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  • फालतू बातें

    There is a
    Train Station
    Bus Station
    but no
    Flight Station !!!

    एक हवाई अड्डा होता है
    एक बस अड्डा होता है
    तो ट्रेन अड्डा क्यों नहीं होता?

  • Smoky !

    Cooked

    Burnt
    Fixed
    Eaten
    Liked
    Call it the dish with the smoky twist!

  • Thirty Six

    There are times when there are many thoughts in my mind, and there are times when there are none! in both the caes, I do not write anything!

    An easier way out is either post a result of some stupid but interesting quiz from blogthings or do an interesting tag! For today, I chose the latter!

    Wishes Galore (what’s your real name by the way?) tagged me a few days back and here it goes…

    1. What is your current obsession?
    umm… no obsessions… nurturing a few passions though! lets see where they take me!

    2. What are you wearing today?
    well! right now a grey sweatshirt and pyjamas! I wonder why a sweatshirt is called so!!! It does not make you sweat and its not a shirt! and no these are not red pyjamas that I am wearing!

    3. What’s for dinner?
    Made some Arhar dal… nice!

    4. What was the last thing you bought?
    I bought a shirt, a trouser and a pull-over for Diwali this sunday!

    5. What are you listening to right now?
    The wind outside rushing past at 40-50 mph. Here they say its windy, in India we would have called it a storm

    6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?
    I know too little about the person. Lets start with real names, shall we?

    7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
    Somewhere in a village in UP in North India

    8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?
    Water

    9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
    To Mom and Dad! this one was easy 🙂

    10. Which language do you want to learn?
    Urdu, Bangla and Spanish maybe

    11. What’s your favourite quote?
    Used to have a few favorites, but found this on a t-shirt I bought recently: Let someone else climb the corporate ladder!

    12. Who do you want to meet right now?
    Papa

    13. What is your favorite colour?
    Simply Red

    14. What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own closet?
    A white linen shirt

    15. What is your dream job?
    My dream is not a job! Read my favorite quote above 😛

    16. What’s your favourite magazine?
    Nandan

    17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
    I do not need anything for myself right now! I would just save that $100

    18. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?
    I do not understand fashion! no way I can consider something a fashion faux pas

    19. Who according to you is the most over-rated style icon?
    Shahrukh Khan.. I think Saif dresses up much much better than him!

    20. What kind of haircut do you prefer?
    Crew cut, though I am trying to grow my hair longer right now! so far so good!

    21. What are you going to do after this?
    Su su

    22. What are your favourite movies?
    Check a recommended movie list on the right column of Chai ki Dukaan

    23. What are three cosmetic/makeup/perfume products that you can’t live without?
    Sarson ka Tel! that’s all

    24. What inspires you?
    What or who? Honesty and truthfulness mostly!

    25. Give us three styling tips that always work for you
    Poished shoes, smart hair, ironed clothes

    26. What do you do when you “have nothing to wear” (even though your closet’s packed)?
    Repeat Monday’s clothes

    27. Coffee or tea?
    umm!!! 😛

    28. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?
    Call one of my closest friends and tell him/her that he/she is an idiot

    29. What is the meaning of your name?
    Calm, composed

    30. Which other blogs do you love visiting?
    Quite a few actually!

    31. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?
    The toughest question in the world for me! Next time I go to Banke Bihaari ji in Vrindavan, I will try to figure out!

    32. Favorite Season ?
    Winters… let me correct! North Indian winters… not the Milwaukee winters that are around the corner!

    33. If I come to your house now, what would u cook for me?
    nothing! Dal hai! bhookh lagi hai to kha lo!

    34. What is the right way to avoid people who purposefully hurt you?
    I have no clue

    35. What are you afraid of the most?
    No idea…

    36.Is it possible to be in love with two persons simultaneously?
    Absolutely!

    Phew! Interview khatam! Tag yourself if you’d like! there are times when some of these fun questions make you think!

  • The 7 button!

    How many times has it happened with you that you end up pressing an already lit up floor button or atleast move your finger towards and stop just short of touching it, in an elevator?

    I bet a lot of times!

    Happens with me so often!

    I work on the 7th floor these days, like a lot of other people and more often than not I end up either pushing the 7 button or stop just short of it when I see it lit…

    The point is that I move into the elevator with a thought in mind… that I have to get to the 7th floor and that I need to press the button.. the hand is already ready to push the button when it realizes that its already lit!

    Think about it for a second about some similar other situations too.. where the mind conditions you to do/think/make/move/expect/reject/want something and by the time you realise its too late you have already done that… just that in those cases, the time lag is lot more than the elevator story that I was talking about!

    Typical situations when you first blame someone else for something and then yourself, and then sulk and then feel like an idiot thinking that you made of fool out of yourself! very typical! but a fact… and problem is that its a fact and it was conditioned to happen this way, without it being someone’s fault! but we humans kind of feel better after we have blamed someone for something that went wrong, doesn’t matter if its ourselves! I am not saying that this is correct for 100% of the situations… I know where people are at fault, and I also know that in such cases someone or the other is temporarily blinded by emotions or feelings or what not! I myself being an example of making a complete idiot of myself for one of the biggest decisions of my life sometime back! And at the same time I am also proud of myself for doing a few things that most other people would not have done in similar situations!

    Some facts are facts… why what when who and things like that don’t really matter! what matters is that it happened and its past tense! learn and move on!

    Having said that I am sure I would press that 7 button tomorrow morning when I enter the elevator! 🙂

  • A lot for a day!

    What a day it was today!!!!

    It started with reading an email of some wealth comparisons between India and Pakistan…

    Mukesh Ambani’s phenomenal wealth and the fact that he can buy all the companies listed on the Karanchi stock exchange and still would have a few billions left… about the aircraft he gifted his wife and the details of his 60 storey apartment complex, the details of which were doing rounds of the internet sometime back! It also talked about Sabeer Bhatia, and Sun Microsystems etc and how many Indians make it to the silicon valley

    so good head to head comparisons of what India’s wealth is about and what Pakistan’s wealth is about… needless to say India is rich, both in financial terms and people terms!!!

    Makes you proud right? good!

    And then I was talking to Deepak and Pritam about the disjoint value system in the US and how kids are raised here! some interesting discussions at that time too! About how Diwali is, and about how Holi is… about how there is something called Life that you can celebrate in India, and how even in a state fair you will feel disconnected with the thousands of people who surround you in the US! About how US is a bit different from Europe in terms of community and systems (mostly emotional and personal)

    And the day ended with watching “We Were Soldiers” based off of the Ia Drang Valley Battle in 1965 in the Vietnam War! I have been watching a few American war movies lately, and while these movies try to glorify almost everything they should about USA, there is a lot that you get to realise if you want to connect the dots!

    America and its soldiers have been in war (their own or adopted) for years… continuously! and almost every family in the USA would either know or be related to a active defense (I don’t think “defense” is a valid term here… “offense” is more like it) person, or a war veteran! They have all the reason to be bloody proud of their people…and that simply translates into being proud of the country! The people give a lot to the country, and the country gives it back to them, and the cycle continues! I am not saying bottlenecks do not exist here, or the leadership has always been good! I am not saying that its perfect the way it works either! I am saying that behind all the value system that I was talking about in the second part of this post, there is a much strong value system that connects almost every person to this “COUNTRY”. and that makes all the bloody difference!

    Back to India now… where I know of more bottlenecks than smooth flows of this pride… where praise of the country is limited to speeches, and some long lost books… where the independence is said to be the work of one man called the Gandhi, and people ignore people like Lala Lajpat Rai, Azad, Bhagat Singh, Bose with ease… where leaders like Mayawati ask the central government for a Rs.2000 grant to solve the power situation UP and spend Rs. 500 crore on statues (BITCH)… where leaders like Mamta Banerjee lead people to throw TATA out of West Bengal when it would have put WB on the World Map… where the youth craves for ipods and latest gadgets when just about 50 kms off the highway kids still have to walk 5 kms to the nearest school… where we lead the world in the number of terrorist groups operating in the country (27 out of the 34 groups which the Ministry of Home Affairs labels as Terrorist Organization under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, are home grown groups! another record actually) where we tend to forget the mumbai blasts, or the attack the Parliament, or the Delhi Diwali blasts, or 26/11 for the latest news on something more commercially viable and move on….

    where we claim to be proud of the country, but when it will come to identifying what you have done for this country, you might just be short of words and things!!!

    Don’t get me wrong!

    I am proud of India and its growth, and I feel bad about not knowing crap about its history and how its growing in leaps and bounds! I just feel helpless at times! and extremely sad about how this country might just collapse one day :'( and none of us might not be able to do anything about it!!!

    Before I end this post, I just want to remind myself that I am going to do whatever I can! Period!

    And if you have a comment on this post, I would appreciate if you do something about it too, in addition of just voicing your opinion!

    I should stop now! have a good day everyone!

  • love, my friend, is like…

    Ever loved someone very much and wondered why they don’t seem to care?
    Ever whispered something to someone, and wondered why they don’t seem to hear?

    Well my friend,
    you did not realize,
    that love is like a pesticide….

    Think about it… how does pesticide work?
    You have to have the right amount of dose sprinkled all over for it to be effective…

    Concentrate it too much, it would not work
    Dilute it too much, it would not work either
    Overuse it, and pests would get used to it, and develop immunity, it would not work
    Under-use it, its not effective enough, umm, it would not work!!!

    My take on it…

    Sprinkle it, but know how much is too much!

  • Shall we…

    and then I saw a few rain drops
    the roads took a turn to something green
    I rolled down the window

    and the raindrops reached the ground after they kissed me
    the air was flowing and brushing against my smiling face


    Lets call it romance!

    Shall we!

  • No Deal for Nadal

    I just finished watching the 20 year old 6th seed Del Potro kick Nadal’s ass big time, in the semi-finals of US Open!

    what a match!!!

    Del Potro beat Nadal 6-2 6-2 6-2

    Nadal is an amazing athlete, and Del Potro made him run like a kid today!!! and had an answer to EVERYTHING that Nadal has in his kitty!!!

    I am looking forward to a Del Potro – Federer final!

    update…

    and Federer wins the other semi in straight sets! Excellent fight from Djokovic, but Federer got the better of him!!! loved the last but one point!

    Now looking forward to “the” Del Potro – Federer final… He has lost at the hands of Federer before, but after what he has done to Nadal today, I hope he continues with a similar game and gives Federer a tough game to win!

  • She came and went!!!

    She came to the city to surprise a few friends… she did manage to give them one of the biggest surprise of their lives!

    She died!

    Or should I say she was killed!

    How?

    Driving under Influence is how the police puts it!

    My friend gets a call from the hospital inquiring if he knows about the girl and then the caller tells him about the “unfortunate” incident

    Her boyfriend flies from Houston, makes efforts to take her from this hospital to Chicago because his relatives are doctors there and they might help. The local doctors had given up already!

    The body now flies to India, where her parents are eagerly waiting! not for her but for the body!

    All of this because someone was drunk, and decided to drive!

    I know of so many people who claim to be in complete control after they have a few drinks, and I know for sure how much in control they are! but then on a different day, we would have laughed about driving and drinking by quoting some funny lines by people who are drunk!

    Its not really worth it! seriously! if you are having alcohol, please stay away from the steering wheel! take a cab home, ride a bus back home, or just pass out! but please do not drink and drive! you would never know the impact of something “unfortunate” that happens when you felt you were in total control!

    Please learn from someone else’s mistakes!

    A big thank you for the kind souls who did whatever they could to save the girl in question here. It was probably the way she had to go!

    and a big thank you if you have ever decided to take a cab to the pub and back instead of driving!

  • The (blogging) side effect

    One thing that I realize is really bad about blogging is its capability of floating negative energies…

    You start a day with RSS feeds of a few blogs that you are regular on and you see complaints, cribs, sadness on them! no points for guessing what happens next!!!

    I usually avoid reading anything that has the potential of making me feel low and I deliberately avoid writing things that would have that effect on anyone who visits my blog!

    Last few days some of the blogs that I read have this overdose of negativity and sadness and confusion and what not!!! Not good! I don’t think I’d like to visit such pages!

    How about holding on to the happy nothings in life and writing about them… atleast when you come back to your archives after a while you are reminded of the happy memories and not about how sad you were! I had a few very sad posts on Chai ki Dukaan too, which I had written while going through a not so good phase in my life… I think I should remove them from here!

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