Ajab Gajab

Ajab-gajab.... thats what i told the person at the ticket counter counter when i went to buy the tickets. I was not sure about the full name of the movie, trust me its too long and considering how lazy I am, ajab-gajab is good for me. Anyways, the ticket guy understood what I meant and gave me the tickets for the show I wanted.

Nowadays my girlfriend likes to watch most of the movies on the day of their release. If more than two days late than the excitement dies and we wait for the DVD release.

Talking about this Ajab Prem Ki Gajab Kahani(aka Aajab Gajab- AG), this happens to be a very stupid and idiotic movie. But the best part is that it has been made to be idiotic. So I will say the director and his whole crew has done a good job. It's no masterpiece, no Oscar material, but an old story told same old way but with a fresh look and comedy. Although acting of both the lead actors is not that great but still I will give this movie a GO.

If you are planning to go for some movie that this is certainly the best amongst all of them being played right now. Even if you not planning to go but at the same time don't have anything to do at home and just idling than go watch it. Good entertainer and a good time pass.

keep dreaming....

Nothing about the story, its way too.....

The movie London Dreams it a total pass, there is nothing in the movie that will attract except Salman Khan. After wanted he has done a superb role in this movie. He totally rocked!!! If you have nothing else to watch than you can give this movie a go. But don't go with any expectations. It's a total dud in all departments, except Salman. The so called music theme is boring, if they tried to do something on line of Rock ON than they have failed completely.

My suggestion will be to wait for the DVD to come out and sit at your home on your couch and watch it on your home theatre. That way you can at least use the forward option and finish the movie early ;).

Just a tale from the past? Or something more???

November 1, 2010.... 25 years into.... what?

How many of us know what exactly happened on 31st October 1984? Followed by horrible incidents on November 1 and 2 of 1984. It was a day to which people still mourn. The scars of that horrible night still remains in the minds of thousands of people.

Cutting it short, I am talking about anti-sikh riots that took place on November 1, 1984. And for those of you wondering what was it, I will brief a little about it.

The 1984 anti-Sikh riots, also called the pogroms and massacre, were triggered by the assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards. The assassination itself was in retaliation for her order of Operation Bluestar, in which the Indian Army attacked Sikh militants hiding in the Harmandir Sahib(American temple), the holiest Sikh shrine. Over the next four days, Sikhs were killed in retaliatory attacks. The most affected regions were neighborhoods in Delhi.

On November 1, 1984, large mobs descended on eastern and central Delhi.The mobs carried iron rods, knives, clubs, and combustible material, including kerosene. They used voters' lists, allegedly provided, by the Congress Party politicians themselves, to identify houses and business establishments owned by Sikhs. The mobs swarmed into Sikh neighborhoods, arbitrarily killing any Sikh men they could find. Their shops and houses were ransacked and burned. In other incidents, armed mobs stopped buses and trains, in and around Delhi, pulling out Sikh passengers to be lynched or doused with kerosene and burnt.

Sounds very ordinary stuff to our ear? Well, ask those people whose families were destroyed in one night. Their fathers, husbands, borthers were burnt infront of them.

Indira Gandhi, first women prime minister of India, is considered as one of the greatest leader India has witnessed, but is that a fact or fiction? I am not an expert to talk about that. But the night she was killed the whole of Gandhi family was sad and in grief. At the same time angry also, so they along with the whole Congress party politicians invoked these riots. And few days later her son remarked "Some riots took place in the country following the murder of Indiraji. We know the people were very angry and for a few days it seemed that India had been shaken. But, when a mighty tree falls, it is only natural that the earth around it does shake a little". Were there any more questions in the minds of people?

Many committees were setup but there are allegations that the government destroyed evidence and shielded the guilty. The Asian Age front page story called the government actions "the Mother of all Cover-ups"^]There are allegations that the violence was led and often perpetrated by Indian National Congress activists and sympathizers during the riots. The government, then led by the Congress, was widely criticized for doing very little at the time, possibly acting as a conspirator. The conspiracy theory is supported by the fact that voting lists were used to identify Sikh families.

Some years back, Sonia again apologized for year 1984, but is a mere apology enough? People killed cannot be brought back but we can atleast do something for their families. All they want now is justice. I was reading the newspaper today and felt sad and laughed at the same time. Sad because of what people have suffered and laughed because they want justice. Don't they know how things are working in India right now, justice is not what they should look for. And not to forget, right now it is congress which is in rule, so they won't do anything which will cause any harm to their past image. After all it is just the name of some great personalities associates with them, that makes them survive and claim to be whatever they are.

This is one of the many things that we are ashamed of have happened in our country. And the sad part is nothing has been done about it till now. And i doubt that anything will be also. All that we can do is to bring about a change so that we have more achievements to brag about than to be ashamed of.

Living on a budget !!!

The past month I Spent quite an amount of money. At no point I realized this. One day I avai checked my balance statement and was very surprised to see the sheets. It was more than my normal expenditure, almost double. So I decided to cut down my expenses and spoke about this to my girl friend. Asked her to help me out in this and she readily agreed also. To start with I gave away my debit card to her so that I do not have access to money all the time. Secondly I need to give a rough budget about how much will I spend every week and according to that she will take out money from my account and give it to me. I am also expected to write down my expenditure, for analysis.

And now I have been doing this for the last two weeks and trust me, y expenses have gone down to almost half. I never thought I can survive spending so less :). All thanks to my girl.

So all you men out there, if you want to save some money than seek the solution in your girl. She will surly help you out. But, beware, it might just turn totally opposite also. What if she takes your credit card and goes on a shopping spree ;).

The choice is yours.

My choice dint let me down !!!

Life is so chill nowadays. I literally do nothing. Just go college and come back. At home i just sleep or use net or just talk about stuffs to friends. I do have work pending but ..... who cares!!!

Like last evening my flatmate and me decided to booze. He was like I don't booze much because my stamina is less bla bla... So we decided to booze together and in equal amount. Got some old monk rum, and he was out very soon. My another flatmate came home half drunk, and could not resist taking couple more pegs of rum and he too was out. Literally out!!!

Even I was high but not totally sloshed. Spoke to a old friend about stuffs we had never spoken about. And then went and slept. Now when I was going to my room, I realized I too was pretty drunk, but unlike others I gulped down even the last drop in my glass :) .

Anyway, I have a long day ahead of me, planning to give a aimcat today and then in the evening OCTOBER FEST!!!

My internet connection was down was three days and what to say, it was so... so bad without it. Come on, internet was become a very vital part of my life and its not only me but millions of people for whom it is as vital as air. Seriously, the world today survives on net. 50 years back who would have thought that there will be something like INTERNET and we would be so dependent on it. But for many of them out there the debate is still on about whether it is for good or for bad.

Trust me when i tell this, many people still think that giving net access to children will spoil them!!! And by children i mean students who are into final year of their engineering!!! It's like crazy, they are missing on a lot.

If that is not enough, listen to this- My college, which happens to be an engineering college does not give us an option of using internet anywhere on the campus!!! They claim of having a wi-fi campus and all that hot-spot poo but the students have not been provided with an id to access it.

Sorry for sounding a sadist but all this really lets me down. We have a technology which we should make best use of and is easily available also but people, wow, they just don't want to come out of their cocoon. Just like to stick to the old, less efficient way of doing things.

As for me, being a net addict....well not exactly an addict but being so dependent on internet, I had to get a separate connection so that my work gets completed on time and in a more efficient way.

And mind you, its the best shortcut for socializing and networking which is so very important now-a-days.

Obviously there are some negatives, but its on us how good a control we have on ourselves and how we make the best use of it.

Old Story, Old style

Main Aur Mrs Khanna,

For some reason I expected something from the movie but it turned out to be total dud. The concept is problems in married lives, confusion etc etc. There is nothing in the story that will keep you inquisitive. The acting is not at all great. It's like everyone was in a hurry but had to pull out one movie so folded up scenes as quickly as possible and here is one movie which was total disappointment. My advice- SKIP IT.

Three days Diwali holidays and college again from tomorrow. This time Diwali was like never before. I don't know exactly how to term it, bad or good but it was.... I don't know. After many years i actually celebrated Diwali and for the first time with friends. I have been with friends on Diwali but never celebrated. The people with me are my new friends, not exactly new. I have known them for more than 3 years now and used to interact with them also but still used to be a little away, may be because I was involved in other activity and with other people. But now I find them pretty nice. Ya, there are few things which are annoying about them but I think thats with everyone. May be I am a bit nosy about things.

So... came diwali and went, one of the biggest festival for Hindus. And like all the time I did miss y family a lot. And the three days holidays I got for diwali was not utilised as I hoped. I thought I will study a little but studies just not happen with me.

But in these three days my like for music re-appeared. It did not disappear but had changed. It was like I used to listen to music but still not listen to it.

And one very funny thing happened today, I was talking to a friend of mine about some stuffs and joking around about stuffs and from somewhere something about dating came into talks. Surprisingly for both we agreed to go on a date sometime next week. This girl and me dint get along a lot in my first year of engineering college but now in fourth year we get along. Just hope my girlfriend does not make an issue out of this.

And today I also planned out a movie with my girl but had to cancel because both of us were not really excited to watch some movie. But since it has been some time since we both really went out somewhere so this Wednesday we planning to go out somewhere and my votes is for a town Magadi. It's a small village in rural Bangalore. Lets see how it works out.

Adios...

Here I am again, done with my internal test. I did pretty good in them this time but I am not proud of them for some reasons I cannot put here. And right now I am too drunk to put anything substantial here. So I will be back when I am more sane. For now GOODNIGHT!!!

Its been so long since I posted something here, its not that I have been very busy but somehow i dint manage to. And in this time so much has happened and is still happening on which I would love to comment on and give my views. Apart from the worldly stuffs, a lot has happened in my personal life also. Last vacations I had an awesome trip to Kurushretra and Amritsar, celebrated my birthday in Goa and Bangalore both....etc etc. But skipping all that, lets move with time now.

Oh shit!!! I forgot, I have my exams next week. Guess I will be out again for more time. But when I get back next week after exams, I will try my best to be regular.

Before I say bye, one thing... Nobel Peace prize to Obama!!! WTF!!!

I wrote an article for my department's newsletter, The Newsense. It got published, but I dint write my name there. Just thought of posting it here on the web, vase bhi hardly anyone reads my blog :)

I FLY ! ! !

“OMmmm… I am on top of the world!” that was what i said, when I doped for the first time. I still remember that day blow-by-blow. That was around…hmmm…now I can’t remember. But it’s been long, and that one day changed my entire life!!!

My life haunted me, until I decided to try drugs. It was one of those perfect days when nothing goes your way. From dawn to dusk, you just get grilled. Punished for being late for p.t., boring classes, punished again breakfast time (because many of my classmates dint turn up for physical training), some more classes and again punishment after lunch for the same reason. The day didn't end there, punishment went on for two hours and than half an hour of break and back to field for sports. Things went on and on…beaten up, punished, abused…I faced it all. And this was just some of the things that I had to face in the last two years of my boarding life. I have been the quarry for all indiscretions and have been bullied all through my school life but things became worse only after I moved into the senior school 2 years ago. 

The decision to do drugs, was brought on by the sheer despodency of my life back then. And today if you ask me if I regret taking that decision, I would just give you a faint smile and walk away. 

Since that day, things in my life were beginning to look up. I was no more a ‘bakra’ to everyone and started hanging around with the coolest kids in the school and, in no time, was friends with most of the seniors also, at-least the cool ones! And trust me, in a boarding school, being a senior’s friend is a big deal. I was starting to  achieve everything I ever wanted, respect, sports, girls…the list was endless. 

Life went on this way. I used to dope, and sleep for 20-22 hours at a stretch. When awake I still used to be on cloud nine. I didn't care about anything anymore. All I wanted, and cared about, was weed. One advantage of being the son of a millionaire is that I could spend,spend and spend, not accountable to anyone. Today I drive a sedan, have loads of weed lying around in my car all the time, enough plastic money and last, but not the least, a very hot girlfriend!!! 

Seems so perfect…right???

But little problem, insomnia! No satisfaction in whatever I do! It’s like I am being haunted by someone!

It’s like something's missing, one little thing that would make my life perfect.

Till today I have taken weed, cocaine, heroine, acid… to fly but this time its going to be different. This will be the best! And this time no landing but crashing.

 I am in the valleys of ladakh, riding by bike and here I go, off the road, into the depths…

 Last time i fly!!!  

ADIOS

Finally I accomplished what i have been wanting to do for so long, wondering what??? Answere is- The Newsense. Thats my department's newsletter. 

When i joined my college i was very disappointed on how things go on, upto an extent i still am. But those things are out of my reach. But i knew I will contribute to my EEE department in some way or the either. Beginning of the VI sem i was kinda sad because i did not get a post in FEEE, but for my luck, somethings happened...what happened i dont knw, but than i was the President. Before i became the president, one day i spoke to my department's HOD and conveyed my idea of having a departmental newsletter. He seemed kind of interested. So i started working on it, but when i became the President, a friend took over the job of the newsletter but i kept on helping him. we had some tough times, little fights, disagreements but we kept working on it. My friend who was supposed to be the Editor of The Newsense, thats the name of the newsletter, lost interest after sometime. So after a couple of weeks it was only me working on it along with the help of a few friends, had they not been there to help me i would have had a really tough time. But with the help of lots of people we managed to finish and finally it was released on 9th of may 2009. I was so happy that day, and am very sure that no one else could understand how happy i was. 

That is one major accomplishment for me. The memory of The Newsense will always be there with me. From the next issue i wont be working on it, will just help as little as possible as i have responsibilities towards my Presidential post also. I just hope i will work as hard for this post and contribute more to my department and college in the best possible way.

Cheers

09 :-)

1…2…3…4…5…6… So easy to count? Well this year 2009 has been pretty much similar, days are just passing as a count. Its been so long ince I posted something and that’s because of my exms. Its not that I was too busy studying but tried to stay away from blogging and internet during those days. These exams were not so great, like all others. One was really really bad. I just hope I scrap through it somwhow. Had my last exam on 31^st, and it’s the first time that my university people have decided on such dates that we can think of welcoming the coming year. After the last exam we were really confused what to do, our minds were blank and we decided on nothing, really nothing. Many of my friends were leaving the same day so just helped them pack and gave a drop. By evening whoever had to go had left. With just planning of chilling we just retired and watched tv the whole evening. I tried planning a few stuffs but it didn’t work out. Watched tv till some 12.10am, yes my 09 started watching tv. After that a few calls and new year wishes. Around 12.30am of 1^st jan my friend said that lets do something. With nothing in mind we set out on the bike. First problem we faced was fuel, my bike always has minimum required fuel. Wandering in the night, asking every rick guy about 24hrs fuel bunk we finally found one at around 1am. Now there we decided to go for a long ride. It was pretty cold and we were sufficiently dressed. So we decided to go on mysore road. But as soon as we hit the outskirts of the city we realized that it was not a very wise thing that we were doing. But now there was no way back. So we continued on our way. As soon as we were out of the city, the cold became worse. Now we were literally shivering on the bike. On that road we usually rip at 100+kmph but at that moment dint have guts to go over 50kmph. To make conditions worse was my bike’s headlamp’s bulb. It was not very affective.

For sometime I rode the bike and then handed it to my friend. Our eyes were watering. At around 3am we hit the first ccd, but it was all packed. So both of us, all pepped up decided to skip this one and hit the next one. And after around 30 min we hit a barista, and decided to stop there because we really needed a break from this chilling weather. Had a warm coffee there, I have never cherished holding a coffee mug this much before. By 4am we felt a little normal and decided to hit the roads again but this time on our way back to blore because my friend had a train to catch in the morning. So we left from there and were back home by 6am. Again half way he rode and the other half I did. When we entered the warm house we felt so uncomfortable, it seemed to us as our hands and legs are frozen, they were totally numb. Hungry we were, so made coffee and boiled some eggs. Felt a lot better. Then we dozed off.

To many it may not sound a very great ride but only we two know what an experience it was, and let me tell you, it was worth. Really enjoyed the ride. And since that day I have been just running around with some work or something. I did not compromise with my 10hrs of normal sleep but I was not ideal most of the time. Something or the else held me up.

4^th Jan 09, I took a train to go home. This train journey was the worst I have been on. This train was the worst train I have ever boarded. No food!!! I had a tough time. Today I finally reached home, 6^th morning, rather say afternoon. And what a relief it was.

And now enjoying my home sweet home.