22nd MAY 2010 RIP

I do not get a chance to see television so often these days, whenever I get a chance to see TV I savour it the most. The general store near my office has a TV set which attracts me to his shop rather than some other shop. As usual I went there today and was surprised to see that the TV was not on, so I asked him "bhaiya ye kharab hai kya "? He turned on the TV and then I saw the flames and horror of the plane crash. A plane had crashed early morning in Manglore, it had overshot the runway and fallen in the valley. I was kind of shocked, I am a bit apprehensive of planes in air but this plane crashed when it was on ground. It was weird. Then I heard that 8 people have survived miraculously, they jumped out of the cracks as the plane was plunging in the vally. To me it felt like dejavu, it seemed that I had read this kind of script before.....I was discussing this incident with my colleague and suddenly i blurted "this looks straight out of Salman Rushdie book". I remembered the pages from satanic verses where the protagonist and his friend jump out of the plane which had suffered a bomb blast, they too jumped out of the crack.
I had never thought fiction can be so real.....imagination has its limits.

I pray for the life lost.

P:S - Aaj Tak was the first channel to reach the site of the accident....such a LOSER media we have.

20th MAY 2010, MORNING

A good morning starts the previous night.
What was i doing the previous night ? I was busy doing velapanti in
the air conditioned room of another vella. A word about ac - it is the
best invention ever by mankind. Any ways i was thinking about good
morning, my morning was not good, i woke up at six am after a sleep of
3 hours. I drove back 15 kilometers to find the taps running dry.
After delay i finally left for my office , another bike ride of 8
kilometers. When i reached there i found out that i had left my phone
behind. . . . I hope you had a good day today.

19 MAY 2010, NEWzzzzzzzzz

When it comes to incredeble news the only name which comes to my mind is India TV, today my belief in India TV got stronger. I saw a news in which India TV was showing pictures of big 5 headed cobra, claiming it to be seshnag....the mythological creature. I was laughing by looking at the pics on tv and suddenly came another master stroke from India TV, they asked the question to the viewers "KYA YE TASVEER ASLI HAI KYA YE SACH ME SESHNAAGE

18th MAY 2010......Revival

When I started this bolg, I was big time vella and unemployed as well. So, I had this ambition that I will write something everyday, so that I can have some more velapanti. I did write a few posts here then things got a little complicated, life became hectic. Suddenly I had no time, neither for the things I liked to do nor for the people who I enjoyed spending time with. That was not the end of it, there are things which one can see then there are things one has to see. So, yeah..life became a little more complicated. But the question is, how complicated life can be? The answer is 'as much as we want'. If I start accepting the abnormalities they surely will become a indispensable part of my life. I do not want that to happen.....so I am getting back in vellapanti mode.......This Blog is being revived. ;-)

13th Feb 10, What the hell ?

13th they say is a unlucky number I am not superstitious but it seems it actually is unlucky. I entered my home and my friend told me about the blast in Pune. It was a bolt out of the blue, I have lived in that city and not once did I imagine it will be on the hit list of the terrorists.

German bakery, one of the USP of Pune, is a place where people hangout without any inhibititions. One can easily find foreigneres, jews, muslims, hindus, marathi, bihari etc having a good time there. It is a place full of life and everyone who has been to that place would be feeling bad. Pune is a very safe place, and full of young professionals and students. This blast has delivered the message 'no place is safe'.

I switched of the TV because of the blame game which started after the blast, Shivsena says all the security was provided to MNIK, why does not some one tells them why was the security diverted to the cinema halls ?

We have accepted bomb - blasts as a fact of life, this blog started with making the date 13th the real culpret, 13th is a unlucky number huh...if it was an unlucky number how did the terrorists got so lucky today ?

12th Feb 10, Shubh Ratri Shiv Sena

Today is a great day, its the festival of Shiv Ratri, The night which belongs to lord shiva. It seems that the self proclaimed Shaniks of Shiva are not going to have a good nights sleep. Shiv - Sena has lost the plot miserably. With My Name is Khan going good everywhere, Mr. Thakre has announced that 'anyone who watches the movie is not a patriot and is an agent of Pakistan'. Now, that is the statement coming from a 80 year old man who was once the roaring tiger of maharashtra. This gentleman has never fought an election but says he is the only representative of the people. He rose to power with the slogan 'hatao lungi bajao pungi', aimed at south indian diaspora in mumbai. Decades later when his ship began to leak and his nephew took the centre stage hogging the limeligt meant for his photographer son, all of a sudden MARATHI MANUS came back to Thakres agenda.

This time the targets were the migrants from north India, but it was proving costly for the local business including his own to survive without North Indian labour. So, Old father and the adult son decided to try some marketing. They found a soft target, which in some ways represents North Indians, they started with Amitabh Bachchan but Bachchan turned out to be a pro. Then they hit SRK, SRK may or may not have had a vested interes, he stood by his words.

Unfortunatly for SENA this move has backfired, MNIK gained a lo from this goof up, congress party had its share and above all it united all of India and the idea of Marathi Manus (if one was there) got side lined. Sena got exposed for its vandalism and gundagardi.

I would not be surprised if SHIV - Sena changes its name to SHAV - Sena (the dead army) after the next assembly election.

10th Feb 10, slow n steady makes u late

It took me two hours and 45 minutes to reach my work place located around 40km from palam vihar. I almost dozed off in the traffic near CP. It was as if the whole traffic was a part of a slow moving machine. I reached late for my work, late by a big margin.

Being late means lots of things, it means you lost the time but the work remains undone, in order to finish the work on time you need to slog and when you slog you are bound to get tired and when your house is 2 hours away, tiredness turns into fatigue and fatigue causes stress and stress causes burn-out. I think its better to be on time rather then to be burned out.

Well, on my way back this not so piculiar incidence happened. Near the Taj hotel, the signal was green and still the traffic was not moving. The reason being some VIP was scheduled to come out of the hotel and his security had taken the traffic as their hostage.
Well the point is, yesterday when I accidently jumped a signal, they charged me 100 bucks and today I was not allowed to cross a green signal. Will the government pay me back for this offence ?