as the new year draws close and we get away from the year that was.. the festive people of this festive city make plans to get away...
to bring in the new yeat in style..
to do something special for themselves.. something unique... some go there..
cos its the best they can afford.. so go there cos its mighty convenient...
and some go there cos such was their plan...
Goa the land of golden sand and other nice things (which i may not be able to throw much light on.. as i've never gone there)
the distinct chords goa stricks in my mind are...
1 of my closest friends had a brilliant time with her bf there....
1 of my other friends went there with a few friends to celebrate the end of her CAT..
and when another 1 of my close friends was going to go there for last new yrs.. tsunami happnd.. and she shelved her trip.. .
hmm..
doesn't quite seem like a yr has passed since the advent of the killer waves...
1 of my friends picked up Garage Inc. from there.. coz thtz where he first saw it...
and the sweetest of all.. is ofcourse when my folks went there for a week and i had a blast at home...
haha.. who'd believe there can be so many associations to a place.. without having even gone there
anyway.. as the new yr comes around.. these 3 friends.. head-back to goa...
one is newly married.. so honey-mooning..
one is about to get engaged.. and is holidaying..
and the other is yet celebrating... friends....
different people headed to the same place for different reasons.. with different set of objectives.. and yet ending up within a square mile or so of each other...
maybe it is coz they are from bombay.. only the global-village could define their proximity and their dissonance
Friday, December 23, 2005
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
random thoughts...
She: What is your take on friends getting married?
He: Friends... getting involved is damned convenient.. if they get married that's good.. but if things fuck-up.. you lose a friend and a lover.. kinda sad eh?
He: Whats your take on friends with benefits?
She: no-reply
(two days later)
He: Whats your take on friends with benefits?
She: no-reply
(two-days later)
He:dude.. don't you have an opinion?
She: But i don't understand your question... aren't all friends beneficial... IN SOME-ways.. atleast?
He:(stifling immense laughter) hmm.. .Friends with benefits.. are like fuck-buddies in a lesser degree probably...
and in his head play the alanis lines...
You're my best friend
Best friend with benefits
She: yr definition of benefits is quite diff. well.. i never needed such friends.. nor intend on being 1
She: Your point of view on things scandalizes me so much... i feel i live in a different world.
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Deep thgt on a well-slept afternoon.. mid-life crisis... festive-season-nearing..monkey's having better love-lives... and... impending exams..
what is the best thing i've done till date..
Started boyaz... lol.. funny when you think in restrospect.. put things into perspective.. and all that jazz.. you realise.. how little the things we burn our blood over.. and toil so much for.. really matter...
anyway.. since the yr is coming to an end.. i have decided to have a new yr resolution.. so the next few days will be spent thinking on that one..
He: Friends... getting involved is damned convenient.. if they get married that's good.. but if things fuck-up.. you lose a friend and a lover.. kinda sad eh?
He: Whats your take on friends with benefits?
She: no-reply
(two days later)
He: Whats your take on friends with benefits?
She: no-reply
(two-days later)
He:dude.. don't you have an opinion?
She: But i don't understand your question... aren't all friends beneficial... IN SOME-ways.. atleast?
He:(stifling immense laughter) hmm.. .Friends with benefits.. are like fuck-buddies in a lesser degree probably...
and in his head play the alanis lines...
You're my best friend
Best friend with benefits
She: yr definition of benefits is quite diff. well.. i never needed such friends.. nor intend on being 1
She: Your point of view on things scandalizes me so much... i feel i live in a different world.
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Deep thgt on a well-slept afternoon.. mid-life crisis... festive-season-nearing..monkey's having better love-lives... and... impending exams..
what is the best thing i've done till date..
Started boyaz... lol.. funny when you think in restrospect.. put things into perspective.. and all that jazz.. you realise.. how little the things we burn our blood over.. and toil so much for.. really matter...
anyway.. since the yr is coming to an end.. i have decided to have a new yr resolution.. so the next few days will be spent thinking on that one..
Monday, December 19, 2005
tuesday mornin blues
if i worked too hard sunday-nite and monday went by in a haze of sleepiness... can there be a case of tuesday afternoon blues?
suddenly i feel like... the more you see.. the lesser you actually can tell.. experience instead of wisening you... sometimes makes everything blurry because you have seen do much.. rationalised things on both sides of the normal...
when the running seems in a direction that can best be termed as pointless.. and everything eludes you.. most of all a purpose and a meaning....
i am reminded of an old friend who said.. "life is elsewhere"
suddenly i feel like... the more you see.. the lesser you actually can tell.. experience instead of wisening you... sometimes makes everything blurry because you have seen do much.. rationalised things on both sides of the normal...
when the running seems in a direction that can best be termed as pointless.. and everything eludes you.. most of all a purpose and a meaning....
i am reminded of an old friend who said.. "life is elsewhere"
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Thursday, December 15, 2005
there's something about 3 am nights.. even if you can get here every night of the week.. something about them yet remains charming... be it, the emptiness of the road when you're driving back home... the no-nonsense music play in the radio... the odd-cop on the road reminding you.. that civilization does not sleep in the night.. despite what some people would like to say about the law & order in this city...
the stories we create on these 3 am nights... in a few yrs.. as we hit middle-age.. will be the only one's that we'll have to share.. these will then be the fond re-collections of days when we were young.. when we could follow our dreams.. we had the will & youth on our side, to change stuff...
he'll be a different man 5 yrs from now.. he's already so different anyway.. she'll be slightly different but yet with a very similar role... their differences will merge into commonalities but they'll yet all be distinct individuals all trying to carve a niche.. fighting for their own space..
and hopefully even then i can drive back alone at 3:30 am... and reflect upon their lives and once more try and enjoy the journey than rush towards the destination!
the stories we create on these 3 am nights... in a few yrs.. as we hit middle-age.. will be the only one's that we'll have to share.. these will then be the fond re-collections of days when we were young.. when we could follow our dreams.. we had the will & youth on our side, to change stuff...
he'll be a different man 5 yrs from now.. he's already so different anyway.. she'll be slightly different but yet with a very similar role... their differences will merge into commonalities but they'll yet all be distinct individuals all trying to carve a niche.. fighting for their own space..
and hopefully even then i can drive back alone at 3:30 am... and reflect upon their lives and once more try and enjoy the journey than rush towards the destination!
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
questions?
a friend of mine.. sent me these 20-30 questions which are rather global-gyaan or stuff you try to think about on the macro-level... the bigger questions of life so to speak.... i will try and put forth my view on some of these.. and look fwd to hear from u guys..
What happens when someone’s freedom infiltrates on my own personal freedom? (Yatin)
well.. if this is a person i am friendly with, then i'd try to accomodate and/or propogate their freedom to the extent it is tolerable.. but when it crosses a line.. i'd show them their limits.
.
e.g. say someone is friendly with you.. but is very touchy.. so you'd allow them to be such, knowing its their nature upto some extent, but if it becomes a problem you will draw a line for them..
if the person involved is someone i don't know or care about. i will safe-gaurd my personal freedom at all costs.. since that is all that matters to me.
looking at the macro level.. If this happens in business or something.. i think the answer will be that its a case of survival of the fittest and each person tries to maximum or safe-guard their interests at whatever costs... and may the more determined souls win...
What happens when someone’s freedom infiltrates on my own personal freedom? (Yatin)
well.. if this is a person i am friendly with, then i'd try to accomodate and/or propogate their freedom to the extent it is tolerable.. but when it crosses a line.. i'd show them their limits.
.
e.g. say someone is friendly with you.. but is very touchy.. so you'd allow them to be such, knowing its their nature upto some extent, but if it becomes a problem you will draw a line for them..
if the person involved is someone i don't know or care about. i will safe-gaurd my personal freedom at all costs.. since that is all that matters to me.
looking at the macro level.. If this happens in business or something.. i think the answer will be that its a case of survival of the fittest and each person tries to maximum or safe-guard their interests at whatever costs... and may the more determined souls win...
Sunday, December 04, 2005
the authority of excesses
i've always believed in the power of X's... (pun in pronunciation intentional!)
so why should excessive alcohol be an exception.. even though some people may think a lot of alcohol is actually bad and takes the toll on your mind and body and work and blah!
the point of view that if you do excess of something.. you see it in a ttly new light.. and find new pleasure points in it.. got reinforced tonight!
me and a few friends were sitting for beer ... this was college group and the discussions were usual.. BITCHING about this and that.. love and lost-love how prof's are crap and how much we can do... i don't even need to mention all this... and this is a session or a setting seen only too often... by normal standards of alcohol consumption.. or the ones considered as the right amount of consumption almost all of us will be termed drunkards... anyway..
then suddenly i brought up the topic of how one prof had said our presentations are not creative enough and how we could do so much more...
at this point... 6 people in their early 20's had a 20 min discussion about the types of presentations we make.. .lack and possibility of creativity in terms of content and visuals... the possibilities and so forth.. this wasn't just a discussion but a full-blown debate with each set recommending a different agenda.. now this i think is something so special.. talks volumes about how seriously MBA's especially those from our newly re-christened institution in its silver jubilee year take their studies.. 6 men sitting in a dingy bar and discussing presentation innovation on a Sunday at about 1 am.. speaks for itself!
which reminds me of another great quality of our great school which was highlighted by a dear friend a few months back...
we have a life comparable to a 2 yr vacation.. popular consensus is.. we park ourselves over here so we can rest for sometime and then we go out and work in the corporate world relentlessly.. coz we've already had excessive holidaying and vacation (this reiterates the point the first half of this blog tries to make.. about excess and its weird effects on the after-excess-behavior) and we think that we don't under-go enough rigor or hard-work in our college days.. as almost all of our prof's have no clue what they're doing.. and then suddenly.. one-fine-day! there walks in this prof who has alleged revolutionary ideas and gives us lots and lots of work and assignments to do.. and just like usual students complain again.. this time about how we are from this esteemed institution.. and not so accustomed to hard-work and the addnl work-load.. affects our leisure time...
I love it when there are certain things you can be sure about in life.. like people complaining about the faculty irrespective of their ability or interest.
so why should excessive alcohol be an exception.. even though some people may think a lot of alcohol is actually bad and takes the toll on your mind and body and work and blah!
the point of view that if you do excess of something.. you see it in a ttly new light.. and find new pleasure points in it.. got reinforced tonight!
me and a few friends were sitting for beer ... this was college group and the discussions were usual.. BITCHING about this and that.. love and lost-love how prof's are crap and how much we can do... i don't even need to mention all this... and this is a session or a setting seen only too often... by normal standards of alcohol consumption.. or the ones considered as the right amount of consumption almost all of us will be termed drunkards... anyway..
then suddenly i brought up the topic of how one prof had said our presentations are not creative enough and how we could do so much more...
at this point... 6 people in their early 20's had a 20 min discussion about the types of presentations we make.. .lack and possibility of creativity in terms of content and visuals... the possibilities and so forth.. this wasn't just a discussion but a full-blown debate with each set recommending a different agenda.. now this i think is something so special.. talks volumes about how seriously MBA's especially those from our newly re-christened institution in its silver jubilee year take their studies.. 6 men sitting in a dingy bar and discussing presentation innovation on a Sunday at about 1 am.. speaks for itself!
which reminds me of another great quality of our great school which was highlighted by a dear friend a few months back...
we have a life comparable to a 2 yr vacation.. popular consensus is.. we park ourselves over here so we can rest for sometime and then we go out and work in the corporate world relentlessly.. coz we've already had excessive holidaying and vacation (this reiterates the point the first half of this blog tries to make.. about excess and its weird effects on the after-excess-behavior) and we think that we don't under-go enough rigor or hard-work in our college days.. as almost all of our prof's have no clue what they're doing.. and then suddenly.. one-fine-day! there walks in this prof who has alleged revolutionary ideas and gives us lots and lots of work and assignments to do.. and just like usual students complain again.. this time about how we are from this esteemed institution.. and not so accustomed to hard-work and the addnl work-load.. affects our leisure time...
I love it when there are certain things you can be sure about in life.. like people complaining about the faculty irrespective of their ability or interest.
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