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there was a concern about how a certain situation is be to handled after we start using the tool that i am training ppl on…

the person who was asked this question did not know the answer…

he comes to me and asks me if i have an answer… fortunately i had the answer… and a valid one too.. he asks me to put it on an email and send it to him…. i do that…

next i have to go to his workstation for something.. and i see him copying and pasting my note to a new email and send it across to everyone concerned…. no mention of who actually gave the answer..

so much for working hard and knowing the right answers…
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Satyug
Tretayug
Dwaparyug
Kalyug

This is how the time is divided.. why am i talking about this.. well because shilpa and me were talking about a line which is used a lot these days…

“Kya Jamana Aa Gaya Hai… Ghor Kalyug…“

and i was talking about what all is captured in MMS these days… Shilpa incidently is working on some MIS for MMS in bharti.. and this is how the conversation started…

MeE !!! – how is work these days..
ma friend – gud and challenging ..
ma friend – 🙂
MeE !!! – what is it that you are doing now?
ma friend – MIS for MMS
MeE !!! – MMS
MeE !!! – hmm..
MeE !!! – MIS
MeE !!! – hmm…
MeE !!! – hmm..
ma friend – yup 🙂
MeE !!! – interesting..
MeE !!! – do you get to see all the MMS as well
MeE !!! – 😉
ma friend – lol@the series of hmmm..s
MeE !!! – 😀
ma friend – lol@see all mms
ma friend – nopes
MeE !!! – 🙁
MeE !!! – ye to nainsaafi hai
ma friend – gud one doesnt get to see all dat..
MeE !!! – if you do not see the mms how can you have the mis taken care of..
ma friend – 😉
MeE !!! – 😉
ma friend – oh mahn!!
ma friend – aap to kaafi khatarnaak baatein karte hain..
ma friend – 😉
MeE !!! – main to sirf baatein hi karta hoon..
MeE !!! – log to pata nai kya kya karte hain..
MeE !!! – 😛
ma friend – lol
ma friend – ghor kalyug aa gaya hai
MeE !!! – haan..
ma friend – ram ram

And my response was this…

MeE !!! (2:45 PM) – pata nai meri kismat satyug mein kya kar rahi hai abhi tak lekin
MeE !!! (2:45 PM) – :'(

so my dears.. ladis.. and gentel mans…this is abouts my kismats in this kalyugs…. the times has changeds… buts my times stills remains withs the olds yugs… aarghs…

p.s. the above conversation obviously has been edited… to keep a few things secret 😉

my mind should work like a body does…

i cannot beleive how this thought came to my mind… i was talking to richa when i told her what i am going to write here… and what was i talking about at that point of time… SHIT… so shit leads to good thoughts too.. here is how…

to keep a body alive …eat…..
to keep a mind alive…communicate

your body… takes the best out of the food and leaves the rest… which goes out of a human body as shit…
your mind… takes whatever thoughts that come to you, whatever conversations i am a part of…

and what should it do.. it should just keep the best of that lot with itself.. and use that to enrich itself.. and just throw away the crap and the unusable shit !!!

my mind should work like a body does…

aaj socha ke upar waale se poochun
ke mujhe itna kyon sata raha hai tu….
aur tabhi teri aawaz ne kaano par dastak di
ab kya sawal aur kya gam…

i am getting better with my poetry 😀 now i can write something once every 4 months 🙂 hehehe.. very good prashant.. keep it up…

i was thinking about a few things which have not happened to me so far in my life… and now they are going to happen or are happening…

1. i have never been inside an airport – i get to be inside the airports in 5 cities of india next month…
2. i have never been close to an aeroplane or sit inside it – i get to fly for the entire business trip… delhi to kolkata to bhopal to mumbai to chennai to banglore ( by road) to delhi…
3. i have never seen the sea – i get to go to both the west coast and the east coast of india.. see the sunset in mumbai.. and a sunrise in chennai.. and maybe pondichery too..
4. i have never been outside my house for more then a week – i am going away from my house for a month now
5. i have broken all records of staying in the office.. for the last two months i am spending an average of 11 hrs in the office…

masta life hai !!! God bless me.. and gimme a lot of strength 🙂

and a girlfriend too 😉 bong babe… or some from soorma bhopali’s familiy…or a mumbai magic woman…. i am not really sure about banglore bombs and chennai chicks… hehehe.. they seem to be the names of some hockey teams from these cities 😛

oh.. and burfi wrote a post about better gurls a few days back… i have a very very similar story… and here is the line that i use for myself…

All the Good Gurls are taken… and the bad ones do not find me good enuff 😉
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Umre Daraaz maang ke laye chaar din…
Do aarzoo mein kat gaye.. do intezaar mein !!!

this is going to be one long post…

not being able to write for so long…. has made me miss some of the important things that i wanted to put down on the blog.. and i am not even sure if i can remember all of them…

anyway… i have too much of work load these days… but then i am not complaining.. somewhere deep inside me i am just sad.. that if i am so much capable of taking the kinda responsibilities given to me.. why can’t someone in IBM realise this.. can get me onboard !!! i want to give this project my best shot.. and then go ahead full blast on a job search… this time into core consultancy…

what takes up most of my time these days is preparing the training material for a india wide tool implementation and training… the best thing about this project is that i am getting to travel to places i have never been to…

i am leaving delhi on the 8th of December for kolkata.. will stay there for 5 days.. and then move to bhopal for another 5 days before going to Mumbai and Banglore.. i am also planning to meet up with Deepak.. and catch up with him on the new years.. hope he would not mind.. though i am not sure if i am screwing up any of his plans which he must have made !!!!

i would be out of home for over a month.. the longest so far in my life.. its going to be tough.. its going to be exciting.. its going to give me a lot of time with myself.. and probably rediscover myself… lets see how it goes !!!!

and today was supposed to be the last sunday of 2005 when i am not working.. on the contrary.. i have been working for about 4 hours now 🙁 i am already tired !!!! how am i gonna work all the next weekends 🙁 lets see… i have a point to prove here to myself.. and i cannot let myself down !!!

some of the other interesting things that have happened in the last few days…

Amit got married.. my manager in Hughes.. and his marriage function looked like a HSS Reunion.. and i am going to another marriages today.. Nishant. one of the best managers one can ask for… and he is getting married to his long time sweetheart Ruchika, who used to be a part of Hughes as well… God bless him.. and Ruchika… they make a great couple.. and the way Nishant handled the entire relationship thingie in office was amazing.. just another act to display the kinda grey matter he has.. so another HSSBPO reunion tonight…

Rupak is also getitng married tonight… he was the one who was totally against marriage…. and we came to know about his thoughts last year when me waquar saxena and rupak went to bhimtal…. and look at how things move.. he is getting married… God bless him and his wonderful better half too…

I have been talking about legalisation of prostitution and how and why we would or not accept someone who sells her/his body as a part of our lives… i will write about that later.. i am not really in a position to gather all my thoughts about that right now…

Met Narang somedays back.. on the 22nd to be precise.. its such a pleasure to meet… one helluva friend i have.. God bless you buddy.. love you…

Aro se bhi mila.. and it was as good as always to meet up with him… i can laugh my heart out when i meet this guy !!! i am going to meet his parents when i go to Kolkata.. apprently i do not need any introduction when i meet his folks.. they know me well through him though i have not met them ever…

what else has been happening.. nothing much actually…

i am still with the thought of a look makeover… have been switching between french cut beard.. a li’il bit of beard.. Nishant has specifically asked me to be clean shaven today or not come to the wedding…so… i guess.. i am going to look at myself clean shaved after quiet sometime today 🙂

what else… cannot think of anything..

just need to rush to the market to get a tie for myself !!! tmrw is my training pilot.. wish me luck !!!

kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahan pe…
do pal milte hain…
saath saath chalte hain..
jab mod aaye to bach ke nikalte hain…

kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahan pe…

Raina had this song in one of her posts sometime back !!!!

somehow this song makes so much sense… relations indeed are kinda strange… we meet people who are strangers… and become the best of friends… and then we have ppl who used be our closest pals.. and distances come in between from God knows where…

are these things controllable… yes to an extent… there is a lot that i can do to keep my pals with me…. oh.. let me correct myself… i can do a lot to keep myself close to my pals…

but then what happens when they do not make an effort…

anyway.. that is a rotten topic and i really am not in a mood to write more about that…

what i really wanted to write today.. was about new relationships that bring magic to your life… new people.. new smiles… new days… new evenings… 🙂 does it look like i am in love… hehehe.. it might feel that way.. but i am not…

i am outside love & relationships….and am trying to look at it from a outside world !!! Sunil got married yesterday, and we had a looong talk day before about how he was feeling about everything.. he was very very relaxed… and was very very happy too… and then he had so many reasons to be happy… and it felt really good to see someone who once used to study with me start another life !!!! and also be a part of one more life… ankita his wife (now) is a very lucky girl… Sunil is a mature guy.. and he understands how difficult it is for some girl to leave her house and start staying with ppl who are unknown !!!! and that too with a feeling that she would be judged almost with everything that she does… everything that she is going to do.. the minutest of the things would create an impression… how she walks in the house.. how she talks on the phone.. how is greets her new parents… everything… i think its very very tough !!!! just too tough for a human to think about !!! and so many of them go through it and a good percentage of it comes out of it happy !!!! God bless them !!!!

There is such a huge amount of responsibility that sunil and his wife are going to share now… a life that starts new !!! a life that needs them to be together come whatever may.. a life that promises to bring happiness… and with a condition… that they give each other space to breath… that they let each other speak their heart out… that they respect each other and the people they are and were associated with.. family friends relatives and wat not !!!!

at the end of the day they have to make sure that the other person looks forward to even one minute of time spent together !!! God bless you Sunil God bless Ankita !!! i hope they and all the couples in this world stay happy !!!!

and the good/bad girls who are still single.. and ready to mingle (please do NOT read “get married” ) send a message to me 😉

phone calls and sms.. they really give you what you want sometimes…

i got one sms last week.. i guess on thursday.. here is what i it said…

going to jim corbett.. kharcha approx 2400 bucks… leaving saturday…

and my reply which never went out of my cell.. i hate to type sms… was OK… however i made a call later and confirmed my presence for the trip…

the plan was to leave delhi on saturday early morning.. and be back by sunday evening.. it was going to be a quick getaway.. but then with the kinda guy i am.. anything outside this concrete jungle is fine with me… so i happily agreed.. even though i am running very very tight on cash… and Aro has helped me by letting me pay only 2000 bucks as of now.. and pay the rest when i want to… he will take care of my share as of now..

could not pack my stuff on friday because of a photo shoot late night… so came back around 0100 hrs.. and slept… i was really too tired to go ahead and pack my clothes.. thought will do it in the morning only…
Saturday… 0630 hours..

the murga on my cell phone starts screaming.. and i without wasting any time get up to get ready for my first visit to the well known JIM Corbett National Park !!!

i just fill my bag with one t-shirt, a pair of tracks.. one jacket and a shawl… that looked good enough… oh.. and not to forget my camera… 4 rolls.. and the tripod !!!!

left house at 0745 hrs to meet up the guys at Akshardham Flyover around 0800.. these guys were late and managed to pik me up at 0830 hrs only…. it was one of those cute Tempo Travellers that Aro had hired for this trip.. had seen a lot of them on my way to the Valley of Flowers.. guess a lot of sardars travel in these.. and call it coincidence… our driver was a Sardarji too… so a quick Sat Sri Akal… a brief round of into with Aro’s team… i only knew Ruchi and Sanjit… and had heard about Indranil… rest were new to me.. and i was new to them… lemme recall their names.. i was too caught up with myself in the next two days to remember any names… i think we had Shilpi, Priya, Adeesha and Ruchi with Sunny, IG, Harshit, Sanjit Aro…. i am missing out on one name here… and i think i do not remember one or two names correctly as well… anyway… so the bus.. or the tempo kept moving slowly towards our desitnation…

i was already bored because of the slow speed.. this was the same road that let me drive at a constant 90 kmph..and i was sitting right behind the driver causing more irritation when he was driving at 70 kmph… bigger vehicles seem to be running slowly then they really are as well..

we took the morabadab bypass and crossed it before we turned left towards the corbett which was still 95 kms away !!!

the road so far was just fine.. and from now it was going to get bad to worse.. kashipur had a diversion.. and it took us atleast an hour to get out of that town… we finally reached ramnagar… and asked for our resort which was the Corbett Nature Camp… about 10 kms from RamNagar we reached the camp around 1600 hrs… nice camp with cottages trying to look like huts… amongst the thick mango trees.. gave it a different look.. however i personally do not like places where they have to make a cottage look like a village… i have stayed in such huts real ones.. and i know how different it is from the artificial ones !!!

anyway… we kept our stuff in our respective cottages.. and what do i hear next… some loud music… phew… where the hell was that coming from.. and i soon found out that the kids there brought a speaker set complete with a sub-woofer with them !!! phew.. kids i tell you… i was out there looking for peace.. and it looked like i was not going to get it.. but then these were sensible kids and did not have the music very loud…

i was carrying only one extra pair of clothes.. so i just washed my face.. or maybe i did not.. and just grabbed the camera and went to the river side… there is this charm of being next to a river… lovely 1!! same feeling that i get near ganges in rishikesh.. just that this river was kinda small in comparison.. very small infact…

took some fotos… checked out the place around… decided that we have to cross the river on foot tmrw… and came back…had some snacks.. and just walked around… soon it was time for the bon fire… enjoyed it big time.. with antakshri being played between the girl and the boy teams…

i was given the task of capturing that on tape… with a handycam coz i was not singing… lovely competition… and some realy good moments.. such things make trips memorable…

had a nice dinner around 2030 hours and rushed to sleep….
our camp guy told us that we better be ready by 0430 hours if we wanted to enter the jungle at all… there was a huge rush of visitors thanks tothe weekend… i was not really taking the seriously but then getting up early was not a problem.. in anycase i prefer to sleep a li’il less on my trips… so after some talks with aro.. i slept… to wake up early morning !!!

Sunday 0345 hrs….

the murga again started screaming.. and i got up.. got fresh… i was sleepy yes… and theni heard some noises… and guess was everyone was awake… strange… looks like everyone was excited about the safari.. very very interesting !!!

woko aro up… his phone’s alarm also rang.. some irritating alarm that is i tell you… we were all ready by 0430 to go to the safari…. the gypsys were already there… and when were moved towards the entrance that is when i realised how serious the camp coordinator was…
we overtook atleart 4 jeeps.. and were pushed behind by 3 of them… it was more of a race that these jeeps were involved in… why.. lemme tell you…

Ram-Nagar gate… only 30 jeeps allowed in the morning… 15 of them get the booking atleast a month in advance…the rest 15 get the numbers by standing atthe gate at 0100 hrs…
Jhirna… first 30 jeeps allowed inside the jungle… first come first serve basis… and this is the gate that we had to reach… our driver shakeel was good.. and we were the 4th jeep !!!

a wait of about 80 minutes… me realising that i was hungry… and that i had to take lotsa snaps…. and that i was at the gate of a great place…. the gates opened… the registration was done by the driver… so no hassles there… as soon as we entered we stood up on our seats so that we do not miss anything…

and were lucky… ya seriously…
just 10 minutes into the safari.. and we spot a huge deer… with biiiiiiiiig horns… and one of the girls in the jeep got too excited… and started shouting… deer deer deer.. i guess that frightened the hell out of that lovely fella.. and he ran back into the bushes…

and that is where our luck came to an end…
i do not actually mind that now.. coz i think there was some aura in that jungle that did not make me miss the animals much… i was spellbound by the beauty of the entire place….

hey but wait.. there was a tiger around…

Shakeel, our driver… suddenly stopped and said that he heard a call… stupid me.. i thought he was talking about a mating call of some deers… turned out that it was the alarm call of deers when they see a tiger…. we took a u turn.. and waiting silently and patiently around the place where the call was coming from… the noises kept getting louder… we heard the deers, the monkeys.. and birds… but did not see the tiger.. neva mind.. the excitement of getting to see one was good enough !!!

the safari continued for another 2.5 hours… and i enjoyed it big time… i love that jungle !!!

back to the camp around 1000 hrs… me and aro had a quick breakfast… and then we moved towards the river.. this time to cross it somehow… we had to walk about 800 metres upstream to find a suitable place to cross it… and when we were both in the middle of the river.. we noticed some village women crossing it from a few metres further upstream with ease.. while we were struggling to keep our balance in place with the camera and tripod with us.. and the shoes hanging over our necks !!! adding more to the embarrassment.. two kids crossed the river in 5 minutes flat when we were about to reach the other side.. and that too in water that was just knee deep… uff !!! what idiots we were…. waist deep in water… lost balance several times.. barely saved ourself from falling inside the water… or call it an adventure… whatever 😀

now we walked downstream again.. to reach the huge stone that aro wanted to sit on… and that meant walking through the water again.. though i was not too keen to do that… but thanks to Aro’s will i managed to cross half the river again.. and this time it was pretty easy… and reach that stone.. what a feeling.. accompalishment !!!!

we were Gods 😀

anyway… we stayed there on the stone.. for about 15 minutes… before we started back to the other side… walk up 800 metres… and this time cross the river in a better and more balanced way… and then walk 800 metres downstream and then climb up to reach the camp !!! done… back at the camp !!! smart guys with wet pants….

had lunch !!! and moved out of the camp around 1400 hrs… we headed straight to the corbett falls.. about 33 kms away… and then had to move to delhi via bajpur, rudrapur moradabad….. Corbett falls was beaituful.. nice li’il waterfall in the middle of nowhere !!!! loved that place… we moved out of there before it was stormed by a group of kids… from some school in ramnagar…

the journey back home started around 1730 hours… and i reached home at 0130 hrs.. we took two breaks in between.. one in bajpur… and one to have our dinner @ gajraula !!!

lovely trip this was…. i think i have covered mostof the exciting places around delhi with this trip of mine…. where do i go next !!!

Jodhpur? Lanesdown? Dharamshala? Mandi? Tehri?

lets see…. May God be with us !!!!

Life is strange..

and stranger is the way you change you look at it from every milestone that you reach in your life…

when you are 21 you feel that ppl who are 27 boring.. and should settle down and not interfere or give GYAN on what you should be doing and what you should not.. you wonder why most of them are so serious.. when its time to play…

and when you are 27 you find it hard to understand why someone who is 21 has to talk all the time.. why can’t you just think and ponder over what you want to do in your life for a moment… why can’t you have your own goals in life clear….

i think we forget that we were also 21 sometime back…

i know when i was still in college, i was of the most stupid ppl around.. i did not have a clue about the industry.. what i wanted to do in my life.. except that i wanted a job in the software field… and do what? no, i did not know that either… strange !!! and today i wonder why these young adults cannot act more responsibly and learn from what ppl a li’il older have been through…

anyway.. i have grown with time.. and i am sure most of them would also live and learn to be where they should be with age… but then.. you do not have any control on growing old.. but definitely growing up is a something that happens because of yourself….

another thought that has been coming to my mind for the last few days…

what is attractive?
yes i am talking about myself and what i feel attractive in the opposite sex…

looks.. yes… but offlate i have seen myself getting attracted towards the nicer looking dames… but not really being keen to talk to them…

but then girls who i feel can talk.. and i can get into conversations with, i find that they are far more attractive then any beauty queen !!! the intelligence that some of them have gives then far more charm then a hourglass figure would !!!