Had been to Campus today on some office work, got to meet some friends there. Although entered it happily and the meeting went very well, had to exit it with mixed thoughts. The thought that kept striking me throughout my journey back was how a pessimistic mess the world around me has turned into. I am a born optimist, a million thanks to my parents for raising me so. My friends there kept going on and on about the failing projects and how they will sink soon and how I was on that sinking boat. It was as I thought their perspective. It was probably this perspective that made one of those guys a good tester, but if this logic works then I can never be as good tester as he is. I don't care, but I don't want to forsake my optimistic world for it. Its not just this one event but my lunch table which was part pessimistic but as many people left, now the ratio of pessimistic crowd has increased. However its great of some of my friends who are optimistic and cheerful always. Also one good thing that has happened to me is my new team, its really dynamic, friendly and a lot of fun. Not intended to harm anybody so any references kindly do take it sportively. Also please don't stop giving me advices after this post. This is just my opinion at the end of the day.
Was quite tempted it to name this part "Irish coffee night" but I am the kind, not wanting to hurt 'friends'. Well, lets leave it there and get back to the night.
'Green Park' a dhaba at 8:00PM Saturday:
*We reached late because of Naga, as he is 'The Localite' now and needs permissions for late night hangouts with friends.
*Scissors can tailor destiny to head towards the best.
*I say clearly yet again "I used the day pass to the fullest extent".
*When someone is desperate to narrate a story, no matter how interesting it is, hindering its progress can be great fun.
*180 ml vodka was able to give a slight high to me and Ranjith.
*Krishna: Praveen has really gone crazy. He may seem happy, dont fall for it. He is hiding pain within, please do call him and pacify him. Please nanna nambu...pls..pls...
*Did krishna eat an iota chicken?? The question remains a mystery yet.
Channapattna Coffee day at around 11:30 PM:
*The place where Krishna spent most of his childhood.
*Naga: How was Irish Coffee ????? Speciaalllllllllllllllll??? Also please for the last time stop looking at me. It was not me. Mostly Naga, it was the Kaala Bandar at the CCD that did black magic, Nijwaaagluuu.
*MM (Ohh not The MM yaar) is Mahishaasuraa Mardini, Krishna's new girlfriend whom he apparently scrapped "are you in orkut?"
*Finally Ranjith revels the story about his horrifying experience at his recent Kudremukh trek and it was amazing.
*Irish coffee to cast shadow over Blue Apple Soda.
SR's place 2:00 AM:
*Naga can play his dust guitar by just coughing in front of it.
*We found out the hidden truth about the Irish coffee. It was imported, hence Ram sene objected as it is against Indian culture. SR along with Ram sene spilled half the coffee. Finally justice.
*Winning a card game is the most stupid thing you will ever do.
*Naga turns into a snake at 12:00 to drink Irish coffee.
Dilli 6:
At 11 AM Urvashi, Sunday:
A good movie, Sonam Kapoor at her best. Some flaws were: songs needed better picturisation and love story needed more coverage. People may claim it was silly, but when you look at it; Indians are silly at times but the best part it is here the system works and that was what has been depicted in the movie.
Emperor:
At 2:00PM, Khansama Restaurant, UB city:
*UB city is just superb.
*The crowd is just amazing.
*The restaurant was great great. We had a royal lunch. Truly Royal. It was Mughlai, with all the huge glasses and plates. A totally different experience. It was like what I had seen in numerous movies a plush british dining table with amazing food.
*Desserts and starters were a connoisseurs delight.
A great weekend. Had great fun. Thanks friends for making it so.
Some amazing lines that I came across, stating the power of prayer. There is a prayer intended to give strength to people faced with circumstances they don't want to accept. The power of the prayer comes from it's insight into human nature. We ask God to grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change. Because so many of us rage against the hand that life has dealt us. The courage to change the things we can. Because so many of us are cowardly. And afraid to stand up for what is right. And the wisdom to know the difference. Because so many of us give into despair...when faced with an impossible choice. The good news for those who utter these words is that God will hear you and answer your prayer.The bad news is that sometimes......the answer is no.
A sweet voice said "I am waiting to run away, are you coming" and thus began this trip. Rushed to office immediately, a good chit-chat for half an hour then headed to V.V.Puram Food street. Hungry stomach and eclectic dishes always gel well. Reached Hullimakki at around 5 AM. Half an hour nap and then for the first time in my life i had bed coffee and bed tea, and it was awesommmmm. Cold climate, speciallll coffee (as Genelia puts it!!) and badminton made my morning.
A 2 hour trek later with some great snaps. Was just too hungry when i spotted a Ginnu (Pudding cooked with colostrum) look-a-like, it was too yummy. Aunty's cooking was an epicurean's delight, lunch was just lip smacking with akki rotis, cocunut chatni, bamboo shoot pickle, dry chicken etc. Then we had a wonderful time at their private waterfall. Sitting below the fall of water was quite a relief from body aches and felt supreme. We had a magnificient time there. Reached back and had juice, pineapple juice was never so tasty. Then badminton time again followed by play time with Rangi(A calf) and then 2 cups of tea and a cup of coffee( I think that states how pleasing they were). Of course we had to let out some quality time for UNO, this time with lots of 'open' cheating tricks. Later betal leaf wine + campfire + pic time. Then we invented some new badminton concepts. Me and Vinz-Lazy Badminton- Absolute no leg movement. Me Vinz and Shubra- Trio Badminton-This didn't work out well. Me,San,Vinz,Sameer,Kartha+refreees- The all-opponent badminton- Even your teammates can function as your opponent. This was just a flabbergast ride.
We kicked off next morning with taTTe idli and headed off to a trek. Sudks and gang went ahead for about 4 hills, while me and San had some quality time experimenting her new SLR (Ond sala nan pic, Ond sala aval pic) after 2 hills. Climbing down we found a pond, lots of big fishes there, they seemed to love puffed rice. Back home, me, sudks, Damodar and Kartha went ahead for bath at a small stream and returned for a great lunch again. Then had great fun with the puppies minchu and shiny, will miss them a lot. Everyone of us had a sad time saying good bye to aunt ant uncle. Thanks to them again for such a great weekend.
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, RingaRinga 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 DejaVu 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.
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 "ShanthiSagar" 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 gobimanchurian(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!!!
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.
