Monday, July 31, 2006

Desperation v/s Sex

After a lovely day at Jain Farms, at night i was tustling between Desperation and Sex !!!

I mean i couldnt get enuf of 'Sex and the City' nor 'Desperate Housewives' coz both are played at the same time slot !! Whats there to see in these crap serials ?? Well i like the candid talks between FRIENDS in SATC coz they have no bounds and they are always there for each other !! Maybe there must be some void in my life which i am trying to fill from their life :)


Okie then whats there in DHs? Hmmm...aaa...i...think.....uhhh...okie do we always have to see something to get moral lessons? Maybe i like it bcoz its superficially good and 'out of bounds' stories....;)

I feel these are their respective USPs -----
SATC - Tour de NY (including pubs and shady places), Curt Narrations, Camaraderie
DHs - Centrifugal Personalities with Centripetal Affections, Real Life In-The-Soup Situations, An Ideal US life

Do u have a reason??

Okie okie....let me warn you...u should not JUDGE a person by the serials he sees...so be careful !!!

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Anxiety Attack (Half Brother of Heart Attack)

Wiki says 'Anxiety is a complex combination of negative emotions that includes fear, apprehension and worry, and is often accompanied by physical sensations such as palpitations, nausea, chest pain and/or shortness of breath.'


I certify this definition...coz i jus had an anxiety attack last night when my colleague called up to say that.....okie before i break the news to you all...try to remember when did u last have an AA ?? Was it when u got the report card with not-so-enough CAT percentile to make it to the IIMs or when your girlfriend called up to say that "i think we should move on" or when the stock market crashed by 800+ points on a black Tuesday or when you got a long-distance call informing you that your younger bro had met with an accident or when you went for your first exams in say 1st grade ???

I distinctly remember my first AA....i had jus joined college met a beautiful girl (in & out)...by gods grace she was in my class and i thought that "college years to yuhi kat jayenge ab..." (college years will pass in a jiffy now)...i dont know what attracted me to her....and i felt so smug when she was around me or talking to me !!! Within a month, i heard that she is getting a change to Nirma (NIT) during a re-shuffle....she will be gone in a day or two.....man man...those were the most anxious moments of my life...(this reminds me of the recent flick i saw...."Yuh Hota To Kya Hota...What If")....my heart sank and i was finding it difficult to breath....i mean how can someone jus go away like that !!! Had lotsa Q in mind that evening but i survived !!! I am glad that she still occasionally greets me...well...i dont expect anything more now !!

Okie let me get out of the flash-back...i jus had an anxiety attack last night when my colleague called up to say that.....'our' project was scrapped !!! SCRAPPED ??? After putting one year of exertion (read effort) and exuberance (read enthusiasm)....this is all we get in return ?? Well, we have not been communicated the next course of action so i am still under seizure....speechless....what next ???

Everyone says that third heart-attack means the end of life !! Has any American Institute of Attack Analysis or University of Jefferson come out with a fatal no. of Anxiety Attacks? I survived this, so the fatal count must be more than two atleast !! Any AA specialists or sympathiser around ????

Monday, July 24, 2006

One Night @ My House

The night was dark and dogs were howling in background...it was slightly breezy....and this sat night there was no-one except me in the house...(how much we all want to be alone at times...and still want some company)....do u see where i am getting to??...okie cut the crap...m i going to talk abt a burglary or tell u abt some action sequence in my bed ?? if u have already started wandering abt the latter than u might be in for a disappointment...u can read some sensual blogs elsewhere...i have sth else to tell about this NIGHT !!!

Frankly, i had bought this book "ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTRE" thinking that there will be descriptions of some raunchy sequences in the book at call-centres about which u keep on reading in papers like TOI...here's one of the headlines...."S*x in office a reality.."...unfortunately i had not heard abt Chetan Bhagat (i have not read his first book abt IITians coz i dont like them - sour grapes - and his name doesnt sound authorish also...) before or in that matter abt any upcoming authors...there is a long story to why i have not read new books recently....but let me brief it below...

I had read masterpieces like "The Fountainhead", "Kane & Abel", "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and Haileys, Sidneys and the like when i was in school...after school....somehow i never got into serious reading coz i became complacent that i am beyond these books and novels. Morover these days no one writes good books is what i thought...until THIS NIGHT when i picked up "ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTRE" at 1am on sat night for reasons i described above....

Boy boy...this book was simply unstoppable...it was racy and connected to the heart easily....i had a couple of sudden bursts of laughter too...something no book managed to do after "Computer Networks by Tanenbaum" in my college....i completed the book within couple of hours before the sunrise...the book was blunt and candid and left me asking for more....i am not going to bore u with the book review but it is 'MUST READ' book....

So chigs whats the bottomline? What happened to "ONE NIGHT @ MY HOUSE" ??? Well, that night brought back my long lost passion for books....thnx chetan...i am looking fwd to reading more books...any recommendations ???

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Killing Time Can Be Full Of 'Interest' !!


Some weekends can be very exciting and memorable...like the one i had at Singadh, Pune but some can be boring as the last one....I made lotsa plans to arrange for a get-togather, self-prepared lunch followed by a movie etc....but its common for friends to turn down at the last moment...so a well-planned wkend jus turned to one of the most boring wkends (i have had plenty of them before...).

For TP, I read the whole TOI for top to bottom and left to right...(ppl say its a masala paper etc etc...but still most of them subscribe to it...talk of IRONIES.....)...as a backup plan, i had decided to see an english play "double comedy" in Ranga Sankara......but when i reached pitol's house (u might read his name in my blogs often....will dedicate a blog to him later)...he informed that u normally dont get tkts to plays on wkends...and he was right....now i was all alone...nowhere to go and nothing to do.....How to Kill Time ??

Shoppers Stop was near by...i thought i will do some window shopping and try out some funky stuff....later have a gujju meal somewhere and hit the bed....killing time is easier said than done !! I walked straight into SS...tried a couple of funky Ts....and saw price tags of most of the items arnd....when the hell will i raise my purchasing power was the Q i had thruout....finally i reached the sunglasses bay....i had always wanted a Ray Ban (aviator model with that cooling effect...) tried many models and u wont believe me...all of them suited me really well...i was later goaded into looking at the Polaroid models which according to the gifted salesperson was a better choice than RayBan....it seemed that the silver model was made jus for me....but i moved on....saw some more funky Lui Vuitton, Armani and other branded ones....but the one which tempted me was with MP3 player from Oakley....well the tag was pretty prominent....jus 25K....r u kiddin? Remember what i said abt Purchasing Power?? Whats the big deal....jus swipe the card came an inner voice....and then?? Well all this is 'INTERESTING'...(pun intended). What if one has exhausted all his loan options...home, car, personal, balance transfer etc etc...there is always a new loan launched by SBI....go for it kiddo....well i cud have gone for it an added a new two-digit 'interest' rate figure with the others but then an average indian cannot be so easily wooed by this so-called PREMIUM LUXURY BRANDS.....look up to see what i bought myself finally....