This time, I was specially looking forward for Diwali holidays as the entire week was off excluding Monday. Almost everyone ran home the previous Friday. That meant only one thing..extremely low attendance for the Monday lectures. And as a general rule in my attendance rule book, I made sure that I am present for lectures when others bunk. To my disappointment, the Monday class wasn't that empty. I guess, others are also following the same rule..
After the lecture, came back to hostel and decided to watch a movie. Asked Thakur if he had any, and though he was extremely busy in his studies, sent me a hot movie (I am not going to disclose the name!) over ip-messenger. It turned out that the movie was so hot that my comp couldn't handle it. Suddenly, it hung and started making some really scary sounds. As I investigated the problem, came to know that the hard disc's head had got stuck and crashed. After an hour long fight to resurrect my comp I gave up. I was really pissed over loss of my data including a huge collection of songs and snaps taken with my digicam. Since my CD writer was out of order for last couple of months, hadn't taken any backup.
To get away from all the frustration, I decided to freak my a$# off this Diwali and went home. Broke the resolution of not burning crackers, and burned hell lotta fancy items on Laksmi Pujan...
NM was back from Saudi for diwali so a few of my VCET friends decided for a get-together. AP was proactive and booked tickets for "Garam Masala". Sallu, Mani, Cheeky, Motu, Nikku, AP, NM and Me...We were meeting after a huge gap, almost a 6-7 months.
After having lunch in a restaurant, we went for the movie. When AP showed us the ticket, all of us got a huge jolt. Each ticket was costing whooping 160 bucks..which is extremely expensive considering it was second row from the screen. Later I came to know that with that money you can buy almost a kilogram of garam masala in market. The movie was strictly OK. NM and Sallu were attempting to recover some of the money by laughing out loud over typical jokes. Paresh Rawal was the only plus point. A cameo by super hotty Neha Dhupia is all I am gonna remember of that movie....
Thats how I celebrated my diwali, a hard disc crash, lot of cracker burning and a kg of garam masala which has burned out my tongue (I am eating Ice cream since... :p )
Last Wednesday evening, I was heading back home from the lab. Anybody could have guessed from my face that the day wasn’t so good for me. Suddenly I was interrupted by AP who was going back to hostel. AP: “Dude, you are looking total frustu.. What happened?”
Me: “Don’t ask! After a week of fight with the experiments, I got some stupid results”
AP: “That not so bad, at least you got some results”
Me: “Ya, good enough to publish in the Journal of Non Repeatable Papers”
AP: “So what are you planning to do? Going home?”
Me “Nopes, I am going to
AP: “Whaaaaaat? Dude, don’t take it so seriously. Anyway, Hats off to you. I wish I could do the same” He was simply amazed by my decision to chill out in
Infact, It was SM who desperately wanted to go to
It was my 5th visit to
Though it was just a 3 day trip, we had a blast. Fish was excellent. Since SM is not that versed with different types of fish, he just decided to eat whatever I’ll order. And I didn’t disappoint him. Crab, Prawns, Kingfish, Mackerels…..I need not say more…
If you really want to capture
When I returned, somehow the news about our
Now whether I can manage another trip or not is an empirical function of bank balance and status of my project.
After a week of gruesome post mortem carried out by the media and all the “Indian cricket fans”( who consider themselves to be no less than the committee members of BCCI) about this Ganguly- Chappell issue, the big day had arrived. The day on which a few former captains got together with BCCI officials to have a little chat with Mr., Captain and Mr. Coach.
People were eagerly awaiting for this day as they expected some fireworks to happen resulting in moral victory of one of the parties leading to stepping down of the other. But, as usual, we had to settle for a few highly diplomatic explanations about why these things happened. It was said that the whole issue was result of “miscommunication”
. I would rather say, BCCI officials made sure that through their “Judicious Remarks”, the real ‘communications’ would be completely ‘missed’ by the public. Mr. Mahendra, “Yeh Public hai, Yeh sab janti hai ”…
It’s a well proven fact that Saurav is a lazy bone. And I can bet that he would be faking injuries just to avoid practice sessions as per Chappell wrote in his mail. But Mr. Mahendra says that none of this has ever happened. This means, Mr, Chappell is lying. If so, he deserves to be sacked for making such allegations to the most successful Indian captain till now who also has 15k runs on his back. But what do they do, they say that Mr. Chappell & Mr. Ganguly will work together.
Moral of the story, “Chota baccha jaan ke humko na behekana re
Tiesto: Suburban Train
This guy is unbeatable. Crowned as World's best DJ for consecutive 2 years .
Paul Van Dyk: Nothing But You
Sit Back, Relax and feel your senses as this undisputed king of trance takes you on the TRIP.
Armin Van Burren: Burned With Desire
No one can make morning tance like AVB. This guy is probably the best in making Feel-Good Trance
Paul Oakenfold: Gamemaster
Truly a Gamemaster....I liked all his Swordfish movie soundtracks
ATB: Fields of Love
Best of two worlds....
BT: Flaming June
Song that changed the trance scene in UK
Darude: Feel the Beat
Do I need to say anything aboout this guy?
DJ Sammy: The Boys of Summer
Probably DJ Aqeel of the west. Awesome remixes
Fatboy Slim: Right Here Right Now
Legendary Norman Cook. The funk is so brever, check it out now!
DJ Kim: Jetlag
Had never heard of this guy before. The song is Rated 9.7 on TranceAddict.com
Ocean Lab: Clear Blue Water
Cool use of female vocals
Thrillseeker: Dreaming of You
This guy has a mixed style. Uplifting beat that slowly builds the tempo. Has made high enery as well as some smooth tracks
Sash: Mysterious Times
Rocked the rave scene with singles like Adelante and Equador.
Kate Ryan: Desachante
Fem Fatale. Queen of Eurotrance
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The list goes on and on and on
In the beginning it confused me a bit when I heard that the 10th planet has been discovered. Didn’t they find it back in 2003 and named it Sedna? I remembered the articles in papers about how astronomers all over the world debated if it can be considered as a planet. It seems, Sedna was denied the planetary status and the new one is indeed a planet. Not just a huge chunk of stardust.
Immediately, it popped a question into my mind. What is going to be the reaction of the astrologer community? Is there a room for a new planet in the horoscope? I had to wait for just a day to get the answer for that. The newspaper had an article by some famous Astroguru saying that it will not have any significance. That was expected. People are inert by nature. They are unwilling to let go the old stuff and start with new concepts. It would have been a daunting task to make changes in astro- fundas, if provision was to be made for the new member of the solar family.
Now you must be thinking, when did I start believing in Astrology? I still don’t. But I do ponder a lot about this topic. Let me tell you an incidence which got me thinking….
A few years back, Sir Roger Penrose, an eminent physicist from Oxford had come to India for some international conference. British council and Nehru center had arranged a public lecture in which Sir Penrose talked about the “Consciousness and the Universe”. During the lecture, he mentioned about quantum coupling. And said that if we happen to disturb one of the two quarks separated by a huge distance, the other gets perturbed mysteriously. The lecture went on smoothly and as always, was followed by a question answer session. After a few questions from the physicist in the audience (I assumed them to be physicist as I couldn’t get a clue of what they were speaking), an old lady stood up. I started to wonder what she is going to ask. What followed shell-shocked the entire audience and perhaps Dr. Penrose too. She said, “Sir, you mentioned about quantum coupling and how matter seems to be interconnected through some sort of forces that are beyond our current understanding. If that is so, then why can’t planetary motions affect human minds? Why the ancient Indian Astrology has been denied to have a scientific basis?”
The crowd was amazed. Taliyon ki bauchar!
Experienced Dr. Penrose laughed and replied, “Perhaps you can join me and we can do some great research in it.”
Since that day, I am having a totally new perspective towards astrology. …..
This is my first blog, so I better be impressive
Since the blog is all about life Mantras and Global Gyan by Baba Dhanu bangali, I'll start with a philosophical questions.....
Who Am I?
Sounds familiar? Go check Matrix Reloaded.... I still remember the way I felt helpless and miserable when I couldn't comprehend what Mr. Architect was trying to tell neo to enlighten him about the purpose of his life. Before I could gather the faintest meaning of the statement he made, he would have used some even more complicated words in the next line. And since I was watching the movie with mondu, who was equally confused....could get only 50% of what that bugger said on screen.
Boss.....felt like hiting that guy with the bulkiest edition of Websters' Dictionary......But being the hard core Matrix fan, I had to get the funda right. It took me 20 mins to carefully go thro' the same scene thrice on a VCD and actually jot down the dialogues.....The efforts were in vain and even more frustrating when I found that the entire transcripts were available on the net.....itna pain liya.....dhat!!!
So, As always, I learnt from the whole experience and decided not to get goofed up in middle of the the last of the Matrix Trilogy, "Matrix Revolution". Convinced Hirva (who is good in Angrezi, just like Dr. Poo ) to sit next to me in the movie hall and translate the fundae in Marathi when I would flag the SOS signal.
Luckily, There was no need. The movie turned out to be really simple ......
So folks, that was the end of a really long blog.
Moral of the story, " Vernac junta, better stick to mithun da movies and dont venture into english sci-fi unless accompanied by a technically sound, Mr. Webster who will do all the translations for you. "
Have fun!
