Sunday, December 02, 2007

If at all this phase ends ?

Not that, I am waiting desperately for this phase to go away....

Often times I just wonder does this phase ever ends ?
The phase when yu think of learning/doing/preparing for "something" so as to attain your "Next Brand New GOAL", yeah isnt it True, this crippy beast name "GOAL" just keeps on changing. It manifests itself in such not so forgettable manner that , more than often times, we tend to keep working towards it.

I do not recall exactly how hard my mom-dad must have tried to to get me into this studying business when I was a kid and by kid I mean a real kid like KG1 - KG2 types. From whatever lil I know about myself, one thing is for sure, I was definitely not one of those top ranking nerds in class. I was one of thos Back-Benchers who often shared the "Taaj" for "Baata-meej_kala_dhabba kind kids.

Its been a long journey since then. So much has gone by, nd so much is yet to come,
Yet I believe, only one thing has remained constant, DESIRE to do "something"...
This somehting word has gone places and makes me go places.

It was my dad who used to instruct me about this "entity".
Things have changed since then and now its me, myself who is searching for that next "something". More than the search it is more of a realisation in process .....

I wonder does this ever ends ? Does this search for that lil something ever reaches its "final destination" !!! I wish it does. Life without that lil something is goona be so boring with only mundane stuff to be taken care of.

As much as I always need the NEXT GOAL in my mind, I also wish to bath in the joy of my current Destination, coz no matter how small it might seem right now, it was once my "NEXT SOMETHING"

Sunday, November 04, 2007

HUMANMETRICS ...

Hey guys..
Just came accross this link and thought Ill share it wid yu.

You might have seen like a billion os such links..but the explanation these guys gave was amazing.

Chk it out for yurself.
http://humanmetrics.com/


Heres what they said for me :)
http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=2&c=provider

and here
http://typelogic.com/esfj.html


Current Song :" Tumse hi "
Tum se hi


Cheers ...

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Bhule Bisre Geet ....:P 22) Yeh Andar ki baat hain

It was a serene riverwalk today, calm and peacefull, but dint really last for long :)
Soon we were laughing and getting all nostalgic ( tho not that sad nostalgic but happy nostalgic), and now without any more ado Ill take you straight to the topic..

Old advertisements !!! and by that I mean age old ads, that used to come on Doordarshan. Slowly Doordarshan went away and Star / Zee / Sony stepped in. Interestingly they totally took care of the Adversiment tradition.

I remember those days when we guys used to flip channels during those 2 min add breaks. Now I fail to understand, that, what was the fun in doing that but I can bet, everyone in his/her age did tat. And not even a single parent exits on the face of this earth who dint shout for that 2 min channel surfing :D

Here are some of them which I am sure can bring back some sweet memories for you.
It did work for me :)

How about this...
I give yu the theme and yu try to rack your brains and tell me what they stand for :D


1) Yeh "-------------" ka majboot jod hai ...
tootega nahi !!!!
( **rembr that Bus filled with a zillion pple on it ** )

2)Aaj kal toh bade chaahye hue ho TV pe , "---------" aur kyaa kyaa
Jee Shukryaa .
Vahaan toh kehte ho kee hameshaa tayaar rehtaa hoon , aaj kahaan hai tumhaaraa dibba?(One popular interviewer on TV ...forgot his name)
Toh yeh kyaa hai
Ek se kyaa sub ko khilaaoge( A Female )
Toh aap bhee leejiye
Arey saab meraa kyaa hogaa (*A TALL MAN *)
Toh aap do leejiye
AUR MERE LIYE(**AN EVEN TALLER MAN WITH BEARD **)
Jalaal takes out the complete strip of pouches from his pocket .

hehehe


3) The ad in which the kid runs away from home and the maali sees him at the station. The maali tells him ki "maa ne jalebi banai hai".... The drooling kid says .. "jalebiii"
He gets home and he is eating the jalebis and his mom asks him.. "abh bhaag ke nahi jaana kya?"
While eating the jalebis the kid says.. "jaana toh hai...."
And his dad says... "haan.. lekin bees-pachees saal baad"

( now that was really really sweet ..aint it)

4)
Aur yeh match kee aakhri gaynd
Aur yeh lagaa sixer
"-----" fir vijayee huee.
"-----" , khoob likhaayee
Isne lambi umar hai paayee.
Bonded lead vaaleee "-----"

5)
Meri jaan meri jaan murgi ke ande
khana meri jaan meri jaan murgi ke ande
omlette khilaoo fried khilaoo boiled khilaoo
khilaoo murgi ke murgi ke ande hi ande.

6)
Jab mai chota ladka thaa
badi sharaarat kartaa tha
meri chori pakdi jaati
Jab roshan hota "----"

Ab mai bilkul buda hoon
goli khaa kar jeeta hoon
meri chori pakdi jaati
Jab roshan hota "----"


7) How about this :
Khoob jamega rang, jab mil baithenge teen yaar, aap main aur ....

hehe now that ad definitely makes sense :D

8) hahaa and I really liked this one..

"jyada khaogee.. mot ho jaogee...
I dont care.... " I DONT CARE ...

hhaahha guess kafi ladkiyon ki favrt line bhi ban gayi thi !!

9)
"Yeh Andar ki baat hain"

hehehe :P

10)
the buland bharat ki buland tasveer .....hamara "-----"
( it was a good fmaily addddd )

11) Hum "------------" peene waalon ki baat hi kuchh aur hai....

12)
Aayi aayi "----" ki bahar
"-----" toothpaste se hum subko hain pyar
Daton ka ye dost hain, masoodon ka yeh yaar
Swad bhi dekho kitni taaza kitni khusboodaar.

13)arey yeh ..."----" nahi janta :D hehee

14)
kya tum mujh se shadee karogee?
shadee aur tumse kabhi nahin :X :P

15)Dhundte rah jaoge -----------------"

16)
pyaar hua ikraar hua hai
pyaar se phir kyun darta hai dil :P

17) now this one was really really nice...one gal dancing around i blve..
"Kuchh khaas hai..hum sabhi mein... kuchh baat hai..zindagi mein...khaas hai...baat hai...kya swaad hai..."

18)How about this bit crooked ad :P
Grandmother to daughter - "Aga kay zhaala?" (what happened?)
Mother to granddaughter -" Bal radat hota" (baby was crying)
Grandmother-"De tyala kanpativar...tu lahan astana me pun tula Kanpatat marat hoti"

hahahah obviosuly they dint say that in the actual one :P

19)KARRAM KURRAM.....hein hein hein( one ugly man with real bad teeths laughs and eats....)
( lets see who comes up with this one hehehe :P )

20) dekho bhul na jana "-----" lana

and heres the last one ( I guess )..
21)Dikhavon pe na jao. Apni akal lagao.


Current Mood: Already smilling with this blog on cards
Current Song: Teri Aaakhen Bhool bhulaaiyan ( I am loving this song )

chk this out..
http://www.dhingana.com/albums.php?value=MjQ2NA%3D%3D

I love the original song..its kinda notty.,...
and the other one ..remix is total masti..
**chk out "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMdRVZovyhg"
( I ll play this song on my engmnt in any case and make a point to get down on floor and dance )

alrite...Peace :)

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Being Contended ....

It was only yesterday that I was sitting in the Lab at South Carolina and getting done with some programming assignemnt or more so preparing for midterm....nd its tday. So much has gone by so much has already occurred and looks like much more is about to :)

From being jobless to working in one of the well known financial firm ...from wasting time in the worthless conversations to talking to real life Clients ( Bloomberg Clients )...from being SINGLE to being Committed, everything has changed , and Luckily , changed for the better.

Though, every change in the life style has lead to some change in my personality, the biggest change has been the one from SINGLE - > Committed status. It all feels different. It all feels wonderful. Life looks more stable to me now.

From a mere orkut frnd-> Yahoo chat -> phone conversations..it just clicked.
and I am utmost happy that IT DID.

For now I feel really really content with all that has happened. It couldn't have been any more better. Just wanted to jot down this feeling that I am having rite now...this feeling of being contended with what I am ....what I have...everything..

One fine day in future, I would want to read this and feel contended then , about being contended all the way .............


Cheers.

Mood : Contended :)
Song : Strangely, this video channel just played, Somebody's me, by Enrique, Sweet song.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Was that ...9/11 again !!!!

First thought that ran thru my mind "Ooooh My god..Is it 9/11 again. ? "
nd I would be lying if I say that I was alone when that chill ran down my spine.

Its 5 25 pm here at 59 th street. I come down to my office exit, walk out of the building and all I see is people lined up, shouting , few running around, cops patrolling. I turn around and all I see is SMOKE....Its 42nd street - Lex Avenue ( Times Square around if that rings a bell ). Man whatever it was, it made us think ...and we guys shouted ....DONT TELL ME...... 9/11 again !!!

Fortunately in two mins it was clear it wasnt the case that some high rise was comin down. Gave us a ray of hope , We are SAFE. But all the traffic was down , pple running around like crazy , shouting for help , cop cars blaring loud alarms, all those beaming lights flashing ! It was crazy , it was scary. People were vacating the whole area.One of our friends suggested we better leave the area and head back home and be safe. More than half of our gang agreed but for two guys. How could I possibly leave the area w/o knowing what was going on ...w/o checking out the whole scene from like real close ! Thankfully I had one mre crazy guy in our grp who dint want to go home bt NEAR that SMOKY area. So off we were in a flash. It all happened in a whisker, some of us left for home, two guys decided to stay back thr and watch whats going on and me nd my frnd decided to head towards the actual SITE.

Traffic Blocked. more than half of them were running away from the "area" but we two were not the only two crazy guys around, we had other bunch of people who were also heading in the not-so-correct direction. in 10 mins around we were at 44 st street and was it not, one hell of a moment. All yu can see in front or rather you cant see is the Chrysler Building ( guess more than 50 Floor high ) coz its totally engulfed in smoke. Apparently one of the transformer below had exploded. The amount of smoke made it clear that it was not a normal step up/dwn one but some massive piece of shit. Along with that, one steam carrying pipeline also exploded and so things were going outa hand. Before we knew, the area was a mess. Everyone scatterd, hundreds of ambulance, thousands of cops with all the honking horns and atleast a dozen Choppers circling the area. It wasnt a total 9/11 thing but nothing less than that. Everyone was fearing if some building is comin down !!! It was crazy and scared the shit out of everyone.

Whole of the area was covered with Cops, reporters, life guards, special force cops and choppers..It was kinda disastrous look with all the smoke and steam climbing up the buildings.
I took video/ pics which ill soon upload.

The whole thing continued for about 2 hours with cops pushing further the Barricade limits and reporters taking onsite interviews and giving it total MOVIE like look( volcano/ earthquake types) with only difference that LIFE TOLL was real in this case :( . Though its being said that incident resulted in one casualty and 20 injured, still its goona be only tomrw morning when things bcme clear.

It was a event that did shook us. It was totally worth witnessing. This third angle narration is just not comparable to the 1st angle view that we had. They arent lying when they say ," NY>>>its one hell of a happening place."

It all looks different and worth witnessing now, with all excitemnt and glamour ......now that we are SAFE.....I wonder wat would have been the case during 9/11 .

Monday, July 09, 2007

Whos yur daddiess

It reminds me of the time when we used to play "Play Station" back in our Masters busy schedule !!! every time we played this game (four at a time ) with all that shouting and enthusiasm nd leg pulling, the guy who used to fire the best shot or shoot the max number of targets used to shout... "heyyy...WHOS yur Daadies " and
others are like " aey rook rey next game me mil ...tu aa bas ..tu aa to :P "
never really knew how much imp this phrase was..

Anyways the reason I bring up this is for a reason.
Today on the way back home I met this guy in subway ..Desi working with me on the same floor that I do. We got into discussion about Bloomberg and y we are working for the company.....why what where and all. I came to know that this guys from IIM - C. nd I always respect these IIM guys..those sharp shoooters and those people who do good in these kinda exams and shine rite in thr childhood...always wanted to be one of them but apparently I was not up to my studies back then ! Neways these guys always stand inspring to me in thr own lil ways..

I was a lil surprised to see a IIM guy working for Bloomberg that too in S/W side !!! so we had this discussion and man ..was I not impressed. These guys are just too much .

They precisely know what they want from thr life..
They totally understand how they need to work on the current to get to thr future ..
They JUST KNOW IT .

not that I dont know what m doing or whr m going...bt they just impress me .

Thr is just enugh to learn from each and every one of them. Well the fact is recently I was getting this vicarious feeling that yeah its going good with me and probably I have attained what I wanted to !!! probably m standing good the place whr I am !!!

bt yu know what its always good to talk to these guys who are yu know SMART and who are always fired up ..yu get to know that come what may...do whatever yu can ..attain all the success that yu can ....be as happy as yu can about yurself...

yu will always find sme1...who can say ..whos yur daddies :)

Guess its always goona stay with me/us

find yur daddies pple...will help yu scale higher n higher in life !

Thursday, June 28, 2007

rite from my room....






olrite so this is my apmnt..took this pic form my window...I love to be over here and laze around. blve me it only gets nicer as the evening fades and night dawns..



Garden...Tennis courts...and the riverfront...
The hut thats visible rite away is the best place to have a dinner with anarrangement for Barbecue parties....(yet to have one)








Cheers !!








...







I wud rather leave it up to you to comment on
this one.....







The reason Y I stay ...where I stay...
Most of the evenings/nights I love to walk along the river. They call it RiverFront. This is undoubtedly one of the best things that has ever happened to me.







Liberty Closeup

few pics...

So I was just roaming around my place here at Newport and clicked these....







View of Downtown Nyc and Hudson running alongside.







Midtown City..thats Empire state ...the tall slender one.











The third island ...thats the Liberty



Wednesday, June 20, 2007

nd ...

In the midst of of all the hustle..in the midst of all masti and pleasure

a day comes when yu call up back home and despite of all the good times and good htings to share...mom shares her weeping with yu...coz she is missing yu and in that soaked voice she tries to say...nikhil kadhi yeto rey bala wapas.. :(((((

nd suddenly all the good times and good things and achievements stand infront of me..staring rite in my eyes...

Atleast I can write it out and say it loud and clear...she cant even do that :(

Monday, June 11, 2007

Cognitive Disidence....

I came across this term today and at first I dint really realise the importance and probably the role this phrase plays in our lives ..

Cognitive : conscious intellectual activity ,having knowledge of
Disidence : strong disagreement and outright opposition

so together it goes something like this:
Yu know that what you are doing is wrong ..your cognizance says it strongly "IT S WRONG" but yu still do it

Is it now true ?

How many times did yu know that I am not doing the Rite thing...Yet yu end up doing the WRONG.

*It all started with those exam cheat sheets or else those homework copying.
*We progressed from those small lies that we told our parents to those big ones whr we took our gf's out for dinner or viceversa ....late nite partying..leave apart drinking
*Falling for the wrong pple , justbcoz they were beautiful/handsome and not giving importance for WHAT THEY REALLY ARE !!
*Taking decisions just because they felt RITE at that point of time , totally knowing the fact that they arent the best ones
*studying when it was most needed
*Being with parents when they wanted yu most

Its so true :)

I wonder if one fine sunny day we get rid of this term ...






Thursday, June 07, 2007

Home Theater

I think m crazy....or at least behave crazy at times....

Done a bit with arranging stuff at new place today and was already feeling too happy....:)

nd just now I connected my home theater system ..
nd I totally agree when they say ...."Life is all about extracting happiness outa small things "

Its all about being happy ...njoyin every moment...

Rite now its around 12 at nite and have to go to office tmrw morning bt I dont think m goonaa sleep soon...its time for some nice n SENTI songs ppls :)

Hope yu guys are also happy in yur own lil World.... :)

Rite now its playing... " Kya mujhe pyaaar hai ....aaaha aaha "
hehe

Sunday, June 03, 2007

On a very happy note...

So many things have been goin on in the past 3-4 weeks...Too many trips...Texas - Florida - Boston...and too many events.

Though each of them were special in thr own subtle ways...I think the best thing that today makes me so happy is my new HOME....

YES I have shifted to this new place and am really busy arranging the place and all my stuff.
This feeling of starting it all over is just above everything..The place is too beautiful.

I just want to book a ticket and call my mom over here and ask her what she thinks :) She wud be so happy to see me here ...in this contended state.

Welcome aboard Nikhil..


Cheers to the place :)

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Office chat room..

Generally I keep myself online on gtalk while m in office.
Often one gets bored and feels like taking to frnds and gtalk just helps me curb this desire of mine :) . Luckily Rahul( my frnd : TCS ) is also online at about same times.

I chat with a dozen people on various topics..may be just casual at times but we two ( rahul and I ) talk like for whole day on any damn topic..anything...and today it was just too much...simply too much..The chat log talks more about the free time and the various ways in which we can utilise the free time !!!!

Disclaimer: Plz dont even think of guessing our age/status/designation/background or for that matter..anything about us from this chat log(excerpt) :

me: aey betelall
aaj bobde aala aahe NY la
aamhi bhetnar
maja karnaar
aamchi ter gammat
Rahul: oooooooooooo
buuuuuuuuuuum
kaya maja karnar sang na plz
plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
me: nahi ba
Rahul: :(((((((
me: ka mhanun
Rahul: muuummmmmmmyyyyyy
4:35 PM me: aey cheap
sala
cheapeast
Rahul: hehehe
sang mag
me: me nahi sangnar
kaay karshil
Rahul: me aaila sangil majhya!
ani tujhya pan
ani babana pan
4:36 PM mag gela bacchu tu :P
me: asa nako karu na pliz
4:37 PM pleez
pleaasssssszzzzzzzz
Rahul: mag sang barya bolani bacchu
nahi tar gela mhanun samajh
me: me challo
kahi pan kar tu aata
4:38 PM Rahul: vichar karun ghe ekda
mag nanter nako mhanshil
sangital nahi mhanun
GANDU!
GANDU!
4:39 PM me: jastichi shaan nako maru
Rahul: tu nako karu jastichi beta
shanpatti
asa inga dakhvil na tula\
mag radshil aai aai karun
4:40 PM me: tuch radshil
aata tu ja bara
mala raag yeto aahe
Rahul: tu ja
me ka jau
me: haha
ahhaa
ahha
a
mai jar aa
Rahul: :D
me: pagal ho gaya haio tu
Rahul: hehehehehe
me: bhagwan bachaoo
4:41 PM Rahul: bachpan ki yaaden :)
me: teri hongi
:D
Rahul: hehe
merich hain :)
me: meirch hehe
Rahul: tu itne jaldi ja raha hain office se?
me: nahi be
but jaldi jaaonga
Rahul: phir?
kamine!!
me: 5 ko nikalne ka soch rahahu
Rahul: hum log bole ki ticket jaldi le to majane ka!!
aur sala Bobs se milne ko 5 baje~!
4:42 PM me: haha 5 baje ja raha 4 baje nahi n
Rahul: thik hain betelaal
tu humko bola kitne baar ki 6 k pahle nikalana IMPOSSIBLE!
me: bobde hai be
tum kaha
Rahul: isiliye 9 ki ticket karta hain
hao re
samajh gaya
me: bomba
boomb nako karu
ekach deil
Rahul: jau de
thik aahe
4:43 PM maarun pan ghr
ghe*
me: ghabarla ki nahi
Rahul: kay mhananar
ghabarlo nahi
pan aaplya lokanshi maramari hot nahi
mhanun maar khnayat bhalai aahe
me: arey abaap rey


hahaha and by now m sure yu know what we were and are !!!

Bole to choti choti baaton me njoy karne ka and khush rehne ka :)
If yu guys have a better topic to discuss then pls let us know and we wud give it a SERIOUS thought..

kharch deo ho :)

Cheers...

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Worst day in past 3 months...

Nd it cant get any more worse than this...

How wud yu feel if yu write for about 35 mins, a big big post and then suddenly your Laptop hungs up on you !!!!!!

nd yeah to add to it it was sunday night and I was dying to sleep but had this inner urge to write about da good weekend that I had.

Jiyo mere windows ..jug jug jiyo :)

Friday, May 11, 2007

Thinking -----

I always come across this issue. As a matter of fact I believe everyone does...

Thinking.....how are we supposed to do that...


Heart or Brains ??


What comes first ? What carries more weight ?

What is appropriate, rather "more" appropriate ?


Is it the age that decides ? Is the state that decides ?

What does it take to THINK ?
Is it Right or is it just "not wrong" ?


Right now its clear I am definitely Thinking ( heart one ) , and will get back to this when m thinking the other way round ..

Rest I leave it to you to decide and THINK a bit .......

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Generally Speaking....

Yeah to all my friend cum Ny visitors, now I can surely guide ur way around a bit. Till date it was just for the night life and glamour part of NY, that I was exposed. I surely could take you to my current favourite place in NY...its Hard Rock Cafe at Times Square. IT has got its own charm and multitude of facets to entice me evey single time. First of all the ambience is nice, plays fundu songs. The Dim light, Those glittering diamond'ish lights..and most of the memories that I leave behind every damn single visit..

More often than not I will be sitting in the lounge wid few friends and having one hell of masti time..Chitchatting( hehe BAKAR )..playing games.. ( yeah I will tell ya all about ydays latenight game that I conduted)...then once I danced with the waitress over thr ...nd believe me if yu can, she was total HOT ( and that is sheer euphemism nd m being real nice nd using very sweet/plain language when I m referring her as HOT hehehhe ) then meeting wid unexpected-old-lost friends...drinking hell lot of different varieties of shots.. aah nd if yu are one of those dudes/ettes who are immediately drenching yur throats wid the vicarious Tequila shot, ....then dude .....meet me, I will tell yu that its not the end of world when yu once taste Tequila.....aarghhhh..cme n meet me at Hard Rock Caffe nd stop wathcing Dil to Pagal hai every weeken.

Now this name has got some story behind it toooo as in HRC - Hard Rock Caffe. The truth is I am not one of those guys who keeps track of his credit card statements..mai bas ja k online bhar deta hu paisse( aacha laga paisse bol k ) neways ...its not just because m a bit lazy when it comes to maintaining accounts..but I will rather say that "jis din se mai aise account check karna start kar dunga..us din se mai her baar kharch karne se pehle sochunga k boss yeh thoda jyada bill ho jayega !!!!kyun kaise kab kaha kay jaroorat hai ..yeh sab sawal aana start honge. Aur aai shappat ( marathi:maa kasam ) yeh kaam apni hone wali, "to-be" ka hai, us k liye hi rakh denge !!!! So jo bhi ho .. basically aise hi ek din jab maine galti se ek baar mera statement dekha to us me mujhe kuch consistently 3 figured credit card entreis dikhi....aur mummy ne kaha hai, " dekh beta..dollars me 3 figure wali entry sehat k liye hanikarak saabit ho sakti hai . " Acchanka hi dimag me kai saare ghantiyan bajne lagi ....aur wohi hua jis ka mujhe sab se jyada daar tha. I was made to dig more into this statement which was blatantly flashing these recurring lines of HRC...and since then I just call it HRC coz it reminds me of dis day whn I was totally dumbstruck for a while !!!

So anyways..now that I go up and look at the starting line of this blog, it reminds me that I was goona write about my new_found yet dramatically_improving GUIDE iiing talent hehehe...but I think I will leave it for da coming dayz...

For now...Its already the dawn of new week .....Have a good week ahead people.

Cheers :)
Bawa.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

A lot can happen over a simple Jog.

Today I came home at about 6 30 and was in a good mood. Wanted to do something healthy and so decided to go for a jog( had to check dictionary.reference.com to see if its jog or jogg !!! ..bhagwan jane kya hoga mera..) at the riverside. First of all it was awesome weather outside and then it might help me to get away with a thing called hehe ..."TUMMY" . I called a friend of mine and we were to meet at the riverwalk.

About 7 30, m there ..strolling across the scenic walk. I need to take pics of this area and send them back home.....coz they really need to know that I am happy here :) ..neways so here comes my friend. We jog/.strolll/..walk...discusing about lotsa things.. It started with job..project manager ...Payscales.. calculating bonus (I got to admit ...we all are nothing but greedy bums). So slowly from the casual topics we drifted to more intense or for that matter non-casual topics. I told him about how it has been with me till date..small ups and downs...big decisions...incidents that were interesting yet obscure in its own ways....and many many things. nd same with my friend too..I got to know so many things in general.....Actually not mere knowing things..I learnt something today. To be precise I learnt something good from this guy.

So this guy has been donating money in India. Not the usual donations that we make at mandir but to organisations like CRY. He made a decision long ago to donate money to such an organisation that helps to educate villagers o orphans. He was telling me about the feeling that he derives through all this..DEVINE....So there is this one little kid in some gaav in India who he has been helping all thru..Some day the school teacher told the kid that "HE" is the guy who sponsored all the education/living and gave the kid my frnds contact. On New yrs eve this kid made a small greeting card cum drawing for this frnd (F). When F got this greeting card he just couldn't believe his eyes.....

F says : "It would be sheer insult to that feeling if I refer it as "overjoyed" .............because it was lot more than that.... actually I have become selfish and just keep on donating every month, just to get one more card every year ..." ....

I think hes rite. When I go back to India even I am goona try and become a bit selfish too ....Thanks dude . .....I am so in........

To those who are reading this...I guess even yu can drink one coffee LESS everyday :) . A dollar a day can probably be big amount at the end of year for some lone child out thr...

Indeed a lot can happen over a simple jog.....

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

What the HECK !!!!

Undoubtedly this has to be one of those discussions which rather fall on the SERIOUS side . This discussion which started with a cursory exchange of thoughts but slowly degenerated into a total chaos. By the end I was totally flustered and would have strangled him down to earth ....

I am sure anyone else would have done the same thing..
So it goes like this....my frnd was telilng me about how his gf ... not being good to him since a month perhaps more on than a month. He told about how he was trying to make it up to her in his own different ways. After listening to what all he said I was rather sure that he was givin his best shot and thot that the gal was being a bit unreasonable with him..Finally I had to ask him as to ....

"dude kya issue kya hai uska...kyun itna sorry bolne ko laga rahi tujhe ??? aisa kya kar diya tha tune ???"

N that was precisely the last statement whr I supported him ....What came later on just blew me off....so the thing is this guy probably belongs to the 1800's at least his school of thought does..
I'll let yu guys decide ...chk out what he had in store for his gf..all the way thru :

* Its yur Bday. Wow Happy birthday.....but y do yu want to celebrate it with frnds after 7 PM !!! Be at home njoy at home...y party outside..( ME thinking: Kaunse jamane me reh raha dost?? )

*Y on earth do yu need frnds in life..I will be thr for yu.always.....rite now I am thr for yu ..yu are thr for me....that's all...no need to keep up so much with frnds...( ME again..yeh shaadi k pehle ka haal hai ..shaadi k baad bhagwan jane !!! )

*dekh thr is nothing like frnds..if yur frnds talk to yu nicely..they probably have something going on in thr mind, so stay away from such people...( Me Again: bhai mere chup ho ja...)

*if yur senior is trying to help yu in office...thn just get rid of him asap...hes trying to hit on you big time...( Me again: how in heavens sake did that gal listen to this load of crap !!!!! )

At the end I was like : WTF dude :X ........Thank god us ladki ko thoda dimag aaya and she is trying to get rid of this psycho !!!!


MAN...I cant blve its 2007 nd such people still exist...

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Bloomberg n Sports...

Seems like its goona be some good time here at Bloomberg. And in noways m talking from career point of view. I guess that front of life has been taken care of for at least one year as of now.

Yeah m referring to sports/adventure. Recently I heard about sports and all the games that Bloomebrg takes care of. You are bound to get crazy when yu get to know this..
Olrite so apparently theres not a single adventure item that da company dosent support..not to mention the usual soccer/tennis/chess et al...

I delved deep into this and thought of pursuing some sport over here. nd bang I was into Volleyball the same evening. It is kinda amazing to note that supposedly Manhattan organises many tournaments/league matches for many games, Volleyball being one of them. So finally m registered with two teams to start with....Amazingly they dont have any issues if a guy participates in multiple teams..good for me :) will get to play more..

Luckily we won the first league match and hehe frankly it was more due to thr sad display of objectionably uncalled smashing.

All this sounds really exciting to me. My school introduced me to this sport and m kinda thankful to Charmode Sir ..( lately I heard thrs' t like a " hate_chormode_community" with a couple dozen people in it !!! nd seriously I wonder y !!!).

Be it.... m looking forward for the coming contest dis Wednesday.


Cheers..


PS: Gujar na jaye..yeh khawab sa safar....

nd now that m writing about this song ...I remember that day when I had got my first, nice n small speaker system while working in TCS. It was worth some odd couple of hundred bucks nd I was so happy for it..Played on that system( I cald it "system" tho it was like a two speaker set hehe) so I played like hundred songs on it daily after coming from office nd tht really made me feel good about the whole thing. ..after all it was my first so called, self earned investment for myself !!!! nd now m listening to the same song on a full blown Home Theater ....time to rejoice again :)

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

One more bday party !!!

Yu work all day long.....thaka haara !!!
return back home and as soon as yu open the door...

5-6 ppple start shouting...HAppy birthday to yu ....and start clapping and all
your house is all decorated with stuff balloons and frills and lighting kinda things...ehhe it all feels good just that..it is for the wrong person....they were expecting my roooomi when I just entrd .......

They even started the whole cam and stuff to shoot the bday boys' exctmnt for the surprise party ....

Neways...we did the whole thing again for the actual bday guy.....
IT was indeed a good surprise party ....awesome one infact..

nd m toooo tired to quote all that we did but yeah in the end..it just feels like one happy go lulcky fmily in here ....yeah blve me on that...it does..

and I think its tooo late for the day to write anything...I'll betr postpone this to some othr day ..

Gn folks..


PS: Todays' hit song: Khaike paan banaras wala : DON (new one..)
PS1: One more: ek lo ek mufth..( GURU )

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Getin High on Sunday morning..!!!



Yo, Its Sunday Morning folks....
Time to clean up all the mess in my room :) time for laundry :) and ofcrse Maggie.

Neways I made this Thandaai today and it just feels awesome to start da day wid this drink...I just love it..For those who don knw what on earth this "thandaai" means then guys let me take yu back to holi time....I bet yu have heard "Bhang" yeah that flavoured milk with lotsa "bhang" in it.. in crude terms: Indian DRUGS...

Well, One that I have made is devoid of that BHANG thing but I still love it.
If neone is interested then go da nearest Indian store and ask for "GURUJI Thandaai" and thats all yu need and yeah one glass of milk ofcrse.

So, thats my breakfast ....glass full of Thandaai...nd wafers...I love those wafers man.....pineapple flavrd( office se dhaap k laaya tha :D ) nd wats playin rite now ..drives me crazy ..."Bhige hooth tere" , seems like sme1s gettin high :D



Cheers

Weeken plans!!!

It 530 pm..m at office when my friend comes to my desk and we try to figure out what has to be done tonite :) , but in vain. I call one of my frnd and try for a movie but she was still working in office so that idea dropped toooo...Finally we 3 guys just decide to go and have some food and drinks at a nearby restrnt and in 5 min we were outa office :D

Weekens here are really really noisy .... More than nything else they are indeed unpredicatble. No one has the slightest clue that whats gooona be on the agenda but everyone is xctd...and looks fwd for the same. Neways comin back to our friday nite plan....it had to be special ..reason...actually quite a few ...
firstly we were done with the training here at Bloomberg...Blve me it was one hell of a time..strenuous but yeah all said and done we had a good time :)
Not just that ..its 31th March.....and thats Payday :)

Party begins....we are just 3 of us ...yet we are bang ..on target..masti time .
I get a call ..this frnd of mine has already trvld like half way for his place..talks to me ..wants to join us so just stops on his way back home..and comes back all the way back again !!!! nd yu probably know its not fun to travel here at NY :D

So this guy reahes the restrnt after about 45 mins of travel....yu c effort bein put for joining the party !!!! Story repeats for few more of the office dudes....and by the end of the nite..we were 11.
hehe it all started with 3 and befr we knew we were made to shift tables again and again to accommodate more n more pple :)

Its about 1 and time to close the restrnt...most of them were already feeling high ..!!!! thr were few guys who just had thr first round (ever) of drinks and as a result they were having some good time out thr :). We get out of the restrnt and suddenly a guys start singin welll lets refer that action as shouting/cryin out loud/or whtever fits for pathetic singing .....nd that was enugh to stir up the whole crowd....

Now a bunch of crazy guys were singing all hindi ...songs in the worst possible way...It went on for about and hour...ar may be more than that and everyone was flauntin thr full blown singing talent hehe

It was fun..big time fun.


Thats how every weeken turns out ....unpredictable yet xctin in its own subtle way !!!!

Cheers !!!


PS: Something I really liked yday was those 2-3 guys who made an effort to come down ...the fact is these guys have been here at NY for about 2 months now n all they wanted was to freak out on one of the weeken....they had been waiting for this moment for quite some time now and yday I saw that "YES I DID IT" kinda expression .....

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Riverfront..


Well Yday I came home a bit early and thought of spending some time on the river side.. It was only then I realised that I can come down and sit at the river front for hours together.
Yes yu r guessing it rite. The place where I live has got awesome riverfront and splendid skyline view !!!

I was sitting thr for about an hour 6-7 pm. It was nice and breezy...They also have a dock over here with some small boats and ferries. I guess I will be taking a ride on that ferry the coming weeken. Sitting thr just relaxing...nothing to worry about (office me final prjct present kar k aaya tha )..I had a real good time thr. Will make a point to go thr once in a while for sure.

Neways thrs this one discussion that I had with my dad recently about my job and all

All translated....I would rather jump outa my apmnt balcony before talking to my dad in english...nd believe me jumping outa my apmnt is not going to be fun by any means....
If statistics are anything to go by then not many have survived jumping/falling from 26th floor of da apmnt !!!!

Dad: dude, yu rem those old films...wherein .....as soon as "THE" son gets his first paychk he goes back home and..
Me: and what dad ?
Dad: arey those gifts and sarees for mom ..the same old story dude..
Me: hmmm woh to maine kar diya na TCS k first pay se...
(***dont even think how cum I managed gifts from that BIG BIG paychk, I wonder how I survived that meager salary for one full yr ...god bless me :D )
Dad: arey but now yu are thr so yu can just send gifts..no problm ..its not necesaary k yaha aa k hi dena chaiyeh :D
ME: HELOOOO HELOOOOOOOOO dad cant hear you man...nagpur kanpur me hadtaal dad !!!

hahaha I know that was cheap ..but its fun to tease dad at times ..I am still thinking what to do wid my first paychk ...need to figure out something really nice :D

To be frank, rite now, I jst wish to pamper someone with gifts and all nasty surprises...
for nw I'll do that to my parents ...afteral satellite communication ka jamana hai ...
If nyone else wants to get pampered...be sure to drop in a mail to me o something..or at least be in my good books and yu are up for some diwali time


Cheers !!!


Current Song: Tumhi dekho na.....

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Its a small world ....

It was last weekend. I(we) at office were completely tired and were desperate to go out and have some fun over the weeken.. Made some plan and after a hell lot of opinions and agreements/disagreements we finally settled for "Hard Rock Cafe" at Times Square.

Frnd:Dude, jaha bhi ho jaise bhi ho ..bas challle aao, mai aur meri frnd yaha pe pahuch gaye hai ..cumon man make it fast, we are waiting over here..
I dint know who was wid my frnd and I was definitely not interested to sit wid some 3rd person after that hectic week !!! So I reached late(purposefully). Actually had a drink o two at home with my roomi. It was already 9pm and finally I decided to leave..

As I reached I cald my frnd to come outa restaurant.
Me: Sssup dude..hows the place?
Frnd: Hey.....sssup, dude this is Apurva and apurva meet him...Nikihl.
Me: Hey Apurva ....
Apurva: Hi Nikihl ..
(*** nd I look at her and m like...god I know her !!! defntly know her....I was about to say ..dude tumko kahi dekha hai !!! but suppressed this thought coz it wud have been really filmy !!! )
I let that thought away and checked out my frnd to get in da restrnt..
I looked at her again and it ocrd to me that even she was thinking that we knew each othr.

Me: Dude by any chance ....are you from Nagpur ??
and thr she goes...shouts loudly and hugs me ...

Man ..she was my NEIGHBOUR from Nagpur..
We hadnt met since what like 7 years .....and then suddenly in NY ...
wooo after that we three had a grt time at the caffe..were thr till 230 am !!!!


Indeed Its a small world !!!


Cheers...

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Nishabd....Aftermath..

Bleak as it may be....If you believe that you belong to that ever shrinking group of elite people
who do "what they want to do .....", the group where people still want to be themselves......
then you would like this movie. Nishabd..speechless, yes this movie does leave us in a state not so different than what the title hints.

Vijay(Big B ) a well settled family man meets with Jia(Jiah Khan,18 yr gal), a friend of his daughter. Jia comes to her friends place where she meets Big B. As it might be evident, slowly these two crazy creatures start getting close. Apparently they end up expressing thr love for each other. Jia being a daughter-like figure for Big B's age, the problem creeps in and the movie takes a sad turn. The end was a bit shocking but then after all it had to qualify for "RGV " film.

Overall I thought it was a thought provoking and quite an interesting story ...something which might be prevalent in our society since the invention wheel....just that it has never been tracked by these two naked eyes..or else deliberately left unseen.

Some food for thought over here..
I do not wish to comment on this particular scenario...this particular scene but then some dialogues in the movie were worth scratching your head. Few dialogues in the movie like "being oneself", "respecting ourselves", "doing what you believe in " and many more

Cliches they might sound, yet, I always get inspired and feel good when I get to hear them.

Think of it, How many people in this world today do things just because they wanted to !!!
I am afraid, Not Many......

How many people stop/refrain from doing a thing...just because they are not sure if society would accept that!!!

How many people let thr feelings/thoughts die an unnatural death, just because they wish to fit in the conventional Groove!!!

How many people shy away from small things/khushi in life ..just believing that they are too old for that....

How many times did you feel that you should just walk down the street to the park and sit on that see-saw ...to go out and drench in that first rain....go out and freak out for a while !!!

No prizes to guess...that ..
I bet, a Zillion times...

I just fail to understand why so ??? Be it..

Here I distinctly remember these starting lines of one of my fav song(lyrics point of view)
"Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten......"

Here for the entire thing. .."http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/natashabedingfield/unwritten.html"


On a very thoughtful note...
Cheers...

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Last song for da nite.

Was just listnin to this song and thot of jottin it down so that I dare not fgt it latr on ...

Chk out guys..my frnd introduced dis song and I kinda liked the way it is :)

"Sabse peeche hum khade "
Silk Route.....

Zaara naazar uthake dekho
Baithe hai hum yahi
Bekhabar mujhse kyon ho?
Itne boore bhi hum nahin

Zamane ki baaton mein uljho na
Hai yeh aasaan janana
Khud se jo agar tum pooch
Hai hum tumhare ke nahi
Teri aankhon ka jaadu
Poori duniya pe hai
Duniya ki iss bheed main
Sabse peeche hum kahen

Mehfile aayi aur gayi
Log aaye aur gaye
Tum jo aaj aaye ho
Dil mein ho bas gaye

Muskarake baat taalo na
Phir miloge jo kahi
Dekhana yahi kahoge
Itne boore the hum nahi

Teri aankhon ka jaadu
poori duniya pe hai
Duniya ki is bheed mein
sabse peeche hum khade




Soothing song ....aint it..

Gn ...

Cheers.

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Memoirs of Geisha.....olrite Holi

FYI, Happy Holi guyz.

This time holi over here seems to be on the "dry" side... hehe I know this dry word is kinda elusive. Lets leave it rite thr :)

Anyways, today I was just wondering about the holi back in Inida..If I am not wrong, during colg life (VNIT- Nagpur), most of the years holi was celebrated at my place. Front yard-backyard--terrace..nothing left untouched. We did our bit to keep mom busy, cleaning the whole place for the coming weeks. It was fun that way. Mom shouting all the way rnd, Nikhil dont come inside with yur wet clothes..jst stay away..nd Nikhil being "obedient" child..alwz did the rite thing.....:D

Alrite, school dayz holi was even more special.
Well its like comparing apples and oranges...both had thr own flavours..distinctly difrnt.

School: Get up in the morning, arrange for some shaddy clothes, jhang glasses, rip off the shirt at many places :P , ask dad for letting me out with my LUNA.....haha luna is an interesting thing that hapnd to me in those days. Not just me actually many of us during school life. Believe it or not, few guys used to come to school with that luna thing ..for those who dont know what exactly m talkin bout..herz it "http://www.kinetic2wheelers.com/showroom/utilityvehicles/luna/index.php" .

So getting that thing on holi was a uphill task...nd wid immense persuasion I used to get it done. To be frank my dad is kul that way...

Hot phrase during those dayz: CHAL MERI LUNA. :P ohh Cmon even john must be ridin some crappy vehicle during his not so biking days.
Imagine John dude, ridin on his luna super, nd just gsssshin past yu ... actually, I wonder what he used to drive during his schoolin!!!

Came 12th std and I had my CBZ.., that was some time in life. Truly, BIKE is the best thing that happen to guys during colg life. Riding a bike and takin those curvy turns on high speeds...nearly going parallel to road on the curves..maaaan nothing compares to that.. I guess when I go back to India, I will defntly have a bike in my garrage for sure. Cars are good but in no ways they come even close to bikes.
So, holi then was all about getting into all tattered clothes and roaming arnd in the city on bikes.
It was awesome...


I remember our last holi: Abhishek( auto ), Rahul ( masan :D ), Nikhil jalgaonkar ( Jadu ) and ofcrse myself, we got into that groove and ran after each other with GULAAL, rang and all. Latr the level started degrading with everyone tearing clothes...even betr..we wer doing that rite on the road..Best part came when we forced eachother to BRUSH hahahah Can yu blve two guys handcuffing yu and the last one brushing yur teeths wid COLOURS !!!! haha now that sounds creepy bt it was fun then.. No regrtes...In fact, today I can stand withot any handcuffs and get myself brushed :D ...


Cheers ..
Happy holi once again.



Current song: Its my life ....

Monday, February 26, 2007

One fine Evening...

Dis is definitely not my true sself ..

Writing.... definitely not my cupa tea...Anyways here it goes..

Title was da last thing that came to me..



Dreamin da dream date...

Can you be with me for a while
and feel the same joy and pain ..
when I dream of a dream date
over and over again...


****
some heavy rounds of artillery fire (read: emotions) over here which i m so happily skipping :)
***


Now that I sit,
Think dream and ponder..
My thoughts go wild,
nd soul begins to wander.....


Every bit of the the dream
is so coming true,
Except for the part
whn I am sitting thr wid yu

.........
...

How I wish to hold this breathe, this dream to come true,
Look into your eyes..sit rite beside you...
How I wish to kiss your forehead, embrace you all thru,
nd we live da moment...whn I whisper these words to you .......
***********************************************************************************


Cheers !!!


Current mood: Round of Enigma
Current song: Tere Bin, mai yu kaise jiya.., Atif Aslam..

Btw I love the start of this song..and wonder how people write such lines..



Sunday, February 25, 2007

Lakshya...

One inspirational song.....

Chk it out..Its in my songs list all da time..

"http://youtube.com/watch?v=G9-2d4aNy_0"


Cheers....

Thats how it is :)

The other day, we got into an interesting conversation..Me and Rahul. Not exactly philosophical but yeah kinda having to do wid it....

Topic : Is life all about tensions ??

Yeah, I talk to so many ppl every day. More often than not, every one has smthn to whine about..to cry for..to worry ..and COMPLAIN about !!!! I often wonder why is that so ..
Why is it that everyone is kind of strsd and emotionally unstable in sme way or othr ..Is life really all about tensions ??

My answer to it...HECK NO.

I believe everyone has got his/her own share of things to worry for ...everyone has got thr glass half full. Its just the way you look at it. What really matrs is the way you handle it..What really counts is how well you manage to get out of these doldrums and look at it more gleefully...
I am sure it is easy to talk about all this and may nt be really practical at times but then that's how it is.....

After all, You Got to Deal with....what you got to deal wid .
That's my way of dealing wid things and probably a subtle way to be Happy and cheerful :)

I think its all about being happy wid wht yu have and just addin a pinch of optimism ...
I believe its all about your attitude..

Anyways just a small dream thing that is comin to my mind rite now..
I had this dream of being at US ..being in Manhattan once in my life..
nd today I was roaming in Manhattan..wid frns, jst hangin arnd. Havin some good time. Seems like some dreams do come true :)

Cheers..



Current Mood: Whining .....( hahah ..you really think....!!!! ..)
Current Song: With or without you...(undoubtedly, my fav song...)