Fucked Up.....

I went to sleep yesterday night seeing that the Indians were making mincemeat of the English bowlers... Seeing Sehwag and Sachin in full flow was so pleasing to the eye....

I wake up today to news that bought tears to my eyes... It never happend before.... Not when people were killed in local trains, bombs planted in plain sight outside malls and multiplexes...

This time its different... This time its more than some anonymous terrorist placing bombs all over the place... Targetting the main hot spots of mumbai... Some how this time its personal...

18 hours and ongoing... 100 people dead and 300 injured... I can just sit back and watch the news ... I feel helpless... I dont know what to do....

Today is a day to mourn... Today is a day to sit back and ponder...Maybe the terrorist have won at the end of the day... They finally got people like me sitting in A/C offices to think... To feel sorrow... To feel helpless...

Congragulations.... You have won... You have shown you can do anything you want...

I hope tommorow will not be like yesterday... Not just another day... I hope to see some oppurtunity where i can contribute to bring all this to an end..

Till then i sit and mourn in my desk...

Who are we kidding ?

The Olympics has come and gone........ The Chinese have shown their might in not only hosting an amazing games but also being the highest medal getter in the event.....

There has been so much talk of India hosting the 2020 Olympics ....... that you would actually start to think that it could be possible...... i know we have to hope to do big things...... but are we really in a position to host an olympics in india ????

We need to ask ourselves the following questions...... what is it that we are really good at ??? Planning - a big no, Infrastructure - in shambles all across the country, Finances - do we really have 50 billion dollars just for one event(in todays value) ??? Can we probably do half as well as China - the answer maybe a sounding no........

Then why is there so much hope and hype for hosting an olympics....... even if we do get an oppurtunity to do so...... is it going to be good for us........ with the present level of corruption in the country, it is anohter oppurtunity for our politians, beaurcrats etc to walk away with loads of money...... while the reason for it being spent would still be in shambles.....

i do know that a lot of this would depend on how well we would host the 2010 commonwealth games, the prepration for which is going on ( again muddled with corruption and confusion) ...... and i am sure that the commonwealth games would be nowhere in comparison to any other international event..... leave alone the chinese olympics.....

I just hope that if we do get a chance to host the Olympics, we are ready to take on such an oppurtunity and host the event in such a way that would make us proud....

How can you think of killing a child ?

I write this post in regard to the case of Harsh and Niketa Mehta who want to abort their 25 week old feotus..... The feotus in question is "supposedly" diagnosed with congenetial heart problems which could affect the way it would live......

So now you ask the question " Should the parents abort ? " ....... On the face of it, the answer should be pretty simple - "Yes"........ why would you want a child to suffer ? The chance of not having a normal life is strong.... So lets go ahead and not give the child a chance to live.... ( It would add to ours and the child's problems you see ) ....

Bull shit........ Who are we to decide wether the child would have a normal life or not.... Shouldnt we at least give a chance to the child for a normal life ( Medically a 25 week old feotus is actually living ) ....... Shouldnt you be trying to do everything possible in this age of modern sceince to cure the child of its problems....

As the high court put it....... How is it different from mercy killing..... so if some one has problems of health, we should have a right to go ahead and kill them ( could it not be extended to that ) ....... Have people thought of the more serious consequences later.... Medical science improves...... Kids are diagnosed that they would suffer from lets Diabetes, Obescity, etc........ So the child should not suffer right ?? Lets abort it then.....

There are innumerous kids born with congential heart diseases or various other type of diseases.... And quite of few of them do make it.... We should encourage everyone to at least take that chance...... Instead of actually encouraging people to abort kids.... When you take a decision to have kids, you should be ready for all possible scenarios.....

I am pretty sure that not a lot of people would agree with me ( even my wife doesnt ) .......... but i just encourage you to look at the larger picture and i am sure you too would feel the same way and be glad that the High Court did not upload the plea.....

Hong Kong

I just came back from an amazing trip to Hong Kong and Macau in which i guess i did everything that was possible ............

1. Bungy jump from Macau tower : Easily the most amazing thing that i have done....... A bungy jump from 233m high making it the worlds highest bungy jump ........ Standing at the edge literally made my world go by........ The fear, adreanalin, excitement and the sheer pleasure at the end of it all made it one of the most memorable incidents of my life.

2. Gambling : The casinos of Macau are just amazing...... They can easily be compared to the ones at Las Vegas and the new ones that are coming are supposedly better than the ones at Vegas......
played the roulette and lost 1000 bucks...... made a couple of mistakes on not listening to people around me..... else i could have made quite a bit of money.... :(

3. Bellini Lounge : easily one of the best lounges i have even been...... A live band, an amazing DJ, hot babes, booze and the whole set up was just too good.... Had a great time dancing away to glory

4. Venetian : This was the resort that we stayed ......... The biggest resort in Macau..... and easily the biggest resort i had ever seen........ this hotel had 3000 rooms.... 3 swimming pools......... 4 casinos ........9 hole golf course ( on the 5th floor :O) and an entire setup just like Venice with the Gondola rides.......

5. Gondola ride : this was just too good........ there was this person who sang songs during the ride ....... asked me and my wife to kiss under every bridge and got us a great picture of the entire thing.... just amazing

6. Disney land : from Macau we went to Disney land which was really cute...... though everything there was for kids it was really well made.......every aspect of the hotel had some amount of disney in it.... it was a great experience

7. Paolin Monastery : A monastery built around a gaint bronze Buddha.......... huge and massive Buddha which is easily more than 100 feet tall.....A cable car ride to get there.......... made very well....... really a great place to visit....

8. Mong Kok : Ladies street as it is known as is a great place for shopping and great buys......... t shirts for 100 bucks were just too good........my better half had a ball shopping in the rain....

9. Ocean Park : another place in HK but dealing with more of sea creatures..... shark aquarium, atoll reef, dolphin show etc..... also my first roller coaster ride....... was good stuff.....

I did all this stuff and more and all in just 6 days....... Was a great experience....... and guess the memories would last for quite some time..

Maaro Group

I write this blog after my two years at NITIE has come to an end and i take up a new career.........

For the past few days, Maaro group ( thats what we called ourselves ) had continously been remembering all the incidents that we had at NITIE........... From the most hilarious moments to the sad ones, we have been there and done that...... This is a group that was formed beacuse of the promixmity of the inmates of Hostel 5 at NITIE........ It is such a diverse group, with different intersts, different temperments and most importantly different idealogies...... The thing that made us stick together was our continous enthusiasm to marrofy others :)

Maaro group Members

1. Me - The harmless guy
2. Nikhil - aka Tau - The raunchy dancer
3. Anuj - Dracula boy
4. Chirag - Charlie's Angels boy
5. Deepak - The KBG dude
6. Anurag- The nerd- DK Srivastav look alike
7. Arup - the passionate ( read senti ) dude
8. Bishit - Sub group dude, laptop dude, PK man etc
9. Vinnet - The Rani man

The group as u can see is very diverse........ It dint do much....... It just marrofied each other..... WE dint talk about studies, politics, careers etc ......... We just got together and had a great deal of fun.........


Whatever it was......... It was a great group with a great set of people......... Whatever were our differences, we always stood by each other .......

Thank you guys !!! for making my life at NITIE truly memorable ........


Appendix

The list of stuff that we did are

1. Mandi,
2. Bishti laptop,
3. Deepak and his tree,
4. Bishty and the sub groups
5. Nikhil and his rauncy dances,
6. Anuj and his dracula,
7. Chirag and his charlie's angels,
8. The midnight buffets,
9. the bike trips to marine drive
10. Jeet - the most "harmless guy",
11. Vineet ko rani mat bolna,
12. deepak a.k.a. KBG or KGB whtever;
16. bansi and johri incident,
17. tau and dude: they were just frens :) ;
19. Chirag- Chirag chauhan incident
20. Tau and all his fights with various restaurant managers
23. Tau ka deepak ki ass mein room fresher spray karna.
24. tau ke birthday par huggies gift karna(1st yr).. :P :P
25. 1st batch party ke baad dustbins todna ...
26. 4th floor ka woh cricket.
27. Post Prerana party in that bus.
28. IIM-Indore ka woh victory lap jo kabhi ho na paya ...
29. Jeetu ke woh red dye hair ...
30. Bisht nd the amoeba story .. bisht and his cat ..
31. nitie lake ke trips ... ofcourse nt the one wen i was the guide.
33. johri se kapde sukhane ki jagah par tau ka jaghadna.
35. vineet ke saath woh exam se phele games khelna.

36. lectures mein late entry karna, chajjar ke roll call par sabka saath bolna, roll 69, 96, sem mein subah ek bhi class na jaane ka record banana ...

37. and finally deepak hai hai ... deepak haai hai .. hone par yuvraj ka 6 marna
44. Beating Vineet and Deepak in some game of cards we were supposd to be amateurs in
45. Hard fought tennis games wid jeetu
46. Ultra-serious discussions wid bishti during exam days on ppo road
47. Studyin wid bansilal - where in bansi asks u to explain wht uve read in every 5 mins
48. Relyin on Tau to clear finance papers (and ultimately scorin more than him -: )

To Vote or not to Vote

Karnataka Elections

Today morning i was on my way to get my voter id made and it struck me then that even if i get a voter's id card for whom should i vote ?? This is the first time in my life that i am in a big dilemma whether to vote or not...

Its not that i dont want to vote ........... I want to vote for a party that would be ensured of a majority in the coming to elections ... Karnataka has seen a very bad phase in the past few years .......... Mainly to the antics of Deve Gowda and his sons..... Another government such as the same would send this state to the doldrums........

There are three major parties in Karnataka ....... The Congress, JD(S) and the BJP.........of the above three JD(S) is clearly out of the mind not only for me but for all the educated voters who have seen the antics of the Gowdas.......

Of the other two parties , both of them have their share of problems ........ The congress seems to be a good choice but there is a lot of infighting within the Congress Ranks..... If they do come to power , there is no clarity on who would be chief minister.......... Would they make Krishna again as the CM or Mallika Kharge or someone else..... So you don't know what would be the push of the Congress government if voted to power..... Would be rural or urban or both... Only time would tell....

BJP also seems to be a good choice..... The biggest advantage with the BJP is that they have a clear CM candidate in the form of Yediyurappa ..... He seems to have the will to do some work ......

The other way of thinking is to think at the Micro level.... Compare candidates in your constituency and vote accordingly...... But this would end up giving skewed results and maybe again a hung assembly........ So its always better to vote looking at the larger picture....

I still haven't decided on whom to vote for this elections........ Maybe by the 10th i will have some clear idea....

Rahul Gandhi for PM ???

It was all over the news yesterday.............. more and more people are supporting Rahul Gandhi candidature for the PM post......

Seems to a great idea....... a young and dynamic personality at the top...... Clearly sending out a signal to the whole world, that India is strong and now is ready to make a mark in the world.....

Rahul Gandhi could be a leader who can be bold and not afraid to take some tough decisions....A person who can guide a young India in the 21st century.....

Lets see how things shape up in the coming elections..... All this can be possible only if Congress can come back to power if it can just shake up the inflation mess that it has gotten itself into...

Friendhsip....

This post is written in continuation with a conversation with a friend of mine from NITIE ........ it was abt an awesome trio that the three of them had formed at NITIE ........

Before u start imagining a threesome of guys and stop reading this post, this is not to describe their physical relationship ( i hope that they dint have any )...... but to describe the great friendship that they shared with each other ..... if i must stray ........ the chemistry that they shared between themselves was simply fantastic to see.......

Great friends are generally hard to find ......... Maybe thats what we believe...... but the truth is that, friends are there for the taking........ we just have to go ahead and grab them.... good friends are like great opportunities that we have to take when they come by .........

This is why you will generally see outgoing people having more friends than others....... Why people who firmly believe in the phrase "A friend in need, is a friend in deed " ......... Why those who are always ready to help others have more people standing by them.....

It is also seen that people who have the ability to behave differently with different people also have a great number of friends.........They have this great ability to make people around them comfortable.......

So what does it take to be a great friend................ treat everyone you meet as a possible friend.... never be content with your set of friends ...... the more people that you meet , the more u can learn about yourself and people around u ( networking helps !!! ) ......... understand that each person is different and behave accordingly... and always be there to help .....

if u can do all this, u are sure to have a great circle of friends........ else u can always dance some raunchy steps and make friends :P

30 things i am going to bore you with.......

This post is a clear rip off from a freind's blog ( since she asked me to it) ............ me being as chivalrous as always, obliged so that i could bore her with 30 things abt myself the same way she bored me :P

Now i am wondering why i am so jobless that i am giving into my friends request such as this............. But still i thought it would be a great way to find out about myself more than i actually know ;)

30 things about me........... Here goes

1. LAST MOVIE YOU SAW IN A THEATER:
One of the worst movies ever seen by me........ Movie name : "There will be blood " ......... lot of irritation and frustration and 210 bucks out of the pocket

2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?
Havent been reading books since late........ Thought of starting with magazines which start with the letter P :D

3. FAVORITE BOARD GAME?
Snakes and Ladders........... Easily the most simple game to play with...... Just keep rolling the dice ( now u can see how lazy i actually am )

4. FAVORITE MAGAZINE?
Actually India Today though i read only the last page for the gossip .........

5. FAVORITE SMELLS?
My wife's perfume :)

6. FAVORITE SOUNDS?
Rain drops .............. Errie sounds when u go into the jungle....

7. WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD?
Not having the time of my life. Every minute. ( By know u shld have realized that this too is a rip off my friends blog )

8. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE?
How i can sleep longer

9. FAVORITE FAST FOOD PLACE?
All sagar's in bangalore.......... Just too good

10. FUTURE CHILD'S NAME?
Riya and Nikhil ( i know what u are thinking ) .........

11. FINISH THIS STATEMENT. "IF I HAD A LOT OF MONEY I'D...?
1. Mercedes SLR 500
2. Bose Jewel box speakers
3. A water bed
4. Armani clothes
5. Bipasha Basu :P

Just kidding........... I think i wouldnt buy nething of the above......... Will love the way i am

12. DO YOU DRIVE FAST?
When irritated and frustrated.... Have been cursed more than 100 times for the same......

13. DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL?
Actually sleep with two teddy bears and one of them moves :)

14. STORMS-COOL OR SCARY?
Cool........ Best thing in the world..... Amazing time to drink coffee and go sleep

15. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CAR?
An ambassodor .......... blue one......... in which 10 of us used to travel..... moved like a charm

16. FAVORITE DRINK?
Choclate Martini at the Olive Beach........... Easily the best cocktail that i have had

17. FINISH THIS STATEMENT, "IF I HAD THE TIME I WOULD
Sleep more

18. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS ON BROCCOLI?
Yuck !!!

19. IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY COLOR, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR CHOICE?
Had colored it but everyone around me hated it......

20. NAME ALL THE DIFFERENT CITIES/TOWNS YOU HAVE LIVED IN.
bangalore bangalore bangalore and yes a little of mumbai

21. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
F1 ........... Cricket was my fav.......... But F1 has taken over......... Mayb 20-20 would put cricket on top again

22. ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU.
Calm and cool headed ........ She should be thankful to me as i have given her the best thing in her world :)

23. WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED?
Loads of suitcase with all my stuff in it

24. WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE BORN AS YOURSELF AGAIN?
Love the way i am.......... Though John Abraham also would be a good option ( then i would get Bipasha Basu for some time :))

25. MORNING PERSON, OR NIGHT OWL?
Neither........ Same way the whole day ( Late nights u will see me in bed)

26. OVER EASY, OR SUNNY SIDE UP?
Neither.

27. FAVORITE PLACE TO RELAX?
In a jaccuzzi with a glass of vodka........

28. FAVORITE PIE?
Banana and Walnut pie...... really does taste yum........

29. FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR?
Belgium Dark Choclate...... ( Inspired from Hum Tum )......... tastes yum....... used to travel 20k just to eat it

30. OF ALL THE PEOPLE YOU TAGGED THIS TO, WHO'S MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND FIRST?
Dont think any one would do........

Everyone who had the patience to do read this has to write something abt themselves and bore me :P .....

Past few months

It has been one month since i got married ........... In fact today is my anniversary ....... It has been one hell of a roller coaster the past few months which have changed my life forever.......

It has been some time since i last blogged..... Various things have happened in the last six months that has changed me as a person and my life as a whole.......

The first thing being Prerana........ One of the biggest things that has ever happened in my life..... Gave me so much learning on the personal front that i will never be able to forget it......... I personally consider it to be one of the greatest achievement in my life.......... One of the very few things that i have worked so passionately for.....

Just after Prerana i went home to meet the girl of my dreams (though it dint seem that way then )............ after meeting her a few times...... we decided to get married together ........ things went on with rocket speed from there on....... we got engaged in a month....... and married after two months.......

we had a fairy tale wedding for sure....... the setting for the muhurthum and the reception was just perfect (check out the pics in my orkut profile for them ) ........ the ring ceremony , haldi function, cocktail party, the friends party, the sangeeth ..... the party went on and on......... as my friend put it we had a 8 step process to get married.......

Placements - in between all the wedding prep, another important moment of my life... placements were round the corner........ after dissapointing first few days..... it started to turn around with Barclays bank offering me retail sales in kanpur.... then i got four offers on the final day to take the final count to 5....... i got offers from Cognizant, ICICI bank, Kotak, Godrej Properties and barclays......... I finally took up the offer from Godrej properties so that i could enter the real estate field........ i still dont know wether it was a good decision or not :)

i guess very few people would have a had a roller coaster ride that i have had for the past few months....... now its time to settle down and enjoy the next few months.........