The last two weeks will remain as a special chapter in my life. Three prominent angles mark this fantabulous week.
First "The Mad Angle":- Margaritas, Screw Drivers, Planter's Punch, Smirnoff kept flowing, while grilled chicken kept popping out of the grilling machine as we hosted party after party after party (5 to be precise). Long Live George Foreman---that was the best buy of all the shopping I have done in Dubai all these years! The mad angle part of it was the vanishing act done by chicken n the sickening act done by me. Just when we (Lambuji n Thinguji) thought we would do the grilled chicken stuff in one of the parties , market ran out of chicken-AD, BD, AE, C3...Had to run to everywhere and finally got them in GC...phew! Coming to my acrobats, first I ran around the streets at night, got involved in a street fight and also had the time to pain the cosmetic shop attenders with my banter. I also made Lambuji eat the burnt maggi I cooked especially for her n i also threw up. I also went into a cake baking-spree, shopping-spree ( I almost ransacked all shops in Sarogini Nagar, Lajpat Nagar n Atta Market) and gardening mania. In all those madness I even found time for buying some good old jewellery for the big day ahead.
Second "The Heart Angle" It was the meeting of the minds, it was the bonding of the hearts, it was the week of love and laugh. Money goes, Health goes, Friends go, Love goes but Family stays forever. Its the most important truth of my life and this week's activities were a small tribute to that truth. Sharing drinks and chicken, baking cakes , shopping for nail colours while drunk, eating burnt maggi cause it has been cooked by a loved one, getting up at 4.30am in the peak of winter to recieve a loved one at the railway station even when you have asthma, three people eating one Dosa and still feeling fullfilled, dashing to the airport just after a job interview to welcome a loved one when the outside temperature is 4 degrees, two generations of sisters cooking food together, lambuji and tinguji doing night outs, lambuji teaching tinguji all the katu satyas of life , watching Feluda movie "Kailashe Kelenkari" together and tripping over "MuniDaar Munidaar Yanna Rascala..Mind It"....its inexplicable
Third "The Bad Angle" We came, We partied, We Bitched n bitched n bitched n b......
I learnt new galis and put-lake all those namurads (Hopeless- for the Urdu Challenged) and max payne agents (ei Lambuji.... THEYNKS!), also got sick witnessing the Pullover game. Why was I trying to drive a mercedes in a desert? Yeah really.... put lake all those people and those relationships that come with 45 suitcases of emotional baggage. Excess baggage is not even allowed during short journeys by air so why should they be allowed in this long journey of life. Chalo yeh to sirf trailer tha....Picture to main dikhaungi mere dost; MIND IT !(Inspired by my Guru SRK)
Sunday, December 30, 2007
BIhu and Halloween Celebrations
Diferent countries, different religion, different food habits...but if we observe closely all things are the manifestation of one thing. Life is endless nothingness; we are all waiting for death and to make that waiting less tiresome, we eat, drink and make merry. In that merriment, we all end up doing more or less the same things, things which are symbolic to each one of us, the Human Spirit.
For instance, take Bihu and Halloween; Two different festivals celebrated in two different parts of the globe by two different race.
For the people of Assam, Bihu is the most important festival and is celebrated during three different seasons in three different ways- Kongali Bihu (October), Bhogali Bihu(January) and Rongali Bihu (April).
On the other hand, we have Halloween, which is mostly celebrated in the western world on 31st October. However, both have their origin related to Harvesting.
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival, Samhain. This festival is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, similarly, Bhogali Bihu marks the end of the harvesting season in Assam. Of the remaining two Bihus- Kongali Bihu is observed in Octber when the granneries of the farmer is almost empty and he prays for the paddy in the fields to yield a good harvest in January. Rongali Bihu marks the beginning of the Assamese New Year and also the preparation of the paddy fields for cultivation.
One of the main activities of Halloween is Trick-Or-Treating. It includes the children going from door to door dressed in disguise and offering entertainment. They are then treated with gifts of candies or money. Similary during Rongali Bihu, children and youngsters go from door to door and entertain people with Bihu dance and songs. They are then given pithas (assamese sweets) and money.
Trick-or-Treating also involve children and young people playing a range of tricks on adults. One such trick is to unhinge garden gates and move it far away. This is something I have done a number of times during our Bhogali Bihu celebrations. Just like Halloween, we would have our Bonfire night (Uruka in Assamese)- all children and young people spend the whole night dancing, singing and playing games around the bonfire and ofcourse, playing tricks on adults like stealing chickens , vegetables from the garden, etc.
Just like Hallooween, Kongali bihu's history involves lamps, evil eye and spirits.
During Kongali bihu, earthen lamps are lighted all across the house and paddy fields and traditonal chants are recited to ward off pest and Evil Eye and thus protect the paddy. This Bihu is also associated with the lighting of Akaxi Ganga, lamps at the tip of a tall bamboo pole to show the souls of the dead the way to heaven. Likewise, in Halloween, the Jack-O_lanterns are put at the door of each house to protect it from evel siprits ( Gaels believed that on that day, the boundaries between living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come alive and cause havoc on the farmers). When the Romans occupied Celtic region, several roman traditions were included in the celebration including Feralia, which is celebrated by Romans for the passing of the dead (AKAXI GANGA, anyone?!).
Similarities and similarities...anywhere, everywhere..
For me there is only one race- the human race.....All for one, one for all!
For instance, take Bihu and Halloween; Two different festivals celebrated in two different parts of the globe by two different race.
For the people of Assam, Bihu is the most important festival and is celebrated during three different seasons in three different ways- Kongali Bihu (October), Bhogali Bihu(January) and Rongali Bihu (April).
On the other hand, we have Halloween, which is mostly celebrated in the western world on 31st October. However, both have their origin related to Harvesting.
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival, Samhain. This festival is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, similarly, Bhogali Bihu marks the end of the harvesting season in Assam. Of the remaining two Bihus- Kongali Bihu is observed in Octber when the granneries of the farmer is almost empty and he prays for the paddy in the fields to yield a good harvest in January. Rongali Bihu marks the beginning of the Assamese New Year and also the preparation of the paddy fields for cultivation.
One of the main activities of Halloween is Trick-Or-Treating. It includes the children going from door to door dressed in disguise and offering entertainment. They are then treated with gifts of candies or money. Similary during Rongali Bihu, children and youngsters go from door to door and entertain people with Bihu dance and songs. They are then given pithas (assamese sweets) and money.
Trick-or-Treating also involve children and young people playing a range of tricks on adults. One such trick is to unhinge garden gates and move it far away. This is something I have done a number of times during our Bhogali Bihu celebrations. Just like Halloween, we would have our Bonfire night (Uruka in Assamese)- all children and young people spend the whole night dancing, singing and playing games around the bonfire and ofcourse, playing tricks on adults like stealing chickens , vegetables from the garden, etc.
Just like Hallooween, Kongali bihu's history involves lamps, evil eye and spirits.
During Kongali bihu, earthen lamps are lighted all across the house and paddy fields and traditonal chants are recited to ward off pest and Evil Eye and thus protect the paddy. This Bihu is also associated with the lighting of Akaxi Ganga, lamps at the tip of a tall bamboo pole to show the souls of the dead the way to heaven. Likewise, in Halloween, the Jack-O_lanterns are put at the door of each house to protect it from evel siprits ( Gaels believed that on that day, the boundaries between living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come alive and cause havoc on the farmers). When the Romans occupied Celtic region, several roman traditions were included in the celebration including Feralia, which is celebrated by Romans for the passing of the dead (AKAXI GANGA, anyone?!).
Similarities and similarities...anywhere, everywhere..
For me there is only one race- the human race.....All for one, one for all!
Psychology Digest: I spit on your grave
First posted at Myspace..bear with the typos
Date: December, 2005
PSYCHOLOGY DIGEST-1
Sometime back I came across a movie named "I spit on your grave", a pretty old movie with unknown actors in the lead. But during the year of its release and long after it still remains quite a "known" movie. The movie became ill-famous for its brutal rape scenes and even gorier revenge scenes. The title of the movie is very interesting though...It makes me wonder "what makes a person hate another fellow so much that he/she would continue hating the fellow long after that fellow is dead and buried ?" In an attempt to answer this subjective question it might do some good if i start with a more basic question "what triggers off hate?
The answer , according to me, would be "huge disappointments/expectations". I feel they are the two faces of the same coin. We say that we hate our enemies...who are our enemies? Enemies are usually people with whom we had some kind of dealings in the past and when dealings didnot work out our way or according to our expectations, we get disappointed and start disliking the person for not acting the way we wanted him/her to act and maybe, finally hate that person. I know it may sound too simple a reason to trigger off a strong emotion like hate but then again atom is such a tiny thing.
Also there are situations like the one shown in that movie, where the heroine had just "one encounter" with her would be enemies before she start hating them. Usually one-encounter-triggers off-hate happens when we are hugely disappointed with the other party for disturbing/demeaning our "peace/life/convictions/values". There could be many more but the thing to foucs on is "disturbance in personal space- leading- to- disappointments". Like, in the movie the heroine is brutally raped by a group of men the very day she lands up in a small idyllic countryside. Now, a rape victim can have N number of reasons to hate her rapists, but we am concerned about only one of these, which infact is the most baisc one...her expectations from fellow beings of a decent behaviour...that they would be, if not nice to her, atleast wont be mean to her either. But the contrary happens which triggers off huge diappointment and finally hate.
I myself have felt such strong emotion as hate, the basis of which have been expectations/disappointment. I hated my ex (then boyfriend) who left me for reasons of his own. Infact I hated him so much, I thought I should vent all my frustrations through a letter to him; can you guess how the letter was addressed? It read "To the fucking asshole formerly known as boyfriend"... that was long time ago and i never send the letter. But I do have a good laugh when I think how silly I was ! Howvere not all hate can be put in the category of silliness.
Sometimes hate can be so strong that one can completely destroy the person he/she hates or end up hurting oneself. This category of hate could bud from mega desappointment which disturbs the very core of being. This mega dsiappointment must have not only hurt "one view/expectation" but should as well have changed/gave birth to another view/expectation/conviction in the person. ..like in medical terms a "malignant change"
Let me explain this point with the help of the movie. After the protagonist was raped , two things happened. First, her "expectations" from fellow being got damaged completely and secondly, due to this damage , she had a "new view" towards men in general. So, in a way we can say her life changed/ her way of looking at life changed and as long as she maintained those new views she would always be reminded of the past that led to her present state of mind and she would continue hating her rapists. I guess, I have answered the question I asked at the beginning of this post. But there's a part of it which is still left untouched ---the revenge/settle the score part. I guess it happens due to the dissonance created by the old view and the new view clash. Even though a new view has formed in the mind but the old view was so strong that it doesnot go away easily. We start analysing as to what went wrong with our old view or why did the person disappoint us. We also can't accept the fact that our old view was wrong. The mind keeps asking why/how all the time that it decides to uproot the very cause that gave rise to such a dissonance i.e destroy the person that you hate or destroy oneself so that the buzzing in the mind stops !
Date: December, 2005
PSYCHOLOGY DIGEST-1
Sometime back I came across a movie named "I spit on your grave", a pretty old movie with unknown actors in the lead. But during the year of its release and long after it still remains quite a "known" movie. The movie became ill-famous for its brutal rape scenes and even gorier revenge scenes. The title of the movie is very interesting though...It makes me wonder "what makes a person hate another fellow so much that he/she would continue hating the fellow long after that fellow is dead and buried ?" In an attempt to answer this subjective question it might do some good if i start with a more basic question "what triggers off hate?
The answer , according to me, would be "huge disappointments/expectations". I feel they are the two faces of the same coin. We say that we hate our enemies...who are our enemies? Enemies are usually people with whom we had some kind of dealings in the past and when dealings didnot work out our way or according to our expectations, we get disappointed and start disliking the person for not acting the way we wanted him/her to act and maybe, finally hate that person. I know it may sound too simple a reason to trigger off a strong emotion like hate but then again atom is such a tiny thing.
Also there are situations like the one shown in that movie, where the heroine had just "one encounter" with her would be enemies before she start hating them. Usually one-encounter-triggers off-hate happens when we are hugely disappointed with the other party for disturbing/demeaning our "peace/life/convictions/values". There could be many more but the thing to foucs on is "disturbance in personal space- leading- to- disappointments". Like, in the movie the heroine is brutally raped by a group of men the very day she lands up in a small idyllic countryside. Now, a rape victim can have N number of reasons to hate her rapists, but we am concerned about only one of these, which infact is the most baisc one...her expectations from fellow beings of a decent behaviour...that they would be, if not nice to her, atleast wont be mean to her either. But the contrary happens which triggers off huge diappointment and finally hate.
I myself have felt such strong emotion as hate, the basis of which have been expectations/disappointment. I hated my ex (then boyfriend) who left me for reasons of his own. Infact I hated him so much, I thought I should vent all my frustrations through a letter to him; can you guess how the letter was addressed? It read "To the fucking asshole formerly known as boyfriend"... that was long time ago and i never send the letter. But I do have a good laugh when I think how silly I was ! Howvere not all hate can be put in the category of silliness.
Sometimes hate can be so strong that one can completely destroy the person he/she hates or end up hurting oneself. This category of hate could bud from mega desappointment which disturbs the very core of being. This mega dsiappointment must have not only hurt "one view/expectation" but should as well have changed/gave birth to another view/expectation/conviction in the person. ..like in medical terms a "malignant change"
Let me explain this point with the help of the movie. After the protagonist was raped , two things happened. First, her "expectations" from fellow being got damaged completely and secondly, due to this damage , she had a "new view" towards men in general. So, in a way we can say her life changed/ her way of looking at life changed and as long as she maintained those new views she would always be reminded of the past that led to her present state of mind and she would continue hating her rapists. I guess, I have answered the question I asked at the beginning of this post. But there's a part of it which is still left untouched ---the revenge/settle the score part. I guess it happens due to the dissonance created by the old view and the new view clash. Even though a new view has formed in the mind but the old view was so strong that it doesnot go away easily. We start analysing as to what went wrong with our old view or why did the person disappoint us. We also can't accept the fact that our old view was wrong. The mind keeps asking why/how all the time that it decides to uproot the very cause that gave rise to such a dissonance i.e destroy the person that you hate or destroy oneself so that the buzzing in the mind stops !
Psychology Digest: Attack of Max Payne Agents
This piece was posted by me first on Myspace..bear with the typos.
Date: June, 2006
Place: Somewhere in this beautiful world
Time: 11pm
The mobile rings twice and stops... a missed call. As I pick up the phone it again rings twice and stops. Two missed calls! I check the number- its one of my "friends". I get worried and call her back. I ask her "what happened?" She says "(Arre nothing yaar just wanted to chat with u". I say "You could have called" She says" Arre you people are richer than I'm so you can call me anytime" Thats the moment I knew I have been attacked by a Max Payne Agent!
One of the many characteristics of a MPA is that whenever they feel like talking (paining actually) with you, they will give missed calls and save money. This so called friend of mine knew very well that Iwas suffering heavy financial losses during that period and still she had the audacity to label me rich and make me feel uncomfortable. Thats what MPA are best doing at...making the other person feel uncomfortable!
Theres another variant to this "Call" MPA. This particular breed will never call/sms you, they don't understand the basis of friendship "Give n Take". So, by any chance if you happen to call them, they will talk about everything under the sun...you see its your money going down the drain.
The mutant version of "Call"MPA is the most dangerous type. They are the ones who will call you at every odd hours possible and say in asad tone" Can u pls call back?" Hearing his sad tone, You will ofcourse callback. Then will start the story of their woes (how their husband/wife, BF/GF is not treating them well, how the whole world is against them, phalana, phalana). I'm not saying that their woes are not genuine..they are. But the catch is that they will ask you to call them (i.e they will talk with you) only when they are sad or in a bad situation. They wont never remember you in their happy times, but when its gloomy you are the first one in their mind. That kind of sentiment is tolerable once in a while. But what is not tolerable is that they are talking about their woes at your expense (literally). You are awarded the "The Shoulder To Cry On" title along witha Four figure telephone bill!!! . If they really want to talk with you they should be one spending the money and not you- thats my take on it.
Another characteristic of this loathsome agent is to make everyone around him/her uncomfortable with their "observation power". Like once during my engineering college days, all girls in the hostel decided to wear saris for a function. There was a MPA amongst the girls. No sooner had she seen me ina sari, she commented "E, its a nice sari, but I guess it has seen better days" She meant" its an old sari"! (i roll my eyes)
This breed also like to answer on your behalf. Imagine a scene at the party. Someone is asking you "So, What do u do?" If a MPA happens to be nearby she/he will say " XYZ works for ABC company"!The agent seems to know more about you than you yourself do. Thats why they are called "agents" you see.
Just like an investigative agent MPAs too have a lot of curiocity in other people's lives. They will bombard you with their painful questions which you dont feel like answering at all. Their sensitivity chip is definitely missing!. They cant tell if they are suffocating someone with their intrusive nature. They also cant distinguish between a private and a public place.
Once I was traveling by a city bus and bumped into a MPA(imagine my bad luck). She shouts" E, Long Time, how r u?" Even before I could answer her question she shouts back " Heard that you have broken up with your boyfrined?" Is that a question to ask in a public transport?
I knew she did it on purspose, being true to her MPA characteristic of making someone feel uncomfortable. I decided to do something different this time. I asnwered her question with another question" Which boyfriend are you talking about the 4th one or the 5th one?" And you know what she was taken aback by my upfront assault. See, a MPA gets "high" by making someone uncomfortable but if that someone doesnot show any such sings, the agent's enthu just fizzles out.
Another weakness of the MPA is that they cannot bear "pain" even though they thrive in giving pain to others. And I say thats what you should do when attacked by such agents. Once during a trip to a shopping mall along with my classmates, I was attacked by a MPA.
As I was going through some T-shirts, she began to say " this t-shirts are tight fitting it wont look good on you"Ismiled and said " Yeah they are actually meant for AIRSTRIPs like you!" She didnot utter a word again. If she had retorted back" Thats rude" I would have said " If you cant handle comments, dont commnet in the first place".
Handle the missed call category by never calling them back. Lets see how many missed calls can they give. They can give quite a lot (personal experience). In such a case sms them " Dont behave like a psychotic" Now many might say that can ruin the friendship.....darling there is not friendship at all or the person wont pain you this way.
When the "call me back pls" calls you, just ask them" why do u want me to call u back, why dont you talk I am listening" in a normal way. I tell you they will get disturbed by your behaviour and will be carefull from next time.
Best way to tackle the "will never call but will talk n talk when you call" is to never call them. Dont give importance to those who dont deserve it.
There's a kind of Max Payne Agent whose other designation is Boy Friend/ Girl Friend. They can be pretty dangerous and harm you as they have more accessibility to you.
You know you have a Max Payne agent for a girlfriend when she asks questions like " Will you die for me?" How can someone answer questions like that? However, the real catch is that she doesnot want you to answer but wants to see your reaction. If you reply even a few seconds late
she will say in an acerbic/painful way "o.k i got your answer".
A classic situation with most Max Payne Boyfriends is that he will say " Its not working out for us, lets stay apart for sometime" You say as a matter of fact" Yeah I agree". His reaction...icy cold" You met someone?" Whether you agree with him or not , you are still the Vamp!
One of my friends had Max Payne agent as his GF. She left him for another guy, but after one year suddenly send a message through a common friend that her family dog had died and my friend had seen the dog, he must know about it ...Max Payne Agent of the ultimate kind!.
Best way to tackle such BF/GF is to break off the relation. You may love the person, but he/she will always eat up your mind with "Pain" and I 'm guess you do value "peace of mind" more than being in a relationship.
Finally, I would like to say that the best way to protect oneself from the attacks of Max Payne Agents is to wear a coat of indifference all the time.
Date: June, 2006
Place: Somewhere in this beautiful world
Time: 11pm
The mobile rings twice and stops... a missed call. As I pick up the phone it again rings twice and stops. Two missed calls! I check the number- its one of my "friends". I get worried and call her back. I ask her "what happened?" She says "(Arre nothing yaar just wanted to chat with u". I say "You could have called" She says" Arre you people are richer than I'm so you can call me anytime" Thats the moment I knew I have been attacked by a Max Payne Agent!
One of the many characteristics of a MPA is that whenever they feel like talking (paining actually) with you, they will give missed calls and save money. This so called friend of mine knew very well that Iwas suffering heavy financial losses during that period and still she had the audacity to label me rich and make me feel uncomfortable. Thats what MPA are best doing at...making the other person feel uncomfortable!
Theres another variant to this "Call" MPA. This particular breed will never call/sms you, they don't understand the basis of friendship "Give n Take". So, by any chance if you happen to call them, they will talk about everything under the sun...you see its your money going down the drain.
The mutant version of "Call"MPA is the most dangerous type. They are the ones who will call you at every odd hours possible and say in asad tone" Can u pls call back?" Hearing his sad tone, You will ofcourse callback. Then will start the story of their woes (how their husband/wife, BF/GF is not treating them well, how the whole world is against them, phalana, phalana). I'm not saying that their woes are not genuine..they are. But the catch is that they will ask you to call them (i.e they will talk with you) only when they are sad or in a bad situation. They wont never remember you in their happy times, but when its gloomy you are the first one in their mind. That kind of sentiment is tolerable once in a while. But what is not tolerable is that they are talking about their woes at your expense (literally). You are awarded the "The Shoulder To Cry On" title along witha Four figure telephone bill!!! . If they really want to talk with you they should be one spending the money and not you- thats my take on it.
Another characteristic of this loathsome agent is to make everyone around him/her uncomfortable with their "observation power". Like once during my engineering college days, all girls in the hostel decided to wear saris for a function. There was a MPA amongst the girls. No sooner had she seen me ina sari, she commented "E, its a nice sari, but I guess it has seen better days" She meant" its an old sari"! (i roll my eyes)
This breed also like to answer on your behalf. Imagine a scene at the party. Someone is asking you "So, What do u do?" If a MPA happens to be nearby she/he will say " XYZ works for ABC company"!
Just like an investigative agent MPAs too have a lot of curiocity in other people's lives. They will bombard you with their painful questions which you dont feel like answering at all. Their sensitivity chip is definitely missing!. They cant tell if they are suffocating someone with their intrusive nature. They also cant distinguish between a private and a public place.
Once I was traveling by a city bus and bumped into a MPA(imagine my bad luck). She shouts" E, Long Time, how r u?" Even before I could answer her question she shouts back " Heard that you have broken up with your boyfrined?" Is that a question to ask in a public transport?
I knew she did it on purspose, being true to her MPA characteristic of making someone feel uncomfortable. I decided to do something different this time. I asnwered her question with another question" Which boyfriend are you talking about the 4th one or the 5th one?" And you know what she was taken aback by my upfront assault. See, a MPA gets "high" by making someone uncomfortable but if that someone doesnot show any such sings, the agent's enthu just fizzles out.
Another weakness of the MPA is that they cannot bear "pain" even though they thrive in giving pain to others. And I say thats what you should do when attacked by such agents. Once during a trip to a shopping mall along with my classmates, I was attacked by a MPA.
As I was going through some T-shirts, she began to say " this t-shirts are tight fitting it wont look good on you"
Handle the missed call category by never calling them back. Lets see how many missed calls can they give. They can give quite a lot (personal experience). In such a case sms them " Dont behave like a psychotic" Now many might say that can ruin the friendship.....darling there is not friendship at all or the person wont pain you this way.
When the "call me back pls" calls you, just ask them" why do u want me to call u back, why dont you talk I am listening" in a normal way. I tell you they will get disturbed by your behaviour and will be carefull from next time.
Best way to tackle the "will never call but will talk n talk when you call" is to never call them. Dont give importance to those who dont deserve it.
There's a kind of Max Payne Agent whose other designation is Boy Friend/ Girl Friend. They can be pretty dangerous and harm you as they have more accessibility to you.
You know you have a Max Payne agent for a girlfriend when she asks questions like " Will you die for me?" How can someone answer questions like that? However, the real catch is that she doesnot want you to answer but wants to see your reaction. If you reply even a few seconds late
she will say in an acerbic/painful way "o.k i got your answer".
A classic situation with most Max Payne Boyfriends is that he will say " Its not working out for us, lets stay apart for sometime" You say as a matter of fact" Yeah I agree". His reaction...icy cold" You met someone?" Whether you agree with him or not , you are still the Vamp!
One of my friends had Max Payne agent as his GF. She left him for another guy, but after one year suddenly send a message through a common friend that her family dog had died and my friend had seen the dog, he must know about it ...Max Payne Agent of the ultimate kind!.
Best way to tackle such BF/GF is to break off the relation. You may love the person, but he/she will always eat up your mind with "Pain" and I 'm guess you do value "peace of mind" more than being in a relationship.
Finally, I would like to say that the best way to protect oneself from the attacks of Max Payne Agents is to wear a coat of indifference all the time.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Tripping: My First!
So many firsts happening in the last two weeks
---going on a cocktailathon
---throwing up
---baking fruit cake
---business development in Delhi n NCR
---shopping in Sarojini market n Lajpat Nagar in one day
---losing a beautiful graphic print Top the very same day of buying it
---Sitting at the Delhi airport for 7 horrible hours
---getting involved in a street fight
---binging on SRK movies
---wearing 2'' heels
---Tipsy-walking the streets at night
and visiting the Sai Baba temple in Noida.
---going on a cocktailathon
---throwing up
---baking fruit cake
---business development in Delhi n NCR
---shopping in Sarojini market n Lajpat Nagar in one day
---losing a beautiful graphic print Top the very same day of buying it
---Sitting at the Delhi airport for 7 horrible hours
---getting involved in a street fight
---binging on SRK movies
---wearing 2'' heels
---Tipsy-walking the streets at night
and visiting the Sai Baba temple in Noida.
Transitory
Episode VI: The Pullover Game
Sach Hai Ke Dil To Dukha Hai
Humne Magar Socha Hai
Dil Ko Hai Gam Kyon
Aankh Hai Nam Kew
Hona Hi Tha Jo Huwa Hai
Uss Baat Ko Jaane Bhi Do
Jiska Nishaan Kal Ho Na Ho
~
Sach Hai Ke Dil To Dukha Hai
Humne Magar Socha Hai
Dil Ko Hai Gam Kyon
Aankh Hai Nam Kew
Hona Hi Tha Jo Huwa Hai
Uss Baat Ko Jaane Bhi Do
Jiska Nishaan Kal Ho Na Ho
~
Monday, August 27, 2007
Singles are officially dead!
Many post that will subsequently follow in this blog were written(" blurted out" would be more appropriate) long time back when I was a regular at MySpace an amazing networking site n personal space manager.
This blog was one of my early writings in myspace, however it still holds true to this day...
Date: A Long Time Ago.....
The other day I went to Esplanade to apply for one of the many licenses required to do business, they handed me 40-something pages of form to be filled up... but that part I'm not going to touch now( its for another day). What surprised me the most was when they told me that I would have to write my residence add in the space provided for "Company/Office Add" in the form and license would be delivered to that add only!. They said that as i was the entrepreneur, so the license will be delivered to me at my residence add. They also said that they dont have a "pick-up-from-counter" facility.I reasoned with them saying that as I'm most of the time in the office it would be better if the license could be sent at the office add. The officer then gave me the "mother of all reasons" after which I had nothing more to say. The officer said that for Entrepreneur's firm , its the rule that documents should fall in the hands of the entrepreneur and so the residence add!Now I dont know what the person "who framed such rule" was thinking.. did that person think that Entrepreneurs stay more at home than in their offiecs or if he/she is not there at home, his/her family will recieve the documents delivered by courier serviceThey also said that if I miss the delivery, it would cost me a lot to get the document back. So what do I do....a single in the city? Well the ovbious..leave all business activities and stay put at home! i was sort of under house arrest for a week when finally the "Postman"( no spuerman/spiderman/batman) in khaki rescued me by delivering the document.
Actually for singles its an everyday struggle with things like these which are just taken for granted in case of a family person. All delivery men want your holy presence and all business transactions want your approval. During the process of settling down, I had tough time juggling between setting up the business and setting up my life/flat. After one month of struggle I was this close to becoming omnipresent. So I salute all the singles in the city. You are no less than God!
This blog was one of my early writings in myspace, however it still holds true to this day...
Date: A Long Time Ago.....
The other day I went to Esplanade to apply for one of the many licenses required to do business, they handed me 40-something pages of form to be filled up... but that part I'm not going to touch now( its for another day). What surprised me the most was when they told me that I would have to write my residence add in the space provided for "Company/Office Add" in the form and license would be delivered to that add only!. They said that as i was the entrepreneur, so the license will be delivered to me at my residence add. They also said that they dont have a "pick-up-from-counter" facility.I reasoned with them saying that as I'm most of the time in the office it would be better if the license could be sent at the office add. The officer then gave me the "mother of all reasons" after which I had nothing more to say. The officer said that for Entrepreneur's firm , its the rule that documents should fall in the hands of the entrepreneur and so the residence add!Now I dont know what the person "who framed such rule" was thinking.. did that person think that Entrepreneurs stay more at home than in their offiecs or if he/she is not there at home, his/her family will recieve the documents delivered by courier service
Actually for singles its an everyday struggle with things like these which are just taken for granted in case of a family person. All delivery men want your holy presence and all business transactions want your approval. During the process of settling down, I had tough time juggling between setting up the business and setting up my life/flat. After one month of struggle I was this close to becoming omnipresent. So I salute all the singles in the city. You are no less than God!
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