Sunday, July 20, 2008

A Biography of a Man in middle of a freeway

I was having a great time, with my eyes tightly shut and my legs totally stretched, all the worries in mind have taken a back seat and I was relived for just that moment. Sounds of many a vehicle on the road were like rhythmic music playing to put me into sleep, many more sounds were hitting my deaf ear but were not reaching my brain, I guess god has given me this special gift he made me a deaf man. I am really thankful to him, but that is not it he has given me many more things in life, I shall talk about them later. So I was deep asleep, it was like heaven in middle of a free way suddenly I felt my face going cold and me waking up to a splash of water that was thrown on to my face. I woke up and now I think I could figure out all the stuff for which I need to thank the almighty, I already thanked him for making me deaf, now I guess I need to thank him for making the left part of my body dysfunctional, for making me beg all day and sleep with an empty stomach, for making me deprived of basic necessities. The only thing I hate god is for giving me something which he shouldn't have, he gave me a pair of eyes to see my miserable state, he gave me a heart to feel bad, a stomach which makes me hungry always, and a brain which activates all the above mentioned things.


snap clicked near my house with my mobile.
Perhaps this is what he was feeling when he was sleeping in middle of the road. without even realizing what was happening around. Until a man (who fortunately happens to be my driver) woke him up and put him at the other side of the road.Our car had broken down otherwise we would have seen him and ignored him to be a drunkerd lying on the road.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Love is in the Air


Strictly not for people in love

Hello dear xyz,
I love you!! I can’t live without you .blah blah blah…………….
With love
ABC

What’s love? Is it the unforgettable feeling that one gets or is it the feeling which is over hyped that “you have to be in love to know what it means”. I don’t know what that feeling is all about. As you all might have guessed by now this blog entry is dedicated to all the people who are in love.

“Love is in the air”- this can fit any college campus, their might be colleges without the required infrastructure, without professors but I bet you wont find a campus without lovers. Couples who are in love are seen everywhere unless it’s an all girls or all boys college. Every dark corner u will find them, in classes, in restaurants, on road, in front of the hostels everywhere. It was real good fun to treat them as “made for each other”, but are they? Once they cross the boundaries of the college everything is forgotten, all the things that happened it just happened. Perhaps they just needed emotional support from the opposite sex.

According to me most of the relations are “born to end”. There are very few that I have seen which were successful, one of them is a senior who took me into dopy. Given a chance perhaps all relations will continue, but what might be the reasons for relations to end? It can be anything ranging from parental pressure to misunderstandings to gen thrill “let’s end it we had enough” types.

Now that it has ended lets see how it actually started. It started with perhaps a smile that they exchanged in a class, perhaps with regular conversations on Google talk, perhaps discussing a close friends break up, how ever it was born, finally it has an end.

After how it all started now lets talk a bit on life after the end. I rather call it “The new beginning for another end”. In this phase both of them are meant to have a tough time (unless the relation never meant anything to the couple). But it is often found that one of them takes it to heart and looses his identity and self respect. He/ she tend to do crazy stuff for a while and later on they find their true love again. Another relation is born; let’s wait for the end to see the vicious circle continue.

Hello dear pqr,
I love you!! I can’t live without you .blah blah blah…………….
With love
ABC

PS: it’s the same letter he sends I guess just the name changes and perhaps some more adjectives are used.

This loop is never ending till the day of your marriage, considering India to be a developing country and the concept of divorce and second marriages is not yet the in thing.(that’s not the case with our film stars though).

A little mention to “bhajrang dal” a group formed by kiki, on Valentines Day to piss off all the couples. Three cheers to Rahul Vj and his movie “She wont cry when you die” asking the biggest question whether she will cry when u die.

A special mention for all the people who change their partners faster than their mobile phone. They have different vicious circles laid all around the park. This case is still confusing and I never understood how can someone do that? Research in progress I guess…

Planning to end this heavy topic on a lighter note. Here is my friend who is weak in romance
Beep beep sms..
My friends girl : hey listen I am hungry . Not able to concentrate on studies.
Friend: don’t worry mess opens in half an hour (what a fag man)

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

The Sultry Harsh Water

We all are like fishes, which are groomed properly for more than two decades under, parental and teacher care. Lessons that are more important than just Newton’s laws are thought, lessons that teaches you inertia of life, that teaches you that for every action(good/bad) you will have an equal and an opposite (needn’t necessarily be) reaction. You are kept in an aquarium well fed and well nourished and are kept in a well maintained room temperature miles away from the harsh sun or rain.

The transition state (read as the state in between college and an actual job) comes a bit harsh at the fish as they are not given importance and are no more fed at proper times and nourished, they feel the harsh sun and rain and find it tough to digest. Boredom and idleness get on to them and they lose all the self confidence that they had in the aquarium (college) to conquer the ocean (the C world) . They become rather tired and fed up with life the harshness hits on to them and the drainage stinks. Unfortunately drainage is used to pump all the fish from aquariums to the ocean.

Tired of surviving in the drain the fishes are suddenly thrown into an ocean along with fishes of all kinds, fishes that never have been nourished in an aquarium to fishes that are harsh and street smart, fishes that have been in the ocean for years laugh at us and say welcome to “the real world buddy get used to the taste of this harsh and sultry water”. You need to survive, fight for food and shelter, stay away from the big fat fishes which might swallow you anytime and make fewer friends whom you can trust. Rebuilding your confidence that you have lost in the drain,the feeling which makes you feel like a useless piece of shit needs to be eradicated from your mind. Keep floating and keep going as many a new fish will enter the ocean soon and you might find it tough to find your own piece of food. This needs to go on till you are tired of doing it (till the day you say enough I have lived enough let me sleep till eternity)

Perhaps this the problem with most of the fish that grows in an aquarium without seeing the outer world, they are lucky to have a happy two decade of living at the beginning of the "never ending" but what’s their state after that. Many a fish drown to the immense pressure and the tide. Very few survive and most of us who do, learn to live with the sweet water (sultry water starts to taste sweet soon).

The compromise(life) continues...

Monday, July 7, 2008

Happy to Help (are they??)


pic courtesy vodafone ESSAR

8am -(literally everyday) beep beep.. 1 message received- Vodafone- Hello! Your Vodafone mobile Phone usage is reaching credit limit. We request for an interim payment for uninterrupted services.


Vodafone Essar the third largest mobile telecom providers in India and the fastest growing telecom providers in India currently. A large amount of credit goes to their brilliant video ads, which actually revolutionalized the advertisement industry and made its competitors think of the importance of good ads. (Even R'com is coming with decent ads now a days but I think BSNL will never change, no wonder they lost their market share substantially over the years) With more and more telecom companies getting ready to conquer the already populated Indian Telecom market I feel the BPO's will have a gr8 time ahead. (Rather we will have a tough time)The point of me writing this post is not to analyze the Indian telecom Industry but to vent out my frustration on how ineffective the customer cares are lately. Its been 10 days now since I have paid my post paid bill and its not yet been credited to my account, calling up the Vodafone customer care has been in my To-Do list since then and even now, my tone while talking to the customer care has changed from polite to harsh but still the company which has spent crores of rupees in creating ads and buying ad time on television have forgotten to invest on a good customer care service.

Call 111 - the first 3 mins you spend figuring out how to reach the customer care, once u finally get to reach the customer care the happy to help tone keeps repeating with messages in between saying "thank you for waiting we are happy to help you" and finally when you reach the customer care they either say they are pre-paid customer care of they are not concerned with billing. The worst part is even to pay the bill I had to wait for 40 mins for my turn to come. When they can remind me everyday that my credit limit is reaching why cant they do something about crediting my amount to the account??

Same is the case with all the customer cares in India, I have seen my friends struggling to activate GPRS on their mobile who are subscribed to the leading telecom provider in India, At least they don’t show everyday on TV that they are happy to help, the ad is getting on to my nerves now....

Currently waiting for a call back from vodafone, She said ten minutes I am done with writing my post too..

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

The Box!!

People say Think out of the box! I rather want to leave the Box aside and explore the world out of it..

We all stay in a Box for most of the day, which no one else except the nearest ones have a right to trespass but I feel the dimensions of the Box have exploded, i do not know where the vertexes lie and rather do i know which segment of the Box i am standing in. I want to leave the box but i am failing in finding the Exit.. !! Perhaps their is none..

Life moves on ...