Once upon a time

Once I went a sailing, a sailing in the sea,
I sailed in a boat, I sailed in a ship,
I sailed to Switzerland ....

la la la la lala ..lala lala laaa ... lalalalaa lalalalaa .. lala lala laaa

A Negro sat beside me,
In a cool and easy way.
And when I passed my love to him,
This is what he had to say:

"Amruta manza kanza,
Namast kaara eegro,
Chiki chiki chelom, chikaku chelom,
hey ya eh ya hoi !!! ..."


PS1: No offense meant
PS2: Switzerland is landlocked, sue me :P
PS3: It actually sounds much much much better in my mind with the tune (lala ...)
PS4: I got no clue what those words mean :P its pure fiction I guess
PS5: The last line is supposed to sound like ayyay ayyayyoooooo....
PS6: No I'm not gay :P it only means I was trying to socialize (perverts ...)
PS7: Blame the weather outside, not me :D

Jhansi Lakshmi Sena ....

There is MNS, there is Sri Ram Sena, there is Shiv Sena ... so I was thinking how about a women protection cell ? Lets call it Jhansi Lakshmi Sena !! or something better. A group of people who could help fight the atrocities committed against the modern Indian women without being dragged into the limelight by the media or otherwise.

The group could comprise of:
1. Few guys who can handle situations tactically
2. One psychiatrist
3. One lawyer
4. One doctor (optional)

These guys need not leave their jobs or whatever, its just a part time thing. I'd prefer it to be an ngo kinds with just nominal charges to cover operational costs, and because we register it as a ngo it'll be legally acceptable. Because there is no fear of being publicized or no 'defamation of family if you go to police station' and also we can associate with each other from the new generation, people can contact us easily without hesitation or even anonymously before they decide to show up. As this is not an ngo being run by a few aunties who got bored staying @home, we could actually take action rather than stage a dharna or go before the cam and shout at public.

We could start off with a website where people could register themselves in the above 4 categories, that way we have them within our reach whenever necessary. The more(contacts) the merrier.

Not a bad idea, is it ?

Incredible

After S and after KR, this is the 1st time I went out to a pub/disco which means I went out after nearly 6months (or more). And I had a real good company, 3 girls all committed so no complications :D The worst part of it though is that all their 3 bfs were working @office while we were partying around :D hehe ....

So we (D,A,V,me) first hit grillroom/fusion9 where there was a band playing, it was awesome music but the girls wanted to dance, so we had a few drinks n drove back to poison @11PM. Luckily withdrew money on the way. It was ladies night @Poison, and trust me the music, the ambience and the food was awesome, but the drinks were. I don't know why but V and I had 2 tequila shots and 1 large whisky raw but didn't get high (and this is after having 3 vodkas @f9 each, Do they mix something ?? or are we too excited to get drunk). D,A,V dance but as usual I just stay back and watch the folks dance on the dance floor (For those of you who haven't been to a pub/disco/dance floor with me, I don't dance. I like watching ppl dance + I can't dance + I have never danced. So I just don't. I just watch ppl dance, and trust me its really great to watch others dance, you learn a lot about ppl, both those whom you are with and those whom you have never met).

So after spending 2 more hours (i.e from 8PM to 10:30PM @fusion9 and 11PM to 12:30PM @Poison) we are back home. A who didn't have any spiked drink drove us back home, and after they dropped me they had to go some 7KMs odd to their place, so I dropped them @their place (I just couldn't let them go alone @1AM, its too risky) and came back home on my bike @ an avg of 80KM/hr speed (key word avg). V asked me to stay back @their place, but I just couldn't. I'm still in my senses, so came back home.

It's one of the best company I had since S i.e. for the last 1yr ... I could use the same company more. Though there was KR, we never went out to a pub or disco and it was more confined to parks or movies. Now that I'm single again, I'm glad I could go out. V was great and A danced good. D was hyper as usual :P.


PS: Slightly drunk, so might not make complete sense, but just wanted to post. Might review and refresh tomorrow morning.

Confession: Liked V, she's committed though :P :( (reiterating to myself, stay single stay single stay single ....)

That was just spurr of the moment, actually A is absolutely gr8 hehe, ofcourse she'z committed too.

Indian of the Year

POLITICAL LEADER OF THE YEAR : Sheila Dikshit
Sheila Dikshit has been elected to serve an unprecedented third consecutive term as Chief Minister of Delhi. She is seen as an agent of positive change who has helped make Delhi a much less polluted and liveable city in the last few years. She has been a leading figure in the movement for granting equal rights to women and represented India on the UN Commission on Status of Women for five years.

SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR : Abhinav Bindra
The first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games, India's first in 28 years. He has displayed nerves of steel and a dogged determination over the years to attain the highest sporting glory. His gold at the Olympic Games has greatly increased people’s interest in the sport.

BUSINESS LEADER OF THE YEAR : Deepak Parikh
The man behind making HDFC a premier housing finance institution in the country. In 2008, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by FinanceAsia for his contribution towards the banking/financial sector in Asia. Under his chairmanship, HDFC has developed a network of 761 branches and 1,977 automated teller machines in 327 cities in India as of March 31, 2008.

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR : Aamir Khan

EXTRAORDINARY INDIANS OF THE YEAR : The Moon Team
On November 22nd, 2008, India made history by successfully launching its first mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), under the tenure of its Chairman, G Madhavan Nair, has placed India on the global map. The satellite carries the largest suite of scientific instruments ever to be carried to the moon, 14 in all. At Rs 386 crore, it is the cheapest moon mission of the 21st century - an Indian mission with 14 countries as international partners

25 YEARS OF PROMOTING INDIAN CULTURE : Kiran Seth of Spic Macay
Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst the Youth (SPICMACAY) established by Kiran Seth, has successfully completed 30 years. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at The Keshav Smriti Adhyaya in 2008. Seth's organisation has exposed generations of students to Indian culture.


GENNEXT POLITICIAN OF THE YEAR : Omar Abdullah
The 38-year-old scion of Kashmir's 'first family', the Abdullahs, Omar Abdullah became the youngest Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on January 5, 2009. In 2000-01, he was nominated as Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum; he led an Indian delegation to World Economic Summit in Rio-de-Janeiro and UN World Conference on Racism in Durban. He was also Prime Minister's Special Envoy to Libya.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD : L K Advani
He is a grassroot leader and is credited with having made the BJP a formidable force in Indian politics, through clarity of vision, precise statements and an astute sense of timing. Always in favour of anti-terrorism laws, he abolished Press Censorship and repealed anti-press legislation during his tenure in 1977-1979 as the I&B Minister. BJP has named him as a Prime Ministerial candidate for the party and the National Democratic Alliance for the 2009 general elections.

BEST SONG LYRICS : Prasoon Joshi
Known as the 'Ad Guru of India' within advertising circles, he has created several award winning advertising campaigns for brands like Coca Cola, Happy Dent, Asian Paints and Cadbury's. Amongst the several films and hit Indipop albums for which he has composed lyrics, he won the Best Lyricist Filmfare Award for the films Fanaa (2007) and Taare Zameen Par (2008), the latter being India's official entry to the Oscars 2009. He also won the Star Screen Award for Best Lyricist for the film Hum Tum in 2005.

GLOBAL EXCELLENCE : The Slumdog Millionaire Team

Courtesy : NDTV

Sri Ram Sena .....

They name themselves Sri Ram Sena, the same Ram who apparently fought a battle with someone across the ocean for his wife, Ram sena is supposed to be a sena of monkeys(vanaras) who helped Ram get to his wife. And what do we have here ?? A bunch of useless jobless freaks who go around bashing girls.




For those of you who don't know the story, around 15-20 guys calling themselves Sri Ram Sena attacked a local pub 'Amnesia' in Mangalore. The activists of Sri Rama Sena entered the Amnesia Bar and Restaurant on Saturday evening and threatened the women sitting inside. The men, who took objection to women drinking alcohol, pushed them outside, many women falling to the ground while they were being driven out.They got into an altercation with the women customers saying they were dressed indecently.

Now what do I say ?? Today hit girls and show dadagiri, tomorrow hit children because they are learning English and day after close down all MNCs and finally we'll have the Rama Rajyam where there is no crime because there is no freedom in the 1st place, great going.

I don't understand something, if a terrorist is a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities, then why are these religious groups not called terrorist groups ?? Vote bank politics or just soft corner because they are from within our country ? Maybe they don't carry hi end weapons with them or don't go about shooting people, but don't they have the same ideologies as those of the middle east groups whom we call as terrorist groups ??

There is a saying in Telugu "inta gelichi racha gelava mannaru", it says 1st win at home and then you can think about outside. We want Pakistan to hand over their terrorist groups to India, but don't want to stop the terror spreading within the country. We call ourselves a free and peaceful country while we are just closing our eyes to all the terror around us. What a hypocrisy ...

I am ...

I am what I am. I had a lousy argument with a friend on male chauvinism today. I'm a feminist and I'm proud of that. As chauvinism today doesn't apply to guys alone, there is nothing wrong in a guy being a feminist (or atleast that is what I tell myself). Women today (even earlier) deal with more complex situations than men do. Agreed 90% of them are irrational when it comes to taking decisions, but it is only because they think with their hearts or sometimes don't even think but decide with their hearts :P. It's true: While women think with their hearts men think while testosterone is kicking in (I couldn't put it more decently :D).But how do you justify the exploitation ??

Do you see the News channels reporting page3 parties where the camera zooms to body parts of girls who are dancing (ofcourse with out their permission). It is supposed to be a NEWS channel for heavens sake, I understand the commercial aspect but ..!!!

Do you see the daily advertisements, "slim girls-thinly clad" seems to be the only theme

Don't get me started over dowry. WTF !! You are selling yourselves bloody idiots, don't you get that??

Huh!! The lone sharks at office, in college, on the roads and recently even hospitals !!

INTERNET... Yahoo chat, orkut, facebook, fake profiles n teenage girls. You know the stories.

Mobiles n anonymous calls

It isn't about a girl or a guy, but how can someone see so much of exploitation and yet not oppose it ?? Where is the nobility ? Demanding dowry is like claiming to be a Che Guevara fan without knowing who he is or what he fought for. I know its a very bad comparison, but that is the extent to which people are lost, even highly educated and qualified.

PS1: I know I wrote on this earlier (actually that was a better post) but its just frustration after an irrational argument.
PS2: I know there are exceptions to everyone and everything, the above mentioned is only a general scenario.

Tring Tring

There is no point being a grownup if you can't be childish sometimes ... :D


My new cycle, I hope few weeks down the line I'll be able to cycle all the way to office (to and fro).

10 random lessons learnt in 2008

1. Capitalism is an addiction not a qualification alone.
2. Modern education develops more slaves than free thinkers (much worse they assume they are liberal)
3. Look beyond the obvious, don't assume all you hear is the truth. Things you believe to be 'right' today were fought for yesterday and were 'wrong' the day before.
4. Profits in balance sheet doesn't necessarily mean you are doing well.
5. There is a thin line between want and need.
6. Liability is always bad, how bad depends on the situation though.
7. It's nice to see young, very well educated leaders with liberal thoughts in politics; sad to see most of them in congress which has most tainted leaders though.
8. He who has the gold, makes the rules, yet he isn't immune from slippers of a common man, if he screws around.
9. Chill out !! You could be shot dead either in the most elite of the places or in a holy place.
10. Love or Money doesn't mean or ensure anything. Happiness means everything. You might find it in the strangest of places once you start looking.