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 I am at my Marredpally home,

Today morning, I got a chance to be at the System here in Hyderabad , from 10 PM. That  being a part of the business weekly meeting, we try to be religious about it,

Missed the morning Badminton game,

 

Will write about it all  together some other day , how I went on to buy one of the costly rackets, the shuttles, the track suits for the same

 

Anyways, I  am now sitting at home, watching TV , Roadies 7 comes with some good ads, one being from my very favorite Bani, though I have written about her long time back in one of the blogs, I believe 200 blogs ago

 

“Na Rakhi naa Rakhi ki maa, asli reality,”

it also has street banners like

 

“Bacchi ki shaadi nah , asli reality”

 

 

guys who believe in reality will not be in Roadies to start with, the only person who is really making something out of it really is Raghu, Though even he is out of this concept, only to drive bigger things ,. He is not a part shareholder of MTV, that is a big jump quite at an early age.

 

Anyways, I am sure he was a difficult guy to get along with for most of his friends

Coming to the new Indian ads, as usual the Fevicol ad ranks at the top along with many others,

 

I like the sweet face of the girl while she is jumping out the balcony in the Act II popcorn ad,

 

One of the new ads for Max mobiles, will show a foreigner in some remote village of India, where he tries to take photograph of utmost poverty , and the rural India, and how it looks like,

 

one damsel sitting on the porch in return takes the photograph of this guys taking a foto on her Max mobile,

 

a very very tasteful ad if you were to ask me. I am amazed that what happens to this creativity on the big screen, why do our movies suck big time,

 

25millipn dollars they spent on the film called blue, out of which many millions went to eh stars and that is why they did not have much to do with the rest of the crew

 

Akshay Kumar and his big fat pay cheque pulled the movie into the deep blue I believe

 

So much creativity in the bottom most guys,

 

There is a  serial called lapataganj that I watch now almost every day, it definitely reminds of the Agartala that I left in my childhood, so many characters to watch see and learn

 

I sincerely  hope that in our Social networking lives we have some thing similar to provide to the next generation of ours

2012

Finally this Sunday, amongst riot that you can see outside mulitplexes to get a seat for 2012. I was able to manage a very good seat in a here to ,unknown theatre in Hyderabad, near the railway station , call the Prashanthi ,

 

I was astonished at how coolly we managed to get the tickets,

I watched it in an amazingly good balcony location for a 25 rs ticket

 

All till the interval ,when I realized why should not  have come here. At interval, even before it, the lights were dimmed, right when Paris was going down, and Rome was almost at the verge of collapse,

the movie in its magnanimity makes, countries like India go down in one sentence ‘hey there, I think India just collapsed ‘

 

Anwyays, at the point of the interval, which I thought the theatre print of the movie should have a banner across it, but it did not, just the lights started dimming , and within 30 seconds of lost footage, the interval started

 

All the children from across the aisles, went out , pushing, cheek by jowl, all the ladies, trying to  hold on to their tramps, the kids in the arms, all crying, unanimously, and the guys in their flip flops, and  decorated jeans, went out, all together,

 

they like it that way, and by they I mean all those who came to the theatre to enjoy the movie other than me,

they all had to had a cold drink, one of the guys in front  of me who was complaining about cold , or something, complained about the chill , I don’t know why he did ask for a cold drink in the first place, some of the kids had to take some pop corn, some had to shout at the top of their voice,

many had their phones on during the whole first half, but the sound system in side the theatre won everytime they raised their voice.

 

I think they are not used to losing, and they do try and taking beyond the 180 dB range, they never think of the discomfort of the others nearby, later I realized, they actually like to show off, this is there way of proclaiming, “see I now have important people calling me, I do have some work to do , I am not a good for nothing guy, I am use ful, see, look at me, and this mobile, it has a ear phone too, and if you need I will take you foto graph “

 

 

 

blah blah,

Anyways, another couple had to bring two of their kids to the movie, one  more victim of nuclear family, in the olden days, you could keep you child to anyone int eh family and take some time off, and in return when you get old, other young couple get to keep their children with you when they go to watch 2012

 

I once had seen a Gujarati family bringing their bunch of kids to watch the movie Sin  . in which  Shiney Ahuja was naked most of the time.

Obviously, the children cried, they could have got a mental shock, if you ask me, anyways, my friend, a daring girl walked up to them and shouted at the family “

What the hell, don’t you ask anyone about a movie that you are taking your children to, the gate keeper should have atleast caught them < I don’t know whther you could bribe your sons first porn movie as a birthday gift or not ?

 

The family just knew one thing, weekends, are to spend the money that I have earned the whole week, I like the on intellectual culture, at least hey get a chance to enjoy whatever  money has to offer, but then to bring you r children to movies like Zinda, Kalbhi alvida  naa kehna  or Sin for example

 

Do they need a title  like “ I press your boobs and you suck it down there “ before they decide that it  might be in the range of movies that keep good impressions in the minds of the children to start with,

 

Anyways , today morning a thought struck me, that , lets say , there really is a 2012 happening, what I will do is take a printout of all  my blogs, make a book out of,

 

“the blogs of  Rahiakil” and some how place it in the ship that will be made in China to save as ,

 

 

In future, I will be known as a great writer of the before flood.  But before that I will have to find and destroy the database or the server that will be having all the worlds good old literature, like Faust, Dante, Goether, Shakespeare, Milton , Chaucer, Wordsworth , one  by one, I will have to delete them and place my book

 

And there will be only author in the coming years, and that will be me

Test match # 2 , Nov 2009

Well, when you see, Yuvraj being more gentle than he is usually, when you have  sweeper in the first over of a test match, when  you see, a gully in case of Rahul Dravid, batting in the other way around, you should know that things are not what it seems

 

Indian team was paying flamboyantly till today morning, when all of a sudden it got out at 642,

 

I don’t know , whether some Intel based experiment is working out such wonders on the pitch in Kanpur this time, but some how the way Harbhajan and  more of a surprise Dhone could not read the  Mendis at all, I am afraid this was a wrong choice to pick up three fast bowlers for this match that will be a Spinners cake walk  game

 

Anyway,

I like Dravid in a sense, if you see his foot movement you will see a new difference, instead of stretching it across the stumps, he  nowadays, stretches it forward, which is typical of Yuvaraj. This is a welcome change though late in the career and 10 K plus runs later,

 

But some where deep down I know that if Dravid is allowed to continue , we might see some blazing new score book changes, and records tumbling in the coming days,

Border you are down, Lara here he comes.

 

The test is now interesting, in the sense that I am waiting for Sehwag to take the bowl and  Yuvaraj if possible

One year since the Taj attaks in Mumbai

Though the Oberoi was under siege too , we have Taj as the vivid picture in our minds,

 

After that, the spot has now become even more of a viewpoint, with many families keeping it as a must see spot, and a must have a photograph spot,

 

there will be a frame hanging in many houses all around the country in the years to come, also for NRI families to take atleast one family snap near the Taj. Wall across the world will have it as a souvenir

 

But one thing that I do remember about the Taj case was that, there were some terrorists holed up in the Taj last year, the situation was similar to the Kargil war, they had one single point in their hold, no one with their sane mind would wage war against India at this time, these are rampant acts of terrorism, small treacherous activity only to keep their flag flying, some where deep down in the dungeons of illiteracy and propagandized world.

 

The one thing that I take from the feelings that I have about the killings last years as far as I remember was, people were all waiting, all  the news channels, without a singe ad , no one wanting to ,miss out on the drama, there were virtually a emptiness in the news channels, all directed towards, the drams  unfolding on the Taj corridors, but does any one specifically remember, what we as a nation was wanting,

 

The terrorists had made us murderers in return too, we were all waiting for the NSG to take command, kill the terrorists inside and take control of the situation.

I am not sure about any other way of working out the problem , but we as a nation , 100 crore people odd, or some what more, all waiting to see some lives go , some people ( terrorist people cal them  ) die

 

the terrorists had indeed made us murderers in return,

from children of 10 years of age to any person in sane logical mind was  trying to get those hold up terrorists killed,

After all, we were watching a live version of a death match.

 

I never , expected such a thing to happen, but there it was, when the last terrorist fell from the window, I remembered some scenes of mindless fanfare going all around the middle east and Tailban infected places, streets of Afghanistan when the 9/11 happened.

 

All in all, it has left a bad taste in my mind

IDeas that bother

Idea did change my life

Nowadays I am not that prompt to see an SMS

I mean I don’t lookup  the inbox everytime the mobile beeps the SMS tone

 

I know that more than half the time it is a Idea promotional message

 

I missed one of the important ones my brother, not bothering to look  up the sms, as soon as it came since I had given up the hope of getting a normal sms anymore

 

 

Idea did change my life

 

 

Anyways, found some thing online

 

In order to stop IDEA promotional SMS/Calls, you need to register for 'DO NOT DISTURB', i.e. DND
Send a SMS ' START DND' to 1909 and get rid of prmotional calls/SMSs forever ...

or Google 'how to register for 'Do not Disturb'

 

 

May be this will help some one out there

Badvertisement

people run out of money, or paint , and there goes a good advertisement.

 

I recently saw a good one behind an auto, this was about Tata Yellow pages, it had a melting ice cream below which it had the caption “Act quickly”

that is the kind of advertisement, one can associate to immediately. Everyone has had a melting ice cream more than once and knows the importance of eating it quickly.

 

I liked it personally,

I hate the recent  fairness cream ads, there is something that you cannot change, I know of a friend who bought the Garnier fairness cream only because the fairness meter or a strip with 14 shades of skin tones was printed.  One was supposed to measure how the cream works by comparing before and after fairness meter reports.

 

Well, that is something that teaches me something about the human psyche, my friend who is a very fair girl judging by Indian skin tone standards, she is upset that she is not 1 on that meter, and is at 2, I don’t know how she came to that conclusion after all.  I believe that had this  been given to a person who is dark and goes below that 14 th marker, I mean that he is not even the lowest point that meter, he would not be worried to make it one shade lighter, He would be more practical, he would have either taken it as it should be, he would have rather  given up the tension altogether,

 

 

Anyways, one funny thing I saw in the morning, was, one Auto driver who had run out of paint  or ideas, had written it right across his autos back “

Raju Gandhi International  Airport “

 

He fucking, messed up the name of a ex PM , who had died for the nation. Well it seems people don’t take that shit seriously at all. It is ok, as long as some one figures out that there is only one Internation Airport in Hdyerabad and it is Rajiv Gandhi IA. So any one reading it would figure it out, we really have no opportunity to put up a Raju Gandhi  airport soon, because for that the Gandhi family would have to make a new baby and name it Raju , ( pyar se  of course )

 

And then make him famous, or for quicker turnaround time, make him the PM asap. I believe that may be a distant possibility and by that time, autos will be altogether banned in this nation.

 

Still, this is much better than what I had seen months back in some town in Bihar  , a wine shop which proclaimed more than happily “ Child Bear”

 

All I could figure out was, it means chilled beer, and as long it serves it chilled, no one would bother them about the bear .

 

Somewhere in Hdyerabad, I think opposite to the Madisson hotel in Begumpet, there is a wall that says  “Do not pass”

 

and then goes blank,  I was afraid, what does the poster guy mean, was he out of paint, wall, or what he had to go to answer natures call and never got his act together to come back and finish his masterpiece,

 

Actually the irony is that the wall is close to a school, some corporate offices. Well, what the author meant was “ Do not pass urine here “, the urine her goes in the second line, which had been washed away for reason.

 

Near the HAL airport ( old airport ) in Bangalore, there is a fruit juice center, that has a menu that goes “ Pome granite juice “

Actually better than “Promo grenade juice  “ in the Adyar Ananda Bhavan in Bangalore.

 

Minx shake ( milk shake ) ,   Benana juice,  crap apple shake  “

 

I believe I have seen many such signs and symbols all around the country , a local Dan Brown . But I did not keep a reference note anywhere , which I should have kept. That way I would not have missed any of these masterpieces.

 

One of the posters outside Reliance World ( Mayfair ) says, that “your  vehicles here will have to parked at owners risk”

 

ya, yaa, my bike is  a stolen one but I was prudent enough  to makes its owner sign a contract before I stole it , that  if ever I will park this bike I will do it, with his responsibility and more so when I am doing it outside Mayfair.

 

 

And I forgot to write about Hyderabad winter

Today at 6PM I will showing a business plan to a friends Japanese language class mate. That will take about 2 hours,.

 

After which I go to Ajays, place to cook some food. I realized that no matter what I do , my onions always go half waste, the amount of rice I choose always, is wrong,

 

Only if I have another person to share the food, that does it perfectly fine. Ajay is a good cook, a bachelor in the mid thirties, some how, inarguably is a  good cook. I am can bet on it.

 

My driving classes are done. we only need to finish the reverse gear classes  which I will do by the end of the month , the weekend of 29 th November. Since on the 5 th I have the driving test.  I need to pass it, for if I have to buy the car by mid January ,for which I am saving everything that I have.

May be I will break the SBI NAV , whatever I get but still I need the car. A Hyundai i10

 

Research starts  now , am talking with a large number of people about it. Actually, most of my cousin brothers are advising about buying a new car , but I am not willing to shell out more than 3 lakhs now on buying a car. Since I am not in the mood for luxury but it is now a necessity I should get the closest possible deal and buy that car

 

Anyways,

Hyderabad now, especially these months, one cannot be anywhere else in the planet but in Hdyerabad, there is a chill in the air , especially  post the 9 pm mark. Trafiic has already spoiled the environment , and somehow it is not as cold as it used to be, but that makes it a very comfortable winter.

 

 

Hyderabad . winter starts

it is mid November

It is sprinting right in front of me.

I always knew that time and tide waits for none, but tide at least you can predict, time, the predictability that after a period of time you will be able to guess what time is it , is now beyond human control

 

I specifically remember a childhood game,

we were class 1 or class 2. We invented a large number of games, without any prior experience,

just intuition. Spending time in the bus, like jumble words, with no absolute hint at all, and  pen and paper,

 

Someone would just say ailartsua and you have to find out , what is the original word

 

For a class 1 or class 2 student I am amazed at how good we were. We did math puzzles , square roots, etc.

 

Some of the games were in the school ground , and specifically out doors, you start from two corners of the ground and walk back ( facing the other way ).

The aim was to meet at the center, the best pair was the winner.  Anyways, those were just small games. We had some games, like run the stop watch and stop it exactly at 1:00.

 

that was like within 30 minutes one would have played across the group of 6 people,. ( 6 x 5 )  only 5 times. I used to win it most of the time. We also played this game of counting number of seconds without seeing a real watch, you had to say how many seconds had passed or you had to say that it was one minute up.

 

That was a real time counter game and some of us were real good at it. Also , we played about judging the correct time of the day ,

I was good at it

 

Well, now in 2009. I have lost it, I am insane. Today I woke up at 5 in the morning, as a part of my lifestyle change project ( I talk in numbers baby , I work for an American MNC ) . I went with my brother to the airport. I cam back around 9 and napped for a while as I was feeling that the sleep was not complete . Unbelievably, I woke up in 2 hours, but by the time I left bed after spending some pensive time in a Sunday morning bed, I saw the clock move to 2:35

 

I decided to get lunch. Thought about magi noodles, There was none at home. Went to buy one, now that I have finished, it, it is already 4:42

 

Where on earth can I explain the last 2 hours. Was I abducted or my time was abducted ….

Early Morning 14 November 2009

Today is what they called chilrens day , today morning, it would have been different had I been in school

but no  I am not,

 

I am way past that, but, I made atleast a lifestyle change today.

I woke up at 6 in the morning and have been doing something or the other till then

 

yesterday evening the guys in office planned for a volley ball match. I realized that with the space bar gone in my laptop

I am not going to do much with this laptop today , without getting irritated .

 

So I am starting for the volleyball match now.

 

Will come back, take my bike to  a service center , headlights gone, mileage, boy,

 

My brother comes back at 11 am,

 

and then I will have some idea where I will spend the rest of the day .

 

Will upload pics for the day today in the evening.

Spate of affairs

Recently one of my replies in rediffmail

 

Spate of affairs


The net and media currently dominates a mans way of thinking. recently I got an opportunity to meet some people in a train journey those who have some how been non initiated with the net and television too. They belonged to a senior group of devotees in some religious group. all educated, strong intellectuals ( at least acc. to me )
I found their opinions completely non biased and without doubt one of the best assessment of the country as we know it.

We in India consider the rediffmail statistics as a good benchmark, the world leaders invite India in almost all the meeting, we have billionaires in the top lists.
But there is a one inherent problem, and that is common mans perception. Why does the common man still feel that it is difficult to buy houses in India, start a business in India, none of the jobs makes your life secure. and even if it does, it is in the dynamic private industries, where nothing is static. In the public services where the salaries have seen changes, the rates of potatoes and rice have seen double changes.

We no longer worship the merit. In the 1960s when Jawaharlal Nehru , was running the machinery in terms of new deals, and was going to become a part of the new world order the rise of the east. ( does it a ring a bell ) . there were newer opportunities since all the government offices were new and jobs were offered. An entire generation of Indians started thinking that changes are right around the corner. Those men are now 60 plus

those men have come and gone, they thought that things will change ( something that all of us find genetic ) Rceently one of my cousins went to visit Europe for a business visit. When he came back , he gave me the following explanation for the rise of the west. He feels , that the weather, the pollution free environment, the hassle free life, makes a man not bother about smallest of the details, but think big, the mind opens, up. Mind you,it was 3000 years or more , back . When westerners...
Re: Spate of affairs by rahiakil on Nov 13, 2009 04:41 PM those men have come and gone, they thought that things will change ( something that all of us find genetic ) Rceently one of my cousins went to visit Europe for a business visit. When he came back , he gave me the following explanation for the rise of the west. He feels , that the weather, the pollution free environment, the hassle free life, makes a man not bother about smallest of the details, but think big, the mind opens, up. Mind you,it was 3000 years or more , back . When westerners came to India and saw, favorable climate, water of the ganges could heal diseases, the change of weathers very necessary of the bodies complete growth, natural monsoon systems and a vast area of land with minimal population. Moral lessons of respecting ones old, caring for the others, hospitality , joint families, were all encouraged and followed religiously. Given all these, one always thought of this nation highly. But things have changed. Mind you , we are in the same bubble as our older geneartions. we still benchmark the west as a better standard of living and strive towards it. some of us, try to find fault in the west system of personal life , but I am sure, no one challenges their development in the material world. Obviously, all cannot be blamed to the politcians, they are just we normal people in near future. All I am hinting is though we consider ourselves the next most happening country , we forget, that the world , the earth is running out of resources.....

 

One funny thread in Rediffmail

Look how bechara Bhola Kumar gets straightened

	WHERE IS AMERICA ? by Bhola Kumar on Nov 07, 2009 03:15 PM  | Hide replies HAHAAAA HAHAHAA HAHA and where are so called advanced countries like Canada, UK, France, Japan, Singapore. seems India is number one in the world now in everything and west is the third - fourth world hahaa     Forward  |  Report abuse
	Re: WHERE IS AMERICA ? by Pradeep Tondwalkar on Nov 07, 2009 04:12 PM Its seems you are from Bihar or UP , U do not know the topic and keep comenting.    Forward   |   Report abuse Re: Re: WHERE IS AMERICA ? by vivek on Nov 07, 2009 04:45 PM HE IS FROM THE FAMILY OF BHOLNATH JAFRANI    Forward   |   Report abuse Re: WHERE IS AMERICA ? by SEKKU SEKKU on Nov 07, 2009 03:25 PM Its clear you dont seem to understand what is being talked about here. Its money flowing from the advanced countries to India by Indians who have migrated abroad. US, UK and other countries dont top this list because they dont go abroad to earn money and remit it back to their homes.    Forward   |   Report abuse Re: WHERE IS AMERICA ? by Nitesh Oswal on Nov 07, 2009 03:21 PM might u had put the concept of \"Remittances\" then uttering Hahahha... It\'s the transfer of money to the country from it\'s non residents settled outside (obviously in developed countries)    Forward   |   Report abuse Re: WHERE IS AMERICA ? by jolly on Nov 07, 2009 03:25 PM we need more idiots like bhola kumar... who just clicks the next button on and on.. without having no clue what it is about.. country which has maximum remittances or loose motion.. makes no difference to him cuz he cant read!!! this article specifically says that it is about money flowing from developed countries to developing countries.. considering that india and china have the most non-residents and then followed by mexico.. this was bound to happen.. very few canadians or british or french or japanese or singaporeans (quoting from his list) actually migrate.. they do.. but very few!!    Forward   |   Report abuse Re: WHERE IS AMERICA ? by surya das on Nov 07, 2009 03:26 PM Dear Bhola, u are really bhola. What do u mean by remittance? People who are working out side of their country sending money to their home to support their family, relatives, and other related purposes. Do u think US, England, Germany, Japan, France, South Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, HK, Aus, Canada and many developed economy are working in other countries and sending their money? So, that is the main reason why these names are not here. Actually we are working for them with a low labour cost but due to weak currency value of INR when we convert to Rupee, it turns out to be huge amount, and more over, we Indian are working all over the world and sending money to India. Hope, this cralifies you.    Forward   |   Report abuse Re: Re: WHERE IS AMERICA ? by vivek on Nov 08, 2009 02:44 PM PAPPU CAN DANCE    Forward   |   Report abuse Re: Re: WHERE IS AMERICA ? by srikanta sahu on Nov 07, 2009 04:30 PM this is not about weak INR but about getting lots of foreign currencies.offcourse which in this article mentioned in USD.    Forward   |   Report abuse Re: Re: Re: WHERE IS AMERICA ? by surya das on Nov 07, 2009 07:28 PM If this not weak INR then wht is that? 1 year before it was 1 USD = INR 39, now it is trading at INR 47.50. Nearly 21% weaker against USD, do u know what is the 21% difference in currency trading? It is not weak against USD, but also EURO, AUD, SGD, YEN every major currencies. Not like in 1972 when, 1 USD = INR 17, And, the big difference is all major currencies are getting stronger against USD, that gives India have an edge cause people are sending money using various currencies, which have bigger value against USD.

 

12 th November

Spent half the morning reading about some bogus rediffmail article about CK Prahlad

asking for India to make 500 more cities, To build more planned cities and not slums ( concrete slums ) all over again.

 

The comments in Rediff go  on to  show the amount of frustration  the common public has, there are many censored comments

the moderators are not spared either.One can find some very funny conversations too, from NRI vs frustrated Indian employees,

 

from private vs public sector workers

from IIT ians vs non IITians

From MBA holders vs normal managers

 

retired public servants vs current day stressed out workaholics,

 

you can find threads for South Indians vs North Indians

 

Biharis vs the rest of the universe

 

everything,

communists vs capitalists

 

I don’t have a clippings of many of them, but one Hindu article I really think one should read,

http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/07/11/stories/2004071100201400.htm

 

Everyday thousands of rural families migrate to the cities in search of better standards of living and what are causes behind them

written by a

Retired IAS officer of the Tamil  Nadu cadre

 

A man of the yesteryears, who has seen it all, the formative years of the Indian economy and India as we know today

 

 

Random

I was watching, some old movie yesterday,and was surfing through,when I stopped at a very familiar picture,

A Punjabi driver, a chasing situation etc, etc,

 

If that is the truth, we have Punjabi drivers all around the world,Ban had once commented, that why not have some in the F1 circuit too,

 

the biggest connection was that F1 Driver Schumachers, fitness expert was one Punjabi, the Mallyas are south Indian and they don’t drive

those cars in the circuits,

 

Ban always, brings out those points, that one will miss out, normally,

 

Anyways, Ban has finally, come up with some good ideas, he was asking his brother to start selling LCD monitors ( dumb computer monitors ) with External TV tuner

cards that come for about 1 K , so all you need to sell a 22 inch LCD tv is a 9 K lcd monitor (May be Acer will sell you one for even less ) And pull in one more k for the tv tuner

card. There you go , you can sell a lcd TV in itself for half the price, install it and make your own business,

 

Who stopped you from assembling it. Anyways, his latest one being pushing me for the IAS. After months of thinking, I think it is a point in my life, when I still  have the next three years, till I turn 30.

Well, Ban is great, and let his expectations from me come true

India go for the last match

 To start with,

I am getting no time at all

 

Right after coming back to Hyderabad, there was a flurry of things pending in my plate. I tried my best to keep my mind away from some solitude here, may be I require it after all.

I stayed in my house, locked it like a secure  container, to house my feelings for two whole days, lived like Howard Hughes in The Aviator or should I say in his real life. The genius inside him had an excessive obsession for cleanliness, hygiene, he could not bear anything out of the normal.

I was but stung by a mood  quite opposite to that,

first and foremost, after  a gap of three   months when you enter a room like mine in the ground floor of a building, without a regular cleaner, all  you get is a bachelors den that even the strongest of them would think at least thrice before stepping in.

I was sitting inside, thinking about the due course of the next few weeks to come. I am not sure, what makes a man motivated for larger goals, even after giving his  100% the returns don’t come. Still, unfazed by the uncertainty of the coming times, I slept , I slept throughout the weekend,

 

The only problem in between was, that my sister called me up to see the scores on the 6^th match morning.

Well, that was a sight, that reminds of the misery and pain of those school days, we loved cricket, I was born in the year 1983, the year india won the world cup, and may be, it will remain empty handed, thoughout, one man army, one match wonders, one series in decades,

fancying a win in the foreign grounds, I remembered the good old school days, taking a leave ,, skipping school, not even to meet my sweet heart of yesteryears, we were more often than not, pushed in a misery, pushed into that gory hole  of hopeless ness,

but we survived, and again in the next match , we came back to life, we started with the same enthusiasm.

Gradually, amongst my friends, I saw that the cricket pitch had settled down, many of my friends were taken to watching F1, NBA, or something else,

they were merely getting an a inherent aversion , that grew over a period of time , slowly subsiding the fever , and later on it became second skin to not watch any of Indias matches

 

and even if possible, only the last 5 overs of Indias batting, Slowly came the IPL and now I don’t have any regional,zonal or country level patriotism left in me. All I know is that there is s good cricket with some evening popcorn.Just enjoy it,

 

May be that explains why I returned back to cricket or returned back to watching some of it. But then till March 2009, India was running at a success rate past 70 % in the One dayers, a fact that was shown to me, and I quickly regained some enthusiasm, watched some of the matches, till things started getting back to the 90s again.

 

There is a dialogue  in the movie Swadesh, that liked very much, it goes something like this “Don’t show us dreams Babuji, this was not meant for us”

 

All I am pointing here is not hopelessness  coming out of inherent weakness, but there lies some other signs that one has to catch, during the world cup this time India, lost the first match , but had a more than fair chance of winning the next two to make it to the semis, but there was a wash out in the match against the Aussies, and then there was a almost match winner from Pakistan that Aussies won,

 

India could have come back , and that did not work out. 

 

Well, this time, I am not unhappy with the team, I think we batted well ,sometimes fielded well too, and bowling was not like the 90s when Venkatesh Prasad ( who still asks Ishant to slow down,gaping hole in his mouth , should shut down , as  a measure of national security , you will know what I am talking about if you follow the newspapers, )

 

we were doing pretty much fine in the series. IN the 5 th match,though we lost it, none of the batsman , till the last one, did not give up, all of them had a partnership starting, all of them put up a fight,

 

All I am hinting, is in your own grounds, especially Indians are tigers, and we were like tigers, but coming close to s victory , coming close to it, we somehow lost it, that is just the summary of the whole thing,

 

we as a nation, are always there, we have the best, we have the best talent, we have the best weather, so much fertile land, and human fertility, boy there is a census  that more than proves . All I can say is, that, somewhere is there a genuine, factor, that keeps up behind, is there some thing that was not made to be so ,

 

I have no complains against the team, may be Tendulkar should step down, may be, Sehwag should be given an incentive for staying back, may be Ishant should be isolated from Venkatesh Prasad.  but with these weaknesses, too, we are a good team, and 4-2 is not a number that I will gulp down.

 

All I can say is, that, if it were not meant for you, it will simply not happen, you may push a mountains, squeeze water out of its rocks, drown  in a bottle full of water, but if a simple thing like a wrong Umpires decision is supposed to be against, you simply cannot reverse it, You cannot change the course of time, you cannot change the luck with which you were born.

 

May be some call it destiny , but I think we need to put it in more words, we need to see beyond, hope, beyond, something will happen.

 

Most of my friends, think, see, we have so many geniouses, we have so many good Indian Students, Arrey change in India is right around the corners, I seriously doubt it, the forefathers thought for entire generations and they are now dead, taking with them hopes of good times, they just came hopeless, died hopeless.

 

 

Start of November

There was a chill in the air, somewhere around Oct 20, now it is Nov 4, and it is time for me to leave Kolkata and go.

I am not very sad about it, but somewhere I know that I will be missing these days,

 

with more time to spend on the roads and waste energy , I will seldom have time to finish my office work, with more time

to have to search for food, for other things, I will really be wasting a lot of time in the traffic, fixing the bike, to pay the bills,

to wait and watch at traffic signals,

 

all these problems were not there and I was complacent that it will go on like this from here in Kolkat.

 

In any case, tomorrow morning , early around 6 am I leave. I will try to be back in March/April time frame. Will be here for just a plain

visit,

if the management changes, I will try to come even more often, it all depends…

 

As of now, I am keeping this blog post as a diary , remembering the phrase, “life is not a bed of roses”

A Sunday in November

the very first Sunday in November,

Started with Lord of the Rings, the return of the King, and then Rogue Assasin, and the Resident Evil,

 

 

It was a long day, between naps, small workouts, and watching television,

 

I cannot imagine, that I could have been in a train today , but the tickets did not get confirmed and it stayed in waiting list when the chart was prepared , late yesterday night.

Today when I was trying to book the ticket, there were 3 –tier AC tickets available for the Falaknuma on the 3^rd, but the problem were, first the laptop got shut down due to battery , then there was a network issue, and finally the card was not accepted,

 

I seldom make mistakes while using the card online, after three attempts, when you know that there are obstacles and things are not happening, you should back off, take a cool nap, and try later,

and that is exactly what I will do , I am going to book the train for Wednesday morning, trying the tatkal tomorrow, early morning.

Right now I am still a bit groggy, whether it is due to lack of sleep or due to  an overdose of it, is beyond my perception