"20 million" smiles!!!

Happy ending theme is a must for Danny Boyle; that too the way it culminated in 'Trainspotting', its hard to forget. I can still picture all the hostelites who watched that movie glued to the thought 'Look at the memories this would bring after 20 years'. And now it was "Slumdog Millionaire", me and CSN(The Cake Curse hits SR again!!!) desperately waiting for a happy ending. After all that Jamal had been through, its an unwary wish in the hearts of all the SM watchers "Lathika is his girl". First it was the music then it was the worldwide praise(Well a 8. in IMDB and 94% in Rotten Tomatoes and a couple of awards is what counts, and ofcourse my review) for the movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' that made me add it to my Bucket List. 'We will watch it in PVR again', that came out in chorus after the flabbergast ride.

On one thought the entire movie balances on coincidences, but the inricasies of the movie make you hard to question that. That too if you are asking this after watching "Rab ne..", I can only wish "May Rab help you". The Music is.... I think its time we should stop rating Rahaman's music!!! Jai Ho,Liquid Dance, Riots, Oh Saaya, Ringa Ringa all just ROCK. Screenplay is expertly handled and the performances especially Dev Patel's is bound to leave a long impact.

We should actually be hating the movie for it portrays Mumbai as a poverty ridden mess and is happily doing rounds in the international circuit. After watching the recent attacks and a good watch of this movie, its clear that foreigners easily forget Mumbai.

Now the movie: A Journey of Jamal,and his brother and Lathika through various phases of separation, betrayal, brink of death, escape, love and a never ending sequence of challenging situations. Jamal enters the show "WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE" and each question he faces gives him a Deja Vu in real. The theme is how did a slumdog answer all the questions? All his answers have an interesting past and together they complete his life journey.

The movie has a lot to say, in fact at the end you feel, "That's a lot of information to digest in 3 hours"(Connect F.R.I.E.N.D.S). A wonderful movie after Dark Knight", don't afford to miss.

Office Office!!

Things about office that you Sorry me hate or like...

1. You MUST hate the cafeteria food. Liking that food is like committing the most heinous crime on earth. This is valid even when your colleague has brought a lunch which looks such that you prefer to just stay away. And for Christ's sake never go for the second fill!!!
2. You MUST hate your cube. Even if it has all the comforts of a heaven, there is something you can find. May be just look at your neighbor, he may have a hideous face or he may have worn an odd apparel or worst he may be your "teammate".
3. If someone gets a new car in office you MUST involve with others in teasing him/her about when will he drop us home, even when neither us nor him/her bothers to do it even once.
4. You MUST hate your manager and director. I do not know if this comes along with the breeze of AC in the office as a free package.
5. Treats MUST be in a so-called sophisticated restaurant. That's because most people in office care about the "ambiance and not the food". Even if you feel the food was worse than the "Shanthi Sagar" nearby your house; you MUST say the food was great and thank the person for choosing such a great place and may be go a step further saying you will surely recommend it to your friends.
6. There will be some ladies in office who ACT(actually overact) as though they are dieting. They usually do not eat any sweets, coconut items,oil( a big no!!), even though they can gorge tonnes of ice-creams and chocolates.
7. Never Never eat anything out of interest in office. A suitable analogy: Order a plate of gobi manchurian(7 pieces) for a team of ten. Out of which five people will be ladies, so the overacting rule applies and they wont touch it( I just saw a lady take a hairline of onion from it and say its too oily. The others will say, ya by looking at it only i felt that). The other dudes are also no less of a natak company, one takes one piece then the other says hes full already and cuts a piece into one third. This goes on for about half an hour until then one or two pieces will be remaining on the plate glaring your eyes. You think a lot and about to grab those then a good Samaritan takes away the plate to the wash room.
8. Always use the terms "ping", "doze", "pretext", "in the loop", "contemplate". Also when you are in office you MUST be secular.
9. You MUST hate Pj's and laugh at some recondite jokes that one may feel don't even classify as jokes. Also never have a complete laugh flashing your teeth, just put on an artificial laugh.
10. You MUST love movies like "Pursuit of happyness", "Hotel Rwanda","The pianist","Saving Private Ryan","Schindler's list","No Man's land", "Blood Diamond" and all the movies that deal with social cause and the movies about some countries called Somalia, Zimbabwe. I agree that some of the movies listed here are good, but for God's sake all these movies deal with great pain, suffering; when you are already locked in a cubicle for 9 hours, and other n number of problems haunting you, why the f*** do you want to add more.

Actually lot more points can be added but this is what i recalled just now coming back from office (Ya its a Saturday!!) and yes, some were purposefully deleted for obvious reasons. Also any resemblance to any person may NOT be entirely co-incidental. Finally its just my opinion!!!

BaDi baDi deshon mein choti choti baatein.....

I had been to my grandma's place last weekend. Its a village, but was packed with surprises. Visiting this place after about 3 years.

#My cousin asked me what kind of a mobile phone do I own? I said 2300. He told me that's not even in the market now, why don't you buy a N95 showing me his new N73. He went on explaining me all its features; about 270 songs in it, and the videos he had recorded and a movie he had saved in there. I was like wowww!!! Then gathering my left over dignity, I asked why don't you buy an ipod. To which he replied, this one already has 2 Gb memory capacity which pretty much suffices my current needs. Stumped yet again!!
#He then asked me how much do i make per month(This is the most embarrassing question). I casually picked a random value and said 25K. He replied, In Bangalore 25k is like 5k in here. And he went on about a "memory card" manufacturing unit that is going to open in that village and the trainer gets 40K. My mom hearing this was like what company do you work in again? Why don't you switch companies blah blah....
#And comes the most obvious question, why did not I get a job in Infosys, Wipro. This time I had gathered all the courage and gave a satisfactory answer. My uncle was like, whatever you say nowadays engineers don't have much value, because "US IS DOWN". I was speechless!!!
#Then my cousin told me lets watch a movie. He had just got a Raaz movie DVD. He connected most of the cables. But the sound could not be heard. I thought let me help them with the color coding. He said to me don't touch the yellow cable as the video is already proper!!!

After all this next day was watching last part of some kannada movie. Usual story; hero extremely rich, currently poisoned and unconscious, villains troubling his mother, mom calls his name twice, hero wakes up fights and kills all bad guys. His mother now calls him in a typical style "Kanda baaa kandaa ninna taayi maDiligee baa". Hero running in slow motion towards his mother collapses suddenly. Next scene hospital; doctors say an impossible case. Hero's mother is like my son had fallen once from train and has survived, a sanke bite could not do any harm, he is chiranjeevi blah blah... And then she slowly enters the hospital room. Hero lying there. At the end hero survives...Stumped!!! Just guess hows that possible now.

Change=Hope

Always love to sip coffee beside the window, with a serene, light drizzle view outside. Today is one such day. Although a bit cold, its nice and pleasant. I was lucky to have a cube with such a beautiful view. Other advantages of my cube in 1st floor were a covert sound 15 min nap after lunch, cubes with better heights so no peeping. Today forsaking all these, I am moving to 2nd floor. No corner cubes there, but some good friends (not so good as to part with their corner cubes :) ). Hoping all the pantry breaks can come back alive so as to compensate for everything.

As a kid i believed.....

I was just recalling the other day, some crazy things that i believed as a kid. Check those out, just for a fun read. Please don't judge me by those, most of those must be around 10-15 years old and are just presumptuous as of today.

-WWE star undertaker's life was in a bottle. I used to always think and worry how much care he should take about it, just in case somebody should open it and he would end up dead.

-Our digestive system is a complex machine with lots of screws and gears n stuff, basically lot of machinery. Don't laugh!!!! Give me a break, every kid would have thought this atleast once in his life.

-South Africa's ace fielder Jhonty Rhodes does not have skin and his entire body is plastic surgerised, thought so only he can field so well as plastic is too tough to break. I still don't know how i believed it. But i remember one my cousin saying that to me.

-Our drawing teacher in around 3rd standard stopped coming to school suddenly. There was a rumour her head suddenly broke open and I could not help wondering, what must have been the situation here, Brains split wide open!!!. Hope she is very much well today.

-A flash game "Kaun Banega Crorepathi", i thought was the most complex game to run on a computer. It used to take almost 15-20min (practically!!!) to open the game's console on my cousin's computer. Today i think i can't quantify its RAM.

-Around seven tractors of gold can be found if we read an old script in Kannada, carved on a stone in one of the temples in my mother's natives. My relatives had explained it to me very convincingly. It was like a giant snake protecting the gold underneath and as soon as the script was read, earth would open itself with a huge crevice and gold would pop up. There was a mark on that script , it was told that a guy in search of gold tried reading it but could not hence he shot it with a pistol.

What is Credit crisis or the subprime loan crisis?

Lots of talk around these days, subprime loan crisis, US in bad shape, Laying off may loom over soon. Honestly I have very little knowledge on why this happened and all, but the looking at the brighter side I got to know so many biggie names ( Thanks to TOI for making this news spicy as ever). Taking some kiddish liberty, its actually fun to talk on this subject, rumors are always interesting to spread, that too by telling the other person "don't tell anyone". I came across a mail recently which explains the crisis in a simple language, thought let me put it down here,

Once there was a little island country. The land of this country was the tiny island itself. The total money in circulation was 2 dollars as there were only two pieces of 1 dollar coins circulating around.
1) There were 3 citizens living on this island country. A owned the land. B and C each owned 1 dollar.
2) B decided to purchase the land from A for 1 dollar. So, now A and C own 1 dollar each while B owned a piece of land that is worth 1 dollar.
* The net asset of the country now = 3 dollars.

3) Now C thought that since there is only one piece of land in the country, and land is non producible asset, its value must definitely go up. So, he borrowed 1 dollar from A, and together with his own 1 dollar, he bought the land from B for 2 dollars.
*A has a loan to C of 1 dollar, so his net asset is 1 dollar.
* B sold his land and got 2 dollars, so his net asset is 2 dollars.
* C owned the piece of land worth 2 dollars but with his 1 dollar debt to A, his net residual asset is 1 dollar.
* Thus, the net asset of the country = 4 dollars.

4) A saw that the land he once owned has risen in value. He regretted having sold it. Luckily, he has a 1 dollar loan to C. He then borrowed 2 dollars from B and acquired the land back from C for 3 dollars. The payment is by 2 dollars cash (which he borrowed) and cancellation of the 1 dollar loan to C. As a result, A now owned a piece of land that is worth 3 dollars. But since he owed B 2 dollars, his net asset is 1 dollar.
* B loaned 2 dollars to A. So his net asset is 2 dollars.
* C now has the 2 coins. His net asset is also 2 dollars.
* The net asset of the country = 5 dollars. A bubble is building up.

(5) B saw that the value of land kept rising. He also wanted to own the land. So he bought the land from A for 4 dollars. The payment is by borrowing 2 dollars from C, and cancellation of his 2 dollars loan to A.
* As a result, A has got his debt cleared and he got the 2 coins. His net asset is 2 dollars.
* B owned a piece of land that is worth 4 dollars, but since he has a debt of 2 dollars with C, his net Asset is 2 dollars.
* C loaned 2 dollars to B, so his net asset is 2 dollars.
* The net asset of the country = 6 dollars; even though, the country has only one piece of land and 2 Dollars in circulation.

(6) Everybody has made money and everybody felt happy and prosperous.

(7) One day an evil wind blew, and an evil thought came to C's mind. "Hey, what if the land price stop going up, how could B repay my loan. There is only 2 dollars in circulation, and, I think after all the land that B owns is worth at most only 1 dollar, and no more."

(8) A also thought the same way.

(9) Nobody wanted to buy land anymore.
* So, in the end, A owns the 2 dollar coins, his net asset is 2 dollars.
* B owed C 2 dollars and the land he owned which he thought worth 4 dollars is now 1 dollar. So his net asset is only 1 dollar.
* C has a loan of 2 dollars to B. But it is a bad debt. Although his net asset is still 2 dollars, his Heart is palpitating.
* The net asset of the country = 3 dollars again.

(10) So, who has stolen the 3 dollars from the country ? Of course, before the bubble burst B thought his land was worth 4 dollars. Actually, right before the collapse, the net asset of the country was 6 dollars on paper. B's net asset is still 2 dollars, his heart is palpitating.

(11) B had no choice but to declare bankruptcy. C as to relinquish his 2 dollars bad debt to B, but in return he acquired the land which is worth 1 dollar now.
* A owns the 2 coins, his net asset is 2 dollars.
* B is bankrupt, his net asset is 0 dollar. ( he lost everything )
* C got no choice but end up with a land worth only 1 dollar
* The net asset of the country = 3 dollars.

************ **End of the story; BUT ************ ********* ******

There is however a redistribution of wealth.
A is the winner, B is the loser, C is lucky that he is spared.
A few points worth noting -

(1) When a bubble is building up, the debt of individuals to one another in a country is also building up.

(2) This story of the island is a closed system whereby there is no other country and hence no foreign debt. The worth of the asset can only be calculated using the island's own currency. Hence, there is no net loss.

(3) An over-damped system is assumed when the bubble burst, meaning the land's value did not go down to below 1 dollar.

(4) When the bubble burst, the fellow with cash is the winner. The fellows having the land or extending loan to others are the losers. The asset could shrink or in worst case, they go bankrupt.

(5) If there is another citizen D either holding a dollar or another piece of land but refrains from taking part in the game, he will neither win nor lose. But he will see the value of his money or land go up and down like a see saw.

(6) When the bubble was in the growing phase, everybody made money.

(7) If you are smart and know that you are living in a growing bubble, it is worthwhile to borrow money (like A ) and take part in the game. But you must know when you should change everything back to cash.

(8) As in the case of land, the above phenomenon applies to stocks as well.

(9) The actual worth of land or stocks depend largely on psychology

Welcome To Sajjanpur...

Relief!!!!Relief!!!! Relief!!! Relief from movies which depict bungalows so spacious difficult to imagine even in a fairy land, innumerable wooden actors and actresses, baseless designer clothing's which are to be just worn all the time, pathos running into hours, meaningless jokes and pathetic songs combined with the worst choreography even when they are least required (I can only think of SRK's 'dream sequence' excuse here). Nowadays movies don't even have the concept of mother and father as it is no more trendy i guess. Thanks to Sajjanpur which defied all such must be rules of the modern bollywood and brought the village back on the big screen. And kudos to Shyam Benegal who dared such an attempt.

Shreyas talpade's acting is just getting better with each movie. Here too he does an excellent job. Most importantly you connect with his character Mahadev instantly. Amrita Rao looks fantabulous as always, and has carried Kamala's gaon ki gori character gracefully. I particularly liked her when she reasons why she abandoned school The director gives ample screen space for each of his characters and defines them aptly. The plot is simple yet is pervasive filled with loads of hidden social messages. The mousi who cries through her nose, her hot-headed daughter, all the letters, the villian defending his wife, are all humourous. The songs are refreshing paticularly Seetaram and Bheene bheene although you feel some of the others were not necessary.

In all, a good movie. Enjoy :)

MegaMergers........We Suck

This is the company me, Ragz,PK,SR and Kaddi conceptualised. Actually to be precise I am the CEO. There can't be a better choice however, Ragz is a part of board of directors. SR, well to be precise logistics department (Think who else can go to a mall at 10 in the morning, positive side to it... dedication!!!). PK, the security committee and kaddi fitness department.I had come up with the logo and Ragz had come up with an impressive punchline. "We Suck" yup that was perfect!!!.

The company took its birth in (2,2) . Gradually the company began to expand and had major offices at (2,5) and (3,5). We had hired people which we thought they are capable of and gave them jobs suitable to their profiles. Some of which i'd like to put down here.
1]CSN, Layman and the guy who used to ask "Praveen, is there food in mess today" for our Mars exploration wing. Let them dissent over each other and fight, just let them be away with their esoteric thoughts.
2]And the girl who almost all the guys had crush over, was to be incharge of our esteemed lab facility( What say praveen and Ragz, you guys know better??)
3]PK's girl was fit for R&D. And more funda, the walls of that building were made of books books and books!!!!.
4]The receptionist was that girl..Man how to put it....Disc brakes would be the clue!!!
5]For our fashion supplement we had "bigdi huwi bacchi" and Co.
6]Man in woman's voice would be a speaker for the company announcements.
7]Fitness segment which was handled by kaddi, also had Scorpion king, and Scorpion queen(this name i made up just now) as deputies.
8]The handkerchief guy was fit for nothing, actually yes for one thing, yes medical research....its easy to guess what field.
9]And our relationship with our enemies was handled by JRLB. (Whats her CET rank SR??)
10]Many obvious guys, sorry first bencher's for R&D.
11]HR would be from the Happy Family group.
12]Kaddi had other jobs too, "The Devout & Ekaadashi Group" and "The No light absolutely group" and "The Ghante group", probably he would start blogging after reading this and post against me. Remember the golden words "Nan presentation heega maadthiyaa, ninduu yella slides kitt haakthini"
13] CSN's girl would be for new hires training and syllabus setting committee.
14]"The Salesman" was more than apt for his responsibilities.
Most of the our company resources have been put down here. Have fun reading the reminisces. All rights reserved.

The wheels are turning.....

Continuing with Vinz and San. And as SR had said, the wheels are turning. Lots of changes recently:
->Bhuv, sudks depart....
->San leaves to US, and so busy to even chat.. Paaapa yelli sannkaagibidthaaaro antha :)
->I got to move to 2nd floor. My current cube was magnificient. The view's amazing. But looking at the positives, 2nd floor has got good crowd :) . But still negatives are more in number. I failed to convince my manager in this case.
->Work at home as well as office got doubled.
->No trips since April.
A beautiful relevant song, Color blind.

Very confident, the wheels will turn back. Actually already started to....:) Got to Go...

Ganapathi Bappa moryaa............

Mom said to me and vishwa "Get ready soon, aunt's car will be here soon, else we are going to be late". We both were still counting our crackers, arranging them till we are pleased. Finally, the car arrives. Its always a part of plan of our cousins to get into Sujatha aunt's car as she the only one who can be one among us and be a part of our anthakshari group. However aunts are ok, but no uncles in whatever case. Not Basu kaka as we know, will get only education related lectures the entire journey. Not prabhu kaka , because everyone fears him. Not others because they dont understand what we are doing. Tej kaka was fine anyway. The fun part of anthakshari was pooja and krupa always wanted to team up with vijakka( they used to imitate her in a million ways otherwise also actually), but it was true vijakka's team was always the winner, even my cheating tricks couldn't save our team :( . It would be the most awaited journey for all of us as it will be unlimited fun. The competition between differnet cars as to who will reach first, the jokes cracked are all just.......!!!. Finally we will reach Gandigawad.

Now is the most interesting task, to construct the mantapa. Usually all cousins, suresh kaka, shankara kaka, Tej kaka will be at the job. But the design always remains the same. The outer framework of a cot, inside which a table will be placed. Two threads hanging vertically from the roof upto the all the edges of the table, this is were we could stick the colored papers, a product of our creative designs. A table cloth , and lots of dust ridden play toys(because this will be the only time they will be opened) which need immediate cleaning to be placed in front the idol. This total process usually takes 5-6 hours. By the way, in the kitchen, aunts will be on their gossip and bursts of laughter's. We join them periodically as we should complete the task of mantapa also. After all this, now its the uncles task to make us all get to bed. But no one will be ever interested. The number of cousins almost number to a dozen, and the energy levels are only soaring as the time passes. Finally time to go to bed, all cousins lay one beside another, as it gives chance a trouble one another thoroughly. And i wish, there will be only one blanket as the tug of war can keep going. And how did i miss that table fan? ya, its only one of its kind. It vibrates so much that it almost crawls to the bed from where ever it is. To prevent the damage my dad usually used to tie it with the rope.

Its morning, vijakka, me, ash, pooja, vishwa, kiran, krupa, abhay, tushar, vikas, chintu, even rakshita had joined in the very important job, collection of crackers. All uncles are pestered, until we will have a handful. All set with our incense sticks, match boxes, crackers, we start the most auspicious journey. Towards shetter's shop, a left turn, then straight, until that jain temple , then a right, go further and then a left, the second house is the one where we get the idol from. The soil we be damp and we are walking without any footwear, which are thought of as violating the sanctity. Shankar kaka is the one who carries Lord Ganesha all the time. As soon as he comes out carrying the Lord, we are ready with our crackers. Cautioning each other about some stray crackers, flicking other's crackers, ya we do all that, and all that is fun. We reach home back, A puja is performed to welcome the Lord. And devotional songs follow. My mom and dad usually sing that "Jyothi belaguthidee..." Its kind of a trademark song. The best time will be when pooja and krupa are made to sing a song. Those gals sing at the top of their voice, and me and ashvini cant stop laughing. All uncles and aunt busy appreciating the girls singing, cant stop giving an angry look at us both.

Its time for more crackers and crackers and crackers. Then food , just an awesome delicacy always. After that we have time to chat, crack jokes, and then i forgot going into that small room to burn those snake tablets, and some other crackers with all the funny names. Finally a call from uncles and aunts..time to leave. This would be the most hated part, but yet forced to do. As we bid adieu to Gandigawad , in the car all are so tired that no one will have enough enthusiasm to even talk, but hoping for next year we will meet up the same day again desperately.

Today is one such day. Now a days Gandigawad is abandoned, we welcome Lord Ganesh in our home in Hubli. Some aunts and uncles turn up. My sister and jiju cant make it up this time, as they are in US. Abhay cant make it because he is busy with his engineering. Pooja and vikas, oh please forget them, they are in PU II. Only some four cousins are having fun together and trying to relive the moments. And my self, I'm very busy with that scalablility issue and that customer issue and that new hire mentoring and that too I took a long leave recently. Ya, see I justified myself. And in the same way others too do it. Ya life has changed a lot. May be this is the truth. May be as we started moving away from the wilderness to the concrete jungle, we also started moving away from what we love to the things that are necessary.

A sweet relevant poem(Thank san for this):
The innocence is gone-
It has fled from them and me.
It has vanished,Never to return.
In this lifetime

It is gone from us,
Those who have it, cherish it,
It goes quickly and quietly
And we never know that it is gone,
Until it's too late.

Very much hope someday in the future, all cousins go to Gandigawad back again to celebrate this festival in the way it was meant to be celebrated. And we get to relive those cherished moments.

Kahin to Hogi wo.....

One of the most beautiful songs I've heard recently. Everything is just perfect in this song. Javed Akhtar Abbas Tyrewala and A R Rehaman have given out a magical score .

Kahin to.. kahin to
Hogi wo,
Duniya jahan tu mere saath hai..

Jahan mein, jahan tu,
Aur jahan, bass tere mere jazbaat hai,
Hogi jahan subah teri,
Palko ki, kirano mein,
Lori jahan chand ki,
Sune teri baahoin mein..

(Jaane naa kahan wo duniya hai,
Jaane naa wo hai bhi ya nahi,
Jahan meri zindagi mujhse,
Itni khafa nahi..) - 2

Saasein kho gayi hai kiski aahon mein,
Mein kho gayi hu jaane kiski baahon mein,
Manzilon se raahein doodhti chali,
Kho gayi hai manzil kahin rahon mein..

Kahin to, kahin to,
Hai nasha..
Teri meri har mulaqaat mein,
Hoton se, hoton ko,
Chumti, o rehte hai hum har baat pe,
Kehti hai fiza jahan,
Teri zamin aasmaan..

Jahan hai tu, meri hassi,
Meri khushi, meri jaan…

(Jaane naa kahan wo duniya hai,
Jaane naa wo hai bhi ya nahi,
Jahan meri zindagi mujhse,
Itni khafa nahi..) - 3

Love story 2008....

Just too cute to handle...Its Genelia again after about 20times of Bommarillu, and i attribute it to providence that i got to watch her on the big screen. I still recall the two, deriding me, for having not watched the movie yet, was seething with anger then. Its peace now. Also Happy Birthday Sudks and thanks ,for giving such a fabulous treat. I am happy that you got the best bday gift, your new found sister(Kumbha ke mela saga again ..) and I pledge to take care of her :).

Although filled with cliche's, yet the movie scores in every aspect. The music has an ethereal touch, since a week, heart is just tuned to it. The ideal parents DCH just got more ideal in this movie,so much as to give a happy ending right at the start of the movie. Aditi can be said slightly more mature than Hasini. I entreat her to remain the same. Man, she's just too chubby!! The scene where in she say's "It was me who drops you home everytime" is too cute. Even her timely expletives are brilliant. Aditi and her brother's moments are the one's that rock,one where they talk about their friends and the other where he shows his room. Missed my sister a lot here!!!.

Loved the picturisation of the song Kahin to hogi...(although Mrs Sa and Mrs Ra hated it, its quite obvious,isn't it...). Rotlu's pepsi aka beer scene,his tu hi ree song sequence,conversation between Nasiruddin shah and his wife are also quite ludicrous. The best was "paanch saal kaise chale gaye pata hi nahi chala..Phone pe beta phone pee".

Whats this? A must say germinal notion!!! The concept is good, although the reasoning she gives at the end was anticipated. Life gives enough unsolvable problems, when dreams seems better than trying to capture the unobtainable (Totally left to perspective). Also still keeping my fingers crossed, about an impromptu trip at 3 A.M (DCH istyle mein) or a in a open truck filled with hay (nazrein milana nazrein churana...actually Bollywood's signature style). Desparately hoping someday will experience them.

As i want to end this here, my mind goes rummaging into the past, to find the Rotlu, Jigneesh, Bombs....And Aditi in my life. Did I meet them? Or did I fail to recognize them? Or are they with me currently, Or was it like the K-soaps, I enter the lift, they just pass out without noticing. Ohh Dreams again!! Lets keep them apart for the night....All together a thorough entertainer.Enjoy....

Jests of the captivated souls.....

Ya it was SR's quote recently," completion of 1 year", correct me if wrong five yrs ago it was the day I chose PESIT. Good or Bad left to perspective and destiny. It was sept 20th when i saw the campus first time. The architecture and the precincts are such that you fall for it at the first sight. Was it the only time I have fallen at the first sight?.... Well I need to introspect myself.. Got lot of mawkish messages while in 8th sem, its only now I'm feeling the pinch. Life changes..ya it has...Just a cerebration woke up, let me pen down some prominent reminisces.....

Firstly it the birthdays at hostel. That too if its the first birthday of the batch. Above that if its ur roomie's, its your duty to solicitly welcome everyone. This will be one hell of a day, mostly coz not just the bday guy but others too get more than they had expected. All guys will off course be extremely excited(some even carry dumbbells for God's sake!!! unknowing, what the future beholds them). The last kick and sometimes the continued bumps are just brilliant. Fests are also highly exhilarating , that too when a video camera is portrayed as geodiometer and people devoutly correcting their misjudgment. This can sometimes be the most recalled moment .The most thrilling will off course be the ragging drama. Pedants at library, a call from principal from hostel. Interesting.. rush to find yourself, and many other prudish studs obtruded into it. It will be a nightmare.But not to forget to thank the friends who stood by you in this time.

Max payne is a game that locks you into the CRT. Not just the player but spectators too. Well imagine someone shouting at the top of their voice Shoot!!!Shoot!!! It came!!!It came!!!. Well Half life is also commensurate in measure, but more jocularity can be added not by killing the aliens but aides actually. Trust me its a tried and tested funda. A myriad of games (Anaphase, GTA vice city, and other kiddoo car game,forgot its name) ,movies,videos and any damn kind of discourse can make life interesting at hostel. Just damn anything!!! Hostel is also one place where any tragic, recondite or belaboring movies can get a splendid flow. Well veer-zaara or Dhoom 2 can be the forerunners, How can one not comment when Priety slips on the bridge, or Ash says Sunnehri..Golden girl or Hrithik does a perfect theft (Did i say that actually)??

Morning movies are just fabulous. Isn't it? LOTR at around 1AM, Never try to prove Murphy wrong, warden is destined to enter the room. But yes he can be wrong, when warden refutes just one guy out of the entire crowd. Off course with me in the room, people get lucky(not my statement), but for some life is destined to be eclipsed(again I just paraphrased it). Desire to play computer games is insatiated, but however some prudery is expected, you never know when the mouse gets off your hand,and you just end up watching it. Songs are alternative motifs in the hostel. Some songs are just so soothing , that people can be so engrossed as to redefine being entranced, by their unforgettable gestures.

The car!!!. Yes dare to take its name again. The determination. Desire to do something different. Dreams. Ya it can be people's first venture....Man forget it. No need of revisiting the past if it does not interest you. The funny part was to leave people half way in majestic and rush to the college fest.

Well hostel memories cannot be penned. They are just myriad. Trying my best here and Will be continuing it soon...

Confessions of the dangerous mind....Part 1

Exactly 1 year ago, was the day i stepped into Cisco. An induction programme at Le Meridien, I was so waiting to peer into the future and see what's in store, today look back and smile. The place was highly embellish, great food and a full day of presentations, later we had a DJ night. This went on for a week, except that it was Chancery and Divyashree for further sessions. Almost the entire crowd was enthralled by my current second line manager's talk but the rest were just recondite or belabouring . A great accomodation at Humming bird ,plush AC rooms. Life was truely what it is meant to be. Ya hedonistic..you may call.

Further were the ICND training sessions at SA, commensurately abstruse and so were the Techtalks at our BU that followed. I still recall one of our manager taking us around the 1st floor and introductions that followed. We were exulting with the number of good looking girls around :). We were tagged as NCH. Here we met our mentors, who took us to a lab tour. The lab is formidable place for first timers. It seemed like a giant waterfall of cables. Our mentors were extremely patient in explaining what a switch or a server is? .The switch I only recalled studying in 7th sem the difference between it , hub and router (I used to hate that part as it was exremely confusing). They made us meet another guy, who we instantly identified as slightly nerdish. Then came across his presentation on dot1x. It was just fabulous, we were dumbstruck by his limpid understanding of concepts and his own way of explicating it. Then i can recall his explaining of a server with an analogy of rakthbeejaasura, his linux fundas and so so many other fundas. But i must say he used to harp a lot, during those pantry breaks. But when he taught us so much, such leniency seems no wrong :) . Bhu used to give us assignments, vinz explained DHCP server, ACS and so much more. What ever little knowledge on networking i have, is attributed to these people.

This went on for a month. Then came my first trip with the gang. It was Jog falls, Probably as i remember it was sudks who invited me, I instantly said yes. Dont remember much details of it. It happened somewhere in mid August. I knew only three people of the entire group, and above that a fresher.That must have been surely intimidating, but was a great trip for acquiantance. They were talking about HSBC, K2, some managers which made absolutely no sense to me at that time. Was more of the sort lost actually. But it was great that they tried to involve me into everyting.

I'm still in August so praising people a lot. And not to be mistaken that, I think you guys are still so good. Today's scenario is different :). And many more characters are yet to come.....

The meeting I will cherish....

You may call this beginner's Josh :)
A saturday meeting is even worse than a usual meeting. But this one was special, it was my first telepresence meeting. Heard a lot about this August product. But this was the time I cud really see why soo much of a hooplah surrounding it. The miracle starts right from commencing the session which is as simple as establishing a call, and then keeps you stupefied right till the end. Surprises kept pouring in as we discovered new and new things about its behavior. The breathtaking camera angles, the lucidity of the view, Ohh It lives upto its name Telepresence...I had argued a lot with sudks about a world with technology and without technology ,but today technology proved me wrong. Its just magnificent and a must have experience....

H-Mail....

Let me start with bhu's wedding. It was a very extravagant affair that lasted for three days. Made it for two, great food n fun. The couple looked perfect. Offcourse it had its moments, sum1 had to show their camera skills, ppl even though reluctant had to pose.

Now the further part concerns only the esoteric class. The H-mail.... yes The H-mail, probably RGV wud hav had thinked twice before making AAG, but thought shud write sumthing abt this, whic is The highly arcane matter. This is the mail that is The talked abt the most. Actually floated months before my entry. Shud pity the soul who wrote this, and had to undergo the huge huge repercussions that had settled down in every1's memory lanes. I really missed the mail-chain that cud hav run in lengths, probably wud get a chance sumtime to view it. Now it has become sum kind of a canon for sum1 who is troubled. In that case sum ppl had to float a mail daily. But ya.. v can copy paste the mail, n forward it in such a case, whic is the only viable option i feel... But yes as the mail is highly highly copyrighted v better seek the owner's approbation, before taking such a Giant step.

I think i have maintained all the confidentiality in this write up, hope the comments wud also maintain the same...

A fun-filled day......

The day began as usual, reached office at 11. A immediate call for a meeting!! This is what v all probably hate. Completed it in a hurry as San had already cald me twice( A hidden note 4 u kartha). Yes, it was Bhu's farewell treat . The restaurant was already decided. "Little Italy", name sounded interesting to me as i had never tasted authentic Italian before.

San took complete advantage of the fact, me in the same car. Pulled my leg to the core. Since a week 'My pleasure', 'Happening', 'Sharing','Kitth hogidda brown coat' are The topics of discussion, and this continued in the drive tooo. Bhu was in her own thoughts. Its obvious...No..No dont get me wrong here..She was lost coz No SLR n sum1 didn talk to her properly, or probably i wud assume, no material gifts 4m US, this makes more sense actually.

Reached the place, sudks was describing his Wonder ride. V were happy to c them alive. No prizes 4 guessing ,it was manjn's car. The restaurant looked cool. Ppl were desperate to change my place, but thanks it nvr happened. Thanks to the hump beside me. The JVM story took new twists here ....n it was a happy ending i guess as it worked pretty much on my side ( wat say san??), but the fight betn me n kartha went on... (Let sum1 go out of nation CL sure with san) ...Sudks was desperately missing k2, as he passed by it, but cudn talk. Also i think he missed his "Thangi"..ooo sorry "Thangigalu". Sudks ,Ram,Bhu,dars,vinz all were very happy to trouble me. Thanks shas was also thr, diverted thr attention.

Food was jus gr8...bhu was concerned abt the xtra cheese as always. I dont think vinz had ny food. But me sudks n san kno this wont go on for long as she ll soon realise "Yaarige madhta iddini na idannau antha" :)

Reached bac, a quiet drive. Suddenly i realise i had a team meeting, But it was already late, so decided to bunk it. But however i cudn avoid the gyan session. Bac to cube, cell is ringing..its chub...Game 4 a movie..? I said yes.. Chubs used all his parallellism methods to reach forum on time. ya v made it. The movie Indiana Jones was good. Infact i loved it a lot, probably my standards too hav declined after a series of bad bad movies...The best part of the movie was the continued pace, although it was not completely realistic, i like such movies as wat v c daily it real ,the same stuff again n again.. sumthing different is always fun. Then v had sum gr8 burgers at KFC. It is heaven...Bac home bugged gangu a lot lot...It was fun..Infact the entire day was fun...Cooool....