Rang De Basanti - Review

I had watched this movie some one month back but even today wen i think abt dis movie, i could not stop admiring it... thr was something abt dis movie... it was not run of d mill type of movie... it was not a usual melodrama... not whr u can imagine wat d end wil b like... not whr it shows wat does not happen in real life... dis was 'jara hat ke'... wat if thr were some pieces which director wud hv done without.... if thr wud hv been no comparison wid d real heroes of yesteryears, d movie might hv looked much better... but like everything, dis cud also be not perfect...

now let me tell u wat i liked in d movie... first, it was d life of college goers which is portrayed... dont bother abt nethng... just chill n hv fun... carefree attitude... dats hw college life in india is... neways who hv learnt nethng frm d courses which were designed some 50 years bak... so relax... den thr was d bonding which unites dem all... all had different opinions but still they were together... d frenship amongst dem was thr 2 see... n now d thing which i liked most... it was d portyal of feelings wen one of frend died in air crash... i mean it is tough to digest dat people take d extreme step of killing d defence minister... i mean d feeling was so strong... many times in our life we think abt killin someone, even for a fraction of second.. or we hope dat dis person shud die... or i shall beat dius guy to death... but in d movie, dis feelin was so strong dat it was coneverted into action... dis also portrays d binding dey all had... (though all were thinking dat they will b appreciated, in India... nah..).

n now d end... many people wanted d end 2 b different... some revolution shud hv happenned n india wud hv become d best country in world.. cmon, wil dis happen in real world... ur voice will b crushed n u wil meet d same fate as shown in d movie.. d revolution wil b suppressed... we believe only wat our (so-called) leaders say... dats wat was portrayed... THIS IS REALITY OF INDIAN POLITICS... though in d movie, it was shown dat thr was awakening sort of, but wait till d politicians buy d media in next few days, n portray wat dey want of d incident... we believe only wat we r told...

NFL SuperBowl

for last few weeks,american football matches were craze wid all my roomies... so y wont dis fever wont touch me... so took few tips frm frenz on hw to understand d game, wat 2 look for n i also joined d gang.... dis weekend on 5th Feb it was NFL final, as they call SuperBowl... NFL is craze over here in US n dis season, it was final between Pittsburg Steelers n Seattle Superhawks... d match started at 6:25 pm... bets went on amongst us on who wil win n so d show started... initially 'hawks' were at d top... attackin.... n almost got thr.... scored first points but had 2 b satisfied with 3 points only.... but den as its said 'sau sunar ki n ek luhar ki' ... steelers scored n dey did a touchdown... scored perfect 7... as gud as it can get... superhawks tried but in vain... after 1st quarter, score was 3-7 in steelers favor....

in between break, thr was 'rockin' performance by rolling stones... man who below d age of 55 wud hv enjoied dat performance... dont want 2 say more abt dat... in second half, again, hawks were like... just thr but never made it... steelers again ran away wid d ball n set up a record for run of 76 yards... man... it was a superb touchdown.... den it was d turn of hawks to do some action... dey also did a touchdown... n scores were 10-14... but den.. again one superb play by steelers saw them reach 21.. n den it was over... hawks had d possession of ball but wen it mattered dey fal;tered n it was a well deservin win for steelers.... scoreline suggest easy win, but it was a keenly contested match...

m i supreme :-/

y is thr a fight for supremacy evrywhr??? y does a person thinks dat he shud b supreme??? y do we want to make ourselves powerful??? y cant people live their lives normally n let others live??? dis is so confusin... i cant understand wen d leaders of present world have everything they want at their disposal, y do they want to get more... neways, i a democratic world, its every possibility dat it wil get out of their hand in may b next election... just d other day i was watchin TV show, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, n contentants sung a really gud song... it was 'Ae mere watan ke logo'... no doubt d song is gud n it arouses sentiments... i remember one line which meant that a soldier is wounded but he is still carryin d gun to save d border... y is dis bloodshed... we keep on makin weapons n killin each other... but for wat cause... does neone have answer... is nebdy listenin... dis shows dat thr is no value of life... wat is life for... wat a man gets by doin all dis stuff... now look at it this way..as most people say, someone is up here who is watchin all our actions n we wil get punished or rewarded wen we die... now in no way dis bloodshed is a gud deed... so definately u wil get punished... so wats d point in pursuin dis... for only some moments of fun... doesnt justify...also consider thr is no GOD... den wat we have all studied is true n human is created only thru some biological processes n nothin happens wen after death... so wat is d point in fightin wen if u die, u wont get nethng... u r not goin to take ne of d stuff wid u... thr is no relationship... wat we call love n feelings is just excitation of few cells in our body... so y r we killin evry other guy...i cant imagine hw can neone approve of dis actions... m talkin to those who do n not to those who order... y r u takin away right to live, which we ourselves hv given, frm another ... give a thot... stop killin...

What is Life :-/ - 1

this is a question which has got me confused since years... every now-and-then i wonder, infact ponder is the better word to describe my thots, WHAT EXACTLY IS LIFE... hv asked lots of frenz... got lots of different views... life is fun... live life kingsize... live life ur way... someone said 'Life is about taking stock of yourself and doing what you are supposed to do sincerely and wholeheartedly'... while someone described it quite poetically... but all these are not answer 2 my question... these describe life by lookin at it frm inside d life...(excuse me if its confusing)... i mean to say, these tell only a shorter picture.... m not askin abt hw to make life beautiful n njoiable... but m askin wat is LIFE... n not wat it means... wat is d purpose of wat we r doin... wat it fulfills... thr r so many set of rules defined for living life by our ancestors... rules which prevent u frm thinkin.... rules which dont allow u 2 hv ur view... rules which make y afraid.... but noone thinks why they r here... dey r still being followed blindly... thr might b some purpose earlier but in current world, dey might not hold true...

i think i m digressin frm d topic but u can guess wat state of mind i m in... d more i think, d more i get confused... wait for more confusion later...

Ski adventure

Thanksgiving day was a week away and we still hadnt plannned for the long weekend we had during that time... cant be.. so we decided to go for skiing... what if hadnt snowed nearby... wat if calls to umpteen ski centres disapppointed us as they werent open yet... finally Anshul found one resort which was open...

So on the morning of 26th Nov, at 8:45 am, we 7 people (I, Anupam, Anshul, Vivek, Kali, Akash and Sachin) started for the ski resort... now how many times we will get on the wrong route... it was more than 30 minutes we left and for the third time we are back from where we had started.. somehow after 30-45 minutes we managed to get on the right track... enroute, we saw mountains, houses, cars covered in snow... and suddenly it started snowing... man, i was seeing snowfall for the first time and not to mention, was really excited... driving was pure fun in those conditions... so after around 3 hours of we reached our destination at around 12:00 noon - Belleayre ski centre... it was snow everywhere, as expected..

we rented the ski boots, blades and poles... after wearing the boots, we started to walk like robots.. wat.. we cudnt move. they were too heavy... then we started for our ski lessons... we learnt few tricks.. dont tell anyone but i fell while waiting for lessons to begin... cudnt balance myself... hehe... and when i say, the most difficult thing is to get up... you have to take off your blades and stand up... So i fell down every time i came down the slope (it was couple of meters only :-(.. ) After one hour, the instructor left us and told us to start skiing ourselves... now we thought it should be fun.. so we went to lifts skiing... hey i fell down again and once in between had clashed with a snowboarder who was cmng at a great speed from the top.. so i decided to walkdown towwrds left pick-up area...

So there was I on the lift and started to admire the beauty around.. it was snowing and i was njoin it... suddenly i heard words, STAND UP.. hey, i had reached the top and the person there was telling me to stand up so that i get off the lift skiing... c'mon, hw will he know that i am doin it for the first time.. so again, it skiied, nd i was down in snow... watching the downhill, our dear friend Akash started to say, lets catch the shuttle back... we cant ski downhill.. now man, hw can i go back... me and Anupam said that we are gong down... so there we started... slowly anmd steadily we moved... hehe.. there i saw anupam in the snow... trying to get up... i said to myself, yesss, you can do it.. but wah.. there i was, in snow.. so take off ur blades, get up, put them on, and the n start again.. so i moved ahead.. den again i tried, and man.. i was gaining speed.. and there was no control.. all the lessons which we learnt were in vain.. n there was this tree towards which i was rushing.. so i tried d best way which i know to stop.. i turned the blade and i came down couple of meters rolling .. the blades were off my boots... but thank god, i avoided the clash... den i watched one skier being taken by the resort guys.. he was senseless, must have hit the tree while skiing... man, these people dont know hw to ski... hehe ;-) then again i started.. again i gained speed but now i know how to stop.. just fell down... but this time, i heard a voice from behind.. No No No... but 'honi ko kaun tal sakta hai'... we had to clash, and there we were in the snow... he didnt moved for few minutes neither did i... hehe... den i asked him, r u ok... hehe.. den i started again..

i fell down umpteen times (i lost count after 20... i watched anupam walking down as he had a muscle pull... Vivek and Akash came back from the top itself in a shuttle... but i must say njoied lot more than ice skating... might go again... so after arnd 3 hours of fun, we started back... our cars were all covered in snow... few of us started to play with snow and then we left the place... Not to mention again we lost our way... half an hour wasted but finally we were home with our whole body aching nd mind refreshed... :-)

need an occasion for celebration

we always look for moments n then to celebrate those moments in a really big way... give a thot to these tiny moments in life....

* A winter evening.
Four friends.
One barsaat.
Four glasses of chai.

* Hundred bucks of gas.
A rusty old bike.
And an open road.

* Maggi noodles.
A hostel room.
4.25 a.m.

* 3 old friends.
3 separate cities.
3 coffee mugs.
1 internet messenger.

* Rain on a hot tin roof.
Pakoras deep-frying.
Neighbours dropping in.
A party.

* You and mom.
A summer night.
A bottle of coconut oil.
A head massage.
Gossiping about absent family members.

Live life to fullest.... njoi to maximum... dont miss these moments...

Nostalgia - Nilgiris Trek

exactly one year bak i went for my first ever experience with trekking... n must say... it was terrific... moving up d nilgiris mountain, admiring d natural beauty... sometimes d slope was slippery... one wrong foot n u dont no wat wil happen next... sometime cursing myself y i came on this trip... i cannot forgot the climp up the last hill... it was steep.... n i mean reAl steep... somehow made it... n boy... look down... view was wonderful... whole body was paining but mentally, never felt so relaxing... i felt something inside which i cud never forget... dats wat i want.. mental relaxation..... no worries... no tensions...close ur eyes n feel d air around... listen to sound of wind... just forget everythng else... only becoz of dat experience, still i yearn to go for more trekkin trips.... n i met few people whom i m still in touch... thr was animesh, vishal, KP n arun... i went on more treks wid vishal, KP n arun... wonderful guys... no worry at all.. just believe in pure fun... den thr was this trek special tasty theplas... hvng them with bissibelle bath in chilly weather near so-called (:)) camp fire... those 2 fun-filled days are still etched on my mind...

stroll down d NY streets

stroll down d NY streets... in dis chilly weather whr d temp is below zero nd winds r blowin to pierce ur body... nah... who in his senses will do dat... it was thanks to the MTA strike... no transit subways... no buses... n all d cabs were full... so i had to take a WALK from 33rd street path station to my office at 42nd street... it was freezin but to tell d truth, i enjoied it... if not for my laptop, it wud hv been really fun... people were ridin bicycles.. skateboards.. roller skates.. all means were employed... it took me around 30 minutes to reach office n by d time i was thr, i was fully exhausted... no wat... evryone came to office bravin d cold weather... so i was not alone.. :-)

but i really hope dat dis gets over soon... once in a while dis is ok... but daily.. man, i will die.... y a common man is made to suffer in dis pool of shit... people who do such nuisance r not affected at all... c'mon, dis city which never stops is being held at ransom... thankfully its quite long weekend ahead and only one more day of dis silly strike...

year end PP

hi folks... its year end time for the quarterly project party... so after lots of discussion, we decided to go 4 skiing.... wait.. skiing... noooooo.. i just went for skiing d other week n was in no mood to go again.... n thr r lots others who were not interested ... so finally we decided to go 4 bowling followed by a dinner... d plan was to start bowling at 5:00 pm but as evryone came by IST so we cud start only at 6:00 PM EST ;-) so thr was evryone to prove themselves at the bowlin lane n we had experts opinion cmng for the novices... some got clean strikes... few missed on evry shot while some like us had thr shots...
n den... d clock showewd it was 7:00 n time 2 leave... we headed towards zen palate at 46th st 9th Ave.... 4 dinner... dinner at 7:00.. aain.. sounds somewat out of place... not at 7:00.... so we ordered some snacks.. soups n started antakshri... though it was hard to persuade d kishore kumars, sonu nigams n lata mangeshkars to sing... hehe :D... slowly d volume started 2 increase... it was a small restaurant n other than us only 2-3 tables occupied.. so thankfully nobody objected... den we realized dat we hvnt ordered nethng for last half n hour n the restaurant guys might not throw us out... so we decided to order main course... it was continental restaurant so we cud get only noodles n rice.. hehe.. just kiddin... we ordered some unknown dishes n had stomach full of them... it was different frm routine food so infact it was more delicious... after hvng food, we headed bak to times square to hv some ice creams or coffee or watever... but den nobody was interested so people just left to thr destinations except myself, chandu n prabir..
we hanged arnd for some time... prabir had dis book abt the history of manhatten n he started to bore(coz m never interested in history... live 4 future, man...) us wid wateer was writen in dat.. but finally he realized so he stopped n den after spendin some quality time at the heart of US, we headed towards our home...

y m i here

no wat... m gettin really bored now-a-days... currently hv no idea wat 2 do in my freee time... was lookin for a place whr i can spend some time.. write my thots... no frm othrs wat they think abt those thots... so someone told me abt blogspot.com... i no its very much 'in' thing but normally i m away frm this kind of stuff... its quite possible dat dis cud become my last posting... or if i like dis place, u wil find me cmng again n again.... we wil get to know of dis in cmng days... so all, keep ur fingers crossed... here we go.... :D