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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

I dunno what to write ... I just want to write something ..

I think I get too easily influenced by movies/TV/books and the likes ... I mean .. one day I watch Gladiator .. and I want to go back in time and be a soldier who fights with mighty swords ... some time later I am reading about Mr. Richard Branson and his Virgin group of companies .. and I want to work on little business plans and become a business tycoon. Then I watch Coupling, which is a sitcom, somewhat like friends you can say ... and I want to be no one special .. I just want to lie around all day .. have a small happy life ... drink beer .. speak with a british accent ...etc. I see Godfather ... I want to be all powerful .. not a mafia , but really really powerful ... I watch Sarkar ... I even change my way of walking temporarily to something I think is a more powerful walk ... it sure felt powerful, I felt powerful ...Then I return to the book .. and I again want to be earning loads of money ...
I watch more films ... I go more paranoid ....
After some time I think I want to become a movie director.
That thought is not alien to my mind ... I have always wanted to become a director ... maybe only a play director earlier .. but a director ..
but I never gave it much thought ... all the job security and happy life, getting fat sitting confortable on my ass, all secure and everything, everything filled up in my mind that I guess one picks up sub-consciously through his life ... I never thought of taking any risk with my life before ...
But a part of getting influenced by all the media is that you pick up a lot of carelessness ... or you can say more risk taking ... and now I want to , well .. take some risks .. like trying direction for instance ...
And again .. I want to do an MBA .. sit on my comfortable ass and count loads of money ...
This decision making .. I can leave it for a while, for a year or so I guess ... but when you are sitting at home getting fucking bored ... every single thought is thought and re-thought. You can't help it ... if you don't want to think about it ... then you are actually thinking about it and thinking that I shouldn't be thinking about it, which is basically thinking about it.
What do I do ?
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Anyways ...
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Exam time ahead ...
Results came out today ... I am , as usual, amongst the last few people in my class ... and as usual .. the system and the crappy subjects are to be blamed ..
Think I'll write a song about the "System" some day .... and then me and my would-be band can perform it ... we may become famous you know...

But I don't think I want to become a rock star ...
I am pretty sure about this one, I think.

Friday, March 31, 2006

Title

Hi ...
(Still out of ideas on how to start..)

Lots happening in my life these days ... well not a whole lot ... but reasonable amount of activity considering my otherwise monotonous routine. So where do I start ?

Indian Ocean performed in my college ...

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Awesome. Actually ... their music is beyond awesome. And to see them live is like whole new heights of beyond-awesomeness. 2 hours of pure ecstacy ....
"Samay ki laal Aandhi ..."

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I had so much to write .... I thought it would be a mega post or something ... and now I can't remember anything ...
Wtf ...

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I am going off to Mumbai for two months this summer to do some training. Earlier another friend was going with me ... but now it's just me ... me in the big city ... maybe I'll get bored but I so desperately want to get away from my home right now that I accepted it and so .... whatever will be ... will be ...
So many things will be new there ... no 24-hour internet .. infact no computer at all ... no car ... lousy food... living in a hostel ... all will be new for me ... but I'm kinda looking forward to it ...
(I will have my iPod (..that I'll soon buy) .. )

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Seems like not much has been going on in my life after all .. I'm just plain excited about the Bombay thing ...
Whatever ...

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Here are some things I have been enojoying all this time ..

My Rating ****1/2 (Must see)
My Rating **** (Must see)
My Rating **** (Must see, if not already)
My Rating **1/2 (Don't see unless die hard Matthew Perry Fan)
My Rating ***** (You Kidding ? Collin Rocks !!)

Others were the sitcom 'Coupling' (good) and the book 'Runaway Jury' by John Grisham ... but I'm tired of searching for images ...

Anyway ... that is it for now ...

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Title

"How you doin' ??"
(Sorry ... totally out of ideas on how to strat a post)

So ... I have been busy for a while (for a change) ..

Ok ..

First ... I went to GIR (Great Indian Rock X) ... and man does it rock .... Here is a pic I clicked using my phone cam :
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So we went to GIR and I had no fucking idea how awesome it could be until it started ... after that we left track of time ... Also I was kinda stoned (and it does feel like flying and all that anyone ever said) ... I had to try it once ... probably was the first and the last time ... but it was some experience. All the music and all the dope ..
Anyways ... The Superfuzz won the competition ... I think they were good ... but I liked Mantra and Acrid Semblance better. After that I downloaded loads of Indian Rock Bands' songs ... and man some of them are really good ...

What else ?
We had this technical fest (a fest for the engineering side of you) in our college .. and I lost every competition I took part in ... even the ones I was sure I'd win .. one hell of a bad luck run ...
After that there was this party to mark the end of the fest .. we went to this ok type looking pub ... but once inside we realized that it kicked major ass with its awesome sound system and everything ... so we danced and danced and my legs still hurt ... but it was great ...

What else ?
The return of Friends thingy that I mentioned in my last post seems to be true ... and man I'm too excited ... also there is this news that there'll be a new spinoff series starring all the three friends male characters ... which means ... that Matthew Perry will be back .... Wooo hoo ... It's called something like It's A Guy Thing .. Cheezy kinda name ... but Perry can make everything worth its watch ... man I simply loved his character in Friends ...

What else ?
I saw no new movie ... I read no new book .. I started reading Atlas Shrugged again .. from the point I had dropped it the last time ... it still does not interest me that much ... I think I'll read Fountainhead again ... now that's a book to be read any no. of times ...

What else ?
I'll be completing my third year in college this year which means that now I'll have to devote much more time to college than I have been all these three years ...
Also I'm kinda torn .. To do MBA or not to do MBA .. that is the question ...
In my ideal dream world ... I do an MBA... then join a big MNC ... in a few(4-5) years ... I quit as the CEO of the company to start my own venture .. I become the big business baron in no time .. then I start funding politics and then ultimately I join the politics myself .. Finally .. when I'm somewhat old .. I'll make a movie .. and that'll mark the the end of one sucessful life ... in the ideal dream world ..
But in this new dream that has been creeping on for a few days ... I continue in my field after engineering ... start my own venture ... and the rest of the story remains quite the same ...
So I'm torn ....
In reality I might ending up working in a software firm like TCS/Infosys or somewhere ..... but that is different and does not affect the ideal dream world ...

Anyways ... quite a long post now (compare it to my last one) ... so I'd leave it here ... next one in a month or so ....

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

As good as it gets ....

I can't believe this .....
Wooo hooo .......

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Pretty boring post .. but I had to write something ..

Ok ... back ... atleast for this post , i.e.
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I have been thinking of blogging for quite some time now ... infact .. I never got off blogging actually ... still checked my blog once in a while for any comments .. and to my surprise ... people actually did stop by my blog ... even 2 months after I said goodbye ... Seriously .. I am touched .
A lot of times ... I thought that this or that would make such a good post ... but I never wrote anything ..
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So where have I been all this time ??
Well ... here and there .. (here , mainly ..)
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After the last time I blogged ... lets see ... first notable event I think was papers ... a royal screw always ...
Post papers ... I have been enjoying holidays .. sitting at home ...
What all did I do after papers .. ummm .... Ya ... I downloaded all the 10 seasons of Friends and saw them ... was totally hooked on to them ... and man were they good ... then I downloaded Joey .. which is a spinoff sitcom from friends .. not half as good though .. seen it, anyone ?
Then I read a couple of books .. lets see .. I have been hooked on to fantasy mainly .. I read the Hobbit and the three LOTR books ... awesome ... Then I read the Godfather ... awsome as well ... Then I read the 6 Harry Potter books (finally .. after ages of saying that I'll never read them ..) ... but they are really good actually ...
I saw loads of movies ... I saw Godfather 1 & 2 again ... Then ... Kill Bill 1 & 2 ... awesome movies I tell you .... Tarantino is too good .... then I saw This Spanish movie The Motorcycle Diaries ... another good one ... and last I saw a half of Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas ... couldn't watch rest of it ... Oh .. and I also saw this movie Lost in Translation ... pretty wierd movie actually ...
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And I went to this college trip to Dehradun ... really enjoyed there a lot ... also celebrated the New Year there ...
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What else ? (Ah .. now I'm really back ..)
I gave up smoking on new year ... and finally smoked today ... (usual crap actually ... dunno why I still bother with it .. )
Colleges re-open tomorrow ... and after a long time , I am actually looking foreward to it ... but to say the truth .. I'm truly bored with engineering ... and its still one and a half years to go ...
I signed up for MBA enterance exam preperation classes .... Dunno how many exams I'll have to give my entire life ... seems like all that I have done these last 5 years is give exams ..
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Nothing else that I can think of right now ...
Pretty boring post, eh ? (I don't mind a 'yes' in the answer to that).

Sunday, October 02, 2005

Well ... it's been ages since I posted something here (more than a month ... this was not even imaginable when I started blogging you know) ... but anyways ... here goes another post ...

Well I don't know what to write exactly and have nothing in particular to write about ...
Anyways .. here are a few things ..
First ... a piece of advice I'll give while my wrath is still fresh ..... heed to it ... and never forget it ... Now suppose you are sitting on someone else's computer and checking out his huge collection of songs and have this particular inkiling to hear some of the sickest song of his collection (like Linkin Park) ... then DO NOT double click on the song file .... NEVER double click on a song file... I mean do you have any fucking idea that it takes a lot of time to come up with a decent playlist selecting songs from some 15-20 GB of music ? Whenever you want to hear some song .. right click on the name of the song ... there is this second option that says 'Enqueue in winamp' .. click on that option .. and when winamp opens ... scroll to the bottom of the playlist to the song .. doubleclick ... and hear it. But never doubleclick straightaway on the song file. Ok ?
(If anybody knows of a plugin to remember your playlist .. then please let me know ...)

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Some time backI saw this movie "Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi" ... awesome movie ... and I saw the three LOTR movies (Special Extended edition) ... which were also awesome ... though not awesome in the same sense as the former was ... but it was still awesome ... specially the special effects in the war scene at Helms deep...
Then I am reading LOTR the book .... and am realizing that the movie people have changed almost all of the story ...
Book reminds me that I read this really amazing book God of Small Things ... which seemed a bit gloomy in the beginning , but in the end it turned out to be simply superb. I remember that I had started reading this book earlier , in class 8th maybe , when it had just won the booker. that time I had thought that it is a collection of small stories ... so I took out the smallest chapter and read it .... in the end I just returned the book to the library thinking that maybe incomprehensible books only won the booker. But I guess even if I would have read this book then ... I would have not like it ....

What else ?
Umm... ( I was actually thinking when I wrote that "umm .." .. I still am ... ummm.....) .. Ya .. I was going through some blogs right now when I read this poem by someone (Can be acknowledged if he wants to be) , which I am posting here without permission :
Twinkle Twinkle blasted star
I know who the hell you are
Up above in the goddamn sky
Just a ****ing firefly
Now the reason I posted this poem here is coz I think it rhymes really well ... which you'd realize if you sing it in tune ... and then it makes you laugh even harder ..

What else II ?
I don't fell like blogging anymore ... the thing that seemed so important to me just some months ago has lost all its charm and everyhting .. and so I don't feel like blogging anymore. The reason why I wrote that was coz I wanted to tell you all that I may not post again ever ... and maybe I may post tomorrow if I feel like it ... but at any rate I want you all to know ... that it was nice to know you all and it was nice to read your blogs (though I often did not read many of them) ... but some of them were, and are, real favorites ... and I'd continue reading them for a while ...

What else III ?
Concerning smoking .. I left it (for about 3 weeks) ... then smoked after my last exam (couldn't help it) .. then left it again ... then again smoked .. then left it ... and let's see when I smoke again (I desperately want one right now..). The thing is that before you start smoking ... there is this taboo in your mind ... so you don't smoke .... but after you have smoked some times ... there is nothing to stop you .. and then it is difficult to stop it .... so never try it in the first place ...

What else IV ? (No use trying to guess what these letters mean if you can't read roman numerals)
I was talking to a girl yesterday. She used to be in school with me . We were talking after a long time ... and admist the talk I realized that things have changed so much ... I mean ... we were in school some time back ... and now here I am asking about her new job , her salary , her weekly off etc. . Hmm... things have really changed ... I couldn't even imagine me thinking that I would one day consider her to be a really stupid girl while I daresay I had a thing or two for her during schooltime.

What else V ?
I went to this IITD rock thingy a few days back ... and it was like totally crap. First it was such an ordeal to get in. When I finally did get in ... I realized I had missed two bands .. out of four that were slated to play ... the other two ... one was Parikrama ... which was good ... the other was this band Bramha ,I think that was the name, ... whatever ... but they sucked big time .. I mean I almost wanted to kick the singer in his groin ... he spoilt it ... though the guitar and everyhting else was fine .. so I got really bored and was getting really desperate to leave the place when he pulled on a crowd favorite ... In the End by Linkin Park ... now I don't know why people like this song .... but I absolutely hate the song and the band ... and everytime I hear this band ... I feel like thrashing that rapper ... he sucks so much .... and you should see this other guy (who I presume does some sound mixing or something) .... he goes totally crazy as if the shit of the music is driving him into some kind of trance ... whatever ... the band is beyond me ...

What else VI ?
Well , nothing much. The End.

(Now that was a different ending ... tell you what .. I kinda enjoyed writing this post ... I may write more in near future ..).

Saturday, August 27, 2005

And more

Then he said, "I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind—and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression."
-- Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
Well ... that quote in that book was kinda out of place ... you see ... while Ayn Rand in a way glorified independence of man , the state one is no longer dependent on any other ... she glorified the dependence on a cigarette .... why ? Coz she was a chain smoker. She still lived to be 94 though . The lines were good , anyways ....
The basic point in starting this post like this is that I started smoking. I always was facinated by it .... only recently I gave in finally ... not that I regret it ... but yes .. sometimes I do ...
It all started with me being drunk and trying a drag ... then some time later .. I smoked a full cigarette , just to know what it felt like ... and then I understood why so many people smoked .. and I started with it too ...
I really do not feel regret .... no that is not the right word ... I just feel kinda sad that I gave in to a dependency ...
But lets leave it at that ....

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I saw Sarkar ... awsome movie ... and finger to anyone who says it even resembles Godfather . The reason I didn't watch Sarkar earlier was coz of the comparison to Godfather. But it was so completely different and so fucking awsome. Godfather , I think is overrated though ...
And I saw My Wife's Murder .... strictly average movie. But Boman Irani , as always ... stands out ... he is one class act .

What else ?
College is completely boring ... and I long for holidays again (and it was the other way round in the holidays).
Eldest , second book of inheritence is out ... and I finally ordered the book at a price of Rs.611 ...

Ummm.... everything else that I had intended to write has simply vanished from my mind ... so ... that'll be it.