the Dark Mind

No more making fun of Europa league

2012-01-23T15:01:00.003+05:30

This is a very realistic view, not complaining (no point doing that anyway)… just facing the facts. Arsenal played the best they could, much improved from the 8-2(not a good comparison I know). We missed getting our payback, by just 7 goals, is how an optimist would see it. Since I am a realist, I would say Man Utd ..Even though they do not have the best squad this season, made the most of their resources. Their manager and players showed maturity and experience . Killing off Arsenal is very easy, even a regular football viewer would know that, forget the experienced managers. We hardly ever comeback after giving away a lead, and if we do take the lead... we need at least a 5 goal cushion to confirm the victory (4-4 with Newcastle taught us that) or , we have to win with the last kick of the match (not a minute more, 1-1 last season with Liverpool equalizing in 98^th minute, after we scored in the 97th), since we are forever edgy at the back. We are never calm and composed, I don’t know what it is, maybe it’s the mental anxiety of not having won a trophy since ages now , or very high expectations from a team which is not capable of living upto them.

Clearly, there are loopholes...midfield lacks the cutting edge since fabregas left (we can do without nasri) and defense ( playing 4 center halves). Injuries are there , but replacements are there also, its January!!

Why Arsenal has become so Penny wise and Pound foolish I don’t understand, we are saving here and there but forgetting the bigger picture, it was okay till we were paying the debt and all, but that’s all done… Now what?

If we can blame players like Nasri for leaving the club for money, then since I can remember ,Arsenal is becoming all about the money itself. Getting a new stadium, hiking ticket prices, saving every penny in the transfer window.

And coming back to the match, taking off Chamberlain, was it because he felt that was enough exposure for Ox, Arsene wenger, known for gambling with playing youngsters, would never do that. It did end up affecting Arshavin though(with the crowd reaction), which I think led to him conceding the goal, cause he was already low on confidence. A few things differently, and we could've even won the game(maybe not deserving it though).

More than anything, uptil now in the season we haven’t deserved a top 4 spot. Spurs proved themselves once again, even with the loss. I mean we can reach Chelsea, but in our hearts we know, that we have a better chance catching spurs(who have a tough run coming up)...than Chelsea, who will spend in the transfer window.

And so being realistic again, last few years the intent was the title and we just managed to qualify for UCL. This year intent is ucl spot, so ..you get the idea..dont make fun of europa.

I miss Jerry

2011-12-12T02:43:00.006+05:30

Not the Tom and Jerry, jerry, although I miss that jerry too, but the one I am talking about is the one who lived in my house for a while. Initially I wasn’t happy at the thought of it. Jerry was spoilt, destructive and a very naughty kid. I had to keep everything out of his reach, clean up all the mess he created and also he made me do a lot of other work I dint want to do. Even then he had become a part of the house.

Although his cuteness was his biggest asset, over time, I even got use to his annoying habits. In fact it was fun to sneak in and tickle my mom’s feet, so that she would jump and run (100% record with that btw). The idea of living with another living person or creature freaks me out, but he made it possible. I was thinking of getting a pet lately, because I realized how sometimes they help you get your mind off of things ,and he came in (although I prefer fishes). And I was never fond of pets, I always believed that my life was too much to handle, how can I handle theirs (also a reason why I don’t like girls with a lot of emotional baggage too)

But then we couldn’t handle his lifestyle...with his late night partying all over the house, and I think..he even got his friends over sometimes. It was time for him to go, and we knew he wasn’t gonna go easy..he went berserk and so we had to cage him and send him to rehab, where most of his other friends were.

Mice I tell you, no responsibility they take, just want to party and do lukkhagiri. I am in a different phase; I don’t have time for such things now. So bye jerry, cyu around

Rest of the gang is still here though

Even roach has been lost since quite a few days now. Roach is my friend from the bathroom; we are more of an acquaintance, that’s mostly because we hardly have anything in common.

Bl-lizard( blizzard) and I were never really close, and now I watch very less tv , so he’s become a lot closer to my parents since they watch tv and mostly he’s in the hall( where the tv is). So we don’t spend much time together.

Mosquito’s are the uninvited lot, I think of them as vampires (blood suckers, who come at night) and kill them happily, especially when I think of Edward Cullen (that’s what we should name mosquito’s...I am genius). The ants are a great help with the aftermath clean up, I think they love mosquito meat, they do a super job cleaning up the bodies so that there’s no further investigation…in the morning its as if nothing had happened.

The occasional moth, bees, weird looking creatures drop in once In a while and also the helicopter guy (forgot his name, normally find him around grass, very annoying)

The cats and dogs in my building are doing alright as well; we usually hang out during the night, I hate the dogs and their bullying though, they think they rule the roads at night.

The crows are the most selfish bastards of them all, they just come in when they’re hungry...my house is not a gurudwara dude, we don’t serve langar. Pigeons are lazy as ever, don’t even open their mouths to talk, I can relate with them at some level.

I’m sure by now you must have concluded that I am crayz (did you know if you spell it that way, it still has the same pronunciation), but I’m not, seriously. I am just very free , and I hate wasting time, so this is me making use of the way-laa (vela) time.

And no , I don’t live in a jungle (actually I do..The concrete one)

Ra.One – Well D.One

2011-12-02T17:20:00.001+05:30

I would like to start by saying that I am not a Shahrukh Khan fan, in fact I hardly watch any of his movies, forget liking them. Its not that he is a bad actor, he is one of the wittiest actors actually, which is the only part of his movies I like. I saw the movie just to give some revenue to SRK, looking at the amount he was spending on promotions. But after watching Ra.one …I am a fan, not of his acting skills or style or whatever, but for his entrepreneurship, marketing, management skills ; courage and diligence.

Ra.One- the Movie

I liked the movie. It was entertaining, different, and pretty funny at times, not a bad story line, good on the eye. If it was made by Spielberg or James Cameron it would have been a blockbuster. His south Indian accent dint stay constant was one of the many small glitches, which coming together had quite a major effect causing a negative effect in the minds of the viewers.

What it got Right

- Freshness

- Science fiction comes to India, finally

- Effects wise, India’s best

- Entertaining

- A pretty original script( there will always be comparisons with many Hollywood movies, but then sometimes credit has to be given to the makers)

What went wrong?

- Marketed as a Superhero movie, when it’s a closer to Science Fiction movie.

- Better editing , I know the masala is needed , but it could have been a little cleaner.

- Indian audiences not ready for sci-fi yet

- Tried too hard- Sometimes, when you have too many ideas on your mind and you want to fit in all of them, it happens.

- Hard sell- The movie was forced on you, with SRK appearing from every nook and corner of every nook and corner. People’s expectations were raised too high and they were also exhausted of anything related to ra.one or srk.

- The explanation of how these things turn real from their virtual character wasn’t good enough(this is suppose to be the base of your movie, Krissh had done this part well with the whole “see the future” thing.

Hollywood Movies from which you think you’ve seen a ra.one scene from

- Spy Kids 3- the whole gaming and its levels

- Terminator - the robot thing, although in ra.one they were’nt technically robots.

- Spider man, superman,etc- The geeky avatar of the Hero

- Bicentennial man- Artificial intelligence, and it can go to the next level( if they have a part 2)

- Iron man

- There was this one Swat kats episode, which had something like this..i don’t remember clearly.

The Business aspect

SRK went all in for this movie, using finding every possible link he had in the world and connecting it to the movie. He went on every possible show, every possible brand he endorsed was associated.He also put in the Don 2 trailer in between all of this. Used his resources to the most, and he made up for the weaknesses of the movie with his amazing marketing,PR and management skills. His guts have to be admired, the risk taken, the hard work he put in

From a management perspective, this should be a case study, because he had made sure his movie would make money before it was even out.

Short note on Economics

2011-12-02T16:14:00.009+05:30

I would like to say the following things about economics, in point form-

- If Economics were a person, I would torture it to death. My payback.
- It has overtaken hindi at being the worst subject of all time
- It is a bitch
- It is basically complicating simple things
- In practical use i am a big fan, but in theory it doesnt even make sense sometimes.
- Economics and i have '36 of problems' (chattis ka akda)

So, it can be summarized that, this is what you call "short" notes Mumbai University, and not 8 long pages of gas,faff,rubbish

For further reference you can also check out-
http://amplicate.com/hate/economics

Arsenal Football club or Arsenal Management club?!?!!

2011-12-02T15:59:00.000+05:30

(Warning- this contains a lot of personal opinions which you may agree with or not. Whatever it is , this is for me..to let out all what I feel since 2-8th August has left me sleepless and that too on my vacation, where I thought I left all my stress and worldly tensions behind..why did I have to check the score man!)

Yes, Arsenal is the most well managed and financially sound clubs in the present situation. Lot of money coming in, from everywhere..tickets, player sales,merchandise,property,etc.

But the point is whether all the future planning is worth it when you're losing(prospective as well as present) Arsenal supporters just because you don't want to spend higher wages,transfer fees,bonuses.

Not just that, the primary motive of being a football club is not just to make profit, if you don't want to pay those 'inflated rates' for players then you should call yourself Arsenal Management Club, because paying for new or retaining the old players is more important for maintaining the consistency of your game than going against the system and refusing to over pay. The market is such, deal with it.

Okay you have injuries, suspensions, players leaving, but the transfer window is totally open..go ahead and buy. Don't worry about expensive players on the bench, having bench strength is a good thing and problem of plenty is a far better option.
Man city are dumb, but they had a back up for tevez even before he left(was suppose to)! Liverpool, united all have much more than they require..but don't the results show that its worth it?

And the worst part about 28th was not the loss, the worst part was there not being a solution for avoiding further losses like these , forget challenging for the trophies. The defeat means nothing ,I'll just cut off from the world and avoid reading newspapers,watching t.v,etc for a while till I have recovered from it(its not the defeat,its the pain..I have a weak heart). The issue is that its been like this since last few years, don't want trophy..just solve problems.

One more thing, Arsenal play amazing football yes, but even a cricket fan would know that they need the following things since the last million years
1) Physically strong players!!!!!
2) 1 proper experienced goalkeeper
3) More defensive options
4) Defensive mid fielder(look at yaya toure man)
Now we are just back to where we were 4 years back. And this time with RVP being the new fabregas (prior to which. It was Henry). And I don't know but the captains selected should have some leadership skills, performance based or time spent at arsenal or popularity should not be a criteria. Vermaelen would be a better captain than RVP. Fabregas had way too much pressure to handle without the captaincy headache. (P.S I don't blame nasri and fabregas at all, infact fabregas used the perfect word..his game had become 'Stagnant')

In wenger we trust, but sometimes too much. He has to stay but Decentralize the power he has.

I have and will always be a loyal supporter and would rather stop following the EPL than support another club. And I have been one of the most ardent believers in the system(since I am myself a efficiency and productivity freak management student) but ,I think that you need to read 'who moved my cheese' and learn to deal with change, and soon. 3 days for end of August. This 8-2 could be a blessing in disguise and MU could have done us a big favour if you think of it.

Hence Arsenal, since you are not a management club and we can't resign as supporters , stop playing with our emotions and please find a solution.
And let me sleep peacefully one day.

The stupidest list

2011-06-25T16:19:00.001+05:30

Some stupid things that absolutely necessarily mandatorily compulsorily need to be done to become…to become..Umm, stupid (or smart?).

Starting with the basic needs of a stupid being (For Beginners)

1) Dance( in front of more than one person , standing in front of the mirror is not counted)
2) Sing(same assumption as above)
3) Embarrass yourself in several ways un heard of(creativity is vital)
4) Get turned down for something and then ask again
5) Put yourself in awkward situations

For the Regulars-who have the habit but don’t want to take it up as a serious career

1) Public display of anything
2) Laugh at others mistakes only to know you made or will make the same one, soon.
3) Think that politics is the way you think it is
4) Try to put some sense into a fellow stupid
5) Like a person so much as to be feared of being their stalker

Extreme Stupidness (warning- for professionals only)

1) Give a stupid performance on stage or a public place
2) Make a list of stupid things(for example , this )
3) Not know you are stupid(this is pure natural talent, cannot be learnt)
4) Jumping in a well , just to see if its really deep
5) Don’t learn and continue to like the same person and agree to it publically.

But stupid professionals know how to tackle stupid situations with all the stupid experience, they realize how stupid they were and laugh at themselves, sometimes show off about it and realize later how stupid that was too. Some stupid even convince the un-stupid that being stupid is actually smarter...How stupid.

They finally realize they were stupid, but also realize that stupidness is directly proportional to your smartness and hence the stupid-er you do, the smarter you get. How stupid are you to not get this?

Stupid makes you smart. And I am really stupid :P

My Sister is MEAN!( and so-dumb)

2011-06-11T15:01:00.000+05:30

Did I say mean… I meant sweet, I am so use to hearing her say that… All her fault.
So today is my sisters Birthday and she has become very old …ancient... I can’t risk mentioning how old she has become. I don’t mean that old also, in fact mentally she is still 12.
Now coming to why I am being so sweet to her and writing this..this thing..for her. While I was in the middle of some very important work...as I am a very busy working person who doesn’t waste any time at all..ever, I had a thought..that I don’t remember the last meaningful gift I gave her and so I came up with this.( also all her material needs are way out of my budget). Another reason was because I also couldn’t remember the last time I said something good to her, which finalized my decision to write something for her, considering the amount of lovely things I have to say for her.
She is NEVER confused about anything, EASIEST person to live with, NOT short tempered at all and I am NOT jealous of her life one bit (really I am not, although she is practically living the life I want.. but seriously NO)she is infact my fore runner.
Her prettiness is pretty obvious, my sister na.
She is moody, loves her friends, treats me like some faltu, mentally 12 (as I mentioned earlier already)
Everyone is so proud of her and they talk about it all the time..makes life so hard for me.
Now that I have said so much good stuff, it wont be so bad if I add that she is useless, doesn’t take responsibility , doesn’t do any work …just come for some party bloody
I miss you and I love you…sounds so gay to say, but since I said it already okay fine.
See, isn’t this such a wonderful and meaningful gift for you , am I not the best bro ever :P
Happy Birthday so dumb
Now honestly I was really free and wanted to post something on my blog

51* Simple, Fun and feasible things that can be done by any damn person during your college life

2010-05-01T17:29:00.000+05:30

It’s a long list of some things which are actually good and don’t know how we managed to do(since I’m such a “hardly working” guy) ,some really pointless and useless and some which are really not things to do you know.
Done-
1) Go karting
2) Bowling
3) Gully cricket
4) Beach football
5) Goa(it never disappoints)
6) Water sports
7) Palladium(phoenix actually)
8) Hate saying this But MU café is not that bad, ok fine its awesome…damn they should start Arsenal café.
9) Paint ball
10) Childish video games(you even get gifts if you have enough tickets :P)
11) Casino
12) Back stage Flirting with foreign performers
13) Cruise
14) Opening ipl Match in a stadium
15) Watch awesome matches in new places
16) Try different cuisines
17) Drink at shady places
18) Night life experience
19) Friends farmhouse
20) Play Poker(with real money loser)
21) Make a sudden plan
22) Get drunk(only once though)
23) Drink vodka in college premises
24) Wii!!!(it’s fun but once is enough)
25) lunch at friends place
26) Play ps2 (like all the time!!and only FIFA)and have ps2 competitions
27) Walk at marine drive and Drink on the streets of town with cops across the road
28) Go to taj without any real aim if bade miyan is closed for an hour
29) 7 to 7 stint
30) Drink on the terrace
31) Train travel early morning or late at night
32) Watch kickass movies(inglorious basterds) and avoid ass kicking movies(house full)
33) Eat at famous places(they are so over hyped though)
34) Have a blast at the college IV
35) Look for ice cream at odd hours
36) Mid night hookah
37) Stay over at friends place
38) Shopping at bandra ,oberoi mall and lokhandwala(I just realized I have gone for shopping just 3 times in as many years)
39) Trekking
40) Eat Paan
41) Boating(very boring and tiring, if you do more than once you really need a life man)
42) Smash birthday cakes you don’t like on friends faces.
43) Lonavala
44) Talk to random chics
45) All nighter in college(only if your college is on 24 hrs, thank you NMIMS)
46) Dance under a water fall
47) Do a project at the last min(no,I mean literally,prof asked for the project and we gave her one)
48) Kite flying
Still to be done-
49) River raftin
50) Water kingdom
51) Ladakh(or manali or Kashmir)

By now you must have realized how random this list is and that there is a lot more you can do. But this is mostly all (I may have forgotten some and so It may become 61 or 71 or 101 later) what I’ve done and some I still have to do.It may not be a lot but at least now I’m sure that I won’t regret missing out on anything.Even if I do, il look at this and feel a lot better.

A Night to remember, which I don’t

2010-05-01T17:25:00.000+05:30

First of all because I don’t have a pr agency to handle my image, I’ll have to do all the repair work /damage control myself (based on whatever little I’ve learnt about pr).

1) I’m sorry for doing stuff I shouldn’t have
2) It’s my first (and last,hopefully) drunken night, so I hope you understand.
3) Thank you to all those who helped me reach home safely and also those who showed concern about my state(who were these people, if there were any )

Now that I have cleared the air (some of it) around my behavior I will have to say that i couldn’t have chosen a better night to go as crazy as I did. Although I don’t remember most part of the night, I have been listening to everybody’s version of it. Of which some are funny, some embarrassing and most of them just plain and simple crazy (this word maybe be used very often).

Before the farewell, my friend (I won’t name him, I’ll just give u a clue..he looks like a terrorist) and I decided that we had to make the night memorable under any circumstances. So when we entered, the firs t thing we did was walk over to the bar and started the round of “I don’t know how many” shots.From then on I remember everything very vaguely and will now spend the rest of my life knowing little bit from here there everywhere. Now, from whatever I have heard till now the story goes like this-

I came in ,drank a lot of shots with everyone possible,was competing with my friend till I had 15 ,lost count after that,Danced through the night,started hugging everyone and told them I would miss em,spoke a lot of crap,had a chilly shot(thought of that still makes me wanna puke),drank from others glasses and bottles,my friends told me that they hve never seen me like this(im really boring at such occasions normally),maybe hit on a few committed girls(with no real intention actually),supposedly a few think I behaved badly(this im sure of I dint ,maybe it’s a relative concept and so they felt I did),puked all over Mumbai,reached my friends house thanks to my friends(this part I don’t remember at all),terrorist looking friend slept on the road fr a couple of minutes,had a bad hangover in the morning.
If anybody knows anything more please add on

Lastly,I always thought of(and was proud of) myself as a very controlled drinker and thought that how can people get so drunk..haha..lesson learnt.
And so ive decided not to drink in the next one ;)
But i did achieve my aim to make it the best night ever,so its all worth it

The NMIMS Chronicles

2010-02-26T03:55:00.001+05:30

(The title may not be apt but I just had to have a killer title, I hope the article is too ;)
If you spend 3 years of your life anywhere, doing anything you are bound to make it a part of you (whether you like it or not).So goes with my 3 years at my college (NMIMS, of course).And as always everyone feels that their story is worth telling and better than the rest . So do I ;). Seriously though, my story is good...See...That’s what I am talking about. But I’ll leave it up to you to decide…
…Sometime during the summer holidays in Year 2007
I had been attending classes regularly for the BMS entrance exam (CCEE, I think) preparation. I got this leaflet about a new course offered by NMIMS (I have heard of NM, what the hell is IMS for?)
BMS entrance scrapped, holy s***
I had already screwed my 12th boards (thanks to the distractions in my life, especially this chic who sat right in front of me during the exam’s), that was my only opportunity (of not doing B.COM, I wanted to do something worthwhile) and I dint even get a chance to blow it myself.BMS cut off‘s were breaking records (as if they were competing with Sachin) and so there dint seem to be much light at the end of the tunnel.
NMIMS, my savior
After all had been lost, this was my last chance to do something in management (ok, administration) but it was not as easy as I thought it would be .No, not the exam, that was easy (I had prepared enough for the BMS entrance). I had been the last (or second last maybe) person to get the form (yeh, that’s me, I wait for the last minute…literally), then later that night (a Saturday) I realized that I had to send the form to Delhi… by Monday! That was the time God sent Blue dart to my rescue, who could get it to Delhi in a day.
Then came the exam which as I said, was not the problem. The personal interview went well too. My rank was 55 after all that, but I still dint make it in the first list (Damn you gujju quota) and I had no choice but to try other colleges.
A week later at 6 A.M
My friend calls me up, “dude, you got in to NMIMS in the second list”. I said what? A second list? Since when did I get lucky? God really wants me there (Now I understand why, it was more of a punishment, I must have done something real bad).I pay up my fees (later on, not at 6.02 A.M) after a lot of evaluation of...No alternatives as such...Just BCOM and that, and a slight chance of UPG BMS maybe.
Just the Beginning
Finally, I thought that all the bad was behind me now (actually, it was behind me, it never went anywhere) and from here on everything would be merry (I was so wrong).
Friends
1st trimester, not a single person I know (chances of that, pretty slim).But still, It started off well with everyone looking for friends who would fit their requirements, (so basically the skimming process). Where a bunch of people hang out and get to know each other .I also did a bit of that but was mostly pre occupied with my other friends. I was group hopping I think for almost the entire 1st year, by the end of it I had found the perfect match (and we have been committed since then haha).
Learning Experience, the lessons learnt.
After two and a half years at NMIMS everybody knows “The Secret” to studying at NMIMS. (Wish I had known earlier, I would not have been a two point someone).Its basically the usual “MUG UP EVERYTHING” and the good old “COPY PASTE” for projects. So the lessons I have learnt are more practical and life based rather than the one’s taught by our Prof’s. Don’t get me started on the Prof’s though, I might not finish. While we have been competing on our GPA’s (not me, I’m out of the race, was never in it actually) they all have been competing with each other on how bad they can teach, and so we haven’t got a clear winner as to the worst. But just to keep myself happy and not feel that I have wasted 3 years of education I can say that some were decent. (Like maybe 2…max 3).
Success, only after failure
I had got a re exam in my 2nd trimester thanks to some unhealthy Chinese I ate during the coldest night in Mumbai till date. And of all the subjects it had to be Eco, the subject which gives me sleepless nights a day before the exam or makes me sleep when I look at the book a month before the exam. I some how managed to pass my exam and it wasn’t fun. I would miss a whole damn year and I get the news about my getting promoted a day before the second year starts, so technically I got 1 day of vacation. As If that wasn’t enough I got a double bonanza a year later when I got 2 K.T’s in my 6th trimester and this time too it wasn’t because I deserved to fail. My internal marks had a problem (yeh, in both subjects) but I had to give the exam again and had to go through hell again.
“Time” value of money
Later if in my life I am blamed for not being punctual, NMIMS gets all the credit (or debit...I don’t get accounts btw ,I calculate my expenses so easily ,why do they have to complicate it so much) 1st of all they don’t keep fixed timings for anything. Secondly they have spoilt me so bad by not being strict that now I can never reach on time (even if I want to).
Now I can go on and on and on writing about NMIMS .But I haven’t graduated yet and so I have a lecture at 9 tomorrow (yeh ... I won’t reach on time, but still)
However they were, they were the best days of my life (summer of 09 ;)
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My 1st fictional story

2010-02-10T01:40:00.000+05:30

This is another 1st for me(i am hving a lot of 1st's now,maybe because im trying different things),its a story(not mine)a fictional one which i had written in 1 hour for a college event.
Another thing i wanted to add was that the problem with having written something like my earlier article it becomes difficult to get you to not compare my other articles with it...basically what i want to say is,this story ive written sucks,but its the best i could do for my 1st, so please bear with it and dont stop readin my blog.I will try postin somethin better(hopefully)soon.

Its a Tale merger of sleeping beauty and jack and the beanstalk to say, but i havent borrowed much.(also their writers and me, are not chetan bhagat and raju hirani respectively,so no controversy here)

Title - Then, now and when?

Part 1 - Year 1933 to 1949
Way back in the mid 20th century there was King Francesc Fabregas who lived with his wife Maria Sharapova, who became Maria Fabregas after marriage. Maria had belonged to a family of warriors and was won over by a Fellow warrior (francesc).
They were a weird combination with he being 5 ft 6 and she …was 6 ft tall!! But love doesn’t look at height, weight and so they were very happy in each other’s company.
The sad part though was that Maria could not bear a child and they wanted one with all their heart, for there family to go on for many more years to come.
Suddenly one day, while Maria had gone for a swim in the pond, a frog came out of no where and granted her one and only wish, that of a child (he read her mind).
Soon they had a beautiful girl and they named her Shruti, reason being, they were in love with India and so they always wanted an Indian name for their child (derived from Shruti Hassan)
During Shruti’s christening ceremony, when everything was going joyful for the couple, an evil fairy (or witch) cursed them that their child would die when she would turn 15 or 16 years of age. This terrified the Fabregas’s and they immediately took help from a good fairy to remove the curse.
The curse was irreversible, but there was another option they had, i.e., to go to sleep for a 100 years and wait for a “true love’s first kiss” for the young princess, so that the witch’s curse would not have any effect.
Soon, what was most feared had happened and in 1949 the curse of the evil witch came true and everybody in the castle was put to sleep…
Part 2-Year 2009
Jack was a son of a poor mother. They had a very disturbing life. They did not have any food to eat as the recession in the market had caused a tremendous price rise and reduced their purchasing power.
Money soon ran out and their only asset left was a cow. Mother told jack “son, go to the market and sell the cow at the best possible price, so that we get enough money to buy food till the markets are stable again and we get our jobs back”.
The son obeyed and walked towards lokhandwala market to sell his cow. While going there I met him… I offered him 7 magical beans for his cow. He rejected my offer straight away saying it was too less. He carried on to the marker and reached there faster than the cars thanks to the killing traffic and the shoddy roads.
Once he reached his destination he tried real hard to sell his cow at McDonald’s but they did not want a cow, they said they use only pork in making their burgers. He tried not getting distracted by the chic’s shopping and just do what he was suppose to(sell his cow). But even after trying so hard ,at the end of the day he was going home with what he had come with.
I met him again on his way back and said “Dude, take these magical beans, they’ll work, I’m telling you, just gimme your cow, it’s faster than the cars and gives super mileage also. And anyways I don’t have place to plant these beans”. He though for a moment and then agreed to the offer as if he had no choice, but it was a good deal you see. I introduced myself after the sale “I am Shivam and you are?”he was already gone by then.
Jack reached home and as expected his mom was furious at her son. She wished that if only her son was as street smart as the person who sold him the beans. She threw out the beans that instant.
The next morning the beans had grown into a tree with its height surpassing the sky. Both mother and son were amazed. Jack decided to climb up the tree. He reached the sky and then …the black hole had sucked him in and he went round and round …and round …
Part 3- Year 2049(not love story 2050 please)
Part 3- Year 2049(not love story 2050 please)
Jack heard some screaming, he thought it was a dream, then suddenly he got up .H realized he had a reached some place new. Everything was HUGE. He heard the screaming again, it was a giant... It was “Khali”. Jack hid behind a table but khali saw him, so jack ran out of the house and into the world, a new world .Where cars were going to water (not necessary that they always fly around in the future).A new under water city had been built .Jack was amazed at what he was looking (while he was still running away from khali)
Khali then feel into the hole created by the tree (beanstalk) and was now in 2009. Meanwhile as Jack was running he came across a castle which was still old looking and was cut off from the world. He went towards it as if something was pulling him .When he finally reached not before scarring and bruising himself allover he saw the world’s most beautiful girl and did not think twice before kissing her. That was the time when the sleeping beauty awoke and jack fell in love (his golden egg was the “sleeping beauty” herself).

Now there are 3 endings I have in mind, chose what u prefer.

Original end

Jack then went back to 2009, got his mother to 2049 and lived a luxurious life with Shruti forever. Although he does come once in a while just to thank me(over and over again ,after all he does owe me big time)or just to see me (mostly during diwali holidays ,how else would I know this story anyways? )

Another

Jack had married Shruti and now settled there. But one day as Jack was flipping through channels on TV he saw Swades and remembered his mother and his life in 2009 .So decided to go back to get his mother from 2009 but he wont be able to get his life. Will he be able go back to 2049 is to be seen...I am still trying to get him to stay. I’ll let you know what happens.

Another

Jack had married Shruti and now settled there. But one day as Jack was flipping through channels on TV he saw Swades and remembered his mother and his life in 2009 .So decided to go back to get his mother from 2009 but he wont be able to get his life.He ends up making Shruti stay with him here in 2009,yayy .But we don't know if their relationship will last in this generation of live in relationships, break ups,extra marital affairs and a lot more stuff that cant be spoken about here.

thanks for reaching til here,whoever does.

destinyyy..i love you

2010-02-07T01:47:00.000+05:30

This is my first attempt at writing something about love, relationships, girls, etc (I know it sounds gay but this one’s more about the story, which btw I had to tell).And It may sound familiar or filmy but basically everybody has the same old story with a few things changed here and there.1 more thing, I am writing after quite a long time and so it may not be so good you know (not like I was Sydney Sheldon before but still)
I’ll start of with a little background of the situation
In school I was the regular shy guy and thought that girls were monsters, whom you dare not to talk to. As time passed I realized that guys are supposed to be the monsters for girls and not the other way around.
In junior college I became a dog (that’s the way girls greet us in this generation, yeh that makes them bitches) and soon I was in line with the other dogs who had started their race a lot before me. I went up to girls randomly and screwed my image, reputation, impression, respect, ego (whatever u want to call it) just to get that a little bit of fun (by embarrassing yourself in public) but it payed off big time in the long run as I made a lot of good friends throughout all that.
Soon college dint feel alien anymore and I was a part of the “crowd”. After a lot of flirting around and stuff, I met this chic with whom it clicked (it rhymed!!).I’ll call her “damn cute” .We became friends, then good friends ,then boyfriend girlfriend ,then best friends and then back to good friends and friends and then do I know you?, but that’s all later.
Getting to the story…
During our way to friendship everything was all sweet, cute, lovely, etc (and all the other words girls use).Then came the dreaded board exams and everybody was tensed about their exams .I too was tensed, not for my boards though, but about this chic (her name “super cute”) who sat right in front of me during my exams (I lost so many marks thanks to her) .It started with a “best of luck” and I believe in destiny … not luck, but luck too was on my side that day(before the exam when I had seen her I had wished she sat near me).After that we spoke everyday and I was totally mad about her at the end of it.
But but but, it wasn’t so easy, I had to mess up somewhere and I did. On the day of the last exam, which was math’s (I love math’s usually but with her everything was doing a role reversal, luck was on my side and math’s wasn’t), my paper went bad and I was frustrated so I just walked out of the class without even saying bye .I dint take her number and the reason for that is…My ego which I hate like hell but can’t get rid off so easily.
I went home and regretted what I had done for many months to come, my friends were tired of listening to the story and about super cute but I wasn’t tired of repeating it. Until one day, I got a second chance during admissions for degree but I won’t bore you with that story and just say that, that too dint work out (go ahead, its ok, you can call me a loser)
During all this I was getting ahead with damn cute and had reached the bf/gf phase as I had thought that I had lost my chance(s) with super cute and so I should just forget about her. Also I had started liking damn cute, so I was happy and for the next 2 years during my degree college I went on with life (with super cute still at the back of my mind)
After a couple of years, I was on “do I know you?” stage with damn cute which was not because of super cute but because now I wanted damn hot and super hot or even just hot.
I dint get any of those (people say the reason for that is because they are way outta my league, what the hell man, how do you join that league).For now I am still finding the path to that league but the news is that I found super cute on face book (some use of the hours spent there) but how I found her is another funny story which in fact is the reason that motivated me to write this article.
This is all a little too much to digest at 1 time and also I have a lot more to do in my life so ill continue later sometime.

no ones reading but il keep postin

2009-09-05T19:18:00.000+05:30

yeh..thats the theme this time..i am practically writing for myself here
just so that i dont forget about my blog with all the worldly pressures and crap.
so ,u might find it funny that i am posting and say that no one reads this guys blog ..why does he even post.

then il give u a whole lecture on there are some days in life when there is no one with you that doesnt mean you just have to sit and cry about it ..you have to keep moving(forward obviously)..thats exactly what i am doing..but i wont give you that lecture :P(done giving free lectures ..haha..altho i just did actually)

for my reading only

so heres some motivational talk for myself to start posting regularly again..sorry not again..i was never regular in the 1st place

shivam go post some ..you rock..

cya after u hve some ppl to read ur life..ur blog i mean

stolen from a book

2009-07-31T14:55:00.000+05:30

i am no god believer but i liked this small passage i stole from a book called "The prayer of the frog" by Anthony De Mello(i am not responsible if he too stole it from somewhere)

The prayer of a devotee to the Lord Vishnu
"Lord , I ask you to pardon me for three major sins: first , i went on pilgrimage to your many shrines, oblivious of your presence everywhere; second, i so often cried to you for help, forgetting that you are more concerned than i am about my welfare; and finally, here i am asking for forgiveness when i know that our sins are forgiven before we commit them"

good dose for all those crazy guys who believe in idol worship

Do you know your ROI?

2009-06-25T23:05:00.001+05:30

Well, I call it CRR (not cash reserve ratio you geeks) child return rate. Parents will be shell shocked when they realize the amount they have spent on their child/children and that they would have been better off without one. I sound heartless…but you have to be practical sometimes, or just check out your “cost price”. I checked mine out and told my mom...And I asked her, “mom why did you give birth to me…you would have rather bought property in some prime location (I would prefer a Ferrari) .I started calculating the “fatka” my parents have had because of me .It came to about, 4 CRORES!!! (I have also taken into account the changing value of money and the interest they would have earned if deposited in a bank) I have not yet calculated the opportunity cost and cant do so too...It could have made them millions or even billions maybe and they might have been worlds richest, but they rather have me.

Coming back to the practical aspect. When am I going to recover all their money?(its not like they want it back, I just feel the need to find out my return rate)…I calculated and found out that if I am very optimistic, even then, not before I turn 30 would I be able to break even .Putting the intangible aspect into play (meaning-putting the amount your mom worked on u, from changing diapers to the every day dinner, all the hard work) then around 35 , counting the opportunity cost then maybe never..Not maybe…never. Its rightly said...You can never give back to your parents what they have given to you (unless your parents are like Benjamin button-when you will be young they will be old and when you will be old they will be young and so you can care for them the same way they did).

One final thought and some home work for you. Since most of us doing don’t believe anything without seeing some numbers, I think you will be totally satisfied after you have calculated your own life expenditure and get your real value so that my theory(yeh , I am really proud of having a theory of my own) is proved.

Once you’re done with all the painful (more painful for your parents, so don’t dare show it to them) calculation, I will ask you,

So what’s your rate of return dude?

education in India ....

2009-02-20T12:41:00.000+05:30

"This blogpost may contain subject matter that is to aggressive for your liking ,it may also offend some,so read at ur own risk"
why isnt the education system made more practical rather than just mugging up theory and puking it all out on paper. And thats not all, you have to finish your puke within the time limit..lol...i know its gettin disgusting but actually that is a fact ..only thing the puke is written down on the paper neatly( ,which does nt make it look as bad as ....ok sorry,lets nt go there...
Yeh yeh we have a "great" past in terms of education but it might have been ok then, but now it needs changes or it needs to be changed altogether
By now you must have realized how much i hate the system(not only the education one, most of them, but for this post lets just concentrate on the system that students hate the most, ok i dont want to generalize it,at least i hate the system)
I have a lot to talk about this(not just because i need someone to blame for my results :P )and you might think what am i doing about it ..so..just for u..i am goin to give some easy and free(yeh,that ll make the universities happy...all they want is money or to save it from being used)suggestions...which i hope to implement some day...
as of now i need to run...yes..for another of those boring lectures ..
if u really like my blog(or even if u dont) please become a follower of my blog,please dont have any ego problems like, why shuold i "follow" his blog...being egoistic is not a good sign...:P
to become a follower u just have to go down to the end of the page and you ll see it there.."follow this blog"..thank you very much ;)
so til am back(yes i ll survive the lecture) and hopefully you are too
Ciao

"UNDER CONSTRUCTION"

5th post-easy no more...

2008-11-13T20:15:00.000+05:30

Sometimes people spend so much time making plans in life that they don’t have time to execute those plans. I am also a patient to that kind of disease (yeh it is, very tough to cure).I had planned so much but have not done anything close to pass percentage, in simple words, all my plans have failed. Not just in one department of life but several of them, if not all. This has caused a recession in my life…lol.
One instance of my planning failure is my blog, I had planned to do so much but have not even started on what I had planned. Along with that I had planned to join a football team, talk about football(on my blog), football was my life at one time, but now I don’t even watch an ArsenaL match completely, maybe I have sacrificed my passion for my career, that’s what happens in India , you are judged only by your academic scores.
Everything is not coming as easy as it use to, I am getting a feel of what the real life is, the Mumbai life, a struggler’s life, its some what like a reality bite, it may be good, but it’s a very tough stage to handle. What u need most is patience. But that’s not all, beside’s that you have to work towards want you want. These 2 simultaneously are pushing you real hard to see what you are made up of.
Why does this happen ?,Maybe because I did not care for what I had earlier and was just happy with what I had thus I made my present (at that time)good but spoilt my future(my present now).
I spent my 2 weeks off from college just planning where to go, I spent weeks finding out what should I do…An internship or join a football team? Ended up doing none . I spent months thinking what kind of chic I want, in the end lost (not lost exactly) all what I had…lol. It’s good to laugh because that’s the only thing positive you can do, so that you can keep planning and finally come to the light at the end of the tunnel. Some people prefer not getting into the tunnel in the first place, but I say get into it, it’s like an adventure. If you don’t know what darkness is you wont value light (woahh…I can talk sense too)
Life is somewhat like a company, with its ups (prosperity) and downs (recession), the need for restructuring, planning is needed. So all I need to do is re structure my life and get back to business. BBA is good man, it helps you not only in managing companies but also your own life (just realized that), but don’t do it from nmims, specially those guys who are normal and need chics around them for motivation: P
This was a management blog in the true sense and I am most happy with this blog because I have made use of crappy economics.
Tips for dealing with the recession in life (those who don’t know what recession is, I envy your life, I wish I could be so “care a damn” like you)
-take everything positively
-be patient, there will be a recovery phase.
-If just this could help, I would have tried it myself
I know you are bored of all this gyaan, lecture. Next time I’ll surely talk about something lighter, ciao.

4th Post- Warming up…change…philosophical…non sense…different…

2008-10-26T20:25:00.000+05:30

I was just reading my earlier posts, so that I refresh my brain to regain my flow of writing because it’s been more than a month since my last post. While reading I got a thought of “did I really write this?” I feel as if I am changed person now. You may find it funny but really I have changed a lot since the last month, not because I have gone through something drastic but just the normal movement of life has changed me, if u want proof then, you will realize yourself from my style of writing in this post and the earlier posts.

The reason for this could be that at this age (teenage), you are getting moulded and so you keep changing forms until you are satisfied with one and then stick to that for the rest of your life. I am not trying to make a point here; everything does not have to have one.
But I just made this observation while I was thinking of a topic to write on and found it very intriguing.

Why? Why have I changed ?or have I gone to the next level and matured as a person because honestly speaking I found that my earlier posts were too childish and dumb…lol and I don’t know how anybody could even read them forget liking ..Maybe that’s human nature that when you are in the present the past seems odd and you feel you were such a kid.

According to me the changes in me could have many reasons, the probable’s are-
-I was tensed (a week before my exams, as usual)
-Studied (I don’t always do that)
-I was not satisfied with my exams
-I have not played football since long now,
-Nothing went according to plan
-I chilled for a week (wasted time, literally, but you need that sometimes)
-Read a Sydney Sheldon book, damn, he writes super which made me realize what crap -I write causing a change in my form of writing
-Many more I don’t even remember now
Whatever are the reasons, if the change is for the better, I don’t mind it, no one would.
Maybe this is how you mature as a writer too, from very bad to bad to bearable to Ok to …good

This was a different kind of post(and a self obsessed one) but it was needed or else everything would sound the same old...Change is needed ;) if you did not like it then maybe you can’t deal with change..Haha... (Solution- read “who moved my cheese?”)

Another thing,
Everyone feels I need to get more sense into what I write
But I say
That’s the point of my writing
Everyone writes sense everywhere
But how will you realize that it is sense unless you read some non sense,
There has to be a balance
So I want to be different and write weightless non sense with some food for thought
Because sense is very common nowadays
Non sense is the uncommon one :P

Till next time, ciao.

3rd post-one of my articles....Live Life

2008-10-24T20:02:00.000+05:30

I had written this when i was just developing the interest to write....so bear with it...
Here goes...
LIVE LIFE -By Shivam B Vij

The beginning of Life is the same for all. It is what you do with your life that makes it different from the others. In the beginning you might belong to the shy and reserve type of kid category or a very friendly and smiling kind of person or something else. At that age you are usually happy with your own world consisting of your family, friends, not to forget toys, games and loads of other fun stuff which you would like to take care of or just throw around here and there.

Slowly as you grow up…from a child to an adolescent to a mature human being, you start changing as a person too. the differences start becoming visible. You expand your circle to include more people into your life, becoming a friendlier, more understanding, and different kind of person. No one would ever believe that you are the same person who was once upon a time lost in his own world, doing silly things, crying for no rhyme or reason. This change in a person is not a one or two day affair. It’s a process...a Process of Life …wherein you learn the very many ways of life, only after leaving school …as before that it is just school, classes and television for most people living in Mumbai.

Once you are about to get into college you start realizing what the real world is made up of, traveling in buses, and trains in a place like Mumbai is an experience by itself. Then there are problems, not only the math’s ones but also the ones with friends, family, society, etc. From then on it is only uphill, in terms of your experiences with life and learning the so called “lessons” of life.

However, life should never be a regret for you, love it now and forever. As of now life for us mainly consists of our hectic trimesters at NMIMS, some extra curricular and of course the opposite sex (girls are a big distraction). I am not mentioning family because that is a constant phenomenon. In a few years time it would be work, some thing you like doing and want to do, something like playing football, writing articles, etc.

But through all this I still haven’t figured out what life actually is, have you? When I think of it I think life is L, I, F, and E with a question mark .The question mark because I don’t know the exact definition. And I think no one does. We don’t know whether what we are living now is life or what we will live once we are out of NMIMS.

Everyone has a different meaning, sense, significance for life. For some it is chilling around with friends’, for some it is playing sports, for some being successful, famous etc etc. Whatever we say and think about life makes it all the more complicated. It is impossible to understand life in happening of just one particular event of life, reason being there are so many people who don’t get the actual significance of their life even after living it.

I don’t think this is anything new and that only I get such thoughts, but I think it is human nature, to question .Everyone has questions in there mind about what is the reason for their birth? What is there purpose in life, etc. Some questions can be answered some remain unanswered. I guess … Life is a journey of endless discovery where the journey is more important than the destination. That is the beauty of life.
i know it sucked but i wanted to keep the blog alive so i put this up...

2nd post-Scope of blog continued

2008-09-14T18:46:00.000+05:30

Why isn’t there a device or software which registers all your thoughts? Or is there one?
Whether it’s there or not, I need it, because whenever I get an awesome thought (I feel it’s awesome, it doesn’t always turn out to be) and I want to put it down I feel damn lazy to type or write (another important subject for my blog”laziness”) and so I end up losing that super thought which could have changed the world.

Now that I have started this blog with all the enthusiasm and josh, I am feeling that writing a blog is not as easy as it sounds, it’s a big responsibility type of thing where you have to keep updating, which involves a lot of WORK which I feel lazy to do. Specially when there is no monetary motivation or even some other kind of motivation, like ,someone telling me “hey why don’t you start a blog and I’ll give you a PS2 and for every update 1 new game and after that when you are a lil famous you’ll get a PS3 “
Anyone who likes what I write (there must be some at least) and has a little sympathy for me can do that for me, and I assure you I’ll post everyday.

Lets get back to the ‘scope of blog’ .You must be thinking (I know you are not thinking, actually I am only thinking) this guy is adding topics when the hell is he going to write on them? Don’t worry I will. I am just putting down all what I can write on, then I will start writing, reason being, I like a structured and organized approach (thank you BBA for giving me this systematic thinking).Talking about all this I got another area to cover, MBA But before that you have to cross the dreaded kali billi ka rasta (I mean CAT, for those who dint get it). After we help each other get into one of the premier institutes (thanks to my blog that is ;) and you graduate from there, then you can have all the fun in your life, that’s what parents and teachers say and they are always right. So study hard now and don’t bunk college or let a super cute girl copy from your mathematics paper during your 12th board examination. I was being sarcastic, are you mad to study and work and all now? When will you enjoy looking at all the hot college girls, cars, and most importantly hang out with your friends? You think you can do that once your working? If you think you will then maybe you inherit ambani’s property or something

You will have to run the rat race (as they call it, I prefer F1 it’s faster and fun) whether you like it or not, to get all those luxuries you are getting now for free (you know whom to thank for that) Enough of this boring lecture which you get from everywhere already (it was just to show off my maturity levels, I am not really interested in helping you enjoy life, I have to 1st do that myself..Haha)

From the above paragraph you can know that I am such a life saver (it was nothing so stop thanking me).I have just saved you from some of your lectures (I have not told you to bunk all, just some, so don’t blame me later, even if you do, I will put a disclaimer here to avoid that problem)

I think this much is enough for now, as most people get scared of the length of the article and so end up not reading (I am one of those people).I have yet again not covered all what I wanted to and so I will continue scope of blog (its not that boring and I think whole of September I’ll be covering that only) in post 3.

Thank you for your comments (for people who liked my 1st post) and for those who dint, you’ll can also give me comments, so that I can know who these ****** are….lol.
No but seriously comment so that I can have motivation to get your compliments too. This sounded too despo for comments but start writing a blog and then you’ll know the value of “comments”.

So till next time (come next time, it’s a very easy domain name to remember)
Ciao.

1st post-Not so grand opening

2008-09-07T18:39:00.000+05:30

I may have not done anything great by creating this blog (just added one more to the millions and maybe made poor Google earn some money) but it could be my 1st step to achieve something great.

After thinking a lot on how to start this, I have come to a conclusion that in this (my 1^st post) I won’t have anything different from the other bloggers (my competitors now...)

I’ll just give a short introduction about what all my blog will cover and what all it will uncover (don’t think too much... I meant secrets and stuff).

Starting with what is my passion, Football!!! As football freaks may know that football is not just a sport, it’s something much more. So here we will have all the debates on why Arsenal rocks (yeh ...it does).We will also discuss on Indian football (come on man, its improving, we are in the 2011 Asia cup), there is no discussion needed for cricket because ….aren’t you bored of it?

I will also post on tennis, F1, hockey and maybe some more sports.

Then comes the next best thing, something that is a big distraction (attraction actually) for all beings of my age, the opposite sex. This may include general thoughts about the different kinds of girls (yes all girls aren’t same) crazy, cute, funky, hot, etc etc.

Personally I like funky, tom boy kind of girls but I don’t get any of that kind, may be they are rare in India or maybe I just have bad luck. I hope at least some of them read my blog.

Now let’s get to a new dimension, books. I don’t read as much as I want to, nor do I like everything I read but because of that little reading I have done until now (thanks to my mom… who got that habit in me after a lot of patience and persuasion), have I got the confidence and ability to write this blog.So reading is not that bad, boring and tough as it sounds. I am promoting reading not because I want you to learn and grow and stuff like that …I have my own motives in doing that …so that you’ll read my blogs...haha .I got this business mind thanks to NMIMS BBA(I study there...I mean I hang out there… some use of the ..God knows how much money spent on the fees, etc).I will post on my college life also.

Damn, I never realized there is so much in a teen’s life. I have typed so much but still can think of so much more. I may have missed out on a lot but I think I’ll keep that for later (I should have something to write on for the next blog)

So this just gives a modest start to my teen blog…hope you like it (I don’t care even if u don’t…I gave my 100% man)

And considering it’s just my 1^st blog I am happy with it

So until next time Ciao