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Was just reading my blog today…. its fun to see what all you’ve gone through in the past… and when you have something you write yourself… it becomes all the more interesting….

Just thought of searching all my posts about my car…. why.. coz she is something closest to my heart right now….

here is how i went ahead…

Test Drove and read about Some Cars

Test Drove a Palio

Got the Car

How I felt one day after

And when i got my music system….

I have come a long way from there… almost 13000 kms actually.. and there is a long way to go ahead too…. lets see how it goes !!!!

May God be with me !!!

You choose a career path for yourself… and your superiors do not let you go ahead with it.. instead you are asked to do what they think is right… coz you have prior experience in that field…. how well would you take it…

– Would a manager go back to a team lead position just because he was doing good as a team lead?
– Would a Ops Head get down to a senior manager position because he did pretty well at their position…

i mean what the heck… just because the previous firm and the profile that you were with matches with the next… you are put back to doing what you left in the first place…

some wild corporate world this is !!!!

Some memories of the ODM-II in the form of a collage… I had a great time with this gang … God Bless them…

I am officially a PUGGER now…

hehehe.. sounds funny…. well.. its not.. its kinda interesting… Pugger comes from a word PUG, which is the short form for Palio Users Group… this is a group about 800 people strong… and as clear from the name is of ppl who own palios and are passionate about them too…

Why am i an official pugger… because i have a sticker which says PUG on my car now… it also says Not Drivers, Only Lovers… and that is so bloddy true… we all are in love with our palios.. be it a 1.2 OV, or a 1.2 NV or the superb 1.6 GTX or the damn sexy s10 or the 1.6 Adventure…

Today was PUG Delhi Meet Chapter -II… we were expecting more.. but.. 6 people manage to turn up…

I was not late… and managed to reach there at 1000 hrs sharp shortly followed by Ashwani, who is an editor with The Times of India, and then by Shobhit, who works for Sapient in their HR Arm… i managed to talk to Ashwani before Shobhit came in about some of the things that i did not have a clue about.. the air filter, fuel filter… servicing knick knacks… and then came Deb, who i guess is still studying… and then Anirban came in… he works for Wipro in Marketing…

Took a good number of fotos..

and talked a lot about the cars.. the good the better and the best of Palios…the dealers.. the things to take care of … technology.. and 100s of other things… which told me how passionate ppl could be about the vehicles they own… its rare to see in india… most of us just buy a car.. to take us from point A to point B… in comfort and the least amont of Fuel… anyway… this was a group which was different..

moved to the Great Kabab Factory in sector-18 after a good 2 hours of convos in the parking lot in sector-18… and the appetite for conversation about the cars was taken care of along with the excellent food served…

came back at 1600 hours, happy and excited about the new set of stickers pasted on mycar.. which DECLARE it as a member of the PUG and me as a PUGGER 🙂 I had a great time with the rest of the gang.. and am really looking forward to a lot of such meets….

oh and yes… I forgot to mention… we are getting the cars serviced together at the Dynamic Auto, in NOIDA next sunday… might just be a good move to tell the service centre that there is a strong customer force behind Palios and they cannot affort to take anyone lightly anymore !!!

Happy driving everyone… and wear your seat belts…

Why are we guys like this !!!!

I have experienced this twice now… one of my good friends… well i call her a good friend coz she has been around to hear me out when i had anything to speak…. she was not feeling well for the last few days.. and i called her up yesterday… the talk went nicely.. and then she said… Prashant.. i need to talk to you… being the super intelligent i am .. i asked her if this was the last time we were talking… and then she said “KINDA”…. i mean.. what does kinda mean… its either the last time.. or its not.. anyway…

why this happened… here is why… she has a boyfriend… and he probably is not comfortable with the two of us being friends… insecurity… trust… faith… whatever…. though he is nice enough not to say that in clear words to this friend of mine… however… in subtle words the message was shared.. and she took the right decision… for her its HE who should be more important and talking to me … or being friends with me is something that is not that high on the list…

lost another friend… for no fault of mine… the last time it had happened was when i was in Hughes… a friend of mine called up one fine day… and toldme that Prashant Manish is not really comfortable with us talking… and she would never talk to me again.. and i let go !!!!

Guys… why are we like this… why can’t we accept that our girlfriends can also have friends… why do we bloddy act like this… and i am not excluding myself from the list.. i probably am like that only…

possesive

insecure

anyway…. i just hope things just work out fine for both of them… coz if they do not … this guy needs a serious kick in his butt !!! that girl is giving up her nature for him… she is changing herself for him.. he must be one helluva guy… am i jealous.. yeah… i think i am… am i angry… yes i am ….

would i let go…

YES I WILL

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And the credit to bring this to my notice goes to my dear friend Ms. Deepali Gambhir…

Jerk….

usually refered to as something that you experience while on the road…
not the one which happens because of sudden acceleration or slowing down… not the one which happens because of pot-holes on the road…

but the one who meets u when you are driving…
the one who would change a lane without any signals…
the one who is proud of the fact that he is driving on the wrong side… and fast as well…
the one who is pround of the fact that no intersection would slow him down…
the one who is happy with entering a fast lane from a small street lane and surprise the ppl driving on that road…
the one who sees that that the ppl in front of him on a traffic-signal are moving but would still honk his horn as if there were evil spirits trying to catch him…
the one who is sure that he has to overtake from the left only…
the one who does not know the difference between high beams and low beams.. and makes sure that he is driving in the high beam only…

I salute you JERK !!! May God bless you…. and save yourself from me…coz if i manage to catch you sometime… you really need HIM to save your ass !!!

on second thoughts.. i decided to google the word… and here are a few interesting things that i found about the JERK…

A jerk is basically a person without insight. He is not necessarily a fool or a dope, because some extremely clever persons can be jerks. In fact, it has little to do with intelligence as we commonly think of it; it is, rather, a kind of subtle but persuasive aroma emanating from the inner part of the personality.

A jerk, then, is a man (or woman) who is utterly unable to see himself as he appears to others. He has no grace, he is tactless without meaning to be, his is a bore even to his best friends, he is an egotist without charm.

The slang term jerk meaning ‘a stupid person’ first appeared in 1919, according to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, and became popular in the 1930s, when it was glossed in the American Mercury as ‘eccentric fellow; fool’. It is a shortened form of jerkwater, which, in the 19th century, was a remote station where a locomotive had to “jerk” water from a water tower to fill its tender.

Jerk : An unpleasant, tiresome person: bore. Slang drip, dweeb, nerd, pill, poop.

Dunno how many of us saw it on TV yesterday… I did..

and i was disgusted with what happened… almost cried with anger… the way the policemen were beating up the workers @ Honda… merciless… takes away all my faith in that deparment… there were clips being shown over and over again as to how the Lathis of the policemen were being showered on hundreds of ppl…. disgusting… one big BLACK day in the history of Gurgaon and Haryana Police.. not to forget the pain that the people who were beaten up are going through… and their relatives who at time are struggling to find out where their loved ones are….

it all starting with the 4 workers being dismissed.. i have a few friends at HMSI, they were talking about some protests going on for the last month and a half… Honda has suffered major losses in that time period.. and after what happened yesterday.. i have serious doubts about how the things would get back to normal…

Shame on the Administration of Gurgaon, Shame on the Police Department of Gurgaon… Shame on those ppl who will generate some political mileage out of it instead of trying to improve the situation.

I am late in writing what happened… and why… thanks to my machine at home.. which chose to freeze just 2 minutes before i wanted to post the message… no no.. i was not writing online.. i had written everything in a notepad… and this time.. this did not work out… anyway… here i am again.. about my thoughts on the ODM Chapter-II

I was late… well that is not usual… i hate being late or waiting for ppl who are not on time… but time was just flying as i had a number of things on my agenda for saturday.. completing some work in office… then conduction a training and a refresher, and then fixing the rear speakers of my car.. and then getting a rear curtain in the car.. and then rushing to CCD, CP for the ODM-II… hehehe this looks funny.. lemme elaborate.. rushing to Cafe Coffee Day in Connaught Place for the Orkut Delhi Meet-II.

well i was a good 30 minutes late… and i had Aseem, Bhaskar, Deepak and Akshay waiting there…
Aseem, I have known for a while….
Bhaskar, I have met once in ODM-I.. we had the meeting on the 1-Apr-05
Deepak, was not a stranger thanks to the convos we had over our scrapbooks and the Delhi community in Orkut
Akshay, was the new kid on the block, a 3rd year Engineer Student from IIT Chennai.

The usual round of introductions followed… and then we decided to pool in some moolah to avoid any confusions about who’s spending what… and how… so Deepak became the Munshiji… and we handed over the money to him…

had not eaten anything since morning and enjoyed my favorite Iced Eskimo there.. with a veg sandwhich… with the rest of the gang enjoying wat they wanted… Aseem here told a nice small story about how he got confused with the various flavours of Hot Coffee when he came there the first time… hehehe.. even i enhanced my knowledge about what is Mochachino and what is Cappachino there… for me it still remains hot coffee….

and then came in Bharti maidam… with Rahul… the only chick.. oops.. girl to join the meet… and brought with her.. yes yes!! along with Rahul.. a lot of smiles and giggles…

Met Bharti for the second time…. she is a nice chirpy gal.. with lotsa laughs… and Rahul… welll he looked like a calm composed guy… and later i found out that he was an MBA and looking forward to joining the Army… i am sure he is going to be a good Army man… God bless…

the conversations more or less revolved around fotos and cameras in CCD as we had three cams… ok 4… hehehe.. Aseem also had his Nokia 6600 which has a fairly decent camera… and the rest of them were with Bhaskar ( a fuji, finepix.. good small point and shoot digicam), Deepak ( an advanced, 5 mp Panasonic Digicam, which i btw found a li’il difficult to use… i really need manuals before i can use such gadgets… i do not think i took any good fotos from that cam… though Deepak was really good with them) and then my conventional Canon 3000v SLR ( I am really comfy using this.. i feel it gives me more flexibility then any digicam, i might be wrong.. but then… thats what i feel)…

ok back to the ODM-II… Bharti and Rahul had to leave… they had to pick someone up i guess.. and we 5 also decided to move to someplace which was quieter then CCD… and what could have been better then Pragati Maidan… wide open roads, greenery, and peace… all was available there… spent sometime there… looking at my Valley of Flowers trip… clicking some pictures… and managing 6 passes of Euphoria.. yes.. the band was to play there… some conference arranged by an insti called Pie Education… for engineering aspirants.. however.. we did not go there… time constraints..

and moved to CP again… and this time to Cafe 100… inner circle.. had some more fotos taken… and some convos about Delhi being the rape capital of india.. to how media gets the mileage outta these things.. and why some Political Parties were now realising that Aishwarya Rai is their sister and they will take Salman to the jail coz he mistreated their sister…

well… we ate and drank.. and then decided to call it a day… actually a wonderful day… Aseem and Deepak moved towards his car.. Bhaskar and Akshay went ahead to take the Metro.. and i took out my car to reach home… what a day it had been… loved it… and this is how the ODM Chapter-II came to an end….

lets see when do we have another ODM… the chapter-III… lets see where… and when..

I have a friend… =>i am sure you also have a lot of them…

she is in love( no not with me.. i am a pure third party here.. not involved in the mess)…=>i am sure you friends also love someone or the other…

the guy she loves does not reciprocate… =>i am sure you know what that feels like…

the guy she loves is a very good friend… takes care of her.. likes to talk to her… spend time with her.. but when she confessed her love to him he told her that he could not love her… ( could not… what does that mean)… and that he was feeling guilty for not being able to reciprocate and that he just could not think of a relationship for sometime..( very valid points…) he wants to think about his career at this time ( he should do that… its important).. and that he could not get married for the next 4 years ( ok.. so that timeline is set too!!) => i am sure this sounds like something you have heard or seen or witnessed or felt sometime or the other…

now coming to the issue we have been discussing for the past couple of days… she wants to get out of the feeling of love for him.. but is not able to… i asked her what is she doing to get away from the feeling.. here is what she told me..
prashant, i think about not messaging him.. but i end up SMSing…
prashant, i think about not talking to him.. but i end up TALKing…
prashant, i think about not thinking about what he did.. why he did…but i end up THINKing…

my response… my dear, every sentence that you said ends with a verb related to him only… so invariably you are doing what you are running away from… and to really avoid this… start thinking about things which end up differently… like…
i think about reading books…
i think about watching TV…
i think about walking…
i think about learning guitar…

i feel that none of these things are related to anyone outside her ownself.. its about her… and would stay about her…

why do ppl get so irrational when they think they love someone… ( include me here, the prashant about 1.5 years back… madly hooked to a girl, used to be like this…) I will talk about this sometime later… things which we do in love… and how concern becomes pestering… how questions become lack of privacy and independence…

getting back to what i started the post with….do you think i gave her the right opinion…. why do u think someone would not like the person who likes him or her.. and if (s)he does not.. then what can the other person do… after being rejected !!!