Pride Shattered and Ego altered

Now this is the story all about how my life got twisted upside down and I like to take a minute and sit right there I'll tell you how my ego got altered in just a day...

Let me introduce you to a guy I know,
his father is in the airforce & he has seen almost all of India... he studies in army school ... he is smart, good looking, intelligent, ... has decided he wont get married ... and has clear plans on what to do in his life .... thats about his career ....he is surrounded by girls most of the time ... a girl proposed & asked him to kiss her & he did & later things went to a stage where girls parents intervened.... now another girl proposed & he said he'll think abt it & the issue is still on hold
thats his luv life ...He is a stylish guy, he doesn't like rice or most Indian foods ... he prefers pizzas burgers doughnuts and ...he only likes designer wear and doesn't like to compromise on anything in style ..... he is conscious of his looks & his hair and he insists on using hairgel ..

Like most tough guys he likes bikes over cars

Now Now tell me 1 reason why any guy wouldn't have his pride shattered by this guy !!

Now the fact is he is my 8year old nephew S :D .. damn I wish I could be like him hehe

Ya, by now you must be pissed off and you also know that my nephew is in town... I bunked my office & we roamed around on my bike and I'm going back on friday, so off blogspot for a while :) I got a lot more to learn from him hehe ..

Numbers vs Percentages

What is the 1st thing that attracts a common man towards IIMs or other management schools?? Yes, ofcourse it is the high salary the graduates from these schools are offered, recently the highest pay for an IIM graduate was announced as 1.44Crores and people went all gaga about it. But how many know the true picture behind any college placements ?? How many realize that it's only 1-2 guys who get a crore and not the whole class ?? Well this not only rises the expectations of the common man (to see his/her children get into one such schools) but also forces them to take windy decisions and pressurising the child way from their 1st class (.. lol yes that's true, you have schools offering IIT oriented education from 1st class)

Only few realize the truth behind college placements, only very few realize the truth behind numbers. And those who did are those who could manage their assets and are those who could make money not only for themselves but for others around them. Yes, percentages, this is the reason why financial analysts depend largely on fractions and percentages but not on numbers. Approach any insider and ask him what is the 1st thing he would see in a company before investing in it, the answer would be various percentages and never NEVER absolute numbers.

The same applies to placements, why do you think all colleges announce the max salary in absolute numbers and number of students placed in percentage ?? Ofcourse because what you see is not what you get!! A wise man wouldn't see the highest salary or the least salary, and infact he wouldn't even want to see the average salary, neither of them show the true picture... but what do are what percentage of students falling into categories of salary i.e x% got salary above 10Lakhs, y% above 40 and z% above 80 ... or something in those lines. What also will are standard deviation or even better a histogram!!!

But ofcourse you won't get to see any of these unless you work on the data. All a common man gets to see is the highest salary as 1.44crores, CAT exam and 1lakh and increasing number of students giving the test and lots of institutes giving coaching & lots of publicity ... same is the case with IIT/AIEEE.

(No I don't have anything against these institutes nor the teaching standards nor the students who came out of it, but I have everything against the mania they started in India and the pressure put on both the parents and the students just because they don't see beyond a point)

and NO I'm not giving CAT this year also :)
and I can go on & on & on & on forever arguing about these topics, so I think I'll stop here now that I'm sure I have made my readers think.

Traffic signal and sugarcane juice

Its summer and 12:45Noon, scorching sun and I'm on my bike stuck in traffic waiting for the signal to change ... red .. red .. red ... still red ... yay yay orange, I start my bike & the car before me won't move ... beeeeeeeeeeep beeeeeeeeeeeep .. still no movement F*** F*** .. I try to go around and the car starts, so now I have to wait & after a few meters the car stops again F******* & the signal turns orange ... I now know I am stuck for somemore time, so finally I find my way away from the car & reach the other end of the road, FINALLY a deep breath ... & now start looking at all arbit things around and see a sugarcane juice guy, I wish I could jump from my bike grab a glass of chilled icy sugarcane & get back but but but ...
now you must be wondering what I'm trying to pull over here ..... well the story goes like this, I see a 10-12yr old girl carrying a 2yr old child and begging (no I have a strict no-no to encouraging begging and so I didn't offer her anything)... she's tapping the cars and asking for money to feed the child and what do I see ... what do I see ... the child is ACTUALLY having sugarcane juice from a bottle .. lol lol lol

once again makes my stand on no-no to encouraging begging stronger,
and those who have a soft corner in their hearts, please think twice or if needed thrice and those of you who are actually planning on suggesting me that I should have grabbed the childs bottle .. shooooo shoooo shoo away! :P

Womens day, hyderabad and ...

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I was taken aback when one of our writers told me that her aunt was not allowed into a nightclub a few weeks ago because she was wearing a salwar-kurta. She was told that on an events night such as the one on that Wednesday, salwar was a strict no-no, that the aunt and others with her were finally allowed in after saying she was a journalist.
If in earlier days it was British imperialism that did not allow you to enter a sahibs club without a suit and boot(you still can't as a matter of fact), these days it is the American hegemony. We not only go to the pubs and malls like the Americans, but have dress rules like them too. Remember we are still in India which has strong traditions of dress and culture that cannot be ignored despite our predilections for coke and burgers. What could be a nightclub's objection to the sari or salwar? Whats is the point we are trying to make with such rules - that people who wear saris and salwars are mummyji types who cannot enter pubs? Or that there is no place for older women who cannot think of dressing in any other way?

Fashion designer Sabyasachi seems to have similar views. I quote from the interview: "I think a woman covered, showing just an inch of her ankle is more sensual that a woman who blatantly exposes because she doesn't leave anything to the imagination".

Indeed as Sharmila who brought yogasanas and pranayama back into our life says, the west has taken the best out of India - yoga, ayurveda, spirituality, food - and has given us in return BPOs, pubs and fast food and stress. Naturally, if you party like that every night and still have to look fit so that you look good into all those western clothes, boy, do you need to worry!

What we need, on Womens Day and all other days, is freedom of the mind. To be what you are. There are photographers, artists and pilots following their heart's dream even if society seeks to set rules about what women must or must not do.
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and this comes from Ratna Rao Shekar - Editor WOW magazine

and yes I typed the whole post myself, not a copy paste phew!! but then I really found the article worth being mentioned on this blog :)

Though I don't complete agree and I think there must be some dress code to maintain the pub standards, but then I'm sure a strict no-no to something is always bad and infact brings down the reputation.

Hyderabad is changing and so is India ... sometimes for good and sometimes for worse. One has to live with it and adapt to change.

Getting screwed while staying single !!

No, this post contains no erotic content nor is it philosophical. Just another entry hehe ....

So here is the thing about staying single, apart from the 100s and 1000s of good things that could happen to you, one sad entry in your diary will be the boring saturday evenings when most of the happening places don't allow stag entry and all or most of the friends are with their potential partners, and this boredom gets escalated when there are no good movies left in town nor in your harddisk .... so that is how your life gets screwed while staying single :D
but but but ... the greatness of an individual lies not only in staying single but making the best use of it, so after spending the whole morning sleeping and whole afternoon watching tv I decide to bring my old harddisk back to life which I have been postponing since almost 1year, so here I'm with all the collections from college days and all the good old pics with my friends & some chat friends too (well those were days of yahoo chat)

Now I have the whole collection of Calvin & Hobbes back, few softwares, some videos and lots and lots and lots of rare old songs ... chalo apart from going to office and coming back and watching tv I have something do explore for a few days now :)

few other updates from my side would be ... hmmmm ....
1. another and probably last of my school friends left to us
2. a friend from inter left to mumbai
3. a friend got married (yes guy and love marriage)
4. another friend is ready to elope (story AFTER it happens :) )
5. a friend coming back to hyd after 7yrs to do her mba from icfai
6. a senior from school getting married (just got an invitation over mail)
7. got in touch with 2old chat buddies ... thanks to my hdd which had their numbers :)


PS1: (heard from someone) 10,000BC isn't worth the wait :( yet another hyped movie which couldn't live up to the expectations
PS2: (someone enlighten me plzzz) how do ppl find topics to blog on !!! phew I still got to learn a lot :)

A one night stand

This happened to one of my friends few weeks back [names cannot be taken] ... lets call him T
Quite melodramatic ....


Around 10:30PM Thursday night, T is on his way back home from office, it got a little late today but then he's just a bachelor (with a gf but irrelevant here) so he wouldn't mind staying back once in a while if it meant being noticed by his boss (who also happens to be a lady, but again irrelevant :D). He is on his bike, with his ipod and singing away to glory and in a nice mood that things are going good at work and he's a high contender for the promotion due next month.
As he nears a bus stop, he sees a beautiful (so was I told ;) ) girl sobbing and being the gentleman and movie buff that he is, his heart overpowers his shyness & approaches the girl;

T: {ahem} {aaaaa....} {mm..} excuse me, I couldnt help but notice that something is wrong, {mmm...} may I help you?
[The girl raises her head and for the 1st time he sees her face completely and she looked more beautiful than she did in the brightness of the street light]
She: {sobs}{sobs} thank you!! well some ******* stole my purse and even my mobile is inside it, I'm not able to reach my roommates and there is no cab in the past 20mins. {sobs} ..I'm having the worst day of my life :(
T: hmm ... [ask you idiot ask, this is your chance] ..{aaaa...} If you don't mind, I could drop you
She: [now stopped crying and has a small smile on her face which weakened his heart all the more] .. well thank you, but I can't trouble you soo much, if you don't mind let me make a call to my roommate from your mobile
T: [tsch losing a gr8 opportunity to drop her, why God why :( ] sure no problem, here [hands over his mobile to her] {well atleast I'll get her roommate's number ;) .. maybe things will turn out lucky for me afterall }
[sees that she is not talking on the phone and is looking worried] ... is everything ok???
She:{now in a frustrated but sweet voice} roommate is not picking up the call :( I think my bad day is not over yet :((
T: well I could still drop you, and I have absolutely no problem doing that. {praying to god now}
She: .... but .......
T: I insist, please let me
She: Ok fine, btw my name is X and I live in ABC colony
T: and I'm T, I stay in xyz colony [yay, yay, yay]
[she's now on his bike and her right hand on his shoulder, he's all geared up, the night is still young and hopes that some magic does happen]
T: {ahem} {ahem} ... I'm not sure if I know the place, you'll have to guide me
[starts the bike and prays to god for a small push]
She: sure, no problem and thank you once again
T: its my pleasure ...

after 10mins of journey, she directing T to her place and both of them talking about movies and stuff and having a nice ride ... she asks him to take a left turn into a dark road with no street lights, ... T having a great time and a nice ride was all carried away ... half way through the road something stuck him on his head from front and the next thing he knows it's 3AM, his head is paining like hell, he could even feel the blood on his forehead... there is no girl around him and neither is his mobile nor his bike nor his purse nor his gold ring nor his ipod....... quite simple she had some accomplice waiting for her and all she had to do is lure him into that street ...

next day there was a huge hullabaloo, police complaints, hospital, his parents happy that the head injury wasn't fatal, followed by a huge fight with his gf (this was a funny part worth watching according to my frnds who were there :D) .... finally no trace of the bike nor the girl yet!! (this happened somewhere in mid february btw) ..

Soo ..... wouldn't you call her beauty with brains :-> .. I definitely would :)
When I see those movies, I always wondered how people could be fooled soo easily and how dumb they behave, but all it took was one incident to someone close to realise that afterall mean are dogs & girls can take advantage of that quite easily, can't they! ;)

Future weapons

No, its not another kudos of NGC future weapons show (for those of you who never heard of it, you are going into the future feeling safe unlike the rest of us), nonetheless, the show has some incredible stuff on it. Almost none of the weapons use bullets or explosive stuff, most to all of them use basic forms of energy like sound, impulse, high energy beams and ... phew,
so all of a sudden this idea stuck to me, why don't these scientists come up with the depressant beam, you know the one you saw in the climax of Hitchhiker's Guide which makes people chronically depressed. That way you don't kill the person and no fuss from all the human rights organizations and ..and .. and you get to destroy the persons urge to repeat the mistake, infact desire to do anything in life. Isn't that wonderful !!

PS1: started writing with something in mind 4hrs back watching tv, and now neither do I rmbr why I started this post, nor feel like deleting it...so I guess I'll publish it
PS2: Yet another weekend came and went by
PS3: Yes I'm not fired last week like everyone was expecting, still in DELL and I guess its going to be that way for quite sometime now.
PS4: Hectic week coming up
PS5: It's March and I have MANY crazy things to do this month, keep watching.

Random Quote

"Don’t worry, you won’t die a virgin. Life screws us all"

Piece of advice

The best thing to do is to enjoy every minute you have, so you don't have any regrets when it's your time to move on to the next great adventure

- Dumbledore

SO WHAT ???

Hail Calvin

I AM ... ?

You see but never talk with me,
you touch but can't feel me,
you run I follow,
you fall I'm there beneath you,
you cry I'm there listening,
you laugh I'm there smiling,
You ignore me but I'm always around you,
You are my strength, I'm your weakness,
I know every secret of yours, I have been with you all your life and will be here with you forever and ever ...



I'm your SHADOW

PS: direct result of getting bored and not feeling sleepy, time: 0500hrs day: saturday (friday night)