The shift from orkut to facebook has been hasty leaving me kind of inactive on the former networking site except for a couple of communities and a quickc reply to an occasional scrap from some friend. Yes, I am as jobless as one can ever be. Newaz, as usual I opened the site to find a new friend request and a message saying 'do you remember me??' from one Mohd. Imran... The name did ring a bell instantly in my mind but then again it seemed highly unlikely, kind of nearly impossible. But nevertheless i decided to respond and to my utter astonishment and delight it was the same guy. I mean try this, it had been 13 years since I last saw or spoke to him. We were classmates from 1st to 3rd class..!!! beat that..!! The guy moved to Delhi n there had been no way of keeping in touch.. But thanks to the social networking sites and his really good memory, this happened...!!
Almost instantly it brought back memories..memories of stiff competetion in studies, well we were kind of toppers back then :P..memories of him bullying me and scaring the shit out of me with his weirdo theories of man-eaters disguised as rickshaw-wallas until I started crying(True Story).. One of his birthday parties(dont remember which one) and the upset tummy that followed..!!
He happens to be doing MBBS in A.P. but thanks, this time to the cellular technology, we spoke to each other. I literally had goosebumps..Well, not everyday does one get to experience something like this..It was like pressing the rewind button on one's life and just watching it in 3rd person's view but the only diff being, we always conversed in English while in school.. but this time around it was pure Telugu..!!We started off with a brief exchange of pleasantries and then catching up on the last 13 years in a couple of minutes..!! n then abt mutual friends.. and a promise to keep in touch this time around..!!
As the tagline of a popular cellular network says, 'Life changes in seconds..!!'
But it so happens that somethings never change, even after a decade..!!A mere phone call and you just lose track of time and all of a sudden are 10 years younger..!! But the magic lasts only till the conversation comes to and end.. Nevertheless, it had been a really wonderful experience..Truly, once in a lifetime one..!!
Friday, November 27, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Humanity, Humility and the likes..
Petty things, that seem so trivial sometimes reinforce one's faith in the positive side of human nature.Small efforts or genuine gestures touch you and add up to make a big difference to the way you think. The other day, one of the security guard of our P.S. station stopped us as usual for checking our Id cards. Now that's a common routine and we were past the phase of cursing them under our breath for not remembering our faces or rather pretending not to. As usual we began rummaging through our stuff for the i-card and the guy said,"I am sorry.. I am checking you daily.. Please don't mind.. This is my duty.. " in a tone so humble that a pang of guilt struck me immediately for the highhandedness knowingly or unknowingly we seemed to exhibit. In short, the guy has earned my respect and I salute him for the way in which he goes about his work.
It always depressed me that every other individual out there is trying to exploit everyone else. Human relations have always seemed agenda driven other than those of the blood.There was a time when I did not have much regard for them. A gazillion thoughts and calculations precede every move one makes and this makes life seem so thick. But of late I have realised that there are still people out there who do stuff without an ultimate selfish agenda. These are people who live in the moment without all the rotten thoughts about extracting the most out of each action and situation. Naming them isnt going to help any cause and to be frank I guess it only coz they dont really bother to care. I truly regard and respect all of them, even if its just a phase of their life and surely they are gonna let the feeling pass...!!
It always depressed me that every other individual out there is trying to exploit everyone else. Human relations have always seemed agenda driven other than those of the blood.There was a time when I did not have much regard for them. A gazillion thoughts and calculations precede every move one makes and this makes life seem so thick. But of late I have realised that there are still people out there who do stuff without an ultimate selfish agenda. These are people who live in the moment without all the rotten thoughts about extracting the most out of each action and situation. Naming them isnt going to help any cause and to be frank I guess it only coz they dont really bother to care. I truly regard and respect all of them, even if its just a phase of their life and surely they are gonna let the feeling pass...!!
Saturday, August 15, 2009
The 'I' in lyf..!!
"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option..!!"
I tend to get philosophical at times.. So, bear with me..!!
Right from the very start throughout our life, we tend to or rather more or less do things just to please others...while the whole point of one's life is to live for him/herself..!!
Throughout this ordeal thats life, we meet ppl , like them, kind of idolize dem n pretty much tend to do nethin to please them..!!
Now thats the way us humans are... Its our tendency n no one can change dat..!!
well, if the feelin is reciprocrated its wonderful.. I mean, its the best thing that can happen to neone..
But if u jus turn out to be a fall-back option..ther is no point in pursuin the matter ne further..The essential 'I' that is ur entity goes missing...Self-centered ppl say, I say one must be self-interested..!! Compromise and control hold the key to keepin one's emotions in grip and letting the 'I' be the focus of life, rather than ending up as a hopeless romantic..!!
Live for thyself, not for the society or worse still an other individual..!!
N by society i mean the ground rules one must follow no matter what..!! Helping the society is an altogether different aspect. Neither does that really signify a 'selfless soul' coz the happiness one derives from it is a ulterior motive or the driving spirit behind the whole effort..!! Joy is wat all of us are looking for.. isnt it?
Thats abt all for now..!!
I tend to get philosophical at times.. So, bear with me..!!
Right from the very start throughout our life, we tend to or rather more or less do things just to please others...while the whole point of one's life is to live for him/herself..!!
Throughout this ordeal thats life, we meet ppl , like them, kind of idolize dem n pretty much tend to do nethin to please them..!!
Now thats the way us humans are... Its our tendency n no one can change dat..!!
well, if the feelin is reciprocrated its wonderful.. I mean, its the best thing that can happen to neone..
But if u jus turn out to be a fall-back option..ther is no point in pursuin the matter ne further..The essential 'I' that is ur entity goes missing...Self-centered ppl say, I say one must be self-interested..!! Compromise and control hold the key to keepin one's emotions in grip and letting the 'I' be the focus of life, rather than ending up as a hopeless romantic..!!
Live for thyself, not for the society or worse still an other individual..!!
N by society i mean the ground rules one must follow no matter what..!! Helping the society is an altogether different aspect. Neither does that really signify a 'selfless soul' coz the happiness one derives from it is a ulterior motive or the driving spirit behind the whole effort..!! Joy is wat all of us are looking for.. isnt it?
Thats abt all for now..!!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Friendship.. the true shit..!!
There comes a moment wen u terribly want to speak out ur mind but it shuts u out of all the goddamn ideas u once had n thats precisely wen u resort to plagiarism :P
This is one such instance. I tumbled upon this on a facebook page of a cousin of mine. I was so struck by the factual element in it taht i couldnt help posting it here.. Sorry sis(for liftin it off u), if at all u get to see this..
True Friendship
None of that Sissy Crap
Are you tired of those sissy 'friendship' poems that always sound good, but never actually come close to reality?
Well, here is a series of promises that actually speak of true friendship.
You will see no cute little smiley faces on this card, just the stone cold truth of our great friendship.
1. When you are sad - I will help you get drunk and plot revenge against the sorry bastard who made you sad.
2. When you are blue - I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you.
3. When you smile - I will know you are thinking of something that I would probably want to be involved in.
4. When you are scared - I will rag you about it every chance I get until you're NOT.
5. When you are worried - I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse it could be until you quit whining.
6. When you are confused - I will try to use only little words.
7. When you are sick - Stay the hell away from me until you are well again. I don't want whatever you have.
8. When you fall - I will laugh at your clumsy ass, but I'll help you up.
9. This is my oath.... I pledge it to the end. 'Why?' you may ask; because you are my friend.
Friendship is like peeing in your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth.
Send this to 10 of your closest friends,
Then get depressed because you can only think of 4.
This is one such instance. I tumbled upon this on a facebook page of a cousin of mine. I was so struck by the factual element in it taht i couldnt help posting it here.. Sorry sis(for liftin it off u), if at all u get to see this..
True Friendship
None of that Sissy Crap
Are you tired of those sissy 'friendship' poems that always sound good, but never actually come close to reality?
Well, here is a series of promises that actually speak of true friendship.
You will see no cute little smiley faces on this card, just the stone cold truth of our great friendship.
1. When you are sad - I will help you get drunk and plot revenge against the sorry bastard who made you sad.
2. When you are blue - I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you.
3. When you smile - I will know you are thinking of something that I would probably want to be involved in.
4. When you are scared - I will rag you about it every chance I get until you're NOT.
5. When you are worried - I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse it could be until you quit whining.
6. When you are confused - I will try to use only little words.
7. When you are sick - Stay the hell away from me until you are well again. I don't want whatever you have.
8. When you fall - I will laugh at your clumsy ass, but I'll help you up.
9. This is my oath.... I pledge it to the end. 'Why?' you may ask; because you are my friend.
Friendship is like peeing in your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth.
Send this to 10 of your closest friends,
Then get depressed because you can only think of 4.
Monday, July 20, 2009
F*** my luck
Yeah you read it right and you can re-utter the title if that sound made u feel better...
Hmmm....after a long longtime im dedicating my precious time (of boredom,solitude,joblessness,watever..during hols ) to our blog ( here again .. this is my first post and im occupying my space here with "WE" :P ... me and PiPu )It took these many ages for me to write ,getting asskicked by the owner constantly .. im proud to be lazy.
Before coming back to the topic ( still im not sure if im going back to the main topic or not ... so,dont xpect huge NOTES on the actual theme.readers should be patient with my awful writing) This is my first public blog post (not sure again what that egjactly mean? :P ) and people are supposed to be nice but frank with this amateur beginner...I dont have any rules of writing (nor i know if ny rules exist for bloggers ), ny rules on what to write and what-not-to write ,so please dont make pissing-off suggestions/advices here.OKAY enuf of those rude statements,anyway thnks for reading till this point and i mean it.
The following content is the outcome of various situations/experiences/incidents of an unlucky guy protesting how unfair everything-around-him treats him at random times."Contains added exaggeration" (to spice it up /save u frm boredom ) and not everything written here are facts.Okey.. here the unlucky guy is me unluckily :P and I've decided to jot this down as (what people call ) BADluck started bothering me too much these days( from past 3 months ).please note that my mind is not always haunted with the BADLUCK factor nor im searching for badluck in every situation/incident.. it just makes me utter again and again "why me?? "(im unlucky again and again ).When I mentioned 3 months earlier that doesnt mean im lucky earlier..its just that i got much more unlucky(unluckily :P) .. here you can imagine me as jake hardin in "just my luck" and here there is no exagerration and im not waiting/dreaming for a smooch!!( for those who havent seen the muvi .. you didnt miss nything ).Ok u are thinking 'wtf .. too many blind statements' ....here im tryin to prove my point with these incidents( and im not waiting for ur approval here :P ).Most of them may seem silly/abnormal/foolish but try to understand the outrage in my protest .
* Isnt it unlucky when you have to spend ur time near mechanic shops 3 times on a day coz of 2 punctures(2 distinct bikes at 2 distinct times with 2 distinct guys and im the only common thing here (unluckily ) and once for some unknown engine failure(still a mystery..and I had to drive 20 kms in 1 hr 20 min only/-).And (un)luckily that day is a damn hot day.
* One day starts ( when im in high spirits to listen to a particular song on my pc ) with a power cut (imagine) from 9 in the morning to 6 PM( here again .. officially the powercut should be till 2 PM )
* Always the guy in the front row waiting for a green signal in traffic(though its not huge) coz it just goes red a few seconds before me( this happens 'n' number of times!! ) .... wtf is probability doing here??
* Comfortably mine is the cut-off mark(lower..ob'ly ) for most of the crucial(what they call ) CDCs .3 out of 3 makeups rejected(while numerous people are granted for the same reason) in a sem .Making terrible grades in sackest courses in bits ( being a victim of MAKE-UPs again ).How unfair it is when other people around you are doing great with makeups and Me getting ******d up again and again .
* Lost my dad's mobile as soon as I got down from a bus.Here, I grabbed that mobile(after many negotiations) to listen to my favourite songs and unluckily again one of the ear-phone didnt work for 5 hours in my journey(this defective earphone worked back normally when i accidentally tapped it when the charging is down and the song goes dead .. switch -off!!).If this doesnt appeal to you ... unfortunately i had RCd the lost mobile for around 200 bucks in view of loOoOng summer holidays( what a planning sirJee!! ).
* When appreciating my own discipline a few days back for going 15min before 2:30 ,the normal scheduled showtime,luckily the timings are re-scheduled to 1:45 the very day I moved my a** frm bed.
The point is im not trying to prove that im unlucky .. the decision is made and im being the victim from (seems to be) ages n ages .I bet there are 'n' more examples of my haunting badluck and my numb brain couldnt dig and shoot 'em out nymore.Okay guys.. telling you again i havent become gloom-on-my-face sort of guy for this badluck factor but at times its really funny when only I ( mostly) become the victim(feels like fighting with someone invisible.. the inevitable) .. sometimes makes me feel special, the chosen one. (luck lo emundi kick :P ) I personally got used to it comfortably these days and im enjoying it (some songs strike your head in those unlucky situations keeps striking you back and its really amusing then ... there is a song for every ocassion!!).Few of my friends knows well about these statements and we had lot of fun with "my" badluck at different times.
Here is my message ....Give each day a good start and no matter what happens( watever turns u down ) make your day HAPPENING.Dont afford to lose LIFE in a day of your life. ( changing the track .. pretty irrelevant though ) .Enough of this topic and there is nothing in my mind to squeeze out right now. Thanks for reaching(reading) till this point(leave any comments/suggestions..i'll be truly gratefull),Thanks to PiPu for giving me this wonderful oppurtunity :P and hoping to come back with an interesting post.
BubHye !
Hmmm....after a long longtime im dedicating my precious time (of boredom,solitude,joblessness,watever..during hols ) to our blog ( here again .. this is my first post and im occupying my space here with "WE" :P ... me and PiPu )It took these many ages for me to write ,getting asskicked by the owner constantly .. im proud to be lazy.
Before coming back to the topic ( still im not sure if im going back to the main topic or not ... so,dont xpect huge NOTES on the actual theme.readers should be patient with my awful writing) This is my first public blog post (not sure again what that egjactly mean? :P ) and people are supposed to be nice but frank with this amateur beginner...I dont have any rules of writing (nor i know if ny rules exist for bloggers ), ny rules on what to write and what-not-to write ,so please dont make pissing-off suggestions/advices here.OKAY enuf of those rude statements,anyway thnks for reading till this point and i mean it.
The following content is the outcome of various situations/experiences/incidents of an unlucky guy protesting how unfair everything-around-him treats him at random times."Contains added exaggeration" (to spice it up /save u frm boredom ) and not everything written here are facts.Okey.. here the unlucky guy is me unluckily :P and I've decided to jot this down as (what people call ) BADluck started bothering me too much these days( from past 3 months ).please note that my mind is not always haunted with the BADLUCK factor nor im searching for badluck in every situation/incident.. it just makes me utter again and again "why me?? "(im unlucky again and again ).When I mentioned 3 months earlier that doesnt mean im lucky earlier..its just that i got much more unlucky(unluckily :P) .. here you can imagine me as jake hardin in "just my luck" and here there is no exagerration and im not waiting/dreaming for a smooch!!( for those who havent seen the muvi .. you didnt miss nything ).Ok u are thinking 'wtf .. too many blind statements' ....here im tryin to prove my point with these incidents( and im not waiting for ur approval here :P ).Most of them may seem silly/abnormal/foolish but try to understand the outrage in my protest .
* Isnt it unlucky when you have to spend ur time near mechanic shops 3 times on a day coz of 2 punctures(2 distinct bikes at 2 distinct times with 2 distinct guys and im the only common thing here (unluckily ) and once for some unknown engine failure(still a mystery..and I had to drive 20 kms in 1 hr 20 min only/-).And (un)luckily that day is a damn hot day.
* One day starts ( when im in high spirits to listen to a particular song on my pc ) with a power cut (imagine) from 9 in the morning to 6 PM( here again .. officially the powercut should be till 2 PM )
* Always the guy in the front row waiting for a green signal in traffic(though its not huge) coz it just goes red a few seconds before me( this happens 'n' number of times!! ) .... wtf is probability doing here??
* Comfortably mine is the cut-off mark(lower..ob'ly ) for most of the crucial(what they call ) CDCs .3 out of 3 makeups rejected(while numerous people are granted for the same reason) in a sem .Making terrible grades in sackest courses in bits ( being a victim of MAKE-UPs again ).How unfair it is when other people around you are doing great with makeups and Me getting ******d up again and again .
* Lost my dad's mobile as soon as I got down from a bus.Here, I grabbed that mobile(after many negotiations) to listen to my favourite songs and unluckily again one of the ear-phone didnt work for 5 hours in my journey(this defective earphone worked back normally when i accidentally tapped it when the charging is down and the song goes dead .. switch -off!!).If this doesnt appeal to you ... unfortunately i had RCd the lost mobile for around 200 bucks in view of loOoOng summer holidays( what a planning sirJee!! ).
* When appreciating my own discipline a few days back for going 15min before 2:30 ,the normal scheduled showtime,luckily the timings are re-scheduled to 1:45 the very day I moved my a** frm bed.
The point is im not trying to prove that im unlucky .. the decision is made and im being the victim from (seems to be) ages n ages .I bet there are 'n' more examples of my haunting badluck and my numb brain couldnt dig and shoot 'em out nymore.Okay guys.. telling you again i havent become gloom-on-my-face sort of guy for this badluck factor but at times its really funny when only I ( mostly) become the victim(feels like fighting with someone invisible.. the inevitable) .. sometimes makes me feel special, the chosen one. (luck lo emundi kick :P ) I personally got used to it comfortably these days and im enjoying it (some songs strike your head in those unlucky situations keeps striking you back and its really amusing then ... there is a song for every ocassion!!).Few of my friends knows well about these statements and we had lot of fun with "my" badluck at different times.
Here is my message ....Give each day a good start and no matter what happens( watever turns u down ) make your day HAPPENING.Dont afford to lose LIFE in a day of your life. ( changing the track .. pretty irrelevant though ) .Enough of this topic and there is nothing in my mind to squeeze out right now. Thanks for reaching(reading) till this point(leave any comments/suggestions..i'll be truly gratefull),Thanks to PiPu for giving me this wonderful oppurtunity :P and hoping to come back with an interesting post.
BubHye !
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Meaningless chatter of the misfits..!!
Been a while since my last post. Well, I intended this blog to be a place to be a medium to share our experiences, emotions of joy and despair. But since no-one is that into it, I decided to crap on the blog no matter what..
Coming back to the actual post.. 15 days to go.. the last 15 days that I might be spending with many a friends in this hell hole(sadly we r beginning to like it)... For instance, a couple of days back, on our way back from ANC(and this was way bfr our regular time of 'after 11pm') we happen to stop at the gandhi statue only to see that its already occupied by a couple of couples. Well, that dint stop us(by us I mean myself, Rags n SPC) from gettin rite down to business(pondering abt the philosophical issues of the world). We started off with expressing our satirical syampathy to the gay community in a rather loud tone(only to piss off the couple of couples sitting der much to aggrevate our inherent frustration of being single). One thing lead to other and finally, Rags expressed his immense displeasure at the behaviour of the 'bitsian couples' stating that he doesn't perceive them to be happy and we disagreed saying that its only because of the low profile that the society demands them to mantain. This eventually resulted in us assessing and evaluating the happiness quotient of various 'couples' that happen to pass that way. It was fun, blabbering about all of them(in gult ofcourse..!! n no-one's feelings wer hurt :) ), passing the most idiotic remarks and having a laugh..
We were virtually high and wer in fits of laughter at the wierd idea(of-course it was rags again) of breakin up one of the couples by playin spies n exposing the gal to the negative traits of the guy which he doesnt flaunt.. N then finally ended it all with a much more sober talk about goals n lyf....
Looking back I realised, that was probably one of the last few times, I got high on a glass of watermelon juice..!!! and so decided to put it up here.... For the sole reason that a couple of years from now I would be reading the post and having a quiet laugh..!!!
Coming back to the actual post.. 15 days to go.. the last 15 days that I might be spending with many a friends in this hell hole(sadly we r beginning to like it)... For instance, a couple of days back, on our way back from ANC(and this was way bfr our regular time of 'after 11pm') we happen to stop at the gandhi statue only to see that its already occupied by a couple of couples. Well, that dint stop us(by us I mean myself, Rags n SPC) from gettin rite down to business(pondering abt the philosophical issues of the world). We started off with expressing our satirical syampathy to the gay community in a rather loud tone(only to piss off the couple of couples sitting der much to aggrevate our inherent frustration of being single). One thing lead to other and finally, Rags expressed his immense displeasure at the behaviour of the 'bitsian couples' stating that he doesn't perceive them to be happy and we disagreed saying that its only because of the low profile that the society demands them to mantain. This eventually resulted in us assessing and evaluating the happiness quotient of various 'couples' that happen to pass that way. It was fun, blabbering about all of them(in gult ofcourse..!! n no-one's feelings wer hurt :) ), passing the most idiotic remarks and having a laugh..
We were virtually high and wer in fits of laughter at the wierd idea(of-course it was rags again) of breakin up one of the couples by playin spies n exposing the gal to the negative traits of the guy which he doesnt flaunt.. N then finally ended it all with a much more sober talk about goals n lyf....
Looking back I realised, that was probably one of the last few times, I got high on a glass of watermelon juice..!!! and so decided to put it up here.... For the sole reason that a couple of years from now I would be reading the post and having a quiet laugh..!!!
Monday, February 23, 2009
Sweet Emotions..!!
Three years.. these past three years define life in a bubble.. A bubble thats on the verge of breaking open.. fear to let reality sink in... to accept the simple fact 'nothing lasts for ever'..
The things, the people, the life, the relations that were taken for granted, almost treating them to one's own rights n property.. start posing questions.. questions that range from 'Is it goin to be the same??' to 'Is this really happening??'...Nostalgia started kicking in already... even before the end....
Or rather 'Going Psenti' would better describe the condition we are in right now.. the reason for this sudden rush of emotions.. Batch Snaps...!!!
To see those guys, all suited up running from person to person, trying to capture all the memories in a picture .... a soveneir, not for the day but all the wonderful experiences for the past 3 years, the emotional rollercoaster ride thats about to come to an end.. So much, so that
group pics of dota and cs players were being taken..
Pretty mediocre jokes were shared, cameras kept flashing, suits were flaunted(the barney instinct surfacing) and so were some traditional attires of mass appeal(go Kings..!!), past groups rekindled(badboys, vyasites, wingies, roomies, sidees... n even old bhavanmates).. all in all, it was a day fit to serve as one of bitsian life's fond memories..
28th feb ... well , got to see how that turns out... :)
The things, the people, the life, the relations that were taken for granted, almost treating them to one's own rights n property.. start posing questions.. questions that range from 'Is it goin to be the same??' to 'Is this really happening??'...Nostalgia started kicking in already... even before the end....
Or rather 'Going Psenti' would better describe the condition we are in right now.. the reason for this sudden rush of emotions.. Batch Snaps...!!!
To see those guys, all suited up running from person to person, trying to capture all the memories in a picture .... a soveneir, not for the day but all the wonderful experiences for the past 3 years, the emotional rollercoaster ride thats about to come to an end.. So much, so that
group pics of dota and cs players were being taken..
Pretty mediocre jokes were shared, cameras kept flashing, suits were flaunted(the barney instinct surfacing) and so were some traditional attires of mass appeal(go Kings..!!), past groups rekindled(badboys, vyasites, wingies, roomies, sidees... n even old bhavanmates).. all in all, it was a day fit to serve as one of bitsian life's fond memories..
28th feb ... well , got to see how that turns out... :)
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