Bad day for business, Awesome day for life ;) - #47

"Things only get interesting when you take full responsibility for the choices you make." 

If this statement goes true, my life at the moment is interesting as hell. Yesterday, as my mom dad left for a tour to southern India, my phone rang to the call of another Placement Head i had sent my proposal to. and voila..finally i had an audience!! Somebody..finally somebody..thought we might be the guys for their college and decided to call us up for a meeting. And so, my whole of thursday was spent preparing for the meeting, writing a well-defined 'new' proposal, taking copies and making files and rehearsing answers to questions that may be thrown out of the blue! Came friday and i was all set. Laptop, posters, visiting cards, my notebook, the files, the proposals, the pd (with some awesome songs and a copy of the proposal in case a wind blew away the ones in my hand :P) and my car keys (remember, my dad's away ;) )

A 45km drive on a butter of an 11AM road, the gurgaon-delhi expressway left me all smiles. What a start to the lovely sunny breezy friday. My buddy came along, in a tee and i had him change back to a shirt after giving him a tirade of abusings. and then came our destination. Lovely friday staff, beautiful receptionist, nice cosy meeting room. After a 30min wait, came the Placement head with his bag. and THAT MOMENT WAS THE END OF ALL THE GOOD THINGS OF THE DAY SO FAR! :(

What followed was a 90 minute blabbering of non-sensical horse shit out of his mouth, obviously kissing his white and black moustaches on its way to our ears. He just spoke and spoke and after countering him a first 100-200 times, i too finally gave up, and all we were left doing was nodding heads, with whispers of "Yes Sir" and "Sure Sir" in between. Fuck you ass! We breathed a sigh of relief the moment we left his shadow, and although the prospect seems bright to me even now, i secretly vowed not to do any business with his Poschim Bonga ass! 

So, all my secret castles, which i did make on that thursday evening, thinking about the money i would be making, and the cars i will be buying and the babes i will be %&^&ing :P, came crashing down at probably the same time on friday. What an interesting life :P

But well, a man's got to do what he's got to do. and so without letting any of this ruin my idea of the perfect friday that i had planned, i went and had a pretty mind blowing lunch with a friend, met a couple old friends (and got a compliment later on..i just love it absolutely when a girl goes gaga over me :D) and finally used my Zomato coupons for an amazing treat of LIITs and snacks - ABSOLUTELY FREE!! :)

The awesome part of the day? The drive to and back from gurgaon in my luxury sedan with the best music playing. :)

Awesome thing # 46

Without a doubt amar is the person i would credit for my knowledge of atleast 50% of eateries and pubs i know today in delhi! had he not been, i would have still figured out, but then the chicken and egg debate can go on..so let me just give him all that is due (though, i hope the egomaniac bastard never reads this!). So, out of the best pubs he took me to, Route4 is my favorite. Of, the roadside eateries, the ande wala (remember the cheeze mayo jalandari :P) is the best. and among chaat, it is the gujrati shop at kamla nagar. and his Sev Puri is pure Awesomeness. Heavenly. Luscious. take my word, have it!


So when, we were done kurta shopping this sunday, (we finally bought our 5 exactly similar kurtas :D) we went to this gujrati and again indulged in the mix of sumptuousness and yumminess :) and that my friend, was the best part of the day ;)

Awesome thing # 45 - Oreo!

Wow. What a rocking day! What a fucked up day! :( Now this is the real test. I tried my hand at about 5 different things today. Started fine with all of them. Fell flat on my face before i could finish! This friday of this 9th month sucked as bad as it could have. 


Let me try to figure out where was i at fault today. I woke up to an absolutely mind boggling awesome weather. Had no plans to seriously work on the friday. Was totally on for my tennis game in the evening. Had no plans of any interaction with the opposite sex today. and was damn sure i had to spend the night out with friends. Work sucked. Tennis sucked, couldn't play. The spontaneous confabulation turned into a disaster. why did i even call!! and the last thing..well, i screwed that up myself for sure.


So, what was the awesome thing about it. The best part is with such a day, a small awesome thing makes itself clearly visible! So here it goes. Hold your breath...


The most awesome thing about today was Oreo, mixed with whipped vanilla flavored cream and nuts along with some hot chocolate which made up the newly launched Mc Flurry at Mc Donalds. :D I can bet my ass it was the most amazing shake cum ice cream cum whatever it was i have ever had. Hell, it was better than the Big Chill Oreo Shake i am crazy about. Wow. It was awesome!

Zomatooooo!!

To all those five-ten readers I have, guys this post is dedicated to Zomato. Zomato, who?. So, while my blog talks about what goes on in my life, this is my greedy side, in an attempt to make it better..with an iPad :P :D 

Zomato (if you have not heard of it, get a (foodie) life!) is the place where you can find everything about food, and very recently about various events as well. Originally foodiebay, zomato is more than just a restaurant guide and probably the best place to select a place if you are not sure where to go and eat next! So, now you know Zomato who :) Now the rest of the blog talks about a small feedback for Zomato. Here goes..

Now, I am in love with this stuff. Zomato rocks truly and i had just one thing to say when it came to what i like about Zomato. It is awesome! For the things i want you to improve, i found 6! :D Explains a lot about loving relationships, doesnt it ;)

the 4 good things

1. I love zomato's interface. Specially the colors. The site is fast as well! and the new Events section somehow compliments the restaurant guide. I coudnt find anything missing with the events section. The "POPULAR ON ZOMATO - DELHI NCR" section on the front page is good. 

2. Your marketing initiatives - passes for featured reviews, iPad for feedbacks, are extremely good and impressive. Btw, congrats on the recent funding by InfoEdge!

The good part

3. The filters you guys show with the list of restaurants is just too good. :) I love all the information in that list. It becomes really easy to search.

4. Your staff (whoever deals with customer care) is very friendly.

the 7 things you could improve

1. Wouldn't it be nice, if along with the reviews of restaurants, you also showed what dishes were good. Sort of a "RECOMMENDED DISHES" section. Many a times, first timers to an italian or a french restaurant would not know what to order. The section could be categorized into veg and non veg. Even the square slideshow on the first page. Instead of showing images of random dishes, you could probably show some recommended dishes which upon clicking would take you to the restaurant page on Zomato itself.

Shift 'em up!

2. You have a "HOT Restaurants Today" section on the front page. Should it not be above than where it is right now? People who come to the site will be looking for a restaurant, right? and this info should be right under the nose of the visitor. Probably where "featured reviews" is. You should remove the "Our Editors" section from there! Its not serving any purpose. Again, shift the "Newly Added Menus" up as well!

3. Could we have "Zomato recommended Restaurants" as well?

Shift 'em down!

4. How about some "ZOMATO COUPONS/discounts/free desserts"? We could use them at popular restaurants.

5. You guys advertise on Coffee News. Why not start with that kind of a 2/multi colored sort of a newsletter..start with a 4 page only and circulate it among popular eateries like pizza hut, dominoes, subway, mcdonalds etc. only. At times restaurants will not agree with your rankings for them. So they may not want your circular on their tables, but McD, Dominoes, PD..they won't mind. They already know why people come there, a zomato guide cant hurt them.

6. Blog more often. It would increase your visibility with google and make you more SERP friendly. I would like Zomato to be above any timescity or similar restaurant guide. In fact why not have a Zomato restaurant guide published!!

7. Add  a TRAVEL or TOURISM section. This section can tell readers about weekend getaways, details of how to get there, hotels to stay and their reviews, adventure camps taking place, etc. etc. etc. :)

Awesome thing # 44 - workout and eggs

The best thing about a work-less, enthusiasm-less boring day is my workout. I do it not often, hardly once or twice a week but the kind of high i get once i'm done..is matchless. I usually run and do some mild exercise. That's it, that's my workout. But the running part is intense. You know, i was not born very athletic and so i have to try very very hard to stay in shape. My arms are not so strong, neither are my legs. I eat a lot of junk as well, and so this exercising part becomes all the more important. 


So with all these constraints, i run. With all the might i have. and after i am done running, (well, i try to outdo my previous best everytime), and after my legs have started to yield to gravity, and after it is not even easy to breathe, i experience that state of euphoric flying. It is awesome. I have to go through hell to feel it, i have to push myself over and over, keep murmuring just one lap more, just one lap more, while my music player stops making any sense and there's just one thing on my mind - to stop running. But, what excitement. :) 


and this monday, while i was at it..my ol' buddy joined me. He didn't run with me, he's a software guy (find the correlation :P). But after the sojourn, we decided to go have some eggs. So we went to this small khopcha of a place, with some of the finest egg dishes in the whole world (i can bet on that). and guess what we had first, Cheese Mayonnaise Jallandari (a specialty from our guy) :D Its mere mention waters my mouth right now. So, much for the exercising :)

Awesome thing # 43 - Murthal

Another day. another plan. and a healing of my bruised ego :) That romit can not make the plan and he should not mess with me was all that i was out to prove and did i not do it. Makes me feel good. I am not a proud fella and i have the smallest of ego, but by god it hurts when someone takes it for granted. For once, the guy kept his mouth shut and quietly accepted defeat and i am happy i went ahead and made the plan of the 4 of us to murthal. So,  the war was won, without a drop of bloodshed. We didnt have to cancel. Aman had to miss out though, but then it was a war today :P


The rest is a cliched series of awesome events. We drove all the way, lots of bakar all the way. My tee matched exactly the staff of the dhaba we ate at, and yes i am sure i was confused with those guys on multiple occasions and made fun of :P Of course, we had some delicious paranthas, and kulfis and lots and lots of 'sirke wale pyaaz' ;) Then, some photos and some walks later we drove on the super cool NH1 in the beautiful weather with our window glasses down and beautiful music playing, only gazing out the window at the almost full moon in the blue night. :)

Awesome thing # 42 - Relativity

A small 'take your time out and give it to someone else' by you can do wonders for that someone. I was that someone and the small gesture was that little over 20 min chat with my bestest friend :) well, the friend was a 'she' and so this post qualifies under awesomeness :D Whether the chat was spontaneous or intended to make me feel good (i was not particularly in my best mood this day), it did the best thing to me - brought the big grin back :D


An overstated quote by Einstein comes to my mind, “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.” or so i experienced it. Damn, that hour had to pass.

Awesome thing # 41 - Chandni Chowk

Burrrrppp!!! Back from chandni chowk, on another kurta hunt, which once again ended in a failure. but what did not end up as a failure was the food and bakar. Pandu, me and jain this time, we had chhole bhature (5), tikki, kachoris, Rabri, lassi, masala paneer, gol gappe and a lot of air and water to go with it. burrrppp!! excuse me for doing it again. My stomach is so damn full right now..burrrppp!! I am sorry again :P the only thing which can cure it now is whiskey. we discussed and came to a conclusion that a 150ml whiskey at night will give you the most awesome crap of your life in the morning. Well, time to try it ;)

Awesome thing # 40 - fucked up day..amazing night

What a fucked up day man. All because of the assiness of romit. The fucker doesn't know what he wants but is ready to blame others (read me). All he did, and will keep on doing, is spoil his own days and parties.


So, while the plan to murthal was getting cancelled, i was out with my schooliya friends shopping for some kurtas. Now, we have decided about wearing same kurtas for Anjum's wedlock. 5 of us :D and so it was necessary that all 5 of us agreed on what is to be worn that day. It sounds tough, but let me tell you its a lot tougher with these guys man. We spent 5-6 hours and couldn't zero on that 1 piece we all were ready to dorn. So we bought some belts and came back home :P


and then began the night. some unexpectedly, me, nip and lakhot decided to crash route04, yet again, and what a night did we enjoy. Pastas, omelettes, bongs, LIITs, wat not. Our daredevil nip even got the guts to order a drink for a damsel in a pretty short skirt sitting across us. He got dumped from the same distance though :P Lakhot paid my bill (for reasons of an old loan) and i had the whole 20km of rain washed, brightly reflected road to zip, zap and zoom my luxury sedan at 120kph back home. What i call a jhakaas end to the night ;)