Why we are the way we are....

Games Indians play... a book wich attempts to to explain the “Indianness” of us Indians.. started Reading this book nd i thot here's another attempt at india bashing.. why are we so cynical i mean look we are doin well in all d fronts.. economy growin leaps n bounds.. markets rising india is the place to invest the world is noticing India.. but we leave no opportunity to demean ourselves.. but alas..!! how true does it turn out to be...

We indians who happen to be perhaps the most intelligent people in the world, but also, to a dispassionate eye, among the most baffling and so true are the questions raised... Why are we a nation that is individually so smart and collectively so naive? Why do we mistake talk for action? Why is our self-worth massaged only if we have the ‘authority’ to break rules? Why are we among the world’s most corrupt? Why do we jump red lights? Why do we dump our garbage at the neighbour’s doorstep? And slowly i begin to realize that the author isn't just being pessimistic but infact all he says is true".. In fact every single day going n coming back from office reinforces the concept of "Indianess" wich the author proposes Perhaps thats wat bangalore traffic does to u. I want to reach back home early.. so does every1 else wat do we do.. Break the lanes.. coz the other lane hardly has any traffic.. but alas.. we all kno that there is a pt where we have to merge nd ther's 2 way traffic.. end result for the 10 min wait we wud have had in d lanes we spent 30 min waitin for the traffic 2 clear.. no wonder a 15km ride takes 1.5 hrs on average days forget heavy traffic days.. the govt too has kept its eyes closed infrasturcture marathalli old madras road whitefield all are excellent examples.. swanking offc buildin on both sides of d road nd dirt n girth in d name of road.... but no less are we to blame.. how often than not we break the law.. Ah its live n let live for individuals but all suffer as d society when you try to follow the law, what you get to hear is the unfriendly slangs.. Bangaloreans are good in making even the best piece of engineering as the worst... It's just our attitude towards a cheating vendor to our attitude in a joint venture; from our tearing off a page from a library book to the way we leave our public toilets.. shrugging off any guilt to "that's how every1 does it.. what diff wud i make.. ?" ...In How often have i made decisions thinking.. "that's wat evry1 else does, Why shudn't i..?"

Perhaps that's what we all are *argumentative* indians.. very intelligent, however making decisions that will benefit us in the immediate future, versus for long term satisfaction... Sad the author says that the land which gave Gita now itself cannot "do the right thing" a cocept wich game theory confirmes ( c-c behaviour) so as to maximize gains both for oneself as well as for the society...

Takin a cue is this Lead India ad campaign..how very apt.. ..... http://www.youtube.com/v/FAe_bZGqU1g&amp "Tum chalo... to hindustan chale..." so beautifully made that I just had to post it here! The message is conveyed in such a subtle and simple way....

Xciting times infinte possiblities..

Warning: Spoiler ahead.. article does not talk about the exciting carrer oppurtunities in india nor about how at 60 india is the most exciting.. neither does it talk about any of the political, economical, financial possiblities or scenarios..
in fact it may not talk about anything exciting at all except for the overuse of the word exciting..

Exciting time:
4 30 no almost 5 in the evening.. friday evening .. city:Bangalore...
doesnt it sound exciting if it doesnt yet..let me present some facts
well.. third richest country in the nation... highest no of pubs.. blah blah..
in short one of the most happening places in india..

ooty,coorg,mysore closeby..

movie buffs
Friday 17th october: movies released Bhool Bhuliya, Laga Chunari mei Daag..

goin out wih frnds(*blush*blush*)..

Infinite possiblities.. well the above sure suggest some of them but no no do not be mislead. Not so long back in 12th standard in a sub subject of physics called modern physics.. it was taught to souls like me that the possibility of nothin is 0.. It may be infinetly small but a possibilty exists that a ball can tunnel thru a wall..
I never realised then that it is soooooo modern.. n how soon oofc would tunnel into my lil world.. givin room to no other possibilites so in this excitin time.. but to njoy the nite life here in offc..

well it aint that bad also.. as half day is over yet(yeah i leave at 3 so its just noon)...so by the tym i leave i njoy immunity from the pollution n the notorious traffic of blore.. umm am in touch with ppl all around the globe ( yep every1 comes ol in my gtlak list.. seems i've conquered the time differeneces.. :) ).
N most of all have started stayin up in nite(njoyin it too)....


****btw title chori ka hai.. buzz me for the secret

[IF]

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!


--Rudyard Kipling

That was

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start"

Maybe thats y they say there is a song for every occasion.. n doesnt it keep meddling with ur heart... If life were just like this video where u cud rewind n relive all those moments again... O i so much wish i cud go back to that life..
I still vividly remember the day i first entered coll.. it sure is an imposing sight .
The main building emerging out of the thick growth of trees.. Heh how much i din't wanna go to this place nd now when i hv finally left it how much i wanna go back again... to the same hostel with ridiculous restrictions....

A lot has changed.. a student to a corporate life.. wat transitions..

Guten Tag :)

Hmmm.. ever wondered what orkut can do to you.... well some people are actually crazy n go overboard in pestering people to increase their scrap count n some people are soo sweet that they oblige to these demented minds . So this post here is dedicated to a very very dear frnd of mine Sheekhu who actually took the pains to write down a story in my scrap buk to increase the count nd in the process startd enjoyin so much that she is thankful to me that i made her discover n an alternative proffession n she cud as well hit the news stand with a bestseller of her own. So people in the net few yrs or so if u find a new author on the blocks whose books top the bestseller charts u kno who to thank :D (me of course ) for unleashin such a creative genius.

Scene : An ordinary day mundane things happenin . Anu as usual has nothing to do n so is whiling away her time orkuttin.
Meanwhile Sheekha is busy with mining of data , trying to reduce the dimensionality of data with neural networks( ?? ) in china.
Anu here is has a new found craze of learnin german hence gtalk status msg : GUTEN TAG. Sheekha suddenly notices it n hence begins a story...
S : koi german pasand aa gaya hai kya..?? GUTEN TAG eh.. ?? naam kya hai chokre ka...??
A : yup ( battling eyelashes.. )... Nedermeyer acha naam hai na.. :)
S: yuck wat a name!! log bol bhi nahi payenge..!! u cudnt find ne1 else kya...
A: lol sheekha wats in a name n cum 2 think of it i'll learn a new lang..
S: gawwdd..!!! then go find a french n ho i can help u findin a chinese here .
A ( visibly hurt ):he is my soul mate *sobs * sobs*
S (meek acceptence) :okay okay never mind ill call him laddu then.. haha name has many subsets..u sure its just 1 person n u hvnt found luv in all of them..!!
A : buhooooo.......
so much for hurtin me ab mera 700 scraps karo else ill never forgive u...

N hence began the story of Nedermeyer.
Disclaimer : The story is purely an item of fiction and any resemblence whatsoever to any person dead or live is purely coincidental.

So Once upon a time thr lived in a small province of India a sweet and simple girl unknown to the maladies and prejudices existing in the big wide world outside.....
the little girl.....radha....lost in her own little world of dolls and sweets wudnt hve ever dreamt the future tht was destined to her......Blissfully ignorant of all those dark forces contriving against she grew up to be a beautiful young lady soft hearted and cheerful....and the admirers she had....ready to die for one glimpse of tht charming smile...But thr was not a single one among these 4r whom her heart wud skip a beat.....4r whose attention she wud love to seek.....no not here....not a single person.....alas tht desire to seek thy true love......made her leave the small valley of haapiness....n she went out with three pair of clothes a ring and two pair of shoes to seek her destiny......her true love....acroos seven oceans and the mountains.....he litlle princess went....but alas.....nowhere could she find him....whr was he??? disappointed and tired......drained of every penny and also probably every hope.....and nowhere to go......she took shelter under a leafy willow tree admidst the forest of rudgeria in the east coast of germany....Soon she was wandering in the comfortin lands of dreams....but today she saw something else....something....no someone she had been seekin so long....yes she saw him.....she awoke with a start.....and found herself staring at a man fair and handsome....who was starin...ohhh... right at her face....Yes this was the man she saw in her dreams....but who washe....and how did he find her....suddenly feeling shy....she cudnt muster enough courage to ask all these.....and went red at her own thoughts........there was a charm a fire an attraction.....that cudnt be said in words....unspoken they said everything....they felt it all.....they guy Arnsah Nedermeyer was a doctor in the kings army. There lay a painful irony infront.....he had just been summoned by the king.....to be a general....in the impendin war of the seven nations......jst met and time had come to say farewell....how cruel....after all the pains and so long a wait....jst for this one moment.....The they had an idea....they'll learn....learn the new ways of life.....n no they wont bid each other a teary gudbye...thrilled with wat had just dawned on them.....they lovingly created gmail id's just for one another......no they will never create an orkut homepage....never.....they did want nyone else in their life....jst the two of them......n thus they entered a whole new world.....a world of homepages n emoticons.....he was thr in the war.....but every nite wud write her a mail.....of course the warfield was wi-fi enabled and he had used all his savings to buy two laptops....one he had gifted to radha......Radha....eagely awaited those mails and dutifully replied to each and everone....but something was bothering her....
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Wat was botherin the lil princess... Will their luv be able 2 conquer the distances.. Will this be an happily ever after story.... What happens next....

To be continued..
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n yes for my dear sheekhu any time u r free (coz im utterly jobless ) we can continue with this new found obsession. ( J.K. Rowling in the making. )

Shani ki shaam

hmm.. seems shani (saturn for the angrez out here ) is showin its asar (effect.. warnin 4 angrez out here many more hindi words ahead n translations may not follow ) even on me... now how else cud u justify the updation of a perennially updated blog coinciding with the "Grand alignment " all the six planets in line... oh or is it varun ( nepute... astro nomy/logy gyaan.. :D)i really dunno(star news ko call karna padega).. or rather ask india Tv which is analysing the true cause of Gujjar violence.. ( O dear politicians not ur fault at all it the heavens conspiring against u.. reservations sc quotas false promises these r trivial issues.. what cud u do wen the planets vo bhi 1 nahi 6... r all gettin in one line 2de.... ) or rather shud i ask aaj tak as the lady questions the ever so great jyotishacharyaji .. mere pati ka promotion nahi hua kaafi dino se ans : distribute food n clothes among brahmins, sunday ka vrat bhi rakhein ( husband wondering do i go to office or not.. :-? ). Forget about the fact that it happens once in 20 yrs n today we wud be able 2 see it with naked eyes n forget about the sheer beauty of the site forget the marvels of god the science o planets ur bad wat all shit u do gujjar violence , no promotion , dissolution of super 30 n a pending offer letter ( i still havent got my joinin dates .. help help.. !!! ) My life is not determined by my actions but your postions so align yourself favorably do what i may....

P.S. my sincerest apologies to star news for breaching the copyright laws... ( title choori ka hai )

ME MYSELF n My FOOLISHNESS

there are some ppl in this world who do not desrve anythin....... who r careless, irresponsible, frustratingly annoyin, terribly awkward.... nd all the awful adjectives u can thnk of. nd the queen of all such ppl wud be MEEE... yup thats all ME. This might not the ideal update after a gap of 2-3 months but lately my life has been uneventful.. jobless after gettin a job... ironical indeed.. but today i lost 1600 bucks !!! yup lost it..... u might thnk how sm1 can b that careless... i thnk i can gv lessons... at least that might help me recover some money.. nd then i wudnt hv 2 starve this month... I still cant figure out where i lost the cash . I took the money out of the atm... went to this shop... but cudnt hv my purpose fulfilled thn returnd bck.... nd then i check my pockets 4 money its not thr... I even went bck to the places i had gone n chkd twice but i cudnt find it....... man i am hopeless ....:((
But lemme try to luk at the bright side.. i might start likin mess food havin no money to eat out, might actually get over my addiction of tea/coffee ( even that costs 5 rs!!!),find alternative uses of my cellphone...( well it has a fm capability some games also nd many othr features i may discover..)nd am actually updatin my blog coz of the lost cash..
timers beepin bye 4 now nd ny1 in 4 lessons do srop cmmnts...