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I miss sleeping :(

I miss blogging :( :(

I miss you guys :( :( :(

Dhiskiaon dhiskiaon

Oyye Shatab Shatab oyye. Here's the tag :)

1. What does your user name mean?
It means 'baadal'.

2. Elaborate on your user photo.
It is a JPEG image by yours truly which says 'you are we'. Its a play of words on my first name 'U R V'. I used to do a lot of drawings in MS Paint when I was young. I mean main abhi bhi jawaan hi hun, par ab fursat nai milti.

3. How many comments do you have?
I am not gonna count mate. However if you want any web analytics stats, I can pull 'em out of my statcounter.

4. What's your current relationship status?
Single.

5. What exactly are you wearing right now?
Blackberry trousers and a John Miller shirt. Shirt ka size hai 42. Trousers ka size main nahi bataane waala :P

6. What is your current problem?
Analysis and estimates for a color editing tool

7. What do you love the most?
Being with my family and friends

8. What makes you most happy?
Lil kiddos :) aren't they adorable

9. Are you musically inclined?
Err.. I listen to music.

10. What would you do if you woke up one morning and found out you were on coccaine?
Eject the Dev D dvd playing in the dvd player.

11. If you could go back in time and change something, what would it be?
World war - III

12. If you MUST be an animal for ONE day, what would you be?
Owl. And sleep all day long :P

13. Ever had a near-death experience?
No bubba. I have not yet met Paulomi ;)

14. Name an obvious quality you have.
I can be obsessive.

15. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?
Aye dil hai mushkil jeena yahaan, zara hatke, zara bachke, yeh hai bambai meri jaan.. I miss home..

16. Are you happy today?
If it does not rain in South Africa, I will be.

17. Who will cut and paste this first?
We shall come to know. Patience naam ki bhi cheez hoti hai yaaron :D

18. Name someone with the same birthday as you.
Plato, woh philosopher tha na.

19. Do you have a secret crush on anyone
Yo.

20. Do you have a garbage disposal in your kitchen sink?
As a matter of fact, I do not have a kitchen!! I am staying as a paying guest :D

21. Have you ever been in a fight?
Nahi. But I might soon get involved in one with a certain h.o.d somewhere!!!

22. Have you ever sung in front of a large audience?
Yes. During my company's annual party. I pity the ones who stayed through the "performance" ;)

23. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Eyes

24. What's your biggest mistake?
You mean till now?

25. Say something totally random about you.
I am in a very cranky mood right now.

26. Has anyone ever said that you look like a celebrity?
Yep. Friends and relatives are of the opinion that Abhishek Bachhan looks like me :P

27. Are you comfortable with your height?
Yeah.

28. What is the most romantic thing someone has ever done for you?
Fallen in love (?)

29. What are your favorite smells?
Bheegi mitti, food..

30. What's something that really annoys you?
Long tags. I don't think a tag should have more than 20 questions/points.

31. What's something you really like?
Blogging.

32. Do you give random hugs and kisses?
Only to hot girls ;)

33. What's the latest you have ever stayed up?
5:00 am. I neither had exams nor was I partying.

34. Have you ever been rushed to the emergency room?
Nope.

35. Whom would you tag?
Nobody. Very few people actually take up the tags. Not everybody is vella like me :P Still feel free to be a sport :)

You are the Bhai

Happy yappy budday Bhai :)

In the blogger, all over blogworld,
you are the Bhai,
you are the Bhai,
you are the Bhai ;)

By the way, you want shoes for your birthday. How do you want them delivered Bhai? George Bush style mein ya Chidambaram style mein :P And you want them at the bus stop or something :P

I started blogging after I became a regular at her bar. Thanks Sanch for introducing me to her blog :) I still love hanging out over there. Maybe we can meet up sometime at a real bar. Whassay Sash ;)

You rock Sash! Hail Sayesha. Or rather HEY Sayesha ;) :P

अतिथि डाक

Here is a guest post in the form of a poem by our super talented Tinni. Iss blog ki shobha ab aur bhi badh gayi. Thenkoo so much babes ;)

wings of poesy
soar into the sky
colours of the rainbow
enlighten even the night

blessed indeed are poets;
artists, lovers and friends
they may die, shrivel and wither
n still live through the gems they penned

oh how i wish to immortalize this life and times in rhyme
the verse is weak; the poet unknown
and yet i hope to raise the rhythm divine.

~ Tinni

After reading her poem, I got inspired and penned down one myself. Ekdum spontaneous on-the-spot types. So you guys have to now pick a winner out of the 2 poems. Here goes mine:

Twinkle twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.

So go ahead and pick a winner. You can use parameters like originality, literary depth, blah blah, bleh bleh ;) And remember while choosing the poem, mine is the latter one. The 2nd poem. Nichu waala. The one 3 lines above ;)

The chosen one

In response to Stupidosaur's comment on the previous post:

Yes, the header pic was taken after I joined the IT industry :)

And lately I have been inspired by the Bolly guys getting various sized packs. Aamir survived on some 16-18 odd egg whites per day. I too am following suit when it comes to the diet. Me n my roomie hogged 18 eggs - whites, yolks, everything - in the form of omlets and egg bhurji for lunch!!

However when it comes to Aamir n me, there is one small difference. Aamir went for the eight packs. I am concentrating on just one pack ;)

PS: I think I will have to start doing some serious workout (read light jogging in the beautiful Bangalore weather) before people start rolling me over for games of football :(

eltit

"He who thought money was everything certainly never had any friends..."

Two wonderful bloggers Sarath and HP were brave enough to publicly admit that I am a friend of theirs. Thank u guys. Muaahhhh :)

The tag rules include nominating 5 other blogs with the award. But that's just not possible. I mean just 5! Come on!! Instead I want to share this award with all my dear readers. May we indeed remain friends forever. And may the madness never stop :)

This tag also has a Quotations Tag where one has to write one's favorite quotes. Before writing that, let me tell you something about HP:

She is a F.R.I.E.N.D.S fanatic. She loves Calvin and Hobbes. She is very good at multitasking. She is a very good photographer. She is a Cancerian.

Bottom line: She is a she. :)

Now as for the quotes, I could not recollect many. Below are some of the few that came to my mind:

"John, on your death bed, you will not wish you had spent more time in office."

- The Monk who sold his Ferrari.

"It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- Albus Dumbledore

"A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."

- The Godfather

"I'm going for second," he said. "Today we went to the moon and saw the astronaut"

- The cyclist Beloki on Lance Armstrong in Every Second Counts

"When we talk about the poor, so often it is talk about getting them off the streets or getting them a job, so they don't starve. But we never talk about getting excellence for the poor."

- The World is Flat

I tag the following people with the Quotations Tag:

Sayesha - who better than to tag an editor ;)
Abhinav - dude, get the comp working fast. Or I'll send Arnie to get you back :D
Bhai with chai - please do not include any parser/lex related quotes :P
Homer - you need to post something on the blog alright Ms India ;)
Think tank - this tag might help with the writer's block

Kabhi aisa lagta hai

I was tagged by Express and may I say that I have moved at a very slow pace to do the tag. I wonder why she asked in her post if I do tags. Yepp I do. The proof is here, here and here. In fact I love to do tag posts :)

The rules:

1. Put your music player on Shuffle mode
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer
3. Write the song name no matter what (even if the world comes to know that I keep Himesh Reshamiya songs on my PC ? :D)
4. After you've answered all of the questions, tag 5 other people and let them know they've been tagged.

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Tu mere saamne, main tere saamne, tujhko dekhu ke pyaar karu.. (Yeah right!! Like I have no other job. Haan agar yeh niche waali kudi saamne ho to bindaas bolega. Baar baar bolega)

Yes. She is damn cute. Period.

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Sacrifice - Elton John

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams (..those really were the days)

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Ik din ayega - Jal (pata nahi kab aayega woh din)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Kabhi aana tu meri gali - Euphoria (hoodi baba. Don't get me wrong. I have no malicious intentions)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Lamhay - Jal (I wonder what I would do without Jal, Strings, Junoon, Parikrama..)


WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Yaaron - K.K (..dosti badi hi haseen hai, yeh na ho to kya phir bolo yeh zindagi hai.. Its almost like the hindi parallel of Remembrants I'll be there for you..)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Boulevard of broken dreams - Greenday (The guitar. Ossum)

WHAT IS 2+2?
Talli ho gayi (kisi ne talli ho ke hi yeh question daala hoga)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Woh chali woh chali mere pyaar ki kali (Haha. Don't run away dude. I love you, but only as a friend, in appropriate amounts, as permitted by the law)


WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Rock on (..dil kya kehta hai mera kya main bataun, tum yeh samjhoge shayad main pagal hun)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Bhool bhoolaiya :)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
XL ki kudiyan - bodhiTree (What the heck!! Reminds me of Chandler's "If I were a guy..")

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Pappu can't dance saala (Yes I can beat Chandler when it comes to the dance floor)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Tokyo Drift (?!!?)


WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Maa tujhe salaam - A R Rahman (aur Rahman ko mera salaam)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Jame raho - Taare Zameen par (Hahahaha)

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Zara zara behekta hain - RHTDM (Another one of my favorites. Such simple yet beautiful lyrics.
..yun hi baras baras kaali ghata barse,
hum yaar bheeng jaaye is chahat ki baarish mein,
meri khuli khuli lato ko suljhaye tu apni ungliyon se,
main to hun issi khwaish mein..)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Pehli nazar mein - Race

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Roobaroo - Rang de Basanti (Rahman magic again)


WHAT SHOULD YOU POST THIS AS?
Kabhi aisa lagta hai - Lucky Ali (..dil mein ek raaz hai jisse kehna chahun par main keh paun na.. I love Lucky's voice.. )

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS TAG?
Jaane tu meri kya hain - Jaane tu ya jaane na

Wohkay. Now the rules ask me to tag other fellas. But I am in a fix coz this tag has been around Blogville for quite some time. So in all probability I might end up tagging someone who has already done the tag. (A thought did strike me to visit all my feed reader blogs and go through the older posts but then why enlighten the world about my joblessness ;) So if you have not done this tag, please lemme know* in the comments section.)

* If you read this post, and if you have not done the tag, and if you run away without commenting, I will come to know. I have my contacts. Muhahahah :D

Update: I have found my bakras :P :P I tag the following people:

Sarath

Mayuri

Sanchit

Pizzadude

Nidhi

Ulta pulta

Is there something wrong with me or is Ranbeer actually prettier looking than Deepika? :)

PS: Blogroll updated. Hence the title.

Day 38 (i)

Bengaluru, India. August 24, 2008
11:51 am

Woke up at 8. Brushed teeth. With Colgate. Went for tea. Went walking. Walked with the help of legs. Reached restaurant. Was very exhausting. Ordered tea. 7 rs. Drank tea. Nice. Came back to room. Got ready. Wore clothes. Reached office. At 11:00 am. Working. And blogging. Can't stay away from you all for long.

What!! You don't seem to be enjoying this post. Well, I just thought to try out the Big B style of blogging. With all due respect sir, please give people like me some breathing space between your posts. It takes him less time to put up a post than it takes China to win a gold medal at the Olympics. Aah.. If only there was a medal for blogging. And India would have bagged one more :D

Oh! In case you were wondering about the post title, it is also inspired from Mr. B's blog. You see the posts are numbered as Day 1,2,3,... And in case there is more than one post in a day which happens very very often, it is posted as Day x (i),(ii),(iii),...

This post has been named Day 38 since 38 is the number of days I have managed to live all alone. Roomie had gone phoreignwa and has returned today. And today happens to be his Happy Budday. So here's wishing you a very happy Happy Budday buddy.

Got to go now. For lunch. Will eat Punjabi. Roti sabji. Paneer sabji n tandoor roti.

More later,

Love

Main aisa kyon hoon

Here is the Unspectacular Quirk tag:

1. Link the person who tagged you.
2. Mention the rules on your blog.
3. Tell 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them.
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger's blogs, letting them know that they have been tagged.

While I was having my cup of tea, Bhai with chai left a comment on my blog informing me that I was tagged and Trinaa who keeps things simple decided to complicate the already cluttered blogger database. Thank you both for tagging yours truly :)

I tag those:

• who have not tagged me before
  
• whom I have not tagged before
  
• who have not already done the tag

Nidhi
Keshi
Kanan
Solitaire
Pizzadude
Think tank
(names are in ascending order of the blogger name lengths)



I cannot concentrate much in the evenings. So in school/college during exam times, I used to sleep real early, say 8 or 9 and wake up at 1 or 2 in the night. And I could not start studying before having tea, followed by taking a bath. Yes, a bath at that time in the night.

Its not an easy job being my roomie. I need to sleep with the fan on. No matter how cold it is.

I have 2 modes of shopping: On-the-spot-spontaneous-shopping and the other overly-planned-time-consuming-shopping where I will go and check out every shop in and around. The wife's not going to do much complaining I guess.

You will not find any tangled wires around me. I like to have things straight n simple.

JOEY DOESN'T SHARE FOOD!!!* I am Joey.

Thank heavens to those people who put the T9 dictionary in mobile phones. I jus dn gt d kewl sms lingo. K den. Chao til d nxt pst :)

*except with really really close ones

Title ko maar goli

I picked up this tag from Solitaire. The rules of the tag are:

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Use only the first page of results, and pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.

Now while using Flickr, some funny pics came up. So I will first put up the funnier ones. The actual mosaic image is towards the end of the post.

1. What is your first name?

Apparently lots of weird images came up when I searched for my name. Some censorable ones too popped up :D


2. What is your favorite food? right now?

THATS my favorite food?!! No wonder I am number 1 on the Hit list of the PETA campaigners !


3. What high school did you go to?

Oh yes, that was my high school. I was in Griffyndoor. And also the Seeker, captain of the Quidditch team


4. What is your favorite color?

Note: There's nothing funny about this pic.

5. Who is your celebrity crush?

Maybe, the ship's full of hot chicks :D

6. What is your favorite drink?

Some beautifool fools for a fool like me...

7. What is your dream vacation?

Most men would pay anything for this kind of a vacation ;)

8. What is your favorite dessert?

Don ko pakadna mushkil hi nahin, na munkin hai. Those are police vans in the pic.

9. What do you want to be when you grow up?

How did the Flickr people know that Playboy is my favorite magazine!! :D

10. What do you love most in life?

No ways. I am neither a workaholic nor so tech savvy...

11. What is one word that describes you?

Maybe, its got something to do with the saying 'Men are dogs'

12. What is your user name?

I would love to know what those gals are upto :D

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Here's the actual mosaic with more appropriate pics. Feel free to clarify any answers. And also feel free to take up the tag.

Mera pehla pehla tag

The rules of the tag:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge the person who tagged you.

The books that could not be:
My eyes fell upon 'The one minute manager' that was lying on my office desk. But alas. The authors of the book did not have enough thoughts to show-off with more than a 123 pages. Looks like the tag isn't as simple as it seems.


So then I decided to try out my luck with the stack of Playboys lying in my drawer. Considering the fact that I was supposed to pick up the nearest book, I popped the issue that was lying on the top of the stack. Basically, that is how the concept of stack works. You push things on the top and you pop things from the top. It is called LIFO - Last In First Out. All right, enough of digression. Lets get back on track. I opened the issue and realized the irony. I was supposed to pick sentences form the book. How would I get sentences in Playboy. It certainly would not be so popular if they started putting sentences in it. The only writing one can find is in the form of tattoos on the bodies of all the you-know-who*.

(The tip:
This world is all about acting smart. You see I strategically keep books like 'The one minute manager' and others on my office desk to impress people. The real stuff lies safely locked in my drawer.)

So then what to do. Hmm. Aha! Dimaag ki batti jal gayi! Apun ki company mein library hain jahan pe kitaabein hoti hai. I found this the nearest in the library:

I had read this one a year or so back and remains one of the most worthwhile reads. I opened page 123.

The 5th sentence:
Then along came the triple convergence.

The 3 sentences that follow:
The Berlin Wall came down, the Berlin mall opened up, and suddenly some 3 billion people who had been behind walls walked onto the flattened global piazza.
Here's what happened in round numbers: According to a November 2004 study by Harvard University economist Richard B. Freeman, in 1985 "the global economic world" comprised North America, Western Europe, Japan, as well as chunks of Latin America, Africa, and the countries of East Asia.
The total population of this global economic world, taking part in international trade and commerce, said Freeman, was about 2.5 billion people.

The tagger acknowledged:
stupiodaur, I acknowledge you.

The tagees tagged:
sanchit
adee
Thomas L Friedman - the author of The World Is Flat
Ken Blanchard - author of The One Minute Manager
Spencer Johnson - author of The One Minute Manager
Pamela Anderson - owing to her association with Playboy
Anybody who has a book nearby

(Other people/reptiles whom I might have tagged have already been tagged.)


* I assume all HP** fans would have thought of Lord Voldemort. Innocent gentlemen like me would have happily imagined the correct things :D And the same innocent gentleman would have been a bit disappointed when after uploading the image of 'The one minute manager', I did not follow it up with those of the mentioned magazine.
** I assume all techies would have thought of Hewlett Packard.

Dedicated to this blog-I

I believe my relation with this blog has grown deep enough to the level that I dedicate a something to it. So today I dedicate a joke to this blog, which is in sync with the blog title and header. The joke goes like this:

Me (to everyone who happens to read this): Zindagi ka safar bada lamba hai. Aao, saath mil kar chalte hai. Kuch tum chalo, kuch hum chale. Phir,................ rickshaw kar lenge :D

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Haan, duniya ki saari gaaliya de di ho, to ab ek smile bhi de do mamu. Hans do mamu. Hanse ne ke paihe nahi lagte. Koi Qute si kudi yeh same PJ forward karti to hanste na. Reply bhi karte na. To comment kar ke do chaar gaali hi de do.

Carrom ramvanu, juice pivanu, majja ni life.
(Solitaire ramvanu, coffee pivani, majja ni life.)

PeeA$$: To all Qute si kudis, feminists and Qute si feminist kudis, do not label me as an MCP due to my usage of 'mamu'. Its just that I am not used to writing in a nonsexist language. So you also feel free to leave Qute si comments.

PeePeeA$$: To those who land here through Google search for the word 'sex', sorry to disappoint you.