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raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-60882408955356091732009-05-16T00:45:00.003+05:302009-05-17T12:16:44.461+05:30On wordpressI am thinking of moving to wordpress.Infact i have.<div>follow me on my <a href="http://arunrafi.wordpress.com/">wordpress blog</a></div><div>Will be deciding on blogger blogs fate soon.facng some problems with it.</div><div><br /></div>ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-51895843529425915522009-04-11T13:58:00.005+05:302009-04-11T15:14:25.714+05:30God,Grant me a wish - Take everything away !!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" 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style="Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">I guess a week is over since I have been languishing in the bountiful lap of nature in Kerala and as I say it is one place that is disturbingly peaceful. You start so much of introspection that it gets to you after a certain point of time. Such is the peace here. The other day I was travelling in the bus when this thought of the ever clichéd unemployment aspect of the state stuck me. Kerala is notoriously famous for its high literacy rate (that is a farce anyways) and the unemployment despite the literacy. Gazing through all the natural bountifulness of the state one thing struck me, when I saw a couple of young guys sitting under a tree and smoking away their beedis.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">It is said that necessity is the mother of all i</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqk6Zf1WerWDMIZSSiwtncS80eCp0j1KnTgG9LpSp7GyVJPUKh_zla6zwUShEupXB9xpA3Es0ptbW8_V5R-rFPtLBUquo36KUyRviBEKGHAoKCwyIWYovfDH4vHoGu3Pxus_ieDPa6v68/s200/upload+(13).JPG" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323356297935664082" />nvention(there is something about all these adages, they might be clichéd but carry a certain level of truth).So that translates into the fact that if there is no necessity there will not be any forward thinking because one is comfortable in his/her own cocoon. Three things that stand out about Kerala any day would be the fish, rain and rice. If there is ever a word association exercise with Kerala these three would be the front runners I guess along with Strikes, communism and coconut probably. Now let’s look at the ideal Kerala family setting and I am not talking about the Kerala in cities(if there is any) where people haven’t seen a well. I am talking about the agrarian Kerala. Each home will have a comfortable number of coconut trees, banana trees, a well and rice would be their staple food any day along with fish. Even if they don’t work they can sell the coconuts, use coir, get coconut oil for normal chores, bananas for nutrition, rain is plenty in Kerala and hence the constant availability of water added with not that depleted water table. The land is fertile and hence there will be enough demand for land based factor work .Hence there is never a scarcity. Everything is readily available.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Everyone knows the story of Japanese resurgence after the world war when it was battling a tattered economy and lack of any natural resources. Let’s think of Indian states itself .Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab etc .None of them are as blessed as Kerala, but then that constraint has allowed them to utilize each and every resource very well and utilize their human capital which harvests the natural resources than simply pluck the natural resources .Constraints are needed to perform at optimal level, the absence of which leads to under-utilization and below average capacity performance as there is no initiative to perform or let’s say perform that extra bit, same holds true for any aspect of life. Constraints have to be used not avoided. </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl_zclrn7m3emzFrCP62P92LqOR4Qw8-JSJLZIVY49NOTqWVPMN1wDAzqByz67HeECRh0GPlDmRr8vwqSJBX6iOZT-jPGf7e5A9jSOYvStC7KYqT-s8-o9dxdP9M9qy5ur44BybBS5EzQ/s200/DSC03321.JPG" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323356296122634898" /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Your environment makes you and hence when you have a tailor made environment, you never are motivated enough to look beyond the regular sources because the regular sources are a plenty. The peaceful environment makes one timid all the more and un- rebellious. The problem or the paradox is not that they are not using resources but using it all too often and at a pretty sustainable rate and to top all of that a communist ruled state .Ideal settings for the lackadaisical. It is not the problem of scarcity of resources but a paradox of a complete set of resources that curbs the man’s nomadic tendency to explore further. The irony of being blessed by all means and not having to struggle. Same goes for its twin sister West Bengal. Absolutely same microcosm .This my friends is the paradox of abundance .Survival might be guaranteed by natural resources but not prosperity, prosperity can be guaranteed only if there is proper human capital and technology involved with or without nature .When you stop resisting a major factor you tend to get shaped by that factor .So it’s not a surprising fact that people in Kerala have become complacent, comforting, unproductive, undemanding and over and above idle. If an idle mind is a devils workshop then it’s the ultimate parody that this place be called gods own country.</span></span></span></p>ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-69058586294859071722009-04-02T11:12:00.008+05:302009-04-03T14:45:50.213+05:30My friend - Rich, fair and famous!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH10YmIPOhfgEvpw7MVxDokwfEHxmla8SIA4LNCV0Q8MywBWRzQJYrvm9ObxCJ9hSSPXveyvo8f23N6chUdj6R6BRQXJ30TMQODm3VwYRh0Wp18TcciiEBV8j7jZ2yz3nOC16zbWXUOYk/s200/Bias+(1).jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 145px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320049858439529570" /><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This one was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">broiling in there</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> for a long time. We all have an inherent</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> bias in each and everyone of us no matter how unbiased we would like the others to perceive us. There is a side to us, dark </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">they say, that everyone tries not to project, tries to ecl</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ipse it with some façade.But how realistic is this build up is an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">other matter of contention.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Isnt it</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">true that we still are</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> discriminating when it comes to black or white?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> Boy or Girl?Hindu or Muslim?Many of us will not agree but we are still biased towards white is beautiful and black is ummm,well, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">not that beautiful and that goes even for people of the black skin or brown or leathered or tanned or dus</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">ky or whatever. </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">This practice is very evident in hiring proceses,selection let it be in reality</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> tv shows or anything in general. But none wants to accept that. We fit in euphemisms to satiate our bias,dusky for black for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> example.Presentable for good looking.How can I forget the lovely matrimonial ads that straight aw</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">ay shoot off by saying that “looking for a bride who is fair,good looking and tall”.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUtD2vh8hiFY40DrpC-hhQEdmQXPN4qepuC_xv6RMTKCM8ygtfNCMvNxEX_6mBfrI6SoSvlzJT14eTF2Beqgrhz7plYCveRq_Sm_bNk-LhR_JEF85En0c9aP1-SdM0AjOpK5VWjRx05AU/s200/bias.JPG" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 101px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320051046456978754" /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">How many times have we cracked that odd joke on Mallus(Hey,ask me how many I have heard and I love em!),sardars,north eastern brandished as chinkis to name a few.We just see a person and snap! We form an impression .Bias too.Well the point is that its not something to be ashamed off.Greatness,(well not exactly greatness because that would mean I am great)lies in accepting the penchant and working thereof.How many times have we laughed on the accent of certain people when ours itself is a far cry from perfect?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The point is that we have differentiated and selected all through out our life.Even our own set of friends too. Haven’t there been</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">enough instances when we have wanted to friend a person of the other sex because she /he happens to be cool and sexy and hot and handsome and all that.I don’t know how many of you will agree but I have.We all have and then we justify it by saying that we were never thinking on those lines and that you </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">are un-corrupt and have friended a person because of the good heart he or she had and nothing else.Bullshit.From my personal experience,I have seen several instances when a baby is called ‘oh cho cute’ and the only reason I can attribute to it is his or her color or because of the little Adidas slipper he/she is wearing that cost Rs999.I atleast am free of that bias.I don’t like or rather am disinterested towards kids in general(not that all of you who like them are paedophiles).Most of us(men) would be more than willing to help a hot girl,or any girl for that matter rather than an old woman.In a household tussle it is taken granted that it is the male who is defector(The Ghanti Bajaao campaign for instance).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Time to be practical now.Can we do away with the bias and</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">be open minded and profess our equality in the real manner?No we cant.It is an inbuilt mechanism and this will never go off.We will always be biased.Yeah! you read it right! The difference lies if we realize it or not,acknowledge or not.Each and everyone of us is biased deep inside us,most of us are pretty evident too.Everyone wants to be associated with a certain set of sets.There will always be bias regarding rich poor,white black,hot or not,young old.It is the biases,prejudices and habits that make a person,that decides the level of variability in a person.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Duck it or face it.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></span></p><p></p>ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-37246691988048616762009-03-06T11:44:00.010+05:302009-03-06T15:20:48.968+05:30Mirror Mirror on the wall.Who's the wisest of them all?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRm2sKCpnWeB6-bHsz7k5EUjN6NyVxKj1zUeSum-QyRoG-josTUgk2K0kjF68ocRn2FaJ74yoFvoLHQSoiNZ54w8X4Owcr7zLW20RoJONUDK6jr7pgWvZJ_CObV9miPXmCqbDDd2Dj2LM/s1600-h/WISDOM+OF.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRm2sKCpnWeB6-bHsz7k5EUjN6NyVxKj1zUeSum-QyRoG-josTUgk2K0kjF68ocRn2FaJ74yoFvoLHQSoiNZ54w8X4Owcr7zLW20RoJONUDK6jr7pgWvZJ_CObV9miPXmCqbDDd2Dj2LM/s200/WISDOM+OF.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309954835957708322" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><br /></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 55px; font-size:48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Whether</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">you believe you can or not- you are right - Henry Ford.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Second of my posts on why you should never just write down and believe whatever is taught to you downright.The first one being the one on atheism.Todays concept that I don</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;mso-hansi-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">’</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif"; font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">t affirm </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">is WISDOM OF THE CROWD.</span></span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">WISDOM OF THE CROWD says that </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif; mso-hansi-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">“</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%; -webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">The aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group.</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;mso-hansi- font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">”</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif"; font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">There is an interesting book on it too by James Surowiecki by the same name.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Now lets clarify this in the beginning itself.I believe that all generalizations are false.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Wisdom of the crowd according to me is nothing but orchestration of </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">individual opinions.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Now,What makes a crowd,the people in it.That means that the individual person in a group is the pivotal fragment of the final outcome that is arrived as a group.That the group thrives on nothing but individual independent deduction of the problem statement.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">One of the pre requisite of the wisdom of the crowd is the independence of those who are surveyed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">This itself according to me is the maj</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 13px; font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">or pitfall of the wisdom of the crowd.In the end ,the bottom line is that eventhough it is called the wisdom of the crowd,it is necessary for it to have people who do not get influenced by each other and take independent decisions.apply this to real life situations .</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">A million experiments might prove that the wisdom</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> of the crowd is far more accurate than the individual opinion.Like the one we had been subjected to in a class of 60,where we were asked to gauge the width of a remote control and the average of the group was more closer than the random three people who were picked.But something that the experiment failed to point out was, what about the few handful of people who have it answered more closer than the so called wisdom of the crowd?Exception but not a rule,one might say.But isn</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;mso-hansi- font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">’</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif"; font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">t it true that the people who are exceptions and lie outside the normal bell curve are the people who will be more effective and influence every one more than anyone else who depend upon the whims of others,who are tied to please others and not themselves and in the process deny themselves the right to love themselves by not doing what they want,who do not love them enough.Those who love themselves are the OUTLIERS.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Does wisdom of crowd hold true in a dynamic and changing environment?The answer is No.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">And lets consider that wisdom of the crowd is indeed wise.so?what is wise?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Something that tells one that the correct answer is this and it is the safest answer.where you</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">will be guaranteed a positive result.BORING.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">I would much rather prefer an answer where not pre determined and is risky.Feel the adrenaline blow up</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">all along in those crucial moments and shout out loud that </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;mso-hansi- font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">“</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif"; font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">I knew I was right!</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif; mso-hansi-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">”</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%; -webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">,than having the herd menatality(clichéd but true).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpC7Bf8sDxssIdknyuMPVRp6KXIjdtpL3tmk8NRiBbchNV-M3DUu-P2mpdc5AquhLM14r4HsKEscyRgfbgLjCL1O76PxnPljA6xVq4VMGMgkAb1dhAVnAQqB2DdsSLhznvJZF5hsEORak/s200/WISDOM.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 138px; height: 200px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309955063452969634" /></span></span></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">I have always been a strong advocate of taking your own decisions and</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">if I apply WotC,it would mean that the people around me,the </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif; mso-hansi-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">“</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%; -webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">crowd</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;mso-hansi- font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">”</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif"; font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> is more wise than me.Come again?Absolute crass.If you think that people around you can take decisions on you much better than yourself then you,my friend,suffer from a grave disease that I will mention in capitals later.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">By the way,Ever felt the exhilaration when you have gone against a crowd of thoughts,contemplations and deliberations?Ever felt the urge to prove them, </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;mso-hansi- font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">“</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif"; font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">the crowd</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif; mso-hansi-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">”</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%; -webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> wrong?To prove that what you do is the best for you and none can judge you better than yourself?The sensation of emptiness in your stomach that is dug in by the fear of failure and the anxiety of triumph or the feeling of being up there resting in the bed of roses after traversing through the path of thorns?Proving everyone else wrong and succeeding where people vanquished enough acquiesce </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">that </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;mso-hansi- font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">‘</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif"; font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">I was wrong and you were right</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;mso-hansi- font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">’</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif"; font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">.The collection of all those </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">I</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif; mso-hansi-font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">’</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height:115%; -webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">s is what formed the crowd earlier.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;-webkit-sans-serif","serif";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">How many times have you gone against your gut feeling to please people and be less effective and satisfied in the process?loved yourself less at the cost of pleasing others?That is what leads to the most epidemic disease in human beings that makes their life not worth savoring .An Epidemic called MEDIOCRITY.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-60938055915548117802009-02-28T23:49:00.013+05:302009-03-02T23:01:52.984+05:30KNOCK KNOCK.Whos That?GOD.God Who?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpyOR4d5gB0R5NHNu9myVVrWWGlAekPkmDZVGpW6RL1qAJDN2q7GyoMVKYa_aGohWjnPoSGkGOkBEhwaPFQIm48kOa9PQfGSj4-4gJd_S6AJzW297mvT6349GPC91whZhHMPIkzAXkCLQ/s1600-h/atheism.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 81px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpyOR4d5gB0R5NHNu9myVVrWWGlAekPkmDZVGpW6RL1qAJDN2q7GyoMVKYa_aGohWjnPoSGkGOkBEhwaPFQIm48kOa9PQfGSj4-4gJd_S6AJzW297mvT6349GPC91whZhHMPIkzAXkCLQ/s200/atheism.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308643908703938914" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How often have we heard our parents and grand parents advise us the virtues of thinking good and emulate the same inorder to gratify the gods and reserve a seat in the bus to heaven.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We all grew up listening to fairy enchanting stories of multi ambidextrous gods or godesses who stamp evil with justice and goodness.A pattern has been imprinted to accept whatever is being served by our environment.External or Internal alike.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Society forms the external environment and sets the framework within which we are supposed to function and we have our parents,grand parents,teachers and others forming our internal environment.The gushing streams of beliefs from the latter seem to be more rigid that we are not encouraged to question.EVER!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No son you dont ask such a question.Never ask such a question.Dont talk rubbish.I am never going to hear all this from you again ok?Yea mamma..Yes paapa.But why?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WHY was never entertained.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not included into their minds,they would remain so.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So true.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Well what is religion?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A group of people forming an association having sharing thoughts and beliefs and evolve some commonality.Churches were the first facebooks and orkuts that existed.However over a period of time as they say they transformed from a cabal to a influential coterie,power held firmly within few.ABSOLUTE power.COERCIVE power.and as they say power corrupts.They took on to become the torchbearers of each sect and then started the missionaries and their travails.(TIP OF THE DAY - Google Missionary Position)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With only one rule - no questions.Just blind acceptance.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I Believe,the only purpose that god and religion serve are to pass on a message in a form of a parable.Unfortunately it has also transited into pulverizing opposite ideals without giving a fair hearing.Unveiling the greatest innovation of all time.Religion.The process that starts from concoting terribly simple parables that require creativity and are segmented,targeted and positioned very precisely to each age group.Commercialized through scriptures and books.Here commercialisation is not pecuniary(Debatable as always) but a great market share of blind followers.Process of idolizing the natural forces into gods having human like shapes to make empathy possible among the followers was another beautiful creative spark.</span></span><span style=" font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:formulas><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:formulas><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></o:lock></v:path></v:stroke></v:shapetype><v:shape id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307962152127708802" spid="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxajTszsqUa9BEO0MP3bBPD4pq4xAKkeMs2-oZ40daSJjkGgnNNqO4cKtEsBUz1UKJ56-0AE2xneEV_cx4Wf7U-AuTjWmwoQv9-h9q1L6lieepDrURXq_ApB1OQP0VAfFnU6WZCuCA9C8/s200/new.jpg" style="width:143.25pt;height:149.25pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\ARUNRA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg" title="new"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></v:imagedata></v:shape></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now I am not critical of the 99 % who believe in God.I dare not be.Because that goes against the principle of liberty and freedom of choice that atheism solicits but the fact of accepting everything as it was passed is something that is unnaceptable and is something like the chinese whisper.Bow your head,accept and pass on believing it to be true.Naa it doesnt work that way.It shouldnt!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Majority behold atheism as a revulsive, 'trying to be different' group.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Well.Myriad great </span><span style="mso-no-proof:yes"><v:shape id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307960887826713410" spid="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJoLxu9g87tIgWKrB4ZwSBN6cy2aG-w95O-bnLD42LAGOKG7Jv6YiWQkL2Ba65zYovoLxDP0LOs_mmOz4bf8U_D4gSxACVxnDdKzjTRMr6bgzI_ZXCs2zzRjyBMRI7ImraE0rS4n8os7s/s200/ath.gif" style="width:113.25pt;height:149.25pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\ARUNRA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.png" title="ath"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></v:imagedata></v:shape></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">people who have influenced our lives have been atheists or let me be a little more bold and say Darers(Uh,is there a word like that?Well anyways you got what I want to say).Alert,I dont mean that conformists have been doing nothing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All thinking men are atheists said Ernest Hemingway.Well I am not an enthusiast of generalisations but still atheism and genius do have some positive correlation for sure.Thomas Jefferson,Sigmund Freud,Benjamin Franklin,George Washington,Abraham Lincoln,Roosevelt,Karl Marx,Ayn Rand,Aristotle,Albert Einstein,Thomas Edison,Galeilio,Stephen Hawking and oodles of others among the distinguished lot.Well,wonder what they would have been known for if they had limited themselves by the society,the church and other religious institutions.Wonder where we would have been.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lets have two famous quotes now.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lighthouses are more helpful then churches.</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> — </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Benjamin Franklin</span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.</span></span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">— </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ferdinand Magellan</span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">However I think that people have been too tough on christianity as such because of its much more traceable roots.The church has become a generic to fallacy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Religion is good if it is kept simple,infact thats a common rule.An open house to discuss common problems.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Personally,I am of the point of view that religion and god were created because of the human inclination to believe in hierarchy and the comforting factor that there is someone who is watching you all the time and will be there for you if you call him/her earnestly.This soothes the fear in the human mind.FEAR.The cardinal ominous antecedent on which all hopes and beliefs are built upon.Human mind has always gravitated towards safety and security.What better manifestations than God and Religion.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Todays world is circumscribed by expectations,competition and misery that it becomes all the more essential for people to blame it on circumstances and fate and thus resign to the fact that everything was according to the eternal plan.But then todays world has also made people ask as to why there is so much misery if the god stood for goodness.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">''Brave New World'' sums it up aptly -</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hence the need to go through the path of least resistance.Hence the vice.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Times New Roman","serif"font-family:";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></o:p></span></p>ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-36680284434658117422009-02-02T02:35:00.010+05:302009-03-05T14:34:46.721+05:30NAMASTAY - WELCOME TO INDEEYA !!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://vjmorton.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/slumdogmillionaire.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 321px;" src="http://vjmorton.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/slumdogmillionaire.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 18px; font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">WHY IS SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE SO POPULAR?</span></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a) its Fantastic</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">b) its in Oscars</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">c) its uncool to be not liking the movie</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">d) its Overrated</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">''Namastay''</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Welcome to the world where people are dying to get associated with Brand India.Brad pitt,Angelina Jolie,Britney,Maddona,Liz Hurley (cant remember m</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ore..thank god for GOOGLE)and now annex the name of Danny 'Trainspotting' Boyle..</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Well the whole big round world is going gaga over the au courant sensation The ''Slumdog Miilliionaire''..Jamaal Malik has mesmerized each and every assemblage who have seen it .Well I saw it too..and long back ..ya you guessed it right(you didnt?)..on a Pirated dvd print(what?you dont believe in piracy?too bad)..without a hint of feeling guilt for the piracy , i was also impressed by the movie..when there was no banter about the movie that time..</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">but all of a sudden ..GUSH..The floodgates of Luck flowed in..the movie slowly rose level by level as Jamaal malik and was inundated with awards and more importantly critics appreciation(An Oxymoron) all over..The list seemed boundless one after the other..</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">10 nominations in the Oscars(hmm..impressive)..then the American Cinema Editors,USA(nice)..BAFTA Awards(ohhk!)..Austin film festival(Austin what?),Black </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 17px; font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Reel awards</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0UwI6IFENA1yybHLz4o0NRerQzg69GJU0LsgZkZzhjH_CS8SVRsw9n2bmJFEuzkll7bd3irE1LfzM9DNuBO99WwyyA1OAP292yIBhWGk5VqL4JN4Qmjfkskq7tRs2ZwJ4QUs52O3o_8k/s200/snip.JPG" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 178px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300220638680440258" /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(let me google what it is),Boston Society Of Film Critics Awards(forget it) and many others that google served me when I typed 'Slumdog Millionaire' and it swamped me with 11,900,000 and awards that one has never heard..its </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">almost as if awarding</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">SDM(the name is dog..slumdog..well..too long!)) is the best way to advetise</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">your 'street and club' award organisation..</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What were the aspects that according to people made it the pride of every Indian ?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fantastic theme.India at the core.An Angrez director who was behind movies likeTrainspotting.English production house.Cinematography.Inspirography(Bad joke) and all the cinema jargons the human mind can surmise of.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All the perfect ingredients were concocted or rather beguiled by the appreciation wave and there rose your cliched Phoenix out of the ashes.To enhance the Indian aura around the world audience and get appreciation from audiences trans border.People appreciating the real India,Indeeya.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Well what is so great about the movie escapes my attention.Movie on a novel adaptation(That would make it unoriginal or lets say 'inspired').Totally bollywoodized with Latika (would make it Normal).Guy going around for the girl whom he met when she was a child(Ubitquitous bollywood optimism ).The last few scenes of the movie,the drive from the villains house,the phone a friend option and the prima donna who is stuck in traffic and then the Usain Bolt akin marathon(well i appreciate the fact that you would have understood it but then , for the records,Oxymoron again!) to attend the call.and Jamaal Malik becomes a Millionaire(Alls well that e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">nds well)!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dont really know why there is so much of hoopla around the movie.Either I must be a real bad critic or real bad art appreciaiting person.Well I am confident about myself for sure and I know that I did like the movie and even watched it twice or thrice but really dont know if it actually deserves so much of appreciation to an extent that it becomes Overrated,Over exaggerated,Over promoted,Over ballyhooed and Over (_________,fill in whatever you want,Orgasmic is what I thought but then it aint fittin.)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Before you castigate me with the denunciation of Unpatriotism,Over criticism,Jealousy,Jaundiced and all the sins intimated in the Bible and whatever is bound out of the limit of my verbal mind,well , I am not of the same group that criticises the movie on the base that it has shown poverty stricken naked slums of mumbai(as some 6ft 1'' personality had condemned ,I have made some enemies again!).Or the network of begging mafia.Or whatever baloney people have come out with(Making hay while the sun shines).Well ,Poverty,Begging Mafia etc is common.who would deny that such a thing doesnt exist in india.Its out there and its shown,but then , using it in a movie aint unique..</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i am just of the slant that agreed its a good movie but certainly overrated,overhyped and all the stuff that I had mentioned a few lines earlier(getting sick of criticising it) .C'mon there have been much better movies than it this year.Yeah..I agree even some of the totally 100 % hollywood movies are overrated.Take the case of ''The curious case of Benjamin Franklin''</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Oh!Its Benjamin Button).Well I liked the movie till it was playing(again on a pirated CD) and when it came to an end it left me curious about Benjamin Button.Well I did not have a clue exactly about the movie.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Coming back to SDM.The scene after which these brothers fall of the train and find Agra and all of a sudden lo!! they speak English!!Then its followed by another set of believable(use antonym) happenings.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I guess we are just getting overreactive and getting carried away ..Well nothing bad in it as long as we realise that we are gettin carried away..what?I dont know what the previous line was..see..Atleast I am honest that I dint know..but people are not..half of the people are praising it just because it got nominated for the oscars and a quarter of people believe it would be uncool to say that they dint like the movie and another one quarter just believe that its Indian and hence appreciable whether or not it actually deserves it or not and another quarter honestly believe its a good movie..well i know the math doesnt tally but then again..what the hell..</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I HAVE LOST IT.I AM BORED!! THANKS FOR NOT READING ANYTHING IN BETWEEN AND COMING STRAIGHT OVER TO THIS LINE.HIGHLY APPRECIATED.Because I knew that you people would do that.Let me end it with my honest apologies to none and a sincere appreciation of the wonderful music that AR Rahman has showcased to the world and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> given some leverage to the one of the most Overrated </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">120 minutes of the modern times..</span><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://edbatista.typepad.com/edbatista/images/2006/06/Overrated.gif" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 194px; height: 211px;" border="0" alt="" /></span></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">d)its OverRated</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 18px; font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Background hooter blares..Shukriya,Satsriyakal and Goobye..Advertisement comes in..</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 13.6pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div></div></div>ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-8911382543923353572008-11-08T00:22:00.011+05:302008-11-16T22:18:17.292+05:30You Hindu! ME Christian!You Muslim!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5hcjROqIgRdUmgU5pBpDZAtlZBdqkR75WfpY5AwCNcLPwhfnxM9Cs32ueFgCzi2H7YiULNnRt5-TzLRaXsjJ30G7Xht-U345iUZZ_DCNHx1yq-LFeyHAaYqnYd5xur6htR-7qknaoGw/s1600-h/indian.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5hcjROqIgRdUmgU5pBpDZAtlZBdqkR75WfpY5AwCNcLPwhfnxM9Cs32ueFgCzi2H7YiULNnRt5-TzLRaXsjJ30G7Xht-U345iUZZ_DCNHx1yq-LFeyHAaYqnYd5xur6htR-7qknaoGw/s320/indian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266046647960569634" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />'Its sad that you people misinterpret the only book that you have read.'<br />Leonardo di caprio to fanatics who claim to be following Allahs messages ,From the movie 'Body of lies'<br />NOW READ THIS -<br />"Its not that the question relates to wiping out of hindus from the state but the fact of the matter is that we are against conversion of religion because we consider this as a step against our god given identity" said some CMP activist after I was on my way back home after seeing the latest bond flick Quantum Of Solace.For those who dont know what CMP is .Well I dont think it is that important or worth mentioning ..they call themselves Communist Marxist Party which is a local party in Kerala extending its support to the Indian National Congress govt in Kerala(Where else?Gods own political country!).<br />I just wish my dad wasnt there with me as I would have got down and asked 'Miss GSR(God Sent Representative).could you please tell me what religion god wanted me to be in.?"Why is it such a hard question ?Because my dad is a muslim and my mom a hindu.Answer Miss.GSR?<br />what is the religion that i am supposed to follow?what religion did god bestow me with?<br />Well the debate was about religious conversion because of which we have just witnessed the so called secular nation being put to utter shame by what has happened in Orissa and is fast spreading on like an uncontrollable hysteria and the all the involved parties blazing all guns against each other and calling the others 'blasphemous' .referring to the Orissas,Gujarats and the myriad other havens of discrimnate politics of course.<br />Orissan govt approves of the religious conversion act of 1967 which states that religious conversion is perfectly fine as long as its not forceful or through ways of coercion.Now our Hindu brothers are scared that Christians are converting underprivliged people in orssa and all over by enticing them financially and making use of their illiteracy .Now, would nt we all like to know why there is this ILLITERACY and POVERTY that has led the people to convert into other religions?<br />well these underpriviliged are mostly DALITS. A class of people who are ousted from the hindu society.Not allowed to pray to the same god that created them by barring entry in temples.Not allowed to walk before a HIGH class brahmin.Secluded Segregated and Discriminated ruthlessly as if they were not of the same skin and the same cubits of length..Exploited and violated all through out..where human rights are a mere mockery and a book that will never be flipped.<br /><br />We saw Graham staines along with his ten year old and six year old sons Timothy and Philips being mercilessly torched in their station wagon.Why?Because they (of course the god damn fairies and groups)thought that they were spreading christianity by providing support and shelter to the dalits and wanted to oust hinduism from the place and what were the supposedly HINDU organisations doing before that?NOTHING.Dalits were the untouchables who were confined to a 'mochi'(the humble cobbler) status only ,the maximum they could strive for.<br />Well if you dont want the christian missionaries exalting the dalit status and help them then 'JUST DO IT'(sounds familiar) yourslelf!Dalits have been treated since ages like this and the spirit of hindus (or more appropriately of the caretakers) ignite only when they realise that some foreign missionary is coming and helping out the deprived,may be with the intention to convert them,but then what the heck?provide the underpriviliged a better status and stop treating them as sheeps and dogs then.Even they get treated better.Make them feel a part of the HINDU society rather than a lower step to the upper echelons of the brahmins and the purohits and the other touchable bodies.<br />We have seen the Graham staines episode,followed by merciless incendiary events that tore the state apart and with it the fundamentals of the secular state philosophy of the Indian constitution.It was followed by the burning of innocent people,raping of nuns,killing of Swami lakshmananda,who was a VHP leader along with 3 others.followed by the never forgiving thirst for revenge and disrupting of christmas celebrations and a lot of fatal exchanges of vendetta and the same old eye for an eye ,tooth for a tooth.<br />Such a shame! that ought to have left an indelible conspicuous scar on the face of Indian secularism model in front of the world.<br />Coming back to the question Miss GSR put.I would ask, where is the liberty?humans created religion on the basis of common bonding and beliefs.<br />Wats wrong in conversion?<br />Arent we all in the end praying to the same gods that created YOU and ME?<br />What if I find one religion more appealing than the other because I am not restricted with jargons that a brahmin would throw up at me in sanskrit.<br />Why shouldnt I want a religion that would teach me in the language I speak?<br />whats wrong if I start following that religion to learn the same thing that my religion failed to teach me?<br />and now ..whats wrong if I can find it economically viable to leave my religion and join the other group?<br />If my religion(Read- caretakers) is so concerned, why doesnt it alleviate my condition?<br />why cant the people to the CREED I belong empathize and help me get out of a situation where neither do i have an identity nor money to survive for a bare day with just one full meal for the family?<br />whats the use if I am not recognised for what I am but under what tag I was born as?<br />worsening the fact is that i ll have to go to the same people who treat me worse than a dog and earn my bread crumbs from them and have no other go.Now wouldnt I be tempted to leave that creed even if someone just gives me an incentive that they would treat me like a human being,poor i may be,but a respectable human being nevertheless.<br />High time that we all rise up against this petty game of politics.Corrupt unforgiving bad lowly depth of hunger for power .When will we learn?When will we actually implement the words of the holy pages that have been looked over and translated to suit ones views?<br />And you know what the sad part of all of this is?The most devastating truth ?The inconvinient one?That people like YOU and ME are sitting on our couches ,sippin coke(sounds cool?)and surfing through facebook or orkut,just remmener all these issues once ina whatever moon(you get the damn idea right?) and forget it the next day.THOUGHT.SLEPT.FORGOT.We know what needs to be done but we dont have the will to enact it and blame the whole world.I just hope that I stand out against all this sometime for sure.If not now.probably I am gutless,powerless now but time shall come ,I swear.Thats the only consolation.So should YOU..So should WE..<br />If u have varied thoughts and think that u can screw me over..comment!!and if YOU agree with me then too COMMENT!!<br /><br />PS:please dont bother to comment if you havent read and pass comments like 'well written' and ' keep up the good work','i like your work' and all that bullshit,what I call as 'i gave ur blog a hit and posted a comment now comment on mine too' syndrome!!and another point is that I personally dont believe in religions but dont condemn them either and my constant refernce to brahmins or anyother sect isnt meant to be provocative to anyone,just examples meant to relate day to day activities,if anyone does get wild at it then I have to tell them that people ,even I am a brahmin.Thats all.ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-51431323189067683292008-08-02T00:23:00.006+05:302008-12-11T05:01:08.714+05:30tIme TIme..nevER leT IT go..<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg91Qgj3XFJo_C-UKgP9h1VfupUoQgiBsuJmIq6fyM8wMPli2B5L8xJDSZrqE3ViYgeruz2St5tqbiOgL-oMpxhyphenhyphenb29QYR72TEmosoxjTiL0-XjXvoZxoDR1HoabUgQR4KFBXgykTQF2w/s1600-h/wolfmother-ipod-guitar-smash.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg91Qgj3XFJo_C-UKgP9h1VfupUoQgiBsuJmIq6fyM8wMPli2B5L8xJDSZrqE3ViYgeruz2St5tqbiOgL-oMpxhyphenhyphenb29QYR72TEmosoxjTiL0-XjXvoZxoDR1HoabUgQR4KFBXgykTQF2w/s320/wolfmother-ipod-guitar-smash.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229645867728842066" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; ">Night 12 23 and I just came from outside and today I have confirmed what I always hated.These two things piss me off no matter with whom it is concerned and anyone reading this blog and knows me, better understand that they restrict from both of them.These two things are</div><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; ">1.Making me wait</div><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; ">2.Making me waste time</div><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; ">I hate these from the corest of cores of my upper left side organ called the heart.They turn me off instantly and I am already in the worst of moods today .I got amazingly pissed off when I wasted like 2 hours at a mall here like a jackass.Supposed to go for a movie today and as soon as everyone reached forum ,everyone split up and went gaga over the discounts flinged by UCB and Tommy and the gals,well they led the way for that.Not their fault too but then I was in such a magnanimous bad mood that I felt as if everything was just swirling and twitching against me.I hate it when people just aimlessly wander without a certain plan and folks it wasnt even a saturday.Its a friday.A damn weekday.Proper weekend is yet to come.Shit man!Today was easily one of the most 'I AM PISSED' days.Some days are just there when u know that everything is gona go bad .When you know that cows will fly and shit on your head.Today was just that day .Right from the start when I missed the first two hours of the class and missed my marketing exam too.Continued when I ws told that we ll be going out for a movie by 2 and actually started moving only by 3.Waste of holy precious devillish time again.Reached the mall and again wandering like nomads for a couple of hours with one group splitting here and one there and a pissed me wanting to show my finger to everyone.I might be over reacting but then today was just like that.I guess I even dint react to my friends properly ,felt bad but then ,what the hell?</div><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; ">Shit man.In the end I find the whole day funny.Seriously.Such a fuck up today was.and thats the first time I am using an expletive in the blog but then what the..My blog, my fuckin wish.Right now a LIFEHOUSE song is placating me and I do wish that it continously does so or else I ll go bonkers and probably do some crazy shit like throwin up the laptop against a wall as a measure of stress relief but then I aint any rockstar and neither do I own Indias biggest software company or even the smallest for that matter.So I withdraw from doing that. Playing 'I wanna be a rockstar' by Nickelback. Good sense prevails,I refrain from any destructive purpose.Man I wish I could sabotage an entire building too like the way they do in Brad Pitt starrer 'FIGHTCLUB'.The hindi version was such a shame man!!And if anyone reading this blog and liked the hindi version,dude,stay back cos I am being ultra discriminatory and telling you that,You are not welcome!!Go ahead charge me of discrimination for hvaing ni brains and sense.</div><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; ">I was waiting to write something for a month but then could not do so because of the 'B school' routine .And see i just felt like tearing everything apart and writing this and words are flowing.Poets earlier used to have LSD so that they could see the world in slow motion and write the lines for their art.Thats because after you have LSD the world seems to slowdown.People say so.I can guess that it must be pretty much true too.Right now I am in that position ,its just flowing.Even got late to college at night and came through a different secret route to avoid putting my name on the late list to be scrutinised by someone concerned later.Neither do I care.People.LIFEHOUSE is an excellent band man!!Kickass songs!Depressing songs actually..Bloody depressing!!Actually nice songs but then 'missing you; kind of songs..Come to senses Arun!!I am totally messed up and confused today but I dont know how to explain a strange feeling of satisfaction and kind of serenity coming over me.I guess this is the lowest I can sink in when bad mood is concerned and happy that whatever happens will be better than what has already happened.Man,me and my optimism!!I am really dreaming.</div><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; ">Something else that put me off are friends those who dont reciprocate any calls or messages when you take the pain to move your ass and ask how they are.This goes especially to my al azhar friends who have been the biggest turn off s I have ever felt.Screw you all.For those who dont know what Al azhar is,dont mind to ask too.u wont lose ur life if you dont know that nor is the world coming down .</div><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; ">I guess I will just withdraw right now and have a nap.Man I have wasted the whole day!!Never gona happen again.Wanna watch a movie too but then again I will not be able to wake up tomorrow at time and I have to get up early tomorrow.A challenge to myself.Good day to me ahead.</div></span>ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-10983631719222595352008-05-18T11:56:00.003+05:302008-12-11T05:01:09.245+05:30The Number Game<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuo07Pel8JjUzIzRpK39VlpjaFuQFsDfSqzP95EPOQBWMjMaOqdU6mfLBuzV1hTanLPAL2r92L5Obtk1RcIcWusP6fxm9trdzTOmnGTcLxFjzeJBJhm2feIs4Tczq7S6LjqhszDMTt2Ew/s1600-h/guilt.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201620125020531730" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuo07Pel8JjUzIzRpK39VlpjaFuQFsDfSqzP95EPOQBWMjMaOqdU6mfLBuzV1hTanLPAL2r92L5Obtk1RcIcWusP6fxm9trdzTOmnGTcLxFjzeJBJhm2feIs4Tczq7S6LjqhszDMTt2Ew/s320/guilt.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><div>Quake rocks Sichuan province of China..storms sweep Myanmar..Series explosion in Jaipur ..Around 40000 killed in the first case,around a 100000 in the second and 70 killed in the third..and still counting..<br />At first I ignore these news pieces thinking of them as just another explosion somewhere or just another nature fury in some part of the world..and I continue watching the IPL matches instead of giving even a trifle of attention to whats going around..and then reports start pouring in that there have been significant loss of death and my attention crescendoes towards it..after a series of switching of channels in between the overs and otherwise too that irritates others around me,I find that the death rates are increasing and I find myself more interestingly inclined towards the news..Somehow deep inside I am not feeling bad for the thousands misplaced..Well i am feeling bad but not able to empathise with them much to the extent that I remain sad all throughout..deeper inside I am not praying for the figures to come down..and please note that itas not that I am praying for the figures to rise either..just that there is not much commitment to the whole tragedy..its not that I enjoy people getting killed but somewhere deeper deeper inside,if there is a word like that,I am not feeling bad about It too..this is easily the most difficult post that I have tried to put as expressing myself the way I want to might not be possible..so its open to all kinds of interpretations.. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAzK7y8OetoRHhkcaBx6bKUaeUB4HHKFszva8nmyQJTIGxqyWS32gVY1VDsswLjzR1KIfZ7KBxugcdKnE0J0mVb8PVZxgtFKj-JzEEGiq6hG47u-ThW9a4-h_iDvSPN2TEVsX7m89VNx4/s1600-h/aef.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201614279570041842" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAzK7y8OetoRHhkcaBx6bKUaeUB4HHKFszva8nmyQJTIGxqyWS32gVY1VDsswLjzR1KIfZ7KBxugcdKnE0J0mVb8PVZxgtFKj-JzEEGiq6hG47u-ThW9a4-h_iDvSPN2TEVsX7m89VNx4/s320/aef.bmp" border="0" /></a><br />I don’t know if its just human nature or just me..I tend to associate more importance to an event or incident only if there are casualities involved. I don’t know if I am able to get the point across but somehow the events in which say a 100 people die is less important than one in which 500 die..and I guess its true about many of us atleast say a 75 %of us(a very conservative estimate)..Hundreds of people die in Afghanistan and Iraq due to car bombs and human bombs..But then that ends up as a foot note in most of the news as well as our attention.. Somehow 40 lives are not more important or equally important as 500 lives..Simply put in words,more numbers are more eye grabbing than less of them.. <br />Lets take into consideration ,a case,where there are injuries too..Somehow the number of injured people don’t get my attention that much and it just gets side lined although sometimes being injured and scrapping through every inch of life is worse than losing it in a matter of few seconds..I might even be telling all this because I have never directly been involved in anything like it..<br />It just doesn’t end there..sometimes,the compensation that the state governments announce for the dead might be ,and I say ‘might be’, a boon for certain family members..Well I know you might be bickering over the clichéd line that life can not be equated with money as it is priceless and invaluable but still I just tend to think devilish sometimes..and everyone has that side for sure,although many do not come out in the open and owe up to it..I feel guilty for being heartless at times,well most of the time,and conjure up some possibilities.Suppose there is a person who has left his family and probably is a big drug addict or a drunkard and abuses the family members ,physical abuse too..this guy just walks up the road and bam!!There is an explosion and he is ripped apart, the members see this breaking news in the screen ,if they are watching news that is,now,isn’t it actually better for the family that the member is gone and if the compensation does reach then it would be beneficial for the family ,say a timely compensation of Rs 500000 ,as was announced for the Jaipur attack victims..Now another case is when there is this beggar or a labourer ,who works day and night but still might not see 100000 Rs in his/her whole lifetime..Well given an option of death and money ,NONE would chose the latter for sure but just think of it..What if the family is actually benefited by the lakhs they receive..Atleast it would be a strong basement to build upon..I feel I should have never thought of things like this but then my mind continuously swivels towards thinking on thEse lines..and only after putting these thoughts into words,do I get some respite from the guilt..but then I need to know if other people feel the same too..or am I the only zombie around who feels that death after all might be good news for some families whether they accept it or not..i am expecting a lot of criticism from people who read it and they are all welcome to do so..Well people might say that ‘Arun!you wont say the same if you are in such a situation where someone close to you is in danger’..probably ya but then ….still…Cant stop thinking.. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTl2TLHXN4Dhp6Tm1kU_E8SjISY7zi8wu2DLLRReWI3epphGXTnGimZWvilRBpATv-uHdLvVQS5DKRnwDThZ4QvGb2tucso23ChZ7t9VJOg0jPlqxuHe-3V8yQi-BaTn2Lt6sty9c1CrM/s1600-h/disaster.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201617496500546562" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTl2TLHXN4Dhp6Tm1kU_E8SjISY7zi8wu2DLLRReWI3epphGXTnGimZWvilRBpATv-uHdLvVQS5DKRnwDThZ4QvGb2tucso23ChZ7t9VJOg0jPlqxuHe-3V8yQi-BaTn2Lt6sty9c1CrM/s320/disaster.bmp" border="0" /></a><br />I cant explain the conundrum I am in..there are two ways to look at the whole problem..first is that I am sympathetic towards the people who are suffering but then the fact is if there were hundred people dead instead of a 10000 in china ,I wouldn’t have cared for it much..So the consideration angle gets thrown out of the window..Now the second and more satanic view of the problem is that,somewhere deep inside I probably expect the death tolls to rise ,so that there is much more seriousness or debate attatched to it than just brush away that piece of news..atleast there is a lot to talk about now..i guess it is like the opposition parties that might be praying for a lot of casulaities so that they can have a reason to attack the ruling parties..Well I guess that’s all I want to put in right now..As chinese officials now announce that there might be 50000 killed now,figures might rise again!!</div></div></div>ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-85265798557550418922008-04-28T15:42:00.017+05:302008-12-11T05:01:09.915+05:30NONe MoRal PoliCeS Me !!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEFWSrtw6v5s7Tv8ZI8qF-1s4UMAuT9wtLP1hipjgq7edHOTAZ6P-sbA_nfHV6emjRzL7FaEdjIEv-JmAONCabBR_Um73NjwB3Sy64R8vahjKESunBRHY43R9djyxiTSzfByS1b4jmWco/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194984628352256290" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEFWSrtw6v5s7Tv8ZI8qF-1s4UMAuT9wtLP1hipjgq7edHOTAZ6P-sbA_nfHV6emjRzL7FaEdjIEv-JmAONCabBR_Um73NjwB3Sy64R8vahjKESunBRHY43R9djyxiTSzfByS1b4jmWco/s320/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Ok..finally I guess I have decided to come out of my cave and start blogging again..Feel just about perfect to blog..</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Now I do not understand this ..What the hell is wrong with our politicians?Well I have never understood their ways anyway..Why on earth cant they do what they are supposed to do rather than become our daily moral policing squad..Now they have a problem with the cheerleaders of IPL now..They think they are provocative,they think it is very occidental,the dresses are too short,instigate the male testosterones and fire them up and what not?<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdkXJyD0yB_lgLNSUcjqF3UE9d3icLgrgakHox6d_nr6GBFqSwRHXZAv3BckuLtrG8Y0bqCsCNqjMRIJM4EgW4n_u6roIE9ogoc6KwXpCN3H8JcJXR5HWgzUzIEalYLtoEALUpI41S2YI/s320/hg.bmp" /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">"I cannot understand the necessity of cheergirls at the IPL matches. I am not against any new </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">concept, but Kolkatans are not yet ready for cheergirls," West Bengal Sports Minister Subhas Chakraborty.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">“The scantily clad foreign girls’ dances are certainly obscene and do not gel with the Indian sensibilities, culture and ethos,” the minister said.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">"exploitation of women" Termed one womens group.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">These were the comment's passed by some of the groups on the recent cheerleader melodrama in the much debated Indian premier league.what are my views on this? </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjyEIHWNi3YgSetfZAP8EE8nzrkdbdJ05o69SEO784N_uvLu1dPKeSte9V9Z4YnLUPsJ98eapuYw_6AnTfSCpLpUw6Bo9tu-TGSiQMRs5427a5IkAGyIK9RMFgZtK4k7O9P2X5CjXje54/s320/szf.bmp" /></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">These cheer leaders are contracted proffesionals and should be treated like professionals rather than crying over the culture doom.The so called protectors of moral India fume over a point made by a lot of people that they are watching the whole thing with their families and it would not be appropriate to have cheerleaders spill cleave all over the screens.Now dont tell me that all is well other than this IPL cheerleaders.infact right now while flipping through the channels I come across normal bollywood songs which are almost as provocative or suggestive and i hardly see what the leaders and other so called women organisations are grinning about?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">There are a lot of other issues to see to than taking up the measuring scale and see how long the skirts of washington reds or any other god damn blues are?Can we have the leaders just do what they are meant to do?Let them go and solve the myriad problems that the farmers have and are suiciding every hour all over.Go provide electricity to the people who are stll in dark in this era of globalization,curb INFLATION for god sake.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Moral policing is a sign of a society that is being repeatedly knocked by the fists of change but people are still apprehensive towards it as they feel that it will sweep them off their ground as their principles are not built on strong elements.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The crowd for their part is purely enjoying each and every moment of the action.A lot of the action however takes place in the television sets which go perilously close to the bodies of the beautiful women.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Now I am not comparing the cheer leaders with the kind of dresses the bollywood actresses wear or anyone wears for that matter because I do not have any kind of objection to that too.i wont get anywhere comparing them with a Mallika or a Bipasha,rather than thinking about them!!The politicians have really sunk so deep in the abyss of vote ballot that they really do not mind using the name of any public event to forward their ideas and there are enough people who find a topic and cling on to the thread while the matter is hot.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">You might be thinking why on earth am I </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">hell bent to protect the so called scantily clad females..Well I am not supporting them.. Yeah some of them are scantily clad but then unless we hear from the real people ,and not the govt.(although its supposed to be an elected representative)It goes nowhere.Yeah the girls can go seek some clothes keeping in mind the family involvement in watching these IPL matches..man..(my mom watches it non stop..although none at my place has any problems)..But then the only thing that troubles me is the level of involvement of the moral police. Agreed that it might be obscene but then again the moral police troubles my sense of freedom..I say it would be even better if there are cheerleaders in draped in Indian culture.As my friend Saema pointed out(hey..I have put your suggestion ok!!)..Probably places like Mohali can do with some Bhangra and stuff like tht..Let s give each place to showcase their culture..But don’t</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZEqVC6lyZRfPJ09BtOvVR1MG4g_bEwMNQZUcRq2uwuCPhl89g3fyC2t7yeZLOjkFWXYiGgvcRZZGGbQMHFroOhoVcQWjG6lK345rmTqMDrUT6d5iF6Z6csbeME6SZURiF9RD6LJ0fpTM/s320/bg.bmp" /> go all guns blazing going around the inch of cloth by which the cheerleaders are covered by instead come up with solutions you.. you..‘LEAD’ers!!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Let me take the Scarlette keeling murder case.now where are the politicians there ,on that issue?None has issued a single statement regarding the safety of women especially foreign women on indian soil.Molestation news is just another passing by element in the news staple.rather than trying to give justice her mother Fiona is accused of man slaughtering and being a careless mother and many other adjectives instead of finding what actually happened to scarlette,and now the person accused has accused her off defamamtion..Well there is some one liner you have for such situations where the thief becomes the one to charge..But then I dont remember what shit that was..well I am digressing off the topic a little I believe..</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">From my point off view its pure fun and frolic,well,for any other guy it would be fun Iguess.Then there comes the issue of them hogging more limelight than the cricket ..well I wonder if there is no quality cricket,how many would come to see only the dancers.Now whatever happened to ICL..They had dancing damsels too and none raised any voice cos it would be hardly heard.Wasnt the national moral security under threat that time?</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I dont know but then I rarely find any approval with the men in white and I hope many others too dont agree with them or I would be labelled as a 'pervert cricket lover'!!Any different point of view is welcome so are alike views..</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span">Now as I am posting this there comes the news that Delhi has banned the cheerleaders!!</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span">God save us all!!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></p></div>ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-5832262708550849292008-04-10T15:55:00.021+05:302008-12-11T05:01:11.361+05:30Go Goa ! !<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt4ZnwmMemtFA12Ivy18FLs7c1RevEgrBzZa6nZIA9cPEy4_fAvScVmEkOfzUko7hz8LchBniJ0hdPsx07O2OtPXSgShI7zfEMcg80Phl9NkS74ss-34GcwV7z0XkDfXDu4PYzv_pZxNQ/s1600-h/BL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187589013611266290" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt4ZnwmMemtFA12Ivy18FLs7c1RevEgrBzZa6nZIA9cPEy4_fAvScVmEkOfzUko7hz8LchBniJ0hdPsx07O2OtPXSgShI7zfEMcg80Phl9NkS74ss-34GcwV7z0XkDfXDu4PYzv_pZxNQ/s320/BL.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />pic on the left-calangute beach..<br /><strong>DAY 1</strong><br /><br />Ok..So here I am thinking of what to blog and I come across our goa pictures,when we had gone there during February..10th to 13th,to be precise..<br />So here I was in Pune thinking of where to go next and then a plan came in that we would go to goa..Who would say no?I was with eugene ,tariq,sahil and naseeb..I reached first in Goa and dropped down by a place that goes by the name of Mapusa and was hoarded by a group of auto ,taxi drivers and for the first time I saw bike drivers..bikes as taxis..and went to the rooms that we had booked in celjoan and waited for the others to come in and meet up by 1 PM ..Had a nice coffee that sali (the guy at the hotel )had prepared and picked up the menu that was hidden in the room to find out that it was 50 bucks for a normal cup of coffee and I am not talking about coffee day or barista..but a normal joe home made coffee!!Nice start I thought..<br />Soon everyone joined in and we decided that it was just the first day and we wouldnt spend much..We were on a shoe string budget(significance of shoe string will be told later on) as all the students are when they plan an unofficial goa trip..We went to a place nearby to have a light meal and go off to the beaches..Apart from food everything else was there on the menu..Well to all who havent been there..The menu in all goa restaurants starts with drinks and ends with them,with a small portion of the menu dedicated for food to the people who rarely have it and you will have to search for it with your glasses on..Goa runs on liquor ,well its as simple as water there,if not for the delicious fish there ,i dont think anyone ever would have eaten anything..We ate ,We drank and We sat there and the bill came close up to 1500..oops..and it was supposed to be just a light meal.even better start I thought!!our pocket holes were already getting drilled without even going out anywhere..The whole day swivelled from one beach to another and so on and finally ended up at Baga and were there till 2 at night..Singing along with the karaoke and humming to the old classic english tunes (old classic,i suppose ,cos we had never heard of them..we just pretended to know them)..lip synching along..The whole day was spent in the beach shack and we reserved water sports for the next day..on our way back we meet this guy called shivaji who tells that he can arrange anything..girls,stuff or anything that college guys would like..we say 'no,thankyou'and he gives this look that says 'go screw yourself then!!'we happily go past and just take the invitation for some private European party there..that was fun although we were like people on a lost island with all European chicks and tall 6 feet and 7 feet guys surrounding us..well i am 5'6..So you can imagine how dominant they would have been..everyone had fun and guys told that I was probably a little out of control..I would not dare to mention any of the details here probably..but then I remember this totally drunk guy who accidentally or probably purposely poured this whole can of beer over me but then who would get angry in such a jovial place called goa..He said cheers,i returned it back..and and and we had shark meat in the shack although i dint know that it was shark.if I had known I would not have had it.It is a protected species damn it!!but then probably I would have had it cos you always want to do something that you havent done before..Afterwards we weNt around and around the small area..circling all the hotspots there,none seemed to be sleeping and finally retired in our rooms at around 4 or 4 30..<br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187643065774686482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="240" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjllB3bfeJ1yn_1BAMoB_JPctkKvFbHL16aCmRgY5AN6-BPThUD7G4Q_Am6PQ8kJKFg9y8-JTi1I9aMpHWrixc-u_xra9b7dVrpmLv_OT-4Kl2jenE6KkKsj435tm8ILY1dkQgq3vfr2wA/s320/blo.JPG" width="405" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Day 2</strong> pic above-Parasailing at calangute<br /><br />Why is it that one wakes up late for college and exams and things like that eventhough one haS been sleeping like a pig for 10 hours and still yawn the whole day but wake up damn early ,sleeping for just a couple of hours and feeling damn active,when its not required so and there are no exams and one can actually afford a long sleep?Dont ask me.I dont know..<br />So we all woke up really early thinking how to chalk out the rest of the day and decided that we would go for water sports the whole day..I was damn excited as it was something that I had never done and the unknown always stretches ones imagination.Here we were in this shack at calangute beach and were getting ready for the para sailing and signed a last minute form that said that "We are above 18 and Whatever happens,it is not their responsibility and we have undertaken this at our own risk and the sole responsibility for everything lies on us." That literally meant 'hey..the rope around your waist might get cut and you might fall into the vast sea and never to be seen again..dont blame us..is your will ready? <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLtQ5LO-Qj2jZUFQyLLvrsa_zTj99YgCHswugisYxPqNG2B3wxZhePcrcLo9BgK_rQriULZXim-59kCw4CkYkxcMRMVtASdr14aWVeHG4j0OZO5eEPRRK4CaagsGHruFPK59kiTLxsR2s/s1600-h/sunset.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187694566727532962" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLtQ5LO-Qj2jZUFQyLLvrsa_zTj99YgCHswugisYxPqNG2B3wxZhePcrcLo9BgK_rQriULZXim-59kCw4CkYkxcMRMVtASdr14aWVeHG4j0OZO5eEPRRK4CaagsGHruFPK59kiTLxsR2s/s320/sunset.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Para sailing turned out to be a dampner as I got bored up in the skies seeing nothing but the vast blue sea..Well i could have just sat at my home and watch some animal planet or something to see the sea.I dont know if it was only me but I wasnt thrilled..so I had to make up this story of seeing this school of dolphins in the water but to my dismay I found that everyone had made the same story..there was a bit of water scooters after that and then totally dissapointed by the water sports we went back..we had an king size lunch and an equally royal dinner and a even lighter wallet.<br />So here we were thinking what could be done for cheap here.Our 4 day budget had busted inside out in 2 days..So we decided to hit the roads the next day and dedicate it fully for travelling.. The sunset pic we took was the defining pic tht day..here it goes.. <strong>The Sunset Pic</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Day 3</strong> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxv8aUsZ6WsMwXAp3aU137CO_izF4pjBrmmslVJ1Xex2NAkhDisPvm2GAEAQlMrCCla9IOnPOS6f8ug9uEl1bLRlQAvFIj3fOATXaWh32nKRN_yPMQ_uhSTZKA2WKNyxelQ2XCteuRo0M/s1600-h/g.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187644010667491618" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxv8aUsZ6WsMwXAp3aU137CO_izF4pjBrmmslVJ1Xex2NAkhDisPvm2GAEAQlMrCCla9IOnPOS6f8ug9uEl1bLRlQAvFIj3fOATXaWh32nKRN_yPMQ_uhSTZKA2WKNyxelQ2XCteuRo0M/s320/g.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />pic 1-the wierd church at night 2..</p><br /><p><br />Day three and we get fresh ,skip breakfast to save money and hit the roads and go to lots of places..The beautiful aguada fort,lonely churches,panjim,madgaon,some famous temple,bomb jesus church,st.xaviers church,ribandar..<br />Hold on tightly as the action just starts unfolding.On the way after our aguada fort trip was done..I hit a car that had some students in it and what better?I hit it in front of the goa jail..and that too when the collector of goa is making an appearance there that day..Nothing happened to me but I heard tariq swearing at me..The car had two deep bumps as if it was hit by a meteor ..One was by the bike and the other was by Tariqs huge knee..so ya..he had all the right in the world to swear at me..situation gets even better..there is this huge group of policemen coming and they start charging towards us and everyone had two words 'oh!god' and some had 'got fucked!'The police people shooed us away with contempt and told us to leave from there and passed by..relieved..I was almost thinking that we would be behind the bars for probably disrupting the collectors schedule(not 'we'..but atleast I was sure of myself) and have our pictures flashed all over the next days local news..the guys n the car left and we were like 'wow..nice people..they dint even ask for anything?'..so we march on again without any damage minus tariqs knee and go on to have lunch and guess what we see in the next turn..those guys with the damaged car ,waiting for me..now everyone had only one word 'fuck!!'<br />however we act damn friendly and see for any damage in the car(not that we meant it but that was the only way to make sure they remain friendly to us..or more exactly..they dont turn hostile..or more exactly..they dont kick our ass!!)even they were all nervy cos of the accident and we convince those guys that the damage is only worth a couple of hundred rupees and nothing more..i dont know what on the earth made them believe us but they actually let us off,just taking my phone number!!I mean I wouldnt have done the same if it were me..the whole car had a minimum damage of 3000 written all over its sexy back!!and here these guys beleived that it would cost only 200.<br />we left for our way and carried on while i had numerous calls from them ,which obviously i did not pick up..well i felt bad for them and empathised with them but the problem was that we were as tight as they were on finance..if they ever come across this all i can say i sorry..then we went to anjuna beach and old goa and all the other places left in goa and finally returned back at 10 or 11..end of day 3..well not to be the end so soon..we go to some famous temple in old goa..which someone told was just 10 km but in the end we ended up traversing close to 40 kms..alls well and we go to the temple and come out,,have tea(for the first time in goa) and start our bikes and not again!!now tariq has lost the keys to the bike..after searching for an hour and making no headway ,we try opening the bike with the activa key and voila!it opens..after passing some 5 kms..tariq wants to go back again and searches the temple and there he finds the key which was kept safely by the priest there..someones sixth sense was all working great..then the church in picture where we went at night around 2 o clock to have some wierd fun and as soon as we go to the church the dogs start barking and we find that closeby there is a cemetry and eugene runs back for his life and gobbles down a beer to feel relieved..we were there for an hour talking all haunted stories and daring each other to go around the church alone ,when suddenly the main light went off and came back again..that was it we thought and speeded away to safety..a little bit of sweat trickling from our foreheads..</p><br />enter day 4..<br /><br /><strong>Day 4</strong> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJx7LL8Papc-tGd0mEjCVvdw6IPwXg5jinDSlAQIAVl-zW5r3tWOSaY-D3RFex14IcvN5eGWglaf4RkAdSohe0S9grvRj5oY_WL2dJrDug_rUnYWMghR13W6r67A87c7JzA_QJuv7L4Vs/s1600-h/waiting.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187644401509515570" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJx7LL8Papc-tGd0mEjCVvdw6IPwXg5jinDSlAQIAVl-zW5r3tWOSaY-D3RFex14IcvN5eGWglaf4RkAdSohe0S9grvRj5oY_WL2dJrDug_rUnYWMghR13W6r67A87c7JzA_QJuv7L4Vs/s320/waiting.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />1stpic-sahil me and naseeb @the station ,stuck without any cash.<br /><br />2nd pic-eugene dozing away in the train back to coimbatore..he will still say that he was not sleeping..cant change him..<br /><br />3rd pic-a beautiful dolphin model made by a goan.<br /><br />we are leaving today and morning starts pretty pleasantly with sahil coming and telling us that those guys whom we hit had lodged a complaint with the police as they had noted down the bike number and they had called up the resort owner wher we were staying and they were claiming 4000 to settle it off ..'screwed again' said everyone and thanked me for giving them such a memorable trip..well i had no fear as i knew that either ways we would get jacked..cos we had hardly a 1000 with us so paying them was out of the question..we made naseeb take his hostel fees money so that we could pay it off..we go out and after a lot of convincing he takes his money and evryone starts to laugh!!why??it was a bloody prank played to get some money out of naseeb who was saving money by eating chips and veg in goa!!ya..in goa!!mission successfull and we head for lunch and have anither wholesome meal and bid goodbye to the mr.sali and jack and catch a taxi..well..we have almost a thousand five hundred bucks with us and are on an extremely shoe string budget and we planned to come by a general train to coimbatore as it would cost only 180 bucks..this was our plan..four peoples ticket would cost us around 180 x 4=720 and another 700 for the taxi and 80 bucks for travelling the whole journey!! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9k5Ag8d0t9ulAJ2C5aXgZQEU_k_kZr_LkDUbbPu3mT8vKk4babbejabUXc_2SssnTQQjCVtiXgUGo0eBGzBR5cYoSSwPgWfdVFiYxBdUcki95H7_Q0dsR2W9ftvst37Sp7LLZVLm15Fw/s1600-h/DSC00584.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187645324927484226" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9k5Ag8d0t9ulAJ2C5aXgZQEU_k_kZr_LkDUbbPu3mT8vKk4babbejabUXc_2SssnTQQjCVtiXgUGo0eBGzBR5cYoSSwPgWfdVFiYxBdUcki95H7_Q0dsR2W9ftvst37Sp7LLZVLm15Fw/s320/DSC00584.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />we had to drop tariq off at the airport as he had to go to delhi and the taxi driver takes us to the station..we board down and then something strikes..damn it!!this was not the station..we had to get down at madgaon..screwed again!!and the taxi driver shouts at us for not telling which station and wants 900 rs till madgaon..well we had to give in..and ran back to the airport,borrowing a 500 from tariq..telling that we would put it back in his account(had to tell tht to get the cash)..we reached the station ,offloaded everything and guess what ..the 2 30 train has left and we sit there till 8 at night not having cash to go anywhere..while taking the tickets we realized that lo!!there was not enough cash as we had paid 1000 fr the taxi..we start running all over again and call up friends back home to put some cash and just save being in the goa station forever..<br />we travel in the general compartment where you can not lie down or do anything and is crowded till the last inch..we survive the whole journey on 2 teas and a couple of vadas..we slump on each other and somehow make it till the end and survive to see another day..but thats not the end either!! now we were in the coimbatore station and fighting to bring down the auto charge from 80 to 70..cos we dint even have that much..not a penny more not a penny less and after we reached back we counted all the 50 ps and the 5 rupee coins that we had and said 'screwed again' for the last time..reason:we had only 69 rs with us and the auto guy also sweared something in tamil and finally we were back in our room ..thinking that evrything is over and about the amazing journey we had..<br />suddenly realization dawns upon..its feb 15 th and 14 more days to go fr the month to get over(damn again..this february had an extra day when i dint want it)and here we were with combined assets of about 50 rs for the whole month..'screwed again'one more time we say staring at the ceiling fan.. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuYH5FuVMujejIZQWysDdO5_JTPCQQk7kZMU7F2bNsCaB16Bi8ELNq-lGT29phGJl5vaqgNpm-62t8Kq3zqXg6pLkRbKiceo8_fZZTHB3xfIQc6fPCo71870i-6oOoqroHrk1JgcBYeM8/s1600-h/DSCN2956.JPG"></a><br />and then?there is a ring at the door and we open it to find out that there is a letter for me ..bad luck again..it read "dear customer,your internet bill has been due for the past one month,kindly pay 1500 by 20 th of feb" 'screwed again' i say..then i see another bill for the cable and newspaper and rent and i say ..i dont say screw<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSZwDmHgeqjY1vg-Cam_hX6N8B8Av4GbafB7It0IZXpXgk61Dw7T7iG0qpDmvGQd5tr4wcSgWsgj5ADvibtIHJtk9LmyIWWZesrmim7p1mtkruD-NW5ou3Lep_uUdPEieqH02EkMabOi0/s1600-h/DSCN3036.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187684507914125714" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="240" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSZwDmHgeqjY1vg-Cam_hX6N8B8Av4GbafB7It0IZXpXgk61Dw7T7iG0qpDmvGQd5tr4wcSgWsgj5ADvibtIHJtk9LmyIWWZesrmim7p1mtkruD-NW5ou3Lep_uUdPEieqH02EkMabOi0/s320/DSCN3036.JPG" width="403" border="0" /></a>ed again but pick up the phone and arrange for some cash from my friend..<br />THE END!!SIGNING OFF..<br />YOURS TRULY<br />THE UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY!!ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-11197439504086256522008-04-07T02:16:00.004+05:302008-12-11T05:01:11.517+05:30traSh!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixzc8odcMnLdfq9tGgmGj9xciUFOhWFOsvVEmPBs1vmxMH33TloN1PagnlO9VEbLAeAmPO1rIsJV7bOXAKusQ_x3c5xKTZh9cXrleM_olQ-bbdOEx0MsFxJx6niAv9NobEYjhM4sT7cpA/s1600-h/trash.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186807437807325890" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixzc8odcMnLdfq9tGgmGj9xciUFOhWFOsvVEmPBs1vmxMH33TloN1PagnlO9VEbLAeAmPO1rIsJV7bOXAKusQ_x3c5xKTZh9cXrleM_olQ-bbdOEx0MsFxJx6niAv9NobEYjhM4sT7cpA/s320/trash.gif" border="0" /></a><br />I cant believe that i am just surfing the net aimlessly right now from one link to another..to making a facebook account to going on howstuffworks.com to searching for bipasha wallpapers.i have got an exam today and i actually logged on to the net to find some answers for some important questions and instead ended up learning about the bermuda triangle phenomenon and the origin of the murphy s law story..if only whatever we had to study was made more interesting and practical!!its 2 30 roght now and my exam is at 9 30..7 hours inbetween and i will have to wake up a little bit early too.that leaves me with ,say,a four hour nap.played TT and were in the swimming pool the wholeday thinking that we ll study later and shit its 2 30 right now and have learnt just 8 questions!!neither am i feeling sleepy neither do i want to study right now.i dont know why i am wasting my time writing all of this..ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-19420649088260761992008-04-06T02:25:00.005+05:302008-05-02T11:57:26.559+05:30caNt beTTer tHiS act!!Ok..so we played table tennis for a couple of hours and then came back to the room after some high voltage duels and then something made us laugh and roll ,when we came back to the room.<br />we all came into the room ,all tired after the matches and there was naseeb sitting in the chair and watching a mallu movie..we all started laughing our heart out when we saw that..did not find that funny?well the real thing starts now!!he was actually watching a movie,where he had played the second cd first and then the first cd..and here he was sitting tightly on the sofa with full concentration,trying to make some sense of what all was goin on in the movie.he even had all the fans off so that he would not miss a dialogue..c'mon man..wtf..anyone would know after 10 minutes or so that it is not the starting of a movie when the title doesnt come up.and he took 45 minutes to comprehend the whole situation of not getting the cd s right and that too when someone told him for the second time that it was the second cd..earlier when ug had told asked him as to why he was watching the second cd first ,he thought that he was conning him..and here he was,our einstein,working his brains off to understand what the movie was all about and why on earth was everyone getting younger and younger in the movie as it went on.i get reminded off the sid the sloth off the Ice Age..man!!even he cant beat you on that one mate!!i bet..all hail the king..ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-82639416159774771672008-04-06T01:39:00.005+05:302008-05-02T12:09:57.157+05:30A Quiet and peaceful day..Just came back after a nice movie and read a few blogs through the orkut blogger community links.tomorrow onwards exams are starting and i need to give in some decent effort for the exams.went out today with friends and had lunch with them.i,ug,prnz,javi,sahil,sundar,naseeb,anmol and nidhya.had lunch at mary brown and then went off to boomerang just to sit and kill some time.in between me,javi,prnz and sundar went to a clothing showrrom and just decided to pass some time there and make someone buy something if possible too..well thats what happens when you are with javi,he will suggest you a shop from where he needs to buy something and finally all others who are accompanying him end up with a purchase bill and he walks off laughing.today it could have been prnz's turn if only the shop had the correct fit for him,but that was not to be.<br />then we went to Boomerang and i was getting totally bored and totally uninterested in the conversation going around and so i thought of picking on anmol and asked her why she wasnt talking to another female in the class ,although i had no business of enquiring about it.but then the discussion soon blew up much more in proportion than i had planned and i wasnt grumbling about it either..while everyone was having a dig at her ,i took a back seat and just saw the proceedings.and naseeb actually called up that female and then we actually spoke to her about the issue !!and she also agreed to go along and talk to her..just that anmol requires some time probably.but then just think of it??i simply took over the issue because i was getting plain bored and it actually turned out to be pretty beneficial..midas touch!!<br />after everything , we left the place and i saw this book vendor by the roadside..my love for books has no bounds and always end up buying books .the one i bought today was the story of GOOGLE..i dont know how relevant the story is now because google is one company where the rules of the game change within a tiny bit of a second,but then i thought of going ahead and buying it.Having read Paulo Coelho's 'flowing like a river', a collection of short stories,i waS thinking off picking one his books 'veronika decides to die',but then laid off from that thought.then there were the regular dose of sex books and fantasy books as usual.<br />hey!right now i even wanna post an article on some of my friends,individually,as to what i felt about them or feel about them.hmmm...i will do it later..ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-21012345273893597172008-04-05T00:35:00.005+05:302008-12-11T05:01:11.725+05:30sorry !! too good to resist !!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_4QmrWdmn2-r11LQQzUIQWewh48oNlaa8zZ-R2NU9CbGMzcUk8JQE1SrCeR0xsj31_hBX4-HjZX47-LdNeoOls4-KnPPMvfwtPU1RDzmF2QWoD5kaXoVUh24VCHKs2HvgwSCV2Ycz6RQ/s1600-h/DSC00669.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_4QmrWdmn2-r11LQQzUIQWewh48oNlaa8zZ-R2NU9CbGMzcUk8JQE1SrCeR0xsj31_hBX4-HjZX47-LdNeoOls4-KnPPMvfwtPU1RDzmF2QWoD5kaXoVUh24VCHKs2HvgwSCV2Ycz6RQ/s320/DSC00669.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185471492524872322" /></a><br />well..sorry javi!!i had to do this..was exactly the kinda thing that i was searching to plot on you..this is one pic that i am sure wont happen again for a long time..well i can hear you talking in the other room right now,not knowing whats happening..i could have not put up this pic but then what the hell?its my blog and i can embarass anyone i want or do whatever i like..you wanna hit back,make your own blog or just brood over it!!! was just getting bored and stumbled upon this ,,bad luck!!ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-39549341996224461042008-04-04T23:40:00.008+05:302008-12-11T05:01:12.081+05:30Final Day At College..<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk_Ss_uiRKenxKUxpRg5_OmQgaPLG086SaWTeUHV28ntZ4lkdl3MkhnjkxqN7ElOkQ4cbax1HPRempjHPLKoU1pVg9aooqJw58TgAh1CwIA1bDFtUOWnl-CrRB-gFCxhO1KAyKrgqPioU/s1600-h/DSC03171.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk_Ss_uiRKenxKUxpRg5_OmQgaPLG086SaWTeUHV28ntZ4lkdl3MkhnjkxqN7ElOkQ4cbax1HPRempjHPLKoU1pVg9aooqJw58TgAh1CwIA1bDFtUOWnl-CrRB-gFCxhO1KAyKrgqPioU/s320/DSC03171.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185462095136428658" /></a><br />So..the farewell also got over yesterday with the awrds day bringing down the curtains on the college days.well i am not that emotional right now like the way i was feeling the other day .but then the sentiments seem to be rubbing off to other people.for some time yeaterday sahil felt sad i believe and then after the party was over ,when we were dropping the girls off to the college ,hema confessed that she had till that time thought that it would not be hard to bid goodbye but then now,it was particularly hard and not so easy.well its gona be like that way till the new set of friends arrive..i believe..<br />yesterday started off with the awards day and had a lot of performances by the juniors.they held the whole function beautifully had so many performances that it it was too much to handle in the end.we had to sit there for five hours ,after which the curtains were drawn ,ending with prnz and co s performances..curtains were pulled down with a farewell song and everyone lit up a candle each and waved in the air ,making it emotional(although i dont feel much emotional) and making it extra hot too!!everyone wanted to sport a kurta and so we went to the place close by to buy kurtas and bought one each.came back to the room by about six and got ready for the party at jennys.the last year photo of which i had put up in a post earlier titled "its march...."that time i certainly did not think that i would be posting our farewell so soon.right now i dont feel like posting anything but then i have to because i will try evading it if procastinated more.so the party started at around 6 30 and we reached there by 7 30(late as usual)..everyone was already on the dance floor,well not exactly dance floor,but grass floor..everyone was dancing in the lawn with the surdy DJ mixing up some average music.we all had dinner after that and then went out in the lawn and sat there and spoke non sense till 10 30 and clicked a few pics here and there,when the organiser came and told that the hostel girls had to be back by 10 30 and that it was time for them to pack up.accompanied them till the hostel,recounting all the old stories and gossips and incidents ..there s something about the night and cool wind blowing on your face,that turns you honest and humble and let everything out in the right spirit.one sheds off all the inhibtions and act very simple ,letting the heart rule over the brain rather than the other way around that happens more oftenly.and everyone was letting out whatever they felt .when you are deeply into something,you never know when time flies by and woosh!!we had walked from the jenny club till the hostel and suddenly felt that it was too short a distance to confide over everything and were not exactly in the mood to be going back, the devil in me had a secret wish that someone should cry among us but then that was not to be..but then you cant have everything the way you want and then we went back to the place where the party was taking place and everyone joined in and had lots of final departing pics taken.well,we four five guys were sitting on the stairs inside the lobby and it was as if we were asking indirectly for our pics to be taken and everyone passing by actually came in and took a pic.well anyone would have seeing the way we were seated ,one after the another in a row on the steps.it was inviting enough for a pic to be clicked.it was as if we were desperate to get photographed more and were sitting on the steps so that none who passes by could miss us.everyone who strolled by gave a warm smile and took up their cams and had a photo taken .not that we were complaining :)ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-42582225526628856462008-04-01T17:12:00.005+05:302008-12-11T05:01:12.275+05:30The dead man who wore pyjamas!! (2)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglMl553jt7CnY5bYVYxUIbpPIjJ43_tHz-3VMpYhZIfKvpX4XYTSdP4ApvdCYoZPSxDEAlfAd21dUuzaBapaekuJ_xqoY8PkydsRxgpxSNrlRiOtOscCQYOHEN9VOUn3JALkXyxlUvysM/s1600-h/college.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglMl553jt7CnY5bYVYxUIbpPIjJ43_tHz-3VMpYhZIfKvpX4XYTSdP4ApvdCYoZPSxDEAlfAd21dUuzaBapaekuJ_xqoY8PkydsRxgpxSNrlRiOtOscCQYOHEN9VOUn3JALkXyxlUvysM/s320/college.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184246258614407778" /></a><br />Well..Now the end days of college are pacing in and I really feel grateful to all the friends who have been there around me and have been with me regardless of what I have thought of them.and exacltly when I was feeling damn sad and down that I would have to leave my friends all over again and start a new life once again,I came through the above article by paulo coelho,well in this case the one i have mentioned below in the other blog.I am not a big fan off Paulo Coelho s books but then some of his short stories in the book 'like the flowing river ' were beautifull.I was someone who always bragged or boasted that I will not be missing my friends neither the college life here but then now since the end days are really darkenning around me and making their presence felt in a god damn hard way,I feel nostalgic of each and everything that I see around and try associating that place with something I have done when the early days of college were still setting in.<br />It all happened yesterday,when we went for dinner and we ended up in a place which was shown to us by our seniors that time ,the time when they were leaving.Now I find myself in the same place and then I actually confessed to my roomies that I was actually feeling sad that moment as we would be parting each other.Something that I have never done before ie I have never told anyone that I would actually miss them but now I do.I even told them that we will sleep together for the coming days in the same room and share all those moments we all had till that time(no matter how gay it sounds!!)..<br />Yes..I was feeling sad and down when I came across the page on Paulo Coelho s book and that really shook me up.I indeed am thankfull to all the friends and people who have supported me till now.thanks a lot!!!<br /><br />Have a nice DayArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-40544739053498315492008-04-01T16:53:00.005+05:302008-12-11T05:01:12.407+05:30The dead man who wore pyjamas!! (1)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsXRIyUvxjs3uiFoKjGmL_f9HY8pKoRVCCdwTvIlHJaFqrD5m51l0M6LIHqRzbOx-TOxxFiyQbBYgtjJ6QUY6MHHRTSXNroTBsf3gtSeKWXc8Hi00V4HbVGsbcBEN6BfCLw4NGu_PjOI8/s1600-h/0732284384.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184240426048819794" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsXRIyUvxjs3uiFoKjGmL_f9HY8pKoRVCCdwTvIlHJaFqrD5m51l0M6LIHqRzbOx-TOxxFiyQbBYgtjJ6QUY6MHHRTSXNroTBsf3gtSeKWXc8Hi00V4HbVGsbcBEN6BfCLw4NGu_PjOI8/s320/0732284384.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />well this is one of the excerpts from Paulo Coelho's book 'like the flowing river'.was just reading through it and felt how relevant it actually was in todays life.well i will first write down the story as the book says beccause it is too beautiful to alter.well it goes like this:<br /><br />"I read in an on-line newspaper on the internet that, on 10 June 2004, in Tokyo, a man was found dead in his pyjamas. So far, so good. I think that most people who die in their pyjamas (a) either died in their sleep, which is a blessing, or (b) were with their family or in a hospital bed, meaning that death did not arrive suddenly, and they all had time to get used to 'the Unwanted Guest', as the Brazilian poet, Manuela Bandeira, called it.<br /><br />The news item went on to say that, when he died, the man was in his bedroom. That cancels out the hospital hypothesis, leaving the possibility that he died in his sleep, without suffering, without even realizing that he wouldn't live to see the morning light again.<br /><br />However, there remains one other possibility: that he was attacked and killed.<br /><br />Anyone who knows Tokyo also knows that, although it is a vast city, it is also one of the safest place in the world. I remember once stopping with my Japanese publishers for a meal before driving on into the interior of Japan. All our cases were on the back seat of the car. I immediately said how dangerous this was; someone was bound to pass, see our luggage, and make off with our clothes and documents and everything else. My publisher smiled and told me not to worry; he had never known such thing to happen in his entire life (and, indeed, nothing did happen to our luggage, although I spent the whole of supper feeling tense).<br /><br />But let's go back to our dead man in pyjamas. There was no sign of struggle or violence. An official from the Metropolitan Police, in an interview with the newspaper, stated that the man had almost certainly died of a sudden heart attack. So we can also reject the murder hypothesis.<br /><br />The corpse was found by the employees of a construction company on the second floor of a building in a housing development that was about to be demolished. Everything would lead us to think that our dead man in the pyjamas, having failed to find somewhere to live in one of the most densely populated and most expensive places in the world, had simply decided to live in a building where he wouldn't have to pay any rent.<br /><br />Then comes the tragic part of the story. Our dead man was nothing more than a skeleton wearing pyjamas. Beside him, was an open newspaper dated 20 February 1984. On a table nearby, the calendar marked the same day.<br /><br />He had been there for twenty years.<br /><br />And no one had noticed his absence.<br /><br />The man was identified as an ex-employee of the company who had built the housing development, where he had moved at the beginning of the 1980s, immediately after getting divorced. He was just over fifty on the day he was reading the newspaper and suddenly departed this life.<br /><br />His ex-wife had never tried to get in touch with him. The journalists went to the company where he had worked and discovered that the company had gone bankrupt immediately after the project was finished, because they had failed to sell any of the apartments, which would explain why they did not find it strange when the man stopped turning up for work. The journalists tracked down his friends, who attributed his disappearance to the fact that he had borrowed money from them and hadn't been able to pay them back.<br /><br />The news item ended by saying that the man's mortal remains were returned to his ex-wife. When I finished reading the article, I kept thinking about that final sentence: the ex-wife was still alive; and yet, for twenty years, she had never once tried to contact him. What can have been going on inside her mind? That he didn't love her anymore, and that he had decided to cut her out of his life for good? That he had met another woman and dissapeared? That this is simply what life is like once the divorce proceedings are over, and that there is no point in continuing a relationship once it has been legally terminated?I imagine what she must have felt when she learned the fate of the man with whom she had shared a large part of her life.<br /><br />And then I thought about the dead man in pyjamas, about his complete and utter isolation, to the point that, for twenty long years, no one in the whole world had noticed that he had simply vanished without trace. I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any or all of those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us.<br /><br />Let us say a silent prayer for that man, and thank him for making us think about how important friends are."<br /><br />well as i simply searched for the above article and there were people who had actually written it down on their blog,so just had to copy,paste it.ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-70466201917258783772008-03-29T19:13:00.003+05:302008-12-11T05:01:12.676+05:30What did you do, 8 to 9?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7THOU4m6u-eQGDEZEjsxAZ5z9ic2RQIr82Y3o67LHa9kYkf8UeZpXT9gcKqKxqvGHj0tN5ej3YEcuW3Uajot9CJfnJgWdNXkHOqdIAFZR80XIMTw6TdanqhbWTg5tzgLRL2JGGga58rw/s1600-h/app_3_7191714725_7187.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7THOU4m6u-eQGDEZEjsxAZ5z9ic2RQIr82Y3o67LHa9kYkf8UeZpXT9gcKqKxqvGHj0tN5ej3YEcuW3Uajot9CJfnJgWdNXkHOqdIAFZR80XIMTw6TdanqhbWTg5tzgLRL2JGGga58rw/s320/app_3_7191714725_7187.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183163742172222018" /></a><br />so there is an earth hour today from 8 pm to 9 pm local time.wonder how many people will follow it but i am right in and would certainly do it.we need more earth hours to save the earth from the global menace of warming.last year it was sydney and this year 2008 is a global earth day observation.24 global cities are participating and there is no indian city as the news channel just showed up.last year the earth hour was observed on march 31 .the official website for it is:<br />www.earthhour.org<br />there are around 286000 people who have joined in the event.and right now i am trying to join but the server comes up as busy.i hope its because of a rush in signing up.i am still refreshing it and hopefully it does before 8 o clock because i wont be switching on any device.not even my mobile.lets see.<br />but then i am sure that none in these apartments would do that .there has to be a larger movement.something in the scale of the seven wonders edition ,where so much publicity was given to the taj and it eventually became the highest voted wonder,although it was overshadowed by the bipasha - ronaldo fling in the post celebrations.but that is immaterial and right now the sign up section has opened up and i am bidding farewell to the blog right now.<br />save electricity,sAvE EARTH!!!loNg LiVe..ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-92088602016750274732008-03-28T23:46:00.004+05:302008-12-11T05:01:12.823+05:30The power of simplicity<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuiPWBJ5TlngP7LIBohnosRQEYpkZcgm0_P-rTZDqemhTbyYrOb4lI6QFBDeVP1NZDw5tdIlkU5ZD8PeWxq9RGLcBfPuZzsckPhThuI7m4s-AUoLBOhDUK3k1wbsqkmJ1xr_pch2RJV9Q/s1600-h/simplicity.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuiPWBJ5TlngP7LIBohnosRQEYpkZcgm0_P-rTZDqemhTbyYrOb4lI6QFBDeVP1NZDw5tdIlkU5ZD8PeWxq9RGLcBfPuZzsckPhThuI7m4s-AUoLBOhDUK3k1wbsqkmJ1xr_pch2RJV9Q/s320/simplicity.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182917584711586354" /></a><br />Today we had a seminar or a face to face with the creative head of bbdo and someone who has worked with almost everyone the lintas',the ogilivy's and many other global advertising giants.His name is Josy Paul.Well,my admiration towards him goes back when I had come across an article on him.A very strange incident in the article made him someone who would always be etched in my mind and someone whom I would google regularly ,to find what all was happening off late with him.And then all of a sudden,a week back,I was to find out that he was actually coming to the college as a part of the ceo charter programme hosted by the block.I was delighted to see that and was telling everyone as to who he was and what all crazy things he had done.<br /><br />There were three main incidents that I know of.First one was during the client meet with Philips,where he threatened tp jump out of the office window if they did not give him the thumbs up for that account.He says candidly when asked about it that he would not have got hurt anyway as he was on the first floor.And guess what ..he did bag the contract,although the Philips team requested the management to keep him away from the meetings.<br />But then things rarely flow in the same way .Once during a pitch to a leading insurance company he suddenly stood on the meeting table to get a point across that life is uncertain and one needs to be prepared for it.However,the clients did not find the drama unfolding in front of them impressive enough and shrugged off from the contract.<br />The third one that I read was regarding another contract handling.He was waiting for the appointment when he saw the mission statement on the wall and noticed that the company had done nothing to fulfill that statement.He slyly went and uprooted it and whacked the mission statement and used it in the meeting to show how the company had lacked in certain things and how it could be done rightly and while all this was happening the watchman came and started shouting thief thief!!<br />Well actually I asked this question when he was here and everyone started giving me this strange look as if it suggested 'dude!you are not supposed to ask stuff like that!'<br />After the whole ceo charter was over ,there were people who walked up to me and were like'man!you embarassed him royally'..Well that was not even my slightest of intentions and he would know that.An advertiser has to be four things:-<br />-An explorer,who goes out and does the unconventional<br />-An artist ,who can paint the thing the way he wants it<br />-A judge,who will in the end judge if the product ad is good enough or not<br />-A warrior,who will fight on and vouch for his ideas at any stage <br />and he told ,that while doing all those crazy things,it was this warrior urge ,which made him do so and he was effective more often than not.<br />The ads he showed were of top notch quality calibre,as all of them were something we could relate to everytime,allthroughout and not the noisy ,'i am here' kind of ads.All the ads that he showcased were silent ,with hardly a line or two there and quite fantastic that actually touched ones emotional chords.All the ads were so wonderfully crafted and made in such a way that you could hardly tell how long the ad was,as you drown into the ad completely.There was one particular ad of the argentinian airlines that was extremely beautifull, that any attempt to explain that ad would be unfair.so i have put up the link for the ad on youtube<br />http://youtube.com/watch?v=5b19izPaox8<br />then there was this wonderful volkswagen polo ad that was based on such a simple observation that many of us would have missed but the ad creator used it and made it one of the best selling cars in europe ,when the trend in the 79s and 80s was having big swanky cars.the address of that ad too is mentioned below<br />http://youtube.com/watch?v=XEVvlyHQVjs<br />he laid specific stress as to how we badly need to simplify things around us and see things from the perspective of a 6 year old kid.he had started an ad agency of his own called david,where one would not get a letter of appointment but a letter of resignation.The letter of resignation was a declaration that one has abandoned adulthood and has resigned from it and will now on start looking things from the perspedctive of a six year old.A promise that he/she will be ever so inquisitive,ready to stub sticks into the sand,have that multi coloured candy ,throw stones in the water and see the ripples and a lot lot more.I want to write in so much more but time doesnt Permit me as of now nor do the mosquitoes.Just smashed one.Its 3:34 am!!!ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-61918944261455160752008-03-27T23:29:00.004+05:302008-12-11T05:01:12.963+05:30what?its march 2008 ? !!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3KIRyMyeQKhT1aj2gBfMCGtX1L9O5KMregMSDQZU-9Fy1X7T-oblhL8AZqq3M-GlpFMzORPQRa1ALjsT58uRBtMy7QcpWpmaezTDy-Jh6wvs35u6nlJuy-Ig2bQg6AQ1DwT4WleS94pE/s1600-h/DSC00036.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3KIRyMyeQKhT1aj2gBfMCGtX1L9O5KMregMSDQZU-9Fy1X7T-oblhL8AZqq3M-GlpFMzORPQRa1ALjsT58uRBtMy7QcpWpmaezTDy-Jh6wvs35u6nlJuy-Ig2bQg6AQ1DwT4WleS94pE/s320/DSC00036.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182485742929842722" /></a><br />Right now I feel very sleepy sitting in front of the computer.So I thought I will get some thoughts in through the post and decided that this one will be ,what i call my 'picture post'.<br />This pic, as mentioned in the snap was taken on a normal day ,dated,5th april 2007 at 8:05pm.It was the time when the,that time third years had to leave college and were given the farewell party.I remember I had just shifted out a couple of months back from the day the pic was taken and was still in the mode of enjoying my new found lease of life outside the cramped walls of the hostel.I even remember that,on that day while we were getting ready,the current went and we were like 'oh shit!what to do now?'.Dressing up in pitch dark.Candles are something that we never had at home.Who would actually care about a bloody candle?<br />So we somehow managed to get shirts and jeans in a proper order and slipped into them and left for Jenny club where the farewell party was supposed to take.Third years were already there and all were kind of dejected and something told that they would all miss each other ,admit it or not.Some were even drunk,so that they actually dont feel the pinch of the farewell and then there were people who dint care a fig as to what happened.Then there we were,sad for those whom we knew and sad for any nice girl whom we did not actually know,but would miss passing a glance in the coming year.A face of one such female comes across so faintly right now as I am typing these words.Well all of us were kind of grumbling to the fact that we would not be able to have any gossip among us for that female anymore.But then food rules over the mind any day and we deceided to gobble down some food.To a lot of peoples dismay,there was only vegetarian food,but then you like everything when you have paid for it and I remember paying some RS.300 for the party I believe.We all got together for some time,shared some jokes and incidents and went on to the party floor also for a couple of minutes but then with hardly a soul on the floor ,we decided that it would not be that wise enough to go on for long.Some of the girls had to go in early because they had their hostel curfews and after they left ,even we slowly moved out of the scene.<br />bang bang bang bang!!woosshhhhh...zzzzzzz..and DAMN!its 2008,march 28th.A whole year has passed so fast that I did not even realise that my farewell would be just a week away from now.I find myself in the same situation,just that the roles have been reversed.Everyone has taken over a certain role and someone else had replaced them and are in the same shoes as we were ,as i was,last year.All the old memories keep flooding in and the nostalgia kicks in and drowns you in a gush of emotions ,not that I am the kind of emotional person that people normally are,but still the envelope of nostalgia is unmistakable.Everyone now goes on to a different path and we all hope that some day we will all criss cross and meet and there are some people we never want to come across ever again.There were myriad things all in between these three years those were worth remembering and some that one wants to drop of completely.nonetheless they are great memories.I personally was not a big fan of the way the college was or the way it was run but then slowly but surely I grew into it and things were actually flowing very well.Not that they have stopped but there is this strange feeling of not having the people whom you have liked over the period of three years and not hearing from them.<br />Had a lot of memorable trips,movies,incidents,friends,not so friendly friends,mood swings,disgust for some,gratitutde for some and plain appreciation for some,need for self introspection.the felling that time was getting wasted,the feeling that i can do a lot more than i am doing right now,the occasional home sickness(rarely),occasional frustration of the rules surrounding us,long nights at the basket ball court and a lot lot lot more.Then there were innumerable hostel gossips,rumour mills,debates ,incessant bitching,long hours of sleep,music ,worries and again a lot more.Everyone was just a message away in college and a lot more.<br />A particular day hobbles in my mind right now.it was a day when we were all sleeping in the room till 5 in the evening ,listening to songs all throughout the nights,humming tunes all throughout and then there was this guy's CD which had the worst collection of songs that could be ever compiled by any sane person living on the face of the earth and then teasing that fellow and fingering him(do not think whatever might have crossed ur mind right now when fingering was mentioned)till dawn on his awesome taste of music.<br />there are just so many things that I would love to mention but then.....and...<br />Life goes on and as someone said 'life is a play and we play our roles in the play called life'..did I get that one right?no chance!!ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-51682507573933421992008-03-17T13:42:00.003+05:302008-12-11T05:01:13.355+05:30I Feel Great but..<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAXUisF-_G2L2tRYTBaWcnwHqZVoEBG1pHie9kQA1s9LkthMwBrTPP1L7mRBbehJkgG7ysagK2xgRbxu00VFlRau8yuZxkAFbDk2nSn4kB37zLjKNZ1axGabtF8WYUM-YAJH5bWy_swaM/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAXUisF-_G2L2tRYTBaWcnwHqZVoEBG1pHie9kQA1s9LkthMwBrTPP1L7mRBbehJkgG7ysagK2xgRbxu00VFlRau8yuZxkAFbDk2nSn4kB37zLjKNZ1axGabtF8WYUM-YAJH5bWy_swaM/s320/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178638775586529330" /></a><br />So today I got up early in the morning.Something that I wanted to do for the past couple of days and did successfully today.Woke up to walk around a liitle bit ,because the climate here has been really pleasant for the past four five days and I love this type of shady rainy climate ,where it can pour out any moment and the clouds hover around you and throw up little drops of rain just to soothe you.It was all going perfect and rosy,and the positive feeling had enveloped me totally.I had so much energy running all over that I felt ecstatic within me.No exaggeration.<br />While I was having this energy run through my veins, I decided to have a jog on the roads that were pretty deserted in the wee hours of the morning.<br />As I said it felt really good and I couldnt think of anything bad and was avoiding all the dumps along side the road and having a brisk run,all this, while the climate was as beautiful as I could wish and it reflected in the smile the other people were passing on.The freshness was unmistakable.<br />Then a couple of things happened that shook me up and made me think that everything was not as I took it to be.I was passing through a big waste bin when I saw a movement in the bin which was overflowing with rubbish and stinking,i feeling all good and healthy,avoided the bin,when I saw a shady face in between the dump,too busy to bask into the freshness in the air and the good climate feeling that i was having.An old woman with slender arms and she was trying to get her hand on whatever useful she could find in what other people had labelled waste.She had to do this every morning and it dawned on me that no matter how pleasant I felt or not ,I could not change what other people had to go through ,atleast now.I was feeling all great but someone who was much older ,was struggling through the slime,rotten vegetables,leftover curry and spoilt food in the garbage to find her living for the day,anything tangible like a plastic item thrown and sealed as useless would be her gold.I wish I could change that.I want everyone around me to be happy.I know I will make a difference around me in a few years from now because right now ,maximum I can do right away is to stop that lady and help her.But for how many days?<br />Then as soon as I was thinking about that and jogging on into my conscience,I saw a kid of hardly 8 or 9,carrying vegetables and other groceries from a grocery shop to a home who had presumably asked for a 'home delivery',sipping on to their tea.Children of his age were breezing past him in their cycles and here this kid was taking the load of a days full of household items and clearly he wasnt liking it much although he was now experienced enough with all the hardships to pass this thing as normal.But then ,here again ,I saw a person who wasnt quite enjoying the way I did and to whom the happy pleasant smiling climate was not a change but just an unimportant development going around in the backdrop.I was wondering about these two things the whole day,till now, as i continue to enjoy the sudden breeze that has picked up and interested a few leaves around,which amicably brush along,as I stand in the third floor,in my balcony.I know I used a lot of commas in the earlier sentence but then thats exactly how I am enjoying the climate,without any bounds.ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-60315151054045851882008-03-14T23:03:00.003+05:302008-12-11T05:01:13.514+05:30attAcK !! VIRUSes are here..<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0GSdw-oksmtcEADOCeszXnWHnjJtNjmD42F5_IhmwScoMZwEa89sRVkxv_rWJh3WKXncrrv431GPb4VzjtUNhjoVBfzGhDBFxO5ZCWVj4cbLUb8ctzBiu4LC_q6JlvQCzaajZqr4vA0o/s1600-h/2070915926_05555cf7c8.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0GSdw-oksmtcEADOCeszXnWHnjJtNjmD42F5_IhmwScoMZwEa89sRVkxv_rWJh3WKXncrrv431GPb4VzjtUNhjoVBfzGhDBFxO5ZCWVj4cbLUb8ctzBiu4LC_q6JlvQCzaajZqr4vA0o/s320/2070915926_05555cf7c8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177657255300309026" /></a><br />i dont know what to blog on today as i find no particular issue that i would like to write on for.not that there arent any but just that i am too laid back today.i just have one question ringing in my mind again and again.why does the climate become so pleasant and beautiful only during exams,when we are supposed to be cramming stuff.today as like other days has been a beautiful day.it has been shady and cloudy all throughout making it very cozy all throughout plus a good dinner makes me feel so good.most of the time went in front of the computer only and lo!its 11 o clock so fast.right now ,the news of a 10 yr old boy beaten to death and burnt alive following a very small arguement is playing on the T.V..well its sad and i would have liked to write on that but somehow,today is just not the day to burn up some calories.i feel great and am going through all the news items on ibnlive.com,and and there is a new wardrobe malfunction case in a fashion show and the model gets her 15 seconds of exclusive coverage..whats more my comp gets attacked by a lot of viruses and to be exact there are 113 infections on the comp but do i care?some of the viruses have come from sites i better not mention but honestly its not me who went to those sites,thats what everyone here is telling actually.. bloody voyeurs!!and to the viruses..steal my passwords..do anything ,i dont care..if its trojan or worms or any bloody parasite..i dont know why i am writing non sense right now but then i dont have anything better do right now..i think..this is it!!i am off..better find myself a topic to think on..<br />au revoir..ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313466889174563260.post-25764775975812960442008-03-12T00:56:00.004+05:302008-12-11T05:01:13.651+05:30it IS late!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmrxhUarXZGkRoxgUqRZ15t2eMioDwe-UsHWYfmlJqCTZWASLcbbwUtiN03bwo5A-5zblomsHFpDw9QUtbEI3jVnA6UCy60TLodYCXRu40uvLEY6lFaS7pRk1jpLiLc03GlMEWho0HN4/s1600-h/midnight1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmrxhUarXZGkRoxgUqRZ15t2eMioDwe-UsHWYfmlJqCTZWASLcbbwUtiN03bwo5A-5zblomsHFpDw9QUtbEI3jVnA6UCy60TLodYCXRu40uvLEY6lFaS7pRk1jpLiLc03GlMEWho0HN4/s320/midnight1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176570826142916626" /></a><br />It is 00:56 and I feel nowhere close to sleeping.There is just so much to do on the net.information,information,information!!Today was a late day as I got up only around 9.need to get up really early tomorrow or rather today and I know I will.getting up really early sums up the whole day for me .more often than not it turns out to be a fantastic day whenever I get up early.But then staying online really late has had a severe effect on that routine.even now I will just go on on the net ,following link after link and stumbling across ideas and information that I did not know before.I guess I would like to blog about the internet in my next post,and believe me,I can go on and on ,talking about the net.well lets see if i do wake up early tomorrow..I believe I can..I believe I will..ending the day on a positive note ..signing ofF..!!thanks for a great today ..ArUn raFihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222295571763815640noreply@blogger.com1