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Monday, July 20, 2009
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If Looks Could Kill!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
I was shopping at Lifestyle this weekend,when I noticed two exceptionally pretty girls witha bunch of forms in their hands asking everyone something,initially I thought it was some survey.Whatever it was my typical male impulse started pecking my brain with gibberish like "Why aren't they coming to me?" "Ah! the other girl jus threw me a glance" and all the wierdest things one could think off...I shifted my attention from things on the rack to the more pretty things curently ruling the floor of the mall.My sis went to the trail room it was right then that i heard the sweetest voice that I'd heared in almost an yrs time.I said excuse me,standing right behind me were these angels.I was staring right into their eyes as one of 'em started explaining that it was regarding some 7K run and that they were from St.Francis College and that the money collected would go for charity...blah...blah...blah...I was so busy admiring her beauty that I didnot know when she said it is just Rs.100/- for registration Sir.I straight away pulled a crisp Rs.100 note from my wallet and gave her(that was the last piece of currency in my wallet for the month).By the time she left I realised that I had just given her the money I had,now...giving away a 100 bucks for charity is nothing,I usually give away much more than that every month,but what actually bothered me was that I gave it away jus because she was so "Godamn Pretty!"(that is the most polite I can sound!well...there are actually some better words in English).Then when I started to think about it I realised that it was just because of that they were there.The quite intelligently targetted all the guys,generally those waiting outsde the trail rooms,tried their hands with some girls also but that cut no ice.Am not saying that I've been duped or 'bakra'ed but that how pretty girls have their way.
Current Music:Gunning Down Romance
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Current Music:Gunning Down Romance
Current Mood:aggravated
Try crackin this
Friday, June 12, 2009
Shahid was looking out of the train window,enjoying the view outside,
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Is it love that he's feeling for her?He didn't have an answer.
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Is it love that he's feeling for her?He didn't have an answer.
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Rich North South Divide Part I
Monday, June 08, 2009
You listen to a conversation at an Engineering college canteen,you are bound to hears phrases such as,"Dude!She's a northie!" or "Muh dekhkar hi pata chal raha hai,Southie hai" or "In South waalo ka problem kya hai?" and stuff like that even on the BB you come across posts such as "Accomodation Available,preferably North Indians"What is it that divides the North Indians from the South Indians , from each other is more like it?I have been trying to dig into this for quite sometime now.There are many axioms that do their rounds in India.One of the most famous fads you would hear would be that girls from north are prettier and dress better than their counterparts froms the southern peninsula.South Indians are better in mathematics than the 'northies','Northies' are more extrovert and outgoing than people from the south,'South Indians' are not as good in business as the 'northies' but 'south indians' rule the service sector(Software, more so). There are a few fads many of which are ironically true.Reasons? I don't know,it is not just my personal experience but you can always do an analysis and extrapolate the results.I've tried to bust a few of these fads.
History:North India has been ravaged by scores of invaders,as a result they were exposed to many different cultures.You would find smaller traces of their indigenous cultures,not that there are not any but compare it to South Indian cultures,these people have been far more rigid and orthodox in their approach since the rulers also in this part have been majorily Indians but for a few like the Nizams ofcourse.
Modern History:Of all the freedom fighters we know the freedom struggle was not that active in the south.South India had its share of contributions but was lesser than what we had from the north.So,the share of south indians in the first cabinet was also less.It was not until parties like the NTR led TDP and the DMK and all that the people at the center started taking the south indians seriously.So came the myth that south indians are not that active/extrovert/outgoing and are a bit taciturn in nature.Which to an extent is true.e.g. South Indian shaadis don't have baraat,sangeet and all and stuff like that.
Geography:The fact that the northern part of India shares its borders with as many as seven countries but there's no foreign country near our southern part but for our near neighbor Sri Lanka,which is not that different from us wrt culture.So,south indian families and traditions are more orthodox and there is lesser quotient of cultural diversity,they are not that comforatble with people from other cultures and their eating habits.
Gastronomy:Again the same problem,people in south india are comfortable with south indian food,people from north india cannot even stand south indian food.But this would not be a divide as such it is just the diversity of cultures we are proud of.
History:North India has been ravaged by scores of invaders,as a result they were exposed to many different cultures.You would find smaller traces of their indigenous cultures,not that there are not any but compare it to South Indian cultures,these people have been far more rigid and orthodox in their approach since the rulers also in this part have been majorily Indians but for a few like the Nizams ofcourse.
Modern History:Of all the freedom fighters we know the freedom struggle was not that active in the south.South India had its share of contributions but was lesser than what we had from the north.So,the share of south indians in the first cabinet was also less.It was not until parties like the NTR led TDP and the DMK and all that the people at the center started taking the south indians seriously.So came the myth that south indians are not that active/extrovert/outgoing and are a bit taciturn in nature.Which to an extent is true.e.g. South Indian shaadis don't have baraat,sangeet and all and stuff like that.
Geography:The fact that the northern part of India shares its borders with as many as seven countries but there's no foreign country near our southern part but for our near neighbor Sri Lanka,which is not that different from us wrt culture.So,south indian families and traditions are more orthodox and there is lesser quotient of cultural diversity,they are not that comforatble with people from other cultures and their eating habits.
Gastronomy:Again the same problem,people in south india are comfortable with south indian food,people from north india cannot even stand south indian food.But this would not be a divide as such it is just the diversity of cultures we are proud of.
Indians and Optimism
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Indians are the most optimistic people you would ever come across.We are taught to be illogically optimistic right from our
childhood and we even outgrow that as the number of candles on our cake increases.A mom tells her 3yr old kid stories of
how he'll grow up and rule the country as she makes some dinner in her makeshift hut from whatever little she could forage
all day.Optimist.A child prays that his test on the next day be postponed because he has not prepared well.Optimist.You
assume that there won't be a traffic jam today when you drive to the office.An Optimist again.A group of people sit down to
discuss about the new government and hope that the new government brings in some real good reforms and they'll do you
good.A bunch of Optimists.Someone in some distant town has gone to the nearby temple to pray that it may not rain on the final day of the test match because India is in a winning position.Optimist.An old man hopes that his alone sugar levels will hit normal and he will get to eat his favourite sweetmeat.An Optimist and veteren at it.The list goes on,well you may ask what is wrong in optimism?Well nothing,but for optimism we would all be living in a
cynical,depressing world.Some may even argue that it has got this placebo effect on our lives,because but for it the old
man in the tests lab might not find enough reasons to live n cheer about nor the mother in the hut.But what could be morally and mentally damaging could be the being optimistic and doing nothing about it,like the kid
praying that the exam be postponed,the prayer per se is harmless but what would damage would be the fact that he will grow
up to be an adult who wants something and does nothing about it,just hopes or prays.You want to crack that management
entrance every year,but you just hope that the project that you get at the end of the year would be pretty easy and you can
do away without slogging more than 9.5hrs a day.This is a dangerous corollary of the optimism theory,that leaves everything
on your disaster management skills,which are good but might not save something as important and improbable as your career.This is how we operate.No,am not drawing parallels with our financially better off counterparts but a bit of logic mixed with this can take us a long way.
childhood and we even outgrow that as the number of candles on our cake increases.A mom tells her 3yr old kid stories of
how he'll grow up and rule the country as she makes some dinner in her makeshift hut from whatever little she could forage
all day.Optimist.A child prays that his test on the next day be postponed because he has not prepared well.Optimist.You
assume that there won't be a traffic jam today when you drive to the office.An Optimist again.A group of people sit down to
discuss about the new government and hope that the new government brings in some real good reforms and they'll do you
good.A bunch of Optimists.Someone in some distant town has gone to the nearby temple to pray that it may not rain on the final day of the test match because India is in a winning position.Optimist.An old man hopes that his alone sugar levels will hit normal and he will get to eat his favourite sweetmeat.An Optimist and veteren at it.The list goes on,well you may ask what is wrong in optimism?Well nothing,but for optimism we would all be living in a
cynical,depressing world.Some may even argue that it has got this placebo effect on our lives,because but for it the old
man in the tests lab might not find enough reasons to live n cheer about nor the mother in the hut.But what could be morally and mentally damaging could be the being optimistic and doing nothing about it,like the kid
praying that the exam be postponed,the prayer per se is harmless but what would damage would be the fact that he will grow
up to be an adult who wants something and does nothing about it,just hopes or prays.You want to crack that management
entrance every year,but you just hope that the project that you get at the end of the year would be pretty easy and you can
do away without slogging more than 9.5hrs a day.This is a dangerous corollary of the optimism theory,that leaves everything
on your disaster management skills,which are good but might not save something as important and improbable as your career.This is how we operate.No,am not drawing parallels with our financially better off counterparts but a bit of logic mixed with this can take us a long way.
Labels: Indians, management entrance, Optimism
The Famous Moustache n All
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Hitler, Veerappan, Moses ... certain bloggers.Does it ring a bell?Yes you got it right! People of remarkable intelligence, handsome, suave and having an efficacious mouch! The grand epochal moustache!!!
I do as a kid remember the most common technique to scare us were twirling of the moustache by an otherwise harmless uncle, though last I heard in recent years has been effectively replaced by H-rated cassettes (yes Himesh bhai). Personally for me mouch has always deeply impacted history, culture and mankind in general as much as on mamookoyya.
I recently came to know that moustaches and beard in spite of their profound importance have never been analyzed in a proper way. I hope to provide insights which might some day land me a ‘Mathew hall of fame’ or a ‘Reverend Mathew Fellowship award ’ or something like that…Not that I am after the awards...You obviously understand that I don’t have such cheap and juvenile aspirations...isn’t?
Well considering the air of intellectualism that we feel on mentioning different art styles like cubism, Neoclassicism and other such inexplicable ‘isms’, I thought of naming the mouch-beard styles in similar fashion. Well after all there is nothing more than such complicated incoherent isms which people love to claim to be fans of. My classification was however named in layman lingua.
HUSKY-ISKY-DOSTO-VESKY
Easily the most easily recognizable of all and sported since ancient times...You could have been the sex symbol among cavewoman if you had one of these...And in modern times understanding the several variations of it is an art in itself. This style in various forms could stand for an intellectual...a homeless man or a lovable grandpa. You probably might have heard of the clean-shaven guy who was not allowed inside ‘The Socrates society conference on Freudian principles ’. He apparently came naked per standards for such events as some human look alike from the Dostoevsky clan later remarked during the press conference. The intellectuality increased with the unkemptness of the hair and it is always a bonus if the hair is graying with wisdom or poor hygiene…either way.
For many others it is simply the brand USP…It is simply technically impossible to be a homeless poor man without a beard and long hair…My Landlord always gives few rupees more to the guy with the longer and messier beard... Well on the positive side a more lovable and cuddly version of the Dostoevsky is found in Santa Klaus…Apparently no one would hate a guy who is coming in with gifts!…eh. Someone did take a step further ahead by improvising that look. Legend as says one old fella did go for beard straightening in an obscure Pune barbershop and voila got that charismatic look. Most people don’t realize that when Osho tells you to sing Hare Rama Hare Krishna…he meant Hare in the rabbit sense as tribute to his hairy turnaround.
GUJRAL LE GOATEE
I remember the first time it got my attention when a major politician appeared on the scene. And security was so fool proof those times that he traveled around in 15 similar looking ambassadors and all that...Equally ingenious was when in public the presence of high breed Cashmere goats threw tantrums and kept those Osama’s and bin Laden’s guessing. It was not until several years later someone started appearing in television asking kaun banega crorepati did this style caught popular imagination.
GRAZED FIELD
This is the favorite of the current generation…We think that woman would find it hot and sexy although most men sport it because they are just plain lazy to shave everyday…I think it became a trend with Hrithik Roshan sporting this style as many guys did try this out but personal movies turned out to be ‘kahin na pyaar hai’.
L'ARTISTE BARBE
Very thick moustaches and well-cropped beard symbolizes them…Although many of them prefer ‘Dostoevsky’ style too. The lips are invariably hidden deep beneath several strata’s of facial hair as archeologists have found out…They bloom out only during auspicious times like while consuming food... Khushwant Singh of younger times was a classic example. The stroking of the beard in subtle strokes while talking to the press is considered as unavoidable physical strain for such people. Many a hairy tales were written by such writers simply coz it was frustrating to eat shahi paneer flaked with beard sediments.
AHAMADINEJAD
(this is not a random group of letters or a Mensa puzzle)It is not classical in any sense...Because if that guy wore a check shirt and mundu he could easily pass of a high school maashu at any school in malapurram...This retro style is slightly unpopular in United States though. In Malayalam lingo we would call it an alavalathi shaji style...
VISUAL BASIC PACKAGE
Most common these days...partly due to lack of hair and primarily due to new improved electric shavers... Important for doctors and IT specialist to give that niche look…Note that it could be fatal as recent studies have shown that most software engineers suffer from irreparable damages on the face due to ‘hurry-in-the-morning-shave’ syndrome. …Also it is an easy invitation to be called cute ONLY if you are Federer or Aamir Khan. Many politicians have tried to portray a clean image using the VB technique but have miserably failed…for example sake the first wonder…
THE POLICE
This is found only in parts of India… Inspired by Bhima of Mahabharata and particularly intended to emphasize the friendly face of the police…In literary circles often used an antonym to the word ‘cute’…Most common practitioners are narasimhams and valiyettans…Forest bandits do sport this look for academic sake ..
KAMAL HAS’NT SHAVED
Not many have managed to capture it on frame as it is illusionary in nature. As legend says Kamal doesn’t recognize himself at times when he looks in the mirror. Not surprising why he has to have 10 passports while he was shooting for dasavatharam…
LOL OMG!
And I know what come in the mind …yes..yes..the moustache up there..
Well that is the symbol of impeccable style and glamour... ;-P
P.S. While checking about beards in wikipedia something under Barber's guide to men's facial hair styles, circa 1900.…Do check out..Man it would have been real fun walking the streets in the 1800’s… I would have had a hell of a time walking down the streets those days..esp if any mutton chaps or the Pork walked by..
I do as a kid remember the most common technique to scare us were twirling of the moustache by an otherwise harmless uncle, though last I heard in recent years has been effectively replaced by H-rated cassettes (yes Himesh bhai). Personally for me mouch has always deeply impacted history, culture and mankind in general as much as on mamookoyya.
I recently came to know that moustaches and beard in spite of their profound importance have never been analyzed in a proper way. I hope to provide insights which might some day land me a ‘Mathew hall of fame’ or a ‘Reverend Mathew Fellowship award ’ or something like that…Not that I am after the awards...You obviously understand that I don’t have such cheap and juvenile aspirations...isn’t?
Well considering the air of intellectualism that we feel on mentioning different art styles like cubism, Neoclassicism and other such inexplicable ‘isms’, I thought of naming the mouch-beard styles in similar fashion. Well after all there is nothing more than such complicated incoherent isms which people love to claim to be fans of. My classification was however named in layman lingua.
HUSKY-ISKY-DOSTO-VESKY
Easily the most easily recognizable of all and sported since ancient times...You could have been the sex symbol among cavewoman if you had one of these...And in modern times understanding the several variations of it is an art in itself. This style in various forms could stand for an intellectual...a homeless man or a lovable grandpa. You probably might have heard of the clean-shaven guy who was not allowed inside ‘The Socrates society conference on Freudian principles ’. He apparently came naked per standards for such events as some human look alike from the Dostoevsky clan later remarked during the press conference. The intellectuality increased with the unkemptness of the hair and it is always a bonus if the hair is graying with wisdom or poor hygiene…either way.
For many others it is simply the brand USP…It is simply technically impossible to be a homeless poor man without a beard and long hair…My Landlord always gives few rupees more to the guy with the longer and messier beard... Well on the positive side a more lovable and cuddly version of the Dostoevsky is found in Santa Klaus…Apparently no one would hate a guy who is coming in with gifts!…eh. Someone did take a step further ahead by improvising that look. Legend as says one old fella did go for beard straightening in an obscure Pune barbershop and voila got that charismatic look. Most people don’t realize that when Osho tells you to sing Hare Rama Hare Krishna…he meant Hare in the rabbit sense as tribute to his hairy turnaround.
GUJRAL LE GOATEE
I remember the first time it got my attention when a major politician appeared on the scene. And security was so fool proof those times that he traveled around in 15 similar looking ambassadors and all that...Equally ingenious was when in public the presence of high breed Cashmere goats threw tantrums and kept those Osama’s and bin Laden’s guessing. It was not until several years later someone started appearing in television asking kaun banega crorepati did this style caught popular imagination.
GRAZED FIELD
This is the favorite of the current generation…We think that woman would find it hot and sexy although most men sport it because they are just plain lazy to shave everyday…I think it became a trend with Hrithik Roshan sporting this style as many guys did try this out but personal movies turned out to be ‘kahin na pyaar hai’.
L'ARTISTE BARBE
Very thick moustaches and well-cropped beard symbolizes them…Although many of them prefer ‘Dostoevsky’ style too. The lips are invariably hidden deep beneath several strata’s of facial hair as archeologists have found out…They bloom out only during auspicious times like while consuming food... Khushwant Singh of younger times was a classic example. The stroking of the beard in subtle strokes while talking to the press is considered as unavoidable physical strain for such people. Many a hairy tales were written by such writers simply coz it was frustrating to eat shahi paneer flaked with beard sediments.
AHAMADINEJAD
(this is not a random group of letters or a Mensa puzzle)It is not classical in any sense...Because if that guy wore a check shirt and mundu he could easily pass of a high school maashu at any school in malapurram...This retro style is slightly unpopular in United States though. In Malayalam lingo we would call it an alavalathi shaji style...
VISUAL BASIC PACKAGE
Most common these days...partly due to lack of hair and primarily due to new improved electric shavers... Important for doctors and IT specialist to give that niche look…Note that it could be fatal as recent studies have shown that most software engineers suffer from irreparable damages on the face due to ‘hurry-in-the-morning-shave’ syndrome. …Also it is an easy invitation to be called cute ONLY if you are Federer or Aamir Khan. Many politicians have tried to portray a clean image using the VB technique but have miserably failed…for example sake the first wonder…
THE POLICE
This is found only in parts of India… Inspired by Bhima of Mahabharata and particularly intended to emphasize the friendly face of the police…In literary circles often used an antonym to the word ‘cute’…Most common practitioners are narasimhams and valiyettans…Forest bandits do sport this look for academic sake ..
KAMAL HAS’NT SHAVED
Not many have managed to capture it on frame as it is illusionary in nature. As legend says Kamal doesn’t recognize himself at times when he looks in the mirror. Not surprising why he has to have 10 passports while he was shooting for dasavatharam…
LOL OMG!
And I know what come in the mind …yes..yes..the moustache up there..
Well that is the symbol of impeccable style and glamour... ;-P
P.S. While checking about beards in wikipedia something under Barber's guide to men's facial hair styles, circa 1900.…Do check out..Man it would have been real fun walking the streets in the 1800’s… I would have had a hell of a time walking down the streets those days..esp if any mutton chaps or the Pork walked by..
Jo Beet Gayi ...So Baat Gayi
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Jeevan mein ek sitara tha
Maana woh behad pyara tha
Woh doob gaya to doob gaya
Ambar ke aanan ko dekho
Kitne iske tare toote
Kitne iske pyare choote
Par bolo toote taron par
Kab ambar shok manata hai
Jo beet gayi so baat gayi ....
Jeevan mein tha who ek kusum
The us pe nitya nyochawar tum
Wo sookh gaya to sookh gaya
Madhuwan ki chaati ko dekho
Sookhi kitni iski kaliyan
Jo murjhai phir kahan khili
Par bolo sookhe phoolon pe
Kab madhuvan shok manata hai ?
Jo beet gayi so baat gayi
Jeewan mein madhu ka pyala tha
Tumne tan man de daala tha
Woh toot gaya to toot gaya
Madiralay ka aangan dekho
Kitne pyaale hil jaate hain
Gir mitti mein mil jate hain
Jo girte hain kab uthte hain
Par bolo toote pyalon mein kab madiralay pachtata hai ?
Jo beet gayi so baat gayi
Mridu mitti ke hain bane huye
Madhu ghat phoota hi kartein hain
Laghu jeevan leke aaye hain
Pyale toota hi karte hain
Phir bhi madiralay ke andar
Madhu ke ghat madhu ke pyale hain
Jo madakta ke mare hain
Wo madhu loota hi karte hain
Wo kachcha peene wala hai
Jiski mamta ghat pyalon par
Jo sachche madhu se jala hua
Kab rota hai chillata hai
Jo beet gayi so baat gayi ......
Harivansha Rai Bachchan
This is one poem that will always keep me motivated and going whenever am low
from my favorite poet.
See...I love this so much that my writring has gone incoherent :)
Maana woh behad pyara tha
Woh doob gaya to doob gaya
Ambar ke aanan ko dekho
Kitne iske tare toote
Kitne iske pyare choote
Par bolo toote taron par
Kab ambar shok manata hai
Jo beet gayi so baat gayi ....
Jeevan mein tha who ek kusum
The us pe nitya nyochawar tum
Wo sookh gaya to sookh gaya
Madhuwan ki chaati ko dekho
Sookhi kitni iski kaliyan
Jo murjhai phir kahan khili
Par bolo sookhe phoolon pe
Kab madhuvan shok manata hai ?
Jo beet gayi so baat gayi
Jeewan mein madhu ka pyala tha
Tumne tan man de daala tha
Woh toot gaya to toot gaya
Madiralay ka aangan dekho
Kitne pyaale hil jaate hain
Gir mitti mein mil jate hain
Jo girte hain kab uthte hain
Par bolo toote pyalon mein kab madiralay pachtata hai ?
Jo beet gayi so baat gayi
Mridu mitti ke hain bane huye
Madhu ghat phoota hi kartein hain
Laghu jeevan leke aaye hain
Pyale toota hi karte hain
Phir bhi madiralay ke andar
Madhu ke ghat madhu ke pyale hain
Jo madakta ke mare hain
Wo madhu loota hi karte hain
Wo kachcha peene wala hai
Jiski mamta ghat pyalon par
Jo sachche madhu se jala hua
Kab rota hai chillata hai
Jo beet gayi so baat gayi ......
Harivansha Rai Bachchan
This is one poem that will always keep me motivated and going whenever am low
from my favorite poet.
See...I love this so much that my writring has gone incoherent :)
