THE WILSONITE : Reloaded

Reduced number of confused rambling adolescents, same messed up blog, 2nd year of awesome fun! cut loose!!!

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Darius Mistry's Proud Discovery of the Day!

1)
Batata Vadaaaa, batata Vada, Dil nahin dena tha dena pada!
Batata Vadaaaa, batata Vada, Pyar nahin karna tha karna pada!

(Batata Vada, I didn’t want to give my heart, but had to give; Batata Vada, I didn’t want to love, but had to love!)


2)
Sridevi:”Ueeamma, Ueeamma, mushkil ye kya ho gayi,
Jeetendra:Tere badan se toofan utha jo, sadi hawa ho gayi


(S: Uiamma, Uiamma, what the hell has happened?
J: A storm has arisen from your body and blown off your Sari)



3)
Main to raste se jaa raha…bhelpuri kha raha tha….seetti baja raha tha…ladki ghuma raha tha…tujhe mirchi lagi to main kya karoon?…teri naani mari to main kya karoon)

(I was walking down the street…eating bhelpuri….whistling a tune…making out with a girl…you bit a chilly, what do I do? your granny died, so what shall I do?)


THERE IS MORE HERE !!!


http://www.mouthshut.com/review/%20Twenty_Worst_Hindi_Songs-22988-1.html

HAVE FUN, ME HEARTIES!
*nods, grins, and rubs hands with glee*

A simple life indeed!!!

walks down the lane of memory is always memorable,

me as u know(very friendly) ,had a great evening last day.
a walk from sakinaka to andheri station
some journey!!!

here i was with my learned spectacled buddy,(25/m/single)
we talked,we argued, but never reached a conclusion.

guess what the topic can be?

well i'll help u, it was all about life( now dont ask me why!!!).

now iam not that much of a thinker but his questions did make me think,

well this dude had everything a guy desires, 20 grand salary, a great smile, a car,
a sound and clear mind, travells like hell, got a bunch of close(langotiya!!!) friends

and now check his questions

1) why cant the life be any simpler??
( at that moment i was having a delicious seekh kebab, hence he had to shout the question
a third time for me to get it)

2) can i live a normal life ?
( me , i was wondering if this question was normal, or i was normal or if he was normal , but
thanx to god a belphuri wala came rite there and in order to make the conversation normal
i ordered ,dho bhel bhaiya. (and it did sound very normal)

and his third question almost made me curse at the bhelpuriwala standing next to me.

3) are we in a matrix? for everything around me seems promising but never delivers it, its
just like i go from one thing to another to another and keep on going but never reaching anywhere?

(i was about to scream STOP FOR HEAVENS SAKE!!!)
but looking at my friends pitiful state i changed my mind.

i tried remembering some philosophy funda which i had read somewhere , but it didnt get me anywhere.

so all i did was thank him for the seekh kebab, than i haggled him for the cash i paid for the bhel which he duly
paid in his state of trance and wonder, said bye and stood in the station waiting for " THE INCREDIBLE VIRAR FAST"

i thought perhaps the wise 'OLD' oracle might help me to deal with this question of matrix oops !! life.
(perhaps it is.... matrix!!.)

i laughed at myself and said( hey stupid lenin, life is obviously simple and by every angle very normal )

JUST THAN THE TRAIN ARRIVED AT THE PLATFORM AND I WONDERED!!!!!

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

chronicles of the rabid yogi- the basic needs

Tired from the hard walk under the trying sun the rabid yogi went inside a cave which was on the way
and sat , it was pretty dark but cool . He looked around but there was no one ,yet he knew that he was
never alone.

the rabid yogi as always cried there, he moaned ,he wailed , for he never understood the ways of man.

than he sat properly, washed his face with the water he had , and started writing...

man is too deep a creature for even man to understand, he says that his basic neccesities are food, shelter and clothing ,
but I will tell that its not so, look around and you will know that what the richest man craves ,is very much alike
the craving of a poor man.

"man doesnt live by bread alone".

many childrens in the world dont die of starvation but due to unloving hearts.

many desperate men after having a sumptuous meal with their friends leap from there roofs to death,
for they have everything in their life but love.

every eye on the street screams for love,
every hand holds someone thinking it may love them
every leg hurries around in search of love

but at the end, this world offers none.
but man still seeks love.


"house on the rock"

pay attention to this words 'four walls doesnt make a house but the security derived from it makes it a house'.
a house with foundation on the sand will not stand for long ,but a house with its foundation on a rock makes it
long lasting.

man craves for security, man craves for hope and stability during uncertain situations.
no matter how strong and brave a man be,he always desires safety for self and his loved ones.

man trusts on guns and money for protection
but i tell u again
at the end , this world offers none
with more money comes more worry and with more guns comes more fear.

but man still seeks safety


"the body more important than clothe"?

though man may be called a social animal, but he is also very much a individual.
everyone feels , sees , thinks differently.

no matter how poor , man will not desire to wear something that is common, for he seeks distinction.

man is a creature of extremes, though he wishes to be a part of a group so that he can reduce himself from being
a individual to a group, but on the other hand he also desires a seperate identity. thus one can see the folly of spending
hours and hours of time in front of the mirror so that one can look good ,so that one can look different.

man at heart is a individual .
he seeks meaning in his life ,
he seeks to know the purpose of his existence.

he does runs after many things believing that it will give his life a meaning
he runs after fame,
after victory,
after money,
after pleasure.


but at the end he stands empty
at the end, this world offers none

but man still seeks meaning
though clothes doesnt provide them.


man is simply not a advanced version of a monkey, He is in reality much more than what we know.

he may haved scaled great heights and fathomed mysterious depths,yet he is unable to look inside and
know himself.



"our eyes have been blinded by the glamour of this world
thus we dont see the poverty stricken plight of our soul"

thus i understand that the real basic neccesities are "love, safety and meaning".

with this the rabid yogi closed his old tattered, tear stained book and started walking again
under the trying sun....

Days go by...


It ain’t funny... it seriously ain’t... life ain’t funny... hehe... haha... I try hard... really hard to convince myself...but somehow I can’t convince myself... I think on the words one of my close friends told me long back..." ... If life doesn’t make you laugh... you didn’t get the joke!"

I have been observant and have soaked in quite a lot... the most common thing I encounter everyday is... people telling me I have changed and am acting weird... "People... when did you consider me normal... !!!" Anyways... lemme talk about today... really it was an interesting day... like any other!

I get to college by train... the class is all calm and things are pleasant... just then a curious looking... balding man walks in ( he was our college principal)... and talks to us about how, we BMM students are acting different... and how the other classes get disturbed by the noise we make... surprisingly his interpretation was hilarious... he points at the pipes which enter and leave our class through the ceiling and says the voice travels through the pipes... no wonder he has lost all his hair thinking over futile stuff... Though we appreciate the way he interacted with us and even acknowledged our worth and intellect... The day begins and Stuti has a story to tell...

A while later... I am standing outside the class chatting with an S.Y. when Krutika (the enlightened one!) enters the passage... and enquires about what is happening in class... I spot a great opportunity and say..." its a surprise... go have a look..."... I wait and watch... the lady walks to the door stands there... her hand moves to her chin and she scans the class... looking for the SURPRISE... she stands and observes for two minutes and then walks back to me... and says... "Aye man... what surprise... nothing is there... what is the big deal... you were lying naa... I knew it...!!!"

We have more lectures... the comes Sudhakar’s lecture... and then ... nothing college is officially over... We are free... I and Vinayak think of going to CCD... but some how ... we have minor changes... Reinhardt and Roop have some friends meeting them... I ask Vinayak to join us but... he says he would rather stay with some other important people for a while... It ticks me off... I call him names... And coin a new name... "You are not even worth being called a CANDY... fucking choot... You are a pussy... hehe... saalle...POLO... the mint with a hole!!!!"... no offense dude... am sorry...if I hurt your SWEET sentiments...

After a while... we decide its time to catch up with Vinayak at CCD... and guess what we see... We see Joslin sitting along with Vinayak... and 4-other girls... the ass-hole was supposed to be at a clinic getting physiotherapy done... so our group cancelled the plans of visiting the malls and shops... HE GOT CANNED!!! Sorry Josie!!!
Cricket practice followed our relaxation at CCD... but guess what Jayesh had just one ball today... hehe... the other one was missing... (no innuendo intended!!!)... we didn’t have the bat either... so we end up doing some catching practice... I get injured... Shavan improves... Vinayak takes the challenge... we loose a stump... curse Guru... discuss... discuss... LEAVE!!!

The day doesn’t end there... Roop , Reinhardt, Siddhant (from BA) and me decide to hang around a bit more... Chill around ... Walk around... talk... WE DIDN’T BITCH!!! I get a call from home soon... Mum was angry...
I sit in the train for the second time today... reach Andheri... And then miseries fall on me... I cant get my bike out of the parking lot... no space... I have to heave it and... lift it to get it out... I try to kick-start... it doesn’t start... I try again... and again... and again... it refuses to start... I push it ...and then try again... nothing happens... THE KEY WAS IN!!!...yet...no luck...even... the fuel-tap was on... My mind races again... like an idiot I think again in much deeper terms... I relate this with our lives... how hard do we try and get it started and raring... how much we long to see ourselves cruising ahead on full throttle... and yet inspire of all things being in the right places... nothing happens... But then at times just a miraculous discovery or incident changes the whole game... well something similar happened here... a man walks over and clicks the ignition switch ON... End of Misery... Enlightenment greets me... hehe...

I reach home... share a chat with my family... have dinner... watch television... and laugh on Uma Bharti screaming around and flapping her arms... sit down on my ... now healthy computer... type away... My grand dad asks me what I m doing... I say I m writing something... "Poetry?"..he asks... "no not today..."....
"Well..."he says " I know one... you know... I SLEPT AND FOUND LIFE IS BEAUTY... I WOKE AND FOUND LIFE IS DUTY..."... I giggle...chuckle...smile... ooh...haha...it was funny... I get back to my work... but somehow... I begin to feel he made sense...

Well anyways... I don’t wann discuss anymore crap... you must be really bored... if you would have read through the whole post... and am sure...pissed by now....!!!

Sahirr...

Monday, November 28, 2005

Darius Mistry's Proud Discovery of the Day!

Someone just pointed out to me that my name Darius is an anagram for the word "radius"

*shrugs*

Good night...

Sunday, November 27, 2005

chronicles of the rabid yogi

tired from the hard walk under the trying sun the rabid yogi went and sat inside a cave which was on the way , it was pretty dark but cool . He looked around but there was no one ,yet he knew that he was
never alone.

the rabid yogi as always cried there, he moaned ,he wailed , for he never understood the ways of man.

than he sat properly, washed his face with the water he had , and started writing....



what is this?
but meaningless !
utterly meaningless
everything is meaningless

what does man gain from all his labour
at which he toils under the sun?

Generations come and generation go,
but the earth remanins for ever.

The sun rises and the sun sets ,
and hurries back to where it rises.

all streams flow into the sea
yet the sea is never full.
to the place the streams come from
there they return again.

all things are wearisome
more than one can say.

the eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.

what has been ,will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

is there anything of which one can say,
"look! there is something new"?
it was here ,long ago
before our time

there is no remembrance of men of old
and even those who are yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow.

man is but a cockroach
all he does is survive

with this the rabid yogi closed his old tattered, tear stained book and started walking again under the trying sun....

ALL THAT IS...


All that is...was and will be...
All that isn’t... is and will be...

Let the mist clear...
Let the noise go down...
Let the truth grow on you...

Question...
Question your senses...
Question your feelings...
Question your thoughts...
Question your imagination...

Question ... question your, existence...

Smile...
Smile on your anger...
Smile on your sorrow...
Smile on your mistakes...
Smile on your curiosity...

Smile... Smile on your answers...

But Remember...
All that is...was and will be...
All that isn’t... is and will be...

The world... rests on the blink of an eye-lid...
And the game is beautiful till we blink again...

So...

Play hard...
Live by the moment...

Get high on life...
Sing yourself a song...

Talk to yourself...
Love yourself...

Know yourself...

The Truth...
Face it...
Look at it... in the eye...

The Lie...
Fight it...
Like there was no daylight...

Make way...
Empty yourself...

Think... Imagine... Create...

Listen... Read... Write...

Eat... Drink... Burp...!

Breathe... Run... Fly...

Shout... Laugh... Cry...

...Love...

All that is...was and will be...
All that isn’t... is and will be...

Enjoy...


(Sahirr...)







Of Class and Of Cricket

It's been about three weeks since college began. I can feel the same old bullshit starting up again. The first day back saw a flurry of projects, courtesy of a very pissed off co-ordinator. (Well, 3 to be more precise) It also saw one of the most queer new visiting faculty members to date. This chap named Siddharth teaches English Literature in quite an amusing fashion. Think Tweety in a green shirt and trousers, trying to act like Alex Trebeck. But he seems competent enough, I think.

It seems weird in this second semester. I don't know if it's just me, but this time around things are getting worriedly relaxed around class. No one gives a rat's ass about anything anymore. It's turning into one of those "life goes on..." attitudes for many people in class. This might be partly due to the fact that everyone is still under a vacation hangover, or it could do with the fact that the very first results of this course are due on Monday. And in the eloquent words of Forrest Gump, that's all I have to say about that!

But things are definitely different this time around. The class seems to want to do a lot more extra curricular shit in college. Some of the women want to put up a stall for Bazaar Day. Some of the guys want to play Cricket for Sports Day. People wore suits and sarees for Tie and Saree Day! Until there was word that it might get canned this year, a lot of the class was up for heading to Pune for Symbiosis Fest-O-Comm this year. This is surprising and amusing for me because:

a) The BMM department of Wilson college never participates in ANY activities regarding the rest of the college.

b) The rest of the college thinks the BMM students are nothing but a bunch of high society stuck up poseurs.

c) The BMM students think that the rest of the college is nothing but a bunch of ghaats and strongly think that it's too biased against them, and hate their age-old fundamental laws.

d) I get to watch these two cold powers fight against each other, holding my ribs with laughter.


It's really funny to see them go at it sometimes! I like not to get involved and enjoy it as a spectator sport. I think the reason it gets wild sometimes is the difference in cultural backgrounds, and of course education levels. I don't take any sides. I've seen both angles. Living out of your trunk of clothes, from location to location in this city kind of gets you to meet different kinds of people. It tends to make you friends with the ghaatiest of ghaats and the snobbiest of snobs and of course the lovely people that lie in the middle. This is an advantage. It’s ten times funnier now!

Coming back to this whole cricket thing. Our class seems to have broken a precedent here. I think we might be the first BMM cricket team (even though it’s only the first years) to participate. Never heard of any others. Let’s get down to brass tacks though. This team sucks. Yes, hold no illusions of any professionalism shown on the field. We’re a bunch of wild animals put together and padded up. By the end of 20 overs, we might well become a bunch of dead wild animals put together and padded up. We might lose or we might even get lucky and win. But I will tell you this. We’re a bunch of players with heart. Each and every one of us, however much we might suck, if we are willing to put our whole effort, a hundred percent performance, we can hold our heads high and walk out of there proud. We’re already champions in my books. Put a slapstick team together who’ve never played with each other, with hardly any experience, and little or no protection or equipment. Sounds crazy, stupid, dangerous doesn’t it…Well it is. That’s the point. We’re like the Lagaan team. All odds against us. The House is most likely going to win. But we aint backing down. This fight is to the end. We’ve already won, mates. All we have to do is do it again.


Darius Mistry

The matrix.. part I

And so it all began..
Of 8 legs, a pair of antlers, 2 pairs of lacy wings and a slick green body.
A hero had risen.
It was a flash of insight that awakened tanvi. A flash so intense, it lunged her into “the real world”
The self proclaimed oracle was born.
It became as clear as the white of the grasshoppers cornea.
Her destiny. Her sole purpose of existance.
And then, she realised it all..
*slow motion looking around*
Her life whirled past her as she stepped into a new world.
The Real World..
*zapppp*
Tanvi nervously stepped forward and a sudden burst of light blinded her.
Blinded, she stumbled ahead for a moment before the sound of a deep mysterous voice engulfed her and she stopped dead in her tracks.
“What it is that u are scared of oracle?” ,said a deep mysterious voice “this is where you belong.”
“Where am I?”, she said nervously.
“Welcome Oracle, to the REAL WORLD.”
“What?? But that doesn’t answer anything.. where am I?”
“ U will understand for urself,Oracle.Its all a matter of time.”
“Who are you?”
“I am, but the creater, oracle.. I have bequeathed you with powers of such enormity. Such magnitude that none but I knows the measure of power you truly hold”
“but what will I do with these powers? Im just another regular person.. why is it that u have chosen me?”
“time will unfold and tell its own tales, oracle. I trust u watch the events of time unravel.”
“my mission before my eyes. And time to my advantage.i thank you, creator.”
*zapp*
“Tanvi??? Tanvi..!!! are you ok? Why don’t u talk? is everything ok? Why arent u saying anything?”
Natasha grabbed her shoulders and shook her.
Tanvi jerked out of her stupor and predictably enough didn’t remember what had happened…
She looked at natasha as though she had never seen another human being in her life.
But as she look intently, for the first time ever, she felt like she didn’t belong to this world.
It was suddenly about Grasshopper.
About Smith.
About ‘The One’.
She just KNEW who Smith was.
And she feared him already.
Little did she know that soon, very soon she wud be face-to-face with the man himself..................

The oracle...

PLEASE POST UR NAMES

ok its taking me immense patience to say this....
PLEASE PUBLISH UR NAMES AT THE END OF EVERY BLOG..

its very annoying when u read a post and there isnt any name at the end of it..!

keep tht in mind the next time u post..
and do not NOT post ur names just to piss me off cuz i swear to god i bite hard.

the oracle...

Saturday, November 26, 2005

the mad man

This is a parable by the great german athiest philosopher NIETZCHE . WELL HIS THINKING GREATLY INFLUENCED SOME OF THE WORLDS MOST RENOWNED AND ACKNOWLEDGED PEOPLE LIKE SAY hitler , mussolini and many other highly recognized people.

thus goes the story

THE MADMAN
Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!" -- As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one. Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? emigrated? -- Thus they yelled and laughed.
The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. "Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him -- you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning? Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

"How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us -- for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto."

Here the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners; and they, too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke into pieces and went out. "I have come too early," he said then; "my time is not yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than most distant stars -- and yet they have done it themselves.

It has been related further that on the same day the madman forced his way into several churches and there struck up his requiem aeternam deo. Led out and called to account, he is said always to have replied nothing but: "What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God?"


this what we have done to our life , we stand as victors , we stand alone , we believe we are enlightened ,we stand alone , we laugh with others , but we still stand alone

we think we know what to do . but we still stand alone , knowing nothing , knowing nowhere to go.


ur comments are eagerly expected ,hey forgive my grammar but do consider this article, it was pretty thought provoking 4 me

Friday, November 25, 2005

err... - rOsHnEe

hey all!
this is a li'l poem i wrote in class during vinita matthew's lecture today.. little simplistic..but i didnt have much time..and i didnt know we had to only submit words..and not make a poem outta em..hehe..so here goes...

Born in the festival of light
Named just right!
‘Roshnee’ this name I had worn
Even before the time I was born.
Kolkata stirs memories in me
Of rickshaws,puchkas and mudi
Bombay is the place I call home,
Living with the people of my own,
Ranu, Neha, Kinjal, Natasha
School mein dhamaal n tamasha,
From imported toys,
Barbies to boys,
We grew up together
Amidst teasing and laughter,
Noddy, famous five, faraway tree;
Mark Twain, Julies Verne;
Astrix, Tintin, Archie!
Left school with flying colours,
Pedas and thanks to teachers and peers,
College opened to me a new window wide,
Ruparel was surely one helluva ride,
Thinking of it my eyes well up with tears.
Crush, mush, masti and fun
Life couldn’t be better till exams made us run..
Trauma, tantrums, stress and anxiety
Surely had a toll on my longevity!
Left science with mixed emotions
Dreams of being a ‘doctor’ lost in transition...
As BMM beckons me out of my past,
I am a free bird at long last!

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

How to Identify the City you are In

HOW TO IDENTIFY THE CITY YOU ARE IN??????
Scenario 1 Two guys are fighting and a third guy comes along, then a fourth and they start arguing about who's right. You are in Kolkatta
Scenario 2 Two guys are fighting and a third guy comes along, sees them and walks on. That's Mumbai
Scenario 3 Two guys are fighting and a third guy comes along & tries to make peace. The first two get together & beat him up. That's Delhi
Scenario 4
Two guys are fighting. A crowd gathers to watch. A guy comes along and quietly opens a chai stall That's Ahmedabad.
Scenario 5 Two guys are fighting and a third guy comes he writes a software programm to stop the fight .. but the fight doesn't stop b'cos of a bug in the program Thats Bangalore !!!!
Scenario 6 Two guys are fighting. A crowd gathers to watch. A guy comes along and quietly says that "ANNA" doesn't like all this non sense, Peace comes in. That's Chennai.
Scenario 7 Two guys are fighting. Both of them take time out and call their friends on mobile.Now 50 guys are fighting. You are in Chandigarh.

Thursday, November 17, 2005

THE MATRIX - A PROLOGUE

*loud drumroll*
its the beginnning of time...
silence envelopes the immediate vicinity.
the air is still in anticipation of the storm.
little does the small town of baramati know that on this very day, a legend will be born..
a lone grasshopper.
a cold dark corridor of VIITs ladies hostel in baramati....
room no 99.
4 girls.
a loud shrill of laughter......
"hey tanvi, check this stupid grasshopper out! its been here for for ages.. last time i saw it, it ws right here... and tht was some 3 hours ago", said roshnee.
more laughter.....
"omg! must b reallyyy stupid", replied tanvi
"is it dead?"
"i dunno man....but im guessing since it hasnt moved in ages it probably is...."
"yeah... just imagine... it mustve been thinking.. ok ill just hop accross this corridor and mayb ill find myself a nice mate"
"haha.. little did he know tht-ok fine,thts about it dude!"
more laughter.
4 hours later.
“Hey roshnee, check this baby out… he’s moved…! Ohh blessed god!! He’s ALIVE!! It’s a miracle man!! The miracle of life!’’
“hahahahahhaahahha!”
and so it was.. the grasshopper, surmounting all his mental, physical and emotional disabilities had taken one intrepid step furthur in his attempt to find a suitable mate-(rimonial)* partner.
What a mammoth task he had accomplished.. four feet furthur* towards his goal…..
A tear came to tanvi’s eye but she quickly wiped it away for fear of him seeing and being overcome by emotions.
Numb with happiness and over draught with emotion, tanvi longed to take him in his arms and shout out to the world of his laurels..
But she resisted.. for he was, but a creepy, crawly, disgustingly ugly grasshopper..*
Slowly her hands came together in slow claps and her head shook in sheer elation as she edged him on… furthur and furthur.. to “keep walking grasshopper….. keep walking…”

-the oracle!

* get it??… mate-rimonial partner…get it?? Get it ? hahahahh!!!!!!!!
* four feet furthur…. I made my very first alliteration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Isnt tht cool..woohooo!!
* creepy,crawly, disgustingly ugly… don’t u think tht these 4 words have an awesome ring to them?? Try saying them in a sing-song voice…

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Darius Mistry's Proud Discovery Of the Day!

I'm a walking kind of guy. I enjoy walking. Given a choice between walking home or taking a rickshaw with flashing blue neon tubelights and a dhinchaka-dhinchak bass, I would pick the former choice any day of the week, and twice on Sundays. Which brings me to the discovery.

Today I learnt that it takes approximately an hour and fifteen minutes on foot, give or take five to six for traffic, to get from Warden Road to Victoria Terminus (fuck you, that's it's name) at 7 in the evening.

Any unbelieving heathens need take note of the route being, up towards Kemps Corner, down to Hughes Road, Marine Drive, Metro and VT.

Of course such journeys might seem to take longer if one does not have any company to go along. Suffice it to say that I had the very pleasant company of a friend all along the way. No, I was not extremely bored, and nor was I extremely broke to avoid a cab. I just thought it could be fun. And so it was.
So yeah, that's my discovery. *curt nod*
Now if you will excuse me, my mother will kill me if I tell her I'll be at the table in 5 more minutes....I'm having Dhansak for dinner.

Drown me in the river that is your envy.

The Devils Advocate

Well I was watching devils advocate today for the second time n surprisingly the dialogues sounded sooo much more powerful than the first time…I guess it was because I paid more attention to the sound than to the visuals this time…..I was soo shaken by 2 conversations between Al pacino n Keanu reeves that I decided to post them…now it may not have the same impact but try to imagine Al pacino saying it.

Excerpt1:walking in the marketplace

Al pacino-What can I say?
Outstanding.
Go figure it, a guy like Moyez...
...living in some subterranean shithole...all the while
he's walking around with $50 million in the bank.

Keanu-You're kidding.

Al-What do you think he's paying us in?
Goat's blood?
Tarzan, we're billing you out
at $400 an hour, my friend.
I don't see a whole lot of pro-bono work
in your immediate future.

Keanu-I figured you came down to make sure
I didn't fuck this up.

Al-Maybe I did.
Don't get too cocky, my boy.
No matter how good you are...
...don't let them see you coming.
That's the gaffe, my friend.
You've gotta keep yourself small.
Innocuous.
Be the little guy.
You know, the nerd, the leper...
...the shitkicking surfer. Look at me.
Underestimated from day one.
You'd never think I was
a master of the universe, would you?
That's your only weakness,
as far as I can see.

Keanu-What's that?

Al-It's the look.
That Florida stud thing.
What is that?
Excuse me, ma'am.
Did I leave my boots under your bed?

Keanu-Never worked a jury that didn't have
a woman.

Al-Ya but, You know what you're missing?

You're missing what I have.
There's this beautiful girl,
just fucked me 40 ways from Sunday...
...we're done, she's walking
to the bathroom, she’s trying to walk...
...she turns...
...she looks...
...it's me.

Not the Trojan army that just fucked her.
Little old me.
She gets this look on her face like:
"How the hell did that happen?"

I'm the hand up Mona Lisa's skirt. That’s why she’s smiling
I'm a surprise, Kevin.
They don't see me coming.
That's what you're missing.
(Asks a shopkeeper) Where's the chicken?
(turns attention back to Keanu after receiving directions in Korean)
There's a chicken, plays tic-tac-toe,
never loses. He's famous.
Never loses, like you.

Come on. I'll show you
the fastest way uptown.
Learn the subways, Kevin.

Use them.

Stay in the trenches.

Only way I travel.



EXCERPT2:takes place in Al pacinos office while a certain eddie barzoon is jogging

al- Was he drunk?

keanu- I doubt it.
He was going running.
What the hell was he talking about?

Al-Eddie's got himself in trouble again
And he wants me to save him.
Only this time, I can't.

Keanu-Why does he think I'm after his job?

Al-You ever have any experience
with manic depression?

Keanu-Not directly, no.

Al-You do now.

(Calls receptionist)

It's me. Get Eddie Barzoon.
He may be out running,
so you might have to page him.

- It's an emergency.
- Yes, sir.


(lookin back at Keanu)
You look like you could use a drink.

Keanu-Yes, thanks.

Al-Eddie Barzoon, Eddie Barzoon.

I nursed him through two divorces,
a cocaine rehab...
...and a pregnant receptionist.


God's creature, right?


God's special creature?

I've warned him, Kevin.

I've warned him every step of the way.

Watching him bounce around
like a fucking game.

Like a wind-up toy.

Like pounds...

...of self-serving greed on wheels.

The next thousand years
is right around the corner.

Eddie Barzoon...

...take a good look because...

...he's the poster child
for the next millennium.


These people...

...it's no mystery where they come from.

You sharpen the human appetite...

...to the point where it can split atoms
with its desire.

You build egos the size of cathedrals.

Fiber-optically connect the world
to every eager impulse.

Grease even the dullest dreams with
these dollar-green...

...gold-plated fantasies until every human
becomes an aspiring emperor...

...becomes his own god.
Where can you go from there?


Wrong way!


Fuck you...


As we're scrambling...

...from one deal to the next...

...who's got his eye on the planet?

As the air thickens, the water sours...

...even bees' honey takes on
the metallic taste of radioactivity...

...and it just keeps coming,
faster and faster.

Help! Stop it!

There's no chance to think, to prepare.

It's buy futures, sell futures...

...when there is no future.

We got a runaway train, boy.


We got a billion Eddie Barzoons
all jogging into the future.

Every one of them is getting ready
to fistfuck God's ex-planet...

...lick their fingers clean...

...as they reach out toward their pristine...

...cybernetic keyboards...

...to tote up their fucking billable hours.

And then it hits home.
You got to pay your own way, Eddie.

It's a little late in the game to buy out now.

Your belly's too full...
...your dick is sore...
...your eyes are bloodshot and
you're screaming for someone to help.

But guess what?

There's no one there!
You're all alone, Eddie.
You're God's special little creature.

Maybe it's true.

Maybe God threw the dice once too often.

Maybe He let us all down

.………………………………………………………………………………………

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

of aids summits, govinda-rajnikant hybrids and dicks!!!

so this is how its been..after ages of just sitting around and doing nothing, ive finally had some action in my life..(i konw wht ur thinking..im not talking about that kind of action!!.... )
when i say action, i mean the past few days have been rocking..actually past 2-3 days..
well, day before yesteday..

so anyway, having gotten out of the house after ages, i ws thankfully headed to a decent place... or so i thot... the MTV AIDS SUMMIT (which btw turned out to b one rocking hour of well, standing.. nothing really.)

so im really defiant when im abt to enter... i have no pass and i wont let anyone frisk me.! i just settled for entering without a pass and having my bag frisked by a freakishly large woman (?)

i enter, i stand, i watch, i get bored while roshnee and her friends groove to strings...
i stand and watch some more..

then suddenly, before my eyes, pops a man....
a man as i have seen on every corner of every street in mumbai.. yet i am amused.
.a pair of vintage fashion street jeans complete with rips on the knees and a hankerchief tied around one thigh.
a bright red shirt bearing the most hideous floral prints i have seen in my entire life.
the "tere naam" hairstyle comlete with a red bandana with white motifs to keep the hair out of the face..
now u must wonder y im describing ur average road-side-romeo.....its because he was a cut above the rest.... he grabbed my attention and kept it there for a lonng longgggg time and its all thanks to his amazing dancing skills...
he wud give rajnikant and govinda a run for their money..
whats more, he kept glancing over at my friends and me...

i painfully turn my gaze away and look at the stage...

there i see jimmy shergill, some anujj dude and dino morea promoting the movie tom dick and harry...
now since it is an aids awarness concert, dino asks the guy who plays dick (anujj)... "dick.. kya tu topi pehenta hai??" and dick replies "ha.. main topi pehenta bhi hu aur pehnata bhi hu"..

so i end my rambling here for all u people to think about....
dick and his topi act...hope ull learnt something...

moral of the story... WITHOUT TOPI, U WILL GET AIDS..(n the rajnikant-govinda hybrid ws just for timepass... cudnt resist)

im sorry this blog makes no sense whatsoever..feel free to leave ur comments....(tho negative comments are never well taken.... anyways..*taking deep calming breaths*.. no one *bang* needs to *cracckkk* get hurt...)
ole!

the oracle!

Monday, November 14, 2005

What do you want it to be?

He comes to me and hands me this... something (I didn’t know what it was)... I ask "what is it?"... Then comes the reply...."My friend what do you want it to be....".... Things have changed ever since... there is much more in things than what appears... look at them differently and enjoy life... ‘cus creativity and imagination never ends... it always begins!!!

For example lets consider a pencil... what can it be... what can I use it for... let us just imagine we didn’t know it was a pencil... for us its just a long thing made of wood. could it be used to make arrows... or just poke people. girls could even us it to hold their hair. And offcourse it could also be a magic wand. Somehow I always remember the movie...GOD MUST BE CRAZY each time I think over these lines. One empty bottle of coke landing in the middle of no where... and look what people made out of it. A weapon, a kitchen appliance, a musical instrument, a blessing from heaven, a curse by angry gods, etc... and guess what they didn’t use it to drink or store liquid.

Its funny at times... why is it that kids always come up with the weirdest imaginations... we see them playing with shadows... talking to themselves... playing with GI JOES and dolls... collecting useless trash. For a grown up it might be trash... but how many of us have had the patience and pleasure of staring through a colored piece of glass found on the ground... probably from a bottle or a decorative ornament. the world would turn green...red or whatever color the glass would be.... we filter the world through the glass... Talking about filtering... our mature mind as we call it... filters stuff which we don’t want to consider or look at with a different perspective. We feed on filtered thoughts and process them to come up with routine stuff.

Last evening I went for a long drive with family and family friends... just to have food at a dhaba called... PRITAM DA DHABBA...My uncle’s daughter is just 1n a half year old... she cant speak but wobbles her head and body each time the radio would play Kajra re... there were these lamps all around the dhaba... which looked like glowing orbs. Win (that’s her nick name) gets up and somehow manages to walk over to them and just stares at them with amazement and her eyes twinkled with the orb being reflected in her eyes... Happily she let out a shout...or squeal whatever it was... pointing at the orb. I just sat back and thought what could it have meant to her. she didn’t understand electricity ... nor would she know there was a bulb inside... what was it that amazed her... was it the light... or was it the thought that the moon has come close to her... or was it just a glowing ball for her.

At times we might misinterpret pictures in a newspaper if we see them from a weird angle...or if the paper is kept at a distance. That weird image in our head stimulates some amount of thought which wanders around for a while before the Left-side of our brain shoos it away... no wonder our dreams are composed of many known.... yet unknown designs, formats, and images... The subconscious memory comprises of 80%... whereas the conscious is just 20%... what if we train ourselves to channelise our thought process using the sub-conscious... which is really possible. I wouldn’t like to shift my writings towards this field... for now.

All I have realized is the secret of brilliant creativity lies in having all the knowledge one can and thinking like a kid. how else could a genius like Spielberg be born... that man has surely impressed all of us in one way or other... a killer shark... dinosaurs coming back to life...an alien from outer space... a boy who is almost human... a youth running all around the world cheating people and minting money... being trapped on an airport for months... sheer brilliance...

As I said... creativity is always a beginning... so lets begin.

Sahirr

THE MAN WHO LOVED ...TEDDY

The man who loved TEDDY

Big Mac, is what his fellow riders called him... originally known as Stephen Hazel. A six feet - two inch tall... 425 pound... bearded... denim clad ... Harley rider... with a teddy-bear tattooed on his arm and who survived on Mc. Donald’s Big Mac. That’s how he got the name... some say he once broke in to a Mc. Donald’s outlet at mid-night to feed himself...however he landed in the prison for a couple of days , and believe it... he had no food until he was released... and finally satisfied himself with 6 Big Macs.

He sure was not the right person to mess around with. His appearance was scary enough to keep people at an arm’s length. But this big guy had a curious weakness... he loved a soft-toy...whom he called ‘TEDDY’.

TEDDY could be often spotted sitting on the headlamps of his chopper... with a smile on his face... cool denim clothing, tattoos and dark glasses. Mac would often be seen talking to TEDDY while sitting on his chopper parked outside... OLLY’S PUB... People never dared to stare at him, cause everyone remembers Billy’s broken nose and arm... he had called Mac a kid who played with an idiotic doll. Mac didn’t mind being called a kid as much as TEDDY being called an idiot. Billy had to kneel before teddy and plead for forgiveness... until Mac said "TEDDY forgives you... get yo our ass outta here ‘fore ee changes his mind".

I once had an opportunity to share a drink with the big guy... at OLLY’S. I was there drowning my anger and frustrations in alcohol when the giant came and sat besides me and placed TEDDY... between us on the counter. Olly greeted him and said... "Hey Mac... the usual??"... "Sure" came the reply... "And what will TEDDY have today..." ... "TEDDY...err....what you gonna have today ?... oh.... ok..... hey Olly... TEDDY says he will have the usual too...(grunt)". My eyes couldn’t believe it... a huge... middle aged ... bearded biker... clad in leather... talking to a teddy-bear. To surprise me further the bartender got two drinks... a huge mug of beer... and a tiny miniature mug of beer too...what next... Mac fits the tiny mug in TEDDY’S hand and then he clashes their mugs and grunts aloud.... "Cheers....my boy... a drink in the name of ...twenty years of our friendship...".... "What twenty years... I say to myself... they ‘ve been together for twenty years...", my ears couldn’t believe it too.... Just then Mac spotted the curious look on my face... it scared me ... I tried and acted as if I was minding my own business.. just when I felt as if I was weighed down by his hand which landed on my shoulder... "hey kiddo... what’s the matter...why are you so sad... want me to buy you a drink..... no....no.... today TEDDY and I are really happy.... I insist.....Hey Olly... one more mug for the guy besides us...."

The one became two and soon three... then followed the vodka shots... the lime...salt...and fresh tomato juice did the trick... I was flying and TEDDY was still trying... man no wonder it keeps smiling all the time... Mac would dip TEDDY in his drinks... Because TEDDY too is alive... The man talk had begun... the secrets were rolling OLLY joined us too... the was empty except for the four of us... which included TEDDY too...

"TEDDY belong’d to me daughter" Mac went on... "... her bes’ fren’ an’ now mine... she loved it... she even changed his clothes too....NO NO TEDDY...its ok...I trust these people...they are brothers...( he suddenly speaks to TEDDY)... Sammy....aka Samantha was 6 when I gave TEDDY to her... she was not even 7 when I took charge of him...Sammy and me wife died in a car crash... funny ... how this life proceeds... it didn’t rain on their funeral... no dark clouds... my neighbor was getting married... Someone won the elections and we had a new president ... their were parades and celebrations all around... it was just me and TEDDY along with the priest that sunny and warm day... today was their death anniversary... and TEDDY tells me Sammy is 26 now... she is a fine lady up there in the heaven and guess what she has taken a re-birth ... can you believe it... she is here... and I and TEDDY are travelling all around the country now looking for me Sammy... we shall find her... won’t we TEDDY..."

"So what was with you...", he asks me... and I say "I had a fight with my wife...".... and how we all laughed...TEDDY actually fell off the counter...

The morning came... and we were sober again and different people... Mac left for his search... he would send me post-card and pictures of him and TEDDY...Chicago...Los Angeles...Las Vegas...New York and finally New Jersey. Mac had an accident... TEDDY fell of too... both were dripping in blood...they were taken to the hospital... I and Olly traveled all the way to New Jersey. 2 weeks and he hadn’t opened his eyes... TEDDY was still smiling... I gave him a hospital gown too and laid him besides Mac. The nurse...a young and beautiful girl would come and check up the reports often during the day...and spend a long time staring at Mac... he was a big man...

I was just taking a nap...when I was suddenly woken up by a loud grunt..."Kiddo!!! her eyes (the nurse had just left )... Sammy she is here... Kiddo we found her..."...Found her I cant believe him... he tells me to open his wallet which lied in the corner cupboard... their was a picture of the six year old Sammy...her eyes.....yes her eyes...!!! The nurse...

"And hey get me a few BIG MAC’s... I am starving..!!!".

Sahirr

Stark Raving Furious

Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls, Children of all ages... It is my esteemed privilege to bring to you another wonderfully self-serving, jaded and random rant, tinged with age, experience and fury. The subject of my fury this time? Stupid movie theories that the viewer is expected to swallow...

Now before I get to that I'd like to acknowledge this week as being the week in 1974, that saw the birth of Joe C, the late (but fairly great) dimunitive MC of the Kid Rock band. Acknowledged.

Now moving on, I love cinema... Really, I do. It entertains, amuses, confounds, delights and most importantly, entertains me... But one thing never fails to annoy me-.. no, 'annoy' is far too weak a word... One thing never fails to piss me off to the point of hurling the remote control at the television screen and screaming "Fuck YOU, Jerry Bruckheimer!!" is the way a lot of movies deal with solving crimes. The target of my fury is the concept that a serial killer/rapist/molester (it's immaterial) will strike in a set pattern. Be that a given shape on a geographical relief model or pin codes or even a fuckin' mathematics model.

Humans are irrational, chaotic, entropic beings.. THEY DO NOT CONFORM TO MATHEMATICAL LAWS!

If anybody has ever watched a stupid movie by the name of 'Numb3rs' (constantly paraded by AXN), they will know exactly what I mean. A moronic mathematician with far too much time on his hands, sets out to prove that the location for the rapist's next target can be determined by a complex mathematical model, full of differential equations and all kinds of algebraic hoo-ha. All this, while random women are being raped all over the city. The loon actually weeps when he finds out that his model was a waste of time, energy and film... How I longed to be next to him and to laugh in the face of his stupid model, to douse the blackboard with lighter fluid and set it aflame and then strike him repeatedly over the head with a chair for wasting my time.

And then, you have these 'FBI Experts' who sit with a map of the good ol' US of A (it's nearly always in the USA... fuckin' American morons) and they set about putting thumbtacks or drawing pins (whichever you prefer) on the cities/towns in which the perpetrator of these heinous crimes has struck... The dramatic music kicks in, the 'experts' exchange high fives and slap each other on the back in ultra manly fashion as they discover that the perpetrator has struck in cities that form the shape of a star on a map and the next point is.... HOLY CRAP!! Denver, Colorado.. That's where the detectives are right now!!!! So they scramble to their vans or jeeps or whatever, put together a task force and snuff out the perp.

WHY in the name of all things sacred, would ANYONE carry out serial crimes in a pattern, so as to alert the authorities to the next location of the crime. OK, so it makes for an aesthetically pleasing pattern, a succesful interception and succesful movie.. but it makes the criminal look like a complete retard!!!

And that's not all... Bomb diffusion teams who go in with all their padded suits and you just know that they won't need a miligram of padding, because they're the 'experts'. They'll diffuse it without so much as breaking into a sweat.. All they need to do is to locate that green wire that will deactivate the whole bomb... and just for us, the lucky lucky viewers, they'll deactivate it with about 0:00:01 on the clock.. Oooh!! Scary stuff!!! GIVE ME A FUCKIN' BREAK!!! But I digress... The point I'm trying desperately to make (if only I can quash my Tourette's Syndrome-esque waves of hatred) is, WHY oh why would any self respecting bomber or bomb maker create an effective way out, a way to eliminate his bomb?!? OK, there may be a chance that the bomb maker enjoys the act of making bombs, and doesn't actually like to see them go off.. Again, the aesthetic beauty. OR maybe, it's a totally redundant and stupid idea to put a wire in there that will diffuse the goddamn bomb!!!! An idea that kills any realism or fun in the movie..
I'm not a violent person, it's an established fact, but I do like to see movies with a vicious criminal being thwarted and outsmarted by an intelligent crime busting unit... Not a fuckin' cop out with the criminal 'slipping up' and leaving too many clues.. Oops! how clumsy of him/her!!
For once, I'd like to see a bomb go off in the face of a pompous and cocky bomb-disposal unit, so they learn their lesson and treat the situation with a more intelligent approach (which is what? I don't really know.. but that's what I want to see). And would it kill these movie makers to actually put a believably maniacal criminal in their films?!?!

Rant over.. and I would like to stress that my bloodlust is confined to the realms of the fictional alone and not to the realm of the real. Remember kids, Crime doesn't pay..

Until next time.... keep it slanderous and libellous!

Karan

Anecdote - Mini G

Well, well. i have been asked to "cut myself loose", "try something different" etc etc..cos people have basically buried themselves under heaps of boredom perusing my writings. to all those ...burn in hell ...'cos i cant help it...hehe!! just kidding..thanks for the insight..so i try my hand at something novel...presenting you an anecdote from my life (well i couldn't find any adjectives to describe my life..i actually thought over it for 3 minutes and 38 seconds!!and then gave up..So thats my life..just MY LIFE). In the process one would find enough evidence of how ruthless God could get (if there exists the supreme power.. I'm still kinda agnostic!)

So here we go...
During the summer vacations of my 5th grade my family...(consisting of 4 cousins, each of them large enough to swallow the other(!), my aunts and my mother) chalked out a plan to visit Fantasy land. For those who don't know where or what Fantasy land is, let me brief you. Its supposed to be an amusement park somewhere in the suburbs (kandivli or borivli or one of these ivlis!). What i still recollect from the region is a pool of water, where my mother claimed an alligator lurked that would gobble me down if i dared to act too smart! I actually believed my mother's words (i was very dumb when i was young, and i also presumed that mothers never lie! The second half of the previous statement helps in proving the first half!)

So, there i was queuing up in Fantasy Land for a ride in Golmol, thats the equivalent of the Rainbow in Esselworld. (For those who are still left in no man's land, its a semi-circularly shaped vehicle which revolves around its centre over 180 degrees in both clockwise and anti-clockwise direction.) A tad of apprehension still clutching me, i made my way bravely to my seat. My cousins, too "tired"(I bet they were all shit scared ) awaited my return and zestfully waved to me from under the shade of a lush green banyan tree. The Operator (he's the one who operates the ride, plus "The Operator" sounds very dramatic!) started the ride and we were all enjoying it. Also, there perpetually has to be a group of girls accompanying me in any amusement park, in any ride, that yelps and screeches at hair splitting frequency to my annoyance. And so it was here. One minute down the ride the yelps started causing severe unrest in my ear drums, till the girl sitting next to me started showing signs of passing out. Till then the shouts bore no meaning, just the an uncanny resemblance to Tarzan and Jane, but now they were very articulate. They urged The Operator to stop the ride. The Operator yelled back in response, " Jamta nahi hai to baitha kaiko?" which simply meant, " If u got no balls, then y the fuck venture?".
Well then, i was in stuck in the middle of a group of girls, one amongst whom was critically ill. Also,I was young and dumb as before mentioned. i went ahead to show my genuine concern for the girl. Asked her what she wanted and how she felt. She wouldn't reply my question, she kept pusihng me away. i tried again and again to keep talkin to her, determined to do a good deed for the day. ( My mum had delved me into a habit of doing atleast one good deed for the day, i am still trying to gorge out the logic behind that from her. The day i succeed, it would be on this blog!) finally i went looked staight into her face and asked her for one last time, "Kya hua?"
And what a pity! i didnt see it coming. she opened her mouth wide open and fluids overflowing from her mouth -i could see it. at a distance of 15 inches from my face a slimy, semi-solid, quite viscous, ochre coloured liquid, heading straight at me. And SPLASH! The vomitus was now shrouding my face, not leaving any area uncovered. As if the incovenience of a blurred vision wasn't enough, a strong stench followed. I couldn't quite "digest"(!) what was happening in and around me when the girl on my other side started spewing incompletely processed food out of her body through her oral cavity! And i was second time unlucky, another girl had disgorged one me. Well, i must say that i was on fire,only this time,she missed my face by a good 3 feet and my legs bore witness to a wierd external wetness.I felt devastated, i was probably feeling how a chicken raped by an elephant would feel!
The Operator finally showed some signs of stopping and that gave me an insignificant yet helpful dose of relief. When i alighted i could see all my cousins lined up to mock at me. They called me " the Barf feed" (it makes no sense now but rewind 8 years and bears ample significance!). They still call me that at times.But what the hell, i bathed in the water from the alligator pond and was proud enough to have survived!!! And also, whether or not the amusement park amused us, i surely amused the rest of my clan!


Well that's that for now. Hope to come up with more and make a complete ass of myself!

Friday, November 11, 2005

8.08 pm ramblings

ok this is really bad..
when i opened blogger and signed in, i had a sexyyy topic to blog on... but im so sick of my god damned gold-fish memory! i forgot wht i was gonna talk about!

anyway, so this blog is gonna be dedicated to my brain..
all u faggits( btw thts a new word ive invented... its refrence to context.. so ull can use it however ull want.. cut loose) so all u faggits can know what exactly goes thru the mind of tanvi s madkaiker for 5 whole minutes..! arent ull lucky!
now dont expect the content of this post to stimulate ur intellect or boggle ur mind or even raise those eyebrows in sheer exhilaration cuz u aint gonna find any such thing..
also, tanvi is not a fan of them superlatively articulated linguistic geniuses' blogs.. (die doris, siddhant..and no, im not paying a compliment)

so right now what me mind is thinking is food... tanvi s madkaiker is a sucker for any kind of food... and then she looks at herself in the mirror and curses all the forces of nature for actually inventing something known as fat!
*blink blink* new thought.!
beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
why are thin ppl considered better looking than fat ppl??
i mean... who the frickin hell decided tht thin is good??
y arent fat ppl more desirable than good ppl... (tho i have no complaints here.... eh.. wink wink)
no but really.
u see all these models n all.. they r soooo thin!!!! y is it tht only thin girls r models... y the hell is thin good and fat bad...
its a conspiracy i tell u...im sure hitler was thin ( ahem.. i knw tht dint make much sense but go to hell.. this is my brain! )
erm..
its funny how moments pass without any thoughts....
so im just gonna end this blog here..
consider urselves lucky u rascals... ull got an insight into the brain of the oracle ( i almost forgot i called myself tht)..

so.. to sum it all up.. id like to say..
millhouse is satan!!!
ole!

(dunno man... dont judge!..! and NO , ive not been smoking nething! )

the oracle!

(im gonna b copying this blog n posting it on xanga as well.. its tooo precious to lose)

Garment Industry claims one in Sanpada, Navi Mumbai

The normally quiet neighbourhood of Sanpada, New Bombay was delivered a rude shock and in dismay this afternoon when the body of a nineteen year old male was discovered inside the premises of Paradise Society. The young man who has been identified as Darius Mistry, a Mass Media student of Wilson College is survived by his parents, elder brother and his pet lizard Wanda.


It all started two weeks prior, when he was hired to do a *faux* book report for one of his friends, who was working at a Garment production line. The firm has been confirmed by the authorities as having links with various terrorists and terrorist organisations such as Al Qaeda, Microsoft Corporation, Osama Bin Laden and Britney Spears . The task was to complete 40 pages of how this nasty individual floated from department to department, infesting each of them with his rectal fluids until he bacame a Head Merchandiser in the firm.
The initial medical reports of the body confirm that at some point of time late last night, Mistry probably got so fed up of writing, that he deliberately choked himself with the man's webcam, and tried to poke his eye out with his "Montex Handy very trendy" ballpoint pen. The suicide note found on him left a few instructions on how to build a dirty bomb, to be used to blow the building where this man works into smithereens.
"It was all very sudden!", said a neighbour in tears. "I could hear him scratching on the other side of the wall, he was sobbing, poor soul, but I wasn't sure if I should have called anybody. Also I was a bit of an anal retentive when I took away his stumps when he broke my window 4 years ago. Oh, how I regret that...Such an angel, he was!"



The funeral for young Mistry shall be held in 4 days time, at an undisclosed location. It is pretty clear that things have changed bitterly around the town of Sanpada, by this outrageously vile incident. Whether its folk can forget it, or forgive the Indian garment industry, or whether the necessary steps will be taken in the future are questions that only time can answer.

This is your correspondent, signing off, for BBC news.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Lighten up, Wilsonite! : )

hello all

u guys may or may not have noticed.. but the usually chatterboxish(yes i have a right to make it an adjective) me hasn't been posting any posts on our creativity oozing.. trend setting.. mind boggling.. ‘cool’ spelling.. crazy.. out-of-the-box blog..that is the wilsonite(jus tryin to shake things outta my 'advertise!' box)
anyway.. back to the point im trying to make.. yes.. the reason.. which i only recently admitted to myself is.. IM SCARED...im scared of all u super vocabularied people.. who speak lingos which an ordinary person may have to scratch their heads and blink a couple o'times to register.. .. and everytime i make up my mind to ad a post im kinda taken aback.. and wondereing if i can match up.. wid mini g's well worded and thesaurus dripping poems and sahirr's shakespearean fetish..darius's great discoveries.. riya's cool way wid words..and there is karan who (looks awestruck)i wonder how he can twist and turn sentences and still make complete sense outta them..which takes me a while to blink and digest and comprehend(no ppl im not dumb..im very well read actully..but u gotta read his posts,its quite admirable) and siddhant's out of the box write ups i jus have no place to fit in.. i mean..my style on blogs is casual comments, takes on life and jus bindaas ranting.... i mean i can write wid high flared lingo..(sudhakar sir didnt give me admission for nothin :D) but i prefer leaving that for serious stuff.. now u guys may say.. roshnee, just stick to ur style..dont compare.. but thats not really wat im trying to point out..

im jus trying to kinda tell u guys who haven't noticed that the wilsonite is getting a little too serious now-a-days..

i mean i loved u guys' linguistically perfect posts and ur takes on serious issues. but i'd also like it if u guys would loosen up a bit.. rite more fun and funny stuff..come onnn. .the wilsonite is a blogg!!! treat it like one..write shitt.. write watever comes to ur mind at tht moment..make spelling and gramatical errors like my dear friwend shavan here(who got high criticizm for overlooking his casualness :P) go crazy ! cut loose!

this is jus my suggestion.. plz plzzzz(i beg) dont hold me up for it..
and all those complements were completely heartfelt..
love ya guyss!!
lotsa love
rOsHnEe

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Darius Mistry's Proud Discovery Of the Day!

It's been a while since anyone did any bashing of this Bush administration. I wouldn't really call this Bush-bashing..er..bushwhacking. But it's quite funny nonetheless. Well, it got a few chuckles out of me at any rate.





It's been put up by the First Baptist Church...and George W. Bush is a born again Christian! Oh, I'm loving the irony in that!

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Honour in one eye and death I’ th’ other

Well, honour is the subject of my story...
I live with it... can’t live without it...

I think of this life, of what it has been...
I awe things such as myself, which trod upon this planet...
I was born free as... everyone, so were you...
I dare not weep for what has happened...
Because it’s what I chose and made it to be...
And men at some times are masters of their own fates...

For eyes see not itself... but by reflection...

Each of us full of hidden worthiness in our eyes...
Each of us full of hidden secrets in our eyes...
Each of us full of hidden love in our eyes...
Each of us full of hidden hatred in our eyes...


But yet we judge ourselves with our own shadows...
Because we know not of such mirrors...which reflect reality...

I would laugh on circumstances... all the while turning into one myself...

Troubled I am now of with passions of some difference...
I pluck each moment from its past...and question it...
Knowing not, what to make out of the answers I get...

The world rests on a blink of an eye-lid...
And the game is only beautiful till we blink again...


I dare not shut my eyes... ‘cus I m living again...
If its a dream... never should it end...
Sigh... its life...just as it should be...
Lets live with honour in one eye and death in the other...
Looking through both... differently...

Sahirr

(give me comments...this piece Definitely needs a re-write)

Monday, November 07, 2005

Scaling heights-- Mini - G

We headed for Himachal with spirits soaring like a dexterous F-16,
And herding the flock was the Crazy Ol’ Man with his wisdom pristine.
Inside the bogies – Master the art of gastronomy was the common code:
Punctured our olfactory senses as we loaded but forgot to unload!

The trod up to the milky Jogini falls served as a fine warm-up;
Sent a shiver of awe down the spine, as we gulped nature’s purest dollop.
All was fine till we breached the diktat – keep up the brisk pace,
The outcome – the Ol’ man tied his tongue with a tight lace!

At rock climbing and rappelling- cornucopia of efforts but lack of finesse:
At the end of it, all felt like a dying man’s brooding mistress!
The climb up to Lama Dug was no less than a Herculean task;
But the panoramic enchantment to the heart, nothing could mask.

At long last, the key to unlock the Ol’ man’s lips who had grown morose-
All stepped out for the 3-day trek, shivering till teeth shattered and froze!
As the splendid night sky befell, all kneeled down and prayed to Morpheus,
All bit the cold winds, some chewed sickness, but in sleep none found success.

As the sun lit up the horizons, we marched towards the holy Brigu Lake:
Some saw it as a mirror, while the rest barely managed to stay awake!
The shadows drew longer, alas, we couldn’t spot a single mule;
The brave hearts rushed down to get the fire wood- our only fuel.

Seemed to be mastering the acts of masochism - the Man of Steel*,
None could figure out whether the goings on was real or reel.
The Sun shone bright, lit up our faces and our throats croaked an anthem,
Whether we witnessed miracle or God played a part, I still can’t fathom!

(*Man of Steel = Crazy Ol’ Man)

Tree-Talk

What does it feel like to be a tree?
To be home to a bird,
A secret hollow for a squirrel.
To have the wisdom of eons gone by……
What does it feel like to be a tree?
To break out into the hues of autumn
Into colours of red, yellow, orange, rust
To have a story to tell for every century
To have a thousand leaves,
Each with a life, and story of its own.
To have the sunbeam caress it every dawn,
And the moonlight dance on it every dusk.
To re-invent itself every autumn,
To be covered by a soft blanket of snow every winter,
To blossom in the spring,
To be a mother to a hundred pretty flowers,
To be an enigma in itself,
To be a source of serenity and help soothe,
and quieten the voices of the mind
What does it feel like to be a tree?
To hurt when pierced by a cruel axe,
To shiver when a flower is plucked,
And yet to continue to be, so forgivingly,
One of nature’s greatest gifts to mankind…

-RIYA

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Peace ho... for the Shakespeare within me speaks... barf!!!

In respect of a fine workman, I am what you say, a naughty knave. I use my safe conscience to narrate to thee the event that occurred last eve.

After a weary morow attached to the dulling of my spirits and a ridiculous stay at my work place, I chanced upon an opportunity to witness a splendid spectacle on the floors of a playhouse. Measure for Measure they called the act, and ahh... what a delightful experience it had been. A strange spell possesses me now, which lets this Shakespearean dialect ooze from within. Its a fever.

I gave all classmates an invitation, but i’m sure thou landed thyself in a dilemma within thy consciences, meandering over thoughts and wondering which end o’ beam should bow. I know not a way of lamenting the worthiness of the spectacle which thou hath not seen, because i know not of such mirrors which shalt turn to thee and convince thou to watch the play. Though Shavan and Vikram, two worthy souls in their own ways made their presence felt on the occasion which was to their own benefit ‘cus they too have stories to tell.

So i humbly beseech to all thee readers... go,go, good fellows, and for this fault assemble all those of your sort, draw them to Jamshed Bhaba hall at NCPA, watch Measure for Measure and vanish thy tongue-tied guiltiness.

Sahirr...

Roses in Diwali

Another diwali is on its way out and boy was this one good. Normally I have a rubbish time around diwali,I dont know why its like I'm cursed or something with this festival. But hey things were great this year. The night itself was spent on my terrace with a couple of friends, just chilling out and watching the crackers,mainly the rockets. Its amazing really that no matter how evil the creation of these things are and no matter how noisy and unforgivingly irritating they can be, fire-crackers are still awesome to watch.i can just remember it now,frozen in time. Rockets illuminating the night sky and the state i was in well it changed my perspective. Lets just say I was not very clear-headed at the time. There are so many things to life and keeping it all in your head is really tough. Thats why whe people say stop and smell the roses, you ought to stop and smell the roses. For me, well its the roses,the fire-crackers and almost everything else. Sometimes I think I probably stop and experience more than get on with my work!! I got home and watched champions league football. I watched my beloved Liverpool trounce Anderlecht 3-0 and the much despised Chelsea go down for the first time in months.Oh how i savoured that!!
Little did I know that was the beginning of my superb next day.Of course all that day i got a lot of money(how i love diwali). I just relaxed all day until the evening came and then it was party time. Couple of us guys got together(well lots of us) and met up at a friends place on juhu beach. There was beer, rum and music.Enough said. moving on it was the second night of champs league and i got to see Arsenal play well, that was nice. But what made my night was seeing Manchester United get embarrased by Lille!!! I m not gonna rub it in...well maybe just a little. Of course champs league ends at 3:30 so what to do? answer:playing football at 3:30 in the morning on an empty juhu beach. Could life get any better? I can hardly imagine how...Yep it was just a bunch of drunk kids trying to do set-plays( for those of you who are not the football kind, its a fancy way of saying trying to act like pro footballers).The energy and the effort were all there and once again it was like smelling the roses and watching the fire-crackers. Juhu beach is one of the main centres at which lots of people in the city like to relax,its incredibly crowded. Well except for 3:30 in the morning when you have the beach to yourself. Yes it was a no moon night, it was cool outside.I ended up sleeping at 6,but hell it doesnt get better than that. Times have been really hard on me lately, problems all around. No solutions in sight, maybe no happy endings. Pulling through hard times is never easy, even if it seems like its been really tough forever. Like I said in the beginning, stop and smell the roses, kick the ball on an empty beach with your best friends in the world or watch the fire-crackers in the night sky every diwali. If you still have the small stuff and if you still have those little things that make a moment so much better, you have a reason to believe all is right in the world. Its when you dont have the small stuff anymore, then you ve got a problem. Alls well in the world,now time to stop and smell the roses.

siddhant

Friday, November 04, 2005

ADVICE

To all people who are : lost, scared, taking shelter, left alone, trapped, hurting, injured, sick, dying, depressed, worn out, sad, lonely, confused, unable to love anymore, angry, bitter, heartbroken, giving up, still trying to hold on, turning their backson someone in need, always feeling that they're not good enough, afraid of the future, unable to forgive themselves or someone else, constantly aware of their own failures and imperfections, selfish and can't admit it or can't see it, uncaring, always right, full of pride, have no friends, trying to drown out all pain and feeling, unable to see truth, always thinking that they are more important than most, and to those who are thinking that they cant figure things out...................................GET A FUKIN LIFE.

-shahvan

happy diwali !!!

so this seems like an ordinary happy diwali post doesnt it.?
well it isnt! this is about moi....
now i know that i cannot use big words ( die siddhant, doris) or analyse the world( die sahirr) or make proud discoveries of the day( die doris again) or steal lines from robin williams comedy show( hehehe sorry i cudnt resist.. peace man... forgive the oracular mistakes(thts right.. ive just made it into an adjective) )

but before i start ranting on my life et al, i shalt wish u all a very happy diwali and a happy new year..(and i have absolutely no idea y the new year shit! )

so yeah, its goes a lil something like this..
tanvi is very happy,
tanvi is very very happy,
this diwali has been super great for tanvi...
and that is because mr menon is back in town..
so that is the reason tanvi is very happy.

tanvi realises that her blogs arent very good.. she also knows tht they are absolute crap. but what she likes about them is the fact tht she can go on and on and on talking about herself and no one minds( or atleast doesnt seem to mind... except mr spammer ofcourse.....) and also that she can go on and on refering to herself in third person and no one says nething.

tanvi is reading a book called "the fourth k" by mario puzo which is really cool.. but she is getting thoda confused because there are roughly 17 words on every page tht she doesnt understand (and arent listed in the thesaurus on ms word) (die siddhant)
and now tanvi knows tht this blog is getting irritatingly boring and thus she shall resist the urge to type out other boring (and non-boring *wink wink* shit happening in her life.)

the oracle has spared thou... cut loose.

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Riders on the storm

I came home today tired and weary, wondering and thinking(iv started doing a lot of that nowadays) as to how I would explain to you the course of events of our trip to manali, but the more I thought the more I realized what a futile effort it would be…I realized I could tell you what it felt like when I looked at the entire mountain I was going to climb from a distance but how can I tell you what it felt like to put my first foot at the base not knowing when i’d reach the top…. I can tell you what it felt like to look at sudhakar sir and admire him for walking with a bad knee but I how can I describe the expressions of excruciating pain seen at times on his face because of his knee…. I can tell you about the joy received when I finally took a break in the middle of a decent but how can I tell you what it felt like to be stung by a bee on one such break…I can tell you about the relaxing feeling experienced when a cool wind blew over me in the afternoon but how can I tell you what it felt like when the same wind pierced every bone in my body when it blew at night…I can describe to you the warmth we received through the fire which was the only thing that kept us alive when we were stranded at 12,000 feet but I cant tell you the admiration I felt for those who went down to cut that wood in the middle of a freezing night…I can tell you about my joy on reaching our destination and admiring it but I cant tell you what it felt like to look down from the edge of our destination at the base from where our journey began, knowing fully well that a slight slip might send us back there in a matter of seconds because now when I look back at the trek I realize that the journey always has more stories to tell than the destination…I can tell you about the fun I had on my eighteenth birthday day party but I cant tell you what it felt like to have a whole new world open up to me as an adult…I can tell you the feeling of eating after a strenuous trek but I cant tell you what it felt like to eat a scrumptious non vegetarian meal while others shopped…I can probably tell you about the enjoyment on this trip but there is no way I I can tell you how much I miss it sitting here at home…No...I cant write anymore about this trip simply because any more writing on the proceedings of this trip would be a sort of insult to the trip…it wasn’t a trip it was an adventure an adventure that made a man out of me, an adventure that will haunt me, an adventure that has changed me whether for the good or bad only time will tell.

- shahvan
-Go on...

-What?

-Say something to cheer me up, Im down.

-Like what?

-Oh you know...what you usually do...

-Which is what?

-You know! That funny thing. Be yourself...

-I'm funny?

-Yes, you're an entertainer...

-I see, and how exactly do I entertain people? With my dazzling smile and my irresistible wit?

-See? People do laugh at your jokes you know.

-Wrong. People laugh at me.

-No they don't!

-Yes they do! Like they are right now....

-They are?

-Yeah, they're probably thinking, "He's such a loser, such an asshole, what a waste of a post!"

- Well you know, I dont think you're all that!

-Yes, but you don't exist do you! You're just a invention of my imagination, just something Im using to get this post a bit longer than it needs to be.

-Well, I'm hurt!

-You won't be for long...I'm ending this pointless nonsense right now. Consider yourself dead.

-You bastard

-I always knew you were one of them....


- by Darius Mistry

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Observing Life....



One of my favorite pass-times is observing things... they could be anything... people( especially kids ), animals, insects, plants, electronics, streets, ceilings, art, etc... It provides me ultimate satisfaction and lets me be alone to have my own opinions about the things I look at.

I had been quite disappointed in the past few days as I couldn’t sense the festive atmosphere around me... Diwali was around the corner and life seemed so routine... without much excitement around. It could have been because I wasn’t in touch with the world around me as I had been slogging my ass 18 hours a day at work. But then yesterday when I finally got time out for myself and family, my dad tells me we got some shopping to do... which included crackers... for which we had to go to Irla... so I ask him lets catch a rickshaw... but then my dad had something else in mind... he says... "its been a long time I haven’t traveled by a BEST bus...so lets take a bus..." I have to follow him like a sheep while he walks me to the nearest bus stop... to my surprise he doesn’t halt and keeps walking... we cross the second and the third bus stop...when I finally ask him what he is up to...he says...."I am going to miss my evening walk today... so why not make use of this time... its better than waiting at the bus-stop.." Very well I say and follow him... cursing my fate...we walked all the way to Andheri Station...which is a good 3km away from my house...and believe me it didn’t tire me out... I was happy and refreshed... Diwali was in the air...yes it sure was!!!

We crossed an area called Sher-e-Punjab... an area full of Punjabi family and equipped with a Guru-Dwara...which is the main cultural hub... It was well lit and decorated... the kirtans were on and people kept frequenting in and out... there were stalls around it and a balloon seller around whom kids gathered eyeing his goods... some hopped around with balloons in their hands others blew into these really long whistles. The charged up expressions on their faces was a sight worth watching... we walk a little further and cross GULATI sweet shop... The aroma of fresh sweets could be sensed from the other end of the road where we were walking... I could see a fat Sardar happily greeting his customers and wishing them Diwali... outside the shop was this tiny Sardar with a toy-pistol in his hand which would go bang each time he would pull the trigger... a spectacular light and sound display for the young... I remember even I was crazy about them as a kid. A little further we come across street vendors selling bright yellow flowers with fresh green leaves... making garlands out of them... the seemed happy with what they did... everyone around seemed happy with what they were doing... I suppose that’s what a festival does to us...

The station is another 2.5kms from where we reached by then... keeping in mind we just crossed the second bus stop and a Hanuman Temple, which was freshly painted in orange and the Banyan tree in its complex was just being shaved of the last years offerings and decorations for this year’s rituals. We then cross a Tabella (that’s where they hoard all buffaloes and cows to milk them) people were busy out there too. Then enter this area called Pump-House... and we come across Aghadi-Nagar... a colony of Muslim people... It too was decorated and I could hear the evening namaaz in progress, whereas outside... the fruit and vegetable vendors were getting ready to sell their goods as people would break their (ROZA) fast for the day... Ramzaan was on too...!!!

Then there was this sloping road... with shops on either side with lanterns and diyas on sale... certain restaurants, general stores, opticians, another Tabella, medical stores, etc ... all of them decorated and well lit... The most visible aspect of all of them were hoardings and banners of offers and sales... people were sure in a good mood to reduce prices ... for their own profits...off-course!!! My grocer waves to me and my dad from his shop and joins his hands ands shouts out his greetings from his shop... we too return our pleasantries my smiling and nodding back...Then this thought strikes me... why do we wish people during festivals...??? is it because we are happy or want them to be happy or is it just a formality... a routine??? I suppose its a kind of mutual bonding and passing of respect and joy... its kind of a communal feeling... no wonder they say festivals bring people together...

We walk underneath a bridge and surprisingly my dad takes a left... whereas we are supposed to take a right... " Short-cut..." he winks at me. In some time I am walking down this road I had rarely passed all my life. Small people lived out there... that’s what others say... but from what I saw yesterday... they were small people big at happiness... Kids running around with toy pistols in hands... crackers being fired around... music being played aloud. A little ahead this small kid bumps into me, apparently he was trying to wear a shirt in which he got his arms and neck stuck awkwardly. His mother comes rushing and pulls him away from the street as there are vehicles passing by... she was too jovial to smack the kid for his idiocy...And then there was another Tabella in our way... with a well besides it where all the mammals were being given a wash and a silly dog was barking around them. There were small huts around with diyas lit outside them and colorful rangolis adoring their doorsteps. I realized besides the hustle-bustle of high-end residential areas... there are other people existing too and keep the festive spirit alive... though devoid of the materialistic aspects!!!

Finally we enter the main road once again which leads us to the station... there are more shops...more people and more excitement in the air... and certainly more traffic... I had been silent all this while looking at the surroundings with great intent. There are these local cobblers who make boots and shoes on the streets... which I have heard are of good quality and provide a custom fit... today they were having a bonanza I suppose... then all of a sudden my dad stops and hails a rickshaw... we commute our further journey in the rickshaw...and we pass the fly-over and enter SV road... I still look outside and admire the surroundings... with this unexplainable feeling in the back of my mind... I suppose walking and observing was much more fun...

I suppose the festive mood was surely around... but it was I who wasn’t seeking it. On my way back I was alone as my dad had a meeting to attend. My rickshaw stopped at the signal besides Shopper’s Stop near juhu galli... A street peddler peeks into the rickshaw and stretches his hand out which held a bunch of lottery tickets... and says "Sahib...Diwali hai...Laxmi ko ghar le aao...Apni kismat aazmaaoo"... I get tempted a bit...but shoo him away... as he turns around he accidentally drops a bunch of tickets in the rickshaw, I pick them up and shout for him... he comes back takes them from me... touches them with his fore-head and turns around once again, but stops half-way and says... "Sahib le-lo...aapki kismat mein likha hai 1 crore ka inaam... dekho islliye hi aapke paairoon parr girra tha... mein jhoot nahi bol raha... parr yeh bhagwan ka good luck sign hai... nahi to aapke pass thodi naa girrtaa....hainaa???" I am trapped in an awkward situation...I ask him the price of one ticket...Rs.20 he says... thoughts are swirling in my mind...the signal is about to turn green...it does turn green... to my surprise he hops into my rickshaw...and asks me to tell the driver to take it in a corner... I tell the driver to do so... I remove my wallet and see I only have hundred rupee notes. The vendor looks disappointed as he had no change... he plucks a ticket and gives it to me and says... "Sahib sau ka note do...mein abhi chutta kara ke laata hun..." Im pissed by now... n chuck the ticket back at him ...take my money back and tell the driver to proceed... Then the driver tells me... " Sahib ye log aise hi karte hain... bholle aadmi ko dekh karr phasate hain...usne ticket jaan-boojhkarr...auto mein girraya tha..." This sure was a complex modus-operandi...I laugh to myself....and think aloud...its all part of the festive season ain’t it... and wonder how sensitive a human can be to hopes, expectations, dreams, beliefs and superstitions....another learning experience in its own way.....

There was much more I have to share but I guess... I would rather talk about them than write about them...

Wish you all a Happy Diwali!!! Have a cracker of a time!!!
Sahirr