Please change but not for me

So here’s a thing about people, be it your family, friends or colleagues. Every single one of them have a suggestion for you, things you need to change.

Say for example, you don’t like hurting people by saying no to their request. And you end up doing things you don’t like, going to places you don’t wanna go.

Now, your close and concerned friend will tell, dude grow up… learn to say no. Do what you like.

It takes some time but you starts to get it, and starts practicing it.

Now, the same friend comes to you asking for a something you totally detest but used to agree to do before. Now when you deny (After this person’s suggestion) you are changed. You are not the same friends as you used to be.

 

Don’t get me started on the relatives now ….

 

So effectively the conclusion is … You can’t escape it. You were born doomed ….

Shaitan and CineMax Bangalore – Review

So, Today abruptly we decided to checkout the just opened first CineMax of Bangalore, in new Bangalore Central at Sarjapur Road. My friends were tired of listing to me bitch about Innovative Multiplex anyways. This place is such a relief, small screens but sound system and seating is great … for the 150 Rs. price of weekend … It’s the best place for me in Bangalore right now.

Now the movie… SHAITAN …

The last two movies I reviewed here were of the same genre, That doesn’t mean I like dark movies … It’s just that I feel so compelled to talk about them and most of my friend end up not liking them and I resort to blog about it.

The movie is dark no doubt about it, but not as dark as either of the movies I reviewed before, LSD and Gulaal. But it had it’s high points. The story is pretty simple 5 friends, boozing and doping, one mistake and end up in a big mess, and things starts to get ugly from there on. The end is what took me for a surprise, a pleasant one at that.

The cinematography and the background score is marvelous, the best part of the movie. Except Kalki Koechlin as Amrita Jayshankar a.k.a. Amy and Neil Bhopalam as Zubin Shroff other performances were pretty average. Talking about the Direction … well Bejoy Nambiar  is no Anurag Kashyap, but then this movie is no Gulaal or DevD either.

It’s not a masterpiece, but definitely a teat for the fans of Mr. Kashyap and this genre. Go, watch it … without very high expectations You’ll like it.

Tags: review, gulaal, anurag kashyap, bangalore, LSD, shaitan, cinemax, kalki, bollywood, DevD

The Betrayal !!

The day I first saw you

I knew we were made for each other,

How can you forget

all those nights we spent together.

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spending hours in a row,

I never took my eyes off you,

I forgot the world

Lost in you I went cuckoo.

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Oh I was so blind

Now I feel like a dumbhead

should have seen it coming

you and my best friend in bed

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All that love and affaction

all the money I spend on your accessories

sitting on my lap taking

you use to take away my worries

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I did something wrong

Or was I just not enough

Were you bored of me

or you needed more stuff

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Why Did you cheat on me

Go on, now tell me the truth

you slept with someone else

You disloyal, Lenovo Intel i7 Notebook !!

Tags: betrayal, blah, cheat, cheating, disloyal, laptop, notebook, random

The ‘U’ Word

“Uncle, Please pass the ball”,

“Uncle, Can you help me out here?” ,

“There it is Uncle” …

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If you get to hear the ‘U’ word more than once a day, from more than two kids … Well congratulations you’ve just graduated from Bhaiya(brother) to Uncle. All of us, well in their mid twenties, have to go through this painful phase.

Like increase in hair-fall, the first white hair, gain in waist size and of-course nagging for marriage at home wasn’t enough. The vicious little kids have to refer us with the ‘U’ word every frikin time.

This always remind me of a particular character from a very popular 90′s TV series Hum Paanch, Certain Miss Pooja Aunty. She use to jump 4 feet if one of girls call her Aunty. It used to be super funny back then … I guess now I know her pain!!

On the same line there use to an advertisement for hair dye, Don’t remember the brand exactly … but in that add too there was the lady who realize she’s getting old after a young boy calls her aunty … and she immediately resort to the anti-aging miracle the kesh kala.Since I can’t locate that add on the Internet … Enjoy this instead …

Though I’ve only come across examples of unhappy females … but let me tell you, we guys are not so fond of the ‘U’ word either. And lucky for ladies … they only get the Aunty tag after getting married.

Of course, It’s the phase of life we all have to go through eventually, but the only thing is we are never seems to be ready to accept it.

It’s funny, how we always prefer being called a MAN instead of a BOY but we are still allergic to UNCLE and feel cozy with the word BHAIYA.

Tags: bhaiya, growing up, kids, old age, TV, uncle

बेटियां !!

क्या लिखों, की वो परियों का रूप होती है,
या कड़कती ठण्ड में सुहानी धूप होती है |
वो होती है उदासी में हर मर्ज़ की दावा की तरह,
या उमस में शीतल हवा की तरह |
वो चिड़ियों की चेह्चाहाट है,
या निश्छल खिल खिलाहट है |
वो आँगन में फैला उजाला है,
या मेरे गुस्से पर लगा ताला है |
वो पहाड़ की छोटी पर उजली किरण है,
वो जीने का सही आचरण है |
है वो ताकत जो छोटे से घर को महल कर दे,
वो काफिया जो किसी ग़ज़ल को मुक्कमल कर दे |
वो अक्षर जो न हो तो वर्णमाला अधूरी है,
वो जो सबसे ज्यादा ज़रूरी है |
ये नहीं कहूँगा की सांस सांस होती है,
क्योकि बेटियां तो बस एहसास होती है |

वो मुझसे ऑस्ट्रेलिया में छुट्टियाँ,
मर्सिडीस की ड्राईव, फाइव स्टार में खाने,
या नए नए आई पोड्स नहीं मांगती |
न ही वो बहुत सारे पैसे
अपने पिग्गी बैंक में उडेलना चाहती है,
वो बस कुछ देर मेरे साथ खेलना चाहती है |

में बस यही कहता रहता हूँ,
बेटा काम ज़रूरी है, नहीं करूंगा तो कैसे चलेगा
ये मजबूरी भरे दुनियादारी की जवाब देने लगता हूँ |
वो झूठा ही सही, पर मुझे एहसास कराती है
जैसे सब समझ गयी हो
लेकिन आँखें बंद करके रोती है,
सपने में खेलते हुए मेरे साथ सोती है |
ज़िन्दगी जाने क्यों इतनी उलझ जाती है,
और हम समझते हैं बेटियां सब समझ जाती हैं|

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PS:- Written by Mr. Shailesh lodha.

PS:– The picture courtesy contestedart.com

PS:— For those who can’t read Devanagari, please visit The glow of dawn.

PS:—- And here’s the youtube video of it.

Pointless !!

This post is utterly pointless, more pointless than Zimbabwe and Kenya’s world-cup league match.

The reason me is writing this, well because I am jobless, yes more jobless than Sreesanth.

I wonder if any one actually is going to read this, of course some one will, even Netherlands and Ireland got spectators at Eden Garden.

that’s it don’t feel like writing any more … hope saurabh ganguly feels the same …

A Roller Coaster Ride – book review

I don’t write book reviews, hell I don’t even read a lot of books. But this particular book kind of forced me to do so.

 

Few days back I was browsing through infibeam and came across this book thought it would be a good time-pass for a boring journey. How terribly wrong I was.

It was a big bag of cliches with really bad proof reading. I mean I know I am not a grammarian myself, rather really bad at it but people at Sristhi Publishers have surpassed me hands down.

And to add to my frustration there were really really positive review for it on flip-kart and Infibeam, but when someone called it a masterpiece … a part of me literally died.

 

The writer of the book, seems to be very confused so he fused all the mirch-masala possible in this book, and ended up cooking a dish which doesn’t even look good, leave alone the taste.

 

Story : well I tried thrice writing it down … but fell short of words to describe to stupidensiocity of it. (of course that’s a made up word, sue me)

 

Why Am I so frust : Because I being a cheap, bought the original book and being lazy, read the whole book.

 

I strongly recommend you to chop your hands with a machete before you lay them on this “masterpiece”.

 

PS:- I don’t know how to write a book review, you may refer to this for some sensible and rest nonsense reviews.

PS:– My apologies to the writer and the publisher for such negativity, but Yeh! It was that bad.

PS:— Image source – this.

2010 Sum-up

1. What did you do in 2010 that you had never done before?
Got Operated, experienced limblessness.

Had my first ….

was escorted (read thrown) out of a club in Goa.

2. Did you keep your new years resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Never made any

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yep, My chachi

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Thankfully no

5. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
04/04 and 26/10

6. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting first paper published

Managing to get 5 jobs including two of my dream companies within 10 days of being jobless.

7. What was your biggest failure?
Being the reason of someone’s tears

8. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yes, a major one …

9. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Every one around

10. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Some very closed one’s

11. Where did most of your money go?
House rent and partying

12. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
shsss… can’t mention here

13. What song will always remind you of 2010?
A thousand Miles – Vanessa Carlton

14. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
After all the up’s and down’s … Happier … definitely

15. What do you wish you had done more of?
communicating

16. What do you wish you had done less of?
Care

17. Most memorable moments
two hours on the operation table
April 4th evening
Time we were told, that we’ll be all jobless in 5 days

18. Did you fall in love in 2010?
Donno … complicated definition the word has.

19. How many one night stands?
What …?

20. What was your favorite TV program?
The Office(UK) and The Modern Family

21. What was the best book you read?
Two states (seriously I liked it)

22. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The Magnetic Field,

It was an accidental discovery, which I’ll always cherish … do listen to songs from their album “69 love songs”

23. What did you want and get?
No expectations no disappointments … simple policy

24. What did you want and not get?
same as 23.

25. What was your favorite film of this year?
Probably Peepli Live …

26. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Started with party at BnC, then party all night at home slept at 8 in the morning.

27. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
if the aftermath wouldn’t have happened

28. What kept you sane?
Sane … who me ? Never was … never will be

29. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.
Think less, do more. Stop being a spectator and participate

30. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Main zindagi ka saath nibhata chal gaya, har fikr ko dhool main udata chala gaya …

PS: Taken from Himank‘s blog!

Moving on to ….

Funny thing about life is … that the joke is always on you. Although how ever intelligent a person be, almost everyone makes a hue and cry over it … unless of course he can laugh at himself.

5 days back when we were told that, our employers have no money left to sustain their operations in India. Better start packing your bags.

The usual reaction …

Tension … and stuff … you know stress and all ….

took some time to Settle down …

Then I realized … That it certainly is a funny joke isn’t it … like those “road runner shows“, As soon as you catch the road runner a big hammer falls on your head.That close we were when the funds ran out, and that’s the thing with start-ups, YOU NEVER KNOW !!

I am not sad about loosing the shares I earned … Coz, I earned the skill which I can en-cash all my life. It’s some thing else…

In the words of Tim Canterbury ….

” The people you work with are people you were just thrown together with. I mean, you don’t know them, it wasn’t your choice. And yet you spend more time with them than you do your friends or your family. But probably all you have in common is the fact that you walk around on the same bit of carpet for eight hours a day. “

Although in our case … most of the time it was more than eight hours ….

PS:- I don’t know why I wrote this post … But at least I wrote.

Happy people on the Facebook

Before I start, let me tell you … I’ve written this assuming that you know the saying “the grass is always greener on the other side” and the social networking website Facebook.

I believe most (except for the self satisfied narcissists and Mark Zuckerberg) of the Facebook users see the others’ updates and think to themselves, these people have so much going on in their life.

Of course not exactly these lines, but yeh most of the vella (jobless), office se thakela (job tired) ya chila hua kela (banana peel jobbed) resort to the website, mostly stalking old love, brag about their phoran trip, post their ugly picture edited and posted on empire-state building with a graffiti artist standing beside it, watching videos stupid people poking themselves in the eye …. and this is just the beginning of the list.

But the point is, we all (when I say we all I m speaking on behalf of all guys in their mid twenties) still feel like giving a nutcracker kick to the lafandoo (a term I don’t really know the English word for) from school for posting a picture with what appears to be a rather better looking gal, totally out of his league.

“See, even he’s doing better … I got a degree from MIT but he got the girl …”

Some times I feel, most of these people are like small time MBA graduates, and they are marketing their life … see who can portray their one’s better than other. And of course, comments and likes are your earnings … of course they don’t know where the apogee to this is ….