Another Tag..

Ok this is one i really like and want to do, coz years from now i am gonna come back and compare notes.. the rules are simple make bold anything you have done..

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink

02. Swam with dolphins

03. Climbed a mountain

04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive

05. Been inside the Great Pyramid

06. Held a tarantula

07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone

08. Said “I love you” and meant it

09. Hugged a tree

10. Bungee jumped

11. Visited Paris

12. Watched a lightning storm at sea

13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise

14. Seen the Northern Lights

15. Gone to a huge sports game

16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa

17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables

18. Touched an iceberg

19. Slept under the stars

20. Changed a baby’s diaper

21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon

22. Watched a meteor shower

23. Gotten drunk on champagne

24. Given more than you can afford to charity

25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope

26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment

27. Had a food fight

28. Bet on a winning horse

29. Asked out a stranger

30. Had a snowball fight

31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can

32. Held a lamb

33. Seen a total eclipse

34. Ridden a roller coaster

35. Hit a home run

36. Danced like a fool and didn’t care who was looking

37. Adopted an accent for an entire day

38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment

39. Had two hard drives for your computer

40. Visited all 50 states

41. Taken care of someone who was drunk

42. Had amazing friends

43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country

44. Watched whales

45. Stolen a sign

46. Backpacked in Europe

47. Taken a road-trip

48. Gone rock climbing

49. Taken a midnight walk on the beach

50. Gone sky diving

51. Visited Ireland

52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love

53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them

54. Visited Japan

55. Milked a cow

56. Alphabetized your CDs

57. Pretended to be a superhero

58. Sung karaoke

59. Lounged around in bed all day

60. Played touch football

61. Gone scuba diving

62. Kissed in the rain

63. Played in the mud

64. Played in the rain

65. Gone to a drive-in theatre

66. Visited the Great Wall of China

67. Started a business

68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken

69. Toured ancient sites

70. Taken a martial arts class

71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight

72. Gotten married

73. Been in a movie

74. Crashed a party

75. Gotten divorced

76. Gone without food for 5 days

77. Made cookies from scratch

78. Won first prize in a costume contest

79. Ridden a gondola in Venice

80. Gotten a tattoo

81. White water Rafted

82. Been on a television news program as an “expert”

83. Gotten flowers for no reason

84. Performed on stage

85. Been to Las Vegas

86. Recorded music

87. Eaten Shark

88. Kissed on the first date

89. Gone to Thailand

90. Bought a house

91. Been in a combat zone

92. Buried one/both of your parents

93. Been on a cruise ship

94. Spoken more than one language fluently

95. Performed in Rocky Horror

96. Raised children

97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour

98. Passed out cold

99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country

100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over

101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge

102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking with the windows open

103. Had plastic surgery

104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived

105. Wrote articles for a large publication

106. Lost over 100 pounds

107. Held someone while they were having a flashback

108. Piloted an airplane

109. Touched a stingray

110. Broken someone’s heart

111. Helped an animal give birth

112. Won money on a TV game show

113. Broken a bone

114. Gone on an African photo safari

115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears

116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol

117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild

118. Ridden a horse

119. Had major surgery

120. Had a snake as a pet

121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon

122. Slept for 30 hours in a 48 hour period

123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. States

124. Visited all 7 continents

125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days

126. Eaten kangaroo meat

127. Eaten sushi

128. Had your picture in the newspaper

129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about

130. Gone back to school

131. Parasailed

132. Touched a cockroach

133. Eaten fried green tomatoes

134. Read The Iliad and The Odyssey

135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read

136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

137. Skipped all your school reunions

138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language

139. Been elected to public office

140. Written your own computer language

141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream

142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care

143. Built your own PC from parts

144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you

145. Had a booth at a street fair

146. Dyed your hair

147. Been a DJ

148. Shaved your head

149. Caused a car accident

150. Saved someone’s life

 I tag Pawan and Sudha ….

Photo meme.. Damn you pawan..

Thanks to pawans stupid, lazy blog posts.. i get stuc kwith things tat are absolutely pointless.

 

But here goes..

 

The story goes thus: the location is srisailam one of  those places near hyderabad called a tourist spot due to lack of anything truly nice.. The swammiji is chanakya(now at iim- l) This was when the jeep refused to budge any further..

 

Done. Pawan, i’ll get you for this

Randomness -1

Keeping your cool takes effort.. I mean i know guys who never get angry.. I do.. I am far far better from what i once was.. I dont fly off the handle and start shouting/fighting at the drop of a pin but i still get royally pissed off once in a while and i try and keep my big mouth shut then..  It often during one of those times that you read me either lashing out at society or at the rest of the world.. Thats just the way i am..

Now coming to todays pet peeve, how does anyone see anything entertaining on TV.. I can hardly stand more than half an hour of the idiot box and that too when one of my favorite sitcoms are on.. I cant sit through a whole movie thanx to the zillion ads they play.. Nowadays i cant even sit through a cricket match.. Which brings me to the question that do we turn less and less patriotic till we turn sixty or something and then once we have nothing to do again start doing/ berating things around us.. ?

Human beings are the only creatures that can smile apparently though i can bet i have seen a few real ugly cats smile (feline superiority).. I wonder if theres enough smiles doing the rounds.. If laughter is the best medicine i got a few people around that everyone should meet.. They can actually laugh on demand and often have set and broken their own records at it.. So yeah, i get my daily dose..

Fooling around and being foolish are two different things.. I realised that thanks to the abovesaid friends, these guys are not intellectually lacking but enjoy their time of and crack up any company they are in.. They are not the jokers in the pack and it is effortless , i envy them sometimes for their obvious lack of any bias to the quality of the jokes..

As you all will have guessed by now this post has no real beggining and is ending as it started in randomness.. Guess my blog is a lot like me in that way..  It reflects my moods without actually telling you what is going on..

Have fun , you are already a month into the New Year so am hoping your resolutions have all been broken.. To the ones still fighting , all the best.. You know what you are missing, it just about how bad you need it..

Apparently i am not bf material on first sight but real good husband material on hindsight..

In the Shadows i prosper..

I accept that i am a shadow reader , i rarely comment and often leave without so much as a “HI”.. The chance of anonymity, the ability to scrutinise someone at will (agreed that its only the parts they share) and then to mentally create a pciture filling in the holes urself, the utter freedom to come and go at will, the idea that you can get away with almost anything you type (unless one is really popular , brickbats are often not brandished).. Of course there is a lot of copying that goes along ,but consider it as yourself being qouted.

The people out there are amazing, i read everyone from 60 year olds to 18 year olds.. The amount of creativity is amazing.. The accomplishments are no small deal either.. There are movements happening online, ranging from spreading the word about household abuse to generally educating the world on safer ways to survive without killing the rest of the world.. There are awards galore, photographs of a thousand hues, from mobile clicks to professional clicks, photoshoped visions to sepia memories..
Sometimes i feel sorry for some of them, some i frankly dont understand..
Sometimes they surprise me with wit, some open up worlds that we seldom see..
Sometimes i wish i could write like them, some give me a complex..

Its amazing how much there is to read.. Social networking is fun but enter the blogosphere and u will see that there is much much more.. poking or pinching someone might not be possible here, but sometimes a comment gets unexpected replies.. It reminds you that there are people like you out there, some scarily so.. It shows u a lot more than the profile pic and the about me column.. It shows people as they are, as they want to be and as they aspire to be..

This is my silent salute.. A shadow stands in attention and gives bloggers what was long due.. You all rock, every single one of you (yes even the ones i dont read).

Puppies and Butterflies make my f*c&!ng day

Scribblings- Ted Mosby & Waiting..

Ted Mosby, Architect. I dont know how many of you have even heard of him. To the uninitiated Ted is the protagonist of the sitcom on Star World ” How i met your mother”. Its hilarious, and anyone who doesnt compare every sitcom with Friends will enjoy it. This post though is not about Ted or the Sitcom. This post is more on the lines of a single dialogue that Ted says half way through the first season, ” Right now, the roof seems to be as good a place as any other.” He is hoping to meet a girl he had met three years ago at a halloween party becuase he felt he had a connect. By the end of the episode he accepts that he didnt really expect her to turn up. But it seemed the right place to wait for the right woman.

 Its amazing how much men actually keep hidden inside until the right woman comes across. And how long we can wait, in our cynical, macho , rugged masks. Every one needs love, there i said it. Some more than others , more at some times than other times, sometimes from a friend , sometimes from a lover , sometimes a parent, sometimes from a child. When a guy looks for the lady to spend his life with, he expects her to fill all these roles at different times. Because sooner or later the above said instances are going to come along when the only one around is the girl.

Whats my point? Well nothing really , am typing in a thought hoping that it will make sense to some of u sooner or later. Plus, online seems as good as a place as any to wait.

As the Dust Settles…

The new years is probably here by the time you my readers get to this blog.. But instead of making empty promises (also called resolutions to self) i am going to take stock.. Not of my life as is the fad these days.. My life is just fine and i dont need that out in public more than it already is ( those of you who are reading into it, go ahead)

Taking stock of the world as a whole, there isnt much left of it with banks going bust, people going broke and the big mean machines getting a shot in the arm while they should have been wiped off the earth. We are slowly but surely heading to total doom (if this sets of a panic attack , dont worry its not gonna happen in your lifetime).. On the bright side companies are going green or advertising it, real estate prices are falling , petrol prices are falling and air travel is cheaper (so if u ever wanted to take that road trip or make a foriegn tour nows the time, your job might not be here when u get back but then its a new year, and that sounds promising doesnt it)

Coming to India, oh India, My India.. We are on the all the right maps, in all the best circles and even on the moon (Chandrayaan people). We have finally won a gold medal at the Olympics (1 gold for a billion – bahut nainsaafi hai). And just as we were sitting back and basking in glory, we were attacked.

Now this is where i digress a little. I have sat and heard the innumerous rants and ravings about why, who and whats that surrounded the issue. I believe that as always we have done what we are best at. Raise a hue and cry, beat up a few people, sling a little mud, hurl unparlimetary names at the government and then let the dust settle. We are a nation of people who are just a little too docile and proud about it. We should be ashamed that anyone and everyone can walk in uninvited, plant a bomb and walk out. It doesnt really matter who they are. They were pakis is secondary. It could have been anyone, think about it, they had a reason that was stupid but the whole damn country was up in arms trying to kill them, nuke them out of existence even. Rage was vented on anything paki. Even artists were not spared. Now when the dust has finally setteld, and mumbai that phoenix of a city is back to business as usual, have we forgotten.

I am not angry at anyone but myself, whoever attacked us it was because we let it happen to us. We boast around and hide behind (mostly the latter) our so called culture and civilisation so much that we have almost let ourselves be blinded by what is in our faces – We are now long past the glory phase. The story was over years ago even before the British took over (that was why they took over people, because we were way past glory and glam). In the here and the now the facade is slowly breaking , while on one side we are breaking the cannibalistic , snake charming stereotype on the other we are also bringing to notice that there is a lot that has been brushed under the carpet. We are a developing nation you might say in defense. Well, is there an end date to that development ??? When will we be developed?? When will we stop hiding behind everything history says we were and truly be proud of who we are ???

My share of ranting over, i am going back into my selfish existense, i have to find a party for tonight.. Being alone is just too nerdy these days..

Oh and on the personal front, my year as an office going, earning citizen has definitely left a few pockets thicker (including my dads who doesnt have to support me and all those people who sold me everything from toothpaste to teradrives)

Adios Amigos !
Wishing u all the very best life has to offer, the happiness of a lifetime and the drama of a never ending hindi movie..

Its Complicated

Your silence holds my wandering mind..
It seeks meaning for clues it cant find..
Asking you why draws but a glare..
An expression of grief, some despair..

Nothing happened but something broke..
There is no fire but there is smoke..
Try as i do to reason or rhyme..
My answers arent worth a dime..

Why is it that its not right..
Simple as it is in plain sight..
My question has been negated..
All you say is Its Complicated..

Complicated

Complicated.. The word is now in my personal list of offensive words..It has the knack of turning up at all the wrong places and being used in all the wrong contexts.

Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes ) said, ” I am a simple guy with complex tastes”. Now i can accept that. Complex as a word is somehow more logical. Complicated is not. And people use it so often these days. They dont wanna talk about something- “Its complicated”. They dont really have an explanation – “Its complicated”. The word turns up in the most mundane situations and conversations. It pisses me off (A LOT).

The fact of the matter is that it has become one of those sets of words that are slowly reducing the meaning and beauty of language, like “Actually, Maybe, You Know, “. These fillers that are used for stealing time, are killers of conversation. They make a person lose interest. Then u use “Its Complicated” and WHAM! the conversation is actually dead.

Note to readers: Try and use as few fillers as u can. And never use “Its complicated” if u cant answer why.