शेरिंग ऑटो का सफ़र

*** मैं करीब तीन साल तीन महीने बाद शेरिंग ऑटो में बेठा तो इनमे  बिताये पुराने सफ़र के कुछ अनुभव याद आ गए जिनको मैं नीचे लिख रहा हूँ.***

 

शेरिंग ऑटो का सफ़र,

छोड़ता हर किसी के मन पे अपना असर.

 

इसके  सफ़र का अनुभव,

हे अपने आप में एक अनोखा अनुभव.

 

इसमें बेठ कर मज़ा आता हें खाने में हवा,

पर जब ड्राईवर पीछे खड़े होने को कह दे तो हो जाती हें ख़राब हवा.

 

इस ऑटो में सफ़र की क्या बात हो,

जब हिमेश रेशमियां के गानों के साथ आपके सफ़र की शुरुवात हो.

 

ऑटो एक पहिये पे चार लोग आधारित हैं,

तभी तो कुल मिलकर तीन पहियों पे बारह लोग सवार हैं.

 

अपना हाथ दिखायें ऑटो ज़रूर रुक जायेगा,

जगह हो या न हो पर आपको ज़रूर ले जायेगा.

 

ऑटो में ठूंस ठूंस कर बेठ्तें हें सब,

फिर भी मोबाइल फ़ोन जेब से निकलने की जद्दो जेहत करते हें सब.

 

कहीं बच्चों की चिल्लम चिल्ली,

तो कहीं ट्राफ्फिक के होर्न की पी पाँ पीपी.

 

कहीं नैन मटक्का,

तो कभी  बगल में बेठे पेसेंज़र से धक्का.

 

कहीं इंडियन पोलिटिक्स / क्रिकेट टीम पे फंडे ,

तो कभी ऑटो रिकक्षा ड्राईवर से पैसो को लेकर पंगे.

 

कभी बगल से जा रही गाडी से ड्राईवर को गाली,

तो कभी सबसे पीछे बेठे पस्सेंगेर ने को ऑटो रोकने के लिए तीन चार बार आवाज़ मारी.

 

कभी सामने वाले के पेरों में अपने पेर फसां कर बेठना,

तो कभी किसी आंटी का ज़बरदस्ती अपने बच्चे को आपके पेरों पे बिठाना.

 

यह ड्राईवर भी अजीब कमाल करते हैं,

सीट खाली  हो तो आपको पीछे बिठाते हैं और अगर कोई मैडम आ जाये तो आपको आगे आधा बहार और आधा अन्दर बेठने को बुलाते हैं.

 

ड्राईवर का बोलने का मिजाज़ भी अलग हे,

हमको भैया और लड़की को मैडम का अंदाज़ ही अलग हैं.

 

हमने क्या इज्ज़त कहीं बेच खायी हें,

क्या सिर्फ लड़कियों ने ही ऑटो में इज्ज़त पायी हें.

 

भैया तो बात ऐसी हें,

इन शेरिंग ऑटो में सफ़र करना हें निराला,

आपको जल्दी न हो तो टाइम पास करने को इसमें ज़रूर जाना.

नोट: ऊपर लिखी पंक्तियों को हिंदी में लिखने के लिए गूगल transliteration का प्रयोग किया गया हें.

Things With in us

Hey Guys! Below I am putting some points which are with in all of us. I was observing these points or situations from quite a long time and I feel below mentioned points are applicable for both M and F so here they are:-

- Night club/disc me party karna aur subah uth kar hangover chai pee kar utarna.

- Public transport me thodi aged ladies aas pass ho to apni seat pe beth kar sone ka natak
karna.

- Daaru pee kar sabko apna bhai banana aur saare daring waale cheeze karna.

- Kisi khoobsurat ladki/ladke ko ek tak takna aur jab wo ek baar galti se hume dekh le to use
attitude dikhana.

- Apne parents k per (feets) na chue but jab kisi dost k parents aa jaye to sabse pehle aage badhkar unke per (feets) choona.

- Kisi ladki/ladka se apne crush ka ya pyar ka izhaar na karna aur apne aap ko FOSLA group me shaamil karna.

- Jab apne kisi dost ko koi particular cheez na mile to use yeh kar dilasa dena "Chodna yaar,
wo cheez tere liye thi nahin....tu is se acchi cheez deserve karta he" aur jab koi cheez khud ko na mile to mann hi mann us cheez k liye tadapna.

- Apne gang me hamesha kisi ek dost ki lena aur agar us dost ko koi problem ho jaye to us
problem ko solve karne me apni jee jaan ek kar dena.

- Dhabe pe beth kar child labour pe discussion karna aur tabhi saath me kehna "Oye chotu, 4
chai de de yaar".

- Indian cricket team match haar jaye to poori Indian cricket team to goli se udaane ki baat
karna lekin jab team match jeet jaye to unhi k liye pagalo ki tarah sadak pe naachna.

- Paani hamesha direct bottle se peena aur kehna "Yaar jo maza paani bottle se direct peene me
aata he wo maza glass se peene me kahan."

- Apni girlfriend se jayada apni bike ko pyaar karna.

- Apne favourite Actor ki picture lagi ho to Multiplex me baar baar band darwaze ki taraf dekhna aur uske khoolne ka intezaar karna.

- Traffic police waalon ko hamesha gaaliyan dena aur jab khud pakde jaaye to unhe Sir Sir bol
ke izzat dena aur rishwat dena.

- Apna koi dost jab chod kar jaa raha ho to use Good Bye ya Have a safe journey na kehna balki
use kehna "Beta tu nikal le ab yahan se...aur rukega to pitega aur phir yahi rahega".

- Hostel me ghoom ghoom kar Hero banke sabko koi subject padhana aur phir usi subject me khud back pana.

- Group me beth kar kisi ladki/ladke k baare me discussion karna aur wohi ladki/ladka apne
group k kisi ek memeber se baat kar le to phir us group member ki m** be**n ek karna.

- Apne desh me hote hue bhi Aapas me English me baat karna (although I am also writing it in English :)).

- Hamesha cool banna lekin jab ladai ho ya Gussa aaye to Jangal k sher ki tarah dahadna.

- Kisi ek lane me traffic jam lag jaye to bina soche samjhe sabko smartness dikhate hue wrong side me ghoos jana.

I believe there are plenty of such more points which can be metioned here. I hope you must have came across in your life with above mentioned points.

Anything (Kuch Bhi)

Some times English word “Anything” becomes most confusing specially when you ask your friend or partner about some thing and they just reply anything which is most annoying answer at that time.

Some of the such situations are:

Restaurant:What should we have for dinner?

Anything (Kuch Bhi) .

Deserts:Which Ice cream do you want to have?

Anything (Kuch Bhi).

Relation:We are going first time to his house, what should we take for him?

Anything (Kuch Bhi).

Shopping:Which type of jeans do you prefer to wear, Straight fit, narrow fit,Low waist?

Anything (Kuch Bhi). No particular type.

Television:Do you want to watch any specific channel?

Anything (Kuch Bhi).

Cake Shop: Which one you want to have?

Anything (Kuch Bhi).

 

and the worst situation comes when this word anytime get transformed in to anywhere and anytime like:-

Where we should go to have fun?

Anywhere (Kahin bhi).

Okay, but at what time?

Anytime (Kisi bhi time).

We can see such more examples from daily life. At that time you may get annoyed but later on when we think about it than we realize that these words comes out when the person who is asked some thing himself is not so sure or don’t know about the things. At that time these words comes like Anything. :)

Happy Independence Day

Let's remember the sacrifice given by great people who brought this independence to us, Let's start giving value to that sacrifice and Let's make India to that India which our great leaders has dreamed.

Happy Independence Day.

On My 26th Birthday..

• The day was Monday and it was not a regular Monday. It was a Holy Monday which is devoted to Lord Shiva and Parvati (Savan ka Somwar).
• Sun was shining high with cool breeze, the day was good.
• I completed my 26 years of life.
• Got Birthday Bumps from friends.
• I had a very delicious Fruit cake and French White Wine.
• Got Telephonic calls from some unexpected and did  not get call from some expected.
• Got The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown as my birth day gift from my Bro.
• Got 62 Birth day wishing posts on my social networking pages.
• Got Birthday wishing sms from my cell phone service provider, from the store where I usually do shopping, from one of the IT MNC where I have registered my self, From a restaurant. (I think they all are following CRM policies).
• I was missing mysteriously for 2.5 hrs.
• I was missing some of my friends who are no longer near by me.
• I was thinking about the life of past 26 years and the life of next 26 years.
• I was thinking about some of the responsibilities which may come to my shoulders in a year or two.
• I was thinking about the one who is still hidden from me in some part of this small world.
• I was trying to figure out what I have become in these 26 years.
• I enjoyed dinner with friends and a movie SALT (which was pathetic).

I was thinking too much…

Check out Staff--COS

***Disclaimer: Some content of this post is referred from Internet so it might be possible that you have already read few lines written below.***

Big Bazaar and other Super Stores (SupSto) have provided a new way of shopping which provide comfortable shopping to shoppers. All the items are exposed and arranged in racks/open shelves so that shopper does not have to ask for any help and they can pick whatever they want.

Notice anything the last time you went to the supermarket? An irritatingly long queue, perhaps? Or a mispriced product? But what about the woman or man - at the checkout counter, performing one of the most thankless tasks in modern society? Did you return him/her greeting or ignore him/her as you hurried to put away the debit card and pick the shopping which is made into pack by a assistant at check out counter? Few would blame you if you did. After all, how many of us bother to pay attention to the silent underclass scanning bar codes for low pay and little thanks?

They used to say “Good Morning or Thank you and have a nice day” 250 times a day (approximately); few shoppers bothered to reply.

They would scan up to 21,000 products a week, lift 800kg an hour and ask customers for Cash or card 200 times a day for payment. They have to scan 17 items per minute (IPM). 'If they don't maintain their IPM then Store Manager will find it out.

All their actions are accountable; CCTV, electronic monitoring, assessments, clocking in and out, customer and colleague feedback. With cameras in every nook and cranny, there is no escape for them. Even customers are watched through one sided mirrors as a surveillance to avoid thieving and pick pocketing.

The interesting thing in a SupSto is view of every customer's shopping cart or basket which is a privileged intrusion into their lives, and it quickly lends itself to the worst kind of cod psychology. For example:-

1. Take the single woman in her 30s buying the few carrot, 4 onions, one pack of small bread, one milk packet and single 100 grams of butter so here we can already see her night in with dinner-for-one followed by vegetable sandwich with tea or coffee or her breakfast with the same dish.

2. A totally exhausted man with the heavy bags under his eyes quietly purchasing Lactose, nappies and Juices for the new baby and mother at home.

3. The lonely middle-aged people with very few items, who gets through them in their entire day.

4. Two boys or girls with Shopping cart full of items would be bachelors residing with other room mates and who collect food items on weekend for the month or for the coming week.

For the elderly in particular, the supermarket illustrates just what a big challenge modern life is becoming to them. They struggle with the credit card pin pad and forget their numbers. Often, as they try for the second or third time, their hands tremble with nerves. (In those moments, I wish if SupSto could accept cheques).None of them comes in at the weekends because the scale of the supermarket, the overwhelming choice and the crowds make it too frightening a place for them. They hate trying to pack their goods up into bags, knowing that the people queuing behind them are cursing them for being slower.
There are a lot of health problems in this job - tendonitis, lumbago, that sort of thing. There is a lot of depression as well because you're completely ignored by everyone: by your managers and by the customers. After a while you become convinced that you're less than nothing. The worst thing happens to them when one of the parents scolds their child to complete their homework otherwise they will turn up like a check out staff.

There were the shoppers:-

1. Who sneakily took 11 or 12 products to the ten-items-or-fewer express checkout (some times I also do that).
2. Then there were those who left empty trolleys by the counter to book a place at the front of the queue; who tried to get out with CDs hidden in their boxes of Camembert.
3. Then there were those who arrived ten minutes after the store had closed; or who vented their anger on COS because they thought - mistakenly - that COS was overcharging them; or who ignored them as they marched past the check out counter while talking on their mobile phones.
4. There were also some impatient men waiting in line shouts from the back of the queue: 'I only stood here because I thought it would be quicker’ and due to his impatience he throws down his basket and storms off. (Well, I am not exactly one of them but once upon a time, I put my basket aside and stormed off when I found that there is a long queue on express counter).
5. Then there were those who scold COS about charging over price on an item and threatening them to Sue this SupSto in Consumer Court, they do not see that some body has mistakenly entered the wrong price of that product in the centralized database and COS has authority to correct the bill.

Some people behave in a supermarket as though they were in their living room. “It's quite amazing.” some customers unashamedly, in front of every one, finished the sandwiches/chocolates that they had taken off the shelves; others downed bottles of juice and cola in a nook of the store. A few even managed to have sex in the aisles. (Only seen in the SupSto out of India).

When you come out of the SupSto it feels like winning a battle especially on weekends. We feel good that we saved some money and shopped good items at cheaper price but we overlooked the fact that how much energy we have lost, how frustrated we were inside (even in air cooled SupSto) and how confused we were in picking up items from the store which actually results in unwanted items and more Rupees out of your wallet.

Next time you go to a SupSto please greet the COS, they are human too and if they don’t greet you then please don’t be rude on them.

How to Check out Chromosome XX

***Disclaimer: Intention of this post is not to hurt any ones feeling. Chro XX please don’t get furious take it as just for laugh instead. You will be smiling after reading this post.***

We the members of ChhichCom (Chhichhora Community is a group of chhichoras that was formally founded in Southern part of  India, Chennai) never leave a single chance to stare or check out a damsel and we all act as wing man (like Barney Stinson) to each other whenever Biological chromosome XX is spotted.

Below I am documenting different tricks and ways to check out Chro XX without getting noticed and looking stupid, it may be possible that some of you already know these but this will be helpful to new joiners in ChhichCom.

Golden Rule: You can not stare or check out a XX alone, you must inform your buddy/ies who are with you at that time.

Use of Mathematics:-

Pre-requisite: knowledge of angles.

Area of Use: Anywhere.

Example:

1. Hey bro, Check out the XX with short hairs sitting at 90 degrees behind you.

2. Check out the XX with Goggles on her head sitting at 45 degrees to your left.

Use of  Cutlery items:-

Pre-requisite: knowledge of eating by knife.

Area of Use: Restaurants,parties.

Example:-

1. Hey bro, Check out the XX with short hairs sitting at 90 degrees behind you.

Now, you don’t have to turn around while you are eating. Take your knife in your hand and put in such position so that you can see behind your back from the knife itself. If you are not able to see by your knife than ask your wing man to do so.

Use of Mirrors:-

Pre-requisite: Mirror or glass should be available around you.

Area of Use: Road,trains.

Example:-

1. If you are inside train and there is a XX in your coupe than see her through the Mirror installed on the window, this way your eyes will not get caught by fellow passengers.

2. If you are in traffic and a XX is inside a vehicle like Auto-rickshaw or car, adjust your side mirror to have a glance of her.

Use Of Camera:-

Pre-requisite: Mobile/Digital camera with zoom functionality.

Area of Use: Anywhere.

Example:-

Take out your digital camera and try to take photo of some object (it should look like you are taking a photo).Look at XX through its eye piece or in your mobile screen, zoom at desired level as per requirement.

Other general tips:-

1. If you want to get a feel of how a girl looks, make one quick glance and check to see if she's looking your way. If she is not, look again and look up and down fairly quickly (not too fast cause you won't gain any info, but not so slow that everyone notices) and then turn away.

2. Wait until she's busy. There's a great chance she won't catch you looking at her when she isn't paying attention or busy in something.

3. Take the help of a wing man. Guys never hunt alone anyway, so when you want to check out girls without their noticing, your buddies become your best defense. Sit next to each other at the bar/resto and face each other while having a conversation. While you may appear to be looking at your friend, you're really checking out the girls behind him.

4. Just look. Sometimes the best way to look innocent is just to go for it. Have a peek and check out the girl. She may not be used to such a direct look and either she'll think that you're looking at someone else.

I hope above methods/ways/tricks will help you to check out a XX next time. I may write a second part of this post once I have some more ideas about checking out a chromosome XX with out looking stupid. I am trying to act like a wing man to all members of ChhichCom. Let’s all seek blessings from the world’s greatest, Legendary and most awesome wing man Barney Stinson and let’s jump in the field.

It’s gonna be Legen……wait for it…..dary…….

Ping Pong on IT Table.

You must have played ping pong on TT table but have you played or seen ping pong on IT table? Those who are working in IT organizations may have seen this or may be even played this game.

In this game everybody try to pass the ball in other’s court just like as a real ping pong game. We all want to stay away from politics but if we just brush off the dust than you will find that we all are part of politics in same manner, may be intentionally or unintentionally.

Let’s take this game in form of a conversation between Company X, Y and Z from India, Belgium and Sweden respectively who are collaboratively working for a product where company Y is the boss/client of company X and company Z. Employee A, B and C are working for Company X,Y and Z respectively.

B@Y: Hello Gentleman, I hope everybody is in this conference to start this status meeting for the progress and updates of product “Atlantis”.

B@Y: We have observed that in past few weeks performance of product “Atlantis” get degraded, do you guys have any inputs on this. (Service)

C@Z: Yes, we have also observed this. May be this is due to the latest changes in the software from X. (Ping towards A)

Now A@X has to Pong on this to save his ass,he said:-

A@X: C, why do you think so? The changes in our software were made according to specification of your software, if your software is not taking these changes which are although suggested by you than what can we do in this and as we know, in the latest release the major changes were in your software so might be some change is leaking to degrade the performance. (Pong towards C).

B@Y: C, A got a point, will you ask your team take a look again the changes made for this release? A please ask your team also to review the changes at their side once again.

A got first point here.

B@Y: Let’s move on to the issue18765, C, this issue was identified at your end so what is the progress on this? (Service).

This is an ace for C and they have nothing to ping on this so again A got another point.

C@Z: We are still looking in to it, we are not able to reproduce this issue till now, as soon as we reproduce this we will have a fix.

B@Y: I am looking at issue56781. A, what is the status of this? (Service).

A@X: We have the fix of this issue but we need some inputs from dev team at Z to make the fix more robust. (Ping towards C).

C@Z: A, we have already provided some inputs on this as requested by your team, do you need more inputs? (Pong towards A).

A@X: Well, I will check with my team. (Point goes to C)

B@Y: A, we need this fix ASAP so please check this with your team.

Score up till now A on 2 and C on 1. B@Y played few more services and score was A on 4 and C on 4.

B@Y: As I mentioned in the email which I sent on last week Friday, we need functionality 10 in the upcoming release, Have you both discussed it with each other? (Service ).

A@X: Yes B, we have internally reviewed the requirements and we also sent some requirements of our software to dev team at Z to integrate functionality 10. Now we are waiting for information from Z so that we can move on. (Ping towards C).

A got the point but suddenly C ponged

C@Z:A, to provide that information we need high level logic of your software. We need to better understand how your software is working than only we will be able to provide that information as both software are tightly coupled with each other to achieve functionality 10.

and C got the point and game got deuce here.

B@Y: A, please first provide  the required high level logic of your software to C.

C get advantage.

A@X: B, it’s not possible, those documents are under NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement).

game again got deuce.

B@Y: C, as A mentioned that these docs are under NDA so I need to discuss this matter with higher management and then I will let you know about the availability of these documents.

B@Y: Okay Guys we are going good here so let us meet again next week at same time.

What happened above is just ping pong of things between two parties while one party is acting as mediator. No one won the game and at the end all things were good.These things happens when ping pong is played on IT table.

Lady in the Gogs

Why BPO section of a company have more pretty girls as compared to IT section? This imbalance of pretty girls leads IT guys to woo every other pretty girl walking down in the company premises.
Whenever a new girl get spotted in the company premises, two speculations are made:-
1. If she is looking like every other girl i.e. a girl in formals (not very stylish cloths) with less makeup carrying a descent hand bag than she is in the IT department.
2. If she is looking like a girl with Sun glasses either on her eyes or on her head, having more makeup, funky hand bag and stylish cloths than she is in BPO department.
When speculation second is valid than all eyes escorts her un till the moment she disappears.
Some Software firms maintains male to female ratio in a team and some do not believe in such kind of ratio, I am working in the second type of software firm so whenever a new girl walks down on the floor all guys who were working very seriously in their respective module do not miss the chance to have a glance at new girl apart from the fact that before hearing the news about that new girl they were completely lost in their screen.
One fine day we were discussing about something and all team members except one were facing towards the window and the one was facing towards the bay (space between two cubicles which is used to commute on the floor), during the discussion he suddenly rose his eye brows and his eyes became wide. This gesture of him was enough for all of us to conclude that he just saw a new good looking girl on our floor.We all asked him “What is it ??” he said “A girl in the Gogs..”
We all turned our face backwards and 10 eyes were searching for that girl, one team mate asked him “Where? in which direction…” he left his chair and said “I am gonna check whether she is release version 1.0 or 2.0”. I know, now you must be wondering what does release version 1.0 or 2.0 means w.r.t a girl. Well, release version 1.0 means a unmarried girl so there are more chances to date her apart from the possibility that she is already having a boy friend or not, release version 2.0 means a married girl who become a lady so chances to date her is negligible.
All the guys who saw her were curious and all were trying to find out answer of one question which is “does she came for a interview or to join our project ?” and answer of this question depends in which room she went to i.e. if she is in a room where managers conduct interview than she is for interview and if she is in a room of big boss then she is definitely joining the project.
In the mean time our colleague came back and said “Guys, get back to work, she is 2.0 and came for a interview and yeah….she is Lady in the Gogs”…..oh man….c’mon…. this was the reaction of our team.I know this is a stupid thing but it is within all of us.
There is also one thing in IT offices, if a girl is really good looking than you will find this in first glance but if a girl is not really good looking and when you saw her then following things happen:-
Day 1: Ahaan, New girl.
Day 2: She is not good looking.
Day 3: She is Okay but not that much good looking.
.
.
Day 7:  She is Okay but not that much good looking.
Day 8: Okay, she is not good looking but she is a nice girl.
Day 9: C’mon man, I talked to her, she is a nice girl.
.
.
Day 20: Although she is not beautiful but she is really nice, intelligent and fun to be with girl.You will definitely get impressed if you talk to her.
Day 21: You will forget what you said in first seven days for this girl.
Day 25: You are trying to get some moments with her may be a coffee in pantry or just some project related talks.
Day 30: You will slightly fall for her but not completely (still at safe place).
Bottom line: You think a particular girl is not very beautiful but if you start seeing/interacting her every day then your views about that girl will change.
I believe this is a story of every IT house when a girl or Lady in the Gogs or may be without Gogs walks down the floor.

Congiri or Emotional Atyachar

At some point of time in daily life we all have been to some kind of emotional atyachar or congiri and I think this is due to the fact that we all (Indians) are God fearing instead of God loving.(may be you are thinking that how nature of relation to the god and con/emotional blackmail are related to each other…well this is a different part….let’s not take it here).

One fine afternoon, after having my lunch I was walking down the street, I came across a old woman who was wearing very dirty cloths with body full of wrinkles.She begged to me for money so that she can have her lunch, I again looked her and she seemed to be craving for food. I took out my wallet and I was about to give her 10 bucks but then I refrained myself, I thought it would be impossible for her to get some food in just 10 bucks so I gave her 20 bucks instead.I was also thinking, what if she is conning me and she don’t need to have lunch but the money, I asked  her where she is going to take lunch (Well, I know that was a preposterous question but I was eager to verify that was she really hungry) and she pointed me towards one road side eatery centre.

I gave her 20 bucks and turned back to the way where I was going, I was still thinking was she really hungry? should I go back and cross check whether she is taking the lunch or she successfully conned me for 20 bucks. Well, here I was in dilemma, cross checking her seemed to be a mistake and not cross checking her also seemed to be a mistake so either way I was doing a mistake but yes it’s a mistake, i know it’s a mistake but there are certain things in life where you know it’s a mistake but before doing this mistake you don't really know it’s a mistake because the only way to really know it’s a mistake is to make the mistake and look back and say yep...that was the mistake.So really...the bigger mistake would be not to make a mistake because than you go in your whole life not really knowing if something is mistake or not (I know, I used mistake a lot here) so I went back to cross check.

I found that she did not went to take her lunch and she was conning again some one else so that she can have more  money…what a emotional atyachar on all.I went to her (she looked pale by looking at me) and I asked her to give my 20 bucks back otherwise I will take her to police for conning people (I knew that taking her to police is not going to do anything and I was not going to Police for 20 bucks but that dialogue was to make her scared), she started her emotional atyachar dialogues, I asked her that why she told me that she was hungry, just to gain sympathy so that she can fetch out more money… she had no answer.

I took her to the same road side eatery where she pointed just few minutes ago and asked her to eat food there, I stood there until she finished her lunch. Her lunch cost her 10 bucks (so I did a mistake to give her 20 bucks), I asked her to pay 10 bucks for her lunch and to keep rest of 10 bucks.

May be I am so concerned or cruel on her as it was a matter of just 20 bucks which is not a big deal but I was happy that I did two mistakes and from both these mistakes I came to know about two things:-

1. In just 10 bucks you can have your lunch at a low grade eatery stall if you are not conscious about hygiene and your vitality.

2. By doing second mistake I came to know that I made a mistake (the first one).

Yeh Mumbai he meri jaan

May be most of you already know this story but those who do not know about this story, read on to have some laugh.

Read on... for the ones who have to travel through train...

A recent incident saw one such hapless victim falling prey to the overenthusiastic nature of Bombay's local train commuters. Our hero, a man from Pune, wanted to go to Matunga, but as luck and trains would have it, boarded a fast train not halting at his destination. He panicked on realizing his mistake but by then the local had started moving. On seeing his plight, a sympathetic co-passenger decided to come to his rescue. It seemed that he had been commuting by that particular train (6:03pm Kasara Fast) for the past 6 years and had noticed that the train always slowed down just before Matunga station and crawled at a snail's pace while passing through it. He told the man to jump out of the running train as it slowed down and that with a little bit of fleet-footedness, he would make it safely on terra firma. However, knowing the man's inexperience, he added some words of caution: "Keep running the moment you jump or you'll fall. Just keep running." He stressed the word "running" lest the man not know the laws of motion.

The train did slow down just before Matunga station and at the prompting of his mentor, our hero jumped out of the train and started running as if all hell had broken loose. What he didn't realize, of course, was that he was running parallel to the train instead of running away from it. Meanwhile, the train slowed down further, so that the man was running faster than the train. In the process, he reached the door of the next compartment and the footboard commuters there pulled him in thinking he was trying to board the train! To his agony, the train picked up speed and sped past Matunga and his new co-passengers started to congratulate him on how lucky he had been, until he told them that they had actually undone what he had done with great difficulty.

Those standing at the door of his "ex-compartment" had witnessed the whole drama and just couldn't stop laughing at the poor man's situation, while he grinned sheepishly.

Yeh Mumbai he meri jaan....sure u've had a hearty laugh urself... :)

PS: Source of this Post: Forwarded E-mail.

Mixed Feelings

Today was quite a different Sunday among other Sundays. Today I did a big deal of my up till life, I booked a roof (to hide my head below it) in Noida.Behind this deal many discussions were involved with parents,relatives and sales agents. I never imagined that I need to get in to so minute details before doing anything but it was a great experience as now I am aware about each and every thing which are included in buying a roof for yourself.

I was having a bag of mixed feelings in mind, in my thoughts when I handed over the check of booking amount to the sales agent. I was happy to feel that after 27 months I will have keys in my hand of my own house and on the other hand I was asking my loving God to help me out with all the payment instalments and payment related stuff. I was dreaming about the things which I will do in my own house and on the other hand I also realized that very soon my five figure monthly salary is going to reduce by the deductions of bank instalments.

I never imagined that I am going to experience all these things in this age of mine.Thanks to my family (especially my Paa) for supporting me.

Keeping my fingers crossed to get all good things and respected God’s grace.

Wow!! three posts in a single day.

Save Water and Save Life

Save Water and Save Life, this is the most common slogan on the internet these days but how many of us are following it? We all know there are

several ways by which we can save water but are we actually saving it? To make people more aware and again remind about this slogan Art Of Living (AOL is an organization whose members are actively doing the efforts to serve the humanity,recently Honourable Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji initiated the massive clean-up operation of the river Yamuna as part of the Meri Dilli Meri Yamuna campaign in which 20,000 people turned up to clean Yamuna banks on 17th March,http://www.scribd.com/doc/28903249/20-000-turned-up-to-clean-Yamuna) takes up a initiative and they launched a rally in our society Shipra Sun City. They were carrying many drawings of after effects when scarcity of water will get start.People watching them got inspired but for very few minutes.I think we all should take it very seriously and do small efforts to save water.Come on yaar…we all can do some thing by not being so lazy.

We can keep few things in mind like:-

1. During brushing your teethes, turn off the tap.

2. Make sure your taps are tight enough so that they do not leak water droplets from it.

3. Use shaving mug instead of running water.

4. Try to use the water which is non useable to you.

5. During cleaning your dishes, don’t turn your tap to full.

6. Don’t throw your glass left of drinking water, drink it completely because over 1 Billion people world wide lake safe drinking water.

I can list down many more ways to save water but you are the only one who can ask yourself and your family members to save water,save life.We are only responsible for our future so Please wake up and do some thing to save mother earth.

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Example of Globalization

I as a Indian communicate using Outlook on Windows from Microsoft (which is an American company) using my Desktop (which is made up of various hardware chips made in China and assembled in India)  with my Swedish client (who in turn is not completely Swedish but Iranian) using the medium Internet (which was created by  United state’s Army) on the Indian Soil sitting on a furniture from Thailand and writing mails to my client using QWERTY keyboard layout.

A simple mail communication between two person includes lots of things from different countries.Socha he……ye tumne kya kabhi…..

What a waste….

Whenever I go out of India, I always feel that what a waste of time and waste of walk-through Metal detectors deployed at Indian Airports.In India,the walk-through metal detector is among the most ubiquitous of all the electronic items you see today.During security check, they will ask you to cross walk-through Metal detectors and then they will manually frisk you with a metal detector.If any way they have to frisk you with metal detector than what is the need of walk-through metal detectors.This results in long queue of passengers waiting for security check.

Before entering walk-through Metal detectors they ask you to remove all the metals from your body and keep it in the tray, if you still have it in your pocket than walk-through Metal detectors will beep but they simply ignore it, cops aren't even looking at the walk-through detector. What a waste… they start frisking you  by handheld metal detector.  The only airports where I haven't ever been personally searched are those outside India.On airports of Munich,Istanbul and Amsterdam I have seen that the security person will not frisk you through hand metal detector, if the walk-through Metal detectors beeps than they will ask you to go back remove any metal content and walk through it again.They will repeat this process until you are clean and you are free to go.Only if you have embedded metal ­ crutches, or an implant, or if they find you suspicious, they will search you personally.

Let's not even talk about the malls that scan or search all the men, but let the women through however much they make the detector beep. Women, of course, cannot carry weapons….what a myth. How very sexist ­ or presumptuous, as Rajiv Gandhi might have said.

Every time I see waste of walk-through Metal detectors I want to scream and ask them what is the use of it if it is not getting used properly.

Sounds of sleepless night.

Have you ever come across a situation where you are not feeling sleepy at 3 am and you can not do anything to pass your time because people around you are sleeping.

After watching Sherlock Holmes I thought that I would be able to sleep, I said my last prayers to god for the day and laid down on my bed but I was wrong, in complete darkness my eyes got more relaxed and they were not in the mood to get down.I was swimming in questions,questions to myself regarding what should I do now to pass some time.It was really boring to just lay down on bed and do nothing. I thought to play guitar but then feeling of getting kicked out of the house at such a time made me dropped this idea.

I was not in the mood to listen songs, read my novel, watch another movie or something else but to pass time I again switched on my laptop and logged in to the chat messenger to find any friend of mine who is in USA so that I can do chat with them and pass time, it was also an idea to make them feel that I still remember them and I care to be in touch but unfortunately none of them was available.I started searching my phone book  in a hope to find a number on which I can call at that time and just talk to some one.I really needed some thing to overcome that situation……ohhh…that situation was killing me.

I saw some of my friends who are in India online on chat messenger, I knew that they are not awake actually but they have kept their chat messenger logged in. I pinged them all one by one and when I didn’t get reply from them I again sent a message to them which was “Why you guys are so brutal? Being online at 3 am why you make people feel that you are available for them?You are just wasting keep alive messages of your chat messenger client towards chat messenger server and you are solely responsible for the wastage of three way handshaking of TCP connection” :)

Soon I was left with nothing but with only option to lay on my bed ideally and wait for my eyes to go down.At that point of time there was pin drop silence.My ears were catching every smallest sound in the surrounding and I was able to hear:-

-sound of water droplet from my bathroom.

-breathing sounds of my roommate.

-ticks of my table clock so clearly that I realized the fact that in a single minute my table clock makes 30 major ticking sounds and 30 minor ticking sounds which makes it to a one minute.

-the flowing wind across the window and back and forth movement of curtains.

-sounds made by my stomach.

-walking foot steps sound of some one who must have waked up to have some water or to have bio.

-some weird sounds of other inmates which generally get generated by mouth when you are in deep sleep (don’t confuse it with snoring).

-humming sound of some motor as if some body is sleeping with fan on.

-sudden flying sound of pigeon when they just change their position from one place to other.

-creepy sound of night insects which generates in sounds in darkness.

-sounds of a newly born baby who wakes up after some sleep and waking up his two new companions who are his/her parents.

-sound of a passing by Motor cycle.

- a very fading whistle sound of watchman who is whistling far away.

-a very fading sound of train’s whistle although railway station is quite far from my home.

-haunting sounds made by dogs.

-sound when you rub your feet with each other inside blanket.

Soon my eyes lashes got down and I started feeling the ecstasy of sleep,I slept.

Interesting to hear such sounds….. isn’t it.Every moment of life and time is carrying some thing in it, the only thing is that we need to realize it.Now that’s philosophical…..

Flash Back of 2009

I-

-got shifted to a new project which is completely in new domain from a project on which I was working from last two years.

-went to Agra to attend my cousin’s marriage.

-purchased my new Dell Studio notebook.

-got addicted to work on my new laptop.

-increased my total hours to work on computer to 14 hours.

-travelled to Munich for official work, it was the best month as it was my first trip outside India and all things were sponsored from office :)

-cooked food in Munich and had a great feeling to have Indian food in Germany.

-made Slovakian friends in Munich.

-roamed around Munich on every weekend.

-spent time with Slovakian friends in India.

-celebrated my birthday at home with family.

-worked hard on the project and got more involved in it.

-got a new crush on a new girl.

-celebrated Diwali with my family consecutively second time after joining the job.

-watched as much TV as I have not watched in my up till life (I am working in IPTV domain).

-joined Facebook.

- didn’t wrote any post on my blog after July.

-enjoyed with all bros,sis and family in my another cousin’s marriage.

-met and talked to a new girl in my cousin’s marriage.

-celebrated New year with friends.

-danced up to 3 am on New year eve and slept up to mid day next new day of new year.

Few Hours of Night Life

***Disclaimer:This post is containing some words or actions which you may not expect from me so please don’t get surprised if you come across any such thing which shouldn’t be there according to your perception for me.***

Well, you know this is my personal space then what are you doing here….leave this page right now, did you got it…right now.…..Whoa!! whoa!!…come on….you are getting serious…I am just kidding okay….don’t mind… :)

On a Saturday, I slept whole day and waked up at around 7 PM so I was quite aware that I will not be able to sleep in night as I have already slept so much so I decided to have a night out and I have noticed some things which I saw and which happened around me during every hour of night so let’s start scribing them here.

9 PM

Every house wife was cooking dinner and I was able to hear the whistle of cooker from every single home in my building. Four guys who live in a flat just above my flat were having a heavy argument in their kitchen on the topic whether to cook aaloo ki sabzi or matar paneer for their dinner and how to cook it.Those were four and I was able to hear the four kind of recipes for these two sabzi (Poor guys, they must have asked me for this).

I and my other room mates were not in the mood to cook our dinner so we went out on a Bachelor dhaba near our society to have our dinner.Well, at this time we saw many peoples like us (Bachelors) were trying to get some thing new as compared to daily routine food.Some were eating chow-min, some were eating parathas (with butter…wow..yummy) and some were eating only tikki and chaat just to put some thing in stomach or just to do formality of having dinner.We had our dinner (some thing like that which i mentioned above :)) and came back to our flat.

10 PM

From my room’s window I saw that my Bengali neighbours were cooking their dinner (all Bengalis normally used to take their dinner late in night).Bengali saas and bahu were fighting with each other in the kitchen (it was just like as live telecast of Saas bahu daily soap) and their noise was disturbing all other people in the building.Suddenly,a voice of lady came from the flat below my flat asking these saas bahu to lower their voice as she was trying to sleep (I was wondering two things here 1. How much sweetness and love is going to be in dinner of Bengalis 2. How come this lady is sleeping at 10 pm, I mean, isn’t it too early to go to bed….but whatever). Guys above my flat were making rotis in their kitchen and it looked like that finally they decided on their choices of sabzi and cooked it.. I was wondering to ask them from room’s window “haan bhaiyon, kaun si sabzi bani he….thodi neeche bhi bhej do” :~) .

11 PM

I went to have ice cream with my roomy (I enjoy ice cream mostly in winter season :)). There was still a long queue out side ATM centre. Heavy vehicles were started on roads as they are not allowed to enter this area before 11 pm.People were moving to their homes and market was fading away, shops were getting closed.Only students and bachelors were standing at Sutta corner to have their suttas for the night :!] .

00 AM

A girl was talking on her phone in her balcony, a lady was surfing Orkut on her laptop by resting on bed, a studious boy was studying with his study lamp on and one aunty was watching TV by switching off her room’s light.You must be feeling awkward here that how I was peeking out to other’s personal life but these all things are unintentionally visible if I stand in my balcony.We are four guys in our flat and we all were talking on phone and moving here and there to chase signals so that we do no have voice breaks. The whole situation was looking like a call centre where every people used to talk on phones to their customers.We all were able to hear each other’s voice but still we were coping up our self to not to miss what the person on other side of phone was saying.

01 AM

I asked my friend (not my roomy) whether he is interested for a walk or not. I was going towards his apartment and looked at some apartments which still had their lights on and Linking park was playing there followed by Enrique, I got the feeling that there must be some bachelors or students who have started their second day of weekend and they must be enjoying tea and maggi in their flat.On the way to my friend’s flat there was a haunted house which was not occupied from the day when this society was developed completely (I don’t know whether this is an rumour or what but that house looks really haunted).I was looking at this house thinking that may be I get a chance to see the witch today but there was no luck :( .

02 AM

I and my friend (as I indulged him forcibly in my night out) were walking on the road silently by enjoying the cold weather, we came across a Tavera, we both felt some thing suspicious about this vehicle as it was not in the condition in which it is supposed to be at 2 AM. We both decided to go near it silently and what the Hell!!…….one guy and a girl was making out inside it….OMG, we were not able to control our laughter but any how we left them there but suddenly my friend stopped and said “Come on man, let’s have some fun” I said “hey…. what do you mean by let’s have fun….those guys are already having fun there inside that Tavera, what do you want us to do now” he said “lets disturb them” i said “Whoa!!! whoa!!! come on man don’t do that let them have fun” but it was too late and my friend picked up a small stone from road and threw it on to Tavera and we ran down from there…when we are getting away from there we heard a sound “Taak” and we burst out laughing. I said “ f**k man, you are really an a** hole, you just hit the bull’s eye”. You know laughing out like this was one of the craziest thing, can you imagine, at 2 AM some body is laughing out so loud that makes you say “what a jerk…he must be drunk” but you know, it was really enjoyable….kabhi mauka mile to try karna :> .

03 AM

When we were running in dark we saw a bone fire at a place where one watchman was trying to get heat from the customised bone fire. We went to him and sat there to enjoy that bone fire. We had a long discussion over society and other things with him and during this discussion that watchman started telling us his salary and he was trying to gain some emotional sentiments from us. He was telling us that he is uneducated but he do not want his children to become uneducated, he was unable to send his one child to school as he don’t have so much money. I suggested him to send his children to Tapovan as Tapovan is an school which is indulged in providing education up to 5th class to poor children with out charging any cost and they also promote good students for further studies at high level.Listening all these things about Tapovan he became very excited and he was very keen to send his children to this school.We thought to leave from there and explore other areas of society, when we were leaving he demanded for some blanket or shaul as he was not having any thing with him apart from his security dress sweater which can protect him from the winter and the temperature was so low that we both felt that he really require some thing to fight this weather.I told him that I have a spare shaul with me and I will go to my room and bring it for you right now.

You know, at that point of time in night all street dogs were roaming here and there in their gangs and making their typical haunting voice. On the way to my flat there was a group of dogs, when we passed them suddenly their leader started following us and with a blink all other dogs started following their leader.These dogs were thinking we were carrying some thing which is an eatable but we were wrong they were just following us to show their dominance, it was looking like they were trying to say us “You Morons, what are you doing in our area,get lost,otherwise we will transfer you in a condition where you will get five injections on your tummy”. We were watching them following us, suddenly I turned around and kicked their leader on his face (I know, I was very brutal here with this dog…Menaka ji…it was for my self defence…my apologies here) but that leader was intelligent and just like a hero that dog get escaped from my kick and my kick get swinged in air. Leader started give us a grinning look….the next thing we did there was to run from there and we stopped in front of my flat.

04 AM

I came back to my room to pick a shaul which was lying in our living room from past 2 years, Ow ow ow…one of my flat mate was snoring….phew…I got a topic for next day to pull his leg.I quickly took out my cell phone and recorded melodious sound of snoring made by him so that I can give him a proof :!…Whoa!!! that day I came to know about a secret of my flat mate that he snores :~) ha ha ha….(we all made great fun of him next day).

When we were going back to that watchman we did not retraced our steps but we took a new way so that we can avoid that waiting gang of dogs.We were walking down the road and we saw a man lying on the footpath….God!!!….we both became scared….we thought is he drunk or has some body done something wrong to him. We informed that watchman about this and he told us to not to worry as this man has a habit of heavy drinking and he is always found lying here and there on the road.Thank God!!!

05 AM

News paper dealer delivered news papers to vendors and they were arranging news papers for the final delivery. Early morning birds started their chattering.Road side Romeos, gang of dogs were finally sleeping on roads, they must have got the feeling that now their kingdom is about to lost so it’s better to keep low profile now :~).

06 AM

People started getting up and coming out of their cosy home in track suits with their i-pod and mp3 head phones in their ears to have some fresh morning walk and jogging. In parks there were laughter clubs where all old guys were doing exercise of their stomach…..Whoa!!…what a scene it was….it reminded me one of the scene from movie Khosla ka Ghosla. Fresh juice vendors were peeling fruits and vegetables so that they can provide fresh juice to exhausted people in next hour. Bachelor’s and student’s flats which I observed in night were quite and lost in darkness inside their flat.News paper distributer started distributing news paper, some of them were throwing news paper in to the balcony from their cycle and some of them were delivering it manually by going up and down on stairs.We saw that one of the newspaper boy was stealing some milk packets from the bags of owners which they have hanged on their door so that they do not have to open door for milk man.We both were not in the mood to do more Ghandhigiri so we threatened him that if he still continued to steal milk packets like this then we will inform his boss and also inform the milk packet owners, they will give you to the police then…

07 AM

Car washers started their job and they were sweeping cars which were parked in the society. In balconies we were able to see families enjoying their morning bed tea (of course, this morning bed tea was not on their beds as they were in their balconies :)) and uncles reading newspaper with full concentration and enjoying every sip of their tea. Milk man started delivering milk packets. Morning news become audible from the TV sets.My friend went to his flat after having night adventure as he was feeling sleepy.I was also feeling sleepy so I also moved towards my flat.

08 AM

I was trying to sleep after last night out but pigeons outside my room’s window waked up and started making their sound goottur goo and they were taking full revenge from me that day as I used to fly them away.Finally I was able to sleep by thinking all the things about last night.

60th Republic Day

Republic day, do we really give importance to this day? I don’t know for others but for me it is just like a day of weekend when i do not have to go office,watch movies on my laptop up till 3 0r 4 am in the morning  and sleep up to 12 noon.When I waked up today at 11 am suddenly some of my conversation with two guys from Holland and Kenya start playing in my ears. During my recent business trip to Holland/Netherlands i met two persons, one was my Dutch colleague in office and other one from Kenya who was sitting next to me in flight from Istanbul to Amsterdam.

I was talking to Kenyan men and during our interaction he came to know that I am an Indian. As soon as he came to know that I am an Indian he said:-

“Hey man, I am very delighted to meet you.You guys…I mean, Indians are really very smart and Intelligent in business.They are every where in the world and making good money and business.In Kenya, I have seen many Indians who have very big factories and they are giving employment to Kenyans there.”

“By the way what is the purpose of your visit to Amsterdam?” I said, “I am on a business trip from my Organization”. He said “Aha, as I said before you guys are really great in Business and work”

After that we had a long conversation about India and Kenya, life styles in both countries etc.

Next day I joined my office in Amsterdam where my business meeting was scheduled to take place.During roaming around the office in lunch and tea breaks I saw many Indians there in that office.KPN is the largest telecom and IPTV service provider in Netherlands and I was astonished to see that may Indians are working with such a big group of Netherlands.

On second day of my business meeting i was walking with my Dutch colleague and I said to him “I have seen many Indian faces here in this office” and on this statement of mine he said “Indians are very smart and Intelligent, they all got such a great memory power that they remember almost every thing.It seems that in few years Indians are going to take over everywhere.They are so humble in nature and professional in work that they can pursue any one”. I gave him a cynical smile as I was wondering whether he is saying all these things sarcastically or he is really impressed with Indians but I was very happy to hear all these things from him ignoring the fact in which way he said these things to me.

Every quiescent of my body was feeling proud to be Indian at that time and same feeling was there when I interacted with a Kenyan Guy in flight.

What I believe is that we have the capability to rule the world and one day we gonna do this.

India is integrated  from 28 states, 1618 languages, 6400 castes, 6 ethnic groups, 29 festivals.

PROUD TO BE INDIAN. Happy Republic Day.

Welcome 2010

Hey Fellas!!!

 

As we have entered in New Year, Let’s move like birds leaving behind what we don’t need to carry with us like Grudges, sadness, pain, fear, regrets and bad memories of last year (Just Shift+Delete them from brain).

 

Let’s keep all good memories of last year.

Let’s keep smile on our faces so that world can smile with us.

Let’s start accepting things with open hands.

Let’s start accepting people around us as they are.

Let’s start forgive quickly.

Let’s start be more sincere but not serious all the time (Thanks to Chetan Bhagat for this line J).

Let’s open the book in which its pages are blank and start putting words in it ourselves (The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day).

 

God bless you and keep you safe not only today but throughout life that is coming in your way. May year to follow be among the best you have ever spend.

 

Life is beautiful, let’s start enjoying it more. aal izz well J

 

Welcome to 2010 !!!