Sell whatever you can

India hit again by terror attacks…nothing has really changed.. The PM condemns the blasts..the center puts it on the state and vice verse what is the media doing in this crucial juncture? Selling terrorism sounds absurd but what else are they doing? they are racing against each other claiming that they receive the threat mail before the other…Will that make a difference? One channel claims to be continuously receiving messages of more blasts across the country…and the news headlines are KAL Bangalore,AAJ Amhedabad

Kal Kahan? the media needs to be more responsible specially the hindi media..when the country is terrorized by such blasts and the news channels showing headlines like. “Maut ki lash” is absolutely pathetic, The English media is far more responsible in their approach but this is India my dear friend where most of us understand and prefer hindi…this is not the first time the country is witnessing such media madness…the arushi murder case is still fresh in our minds, whatever was done by the media was bizarre..

With so many news channels coming up everyone wants to be topping the charts and be the no1 news channel but what are they catering to the people? Some are busy with the planets, every second day you can see an headlines “mangal karega amangal” some say

“ Shani barsayega dhan”… A few are busy finding aliens on earth.. others are worried about the breakups of the bollywood stars..if this is the case then who’s going to bring the real issues to light? May be everyone is busy making money...

Its not that easy

Committing suicide is never easy.. Its much more difficult than it looks..if i want to end my life and i have chosen to burn myself up...its really gonna be painful and if by any chance if someone saves you from dying then its terrible...if i hang myself the time it takes to wrap it up feels like ages..If i wish to jump into a river...i start thinking about what will happen when to my head if it bangs across a stone or something like that..sounds strange but you really feel that.. if i choose to shoot myself then its going to take some special effort to find a bullet and a gun...rat poison is the worst..these days the quality is so poor that's its difficult to kill even the rats..if i have decided to take some drugs its turns messy @ times leaving with some disorders rather than killing..am not convinced about one of them though because it sounds really effective but the question is where is it found? They say suicide is man's way of telling God you can't fire me I quit.. but this resignation is so difficult as if theres a bond...
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Charles Caleb Colton

A Terrorist within...

Globalisation,liberalisation,foreign policy,Indo-US relationship,Stock markets,FDI...i don't know what all these mean.. i was in mumbai last week..there was a buzz around..everyone talking about the government's fate and the nuclear deal...i don't know how many of us exactly know what the deal is all about.. i certainly don't and am least bothered...How many of the mp's know the details of the deal? God knows.. Its a world of the rich...when you go across our country u find slums everywhere..people starving,poverty,hunger,lack of basic amenities...who cares? certainly not our hon'ble politicians i am assured of that...they have crores to buy mp's but certainly not to fund the slums and the poor... can anyone of these politicians dare to spend even a single day in those slums?
leave the politicians, they are born shameless...what about the youth of this country? busy with beer bashes,night clubs,spending 16 hours @ work... actually we like discussing and talking a lot rather than acting....what am i doing? writing a blog expressing myself...bull shit....i don't know what its going to take to change all this...may be... change ourselves...when i see a girl selling flowers on the beach.. to earn her bread... She also has dreams... she also deserves to be one amongst us... but she is worried about the evening bread...she's not sure about it as well...
Walking down the tallest buildings..i find the largest slums just yards away...why is there such a big divide? Are we so helpless... that nothing can be done... Many are working in this regard but the number is very small...when we talk about cross border terrorism and patriotism..what about this terrorist thats killing us...it might not be a bullet but its slow poisoning thats killing us slowly but surely....

Online Coffee !__!@

26th December 2006.....i opened my orkut account...there was a friend request.....akansha(not the real name) cause i don't want to disclose that... i accepted without thinking much about it or visiting her profile.. in the evening as i logged into my gtalk account...i added her there... without knowing that she would be my best friend... i said hi... she replied the same... then i asked how r u doing she said great.. u tell...r u a student? i answered no.. so whats up? i said nothing... now i realise that why they call me a boring and backdated guy in our class... then after some pause she buzzed again...so what are u upto? i replied- nothing... now this was the limit...but she still had loads of energy left to speak to a guy who is mum...she asked me- are u studying? i said- no..i've passed out
in what? she asked... Electrical and Electronics engg....oh! so u are an engg? i said- yeah...what about u? i am an MBA she replied...then we continued chatting for a while knowing about each others origin..place of education etc...then suddenly i asked,How did u find me? she said i like intelligent people....i had a serious kinda snap on orkut at that time.. i dont know what made her think so...later she realised the truth though....then i asked her- Where are you now?
Poland she said... i just felt as if she went so far that was unreachable....she was doing a research project there.... those days i was so obsessed with orkut...that i wanted everone to join my communities...and she was no exception...she asked me what are they about? i told her the names one was...Life is full of Love! She asked me so u believe in love? i answered Yes! so whats her name? she asked... i said i belive in love that doesnt mean that u need a gf to belive...i said instinctively....then the last portion of our chat is as follows
Akansha: u need to have one

me: No

Akansha: to beleive it

7:35 PM i am sure u love someone

me: U believe in love?

Akansha: whether she know sor not

no

Akansha:

wat is love then acc. to u

7:36 PM me: well love for me has many forms...

Akansha: i will chat later

i have to go

this was how our first chat ended... u might be wondering about the timings actualy i have every conversation saved not intentionaly but when our friendship grew i realy wanted them and today i realise that it has done no harm....

Then days went by we had a chat almost everyday....i told her about my aspirations,my goals,my idea of life everything..... she used to ask me heck of questions and then she'll say-it seems am taking your interview...."hhahahaha" this was pretty common i never laughed so much while talking to someone,,,but today i do a lot of that... she taught me this... anyways i answered her question saying that am used to intervews i have been rejected around 11 in my college....
an achievement which is not worth telling anyone... but i told her as i used to tell her everything ..then days went by... i was working in one of my friends newly started Web development company.....my working hours were cut short as she would wake up @ come online around at 3:30PM...it used to be all over for me then..we shared online coffee etc which might sound silly.. but i was in a world of my own... see what an online coffee means.... :)

Akansha: u r an IT person......so find a solution

to send online coffee

oh its good

4:32 PM

me: u jus send the coffe...

4:34 PM Akansha: kk

ok thaen here is it !__!@

liked it

me: thanks!!!!

well made

Akansha: u r welcome

4:35 PM me: @->--

Akansha: yep

i make good coffe!

this is good!!!!!!

and u make good flower

4:36 PM me: thank u

Akansha: stop saying thanks

i am tired of writing welcome

hahahhaha

me: oo sorry

Akansha: its ok now

4:37 PM u r a good boy

me: can u teach me

Akansha: of course

i have done nursery teachers training



She was just unbelievable...can't find words...then one day she told me that she was coming back to india... i was so happy... i asked her will u meet me? she said
definitely...she asked how will u recognize me? u havent seen me? i said u don't worry about that...i will... she said no...she told me that i'll be wearing bangles of this colour...i said great! then she came back...but i never met her...we lost touch..

A Nightmare

Final year of engineering.... the event of an off campus in bhopal, we all were excited not because each one of us needed a job desperately but the fun of travelling together to bhopal as we did many times before this was another ocassion. We had our train from jabalpur to bhopal @ 9:30 pm.....i was back from college and told mom that there is a campus event in bhopal tomorrow....she gave me a look as if this time she wants me securing a job badly befor i finish my grads.. i was unphased as usual, when i was out of the bathroom i saw mom packing a huge luggage as i was going on a holiday... i told her theres no need of all this i'll be back tomorrow night... she said shut up! actualy these events took two days given that you clear the first round... then i saw my mom putting in 3 ties and 4 so called interview type shirts so that her son has a choice on the day..... i said no way i'm going to carry all this useless stuff.....then she suddenly came up with an example of my first campus event where i made it to the second round and would have gone to the interview in jeans and T-shirt if she would not have packed my bad.....huuuh moms are so good @ these... finally all the packing was done and dad leaves me @ the station. I cited a few of my friends... said hi...they asked me Are u going for a honeymoon? i said yes, have ne doubts? then the train arrived and we were off... morning 6:15 am we reached bhopal and then some made it to a hotel, some to their relative's place and some stayed back in the waiting rooms as its just a matter of 4-5 hours before we are back boarding the train to jabalpur @ 3:45 PM after our written exams.... around 10-15 of us went to a nearby lodge...
it was old bhopal shelter lodge i still remember the name... the owner was watching Qtv when we stepped in, he asked how many days we said one...possibly two we gave advance and got the keys but he had one room short so three of us had to share one room...it was me,gunjan and rohit in one room... our reporting time was 9:30am... we got ready and we were off @ around 8:30am then we reached the center had our exams then back to the lodge as the results were schedulded to be declared @ 5! this is where it starts RESULTS @ 5! meant that we have already lost our 3:45 train...the next train was @ 11.... sms's kept flowing enquiring about the results but without anything relevant happening... @8pm we decided that its enough now or we will miss the next train as well as theres no point in staying in bhopal without any reason...so we checked out... we got our tickets...and were passing time at the platform doing nothing...gunjan suddenly said hey.. what if we are shortlisted for the next round? i really hate this word IF...rohit said we'll get our tickets cancelled and get back to the lodge.. so simple it sounded @ that point in time... it was around 9:15 gunjan says "what if anyone of us get shortlisted?" huuh i stepped in and said dont worry we'll cancel all the tickets and go together....@ 9:45pm gunjan's cellphone lit up An SMS.... none of our branch i.e Electrical has made it to the second round... all of us justed stunned.... i had the whole paper in front of my eyes what did i do wrong? i asked myself God knows... may be there were many more better than me i said to myself....then i took my cellphone without knowing what to do.. and dialed a number that of my best friend.. i always look out for her when am in these situations....lost,dejected... then i spoke to her for about an hour while i was walking through the platform i could see rohit sleeping on a chair...gunjan disappeared don't know where.... then after having a long chat when finally found my cellphone was almost dicharged..i had no other options but to disconnect..then i went to rohit and asked what about the train? as if he was the staion master.. he said i don't know 10 mins later gunjan walks in... it was 11:20pm i said whats happening ? wheres the train? i walked across and asked a guy whats the status of jbp-bpl exp? he said its departed from platform no 3... O shitttttttt! we were on platform 5... all of us were livid...what have we done? what will we do now? these were the questions we were asking each other... then we decided to go back to the lodge.... we walked our way.. it was moharam that day and some serious celebrations were on...suddenly my cellphone rings...flashes HOME... i pick up "where are U? what are u upto?" i said ill be back tomorrow,i can't hear u and disonnected and swictched off.......then we get to the lodge the owner was furious as if he'll kill us and bury in his backyard....u guys have broken all my furniture and stolen the liquidator bottles... wtf is this guy talking about? i said.... he screamed shut up and f**k off.....bull shit! has the guy gone mad? what have we done? i asked gunjan... he said thers no point arguing lets get off from this place asap...its moharam and he won't spare us...i thought what is gunjan talking...later we found out that rest of our group and mates who were there did some nuisance @ his place.. then rohit said lets go to habibganj we can still catch the 12:15 train....bhopal has two stations main and habibganj.... we agreed and were looking for an autorickshaw...one came and stopped we asked him how much for habibganj he said 150 bucks... we said comeon man we travel everyday....he replied then go to hell...he was drunk too.... we started walking on the main road without having any clue that what were we doing....then we stopped anoter auto he asked for 120... we'll pay 80 rohit said... the u better go on foot...he told us that u wont get any transport this late today... then gunjan had his own issues... he said i wont go in an auto with those green lights...i hope u understand the meaning..i thought disgusting...then after around 20 mins we finally got one and we were off....gunjan gasped and said thank God! we are out of old bhopal its a communaly sensitive place... and we could have been stuck in there on such a day.. midway the auto just stopped... we asked what happened? the driver said letme see... after 5 mins he said i cant go ahead...what? we asked... theres some problem can't go... now i thought were are we heading gunjan was trying to escape that crowded place due to some reasons and now we find ourselves in No Man's land...where there's not a single soul...it was a dark lane...then we walked a few steps to the main road and found a bus
that finally left us our destination...but there were more things to come...there was hardly 5 mins for the train we rushed for the tickets... and got them...the train was already on platform 3 as we ran from platform 1.... i could see from the top that the general compartment was over crowded...i said i can't board this train...rohit astonished why?? i said we had such a hard day and now this i can't take this any more and sat down..gunjan followed me..rohit asked what will we do here? i said... we'll go to a hotel..stay there tonite and tomorrow will watch a movie ,visit a few places and then board the evening train..the train had a 4 min stoppage it didn't wait for our discussions to end..we came out and got our tickets cancelled and went out in search of a hotel.
we walked around 4 kms around enquiring each and every hotel right from rental 300 to 1200 a day cause now we had a definate goal to stay in bhopal...no matter what...but we could not find a single room.. they said that all rooms are booked or pre occupied cause theres some All India doctor meet or something like that..what the hell then @ around 2pm we were back and decided to stay in the railway station premises.. all three of us were so tired that we needed nothing but a sleep. rohit was uneasy about the idea of sleeping on the floor besides those beggars and all who generally don't have homes and spent their nights at the railway station....but his body was suppirting him so finally we gave up and slept.... suddenly i heard a loud voice of a policeman throwing everybody out of that place.. doing his duty... i guess he would have been honest in his other responsiblities like this one as well...everyone likes to supress poor people...however he spared us i think judging us by our clothes... then all of us were awake and we decided to have some tea... we went out with my suitcase that already has lost its handle... imagine how much we have dragged and pulled.... then suddenly our eyes were stuck on a board it was a guest house i said we can try here....gunjan said what??? we've checked almost the entire city we cant find a room here...i said lets jus give a try... we went in and imagine what we've got one that too a decent one @ a reasonable price...we couldn't believe our luck...the finally we got in and slept for hours till 12.... and then finally got back to jabalpur the next day.....
this was one of my experiences which taught me many things about decission making,how we stumble in adversity.... and the most important how to do the simple things well....
and after this incident i firmly believed one thing that you might go chasing something around the whole world...which u can find in your backyard..... :)

Obsessed!

Kylie Kwong! she's magic... she simplifies cooking as child's play.
She cooks with Heart and soul..... so to find out more do watch kylie kwong cooking with heart and soul on discovery travel and living. Some of her worth reading books are My China: Stories and Recipes from My Homeland and Simple chinese cooking.....haven't read the others but i wish to... she's just awesome!

Modern Day slave

Christiano Ronaldo! the most happening name in world football today. The top scorer in the last season's EPL for Manchester United. But now he wishes to move on and why not he has his own choice.But the contract with Man U is restraining him from moving ahead. However this issue has ignited a spark in the football fraternity.FIFA President, Sepp Blatter has supported Cristiano Ronaldo as referring to the situation as football slavery. But there are a few others who have different ideas and who else but Pele feels that ronaldo must respect his contract with the current club as a businessman should honour his contract and a professional footballer is no different but former England skipper and ex- Man U and Real Madrid David Beckham however plays safe saying that its one of the most important decissions of his career. After seeing all this i looked back some time back when the IPL was on boil my dad once said to me that this is modern day slavery at that point in time i was livid and called him a cynic but now when a similar thing comes from the FIFA president.................hmmmmmmmmmmm..............

Reality Bites

The television channels are flooded with the so called "Reality Shows". Every channel has its reality show wether it be dance,music,action. Its all about the TRPs, everyone wants to top those charts.But this doesnt come free it comes at the expense of loads of those individuals,the participants who go through so much in the course of the show be it happiness or grief.Who gains what in this race, the judges in most shows they are out of business people who just simply suck when you see them commenting so harsh as if they were the champs in their own respective fields.
The television channels get popularity,money what more they can ask for. The contestants get disappointment,humiliation after fighting such a hard battle as if it is there last opportunity to proove themselves pressurising themselves so much that cases like that of Srinjini Sengupta happens. And what about those who win, nothing they just win a handsome cash and a car may be in some cases and then get lost in the crowd againbaring a very few. So what are these reality talent hunt shows looking out for? ever year theres a new pool of singers that its realy hard to remember the previous ones if this continues the way it is then there will be day when we'll have more number of singers than songs in our bollywood movies.

Value system

We are booming, We are Growing, We are not just another nation on the world map anymore. We are ON. Our growth rate is eight and a half percent. Wow isn't that great? but what about the value system of this country? what about the ethics? what about our treasured culture? Are we heading in the right direction in that front? Well i don't know the answer let's introspect ourselves, each one of us and we'll find the answers. What do parents mean for the new generation teen? A source of pocket money, people who are there to look after their needs or something more ? Waht are parents for the married couples? Couple of people whom they just want to get rid off ASAP?
What is the perception of youth about the older generation of our country? just people who are living on government pensions and only good enough to give away lectuers to the young ones? Is this what we feel today. What about our own generation, Is Drinking and Smoking considered a status symbol? I dont smoke it means that am not smart enough. If you dont party late night you are considered a dumb ass. These are some of my experiences with few people i have come across. There are many who doent follow these but the number is quite less and that is a concern. What about the growing crimes in our society. People being killed by their own family members. The number of divorce cases have risen to new heights.The cases of premarital sex have gone up. What kind of a system are we heading towards?

T-20

who says its a" chaddi cricket" ? Even if it is who cares. We are the World Champions of T-20!
thats arguably the best thing happened in india cricket after 1983. None of us can forget that last ball when misbah couldnot hold his nerve and skooped the ball in no man's land only to find shreesanth waiting to take the catch of his life and create history. T-2o as a game has got every ingredient of a delecious recipe enjoyed by everyone. I think this realy defines cricket cause till the last ball is bowled you really don't know the outcome unlike one dayers and tests baring a few games which are unpredictable till the end. Moreover in this fast moving world where time kills something like this really works wonders. Coming to the cheerleaders they are like the cherry on top. Many say people go to the ground to see the cheerleaders i strongly disagree ultimately its the cricket everbody is intrested in and the close finishes everyone is glued too and not the cheerleaders.

GLORY

25th June 1983, a day which changed the face of cricket in our country. I was born on this day and many of our generation have just seen those images off late on television have no idea or just cant feel the essence of that victory and what it meant to us as a cricketing nation. Cricketers were not idols at that time nobody rather knew them, they didn't play for money or fame they played for their country probably that was the reason they cpuld do it. In an interview the MOM of the WC finals Mohinder Amarnath says that they were paid 15000 INR fir the entire series and they saved the laundry bills by washing their own clothes, how many our present cricketers can feel that passion who are these days born with a silver spoon in their mouths. When we say that Sachin Tendulakar is the world's greatest batsman, do we ever realize that their was a little master named Sunil Manohar Gavaskar who faced the greatest bowling lineups of all times and scored those preciuos runs which i feel are more than if sachin doubles them too. How many of us know about G vishwanath the rock solid player, he didn't feature in any ads those days, few of us might recognize him as a match refree. TOday things have changed with money flowing in from every corner and players getting the best possible facilities we are still unable to repeat 1983. What is the reason behind?
Today players dont get tired playing in the IPL where lots of money is involved but when it comes to playing for the country theres a lot of fatigue.