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  • >Mere yaar ki shaadi hai( thi)…

    >well, well, well before u jump into any conclusions – this post is not a review of the 2002 disaster movie… It is abt my neighbour’s wedding, that took place last week. The two brothers( yes, both of them were gettin wed the same day!! ), stay in the flat below mine. They hav been stayin with us for the past 12 years, and i was nostalgic of all those kiddie years v spent together( okay, they were not exactly kids then), v played gulli cricket, broke chachi’s window panes, burst crackers on the watchman’s legs, hit the next lane bully, incognito( hope he’s not reading, for now he is a well built gym toned guy, and i still stand very much at the same physical setup i was, say 6 years ago)… V also did lots of crazy things together. They being a little elder to us, my parents didn’t mind us strolling around late nights. My first night show movie was with them, my first abuse in telugu was nurtured by them, my first sip of beer is to their courtesy, my first ciggie, my first bunk, and so many other firsts are due to them.

    Now, they stand apart with a lady beside each, and i am sure, in a party, they would prefer giving their spouses company, instead of poor me. So, now i hav to be contend with that can of beer and as Dharmu would put it Ms. tanhayi.( Atleast a female here!!! )

    geting back to the wedding, i still wonder how people agree to marry someone they have met, or rather seen, just a couple of months back, someone who is from a different place( different state in this case), someone who comes from a completely different background, someone about whom we know nothin( atleast not much). I mean this surely is not love. the only time the two ppl hav spoken freely is on the phone. On the engagement day, which took place a couple of months ago, it was a total comic affair, as i get to hear by them. The girl is brought into the room, in the typical bollywood style, with a tray of tea-filled cups( Why does it always have to be tea?? ), with her chunni taking care that no part of her face is even faintly visible to anyone, and then after offering tea to everyone present, she comes to the guy concerned and says, “CHAi.. Shakkar kitni lenge( probably, a way of determining ur taste buds.. afterall, the way to a guy’s heart is through the stomach, or so it is said).. ” he replies, ” Ek chammach..( or whatever)..”

    I mean the whole thing is simply crap. And mind u all this happens in the constant gaze of the relatives, and even the four-year old son of Bhabhi does not flip his eyelid till the entire proces is over. This tradition( of arranged marriages, and not the tea tray thing.. ) may be coming through the ages, but is it worth it?? Maybe, we have the least number of divorces, but that is due to the family system. Look at the number of dissatisfied people, who bear each other, just to remain goodie-goodie in the eyes of the society, just to avoid becoming the topic of debate at a marie biscuit on a calm evening!!!

    Ah!! just can’t understand some things. Neways, while these people were gettin wed, Rakhi sawant, remember the hot-chik, item girl.. it seems was forcibly kissed!! Why would someone do it forcibly?? clearly, nothing less than a sting operation, to tarnish the image of poor MIKA, who recently sprung to limelight with his ” something.. something…” but, even rakhi is set to lose out here. poor girl. the media channels, in their bid to be exclusive and sabsey tez do whatever it takes and have been jooming on her bosoms and other private parts, at the party. The camera was literally going through her body. It was open on-the-cloth pornography. Really, whats got to these so called high society people?? First it was Rahul mahazan, along with his gang, now rakhi!! where is it leading to?? Who cares!!!

    In the meantime, i suggest everyone to have a look on the latest endeavour of indian bloggers.

    Know a website called flixter ?? sign up!! V can share the reviews of the latest movies, thus enabling us to decide better on how tob spend those two hrs – eating popsorn on a corner seat along with “her”… or just manage with a stroll on the beachside, spoiling our health with those economical bhuttas…

    And as i m typin this, i have got a mail from my uncle with the pics of the engagement of his daughter. No marks for guessing, it is once a arranged alliance. Phew!! somethings, just don’t change.

  • >FLIXTER

    >U can read about my latest encounters with the silver screen…

  • My flicks rating…


  • >My blog’s birthday and the 1000 mark

    >Ah!! well.. if you are wondering what took me so long in posting?? My blog has recently celebrated its first birthday, and i was busy arranging the party. The cake, candles, disco lights, DJ( everyone likes to dance..) inviting all its fellow blogs( not 2 forget the cute female blog, tht it has been eying for long), and co-ordinating the various events tht go with a party. After all, its my blogs first birthday!! I still remember that hot sunny afternoon of jun 2nd, 2005. I was enjoing the holidays, and mom asked me to accompany her to my cousins place. Most of my cousins are very elderly to me, with many of them being married too, and their kids being just about 5 years younger to me..so, instead of reffering them as cousins i prefer to address them with the tag chacha which irks them, as that makes them feel to be quite elderly. I have still not understood this over-zealous attitude of middle aged people to conceal their actual age??

    Neways, coming to the history of the blog.That afternoon i just dropped my mom at my cousin’s, with a promise of returning back after some time, to pick her back. In the meantime, to kill time, i logged in into a sify iway, and there started this blog. The first post was diectly copy-pasted from a mail forward, as my aunt was getting furious that i come to her place immediately. Why the topic of love in the first post?? Since LOVE is immortal, and i wanted my blog to be like that.( This is a different way of saying that i love the topic :-D)

    Initially, the frequency of posts was quite irregular, but after i got my broad-band connection, i got more regular or was rather addicted (By the way, BSNL is resposnible for my temporary aloofness from the internet community, as my phone went dead in the past week). Gradually the addictiveness reduced, and these days i m hooked to ORKUT. A wonderful place, especially for not-so-gud-looking guys like me. I have found a host of ppl there, many of my old classmates, my previous neighbour, my friend’s ex-GF, and i hope in the near future i find my future GF. Google surely controls the way v live!! HAIL GOOGLE!!!

    One tendency i have noticed among bloggers, as they spend time here is their general pattern of evolution. First it is a plain blog, with a simple template. Then the updates of personal profile is done very thoughtfully, as he realizes that the cute crush in college is a regular to his blog, and no stone is left unturned to attract her. Trust me, its the general case, and not mine :-

    Then one feels the need to link his favourite websites so that the world comes to know about them, and therby give free publicity to the sites. Then one realizes the need to earn money from this venture, and once again GOOGLE namah! comes to the rescue in the form of google adsense( indirect hint : I get my money from ur clicks at the ad..although, it has not reached the mandatory 100$ cut-off yet )
    After the furnishing, the template of the blog is played with, and all kinds of additional unnecessary crap is placed on the index page, thereby cluttering it. and finally one feels proud that he has succesfully blogged for so much time!!!( one year is a gud period) and as one goes through the old p

    It is a big day for my blog for two reasons – one, it has become one year old. and second, the counter has registered 1000 hits. Maybe it has taken lots of time in reaching that figure, but considering my initial days of managing the blog which were comparable to the officials who managed( or mis-managed) ENRON, or the UPA governments management of the reservation issue, the number of hits doesen’t seem to be surprising.

    Now coming out of this blog frenzy, let me speak about better things in life.

    In the last week of may, we have formed, or rather strengthened, the vizag wing of YOUTH FOR EQUALITY, and various plans were also devised at the meeting on 28th. V even started plannig a strategy for a rally in protest to the reservation issue. All that has been nullified by the supreme court’s order 🙁 Nevertheless the blog ( http://vyfe.blogspot.com ) created in this endeavour reamins, and it would hopefully be active. and finally, LET MERIT PREVAIL…

  • >How BJ copied.. pasted.. and published his post… – 2

    >If the curiosity in you propels you to ask me ” where I was all these days?” Read on. I was completely engrossed in completing the second book of Kaavya, as now she probably would not be in a mood to do it. Ha.. Even though, we may not get to see her second book I did not want to deprive my dear blog readers ( Whether dear is attached to the ‘blog’ or ‘readers’ depends on your gender… smack!) the oppurtunity of going through my nonsensical second post by the same title. I know that the previous post has no bearing with the title, except for the small post script, and i have been receiving lots of hate mail for that( Thank you for the mails, for commenting in a public arena would be even more disastarous).

    Now to the topic of Opal mehta. i, for one, surely believe that she wrote well. She may have copied, or lifted sentences or paragraphs all together( The word is plagiarism) from other books but she brought new light to the entire genre of chic-lit books. Now, how many of have heard of the plagiarized authors or their books?. But, kaavya was famous even before the controversy brole out. Maybe, she was popular for she was all 17, for she had been paid a huge ammount, for her excellent prpoganda skills or for the fact that she looks gud( the last was reason is my own 🙂 ).

    Whatever, it takes stuff for a product to sell. marketing can only do that nuch – market the product, and maybe get the potential consumers towards the product. After that, the product has to sell on its own. Anyone, who has read HOW OPAL.. would hopefully agree with me that the book was a very comfortable read, and it was a very light book. Anyways, now nothing much can be done, and i hope kaavya returns back to writing.

    The other day on TV, i was watching the protestors against the quota regime. The way they were being beaten. I am sure if they were animals( Now, te afct that man is a rational animal is a different issue..) Maneka Gandhi would be on a hunger strike by now. I mean even animals are not treated so ruthlessly, and thses were medicos – the future doctors of the nation. A nation where doctors are considered next to God.. Damn! and all this for a few extra votes.

    The real motive motive of the UPA government seems to be the upcoming elections in UP, which has the most number of BCs, and the congress does not have a favourable hold in the state. How can the politicians droop so low to be in power?? I know that there have been worser instances, but this one would directly hamper the growth of the nation. When it is already time for even the existing quota regime to be gradually done with, introduction of new quotas is surely not called for. Ha!! if this is to happen, My future posts, and scores of fellow bloggers like me, would be posting from a foreign location. And then after many years, and after generating huge wealth for a foreign country, attend the Bharat Pravasi Diwas, where India would still be begging for investments.

    RDB paved the path for such actions of the government, and i pray nothing happens to Arjun Singh. When peace doesen’t work, such things would come into picture. History has shown that the most violent of the protests and agitations have been held by youths. Once again, Bhagat singh would have to take birth and cleanse the system or atleast shake it up. In a recent survey by INDIA TODAY it is observed that Arjun singh has fell to the 27th position from a cosy 5th position in 2005. and what is to be blamed? He should take a cue from Praful patel( 1st position) who has revolutionized the aviation industry or even from our own Lalu prasad yadav. Guess, which position he is at?? secondva!! and he deserves it for turning the railways around. han laluji, ab shekhar anna ko aapki tang khichne ka naya masala milega !!!

    Even as you read this sentence there are four new connections of new phones being taken in India. wow!! that is the pace of growth of cell phones in the country. Laudable. read it in the same issue of INDIA TODAY. ( Please, i don’t want to plagiarize)

    I m now off to get my cell phone recharged and get the damn 50 cent dialer tone out, to stop it from draining my meagre balance. and trust me, the second book by kaavya would have been great!!

  • >How BJ copied.. pasted.. and published his post…

    >Hello ppl..
    One thing that i know about myself for sure is that i m a very lazy person, and my ass is comparable with the stingy miser, in a old hindi flick, who charges money even to sneeze.. Lots of things were planned out for the holidays, and whole lot of schedules sketched of the to-do things. They ranged from preparin for the ensuing campus placements, to building a decent physique( I m not a skiny sulking, but a few kilos at my biceps would add that magical touch i guess, And then i would b flaunting them as” Yeh Dhaai Kilo Ka Haath..” ala Sunny deol in Damini…), going for a early morning walk, and above all following the schedule as far as possible. Well, I guess th ‘as-far-as-possible’ condition of mine is too general and my lazy bones are taking advantage of this.

    Well, If one would have noticed.. i have been using lots of Hindi movie quotes of late!! Reason – Seeing all crappy bolly movies over and over again… to kill time. Doing s’thing useful in my language meant, do something that would be useful for the future.. Something that would benefit me in the long run… So, I joined the Vizag film society. In future it would save me the time of watching these english flicks( Now, i end up watching every movie a couple of times is a different issue).. Coming to this film society thing, this is a relatively nhew concept in this part of the world that i live.. inspite the fact that people here are crazy about movies, and there is a stampede at the theatre for a week or so, when the movie of a big star releases… So, it was something like the absence of an ac in a hot, humid place. Bad comparision 😀 See i have this tendency of drifting away from the main topic and drool all around and around..

    The film society has been exhibiting latest movies of late( Zeugma intended), and in the process i have seen CRASh and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, both oscar winning movies, and which would atleast take away an easy 2 years away from me before i get the chance to watch it on the big screen..( My place, has this enimity with hollywood, and makes sure the movie releases only after everyone, including th washerwoman’s son has seen it on CD.. piracy.)

    Other than sleeping and watching movies, I have been going to the steel plant for my industrial training, and one thing that comes to my mind on seeing it is “AWE!!..!! with an open mouth. The feeling that comes to the mind on seeing the magnificient structures, and the complex automation , one is left as awe-struck that a 3 year 4 months old would be on seeing the sea for the first time. But all this awe is robbed away, once the concerned guide opens up his mouth and starts doling out gyaan of the technical knowlege he has gained all these years. I do agree that it is important, and we being electronic engineers need to know the fine nuacance involved in the working, but dude, we get to learn those even in the classroom.. We have come to the plant to experience the huge structures, and see the beauty of science..

    And before signing off, let me make it clear that i have not plagiarised any part in the blog without any due crediting, except English and Love and in these cases, i have no idea of the original author and would be pleased to credit him at the first instance.. Any takers??
    Seeing the plight of Kaavya Vishwanathan, has pinched me to make this statement, and i don’t want 2 b ridiculed as ” How BJ copied.. pasted.. and published his post…”

    Keep watchin’
    BJ