fast

yipppeeeeee!

i have got a new touchtel(airtel) internet connection. now, i guess, i won't have to be bugged by huge downtimes and excruciatingly low and irritating download and upload speeds.


the other day i was wondering why prashant has christened his car with a female name. i mean although it is his discretion, but when fiat has created a stallion(palio) then why didn't he choose something like pawan or anything masculine? hey hey females i aint being a chauvinist or anything, here :D

the girl

something similar to this happened earlier as well...

background:-
my shift at office starts at 2 PM. the east of kailash community centre being a commercial hub is always bustling with cars and activity all through the office hours. and when i reach office it is a daily feature that i have to put some extra effort on my grey molten to manifest some extra sense to park my car.

my concern:-
i try to park my car atleast in the visible distance of the office guard.

my responsibility:-
i always try to park or drive my car with a concern for the others on the road. but i am sorry to say that the others don't think the same way. thus, sometimes, i am forced to do some irresponsible gigs.

the fun incident:-
my peon called me as i had earlier asked him to call me as soon as the space is vacated to park my car properly which wasn't earlier. when i reached my car, i saw this placard scribbled by a distinct female hand, place on my windscreen. it read

"listen whoever your are
you have no parking sense

citizen of india"

my reaction:-
i looked around trying to read "it was me" in someone's eyes. a girl was following my moves. i couldn't interpret her eyes. i was confused between what her eyes said; was it "i saw the one who placed this placard" or "it was me, but i know now that you alone weren't the culprit and as you have now parked it properly, you are forgiven" :D

devil me:-
she could have asked me to treat her with an ice-cream in the nirulas to compensate my act of irresponsibility ;)

smriti

have you people seen the news reader smriti on NDTV english?

she is hot. i mean earlier she used to look cute, but today with her heavy lipstick and those made up eyes and lashes and face and that blood red kurta instead of those pale and grey executive suits...? i mean is she in love or is it just plain workplace competition taking over?

for those who don't know smriti rao

anger

why do we get angry?

we get angry when:-

1. someone has criticised us.
2. someone has offended us.
3. someone has abused us.
4. someone has done some damage to us.

i guess it is very much justified to be angry in case number 2 and 3 but in case number 4 i guess if we will get angry and try to retaliate it might backfire, so i guess we should give ourselves some time before getting angry in that case.

if it is case number 1 than we must contemplate the reason as to why the person criticised us. (s)he might be right in doing so. and if you can't believe that (s)he can be correct sometimes than you are a poor person.

being anonymous

some days back i was asked why should anonymous comments be allowed on one's blog. so here is my technical analysis of the question.

blog is a public domain entity so when you decide on signing up with a blogging service that do not provide authenticated viewing of one's blog then it means you are doing it with an intention of general public viewing it and reacting over it. there are some services with are either paid or unpaid on which you can select who views your blog or not. blogger.com is not one of them.

but it is natural that one might be concerned about getting offended or abused or even heavily criticised(my oldest friends and visitors know this ;)) if one decides to allow general public to view and/or comment on the blog. but following are the 2 reasons why i still would persist with allowing the anonymous commenting:-

1. if i have a blog and have registered myself with, say, livejournal.com i probably would like to read and react to some interesting blogger on xanga.com or blogger.com but would not necessarily register with these services just for the sake of commenting.
2. i can easily delete an offending or abusive comment to my post on my blog.

also, you could be totally anonymous (you can keep your profile blank) if you do not want someone to have you in his/her mind before getting harsh (not according to your liking) with his/her commenting.

but at the end i would like to quote an example of a very talented babe who has a very genuine reason to block anonymous commenting. she is a talented photographer and someone was stealing her content (according to her old post). although i am still not sure as to how blocking commenting would stop someone from stealing content but now she would have some idea as to who is trying to strike a conversation with her and whatever...

hope my argument makes some sense and also, i hope that the above text was purely technical as i tried not to be prejudiced.

burfi news

it has been some days since i last posted, so here goes some old and news:-

1. i have got a new 15" black monitor (it is flatter but nonetheless sexy ;-))
2. i am enjoying my camera as i have got a set of rechargeable batteries and clicking a lot of pics but i can feel that i am still very much a rookie with a digicam :(
3. after looking at the pics and reading prashant's memoir, i long all the more to go on a trip.
4. i haven't yet completed 'lajja' and it makes me bitter and sad whenever i read it.
5. i am working on my grammar but that book is a bit tough.
6. if you have some email addresses or information regarding good placement consultants, please email me (oops, this wasn't a news but in-between notice :D).
7. i am still waiting for an idea promised by alice.

...i don't' remember more :D

unreasonable

i don't have reasons for not having anything to write even when i am feeling quite strongly to post my blog. this is strange feeling, kind of discontentment. but am i making it sound too philosophical? philosophical or not, it sounds boring nonetheless.

it is something like, i feel i have not done something... i need to do something and i do not know what to do.

let me try and guess what this something could be:-

1. off late i have had a craving to go to a disc. i guess i have never been to a disc.
2. i guess i should learn something, something creative (is swimming creative? anyways summers are gone and i guess pools are closed in this time).
3. i want to eat paranthas at the Sharanam restaurant and then go rafting.
4. want to be in company of a really hot female.
5. ok, if not hot then a very nice(who laughs a lot) female for very long hours at stretch.

i guess that is all... for now atleast

a r g h ! ! !

the problem is that everyone does everything in the normal timezones, like you go out for dinner in the evenings around 8.30, 9 PM. now with the work timings like mine, i can't go out because my shift gets over around 10 PM and i do not get any weekly offs on normal weekends. this means i virtually end up with no social life because all my friends are doing normal 9 to 5, Monday to Fridays.

aaarrrrgggghhhhh...

dedication

this post is dedicated to pakistanis (seems quite an anit-climax after my last post) :-

i just discovered an amazing blogger, she goes by the name of khizzy something(she loves laughing).

and as it is raining such heavily outside, the song somehow came to my lips 'aazana dil hai deewana, roke chahe lakh zamana, keh dena ye dil hai deewana...' by some pakistani singer, was a huge huge hit in its time...

a different why

i am reading 'lazza' by tasleema nasrin these days. i am pretty horrified by the way people there were. i mean after going through the first three chapters, i felt that muslims are very cruel and unjustified and senseless lot. it seems that they either killed or beat up all the hindu men, raped almost all the females (including kids), looted all the businesses and torched all the houses in bangladesh. i thought that if they razed almost all the temples and religious hindu establishments throughout bangladesh they have to be nothing less than a lot of fiends. but with all my prejudice with-holding i can't help thinking that it was a reaction to babri masjid demolition after all, but then wasn't babri masjid itself built on a destroyed temple or for that matter, weren't most of temples saw the same fate in the mughal reign of India. or why were the buddha stone statues destroyed in afghanistan? but it is not a educated sounding counter argument by me, is it? but then another question echoes in my head; would there be the same reaction in India if a hindu temple is destroyed any where in the world? i guess not. but there might be people who think otherwise. and i think it is just a small section of the whole community which really reflects a bad shadow. and unfortunately this section is not small in muslims. i am really in a kind of indecisive situation where i am not able to decide whom do i call what.

but then i hear muslims in europe are different from how they are here, i mean in Indian sub-continent. subhash got a pakistani friend in london and he calls him his closest there.

and then i look at some blogs of pakistanis - these people don't seem to be any different than us. i mean the guys are as sane and girls are as cool then why is there such a huge section of them which defies the decorum of a civilization.

the post

it has been more than 24 hours since i posted my last article but nobody has commented on it. i presume some had find it offending, some had find it sexist, some might even have find it chauvinistic, and maybe some might have not cared to comment out of unfounded apprehensions. but whatever their reasons may be i think you should put in your important critique to them all.

anyways,
today's post starts from the next line

you have to be very clear about your goals. if you do not know what your ultimate aim is, it is very hard to achieve it. i guess you might find this cliche a cliche because it is a cliche after all. but what makes its appearance anywhere important and worthy of others' commentary is the context in which it is re-uttered. thus, it is very obvious that you might be interested in knowing my reasons. but the only problem is the domain which is very much public and prashant knows as my other friends that this is one domain where i am uncomfortable. hence, i think, i will keep pondering over the philosophical part rather than the actual story at its core. so, what i was saying was if your ultimate aim is a sentimental encore than you have to forget about anything anti-sentimental and concentrate on making the finish line.

surf boards

i guess ayesh takia has the best abs along with hour-glass shape after antra mali in indian hindi film industry.

something new

people, i guess you don't really check out my constantly updated and intellectually stimulating links directory ------>

check out my long awaited photo blog :D

(the rechargeable battery + charger set is too expensive :( Rs. 950 for Eveready. My favorite SONY is 2500)

updates

i heard the news that some religious priest has condemned Sania for her mini skirts and her sleeveless clothing. I think this is total crap. Instead of lauding the girl on her tremedous achievement, they are bitching about crappy things, these f****** deserve to be drowned.

i guess i should make a photo blog as prashant has done(although it would be hard to scale up to his products as he is getting transformed into a great tech.). would be better... will tell all you nice people when it is up and running.

nunnu

She is my favorite and adorable neice Nunnu. :D

This isn't the first pic from my cam but till now my favorite one.

stress

driving is delhi is stressful.

i mean, i try to drive sanefully with other drivers in mind and try that i give least stress to others by cutting down upon undisciplined driving myself. but i guess, incident like the one that happened to me today would let me from being a compassionate driver.

i was on the left lane on a two lane road and i had to turn left into a parking space. now this parking space was blocked by a car and there was a small truck in front on that car, so i stopped, waiting for that car or that truck to move. now this guy in zen who had to go straight came and stopped right in front of me. now i cant move ahead because the truck was half blocking my way and i cant go reverse because that ass**** was honking my ass. after honking for considerable time, this guy reversed his car and came and stopped on my right and i can see 5 huge bearded straight out of Tihar inside. The guy rolled down his window and with all kind of abuses tapped my window. i pointed the truck blocking my way to him but i knew that he was not ready to see the point because i was alone (had it been another experienced hulk his size with me, i guess he might have tried to listen to me).

after they went the truck moved and the car behind them and i went left... it left a bad taste in my mouth...

corruption

after looking at Bush, i think Indian politicians are less corrupt. I mean look at his list of credits:-

1. get your soldiers slaughtered for oil and arms industry
2. attack countries for their oil
3. appoint your friend as country's supreme court chief justice
4. virtual no reaction to the biggest natural disaster that hit your country
5. virtual no (humanitarian) reaction to the biggest terrorist attack on your county
6. nobody really ever know how in the world you managed to win the seat in the state where you weren't favored and you won with a 49-51 margin overall.

and this is what we all know...

salaam namaste

There is an adv. doing round these days of the new yash chopra movie - 'salaam namaste'... zinta says it is about live-in relationships... and saif says 'cool'... and i can imagine kids saying the same and then unwanted pregenecy and AIDS epidemic at their best glory in India would soon follow... (i don't want to sound like a crappy headed old man, but i am thinking about the technical repercussions)

is yash chopra the same guy who used to make stupendous love stories as chandni, lamhe... not to mention the older gold?

am back

i am back... lol
although not with a bang; back in office but still weak. dunno if the anti-biotics that you take are supposed to strengthen your body or weaken it???

anyways, have a lot on my mind for the blog, and also have to post some pics (after hugely popular demand by great alice) fresh out of my new s-60 :D. the bad news is that it guzzles lots of batteries. brand new set of Duracell AA manages to produce max. 30 pics. am thinking of buying the chargeable set. anybody got any idea when to get them from(pref. Sony or maybe Panasonic)?

s-60

i am trying to ignore this stupid ill feeling and decided that i won't crib anymore about it on my blog. but i guess talking about not cribbing is cribbing enough...

anyways i'll try by talking about things that will make me feel better, for example, my new digital camera. it is a point & shoot sony cybershot s60 and i have finally got it with me. it is rare that i overlook chocolates for something else :D

now how i feel about it... hmmm... it is very different from my old richo p&s. it gives me a very different feel. the very first (problem) is that you can have a look at the pics through 4 different mediums. 1st the viewfinder, 2nd the LCD screen, 3rd the computer and 4th finally on the paper. i still have not seen any results on 4th. ok, the 1st... it is very stale, nothing flashy about it. it feels like you are viewing the subject through a plain see-through glass. what is real chic item is the LCD. but in my case it feel so small and it composes such rich colors that i feel that it is kind of overdoing it... may be i have to do some changes with the setting. what i feel is that now camera is not just point and shoot device. so much goes into a photograph especially when you have certain result in your mind. what i feel about my camera is that it is defining the subjects too much. it is kind of doing no beautification to the subjects. i am used to clicking great photos by my old film camera. but this digital thing is different. it is like technically it is defining things stupendously but the pictures are not striking me as beautiful. moreover i feel, to get a better picture i need better understanding and better control of my new camera which will come after i go diligently through the bundled literature. hope i learn to click good photos. thanks people for wishing me luck. :D