Was chatting with Hari and u know - he and i go a long way back - he was making this big point that he was going to publicize his blog etc. - the merits of using a blog as a, u know, a social tool - to find friends, having discussions and stuff - why would some1 want an anonymous blog OR a blog which no one knows about (like in my case) ?
The answer isnt simple - is it ? [ Eh, Hari ? ]
Monday, 28 April 2008
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Drool
Was reading some stuff on this new flick 'The Other Boleyn Girl" - Scarlett playing Mary and Natalie playing Anne (or is it the other way) - playing manipulative sisters vying for a place in the heart & bed of King Henry of France (Eric Bana - the lucky b$#%#$d)
The blokes who made the movie sure figured out the best goddamn way to give me a brain concussion - putting them both together in the same movie !
Saturday, 26 April 2008
Tashan - Review
Beautifully written review of this new flick "Tashan"
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET_Cetera/Tashan_Movie_Review/articleshow/2984507.cms
ROTFL
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET_Cetera/Tashan_Movie_Review/articleshow/2984507.cms
ROTFL
Yoyo !?
Of late my lifes been like feeling brilliant, suave & confident & happy & content and then feeling down, depressed, useless & wasted the next hour -
Are these vascillations (often with multiple cycles of ups / downs within 24 hours) normal ? Or do i fucken need to see a shrink :) ?
Do other junta feel the same way too ?
My mom tells me that i think too much about simple things and that im the most complicated guy shes ever come across :)
LOL
Are these vascillations (often with multiple cycles of ups / downs within 24 hours) normal ? Or do i fucken need to see a shrink :) ?
Do other junta feel the same way too ?
My mom tells me that i think too much about simple things and that im the most complicated guy shes ever come across :)
LOL
Sunday, 20 April 2008
New stuff
Seems ages since i sat down to blog something.
Ben travelling all through the last 10-12 days and it has been a hectic time at work with product prices fluctuating wildly - some products from chinese factories that we buy have gone from like 1800 dollars / ton to like 2800 dollars / ton in 10 days. I know of factories (Indian competitors etc.) whose delay in reacting to this crisis has cost them 30/40 thousand dollars just this month.
I had to spend a couple of days in Madurai's passport office - which has started resembling a Street Corner Ration Kadai - I cudnt get in a Tatkal application (to renew and reissue a new booket for me because i have run out of pages) - and had to resort to mass level hustle-bustle & bribery to just get my application in through the non-tatkal - normal way. There were a couple of blokes i chatted with standing in there during those marathon waits - one a construction worker who spent a few years in Abu Dhabi - the other a young student who has now some job in Dubai - nice stories - they deserve a separate post. Will work on it.
As a consequence of all this drama i cudnt get back to chen for T and me to go to N's wedding & reception. T went alone and went back to Bangalore tonight.
On Saturday - T and me drove around town - first went to the beach and later on pulled C along to watch "There will be blood" in Satyam. Just like old times.
[ **Sidetrack** There was indeed blood: My neck and ears were bleeding after sitting through this one. Normally it is a phenominally well made movie - Daniel Daylewis thoroughly deserved his acting Oscar - but i cudnt quite figure out where the build up from one scene to another was leading to ]
T and me have been roomates from the first year in ACTech and wherever we are - i always talk to him on the google thing on a daily basis. Ive actually seen T in the flesh only twice since leaving college - once in Bombay around April last year - when we went to a pub near where i stay in Chembur.
This time - he stayed with me here in chen - its strange how little he has changed - in terms of our,u know, social selves [ Forget what we do at work ] - he still travels with this huge 500/600 Gig portable harddrive crammed with Music, Movies, Ebooks, 'stuff' [his words] and of course an assortment of the jammiest porn that one can find in IIM circles :) - he still takes a shower within 1.5 minutes, chews his food noisily, and now has started proudly narrating tales where he got 'almost laid' [***].
[*** Sidetrack:: T has this amazing thing with booze. He claims to have been boozing on a daily basis during his 2 yr Post grad - measuring his intake as Approx ml/day { by the same gauge - mine must be measured as ml/year :) } Knowing T as well as I do - i always take such info with a pinch of salt. Once back in ACTech we all this big bash involving 10-12 green guys and about the same number of bottles of beer, vodka & whiskey - T knocked back round after round and started acting drunk within just 3 rounds - and started yelling obscenities at A,C, R & me - egged on by a couple of asshole jocks from CEG - i was pretty certain that T wasnt drunk - i had 3 rounds myself and i didnt feel a thing - but T became raving mad and pissed us all off pretty bad - i had a bit of stern talk with him the next day - when he told me he was drunk - so hes sorry etc. - i told him what i felt - he was one of those assholes very keen on using the drink as an excuse to carry out dastardly deeds. He disagrees - but i stick to my observation.
Anyway coming back to the point - T claims he got drunk with girls on separate occasions and 'almost got laid' :) ]
He lectured me non stop on this 'horrible lifestyle' i have [ I took him out for Lunch today at my regular place & then to my regular Crossword Store - where we hung out for over an hour - he reading Maxim - and me reading Asterix (I bought Jeffery Archer's latest - A prisoner of birth) - then had nice coffee in the cafe in the store - just like i do on free sundays ]
I told T that because of the unique nature of my work - my working life overlaps into a lot of my social/personal life - and in any case i prefer reading "A prisoner of Birth" all afternoon to watching stupid 20 / 20 cricket matches all day long.
The discussion then turns to another regular subject. T points out a paavum looking girl wearing her hair in a long oily plait & wearing mallipoo and blasts off another lecture on the pathetic mental state of South Indian girls.
He still likes to call me a 'sarcastic b%#$%^' when i just smile at him when he earnestly tells me all these things.
Its still so surprising how things havent changed at all that much in - like 7/8 years.
Ben travelling all through the last 10-12 days and it has been a hectic time at work with product prices fluctuating wildly - some products from chinese factories that we buy have gone from like 1800 dollars / ton to like 2800 dollars / ton in 10 days. I know of factories (Indian competitors etc.) whose delay in reacting to this crisis has cost them 30/40 thousand dollars just this month.
I had to spend a couple of days in Madurai's passport office - which has started resembling a Street Corner Ration Kadai - I cudnt get in a Tatkal application (to renew and reissue a new booket for me because i have run out of pages) - and had to resort to mass level hustle-bustle & bribery to just get my application in through the non-tatkal - normal way. There were a couple of blokes i chatted with standing in there during those marathon waits - one a construction worker who spent a few years in Abu Dhabi - the other a young student who has now some job in Dubai - nice stories - they deserve a separate post. Will work on it.
As a consequence of all this drama i cudnt get back to chen for T and me to go to N's wedding & reception. T went alone and went back to Bangalore tonight.
On Saturday - T and me drove around town - first went to the beach and later on pulled C along to watch "There will be blood" in Satyam. Just like old times.
[ **Sidetrack** There was indeed blood: My neck and ears were bleeding after sitting through this one. Normally it is a phenominally well made movie - Daniel Daylewis thoroughly deserved his acting Oscar - but i cudnt quite figure out where the build up from one scene to another was leading to ]
T and me have been roomates from the first year in ACTech and wherever we are - i always talk to him on the google thing on a daily basis. Ive actually seen T in the flesh only twice since leaving college - once in Bombay around April last year - when we went to a pub near where i stay in Chembur.
This time - he stayed with me here in chen - its strange how little he has changed - in terms of our,u know, social selves [ Forget what we do at work ] - he still travels with this huge 500/600 Gig portable harddrive crammed with Music, Movies, Ebooks, 'stuff' [his words] and of course an assortment of the jammiest porn that one can find in IIM circles :) - he still takes a shower within 1.5 minutes, chews his food noisily, and now has started proudly narrating tales where he got 'almost laid' [***].
[*** Sidetrack:: T has this amazing thing with booze. He claims to have been boozing on a daily basis during his 2 yr Post grad - measuring his intake as Approx ml/day { by the same gauge - mine must be measured as ml/year :) } Knowing T as well as I do - i always take such info with a pinch of salt. Once back in ACTech we all this big bash involving 10-12 green guys and about the same number of bottles of beer, vodka & whiskey - T knocked back round after round and started acting drunk within just 3 rounds - and started yelling obscenities at A,C, R & me - egged on by a couple of asshole jocks from CEG - i was pretty certain that T wasnt drunk - i had 3 rounds myself and i didnt feel a thing - but T became raving mad and pissed us all off pretty bad - i had a bit of stern talk with him the next day - when he told me he was drunk - so hes sorry etc. - i told him what i felt - he was one of those assholes very keen on using the drink as an excuse to carry out dastardly deeds. He disagrees - but i stick to my observation.
Anyway coming back to the point - T claims he got drunk with girls on separate occasions and 'almost got laid' :) ]
He lectured me non stop on this 'horrible lifestyle' i have [ I took him out for Lunch today at my regular place & then to my regular Crossword Store - where we hung out for over an hour - he reading Maxim - and me reading Asterix (I bought Jeffery Archer's latest - A prisoner of birth) - then had nice coffee in the cafe in the store - just like i do on free sundays ]
I told T that because of the unique nature of my work - my working life overlaps into a lot of my social/personal life - and in any case i prefer reading "A prisoner of Birth" all afternoon to watching stupid 20 / 20 cricket matches all day long.
The discussion then turns to another regular subject. T points out a paavum looking girl wearing her hair in a long oily plait & wearing mallipoo and blasts off another lecture on the pathetic mental state of South Indian girls.
He still likes to call me a 'sarcastic b%#$%^' when i just smile at him when he earnestly tells me all these things.
Its still so surprising how things havent changed at all that much in - like 7/8 years.
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
A Thought!
I have been aimlessly ambling around for the last hour across wikipedia, rediff. I appear to have this weird affliction of late.
Explained in Short thusly:
a) I want to be sooper dooper rich
b) We all worked like Donkeys to develop a system from scratch in 2 years to become sooper dooper rich making & selling Bulk drugs around the world. Its just about got going [ Yesterday - just one good day - i got 3 purchase contracts - 2 of em over USD 100,000 and one just above USD 150,000 ]
c) But now iam also forced to become more sooper dooper rich selling Stuff to make Paints & Inks. I spend 2 hours on the phone daily for this and about 20 hours a week visiting customers. This damn division currently sells a pathetic 20,000 dollars a month - we're already 8 months into this line of work and still cant quite figure out what the fuck is what.
I cant sleep, cant work - do nothing properly - I wonder if too much of a diversification is taking its toll.
That said - I guess this is just a fucken passing phase - like all the stuff ive seen before - Really more of a test of my mettle -
It'll be a fucken wonder if i come out of all this with my mental balance intact :)
Sooper Dooper rich !!
#$%^ Lifes a bitch
Explained in Short thusly:
a) I want to be sooper dooper rich
b) We all worked like Donkeys to develop a system from scratch in 2 years to become sooper dooper rich making & selling Bulk drugs around the world. Its just about got going [ Yesterday - just one good day - i got 3 purchase contracts - 2 of em over USD 100,000 and one just above USD 150,000 ]
c) But now iam also forced to become more sooper dooper rich selling Stuff to make Paints & Inks. I spend 2 hours on the phone daily for this and about 20 hours a week visiting customers. This damn division currently sells a pathetic 20,000 dollars a month - we're already 8 months into this line of work and still cant quite figure out what the fuck is what.
I cant sleep, cant work - do nothing properly - I wonder if too much of a diversification is taking its toll.
That said - I guess this is just a fucken passing phase - like all the stuff ive seen before - Really more of a test of my mettle -
It'll be a fucken wonder if i come out of all this with my mental balance intact :)
Sooper Dooper rich !!
#$%^ Lifes a bitch
Saturday, 5 April 2008
Bored
Its a goddamn saturday evening - and to be honest - i had a pretty hectic, productive & satisfactory first week of FY 08-09 and I dont really need to be self - depreciatory.
But i am on the lookout for something nice to do for the weekend - Possibilities:
-> Hit a flick alone !? {too depressing}
-> Try and con C into coming down to satyam with me [ No. We've been going out together on weekends for far too many years now - Too usual ]
-> Shopping - Nope - Too depressing again
-> Get back to "My Name is Red" - So far has made interesting reading - but i dont know - doesnt feel like that marathon weekender
-> Call N and con him into going out - Nah - the poor b$#$#%% is getting hitched in like 1 week - hes busy enough
-> Call one of those guys from work who keeps asking me to call some sat/sun for a leisurely lunch / dinner - Nah, no work this weekend.
You know what il do - clean the place, watch football, Finish off 'My Name is Red', Visit crossword spend 2 hours looking for something, then visit the gym - sleep for 20 hours for the next 48 hours and look forward to Monday !
Much too early to tell really - but heck, its been a while since i felt this jobless :)
But i am on the lookout for something nice to do for the weekend - Possibilities:
-> Hit a flick alone !? {too depressing}
-> Try and con C into coming down to satyam with me [ No. We've been going out together on weekends for far too many years now - Too usual ]
-> Shopping - Nope - Too depressing again
-> Get back to "My Name is Red" - So far has made interesting reading - but i dont know - doesnt feel like that marathon weekender
-> Call N and con him into going out - Nah - the poor b$#$#%% is getting hitched in like 1 week - hes busy enough
-> Call one of those guys from work who keeps asking me to call some sat/sun for a leisurely lunch / dinner - Nah, no work this weekend.
You know what il do - clean the place, watch football, Finish off 'My Name is Red', Visit crossword spend 2 hours looking for something, then visit the gym - sleep for 20 hours for the next 48 hours and look forward to Monday !
Much too early to tell really - but heck, its been a while since i felt this jobless :)
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