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28/09/07

Report Card...

Every man or woman has a history...

there is some chemistry

which leads to some physics on the geography

saving themself from some biology to avoid a lot of mathematics later :D

so much for how education helps :P

26/09/07

Who were they playing for?

I am not sure how many of you heard and noticed what the Pakistan Captain Shoaib Malik said at the presentation ceremony...

He apologised to all the Muslims of the world for loosing that final !!!

Strange... was that team playing for muslims of the world or what? so now the non-muslims have won?

what surprises me more is that I did not see anything about this comment anywhere in the news...

anyway... I know for sure there were more muslims celebrating India's victory than the number of muslims in that country... I am very happy that Pakistan lost if this is why they were playing the game...

are there lines dividing us?

When I was in Bangalore this time.. i got into a few discussions about south vs. north...

what ppl in the north think about the ones in south and what do southies think about the northies..

I wanted to write a detailed post about those discussions... and probably offend a few ppl in the process too...

But INDIA won the 20-20 world cup.. and we were celebrating the same way.. the smiles were same... the cheers as loud...

no point drawing a south north line anymore...

let it be one country...

24/09/07

Customers and Service...

And we say that FIAT has a bad after sales service and blah and blah and blah...

Bull Shit..

I bought my car about 3 years ago.. and have been getting it serviced at Dynamic Automobiles noida... i have seen the workshop during its good and bad times...but not once I had an issue with the people there, or the service they were offering...

they changed locations and have moved to a good 15 minutes drive away from home now... and today when i went there to get the car serviced, i was kinda surprised to see the place done up with flowers and all with TATA service boards all around... well that meant that they were going to service tata too.. which is fine.. because TATA and FIAT jointly handle the customers now... anyway.. so i am asked to park my car outside, which kinda meant there were less chances of the service being done because of the opening of the service station and all...

i just walked inside, and was greeted with a number of familiar smiles and concern of what was i doing there... when I told them that i was there for a regular service... they informed me that they were not taking any cars for service today and i might have to come back on wedneday for the service...

But before i moved out... i was stopped and someone went and checked if the car could be serviced... and good news... they would service my car... so as an exception, my car was taken care of just right... and as promptly as it could have been done...

And a couple of managers there also kept a tab on the work being done on the car...

One exceptional example of customer service... from FIAT or lets say its dealers... but I am happy yet again...

back to her...

the same touch...

the same romantic sound...

the same comfort in her company...

no words spoken... non heard either... we knew we were together again...

for once the distance did not make a difference... not talking for so long did not make a difference... while i was away she knew i think about her.. and i am sure she missed me too...

I love her...

and I am sure... Radha would be happy to read this too, only if she could...

:)

21/09/07

Options...


Options..., originally uploaded by ~OM~ ॐ "FoTo-SoFiCaL" Bhardwaj.

Life will always give me many options..

A choice of words when i want to talk or write...

a choice of expressions when I want to communicate...

a choice of friends when i want to laugh or cry or just be...

a choice of places when i want to get away...

Its me who needs to really take a call as to what I want...

hoping that a wrong choice does not screw up things too much !!!! Amen...

19/09/07

Another Just Like Thats...

One day can have so much !!!

Wish I could sometime count and keep the of thoughts, the expressions, the feelings that i go through in one day !!!

there is so much that at times I want to hold on to... with just two hands !!!

13/09/07

OM



OM in color, originally uploaded by Yoii.

Thank you Yoii.. aka Ankit भोपाली Singh for a nice picture of mine... :)

12/09/07

Banglore Bhasad !!!

National Highway 7...

The road from Silk board to Electronic City....
I am in an Infy bus, the engine of which has been idle for about 15 minutes now... and the bus has not moved an inch in those 15 minutes...

And on my left is a sign that says...

Drive SLOW...

What the fuck... I could have shoved that sign-board up the ass of the person who put it there!!!

I wonder what happens to people who need medical attention here!!! I am not sure if the ambulances can reach where they should... and if they do... I am not sure if people can be taken to the hospitals!!!

And there are riots if a film star dies!!!

I love the weather here... and there are enough arrangements made to ensure that it’s the weather that I can enjoy on the roads for most of my day...

0930 hours and there is a "NHAI" project for a elevated highway going on, on the hosur road... and for some reason... even after I tried hard.. I did not see more than 20 people working there... strange feeling it was... there is such a chaos on the road... and still work is being done at its natural pace... I have seen how flyovers have been built in Delhi... and I am so bloody happy that there work happens much faster... however bad or screwed up the city may be!!!

Oh... and for the record... it took me about 2.5 hours today to reach Electronic city from Jayanagar... this is my personal worst in terms of speed... i am not sure how can one spend so many hours on the road just trying to reach office and then back home... when this time could have been used to do something much much better...

God Bless Bangalore!!! And with something more than the excellent weather!!!

10/09/07

News Reader...

News is business now.. and not only news...

Adds taste to the morning cup of teas...

and gives gossip content for the evening cups...

Sting Operations, people run over by buses and cars, murders... its only the names and places that keep changing... the content can remain the same...

interesting it is !!!!


I wish for a time when news also focuses on The good dedicatedly... The media also highlights The good that people are doing in every single edition॥ The local heroes, The doers, The actual leaders... hoping...

Also, how about a sting operation in the open on a traffic signal sometime? stop everyone who crosses the red light and ask them why they do this? or may be one day spend in the autos, asking every auto guy why he cannot be honest... or maybe ask the uncle peeing on the road, why is it that he could not wait till he reached his home?

07/09/07

My world... my thoughts...

There is a lot that keeps building up in the minds... its like a bucket of thoughts that fills up every moment...

and times like these are important...because they let you think about what you want to... what is really worth spending time on.. what is it that you can let go...

I wonder if that is what this kid was doing...

I do that all the time... when i am in My World My Thoughts...

06/09/07

आग

Ok… I have seen BOOM…. And I thought the director/producer was under a heavy influence of drugs right from the moment he thought about making the picture to releasing it…

And not too long ago, I tested my patience with HR’s आप का सुरूर … and I somehow managed to survive the movie till the very end…

But there is something that happened that suddenly made me feel that both the movies mentioned above we nice movies… and no points for guessing that I am talking about Ram Gopal Varma’s आग … no fun in going into the details of the movie, but there are a few bullet items that I would still like to mention…

1. Nisha Kothari, does not look good even with half her clothes off her body. Ok she is a woman, and she got a decent figure... but see her act in this movie and there is li’il about her that is going to be attractive anymore…
2. Urmila Matondkar definitely got a boob job done… there was no other reason why there was song sequence featuring her and Abhishek Bachchan…
3. Ram Gopal Varma, and everyone else who was associated with the direction, production, acting, post processing etc etc tried a li’il too hard to make it different than the Sholey and yet not loose a similarity touch… and they miserably failed… the failure was worse than the Indian Cricket team getting all out on 50 runs… who ironically managed a great win over England in yesterday’s match… super exciting cricket after a very very long time… I miss Saurav Ganguly as the captain of the team for some reason…
4. मौसी was now गंगू Mummy… yes… exactly… “Gangu Mummy” what the fuck … who thought of that title?
5. Ajay Devgan acted pathetically in the movie… he was tried to be funny, and all I could see was a repeat of the hairstyle and the dialogue delivery from the “Phool Aur Kante” days…
6. Zero Chemistry between the friends…
7. Useless dialogues… including the one where गब्बर ... oops... बब्बन , this time, says “कब है दीवाली ”…
8. What was Amitabh Bachchan trying to do? Please someone help me get an answer to that question…
9. साम्भा is थाम्ब … and he was also cleaning the gun when the almost physically challenged बब्बन makes an entry…
10. It took me a while to figure out if बब्बन was coughing or laughing… then I realized that he was laughing…
11. The scene when वीरू threatens to commit suicide because Basanti’s मौसी is not agreeing to the marriage has been repeated as if some third standard kids thought of doing the same scene again with वीरू enacted by हीरो , बसंती enacted by घुंघरू , Mausiji enacted by some “Gangu Mummy”
12. The blind चाचा of the “इतना सन्नाटा क्यों है भाई ” fame is also there... only this time he is pretty aggressive and an angry old man…
13. Rajpal Yadav tries to make up for सूरमा Jagdeep भोपाली in a seemingly funny but very irritating accent…
14. The movie’s plot is based out of a place called Kaliganj in Mumbai… and there are gun fires, huge bomb explosions, AK 47 wars, and not a single Mumbai Policeman around…
15. And have I already talked about the songs? I do not remember even one of them as of now… all I can remember is that all of them came when they were not needed… and useless music!!!
16. There is Mohanlal the southie superstar as well… the poor guy, I do not think, knows that damage he has done to himself by acting in this movie... he has been decent at a few places for sure… but like ठाकुर even he did not have the limbs… they were cut off by babban because the inspector had used the hands to kill his brother…

Overall… a pathetic experience… worse than what it sounds like from the post above…

The only good thing that I personally liked was the lovely use of lights and some intelligent camera angles at times… Photography benchmarks… good ones…

I think Ram Gopal Varma should give a public apology for making this movie... the tremendous caliber that I think he has was WASTED in this his आग … not sure it caused some heat on the boxoffice…but it sure did leave a burning sensation somewhere inside me… Acidity maybe!!!

Decided....



I have to buy a Royal Enfield... the sooner the better !!!!

Media Centre - Infosys Banglore

I am travelling to banglore for two weeks starting this monday to 23rd...

And I have the weekend of 15th to do my September Trip... suggestions please...

05/09/07

Choice of Expression....

Two friends...

One Angry...

One far Away...

The angry one can either take it all out on the one who is far away because of something he said or probably did not...

Or

The angry one can tell the one far away what really happened and resolve the matter...

Chai Ki Dukaan...

Something that i have always loved... every place I go in India... i find one of these... muah to INDIA...

02/09/07

Language is like SEX...

Greenwich... or gren-ich....

This discussion still has been going on... Arobindo wants to sue his school because he was never told that its Gren-ich.... and because of the fact that he would have to face issues when he travels the UK....

I think language is like SEX... people speak/do it the way they like it...

There are no set rules... there are some basic guidelines, called grammar, etc etc are there... but as an individual you decide what you like the best...

so enjoy ... the language too :)

cheers...