Last night was amazing.... I didn't drink, didn't go for a date, didn't watch a movie either. I was chatting to a few of my clients - as many as 4. All from different countries, all complaining about the bad weather and all ready to give me more business :). Sleeping at around 5 AM and getting up at 10.30 AM, I thought its my lucky day and I am going to have a lot of fun!
Leaving for office at around 12PM, I was in perfect mood to finish up work early and to to go service centre for some small issues. BANG! The Innova guy hit the breaks hard and within fraction of seconds I had a very small accident with Innova. As small as nothing was broken, no scratches either (on his car) except that his bumper guard was bent a little. total expense must not be more than 100 rupees !
The Innova had this sticker on the rear and front window which reads POLICE with the Delhi Police's logo on it. The man came out of his car, didn't see if there's any damage at all to his car, came close to me and BANG! again... HE PUSHED ME HARD and threw all the offensive words on me which he might have ever heard or learnt. I pushed myself back and said SORRY, I M READY TO PAY FOR THE DAMAGE and some how controlled the situation. Not actually controlled, but handled it for a while. He asked me for any of my identification proof and I gave him my debit card.
I followed him from janakpuri upto Dwarka so that I can pay for something I didn't do ! I felt like I am just raped ! He finally stopped near a petrol pump, and told me that the bumper costs around 2500 bucks (fool! bumper must be around 6k including the paint) and as he doesn't have time to get it repaired at the moment he is okay if I pay for the Fuel instead. I said OKAY... There he go, he showed me all the scratches and dents on his car saying this has happened just now :D
He was soon accompanied by another man in a white Honda City with the same POLICE stickers sticked on it. The Innova guy said sorry for his unpleasant behaviour and that he is a JAAT and couldn't control his anger and also appreciated that I kept my cool in the tough time. I was a lil relaxed for few seconds and then he said. if you would have shouted back on me - I would have break all your bones...... I felt as if I was RAPED again.
I paid 2190/- for the fuel in his car and his friend's car (lucily both were filled already) and then he said "SORRY FOR DISTURBANCE".
Now tell me, who said that a MAN CAN NOT BE RAPED?
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
signs of ageing?
Last night, I was wondering if I am old now. Old enough to behave strangely -
1) I do not get excited on small things
2) I dont, no more, want to get drunk and loose my senses
3) I dont want to meet, chat or talk to many women - thats a serious issue!
4) I have started saving - to spend on next trip but atleast m saving now :)
5) I plan of marrying after two or more years ;)
6) I dont turn my head along with a hot chic passing by
7) I dont play loud music in my car
8) I am more concerned if I am behaving well with others
9) I am getting punctual to reach my work place
10) I am more cautious with what I eat, drink(no Whisky - no Rum - no Vodka - ONLY BEER)
List is never ending but these are the main concerns.. "Naah, m not old. not at all" - this second thought was contradicting to the first one. So I had some immediate ideas supporting the second thought -
1) I wear more t-shirts than ever before
2) I have 7 pair of shoes and a couple of other footwears
3) I still dont sleep and dont cut my nails on time
4) I am scared of my mum catching me while on drinks or while on phone all the time
5) my deadline to reach home is 11 pm only :( (on usual days)
6) I am studying further(already have a Upper First Class Masters Degree ;) ) but I still dont submit my assignments on time
7) I, almost every alternate day, fight with my sister over the property rights of our bed. She is thin, short and a teen but covers more space on bed than I do. Usually with her books and notebooks..she is not supposed to use right side of the bed under any circumstances.
8) Every morning, I tell my mother that I dont want to take tiffin with me!
9) I bunk my office
10) I always try new salon but never satisfed with my haircut........
I am not sure about the results, but I think this debate must continue to keep me at par. A lot has happened in past 3 months, as it must, including some business investments(a new computer, new employee -show off), trip to VAISHNO DEVI, getting caught while drunk, started gymming, tickets to LADAKH(finally), papa bought a new car (Wagon-R), trip to RANIGANJ (near Kolkota) and much more. But highlights are VaishnoDevi Trip, and Raniganj.
I asked Ankita(my sister) in the morning of the day we were going to Vaishno Devi if she wants to come along. NO was her reply. Our train was at around 9.30pm, we had to leave home for station at around 8.30pm and Ankita changed her mood and, now, wanted to join us for the trip. She was really quick to pack her bag and soon we were in train with Rohit(janu).. we paid double price for Ankita's ticket as she was travelling without ticket- we didn't have time to buy it.
We were accompanied by Rohit(Topa), topa's girl friend, Ashesh, Nidhi(Ashesh's girl),DharamVEER, and Seema(Veer's wife) the next morning at NHPC's guest house (courtesy-topa). Journey begins to bhawan and we climbed quite very quickly as compare to always. used VIP pases for darshan(courtesy-topa) and back to guesthouse by afternoon. so much of complications with Ankita's return ticket and still ended up by paying double once again.
I didn't, even for once, regretted taking ankita with me on trip with 3 couples unless topa promised me to not climb upto his girlfriend's seat at night because my sister was there and then broke his promise out of desperation and assuming that I was sleeping and wont come to know.. Whatever..... I saw his quickest of moves, no expressions of guiltyness, no signs of respect (respect to my only ever request to him and my younger sister)..
Raniganj is a small and not so common city near Kolkota. It is better known as "Black Diamond City" coz of soooo many coal mines... to my surprise, its a very very clean city, have some big hospitals, hundreds of gold shops, so many luxory cars (a looot of them), and girls are in majority in that city :D. Not so often I get a chance to meet so many relatives at same place and all eager to see you marrying next..haha... We(all cousins) did a parody at the ring ceremony and I hosted it. grrrreatttt fun, and few sleepless nights. I slept 20 hrs in train afterwards :).
going to Ladakh next month... and I am sooooooooo excited about it...... we will be going by volvo from Delhi-Manali...stay in Manali for a day and a night... take a Zeep from Manali to Rohtangpass to Keylong to Leh.....going through the most panaromic road in India - they say it!
Its 1.40 am now, and I have to reach a client's place at 9.45am. I need to study his website and do the critics to an existing and fairly well developed website - I wish I get the deal, its much needed now... will write again for few other things soon (before going to Ladakh)....
1) I do not get excited on small things
2) I dont, no more, want to get drunk and loose my senses
3) I dont want to meet, chat or talk to many women - thats a serious issue!
4) I have started saving - to spend on next trip but atleast m saving now :)
5) I plan of marrying after two or more years ;)
6) I dont turn my head along with a hot chic passing by
7) I dont play loud music in my car
8) I am more concerned if I am behaving well with others
9) I am getting punctual to reach my work place
10) I am more cautious with what I eat, drink(no Whisky - no Rum - no Vodka - ONLY BEER)
List is never ending but these are the main concerns.. "Naah, m not old. not at all" - this second thought was contradicting to the first one. So I had some immediate ideas supporting the second thought -
1) I wear more t-shirts than ever before
2) I have 7 pair of shoes and a couple of other footwears
3) I still dont sleep and dont cut my nails on time
4) I am scared of my mum catching me while on drinks or while on phone all the time
5) my deadline to reach home is 11 pm only :( (on usual days)
6) I am studying further(already have a Upper First Class Masters Degree ;) ) but I still dont submit my assignments on time
7) I, almost every alternate day, fight with my sister over the property rights of our bed. She is thin, short and a teen but covers more space on bed than I do. Usually with her books and notebooks..she is not supposed to use right side of the bed under any circumstances.
8) Every morning, I tell my mother that I dont want to take tiffin with me!
9) I bunk my office
10) I always try new salon but never satisfed with my haircut........
I am not sure about the results, but I think this debate must continue to keep me at par. A lot has happened in past 3 months, as it must, including some business investments(a new computer, new employee -show off), trip to VAISHNO DEVI, getting caught while drunk, started gymming, tickets to LADAKH(finally), papa bought a new car (Wagon-R), trip to RANIGANJ (near Kolkota) and much more. But highlights are VaishnoDevi Trip, and Raniganj.
I asked Ankita(my sister) in the morning of the day we were going to Vaishno Devi if she wants to come along. NO was her reply. Our train was at around 9.30pm, we had to leave home for station at around 8.30pm and Ankita changed her mood and, now, wanted to join us for the trip. She was really quick to pack her bag and soon we were in train with Rohit(janu).. we paid double price for Ankita's ticket as she was travelling without ticket- we didn't have time to buy it.
We were accompanied by Rohit(Topa), topa's girl friend, Ashesh, Nidhi(Ashesh's girl),DharamVEER, and Seema(Veer's wife) the next morning at NHPC's guest house (courtesy-topa). Journey begins to bhawan and we climbed quite very quickly as compare to always. used VIP pases for darshan(courtesy-topa) and back to guesthouse by afternoon. so much of complications with Ankita's return ticket and still ended up by paying double once again.
I didn't, even for once, regretted taking ankita with me on trip with 3 couples unless topa promised me to not climb upto his girlfriend's seat at night because my sister was there and then broke his promise out of desperation and assuming that I was sleeping and wont come to know.. Whatever..... I saw his quickest of moves, no expressions of guiltyness, no signs of respect (respect to my only ever request to him and my younger sister)..
Raniganj is a small and not so common city near Kolkota. It is better known as "Black Diamond City" coz of soooo many coal mines... to my surprise, its a very very clean city, have some big hospitals, hundreds of gold shops, so many luxory cars (a looot of them), and girls are in majority in that city :D. Not so often I get a chance to meet so many relatives at same place and all eager to see you marrying next..haha... We(all cousins) did a parody at the ring ceremony and I hosted it. grrrreatttt fun, and few sleepless nights. I slept 20 hrs in train afterwards :).
going to Ladakh next month... and I am sooooooooo excited about it...... we will be going by volvo from Delhi-Manali...stay in Manali for a day and a night... take a Zeep from Manali to Rohtangpass to Keylong to Leh.....going through the most panaromic road in India - they say it!
Its 1.40 am now, and I have to reach a client's place at 9.45am. I need to study his website and do the critics to an existing and fairly well developed website - I wish I get the deal, its much needed now... will write again for few other things soon (before going to Ladakh)....
Sunday, February 15, 2009
The Urge - The Weekend
Not always I stay as excited as today - Not always I have reasons for this :)
My team is working on a project since 16th January and its going live today.. Excitement to see it functioning is making me restless and thought of unknown bugs ruining it all is making me even more restless.. We still have four hours before it goes live and I am sure to survive till then... If i survive after that, I see more reasons for survival of my company..Lol.
Another reason for my excitement is tonight's party.. I have plans to drink today and drink a lot..may be more :) ... Its Dharmveer's bachelors party tonight - I asked him for a party thousand of times while our Mussoorie trip. I have never been to a bachelors party before but I heard ther's always an arrangement for girls/striptease..lol, but dharmveer is arraning none!! Anyways, the lucky dog(bull actually) is going to marry his girl friend on next saturday, 28th february 2009.. I feel so happy for him as he is going to get what he wanted from years.. Also, I envy him a little at the same time...
As the matter of fact, I told my mum that I am going to a bachelors party tonight.. "ohh, bachelors party..hhhmmm" that was her reaction along with a sweet smile... Without telling any lies, I also told her that I will be staying overnight with my friends. I made it quite obvious to her to ask if I have plans for drinks and thats why I want to stay away - that was straight !! Okay.. Enough!! Truth works but not always. so I immediatedly told her that I dont have any such plans and its just that we have plan to play cards and we may go to see taj mahal, mathura and vrindavan tomorrow morning... His party is in Faridabad and it takes around 3 hours from there to reach TajMahal.
All this conversation was immediately conveyed to my dad and he said nothing but a smile :)
Its Saturday and it has been quite a hectic week throughout. Dark circles around my eyes are more visible now and I really really need to get proper sleep :( . its going to be a looooong night tonight as well and I have no idea about tomorrow. Although I must sleep all day tomorrow I am sure that I wont sleep before one or two hours after midnight towards monday. Its Sunday!! the only break in seven days...the only day I get to do other things than work... the day I look for all week :)
While my days as a waiter and cashier in Scotland, I always used to wonder how these people are crazy for weekends. They will celebrate weekend as if its the national day (night may be)... If, for any reasons, they stay at home on saturday nights - they will be creeping for it the complete next week. I think I am very much the same now. no matter if I am tired or not well, I just cant sleep or stay at home on sundays. I have this strrrrrrooooong urge to go out and spoil some money.. spoil money on anything which I dont need to.. eat out even when not well.. shop even when i need nothing.. go for drive even when fuel costs a fortune.. watch movie even when its a flop! we always find ways to not to save money, dont we?
My team is working on a project since 16th January and its going live today.. Excitement to see it functioning is making me restless and thought of unknown bugs ruining it all is making me even more restless.. We still have four hours before it goes live and I am sure to survive till then... If i survive after that, I see more reasons for survival of my company..Lol.
Another reason for my excitement is tonight's party.. I have plans to drink today and drink a lot..may be more :) ... Its Dharmveer's bachelors party tonight - I asked him for a party thousand of times while our Mussoorie trip. I have never been to a bachelors party before but I heard ther's always an arrangement for girls/striptease..lol, but dharmveer is arraning none!! Anyways, the lucky dog(bull actually) is going to marry his girl friend on next saturday, 28th february 2009.. I feel so happy for him as he is going to get what he wanted from years.. Also, I envy him a little at the same time...
As the matter of fact, I told my mum that I am going to a bachelors party tonight.. "ohh, bachelors party..hhhmmm" that was her reaction along with a sweet smile... Without telling any lies, I also told her that I will be staying overnight with my friends. I made it quite obvious to her to ask if I have plans for drinks and thats why I want to stay away - that was straight !! Okay.. Enough!! Truth works but not always. so I immediatedly told her that I dont have any such plans and its just that we have plan to play cards and we may go to see taj mahal, mathura and vrindavan tomorrow morning... His party is in Faridabad and it takes around 3 hours from there to reach TajMahal.
All this conversation was immediately conveyed to my dad and he said nothing but a smile :)
Its Saturday and it has been quite a hectic week throughout. Dark circles around my eyes are more visible now and I really really need to get proper sleep :( . its going to be a looooong night tonight as well and I have no idea about tomorrow. Although I must sleep all day tomorrow I am sure that I wont sleep before one or two hours after midnight towards monday. Its Sunday!! the only break in seven days...the only day I get to do other things than work... the day I look for all week :)
While my days as a waiter and cashier in Scotland, I always used to wonder how these people are crazy for weekends. They will celebrate weekend as if its the national day (night may be)... If, for any reasons, they stay at home on saturday nights - they will be creeping for it the complete next week. I think I am very much the same now. no matter if I am tired or not well, I just cant sleep or stay at home on sundays. I have this strrrrrrooooong urge to go out and spoil some money.. spoil money on anything which I dont need to.. eat out even when not well.. shop even when i need nothing.. go for drive even when fuel costs a fortune.. watch movie even when its a flop! we always find ways to not to save money, dont we?
Friday, January 23, 2009
New year - New hopes - New desires - New approach
Finally a very very tough and long year has ended. 2008 has been quite an experience for me which includes start up of my company, lots of harsh words with my previous business partner, break up with my girl friend, couple of exciting road trips, many business trips, Personal loan (for business), some tight deals, and lots and lots of thinking...
2009 has given me some happiness already. Sam(my programmer) brought wonderful cake on 1st January as we were working that day. I got confirmation for two good deals within first two weeks of the month. New staff for my company on 16th jan...Celebrated my company's first anniversary on 18th jan.. Organized 25th marriage anniversary for my parents on 20th jan. got a confirmed deal (third :) ) today...bought a new computer today... holidays for two consecutive days this weekend... and projects going on at a decent speed.
After so much sorrow and pain last year, I feel as if I am in a bliss now.. I am not sure if this happiness is going to stay for long but I just hope that the best will last forever and ever...... I had a meeting today with an existing client and I reached on time as well. He asked me to wait for some time as he was busy with some un-invited buyers. His buyer was a angry lady shouting most of the times i could hear her for delaying the shipment for some reasons. That angry lady shouted for so long that my client didn't get time for me and he had a flight to catch then.. Disappointed me asked him "if I will drop you to the airport and we can discuss things on the way ?".
I wasn't sure about my client's response but he simply gave me a smile and didn't say anything and I assumed his answer was a "Thanks but no thanks". After a while he ordered some man on intercom to put his luggage into my car and his driver can go home - that amused me :).... I knew I had 20 minutes to talk before we reach airport and I started shooting right on the target...gave my quote verbally and explained him the benefits of working with me.. It was it and we reached the airport and while saying thanks to me for dropping him at airport, he also confirmed that he is going to give this order to me....... I feel soooooooooo good now...before asking him at his office that if I can drop him- I thought I should say "please continue with your work Sir, I will come some other time".
That little chance has made my day soo much better and I am happily writing this post. I took a chance two years back to start my company in partnership and was equally happy with what I was doing.. Nevertheless, I was doing good and I still stand by that decision.
Within last two years of my working career, I have learned to make immediate and strong decisions. Actually, I think I was forced to learn this.. Clients asking for price proposals within two minutes, final negotiations, deadlines, giving/not giving salary hikes, and so on. I can feel that decisions now are much matured than decisions earlier. For instance, taking ASUS MOTHER BOARD OVER INTEL ORIGINAL, going for a DVD writer or using old CD writer, going for Nvidia graphics card enable motherboard or the ordinary one.. Every small decision has a price disadvantage but feature and speed advantage. Speed will increase productivity but price will make things even tough.....
2009 has given me some happiness already. Sam(my programmer) brought wonderful cake on 1st January as we were working that day. I got confirmation for two good deals within first two weeks of the month. New staff for my company on 16th jan...Celebrated my company's first anniversary on 18th jan.. Organized 25th marriage anniversary for my parents on 20th jan. got a confirmed deal (third :) ) today...bought a new computer today... holidays for two consecutive days this weekend... and projects going on at a decent speed.
After so much sorrow and pain last year, I feel as if I am in a bliss now.. I am not sure if this happiness is going to stay for long but I just hope that the best will last forever and ever...... I had a meeting today with an existing client and I reached on time as well. He asked me to wait for some time as he was busy with some un-invited buyers. His buyer was a angry lady shouting most of the times i could hear her for delaying the shipment for some reasons. That angry lady shouted for so long that my client didn't get time for me and he had a flight to catch then.. Disappointed me asked him "if I will drop you to the airport and we can discuss things on the way ?".
I wasn't sure about my client's response but he simply gave me a smile and didn't say anything and I assumed his answer was a "Thanks but no thanks". After a while he ordered some man on intercom to put his luggage into my car and his driver can go home - that amused me :).... I knew I had 20 minutes to talk before we reach airport and I started shooting right on the target...gave my quote verbally and explained him the benefits of working with me.. It was it and we reached the airport and while saying thanks to me for dropping him at airport, he also confirmed that he is going to give this order to me....... I feel soooooooooo good now...before asking him at his office that if I can drop him- I thought I should say "please continue with your work Sir, I will come some other time".
That little chance has made my day soo much better and I am happily writing this post. I took a chance two years back to start my company in partnership and was equally happy with what I was doing.. Nevertheless, I was doing good and I still stand by that decision.
Within last two years of my working career, I have learned to make immediate and strong decisions. Actually, I think I was forced to learn this.. Clients asking for price proposals within two minutes, final negotiations, deadlines, giving/not giving salary hikes, and so on. I can feel that decisions now are much matured than decisions earlier. For instance, taking ASUS MOTHER BOARD OVER INTEL ORIGINAL, going for a DVD writer or using old CD writer, going for Nvidia graphics card enable motherboard or the ordinary one.. Every small decision has a price disadvantage but feature and speed advantage. Speed will increase productivity but price will make things even tough.....
I do follow some old traditions like not buying expensive things on Saturday so I have asked my vendor to give delivery today itself. its 7.37pm already and he is about to reach..I saved 300 bucks as I will do the windows and software installation myself and I think I will do it tonight only.
Its Friday today and I have three movies due now - Ghajini, Slumdog millionaire, and Raaz 2. I think I can go for two of them this long weekend and it will be a tough decision again to choose two movies out of three. its 7.40 pm now and Sam is very eager to go home and I think I shall ask him to leave or else he will curse me till the time he reaches home for making him late. Also, I shall stop writing now and arrange CD's for windows(pirated), office(pirated), and antivirus (original ha ha!). I only wanted to showoff that finally I am moving towards buying original softwares which comes within my budget. Also, I dont watch bollywood movies on pirated DVD's anymore - I have no choice but to see Hollywood movies on pirated dvd's as they are on screen for limited time only.
I hope to write again with even better news and even happily :).... c u till then..
Friday, November 7, 2008
If I have to award busiest(queeeeeeekest) 30 days in last 2 yrs or so, I will award it to last 30 days. ammm, I think I should consider last 40 days for it - they were more or less same. Planning and preparing for road trip to mussoorie + dhanaulti on 2nd october and the weekend was a lot more exciting than the actual drive. Leaving at 1 am and crossing the worst criminal belt in northern India - Meerut - muzzaffarnagar - saharanpur - was not so appealing to my parents and Tauji. They said everything which, in usual days, could have easily changed my mind to alter trip timings but I think excitement and happiness was so much over my head that I ignored them completely. And I did right ;) .
I had plan to leave at 1am so by the time I reach mountaints (Dehradun) I can see them grooming from pitch dark to bright blue, orange and then green. Well lucky us, we saw those beautiful mountains in all possible shades and I had not put breaks on 99% of potholes to reach on time. Before reaching Dhanaulti, we were driving 1000 feets above mussoorie (2250 mtrs approx above sea level) and we took a lonely - very lonely and forgotten kind of road. It was still a comfortable drive untill Rohit(baluja) wanted to try his hands and our luck with the car.
Imagine the next few seconds for us in car - he didn't start the car and took off the gear to neutral- controlling the stearing smoothly, he intended to park the car at a corner above a tiff.... looking cool, he suddenly shouted - Breaks nai lag rahi (breaks are not working) - and we were almost dead. If not physically, I personaly felt my heart was in my neck already and could jump out of the car before our car jump from the tiff.. Out of fear, my hands automatically pulled up the hand breaks and I couldn't believe him - smart ass was trying to apply power breaks without starting the engine. He then drove almost 20 kms after this incidence, forget about the mountains and beauty - I didn't remove my hands from hand-break for a millisecond then :)
4 days in Dhanaulti and Mussoorie were full of fun and booze --> more fun ;) lots of shooting competitions within ourselves (air riffle on baloons and cans) ---> a lot more fun. Maggie, awful Pakoras, super oily Paranthas and Tea at road side Dhabas ---> not bad! Teasing Dharminder for his marriage scheduled in february, Topa and Ashesh for the Road Side Journey they missed while coming by train, Rohit for his senseless driving, and all of us playing Tennis in PS2 all nights - I can live without sleeping for years like this...
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Soon after the party was over and we were back to Delhi by Monday morning - I said to party without sleeping for years, not work! 1) it was a Monday 2) I wanted to sleep 3) it was a Monday 4) I wanted to c photographs 5) it was a Monday 6) I had lots of pending work 7) it was monday...........................it was still a Monday!
With lots of work, I had a confirm deal - crucial one for my company's existence. Working with Sam on new project during day and updating client at nights - I hardly slept during the weeek. Ashesh, KV, Topa and I met for Topa's birthday treat and I couldn't sleep on that Sunday either. 5 movies, lots of dinners, Ankita's birthday, Diwali season, Deepti's treat, My birthday, Proffessors from Scotland, Rohit's birthday(movie last night) and Dinner and drinks with Sunny, Rohit(Arora) tonight - I am extreeemely busy u c ! next time before noticing my over wieghted body, you must read this blog again !
I was looking for a good book on Indian History from last one year...Didn't really like anything - they were all very big and expensive. Finally, I have a copy now and it is by Percibal Spear (knowing Indian history from a foreginer is not so exciting but I am hoping for the best). Its Saturday night + I am back from another dinner session + I dont have any movies for tonight + no one is available to chat + I dont want this night to end..So, I shall start the book now or else it will take me one more year to do so.......
Monday, August 11, 2008
city of dreams.
Residing in Delhi for all my life, i thought i m one of the brave ones... but, this city is fullllll of people with big and bigger dreams..not just dreams, but people who are actually following dreams.. in worst cases, they even know they wont get them in any case... this city is known as Mumbai...
It is my second trip to Mumbai and first time i m trying to understand it rather than watching.. this city is full of brave people - i must say....i have seen dreamers everywhere, for the first time i am seeing so many fighters at one place.. fighters who understand the needs of others too.. fighters who are not to kill and neither for survival but to fight, fight and fight.. I am staying at my cousins place who shares his appartment with two more guys. My cousin is a dreamer but not a fighter. other two are dreamers as well as fighters... one of them is 29 yrs old and wanna b actor.. he is very very handsome but lack communication skills...girls are after him but this idiot is searching for love... the other guy is 22 yrs old and do not hesitate to say he has homosexual vibes.. and also he wants to become a Director....his father is a big man has a pharma company in Lukhnow.. As per his estimates, he will b a director only when he is 40 yrs old.. and he is more than happy to fight for 18 yrs.... 18 yrs.....18 yrs, can u believe that? I dont even want to think of struggling for another 18 months. His father may be rich but has made it very clear to not to sponsor him after his studies(few more months).. this man has seen almost every movie existing on earth and published in Hindi or English. u ask him about starcast or crew for any particular movie and he wont take more than a second.. Hollywood/Bollywood Dictionary !
It is my second trip to Mumbai and first time i m trying to understand it rather than watching.. this city is full of brave people - i must say....i have seen dreamers everywhere, for the first time i am seeing so many fighters at one place.. fighters who understand the needs of others too.. fighters who are not to kill and neither for survival but to fight, fight and fight.. I am staying at my cousins place who shares his appartment with two more guys. My cousin is a dreamer but not a fighter. other two are dreamers as well as fighters... one of them is 29 yrs old and wanna b actor.. he is very very handsome but lack communication skills...girls are after him but this idiot is searching for love... the other guy is 22 yrs old and do not hesitate to say he has homosexual vibes.. and also he wants to become a Director....his father is a big man has a pharma company in Lukhnow.. As per his estimates, he will b a director only when he is 40 yrs old.. and he is more than happy to fight for 18 yrs.... 18 yrs.....18 yrs, can u believe that? I dont even want to think of struggling for another 18 months. His father may be rich but has made it very clear to not to sponsor him after his studies(few more months).. this man has seen almost every movie existing on earth and published in Hindi or English. u ask him about starcast or crew for any particular movie and he wont take more than a second.. Hollywood/Bollywood Dictionary !
I met an Auto driver who do not wants to marry but to buy few more autos and starts a transport company....marrying is not in his wishlist at all.... a famous Vada Pao(local dish) walla who is very famous but do not wants to charge any premium on his food... he loves to cater to college students at reasonable prices because he made a choice to have food than going to college.
I didn't do any research for all this, just kept my eyes open.
Not just fighters, this city is full of cheaters as well. especially if u r a tourist. Two of my friends were going back to Delhi today and one of them was carrying his laptop and a CD pack with some porn CD's quite obviously. At railway station while checking for weapons one of police guy searched into the CD case and abused my friends of trying and selling pirated CD's in Delhi. Ha Ha Ha ! and all these doubts were gone asap my friends bribe them with 2000 bucks. Can u believe that? i never heard such story in Delhi...neither my cousin and his friends have heard anything similar in Mumbai...so my over smart friends have been fooled in short....!
Not just this, people are very straight with their words and approach.. if u r not habitual to listen truth about your egg shaped body or not so charming hair cut, dont ask if its looking good.. I am the victim of a not so pleasant reply. that too from a sales person.. I wonder if his shop makes good business or atleast if he ever matched his sales target... whatever, he prefered to say truth and saved my money...
It seem a very interesting city, but m not sure if i can survive here (happily). One has to be rich or need to have many balls to pay 30,000 rupees rent for a simple two bedroom flat in not so good location..pay around 3000 rupees a month for parking of every extra car u or ur flat mates drive. if you go without a girl in pubs or good restaurants -dont feel sorry if u find waiters staring at you with weird eyes. always keep a lighter even if u dont smoke unless u want to miss a chance for small chat with girls asking for lighters..
I guess i should take some help and make a 'Do's and Dont's" chart for first timers in mumbai - I may make some good money ;) - lucky u !
Thursday, June 12, 2008
let them say and keep trying....
They said don’t try to fly. They said it again and again.…….
When I am alone, I get over confident. And when I get over confident – u guessed it right – I mess up badly. And that’s what happening with me from quite some time now. When I left my partnership in Vista – it was purely my decision. When asked about my next plans, I said some thing like – “there are thousands of opportunities around. I just need to grab some. I also have plans to start an eCommerce company. I ll b developing an Automated Sales Management System and will target foreign clients and exporters.” Sounds impressive? Well, it took only few seconds to say this damn statement and extremely long 6 months to develop that in realty (beta version yet). And no good signs on marketing yet...I have encountered three type of people while reaching this first stage...Those who do not care what I achieve or loose...Those who have helped or motivated me to reach this first stage...and those who offered me help and made me dependent on them and finally, DISAPPEARED.....
They said don’t try to fly. They said it again and again…They laugh at me now….
I am a very spiritual person… Mind you, spiritual but not religious… I am a strict follower of god but also an Alcohol lover… I don’t really care about Laws – I am not 25 but I drink which my government doesn’t allow and my parents don’t expect! Usually I don’t mind others doing the same….”Usually” because they seem grown up and mature.. I have seen guys of around 12 yrs old….no… wait…. I have seen children of around 12 yrs old drinking in public.. teasing girls as much as double of their age(atleast). And messing around all over… I have problem with this! But I cant stop them.. after all they are breaking law as much as I am, except I don’t do eve teasing.
Lets forget about law and talk about ethics now? Is it ethically right for the shop keeper to sell that alcohol to those kids? Big NOO! And is it ethically right for the same shopkeeper to sell that alcohol to me? I am speechless. Thoughtless…
This wine shop along with one more wine shop is located between a11-12 commercial buildings. My office is inside one of these 12 buildings giving me enough opportunities to observe the attachment of people (99.99%) towards these two shops even if they don’t drink. But some thing is so special about these shops that even out of 5000 people, may b more, working in this area don’t make complaints or oppose these shops to be located within the radius of 10 meters from a small temple… Not sure if its true but I heard that there cant be any wine shop within 100 meters of a temple or some thing…. Interestingly, the biggest donation in the temple comes from these two shops. J . obvious reasons….
May I have observed these shops earlier, I could have thought of doing a different business with recurring income.. Guess what? Recycling of beer and other alcohol bottles… it’s a big business here with at least 60 children (not even aged 12) engaged in this profession already… if u want to learn marketing or PR skills, I bet u – they can teach better than our college professors. How? Check out –
As soon as u made ur purchase and comes out of shop, few little guys or in worst case little girls will be offering you bottle openers. You get choice to choose the best opener because of competition and soon they will break the seal for you followed by a quick dry cleaning of your bottle (you may loose the grip of bottle if its too wet). The clothes they use to clean your bottle is 10000 times cleaner than their own clothes. Not just this, these kids will keep all beggars away from you until you are drinking – giving you peaceful drinking environment! Oh, r u feeling to smoke but forget to buy cigarettes or matchbox? Don’t panic, these kids provide full fledged service until u r enjoying ur drink. Are you with your girl friend and looking for some privacy? Just ask for help and they can take u to the hell of places(heaven for couples) where they will guard your privacy for few more extra bucks..Or if u r too shy to ask about this, they ll let u know about it… Sounds astounding? Well, all these services come in exchange of your empty bottle! Not a bad deal eh?
It is not that I liked how these kids are making money. But I m happy at least they r not begging with dirty and already used band aids all around or almost naked to earn their living. They have become business minded.. They are service oriented… I usually give few one rupee candies to few kids in exchange of no service but a smile… But I will never give them money – not even a rupee… or else, they ll stay beggars throughout their life…
They said don’t try to fly. They said it again and again…They laughed at me….They should see these kids and learn that there are actually thousands of opportunities around, just need to grab the right one…have patience and c the world changing. or if u don’t have patience, stop laughing at least because how much distance u may have covered, journey to road side never ends....!
When I am alone, I get over confident. And when I get over confident – u guessed it right – I mess up badly. And that’s what happening with me from quite some time now. When I left my partnership in Vista – it was purely my decision. When asked about my next plans, I said some thing like – “there are thousands of opportunities around. I just need to grab some. I also have plans to start an eCommerce company. I ll b developing an Automated Sales Management System and will target foreign clients and exporters.” Sounds impressive? Well, it took only few seconds to say this damn statement and extremely long 6 months to develop that in realty (beta version yet). And no good signs on marketing yet...I have encountered three type of people while reaching this first stage...Those who do not care what I achieve or loose...Those who have helped or motivated me to reach this first stage...and those who offered me help and made me dependent on them and finally, DISAPPEARED.....
They said don’t try to fly. They said it again and again…They laugh at me now….
I am a very spiritual person… Mind you, spiritual but not religious… I am a strict follower of god but also an Alcohol lover… I don’t really care about Laws – I am not 25 but I drink which my government doesn’t allow and my parents don’t expect! Usually I don’t mind others doing the same….”Usually” because they seem grown up and mature.. I have seen guys of around 12 yrs old….no… wait…. I have seen children of around 12 yrs old drinking in public.. teasing girls as much as double of their age(atleast). And messing around all over… I have problem with this! But I cant stop them.. after all they are breaking law as much as I am, except I don’t do eve teasing.
Lets forget about law and talk about ethics now? Is it ethically right for the shop keeper to sell that alcohol to those kids? Big NOO! And is it ethically right for the same shopkeeper to sell that alcohol to me? I am speechless. Thoughtless…
This wine shop along with one more wine shop is located between a11-12 commercial buildings. My office is inside one of these 12 buildings giving me enough opportunities to observe the attachment of people (99.99%) towards these two shops even if they don’t drink. But some thing is so special about these shops that even out of 5000 people, may b more, working in this area don’t make complaints or oppose these shops to be located within the radius of 10 meters from a small temple… Not sure if its true but I heard that there cant be any wine shop within 100 meters of a temple or some thing…. Interestingly, the biggest donation in the temple comes from these two shops. J . obvious reasons….
May I have observed these shops earlier, I could have thought of doing a different business with recurring income.. Guess what? Recycling of beer and other alcohol bottles… it’s a big business here with at least 60 children (not even aged 12) engaged in this profession already… if u want to learn marketing or PR skills, I bet u – they can teach better than our college professors. How? Check out –
As soon as u made ur purchase and comes out of shop, few little guys or in worst case little girls will be offering you bottle openers. You get choice to choose the best opener because of competition and soon they will break the seal for you followed by a quick dry cleaning of your bottle (you may loose the grip of bottle if its too wet). The clothes they use to clean your bottle is 10000 times cleaner than their own clothes. Not just this, these kids will keep all beggars away from you until you are drinking – giving you peaceful drinking environment! Oh, r u feeling to smoke but forget to buy cigarettes or matchbox? Don’t panic, these kids provide full fledged service until u r enjoying ur drink. Are you with your girl friend and looking for some privacy? Just ask for help and they can take u to the hell of places(heaven for couples) where they will guard your privacy for few more extra bucks..Or if u r too shy to ask about this, they ll let u know about it… Sounds astounding? Well, all these services come in exchange of your empty bottle! Not a bad deal eh?
It is not that I liked how these kids are making money. But I m happy at least they r not begging with dirty and already used band aids all around or almost naked to earn their living. They have become business minded.. They are service oriented… I usually give few one rupee candies to few kids in exchange of no service but a smile… But I will never give them money – not even a rupee… or else, they ll stay beggars throughout their life…
They said don’t try to fly. They said it again and again…They laughed at me….They should see these kids and learn that there are actually thousands of opportunities around, just need to grab the right one…have patience and c the world changing. or if u don’t have patience, stop laughing at least because how much distance u may have covered, journey to road side never ends....!
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