Two days with fever make me feel too tired. Washing face early in the morning before lectures appears to be most illogical act. Brushing your teeth stands apart from even being considered as an optional act. Anyways, these wouldn't make you less ill though may help in getting such a look, but who bothers!
My room is stinking due to clothes wet due to rain of which samples are available with every possible degree of saturation (moisture content). I wish a system restore for the system called Room-119.
There is no other activity that can be considered to get involved in other than computer, but that too not for a long time.. it headaches :(
I haven't had good food for quite a long time. I wish there were no Manchurians or Chowmeins in dinner at least.
I hope Crocin helps..
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Dream Weekend
Considering the availability of academic off-days in early days of running semester, it comes to the traveler inside me to dream of a highly systematic, planned tour of a few places around Mumbai. Quite normal it may appear, for it is actually so, but still it thrills me.
I generally do not plan my trips*. They are generally a consequence of surfing/chat/boredom though with a considerable degree of contribution from the actual wish to see a particular place, or to have an adventure tour. Rest of them come from the group activities in campus.
* Considering the one day constraint in most of the cases, and the existence of similar places in city, one generally prefers to have an adventure trek or a beach visit for a weekend.
So looking upon previous outings over the weekends, I realized that amount of time and energy invested on them were not worth. So now I wish to have something like I am going to detail further.
My Travel Book
Start: Saturday, 29th August 09
Finish: Sunday, 30th August 09
Saturday
3 am - Departure from Institute, Mumbai
5 am - Panvel
The drive, food and fuel = 7hrs
12noon - Arrival at Mahabaleshwar
Mahabaleshwar, Panchgani, food, rest etc = 2 hrs
2 pm - Departure from Mahabaleshwar
The drive, fun, random = 6 hrs
8 pm - Ratnagiri
Stay at MTDC Resort, Ganpatipule Next morning
Sunday
3 pm - Leaving Ganpatipule
With food, fuel and random = 10 hrs
Close to midnight, Back to Institute, Mumbai
All I need is a Vehicle in good condition and at least One Companion :)
and I hope external factors not to dominate up-to any disturbing extent at the beginning.
--
I generally do not plan my trips*. They are generally a consequence of surfing/chat/boredom though with a considerable degree of contribution from the actual wish to see a particular place, or to have an adventure tour. Rest of them come from the group activities in campus.
* Considering the one day constraint in most of the cases, and the existence of similar places in city, one generally prefers to have an adventure trek or a beach visit for a weekend.
So looking upon previous outings over the weekends, I realized that amount of time and energy invested on them were not worth. So now I wish to have something like I am going to detail further.
My Travel Book
Start: Saturday, 29th August 09
Finish: Sunday, 30th August 09
Saturday
3 am - Departure from Institute, Mumbai
5 am - Panvel
The drive, food and fuel = 7hrs
12noon - Arrival at Mahabaleshwar
Mahabaleshwar, Panchgani, food, rest etc = 2 hrs
2 pm - Departure from Mahabaleshwar
The drive, fun, random = 6 hrs
8 pm - Ratnagiri
Stay at MTDC Resort, Ganpatipule Next morning
Sunday
3 pm - Leaving Ganpatipule
With food, fuel and random = 10 hrs
Close to midnight, Back to Institute, Mumbai
All I need is a Vehicle in good condition and at least One Companion :)
and I hope external factors not to dominate up-to any disturbing extent at the beginning.
--
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Idiot Box - RSkS
Television is very suitably called the Idiot Box.
So during this second consecutive week of nothingness in my daily schedule(?), I finally decided to watch some of the Idiot telecasts. There is always an experimentation related to the useless time that we have and which once resulted in invention of The Law of Gravity!
I decided to take the similar path but watching 'Rakhi Sawant ka Swayamvar' was no joke!
Who doesn't know her?
The TV serial is a killer, seriously. I have no words for the description of format, however wiki speaks :
"...a reality TV series aimed at finding her a husband, based on the traditional Hindu practice of Swayamvara."
Rakhi Ka Swayamvar (Rakhi's Search For A Life Partner)
The participants (aspiring grooms) are very well educated (most of them/appear to be) and claim to love Rakhi when they first saw her !
Rakhi's earlier public appearances were
Agnichakra (1997)
Dil Ka Sauda(1999)
Chudail No. 1 (1999)
Krantipath (1999)
Can't resist to tell that Agnichakra was a Bappi Music and which had a track - Mera Naam Action, and its sad version too :'(
Well, love at first sight is always welcomed :)
The location of the entire program of Swayamvar is Hotel Fateh Garh Palace in beautiful city of lakes, Udaipur. All 16 shortlisted participants ( from claimed 12515 applications) have been stayed here for one month and being fed for next one month, no matter they make it to the marriage ceremony or not. (I suppose them not to be attending if they are not the one :D)
Let's move ahead, the show makes the aspiring grooms to perform tasks aimed to analyze them better from a bride's point of concern.
To start with, every possible pathetic piece of useless logic is made a 'task' and the aspiring grooms are more than happy to accomplish that. A lot of energy and 'team' work is being put up in completing those tasks as some of the tasks are made to perform in a team of 2/3 (??) only to later know that they were not a basis of elimination among the participants (if it a game :P).
Elimination is done after personal interaction with everyone at some party, dinner table, garden, love letter reading etc (Initial Rounds).
Well, after a few eliminations, the trend of useless logics is continued.
The host of the show seems to be long time unemployed claiming-to-be-a-celebrity and hence eligible for the hosting. This condition of his is justified after her wife makes an entry to the hosting cum advisory committee to Rakhi in RSkS. They both appear to be laughing at you when you continue to watch the show further.. Godd this show beats Gunda, Loha and any other possible piece of existing video media in this genre... it is patheitc in composition, execution(?) and presentation!
Meanwhile, what is Rakhi doing in here upto now?
She makes frequent appearances on screen after each participant performs something and very quickly yet emotionally manages to deliver the hard learned dialogues (with close expressions!).
Some examples -
# "... jab unhone meri taraf dekhkar wo gaana gaya to aisa laga ki jaise koi mujhe pyaar se pukar raha hai, main to apne aansoo nahi rok paayi ..." [and she is actually crying!]
# "... mujhe bahut acha lag raha hai ki koi mere liye aise takleefein utha k tasks complete kar raha hai ( sad) aur kare bhi kyun na, main apna swayamvar racha rahi hu, unko itna to karna hi padega ( rakhi sawant )..."
# "... agar koi aisi boundation nahi hoti to main sabse shaadi kar leti..." [ what! you promised us to ruin only one life this way, and we allowed you to do so - NDTV Imagine]
More yet to come.
And on the other scenes, these guys trying best to prove their true love for Rakhi.
Sample these love expressions,
".. Jab maine unhe(?) pehli baar dekha tabhi se mann mein kuch hua aur muje laga ki agar koi meri zindagi ka pyaar ho sakta hai to wo Rakhi Ji (?) hi hain.."
".. Rakhi ji main bas aapse aur aapse hi pyaar karta hu ( you dont need to say that, isn't it obvious) aur mera pyaar sachha hai (cool!).."
".. Rakhi ji main aapse bas itna kehna chahta hu ki, yahan maujood sabhi log bahar se kuch aur hain aur andar se kuch aur. koi aapse pyaar nahi karta, sab jhooth bolte hain. bas love letter likhne se hi pyaar ka izhaar nahi hota ( yes we can see, it can be through verbal argument too), mujhe bas aur kuch nahi kehna hai .."
Anyways, above drama took place just after/during love letter writing/reading session.
Adding more spice to the incidents, comes the frequent over-friendly behaviour of Rakhi towards selected 2/3 guys and which lefts other looking each other's face and waiting for their turn. [Looks like either Rakhi is testing everyone against 'some'things or just making them feel at-least-i-had-a-coffee-with-her.]
Okk, I could bear upto here, but looked like NDTV has got limited viewers and they spy on everyone :(:(
Look what they did, Ba and her team of ladies ( Kyuki ...) got into the show !!!
I am running short on comparisons after Gunda and Loha (suggestions.. anyone?)
May be able to describe the onwards story sometimes later ( Part II).
There are lot of other emotional features attached to the show that I can't describe here.
The show is really pathetic and should be watched to increase your patience.
You may want to see another way of torturing people.
This is pathetic.
But, go and watch the show, its actually more than pathetic.
The show is still being aired.
-------------------------
So during this second consecutive week of nothingness in my daily schedule(?), I finally decided to watch some of the Idiot telecasts. There is always an experimentation related to the useless time that we have and which once resulted in invention of The Law of Gravity!
I decided to take the similar path but watching 'Rakhi Sawant ka Swayamvar' was no joke!
Who doesn't know her?
The TV serial is a killer, seriously. I have no words for the description of format, however wiki speaks :
"...a reality TV series aimed at finding her a husband, based on the traditional Hindu practice of Swayamvara."
Rakhi Ka Swayamvar (Rakhi's Search For A Life Partner)
The participants (aspiring grooms) are very well educated (most of them/appear to be) and claim to love Rakhi when they first saw her !
Rakhi's earlier public appearances were
Agnichakra (1997)
Dil Ka Sauda(1999)
Chudail No. 1 (1999)
Krantipath (1999)
Can't resist to tell that Agnichakra was a Bappi Music and which had a track - Mera Naam Action, and its sad version too :'(
Well, love at first sight is always welcomed :)
The location of the entire program of Swayamvar is Hotel Fateh Garh Palace in beautiful city of lakes, Udaipur. All 16 shortlisted participants ( from claimed 12515 applications) have been stayed here for one month and being fed for next one month, no matter they make it to the marriage ceremony or not. (I suppose them not to be attending if they are not the one :D)
Let's move ahead, the show makes the aspiring grooms to perform tasks aimed to analyze them better from a bride's point of concern.
To start with, every possible pathetic piece of useless logic is made a 'task' and the aspiring grooms are more than happy to accomplish that. A lot of energy and 'team' work is being put up in completing those tasks as some of the tasks are made to perform in a team of 2/3 (??) only to later know that they were not a basis of elimination among the participants (if it a game :P).
Elimination is done after personal interaction with everyone at some party, dinner table, garden, love letter reading etc (Initial Rounds).
Well, after a few eliminations, the trend of useless logics is continued.
The host of the show seems to be long time unemployed claiming-to-be-a-celebrity and hence eligible for the hosting. This condition of his is justified after her wife makes an entry to the hosting cum advisory committee to Rakhi in RSkS. They both appear to be laughing at you when you continue to watch the show further.. Godd this show beats Gunda, Loha and any other possible piece of existing video media in this genre... it is patheitc in composition, execution(?) and presentation!
Meanwhile, what is Rakhi doing in here upto now?
She makes frequent appearances on screen after each participant performs something and very quickly yet emotionally manages to deliver the hard learned dialogues (with close expressions!).
Some examples -
# "... jab unhone meri taraf dekhkar wo gaana gaya to aisa laga ki jaise koi mujhe pyaar se pukar raha hai, main to apne aansoo nahi rok paayi ..." [and she is actually crying!]
# "... mujhe bahut acha lag raha hai ki koi mere liye aise takleefein utha k tasks complete kar raha hai ( sad) aur kare bhi kyun na, main apna swayamvar racha rahi hu, unko itna to karna hi padega ( rakhi sawant )..."
# "... agar koi aisi boundation nahi hoti to main sabse shaadi kar leti..." [ what! you promised us to ruin only one life this way, and we allowed you to do so - NDTV Imagine]
More yet to come.
And on the other scenes, these guys trying best to prove their true love for Rakhi.
Sample these love expressions,
".. Jab maine unhe(?) pehli baar dekha tabhi se mann mein kuch hua aur muje laga ki agar koi meri zindagi ka pyaar ho sakta hai to wo Rakhi Ji (?) hi hain.."
".. Rakhi ji main bas aapse aur aapse hi pyaar karta hu ( you dont need to say that, isn't it obvious) aur mera pyaar sachha hai (cool!).."
".. Rakhi ji main aapse bas itna kehna chahta hu ki, yahan maujood sabhi log bahar se kuch aur hain aur andar se kuch aur. koi aapse pyaar nahi karta, sab jhooth bolte hain. bas love letter likhne se hi pyaar ka izhaar nahi hota ( yes we can see, it can be through verbal argument too), mujhe bas aur kuch nahi kehna hai .."
Anyways, above drama took place just after/during love letter writing/reading session.
Adding more spice to the incidents, comes the frequent over-friendly behaviour of Rakhi towards selected 2/3 guys and which lefts other looking each other's face and waiting for their turn. [Looks like either Rakhi is testing everyone against 'some'things or just making them feel at-least-i-had-a-coffee-with-her.]
Okk, I could bear upto here, but looked like NDTV has got limited viewers and they spy on everyone :(:(
Look what they did, Ba and her team of ladies ( Kyuki ...) got into the show !!!
I am running short on comparisons after Gunda and Loha (suggestions.. anyone?)
May be able to describe the onwards story sometimes later ( Part II).
There are lot of other emotional features attached to the show that I can't describe here.
The show is really pathetic and should be watched to increase your patience.
You may want to see another way of torturing people.
This is pathetic.
But, go and watch the show, its actually more than pathetic.
The show is still being aired.
-------------------------
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Jodhpur
There is an immense attachment to one's place of origin as I can see, which I somehow find with difficulty in me.
I have lived in a place that could never be called my 'home' town. But, what I have in memories, is the image of a city (Jodhpur) from a child's eye. I left that place before I developed this kind of attachment, yet the place gets me crazy.
In every vacation, I get sometime out to visit Jodhpur, for even 48 hours.
I go to my old school, and its new building, sitting with friends late in the night around 2am ( we can have stay at each others place anytime, and this is kind of freedom which one rarely enjoys) bringing old school things to discussion, our cycle stunts, race against bikes, or roaming late in the night with(out) cycle even. I miss long drives on my scooter on good Sunday mornings. We go to the park, where we had never been to in school days thinking it to be a place for old people, and spend time just like a family, when everyone is leaving to different cities the very next morning. We are roughly a group of 5-6 friends all of them very close to me, and its exactly like having some old books remaining in your cupboard after the storm has passed by and left nothing else.
I miss the place like a kid when his toy is broken, I miss the place like someone behind the bars, I miss the life there.
For 3 years now, I go to a different place in vacations which will never accept me or rather can never accept me.
Father got to do work here and the social life is somehow different. People here are good, nature is kind, resources are enough, but it does not smell like Jodhpur. It has no people from Jodhpur, there is no Air Force ground, there is no Kendriya Vidyalaya, there is no Meeri Peeri Juice centre, there is no Polo Ground, there is nothing which I collected from my childhood days to keep as memories only to realise that they will be memories forever.
Folks, love your city, love your country not for the sake of good words, but for the sake of our hearts, for the sake of memories, just love them.
I have lived in a place that could never be called my 'home' town. But, what I have in memories, is the image of a city (Jodhpur) from a child's eye. I left that place before I developed this kind of attachment, yet the place gets me crazy.
In every vacation, I get sometime out to visit Jodhpur, for even 48 hours.
I go to my old school, and its new building, sitting with friends late in the night around 2am ( we can have stay at each others place anytime, and this is kind of freedom which one rarely enjoys) bringing old school things to discussion, our cycle stunts, race against bikes, or roaming late in the night with(out) cycle even. I miss long drives on my scooter on good Sunday mornings. We go to the park, where we had never been to in school days thinking it to be a place for old people, and spend time just like a family, when everyone is leaving to different cities the very next morning. We are roughly a group of 5-6 friends all of them very close to me, and its exactly like having some old books remaining in your cupboard after the storm has passed by and left nothing else.
I miss the place like a kid when his toy is broken, I miss the place like someone behind the bars, I miss the life there.
For 3 years now, I go to a different place in vacations which will never accept me or rather can never accept me.
Father got to do work here and the social life is somehow different. People here are good, nature is kind, resources are enough, but it does not smell like Jodhpur. It has no people from Jodhpur, there is no Air Force ground, there is no Kendriya Vidyalaya, there is no Meeri Peeri Juice centre, there is no Polo Ground, there is nothing which I collected from my childhood days to keep as memories only to realise that they will be memories forever.
Folks, love your city, love your country not for the sake of good words, but for the sake of our hearts, for the sake of memories, just love them.
Monday, July 13, 2009
I Love You
----------------------------------------
I love you
I love your presence
I love your essence
I love the way you say hi
and most, when with a smile
The days are passing by
but memories will never die
I wish to hold them
but sooner they will fly
In this wonderful world of ours
when everything looks so well contained
the slightest idea of losing you
hurts me most, though destined
You still love me for reason i don't know
you still by my side, when not very sure
the future in you seems so uncertain
I think i did something in vain
There is hope that exists
in the dying flame before being still
but walking with you, it comes into the mind
the idea of getting on to the top of a hill
not for ending the life, nor for running away
but for those last moments after which we can say
if meeting up again in future, a smile with 'hey!'
But i would rather hold the love, and never look back
would never again meet you, just like that...
A lot of the worldly things could be the reason
or being together may not the be the way
we calm down our hearts, with words very similar
for life can't be your own choice, either
-----------------
I love you
I love your presence
I love your essence
I love the way you say hi
and most, when with a smile
The days are passing by
but memories will never die
I wish to hold them
but sooner they will fly
In this wonderful world of ours
when everything looks so well contained
the slightest idea of losing you
hurts me most, though destined
You still love me for reason i don't know
you still by my side, when not very sure
the future in you seems so uncertain
I think i did something in vain
There is hope that exists
in the dying flame before being still
but walking with you, it comes into the mind
the idea of getting on to the top of a hill
not for ending the life, nor for running away
but for those last moments after which we can say
if meeting up again in future, a smile with 'hey!'
But i would rather hold the love, and never look back
would never again meet you, just like that...
A lot of the worldly things could be the reason
or being together may not the be the way
we calm down our hearts, with words very similar
for life can't be your own choice, either
-----------------
Friday, July 10, 2009
Investment
The investment of time is a complex function of second power of interest and exponential of need.
However, the maxima and minima may be termed as exceptions, they are never!
The investment of money is proportional to availability and number of people knowing it. The maxima and minima are exceptions.
The investment of wisdom is subjected to availability.
Whatever you invest, always keep a door open to quit!
However, the maxima and minima may be termed as exceptions, they are never!
The investment of money is proportional to availability and number of people knowing it. The maxima and minima are exceptions.
The investment of wisdom is subjected to availability.
Whatever you invest, always keep a door open to quit!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Monologue
We usually find it interesting to figure out the 'the mosts' in our lives
The most interesting place you have ever visited
The most good looking person around
The most tragic moment of your life
The most memorable day in your life
The most lovely thing you possess
The most obvious thing you do in leisure
The most important person in your life
The most interesting task to perform
The most weird behaviour you have seen
The most desirable wish
Then there are several derivatives of this function
The longest difficult day
The longest sleepless night
The longest journey
The longest ever study session
The longest e-mail
There is always a simple reason for everything. These functions make us happy and leave an impact of difference we see within.
That difference may cater to the need of following a routine which enables you to experience them again and again to some extent if not fully. I think these moments are there to make you realise something more than likes and interest. They show you the dream you always wanted to see. They bring out the extremist within you. Believe me, being extremist works!
All those moments of 'mosts' have witnessed the extreme in you and they reciprocated in some way you loved. Why not give them a planned and dedicated time ? ( not a try )
Anyways, somethings about the person 'me'
I love to describe anything as a second person, I mean it happens to me that if I explain anything as the person 'me', I would surely be biased towards any context. I am a critic by choice, an artist by interest, an engineer by would be profession, a good friend by nature, a novice by experience, and an introvert for no reason.
I care for the language I use, being not good at it makes me over-precautious, and hence sometimes incomprehensible and rest of times, I try to make it so, its fun ;)
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