Kachra at his best

Simple things in life

2011-06-12T08:42:00.000-07:00

(menu card)

Every one has their own perspective .. right from a 3 year old to a 100 year old person ... just that the logic and the reasoning is tampered as the age grows ... ppl love the way a 3 year old thinks and still call it immature because a 3 yr old talks facts (something that is never accepted in real world)

well this blog aint about those facts .. but some random clicks from the prespective / position I was standing or sitting .. :)

What you see below in order are :
Chineese Resturant Bar
Like the pattern on the resturant wall
South Point theater lobby
Silver ware
click and drive :D
reflection @ starbucks
Bottles
The Wheel
Waterfront Mall

Kachra's Golf Concepts :D

2011-04-27T07:50:00.000-07:00

Golf had been a fun so far, except to start with I had to be pushed a lot (Lazy ass!!) to get interest into it. Nothing in life has come out of the box for me (well one hell of a configuration I am ... have to set up everything into myself :( ), Golf was difficult to get too.

What I understood about the gaming culture, In every ball game .. well I mean every game where ball's are involved .. ok! ok! strike those statement's out, "one has to have eye's on the ball always" ...

(mmm .. ouch!! .. damm these ball's everything always can be interpreted in wrong way ... ) well at least last one is better ... or rather say ... concentrate on what you are going to hit else you are going to miss it (ah! better) ... smaller the ball .... harder one needs to concentrate ... I am sure most of you have seen "Forest Gump" the basic rule Tom hank's is taught never take your eye out of the ball. Same holds good for Golf. If u are not looking at the round thing ... u are bound to do an empty swing.

Now Swinging not a big deal until your concepts are clear ... remember Einstein's theory of relativity ... "You move the scale then everything has changed including the length of the scale so what ever you measure is relative to the scale and the position the scale is in." well now that I gave u some gyan ... forget all what I said ... what I am trying to say is something similar .. move your hands and your body should move along ... most important thing one should remember swinging the club's / wood's / drivers ... is move your body along with your hand's ..... it should be your torso and shoulders only .. leg's should be still ... and so is the head ....

I am still learning the game I shd not be making fun of others .. but then there was this Irani guy in training along with me he was literally dancing and trying to hit the ball .. he did manage to hit the ball .. but then never knew how he connected ....... I felt he was doing more of salsa .. than golf .. :D ... probably he took a salsa training before he joined into golf ... there is actually a Salsa training center ... on the way to Golf Range ... Guess I shd go there next .. hope ... by then I stop concentraging on round things and work on moving my limbs :D

Coming bacl to Golf - One shd bend over the ball .. well dun fall on it .. just bend a lil ... which means your forehead should be in line with your hand's ... bend your leg's so much that you are comfortable reaching the ball with ur club ..

How far do you stand from the ball? ... there are lot of theoretical distances .. but primarily what I have felt is one should be @ a comfortable distance ... not too far .. not too near ... one wud learn it slowly ...

There is a way to grip the club too ... I mean its the most important thing to learn ... but then probably already I made good deal of mess with ball's ... not sure how I can explain the grip on the club's so will look up of someone already had documented this ... :D

I have seen ppl calling club's with various names ... I use to call them rod's .... some still call them bat's ... some call them stick's (now you know why I did not talk about the grip ... dun want you guys to get weird idea's ).... so first thing one needs to know is to what we call them ...

Club's range from 3 iron to 9 iron and have a pitch wedge and sand wedge

Wood's 7 to 10

Driver's are i guess 1 and then some alpha numeric values ..

(dun Quote me on number range for these .. this is what I know too .. may be some one can help me out on listing these ..)

Round white things are called ball's ...

Now that I have done enough of kachra of the game ... while playing I let God deal with it ... :D

Dun forget, keep looking @ the ball ... and dun get into trouble like me. I was practicing to concentrate on everything thatz round :D almost got slaped :P ...

Movies and long weekend

2011-04-24T17:08:00.000-07:00

Well watched ton's of movies over the weekend .. some that caught my attention were

"No One killd Jessica" Pretty decent one on a true life story ... what Bollywood messes up is adding a lil sex to the movie .. but guess a bold try ... and all those filithy words used were mostly out of context ... but guess they are following in foot steps of Holy-wood ..

Coming to the context of the story ... I guess one can add to list of such revolts on High court decission on all the rape cases that are being handled .. I see that initially they make it to the media headlines on day one and then its lost .. only after 5-10 yrs such things come back to notice ... and most of the cases verdict is worng or even if it right .. does not make much sense as the person would have grown old and come out quickly ...

Second one is Shrek 2 ... well Shrek is more related to me and my life / personality ... guess the happily ever after is too far for me ... guess far far away ... hoping to get a potion to change life magically ... :P

Miracle ... never knew Chak de was copy of English movie .... guess its a perfect copy of this movie ...

You've got a mail ... welll this is something that makes me feel ... wish I had such strong words in morning to say .... "You've got mail" :D ....

well movies and life are two different things but at times they too are same things ... which every suits you :)

Living along ... Kachra :D

King's Life

2011-03-30T23:48:00.001-07:00

The more we wonder and get entertained looking at king's life ... one certainly feel's its amazing and wants to certainly lead life of the King ... well what I have learnt over a period of time there is more pain thatz never shown or even visible to outside world ...

What happens after wars leaves kings more wounded internally than what folks can notice on the physical side of it ... but what one never understands is the will power of the king to rebuild the entire kingdom .. what is seen by external world is more about stubbornness of rebuilding the kingdom ...

But what I felt is life starts were people have actually given it up ... and thatz where success starts from ...

I see that King is heading for yet another painful war ... and this time the pain is more acute and has started even before the war has begun ... Hope the Stubbornness stays and King rebuilds faster and stronger soon ...

ain't life amazing ... so lets see whatz given up and what starts at the point where everyone give's up :) ...

To life folks

Cheers ....

Supidest Shaayari

2011-02-19T16:51:00.000-08:00

1. yuh khamosh rehkar tadpogi kabtak....
yuh khamosh rehkar tadpogi kabtak....

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Cameraman praful ke saath deepak chaurasia AAJ TAK..

2. woh mujhe chod ke chali gayi usse pana mein chahun....
woh mujhe chod ke chali gayi usse pana mein chahun....
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ahun ahun ahun
ahun ahun ahun

3.mehgai ki iss daur mein karna padta hai apne kharche par kabooo..
mehgai ki iss daur mein karna padta hai apne kharche par kabooo..
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ek chutki sindoor ki kimat tum kya jano Ramesh babu...

4. Akbar ne kharide 3-3 ghode..
Akbar ne kharide 3-3 ghode..
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aja aja dil nichode ....
raat ki matki phode...

5.mein hoon yahan tu hai wahan...
mein hoon yahan tu hai wahan..
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LIFEBUOY hai jahan tandurusti hai wahan...

6. Blood donate karne se pehle hamesha uska group janchna...
Blood donate karne se pehle hamesha uska group janchna...
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"BASANTI in kuton ke samne mat nachna...."

7 . Ratan tata ne establish kiya TATA..
Ratan tata ne establish kiya TATA..
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"Aur is baar Rakhi ne Mika to maara ek chaaata "

Emotional Shayari

( 1)Arz kiya hai
Ab toh Zindagi ka maksad hai tujhe apnana
Ab toh Zindagi ka maksad hai tujhe apnana
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A for Apple B for Banana
WAH WAH!!

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(2)Arz kiya hai
Kal tak thee jo meri present
Aaj ho gayee hai past
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Kal tak thee jo meri present
Aaj ho gayee hai past
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Offer valid till stocks last.. :-P

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(3)Arz kiya hai
Baith kar girlfriend ki Zulfon ke saaye mai aisa josh aaya
Wah-Wah, Wah-Wah
Baith kar girlfriend ki Zulfon ke saaye mai aisa josh aaya
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Ki Uske papa ne dekh liya aur ICU mai hosh aaya

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(4) Romio ne juliet se kaha ek sach
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Romio ne juliet se kaha ek sach
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.Asali masale sach sach
MDH.....MDH ...!

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(5)Salma ke pyaar me doob gaya Peter

Gaur farmaiye

Salma ke pyaar me doob gaya Peter
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Ab hero Honda splendor 80 kilometer prati leter

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(6)1 ladki ne kiya ladke ko gaal pe kiss
1 ladki ne kiya ladke ko gaal pe kiss

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Mutual funds are subjected to market risks!!!!
Wah wah wah

Namesake - Name's sake

2011-02-01T08:44:00.003-08:00

Well .. this ain't about the novel or the movie ... I am talking about

Word Origin & History

namesake

1646, "person named for the sake of someone" is probably originally(for the) name's sake.

How does one feel ... to live with a name / relation / position tagged ... and you do something else .. doing ad hoc work as a manager when you are not makes sense ... u feel promoted ... but doing ad hoc work as an engineer while you are a manager ... for sometime is fine ... but for longer time makes you feel demoted ..

Living life of some one that you are not ... does make you feel demoted .. I would say in this case there is nothing like feeling appraised or promoted even if you are called Ratan Tata .. for the name's sake .. you might take it easily for now .. but at some point of time you become a laughing stock ..

In case with relation ... I guess the less i speak on this the better ....

but any further thoughts / corrections to my understanding ... are welcome .. I certainly would love to define this term better in life ...

Namesake - Name's sake

2011-02-01T08:44:00.002-08:00

Well .. this ain't about the novel or the movie ... I am talking about

Word Origin & History

namesake

1646, "person named for the sake of someone" is probably originally(for the) name's sake.

In case with relation ... I guess the less i speak on this the better ....

but any further thoughts / corrections to my understanding ... are welcome .. I certainly would love to define this term better in life ...

Namesake - Name's sake

2011-02-01T08:44:00.001-08:00

Well .. this ain't about the novel or the movie ... I am talking about

Word Origin & History

namesake

1646, "person named for the sake of someone" is probably originally(for the) name's sake.

so is living life of some one that you are not ... does make you feel demoted .. I would say in this case there is nothing like feeling appraised or promoted even if you are called Ratan Tata .. for the name's sake .. you might take it easily for now .. but at some point of time you become a laughing stock ..

So is the case with relation ... I guess the less i speak on this the better ....

but any further thoughts / corrections to my understanding ... are welcome .. I certainly would love to define this term better in life ...

Namesake - Name's sake

2011-02-01T08:44:00.000-08:00

Well .. this ain't about the novel or the movie ... I am talking about

Word Origin & History

namesake

1646, "person named for the sake of someone" is probably originally(for the) name's sake.

So is the case with relation ... I guess the less i speak on this the better ....

but any further thoughts / corrections to my understanding ... are welcome .. I certainly would love to define this term better in life ...

Kachara's Bucket List

2011-01-30T23:07:00.000-08:00

Well firstly let me answer some stupid questions why only 8 on the list and not 10 ... well if cud have been 9 or 7 ... so no argument .. may be because 8 is the last ball you pot on the pool table to win ... so number could be any ... just wanted to cut it off somewhere ...

Some of these are carry forward from my last bucket list which had trip to Niagara ... travel in a stretch limo ... Spend romantic nights on white sand beach ... travel to Bahamas etc .. which have been done and knocked off the list ... But what got carry forward was Giza, Gr8 wall of China, Paris and Masaimara ... rest have been new inclusions on the To Do list ...

This was on top of my mind for long time but had been re-visiting my list since last birthday ...

Fly in a Hot air baloon @ Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta hope fully 2011
Visit Pyramids of Giza
Visit Great wall of China
Have a romantic trip to Paris
Show my Mom & Dad Niagara Falls
Be @ Masaimara during migration season
Spend a romatic night in Desert preferably Jaisalmer
Go on an Alaska cruise

Well how many of these can be achieved ... and cannot be .. depends on the rate @ which my work come in and out and how I grow ... despite of lot of personal and official hiccups ... I did stick to most part of my earlier list .. hence I believe I can stick to this one too ....

Passion drive my life folks ... and the day that is dead .. so am I :D ... hence bless me I can achieve at least 60% of this list .. and with good support and people around I might reach to 80-90% of this :D ....

keeping fingers crossed ... hope fully I start from Albuquerque this year .. :) hence it tops my list :)

Your Kachara

@ Jodhpur Fort

2011-01-28T04:12:00.000-08:00

This is @ Mehranghar fort in Jodhpur ... The fort is still under control of King Umer Singh ... or who ever decedent is .. they have maintained the fort well and singer and actors like these do give us some glimpse of how the life was way back .... ain't that a nice job .. sit and puff hukka entire day :D ...

The entire fort has awesome hand work done .. most of the fort area's are well carved.

Travel to Jodhpur from Jaipur was pretty ok ... there are State Govt. Volvo bus that take you in about 6-7 hours ... we landed late in night ... hit the sack at one of the decent hotels ... we hired a cab to take us around ... though spent more than expected as we added sand dunes later once we started out tour ... our first visit was to Umaid Palace ... quite boring place as there was only one wing that we could visit which was mostly a museum ... I felt the king did not have much to brag about unlike in Jaipur .... it was Jodha who created history and added more value to the place ...

Below you can see the actual fort as it appears from the entrance

Morning Coffee :)

2011-01-28T03:33:00.000-08:00

Early morning coffee ... :) ...

Usually I sit on the utility balcony near the washing area ... with my coffee ... today morning found these two lil birdies

for some reason I could relate to what is going on with my life:) .

One More for the Independence Day !

2010-08-26T03:28:00.000-07:00

Even after 63 years of Independence, India still holds a certain sense of mystery for the world outside its borders... read on to find how curious foreigners are about India and its ways... or rather read on to find out how dumb and ignorant they are about our beautiful country .This was taken from a Indian tourism blog where people could post queries if they were planning on making a trip to India.

The answers are the actual responses by the website officials, who really have an excellent sense of humor.
Happy Independence Day & be a responsible citizen ! Jai Hind

Question: Does it ever get windy in India ? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? ( from UK ).
Answer : We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.

Q: Will I be able to see elephants in the street? ( USA )
A: Depends how much you've been drinking.

Q: I want to walk from Delhi to Goa - can I follow the railroad tracks? ( Sweden )
A: Sure, it's only three thousand kms, take lots of water.

Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in India ? ( USA )
A: A-fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe. In-di-a is that big triangle in the middle of the Pacific & Indian Ocean which does not..
Oh forget it. ...... Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Goa . Come naked.

Q: Can you send me the Indiana Pacers matches schedule? ( France )
A: Indiana is a state in the Unites States of...oh forget it. Sure, the Indiana Pacers matches are played every Tuesday night in Goa , straight after the hippo races. Come naked.

Q: Which direction is North in India ? ( USA )
A: Face south and then turn 180 degrees. Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions.

Q: Are there supermarkets in Bangalore , and is milk available all year round? ( Germany )
A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of vegan hunter/gatherers. Milk is illegal.

Q: I have developed a new product that is the fountain of youth. Can you tell me where I can sell it in India ? ( USA )
A: Anywhere significant numbers of Americans gather.

Q: Do you celebrate Christmas in India ? ( France )
A: Only at Christmas.

Q: Will I be able to speak English most places I go? ( USA )
A: Yes, but you'll have to learn it first

Q: Can I see Taj Mahal anytime? ( Italy )
A: As long as you are not blind, you can see it anytime.

Q: Do you have Toilet paper? ( USA )
A: No, we use sand paper (we have different grades in it).

Frequency Missmatch

2010-08-18T08:05:00.001-07:00

One night Harry and wife were sitting in the living room, talking about life. In-between, they talked about the idea of living or dying.

He said to her: Darling never let me live in a vegetative state, totally dependent on machines and liquids from a bottle. If you see me in that state I want you to disconnect all the contraptions that are keeping me alive,I'd much rather die'.

His wife got up from the sofa with this real look of admiration towards him....and proceeded to disconnect the TV, the Cable, the Dish, the DVD, the Computer, the Cell Phone, the iPod, and the Xbox, and then went to the bar and threw away all his whisky, rum, gin, vodka & the beer in the fridge.
He ALMOST DIED!

The two lessons from this story are:
1. Think about what you wish for..
2. The female brain works on a different wavelength from that of a male.

How true ... and the irony is this happens in all the marriages .. and despite of the funda's like soul mates and ideal couple ... Men always have he wavelength issues ...

Now while dating or even during discussion for the alliances these differences in wavelength never crop up ... every things looks so perfect .. :D ....

Will not get into too much of cribbing .. wifey has the blog details :D :D :D

take care folks

Baby's Day Out

2010-08-16T02:04:00.000-07:00

Sunday the 15th Aug 2010 came out as surprise to me in many possible ways .. It was more like a dream come true ...

All my life I had a wish of taking my kid to shopping and having loads of fun ... I had been chasing my better half for many days requesting the same .. and the wish came true out of the blue yesterday @ 10.00 AM in morning on Sunday .. I got an appointment for 5.30 PM ... I went all jumping and I was so prompt on this date that I made it sharp at 5.30 ... And guess what the 10 month old was equally excited as if she understood the language. She came jumping into my arms and was ready to say bye to everyone ..

Well as usually had to wait for mam to get ready .... we both patiently waited for the event to kick off ... first thought should go to the new apartment to so that the new born and mom can step in there first time .. but God had other plans .. there was huge rain and terrible traffic jam all over .. hence had to take a U turn ... this gave the little one an hours nap to recharge ..

Once in the mall Cherry was hyper and too excited about everything ... she waited patiently until the groceries were done and we pitched into Kids section ... I am still not sure what tells kids this is their section ... she was not ready to stay in my arms and wanted to get to every possible toy that fits into her cute little hands ...

We were store hopping until we got warnings from mom saying u folks are spending way too much and there was no possibility of fitting things in Car .. we finally called it a day with what ever we could grab our hands on ...

Waiting for the next date with my lil sweet heart

We cross the Day of Independence again

2010-08-14T02:05:00.000-07:00

We crossed this day 62 times and getting into 63rd crossing ...

Here is the definition of Independence ..

1. Independence means eat ghutka and spit every where and anywhere

2. Trash ... dun worry .. just drop it anywhere

3. Red traffic light ... whatz that all about ????

4. Politics ... eat as much as u can and stuff as much as u can ... still hungry .. over feed ur relatives :D ... kursi mat chodna ...

5. TV ... news 24X7 ... anything can be news ... right from Amithab shaved in the morning .. to Sharuk sneezed .. and talk shows .. u can say anything do anything .. .

6. Sports .. play less act more ..

Please feel to add your definition of Independence ..

Here is a SMS Joke that defines Rajasthani Independence

Conductor - "Bacche ka ticket?"

Rajsthani Lady -"Iko b legego ke? yo to abhi bobo chuse he"

Conductor - "bobo to ika baap b choose hai to unhe b fee mai bithau ke"

If anyone in the world needs to know definitions for independence .. then we are the definition .. Inida is a free country...

Happy spitting and trashing folks ... (Dun say look whoz talking about kachra :D )

Love u all Happy Independence day ..

Drunken Recap 2

2010-08-12T04:13:00.000-07:00

This trip had too much of liquor sessions .... to start with ... Me and a colleague of mine first went the royal way of having Single malt ... after 2 days we realized we would end up as beggars if we to royalty :( ....

Bright ideas always hit in hour of need ... so we decided to move to Vodka and beer combo ... so daily it started with 3-4 beers and 2-3 pegs of vodka ... realization hits too fast ... every morning we started forgetting what was discussed and done last night :D ... but it was a need of the day due the the hectic schedule of the project ... and demanding application needs ...

It so happened one night we were shit drunk and had to submit some document by 9.00 AM in morning .. we reached office only at 10.30 that day ... and as usual ... my manager caught hold of me some time around 12.30 PM and asked for the doc's .. the fun was until den it did not hit me that i was missing something ... and I casually said "I was shit drunk last night so let me look out for what i had written and send it to you" ... As I was blurting out ... thought "Sht what am I saying" and that triggered off Mr Manager and he went on with his lecture on time-lines / dead lines for next one hour ... :D ...

Well this was our daily diet of liquor ... then we had occasions like birthday parties .. first was colleague then his son ... well the sunny was too young even to smell liquor ... and dad was pro .. :D .... our usual bar tender was Anky ... now it was first time I was tasting the cocktails prepared by Anky .... he had a dumb rule of fill the glass ...

now since we were not settlers the size of glasses were standard for milk / water / liquor ... so we had kind of lassi cocktails ... on Maiy's son's birthday ... first drink .. I was on and speaking nonsense ... one of my colleague went on for 2 rounds of bottoms up and ... instead of stopping there .. he went on with one shot of tequila ... once done we all went for first round of smoke ... and there this guy started on better nonsense than me :D ... I decided there was not point taking him back to drinks .. so went on and dropped him back at the hotel .. where there was a lot of melodrama, as he wanted to go back to India and not to his room .. I decided to leave him at the door and came back to the party ... That night was loads of nonsense .... not sure why ppl were laughing or talking ... we ended up with group photos .. most of which were shaken ... Will post them soon.

Now on the way back to hotel as I was the only driver ... I had 6 ppl in the car sitting and praying until we reached back ... well this was pretty much the routine .. on our long drive to Pittsburgh ... we stopped by at Pizza hut ... now he only choice we had was a Budweiser light ... this was pretty much like water after all the drinks we tasted ... now here we had Dora Reddy in the group who wanted to treat this like scotch ... I was pissed off and said u wud rather drink water ... and he took it to heart and started having bottoms up :D ...

Now drinking did not stop with just beer / vodka / scotch ... I made a trip to downtown ... Ginni was more interested in having ice creams ... now I did make sure my ice cream had rum in it :D ... the best part was we got lost in the downtown ... before making it to the ice cream parlor ... trust me folks rum in ice cream tastes awesome :D

There were some weird situations too where my boss paid for the drinks and had to hear loads of nonsense from me .. well he did take out his vengeance in the appraisals.

Its all a part of life ain't it :D ..

Do share ur experiences if any :)

Recap :D

2010-08-09T13:10:00.000-07:00

Well I am sure most of us have this wish of having remote for life where u can go back and cherish the happy moments in life.

On my last trip back to US I did try to do a mental rewind of past .. Fun was places like Niagara it was my 7th trip and this is the first time I was traveling alone and was standing under the falls all by myself ... well not completely true .. I did have friends with me .. but then by alone I mean a romantic partner. First 6 time I did have one with me .. and every time made it a point to kiss under the falls .. :D ... fun ain't it :D ... well same person or not is not the point .. but it was special everytime .. I guess this one wud be an odd special trip .... But guess what I did advise my trip success to some couples who were part of the troop ... I guess they tried it out ;)

Also this trip I had one of the sever attacks of depression ... well after I had discussions with friends I ended up concluding it was more of a sugar shock than depression as after 2-3 chocolates I started feeling better ...

Shopping madness .. not sure why .. but after a long time shopping was all about me :D ... was shopping like a mad dog ... but some how once I am back in India .. I felt I added stuff to already a pile of stock that I have never opened :( ... well madness is in a way good at times

Ice cream madness ... never much of ice cream eater .. but did make it couple of good joints .. never felt so good about ice creams before :D ...

Sleeping ... whatz that called ... barely had any sleep on the entire trip .. but always a part of my life ... not that I have insomnia .. but ... work work work .. did loads of it .. and now sitting in India and working US hours :(

So that was a small recap of what went in for last 2 and half months ... so either I see that 2 and half months lost in life ... or 2 and half more of memories gained

Bag Packing Trip

2010-04-14T03:14:00.000-07:00

My last kind of bag packing was to Chennai ... pretty decently developed city in last 10 yrs, yep the last time I had been there was 2000 and in last 10 yrs i could find a lot of improvements in the city in terms of roads and IT complexes ... on best thing about this city was there are no Movie posters on the road side like Hyderabad .. here everything is about politics .. so if you find Jaylalita on left side then bang on the right you find karunanidhi ...

If you pay attention to the posters of these political leaders, there is pretty much a small encyclopedia written next to the cutout. I am not sure if people find time to stand and read that. Apart from the politics u can certainly bounce into Rajnikanth quite often ... on most of the salon door's and banners.

What I liked about this city is the industrial estates are rich, you find most of the branded manufacturers in the industrial coridor's, this City would survive even if the entire IT industry is down.

Since most of the times I was going around in a limo .. dun know what other issues with transport / traffic etc this city has.

For the trip it was relaxing as the Marriott is pretty decent and has provided a comfortable stay and a bulky bill.

Had jolly good time clicking pictures, and walking on the beach :) ... at time running away from hectic life pays off a lot :) ..

Chao until the next one comes up :) .. have a good day

Concentric Circles

2010-04-12T03:20:00.000-07:00

This has been complaint from most of the blogger's I follow ... and my story of blogging is no different the work schedules and hours keep me busy that blogging has become a luxury that I cannot afford .. but then today things brought me back to crossroads. Not that I lost the job .. but mental fatigue has taken over and I can barely think about anything .. so thought .. this is the best place to start ...

Looking at the entire cycle of things happening around .. I see that my life keeps making complete / perfect circles ... so I guess I am ready to complete yet another circle .. and what I noticed is that these circles are also rippling around ... not sure what effects whom .. but things do happen .. and looking for yet another drop to fall for next circle to start.

I am sure none of you could relate anything to what I have written except for once who know me for quite some time might be able to relate something .. :) ...

but thatz the point ain't it ... u dun want to get into the tsunami that these ripples create :) ...

BTW other day I got SMS fwd ...

"people don't value life until its gone ... a live chicken is 75 Rs / Kg and a dead one is 140 Rs / Kg ... "

have a good day folks ...

Bye and Hi

2009-10-29T13:06:00.001-07:00

Been about 5 years since i relocated internationally. Last was from Kualalumpur to USA, I've been a nomad for last 11 years traveling various destinations. When ever I make myself comfortable I have been pushed to a new place.

I cherished every moment I spent at each location and thought of returning back to India always scared me and I was even reluctant to think about it.

Today things are different, I am more desperate to go back than to stay back. every time when ever there have been additions to life I tried to change the new comer to my thought process and made them follow me. This new addition is too stubborn to let things go my way, no lady ever could force me to think otherwise or think differently.

But this little lady here has mesmerized me, I just cant wait to see her and take her back into my arms. People always advised me that having kids changes everything, I just shook it off saying what would change .. just that u have a new addition in the family, now I know I was wrong .. Changes are major

Well hence I am saying a bye to USA and Hi to India. More than patriotism my love is pulling me back. I am sure my wife would have loads of trouble with this new love of mine :-)

My wife always complained that I never carry enough luggage and pay the airlines money for nothing, I am sitting with 4 check in bags full of stuff and 5th one running ... nothing can be left behind based on wife's instructions.

God please have sympathy on me. It was difficult to manage one lady and today I have two, first one does not stop commanding and second one bends me at her will :-(.

pray for me :-(

Davidson & God

2009-09-08T06:52:00.000-07:00

The inventor of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle, Arthur Davidson , died and went to heaven.

At the gates, St. Peter told Arthur, 'Since you've been such a good man and your motorcycles have changed the world, your reward is, you can hang out with anyone you want to in heaven.'

Arthur thought about it for a minute and then said, ' I want to hang out with God.'

St. Peter took Arthur to the Throne Room, and introduced him to God.

God recognized Arthur and commented, 'Okay, so you were the one who invented the Harley-Davidson motorcycle? '
Arthur said, 'Yeah, that's me...'

God commented: 'Well, what's the big deal in inventing something that's pretty unstable, makes noise and pollution and can't run without a road?'

Arthur was a bit embarrassed, but finally spoke, 'Excuse me, but aren't you the inventor of woman?'

God said, 'Ah, yes.'

'Well,' said Arthur, 'professional to professional, you have some major design flaws in your invention !
1. There's too much inconsistency in the front-end suspension

2. It chatters constantly at high speeds

3. Most rear ends are too soft and wobble about too much

4. The intake is placed way too close to the exhaust

5. The maintenance costs are outrageous!!!! '

'Hmmmmm, you may have some good points there', replied God, 'hold on.'

God went to his Celestial supercomputer, typed in a few words and waited for the results.

The computer printed out a slip of paper and God read it.

'Well, it may be true that my invention is flawed', God said to Arthur, 'but according to these numbers, more men are riding my invention than yours.

Negligence / Respect / People

2009-09-05T09:34:00.000-07:00

Well how to start this blog? Really confused when I see what happened in AP last week, I mean I am not big fan of politics nor I am a fan of congress or YSR. But few things I still wonder,

When any flight takes off, i guess there is something like a weather report that the pilots look and determine the route to the destination. I am sure it was not like the weather changed all of a sudden, the region had bad weather all through out. Now I am really scared to fly on Indian operated jets in Indian sky's.

Fine lets say it was fate of the five people on board that killed them despite of all the warnings. Wasn't the crash site to be treated as scene of crime, sealed collect the evidence and then take then take the body's out??? I could see localities were going in and out of the crash site as if they were visiting some local function hall.

Fine, I can still ok it by saying that not enough police / security personals were available to control the crowd. What about once the body brought back to Hyderabad? What was the police department up to? the roads were clogged up, the scene at Lalbahadur stadium was bad. there was not strategy to control the crowd i guess, or the police personal's might have taken a mass vacation on that day.

It could have been planned by blocking the roads in advance and allowing the traffic and people from only one entry point, some discipline????

Fine probably too short notice and with Ganesh nimarjan going on, I can say that some of that crowd must have come into the stadium too. The police department could have taken help from the local military department if they were short of hands.

OK let spare the scene at Hyderabad too.

The funeral riots at Pulivendula, I am sure that they had intimation about this location for at least 36-48 hrs before. Why wasn't any security arrangement done there?? Why were the things not organized?

Are the people mad or they do not respect the dead man?? and while he is being buried they are shouting slogan's about next chief minister, WTF???

I guess the word discipline has been erased from the dictionary of India. We don't care about the dead, we don't care about the living.

Shame on us and shame on all those govt. officials who make extra money apart from the salaries they get, at least they should have done some respectable work on the day of the funeral.

I guess In India we forgot how to respect. We don't respect the living, neither do we respect the dead.

Once again as I said I am neither a political minded person nor I say what ever YSR did is great, its about respecting people and the situations.

Aa Bail Mujhe maar !!!!

2009-08-25T15:50:00.000-07:00

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Now-BJP-hit-by-Sudarshan-chakra/articleshow/4934645.cms

I guess in India ppl don't have anything better to do. Firstly even if it is proven was Jinnah was right or wrong .. it does not matter .. because what is broken cannot be fixed today ... Reason .. its the politicians who have poisoned peoples minds.

Now Gandhi was right, Gandhi was wrong .. he did what he wanted and he left us with Congress ... so that they can F*** us for rest of our lives.

Did Pakistan do any better .. Nope .... The story ain't any different there too ...

Now BJP with a great difficult ruled the nation for 13 days and then for a year or so ... I guess they should have put their brains on whatz good for nation. What they can do better than Congress so that they come back to power and improve the nation.

Instead they are writing books about ghosts. I guess they are trying to do good to film industry as now a days film industry is lacking good scripts.

Or may be since they thought ppl are tired to read and listen about Gandhi, lets write anything about some one whom the nation hardly know .. what difference does it make?

And this thought process led to the title situation today. What good it is doing to public? They are occupying the national air time on all channels which instead of concentrating on why "food", the most important thing that is priced so high today, we are fighting on weather Jinnah was secular or not.

The actual story is both Jswant and Advani started to write the book on Jinnah .. once they completed it .. both anounced it so now the question is how would the let the public know that they have written the book. Easy way to do publicity is lets start a controversy and screw with peoples mind's .... that will make people egear to read who has written what.

So now all of you go and read the book .. :D Happy reading .. :D

Mera Bharat Mahan

Independence

2009-08-14T06:48:00.000-07:00

Never ever blogged on or about Independence before, this day has been like any other day for me most of my life. Does that make me less patriotic?

Neither its different today, yeah as a kid I used to go to school to collect sweets, and sometime run around with the paper flag.

Well Happy Independence day to all :) ...

Perspectives

2009-08-12T12:47:00.000-07:00

I guess everyone has their own perspective in life for a single situation and every two perspectives can be opposite in meaning and definition of the situation. Well it is also possible that two people might have almost same perspective but still they differ.

Every perspective definition is based on individuals intelligence, surrounding and also people they are surrounded by have an affect on how the thought is evolved.

Does that mean both the individuals are wrong, well I guess not. Everyone has their own justifications to how their interpretation is true and makes logical sense.

Now lets bring a third person and expelling these situations to the person, In a way the person might have an pre-defined impression on one of these individuals hence might turn up to be biased towards the individuals perception.

What if we bring yet another person who is alien to these two individuals and ask his / her opinion, well yet again they may derive which is better perspective, based on other materialistic factors which might bend towards one individual and other still feels his / her version of truth is much better.

So how does one even define which perspective is correct? Can one even define, what is right? What is wrong? What way things are supposed to be?

I guess there is never a single version of truth. what say?

Sardar Stuff :)

2009-08-11T07:24:00.001-07:00

Sardar declares:

.... . . I will never marry in my life &. . .

.. . . I'll give same advice to my children also. . . .. .

A donkey kicked a Sardar & ran away

Sardar ran to catch the donkey.

He saw a zebra & started beating it & said 'SALA Tracksuit pahan ke dhoka

de raha hai'.

Sardar: Darling, years ago u had a figure like Coke bottle.

Jeeto: Yes darling I still do, only differnece is earlier it was 300ml

now it's 2 ltr.

Santa went to Mysore palace.

Tourist guide - Santaji plz dont sit there, its Tipu sultan's chair

Santa - Oye dont worry yaar i'll get up when he comes.!!..

Teacher: A for?

Sardar: Apple

Teacher: Jor se bolo?

Sardar: Jay mata di.

2 sardars were fighting after exam.

Sir: Y r u fighting?

1st Sardar: This fool left the answer sheet blank,

Sir: So what?

1st Sardar: Even i did the same thing, now teacher will think that we both

copied.

2 sardarjis looking at Egyptian mummy.

Sar 1 : Look so many bandages, pakka lorry accident case.

Sar 2 : Aaho, lorry number is also written...BC 1760!!!....

A sardar on an interview 4 da post detective.

Interviewer : who killed Gandhi?

Sardar : Thank u sir 4 giving me d job, I will start investigating.......

A scene from Kohn Benega Crorepati....

Amitabh : In which state Cauvery flows?

Sardar : Liquid state.....

Audience clapped.. Amitabh stunned, looks behind, ALL WERE SARDARS.......

In an interview, Interviewer: How does an electric motor run?

Sardar: Dhhuuuurrrrrrrrrr. .....

Inteviewer shouts: Stop it.

Sardar: Dhhuurrrr dhup dhup dhup....

Tourist: Whose skeleton is that?

Sardar: An old king's skeleton.

Tourist: Who's that smaller skeleton next to it?

Sardar: That was same king's skeleton when he was a child.

Wisdom

2009-07-19T14:34:00.000-07:00

Caution: You might find the content below stupid / Idiotic / Non-sensible, request not to generalize anything.

My blogs have been parking lot for my frustration, for a person who is into writing daily diary, I find this a better way to vent out my frustrations. For weird reasons when ever I post something people tend not to take it seriously and lighter material is often responded to.

Not sure its me / my writings / my wisdom, that causes people to read and not to read the content. Coming to my wisdom it always plays hide and seek with me. At most important times when I need it I find myself searching for wisdom in every Conner of my brain. Its just not there, and my head is filled with emptiness which is very difficult to account for.

Marriage has been topic of my most recent blog so I guess this one is moving towards the something similar. For some reason this subject fascinates me a lot. As most of my friends say that I still do not know what I am doing or rather say what i want. But tell u what I hardly know myself, leave alone learning another person.

Most women who know me say that I am childish and yet to grow up. While I think that I am wiser than the feedback I got. Women and wisdom though start with same letter, but I guess wisdom in a women is present only until the knot is tied. Once the knot is tied, either the entire Wisdom is siphoned or sucked out out by her mother and then starts the game of control.

I have always been of impression that logical part of brain for women has a malfunction. But it certainly starts working at twice the capacity during the fights or to taunt their spouse.

Currently we have Jr. coming soon, hence started investigating women's reaction and their feelings during pregnancy, at the time of and after labour.

I found that women during the labour time both learned and commoners alike start with taunts and blaming everything on their husband's this is true for the moderate types and the violent types even get to grammatically improvise the blames / taunts and some even dramatise the event. Some of my friends warned me not to give my hand during the labour, as they would squeeze as if it were a stress ball. I guess the amount of pain that they go through throws their wisdom out of the window.

Also I have herd mothers when they look into new born babies eyes and say "You better be worth all the pain, else I will make ur life living hell", I guess this is like aftermath of the pain. Quite weird but understandable.

Now there is a third kind, my better half who is speeding towards the above phases like water rushing near Niagara falls, she has been passing this statement quite a number of times, "I am sacrificing for you" when ever I listen to this statement, the population statistics reel in my mind as to women have sacrificed one too many times and contributed to the number. I guess this is another stage where wisdom in women is out of the window.

Well in any case, wise or not at the moment I searching for wisdom again.

akha country ka waat lagela hai !!!

2009-07-12T10:24:00.000-07:00

Samjo durgati ho gayeli hai ...

Sunday morning 9.00 AM .. Quite early for a Sunday, but i guess it was for good. Got a mail from my Chaddi dost asking me to call, so promptly gave him a call as along with doing my early morning activities . He had bunch of good news, both his sister's marriage was fixed.

Well that is not the point of this blog right? slowly our discussion turned to his and my problems, poor thing he is going thru a divorce, he has a daughter. Now the girl does not want to divorce him nor wants to live with him, she does not allow him to see his daughter. I certainly understand what he is going thru. Been there done that kind of thing.

He mentioned that every round he makes to the court he finds divorce cases, software guy's married for 6 months and want divorce or at age of 55 ppl are applying for divorce. The media certainly updates that divorce cases are on rise in India. At times I feel, I should start counseling services for the couple who are going for a divorce. 99% cases are due to parental interferenceand the dumb kids don't understand.

Even at the age of 28-30 parents don't give personal space and freedom to kids they want control and hand in everything from bedroom to financial matters. I am not exaggerating, I have personally herd and seen several cases like these and my self being victim in most of the situations.

Girls today are too independent or rather say the term Independence is being misused.

Case I

The marriage occurs with a pre -commitment made by the girl who has bought a flat once she started her career, so she is stuck with the loan payment and these payments will be managed by her parents. The guy's are vagabonds for most of their career they think there is still time to settle and buy a house a dream house. So after marriage the trouble start very early, "a fight on finances", Solution found DIVORCE

Case II

The marriage occurs with a pre -commitment from the guy who has bought a flat, well bhayaa he is a guy so he will go way out of his budget and capability and invest on a flat way too costly. Now he gets married, the guy's parents start trying to control the DIL's expenses and finances, not having any pre -commitment the gal starts suffocating in such atmosphere and lo!! solution DIVORCE.

Case III

The marriage occurs with pre -commitment or not, the gal and guy get along well. Now starts the pressure for kid's. Gal says its too early, pressure from guy's parents, ego's and cold wars. Now they create a hypothetical situation from themselves and it is a prefect ground for all trouble's to start. One prick and the balloon bursts. Solution DIVORCE

Case IV

The marriage occurs a little late in life, gal and guy both working and busy building their career all the times, their personal and social life is mostly tied to their office colleagues, gal is too independent she things age 32+ is too early to have kids, cold war's being aloof and lo!! Perfect ground for a case building here too.

Now what is rest of the society doing while all this is happening, media still hype's on the cases where gal is harassed by guy and his parents. Hence gal's have prefect weapon to file a case of harassment, threatens and in turn starts harassing the guy and his parents. Well law always has soft corner towards women hence, guy takes bashing end's up for a settlement amount (well this is out of court). The judge thinks poor gal should get some money for her trouble's hence some more alimony declared by the judge.

So hua kya "Khaya nahi piya nahi glass toda chaar aane"

Media

In today's world Media does a lot of help to all these, ppl like Eta kapoor are running manufacturing industries to seed idea's in women's head, Saas bhi Kabhi Bahu thi, KKusum etc etc .. list is long after all this there are regional language serial's too for those who do not understand Hindi. They cry out loud and say all men are only here to harass women. Good so buy a couple of idea's from daily SOAP

Now things don't end there, the monkeys sitting on top all observing all the melodrama like a daily SOAP. Now the monkeys decide to come to the rescue of all men.

Guess what decision they make

They say "To u all poor men who are suffering in hand's of women, don’t worry we came out with a solution, we will legalize marriages in same sex, now all ur troubles are gone, no dowry and no daily jig jig from wife / husband". See how smart our Govt. is.

Kyaa baat hai !!! culture aur desh ka waat lagane ke liye goron ki zaroorat nahi hai, ek se ek kameene desh me maujood hai.

Now sone pe suhaga is, scientist and doctor's they already had test tube babies and cloning, now u can freez ur egg and use it anytime u want. So women out there don’t worry that u are running out of time. Bacchon ke liye ghaii nahi karne ka ... awesome ...

Then we have our budget, the best part is after release of the budget for 3-4 days ppl were clueless as to what had come and hit them ... reason we are always short of language's and slang's that we keep inventing them. Pranab babu read out what ever he had in his mind ... but 99% population was busy referring to all languages dictionaries in the world as to what he was saying they could not keep the pace so decided to wait for the hard copy of budget to come out. Probably he was reading it in Bangali, Hindi and English mix .. lets name it BaHinGlish ...

Dear FM sir, we will have the dictionary ready for next budget session! Ting! :D end of the story, ppl u luxury is cheap, u can buy car's and start farting all over Nation , if ppl in US can afford two car's per home, we are not left behind own three. But don't ask for food, all the necessary supplies are going high, breath all the CO2 u generate and live happy.

Khane ko roti nahi! Pehen ne ko kapda nahi! Rehne ko Ghar nahi! To kya hua babu moshshai .. chalne ko gaadi hai :P

Well budget news has become old for media and they do not have much to leach on so now, lets do some magic, predict China is going to attack India and yess this is coming soon !! aaj hi padiye taza kabhar, China walon ko khujli ho rahi hai ...

If this news does not sell, we always have OZ beating up Indian’s even if not; see if some Indian banged his head to a wall, we can color it!! :D

Who ever has read this far .... lagta hai Dimag ka dahi ho gaya hoga abhi tak!!

Take care folk’s : D ... nothing personal and nothing is generalized .. but u guy's are free to leave gali galoch on the comments ... :P

Chicago Telugu Association

2009-07-06T11:45:00.000-07:00

July 4th Chicago

Exceptions on any Desi function, we follow IST

Well function starts with all executive members addressing ... program goes on for next 45 mins without a word in Telugu .. Cool ain't it for a Telugu cultural festival :P

The function rolled on with introduction of couple of TV Anchors, that was when the we herd what we were waiting for a long time ... Telugu ... Telugu ... Telugu ...

The action started after dinner(Spicy biryani and curd rice) with Ali's and Hema's Comedy it was Okiesh except for a joke here and there. After that was Gazal Srinivas' he sang two good Gazal's awesome lyrics and awesome singing.

MM Keeravani's Concert was exceptional, he threw loads of rocking numbers and what an evening it was ... it could never have been any better.

The second day we skipped the morning session which we headed straight for lunch with andhra delicacies ... for sure they did not miss Gongura Pacchadi.

After the lunch which we got without any effort we were sleepy and one song was playing at the podium in a loop we soon got tired of the song .. it was something about CTA and its Agenda. We pretty much decide to leave and come back when the local talent started to sing some karaoke songs ... well since that kept us awake we decided to stick around for some more time and check out the programs ...

Over the events after this were more cultural, Kuchipidi fusion, Kathak, then a Kuchipudi Ballet on Bhama Kalapam were a decent cultural touch.

Evening was filled with mass masala programs exceptional was Vandemataram sreenivas singing folk songs on "Pelli eppudu avutundi babu" and the current recession.

The only draw back of the whole program was the board members address was always in English. the fun was after giving a speech in English the president ended with "Jai Telugu Talli"

The crowd does not expect the board members to be orators, but it would have been good to address such occasions in Telugu.

Overall I would rate the function as excellent. But a questions certainly arises in my mind .. "Andhrulu Arambha Shurula?" we start things with great enthusiasm and down the line it only remanins as power play and fight for seats. I hope we look beyond all these and keep the event always electrifying and cheerful.

Lost and found

2009-06-12T10:57:00.000-07:00

Lost and Found

After being lost in the work and personal melodrama for quite sometime, "Chai biskut with virji" woke me up and I am set for spreading and collecting thrash yet again in my second blogging attempt.

I would say after getting married life never remains same, and not I am also heading fast for phase two of marriage, having kids. Looking at my friends I have started having nightmares of changing diapers and other activities. Probably even touching a camera might be big question.

I have seen life transforming form one phase to another, when I was single all I did was to click roam around and make fun of others ... well first category was the people who were then married. But marriage is something that cannot be avoided for
long. Well everything else started looking good and beautiful then.

The chance in phase narrowed my thoughts for sometime and all that seems beautiful is my Wife. Probably even today I would clicked 10 pictures of her before even looking at the background and click a scenic view or anything else. Well one has to accept that definition of beauty start and almost ends with one's wife.

Well over a period I developed and attitude of revenge towards all my bachelor friends,
instead of being their target, I started talking them into marriage. Lo..!!! The fun part is when they buy the idea and get dragged into it. Here comes the best part, attending marriages. Attending marriages give me a kick, u can see the last laugh on the Groom's face, and poor
creatures do not know what life ahead is going to be like. I always share that smile and laugh out loud on those occasions, well Wife being busy with other activities this is the best opportunity to laugh out loud. I always wondered why Bride is so gloomy during the marriage, and smiles only for in a photograph.

Other day I visited a friend from my school, he defined life after having kids. he says “You can go anywhere u wish in the world, but focal picture remains same, baby and diapers what changes is the blurred image behind you”.

:-O