Out of Ideas !!

When you run out of ideas, remember, sometimes, Idea can also run out of the Charge!!

I am Loving it !!

Paneless Driving

I just wonder how proficiently he is driving in this Hole-Sale Trouble. I took this picture from the back pane of a Local bus Near Akshardham Temple, Delhi on my Way to Noida.

कुछ अनकहे लफ्ज़, कुछ ख्वाब मेरे. - 1

Few shayaris which touched the string of my heart. They have the magnetic soothness that makes me read again and again.

निगाहें दर पर लगी हैं और हम उदास बैठे हैं,
तेरे आने की लेकर हम आस बैठे हैं।
यूं ही नही तेज़ हुई हैं दिल की धड़कन,
ऐसा लगता है के आप मेरे पास बैठे हैं।

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ख्वाबो में आने वाले तेरा शुक्रिया,
दिल को धड्काने वाले तेरा शुक्रिया
कौन करता है इस ज़माने में दोस्ती इतनी,
हमे दोस्त बनने वाले तेरा शुक्रिया।

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कुछ इस तरह से दिल में वो समाये बैठे हैं
खामोश होठों में बात वो दिल की दबाये बैठे हैं ,
हम करते हैं अक्सर अपनी आंखों से बातें,
और वो हैं की उँगलियों से आंखों को छुपाये बैठे हैं.

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Cricket at its Best !!! Six Ceremony

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Awesome Mausam

..... I think weather god do think that i am doing no justice to him by writing just one post on weather in delhi. The rain blessed delhi, in the morning was suffering from the aftermath of rain ... Humidity. The skin was acting like a rubber and glue. It was so sticky and muggy due to the high moisture content in the air. Somehow day passed once i entered office.

In the evening, everything was still same ... the weired weather with down troden feeling. But our weather god has someother thing in store. The good ol famous storm winds started to blew and within no time.. it started raining.

I was on my way back to home, so got full drenched with joy. When it started to rain, i was elated. After all, being delhi-ite ..I started loving free water.

To make the full us of this offseason water blessings, i tread slowly. On reaching home, i took no time to again pull of my socks and shoes and ran on top floor of house, keeping my parents amazed. Off goes my shirt, and i was feeling like leonardo-di-caprio.

Being a kid sometimes helps ... Today, like regular days, i started my day as adults, worked like elder ones .. and at the end, I was Kid all over again. That's how the days should be.

My Boss - in His Worst best!

These days to our amazement, our simple looking decent boss is furious, angry, and that too just because of few simple reasons that he had avoided in the past.

He is clamouring us like Mountains, and the result is going to be retrospective. As we are the people who follow newton's law, we would not like to keep it to us, rather would give it back.

Seeing his burned up face all the time, is no pleasure in itself. He has to know, that maintaining his composure and motivating the employees is the perfect way to get the work done from the Employees. But sadly, this guy is choosing the wrong and unprofessional path. Reporting to the seniors above him, and putting us, before them. That is so unprofessional.

Someone should now have to teach what are the rules of the game. Hopefully next week would be all about teaching and making him learn, what we like, and how we work best!

Barsaat ke baad ...

Last week, delhi woke up with an amazement, a sweet one indeed. In the peak summer, the weather god threw a Giftpack of respite and enjoyment. The week welcome everyone with the showers and drizzle all across the northern India. It was surpising as well as pleasing for the eyes, eyes, which now are accustomed to see the sweat and pricky sunshine.

Day 1 went smooth, as people assumed that this blessing of rain might not last long ... But wait ... records were about to be crumbled, with the pleasing disdain. During the complete last week delhi received so much rainfall that weather people were bound to classify this outrageous move of weather to an 'Out of the Blue' experience. And really, in true sense this was a electrifying experience. There were times when people preferred to stay inside to save themselves from the scorching heat, but now, people were freaking out, finding excuses from their offices to feel the freshness and coziness in the air. And that tooo .... In the MONTH OF MAY !!!

Weathermen quoted that this astounding change of weather is attributed to the western cyclonic DISTURBANCES (I wonder why they call these movement of winds as DISTURBANCES ... none of my friends is Disturbed.)

The temperature fell so much, that it touched to 29 degrees! And that was something spectacular, more so than David Blain's magic. Deserted roads were brimming with happy faces, and India Gate lawns have became the happy hunting ground once again in the noon time. Leave alone Coolers or ACs, the Fan speed has to be lowered in the night.

Among all these pleasantries ... one fear strikes in my mind though, are we really heading to some disturbance? A so called retrospective Disturbance? Is nature giving us back ... of what we gave it ... The Destruction? The global warming and Ozone layer are already heat of the topic these days.

Should we welcome this change of weather or should we keep ourselves alarmed?
If we don't realize now, perhaps one day, there could be no one left to think over this. On that day, we could get the answers ... how Dinosaurs vanished from the face of the earth?

Its the time for all of us to wake. Save Earth .. Plant more trees .. Earth calling!!

New Additions ... Publisher is still ALIVE !!

Hi all,

Over the period, i got fed up with the same old routine text blogging without any flavor of spicy stuff. I was just observing how the video thing like youtube or dailymotion are taking internet by storm in inducing the predominance of video in the basic use, day to day.

To keep myself updated to this wind, i just have posted one youtube video titled "Tere Bin" sung wonderfully well by Pakistani singer Atif aslam. His voice made every single word in this lyrics worth thoughtful and enjoyable.

In addition to this, i also implemented the long desired slide show of my picasa pics. This slide show can be seen at the sidebar on the right of the screen. This morning i just had shot myself for the various moods, in various flavours .. be it .. Happy, Sad, crying, amazed, startled, curious and every other mood i can think of. I am sure the readers would like to see these new things.

But i prefer to keep these embedded videos to minimal.

Tere Bin .... Lonely among Crowd

A Cozy summer day!!

My morning started with a usual all rush events. Caught the bus, and chatted with friends. When it came to weather, everyone started cursing the humidity. So Morning welcomed me with sweat all across the body. Little did i know, this is going to change .... into a much pleasant observation.

Gradually as the morning approached to 10 A.M. weather turned out into a sepia contrast. The cloud shadow formed umbrella all over the Sky. This was followed by the heavy blow of winds which were like bullets of winds-storm piercing the hot weather. The wind blew with the speed of Leopard running in the forest. News channels reported it to be 104 Kmph !! The day was providing the vividness of weather and was enjoyable to watch. I faced everything, be it dust cloud which blew on my face or the Little drizzle of rain which provided much needed relief in otherwise a thorny temperature.

The whole day went past fine .. cool weather .. cozy atmosphere and everything one could ask for. But the horrific tale appeared split large on Television when i reached home at night. 4 People died and 10 injured due to minor disasters taking place, as big trees with loose roots fell on cars and elsewhere. Several vehicles crumbled under the uprooted trees made a mockery of the good weather.

Tiring week ... Sooo sleeeepyyyyyyy.

Sleep sleep and sleep, thats what i am short of ... and craving for since the start of this week! Greedy me, didn't cared enough to take an adequate rest during the weekend which was full of rush hour and computer configuration.

All i am left up with now.. is the falling shutters of my eyes and lousy feeling. Hope i will be able to steal some good sleep here and there within this week, Weekend is sooo distant and very short to complete all the humpty desires! :)

My Life and boundaries ....

As I am settling into the bed, my mind is whispering from inside, thinking about the all sorts of things that life holds and will present before me. There are various challenges and guidelines attached to this 80 odd years. I said 80 coz I love my life and expect myself to live at least that long.

Sometimes, I wish I could ask life all sorts of stupid questions, how and what will I get as the success? When will I be able to stand on my feet and say that in my own way, I dominate the world? When I would find the real happiness in myself, without any envy towards this world and the feeling of hatred? Answers are not easy to come by, are they?

Life moves, and like grain in the grind, we get along with it, with a mixed feeling of joy and dullness. Finding the undefined truth forgetting the Realistic presence to the mercy of our ideologies. Some day, this search will last …… last to make us realize, what we had lost in all these years.

Wirelessly Disconnected

Since the last 3 days, the things have gone beyond, way way beyond the maximum tolerance level of my patience.
The reason is not any big microsoft to yahoo type deal but a small piece of canny hardware - "Netgear Wi-Fi Router" which is giving me sleepless nights. The device seems to be unconfigurable ... and MTNL representatives seems to be always unreachable. If this goes way too far, i think i would then have to decorate this at my shelf.

Waiting for MTNL reparimen to come tomorrow.

My New Lappy !!

Ladies & Gentlemen ... Presenting my new laptop!! Yesterday(3rd May 2008) i have bought a fresh n cool look new Laptop. Full of features and workhorse. This hit piece is no offence to the pocket too.

The model is HP Pavillion dv6767TX. It is full of features and strong streamline of hardware combinations.

Its already 2:30 A.M. and i am still not able to find any reason why i should leave my new darling ... and quit to bed!! So XCuse me plz ...:)


Posting Continued on 6th May 2008

Its been just three days since i have been playing with this beauty, but its already seemingly fantastic and eloquent. The dream machine, should i say? Good in looks and great in style. I am fascinated to know that DVD Scribe technology is a handsome property of this lappy. I would surely give a try by this weekend. DVD Scribe technology is basically a way by which the DVD Writer itself scribble over the DVD Surface, as per the design, one specifies. Its cool .. no?

The laptop has started making my life far far more easy and portable. Gone are the days when i used to sit on the desktop and write the blog posts. Now i just pack all my work and settle on bed, and pen down anything and everything. They say, the great thoughts comes at the end of the day, and when the writing at the end of the day is so comfortable, why should one abstain!?

So more blogs will be raining in ... I am waiting for this weekend when i would buy a wireless router to connect my lappy to internet and make it Complete Potent (not literally .. eh!)!!

Booked for niceties

Booking, the tacky word may be discribed by the finesse ease and sheer clarity if we start relating this to the world spread around us.
I was brought up seeing the booking everywhere, be it hospitals, hotels, restaurants, train journeys. But one more kind of booking more pralevent are the booked array of seats in local transport. But instead of having a booking against a ticket, its more of a booking by virtue of one's GENDER!

In Delhi, NCR and elsewhere in India, women are alloted the booked seats which they may claim from any male species that is happily enjoying the comfort of nice journey.

I may not comment if booking of this sorts is correct or not, but i may sometimes face few such issues wherein the 'fight for right' or infact "Fight to hold Booked Seat Tight" gets crazy to crazier and ugly to uglier.

Men relentlessly love to go against the RULES, and sometimes not leave seat for ladies, and the fairer gender after getting tired of luring them with the cold wind of their smiles, starts getting infuriated.

My question is why we can't a mixed seating arrangement for Public transport? Are its only women who needs seats for comfort and men needs to leave space for the Ladies. You can post your comments ... Discussion is ON ... and so is in all Public busses.

My FFF(Fast Friend Forever)

In my odd times, you stood by me,
You brought a reason for my striking glee,
You spread the magic of your charm,
your company was a blessing without a harm,
thinking u is my everyday's passion,
I can't hide from you my silly obsession!
You will be special to me, ask me Ever,
That's how you've been my Fast Friend Forever!!

Packers and Movers

In childhood days, i always liked to see more of anything, be it More cakes, more cookies, more gulab jamuns, more toys, videogames, and much more of mores.

Bt this fascination of mine grew onto become a paranoid when i discovered that these Mores are not only the pleasers. More tension, more work, more nightmares of ur bull shaped bosses, more responsibilities of Girlfriends and top of all More and MORE Crowd to accompany u in local bus to make ur journey happily IRRITATING AND PESKY.

As i m travelling in a jampacked vehicle, a vehicle i said because, from naked eye, its hard to guess dat this men-clad moving thing actualy is a bus! The poor passengers are hanging like linen left to dry in open air. They are hugging on anything they can hold, be it shaft of bus, window's pane, partner's waist or even poor conductor's leg. I can easily sense on the roads of delhi, how the Leaning Tower of Pisa will look while moving.

Getting back...from class

I just stole some time to write this entry. Juz finished attending the 2nd week of my MBA class.

Feeling immensly hungry and my mind is tortourously tempting me 2 think about sweet yummy fresh pastries or creamy pudding with fresh pulpy pineapple pieces, that i often like 2 have at a newly opened local bakery shop Baker's Island. But thinking about the fact that my weight gain has already assisted the gravitational pull, i am trying to trap and kill this temptation..... After all, PET KA SAWAAL HAI ;-)

Blossom-ed after Holi..

Qweeek ... What are these creatures???!! I imaginatively thought about your first reaction after seeing the accompanying pic. All horrible and weired looking zombie like human species standing to get themselves clicked !!

But i may never deny the fun we had this holi. All of us were happily engrossed in herbal Gulaal and having fun!

If as per my understanding, you are piercing your sight to spot whos who, lemme introduce you to the Ugly Team

Starting from Left :
Gaurav, Ravi, Me(of course the center of all eyes! :), Yashpal a.k.a Bittoo and Mannu.



Rocky was missing as he flew for his AOL(its 'Art of living' and not 'America On-Line', he is still in India) get together! We missed him.
But we didn't missed the festive which brings all of us together and gives a change to hug each other and tell that yes, we are there for you in your Good and bad times. Even Zombies have a heart, you see? :)

Getting ready for Holi ..

Today's Morning is a bit jittery, due to the fact that i slept by 2 in the morning(was watching Taare Zameen Par - 5th Time !!). The first thing which i did after waking up is to send the sweet wishes to all my mates on mail, scrapping all and sending text too. phew ... sometimes i feel how much far i go ahead to make sure none in my friends circle lefts out. Holi, is not the "aisa waisa" festival anywez.

For me, two festivals in the form of Holi and Diwali holds special meanings, Holi lets you be a Spoilt brat, permits you to create as much Havoc and nuances in your neighbourhood and Diwali gives you an opportunity to revert one's ill deeds done at Holi by sitting like a lame duck before god and praying with Folded hands.

While sitting today and writing this blog entry, i am getting tempted to jump out and make some dhamaal. Feeling very excited and will try to live my childhood.

Looking eagerly forward to Play red, black, blue and brown. But my suggestion to self and you. Please use the herbal colors only. The locally made colors may ruin your skin, and as far as possible be aware of water ballons. They sometimes may hit you like a flying saucer.

ना पिचकारी की धार से
ना रंगो की बौछार से
बंदा डरता है तो सिर्फ़
गुब्बारो की मार से !

The celebrations have already started in and around my Mohalla! So, here i go ... But i will definitely not miss to put my pic, plastered in various contrasting colors for your Discomfort.

Till then .....

Happy Holi To You All !!

(S) "NO" (W) Limitiations

Lots of things had happened in the past ... A trip to the beautiful place .. Haldwani with the complete office gang to the marriage of one of our office colleague.

We wandered to haldwani and then moved to the picturesque beauty of Nainital. For the first time, i was elated (indeed that is the very small word) to see the snow. We touched and played with it like maniacs.

Though the snow was less, but our spirit was not! We climbed beautiful mountainous locations of Nainital, we drove and rush like the rabbit. The chilling weather was delight and so was the soothing feeling of having a great company along.


It's very seldom that i have found so much enthusiasm and fervour in my skeleton. It would be better if i would leave this to the reader to his imagination. If you have been to some Hill Station, you may clearly imagine.
Though this was not my first time at hills, but yes surely my first encounter with Snow, and that made this visit to nainital a surely landmark!

Thanks for Socket(Saket is his actually name!) for putting up his marriage at such a astounding place.

This trip would stay in the books of my memorable moments for a long time. ... perhaps .. till i visit some other Snowy Den next time. Any of my friends listening..?


Lets plan another trip yaar! Life is going away .. just like that ... Without the SNOW!! :)

I am Humorously Serious

One fine day, God appeared before a Moron and said: “I shall grant you a wish … Ask me”.
Moron: “God, I wish to be alive … Till I die!! “

Humor, the way to define this term is an arduous task, but without a molecule of doubt, Humor invites an instant attention no matter to whatever society, language or culture one belongs to. Few brands of humor I may classify from the world around me are: Wry Humor, Blunt humor, Leg-pull Humor, Decent humor. In my life I had faced many of these sorts, some bitter, some meaningful and some otherwise.

Besides the above mentioned genres of Humor, I have gathered one more type into my kitty. That is “Observational humor”. It’s as it sounds! No one will come to you and blow his breath to make you laugh out of your wits, but it is something that needs to be observed from the world around. Say, a dog relieving all his tensions on the Pole at the center of your locality may sometimes goes un-noticed, but surely you won’t miss it if in your weirdest of dreams, you heard AKASHWANI from God that you are going to be a Municipality POLE in your next Avatar!! …. Now.. hey don’t stop that Dog … at least for this Birth of yours? Take another such example of calm humor:

A boy visits a gift shop and asks the Salesman:
Is there any card which expresses .. “I Love you only”?
Sales Man: Yes, it’s Available.
Boy: Fine, pack 20 cards!

Though I am not that much proud of my Sense of humor, but definitely believes that the most effective and inevitable part of humor is the expression and variation in the pitch of one’s voice when the ball needs to be rolled out! I remember one of my friend in High-School who always had good jokes up on his sleeves, but every time he shoots a JOKE, we innocuously configures our face to stay helplessly serious like if his jokes are bible to us. His situation aggravates when he has to do another effort to tell us that the Joke has actually got over and we are ought to LAUGH!!

Nevertheless, laughter may or may not be situational, it might be sarcastic humor too. But the foremost thing to note is anytime, if humor is stretched too far beyond one’s comfort, it becomes a pinch of pepper. One should take everyone into the stride. You can easily target your humor towards somebody, but exaggeration of this excitement’s carcass may become burial of healthy relation.

That’s why they say ..

Writing Comics is a Serious JOB!”

..... Who's there? - Me Recharged !~~~

Knock knock knock ........

Visitor: Is anybody there ....?
Me: Yes, i am here ... say ..?
Visitor: Hi, I am Eric ... Eric Schmidt (i could easily sense the Bond .. James Bond Aroma in his hoarse voice !).
Me: Eric ..? what is this name? You are so miser in even keeping your name!
Eric: let bygones be bygones dear, actually i came here to ask for your permission.
Me: My permission .. for what? Presidential elections in US?
Eric: Aah .. no, Hilary will handle that, I came here to wake you from your grave and ask for your permission, if we can close you down on our Google Servers?
Me: Your google servers?
Eric: Yeah! I am the CEO of Google!
Me: Oooh wow!
Eric: Shut up(His face was stern like my primary school's headmaster)! Just tell me what should we do about the unusual amount of space which you are sitting on like a hungry vulture?
Me: I use it ..
Eric: wat for? to check your network speed? or to flaunt before your friend of your email account which you will never visit? or to impress girls that you write articles on the Blogger?
Me: No, i doooont do that ... you see, accidentally i got popular....
Eric: yes, popular of being lame moron, sitting worthlessly without writing anything on blogger!?
Me: I will write ... surely ...
Eric: what? what you will write? the monotonous technical article, to which millions have snubbed. You see, your last article was more of a copy paste thing ...
Me: oops! you caught me .. hmmm ...
Eric: I will need your promise.
Me: ... that i will always Copy Paste from other sites?
Eric: No, moron, that you will do regular blogging.
Me: Ya, surely ..
Eric: what surely?
Me: hmm .. I promise that!
Eric: Good! so just get on now ... Kick on again.
Me: Thanks eric.
Eric: Oh, thanks for waking you off your sleep? is it?
Me: No!! For letting me know ..."Who is the CEO of Google!!!!!" :)


Eric(on cellphone): Hello, James, Please do me a favor, Deactivate Manish's Blog
Me: ... Nooo ... I was kidding ... err.. eric...

wifffffff ..... Eric .. where are you eric?? Heloo ...
I was looking helplessly around me, i can't see anything but bright sunlight everywhere around me. Time to wake up and do some blogging. I am back guys! Thanks to Eric Schmidt

Trick to Increase Browsing Speed in IE or Firefox

You really don’t need to tweak your browser in case you are using Firefox because it is a browser which has been specially designed for optimized and fast browsing but if you can make it even a little more fast that would certainly be a treat for you. Likewise there is a trick to make Internet Explorer 6 fast too. Browsers are designed to work with fast connections but with this trick even dial-up users can experience fast and smooth browsing.

Optimize Firefox and IE Browsing Speed
I shall be teaching you two tricks which work separately on Firefox and Internet Explorer. It doesn’t require you to be some expert rather all you have to do is change some registry values and you are done. I have also included a video tutorial for those who want to see it step by step visually. This is perhaps one of the oldest tricks to optimize Firefox and IE but it still works great.

Trick to Increase Firefox Speed

1. Open firefox and in the address bar write about:config and press enter
2. Double click network.http.pipelining and set it to True
3. Double click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set value to 10 from 4
4. Right click and create a new string nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0

You are done. Enjoy lightning fast Firefox browsing and now for IE.

Trick to Increase Internet Explorer Speed

1. Go to Start –> Run and type regedit
2. Select HKEY_CURRENT_USER –> Software –> Microsoft –> Windows –> Current Version –> Internet Settings
3. Increase the values (DECIMAL) from default to a higher value e.g. 10

See the difference in speed of IE :D

GMAIL - A Worthy email companion

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The gmail email is one of the best email client available today in the web market! Moreover, i have heard that gmail is soon going to revamp its interface and will be bringing quite a few desirable changes!! Lots in store ..eh?!!

A Thorny Plant

On the lazy Sunday afternoon, sitting restlessly at home before my PC, i just stole a moment to look out and gleefully my eyes resisted to come back into the room again. Though, there was nothing particularly spectacular outside, still my mind never felt like coming back to the 15" monitor!

The sun was burning bright on the plants which we had planted long ago, and later left to themselves to grow. We never actually cared to look after those 5-7 plants, happily(or not so.. ) placed in their respective Pots with natural ease. "Why don't they die?" I curiously quizzed my mom, lying sleepishly on the comfy bed behind me. She would have been less baffled if thunderstorm would have stroke our home than me asking the question about Household chores. Still she diligently opted to gift me a straight forward answer .... "These idiot plants (thankfully, now, i am not the ONLY idiot at home) seems to be on their self-service. They have thorns, and they don't ask for water anymore!! " I wanted to look back to my mom, but my eyes sticked there. I was floating into the valley of my thoughts.

How nice would it become, if the need of water becomes extinct from the planet? How amazing would it be, if, instead of asking for water, people would start craving about sunlight. It is assumed, that if the we would continue our step-motherly treatment to water as we do, soon, the world will see the biggest feud for water within next 20 years. No matter how relaxed are we in our living rooms, its the time, for all of us to wake and be the part of the bandwagon to save this earth and our forthcoming generation from being the Thorny Plant!

A Bridge Too Far

Though, I am not a die hard relegious being, neither i am a devil by brain, but recently i was stuck up with a masterpiece satirical article on those who wants to destroy the priceless archelogical tokens to gain the monetary gains.

Read on ...

The Lord surveyed the Ram Setu and said "Hanuman, how diligently and strenuously you and your vanara sena had built this bridge several centuries back. It is remarkable that it has withstood the ravages of the climatic and geographical changes over centuries. It is indeed an amazing feat especially considering the fact that a bridge at Hyderabad built by Gammon using latest technology collapsed the other day even before they could stick the posters on its pillars."
Hanuman with all humility spoke "Jai Sri Ram, it is all because of your grace. We just scribbled your name on the bricks and threw them in the sea and they held. No steel from TISCO or cement from Ambuja or ACC was ever used. But Lord, why rake up the old issue now."
Ram spoke "Well, Hanuman some people down there want to demolish the bridge and construct a canal. The contract involves lot of money and lot of money will be made. They will make money on demolition and make more money on construction. "

Hanuman humbly bowed down and said "Why not we go down and present our case"
Ram said "Times have changed since we were down there. They will ask us to submit age proof and we don't have either a birth certificate or school leaving certificate. We traveled mainly on foot and some times in bullock carts and so we don't have a driving license either. As far as the address proof is concerned the fact that I was born at Ayodhya is itself under litigation for over half a century, If I go in a traditional attire with bow and arrow, the ordinary folks may recognize me but Arjun Singh may take me to be some tribal and, at the most, offer a seat at IIT under the reserved category. Also, a God cannot walk in dressed in a three-piece suit and announce his arrival. It would make even the devotees suspicious. So it is dilemma so to say."
"I can vouch for you by saying that I personally built the bridge."

"My dear, Anjani putra, it will not work. They will ask you to produce the lay-out plan, the project details, including financial outlay and how the project cost was met and the completion certificate. Nothing is accepted without documentary evidence in India. You may cough but unless a doctor certifies it, you have no cough. A pensioner may present himself personally but the authorities do not take it as proof. He has to produce a life-certificate to prove that he is alive. It is that complicated."

"Lord can't understand these historians. Over the years you have given darshan once every hundred years to saints like Surdas, Tulsidas, Saint Thyagaraja, Jayadeva, Bhadrachala Ramdas and even Sant Tukaram and still they disbelieve your existence and say Ramayana is a myth.


The only option, I see, is to re-enact Ramayana on earth and set the government records straight once for all."

Lord smiled "It isn't that easy today. Ravan is apprehensive that he may look like a saint in front of Karunanidhi. I also spoke to his mama Mareecha, who appeared as a golden deer to tempt Sita maiyya when I was in the forest and he said that he won't take a chance of stepping on earth as long as Salman Khan is around."

Nokia 6300 - The Cult and Cute Phone

How much can you get that Slim?

Nokia - A finnish company, having its strong customer base in India, timely realised the stiff competition it had on its rail, when Motorolla started to inch towards consumer's pocket with its swanky looking economical handsets having plethora of features.

Nokia came up with A stylish, sleek and "Hold it with your Fingers" phone which was quite potent to set the market on zing!

Few months back, i went to look for handset, being a Nokia Loyalist, the only thing that comes out of my mouth when i hear the word "Cellphone" is NOKIA! Naturally, i was browsing through with different makes, specially N-Series. But the brave and out-front suggestions given to me by my mates, drove me to buy this slender masterpiece.

To cut it short, this is a brave effort on the company's part to keep it full of features, robustness and the Trademark Nokia's Ease of Navigation. Though its camera without flash is a biiig let-down for all those who always looks for clicking picture and capture their special moments. Camera works good at natural light, but when its night-time, you would see more pronounced Grains than the person whom you are clicking!

For the rest of the features, sound is good (but plz dont compare it with SE phones, they still rules), its speedy(just like any other S40 phone.) but the most contrasting feature of this Phone is its Display, with 16 million colors in its kitty, its sure going to be charm of your gleeful eyes!
Indeed, to add to the futility, the display which is so robust, may be headache for some, as this consumes lot of battery power, and thus, for normal usage, you need to hold the charger's tale by end of each day - that's a nuisance .. i feel !

Still, the phone is good, free from viruses(yeah, its a java s40 phone, so no worry for virus infection!!) this piece makes a Paisa Vasool.

Ratings : 4/5

कुछ ख़्वाब मेरे - 1

कुछ जागते हुए भी ख़्वाब रखता हूँ,
दिल में अपने आंसुओ के भी हिसाब रखता हूँ,
नही देता हूँ किसी को मौका खुद को उदास करने का
इसलिये मुस्कराहट मैं अपने होंठों के पास रखता हूँ.

A bee sting or a kiss?

Its not a long time that a small bee gave a more a BEER like thunderbolt direct on my eye-lid . I was not able to think, speak or even pose correctly when it striked.

By Each day it was pumping and swell more drastically, untill, one day i said, letz put a period to this. As i approached doc, the first thing he scared me of was of using his "machine" through which he can push and blast away all the swelling ... how typically horrible!!! It was better that medicines were a better alternative to using that machine!

Since 4-5 days, i am under the medications and feeling that things are starting to shed an blanket over the blanket of my eyes. But during these days, more than my parents, it was my boss who really got so worried predicting the black clouds of my unavailability at office. Thanks boss for your concern, i had enough holidays for this month -- So don't worry!

A Call from Within ..Chak De !

Seldom, we see such a masterpiece writ so meticulously in the chapter of Bollywood's history with gracious ease and emphatic effect.

Chak de India is a story of a 'Player turned coach' who is fighting with his own world and the world outside to prove his piety and his undying dedication towards his nation ... a nation which has forlorn him and wrongly labeled him 'A Traitor' .

Chak de India is a story of the bunch of girls marshal together for Indian Hockey National team, who are though seemingly like one unit, but yet are entirely Sparrow and Hens to each other.

Chak de India is a story of fighting with adversities and coming through with punching thy fist and telling this world, you don't have dead veins to dream.

...And indeed chak de is something about more, perhaps, pretty more. Its all the fun, a joyride and an horrible canvas of stupid sports administration in india, which still has loosely screwed orthodoxical mindset which still horrifically believes that Its only men who can run this world and women are merely a birth machine or cooking institute.

Last week, i got the chance to view this marvelous masterpiece. but sadly, i was the only one who went to the movie theatre, despite of building all the plans to watch the movie with my Sister and her husband, and my parents.

The movie was good and had a decent pace, but i really somehow believe that this movie would otherwise have been successful even if Mr. Shahrukh would have been left off from this. i know some of my blog readers would find it offensive if they are really shahrukh "chak de" khan devotees, but i still feel that "Aamir" or "Saif" could also have done the justice to the role.

I liked the way the director flaunted the difference in culture. we often say that "unity in diversity" but do we really mean it? Do we really call us Indians before calling us delhi-ites or mumbai-ites? An eye-awakener, truly!

As for the girls being casted, i truly appreciate the way each girl gave their solid performance. They were above the par, and only after coming out of the theatres i was forced to believe that most of them were actually related to the Hockey in first place, and they didn't had anything to do with acting before appearing in this movie! Be it the bubbly girl from haryana .."Miss chautala" or be the "Bashing Kaur" or be it "The cutest of all eyes .. Preeti sabbarwal" every character came to life in these thorough 3 hours. Shahrukh was as immaculate and unblemished as ever. I truly like the way he said to all girls " I only know one thing "I-N-D-I-A"

The only thing i missed in this movie were good dialogues, watching bollywood ishtyle-ed movies over long period of time, we are used to the good effective, blood pumping dialogues, but sadly there were rare in this classic. Probably few readers would contest against me for this, as they would have liked the Shahrukh's pre-Final Speech to the team .. "Yeh Sattar Minute". but i felt as if it sadly became a remainder of an thoughtless attempt to present some sensational array of inspirational words.

Neverthless, i would give 8 starts to this out of 10, and would suggest every single Indian to go and watch this movie. I am sure you also won't mind being extravagant while writing one review like this in your blog. Till then .... "Chak De ...& Vande Matram!"

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

'Clash of The Titans' ... When two donkeys met!

It happens rarely ... more so, when you are roaming in posh streets of Netaji Subhash Place, Delhi and you find this Exciting, and an iconic creature coming just before me. Probably, it could have found an brotherly attraction in me or something else, i could not figure out.

Yeah, thats true! I was roaming there at weekend, when a same creature like me came across. Though, he just bowed down, thinking i look more Exaggeratedly like a donkey than him!! so i thot of one-to-one comparison. I think ... thunk ... thought, but really could not figure out who looks more smarter, my mom certainly finds the one at left as more attractive and "Handsome", so i turned to my papa. "You see, technically, the guy at left, seems more like a gentle creature, who is this donkey at right anywez?" he quizzed!

Woops!! my izzat is at stake now, so i thought to leave this to my blog readers as of who is looking smarter here?

Paani Paani ... Rajdhani !

Last week, India's Capital - delhi got confused .. whether to shed tears of joy or happiness for the open sky and pleasant weather! It was 2nd August, when it started raining since early morning, early joggers too got the wind of the cool weather its going to be. Little anyone had thought how much murkier and full of disgruntlement the day will become for them.

The daemon of overnight shower created a havoc of its sorts on poor Delhi roads. Already the victim of banishment from the Municipality of Delhi, and wet underwear behavior of Government, the roads were left to their own task of soaking or managing the surplus of rain water. Sadly, the infrastructure, bowed. Tuesday morning turned out to be the worst one in this monsoon season. As delhi flew and caught the pace to rush to their respective work places, the snarls and honking were prominent scene, more than, finding noisy drums in the marriage processions.

The never wet roads turned out to be the Bathing tub for the rickshawalas, Car broke down and so does the traffic's pace. No police to man the traffic, signals were meaningless and so were the expectations from the chief minister to put even her 1/10000th attention to the fact that just 3 years down the line, This water pool city ..... err... Capital City is going to host one of the most prestigious Games Ceremony which will span the big countries from around the Globe.

I was going through the company bus and i thank lord that i subscribed to the company bus, had it been some local transport, i'd had been wishing "Good morning" to my Boss by 4'o clock!!!
The smart driver, drove around the streets to reach the office being just by an hour late!

The pictures could not rightly express the turmoil whole city went through, but surely, Delhi has lots of questions to ask this 4 year old government of how they would like to put this miserable situation in their bags? Probably miss Sheila Dixit must have lots of things to answer. Over to you Mrs. CM!!

Blue Scream of Death

Beware ...!! Now forget about the good ol days when you need at least a Oscar nominated horror flick to leave you fainted in your thoughts. The Blue line buses plying flying on delhi roads, can do just that!! or indeed more!

it all started very recently, the first week of July 2007. A blueline bus rammed into 10 cars standing decently at Raja garden Red-light, when this boulder like bus rammed onto them with little mercy and fierce blunt. It took one little life of a Ten year old kid. But alas, the worse had yet to come, day after day, the series of nonsense driving continued. Thankfully this time the government gave its tortoise like act a quit. Delhi's chief minister and Transport minister Haroon Yusuf, expressed their disgruntled feelings and ordered strict checking all over the Delhi roads.

Several buses were stopped, some justifiably but more or less unjustifiably. In all this hoopla, there was a section of society which was left Unaided and unattended ..... "The commuters". Buses or No Buses, they are always the worst sufferers who were left stranded at the bus stops, waiting endlessly to spot the bus-deserted roads and guessing what kind of treatment their bosses will give to them when they will reach their office. The situation got Topsy turvy and the government was still in a "Baby with the wet Nappy" situation.

Delhi city was once again apprehended under the unlucky situation of Exorbitant Autorickshaw walas and little bunch of D.T.C. Buses.

Bad Situational handling , false assurances and political motives dominated the aftermath of the Delhi Road Tragedies. The tale was sorrow and horrible, but takers were few! CM settled in for pushing in rules and guidelines within bus owners, not realizing that it was just a tip of an ice berg which made the whole giant Titanic to sunk deep into the watery grave!

The newspapers next morning were suggestively loud and clear that sooner it will again be Blood Pooled roads. And miserably, it didn't took much for the Blueline devil to punch its teeth once again. City was again under the menace.


Up till date, all the government did was to steam up the operations and get the speed governors get checked at each blue line bus, but seeing the response and operational architecture, it seems that its all the same and sane story of finding the inspector rather than looking for criminals!

GOD SAVE DELHI

# Via this blog, i request all those administrative executives who hold the rights to take the potential decision, to phase out an alternative plan rather than to try improve(leave alone to make then disciplined) the conditions of the bus and drivers.A private entry into the Delhi transportation will do wonders as in the case of Telecom sector.

Am i a Philosopher?

I talk to myself daily, almost daily, in the morning or late evening, just try to explore the inner myself with more expatiation. I somehow found myself to be a hungry for fun kinda person, but at the same time, i satisfies myself with a thought that i am an individual who have an outlook of a philosopher and a deep thinker.

Yeah, to some extent i am a thinking machine, i always try to explore the way beyond, somewhere in me, there is a person who wants to live the life differently, and most daringly. But, Somewhere, i found a person who is so shy and sitting in the corner of a biiig black room staring with his timid eyes and trembling fingers.

There are times, when i act thoroughly practical and extremely rock solid, but sometimes i gaze myself and say to me ... oh! you are so soft, baby, from inside! Every person is a blend of himself, having lots of smart shades hiding among his inner soul. There are something, that the world sees, but there may be something, which this world can't ... Really can't!

This could be one of the most out of the blue blog entries which dont have any meaning, but that is perhaps my best means to explore myself.

Just few moments to go ...

Ecstatic, fun-filled, loving, deeply engrossed, ups, lows, downs, and then standing up and taking the challenge. Last 1 year, i had seen everything, and indeed more. Now, as i am standing with my arms open, facing my Another Birth Anniversary. Thankfully, i found some time to share myself inside out at this moment.

No matter, this could very well churn out to be another gruelling and monotonous essay of my feats and losses, but i will certainly keep it SSS (Sweet, simple and sexy!)

When i had celebrated my last b'day, i still rembr, the fun loving and cool atmosphere with all the decent buddies by my side at office(Netprophets). Some of those people are still in direct touch and are absolutely very dear to me! And i alwez curse myself for not been able to find enuff time to meet them, hug them and tell them how meaningful they were to me even after i am not with them. Maheshwar sir, Bhaskar(Mucchad), Chaman(bhai), Arvind(Arry), Rishi, sumit, anand(both of them), shivani, neha, babul, ramesh, Divya , Amitabh sir, Saurabh sir. there was something special and different yet characteristic in all of them.

Time moved, but i kept everyone around me everytime ... each day .. passing moments. I changed my company, from one stem to another tree, hopping i met different people, different challenges, some bright some damp.

This year, i also saw my best friend shashi getting married. Seeing him settled was fun, but at the same time a bit scary too! :) Whole year went as swift as ferrari. Bass yaadein reh gayee!

Soon, i would be entering a new phase of my life .. i would be entrusted with lots of responsibilities, both social and official. I know that there would be hard times too and some delightful moments are also packed to be dispatched for me! All i would need is a constant struggle to be the best in my eyes, and do the very very best for somebody soo so soo sooo special in my LIFE ..... "MY PARENTS". So its the right time for me to re-group myself and get ready for another stint ...

I would love to call the coming year of my life as "Boulder Determination of a Bolder life" !

I don't know if i still would be maintaining this for next year, but if i'd, i would come back to trail this next year, exactly 11:30 at 4th July 2008 and answer, what i had lost and what i had gain.

Till then .... HAPPY B'DAY 2 ME!! :)

My beautiful sunday morning

SUNDAY

Its not hard at all to guess why this single 6 digit word brings such a charming and beautiful feeling deep inside. The magical word spreads the cool feeling of a light at the end of a deep and long dark tunnel. A service man can easily understand the emphatic meaning of SUNDAY, he can verse it to as "A Painkiller", or the "Sweet Punch". but no matter whatever one says .. the sunday remains a very beautiful day to cherish and live the whole week within 24 hours.

Some secrets you dont know about your Mobile...

Though, hidden but these tips can really be useful to your Mobile.

Emergency:

The emergency number worldwide for mobile phones is 112.If you find yourself out of the coverage area and there is an emergency , dial 112.

Hidden Battery Power:

If your cell battery is very low , press keys *3370# . Cell will restart and the instrument will show 50% increase in battery.

To Disable a Stolen Mobile phone:

Key in the following digits on your phone *#06# . A 15 digits code will appear on the screen. When your phone gets stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them the code.They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes SIM card,your phone will be totally useless.

Cast & Greed

"Unity in Diversity" - Since our childhood, we found this phrase being used as frequently as birth of a new baby in our country - India. The phrase commonly suggests that though this country is fully of vivid cultures, people and traditions, but we all in a unique spirit are equal and united.

Last week, unfortunately the country saw something astonishingly different story rather. The two different backward communities lifted their arms and weapons to protest for/against the Reservation. Meena community, the already declared ST Group stronly protested the attempt of Gujjar community to be casted as Schedule tribe instead of OBC(which holds lesser reservation quota).

What followed was the bloddy tale and politically motivated disrupt in northern india in particular. I alwez wonder how the two groups gets motivated to altercate and fume the society in bits just to seek their foolish motives.

Though the democaratic country can prolong its show-off pride in being a free for all
nation, the roots are still rotten till depth. It will require lots of "Rang De Basantis" and Lots of sensible Politicians to change it .. hopefully!! Being a concerned Indian, i hope that day will come Soon ...!!

Sleeping @ Office - My New Adventure !

In one of my previous post, i had mentioned about subscribing to the company bus service. Now to begin with ... let me introduce this post as the "After-effects of Previous adventure" Since waking at 6 in the morning is in itself is a bitter experience, the morning adventure is leaving me in almost damaged state throughout the day!

But hey .. no, the guy in the pic is not me! its just the reflection of me! after all every IT proffesional sleep like this only ( To the envy of his TL)

Major concern is not holding yourself post-lunch but rather steal a nap in installments to relieve yourself. After all boss must understand that this is another form of Meditation ... eh :)

Reaching home, though it used to be never before 12:30 i catch the comfort of my bed, but these dez its never late than 10:30 (woo!! my mother is happily crazy seeing the sea change in me!)

Hope this dullness will stop and i will get over with this in few days! Lots of good time is getting wasted in sleeping! :(

A Happy Journey ....

Luckily after much mind mash moosh .. i have subscribed to company bus service recently. The service is good.. but the real pain is waking up early and rush to board the bus before it leaves you high and dry! .. Now how could a lazy planet in me could wake so early and ruch to catch the bus ... but .. life is all about challenges !!

3 days now, and feeling good ... coming early and leaving early are appreciable. The good thing is i have found good set of people who has friendly and down to earth nature as well .. "Khoob pategi".

Couldn't find too many good faces there :) but still .. The crowd rocks! I could bravely quote my journey through bus as a Journey to Happiness. If somehow my bus mates happens to read this blog, i would like to give 'em HI5. Dudes! i had a gr8 time last evening when you all pulled my leg and ragged me :) It was fun ... REALLY! Thanks!

A Wish to have a Very Good Day

 

Forget about the days
when its been cloudy, but
don't forget your hours in the sun

Forget about mistakes
that you can't change now, but
don't forget the lessons
that you've learned

Forget about the times
you've been defeated, but
don't forget the victories you've won

Forget about misfortunes
you encounter, but
don't forget the times your luck has turned

Forget about the days
when you've been lonely, but
don't forget the friendly smiles you've seen

Forget about the plans
that didn't seem
to work out right, but...

Don't forget to Always Have A Dream

Keep Smiling  

Have a Wonderful day!!!!!!

 

 

 

Mere Yaar ki shaadi !!

Well .... what should i say ...? Ek aur bakra halaal!! I never thot writing a blog entry about somebody's marriage on such a painful note. Sadly, as shown in the adjoining DIAGRAM, two beautiful looking people are standing with each other .. and in a quiet way taking a pledge to stay with each other for life! Looks cool? hmm? isn't it? ... Naah!! Just read on ...

Being a typical Manish, my expression would be ... Woooooooo ... bhooooo :( Shaadi!!!!!! Nahiiiiiiiii!! Well i could not understand why people marry so early? or why they marry at all? Can't they stay with each other without this pricky responsibilities tag?? I may be weired and there are many who are ready to suck even the last drop of blood from my body listening that, but its my blog .. friends ... u cant do anything :)

Coming back to the point ....
Its good to be married, and its not .... but at last its the mind boggling discussion which could never end. So just at least for this blog entry, i just stop looking for the end of the thread.

....... Feeling sleepy ... will append more withing 2-3 days ... So keep your eyes stick !

Some things never change ... Like Me

I do and break my promises time and again. Every time i gets delayed in hitting with the new post ... i just promise this blog that i will be regular in hitting with some typos of mine .. but the pure business is killing this blog i suppose. But waise i love this blog a lot and won't let this die.

I alwez used to wonder, (when i started writing the blog) that how could blog ... an online public diary could be just a passion? But slowly as the cog moved , i came to realise this is a medium and ventillation to talk with oneself !!

I Hope this time... i won't break my promise!! Though i know that i won't find the time in this weekend too as My friend shashi is unfortunately getting married :( [Cheers to Him!!]

But surely i would put in my whole experience of this coming weekend. I hope this would be an ultra-special weekend for me!! A trip to Alwar, Rajasthan. Attending best friend's wedding and dhoom dhadaka .. dhol and Naach Gaana!! Lots of plans!! I hope his TO-BE has lots of Chicks around! Optimism is the Key of life ... they say :)