Digest

intended to write one last night but couldnt.. saw Arundhati-a Telugu horror movie.. good one actually, nothing dhinchak like the normal ones.. the actress looked graceful in the saree, and equally bad in modern clothes (double role).. sonu sood (the ghost-cum-villain) was good too.. altho i thought the editing was only so-so.. but overall, a worth watch movie, even for a non-Telugu-ite..

also, the night before, when we went to meet gagan, didnt write much cuz i had no words to describe how it felt.. it was awesome! exactly like campus, back then-- sitting some place by the road, chatting, laughing (hysterically, in my case!) like no one's around (had to refrain from it later on, cuz ppl might've gotten scared, or worse, angry!), the never-ending PJs and theories (i'm Vandith's apprentice here.. he is God!), and gagan calling me "mote".. lolz! i guess she's the ONLY one in the world who calls me mote.. btw.. even tonight, i still dont have any words, these are just the incidents that i'm mentioning.. :-)

tomorrow, its the BITSAA Hyderabad Chapter meet.. hoping for it to be awesome! :)

btw.. what got me into writing this post is, Rage. u know, the animal inside of me (well, most ppl @ BITS are unaware of this fact.. plays to my advantage innit?! just FYI, if u see my ears really red, assume that i'm super-uber-mad.. cos i know for a fact that they get red, plus i even feel the heat in my ears!!!) what happened was (has happened earlier too.. but i lost my patience this time!), we were returning from work, in an auto rickshaw, a shared one.. the rickshaw walla takes 3 ppl at the back, and 2/3/4 ppl beside him (avg = 3, excluding him of course)... and whenever some female comes, he asks one of the passengers who're seated behind to come join him at the front.. what i fucking don't understand is.. where the fuck is all the "equality" that females keep talking about?! they go bonkers about sexism, that people are biased against the fairer sex etc etc... if u want equality, then be prepared for everything!! they want equality in education, in politics, in every bit of life as they can imagine, but what about the auto incident!!!

never have i seen a female tell the auto walla confidently, that No Bhaiyya, i'm prepared to seat beside u.. these girls roam about in expensive, even revealing jeans-tops sometimes, and arent prepared to sit in a clumsy place?! i mean, okay, i can understand that there are some people who are arseholes, who try to get physical with women, more so with the modern girls who like to leave so little for imagination.. but i strongly oppose Mrs. Shobhaa De's thoughts here.. she's one person, who says that ALL men, no one excluded are Pigs, who just want to jump on to women all the time, like a hunter on to the prey.. she, and her daughters faced situations it seems.. but, while reading an article of hers in The Indian Express (or The Week) some years ago, (it inevitably was against Men!), she mentioned about some incident-it goes as follows---

her daughters it seems went out, to a mall or something.. with friends of course.. and they had to face an incident, some men (as far as i remember, some daily wages workers, doing some repair work @ the mall) passed lewd comments or something, dont remember exactly.. and it seems they were drooling over the (poor!) girls.. and FYI, she clearly mentioned that the girls had gone out in "quite" modern clothes..
one more indicent--she said, some guy in a nearby building used to use his binoculars to get a "clearer" view of the girls, as in of their rooms..

now, just like we cant blame ALL Muslims for terrorism, we simply CANNOT assume that all men are pigs, who like to prey on the poor li'l women's souls! why cant Mrs. De digest this simple fact! and i fail to understand how the Mr. De lives with such idiotic, psychotic women in the house! i'd rather do something, drastic for that matter!!

this brings me back to the more day-to-day scenario.. these days, when there's women pilots in india, women bus-conductors, women auto drivers, women police, hell women who're practically running the show (i.e. Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, Mrs. Sheila Dixit, et al), why is there the need to take resort to the "traditional" i'm a butterfly, dont hurt me view as and when needed? where is all the equality gone now, huh?!!

the reason i'm writing this is, i was asked to move from the back seat, when there WAS one place for the lady concerned, but seems her husband was with her (some guy it was).. i told the auto walla, bhaiyya ek jagah hai, lady wahan baith jayegi.. again he says with frustration lady seat hai aage aa jao.. i mean.. bullshit! what'd've happened if the lady'd've sat beside me and the husband in the front? i for one wud surely not have eaten her up! plus, my complaint is, i cant FIT into the front part, with such less legspace... my head bumps into the roof for every little stone the auto crushes, and also my knees bump into the auto-part-which-i-cant-describe-in-words.. and it bloody HURTS! (not to mention, the smoke/dust worsens clothes faster when seated in the front!)

so now.. the conclusion i've drawn is...

wait for it... :P

"women themselves are the most sexist beings"


don't u agree? i mean, i respect women a lot, have respected women a lot since birth (leave aside a few who dont deserve respect!), but this is the fact.. they themselves are sexists, and i for one, hate (irrational) feminists more than anything.. its okay if one saves a female who's being tortured by her dumbass husband, or any such oppressions-physical of psychological.. but to demand equal jobs, to demand equal pay scales, to demand reservations, hell, to demand "fighting @ a war front, mano-a-mano", but yet, be so unequal at will.. awesome, isn't it? well done!!

btw.. what i really wanted to say to the husband in the auto was, itni sone jaisi biwi hai to ghar mein rakha kar.. but no, we HAVE to be decent at all times, even when there's all kinds of random people around! well.. yeah.. THAT my dears, is life!

now u tell me.. who's sexist here?! me, or the 10s of different women i've travelled with, who want all equal rights, but wont sit in front!

maybe its just a trivial non-significant issue, but as they say, charity begins at home...

P.S.-- just remembered.. there's also a ladies' reservation in the bus.. so, when there's a seat vacant, some men obviously grab the opportunity and occupy the reserved seats.. now when a female boards the bus, she's like.. "whats the sonofabitch doing in a ladies' seat"?!! it CLEARLY says on their facial expressions, trust me.. and yet, there's the odd female who's seated somewhere at the back, NOT ON A LADIES' RESERVED SEAT.. who's to tell her to get the hell off the seat! if someone says so.. the expression goes "where does this guy come from? doesn't he have the slightest decency/courtesy! for God's sakes, i'm a woman, in a bus full of males (read pigs) all around!"... trust me!

all i'd like to say to all Feminists (in particular, illogical ones and Mrs. De in particular) to shove it up theirs! and SHUT THE FUCK UP! :-/


btw,, yesterday just happened to be my father's birthday, and one of the more memorable ones lately.. apart from the aforementioned fact, some good news (is it newses?!! lolz!) of the day--

well.. its confidential.. so chuck.. haven't asked the concerned people whether to publicize it just yet!! (God forbid should they sue me, i'll lose all my (hopeful) future earnings!)

some funny incidents--
for dinner, me and vandith decided to go out.. went to a place, "Veg Buffet @ Rs. 75/-" it turned out to be real ordinary, not worth 25 bucks if u ask me.. then checked some local dhaba, te ambience was real bad there.. then went to a hotel "veg thali @ Rs. 50/-" which was only for lunch they said.. still, we decided to try the place out (had to avoid the Pizza Hut and Domino's etc, too much spending >.< ).. so we have a table, but surprisingly there's NO one but 3-4 waiters there.. so we decided, since the place is not so well to do, maybe we shouldn't try it.. plus, who knows when they'd've bought the vegetables etc with so less customers! so we were in a fix-whether to leave directly, after having gulped down a glass of water each, or just give one waiter a 10 rupee note and leave, or order something light and leave.. we decided to order Aalu paranthas.. two.. got em packed, and 40 bucks it was! left much to the astonishment of the waiters! lolz.. then, there was a place we went past, kinda not so good, but earlier we'd pondered going inside.. the second time.. when we were passing by, i say to vandith "vandith, jab din mein ek baar kat chuka hota hai na... tab risk nahi lete.. we gotta play safe" thus we went to a hotel, had a magnificent dinner, returned home.. and after a while, tasted the packed parantha.. it was REAL bad man.. maaaaan... waise Hyderabad mein aa kar itni baar kat chuka hai.. this was one of the least in its extent!!

anyways.. adios.. gotta sleep..

yeayy!!

have no words for what i am feeling right now. me and vandith went to meet gagan, at her place. it was AWESOME! period.

4 hours of non stop chatting/gossiping/cracking godlike jokes and formulating godlike theories, just like when in campus.. :)

hope for many, many more such evenings..

"Its back"!

ahem.. what to say! been thinking about friends (again!) and everything is going on as i'd foreseen.. not many friends are in touch.. i accept, we've already faced a similar situation (at least once) before, when swapping our homes with BITS.. (hope the word is appropriate!) and then again when half the batch went for PS2 in 4-1.. but even then, we had some of our close ones nearby, and there was a feeling, that come what may, we'll talk things through with them.. be it any trivial issue or a major problem.. now, there's very few people to share things with, in person i mean,(dont mean objects), and that too those who dont know much about the goings on in my life, and also the past, for that matter.. and to call someone (even if very close) for small, trivial issues seems childish now (after all, we are working!)

plus, the big task of adjusting with new people (sharing rooms na.. not used to it!) and their habits and all.. some things which are irritating, to bear with them.. try to ignore.. and NOT lose temper.. cuz not many ppl are aware of the fact that i do have a bad one! (a bad temper i mean, duh!)

plus.. as i keep saying.. not much contact with the real close friends, some in campus, some @ PS (leave aside the school friends, we're used to just SMSs/Calls with them) although we knew this would happen.. LIVING it is an altogether different story.. and a sad one! btw.. who's to tell a friend, that please be in touch? the max i can do is, keep calling/sending mails/SMSs..but after a while, when there's no response from the other side, what do we do? even if they're missed, increasingly by the day! and then i get mad, and leave it.. totally.. shut the doors, until they're opened from the other side! guess thats the best way out.. (at least better than telling someone that i'm angry and further spoiling the friendship!) and of course, write a blog on the topic! after all, there's no Punky, Amit to talk this with.. (no disrespect to the other best friends.. but these topics are specifically reserved for those two!)

anyways.. gotta go.. read a few things..

chao!

P.S.--i see a reaction, to my prev post i think, "horseshit"... nice! FINALLY, i know that there's someone who's reading what all crap i keep posting! love u mate! :-*

Revision

well..today was the first day that we actually were busy at work..and boy o boy did the day start badly! we woke up at 8am (which is like, an eternity considering our usual 8:45am routine!) but only to find there was no water! none, whatsoever, not even in the basins! so we waited for a bit, brushed teeth etc.. one guy had a bath, then i did my "holy offerings"--had to get a bucket filled before i could "release" something without worries ;P

haan.. so, although we woke up earlier than the past few days (working days i mean), it was useless..firstly,it took us quite a while to get a sharing-auto, plus the HEAVY traffic.. uff.. it was damn irritating, just to be at the same point or thereabouts even after 5 mins.. and then suddenly, it went from bad to worse, as one motherfucker of a driver sped past us (in a Black Esteem i think, it was surely Black, not sure if Esteem or not), and although that part of the journey was without many vehicles around, that arsehole HAD to go thru this pothole filled with (dirty, muddy) water.. and a SPLASH! 3 of the passengers in the auto.. shit angry, and barking random swear words at the already gone car.. one guy was totally wasted! Beti's crisply ironed shirt was soiled (lol @ soiled!) and me.. well.. the water "just" helped me with a face wash! we were SO angry, i swear to God, had i been on a bike or something.. i wud've dragged the son of a bitch outside after cornering him some place and at least had a thing or two to say.. but no! i NEVER get a chance to fight! damn! >.<

apart from that.. the day was alright.. office mein had to stay till almost 6pm :O
then it took us i guess 50+ mins to get home.. LOOOONG day innit? ;D

and if this was not enough, we've got some "homework"! gotta study some things and explain it tomorrow! if any mistakes/doubts, they'll be paid attention to, we're told.. hah! anyways.. time to go, read+sleep.. hoping i resume my early morning jogging! yeayy!

Slumdog Millionaire!

The most talked about movie in recent times, and what a watch it was! If a movie's greatness could be measured by the tears shed during the watching part, i guess it would rank among the top 10 that i've seen (which includes many, many movies--- Bollywod and Hollywood).

the first half in particular, was amazing. the way Boyle's picturized India's slums, gives us a feel of the real world. Its the truth, and not an exaggeration. I totally oppose Mr. Amitabh's comments.. Whats true IS true, and no one can change it, sadly! The way they've taken the beggar kids (sorry for the usage) and the asshole who forces them to beg, the WAY he does so.. it was goosebump-ish! :| especially the scene where he puts acid or something in some kid's eye, who has a good voice, just so he could stand the chance of "earning" more money... My God! although we kinda know that these things go on, but to see it, even though on screen, is difficult.. makes u think, about more than a few things..

Most of us keep cribbing about our bad luck.. to the extent, for e.g. a 9 pointer says he/she missed a grade by a few marks, an 8LPA earner says he wished he could earn 10LPA, one who has enough clothes/shoes longs for "just one more" jeans/t-shirt/a pair of Nike!

and then there's these less fortunate kids, who have to roam around asking (begging) for money, most of which probably goes into the fathers' late-night drinking sessions! Why? What's the poor kid's mistake,apart from the misfortune of being born into a beggar family (sorry for the usage!).. that their parents, even tho not self-sufficient, couldn't plan the child-birth (maybe they lacked the basic information! plus, as far as i think, a child born = more ppl to beg i.e. more money for the dad's drinking.. and also, mother+infant get more than just the mother) sorry for being so skeptical.. but thats the way i see things..
well, if the beggars is one case, handicapped people is another.. that too born with some handicap, which saddens me.. why do they have to suffer their whole lives, for no apparent mistake of theirs? and in that, if such a child is born in a well-to-do family, at least they have the resources to cope with the situation.. imagine this child being born in a poor family. what a disaster!

and we say we're unlucky! BOLLOCKS! we're DAMN lucky, just to be born without any medical problem (at least, without any serious problems!) and to be born where we demand things from our parents, rather we CAN demand things from them.. who said God is fair? He clearly isn't!

May God bless the less fortunate.. Amen.

And I for one, certainly hope and pray that sooner rather than later, i could do my bit in helping such children.. and this does not mean giving them money, i'd like to help in a more substantial way.. dont think i need to mention the details here.. na? :-)

..

umm.. will just write the highlights of the day, too unenthusiastic to write much cuz of the cold response... :P

-met gagan (and anuvesh!) after a long, long time! felt awesome! :) :)
-a worrying moment, as Federer was 2 sets to 0 down against Berdych, only to win eventually in 5 (ob!) sets.. missed the match, saw just the highlights.. good match! plus some other sporting satisfactions-e.g. jankovic lost, Dokic won, Arsenal and Liverpool have a match more to think about (cuz of the draw in the FA Cup), plus Beckham scored his first goal for AC Milan..(quite a finish that one!)

thats it.. now gm.

26th May, 1999--somewhere in Barcelona

aha! Nou Camp-it is injury time, and Man United still trailing 1-0 to Bayern Munich, in the Champions' League final.. here's the story in words... \m/

(United have a corner, Beckham to take.)
90.21 Can Manchester United score? They always score.
Beckham.......
In towards Schmeichel......its come for Dwight Yorke
Cleared...........Giggs with the shot
90.35 SHERINGHAM! (Sheringham scores)

NAME ON THE TROPHY!

91.15 As things stand we will go into extra time with a golden goal hanging like a massive shadow over this final unless Ole Solskjaer can find another......

(United have another corner, Beckham to take)

Is this their moment?
92.13

92.17 Beckham......
Into Sheringham.....
AND SOLSKJAER HAS WON IT! (Solskjaer scores)
Manchester United have reached the promised land, Ole Solskjaer, and the two substitutes have scored the two goals in stoppage time and the Treble looms large.


93.33 (Final whistle blows)
History is made, Manchester United are the Champions of Europe again and nobody will ever win a European Cup final more dramatically than this. Champions of Europe, Champions of England, the FA Cup holders, everything their hearts desire. United fans will ask where did you watch the 1999 European Final? Where did you see Ole Solskjaer win it with virtually the last kick of the final?




"At the end of this game, the European Cup will be only six feet away from you and you'll not even able to touch it if we lose. And for many of you that will be the closest you will ever get. Don't you dare come back in here without giving your all".
ALEX FERGUSON HALF TIME TEAMTALK IN EUROPEAN CUP FINAL

Godlike, isn't it? after this final, and the Treble, it was Sir Alex! \m/ The old man sure does know how to get a response!


don't tell me u dont have goosebumps after reading that.. cos 90% of you are united fans (of which 90% are plain ignorant and know nothing!), 9% are United haters, the rest 1% are lying (about not being United fans!) ;)

Two of my fav songs..

..................
Come lay beside me
This won't hurt, I swear
She loves me not
She loves me still
But she'll never love again
She lay beside me
But she'll be there when I'm gone
Black heart scarring darker still
Yes, she'll be there when I'm gone
Yes, she'll be there when I'm gone
Dead sure she'll be there
.............

--- From The Unforgiven-II, Metallica.


..............
Don't walk away, don't walk away,
ooh when the world is burning
Don't walk away, don't walk away,
ooh when the heart is yearning
Don't walk away, don't walk away,
ooh when the world is burning
Don't walk away, don't walk away,
ooh when the heart is yearning
.........

--- From Carnival of Rust, Poets of the Fall.

Treat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aha! UC's bday treat!! yoyoyo.. although bday was a fortnight ago, both his and Beti's.. we got a small cake today, and Damodar came here and we had a small bday celebration! yoyo!
so it was UC's treat, at Windows (its below the Microsoft office in Hyderabad, so...) and since i was the only one who eats non veg, ate a full tandoori chicken! plus after that, 2 butter naans, with some paneer curry and malai kofta.. on top, Baskin mein Chocolate Mousse! \m/

VERY sleepy after eating all that! the writer inside me is already asleep... hence this unusually short and boring post... anyways.. laterz..

Happy Birthday bro!

Why?

hmm.. since Vandith's mom's in town, he went to his uncle's to meet her, and came back only at 11pm or so.. said for the past half an hour or so he was thinking abt what to write in his blog.. then added he might just write one on writing blogs.. as in "How to write blogs" or something.. dunno abt him, but it spurred my thought process (ob, while i was atop the Western Style--toilet,i mean!) and hence this post..

hmm.. where do i start!
Why do we write blogs? to reveal all our secrets? to tell the whole world what we're thinking and doing (and i mean the truth, some sensible stuff-not utter Bullcrap, precisely what we're thinking or doing!) now who'd be that stupid? making public THE stuff that's really close to self? i'll just say, as far as my thinking goes.. people write blogs cuz then their friends would check the posts out, maybe comment on a few (rarely in my case! :P) and thats it.. its all just a waste of time.. totally! had it not been for the jobless people reading others' blogs, who do you think would have gone on writing the big big posts?! its all advertising/marketing whatever (still cant tell the difference.. >.< ) and u know what.. i have been thinking on these lines since the beginning.. but they all sucked me into this.. writing and all.. i know i suck at it, but yet i go on.. why? cuz i want my friends to know whats going on in my life-the events and the thoughts.. at least the not-so-relevant stuff.. but how many, do u reckon, know the REAL stuff that's bugging me? lemme tell u.. i can count those ppl on a dog's toes-maybe with some spare ones! peer pressure, and i fell for it! now i'm addicted! :D
and yet, all u do is read on... and on... even if i type "rhethrymjetujt" i suppose there'll be at least one jobless fella who'd comment on it.. na?

btw.. i'd hoped this week we'd be started with our projects.. but no, they're TOO busy for Interns.. gave us e-books and we're just waiting and waiting... and waiting! sometimes catching up on the sleep (gotta wake up early, remember!) sometimes gaming (mobile gaming or Pinball/Solitaire/Hearts) but yeah.. as expected, ps2 IS actually bridging the gap between college and work-at college we had no work, and at work, there sometimes is a thing or two to do.. so, a good first step into the "real world"... and as far as i see, the employees there are just as jobless as we are.... okay, a bit less, but mind u, they're in contention for the "who's the most jobless" award! ;)
anyways.. 1:40am and its been 2 successive nights of just 4 hrs sleep.. so gotta go.. bbye..

btw.. i dont think i'm gonna advertise my blog anymore (except when i think i've written exceptionally well--so u can expect the status to be my blogspot address frequently! :P) (such a hypocrite i am na, yeah i know)

mahshallah.. subhanallah! aadaab.. aadaab...

Peace

P.S.-check the label for this post! ;)

GSM, CDMA, blah blah..

well, as an Intern at a Telecom company, these are terms that frequently come up, and the actual mechanism of say a simple task like sending an SMS, to a more complicated one like Voice calls etc etc... me's not a pro as yet (ob!) not being from Communication background... but reading those e-books is awesome!
for, very few ppl wud know that GSM = Global System for Mobile, and CDMA = Code Division Multiple Access.. and that 3G (The iPhone 3G, remember?!) = 3rd Generation mobiles etc etc.. that there have been 2G phones (the ones which we used a few yrs ago, and now we're using 2.5G ones, to facilitate the transition between 2G and 3G) :O

well.. more when i know more... just read the basic concepts.. :P lolz..

chao!

Part-II

hello again! not more than an hour has passed since my last post, but here's one more.. :D

how do we tell someone how much he/she means to us? do we give lavish gifts? do we say good good things, sweet sweet things? do we talk every day? for hours and hours together? or maybe SMS? HOW do u convey such simple a msg, to XYZ--"u mean a lot to me..."?! just simply saying it out loud many times, is that a wise thing to do? i doubt..

thinking abt this cos.. apart from my immediate family.. some of my friends mean the world to me, and they know it.. even if we dont meet for 4-5 months, even if NO contact for that period, we hit it off like we'd never been apart! :)

and i'd like to know, how many ppl, who i think mean a lot to me, actually reciprocate that feeling? and since i dont know the "signals" as such, m confused.. whether to value em as much, or simply to let go.. lets c.. only time will tell.. :)

anyways.. gotta sleep now.. almost 1am, and a hectic week ahead.. Gawd, how i hate Mondays! (esp after a 2 day break!)

BTW, as i type.. my roomie is snoring SO loudly omfg... this has been going on for the past 4-5 nights.. and we've had quite a few infectious laughs.. but man.. he snores in a comical manner.. one night, it was like he's riding a bike! (and while he was snoring in that fashion, i was busy acting like i was the bike rider, and we laughed SO much omfg!)

plus, sometimes there's the occasional "bomb", if u know what i mean... (to the blessed souls, i'm referring to a LOUD fart!) hahahahah ROTFLMAO it is... shifting the sleeping posture so as to facilitate a loud fart! lolz!

chalo.. gn!

Random thoughts..

well, this comes after there's been a discussion between me and a friend, just last night, about friendship (don't we have ANYTHING else to talk about!) ;) hmm.. so the essence of the discussion was, do we (me and him) have too many female friends, to be woefully off target in finding our respective "the one"s??i mean, even if she is out there, and we prolly might even know each other, what'd she be thinking? this applies even to girls who have too many male friends... getting the point or no? :P and what can we do about it, now? if any interesting ideas, please leave a comment.. if helpful a treat assured! :D

good night!

Piracy

hmmm.. this comes when there's 100s of people all over the world cribbing about a virus called "piracy"... as far as i think, all such stupid, money-chasing dogs should consider the scenario--there's NO piracy in the world... how many people, do u assume, wud be willing to buy the CDs DVDs etc of their music/movies etc etc...? can they afford it? will the college goers like u and me buy them? its BECAUSE of Piracy that all those people are so famous! why cant they understand this simple fact! what're they gonna do with all the money they accumulate after dying! huh?!!
plus, when someone like Mahesh (/Mukesh) Bhatt comes and says something about Piracy... i feel like whacking that whackjob :P cos, all he does is, copy English movies and take newcomers (actresses) and make them smooch Emraan Hashmi (who i believe is related to the Bhatts!) and we, the people love the Bhatts' movies dont we? :-/ and nowadays even the Music made in India is mostly copied, either from some English track, or some old hindi songs... (referring to all but AR Rehman here... he is God! *BOWS*)

and, as my friend Punky aptly puts it.. Mozart and Beethoven charged something for the music they made? do we PAY money to listen to it?! (here, i'm assuming that no one owns the copyrights for the same!) and if THEY didnt, are these Bands and Celebrities and Directors-Producers better than THEM?! dont they have something called "shame" in their bloods? huh! and anyways, when me and punky are on the same side.. there's no beating us ;)

so... long live Piracy! \m/

Lake Husseinsagar

well, our first outing as such, during PS2 (went out with Beti sometimes, but this was different!)

Saturday!! 5pm we went to Lake Husseinsagar, where there's a BIG food court and then the BIGGG statue of Gautam Buddha! made of one single rock, standing over 60 feet i assume.. i'd visited the place twice before, after my 10th and 12th, but that was during the day... evening, the spotlights and all was awesome! plus the cool breeze! and the presence of (along with Beti) Vandith (the God-photographer ke role mein!) and UC... was fun, but again, couldnt complete the "mission 9" stated in my prev blog..

here's to many more such outings.. cheers..

PS2 and Gen Hyderabad stuff..

aho! so here comes the post that has been waiting (in my head) for quite a while now.. ya.. so i will continue from the day i left for pune, i.e. from my last post from home..here it goes (or should it be comes? :P)

ya.. it was the 3rd day of the new year, and i left for pune by the 3pm State Transport bus.. had with me 4 BIG bags, after all i was supposed to leave for hyderabad 4th night, 8pm bus.. in the meantime i had an exam in pune- XAT :D thankfully i had gargi with me, at my center.. so after the exam we went to KFC and ate the Zinger Burger (hope the spelling is right.. LOL!) it was awesome, made all the more tasty by the presence of one of my closest friends (and gossips!!) :) haan.. after that went to the CCD nearby and had our fav Chocolate Fudge Sundae (or was it, Chocolate Truffle Sundae?SO confusing every time) the manner in which we gulped it down, and later the way in which i cleaned the bowl is unmentionable :P anyways... then she had to get back home, i had to go back to my uncle's... so we parted (btw, if i remember correctly, the song that was playing in CCD was, Lambi Judaai... from jannat i hope... it goes like... "chaar dino kaa... saath o rabba... lambi judaaiii, lambi judaai...." which was quite apt for the situation, and gargi's favourite!) :'( was vvvvvvv sad then..and the prospect of meeting Punky and Amit was the only thing that cheered me up later on! :) and altho Amit's meet was for a short while, it was v good.. had already spent with him 3 days, chatting gossiping and all such stuff we love ;) and punky too.. not for long, but we did hv some time to talk, but then suddenly... i came to terms with reality.. that was to be the last time that i saw punky/gargi/amit for months! earlier, i used to think, ki pune mein to milna hi hai.. but that day was very very very sad.. i didnt think i cld survive without them.. and i still think i wont (hence i keep sending waste emails :P).. anyways.. take care mates! :) miss yawl..

8pm-my bus for hyd started from pune (thankfully Am-ameya-one of my oldessssst friends came to see me off, which was a great feeling since i'd asked my parents not to come, plus a good friend's presence is always welcome, more so during sad times), and reached Hyderabad 7am the next day-dont remember much about the night, except that i sent senti msgs to all those who i felt have made my life worth living, and to those, who i felt, was a value addition to my vacation.. some replied, some ignored.. nevertheless, i never think much-say things that i feel..

YO! 7:30am i was at my mosi's place...wasted the day on the net and on phone (i bought a new SIM card 12 days after reaching-utilising 300+ Rs. in the course cos roaming is too fkin expensive wtf!), and came to know that i had to report to the KLK building at 10am (Khan Latif Khan) Tata Teleservices Ltd. (henceforth, TTSL) Office... they said, wait for some time, Ratan Tata's teleconference (11am) or something was on, so most employees were busy (!).. so waiting and waiting and waiting... 1pm they said, go hv lunch... when we returned, 2pm or so they came and said that we had to go to some Voltas thingy... we were like.. what the fuck! we'd been sent to Tata Teleservices, NOT Voltas-and stuff like that.. so we waited.. then they said there's a car arranged, for us to get there (10+ km far).. we said we had to register with our PS2 instructor, who'd also accompany us to see our working place.. then when HE came, car was gone and the Voltas wala VP was busy in some meeting.. so we waited.. and waited.. FINALLY,4pm we left KLK towards Voltas.. Sir talked to the VP there only, so no need to accompany us that far :P

reached at 4:30pm.. sent to another person, who then talked to us, we had to explain that we are BITS(G)ians, that there's a thing called Practice School, and that we're 4th yrites who'll graduate after this 5month internship at TTSL.. (it turned out, the place was Voltas House, from where Voltas was shifted some place else.. TTSL itself.. so our initial fears of being sent to the wrong place turned out to be false!) and because they didnt know anything about PS2, we told them that u should give us projects, officespace,computers,stipend(!) [even we didnt know any details then!] so blah blah blah later.. they said, settle down in Hyd first (finding new house etc) thus, our first "working" (waiting!) day was over!! yeayyy!!

the next day, i.e. 7th, we shifted to a new place.. twas kinda good-main road, bus stop nearby, taking us to our office in 3or 4 Rs. and 15 mins.. but somehow, after just a week there, we shifted to a new place, which is quite far from our office (Rs.15 and 30 mins) but this is TOTALLY AWESOME! plus many BITSGians here, including Vandith the God! :) :)

and then.. 7th onwards, we went to our office regularly, on time, in fact we were the first to get there.. 9am! :O but then.. what we did for the first 7-8 days was... wait.. wait.. and endless wait.. i mean, come on, i know we arent that much into anything but tp, but this was the limit! getting paid for just sitting in A/C.. LOL there's one room, where there were already 5 ppl (thankfully 1 person dsnt show up much) and kinda congested.. somehow we managed to squeeze in the chairs and thus started our PS2-mobile-gaming! LOL! be it Sudoku, Brian Lara's cricket, Micro Pool, u name it, we've played it! LOL! as i said, one person dsnt show up much, so we used his desktop to suit us, but it turned out, the firewall there is GODLIKE.. unbeatable, even to us (KK and MaGNuM, the DC gods!) we cldnt open anything, no proxy sites, no mail clients (gmail,yahoomail,even mail.bits-goa.ac.in!) finally Ultrasurf.. even that was useless! :O all hope was gone.. surrendered to our fate.. then checked some news (satyam god giri!).. FINALLY.. 5th day our computer came.. turned out, i had to call 6151 (Help Desk) and get it configured.. that happened on 15th jan.. but in the meanwhile.. we bunked a day (cos had to shift to this new hostel naaaa.. already had called up and told them, at 9am, that we wudnt make it), and one evening, 5:30pm they tell us, get the overview of the work that's being done at TTSL.. an hour later, we get a slight idea.. FINALLY.. today (16th jan) we get SOMETHING to read, some e-books (our projects are core communication, and we're instru! LOL @ PSD, Pilani and TTSL, who specifically asked for Elec and Instru!!) so there's a LOT to catch up on.. btw, my stipend will be a handsome 10k per month, quite a lot more than what i expected :P (m not bragging, sersly) ya.. so the co-workers are like.. thr's this one guy.. who works seriously.. one more girl, who keeps playing Minesweeper (and fails!) and two more (who share a comp) who sometimes have work.. else its jus all of us (except the working guy) wasting time (with me and Beti aka MaGNuM being the most generous with time! sometimes, say twice or thrice a day, we get down and have some free coffee... now THATs what i love!) hmm.. so enough abt work.. anyways, our mentor has told that come Monday, there's gonna be a LOT of work.. (kinda warned i think!) so lookin forward to a hectic few days/weeks/months lets c...



ya..now.. the story of my acco.. kinda funny.. lemme explain in detail, as i always do...
as i said,7th Jan got a new place.. which was a 3 seater room, attached toilet-bath..the registration (!) fees was 250/- with the advance being 1000/- and monthly rental being 4000/- so in all, we paid 5250/-... me and Beti had already shifted there.. one more guy was supposed to come, but on 11th, he told us that he'd gotten accommodation from his company! so we tell this to the flat owner.. and he is like... now the rules have changed.. (this was 12th night) now, the advance is 5250/- and rent is 5250/- (rent being per month, per person).. we had assumed that the rent wud be increased.. but the advance increment was outta this world.. so we argued with him for FORTY FIVE mins- 9:00pm to 9:45pm (during which, i lashed out at him and his servant in anger!).. FINALLY, convinced him to give us a few days to arrange for the money.. plus, we'd already decided that we'd leave that place after one month, since it'd be too costly for us.. so we thot.. we'd already paid him 5000/-, which is just about the rent for one month, per person (since the advance is refundable).. so we'd live there for the month, and shift to the place where we are right now... turned out, that ass of a guy wanted money right then.. somhow, we came to the conclusion that since he'd never return our money (this was after interacting with him enough, to know what kind of a person he was) so the problem in front of us was, to MINIMIZE THE LOSSES... so we shifted to this new place, 13th night itself, before he'd bug us for money and get into our heads! LOL... say a loss of about 3k per head... but we thot, had we lived there a lil while longer, he'd definitely hv gotten under our skins, plus the place we are now at, that might hv gotten full... so.. gg @ PS bola, and shifted... btw, details abt the new place:-
5 seater rooms, attached toilet-bath, tv, wifi 24*7, laundry, gym, food---including EVERYTHING this is 4.9k per month per person... plus 1000/- advance (refundable, ob).. now can there be a better deal than this? anyone? (plus, there's all BITSGians, the 5 of us \m/ we rock! this is like a mini hostel!)
so..how was the story! ;)


haan.. so the 3rd point was..Man Utd beating Chelsea comprehensively.. dont wanna talk much, cos there's already some non-football stuff i hv in mind... and anyways most of u'd've read the newspapers/websites already... waste of time :P


now, the gen random topics.. yoyo, dont we all love this part!! ;D
some missions we've (me and beti) laid out... here it goes:-
1)watch a telugu movie (accomplished-saw Maska.. twas okay, vandith the translator!)
2)get a new SIM card (accomplished)
3)go to Central and watch some movie (accomplished-saw Rab Ne..... at PVR)
4)hook up with some chick (u know the answer!)
5)go to a disc (again, this, only after mission 4)
6)pick fight with some random road-side "dude" and thrash him--street fight!
7)make a "Satyam" of TTSL (LOL, kidding!)
8)learn Telugu (kinda difficult! altho easier than mission 4 and 5!) :P
9)meet Gagan and Ramya (hopefully this will be done on Sunday the 18th.. its been a fortnight since we got here, but havent met either!this is my indiv mission tho)
10)Beti will teach me CS,DotA,AOC and i will teach him FIFA... (kinda difficult!)
11)host a CS tourney for all my vella office mates! (LOLzzz!)
12)BEAT HIM UP, the son of a bitch, our old flat owner--a certain Mr. Narayan Rao... hope we effin kill him man! (actually, this is the TOP priority!and others, not priority wise..)



yeah babyyy!!! well.. hope this was enough of a read.. :P if not.. tell me, comments mein, so i'll write my next blog even bigger! ;P btw.. this new place totally rocks! :)

assuming the next few weeks should take a lot outta me.. still,
hope to be regular in writing.. the one place where i can express myself :P (except AirTel--if u dont get the joke..plz ask me, i'll explain!)

chao.. take care.. missing all you guys....


P.S.-btw...bangalore walon, i might come down sometime.. will notify in advance-hope v get to meet... and GOA, Waves mein... Pune also once... lets c... priority wise, Pune>Goa>B'lore cos pune mein there's a wedding i GOTTA attend.. and Goa's my home.. and Bangalore has some of my closest friends! (but bangalore ppl can come to Goa also na, during waves! hence the priorities!) oops.. did i forget Aurangabad?! (my hometown!) heh! hopefully my parents will be here once, plus we'll meet at the Wedding in Pune!

also, there's never a moment which dsnt remind me of my friends.. every now and then, some things happen, which i relate so some past events- usually the fun times with friends etc, and i keep missing everyone! why, why do i think so much! :-/ >.<

PS Blues (pun intended!)

hmm.. so my first post since coming here..hopefully will be regular now on..

some things i wanna write about.. but m at a cafe right now.. and v less time.. here's the points..

1) my PS2 station, and the work we do (LOLz)
2)the story of my acco
3)The Blues getting beaten by a FAR superior team called Manchester United (i missed the match,JUST saw the highlights..thank Heavens for Youtube!)
4)gen,random topics..(my expertise!)

so..consider this as the trailer.. movie will be out soon..cya!

Off i go!

this will most likely be my last post from home.. am leaving for Pune tomo, and for Hyderabad day after.. reaching 8am 5th Jan.. staying at my aunt's for a few days then with friends- PG/Flat whatever seems to be more feasible.. stepping into the unknown- dont know what my work will be, dont know how much i'll get paid! LOL

well, was in Pune for 28th-31st Dec.. left (rather hastily!) 31st 5pm, reached Aurangabad (my hometown!) at 11:00pm.. although i missed the Pune gang a LOT.. i actually got to be among a select few, who have had the opportunity to spend the last day of the year with two TOTALLY different groups, in two different cities.. in Pune were my hostel/campus buddies- my family for the past 3 years.. and at home were my family friends- friends who i've known since i was born (what a day it was!), our moms were classmates during college- THAT old friends..plus some frnd's frnds-who i meet only for the new yr's-invisible other times! LOL (no offence meant) so the 6 hrs wasted in the bus on the 31st were TOTALLY worth it! plus, after i got to one of my frnd's place here (11 ppl had gathered there for the night!), we played cards all night, jus like last time-- it was like... "see ya again next year, same time-same place!" except for no Sameer (he is FUN!)...plus an addition..anyways..the night was awesome..sadly 5am onwards all ppl were sleepy..i was, but then i am used to it and sleep deprivation dsnt affect me a bit!

chalo..here's to a great time in Hyderabad! will miss all u guys- and i mean every single one of u! (even those who dont happen to be my blog readers!--shya..what a pity! LOL)

take care..cya around!

The Black Hole

was supposed to be posted on the 27th Dec, but thanks to my infinitely supportive Tata IndiCom powered (!) net, am doing so 2nd Jan! :D btw during the time i was in pune (about which a blog shortly!) and BTW Happy New Year to all! :-)


last night, me, Ajinkya and Shreyas went out for dinner..actually everytime all 3 of us are home, AG kaka (ajinkya's dad!) takes us all out, and we eat LOADS of chicken! thats basically the idea, and its been quite a few such outings to date..somehow last night AG kaka was busy (Doctors! and btw, kaka = uncle, marathi mein) so twas jus the 3 of us..ya, so we went, and firstly ordered 3 masala papads and a Chicken Kebab Platter (which was, the waiter told us, enough for 3)..then started the main course.. half BBC (boneless butter chicken!) half chicken maratha and 2 butter rotis each..so this comes and we eat it..now,we all order 4 rotis-2 for them both and 2 for me..after this,they said they'd have rice..during that time, i eat 2 more butter rotis..after they have had half jeera rice, i order 2 more butter rotis..and then half jeera rice for myself..well..all that, and the waiter must be feeling like..."ye kahan se haiwaan aa gaya"! and the cook must think "wonder who's that SOB who's ruining my evening"!
well..so the order goes-
ajinkya-3 butter rotis+half the half jeera rice
shreyas-3 butter rotis+half the half jeera rice
me--8 butter rotis+half jeera rice

+ common stuff-chicken kebab platter,half BBT,half chicken maratha+masala papads for each..

so all in all, i'd eaten more than the two of them combined! :O

see...THATS the enormity of the bottomless pit called my stomach..and the best part..when i headed towards the wash basin, shreyas started applauding my effort-after all, rarely do ppl get to see a Legendary Performance like last night's! ;)

and the after effects--3 visits during the day to "The Sacred Place"! LOL but thankfully no indigestion or anything, my system is used to such intakes! \m/

and last night was SUCH a high, SO full was i that i cldnt even begin to think about typing this out! :D
and sadly,some ppl had to bear the brunt of my high state-i.e. comments on someone's blog--i apologize again..i dont think i'd've done that had it been a normal day! :P


btw..about 20 hrs from now..i'll be in Pune for 3 days! meeting all BITSian friends-ps2 returned and ps2 bound! and also the other junta...yoyoy! so the next post, hopefully when i return, else if something spectacular happens from pune (altho i dont think i'd wanna "waste" time typing when my dearest friends will be there in person!)

here's to many more such (tr-)eating escapades and an awesome Pune trip!
chao...

P.S.--see..its been SOME time since i wrote about football...and btw i guess my famous line wud turn out to be "in the zone", jus happened to read thru all my prev posts! (THAT jobless!) but sadly, gone are those days...twont be so frequent now, jus highs like last night..never "in the zone"! :'( life sucks!