No idea how i missed this earlier...still..better late than never!..Was telling about the wake up incident to mom, her reply made me think of this particular incident!
It was the eve of my science boards in 10th that is...always dread the last exam,this being science i had to retain the intensity! But, i had been wanting to watch lord of the rings for a long time...nocturnal even then,i started watching oblivious to the fact that there was an exam the next day! i slept by 230! heavens only know why i saw or why my parents still let that happen!
Either way that did and i was supposed to at my school bt around 930, for which i had to start by around 9.It was 8 and i was sleeping, our school begins by 815, so the house was empty, i woke up by 4 to study, ended up sleeping again when mom left to school, the book open at in the middle of a chemistry chapter :)
Now,you know how serious one has to be during boards...once again the phone ringing again and again somehow got better of my drowsiness and brought me to this world!
Never have i been more thankful to Grahambell [:d],guess we're even now after today morning [:P]
Thursday, December 18, 2008
The wake up call!
This is something i wouldn't want even my worst enemy to experience!
it was something like 8 in the morning, prefer to call it the early hours of morning[:P]...i had a phone call,jus woke up to attend it, in a groggy voice,even my sleepy head could register a woman shouting in my ear! man! when i say loud it really was! Not the perfect way to begin my day! or rather the intrusion into my sleep was not really welcome!!
When i distastefully realised all this,it was a bit late...the woman started shouting hysterically asking me who i was,i as...........whatever replied,you called...so,tell me who you want to speak to!She replied,this is my daughter's number
! what have you done to her?
Damn! i certainly didn't wanna begin my day thus,and the idea of me harming anyone...induces nothing nut laughter...now that is,but,back then,my sleep having been interrupted of course irked me badly!
This,when shared with my friends gave them stomach ache especially the part where the woman accuses me of doing something to her daughter![:)] Phew! but except for the start the day went on pretty well[:P]
Monday, December 15, 2008
Take time off to think!
Recently watched a movie called ‘A requiem for a Dream’ and broke down,was disturbed for around 2 days until from somewhere I realized that it was only a movie…so what I want you to infer is..it was so real!!!!!
Lets go into a bit of my history. Now you are looking at a 12 year old boy,aspiring surgeon! All he does is in all his enthusiasm, watches a program on discovery channel which showed how an operation is done! He ended up vomiting, his aspirations till then going down the drain along with the vomit [:p] .Not that I regret it much seeing the amount of work my medical friends do!,of course even my engineering friends do a lot more than me…all that is a different story[:P]
So,a tender,soft..thats what I call myself…….weak,kid is what my friends call me,anyways whatever be it,I don’t care..on watching the movie,I was just shocked at the way drug addiction can drive you crazy to do whatever ppl do! The worst was a lonely mom taking some piolls thinking that they were some weight reduction pills and ending up hallucinating! You couldn’t but shudder,be absolutely shell-shocked!, shed a few tears, have a few or more visions of it and finally write something like this[:d] of course this was also the topic of many of my conversations recently!
Also,one more so disturbing movie was Taare Zameen Par,I don’t remember shedding tears for any other movie and being moved as much I did for that! The social problems children like Ishant(so he was called in that movie) face is usually astonishingly high.The movie just portrayed it so well! The panache with which it has been shown just makes it unforgettable,a must watch. Is surely was the most ideal start you can get for a directorial venture! The beneficiary being Aamir Khan!
My advice to the people who read this is,you’ve taken enough time off to read this,just take a little more off to take in what these movies say! Of course we don’t have so many junkies or dyslexic people,but we have to face that the people who are so are very unlucky,by choice for some,but nature’s wrath for some,still its just us who have to help them get rid of all their problems.After all everyone contributes to this world we live in! why not try make it a better place!
Lets go into a bit of my history. Now you are looking at a 12 year old boy,aspiring surgeon! All he does is in all his enthusiasm, watches a program on discovery channel which showed how an operation is done! He ended up vomiting, his aspirations till then going down the drain along with the vomit [:p] .Not that I regret it much seeing the amount of work my medical friends do!,of course even my engineering friends do a lot more than me…all that is a different story[:P]
So,a tender,soft..thats what I call myself…….weak,kid is what my friends call me,anyways whatever be it,I don’t care..on watching the movie,I was just shocked at the way drug addiction can drive you crazy to do whatever ppl do! The worst was a lonely mom taking some piolls thinking that they were some weight reduction pills and ending up hallucinating! You couldn’t but shudder,be absolutely shell-shocked!, shed a few tears, have a few or more visions of it and finally write something like this[:d] of course this was also the topic of many of my conversations recently!
Also,one more so disturbing movie was Taare Zameen Par,I don’t remember shedding tears for any other movie and being moved as much I did for that! The social problems children like Ishant(so he was called in that movie) face is usually astonishingly high.The movie just portrayed it so well! The panache with which it has been shown just makes it unforgettable,a must watch. Is surely was the most ideal start you can get for a directorial venture! The beneficiary being Aamir Khan!
My advice to the people who read this is,you’ve taken enough time off to read this,just take a little more off to take in what these movies say! Of course we don’t have so many junkies or dyslexic people,but we have to face that the people who are so are very unlucky,by choice for some,but nature’s wrath for some,still its just us who have to help them get rid of all their problems.After all everyone contributes to this world we live in! why not try make it a better place!
'The' Match
The match is over,as the media has hyped…in a way it can be of some consolation when compared to a loss,which seemed impending after the English side had most of the reasons to smile after three days of the match! Of course,what happened after that is most important,and which matters..First of all, salute to the master on guiding India to the biggest ever run chase in the sub-continent!
This match had the previlage of yours truly watching it[:P] ,my first time….to describe….i was a bit let down due to a few reasons,I’d imagined a much bigger playing area..or so the satellite images appear to be! Dravid not scoring was one more let down…him being the victim of a bad decision was even worse[:-/]
The brighter side was the batting of Sachin tendulkar,worshipped across the globe as the god of cricket,held in high esteem by every other great the game has seen,Lara,And The Don himself,to mention a few!..every bowler’s nightmare!
Self confessed by Shane warne as: I had visions of Sachin walking down the track,Smashing me overhead for a six!
Getting back to my topic,It was awesome to watch him play,though he scored only a 37,It was simply amazing to watch! Especially the square cut! Laxman showed us why he is one among the Fab four, for a short while though.Harbhajan set off some fireworks towards the day’s close and that was it..the rest was followed on the tv!
The most stunning thing to me was how the crowd gets behind the players[J] it was so different and more enjoyable maybe watching it there.The way Dravid defended one of Flintoff’s deliveries,the ball traveling over 140kph, just dropped dead!That was awesome!
The phase which swung the match in our favour was Sehwag’s blistering 83! I missed it when it was being played as I’d gone out,but of course nothing much was missed I guess, as I caught up with the boundaries later on…and most of the runs were scored in boundaries[:P] Mention here has to be made about Strauss’ resolute innings..he scored centuries in both the innings,something that not everyone can do and only the fifth to do so against India speaks volumes about the task!
Coming to the part which was crucial,The stand between Sachin and Yuvi..Not much of a Yuvi fan,But couldn’t help but admiring his play and the way he grew taking confidence from the master of course!
Post match,the speech by Sachin,as he said this century or this victory isn’t going to make any change to the grief of the people struck by terror in Mumbai,not to play it down,he did what he was best at properly
All said, let me come to this point…the rubbish about taking Dravid out of the team!How much more does he have to prove himself?A man who has scored enough to get him sixth on the highest scorers 3 whom ahead of him don’t wield the willow anymore,the man who did lots to the team when it needed,the man widely regarded as ‘The Wall’..Fondly referred to as ‘The fortress’ by warnie,now is just going through a bad patch…now its our turn to get behind him and relieve him off the stress he’s going through.Let’s be clear in that and just be sensible enough to understand that he’s got cricket inside him left and the greatest of hearts,grit the extent of which can be compared to ten Everests.
Signing off hoping to see some more great cricket[:)]
P.S:I sorta was agape at Harmison's bulk! Man! was he huge!
This match had the previlage of yours truly watching it[:P] ,my first time….to describe….i was a bit let down due to a few reasons,I’d imagined a much bigger playing area..or so the satellite images appear to be! Dravid not scoring was one more let down…him being the victim of a bad decision was even worse[:-/]
The brighter side was the batting of Sachin tendulkar,worshipped across the globe as the god of cricket,held in high esteem by every other great the game has seen,Lara,And The Don himself,to mention a few!..every bowler’s nightmare!
Self confessed by Shane warne as: I had visions of Sachin walking down the track,Smashing me overhead for a six!
Getting back to my topic,It was awesome to watch him play,though he scored only a 37,It was simply amazing to watch! Especially the square cut! Laxman showed us why he is one among the Fab four, for a short while though.Harbhajan set off some fireworks towards the day’s close and that was it..the rest was followed on the tv!
The most stunning thing to me was how the crowd gets behind the players[J] it was so different and more enjoyable maybe watching it there.The way Dravid defended one of Flintoff’s deliveries,the ball traveling over 140kph, just dropped dead!That was awesome!
The phase which swung the match in our favour was Sehwag’s blistering 83! I missed it when it was being played as I’d gone out,but of course nothing much was missed I guess, as I caught up with the boundaries later on…and most of the runs were scored in boundaries[:P] Mention here has to be made about Strauss’ resolute innings..he scored centuries in both the innings,something that not everyone can do and only the fifth to do so against India speaks volumes about the task!
Coming to the part which was crucial,The stand between Sachin and Yuvi..Not much of a Yuvi fan,But couldn’t help but admiring his play and the way he grew taking confidence from the master of course!
Post match,the speech by Sachin,as he said this century or this victory isn’t going to make any change to the grief of the people struck by terror in Mumbai,not to play it down,he did what he was best at properly
All said, let me come to this point…the rubbish about taking Dravid out of the team!How much more does he have to prove himself?A man who has scored enough to get him sixth on the highest scorers 3 whom ahead of him don’t wield the willow anymore,the man who did lots to the team when it needed,the man widely regarded as ‘The Wall’..Fondly referred to as ‘The fortress’ by warnie,now is just going through a bad patch…now its our turn to get behind him and relieve him off the stress he’s going through.Let’s be clear in that and just be sensible enough to understand that he’s got cricket inside him left and the greatest of hearts,grit the extent of which can be compared to ten Everests.
Signing off hoping to see some more great cricket[:)]
P.S:I sorta was agape at Harmison's bulk! Man! was he huge!
Friday, December 5, 2008
A good day for the atheists
We sit on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the first very huge rift in mumbai(bombay then)..i mean the december 6th 1992 incident.The previous incidents of terror began from the assasination of Mahatma Gandhi.A person no one in the world would've wanted to kill,and still we want to celebrate him and stuff, that at least was known that it was done by gotse, then, Indira and Rajiv gandhi were assasinated.Till now we have been assasinating people who have done some good to us,the political scene,though jammed with some eminent leaders was beginning to show its true colours. Then, we unnecessarily smash down that masjid just because we feel its next to a Ram temple! why all of a sudden? its been there for years! Did they notice only then?( i seriously wanna swear here)
This blast echoed in bombay!I, kid by then,didn't know what happened but, mom has some vivid memeories!Then,life returned to normal generally,except for tension on the one single day.A movie was taken on that,and we, as susal,went,watched,cheered,finally gave some work to our tear glands,still went around filling the cine crew's stomachs!
Now,once again a tragedy has happened! the whole world is mourning.Counter measures are being discussed, or so i suppose,but ,the richest organisation in india, the bcci wants the cricket match to go on! very necessary! that money, when brought into the economy can do wonders for the country.You may argue that cricket is entertainment,But,who are you going to entertain? a country,which is just recovering form one of the most terrifying incidents? a home which has lost its son? a home which has lost its father?
Why didn't any of the politicians get hurt in this blast?Doesn't it seem to be a too far fetched coincidence? If we see,terrorists are people who are just created by the governments.Its the lack of moral values and ethics in our political scene which leads to all this ......................whatever...
Why dont we create a change?Rather than look for one to happen?I just realised every vote including mine will matter, when we vote the next time,why don't we go for something more than a tv,a kilo of rice and a piece of land,but,for a better place to live in.Its our world..its for everyone,not just for a few!
As for the connection of this post with the title,one my friends,an atheist,was asking me where was god when all this was happening?'certainly if the stories about your gods are true,the politicians should be punished,and i dno,t think getting richer is any sort of punishment' I can't much but to pray for a better place to live in!and i hear voices joining me in prayer!
This blast echoed in bombay!I, kid by then,didn't know what happened but, mom has some vivid memeories!Then,life returned to normal generally,except for tension on the one single day.A movie was taken on that,and we, as susal,went,watched,cheered,finally gave some work to our tear glands,still went around filling the cine crew's stomachs!
Now,once again a tragedy has happened! the whole world is mourning.Counter measures are being discussed, or so i suppose,but ,the richest organisation in india, the bcci wants the cricket match to go on! very necessary! that money, when brought into the economy can do wonders for the country.You may argue that cricket is entertainment,But,who are you going to entertain? a country,which is just recovering form one of the most terrifying incidents? a home which has lost its son? a home which has lost its father?
Why didn't any of the politicians get hurt in this blast?Doesn't it seem to be a too far fetched coincidence? If we see,terrorists are people who are just created by the governments.Its the lack of moral values and ethics in our political scene which leads to all this ......................whatever...
Why dont we create a change?Rather than look for one to happen?I just realised every vote including mine will matter, when we vote the next time,why don't we go for something more than a tv,a kilo of rice and a piece of land,but,for a better place to live in.Its our world..its for everyone,not just for a few!
As for the connection of this post with the title,one my friends,an atheist,was asking me where was god when all this was happening?'certainly if the stories about your gods are true,the politicians should be punished,and i dno,t think getting richer is any sort of punishment' I can't much but to pray for a better place to live in!and i hear voices joining me in prayer!
Awake finally?
This is the reaction of the people towadrs the response of the government to the mumbai terror attack wihch just took place over a week ago.The world mourns,most of us struck woth agony and terror,while its hell broken loose into the lives of the Mumbai people who were having a fast but, peaceful life for quite sometime!.Now,the people of Mumbai,finally awake,hold a rally till the gateway of india to condemn the government and its resopnse...some photos of that.Of course the best one is the first one i guess!
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