Read this

ngels wrote this
http://surreal-flavors.blogspot.com/2008/12/cry-thy-beloved-city.html

read this.. its really thought provoking.

ngels tagged me...

ngels has tagged me a couple of times.. and I being a serious contender to the prestigious award of "Laziest person on earth" didnt pay any heed :(
But today time has come to answer those question that come with the tag..

What do you do when...

- You see a man (or woman) making a pass (trying to woo/flirt/impress) on a woman (or man) you like?
hahhahaha.... It happens all the time .. and most of the time they succeed as well :(.. So what do it do I curse them and will be frustrated and depressed for some time, and will move on :)


- Someone you like, is not attracted to you?
That happens so very often that I have stopped reacting to it.. I'll just try my luck somewhere else.
Mathematically speaking with each rejection my chances of acceptance are improving but seriously I think probability is failing me in this case :(((

- You are attracted to some one, but both of you are in two different cities?
This sounds like a typical movie story..
Again Hypothetically speaking.. there could be two options.. either I am so attracted that my phone bill and traveling expenses will burn my pocket
or else I will look for other (local) avenues :P

- You are reading a book, and your best friend wants to borrow it and can’t wait for you to finish reading, ‘coz he/she has been looking for it for all their life?
Looking for a book for all their life (and not getting it) .. u must be kidding :)..
But seriously if that book is so important to my friend.. I will give that but now is the crisis situation..
was I really liking the book and cant wait for the book to be returned.. then I will either buy a new copy or arrange for a pdf :P

- You help plan his / her career, and then, they go on to achieve it, leaving you behind, alone...
Well to begin with I am not a good planner, but hypothetically speaking if that ever happened I dont think I will care much... 'coz I dont believe people do such things on purpose and maybe someday they will remember me and return (wow this is philosophical)

- Who am I...
"I am who I am".. (that comes from a movie).. To answer in one line.. I am arbit.. simply I dont know who I am or may be never gave enough thought to the question thought one thing for sure I am very LAZY
I am a movie buff (watched a lot of them of varying genre) who loves to read fantasy books (LOTR, HP, Eragon types) though I read some serious stuff as well (primarily fiction)... Love to play computer games (AOE, WOW, Ceaser the list is big)..
My other interests include physics maths mythology history algos computers ... (all thanks to wiki)
Professionally I am software engg :) and lastly I dont think much and hate taking decisions

- What is the One thing that brings-in-smile-to-your-face/or pisses-you-off quite unexpectedly !?!
brings-in-smile-to-your-face .. there a hell lot of things.. ranging from a PJs to GGs .. but most of all company of friends is most pleasing and satisfying :)
pisses-you-off.. again a variety of things but most of all decision making and UI designing :P

- Insert (and add) a new question(s) / statement(s)...
Question to the Tag Maker...and to the tagged fellows:
(Adding a question is most difficult of all.. and all the time my laziness )
~ You liked a movie very much and you come across a guy/gal who thinks the movie was the worst movie ever.. (This happens with me a lot :P)

and here I tag
Ashish - The Iron Bull

Where are the GOALS

4 matches 1 won 2 draw and 1 lost
2 home 2 away
net goals scored 3
Against -
Newcastle United 1-1(home)
Portsmouth 1-0 (away)
Liverpool 1-2 (away)
Villarreal 0-0 (home)

So where are the goals??
The team which scored most then rest last year has scored just 3 goals in 4 games.. And they are going to Stamford Bridge this weekend. Lets hope that they will break the shackles but there is a small glitch the home team had not lost on home ground for quite some time now
And the red Devils always do the things "The Hard way"
so may be this weekend the home team record will be shattered :)

Long Time No Blog

Its more than a month without new post :(
So Why No blogging for the past 1 month.. The reason I am busy.. really what the hell are you doing? I am playing WOW that's the primary reason.. WOW is one of the best games I have ever played. Its a marvel in every aspect.. firstly amazing graphics and story line. The whole setup is astonishing. Simply the Best (By the way I am a 62 lvl blood elf fire Mage :P also a low level draenei shaman, human warlock and human priest)

Thats not complete story though, I spent 2 weekends at home doing nothing :) what a blissful time that is.
Apart from that watched three really great movies
1. The Dark Knight (watched thrice.. Joker you will never die)
2. Wall -E (Pixar can make anything act earlier it was monsters,cars this time it is robots.. Please send bollywood actors to them)
3. Rock On (One of the most refreshing bollywood movies.. amazing sound track awesome songs.. going to watch it again)

Thats all for now.. will be back soon:)

Crime and punishment

I have been thinking about something lately and just want to share... As a regular habit I read newspaper and all around there are news of crimes.. and I wonder do we really have a better system today as compared to our forefathers to stop crime or rather to stop criminals. As a matter of fact this is highly debatable because I don't know what was the crime rate at that time or is it just the information overflow that makes me aware of all the crimes.. but still let me share my thought..

Well some time back I was reading an article on criminal psychology which argued that punishment can not stop crime rather it just motivates the criminal to evade it.. And the current situation is very much like that only, criminals evade punishments..

So I was thinking If we can design a punishment that can not be evaded and then I thought of GOD, and imagined that our ancestors must have been really intelligent to come up with the concept that If some one commits a crime he would be punished by GOD.. Here I am not arguing whether the GOD exists or not but If somehow this notion of crimes being punished by GOD can be imbibed into everybody.. maybe they will not commit the crime... because they can no longer evade the punishment..

Lastly I wold like to refer to the incidents of humans trying to evade even the divine punishment for sins by bribing priests, holding rituals and so on and so forth.. Though I am not concluding anything but just think if the origin of the concept of GOD is just a plan of our ancestors to design a punishment that nobody can evade ...

TOW All Lost

Sunday was a bad day.. really bad..
Ok before I recollect what was bad about Sunday.. Let me discuss TOW, I got lot all the seasons of friends from a friend. And all the episodes were named like TOW xxxx..
After some time another friend told me that TOW stands for "The One With". so taking a cue from that I named this post as "The One When" All Lost. (I have been watching lot of friends lately)

So the crux is that yesterday was a great weekend for a sports freak like me (F1, Wimbeldon final and Asia Cup final) and naturally I was supporting temas in all of these tournaments but alas all of them lost..

In F1, I was supporting Ferari, but they could not make to the podium.. :( Though the race was really eventful .. lot of spinning (because of rains and wet track) and only 13 drivers could complete the race. First disappointment of the day.. more were to come.

Asia Cup, India did well to restrict Srilanka below 300, but they could have done better, Had RPSingh caught Jayasuriya when he was at 50. But still the target was totally achievable on a flat pitch that saw targets of 300 chased with ease.
India started off in style with Sehwag in a punishing mood and raced to 74/1 in 9 overs. But then SriLanka used their new bowler (branded as new Murali) and one of the most formidable battling line up collapsed like a pack of cards. The best players of spin had no clue and India lost by huge margin. Another disappointment but the worst was yet to come

Wimbeldon, the castle of Roger was at-last conquered by none other than Nadal. What a game it was.. A truly see-saw battle between two great fighters.. But in the end Roger lost and so does BigV (lost a costly bet). This was a total heart break. Roger was not at his level best but then to he gave a fight to Nadal. And to be truthful I dont line the game of Nadal, Though he is the winner but his game is not as classy as that of Roger, rather it is more of hard work running around and just trying to sent back the return (though he has improved a lot in that as well). On the contrary Roger is pure class, only problem with him being his backhand which is not very strong. And Nadal used this deficiency of Roger to the full extent directing every ball to the champ's backhand. In the end Roger lost and I must say he tried extra hard for each point which deserves accolades. But the bottom line remains "Jo Jita wohi Sikandar" and that was the biggest disappointment of Sunday.

PS: Never want a Sunday like this :(

Skype Rocks

On Saturday, I was successful in my quest of connecting to internet from home. Yes!! At last it was done..

So in the evening I was (voice)chatting with Bunsa through gtalk, when suddenly he came up with the idea of a conference.And as per my knowledge gtalk doesnt support that as of now, so he asked me to install skype. And there after we tried to call a lot other friends as well and started the conference. There were around 7 people me, bunsa, chetan, chandan, sahu, pawan, and Kushagra Sir for some time. Tried to call others as well (atuls, ngles and sajan) but they could not join. But anyway .. it was great to talk to old friends. And then bakar started.

Time seem to melt away and It was same as it wud have been 3 years back in campus in any of our rooms. Amazing environment.. we have not changed at all.. Everything was same as was during campus days.. recollecting memories.. talking about anything and everything. It was amazing. We were in conference for more than 4 hrs. The power of true bakar lies in the fact that u never know how much time u have been bakaring for.. And I had a gr8 time.. Awesome

I am looking forward for more of such conferences. :)