Category: General

  • AnOtHeR DaY… HaPpY…

    life been pretty hectic for the last few days… starting from the day of joining… no no.. nothing has changed in terms of work.. but the quantity has picked up…

    i have applied for my corporate card… and as soon as it arrives, i need to travel to EAST… Bhubneshwar, Guwahati, Kolkata and Patna… might just steal a couple of days for myself as well during these work trips…

    yesterday was very very good evening… went to dv8 in CP… the dj there ROCKS !!! literally i used to think Blues plays the best rock in CP, but this was much much better !!! after listening to some wonderfull rock for about 3 hours… with a couple of drinks… and some good foodie snacks… moved out and walked on the empty and otherwise very crowded roads of CP… i love CP… and would always call it that way.. no bloddy Rajiv or Indira Chawk for me ever !!! Manish told me about all the bird watching that he used to do there when in college… we went towards D’Pauls as well hoping that it would be open but it was not… so basically it was a very nice evening spent in the company of some good friends….

    slept very late… after working on a couple of things for office 🙁 yes… rohit can vouch for that… i was working at 0100 hrs 🙁 slept around 0200 hrs after completing my work desperately hoping that tushar does not call up in the morning for jogging… that bugger did… and i had to get up… oh and by the way i have been jogging for two days now… terrible pain in the entire body… and an old left knee injury reminding me to take care of it !!! so i cannot jog a lot 🙁 would have to think of other fat burning ways 😉 other interesting fat burning ways 😛

    met sayantani today… it was fun… her office is so cewl… all books … i feel good when there are so many books around, i usually do not read any.. but what the heck.. i still like that feeling… and i could trouble her with all my nonsensical talks while she was inviting some bachelor big shot for a book launch on the 4th april !!! 4 books arebeing launched on that day !!! and her name is on two of them… am totally proud of you editor girl !!!

    and then we thought about what we want to do.. where do we want to go.. initially she was to treat me to a movie.. which she denied… also the PVRs for some reason had no bloddy show before 1400 hrs… what are they doing in the auditoriums before that time !! huh !!!

    anyway… we decided to go to Cafe Coffee day, Green Park… this is at the backside of the deer park… on a road which has very less traffic… and i like it for the view it gives… but then i decided to experiment with the route that we take, and landed up on the Lodhi Road… and then decided to go to IHC… i have somehow started liking IHC a lot… there is something or the other you can watch there… and something or the other is always on there… like it was today… started with a full parking lot… and a b/w foto exhibition with fotos of some street children… being sold for amounts like 10K-20K !!! huh !!! and then went to this painting exhibition of breasts and butts… no seriously !!! this exhibition had all the paintings but 6 which had women painted in all different colours and the two body parts as mentioned above being focused at !!! Sayan also asked me why one of the chicks on one of the paintings had a strange orange butt !!! the only reason i could think of was that she was spanked big time, before the artist got down to painting her !!! anyway… we then went to the Visual Art Gallery, where there was an exhibition of some musical collages !! it was nice… abstract… very nice…

    when i used to sketch… i used to try to hard to have everything proper… proper eyes, proper face and a balanced landscape and all… but then most of the paintings/art work i have seen actually is not that way… abstract obviously is not easy but i guess its a better form of the free flow of expression.. and leaves you with a lot of questions too.. and as sayantani puts it, the work there was Visually Interesting !!! nice…

    oh and there were these two hotties taking care of the exhibition there !!! and of them wanted my name and address !!! ya… to be written on the guest book 😛 hehehe…

    Eatopia followed… and a lot of talk too… about LLAs, and chicks, and guys… and sayantani kept telling me that i am gross and disgusting all that.. and i should talk to a girl like that about other girls.. but then i made her understand that if she is a friend, i should be able to let my thoughts and words flow freely in front of her… otherwise its not really being friends… which meant more conversations… maza aaya…

    oh.. and we picked up a line from that exhibition in the Visual Art Gallery.. so profound.. here it is for you guys : “Even the face of an angel can be devilish red when the sound of his voice is not true“… nice eh !!!

    and then i dropped her @ the power grid office where her dad was waiting for her… and on the way i made her listen to one of my favorite tracks these days…

    Toone Deewana Banaya to Main Deewana Bana…
    Ab mujhe hosh ki duniya mein Tamasha na Bana…

    Abida Parween has done magic to these words… and 10e obviously liked it… oh.. and i also gave her a compilation of the best of angreji music that i have.. and i got the CD of Kailash Kher’s album Kailasa from here… so we also exchanged some music too !!!

    came back… slept… and woke up !!!

    talked to richa… all the best for your exams sweetheart… do well !!!

    nice day so far… lets see whats up in the rest of the weekend…

    ta tu for now !!!

  • SiMpLy CoMpLiCaTeD…

    alice….
    has written about what she is feeling this days in her relationship…

    she loves her boyfriend…

    he loves her too..

    and still there is some emptyness around…

    she feels happy alone.. she thinks he is too good to her… and so on an so forth… you might like to read what she has written.. just make sure that you do not aggrevate the pain she is going thru…

    her post reminded me of the painful times i went through when i was in a relationship… i certainly am more happy without a relationship today as compared to what i suffered…

    this march end it would be 2 years that i broke up.. yes i feel that at times there should be someone for me to hear me out.. someone who can give a shoulder to rest.. someone who would just be around…

    but all these feelings are so temprary in nature that i have even stopped bothering… and is that killing something inside me as a person.. am i loosing out on my emotional ratios… am i over with the passion in my life… would i never be able to love anyone ever again…

    i guess not… i am still a very emotional ass… i still can cry when i do not get what i want… i still have the same passion for a lot of things… ican still love.. but a women in my life… maybe i am not really want it… coz i am afraid…

    because i am afraid that things change..
    because i am afraid that i loose my space…
    because then i will have to think before i speak…
    because then i will not be myself anymore… there would not be any i or you there would be a we “there was a time when i used to love this line, however today this like brutally murders my individuality, which i hate to even think about“

    and a lot of other “because” lines…

    but then does that mean someone who is in a relationship should get out of it only because there are a few things that do not seem right…

    if i judge it from a very practicle point of view, i would suggest moving out… not to look around for one more person.. just move out of the concept called a relationship.. live your life.. and if you still feel that the person stays very very important for you and worth leaving that independence go back to him her and pray that (s)he is around…
    but is that really possible… you have to and you should snap off relationships actually… you can continue streching things as long as u can.. b in a lot of pain yourself.. and let the other person keep wondering too.. but thats not being fair…

    so what was i thinking when i read what alice wrote.. what should she be doing…
    i think she is in a situation where she loved to eat sweets and had a li’il too much of it… something that we feel when diwali is just over… no more sweets please feeling… i guess the only option as someone has very very rightly mentioned in the comments on her post… give space… and also go ahead with your life.. if you still need him.. come back… and i will add to it… pray he is still around..

    but alice girl.. go live your life for a while… lets yourself loose… know yourself better yourself… just be alice or whatever your name is… and then see where you reach… come back if you feel like… or carry on if you are happy… you will always have someone or the other to take care of you.. in a friend, in a lover, in a boyfriend, in a stranger, in a parent, or in GOD !!!

  • HeCTiC…

    i was home…. and still this has been a pretty hectic day @ work… sometimes things have to go wrong…only when you are not around to take care of them quickly….

    and thats precisely what has happened today… the tool that i support and maintain in the office went berserk… and that made sure that i could not rest the entire day… the only difference being that i did not have to drive to work today…

    good that i have a nice team with me in the office.. which meant that the issues could be resolved even when i was only on phone and chat…

    so nice hectic day today… need to go out to get some photocopies… and then the day is over…

    ta da….

  • GoOd ‘n’ BaD…

    a couple of good news… and a bad one…

    ok.. the bad one first… so that we can forget it quickly as soon as we read the good ones…

    i am sick… headache… stomach infection.. body ache fever… had to skip office today because of this … but am still working… kisi tarah… can’t help it…

    and the good ones… here they go…

    i completed 10000 visits on my blog… very nice feeling… had no clue this is where i was heading towards when i started with this page in September’04… some stupids posts that i wrote then.. and things for sure have changed… thanks blogspot…

    and the other good news… i am finally joining IBM tomorrow as a regular employee… for ppl who did not know.. i was a contractor so far… a third party consultant for them.. and now i would be a full time regular IBMer… a Tools and Technology Lead for the IT Services Arm of IGSI… nice…

    life is good.. working to make it better….

    and my happy budday is coming… just a few days to go.. and i will be officially older… huh !!! this is not good…
    anyway.. i have this looooong list of goodies that ppl can buy for me… and if not anything else.. i think i will be content with some spring flowers.. but then wishing and getting me something have to be together… and i know what most of you are going to say.. thank you and a treat have to be together too.. hehehe… we shall see 🙂 this is sayantani’s favorite line.. and i am sure she wants to kill me for using this…

    too long a post… and i am tired… will rest for a while.. and then get back to some work….

  • {c} wedding iDeAs and MoRe…

    Managing marriages is a tough deal…

    starting from when to get married to, how many people to invite, to booking of a band, to finding a place to host the wedding, to arranging for music and so on a so forth…

    these days you get some package deals which include the decoration, food, place and music, however I am not sure if there are consultants who work with the middle class families on any wedding reception ideas. I think this kinda consultancy is long awaiting and there are more then enough people who would like to engage such firms and enjoy the celebrations…

    what next after wedding… a honeymoon… and a few years later… may be another if the spark stays.. or on a more not so romantic note… looking around for a some options where you could just go and relax… one of such things is vacation home Orlando where you could actually have a home when you are on a vacation… this happens in India too.. where you can actually get complete cottages or houses where you can stay during vacation…

    nice… I am not sure if I am looking forward to a wedding or not.. but… vacation… game anytime for it

    😀

  • An EvENiNg WiTh FriEndS….

    the evening today was great….

    met deepali after a long time.. though we work in the same office, we are not able to meet each other… and then we went to South Ex. Barista… this is where i had met Richa for the first time as well… and while on our way i asked her to call Neha as well… which she did.. and Neha also managed to join me and Deepali…

    the conversation:
    about Deepali’s meetings with the probably grooms… the eligible bachelors.. and i was really keen in finding out what were the kinda questions that she asks the guys she meets up with… well to start with the good part is that she meets them in a restaurant or a a cafe and not in the sea of relatives at home… and then what surprised me that she would ask questions like what kinda music the guy likes, what does he do in his free time, and if he reads books, what are his hobbies… does he drink and all.. and what shocked me was the the guy were also asking the same kinda questions… stupid !!! eh !!! i dunno.. but thats not really taking anyone anywhere… so we did a small act of me being the guy she meets and then ask questions… and it turned out to be hilarious… and we could just laugh a lot about it 😀

    and then Neha maidam comes in… as pretty as ever… and all smiles !!! and these two girlfriends of mine were now a team against me to pull my leg.. and trust me they were good in making sure that i shut up nice and proper !!! with my occasional words, it was a good 45 minutes spent in the barista… some ppl make the world a better place.. and these two sweethearts sure are one of them….

    dropped Neha at her place.. and quickly came back home… and had a small convo with Aro.. and a wonderfully exciting convo with Sayantani.. she is a sweetheart too.. always around to cheer you up… with her crazy ability to laugh at anything.. and imagining in her mind whatever you are talking about.. hehehe…

    whenever anyone of these is getting married, i am going to get them some bridesmaid gifts… is that a right term to use… well.. i am not really sure… but whatever.. i will think of something really innovative… i am going to search and search for the best gifts for them… even hire some search engine marketing consultants… make them search for something, so that i could make these nice and pretty friends of mine really happy…

    and rohit also called me… and he wanted to know how was my first time.. and what are the things that he needs to take care of.. as he is going to do it for the first time tommorow…

    ok.. he is for sure not talking about what a lot of you ppl are thinking right now.. he is going rafting with me tmrw… and he just wanted to make sure that he is aware of the few essentials…
    hehehe.. nice boy he is… God bless him…

    and richa also sent a couple of naughty SMS’s 🙂 bahut bigad gai hai wo bhi… padai mein to dhyan hi nai lagta aajkal ke bachcho ka 😀
    😀

    oklie doks.. thats it for a good day…

    gotta go off to sleep…

    abhi chalta hoon… phir milta hoon….

  • HoLi HoLi -DaY…

    explain this…

    when i slept last night the sky had more clouds then HOLI needed…

    and when i got up today…

    nothing.. none.. zilch… bright blue sky with lovely sun outside…

    and just the day to celebrate holi…

    Ankur always visits on Holi so i was ready to catch up with him after applying the mustard oil to myself wearing a nice white shirt 🙂

    and then rounds of gulal followed with me and Ankur first visiting Neelam, and then Tushar… who was looking quite handsome with a black and green face… and shining white teeth… we just added soem colour with red gulal…

    and this where i could not stay away from the pakka rang… so my face all blank and blue… and i did not know this was only round one…

    round two @ ankur’s place.. where kanisha ( his sister) made me look like a horrible ghost with some blue, green, yello and ORANGE colour… phew.. and they did not seem satisfied enough with this achievement.. and to get some more pleasure out of the simple me… they poured buckets of water on me …

    phew.. what a holi… and my shirt now… was no longer white…

    nice day till afternoon so far… thank you God for this festival… so many colours.. so many smiles… so much of laughters…

    won-duh-phull !!!

  • semi {c} SoMe MoNeY MaKiNg…

    I know that there are a lot of very serious bloggers, who write and read a lot… and i always used to wonder where exactly they get the time to do this from?

    I find it tough to manage my time after i am done with my office and the everyday photoshop playing around…

    and then i found out that i could make money blogging…. well i do not not see it as a problem… if things work out fine..i might just earn enough money to take care of my fotography expenses every month !!!

    Oh, and how i mentioned about buying those silver bricks and coins and stuff.. i found out that there is something different that you could buy as well… Buy Silver Bullion… for those who do not know what a bullion is.. click here to find out…

  • ThOuGhT DuMp….

    rains…

    you have to drive with your windows rolled up…

    and then there are traffic jams…

    and then !!!!

    Some BASTARDS who would still drive with high beams on… not even noticing that the water drops on the glasses of the other cars explode that light and make the other driver as good as blind…. and then they must be wondering why the hell are there so many accidents… why ppl cannot drive carefully…. you ASS, if you could drive with your bloddy headlights in low beam… atleast half the drivers who cross you are 50% safe… attleast its only their fault that would lead to an accident.. and not your too bright show you all headlights !!! aargh..

    oh.. and then there are some simpletons… or i would choose to call them idiots… who think that mud flaps are only to make your car look good.. and when one of these drops for some reason.. the best you can do is remove the other one too.. you buggers.. when u are driving on a wet road… your rear tyres work like canons and throw dirty water from the road to the motorists behind you as missiles… rain water does not screw up the windscreens.. its the small dirty water drops that screws up the visibility !!!

    and now something strange…

    in my lifetime, i do not remember a choti holi when it rained in delhi/ncr

    my dad does not remember a holi when it rained in Delhi the day before holi..

    something has happened here on this earth.. and i am not too confortable about it…

    and now something happy…

    i was struggling to hear some good rock when i was coming back home on monday.. and today my CD changer has 3 good rock CDs… which means i have a song for every mood now in the 10 cds i can plug and play… and there is nothing for a sorrow mood… sorry sorrow.. you are not allowed in my car !!!

    the way water drops move up the windscreen when the car moves ahead is kinda very sweet to watch… it leaves a wonderful pattern behind as well…

    and i feel that i can make ppl laugh when they are in a real bad mood… have a few confirmations from a few situations !!!

    and now something that is a part of life..yours mine.. everyones maybe…

    there is this good guy… and there is this good girl…

    the good girl likes the good guy… and the good guy likes the good girl…

    and then there is this bad guy.. who is a good friend of the good guy…

    and this good girl, even though says that she loves the good guy… is attracted towards the bad guy…

    who obviously does not mind the attention because he is a bad guy.. and is certainly looking forward to a nice time with the good girl…

    the good guy confronts the good girl.. and tells her that he loves her… she likes him too.. but she feels that the relationship is too mushy.. and breaks up with him..

    and who beneifts out of it… the bad guy.. who enjoys the company of this good girl… while the good guy is all alone…

    phew…
    the question is… do girls really get attracted to bad guys? ok… decent looking bad guys? or is this something about power/attitude/control that attracts them… and why is that usually not so apparent with good guys.. why do bad guys look like being in control most of the time… atleast to the outer world?

    ugh !!! what am i writing… good night !!!

    oh.. and a very very Happy and Colourful holi everyone… enjoy take care !!!

  • gUiTaR….

    Laadiss… and Gentel-Mans… Pliss… Welkomes…

    MEEEEE

    The Guitar Players…

    oh manh !!!

    i SUCK @ playing Guitar…

    hehehe…

    bigg time..

    lets see what these classes can do…

    And my guru @ guitar.. Ashish… plays really really well.. God Bless him 🙂

    Oh.. and Tushar is learning Salsa these days…

    once both of us are purrfect… i play the guitar.. and then he dances 😀

    hehehe..

    and you can be the audience.. and throw money at us.. just make sure that you do not throw coins 😀