July 2011
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Why The Results Don't Matter
I just became (by the virtue of some luck) a Graduate. But somehow deep inside i don’t feel like one. There are a number of reasons for that. One of the primary reasons is the apathetic behavior of Mumbai University towards its students. I can compare it to one of the many Black Holes in space that keep sucking whatever comes in its way and then throwing it out when nothing is left. MU is...
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Harbor Line Banter 2: An Open Letter
Dear Self-Righteous Dude in the train,
I don’t know if i was fortunate or unfortunate to have been standing besides you in the 11.30 CST local on the day when the trains were running extremely late because of a derailment at Cotton Green station. As people crammed inside the already half an hour late train, i somehow found myself besides you. As we settled in the painfully slow and cramped...
May 2011
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Harbor Line Banter 1
I recently started work and have been taking the Harbor line train to Masjid Bunder daily. Even though i go via the first class compartment, there is enough banter to keep me entertained throughout my 20 minute journey on the way to work and back. Sometimes its thoroughly entertaining and worth sharing with everyone. Hence, i thought why not blog about it. So starting today, whenever i hear some...
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"Excuse me, ball please"
When i was a kid, i used to play cricket with my building friends in our compound or the in the next building. It was a ritual to play cricket morning and evening except during school days. During school it used to be either on weekends or during off days. Sometimes even during the afternoon if we had nothing better to do. Every summer this ritual was followed. Nothing stopped us apart from the...
April 2011
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YashRaj Copies Music Video
I just saw the music video of a song called ‘freak out’ from the upcoming YashRaj movie ‘Love ka the end’ and was quite taken aback at how the makers have completely lifted the whole music video from a very popular and original YouTube video called t-shirt war made by RhettandLink about a year ago and had gone viral instantly. As of now their video has about 67,74,223 views...
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Law One: Murphy's Law
If anything can go wrong, it will - Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr.
If there is any law that holds true no matter what, it has to be the one stated by Edward Murphy.He served in the US Military during the 2nd World War fighting in the Pacific Theater (India, China and Burma). After the war he became an aerospace engineer and worked for the US Air Force institute of Technology. But enough about the...
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Some Laws To Live By
Found this while i was on a random surfing spree. Some are really worth living by. I can relate to almost all of them. Good idea to write about them individually i guess?
If anything can go wrong, it will – Murphy’s Law
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory – Brown’s Rule
If you don’t need it and don’t want it, there is always plenty of it – Murphy’s Law of Supply
In America, it’s not...
December 2010
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I HATE Texting/SMSing!
This comic strip is funny, true and at the same time reflects how Texting/SMSing has taken charge of being a primary mode of communication and how it is affecting our way of communicating to others and how it has changed the dynamics and structure of a conversation literally over its head. Let me be clear here. I am not a big fan of Texting. I hate it. Its the dumbest thing I have seen since...
Nick Miller: Red Moleskine for you, from me. →
nickmiller:
Perhaps you know of my fondness for Moleskine notebooks. I have, in my possession now, a brand new red Moleskine designed for writing. I want to give it away to one of you who also loves to write.
I have handwritten my Travel piece on page one, which may have never been born if I…
Awesomely Inspirational!
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You know you are in Jamnagar when..
All the signs are in Gujarati and every second shop/office/factory/store is named “Patel”.
Every third shop is a Paan and Soda shop. And all of them have dedicated customers.
You see atleast one bungalow wherever you look
Kachoris are found in EVERY house.
There is a Patel Nagar in any address given to you.
There are more two wheelers than four wheelers.
There is a mention of...
November 2010
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Every time you chat me up to ask something, a...
Friend: Hi!
Me: Hey! Ssup?
Friend: Nm..js busy wid coll prjct
Me: Oh! same here. How much are you done with it?
Friend: i ws out…nw bck n full form. wrkng nw.
Me: oh! ok. All the best for it.
Friend: Thnks. wt else?
Me: Nothing else. You?
Friend: Nah..ntg..do you knw wens coll reopening?
(I get pissed off at this question)
Me: No mate, no idea.
(Silence)
...
October 2010
2 posts
Things to do in November
Finally 3 of my 6 University Exams are over and now i can finally afford to relax a bit because the next 3 exams are relatively easier as its theory and i can pretty much bullshit my way to good marks. Anyways, Since i get a almost month long Diwali Vacation, there are a few things i want to really do. So heres what i am going to do in November:
The Social Media Project: I have to submit my...
Three songs that make my life
Summer of 69
by
Bryan Adams
I just love this song. It maybe a song about making love, but the lyrics are beautiful and evergreen. And if you never knew what the song was about, you’d think it describes a perfect summer!
Return To Innocence
by
Enigma
...
September 2010
2 posts
Anonymous asked: Whats your zodiac sign?
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The Two Faces
Over past few days, I have been pondering over Marilyn Monroe’s quote ”If you are gonna be two faced atleast make one of them pretty”. Cheeky thought if you ask me but one that is deep, dark and true. Whoever reads this quote definitely smiles inside because they know its right.
But i found myself asking another question. Are we all two faced? Is there not a single person who is...
August 2010
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Let The Child Live
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
This quote exemplifies what I feel right now. We all grow up from being kids to being adults and ultimately we grow old. This is life. But the attitude we have as kids, that of being curious, enthusiastic, playful little beings gets lost somewhere in the process of “growing up”. We tend to kill the child...
July 2010
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The world would be a better place if..
We all just got along together without any kind of expectations.
There would be no rising prices and no tons of rotting grain lying in Godowns.
Times Of India was still a credible newspaper unlike now.
Broadband Internet would be a legal right like in Finland
Right Wingers like Shiv Sena, MNS, BJP would lose every election and realise they have no place in the India of today.
Checking...
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June 2010
7 posts
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Anonymous asked: Are u a southindian? coz u look like one..
Anonymous asked: Do u love me? Will u do frandship with me? :P
Why am I so distracted?
American Golfer Tom Kite once said - “You will always find a distraction if you are looking for one”. He could not have been more right. In today’s day and age, no matter what you want to do, you will find someone or something distracting you from your work.
I always want to write something or the other. The topic stays in my head when I first think of it but then when its time...
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Kashmir: In the Lap of the Himalayas
Imagine: Vast green lands with fresh mountain water flowing as river Jhelum Chenab and its tributaries, filling lakes and fueling even more greenery with birds of all kinds flying past you, sitting and chirping besides you with tall Chinar (Platane) and Pine trees everywhere you look. The weather is always cold between -4 to 25 degrees in the summer. There is nothing but green and white on the...
April 2010
4 posts
Communication (Or the lack of it)
George Bernard Shaw, the Irish Playwright rightly quoted once: “The Single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place”. He was very much right. Add to the fact that he lived from 1856 to 1950. Thats 94 years. A time when only a select few could afford to talk on the telephone and the rest had to make do with letters, and sometimes carrier pigeons (which it...
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IPL Fixed? Think again please.
The whole IPL controversy and Lalit Modi vs Shashi Tharoor Ego fight opened flood gates for all types of controversies including the Indian favourite “The match is fixed” syndrome.
Its absurd, radical, foolish and even science-fiction to think that IPL matces can be fixed. By even thinking and conjuring up theories about how its fixed, people have insulted the greats of the game like...
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The Sight of you...
I’m no poet and nor do I write good poetry, but every now and then i get a tune in my head and I jot it down on my writing pad. This one came as an inspired thought a while back and I thought it worthy to be shared. I was wondering what or how I will be when I meet that special someone in my life in the future and how I will feel or react to her.Writing this poem doesn’t mean I am some...
And Also.: Sachin Tendulkar: Converting atheists... →
“When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras…
March 2010
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We are all Crack Pots
We are all full of flaws. And each time someone points them out to us we start feeling conscious and we feel insecure. But why? Everyone has flaws don’t they? Nobody is perfect! Then why the obsession to be one? It makes me wonder how certain people point out defects and flaws in another person so easily and so fast (which in itself is a sign of insecurity!) In my opinion, whatever flaws you...
February 2010
4 posts
“Friends are like souls, if you lose a friend, you lose a part of your soul. The...”
– Me
The Taliban Nursery Rhyme
Taliban Taliban
Yes Papa!
Having a Bomb?
No Papa!
Telling lies?
No Papa..
Open your jacket..
Dho Dha Dhaa
January 2010
5 posts
“Love is the fart
Of every heart.
For when held in,
Doth pain thy host.
But...”
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Things I have grown up with
Nostalgia can strike anyone anytime. I’ve been nostalgic all the while I did not blog. Childhood memories flooded my mind every now and then. I was born in 1990, so I’ve grown up in the 90s era and anything related to that decade makes me smile. Growing up in the 90s has its own charms and memories.
I remember my school days and the one recurring memory about it is coming home from...
December 2009
4 posts
Cheaters beware, Emotional Atyachar is here!
Back in October 2000, a very controversial show started its 9 season long run in the USA. It was called Cheaters. The show was simple. If you think your spouse is cheating you, you could call Cheaters and they will find out the truth. Armed with spy cameras, hidden microphones and actors who played secret agents to find out the truth, the show was a big hit. Obviously Controversy followed. But in...
Nothing makes piracy right (i support you view...
aayush:
[My thoughts on @chetan_bhagat and the whole #chetanblocks melodrama.]
As someone who was born and has lived his entire life in India, piracy has been a part and parcel of everyday life for me. From using a pirated copy of Windows and pirated games on the first PC I ever used to never having to purchase any song to listen to it and from renting shoddy pirated copies of Bollywood movies...
November 2009
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