modern mahabharta

You have to check this out...go to aashraya's blog and laugh your head off...for more check the mahabharata series on the sidebar..genious!!

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Today actually I dont have much to write..no issues to take up..nothing much happening either..so I am gonna generally ramble about and take up blog space..
KBC2 has i think run out of episodes and are retelecasting something called best of KBC2..anyways any reason to see bigB is welcome to me..am sitting and counting the number of reality show winners to keep track off..there's Viva(which broke up)..Aasma(having ex-batchmate Vasudha)..aapka Abhijeet..Harshvardhan Navathe(KBC1 winner)..Ruprekha n kaazi..saregama people..get gorgeous people..zee cinestars ki khoj people...as you see i meant rambling..

On personnal front i have achieved victory in the form of learning the art of successfully applying eyeliner without applying it
1.all over my eyelid
2.in my eyeballs
3.rest of my face
All this i hope will someday help me reduce my resemblence to the missing link.

The XAT forms can finally be downloaded from xlri site....umeed pe duniya kayam hai...

The new year of course brings with it new opportunities to embaress oneself,friends and family...more occassions to plant thine feet in thine mouth...and bore unsuspecting blog readers with total crap...till then

An Idea

My parents are as technologically challenged as they come...all their lives they have resisted any upgrade with the same amount of willpower as the British faced the Blitskrieg..I utterly failed to make them comprehend Bill Gtaes power(what is an OS?it helps start the computer...the remaining questions are too embaressing to take server space) so finally after much persuasion my dad finally got around to using my discarded mobile..poor thing wasn't aware of the hundred traps the cell companies lay out before you..when i finally taught him how to message(on STD,don't even try imagining how much that cost) he would message away to glory little realising Idea people were laughing their awy to the bank...When realisation finally dawned he stopped that...One day on dialling his number i awas greeted with a dialer ring tone...hmmm...so dad was finally embracing technology..Few days ago i was told he hadn,t subscribed to any such thing(the amount of time it tok me to explain what a dialer tone is another story)On calling up customer care i found out they have made poor dad subscribe to every goddamn available scheme all without his knowledge..every day they would deduct some amount for various shemes he never used..not to mention the monthly deductions...the linguistically challenged support staff told me to deactivate the dialer tone by calling 4444...he just forgot to tell me the catch,4444 works at the rate of 7/sec..so while the IVRS droned on for some minutes i listened but finding no mechanism to shut the tone off i finally cut the phone only to find the balance sustantially reduced...
Perhaps for the first time I realised the virtue of MTNL as the tone of the automated voice atill tells me to keep waiting as my call is important to them!

PS:do dukh:
1.Dilpreet got eliminated in IndianIdol
2.MCD maar dhaad in Rohini

IIT eh?

On 9 December 2001 I sat for IIT-JEE like 2 lakh others of my ilk...i attempted a grand total of 9 questions out of which i managed to get half wrong according to the prompt solutions provided by FITJEE the next day in papers..the rank card came a month later announcing a rank of 50000 odd...ah well!
Since i did not belong to the group of people who considered IIT their mecca and had just given engineering entrances because i had nothing better to do after school..I quickly shoved the card aside and carried on with life.When CUSAT offered me a seat i packed my bags and planted myself there before they realised their mistake..since then i have met countless occasions with technical education that has made me wish i were anywhere but there but i held no hard feelings towards IIT except the general desire held by the entire non-IIT engineering folks of wanting the entire 2000 of them to disappear off the face of earth..
This feeling increased in intensity as I prepared for CAT...Some days ago I had the luck to go to IIT-D again thanks to TKS persuing his M.Tech there and while genial looking folks smiled at me my innards screamed cocky!cocky!So Chetan Bhagat wrote a book with no story about life in IIT and it becomes a bestseller!So their worst off is equivalent to our best pay packs!!
Unfair!
And then the inner buddha asked me to leave moh maya..you get what you deserve in life...hmm...that's why while our lot was forced to shuttle between Siberia and DOE(both located million kms apart)our future successors will have a 2 crore high-tech building all to itself,while we lived in overpriced under cleaned micro miniature room parading in the name of a hostel they would live in newly faster than lightening built hostel..
But probably they would have slogged for two years trying to balance OPAggarwal and Pradeep Science(do they still use em??) but somebody said once we became IIT our old CUSAT certs would be upgraded to the new status...i smiled back at the IITians smiling at me....

saddi dilli

Real Man don't ask directions
I read this at the back of the car racing ahead(if you can race in Delhi traffic that is)
Although i come back to this city at least once every 6 months, its face has completely changed since the time I left it(that's just 3 years back).For one the metro is evrywhere,even if the line is not officially open and the numerous flyovers have totally changed the place. A lot of building that i used as identification marks no longer stand but now I can find my way around by checking the nearest mall.Delhi has 54 of them!!

But perhaps more than the cosmetic changes I find it more time-taking to accept the cultural shock.After spending 6 months in a place where by simply wearing jeans and your department tee(which due to bulk supply was made size L to fit the long,the short,the fat,the thin, and every remaining category) you will get the charitraheen ladki look in buses its difficult fanthom what's going in the mind of the lass stuck to her boyfriend on bike attired in a sleeveless when the temperature is hovering around -3.3

Also it took time to accept the girls puffing away to glory in front of Gargi College.Perhaps the mallu conservatism is finally coming out.I am convinced am the only thing under 22 who is not blonde!and does not have straightened hair!and is not snow white fair thing to roam DU grounds.Indeed am totally not with it!!

Other things remain more or less similar.Buses are crazy here also.Plus you are perpetually scared that you may have got into the wrong bus and would reach JLN stadium instead of Shivaji. Law of gravity still acts on standing passengers of male species only when the bus turns left and they can fall crotch first onto the ladies seat occupant. Inertia takes affect when the bus turns the other way and they are still on your lap.

And lastly Delhi newspapers to whom I shall be eternally indebted for introducing me to the world of reading are increasingly representing tabloids.Blame it on TV or the short attention spans!I wonder how the editorial still survives!

Manjunaths murder doesn't get any mention in the papers so have not been able to follow that here...

so till next!