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Art of chilling - inspiration

2009-06-29T13:29:00.000+05:30

What prompted me to post after ages!!??!! The art of chilling - obviously...took me sky high and inspired me to start posting again....

The Art of Chilling

2009-06-29T12:53:00.000+05:30

How to Chill out!! recipe

Chilled cans of Foster - unlimited
Barbecue - chicken, lamb and vegetables
A swimming pool
Lots of pretty girls in swimwear / beachwear
Rocking music

Method of preparation:

Choose a chilled out poolside setup, put all these ingredients together, Keep the Fosters flowing non stop. Make the pretty ones dip in and out of the pool frequently, don't stop the music until late afternoon.

Garnish it with a colorful background. Serve chilled and repeat often.

This is The Art of Chilling - Fosters Style!!!! which I attended yesterday at an amazingly chilled out location called Mercure at Koramangala, thanks to Fosters and Indiblogger, I had a whale of a time.

Long Gaaaaaaaaaaap

2006-12-22T22:02:00.000+05:30

Yeah! I know...havent been writing for a long, long time....cant do it from office n at home...cant sit for too long to blog....

but now I have decided, I will update this regularly, atleast a few lines....as frequently as I can.....

360 DEGREES

2006-12-22T21:55:00.000+05:30

Life....takes you a full circle and brings you back....bang!! and puts you back in the same place that you started off from...........ages ago...........or so it seems....

long long time ago...a dashing, debonair, young stud (me! me! me!) wanted to pursue a career in Engineering in Computer Science.....and he joined a college in Whitefield, Bangalore...
But, unfortunately, due to whatever reasons...he could not complete it and had to discontinue it...

Cut to present, years later....he is going back to work in the same area!!! the irony is...he would be working in a profile which would require the qualification which he could not complete...but still he got the job (couple of diplomas, online courses and experience did the trick)

Felt like blogging my thots when I got this offer in Tesco, Whitefield...so I did!!

Dublin!!!! Irish???? Anything but that

2006-03-26T03:34:00.000+05:30

seriously dudes........I miss Bangalore........every weekend!!! especially those wknds when I get raped (my wallet actually) for nothing!!! I select a "Happening" (in Quotes, dont miss), pay a BOMB to enter........get a whiff of CK's and Diors in the air and get a peek at some babes entering.....real hot!!!

the door opens and the music is blasting away.....man my spirits are already high...like an oasis in a desert.....I found a place playing good music in chennai....hey dudes!!! when u come to chennai roarin on ur thunderbird...I am gonna bring u here.....

our whole gang, about 8 of us, settle down in a cozy corner and order our first round of drinks!!! first puncture in my soaring spirit, the draught beer is flat! absolutely flat, no fizz no taste, u can guess what it tastes like!!! and i wait and wait and wait for the waiter (but here I am the one waiting) finally I manage to catch one of the safari suited guys on the floor and ask him for the order taker and he somehow managed to fetch our guy.....when I asked him is this draught beer, he nods sayin yes, n when I ask him why is it so flat, u know whats his classic reply "all beers are like this"
well, I didnt want to argue with him and spoil my evening, the music is picking up u see, the dj is slowly movin towards Bhangra!! so I requested him to take it bk and get me a bottled beer.....

he arrives after another infinite wait....with a beer dated mid feb.....can u imagine how that beer would taste....lousy is a very decent work I can think of!!! and a place like Dublin, located in Park Sheraton & Towers, Man!!! unbelievable!!! what all these guys in this city/state get away with....

anyways....I was talkin bout the music here....like I said the dj was slowly murdering the mood...I mean, movin towards bhangra....and suddenly he switches to hip hop...man some mixin or what....I mean, fuck the pulse of the crowd man, I can mix...is what the dj's sayin....so lets listen to his mood.....who cares for the crowd...anyways....

well, its not that evvythin bout the place is bad, the place is good, really...awesome interiors, nice seating, cozy corners, awesome babes (better 'n speed) desperately tryin to shake, movee, jive, bhang, disco whathaveyou....but seriously.....how can u move the same way for every number thats played..???

reveleation!! this place plays ONLY for that kind.....then what the f*** am I doin here, jus settle the cheque n get lost!!!.but unfortunately this reveleation came to me after blowin a tidy sum!!!! and as usual........I had a lousyyyyyy weekend!!!

Happening Chennai????

2006-03-26T03:12:00.000+05:30

Hey guys!!! remember I talked bout one of chennai's supposedly most happening place -speed in my last blog?!!?? well today I have good reason(s) to talk about Speed and another of those "Happening" places in chennai - Dublin!!!!

Well....lets begin with Speed!!! dont be fooled by its name or the ambience!! the place is anything BUT speed!! located in one of the five star hotels (the fate of this city! that all pubs are ONLY in ***** hotels.....people dont know that there are standalone pubs in rest of the world) the place has a gazillion restrictions on entry and charges you a bomb to enter and only a miniscule of that amount is the cover charge!!!!

So.....here we are, me, my wife and a couple of friends......landed in Speed )and lost our speed)! the first 2 odd hours could put any insomniac to sleep (geez! I didnt realize that I could suggest this as a therapy to insomniacs!) the DJ if there was one, was playin real tacky numbers.....I got a feeling that he emptied his attic recently and wanted to check whether all the cd's and vinyl's are playin!!!

well...the bill kept raisin with every item we ordered (obviously) but the only Speed factor in speed was the addition to the bill...nothin else.....Finally....when I felt that I could no longer endure this torture I walked out of the pub and boy was I a happy person?!?!?

Watch out!! my next blog talks bout another of these happening places!!!

Beach House Party in Chennai - U heard it right mate

2006-03-12T22:54:00.000+05:30

Hey guys, been to a beachhouse party yesterday.....in one of the beach houses on the ecr road...........the place is awesome man.........right next to the beach n theres a swimmin pool inside the beachhouse

the party actually started at around 3 in the noon, for all those 'my daddy wont allow, my mummy will shout' types.........they finished n left by about 7in the evening.....

Big / bad boys play at night...right??? so the actual party started off after 8 n was rockin till about 3 am sunday morning, thats when we left......coz v wer too tired to hang around....

Well, cant really say the party was rockin... but compared to most of the 'So-called-happening-places' in chennai like Speed (Supposed to be THE Happening place in chennai, been there also, will be posting a blog bout my EXPERIENCES in Speed) the party was happening...lotsa babes....n some angrez babes, one of 'em was real hot...dancin away to glory.....

After the party me n a couple of friends came to Elliots beach in Besant nagar n sat on the beach till 4 am...came home n crashed........got up in the noon, ate like a pig n slept again...
The pictures will tell the rest of the story

Reminiscing

2006-02-09T23:11:00.000+05:30

Hmmmmmmmm my last blog was in May!!!! gawd.......happy n just bk from my visit!!! Well......just goes to prove how lazy I have become!!! (yes! coz writing used to be my passion and I could write about anything and everything and anytime!!) then why does it take so long for me to update my blog!?!? I keep postphoning n postphoning..............until my ideas or thots or whatever is cooking inside my head threatens to bust out!!!

Its a time to reminisce i guess.......and of course not without an ocassion.....in the first week of August i completed ONE year in my current organisation!!!! ONE year!!!! One Bloody Looooooooong year!!!!!!!! Cant believe it man................how could I survive ONE whole year of this shit!!! well....now that I have started reminiscing lemme muse over the year and my achievements (?!?!)

Lemme begin on an optimistic note and make a list of things that I have gained over the year....
BRAND........BEE..........AAAR......AY.......ENN........DEEEEEEEE.......brand in big bold letters, underlined.....everything........"oh you are working for --------, wow" thats the expression I get from people when I say am working for so n so.......

Apart from that I gained knowledge of the industry (that am currently working in) and most importantly 'how NOT to run this business' than 'how to run it'!!!!!and the most surprising aspect (or is it the truth everywhere?) is that out of all the managers in different departments - a bunch of them - not even a handful are capable....almost all are where they are only coz of their excellent 'ak' & 'al' skills. They'd 'ka' & 'la' their way to glory n promotions n fat paycheques!!!! Well.......I jes cant seem to get down to doin that......'pl' is another matter though...

Got recognition, continued my tradition of work, work n work, got talked bout for that, took some initiatives and made a difference to the process........or that's what I think........

Maybe its true, coz they selected me to go on a Transition abroad.......Maybe its not coz they made me do the same shit after comin bk....

Whatever, it was a learning experience, good, bad n the greys.......

(actually this shuda gone for print in Aug 05, but for some strange reasons it is goin now!) More will continue in the Sequel

MORE ABOUT BANGALORE TRAFFIC

2005-05-11T21:07:00.000+05:30

Have you noticed the silly, irritating, getting-on-to-your-nerves penchant of a Banglorean to HONK???? Yes, I'm referring to that ubiquitous contraption called the HORN on/in a vehicle...I'm aghast at the way people in Bangalore use it, do they by any chance think that its the horn on their head which they can twist n play around with, without consideration to their fellow human beings???
I jes cant understand their fancy for this noisy, irritating contraption, they merrily honk away contributing to the rising pollution levels....if I jes try to analyse this nasty habit....
I'm going on the road n traffic as usual is crawling...suddenly the car behind me blasts its horn...as if sayin "hey u on a two wheeler, move over I'm on four wheels" but pray, where do I move? do I levitate alongwith my kinetic jes because the mighty four wheeler is behind me? coz there's nowhere else to go!!! but still he doesnt give up...keeps honking...is that a case of a mentally n visually challenged bloke who cant see that there's no place to move and can't understand that simple fact......I wonder!!!!!Is he trying to prove that he is mightier coz he is in a car n I'm on a two wheeler? Does driving a car give him a privilege of way? but then, most of two-wheelers also do the same, what about them??
Believe me, 95% of people riding/driving on bangalore roads belong to this category...shouldn't they all be shifted to NIMHANS???? and leave us to ride/drive peacefully.....or maybe treat them with their own medicine...tie them down n honk continously into their ears for a couple of weeks!!!!! (if we do that, will they go totally deaf n increase their honking?????)

WANNA FOLLOW ME TO THE LAND OF GORIS/GORAS?

2005-05-11T20:14:00.000+05:30

Hey am bk.....did u guys miss me or is it jes my (self-obsessed) feeling???? whatever...but since I'm bk n got some free time n a topic n in the mood to post something n not feeling lazy!!!! not necessarily in that order.....
Actually...........I had been too lazy to post somethin....tho I had loads of news after my UK trip.....

Tho this aint the first time I'm travelling abroad...already been to Malaysia, Singapore, Maldives etc., but this definitely is the first time I'm travellin abroad officially....n the best part is..........u guessed it......I dont foot the bill!!!!

It was a training trip so we had loads of work out there...first v had to get used to their timings 8am to 4pm....aint that cool timing...I mean u r thru with office by 4pm n the wholeevening is urs to do whatever u want....thats what i thot....but...surprise...the shops close by 6pm most of them by 4 or 5pm...so u cant really go shopping...most of the joints close by 8pm n 9pm is very very late for people out there on weekdays.....of course I still managed to go out n have fun during the evenings n especially on weekends..man is it happening or what!!!! n the best part of evenings out in UK is that even if the place is top of the line, they dont charge u the earth...unlike in bangalore wherein if the joint is in mg or brigades a beer sometimes costs u about 150 or even 400Rs...and the same would cost about 100 in other places...in UK a pint of beer is 2pound 40p everywhere....even in pubs u where u get to drool at babes decked up with hardly anything on them!!!!!

Hey!!! I didnt say that last one ok!!!! well...apart from a wonderful night life....coupla more things I liked bout that country.....and please....its not the case of the grass being greener.....the purchasing power of money, value for citizens, value for human beings, consideration for the citizens and their comfort, facilities provided by the government.....I can go on and on.....of course not to deny that I got to see original form of the British Raj hangover that we see in India...but then...despite all that they are leaps ahead in most of the things....tell me where in India can you eat a hearty meal for about 4 to 5 INR???!!! Does any currency under Rs.100/- carry any value at all in India?? But out there in UK a 5'er is considerable money...would u belive if I say that most of my saturday night outs didnt cost me more than a Tenner!!!! 10 pounds, n thats it, which is a lot of money...I still remember one day when we went to a joint for lunch and my colleague whipped out a 50 pound note as she wanted change!!! U shuda seen the look on the cashiers' face!!! she was zapped n dumbstruck....she immdtly ran to call her manager saying she wanted change for 50 bucks!!!!That scene was both hilarious and revealing at the same time to me.......I'm sure you'd get the same reaction if you took out a 5000 Rupee note in a
restaurant here....or would you???

Of course, that doesnt go to say that evvything is hunky dory out there...it is a bloody expensive country...rents will kill u..wages around 8 to 15k are common (per annum, fyi) but u still can have a good life if u r earnin around 25k per annum...coz evvythin else is economical.....ur food, ur clothes etc.,crime...never came across anything funny, but was warned by evvybody around that the pubs r THE place for brawls...coupla drinks and they r ready to bash u up, moreso if u dont have a white skin.... u can see more girls smokin than guys.....kids as young as 12/13 find ways to get a cig - coz it is illegal to sell tobacco or alcohol to anyone under 18.....but the kids do manage to find a way around...kids that you'd normally see here in India playin with their Toys...u'd find kids of the same age smoochin n petting around in trains, bus stops n shoppin malls...
Well...u gotta take the good with the bad.........

BANGLORE ROADS - ONE-WAY TICKET TO HELL

2005-02-14T10:40:00.000+05:30

hey! what do I write bout? I actually signed up a coupla' days ago....but been too lazy to post anything.....sorta hoggin my share of cyberspace without actually doin anythin for it......
actually what prompted me to post my blog today is the experience I've been goin thru the past coupla days --travellin thru bangalore in peak hours....
earlier my work demanded me to report at around 1, 2 or 3 in the noon and it was fine with me n hey! it didnt gimme a chance to face the bangalore traffic 'mano-y-mano' but all that changed when I had to report to work at 9 in the morn n start bk home at around 6 inthe evening!!! peak hours!!! n the full impact of that move dawned on me only when I actually started from office around 6 in the evening and reached home at about 8 pm!!! 2hrs travel for a mere 16kms!!! I mean how difficult travel can get in a city??? n how difficult can a city's corporators can make the citizens' lives????
It is appalling that the fathers of Bangalore Corporation have the least respect n regard for the citizens of the city!!! an inference from the way the roads have been dug up, hastily started projects stalled / moving at snails pace, all over the city...at a time when the city is groaning under expansion........ the fact that the city's infrastructure is just not able to keep up with the explosive pace of growth....hits you in your face the moment you enter bangalore. You'll find Very very few roads are roads anymore...residential areas are residential anymore....the growth that bangalore has seen in the past couple of years is phenomenal to say the least....but at what price??!!! makes you wonder if its worth after all!!! practically no roads barring a few showpieces like MG road or Brigade road etc., most of the big roads, major junctions dug up n left (we are in project mode you see....and dont ask us when the flyovers will actually be completed. Never mind the fact that by the time the flyovers are ready traffic would have increased another tenfold and eternal traffic jams will continue as usual!!) The biggest and the worst kind of enemy of this city is its ONE WAY POLICY.....trust me, I've never seen a city with so many one-ways!!! and the joke is that the city's cops pride themselves over these one ways sayin that the traffic is under control only due to these one-ways....but its the citizens who are paying the price for this!!! to cover a distance of 2 kms you'd need to travel a minimum of 5 kms...why? because of one-ways!! every f**** road is a one way forcing people to go round and round and round....wasting fuel and burning up money on transport. I wonder where these geniuses came up with this idea??!!what the hell...its not their money right!?!
I plan to add to this.....whenever the situtation worsens (which is more often than I can write about) or improves!!! (hope, is eternal you see)