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29/11/05

So MaNy FiRsTs !!!

aaj socha ke upar waale se poochun
ke mujhe itna kyon sata raha hai tu....
aur tabhi teri aawaz ne kaano par dastak di
ab kya sawal aur kya gam...


i am getting better with my poetry :D now i can write something once every 4 months :) hehehe.. very good prashant.. keep it up...

i was thinking about a few things which have not happened to me so far in my life... and now they are going to happen or are happening...

1. i have never been inside an airport - i get to be inside the airports in 5 cities of india next month...
2. i have never been close to an aeroplane or sit inside it - i get to fly for the entire business trip... delhi to kolkata to bhopal to mumbai to chennai to banglore ( by road) to delhi...
3. i have never seen the sea - i get to go to both the west coast and the east coast of india.. see the sunset in mumbai.. and a sunrise in chennai.. and maybe pondichery too..
4. i have never been outside my house for more then a week - i am going away from my house for a month now
5. i have broken all records of staying in the office.. for the last two months i am spending an average of 11 hrs in the office...


masta life hai !!! God bless me.. and gimme a lot of strength :)

and a girlfriend too ;) bong babe... or some from soorma bhopali's familiy...or a mumbai magic woman.... i am not really sure about banglore bombs and chennai chicks... hehehe.. they seem to be the names of some hockey teams from these cities :P

oh.. and burfi wrote a post about better gurls a few days back... i have a very very similar story... and here is the line that i use for myself...

All the Good Gurls are taken... and the bad ones do not find me good enuff ;)
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27/11/05

MoRe jUst LiKe ThAt !!!

Umre Daraaz maang ke laye chaar din...
Do aarzoo mein kat gaye.. do intezaar mein !!!


this is going to be one long post...

not being able to write for so long.... has made me miss some of the important things that i wanted to put down on the blog.. and i am not even sure if i can remember all of them...

anyway... i have too much of work load these days... but then i am not complaining.. somewhere deep inside me i am just sad.. that if i am so much capable of taking the kinda responsibilities given to me.. why can't someone in IBM realise this.. can get me onboard !!! i want to give this project my best shot.. and then go ahead full blast on a job search... this time into core consultancy...

what takes up most of my time these days is preparing the training material for a india wide tool implementation and training... the best thing about this project is that i am getting to travel to places i have never been to...

i am leaving delhi on the 8th of December for kolkata.. will stay there for 5 days.. and then move to bhopal for another 5 days before going to Mumbai and Banglore.. i am also planning to meet up with Deepak.. and catch up with him on the new years.. hope he would not mind.. though i am not sure if i am screwing up any of his plans which he must have made !!!!

i would be out of home for over a month.. the longest so far in my life.. its going to be tough.. its going to be exciting.. its going to give me a lot of time with myself.. and probably rediscover myself... lets see how it goes !!!!

and today was supposed to be the last sunday of 2005 when i am not working.. on the contrary.. i have been working for about 4 hours now :( i am already tired !!!! how am i gonna work all the next weekends :( lets see... i have a point to prove here to myself.. and i cannot let myself down !!!

some of the other interesting things that have happened in the last few days...

Amit got married.. my manager in Hughes.. and his marriage function looked like a HSS Reunion.. and i am going to another marriages today.. Nishant. one of the best managers one can ask for... and he is getting married to his long time sweetheart Ruchika, who used to be a part of Hughes as well... God bless him.. and Ruchika... they make a great couple.. and the way Nishant handled the entire relationship thingie in office was amazing.. just another act to display the kinda grey matter he has.. so another HSSBPO reunion tonight...

Rupak is also getitng married tonight... he was the one who was totally against marriage.... and we came to know about his thoughts last year when me waquar saxena and rupak went to bhimtal.... and look at how things move.. he is getting married... God bless him and his wonderful better half too...


I have been talking about legalisation of prostitution and how and why we would or not accept someone who sells her/his body as a part of our lives... i will write about that later.. i am not really in a position to gather all my thoughts about that right now...

Met Narang somedays back.. on the 22nd to be precise.. its such a pleasure to meet... one helluva friend i have.. God bless you buddy.. love you...

Aro se bhi mila.. and it was as good as always to meet up with him... i can laugh my heart out when i meet this guy !!! i am going to meet his parents when i go to Kolkata.. apprently i do not need any introduction when i meet his folks.. they know me well through him though i have not met them ever...

what else has been happening.. nothing much actually...

i am still with the thought of a look makeover... have been switching between french cut beard.. a li'il bit of beard.. Nishant has specifically asked me to be clean shaven today or not come to the wedding...so... i guess.. i am going to look at myself clean shaved after quiet sometime today :)

what else... cannot think of anything..

just need to rush to the market to get a tie for myself !!! tmrw is my training pilot.. wish me luck !!!

18/11/05

i WaS ThiNkiNg !!!!

kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahan pe...
do pal milte hain...
saath saath chalte hain..
jab mod aaye to bach ke nikalte hain...

kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahan pe...


Raina had this song in one of her posts sometime back !!!!

somehow this song makes so much sense... relations indeed are kinda strange... we meet people who are strangers... and become the best of friends... and then we have ppl who used be our closest pals.. and distances come in between from God knows where...

are these things controllable... yes to an extent... there is a lot that i can do to keep my pals with me.... oh.. let me correct myself... i can do a lot to keep myself close to my pals...

but then what happens when they do not make an effort...

anyway.. that is a rotten topic and i really am not in a mood to write more about that...

what i really wanted to write today.. was about new relationships that bring magic to your life... new people.. new smiles... new days... new evenings... :) does it look like i am in love... hehehe.. it might feel that way.. but i am not...

i am outside love & relationships....and am trying to look at it from a outside world !!! Sunil got married yesterday, and we had a looong talk day before about how he was feeling about everything.. he was very very relaxed... and was very very happy too... and then he had so many reasons to be happy... and it felt really good to see someone who once used to study with me start another life !!!! and also be a part of one more life... ankita his wife (now) is a very lucky girl... Sunil is a mature guy.. and he understands how difficult it is for some girl to leave her house and start staying with ppl who are unknown !!!! and that too with a feeling that she would be judged almost with everything that she does... everything that she is going to do.. the minutest of the things would create an impression... how she walks in the house.. how she talks on the phone.. how is greets her new parents... everything... i think its very very tough !!!! just too tough for a human to think about !!! and so many of them go through it and a good percentage of it comes out of it happy !!!! God bless them !!!!

There is such a huge amount of responsibility that sunil and his wife are going to share now... a life that starts new !!! a life that needs them to be together come whatever may.. a life that promises to bring happiness... and with a condition... that they give each other space to breath... that they let each other speak their heart out... that they respect each other and the people they are and were associated with.. family friends relatives and wat not !!!!

at the end of the day they have to make sure that the other person looks forward to even one minute of time spent together !!! God bless you Sunil God bless Ankita !!! i hope they and all the couples in this world stay happy !!!!

and the good/bad girls who are still single.. and ready to mingle (please do NOT read "get married" ) send a message to me ;)

17/11/05

JiM CoRbEtt NaTiOnAL PaRk !!!

phone calls and sms.. they really give you what you want sometimes...

i got one sms last week.. i guess on thursday.. here is what i it said...

going to jim corbett.. kharcha approx 2400 bucks... leaving saturday...

and my reply which never went out of my cell.. i hate to type sms... was OK... however i made a call later and confirmed my presence for the trip...

the plan was to leave delhi on saturday early morning.. and be back by sunday evening.. it was going to be a quick getaway.. but then with the kinda guy i am.. anything outside this concrete jungle is fine with me... so i happily agreed.. even though i am running very very tight on cash... and Aro has helped me by letting me pay only 2000 bucks as of now.. and pay the rest when i want to... he will take care of my share as of now..

could not pack my stuff on friday because of a photo shoot late night... so came back around 0100 hrs.. and slept... i was really too tired to go ahead and pack my clothes.. thought will do it in the morning only...
Saturday... 0630 hours..

the murga on my cell phone starts screaming.. and i without wasting any time get up to get ready for my first visit to the well known JIM Corbett National Park !!!

i just fill my bag with one t-shirt, a pair of tracks.. one jacket and a shawl... that looked good enough... oh.. and not to forget my camera... 4 rolls.. and the tripod !!!!

left house at 0745 hrs to meet up the guys at Akshardham Flyover around 0800.. these guys were late and managed to pik me up at 0830 hrs only.... it was one of those cute Tempo Travellers that Aro had hired for this trip.. had seen a lot of them on my way to the Valley of Flowers.. guess a lot of sardars travel in these.. and call it coincidence... our driver was a Sardarji too... so a quick Sat Sri Akal... a brief round of into with Aro's team... i only knew Ruchi and Sanjit... and had heard about Indranil... rest were new to me.. and i was new to them... lemme recall their names.. i was too caught up with myself in the next two days to remember any names... i think we had Shilpi, Priya, Adeesha and Ruchi with Sunny, IG, Harshit, Sanjit Aro.... i am missing out on one name here... and i think i do not remember one or two names correctly as well... anyway... so the bus.. or the tempo kept moving slowly towards our desitnation...
the tempo traveller...

i was already bored because of the slow speed.. this was the same road that let me drive at a constant 90 kmph..and i was sitting right behind the driver causing more irritation when he was driving at 70 kmph... bigger vehicles seem to be running slowly then they really are as well..

we took the morabadab bypass and crossed it before we turned left towards the corbett which was still 95 kms away !!!

the road so far was just fine.. and from now it was going to get bad to worse.. kashipur had a diversion.. and it took us atleast an hour to get out of that town... we finally reached ramnagar... and asked for our resort which was the Corbett Nature Camp... about 10 kms from RamNagar we reached the camp around 1600 hrs... nice camp with cottages trying to look like huts... amongst the thick mango trees.. gave it a different look.. however i personally do not like places where they have to make a cottage look like a village... i have stayed in such huts real ones.. and i know how different it is from the artificial ones !!!

our camp... The Corbett Nature Camp

anyway... we kept our stuff in our respective cottages.. and what do i hear next... some loud music... phew... where the hell was that coming from.. and i soon found out that the kids there brought a speaker set complete with a sub-woofer with them !!! phew.. kids i tell you... i was out there looking for peace.. and it looked like i was not going to get it.. but then these were sensible kids and did not have the music very loud...
near the camp...

i was carrying only one extra pair of clothes.. so i just washed my face.. or maybe i did not.. and just grabbed the camera and went to the river side... there is this charm of being next to a river... lovely 1!! same feeling that i get near ganges in rishikesh.. just that this river was kinda small in comparison.. very small infact...
the river kosi...

the sun setting over the Jim Corbett Park

took some fotos... checked out the place around... decided that we have to cross the river on foot tmrw... and came back...had some snacks.. and just walked around... soon it was time for the bon fire... enjoyed it big time.. with antakshri being played between the girl and the boy teams...
the team enjoying the fire...

fire fire burning bright...

i was given the task of capturing that on tape... with a handycam coz i was not singing... lovely competition... and some realy good moments.. such things make trips memorable...

just walking around...

had a nice dinner around 2030 hours and rushed to sleep....
our camp guy told us that we better be ready by 0430 hours if we wanted to enter the jungle at all... there was a huge rush of visitors thanks tothe weekend... i was not really taking the seriously but then getting up early was not a problem.. in anycase i prefer to sleep a li'il less on my trips... so after some talks with aro.. i slept... to wake up early morning !!!

Sunday 0345 hrs....

the murga again started screaming.. and i got up.. got fresh... i was sleepy yes... and theni heard some noises... and guess was everyone was awake... strange... looks like everyone was excited about the safari.. very very interesting !!!

woko aro up... his phone's alarm also rang.. some irritating alarm that is i tell you... we were all ready by 0430 to go to the safari.... the gypsys were already there... and when were moved towards the entrance that is when i realised how serious the camp coordinator was...
we overtook atleart 4 jeeps.. and were pushed behind by 3 of them... it was more of a race that these jeeps were involved in... why.. lemme tell you...

Ram-Nagar gate... only 30 jeeps allowed in the morning... 15 of them get the booking atleast a month in advance...the rest 15 get the numbers by standing atthe gate at 0100 hrs...
Jhirna... first 30 jeeps allowed inside the jungle... first come first serve basis... and this is the gate that we had to reach... our driver shakeel was good.. and we were the 4th jeep !!!
the sun rising over Ram-nagar

a wait of about 80 minutes... me realising that i was hungry... and that i had to take lotsa snaps.... and that i was at the gate of a great place.... the gates opened... the registration was done by the driver... so no hassles there... as soon as we entered we stood up on our seats so that we do not miss anything...
outside the Jhirna Gate


and were lucky... ya seriously...
just 10 minutes into the safari.. and we spot a huge deer... with biiiiiiiiig horns... and one of the girls in the jeep got too excited... and started shouting... deer deer deer.. i guess that frightened the hell out of that lovely fella.. and he ran back into the bushes...

and that is where our luck came to an end...
i do not actually mind that now.. coz i think there was some aura in that jungle that did not make me miss the animals much... i was spellbound by the beauty of the entire place....

hey but wait.. there was a tiger around...

Shakeel, our driver... suddenly stopped and said that he heard a call... stupid me.. i thought he was talking about a mating call of some deers... turned out that it was the alarm call of deers when they see a tiger.... we took a u turn.. and waiting silently and patiently around the place where the call was coming from... the noises kept getting louder... we heard the deers, the monkeys.. and birds... but did not see the tiger.. neva mind.. the excitement of getting to see one was good enough !!!
waiting for the tiger....after we heard the calls..

the safari continued for another 2.5 hours... and i enjoyed it big time... i love that jungle !!!

back to the camp around 1000 hrs... me and aro had a quick breakfast... and then we moved towards the river.. this time to cross it somehow... we had to walk about 800 metres upstream to find a suitable place to cross it... and when we were both in the middle of the river.. we noticed some village women crossing it from a few metres further upstream with ease.. while we were struggling to keep our balance in place with the camera and tripod with us.. and the shoes hanging over our necks !!! adding more to the embarrassment.. two kids crossed the river in 5 minutes flat when we were about to reach the other side.. and that too in water that was just knee deep... uff !!! what idiots we were.... waist deep in water... lost balance several times.. barely saved ourself from falling inside the water... or call it an adventure... whatever :D
aro... showing me how nicely the women crossed the river...and from where !!!

now we walked downstream again.. to reach the huge stone that aro wanted to sit on... and that meant walking through the water again.. though i was not too keen to do that... but thanks to Aro's will i managed to cross half the river again.. and this time it was pretty easy... and reach that stone.. what a feeling.. accompalishment !!!!
the stone we wanted to reach...
we were Gods :D
and we did...

anyway... we stayed there on the stone.. for about 15 minutes... before we started back to the other side... walk up 800 metres... and this time cross the river in a better and more balanced way... and then walk 800 metres downstream and then climb up to reach the camp !!! done... back at the camp !!! smart guys with wet pants....

had lunch !!! and moved out of the camp around 1400 hrs... we headed straight to the corbett falls.. about 33 kms away... and then had to move to delhi via bajpur, rudrapur moradabad..... Corbett falls was beaituful.. nice li'il waterfall in the middle of nowhere !!!! loved that place... we moved out of there before it was stormed by a group of kids... from some school in ramnagar...
Corbett Falls... about 23 kms away from Ram-Nagar

the journey back home started around 1730 hours... and i reached home at 0130 hrs.. we took two breaks in between.. one in bajpur... and one to have our dinner @ gajraula !!!

lovely trip this was.... i think i have covered mostof the exciting places around delhi with this trip of mine.... where do i go next !!!

Jodhpur? Lanesdown? Dharamshala? Mandi? Tehri?

lets see.... May God be with us !!!!


oh.. and if you want to check out more fotos... check out the flickr badge on the left for JiM CorBett !!! hope you like the fotos !!!

14/11/05

jUst LiKe ThAt !!!

Life is strange..

and stranger is the way you change you look at it from every milestone that you reach in your life...

when you are 21 you feel that ppl who are 27 boring.. and should settle down and not interfere or give GYAN on what you should be doing and what you should not.. you wonder why most of them are so serious.. when its time to play...

and when you are 27 you find it hard to understand why someone who is 21 has to talk all the time.. why can't you just think and ponder over what you want to do in your life for a moment... why can't you have your own goals in life clear....

i think we forget that we were also 21 sometime back...

i know when i was still in college, i was of the most stupid ppl around.. i did not have a clue about the industry.. what i wanted to do in my life.. except that i wanted a job in the software field... and do what? no, i did not know that either... strange !!! and today i wonder why these young adults cannot act more responsibly and learn from what ppl a li'il older have been through...

anyway.. i have grown with time.. and i am sure most of them would also live and learn to be where they should be with age... but then.. you do not have any control on growing old.. but definitely growing up is a something that happens because of yourself....

another thought that has been coming to my mind for the last few days...

what is attractive?
yes i am talking about myself and what i feel attractive in the opposite sex...

looks.. yes... but offlate i have seen myself getting attracted towards the nicer looking dames... but not really being keen to talk to them...

but then girls who i feel can talk.. and i can get into conversations with, i find that they are far more attractive then any beauty queen !!! the intelligence that some of them have gives then far more charm then a hourglass figure would !!!

09/11/05

MoRe !!!

how does this sound?

lots of work..
late night movies...
excellent music...
and some good creative thoughts..

looks like i have all the reasons to enjoy my life..

oh.. and did i forgot that india won their fifth match with a quite a good margin... 7 wickets eh...

coming to it point by poiint..

i can work best when challanged to perform.. for that matter everyone does.. but do i care.. the answer is not.. i am here to care about myself and not do any charity... so that fact of the matter remains that i have loads and loads of work to do.. in a li'il less time then i need to complete it... and i am loving it...
the bad thoughts that i did not get any appraisal..
that i have not been treated nicely... etc etc do not even come to my mind...

hopefully the right people would know that I AM the right guy !!!

next...
late night movies... i saw Jerry Mcguire today on Star Movies... lovely movie.. i have seen it in bits and peices.. but today i sat down and saw the whole damn movie.. and am i happy or what... its a good movie.. must see for someone who thinks that there are things that will break you in peices as a human... if you can collect yourself.. and have the balls to fight the odds.. there is nothing that can stop you from getting what you deserve....

excellent music...
for the last two days i am listening to 99.9fm... no no.. this is not a new station.. no its not even a worldspace station... its a soundtrack... 99.9fm is a movie.. a li'il different from the MSC... main stream cinema... and the soundtrack.. rich... well thats the word that i have for it... it has such a charismatic blend of the right quantity of classical, vocal, intrumental, pop and folk... singers like Shobha Mudgal, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Shaan feature in this soundtrack... worth a buy... oh that reminds me.. i have to search for the OST on Limewire.. lemme pull it up... guys.. do try Limewire.. one of the best P2P software that i have used... and the lightest on your PC too...

creative thoughts..
i sat down with gaurav today.. and discussed with him the ideas that i had for the site.. i think he liked them.. i also made some sketches of the fotos that i wanted him to click.. and i might click them too... and he has permitted me to use his Canon 350D in the next shoot... and play around.. so i get to do some stuff as well... thanks Tushar for helping me with the fire... love you brother !!!

today was the happy budday of my young cousin.. Ashu.. he is one of the best chaps that i know.. sincere and honest.. brother may God bless you with all the happiness that you deserve in your life..

sorry richa for not being able to talk to you in the last few days.. hope you understand how caught up i am...

tushar.. i have made a small file.. will send it to you as soon i find myself satisfied with the result...

had to write all this before i go off to sleep... feeling more better now :D
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BiZiE !!!

last two days have been really really hectic... to the extent that yesterday i did not get time have my food as well...

so i was fasting on a Tuesday.. thats a good sign eh !!!

the health part has improved a li'il bit... when you have a bad throat youshould keep quiet.. and i think i have been speaking the most in the last two days.. and that seems to have taken care of my problem :)

anyway.. tushar was kind enough to call me for a soup on monday evening... and i obliged him :P...
for some reason whatever he said that evening was very very valid... not that he does not say valid things otherwise, but monday evening he looked focused and very inspiring... i was keen on taking care of the things that we discussed, but thanks to the work load in office, i am not in a position to open my PC once i reach home in the night !!!

but tushar bhai i will make sure that this weekend i have something to show you ...

yesterday was just fine... except that not eating food part... Deepali came over to see me from the other building and that was something very very sweet of her... i am also chatting a li'il with Shilpa.. who i call Shipla and she seems to be a nice girl too... had some interesting convos with her which i will post sometime later...

for now.. i will go and get back to work...

07/11/05

jUsT LikE DaT !!!

i am not at all well today..
really bad cold and cough.. have been breathing out of my mouth the entire day and its getting worse from bad...

bad headache... soar throat...runnung nose... loads of work... perrfuckt combination...

hey bhagwan...

had a big argument with dad yesterday night.. i hate it when something of this sort happens... i try not to speak anything but then i am such an ass.... need to control myself !!!

prashant beta sudhar jao before your pa throws you out of the house...

05/11/05

FiAT TaKeS a STeP !!!

am i happy or what...

Fiat India's site is back up... there were loads of talks going about FIAT packing their bags and leaving.. and then Hinduja's came into picture.. and then the TATAs... and finally there is a MOU between the TATAs and FIAT... which means that TATA is going to benefit with the FIAT technology... and FIAT is going to benefit with the TATA's ASS (After Sales Service)...

win win for both the parties.. and for the few FIAT owners in India who swear by their cars... and i am one of them...

me and deepu were talking about FIAT yesterday.. the there is no sale of fiat.. and i told him.. that there is no After Sale.. or Re-sale either... you need to have some balls to buy a Fiat.. and trust me... its a delight to own... and needless to say i am tottally obsessed with my car...

ok.. back to the main point.. FIAT India's website is up and running.. which means that I would have that site open on my computer all the time.. which used to be the case when i bought the car.. and what can be better then seeing the Ferrari Red colour on the site.. something that i OWN....

love you baby.. you are the best thing that has happened to me ever.. and i am not kidding !!!

here is a pic of my love for ppl who have not met her yet !!!

OrKuT DeLhi MeEt... ChApTeR - III

the day started like any other day... but with a lot of comfort... comfort that i did not have to go to the office.. and the rest of my office mates were working... it gives a strange kind of happiness when you can take an off from your work for nothing...

i wanted to work for half a day.. but could not manage to get the laptop out... and i do not regret it... i have to learn to smart work.. and add it to the hard work that i do...

anyway... today was a ODM day... the Chapter three was to be written today.. i was waiting for it anxiously... not for any specific reasons... but then this is one day when i get to meet a few ppl i gel well with... ppl who have accepted me as who and what i am.. and not because of how i look... and i have reciprocated in a similar fashion...

i would be lying if i say that looks do that matter... but then this was an exception to this normal human thinking mind... i look forward to the quality people that these are.. not how they look !!!

i was late for the Chapter-II, and this time i did not want to take any chances... i called up Aseem around 1250 hours.. and told him that i would park my car at his place.. and then we will walk down to the CCD where we were supposed to meet up with the rest of the gang... i was there by 1345 hours sharp... and aseem was getting ready while i chatter briefly with his brother... his brother had joined us in the Chapter - I when we had gone to Ansal's Plaza on the First of April'05... eatopia is where we had dinner... and the famous papad and chatney story was made !!!

ok back to future... we were walking towards the CCD when i got a message from Richa... that she was lost and did not know where to go.. and was standing in front of Wimpy's.. i told her to wait there and wait for me and Aseem... and then Deepu called... and told me that Jassi had to leave for Noida.. he had to meet some friend of his... so we kinda rushed... met Richa... and she could not stop speaking her typical "shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit" when she found out that she had walked right past CCD thinking that it was the music world ( Music World... you do not have chairs in there... :) anyway... you can label it as cute.. and move on...

so we reach there... walk up the stairs.. to find that Jassi and Deepu had company... Avikal.. i could recognise him from the fotos that he has posted but he looks older in his fotos on the net... otherwise he is a smart looking young man !!! and the other fella was Shami... i hope i am spelling his name correct... Avikal works in some firm in CP itself.. and Shammi has his office in NOIDA, do not remember the name of the firm.. but it is just a stone's throw distance from my house.. how i wish i could get a job which was this close to my place... i could atually catch a nap in the afternoons when the work pressure is less...

ok.. back to reality... Bhaskar joined us in a while.. and we all did wish Aseem a very happy burthday... i think he turned 30 today... just kidding.. he is 23 now... or 24... but not 30 for sure... that reminds me.. he did not give us a party.. and we did not give him the bumps... manh.. i will kick your ass wheni meet you next... beware...

CCD was hot and loud.. and they did not take my order coz they were transferring cash.. and jassi had to leave... so we moved from there... made a few efforts to get Jassi an auto for NOIDA... and then moved to a different cafe.. it was hot as well... and after making the guys there arrange for us 7 to sit.. we moved out... and trust me it was nicer outside then inside that cafe...

Avikal decided that he had to go back to his office now.. and we were 6 of us left... Aseem, Me and Bhaskar have been there in all the three chapters... Deepu was in his second ODM... and Richa and Shammi in their first....

we then decided to move to the Cafe 100... we guys had food last time there.. and it was pretty decent... so we enter there... and no space to sit... we wait and get a place in about 15 odd mintues... during that time... we also discussed the possibility of going to Paranthe wali gali for some food.. but the idea was dropped because the ppl were not very comfortable...

the talks continued... people knew more about each other.. i got angry with Deepak because he reads so much and does not write... and people like me who are not able to read much suffer... well how much effort is it to actually read something that opinionate it and write about it.. atleast some ppl like me would get to know more... and might learn new things... i think he will write now... hope he writes as simply as Anurag Mathur or Chetan Bhagat do.. he is a good writer... and a good person to talk to... and is getting to be a good photographer.. i envy him for the knowledge that he gets from reading.. i can do that too... but for some reason.. i am one lazy ass to read...

we talked about why Chennai should be the capital of India... and why the people inother cities invariably compare themself to Delhi.. i do not think Delhi has any of its populattion of its own.. its people from all over who have made this city what it is... it has its highs.. and it has its lows.. but still this a good place to be in... we also talked about how good it is to drive in Delhi... what kinda books can one read.. what are the new businesses that are coming up... the good part being that the conversation involved everyone.. and it was turning out to be a good meet...

richa wanted to leave early but Deepu bribed her with an offer to drop her back home.. and that worked.. in india.. bribes really really help... and she stayed for a while longer... we moved out.. and then my boss called.. he was not happy about me sharing some report with the team from Singapore.. i did not understand why he had a problem.. but then like any boss.. he has the right to have a problem.. i think that is one of the things that is there in a BOSS's KRA... have problems with what people around you do... anyway... when i joined the convo back.. they were talking about DU and fests and all.. Richa is to help us get into all the fests that she can this academic year... hai na richa?

oh.. i remember.. we also talked about what would happen if Birla Institute of Technology was owned by the Tatas... what would we call it then.. its called BITS now... hehehe.. funny isn't it...

we also went to the book shop near plaza.. we had to buy a couple of books there.. but then it turned out that we would take more fotos.. then look at books.. so we did.. lots of snaps.. lets see how soon deepak can upload some of them...

deepu and Richa left after we had some shakes at Cavenders... the shakes were not as good as they used to be.. anyway.. that is understood... so now four of us were left... and we went to Palika to shop for DVDs.. i think we bought about 11 of them... different titles.. and the idea of having a ODM Library came up.. we might like to keep our DVDs safe.. and let the other ODM members borrow the DvD titles from the library... as and when they need it... good idea.. might just save us a lot of money.. right eh...

i bought 6 dvds in all.. and the movie listing goes like this.. Godfather ( all three parts), Conair, Face Off, The Rock, Gone in 60 Seconds, Lord of the Rings (Three parts), Deep Blue Sea, Shark Zone, Jaws ( all three parts), The Gods must be crazy ( Three parts), and a DVD titled "Greatest Hits of Japanese Cinema".. Gaurav, my fotography guru has stayed in Japan for over 3 years.. he might like to have this DVD as a gift.. lets see.. if i really like the movies then i will keep that Dvd myself.. and just lend it to him for a couple of days to watch :) and return...

ok.. back to ODM... once the shopping spree was done with.. we decided to call it a day !!! Aseem and me... went back to his place so that i could pick up my car and come back home... and Bhaskar and Shammi wanted to talk about something so they sat together... this brought the ODM Chapter - III to an end.. all of us waiting for the Chapter IV for sure...

God bless us all..

back home.. i tool mom to the market.. and went around looking for some trousers.. and finally found a shop with some very very decent stuff.. and at excellent prices.. bought two very nice trousers for 1190 bucks.. and one shirt for 395... the kinda clothes that i have been looking for... will collect the trousers in the morning...

nice day this was... looking forward to such exciting days ahead too...


i love shopping.. and i realise it only after i get the stuff i want.. before that it usually is a pain :)

03/11/05

ShE !!!

she was beautiful...
he was the silent one...

he loved her...
she did not even know...

she was happy...
he knew she was getting married...

he was sad...
she was excited...

and then.. he woke up...
it was 5 o'clock of that winter morning... he was dreaming...

the dream was true...

02/11/05

sOmEtHiNg fRoM eVeRyThiNg !!!

if i had to ever choose between fame and money.. i would give away all the money.. ok.. lets be practical.. a large portion of that money... to take the fame...

i realise that lots of money is not on the list of things i want for myself... just enough to keep myself content and not feel that i am missing out on things important to me should be good enough... i am happy that my expectations from life are not sky high.. they are where i can reach for them... with an effort ofcourse.. but i will...and i will....

i want respect for what i am... i will take scoldings for what i did not do.. only if they are combined with the words which tell me whatever li'il i have done...

i give love and comfort to people i like... and i want to be the best listener they can get... and i do not want anyone to try and be a part of my life unless i want to...

i am selfish and i think about myself before i think about anyone else... i am weak still that i cannot say no to a lot of people coz i think they will be hurt... i do not like it...

at the end of my day i do not want to speak.. i just want to sit on my roof and see the sky... dark... with a few stars... and breeze to kiss my body...

i sleep today looking forward to another beautiful morning... i lie down right now to get up to a new beginning.... i die today to be born again.... i loose today to win tomorrow... i cry today to know what smiles are worth... i smile today because i have cried yesterday...

i will stop for now... love you ma... love you pa... love you all the people i care for... i will make sure you are proud of me one day !!!

01/11/05

SoMeThiNgs !!!

ok... diwali morning...

loads and loads of SMSs...most of them forwards... i feel that we have stopped having that personal touch to our wishes...
it has been reduced to just forwarded emails and forwarded test messages.. andthat occasional picture message...

i still remember the days when i used to spend a good time shortlisting cards for my friends and relatives... and then write their addresses... and then post them... i miss those days...

ok.. no sad talk for today... today is a good day and it should be celebrated with smiles.... and not thinking about things have changes over the last few years...

i have taken about 35 snaps in the last two days and hoping that atleast 10 of them come out the way i wanted...


am sitting in tushar's room right now while he is having his lunch...
and i am writing away to glory on my blog...

there were a few more things that i was thinking of yesterday... have not been able to start any new book, thanks to some useless friends...
they have not given me any ideas so far... however Deepu called today and he gave me some thoughts.. lets see if i can make something out it...
tushar expects me to start reading some toughies... i cannot do that... i have to read something that i associate myself with...
something which is closer to the world that i have known !!!

chetan bhagat has written something which is of that sort and that let me read the two books he has written.. dunno of any other authors... i think i will read "The Inscrutable Americans" by Anurag Mathur.. i will take it from Tushar today...

chatted with a doc yesterday evening.. it was nice... she is a doctor.. and working with a pathlab... and is off to a small vacation today... i wish i could have used these 4 days to travel... its rare that i get four official offs...

anyway...
i will stop now... gotta finish the fanta tushar just gave me... and i have to go buy a shirt too.. white one.. nice one...

and i want to go for a look makeover.. i want to change my hairstyle..
and i want to keep a li'il bit of beard... sounds weird.. does it..

well thats me...

oh... and after i wrote this post.. i could not upload it.. so i went to the market with Tussar.. and bought a shirt for myself... finally i am the proud owner of a white shirt... abhi i will wear it :)

so diwali means new clothes for me too this year :)

Happy Diwali everyone !!!