Well... It changes... for good... for good...

Well Yeah... Its all gonna change. 

This is the first time I am posting about my better half, and the better 50 odd years of my life. 

The name is know to people who know me.

The lady in question is approved by the people who matter.

The heart of gold loves me, and I am too greedy to let that go.

I write this to mark the occasion of the day two individuals who have spent a majority of their lives thousands of kilometers apart, will come together and promise to never let go again.

But then again, I have made that promise a long time ago.

I dont know for how long have I been believing in her being my destination and my partner for life.

It seems like yesterday, it seems to be for ages.

We have had rough patches, we have had great times.

But what has taken us through this is the sheer love, faith, and the unadulterated zeal to be with each other.

Something tells me, there is a lot to come.

Good, bad, ugly.

And the same thing tells me, P&I will take everything head on, and come out victorious and happy. 

So here is to the date landing just two weeks before the prophecised apocalypse.

Wish us luck people... we need all of it :)

Review and Preview

Hmmm. So this is another entry into the blog. After ages it seems. Maybe I didn’t get much of subject to write. May be I didn’t get time to work on it. May be the situation never allowed me to write. May be sometimes, I was just plain lazy. Well, I am trying out something new today. Writing it offline and then posting it or rather pasting it J.

So, what’s new. Nothing really. Isn’t that what we always seem to be replying whenever someone asks, “Wassup?”, “Whats happening?”, “Whats new?”, etc etc. It sounds like looking for a topic to talk upon but not able to do so. That’s exactly what I am feeling right now. Lost in the search for a topic to write about. I come across a lot of options in my daily routine. But seldom do I make an effort to put it down through the keyboard. For more details on this issue, refer paragraph 1.

For those of you who do not know it, I have a knack of going into details whenever asks me an opinion on a movie that I have watched. By details I mean, whatever technicalities I understand of movie making, I try and review while going through the images as the flow through the screen in front of me. But the problem is, not everyone expects the intricacies that may not really affect their movie watching experience.

So I have decided. From here on, my responses on any movie that I watch and feel worth reviewing or having an opinion about, would be posted here. This may be weekly, daily, alternate days, whenever I see one, you shall get a post about it quickly.

Why movie reviews of all the things in the world? Aren’t there already too many people who get paid and heard for being biased to ideas, people, and houses they adore; and explaining things that the common man does not understand, just to show that they have actually done a post-mortem of the product of the movie industry, and that their scrutiny should not be and could not be questioned. Well, my answer to the question which somehow got lost in the above chaos is, what better than a movie review to keep my blog happy, alive and entertaining.

So now that it is decided (it was always so :P) that I shall be writing movie reviews from now on, I need to decide on some credentials. The kind of movies to be reviewed, the aspects to be reviewed, the rating methodology, and the responses.

Kind of movies.

Since i believe that any kind of movie is worth making a watch, I try and catch any and every movie that I come across, with positive, negative of no opinionated auras around it. But if you want to stuff your movie to me, i would back off (Veer are you listening). So any movie that I happen to see over the weekend (very rarely over the weekdays), will be reviewed.

Aspects to be reviewed.

OK. Let me get this straight. I do not know the exact nature of the technicalities involved. Nor do I understand the intersection between the script, screenplay, and direction of a particular scene. But overall, as a regular moviegoers and someone who takes movie making very seriously, I think I can figure out why something is what it is on the screen. As per the aspects to be reviewed, whatever stands out and is observed prominently, for reasons good or bad, shall be reviewed.

The Rating Methodology.

Nothing special, the excellence rated on a percentage scale of 100. The score divided by 20. The no. rounded of to a multiple of 0.5 Pretty logical and systematic I guess.

The Responses.

Will see when I get any :P

So, next post: probably tomorrow. Movie to be reviewed - Clash of The Titans. Featuring Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson. An epic adventure in 3D. BRB

PS. The reviews are not guaranteed to be on the first day or the first weekend or the first week.

So if you are planning to use my judgement as a reference point to gauge your prospective ROI, I would like to be excused.

A Decade of Chaotic Variety

Ya, a very silly heading for a blog that has appeared on the notification pages of my 4 followers after 7 months. But I guess its ok coz this is someting i have been thinking about for a long time.

So, lemme recount wat has changed over the past decade. I know its quite boring to do so, but come to note of it, things can turn out to be quite tricky.

Personally -

The last time the decade/century/millenium changed, I was a student of class XI with a cool gang around and at a place which was my second home. Its hard to believe that its been 10 years that I first entered my step to be a science student. To be the captain of the Red House. To be a lot more than 'a student' of KMSSS. Yes its been 10 years. AS one of my frnds tragically put it some days ago, "Yar, kuch din mai hum 30 ke ho jayenge!!" Damn, I am getting old.

Went from school to college, college to job, job to college again, and again college to job. More than 8 years of study and close to 2 years of work. Well I have done it all it seems.

Musafiro ki kashti ka na koi thikana. Kolkata -> Shantiniketan -> Bangalore -> Delhi NCR -> Pune -> Mumbai. Well I have been travelling. At least 50k have been spent on my travlling alone. But it was all worth it.

My emotional puberty was probably during my engineering, which happend in thsi decade. That is when I realised, that the school is the safest time of someone's life. But again. It was good that I stayed in a hostel. There I realised the need for filtering out people around you. And you need to be gud in that, or u will b lft with shatterd peices of ego, expectations, emotions, and sometimes even heart.

Over the past decade, I have fallen in love twice. (Yes thats a public confession). But I stand today, as single as I was on the last christmas of the gone century. Yes I have grown up, yes I have moved on. As they say, "Its better to have loved and lost, then never to have loved at all."

Its 2 am .... again

hi guys, I am back now. Again on a thursday night. at 212 am, im starting this blog entry. 

Honestly speaking, I am writing this blog with no particular topic in mind. As i keep typing, a million things keep crossing my mind as the topic with which I should proceed with this post. But none seems to be convincing enough to make a large post worthy enough to become a new entry in the "esteemed" blog :P

Lets see, the one common thing about my blog is that probably, all of the posts in thei blog are written after 2 am on any particular day. Although the clock of blogspot may not show you that, but wen i look at the bottom right corner of my laptop screen, I see the time to be 216 am on the 16th Jan 2009. So, I have kept the tradition (made by only 3 posts) of creating a new entry only after 2 am.

for those of you who had read the blog in the initial stages of its creation, you must have seen the biggest change. no its not the font. No not even the color of the letters. yes, its the background of the blog page. it was one heck of an labourious experiment that i did for close to an hour. A novice like me creating anad implementing a code of dynamic web language, one which i know nothing about. Anyways, here it is. Hope you like it. Do give comments about it and any other suggestions please. 

Its really tough to write about something in particular when so much is happening around you and everyday brings some new challenges and tasks that are to be carried out, to the best of your ability. and if you fail to do that, irrespective of the reason(s) for that, you are at the recieving end of the mace of time. Well, before you start the race of the horses in your brains, the above statements are general claims and do not refer to an incident or person in particular. It is just the observation that the year 2009 is not a Happy New Year for me...so far....

The month of January is crucial for so many people. For some it is the last chance to ensure that there boards preparation is rock solid and they only need to revise it all in the last month of Feb. For some, its the time when the winter ends and the cultivable land starts getting fertile again, leading to hopes of a fruitful and prosperous year, better than last year. For some, it brings in the sorrow of loosing in some entrance examinations of different academic and proffessional institutions, which effectively means that they need to wait some more days before they can afford to relax and sleep with a smile. For some its the preparation for the 1st Valentine's Day of their courtship/love life/married life, and they want to make it a memorable one for their loved ones. For some its a crashing month of the stock market, where companies cannot do anything about the slowdown and the pulse rate of many people is going down with the sensex graph. It hearening to see this month meaning so much to so many people. I am feeling humbled and awed about what I aimed to capture and didnt even look like doin it.

Its 236 am now, and I dunno whether I should continue writing or stop it. ut if I have o end, i cud not just abruptly finish off at the next full stop. I need to finish the post in a logical way. Bu since the post never begun with a logic, I dun think it is a simple task to finish it off with a logical conclusion as well. And if I keep on writing, I am running out of any sense to put in the post to make it a better experience for you guys. But again, as this is my blog, finding sense in the posts is something close to finding a needle in a godown of haystacks. 

So in ant of the approaches, i guess the best thing is that there is no point continuing with this post, as i have stopped making any sense a long time ago. So here I end this yet another useless post of mine. 

Till next time....

So long

PS: Its 241 am now

happy NEW YEAR

To all of you who are reading this blog right now   .....Happy New Year.....

I know this post of mine will be irrelevant in a month or so when the Year will no longer be "New", but still, this post has content that relates to a New Year. So, Happy New Year.

How did you celebrate you new year, think over it? The fact is, you have not celebrated it. Yes I am right, you have not celebrated your new year. You can only celebrate the year that went by, because you know wat hav u done in that year and how did that year turned out for u. So one 31st Dec 2008, I celebrated my Year 2008 and not not 2009. 

That brings me to the point that to be happy all of our lives, all we need to do is make sure our 31st dec are the best celebrated days. Because if we celebrate that day well, it means that the year was rocking for us. So, each gr8 new year's eve is a mark of how gud the year was for us. Make a great year, so that new year gets celebrated in a a better way.

So how do you make this year happy? Any Suggestions? Well, for a start you can do it by making the year New. YES. We wish each other a happy NEW year, but what is actually new about our lives in this year except for the change of date and/or the calendar. For many, its the same, same old 9-5 jobs, same old fighting for survival for daily life, same old tension of kids, same old worry about the future and the career, same old tension in the family, same old love life problems, same old yearn to earn, etc etc etc.

So what is new in the new year? Nothing. Nothing if you dont want it to be. If you want to get on with another day of your life, there is no New Year for u. Its just a day when the last digit of the date changes. along with the 1st and 2nd set of numbers. But if you want, the new year can be a great stepping stone for the life you have in store for you. May be that is the reason why people keep (watever) new year resolutions. 

The way you can make the upcoming year new is by living a bit differently, looking at things differently, interacting with people differently, having different habits, trying new ways of doing things, trying out new things, experimenting with new situtations, there is so much more to be done as "NEW", but we usually get rid of it all by saying Happy New Year. 

For a start, when you go to work today, try and take a headstart of some mins. And take a route which is an alternative one to the route you daily take, explore new places, learn new things. See the city around, new shops, new buildings, new roads. When you reach the work place, sit on a different seat, change your computer's wallpaper, check out the new movie which is coming up. Arrange the work in a different way, sort out files in a different manner, greet people differently, so on and so forth.. Bring about a change. For one day, live like its the first day of your life, and not the year. Let the change be for good and pleasant. I am sure many of you will stick to a lot of the new found stuff. 

This New Year, may your life change with the change in time, and may the change be for betterment of your life and of the people around you. If this happens for each of us, the world would be a much better place to live in...

Amen...

100 days to the war

Boom Boom Bang Bang...The paladin makes the entrance again

I dunno how many of you have been missing my posts here (i dunno how many have actually read it) but here i go. After 6 months of my first (and only) post. My second post is ready. And this time, I am Serious

Well, the valediction day is here. Its 5th April 2009 (05-04-09 --> 5+4=9 :P ). Although its not offcially announced, but the placement committee gets some news in advance. So its 96 days from the day this post is made. To round it off, I put is as 100 days. 

And by the way, for those of you who do not know it yet, I have got a job in ICICI bank, as Assistant Manager (band-II). But dont expect to see me at a branch near you, as I will be sitting in the technology department in Mumbai/Hyderabad. So, thank you in advance for those of you who just came to know about it and want to congratulate me, and thank you now again for those of you who have already done that.

Now why was the mention of my job important??? Well, its simple. The chapter 4 of my life will end on the 5th of april and part 5 of my life will start with the job. And we all know that the market now is pretty slow and is givin competition to the challenger deep, surviving in the industry will be nothing less than the war. 

So for those of you who still have not got it, 100 days till i graduate from the college and enter the industry which is like a battelfield...So, 100 days to the war.

Its 2 AM on the 30th dec 2008, less than 48 hours for the 8th year of the millenium to end. Another 2 for te decade, 92 for the century and 992 for the millenium to change. (Wow!!! I am gud at crap stuff :P). Its funny how independent time is of any scaling. It is probably the only dimension on which every object in the visible universe can be measured as the same value. (read it again, you still will not understand it...Neither did I :P). My wait of a 100 days is nothing compared to the scale which time has seen, but why the heck am I thinking like that anyways??? :O...I guess it proves that it is actually 2 am in the morning.

I have a class at 730 am tomorrow (Or is it today. Who cares anyways??). Less that 6 hours away, and I cannot seem to find some sleep. My last post was made at 422 am and this one will be after 215 am. Batman, I am ur competition. 

So you must have been trying to find any slim thread of logic in the thread. If you have not, why are you here? If you have, I am sure you have the time to write a blog yourself. 

Getting back to the point of 100 days. What do i have in mind as things i need to do in the next 100 days? Hmmm, loooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaddddddddddddddsssssssss of things. I classify them as Compulsory, Necessary, and Voluntary. (Yippee, I can write theory too). Compulsory things are those which I have my hands into. I cannot avoid them, as I chose to do them or did something that brought them to me in the first place. Necessary things are those which every one needs to do. It can be as simple as a visit to the barber, to as rare a wild night with a girl (that is optional for some men and not necessarily true for all women :P). Voluntary things are those which I choose to do, and I do without any long term planning. Like a party, some games, events etc. 

So the compulsory things I need to do in the next 100 days include: 

1. The assignments and tests that are part of the internal evaluation of the final sem :(

2. The external examination of the final sem

3. Placing at least 5 guys in companies of my account (i am a failure in doing that...another blog post for this)

4. Making sure that the guy my sister gets married to is a genuinely nice guy with a nice and prosperous family(yes, we are planning to get her married)

5. Thinking about other Compulsory tasks

The Necessary things I need to do in the next 100 days include: (Yawn)

1. Having my hair cut twice

2. Attending at least 5 placement parties :P

3. Be nice to my frnds (so that they are nice to me :P)

4. Watch roadies (I had to put it here, I just love the show)

5. Thinking about other Necessary tasks

The Voluntary things I need to do in the next 100 days include:

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duh..I said I never plan for this. Its 2 am for me, and you seem to be sleepy. Go get some rest, you have been reading blogs a bit too much. 

Wow...a big, long, wide-mouthed yawn just came from me. finally god has blessed me with some sleep. Mr. IT Strategy will again be seeing the 17 yr exp guy(another blog post for this) in the class tomorrow. I just hope Soni (Sourabh Soni FYI) wakes me up tomorrow. 

So, I need to finish this off, lets hope you genuinely feel like its 230 am for me. My content is almost screaming in your face to prove it to you. So, till I find the next inspiration to blog my senses out...

So long......

The Mirage of Perfectionism

Ya right!!! I am a perfectionist. Which literally means that I strive to achieve perfection in everything I do or create. And it is also supposed to be applicable to my relationships and character. So, if I am a successful person, it should imply that I have achieved perfection. If I am a great person than I am perfect individually.

It is so nice to feel like you are complete. That you are the most perfect in your thoughts, beliefs, actions, and relationship management abilities. But if you come to think of it, is there a level of perfection that can be achieved in relationships; or even on the personal level for that matter??

What I have observed in the 24 long years of my life, is that the tendency of any living thing to rule over others which it can, has caused the food chain. Yes, I sincerely beleive that the main cause of food chain is the fact that animals try and establish control over one another. Now, in case of humans, the 'social' and the 'most intelligent' animal, the concept of control has gone out of physical control and moved on to emotional, psychological, personality based and many other forms of supremacy.

All would have been fine, had there not been a case of people working against each other for the control of each other. The way people talk, behave, handle situations, is like they want to prove something, although no one is actually listening.

When I was first introduced to the concept of Impression Management, it struck me with the simple ease of understanding the concept, as it was something we subconsciously do. All of us, every time. But, it took me a lot of time to fathom why we do it. May be because of the reasons I stated above. Or may be something else. I was unable to find out. And I still haven't discovered it.

OK, coming back to the topic of discussion, the belief everyone of has that we are the supreme instance of the human being species, has eventually led us to believe that we are actually perfect. Everyone of us is an expert in giving guidance to the other, thinking that in a situation in which the other person is, I would be able to do better. This is the sense of being complete, being perfect people want to convey to others.

Every other time, I face a case of a person explaining me his/her situation. The reason for this can be many,

1. A reinforcement of thoughts and beliefs, on the action the person has taken in response to the situation
2. A need of guidance on how to react to a situation in a better way than what happend
   
3. A solution as to how a person should behave when something happens

In any case, the person who acts as a listener, actually takes the position as though he/she is the best person to offer what the questioner needs. This is the sense of perfection I am talking about.