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  • I Broke the Vow the Night India lost…

    This thing getting blogged a couple of weeks later after it happened. Ok something finally went inside after a gap of almost 3 months(last time it happened). The occasion deserved it though. I met Motu aka Dimpy aka Shameek after a gap of four years I think, the time I was not into the Ethanol business and he had just started. Things have changed, he is no longer Motu, I have got into the biz and left it and both have started earning a bit.

    For those of you having not a bit of idea of what me talkign about there was a vow, a vow against C2H5OH. For details you can check out the To-Do’s for New Year.

    But it was great. I mean sitting and gulping on the terrace of Pratik’s home is always great. So me, Prateek, Shameek and Sushant had a real blast, which was the same time when India was loosing it out against Bangladesh and Pakistanis against Ireland. So in went a bit of Vodka followed by Whisky and loads of stuff to eat.

    The next day was great too with Neha coming into the town from Hyderabad. I think I met her after 5 years. Also was my friend Milan whom also I met after a long time. So we all went for a walk followed by CCD followed by Mast Kalandar at Kormanagala which I should say is an awesome place for having food.

    Milan, Shameek, Neha and Me( I do look drowsy)

    That was followed by another round with me and Shameek involved again. I must say one thing everything was getting damn heavy after so much of liquor.
    Meeting old pals is always great and about breaking the vow, kabhi kabhi ho jata hai.

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  • Off to Ooty for weekend

    The last time I visited Ooty I was a kid I think so I don’t remember a bit about the place. But going this weekend on a Team Outing with my mates at workplace will be awesome as I visit the best hill station in Southern India and the adopted land on MithunDa.
    Hope it’s loads of fun.

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  • As the Work gets boring

    Where the Mind has grown Mindless
    And the head droops down by Sleep;

    Where knowledge is free but useless

    Where the World has been
    broken up into fragments by stupid corporate chores;

    Where the clear stream of reason has polluted
    amidst worklessness and guilt of being so;

    From that hell of boundedness, my father,
    let me and my country escape.

    P.S.- I respect Rabindranath Tagore and these are my favourite lines from his collection slightly twisted. But if someone has any qualms, I am quite sorry for it.
    But Boredom and boring work forces you to do such things.

  • Another Valentine’s Day

    Ek aur nikal gaya…
    Yesterday ironically I was reading Love Poems by Taslima Nasrin.
    But this year is to be different, look at my new year resolutions 🙂
    Anyway who the hell cares who St.Valentine was, definitely a sore for singles…
    Singles just are there to play around with the topic of Love as one of my friends today put up the following as his status message on Messenger.

    ” Love is in the Air, by Air I mean Air Pollution”

    Waiting and Waiting and Waiting…

  • Salaam-e-Ishq, Guru, Me and my blog…

    When I logged in today and saw last post on Jan 12 I said OMG, what has happened? Sure I kept a hell lotta busy in the month of January’07. It was too much, Convocation and the trip to Ahmedabad, hell lot of work, staying in office till 3AM at night, falling sick (again), no liquor for the whole month of January (an achievement), few new restaurants, one of the Bangalore based School pals leaving the city (sob sob…) and my trip to Pune( that will be another huge story). Everything, no blogging though. I thought its time to put something up now.

    In between all this I caught up with two movies. Given the history of my movie reviews which stretch a lot this one has to be short.

    Salaam-e-Ishq I didn’t like it that much except Govinda-Firangi Ladki, Salman-Priyanka and Ayesha-Akshaye stories in it. It was stretching a lot but my friends told me I was lucky enough to watch just tyhree hours of it at others saw three hours fourty minutes…J. And something more to add John and Vidya Balan were simply horrible in the movie. I saw it in second week and the movie was chopped off. One thing good were the songs though. Music was GREAT.

    Guru in typical Mani Ratnam tradition is not an entertainer and not even a great blockbuster kinda movie. A movie driven on performance and Abhiwariya affair has got a so called “original” story line of a Businessman who becomes the leading businessman of the country after a journey from Gujarat to Mid-East to Bombay. For me who studied in Dhirubhai’s college it was no big deal though to guess the story. An aviator inspired climax and lot of songs were a let down. Also Mithunda and Maddy were not used that much. With this movie its proven that AR Rehmaan maybe the best music director in the country, but one can’t say that about understanding the lyrics involved. Reshmiyaa sings by nose but you can gauge the lyrics, not the same for Rehmaan songs. Abhishek si good but loads of Amitabh in there and Ash was surprisingly very good in the role. Good movie but NOT GREAT.

    And that’s it. Quite short by my standards but that’s it for a post after long time.

  • In search of of a new look’n’feel for blog

    I want to change it, not any of those hand-picked from internet thingies but something nice, light and fresh.
    But loads of other work too.

    Any suggestions from anyone visiting, I know lots of people visit but they are a bit miser when it comes to posting comments. Doesn’t matter that much though…

  • Coorg Pics in…..finally

    Will blog about it later, right now just this one,

    Ok there was no girl with us, but who is she???

  • New Year Party’07

    Ok finally some time to blog. A party to remember for sure, simply much more than its alcoholic content in Character and night full of regular stuff we did in college but stuff we had been alienated from for a while.
    All started with Happa and me discussing a possibility of a party where we would be sitting with couple of gals in a nice pub sipping taazi beer (draught as we know it) and getting cozy with a dash of bullshit. Don’t ask me what it meant but but getting cozy and talking bullshit was meant to be the theme. But that still remains a dream…huh
    Anyway in our quest to have a good pardy this is where we reached…

    Brigade and MG was nice that day, but too nice when it came to rates. 750/- for getting into our favourite hangout places Purple Haze and so we didn’t enter. Next we got no sasta places to enter so somehow someone found a place which I forced everyone to get out off. Now with nothing to do we entered McDonald’s chewed a few burgers and off we went to DVD’s house. Oh I forgot the cast,

    DVD the Designer
    Amar DVD’s room-mate and school pal
    Enginerd because he doesn’t like to be named maybe…
    Chotu the aaramdayak ladka
    KD …he is KD
    Happa… decalred the most eligible bacheolar from our college batch by Anand that day…
    Vinamra urff Tidda
    Akshay the experienced drinker…
    Me, desi, pattu, desh wahtever and sometimes Abhishek as Chetan called me that day…
    And then there was Chetan the star of the day…:)


    So we went to DVD’s house
    and we had this—>

    For the last time I QUIT NOW

    Afterwards it was speeches, gaana, naachna, rona dhona, hasna, ulti karna and what dung next day office jaana. (No more pics will be shared due to reasons beyond explaination)
    Though it was great fun but I won’t write much about it. Those who were there enjoyed it. Next year same party maybe a few gals would be around as some said.
    It would better be somewhere other than Bangalore but I am stuck here in Bangalore like this, dunno what to do…

    But wherever I go I can’t have it alone, so it better be anywhere loads of my friends around me…

    BTW all the pics courtsey tidda’s camera, meet Vinamra 🙂

  • So so so many things to blog…

    Me in college, me in Gandhinagar and feels great, that drying heat in the afternoon, and that freezingly cold chill at night, R-World and Mohan Dhaba to Brijwasi food to Pathetic Hollywood movies to meeting Prof’s and meeting old pals. Everything has been great.
    In between I need to blog a couple of more things, one probably the new year pardy where Mr. Deshpande had liquor for the last time(fingers crossed). I missed one of the superb 19th nov pre- CAT party too but that I can’t put so late maybe.
    Anyway new year, I don’t know whats coming up this year. Lets hope whatever happens its much better than somethings which happened last year.

  • The year That was…

    I dunno what churns out posts in retrospect but as it is surely lot of things happen which need to be remembered.
    Last sem in college, lots of timepass, getting fat, fatter, fattest…(i exagarate at times), BTech Project, presentations(ufff…), between that blogging, loads of movies- infact I could write a beautiful journal on movies of 2006, the trip to Farakka, the journey from a dull okish college student to a bourgeois profession, the journey to Bangalore(or Bengaluru), the good days in company, the bad days in company(very few…), the CAT kaand(surely whatever I say it still haunts me with sleepless, coughfull nights), lots of book read, the year when I got drunk a lot especially after moving to Bangalore, the year when I went to Coorg, the year of failed ideas, the year of failed dreams, the year I am still confused what really are my dreams, the year that the fevistick dominated my life more than food, food -good year for that always, the year to meet back school pals again after 2-3 years, ok getting thin, thinner…(its ok sort as of now), writing infact lots of it at times, thinking about quitting it, I am so confused a soul at times butI surely see a way forward.

    To Do’s for 2007

    • Get a girlfriend, no sign of desperation but of existence.
    • Start playing football again in company, atleast start dong anything else than the regular office bore-tuff. In short get fitter and think better.
    • Decide on What to do in life, MBA and all seem a pass-away but really identify the niche.
    • Try to look for options in non-technology related areas, seriously work towards them rather than just talking and keeping things in muddle.
    • Try to get a laptop and net connection by mid-year or by March, borrow money from Dad obviously.
    • Try to calm down and be focused better than being fussy dipping into every thing and then chucking out half of it, infact all of it.
    • Meet a few people who I am longing to meet…
    • Chuck alcohol completely, it should be over as anything, its allergic and harming desh so better leave it completely.

    List is somewhat empty would try to complete it before 2007 starts, any IDEAS???