When I was coming back home from giving my sem exam yesterday, I decided to call up my friend who was my classmate with whom I had'nt been in touch for the last 5 years .I had only his number stored in my phone but did not call him all this while coz normally I deal only in messages and don't call up anyone as my balance always reads below 10(*Interesting excuse heh*) .I decide to scare him a little bit.Mauja hi Mauja hounded my ears for about 45 seconds when a sleepy voice answered the call(guess he was sleeping).Is that Mr.Samal? I asked in Oriya...Aagyaan he said...I said Huh???.....Then I realised that it meant yes sir..the ploy had worked...He thought I was some elderly person..After bothering him for a minute or two I told him who I was..Abuses and laughs came from the other side.He was in Kolkata doing his mbbs.So another 2 years to go huh..I asked...no dude not 2 .....another 4 and a half years to go ......
The guy had stood 2'nd in our school in the 10'th standard.He was shrewed,arrogant and had a lot of attitude(around 90% of the scholis are like that,are'nt they :P)..bullied me a lot in school and here I was, a good 2 years senior to him(degree wise) though we were of the same age.He had taken a 2 year drop inorder to get into a good medical college.He wanted to become a doctor at any cost.Infact more than 50 % of my classmates of 10'th standard in bhubaneswar are atleast 1 year junior to me(degree wise) as they have taken a drop after their 12'th to "prepare"for either their engg or mostly medical to get into a good college.Compare it with here in mumbai ....the % could be hardly 20.
I remember in one of our pct(communication subject) session practicals in this sem itself we were asked to introduce ourselves in front of the prof and one of the guys in his own introduction told that he had wasted two years to get into a medical college and now finds himself here in this college.The ma'm quickly responded saying don't say you wasted it.you did a learn a lot ...I did'nt bother responding then but..."learn a lot".....what did he learn .....that the hard work of 2 years does not pay off.....I am actually not against people taking a 'n' years of preparation time but the point is that if you want to be a doctor or something that really you want to become, why do something like that.why not work harder during that 10'th-12'th standard period..agreed that luck does not favour you all the time but if you have the determination to do something ,you are bound to acheive it.and if that does not work out,why not go for something else.I really can't think of anything that is to be learnt in that 2 years really except the bio,physics and chemistry fundamentals:P...As one prof had once said you are actually gonna retire one year before your actual retirement age:P
The guy who I was taking about earlier is also a womanizer ...so you can imagine what he did in those 2 years. :P.. He does have a girlfriend in his coll...So well it's actually not gonna be 4 years dude ...it will be another 5 .. :D ..Just kidding ........wish you well all the time :)
Song I am listening to:
"Tera Mujhse" from Aa gale lag jaa (1973 flick)
Tera mujhse hain pehle ka nataa koi
yoon hee nahi dil loobhata koi ~~*Beautiful Lyrics & a Beautiful Song*
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Endurance Personified
Read A beautiful Article/Story in Mumbai Mirror yesterday
Hoped that I get it on the net and I did
Here it goes
Students who fail to clear their SSC or HSC exams in the first attempt, or even subsequently, should take heart from the approach of Zohaib Salmani. The 25-year-old did not clear the SSC exams in his first attempt. But he did not give up and tried again. And again. And again... Coming back to the point, Salmani’s perseverance paid off when he passed the exams this year in his 14th attempt.Salmani was a student of Anjuman Islam High School at CST. He loves cricket and plays cricket. When he first appeared for the SSC exams in March 1999, he managed to pass in just one subject, which was Urdu. Soon after, he started assisting his father, Aqueel Kiratpuri, at his hair cutting saloon.In March 2000, he tried again but failed to pass in any subject.Salmani says, “In October 2000, I again sat for all the papers, except Urdu, but still couldn’t clear any. I wanted to leave studies. Since our saloon is at Lokhandwala in Andheri (W), TV stars were regulars and I thought I should stop attempting SSC and concentrate on a career as a hair stylist.“However, my father wanted me to complete my SSC at any cost. Each time I failed, he used to ask me to try the next time.”He took admission in a night school at Malad. His efforts began paying off. In March 2003, he passed his science paper.“It gave me fresh hope and I decided to attempt all the papers in March 2004. But to my dismay, I could clear only Urdu and science papers. failed in all the other subjects,” says Salmani.When he failed in the October 2004 exams too, instead of feeling dejected, he resolved to clear the SSC exams.In March 2005, he managed to clear English but could not pass in the remaining subjects when he appeared for the exams in October 2005. “In March 2006, I cleared the mathematics paper and in October 2006 the Hindi and Marathi papers. Now the only subject that remained to be cleared was social science,” says Salmani.But it took him two more attempts to clear the paper. “I was not successful in March 2007 but cleared it in the October 2007 exams,” says Salmani.The results were released on Friday and Salmani says, “It was the happiest day in my life. I am happy I listened to my father’s advice and persevered.”His father distributed sweets among family and friends to celebrate Salmani’s rather unique success. “The good part is that he kept on trying and did not lose hope. So what if he took 14 attempts? At least, I can proudly say my son tried really hard for his SSC,”
Love the last few lines spoken by his father
quote:"I can proudly say my son tried really hard for his SSC.”
There is no substitute to trying.It just goes on to show what determination can do.The question is not about failing,the question is do we try enough as individuals .Whatever his problem would have been,the guy who passed did "try" .
~kudos~
Hoped that I get it on the net and I did
Here it goes
Students who fail to clear their SSC or HSC exams in the first attempt, or even subsequently, should take heart from the approach of Zohaib Salmani. The 25-year-old did not clear the SSC exams in his first attempt. But he did not give up and tried again. And again. And again... Coming back to the point, Salmani’s perseverance paid off when he passed the exams this year in his 14th attempt.Salmani was a student of Anjuman Islam High School at CST. He loves cricket and plays cricket. When he first appeared for the SSC exams in March 1999, he managed to pass in just one subject, which was Urdu. Soon after, he started assisting his father, Aqueel Kiratpuri, at his hair cutting saloon.In March 2000, he tried again but failed to pass in any subject.Salmani says, “In October 2000, I again sat for all the papers, except Urdu, but still couldn’t clear any. I wanted to leave studies. Since our saloon is at Lokhandwala in Andheri (W), TV stars were regulars and I thought I should stop attempting SSC and concentrate on a career as a hair stylist.“However, my father wanted me to complete my SSC at any cost. Each time I failed, he used to ask me to try the next time.”He took admission in a night school at Malad. His efforts began paying off. In March 2003, he passed his science paper.“It gave me fresh hope and I decided to attempt all the papers in March 2004. But to my dismay, I could clear only Urdu and science papers. failed in all the other subjects,” says Salmani.When he failed in the October 2004 exams too, instead of feeling dejected, he resolved to clear the SSC exams.In March 2005, he managed to clear English but could not pass in the remaining subjects when he appeared for the exams in October 2005. “In March 2006, I cleared the mathematics paper and in October 2006 the Hindi and Marathi papers. Now the only subject that remained to be cleared was social science,” says Salmani.But it took him two more attempts to clear the paper. “I was not successful in March 2007 but cleared it in the October 2007 exams,” says Salmani.The results were released on Friday and Salmani says, “It was the happiest day in my life. I am happy I listened to my father’s advice and persevered.”His father distributed sweets among family and friends to celebrate Salmani’s rather unique success. “The good part is that he kept on trying and did not lose hope. So what if he took 14 attempts? At least, I can proudly say my son tried really hard for his SSC,”
Love the last few lines spoken by his father
quote:"I can proudly say my son tried really hard for his SSC.”
There is no substitute to trying.It just goes on to show what determination can do.The question is not about failing,the question is do we try enough as individuals .Whatever his problem would have been,the guy who passed did "try" .
~kudos~
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Time to "Vomit"
In these two and a half years of my engineering life I have realised that mugging can be a great stress buster.I mean it's like a "jap"(pronounced as jp or jaap)...You keep on repeating the things again and again like a sadhu does and if your lucky ...(i.e if your stars are in the right place :P),you even get to understand the concept behind it .....exam time is here again and the irrepairable continues..... *Sigh* ...."Best of luck to all engg aspirants"(Hopefully the "JP" works :P)
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
"Heartfelt"
Maroon 5 ->"She will be Loved"
I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
She will be loved
Such a beautifully written song ,not only is it beautifully written but also sung so well especially these particular lines .....and the music is out of this world ....
~Kudos~
I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
She will be loved
Such a beautifully written song ,not only is it beautifully written but also sung so well especially these particular lines .....and the music is out of this world ....
~Kudos~
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Dhoooom :->"Of Another kind" :P
Now I am a very simple and quite a normal kind of a guy ......no kidding ......ask my friends if u will......innocent , sweet and shy are the other likely adjectives that they may use :P.......so if something completely "out of the box","abnormal"and a different from usual thing happens then I get completely taken aback, shocked and surprised .....I question myself then that in which world was I living in ??...world ai'nt a simple place to live in afterall ......there are so many things that I did'nt know .......A similar kind of thing happened on the month of september in 2004 .....
DHOOM....yeah the movie featuring John abraham,Abhishek bachchan had just released.....chal let's go ..my bro said....okies.....let's go ......we got a seat not exactly in the corner of the theater but it was in the right hand side and on the top most row..... two seats on the right hand side of me were empty and I wished it remain so till the end of the movie :P...The movie started...got enough space to sit as the sides seats were empty :D....Twenty minutes had gone by when I saw a couple in their 20's (18-25) of that range walk towards me .....They occupied the seats to the right of me The guy sat next to me whereas the gal sat next to the guy .......I was cool about it....no prob's....well no prob's untill about 5 minutes of them occupying their seats .....I looked at my right I could'nt see the guy's face side on ...could only see the backside of his head...I frankly could not make out what they were actually doing .......Again after about 5 minutes the same thing happened....I was like wtf is happening .....This kept happening every 5 minutes during the film ....On one such occusion I saw the guy just bring the girl's top of the sleeve down so that nobody could see her arms...Geee They are cuddling for sure I thought .......Light's came onn to my releif ....I normally don't go out of the hall so I stayed onn and so did the Twosome.....During this time I heard the two were in a conversation ....Let's give it a ear I thought :P....To my horror I overheard the girl asking the boy that what he did and what were his plans and all ......Now I thought surely the girl must be knowing the boy quite well ,but no she did'nt .....wtf I thought ....After the break It started again .....wtf maan ...let me concentrate on the movie for god sake's :(...It continued every 5 minutes during the movie .....The climax ...I mean of the movie :P was about to approach...and guess what the couple left .....Guess they already had climaxed :D....John abraham died ...."what a waste of life" quoted abhishek bachchan ......I thought what a waste of Time .....I did not see the movie fully or rather properly....I was busy watching another one.....though not properly coz the boy's head covered it .......damn!!....In this while I forgot to mention that my bro also kept peeping into them coz he saw me a little uncomfortable but He enjoyed the film ....dhoom that is :P
After the movie was over and as we were walking I asked my bro ...Dude did u see what the couple next to me was doing ??? now my bro said something which I thought was completely bulls*** at that time ...but now I realise why he said so .......He said ....dude You should have concentrated on the movie .......what others are doing should not be your priority....It should be of no concern to u at all ...You had gone to the theater to see dhoom and not be a Peeping tom ......Yeah right .....I thought at that time ...But now it sounds so true .....You know that day I could'nt sleep at all ....Aisa bhi hota hain ....I thought....Geee which world was I living in then ...The guy who was enjoying himself looked farely decent .....so did the girl for that matter ....but not in the world could I imagine at that time that they would begin doing what they did ....I mean A cinema hall is built to watch a movie ......not a place for kissing and cuddling.....Like the one liners in good ol' american TV shows I wanted to tell them ..."GET A ROOM".....but hell who wants to take pangas ...certainly am not one of those :P....
From that day onwards my prospectives changed.....now a days I make sure that I get a seat straight in the middle of the theater :P....The "cuddlers" can cuddle anywhere they want to but not in a cinema hall.......certainly not anywhere near me for god sake's :D
DHOOM....yeah the movie featuring John abraham,Abhishek bachchan had just released.....chal let's go ..my bro said....okies.....let's go ......we got a seat not exactly in the corner of the theater but it was in the right hand side and on the top most row..... two seats on the right hand side of me were empty and I wished it remain so till the end of the movie :P...The movie started...got enough space to sit as the sides seats were empty :D....Twenty minutes had gone by when I saw a couple in their 20's (18-25) of that range walk towards me .....They occupied the seats to the right of me The guy sat next to me whereas the gal sat next to the guy .......I was cool about it....no prob's....well no prob's untill about 5 minutes of them occupying their seats .....I looked at my right I could'nt see the guy's face side on ...could only see the backside of his head...I frankly could not make out what they were actually doing .......Again after about 5 minutes the same thing happened....I was like wtf is happening .....This kept happening every 5 minutes during the film ....On one such occusion I saw the guy just bring the girl's top of the sleeve down so that nobody could see her arms...Geee They are cuddling for sure I thought .......Light's came onn to my releif ....I normally don't go out of the hall so I stayed onn and so did the Twosome.....During this time I heard the two were in a conversation ....Let's give it a ear I thought :P....To my horror I overheard the girl asking the boy that what he did and what were his plans and all ......Now I thought surely the girl must be knowing the boy quite well ,but no she did'nt .....wtf I thought ....After the break It started again .....wtf maan ...let me concentrate on the movie for god sake's :(...It continued every 5 minutes during the movie .....The climax ...I mean of the movie :P was about to approach...and guess what the couple left .....Guess they already had climaxed :D....John abraham died ...."what a waste of life" quoted abhishek bachchan ......I thought what a waste of Time .....I did not see the movie fully or rather properly....I was busy watching another one.....though not properly coz the boy's head covered it .......damn!!....In this while I forgot to mention that my bro also kept peeping into them coz he saw me a little uncomfortable but He enjoyed the film ....dhoom that is :P
After the movie was over and as we were walking I asked my bro ...Dude did u see what the couple next to me was doing ??? now my bro said something which I thought was completely bulls*** at that time ...but now I realise why he said so .......He said ....dude You should have concentrated on the movie .......what others are doing should not be your priority....It should be of no concern to u at all ...You had gone to the theater to see dhoom and not be a Peeping tom ......Yeah right .....I thought at that time ...But now it sounds so true .....You know that day I could'nt sleep at all ....Aisa bhi hota hain ....I thought....Geee which world was I living in then ...The guy who was enjoying himself looked farely decent .....so did the girl for that matter ....but not in the world could I imagine at that time that they would begin doing what they did ....I mean A cinema hall is built to watch a movie ......not a place for kissing and cuddling.....Like the one liners in good ol' american TV shows I wanted to tell them ..."GET A ROOM".....but hell who wants to take pangas ...certainly am not one of those :P....
From that day onwards my prospectives changed.....now a days I make sure that I get a seat straight in the middle of the theater :P....The "cuddlers" can cuddle anywhere they want to but not in a cinema hall.......certainly not anywhere near me for god sake's :D
Friday, November 9, 2007
The "Che" phenomenon !!!!!!
A year back I remember in my tuition class ......A guy asking me....
He:dude who's this guy????
Me:don't know maan........not in my coll .......
He:arre no .....not him .....the face on that guy's t-shirt .........who is he ????
Now call me a noob or an illitrate ...but I too did'nt know who he was ..... :P
Me:I don't know maan .......
A week passed and we two met in the same tuition class .....and believe it or not ......we said the sentence exactly at the same time ......dude that guy was che guevara !!!!!
The face had stayed on our minds for a week .......we both had done some research on it .........such was the impact of the face ......such a cult .......This guy is more popular than Shahrukh Khan in Kolkata ......Died at the age of 39 .......A guy with such a following .....
No where to Run
No where to hide
This is the Time
Let's Do or Die !!!!!
No that's not his saying .....infact a Para frm the Chak De India Title Track .....which kind of epitamizes the guy in the no:4 position of the most influential heros and icons list of the 20'th century in the TIME magazine.....
It's kinda sad we don't have heros like him in India .......but the cult of che will always live onn .........LONG LIVE !!!!!!!
Friday, November 2, 2007
Sonu nigam :The true Indian Rockstar
Blogging after loooong time .......no ...not giving any excuses though they are all genuine......It's been exactly a month ......I want to write a blog everyday u know but sometimes what u want to do may not be possible everytime thanxs to our internet service provider...... :P
I wanted to write this on the 21'st of October but then I saw a red cross at the right bottom screen of my monitor which meant it was'nt possible at that day ..........Hell It was'nt possible that month .......
There is a wave of International Artists performing in India...the latest being MISS "BOOTYLIACIOUS"..Beyonce... They were showing glimpses of her concert on ndtv ......Everybody was shown having a good time .........though I could'nt get a thing........I really thought it was too loud ......Blame it on me not liking her stuff....though her songs like "crazy in love" and "naughty girl" are there in my mp3 player ... :P.... I really thought the people came in to "see" Beyonce rather than to hear her sing frankly ..........I certainly would not pay >2000 to just see her LIVE ...a dekho on the net or in a magazine is enough for me ..... :P
Enough of her......coz I thought the night of 20'th october was a real rocking night .......Sonu nigam had come to vashi to perform .....and what a night it was ......Why do we want international artists to come to india and perform ......though some should ...yes .......but when u have sonu nigam on stage .......there really seems no need of having them......
It began with some average numbers from him but as the night moved on it truly went frm moderate to hardcore ......It was similar to what he did last year but it feels as if he goes a notch higher as a performer everytime .........the "BIJURIA" track seems a very average track while u hear it but when sonu nigam performs it on stage it feels something else .......it's not everytime that a singer sings a particular song twice and the whole 20,000 crowd dance and clap with him on one particular song .......there were more songs to which each and everyone were clapping and dancing to.....it's a pity that a singer of his calibre has to sing emotional songs everytime ..... :(........
He is nothing without his band though ........the band is super rocking .....I noticed one thing though ........Both the band and Sonu nigam himself have a tendency to repeat the same kind of performance ....It felt as if we were watching the last year's show .......The jokes cracked by Sonu were the same and the band repeated the roo-ba-roo song once again at the start ......I hope he and his band bring some thing new in their next outing .......hopefully next year ... :D
There is a great void in the indian stage performances now-a-days but there are some who try and keep that void covered...I know there are rock bands like parikrama and indian ocean etc ........but if there is one guy and his band .....which sets the stage on fire it has to be ........Sonu nigam--- The true Indian Rockstar
P.S: A request to the organiser for next year .......plzz remove all the chairs that are there .........keep the whole ground open ....... :P......let everybody stand and feel free to rock..... :D
I wanted to write this on the 21'st of October but then I saw a red cross at the right bottom screen of my monitor which meant it was'nt possible at that day ..........Hell It was'nt possible that month .......
There is a wave of International Artists performing in India...the latest being MISS "BOOTYLIACIOUS"..Beyonce... They were showing glimpses of her concert on ndtv ......Everybody was shown having a good time .........though I could'nt get a thing........I really thought it was too loud ......Blame it on me not liking her stuff....though her songs like "crazy in love" and "naughty girl" are there in my mp3 player ... :P.... I really thought the people came in to "see" Beyonce rather than to hear her sing frankly ..........I certainly would not pay >2000 to just see her LIVE ...a dekho on the net or in a magazine is enough for me ..... :P
Enough of her......coz I thought the night of 20'th october was a real rocking night .......Sonu nigam had come to vashi to perform .....and what a night it was ......Why do we want international artists to come to india and perform ......though some should ...yes .......but when u have sonu nigam on stage .......there really seems no need of having them......
It began with some average numbers from him but as the night moved on it truly went frm moderate to hardcore ......It was similar to what he did last year but it feels as if he goes a notch higher as a performer everytime .........the "BIJURIA" track seems a very average track while u hear it but when sonu nigam performs it on stage it feels something else .......it's not everytime that a singer sings a particular song twice and the whole 20,000 crowd dance and clap with him on one particular song .......there were more songs to which each and everyone were clapping and dancing to.....it's a pity that a singer of his calibre has to sing emotional songs everytime ..... :(........
He is nothing without his band though ........the band is super rocking .....I noticed one thing though ........Both the band and Sonu nigam himself have a tendency to repeat the same kind of performance ....It felt as if we were watching the last year's show .......The jokes cracked by Sonu were the same and the band repeated the roo-ba-roo song once again at the start ......I hope he and his band bring some thing new in their next outing .......hopefully next year ... :D
There is a great void in the indian stage performances now-a-days but there are some who try and keep that void covered...I know there are rock bands like parikrama and indian ocean etc ........but if there is one guy and his band .....which sets the stage on fire it has to be ........Sonu nigam--- The true Indian Rockstar
P.S: A request to the organiser for next year .......plzz remove all the chairs that are there .........keep the whole ground open ....... :P......let everybody stand and feel free to rock..... :D
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