QuEsTiOn(s) MarK(eD)...

i was thinking about writing about how exciting the last weekend was...

two days full of activity... and then a thought came to my mind.. which i think needs to go in first..

• Is your physical closeness with a person a scale of your emotional feelings?

( for me its not.... how close i can get physically would not help anyone measure how emotionally attached i am with the person i am physically close to...)

• Is it necessary that if you are physically close to someone you are emotionally attached to the person too?

(it might happen... and there are good chances that it does... however there is nothing that can guarantee this... you can be physically close just because you want to be... )

• Can you be totally not-physical with someone and still be very emotional?

(yes... totally....this is what happens when you are friends OR this is something that can happen when the case is of a TRUE LOVE; huh !!!)

• Can you be physical with someone and not be emotional at all? And if you are not emotional all this while.. does that make you a bad person?

(yes... most of the time in such cases i would be physically close to the person because I am very comfortable in the company of that person....; or the other case is... that i just want to be physically close to the person without anything else coming into picture... and about me being a bad person... till the time i am not lying to the person... i am good...)

Everyone who reads the above questions probably would have different answers to them...

Well...

ThE BiG Q !!!

Something that I am pondering over for a while now.....

shift ?

sLeEp TaLk !!!

wake up...

• potty...
• god...
• super woman..
• all purpose...
• t shirt..
• million pigeons...
• sex...
• sunset...
• aravalies...
• 2 minutes to drive...
• brush...
• 25...
• 8 floors...
• 4 balconies...
• brother...
• fart...
• idiot...
• naturally...
• alone...
• bed...
• harry potter
• mp3
• discman
• pillow
• dig
  

i am still sleeping....

aNiMaL iNsTiNcTs !!!

we talked about how cewl would it be to have some animal organs....

something like you could eat whatever you can.. and then chew like cows do...

well.. how awkward would it be to have 4 stomachs outside your body... you might also see a trend where these stomachs would have clothes designed for them...

and then came something very very interesting...

she wants to have a tail....

the first use that i could think of was... that while she was making out with someone.. and he wanted to go away.. she could just grab him by the tail and bring him back towards her...

and also she could use the tail to hit the guys who make passes at her in buses trains and other places...

and she is one person who usually visualises what is being talked about.. so i am sure..
she has already thought of and visualised the following situations...

• she hogging all day... saving it in one of her stomachs... and chewing it in the evening while reading her favorite book...
• she making out with her boyfriend... his phone ringing.. he moving away... and she catching him using her tail..and bringing him back...
• she standing in a bus, and hitting the hell out of the guy who just made a pass...
• she flaunting her well groomed tail in front of all her friends...

that brings me to something more serious then that conversations...

i read somewhere about what i am going to write next.. when.. i do not remember...

• learn patience from a donkey...
• learn cleaning from a vulture..
• learn cunningness from a fox...
• learn memory from a elephant..
• learn faithfulness from a horse...
• and a few more qualities from leopards, lions etc etc etc...

comments anyone.....

No PhoNe CaLLs !!!

starting today...

i am not going to attend any phone calls...

enough is enough..

oh.. i meant i am not going to attend any phone calls while i am driving...

why...

well because i am too concerned about the safety of the people whos life is at stake when i am talking to someone on the mobile phone..

yeah right..

no...

because that is the only time when i get to listen to something that keeps me happy...
i mean how cool is it when someone says to me... "come to meeeeeeeee...bhooool jayen saara jahan...." and the phone rings... aaaaaaaaargh !!! nai chalega.. aise to bilkul nai chalega...

my music.. my collections... songs that i choose to hear.. not all the crapp along with a few songs on the radio...

so today onwards....

when i am driving... i am enjoying it more with my songs.... and nothing else.. however a few exceptions remain... like people who make me smile !!!

why am i getting so aaarrghed because of the interruptions... well.. you have to listen to how music sounds in my car before you decide !!!

oh.. and thanks to richa.. i got the following image for myself... :D

LaSt WeEkEnD !!!

My Last Weekend's Fotos are up on Flickr...

check them out by clicking HERE

or...

check out the FLICKR Badge in the right bar on the blog..

have fun enjoying my trip :) the way i did :)

20k and sTiLL GoiNg StRoNg !!!

Radha completed her 20000 kms with me yesterday... and i am sure there is a long way to go ahead as well....

the moment of joy :)

during the last one and a half years she has been the best friend i could have...

somewhere between Chamba and Dhanaulti on our first long drive, April'05

• she was there when i needed her...
• she was the one i have loved and i still do...
• she makes me feel safe...
• she makes me feel at home...
• she makes me relax...
• she makes me reach where i want to...
• she is hott and sexy...
• she has been making me live, and not just exist...
  

nainital, the longest long drive together, 4-days, driving for 12 hrs every day, sept'05

`~ love you baby ~`

is there more that i need from my valentine :) i guess not !!!

HoW 2 B SuCcEsS-FoOL !!!

how to be success-fool at work !!!

ever wondered.. here is how...

• When you do something... make sure a lot of noise is created... the entire world knows about it somehow or the other...
• Make sure that you look and sound like the boss when you write an email
• When you talking on the phone with someone, asking them to do something.. and telling them a point.. make sure atleast 10 people around you are forced to listen to you because you are talking too loudly... well that makes them know that you are the boss !!!
• when you have to give gyan to someone... just forget all the good that they have done @ work.. and then teach them a lesson...
• make sure that you act as a filter of information... keep the control with yourself.. do not ever let anyone get credit for what they do.. coz if they do.. then you are not going to get the credit..
• even if you leave from the office early.. make sure that you log back in to your email at odd hours and send the important emails at that time... and that includes writing emails on a sunday too...
• make sure that before you leave from office.... you make a few calls from the landline to a few important people so that they know you are in the office.. working late nights and very hard...

there are few more things that you can do... however i would enlighten the world about them a li'il later...

doing or not doing these things is totally the readers discretion... please do not come to me and tell me that the tricks did not do wonders for you @ office...

OuTtA HeRe !!!

I am getting out of delhi ... for two days... in another 20-30 minutes....
back is kinda sore... but i will take care..

shimla...
kufri...
amritsar...
nainital...
mossourie...

umm.. donno...
lets see....

i still do not know where i would go... but i should be back sunday night !!!

till then.. Adios :)

ThE DeEp "SeA" or ThE HiGh "MoUnTaiN" !!!

When i was near the sea... i had that urge to talk to someone...

and i felt that a beach is a where you can get into a conversation with someone... just walk next to the sea.... and be together... romance... true...

and conversation never necessarily means talking all the time...

and also have a lot of fun with a lot of friends :) total masti...

@t the same point of time, i was so very comfortable looking at the sunset alone... i really did not need anyone around me then...

on my way back to the mainland from elephanta caves.. Dec'05

mountains, give me a high !!! a high where i would like to be alone given a choice... can look at that mountains and the valleys for an entire day !!! a different high altogether...

its kinda hard to choose between what i like more.. the sea or the mountains... but i guess if i really have to take a call... i would like to be on a mountain... sitting at the edge...

above nainital, september'05 (click to enlarge and see where I am sitting :D)

Ha hA !!!

Got this in an email today.... it had a lot of other photus as well.. but this one is the best !!! just could not control my laughter....


oh... and no offence to Shahrukh's fans.... but i'd surely like to see him in a double role like this one... can this be Duplicate Part-II

:D

kEoLaDeO NaTiOnAL PaRk !!!

take a print of this foto if you plan to visit..this might just help...

Saturday 04-Feb-06 Afternoon... mom and dad come back from work around 1330 hours... i was still not ready... and it took me another 45 minutes to brush.. and take a bath.... 1430 hrs and 27 kms after i topped up my tank we left for Bharatpur...

till palwal the traffic was a pain.. and after that i could just cruise along... this is the time when i realise that my comfort zone lies in 90-100 kmph.. and i never push my car over that !!! crossed Mathura, and as i thought i'll have to, i took a U-turn from after a flyover and turned left to start a journey 40 kms in distance to Bharatpur from Mathura... what pathetic road... atleast 10 kms on that 40 km road were totally SAD !!! however , i drove slow... and we managed to reach Bharatpur around 1830 hrs...



a small hunt for a decent hotel which involved the empty RTDC Saras and a few more, ended at the Pelican... so we checked in.. had a light dinner... nice tawa chapaties and dal with some salad... and went off to sleep... as usual i had warned everyone... bro, mom and dad that i am going to wake them up @ 0430hrs... so they better sleep early... i and bro kept talked and managed to doze off only around 2330 hrs.. but thanks to the alarm.. i was up @ 0430 and ready after taking a bath @ 0515 hrs.. this is when i woke up Ashu.. and mom and dad... it took me sometime to wake up the attendents @ the hotel and get everyone to be ready...



we finally managed to be out of the hotel by 0630 hrs.. Laxman Singh the Rickshaw guy and our guide for the day was outside, when i met him first... the hotel guys had asked him to come over for us... so mom and dad in the rick.. and me and Ashu were still to figure out what we wanted to do... i wanted to take a cycle.. and Ashu was of the same opinion... so we took two decent looking cycles for the day and joined mom and dad....



there is not much that I can write about the birds that i saw except that they were tooooo many in number.. and too much in variety too... and i loved myself for taking the nikon coolpix from boss and the tamron 28-200 lens from Ankur... and i am feeling bad that non of my friends has a lens which has more zoom... coz 200mm is for sure not good enough for Bharatpur... saw the foreigners who were there with lenses which were atleast a foot in length... God knows what specs they were...




Deepika had suggested that we should eat Bread Pakoras in the Canteen inside... and to my surprise, he had stopped making them !!! i think when she went the last week.. she must have said something to him which made him stop with the Break Pakodas.. hehehe... anyway... we looked around a li'il more and saw a lot of more birds... from all over the world, china, egypt, taiwan, japan, siberia.. and whatever else !!!

personally i think one day is not enough for Bharatpur Bird Santuary.. better known as the Keoladeo National Park... you need to spend at least 2 full days inside to enjoy that place.. which is something that I am going to do, after i manage to get a better cam and a better set of lenses !!!



the journey back home started around 1330 hrs... via Brindavan, and enroute i had some amazing lassi, ofcourse in Vrindavan and some mithai.. yummm... i love that place for the kinda food that i can get to eat there... most of you would not believe me when i will tell you that me and aro have been to mathura and Vrindavan just to eat the indian junk food that we can there :)

ok.. back to this trip... we had lunch @ the SagarRatna on our way back... the sad part is that the car had to be parked on the opposite side, on the highway itself which was not too good... because there is no cut for a few kilometres before and after the resort !! never mind...



here is the summary of the place/trip etc...

Place : Bharatpur... The Keoladeo National Park...
Best Time to Visit... November End to Feb... December last few weeks being the best...
Accomodation... anything between 300 bucks for a doubleroom to 3200 bucks per night...
Minimum Days needed to know the place and enjoy it... 2
Best way/Route to reach there.. if going from Delhi... and if the group is above 5 people hire a cab.... if you are 2-3 people can drive too... the MAthura Road is a very nice road, however the 40 odd kms from Mathura to Bharatpur is going to have a few kilometers of really bad road... You have to take a U-turn after the second flyover, once you cross a JaiGuruDev Temple on the Mathura Road...
Inside the Park...
Entry is 25 buks per person ( Indians) and Rs. 5 if you are a student ( so carry ur Id if you have one)
A Rickshaw is available for 50 bucks an hour.. the Rick-Guys are decent guides too.. or else you can hire a guide for 70 bucks an hour ( for a group of 1-5 people)
I got the cycles for Rs. 25 per cycle for the whole day.. ( Make sure you try cycling a few meters before you choose your bike for the day)
What to see inside... birds.. lots of them.. and more !!!

It was a lovely weekend trip... and you can check out someof the Photos that I took by clicking HERE !!!

iT'S NoT dAt BaD !!!

she was upset...

and struggling with a lot of questions....

things at office were not too good... a boss who was good with playing games... and she working very hard for what she deserved... things at home not very good either.. she did not want to marry... and her parents were after her life to get married...

was there any decision that she could take herself.. and be happy about it...

yes...

she could make a phone call...

she did..

and she knew that Tanya was crying when she picked up the phone.. Tanu was a dear friend of hers... and it made her all the more upset to hear her crying like that... now what !!! she thought !!!

Did she got into a fight with Raghav again... he was one helluva bastard.. dunno why Tanya was still going around with that ass... she would have ran her car over him if she could.... it was a small maruti 800 but then what the heck... it would still make a lot of damage... atleast the intention was clear !!!

she calmed her down... heard the entire story yet again of how Tanya could not stay with this guy.. and how she could not stay away either... she loved him... and he said he loved her too.. but to understand this love hate relationship of Tanya and Raghav was very tough... tougher then dealing with her boss... and getting into discussions about marriage at home..

*life is strange... it gets you into a tough situation.. and then suddenly makes you forget everything with a tougher one.. and a new task to do.... life's not that bad*... she told Tanya... and kept the phone down...

the windows of her car suddenly wanted to roll down... and the air suddenly wanted to rush in and move through her hair... and the music suddenly wanted to be louder...

not because Tanya cried... or because Raghav was an ass... and not because things at her office or home were not good..

but because this moment, this life deserves to be celebrated !!!

:) jUsT lIkE dAt

THIS !!!!!!

and then.... after a few minutes....

THIS !!!

& c how obviously happy

I AM
:D

I LOVE YOU BABY....

Ye !!! yE !!!

i have a new site up !!! actually just another blog....

but it comes up with a thought at the back of my mind....

with this is going to start a round of conversations...and some learning is going to come my way.. and everyone's who reads that one...


wish me luck...

everyone..

ye !!!!

p.s. just found out that it needs some tweaking.. will introduce the page soon to all !!!

d'FuN @ FicCi !!!

have not been in the state of writing anything for the last few days...

monday was a very very bad day... i realised that i had been working for over an year and a half at the same salary...and with every growing work pressure... and was not adding any value to myself as a person or a professional...

the only thing i am learning is how to work longer !!! thats IT...

anyway... i am kinda out of that thought right now.. totally no... it would stay till i get what i deserve, here.. or somewhere else...

a true effort was made to get myself out of this mode.. and during the process i talked about creating a website... making a travelogue.. buying a digiSLR... going for a weekend trip somewhere atleast once a month... and the following came out as the next few trips...

• Bharatpur Bird santuary...
• Dehradun and Dhanaulti...
• Gwalior...
• Rishikesh...
• Vaishno Devi...

the first two in February.. and the next 3 in march !!!!

ok... not writing about this anymore...

1998.... a group of 10 odd guys on the terrace of one of these fellas... and rehearsing a play... they started in the morning around 0900 hrs.. and by the time they finished @ 1700 hrs.. everything had changed... the script was different.. the characters different.. and play much more entertaining then before...

the next day... they moved to FICCI Golden Jublie Auditorium, Mandi House New Delhi to present that play in the college fest.. and as expected it was a success... fun, laughter, tears because of that laughter.. everything was there....

cut to 2006... 28th Jan... i was there on that stage again...

the same stage where I had hosted 2 college shows... almost 8 hours on the stage both times.. and acted once in 1998.. when Ankur Wahal and Taru Vohra (i miss her a lot... at times i wish we were still together... anyway) hosted the show !!!

and the occasion this time... RT eServices completes 10 years.. and IBM-bharti Team was to give a small performance there... minutes before the show, me aditya Lalit and Shubhika were still struggling with the ideas.. we had absolutely no clue wat to do... we had to be on the stage in less then an hour for atleast 20 minutes.. and we had not prepared a single dialogue.... phew.. what a feeling that was...

ok... and what do we do... we decide to do what we were struggling with outside the Audi on the stage itself.. the ideas were good.. they were funny... and we were not able to reach an end point to any of the ideas... so a total disaster was expected... and here is how things turned out just just fine...

no role plays...
no characters...

4 people sitting around and discussing about the time they do not have.. and how they are going to present a skit.. various idea discussed.. funny... what if a Gorkha takes a call in the call centre.. or Shatrughan Sinha asks a customer to shut down his PC... or better... what if Ravana comes and starts taking calls in a call centre.. agent efficiency is going to scale new heights...

it was a blast... everyone enjoyed.. and then i had two small poems which i find hilarious and a ditto response from the janta sitting in front gave as well !!!!

so all in all.. it was a super hit.. and we came out winners !!!! good work Lalit.... Aditya.. Puneet... Shubhika.. and the director/actor... Prashant :)

FICCI has been great !!!

4th time i was there.. and i did not dissapoint myself... and somewhere inside me i woke up someone who has enjoyed all his college life doing something or the other related to stage... just wondering what if i had continued that way....

or i had done something that i really wanted to do.. and not what the world thought was good for a computer sciences grad...


where could i have been !!!

here in this office.. typing on a Laptop....

or travelling somewhere.. taking pictures... and sending them back to my editor...

or somewhere on the stage.. speaking dialogues that wake up souls of the audience...

time to remember some of my best pals in theatre...

Kapil Sharma...
Mags.. one of my best friends..
Gaurav Marwaha...
Ankur Wahal.. its hard to beat his timing of comedy... and his direction.. very good..
Tushar.. he was the kaneez in the play in 98
Ankur Agarwal... he was in Jamia @ that time.. and continued to be with Sangwari... a small theatre group after i left working on the stage...
Nimisha.. meri choti :) or 2by2 as called by Ankur and the gang...

what beautiful days... i am missing college :(