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.