Inteahaa ho gayi intezaar ki ...

She was wearing bright blue colored top and a broad 70's style shade on top of her nicely done hairdo. From this distance it was difficult to make out her eye colour but probably they were dark brown. She looked pretty confident and one who would accept no nonsense, may be it is the delhi air which had made her so. She was not alone on the bus stop but she was the only one whom i noticed. She was trying to convey something through her eyes, I couldn't read them. She was expecting something out of me, I am pretty sure I had not met her before, why would she be accepting any favour from me. Our eyes met only for a split second.

She had the typical Indian attire on, with beautiful broad bangles probably from Delhi Hat. Punjabi suit with matching pair of shoes, both magenta in color. There was a whiff of freshness about her which wanted me to stop but I was not the one driving. She too exchanged her disappointment through her eyes.

What was it that today every bus stop had something to ask for. Ohh, I realised I was the one travelling alone on an autorickshaw on this busy road and the girls were looking in anticipation if the auto was empty.They were wishing if I had not existed it would have been their day but I was occupying the coveted seat of power. I wish I could help them all but alas !!!

punar janm :)

I could not handle it any longer, finally had to relent. After months of postponement I finally decided to take the plunge and sat down to format my laptop. It has been collecting all the garbage i threw at it since 3 years or so, with just one partition of 80 GB you can or may be you can't (depending on your technology exposure) imagine the amount of pressure my lappie had to handle for 3 gruelling years and it did not fail me once except for some murphy's moments which are in any way inevitable.

The journey started by collecting artillery for the kill, thus from Nehru Place I bought one 250 gigs external hard drive to collect the trash and sat down collating data which finally came down to 3 or 4 folders each summing total of 40 GB of data. Three years of my life were bundled in this neatly arranged stack of folders. The memories are not arranged in a hierarchical form like folders in windows or directories in Unix rather they are pretty much random mishmash of events. There are some pictures which will not leave your mind howsoever hard you try and some other faces would just not pop up in your head at times.

There is an option with Dell wherein by a particular key combination you can take your laptop back to the state in which it was bought. I used just that after proper backups and all, and witnessed the laptop take the first angdai of sorts with its first kilkari sound. I was just thinking if it was possible with human lives too, mark a restore point and in future if need be take your life back to this point. The whole life's learning will be washed away and you will be as brand new as it could be. I would want to take my life back to certain points in life just to regain the innocence and the blissful ignorance. Only if it was possible :), by the way my laptop is sparkling new and at least for a few more days I am not going to replace the data backup just to enjoy the ignorance or the absence of past burdens.

Phunny video :D

Kids :)

Wish I could say all this to her ;) ... may be i didn't read much.

No stag entry :)

In our office one of the rest rooms has the entry board as on the right.

Are only couples allowed ?

faith on fate

"maine kaha thaa naa, maine kaha tha na ... " is what kajol is saying on the tele-idiot box and shahrukh in his kkkkiran style trying to convince the punjab gang in their own den to take away the soon to be bride without violence, how impractical but it is only the impractical and unconventional who make a story I think.

I think you have guessed the above movie right and please try to relate this introduction and what I am going to write below at your own risk.

I remember days when I would start my day with no water in the overhead tank due to the guy next door, who shared the tank with us, had left his tap open and left for his hometown. The way out was I'd go upstairs use a pipe to steal water from neighbors tank into our own or carry bucket from top floor to our own. I leave for office late and find that breakfast is finished. Settle down on your desk with bhookha pet and one strong coffee down when I plan to start work Manager informs me
that whatever code changes I had applied yesterday are undone because the person sitting in US has changed the whole code library. I would sit through the whole day to do the whole setup again which means 4-5 hours worth of rework. That done when I reach back home in the evening only to find out that we do not have electricity at home because the check that I deposited bounced. Imagine my plight with special emphasis on the helplessness of bechara me.

There are times when things would just not go well for you for no fault of yours. It has happened to me many a times though mostly the unfavorable happenings could be very insignificant.I have become so pro that i very soon realize when I have fallen into this vicious circle of helplessness (VCH). Typical symptoms of VCH - unfavorable incidents happen back to back, none of them has any longish impact, an overdose of helplessness and only time can cure one VCH.

The defense mechanism that I have developed is to identify when I am in the middle of one VHC and just to hang in there and swallow all the harmless insults thrown at you by fate. If possible share it with someone, lets say your blog readers. I am undergoing another VHC less intense but running a lot longer in duration I guess.I am not able to enjoy the most important day in life - today, each day :D ...

P.S. : One of my friends had asked for a bada saa post so here it is, interesting or not ;)

You Should Be a Film Writer

You don't just create compelling stories, you see them as clearly as a movie in your mind. You have a knack for details and dialogue. You can really make a character come to life. Chances are, you enjoy creating all types of stories. The joy is in the storytelling. And nothing would please you more than millions of people seeing your story on the big screen!

What Type of Writer Should You Be?