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…
” 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 …. ЁЯЩВ
PS:- I don’t know why I wrote this post … But at least I wrote.
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 ….
I am sure most of you would have heard this story when you were kids. Still to wipe the corrosion off the junk … here it is again …
One day, while a woodcutter was cutting a branch of a tree above a river, his axe fell into the river. When he cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, “Why are you crying?” The woodcutter replied that his axe has fallen into water, and he needed the axe to make his living. The Lord went down into the water and reappeared with a golden axe. “Is this your axe?” the Lord asked. The woodcutter replied, “No.” The Lord again went down and came up with a silver Axe. “Is this your axe?” the Lord asked. Again, the woodcutter replied, “No.” The Lord went down again and came up with an iron Axe. “Is this your axe?” the Lord asked. The woodcutter replied, “Yes.” The Lord was pleased with the man’s honesty and gave him all three axes to keep, and the woodcutter went home happy.
If I would have been in place of Lord(which happens to be my nick too)… the conversation would have been more like this …
Woodcutter : Boo hoo hoo … my axe is gone …┬а boo hoo hoo
Lord (that would be me) : What happened my son ? why are you crying ?
Woodcutter : Blah blah blah ! I was cutting wood, (more blah) dropped my axe in the river. Boo hoo hoo ….
Lord : WTF !! seriously ? Are you really that stupid ?
Woodcutter : (surprised look on his face)
Lord : Seriously dude ? Out of all the trees in the jungle you chose the one which is beside the river. And you chose that branch which was just above the deepest part of the fricking river.
How were you planning to take those branches back home, huh Einstein ? I mean come on … this wood is all wet and weak … A liter of patrol wont be able to burn it.
You know what! You are the biggest moron on the face of earth, no wonder you are poor.
Woodcutter : (f**ked expression on face)
Lord : Don’t give me that look knuckle head … I was in the middle of some thing Godly ! The heaven was so close and then you just blew it up … you know it take many human-years to built mood for me. Aaarrrgghh !!
Evidently, you are a big failure as woodcutter, it’s too demanding job for your microscopic brain, isn’t it ? There’s only one job left for you to do, go enroll for an MBA. Managerial job is the only one┬а you’ll be successful at. And you’ve got right skills for it … don’t you.
loosing your axe, because of your stupidity … and now asking me (engineer) to fix it for you. And for what ? so that you can f**k this up again ….
now get out of my sight, before I shred you into pieces with my gold and silver axe…
Lord : (to self) Yeh … My axe collection is now complete with the final iron one … Now I’ll show menaka and ramabha … my AXE effect ….
PS: Back to blogging after a hiatus … feels good … had loads going on …
You calling me a madraasi doesn’t offend me at all. But it does annoy me, because of the mere fact that Madras presidency stopped existing after 1956 and the city of Madras is now known as Chennai.
Govt. of India formed states based on the language people speak, The four South Indian states with the language and the people are :-
So, for the next time you can use any of these four. Though speaking based on my current geographical location, you may call me “Hyderabadi” or “Telugu” or to always be on the safer side “South Indian” :).
Yours,
– Kallu Madraasi
PS:- This was just an FYI post, if you feel like digging more … you may check namrata‘s post.
PS:– I might have used the word relatives, but it was meant for every North Indian of their generation specifically.
OK this isn’t my kind of post, but this is something I need to share with my readers (if any left).
Most of you “STUDDS” and “REBELLION” types already knows it, but my kind might not be aware of it or think it’s a good thing to do. But trust me, never ever be totally honest bout your relationships with your guardians (includes parents and relatives of their generation).
Why?
Coz they’ll say that treat them as your friend, and you can tell them every thing. Hell! they’ll even tease you often asking bout your gal friends or boy friends or both … or … Whatever …
But never ever tell them bout it …. don’t break … because if you do so … you are DOOMED …. totally
first, all you relatives will know bout it … at least the most annoying one’s.
second, You’ll get a taunt every time some thing even remotely related to that is mentioned.
third, The continuous teasing and nagging of course … i know i mentioned it already but … you know …
You might find it fun in the beginning but don’t flatter yourself with sudden attention. Every new monkey in the zoo get that … But after some time it only reduce to daily tail pulling job.
If you still don’t believe me … well go ahead …. what do I care …
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PS:- Based on past experience of many of my friends.
PS:– Not me … totally not me … I m a very very good boy mommy*.
PS:— Nothing more to read here now …
PS:—- yeh! house hunt sucks … If any one is aware of a decent 2 BHK in or around Hitech-city, please let me know ЁЯЩВ
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*(psst! I’ve hear my parents have been exposed to the existence of my blog)
So, I was going through news paper yesterday … came across this …
And the memories of last weekend came flashing by ….
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My weekend started with friday the 9th, with me taking a day off from work …. The Whole day spent lazying around at home … and evening going on a ride to Secundrabad and back… Best day ever ….
Saturday Started no different, woke up at 12:00 PM … got the house cleaned … spent 3.5 hours washing clothes … These are the times I wish I was a nudist …
Realized, the meetup of GHAC is in 1 hour, and I’ve not even had shower …
Quick …. woosh …. and I was there on time ….
Honestly … the meet was super bore …. may coz i wasn’t part of most of those trek … but yeh one kid wrote really really good poem ….
Anyway … to my rescue, one of my friend called me… and asked if we can hit the club that night … I was a bit reluctant and tired in the beginning (What the hell for …. donno !! )┬а Couldn’t refuse …. though …
So, ended up in B&C, total waste of 2 hours … the imported DJ’s were no good, waiting till 11:15 PM … Had some thing and finally left for 10D.
Which was far better … for it’s being the Bollywood night ….
Half an hour …. and the police showed up … it wasn’t even 12 … lights on … no music … go home … ЁЯШж
But of course my friends decided to check out some other place … and we ended up at Touch. Police was vacating the place …. and hippest crowd of the city was leaving …
But great sandhoo ji … has some contacts …. and we managed to get in the private party of some actor called navdeep (through the kitchen :D).
And so… we danced till 3:30 AM …. first in a Hyderabad Club. I donno many telugu movie stars … but i did recognize Allu Arjun there. And to my surprise, i was much taller than him … ЁЯША
Hungry at 3:30 AM …. headed directly to Ameerpet Dosa joint … Idli with chutney never tasted this good …
Reached home, at 4:30 AM … there was a trek at 5:30 AM … Thought of staying awake and making it to the trek … but one tiny nap lasted for 7 hours …
Still managed to reach Univercell Hyderabad Meet in time …. It was great fun … Met himank, abhishek and vatasal there too. Of course i m not going to pakoofy you with more details of the meet … you can check this for that.
Snacks were good BTW …
PS: there were certain more awesome things bout the weekend, but ….
Avatar 2 disc Blue ray is going to be released by April 22, 2010 in the market. Although, in Feb 2010, the speculations of 3-D version of Avatar coming out for regular VCD/DVD/Blue Ray players was denied.
Looks like with the current development in TV industry, the Disc manufacturers are reconsidering the possibility of doing so.
Well, to cut the long blabber short, here’s a sneak preview of much hyped and eagerly awaited┬а Avatar’s – 3D Pack, for audience dying to have the experience at home.
Ok, So other than the Title (of course) there were two things which attracted my attention toward this movie.
First, this being directed by Dibakar Benerjee (Director of “Oye Lucky Lucky oye” and “Khosla ka ghosla”), I was expecting this movie to be different kind of entertainer.
Second the Producer of the Movie Ekta Kapoor, going against her “K” addiction by choosing such title which doesn’t even have a random spelling for numerology sake.
So, what the movie is all about ?
The movie consists of three vaguely interconnected stories, namely …
mehendi laga ke rakhna (LOVE) :-
A love story, inspired from the 90’s romantic movies. As the name of the story suggests the protagonist’s name is Rahul, a film school student making his graduation movie, who meets Shruti (actress in his movie ) and they fall in love. This whole story is shot with a regular shooting camera, which we usually see in marriages and all. The last scene of this story is pretty strong … it shook me to the core … it looks very much like lifted from cloverfield (the irony part to be precise), but cloverfield failed to leave such a mark.
Badnaam Shoharat (SEX) :-
This is actually the third chapter of the movie, but if we go buy the time line, it ends before the second one and fits well with the second part of the title too. This part is shot with the hidden cameras. The story is about Prabhat, a journalist specialist in sting operation who was failing to meet the demand of his TRP thirsty boss and an aspiring model Naina who’s been exploited by the casting couch. Both meets while trying to commit suicide, and decides to help each other, her by doing a sting operation on acts of Pop singer “lauki local”.
paap ki dukaan (DHOKA) :-
This again has two protagonists, Adarsh an underemployed MBA graduate and Rashmi a regular looking, night shift worker at a 24X7 supermarket. Adarsh starts interacting with Rashmi with the motive of getting a sex tape, so he can sell it off and pay back the money he borrowed from “the committee”. His love for rashmi kept changing his priorities from time to time, but he ends up taking advantage of her when she was very volatile and needed some one to comfort her. This part of the movie is all shot with CCTV cameras, which were maintained by Adarsh and his colleague who originally gave him the idea of making a Sex Scandal Tape.
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The movies is less than 2 hours long, with no song disturbance as such. And the best part about the movie is the cinematography by Nikos Andritsakis other then the direction of Mr. Benerjee of course. The acting is very natural, and so are the stories. You can’t help but be part of it. You feel for the characters, you related to them …. and of course you cry for them too. Even after the movie is over you are left with the desperation to find more and more about them.
It’s one movie, I would rate higher than any multistarer, super entertainer big budget movies. Please please please go and watch this one in the cinema hall.
PS:- Don’t go for the movie expecting nudity. You’ll be disappointed.
PS:– The language is pretty strong, which adds to realness of the movie could be offending to some people though.
PS:— No, I am not getting paid by ekta kapoor for this review.
1. My uncle once: made me attend Asha Ram Bapu’s Pravachan, It turned out to be much painful then digging up the ground and hiding his body in the backyard ….
2. Never in my life: I’ve lied . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . After 4 pegs of Scotch.
3.When I was five: I used to believe kids are born when you marry a girl and hug her.
4.High School was: full of teenage stupidity, wish i’ve not been the sane one around.
5.I will never forget: the time I told some one that i bought chocolates for her, because they were lying in my house and I had to finish them …. aaargh …. isstoopid …
6.I once met: my doppelganger, later realized that I was drunk and was looking at a mirror.
7. ThereтАЩs this girl I know who: is a big movie star, unfortunately she don’t know me ЁЯШж
8. Once, at a bar: i saw a guy with no hands drinking. Later I realized it was dark, he was black …. and I m racist ЁЯША
9. By noon, IтАЩm usually: in office, tweeting or writing such random posts.
10. Last night: will not be “last night” tomorrow.
11. If only I had: theaddress of stacy’s house ….
parental guidance adviced … ЁЯШЙ
12. Next time I go to the Temple: I promise not to steal shoes and sandals, unless of-course they are new and branded.
13. Rakhi Sawant: Is the best (RS) thing that has happened to the Indian Television since Ramanand Sagar.
14. What worries me most: is the condition of poor, hungry, and undernourished kids in Northern Africa and models in North America.
15. When I turn my head left, I see: a laptop, a desktop, a palmtop and a cyborg living in harmony.
16. When I turn my head right, I see: A so called white board, which has run out space to accumulate any more black, blue, green or red ink marks.
17. You know IтАЩm lying when: when I can see the fan, without turning my head up.
18. What I miss most about the nineties: mile sur mera tumahra, was shorter and better.
19. If I was a character in Shakespeare, IтАЩd be: langada tyagi bahubali …. (Othello –> Omkaara ЁЯША )
20. By this time next year: I’ll be at the same place, writing same shit over and over again.
21. A better name for me would be: shri shri 1008 ankiteshwar maharaj
22. I have a hard time understanding: things I don’t really understand.
23. If I ever go back to school, IтАЩll: beat up that fat bully from class 3rd and buy infinite many flag candies and won’t share it with any one.
24. You know I like you if: I try and ignore you or say stupid thing out of nervousness.
25. If I ever won an award, the first person IтАЩd thank would be: the person who made sure Kanye West is not around.
26. Sachin Tendulkar, Mozart, Sonia Gandhi & Ronaldo: none of them, it has be Dada Kondake for making such master piece…
27.Take my advice, never: be a straight man in a gay world.
28. My ideal breakfast is: human brainz
29. A song I love, but do not own is: yaaron maine panga le liye – Altaf Raja
30. If you visit my hometown, I suggest: not to mention my current location to certain people
31. Tulips, character flaws, microchips, & track stars: microchips with salsa sauce
33.If you spend the night at my house: you’ll be awarded with this …
34. IтАЩd stop my wedding for: Any gal hotter than the one I would be marrying ЁЯШЫ
35. The world could do without: Gracy Singh, no no, not because she was the boring side kick in Munna bhai MBBS and Lagan or because she could only weep properly in her TV series Amanat.┬а But coz of the mere fact that she couldn’t┬а even come close to the awe-fucking-someness of Kamal khan in Deshdrohi …
36. IтАЩd rather lick the belly of a cockroach than: buying the ticket to watch “My Name is Khan”
37. My favorite blonde is: Blondes are dumb … i not like dumb … i favorite brunet … they have big B’s …┬а brains i mean ee haa … !!
38: Paper clips are more useful than: The breaking news updates from India TV, Aaj tak┬а and Star News combined.
39. If I do anything well, itтАЩs: definitely not me…
40. And by the way: I’ve successfully wasted your 20 min. And you will never get it back …. and here i present you with my sadistic laughter muhahaha┬а muhahaha !!
PS :—- yu ki note karne vaali baat yeh hai, ki maine un sabko tag kiya hai jinke comments mujhe history main dikhe … individual blog links search karna is such a pain ЁЯША
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