Blessed!

a lazy Sunday afternoon..

a long to-do list...
cold weather...
a cup of coffee..
loved one besides..
some peacocks around..
an unseemly chat..
And... loadsa smiles!

With all this, one would love to stay ignorant of what's happening in the world outside! And that's when you feel Blessed!!!

I am one! :)

I need U!

I was in the bend,

Life was about to end..

There I was dying,

And I saw u coming! :)

U gave me your shoulders,

That .. wiped off my tears..

You love me with all you have!!

For my broken heart, that is the salve..

And then everything is fine,

With all the sun and stars shine!

In all the life’s rhythm..

It’s you I fathom!

Now I need you.. for the rest of my life...

Without you I walk on the sharp edge knife!

My heart bleed,

And Mind agreed…

You are my hopes!

You are my love!!

You are the God-sent!

I need U!

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P.S: I Suddenly felt Life's so beautiful.. that turned me a poet! This is my poetry venture, after long years!

Love Ya! :)

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish - Book review

this has been a long pending one to update.

I read this book around 4-5 months back when I saw it at a friend's place. Having no other thing to kill time, I just thought I would borrow it for a weekend and it might be a good time pass.

So for those who have got no clue about it, its completely about entrepreneurship, written by an IIM-A Alumni, Rashmi Bansal, about 25 IIM-A grads, how they started out on their entrepreneurship ventures and what all it took for them to make it big in their life, who had passed out of IIM-A since 1970s and the list goes on till what you call 'quite' some years back.

Let me point out the good things first.

1. It certainly inspires you, no-matter-what unless you have no bias towards the author. At least I had the after effects of it :D
2. The book would perfectly make a valuable read to those guys who grow with a criss-cross net around them, with all the IIM dreams and of cracking CAT etc etc. You get inspired like crazy and go behind your IIM dreams even more ;)
3. You get a hang of what is entrepreneurship and how it mostly works inIndia. Each of the 25 grads have gone through lots, and ultimate things each one of the problem, very different.
4. You definitely get to learn about all the jargon that co-exist in an IIM grads' life.
5. The price of the book is only INR 125/- Perfectly affordable for a dull weekend.

Cons:

1. Each one of them, I mean the 25 grads say 'money shouldn't be the motto' and ultimately all of them hit the same goal of making money. some way or the other.
2. Too much of IIM stuff hyped up, and for a normal non-IIT-IIM reader, it turns out to be quite irritating after a certain point.
3. Things get too monotonous after about half of the book is done reading, the same "don't expect money, do what you are passionate about, work with a smaller-larger firm for a while, before starting on your own". Common, what was different you trying to convey!? Nothing!?
4. A definite amount of thought should have gone into shortlisting the 25 entrepreneurs who got a place in the book. Well I see some strategy on that here, which I don't understand, rather I don't want to understand ;) Some of the very well known guys from IIM-A are found to be missing, the one that hits my mind right away is Chetan Bhagat, is he not an entrepreneur!?
   
5. Instead some people who are very less known, especially in India, like those guys from Mumbai-the software people, and the San Jose based fashion designer lady, I forgot their names. Does it contribute to the cost-cutting part!? :P
6. And the entrepreneurship cell contacts that are mentioned at the end of the book to get in touch with, for all those who have their entrepreneurial dreams, does not work. I tried them and found absolutely no responses!
7. Rest of the damage is done here

But after all, we should give everything its time and so is to Rashmi! Let her get the hang of writing books and not just journals. Lets wait ;)

My first 3D experience

it was worth a mention weekend for me after landing in hyd.
the very 1st time i've heard of 3D movies was when I was studying 3rd std, my cousins were taken for 'My dear kutti chathan'. They came back and told us they watched a movie with some goggles and all on, and that althrough the movie they could sense things as if they were happening so close, they felt everything so close and all that. Me and my other cousins went on wondering how could that be possible, but failed realizing.
Later in my 7-8th std physics we got to read about the Polaroids and then could crack that which was a rocket science for so long.
Anyways, now I'm out of school 8 long yrs back! And the weekend had a special friend's budday, so something to celebrate upon, you see! :) Anyway finally managed to watch 'Monsters n Aliens' at the Prasadz IMAX 3D hall. Thanks a ton to 'S'.. for making up my weekend!

The movie was awesome.. Great dialogue delivery by each of the characters.. especially the Monsters! I just loved them. Susan, B.O.B, Dr.Cockroach, the Missing link and the Insectosaurus. Their friendship sounded one of a kind. Its not just me like this, I realized, thanks to Susan.

Some parts of the movie that impressed me greatly
1. When Dr.Cockroach experiments on Susan to get her back to her old form, the apparatus bursts, putting us into a lot of laughter. Susan with that sad face says 'its ok Doctor. Please try tomorrow'.. only hoping that things will somehow get back to normal. Awesome!

2. The Gallaxhar's computer is set to destruct, Missing link says "its anyway nice meeting you Mr.Doctor". I have heard of this before in some American based stories, I still was stunned.

3. When the insectosaurus was dying, Missing link says "Do not close those eyes.. Do not.. dare .. close those eyes" n all of them cry for him! How sweet!

4. And Susan after getting to know about Derek's real character comes back weeping. When friends ask "so howz Derek", she says "Derek is a selfish jerk! why should I cry for him, expect anything out of him. It was me who saved California all alone, I'm so powerful. After all.. why. why should a meteor hit me to know what he really is!". I could relate so well to her emotions! The way she was regaining her confidence in no time is ultimate!!

5. When Gallaxhar takes away Susan, these 3 ppl rush to save her and the tricks that they play to cheat the clones in Gall's planet. Kudos. I simply loved their friendship!

And the much notable comedy pieces every now and then.. On the whole, movie was ultimate!

Also, the 3D experience was great! given that I haven't had one such so far.
But... Needless to say, the mall was crap. the toilets were stinking, crowd was wayy tooo local and wotnot! Hardly any couples or educated ppl! And most of the crowd were with their purdahs on, those that haven't seen the washing machines for yrs, n the ppl who haven't seen the bathrooms in yrs with some stinking perfumes on.. n the weather doing its part, the sweating souls.. yack!!!!

Airtel Super Singer 2008 ... and the disappointment!!

So.. the show has finally come to an end after all the hungama.
Me having been shifted to this nothing-for-good land missed out so much on watching the show live. All I could do was following it up on youtube, a bigg thanks to imran53000 for uploading all the videos, you made my day.

RAVI, Mr.Consistent, was the only person, without any doubt had to become the Super Singer.
Some of my friends have that Ravi is also Mr.Attitude etc, you do not wear a smile and always have a "Big deal" attitude and all that. Just a smile would have helped a lot when it came to the votes I felt. Or at least ask the crew to project ur smile more in the shows. That's all it is!
Srini in one of the shows long back had pointed out 'perhaps Ravi would bag the Super singer award one day' . There definitely was no person who can compete Ravi in the whole show, he has the voice, he has the talent, above all he knows Music!! and what not!
This dumb concept of public voting, just for the producers to make money, took it off the line. I'm still not able to believe it.
But man, the world knows when it comes to pure music, YOU are the Super Singer!!

Renu, as Srini always says has an astonishing voice.
And the title winner Ajeesh did a good job towards the end. He wore a smile since start till the end and that's a good thing which did wonders for him. Your music too was definitely soothing to our ears. But then its in no way can be compared with Ravi's. Anyway congrats people.

Its an amazing initiative from Vijay TV introducing all these people to Rahman. But I really hope Srini would introduce Ravi to Rahman personally one more time, and this guy will definitely ROCK ! and the time is not too far.. No Doubt!