Hey Ram

I am feeling down for various reasons today. Lets talk about one of them. The bombing in Delhi. Who did it and why did they do it? Has Musharaf lost complete control over his country? I have always believed that Mush is a moderate. He just doesn’t have control over the numerous factions that supposedly represent the face of free Kashmir. They are a set of people who have no idea of the bigger picture. Madrassas are hate mongering institutions mushrooming all over the Pakistani territory. There is a whole generation of brain washed young men and children who have been made to believe that true martyrdom will be achieved only through death and violence. Somewhere along the way, Islam is being translated into a violent medium by leaders. Over hundreds of centuries leaders have shaped the future of nations and peoples. Their insecurities, beliefs-good or bad have been transported to the society creating imprints of their minds. Musharaf's lack of control over his people is creating its own imprint on society right now. It is time for him to be strong and demand that his people behave like citizens of the world rather than the scum of the world.
I bear no religious contempt towards Muslims .All my living life I have been closely associated with them in a positive way. I know for a fact that they are one of the nicest people on this earth. They are being lead the wrong way in certain parts. It is time every human being -be it Muslim or non-learn to lead life with compassion and have a rational thought process and believe in loving themselves and people around them. We all need to learn to grow everyday, to reach that point of spiritual bliss where there is compassion and love.

Where did you go to school?

I am absolutely sure about one thing. Where you go to school determines how successful you are or will be. Not that people who go to B and C grade schools don’t do well. It is just a little more difficult. If you go to an A grade school you will be hounded by all the top companies on mother earth. You are doing them a favor by working for them and not the other way which is the usual norm.
That is my regret for the time being and the good part is I can rectify it. I will one day go back and get my MBA from a good school. The only difficult part would be going through the motions to get there, as I know the MBA itself will be a breeze. I haven’t studied in a few years and I know it is kind of tough to get back in the groove. Nothing is easy.
It is Friday and time to relax. Work has been hectic this week and it being the end of the month hasn’t really helped.

Internet is shit

Check this website out. I got it when i googled shit.

http://www.internetisshit.org/

It is 11:30 at night and i need to hit the sac. I have spent the past half hour reading up on the nets. Jason Kidd hurt his quad but should be fine,we have the best perimeter trio,nenad is going to have a breakout season,Antoine Wright is going to start on the IR,wewon in in double overtime over the celts in a preseason game,Scalabrine played against us yesterday,scalabrine used to go bowling with kidd when he was with the nets and now vince carter does it with Kidd,espn has rated the nets to be at the top of the atlantic division and one of the top three in the eastern conference,vaughn is trying to fight for his minutes.Why are people not talking much about the Pistons?I dont know.
My sisters dog tore my sweater.It was time anyways. I am going to use this sweater only at home from here on.
Did you know that the girl who played rani's sister in black is amartya sens daughter.Her name is nandana sen.I think most sens are damn sexy.Sen is like an elite and cool sirname.Sushmita sen is an awesome sen.She is better than a Rai.

Pune and Bangalore

I think guys from Poona and bangalore have a lot in common. I have always felt that.It has never been a problem getting along with guys from Poona.They more or less have the same tastes, speak the same lingo and listen to similar music. They are also as intellectually enriched as Bangalore guys.It probably has a lot to do with the cosmopolitan nature of both the towns.

V at the bar again

V at the bar is supposedly gay as per my bartender friend.

Gas is down to 2.45 usd ea. The sun is out and all but it is still cold. Around 45 today and for fall it is on the colder side. Jersey drivers. I had this lady cut me off not once, not twice but thrice and she didn’t even know that she did. It takes me 40 to 45 min each way to get to work. I drive the famed garden state parkway for 15 miles and 9 miles on the route 17, which is a great drive. Apparently, you are supposed to meet with an accident once in a year on the parkway as per the law of averages right now in the state. I have been driving this route for the past 4 and a half years and haven’t met with one accident so far. That means I have something drastic in store for me. I better be a little weary of that. Talking about my commute- the day before, I have no clue how I got half way on my way back home. I left from work at 6 and I was lost in my own thoughts and I drove about 15 miles and I woke up when I was close to home. I am sure it has happened to a number of people who sometimes drive in a trance. This happens to people who are used to a certain route.

Ms Rai

I really can’t stand Aishwairya Rai. I remember the time when she became famous with those Coke or Pepsi ads with Aamir going Sanjuuuu. Those were times when this woman was the most beautiful thing to walk this earth. Over the years I looked at this woman and looked for flaws and never could find one. I saw her sometime last year on TV talking to Leno and then to Letterman. I also was unlucky enough to watch another movie of hers (cant recollect the name of the movie. This indian girl falls for an american guy and all that bull) at the same time and that was it, I detest her now. She is as per my perception downright dumb and lacks the aura or the intelligence to be a star. Most successful human beings have a knack of saying the right things at the right time but she has none of those qualities. She was a disgrace during both those talk shows with her bimbo like giggles and her lack of intelligence. She was not straightforward with her answers and was borderline cocky for no goddamn reason. You might be who you are but you don’t show it. If you do try and act like you are god, human beings have a tendency to look away from you. Example Mr Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. He does not maintain a regal air around him and does not act cocky. He is a modest man with modest reactions to most situations and hence he commands immense respect and there is this aura that is created due to his down to earth attitude.
It’s all about the class. She lacks the class to carry it off or she has the most idiotic PR team working for her giving her the wrong tips to function in this society. Maybe she is a good person but she certainly hasn’t translated that well to the public medium

V at the bar

The other day I met a guy called V in a bar. This guy V was from Guyana and was of Indian origin. He was 31 years old. He seemed to be a pretty interesting character. He apparently made pots of money and was single.
He is part of a movement, which doesn’t believe in any particular region. His sect takes the best out of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Catholicism and then they add some Yoga and Sex to it. They practice it as a way of life. What it seems to me is that there is a mixture of Buddhism and Oshoism involved there with all that free spirit and sex stuff. He also made a very interesting comment” I don’t like kids and I don’t care too much for them and hence I don’t want to have them”.
This guy looked happy, sane and friendly. He was merely looking into his most basic instincts by having sex with anyone he pleased, being a good person and being up front. Now, do I judge him? For some reason I did not. I probably did not judge him as he was pretty comfortable with who he was. Who the hell am I to judge him? He at least did have the courage to live up to his own expectations as a human being and not really care about society.
That takes a lot of courage and conviction.

Randomness again

There has been a progressive degeneration in driving skills involving people in New Jersey. People drive like maniacs here. This state is the most densely populated state in the country and is getting worse year by year. This is my 7th year in Jersey and the drivers have been driving me nuts off late. In the past,when someone did tell me that jersey drivers sucked, i would tell them that they weren’t that bad. Now I fully agree with them. New Jersey drivers are rude; abnoxious and rough. I guess they bring their frustrations from home onto the road. Living in this state is pretty stressful in fact. Standard of living is high, roads are congested ad there are hundreds of cultures living in a small area of land. Going back a million years New Jersey has been a haven for immigrants and continues to be so. As a result you have different people with different driving cultures also.
It is getting to me. I have a very low tolerance for these drivers and do lose my temper by using the foulest language. I guess my patience has run out.

Check this link out. Funny stuff.Some mallu abcd kids having a ball.Put your sound on

http://viknluda.com/foe/video/google.html

Winter is coming

The east coast has been chill off late. It is kind of early for it to be happening. Signs of things to come i guess. It is going to be a bloody cold winter.Last winter i thought was bad but this winter should be worse.
I have the nets season opening in exactly 10 days from now. Looking forward to it happening.The starters look settled but the second unit have a lot of catching up to do.We got walloped by the celtics today in a preseason game.Dont want to read too much into it and hopefully things will pick up and the second unit will start playing to their potential.
I dont know what else to write about. There seems to be excitement in the air.I am moving, my wife will be moving here soon and things will finally be the way i want it to be.We are on our way to start a new life together.A new chapter

If you are here you might as well

I dont know too many famous people but i have a friend who has been getting plenty famous off late due to his writing exploits.If you are here on my blog you might as well check his blog out. curiousgawker.blogspot.com
For the past month his blog seems to be all over the place.He seems to be enjoying the attention and i would too if i wrote as well as him and was as funny as him.

Politics and People

They never seem to go hand in hand. There we have thousands of people languishing in the earth quake ridden region of Pakistan controller Kashmir and here we have Pakistan and India not looking eye to eye on relief measures. India has offered to send in choppers to help reach all those remote villages, which are still cut off from roads. People are dying there without basic amenities like tents, food etc. There are still supposedly plenty of people trapped under tons of rocks and I sincerely doubt they have a chance to survive after a week down there. Coming back to what I was saying, Pakistan has accepted India’s offer to help but does not want Indian crew flying the choppers. They want to use their own personnel. At a time of turmoil like this, they are still fooling around when thousands of lives are at stake. It is pretty disgusting when I think about all the helpless, dejected and frustrated people out there who are being victims of mindless politics and bull shit. Just like human beings sometimes sit back and look at the bigger picture of life, countries should learn to do the same. It is just not fair that people have to pay the price just because their countries are being mule headed. I have never been pro or anti Pakistani. I never will be. I am just saddened that people are stuck in this crossfire. Innocent people.
Politics is a dirty game.

This Blogging is serious stuff

I never realized that blogging is serious business. I have been blogging only for fun and nothing else. It served as a medium for me to kind of showcase my writing. Lets be frank, each one of us on this earth has a show off hidden in them and i certainly am one of them. This IIPM controversy is some serious shit with everyone and their mothers hopping on the bandwagon. It is amazing how everyone is all up in arms standing up for something right. This blogging phenomenon is new and a lot of people seem to enjoy it. 7 years ago chatting was the in thing with people dedicating their lives to it and nothing else. I was one of them and have a few close friends who lived to do that shit. We believed in keeping our chat rooms clean and were the so-called enforcers. I for one spent many hours chatting and climbing up the hierarchy. It was a world that had its own elements like the good guys, the bad guys, the whores and the retards. It was a parallel society, which was some serious shit. Blogging is more or less taking the same shape. Amazing how human beings create a world of their own in any medium possible. The intricate human characteristics are now being crisis crossed on blogs with people lashing out, sharing love, humor and inducing harm. I for one have enough on my hands dealing with real things in life and would rather write about Jack and Jill.

Gas

I left for India 2 months ago on this very day and then came back last month around the same time. Gas was 1.95 usd ea. a gallon when I left. Gas now costs 2.85 usd ea. a gallon on average for regular. That is an increase of .90 cents ea. per gallon. I fill in 28 gallons of gas every 10 days and use 84 gallons a month. I am spending 75.60-usd ea. a month extra on gas and 907 usd ea per year. These are all on the lower side and the actual number might be much higher than this. It is disgusting that everyone is keeping quiet about the whole issue. I for one am damn pissed. I am still earning the same but i have to shell out 1000 bucks more a year on gas added to the 2000 usd ea. I already spend on a yearly basis. It is mind boggling that I spend 3000-usd ea on gas a year, another 2000 usd ea. on insurance and probably another 600-800 usd ea. year on maintenance. It is absurd that we end up spending almost 6 grand a year on transportation. Oh yeah, i freaking forgot the car payments one has to make which is another 2 to 3 grand. It is disgusting. I am spending 8 grand a year on my automobile. This is the cost I incur to get to work and back. On a monthly basis, i spend 666.666-usd ea. on my car. If I were making 60 grand a year, this would be 10 percent of my salary on a monthly basis after taxes. Pretty disgusting. It is only going to get worse from here on. In a couple of months we are planning on getting another vehicle. All the costs will be most probably doubled. It all adds up.
Is someone questioning this hike? Is there a valid reason for the hike or has the reason passed on and we better get used to it as the oil companies want to make shit loads off us as they found reason to hike it and don’t want to be bothered going back to the old price. Is it because of the cost of oil? Is it because of all the hurricanes that belted the gulf a couple of weeks ago? Is it because of all the processing centers closing down? Surely, gas has to come down to prices within reason. I just hope they do. Too many times, people accept change without much opposition. I just want an explanation in a rational straightforward way if things are going to get better or if things are going to be the way they are and if not get worse. Give me an explanation and I will be at peace.

The nets are coming to town

The season is around the corner. Practice sessions started yesterday. I am so god damn excited. I haven’t been this excited in the past 6 years before a season began. Will they jell? We have a team written in stone for the time being barring injury. The attitude seems to be right. I m happy. We aren’t a great team but we are a good team. We have hope all the way till Mr. Kidd is on the team. The last year, we did not even have Jason Kidd to start with. He was pissed off, injured and disheartened. Things look a lot different right now. He is healthy, happy and still here. He is going to will this team into the playoffs. We have J Kidd, VC, RJ and Nenad who were looking good at the end of least season. I cannot wait for Nov 2nd when we face the bucks and Bogut, the no 1 pick in this year’s draft.
I was thinking about Jason today. Rarely does he show any emotions on the field. You might be lead to think that he doesn’t care a damn. He is so stoic that it is irritating sometimes. But man oh man, he is one of the best at what he does. He lets the game do the talking. All his flamboyance is shown on the court with his skill. He is one of those people who prefers to shut his trap and let his hands, legs and mind do the talking. Hopefully he takes us back to the sublime heights of the game, which we saw in the 2001-2002-2003 seasons. Last year, by the end of the season he was coming into his elements. Alas, it was too late. It will not be as late this time. He will not be out for half the season, will not have to wait for Vince to join him in December and will not have RJ watching by the sidelines. Now is the time as now has all the right ingredients. Do we have it in us to get a ring? I don’t know. Will we give up? No, never. Not until we have Jason Kidd leading his troops from the front. He is a warrior with unparalleled vision of the game and its nuances. I am excited. God damn excited.

My first time

This happened to me a couple of months ago for the first time and below is an e mail i wrote to a few mates of mine. Please pardon the french
"comrades,
hope all is well out there. I havent written in a while. I have been busy. I have been so busy. Now, i dont know what i have achieved being busy. Basically nothing. Days are flying by without any reason and i continue to use up my space on this earth.
Last weekend i was in baltimore. We went out suit shopping. I bought 2 suits and i think i am all set for the wedding. Have to buy a few shirts, ties, shoes and belts and then i am done for good.
On monday, i was coming back to Jersey from baltimore. I was on 695, the beltway expressway which circles around DC. It was a 55 mile zone and i was ripping at 80 miles an hour. As i drive by i see a cop car about 100 metres ahead of me stopped by the left side of the highway
and he seemed to be have stopped another car and was standing by the door of the car he had stopped. I was already at 85 miles and i didnt want to do anything drastic so i slowly took my foot off the gas and went past him. I also safely assumed that he had already caught someone and was paying attention to him. As i drive past him i look in the rearview mirror and i see this cocksucker bolt back into his car and take off with all his lights blinking and at the same time i move to the middle lane from the left most lane. I see him about half a mile behind me merging into the high way and i assume that he got a call on his wireless and has to go somewhere. In 4 seconds i have this bastard behind me and violently gesturing to me to get off the highway and move into the left shoulder.
This is what happened. One cop car was standing behind a undercover cop car and these two mother fuckers used this decoy as a bait to lure people like me into thinking that they were busy. Basically, the undercover cop car had a laser gun which was recording speeds and then the other cop car bolted behind the offender. I was slapped a 140 dollar fine and given 2 points for driving 81 miles in a 55 mile zone. This is my first time in 5 years that i have gotten a ticket and i was fucking shivering when the cop stopped me. I asked him to waive off the points but the cop who caught me was more of an asshole than a nice cop. He made a smart arse comment about how it was the first time i go caught and how he was sure that i had ripped in the past. He had an attitude and a half and also made fun about the fact that jersey insurance sucks and he understood why i was asking him to drop the points. My weekend was relaxed otherwise. "

Back After peeing

I am back. I feel calmer right now. I am not random anymore. The flu season is coming. ABC wants us to get our asses pricked as soon as possible. Every god damn year there is a shortage with the vaccine. Well as per ABC they have doubled the supply this year. ABC says that even though it might be doubled there might still be a problem. Can there ever be news without it being a double edged sword? By the way, the weekend was awesome. Great weather and great feeling. The sky was clear and all. Last night they did not let me into a club as i wasnt wearing a shirt with a collar. He didnt care that i was wearing a blazer. The bouncer upfront said "nice looking blazer sir but we still cannot let you in as you dont have a collared t shirt on". He made me feel good that i was wearing a nice blazer and i forgot the bad feeling of not being able to go into the club.Power of words. Sometimes i feel we human beings are just mindless organisms just blabbering shit all day and as a result the world moves on. Basically everything in our life is a reaction to someone babbling mindless shit. I wish we didnt have emotions. Then we could just sit in one place and do nothing. I got myself a job because everyone said it was the right thing to do. How the hell do they know that it is the right thing to do? Bull is what i say.

Pee

I am sitting here by the tv and need to pee. I have to get my ass to the bathroom and i am lazy. I am uncomfortable. I am looking at the ring on my finger. I love being random. Can we correlate behavior?Why did i spell behavior this way? Is this the right spelling? My cell phone is charging by me. Greys anatomy is playing on tv. Doctors are mad. I just scratched my left cheek. I have a stubble and i havent shaved in two days. The window is open and it is a wee bit nippy. I still need to pee. I am uncomfortable. Why isn’t it incomfortable? What the hell am i saying? My friend Popatlal wrote good things about me on his blog. If he thinks i am funny, i am funny. My nose is itching. I slept for 6 hours. I spent the night in new york. I was busy observing all the first generation Indian kids. They seem to be a well behaved lot. Do Indian kids hang out only with Indian kids just like the chinese and vietnamese kids do? Some of the kids were 18 and 19 and were pretty confrontational. I dont know why i am thinking of those kids. There was this pretty young girl and i wondered, does her father know that she out at 5 in the morning eating kati rolls on bleeker steet? What do their parents actually know? How do they accept their kids the way they are being from the old world. I don’t know. I will have kids soon. What the hell am i going to do? I need to pee. I on the other hand might have ADD. I am all over the place. I am alert. I still need to pee.I am writing random shit right now. It is amazing how fast i can type with two fingers. I did not learn to type the right way. I am still fast enough though. I type well cos i used to chat like a maniac a few years ago. About 4 years ago. My blog is pretty plain looking. I wish someone would offer to make it look pretty. I dont know how to do it. I want a black background with some vague text. I want it to look classic as well as cool. I am a plain person too. Last night my friend got wasted. He fell face down in the cab and his glasses looked like a truck went over them. I dragged his ass home as he was drunk. I am morally on higher ground as i don’t drink like a juvenile anymore. I still need to pee. Fuck it, i am going to.