Don't feel like blogging. Here comes another tag that I took up from Bloody Mary.
3 places I would pack my travel bag for:
I love and traveling, and I would pack my bag for almost anywhere, but if you insist that I must choose only three, here they are:
--Jammu and Kashmir
--Botswana
--Ireland
3 on-screen characters I love to watch:
--Michael Scofield
--T bag (Both from Prison break)
--Joker from dark knight
3 moods that describe me the best:
--Absent minded. Like hell. Always lost in thoughts.
--Happy
--Sarcastic
3 things that I think of doing on a weekend but never do:
--Clean up my room
--Start the habit of getting up early
--Finish reading the unread books in my collection
3 things from my childhood I can't forget:
--Vishu celebration with all the family members at the ancestral home.
--Eating Pani puris with my cousin bro
--Listening to the stories that my mother used to tell. My fascination for stories started from there.
3 things I would never say no to:
--Milk sweets
--Cars
--Electronic Gadgets
3 things I can't live without:
--Internet
--Cell phone
--Books
Again, I tag all those who read this.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Just a tag
I got this tag from Bloody Mary. Even though, nobody tagged me, I would put it here, just to keep the blog alive.
1. If you married the last person you texted, what would your last name be?
Nair
2. Were you happy when you woke up today?
Not particularly happy, just normal.
3. What’s something that can always make you feel better? When did you need it last?
Hugs. Around a week back.
4. What are you excited for?
Gadgets, books, movies, traveling. *censored* Quite a lot of things, actually.
5. What were you doing yesterday?
Watching CWG in TV, Drove around, in between.
6. What's the last thing you put in your mouth?
Chocolate
7. Have a best friend(s)?
Yes.
8. Are you scared to fall in love?
Not at all
9. Do you think teenagers can be in love?
Yes.
10. Last person you wanted to punch in the face?
Myself
11.What do you want right now?
I want to go to Delhi to watch CWG
12. Who was the last person you took a picture with?
My 3 month old nephew
13. Are you single/taken/heartbroken/or confused?
Single
14. When was the last time you cried?
Don’t remember. Way back.
15. Do you have a good relationship with your parents?
Yes.
16. Do you find it hard to trust others?
Sometimes.
17. I bet you miss somebody right now...
You are wrong. Totally.
18. Can you honestly say you're okay right now?
Yes.
19. Tell me what's on your mind.
Difficult to explain. I’m kinda crazy.
20. What are you looking forward to in the next three months?
Job, primarily.
21. Have you ever worn the opposite sex's clothing?
Yea. Once. Cross dressing day in college. Was real fun.
22. When did you last talk to your number 1 top friend?
Number 1 position is occupied by a few. Talked to one of them, yesterday.
23. Do you have someone of the opposite sex you can tell anything to?
No. I used to have, once.
24. How's your heart?
Alive.
25. Have you ever felt like you weren't important?
I was always important. To me.
26. Do you think somebody's in love with you?
No idea.
27. What are you planning on doing after this?
At a friend’s place now. So will drive back home.
28. When will your next kiss take place?
No idea.
29. Have you told anybody you loved them today?
No
30. Who do you not get along with?
Arrogant people
31. What are you wearing right now?
Black jeans, red t shirt
32. Are you wasting your time on the person you like?
Never
33. How did you feel when you woke up?
Same as second question.
34. Do you wish someone would call or text you right now?
It will be nice if someone does. But it’s ok the other way.
35. Do you crack your knuckles?
No
36. What were you doing yesterday at midnight?
Browsing the internet
37. Who's the first B in your contacts?
Balu
38. When was the last time you laughed really hard?
Last night
39. Last awkward moment?
Read the post ‘A not so good experience.’ In this blog. Just one post before this.
40. Are you afraid of the dark?
No
41. Do you have good vision?
Yes. Perfect. Only when I have my spectacles on.
42. Have you ever tripped someone?
None whom I know
43. Have you ever slapped someone?
Yes.
44. Do you laugh off embarrassing moments?
Yes
45. Can you go out in public looking like you do?
Oh yea. Who cares
46. Is it easy for someone to make you smile?
Not always.
47. Has anyone put their arms around you in the past 5 days?
Yes.
48. Do you miss the way things used to be?
I do
49. How often do you hold back from saying what you are thinking?
Quite often
50. Want someone back in your life?
Yes. My cousin brother, who passed away a few years back.
51. Will tomorrow be better than today?
I hope so
52. Does it bother you when someone lies to you?
Yes, especially when it’s someone whom I trust.
53. Is there anyone who understands your relationship status?
Everyone does.
54. Are you a naturally happy person? Or is your happiness forced?
Normal. Slight inclination towards the happy side.
55. Is there anyone you wish would fall in love with you?
Hmm.. well.. No.
I tag all of you who read this
1. If you married the last person you texted, what would your last name be?
Nair
2. Were you happy when you woke up today?
Not particularly happy, just normal.
3. What’s something that can always make you feel better? When did you need it last?
Hugs. Around a week back.
4. What are you excited for?
Gadgets, books, movies, traveling. *censored* Quite a lot of things, actually.
5. What were you doing yesterday?
Watching CWG in TV, Drove around, in between.
6. What's the last thing you put in your mouth?
Chocolate
7. Have a best friend(s)?
Yes.
8. Are you scared to fall in love?
Not at all
9. Do you think teenagers can be in love?
Yes.
10. Last person you wanted to punch in the face?
Myself
11.What do you want right now?
I want to go to Delhi to watch CWG
12. Who was the last person you took a picture with?
My 3 month old nephew
13. Are you single/taken/heartbroken/or confused?
Single
14. When was the last time you cried?
Don’t remember. Way back.
15. Do you have a good relationship with your parents?
Yes.
16. Do you find it hard to trust others?
Sometimes.
17. I bet you miss somebody right now...
You are wrong. Totally.
18. Can you honestly say you're okay right now?
Yes.
19. Tell me what's on your mind.
Difficult to explain. I’m kinda crazy.
20. What are you looking forward to in the next three months?
Job, primarily.
21. Have you ever worn the opposite sex's clothing?
Yea. Once. Cross dressing day in college. Was real fun.
22. When did you last talk to your number 1 top friend?
Number 1 position is occupied by a few. Talked to one of them, yesterday.
23. Do you have someone of the opposite sex you can tell anything to?
No. I used to have, once.
24. How's your heart?
Alive.
25. Have you ever felt like you weren't important?
I was always important. To me.
26. Do you think somebody's in love with you?
No idea.
27. What are you planning on doing after this?
At a friend’s place now. So will drive back home.
28. When will your next kiss take place?
No idea.
29. Have you told anybody you loved them today?
No
30. Who do you not get along with?
Arrogant people
31. What are you wearing right now?
Black jeans, red t shirt
32. Are you wasting your time on the person you like?
Never
33. How did you feel when you woke up?
Same as second question.
34. Do you wish someone would call or text you right now?
It will be nice if someone does. But it’s ok the other way.
35. Do you crack your knuckles?
No
36. What were you doing yesterday at midnight?
Browsing the internet
37. Who's the first B in your contacts?
Balu
38. When was the last time you laughed really hard?
Last night
39. Last awkward moment?
Read the post ‘A not so good experience.’ In this blog. Just one post before this.
40. Are you afraid of the dark?
No
41. Do you have good vision?
Yes. Perfect. Only when I have my spectacles on.
42. Have you ever tripped someone?
None whom I know
43. Have you ever slapped someone?
Yes.
44. Do you laugh off embarrassing moments?
Yes
45. Can you go out in public looking like you do?
Oh yea. Who cares
46. Is it easy for someone to make you smile?
Not always.
47. Has anyone put their arms around you in the past 5 days?
Yes.
48. Do you miss the way things used to be?
I do
49. How often do you hold back from saying what you are thinking?
Quite often
50. Want someone back in your life?
Yes. My cousin brother, who passed away a few years back.
51. Will tomorrow be better than today?
I hope so
52. Does it bother you when someone lies to you?
Yes, especially when it’s someone whom I trust.
53. Is there anyone who understands your relationship status?
Everyone does.
54. Are you a naturally happy person? Or is your happiness forced?
Normal. Slight inclination towards the happy side.
55. Is there anyone you wish would fall in love with you?
Hmm.. well.. No.
I tag all of you who read this
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
How to get over the Commonwealth Games snub: A guideline.
Dear reader, (Ahem.. I know that it’s me and me only, most of the times) before getting into the matter, let me ask you, what exactly are you looking for? A creative and innovative solution to the Commonwealth Games organizing woes? Suggestions for conducting the Games in a better way? Or lessons that we should learn from the bitter experiences? This post is, nothing of that sort.
I take great pride in being an Indian. I am a sports lover as well. If you also belong to both of these categories, there couldn’t be a tougher time for you. I am, like the most of us, embarrassed and hurt, with the controversies related with the CWG. But it is better to appreciate the positives, rather than being dejected at the negatives. The following is an attempt to implement that thinking strategy.
1.Withdrawal of athletes
CWG, is the biggest sporting event that India has ever witnessed. But many of the top class athletes have already withdrawn from it, pointing at the safety and hygiene reasons. That might look like a disappointing thing, in the first look. But, that increases our winning chances. If all the other countries pull out, we win! Commonwealth games champions! May be that was what the organizing committee had in their plans. Anyways, it didn’t work out that way, and many teams have already arrived. But still, the absence of some of the big names might help our athletes.
2.PM steps in!
You know what that means? Just when the organizing chaos was running high, our prime minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh intervened. Till then, Sheila Dikshit was announcing deadlines to announce the next deadline. Whether the PM made a change or not, I don’t know. But with all the due respect to our democracy, let me say, both our current president and prime minister are rubber stamps. Our PM is a good economist, but, never a good leader. If he was, he wouldn’t have let things go this bad.
A sardar says : I’ve been proud of the industrious nature of Sardars. I’ve never seen a Sardar begging. Alas! Just then, Dr. Manmohan Singh was made the prime minister of India.
You know what is the difference between Dr. Manmohan Singh and our local pizza store? Our local pizza store stops taking orders at 11 in the night.
These jokes sum up what I’ve got to say about our PM. But just then, the news headlines about the PM’s intervention at the CWG, gave me a feeling that he is doing something on his own. Just a feeling. But it’s better than nothing. Right?
3.DD sports in HD
Are you people aware of the fact that there is a sports channel called DD Sports? There is. Apna Doordarshan’s sports channel. The channel has been operating, very effectively, for around a decade. It has always brought high quality sporting action to us, with superb picture quality. Their programs included the live coverage of the highly exciting games like Billiards, Caroms, Kabadi etc. Inter district cricket tournament in the state of Madhya Pradesh, Three day practice match between Australia and the President’s eleven, Race between tortoises conducted in Bihar etc. were covered, enabling us to catch the nail biting action live.
Now, they are going to telecast the CWG events, that too in HD. Their obsolete equipments have been replaced, spending a huge sum of money. At least for a small period, they are going to telecast something, that people would actually watch. Thank God!
Hope these worked for you. You see more positives like these? Let me know.
P.S :- Both the jokes about Dr. Manmohan Singh were picked up from Twitter. Credit goes to the unknown authors. I, shamelessly, copied those and used them in my blog, as if they were my own creations, and hoped that no one would find out. Bad me.
I take great pride in being an Indian. I am a sports lover as well. If you also belong to both of these categories, there couldn’t be a tougher time for you. I am, like the most of us, embarrassed and hurt, with the controversies related with the CWG. But it is better to appreciate the positives, rather than being dejected at the negatives. The following is an attempt to implement that thinking strategy.
1.Withdrawal of athletes
CWG, is the biggest sporting event that India has ever witnessed. But many of the top class athletes have already withdrawn from it, pointing at the safety and hygiene reasons. That might look like a disappointing thing, in the first look. But, that increases our winning chances. If all the other countries pull out, we win! Commonwealth games champions! May be that was what the organizing committee had in their plans. Anyways, it didn’t work out that way, and many teams have already arrived. But still, the absence of some of the big names might help our athletes.
2.PM steps in!
You know what that means? Just when the organizing chaos was running high, our prime minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh intervened. Till then, Sheila Dikshit was announcing deadlines to announce the next deadline. Whether the PM made a change or not, I don’t know. But with all the due respect to our democracy, let me say, both our current president and prime minister are rubber stamps. Our PM is a good economist, but, never a good leader. If he was, he wouldn’t have let things go this bad.
A sardar says : I’ve been proud of the industrious nature of Sardars. I’ve never seen a Sardar begging. Alas! Just then, Dr. Manmohan Singh was made the prime minister of India.
You know what is the difference between Dr. Manmohan Singh and our local pizza store? Our local pizza store stops taking orders at 11 in the night.
These jokes sum up what I’ve got to say about our PM. But just then, the news headlines about the PM’s intervention at the CWG, gave me a feeling that he is doing something on his own. Just a feeling. But it’s better than nothing. Right?
3.DD sports in HD
Are you people aware of the fact that there is a sports channel called DD Sports? There is. Apna Doordarshan’s sports channel. The channel has been operating, very effectively, for around a decade. It has always brought high quality sporting action to us, with superb picture quality. Their programs included the live coverage of the highly exciting games like Billiards, Caroms, Kabadi etc. Inter district cricket tournament in the state of Madhya Pradesh, Three day practice match between Australia and the President’s eleven, Race between tortoises conducted in Bihar etc. were covered, enabling us to catch the nail biting action live.
Now, they are going to telecast the CWG events, that too in HD. Their obsolete equipments have been replaced, spending a huge sum of money. At least for a small period, they are going to telecast something, that people would actually watch. Thank God!
Hope these worked for you. You see more positives like these? Let me know.
P.S :- Both the jokes about Dr. Manmohan Singh were picked up from Twitter. Credit goes to the unknown authors. I, shamelessly, copied those and used them in my blog, as if they were my own creations, and hoped that no one would find out. Bad me.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
A 'not so good' experience.
A quick note, this is. After quite sometime.
Whenever I get an opportunity to travel, literally, I pounce at it. Traveling, books, movies - all make me go crazy. Equally. Around a couple of weeks back, I had a chance to be at the city where I spent four important years of my life. One of my friends was with me, the experience that I was referring to, happened on our way back.
Trivandrum central railway station. Me and my friend, call him A, were waiting to get into Maveli express in which, we had booked two sleeper class tickets. Around ten minutes were left for the departure, and we located our compartment, and looked for our names in the chart outside it. A was looking at the chart very keenly, and I said, "What are you looking at man? Let's get in".
A gestured me to wait. "There is one right next to our seat, dude."
"what?" I didn't get it.
"F 18" A replied, with a smile.
"Whoa man, Let's hope she is beautiful. She might already be there at her seat. Come, let's get in" I pulled A and we both got in. But her seat was unoccupied.
"You shameless idiot. Why do you look for girls in the reservation chart?" I started an arguement with A, just to kill time.
"Oh I know the kind of a saint you are. You also do the same, don't ya?" A hit back in the same tone.
"Well, I have done it, sometimes, while traveling alone" I had to confess. "Ok, leave all that. Just five minutes left for the departure. She might come in, any moment. Don't look at her too much ok? I hold the rights for that"
"Aha. Keep holding the rights. She probably might look at me, and never at you." A replied.
"But I do have an edge, pal. My station arrives at 2 o clock in the night. I'll get up, and watch the sleeping beauty, before I get down from the train. By the time you get up, she might not be there" Just when I finished saying that, she came in.
She was fair, and beautiful. Wearing a peacock blue dress. Accompanied by two people, her grand parents, probably.
A lightning passed across my stomach. My heart sank, instantly. She couldn't walk, or stand properly. Her hands and legs were dangling, as if she had no control over it. Her grand father was carrying her, and she was trying to walk, without much success. He made her sit on the side lower birth. She was talking to them, but, it wasn't clear at all. I saw her grand mother holding a white cover on which it was written 'Department of radiology, Trivandrum medical college'
I could sense the drop of tear that was there at the corner of my eye. I looked at A. He is a religious person, and he was already aplogizing to Jesus. Both of us, silently, walked to the door. Train had already started moving.
When I woke up at 2 o clock in the night, I did look and smile at her.
Here I am, a fellow human being with countless number of imperfections and weaknesses. I live, each and every day, fighting with each of those, trying to be a better person. She does the same. The challenges that she has to overcome, is much tougher, though. But who decides that a few people have to fight a tougher battle than most of us? Why can't they be like the rest of us? I don't know. And I will never know.
Whenever I get an opportunity to travel, literally, I pounce at it. Traveling, books, movies - all make me go crazy. Equally. Around a couple of weeks back, I had a chance to be at the city where I spent four important years of my life. One of my friends was with me, the experience that I was referring to, happened on our way back.
Trivandrum central railway station. Me and my friend, call him A, were waiting to get into Maveli express in which, we had booked two sleeper class tickets. Around ten minutes were left for the departure, and we located our compartment, and looked for our names in the chart outside it. A was looking at the chart very keenly, and I said, "What are you looking at man? Let's get in".
A gestured me to wait. "There is one right next to our seat, dude."
"what?" I didn't get it.
"F 18" A replied, with a smile.
"Whoa man, Let's hope she is beautiful. She might already be there at her seat. Come, let's get in" I pulled A and we both got in. But her seat was unoccupied.
"You shameless idiot. Why do you look for girls in the reservation chart?" I started an arguement with A, just to kill time.
"Oh I know the kind of a saint you are. You also do the same, don't ya?" A hit back in the same tone.
"Well, I have done it, sometimes, while traveling alone" I had to confess. "Ok, leave all that. Just five minutes left for the departure. She might come in, any moment. Don't look at her too much ok? I hold the rights for that"
"Aha. Keep holding the rights. She probably might look at me, and never at you." A replied.
"But I do have an edge, pal. My station arrives at 2 o clock in the night. I'll get up, and watch the sleeping beauty, before I get down from the train. By the time you get up, she might not be there" Just when I finished saying that, she came in.
She was fair, and beautiful. Wearing a peacock blue dress. Accompanied by two people, her grand parents, probably.
A lightning passed across my stomach. My heart sank, instantly. She couldn't walk, or stand properly. Her hands and legs were dangling, as if she had no control over it. Her grand father was carrying her, and she was trying to walk, without much success. He made her sit on the side lower birth. She was talking to them, but, it wasn't clear at all. I saw her grand mother holding a white cover on which it was written 'Department of radiology, Trivandrum medical college'
I could sense the drop of tear that was there at the corner of my eye. I looked at A. He is a religious person, and he was already aplogizing to Jesus. Both of us, silently, walked to the door. Train had already started moving.
When I woke up at 2 o clock in the night, I did look and smile at her.
Here I am, a fellow human being with countless number of imperfections and weaknesses. I live, each and every day, fighting with each of those, trying to be a better person. She does the same. The challenges that she has to overcome, is much tougher, though. But who decides that a few people have to fight a tougher battle than most of us? Why can't they be like the rest of us? I don't know. And I will never know.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Deciphering politics
Indian politics continues to be the one thing which incessantly amazes me. It is something that I would never fully understand, no matter how hard I try. Just like electronics, the subject that I took up for Engineering studies.
But being a responsible citizen of this country, I can't fully turn my face away from politics. I need to know how my country is being run, by the representatives who are chosen by the people of this country. So, this post is the beginning of my humble attempt to analyze, understand and extract the valuable politics lessons, using the current happenings as my reference. I would also try to know about the various qualities that a politician should necessarily possess in order to lead this country to prosperity. If you are a mortal in a similar confused state as mine, join in, be a part, learn these valuable lessons, and throw in your suggestions. Or if you already claim to understand politics, there.. take that envious look from me.
Lesson no.1 - Never ending fight against corruption
Yes. That's something that politicians are supposed to do and talk about, throughout their political careers. Sorry. both are same. Talking is mostly what they do. Right? You can see corruption allegations being hurled at ministers and prominent leaders very often, and never think that it's for ruining the image of the enemy or for any sort of political gains. It's all part of the selfless fight. Want to see an example? No need to look too far.
If you have been reading the newspapers, or watching any of the news channels, you would know. The Bihar government was alleged of certain financial irregularities in the recent past. The opposition is demanding chief minister Nitish Kumar's resignation. Now, if you ask me, whether the allegation has truth in it, I don't know. That is definitely out of the radar of this blog. My focus is, the fight. Have a look at a few glimpses of that.
Bihar Assembly was in utter chaos, during last week. Now, for us, no better example can be found. How to fight against corruption is just being illustrated in the picture. Still don't get it? Let me explain
You can see the picture of MLC Jyoti Kumari throwing flower pots around. Flower pots made of clay tend to break when thrown from a particular height. What an effective way to protest against the alleged financial irregularities! But this particular technique works well only if the flower pots are the taxpayer's money. That's probably the reason why the respected MLC Jyoti Kumari didn't bring her own flower pots to implement this sophisticated yet effective way of fighting corruption. A slipper was flung at the speaker by someone. You might be thinking that it was a bit of an undisciplined act and all, but that's all part of the fight. A microphone was removed and thrown away, and lot more. Read the full story here.
I have studied about our political system in Social science, during my primary school days. But I never knew the practical side of it. Neither did the school Parliament teach me anything like these. Being in the school parliament was so easy, actually. No body threw slippers at each other. But the reality seems to be different. Chaos has prevailed in many of the state legislatures recently.(Link). So the school Parliaments need to change as well. Physical training is essential for the students. Or shall we club the school parliament with, say, Sports day or something? Training in Hammer throw, Shot put etc. might turn out to be pretty handy in the parliament.
Watch out for the coming lessons. Soon.
But being a responsible citizen of this country, I can't fully turn my face away from politics. I need to know how my country is being run, by the representatives who are chosen by the people of this country. So, this post is the beginning of my humble attempt to analyze, understand and extract the valuable politics lessons, using the current happenings as my reference. I would also try to know about the various qualities that a politician should necessarily possess in order to lead this country to prosperity. If you are a mortal in a similar confused state as mine, join in, be a part, learn these valuable lessons, and throw in your suggestions. Or if you already claim to understand politics, there.. take that envious look from me.
Lesson no.1 - Never ending fight against corruption
Yes. That's something that politicians are supposed to do and talk about, throughout their political careers. Sorry. both are same. Talking is mostly what they do. Right? You can see corruption allegations being hurled at ministers and prominent leaders very often, and never think that it's for ruining the image of the enemy or for any sort of political gains. It's all part of the selfless fight. Want to see an example? No need to look too far.
If you have been reading the newspapers, or watching any of the news channels, you would know. The Bihar government was alleged of certain financial irregularities in the recent past. The opposition is demanding chief minister Nitish Kumar's resignation. Now, if you ask me, whether the allegation has truth in it, I don't know. That is definitely out of the radar of this blog. My focus is, the fight. Have a look at a few glimpses of that.
Bihar Assembly was in utter chaos, during last week. Now, for us, no better example can be found. How to fight against corruption is just being illustrated in the picture. Still don't get it? Let me explain
You can see the picture of MLC Jyoti Kumari throwing flower pots around. Flower pots made of clay tend to break when thrown from a particular height. What an effective way to protest against the alleged financial irregularities! But this particular technique works well only if the flower pots are the taxpayer's money. That's probably the reason why the respected MLC Jyoti Kumari didn't bring her own flower pots to implement this sophisticated yet effective way of fighting corruption. A slipper was flung at the speaker by someone. You might be thinking that it was a bit of an undisciplined act and all, but that's all part of the fight. A microphone was removed and thrown away, and lot more. Read the full story here.
I have studied about our political system in Social science, during my primary school days. But I never knew the practical side of it. Neither did the school Parliament teach me anything like these. Being in the school parliament was so easy, actually. No body threw slippers at each other. But the reality seems to be different. Chaos has prevailed in many of the state legislatures recently.(Link). So the school Parliaments need to change as well. Physical training is essential for the students. Or shall we club the school parliament with, say, Sports day or something? Training in Hammer throw, Shot put etc. might turn out to be pretty handy in the parliament.
Watch out for the coming lessons. Soon.
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