The curious case of Indian Pride

Since yesterday I have seen numerous updates on Facebook from my friends, most of them feeling proud, or happy that India kept our pride. The same pride which was lost in CWG mess till last week. News channels have been running stories since past 2 months on this dwindling state of Indian pride which gets lost every second day and gets restored every now and then. What I do not understand that how can pride of our country be related to this 12 day event, what does successfully hosting or not hosting an event has to do with Indian pride. I do not think that Indian pride is that shallow that we need to organize a sporting event by spending thousands of crores of our taxpayers money abysmally (that too when 42% of its population is below international poverty line) for proving it to the world.

Since there are already numerous arguments, evidences against this extravaganza so I will list my points later for the same, I would like to counter the arguments in favour of organizing these games first. The first and foremost reason has been cited as the national pride, which I do not buy to. If they really wanted to showcase Indian pride, they should resolve the issues of terrorism that are coming up in every corner of the country(as per latest reports 232 of India’s 608 districts are affected by some form of terrorism and as per number of deaths in last 4 years we are second only to Iraq) if the political aspirations of our leaders are preventing them from doing so they can work on other areas such as lowering the poverty, lowering the infant mortality and malnutrition rate in India I think these issues are much more valuable to our national pride than these silly games.

Secondly so called advantage is that this will attract foreign destination, can somebody please tell me how is that possible as the inefficiency of this great Indian bureaucracy which was under the wraps (or assumed to be so) till now is out in the open. A place where a roll of toilet paper costs 3 grand, a place where spending 70,000 crore for a 20,000 crore event can’t even ensure its success, a place where of all people prime minister has to call in to get few condos cleaned up, a place where hygiene standard is as good as dog shit on bed and a country which is marred by terrorism needs to call army to build a bridge for which the contractor took seven years and 5 crore rupees (though army built it in 4 days and at a fraction of original cost) do we really expect foreign companies to come for business here?

Third and the most widely cited reason is the development that is associated with this. Well it surely can’t be development of the country or common man for that matter but yes if they are referring to those involved in this, those lucky goons who got thousands of crores in their pockets along with sufficient time to clean up their traces then I will surely agree on this. The games in Manchester in 2002 is what we were promised, where whole of east Manchester(which was in depression due to unemployment caused by pull out of numerous industries) was developed and it resulted in employment and development of that area. But what we got was a village which was build in an already developed area (and a congested one too) and which is not ecologically sound as well, so much so that the proposal was out rightly rejected by the environment ministry but eventually they had to give in to the whims and fantasies of those organizing the event.

And finally as far as development in sports is concerned we organized Asian games in 1982 and spent huge amount of money on building stadia, but it had no impact on our medal tally in any event till now. So behind all this glamour and lights there is a lot of mess that needs to be cleaned up, a lot of questions that needs to be asked but the problem is who is going to do so, as the citizens of this country are soaked in pride and waiting for India to bid for Olympics.

Acccepted!!!

After 2 years of hard work, 70 mocks, 11 exams, 6 interviews and a score of unquantifiable things finally I can say that I have been accepted. This is first of its kind journey in my life, I always wanted to get an admit and now that I have got one I wish I could have got it after another year, there is something that I am missing. It seems that I have left something behind, some unfinished business or something but the problem is I do not know the exact reason for this.

Its been a week now since I have moved to hostel but still I wake up everyday with a feeling of emptiness, as if there is an unanswered question that I need to answer. Well until I find an answer to this I can assume it to be coz of fear. Fear of expectations that I have from myself, I do not know whether I can live upto them or not. But all I can do is to try and live these 2 years so that I remember them as a lifetime.

Well, enough of this fear, expectation blah blah. Lets start with the proceedings, the campus is really huge and I still haven't seen the whole place. There is a golf course, football ground, basketball court, tennis court, gym, pool table etc etc though I haven't used any one of these yet but will surely put them to good use in coming weeks. Hostel is nice but we have been out casted from the campus. Our shantys are about 6 kms from the campus and we get stuffed into a bus twice a day to travel to and fro from the campus.

Academic is really rigorous, had a a surprise quiz for Accounting on the very first day of the session. I already have couple of assignments and a load full of pre session study under my belt that I would do as soon as I get over with this post. I will try to post more details once my Live Writer gets fixed as it would allow me to write in tits and bits.

Before I end this is the song that's coming to my mind right now:

"Subah ki kirno ko rokein jo salaakhein hai kahan
Jo khayalon pe pehre daale woh aankhein hai kahan
Par khulne ki deri hai parinde udh ke jhoomenge
Aasman aasman aasman"

Time for a reality check

We plan for so many things everyday and seldom they fit into god’s plan. My life has been an apt example of Butterfly Effect, even a small incident changes it drastically.

The most recent example of the same being this admission season, about a month back I was quite confident of making it to at least one college and 2 weeks later I finally geared up and lifted myself from a mourning period and paid the fees for yet another season of mocks and tests. But an update on MDI’s website switched me again to that hopeful mode and no matter how hard I try its really difficult for me to switch off these irritating mode changes, specially when I know that I will again have to go through that mourning period to get back to that mock mode.

I wish I had a button of rewind in life so that I could fix everythin, so that I could make everythin perfect startin from my kindergarten. I would like to fix the moment when I fell off the bicycle for the first time, when I failed in an exam for the first time, when I got rejected for the first time, when I lost someone I loved and first time of so many things. But I wonder even if I get to do it will I be able to live without any failure? I cannot imagine my life without all these memories. These are the moments that define who am I today.

So as Shakespeare puts it “What’s done can’t be undone”, I think its better for me try to work on my present rather than tryin to fix the past.

Dhoni caught trying to kill a tiger

Dhoni the brand ambassador who comes on our TV screen every now and then reminding us that there are only 1411 tigers left in India and he intends to save them was caught in TV while he was trying to kill one of the tiger.

The incident happened at the Eden Gardens at a recent IPL match where Knight Riders were playing against Chennai Super Kings. Dhoni tried to strike down one of the two tigers who were sitting on the boundary line when he fired a low six at a rocket speed towards them. Though nobody was hurt but the tigers were in complete state of shock as they thought Dhoni would be last man who would try to kill them after seeing all those ads. A team of commentators got a chance to speak with one of the tigers and he informed them that Dhoni did this intentionally as they were cheering for Knight Riders and he plans to go on an international trip chanting the line “I am a tiger but I am not a KKR supporter” as they maintain that they were doing job for some quick money and they are not yet insane enough to support KKR.

Meanwhile Shahrukh has written a tweet mentioning that he was deeply hurt by this attack and he thinks that Dhoni was afraid of losing the match so he attacked the tigers to lower the morale of Knight Riders though he added that he wasn’t sure if the morale was high enough to be lowered. Shahrukh’s old time friend and the only person who ever dared to think beyond IIMs has decided to give the bravery award to the tigers for putting a brave fight when Dhoni and Badrinath were firing rockets at them. Although the tigers are little apprehensive and worried that they might be forced to see “Rok Sako toh Rok lo” which could endanger the life of complete habitat and not only two of them.

PS: Knight Riders are back to normal after a blip of winning two matches, was so glad to see them back today. As its been the case for last two years while Knight Riders have been losing matches Sharukh has been minting money and getting sympathy from his fellow countrymen. Well those are the only two things that he always looks for so why force a bunch of uncles on wrong side of 30 to make some running for 3 long hrs.

A new low in Indian Politics

Although everyday our esteemed politicians do one thing or the other making a mockery of system, democracy and the country but this brazenly ridiculous activity by a self obsessed good for nothing lady has really touched a new low which no one could have even dreamt of.

Few months back she was in the news for unveiling her own statues(dun forget the handbag though) and then raising a special force to protect them using special laws, that too in one of the poorest state of the country, the state government didn’t had money to pay for the victims of stampede in an ashram in her state but they had money for everything else.

Although most of our political leaders are self obsessed(not this much though) that I can give that 2 crore garland and 200 crore party on her birthday a pass, even the fact that a Chief Minister who earns 50k/month have paid 14 crore in advance tax (don’t know which stocks she deals in). What bothered me was the order of a DIG level enquiry and the historic reason was “To check if there was a political conspiracy in recent attack of bees in her rally”.

While Bareilly is burning for past 2 weeks and there is no DIG level enquiry for it we have an esteemed person with 20 years of service who will be interrogating bees to find out who had sent them to ruin her speech. That’s utter wastage of resources and tax payers money to satisfy whims and fantasies of a lunatic. I wish the UP junta wakes up to this rude shock and vote sensibly next time.

Who is going to teach Management to IIMs?

IIMs the so called premier management institutes in India desperately need management lessons on how to conduct a CBT successfully. Since my opinion is subjected to change depending on my result therefore I decided to write this post before the results, and thankfully IIMs gave me ample time to get over with it.

First, they make blunders while conducting tests leaving thousands of students and many parents in dismay and then they take more than 50 days to conduct a retest for them. If that was not enough it seems like they are using my Grandpa’s computer to calculate the result. I could have calculated them a lot quickly with my laptop.

After the announcement of CAT going online most of the top CAT Coaching instis started conducting mock tests online and they all have a student base of about 20-30k. Now when they can compute results of 30k students in 7 days why can’t IIMs/Prometric can calculate the same in almost 80 days, and please don’t say that they were too busy in providing security to MNIK like Maharashtra police.

No matter what the result be but this its gonna go down as a blot on the legacy of IIMs in history books as “When managements guru’s couldn’t manage a simple test”.

48 weeks and counting…

Its been more than 48 weeks(week seems a longer period than month) since I last had Ethanol intake, although not technically as lot of medicines use alcohol as base, but we can discount that can’t we? Now that I stand almost at the anniversary of that historic decision(I know its an exaggeration, but then what's the purpose of a blog if its not exaggerated) I look back and see changes that it made to my usual life.

1. Easy on pocket. This is one of the major impact I have had. My salary last for couple of more days than it used to, of course the effect would be more severe on Royal Challengers Banglore as I helped Mallya in buying that team but with one of his regular customer gone I wonder if he can still keep that team.

2. Coffee tastes better. An year back or so I used to despise coffee, but since then I ve been more frequent to coffee shops than pubs which has in turn helped me in developing a taste for coffee. Plus you don’t have to worry about those breath analysers no matter how many cups of coffee you drink.

3. Girls aren’t the only thing to discuss. Well the fact remains that there are 2 topics that an average male discuss when he is drunk which are girls and football(or any other sport) well of course it may vary for bisexuals and likes of them. But coffee gives a whole new dimension to bakar. I never realized but there is a whole spectrum of things that can be discussed.

4. Weekends are not all about beer. Well no denying that fact that I always felt that my schedule was jam packed and I had no time for myself, but since I gave up drinking I realized that I have whole lot of time left with me to do things that I always wanted to. Guitar was number one on the list so kicked it off first hopefully rest will follow. My own Things to do before I die list(more on that later).

5. Backache. This is the one I didn’t anticipated. About an year back 2 days a week were not enough to complete my quota of alcohol intake for a week, so I used to spend almost every weekend night with friends, but since then I have been spendin most of those evenings at home nappin. So much so that at times I get backache due to this lethargy.

Well as they said there are no free lunches so I would take that point 5 for the 4 above it and this new found me, who is really enjoying it. Cheers

Pseudo vs self proclaimed Nationalists

Nobody could have ever imagined that a movie could get this much of airtime all over the country and that too for free. MNIK aka 'My name is Khan' has been in the news for all wrong reasons even before it has released. What really baffles me is while parties like Shiv Sena and Congress are playing politics over this trivial issue Shahrukh and the makers of the movie are minting money because of the hype created, none of them cares about an ordinary citizen or Marathi Manoos(The over hyped word).

Lets start with the so called caretakers of Maharshtra, I wonder how they call themselves nationalist while they thrive on the agenda of politics of hatred. Amitabh Bachhan, Sachin Tendulkar, Mukesh Ambani none of them is nationalist or a true Marathi, just because they said that Mumbai belongs to every Indian. First I don't really know of one good deed that Thackreys have done which has helped Mumbai in becoming a global city or anything that has helped any Mumbaikar/Indian in any way for that matter. But I am pretty confident that some of those personalities that they chose for bashing have done some real good deeds for the state as well as for the nation.

Now, as far as their political counterparts are concerned, they took it as an ego question and blew it out of proportion. I mean 30,000 men guarding Cinema halls, I wonder if they have even a quarter of this many cops patrolling regularly 26/11 could have been averted, and please don't fall prey for sentences like "they have prior information of Sena's Vandalism but had no idea about 26/11" as for one they had confirmed intelligence inputs and secondly if 30,000 cops can provide security cover to politicians and VIPs based on some vague intelligence reports a population of 1.3 crore certainly deserve atleast 7500 policeman for their safety. On the politics of division they are not any less divisive than Thackreys, the only difference is they are too shrewd to admit it. Their method of wooing voters is unique of its own kind for instance at one hand their state unit @ Andhra want to implement reservations for muslims on caste basis, the party leaders at center condemn it thereby wooing both the voters unlike Shiv Sena which are blunt when they admit that they are against a particular sect or cast. Similarly, one of their top leaders goes and visit families of slain terrorists of infamous Batla house encounter in Azamgarh and criticize the police while rest of the party distances itself from the act and give medals to those who died while fighting those terrorists. I remember that their government in Maharashtra came with a proposal to give taxi licenses to only those who are native of that state. If this isin't divisive then perhaps the definition of 'divisive politics' needs to be rewritten stating that 'Grand Old Party of India has to be excluded from this definition'.Period

As far as SRK(its as awfull as KRK but then it is easy to write) is concerned, to be frank its really difficult to believe that it is a coincidence that all the controversies had to be around this movie. Couple of months back he was made to wait @ a US Airport(that's what the news was) and incidentally the reason was his name "Khan" and I realized the bigger coincidence when I saw the trailer of the movie with him saying this line apparently on a US airport "My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist" you don't need to be a rocket scientist to read between the lines, all you need is a little commonsense and realization of the fact that politicians aren't the only persons who fool us. Even if I assume his tale to be true then what in the world changed the american mindset in a matter of 2 months that the same Khan was invited to ring the starting bell at NASDAQ. Then comes the IPL debate, what I couldn't figure out was a simple question that since he owned an IPL team, he had the money, Pakistani players were available for bidding, there was no pressure from anyone against selecting Pakistani players(that's what he claimed in an interview after bidding) and he had a slot as well in his team then why didn't he bought a Pakistani player, well lets assume that that he didn't wanted to as Knight Riders is his team and he made it very clear with his multiple captain theory last time, so then why the hell does he have to take a moral high ground and say that Pakistani players should have been selected. Well Mr. Khan you had an opportunity to change the world and you chose not to then just shut the f*** up, but you can't even do that as you are the self proclaimed righteous. This carefully planned ploy of yours worked like charm, you got a chance to get air on every news channel and promote your film, you got space on every newspaper around the world for free so what if an ordinary Mumbaikar suffered you were able to sell your tickets @ 1000 Euro each in Berlin while people here in India assume that you are the victim in this fiasco. I am glad we have only one SRK and he does not act in/produce more than 1 movie in a year.

Goin’ Green!!!

"Going Green" Its the talk of the day. Everyone is tryin to be greener these days. Emission cuts, global warming, greenhouse effect have become household terms. So much so that 98 world leaders with over 5000 journalists and 15000 delegates will be adding 41,000 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide to the environment in a 11 day conference with a price tag of $214 Million just to think about what can be done to prevent climate change.

My Opinion?? Cancel this Summit in the first place use video conferencing.

An inside report on the first two days of the summit was leaked in media today, these are the points being considered for greener earth by our world leaders:

1. Detergents are bad for earth, save ‘em

Since we know detergents cannot be recycled, so we should not use them too often. Its time we start wearing those undergarments for weeks before we wash them but not until they have been used for one more week, inside out.

2. Save water, don’t flush

Use the walls, thats what they are for. An usual pee on the wall could save up to 10 lts of water that we would waste in flushin.

3. Don’t buy plastic

Like detergents plastics are also cannot be recycled, so next time we feel thirsty when we are out, we should go for a bottle of beer instead of water. Beer bottles can be reused and does not add to the burden on mother earth. Same goes for condoms.

4. Save electricity, stay out

Since electricity production is one of the major reason of carbon emission, we can save electricity to save earth. We should keep strolling in malls, pubs, discs where AC is already on so that we don’t have to go home to turn on ours, thereby saving lot of electricity.

5.  Save paper, save trees

Cutting of trees also adds to Global warming, so we should ask our local paperwalah to skip our home from tomorrow and train our pets to pick the neighbour’s copy, in case someone don’t have a pet he/she should get one. 

6. Follow Baba Ramdev, cut your emissions

We should do yoga and try to hold our breath for at least an hour a day thereby cutting our carbon emissions by 1/24th. This would also keep people healthy thereby cutting carbon emissions of farts as well.

The leaders also added that they are working on few more groundbreaking ideas to save the planet earth by these sophisticated means.

Shut the f*** up Mr. Hughes

I believe city fans, Mr. Hughes and their noob players must be looking for their bearings after today’s taste of premiership. Someone said that don’t count your chickens before they hatch and Mr. Hughes counted them even before he bought these cocks. This is what internet has to say about them

Today’s scoreline had a lot to tell to this team and specifically to its big mouthed manager. Its a long road ahead and he should stop dreaming about title and must work on what he is good at: Avoiding the relegation.

Austerity!!! But where is Civility?

The Grand Ol' Party of India decided to revamp its blotted image in the eyes of educated Indians so their poll planners came up with the new word Austerity. But the first and foremost question I ask is whether the current and future descendants of Gandhi family (that's what constitutes the Congress party) have the civility to implement Austerity.

Few days back TIMES NOW covered a story regarding a circular issued by Rajasthan Govt. which incidentally belongs to the party that is owned by Gandhi family which stated that every state employee should stand up to welcome any visiting MLA to greet and pay respect to him/her. When countered the Spokesperson Manish Tiwari blatantly agreed to the circular stating that the same circular has been issued by Orrisa Government. I presume that they really admire the way BJP/BJD works so why don't they hand over the command to these parties instead of doing these copy cat acts of issuing the same circular. There are zillions of examples to state the hypocrisy but then m not on a mission to propagate any other party so one should suffice.

Well that was about the Civility of the party which claims that "Aam aadmi ke badhte kadam" but forgets to mention that these steps are backward and not forward. Lets talk bout Austerity, here is a little insight into the so called economy class trip made by another Gandhi descendant

"Sonia flew economy class on Air India flight IC-887 from Delhi to Mumbai to attend a party function, but her Special Protection Group (SPG) officers had cleared out a couple of seats in business class for security reasons. While Sonia was seated on 3A -- the seat with maximum leg space in economy -- the national carrier had emptied out another couple of rows of seats for the privilege of having her on board. The 122-seat Airbus A319 carried 77 passengers in all."

Too little for the much hyped Austerity. Here again there are many instances like IAF spending 25 crores on her travel in 2007 despite the facts that India has hostile neighbors n that money could have been spent on saving few innocent lives but the govt. preferred to spend the money on someone who is not even entitled to fly IAF, but then again if someone can't get convinced by one he can never get convinced at all.

Three cheers to INC, Gandhi family and We the Indians lets keep bringing them back to power to loot everythin that's left in this country.

A cad in the gentleman's game

Saturday was indeed an amazing day with United coming from behind in yet another exciting fixture to take 3 points back home but all this excitement was subdued by the rogue behavior of Emmanuel Adebayor.

The £25.1 Million City Striker stamped his former teammate RVP and even that ugly act couldn't satiate his desire so he almost ignited a riot by running towards the Arsenal fans after scoring a goal against his previous club. Thanks to the men like Michael Turner else this game would have been doomed had it been left to jerks like Adebayor. This is what BBC said

"Michael Turner's reaction to scoring for Sunderland against Hull provided a telling contrast. He initially ran towards his old club's fans, then - realizing his error instantly - apologized with a hand gesture and turned away towards his new followers."

Had I been officiating that FA committee i would have banned him for life(of course I am a United fan and that adds fuel to the fire) but guys like him needs to be stopped before they run over not just their fellow players but the glory of this game that we all love.

A wish come true

I never enjoyed watching a movie from the front row until yesterday. A little background will help the cause i suppose.

For as long as i remember whenever I ve been to any public place specially places like movies/trains/bus/flights etc etc the first thing i check for the seats beside me, do I have any girl sitting next to me, am I the lucky one this time and most of time it ended in disappointment except for few good times. One such day was yesterday.

Though it was noway near to that enticing bus journey I had while going to college (more on it sometime later) but it was good enough to tick the point "Watch a movie with a hottie" on my to-do list. Hopefully more to follow.

A Saturday Morning : 7 AM

Its been ages since I saw clock touching that time or anything near 10 AM on a weekend for that matter. Saturday always started around 11 AM(at the earliest) for me barring few days on which i had to start it early because of office/training/studies/outbound etc etc. But rest all saturdays has been like this only.

But somehow all this legacy that had continued for so many years ended suddenly. I woke up @ 7AM, though i tried my best to go back to sleep but I couldn’t. So finally i got out of bed leaving that long tradition/legacy behind in the sheets.

The mornings never looked so beautiful or maybe I never got a chance to look at them they way I did today. I had all time in the world, I never thought that breeze could be this cold in scorching summer, but at 7 AM it is.

Apart from enjoying the morning I did some pretty useful work as well like I finished up some posts which were there in drafts for almost a month now and wrote a new one as well, got rid of old mags and newspaper from my room, arranged my DVD rack so its easy to find a game when I feel like playing it, helped mumma with daily chores etc etc.

After enjoying so much and doing so many things m still left with 2 hrs of this unusual Saturday because my clock still shows 9 AM. I wonder what all I will be doing in next 2 hours.. :)

This waking up early is really cool I will certainly try to keep upto it. and oh i completely forgot.. Good Morning!!!

The Mic-heal Jack-Son

No there isin’t a spellin mistake in the title but it is intended to be that way…

Whole world is goin bonkers, everybody is talkin bout him and ppl who never even knew the name of his albums are listenin to his numbers all day long… I think he must be sittin up there and smilin on wats goin on down here…

Till couple of months back all he made news was coz of some child molestation charges n suddenly he is on the 24X7 stories on channels like CNN and BBC, these channels even went ahead and did the live coverage of his funeral…The bad Mickey suddenly became mother Teresa…

His whole life he molested children and now is father is under the lens for allegedly torcherin him in his childhood…All kinds of theory surfacin that his children aren’t his :o someone’s sayin that he was not into girls and some other chick is sayin that he was great in bed, blah…blah and blah…

After seein all this I just wonder that when he was alive no one allowed him to live peacefully so much so that he had to take all those medicines to carry on his life that ultimately took his life and now when he is dead these people won’t let him live in peace either…

An ideal song…

For a long time now there hasn’t been a song to which I could easily relate myself to..You Found me was a different case coz  it touched my heart but still I couldn’t relate it to myself… I know all this sounds like jargon well m feelin the same way when m writin all this…

Anyways.. I felt that I couldn’t relate myself to a song for a pretty long until this one..

The lyrics goes somethin like Meri Daastan kaminee, mere raaste kaminey, ik dil se dosti ki thi, yeh huzoor bhi kaminey…n the best line is Mere dost bhi kaminey..m sure my friends will agree with this.

This post has been in pipeline for so long that I have almost forgot what i intended to write bout this song..So I ll update it as and when those thoughts will come back(if ever)…

Michael Owen: Too little too late

The 2001 European footballer is wat United has recently got or should I say United has managed to sign him out of whatever was left after Real’s shoppin spree…

I dun think his form in the last 4 years at EPL has given him any chance to replace Rooney or Berba for the startin lineup but surely he can warm the bench for next 2 yrs like Tevez did and might prove a useful sub for the United…

I was juz tryin to see what changes this summer transfer window might make to the United side..This should be the ideal startin line up as per my opinion(considerin there are no further transfers..)

1. Van Der Sar(I would love to see some fresh pair of legs here)
2. Neville
3. Vidic
4. Ferdinand
5. Evra
6. Carrick
7. Giggs
8. Nani
9. Valencia
10. Rooney
11. Berbatov

Subs:

1. Park Ji Sung
2. Kuszczak
3. Tosic
4. Andersen
5. Owen

And I would surely like to see following players reachin their full potential

1. Rafael
2. Gibson
3. Evans
4. Macheda

Lets see what Sir Alex has in store for our team…

Gay, Proud and Indian

Delhi High Court finally allowed these 3 words to be used in the same sentence, perhaps in the same order as well… In wat is being referred as a historical judgement court legalized homosexuality makin amendments to the section 377…

Well…neither this is a news blog nor m gay but still this judgement has a effect on our lives…How???Thts simple maths lets do it…

As per government estimates there are 932 girls for 1000 boys…Now since gay sex is legal lets assume that there are 10 gay couples/1000 males..This could be more in metro cities but lets be conservative..So there are 20 gays/1000 males…So it means 932 girls/980 straight guys…So talking in the terms in %ges..Its approximately a 1.902% increase of chances for a normal guy of being hooked with a girl…Now thts progress…

On a serious note m glad that our judiciary is not orthodox like our un-honourable ministers and members of parliament..Now its juz upto us as the citizens of this country to give homosexuals the place they deserve in this society..Lets give them their pride back…and as the headline on TIMES NOW said…Gay ho!!! :-)

I wish I was him

“I wish I was him!!”… I ve been suffering from this deadly virus for so long…

Its been like this since a pretty long time now…Perhaps from as long as I remember…Its not what most of the junta would assume it to be--“I miss things in my life therefore I wanna live other’s” I must admit here I ve had an amazin time on this planet till now and I dun repent a single second of if(except few which I spent on hospital beds or in examination halls..) actually its not as deadly as the one in “Taking Lives”…

But somehow a small incident made me to think bout it and change my perception about things around me…This incident happened like a fortnight back and I ve been introspecting myself all along and finally got time/words to pen it all down…

Flash back 14 days(approx)…

There was a tussle goin on between producers and the multiplex owners and poor souls like me had nothin to do..”99” was the movie that came to my rescue…It was the only okayish (at least it seemed okayish) movie in the cinemas at that time so there was no competition…I called up Mak and off we went to Moti Nagar fun cinemas on his scooter…Movie seriously turned out to be okayish..At least I din felt that I have wasted my money as I did for “Mangal Pandey”(Its my benchmark movie to check if a movie was worth it or not)…

On our way back Mak felt that his throat has dried up and he needed some chemicals to get it back to normal….So we took a detour to District Centre to catch up a pint/can of beer each…I use each because most people miss out the article “a” while relating me with beer but for the sake of that junta I would like to enlighten everyone on a fact that I have given up drinkin and its been more that juz couple of days…In fact its been almost a quarter(no not a quarter of whiskey but a quarter of year)..Anyways back to story..So Mak took his regular KF in one hand and fag in another..I decided to try my hands on Breezer(for those who dun know bout this…lets keep it simple its a kind of fruit juice..)..Will write about Breezer and its pros and cons sometime later…

So after this customary detour we boarded our flight and continued our journey back home…After few minutes I saw a guy ridin a scooter and wearin a IIT Delhi T Shirt…Now it doesn’t need any genius to figure out that he was indeed from IIT Delhi(Although I am a genius..)Books in his sidekick confirmed my belief…After seein him my old dream of IITs came back hauntin…Although I never dreamt of IITs not until I finished my B.Tech…but watever it was at that instant I wanted to be there and with this thought came the killer thought “I wish I was him”…

The thoughts and my wish list continued for a lil longer until the traffic halted on a red light… Mak started zippin thru the traffic and some frustrated ppl sittin on 4 wheelers shouted in disgust..But Mak continued as if he was a man on a mission…He went ahead and stopped right beside that IIT guy…Suddenly I saw a pair of crutches in his sidekick along with his Engineering books…I noticed that he was riding the scooter with additional support…All this while I had noticed everythin I wanted to but never noticed the price that comes along with all that…

2 mins back I would have killed someone to live that guy’s life and now… Now I was thankin god for what he has given me…As the light turned green Mak zipped his scooter forward leavin behind a white line of smoke and along with it my so called virus “I wish I was him”…

I am contended with what I have and If I dun have somethin then there are better ways of gettin it rather then bein the person who has it…He might not have everythin else that I desire…

I have always heard that life teaches us lessons..Though m sure I ve learnt a lot of them but this is first one I noticed…See m gettin wiser and humble…. ;-)

The Jersey war

This season has begun on a high note for the football world...Some great spending and some waste signings...Real has been on a shoppin spree maybe coz its been almost 8 yr since they bagged UEFA and even longer since they finished second.

They always poach on the United players be it Nistelrooy, Beckham or Ronaldo they always try to bring them to Madrid but to no good...

I juz wish they invest thier money in better scouting and grooming talent like the English clubs do...

I hope that sanity will prevail...