Recently I had the opportunity to attend the engagement ceremony of a friend. We started to the native place of my friend by train, a place named "Viruthachalam", in the state of Tamilnadu. On the scheduled day of departure, we (me, my friend, Anwesha, her husband, and couple of cousins of my friend) were supposed to start from Yeshvanthpur railway station.
We reached the railway station almost 30 mins before the scheduled departure of the train, and were waiting for the train to arrive.
"What is the train no?" I asked politely.
"The train no is 2255, and it is the Pondicherry Express", told Anwesha.
After some time, the flash screen of the platform started showing the train no "2255".
"Oh, finally the train is going to come", I exclaimed.
"But the train is not Pondicherry Express, its something else, its "Garib Rath" (The chariot of poor people)", exclaimed another friend.
"So this guy is taking us in a poor guy's train, very bad, insulting", couple of friend's started teasing the guy whose engagement is going to happen.
"Actually Garib Rath is a series of train started by our former railway minister Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav, it does not necessarily mean that its a bad train or a train for poor people, its actually quite good" .. I was trying to explain in my as usual serious tone.
I was trying to read the complete text. "It is actually Puducherry Garib Rath Express, so its is not Pondicherry Express, its Puducherry Express".
"You stupid, Puducherry is same as Pondicherry", Anwesha told, exposing my lack of knowledge regarding the southern part of India. (I was thinking, I should be knowing this much at least, at least for the sake of knowledge)
Finally the train arrived and we all boarded the train. To our amazement the train was very clean and was in very good condition. Also since not many people were traveling, we were kind of at our own choice which seat to occupy.
After some chatting amongst each other and teasing my friend, we decided it is high time we should sleep. I preferred upper berth in which I always find some comfort.
... ... ... zz zz zz ... ... ...
"Hey guys, get up, we will be reaching in 15 mins or so", my friend was trying to wake us up.
We reluctantly woke up and to our amazement found that the always grayish cloudy sky of Bangalore is vanished and we are into the clear sky of country side of Tamilnadu, full of lush green and bright and sunny. I sat near the window for some time looking at the horizon admiring the beauty of the nature.
Finally we reached at our destination. "Viruthachalam", I was told by Anwesha that Poondicherry (famous for the Aashram of Shree ma and Shree Aurobinda) is only 2 hours traveling distance from there by train.
"Viruthachalam", was full of greenery and beautiful. It was surprising to see hardly any traffic after seeing a busy Bangalore everyday. The place was a bit warmer compared to Bangalore's cool cool weather, but still pretty pleasant.
My friend's father and his uncle weer waiting for us at the railway station to pickup. My friend's father welcomed me with warmth by telling the Tamil word "Vanakkam".
Me, being an utterly ignorant in Tamil, simply thought either as a word for someone else or is just something else, I ignored and started walking. Anwesha's husband was telling, "You did not react to the welcoming". I was ashamed to find out the details. Decided that it is high time I learn few basic Tamil words at least.
We had a pleasant journey from the railway station till the home of my friend. At his home, we found warm welcome from my friend's mom, aunt, sister and other relatives. I thought, "This is the beauty of Indian culture, where people show so much affection."
After we made ourselves comfortable, we had breakfast and tea. Breakfast was made up of 3-4 types of authentic Tamil breakfast cuisine and we all enjoyed it a lot (I am not describing more about breakfast owing to my lack of knowledge regarding the names and ingredients, nevertheless I enjoyed it immensely).
During conversation, my friend's father was explaining us the meaning of the name "Viruthachalam" and its origin etc. We started asking the same as question to my friend who arrived late for the conversation. And to our satisfaction, he was not able to explain the meaning or the origin properly, giving us an opportunity to tease him :)
After some leg pulling, we started watching movies in television ..
There are lot more interesting events occurred in the next 2 days, I am going to bring you in parts. I have to rush now for the preparation of a meeting.
Will keep all of you posted.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Death of a fat potato, bring on the slim and sensible one
"You potato, u have nothing in your brain" .. told an agitated Anwesha
We were arguing on nothing specific, mostly because of my fat headedness and tubelight like nature, unable to grasp the subtle things easily.
I thought seriously for a moment .. "Yeah, may be it is true, I have grown insensitive towards everything, dipped in selfishness or ego or whatever may be".
But still my ego kept on provoking me.
I retorted back "Cmon, what can I do, I am not able to understand, confused, thats why I am doing mistakes"
"Yeah, yeah, you confused soul, the potatoes have captured your brain, always confused, your brain neurons are not functioning because you are eating lot of potatoes, they have grown fatter, and they are not able to carry any signal anymore." Anwesha retorted back
"Hmm .. very true, it is high time I change my attitude", I thought.
"So what should be done to get rid of the fat potato", I asked with curiosity and quizzical nature.
"As long as the fat potato brain exists, nothing is gonna happen, that fat potato must die" .. Anwesha said.
"But, how can I die and change" .. I was confused again.
"See, you moron, not able to understand this much, everything taking up to yourself literally" .. Anwesha retorted back.
Somehow my tubelight head started glowing ... may be more voltage flow happened somehow
I understood the meaning finally.
"Oh, so you want the death of the fat potato headedness like attitude, hmm .. its a thing to ponder" I told.
"There is nothing to ponedr about, its a split second decision" .. Anwesha told.
"Very true" I thought. "Why the hesitation, bring on the slim and sensible one now on immediately."
With tons of determination, I have killed the fat potato ruthlessly.
From now on, a new slim and sensible one is going to appear permanently :)
We were arguing on nothing specific, mostly because of my fat headedness and tubelight like nature, unable to grasp the subtle things easily.
I thought seriously for a moment .. "Yeah, may be it is true, I have grown insensitive towards everything, dipped in selfishness or ego or whatever may be".
But still my ego kept on provoking me.
I retorted back "Cmon, what can I do, I am not able to understand, confused, thats why I am doing mistakes"
"Yeah, yeah, you confused soul, the potatoes have captured your brain, always confused, your brain neurons are not functioning because you are eating lot of potatoes, they have grown fatter, and they are not able to carry any signal anymore." Anwesha retorted back
"Hmm .. very true, it is high time I change my attitude", I thought.
"So what should be done to get rid of the fat potato", I asked with curiosity and quizzical nature.
"As long as the fat potato brain exists, nothing is gonna happen, that fat potato must die" .. Anwesha said.
"But, how can I die and change" .. I was confused again.
"See, you moron, not able to understand this much, everything taking up to yourself literally" .. Anwesha retorted back.
Somehow my tubelight head started glowing ... may be more voltage flow happened somehow
I understood the meaning finally.
"Oh, so you want the death of the fat potato headedness like attitude, hmm .. its a thing to ponder" I told.
"There is nothing to ponedr about, its a split second decision" .. Anwesha told.
"Very true" I thought. "Why the hesitation, bring on the slim and sensible one now on immediately."
With tons of determination, I have killed the fat potato ruthlessly.
From now on, a new slim and sensible one is going to appear permanently :)
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Dream
I was dreaming, don't know what time of night. The dream was beautiful, astounding, marvelous. It had the sense of peace, serenity and calmness as if you do not need anything else. I was amongst all of my closest friends, surrounded and walking in a blissful morning in a plateau full of greenery. Just plain greenery, beautiful warm sunlight spread all across, music of fresh water spring somewhere nearby as if soothing your heart. I thought, oh God, I just want to be in this state forever. Is this eternal piece? Its the moment I always cherished, nothing to worry, no hunger, no work, no stress, nothing, just plain peace and peace and serenity. I have everyone, all friends, everyone I have nearby, this is what I wanted for my entire life. The horizon is looking serene too, conglomerated with the greenery and the greenish yellow tint that the sunshine has created.
... ... ...
Time passed by for some time in this, but slowly the peacefulness in me is getting converted to irritation, I don't know the reason. I am getting agitated, agitated with my friends, agitated with the nature. Is this calmness for long hunting me or is it something else, like a signal before the storm. May be the later was true, in the midst of a brightly lit sunny day, dark clouds started mocking at me. Before I realized, I found that my agitation mixed with my ego, my negative traits, has turned into a monster dark cloud. That is hovering over the brightness of the Sun. Now its growing like a monster, big and strong, I am afraid of that, its full of darkness, thunderstorms are coming, I am trying to escape the lightnings. I am afraid, running like a dog who can not face its opponent who is more powerful, I am running forgetting all friends, running everywhere. But this opponent is created by myself, my traits which I failed to control. I am feeling so low of myself, my self esteem is gone. I am ashamed to show my face to my friends, they are bearing all this because of me too. I am running away with all my force, but the monster grips me, its is going to kill me, oh God, save me please. I became unconscious.
... ... ...
Suddenly after sometime, when I got back my consciousness, found that the thunderstorm is over, the serenity is not like earlier, but its still peaceful. The thunderstorm just had an impression for a small moment, but now the plateau looks more beautiful. And all friends are around me, telling how they restored me from the thunderstorms. This is more beautiful, much more that the serenity in the early morning. It may not be the same, but its much more meaningful now for me. Its so strange, despite me succumbing, initiating and causing all the trouble, all friends are still with me, they saved me, and we are in a much greater friendship now, which can not be broken anymore. I am indebted to all my friends forever, to everyone whoever has helped me anytime. And those friends who had saved me from this monstrous thunder, I cannot describe how much I owe them. I am still feeling low as why I ran away leaving all of them to face the wrath of the thunder (AFAIK created by me).
... ... ...
My sleep broke, its early morning, Birds are chirping, the chanting of mantras from nearby temple is soothing.
Later in the day I told Anwesha the dream. How I got saved, and she was there too to save me amongst few others too.
I asked, "Why did friends save me when I caused them the trouble, when I left them and started running?"
"That is why friends are for, they do not desert you even if you have committed mistakes and even if they are in deep water because of you. Just make sure that, if ever you face that situation in real life, do not run away, face the thunder, face the monster along with your friends, you are sure to overcome it. Everyone commits mistakes, without mistakes how can you learn, so do not think much what you had done bad, how you had hurt others, think what you can do in future. Life is more beautiful when you overcome obstacles together, not when you are in serenity without any event, nor when you runaway. Face it always, true friends will be always by your side whatever the situation may be." ... Anwesha said with a jovial voice.
P.S. This is a completely imaginary dream, though at times I feel like this
... ... ...
Time passed by for some time in this, but slowly the peacefulness in me is getting converted to irritation, I don't know the reason. I am getting agitated, agitated with my friends, agitated with the nature. Is this calmness for long hunting me or is it something else, like a signal before the storm. May be the later was true, in the midst of a brightly lit sunny day, dark clouds started mocking at me. Before I realized, I found that my agitation mixed with my ego, my negative traits, has turned into a monster dark cloud. That is hovering over the brightness of the Sun. Now its growing like a monster, big and strong, I am afraid of that, its full of darkness, thunderstorms are coming, I am trying to escape the lightnings. I am afraid, running like a dog who can not face its opponent who is more powerful, I am running forgetting all friends, running everywhere. But this opponent is created by myself, my traits which I failed to control. I am feeling so low of myself, my self esteem is gone. I am ashamed to show my face to my friends, they are bearing all this because of me too. I am running away with all my force, but the monster grips me, its is going to kill me, oh God, save me please. I became unconscious.
... ... ...
Suddenly after sometime, when I got back my consciousness, found that the thunderstorm is over, the serenity is not like earlier, but its still peaceful. The thunderstorm just had an impression for a small moment, but now the plateau looks more beautiful. And all friends are around me, telling how they restored me from the thunderstorms. This is more beautiful, much more that the serenity in the early morning. It may not be the same, but its much more meaningful now for me. Its so strange, despite me succumbing, initiating and causing all the trouble, all friends are still with me, they saved me, and we are in a much greater friendship now, which can not be broken anymore. I am indebted to all my friends forever, to everyone whoever has helped me anytime. And those friends who had saved me from this monstrous thunder, I cannot describe how much I owe them. I am still feeling low as why I ran away leaving all of them to face the wrath of the thunder (AFAIK created by me).
... ... ...
My sleep broke, its early morning, Birds are chirping, the chanting of mantras from nearby temple is soothing.
Later in the day I told Anwesha the dream. How I got saved, and she was there too to save me amongst few others too.
I asked, "Why did friends save me when I caused them the trouble, when I left them and started running?"
"That is why friends are for, they do not desert you even if you have committed mistakes and even if they are in deep water because of you. Just make sure that, if ever you face that situation in real life, do not run away, face the thunder, face the monster along with your friends, you are sure to overcome it. Everyone commits mistakes, without mistakes how can you learn, so do not think much what you had done bad, how you had hurt others, think what you can do in future. Life is more beautiful when you overcome obstacles together, not when you are in serenity without any event, nor when you runaway. Face it always, true friends will be always by your side whatever the situation may be." ... Anwesha said with a jovial voice.
P.S. This is a completely imaginary dream, though at times I feel like this
Monday, June 22, 2009
Random Conversation - Part 3
"I am ready", Anwesha said with sarcasm and hopeless mood in her voice.
"Ready for what, for the blood test", I asked calmly (Anwesha is supposed to go for some routine generic blood test that morning)
"Yes, they will puncture my body and take away my blood", sob .. sob ..
"Its fine, its for your own good only, you need to take the test na", I explained with soberness in my voice.
"Yeah, yeah, its easy to advise, but I have only to face the doctor", she retorted with full energy.
"Ok, ok, you go now, its getting late, you are supposed to give blood twice right, once before eating and once after eating, you have taken the food right", I tried to remind everything.
Anwesha and her husband started for the hospital.
For our readers' knowledge, Anwesha does little bit of knowing nuisance while going for these medical tests. (Its not that she does not want to take, in fact she is the one who decides to take the tests herself, but the knowing nuisance is just part of the package. I was doing bigger nuisances when I was young, may be now also I will do too, so I will not blame her as such :) )
... ... ...
"You came back so early, all test done so fast?", I asked
"No, not all tests, I need to give 2nd sample of blood after 2 hours of eating only", Anwesha said
"Oh, you did not confirm that with the doctor before you start, you unnecessarily took packed breakfast", I did mild shouting.
"As if you know everything, you could have helped me right, you could have asked right, men are hopeless", came the prompt reply.
"True? well may be partially", I thought, kept my mouth shut instead of arguing.
... ...
"So, you did not get nervous while giving blood", I asked
"Actually I was about to faint when the nurse started taking a full syringe of blood, at least normally I feel little dizzy, but she was taking the blood so slowly as if every molecule was being extracted from my body with effort equivalent to the gravitational force of some legendary planet like Jupiter, so I got really bored and let her finish at her own pace", Anwesha said with full of enthusiasm.
"So someone bored you off while taking away blood too, very bad" .. laughter .. laughter ..
... ... ...
"This breakfast has gone bad, Dosa, chutney everything has been mixed, I can't eat this", Anwesha was shouting.
"What will happen, they will anyway get mixed in your stomach", me and Anwesha's husband were trying to explain.
She gave us a you-know-nothing look and retorted back, "yeah, you eat like this, why do you need to even cook, just eat the raw material, you hopeless morons are good for nothing"
Somehow the phase passed by with she finally consuming some juices and milkshakes.
... ... ... 2 hours gone ... Time for Anwesha to start again ... for the post breakfast blood test
I was cooking in the kitchen, I heard the sobbing again ..
"Ok, Anwesha is going, thats why she is sobbing again", I thought.
"You potato brother, hopeless, will not come to see why I am crying, you guys never bother", I heard her shouting.
"Well, well, we know you are leaving for the test and thats why you are sobbing, I was busy in kitchen work right", I told calmly while hurrying from kitchen.
"yeah, yeah, you will ignore always, you will never come even if anything happens to me", she complained knowingly that it is absolutely false complain.
"Ok, I am going" ..
... ... ...
Anwesha came back after an hour or so.
"They damaged both of my hands", she was showing the mark in her hand where blood has been taken from vein.
"Why the hell they need to take syringes of blood for general tests", she was asking with anger.
"I don't know, may be they are storing the extra blood in their blood bank", I gave a seemingly non-plausible explanation.
"Whatever effort you had put to gain some blood, you just donated to the nurse, full two syringes just like that, now you need to eat again more to gain that blood", I told comically hoping that will lighten the moment.
"You don't know how to joke too, I am going to hit you nicely if you give insensitive comment like that gain", she retorted back with anger and sadness.
I know she never liked those tests, but needed to do as part of health checkup, she was sad about that.. And I gathered myself and tried to console her rather than giving quirky remarks.
"After all my blog contents will be dried up if she becomes sad."
So finally, after some consoling she is back to form and we are arguing again in full flow .. .. :) :)
"Ready for what, for the blood test", I asked calmly (Anwesha is supposed to go for some routine generic blood test that morning)
"Yes, they will puncture my body and take away my blood", sob .. sob ..
"Its fine, its for your own good only, you need to take the test na", I explained with soberness in my voice.
"Yeah, yeah, its easy to advise, but I have only to face the doctor", she retorted with full energy.
"Ok, ok, you go now, its getting late, you are supposed to give blood twice right, once before eating and once after eating, you have taken the food right", I tried to remind everything.
Anwesha and her husband started for the hospital.
For our readers' knowledge, Anwesha does little bit of knowing nuisance while going for these medical tests. (Its not that she does not want to take, in fact she is the one who decides to take the tests herself, but the knowing nuisance is just part of the package. I was doing bigger nuisances when I was young, may be now also I will do too, so I will not blame her as such :) )
... ... ...
"You came back so early, all test done so fast?", I asked
"No, not all tests, I need to give 2nd sample of blood after 2 hours of eating only", Anwesha said
"Oh, you did not confirm that with the doctor before you start, you unnecessarily took packed breakfast", I did mild shouting.
"As if you know everything, you could have helped me right, you could have asked right, men are hopeless", came the prompt reply.
"True? well may be partially", I thought, kept my mouth shut instead of arguing.
... ...
"So, you did not get nervous while giving blood", I asked
"Actually I was about to faint when the nurse started taking a full syringe of blood, at least normally I feel little dizzy, but she was taking the blood so slowly as if every molecule was being extracted from my body with effort equivalent to the gravitational force of some legendary planet like Jupiter, so I got really bored and let her finish at her own pace", Anwesha said with full of enthusiasm.
"So someone bored you off while taking away blood too, very bad" .. laughter .. laughter ..
... ... ...
"This breakfast has gone bad, Dosa, chutney everything has been mixed, I can't eat this", Anwesha was shouting.
"What will happen, they will anyway get mixed in your stomach", me and Anwesha's husband were trying to explain.
She gave us a you-know-nothing look and retorted back, "yeah, you eat like this, why do you need to even cook, just eat the raw material, you hopeless morons are good for nothing"
Somehow the phase passed by with she finally consuming some juices and milkshakes.
... ... ... 2 hours gone ... Time for Anwesha to start again ... for the post breakfast blood test
I was cooking in the kitchen, I heard the sobbing again ..
"Ok, Anwesha is going, thats why she is sobbing again", I thought.
"You potato brother, hopeless, will not come to see why I am crying, you guys never bother", I heard her shouting.
"Well, well, we know you are leaving for the test and thats why you are sobbing, I was busy in kitchen work right", I told calmly while hurrying from kitchen.
"yeah, yeah, you will ignore always, you will never come even if anything happens to me", she complained knowingly that it is absolutely false complain.
"Ok, I am going" ..
... ... ...
Anwesha came back after an hour or so.
"They damaged both of my hands", she was showing the mark in her hand where blood has been taken from vein.
"Why the hell they need to take syringes of blood for general tests", she was asking with anger.
"I don't know, may be they are storing the extra blood in their blood bank", I gave a seemingly non-plausible explanation.
"Whatever effort you had put to gain some blood, you just donated to the nurse, full two syringes just like that, now you need to eat again more to gain that blood", I told comically hoping that will lighten the moment.
"You don't know how to joke too, I am going to hit you nicely if you give insensitive comment like that gain", she retorted back with anger and sadness.
I know she never liked those tests, but needed to do as part of health checkup, she was sad about that.. And I gathered myself and tried to console her rather than giving quirky remarks.
"After all my blog contents will be dried up if she becomes sad."
So finally, after some consoling she is back to form and we are arguing again in full flow .. .. :) :)
Friday, May 29, 2009
Conversation - Part 2 (just some humor)
Ring ring .. Ring ring .. My mobile is ringing. I ran to answer.
"Hello, Good Morning", voice of Anwesha came from the phone.
After few minutes of conversation ...
"Did you have your breakfast?" I asked.
"No, I just had some raisins".
"Oh good, raisins are good for health in the morning, how much raisins did you take, did you put in water and take, some people do like that", I asked with some curiosity.
"I took 4 raisins", Anwesha said.
"Did you tell four?"
"Yes, four".
"Only 4, ... ", I was confused, how can someone take only four raisins in the morning.
I started laughing .. ha ha ..
"Why are you laughing so much"
"You took only four raisins, thats it"
"Yeah, so you are thinking that I am eating like a kid? and laughing, very bad"
"Well, actually I was thinking of comparing with something else, but leave it I am not telling".
"If you do not tell now, you are not talking to me anymore", she threatened.
"ok ok, actually I was thinking of comparing you with some mini creature like a bird or so".
"Yeah, yeah, I am a mini bird, and you finish potato baskets in the morning"
The argument went on for sometime before we started normal talking again.
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
In the evening that day,
"Today is Thursday, coming Saturday evening they are showing a good movie in TV that I was telling you last week, we must watch that this weekened ". Anwesha pinged me in messenger.
"Oh good, yeah we can watch that"
"Tomorrow evening you are coming to my home right"
"Yeah, I am"
"That movie is very good, anyhow we must watch it"
"Yeah sure"
After few more related conversations ..
"I am eagerly looking forward for tomorrow evening", Anwesha told.
"Oh, but I thought u told the movie is on Saturday evening, tomorrow is Friday"
"Yeah movie is on Saturday only"
"Then"
"What then?"
"Why are you looking forward for tomorrow evening?" I asked innocently.
"You moron, you dont know this, I dont know how all of you guys think the same, Men are hopeless, they are morons, can not understand anything."
"How will I know, tell me na"
"I am not telling"
"Please, tell na before you sign off, why are you eagerly waiting for tomorrow evening"
"Panipuri and potato"
"Oh, so you have got panipuris? Did you buy potatoes too, sure we can make panipuris tomorrow evening"
"Ufff, I dont know what to do with u creatures, you hopeless morons, u do not understand anything I tell, not even shoutings"
"Hey cmon, this is unfair, you changed context, we were talking about the movie, how the hell I will know, tell me explicitly na"
"ok ok, you hopeless guy, tomorrow evening we all friends will be together, that will be fun, you do not understand that much, men have nothing in their brain"
"Oh, I got it now, I am eagerly looking forward for the same too", I typed excitedly.
Anwesha snapped, "yeah, but finally men are useless"
.....
The conversation continued ...
"Hello, Good Morning", voice of Anwesha came from the phone.
After few minutes of conversation ...
"Did you have your breakfast?" I asked.
"No, I just had some raisins".
"Oh good, raisins are good for health in the morning, how much raisins did you take, did you put in water and take, some people do like that", I asked with some curiosity.
"I took 4 raisins", Anwesha said.
"Did you tell four?"
"Yes, four".
"Only 4, ... ", I was confused, how can someone take only four raisins in the morning.
I started laughing .. ha ha ..
"Why are you laughing so much"
"You took only four raisins, thats it"
"Yeah, so you are thinking that I am eating like a kid? and laughing, very bad"
"Well, actually I was thinking of comparing with something else, but leave it I am not telling".
"If you do not tell now, you are not talking to me anymore", she threatened.
"ok ok, actually I was thinking of comparing you with some mini creature like a bird or so".
"Yeah, yeah, I am a mini bird, and you finish potato baskets in the morning"
The argument went on for sometime before we started normal talking again.
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
In the evening that day,
"Today is Thursday, coming Saturday evening they are showing a good movie in TV that I was telling you last week, we must watch that this weekened ". Anwesha pinged me in messenger.
"Oh good, yeah we can watch that"
"Tomorrow evening you are coming to my home right"
"Yeah, I am"
"That movie is very good, anyhow we must watch it"
"Yeah sure"
After few more related conversations ..
"I am eagerly looking forward for tomorrow evening", Anwesha told.
"Oh, but I thought u told the movie is on Saturday evening, tomorrow is Friday"
"Yeah movie is on Saturday only"
"Then"
"What then?"
"Why are you looking forward for tomorrow evening?" I asked innocently.
"You moron, you dont know this, I dont know how all of you guys think the same, Men are hopeless, they are morons, can not understand anything."
"How will I know, tell me na"
"I am not telling"
"Please, tell na before you sign off, why are you eagerly waiting for tomorrow evening"
"Panipuri and potato"
"Oh, so you have got panipuris? Did you buy potatoes too, sure we can make panipuris tomorrow evening"
"Ufff, I dont know what to do with u creatures, you hopeless morons, u do not understand anything I tell, not even shoutings"
"Hey cmon, this is unfair, you changed context, we were talking about the movie, how the hell I will know, tell me explicitly na"
"ok ok, you hopeless guy, tomorrow evening we all friends will be together, that will be fun, you do not understand that much, men have nothing in their brain"
"Oh, I got it now, I am eagerly looking forward for the same too", I typed excitedly.
Anwesha snapped, "yeah, but finally men are useless"
.....
The conversation continued ...
Monday, May 25, 2009
Thoughts, Discussions and Incidents on IPL-2 Semifinals and Finals
IPL-2 finally came to the grand closure and I must admit overall the tournament was nothing short of fantabulous. Though myself and some of my friends were disappointed since our favorite team Chennai did not make it to the finals. But I must admit Bangalore played a better game on that day and kept Chennai's mighty batting lineup under control.
Anwesha started almost crying (not exactly crying, but that sad sad face with barely audible sobbing like noise) when it was evident that Chennai were on the verge of losing the match. "Why do they need to have a semifinal, Chennai (Chennai Super Kings) is a better team, they deserve to be in final, there should not be any semi-final, Delhi and Chennai should play final as they were the top two teams". sob .. sob. "Now Delhi is also out, I don't want Bangalore to win". More sobbing ..
This was partially true as some of the Cricket Pundits have mentioned in their articles in popular cricket sites too, its probably better to have only final instead of semifinal based on the league result, as we already have an extended league. And the overall best performing two teams deserve to be in finals because of the sheer uncertainty of the T20 format.
She was so nervous that she did not watch the match, kept herself busy in some work or other. Only asking for updates to us every now and then whenever crowd noise increases.
I started in my typical way, "Is this how you support your team, by not watching the match, Chennai lost because you did not watch when they batted, you are the main culprit". She extended her saddened look. I decided not to pull her leg more at this point, I refrained from telling any of my expert opinions.
During the Bangalore-Chennai match, one notable difference was the fielding of Bangalore. Bangalore players were as if in every frame, reaching out to impossible places, and taking superb catches with cool heads. Towards the end of the match, when Chennai were almost losing but still showing no extra commitment in field, Anwesha exclaimed, "Why are not they sleeping instead of running after the ball, instead of running and not able to collect the ball, if they sleep around the pitch in the field the ball will hit them and stop."
"Why did not Rahul Dravid captained Bangalore side, he should have captained so that Bangalore would have lost", Anwesha conveyed her agitation and frustration to us again.
"Kevin Pieterson should have been staying for entire tournament, he was such an inspiring leader that Bangalore was following the footsteps of Kolkata, now Anil Kumble came and all things started turning up", I started babbling my opinions too.
But finally Chennai lost and we all were sad. "Everytime I support some team, the team loses", I made my frustration clear.
Anwesha exclaimed again at top of her voice, "You were telling from the beginning that Chennai not playing well, now they have lost finally to Bangalore. I am going to kill you, you are the culprit (or was I the "match ka mujrim", no no I was probably the "mujrim amongst the spectators")".
She again started sobbing.
"These Chennai guys are hopeless in bowling and fielding, all of them gave away much runs." .. sob .. sob .. "I dont want to see bangalore in final", we just tried to console her. "Chennai team has lethargic attitude in fielding, lazy to the core, just like you ppl lazy in doing exercise whatever times I reiterate", she retorted.
I thought "Huh, sadness converting to anger on me, I should escape", I just tried to change the topic a bit.
In the first semifinal, it was a show of Adam Gilchrist. I was rooting for Delhi to win, but as usual riding on my support luck, the reverse happened for Delhi. But everyone thoroughly enjoyed the astounding batting prowess of Gilchrist. In the end, Deccan defeated Delhi, the topper of the league.
The day arrived calmly. Its the day of IPL-2 final. Hyderabad vs Bangalore. the bottom 2 teams of last IPL fittingly bounced back in the season 2 to become the finalists. We all eagerly awaited, so started watching from the extra innings (despite facing the torture of some boring analysis) itself as if we are glued to the TV set. We again saw the highlights of Semi Finals. Anwesha shouted at us at her full voice, "why the hell do you ppl want to see the stupid semi final again. I do not want to see bangalore playing Hyderabad".
We told, "well, after all it is the final, the big day".
"Ok, ok, watch, but whoever supports Bangalore today is not going to get food for dinner", She snapped at us.
I told, "Today I should support Bangalore, so that riding on my fan luck, Bangalore will lose".
She retorted again, "You can support whatever way you want, but if Bangalore wins, I do not know what I will do to you, I will roll you from top of a mountain, or probably ask an elephant to stomp over you".
"Huh, Bangalore, please lose today, else I am going to die", I prayed God.
The final started, with a bang from Anil Kumble. taking the wicket of Gilly in the very 1st over. What a drama, Bangalore ahead of Hyderabad in an instant. Looked like my luck was favoring for Bangalore. The game went on, Hyderabad batsmen put some spirited display, even tough Kumble, the menace kept on taking crucial wickets.
Though one moment that mattered is Rahul Dravid (the player to take highest no of test match catches, the safest of hand) missing a simple catch of Andrew Symonds. Symonds was on 5 at that time, he went on to make 33 at a brisk rate, that mattered in the end definitely. "At least my fan luck is working partially for bangalore, they are showing rare misfields", I exclaimed.
Anwesha just gave me a sharp meaningful look.
Hyderabad scored a paltry 143, well more of a fighting total. We all thought, "Alas, it is going to be another sad story as that of Chennai like yesterday".
Anwesha already went into that saddened mood, I observed, she went to start cooking, not able to bear the heat and intensity of the match.
Bangalore started chasing the fighting total, they started cautiously. But unlike Chennai, Deccan did not gave away easy runs at all. Deccan were simply outstanding in the field. Stopping everything that is possible, showing that extra commitment. True, wickets did not fall fast for Bangalore, but they were not allowed easy runs too, at least not inside the power play.
We watched, and watched, without missing the advertisements, or the repetitive zoozoo screamings too. I started giving live update to Anwesha (who was generously preparing dinner for us and was still in kitchen), every time Bangalore hits a boundary or a six or Hyderabad succeeds in taking a wicket.
The match got tensed and tensed, by midway it looked like Bangalore had the upper hand. We had almost lost our hope on Deccan, though cheering to every dot ball. Anwesha was running from kitchen whenever any wicket tumbled, unable to control the eagerness to see Deccan Chargers fighting back. But by midway, Bangalore was on top with Ross Taylor and Rahul Dravid playing well. Anwesha again sighed (she is not sobbing today, probably already given up completely), "Bangalore is going to win again, I can not watch this anymore, you ppl change the channel"
But, cricket is the game of uncertainty, any moment it can change the color. Rahul Dravid got out and then Symonds got rid of Ross Taylor and Virat Kohli in consecutive balls. We all were at our feet. Boucher got out too. We are ecstatic with joy now. Its now almost in Deccan's control.
"Bangalore should not surrender meekly, the match should go till last but finally Bangalore should lose (as if I am the script writer)", I told.
Anwesha passed me an angry look and told "yeah yeah, I know you are the one who is rooting for Bangalore to win, you never supported to Chennai, now you are not supporting to Deccan, I will hit you with whatever I find first if Bangalore wins".
But finally Bangalore lost their nerve in crucial moments. It was sad to see Kumble who fought so hard but let down by the batsmen. In the last over, it was RP Singh vs Robin Uthhppa. "I have full confidence on RP Singh that he will bowl well to defend, and so also I have enough confidence on Uthappa for his inability to hit", I explained at the start of last over. And as the story unfolded, Hyderabad won finally, they held their nerve. Welcome new champions.
I was visibly relieved that "Bangalore lost", else I had "motral fear" of getting hittings from Anwesha :) for supporting (fake supporting) Bangalore .
We all started jumping almost, when finally Deccan won.
"It would have been better if Chenani was in final or won the trophy, but I am still happy that Deccan won and not Bangalore", Anwesha exclaimed. She is finally happy a bit and we are getting our dinner. Oh God, I was so hungry, it was a relief.
We continued to watch the closing ceremony and enjoyed every bit of it. Personally did not like the chosen "Miss Bollywood", nor did Anwesha or any of my friends. "But she was selected by audience only", I told, "may be we are different from public".
The closing ceremony was grand, with Katrina Kaif adding to the toast with a sizzling number from Slumdog Millionaire. Anwesha gave her opinion, "I know you guys, you were just waiting to watch Katrina Kaif, from morning you guys were telling million of times". Well, it may be partially true, but I daresay, we wanted to see the prize distribution ceremony more :)
All ended well with Gilly taking Man of the Series and Deccan lifting the trophy. We all are ecstatic, filled with joy, happiness, enjoyment, and a little bit of sad as IPL ended.
P.S. Nothing personal against Bangalore team, its just that we wanted Chennai to win, but truth is that Bangalore came a long way under the great leadership of Anil Kumble and they deserve the win. Kudos to Bangalore team for such a great comeback. And we (including Anwesha) wholeheartedly know that Bangalore was the better team and they played better.
P.S. Congratulations to Deccan Chargers for playing wonderfully. Also congratulations to Bangalore for making into the finals
Anwesha started almost crying (not exactly crying, but that sad sad face with barely audible sobbing like noise) when it was evident that Chennai were on the verge of losing the match. "Why do they need to have a semifinal, Chennai (Chennai Super Kings) is a better team, they deserve to be in final, there should not be any semi-final, Delhi and Chennai should play final as they were the top two teams". sob .. sob. "Now Delhi is also out, I don't want Bangalore to win". More sobbing ..
This was partially true as some of the Cricket Pundits have mentioned in their articles in popular cricket sites too, its probably better to have only final instead of semifinal based on the league result, as we already have an extended league. And the overall best performing two teams deserve to be in finals because of the sheer uncertainty of the T20 format.
She was so nervous that she did not watch the match, kept herself busy in some work or other. Only asking for updates to us every now and then whenever crowd noise increases.
I started in my typical way, "Is this how you support your team, by not watching the match, Chennai lost because you did not watch when they batted, you are the main culprit". She extended her saddened look. I decided not to pull her leg more at this point, I refrained from telling any of my expert opinions.
During the Bangalore-Chennai match, one notable difference was the fielding of Bangalore. Bangalore players were as if in every frame, reaching out to impossible places, and taking superb catches with cool heads. Towards the end of the match, when Chennai were almost losing but still showing no extra commitment in field, Anwesha exclaimed, "Why are not they sleeping instead of running after the ball, instead of running and not able to collect the ball, if they sleep around the pitch in the field the ball will hit them and stop."
"Why did not Rahul Dravid captained Bangalore side, he should have captained so that Bangalore would have lost", Anwesha conveyed her agitation and frustration to us again.
"Kevin Pieterson should have been staying for entire tournament, he was such an inspiring leader that Bangalore was following the footsteps of Kolkata, now Anil Kumble came and all things started turning up", I started babbling my opinions too.
But finally Chennai lost and we all were sad. "Everytime I support some team, the team loses", I made my frustration clear.
Anwesha exclaimed again at top of her voice, "You were telling from the beginning that Chennai not playing well, now they have lost finally to Bangalore. I am going to kill you, you are the culprit (or was I the "match ka mujrim", no no I was probably the "mujrim amongst the spectators")".
She again started sobbing.
"These Chennai guys are hopeless in bowling and fielding, all of them gave away much runs." .. sob .. sob .. "I dont want to see bangalore in final", we just tried to console her. "Chennai team has lethargic attitude in fielding, lazy to the core, just like you ppl lazy in doing exercise whatever times I reiterate", she retorted.
I thought "Huh, sadness converting to anger on me, I should escape", I just tried to change the topic a bit.
In the first semifinal, it was a show of Adam Gilchrist. I was rooting for Delhi to win, but as usual riding on my support luck, the reverse happened for Delhi. But everyone thoroughly enjoyed the astounding batting prowess of Gilchrist. In the end, Deccan defeated Delhi, the topper of the league.
The day arrived calmly. Its the day of IPL-2 final. Hyderabad vs Bangalore. the bottom 2 teams of last IPL fittingly bounced back in the season 2 to become the finalists. We all eagerly awaited, so started watching from the extra innings (despite facing the torture of some boring analysis) itself as if we are glued to the TV set. We again saw the highlights of Semi Finals. Anwesha shouted at us at her full voice, "why the hell do you ppl want to see the stupid semi final again. I do not want to see bangalore playing Hyderabad".
We told, "well, after all it is the final, the big day".
"Ok, ok, watch, but whoever supports Bangalore today is not going to get food for dinner", She snapped at us.
I told, "Today I should support Bangalore, so that riding on my fan luck, Bangalore will lose".
She retorted again, "You can support whatever way you want, but if Bangalore wins, I do not know what I will do to you, I will roll you from top of a mountain, or probably ask an elephant to stomp over you".
"Huh, Bangalore, please lose today, else I am going to die", I prayed God.
The final started, with a bang from Anil Kumble. taking the wicket of Gilly in the very 1st over. What a drama, Bangalore ahead of Hyderabad in an instant. Looked like my luck was favoring for Bangalore. The game went on, Hyderabad batsmen put some spirited display, even tough Kumble, the menace kept on taking crucial wickets.
Though one moment that mattered is Rahul Dravid (the player to take highest no of test match catches, the safest of hand) missing a simple catch of Andrew Symonds. Symonds was on 5 at that time, he went on to make 33 at a brisk rate, that mattered in the end definitely. "At least my fan luck is working partially for bangalore, they are showing rare misfields", I exclaimed.
Anwesha just gave me a sharp meaningful look.
Hyderabad scored a paltry 143, well more of a fighting total. We all thought, "Alas, it is going to be another sad story as that of Chennai like yesterday".
Anwesha already went into that saddened mood, I observed, she went to start cooking, not able to bear the heat and intensity of the match.
Bangalore started chasing the fighting total, they started cautiously. But unlike Chennai, Deccan did not gave away easy runs at all. Deccan were simply outstanding in the field. Stopping everything that is possible, showing that extra commitment. True, wickets did not fall fast for Bangalore, but they were not allowed easy runs too, at least not inside the power play.
We watched, and watched, without missing the advertisements, or the repetitive zoozoo screamings too. I started giving live update to Anwesha (who was generously preparing dinner for us and was still in kitchen), every time Bangalore hits a boundary or a six or Hyderabad succeeds in taking a wicket.
The match got tensed and tensed, by midway it looked like Bangalore had the upper hand. We had almost lost our hope on Deccan, though cheering to every dot ball. Anwesha was running from kitchen whenever any wicket tumbled, unable to control the eagerness to see Deccan Chargers fighting back. But by midway, Bangalore was on top with Ross Taylor and Rahul Dravid playing well. Anwesha again sighed (she is not sobbing today, probably already given up completely), "Bangalore is going to win again, I can not watch this anymore, you ppl change the channel"
But, cricket is the game of uncertainty, any moment it can change the color. Rahul Dravid got out and then Symonds got rid of Ross Taylor and Virat Kohli in consecutive balls. We all were at our feet. Boucher got out too. We are ecstatic with joy now. Its now almost in Deccan's control.
"Bangalore should not surrender meekly, the match should go till last but finally Bangalore should lose (as if I am the script writer)", I told.
Anwesha passed me an angry look and told "yeah yeah, I know you are the one who is rooting for Bangalore to win, you never supported to Chennai, now you are not supporting to Deccan, I will hit you with whatever I find first if Bangalore wins".
But finally Bangalore lost their nerve in crucial moments. It was sad to see Kumble who fought so hard but let down by the batsmen. In the last over, it was RP Singh vs Robin Uthhppa. "I have full confidence on RP Singh that he will bowl well to defend, and so also I have enough confidence on Uthappa for his inability to hit", I explained at the start of last over. And as the story unfolded, Hyderabad won finally, they held their nerve. Welcome new champions.
I was visibly relieved that "Bangalore lost", else I had "motral fear" of getting hittings from Anwesha :) for supporting (fake supporting) Bangalore .
We all started jumping almost, when finally Deccan won.
"It would have been better if Chenani was in final or won the trophy, but I am still happy that Deccan won and not Bangalore", Anwesha exclaimed. She is finally happy a bit and we are getting our dinner. Oh God, I was so hungry, it was a relief.
We continued to watch the closing ceremony and enjoyed every bit of it. Personally did not like the chosen "Miss Bollywood", nor did Anwesha or any of my friends. "But she was selected by audience only", I told, "may be we are different from public".
The closing ceremony was grand, with Katrina Kaif adding to the toast with a sizzling number from Slumdog Millionaire. Anwesha gave her opinion, "I know you guys, you were just waiting to watch Katrina Kaif, from morning you guys were telling million of times". Well, it may be partially true, but I daresay, we wanted to see the prize distribution ceremony more :)
All ended well with Gilly taking Man of the Series and Deccan lifting the trophy. We all are ecstatic, filled with joy, happiness, enjoyment, and a little bit of sad as IPL ended.
P.S. Nothing personal against Bangalore team, its just that we wanted Chennai to win, but truth is that Bangalore came a long way under the great leadership of Anil Kumble and they deserve the win. Kudos to Bangalore team for such a great comeback. And we (including Anwesha) wholeheartedly know that Bangalore was the better team and they played better.
P.S. Congratulations to Deccan Chargers for playing wonderfully. Also congratulations to Bangalore for making into the finals
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Conversation - Part 1 (On friendship)
Me: "Why is it so that sometimes fight erupts even between the best of friends? Is it lack of understanding, or lack of trust between them?"
Anwesha: "Hell, no, there can never be lack of understanding between true friends."
Me: "Still, the worst fight, worst quarrel happens always between best friends. you can never quarrel to a great extent with an unknown person or an acquaintance. You can check history. There are so many instances. It goes even till harming to the core. Why, why do you always fight with your best friends? You do all kind of nonsense with them .. which should not be there .."
Anwesha: "You moron, don't understand that much, you can quarrel, can fight, can get angry on those whom you love dearly only, and they are none other than your best friends. You are talking about history, go and check despite thousands of quarrels, fights finally friendship prevails. Does mountain moves when a big thunderstorm occurs, it only establishes its presence even more, only mere trees gets uprooted. The friendship between best friends are like mountains, it gets strengthen only when some quarrel, fight in the form of thunderstorms happens, only non-true friendships like trees can not face the thunderstorms. "
Me: "But, its so depressing, every time I fight with my best friends, I lose my sanity, I curse myself why I did that, I do not forgive myself even though mistakes might be from either side. How to cope with this?"
Anwesha: "Whatever happens happens, that is part of friendship only. Small fights, even sometimes bigger ones keep on happening. No one is culprit in that. One should not think or get bogged down by those. It should only strengthen the bond forever. And you know, best friends do not care about it, they bypass the thunderstorms like passers by, and keep their head up like mountains. Its unmitigated. As long as you do not keep on regretting about the incidents, nothing will happen. The root of their understanding, trust can never be forsaken. You might have even fought for silly things, might have intentionally hurt the other, buts that's the part of a package named as 'true friendship'. Think that every quarrel is one more layer of plaster to your friendship. Just forget the past and go on."
P.S. Isn't is very true. So I have started forgiving myself and forgetting the past. I am looking forward to the brighter sunrise after every dark night.
Anwesha: "Hell, no, there can never be lack of understanding between true friends."
Me: "Still, the worst fight, worst quarrel happens always between best friends. you can never quarrel to a great extent with an unknown person or an acquaintance. You can check history. There are so many instances. It goes even till harming to the core. Why, why do you always fight with your best friends? You do all kind of nonsense with them .. which should not be there .."
Anwesha: "You moron, don't understand that much, you can quarrel, can fight, can get angry on those whom you love dearly only, and they are none other than your best friends. You are talking about history, go and check despite thousands of quarrels, fights finally friendship prevails. Does mountain moves when a big thunderstorm occurs, it only establishes its presence even more, only mere trees gets uprooted. The friendship between best friends are like mountains, it gets strengthen only when some quarrel, fight in the form of thunderstorms happens, only non-true friendships like trees can not face the thunderstorms. "
Me: "But, its so depressing, every time I fight with my best friends, I lose my sanity, I curse myself why I did that, I do not forgive myself even though mistakes might be from either side. How to cope with this?"
Anwesha: "Whatever happens happens, that is part of friendship only. Small fights, even sometimes bigger ones keep on happening. No one is culprit in that. One should not think or get bogged down by those. It should only strengthen the bond forever. And you know, best friends do not care about it, they bypass the thunderstorms like passers by, and keep their head up like mountains. Its unmitigated. As long as you do not keep on regretting about the incidents, nothing will happen. The root of their understanding, trust can never be forsaken. You might have even fought for silly things, might have intentionally hurt the other, buts that's the part of a package named as 'true friendship'. Think that every quarrel is one more layer of plaster to your friendship. Just forget the past and go on."
P.S. Isn't is very true. So I have started forgiving myself and forgetting the past. I am looking forward to the brighter sunrise after every dark night.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
A cup of coffee
"Why the hell you need to take another coffee now?" Shouted Anwesha at one of our friend. Poor guy having worked so hard whole day desperately wanted to have some caffeine in his blood to counter fight his dizziness. But she won't listen. Started shouting in a low mumbled irritated voice in her mother tongue.
We were at the Bengalooru railway station see off Anwesha and her husband. It rained a bit in the evening and the cool breeze of post rain weather was soothing and chilly. Anwesha tried to keep on proving her point that "another coffee should not be taken the same day at that late night". I exclaimed with my casual tone "Its fine, one more coffee would not harm that much, and anyway you are going now right, so he can have a coffee when we are going back".
She retorted with full voice, "yeah, yeah, you give him ideas, you people will not try to listen nor try to change, you yourself has become like a potato already, what else is remaining". For our reader's information, I have gained a few extra pounds and so also our friend has. But Anwesha seems to be pretty much strict about our food habits. She is right in a sense though, but its tough to give up your old habits.
I told "Well, a cup of coffee can do a lot of good things too, it can energize your body, mind and soul. (well not soul probably). I started calling a coffee boy who was taking coffee to sell in train".
"He was at least opting for a small coffee, now these cups are twice the size and you want him to drink double the amount of coffee? You guys are simply hopeless", she snapped at me. "Do you realize how much harm it can do? and you, it will energize your body and mind so that you will be awake whole night, go go, why one take 2", I got some mild shouting.
I was still trying to prove my point in vain that one coffee should be fine. The coffee argument went on till the train started. I will leave the decision to our readers whether taking a coffee at night time is fine or not.
But me and my friend came back from station, on the way back my friend took a cup of coffee defying the future shouting of Anwesha and also we discussed profusely how our coffee habits developed.
P.S. I am not going to describe what Anwesha said when she knew that we ignored her warnings and took coffee. That is a secret. You can guess the reaction of her or action whatever you can think of.
We were at the Bengalooru railway station see off Anwesha and her husband. It rained a bit in the evening and the cool breeze of post rain weather was soothing and chilly. Anwesha tried to keep on proving her point that "another coffee should not be taken the same day at that late night". I exclaimed with my casual tone "Its fine, one more coffee would not harm that much, and anyway you are going now right, so he can have a coffee when we are going back".
She retorted with full voice, "yeah, yeah, you give him ideas, you people will not try to listen nor try to change, you yourself has become like a potato already, what else is remaining". For our reader's information, I have gained a few extra pounds and so also our friend has. But Anwesha seems to be pretty much strict about our food habits. She is right in a sense though, but its tough to give up your old habits.
I told "Well, a cup of coffee can do a lot of good things too, it can energize your body, mind and soul. (well not soul probably). I started calling a coffee boy who was taking coffee to sell in train".
"He was at least opting for a small coffee, now these cups are twice the size and you want him to drink double the amount of coffee? You guys are simply hopeless", she snapped at me. "Do you realize how much harm it can do? and you, it will energize your body and mind so that you will be awake whole night, go go, why one take 2", I got some mild shouting.
I was still trying to prove my point in vain that one coffee should be fine. The coffee argument went on till the train started. I will leave the decision to our readers whether taking a coffee at night time is fine or not.
But me and my friend came back from station, on the way back my friend took a cup of coffee defying the future shouting of Anwesha and also we discussed profusely how our coffee habits developed.
P.S. I am not going to describe what Anwesha said when she knew that we ignored her warnings and took coffee. That is a secret. You can guess the reaction of her or action whatever you can think of.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Random thoughts, observations and discussions about Indian Premier League
IPL-2 started with much hiccups, but finally started and is living upto the hype and expectations created. We all friends are happy when finally IPL season 2 started. At least something in the evening to do a nice time-pass.
Anwesha sighed the day IPL started! "My life is going to be hell for next 1.5 months".
Me and couple of friends reminded, "IPL is not the only thing. There are back to back sporting action starting from EPL, Champions league in football to F1, then ICC World 20-20 Cup and French Open and Wimbledon."
She looked devastated at our enthusiasm for sports.
"The worst thing about guys is they all like sports and nothing else, and they don't want to miss the damn advertisements too and the horrendous post match analysis.", she gave her innocent opinion.
I sympathized a bit. "What can you do. Guys are like that only. May be you should develop your habit in sports."
She retorted back. "I am not stopping anyone to watch the matches. I too watch. But why the hell the boring post match analysis? Why to hook on to it as if its the only source of entertainment".
I thought; well, its time we should respect her wishes. Not that I don't watch pre/post match analysis, but I don't like all analysis. But sometimes its tough to resist. Though I understood her agony by looking at her face conglomerated with anger, frustration and sadness.
Anyway, time went past and IPL went on and on. Controversies arose in Kolkata Knight Riders team. The fake IPL player blog made a big hit.
All teams except Kolkata played competitive cricket. Few matches went on with heroics of bowlers rather than batsmen. Extraordinary motivation, improvisation and stupendous cricket were observed for last few weeks.
Last years' bottom 2 teams Hyderabad (Deccan Chargers) and Bangalore (Royal Challengers) did well too. Though Bangalore team strive to retain their old position after the initial victory. All big names like Pieterson flopped big time and the team was kind of certain to retain its "Test team" pet name. But suddenly it started winning.
That day, match was still not over and none of us were believing that Bangalore will win.
I was telling, "Bangalore is competing hard with Kolkata, who can obtain the bottom most spot".
Suddenly Anwesha shouted with voice full of excitement (We had made her to watch the matches despite her reluctance to the core), "I support Bangalore, Bangalore will win today". We shouted, "What, have you gone mad my dear, even Bangalore team owners might not be thinking that". But voila, Bangalore won that day. I told her, "Mallya will send u a carton of beer for your support for Bangalore team."
But from that day, Bangalore had not done that bad. I made sure that Anwesha supports my favorite teams (Chennai and Mumbai, no particular reason about the teams, except I like M S Dhoni and S R Tendulkar) so that they qualify to Semis.
Its going on ok so far.
"Kolkata knows the art of losing", I told one day when Kolkata lost to Bangalore in last 2-3 overs to Ross Taylor. How can a team be so fragile and disoriented. I guess it is the most loosely knit team with lowest self confidence I have ever seen.
Just throwing big money or or funky advertisement is not sufficient to build a good team.
But finally, IPL-2 did entertain. Well, it obviously did not have the charm of IPL-1 since its in South Africa, but nevertheless, the IPL fever is on. Its a success, no doubt about that. I thank the organizers for bringing such an wonderful tournament.
The IPL fever is still growing and so also the agony of Anwesha. Though she is forced to watch and hear the analysis too. And I will make sure she reads this blog too. Not that she does not like sports, but excessive boring sports only she hate. But she is much better still bearing us :)
This much for today, will come back with more and also the opinions of Anwesha.
Anwesha sighed the day IPL started! "My life is going to be hell for next 1.5 months".
Me and couple of friends reminded, "IPL is not the only thing. There are back to back sporting action starting from EPL, Champions league in football to F1, then ICC World 20-20 Cup and French Open and Wimbledon."
She looked devastated at our enthusiasm for sports.
"The worst thing about guys is they all like sports and nothing else, and they don't want to miss the damn advertisements too and the horrendous post match analysis.", she gave her innocent opinion.
I sympathized a bit. "What can you do. Guys are like that only. May be you should develop your habit in sports."
She retorted back. "I am not stopping anyone to watch the matches. I too watch. But why the hell the boring post match analysis? Why to hook on to it as if its the only source of entertainment".
I thought; well, its time we should respect her wishes. Not that I don't watch pre/post match analysis, but I don't like all analysis. But sometimes its tough to resist. Though I understood her agony by looking at her face conglomerated with anger, frustration and sadness.
Anyway, time went past and IPL went on and on. Controversies arose in Kolkata Knight Riders team. The fake IPL player blog made a big hit.
All teams except Kolkata played competitive cricket. Few matches went on with heroics of bowlers rather than batsmen. Extraordinary motivation, improvisation and stupendous cricket were observed for last few weeks.
Last years' bottom 2 teams Hyderabad (Deccan Chargers) and Bangalore (Royal Challengers) did well too. Though Bangalore team strive to retain their old position after the initial victory. All big names like Pieterson flopped big time and the team was kind of certain to retain its "Test team" pet name. But suddenly it started winning.
That day, match was still not over and none of us were believing that Bangalore will win.
I was telling, "Bangalore is competing hard with Kolkata, who can obtain the bottom most spot".
Suddenly Anwesha shouted with voice full of excitement (We had made her to watch the matches despite her reluctance to the core), "I support Bangalore, Bangalore will win today". We shouted, "What, have you gone mad my dear, even Bangalore team owners might not be thinking that". But voila, Bangalore won that day. I told her, "Mallya will send u a carton of beer for your support for Bangalore team."
But from that day, Bangalore had not done that bad. I made sure that Anwesha supports my favorite teams (Chennai and Mumbai, no particular reason about the teams, except I like M S Dhoni and S R Tendulkar) so that they qualify to Semis.
Its going on ok so far.
"Kolkata knows the art of losing", I told one day when Kolkata lost to Bangalore in last 2-3 overs to Ross Taylor. How can a team be so fragile and disoriented. I guess it is the most loosely knit team with lowest self confidence I have ever seen.
Just throwing big money or or funky advertisement is not sufficient to build a good team.
But finally, IPL-2 did entertain. Well, it obviously did not have the charm of IPL-1 since its in South Africa, but nevertheless, the IPL fever is on. Its a success, no doubt about that. I thank the organizers for bringing such an wonderful tournament.
The IPL fever is still growing and so also the agony of Anwesha. Though she is forced to watch and hear the analysis too. And I will make sure she reads this blog too. Not that she does not like sports, but excessive boring sports only she hate. But she is much better still bearing us :)
This much for today, will come back with more and also the opinions of Anwesha.
My little sister (contd..)
Dearest readers, as I had mentioned in my last blog, I had found an adorable little sister. I am naming her as "Anwesha" (This is not her real name, though her name also starts with 'A', but I will keep her real name anonymous). The reason for selecting the name "Anwesha" is her characteristics. She is always in the midst of the quest for something or other.
She is affectionate, sympathetic, tender, warm and kind hearted. She is passionate about few things, but she does value for others passions too. Words are feebler than snow flakes, she can never hurt her enemies too.
(Though recently we fought over many things, sometimes to some extreme too, but hey, who doont fight, at the end after all she is my mini sister. I can bear all fight with her and I know she can too.)
But what I like most about her is her intelligent, humorous, and childsh innocent remarks about topics that we discuss.
Her remarks will be part of my subsequent blogs regularly as opinions.
Welcome "Anwesha", welcome to my blogging world. I am keeping the right to put your remarks (might be distorted sometimes to suit my need [overall context I will keep the same]) in my blog. Your remarks will be part of my blogs. Welcome again.
She is affectionate, sympathetic, tender, warm and kind hearted. She is passionate about few things, but she does value for others passions too. Words are feebler than snow flakes, she can never hurt her enemies too.
(Though recently we fought over many things, sometimes to some extreme too, but hey, who doont fight, at the end after all she is my mini sister. I can bear all fight with her and I know she can too.)
But what I like most about her is her intelligent, humorous, and childsh innocent remarks about topics that we discuss.
Her remarks will be part of my subsequent blogs regularly as opinions.
Welcome "Anwesha", welcome to my blogging world. I am keeping the right to put your remarks (might be distorted sometimes to suit my need [overall context I will keep the same]) in my blog. Your remarks will be part of my blogs. Welcome again.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
My little sister
For last few months, I have found a little sister. And today I am going to describe about her. I adore her very much, and she has now become an integral part of my day to day life and she is amongst my best friends too.
She is little naughty, extremely caring, full of enthusiasm and energy always. Ask her anything, any help, she will do for sure. I met her long back .. but just friendship to sisterhood transformation took some time, probably years.
She is not my sister by birth, but she is so much like my cute little naughty childish sister (well well well, she is not childish always, she has a very deeper understanding of life, she can advise you for sure if it is needed). But she is just like my sister in my imagination, my dream, sweet, charming and adorable, like a little sweet spring running through a beautiful grassy field in a bright sunny day.
Lazy to the core, sleepy sleepy look, too much sincere in work, understanding, caring, also sometimes ultra busy, running from here to there, undecided, little worried look, again sometimes in the midst of a laugh riot, uncontrollable excitement .. all conglomerated in a single personality.
She may be weak physically, but with immense mental strength she overcomes that weakness effortlessly.
She is very very understanding and practical to the core, but sometimes knowingly kiddish, will keep on continuing on her kiddish behavior until finally she decides to get away with it. Needs a little encouragement sometimes, a small pat in the back, (she can give encouragement for me always).
Coming to eating, she behaves like my mom always, never satisfied with my food,and feels that I am underfed. But whatever may be, she takes care of my food.
I have my share of arguments with her, sometimes amusing, sometimes sad, sometimes angry, sometimes heartbroken, I have had all feelings, but at the end, its always back to normal, my little sister as sweet as honey, charming and cute.
Now that I have found her finally, I am so so happy about it.
She would be always part of my life from now on, my adorable sister. I am not going to giver her identity to you now, you have to find out yourself.
P.S. This is not imaginary, its a true story of my life. I am going to write more stories about her soon. Keep reading this blog.
She is little naughty, extremely caring, full of enthusiasm and energy always. Ask her anything, any help, she will do for sure. I met her long back .. but just friendship to sisterhood transformation took some time, probably years.
She is not my sister by birth, but she is so much like my cute little naughty childish sister (well well well, she is not childish always, she has a very deeper understanding of life, she can advise you for sure if it is needed). But she is just like my sister in my imagination, my dream, sweet, charming and adorable, like a little sweet spring running through a beautiful grassy field in a bright sunny day.
Lazy to the core, sleepy sleepy look, too much sincere in work, understanding, caring, also sometimes ultra busy, running from here to there, undecided, little worried look, again sometimes in the midst of a laugh riot, uncontrollable excitement .. all conglomerated in a single personality.
She may be weak physically, but with immense mental strength she overcomes that weakness effortlessly.
She is very very understanding and practical to the core, but sometimes knowingly kiddish, will keep on continuing on her kiddish behavior until finally she decides to get away with it. Needs a little encouragement sometimes, a small pat in the back, (she can give encouragement for me always).
Coming to eating, she behaves like my mom always, never satisfied with my food,and feels that I am underfed. But whatever may be, she takes care of my food.
I have my share of arguments with her, sometimes amusing, sometimes sad, sometimes angry, sometimes heartbroken, I have had all feelings, but at the end, its always back to normal, my little sister as sweet as honey, charming and cute.
Now that I have found her finally, I am so so happy about it.
She would be always part of my life from now on, my adorable sister. I am not going to giver her identity to you now, you have to find out yourself.
P.S. This is not imaginary, its a true story of my life. I am going to write more stories about her soon. Keep reading this blog.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
On the verge of getting converted to Darth Veda from Anakin Skywalker
Often when I am alone, I think about myself. And on the thought process analyze myself, my nature, my transformations. I have been doing that for quite a few years now. I often try to relate myself to any character with whom my nature would resemble. It varies mostly from every now and then, but recently I was able to relate myself to the young and famous Zedi from the very famous "Star Wars" movies, none other than "Anakin Skywalker".
Anakin is the central character of Star Wars around whom the story revolves, he is the boy who can bring balance to the force, he is a miracle, a wonder with maximum count of midichlorians in his blood to influence the force to his will. On the other hand he is the one most vulnerable, he is the one who will be the greatest villain of all time, he will be the one everyone hates. Yet, he is the one who will ultimately bring balance to the force and despite all the evil incorporated and ensemled in him, in his deepest root a truth, a good remains always which can only be supressed for some time but can never be eliminated. With little help of sympathy, little emotional stress, the good will prevail and destroy the ultimate evil once and for ever.
At one point Anakin was the poster boy, he was the one getting all attention, but he seeked power faster than he was matured of. He turned good to evil with one extreme emotional stress in the form of loss of his much beloved wife, senator "Padme Amidala", but the loss was because of his own anger only and the disability to think clear and act in haste. He himself was the reason for the destruction of his wife. She simply lost her will to survive as she was horrified by the change in him. Not only it did cost him his wife, the evil force, the Siths conquered his mind and he turned against the same republic for which he vowed to serve. He killed younglinks in Zedi temple, destroyed millions of planets, created horror in universe. He had lost his own legs, hands and was living with machinery support for the rest of his life, he turned ruthless. He became "Darth Veda" from an innocent "Anakin Skywalker".
It all happened in a moment of indecision. It all happened while he was on the edge of emotional level of good and evil. With a tilt in that level it can permanently go to either way.
I compared myself with the same character, Anakin. I was surprised to find that I am more like that character, powerful, humble, true to all friends, poster boy, ability to achieve the impossible, but at the other hand the most vulnerable. I am always on the edge of tilting to the evil side. I am always too much protective. With little imbalance in force, I am susceptible to give away into the evil side.
I cried, I have always tried hard never ever to turn to the dark side, not for anything. May be in my deepest root, the good will always prevail, whatever it may be, just like Anakin. The transformed Darth Veda also finally turned good, though it required another force in the name of "Luke Skywalker", his own son to ignite that good in him.
I do not know, I am deeply confused, but I always feel that any moment, I can tilt and I fear that very much. I know the effect of turning to the dark side, losing everyone, torturing everyone and mis-utilizing power. And I hope that I do not give into the fear ever. But the fear is killing me day by day.
The only bright side till now is I am still on the good side. I am still "Anakin Skywalker", though I am on the verge of becoming as sinister as "Darth Veda" too. Now it all depends on the tilt, to which side that force will drag me. Fortunately for me, there are just enough friends to keep me in the good side so far. And I sincerely hope they will be with me so that I can live as "Anakin", not a "Lord Veda", for ever.
I know, the moment of indecision will come for me too one day, and that day will define my life for ever. I only hope for the beast to fend off the lucrative attraction of the dark side.
Everyday I get up and find myself relieved to be still as Anakin and with all my friends I will sail through and will not be in the edge. But it also depends on my will power, and I am confident that it will prevail. I can beat every odd by being good too, not by turning into the evil side.
P.S. This is a completely imaginary abstract writing and it does not meant to offend anyone. If anyone is offended by this post, I sincerely apologize.
P.S. I am really really grateful to all my friends who have been with me in all my hard times, I will never ever forget them, they are the ones for whom I am still "Anakin"
Anakin is the central character of Star Wars around whom the story revolves, he is the boy who can bring balance to the force, he is a miracle, a wonder with maximum count of midichlorians in his blood to influence the force to his will. On the other hand he is the one most vulnerable, he is the one who will be the greatest villain of all time, he will be the one everyone hates. Yet, he is the one who will ultimately bring balance to the force and despite all the evil incorporated and ensemled in him, in his deepest root a truth, a good remains always which can only be supressed for some time but can never be eliminated. With little help of sympathy, little emotional stress, the good will prevail and destroy the ultimate evil once and for ever.
At one point Anakin was the poster boy, he was the one getting all attention, but he seeked power faster than he was matured of. He turned good to evil with one extreme emotional stress in the form of loss of his much beloved wife, senator "Padme Amidala", but the loss was because of his own anger only and the disability to think clear and act in haste. He himself was the reason for the destruction of his wife. She simply lost her will to survive as she was horrified by the change in him. Not only it did cost him his wife, the evil force, the Siths conquered his mind and he turned against the same republic for which he vowed to serve. He killed younglinks in Zedi temple, destroyed millions of planets, created horror in universe. He had lost his own legs, hands and was living with machinery support for the rest of his life, he turned ruthless. He became "Darth Veda" from an innocent "Anakin Skywalker".
It all happened in a moment of indecision. It all happened while he was on the edge of emotional level of good and evil. With a tilt in that level it can permanently go to either way.
I compared myself with the same character, Anakin. I was surprised to find that I am more like that character, powerful, humble, true to all friends, poster boy, ability to achieve the impossible, but at the other hand the most vulnerable. I am always on the edge of tilting to the evil side. I am always too much protective. With little imbalance in force, I am susceptible to give away into the evil side.
I cried, I have always tried hard never ever to turn to the dark side, not for anything. May be in my deepest root, the good will always prevail, whatever it may be, just like Anakin. The transformed Darth Veda also finally turned good, though it required another force in the name of "Luke Skywalker", his own son to ignite that good in him.
I do not know, I am deeply confused, but I always feel that any moment, I can tilt and I fear that very much. I know the effect of turning to the dark side, losing everyone, torturing everyone and mis-utilizing power. And I hope that I do not give into the fear ever. But the fear is killing me day by day.
The only bright side till now is I am still on the good side. I am still "Anakin Skywalker", though I am on the verge of becoming as sinister as "Darth Veda" too. Now it all depends on the tilt, to which side that force will drag me. Fortunately for me, there are just enough friends to keep me in the good side so far. And I sincerely hope they will be with me so that I can live as "Anakin", not a "Lord Veda", for ever.
I know, the moment of indecision will come for me too one day, and that day will define my life for ever. I only hope for the beast to fend off the lucrative attraction of the dark side.
Everyday I get up and find myself relieved to be still as Anakin and with all my friends I will sail through and will not be in the edge. But it also depends on my will power, and I am confident that it will prevail. I can beat every odd by being good too, not by turning into the evil side.
P.S. This is a completely imaginary abstract writing and it does not meant to offend anyone. If anyone is offended by this post, I sincerely apologize.
P.S. I am really really grateful to all my friends who have been with me in all my hard times, I will never ever forget them, they are the ones for whom I am still "Anakin"
Saturday, February 21, 2009
An interview in my dream
Recently (well not recently in the sense of last couple of months, but probably 1 or 2 years), television is flooded with celebrity talk shows. Our Kkkkk Karan has a talk show (I guess this is probably what started the trend, yes, you are right, I am talking about "Koffee with Karan"), Simi Garewal has a talk show, Koel Puri has a talk show, now even Rakhi Sawant has a talk show (Was it a talk show? well I guess it was atleast by definition). Even Sajid Khan and Farhan Akhtar joined the list.
I happened to watch couple of shows once or twice, not because I like watching talk shows, but because it just happened to be, sometimes just when I was surfing the tv, sometimes someone else was watching and I happened to be in the same room doing something nonsense and the words entered my ear but did stick to my mind.
But mind is the strangest thing, it interprets things and not only imprints certain things in certain ways, but the sleeping sense prevails sometimes and you see yourself in strangest possible situations alien to yourself. Thats what happened in one fine night. I was dreaming that I have bcome the host of a popular (viewers wise) talk show.
And we have Miss Y (Noone knows why she is famous, I guess she is famous for being famous, [read a Paris Hilton way] ) as our guest of the talk show.
And that dream of few minutes gave me some of the funniest quotes I personally shared with the gracious Miss Y.
And here the show begins..
Me: Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the greatest talk show on earth where every week we bring you the face to face with some of the most famous persons of our time. (Indeed, we only invite those ppl who can boost our show's TRP, and the show is an all-nonsense-talk-show-without-any-specific-agenda. Our only agenda is to create controversies and thats what we, the people, our society likes a lot)
And today we have amongst us, Miss. Y, the famous blah-blah-blah .... continued for 5 mins like the salutations before entering of a great king into his RajSabha.
And then she entered, and people were stunned by the look.
With all gracious "hi"s and "hello"s we settled for our show.And no doubt, the show was a smasher that day.
Me: Miss Y, first of all thanks for your gracious presence in our famous talk so. Now starting with, it seems you are engulfed with a sea of controversies, but you still seem to be laughing always without having slightest of worry.
Miss Y: Its simple, "The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on."
Huh.. Started with a bang (later I realized that it was a quote of "Robert Bloch")
Me: Well, what is your idea about life and death. If I give you a chance to choose how you want to die, what you will choose?
Miss Y: Well life, as you know is beautiful. And as you can see, I have been enjoying every bit of it. Regarding death, given a choice, "When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car".
I thought for a moment, Wonderful, who cares about others.
Me: Lot of people consider you as a genius, and you kind of simply swim through all issues handling perfectly and efficiently. How is the feeling of being in a position like that?
Miss Y: "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world,"
Really, this is the one that really made the mark .
Me: What is your idea about all science, man kind, universe all these jargon?
Miss Y: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
Huh, a wisdom indeed.
Me: What is your idea about marriages?
Miss Y: "Marriages are made in heaven. But so again, are thunder and lightning." I believe in both.
Hmm, I started thinking twice
Me: In our poor country, lot of people are without jobs, they do not do anything and are upset and this is one of our biggest concern. Do you think you with such a position of power should do something about this?
Miss Y: Look, I do not believe much in that. In my opinion, "Procrastination is the greatest laborsaving invention of all time."
Yeah, thats the way we should think
Me: Recently we have a trend in bollywood which creates really long movies Whats is your opinion about that. Do you like long bollywood movies with lots of songs, drama etc or like short and to the point hollywood ones?
Miss Y: You know, I do not care about whether it is bollywood or hollywood. "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
Me: What is your greatest fear?
Miss Y: Well, I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...or a game of fake heart attack. I wish not to be in that situation.
Me: ok, one last question. It seems that your friendship with Mr. X is grabbing lot of attention. Can you tell us what is going on?
Miss Y: See, a lot of people assume lot of things, as they just see it but can not feel it. "Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings."
Applause, applause .. and I woke up realizing that I just finished one of talk shows.
P.S. (We talked a lot more things, edited not to offend any of our reader)
P.S. Most of the quotes are borrowed from funny quotes sites. And to tell you a little secret, the dream was completely imaginary.
P.S. This blog is intended only for humor, if anyone feels offended by any quotes, I sincerely apologise for that
I happened to watch couple of shows once or twice, not because I like watching talk shows, but because it just happened to be, sometimes just when I was surfing the tv, sometimes someone else was watching and I happened to be in the same room doing something nonsense and the words entered my ear but did stick to my mind.
But mind is the strangest thing, it interprets things and not only imprints certain things in certain ways, but the sleeping sense prevails sometimes and you see yourself in strangest possible situations alien to yourself. Thats what happened in one fine night. I was dreaming that I have bcome the host of a popular (viewers wise) talk show.
And we have Miss Y (Noone knows why she is famous, I guess she is famous for being famous, [read a Paris Hilton way] ) as our guest of the talk show.
And that dream of few minutes gave me some of the funniest quotes I personally shared with the gracious Miss Y.
And here the show begins..
Me: Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the greatest talk show on earth where every week we bring you the face to face with some of the most famous persons of our time. (Indeed, we only invite those ppl who can boost our show's TRP, and the show is an all-nonsense-talk-show-without-any-specific-agenda. Our only agenda is to create controversies and thats what we, the people, our society likes a lot)
And today we have amongst us, Miss. Y, the famous blah-blah-blah .... continued for 5 mins like the salutations before entering of a great king into his RajSabha.
And then she entered, and people were stunned by the look.
With all gracious "hi"s and "hello"s we settled for our show.And no doubt, the show was a smasher that day.
Me: Miss Y, first of all thanks for your gracious presence in our famous talk so. Now starting with, it seems you are engulfed with a sea of controversies, but you still seem to be laughing always without having slightest of worry.
Miss Y: Its simple, "The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on."
Huh.. Started with a bang (later I realized that it was a quote of "Robert Bloch")
Me: Well, what is your idea about life and death. If I give you a chance to choose how you want to die, what you will choose?
Miss Y: Well life, as you know is beautiful. And as you can see, I have been enjoying every bit of it. Regarding death, given a choice, "When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car".
I thought for a moment, Wonderful, who cares about others.
Me: Lot of people consider you as a genius, and you kind of simply swim through all issues handling perfectly and efficiently. How is the feeling of being in a position like that?
Miss Y: "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world,"
Really, this is the one that really made the mark .
Me: What is your idea about all science, man kind, universe all these jargon?
Miss Y: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
Huh, a wisdom indeed.
Me: What is your idea about marriages?
Miss Y: "Marriages are made in heaven. But so again, are thunder and lightning." I believe in both.
Hmm, I started thinking twice
Me: In our poor country, lot of people are without jobs, they do not do anything and are upset and this is one of our biggest concern. Do you think you with such a position of power should do something about this?
Miss Y: Look, I do not believe much in that. In my opinion, "Procrastination is the greatest laborsaving invention of all time."
Yeah, thats the way we should think
Me: Recently we have a trend in bollywood which creates really long movies Whats is your opinion about that. Do you like long bollywood movies with lots of songs, drama etc or like short and to the point hollywood ones?
Miss Y: You know, I do not care about whether it is bollywood or hollywood. "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
Me: What is your greatest fear?
Miss Y: Well, I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...or a game of fake heart attack. I wish not to be in that situation.
Me: ok, one last question. It seems that your friendship with Mr. X is grabbing lot of attention. Can you tell us what is going on?
Miss Y: See, a lot of people assume lot of things, as they just see it but can not feel it. "Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings."
Applause, applause .. and I woke up realizing that I just finished one of talk shows.
P.S. (We talked a lot more things, edited not to offend any of our reader)
P.S. Most of the quotes are borrowed from funny quotes sites. And to tell you a little secret, the dream was completely imaginary.
P.S. This blog is intended only for humor, if anyone feels offended by any quotes, I sincerely apologise for that
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Incidents, All in a day's work (continued..)
And we are back again ... with more funny workplace quotes.
If you are a first time visitor of this blog, you can read the previous post of workplace quotes from here to get some context.
Quote 1:
When after trying out several times unsuccessfully to download few files, our dearest colleague almost gave up. Someone amongst us suggested an alternative and that worked. Here is the mail snippet with happiness and joy all conglomerated.
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"Champagne anyone? :-) :-)"
X wrote:
"It must have been the corrupt files like you all said. I deleted all the install files and downloaded again.
So it went through this time. Very nice!"
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P.S. We wish these minor issues happen again and again so that we can demand champagne again and again. After all how many times in your life you will get a chance to celebrate with champagne.
Quote 2:
Wine and dine has been a part of our daily mail culture thanks to our dearest colleague. Here is a sample after successful conquest of an issue.
"Heard of "http://alwaysbroke-with-no-money.com/" ? ;-) Pinot Noir or not, I can bet you that some cheap red wine by the jug is sure to come our way if we scream louder ;-)"
P.S. Screaming louder can give you anything. Definitely screaming is the greatest strength of crybabies.
Quote 3:
Audience, do you have the power to line up workers for you to do something. No, you may not have, because you are not a Roman Emperor probably. But our dearest colleague definitely thinks like a Roman Emperor at least. You find out yourself from this snippet.
"I have lined up the QA folks to start testing this bundle - so please plan on giving the deliverable in the next day or so :-)"
P.S. QA: Quality Assurance
Quote 4:
What max can you do with status of your team members apart from preparing a consolidated report? Certainly someone thinks differently.
"Can you please send your weekly status? I need to send something by tonight :)"
P.S. We wondered what that "something" signifies for.
Quote 5:
What do you do when a project is about to be wrapped up? Certainly not all people have the exact idea.
"Are we almost at the finish line? Please let me know if there is anything at all I can do to help"
Quote 6:
Can a "something" be complex and simple at the same time. Well its probably a poetic simile. But in absolute sense of projects, I am not so sure of.
"On the Project X front, I was planning to involve you too as this will be a bundle as complex or as simple as Project Y for example. Hence, we may need your help too !."
P.S. Certainly creating a calculator program can be compared to creating a complex compiler, at least from project management perspective.
Quote 7:
A single word can be as important as salt in a curry. Here you find out yourself.
"I'm very keen to wrap this Release up as fast as possible, but XXXX has a very valid concern- we have done a great job up to this point, and we should spoil the game just because of being in a rush to finish up!"
P.S. This does not sound so encouraging without that "not" after "should". Is it?
Quote 8:
Any 2-3 words can form a meaningful subject line of an email.
Subject: How goes it?
Quote 9:
"We have the last of the two HOT issues in our court - and I know that the fixes for the same are being actively pursued (I think Person X is almost at the verge of closing issue 1 today with Person Y's help).
We are in the radar with these bugs for the age on them (again not entirely our problem). So, please ensure that we close them out as soon as possible."
P.S. My capability does not permit me to switch off the radar. Not that I am worried, but its a sense of urgency I want to show.
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Folks, that's all for today. I am pretty sure we will have more updated versions very soon.
Note: I want to personally thank few of my friends (For now, I want to keep them in anonymity) for the material for this compilation, without whom these funny excerpts could not have been possible.
If you are a first time visitor of this blog, you can read the previous post of workplace quotes from here to get some context.
Quote 1:
When after trying out several times unsuccessfully to download few files, our dearest colleague almost gave up. Someone amongst us suggested an alternative and that worked. Here is the mail snippet with happiness and joy all conglomerated.
=========================
"Champagne anyone? :-) :-)"
X wrote:
"It must have been the corrupt files like you all said. I deleted all the install files and downloaded again.
So it went through this time. Very nice!"
=========================
P.S. We wish these minor issues happen again and again so that we can demand champagne again and again. After all how many times in your life you will get a chance to celebrate with champagne.
Quote 2:
Wine and dine has been a part of our daily mail culture thanks to our dearest colleague. Here is a sample after successful conquest of an issue.
"Heard of "http://alwaysbroke-with-no-money.com/" ? ;-) Pinot Noir or not, I can bet you that some cheap red wine by the jug is sure to come our way if we scream louder ;-)"
P.S. Screaming louder can give you anything. Definitely screaming is the greatest strength of crybabies.
Quote 3:
Audience, do you have the power to line up workers for you to do something. No, you may not have, because you are not a Roman Emperor probably. But our dearest colleague definitely thinks like a Roman Emperor at least. You find out yourself from this snippet.
"I have lined up the QA folks to start testing this bundle - so please plan on giving the deliverable in the next day or so :-)"
P.S. QA: Quality Assurance
Quote 4:
What max can you do with status of your team members apart from preparing a consolidated report? Certainly someone thinks differently.
"Can you please send your weekly status? I need to send something by tonight :)"
P.S. We wondered what that "something" signifies for.
Quote 5:
What do you do when a project is about to be wrapped up? Certainly not all people have the exact idea.
"Are we almost at the finish line? Please let me know if there is anything at all I can do to help"
Quote 6:
Can a "something" be complex and simple at the same time. Well its probably a poetic simile. But in absolute sense of projects, I am not so sure of.
"On the Project X front, I was planning to involve you too as this will be a bundle as complex or as simple as Project Y for example. Hence, we may need your help too !."
P.S. Certainly creating a calculator program can be compared to creating a complex compiler, at least from project management perspective.
Quote 7:
A single word can be as important as salt in a curry. Here you find out yourself.
"I'm very keen to wrap this Release up as fast as possible, but XXXX has a very valid concern- we have done a great job up to this point, and we should spoil the game just because of being in a rush to finish up!"
P.S. This does not sound so encouraging without that "not" after "should". Is it?
Quote 8:
Any 2-3 words can form a meaningful subject line of an email.
Subject: How goes it?
Quote 9:
"We have the last of the two HOT issues in our court - and I know that the fixes for the same are being actively pursued (I think Person X is almost at the verge of closing issue 1 today with Person Y's help).
We are in the radar with these bugs for the age on them (again not entirely our problem). So, please ensure that we close them out as soon as possible."
P.S. My capability does not permit me to switch off the radar. Not that I am worried, but its a sense of urgency I want to show.
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Folks, that's all for today. I am pretty sure we will have more updated versions very soon.
Note: I want to personally thank few of my friends (For now, I want to keep them in anonymity) for the material for this compilation, without whom these funny excerpts could not have been possible.
Incidents, All in a day's work
I was an avid reader of Reader's Digest from my childhood days. And not that I like all the health, life, interview related articles of it, but most of the time I read the humor sections.
Amongst all types of humor, one of my favorite was a section called "all in a day's work", where typically people share funny incidents from their work. After I started my career in a software company, I always thought where are the extreme funny incidents that I used to read in my favorite magazine? Its not that there were no funny incidents, but those were either not directly related to my work, or at least it was never good enough to be put in a magazine.
But recently with work pressure or for whatever reason, one of my colleague started behaving really weird and voila, we have our daily share of workplace jokes distributed to us every morning we reach in office, just like a magician pulling out numerous stuff from a small hat.
Well well, I should not say like a magician since a magician knows what he is doing, its more of like an ordinary person given powerful role of a magician i.e. the hat with the stuffs or the stick with the magic power. With that, something is performed, but unknowingly. Our colleague is just like that, pulls out one by one surprise for us without his bit of sanity on what has been done/shown to outside world, in this case us. But anyway, we have our share of laugh with that, and I am going to share some of those funny tricks in this blog.
Day X: Incident 1:
As part of our job, we create bundles for software which is then distributed to other teams who test and can report issue if any. The bundles get created in an automated way and daily a new bundle is created. As per the process once a daily bundle is created that cannot be changed anymore and a new bundle with all fix need to be created. One day, a bundle had some issues and a team member reported the issue to our dearest colleague. Without even bothering about the actual issue, he responded back “The daily bundles are not in a good state he should try out newer dated daily bundles”.
You must be thinking whats wrong till now, right? But then the ultimate trick was performed. He went and stopped automated daily bundle creation without giving a chance to create a new bundle. The poor fellow who originally reported the issue, waited for 4 days to get an updated daily bundle which is kept in a specified location without knowing the irony that our dearest colleague has stopped the cause instead of fixing the same. He then sent a mail asking entire group how he is not able to find a newer bundle and then we found the trick. Someone amongst us sighed, “Yes, it’s always better to eliminate the cause rather than fixing it.” In this case it was the software bundle, don’t distribute newer ones and no one will able to find new issues. Simple, right?
Day X: Incident 2:
Anyone who has worked in any Unix based system, must have known that once you become a root user you can login as any other user from there. And in most of the internal systems for daily work, sudo functionality is provided to login as root user to perform specific operations. Since once someone logs in as root user, he can login as any user, it makes easier to facilitate this in a shared work environment where users need not share their passwords, but can change to any user id to perform specific operations as and when needed. Our dearest colleague now applied that trick in most unconvincing manner. Here is what was communicated to another person when giving access to machine and how the sudo functionality can be used
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And mine is as follows:
machine: machine1
to login as me, do the below:
login to the machine with youruser id/ password
sudo su / passwd: (your password) su - (my userid) This will make your id as mine.
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And once again, we were dumbfounded, if userid1 can mutate to userid2, I do not want to imagine the situation.
Day X: Incident 3:
This one is about the need to have a daily meeting . And here goes a snippet from the original mail.
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I've uploaded the Task List to track our progress with regards to the Project X at the below link. I would like to propose a team huddle twice a day for about 15 minutes to get a picture on how we are doing up until Date X. Our first meeting being Xday at YPM. We'll go from there and decide on the next steps.
======================
Until this mail, we never knew that we need to do a cricket/football style huddle for our project in a maidan .
Day X: Incident 4:
Another excerpt:
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"The job is now DEAD. Can someone please fix this? We are gated at this point."
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Getting a dead job is common in our work, we typically resubmit the same. But wondered as if our colleague is mournful for the dead job and asking for a medical attention from someone.
Day X: Incident 5:
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Subject Line: Updated Wiki
Mail Body:
FYI here's the updated Wiki.
================
Do you see nothing wrong here. We also did not, until we found that, there were no wiki link ; instead an excel spreadsheet was attached in mail. We have gone speechless now.
Funny Mail Subjects and quotes
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1. Subject: "Play Pen: Wiki to scribble daily notes"
2. Subject: "The Last Lap" --> Incidentally this was kind of beginning of the project.
3. What can happen when a single word is in-appropriate. You read yourself below.
Appropriate statement: "Here is the intermediate bundle to test that we promised to announce."
Statement Given: "Here is the intermittent bundle to test that we promised to announce."
We wondered, if the s/w bundle was appearing and disappearing as per God's will so that it became a case of intermittent bundle.
4. What do you tell your teammate when he is going for a vacation to a nearby place and taken leave on Friday (P.S. Saturday and Sunday are holidays in all S/W industry)?
Our dearest colleague sighed with similar news: "Alas: 3 working days gone"
We wondered whether it was intentional that he wished our teammate to work over weekend or inability to find out that Saturday and Sundays are not working days at all.
5. "I used GUI to get here."
P.S. We can travel using Graphical User Interface.
6. "Yes, I'm planning to. Just debating if it should be in round one though or we should take a first crack at it within ourselves."
7. "Samir (Name Changed) is helping me come up with a detailed task list. Armed with this, we should make this project our top priority till Date X or we reach a 'complete' status.
This also needlessly goes to say that all vacations will be on freeze till then :-)"
Inferences from above mail:
- Every task list is now an armor which can be armed and used against others
- People find it funny when vacations are frozen because of work
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Thats it for today
More coming soon .. Do post your feedbacks :)
Amongst all types of humor, one of my favorite was a section called "all in a day's work", where typically people share funny incidents from their work. After I started my career in a software company, I always thought where are the extreme funny incidents that I used to read in my favorite magazine? Its not that there were no funny incidents, but those were either not directly related to my work, or at least it was never good enough to be put in a magazine.
But recently with work pressure or for whatever reason, one of my colleague started behaving really weird and voila, we have our daily share of workplace jokes distributed to us every morning we reach in office, just like a magician pulling out numerous stuff from a small hat.
Well well, I should not say like a magician since a magician knows what he is doing, its more of like an ordinary person given powerful role of a magician i.e. the hat with the stuffs or the stick with the magic power. With that, something is performed, but unknowingly. Our colleague is just like that, pulls out one by one surprise for us without his bit of sanity on what has been done/shown to outside world, in this case us. But anyway, we have our share of laugh with that, and I am going to share some of those funny tricks in this blog.
Day X: Incident 1:
As part of our job, we create bundles for software which is then distributed to other teams who test and can report issue if any. The bundles get created in an automated way and daily a new bundle is created. As per the process once a daily bundle is created that cannot be changed anymore and a new bundle with all fix need to be created. One day, a bundle had some issues and a team member reported the issue to our dearest colleague. Without even bothering about the actual issue, he responded back “The daily bundles are not in a good state he should try out newer dated daily bundles”.
You must be thinking whats wrong till now, right? But then the ultimate trick was performed. He went and stopped automated daily bundle creation without giving a chance to create a new bundle. The poor fellow who originally reported the issue, waited for 4 days to get an updated daily bundle which is kept in a specified location without knowing the irony that our dearest colleague has stopped the cause instead of fixing the same. He then sent a mail asking entire group how he is not able to find a newer bundle and then we found the trick. Someone amongst us sighed, “Yes, it’s always better to eliminate the cause rather than fixing it.” In this case it was the software bundle, don’t distribute newer ones and no one will able to find new issues. Simple, right?
Day X: Incident 2:
Anyone who has worked in any Unix based system, must have known that once you become a root user you can login as any other user from there. And in most of the internal systems for daily work, sudo functionality is provided to login as root user to perform specific operations. Since once someone logs in as root user, he can login as any user, it makes easier to facilitate this in a shared work environment where users need not share their passwords, but can change to any user id to perform specific operations as and when needed. Our dearest colleague now applied that trick in most unconvincing manner. Here is what was communicated to another person when giving access to machine and how the sudo functionality can be used
=========================
And mine is as follows:
machine: machine1
to login as me, do the below:
login to the machine with your
sudo su / passwd: (your password)
And once again, we were dumbfounded, if userid1 can mutate to userid2, I do not want to imagine the situation.
Day X: Incident 3:
This one is about the need to have a daily meeting . And here goes a snippet from the original mail.
======================
I've uploaded the Task List to track our progress with regards to the Project X at the below link. I would like to propose a team huddle twice a day for about 15 minutes to get a picture on how we are doing up until Date X. Our first meeting being Xday at YPM. We'll go from there and decide on the next steps.
======================
Until this mail, we never knew that we need to do a cricket/football style huddle for our project in a maidan .
Day X: Incident 4:
Another excerpt:
================
"The job is now DEAD. Can someone please fix this? We are gated at this point."
================
Getting a dead job is common in our work, we typically resubmit the same. But wondered as if our colleague is mournful for the dead job and asking for a medical attention from someone.
Day X: Incident 5:
================
Subject Line: Updated Wiki
Mail Body:
FYI here's the updated Wiki.
================
Do you see nothing wrong here. We also did not, until we found that, there were no wiki link ; instead an excel spreadsheet was attached in mail. We have gone speechless now.
Funny Mail Subjects and quotes
===============
1. Subject: "Play Pen: Wiki to scribble daily notes"
2. Subject: "The Last Lap" --> Incidentally this was kind of beginning of the project.
3. What can happen when a single word is in-appropriate. You read yourself below.
Appropriate statement: "Here is the intermediate bundle to test that we promised to announce."
Statement Given: "Here is the intermittent bundle to test that we promised to announce."
We wondered, if the s/w bundle was appearing and disappearing as per God's will so that it became a case of intermittent bundle.
4. What do you tell your teammate when he is going for a vacation to a nearby place and taken leave on Friday (P.S. Saturday and Sunday are holidays in all S/W industry)?
Our dearest colleague sighed with similar news: "Alas: 3 working days gone"
We wondered whether it was intentional that he wished our teammate to work over weekend or inability to find out that Saturday and Sundays are not working days at all.
5. "I used GUI to get here."
P.S. We can travel using Graphical User Interface.
6. "Yes, I'm planning to. Just debating if it should be in round one though or we should take a first crack at it within ourselves."
7. "Samir (Name Changed) is helping me come up with a detailed task list. Armed with this, we should make this project our top priority till Date X or we reach a 'complete' status.
This also needlessly goes to say that all vacations will be on freeze till then :-)"
Inferences from above mail:
- Every task list is now an armor which can be armed and used against others
- People find it funny when vacations are frozen because of work
===============
Thats it for today
More coming soon .. Do post your feedbacks :)
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