Monday, September 10, 2007

Monday, September 18, 2006

Screwed

It was one of the most boring Saturdayz dat I ever had in Pune. More than boring, it was one of those days when everything around you goes wrong :(((( When I woke up around 8:30, I realized that two of my roomies had already gone to office. The rest of my roomies had planned to go to lonavla. Wasn't much interested in going to that boring place, I thought I would be better off staying back home. One good reason why you shouldn't take decisions when U r jus half awake [ or shud it be half asleep ] !! Anyways, after a long time, I heard the silence [ da poetic me;)] . I slowly crawled out of my blanket and ambled towards the wash basin [ yeah, therez something called as brushing .. huh ] .. Ha, a happy site.. There was one more person with me in the house. But was snoring himself to glory in the hall..! !! Anyways, not knowing what to do, I woke him up ;).. Obviously, the policy of "Yaam petra Imbam, Peruga Ivvaiyagam" !! "Machan, nobody at home except for us da" I shook him..
"de @#$%, let me sleep " ...
Hmm, wot next.. went to the kitchen to check out if therez anything to eat..!! Naaahh, as usual, there were only a few clothes that were hung for drying.. When I was browsing the kitchen, my eyes caught the sight of Gingely oil [ Nallennai, not sure what it is called in English ] .. I remembered the good old days of my childhood when my mom would insist on having an oil bath every saturday. Well I thot why not give it a try.. Took a hand full of oil and applied it onto my head. By this time, my soulmate roomie had woken up and was almost in the same dazed n confused state as mine.!!

Both of us, sorted out the plan for the day. Letz play carrom board for sometime. Then after having a bath, we would go for lunch n so on.. !! Tada!! I heard a heavy thunder and it started pouring down like as if a million Gods were pee'ing after a billion years.. And wot comes after is a very common sight in India [ don't even ask me whether I've seen it elsewhere in the world ;) ] .. Power Cut !!!!! Damn, this means, I can't go out anywhere for lunch [ mind you, there was no mention of breakfast, which means I'm starving :( ] plus I can't have a bath [ Hot water is a must ] !!

Well, after some rounds of boring carrom board [ the same thing used to be so much exciting when there were 6 people around you :( ] we decided to go out and grab a quick bite [ rain had stopped ] !! After some listless events, came back home to find that the power is back.. :)):)) ..
Hurray switched on the TV to catch some EPL action..!! Bang!! No other channel apart from one screwed up sun tv and some useless marati channels were available... Having nothing to do with marathi, I decided to watch something in Sun TV.!! Oh great, there's a rajinikanth movie.. :)):)) .. Am not at all a fan of this guy, but his movies are hilarious in their own way.. The things he does as style, the punch dialogues et all, throws me out of the couch !!

The scene: Our hero was entering a huge bungalow with a file in his hand..!!!!

Oh come on, how many movies will have the same plot ?? U can easily guess whatz the next scene.. There will be an old man with a shawl draped around him!! Lookin at this sight, U can easily come to a conclusion that this old man is filthy rich [ owns some factories ] and our hero will be the general manager, a confidant, a smart chap n whatever tag a person can be assosiated with.. This old man will be planning to retire and he wants to bequeath all his properties to this general manager!! Huh, it happens only in the movies.. Why don't we come across managers in our day to day lives who are so smart brainy n such a great decision makers ?? damn it !! Okie, coming back to the old man.. He should be having a damsel as his daughter and most of the time a motherless one.. This oldie would have spared the rod when his daughter was young and more likely she must be a tom boy!! [ In a good way, she is the heroine, mind you ] .. Grrr..!!! Datz it.. There will be some tussles between this hero n heroine and they'll finally fall in love.. From now on , how the story goes is upto the director.. In this movie, hero will become an accused in a murder case and the heroine will be the eye witness [ no guesses for the victim, itz the same old old man ] .. Now the hero must save his life and more importantly his lady love from the real villains !! And coming to the villains, since this is an 80s movie, the villains will wear bright coloured clothes, will have huge side burns, a dark mush and a mole on the right cheek!! [ or may be on the left depending upon how "different" the director wants the movie to be] !!!!!!!!! There will be a soft porn music video starring Jyothilakshmi, disco shanti, silk smitha and all the other sex bombs of my dad's adulthood days !! huh!! [ I still like silk smitha ;) ] !! Oh I forgot about our hero's first day in the jail. There ought to be a bad bad guy who'l dip his comb into our hero's glass of water.. After trying to elude the fight scene, finally the hero will thrash all the thugs and prove a point [ to who? i'm stil not sure.. but there must be a fight sequence in the jail
!! ] Then surprise , surprise!! Our hero meets his double!! Ayyyoo.. mudiyala [ pulikesi style'la] !! Im too bored to narrate it any longer !! Hmm.. the name of this movie is PokiriRaja and I don't know how different this is from RaajathiRaja!!

Huh.. After all this ordeal, I wasn't in a mood for anything else!! Had some chappathis [ can write one more blog on this chappathi torture ] and snored off !!

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Oh Yeah, I've to blog !!

It's been quite sometime since I blogged. Not that I'm busy with work n stuff. But I'm seriously dearth of topics to write about. Everytime I think about something that I can write about, I won't be near a PC. And everytime I sit in front of this damn thing, the only things that run in my mind are the production abends, design docs and KTs. If you can't make out any of these jargons, don't even bother. PERIOD. Even after being in IT for a couple of years, I still couldn't figure out why and what the hell these things are. Ahh, and adding on this, there is always Orkut to eat up my time. It really takes a lot of hard work to reach 2.5 K scraps in a couple of months..!!

Okie, letz assume that I fight all these demons and finally decide to write something, there comes the ego. Pradeep, U have to write something that is really good. Much better than what every other person writes. There shudn't be a problem with your grammar. Wot will people think if you write a sentence that is awfully wrong??
By the time I find an answer to all these questions, I'll forget wot what was whole purpose of logging into blogger. Oh yeah, there's one more thing. I'm a scorp. So what ever I write it won't be a reflection of what I feel. Why should I write in the internet about how much I miss a friend, or how frustrated I'm with my life and so on!!! This is my life and it's only mine.

So if I have to write something, then I have think of a plot.It has to be fictitious, with good english, something different with a third eye perspective, and super duper interesting. My god, Gimme a break!! It took sometime for me to break open the shackles and come out of my own prison. I'm not in the market to compete with the browns, grishams and ludlums.

Why should wotever I write make sense? Why should people like wot i write ? [ Anyways, people hardly know that I blog and even if they know, they hardly read it ] What if my article doesn't have flowery words and great grammar??? Does it really bother me at the end of the day?? Naaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So this is the first in series of some stupid blogging!!

Aaaaazzzaaadddiii At Last !!

Friday, August 04, 2006

The Melancholy of My Life

If I am the sun, I bring no light,
If I am the star, I bring no shine,
If I am the sky, I bring no rain,
If I am the rainbow, I bring no colours,
If I am the mother, I bring no love,
If I am the child, I bring no smile,
If I am the grass, I bring no green,
If I am the Me, I bring no joy!

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

Tears for Joy to Tears for Remembrance,
Tears for someone, I doubt my endurance.
My eyes they see but I can't believe,
My heart is heavy as I turn back and leave.
Just want to run away, but nowhere to go,
All I have is a glimmer of hope!
Memories of yesterdays are shadows of past,
The tomorrow of future is overcast.
I cried for the secret, I cried for the moon,
I knew I would breakdown, but not too soon.
Longing for the sound of a faraway laughter,
Why isn't my life moving any faster ?

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Da Senti Tag


In this fast world when people are busy running faster than the fastest person, these tag blogs are nice respite that allows us to stop and spend sometime about ourselves and others. I' ve been tagged by my roomie. If I make a journey back in time, these are the things that I really miss....
1. WINNING. Itz such a great feeling when you triumph amongst some of the best competitors. My college days provided so many such opportunities in the fields of my interest. Itz been long since I have heard thunderous clappings when I received the prizes on the stage. Girish, You are still the best partner I have ever got for any competition. Where ever we go, however great or small we become, I know that we can never forget CIT Harmony in our lives.

2. FAST BIKING. I no longer have the guts to risk my life and do some crazy stunts that I used to try during college days. Sorry if you don't understand this, only my friends know about it.

3. SWIMMING in kerala. The place where I was pushed off a ridge into a 12 feet deep pond when I had no idea of what swimming is all about. This is how everyone learns swimming in Mathur ( My native place in Kerala ). Hours n Hours of swimming in the morning till the sun reaches itz scorching high, only to make me come back in the evening and swim till it getz really dark and the water snakes surface their heads and scares me out of the pond. Well, I do have a 16 feet deep swimming pool near my house in Pune, but nothing can be compared to the Mathur Agraharam pond.

4. TABLE TENNIS. Half my life in college was spent in the TT room. When I got the call letter from my company, the first thing I enquired was whether it had a TT table and a good crowd. I really miss Shabri, Shiva, and Kamalakannan Sir ( U taught me how to be an ass kicker in TT ) in Pune. I guess nobody can replace them in my life. However great a TT player you may be, You can't be any of these people. But what I got here was just one "dabba" board with a million people fighting for the worst torn, worn out bats. Shit it was.. I had to be content with what I got. Finally, that dabba thing was also removed and that place was made in a work station. Thanks to the growth pain of my company. Waiting with crossed fingers that the new GDC should have better facilities than these.

5. MYSORE BUS JOURNEY. As a kid, I used to be overwhelmed by the journey to Mysore from Coimbatore. That was something I used to look forward to in every vacation. Majot part of the journey involves a ghat section where there are 27 really sharp and steep hair pin bends. It used to be so much fun created out of sheer fear that the bus might slip off and fall from the top sometime or the other. Sitting at a window seat after fighting with my idiot bro ;) and holding my mom's hands tightly and taking a look out of the window with my head out was the ultimate joy of my life. I still remember that it was my 1st standard summer vacation, there was an accident at the 11th hair pin bend and the buses cannot go any further than that. My amma, bro and I decided to take a walk like every other person did. That was my first "Mountain Trek". Some good-hearted uncle got me an ice cream on the way and I paid the consequnces for the next one week. Everytime I sneezed or shivered out of cold n fever I used to hear my mom repeatedly say "Nanu ninage munche ne helidde ice cream thinnabeda antha". But ma, naanu avathu ice cream thinle illa, navibbaru adarabagge mathadulthalle irallilla 20 varushada nanthara.

Apart from these, I do miss everything that a normal 23 year old who stays away from home for work will. Friends whom we sworn as partners for life, my Mom's cozy touches, fights with bro, night shows with dad without Mom's knowledge ( I doubt whether she knows it till now ), bascially I'm languishing about my childhood days. But practically speaking, I love Pune. I love every friend of mine here. I know I have been very very very very harsh on a lotta people. But only they could have put up with all my nonsense. Given a choice, I would live like this forever.
Cheers,
Prad
To keep the ball rolling, I've tagged Bala, Akila, Neema, and Chef

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

With a Photographer

It is so much fun to use a digi cam. We don't have to worry about wasting any film strips, don't have try tooo hard and focus using the lens, and it's very easy to upload the pics to the computer.

These are my experiments with a digi cam. I took these pics around my office campus as a part of the Earth Day celebrations. So I thot I'll brag about it ;) Enjoy !!
























The Modest Me !!

Cheers,
Prad