Wednesday 31 December 2008

Last Day of 2008

It is the last day of 2008. So, what's the big deal! Of course, it is a big deal. i'll be spending the day at home with my books, movies and food for company :)
Ok, let me list down a few of the things i am grateful about, a few of the high points and highlights of 2008 -

1. Standing on my own two feet :)
2. Joined gym
3. Had a fantastic family get-together at Solapur
4. Saw a new place - Aamby Valley
5. Bought a ring for myself, all by myself (first big purchase, feels great....)
6. The last of my friends got married (yea...am the last one)
7. my favourite cousin relocated to the US (will miss her, already do)
8. Added to my collection of books (amply)
9. Added to my collection of DVDs (outnumbering Pa's collection :), well...almost)
10. Danced on the stage where people paid & came to see us dance :)....Mauja hi Mauja...(was it great, did u ask)
11. Shiamak Davar rocks
12. Ties with Devangi get stronger (movies, dinner at home, night out)
13. First sip of alcohol & stopped at it (tastes awful)
14. First movie - Bhootnath - outing all alone (good stuff)
15. First English play - Class of '86 - all alone (exciting stuff)
16. Bought a whole new lot of clothes (yipppeeee)
17. Had a great picnic with work friends
18. Gifted expensive watch to J (a la Shahrukh Khan :))
19. For the first time in my life, won a housie game (whooo hooo)
20. Got myself a pen drive (getting tech-savvy :))
21. Found a nice friend in Nayan
22. First work related trip (to Delhi, i have grown up, world)
23. Enjoyed good hospitality at Trupti's place (understanding a different life)
24. Drove all the way to Solapur (wow, some drive that was)
25. First d____ outing with cousins
26. Watched movie in the first multiplex of Ghatkopar

2009's gonna be rocking, to say the least!

Friday 26 December 2008

Face-to-face with on screen stars

Yesterday i saw Vidya Balan at the Crossword store at Imax theater. With that, the list of artists (actors, actresses, painters, socialites, etc) i have seen within a distance of 20 meters goes something like -
1. Anupam Kher
2. Siddhharth Kak
3. Rajat Bedi
4. Aishwarya Rai
5. Anil Kapoor
6. Amol Palekar
7. Jehangir Sabavala
8. Yash Birla
9. Vidya Balan
10. Smriti Irani
11. Amitabh Bachchan
12. Arjun Rampal
13. Farhan Akhtar
14. Ritesh Deshmukh
15. Falguni Pathak ;)
16. John Abraham
17. L. K. Advani
18. Sonal Mansingh
19. Hiten Tejwani
20. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
21. Sonali Kulkarni
22. Bindu
23. Shiamak Davar
24. Pandit Jasraj
25. Javed Akhtar
26. Durga Jasraj
27. CM Ashok Chavan (26th January, 2009)
And a few TV artists...

So, what's so great about getting to see the stars in person? Nothing actually!
i don't have autographs of most of them. Didn't feel like it.
How about knowing a few real life stars?

Saturday 20 December 2008

5 Weddings, 9 New Dresses, Calories Addition and a Few.....

Phew!
With yesterday's grand wedding through, the row of important weddings (where you got to not just attend, but stay back till late and wear outfits that show that you are closely related) is done.

All the weddings were from the maternal side, (mama's daughter, masi's daughter/son) so met pretty much the same people. So, dresses also couldn't be repeated, which was a good thing for me :) So, the new dresses.

Of the 5, 2 were really lavish and big scale. The 3 small ones were warm and intimate. The lavish ones, of course, had scrumptious spread of food, to say the least, of all kinds too. So, the calories.

The entire jamboree, revelry was exciting.

And weddings are the one time when there are a lot of potential matrimonial set-ups being planned. Which is good fun. But watching it from a distance and being a part of it are 2 different things!

Had a great time!
Indian weddings, haa....

Sunday 14 December 2008

Angry!!!!!!!

(Scorned)
(Furious)
(Provoked)

!

It is time now to attack.

Too much of letting them walk all over us.

Too bad dear! Now it is your time to pay and suffer.

And a sincere request and am sure and thankful to you Almighty for making them suffer.

Let them know what it means to punch somebody where it hurts the most. And again and again.

Truly enough!

i pray and consciously and truly want them to be pained. Real bad.

"Saam, Daam, Dand, Bhed"

Tuesday 9 December 2008

Hee hee rambling, bad versing, random

A little bit of spice, a little sugar, a little hope and a little dream
If they all come together and conjure up a reality
Sweeter than a dream, almost like magic
Destiny taking the right turn!


Gave 150 bucks to the TC at Currey Road station.
Pass expired.
Made a few excuses and tried to cover up, but had to shell out the money.
Felt good that i paid for my mistake.
No debts. No regrets.

Will make some more attempts at writing bad poetry, verses.
Am reading 'Midnight's Children'.
Forgot the book at home today, so the train travel was boring.
Missing the book.

Got some important stuff to deliver today, but can't bring myself to do it.
Shucks, don't feel like working in the weddings frenzy.
Guess what will happen when i get married myself????????
:)

Saturday 6 December 2008

Jerry Mcguire Mission Statement (ii)

Some more........

"Putting words to paper is a sacred thing. It's more than a phone conversation, it is a document."

"I am wondering what that exact moment is when we truly, truly love our jobs. Is it during the day, or at the end of the day, or is it years later looking back on all we accomplished? I think perhaps truly loving something is the ability to love it at that moment."

"A life is not worth living if you are sleepwalking through it."

"Let us start a revolution. Let us start a revolution that is not just about basketball shoes, or official licensed merchandise. I am prepared to die for something. I am prepared to live for our cause. The cause is caring about each other. The secret to this job is personal relationships."

Friday 5 December 2008

Jerry Mcguire Mission Statement

Jerry Mcguire is one of my favourite movies. Tom Cruise plays the title role. Initially, i had seen the movie only for him but then i read up about the mission statement that Jerry makes in the 13th Annual meet. That pricked a few of the issues that i feel and face myself, although in a different light.

Some excerpts (found on the web) i like in Jerry McGuire's MISSION STATEMENT,
The things we think and do not say: thoughts of a sports attorney..

"Every time you allow a problem in your life, you are actually at a point of transformation. Crisis is a powerful point of transformation."

"I have not gone to India to explore my life, as my brother has. I have not been in a major car accident, or fathered a child. I have not created a life, nor have I killed anyone. I am neutral. I have a nice home, a nice car, a fiancee who makes my heart race. But I have not taken that step, or risk, that makes the air I have breathed for 35 years worthwhile. I once had a yellow couch. I got rid of it because it was neutral. My life is now like that yellow couch."

"But I have not taken that step, or risk, that makes the air I have breathed for 35 years worthwhile."

"And yet, as I sit here in the wonderful Miami Hilton, I have never been so happy to be alive. I have said "later" to most anything that required true sacrifice. Later I will spend a weekend reading real books, not just magazines. Later I will visit my grandmother who is 100 and unable to really know the difference. Later I will visit the clients whose careers are over, but of course I promised to stay in touch. Later later later later. It is too easy to say "later" because we all believe our work to be too important to stop, minute to minute, for something that might interfere with the restless and relentless pursuit of forward motion. Of greater success. Make no mistake, I am a huge fan of success. But tonight, I propose a better kind of success. I could be wrong, but if you keep reading and I keep writing, we might get there together."

"Somehow all this has been bubbling up inside me. A man is the sum total of his experiences. And it is now that I am interested in shaping the experiences to come.
How can we do something surprising, and memorable with our lives? How can we turn this job, in small but important ways, into a better representation of ourselves?"


Still thinking, still contemplating......

Tuesday 2 December 2008

The Gods are smiling upon us, me!

There couldn't be a better time to have this astronomically novel night. To me, it's like a reassurance that everything's gonna be okay!

Yesterday late evening while returning back from work, a lady in the train was telling her kids on the phone to look at the sky to check out the moon. i thought it must be something silly or oh-this! kind. But just as i stepped out of the station, i looked up.

The moon was right there smiling. And Chanda Mama was smiling such that it immediately lifted my spirits, brought a broad smile on my face. It made me feel blessed! Someone up there is looking after me, us and is there! Someone up there is smiling upon me, us!

i immediately smsed my friends. Some of them cold catch it and i specially asked my friends to show it to their kids.

Wow! What a sight!
That lady also had said that this is an once-in-centuries sight.
I feel inexplicably blessed and lucky to have seen such a beautiful picture.
Thank You Almighty! We, me just needed it.
Fascinating!

P.S. i regretted having a camera-less phone, for not getting to capture that divinely sight. Nonetheless, the memory is captured in the heart :)