Roadie

Well I surely am a serious movie buff but a strict no-no to soaps and stick to my quota of news n cricket matches..... but these days, its a different story altogether,I am hooked to a reality TV program being aired on MTV.... yes you guessed it right I yours truly am addicted to MTV roadies.... well on closer look myriads of reasons come to the fore.... maybe it pleases me to hilt in the sense that there are people who are more screwed up than me.
well my friends would reason that I have a great liking for the F-word..... sick!
Last one month has been quite hectic....but now its peace all around.....I am wondering what is the name of life force that has kept me going....
so long....au revoir

Amused?

Seconds, minutes, hours,days, months, years....................
As they add up to the other, so do the thoughts culminating in our actions and actions define the very fibre of our character.
Character is what we do when nobody is looking.So true and amusing.
Every day brings with itself the joy of living....now I see some skeptics frowning and grimacing at the last statement since this space lately has not been letting out any positive vibes.But hey everybody gets to do a U-turn....don't they?.......
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Sometimes when you fall, and when I say fall that means you hit the ground really hard.But we all have a clock somewhere built inside us that makes us tick letting us admire and amuse about things around us.
When you admire something...that something can be anything embodying all that is beautiful in this world from the banal to the ethereal.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
au revoir!

L'IF'E

I came across a one liner from the Beatle-John Lennon.....Life is what happens ,when you are busy making plans.
So true ........seems that the Sgt. peppers man IMAGINEd himself to the meaning of life....It can't get more exact than what he told....As the bard quoteth...life is a stage and we are all actors......Have you wondered the word "life" in itself is quite complex with IF in its middle....a beautiful complex four-letter word....err this here is not meant as a cuss word to be hurled at somebody...well things happen when you think evrything is in control which turns ur world topsy turvy......the line from the movie CRASH cant get more apt than this-If you think you know who you are, you have no idea...
Seems this is the right time to introspect......bizzare are the ways of destiny....destiny guides us to what we are supposed to do....not undermining one's KARMA here....
time to go and think...adios

Himesh reshammaiya and News channels deadly combo

In last few days after the exams, I have done a lot of catching up on TV watchin' in terms of making up for all the lost time....tuning into Mtv is great fun......9 times out of 10 ,you will be listening to a himesh number.....whatever....everybody panning him ....but If that is really the case then his numbers wont have been ruling the roost on chartbusters.....I,hereby, declare solemnly, I m a great fan of Himesh,even if it means being uncool.......who cares about being cool.....since 95% of people in this world think they are cool , I would rather be uncool......period.

Coming to news channels,ahhhhhh.....no I dont think you want me to continue....but anyways I will continue ............I just tuned into a program being aired on a news channel.....and gosh there was a set of famous personalities.....wait for the fun part....that urban India has become very sensitive and have become forthright in fighting for a cause they believe in.....uffffffff...cut to chase...this was based on the fact that a news channel got inundated by a lot of text messages in support of Jesicca Lal ........ahhh this is what you call sensitivity ....please give me a break..... this is nothing but a fruit of what at best can be described as pub hopping,brand crazy,multiplex bred sms generation. The news channels are mostly responsible for all this crap being dished out to viewers .....maybe they are catering to this particular section of the populace... maybe its all about the ECONOMICS...there are more vibrant issues to be covered...to fight against...dont get me wrong....what was done in Jessica lal murder case was wrong....but there is lot of wrong doing going just under our noses...they need to get the point that news is news not a Sas bahu mind numbing daily soap......If this is sensitivity that its time we get ourselves desensitized....au revoir

Zidane-the soccer GOD

balayé par le son hypnotisant de manie du football et de jeu de Zidane été dur pour penser l'abot toute autre chose en cela vacances ....errrr désolé means sorry....for starin' out in french...my french affair is just not gettin' over(google language tool works woder)
the 1st line in french means this..................swept by soccer mania and Zidane's mesmerizing play its been hard to think about anything else in this vacations .....I have not seen Leonardo Davinci paint Monalisa neither have I witnessed Keats reciting poetry...but the way last night Zidane was conjuring magic on the field, for the people who have watched, the emotions it brang out must not be any different than experienced when in the presence of first two maestro....his play was like a sonata composed by Beethoven....ahhhhh it is cliched but i will say it He is the GOD even the pope thinks so no matter even if he is GERMAN.....maybe idol worshipping snatches away the power to think objectively.....It was just amazing...one can look at it time and again and savour it for years to come...Hope its champagne flowing and les blues hold sway...carpe diem

Apocalypse

Sometimes one feels as though all the life forces have been drained out and you feel down and out...well for me its usually the time when results are out....gosh I hate this feelin'....well i cant understand why in this wide world this happens to me....exams to acche hote hain par results...khair you dont want to know the murky details....writin' this blog...a thought just crossed my mind....where will i figure on top 100 loosers of all time....hope I am the topper there(at least make me stand out somewhere GOD)......I always wonder how come there are people who have all the riches,all the good things in life at their disposal....as GABBAR SINGH would say....BAHUT NAAINSAAFI HAI...
P.S. this blog space is not meant for winners,positive people...no offence intended...

Reservations

There was a king who was very just and kind towards his people used to help his people in every way possible.....no prejudice...equality of opportunity..for everyone was his motto....Soundss like a good story.....SNAP out of your dream then....circa 2006....this so good story is being parodied and played out to full houses under satirical so called mass protests....you are cordially invited to come and watch .....the mother of all shows-the magnum opus..RESERVATIONS '06 alias MANDAL 2...

One thing I dont understand is that after more than 50 years of independence the politicians take notice of the downtrodden...Congress which governed INDIA for most of its post independence period could not see that before...apart from the scruples involved and the dirty vote bank politics..this is a travesty of rights when you gauze deeper in the ethos of thw whole thing being implemented.....for the record USA which is the most developed country in the world doesnt have any such provisions...well i have tried to follow all the protests going around...and came across a very interesting bit of information...funny as it may seem...AIIMS offers a seat every year for specialisation in HAEMOONCOLOGY....after the reservations are implemented it will be offered to a general candidate every four years...with such a course it is obvious the best of the brains get to do it...think!

One of my friends who is in IIT was tellin' me the other day that all the candidates who get into IITs very 4 years if by luck...there comes a candidate who is an eight pointer...this is hearsay..and seems a bit stretched but maybe it has some grains of truth....maybe its time for our BHAGYAVIDHATAs to think that for the sake of equality of opportunity should we compromise on talent, being competent enough to take the course...maybe or maybe not.....

signing off on a bit of a sadder note...HOPE INDIA BECOMES A SUPER POWER...HAIL INDIA...HAIL ARJUN SINGH..au revoir

Errata

Things go and come...change is the quintessence of life...no matter what you do you will have people raising concerns over everything you do....

har kisi ko mukkamal jahan nahi milta
kisi ko zameen to kisi ko aasma nahi milta

go with the flow;
take it as it comes......

yun hi

"Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned."

Redemption

Recently or not so recently I saw a movie "SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION". Classic stuff though I aint somebody who understands or claims to understand art,life or other big words there are..
Theme although was good, is quite alien to me...HOPE can set you FREE...Two protagonists but..This is one story where theme takes precedence over characters...Morgan freeman in his inimitable baritone...And Tim Robbins in a sterling performance....
I read somewhere....When I thought it was the end of road for me, GOD who had greater vision blessed me and said this is just a curve child..
Sometimes in our lives we get disillusioned and become paranoid and things seem empty that is where faith holds you firm...The movie leaves one with a sense of having faith in whatever is good and beautiful around us....
There is a particular scene where Freeman says-Every man has his breaking point....But the story does not say that it is the end of road it is about having faith...To believe..To live lies within....Nice movie .

Sittin' on the dock of bay

Sittin' in the mornin' sun
I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes
watchin' the ships roll in
n i watch 'em roll away again..

Sittin' on the dock of bay watchin' the tide rollin' away
i left my home in Georgia n headed for the Frisco bay
ten thousand miles i roamed to make this dock my home

Sittin on the dock of bay watchin' the tide rollon' away
looks lke nothin' gonna change
everythin' sill remains the same
i dont do wat 10 ppl tell me to do
i guess i'll remain the same

Sittin' on the dock of bay..watchin the tide rollin' away

An interview,one bottle n two glasses of water

Last week has been a hectic one....of all the people in this wide world even I got placed....in TCS...God save 'em...but apart from all this, the experience has been great......
for me, my interview was not less in any proportions with Shakespeare's comedy of errors...which eventually culminated in a happy ending......
On sunday 9th april,there was the PPT -preplacement talk n after that the written - for which i appeared and as the results were about to come i threw up but qualified...after that...next day i had my tech interview....lets go straight to the fun part----
I walked in the room with my awkward gait and nervous smile n greeted the two lady HR's sittin' there.I sat down and the conversation ensues
as follows
HR:so tell us something abt u ,Nikhil
me: my name is Nikhil...(as if she doesnt know already)
blah blah
HR:do u want some water
me:no i m fine.
blah blah for 30 secs more n then......
me:I think i need to have some water.I tell 'em i m a bit nervous(truth is i m abt to breath my last)
she gives me the bottle......i take it n try to open the bottle with all my might.....useless.....
she offers to help....i tell 'em no ma'm its abt to open.....again i give it all i hv got.....but the effort comes to cipher.....futile....at last with a dumb grin on my face i give the bottle to her...which she opens easily....i pat my back mentally for that....i take the now opened bottle frm her...and drink one glass of water.....as i start to feel better n think to start...i m hit by another round of nausea
i gulp down another glass.Since i think i wont be allowed to drink another glass of water i put the glass down......now i complete my so called intro....now she starts asking me tech questions which
i answer like a pro as if i was born doin' this...n make 'em think that i know this stuff as the back of my hand....blah blah n like this the interview ends...i come out all depressed.....which is my natural disposition....i go home, change into casuals....n start smokin like a chimney...then a frnd comes n tells i m shortlisted for HR round.....i think as though that was not enough.....but now the attitude has changed n i feel i have nothin to loose....i go in there without thinkin anything....but, the interview goes down cool.....but with no idea how have i fared....i again feel very tense(i cant think of a stronger word now) . and the wait just helps in increasing the pressure which I handle very coolly which by now you know.As the result is about to be announced i again throw up......but as they say every dog has a day.....i guess it was indeed my day........adios till we meet again.....

like Gray.........?

... So narrow is our spectrum of seeing things,visualising them and categorizing them that it leaves only the wavelength for two colors to EXIST-black n white-and we as individual go on branding things with these two....
but herein hogs the picture the colour -Gray......the reticent..............
coz there is black n there is white.......n when u mix them u get Gray........but in the deepest of our psyches......long before we shrouded ourselves with CIVILIZATION-we were no better than animals n good one at that......how hard we try to polish our conscious selves with this panacea of ours-the C-word......we wont be able to curb our instincts...Instinct is something one is born with......those who believe in the duality principle will ofcourse contend with the fact that gray will be and is present among everyone......we are born with a penchant for violence.....n then the C-word seems all hogwash.....we as individuals are so unhappy about this that we look things with a short of paranoia as our dark self is fellin' cagey........
ufffffffff.....now i m bit exhausted.......a bit of errata this one is....hopefully no one reads it......may god be with u.......au revoir

dOgMas

yesterday i read a blog......tedious work...and the comments associated with it.......interstin' stuff....or not....thats a different topic altogether......but actually the comments of the people who had read the blog actually has spurred me to COMMENT on their comments (pun unintended).......
It i s quite bizarre how we as individuals cant be tolerant of other person's views if it is not the same view which we nurse........though we would ourselves like to hold our own beliefs like life's blood n sweat......though i dont think thats bad but we should give room to objective thinkin'.......sorry wandered away from the main topic......the topic is INTOLERANCE.......
we should not forget that we are because we are INDIVIDUALS......no i m not undermining the role of society.......but what we should not forget that it is the "I" which makes the society........we have become dogmatic.....too prone to institutionalisin' everything in ones gaze.....branding everything with dual words.....Right-Wrong,Good-Bad........no lobbyin' for anarchism here.... but thoughts are very sacred......the only thing that has taken so far in the march of civilization.......we have no authority to censor a thought coz it doesnt conform to our own set of rules.......thoughts are an individual's intellectual property......wasnt it Gandhi who said........"IN THE MATTER OF CONSCIENCE MAJORITY DOESN'T MATTER"......thoughts are one's conscience speaking......signing off now......
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