Rajasthan dyaries

Im writing this from udaipur.. will come back and edit it, throw in a few photos.. you know..the works..

so anyway, its been a hectic few days.. here's a brief round up(in order of appearance in my head; may or may not match timelines)

Day 1- Arrival, Shawl place(side note - run by a cool guy called Muza who spends half the year in Brooklyn; drives a CRv so not a bad business at all(!).. he knew someone we knew so we had kehwa @ his place); checked out the city palace and had lunch @ this garden restaurant run by HH(his highness!!!1 the king of udaipur who obviously likes to assert himself like people with normal people with pot bellies, beards and low self confidence generally do)-pretty pocket friendly thali so you should check that out;some random place having vintage cars owned by HH(!); pimped out the jagdish temple and the sahelio ki baadi(chhyeah!) and spent the evening @ the shilpgram village(this ethnic heritage sorta village place with folk dancers, hawkers and all that jazz);roof top dinner @ our hotel to cloje the day(awesome view of the lake)(oh did i mention THE lake-its the Usp of this place, or rather the OSP(only selling point) so everyone likes to have some connect with it)

Day2-Shrinath temple(vrindavan part II),lunch @ the devigarh fort(dh1 recommend),saas bahu temple in the middle of nowhere(awesomeness on the intricate work, epic sun set @ the hill top monsoon palace(guess who owns it..nah i meant HH re) followed by coffee(yay!3 days seemed like 10 years) at the alfresco cafe there..bliss;followed by one of the best dinners i've had in ages @ Ambrai(this romantic outside place next to the bay, with soft live music and on the banks of the lake..my wet dream);did i mention the wildlife sanctuary on our way to the hill top place..

its currently day3..will totally update everything on this once im back..gotta run for dinner..meeting my cousin who's here coz of his CA articleship..its a hard knock life..:l

been a fun lil sojourn till now.. just thought i should send something out..

peace and Louu

dh1

P.S. IAT dd. I A always T.

Thighs Wide Open

The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming collection of poems - Batman in Robin. This is written by a deer friend. 

Bambi!

No i wrote it. 

P.S. You might want to read this in a sing song way. No really.

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Prelude

There was a boy

He used to make gap

In watermelon

Oh yea

Then he use it

To rehearsal

juicy juicy

Fragile Fragile

That boy,

me

Wakaao!

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..A beautiful behind..

I want to sex you

Oh baby, I want to sex you

On the table

I want to banana

In your that place

I want to

Sex you

I want to nude you

And the shaking

Energy

And the

thumping

I give you piggy back

Ride

My Charlie so big

He come around

Charlie the great (Chorus)

Charlie the great

I want to 69

Position

If you don’t know,

Baby google it

I want your finger(s)

And thumb

Holding my,

Ladyfinger

I want to

sex you

And i know you want to me too

Oh baby( chorus)

- Rames “The Body” Jadav 

P.S. Before you judge me, see this http://mailatimes.com/2009/07/21/report-pakistani-men-are-sexy/


P.S. 2 This is supposed to be humorous ! Stop taking everything so seriously! seriously!

the boy who lived..to fornicate

hello to the peoples of the worlds.

before anything, shaving advice - do it just After you've had a bath and NOT before it. that way your skin is smoother and wet (did i mention dont wipe ur face) so its a lot easier and no cuts!

Yea, so people in my work place like to chat up while they pee. Umm, i don't. Which leads to funny situations. Let's just leave it that.

Lately, i haven't been able to go for random meet ups and parties (ooh!) coz of various reasons. No, i haven't become decidedly asocial; it just hasn't worked out for one reason or another. Which basically means, guys, it was just happenstance. its all good; Keep the invites coming!

Man i like work. I just want to get free earlier. Coz the way it stands, it barely leaves time for other things. Like cleaning my underwear(read hand towel) drawer for instance. Or poker. You get the drift.

I started listening to UK asian music back in the 10th grade. Mom said its just a phase beta. Its been 6 years now. Long phase maa.

Man i should've gone for P's social gathering last night. It would've been a night of drunken debaucherous revelry. Sigh.

You win some, you dim sum.

What is up with the way people drive? No seriously. Lanes! They're meant for a purpose. So are indicators(!) And when you can see the light's countdown is about to end, i can see why you might want to set your hair, touch yourself(1) or whatever. Why not start your cars while you're at it eh? Never mind.

Talking of work, I've started doing in 3 weeks what I didn't do in 3 years of college.

No no, i haven't stopped watching porn(2). I meant carrying a wallet. The uncle transformation is complete! *glint*

I need more formal shirts! *hint hint* Talking of which, I'll be 21 in 5 odd months! I dont like the sound of that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYuG1LBkhNI

Its an irish folk song. You might like it, you might not. I do.(dd take note)

Oh and i got a week's worth of gym membership at this new gym near office while i chatted up the owner. Vaaao( saif style)

More later

rgds

Dh1

P.S. Looking forward to Funny People, the movie. Imdb it!

(1) - explore your body. you know, like basturmate and stuff.

(2) - No i don't watch porn. Yes i do. No i don't.

Change in blog address

Waza

Im changing to blog address to dh1opinion.blogspot.com

The change will apply within a week or so. I'll inform all the readers i know (which will obviously take time seeing the vast readership). For the remaining anonymous ones (Thats right. YOU), please take note.

dh1opinion.blogspot.com

Learn it. Love it. Live it.

first day at work

Greetings

When i wrote the coming soon blog on Tuesday(which ALL of you must've noticed(!!1)), i thought i'd do the first day @ work post the next day. But such is life. Work is sort of hectic so never really got the time until now.

Ovar serious ho gya. Don't see any point doing a first day@work post when I've already had a week at work.(fake lol). but i'll do it anyway. (WHAT)

So 9.40(late!) i holler at the receptionist (i think his name is alex. hes black, has a moustache and probably goes to church. every day. to wash away his sins. ok no hes a good guy). im made to sit at the CC desk coz they haven't pimped out(read set up) my cubicle yet. So i sit around. and wait. Normally i would have chatted up the CC lady and joked about some random thing, but then again this is not college. So i sit. and wait. 2 hours and im reading this ppt about the company and what it does. then i get this company report to read. Yawn. I see the CC lady's desk n she has a picture of herself and her hunky husband up on her desk. I have NO idea how she hooked up with him. I think it was a case of inner beauty. That, or bachpan ka vaada.

The day was mostly spent filling up company employee forms, getting my computer, visiting cards (yeah baby) and stuff sorted out. Somewhere in between, my boss dude made a joke about how my desk was being set up in the basement near the car parking.

I forced a chuckle.

It was tough.

That apart, this lady opposite my desk called up her friend to wish her on her 40th birthday and was well, loud. She said, and i qoute, "40 is the new 30". Right. and 20 is the new 10. Yay! Im about to be a teenager in 3 years. * Hi 5 *

Had lunch with SV and D-man and generally chatted up about real estate. Im officially Vijender. You know, the world famous properties guy from Khosla Ka Ghosla? No? never mind.

Yawn. I'm sleepy. I wish i could write more but its like 4 am. No, it IS 4 am.

will try and write soon.

dh!

P.S. Met most of my team over the week. pretty cool ppl them. work has been hectic yea so get tired. very tired. that apart, the traffic is SO effed up i'll soon do a traffic post.Thank god i don't have to drive to ggn.The office dudes are kinda uptight(read a lot older) so i can't joke around as much. But its all good. IHZ all guuuuddddh.

P.S. 2 Man i love shahid afridi. and no, not like Yawn i like his batting Yawn. More like, i youtubed his interviews on GeoTv and spent 3 hours watching them. Yes i can be weird at times. I love u man.

peace up

hello toodles. firstly, back to english.

i don't know what toodles means. i just said that coz it sounds fun. so fuck u.

ok maybe that was rude. so screw u.

much better.

wait, wasn't toodles slang for bye?

so anyway, life is good. by the time you read this, i already would have played cricket at sirifort in the morning followed by drinks in the....afternoon.

cold drinks.

nevermind that. went to ndtv today. their cab picked me up n dropped me back so yay. and i had coffee there.

thats about it. the show was stupid. really. thank u jammu tavi for attending it with me! aside, met karti K ther. that guy looks like he's on a caffeine high 24/7. nice guy though. i like him. when he's not ovar the top i.e.

talking of which, OVAR. i've been saying that a lot. in my book, ovar is used in place of over to add emphasis to the term. ( pronounced ovAAAAr). write that down.

i just want to say ovar, ovar and ovar again.

oh and work starts next week. *chicken dance*. i ended up penetrating the same hole i wanted to in the first place(1). life is weird. which is good.

there we have it. innuendo!

talking of work DevD got thru this other place. really happy man. its cool everything is panning out so awesomely. Its all good. relax.

talking of talking, i was talking to you-dont-know-who about hard ons the other day. you know what i'm talking about. Erections. well, the bone of contention..hahahhaha..ok wait. maybe i should keep it for my R rated blog.

baaki, dd is still dd. senti kyun maarti hai yaar? you know how i feel about juice na!

work reminds me, how will i wake up in the mornings? i mean HOW THE F*** will i wake up on time? Shit will hit the fan. I know. Pagaar kaat lenge :l

I wrote this shit on Saturday but forgot to post it. So i'm just putting this bitch up as it is coz today is a different day and i don't want to mess with Saturday's me.

coz he dangerous.

(1) no you perv. i meant this real estate dope ass organisation called cbre. google us!

रैनडमली तुम्हारा

मेरे प्रिय मित्रों,
सप्रेम नमस्ते ।
आज केवल हिन्दी।क्योंकि मेरा मन् कर राहा है।

पिछले हफ्ते की आई एम् एस कक्षाएं रद्द हो गयीं क्योंकी उन्होंनेअंग्रेज़ी इज्ज़त (Hons) प्रवेश परीक्षा हेतु नई कक्षाएं शुरू कर दी हैं।नोशनल लॉस हो गया। मतलब यहाँ भी कट्टा । भी शब्द का प्रयोग इसलिए क्योंकि मोबिसोल्व ने चूत्याप मचा कर मुझे बेरोजगार कर दिया। वह था कट्टा नम्बर १।

अब मैं फिर वहीं आ गया जहाँ पे पहले था। यानी " बेक टू स्क्वेयर वन" । थैंक यू प्रभु। क्यूँ ले रहे हो मेरा।

इम्तेहान। हालांकि यही हाल जगह जगह हो रहा है(पर मैं ही क्यों?)।उदाहरन - मेरा मित्र शिवताज अमरीका में उच्च पढाई के बाद भी यहाँ लौटकर काम की तलाश में है। यानी जब भगवान् देता है तोह छप्पर फाड़ के देता है और जब लेता है तोह नंगाकर देता है ।
मतलब भगवन = " अ बुली; विद अ हार्ट" ।

खैर अच्छे लोगों के साथ अच्छा ही होता है।

मतलब मैं तोह गया।

बैहरहाल, आजकल काफी भ्रमन हो रहा है। रविवार को वसंत विहार गया और रात में साईडवोक। सोमवार को देव, सत्यम एवं मदान से खाने पर मिला। बाद में चुस्की भी खाई और जीवन मरण इत्यादि पर चर्चा भी की। यह देव मेरी बोहत लेता है। पर दिल का साफ़ है। मंगलवार को माताजी का जन्मदिन था और कल गया गुडगाँव और रातमें क्लब। मतलब काफ़ी भ्रमन।

माताजी को मैने फूल दीये और निरंतर प्रयास किया कि उनकी खुशी का पात्र बनूँ।

फूल रात में लाया था इसलिए सस्ते भी मिल गए। पर ये बात माताजी को मत बताना।

अब मैं चला। ६ बज गए हैं।
यानी स्तनपान टाइम ।
आपका अपना,
द्ध१

पी ऐस १ -
सृष्टि कल विदेश जा रही है। मैं अपने ब्लॉग के माध्यम से आशा करता हूँ कि वह खूब मज़ा करे।
और मेरे लिए कुछ बढ़िया लाये। :)

पी एस २ -
मुझे लगता है मेरे वाहियाद परिहासों से बचे कुचे पाठक भी इस ब्लॉग पे आना छोड़ देंगे।

जय जुन्जुनु

avant garde

Smile. It's the second best thing you can do with your lips.

The first is pick up stuff.

 

If you're disabled.

BOOM goes da RIDDIM

Hello my nigger friends.

How is it hanging?

Life’s a bitch eh?

Underachieved throughout your existence?

No social standing?

Neighbourhood kids still poke fun at ya?

Relationship issues?

Penile dysfunction?

No self respect?

I got just what you need

*drumrolls*

Presenting -> 

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Poison.

Think about it! Give back to the community by cutting down its population(!)

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This is the end of the blogpost.

P.S. If you have any bright ideas, feedback or big boobs, holler at yo boi.

Umm..im not your boy..im just saying..just email me.

Also, the poison bit was just jokes. Don’t experiment with shit like that and blame me later. Come to think of it, you wouldn’t be able to.

just when you thought i couldn't stoop lower !

(..)

Awwal Number*

i love cricket. period.

it is a great leveller. like death. but i digress.

This blog is dedicated to my random blabbering about cricket.

But first, thank you Mr.Modi and the BCCI.meri raatein rangeen karne ke liye! matlab IPL aur kya.Talking of which, i made some moves on my cricinfo league team(proper payoff diagram bana ke.or maybe not) and they paid off. so from the highs of topping the league to the lows of being 16th out of 50 odd people, im back again in the top 5.malinga chaiye yaar. and an all rounder to replace shukla. if only nayar got to bat regularly.Also, thank you balki for your help.

Watching jayasurya and sachin bat together for the 100 run partnership against KKR the other day was just bliss. pure bliss. i love this game. Its sad Punjab lost yesterday though. Yuvi was in top form and im sure Mr. Yograaj Singh is disappointed and will go around shooting people for the heck of it**.

Yograaj Singh, Yuvi ka papa-->

Which brings us to player no.1-my main man Praveen Kumar. He looks like such a gangster with his gold chain, stout build and this silent, dangerous vibe about him. Sai banda hai yaar. Really like that guy for no real reason. What he lacks in pace, he makes up in swing and the way his ball skids after hitting the turf. Plus he's a cool guy, very grounded and very earthy. Can whack a few too. Push him up the order, mr.whoever is the captain for RCB's next match!

My boy Uthhappas up next. Stop blaming jesus and get some runs dude! I was hoping he'd give a serious fight this time around for he needs to make a place in the 11 with the t20 cup around the corner. Why he is screwing up every time, only he knows. Likeable guy otherwise and the reason he is still even in my books is his mosquito squat for 6 off a 150kmph brett lee bouncer in the VB series. Recreate or perish!

The other thing i've realised is, it's always best to go with your gut instinct. Like i didn't want to pick ryder in my team for i thought he would'nt do too well in the IPL. but alas, i didnot listen to the sane part of me because everyone else had seemingly picked up mr. ryder and so there was groupthink and we all know what would’ve happened next.

Coming back,Raina is one proper fighter. He somehow ups his game when the chips are down and fights the good fight. and hits huge sixes at deep mid wicket along the way.lambi race ka ghoda hai.and he doesn’t need to rant and rave like Virat Kohli to show he’s charged up!  He is the reason Mr.lazy genius/heir apparent to tendya(Rohit Sharma, aur kaun) has to twiddle his thumbs on match days.Like the time his place was uncertain in the team and he hit back to back hundreds against them Pakis.Plus he is left-handed so i anyway have a soft corner for him.More power to you suresh.

Moving on, Ishant Sharma. bhai tu itna ugly kyun hai yaar? I'm the last person who'd discriminate based on the way people look, but in his case I'll make an exception.And if that wasn't enough, you should hear him speak. But allah meherbaan, toh gadha pehelwaan. He gets to do what the fakeiplplayer*** says he does in S.A. while i do what Rohit Sharma gets to do in the Indian test team. 

Talking of which, what is up with Mr. Ravi Shastri. Why. WHY did he speak to Yusuf Pathan in english after his hurricane superover innings, when he KNOWS for a fact that yusuf isn't comfortable. What is up with his assumed IamCoolerThanAndSuperiortoEveryone thingamajig? The only guy he seems to have a soft corner(and hard on****) for is our man Yuvi. And i really wanted to hear what yusuf had to say so thanks for nothing ravi ji.

The one guy i love though, is Harsha Bhogle.He is also part of the reason i've grown up loving cricket(the other part being Tendya).(P.S. Totally looking forward to another season of Champions of the World sir.)Its so good to hear him again.All the other commentators JUST DONT MAKE THE CUT. Why don't they get it. I mean, Aamir Sohail?! I could commentate better than him! He reminds me of Mr.Burns(Simpsons). And everytime i see him, i’m reminded of the 1996 indo-pak world cup semi where he rubbed venky the wrong way and paid the price. Now THAT was a game.

And why isn't Tyron Henderson in the playing 11?! Hell, RR paid 650,000 for him they sure as hell could do with a few runs. And the guy is Good. Surely better than Quiney, Paul Valthadey or whichever shitty player they pick to fill up the 4 qouta. WHY? Why Warnie WHY?

Team talk then. I really want Delhi to do well. But we NEED warner in the middle. I mean dinesh(nice helmet) karthik at no.5? viru kya kar rah hai yaar.And it’s about time pidge came into the scheme of things as well. Half the IPL is already gone! Deccan has played to potential but I would want to see how they keep it tight once edwards is gone.Ojha reminds of Jose, the VJ. He flights the ball the same way Murali Kartik doesn’t. Isliye chance hai iska. Brownie points coz mere jaise lefty spinner hai! hehe.Punjab could do with a little luck. They have the firepower but somehow there’s this spark missing. Yuvi came good in the last match so here’s hoping he can bring the team together like Kumble did the other day. Aur kya mast over daala Praveen ne. More brownie points to him. I still have my faith in Punjab though. They’re in my cool book and I want them to win, so win they shall. Chennai needs bowlers although the new ones came good today against Delhi.Didn’t see them play but im guessing they’re better than Joginder Sharma. Everyone is! Consistency wali baat hai with Chennai.But i expect them to do well as well. Mumbai looks tight.They have a good bowling line up  with in form Zak n Malinga keeping Bhajji company.Their batting though, sans the formidable openers, looks a bit shaky so i won’t put my money on Mumbai JUST YET.Which leaves us with RR. Warnie really knows how to extract the best out of his resources and is one of the smartest tacticians this game has seen. More than his moves, it’s his apparent sense of control over the game which I believe must be intimidating for the opposition. Having said that, they really need Smith to fire constantly if they intend to go the whole hog this time. They’re really missing Watson and I’m sure the law of averages will soon catch up with Yusuf Pathan which will then be a tricky place to be in for the RR. Play Henderson, bitches! Raut and Carseldine looked good today though.

On the whole, it’s getting closer than one would’ve thought, so realistically every team(apart from KKR i.e.) has a chance. Lets see if Kumble charged RCB can spoil the party.

That’s all for today folks. Kaafi likh liya yaar.I can keep talking like this forever.

warmth,

dh

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*Awwal Number was  a movie on cricket made by Dev Anand(starring Aamir Khan)

<-- Dev Saab. Scouting for fresh faces for his upcoming movie after the success of Love at Times Square and Mr.Prime Minister Do you have it in you?

** The reference is, Yograaj Singh was supposedly involved in the Jessica Lal murder case

***FakeIPLplayer says Ishant is getting some carnal activity these days in shady places, S.A.

****google what hard on means if you don't know already, noob.

p.s. here's my list of teams for the semis.it is anybodys game abhi but these are the teams i expect to make it to the semis(note that I could be totally wrong. I mean TOTALLY. but i want these ones to go through) - Delhi, Punjab, Chennai, and a 4th. Mumbai won't make it through. sorry Mum.although my dream final would be DD vs MI. but thats the thing with wishes, innit?...

welding fever

Dy ki behn ka rishta aaya. Now where do i come in to the picture?Apparently the guy works in E&Y, where i know some ppl, so i was asked to pataaofy what his salary and job are like ! and yes, hilarity did ensue.

I guess its important to have a job that makes a difference. That’s why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination. Ok maybe not(!), but the point is you need to get "settled" in life before you set the marriaZe ball rolling.eeee. kya badon(oldies) wali baatein kar raha hoon main.cheeeeee.

Talking of which R bhya is also getting hitched soon with someone from the mid-west(matlab maharashtra). Agreed i haven't met him in ages, but phir bhi yaar, ghar ki shaadi hai. ArranZed marriaZe.Koi LOU marriaze karo yaar. Ab toh shobo pe societal pressure badh jayega coz he's next in line. haha! good fun.

Talking of which, met Karn n Dy day before. So this friend of Karn's from college who was dating Dhoni(yehp, cricket captain) is now actually going to get married to him early next year (remember where you heard it first! her name is Sakshi Singh Rawat! guys like to gossip sometimes too!). I hope Karn gets to take people with him to the wedding :) (given that he gets invited in the first place. haha). Had a pretty good time otherwise.also, had yoghurt ice cream which was, unlike most pseudo healthy things, pretty good.

I should've been studying today(..), but instead i saw the blue umbrella. i am a sucker for simple folksy tales and so, had a really good time.Clean and uncomplicated,it was totally enjoyable all the same and pankaj kapur was remarkable to say the least. Vishal Bharadwaj has this knack of extracting legendary performances from his cast(Omkara,Maqbool etc) and he did not disappoint. He has totally upped the children's movie ante and it makes me look forward to his next release(Kaminey) even more.It is a DH1 recommend!

 <--LOUU-->  

Quick fact: Rekha Bharadwaj, the singer with the husky, earthy, sensuous(.. you get the drift) voice (the one who sang Namak Ishq ka, Ranaji,Gainda Phool..) is Vishal's wife. And Vishal has till date, given the music for all his films. So two facts.

My lyrics for today come from Jason Mraz's latest. It takes me back to them laid back beaches in Jamaica(not that i've been to the caribbean in the first place but what the hell!). So without further ado, Jason Mraz- Im yours :)

Well you done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks
Now I'm trying to get back
Before the cool done run out
I'll be giving it my bestest
And nothing's going to stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it's again my turn to win some or learn some

I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love
Listen to the music of the moment babay sing with me
We're just one big family
And It's our God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love loved

So I won't hesitate no more, not yours
It cannot wait I'm sure
There's no need to complicate 
Our time is short
This is our fate, I'm yours

Scooch on over closer dear
And i will nibble your ear

I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and laughed
I guess what I'm be saying is there ain't no better reason
To rid yourself of vanity and just go with the seasons
It's what we aim to do
Our name is our virtue

But I won't hesitate no more, no more 
It cannot wait I'm yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find that the sky is yours
Please don't, please don't, please don't
There's no need to complicate
Cause our time is short
This oh this this is out fate, I'm yours!

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peace and love

dh

of dreams, among other things

i had a dream once where cheap's mom(whom i had met only once before) was crying and being all sentimental etc..odd peculiar dream..

and after a month or so cheap's cheating 1 year flunk fiasco happened.. 

and i had a dream last week during the exams where bappi and dev d were in a car together and met with an accident on the day of an exam.. and THE VERY NEXT DAY they were coming together(which they don't normally do, seeing as one lives in west delhi while the other lives near NOIDA) and they reached the exam 40 mins late for a 2hr paper coz they got up late and got stuck in a traffic jam..

and now i had a vision some time back where john abraham(?!) goes through people and slams into a wall, like a spirit sorta thing. which was all silly until i saw No Smoking yesterday. The movie was abstract, original, self indulgent(director ki or se), experimental and satisfying. But that's not the point.

The point is, the movie had the EXACT same scene.

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!1 right?

Exactly my thoughts.

I mean, growing up i had a feeling of deja vu etc once in a while but then again, so did a lot of other people and it wasn't all bizarre and eerie so i was ok with that. But this isn't like that.

This is more like peeking into the not so distant future.

And the picture of the asian female with THE sun for a bindi ain't helping

My lyrics for today come from The (one hit) Wonders' one hit - That Thing you do from the eponymous movie, written and directed by Tom Hanks. I still love the song as much as i did when i first heard it, and that, my friend, is something.

You,
Doin' that thing you do, 
Breaking my heart into a million pieces,
Like you always do 
And you,
Don't mean to be cruel,
You never even knew about the heartache,
I've been going through 
Well I try and try to forget you girl,
But it's just so hard to do,
Every time you do that thing you do 

I,
Know all the games you play,
And I'm gonna find a way to let you know that,
You'll be mine someday 
'Cause we,
Could be happy can't you see,
If you'd only let me be the one to hold you,
And keep you here with me 
'Cause I try and try to forget you girl,
But it's just so hard to do,
Every time you do that thing you do

I don't ask a lot girl,
But I know one thing's for sure, 
It's the love I haven't got girl,
And I just can't take it anymore 

'Cause we,
Could be happy can't you see,
If you'd only let me be the one to hold you,
And keep you here with me 
Cause it hurts me so just to see you go,
Around with someone new,
And if I know you you're doin' that thing,
Every day just doin' that thing,
I can't take you doing that thing you do

happy holi

dh

p.s. here's hoping cheap gets ok soon, aadhar's dad gets the delhi-6 seat, dev d gets a job and raja gets laid. ok the last bit was a joke.

maybe not.

also, i really need to transfer all my songs from the computer to this thing.

p.s.3. only a month of college to go and then i'm good to go. :l

p.s.4. did you know that khalid mohammad(the ex-HT movie reviewer/critic, fiza director,son of zubeida on who's life zubeida the movie is based dude) writes the under honey's hat column, the one with all the bolly gossip that appears regularly in ht city(delhi) and ht cafe(mumbai)!

I know !

p.s.5. the 1 after the !!!!! above (WTF !!!!1 right?) was intended

bombai diaries

woke up at 4 in the morning on thursday(last).hit bombay at 10.drove to shirdi and reached around 4.30.had jumbo vada pao(of iim guy starting with 2000 bucks now worth 8 crores fame) on the way and it was decent. serious. and dirt cheap. the place we were at was nice and comfortable.went for the aarti the same night apart from random lazing. was good. talking of aartis, the one at the banks of the ganges at rishikesh is surreal. you must check that out once in your lifetime.

coming back, mom and dad went for the morning aarti too, while we were busy sleeping. went to the temple again following which we left, albeit a bit late, for mumbhai. but first, talking of darshans and aartis, i don't get the concept of good and bad darshan and long aartis in general. don't get me wrong, i still love god. but my version is more a manifestation of a superior power rather than saying X god is > Y god etc.Talking of which what is up with agnosticism and animism and shit like that? good going, shatners.

So coming back, reached bombay in the evening. checked out inorbit, hypercity etc which were around the place we were staying before retiring for the night. Over the next two days, covered most of the city from aksa beach(of "tujhe aksa beach ghuma doon"{Oh God Tussi Great Ho}fame) to carter road (of "tu tata ho ya birla, rahe Carter road ya Irla"{some obscure bobby deol movie}fame), from marine drive(wah!) to peddar road, from colaba to cuffe parade,from bulabhai desai road(wah!) to malad(boo), from cafe moshe at kemps corner to hokey pokey at pali hill and from swati snacks at tardeo to leopold cafe somewhere around causeway.

The thing with Bombay man is that there is NO SPACE and too many people. Like if people see a huge garden, then those people will actually stop and stare at it. Serious. We crossed SRKs house around bandstand. I've seen better houses in Sunder Nagar. And bigger houses in Rajendar Nagar. I mean this is SRK right.I know getting a house in Mumbai is a big deal in itself, but this is SRK! Having said that, mumbaikars totally know how to utilise space. 

There are 3 roads in Bombay in total. 3.The main road, the linking road that link places to the main road, and the expressway. So you don't really loose your way since either way, every place is down the road. It's just a straight road city. No east bombay and west bombay. Only North and South Bombay. And the north-south divide is ghastly. It's not like Delhi. If the delhi divide was 10, this is 100. North Bombay is much more crowded, cramped, much much more traffic, building reminiscent of the 80s(not in an affectionate manner; more like old, covered in dust and soot, and no beach. If you can get a place around marine drive/bandra/pali hill, awesome. Otherwise, rehn do. Don't get me wrong; i really like bombay, but it has its shortcomings, most noticeably traffic.

The people dress differently. It's not like delhi females with skinny jeans, osho/converse chappals and a fitted top. Everyone has their own thing going on which is good, although not always with good results. But what's good is they have the whole individuality thing going on. Which is neat. Plus people don't STARE at all. I mean AT ALL. 

It is not apparent in the picture, but every hoarding has a hindi a hindi subtext, including mcdonald's and benetton. That, by the way, is a santro taxi.vary saxy.->

And it(bombay) is totally safe for women. Matlab normal people who go and party travel by BEST buses. Which is unimaginable here.

And the people are really nice. Or maybe i just met nice people. Like i got talking with the guy who owned the Jumbo franchise and after a 5 minute exchange he was like bhai bambai se jaane se pehle mil ke zaroor jana. 

And everyone talks in an oscillating singsong tone. Which doesnot take away from the fact that i appreciated the guy mentioned in above paragraph's kind words.

Here's the list of B-list celebs i saw in the 3 days i was there. The fat kid from Shrimaan Shreemati(Toofan or something, NOT fat anymore), Chandraswami Baba(some baba), Atul Agnihotri(Hello director;bro-in-law of Salman Khan if that counts fame), Abhijeet Sawant(Indian Idol), The female who plays Saloni on Saat Phere...Saloni ka Safar, and last but not the least, Kiran Bedi. Quite an eclectic mix of people. If only i'd seen razzak khan.

If you're wondering who razzak khan is, google.

And at every place, and I mean EVERY FU*KING place there was a hoarding of The Stoneman Murders, some shitty movie with Arbaaz Khan in it. Wtf? I am not exxagerating. I and my sister actually started having 1 minute countdowns for the next hoarding.

It was also sad to see the Taj. We were lucky to have visited the heritage coridor on our flyby visit last time and it was by far one of the best places I've been to.

I really want to write a lot more, but i have college tomorrow and so i must sleep. To cut a long story short, I like bombay but i love delhi. that's just how it is, and that's just how it will always be.

dh1

p.s. see clerks, the kevin smith movie. it rules.

Jai ho

Got a job on friday. 2 actually, and in the shortlist for a third so life is good and god is kind.
Here's hoping for a few years of fun with them iit iim people at work before my masters. The interview went pretty awesome and they offered me a job right then and there. I felt good, simply because i was my natural self and it was great that they accepted me that way. Went for a little dinner with the family so it's all good.

Also got an awesome pair of shoes. It was worth the whole looking around i guess. If you demand and settle for nothing but the best, you get the best eh? Also got more clothes that i don't need and a guitar which i shall now attempt to strum away to glory. I know it's too late but better late than never right?

Talking of clothes, i love blazers->

On a different note, Naomi Campbell was on TV the other day. Nothing special; i just find her name funny. It's I Moan backwards.

Went to the msosa play then. It sucked so hard we were totally blown(metaphorically) by the interval and hence didnot return. I only wonder if Dy and Karn will ever go for a play with me after i made them come all the way for this shit. Don't get me wrong, the acting wasn't bad. In fact, it was actually quite good. All the play lacked was a script.And humour, seeing as it was meant to be a comedy. We were only waiting for Shivain's part but we had waited enough before we had had enough.
I was walking with R a couple of days back(saturday) when it happened.Let's just say we(rather, I) were(was) about to get beaten up by 7 mad gujjars for no apparent reason.Sometimes we search for one thing but discover quite another. Even though I didn't find the mystery girl or figure out the elusive point of it all or other such things of consequence, i did find out something very important about myself... I'm awesome. Haha as you've probably guessed the day was saved, thanks to yours truly. But more than unprecented acts of bravery and common sense, what's significant is it brought us together in some inexplicable way.

Saw slumdog. 

It should get the oscar. Not because it's the best film in contention or whatever, (hell, the wrestler is not even nominated) but simply because it gets the message of hope and faith conquering all

 across so it's really the right thing at the right time and my guess is the academy would love tha

t. Not taking anything away from the movie though. It was quite a ride even though it had its flaws, but is any movie perfect? Sometimes you have to just enjoy it for what 

it is and not nit pick. And i noticed them because there were simply too many expectations from the movie. Sometimes the baggage works, sometimes it doesn't. Like i remember i saw Jab We Met with zilch expectations and came out smiling. It's like the real world actually. If you don't expect too much, you end up getting overwhelmed. On the flipside, if you expect too much, you almost always end up grumpy. It boils down to you.

Talking of oscar buzz, Heath Ledger should get best supporting actor, wall-e should get best animated feature, sean penn should get best actor(milk, although in all fairness Mickey Rourke deserves it for the wrestler),kate winslet should get best actress(the reader), penelope->best supporting actress n waltz with bashir should get best foreign film. Lets see how right or wrong i end up being.oh and Slumdog gets the big 2 (movie, director)+rahman gets both.

My lyrics for today come from a cheesy Punjabi track that i grew up listening and is the theme song of my life.

Haha, just kidding. Love Supreme - Robbie Williams, (Sing When You're Winning)

Oh it seemed forever stopped today 
All the lonely hearts in London 
Caught a plane and flew away 
And all the best women are married 
All the handsome men are gay 
You feel deprived 

Yeah are you questioning your size? 
Is there a tumour in your humour, 
Are there bags under your eyes? 
Do you leave dents where you sit, 
Are you getting on a bit? 
Will you survive 
You must survive 

When there's no love in town 
This new century keeps bringing you down 
All the places you have been 
Trying to find a love supreme 
A love supreme 

Oh what are you really looking for? 
Another partner in your life to 
abuse and to adore? 
Is it lovey dovey stuff, 
Do you need a bit of rough? 
Get on your knees 

Yeah turn down the love songs that you hear 
'Cause you can't avoid the sentiment 
That echoes in your ear 
Saying love will stop the pain 
Saying love will kill the fear 
Do you believe 
You must believe 
When there's no love in town 
This new century keeps bringing you down 
All the places you have been 
Trying to find a love supreme 
A love supreme 

I spy with my little eye 
Something beginning with (ah) 
Got my back up 
And now she's screaming 
So I've got to turn the track up 
Sit back and watch the royalties stack up 
I know this girl she likes to switch teams 
And I'm a fiend but I'm living for a love supreme 

When there's no love in town 
This new century keeps bringing you down 
All the places you have been 
Trying to find a love supreme 
A love supreme 

Come and live a love supreme 
Don't let it get you down 
Everybody lives for love 

Come and live a love supreme 
Don't let it get you down 
Everybody lives for love 

--

Dh1

p.s. if you love me, you may gift me Thierry Mugler's A*Men or Issey Miyake's Pour Homme. Either will do.

the reason

i treated the guys to booze and food on friday, a kind of soft mini bday celebration(which still cost a lot by the way) which presents me with a peculiar problem. it still leaves about 9 ppl that i still need to treat for which i need a) a plan, b) money. also sristay-vasu have already given me bday gifts so more guilt pangs coz i'm yet to treat em :l . i dropped the original everyone coming together at my place/lodhi picnic idea coz i just didn't feel like it. plus i have individual equations with a certain ppl that i don't want to mix up. plus i didn't want to have a huge celebration sort; just didn't feel upto it. plus with the whole gloom coz of the insecurity, uncertainty around etc it somehow didn't feel right. hence, adequate rationale.

i want to talk about Dev D(not the movie) and make it all serious and full of substance, but i won't. i'm sleepy right now so only when i'm fully awake.

oh i'm twenty. and i feel old. and you know what sucks? i can't go to bangalore for the iim fest coz i have the MIB exam on the same date. i'm not even serious about the exam anyway. why must it always have to happen to me. this was probably the last shot i had at going to an outside fest but thanks to sheer bad luck(again), it is another missed oppurtunity. i guess i'll have to live with the regret of not going to a single outside fest, an unreasonable blotch on an otherwise spotless college life. what the fuck right. but in the same train of thought, it doesn't seem to affect me as much as i think it should've, so i guess i'm getting detached from college already.but it still does affect me.a lot.

got a haircut yesterday. it's short enough to not need a comb. not that i comb my hair anyway, but i won't need to play around with my fingers for the next two weeks at least.

Not thinking about my goals too much. simply because then they end becoming things you talk about and not things that you actually do.

movies seen - juno (neat,reminds me of mia for some reason), death proof (fun, underrated), planet terror(grotesque + wry+intentionally daft=i like),departed(awe-fucking-some, or maybe i'm biased), burn after reading (silly, though i don't like brad pitt dying uselessly. plus the female gym instructor woman gets overbearing after a while)

read - the first of 5 hitchhiker titles, after much procrastination. review post completion.for now, suffice to say it is my sort of humour.

my lyrics for today come from Hoobastank, one hit wonders if you will, 's one hit - the reason. i still love it the way i loved it when i heard it about 4 years or so ago. and i'm still not the perfect person.

I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I'm sorry that I hurt youIt's something I must live with everyday
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all awayAnd be the one who catches all your tears
Thats why I need you to hear

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is You [x4]
I'm not a perfect person
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for meTo change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I've found a reason to show
A side of me you didn't know
A reason for all that I doAnd the reason is you 

yours truly

dh1

p.s. i need to buy new shoes since the green ones are coming apart. i was hoping

 i'd find footwear not entirely unlike the converse shoes of yore,in leather.Even the 

alexander mcqueen pumas would do.But alas. And all the other shoes i've seen don't seem to hit the spot.Itna selective bhi nai hona cheeye. also, got free passes for the msosa play from southie boy so should

 probably be checking that out/selling the tickets at a profit.Isse kehte hain win-win. 

Death

i was in c.p. on the 31st circa 8pm, about to leave for home to go back and change and leave again for the night. Namn called up and i assumed i might've crossed him on my way back to the inner circle and so he wants to say hey. So he asks me where i am and once i tell him about my whereabouts, he goes "I'm presuming you haven't heard what has happened." And i'm thinking fuck no. not another bomb in the city. (side note-the security was beefed up around c.p.and when i say beefed up i mean rapid action force cars, about 50 cops with guns moving around the inner circle etc plus the entry of cars banned after 7 and loads of security checks. but then again, this is standard practice in major markets on new year's eve and other such important days so i wasn't perturbed) Turns out it was worse. tarus had been in a fatal car accident in pune 2 hours back. tyre burst, pune expressway, car turns turtle,3 people dead on the spot. including tarus.numb.

the thing is, you read news items like these often but not for a moment do you think something like this could happen to someone you know, much rarely someone you know and like. aah, kids these days. high speed. too bad. next page.

These things never happen to people around us right. right?

Tarus was a genuinely cool guy( i can't believe i'm writing WAS and not IS. and i feel helpless.) which is rare. very rare. he was in my class for 2 years plus we had a few common friends so i did interact with him, not a lot, but not too less either. he was friends with karn, who i was friends with, so we hung out together and it was great coz he was so funny. I even found a few pictures with him where we're making weird faces and generally acting silly.

This is so unreal. I can barely imagine what his lil sister or his mom must be going through right now. And there is nothing one can do to ease the pain. All the soothing words might last a month but they have their lifetimes ahead of them. without a brother. without a son. FUCK. FUCK !

I don't even know what to write or where to take this because it is futile and nothing will bring him back. 

Don't cry that its over, smile that it happened.

right.

whatever.

dh

p.s. i was talking to karn n he told me about his friend from college who was involved in a similar car crash with his family a month back and everyone but the little sister died then and there. and how his(karn's) second cousin killed herself 2 weeks ago. what the fuck is going on. what the fuck.

p.p.s. this after i saw a walk to remember 2 days back. the faith wavers.