Tuesday, May 31, 2005

a lot of it together

5/30/2005 2:19 PM
I had my lunch, guess I felt hungry after such a heavy discussion. I am through 4 hours of nothingness and now for 4 more and then I am free for the day. Aghhh! I cannot imagine, I do not even want to imagine what my plight will be when I actually get a job will I be only spending my time trying to look busy and serious? I have a fear lurking in my mind that I will not like working at all, which is a sad realization to have at this juncture of my life. What can I say, I am indecisive, what did you expect?

5/30/2005 3:35 PM
Just had a talk with a friend who is working on a market survey, not your usual stuff but it is more of a survey of the distribution channel that the electrical lighting company uses.
Although I am cribbing about nothing much to do, I do realize that if asked to do any of what these people are doing I would probably die in a day. Or worse in a couple of hours.
Let us hope we have some luck with in our final placement. After all now that he tells me that a pre placement offer may result in a lot of confusion. I wonder what our plight really will be?

5/30/2005 4:21 PM
So back again, managed to get on the net for a while but that was obviously not enough, I learn that all my attempts at sending the required stuff to the mail box has failed. Although I do not think any of the stuffs that I want to copy is that important. But there is that sense of disappointment, I guess by tomorrow things should be better. I hope that I can get a go ahead with the questionnaire, may be I ought to start on my own now that I have a floppy drive at my disposal. But then this stupid PC does not have WinZip, which makes it difficult to open the files required.
I was thinking of something a little personal just now, how selfish can people be? I mean I make all the effort in the world, if not actively but at least mentally to cheer someone up on his birthday but all I get in return is a message, “my birthday will be celebrated here with my family. My dad says so. I love my birthday.” I hate men. I know this comes as a sudden outburst but honestly, as much as I try and be nice to these people they always bug me.
I have met two new of the same species and hopefully not the same category. One has the amazing voice of Sachin Tendulkar, if you get the hint I make. His name is Riju, quite a kiddish name if I may say. The other is a Siddharth, which is decent but speaks too loudly and makes too much noise. I do not dislike them, they do provide quite a bit of entertainment. It is just too bad that I cannot interact with people here. I mean it is so boring, I do realize what a waste it is to say that HR is all about communicating with people, there are loads and loads of people but where is the communication? I spent the entire day in office getting bored, I wonder if I would even survive the bouts of boredom.
And so I go on writing things that have no meaning but at least my brain is still working, sometimes I wonder whether I will ever be able to work in an office with no real interaction, stimulation of the mind??
Well may be Ish is right! Who knows, may be we are forever doomed to be stuck where we are and continue living this morbidly boring life and never get out of this loop of wish and dream and then find someone else living the life you know you deserve to live. It further irks me to see that these people have the lives of our dreams through no extra effort of their own. One thinks, if there was the slightest bit of effort noticeable in their achievements then may be we could have reasoned that our lack of effort has led to the loss of the opportunity that we so covet.
Right now I am using a touch screen keyboard to write this. I feel it is a rather time consuming affair I like manual typing better.

5/30/2005 5:03 PM
Referring to Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, Vikram Seth’s character Late decides to substitute the word ‘happiness’ for the word ‘greatness’ in the speech to come up with a question.
What one could do to be born happy, to achieve happiness, or to have it thrust on one?
Quite an interesting question if I may say so myself. Something I would personally ask. After all it is my eternal quest to find happiness, and ask the question ‘why’ every time I feel that I have feel cheated by fate or destiny.

5/30/2005 1:33 PM

You will not believe what kind of politics people play even as coordinator’s of a simple placement committee in an MBA institute. It surprises me why people even get into such complexities. The problem I feel lies with innate human belief that there is but scarcity of everything, whether opportunities, or for that matter jobs (which perhaps is true) and therefore, someone else getting something means me losing out on something.
It is somewhat like what the belief was among workers in the days of Peter Drucker. They believed that if they worked more on a day there would be less amount of work left for them to do eventually. Such a thought process arising out of the belief that there was finite amount of work and more work finished today meant that less was left to do tomorrow.
That is probably what we are all taught to believe. Heck every book on economics seems to start with this notion of ‘scarcity’. So, we believe that there is no room for sharing, forget sharing, the basic thought is we must grab as much as possible, not just that, we must also make sure that others cannot have anything, worse do not get away with anything. It is a hoarding tendency that manifests itself in every sphere of life.
Even if we do not require a whole lot of anything, we still hoard it just in case in some future time we might feel the need for some more. It is our blind belief that if we let anybody else enjoy a bit of that there is the dark possibility that there will be less left for us when we eventually someday feel the need for it.
Worse even although there is no remote possibility that we may be interested in something, whether be it a job or anything else we must make a grab, or at least put in some impediment in the way of those who may require or may not even require that object. I wonder at times where so we get such a mentality??!!

5/30/2005 1:19 PM

Well I have left the last thought incomplete, so like me actually to get bored of something and then start doing something completely different. I am wondering, if I have actually ever completed anything in my entire life. Well not that my entire life spans a whole lot of time, but well it does span 21 years and counting. I have started so many little creative projects definitely of the literary kind, but left them unfinished. But the problem is that this never seems to bother me much. I wish I could in some way take it upon myself to keep a track of all my realizations and actually follow them to some end, viable and activity- oriented end, if I may add.
Now that I am at this office, all I do is sit around and surf net and now today I have nothing to do, the report that I prepared is lying around, I can’t even copy the damn files that I need from the network so that I may at least start work on the questionnaire. Why am I even bothering to come to office I wonder, they can’t even give me a net access? I do not even know whether tomorrow I will have a desk to sit. That is rather sad plight I may feel.
I cannot imagine if there is anything worse than this, but at least I am better off than the NIC finance people.

12:37 PM 5/30/2005

I am still at my desk and thoroughly bored. I am reading “A Suitable Boy” by Vikram Seth. My dream of becoming a writer seems clouded by grey clouds of doubt. It is no doubt a noble profession, yet I do not really seem to have any scope in it unless I have some degree of patience in everything I do. I am such an impatient person, that it is quite unlikely I will carry an idea of a short story, forget a novel through to it's end. I will no doubt feel bogged down by impatience at the idea taking time to develop on the black and white as in ink and paper, and probably just give it up halfway.
At times I wonder, what lies ahead? Yesterday I was speaking to Ish, she is one chick with beauty and brains, a combination that is becoming harder and harder to come by. If there be any scope of wish fulfillment, there is need to work for it. But there is hardly, any reason to believe or to hope that she, and I well both of us will ever get around the innate laziness that, unfortunately is part (very much an intrinsic!!) part of our personality.
So it seems highly unlikely that we will, both of us (but then I guess I should not include her fate with mine!) ever get anything we want. This conclusion started at a point where both of us had decided that fate plays it's own bitter games wherein, we never get what we have asked for of wished for. However the essential question that has plagued me is that, wanting something cannot be the be all and end all, to want something is not the only activity required, there must be something more to it. But what is that more, and how much is that more? Are we to then work towards achieving it? But if that were achievable then only can we hope to achieve anything. If on the other hand we know it in our mind's that it is something unachievable then will we not feel the need to ask for our wishes to be granted from some superhuman force who to us has more powers and therefore capable of giving us something that we cannot merely achieve ourselves.

from the HR trainee's desk

10:53 AM 5/30/2005
It is really irritating, I swear, here I am sitting in this stupid place. It is jus so so stupid, I am not doing anything, nor can I access the net, why am I stuck here? It is so irritating, I guess I ought to have had the brains to attend office when I had access to the mail and taken days off now.

Shucks! Bad choice!

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

different!

although this blog is not supposed to be creative, but offlate i have been feeling rather down for having let my creativity sleep and well literally go into a coma. i wonder whether i sould start writing some decent stuffs atleast to get things going.

well, a friend of mine is visiting town yet he hasn't been very mch in touch with me, i wonder why, is it cause he has been trying to ignore me, sometimes such thoughts crowd my mind and yet i wonder again whether i am just thinking a little too much.

well that wasn't too creative, was it?

they say our sweetest songs are those that tell of our saddest thoughts.
so does this mean i amhappy?
wonder!!!

thank you

the last couple fo posts are from a friend raghu nandan who has a beauticul collection of writings.
thank you raghu for sharing so much with everyone.

Three Principles of Mental Health

An ancient Greek thinker gave us the three principles of mental health – know yourself, accept yourself, be yourself.
It does not help a bit to pretend that we are what we are not. But it helps a lot towards self-control, inner harmony, and mature character when we have the frankness and courage to accept ourselves just as we are.
If we learn to accept the people at home, at work, in society just as they are, with their faults and failings as with their faults and failings as with their good qualities, we have a secret of peace and harmony in our personal relationships.

10 things we are never sorry for

There are ten things for which no one has ever been sorry:
for doing good to all;
for speaking evil of none;
for hearing before judging;
for thinking before speaking;
for holding an angry tongue;
for being kind to the distressed;
for asking pardon for all wrongs;
for being patient towards everyone;
for stopping the eras to a tale bearer; and
for disbelieving most of the ill reports.

Plato's Love and Marriage Problem

One day, Plato asked his teacher, "What is love? How can I find it?" His teacher answered, "There is a vast wheat field in front. Walk forward without turning back, and pick only one stalk. If you find the most magnificent stalk, then you have found love." Plato walked forward, and before long, he returned with empty hands, having picked nothing. His teacher asked, "Why did you not pick any stalk?"Plato answered, "Because I could only pick once, and yet I could not turn back. I did find the most magnificent stalk, but did not know if there were any better ones ahead, so I did not pick it. As I walked further, the stalks that I saw were not as good as the earlier one, so I did not pick any in the end.His teacher then said, "And that is love."On another day, Plato asked his teacher, "What is marriage? How can I Find it?" His teacher answered, "There is a thriving forest in front. Walk forward without turning back, and chop down only one tree. If you find the tallest tree, then you have found marriage."Plato walked forward, and before long, he returned with a tree. The tree was not thriving, and it was not tall either. It was only an ordinary tree. His teacher asked, "Why did you chop down such an ordinary tree?"Plato answered, "Because of my previous experience. I had walked through the field, but returned with empty hands. This time, I saw this tree, and I felt that it was not bad, so I chopped it down and brought it back. I did not want to miss the opportunity."His teacher then said, "And that is marriage. You see son Love is the most beautiful thing to happen to a person, its an opportunity but you don’t realise its worth when you have it but only when its gone like the field of stalks. Marriage like the tree you chopped is a compromise."
HI All,This is something really nice one. I enjoyedreading it, so do i expect u all to savour the same.Just read it, if u cant u will really miss it! something that i truly belive in, something i have always belived in and somewhere in the last one year out of some unseen fear i had chosen to forget this.may all of never have any regerets in oyur life.
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"A touching love story that 'll make u cry"10th Grade:-As I sat there in English class,I stared at the girl next to me.She was my so called 'best friend'.I stared at her long, silky hair,and wished she was mine.But she didn't notice me like that,and I knew it.After class,she walked up to me and asked me forthe notes she had missed the day before.I handed them to her.She said 'thanks'and gave me a kiss on the cheek.I want to tell her, I want her to knowthat I don't want to be just friends,I love her but I'm just too shy,and I don't know why.11th grade:-The phone rang. On the other end,it was her. She was in tears,mumbling on and on about howher love had broke her heart.She asked me to come overbecause she didn't want to be alone, So I did.As I sat next to her on the sofa, I stared athersoft eyes, wishing she was mine.After 2 hours, one Drew Barrymore movie,and three bags of chips,she decided to go home.She looked at me, said 'thanks'and gave me a kisson the cheek..I want to tell her,I want her to know thatI don't want to be just friends,I love her but I'm just too shy,and I don't know why.Senior year:-One fine day she walked to my locker."My date is sick" she said,"hes not gonna go" well,I didn't have a date, and in 7th grade,we made a promise thatif neither of us had dates,we would go together just as 'best friends'.So we did.That night, after everything was over,I was standing at her front door step.I stared at her as She smiled at meand stared at me with her crystal eyes.Then she said- "I had the best time, thanks!"and gave me a kiss on the cheek.I want to tell her,I want her to knowthat I don't want to be just friends,I love her but I'm just too shy,and I don't know why.Graduation:-A day passed, then a week, then a month.Before I could blink, it was graduation day.I watched as her perfect bodyfloated like an angelup on stage to get her diploma.I wanted her to be mine-butshe didn't notice me like that, and I knew it.Before everyone went home,she came to me in her smock and hat,and cried as I hugged her.Then she lifted her head from my shoulderand said- 'you're my best friend,thanks' and gave me a kiss on the cheek.I want to tell her,I want her to knowthat I don't want to be just friends,I love her but I'm just too shy,and I don't know why.Marriage:-Now I sit in the pews of the church.That girl is getting married now.and drive off to her new life,married to another man.I wanted her to be mine,but she didn't see me like that,and I knew it.But before she drove away,she came to me and said 'you came !'.She said 'thanks' and kissed me on the cheek.I want to tell her,I want her to knowthat I don't want to be just friends,I love her but I'm just too shy,and I don't know why.Death:-Years passed, I looked down at the coffinof a girl who used to be my 'best friend'.At the service, they read a diary entryshe had wrote in her high school years.This is what it read:'I stare at him wishing he was mine,but he doesn't notice me like that,and I know it.I want to tell him,I want him to know thatI don't want to be just friends,I love him but I'm just too shy,and I don't know why.I wish he would tell me he loved me !.........'I wish I did too...'I thought to my self, and I cried.

so, guess you get what the message is, I dont have anything to tell anyone because mostof u guys know whatever it is, dont put burdens on urheart, take things lightly and say what is there in urheart, whatever it is. And if u face any problem u canalways get back to me for anykind of help (which ispossible with me)or someone says not help but assistance. So enjoy life first. Dont alwaysget bogged down with the caption 'I DONT HAVE TIME'.

bunty aur babli

latest from abjr
hope it's goin to rock the town.
here's a sneak peak into the film..
film releases.. 27th may 2005.
do catch it at a theatre near u and not on pirated cd's.


Starring: Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Amitabh BachchanDirector: Shaad AliMusic: Shankar-Eshan-LoyProducer: Yashraj Films
Bunty and Babli are two avid dreamers. Two free souls born into caged small town realities. They grow weary of being two specks on the horizon. They desire the horizon itself. And so they pack their aspirations in worn out bags, whip a scarf of confidence around their proud necks and set forth. On a journey across the length and breadth of the country, spinning circles around the people they meet. Bunty wants to be amongst the richest in the world. He wants to be in jacuzzis. He wants to be in limousines. He wants to be a big blip on the radar of history. He wants to be big black typo in newspaper headlines.
Somewhere along their individual journeys, Rakesh and Vimmi meet, flogged by circumstance but unwilling to concede. In a moment of mistaken truth, "Bunty" and "Babli" are born. And the world gets turned on its head! We follow the duo through caper after caper, in which they meet rajahs, powerbrokers, shaadi bandwallahs, millionaires, investors, leaders, ministers, banjaras, elephants, explorers, hoteliers, chai boys and one very, very upset policeman! The world sits up and takes wide-eyed notice of this pair. Bunty is the Rakesh that Rakesh always dreamt of being, with a delicious twist. Babli is the Vimmi that Vimmi never thought she’d become, with another delicious twist. Together they are more than the sum of their parts.
Together they are spiritual gurus, bureaucrat and secretary, gangster and moll, business partners, hen pecked husband and pregnant wife, lawyer and sexually harassed client, vagabonds, caught-in-a-downpour lovers and lots, lots more. And they seem to be loving every minute of it.
Their escapades play out against backdrops as varied as the Taj Mahal, the banks of the Ganges, the saffrons of Benaras, the browns of Kanpur and Lucknow, the whites of Mussoorie, the tinkling bells of Rishikesh and Hardwar, the skies of Delhi and all across the vein like network of the Great Indian railways and highways.
Every mundane reality in every dusty corner of India is flushed out of its slumber by a splash of "Bunty aur Babli" excitement in this, the tale of two dreamers that blaze the sky like comets. But do not die. Like all good comets they promise to reappear again. And they do. And how they do all of that is, seriously, the stuff legends are made of.
Dashrath Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) is the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch. Currently he has exactly four passions bidis, channa, Bunty and Babli. But getting hands on Bunty and Babli proves to be the biggest challenge of his 30-year old career.

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psycho babble

A guy went to a psychiatrist because he was having severe problems with his sex life. The psychiatrist asked him a lot of questions, but didn't seem to be getting a clear picture of the problems.Finally he asked, "Do you ever watch your girlfriend's face while you're having sex?""Well, yes, I did once.""Well, how did she look?""Oh boy, she looked VERY angry!"At this point the psychiatrist felt that he was really getting somewhere and he said, "Well that's very interesting, we must look into this further. Now tell me, you say that you have only seen your girlfriend's face once during sex, that seems somewhat unusual. How did it occur that you saw her face that time?""She was watching us through the window."

WHY I HATE MEN

WHY I HATE MEN

I hate men because they bring me into alleys, dance halls, taverns and bedrooms.

They press me and feel me all over with their fingers.


After they got me hot, they hold me with their lips and drag the life out of me.

When they got what they want, they throw me aside, and I am only good for tramps.


Why should they take advantage of my white body?


After all ............... ............... ...................















I am only a CIGARETTE.!!! So what were u thinking, huh?!

True facts about men!

True facts about men!
1. If you think the way to a man's heart is through his stomach you're aiming too high.
2. Woman don't make fools of men -- most of them are the do-it-yourself types.
3. The best reason to divorce a man is a health reason: you're sick of him.
4. Never trust a man who says he's the boss at home. He probably lies about other things too.
5. A woman's work that is never done is the stuff she asked her husband to do.
6. If you want a nice man go for a bald one -- they try harder.
7. Go for younger men. You might as well -- they never mature anyway.
8. A man who can dress himself without looking like Wurzel Gummidge is unquestionably gay.
9. Men are all the same -- they just have different faces so you can tell them apart.
10. Definition of a man with manners -- he gets out of the bath to pee.
11. Whenever you meet a man who would make a good husband, you will usually find that he is married
12. Scientists have just discovered something that can do the work of five men -- a woman.
13. There are a lot of words you can use to describe men -strong, caring, loving -- they'd be wrong but you could still use them.
14. Men are like animals -- messy, insensitive and potentially violent -- but they make great pets.
15. Men's brains are like the prison system -- not enough cells per man.
16. There are only two four letter words that are offensive to men - 'don't' and 'stop'..
17. Finally, Husbands are like children -- they're fine if they're someone else's.

Friday, May 20, 2005

10:49 PM 5/15/05

it is alright to be upset with people u love and sometimes it may even be irrational yet i know there are times when we cannot control our own emotions and it is so damn tough to even try and control them. we know the reasons given by people are not excuses yet we rail against them and we feel hurt, unmistakably hurt at having to deal with rejection and the feeling of being left out.

i am not making much sense am i?
possibly it is again my over worked brain that is playing tricks on me again.

9:32 AM 5/14/05

the street slang of life is irony and it proves itself time and again, my ex bf came to visit me y'day and it was horrible, i guess i had been in my heart hoping that this would be a silly joke on his part but no it is not. he says the doc has given him 3 years but i read that lung cancers are detected at such a late stage that there is 50% chance that the victim survives for a year and 25% chance that they survive more than a year.

oh my god! what will i do? why? why? why?

10:31 AM 5/13/05

well i went out to meet my long lost lamb, he and i had fun frolicking in the beautiful green grassy meadows but then like all good things our time together came to an end. and it has been 3 days and i haven't met him or spoken to him, it is so very disgusting.
last day when i was pissed and writing the previous entry his call came through. but well today i don't know what will happen, it is such a lose i personally feel i ought to have left with my mom for a trip and not stayed back, he always promises and never delivers, forgetting all the deals he has made.
my ex-bf has lung cancer, and i read a bit about it today from the encyclopaedia and it just met me feel really sick, i cannot still belive that this is true. i am still hoping this will turn out to be one of his cruel jokes.

9:25 AM 5/10/05

i am so irritated, it is a disaster all my plans are in shambles, all because of the bastard. yes that is what he is, he is a bastard and nothing more. my friend is right all men are bastards only some are nice and i say some are interesting.

9:21 PM 5/8/05

i ended somehing which had been dead for a long time. i was making a futle attempt to revive it. there is nothing left in it anymore, there never was anything left in it. and know it is not the 3 years like he thinks it is much more than that it is my attempts to make these 3 years meaningful and his cold reponses and ruining of all my plans.
i do not know whether i will regret this once again even if i do i have nothing to do anymore, it is too difficult for me to continue.
it hurts too much and it is just futile to continue in this dead relationship. there is nothing left, although i try and revive it he doesn't want to live and i cannot do anything.
i cannot be the second or the nth imporatant person in your life, i am the most important and if i am not i am sorry i am not interested.

2:49 PM 5/8/05

i was thinking something, yeasterday i have been antiipating the arrival of a friend of my friend and well i was supposed to go somewhere with my mother but i cancelled it.
today is mother's day and i gave her a card and a gift but the truth is i disspointed her because of some person who has not met me after arriving, and has already started giving excuses and why am i even bothering.
may be i should just let him decide when and what he wants to do. i don't need him to do anything for my pc nor give him any cd, i will talk with someone who cares and ask him to help me out.

remember:
your pleasure must not depend on pleasing others.
and it is only the thought that counts, after all that he expressed his desire to meet you is ok. donot expect, do not ever expect.

new start

2:37 PM 5/8/05

my new start has been one of many such new beginnings i have made at different phases of my life. i wonder whether, these are new starts are at all new.
do these starts dwindle into the mundane after sometime?
today, i have decided, like so many other times to write only to give vent to my creativity. but is that possible? could i only write for that reason? what about other things, those that shake me up and leave impressions on my mind?

we expect so much from life yet all that we get is what we deserve, or may be a little less or perhaps a little more. i am not sure but sometimes i feel i have not got what i have wanted, it is not that god doesn't know what i want yet he does not grant me the wishes. but then again i start to think and find that god has granted so many of my unaasked for wishes, so much have a i received without having to ask. but like donne i have the insatiable thirst for more and so i am left thirsty on every journey i undertake to find new sources of water.

strange thoughts, don't you think. for those who have some idea how to read hindi here is a rendering from a song,

agar tum mil jao zamana chor denge hum.
tumhein pake zamane bhar se rishta tod denge hum.

i will try and translate it into english..

if i could have got you i would have left this whole world,
after having got you i would have cut off all relations with this world.

that's an approximate translation.

just was wondering, we also feel that way sometimes about things and people, as if if we had that particular person and /or that person then we wouldn't want anything more, and how many times have we wished that if we could have that someone in our lives we would not ask for more or anything more ever? i have quite a few times. may be that's why this wish was never granted.

may be we shouldn't want things jus accept what we get and be grateful. but is that humanly possible??? atleast i cannot seem do it.

let the rain come down and wash away my tears

23/04/05

i have my exams and on top of that all these horrid people are just hell bent on making my life miserable. i wonder whether i do this to myslef. may be i let people hurt me. after all they say only oneself can give the keys to your mind to people. people are not really bad, are they?
i guess everyone suffers from some kind of insecurity sometimes. i just wish they would open up a bit again i have prided myself for being very open yet i know that i have kept a lot of things hidden away from a lot of people.
i wonder sometimes whether honesty has any real payoffs in this world.
anyway, enough of bitterness, as celine dion sang,
"let the rain come down and wash away my tears...."
it is raining outside i pray to lord that this rain may wash away, the gulit, the pain, the hurt and the sorrow and bring back the smile on my face. it is a beautiful new day. here's saying cheers to yet another new beginning?? no. this is no beginning this is just my attempt at living life easy and letting things happen to me, and letting people come to me and not merely desire them and pine away in their absence.

19/3/05

D. i hate you

yes i hate you so much right now i cannot fathom my own feelings, you are right here in the city and u didn't even call me. i called up your residence to find out and what a shock it was. i am amazed at the insult you are heaping on me. goodbye.

17/3/05 an update

well i have been pretty much cooped up in my home, no outings and no phone calls. it has been really bad for the last 1 month. no. please don't think i have gone on voluntary exile, if one can ever hope to be on exile with the family around. sorry digression. anyway, the point is my final year ending annuals are here. yep, not the fiscal policy this is exam time.
management studies first year exam. and i will flunk. well honestly i am trying really hard not to fluck but then it is difficult.
16 subjects albeit 50 marks each but the syllabus is amazingly similar to a proper graduation corse. so that way i am doing a postgraduation in literally 16 subjects. wonderful!
this is what they call technical education!!??
long live english (hons) and may people study more of shakespeare than monetary and fiscal policy or even budget deficit.
well offlate have been having very little contact with people, i metioned exile at the beginning. some of it is involuntary by the way, the insufferable heat kills every option of a noon outing converting that inot a siesta. bad!!
but anyway, have met and spoken to a couple of oldies.. nope not in age, well i 'd say on the time frame of having known them they are pretty old.
but i got to hand it to you i have good friends, charming even, they have been absolute sweethearts, calling up and taking my boredom away. ahh i wonder where boredom goes for a walk?
let me not get lost in the imaginary land...
after all i had a point to make.. about what?? i forgot.
so apart from the usual niceness that always surrounds me there has been one anomoly. a dear friend or should i say ex-friend has been irritating.
i don't get it why must men be so complicated. ya i know what u will say, men?? complicated?? no way??!! give me a break we women do not have the copyright on that one, as yet. this guy is looney in the sense, i am interested so is he everyone can see and he can't or can but won't. then he will get upset on small things yet when i want to distance myself he gets hurt but sir will not oblige me with the same degree of sensitiveness and sometimes just decide to be a moron and sms or call to say.. mostly sms, lets not have any contacts, as if we are two battery points and all we need to do is remove the contact points. brilliant.
why do i even bother talking about this??
he is a nice guy just that my patience is wearing out, after all how long can i be nice? i am very nice in general but as they say ..." don't push your luck, mate!!"
exams are schedules from mid april to first week of may.. wish me luck you guys need it badly!!
and oh i hope i get back being friends with this guy he is too much of a sweet friend to lose over stupid misunderstandings, and general foolishness.... on whose part...??? that i will not disclose...
cath you guys later...
bye.

old journal entries:

27/02/05
thought of you

it's been quite a few days and no calls from u, not even a lil buzz. yet i knw this is exactly the behavior tht i hve cme to expect, this is the way u hve always been. but why then does this bother me so much? i hve knowingly not contacted you. and tht ws a conscious decision. after all i have to be matured as i keep saying to my self.
howevr there is the othr q that suddenly cropped up in my mind. who am i talking abt?
who r u?
strange such a coincidence!! i think it's some kind of a sick joke right?
after all i got the strength to let u go frm sme1 who cme bck and nw he is only not there. i am it seems forevr doomed to be alone.
pessimistic me!!
xams r knocking on the door and tht is an incentive. it will keep me busy. i wonder will u ring me or contact me the nxt time ur in kol. i do not knw. i wish u wud. i want that.
let's see, i wonder will u cme bck after 2 yrs but then we were in love, this is friendship shud this then take lesser time??
i do not know.
i wish i did
but god's ways are strange
and may be he does have good plans
such as i cannot even imagine.
amin!!

paradox of our times

Paradox of our Times!

today we have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time.
we have more degrees, but less commonn sense; more medicine, but less wellness.
we spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch television too often and pray too seldom.
we have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. we talk too much, love too little and lie too often.
we have learnt how to make a living, but not a life; we have added years to life, but not life to years.
we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider fareways, but narrower viewpoints.
we spend more but have less; we buy more , but enjot it less.
we have been all the way to the moon and back, but we have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour.
we have conquered outter space but not the inner space.
we have split the atom, but not our prejudices.
we write more, but learn less; plan more but accomplish less.
we have learnt to rush, but not to wait; we have higher incomes but lower morals.
we build more ocmputers to hold more information, to produce more copies, but have less communication.
we are long on quatity but short on quality.
these are the times of fast foods, and slow digestion; tall men and short character; steep profits and shallow relationships.
mopr leisure and less fun; more kinds of food but less nutrition; two incomes but more divorces; fancier houses but broken homes.
that's why i propose, that as of today, you do not keep anything for a special occasion.
search for knowledge, read more, sit on your front porchand admire the view without paying attention to your needs.
spend more time with your friends and family, eat your favorite food and visit the places you love.
life is a chain of moments of enjoyment, not only about survival.
use your crystal goblet. do not save your best perfume and use it every time you feel you want.
remove from your vocabulary phrases like "one of these days" and "someday". lets write that letter we thought of writing "one of these days". lets tell out friends and familyes how much we love them. do not delay naything that adds laughter and joy to your life.
everyday, every hour and every minute is special. and you don't know if it will be your last. if you are too busy to take the time to send this message to someone you love and you tell yourself you will send it "one of these days", just think... "one of these days", you may not be here to send it.

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This message was sent to me by my best friend Popla, staying in bangalore through snailmail. after reading it i thought of you and i felt that i just had to send this to you. so here it is. and i think whatever it says is true.
we do things too often because they are part of the routine and the schedule, cause they are the things that everyone expects us to do and everyone expects us to succeed. i just want you to know.

" it is not to late to start anew and meet spring.."

i hope you can feel the essence of this message in your heart. and if you do then please send it to the people who you want to share it with and if you think this has made the slightest of difference in the way you think, please send it back to me.

this is not a chain mail (forwards) but something i genuilnely felt worth sharing with you.

take care....
love
priyanka!

ps: care is the sweetest form of love,
so when someone says take care,
it's as good as saying,
i'll keep you in my heart
till it's very last beat.
i care for you a lot dear friend.

comfortably numb by pink floyd

Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?
Come on, now.
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts,
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I can't explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.
Ok.
Just a little pinprick.
There'll be no more ...Aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working. Good.
That'll keep you going for the show.
Come on it's time to go.
There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

When u r numb it is great u dnt actually feel the pain.

driving liscense in bihar

with due apologies to our bihari friends

Driving License Test in Bihar...(interesting)
Bihar Driving License...
================================================================
DRIVING LICENSE APPLIKASON PHOROM-------------------------------------
----------------------------

NOTE: Please do not soot the person at the applikason kounter.
He will give you the licen.



For instruktions, see bottom applikason.


1. Last name:

(_) Yadav (_) Sinha (_) Pandey (_) Misra (_) Dot no

(Check karet box)

2. First name:

(_) Ramprasad (_) Lakhan (_) Sivprasad (_) Jamnaprasad (_) Dot no

(Check karet box)

3. Age:

(_) Less than phipty (_) Greater than phipty (_) Dot no

(Check karet box)

4. Sex: ____ M _____ P(F) _____ not sure _____not applicable

5. Chappal Size: ____ Lepht ____ Right

6.Occupason:

(_) Politison (_) Doodhwala (_) Pehelwaan (_) House wife (_) Un-
employed

(Check karet box)

7. Number of children libing in the household: ___

8. read #7 agan & anser here: ___

9. Mather name: _______________________

10. Phather Name: ____________________ (dont leave blank)

11. Ejjucason: 1 2 3 4 (Circle highest grade completed)

12. Dental rekard:

(_) Ellow (_) Berownish- ellow (_) Berown (_) Belack (_) Other -
__________ Give egjhakt color

(Check karet box)

13..Your thumb imparesson :
____________________________

(If you are copying from another applikason pharom, please do not
copy
thumb impression also. Please
provide your own thumb impression.)

PELEASE DO NOT USE PHINGERS OF YOUR LEGS

Use thumb on your lepht hand only. If you dont have lepht hand, use
your thumb on right hand. If you do not have right hand, use thumb on
lepht hand.

NOTE : IF YOU DONT HAVE BOTH HANDS, YOU CANNOT DRIVE.

WE ARE VARY ISTRICT ABOUT THIS

Thursday, May 19, 2005

why children? good question.. here's the answer

WHY GOD CREATED CHILDREN



(AND IN THE PROCESS GRANDCHILDREN)





To those of us who have children in our lives, whether they are our
own, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, or students...here is something
to make you chuckle. Whenever your children are out of control, you
can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not
extend to His own children After creating heaven and earth, God
created Adam and Eve. And the first thing he said was "DON'T!"








"Don't what?" Adam replied.








"Don't eat the forbidden fruit." God said.








"Forbidden fruit? We have forbidden fruit? Hey Eve..we have forbidden
fruit!!!!!"








"No Way!"








"Yes way!"








"Do NOT eat the fruit!" said God.








"Why"








"Because I am your Father and I said so!" God replied, wondering why
He hadn't stopped creation after making the elephants. A few minutes
later, God saw His children having an apple break and He was ticked!
"Didn't I tell you not to eat the fruit?" God asked.








"Uh huh," Adam replied.








"Then why did you?" said the Father.








"I don't know," said Eve.








"She started it!" Adam said








"Did not!"








"Did too!"








"DID NOT!"








Having had it with the two of them, God's punishment was that Adam
and Eve should have children of their own. Thus the pattern was set
and it has never changed.





BUT THERE IS REASSURANCE IN THE STORY! If you have persistently and
lovingly tried to give children wisdom and they haven't taken it,
don't be hard on yourself. If God had trouble raising children, what
makes you think it would be a piece of cake for you?


THINGS TO THINK ABOUT!
1. You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk
and talk. Then you spend the next sixteen telling them to sit down
and shut up.








2. Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your own children.








3. Mothers of teens now know why some animals eat their young.








4. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word
for word what you shouldn't have said.








5. The main purpose of holding children's parties is to remind
yourself that there are children more awful than your own.








6. We childproofed our homes, but they are still getting in.

















ADVICE FOR THE DAY: Be nice to your kids. They will choose your
nursing home one day.








AND FINALLY:





IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF TENSION AND YOU GET A HEADACHE, DO WHAT IT SAYS
ON THE ASPIRIN BOTTLE:





"TAKE TWO ASPIRIN" AND "KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN"!!!!!

hollywood lesson

Hollywood Lessons
1. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight
involving
martial arts: your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by
one,
dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their
predecessors.

2. Honest and hard-working policemen are traditionally gunned down
three
days before their retirement.

3. All beds have special L-shaped sheets that reach the armpit level of
a
woman, but only the waist level of the man lying beside her.

4. At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.

5. Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the
communications system of any invading alien society.

6. All grocery bags contain at least one stick of French bread.

7. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch
enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems,
deadly gasses, lasers, and man-eating sharks, which will allow their
captives at least a half-hour to escape.

8. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make
the
mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

9. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating, but
will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

10. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through
it
before long.

11. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange
noises in their most revealing underwear.

12. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary
to
turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few
moments.

13. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red
readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off, but luckily
you'll always blindly choose to cut the right wire.

14. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from
duty.

15. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make
sure
they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

two stories to touch ur heart

>STORY NUMBER ONE:
>
>Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago. Capone wasn't
famous
>for
>anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in
>everything
>from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder.
>
>Capone had a lawyer nicknamed "Easy Eddie." He was his lawyer for a
good
>reason.
>Eddie was very good! In fact, Eddie's skill at legal maneuvering kept
Big
>Al out
>of jail for a long time. To show his appreciation, Capone paid him
very
>well.
>Not only was the money big, but also Eddie got special dividends. For
>instance,
>he and his family
>occupied a fenced-in mansion with live-in help and all of the
conveniences
>of
>the day. The estate was so large that it filled an entire Chicago City
>block.
>
>Eddie lived the high life of the Chicago mob and gave little
consideration
>to the atrocities that went on around him.
>
>Eddie did have one soft spot, however. He had a son that he loved
dearly.
>
>Eddie saw to it that his young son had the best of everything:
clothes,
>cars and
>a good education. Nothing was withheld. Price was no object. And,
despite
> his
>involvement with organized crime, Eddie even tried to teach him right
from
>wrong. Eddie wanted his son to be a better man than he was.
>
>Yet, with all his wealth and influence, there were two things he
couldn't
>give
>his son; he couldn't pass on a good name and a good example.
>
>One day, Easy Eddie reached a difficult decision. Easy Eddie wanted
to
>rectify
>wrongs he had done. He decided he would go to the authorities and
tell the
>truth
>about Al "Scarface" Capone, clean up his tarnished name and offer his
son
>some
>semblance of integrity. To do this, he would have to testify against
The
>Mob,
>and he knew that the cost would be great. So, he testified.
>
>Within the year, Easy Eddie's life ended in a blaze of gunfire on a
>lonely Chicago Street. But in his eyes, he had given his son the
greatest
>gift
>he had to offer, at the greatest price he would ever pay.
>
>Police removed from his pockets a rosary, a crucifix, a religious
medallion
>and
>a poem clipped from a magazine.
>
>The poem read:
>
>The clock of life is wound but once And no man has the power To tell
>just when the hands will stop At late or early hour. Now is the only
time
>you
>own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in time. For the
clock
>may
>soon be still.
>
>
>-----STORY NUMBER TWO:
>
>World War II produced many heroes. One such man was Lieutenant
Commander
>Butch
>O'Hare. He was a fighter pilot assigned to the aircraft carrier
Lexington
>in the
>South Pacific.
>
>One day his entire squadron was sent on a mission. After he was
airborne,
>he
>looked at his fuel gauge and realized that someone had forgotten to
top
>off his
>fuel tank. He would not have enough fuel to complete his mission and
get
>back to
>his ship. His flight leader told him to return to the carrier.
>
>Reluctantly, he dropped out of formation and headed back to the
fleet. As
>he
>was returning to the mother ship he saw something that turned his
blood
>cold, a
>squadron of Japanese aircraft were speeding their way toward the
American
>fleet.
>
>The American fighters were gone on a mission, and the fleet was all
but
>defenseless. He couldn't reach his squadron and bring them back in
time to
>save
>the fleet. Nor could he warn the fleet of the approaching danger.
There
>was only
>one thing to do. He must somehow divert them from the fleet.
>
>Laying aside all thoughts of personal safety, he dove into the
formation
>of
>Japanese planes. Wing-mounted 50 caliber's blazed as he charged in,
>attacking
>one surprised enemy plane and then another. Butch wove in and out of
the
>now
>broken formation and fired at as many planes as possible until all
his
>ammunition was finally spent. Undaunted, he continued the assault.
>
>He dove at the planes, trying to clip a wing or tail in hopes of
damaging
>as
>many enemy planes as possible and rendering them unfit to fly.
>
>Finally, the exasperated Japanese squadron took off in another
direction.
>Deeply relieved, Butch O'Hare and his tattered fighter limped back to
the
>carrier. Upon arrival he reported in and related the event
surrounding
>his
>return. The film from the gun-camera mounted on his plane told the
tale.
>It
>showed the extent of Butch's daring attempt to protect his fleet. He
had in
>fact
>destroyed five enemy aircraft.
>
>This took place on February 20, 1942, and for that action Butch
became the
>Navy's first Ace of W.W.II, and the first Naval Aviator to win the
>Congressional
>Medal of Honor. A year later Butch was killed in aerial combat at the
age
>of 29.
>His home town would not allow the memory of this WW II hero to fade,
and
>today,
>O'Hare Airport in Chicago is named in tribute to the courage of this
great
>man.
>
>So the next time you find yourself at O'Hare International, give some
>thought to
>visiting Butch's memorial displaying his statue and his Medal of
Honor.
>It's
>located between Terminals 1 and 2.
>
>SO WHAT DO THESE TWO STORIES HAVE TO DO WITH EACH OTHER?
>
>Butch O'Hare was Easy Eddie's son.
>

LEESONS THEY DON'T TEACH AT A B SCHOOL

CORPORATE LESSON # 1

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is
finishing up
her shower when the doorbell rings. After a few
seconds of arguing
over which one should go and answer the doorbell, the
wife gives up,
quickly wraps herself up in a towel and runs
downstairs. When she
opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door
neighbor. Before she
says a word, Bob says, "I'll give you $ 800 just to
drop that towel
that you have on". After thinking for a moment, the
woman drops her
towel and stands naked in front of Bob. Bob has a
close look at her
for a few seconds, hands over $800 and quietly leaves.
Confused, but
excited about her good fortune, the woman wraps back
up in the towel
and goes upstairs! When she gets back to the bathroom,
her husband
asks from the shower "Who was that?" "It was Bob the
next door
neighbor," she replies. "Great," the husband says,
"did he say
anything about the! $ 800 he owes me?"

MORAL OF THE STORY: Share critical credit information
with your
stakeholders to prevent avoidable exposure!




CORPORATE LESSON # 2
A priest was driving along and saw a nun on the side
of the road; he
stopped and offered her a lift which she gladly
accepted. She got in
and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to open and
reveal a lovely
leg. The priest had a look and nearly had an accident.
After
controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up
her leg. The nun
looked at him and immediately said, "Father, remember
psalm 129?"
The priest was flustered and apologized profusely. He
forced himself
to remove his hand. However, he was unable to remove
his eyes from
her leg. Further on, while changing gear, he let his
hand slide up
her leg again. The nun once again said, "Father,
remember psalm
129?" Once again the priest apologized. "Sorry sister,
but the mind
is weak." Arriving at the convent, the nun got out,
gave him a
meaningful glance and went on her way. On his arrival
at the
church, the priest rushed to retrieve a bible and
looked up psalm
129. It Said, "Go forth and seek; further up, you will
find glory."

MORAL OF THE STORY: Always be well informed in your
job; or, you
might miss great opportunities!



CORPORATE LESSON #3
Usually the junior executives and staff of the company
generally
play football; the middle level managers are more
interested in
tennis and the top management usually has a preference
for Golf.
FINDING: As you go up the corporate ladder, the balls
reduce in size.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Self explanatory....






CORPORATE LESSON # 4
A young executive was leaving the office at 6 PM when
he found the
CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of
paper in his
hand. "Listen," said the CEO, "this is a very
sensitive and
important document and my secretary has left. Can you
make this
thing work?" "Certainly, Sir" said the young
executive. He turned
the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the
start
button. "Excellent, excellent!" said the CEO as his
paper
disappeared inside the machine. "I just need one
copy."

MORAL OF THE STORY: Never, never assume that your BOSS
knows
everything.




CORPORATE LESSON # 5
There were these 4 guys, Russian President Putin,
Germany's
Chancellor Kohl, Pakistan Dictator Musharraf and
French Premiere
Chirac who found this small genie bottle. When they
rubbed the
bottle, a genie appears. Thankful that the 4 guys had
released him
out of the bottle, he said, "Next to you all are 4
swimming pools, I
will give each of you a wish. When you run towards the
pool and
jump, you shout what you want the pool of water to
become, and then
your wish will come true." The French Premiere Chirac
wanted to
start. He ran towards the pool, jumped and shouted
WINE". The pool
immediately changed into a pool of wine. The Frenchman
was so happy
swimming and drinking from the pool. Next is the
Russian President
Putin turn, he did the same and shouted, "VODKA" and
immersed
himself into a pool of vodka. The German was next and
he jumped and
shouted, "BEER". He was so contented with his beer
pool. The last
is Pakistan's Musharraf. He was running towards the
pool when
suddenly he steps on a banana peel. He slipped towards
the pool and
shouted, "SHIT!!!!!!!........."

MORAL OF THE STORY: Mind your language; you never know
what it will land you in.

JUST THOUGHT OFFFF

Never venture into any venture, without "Adequate Resource(s)" ! Especially when you are on the "THINK TANK".
P'ter Drukker


THE OLD MAN GOT THAT RIGHT!

girl talk

When a GIRL is quiet,
Millions of things are running in her mind.

When a GIRL is not arguing,
She is thinking deeply.

When a GIRL looks at u with eyes full of questions,
She is wondering how long you will be around.

When a GIRL answers "i'm fine" after a few seconds,
She is not at all fine.

When a GIRL stares at you,
She is wondering why you are lying.

When a GIRL lays on your chest,
She is wishing for you to be hers forever.

When a GIRL calls you everyday,
She is seeking for your attention.

When a GIRL sms's u everyday,
She wants you to reply at least once.

When a GIRL says I love you,
She means it.

When a GIRL says that she can't live without you,
She has made up her mind that you are her future.

When a GIRL says "i miss you",
No one in this world can miss you more than her .....

some whacky quotations

Always give 100% to Work : 12% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 20% Thursday, 5% Friday.

Teem Meeting is a practical alternate to real work

To ERR is human, to forgive is against company policy

Many things can be preserved in alcohol. Coding standard is one of them.

The most faulty interface lies between the chair & the keyboard

Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people do 75% of the project work

Confession is good for the soul but bad for the career

When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.

It does not matter whether you do a task or not, try to learn how to blame others for task not done

An expert is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.

Reading in bathroom is not multi tasking

Experience is what a comb gives you after you lose your hair.

Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make them when nobody is looking.

There are three sides to every argument: your side, my side and the right side.

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

LUCK...stands for Labouring Under Correct Knowledge

They say hard work never hurt anybody, but why take the chance.


Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.


God is real, unless declared integer

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left.

Do you have trouble making up your mind? Well, yes or no?

Home is where the television is.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.

Death is hereditary.

a poem

Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end,
Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone.
And I never see my old friends face,
For life is a swift and terrible race,
He knows I like him just as well,
As in the days when I rang his bell.
And he rang mine but we were younger then,
And now we are busy, tired men.
Tired of playing a foolish game,
Tired of trying to make a name.
"Tomorrow" I say! "I will call on Jim
Just to show that I'm thinking of him."
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,
And distance between us grows and grows.
Around the corner, yet miles away,
"Here's a telegram sir," "Jim died today."
And that's what we get and deserve in the
end.
Around the corner, a vanished friend

just some old thoughts

JUS A FEW THOUGHTS::

india as in the cricket team the senior version have been pretty badly beaten in the first final of the VB series and looks like they are in for a drubbing in the nxt one. i just wonder whether they have a psychological block against the Aussies. another thought occured to me, this again is perhaps a bit too cynical but here it goes....
perth, the fastest wicket any where in the world as the commentators cried themselves hoarse, why was it not used for any of the tests and the earlier one dayers , i mean why suddenly was this pitch used for the last match in the league phase and that too with the aussies and we all knw of hw well the aussies are at the psychological warfare, may be jus may be they have decided to use this opportunity to break india's growing confidence. then again another caustic twist to it is hw come the indians turned out to be fragile. i mean after all they were doing pretty well till perth happened. but wht has been bothering me is saurav's performance i mean does the guy knw tht he has merely become the non-playing captain. if only we could have a system like tht!!!!
rahulo's doing ok considering he just broke a very serious record tht of going without scoring a duck in his last 120 or there of innings this phase started aug 1999, man here's a player who is never ever given his due. but so selfless. people say nice guys win last but he seems to be one of those lucky few who dont seem to be going for tht.

letter writing

This is a collection of leave letters and applications written by
students, employees and job seekers. This is Indian English at its
best.

1 A candidate's application:
"This has reference to your advertisement calling for a typist and
an accountant - Male or Female. As I am both for the past several
years and I can handle both, I am applying for the post."


2. An employee applied for leave as follows:
"Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my
wife. Please sanction me one-week leave."


3. Another employee applied for half-day leave as follows:
"Since I've to go to the cremation ground and I may not return,
please grant me half day casual leave."


4. A student's leave letter to the headmaster:
"As I am studying in this school, I am suffering from headache. I
request you to leave me today."


5. Another student's letter applying for leave:
"I am suffering from fever, please declare holiday to the school."


6. Yet another leave letter to the headmaster:
"As my headache is paining, please grant me leave for the day."


7. A covering note,
"I am enclosed herewith..."


8. Another leave letter by an employee:
As my Mother-in-law has expired and I am responsible for it, please
grant me 10 days leave.


9. Yet another effort at applying for leave:
"My wife is suffering from sickness and as I am her only husband at
home I may be granted leave."


10. Formal opening sentence of a letter with a new twist:
"I am in well here and hope you are also in the same well."

heck! i will get a divorce

After 48 years of marriage, an elderly Sindhi man in Bombay calls
his son in New York and says, "I hate to ruin your day son, but I
have to tell you that your mother and I are getting a divorce; 45
years of misery is enough!"

"Dad, what are you talking about?" the son screams.

"We can't stand the sight of each other any longer," the old man
says.
"We're sick of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so
you call your sister in Hong Kong and tell her!"

Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone. "Like
heck they're getting divorced," she shouts, "I'll take care of
this." She calls Bombay immediately, and screams at the old
man, "You are not getting divorced.

Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling my brother
back, and we'll both be there tomorrow.

Until then, don't do a thing, DO YOU HEAR??" and she hangs up.

The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife. "Okay", he
says, "It's all set. They're both coming for Diwali and paying
their own airfare!!"

it's a AD world!!

Hi Whirlpool [Worlds No. one],
My dear FAIR AND LOVELY [chand ka tukda], you are my TVS SCOOTY[first love] and my AIWA [pure passion].

I always BPL [believe in the best] and you are SANSUI [better than the best]. You are DOMINO'S PIZZA [delivering a million smiles] for me. This is a COLGATE ENERGY GEL [seriously fresh] feeling for me.

I want you to be my life partner but i think you are worried about your father who is CEAT [born tough] and my father who is KAWASAKI BAJAJ CALIBER [the unshakable], but don't worry as i am also FORD ICON [the josh machine] and the rest of our family members are pretty KELVINATORS [the coolest one]. If our fathers say no, we will run away and marry, and PHILIPS [let's make things better], then they will feel MIRINDA [zor ka jhatka dhire se lage] but i believe in COCA-COLA [jo chahe ho jaye]. Trust in god who's always NOKIA [connecting people] who love each other. And do not forget that we are WILLS [made for each other].

Now that HYUNDAI [we are listening] the song of love, you must know that love is DAIRY MILK [real taste of life], SATYAM ONLINE [fun fast easy] and PARX [always comfortable]. So never forget me.

Ok bye! i wrote little but actually PEPSI [yeh dil maange more !!!! ]

LOVINGLY,

Yours

LG [digitally yours].

why men are happier? are they?

Why men are happier...
-- Your last name stays put.

-- The garage is all yours.

-- Wedding plans take care of themselves.

-- Chocolate is just another snack.

-- You can be President.

-- You can never be pregnant.

-- You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park. Actually, You can wear NO shirt to a water park.

-- Car mechanics tell you the truth.

-- You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.

-- Same work, more pay.

-- Wrinkles add character.

-- The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected.

-- New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.

-- One mood all the time.

-- Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.

-- A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.

-- You can open all your own jars.

-- You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.

-- If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.

-- You almost never have strap problems in public.

-- You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.

-- Everything on your face stays its original color.

-- The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.

-- You only have to shave your face and neck.

-- You can play with toys all your life.

-- Your belly usually hides your big hips.

-- One wallet and one pair of shoes one color for all seasons.

-- You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.

-- You can "do" your nails with a pocket knife.

-- You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.

-- You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.

No wonder men are happier...

Forward this to the women friends who can handle it and to the men who will enjoy reading it.

a lesson or two

The madam opened the brothel door to see a rather
dignified,well-dressed
good looking man in his late 40s r early 50s. "Can I help you?" she
asked.

"I want to see Natalie," the man replied.

"Sir, Natalie is one of our most expensive ladies, perhaps you would
prefer someone else," said the madam.

"No, I must see Natalie" was the man's reply. Just then, Natalie
appeared
and announced to the man that she charged $1,000 a visit.

Without hesitation, the man pulled out ten one-hundred dollar bills
and
gave them to Natalie and they went upstairs. After an hour, the man
calmly
left. The next night the same man appeared again, demanding to see
Natalie.

Natalie explained that no one had ever come back two nights in a row -
too
expensive - and there were no discounts. The price was still $1,000.

Again the man pulled out the money, gave it to Natalie and they went
upstairs.

After an hour, he left. The following night the man was there again.
Everyone was astounded that he had come for the third consecutive
night,
but he paid Natalie and they went upstairs. After their session,
Natalie
questioned the man. "No one has ever used me three nights in a row.
Where
are you from?" she asked.

The man replied, "South Carolina." "Really?" she said. "I have family
in
South Carolina." "I know," the man said. "Your father died and I am
your
sister's attorney. She asked me to give you your $3,000 inheritance."

The moral of the story is: Some things in life are certain ...
1. Death
2. And being screwed by a lawyer

scrabble

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT
DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
I M A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

summer training

hello,
i hve bgun my summer internship wid a co which is into finance and i am to do a employee satisfaction survey and i hve no idea wht am i supposed to do. horrid!

i am searching the net for a brain wave.
thankx for listening to my plight.
y'day i blurted the lung cancer news to dear mrs. chakroborty and well the smug thing tht she is it ws pretty heartening.
anyway y'day outing ws fun but messed at the end... sme stupid female i swear.
i hate his family sooo soo much...

enuff of bitterness lets get bck to the grind.

airport built on sea

Kansai Airport Opens on Giant Man-Made Island in Osaka Bay


Over a decade of planning, civil engineering and construction efforts came to fruition last September when Japan's newest international airport opened for business. Situated on a sprawling man-made island in Osaka Bay, Kansai International Airport services Japan's second largest metropolitan center, offering flights to and from international destinations in Asia, North America, Europe and elsewhere, as well as domestic connections with cities throughout Japan, Its 3,500m-long runway is able to accommodate 160,000 takeoffs and landings per year, and once the planned second and third runways are completed annual flight capacity will increase to 260,000. Specifically located and oriented so as to minimize noise pollution, it is the nation's first and only airport to offer round-the-clock service.
A 3,750m-long double-decker bridge links the airport island to the mainland, with the lower level carrying twin rail lines and the upper deck two three-lane roadways. In addition to convenient road and rail access Osaka Station is just 45 minutes away by train high-speed ferry service is available from Osaka, Kobe and Awajj Island. The gleaming steel- and glass-clad terminal complex, designed by an international joint venture headed by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, has drawn widespread acclaim and is already considered one of Japan's modern architectural landmarks.

Saturday, May 14, 2005

kindness pays

KINDNESS Pays ! One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his waythrough school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost hisnerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked fora drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank itslowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?" "You don't owe me anything," she replied "Mother has taught us never to acceptpayment for a kindness." He said... "Then I thank you from my heart." As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt; stronger physically, buthis faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up andquit. Years later that young woman became critically ill. The local doctors werebaffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called inspecialists to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for theconsultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange lightfilled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room. Dressedin his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He wentback to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. Fromthat day he gave special attention to the case. After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the businessoffice to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrotesomething on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life topay for it all. Finally, she looked, and something caught ; her attention onthe side as She read these words..... "Paid in full with one glass of milk." (Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly. Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You, GOD, thatYour love has spread abroad through human hearts and hands."

i am a believer

There was once this guy who is very much in love with his girl. This romanticguy folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that time he was just a small fry in his company, his futuredoesn't seem too bright, they were very happy together. Until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and would never comeback. She also told him that she could not visualize any future for both ofthem, so they went their own ways there and then... Heartbroken, the guy pined. But when he regained his confidence, he worked hardday and night, slogging his body and mind just to make something of himself. Finally with all the hard work and the help of friends, this guy set up his owncompany ... You never fail until you stop trying. One rainy day, while this guy wasdriving, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain walking tosome destination. Even with the umbrella, they were drenched. It didn't take him long to realizethey were his former girl's parents. Wanting to get back at them, he drove slowly past the couple, wanting them tospot him in his luxury sedan. He wanted them to know that he wasn't the sameany more; he had his own company, car, condo, etc. He had made it! But what he saw next confused him, the couple were walkingtowards a cemetery, and so he got out of his car and followed... Then he sawhis girl, a photograph of her smiling sweetly as ever looking at him from hertombstone and he saw his paper cranes right beside her... Her parents saw him. He asked them how this had happened. They explained, shedid not leave for France at all. She was ill with cancer. She had believed thathe would make it someday, but she did not want to be his obstacle... thereforeshe had chosen to leave him. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't meanthey don't love you with all they have. She had wanted her parents to put hispaper cranes beside her, because, if the day came when fate brought him to heragain...he could take some of those back with him... Once you have loved, you will always love. For what's in your mind may escapebut what's in your heart will remain forever. The guy just wept...The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting rightbeside her knowing you can't have her, see her or be with her everagain.........hope you understand. Find time to realize that there is one person who means so much to you, for youmight wake up one morning losing that person who you thought meant nothing toyou.

thought to enjoy

The most destructive habit........................................Worry
The greatest Joy.........................................................Giving
The greatest loss........................................................Loss of self-respect
The most satisfying work............................................Helping others
The ugliest personality trait........................................Selfishness
The most endangered species................................Dedicated leaders
Our greatest natural resource..................................Our youth
The greatest "shot in the arm".................................Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome.........................Fear
The most effective sleeping pill................................Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease...........................Excuses
The most powerful force in life..................................Love
The most dangerous pariah......................................A gossiper
The world's most incredible computer.....................The brain
The worst thing to be without.... ...................... .........Hope
The deadliest weapon...............................................The tongue
The two most power-filled words.............................."I Can"
The greatest asset.....................................................Faith
The most worthless emotion.....................................Self-pity
The most beautiful attire............................................SMILE!
The most prized possession......................... ..Integrity
The most powerful channel of communication........Prayer
The most contagious spirit.........................................Enthusiasm

easy vs difficult

EASY VS. DIFFICULT

Easy is to get a place is someone's address book.Difficult is to get a place in someone's heart.

Easy is to judge the mistakes of othersDifficult is to recognize our own mistakes

Easy is to talk without thinkingDifficult is to refrain the tongue

Easy is to hurt someone who loves us.Difficult is to heal the wound...

Easy is to forgive othersDifficult is to ask for forgiveness

Easy is to set rules.Difficult is to follow them...

Easy is to dream every night.Difficult is to fight for a dream...

Easy is to show victory.Difficult is to assume defeat with dignity...

Easy is to admire a full moon.Difficult to see the other side...

Easy is to stumble with a stone.Difficult is to get up...

Easy is to enjoy life every day.Difficult to give its real value...

Easy is to pray every night.Difficult is to find God in small things...

Easy is to promise something to someone.Difficult is to fulfill that promise...

Easy is to say we love.Difficult is to show it every day...

Easy is to criticize others.Difficult is to improve oneself...

Easy is to make mistakes.Difficult is to learn from them...

Easy is to weep for a lost love.Difficult is to take care of it so not to lose it.

Easy is to think about improving.Difficult is to stop thinking it and put it into action...

Easy is to think bad of othersDifficult is to give them the benefit of the doubt...

Easy is to receiveDifficult is to give

Easy to read thisDifficult to follow

Easy is keep the friendship with wordsDifficult is to keep it with meanings

dilbert's one liners

These are really good ones!!
If you are a Dilbert fan,you will definitely like them.
Ø Born free taxed to death.
Ø Life is unsure; always eat your dessert first.
Ø I say no to drugs they just don't listenØ A friend in need is a pest indeed.
Ø Marriage is one of the chief causes of divorce.
Ø Work is fine if it doesn't take too much of yourtime.
Ø When everything comes in your way you're in thewrong lane.
Ø Smile, it makes people wonder what you arethinking.
Ø If you keep your feet firmly on the ground,you'll have trouble putting onyour pants.
Ø It's not hard to meet expenses- they areeverywhere.
Ø I love being a writer... what I can't stand isthe paperwork.
Ø A printer consists of 3 main parts: the case,the jammed paper tray and theblinking red light.
Ø The hardest part of skating is the ice.
Ø My phone number is 17. We got one of the earlyones.
Ø The guy who invented the first wheel was anidiot. The guy who invented theother three, he was the genius.
Ø In a country of free speech, why are there phonebills?
Ø If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars inthe universe, he'llbelieve you. But if you tell him a park bench has justbeen painted, he hasto touch it to be sure.
Ø I had a friend once. Then the rope broke and hegot away.
Ø If you cannot change your mind, are you sure youhave one?
Ø Beat the 5 O'clock rush. Leave work at noon!
Ø It's not the fall that kills you. It's thesudden stop at the end.
Ø I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made yourhorn louder.
Ø Hot glass looks same as cold glass. - Cunino'sLaw of Burnt Fingers
Ø Never underestimate the power of very stupidpeople in large groups.
Ø The cigarette does the smoking you are just thesucker.
Ø Someday is not a day of the week

stress management

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "how heavy is this glass of water?" Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.
The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it." "If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm.
If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance. In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes." He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress management.
If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on.
As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden."
"So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can. Relax... pick them up later after you've rested. Life is short. Enjoy it!

And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:

* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
* Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
* Never buy a car you can't push.
* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
* Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
* Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
* The second mouse gets the cheese.
* When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
* Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
* You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
* We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.
* A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you today... I did

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

it's true

Its TrueYou may not realize it, but it's 100% true

1. There are at least two people in this world that you would die for.
2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.
3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to bejust like you.
4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't likeyou.
5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.
6. You mean the world to someone.
7. You are special and unique.
8. Someone that you don't even know exists, loves you.
9. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.
1 0. When you think the world has turned its back on you, take a look.
11. Always remember the compliments you received. Forget about the ruderemarks.

REMEMBER: "When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt."

i failed

someone i know has been diagnosed of lung cancer, i had lots to say today but i feel empty inside and there are no words to describe this feeling.
i wish i could do something.
but i can't ....
strangely all that i had written down before seem so meaningless, now that i thought of putting them up they seem to be futile.