Extension of my previous post. With the 2500 i gave back today, I cleared ALL MY DUES since feb this year, till today :) No more burden of thought of knowing you still have to pay something someone somewhere!
Monday, October 31, 2011
Awesome thing # 53 - Formula 1
This has to go down as one of my best sundays in a long time. 3 things happened today
1. F1 Grand Prix. We were late in leaving by about 3 hrs. And when we hit the road, it looked like the whole of delhi was going to watch it. Was it that big a deal? Nonetheless, after crossing what i thought was a big jam, in noida, we skipped the main Greater Noida Expressway (touted as one of the best expressways connecting Delhi) and entered the service lane - for some unclear reason. Guess what, we skipped an entire stretch of massive 25km of jam on the expressway because of that, and drove at a 120kmph to reach our parking lot in flat 25 min!! (we got to know later that many remained struck in the jam and couldnt reach the circuit). From there, a bus took us to the circuit and then another to our stand. The race had started, 10 laps were gone and we missed the flagging by Sachin! :( Nevertheless, we could hear the engines of those monster cars revving from 200 meters outside the circuit and rushed in towards the track. What i saw just blew me away. In front of me, barely 10m from where i stood, was the gravel and then began the asphalt of the bend in front of our stand. And on it, revved monstrously the engines of F1 cars speeding at a ghastly 300kmph and zipping past us in fractions of seconds. The sound was deafening and the thrill, mindblowing! I could not believe cars being driven and controlled at such speeds. In 5 seconds of entering, my respect for the sport and drivers and the machine builders increased by leaps. Despite the speeds, we tracked all the drivers and their positions, witnessed track slips, overtakes, near accidents (though missed the hamiltion-massa clash) and yes, cheered the Force India team. We remained till the end of the 60 laps, as Vettel won, and walked back to our shuttle witnessing babes (super hot babes) and cars (super duper hot cars including Lamborghini Gallardo, Rolce Royce Ghost, Bentley Continental, Porche Panamera to name a few). Whew!! What an experience.
2. House break. After we picked my car we went to Piyush's house no 147 in Greater Noida, to replace a lock at his plot's main gate. We parked our car right at the gate and switched on the headlamps for a better view in the darkly lit lane. And in full glaring view, we both started to smash the already put up lock on the gate so as to break it and put the new lock. When we were done, some workers (working in and on the house) anxiously came running up and asked why we were breaking, to which we confidently replied that this was our house and you could carry on the work with the new key. After some phone calling (while i talked to those labourers), Piyush came up and asked them for directions to a market. He told them we'll be back in a while and sat in the car and asked me to drive us to the market. We'd hardly driven 10m, and this guy turned to me and said, "bhai galat ghar ka tala tod diya, bhaag!!" turns out, we broke into house #149 instead of #147 and by the time we had sat in the car, one of the workers had already called up its owner to confirm! Well, it was shit, and we just fled! :D
3. The after party. Aman's birthday treat it was and so, although i had already had a scuff with nipun and i (obviously) hate lakhot, i still decided to go (it was only the 4 of us). We sat at our usual, this time in CP, and surprisingly had fun! The music was good, i enjoyed the LIITs and the cocktail hookah and the discussions kept everyone talking. The icing was the cake which we got for Aman and it was amazingly delicious. But the best part for me was yet to come. When we left, i did 2 things which quite simply put, lightened my heart. One, gave back the 2500 i owed nipun and two, apologized for being rudely angry at him. You know, the hardest thing to say is 'sorry', specially when you can justify your behaviour. It's tough and well, i had to be a pussy and send a message! But well, i did apologize and whether or not i am forgiven, i felt light. (though it did not make me feel any better about how my faith was breached, but then somethings take time). I also learnt another thing today - "If you approach anything with the least, bare minimum expectation, you will always end up happier, surprised and satisfied." Who said it? Me!
Well, after all this roller coaster, I had a galla week. It can easily go down as one of the best i have had in a long time. And now it is time to approach the new week with the least, bare minimum expectation. :P
1. F1 Grand Prix. We were late in leaving by about 3 hrs. And when we hit the road, it looked like the whole of delhi was going to watch it. Was it that big a deal? Nonetheless, after crossing what i thought was a big jam, in noida, we skipped the main Greater Noida Expressway (touted as one of the best expressways connecting Delhi) and entered the service lane - for some unclear reason. Guess what, we skipped an entire stretch of massive 25km of jam on the expressway because of that, and drove at a 120kmph to reach our parking lot in flat 25 min!! (we got to know later that many remained struck in the jam and couldnt reach the circuit). From there, a bus took us to the circuit and then another to our stand. The race had started, 10 laps were gone and we missed the flagging by Sachin! :( Nevertheless, we could hear the engines of those monster cars revving from 200 meters outside the circuit and rushed in towards the track. What i saw just blew me away. In front of me, barely 10m from where i stood, was the gravel and then began the asphalt of the bend in front of our stand. And on it, revved monstrously the engines of F1 cars speeding at a ghastly 300kmph and zipping past us in fractions of seconds. The sound was deafening and the thrill, mindblowing! I could not believe cars being driven and controlled at such speeds. In 5 seconds of entering, my respect for the sport and drivers and the machine builders increased by leaps. Despite the speeds, we tracked all the drivers and their positions, witnessed track slips, overtakes, near accidents (though missed the hamiltion-massa clash) and yes, cheered the Force India team. We remained till the end of the 60 laps, as Vettel won, and walked back to our shuttle witnessing babes (super hot babes) and cars (super duper hot cars including Lamborghini Gallardo, Rolce Royce Ghost, Bentley Continental, Porche Panamera to name a few). Whew!! What an experience.
2. House break. After we picked my car we went to Piyush's house no 147 in Greater Noida, to replace a lock at his plot's main gate. We parked our car right at the gate and switched on the headlamps for a better view in the darkly lit lane. And in full glaring view, we both started to smash the already put up lock on the gate so as to break it and put the new lock. When we were done, some workers (working in and on the house) anxiously came running up and asked why we were breaking, to which we confidently replied that this was our house and you could carry on the work with the new key. After some phone calling (while i talked to those labourers), Piyush came up and asked them for directions to a market. He told them we'll be back in a while and sat in the car and asked me to drive us to the market. We'd hardly driven 10m, and this guy turned to me and said, "bhai galat ghar ka tala tod diya, bhaag!!" turns out, we broke into house #149 instead of #147 and by the time we had sat in the car, one of the workers had already called up its owner to confirm! Well, it was shit, and we just fled! :D
3. The after party. Aman's birthday treat it was and so, although i had already had a scuff with nipun and i (obviously) hate lakhot, i still decided to go (it was only the 4 of us). We sat at our usual, this time in CP, and surprisingly had fun! The music was good, i enjoyed the LIITs and the cocktail hookah and the discussions kept everyone talking. The icing was the cake which we got for Aman and it was amazingly delicious. But the best part for me was yet to come. When we left, i did 2 things which quite simply put, lightened my heart. One, gave back the 2500 i owed nipun and two, apologized for being rudely angry at him. You know, the hardest thing to say is 'sorry', specially when you can justify your behaviour. It's tough and well, i had to be a pussy and send a message! But well, i did apologize and whether or not i am forgiven, i felt light. (though it did not make me feel any better about how my faith was breached, but then somethings take time). I also learnt another thing today - "If you approach anything with the least, bare minimum expectation, you will always end up happier, surprised and satisfied." Who said it? Me!
Well, after all this roller coaster, I had a galla week. It can easily go down as one of the best i have had in a long time. And now it is time to approach the new week with the least, bare minimum expectation. :P
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Awesome thing # 52 - Metallica concert, which got cancelled!
How it happened is another story. But more interesting is how i got involved. Friday morning, 2 days after Diwali, i woke up lazily at 11 to a chilly morning and sat waiting for my sis for bhai dooj. When she came at 12:40, i was still not bathed! I got up, and as i went to the bathroom, my phone rang. Saxo had cancelled his plan of going to the concert and thought of asking me to use his ticket instead - a 2750/- pass. Suddenly, i had a spring in my step. I thought for about 5 seconds and said yes man! I was ready in my jeans and one of punky tees by 1:30, all set to leave. "Clients gaye bhaad me, resumes gaye chutti pe, Today is METALLICA DAY!!" closely describes what i felt then :D (btw, i had chosen not to go to the concert because of reasons of money, but somehow at that particular moment money was the last thing on my mind. Specially because I had just sold off my saturday's F1 ticket for a nice little amount :D) \m/
So, I talked to Piyush and left with him at 2. Rushed to the venue and collected my ticket from saxo's friend and on that way met at least 4 friends, already. Metallica was on baby! Now my tickets were for 2750/- and Piyush and Sumit's were of 1650/-. So i sold off the 2750/- one and got a 1650/- ticket with 1100/- profit :P Good day? Oh yes! Great day so far. It was 5 then and as we approached our gate, we saw some white skinned westerners drinking beer publicly - a crime for the brown skinned us, and thought why not man. Let's have some beer ourselves. 2 cans down and we would be all set to headbang with the band!! We went to a nearby and gulped 4 large ones! Man, we were all set and it was 6.
And thats when came the phone call. The concert was postponed :( to saturday :( :( "WTF! WTF! WTF! What the hell am i going to do with the ticket now?! Do i keep it and come back tomorrow or give it back to saxo? What if he wants to see the show tomorrow? and wtf, i sold his ticket of 2750!! How do i get That back?!! Why me??!! :(" is how my train of thought went then. Shit! We rushed to the venue and saw the ruckus. There were reports of hooliganism and the stage being set on fire. We saw some smoke alright, and the drums and keyboards were damaged. In fact a guy was carrying the keyboard high in his arms! Man, these delhi guys, they don't deserve a show. We left the scene with the crowd. There were some 28000 punks there, which included some of the best babes i have seen in the city!! It could've been an awesome concert man. The show was reportedly cancelled because of security reasons. Fuck Metallica. And Fuck the delhites. I guess we all have ourselves to blame. All the delhi rage went to the wild metal band as well, eh!
Nonetheless, we were not going to spoil our night this way. So we stacked up booze and went to Piyush's friend's house. The night thereafter, not to mention, was awesome :) As far as the live concert goes, well, we sang L.I.V.E. and headbanged to the songs of Rockstar in the car on our way back. Created a live concert of some sort ourselves. Who needs metallica now :D
So, I talked to Piyush and left with him at 2. Rushed to the venue and collected my ticket from saxo's friend and on that way met at least 4 friends, already. Metallica was on baby! Now my tickets were for 2750/- and Piyush and Sumit's were of 1650/-. So i sold off the 2750/- one and got a 1650/- ticket with 1100/- profit :P Good day? Oh yes! Great day so far. It was 5 then and as we approached our gate, we saw some white skinned westerners drinking beer publicly - a crime for the brown skinned us, and thought why not man. Let's have some beer ourselves. 2 cans down and we would be all set to headbang with the band!! We went to a nearby and gulped 4 large ones! Man, we were all set and it was 6.
And thats when came the phone call. The concert was postponed :( to saturday :( :( "WTF! WTF! WTF! What the hell am i going to do with the ticket now?! Do i keep it and come back tomorrow or give it back to saxo? What if he wants to see the show tomorrow? and wtf, i sold his ticket of 2750!! How do i get That back?!! Why me??!! :(" is how my train of thought went then. Shit! We rushed to the venue and saw the ruckus. There were reports of hooliganism and the stage being set on fire. We saw some smoke alright, and the drums and keyboards were damaged. In fact a guy was carrying the keyboard high in his arms! Man, these delhi guys, they don't deserve a show. We left the scene with the crowd. There were some 28000 punks there, which included some of the best babes i have seen in the city!! It could've been an awesome concert man. The show was reportedly cancelled because of security reasons. Fuck Metallica. And Fuck the delhites. I guess we all have ourselves to blame. All the delhi rage went to the wild metal band as well, eh!
Nonetheless, we were not going to spoil our night this way. So we stacked up booze and went to Piyush's friend's house. The night thereafter, not to mention, was awesome :) As far as the live concert goes, well, we sang L.I.V.E. and headbanged to the songs of Rockstar in the car on our way back. Created a live concert of some sort ourselves. Who needs metallica now :D
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Awesome thing # 51 - Diwali
This was undoubtedly the best diwali of my life!! As someone somewhere put it - This Diwali kicked the ass of many previous ones ;) I soaked in every bit of diwaliness inside me this season - i shopped for stuff, i decorated my house with lights, i bought sweets, i cleaned my office cum bedroom, i burnt crackers and lit them in my hand (after like 10-15 years!), i had no tension of going to office in the morning or the next day or anyday and i was at peace with myself. I was happy. For the first time in many years, i was more happy than stressed at Diwali and by god i loved it.
Whatever tomorrow may bring, however fucked i or my environment may be, this Diwali of 2011 will go down as one when i did just one thing for the past 20 odd days with 'absolutely NOTHING' at the back of my head - Celebrate! :)
Whatever tomorrow may bring, however fucked i or my environment may be, this Diwali of 2011 will go down as one when i did just one thing for the past 20 odd days with 'absolutely NOTHING' at the back of my head - Celebrate! :)
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Awesome thing # 50 - I cleaned my room!
I cleaned my room and i liked it :) Saturday i spent 7 hrs, from 12noon to 7pm, standing the entire time, without any food or water with only 1 mission - "thy room be cleaned before sunrise of the next day". and boy, when i was done did i get that rush of peace!! My room now is literally oozing tranquility from all sides :)
7 hrs is true. Sounds exaggerated but it isn't. I literally got scared when i first saw the room in the morning (i had already decided 2 days back that it was to be cleaned). I had no clue about where to start! Its a small room, only 12 by 8 feet i guess, with every single inch in a total mess - spider webs all over the place, filth in every hidden corner, dust on every tangible thing in the room. Fuck, i was living in this shithole for the past 2 years without ever cleaning more than my computer table. and worst of all, for the past 8 months (since i've been self-employed) i've been spending most of my time in this same room, working! I just couldn't believe my eyes when i saw this room today. Finally, after minutes of pondering, i started. Walls, windows, fan, cupboard, then the computer wires, floor and finally the computer table! phew!!! It was ecstasy when i was done. When i called mom to see what i had done, she almost cried out of happiness. She could not believe her eyes. I had FINALLY cleaned this room :)
Guess how i celebrated. By breaking a self made promise of not drinking :P 100 pipers and Absolut with 2 college friends to end the absolutely tiring day. Well, no complaints :)
7 hrs is true. Sounds exaggerated but it isn't. I literally got scared when i first saw the room in the morning (i had already decided 2 days back that it was to be cleaned). I had no clue about where to start! Its a small room, only 12 by 8 feet i guess, with every single inch in a total mess - spider webs all over the place, filth in every hidden corner, dust on every tangible thing in the room. Fuck, i was living in this shithole for the past 2 years without ever cleaning more than my computer table. and worst of all, for the past 8 months (since i've been self-employed) i've been spending most of my time in this same room, working! I just couldn't believe my eyes when i saw this room today. Finally, after minutes of pondering, i started. Walls, windows, fan, cupboard, then the computer wires, floor and finally the computer table! phew!!! It was ecstasy when i was done. When i called mom to see what i had done, she almost cried out of happiness. She could not believe her eyes. I had FINALLY cleaned this room :)
Guess how i celebrated. By breaking a self made promise of not drinking :P 100 pipers and Absolut with 2 college friends to end the absolutely tiring day. Well, no complaints :)
Awesome thing # 49 - late night walks
Last weekend was the first of many (8) weekends, that i actually did not see Chaman (as Amar is now fondly called :P), Pandu, Jain and Himanshu's face! But as i sat on the bed, digging my eyes into the laptop absolutely bored, i had but 1 choice - i called up amar and piyush and begged them "Lets go somewhere, man..i am BORED!!". We caught up again, but just the 3 of us, and went to have some egg dishes of a popular andewala nearby. Soon health became the topic of discussion and we decided to start with late night walks and early morning jogging.
While the jogging did happen only once in the past week, the late night walks have started fully. and i enjoy them a lot. Well for one, i get to tell someone what i did my entire day (i hope it was some beautiful lady i told that to rather than 2 hairy men :P). We discuss whats happening in our lives and how to screw each others boss and the lady we're after (both in different sense of course :P). Future, career, news, happenings, weekend trips, activities (we recently thought of starting a sports club..though never talked of it again!) all happen. and if we are on time, a pan or a banta adds to the flavour of the night :)
While the jogging did happen only once in the past week, the late night walks have started fully. and i enjoy them a lot. Well for one, i get to tell someone what i did my entire day (i hope it was some beautiful lady i told that to rather than 2 hairy men :P). We discuss whats happening in our lives and how to screw each others boss and the lady we're after (both in different sense of course :P). Future, career, news, happenings, weekend trips, activities (we recently thought of starting a sports club..though never talked of it again!) all happen. and if we are on time, a pan or a banta adds to the flavour of the night :)
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Awesome thing # 48 - Anjum's wedding
After 7 consecutive weekends of walking and tiredly searching for the right 'black' kurta for anjum's wedlock day, getting it stitched, altered, madeover, and in the process gaining 10 kgs eating all kinds of yummy crap kamla nagar has to offer our delhi bellies, and because of this again getting the kurta altered, the day of the wearing finally arrived. Yesterday - 11th day of October 2011. As excited as school boys going on a field trip, we hardly slept the last night so as to catch our shatabdi on time. Reached Ludhiana and I felt the Punjab air in my head as we made our way to our hotel. and as true punjabbbis do, we started of our sojourn with chilled beer. no snacks, no food, Beer first! :D We were 8 of us in that room and what followed the next 2 hrs was pure awesomeness :) then peaceful sleep of another 2 hrs.
Now i am not of those who like to sleep around (pun intended :P) in a new city. So, as soon as the sun set behind the buildings and water tanks, i slipped out with 2 friends to explore the streets of ludhiana, spot punjabi babes and in-time have some chaat as well :D and so i did without disappointment. Ludhiana is a rich land, that i also found out.
Then it was time for the wedding. and out came the toil of those 7 weeks. Our shining black kurtas and jutis :) Coincidentally the other 2 guys in our company also wore black suits and when we started posing for photos i realized we were actually resembling black pathan commandos more than dulha's friends! After briefly paying respects to Johnny Walked ji, we headed for the baraat, which was a little disappointing. The guy's christian family did not seem too interested in hindu traditions (it was an inter caste love marriage) and all we did was rush to the venue. Still, we had our share of frolic and after round 2, we were all set to burn the dj floor. Back at the hotel room after 2 hrs, we had another 3 hrs to sleep and catch our train back to delhi. Some 1 hr of bc later we slept and well, came back!
Although, the wedding ceremony did not provide as much of a hungama as we had hoped for, we did have fun and did what we came for. This was our little break from the drabness of delhi and the trip to ludhiana gave us a memory to cherish for a lifetime - this photo :)
Now i am not of those who like to sleep around (pun intended :P) in a new city. So, as soon as the sun set behind the buildings and water tanks, i slipped out with 2 friends to explore the streets of ludhiana, spot punjabi babes and in-time have some chaat as well :D and so i did without disappointment. Ludhiana is a rich land, that i also found out.
Then it was time for the wedding. and out came the toil of those 7 weeks. Our shining black kurtas and jutis :) Coincidentally the other 2 guys in our company also wore black suits and when we started posing for photos i realized we were actually resembling black pathan commandos more than dulha's friends! After briefly paying respects to Johnny Walked ji, we headed for the baraat, which was a little disappointing. The guy's christian family did not seem too interested in hindu traditions (it was an inter caste love marriage) and all we did was rush to the venue. Still, we had our share of frolic and after round 2, we were all set to burn the dj floor. Back at the hotel room after 2 hrs, we had another 3 hrs to sleep and catch our train back to delhi. Some 1 hr of bc later we slept and well, came back!
Although, the wedding ceremony did not provide as much of a hungama as we had hoped for, we did have fun and did what we came for. This was our little break from the drabness of delhi and the trip to ludhiana gave us a memory to cherish for a lifetime - this photo :)
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Sadda Haq!!
Well, for starters, I had a seriously awesome night. Without booze! Old friends, and a lot lot lot of crap and bullshit ;) but i will not get into that. It is time for some serious thing :P and so i will start...
Whatever relationship (and by relationship i don't just mean love and friendships) you might be in, there is one rule you need to understand. The other person is not there for your bull shit! So whether you have a short term association with someone, or a long term partnership or an everlasting friendship, whether it is your business partner or your spouse or your dearest friend, you need to learn to give back a little, if not as much, as you take. By not acknowledging, by not responding and by not returning you are seriously fucking the other person. He will take it once, he will take it twice, but he will not take it the third time my friend.
Now, the argument. You will say why acknowledge? If your friend is so dear, why does it even matter? Well i will tell you why. People have one basic nature - expectation. They expect. Whether it is your parents, or your friends or your boss, they all expect something from you. THAT, is the only reason why they are putting up with you. That expectation can as simple as a mere laughter you share, but that is expectation alright and you need to understand that. Your parents expect you to take care of them when they are old, and that is why you are being taken care of now. Heck, that is why you were born in the first place! They keep you happy, so you could keep them happy. They put up with your bull shit, your crap because they expect you to deliver at some point in life. Your best friend deals with all your troubles, your mugging and cribbing so you would deal with his. He would expect you to. The reason why you stay with your friend is because you have a good time together...because you expect to have a good time together, you expect him to make you laugh and to make that hangout worthwhile for you. That is the reason you will spend time with him. If that expectation is not fulfilled, your togetherness will cease. and that is the reason, you have some friends and some 'people you know', because you do not enjoy with the 'people you know', because they do not fulfill your expectation. Do i even need to tell you why your boss puts up with your crap and why you put up with his?!
So, the thing is simple. Give and Take. keeps everyone interested, keeps everyone happy. Start to acknowledge, start to respond, because people around you, people close to you expect you to. A simple acknowledgement brings a lot of joy :)
Whatever relationship (and by relationship i don't just mean love and friendships) you might be in, there is one rule you need to understand. The other person is not there for your bull shit! So whether you have a short term association with someone, or a long term partnership or an everlasting friendship, whether it is your business partner or your spouse or your dearest friend, you need to learn to give back a little, if not as much, as you take. By not acknowledging, by not responding and by not returning you are seriously fucking the other person. He will take it once, he will take it twice, but he will not take it the third time my friend.
Now, the argument. You will say why acknowledge? If your friend is so dear, why does it even matter? Well i will tell you why. People have one basic nature - expectation. They expect. Whether it is your parents, or your friends or your boss, they all expect something from you. THAT, is the only reason why they are putting up with you. That expectation can as simple as a mere laughter you share, but that is expectation alright and you need to understand that. Your parents expect you to take care of them when they are old, and that is why you are being taken care of now. Heck, that is why you were born in the first place! They keep you happy, so you could keep them happy. They put up with your bull shit, your crap because they expect you to deliver at some point in life. Your best friend deals with all your troubles, your mugging and cribbing so you would deal with his. He would expect you to. The reason why you stay with your friend is because you have a good time together...because you expect to have a good time together, you expect him to make you laugh and to make that hangout worthwhile for you. That is the reason you will spend time with him. If that expectation is not fulfilled, your togetherness will cease. and that is the reason, you have some friends and some 'people you know', because you do not enjoy with the 'people you know', because they do not fulfill your expectation. Do i even need to tell you why your boss puts up with your crap and why you put up with his?!
So, the thing is simple. Give and Take. keeps everyone interested, keeps everyone happy. Start to acknowledge, start to respond, because people around you, people close to you expect you to. A simple acknowledgement brings a lot of joy :)
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