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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

An Evening @ Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium .....CWG




Hello friends....
It really feels great when you see your country host such a mega event in style when there are so many publicity to it which is obviously negative (being a country with such a large population everybody has a opinion on everything). I wasn't so lucky to see the Opening Ceremony of the XIX Commonwealth Games- Delhi 2010 as the tickets were priced high for me. Anyway i really heard some of great compliment from my colleague in office next day of Opening so i assume it must have been a great one.

However on Saturday i got lucky to find tickets for an the athletics event in Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium for the evening. As i had two tickets with me so the search for a partner started and soon i was with my friend on auto towards stadium. I was great feeling as everybody was in very enthusiastic mood, people were all going somewhere of which i had no idea, anyway this is real Delhi where you find everybody busy, energetic and enthusiastic.

The site was simply great, crowed and it seemed like India has awaken for such event on world stage.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Eleven Minutes.......heard World Rocks in them


"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life." Eleven Minutes


Eleven Minutes is said to be second best novel written by Paulo Coelho, the first being the charismatic, inspiring ALCHEMIST.

Eleven minutes is a very different book then the earlier one, because of the subject it deals with. I think it is very courageous for him to talk such a hard, unconventional subject. The nature of subject is such that, everybody is aware of it's presence in one's life, neighbor's life, in society but no one dare to talk about, speak about it in open.

It is a very nicely, well written book. This has proper balance of subject( Sex) and the inspirational, motivational take on life. I say it as well written because if he had written a bite more on sex then it would have been just another book dealing on subject and if he would have concentrated more on motivational, inspirational part then the book would have been dumped as yet another self- help book. He has very intelligently balanced both the part and produced a master piece , easy to read, absorb, feel fascinated, compelled to love it.

The story revolve around a girl named MARIA, who made certain choices in life or were made to make those choices by destiny but still there are certain paragraph where writer give reasons for the choices made and how everybody around ere doing same thing . No one is really happy because they are not what they intended to be, because there are certain thing in life where they are very vulnerable to world.
There are very nice paragraph where the feelings of man, women to sex have been described in a very sacred way. It brings out flood of emotion contained inside a prostitute in a very lucid way.
Maria a young girl betrayed in love, moves in life for all those thing she considered necessary for her being it living her home place, learning language, going to library to master her profession. It's a very interesting take on life depicted in book.
This give a very nice take on life, when he questions the very pillar of life where we name every pain, problem, uncertainties as normal because it happens to everybody. There is a very interesting character apart from MARIA, the Librarian. Through out her long married life she had refrained from discussing sex to her very own husband, just beacuse she thought it was normal.


It is a very good book, read it if you get a hand over it.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Woke up with Rs1000 note !!!


Friends, life give you so many opportunities to experience fun that it sometimes become unbearable for us.One Fine morning i experienced something very incredible which i can't resist writing.

I share my apartment with two other guys. There are many things which we share but brotherhood is one of those hood which we talk about every time wherever site of a hot girl is thrown in front of our eyes.

Now there is some competition in life which we consciously don't realize to be competing but it exist, one of such competition is among our close flatmate was "Who among us can sleep late in morning and still reach office on time?"

In my hunt to win this and beat my opponent one day i woke when there was just enough time for me to get ready and reach office on 9:29. I got ready in hurry , reached downstairs through my dark staircase, buttoning my shirt on road. By the time I stood on side of road waiting for auto i realized, in my hurry and strong determination to win i had forgot to collect change from my desk. There was not enough time to go back and get them instead i decided to try my luck in ATM machine. I swiped my card type Rs 300 when withdrawal screen came in front of my eyes, my eyes could not believe the writing on screen" Enter in multiple of 1000". I had no other option other than to enter Rs1000 and hence now i was proud owner of Rs 1000 , one single,straight,ironed warm Rs 1000 note.

Again I was standing with Rs 1000 note to catch auto which charged Rs 5 for journey as it was a shared auto. Half hearted i told autowala that i don't have change and only had 1000 note. In his usual tone he took it casually and among crowd he said HO JAYEGA. I sat and reached destination and proudly extended 1000 note, he looked at me and said no change. I gave my reason, he gave his and at end i searched my wallet to find a torn Rs 5 note. i gave that and he took it as both knew that there was no other option. My tension wasn't to end there as i had to take a rickshaw who would charge me Rs 15 and this time there was no miracle to happen and i wasn't expecting Rs 15 to be found in my wallet. Again same exchange of words but no one was convenience and i was left with no other option so i needed Rs 15 as change badly.
There were some small panwala shop, i approached them for change and early morning they gave me a look which we usually gave to beggar. One thing is clear in country obsessed with change carrying a Rs1000 note is being a beggar. A small mobile recharge shop came to my rescue only when i promised to get my mobile top up even when i didn't needed those, but anyway now i had change of Rs 1000 and happy specially for Rs15.

This is really fascinating funny experience of mine. If you ever happen to be on public buses without change, they don't treat you with respect. A person carrying change gets all accord and respect in world of aam aadmi(Common Public).

Sometimes I wonder where all this coins have gone. I still remember my childhood when some friends and me use to play with square shaped 5 paise coin. There were denominational of 5,10,20,25,50 paise. 20 paise coin was a hexagonal shaped and bigger than others, we dumb use to think it as more valuable than 25 or 50 paise coin. Then came Rs 2 coin followed by Rs5 and Rs 10 coin. They are there but still can't fulfill the place of 25 paise.
Today we almost give extra 10 paise to store on each transaction due to non availability of 90 paise(Suppose something cost Rs 19.90, but we pay Rs 20 because there is no 90 paise, this how we give extra 10 paise). Suppose we make 20 such transaction in a week it amounts to 200 paise which is Rs 2 a week, Rs 8 a month and Rs 72 a year. This is the most optimistic calculation as most time we give 60 to 50 paise extra. Now if we apply same logic with 50 paise , then for 20 such transaction we give 1000 paise or Rs 10 pr week, Rs 40 per month and Rs 480 per year. This might not seem a problem but still a small calculation reveals a lot.

This is all just because we don't have our child days small, cute coins.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The Moments..!!!!

Every moment away from you.....
is like an exile in some distance far land.....
where the thought of you keeps the pulse ticking.....
else the heart would have dried like the leaves in autumn ......
The sight of you is refreshing and humour is your kingdom......
else the life staged is boredom.....
Life is beautiful, exciting and firing.....
the moment with you is rewarding.....
Freeze the moment is what the heart desires......
becoz this is fabulous, fantabulous.......

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Life my experience.

Life is full of unexpected turns
U try, give ur best but end up empty
Things happen when u least xpect them to happen
Thats why Life is so mysterious
It churns you in it's whirlpool of emotion
Surprises you with it's turn and twist
Don't try to understand it
Bcoz the moment you feel u are in control of life
it..........!!!!!