IPL Top 3 Battle !!!

IPL Fever has started givin us sleepless nights already...and as we all know the IPL Season 2 has begun with a bang. Yeah, its gonna b keeping many of us completely hooked onto the television for the coming 35 days...thankfully after a long time there's something worth watching for us too...;)

So, here I m picking my Top 3 for the IPL2...n request all of u to do the same...we have done this Top 3 selection already at my home among my flatmates...n guess what, the in-house battles & chearing hav begun...the house stands completely divided...(Wish the government won't b...;))

Here r my Top 3...right frm my heart...

1) Rajasthan Royals (Die Hard Rajasthani!!!)
2) Kolkata Night Riders (Soft Heart 4 Bongs ;))
3) Delhi Daredevils (NCR is taking gud care of me these days..)

So, its now ur turn 2 pick your Top 3. Lets start the battles here...think before u make ur choices...n u can also state ur reasons in the braces just next 2 ur team...many ppl wud like 2 knw tht too ;)

Those of u who have a Facebook account...click here...rest of u can make ur selections here only in the comments section...but 4 sure...this battle is more fierce on Facebook only...

So think...but try 2 make sure tht u don't join this bandwagon on the day of the finals...:P...coz u neva knw thr might b some cheers in the offing 2 the winners too...;)

Parent's Day Out...Shock n Surprise...!

Imagine it’s a Saturday morning and u r drop dead (asleep) as expected on ur bed and suddenly u receive ur Dad’s call that he is standing outside ur door...guys I know u wud think tht it’s a wild nightmare tht u r in and u wud continue sleeping…phewwwwwwwwww!!!

But that’s how my weekend almost started this Saturday. The only sollid difference was just tht even after my mom’s persistent asking me for my Noida address over the phone calls frm last 8 months, I somehow managed to dodge the question abt my exact address in the city…n that’s what actually saved my a^$e…;)

Received the call at 10:15 AM, midnight was in full swing and that was the time when all my frens at my place were cozily sleeping in their own dreams…but not any more…within 30 seconds of my informing thm abt the situation at hand…everyone was running…here n there…koi kuch utha raha tha to koi kuch theek kar raha tha…Kahi se kuch nikal raha tha…to kahi se kuch gayab ho raha tha…

Just 10 minutes after I received the call frm Paa, I called him back again, n was relieved to know tht thr were still 20 more minutes for them to reach my place…courtesy the Delhi traffic…I loved it for a moment…! Khair, sparing no more time, the mobilized frens and the “munnabhaish” hullaballo and the running around paid me a fortune in the end…

By the time my mom n dad stepped out of the car, we all had taken our bath in our own ways and the place was spic n span…literally…kudos to my frens support and our righteous actions at the spur of the moment. N so…here they were, started with a Charan Sparsh!!!

So, after the initial introductions, as I had imagined, all flat-mates went quickly in their own rooms, nobody wanted to talk much, I don’t knw whether they were shy or what but m sure they were being really very careful. Must hav been their planned strategic move so tht even a shudder of our lingo doesn’t comes out. The restraint for them, yeah, I can imagine what they might hav been goin thru…kudos again!!! :)

So, the time was running quite quickly, with lot of talking and with the mixed n more positive shocking surprise sentiments which I was going thru. Knowing my mom, I had already warned my frens, tht she wud definitely take an inspection round of every nook and corner of our place n their rooms n so she did…but we were all very well prepared for the ‘worst’ n so the inspection round too went smooth…we had a smirky winky smile on face…yipppie…we won…!

N believe me, the lunch tht we had at home was one of the most sane lunches which I was having for the first time post my coming to Noida…the plates were all flowing properly, there was a lot of passing of dishes around, there were meaningful discussions on the table and what not? We all had kept my mom (even after her several attempts) stay away from the kitchen and had served the maid-prepared food on our own…which I shud quote here as a commendable gesture frm our side…

The evening was full of showing around the Noida place with full zeal and zest, wanted to show thm around everything I cud, everything which has actually been a part of my recent past life. N yeah, I concluded the day with a visit to a nice temple which definitely had set the best possible holy chord. But this was my choice only, so no pun intended here.

The next day of “Parents day out” started with another surprise but this time, not a shocking one but a highly pleasant one. Guess a dream came true! My mom decided, that she wud cook the breakfast for us, so she asked the maid to leave tht part of the cooking for her only. N believe me tht was a TREAT for all of us! We had an amazing round of “Bread-rolls” as our breakfast, after a long long time…kudos to mom n the magic of her hands, as always!

The high point of the day was also the visit to my office, which was to let my mom-dad know, tht my company not only exists, but it rests on a nice green lush green well maintained 25-acre campus, and yeah, I hav been well taken care of, courtesy all your wishes.

Believe me what started with a shock, ended with a lot of emotions…Firstly, I had not imagined tht they wud leave my place with a smile, but they did leave with a smile. N yeah, the smile was accompanied with my mom’s characteristic tears which always trickle down at the time of parting. I guess moms are blessed to bless us with them.

But after coming back home, even I felt too lonely again and was a lill jittery definitely for the ntire evening, the smalltime which they spent here with me definitely was great, it was as if even Noida was a complete home, for some time...Having the same food which I daily have, visiting the same places where I visit, walking the same lanes where I walk…they lived a piece of my life, n even I tasted a piece of home life here at Noida...

Kudos this time, to my mom n dad for showing up with the stylish surprise…I truly loved it and thankfully made the most of it!!!

. . . . . . . . . . . Professional Life. . . . . . . . . . . A life full of colons : and closed braces )

We are living in a life:

Where we get more “pings” than ‘hello’s or ‘hi’s,
Where we get more of : ) than ‘real smiles’…
Where kiss has become a 5 letter word (muaah) and it has to be read not felt…
Where we have our conversations over Orkut’s scraps or Facebook’s walls, rather than over actual face to face talk which our ‘ancestors’ used to do…
Where if we are not “Online” or havn’t “Logged in” for a few days, than news starts flowing in the wired world on scraps saying…’mar gaya shayad’…
Where the long letters which people used to write have become small lettered hinglish SMSs where one can make multiple sentences with the letters i, n, u, 4, c, b...

Oh yes, we have advanced so much:

So much so…that weeks and months and ages go by, but we don’t get time to meet our friends living in the same city…
So much so…that we wait for them to come online one day rather than just picking up our phones and have a 2-minute chit chat only…
So much so…that we forget their birthdays since we didn’t login our favorite social networking site on their birthday…
So much so…that we even sometimes can’t attend our fren’s weddings as we were hooked onto some “highly important” official deadline that day…
So much so…that we actually run away from the one small phone call which our parents make everyday from a faraway place to just say Hi beta/i…as we were planning a night out in the office…

The professional life changes us…it cripples us…it takes away the life which used to run through our veins...I knw many of you won’t like this…but it makes us selfish…it makes us politically correct at every instance of life…it teaches us how to lie…how to bluff…how to dodge…and yeah, it teaches us not “how to run!” but “how to run away!”

The long and lovely discussions about the football or cricket matches in college canteen becomes the discussion about a persistent backache, the layoffs/pink slips, the recent cost-cutting campaign in the company over the same stale coffee-break which we take once every hour…

The physical stress which we used to have after our PT session in school becomes the mental tension…courtesy those daiiiiim deadlines, those COBs, those EODs, which haunt us, always…

The treat which we used to love at a roadside hangout place or a restaurant during our MBA days becomes a slice of cheesy Domino’s pizza in the office meeting room…”30 minutes...nai to gaye”…

Over and above all this, if you are an “MBA” too, than you are nothing but chained for life. You have to be over professional…at all times…in the lift, in the conference room, in your cubicle, while luking at a girl and even during the time when you are in the loo…

And if you are an “MBA in an IT company”, tab to aapko bhagwaan nai par ek presentation hi bacha sakta hai…The prize which an MBA gets in an IT company is a laptop which comes wid ur availability quotient at all times…on all days…at every occasion…on every call…and in every meeting. Ur deadlines are set according to the speed of the processor in your laptop…

Such instances are aplenty and we all think about thm some time or the other...But the end result remains the same...nobody is happy with his/her job...no point wondering why???...but lets try n do something abt it.

Lets stop worrying about appraisals/no appraisals, the swipe-ins/swipe-outs, the unread mails/forwards, the bad food/stale coffee in cafeterias, the status on gtalk/facebook. Stop worrying about everything…go offline for once and stand up on that 4x4 cubicle, luk around and you wud find eyes dying to do the same…

Break the shackles…come out of the norm of those colons and closed braces...
SMILE…
Meet a friend…
Make a call to your home…
Organize a reunion…
Shake hands with the person sitting next to you…
Plan a holiday trip…
Hug ur beloved…
Do one thing which the professional life has curbed u in doing…& believe you me…life will be different…!!!

PS: The above thoughts are inspired by a lot of conversations, chat sessions, scraps, pings, missed calls, emails, and other forms of communication, which I have come across over the past 9 months of my corporate life…They are not personal to anyone but they definitely affect the personal life of a lot of persons in the professional world...

Aaarambh hai Prachand…

"After a long time someone comes in the world and with him…the world changes forever…

He is the one who changes the rules of the game, who rips you from within, who forces you to think, who takes you into a different world, a world which is actually the actual place where you live in. He is the person who doesn’t follow any myth, any superstition, any game-plan, he is the one who creates the truth of his own, and changes the view of everyone else, forces u to rethink, rethink n rethink again…until u understand what the he wants to say…

But when u understand what he wants to say…u can’t go back anywhere…u r mystified…u r mesmerized…u r hypnotized…all u have to do…is to submit n to accept…n then stand up and bow down with a standing ovation."

All these words are nothing but a tribute to the most revolutionary directors of our time…the man who knows nothing but the passion for his movie making…his portrayal…his out of the box storyline, approach, and narration of what he wants to communicate…yes the name is, Anurag Kashyap.

N hey guys don’t read this anymore…just get out of the shitholes where you might be wasting your lives at the moment and grab the taste of the above words in HIS latest creation, “GULAAL”…coz right now it’s running in a theatre near u. Or else, when your kid will ask you, “Have you watched the most revolutionary movies from the most revolutionary directors of your times?” All you would be doing is sulk and ask your kid to study and concentrate for his exams rather than having a hard-hitting mature discussion with him about life which you would have actually not even experienced.

The movie is insane, ripping, gross, hard-hitting, with nerve wrenching music, sensational performances, gripping lyrics...overall its God level.
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Trivia: Anurag Kashyap's other directorial movies are Black Friday, No Smoking & Dev D. Don't miss them after you watch Gulaal. N yeah, don't call any movie crap until and unless you understand them fully... ;)

FYI, HE has already bagged a filmfare for screenplay in award winning movie Satya (1999), and don't be surprised if he gets another filmfare soon ;). I am ready to give him an Oscar too provided I'm a part of the jury :(

For more aficionados like me...catch more about him here and don't forget to share, if you know more...

The WOoMANiaaaaa !

I know, WE all are really very bad!
But today, on behalf of all of us...















I wish to thank all of you ALL beautiful out there for being part of our lives...for being there for us in all ur avatars...always!


HAPPY WOMEN's DAY!!!

…egnahC

To be very frank this feeling came up while I was watching Dev D…I was mesmerized for sometime while watching the movie and it hit me strong when I realized I was having an O with the word called Change…it is a powerful feeling and it can reverberate you and make you feel happy at the same time. When I drilled deep down to find out the reason for my sudden happiness with life even when the life was having nothing much in store for me from quite some time..(;))..the simple answer which came up rested actually was...“the time” in which I am living…the current era…the everyday revolution around us which, believe me, is really awesome!!!

Don’t you also feel the same that the times are changing around us and they are changing so quickly? I mean it’s ecstatic that the time in which we were born, the time in which we are living and the time when we will die would be so very different…they will not be years but literally be ages apart…I feel that this is the time when the world is changing the fastest and we are the only ones who are witnessing this sweeping change.

I know I might not be making much sense but this is a feeling which is reely very tough to put into words, but here I would try and give my best shot in portraying the same emotions so that I cud atleast make myself clear…

Look, the best thing is that, when we were born during early eighties, the world was in shambles, India was nowhere, our economy was small, peoples' mind were not as thirsty, we were all so slow, we were restrained, we were far less emotive, we generally had scooters, the kids were so different or duffers, technology was least around us, people were not even creative, they had a lanky and dull attitude towards life, the quest for life was missing, there were no reality shows, no PDAs, no IT companies, no experimental movies, no malls and multiplexes, no O(b/s)amas, no MTVs and above all no realtime competitiveness...

But, today is so different, today’s youth is miraculous, we are damn fucking 'change agents', and over and above that, we are changing lives everywhere around us…youth is always unsatisfied, they are creative, they have a quest for experimentation, they have the 'never say die' attitude, they are lovely, they are insane, they are effervescent, they are low waisted/pierced/tattooed/fucked-up n yet chilled n yet ready for having more of it, they are very bad, they are very good, they want more and more, they are selfish too, but they want to have a different life everyday and that is what is the characteristic change which stands out in current times from the past... We are changing every moment and the reason is that we are damn experimentalists, no nonsense weirdos waiting for a new world order. We try different things everyday n we learn from our new mistakes everyday.

Post our generation, I am not saying that change won’t happen, it will happen but the amount of change happening would be minuscule…it won’t be like in this ‘epic style’. The answer to this lies in history. History goes for only a few dynamic changes and such changes happens in centuries which changes world forever. We have witnessed only three major changes in mankind. When man was an ape he wanted to change badly like today and so we became humans and then came era of kingdoms, from there again there was a long standstill and when change happened, what came was the end of kingdom and democracies were born, so, a new world order formed up and from then it’s the present age which has emerged. These are times again when maximum new things are happening, when men and women are changing, we are ones who will do all kind of good or bad experiments and then again will come another phase of adoption, another age of satisfaction, again an age of lesser reverberations, lesser competitiveness coz all that rage which is needed to change the time in which you live would have been done by us in the present tense of our lives...

A real taste of our changing times can be the kids of today, compare them with the kids of our parents (;)), don't you think that the present day kids are revolutionary, they are damn different, so hostile, so intelligent, so smart, so weird. They are the visible example of the change which we are bringing to the world. I think our grandchildren would be just like our children and so they won’t be so radical and that’s where life will settle down again, waiting for another change which might happen after a long time when the world again will be filled with the reverberations of today…

Why I was happy was only coz I am a part of this great revolutionary change which is happening around us and yeah, I feel happy coz I am at the right place at the right time. I wish the youth of today also realize ‘what’ they are going through and do something cheesy, something radical, something experimental each day so that yes, we are a part of this sexy revolution called change which comes in only sometimes and once it goes away, things change and they don’t remain the same forever.

I don't wanna by a prophesier by stating whats gonna happen in the future, all I wanna say is that I am happy to be a part of this new world orderchange. Keep experimenting, try something different everyday, do things differently coz we are living in age of CHANGE aka EGNAHC…agar is samay nahi kiya to life me kiya kya???

Awesome 3some!!! (Vol.1)

BTW…lemme make it clear straight away that this one is a TAG. First one from my side…coz in the past I’ve restricted myself in inflicting the tag pain on my fellow bloggers…but enough of sparing from my end. Hey, don’t worry coz you wud love this tag for the following “3” reasons:

• it’s simple
• it lets others know about u
• it give a chance to you to know u

So what the hell is this actually? "Awesome 3some” is a series of posts about so many things we see around, about so many moments we feel around, about so many people we meet around, about so many places we hang around, about so many activities we follow around…but the only catch is that you have to drill down from all those “so many-ies” to just 3. Hmmmmmm...matlab bete itna bhi simple nahi hai...!

N believe u me, I too faced some instances where I just wished there were more than 3 placeholders…buy that’s the most important rule of game…hav 2 pick just 3 of ur most favorites in all the below mentioned 25 categories…n u r done.

Well, I’m done with the intriguing but amazingly engaging list from my end. N here it goes:

1. 3 Favorite Actors
• Christian Bale
• Tom Cruise
• Shah Rukh Khan

2. 3 Favorite Actresses
• Penelope Cruz
• Angelina Jolie
• Liv Tyler

3. 3 Favorite New Stars (Bollywood)
• Abhay Deol
• Sonam Kapoor
• Darsheel Zafari ;)

4. 3 Favorite Sports
• Cricket
• Tennis
• Volleyball

5. 3 Favorite Sportspersons
• Sachin Tendulkar
• Rafael Nadal
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni

6. 3 Favorite Politicians
• Barack Obama
• P Chidambaram
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee

7. 3 Favorite Comedians
• Raju Srivastava
• Cyrus
• Vinay Pathak

8. 3 Favorite Indian Male singers
• Mohit Chauhan
• Atif
• KK

9. 3 Favorite Indian Female singers
• Shreya Ghoshal
• Alisha Chinoy
• Lata Mangeshkar

10. 3 Favorite Corporate Honchos
• Dhirubhai Ambani
• Jack Welch
• N R Narayanamurthy

11. 3 Favorite News channels
• CNBC TV18
• NDTV 24x7
• CNN IBN

12. 3 Favorite News anchors
• Rajdeep Sardesai
• Pranoy Roy
• Barkha Dutt

13. 3 Favorite Hindi Entertainment channels
• MTV
• Channel V
• Sony

14. 3 Favorite English entertainment channels
• HBO
• Star Movies
• AXN

15. 3 Favorite TV Shows
• Roadies
• Young Turks
• Nach Baliye

16. 3 Favorite Writers
• Ayn Rand
• Chetan Bhagat
• Sydney Sheldon

17. 3 Favorite Movies
• Matrix
• Before Sunrise
• The Bourne Series

18. 3 Favorite Indian Holiday destinations
• Goa
• Mysore
• Rajasthan

19. 3 Favorite Professions
• IT
• Doctor
• Architect

20. 3 Favorite Mobile Brands
• Nokia
• I-Mate
• Blackberry

21. 3 Favorite Laptop Brands
• HP
• Dell
• Sony

22. 3 Favorite Cars
• BMW
• Mercedes
• Honda

23. 3 Favorite Apparel brands
• Blackberry
• Levi's
• Versace

24. 3 Favorite Deserts
• Rasgulla
• Besan ke Laddu
• Halwa

25. 3 Favorite Cuisines
• Indian
• Mexican
• Italian

So thats it for now...but now the most important part...who all shud i inflict my first tag on...? Here is the list...Guppi, Richa, Divya, DD, Nidhi and all of you who wud lov 2 start blogging wid this or the ones who wud like ur TWB's run away far off wid this r also welcome...

N hey dont forget ur thoughts on my list? Any comparisons? Khair…we’ll do all that, but right now, it’s time for all of you to start ur set of thinking and introspection. Also, do tell me which ones were ur toughest set of “3some” selections when u r done! ;)