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Been a not so good week so far!!! muscle pulls, sprains, pain and just feeling dull!

Meuzik

is the quickest and simplest way to have an out of body experience!!!!

and I am going for an out of city experience!

ta!

Hello Ween!

Ok Day at work on Friday

Bad Evening with a repeat muscle pull... and temporary reduction of movement around the house for a few hours with much uncomfortable pain!!!

Worse Evening with a totally ridiculous movie called "Management"... what a piece of crap!!!

Better ending to the day... sleeping while some movie is on... not even realizing when you slide into a deep sleep is one of the nicer ways to fall asleep!

Not so good start to the day... waking up because of a strange dream at 4 in the morning...

And making it better by spending the day at The Office (watching all 28 episodes of season 5 back to back, with a Japanese movie for a break), getting a 1965 edition of a photography magazine, and buying a Tie for myself.


So all in all, this Halloween turned out to be full of Tricks and Treats for me!!!! purrfect!!!

Happy Halloween Everyone, from the Chaiwala, and the Chai Ki Dukaan!

The Pumpkin I carved for the Halloween!

I pressed the 7 button again!!!

Time and again I have been reminded of a few things!!! one of them is that I cannot rely on luck!!!

but no! I have to and I did it again!

I rely on luck and not my work at times, and THAT is my mantra of failure!

its funny how I realize that every time I am depend on luck! seriously!!!

Anyway!!! I love this song! enjoy!



बोलो देखा है कभी तुमने मुझे उड़ते हुए?

just can't get enough of it!

Gorgeous !

What is it that makes women look amazingly beautiful when the breeze plays around with their hair? and when they decide to just come in front of the face?

I live in a windy part of the city in Milwaukee, and every morning when I come to the office, I see a number of them walking, with the hair freely tossed around by the wind... (I guess they have not started feeling too cold yet, good for me :) ) and they just look gorgeous !

I say...

Never say No, coz you Never Know !

Just notes

I have never liked meetings... more often than not, not much comes out of them as a result except some sleepy heads, lost faces, messy notes etc... and looks like I am going to be attending/driving/managing meetings for atleast 80% of my time, if not any less !!!

I am not used to this... but so far the account looks pretty bright for me personally... at the same time there is much going on in the small head of mine ! Not having some of my friends around to talk it out, is bad !!!

Chai Ki Dukaan would see much reduced activity from me in the next few days, while I try to settle down in Milwaukee... Catch you later and thanks for reading !

phlipp side...

The problem with being funny is that not many can take you seriously anymore !!!

Bad Mood Day Prescription

1. Talk nonsense or sense with friends but avoid a serious discussion
3. Discuss a future plan
6. go through old pictures
8. Figure out something that you don't understand
2. Give someone a surprise
4. Do something nice for yourself
9. Don't sit on the bed and watch TV
7. Flirt
5. Cook
10. Get over the bad mood :)

Some more additions that I personally liked (from the comments)...

12. Gardening (do something in the garden)
32. Drive ( This has always helped me too... Gosh, I miss my car and the music so much)

I am listening to
Tu hai Aasmaan mein ( Jhankaar Beats ) ... still in love with this song even after 5 years...

and I want to listen to Nirvana (Come as you are)

some more tips... take as many as you want per day even without a bad mood :)

11. Do something with your hands... gardening was one... cooking is another... maybe making clay objects too...
19. Sing loudly to your favorite music... My choice of songs would be Sa Re Ga Ma ( from Chupke Chupke), Baajoooooo (Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi), Jaaneman Jaaneman Tere ye do nayan, Do Dewaane Shahar mein, Zindagi Aa raha hoon main, Hum Bekhudi mein Tumko Pukare Chale gaye... and lots more...
54. Dance

! out of here now !!!

...

To the dish of Hope, add a bit of Patience, and garnish it with Faith !!! and Serve Hot !

Yummmmmmmmy !!!

Itchy...

There is something bothering me... and its bothering me too much ...

and for the last few weeks...

In between I also get vibes that there is something wrong and I don't know what... something like the itch I cannot scratch !

I am not sure but I guess its the lack of travel travel wala travel...

The travel that I do for no reason... I have to get out of here... switch off for a couple of days.. or maybe just one, a couple of good hours should be good enough too for me...!!!

Its TIME !!!

let me figure out what is the best I can do !

sticky note

Ok lets make is simpler !!!

Only two types of things:

1. Which you have a control on...

3. Which you cannot control...

For the third,

Leave it to the bigger better powers !!!

For the first,

Do what you can, and then leave it to the bigger better powers...

Wondering where is the number 2? that is the third type of things !!!

Having said that and done that !!!

Some things go terribly wrong, only because they have to get better...

God Uncle ! Dekh rahe ho na? Phir se maje mat lena !!! Achcha nahin hoga.. bata raha hoon !

BREAKING NEWS at NOON...

~ Termites in bank lockers...

~ 7th April is a No-Horn(y) Day... Big B takes up the initiative and says that he will not honk on 7th April... and a reporter, who seems to be very smart, asks him, "Sir, where do you think in Mumbai, the horns are used the most?" Jiyo mere laal !!!!

~ Maruti Car Tyre Bursts in Mumbai...

~ Has Amitabh done anything for Mumbai?

~ Backward classes insulted in Gujrat... unacceptable text in textbooks... Protests planned...

~ Vijaya Malaya spends 8 Crores on the Balaji Temple... 5 Crore ka Panja Diya !!!

This day of the year...

Reasons to be happy if you are single...

• You have a free evening...
• You don't have to go through the pain of selecting just the right gift which does not look like a cute white teddy bear with a heart on it or a box of chocolates which is in a heart shaped box or something which is not colored red
• You will not shell out twice even thrice the money for Roses that suddenly become very important...
• You will not be sitting in a restaurant and feel like being in the sea of couples some of them are happy, some of which just there, some which are only looking at others' properties
• You don't have to do something if you don't want it, and because the world does it
• You will not be thinking, wish I was single again :)

Reason to be happy if you are a couple...

• You got another day together...
• You can finally spend sometime thinking about how to express (unless you are too lazy and end up buying a few roses, a teddy, a box of chocolates and the loads of other things which are more common than air)
• You don't have to through the thoughts about why you are still single
• You are not looking at every girl/boy/woman/man who is walking alone hoping that he/she looks at you and there is a chemistry that builds up right there and then

Why is it that we need a specific day to celebrate affection ( i am choosing not to call it love, because I personally feel that its a word, not just any word, but still a word which is the results of hundreds of other emotions)... so coming back to my thought... why do we need one day?

Men always hope they will get laid... does not matter if its valentine's day or not... only on valentine's day they feel that every other women they are going to see is hunting for a guy !!!

Women always don't want to get laid only because its a specific day... ok almost always !!!

This day the earth or the air or the mountains or the stars are at no specific position which would increase the feeling of being loved or love someone more ( ok ok... i used that word; did not know what would fit better there)

At the end of the day...
its the Rose dealers, chocolate companies, restaurants etc etc which take away the love that you have showering on your guy/girl only because its the 14th of Feb...

I someone is really special to me, I rather make them feel special every morning when they wake up...
and every evening when they call it a day...



Also I have a plan... when my Chai ki Dukan opens in its real form... on valentine's day the entry of couples ( like only two people who are madly in love) would be banned...

Come with
Friends
Parents
Grandparents
Kids

and I will assure you one of the best days at the Chai Ki Dukaan...


Also keeping in mind the chichora guy I am... I would not be surprised if the song list of the day includes...

Ek Chumma tu mujhko udhaar dai-de... aur badle mein up bihaar lai le...
Meri Chamiya tu haan mein jawab dai-de... aur badle mein dilli punjab lai-le

and...

Kisi Disco mein Jayen... aur hotel mein khayein...
koi dekh le ne hamein yahan... chalo ghoom ke aayein humm

Chalo ishq ladayein chalo ishq ladayein... chalo ishq ladayein sanam...

and...

Bidi Jalaiye... jigar se piya... jigar ma badi aag hai...

and...

Sapne mein milti hai, o kudi meri sapne mein milti hai...

and...

loads of songs where you don't have to worry how you are looking when you dance :)


ok.. so coming back to the point...

enjoy your day... make someone feel special today... and make sure you make them feel special tomorrow, and day after tomorrow, and day after day after tomorrow, and the next Sunday... and the next Monday and Thursday as well...

Do that !!! its IMPORTANT... more important that you know it is...

Continued from the Pas(s)T !!!

Its not really the feelings or emotions or situations, but the people associated with them that leave a certain taste in the mouth towards them and we end up having an opinion in general...

Statements like

All men are the same...
Whats the Point...
Why do women have to spend so much time doing make up...
Bosses Suck

are all generalizations which get substantiated because of similar individual experiences, a lot of which revolve around relationships...

I feel sorry to write this, but I also end up making quite a typical fool of myself every single time I start liking someone...

I like to surrender, let myself loose, expose the weaker parts of my personality, look for support and assurance, whenever I start liking someone... and more often than not, I end up like an idiot watching himself do all this...

I either over do things and try to give whatever I have, and like a normal human being, EXPECT myself to be treated like THE ONE; or the women who cannot understand how to handle me are bigger idiots than me.. whatever the case maybe.. it all ends up in a disaster and pain...

There ends the second part of the post that I had written about why I am not too good with relationships :P

But still, like I believe... Hope is my word !!! and God Uncle my friend, who ensures that people like Tushar, Bindiya, Ruchi, Bharti, Arobindo, Abhishek, Rains, Monika and a few more, fill-in for him and be my angels !!!

बोलो किस्को Thank You बोलूं? Rather... here is a hug for you people :D :) will Thank You later !!!

What's the Point?

This question at times stares me in the face...

Whats the point?

~ In thinking of a day after tomorrow when you are not even sure what happens tomorrow?

~ In thinking of a dream you have, when you know the reality today is a different world from you dream?

~ In giving yourself a hope, a reason to live through today and tomorrow and day after with all that you have?

Right, whats the point? in trying, if you know nothing is going to happen right away?

I don't know whats the point!!!

and I don't know what to say, when someone asks me this question, Whats the point Prashant?

Thankfully I don't ask this question a lot... I think there is a point... if I believe in something, I don't care if it happens today or tomorrow... I will still give it what I can... I will live with some faith, some hope.. and I would make an effort... and not back off by asking myself whats the point !!!

Today I am closer to a few dreams that have been a part of my days, thanks to not letting this question contol my actions !!!


Thank you Uncle God for making me feel that There IS a Point !!! Just keep letting me hold on to that small thing called FAITH, even if I have darkness right in front !!!

End of the Week'end

Fukk'ed up noodles, going down the drain...

Some rice with curd, helped ease the pain...

The Shawshank Redemption and Ned Kelly on the screen...

Friday's over and Saturday comes clean...

A lazy day on the couch, a call home, no bath and internet...

Saturday is when I get my food and keep it where it should be kept...

Finished the dinner and about to rest...

Abhi calls and asks me to come over, the sub-zero temprature outside is ON for a test...

I miss a train, and the next one's late...

Cold winds, empty platform, nothing to do for 40 minutes... oh c'mon thats not fate !

OK !!! enough!!! That's IT for the poetic dude !!!

This is till Saturday night... Sunday... NOTHING done... too good... waking up at 1100 hrs, saw three episodes of The Great Indian Laughter Challange back to back and laughed my ass out a number of times in a long time... loved watching it...


Evening just walked around, went to a nice restaurant in Kensington, owned by Abhishek's friend Shahid, had amazing masala tea after a nice dinner... and took the last train home...

Walking back home at midnight on a footpath which is slippery because of frost on it was fun... even jumped and hopped around on my way... it was fun being with myself...

I think I saw a FOX as well on my way near my house... it was not a DOG, it was not a cat... I don't know of any other animals around...

Should go off to sleep now.. have a long week ahead and a nice break next week when I go snow hunting up north in this island...

Hope the coming week is blessed !!! Happy English Diwali :)

Looking in the Mirror...

I am wondering how easy is it for someone to

Set an expectation
Forget all about it at his/her own convenience
Get Angry when someone reminds him/her of it
Making sure that the other person feels like (s)he has done a mistake by speaking his/her mind
Coming back and almost laughing at him/her, while justifying what was done with proper and valid artifacts

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I don't call a lot of people friends... I don't like to... because I know I cannot do justice to that term... its an underrated word, for all I know... So I have a few friends, and a lot of people I know, and some are somewhere between the I know and are friends area...

When I call someone a friend, it basically adds a whole lot of responsibility on me to ensure that I intentionally or otherwise don't do things which would hurt them...

Not that I can always prevent myself from doing such things, but I, from my past, know that I would be genuinely sorry for hurting anyone of the people I call friends...
And I do make it a point to make it up to them either by saying sorry and meaning it, or by doing something that would help me make it up to them...

I would not like to first hurt a friend, and then at the next opportunity go back and justify what i did... If I ever did that, I shouldn't have done that... I know it feels bad when first you are hurt and then made fun of...

I am sorry...