Well I am bogged down by the year ending or rather decade ending ratings bombarded by the media..Some I care and some I don't. And when the sand drains out of the decade's timer I am thinking why not to summarize some philosophies which are changing my life this year. I am not sure to whom it will make sense but thought of giving it a a try. So here I go
2010 – Things that changed for me
Health is wealth : This idea crept in my mind post monsoon in Pune. Got stuck up in a hell lot of diseases . I was down with viral fever 3 times. My mom got dengue and got hospitalized for first ever time. I almost became a paranoid checking the mirror and well as the web to get to know of the various flues and checking its presence in my body. And I learned even if you have infinite money and knowledge , life is going to get screwed up if your health is not good.
Time the most important thing- Life is too short to waste time travelling to and forth to office and wasting half a day in groceries lines. Give time to you and your family. I shifted my stay and reduced my distance to office by half . Staying in an area where I can get all my stuffs in walking distance. Rent can be compromised if you save your time.
Books! What a wonderful thing – I had revived my long lost reading habit this year. Got to finish almost 12 books in 2 different languages in paper. Also became a voracious reader of news papers ,blogs and new sites and what else. Keeping my eyes and ears opened to the world and getting restless over has became a habit to me.
Keep In Touch with buddies – This year also found me keeping in touch with most of my old buddies. Felt the importance of old friends in difficult times. The thing worth mentioning is a meet-up with an old friend after 3 leap years . We parted our ways before under graduation and our life took different turns (he is major in the Army now ). Thanks to the social networking I could locate him and meet couple of times here in Pune. The pleasure of meeting an old friend or relative and having a chit chat is more intoxicating than alcohol
Web in Mobile! Hats Off – I used to discourage my friends who were buying Iphones or similar gadgets arguing it as a waste of time to browse in the small screen. However when I got a new mobile and changed my plan to a data one I was like jumping in to the rabbit hole to open into a wonder land . The number of apps and the things I could do by remaining connected always is unimaginable. And what more I am feeling a little late to get into this world .Time is not far when I stop by broadband connection
Give your 100 percent in anything – Harsha Bogle said in an video “Talent alone takes your nowhere. It is your continuous efforts that gets you places”. My habit of getting through an audition in any singing event without practice got a major blow when I failed to impress the judges in a singing audition in TechM recently. The lesson learned is that if you don’t invest time in getting a song right you don’t have even the right to participate in an audition. This hold true for anything and everything we do. Give your 100 pc and never care about the results (Same thing Lord Krishna Said centuries ago)
Anger, it is bad thing- This one I am still working on . Perhaps is too personal to even write in a blog. Times are changing you cannot be a cool dude in present world if your temper is like Jai or Veeru or Thakur . Came to realize in the hard way that if we get angry it is our failure to handle difficult situations or people
Procrastination a bug to heal: This has hit me a lot in my life. I keeps on delaying things till the last moment. The worst part is not getting a peace of mind till I completes it. So I have decided rather than falling prey to worries of Procrastination it is better to get things done right first in proper time. Planning and executing for short term tasks in life and relishing in its successful completion is working good for me. A caveat is to stop expecting others to be like that
Last but not the least the philosophy which I hold to my heart and believe won’t get changed even in another decade is
Freedom : If you believe you are right and you know you are not hurting anyone physically or emotionally you are free to do anything in the world.
Ending this monologue with my possible goals and challenges for 2011.Pardon me if it’s too personal
To look at the mirror and say I am healthy (without lying off course)
To solve my religious dilemma ( socialist /agnostic /atheist or theist)
To get rid of my clumsiness
To learn one or more new skills ( guitar, gardening etc sky is the limit)
To learn to say no properly
To keep my house clean
To go to a long trip on my bullet
An the most important
To continue being compassionate to all living things in the galaxy
Can’t stop this scrap without my favorite lines by Robert Frost
“The woods are lovely dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before i sleep"
Monday, December 27, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Jimmy The Legend
Disclaimer
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If this description matches any person whose name is Jimmy that’s not my fault. In fact my protagonist wants the world to know him by this name only..
The Plot
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He lit the Gold Flake from the oven and took a sip of the Glenfiddich on the rocks..Beckoning the poor lad with his evil smile he let out his notorious dialogue “Aaaja bahar.Tumse Kuch Baat Karna Hai “ .A chill breeze swept the pond in front of the room knocking out our inebriation. Jimmy took the poor kid ,Golden Brown (nick name off course) ,out in the verandah in that cool spring night of Mid West. Me and Sallu were oozing out the pieces from the rohan josh when the confession has already started in the verandah . Jimmy offered Golden a cigarette in midst of the Q&A session. Sallu was swearing Jimmy for torturing the most innocent of the persons among our group. Anyways after some twenty minutes it seems Jimmy entered the living room bearing his wicked smile followed by an emotionally impregnated Golden.. He was shivering in the silence which had the density of a war cry. He let out a dialogue which seemed to me like in an old Bachan movie “Do you guys think that I have not fulfilled the duty of a friend”. Repeatedly he said ,each time with aggravating emotions..I took the stage and pacified the emotional young man while Jimmy was struggling to hide his guffaw. Sallu now started with cursing Jimmy. Guess what this whole fuzz about. Jimmy was digging deep into the labyrinths of Golden’s cerebrum regarding a fleet of crush he had on his college days. He tortured the poor being as to why he compromised his love mistaking it as a infatuation. For Golden who lets out his feeling when not in sobriety , this was too much and Jimmy had struck the iron when it was volcanic in heat…
This is was one of the many incidents which made our American bachelor days kuch khatta and meetha. Jimmy the protagonist , bitterly known as “The Love Guru” and “Bengali Baba” and “Master Uguay ‘(Kungu-fu Panda fame), is one of the master who practiced this traditional art of brain washing . Jimmy works 24x7 and he spend his spare time cooking lots of good stuffs and brain washing people as a hobby. For this hobby hi modus operandi is classy as a Scorcese movie . After identifying a target (mostly a soft spoken single guy who has got an adrenaline rush for an opposite sex but never has the gut to express it) ,he used to lure him with his culinary masterpiece viz. mutton fried in mustard oil before making into a spicy curry. Anyway here comes a call from Jimmy on target’s phone.
“Hmm kidher haai”
“Ghar pe hain”
“Kyaa kar rahaa haai”
”Kuch nahi bas time pass”
“Accha suno idher tere liye khaas meine accha mutton banaaya. Ek dum spicy aur tasty.. Tu aa rahe ki nahi”
“AbeeNahi yaar thoda kaam haai ghar pe”
“Kaam gaya bhaad mein ..Kuch purana wine bhi haai..Mutton ke saath ekd dum sahi hojaayenga..”
“Par yaar…”
“Oi ..Tu aa rahe ki nahi..Aaja tujse kuch zaroori baat karnaa haai “(bingo)
“Theek hai mein aata hoon”
In Jimmy’s house the to be victim will be served drinks along with the spicy mutton. The guy after getting drunk will spill out a flash of his mind which Jimmy cleverly manipulated to add fire to the fury. Moreover Jimmy takes the help of his clichéd 90’s love in which he used to cycle near his school gates whistling an R.D melody to impress his then girl-friend now wife. Whatever be it at the end of the night when a plate of mutton and a bottle of Whiskey gets over ,there will remain a desperate man ready to wake up his object of love to say the 3 words….Whole of Dublin say this unanimously..Jai Ho Jimmy Jai Ho
Whether the job is to make someone identify his soul-mate or to channel another one’s energy to matrimonial sites or to make a third one buy an expensive item, Jimmy does it sincerely with an art. His work of perfection which I appreciate the most is this one incident in which he made a confused guy in our group buy a brand new corolla before even he knew what the wheels are there for . Jimmy made the guy think of the satisfaction he gets when he takes his family for a drive in the brand new car. The poor chap did already covered the United States three times in his reverie before signing the contract . And guess what Jimmy made sure that the whole group got drunk like pigs from the already robbed man’s credit card. Whether to convince a Telugu guy to fall for a Gujarati girl or a Bengali guy to fall for a Tamil girl Jimmy is there with blessed hands. Jimmy may not be the most proficient cook I have seen. He may not be the most hard working guy I knew of. However he is till date the most capable spiritual (in brainwashing sense) guru I have seen with flesh and blood. This blog is a dedication to all those odd families which almost existed (but didn’t Praise the lord) thanks to Jimmy’s demagogues. Ironically I want to conclude by confessing that Jimmy is till date my most favorite spiritual guru . Let the Legend of Jimmy continues to rule the world forever…
Aftermath
========
I am accused of fooling Jimmy twice. Once making him eat cattle (which he follows religiously) and in another time making him buy a Honda civic (According to rumors spread by Sallu , Jimmy over spend some 3 grants for that). No Mea Culpa Jimmy. I was a mere instrument in the hands of almighty
==========
If this description matches any person whose name is Jimmy that’s not my fault. In fact my protagonist wants the world to know him by this name only..
The Plot
===========
He lit the Gold Flake from the oven and took a sip of the Glenfiddich on the rocks..Beckoning the poor lad with his evil smile he let out his notorious dialogue “Aaaja bahar.Tumse Kuch Baat Karna Hai “ .A chill breeze swept the pond in front of the room knocking out our inebriation. Jimmy took the poor kid ,Golden Brown (nick name off course) ,out in the verandah in that cool spring night of Mid West. Me and Sallu were oozing out the pieces from the rohan josh when the confession has already started in the verandah . Jimmy offered Golden a cigarette in midst of the Q&A session. Sallu was swearing Jimmy for torturing the most innocent of the persons among our group. Anyways after some twenty minutes it seems Jimmy entered the living room bearing his wicked smile followed by an emotionally impregnated Golden.. He was shivering in the silence which had the density of a war cry. He let out a dialogue which seemed to me like in an old Bachan movie “Do you guys think that I have not fulfilled the duty of a friend”. Repeatedly he said ,each time with aggravating emotions..I took the stage and pacified the emotional young man while Jimmy was struggling to hide his guffaw. Sallu now started with cursing Jimmy. Guess what this whole fuzz about. Jimmy was digging deep into the labyrinths of Golden’s cerebrum regarding a fleet of crush he had on his college days. He tortured the poor being as to why he compromised his love mistaking it as a infatuation. For Golden who lets out his feeling when not in sobriety , this was too much and Jimmy had struck the iron when it was volcanic in heat…
This is was one of the many incidents which made our American bachelor days kuch khatta and meetha. Jimmy the protagonist , bitterly known as “The Love Guru” and “Bengali Baba” and “Master Uguay ‘(Kungu-fu Panda fame), is one of the master who practiced this traditional art of brain washing . Jimmy works 24x7 and he spend his spare time cooking lots of good stuffs and brain washing people as a hobby. For this hobby hi modus operandi is classy as a Scorcese movie . After identifying a target (mostly a soft spoken single guy who has got an adrenaline rush for an opposite sex but never has the gut to express it) ,he used to lure him with his culinary masterpiece viz. mutton fried in mustard oil before making into a spicy curry. Anyway here comes a call from Jimmy on target’s phone.
“Hmm kidher haai”
“Ghar pe hain”
“Kyaa kar rahaa haai”
”Kuch nahi bas time pass”
“Accha suno idher tere liye khaas meine accha mutton banaaya. Ek dum spicy aur tasty.. Tu aa rahe ki nahi”
“AbeeNahi yaar thoda kaam haai ghar pe”
“Kaam gaya bhaad mein ..Kuch purana wine bhi haai..Mutton ke saath ekd dum sahi hojaayenga..”
“Par yaar…”
“Oi ..Tu aa rahe ki nahi..Aaja tujse kuch zaroori baat karnaa haai “(bingo)
“Theek hai mein aata hoon”
In Jimmy’s house the to be victim will be served drinks along with the spicy mutton. The guy after getting drunk will spill out a flash of his mind which Jimmy cleverly manipulated to add fire to the fury. Moreover Jimmy takes the help of his clichéd 90’s love in which he used to cycle near his school gates whistling an R.D melody to impress his then girl-friend now wife. Whatever be it at the end of the night when a plate of mutton and a bottle of Whiskey gets over ,there will remain a desperate man ready to wake up his object of love to say the 3 words….Whole of Dublin say this unanimously..Jai Ho Jimmy Jai Ho
Whether the job is to make someone identify his soul-mate or to channel another one’s energy to matrimonial sites or to make a third one buy an expensive item, Jimmy does it sincerely with an art. His work of perfection which I appreciate the most is this one incident in which he made a confused guy in our group buy a brand new corolla before even he knew what the wheels are there for . Jimmy made the guy think of the satisfaction he gets when he takes his family for a drive in the brand new car. The poor chap did already covered the United States three times in his reverie before signing the contract . And guess what Jimmy made sure that the whole group got drunk like pigs from the already robbed man’s credit card. Whether to convince a Telugu guy to fall for a Gujarati girl or a Bengali guy to fall for a Tamil girl Jimmy is there with blessed hands. Jimmy may not be the most proficient cook I have seen. He may not be the most hard working guy I knew of. However he is till date the most capable spiritual (in brainwashing sense) guru I have seen with flesh and blood. This blog is a dedication to all those odd families which almost existed (but didn’t Praise the lord) thanks to Jimmy’s demagogues. Ironically I want to conclude by confessing that Jimmy is till date my most favorite spiritual guru . Let the Legend of Jimmy continues to rule the world forever…
Aftermath
========
I am accused of fooling Jimmy twice. Once making him eat cattle (which he follows religiously) and in another time making him buy a Honda civic (According to rumors spread by Sallu , Jimmy over spend some 3 grants for that). No Mea Culpa Jimmy. I was a mere instrument in the hands of almighty
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