first game in straight sets....
Well, now that she's back, we can very much see here, what she's capable off!!!

.... A year younger!!!

2005-12-23T20:13:00.000-08:00

Well, probably one of the best smses I received was the one which said,"You are allowed to get married now,........Go Get it!!".Well,It's an understatement to say, the chap has a great sense of humour; more importantly, it summed up Me.As I was.

Well life has offered plenty of u-turns; It's infact not at all troubled me. But then yesterday, when I went to the Asian Heart Institute(BKC), where my Grandpa was put up for his Angiogram, I realised how lucky I was to see 21 such days.21 days, everytime I rise to live another eventful year.The past year was probably one of those where in I learnt a lot about everything; you name it and I have learnt something on that.

Life isnt about being the best. It isnt about asking more, like Sachin does in those Home Trade Ads , It is about living it. We always ask for everything... we never ask for life. Well, that perhaps is what Life is all about... the only real thing that matters is that which you never ask for and is taken away without asking life.

Love Life guys.......
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I am delighted to have Nike as the Kit sponsor of the Indian cricket team. It's high time that we have something of that sort.. the Australian team have Adidas as theirs.So It would really be kewl to buy those t-shirts with a Sachin on it, rather than a Rooney or a Del Peiro. Something that the Indians could relate too(the Del Piero one's just as cool, too).

The sick part would be to have Sahara's name on it...................yuck!!!

Bluffmaster rocks!!!

2005-12-21T03:09:00.000-08:00

Unleashing the critic in me... well just checked out Bluffmaster with Amey, bhise and Save... well decided that it was high time since I wrote something on the web log... so here we go...

The story is pretty complex to tell, but without letting much out.. We have Abhishek Bachhan playing Roy, a conman who believes each and every guy in the planet is a sitting duck.. who could be shot...He's a master at the job; a couple of tricks he pulls off are pretty kewl!!

Simmi(Priyanka Chopra) plays his sweet heart, who doesn't know about his ways untill she finds about it on their engagement day. Roy also has a ticking time bomb within him; He has Brain tumour which leaves him with just 3 months of life.

Meanwhile Dittu(Reitesh) plays a amatuer con guy in the movie; who gets caught red handed while trying to make a fool of Roy. He manages to coax him onto pulling the trick of his life; unleashing his net on Chandrakant Parikh(Nana Patekar),who has cheated Dittu's father of a 14 lakhs years ago.Roy takes this as his last con job and also in this process gives lessons of this trade to Dittu.. and ofcourse manages to learn a few lessons him self.

The plot is awesome... though certain irrelevant songs could have been replaced by a few more tricks, which were really a must in such a movie. The songs are average, though they make decent dance numbers, they certainly dont have the punch to be a superhit. Abhishek Bacchan's Right here,right now is still the best track of the movie for me.

Abhishek stands out, he's a part of almost everything in the movie. I loved Sarkar, this is just as good. Priyanka Chopra's role has nothing much to it... she doesn't even get to shed her clothes of in the movie(No wonder Aishwarya Rai refused it!!).Nana Patekar gets the best one liners of the movie...but the best part goes to Reitesh Deshmukh....He's really one to look forward to....

Well...I wouldn't say that this is a must watch or something of that sort... but there aren't a lot better things happening now than Abhishek Bacchan Grooving to "Right here Right now"...He's becoming pretty popular; I heard girls sitting next to me yelling, "He's so cute" everytime he made an appearence...I wonder why he doesnt shave throughout the movie...

3 stars it is......

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Managed to finish everything I could do in this semester today.. lets hope the others play their part as well...

SPCE Lingo!!!

2005-12-14T21:41:00.000-08:00

I keep wondering about the verses and the words we use in college.Absolutely junk!!.. but then those are the words that yield us such pleasure and joy.. anyway I decided to do a small analysis on those words we use most commonly. Purists may ignore this posts... but then, aren't u supposed to be cursed to get admitted to SPCE??

1. Stud!!: Well, this is one of those words, we have been using right from FE. A stud actually indicates a fully grown horse, which is very good looking and handsome.. and hence gossip magazines use that to describe good looking male models.

All of us in SPCE are super models.. and all are studs(not duds!!!)
sentence: ............Save toh kya... Stud hai!!!

2.despo: well, the overused word... Its one word that separates the best from the rest... The best part of this word is that u can use this under any circumstances; a person who studies a lot is a despo, a person who watches porn is a despo....and a person who even does his assignment is a despo...
Such a multi faceted word is certainly hard to find!!

As the song goes...........Woh Despo hai!!!

3. Shavar: Well, as I said earlier... all of us are right from the sets of the next editionof Gladrags Supermodel competition.... This one is the person who won the competition.
Origin:Nikhil Parkar.. who else!!!
As the song goes..........."Main Shavar toh nahin!!!"

4. Shavari:.. I don't think this needs any explanation at all!!!

5.Balls!: This is actually a pretty crude word... It isn't that what it is supposed to mean.. and we dont exactly know what is it that it is supposed to mean either...
Origin:Yogesh Tarate

Well, as for the meaning goes.. Balls Seriously!!

6.Engineers:This is for those people who spend their valuable time recovering our Gymkhana fees along with their own... and ensuring that all facilities in the college is well utilised. We lost a couple of them last time around.. bah!!
Origin: M C Chotani

7.Shavani:Abhishek Sawant Became Shavani!!... well Chotani did some pretty kewl things when he was around....

8.Jawani:Parkar's invention again.. well some one else became Ja(Jha)wani...the same time Sawant became Shavani!!

9.BHai: SHhhhhhhhhh!!.. this is for the D.Ankur Suresh Dani....bolo D (Dani) Bhai!!!
Well, he makes those subjects pay, doesn't he??

10.Samajahh:.......Okay............I .......OKay.......Samajahh!!

11.Chamdi:Every person A, can/should call every other person B, a "Chamdi".. provided B can do every thing that A doesnot want him to do...or in other words;B doesn't deserve to do...

Well, our batch has yielded some of the best of the above species...We have better chamdis than Engineers!!

Well, a lot more actually... would save them for the next helping...
All despos can let me know If I have missed anything important!!

Some more to look forward:Rocky, Neil and Nikki(I am waiting for the pair thats gonna gat this name!!)
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Well, firstly let me congratulate Dravid on his magnificient victory over the lankans...but then this Ganguly story has certainly overshadowed this emphatic Indian win...
The selectors replaced Ganguly with Wasim Jaffer... who of course has scored a lot of runs.. but then is also a Mumbai Lad(remember Sharad Pawar??).. and the prince has been thrown out.

Its a bit harsh on that man... but then the side now has two specialist openers... which should sent Sehwag into the middle order, thereby adding sting to the Indian Batting. Ganguly, never bowled in the match, neither did he look very comfortable during his stay at the wicket.... so it might appear the right decision... he was always the only component that could be replaced in this team...

What's interesting now.. is V V S laxman's place in the team; Mohd Kaif was last seen smiling.. after all... he's the future to that place laxman holds.. isn't he???
Well, this is exactly what I wanted Indian cricket to bring in.... the pressure on players to perform...There are enough competitors to even the water carrier's spot in the team.. and thats what is gonna make the team look that good...

Long Live Indian Cricket!!!!

.. What a name???

2005-12-13T02:24:00.000-08:00

Well, most of my friends have a tough time pronouncing names like Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode... now the IT hub is being renamed Bengaluru... what the heck I say....What's this business by which all we achieve is making those foreigners exercise their tongue more.
Though people might support this by saying that every region has its own culture that should be retained... but aren't we making a mess of the country by naming every capital in their original languages.....

Mumbai.... so many people still prefer calling it Bombay... KOlkatta...was equally atrocious....

Bengaluru......Balls seriously...

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I also decided to clear my place of origin mystery here. Almost every body keep asking me from where exactly I hail... but then I myself am stumped by my origin which beats Greographical theories... that is I have my village in Kerala...but speak Tamil. That doesnt mean I am some border ka aadmi...but really I dont know what to call myself....Neither do I know Malayalam(my parents can speak and write both Malayalam and tamil .. I cant write either of them!!!).. nor do I know proper Tamil... so its a big mess, actually when people ask me about myself.
My Mulund-Andheri routine doesn t help at all!!

Then Vidya Balan, the sweet looking actress from Parineeta summed it all up.She said," I am a Tamilian from Kerala".. end of it, I said. The next time some one asks me this, "I would probably refer them to Vidya!!!

The countdown begins...

2005-12-12T00:59:00.000-08:00

Probably the best showpiece on earth.. the stage is set. The FIFA world cup.. kicks off in June 2006... and I am really looking forward to it... just as any football fan is...

I decided to go through the draw... and make some very quick predictions...

Group A: Germany Costa Rica Poland Ecuador

Gremany should have it easy with all the home support they have.Poland should also go through after the fabulous qualifying campaign they had...
No problems for the big two here

Group B: England Sweden Trinidad & Tobago Paraguay

Even though Swen Goran Errikson's happy, I feel its a pretty tricky draw... Sweden's never been a happy opponent for england... and Paraguay is tricky as well. But England always reach the quarter finals pretty easily.. but they should try to win the group to avoid Germany at an early knockout stage.

Group C: Argentina Serbia Montenegro Ivory Coast Nederlands

A mouth watering early round fixture against Argentina and Nederlands. Both need to win.. but I feel that Didier Drogba and S&M might make it tough. It would be interesting to see who wins the group.

Group D: Mexico Iran Portugal Angola

Portugal have an easy group this time. Mexico is the only real threat...but not much is known about the Iranians and Angola...

Group E: Italy Ghana United States Czech Republic

This should be the most thrilling group. I expect this to be the real group of death... Any of the four should qualify as all are equally well matched teams.Wouldn't be surprised if Marcello Lippi's Italy crashes out first round.

Group F: Brazil Croatia Australia Japan

Brazil should go through.. might be made to sweat a bit. Gus Hiddink's Australia are against Zico's Japan. This might look easy for brazil....but then certain upsets might happen here as well.

My bets on Brazil and Australia

Group G:France Switzerland Korea Togo

France is a very unpredictable customer. Zidane's back.. so they have a decent chance. The Swiss are a much better team after their Playoff win against Turkey...they might win the group in all possibility.

Group H:Spain Ukraine Saudi Arabia Tunisia

Hmm.. Spain vs Shevchenko... thats what the group is about. I really feel that if any African nation is to make an impression.. it should be either Ghana or Tunisia....Ukraine qualified in style... and I'd love to watch Andriy Shevchenko gunning defences down..

Finallythe best part being this picture which just about sums everything...German Super model Heidi Klum with the official ball for the tournament...

I cant stop wondering .. who looks better among the two.. certainly the ball does!!!

....Back... but surely no bang...

2005-12-10T01:42:00.000-08:00

Well, its been a very dissapointing and an even more frustrating last week, a lot of things happened...
My exams.. pretty horrible.. nothing worth mentioning at all...

But whenever I write a paper, i always remember my Sem 3 Numerical Techniques paper. That was one paper, I was continuously trying to figure out the places where I could lose marks. That was very easily the best paper i had ever written in Engg.

I compare that paper's 86 to Ganguly's 144 @ Brisbane, because I felt that time that I need to prove myself that I belong to the big league here.I always needed to something dramatic; my KT in first semester was something I had never encountered anytime at all. 2nd Semester was a decent score but then Its was always the 3rd semester. Ganguly was too in a somewhat similar position before the first test in Brisbane. He needed to prove himself and when that happened, he made a classic 144...putting all that chin music talk to rest. True if not for the rain interuptions, India would have even lost that match; but then he stood against all that.. which still remains one of the best knocks I have seen any one play.....

Truly, I still remember that 86...That is the first time, I felt I reached those standards I set for my self....
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Well, there are a lot of things that happened, but then a few things that happen really make me feel very bad to be a part of this country...
My father had parked his car outside our building parking lot, so that our car cleaner could clean it. A garbage truck came and asked him to "move the car away"... so that they could use the entire road and told him that "you arent supposed to keep the car outside ... as it would reduce the efficiency with which they clear garbage...".He rightly said that there was enough space to move ahead and there by they may proceed. This they did.. but not before one of them threw a few rotten chickoo's on our car's windscreen...They had a good laugh @ it.. and marched away...
It was really bad to see the boy's face.. a well soap cleaned car.. had to be washed again.. But then this once again tells us... the alarming problem India faces...Illiteracy and forward thinking.
More importantly, u need a sound mind.
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People lack a sense of decency in this place...When a couple of Bihari youths wrote some "shit"... we made a big hue and cry of it... and made it a political issue. Mr Raj Thackeray, needed some publicity to air his "son of the soil" views...and just did that. The principal was threatened that the Sainiks would take care of the issue...if he wouldn't expell them...

Lets remember that Mumbai is what it is, because of its mixed culture. I agree that the influx of people need to be curbed....but certainly not at the level of students.Students should enter politics the right way, through a proper course...and such unions should be completely banned.

Atleast Mumbai University did that.... They dont have student elections at all...like the ones we have in the north...

Listen to this...

2005-12-03T01:11:00.000-08:00

I am absolutely proud of stuff I recomend,I do so because they really deserved to get that done...

Listen to Aadat-Atif Aslam...(OST:Kalyug).Its sufi music at its very best.A mega hit already in Pakistan .. doing its rounds in India. I decided to divvide me review into 3 parts:

1.Slow track-Its a part of the movie too.. i believe. Nevertheless, u could download that very easily from Atif Aslam's Album "Jal Pari". It begins on a very slow note .. and then picks up speed. Very hummable, I infact spend most of the time doing rather than studying "Fast Decoupled load flow studies".Nice beats, mild.. and surely Rock fans shhould like that.It's a pity Indians arent yet into doing mild rock music.. most of them are pretty ordinary... and some are garbage.

2. Remix by Dj Suketu: Its a nice song.. though its pretty similar to "Woh lamhe". Though this has some techno stuff onto it... but no real variation from the other track mixed by him. The track too takes the same plunges Woh lamhe takes, but then Woh lamhe was a hit... this should very easily be one.

The best part of this song, should be its picturization.. Emraan Hashmi, surely rocks. He looks damn cool, his get up is perfect(he plays a Porn store owner in Amsterdaam in the movie..), and as usual he fits the bill very well. Look out for the video while they play it out in any of the music channels...

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And the shit of the day: Abhishek Bachhan's track in Bluff master..... total shit. Dont sing again Mr Bacchan... stick to the part on the screen..

YAY!!!!

2005-12-01T01:53:00.000-08:00

Well exams arent over... Neither have I finished studying CAPS... but then I got a brand new Philips 17 inch monitor after my last one expired....and believe me it looks just as ravishing as Kariena looks here.....

One more reason to celebrate...MTNL gave me.. 1GB extra download this month.. so i can download abt 2 Gb of stuff during the day for free!!!!

I particularly dont like this pic.... but as they all say,"Kariena is Kariena!!!!" . Shriya looks a lot better , I mean I hate dethroning the last pic.. s my latest add on...but then we need to move on...

And Thite, I know... the blog looks really Pimpish!!!.. "Kalyug hai na!!!"

Let the show begin....

2005-11-29T01:19:00.000-08:00

For the First time, I deleted the most shit post I had ever put in.. some garbage. If u didnot read it... well... just dont bother... and for those who had the balls to do so.....I am extremely sorry.
That post stood against the objectives of this Blog.

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The world is never for those who perform. Its always for those who entertain.There's a huge difference between both those things.Any one can perform, its those who entertain the world rises.
Yesterday's Cricket match stands for it.... No one talked about the way Dravid played for his 78...people talked about Sehwag for his 20 ball 27. People talk about the way the pull shot six brought a frown to the face of ShaunPollock...thats what the world is about. No wonder, Dravid still remains the unsung hero of the team.
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I dont have anything personal against Lara..... But Sachin, I feel has a better technique. Murali has never got the better of Sachin...infact none of them have...he's always stood and answered them all...

And the Highest run thing.... Sachin's gonna get there... Lankans beware!!!
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Ankur Dani... boy oh boy... no wonder he comes good, every single time. I saw the way he writes his paper. Now I understand how the examiner would feel to see my paper after Dani's.

Well, finally for the picture....I have Enough Ash pics to keep u guys rocking.. but I do try to give others a chance as well to blow me away...
Here are a few of their attempts...

Shriya Sharan... She's hot property I believe down south(from my cousins ie...). I like her a lot.. my personal "south Fav"...(Not even close to Ash) a cutie to the core....

Something for Bhim to Google abt!!!!

Indian CRicket... R.I .P

2005-11-24T10:39:00.000-08:00

So, that man's back... After all the partying.. team India gets back the bad administrator... It reminds me of a post that our school had.. one who stood above our head Principal.. and who used to actively take decisions for the school....I thought this decision making now rested in the hands of the very tactical Mr Chappel.But after all this is INdia....Neither do we prosper, nor do we allow others to prosper(read Dravid!!)

Well, firstly we select a 15 men squad for a one single test match....12 of whom will play...Dada comes back in with the "All rounder tag!!". I completely agree with MM's Kunal Pradhan over the fact that we failed to realise that we had a "Kapil Dev clone " living with us(leading us for the record!!) for the past 5 years atleast.... and suddenly we are talking about this idiot opening the bowling!!...Ganguly's in.. which would mean Both Yuvraj, Kaif get to sit out... which they both dont deserve after the performances they have put in...The Interesting part would be to dislodge Gambhir of the team.. and take Dada in... that would make Dada open with Sehwag.... and the Lankans the chance of getting a wicket in the first over(Ganguly's never looked comfortable facing Vaas).

But there's a silver lining as well, Both Yuvi and Kaif have never looked comfortable playing Murali... so Ganguly does offer that advantage while batting. Also he needs to prove to the world that he still has it in him...so we could expect a biggie from probably one of the best timers of the cricket ball of "yesteryears".
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West Indian Cricket... Probably we could send in our cricket team.. (either our college or class team... Hey even the Box team might do yaar!!!). We have our "Engineers", who could probably explain all the "physics"....in Mcgrath's Line and length... Warne's Bamboozlers(I hope I got that right!!), Lee's bullets and of course... the Great Australian Gravity Defying pitches(Perth... anyone???)
... Finally I pity Ameya Ashok Kulkarni.. who watches the duck hunt.... every day @ dawn!!!

Cable woes!!

2005-11-23T07:06:00.000-08:00

Well, Its one of the most irritating of things that could happen to a football fan. Having a cable connection, having two TVs and yet unable to catch hold of the Live football action.

IN cable has this sick logic of keeping only one proper sports channel and rotating the rest. If INdia were to play a cricket match, then DD would get automatically tuned. If an F! race is on, then that gets second priority. But not over Cricket... any cricket.. even a Bangladesh Zimbabwe match wins over champions league football!!!
I did speak to the whole there... first he started complaining over the fact that we dont pay him the high prices they demand... then he tells me that all the channels are available but in some other far away location(some other band towards the end). They do this to cater to the never ending sob serials that the new masala channels screen.... Champions league ... what the Heck he says...

To add some salt to it... he tells me,"World cup ke liye aur 6 mahine hai!!.. tab main daloonga espn..". I lost it,"M########", U dont put it then... I will blow ur station away!!!".

Simply put, I could have tuned the channel... but the reception is horrible.Well, my parents are more than happy(they get what they want!!). The only person suferring is me here!!

Just for the record, I get all 5 sports channels @ Mulund!!!

Me back...

2005-11-20T19:31:00.000-08:00

Well, I have no clue if any of u folks missed me... but then to make matters worse to those who did... I am back!!!

It was a pretty horrible week actually, firstly, my hard drive died of heart attack.Of course,no one expects it to survive with 1.44 Mb of bad sectors. The boot got affected and...Well...............RIP.

CAT 2005: Well, it finished... admist all the pomp.Well, I certainly feel that this was the best shot I could have had at it... but I do plan to give it next year...bond or no bond.Well, lets see... let me get the Sem 7 exams done first.............

The proposition to have Muslim Minorities a "quota" @ IITs and the IIMs... well,there couldn't really have been a sicker proposition in life... Anyway as the Supreme Court has ruled out the prospect of having Muslims in Minority...and hence the reservations... I dont want to make this a WhupBlog....so decided to drop the F word(I used it in Ameya's Blog last Sat.... Srry... but well, the Hindus would certainly need to start using them if such is the aroma in the air..).

The Pic is the best I have of her, view it full size to get the best of it....ASH RULZ!!!
All the best for the exams dudes... come back to earth.....after u CAT highs!!

.. XP it is...

2005-11-13T11:26:00.000-08:00

I am writing this as i download adobe reader 7. I loaded XP onto my machine here. After a lot thought on whether my machine would accept her new mother in law, i decided to put both of them in the same cage.

Win Xp, very much the rogue it was expected to be... is slowly getting used to me. Well, A glamorous dude like me.. should find Xp pretty kewl. But It does sort of make me think at times... on whether I have brought in a new mistress... a rude one at the expense of an underperforming lenient one....

Wht ever it is, the Indian team learnt to live by Greg Chappel's rules... I decided to do the same... end of the argument.
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I attended a family wedding, after a real long time over this weekend. I met this awesome chick.. who, believe it or not.. looks exactly like Kariena Kapoor. She had exactly her hairstyle...also had kept in her hair tucked at one side of her... looking exactly like KK. I only managed to ward out a sly smile... some thing like those ones Narain Karthikeyan gives out... adn walked out, afraid that she might be offended by those long stares I kept giving her. Ofcourse she might have gotten used to it by now, but then again....Izzat ka sawal hai na!!

I again went the next day there(Our weddings are a mighty two day affair!!). I was surprised and also glad to find her there again. Met another female.. who told me that she was probabaly the Bride's friend...Nevertheless...all I remember is the smile she gave me.....Remember, I wasn't even that fortunate last time around??

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All people burning midnight oil for the exams comming up now....hmmmmmmmmmm.
Would probably have to do it as well.. ..

Not now.. but surely might need to later!!!

Adios!

two KWAAALITYYYY... jokes...

2005-11-11T02:13:00.000-08:00

Well not exactly jokes... but then I do enjoi situational comedies a lot ... would probabaly catch up both Garam Masala and Shadi No1 some time later....

1. We had gone to college for our OOAD submissions... We caught SP teaching first year Civil students.....and believe it or not.. it was aptly written outside the class room "ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!"... they meant something else...but... well well... we undertstand!!!

2.Two intoxicated cheerleaders were arrested for having Sex in the loo. They reportedly decided to do it...in the ladies toilet. After the activity, they got into a brawl with the other ladies waiting outside.. and then later got arrested....

There was nothing wrong with what they did at all... they only chose the wrong location for it... the Mens washroom....oh boy....I would have let them continue...and have rather peeeeeeeedddd on the road... outside!!!

(Kwality... as in KWALITTTY GD.... got it folks??)

Bullshit!!!

2005-11-10T04:26:00.000-08:00

The day never turned out what it was supposed to be.....It was supposed to be a party.... it turned out to be more like a cyclone devastated sea coast.Nothing survived.... it was almost like nothing was happening at all....

Well, frankly speaking... certain inividuals never seem sane to me.First, they ask us to make desert for dinner.We make the dessert and then she asks us to add a few ingredients.We do that ... and then she tells us that she never wanted us to cook the dessert, she wanted us to actually do the dinner.Then she complains that she wanted us to make a much better thing....then she....

Complains complains complains...I never did expect this from her....
At a time when she should have just taken the submission from us, she makes us waste days on such a stupid subject... no matter how much of which u study, u are guaranteed clearence(read SGP... u can clear).SMPC students have been asked to get their journals checked an hour before their vivas... now talk about accomodation.True, its our fault.. but then making unreasonable demands now is not fair.

Well what ever it was...we have to go tommorow to finish things off...

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Haridas sent me a nic collection of images.. about them finding their way here, its tough because blogger might object such material... they might. The images i have are of the two extremes.. they are either completely covered or they are totally naked.... the inbetween ones are very few.....
Thanks a lot for them, i would certainly try and use them for some big occasion that i might encounter.....
I am acknowledging them .. by an equally cracking collection of pics ... on your way....very soon!!!

....Moving ahead..

2005-11-07T01:41:00.000-08:00

Well, never wanted to post this one.. never wanted her to move away from this list. The two pics.. one in light blue colour.... and this one are two of my altime favourite Ash pics. I like every picturre of hers... but these two stand out(Every pic doesnt mean/include tht black and white rotten pic of hers one hole sent me).

I wanted to save the pic for her B'day. I could nt upload it... so had to do it that day.Unfortunately, i expected a better response from people who viewed that pic. Certainly that was some one...no one could say was not lovely.

For Ash critics, and ofcourse a few holes who feel Ash doesnt look good... check out the latest Cosmopoliton Cover..SHe looks amazing!!!. You can spot that on the way to our college where they have those bills stuck on the electric junction boxes.....But certainly...she looks fabulous.
Check out this pic meanwhile, It's some southern movie star, one I have never come across though.(I dont watch any of those Tamil/ Malayalam movies.. unless they really have rave reviews).She looks stunning.... certainly deserves her place here.Namitha is what they call her....
My blog is seriously talking about issues which can never be of any use to any one... Frankly.. I want to write about a lot of things....I would do that later.

Our OOAD submissions are a real pain....would be working on them now.... and hopefully would survive the 10th to letu ppl know the entire story!!1

I am speechless!!!

2005-11-03T10:22:00.000-08:00

This is what makes me go ga-ga over her!!!
Please dont say anything bad....It really pains to read bad about her....
leave ur comments.... SIGH!!!!!!!!!!!

Bhim.. this is for u....

Happy B'day!!!

2005-11-01T10:06:00.000-08:00

Dear Ash,

Wishing yu the best of wishes on this special day of yours...

May yu always succed in life.....

with you, forever and always...

Love,
Varun

(Pls:...I could have wooed a girl with those last lines!!!...happy Diwali for the rest....)

.. just a stopover....

2005-10-27T20:31:00.000-07:00

As I had to stop over at Andheri for taking a few clothes, U GET THIS BLOGPOST!!!
I wouldn't have been able to write a lot anyway.. but then a summary ....
Firstly, Submissions... Not yet over, I still have the gut feeling that the best(or should I say ... worst!!)... is yet to arrive. Expected date:Nov 10(tentatively... I have learnt to use this word here in SPCE!!)...Lets see If I survive...
Anyway... I was listening to a few tracks... and I failed to understand this: why do tracks with lyrics Alien to us.... become such huge hits??? I listen to Aap ki Kashish(OST:Aashiq banaya Aapne).... having urdu lyrics... and noticed the trend. Chaiya Chaiya was there, so was Kaho na Kaho(from Murder.... the arabic version was just as good!!!). Even Internationally... Ricky Martin's UN dos Tres... was a huge hit....so was Macarena.So was the Ketcup Song!!...why do we people love such songs.... even a word of which we dont understand???
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My class test on CS-2.... I am expecting -2 out of 30. 0 for all the shit written. -2 for putting NGB for sitting through the ordeal.....
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It's really difficult to take our eyes off Ash and land it on some one with the same quality....No one's even close to it.Read the supplement to Bombay Times... a part of their anniversary celebrations.
I rate girls on my scale.....Ash gets a whopping 9.5/10.(U lose half a mark on moderation na!!!)

for the time being.... here's Rimi Sen: watch out for her in Deewane hue Pagal.. and Kyunki.... in which she dies half way through the movie!!!

Adios....

2005-10-24T09:02:00.000-07:00

Well... A couple of Interesting notes which came into existence over the weekend:

I watched James.. featuring Ramgopal Verma's current Blue eyed boy: Mohit Ahalawat. It's a nice action movie.. pretty dramatic at times and with plenty of action sequences... Mohit doesn't have a single dialogue to utter in the entire movie(It's true.. Its true...). The girl gets a couple of coming of age songs....and the The dude... has nothing much to do except going at goons and giving the chick a lifeless smile....The Ongoing conflict Between Rohit Jugraj(The director) and RGV.. about how good James has been/had been/could have been made...has made headlines.. I put forth my argument...in the entire movie, only one thing stood out.. that is the Cinematography and direction(certain sequences are super cool). The goons look too evil(like Mythological Asuras....), Mohit has this unshaven, rugged look(Emraan Hashmi carries it of very well..). Nisha Kothari.. nothing much to tell about her(Psst.. she dies about 25 mins from the end...).

The Storyline could have been a lot better...Verma made Shiva, Satya, Sarkar, Bhoot, Kaun.. and even Road to a certain extent was very thrilling. James has its moments... but then .. overall...worth a miss.
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TGILC..... watched about 3 hrs of it... am still am yearning for more.... would probably download the episodes from one of the forums I frequent.. later.
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Submissions are on.... I dont understand why people panic and jump about the ammount of work left.... Hey you are doing it for the past 6 sems.... so you should take it easy man...Every thing ends well doesn't it????
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My parents are off to a vacation down south.Some huge temple touring trip....So all my Andheri folks are going... also my dad who would be joining them on the 31st at Chennai. Then the trip begins...

So I am off to Mulund.... for another 10 days....That means no net access. so no blog writing.I hope to give u ppl a nice account of things when I sign in later...
For the moment... let me say Adios....with ASH. No one even has the charm, the grace and the persona this Babe has..... Not even close to her.....

All the Best dudes... and of course.... Keep Blogggginngggggg!!!!

..... Listen this ...

2005-10-20T06:12:00.000-07:00

Another of one of my listen to this stuff's....Listen to "Ek Khiladi Ek hasina".....I hope I got that right....Some very nice club music...The innovation among music directors these days ... is to use a Dj while creating music....
Almost all tracks have a DJish feel to it.... The Kaal tracks were pretty decent....This has "Akhiyan ne maar" which has punjabi lyrics... and ofcourse Bhangra Beats...with some of Usher's patterns in between. The outcome is absolutely rocking music.Also the "... Jhoota ".. track is better.The video has Fardeen Khan and Koena Mitra swinging .... an absolute cool combination.Fardeen... very easily the best looking of Khans....(Zayed is pretty immature .....look at those Provogue ads on paper....).. needs a hit.. somehow. Lets hope both the Sr and Jr khans deliver something worth a watch(Prem Aggan... and Janasheen.... Ohhhh SHEESH!!!)

The "Jal Jal.." track is pretty good...decent(sonu Nigam is as usual good). Overall pretty good tracks...

Look at the flip side... or the foolish side.....They add a remix version of the already ravaged song....What the heck???.....Creativity......balls......

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Submissions are on... I wonder thats the reason people have stopped commenting... Ya it feels bad... especially seeing "O comments " after a long time....
Neeways... please drop in a quiet line..
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Yogesh Tarate, the reason behind the above .. he just hand delivered a very nice compilation of all new songs ... which also included the above OST......So the best to the dude. He unfortunately isnt with us....But certainly a Thank you to this guy...a bio on this guy... very soon!!!
(coincidently we call him Fardeen in college!!!)

.. Legeyee!!!!

2005-10-17T08:12:00.000-07:00

There are a lot of things that happened over the past couple of days.. giving you ppl a brief summary...

Saw Mathrubhoomi, a movie which got a lot of critical acclaim. It struck my heart. Never would I ever make those passes at women, unless of course.. they are just as sexy as Anuja is!!!!!(One of the best figures I have ever seen @ SPCE!!!).But honestly ... It did change my outlook @ women a lot. Wonderful performances, especially by Tulip Joshi; I couldn't believe that she's the same babe who played a dumb damsel in Meri Yaar.......... Must watch... I recomend.

The Super Series, very much a super flop. I did not write about this because, my blood boils whenever Indian cricket comes in to the picture. Not worth writing either.. probably we could go back to playing Kabaddi ........
Our CAPS paper 2; pretty horrible. Was pretty pissed at Bhim for not letting me have a sneak peek at his paper...But however as usual the paper sucked.. I hagofied in the nice part of the paper...
The project presentation .. went of strictly okay. Even though I wasn't subjected to the shock treatment by SP, I still am not satisfied by the way I am performing at the presentation part.I suddenly tend to go about things very fast and as a result I am unable to do enough justice to the expressing part. I need to improve upon my pronounciation as well... anything else please let me know.
TGILC... the day belonged to Sunil Pal....
My keyboard return was a lot better than expected .. got the instrumental part of chup chupke.(Bunty & Bubli). spot on.. I was asked to work on music pieces of certain songs...specific ones... and prepare atleast one such song. I would be going for Jaadu hai Nasha hai (Jism... Shreya Ghosal.. ).. C-minor I thnk....lets see.....

Lastly, Vidhyadhar Neelkant Bhise.. Alias Baba.Every time any person from the SPACE Committee wishes me.. I always remember this fellow. And quietly yeild out a silent Thank you to this man. One of the most important reasons, is because i always believed in what I could do. No one else did. This fellow did. He allowed me to be a part of the most rocking organising committee's of the year... When in FE, i had not attended SPACE. When in SE....I had been in SPACE .. for just one day.. for Euphoria....When in TE... I was running SPACE....All due to this man..... this man alone.

He was just another guy till second year for me. Infact we used to just be in the same class till 3rd sem preparation leave, when we got to know each other during our network crash course. That's when we Interacted....He is a very fun loving fellow, has his own ego when it comes to certain things. One of the facts is that he is the world's greatest optimist outside .. but the greatest of pessimist inside.True, we have our misunderstandings... We dont share the same views on almost anything....(he hates ASH...I love her more than anything in the world!!!), but then .... He stands by it... with more determination than a person caught in quicksand would exhibit. His confidence is something thats noteworthy, he stands by his views... whether its right or wrong.
Truly... A character...
He doesnt like Ash.. lets hope he likes this atleast....

.. the names bond.. James bond...

2005-10-14T06:42:00.000-07:00

Ohhh god they just screwed the bond franchise. They fired Pierce Brosnan. But then they get into it , a lot more.. by pronouncing Daniel Craig as the new bond. Brosnan was the coolest bond to have ever played bond. No one else even came close except may be Sean Connery. But I am too young to appreciate Mr Connery or any one of that matter, but certainly, Brosnan looked the best as Bond. He looked Best when he said the trademark Bond dialougue, he looked best when he took on girls, just as cool when the action sequences were done....
His Age was against him, but certainly not Daniel Craig man... he looks more like that Gholum... or Yoda of star wars with his Broad face.....never offering the face cut Brosnan offered.
Of course Sean Connery looked just as good, but then Connery had his voice.... a great personality... God knows what the Brocooli Guys saw in this nut case....

May be we should start the 006 adventures now.....

The countdown's begun....

2005-10-13T08:44:00.000-07:00

It’s nice to note that the FIFA WORLD CUP 2006 is just at the end of this season. For I am a guy who completely agrees that football is better than Sex…(Ronaldo made a similar comment on winning the world cup 2002…). I am bettering it up by stating that the tournament is easily the world’s best and the biggest showcase event(the Olympics is not even close….). Qualifying campaigns all over the world.. just about wound up. All the big guns have booked their tickets, Portugal, Italy,Netherlands, Argentina, Brazil(a lot better compared to last time …)…a few who did it with ease…, England, Poland, Sweden.. were stretched a bit, France scraped through… while others like Spain, Czech Rep., Switzerland, can just breathe a bit after reaching the playoffs.

The African zone was full of surprises….none of the biggies except Tunisia.. are through. So it should be pretty interesting. Oceania was the most predictable..(Australia.. who else….). Asia landed a very few surprises.

I am really looking forward to the tournament next June. I only Hope that TCS doesn’t call me before the last week of July… I don’t want to miss any part of this.

Our CAPS practicals. … every time I attend that, I see Prof Chavan teaching the students of Mechanical First year.. with all the enthusiasm possible. Well, I kinda find it difficult to see two professors working with the students. I remember those first year days, when we used to have our CP practicals, many a times with no professor. Of course we were fortunate to have one Mr Avinash, who was really worth .. but first semester was a complete washout….no two ways about it.

The CAPS practicals…. I just don’t understand RD’s funda of coming over , asking a few students about what’s going on.. and out; again coming after an hour, asking and out; again coming out asking us and out… this time when the next practicals have started….of the next subject.

About the others, they feel pretty bad when neglected u see….

Triband broad band: Fantastic with a capital F. Would have to do some preplanning about my download duties.. nothing much. No big deal.
The pic.. which of the two has the better bends?????

.. PHIR SE????

2005-10-12T00:07:00.000-07:00

It’s nice to note the return of Sony’s money spinner, ”Indian Idol- Phir se”… Well I did not watch a single episode of the first Indian Idol. Neither did I ever waste my prepaid credit in voting for the contestants. I certainly don’t think Abhijeet Sawant is a great singer. He’s probably one of the greatest success stories of Sony’s marketing policies. They made a super cool copy of the popular American Idol in the west… and came out.. right on the top.

Now Phir Se they are launching the .. Phir se…I doubt if It would generate the same level of Interest as the first version did. Sony’ Fame Gurukul…(something which I am completely hooked on to now…).. is something based on similar lines… and If u expect Indian Idol 2 to replace it….I think the viewers would have had already enough of such shows. Zee’s Sa Re… is also something on the same lines….SO I feel that Sony should probably have gone back to tried and tested soaps.. for a while before the bring this version out after gurukul. But That would mean losing the prime slot to some other channel …. Which is bad from the TRP's point of view…

So I sincerely hope.. that this would be just as successful as the earlier version is… Indian Idol was by far the most realistic among all the reality shows..(Gurukul… I feel they create the masala.. to have the audiences hooked on…). Any way .. I hope this Indian Idol brings on a much better Indian Idol than Abhijeet Sawant is…Honestly, He does everything in his might to look John Abraham…is his videos…Not even half as cool….Looks more Like Sandeep Nimodya of our class. (should I say I look better than him…???)

As for the Interest generated .. must probably ask Bhavesh Ranavat to take a shot…..

I called my Keyboard Sir this morning after a long break of almost 6 months. I never get any time to practice that…..The Internet being the biggest culprit. Now that I am on dialup, I suddenly find enough time for everything .. so I have started playing for a couple of days. A disciplinarian to the core….I knew tht It was futile to attend classes when I have no time to even touch the Keyboard.. but today being Vijaydashami( Rama won over Ravana… so vijay… and dashami .. for the 10^th day of Dassera).. It’s considered auspicious to pay our respects to Gurus and goddess Saraswati alike.

I some how managed to call him.Talked with him for about 15 mins. And fixed a class this Sunday. Now I have a real task on hand. To show him my progress over the last 6 months…Mu main hai basically…

Lisa RAy.. has earned awesome reviews for her movie on the widows of Benaras....Water. Also staring John Abraham. Ahem!!

Hero... balls....

2005-10-10T06:44:00.000-07:00

The age of the Hero is long gone…..It’s the new age hero now a days, called the “Anti hero”. An anti Hero excites me a lot more than the hero might have ever done…It may be due to the ever growing influence of the Satan on society, but the most important reason, would be because people like characters that are more realistic. Finding a pure breed Hero is a highly improbable task in this society; grey shades are very easily available here.That’s probably the reason, why Randeep Hooda, took on the one of the best sketched roles in D.. and rocked the nation.Manoj Bajpai Did it in Satya, Abhishek Bachhan did it IN Yuva(This film launched him into the big league.. which not a single of his earlier 15 odd films managed, all in which he played the Hero).

Tom Cruise in Colateral, John Travolta in Broken Arrow, Sword Fish (A must watch).. all came on top because they were bad. Dougary Scott, The best Antihero in MI-2…looks twice as cool in the movie as Tom Cruise looks….not bad at all.It’s always the Anti hero coming on the top……these days..

Why am I writing all this… because an anti hero does turn me on…. As one of my college friends I was chatting with pointed out… “The problem with you is not that u think u are bad, its because u know u are bad….. and u like it that way….”….Point noted…A Hyena is a very similar animal… It’s the only animal which kills for fun… never for the flesh like the other man eaters do…..

And analytically, you get to dress cool, drive a Merc, get to say the best of dialogues, get to romance a great chick(vamp.. but certainly more appealing than the ever crying female lead.), get to rape the main lead (which the hero in the Hindi Movie never has a chance of….things are improving these days…)… and finally run the show …in return all u have to give…is to let the hero be on top for the last 15 mins….

….. Not bad at all…..

The CAPS test.. very bad.. missed out on the only challenging sum that was put on the paper….made a mess of the entire 10 marks.

I decided to switch to Triband… a better way to live life online… and also saving a few bucks hereby.I took a NU plan (Rs 590 for 500 Mb upload download limit… with surfing from 00-8 hrs free…).256 kbps… and ofcourse.. no point in continuing with this, as once I leave Andheri… No one’s gonna go @ the web… as hardcore as I do ………

Talking of heroes now, Ramgopal Verma’s plan to remake James with Mohit Ahlawat… I think is a superb idea. The Guy looks Ice cool in the promos.. don’t know much about his acting skills but Its difficult to come across directors who could add RGV’s dimension to characters. True, The factory is carving out movies that certainly create a lot of interest…but then again It just falls to the common man really…A joke goes this way… A leading Journalist lady saw a Huge “James” poster which of course had Mohit flaunting his well toned body and the damsel her figure in her Gym. Wear. She asked the Auto Fellow about these posters.. to which he replied, “Arre who koi picture ka nahi hai, Naaya Gym. Khula hai Is area main!!!”

….. And RGV’s talking about “bringing about Inner conflicts in the same James character”… in his next version….

..A meeting ....

2005-10-06T10:04:00.000-07:00

Well, the most important aspects of maintaining a blog is to update it.It doesnt matter if u do it daily,but Its very important that u do it as regularly as possible.That's because.. if u start updating about stuff,when something eventful happens.. then there is no point at all in doing it.. because u anyway wont forget eventful things in ur life.The same goes for the most embarassing moments in ur life.So, u need to blog to remember those moments which might not be tht important at all now... but certainly might turn out very important in life.... later on.

This is wht I felt..... anyway.. It's just my take on things,not a formula or a rule at all.............
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Avdhoot Jathar dropped in to meet us.. We had a session to discuss a few details on RDBMS and OOAD.. but then I felt completely lost in the session,which was more like a wanna be actor would feel in his first Page 3 party.He knows no one,he wants to join in... but cant as he neither has the knowledge nor does he have the right aptitude for such things.It made me feel that I have wasted close to 12 years of life... doing just what a normal guy was supposed to do.. and landed up knowing nothing that a guy should know when 20 years old.One big sick feeling........I must say that....

But ... better a spectator to something... Atleast took a leap some where..... atleast started something na...
Full marks to Avdhoot on succesful completion of his training.He certainly and truly deserves all the accolades....

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The Bhute-Bhim affair.... Believe me.. they should probably marry one another...(they make a perfect Husband-Wife couple)... made for each other....
Ohhh ..... OHHH... now we have them fighting on who the husband and Wife should be in the relationship...
The argument continues......
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Finally... Happy Birthday to Ankur Dani.Here's the Angelina Jolie Pic....Just for you.......NAAA... that's more like my gift to u.....
She's the most beautiful women Alive on earth.........Balls Seriously... some one forgot Ash man.....for Ash is miles and miles ahead when it comes to charm and grace......

...nothing much....

2005-10-05T06:07:00.000-07:00

A lot of people have asked me about the next lady in my life…. NO comments about it.. Not Even here… but surely.. she isn’t in my college… the college Love affair is over.

Went to the university to collect my original Marksheets of sem 1 and sem 2.I met a guy there, while I was waiting for collecting them. He started asking me info about re-evaluation(he had just flunked his sem 2 papers).. and then we started talking about everything. He asked me about the nice piece of area University has(certainly one of the biggest open pastures in the city..) and we were contemplating about how lectures would be.. in the natural open surroundings.

That’s when he told me about his college (MHSS.. Byculla)..which has a prison next to it……The entire day.. u have Prisoners yelling, ”Khana DOOOOO,Pani DOOOOO” .. I really burst out laughing at the way.. he was going about narrating things….His professors tell them.. U have come to the wrong compund… U belong next door man…But seriously, A prison next door.. sounds really interesting….We discussed about a lot of things.. from the way the education system works.. to the chicks in the university…I have one more thing to say on all those people who say SPCE has the low quality ones…. IN Saboo Siddik, the rules have the chicks covered from head to toe…. All covered… even the chicks are sick of living this way….

I totally enjoyed this trip to the university,God.. never have I spent so much time laughing with a person I don’t even know…

The OOAD lecture mystery…..We all come, Thite doesn’t come… no lecture.We all come,Thite also comes,PG also comes, no lecture.We all come, Thite also comes(thite deserves a special mention here.. he is also a variable in this equation u see…..)….PG also comes… Lecture gets cancelled…. ( As we need to study.…..OOAD!!!).The last and the best equation….We all come , Thite also comes, PG also comes, lecture also takes place…..The Lecture’s trash…..

Finally… when the Never coming.. Anwesh Das lands up… There is NO lecture at all…

What the Heck????????????

Finally Riya Sen, I love this chick… just a lot more than some of the others….Her Eyes are probably one of the best ones I have seen… very very striking ones… looks super cute man!!!

......I AM BACK!!!!!

2005-10-03T09:17:00.000-07:00

There are a lot of things that took place over the past few days. Firstly, Freshies happened, It gave me a chance to polish my dancing skills; god knows when next would I ever dance to welcome a set of juniors!!.Whtever, things went off very well… the house rocked last Thursday.

Power Cuts are becoming pretty frequent these days. I am reminded of my native place Trichur in Kerala,where Power cuts are pretty well regulated….in the sense that people know exactly when the supply is gonna conk off… They tell its “7.00-8.00 pm” on Mondays,”6.30-7.30 pm on Tuesdays.. and so on. Off Late I am disappointed to see Mumbai becoming just as efficient.

Everytime this happens, my neighbours in Mulund call me and ask me to investigate the failure.I am tired of explaining them, the boundaries of my very limited electrical knowledge. A few of them even urge me to open our meter box and join the MSEB authorities in working on the junction box. Well, they would probably realize their folly when they spend a couple of sleepless nights, Thanks to yours truly and the limited/no knowledge he has. As I keep wondering,I get confused sometimes as to what exactly rotates in a synchronous motor( stator, rotor,….. whtever!!!!).

Anyway.. I come out with the safest answer…”Ek phase main problem hai!!!”.

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TGILC, must watch really. Every one in my family is crazy about it. Including my 9 year old sister. We watch the show form 10-11.. and then keep laughing till 12…. My sister went and told a nice joke, the finer nuances of which where pretty high for her…(non veg one yaar!!!).. to our maid servant… who had a pretty good laugh. My sister knew it as a joke… never the implications of it…. Well,I helped myself a quiet chuckle……

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Bluetooth transfers in cellphones is quite a rage I must say… Most of my friends in Mulund keep doing it…. I myself proudly passed on a few ASH pics to a guy in college today.. and also to Haridas….It’s a nice way to do things…. I must thank Hrishikesh for sustaining all the pain I give him while I do the transferring….It goes from My PC, to his PC, to his Phone memory and thru Bluetooth into My phone!!!…. Geee, I forgot the Internet somewhere…….

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Finally,I am in LOVE…………………………………….AGAIN!!!!

>>>BHIM RULZ!!!!!!

2005-09-29T06:46:00.000-07:00

Whtever u say, whtever you do.. u may love him, hate him,love to hate him.. but u just cant ignore him...... BHIM rulz...Ameya Kulkarni..(Alias Bhim).. is probably the best of characters I have met...in SPCE.Probably one of the most brilliant of pupils to have ever graced this institution....I am yet to see this ammount of potential in any student/person alike.....
There are numerous instances where he has stood for what he believed is right. He's one person... who would stand for the rules at one time.. and when necessary would break those.. in his own style.He's pretty popular....puts his heart and soul in whtever he does ......playing carrom,studying from the toughest of books,writing Assignments on his own.. and the latest addition......having a crack at girls....
Two of our class girls found out that... I must admit that I started throwing paper balls at them....At them who were standing.... very very apart...from our bunch.The balls were just fun... but taking into consideration the lack of sense of humour around... it fell pretty poorly... Thanks to bhim(who brought a whole register for that!!!)... i had another shot....mine went somewhere else..Bhim... hit them....BULLS EYE...straight on.. They were pretty pissed.. but then they really lost it when bhim threw the last one... straight on the two damsels.....they decided to give Bhim a dressing down... I was there too.. but from me it was "expected "... not from Bhim though!!!.UNfortunately, when they summouned him, I didnot go with them, as I didnot want a fight to begin there... and two Tricalites fighting would give a wrong impression around....There is something called attitude, if they were to smile when this happens, that would have ended there.. but as people say.. make hay when the sun shines....
Believe me, this is just one of the incidents I can narrate of Bhim as a person.There are plenty of times we all have bugged him, be it for explaining those never ending lessons, be it for listenng his "ethics",be it for having ashot at him for his idealism... but never has he turned the heat on us. That represents a character, a personality ... a gem... something SPCE offered.... something I would have certainly missed if I were some where else.

One more thing.. Starting with Bhim(Ayesha Takia....but blogger's hagging), I decided to write in a tribute to all my friends in SPCE... all on whom I have less than a year to spend with.After all this is the least I could do after all they have done to me... Post in comments about who the next one should be...