The fighting of women for their own freedom and rights has always been a huge factor in India especially when you are brought up in a family with strong FEMINIST issues.
My 1st year in BIT, and we were invited to Capitol Hill for the celebration of International Women's day , us being freshers meant that we were over-enthusiastic about every tiny detail in life, so what followed was pretty much expected.
Our entire batched flocked to Capitol Hill, we were told that we were going to come up, close and personal, with famous personalities like Kiran Bedi and lot of other active female social workers and leading feminists, but what we really cared about was the free lunch!
Although we had mastered the art of not paying attention to whatever was being said, but still whatever sunk into me, was enough to make me feel the need to stand up for whatever is RIGHT!
Whatever follows next is me taking the RIGHT path!
Me and four of my friends had decided to head to my place for a 2-day break from the tormenting college life, it was all well-clean-planned fun and frolic.
So there we were, me and four of my friends headed out in 8616 Hatiah Howrah Express, unable to resist our temptations about what the future held.
We were all sitting in the lower berths, chatting our way to glory, then we found a random guy who just came and sat on one of the berths, and was playing random oldies, soon when he found its not getting him any attention, he shifted to earphones.
Then sometime later we found he was back with another stunt of his,he was trying to click our photos, we thought of settling it in the most chilled way, and we pulled up our berths and pretended we went to sleep.
Once when he was gone we were back yapping. Sitting in the most uncomfortable positions till 2 in the night.
Next day morning: We are sitting and waiting for the train to reach Howrah.
Enter Mr.Weird with his beloved mp4+camera .
Another passenger in our coup told us he had been also there in the night trying to click our photos.
Then we soon find he's directly taking our photos, he isn't even posing anymore, so there we were mocking at him with our own set of cameras, and he was so shameless, little did it do to his moral conscience!
By then, we are extremely frustrated with the entire situation, we were having our own talks of confronting this chap.
I got a little bit too excited about the same, and confronted him,
"Excuse me...are you taking our pictures?"
he merely nodded and said "haan..haan".
These were the words that turned off one of my pals in the worst way ever!
She went over to him (as he was sitting on the side berth) and hassled and haggled with him, and then he says,"mereko angrezi nahi aati hai",to this my friend replies,"hum aapse thett hindi mein baat karre?,chavvi mittayyiye!!!"
We then snatched his gizmo gadget,deleted all his pictures videos everything ... basically wiped his memory card clean!
Till date we have a good laugh at the cost of this weirdo.
One things for sure,he's never going to take pictures of random girls.
He acted like a sheer nuisance and boy did he "GET SERVED!!!"
P.S.: Hope this satisfies 316! :P
Wednesday 26 March 2008
Tuesday 25 March 2008
HOW DO PARALLEL MINDS WORK!!!!!
Recently I got a mail that gave me a sneak peek into what it actually is like, and definitely proves great for laughs,so heres what it looke like:
When Women speak.....they mean:-
Yes = No.
No = Yes.
Maybe = No.
I'm sorry = You'll be sorry.
We need = I want.
It's your decision = The correct decision should be obvious by now.
Do what you want = You'll pay for this later.
We need to talk = I need to complain.
Sure... go ahead = I don't want you to.
I'm not upset = Of course I'm upset, you moron!
You're... so manly = You need a shave and you sweat a lot.
Be romantic, turn out the lights = I have flabby thighs.
This kitchen is so inconvenient = I want a new house.
I want new curtains = ... and carpeting, and furniture, and wallpaper.
I heard a noise = I noticed you were almost asleep.
Do you love me? = I'm going to ask for something expensive.
How much do you love me?=I did something today you're really not going to like.
I'll be ready in a minute = Kick off your shoes and find a good game on T.V.
Is my butt fat? = Tell me I'm beautiful.
You have to learn to communicate = Just agree with me.
I'm not yelling! = Yes I am yelling because I think this is important.
When Men speak...they mean:-
I'm hungry = I'm hungry.
I'm sleepy = I'm sleepy.
I'm tired = I'm tired.
Do you want to go to a movie = I'd eventually like to have sex with you.
Can I take you out to dinner = I'd eventually like to have sex with you.
Can I call you sometime = I'd eventually like to have sex with you.
May I have this dance? = I'd eventually like to have sex with you.
What's wrong? = I guess sex tonight is out of the question
I'm bored = Do you want to have sex?
I love you = Let's have sex now
I love you, too = Okay, I said it... We'd better have sex now!
Yes, I like the way you cut your hair = Okay, I said it... We'd better have sex now!
Let's talk = I am trying to impress you by showing that I am a deep person and maybe then you'd like to have sex with me
Will you marry me? = I want to make it illegal for you to have sex with other guys
(While shopping): I like that one better = Pick any bloody dress and let's go home and have sex!
When Women speak.....they mean:-
Yes = No.
No = Yes.
Maybe = No.
I'm sorry = You'll be sorry.
We need = I want.
It's your decision = The correct decision should be obvious by now.
Do what you want = You'll pay for this later.
We need to talk = I need to complain.
Sure... go ahead = I don't want you to.
I'm not upset = Of course I'm upset, you moron!
You're... so manly = You need a shave and you sweat a lot.
Be romantic, turn out the lights = I have flabby thighs.
This kitchen is so inconvenient = I want a new house.
I want new curtains = ... and carpeting, and furniture, and wallpaper.
I heard a noise = I noticed you were almost asleep.
Do you love me? = I'm going to ask for something expensive.
How much do you love me?=I did something today you're really not going to like.
I'll be ready in a minute = Kick off your shoes and find a good game on T.V.
Is my butt fat? = Tell me I'm beautiful.
You have to learn to communicate = Just agree with me.
I'm not yelling! = Yes I am yelling because I think this is important.
When Men speak...they mean:-
I'm hungry = I'm hungry.
I'm sleepy = I'm sleepy.
I'm tired = I'm tired.
Do you want to go to a movie = I'd eventually like to have sex with you.
Can I take you out to dinner = I'd eventually like to have sex with you.
Can I call you sometime = I'd eventually like to have sex with you.
May I have this dance? = I'd eventually like to have sex with you.
What's wrong? = I guess sex tonight is out of the question
I'm bored = Do you want to have sex?
I love you = Let's have sex now
I love you, too = Okay, I said it... We'd better have sex now!
Yes, I like the way you cut your hair = Okay, I said it... We'd better have sex now!
Let's talk = I am trying to impress you by showing that I am a deep person and maybe then you'd like to have sex with me
Will you marry me? = I want to make it illegal for you to have sex with other guys
(While shopping): I like that one better = Pick any bloody dress and let's go home and have sex!
Saturday 22 March 2008
LOOK BEYOND!!!!!
Every once in a while, we come across hard patches of our lives, ones that we feel could have been done better without. But then again its life, if we never had the hard patches we would never had realised how sweet happiness feels!
So there are times when we remember how sad a particular fraction of our lives have been- maybe a spoilt friendship,a spoilt relationship, maybe a bad performance in the exams..it could range from ZERO to anything!
There are two outcomes of the following: either move on , and wake up every morning and thank God for your very existence and making your life brighter every minute that you live, and live a happy-jolly life!
OR,
wake up everyday and curse God and lady luck for every moment of your existence and despise the fact that you are still alive and living your outright rotten life!
Somehow, i fail to understand the fact how one spends their entire life cursing on every tiny hurdle that they stumble upon, and not look past it, to the green pastures that would be lying very ahead of them.
May be I was a born optimist,but i still say if YOU are repenting and reminding yourself 24*7 about all that has gone haywire in your life,then DUDE take a deep breath,pause for a while and read the following THREE words:
"GET OVER IT!!!!"
So there are times when we remember how sad a particular fraction of our lives have been- maybe a spoilt friendship,a spoilt relationship, maybe a bad performance in the exams..it could range from ZERO to anything!
There are two outcomes of the following: either move on , and wake up every morning and thank God for your very existence and making your life brighter every minute that you live, and live a happy-jolly life!
OR,
wake up everyday and curse God and lady luck for every moment of your existence and despise the fact that you are still alive and living your outright rotten life!
Somehow, i fail to understand the fact how one spends their entire life cursing on every tiny hurdle that they stumble upon, and not look past it, to the green pastures that would be lying very ahead of them.
May be I was a born optimist,but i still say if YOU are repenting and reminding yourself 24*7 about all that has gone haywire in your life,then DUDE take a deep breath,pause for a while and read the following THREE words:
"GET OVER IT!!!!"
Thursday 20 March 2008
GIRL POWER
Since ages unknown women have been subjected to moulding and blending them into the social clauses not to mention how many countless number of times we have been taken advantage of.
Now, women have come of age and their souls are satiated of being taken advantage off, now after a series of incidents and after enduring enough to last lifetimes to come, we have learnt how to stand up for WHAT IS RIGHT regardless of age,caste,creed or religion.
A similar case is the reason why i set out to write this article altogether.
Our college campus has neatly segregated girls and guys with utmost proficiency. We have completely cut-off hostel area so that guys cant pry on us and mostly to ensure our safety, but WHO WILL GUARD THE GUARDIANS?!!!
From the Research and Development building to the junior and senior girls hostel its a completely MEN-FREE area apart from the professors houses surrounding our hostels.
We have often been harassed by odd number of people more specifically men, sitting at awkward position and as crude as it may sound but this is the harsh reality,they have been sitting their and BELIEVE IT OR NOT masturbating!
All these days, we have just got grossed out and moved on as if we haven't noticed any such thing.But soon we came to the conclusion that the numbers are increasing and its not helping our condition and decided to revolt the next time we came across such vulgarity.
So one fine day two of my friends were coming back from college and they saw this driver repeating the act,so they went up to a guard and told him to catch hold of this driver and took him off to the superintend of girls hostel.In the meanwhile this driver started fleeing then THAPPA the superintend of security officers was on a bike and got this fellow by the collar.
The scumbag had the audacity to say"ladkiyan jhooth bol rahi hai..mere biwi hai bachche hai".
The guards were like,"ladkiyan complain ki hai abb toh kuchh hona hi hai".
It was later to be found he was from one of the leading hotels of Ranchi, also known as YUVRAJ hotel; serving one of the top shots of our administration. He was let go with a warning and the hotel promised to never send him over for any job.
And to top it off THAPPA kept on asking,"woh kya karr raha tha?",my friend kept on saying,"he was masturbating", and he never understood!
As Oprah Winfrey had once said,"You can either settle for what is right or for peace!",I'm glad we settled for the RIGHT path.
Now, women have come of age and their souls are satiated of being taken advantage off, now after a series of incidents and after enduring enough to last lifetimes to come, we have learnt how to stand up for WHAT IS RIGHT regardless of age,caste,creed or religion.
A similar case is the reason why i set out to write this article altogether.
Our college campus has neatly segregated girls and guys with utmost proficiency. We have completely cut-off hostel area so that guys cant pry on us and mostly to ensure our safety, but WHO WILL GUARD THE GUARDIANS?!!!
From the Research and Development building to the junior and senior girls hostel its a completely MEN-FREE area apart from the professors houses surrounding our hostels.
We have often been harassed by odd number of people more specifically men, sitting at awkward position and as crude as it may sound but this is the harsh reality,they have been sitting their and BELIEVE IT OR NOT masturbating!
All these days, we have just got grossed out and moved on as if we haven't noticed any such thing.But soon we came to the conclusion that the numbers are increasing and its not helping our condition and decided to revolt the next time we came across such vulgarity.
So one fine day two of my friends were coming back from college and they saw this driver repeating the act,so they went up to a guard and told him to catch hold of this driver and took him off to the superintend of girls hostel.In the meanwhile this driver started fleeing then THAPPA the superintend of security officers was on a bike and got this fellow by the collar.
The scumbag had the audacity to say"ladkiyan jhooth bol rahi hai..mere biwi hai bachche hai".
The guards were like,"ladkiyan complain ki hai abb toh kuchh hona hi hai".
It was later to be found he was from one of the leading hotels of Ranchi, also known as YUVRAJ hotel; serving one of the top shots of our administration. He was let go with a warning and the hotel promised to never send him over for any job.
And to top it off THAPPA kept on asking,"woh kya karr raha tha?",my friend kept on saying,"he was masturbating", and he never understood!
As Oprah Winfrey had once said,"You can either settle for what is right or for peace!",I'm glad we settled for the RIGHT path.
Wednesday 19 March 2008
Do you still "REMEMBER NEPTUNE"
For my blog readers who have already read REMEMBER NEPTUNE this is some more trivia of equator X-ing (crossing) (for others refer November'07s article :P).
Recently did I receive the following article from my dad. It read as follows:
spcq,we are gearing up for an equator x-ing ceremony in the next 2-days. This time the bakhra is 4th engineer. He will be roasted in his own coal, means after going through all the ordeal suggested by King Neptune we will be lavishing in a party thrown by him. How cruel are the crew!
This is his 1st promotion as a 4th engineer and his wages have become 4 fold. So why not! That's the wager for him.
Love-daddy.(sleep well)
Recently did I receive the following article from my dad. It read as follows:
spcq,we are gearing up for an equator x-ing ceremony in the next 2-days. This time the bakhra is 4th engineer. He will be roasted in his own coal, means after going through all the ordeal suggested by King Neptune we will be lavishing in a party thrown by him. How cruel are the crew!
This is his 1st promotion as a 4th engineer and his wages have become 4 fold. So why not! That's the wager for him.
Love-daddy.(sleep well)
Tuesday 18 March 2008
Future:Here We Come!!!!
Us human beings are extremely curious creatures.
God gave us everything and asked us not to touch an apple tree and we couldn't resist, we knew it would lead to doom but still we risked it, and why? Cause we cant resist the slightest temptation.
We have excelled in every field or every cause which was created by God. But TIME remains untampered with and untouched like the purity of a saint maintaining sheer abstinence from all worldly pleasures.
Unable to conquer the one thing that keeps on eluding us, keeps us on our toes, keeps on making us ponder, cause if we knew the future whose going to work for today?!!!
Unable to win over the unconquered we use our own imagination..as in let it run wild to paint us a picture of what the future might look like...
It started with the novel called "TIME MACHINE" by H.G. Wells , where he describes for the first time how he travels through time to see the world change rapidly in front of his very own eyes, and how it changed into something where humans are no longer capable of taking charge of the situation.
Next came along STAR WARS, the movie that created history at BOX OFFICE. A movie which portrays humans and aliens co-exist in a world where good is still competing with the DARK FORCE..where Jedis are pioneers of good,in command of fighting against the Dark force and free from worldly pleasures,"the ONE" Jedi fails to follow the rules and turns into the PROTEGE of villains in Hollywood AKA DARTH VADER.
Then came along STAR TREK, where in the distant future a spaceship with unimaginable technologies (like-warp drive, teleportation and so on and so forth) ventures out of the solar system to locate alien life forms(like borg) and loses touch with Mother Earth. Only to trace back its way to earth through surprisingly strikingly variant events.
JUDGE DREDD portrays a dystopic future, where urban areas have grown into mega cities that cover entire coastal regions, the justice system has evolved to a single person invested with the power of police, judge, jury, and executioner: the Judge. Among the Judges of Mega-City One, Judge Dredd is one of the best, and a particular favorite of the Head of the Council, Judge Fargo. But there are evil forces at work in the Justice Dept: block riots and the escape of Rico, a homicidal maniac, are only steps in a plan that ultimately lead to the sentencing of Dredd for a murder he didn't commit. And Dredd must discover the secrets of his own past and survive to stop the evildoers .
Then we had TERMINATOR the series,It has been ten long years since a Terminator failed to kill Sarah Connor and her unborn son, John. Now, Skynet has sent back another Terminator. This one being more advanced than the last one. John Connor, who is now ten years old, is the target. The future John sends back a replica of the Terminator that tried to kill him back in time to 1995. It's Terminator vs. Terminator.A fight of good over the evil,where the good succeeds.
ROBOCOP,a movie where a very capable officer Alex Murphy gets killed on his first day of patrolling Detroit-now a crime ridden city by feared gang leader Clarence Boddicker.He is then replaced in a cybernetic soldier by OCP scientists where he serves of great use,but when his own life's memories star rt surfacing he gets obsessed for seeking revenge.
I,ROBOT..a movie where robots are made to help man..but then the robots lack self-conscience and draw a conclusion which involves human bloodshed in order to achieve PEACE AND PROSPERITY.The creator of these robots was successful in making a robot whom he used to call his son,this robot was a class apart as he was one with a conscience and he found the whole plan very inhumane.This robot along with the assistance of WILL SMITH, help in destroying the heartless plan of world peace.
I AM LEGEND..A movie where only one man survives when a massive virus outbreak occurs which turn humans and all other beings hostile and alienic and light intolerant,one man survives to make a difference.
Paycheck,a John Woo classic where Ben Affleck works as freelancing physicist for companies and after every job his brain is wiped clean of the time duration of his job,so that the company can patent his works without involving him in it.He develops a machine which gives him a peek in the future,but he realises if man sees the future then there will be no looking forward to it,the curiosity of knowing what the future has will no longer be a mystery and there will be no hope.He realises the blunder and devises a plan to destroy the machine and at the same time wriggle out of the loop he's put himself into.
All these movies have one thing in common..their heartfelt desire and attempt to unravel the future, to pretend information that is being witheld from us.The writers are trying their level best to give us some food to satisfy our curiosity but what they do not realise is that this is instead food for thought,and they are merely whetting our appetite. Appetizers are done with, we are hungry, we want the main course and we want it bad!!!
That's why they say:
Stay hungry,
Stay foolish....
God gave us everything and asked us not to touch an apple tree and we couldn't resist, we knew it would lead to doom but still we risked it, and why? Cause we cant resist the slightest temptation.
We have excelled in every field or every cause which was created by God. But TIME remains untampered with and untouched like the purity of a saint maintaining sheer abstinence from all worldly pleasures.
Unable to conquer the one thing that keeps on eluding us, keeps us on our toes, keeps on making us ponder, cause if we knew the future whose going to work for today?!!!
Unable to win over the unconquered we use our own imagination..as in let it run wild to paint us a picture of what the future might look like...
It started with the novel called "TIME MACHINE" by H.G. Wells , where he describes for the first time how he travels through time to see the world change rapidly in front of his very own eyes, and how it changed into something where humans are no longer capable of taking charge of the situation.
Next came along STAR WARS, the movie that created history at BOX OFFICE. A movie which portrays humans and aliens co-exist in a world where good is still competing with the DARK FORCE..where Jedis are pioneers of good,in command of fighting against the Dark force and free from worldly pleasures,"the ONE" Jedi fails to follow the rules and turns into the PROTEGE of villains in Hollywood AKA DARTH VADER.
Then came along STAR TREK, where in the distant future a spaceship with unimaginable technologies (like-warp drive, teleportation and so on and so forth) ventures out of the solar system to locate alien life forms(like borg) and loses touch with Mother Earth. Only to trace back its way to earth through surprisingly strikingly variant events.
JUDGE DREDD portrays a dystopic future, where urban areas have grown into mega cities that cover entire coastal regions, the justice system has evolved to a single person invested with the power of police, judge, jury, and executioner: the Judge. Among the Judges of Mega-City One, Judge Dredd is one of the best, and a particular favorite of the Head of the Council, Judge Fargo. But there are evil forces at work in the Justice Dept: block riots and the escape of Rico, a homicidal maniac, are only steps in a plan that ultimately lead to the sentencing of Dredd for a murder he didn't commit. And Dredd must discover the secrets of his own past and survive to stop the evildoers .
Then we had TERMINATOR the series,It has been ten long years since a Terminator failed to kill Sarah Connor and her unborn son, John. Now, Skynet has sent back another Terminator. This one being more advanced than the last one. John Connor, who is now ten years old, is the target. The future John sends back a replica of the Terminator that tried to kill him back in time to 1995. It's Terminator vs. Terminator.A fight of good over the evil,where the good succeeds.
ROBOCOP,a movie where a very capable officer Alex Murphy gets killed on his first day of patrolling Detroit-now a crime ridden city by feared gang leader Clarence Boddicker.He is then replaced in a cybernetic soldier by OCP scientists where he serves of great use,but when his own life's memories star rt surfacing he gets obsessed for seeking revenge.
I,ROBOT..a movie where robots are made to help man..but then the robots lack self-conscience and draw a conclusion which involves human bloodshed in order to achieve PEACE AND PROSPERITY.The creator of these robots was successful in making a robot whom he used to call his son,this robot was a class apart as he was one with a conscience and he found the whole plan very inhumane.This robot along with the assistance of WILL SMITH, help in destroying the heartless plan of world peace.
I AM LEGEND..A movie where only one man survives when a massive virus outbreak occurs which turn humans and all other beings hostile and alienic and light intolerant,one man survives to make a difference.
Paycheck,a John Woo classic where Ben Affleck works as freelancing physicist for companies and after every job his brain is wiped clean of the time duration of his job,so that the company can patent his works without involving him in it.He develops a machine which gives him a peek in the future,but he realises if man sees the future then there will be no looking forward to it,the curiosity of knowing what the future has will no longer be a mystery and there will be no hope.He realises the blunder and devises a plan to destroy the machine and at the same time wriggle out of the loop he's put himself into.
All these movies have one thing in common..their heartfelt desire and attempt to unravel the future, to pretend information that is being witheld from us.The writers are trying their level best to give us some food to satisfy our curiosity but what they do not realise is that this is instead food for thought,and they are merely whetting our appetite. Appetizers are done with, we are hungry, we want the main course and we want it bad!!!
That's why they say:
Stay hungry,
Stay foolish....
1st February
I wrote this little something 2-3yrs back for a very someone special..not till late was I ready to put it on my blog till somebody gave me the bright idea and once when I was ok wid the idea here goes nothing..1 simple request, please dont mock at me the next time you see me come around..:P
Its not what you said,
Its not what I did.
Its just life, that makes it so hard.
When I look around,
Love's everywhere to be found.
I think of us (if you let me call that),
I feel a void
Which I never knew could exist.
I thought of you,
and I felt loved.
I saw you
and I felt loved,
Through you I came to believe in love.
I tried not to think of you
And I felt lost.
In your voice,
do I understand the word "PEACE".
In your reactions
I realise how beautiful life is..
Only if you could reciprocate the love i felt,
life would have a path totally different.
I said I was attracted to you; but I never loved you,
but soon did I realise I'm head over heels for you!
It tears my heart away,
to think we might never head that way....
Its not what you said,
Its not what I did.
Its just life, that makes it so hard.
When I look around,
Love's everywhere to be found.
I think of us (if you let me call that),
I feel a void
Which I never knew could exist.
I thought of you,
and I felt loved.
I saw you
and I felt loved,
Through you I came to believe in love.
I tried not to think of you
And I felt lost.
In your voice,
do I understand the word "PEACE".
In your reactions
I realise how beautiful life is..
Only if you could reciprocate the love i felt,
life would have a path totally different.
I said I was attracted to you; but I never loved you,
but soon did I realise I'm head over heels for you!
It tears my heart away,
to think we might never head that way....
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