Cheeni kum hai...

cheeni kum hai...
thodi thodi tujh me hai kum...
kum kum hai...

Trying to reduce my sugar intake u see..
M too sweet anyway.. :P

A Sun kissed Night

The quiet Night
whispers into my ear
asks me for things
I can no longer bear

I told her a few
and she sighed
to my surprise
then she cried

She can't see
the one she loves
If he is around
she has to leave
For it can't be Night
if it is day
Will be the end
she hears them say

Shocked, I hear
soothe her a little
Uncontrollable
weak and brittle

A ray of light
comes into Night
Travels north
Where its always light
She finds him
the one so missed
Nature's wonder
a Night sun kissed

Kutte... Kaminey

There is this dialoge in the recently released "Kaminey"
which goes something like...
"One doesn't get screwed by the path one chooses... but
rather by the path not chosen"

Well, if you analyze this further you will notice that if you
choose a path, then obviously you are not choosing the
other (unless you are a mentally-handicapped convict
with no choice but to serve your sentence).
So you will get screwed for not choosing path B.

Now instead, if you choose the unchosen path, ie path B,
you are still choosing one and not choosing the other (path A)
... which means that you will still get screwed (for not choosing
path A this time).

So no matter which path you choose, "getting screwed" is
a given, regardless of the path chosen. Hence the above
statement is proved wrong.

But another axiom overrules all other theories in the movie
and that is "Life is a bitch" ("Duniya bahot kutti hai" or something
to that effect).... The important improvisation coming from the
theorem I proved wrong is "any which way"...

So moral of the movie... "Life is a bitch... any which way".. :)

Loved this one instantly

Silly is a natural state - Serious is what you are forced to do
until you can be silly again.

"You can't eat the scenery"

....is what my travel partner said on the second day of our trip to the
beautiful coastline of Maharashtra. If you overlook the acco and the food I
would say the trip was good. The journey was a walk in the clouds...
literally. Winding roads, large water bodies, lush green mountains, clouds
floating by your side, numerous waterfalls - small and big, the rough and
tough terrain of the Sahyadri's, the adventure of the Ghat roads - what more
does one need to feel like being in heaven?! It was a beautiful drive.

Our accomodation was far from that. Listen to this.
Going by the "new improved" look of the tourism corporation of Maharashtra
and on recommendations from a few friends who have stayed in MTDC
resorts earlier, I did the blunder, well, a mistake to be honest, of booking a
room in a MTDC resort. The charges looked like that of a good hotel in town
and I dreamt of a beautiful sea-facing room with rich carpets and plush
sofas. (Too dreamy after my trips in Europe.. ah even the cheapest hotels
were so good and the staff so cordial. The breakfasts were lavish and kept
you going for hours.Aaah.) Alas, the govt never lets us forget the problems
faced by a developing nation. It was a basic room with bare minimum
amount of hygiene maintained ( I still doubt it). The bed was a concrete slab
covered with marble - yes, don't faint - as a reminder perhaps to increase
the tourism to the state of UP. The matresses, well let's just say the marble
bed would have been softer. The curtains looked like they had been washed
when the leftover marble was brought from Agra. The lights were hardly
there to make the setting more natural (eerie?!) The toileteries - I gave
myself a pat on the back for taking my own set with me. And this saga
continues into the kitchen. The restaurant on site serves you with any dish
on the planet - as long as you stick to their 10 item menu :) And what does it
take to make sandwiches btw? Well, not much if you have bread. (Imagine
me crying hoarse for not getting fish on a trip to the coast... I can't either..
but here I am.. dreaming about fish after a 2 day beach trip :( ) All this
excellent service and food comes at a cost and it was well worth the
stupidity I had displayed while booking this place. So, though the location
of the resort was good everything else left much much much more to
improvisation. We kinda renamed MTDC as "More Torture from Devil's
Corporation". I think this one suits.

What was surprising was though the "no meat, no drinks, no evil (, no living
;))" period was over and we could officially start eating meat - we just
couldn't find fish anywhere on the coast. Not in Harihareshwar, not in
Shrivardhan and neither in Dive agar. Nope. It was highly disappointing.
Dil ke armaan.... samandar me beh gaye. (So I dug into the first fish item I
saw after returning to base. May be the fish were touring too.)
Anyway, so thats the tragic story of my fishing trip.

But like I said earlier, the drive more than compensated for the food fiasco.
The drive from Harihareshwar to Shrivardhan and further on to Dive agar
was along the coast and it was amazing to drive with the hills on one side
and the sea on the other. The beaches as expected were dirty due to
monsoon and not worth setting foot on. Visited a couple of historic temples
around and it was time to head back.

Will post pictures soon.

What an 'org'y ;-)

Dirty minds... stop salivating. Its nothing like you think
it is .

I was meeting a friend for lunch and he being a great host
that he is.. took me to his, hold your breath... Office Cafetaria.
Yea.. but as you can guess from the title of this post, it wasn't
that bad :)

For startes, the place was clean, did not stink as much as the other
cafetaria's I have visited, the food was great and to top it all ...
it was FREE. Yep. This org he works in provides free food to its
employees.. be it at breakfast, lunch or dinner. But the quality
wasn't compromised . So it was great. I heard of the org also
promoting healthy snacking options with fruits.

Off late, after listening to a few of my friends and after being to this
jaw-dropping (literally!) cafetaria I am coming to a conclusion that
Indian org's have a lot to learn to catch up with the MNC's.