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 !