Random thoughts

Shades of life!!

Thought to cry on another defeat
but no surety that it will not repeat.
Survival is hard and no free entry
it repeats and hence we call it History.
Futile is the word for time passed
nothing gained but badly surpassed.
Reason of such fate might be a curse
things I want from heart never purse.
Hope keeps me alive sometimes
I Call it a poem as it rhymes.
Became a puppet of destiny
Trend may continue and potray irony.

A Chosen Day

Few days are already written!!!

There are times when we trace the skyline and say “why me?” Life seems an accident and you feel like nothing can go right with you and all you can do is go with the flow. Although bad things do happen to everyone but in sequential mode, they seem like a planned conspiracy.

A weird day it was. As usual I woke up early owing to my incomplete course of the great Nano Materials exam. Did I forget to mention about my ongoing End –Term exams in college.

So saga starts at 3:00am. Alarm was roaring near to my ear and thanks to my touch screen when I took it in my hand it was snoozed and I got a margin to sleep. Then it was crying again after 10 minutes or so and finally met its fate on ground. Yes it was lying there on floor urging me for a fast reassembling of its pieces. So I have to keep aside my residual naps and heavy eyelids and with my eyes wide open I started the assembling process. After struggling for 5 minutes, I was able to put things back into place and it was time to return to nano notes. Did I again forget to mention that last night I started my end term course at 8:00pm? I just had a glance of what are the topics or better to say “hawa li thi bas” and ahead was course of 20 pages, calling me to cram. So I thought of paying attention to them and started studying seriously.

Meanwhile I realised that there were some topics which were to be done from wiki and I rushed for my laptop. A cold sweat drenched me, battery and charger were missing. Then I had a quick flashback when mum took the charger and battery as my bro was playing some stupid games. He was supposed to study for his half-yearly exam. They must be locked in some almirah and I allowed the process voluntarily on account that I have to study only by notes and hence don’t need any lappy. My over sacrifice for my bro proved a fish-bone in my neck. I had no time to waste so I composed myself by saying “first complete your notes”. And as we comfort ourselves we generally keep on increasing angle from 90 degree position to 180 degree. And at 5 I was asleep. And found myself being ruffled by mom at 6:15.

Then it was 7:50 when I thought I should start dressing up. And it was 8:01 and I was standing there near my activa kicking it to compensate for wintery illness. Then I met Rashmi in parking at 8:06 so now we were like damn! we are gone. And then she was saying all those things from wiki which I left out and she spoke continuously from parking to LT1(brave!!). We were now near Archi dept’s entrance and no one could be seen in vicinity. Rashmi was now coughing badly due to her dry throat as we literally came running and she was speaking the whole way. She then had water and was feeling better. We entered lecture hall and RKD asked what we are here for ” Exams??!!” Then he asked whether we are having our I-cards or not. I had mine but Rashmi was not having it so even I refused. We then took paper and got ourselves a place to sit. So it was 8:15 by now and I decided to shoot. I started writing and kept writing and writing for next one and half hours. It was then people started moving out of class and I was still left with one and half question to be done out of which half question I have to cook.

Jitters were all in scenario and I stroked badly on paper with worst possible writing and worst possible diagrams. Then we moved out and traced path to parking, discussing about morning events. It was then Rashmi told that we have to do any 4 out 5. I was petrified. What the hell!!! And I was hopping like a mongoose for 2 hours crying and screaming for time. So another saga ends. Then I took my activa and fled to home. JLN Marg becomes a nightmare for driving when these interceptors are hidden in some khopchas under trees. I was driving at 43Kmph and that stupid officer came waiving his hand, asking me to stop. At once I thought to run away but then like a descent citizen I stopped. My mind was computing at Ghz of frequency as on what to say to patch up. Then after having a lot of typical emotional blackmailing I was set free with warning not to do that again and I was musing “will u be there ever to see me again?”

Now I was at home and noticed water was spilled in veranda. And tracing back all the great events happened till now, I was having no plan to take any more. So cautiously I moved in that water spilled area and when I was using doormat I slipped badly and found myself on floor. Duhhh….mom was laughing and I was thinking why I am alive today. Oh God take me up!

Then after wrapping lunch I went to sleep. I needed peace badly! Then those 2 hours were peaceful, really peaceful. But who knows what was about to come. I wake up at 2:00pm and then came an aunty whom I have not seen lately. I was asked to go to a Doctor nearby on her behalf, to enter her name in patient’s list which was about to start from 2:30pm.

I was not fully done with my sleep and found myself at doctor’s place. I asked the person who was in charge to look after these things to write aunt’s name and assign a number to her. And then he said that doctor won’t see patients today as he is out of station. That cursed tag I was carrying followed me till here. Anyways I got back to home and vomited the great news. Aunty said that she has already talked to doctor, he is here only. So mom said that once Akshat is here, he will go. He came back from school at around 3pm and was sent to doctor’s place. He came with a number 16 assigned to aunty. I was stunned and stoned and typical movie types surprise tone was ringing in my ears. I was so embarrassed in front of aunty and then I grabbed Akshat and asked him the description of guy at counter and the guy was same. Now I was having thoughts of like what to do. Bang my head on table, jump off the terrace or take something like insecticide or what! Enough is enough!

It was 4pm now so it was tea-time and I was allowed to do the honours to prepare a tea. And since nothing can go right, tea was curdled. Duh! I was so much irritated and frustrated now so mom served me tea. I just took the cup in my hands and I don’t know why first ever in 5-6 years I broke a cup. L That was now crossing limits and the frustration was growing even more.

And the best of all came when my internet went bad. DNS didn’t respond and this was happening every 15 minutes. At last the only thing I did was cleaned my bed, took my blanket and switched off the lights. I have to wait for clock to strike 12.

IPL-It Pickled Lalit!!

IPL and Lalit Modi are synonyms. He belongs to a family of kings and his lifestyle depicts the same, his charter plane costs 3 lacs per hour!! IPL was looked as great money making business in India. All those who want to dispose off their black money jumped into the bid sequence and got a team for themselves. Bollywood stars were never so mad about game called cricket unless IPL came into picture and cricket became their favorite game. Now they know every technical whereabouts of game. Is it their game love or money investing process that is strengthening the bond between Sports and Bollywood .Not to mention about other types of love we witnessed in past. Please, no rumors!

IPL is not just a fast 20-20 game but also fast in minting money. BCCI managed to enter this pool after getting so called “inspiration” from Football Leagues we have. Oh no, and weput alligations on bollywood to copy Hollywood movies. First season held back in 2008 where players were auctioned for teams. Then in 2009 they moved their paraphernalia to SA owing to security of players. Then we had 2010 session which just revealed the scenes behind curtains. Bids for new teams tagged as Pune and Cochi for 2011 season, fell prey to controversies. Multiple resignations and enquiries were setup and whole world witnessed a dark black picture of our political setup. IPL confronted some of biggest deals made in the history of India involving deals with Sony Entertainment, DLF Group, YouTube, Kingfisher and few more. No doubts it backed India to leave a footprint and to become the world’s first host to IPL gamesfor coming 10 years. But the position of Indian team came down exponentially as an outcome. Differences between players (Harbhajan and Shreesanth) came out publically and told everyone that now they are more loyal to their franchises than anything else. Team suffered a great setback in coming series pointing back to tiredness, lack of coordination and addiction to late night parties. Many players lost their earlier forms. But then who cares, Show me the money!!

Common Wealth Games 2010-Do you mean come-man wealth games??

Common wealth games are just round the corner and list of players withdrawing is growing day by day. Players are citing reasons as security and pollution. Has been these games in any of US cities players would not have done the same.

India has always been under an impression of undeveloped, backward and poor country and it don’t have that infrastructure to host such a grand saga.

And on the other hand is our Indian government which is trying to pull out money from every possible field and rendering them short of resources for coming time. No matter that India is the fastest growing economy in the world but we still are not ready to let flow rivers of money on such games and look away from all the bigger issues in our country for which our budget is meager meal. We always lament about insufficient monetary funds for various areas. Definitely these games are looked upon as an entry ticket to global entertainment business but the long lasting repercussions of spending money are to bear by Indian citizens. Tourism is going to boom, no doubt but then we cannot rely completely on tourism to compensate for this event.

And top of all are news floating around for which we all hail India is corruption. Recent news reflect the big frauds been done in purchase of equipments and many more. DDA is hiding face when asked about the delay in construction flats for CWG officials. Whom not to blame, whole pond is muddy! On one side we are giving excuses and trying to show that we are so poor and we are trying our best to use them efficiently. Everybody knows which efficiency we are talking about. Corruption has not only dismantled India's image on world's map but can become a black dote on CWG’s history as well. We are hosting most expensive common wealth games you know and in this dismal state how can one rely on the transparency of further conduction of games and results. Top level athletes will never want themselves to be a victim to corrupted Indian machinery. Nobody wants to spill water on their past glorious records and leading them nowhere. This might be a big reason for their lacking interests. This is just a start, we still have 59 days to go for CWG’10, hope to get more stuff to babble about. It’s India!!!

Luxury!

Luxury...as soon as the word is spelt, some coziness boils in mind. A million dollar car, an acre area bungalow, lots of farmhouses and lots of crease free currency to sleep on. Is this the definition of luxury? Then yes you are definitely right...but when you look for this word in dictionary you will realize how money minded and blind you are. Yes, luxury is not necessity. In fact it is all about what is unnecessary in your life yet it seems alluring...surprised??Is it I am talking about the things u keep running for whole your life then u must say that your life is futile...I won’t disagree to that...but then question still remains is it the luxury for which we keep on striving for our whole life?

Yes there is no harm in striving for luxury but what is your definition for luxury makes a difference. Infarct luxury is a widespread term as religion. More views than people!

A cycle may be luxury for one while a BMW may be necessity for another. Jute bag might be a luxury while even Gucci won’t satisfy other. Human psychology and its variations is the biggest mystery after the origin of universe and on the top of all luxury is a relative term and relativity is never absolute!

So today there are many brands that hit markets and are luxury oriented. To be precise they sell luxury. Luxury can be anything may be a service or a hard human substance. And believe me this market is growing exponentially. Even the middle class don’t want to lag behind elite class and the difference lies in the lifestyle they lead. Everyone is capable to buy luxury for themselves but story is all about how to maintain it. Suppose you have enough bank balance to buy a Mercedes Benz (don’t get lost in your fairy tales, discussion is serious). You just go and buy one….now the saga begins…It’s not a small NANO car so could be parked anywhere…you definitely need an ample parking space…then coming to its accessories, they must match with the prize of car and what about service cost…maintaining a driver for cleaning and driving purposes isn’t an easy affair and when you want to look for a driver for Mercedes, even the driver charge you accordingly…it’s a rat trap…cheesy enough but if slipped you will break your teeth….

So just buying alone won’t fetch you luxury. Definitely many expenses are waiting in flocks….many people don’t see those hidden culprits and end up on a sad note by surrendering property to bank as an incompetence to shoo off loans. Consequences can be scarier.

But then selling a luxury is not a cake walk. It accounts many factors ranging from whom to sell and where to sell and many more. Even economic theories are revised when it comes to luxury goods because it never follows the common trends. Marketing was never an easy job and when you market luxury stuff you need a great potential to loose someone’s pockets. You need to identify the target crowd, branding an AUDI car in an auto expo exhibition open for common people is not a wise attempt. Once you get your target crowd, then convincing them by telling features different from rest makes you one step closer. But then the person who is working in a store may or may not have relished that taste of luxury so sometimes it becomes difficult to convince others when you yourself are not fully aware of each and everything. How can you portray a Mac superior to any laptop in market unless you know all the technical specifications and never dirtied your hands with it?

Apart from these accessibility also matters. Customers need an easy terrain on the go when it comes to shop. Suppose an L’Oreal salon is on a location which is stinking badly, roads are not worth parking a car, stray animals loitering around and the entire ambience you can frame in your mind by the type mentioned here. Then no one can expect any beautiful lady to be coming out of salon and holding her nose and walking clumsily. Option is not worth the price. And hence it is well said” Diamond looks better when embedded in platinum.”