Bend it with marriage

We had few marriage invitations circulated in the last two weeks of November. There will be a good number of those coming in the month of February. While this will be the onset of a new beginning for the newly wed, it will be a upset for his single friend with whom he spent most of this time with. Once married, then starts the inevitable chapter in every man's life - bending.

The guy is pretty excited to start and experiment new things with his wife. He infact shows off that he was engaged for more than six months and teases his friends that they are not hooked up with any girl. As the D day nears by, he buys a Tv, fridge, double cot bed and a sofa to please the 'soon to become the Home Minister' wife. He splits from his bachelor friends and may even ignore the bachelors party citing that he doesn't have time and money to throw a party. But he has those two in abundance for shopping.


The guy takes a three leave from the work, finishes of the final round of shopping and sets off to his hometown for marriage. Pleasantries exchanged, all the arrangements made by the parents and may be even given a royal treatment by his in-laws. Amidst this chaos, he will forget the most important chapter bending he once was aware of. The confidence that life will be bed of roses with that new beginning would be gushing and everything else looks minuscule to the decorated wife at the occasion.

Event is over successfully. Both parties - all smiles. Gifts opened. (Non) Working wife takes a look around at her new house.

Day 1: Does not like too many people following her all the way from her husband's hometown to her new house where they would be residing for few days. Swallows it and doesn't express herself.

Day 2: Bottled up feelings emanate and vents her frustration over the people at her husband. Guy is both in love with mom and her wife. Can't choose a side.

Day 3: Doesn't talk well with his relatives and starts playing mind games with her in-laws. The guy invites his friends but she responds to them in a shocking manner saying, " You people don't get married so soon". A puzzled look by the guy at her wife but nothing more than that he can do.

Day4: Disconsolate guy's parents head home wishing him good luck. The guy remembers the forgotten chapter. Left are the newly wed bride and groom at the place to carry on the relationship for the rest of their lives. Begins to wonder if he is becoming a bunny.


He comes back from the office. She doesn't know cooking. Her mom never let her enter into the kitchen. No worries, I know cooking. She doesn't know how to wash clothes even with the aid of a washing machine. No worries, I can take care of it. (Guy begins to worry about her co-operation in the bed). She whines to her parents that she is all alone and home sick. Guy cannot find an answer to this. So takes her to movies in the weekend regularly to mitigate her loneliness. Saturday and Sunday is a strict no-no to cook in the house. What are outside restaurants for ?

After a month wife learns to cook. He will appreciate it but immediately recollects the delicious cooking done by his mom to which he used to find fault with, in his singlehood days. He starts to cook. Pays the bills. Takes care of her saree dry-cleaning. And feels freaking proud that his wife is the best when she doesn't berate him in an evening party.


The guy confirms the once heard chapter which he is experiencing now. Advices his friends to life to the fullest before marriage. He starts talking to his married friends only. Feels uncomfortable to share his feelings to his 'single' friends. A moment of hell is experienced when he cannot share with anyone what he feels in the aftermath of marriage.

The life cycle beings and he is lost in it totally. He eventually finds solace when his new born child holds his little finger after he returns from the office. That said, he realizes after few heavenly moments pre and post marriage, it will all be a one-way traffic.

PS: Title credit goes to my good friend. Story narrated is not really fictional.

Women shopping with men

I actually was getting bored with my three day off this weekend. So what did I do? Turned up to the office regularly on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Today is our company's Annual day and hence off. There can be some after effects if you turn up as late as 7 pm on a Saturday night to your office. Our security guard quipped,"Sir, you are entering the office when everyone is actually leaving". What is my dumb retort ? Instead of saying no this, no that, no movie, no shopping I said,"Yeah, I live closeby. So I have no problem coming", with a wtf smile.

So I asked my good friend, Jack, over the mail about whatz the weekend like. He said, he made the biggest mistake ever in life. Ladies cannot even guess it. Gentlemen would not like to repeat it. The mistake: He went for shopping with a girl who is a friend of his. And this is how the conversation was build up. It was a very quick conversation coz it started off with girls. We are always excited about these topics. Woo-hoo!

Me: Watz the weekend like for you?

He: Yeah, a very irritating weekend! I made the mistake of accompanying a female friend to shop in the commercial street. Boy, it aint at all easy shopping with girls. They pick ten clothes, try five, narrow down on two and finally buy none.

And the worse thing is, they ask which ones we liked and are dead against the one that we like the most. Its like telling us that our taste is very bad. When I told her the same thing, she replied that I do select very nice dresses. Yeah, its true, but I have selected that dress which she already decided to buy – hence my taste is good! Glee!

He further adds,

"You cant win an argument with two people – one, a lunatic, and two, a woman!"

I did not have the privilege that he had till now. But I still could respond with the little experience I've had so far.

Me: He he he...that was funny and you narrated in a nice way. But women would love to shop their clothes with a man. I think they find it romantic and we find it lunatic.

You realised it quite fast man and you are already bowing to woman's wishes. Ha ha ha...I know you did it not to offend her. But do you expect them to return the same favour? If you show her what you like, she says that it is bad with a blank face and will stick to it for all the money in the world. What will you do now? You throw that out in frustration in the change room and will totally drop the idea of shopping that day.

He nods and says,

He: Your perception is very much right! The best way is to let her shop on her own and we shop on our own. Remember that marriage joke in which a guy says that he and his wife have the best dinners – she goes on Tuesdays and he on Fridays.


Jack finishes off by saying,

" Somehow, guys don’t take so long to shop! Or rather, so long to decide what to buy! But women run from closet to closet, shop to shop before they buy. We have one bag and many clothes whereas they have many bags with a cloth piece each in one ".

Next time Jack would be wary of shopping with women again. And I, would drop the whole idea of shopping at the outset itself. Jack and Rock lived happily ever after.

How many times do you log in to check your e-mail?

So you have a PC and an internet plugged in. Most importantly when you don't have much work. What do you do? Sign out of your official e-mail account and sign in after every one hour. Do you have a limit for the number of times to sign out and in ? No.

We don't have our e-mail configured to Outlook or Inlook. Network guys say that Outlook is injecting lot of spam into the network. Yeah, WTF. So no Outlook for us. Hence we follow logging out and logging in to our company's mail id quite religiously.


Nothing more than that you do in your miserable life. And what will be the difference between the last time you logged in and now? There will be no e-mail in your Inbox.

You think why don't I get any e-mails. Later you will be forced to console yourself thinking, "Ok he doesn't get many mails either". The common point between you two chaps? Both look very busy in the office doing this activity. Not that you would get many mails when your check them at your home PC.

Once that religious activity is done diligently, the next thing is to check your Gmail, Fmail and personal mail accounts (to whatever webmails you have access). And you are not done yet. You remember suddenly that you have got multiple mail id's even though you struggle to remember the passwords.

Bug fix

If you are looking for a help on software bug fix in here, you can re-read it till you find a bug in this post. Essentially there are two types of bugs present in the system.

1. Software bug - The bug that you create yourself in your code, which you can only find it after head banging on to the monitor. This is present in the computer system. This can be eliminated by anyone who has worked extensively and the technical term given to the one who bugs, bugs out of the system is called debugger. Delete bugs and add bugs is the motto for software developers. More bugs = more money. Go figure.

2. Hardware bugs - No, not present in the ARM boards or your processors. These are present in the hardware system called your body, or to be precise - in your mind. No special mantra to fix these ones. It's all in your mind motto should solve the bug fix to an extent. This bug can lie dormant when you are asleep and things are going well but would suddenly rise like a phoenix from the Ashes, the moment things go haywire. Loss inflicted: Can range from robbing mental peace to psychiatric disorder. And a lot more which you already know and are scared to read if I write in here.

Heavy inflow of negative news like recession, job cuts, losses or dangerous thoughts about marriage, will increase the area covered by the bug in your system. So the option is to shun these news and make your mind impervious to the happenings around you. If you could do that on a regular basis, you are on course to become a Sadhu. Not that I would like you to convert to a Sadhu, wearing orange robes with long locks, but try to keep away those irritating things getting into your mind as much as possible.

"Try to stay away from being bugged by things that are not to your liking".

There is one bug in my room and one bug in my system. Either I have to fix the bug or I have to stay calm by ignoring it. For the latter type of fix, I am practicing yoga sitting cross legged, by suspending myself from the ceiling with transparent ropes. We deal in hardware bugs here. Visitors are encouraged only in the nights to catch a glimpse of the world class feat.

Perfect leap

This is the regular leap that you see in equestrian sport.


I haven't come across a perfect leap than the one seen below. The hands, the legs, the upward movement everything is picture perfect. It is more interesting because it came from a player whom I support in every tournament. Ladies and Gentlemen, here is Novak Djokovic.

After winning a point against Nikolay Davydenko in the Masters Cup at Shanghai, 2008

I still admire the photographer who captured this shot at a perfect time. Remember the guy does not stay in the air for 30 minutes to pose for the cameras. The last time I leaped something like that ? When a girl whose call I was waiting for, called me. That time I was in my shorts to get that excited.

Ento...means what oo ?

Ento was the subject line to the mail to my friend today morning. If you don't know the meaning of it, read and re-read the subject line with a for loop counter less than or equal to 'Till I Understand'. Till I Understand can be defined as a Macro which can be assigned an integer value that can be changed easily based on your retarding capability. That much is my entire C language expertise which I revealed just now to the world. No, Google search of 'Ento' is not going to help one bit.

'It is getting very difficult yaar to get up early in the morning', was once person's agony while there is in an other one, who rushes early to the office even before the morning watchman wore his duty clothes. I don't belong to either extremes. I am dot on time to the freaking office when it hardly matters.

As a news update who aspires to work for a news channel, not really, Djokovic won his first Masters Cup title, India won their second one day match against England at Indore and my maid's 10 year old son lost his game of marbles to his arch-rival.

Everyone one is getting married this Nov 22. Sounds like a good muhurtam is available that day. They probably don't realise that better muhurtams are available in the month of February. Ladies, I will tell you what to do if you don't know what muhurtam is. Gents, you can go watch that three starred gay Dostana flick.

Something more useful news to you, you are dying for? Shop a cheap Transcend 4GB pen drive at http://shop.in.com/ for Rs 487 only. I am not marketing for it. I am suggesting it coz I bought it. Delivery was very early than suggested. Product is sleek, fine and working so far. I bought it quite ages back, something like 4 days ago. Most importantly you can laugh at blokes who bought USB drives for 800 - 1000 rupees for 1 or 2 GB capacity. Now you owe me a treat? No, you don't coz I know your cheap lifestyle.

"Ento, anni telisinatte maatladestunnanu", is the tag line for any subject titled 'Ento'.

I am going from the office to have a hot piping cheap Dominoes Shellots pizza costing Rs.39 only. You have to post a comment on the quote for further clarity or visit me in person (only for ladies) for better understanding.

Thanks not giving

Because it is not Nov 27 which is the official thanks giving day in the US. Sounds like I got a bit wiser in stocks. Meaning, instead of making heavy losses I waited patiently to bail out of some trouble. It's still a loss but you will learn things with experience. How much experience is needed? I dream of becoming big one day in stocks, just to show Daddy that I made it big. Demystifying day-trading in stocks is my top priority. My gut instincts should predict something approximately close to accuracy with the assistance of global cues, that's when I think I solved the mystery. I don't have the charts to look like the ones present at financial and securities firms and hence instincts is my only tool. Hold on. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, AIG, Warner Brothers, Ram Babu productions and Good Friends movies all had charts only for display to their investors and make them a fool.


An MBA market researcher/fund manager/wealth manager/financial planning manager - to me all those designations are the same no matter what you've written as answers for those in your MBA examinations - can fall on the floor and laugh with my 'instinct' tool. So do I at your stupid ECG charts. One common thing to the bloke looking at the chart and advising his clients to buy and sell the stocks at some value and me is, we both know nobody is sure which is the right price to sell, hold or buy a particular share. Atleast I am following my gut feeling with little experience and I have a sense of satisfaction that my money is my hands rather than letting a moron who is thousand times moroner than me to play with it. This duffer will be managing hundreds of crores of rupees and will be having elite clients in his network. Ok, I agree you too are qualified MBA graduates from premiere B schools.

Again. What sort of a definition is a fund manager who manages your funds? Do you think he does it without any business motive? Why should you let someone to manage your assets where you need to disclose all your loans, properties, age, sex (that he can make out) including your grandfathers name? He would use a stupid tool to input all these data that you reveal and estimate that you need to have this many crores if you are living for this much amount of time . He would then advise you to buy a policy worth some duration which will not suffice your expenses totally but may partly fulfill your need and your wife, if incase you expire suddenly, God forbid. If you don't buy after listening to his crap for one hour, he would say, 'Sir, what is the problem. I suggested the best policy available and you yourself has given me the inputs'.

End result. A guy like me will be obliged and the one like you will not be. Yeah, I obliged. So no thanks giving to him.

Good news to you freaks after every country's economy is tumbling like nine pins. Latest to face the music is Germany. G20 summit is there for our rescue at Washington in the weekend where all the world leaders will be assembled on one stage to bail the world out of the economic crisis which has been the worst since World War -II, with universal interest cut rates and yeah, stuff like that. Once they scale the top of the summit they would then know that there is a free slope extending from the top to the interiors of the Antarctica.They can take polar bears then as advisors to their next global meet.

Layoff's

That's the news that is making rounds all over the IT sector in India. It is not as gloomy as projected to be but the news is slowly trickling as did the financial firms bankruptcy. People are keeping their ass tight and holding on to their chair at any cost even if his neighbour is asking the chair to sit on it for a minute. Insecurity about their job whether you are fresher, 2-3yrs experienced or 10-15 yrs experienced is seen. Under performers will now seriously be on the radar of service based companies especially.


I normally do not talk things so negatively, but it is time to raise the second warning signal out of five. Acquisitions in electronic product (Panasonic - Sanyo) based companies, mergers in the IT sector, GM - Ford losses in the automobile sector and then there is always the Google - Microsoft battle to go one up over the other for survival are always on the cards. Google business news is all about job cuts, mergers and quarterly reported losses. When the big dogs are fighting hard to earn their bread, imagine how many start up's and financially half supported companies would be facing the music.

As if this wasn't enough rumours in the cubicle early morning that Cadence has laid of 14 % work force globally, Satyam has given pink slips to 500 people and an other MNC has stopped hiring people and not giving offer letters to people it recruited etc. This was in addition to job cuts reported by TCS, Wipro, Satyam in the last month. The pink slip count is increasing. While the authenticity of the news can be questioned with outright defiance, this piece of news would never be open for public debate. Companies will not release this data fearing that their business will be affected.


A topic on Leo's suddenly has turned my attention and has taken me away from the monitor for a while. Now the steam that was fuming out before I was distracted, is not gushing out. This is the news from the automobile sector.

New vehicle sales have tumbled to a level that, adjusted for population growth, hasn't been this low since just after World War II, an "unsustainably weak level," says Mike DiGiovanni, GM's executive director of global market and industry analysis.

Still, this chaos has come down all of a sudden because of this worst financial crisis that you and I are being part of and seeing it with wide eyed delusion. You would only know when that affects you and that time pinching yourself twice to check if that's a dream or a reality is not going to help.


Everyone has to face the axe. Perform or perish is taken seriously than before. It can be atleast a couple of years before the world can stage a comeback after this turmoil. So for the time being, the ones who are holding to their seats, put your head and foot down and eke your livelihood with minimum fuss at your work places. Any nusiance that you create in this hour will put you in the limelight outright. I still say the situation is not as glum as I am projecting it. But the sights of panick button which were once not visible from your cubicle, is now conspicuous and may just appear it to be getting closer to you with every passing day.

Back from home

Reading few blogs will always give you the kick to post a post at inordinate times and this one such daredevil attempt. I got a delayed kick 18 hrs after reading one Indian blog at labnol.org . They are people who write good stuff there and I am astonished at the quality of few writers there. Esoteric, is what to say the least. I always aspire not reallyto be one one of those bloggers with a best blog tag on my blog and in the process bag a Booker or a Cooker for my literary work.

With winter setting in, this time really, I am feeling it as compared to my previous two posts. So I am back to home after home from home after Diwali. I went to Chilukuru. Chilukuru draws the elite disciples. That you can make out from the way people dress there. They wear costly dresses and are yet ready to do 108 circumambulations. The tradition there is, people do 11 circulations and taking the blessing of Chilukuru Balaji. Once their wish is fulfilled they are supposed to do 108 circumambulations. Quite powerful God as they say.

I also went to IMax at Prasad's and saw a 3D movie called Space Station during my visit home. If you haven't seen any 3D in your miserable life, which I know most of you haven't, then you got to see one right away, right now to get a feel of it. It's amazing. For the retarded and everyone, you got to have the 3D glasses to see the movie. Without the glasses you can still see the picture on the screen but it appears blurred. You feel like you are seeing shadowed pieces of the video on the big screen without the glasses. Now you know why it is mandatory to put on those glasses. After reading this and you still haven't made up your mind to see the next 3D movie which is going to be released, then as Harbhajan commented on Gilchirst for calling Tendulkar not a good sports person after India lose, "Your head needs to be examined".


People even before they get on with work after the vacation, will immediately think of the next possible vacation on the cards. Most of them are feeling the negative vibes for their job security after the financial melt down, which I got it confirmed with my good friend. I am also feeling it. Are you too? Then let's all get together under one rug and sleep with face covered in this chill winter. Try that after you wake up in your half sleep at 6'o clock and you would sleep beyond the permissible time eventually getting delayed to wherever you have to go and whatever you have to do.

As a last note, Barack Obama has become the first black president of USA. Martin Luther King's dream has come true but what will happen to us (the world)? Can he mitigate the credit crisis? Can he produce more jobs in America by restricting outsourcing? Can he stop the abortion rate? Is he bringing back the troops from Afghanistan and Iraq? Can he make America secured from the intruders and the jehadis? Can he revive the economy? Can he....this? Can he ....that? But one thing that is common to both of us. We both share the same birthday. That's why Cheers to him with Mandapeta Martini.

Stock timing

There are many days where you don't know when to sell and buy the correct stocks. Infact there is no one day that you can say for sure that this is the day to buy a particular stock. The lows will always be lower than you expected and the highs will be higher than expected. In addition to buying and selling strategy, you should also know when to hold a particular stock without getting scared when your stock has gone down in value, the moments after your purchase. I am barking about day-trading here. Delivery based traders can buy when the market you think is low and wake up one day to see your stock surge. This waking up can be a day, month or as is the scenario now, can take years for your dead stock to come rise from the ashes.


Today I traded HDFC stock at Rs. 1787 and bought only ten of it knowing how bad the market is. So even if the market falls, I felt the worst case scenario would be a fall of Rs. 50 so the net loss would accumulate to Rs.500 for the day, which is fine, considering the hits I had received before. That is the worst case scenario that I was expecting, so you don't expect it to happen immediately. But it happened. The moment I bought it, it came down to Rs.1760. I was waiting for it to rise to 1780 levels so I can square off with Rs 60 - 70 loss. It was traded around 1760 price for 10 minutes and has gone down to Rs. 1740 after a while. Because it exceeded my worst case scenario levels, I bought 30 more at that price, to bring down the overall price of 40 (30 + initial 10) stock to Rs. 1760. So, if the stock goes to 1780 levels I would be having a profit of 40 x 20 = Rs.800.



Now what do I see next ? The market was around -300 points deficit but this stock has plummeted to Rs. 1723, which means I am facing a loss of Rs.37 x 40 = 1480. That really rattled me. The pain, moments after you see your stock going down to unexpected levels, is excruciating. What can you do? Pray God to see the market up, atleast as close to the price that you've bought so you can escape with minimum loss. Making profit is out of the window now. I am playing for safety here.

So when the price has reached to 1740 and 1745 levels I made a quick move to sell the 40 stock that I have for the day. So a loss of 15 x 40 = Rs. 600 is what I've made and went for lunch. When I come back after lunch, I see the same stock going to Rs. 1850 and then surge rapidly by every 10 rupees to reach a high of Rs. 1922. Had I kept my stock and sold it at 1920 rate, I would have made a profit of 160 x 40 = Rs.4,800 flat. That would have half achieved my target for Diwali. As I type and see the market, the same stock has again come down to Rs. 1790. Now you see a pattern? I bought 10 stock at 1787, bought 30 more at 1745. Seen the price dropping to 1722 (day's low) - 1745(sold) - 1760(bought) - 1787 (initial level) - 1860(after lunch) - 1880 - 1890(rapid rise in seconds) - 1922(day's high) - 1790(as I blog). That is called Volatility.

"By screaming in here I thought I could get rid of the glum expression on my face when everyone is excited to go home for the break. Losing three days on a streak is one reason why I am not all that excited to go home. Ofcourse the countenance and the attitude totally changes when I reach home".

I wished I could make it big one day in stocks in the Diwali week and buy a mobile phone from the profit and proudly wave it to my Dad. It never happened. It's not going to may not happen in the future either. As I once said, stock market is for the brave. Every T,D and H knows that luck plays a huge role. But what many don't understand is the timing. The entry and exit from the market in that day with minimum fuss will decide who is the Winner and who is the Loser. Thursday today is one off day with my timing. The other days where I mess with my timing are Tuesday, Friday, Monday and Wednesday.

Feeling the cold

I am feeling the cold. Not the winter cold yet. That I can feel after Nov.15 as told by JC garu. This is the regular climate change cold that everyone experiences with the onset of winter. I felt the same in my Inter and since then every time I get cold I tell that there is a change in the weather and water. Today my handky in my faded blue jeans pocket has become as wet as a cleaning cloth drenched in a soap solution. Because of it my pant is slowly getting wet and feeling the effect of cold now. Cold here now is not the common cold caused by Rhino virus. Do not strain your tiny brain to know what you see below.


Handkerchief has been my saviour today. Otherwise I and my fellow colleague would have been swimming in my.....I leave it to you. Steve Waugh always had a red handkerchief in his pocket while going for the toss as a superstition. I always have it in my pocket to prevent others from passing my cold infection. Atleast I am not shy like you freaks to take the handky out.


People complain that I always have a running nose even when I am standing. I always wondered why. Putting my cold aside for a while, you freaks also have a running nose most of the times. Breathe this air with highly loaded dust + toxic pollutants and come to me if you haven't caught up with cold even after inhaling such air. I will be there to pass on the virus to you and you can to your friend, as an olympic torch. Ok, if you din't like the joke here you have a cold joke while I hear someone sneezing without my intervention.


I should be pretty delighted if this cold doesn't transform into flu which few of my colleagues had experienced last week. I don't take pills and run to the nearest doctor the moment I catch up something. Reason being, I have resistance in my body ranging something to measure of kilo ohms, with which I can withstand from commonly infectious viruses. I let it heal naturally. We always preferred a double barrel rheostat in our labs. I've stolen one and got it absorbed into my system as Arnold did in Terminator and hence that resistance. That trick could be done only by professionals under expert supervision and please do not try that at home.

It's a Sony

Like everyone else, even I am fascinated with Sony products. Even though the prices are on the higher side for an Indian consumer, I still think they win hands down on any product that other companies come up with. I am able to afford a few things a bit now than I was in the past and hence this - you may call it - revolution for the perfection. So in an attempt to own a few of them without going for a loan, I bought a Sony Audio system which has 5900 Watts as PMPO. If that hasn't held your heartbeat for a second, this picture shall. If it still doesn't then you got to hear it to believe it.


It's screaming from the bottom of it's lungs that the model is MHC-GZR8D. Please clean your ears so you can feel the beat of the audio. You know now that you have to click there to check the specifications. For the challenged, I don't work for Sony. Things are in sync with what I blabbered in my last post. You must have bought Bose. So freaking what? I cannot afford that much, you long nose.


Again, things are in sync for a week but not tennis. Watching Madrid Masters late night will only add to my misery of getting up late and missing the practice. Winter has set in. I never went out so early in the morning in a rickshaw even to school. I am going coz I am paying them. You go in a rickshaw in your shorts with gentle winter breeze and you will understand what I am trying to bark here. You can do nothing but sit cross legged after the experience. Fortunately I was NOT a child prodigy so I never had to attend tuitions early in the morning in my school days . Special classes and tuitions are for the retarded. I'd be lying to you if I hadn't attended coaching centres for the heck of getting through the cut-throat competition of 1 lac competitors breathing down my neck.

I said I would be writing tennis articles only when I've got work, at Sportingo, in the author description section, but you know that I blog when I don't have work also. Now that officially Winter has set in, with sunlight fading even faster than you think of your last rivalry between your friend, it's time to stay indoors and stay warm. The rest is upto your guess. Women charmers should be having their field day(s).

You feel good when you can afford somethings on our own for your own. Owning a hi-fi audio system will definitely please your senses whenever you listen to it. You can see the 'wow' effect in the eyes of the visitors who see it for the first time. Afterall, ___________. ( put the title here)

Thy name is Grudge

I've been drooling over my post on Roger Federer at Sportingo, which you can do as well by clicking here. This is an indirect way of diverting the traffic to that site which I've unable to do myself onto my blogsite. You can even drool at Minissha Lamba in the movie Kidnap, for without her, the movie would never be having those collections what soever. She has a genuine knack for acting, which I like. But with a cute face you cannot see those slutty dance moves in songs.

If something is not happening to you, doesn't mean that it should not happen to someone else too. That's called freaking grudge even though the other one hasn't harmed you in any sort. I've seen blokes who cry on someone else's prosperity when the crier infact never prospers. They have these seeds planted in them right from their schooling days, where your fellow student gets half a mark over you, and you start crying. If that was considered childish at that age, what is this crying being a professional, exhibiting these traits at this age be called as - foolish ?

You call it jealous. I call it grudge. You look as bad as this if you have it loaded in tonnes in your body.


Federer is returning to tennis and so should I get back to my practice courts, which had three days off on account of Dussera. It's been a week long break from tennis. The good thing with few days break is, either you shots would be way off the mark or you could produce some jaw-dropping shots right out of the screws. I am expecting the latter to follow tomorrow.

Apart from that, Aussies have started their tour Down - Under in Bangalore. It's no more termed a down-under coz they were successful in their earlier attempt to win a series in India. But this is a series which India is expected to win with a famed batting line up.

This month should bring in some new things to my home. I shall let you know when I get some. Remember, when I reveal something it doesn't work out ? I had this weird feeling since my bachelor days and people say I hide. I get you but you don't freaking get me. TGIF. Ok, I will tell you it's abbreviation, don't head bang on the table. Thank God It's Friday.

Bored of bored

Hence this post. For a change this is a Friday and I for once getting bored of being bored. I received bolt out of the blue decline early in the morning and that's the reason for this grumpy Friday for crying out loud. You have no freaking clue to what I am talking. An off yesterday and couple of days off in the weekend. The same pattern the next weekend. Wufff...while the world is looking for a break, me in the capital city wants to break this string of breaks coz I don't have any miserable outdoor plans like you.


Couple of stock market jolts in the beginning of this month would add insult to injury today. But I believe in well begun is half done. I've begun well this month in stocks and this air of positivity should be carried over the entire month. There was a stage when I was receiving slaps left, right and center in the last couple of months. What's panning out this month is unknown. Daddy said, don't invest today and I ventured and received the thrashing. That's is the reason why experience counts and you start listening to whatever I say now.

You've got all the comforts but you don't smile. Ok, you means me. Ok, sometimes you too. You like someone who smiles but you cannot smile yourself. In our office, it's like a fine if you smile. Shoot at sight orders aren't far away. People would be staring at you if you smile. Those who see people smile, think that they haven't got any work. They don't understand the simple fact that smile was extinct ages ago in their lives.

Morning my tennis is becoming the same story as your smile story. Sometimes there can be an incorrect analogy. Not fair to comment on my practice partner here, but that's how I get rid of the steam. He doesn't turn up regularly everyday. My coach - where there is none - asks me to buy a new pair of shoes. I told him I don't want to play as a professional and I definitely don't want to play Roger. He is not in a good form this year and you know my mentality. I always take down the best. I was born with this killer instinct ever since I was a child. I always dream big. I want to play Rafa but it's only now he has achieved the No.1 rank after being number 2 for more than three years. So let him enjoy the limelight before I take the centre stage and grab a Goldenslam. My coach - he thinks so - can't play a proper forehand. He stretches, practices for couple of minutes and complains he has a knee injury, so he is unable to play well. He looks like Lalu Prasad Yadav when he puts an excuse. I don't make excuses I think but I definitely don't like them.


Not right for me to comment on him too. You never do right things if you think what you are doing is wrong. Sometimes two wrongs can make a right. Mark my words, one right thing need not always necessary be right. What you guessed over my state of mind on this freaking Friday is absolutely right. Further, I hereby declare that the hints and information that I've provided is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

September digest

The onward train ticket that I've booked for Diwali is still on waiting list. October 28th is Diwali and I booked my ticket on Sep 13th. It was waiting list 21 then. I check everyday and the status remains unchanged for the 3rd Ac berth. With utmost difficulty it changed to WL 20. So you get a sense of what Diwali rush would be like at the railway stations this year. Any number of additional trains and bogies will be unsufficient to fulfill the need for a comfortable travel for this never ending crowd flocking and littering the station. It doesn't get any easier in the future. We are like this only. Time to look for tatkal reservation early in the morning five days before departure. Hopefully there won't be any explosions in the festive season. Fingers crossed, twisted and paralysed.


Identify the station below and get freaking nostalgic if you get the answer.


Yet an other blast rocked Delhi last Saturday. Now people slowly are getting used to it and are paying little lesser attention to what they might have paid couple of years back. Police are doing their job and so are terrorists and anti-social activists. This seconds my arguments and fears which were posted last year. A sense of helplessness is crept into the minds of the people. They are willing to accept that a loss of life in explosion and accident can be as normal as a death occurred due to longterm illness like cancer, heart attack or a kidney problem. The only difference is you can miss your missed ones in a flash without a warning in the former case, which might take days, years or ages to digest.

Work wise I never have spoken much about it here and I don't have any plans to entertain those thoughts in the future. If it really is an ass-kicking one, then I should do justice to what I've been doing, by posting it in here so you freaks can get jealous over it. Jealousy is one of those seven? ten?, some number of sins that can lead to your own downfall. A prime example of that abstract quality is your stock market. Ego is the next one. A prime example for that is everyone, yes, including your dad- mom, sister and brother. Even your angel girl friend and the best bloke on earth, boy friend. You don't know it because they don't show it in front of you.

September has come to an end finally. Never has been the boring month of the year been so active in a calendar year all over the globe. Stock market crashes, financial firms in Us tumbling like nine pins, explosions rocking India, crude oil hitting an all time low, and dollar peaking up the highest since two years, End of the world fears and me getting an official warning at my tennis practice for wearing a torn Nike shoe - it's all happening. I said it was all happening once and nothing happened. So this time I used Bill Lawry's phrase after everything happened.

I am doing my best to keep the post count to three a month. And in the process I did not even realise that my blog is more than an year's old and the writer hasn't written a customary 'One year anniversary' editorial 'lol' post. Conclusion: The interest to sustain is still hanging there.

One of my forth coming posts should probably be on Roger 'The Majestic' Federer. May be you don't want to miss it. You can get your pop corn and coke to grab the best possible seat in the house. I don't entertain cash. I only accept donations via Paypal or wired transfer into my bank account.

Through the 9th month

You freaks for one second cannot think normally? The title said, because this is September and the author was posting it in the 9th month, hence I am titled that way. You are very bad in deciphering the basic needs which means you are a very good resource to any organization to occupy the top ladder, specially tailor made for IT firms. We are still going through the hangover of End of the World theories and my post which I personally felt, was good, instigated couple of my good friends to post a comment, which means the post is worth a read.

Sometimes I try to entertain you and I sometimes I deliberately try to suck the wind out of you with my posts. Either way I am trying to do something which you are not doing. So you get the point. Change starts from there itself. Doing something which others have been thinking for an eternity to do and you putting that one step forward than the herd to show them the difference of what that one step could make, is the inspiration that the author wishes it's readers to take from this brainless blog. In Olympics, it would be a gold medal for your country. In real life, it gives you a chance to explore the myriad of things that you are capable of doing which you initially felt were incapable of attempting. Difference? That one step forward than the regular herd. Read the static quote that has been kept at the top of the page ever since this piece of writing came into existence, if you are still in daze. You get a picture of what I am trying to bark here. Don't step aside but step forward. That's my quote of the day.


Return of one colleague after an onsite visit from the head office has lightened up the miserable lives of few people here. When someone asks me how are things with you, I give the default response, "Yeah, things are good, fine. No complaints". That's how things are during this 9th month. May be I don't want to think too much about the future. You too don't because it is uncertain. There are times when you can find two or more terrific quotes in one post which means, the creative juices are really flowing in my metalhead.

Everyone has their dreams, wishes and dishes. But not everyone is going to fulfill them. They don't lack the desire to fulfill them. Few pathetic freaks give up even before attempting them saying, You should also have luck to fulfill it. I am one of them. But the band of boys in Rock On movie, din't give up even though they left their music 10 years back. One final gathering, one final performance, one splendid climax song to wrap up the two and half hour show lets the audience to deliver their final verdict, which is - Rock on rocks.


End of the world, the series of gory Delhi blasts, financial firms like Lehmann Brothers and Merill Lynch going bankrupt, US economy slowdown and it's after effects on the rest of the world, Stock market crashes and the nineth month haven't just ended yet. This is just the beginning of the end. But there is a Lord and do you know that he is still your friend ?

End of the world.

Woo-hoo. Yes, that's the news that has been trickling in since yesterday night. I thought I was the only one aware of it and I came to office opening the topic, did you know that world is going to end today? One replied yes, but I don't believe in it. And now in the lunch couple of people were aware of it as well. And for those freaks who haven't heard of it yet and lucky to survive to read this blog, these are the two reasons which I've known till now.


Reason 1: Around 10,000 Scientists are conducting some experiment in Geneva. Of those, 30 are Indians it seems. They are conducting a neutron - proton sort of experiment in a reactor failing which, will trigger a collision similar to the Big Bang theory that you've studied in your school days. Threat: Anything can happen in 3- 4 weeks. Reasoning: Acceptable.


Reason 2: Scientists were conducting an experiment to judge the age of the earth. Experiment is being conducted inside the earth with a nuclear bomb planted somewhere in the middle of the earth (May be under your building from where you are reading this post) failing which, the bomb would explode and hence a nuclear reaction triggering a massive scale devastation in the world. Fortunately there are no Indian scientists here. Time for cinema actor Balakrishna to step in and rescue the world. Threat: Only today. Reasoning: Rumour with a humour.


I got a call from yesterday night from a trusted source saying that tomorrow will be the last day. So I'm calling my near and dear ones and you too should call. That trusted source is on project Rover, which is on a mission to Mars and from there I received a text message. You are called mentally challenged freaks because you believe in everything I speak here.

My last wish would be to finish my SRS document for the current project and wait in anticipation that my next appraisal would be better than this year's result. Even if I am the last one surviving on this planet, I would like to send an e-mail with this document as an attachment to my superior. I do not mind if it's only my right hand that is remaining after every body part becoming dysfunctional after the nuclear attack. All I need is a PC with an internet connection at broadband speed. Now you understand my work dedication and commitment to the people with whom I am associated with.


You can start fulfilling your unfulfilled wishes starting from today till 2019. Now here is a valid reason that will make you think twice about, What if the world suddenly comes to an end ? Check the link here if you still don't believe me. Stop pissing in your pants and live life to the fullest. That thing twice a day and load of chocolates regularly should keep you happy, as told by one famous Hollywood actress.

For the interested, here are the official links about the project (Large Hardon Collider) and the myths associated with it. About the project. The Big picture. Project homepage. Best and worst case scenarios. Myths and news.

Think of it. What would you want to do if you know that, today is going to be your last day. Call everyone? Cry loudly? Pray God? Withdraw all your money from all the stupid accounts and enjoy till the last penny? Visit Babydolls for one last time? Meditation won't be so bad to test you concentration at this hour. Take revenge on your foe? Do social service till you are alive ? Compile the stupid code? Crash your monitor really for once without thinking twice to vent your frustration on your inability to code? Engage in a no-holds barred laugher at your dumb Manager right in front of him? Kiss your loved ones for one last time? Take blessings from your parents? Or like me, finish off the pending work and send one last e-mail to your boss with your trademark e-mail sign off signature?

My unshaven beard for 10 days has already started itching. This probably is the first sign for the dooms day. You must have already heard my famous quote which fits the bill to the tee in any context for any situation. If you haven't here it is again for you to note it down in bold in your bird brain. You can only run, but you cannot escape.

August digest

That's the way it is. US open started and I am also getting started tomorrow. Not to Arthur Ashe stadium but to my home for a week's break for Ganesh Chaturthi. We are not having an off here for the festival, I wonder why? It's one of those few festivals which should be celebrated in all parts of India. Rather than keeping up the three posts per month count, I don't have much to post here coz nothing exciting is kicking in my life. Not in your life either.

People are thinking twice to shift their companies considering the slowdown in the US market. That's been always the case. If someone in US is affected with cold, we will be taking the medicine praying for a speedy recovery for that bloke. Don't dig your bird brain so deep if you do not understand my terrific, soon to be recognized by Oxford Dictionary- simile. This year everyone is happy with whatever peanuts they have. For a change, that's good to see people contented with their things rather than having a wild goose chase after everything. Job seekers - my whole hearted good luck fellas.

I got affected with cold and it's been a week I guess. For the past three days I was feeling better though it's only one - one half of my nostrils which are under function than the normal two. Traces of fever came and I think they are gone, though with some travelling to do in the weekend, anything is possible. That's an attempt to draw some sympathy from you unsympathetic - pathetic freaks for crying out loud.


I can understand you almost feel the same to what you've read in the pic. If you don't feel that way, I would feel that way when I hear your story. Not always I blabber whatever here should be written in red and painted in blue, coz you never have a semblance of clue. Before my kicks are any due, it's better if I say I shall see you.

Megastar Chiranjeevi is entering into politics

Normally I am not film crazy freak but yesterday was one incident when I felt relieved to see someone trying to bring a change in the politics and none other Megastar is suited for the job. Hence this post. Default liner that can be written in red : Every telugu person has to like Chiranjeevi for what he has shown and how he has entertained us on the silver screen at some stage in his life. If he doesn't, then that person has a serious defect in his cranium that has to be rectified.

The news is finally out of the bag and Megastar Chiranjeevi is entering into politics. Yesterday there was a press meet in his party office and it kicked off with a bang. The entire state was glued to the Tv sets by 3 p.m to see the meet. Only TV crew and reporters were allowed for the meet and the hall was packed to the maximum.

Chiranjeevi started off the speech by confirming that he is entering into politics and cited couple of reasons for his entry. Cameras started flashing and a little turn of his head resulted in atleast 20 flashes. He stated that he went on to meet Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam few times and during one meet, the man Chiru respects the most, went on to say that " You should enter politics. I am not saying this because you are a movie star but as a person I know you are good at heart". That's one incident which cleared the suspicion that he had over politics.



Another incident that moved Chiru quite deeply was when an IT professional wrote in his letter moments before his death that, he could not vote for Chiranjeevi and he could not see Chiranjeevi as a politician. This is one incident that made Chiru determined to enter into politics.

After that Chiru was telling how the four people who were there as a background poster on the podium on which Megastar was standing, have influenced him. They were Dr. Ambedkar, Bapu ji, Mother Teresa and an other eminent personality. Chiru is particularly an ardent follower of Mother Teresa's principles. After finishing his uninterrupted speech for about 15 minutes, he let the press to fire their questions.

Chiru answered every question patiently and courteously giving a chance to most of the reporters. He did not try to avoid any question. Questions regarding the party flag, it's name and it's ideologies will be revealed in the Mega meet that will be held at Tirupati on August 26, which also is the birthday of Mother Teresa.

Chiranjeevi answered almost all the questions with ease. He was very comfortable and confident while tackling the media. He was little formal in answering them. Had he shown his tinge of comedy, the crowd would have been spellbound. Below are few questions from the plethora questions that were targeted at him.

Reporter: Do you support leftism or rightism?
Chiru :I support humanism.

Reporter: What do you do when you come to politics? How are you going to do any better than others?
Chiru : I may not do different things to what others are currently doing but I will definitely do things in a different way where the result of which should be felt down to the poor.

Reporter: Do you stop acting in movies?
Chiru : It's very heartbreaking to say that I want to stop acting in movies. If there is any awareness type of movie and would be useful to the society, I would definitely do it.

Reporter: From where would you like to contest in the elections?
Chiru : I am free to contest from any place in the state. People wanted to me to join politics and I am here because of them. I do not have any problem contesting from any place.

The last question he finished off on a high note.

Reporter: What do you know about politics so that you have a right to enter into it?
Chiru : I don't know about politics. But I can understand the pain of the poor. When I established blood bank I don't even know how many blood groups are there. But when a person whose relative was survived with the timely supply of blood, that gave me immense satisfaction which neither of my movies could give when they went to become all time hits. I will try to make sure that the poor are really looked after.

To sum it up, he said in one of the lines, till now I've acted in various roles. I've received your appreciation, I've got money, I've got name. I am NOT entering into politics for name, fame and wealth. I've all of them in some quantity. I could act in movies but in politics, I don't have a chance to act. I have to live in it. From now on, my life will be dedicated to the welfare of the poor and the well being of the society. Jai hind !



Chiru posed in front of the four people as the background and stretched his hands wide smiling. He showed thumbs up and that should convey the message to every freaking politician on the circuit.

Birthday babble

Though a bit late, still its worth to describe by latest birthday. If you freaks don't know, which I know you don't know, it was on August the fantastic fourth. I don't remember when I cut a cake the last time. Probably it could be in my previous birth or may be when I was unable to talk kid. So I cut a cake in my room and a surprise cake in my office as well, which was organised by my room mate who also works with me. It's a good feeling especially who experienced the draught of cake cutting in his miserable life time. A better birthday's to remember than the previous one, sure no ?

A stage was reached in my life where I felt.....

But when I eventually did the honors, I expected people to feast on the delicious chocolate cake in the office, just like this.



But they controlled their taste buds. For freaking what?

Infact birthday's never been special or if it were, I don't know if they were. This is a part of my ongoing series of psychobabbles which you would be hearing. May be I don't want to kill you by describing what I've done from the moment I got up. Sounds awfully weird. So I kept the description short, that is, if you felt that way.

One more project is down the drain and it's incessant rain in the morning, which is making me think twice whether to attend the tennis practice or not. That Sportingo thing that I've blabbered in my previous post was like a shock like spike in the arm that made me register and post couple of articles on tennis. Infact, there was a free bag on offer for those who contribute in the month of July. I'd be lying if I posted there without any malicious intentions.

From the beginning of August it has been a repeated dosage of slaps on the back of my head, just above the neck and below the convex bulge, from stocks. Daddy says, law of averages is taking it's effect. You can make losses or you can recover from your losses till you stay on level ground. But it's definitely not easy to make profits so huge that you can afford a space trip for few hours.

August 15th is coming up next week and everyone is planning for a long weekend. I am also planning - to stay home. Because I am not going out, I am scaring the heck out of my friends who reveal that they are going out for vacation, by saying, you have to face the brunt of traffic jams and frisking by Police if you are travelling by road into Delhi. If you cannot do it, scare others the heck out of it. In that way you attain some consolation by seeing the fear in the person's face which would satisfy your undiminishable tonnes of ego.

After one year of constant fighting to stop the clock from ticking, I've recently become one year younger and there is a little portion in me, which pops out inopportunely and says uninhibitedly, "I'm 18 till I die".

July wrap up

It's been sometime since I posted my last post. Reason is: secret. Okay, there is no secret. I don't know why people get excited and frustrated at the same time when some doesn't reveal a secret. Do you always reveal your secrets? If you do, then it's no more a secret. What am I upto ?

That's the effect of not posting for weeks. I started playing tennis with an uncle ( read grandfather or senior citizen ). July has been bad with my tennis. It was raining only in between 6 - 8 am which was not allowing me to the stadium. How can we play when the courts are wet? I have to explain freaking everything to you.

And boy about the Uncle, with due respect, he movies incredibly well on the court and he looks beyond 63 to start with his age. He might have played the game before but at this age moving as good as a youngster or even better, with good anticipation and no glasses, hats off to him and his fitness. Everyone who saw him play were surprised at his movement and the flawless game. I had the privilege to play with him for 3 days continuously and I lost all the 5 sets that I played with him with the same score. 6 - 0 into 5. I have a niggle in my arm and my shoulder after 15 minutes of play. He said I should work on my serve because the point begins with a correct serve. My serve hardly crosses the net and if it crosses it lands miles away from the deuce court. So he is patient and is trying to improve my game. Perhaps time to raise my concentration level to its best and work on my game before he loses his cool. If I do not improve, I might lose the privilege. I still was puzzled and excited to play with him the first time. During one of the conversations, he said, he worked in the army. That should make me listen to whatever he says on the court or else I should be ready to face the brunt of a rusted double barrel gun.

Apart from this, I started writing tennis articles in a website called, Sportingo. I do not know how long my intensity to post my articles there would continue, but it's a fan based website for any sport, where your postings will be edited by professional editors before it gets published on the main page. My intensity would last till I get a job as a freelance writer for tennis columns for any online paper. There is nothing wrong in wishing things. If they fall fine, if they don't fall don't expect a windfall any soon. Below is a picture of your corroded damaged metal skull. I am showing yours to you. Just like that.



Are you afraid or what? Not always I should be sweet. I think I am slowly learning the tricks of trade in stocks after three months of pocket burning and brain damaging. Daddy says, making profits is not tough, but making losses is easy. So if you can minimise the loss on a daily basis, that itself will increase your profit margin. Of course, to see results one needs to be consistent and it has to observed over a period of time. It's only in July where I can put my metal head high and walk in stocks. And that's just one month.

Spanish bull tames the Swiss cow

That was the Wimbledon 2008 final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. People already started calling the fight as Rafa vs Roger instead of saying it the other way round. The reason being, Rafa's meteoric rise on the green turf. He won the customary Stella Artois championship in tune up to Wimbledon and he lived up to his expectations by knocking out Roger in a fiercely fought 5 setter, with the Spaniard prevailing 6-4,6-4,6-7,6-7,9-7 in the longest final ever played on the Wimbledon lawns.



When Rafa won the first two sets by breaking Roger in each of the sets, few were dismayed and many expected that it would be straight set win for Rafa. It could have well been that had it not been for a late order resurgence from Roger. Many anticipated that it would be a close match but the newspapers would have said, "Rafa stunned Roger at Wimbledon", had he won the last year final. It's no more a surprise victory for Rafa. It is much awaited and much needed shift that is needed at the top to keep the game interesting. It was not Roger who choked this time, it's Rafa who held his nerve all through the match despite the momentum shift to Roger in the fifth set.


Roger was expecting Rafa to falter in the last set, which happened many a time against other players. With the French Open thrashing that Rafa delivered to Roger, under his belt, he left his mind unperturbed leaving the daemons to sit pretty in Roger's head as the match wore on. Rafa was ready to play even for an hour on the same day or ready for an other 5 setter the next day. It was Roger who was getting tired and was praying for some fortune. But the man from Mallorca kept his nerves under wraps and allowed the Swiss master to crumble under pressure. If at any point of time that you felt that Roger was not upto the mark, then you should be digging a hole right where you are sitting. No doubt he made uncharacteristic unforced errors, but the resilience he had shown to come back from two sets to love down and take the final set all the way to the brink, shows why he is such a complete player with an ability to pull a shot that was never seen. When was the last time you've seen Roger two sets to love down and playing a tie break in the third to stay in the match? Roger was a tad slower than his 2007 performance but that hardly mattered. It was Rafa who has grown leaps and bounds as compared to his last year's performance that sealed the deal.



It's not the end of the road for Roger, by any means. His game is still good enough to beat top ten players on the circuit. Upcoming season is the hard court one which is to Roger's liking. Djokovic, Tsonga, Murray are other players to watch for. Many are writing Rafa off on the hard court season atleast this year but I am not. He just has shown everyone that he can not only be a clay court specialist but also a good grass court player. He is the second best grass court player to start things with. Roger's ranking will depend on how deep Rafa can extend his hard court season this year. Should Rafa's knees hold up, it won't be a surprise if these two R's meet in the finals at Flushing Meadows.



Nevertheless, July 6th was a day that I had been waiting for two years and finally the warrior has come in the form of Rafael Nadal. It's a welcome sight for many to see the tables shift at the top of men's tennis world. Game is getting stale and becoming one-dimensional with Roger's artistic play and 4 years of absolute dominance is a little too long for anyone's comfort. Roger Federer has finally shown that he too is mortal. Rafa has shown that he is absolutely brutal. Atleast the tennis will now be played on earth to give other players a sniff of Grandslam victory rather than being played on totally different planet where the Swiss cow and the Spanish bull have owned and grazed on it for quite a while.