Neo Shanker

today, I learnt something verry useful...and I consider it my duty to pass this gyaan on to u agyaani shishyas..(Sanskrit was never my second language)...I learnt today that whatever they teach u at school applies only to the point of writing ur exams...once ur done with it, please take the unnecassary info off ur head, cos in this world, all that is of no use. I learnt this lesson when I tried to cross the road to get from one end to another by foot in Hyderabad. Here it goes:
Date:29/11/04....Venue:Begumpet, Hyderabad
I was at Planet sports and wanted to cross and get to lifestyle. So I used all the principles od road safety that Miss Sheila Panicker had instilled into me(if u havent figured out, miss shiela panicker was my teacher at kindergarten, n no, I dont remeber her real name..the name i used is fictitious). So I first looked left, to see if there was any vehicle coming, then i looked right, then i looked left again, and then right, then left and then right...but this god damn flow of gaadis just dint take the naam of stopping.....I waited for eggjactly 15 minutes but cudnt move an inch.
then this juntleman wearing the most gawdy pants I have ever seen comes up and stands next to me. Let us call him Neo Shanker(U will get the pun later). now this dude, throws all the values of road safety into the dibba and does this kewl little thing. he llooks straight at the direction where ihe was headed to and sets off with one hand stretched out indicating the traffic to stoop...at first i thot he was out to comit suicide, but 55 seconds later, he was on the us par of the sadak and all the vehicles stopped.....
Me:How...how did he do that?
My Tanhaiyee:He is the one
I mean, neo stopped these 20mm bullets comin at him and the world went...Wow, this neoshanker of ours stopped 120 heavy vehicles in hyd with the strtch of his hand...what do you expect the world to say?
and thus, I achieved road gyaana...jus the way some dude achieved bodh gyaana.....and believe it or not, me managed to do the same feat...took me 2 minutes though...dont trust these bus wallahs....some more practise and me shall master the art...and become neorohit......so out goes my road sense value, out go my moral science values..hehehe...
btw.this blog entry is like a sanjay leela bhansali film...started off sayin something and ended up saying something totally duur from the begining...lol

Sunday Blues

I slept like sleeping Beauty today...the only difference was that...n0 princess woke me up with a kiss...and of course the fact that I am not beautiful....uff, me and my suxy jokes...Well this is the first sunday in a long long time...where i got to sleep till 11:00.....otherwise the AIMCATs wud send me to bathe by 8:30...yawn..how interesting a life i lead.....What else did i do today?....I saw a movie in the afternoon..asusual...Dad wanted to drive down the nostalgia lane with a classic...so we watched Tora Tora Tora.....and I almost fell asleep again!
I learnt how to make banana souffle today....actually I was forced to do so, what with Dad taking my comp and sis the music system, I was forced to watch Tv with Mom ...Khana Khazana....if anybody can overreact after Simi Garewal and Jassi, it is that chef on the show...("yeh namak ekdum lajawab swaaad dega aapke is manpasand khane ko")..and his jokes were worse than mine.(I dont have the nerve to crack one now)...makes me puke....me off before i dirty my keyboard

Do I need to say more?....I wish I cud do nothing all my life!...and still get paid....hehehe

Mike testing

one two three..hello..One two three.....Mike testing ...hello one two three.....theek hai saar...kam kar rahaaa hai!
Not in the mood to post..but dint want to break the continuity of the blog...So I give u the three words i heard the most today...thanx to some Celebrations going on close to Home!!!.....mike testing...one two three...hellooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Naach

I saw Naach today. So I guess today’s blog entry is probably gonna be a review of the movie. So here it goes:
I don’t have the habit of beating around the bush. so I shall come straight to the point. Naach is not the best movie to have come out from the Ramu Stable. But Naach is not the worst either. Actually Naach hangs in between the two. Naach is an intense love story….so if u r going there expecting a Rangeela, get ready to be disappointed. But if u r going there with an open mind, get ready to be mesmerized. At least I was. The pace of the movie is slow…and it being an intense love story, it suits it to the T.
In the acting department, Abhishek Bachchan gets a straight A, he just reinstated my faith in him being a good actor. He just walks through the emotional scenes like no one else before. Antara Mali, I guess is the only one among the current bandwagon of Abbreviated Clothing Genre(Read Mallika, Kareena, Neha Dhupia), who can act. The surprise package is Ritesh Deshmukh who has a cool cameo and also delivers. Hats off to Ramu for tapping thou potential!
Now for the flip side. I think the movie cud do with a little more editing. The Costumes are too loud…and the sudden song and dance outbreak in the second half spoil the pace of the film. A couple of dance steps become too repetitive as the movie progresses.
But all in all, an amazing movie. It has shown things the way it happens. The movie has portrayed the emotions in the manner it needs to be portrayed on screen. So no Mushy mushy stuff here. All in all a Movie for the classes.
My favorite part of the film was the argument between Abhishek n Antara just before the interval…I think everything was just perfect in that scene…at least acc to me.
I would give it 3 stars….would have got 4 if not for the stupid costumes and the sudden and unnecessary songs in it!!!.

btw, a cool offer at Imax...Buy 2 tickets and get the third one free...for all shows before 5:00PM...and watmore, U can also get a game coin free with every ticket. For Once, The Customer is King i shud say!!!

IDIOT Box

Morpheus: Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No.
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea of feeling that I am being controlled by someone else.

Matrix has been played so many times on my DVD that today, my TV began to take Neo's words seriously. Today, the remote stopped functioning...or shud i say the TV refused to let someone else control it.....I replaced the batteries but to no avail....and the whole process of walking down to the Tv which is like 2 feet away from my bean bag to switch channels is a total pain!...and whats a bigger pain?..it is to move from channel 12(MTV) to Channel 45(HBO)...I have to go thru the process of clicking next and scan thru the crap from 12-45....and for once, it made me say it finally
"The Idiot Box" is a total F&^#$% Machine!"..atleast tonite

ctrl + z

It has been two days since my laast post...been busy u c..on the 20th, I was busy studying for the CAT next day..or atleast pretending to study...and on the 21st, I was busy sulking or maybe pretending to sulk after the disaster in CAT.
yes, the CAt went to the dogs!..the change of pattern, No analytical Reasoning section and data intepretation that resembled the American Voting pattern.....sent the CAT for a toss. I actually ended up messing even my Verbal...:(
If not for my stupid idea of skipping 3 easy passages to devote more time to the impossible DI paper....I wud have had a decent score atleast...U know what i miss the most now??...the undo button.
Its so much better on the comp, make a mistake and press ctrl+Z, and voila..problem solved, u r sent back to square1...now y doesnt this happen in real life...I guess we shud let Microsoft make the life program as well.....I know, we will end up crashing 4 times a day and ur face will resemble the BSOD(blue screen of death for the ignorant ones) every 2 hours.....but atleast we wud have the option of reverting things....atleast we wud have ctrl+z...atleast i wud have had a better score...if only!!!

Happy Budday to Me

"Happy buday to me,
Happy Budday to me,
Haapy Budday to Dear me, me...
Happy Budday to me"

Than q Thanq....Thanq....I love you all!!
Just in case u are wondering what to buy me for a birthday gift, think no more, cos I shall make that pareshaaani dissappear as well!...
My Wish List:
1. Apple iPod(even the mini will do)
2. Ati Radeon x800(256mb) / Geforce6800 Ultra(256Mb)
3. A Girl friend
4. Bmw Z3(I forgot the specs...but any BMW model will do.)
5. Nikon e700i(7.1 Megapixel Camera)
6. A girlfriend..again
Quite a small list....Shudnt be difficult to find either.
I am waiting.........
...........Again, Happy Budday to me, Happy budday to me!!!!

Drug Fuelled Love Letter

"Out of all the times I`ve been on acid, I`ve never been able to hallucinate with such repetitive control. I`m hallucinating at will, over and over again in this English shoebox with pastel curtains and normal little Victorian lamps and drawers. It`s all too normal and impossible to explain.I`m not very drunk.It`s like controlled bedspins and I`m the exorcist.
I really do care but I`m not very convincing.He`s sad. I`m sad. My throat is a swollen tumour, blood sausage, colon. I puke air after coughing. It was morning by the time I fell asleep after talking to you.200lbs. I thought of a great idea for our video. Oh forget it"
-Kurt Kobain

This letter written to Courtney Love by Kurt Kobain during the 1991 British Tour is going under the hammer. The price $14000....yeah, u wish!

Who says Politicians don't have brains!

Who ever said politicians walk around with a brain the size of a peanut, praised the peanut....ok! even I dont know what that meant.
anyways, coming back to the point, Fuel Prices Brought Down!...Sounds like music to our ears doesnt it. Petrol prices have come down by more than a rupee scream the headlines.....but then people, why dont you get it, the prices had gone up by 2 bucks just last week.
The Government is playing a nice little game here. First they hike the prices of fuel by twice of what is required and then when pressure is put by the opposition and their own party members, they reduce the hike by half....people are khush and so is the government.
This is the Osmania way of doing things.......remeber the time when they wanted to install 6 speed breakers in their campus, they made 12 of them. When the student organizations and the staff protested, they promptly removed 6 of them....what a phsycological game that was....everybody is happy....Ramu is happy, shamu is happ and OU is also happy.....
.....and they call our politicians Dumb!!
Edward de Bono are you listening....this is a more practical application of Lateral thinking...than what u have explained in ur best sellers.......Kudos to you UPA

The Alchemist

My favorite quotes from my current favorite book, The Alchemist :

"What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked, completely surprised. "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie."



"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."



"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."



"It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them."



"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same Hand."



"Life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny."



"The problem is that they (the sheep) don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water. Maybe we're all that way, the boy mused."

Eid Mubarak

Eid Mubarak to you all!
Two festivals back to back...I have a reason for adding those extra kilos. It was nice while it lasted I mite say. The fun in eating a "Death by choclate" while all your friends who are fasting look upon it with their gluttonous eyes, holding back their tempations, is a treat in itself. Thank god Hindu Mythology doesnt have any such conditions of fasting for a whole month....phew...I wud have converted to christianity...or maybe even buddhism.
Welcome back guys, you can now eat as much as you want to, you can now mouth off those gaalis you were holding back for a whole month and yes, you can again shamelessly drool over the hot girls(there arent too many in college though)....have an amazing Ramzan.!

Honour the Gods, Love thy woman and Fight for your Blog

Welcome to a new day! I just came back after giving another gruelling AIMCAT(for the ignorant lot, this is the All India Mock CAT conducted by TIME for the CAT aspirants) This is probably the last AIMCAT I willl be taking this year cos the Main CAT is next week. Yes, you heard it right. In a weeks time from now, I will be giving the worlds toughest B School Entrance Exam and here I sit in front of the beige box blogging myself to glory!
That reminds me, today is 14th November, Childrens day. Once upon a time when I was a child, we used to look forward to this day thanx to that small packet of sweets and choclates we were given at school and the immense pleasure we got out of watching those teachers, who just luvved to cane u, try their best to entertain you with their jhatkas and matkas. Those days were fun, no worrying abt exams, no stress, no ladki ka chakkar, no nothing, simply fun.
Not much has changed though. Even today, exams dont give me any kinda tension(who cares!!!), stress is what i go through when i have to take the stairs down to the parking bay, and as far as the ladki goes, Women still find me repulsive.....what the heck...GOD are you reading this blog???
Oh yeah, before I forget, lemme take the pains to say "Nice Try" to Mayank who was quite offended about the Pun intended jokes that I had posted keeping him in mind, decided to pay me back in the same coin by posting some wierdo crap on his blog. But unfortunately for him, Nobody reads his blog....but anyways...that was a gud try. I luvv competition....If it is war that you want, then so be it..
I live by a Rule,"Honour the Gods, Love thy woman and fight for your Blog"...

P.S:btw, that password changing trick of urs was a cheap one Mayank. I Demand an Apology, Or thy shall pay the price. The Apology needs to be public, so post it as a comment!

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Happy Diwali

Today is Diwali, so Happy Diwali to All!!..
Today is the day where the good triumphs over the Evil.(Please do not misread the good and the evil as India and Pakistan..and the ocassion being another thrilling Cricket Match.) Today is the day when the Dude(read as Ram) who after killing the Gangsta(read as Ravan) comes back home. This is his welcome party.....as u can see, we Indians love happy endings.
Happy DIwali ONce Again!

Adieu Arafat, U were an [inspiration]

An [icon] is Dead!..may his soul Rest In Peace

Indias Entry to the Oscars.

This is one movie u definitely dont want to miss. Believe me people, I thought that the committee which chose Indias entry to the Oscars consisted of a bunch of jokers...and I thought so till i finally heard their latest Entry.
I take back every word i said about those people.Finally, somebody has driven sense into this whole Idea of filming. A Marathi film Shwaas is Indias Entry to the OScars.
I hope it wins out there, and even if it doesnt, it is not because the movie is a bad one, it is just because the Jury is a bunch of Jokers. A must watch movie for every Tom Dick and Hari.
Get the DVD, go to the Theate, Download the Movie, Do whatever it takes but do watch it.
I know it is Marathi, but what the hell, if you can watch Run Lola Run and Choker bali...then why not Shwaas....
Keep coming back for a complete Review of the Film....
:) Yes I havent seen it yet...but it is on download process, Bit Torrent says 33% done.(Piracy Rocks...sometimes)..so another 2 days wait I guess....heheehe
I Dont Practise what I Preach

The govt. is Jealous of my Hair

Hello people,
the next time you see me and dont recognise me, I wont blame you for that. A lot has changed over the week. Firstly, the government introduces the Helmet Rule, making it compulsory for 2-wheeler owners to put on that heavy piece of Armour to protect thy head...(little do they know that there aint no nothing inside to protect). I am not too sure if this Helmet thingy on my head is safe or not...but what the government has successfully managed to do is to ruin my precious spiked hair..
yes people, you herd it right, the spikes are gone, the helmet had it for breakfast. So the next time u see this rotten face walkin with dishevelled hair on his head, u guessed it right, it wud be me. What was your problem MR Y.S.R.Reddy??? I know u have a receding hair line but that aint mean that u get jealous of my hair??
But then there is a positive side to it too. Look at it this way guys, My pocket money will stretch by another 100 bucks every month...thanx to no more hair gel....and just when I begin to rejoice this hike in pocket money, comes the second jolt of the week. HIKE IN FUEL PRICES...petrol now costs 44 bucks a litre??? For a person like me who travels 16 KM a day on the bike to go to college and pretend to study, that is a jolt....and a big one too.
As the saying goes, when the going gets tough, the tough get going.......So I have decided to brave all this and ome up with a solution. I can get my spikes back, and still not shell out so much moolah to eat the dust and pollution. I have decided to sell my bike.
So all you people who wish to buy a bike which Rohit Used and one with an amazing mileage of 30 KM per litre..(Free Brochure to Oil wells for Sale will be provided on request), please feel free to contact me at mad_toothbrush@hotmail.com
What the hell, as part of the ongoing Diwali Dhamaka, i will put in a couple of Metallica and Iron Maiden CDs free with the bike..
now if u r wondering what will happen to me once the bike is gone...wory not fellow men, my Dad has promised to let me use a vehicle worth 10 lakh rupees....myuahahah...the APSRTC bus...
16A, 24E Here I come!!!!...I will have my spike back, I will have more money...but I will miss goofy...(goofy is my bike..and yes I do have a name for everything I use...i believe in personalising things.).

My thoughts were similar 

my Time has ComE

Hello people,
The day has arrived. The day for which I went to college and pretended to study beckons me. yes, it is eggjam time...again.
Every six months this system of ours decides to test how much we have managed to mug up by attending classes(ehmehm)....they dont give no rats ass to what practical knowledge we have gained(how to login into the server with the Admin password and change thy atendance, how to eat and not pay at the canteen, how to paly computer games in the collge LAB without getting caught).
Today is the day when every student worth his salt is expected to go to the eggjam hall and ....well faint, sleep, sing....do whatever...as long as you aint writing its fine....cos it is when you start writng that the trouble begins.
This whole system is wrong......if only i were the education minister.....but then i am not qualified enough though(never been to jail, never killed a man{though I came close to killing my H.O.D})
Eggjams Becckon...my time has come....
when the going gets tough, I take the elevator!!!....even I don know what that means..any ways
Wish me Luck!

Watcha look for?

"Just in case you clicked over here cause you were looking for some words to fight with, let's have a little education session for you.

1. This is a blog, not an academic paper. Last time I checked our stats, you are only like me when I am bitchy. I write nice stuff with the same care and attention to everybody's feeeelings that I do in school and what happens? Nobody reads/comments/gives a damn. That's why half the time, professors don't even do it. It's boring and we know it.

2. This is our blog, not our soul (our= Me and my Tanhayee). We both live in uber-liberal places and as a result play nicely with our uber-liberal friends. By which I mean friends, not token (x-party member) bullshit. We do so because our ( Me and my Tanhayee) uber-liberal friends know how to take it as well as dish it out.

3. If you have no sense of humor or grip on reality, you will probably be pissed off here. This is not Uncle Rohit's Bachelor party(though there is that, too!), so if that's what you were looking for, go away.

4. Slug away all over the blogosphere if you want, but we won't tolerate it here. You can argue with us if you like, but we're actually pretty nice people and should you turn out to be an asshole you'll probably get banned from commenting.

5. If you have nothing better to do with your life than hate on people, then your soul will probably eat you alive and you will grow up to be a terrorist, and the U.S. army will come and blow your face in, so I suggest you go find your happy place and start searching for inner peace and don't come back here until you've normalized."
It's a blog, kids, quid pro quo is allowed.
Now get along and don't ruin the day for everyone else. And try to keep your paranoia to yourself.
Love Rohit n his tanhayee!!!

Congratulations to Bush and condolences to the Americans

My thoughts before November 2nd:
"If there’s one thing that Pres. George W. Bush is good at, it is his sterling ability to perpetuate self-terrorism and instilling a culture of fear among his own people. Being in a fight or flight condition 24/7 is hardly the way to live the free, democratic ideal that America so passionately espouses to the interstellar galaxy. Please observe a moment of silence to appreciate the irony.

Freedom with fear is not freedom in the real sense of the world. Perhaps Americans need to be reminded of that?

Now that Osama Bin Laden did some trick and trickin’ of his own, Bush Jr. has once again jumped at the opportunity to revitalise and resurrect the fear and neurosis of the American people to advance his own agenda. It won’t be a surprise if hysterical, fear stricken Americans will abandon all logic and once again vote for Bush."

My Ramblings today:

So much for the international spectator sport that is American Democracy. Enough of the gladiatorial combat. Anyway, it seems that George W. Bush is getting a go at it again. Advance congratulations to Bush and condolences to the American people.

Pun Intended.....myuahahaha

Mayank: Mom, it happened again last night. I go to the loo and open the door and the light automatically comes on!
Mayank's Mom: Oh NO! U dirtied the fridge yet again.....Ullu de phatte

btw, Do you know what a Singh stands for??
S.I.N.G.H: SArdar Insaan Nahin, Gadha Hai..
....now was it Mayank Singh?
....maybe it wasnt!!...I forgot it was mayank yankugee right!!!

Why does Ashray open his lunch box in the middle of the Road??
To confirm whether he is going to college or Comin back from college

All the Charecters in the above sequence are fictional(the real ones are far more stupid) Any resemblance to any person Living or dead is purely Coincidental.
in other words, Dudes...this is purely pun intended..
ROFL!!!

Book Review....Movie Review...life review..call it what u like

Hello People. Its been a busy week for me. What with college closed for a study holiday, and me left in the lurk to complete the syllabus of 6 months in freaking 6 days. It was driving me nuts.
I mean all the crap we have to study, everything that makes no sense at all. How does it bother me if on pressing Enter after typing a URL, a packet is broken down in bits, bytes and what ever and then attached with a checksum that allows for a cyclic redundancy check at the DNS which is responsible for routing the package to the correct router to display hotmail.com. Gimme a break people!! All I care about is that when I press enter whether this site opens up or not.
God why am I doing this!!
Anyways, today I decided to take a break and watch a movie instead. Not that I didn’t watch one yesterday or the day before. Ok so coming to the point, I made my popcorn, and settled down on the couch to watch a movie on ZMZ()that’s the new name for Zee MGM). It was this French movie called “Amelie” and all I can say after watching it is WOW!! This was a complete masterpiece. The Humor, the direction the camera work everything was a piece of art. Believe me, this movie was made under a budget of 25 lakh Rupees. But no Bollywood movie cud match this one for its design and overall appearance. French Cinema, take a bow! I haven’t seen too many French movies but the ones I have seen have always caught my fancy. The other film that comes to my mind is Run Lola Run. Another masterpiece. We really need to learn a lot from these guys there (at least I do).
Me got to go back to the grind now. Stash the Films for the moment and dig into TCP/IP and Eunuchs Programming(oops a typo, it is Unix)
Anyway whatever it is, IT SUCKS….(IT can be read as it or as IT(Info technology))

The World is Goin Crajeee

this is an interesting writeup i stumbled upon on the net today. Really thought provoking I wud say
"'You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'.'"

Request: Puhleeees post A Comment

Hello People,
There is this 1 question that has been lingering in my mind ever since I made this blog."How many people actually read what I write?"
I seriously did not think anybody was reading the crap that I keep posting. that was until yesterday when I met 3 people who have been religiously following my blog. 3 people reading my blog and I dint know of it.
So here is a request to all you nirvana attained earthlings who read anything that is thrown at you. Please post a comment after you finish reading it. It pains me to see blogs of other people where the post is 1 line in length and is followed up with 23 comments.:(
It aint gonna take much of your time. just scroll down to the end of the post and voila, there is a link called Comment | Backtrack. Click on it and post a comment(all comments are welcome). Take this as a survey of mine to study the habits of all the idle minds on mother EarTh.

Part of me

Today, somebody told me that I cud never get serious in my life, that I cud never play a romantic in this birth. So here is my answer to all those who feel that there is no sensitive side to me. This is a poem I had written way back in 2003....and today I post it out here for all you people. AND YES, I AM THE POET IN PICTURE...this aint no copy...Ladees and Juntelmen...I give you...
"Part of Me"

The moment you walked through my door
And I laid eyes on you
I felt something special
Like I never knew

You filled my days with sunshine
Blew away the clouds of night
When I was feeling bad
You made my worries seem so light

Then came the day my heart stopped
And all my fears came true
The tears ran down my face
As I thought, "It can't be you"

That's the day my life shattered
Like a windowpane of glass
I prayed that you would be ok
And that the day would pass

I kept saying "I know you can"
I swore that you'd pull through
But I felt so helpless
Cause there was nothing I could do

I remembered all the times
You'd walked me home in the rain
You helped me when I needed you
But now I can't feel your pain

I remember all the cherished times
That seemed so long ago
And I can't stop from crying
Cause I want you to know

I hope if you don't realize it
That someday you will see
You're not just one within yourself
You are a part of me
-rohit