Happy Birthday to me!

Yesterday I celebrated one of the better birthdays I would remember. I hate the day like anything and the only thing i wish for is the day to end on 2nd feb. But i was in for a surprise. At 00:00 3 of my best school friends showed up inside my room with a cake. I knew wat was to come next and so politely took off my jacket and sweater. After 5 minutes, I had cake smeared all over my face, neck, hair and other unmentionable places. I was then wished by more than a dozen friends who chose to stay awake and call me than sleep. That made me feel something!


In the morning, while i kept attending calls, i was wished by my cutest 2 year old nephew. I then had one of the most wonderful lunches with my friend in noida at Sanjeev Kapoor's restaurant - Yellow Chilli. We ordered no paneer and no daal. Only 2 things - spicy gol matol aloo and baby corn in paalak. What a delicacy! (we also had a drink each). Then a round of table tennis and a sliceof domino's pizza :D I came back to some more calls from old friends and reached home to just 1 mail from business. Only 1. What can give you more happiness than coming home after a long day to just 1 mail :) We then had an awesome family dinner at home and now I am about to sleep :)


Happy Birthday to me, as I inch closer towards 30. Can't believe!!

Bad day

What an ugly day. Another trip to the colleges and more disappointment. Somehow I like to live like an ostrich. When there is danger, bury your face inside the soil and pretend you are safe! These trips to colleges and meeting placement heads, make me feel like this - why did I go?!


Nevertheless I came back, to more disappointment and a surprise gone awry :( Tears followed and then followed an ugly fight!! And last was the icing. I watched the most sucking, fucked up, asinine movie of all times - the new Agnipath. It was such a bad idea to watch it. Fuck you karan johar, you made a shitcrap out of a masterpiece.

That beautiful ugly feeling...

While falling in love is a beautiful feeling..falling in love with the wrong person is not so much. It slowly kills you from inside because you just cannot do anything. 


Who is a wrong person? 
A wrong person is one who does not acknowledge your being there and does not reciprocate. So it's basically a one-sided affair!


So what can you do? or what Should you do!?
Well for starters, you can stop thinking about her (or him). Then, you can stop making calls or SMSes (one of the curses of our times is the cell phone). Then, you can start ignoring her calls too. and then follow it up by completely forgetting her. It is difficult, sometimes very difficult and may take about 2-4 months, with the concussions staying for Ever..but then as they said, "A man's got to do what he's got to do!". 
To do this, you need to find some other time killing things to do. Like smoking a cigarette or drinking alcohol (which will kill you and time both together!) or you could find some serious work to do like build a website! You will however do best, if you can find a lass to replace her. Good luck with that! Also, you will need an endless supply of episodes of 2 and a Half Men, South Park and How I Met Your Mother. Do Not Forget That Under Any Circumstances!


Can't we be friends?
Nope. If you have 'feelings' (if you ever had them), then you cannot be 'just friends' with her. In fact you will end up ruining her and your own life as time progresses. So, sorry! On the other hand, for the females it is quite possible I guess...they can be 'just friends'. I don't know actually, i need a second opinion on that.


So...
So, start today and earn yourself a bumper prize of singlehood (which if you haven't realized yet, you were anyways!)

I shall not be none.

Either I will be ahead of all of you or I will be different. I shall not be none.

2011 - THE YEAR!

2011 will definitely go down as one of the most, what should i say, colorful year of my life. If I have to put it, i saw shades of yellow (brightness), green (success), red (alerts), black (dullness), grey (failures), blue (happiness), everything! 


I broke away from the shackles of everyday routine, found my own symphony in life, enjoyed my time and killed a bit of it too. I saw dismay, i saw euphoria, i was happy and i was depressed. Most importantly, i came to find a lot about myself. Things which i never knew i was, things which i now want to do and want to be. I am more confident about myself now than i ever was.


So, i sat down the other day to list down some of the major events from the past year and ended up making an excel sheet out of it. I don't want to display the whole sheet here, but 2 graphs which accurately describe how I went about the year.


Here they are:

A roller coaster without a doubt! In June we launched operations of getsetResumes.com and got our first few clients and some dream feedbacks. November saw the maximum business. And undoubtedly, September was the most depressing month of the year. The main reason for that was after Romit left getsetResumes in Aug, I lost almost all of my morale to continue. Somehow, i regained it all in the next 2 months.

The fun months were Feb - my maiden trip outside of India (of my own money), April - India won the World Cup!, May - vershney got married, July - second trip to dhanaulti, and October - diwali, F1, anjum's wedding.

Well, I have a lot to be done and a lot to be lived too! Hopefully this year will be better :)

Love

Before you can grow up, you must fall in love three times.

Once, you must fall in love with your best friend, ruining your friendship and trying to earn it back. This will teach you who your true friends are, and the fine line between friendship and more.

Once you must fall in love with someone you believe is perfect. You will learn that no one is perfect, and that you should never be treated as anything less than you deserve.

And once, you must fall in love with someone that is exactly like you. This will teach you about who you are, and who you want to be.

And when you’re through with all that, you learn that the people who care about you the most are the ones that you hurt, and the ones that hurt you are the ones that needed you the most.

But most of all, you learn that love is only a concept and is not something that can be defined, it is different to each and every person on this earth, knowing that everyone wants to be loved ...

~ from the internet 

Happy New Year!

This new year was the best new years party I have EVER had. In fact this party will easily be one of the best parties I have ever had! And the awesomest part about it - I dont remember much ;) 


I was badly drunk, with whiskey, vodka, fire shots, hukkah, wine, rum - everything inside me! I have faint memories of dedicating Sadda Haq as our song for the coming year and shouting from the balcony asking some of our married friends to get lost, then dancing and specially sliding :P every now and then to the songs of Michael Jackson ("Ooow"). Boy! 


When I woke up the next morning, all I wanted was to vomit, once for God's sake. I did, went home, slept like a maniac, then woke up and ate like a glutton. When I was satiated, I smsed a big "Sorry" to all those married friends who had come to our party with their wives. I was embarrassed. Tonite, I 'had' to meet one of them and his wife. As I stepped out of the car and sheepishly went ahead to greet both of them, the beautiful lady in red smirked "Hello Rajat, I am married! I am married!" and my head went something like, WTF did I do that night! But before I could gather my visions and recall and mutter an apology, she said "I never knew you were so cute"..!!!!! :) This is a smile which I am going to carry for sometime now :)


The husband wife then told me what all crap I said and did, much to my embarrassment but more to my delight that I was well behaved. Phew!! :D Well, the hangover is still there and I am enjoying every bit of it.


Happy New Year :)

Awesome thing # 60 and some of the worst days of my life

New Year is approaching and my life is becoming a living hell. The past 7 days have been a roller coaster ride which i will not be able to forget. Exactly 7 days ago, last thursday i had one of the best parties with my college gang at Machan (gurgaon) with ample booze and amazing fun. Next day I watched a stand up comedy act at one of the elitest places in Delhi and had the best italian in town. Best days? Hell yeah!


Saturday i went down with a terrible cold and remained bed ridden. Bad? Not yet. Starting from there, for the next 48 hrs i continuously fought with my parents for issues which have been bothering us for sometime now. What was worse was that i was completely lonely and had not one person willing to go out ANYwhere! The kind of social life I live, this alone is enough to crack my nuts. The constant cribbing at home made matters worse and for the first time i felt close to breaking down. And add to that the loss on the professional front. I lost a very good freelancer who was working for me, because of an ego clash (not mine, his). 


The next 4 days I spent talking to my friend in kolkata and planning a trip; which i successfully did. I was scheduled to first leave for the city on 29th and then on 30th. But a terribly silly un-understandable and unbelievable mistake did not let me book my ticket. I just could not believe myself when i realized i had to spend my new year here, where i right now hate the most! 


And today, with the feeling and acceptance having sunk in finally, I went again with friends to attend a Live performance by a new Indian band named Faridkot. Surprisingly the band was performing at Sura Vie, Sanjeev Kapoor's amazing pub in the heart of Delhi and we had an absolutely rocking time.


P.S. The only thing which bothers me now is that this is another thursday and i do not want to spend another week in agony. I hate my life :(